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Artemisia I
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Artemisia I, (flourished 5th century bc), queen of Halicarnassus, a Greek city in Caria, and of the nearby island of Cos in about 480.
Artemisia ruled under the overlordship of the Persian king Xerxes (reigned 486–465) and participated in Xerxes’ invasion of Greece (480–479). Despite her able command of five ships in the major naval battle with the Greeks off the island of Salamis near Athens, the Persian fleet suffered a severe defeat. Herodotus claims that Xerxes acted on her advice when he decided to retreat from Greece at once rather than to risk another engagement.
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Todd Matshikiza, (born 1920/21Queenstown, S.Af.—died March 4, 1968Lusaka, Zambia), journalist, writer, and musician noted for his score for the musical play King Kong (1960) and for his short stories.
Matshikiza divided his career from the start between musical and literary activities. Trained as a teacher at Lovedale, near the University College of Fort Hare, he wrote a monthly column for Drum magazine and also worked as a jazz critic. His choral music was widely performed by South African choirs and won him a commission for the Johannesburg Festival in 1956. When he and his family accompanied the King Kong cast to London in 1961, he decided to stay; there he collaborated with the white South African writer Alan Paton on the musical Mkumbane, presented radio programs for the British Broadcasting Corporation, and wrote autobiographical short stories of his life in London and South Africa.
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Slovakia is a landlocked state in central Europe. Area: 49,035 sq km (18,933 sq mi). Pop. (1993 est.): 5,329,000. Cap.: Bratislava. Monetary unit: Slovak koruna, with (Oct. 4, 1993) a free rate of 31.79 koruny to U.S. $1 (48.16 koruny = £ 1 sterling). President from March 2, 1993, Michal Kovac; prime minister, Vladimir Meciar.
Slovakia’s first year of independence in 1993 was one of bewilderment, economic fluctuation, and painful adjustment after Czechoslovakia split into two nations. Because it had fairly poor relations with neighbouring Czech Republic and Hungary, Slovakia was relatively isolated and suffered from the weakness of its democratic institutions.
As far as relations with Prague were concerned, expectations in Bratislava had always been unrealistic about the extent to which the Czechs would maintain shared institutions from the past. The drastic differentiation insisted on by Prague was a severe shock to the new state. At Czech insistence, for example, the common currency argument rapidly dissolved, as an indirect result of which bilateral trade fell sharply. The Czechs insisted on frontier controls, and there were disputes over the division of Czechoslovakia’s assets.
As far as Hungary was concerned, there were two main issues--the fate of the ethnic Hungarian minority (about 11% of the population) in Slovakia and the construction of the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros dam on the Danube, which the Hungarians saw as an environmental threat. The Slovak leadership made matters worse by its inexperience. It began by proclaiming that Slovakia would pursue a foreign policy independent of its neighbours and would not seek early integration into Europe, but it had to revise this fairly rapidly once the realities of its political and economic weakness had made themselves felt. Unemployment was high, the budget deficit was growing, foreign currency reserves were being depleted, foreign investment was low, and the economy deteriorated further. The rate of inflation, however, remained steady.
This state of affairs was paralleled in politics, in that the democratic structures were ignored or undermined by the dominant political figure in Slovakia, Vladimir Meciar, the prime minister. (See BIOGRAPHIES.) Meciar had emerged as the leading Slovak politician in the 1992 elections as head of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, and he took the country to independence. He proved to be a rather authoritarian figure who clamped down on many expressions of criticism and opposition, however. The media were one of his early targets. He had little time for the opposition in general, and he sought to counterbalance the effects of his declining popularity by intensifying Slovak nationalism, thereby exacerbating the Hungarian problem.
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...and had to turn to art for a living. Earlier in his life, he had studied painting for many years, at first probably under the tutelage of his father, who was an accomplished painter, and later under Yamamoto Sōken, a member of the officially recognized Kanō school. Sōken, who was skillful in both Chinese-style ink painting and the traditional Tosa school painting, which...
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Dede Korkut
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...had as its basis the Turco-Iranian legend of an 8th-century hero, Abū Muslim, another the Turkish tales of the knight Dānishmend. Other epics, such as the traditional Turkish tale of Dede Korkut, were preserved by storytellers who improvised certain parts of their tales (which were written down only afterward). Also, the role of the Sufi orders and of the artisans’ lodges in...
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Brief History
Tasmania was originally discovered by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642. He gave it the name of Van Diemen's Land. It came to the attention of the British once they had set up their penal colony in New South Wales in 1788. In its earliest years that colony struggled to survive. Besides, whilst Sydney itself was a good site for a settlement it was hemmed in by the Blue Mountain Range and with a lack of other sources of water. Besides, the climate was far hotter and drier than the Europeans and their crops were used to. Consequently George Bass and Matthew Flinders were given permission to explore further South to see if the could discover any alternative sites for colonies.
In 1798 the discoverd that Van Diemen's Land was an island and not joined to the mainland as had originally been thought. They also discovered that the climate and soil were infinitely richer and more productive than those of Sydney. The relative isolation of the colony with particularly treacherous currents also meant that it could become a dumping ground for the most intractable of convicts. By 1804, the settlements of Hobart, Risdon and Launceston had all been founded.
Van Diemen's Land developed in population but did gain a particularly bad reputation due to the hard core convicts that ended up there. By 1824 it was clear that the island would need to administer itself and it was formally separated from New South Wales. Its new Lieutenant Governor George Arthur made it clear that he intended to initiate a new and harsh regime. He believed that their work should be 'hard enough to bring home to the miscreants all the abomination of their wrongdoings, while at the same time setting them the example of a righteous master from whome their black hearts might well pick up a sense of goodness.' Van Diemen's Land became a penal colony within a penal colony. The very name of the place could send a shudder down convicts' backs.
In fact the association of Van Diemen's Land with harshness meant that the authorities deliberately changed the name of the colony in 1856 to try and shake off the association. The colony had stopped taking new convicts from Britain in 1853 and wished to attract free settlers instead. It therefore underwent something of a makeover to try and shake off its poor reputation. The last penal settlement in Tasmania at Port Arthur was closed in 1877.
Democracy of a sorts was introduced in 1850 based on the New South Wales' model. This meant that only one third of the legislative council was appointed the other two thirds were elected. However the franchise was restricted on a property basis and so a lot of freed convicts could not qualify to vote. However, it was another attraction for settlers from Britain.
By the 1890s, Australians were beginning to consider themselves as part of a distinct island. Strategic concerns were becoming an issue as worldwide international tensions grew. The Germans, French and Americans were slowly claiming the islands of the Pacific. The Germans actually claimed some of New Guinea which was very close to Australia. It was felt that it was time to consider pooling their resources in a Federation but it was also an expression of early Australian nationalism. The British were eager to help share the costs and burden of defending the island and eagerly agreed to the request for self-government made to them in 1900.
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[Editor’s note: Sovereign Man Chief Investment Strategist Tim Staermose is filling in today from Busan, South Korea, while Simon is out looking at South American agricultural property investments.]
Over dinner with a friend in Busan, South Korea yesterday, the conversation turned to residency and second citizenships. My friend is a successful entrepreneur who’s lived in South Korea ever since I first met him in 1996.
Right now, he has an investors’ visa. The requirements are simple; when he got his, an investment of KRW50 million (about US$46,000) was enough to qualify.
But due to a rise in popularity, and some applicants not playing by the spirit of the law, the South Korean government will soon be raising the threshold. They are also scrutinizing such visa holders much more closely when it comes to things such as taxes.
So my friend, who is originally from Canada, has thought about taking out Korean citizenship.
Back when I first lived here twenty years ago, this was practically unheard of. There was one German fellow who appeared on Korean TV who’d done it. But it was difficult. And it offered few real advantages.
How things change. Today, South Korea is among the world’s strongest economies. And any able-bodied person who puts in the time and efforts can easily get it here. And, a South Korean passport is a fantastic travel document.
Today, Korean citizens enjoy visa-free travel or visa-waivers to 160 countries around the world. The list includes the USA, Canada, virtually all of Europe, Australia, New Zealand and every country in Latin America except Belize.
By comparison, a Danish passport will get you into 169 different countries visa free (the most of any nationality), and for a US passport it’s 166.
If you’re serious about it, qualifying for a Korean passport is NOT that difficult. Generally, five years of official residency qualifies you to apply. But, if you have a Korean spouse, and have been married for at least three years, the residency requirement drops to as little as one year.
You will also need to demonstrate that you can support yourself financially by having a steady job or sufficient accumulated savings. And, you’ll need a — basic knowledge of Korean language and culture.
For further information, check out the Korean government’s purpose built “e-Government” website for foreigners.
Until next time,
Tim Staermose, Chief Investment Strategist
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Facebook's stock is now changing hands at a $56 billion valuation.
As far as we know, most people buying the stock at that valuation have no idea what Facebook's financial performance is--they're just buying a gigantic user base.
But it's still worth spending a couple of minutes thinking about it.
Facebook is said to have about $2 billion of revenue this year. That means the stock is changing hands at a woozifying 25X revenue multiple.
Could that be justified?
Yes, if Facebook has absolutely explosive revenue growth over the next several years and a huge profit margin (think Google or Microsoft). If Facebook's revenue grows to, say, $5 billion next year and $10 billion in 2012, 25X revenue today could be a reasonable multiple.
And how about the valuation relative to earnings?
Let's assume that Facebook is modestly profitable this year. Specifically, let's assume it has a 10%-20% operating margin. After tax (assume 35%), that would produce a net profit margin of 7%-13%. This would mean Facebook would have earnings this year of $130 million to $260 million.
Under those assumptions, Facebook's $56 billion valuation implies a price-earnings ratio of 215X-430X.
Is that expensive?
Yuh huh.
If Facebook can get to $10 billion of revenue in 2012, with, say, a 40% operating margin (~30% net), then the P/E gets more reasonable: 20X.
But given that Facebook is already 6 years old and it only has $2 billion of revenue ("only"), $10 billion in 2012 may be a stretch. And the same for a 40% operating margin.
So it seems safe to conclude the that investment logic most of the buyers at $56 billion are using is this:
"Facebook is gonna be huuuuuuuge!"
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4chan Users Crash MPAA Website
Over the weekend, “Anonymous” struck again, and this time their victim was the MPAA. Hundreds (and possibly thousands) of 4chan users crashed the MPAA website in a pro-piracy protest. This latest attack only reiterates the fact that you simply do not fuck with “Anonymous.”
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View Full Version : You wanna know how this 'bird' tried to pull me last week?
Chris Kerr
02-05-2003, 01:32 PM
(hpoe that worked - by the way the person in question is the one on the left)
Yeh well I was out on the piss last week and my crazy mate, Gary pulled a stunner (picture to follow but it's not great) and her ugly mates started chatting me up. I said I had a girlfriend.
Basically her chatup line was something along the lines of "Chris, I would definately lick your balls, but I'd rather suck your shaven cock!" (I had whipped it out a few times that night I think) So0 yeah, I said "Sorry I've got a lass" and she went "Oh sorry I would never have said that if I'd known" I though that was fair enough and got on with my business elsewhere. Then later, she grabs me and says "Actually I lied, I WOULD have still said and done that if your lass was here!!" I nearly pissed myself! I can't remember how I got out of it, but thank FUCK I got away from her!!!!!
Rob Hannis
02-05-2003, 01:37 PM
Things can only get better
Hywel Teague
02-05-2003, 01:44 PM
holy shit those are some beefy women. :x
but hey a blowjobs a blowjob :)
Chris Kerr
02-05-2003, 01:48 PM
I know, check out the human bowling ball...
Hywel Teague
02-05-2003, 01:55 PM
yeah the one on the right is the prettiest- shame shes so... spherical :D
02-05-2003, 02:06 PM
That is quite scary!!
Rob Hannis
02-05-2003, 03:49 PM
That looks like a night out in lincoln, it'd be easy to ditch them though by just walking past a burger van.
Chris Kerr
04-05-2003, 03:08 PM
Yeah my bro is at uni there, he reckons it's full of inbred farmers.
I still feel a little sick, but I'd still go through her to get to Gary's lass:
11-05-2003, 09:44 PM
oh my god where is her neck and chin
13-05-2003, 07:21 PM
I was expecting a minger but not that!!
I actually screamed 'oh Jesus' when I saw that pic, thank god I'm not in work
13-05-2003, 09:40 PM
i know droc that gary is fucking disgusting
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Two scientists make a clone of Jesus to prove his existence and run into problems when he escapes. The clone, knowing who he once was, rediscovers what his purpose is in life, to kill tho... more
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The Potential to Open New Frontiers in Academic and Industrial Fields. CMOS Image Sensors
In addition to the image sensors used in its consumer-model digital cameras, Canon is exploring new potential in academic fields and industrial fields through the development of ultrahigh-sensitivity CMOS image sensors and ultrahigh-resolution CMOS image sensors.
The World's Largest Ultrahigh-Sensitivity CMOS Image Sensor
A certain level of light is required when shooting with a digital camera or camcorder, and without it, images cannot be captured due to insufficient sensitivity.
In the pursuit of further improving the sensitivity of imaging elements, Canon has embraced the challenge of achieving higher levels of sensitivity and larger element sizes while maintaining high-speed readout performance, and has succeeded in developing the world's largest class of CMOS image sensor measuring approximately 20 cm square. At present, the standard diameter of the silicon wafers on which CMOS sensors are fabricated is 12 inches (approx. 30 cm). As such, a 20-cm-square sensor is the largest size that can be manufactured based on these dimensions, and is equivalent to nearly 40 times the size of a 35 mm full-frame CMOS sensor.
Increasing the size of CMOS sensors entails overcoming such problems as distortion and transmission delays for the electrical signals converted from light. To resolve these issues, Canon not only made use of a parallel processing circuit, but also exercised ingenuity with the transfer method itself. As a result, the sensor makes possible the shooting of video at 60 frames per second with only 0.3 lux of illumination (approximately the same level of brightness as that generated by a full moon).
Possible applications for this ultrahigh-sensitivity CMOS sensor include the video recording of celestial objects in the night sky, nocturnal animal behavior and auroras, and use in nightwatch cameras.
When installed in the 105 cm Schmidt camera at the Kiso Observatory operated by the University of Tokyo's Institute of Astronomy, the ultrahigh-sensitivity sensor made possible the world's first video recording of meteors with an equivalent apparent magnitude of 10, a level so dark that image capture had not been possible until now. As a result, the sensor provided proof that the frequency with which faint meteors occurred coincided with theoretical estimates to date. By supporting more detailed recording and statistical analysis of meteors, the technology could lead to an increased understanding of the influence that meteors may have exerted on the development of life on Earth.
photo: Size Comparison: The Large Ultrahigh-Sensitivity CMOS Image Sensor Alongside an EOS Rebel T3i (EOS 600D) Digital SLR CameraSize Comparison: The Large Ultrahigh-Sensitivity CMOS Image Sensor
Alongside an EOS Rebel T3i (EOS 600D) Digital SLR Camera
120-Megapixel Ultrahigh-Resolution CMOS Image Sensor
Canon has spent many years working to reduce the pixel size for CMOS image sensors. These efforts have led to astounding results, making possible a pixel size of 2.2 μm for a total of approximately 120 million pixels on a single sensor. The APS-H size (approx. 29 x 20 mm) CMOS sensor boasts approximately 7.5 times the number of pixels and 2.6 times the resolution of sensors of the same size featured in existing products.
This CMOS sensor performs parallel processing to support the high-speed readout of large volumes of pixels, and by modifying the method employed to control the readout circuit timing, Canon successfully achieved the high-speed readout of sensor signals. As a result, the sensor makes possible a maximum output speed of approximately 9.5 frames per second, supporting the continuous shooting of ultrahigh-resolution images.
Images captured with the ultrahigh-resolution CMOS sensor maintain high levels of definition and clarity even when cropped or digitally magnified. Accordingly, this sensor offers potential for a range of industrial applications, including cameras for shooting images for large-format poster prints, cameras for the image inspection of precision parts, aerospace cameras, and omnidirectional vision cameras.
The 120-megapixel ultrahigh-resolution performance of the Canon CMOS sensor may lead to unprecedented industrial applications that could only be imagined in the past.
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How can I defend the Church's teaching on homosexuality?
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How can I explain the Church’s teaching on homosexuality to my friend in a way that won’t make her hate the Church? She thinks it’s an issue of the Church being judgmental and exclusionary and that it is wrong to condemn homosexuals to a life of involuntary celibacy.
Persons who suffer from homosexuality are called to chastity—as are we all. The Church recognizes that homosexuality is a disorder (see CCC 2357) and, while the desires are not in themselves sinful, acting out on them is clearly offensive to God (see Rom 1:26-27, 1 Cor 6:9-10). It is appropriate to judge homosexual acts as wrong. But far from being “exclusionary,” the Church teaches that persons suffering from homosexuality “must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition” (CCC 2358).
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Matt Fulchiron - Quitting His Job
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• 08/10/2006
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Yes, it was possible for Matt Fulchiron to look more like a homeless person than he did. (2:23)
I'm not a...
( applause and cheering )
Whoo! Wow.
This is my demographicright here.
( laughter )
I quit my job.
My boss was gettingon my last nerves.
You know what I mean? Like...
My boss came in my office.
She's, like, "Matt, you know,you don't comb your hair,
you don't shave your face."
She's, like, "You've gota $15 suit." You know?
She's, like,"Can you look any more
like a homeless person?"
And I was, like,"Well, uh, I could, uh...
"I could bum a quarter,you know?
"Um... I could, uh...
"I could smoke a crack rock.
( laughter )
I could take ( bleep )on the break room floor."
I don't think it's gonna helpbusiness out any, dumb-ass.
She's so stupid, man.
She's, like,"Matt, you're so immature."
I was, like,"Yeah, I know that you are,
but what am I?"
( laughter )
I can't even get that jokeon an airplane,
'cause it's the mother ( bleep )bomb.
What's up?
( applause )
What's up right now?
Seriously, for me?
Oh, my God.
Uh, you know, I quit my...I quit my job,
and they f... they...
Right. Remember? From before?
It still makes everybody happy.
But when I quit,like, they freaked out.
I was a file clerkfor, like, six years.
And they're, like,"Matt, you can't leave.
This place depends on you."And all that stuff.
And I was, like,
"This whole place dependson a beer-guzzling jackass
"whose only real goalis to use your Internet services
to find another job?"
( laughs mockingly )
You guys are in more troublethan you think.
( laughter )
I'm just glad you guysbrought the air conditioning,
'cause I broughtthe ( bleep ) heat.
What's up ( bleep )?
Seriously, seriously.
Come on.
Get out of here.
They say money changes people.
And I say,hook that ( bleep ) up.
You know what I mean?
I'm about duefor some alterations, you know?
Like, I don't careif money changes me
into a 300-pound chinchillawith herpes simplex two.
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Ceramic Industry
Technology Update - Electroconsolidation: Developing Advanced Control Technology
June 1, 2001
The Electroconsolidation pilot facility at Argonne has a 200-ton press and attached X-ray imaging system.
Within the past several years, the densification method known as Electroconsolidation® has been developed and brought to the verge of commercialization. The technology enables the rapid production of high-density, complex-shaped parts from powdered materials at lower costs than traditional methods of forming and consolidation. However, the use of Electroconsolidation in industrial applications requires the means to effectively monitor and control the densification process.
The Superior Graphite Co. recently completed a successful program to overcome this challenge. The development effort was supported by a $2 million, 3-year grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce through the Advanced Technology Program (ATP). Other participants in the program were the Argonne National Laboratory; Northwestern University; Bio-Imaging Research, Inc.; and BIZTEK Consulting.
Figure 1. Electroconsolidation employs an electrically conductive, pressure transmitting medium.
What is Electroconsolidation?
Electroconsolidation is a method for rapid pressure-assisted densification of preformed powdered materials by the simultaneous application of heat and pressure. As illustrated in Figure 1, the part or parts to be densified are immersed in a bed of free-flowing, electrically conductive granular material contained in a cylindrical vessel or die. Pressure is applied to the parts by rams acting on the surrounding granular material, which serves as a pressure transmitting medium. An electrical current is then passed directly through the compacted granular material, causing it to be electrothermally heated. Heat transfers to the parts by a combination of conduction and radiation.
Electroconsolidation is one of several densification methods referred to as “soft-tooling,” or psuedo-fluid processes, that use a bed of particulate solids as a pressure transmitting medium. The particulate medium used in Electroconsolidation is a porous spheroidal form of graphite. Electroconsolidation differs from other processes of this type by the use of direct resistive heating of the medium. This novel means of “inside-out” heating allows extremely rapid heating with temperature capability to well in excess of 2500°C.
Applications and Requirements
Electroconsolidation is a candidate for use in applications that require pressure to achieve high density, as is generally the case with reinforced composites and products made by Self-propagating High-temperature Synthesis (SHS) reaction technology. Examples include silicon carbide reinforced ceramic oxide cutting tool inserts and high temperature nickel aluminide fasteners. The process has the capability to densify preforms of complex shapes, which distinguishes Electroconsolidation from hot pressing, and, because pressure is applied mechanically through the medium, it is unnecessary to clad the parts as is required with hot isostatic pressing. The rapid heating rate leads to low cycle times, along with the simplification of processing complex shaped parts without cladding. These features result in lower-cost production of components made from many of the advanced materials that require pressure and high temperature for consolidation, such as various carbides and nitrides. The rapid heating to high and ultra-high temperatures by resistively heating granular graphite requires high current densities, which limits the die sizes to less than about 10 in. (~ 25 cm). Therefore, Electroconsolidation is mainly of interest for making large numbers of smaller parts.
The use of Electroconsolidation in industrial applications requires the means to effectively control the densification process. Rapid resistive heating leads to temperature gradients in the die cell. And because granular materials do not transmit pressure isostatically, pressure differences can also occur within the die cell, which affects the temperature distribution. The insertion of thermocouples or other temperature or pressure sensors into the die is not practical in production, and other means to monitor and control the process are needed to meet the increasingly rigorous quality control standards being imposed throughout industry.
Improving the Process
At a new Electroconsolidation pilot facility located at Argonne, researchers took several approaches to develop an improved means for process control. One was to develop a mathematical model of the process that could predict the temperature and pressure profiles within the Electroconsolidation die during operation based on a set of equipment design features and the operating conditions to be imposed. Another part of the program was to develop non-intrusive means to measure the temperature within the die cell during actual densification.
Figure 2. Comparison of the temperatures measured at a point within the Electroconsolidation die with temperatures predicted by the computer model.
Modeling the Electroconsolidation Process. The computer model for predicting temperature within the Electroconsolidation die cell comprises three modules. The first is the Density Module that calculates the density and electrical resistivity of the graphite pressure-transmitting medium as a function of pressure within the die. The calculated resistivity is fed to the Resistive Heating Module, which calculates the rate of heating using a commercial, finite element, three-dimensional, electromagnetic field code named ELEKTRA. That information, along with heat transfer calculations, is used by a third module (Temperature Module) termed MaPS, a finite difference code, to calculate and predict the temperature at any location within the die as a function of time. A typical comparison between the prediction and actual measurement of the temperature at a single point is shown in Figure 2.
Non-Intrusive Temperature Measurement Using Ultra-Sound Pitch/Catch. The insertion of sensors within the Electroconsolidation die is done for experimental work and in initial prototyping, but is not practical for an automated rapid-cycle industrial application. Temperatures can approach 3000°C within several minutes. The measurement environment also involves rapid compaction to pressures up to about 10,000 psi (~700 kg/cm2) and electric currents exceeding 1000 amps/in.2 (~ 150 amps/cm2).
Several alternative methods were considered, but the actual development focused on using the change in the velocity of sound with temperature as sound was transmitted through the Electroconsolidation die. The velocity of sound varies with temperature in a predictable manner—it increases with temperature in gases but decreases with temperature in solids and liquids. However, in the case of graphite, the velocity of sound actually increases with increasing temperature.
No information was available on the characteristics of sound transmission through beds of granular graphite, and this had to be determined. The determination was done by measuring the time-of-flight (TOF) of ultrasonic pulses sent from an ultrasonic transducer located in the upper water-cooled contact plate to a receiving transducer located in the lower water-cooled copper contact plate. The sound waves must propagate through a series of different materials and encounter a number of interfaces between these materials—which include copper, water coolant and the graphite ram—before entering the bed of granular graphite medium and then proceeding through a similar series in traveling to the receiving transducer. To be able to do this and have an adequate signal-to-noise ratio requires a low frequency transmission and the application of pressure.
To measure the TOF, a 500 kHz tone burst signal from a function generator is amplified by a 440 dB-RF power amplifier and applied to a 500 kHz, 1-in. diameter transmitting transducer. The receiving signal is also amplified, filtered and displayed on a digital oscilloscope. The total transit time of the transmitted signal is recorded. The portion of the total TOF corresponding to the copper and the rams is measured independently and subtracted to obtain the TOF through the granular graphite medium material. With the distance through the bed known from the position of the rams during the operation, the velocity of sound in the bed can be readily calculated.
Figure 3. Calibrating the effect of temperature on the velocity of sound during Electroconsolidation.
As expected, the velocity of sound through the bed of graphite media is strongly affected by the pressure. However, Electroconsolidation is operated at a fixed condition of pressure, and the change in velocity during the operating cycle is strictly related to the temperature (see Figure 3). The curve was found to fit the quadratic equation:
V= Vo – 0.0008 T + 0.0001 T2
V = the velocity of sound in m/sec,
Vo = the velocity of sound at pressure and ambient temperature and
T = the temperature in degrees C.
In an actual industrial operation, the temperature at various fixed positions outside of the die would be monitored by conventional means, such as thermocouples and optical pyrometry. These temperature measurements would be used as a reference for controlling the process from cycle to cycle when the set point conditions are established. Such conventional temperature measurements can be compared with ultrasonic determination for a high temperature sintering operation. The temperature difference between a fixed outside location and the temperature within the die as the temperature is increased can be used to calibrate the ultrasound measurement when the temperature is beyond the temperature limits of conventional sensors.
Process Control with X-Ray Imaging
The material used for the Electroconsolidation die cell is graphite, which is readily penetrated by X-rays. This provides the opportunity to use X-ray imaging to observe dimensional changes of the parts as they undergo densification. Additionally, if small melting point indicators are placed at different positions within the die when the preforms are being loaded, these can also be observed in the X-ray image and provide a modern equivalent to monitoring kiln operations using pyrometric cones.
The source of the X-ray imaging system* used with the Electroconsolidation pilot facility at Argonne is a 160 kV, 2ma X-ray generator (tube). An image intensifier is located on the far side of the die chamber, and both components are attached to the frame of the hydraulic press and positioned to allow a 4 in. (10.2 cm) field of view. At full power, the X-rays can travel through 11 in. (28 cm) of graphite and still have sufficient signal to give a clear image on the display monitor.
A computer is used to program the desired sequence of the images that enable the densification to be observed as it occurs. The images are recorded in the computer’s memory, allowing the history of the densification cycle to be reviewed in detail.
Developing New Applications
The Electroconsolidation pilot facility at Argonne to develop and demonstrate the commercial application of the process comprises a 200-ton hydraulic press fitted with a pair of opposed rams, each independently controlled by computer. The power supply provides up to 10,000 amps DC or pulsed DC current. Various die and ram sets are used for processing parts up to 4 in. (10.2 cm) in size.
Although the recent development work done during the ATP program has focused on equipment design and process control, a variety of materials have been processed. Work is currently being done with companies that are evaluating the technology for specific applications, including whisker and fiber reinforced oxide and non-oxide ceramic matrix composites for cutting tool inserts, ballistic armor and aerospace components. The process is well suited for making dense parts of complex shape directly using SHS reaction synthesis under pressure in the Electroconsolidation die.
Figure 4. X-ray image of a steel tool being clad with wear resistant tungsten carbide.
Another application being studied is the cladding of shaped substrate steel parts with hard facings for increased wear resistance in severe environments. Figure 4 is an X-ray image of a steel tool being clad with tungsten carbide-cobalt. A powder mixture of the cladding material was first cold isostatically pressed onto the surfaces to be clad before insertion into the Electroconsolidation die cell where the bond was achieved.
With the new methods for process control, numerous opportunities to expand this exciting new forming process will undoubtedly emerge.
For More Information
For additional information about Electroconsolidation or to make arrangements to visit the Argonne facility, contact the Superior Graphite Co., 10 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 1600, Chicago, IL 60606; (312) 559-2999; fax (312) 559-9064; e-mail [email protected] ; or visit http://www.GraphiteSGC.com.
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Infinity Blade II Hints, Tips, Tricks, Secrets, & Glitches
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To get infinite money, u need at least $45, 000 in game money, then go to settings and press restart rebirth 1. Then like always you will have the great items. While you are in the game tutorial, pause then press character. Now go to the infinity blade. Now master it using the money mentioned above (where it shows the item's xp look to the far right of the xp then press the arrow). Now you are able to sell it (u might need a good weapon to finish the tutorial), now finish the tutorial and start rebirth 1. Pause again and restart to rebirth 1 (repeat the process as told above but you don't have to master it again). Keep selling the infinity blade and you'll be rich (this also works with the other items)!
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What is micropenis?
Micropenis is defined as a normally structured penis that is below the normal size range for an infant. Normally, the length of a newborn boy's penis is between 2.8 to 4.2 centimeters with a circumference of 0.9 to 1.3 centimeters. This measurement is taken by carefully stretching the penis and measuring from the tip of the penis to the base of the penis. A penis length of less than 1.9 centimeters is usually considered micropenis.
What causes micropenis?
The cause of micropenis is not known in most cases. Micropenis can occur alone, but may also occur in combination with other disorders. Hormone disorders that cause an abnormally low level of hormones which are involved in development of the sexual organs may be associated with micropenis. This can also involve the pituitary gland or the hypothalamus.
How is micropenis diagnosed?
Diagnosis is made by physical examination. Your child may then be referred to several specialists including a pediatric urologistand a pediatric endocrinologist (a physician who specializes in hormones).
Treatment for micropenis:
Specific treatment for micropenis will be determined by your child's physician based on:
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• The extent of the condition
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• Expectations for the course of the condition
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There is no cure for micropenis. Hormone therapy may be indicated for some children to stimulate penile growth.
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Use Google search to set a timer
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Using Google search to set a timer isn't a new feature, per se. The ability to set a timer in Google Search was around last August when Dan Graziano put together a post detailing useful tips for Google search.
But then the feature disappeared from Google search, with no mention as to why, or if it would ever return. Then, just this week, Lifehacker found the timer feature active once again on
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Remembering Howard Phillips
April 24, 2013 - 6:49 AM
Howard ("Howie") Phillips was unique.
The year was 1987 and the Reagan administration had announced the INF Treaty to limit short-range nukes. Many conservatives were opposed. I elected to host a press conference to make that point publicly.
The night before, we met privately. As ringleader, I issued a directive: No attacks on Ronald Reagan. Our beef was with the treaty, not with the Gipper. My co-conspirators agreed unanimously. But while we were meeting President Reagan was sitting down for an interview with Tom Brokaw and said about conservative opposition, "Some conservatives just believe in the inevitability of nuclear war."
Bad choice of words. The next morning conservatives were furious, none than than the late Senator Malcolm Wallop, who broadsided the president from the Senate floor. As we assembled for our press conference, I withdrew my edict. Anyone who felt the need to respond to Reagan had the right to do so. It was decided that three of us would speak on behalf of everyone.
Now here's a little bit of inside baseball about press conferences. It matters not a whit what you say. Reporters cover events but transcribe only soundbites. For speakers vying for coverage, the rule is pretty solid as well: He with the best one-liner wins.
I led off, and my statement contained the sentence that I delivered with brio and knew was sure to stick. Very satisfied, I sat down, but not before introducing Richard Viguerie, the patriarch of the "New Right" re-birth of the conservative movement. He didn't have a statement, just a little card containing one sentence. His attention-grabber line was twice as good as mine, which he delivered with double the brio. Advantage: Viguerie.
We turned the podium over to Howie Phillips. Within a minute he had delivered his sound bite. Viguerie and I, seated at the head table on either side of the lectern, leaned our chairs back, looked at each other and silently nodded. We knew Phillips had scored the knockout. "Reagan is a useful idiot."
All hell broke loose. All day we were peppered with questions from the press after being denounced by the White House. That evening, Viguerie and I were guests on CNN and anchorman Bernie Shaw eviscerated us. That was it. We asked Phillips to join us for breakfast the following morning.
Serious and worried, we told our friend it was time for serious damage control. The options: One, apologize. Whatever your intent, this is perceived as a personal insult and no one, most especially Ronald Reagan, should be insulted by us.
Two, clarify. We know what you meant. Lenin called Soviet sympathizers overseas "useful idiots." What you meant was that Reagan unwittingly is doing the bidding of the Soviets now. Call it a bad choice of words. Re-phrase your point.
We should have known better. Phillips met our worried disposition with a beaming, crooked smile and twinkling eyes. "Or three, stand by my words!" he said before erupting in laughter.
It doesn't matter what you think of his answer (obviously I didn't agree). It was a quintessential Howie Phillips moment: Confident, cocky, carefree.
It is a sad commentary on conservatives' sense of their own history that many may not know the name Howard Phillips. He, along with Viguerie, Terry Dolan (another name unknown to most in the movement), Paul Weyrich and Ed Feulner, was the founder of the New Right juggernaut that delivered Reagan. As a political force, they created the conservative movement that exists today.
The goal of the New Right wasn't merely to fight the establishment. It was to create a conservative counter-establishment. As opposed to today's movement, they didn't play defense, fidgeting and dithering about Sen. Harry Reid, tax increases, and Iran. They relished offense and weren't satisfied until Sen. George McGovern was again a private citizen, taxes were slashed, and the Soviet Union destroyed.
They were happy warriors. As opposed to so many of today's conservatives, worried that American exceptionalism cannot be redeemed and so depressed by the prospect, those conservatives saw unlimited possibilities. Whittaker Chambers famously had told Phillips' generation that in abandoning communism, he was leaving the winning side for the losing cause. Some conservatives accepted that depressing outlook as inevitable. The New Right rejected that thinking entirely — and did so with gusto, what good men do when they are committed to principle and unafraid.
Most amazing, this merry band of brothers was just that — a band. By today's standards, the New Right was never really a movement. It was a dozen or so leaders, with a dozen or so organizations, with maybe two-dozen dollars to spend. What should have been a blip became a seismic explosion. They were revolutionaries, the political arm of the movement that ushered in the Reagan era.
Most conservatives wouldn't be here but for men like Howard Phillips. They are his legacy. RIP.
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Silver Surfer and his board
#1 Edited by Bezza (3401 posts) - - Show Bio
I'm still on a learning curve when it comes to the Silver Surfer, so need some clarification please! The Fantastic Four movie seems to suggest that if he is separated from his board, he loses his powers. In the Planet Hulk story, the Surfer had the board strapped to him and didn't have the power cosmic, however I think this was due to the disc that was on him. So how weak is the Surfer when separated from his board and does he have to actually be standing on it to get full power? The FF movie made him appear really weak without a board, whereas in the Planet Hulk book, he wasn't scratched by anything even when not stood on his board and denied the power cosmic. By comparison, the Hulk was bleeding after the Surfer head butted him!
I'm assuming the FF movie just downgraded the Surfer's abilities, because my research indicates he is still a tough dude without that board.
#2 Posted by ShadowX (1218 posts) - - Show Bio
The fantastic four movie took tons of liberties with silver surfer and the losing powers by being no connecte dto his board is untrue.
#3 Posted by NorrinBoltagonPrime21 (5511 posts) - - Show Bio
Surfer is not powerless without his board, the board is a means of transportation. The board is apart of him because he is mentally linked to it and can make it do whatever he wants. Nobody can take the board from him (like in the movie) and gain powers from it. They can try to take the board but it wouldn't do anything until Surfer called it back to him. The board has been destroyed before and Surfer has been able to repair it with ease.
Surfer's powers come from the cosmos itself. The disc in planet hulk cut off Surfer's connection to the power cosmic which is why he was powerless. The board became immobile but still retained its durability. Surfer also kept his strength and durability which is why he was able to hurt hulk and why hulk wasn't able to serious damage to him.
Without his board, Surfer still has all of his powers and can do anything except fly.
Here's his wiki if you want to learn more about his powers and board.
#4 Edited by knighthood (1693 posts) - - Show Bio
Seems like he flies when jumping from his board.
#5 Edited by CaptnMcDeadpool (956 posts) - - Show Bio
BoltagonPrime covered it mostly. There is no connection between Surfers powers and his surfboard. Te board is only a means of locomotion.
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Film Review: Teenager and Mom in Web of Intrigue in 'Stoker'
Unreality rules in suspenseful tale marked by Hitchcock
Rated R for disturbing violent and sexual content.
4 Stars
In the final chapter of "The Story of Film: An Odyssey," Mark Cousins' epic documentary history of cinema (currently unspooling in segments each Saturday at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art), Sweden's Roy Andersson, director of "Songs from the Second Floor," states: "I really don't want a single frame in my movie that is indifferent — visually indifferent."
"Stoker," a study in psychological terror and the struggle for identity that can trace its bloody, muddy footprints to the spadework of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch, demonstrates that South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook shares Andersson's
philosophy. The movie doesn't waste a frame. It insists that it be watched with eyes wide open, even if its occasionally gruesome action may cause some viewers to squeeze their lids tight.
Shot in Nashville but set in what might be described as a fantasy Southern Gothic parcel of Connecticut, "Stoker" is Park's English-language film debut. The director was wooed to Hollywood on the strength of the violent and inventive so-called "Vengeance" trilogy that he created during the past decade; the most famous of these movies, "Oldboy," is being remade by Spike Lee.
Park belongs to a trio himself: He's one of three master South Korean genre filmmakers now working stateside. Kim Jee-woon ("I Saw the Devil") delivered the disappointing Schwarzenegger vehicle "The Last Stand" earlier this year, while Bong Joon-ho ("The Host") has "Snowpiercer" set for late 2013.
Scripted by actor-turned-writer Wentworth Miller ("Prison Break"), "Stoker" is the story of just-turned-18 India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska), a girl with a spider inside her. That's a metaphor to suggest India is at once a victim and a predator within the sinister web of her dissolute family history, but Park literalizes the idea with shots of a spindly arachnid creeping up the girl's sock, toward the sanctuary beneath her skirt.
When India's beloved father is "burned to a crisp" in a car accident, the previously absent Uncle Charlie (handsome, reptilian Matthew Goode) cuts short his legendary globe-trotting to attend the funeral and move into the large isolated mansion shared by India and her rather spacey mother (Nicole Kidman). The colorful walls are shades of mauve and sea green; a winding staircase provides a symbol for the power struggles within, as characters ascend and descend. The grounds are lush, with soil that is soft and "good for digging." We have no doubt digging soon will occur, to bury things much larger than a tulip bulb. In this diabolical household, as the cook informs us, even the eggs are deviled.
It's no surprise a world traveler like Charlie would assume a girl named India is terra familiar and no challenge to his seductive powers of persuasion. Porcelain complexion aside, however, India is as opaque as her namesake ink. She's so odd that it's a shock when Park shows her in school, among peers; she seems like she would be more at home in a fairy tale or a Poe story than in a cafeteria or classroom.
The editing emphasizes the unreality; it creates mystical connections between shots, even where none exists in the narrative. When India brushes her mother's red hair, the strands become blades of grass, waving in a field.
"Charlie, who in the world are you?" India's mother asks her guest. She must not be a movie buff. The inspiration for this "Uncle Charlie" is not "My Three Sons" but Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943), in which Joseph Cotton was an evil Uncle Charlie exposed by his adolescent niece. The Hitchcock allusions don't stop here: India is a taxidermist, like Norman Bates in "Psycho," and a strangulation that occurs is as ugly as the one in "Frenzy."
But Park, like Brian De Palma before him — another stylist besotted by the visual storytelling tools that distinguish cinema from theater and literature — uses his references to the Master of Suspense as a starting point for a very different kind of story, a fable of a fractured adolescent identity that resolves itself into creative action. (The shower scene here is sexual, and its connection of violence to pleasure is much more disturbing for a 2013 audience than the familiar scene with Janet Leigh.)
Early in "Stoker," India says her senses represent "the fruits of a lifetime of learning," and Park is no less certain of his own powers of perception. He makes India, like himself, a sort of artist, manipulating the realities she inhabits, conjuring scenes that are marvelous, ghastly and mysterious. Is it style for style's sake? Some might think so. But it's certainly not indifferent.
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Mike Elgan: 10 obsolete technologies to kill in 2010
Make the world a better place. Just say no to dumb tech.
December 24, 2009 06:00 AM ET
Computerworld - Some old-and-busted technologies die gracefully of natural causes. Pagers, PDAs, floppy disks -- they're gone, and good riddance.
Here are 10 dumb technologies we should get rid of in 2010:
1. Fax Machines
The fax machine was obsolete 15 years ago. When someone says "fax it to me," I always feel like I'm being punk'd. A fax machine is nothing more than a printer, scanner and an obsolete analog modem that work together to waste time, money, paper and electricity.
The mass delusion that perpetuates this obscenely inefficient technology is that paper "hard copy" is somehow more legitimate. In fact, gluing a copy of someone's stolen signature to a document, then faxing it, is the easiest way mask a forgery because of the low quality of fax output.
People, let's stop the madness. Just e-mail it.
2. 'Cigar lighter receptacle' plugs in cars
3. WWW
The original idea with Internet addresses is that a prefix would identify the type of service provided. So, for example, identifies Apple's "World-Wide Web" servers, and points to the company's offerings available via the "File Transfer Protocol."
Network administrators get to choose whether an address technically requires a "www." But browsers fill it in for you even when you don't type it.
That's why saying "www" as part of an address, printing it on business cards or typing it into your browser address box is always unnecessary. We stopped using "http://" years ago, and it's time to stop using "www" as well.
4. Business cards
Speaking of business cards, why do we still carry around 19th-century "calling cards"? When someone gives you a business card, they're giving you a tedious data entry job, one that most people never complete.
Besides, you should always learn in advance what you can about people you're going to meet, and that's a good time to enter their contact information. And if you just run into someone, and exchange contact information, it's best to do it by e-mail or some other means on the spot, with cell phones.
Adding someone to your contacts should involve double clicking or, at most, copying and pasting -- not data entry.
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NAME OLE::Storage_Lite - Simple Class for OLE document interface. DESCRIPTION This module allows you to read and write an OLE-Structured file. The module will work on the majority of Windows, UNIX and Macintosh platforms. REQUIREMENT This module requires these modules: IO::Handle (included in IO) IO::File (included in IO) IO::Scalar (included in IO::Stringy) INSTALLATION The module can be installed using the standard Perl procedure: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install # You may need to be root make clean # or make realclean Windows users without a working "make" can get nmake from: SAMPLE Samples scripts are in sample directory. : displays PPS structure of specified file (subset of "lls" distributed with OLE::Storage) : creates and save a sample OLE-file(tsv.dat). VERSION This document refers to version 0.11 of OLE::Storage_Lite released Nov 12, 2002. AUTHOR Kawai Takanori (
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5 Spies with Bigger Balls Than James Bond
Sean Connery convinced us all that to be a totally kickass spy all you needed was a nice suit, a martini and a wang that did your thinking for you. But where Bond stopped to make sure his Aston Martin was looking its best before taking out his one nemesis and his gimmick-laden crony, there are real-life spies who etched their names in history with the sheer size of their balls.
#5. Richard Sorge Turned World War II
Richard Sorge was an expert marksman, fluent in several languages and sported a Ph.D. in political science (because every spy should be able to distract you with a speech on the sociopolitical impact of poverty while he shoots you with a poison wrist-dart).
He was recruited by the Soviet Union and has even been referred to as "Stalin's James Bond," though it was in a French newspaper who said it and God only knows what their standard for that title is.
And then, shit got real...
When Hitler came to power in 1933, Sorge was sent to Japan to assess any threat towards to the Soviet Union. Through his network, Sorge learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor months before it happened and even the exact date of Operation Barbarossa (the Nazi invasion of the USSR). And he did it all without a single snowmobile chase (that we know of).
File photo of Sorge from the Covert Super Spy Newsletter.
So his info gave the Soviets a huge advantage, right? Well, Stalin, being a prick, dismissed Sorge as "a little shit who has set himself up with some small factories and brothels in Japan." Sorge turned out to be right, of course, and millions of Russians died. You should always pay attention to little shits in Japanese brothels.
Go on, suck my dick, Stalin.
Then, when Stalin was afraid the Japanese would follow the Nazis into the USSR, Sorge managed to photocopy reports that proved Japan was not going to invade. This meant the USSR army could throw all its might at the German Nazi invasion, and may have turned the tide of the entire war.
But, you can only steal so many massive secrets before someone finally catches on. Sorge was captured and then offered to the Soviets three times in exchange for Japanese prisoners, but no one took them up on the offer. Sorge never admitted who he worked for, even under torture. After three years he was hanged.
If not for Sorge, it's entirely possible the Nazis would have won, and to this day Russia would likely be a festering heap of sausage and oom-pah bands. In 1964, the Soviets finally acknowledged him as one of their own and commemorated his service by putting his face on a stamp. He probably would have preferred not being hanged.
The most badass thing you'll ever lick.
Favorable Comparison to Bond: Disapproving Superiors
Whenever Bond fails (always temporarily of course), it's always because some higher-up disapproves of his sexily unorthodox methods. Sorge was a victim of the same "he's just too goddamn manly to be trusted" discrimination, only in his case, instead of a matronly M clucking her tongue at his wandering penis, it was Joseph fucking Stalin.
#4. Fritz Joubert Duquesne Hated the British... A Lot
Fritz Joubert Duquesne's utterly insane story starts before his spy days. If somebody decided to do a JJ Abrams Star Trek-style "young James Bond" movie, it would pretty much play out like this guy's life.
He was a South African who fought in one of their wars against the British. He was captured and, knowing wang can solve any problem, seduced the daughter of one of the guards to gain freedom. He then made his way to England where he convinced them to let him join the army and got stationed back at South Africa, with the intention of thoroughly fucking things up from the inside. Keep in mind, he wasn't spying on anyone's behalf at this point. He was working as a saboteur just to be fucking doing it.
And then, shit got real...
Already pissed at the British for locking him up, his hate rose to a boiling point when he returned to his parent's farm in South Africa and realized the British Army had killed his sister, sent his mother to a British concentration camp and the entire place was littered with unsold Robbie Williams' CDs ensuring nothing would ever grow on the land again.
Cracked Fact: Robbie Williams was in English boy band "Take That" and therefore deserves endless mockery.
As revenge, Duquesne planned to completely destroy Cape Town, where Lord Kitchener, the man responsible for what happened to his family, was staying. He recruited 20 men to begin his tour of destruction, but was betrayed by the wife of one of his cohorts and wound up imprisoned again. He managed to escape the death penalty by giving away secret South African codes (they were bullshit), receiving life imprisonment instead while his 20 men were forced to eat English food and then shot.
English food.
After the war, they made the mistake of releasing Duquesne. Still holding a grudge over the whole "slaughtered sister" thing, he headed to Scotland, tracked down Kitchener and sabotaged his boat, killing him.
Moral: Don't fuck with Duquesne, he'll find you eventually.
Wait, we're not done. High on life but low on people to kill and now a very wanted man, he faked his death by writing his own obituary in the New York Times and told the world he'd been killed by legions of Amazonian natives wanting to steal his treasure (his first choice was saying he'd wrestled 30 tigers and then was sexed to death by 50 pornstars from the future, but it had been used by a different madman a week earlier). Duquesne then disappeared.
He had to explain his disappearance somehow, goddammit..
Eventually he was caught and arrested for a different crime. Hiding his true identity, because who gives a shit who's going to prison as long as someone is, he pretended to be paralyzed so he'd be sent to a prison hospital. Ask yourself, if you had to fake being paralyzed, how long do you think you could keep it up?
Duquesne did it for two freaking years.
Then, somehow, Duquesne cut off the bars in his window, jumped to a nearby building, climbed a six-foot wall, a fence with eight-foot iron spikes and then fled.
He was clearly Iron Man.
Years passed, and Duquesne was still pissed at the British. So pissed that when World War II came around, he decided to help the Nazis by doing the thing he loved best: freelance spying. He formed the infamous Duquesne Spy Ring, which ended up being the largest espionage ring ever broken up in U.S. history. Duquesne would die at the age of 78, and probably went wiping his ass with the flag of Britain.
Favorable comparison to Bond: First 60 Years of His Life
Bond may plays by his own rules, but he was ultimately acting on behalf of her majesty. Duquesne was like a pinball fueled by angry testosterone. Granted, being a blind angry ball of sex is what landed him on just about the worst side of history possible. But right up until he became a Nazi spy, he lived to show us what history would have looked like if Maximus, Jason Bourne and Rambo hated the British as much as George Washington.
#3. Mata Hari's Vagina Killed 50,000 Men
Born Margaretha Zelle, she became Mata Hari in 1903 when she found out another dancer had stolen her first choice of names, Titsa Flappin. She danced for only the best and ended up sleeping with many of her customers, including a German prince, the Dutch Prime Minister and probably all three Stooges.
Except for poor, poor Shemp.
Hari's spy career only began when an officer she loved needed an eye operation, and they were short on funds. It's a sad state of affairs when a hooker needs to moonlight as something else to make money.
Being Dutch and therefore allowed to travel freely during World War II--and also well acquainted with high ranking German officials--the French persuaded her to spy on the Germans.
And then, shit got real...
You see, the Germans were on to her, and fed her false information as well as healthy doses of penis. When she returned to Paris, the French refused to pay her for what they realized was useless intel. Things got worse when the French intercepted a German message from Mata Hari and deduced she was actually a double agent! Holy shit, somebody make us a flowchart here.
You couldn't handle this fucking chart, you pansy.
Many believe the Germans actually intentionally blew her cover, maybe an act of revenge for not indulging in all their weird German fetishes. Either way Mata Hari was arrested by the French, who said her spying had led to the deaths of 50,000 soldiers.
Deviant German porn, according to our Google research.
While awaiting her execution, Hari danced for her jailers and regaled them with risque stories about her past (because skanky chicks in prison don't have much else to do). At the same time, however, she was scheming an escape plan. She came up with three:
First, a former lover, who happened to be an aviator, promised to break into prison, and fly her out. Second, a nobleman who lost all his money boning her proposed bribing the shooting squad to use blanks and bury her very close to the ground, where he would come along and dig her up later. Third, Hari's doctor would say she was pregnant, and under French law, a pregnant woman cannot be executed. The French, unaware that they had an international reputation as limp-wristed wusses who couldn't get anything done, managed to carry off the execution before any of her plans could play out.
Refusing the customary blindfold, Hari walked to the yard where 12 men were waiting for her, the only time in her life such a thing happened that didn't end with her sitting on an inflatable cushion for a day afterwards. As the men raised their pistols, she decided to strip, convinced they would not shoot someone as beautiful as her.
She turned out to be wrong about that and her body was donated to a hospital, where it was kept preserved. It was only in 2007 they realized her head was missing, and possibly had been for 30 years. Best not to think about why someone might only take the head and leave everything else.
Favorable Comparison to Bond: Has a Gifted Vagina
If SPECTRE had tailor made a spy to take down Bond, they couldn't have done much better than Mata Hari. Sure, they threw the occasional double crossing femme fatal at Bond, but those ladies would always tip him off by doing something transparently evil, or break down and confess. Mata Hari's allegiances were so amorphous that people are still arguing about whose side she was on. It's likely that if Hari had existed in the Bond universe, she would have been rescued from the firing squad at the last second by a tuxedoed man flying a bulletproof hang glider.
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Analyzing cases and discussing their broader implications is the foundation of legal scholarship, but a lawsuit claims that one professor's take on a pending employment discrimination case constituted defamation and invasion of privacy.
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Opinions to Go: The audience (readers of law reviews, almost entirley lawyers) would understand that the author is interpreting the complaint's allegations regarding the defendant's statements, not affirming the accuracy of the complaint nor purporting to know what was in the defendant's mind. Separate from a host of First Amendment and other policy issues, the statement can't be defamatory because it is not susceptible of the purported defamatory meaning.
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Christian History & BiographyThe Christian Face of the Scientific Revolution
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A Priest Serving in Nature's Temple
Robert boyle's career blended faith, doubt, and the use of science to heal disease and fight atheism.
It was truly a dark and stormy night. An adolescent boy, deep asleep, was jarred awake by the concussion of thunder right overhead. Lightning repeatedly ripped the sky outside his window. He was terrified.
The flaming night pressed in on his imagination until he saw himself standing, on judgment day, amid the final conflagration that would consume the world. He trembled at the thought that he was not prepared to face that day, and he resolved to live for God. Robert Boyle kept that vow throughout his life. He dated his conversion from that awful night.
Within months, however, his faith came under attack. During a casual visit to the original Carthusian abbey of Grande Chartreuse in "those Wild Mountaines" near Grenoble, as Boyle described them in a memoir, he became deeply depressed. There, "the Devil taking advantage of that deepe, raving Melancholy, [and] so sad a Place" planted in his mind "distracting Doubts of some of the Fundamentals of Christianity." Boyle even contemplated suicide, drawing back only for fear of committing such a dreadful sin. Only after "a tedious languishment of many months" did it please God to "restore unto him the withdrawne sence of his Favor."
Religious doubt would henceforth be a defining characteristic of Boyle's personality, yet it played a positive role in the construction of his deeply thoughtful, charitably irenic faith.
His approach to doubt—the other side of the coin of faith—was frankly precocious. Just three months after his twentieth birthday, he wrote, "He whose Faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his Faith." Throughout his life, Boyle cultivated an active yet reflective piety. Daily he sought God in the pages of Scripture and investigated His wondrous works for the benefit of others.
Today, Boyle appears in high school chemistry courses as the scientist who formulated "Boyle's Law," describing the inverse relation between the pressure and volume of gases. Because of his many important discoveries, Boyle has been tagged "the father of chemistry."
What is absent from this image is the deeply religious man who wrote as much about God as he did about the nature of air; the man who considered himself a "priest" in the "temple" of nature; the man who paid for translations of the Bible into Gaelic and into the language of the Indians in Massachusetts.
Mary, Kate, and Robyn
Boyle's upbringing did not point him clearly either to science or to deep piety. Born in January 1627, he was the seventh son and fourteenth child of Richard Boyle, the first Earl of Cork, an unscrupulous man who took advantage of English colonialism in Ireland to become one of the wealthiest men in the realm.
Young "Robyn," as he was called, watched as his thirteen older brothers and sisters became pawns in a game of power, the boys given titles and lands and the girls married off to the sons of other powerful men—who usually had more love for their houses and horses than for their wives.
Robyn, however, declined a title and took a dim view of courtly mores. He narrowly avoided an arranged marriage himself, remaining celibate his entire life.
Although she was twelve years older, his sister Katherine became Robyn's closest confidant. A brilliant woman, she convened a salon for important intellectuals, including John Milton and several members of Parliament. Robyn lived in Katherine's London home for much of his adult life. She was also deeply pious and well versed in theology. Robyn, Katherine, and another illustrious sister, Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick, joined regularly in uplifting conversation—as Mary wrote in her diary, "good and profitable discourse of things wherewith we might edify one another."
Boyle's earliest writings reflect the intensity and intimacy of his relationship with God. These include two essays on the spiritual damage done by swearing, an ethical treatise influenced by Erasmus, and various essays, reflections, and romances (fictitious narratives) on moral and religious subjects.
One of Boyle's religious works, Occasional Reflections Upon Several Subjects, gained great popularity among the Puritans and remained in print for almost two hundred years.
Science next to godliness
It was only after writing such works as these that Boyle decided to take up serious scientific study. Although always profoundly curious about the natural world, he was even more strongly motivated by a desire to improve the human condition and to alleviate suffering. From early in his career he applied chemical knowledge to medical problems, publishing recipes for medicines in order to make such cures more widely available to the poor. (In this he anticipated by a century another "minister of medicines"—John Wesley.)
Once Boyle began to investigate nature, he never slackened. His Christian convictions gave these scientific pursuits an unanticipated boost: Science has always involved groups of people working together toward common goals. Boyle's unquestioned honesty, unfailing charity, and genuine interest in the public welfare made him an excellent colleague. Soon his integrity and warmth helped him gain entrée to an important community of "gentlemen," who met regularly in Oxford to view experiments and to discuss the latest scientific discoveries and ideas. In 1660, Boyle joined with a number of these men to found the Royal Society, the first scientific organization in the English-speaking world.
The next dozen years were the most productive of his life, earning him a worldwide reputation as the outstanding experimental scientist of his generation. His most famous contributions involved the use of an air pump, expertly made for him by Robert Hooke, a brilliant Oxford student who went on to become a great scientist himself. With this apparatus, Boyle demonstrated several properties of the air, confirming in clear, clever ways the hypothesis of Blaise Pascal and others that the atmosphere is a vast fluid like the ocean. Just as water pressure increases with depth, so too air pressure, Boyle showed, depends on the height of the atmosphere.
Other experiments, with insects and small mammals, clarified the connections among respiration, combustion, and various components of the air.
Atoms vs. idols
In his subtle book on the doctrine of creation, A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Receiv'd Notion of Nature, Boyle argued that the new science had its theological uses. The prevailing "vulgar" (popular) concept of nature, derived from the Greek scientist Aristotle and the Roman physician Galen, tended to personify nature. Statements, for example, that "nature abhors a vacuum" or that "nature does nothing in vain" Boyle considered idolatrous, since they effectively placed an intelligent, purposive agent, "much like a kind of Goddess," between God and the world God had made.
Noting that the Old Testament contained no "word that properly signifies Nature, in the sense we take it," Boyle argued for what he called the "mechanical philosophy," which explains natural phenomena from the purely mechanical properties and powers given to unintelligent matter by God at the creation. Such an approach, he believed, more clearly underscored the sovereignty of God and located purpose where it properly belonged: in the creator's mind, not in some imaginary "Nature."
Boyle also advocated the argument for the existence of God from signs of design in nature. Indeed, he had a strong interest in apologetics generally, reflecting his lifelong conversation with his own religious doubts. He wrote extensively on apologetic themes and in his will established a lectureship for "proveing the Christian Religion against notorious Infidels (viz) Atheists, Theists [that is, deists—people who believed God created the world, then stepped aside], Pagans, Jews and Mahometans."
Although he often targeted "atheists" in his writings, he realized that genuine philosophical atheism was rare in his day. He was actually more concerned with what he called "practical atheists"—those "baptised infidels" who lived as if there were no God to judge them—and here he thought the design argument had its greatest value.
As he wrote in Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things, Boyle wanted his readers not to "barely observe the Wisdom of God," but to be emotionally convinced of it. And what better to instill "wonder and veneration" in people than to show them the "Admirable Contrivance of the Particular Productions of [His] Immense Wisdom"? He had in mind especially the exquisitely fashioned parts of animals. Thereby, Boyle believed, "Men may be brought, upon the same account, … to acknowledge God, to admire Him, and to thank Him."
Shortly after midnight on the final day of 1691, Robert Boyle died in the house of his beloved sister Katherine. She had died herself just eight days before; grief likely hastened his own passing, although he was never robust and had been in declining health for several years.
Boyle was laid to rest close to Katherine in the chancel of their parish church, St. Martin-in-the-Fields. The precise location of his grave is no longer known. Given the humility he maintained throughout his illustrious life, we may easily imagine that Robert Boyle would be pleased with this final anonymity.
Edward B. Davis is Distinguished Professor of the History of Science at Messiah College. This article is adapted from a chapter in Reading God's World: The Vocation of Scientist, ed. Angus Menuge (Concordia, 2003).
Readers of this article might also be interested the following article by Edward B. Davis, "Robert Boyle's Religious Life, Beliefs, and Vocation." Science & Christian Belief 19.2 (2007): 117-38.
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Computer Science 5751
Machine Learning
Programming Assignment 6
Reinforcement Learning (65 points)
Due Friday, May 4, 2001 by 3:30 pm, NO LATE PROGRAMS ALLOWED!
In this lab you will implement a simple Q-learning algorithm to solve a particular task: balancing a pole on a cart. Your team assignments can be found here.
The Pole Balancing Problem
The pole balancing problem is a classic one in reinforcement learning. In it, the controller is attempting to keep a pole that is balanced on a cart from falling flat by applying pushes to the cart. The code for this problem can be found in the archive sbp.tar.Z. The code has a simple simulator that also has a window that shows the pole balance situation. To generate the window output I used a set of code called EZX. Due to this, the code for the simulation was written in C rather than in C++. If you like, you may convert this code to Java and write your simulator in Java.
The code provided includes a simple game form of the problem. The game asks you as the user to choose from among 5 actions to try to balance the pole: applying a small positive push, a medium positive push, a small negative push, a medium negative push, or no push. Try playing the game several times to get a feel for how it works.
Once you understand the simulator you should then implement a new version of the code that can learn a Q table to choose actions. You will then test how well your Q representation works by adding code to periodically see how it does after certain points in the training process.
The Q Representation
The game version of this problem has five possible actions. You should use the same set of actions in your learned controller. You then need to figure out how to represent the current pole balancing situation as a state. You should consider representing the state of the system by looking at two or three values about the cart and pole:
If your representaions has 10 bins for angle, eight for angular velocity, and three for the cart position then there are 240 possible states. You can give each state a unique number by calculating a value like this:
state = (ANGLEBIN - 1) * 8 * 3 + (VELOCITYBIN - 1) * 3 + (POSITION - 1)
Then your Q table is simply a two dimensional array with the first dimension being the number of states and the second dimension the number of actions.
Learning the Q Table
To learn the Q table you should run a large number of pole balancing games. A game should end either when the pole drops or if 500 steps are reached. The reward the controller receives is a large negative value when the pole drops or when the cart hits the wall. All other rewards should be 0.
For the discount factor I would suggest a high value such as 0.9 or 0.95 (you may want to make this an input to your system). The Q update rule you should use is the one from class (on the second "Nondeterministic Case" overhead). To select from amongst the actions I would suggest an approach involving a probability of selecting the "best" (highest Q value action). With some probability p at each step you should choose the best action, otherwise choose an action at random. To make this technique work I would start this probability at a low value during early learning (allowing lots of exploration) and then increasing the probability for later games (to allow more exploitation).
Your general learning approach should work as follows:
FOR game = 1 TO MaxNumberOfTrainingGames DO
initialize a pole balancing game
determine the state
select an action
perform that action
measure the reward
update the Q function
UNTIL the pole drops OR 500 steps have happened
IF a certain number of games have passed THEN
evaluate the current Q table
To evaluate the current Q table you should run a certain number of games (perhaps 50) and count for each game how many steps occur before the pole drops (or that 500 steps were reached). Note that this is slightly different from the learning process in that when you select an action during this testing process you should always choose the action with the highest Q value.
Conduct several experiments to see how well your state representation works. Note that you may want to make the definition of the states (i.e., how many bins, what the bin thresholds are, etc.) inputs to your system so that you can try different representations. Train each of your different representations several times for a large number of games (100000) periodically stopping (after each 1000 games) to evaluate how good the solution is so far. Graph your results for each experiment and discuss how well each of your representations works.
What to Turn In
Print out a copy of your team's code. Also, construct a report of the results of your experiments from the previous section with the results mentioned.
Next your team should write up a short report (at least one page, no more than three) discussing your design decisions in implementing the Q learning algorithm.
Finally, each member of your team should write a short report (at least a half a page and no more than one page) discussing what you contributed to the effort and how the overall team approach worked for you.
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Orin Snyder, Apple's attorney, disagrees with the DOJ's statements.
Source: Reuters
Comments Threshold
RE: This is why so many people dislike Apple
By Tony Swash on 6/4/2013 4:10:51 PM , Rating: 2
Yes it is better to not notice the problem prior to shipment, then to blame the customer, then fix it later on?
So when is the fix for the Galaxy 4 due?
Let's hope it's quicker than the non-existant fix for the Galaxy 3 which had this to say on page 13 and 128 of it's manual:
Do not touch the or cover the area around the antenna with your hands of other objects.
Apparently doing so "may result in reduced call quality or cause the device to emit unintended levels of radio frequency energy" Yikes!
Page 174 Galaxy 3 manual
By retrospooty on 6/4/2013 4:15:33 PM , Rating: 2
I'm still not seeing where this article or thread is about Samsung in any way shape or form. Read it again, it's about Apple and price fixing. This spawned a discussion about all the other dirty tricks Apple pulls. Where did Samsung come into it? do you seriously think no one sees you trying to totally distract from the subject matter? You are getting more and more transparent as time goes by
RE: This is why so many people dislike Apple
By sprockkets on 6/4/2013 8:10:29 PM , Rating: 2
So when is the fix for the Galaxy 4 due?
Never, since it wasn't an issue to begin with, neither with any of those other phones on that stupid blog.
The SG4 has internal antenna's which aren't exposed via the outer metal banding like the stupid iphone4 had, allowing people to bridge one to another greatly attenuation it, versus a little like every properly made phone out there.
I mean, they only fixed it on the verizon version, then the iphone4s and above, but no, that isn't an admission of guilt, ever.
RE: This is why so many people dislike Apple
By Tony Swash on 6/4/2013 8:35:43 PM , Rating: 1
So I guess Samsung made a silly blunder when they posted this graphic showing the antenna areas on the outside of the phone that should not be touched by the users hands?
And when the official manual for the Samsung Galaxy S4 says on page 8 -
- they are actually talking about users putting their hands inside the handset?
I knew that that most Samsung phones were big but I hadn't realised they were that big!
RE: This is why so many people dislike Apple
By sprockkets on 6/4/2013 9:04:05 PM , Rating: 1
God you are so stupid/trolling.
By testerguy on 6/5/2013 3:59:10 AM , Rating: 1
Funniest self-humiliating response ever.
If you run out of arguments, caps lock + swearing.
Always a winner.
By croc on 6/5/2013 6:42:53 AM , Rating: 2
Do you still beat your wife?
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We can speak of climate change with a fair amount of certitude: shrinking Arctic ice cover, rising global temperatures and increased frequency of extreme weather events. Most of us acknowledge that things are getting worse faster than previously predicted, and that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions have likely played a major role in this. Most... More >>>
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Pistachio pavlovas with cherry compote and vanilla yoghurt cream recipe
By Debbie Major
1. Serves 6
2. Takes 30 minutes to make, 1 hour to cook, plus cooling
3. Rating
Celebrate National Cherry Day with these pistachio pavlovas topped with cherry compote and vanilla yoghurt cream.
tried and tested
Pistachio pavlovas with cherry compote and vanilla yoghurt cream
1. 4 large free-range egg whites
2. 225g caster sugar
3. 1½ tsp cornflour
4. ¾ tsp white wine vinegar
5. 50g shelled pistachios, roughly chopped
6. For the cherry compote
7. 200g caster sugar
8. 225ml orange juice
9. 3 tbsp lemon juice
10. 600g cherries, stalks removed, pitted
11. For the vanilla yogurt cream
12. 250ml double cream
13. 1 tsp vanilla bean paste (the delicious. team use Taylor & Colledge, from Waitrose)
14. 4 heaped tbsp Greek-style natural yogurt
1. 1. First, make the pistachio pavlovas. Preheat the oven to 140°C/fan120°C/gas 1. Line a large baking sheet with baking paper.
2. 2. Whisk the egg whites with a pinch of salt in a large, very clean mixing bowl until they form stiff peaks. Gradually whisk in the sugar, 1 tbsp at a time, to make a very stiff and shiny meringue. Gradually whisk in the cornflour and vinegar, then fold in all but a generous heaped tbsp of the chopped pistachios.
3. 3. Drop 6 large tbsp of the mixture, spaced well apart, onto the baking sheet. Then, using the back of a spoon, spread each one out into a 10cm round, making a slight dip in the middle as you do so. Sprinkle each with a few of the reserved pistachios and bake for 45 minutes. Turn off the oven, leave the door ajar and leave them to cool inside.
4. 4. Meanwhile, make the cherry compote. Put the sugar in a pan with the orange and lemon juices, then leave over a low heat until the sugar has dissolved. Add the cherries, bring to the boil and simmer gently for 10-12 minutes until they are just tender. Use a slotted spoon to scoop the cooked cherries into a small bowl, then return the pan to the heat and boil rapidly until the juices have reduced by about half. Leave to cool slightly, then pour back over the cherries and chill until needed.
5. 5. Just before serving, whip the cream and vanilla bean paste into soft peaks, then fold in the yogurt. Spoon some into the centre of each pavlova, top with the cherry compote and serve. Any leftover compote is wonderful spooned over vanilla ice cream or served topped with natural yogurt.
Nutritional info
Per serving: 600kcals, 25g fat (13.7g saturated), 6.1g protein, 91.7g carbs (86.3g sugars), 0.2g salt, 1.3g fibre
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Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 - Destructoid
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2
1:19 AM on 10.11.2007
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
[Hey all, Linde here. I know it's been awhile since I've been regular with the BBL updates, but what with review crew and Podtoid and all, keeping it up to date has been kinda tough. But rather than let the ol' column fizzle and die while I tend to other responsibilities, I thought I'd give it to Destructoid and let the rest of the staff share their favorite bargain bin finds with you as well. Shaking things up is always groovy, yeah? We'll have someone new doing the column every week. Same rules apply, though: the only games we'll be featuring will be the best games at the absolute lowest cost.]
I’ve probably got some ‘splaining to do. Pictured above you’ll see the hobo I picked up yesterday at the local train tracks. He said he knew a lot about classic arcade games from his younger vagabond days, so I invited him along to help me write this week’s Bargain Bin Laden. Taito Legends Vol. 1 and 2 are both so amazingly cheap that I had some spare change after my purchase. With the extra money I decided to treat “Ringworm Ricky”, as he proudly calls himself, to some vegetarian pizza. Periodically, my altruistic side gets the best of me and I’ll place down the old Dual Shock and try to make the world a better place. "If I can save one life, I’ve saved the world entire." That quote’s from Mahatma Gandhi (I read books by him in public so people will think I'm a good person).
Both Taito Legends collections are jammed with an amazing array of games. We’re talking over 60 full-length, arcade perfect ports spanning two discs. If you do some smart shopping you can pick both of them up together for under $20 brand new! At least half of these games completely rock and stand as loving bookends to an arcade culture that’s already slipped down the memory tube. Come join me and Ringworm Ricky after the jump, where we get down to the brass tacks of why you need to own at least one of these.
Taito Legends (PS2)
Developed by: Empire Interactive/Sega
Released: October 25, 2005
Bargain Binned:
$8-10 new, 150 Goozex points.
List of Titles: Click here
Taito Legends 2 (PS2)
Developed by: Empire Interactive/Destineer
May 16, 2007
Bargain Binned: $11 new, 300 Goozex points.
List of Titles: Click here
Tristero: I'm going to jump right into it. Buy these, please. I've never before purchased a single disc for any game system that had such a variety and multitude of quality games packed onto it. I'm a total junkie for anything that aims at recreating the arcade experience and the Taito Legends series has it down to a science. I've already bought about ten different classic game compilations, so I'm no stranger to the retro, virtual-mall money grabs. Taito Legends easily stands at the top of the pack based on the loving detail poured into the extra features, combined with the sheer volume of games featured.
These discs markedly set themselves apart from the umpteenth iteration of the same five Namco or Atari games you'll find on the clearance shelves. They do this with the inclusion of developer interviews, photographs of vintage arcade cabinets and scans of original art flyers. They also do a great job of highlighting games that typically haven't seen previous home incarnations. More than mild diversions, most of these games end up bringing a good deal of entertainment. I'd even pay $5-6 for some of these titles if they were released as individual downloads on some of the current-gen systems. Fair warning though, my tastes do overly lean toward goofy, kitsch curiosities. If you own a pair of retro goggles, slip 'em on. You'll feel instantly at home.
Ringworm Ricky: I've taken showers in about twelve different YMCAs across the western half of the United States. I'm often faced with the tough choice of using my last quarter to buy the travel toothpaste at the hospitality counter or playing Space Invaders in the rec hall. But now I can play it at your house and keep my quarter for smokes. What was the question?
Tristero: You make an interesting point there... about... something. You want to try a few of these games and tell our readers about them? Here, take a controller.
[At this point, Ringworm Ricky coughed blood all over my wireless Mad Katz controller.]
Ringworm Ricky: Will Mr. Destracto pay for my TB shots?
Tristero: No. He won't. He doesn't know I've subcontracted you. And they won't pay for that controller either, so I'm docking your cab fare. Let's throw the first volume in, Taito Legends.
Tristero: Okay, you've got your typical classics here like, Elevator Action, Operation Wolf and Rainbow Islands, but Ninja Kids, which I'd never heard of before, became an instant favorite of mine. It's a fairly straight-forward knock off of TMNT 2: The Arcade Game in the way it plays, but it comes packaged in a real hoot of a story. In the first level you're already chopping drunken Satanist gang members into bloody pieces with a ninja sword. By the time the game finishes you'll have massacred werewolves in a hamburger joint, cut off the heads of hunchbacked old men and dodged hilarious insults from robed cult members like, "C'mon Ninja Kids. Here's a graveyard of you." Which ones did you like, Ricky?
Ringworm Ricky: Well, Bubble Bobble was good, I suppose. The graphics are much crisper then the NES version. I like it when the lizard put 'dem sap suckers into a bubble and then turned them into candy and ice cream and french fries. Another game I enjoyed was Plump Pop. You play a couple of delicious pigs with a trampoline and you have to throw your scrumptious pig friend into the air to catch tasty bananas and mouth watering coconuts.
Tristero: You just chose those games because they had food in them, didn't you? Calm down. I'll give you that pizza I promised you after you finish the review.
Ringworm Ricky: You better not hold out on me. I was in Echo Park when someone promised me a Teriyaki Milkshake in return for my bottle collection. Let's just say that what I got was neither Teriyaki nor a Milkshake. Honestly, the best game on here was Thunderfox. It reminded me of P.O.W. or Rolling Thunder, but with a heaping spoonful of camp. It's been about forty years since I threw grenades off a jet ski at kung fu commandos, but it feels a lot more safe playing the game version here with you. When that chopper landed and I knicked the grenades before you got to them in co-op play ... actually, I don't like this game at all. I'm starting to get a Nam flashback so I better turn it off.
Tristero [whispers]: Ricky thinks unplugging the controller and closing his eyes in the corner "turns off" the game.
Ringworm Ricky: Can I go home now?
Tristero: I thought you didn't have one. Now, get back up here and play Taito Legends 2 with me, ya big lug. I promise this one's 100% flashback free, for better or wose. You see, whereas the first Taito Legends had a handful of cool interviews with legendary arcade developers like Fukio Mitsuji and Tomohiro Nishikado thrown in, Taito Legends 2 is a little bare-bones. But that's okay, because it actually has more games than the first volume, and they're better than just cold left-overs. In fact, I think I might prefer how this set focuses on shmups and puzzle games over tried and true classics. I've played dozens of clones of Qix, but it was cool to finally play the original arcade release.
Ringworm Ricky: I agree. The shmups collected on this disc get the fingerless gloves thumbs-up from me. Here are some shiny things I enjoyed looking at: Gekirindan's flaming skulls, Insector X's adorable bees, Syvalion's mechanical dragon. If it scrolls and it shoots I want to play it. I can be a bit undiscriminating when it comes to these, the same way I am when it comes to water. Fetid rain run-off still quenches your thirst, you know what I mean?
Tristero: I'm sorry, but I only drink Fuji water. But I can sympathize with your love of shooters. The real highlights here are the two different installments from the Darius series, Darius Gaiden and G Darius. These were released in the mid nineties by Taito so you'll find some more contemporary mechanics like branching pathways that require mulitple playthroughs to fully experience. There are some awesome decisions made in the art direction: you'll notice swirling psychedelic backgrounds and rainbow colored bosses that have a hand-drawn, personal touch.
Ringworm Ricky: We'd also be remiss if we didn't also give the beat 'em up Growl an honorable mention.
Ringworm Ricky: Some really bad-ass poachers decide to go on a rampage and win one for America by thinning out the world's overcrowded wild animal population. But, oh no. Some pinko, limp-wristed commies from a gay biker bar take the law in their own hands and you have to stop them before they corrupt the youth with their alternative lifestyle. Reminds me of the time Sidewalk Sally tried to up and steal my brillo pad and crack pipe, so I grabbed her by the dungarees ...
Tristero [Interrupts] Okay, I think you've got the wrong idea there pal. You're actually supposed to fight against the poachers. And as you can clearly see from the picture above, there's absolutely nothing gay about that animal rights activist in the pink pleather vest swinging the whip over his Louis Vuitton bandana. I resent your stereotypes, Ricky. Let's wrap this up so you can get back to the train tracks. Folks, if you merely tried each of the 60 games on here for ten minutes a piece, it would take you over six hours. Factor in that you'll probably find a good twenty or so that you will love and will want to make repeat visits to, and you can easily squeeze out the same amount of value you would from a gigantic RPG. If you're trying to build a retro game collection at a cheap price, consider this an essential purchase.
Ringworm Ricky: I think we learned a lot today. Taito Legends and Taito Legends 2 are both solid collections at unbeatable prices that deserve a spin or two. We learned that the first volume includes robust bonus features while the second volume shines in the obscure wonders it unearths.
Tristero: Well put! We also learned that I am a kind person who won't let a hobo's personal hygeine or lack of personality stand in the way of a fun pizza party.
Ringworm Ricky: You have a home and I don't.
Tristero: Isn't he cuuuuute?
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
Bargain Bin Laden #26: Taito Legends 1 & 2 photo
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This Japanese grandma accidentally bought a derelict arcade
In sunny Chiba, Japan, a woman purchased a building that actually ended up encasing a time capsule of arcade goodness straight out of the late '80s through '90s. Among the relics were almost fifty Sega Aero and Astro City cab...more
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PIC Based Serial Port Servo Controller
Author: Ashley Roll, Sept 2000.
Some Photos: PicServo1.jpg (300kb) PicServo2.jpg (300kb)
As Published in Electronics Australia, September 2000.
Click here to read the Article. It describes the circuit its construction.
PICServo Serial Port Servo Controller
PICServo Serial Port Servo Controller
Revision History
• 28 Jan, 2002 - Bug found in 8 Servo motor variant, refer to 8 servo code page for details.
• 28 Oct, 2001 - Serial Transfer Bug found.
• Dec, 2005 - This project is no longer supported. The information is here for you to use. A new version of the PIC Servo controller is in the works and it will use a more modern PIC and support much faster serial communication and better position control commands.
Project Details
The PIC Based servo controller is a small project I designed to allow me to control some robotics. I then decided that I should publish it as it may be of interest to other people.
The Servo Controller uses a PIC16F84 microcontroller from Microchip to drive servo motors and digital outputs. It receives commands from a host computer via a standard RS232 serial interface.
You can download the PIC program which contains a HEX file which most PIC programmers can read; and a PIC Assembler code (ASM) file if you would like to see how it works or modify it.
I used the free PIC assembler from Microchip, the manufactures of the PIC range of Microcontrollers.
Several contributors have provided code samples that you can use to drive the PIC Servo project.
• Nov, 2001 - Jose Maria Diaz de la Cruz of the Polytechnical University of Madrid (Spain) has provided an ActiveX control (ocx) and a Visual Basic Project. Note you will need to compile the Visual Basic project as it contains source only.
• Feb 2002 - Richard Gardiner provided a Windows executable which is targeted at driving the 8 servo variant.
Here are some Acrobat files for the Schematic, Single sided PCB and Overlay artwork:
You will need an Acrobat reader available for free from www.Adobe.com to view and print these files.
Note that the PCB is a single sided board, about 88 mm by 53 mm (3.5 inches by 2.1 inches). I have provided the track patters viewed from both sides of the board so you can choose the one that suits your method of production.
I have been asked for a version that will control eight servos, so I have altered the code to support this.
Servo Controller Commands
To control the servos and outputs we need to send commands to the PIC. Some of the commands are single byte commands; some however require two bytes.
The first byte always contains the command and the channel to which the command applies. We will call this the 'Command' byte. The second byte (when needed) will contain data for the command; we will call this the 'Data' byte and is used when we need to set the servo offset or position for example.
The command byte is split into two nibbles (4 bits), the upper one defines the command to execute and the lower defines the channel (which servo or digital output) is to be affected.
Bit 7Bit 6Bit 5Bit 4Bit 3Bit 2Bit 1Bit 0
CommandChannel Select
Currently, the software recognises only channels zero, one, two and three. The following are the commands and their numerical value. To build command bytes add the command value to the channel number.
HexDecimalData ByteDescription
000YesReset the controller. All outputs off, all servos disabled and all servos position and offset values are set to 128 (midrange). The data byte following this command MUST be zero. To ensure that a reset command it actually executed, send three consecutive zero bytes.
1016YesSet the servo output 'Position' value for the servo specified in the channel nibble. The data byte contains the new position value between 0 and 255.
2032YesSet the servo output 'Offset' value for the servo specified in the channel nibble. The data byte contains the new offset value between 0 and 255.
3048NoEnable Servo Output. Start generating the servo control pulse for the servo specified in the channel nibble.
4064NoDisable Servo Output. Stop generating the servo control pulse for the servo specified in the channel nibble.
5080NoSet Digital Output On (High). Set the digital output specified in the channel nibble high (5 volts).
6096NoSet Digital Output Off (Low). Set the digital output specified in the channel nibble low (0 volts).
Special consideration needs to be given to the reset command as the state of the command parser in the PIC is not known when it is issued we actually need to be a little tricky. The parser could be waiting for a command in which case it would work, or it could be waiting for a data byte in which case it would get a little confused.
Therefore we will make the reset command a series of three zeros and have the parser on the PIC detect that there is an extra byte and ignore it.
When the servo controller receives a reset command it will turn everything off, set all the servos position and offset values to midrange and send the string "Reset" to the serial port with a 'carriage return' and a 'new line' character appended.
Example Commands
Enable Servo 0: 48 + 0 = 48 (ASCII '0')
Enable Servo 2: 48 + 2 = 50 (ASCII '2')
Disable Servo 0: 64 + 0 = 64 (ASCII '@')
Disable Servo 2: 64 + 2 = 66 (ASCII 'B')
Set Servo 1 Position to 180: 16 + 1 = 17 then 180
Parts List
Resistors (Metal Film 1% or 5%, 0.25 W)
C1, C2, C3, C4, C510uF 25 Volt Electrolytic
C647uF 25 Volt Electrolytic
C7, C822pF Ceramic
C9, C100.1uF MKT Polyester
U27805 voltage regulator
U3PIC16F84 programmed with SERVOCTL.HEX
D25mm Red LED
Y14 MHz Crystal
83 pin PCB Header Pins. Buy a longer length and bread them up.
116 Pin IC Socket
118 Pin IC Socket
1DB9 90 degree female connector
12.5mm PCB Mount DC Power socket
3mm bolts, nuts and PCB standoffs for mounting
Contacting The Author
Contact Me on [email protected] for more information.
I'm interested in your feedback and I'll try to answer as many questions as I can, but I can't really offer construction advise or help fixing your project if it doesn't work, sorry.
I'm interesting in hearing about the applications you may find for this project, and any changes you may make to the PIC code. If you change the PIC code or write a driver program that you would like to share I'd be happy to place it here (and, of course, credit you).
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"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" vs. "Waiting for Godot"
Compare and contrast the ways in which 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' by Tom Stoppard and 'Waiting for Godot' by Samuel Beckett teach important insights about the human condition.
Inspired by Beckett's literary style, particularly in 'Waiting for Godot', Stoppard wrote 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead'. As a result of this, many comparisons can be drawn between these two plays. Stoppard's writing was also influenced by Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as minor characters exist within Shakespeare's world providing Stoppard with his protagonists. However, the play is not an attempt to rewrite 'Waiting for Godot' in a framework of Shakespeare's drama.
In studying these texts, the reader is provoked into analysing, comparing and contrasting them. In particular the characters in 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' provide intriguing material to consider the human condition. The characters, their personality traits and responses to stimuli, as well as what directs and motivates them, is worthy of discussion.
Stoppard gives Rosencrantz and Guildenstern an existence outside 'Hamlet', although it is one of little significance and they idle away their time only having a purpose to their lives when the play rejoins the 'Hamlet' plot, after they have been called by the King's messenger: "There was a messenger...that's right. We were sent for." Their lives end tragically due to this connection with 'Hamlet', predetermined by the title, but the role provided them with a purpose to their otherwise futile lives, making them bearable. Their deaths evoke sadness and sympathy leaving the reader grieving for them.
In contrast to Stoppard's play 'Waiting for Godot' is much bleaker in the respect that Vladimir and Estragon seem to have no purpose or direction in their lives. Their only hope rests on the mysterious Godot who never comes, however they do remain alive at the end. This leads the...
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When to Build and When to Buy (Content)
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You can't take two steps in the world of marketing without hearing everyone's favorite word—content—being tossed around. And rightfully so. Marketers have truly become publishers.
Content has become an invaluable backbone in the marketing skeleton that can't be ignored. To produce the quantity needed to meet new marketing demands, many companies are purchasing content so they can push it out quickly and not rely on internal resources to get that part of the job done. While this certainly can be a worthwhile boost to a content marketing strategy, it isn't always the smartest one. Here's a foolproof guide to knowing when it's best to buy content, and when you're better off dedicating the time to creating it yourself.
Know your content threshold
Decide how much content you need, and be realistic about it. Marketers have a way of becoming absorbed in pursuing quantity, and sometimes need a reality check to reinforce that buyers aren't made from mass amounts of content. It's one thing to own a truckload of content; it's another (smarter) thing to build it yourself around buyers' needs and actually do something meaningful with it. If you don't have the resources to manage videos, blogs, webinars, newsletters, and whitepapers all at once—and do it right—then don't do it. I give you permission to not go overboard.
The thing is, most companies aren't prepared to juggle vast amounts of content, but it is something any company can build up to. So what's the key to doing this? Start small and manageable. If you have some internal folks who can spare some time for content creation, recruit them to pitch in. And don't limit this to the marketing department; consider the whole company fair game for this opportunity. Begin by realistically pulling together a list of the kinds of content you need (maybe pick three; e.g., a blog, emails, and webinars), then create a realistic schedule of execution, and, finally, map each type of content to your internal resources. Once you've done this, you'll know precisely what's left over. Knowing this gives you the perfect springboard from which a more robust content pipeline can be developed, and delegated from.
Outsourced, custom contentnot an oxymoron
Let's just get the dirty little secret out on the table. Most companies have a good deal of their marketing content developed by outsourced agencies. It's just the way it's always been, is currently, and will continue to be as more and more content is required to fulfill the new channels arising all the time.
So now let's talk about the benefits of custom-built content and why it should be taken into consideration with your content marketing plan. Custom content is authentic, driven by your brand messaging, and made just for your buyer. And, you don't have to pull a ton of internal resources away from other initiatives to get it done. Sounds peachy, right?
Well, even though it's ideal, there are some cons. For one, custom-built content can take a long time to develop and refine, which can delay campaigns and cost extra dough. It also demands the time of an individual (or two) within your company, which means some of your precious man hours will be spent somewhere other than the area for which you hired that person. Sometimes this can still work, but oftentimes ends up throwing a wrench in productivity.
So when should you take the custom route? If your content needs are relatively small (think one or two new pieces being pushed out per week), and you can afford to spring for the custom material internally, then It'll be worth the money and worth the small diversion in time for one of your in-house employees to manage it.
Another prime time to go with custom-built content is if you're establishing or reestablishing your brand with a new market and you need to drive it home hard. And, if your budget is nice and healthy, this is surely an advisable way to spend it. Many agencies have become adept at handling customized content from outside the walls of your company too. It can be done, but you have to do your research to find those experts that can make it sound genuine and keep your brand in mind at all times. Doable, but not easy.
Bring in the experts: Non-customizable bulk content
Now you have a solid grasp of your content needs, and know if you should be generating custom content or not. So when do you bring in third-party content for maximum marketing oomph? If you've gotten into a content groove and are ready to become a serious content machine, now's the time. When your brand is well established and your core messaging is resonating with your market, get busy scoping out the leaders in your field. If you have the capability in-house to manage it properly, then buying research-based content assembled by a reputable research firm or third-party expert can be a priceless next step in rounding out your content mix. This could include articles, whitepapers, webinars, or even videos, so long as this content is credible and adds a new dimension to what you already have.
This channel can often be expensive, but if you're considering reaching the next level, it can go a long way in establishing you as a thought leader and making your presence known in your field. Don't look at is so much as paying for content –you're paying for credibility and a lot of research around your selected topics. Third party expert content is a necessary component of reaching trust-based buyers, and will break down those barriers with your personas who need it. When you're getting to this stage, you already have an unshakeable foundation of loyal followers. This validation from outside sources is what can incite additional prospects to fill in important layers to that buyer base.
There are endless content strategies that include a varied mix of building and buying content, and there really isn't one fully right approach that works all the time. The crux of the matter is that you know your buyers, and you know what will strike a chord with them. Retain as much genuine content generation as you can comfortably handle and don't make the fatal mistake of outsourcing your authenticity. And then when the time is right for some third-party validation, be ready to jump. If you build it–and buy some of it–they will come.
Justin Gray is CEO of LeadMD.
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He was late to the train station
to pick up Anne.
Who is Matthew
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She accused Anne of
having hair as red as
Who is Rachel
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Anne hit him over the
head with her slate.
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Anne said she looked just like a
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She dared Anne to walk
the ridge-pole of
Mr. Barry’s kitchen roof.
Who is Josie Pye ?
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The home of Matthew and
Marilla Cuthbert
What is Green Gables?
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The place where Matthew
first met Anne Shirley.
Where is Bright River?
Places 300
The setting for Anne of Green Gables
What is Prince Edward
Places 400
Anne Shirley was born
What is Bolingbroke,
Nova Scotia?
Places 500
Where Reverend and Mrs. Allan lived.
What is the manse?
Who said… 100
“I wouldn’t give a dog I liked to
that Blewett woman.”
Who is Marilla?
Who said… 200
“Well, they didn’t pick you for your
looks, that’s sure and certain.”
Who is Rachel Lynde?
Who said… 300
“I am well in body although
considerably rumpled up in
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Who said… 400
“You’re a queer girl, Anne. I heard before
that you were queer. But I believe I’m
going to like you real well.”
Who is Diana Barry?
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“Anne Shirley, since you seem to be so fond
of the boys’ company we shall indulge your
taste for it this afternoon. Take those
flowers out of your hair and sit with
Gilbert Blythe.”
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that she would be ashamed to
tell this friend.
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it isn't surprising that Unix and Linux platforms enjoy the broadest choice of available Web servers.
As with most things in the Unix world, this same range of Web servers is available for Linux. The majority
of Linux Web servers are free. The best-known Linux Web servers are these:
• Nginx
• NCSA httpd
• Apache
• AOLserver
• Boa
• WN
• W3C/Cern
In addition to these free servers, there are several commercial alternatives available for Linux, including
the following:
• FastTrack/iPlanet
• Java Web Server
• Stronghold
• Zeus
By some counts, Apache is the most widely used Web server software. Standing for "A Patchy Server",
Apache grew out of efforts to patch NCSA httpd, one of the original Web servers, to fix some problems
and add functionality.
Since then, Apache has emerged as the non-commercial server of choice for Unix systems. More
recently, it has been ported to Windows and can be used as a Web server on Windows NT/2000
Apache offers numerous features that make it attractive for Unix/Linux system administrators. Besides
using a configuration based on the original NCSA httpd configuration files, Apache is available in full
source code and is collectively developed, like many other popular applications for the Linux
Apache offers its own API, which can be used as an alternative to CGI (which is also supported by
Apache). In addition, the API can be used to produce plug-in modules that serve numerous purposes.
Among the available modules are the following:
• Alternative authentication systems, including authentication from NIS authentication servers or
from LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) databases.
• Server-side scripting environments that serve the same function as Microsoft Active Server
Pages or Netscape LiveWire, including PHP/FI and HeiTML.
• Modules designed to improve the performance of traditional CGI. For instance, the FastCGI
module uses shortcuts to minimized the time it takes to execute a CGI program and return the
results. The Perl module allows Perl scripts to run in a single process and to be compiled on first
execution only, making Perl-based CGI performs almost as fast as compiled CGI programs and
some API-based Web applications.
The original source code for the latest version of Apache is available from, along with
precompiled binaries for many different systems including Linux. Apache is included as the default Web
server installed with Red Hat Linux 7.1
NCSA httpd
NCSA httpd is one of the two original Web servers (along with the Cern Web server) upon which the
Web was first built. NCSA httpd comes out of the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which is also the home of Mosaic, the original graphical Web
browser that launched the Web onto the road to widespread popularity.
NCSA httpd offers a core set of functions designed to meet the needs of all but the most demanding of
Web sites. These features include built-in support for multiple hosts, Basic and Digest authentication,
directory-level access controls, server-side includes, and full CGI support.
While NCSA httpd is no longer under active development, it does provide the background for the current
structure of Apache. The original source code and precompiled binaries for NCSA httpd are available
The Jigsaw Web server is the Java-based successor to Cern, which was one of the first Web servers
powering the Internet. As a completely Java-based server, it is designed to run on any operating system
that supports this language, including Unix/Linux and Microsoft Windows.
Jigsaw is set up with several different types of Java objects, including:
Resources. What is seen on the Web page. This includes static objects such as text or image files,
and dynamic objects such as scripts.
Frames. What actually handles the resource. A frame includes all of the necessary information
to serve a specific resource; for example, an HTTPframe object serves an HTTP resource.
Filters. A way to dynamically modify a resource. For example, if a Web site doesn't see that a
user has logged in, it can "filter" in a login page.
Indexer. The way to classify resources. The two main indexes are directories (to group files) and
extensions (for common files such as TXT or INI).
This chapter's survey of free servers is now moving toward less-commonly used servers. still, these niche
market servers help you to see the diversity possible in Web server technology and features.
WN is another freely available server with unique features that set it apart from other Web servers. For
instance, WN allows full-text searching of what the developer refers to as a logical HTML document: a
document that consists of multiple linked files. In addition, users can search files on the server and easily
obtain matching documents. Users can also download a single logical document made up of multiple
linked documents, making it easy for them to print files that are structured as a series of small
Another unique feature of the WN server is its ability to serve up conditional documents. that is, it is
possible to create a single document with definitions that cause the correct version to be sent to a client
on the basis of such variable as the IP address of the client or the browser version of the client.
The security model of the WN server as well as its relatively small size also set it apart from the likes of
Apache and the NCSA httpd Web server. In the latter servers, the default action is to server a file unless
permission is specifically denied. With WN, no file is served unless permission is specifically granted for
the file. This potentially makes the server more secure and provides finer-grained control over access to
files. You can get a copy of WN at
The last free Web server is the Boa server. Boa is included here to show that servers can be small,
simple, and basic and still server a useful role. Boa offers very basic functionality and less fine-grained
access control than Apache or WN.
But boa is designed in a way that makes it potentially faster than almost any other available Web server
for Linux. In fact, the creators of Boa claim that the server is significantly faster than Apache, although
more real-world testing on large Web sites is needed to prove this claim.
Boa achieves this performance gain through a single-tasking design. Where traditional Web servers
create multiple process to listen for requests and then create a process to handle each request, the Boa
server runs as a single process and handles all the processing and juggling of multiple requests internally
rather than allowing the operating system's multitasking mechanism to do so. Boa spawns a child
process only when a CGI request is made. You can learn more about Boa at
Stronghold is probably one of the best-known commercial Web servers for Linux. Stronghold is a
commercially available version of Apache that offers an extremely secure and fully supported software
Stronghold provides all the tools you need to set up a secure server, including Certificate Authority tools.
With a Certificate Authority you can, if necessary, issue digital certificates approved by third-party
certificate authority such as VeriSign. Other Stronghold security features include support for hardware
cryptographical acceleration, as well as 128-bit data encryption for additional security.
In addition, since Stronghold comes with full source code, you can use it for everything you use Apache
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This beacon is inexpensive and transmits like any other beacon. However, it's search range is very meager and you need to be well practiced with a single antenna beacon. If you're going to be in any situation where you might need to search for someone else, DO NOT BUY THIS. At a minimum, drop the cash on a BCA Tracker DTS.
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I don't actually have the NyC86's but I have a pair that are Identical except for the colour scheme (mine are blue, grey, and white), they don't wear nicely... but thats cause i'm ruff on my shoes, but other shoes I've had have (held up better), Comfortable as hell, I could walk in those things all day long, and they're a great build for large footed people like me (size 14.5) so it's almost a sure thing that you find your size, but your order may take longer to ship seeing how mine had to be built on a special order (cause they didn't have that colour scheme on order). I bought them from a Brand Store, which means I bought it in store, not online. hope it helped, they're good shoe's... Oh and the material could be higher quality.
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Recently I have been cleaning out my garage, now the type of person I am is a bulk buyer. I go to CashnCarrys to buy a case of Pepsi, a case of chocolates, as often they work out cheaper than Tesco. However Tesco is now beating them on some items so I don't go as much now.
What I discovered in my garage was an open case of Fry's Peppermint Cream and an open case of Fry's Chocolate Cream.
Now if I think back to a child I always remember Fry's Peppermint Cream as being this high class chocolate that was expensive and I wasn't allowed much of, in comparison to normal dairy milk. I have always held this opinion of Fry's since then.
Obviously being a child wasn't the last time I had one as I have an open case in the garage, however it has been a year (which means they are getting close to their best before date (not tat I think it matters to much with chocolate especially "sealed for freshness")
Fry's Peppermint Cream has always been in a green wrapper, however years ago it used to be in a grease proof paper style wrapping, now it is in a foil wrapper, to keep it fresh. This is clearly the case as my Peppermint Cream will go out of date in a few days (well best before date).
The bar itself is a dark chocolate with a minty fondant centre, it is shaped into 7 small sections. Naturally you first taste the chocolate but very quickly you get a creamy peppermint taste. These bars are very luxurious, which means that you can only eat 1. Any more than that and they get very sickly, very quickly.
However they are also quite filling, which is good as they are 215 calories for a 50g bar.
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Energy Per Bar 215kcal
Protein Per Bar 1.4g
Carbohydrates Per Bar 36.3g
Fat Per Bar 6.9g
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Overall this is a great chocolate bar, especially for those times when you want to sit back and relax in luxury. A delicious bar of dark chocolate and peppermint fondant. I would certainly buy these again, if I ever run out of my case, although because of how rich they are I would never buy a case again, just the odd 6 pack here and there.
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From Disney's new movie, The Princess and the Frog Tiana doll, featured in her sparkling blue gown Comes with frog character Prince Naveen Play out a favorite scene from the movie Her dress will light up with firefly lights and make magical sounds, Manufacturer: Mattel
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Hähnel HL-G1 is a battery for Sony digital camera. It is environmentally friendly and features very high energy density and has no memory effect. The battery is much smaller and lighter than any other rechargeable battery with similar capacity. This HL-G1 battery is produced to the highest quality standards. A built-in microprocessor safeguards the cells by limiting maximum voltage and by protecting against deep discharge, short circuit and overload.
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Beginning a few weeks ago, Fallout fans worldwide have been talking about a mysterious site named "The Survivor 2299." While the site did not directly state that it was connected to Bethesda Softworks (the publisher behind Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas), the imagery used and hints within the source code clearly indicated that it was some sort of viral marketing for a new entry in the Fallout series. And though Bethesda remained tight-lipped throughout, there were countdowns that were seemingly leading to a major announcement. And on December 6th, that announcement came:
The 1st Reveal
Many were flabbergasted by the reveal of the Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up" appearing on the site (along with the title 'That's It Tunnel Snakes'), but we at Dorkly could not be more excited. How exactly is Fallout 4 going to integrate Mr. Astley and/or his hit 1987 song? Given most of the previous entries only had music from the 1950s and earlier, this is a major departure for the series. Here are our current theories:
1. The eponymous "survivor" is Rick Astley.
As of 2299, Mr. Astley would be 333 years old - which is HALF of the number of The Beast in biblical writings (666). Coincidence? Very unlikely. Probably represents the karma system in the game - half-good, half-evil. The real question would be how did the multi-platinum recording artist manage to survive so long? A combination of cybernetic science and radiation poisoning turning him into a ghoul seems like the logical answer. It will be an exciting departure for the series to let you play as a ghoul cyborg instead of a human, and we cannot wait to try it out!
2. The lyrics of "Never Gonna Give You Up" are the real key.
• "We're no strangers to love - you know the rules and so do I." = Note the use of the word "strangers" here. Clearly referencing the 2008 horror film, The Strangers, which was filmed in South Carolina - South Carolina likely acting as the setting for Fallout 4.
• "We know the game, and we're gonna play it." = Fallout 4 is a game, which the developers know, and they're gonna play it for Quality Assurance testing to make sure it's as bug-free as possible upon release.
• "Never gonna run around and desert you." = What's another meaning of the word "desert"? Here it's used as a verb, but it can also be a noun, as in a large, dry, arid area, usually a hot sandy terrain. In the aftermath of nuclear war, it's possible South Carolina has been reduced to nothing but a desert.
The 2nd Reveal
But that was only part 1 of the reveal - soon after, the Rick Astley video was replaced with a music video called "Tunnel Snakes Rule" - taking off of the Vault 101 youth gang from Fallout 3 and their signature catchphrase. Could this mean the Tunnel Snakes (who were largely wiped out early on in Fallout 3) have picked up stakes and moved to South Carolina and have formed a largescale faction (probably around the size of New Vegas' Legion)? That seems entirely possible and extremely likely at this juncture.
The Final Reveal
But even that wasn't the end of this incredible multi-part viral reveal - the video was then replaced with something called "Sad Violin" - a melancholy piece of music (played on violin) over a series of depressing imagery - exactly the kind of imagery totally apropos for the Fallout-verse. Above it was the message "That's All Folks". Clearly, this is a final haunting message of the impending apocalypse (or Bugs Bunny and/or Porky Pig is a possible companion?). Soon the Earth as we know it will be consumed by nuclear fire - and the few who emerge from the supposed end will be...the survivors.
Congrats to Bethesda on this epic multi-stage viral marketing effort. Can't wait to see more information come through The Survivor 2299 (starring Rick Astley in the desert of South Carolina battling with or against the Tunnel Snakes faction).
And as the titular survivor would say:
"War...war never [gives you up]"
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One common facility is ranking defects by the checker that finds them: However, an unreliable defect with little impact is less important than a definite bug with bad consequences, regardless of which checkers found them. I have no general solution to offer users of existing tools, beyond the advice to follow on experimenting, measuring, and adapting. Don't dismiss even unambitious checkers too hastily. Engler's Third Law is that no bug is too foolish to check for and this is depressingly well confirmed by experience, at least for C/C++. (Egregious bugs may be harder to find in Java.) In code under development, the simplest checks for the most painfully obvious bugs are often the most effective, such as use of a variable immediately after free(), etc.
Handling Static Analysis Defects
Identifying bugs and their fixes via static analysis is the easy part; the tool goes right to the heart of a defect and highlights the problem in clear, bright colors. Difficulties usually arise after the fix is identified, either because it is misunderstood (which I discuss below), or because there is resistance to making the change. Given that a tool is good enough to find real bugs, what determines whether the bugs get fixed is the sociology of the organization and its politics.
The conventional wisdom is that static analysis tools have depressingly little overlap; but missing bugs is not the end of the world. As long as the pipeline is full of genuine and significant bugs, a good static analysis tool will do a lot of good for the code and the customers. Conversely, some genuine bugs found by the tool will be ignored, either as incorrectly deemed false positives, annoyances swept under the rug, or simply not gotten to in time due to the Embarrassment of Riches problem.
Keep a close eye on the ratio of false positives; anything much above 20% indicates a configuration error, user errors, or (more rarely) a bad checker that should be disabled.
Novice static analysis users need to accept that, when they disagree with the tool, they will usually (but not always) be wrong. This is not to say that any tool is perfect; once a user understands the kinds of mistakes it makes (and doesn't make), human supervision can begin to add value. So, do not make the opposite mistake and fix all defects blindly; unnecessary code changes carry their own risks and I have seen mistakes (detected by later static analysis) in code required to silence earlier static analysis warnings. In particular, a strict policy of requiring immediate fixes for newly checked-in static analysis defects might have unintended consequences. A programmer who is in a hurry to get home after a check-in is unlikely to be in the best state of mind for analyzing and fixing static analysis defects.
A grayer area is defects where the tool is technically correct, but the developer believes that the code path is not worth worrying about. This is a judgment call, and hence hard for anyone but the code owner to second-guess, which also makes it impractical to judge statistically.
Most major tools present found defects in a browser. This makes the user interface of your particular browser of considerable importance and necessitates a delicate balance between habitual usability and specific features needed for examining static analysis defects.
Symbol Highlighting
Firefox's Highlight All feature is invaluable for quickly highlighting all occurrences of the currently selected text (such as a variable or function name).
If you will be examining many defects, it's worth practicing the key sequence until it's instinctive. (On Macintosh Firefox, one of the keyboard equivalents is missing, so a keyboard macro program is necessary.)
Most browser-based tools have similar functionality that's symbol-based, which has advantages, disadvantages, and limitations. Some instances of the symbol can be missed, but on the other hand, a symbol that is a superstring of the selected symbol will be properly ignored by symbol-based search, but improperly highlighted by a browser's string-based search.
Quick highlighting can reduce some types of defects from a cognitive problem to simple pattern recognition. For instance, a buffer overrun defect with a parameter array index can often be recognized merely by highlighting the index on the line where the tool reports the defect. The pattern of color between there and the function head makes it obvious where there are checks, if any, on the parameter.
Incompatibilities and Difficulties
Some tools cause difficulties with some browsers. Coverity 5.x's heavy-duty Web pages, for instance, do not work properly with some versions of Firefox and will not open separate pages for function definitions; this is not a problem with Coverity 4.x. (My workaround for the latter limitation is to take quick notes via text drag and drop, but this requires support from both the browser and your text editor.) Fortify's Web interface uses Adobe Flash, which does not support standard text selection behavior, so I recommend avoiding it in favor of their standalone application (which has text interface difficulties of its own.)
Improper configuration, in particular errors in locating and meta-compiling your source, can silently ruin your analysis while leaving the illusion of doing useful work. Build and parsing errors can make most defects false positives, or miss many of the genuine defects the tool is capable of finding. The upside is that a few simple (though perhaps hard-to-find) fixes to the build configuration can convert a worse-than-useless analysis, consisting of mostly false positives, into something worth getting your engineers to look at. But you must set up the procedure so that those configuration fixes are made promptly: Letting a bogus build count as a success or setting up a slow bureaucracy to approve changes will bring the tool into disrepute, and give engineers an excuse to ignore even legitimate bugs found by the tool.
Integration with Defect Tracking
Most commercial tools come with a defect-tracking system, which is essential for suppressing false positives. This is essentially a bug database, but without many essential features, such as status tracking. (The first thing a quality assurance professional checks in the morning is changed bugs in the database, for instance, to see what developers and managers have been marking as unimportant.) None of the bundled databases known to me matches the features of professional bug-tracking databases; I have sometimes been reduced to archiving bug lists as CSV files, and diffing them as time goes by.
Sometimes it is useful to link an organization's real bug-tracking database with a static analysis defect database. I don't advise importing defects automatically. In my opinion, a real bug database should be reserved for issues that a human has judged to be genuine. One strategy I have found useful is to file one bug report per component into your existing bug database, with a link in each bug report to a live query with suspected defects in the component in the current build, with separate counts for high- and low-priority checkers.
Keep Measuring and Adapting
As I have mentioned previously, metrics — applied blindly — make a very bad master; but applied wisely, they can be a helpful servant. Track the numbers of important (and unimportant) defects found, and the checkers that found them. Even good checkers might not find the sort of defects that your organization is, realistically, going to fix. Track the defects that actually are fixed, preferably by keeping an eye on source code management check-ins. (Pretend not to see check-in comments that minimize the importance of the defect fixed; developers are often reluctant to admit that an automated tool found significant bugs in their code. These imperfect developers are your best customers, not your enemy.) Given finite resources, it is crucial to prioritize defects; sadly, this sometimes means ignoring some components or disabling some checkers.
Also keep an eye on static analysis defects that are not fixed. Sometimes the problem will be with the tool, and some checkers are not worth the resources they consume. More often, the problem will be with the reaction to the tool, and sometimes education is necessary. That is perhaps the most valuable result of static analysis: In the long run, making developers think about their code and learn about what it actually does, is even more important than fixing the current version of their code.
Flash Sheridan was a static source code analysis consultant at Bell Labs when writing this article, and has also done static analysis consulting at Qualcomm and Palm. He is currently testing a combined compiler and static analyzer for a major technology company.
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Syncfusion Updates Essential Studio Tool Suite
Syncfusion has released Essential Studio 2010 Volume 1 which supports Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET 4.0. Key new features and updates in Syncfusion Essential Studio 2010 Volume 1 Essential Studio 2010 Volume 1 includes many feature enhancements to the User Interface, Reporting, and Business Intelligence editions that comprise Essential Studio Enterprise Edition.
• Syncfusion Essential Studio User Interface Edition
• Developers can now provide the fastest Silverlight and WPF grid on the market, allowing end-users to quickly load and scroll through over 100 million rows of data.
• A new TileView control for Silverlight and WPF enables developers to easily create business dashboards.
• The Silverlight and WPF Grids have been greatly enhanced with better support for formulas and exporting data to a Microsoft Excel format.
• The ASP.NET MVC Grid, Tools, and Chart controls have been updated to support the release of ASP.NET MVC 2.0.
• Syncfusion Essential Studio Business Intelligence Edition
• Developers can now access Oracle data sources to build business intelligence applications for end-users.
• Enhanced filtering options provide more granular control and eliminate outliers. End-users can now pull data based on multiple dimensions, including named sets, which allows data analysts to narrowly focus on information that has already been grouped into categories, e.g., if someone wants to run a sales report, he or she can call out data by country, revenue, and type of product sold.
• With new stacked bars and stacked columns, end-users can view a subject's overall or individual performance -- the big picture or the small details.
• Syncfusion Essential Studio Reporting Edition
• New enhancements make Syncfusion's tools the only ones on the market that can produce native Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF, and Microsoft Word reports in Silverlight.
• Developers can empower end-users to make custom changes to reports on their own, greatly freeing up a developer's time.
• Support for protecting charts present in the worksheet and for Microsoft Word document to PDF conversion have been enhanced.
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Help! My Makeup Hurts My Skin!
If the title you just read sounds like one of your daily complaints, you need some help, indeed. Sensitive skin can really hurt. It can burn, itch, feel very irritated, look red and turn your skin into a rash. It can make your skin tingle, swell, develop spots, hives, or acne.
If you have any of the symptoms of sensitive skin, it’s important to try and figure out what your skin is reacting to. Through trial and error, you can probably figure out what is disturbing your skin and what sensitive skin treatment you might pursue to help prevent further problems.
Certain sensitive skin products can remedy your problem but first try to figure out what is causing your discomfort. But before we even get to that, let’s first look at what lies at the root of sensitive skin on face issues.
One common sensitive skin on face cause is due to allergies. You could be allergic to certain foods, like chocolate, that tend to make your face break out. Strawberries are another common food allergen that can react negatively with sensitive skin. But makeup is also a big problem for some people. You can be allergic to certain makeup ingredients, especially if your skin is sensitive to begin with. Put two and two together: if you put on makeup and shortly thereafter your face breaks out, you may be reacting to the eye shadow, the foundation, or any other makeup.
You may just be genetically predisposed to having sensitive skin. If you have other family members with similar issues, it could be genetic. Clinical studies have shown a link between sensitive skin and those whose skin is light-toned as opposed to darker skin pigments. Your body makeup just may not be genetically correct for you, so to speak.
If you have a poor digestive system, that can actually affect your skin, causing inflammation that shows up inside and outside the body. And if you tend to be constipated with a slow digestive system, more toxins stay in your body for a longer period of time, causing skin eruptions.
Problems with your thyroid can have you seeking out sensitive skin face products. Thyroid imbalances can cause skin to be dry in addition to other more serious symptoms.
Whatever the cause of your sensitive skin on face may be, it’s time to rule out any serious health conditions and find the right sensitive skin products to help you heal, look and feel better. The right sensitive skin treatment should not have any harsh fragrances. Many people with sensitive skin react negatively to chemical fragrances as an allergen. Fragrances in creams and makeup generally contain chemicals that your skin will not react kindly too, especially if you are sensitive. Some sensitive skin products will either have no added fragrance or a natural fragrance, such as a fruit- or plant-based scent, which should be fine for most people. Check the ingredients label and be sure there are no fragrances that are chemically-based or synthetic.
Avoid formaldehyde-based preservatives. What, you may ask? Ingredients listed as diazolidinyl urea or quaternium-15, for example, are formaldehyde-based and may cause sensitive skin on face to react badly.
If you have sensitive skin, try to avoid sodium lauryl surfates (SLS). These are foaming agents found in some cleansers that are irritating for those with sensitive skin. They may cause inflammation, just what you need to avoid when removing your makeup for the day.
Remember that sensitive skin on face or on your body can easily become inflamed, causing an acne eruption or a rash. You need to choose sensitive skin face products that have anti-inflammatory agents in them. The more natural the agents are, the better for your skin. Anti-inflammatory agents may include green tea extracts, excellent for calming the skin down. Green tea extracts can also work to slow down the aging process, a definite plus as far as sensitive skin treatment goes.
Sensitive skin face products, particularly makeup, can be found in Ageless Derma Mineral Makeup. This makeup is composed of natural minerals and anti-inflammatory green tea extracts. It is free of parabens, and contains vitamins A and E. The Ageless Derma loose foundation mineral makeup contains natural lavender aromatherapy, a known calming agent. Lavender calms the body and can even help you rest at night. It is the perfect antidote to chemical fragrances that irritate sensitive skin.
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Definition: A short name (often called a generic name) of a chemical, drug, or other substance that is not subject to trademark (proprietary) rights but is, in contrast to a trivial name, recognized or recommended by government agencies (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) and by quasiofficial organizations (U.S. Adopted Names Council) for general public use. Like a proprietary name, it is almost always a coined designation derived without the use of set criteria.
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How to Manage Inventory Strategically to Improve Profit
When you review the balance sheet of a company, you may find that inventory represents one of the largest asset balances. All assets require some sort of additional spending. You may need to store, repair, and insure many types of assets. The costs related to inventory are called carrying costs.
Carrying costs represent the costs of holding inventory, which include the following:
• Storage: You must pay for the cost of storing the inventory in a warehouse or other location.
• Insurance: Inventory is a valuable asset that you must insure against theft or damage.
• Interest: If you borrow money to finance the purchase of your inventory, you incur interest costs.
The more inventory you carry, the higher your carrying costs. So, a buildup of inventory is usually something to avoid, if possible. But carrying just enough inventory to meet demand is a difficult challenge. You need enough inventory to meet customer demand, but not so much inventory that the carrying costs eat up your profits.
Timing sales and cash flow
Carrying excess inventory increases carrying costs, resulting in less cash to use for other purposes, such as advertising, payroll, and product development. To ensure that your company has sufficient cash flow to cover inventory and other costs, you need to plan your operating cycle — the process of acquiring materials, manufacturing the product, selling it, and collecting the payment.
When creating a budget, consider the connection between cash, inventory, and sales. Start with sales, at the end of the operating cycle. Sales drive the quantity of product you need to produce and the amount of inventory you need to meet sales.
With accurate sales projections, you can manage inventory more cost-effectively in two ways:
• You produce only as much product as you sell, reducing the amount of inventory you need to carry.
• You may be able to schedule production closer to the time your product is scheduled to ship, so you carry inventory for a shorter amount of time.
Knowing when carrying excess inventory makes sense
In certain cases, carrying excess inventory is a smart business decision. Consider aluminum, which is used for many products: beverage cans, cars, airplanes, and various products in home construction, not to mention aluminum foil. Sometimes, aluminum producers hold excess inventory, even when the market is flooded with it. On the surface, this strategy doesn't seem to make sense; the aluminum producer ends up paying carrying costs for a product whose price isn't likely to rise.
In the aluminum industry, however, producers can charge hefty fees to access their stocks on short notice. So, when a can manufacturer places a last-minute order for more aluminum, the warehouse can recover some of its carrying cost by charging the extra fees.
The fees charged to customers who need fast access to aluminum increases revenue. If storing excess inventory causes a cash crunch, the producer may need to borrow funds to cash flow the business. Borrowing results in an interest expense. In this instance, the producer needs to consider whether the revenue from fees is greater than the interest expense to meet cash demands. If the fee revenue is higher than the loan's interest expense, the producer can justify carrying excess inventory.
Justifying higher inventory levels for certain economic trends
Producers may hold extra inventory because they expect sales to improve. Again, it's about meeting the demands of the customer. Assume the producer expects economic growth and warmer weather to drive larger orders from the construction and automotive sector.
This means two things for a producer:
• Prices may increase. Higher prices enable the producer to earn a larger profit margin and cover the higher carrying costs.
• Inventory levels may decline. Demand may exceed production. Higher demand may allow the producer to sell all its current production and reach into existing inventory to meet demand. As a result, ending inventory may be lower, and less inventory results in lower carrying costs.
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Audiophile flat panel speakers get the shrinking treatment
A lot of audiophiles love flat panel speakers, but good luck getting your significant other to accept a couple of huge monoliths sitting in the living room. Now one of America's oldest high-end speaker companies has a solution.
The Mini Maggie from Magnepan uses essentially the same technology as their six foot tall MG-3.7, just shrunken down into a bite sized package for table top use. Because bass tends to be a function of size, the Mini Maggie is what's known as a 2.1 system, with a separate panel woofer just to handle the bass.
My friend Steve "The Audiophiliac" Guttenberg went to Magnepan's HQ in Minnesota to check them out, and walked away with his jaw dragging on the floor. And he already owns the 3.7s.
Like most flat panel speakers, you're going to need a pretty hefty dose of power, but the end result will be like a Lamborghini vs a Yugo compared to your regular computer speakers.
The Mini Maggies will be available starting next month for about $1,500 a set.
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I want to have greater faith in Jesus. I want to be a more mature believer. I want to increase in faithfulness to Him.
How do I get there?
First of all, I must keep Jesus as the focus and purpose of my life:
Then there’s this in today’s chapter:
“Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?” (James 2:22).
That is so neat!
How I live and what I do affects the development and maturity of my faith.
(Let me remember the downside to that — fleshly living affects my faith just as much as godly living.)
Surely you could add something...
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Chemical Imprint Lithography
Dennis Prather
Chemical imprint lithography is similar to the well-established nano-imprint lithography. However, there is an important difference. In chemical lithography, before the physical structure is obtained in the resist, latent image is first formed. This property makes the chemical lithography process similar to photolithography where imagewise exposure to ultraviolet radiation results in forming latent image in the resist, which is subsequently developed to obtain the physical structure. This distinction, while it introduces an extra step as compared to the nano-imprint lithography, makes the proposed method more flexible and also relaxes some of the requirements placed on the template. For example, for nano-imprint to reproduce pattern with high fidelity, it is necessary that the resist penetrate all the crevices of the template, which is accomplished by either increasing the temperature above the glass transition of the resist and applying pressure or by using a photo-curable resin in a step-and-flash procedure. In the case of chemical imprint, only the contact of the resist with the top-most surface of the template is required. This allows more flexibility in the choice of material for the template and the substrate since neither has to be transparent to UV as opposed to the case of step-and-flash method, nor do the substrate and the template necessarily have to have matched thermal expansion coefficients as is necessary for the method relying on raising the temperature to bring the resist above the resist glass transition. Yet, chemical lithography has all the advantages of nano-imprint including the possibility of patterning curved surfaces. Indeed, it appears that whatever material/structure is possible in nano-imprint lithography, it should be possible in chemical imprint lithography (but not vice versa). Also, the template developed for nano-imprint can be used for chemical imprint.
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@techreport{Immervoll2009Minimum, abstract = {Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the principal instrument for delivering social protection. Such safety-net benefits aim primarily at providing an acceptable standard of living for families unable to earn sufficient incomes from other sources. This paper provides an overview of social assistance and other minimum-income programmes in OECD countries, summarises their main features, and highlights a number of current policy challenges.}, address = {Bonn}, author = {Herwig Immervoll}, copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen}, keywords = {I38; H53; D31; H31; 330; Social assistance; negative income tax; welfare to work; poverty; Soziale Mindestsicherung; Sozialhilfe; Negative Einkommensteuer; Aktivierende Sozialhilfe; Sozialpolitik; Vergleich; OECD-Staaten}, language = {eng}, number = {4627}, publisher = {IZA}, title = {Minimum-income benefits in OECD countries: policy design, effectiveness and challenges}, type = {IZA Discussion Papers}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36265}, year = {2009} }
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Simple Machines
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Compound Machine:
Two or more simple machines working together to make work easier.
Examples: Wheelbarrow, Can Opener, Bicycle
Two toothed wheels fit together either directly or through a chain or belt so one wheel will turn the other. Some gears may have a screw or a toothed shaft in place of one of the wheels. A gear may also be a combination of toothed wheels that produces a certain speed (such as a bicycle's top gear which makes the bike go fast, and the low gear for slow speed.)
Examples: Clock, Automobile, Drill
Inclined plane:
A sloping surface, such as a ramp. An inclined plane can be used to alter the effort and distance involved in doing work, such as lifting loads. The trade-off is that an object must be moved a longer distance than if it was lifted straight up, but less force is needed.
Examples: Staircase, Ramp, Bottom of a Bath Tub
A straight rod or board that pivots on a point known as a fulcrum. The fulcrum can be moved depending on the weight of the object to be lifted or the force you wish to exert. Pushing down on one end of a lever results in the upward motion of the opposite end of the fulcrum.
Examples: Door on Hinges, Seesaw, Hammer, Bottle Opener
A wheel that usually has a groove around the outside edge. This groove is for a rope or belt to move around the pulley. Pulling down on the rope can lift an object attached to the rope. Work is made easier because pulling down on the rope is made easier due to gravity.
Examples: Flag Pole, Crane, Mini-Blinds
An inclined plane wrapped around a shaft or cylinder. This inclined plane allows the screw to move itself or to move an object or material surrounding it when rotated.
Examples: Bolt, Spiral Staircase
Simple Machine:
A machine with few or no moving parts. Simple machines make work easier.
Examples: Screw, Wheel and Axle, Wedge, Pulley, Inclined Plane, Lever
Two inclined planes joined back to back. Wedges are used to split things.
Examples: Axe, Zipper, Knife
Wheel and Axle:
A wheel and axle has a larger wheel (or wheels) connected by a smaller cylinder (axle) and is fastened to the wheel so that they turn together. When the axle is turned, the wheel moves a greater distance than the axle, but less force is needed to move it. The axle moves a shorter distance, but it takes greater force to move it.
Examples: Door Knob, Wagon, Toy Car
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Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls
This blog post is a mirror of a post on the Project Fortress Community Blog by Guy Steele. The original posting is no longer available. I retrieved this copy of the text from the Wayback Machine.
Because the snapshot that the Internet Archive took of the original post was made on December 6, 2009, the only comments that appear are those that were made leading up to that date.
November 30, 2009: Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls
[Note: The original blog post used the term "tail-recursion", but in response to feedback on December 1, I have replaced this term with "tail calls" to emphasize that the issue has to do with multiple objects calling each others' methods, not just the limited case of an object invoking its own methods or the even more limited case of a single method invoking itself (whether on the same object or another object). Also, some minor errors in the code examples have been corrected as of December 3.]
We recommend an interesting essay from the recent ACM OOPSLA Conference:
William R. Cook. On understanding data abstraction, revisited. Onward! Essays, 2009 ACM OOPSLA. SIGPLAN Notices 44, 10 (Oct. 2009), 557-572. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1639949.1640133 (Or here is the draft version.)
Cook makes an important distinction between abstract data types and object-oriented programming, and argues that they have related but complementary characteristics.
In this blog post we extend one of his examples in order to make a completely different point: object-oriented programming languages need tail calls correctly implemented, not just as a "trivial and optional" optimization of the use of stack space that could be achieved by using iteration statements, but in order to preserve object-oriented abstractions.
Following Cook, we begin by considering an abstraction of "sets of integer values". At a minimum, we would like to be able to (a) obtain an empty set, (b) adjoin an integer to a set to create a new set, (c) construct a set that is the union of two given sets, (d) inquire whether a set is empty, and (e) inquire whether a set contains a specified integer. We can describe this abstraction as a Fortress API:
api IntSetAPI
trait IntSet
isEmpty: Boolean
adjoin(x: ZZ): IntSet
union(other: IntSet): IntSet
contains(x: ZZ): Boolean
(*) Example: `Empty.adjoin(1).adjoin(2).union(Empty.adjoin(3)).contains(2)` should be `true`.
Empty: IntSet
end IntSetAPI
(To facilitate comparison to the examples in Cook's paper and also to the way one might code these examples in the Java programming language, we use dotted methods throughout these examples. A more Fortress-like style would be to define operators for the "union" and "contains" operations:
trait IntSet (*) Alternate interface definition #1
isEmpty: Boolean
adjoin(x: ZZ): IntSet
opr UNION(self, other: IntSet): IntSet
opr IN(x: ZZ, self): Boolean
(*) Example: `2 IN (Empty.adjoin(1).adjoin(2) UNION Empty.adjoin(3))` should be `true`.
Indeed, an even more Fortress-like style would be to eliminate the adjoin operation from the interface and replace it with a constructor of singleton sets:
trait IntSet (*) Alternate interface definition #2
isEmpty: Boolean
opr UNION(self, other: IntSet): IntSet
opr IN(x: ZZ, self): Boolean
opr {x: ZZ}: IntSet
(*) Example: `2 IN ({1} UNION {2} UNION {3})` should be `true`.
But we digress.)
One possible implementation for the original API is as follows:
component IntSetOO
export IntSetAPI
trait IntSet
getter isEmpty(): Boolean = false
adjoin(x: ZZ): IntSet = AdjoinObject(self, x)
union(other: IntSet): IntSet = UnionObject(self, other)
contains(y: ZZ): Boolean
object AdjoinObject(s: IntSet, x: ZZ) extends IntSet
contains(y: ZZ) = (y = x) OR: s.contains(x)
object UnionObject(s1: IntSet, s2: IntSet) extends IntSet
isEmpty: Boolean = s1.isEmpty AND s2.isEmpty
contains(y: ZZ) = s1.contains(x) OR: s2.contains(x)
object EmptyObject extends IntSet
isEmpty: Boolean = true
contains(_: ZZ) = false
Empty = EmptyObject
end IntSetOO
We use several different sorts of object to represent sets. Each implements the same abstract interface. One of Cook's points is that, in a truly object-oriented style of programming, the implementation of each object uses only the abstract interface to communicate with other objects, allowing the implementations to be quite independent of each other, and allowing new implementations to be added easily at any time. For example, Cook shows that infinite sets can easily be represented using the same abstract interface, and we can readily generalize his example and translate it into Fortress code as follows:
object IntegersMod(n: ZZ) extends IntSet
contains(y: ZZ) = (y MOD n = 0)
Now we can write an expression such as
and expect it to behave as if it contained all integers that are a multiple of either 2 or 3 (or both), as well as the integer 7.
Now, let's suppose that we were to construct a set of the first million prime numbers using sets implemented in this way:
s: IntSet := Empty
k: ZZ := 2
n: ZZ := 0
while (n < 1'000'000) do
if isPrime(k) then
s := s.adjoin(k)
n += 1
k += 1
Yes, we know lots of ways this code can be optimized, but let us please focus on the behavior of the constructed set, which is a linear chain of one million objects of type AdjoinObject. When we ask whether the set s contains 13, the first AdjoinObject will check its x value, see that is it not 13, and then pass the buck to the next AdjoinObject. Observe that this "passing of the buck" is a tail call; to see this, note that the short-circuit Boolean OR operator is equivalent to the use of an if statement:
object AdjoinObject(s: Intset, x: ZZ) extends IntSet
contains(y: ZZ) = if (y = x) then true else s.contains(x) end
if the underlying implementation fails to implement tail calls without unnecessary growth of stack, and also is unable to support nearly a million nested stack frames, then execution of this query will fail.
Many programmers, including those familiar with the style of the Java programming language, will object that the original design of the implementation was wrong-headed: if we want iterative behavior, we should use an iterative statement such as while rather than method calls. This approach is easily captured in Fortress for these AdjoinObject searches:
contains(y: ZZ) = do
u: IntSet := self
(*) The next statement has an interesting idea but is erroneous.
while (NOT u.isEmpty) AND: (y =/= u.x) do u := u.s end
NOT u.isEmpty
But there is a problem here; our implementation uses not only AdjoinObject instances but also instances of UnionObject and IntegerMod. In order to maintain the iterative structure of this implementation of the contains method, we will need to make it handle these other kinds of objects as well. This requires the implementation of AdjoinObject to be aware of the implementation details of these other kinds of objects, violating our object-oriented abstractions. Every time we want to invent a new implementation of IntSet, we will also need to add a case to this while loop in AdjoinObject. (In point of fact, the while statement shown above contains static type errors. These could be remedied by using typecase. Trying to satisfy the typecase without using an else clause would then point up the need to handle all the other possible implementations of IntSet.)
We could try to abstract the iterative process: If only our sets supported Java-style iterators, we could just enumerate all the elements of the set—oops, can't do that, because some of our represented sets are infinite. And Java-style iterators have problems of their own, not least that they rely upon side effects and therefore introduce synchronization issues in parallel code.
Even without the other kinds of objects, we can see that this latest implementation of contains for AdjoinObject violates object-oriented abstraction: the implementation inspects the field x not only for the instance on which the contains method was invoked, but the field x of other instances as well. Thus instances of AdjoinObject are abstract with respect to "the outside world", but not with respect to each other. As Cook points out, this is typical of an abstract data type: there is conceptually a single implementation of the data type, and the code for the abstract data type is privy to these details for purposes of accessing all instances of the data type. This has its advantages; in particular, it caters to certain kinds of optimizations.
In contrast, the object-oriented style makes every object fully abstract, even to other instances of the same "kind" of object. This also has its advantages; in particular, it easily supports multiple implementations and code refactoring. If we want this latter sort of abstraction and want to code iterations over chained objects in a fully abstract and modular manner, then proper support of tail calls is indispensable. This is even more important for the implementation of transitions in an object-oriented finite-state machine of indefinitely long lifetime.
For another example of the importance of tail calls, see Automata via Macros by Shriram Krishnamurthi.
The paper A Tail-Recursive Machine with Stack Inspection by John Clements and Matthias Felleisen demonstrates that correct implementation of tail calls is not incompatible with security mechanisms that rely on stack inspection.
Posted: 2009-11-30 14:56 (Updated: 2009-12-03 22:28)
Author: gls
Categories: Implementation TailCalls TailRecursion
1. Faré–2009-12-01 13:24
In other words, Proper Tail Calls make control modular, whereas iteration requires omniscience.
I tried to reply as much to Guido van Rossum when he used absurd arguments against providing PTC http://fare.livejournal.com/142410.html
2. matthias–2009-12-01 17:00
Thank you, Guy, for emphasizing the importance of proper tail-call implementation (let's call it PITCH here) for software design and refactoring. When I delivered my ECOOP keynote in 2004, I made the PITCH point slightly differently using the Design Patterns book. I developed some code using the patterns from the book in Java. I requested and received confirmation that the code was truly OO oriented and truly according to Their Book. Then I tested it and it worked fine. Then I stress-tested it (on a not so large input), and it failed with stack overflow.
The next step was to demo the same code in the PLT Scheme class system, which looked very similar to the Java code. And it ran great on those stress tests and even larger ones. So I asked the 300-400 people in the audience what the problem was and why this slow, interpreted language Scheme did it right and Java, C#, Eiffel, Python, etc got it wrong.
Not one person had any insight so after a minute of playing with them, I told them about the story of "Smalltalk to Actors to Scheme and how PITCH had 'come along for the ride'" (you may recall our email exchange in the spring of 2004 to confirm the story of 'apply'). And I did reinforce how much knowledge the OO research community has forgotten over the years.
Sadly, the reaction was surprisingly hostile from some corners in the room. One person was especially outspoken in arguing that we all know that we just need three or four special constructs–and they may have to be map or for-each or such–and we'd be in business. Given that it was a public exchange, it was difficult to point out to him how messed up his argument was.
While I have received many positive emails about the talk (my slides are on-line and people find them time and again), this message about PITCH deserves to be repeated and repeated and repeated for OO audiences. Let's keep going at it.
3. gls–2009-12-03 10:44
Yes, Faré, the third paragraph of your post is quite pertinent. I especially liked this remark:
[I]n programs for which proper tail calls matters, the choice is conspicuously not between proper tail calls and improper tail calls, it is a choice between proper tail calls and explicit central stateful loops. And the absence of debugging information is constant when you transform tail calls into stateful loops.
4. timbray–2009-12-03 11:03
I'm wondering if Clojure's "recur" and "trampoline" forms - see http://clojure.org/special_forms#toc10 and http://clojure.org/api#toc569 - constitute another plausible path to the same goal. Clojure has a commendable focus on immutability.
5. Faré–2009-12-03 12:37
Tim, recur is only for self-recursion, which is nice but doesn't allow for modular design.
And trampoline provide you full PTC at the cost of a (local) encoding that must be followed by every single bit of software that you want to use PTC with. Admittedly, though, you can probably statically determine which pieces of software may be involved in higher-order or otherwise modular tail recursion, and systematically encode those parts of the software with trampolines. Kindof sucks, but works. Now why should the user have to be doing manually what the computer could automatically do a better job at?
In any case, if you want to use third-party libraries and they failed to enforce that convention, you lose. Whereas if the use of trampolines is to become universal–you may as well put PTC in the language implementation and save users the hassle of dealing with trampolines.
6. jyasskin–2009-12-03 13:50
It's really not convincing to show that a set implementation nobody would ever use works better with TCO. Further, your "even more Fortress-like style" with a union operator replacing adjoin isn't helped by TCO: build the set in the wrong order, and you still blow out the stack.
The objection to TCO that you're trying to answer is that it's rarely helpful in the real world. So you have to find real-world examples to refute that. An impractically-slow set isn't a real-world example.
7. gls–2009-12-03 14:09
jyasskin, your point is well-taken, and I will even take it a step further: it is even more in the spirit of Fortress to use data structures such as relatively balanced trees that are amenable to parallel traversal than to use long linear-chain structures that require sequential traversal. To that end, a "real" implementation of UNION would automatically rebalance the UnionObject tree. (See Jan Maessen's earlier posts in this blog about implementing treaps.)
On the other hand, I believe that the overheads of parallel processing are inherently large enough that there will always be a place for sequential processing, if only near the low-level leaves of the trees, and I believe that there will almost certainly be a sequential aspect to the highest level of any real-world program, if only "Wanna do it again?" I believe that tail calls are important for sequential programs that are organized according to certain principles of modular structure.
I wish I could fit a real-world example onto a blog page. The best I can do is to exhibit a "toy" example that illustrates the basic idea.
8. ccshan–2009-12-03 16:56
jyasskin–Most operating systems make tail calls between user code and kernel code. The context switch is usually implemented with a bit of assembly code, precisely because C doesn't have tail calls (but machine code does). All these operating systems are real-world examples of the necessity of tail calls.
9. rsc–2009-12-03 22:07
ccshan–It's certainly a thought-provoking analogy, but I don't think it withstands scrutiny.
The user → kernel transition is almost never a tail call: there are results coming back from the kernel. The exception is the exit system call, the final switch a process makes.
The kernel → user transition is a little like tail call, but more like a return from a function call (not a tail return, just a return). The exception is process creation, the first switch the kernel makes.
Regardless of how well the analogy works, OS context switches would still be implemented in assembly even if C had tail calls, because C doesn't give you access to the instructions necessary to change the processor privilege level and virtual memory state (but machine code does). I wouldn't use that as an example of the necessity of exposing those very low-level hardware details, so I don't think it makes sense to use it as an example of the necessity of tail calls either.
10. metageek–2009-12-04 07:07
gls wrote:
I bet you can find something in the graphics world to do it. For example, given a tree of non-overlapping bounding volumes, find the smallest volume that matches a given point. That involves walking down the tree, asking each child, "does your bounding volume contain this point?"; when one replies yes, you recurse into it. Since no more than one child can say yes, that's a tail call.
I think this is a plausible scenario from video games, used to find the game-world object at a given point. However, I'm not sure how often they actually do that, as opposed to finding the game-world object that overlaps with a given volume (i.e., collision detection).
11. ggchappell–2009-12-04 09:04
Guy, this is a thought-provoking article that makes an excellent point.
On the other hand, I think that jyasskin's point about UNION is also a good one, and your response is not really adequate. Doesn't the proposed tree-rebalancing implementation of UNION have exactly the same problem as the iterative implementation of ADJOIN? I.e., it requires knowledge of the internal structure of other objects. So if we added a new union-like object to the mix, then the new & old union objects could not rebalance each other.
Perhaps we can summmarize all this by saying that TCO permits the use of black-box abstractions when a property of an object depends on a property of another object; however, TCO is not sufficient to handle the case when a property of an object depends on properties of two other objects.
Thus, your example neatly illustrates not only why TCO is a Good Thing, but also its limitations.
12. Derek Elkins–2009-12-04 09:30
I have two other examples here. The first example is perfectly reasonable code, though not common (mainstream) object-oriented style, though arguably it should be. The second is just a sketch but is a very pragmatic example. Hopefully, this (Guy's) blog post provides the explanation that my post left implicit.
13. dasht–2009-12-04 18:13
Just for kicks... and while I like the article I'm replying to... I have an argument for the conclusion that gls is mistaken here - his argument doesn't (quite) hold up. It's over on LtU:
"Steele's argument bugs me. I don't think it is quite right: We can construct a Cooke style OO language that does not have TCO yet which can solve the integer set problem Steele poses. [....]"
14. ccshan–2009-12-04 20:02
rsc–I was talking about calls made to a continuation. Think about how fork() and exit() work. It is because exit() is a tail call that all my finished processes aren't sitting around waiting for their calls to exit() to return.
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updated 06:20 pm EDT, Tue April 24, 2012
Apple CEO slams Windows 8 ultrabook idea
Apple CEO Tim Cook during his company's fiscal Q2 results call slammed the idea of merging touchscreens and ultrabooks. When asked by Sanford Bernstein's Toni Sacconaghi why Apple wouldn't merge the iPad and MacBook Air like Intel and Microsoft wanted Windows 8 and ultrabooks to unite, he described it as a matter of inherent tradeoffs. Trying to appeal to everyone ended up pleasing no one, Cook said, saying that just having the option of converging doesn't mean it should be forced.
"You begin to make enough tradeoffs that you please no one," he said. "You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but the result likely won't be pleasing to the user."
Pure tablets like the iPad worked because their usage cases are "broad," letting education, enterprise, and other markets find new ways to use them and make apps meaningful. The MacBook Air would appeal to people who had slightly different needs, but trying to combine it would likely require sacrifices. "To make the compromises, we're not going to do that... others might join that party," Cook said in a direct allusion to Microsoft.
Microsoft has tried to position Windows 8 in just the opposite light, calling it a "no compromise" OS where users get all the ease-of-use benefits of a touch-native interface but the app support of a PC. Observers have already portrayed the OS as inherently compromised, however, as it often has to lose the touch interface and revert to a traditional Windows desktop for some apps, while those who don't have any touch input still have to use the same interface. Those using Windows 8 RT on an ARM tablet or notebook, meanwhile, won't have access to any third-party, pure desktop apps, giving them a feature set closer to the iPad but without the existing app ecosystem.
When Apple introduced the second-generation MacBook Air in fall 2010, the company also singled out the comfort issues. A touchscreen on a traditional computer has to sit upright and can trigger arm fatigue. Touchscreen Windows notebooks and desktops aren't new, but to date they have largely remained niche models.
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1. nat
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apple already has touch and gestures on the macbook's. it's called the touch pad.
1. Makosuke
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Joined: Aug 2001
Getting it?
Sounds to me like Cook gets it, at least enough to keep doing things right. So long as Apple maintains a coherent, focused strategy like that, things could work out well in the post-Jobs era.
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Apple is in good hands. Well, until the shareholders take over.
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Windows 8 on everything...
from watches, to smartphones, to tablets, to gaming consoles, to desktops, to tabletops. Hey, it's a Windows 8 world. Think of all the Windows 8 licenses Microsoft can sell. What's wrong with merging a toaster and a refrigerator? While they're at it, also throw in the kitchen sink. That way Microsoft can boast, "Windows 8 devices can do it all."
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Windows 8 on everything .. just pull the flush
Or why not follow Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation lead and put Windows where it's really deserved with his reinvent the toilet challenge.
You would think that after spending his working life developing Windows he would already know everything you need to know about toilets.
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We've been wondering what major American internet providers would do to thwart supposed pirates beyond nag them senseless; other than leaks surrounding AT&T's reeducation process, we've mostly been left in the dark. There's a better picture of the consequences now that Time Warner Cable and Verizon have unveiled their strategies at an Internet Society conference. Verizon's approach is an attempt to straddle the line between angry media studios and the basic need to communicate: if copyright complaints reach the fifth or sixth notice, Verizon will throttle the connection for two to three days without instituting outright blocks. TWC's method may be tougher to ignore -- the cable provider will redirect claimed infringers to a custom page and restrict what they can visit. While it's not clear just how limited access will be, it's doubtful anyone will want to find out.
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A Genius for War (Literary Masterpieces, Volume 18)
What can be said of a people as contradictory as the Germans, who gave the world Hayden and the Holocaust, Beethoven and Buchenwald? A nation of bright, industrious men who constructed great ships and grand philosophies, and also planned their wars, decades in advance, with equal care? We must analyze such people cautiously; our minds have been molded by their militarism, politics, and monumental defeats (on the heels of their great triumphs in the early stages of the same wars). We can still watch seas of German humanity goosestepping across flickering newsreels in a mindless apotheosis of Hitlerism. Films like Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl’s brilliant documentary of the 1934 Nazi Party rally at Nuremburg, even today stir our latent fears of Germany. Strutting brigades of fancifully dressed Uhlans, self-styled Huns, and Storm Troopers emblazoned with death’s head insignia parade grimly before the camera’s eye, a collective personification of German military history. Crowds orgasmically chant “Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Führer” with a joy emanating from some medieval, Teutonic oversoul. We sense that those masses of faceless people, hypnotized by the rasping voice of their charismatic leader, had found fulfillment in their willing submission to the State.
Perhaps the answer lies in Prussia, a nation founded in darker ages in the Eastern marches by Teutonic Knights. Ringed by expansionistic and warlike peoples, possessing no natural defensible boundaries of any consequence, it pursued militarism through necessity. Prussia became, as Baron von Schrötter proclaimed, “not a country with an army, but an army with a country.” Mirabeau later observed that “war is the national industry of Prussia.” And that nation, through decisive nineteenth century victories, became the master of Germany.
Are these thoughts exaggerated stereotypes, historical half truths, or simply legends, reinforced by our willingness to believe the worst of the Germans? Trevor Nevitt Dupuy, the author of A Genius for War, supports the last view and argues that the Prussian-German is—and was—a reasonable human being. Between 1815 and 1945, Germany engaged in only six “significant” wars, he notes, while France and Russia in the same period fought ten and thirteen respectively, and imperialistic Great Britain, seventeen. The “peaceloving” United States participated in seven, including lesser wars against Seminoles and Philippine Insurrectionaries. Germany, concludes Dupuy, fought less frequently than most major European powers.
Colonel Dupuy’s interest in German military history began with his World War II studies, conducted in association with the Historical Evaluation and Research Organization. HERO attempted to evaluate military performance, using an objectively quantified combat model based on sixty engagements fought during the struggle for Italy. HERO began by assigning the more experienced Wehrmacht a ten percent battle superiority. But it found that German troops invariably defeated American infantry when they should have lost, according to the model, and concluded that a thirty percent edge was more accurate. HERO also found to its surprise that the presence or absence of superior American air power had little effect on results. German soldiers, concluded Dupuy, had delayed a predictable defeat with intelligence, skill, and dedication, a performance that he labels “genius.”
The Colonel next examined “the riddle of 1944.” After a successful tactical withdrawal on the Continent following D-Day, the Germans, almost incredibly, launched a major offensive (the “Battle of the Bulge”) which drove eighty kilometers through Allied lines before finally grinding to a halt. Dupuy marvels at an army that recognized it had lost the war on the beaches, yet conducted a brilliant retreat, and then launched a major offensive with some likelihood of success.
Dupuy interviewed numerous allied troops after World War II who had fought Germany (he had fought against Japan) and found them uniformly impressed by their opponents, in full agreement that Germans usually fought not only aggressively but also highly intelligently. Those who had not fought Germany, buttressed by the Pentagon, which refused to support Dupuy’s research, dismissed his ideas as “fudge factors.” Dupuy then produced objectively demonstrable World War II casualty figures. A hundred Germans could fight one hundred and twenty American or British soldiers as equals, he asserted, and inflict fifty percent more casualties than taken. Students of the military arts call this a “high average score effectiveness.” Interestingly, today’s popular World War II combat games assign the German side a similar edge for the game’s results to approximate reality.
Dupuy’s search for an explanation for superior German battlefield performance has drawn him to study the military history of Prussia-Germany from the Age of the Fredericks to the debacle of Berlin in 1945. He concludes that Germany successfully institutionalized, through its General Staff, officer corps, and standing army, a system that predictably applied military genius in war. That alone explains Germany’s ability to field the world’s best armies for a century. There was little, Dupuy claims, in German culture that predisposed its members toward excessive order or blind obedience; they were hardly the mindless robots portrayed by Hollywood—and Berlin—filmmakers. Dupuy forcefully dismisses zeal for the fatherland or the führerprinzip as particular explanations of German military success.
Dupuy is convinced that Germany had developed no significant military traditions before the last century. Certainly Prussia achieved a certain respectability under the Great Elector and his son Frederick William I, and Frederick the Great used the army willingly, but aside from his inclination for uniformed giants, changed it little. Dupuy, unimpressed with the quality of German soldiers in the eighteenth century, compares them rather unfavorably with the crack Swiss mercenaries of that era.
A Genius for War insists that Germany’s modern military excellence is rooted in the post-Napoleonic reform of the Prussian Army. To defend this idea, the author presents the argument that the Prussian Army was devastated by the Corsican upstart on several occasions between 1806 and 1813, beginning with Jena-Auerstadt. By 1815 the eighteenth century Prussian Army was gone, providing the perfect base for de novum reconstruction. Dupuy’s thesis, like Mark Twain’s spurious obituary, greatly exaggerates the death of the Prussian Army. Certainly its soldiers died in droves in the Napoleonic bloodbaths, but its staff, officers, and training system survived. Equally important, Napoleon’s mistreatment of Prussia between 1806 and 1813 convinced that survival-minded state of the wisdom of generous future support for its army. Despite Dupuy’s desire to connect Germany’s military greatness to the post-1815 reform era, the all-important, close Prussian Army-state relationship is quite linear back to the early eighteenth century.
The General Staff, a concept buried in antiquity, is Dupuy’s key to the success of the reorganized Prussian Army. Traditionally general staffs...
(The entire section is 3000 words.)
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No company analysis would be complete without looking over the balance sheet. In today's tech-laden world, equity investors focus on intangible assets-a moot point for Investors Capital because the company hasn't developed proprietary technologies or processes.
Typically, says Twaddell, investors have comments or questions when it comes to intangible assets. At the broad-brush level, if the company shows a large amount of intangible assets, it's generally perceived to indicate a significant commitment to creating or maintaining a technical edge. However, the investor may question or challenge the way a company capitalizes research and devel-opment (that is, the degree to which the company treats these expenditures as assets, as opposed to treating them as expenses, which reduces net income). "If a company is too aggressive in its capitalization policies," says Twaddell, "securities regulators or the company's own certified public accountants may someday force a reclassification of the expenditures and, in the process, deliver a big hit to earnings."
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Next, many investors look at inventory to see what the growth trend is relative to sales. If it's crept up over time, and there's no big sale on the horizon, the investor may feel the company has lost touch with changes in the sales cycle. The investor also looks at the number of days sales are tied up in accounts receivable, which is calculated by dividing receivables by net sales, and dividing that quotient by 365. "If the figure is creeping up over time, it could indicate several things, but the investor may question if management is putting the right amount of effort into collecting cash due the company," says Twaddell.
Investors Capital's business precludes inventory, which is a plus in investors' eyes because inventory eats capital and causes problems when not managed well. Investors Capital also scored well in accounts receivable because receivables are paid in less than 30 days-a far cry from the 90 days companies that have to deal with big chain retailers typically wait.
When they move on to the liabilities side of the balance sheet, investors zero in on the accounts payable section. Specifically, investors want to know how many payables are more than 60 days old. "If it's a significant amount, it can be a problem," says Twaddell, "because investors will see a significant portion of the proceeds being eaten up just to keep vendors happy. That can be a real deal-breaker."
Investors also look for any term loans. In general, says Twaddell, their comfort with the loans varies directly with the term. Therefore, if you have significant liabilities due in one or two years, the investor may recoil. If the term is three to five years, the loans will be less of an issue. Debt-free Investors Capital had the ideal scenario.
Any term loans payable to founders cause problems for entrepreneurs who aren't flexible. "From the equity inves-tor's point of view, it's a losing proposition to pay [founders] off because there's no growth associated with it," Twaddell says. "If founders insist on getting paid off, it can kill a deal."
Next, investors check the equity section of the balance sheet to see whether it's negative or positive. At the end of each year, the net income or net loss gets posted to the equity section. If a company has lost money year after year, the equity account will be thin. "By looking over the equity section of the balance sheet," says Twaddell, "investors can get a sense of how close to the edge-or how healthy-a company is."
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Opprobrium, Nick Cain
As wonderful is his duo with compatriot Cor Fuhler, who, like Prins, has gradually progressed from Bimhuis improv into electronic experimentation. This is a quite befuddling duo (as on Live, Prins utilises electronics, FM modulations and radio; Fuhler employs EMS Synthi AKS, turntables and mbiras), whose interaction is in a constant state of flux, and one whose ideas flow so liberally and create music which is at times so disorientating that it feels as though one is listening to it through some sort of prismic filter. The disc's most rapid rate of change is achieved on 'Fuchsine Rill', a fractally splintering, synapse-addling flood of sound which cross-fertilises Prins's high-speed pitch fractures with Fuhler's sweeping swathes of broadband noise interference in giddily gleeful sonic-overload collages (which develop at a rate comparable to the more frenetic moments on this label's previous Thomas Lehn/Marcus Schmickler duo). The inorganic nature of the sounds and the sheer speed of some of the playing mean that it's often difficult to work out who's doing what, a conundrum complicated by the fact that the two seem ever-ready to swap roles. They wisely don't attempt to maintain such a pace for the entirety of the disc, however, and the remainder of the pieces see Fuhler laying down solid blocks of churning sound-rumble, counterpointing Prins's modulated hiss with fuzzily linked sequences of single sounds, the two brilliantly interweaving outlandish tonal splurges in mutual sound-shredding binges. Wild, and all-round fantastic; I'd recommend ears be applied to any release wearing the names of either of these two, post-haste.
All Music Guide, Brian Olewnick
Cor Fuhler and Gert-Jan Prins create rude, dirty electro-acoustic improvised music. The sounds heard herein are rarely pristine or pure; they carry smudges, burs, a patina of substances that would stain your fingers, abrade your nails. Yet there is also a grace and lightness of foot, allowing the pieces to describe a dance over and between the grime, enabling a thrilling and evocative set of music. The titles of the improvisations and the disc's packaging, combining floral terms and motifs with ones derived from circuitry and electronic imaging, go a good distance in suggesting the kind of territory this duo navigates. Most of the cuts have a low end rumble of one type or another; here some subsonic FM frequencies, there an electronically altered mbira plucked by unseen giants. Above and through this sound-base slide volleys of liquid, slithering tones, found radio extracts, bursts of static and sputters of undefinable noise. What's most impressive is that, given the extremely abstract nature of most of the material, there is virtually always a driving impetus, a robust, forward-leaning thrust to the improvisations that provides an irresistible sense of drama. Indeed, one could imagine this music serving superbly as a soundtrack to an especially dark film by some future Tarkovsky. Though Fuhler and Prins wield separate and distinct instruments, it's generally impossible to say who's doing what at a particular moment which is one of the points of this genre. For all of the primal force of the music, there is little if any overt ego involved; each musician's contribution is subsumed within the overarching structure of the improvisation. The Flirts is a superb example of the rougher edge of electro-acoustic improv at the beginning of the 21st century and is very highly recommended for adventurous listeners.
Incursion Music Review, Richard Di Santo
Amsterdam residents Cor Fuhler and Gert-Jan Prins are both founding members of MIMEO, an improvisation collective in existence since 1997. Fuhler is probably better know for his work as a pianist; see his solo CD titled 7CC in IO, released in 1994 on Geestgronden. Here he performs on analogue synth (the EMS Synthi KS), which he uses to filter the sounds he conjures from turntables and mbiras (thumb pianos from Zimbabwe). Prins, although he has a background as a drummer, here performs on electronics, FM modulations and radio. Lately Prins has been working within the noise scene, as evidenced in his solo CD, Prins Live, released on Grob last year. Recorded earlier this year, The Flirts presents seven improvisations of varying length. The arrangements are busy and brimming with activity; pulses, crackles, grating sounds, static and hiss are all in constant motion. The sound is neither extra quiet nor extra noisy; it remains in this sort of middle ground, full of short sounds that flutter in and out of the sound field in constant flux. There's a marked physicality in this music; as if the performers are physically tearing out the sounds from their machines. When considering the nature of this music, the title of the CD seems quite apt; this is music that flirts with ideas of constancy and regularity; it teases the listener by being in constant motion and never sitting still. But all these sharp contrasts and abstract textures are a compelling combination with an impressive sound dynamic. Challenging surely, even a little unnerving for its refusal to rest even for a moment, but in this album Fuhler and Prins have created a fabulous beast.
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Results for: glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end (from the Catholic Mass)Translations: 1 - 30 of 336
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glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end (from the Catholic Mass)gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum
(beginning sentence) and, but, nowquod
(dat.) us, the world belongs to USnobis
a beginning, undertaking, initiativeorsus
a heap, massacervus
a multitude of the wise is the health of the world (motto of the University of Victoria, British Columbia)multitudo sapientium sanitas orbis
a promise must be kept not merely in the letter, but in the spirit (Cicero)semper autem in fide quid senseris, non quid dixeris, cogitandum
a right is said to have its beginning from possessiondominium a possessione cœpisse dicitur
a rude and disordered mass (Ovid)rudis indigestaque moles
a spirit superior to every weapon (Ovid)teloque animus præstantior omni
a storm is gathering in the poetic world (Juvenal)poëtica surgit tempestas
a surrender of glory and fame must be made for the public advantage (Cicero)gloriæ et famæ jactura facienda est, publicæ utilitatis causa
a tomb now suffices for him for whom the world did not suffice (said of Alexander the Great)sufficit huic tumulus, cui non suffecerit orbis
Against the worldContra mundum
Ah, human cares! Ah, how much futility in the world! (Lucilius)O curas hominum! O quantum est in rebus inane!
alas!, how difficult is the custody of glory! (Publilius Syrus)heu!, quam difficilis gloriæ custodia est!
alert (or energetic) at the beginning, careless (or negligent) at the end (Tacitus)acribus initiis, incurioso fine
all the world is to be ruled by Austria (motto of Frederick III)Austriæ est imperare orbi universo (A.E.I.O.U.)
all the world plays the actor (i.e., all the world’s a stage; reputedly the words on a sign hung at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater)totus mundus agit histrionem
all the world plays the comedian (or actor) (Petronius)totus mundus agit histrionem (or, mundus universus exercet histrioniam)
all the world plays the comedian (or actor) (Petronius)totus mundus exercet histrionem (or, mundus universus exercet histrioniam)
all the world practices the art of actinguniversus mundus exercet histrioniam
all things for the glory of Godomnia ad Dei gloriam
All things obey money. Money makes the world go roundPecvniate obedivnt omnia
ambition, avarice, party spirit, eager desirecupiditas
among other evils, folly has also this special characteristic, it is always beginning to live (Seneca)inter cetera mala, hoc quoque habet stultitia proprium, semper incipit vivere
an entering /beginningingressio
an unknown (or untold) mass of silver and gold (Virgil)ignotum argenti pondus et auri
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perseverer perseverer 51-55, F 7 Answers Nov 27, 2012 in Struggles
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My parents actually didn't argue the way most couples do - with both parties insulting and yelling at each other. My father would get mad and say disagreeable things to my mom. She would just silently bare all of it and she did not retaliate with nasty words or harsh comments. She just let him rage and later on, when he felt better, he would usually apologize to her. She was very forgiving, but eventually, all of the emotional abuse (from him, my sister and some from me), got to her and she began to get very depressed. I tried to curb my temper more as time went on, but my sister and dad were very angry with her quite a bit. After she fell and became very ill, all of us, including my dad, were always very kind and sweet to her. In a way, her illness brought the family back together because before that, everything was falling apart into a total emotional mess. (But money issues and lack of communication was the root of a lot of their problems, so if I got married, I would want to make sure that didn't happen.)
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Drugs. My father has choked my mother and threatened to shoot her in front of me before. I wouldn't want that.
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Dinosaur Pets?
If you could have any pet dinosaur (and YOU have to train it not to kill you) what would you want?
Personally, I would want a compy, or a procompsognathus. I loved them in Jurassic Park even though I doubt they were actually poisonous. They're about chicken sized, with that basic dinosaur shape, except small. They're two-legged with long necks and small heads. They have a lot of teeth, but we could work around that. I just think they're so cute. They remind me of pigeons, my favorite bird. As long as Compy didn't eat my rabbit, I think we'd get along just fine.
What dinosaur pet would you want?
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Bra Styles
Adhesive or Backless bra: A bra without shoulder straps or a rear band, affixed to the breasts with removable adhesive.
Balconette: Also known as a balcony bra, it provides less coverage than a demi bra, with the top of the cup making a straight line across the breasts. Balconettes have the effect of lifting the breasts like a shelf.
Bandeau: A strapless band of fabric to cover the breasts. Some bandeaus have built-in cups, and are most effective for small-breasted women.
Bralette: An unlined, soft cup bra, most often resembling a crop-top. A bralette provides very little support and are generally best for the small-busted. They can also be great sleep bras for women of all sizes.
Contour Bra: A bra with a shaped cup that has fiberfill or foam lining. These are highly structured cups that retain the shape of a breast, even when removed from the body. Generally, contour bras have an underwire and can sometimes be known as T-shirt bras. Not to be confused with Molded Cup bras, Contour Bras have a sculpted look that can also help reduce "high-beams."
Convertible Bra: A bra style that features removable straps that can be rearranged to fit under a variety of neck-lines, such as halter-top, one-shoulder and racer-back. Convertible bras generally double as strapless bras.
Demi Cup Bra: "Demi" in French means half – and that's exactly what this bra style refers to – a half cup. These underwire bras expose the top portion of the breast and feature wide-set straps.
Front Clasp/Front Closure Bra: Exactly like the name implies, these bras fasten in the front, for easier access. Front clasp bras provide less support than a full cup or seamed bra because they don't offer adjustable band support.
Full Cup: A full cup bra covers most of the breast, providing great support. Full cup bras were historically recommended for fuller figured women, although that is changing as more manufacturers focusing on full-busted and full-figured women enter the market.
Long line/Bustier: A bra that extends from bust to hips. Generally structured with boning and many hook and eye closures. Many long line bras also shape the waist and redistribute the weight of the breasts, making these a great choice for women with back and/or shoulder pain.
Maternity: A bra designed for women who are pregnant. These bras feature wider straps for increased support, which helps reduce the breast sensitivity that often comes with pregnancy.
Minimizer: Minimizer Bras make the breast appear smaller by up to one cup size by pushing breast tissue into a lower-profile cup. Minimizers, in fact, redistribute the breast so that it is spread wider on the chest wall, so while there is less protrusion of the breast, many minimizers end up making women appear thicker in the torso.
Moulded: A moulded cup bra is any bra created on a mould. These are also refered to as seamless bras or T-shirt bras. Moulded cup bras are often thought of as being interchangeable with Contour bras. The difference is that a Contour bra is always made with a formed cup (a cup that stays in the shape of a breast, even when off the body) while a moulded cup can be made from fabric that does not retain its shape. Moulded cup bras can be stretchy, and may not provide as much support for larger-busted women.
Nursing: A nursing bra is designed specifically for women nursing babies. They generally have some means of both supporting the bust and allowing for easy access.
Padded: If you want to enhance your shape, push em up or even out asymmetrical breasts, padded bras can do any (or all) of the above by adding fiber, foam, gel or even air to specific areas of the cup.
Petite bras:
Plunge: A bra with a low center, which allows for deeper v-neck clothes, is a plunge bra. Plunge bras are also recognizable by their angled cups, and narrow center gore/bridge. Plunge bras, unlike padded bras, are generally not heavily padded.
Push-Up: Just like the name implies, a push up bra creates lift and cleavage by physically pushing the breasts up and in.
Racerback: Racerbacks are designed to wear under clothes that would otherwise expose bra straps.
Seamed/Cut and Sewn: A bra that is constructed out of pieces that are sewn together to shape and support the breast. Generally speaking, more seams = more support.
Soft Cup: Any bra without an underwire is a soft cup bra. Soft cup bras are designed to fit all shapes and sizes.
Spacer: A relatively new innovation in the bra market, spacer bras feature two separate fabrics knitted independently, and connected by a third, spongy, layer. Spacer bras resemble contour bras, but are lighter and breathable. Because the material is breathable, spacer bras provide less nipple coverage than contour bras.
Sports: First introduced in 1977 as a design featuring two jock straps sewn together, sports bras are designed to provide support during physical activity while protecting the breasts from tissue damage. Sports bras come in two designs, compression and encapsulation. Compression bras compress the breasts, pushing them up against the body. Encapsulation looks more like a standard bra, with a distinctive cup for each breast.
Strapless: A strapless bra is any bra that is designed to be worn without shoulder straps. Generally, strapless bras have something along the inside edges that adhere the bra to the body.
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Piotr Jaroszewicz
Jaroszewicz, Piotr (pyôˈtər yärôshĕˈvĭch) [key], 1909–92, Polish political leader. A schoolmaster, he lived during World War II in the Soviet Union, where he joined the Polish army in 1943. In the postwar years he held several important positions in Poland and from 1952 to 1970 was vice premier. He became premier in 1970 following Józef Cyrankiewicz's resignation in the wake of serious rioting over inflation. He also became a full member of the politburo. In 1980 he was forced to resign because of Poland's continuing economic crisis. In 1992 he and his wife were murdered.
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov
Ulyanov, Vladimir Ilyich: see Lenin.
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Chemical Properties
Chemically, the metals differ from the nonmetals in that they form positive ions and basic oxides and hydroxides. Upon exposure to moist air, a great many undergo corrosion, i.e., enter into a chemical reaction; e.g., iron rusts when exposed to moist air, the oxygen of the atmosphere uniting with the metal to form the oxide of the metal. Aluminum and zinc do not appear to be affected, but in fact a thin coating of the oxide is formed almost at once, stopping further action and appearing unnoticeable because of its close resemblance to the metal. Tin, lead, and copper react slowly under ordinary conditions. Silver is affected by compounds such as sulfur dioxide and becomes tarnished when exposed to air containing them. The metals are combined with nonmetals in their salts, as in carbides, carbonates, chlorides, nitrates, phosphates, silicates, sulfides, and sulfates.
The Electromotive Series
On the basis of their ability to be oxidized, i.e., lose electrons, metals can be arranged in a list called the electromotive series, or replacement series. Metals toward the beginning of the series, like cesium and lithium, are more readily oxidized than those toward the end, like silver and gold. In general, a metal will replace any other metal, or hydrogen, in a compound that it precedes in the series, and under ordinary circumstances it will be replaced by any metal, or hydrogen, that it follows.
Metals in the Periodic Table
Metals fall into groups in the periodic table determined by similar arrangements of their orbital electrons and a consequent similarity in chemical properties. Groups of similar metals include the alkali metals (Group 1 in the periodic table), the alkaline-earth metals (Group 2 in the periodic table), and the rare-earth metals (the lanthanide and actinide series of Group 3). Most metals other than the alkali metals and the alkaline earth metals are called transition metals (see transition elements). The oxidation states, or valence, of the metal ions vary from +1 for the alkali metals to as much as +7 for some transition metals.
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Beauty, Sensual (See also Beauty, Feminine; Sex Symbol.) Allusions, Definition, Citation, Reference, Information - Allusion to Beauty, Sensual (See also Beauty, Feminine; Sex Symbol.)
1. Angelica infidel princess of exquisite grace and charm. [Ital. Lit.: Orlando Innamorato; Orlando Furioso]
2. Borgia, Lucrezia (1480–1519) her beauty was as legendary as her rumored vices and heartlessness. [Ital. Hist.: Plumb, 59]
3. Buchanan, Daisy Jay Gatsby’s femme fatale. [Am. Lit.: The Great Gatsby]
4. Cleopatra seductive queen of Egypt; beloved by Marc Antony. [Br. Lit.: Antony and Cleopatra]
5. Helen of Troy Faust’s desire to possess her makes him faint. [Ger. Lit.: Faust]
6. Jezebel Phoenician princess; enemy of the prophets; name is a byword for wicked woman. [O.T.: I Kings 16:21, 31; II Kings 9:1–10, 30–37]
7. Lolita precociously seductive 12-year-old. [Am. Lit.: Lolita]
8. Madeline gazed at in awe by Porphyro. [Br. Lit.: “The Eve of St. Agnes” in Magill I, 263–264]
9. Montez, Lola (c. 1818–1861) Irish singer and dancer; mistress to famous men. [Irish Hist.: NCE, 1821]
10. Phryne courtesan, acquitted of charge by baring bosom. [Gk. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 830]
11. Playmate of the Month nude girl provocatively gracing Playboy’s centerfold. [Am. Culture: Flexner, 285]
12. Queen of Sheba sultry Biblical queen who visits Solomon. [O.T.: I Kings 10]
13. Salome seductive dancer who obtains head of John the Baptist as reward. [N.T.: Matthew 14:3, 11]
14. Vye, Eustacia capricious, seductive, trouble-making heroine. [Br. Lit.: Return of the Native, Harvey, 690]
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Sunday, December 04, 2005
Daily Farm Photo: 12/4/05
It's Hay Feeding Season Already
Seems like we just put it up, doesn't it? Do you remember these?
here and here and here and here.
1. My best friend as a child and I used to climb to the very top their hay barn and was like a whole different world up there!
2. Just think of how that will look in a few months! I bet that this winter you use up most of those bales. I remember freshly baled hay. It smells so wonderful. Miss it too...... sorta...
Have a great weekend Farmgirl!
3. Nothing better than your own hay.
I am now paying $80.00 for one round bale for my horses. Square bales are selling for $5.75 to $7.95.
We didn't get enough rain in my area hence the very high prices. Last year I paid $30 a round bale.
4. Boy, that pile of hay looks wonderful. A girl can dream...but for now it's maintaining a small-but-growing market garden. I'm curious if you knew a lot about animal husbandry before you bought your farm, or if you just dove in. My long-term goals include goats and sheep, short-term (this spring) about 30 chickens.
5. lovely image
(thanks for showing the earlier links too!
6. Hi Alisha,
Climbing around in the top of the haybarn is too much fun. (As long as it's not 100 degrees and you're in the middle of piling the freshly baled hay in there, of course. : )
Hi Heather,
I'm sure we'll use up all those bales, especially if we're getting snow this early!
Hi Dawn,
You're absolutely right--nothing better than your own hay. When we have had to buy hay, nobody was happy--not us or the critters.
Ouch! Hearing those hay prices you are having to pay is downright painful. That's crazy, but I realize that unfortunately you have no choice. We've had several really bad hay years here due to drought. For a few years the feed dealer was bringing in tractor trailer loads of hay from a couple of states away. It was crazy.
$25 to $30 is about what round bales usually go for here. But it does seem like the bales keep getting smaller. We prefer square bales for various reasons, but we're some of the only people who still put them up around here.
Hi Kelly,
Congratulations on having a market garden, and your longterm goals sound great. As far as what I knew about animal husbandry before moving to the country--that would be absolutely nothing. I went from never having seen anything being born (not even a puppy or kitten or hamster) to having 24 lambs in 50 days. It was definitely a Learn As You Go Process! : )
Hi Wendy,
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed them. : )
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History of Sex in Cinema:
The Greatest and Most Influential
Sexual Films and Scenes
2003, Part 1
The History of Sex in Cinema
Movie Title/Year and Film/Scene Description
American Wedding (2003) (aka American Pie 3, or American Pie: The Wedding)
This irreverent second sequel to the original gross-out 1999 comedy film, the third film in the series, had the tagline: "Forever Hold Your Piece."
It began with Jim Levenstein's (Jason Biggs) marriage proposal to Michelle Flaherty (Alyson Hannigan), and concentrated on how they were engaged - an embarrassing incident that occurred while he was on the phone with his father (Eugene Levy) in a restaurant (celebrating college graduation). During the call, Jim received oral sex under the table from Michelle - of course discovered by his Dad. Also later, there were problems when the wedding ring was ingested by one of Michelle's dogs and had to be retrieved from the excrement, and Michelle's mother (Deborah Rush) mistook it for a chocolate truffle and attempted to eat it.
The main scene was a poorly-timed bachelor party, in which the film's most prominent character, host Steve Stifler (Seann William Scott) announced:
"Chicks and boobs. Tits and ass. Titties, ta-tas, casabas, bazoongas all up in our friggin' faces! Come on, buck up, fellas. Show some enthusiasm. It's gonna be f--kin' great. Oh, my god!"
In the celebrated raunchy scene, two erotic fantasy characters - big-boobed party strippers - appeared and performed various bondage/submission roles:
• German-accented Fraulein Brandi (Amanda Swisten) - a German-accented French maid with a feather duster
• Officer Krystal (Nikki Schieler Ziering, Playboy's Playmate September 1997), a black tie-wearing police officer with a crop
Topless Krystal brandished her whip in the face of Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas). When she cried: "What? I can't hear you. Louder!...Can't hear you. Louder! Louder!", he shouted back: "Stick a finger in my ass."
[Note: The next group of sequels - four American Pie Presents films - were unofficial, direct-to-video releases, beginning with American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005), to American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009).]
Fraulein Brandi
(Amanda Swisten)
Officer Krystal
(Nikki Schieler Ziering)
Bad Boys II (2003)
Director Michael Bay's action-adventure film, the sequel to the 1995 film, again paired Martin Lawrence and Will Smith as Miami narcotics cops Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey. They were in pursuit of ecstasy drug dealer/smuggler Johnny Tapia (Jordi Molla) smuggling into Miami. During their investigation, they discovered that Tapia was using dead bodies in his mansion's mortuary to smuggle his drugs and money to Cuba.
In the memorably gruesome, disrespectful but funny morgue sequence, the two cops searched through various cut-open body cavities of bodies in search of concealed drugs.
In a minor bit role as a "Female Corpse" (portrayed by voluptuous Jessica Karr), her body was laid out on one of the cold slabs (death by strangulation). Marcus confessed to Mike that he couldn't help but innocently ogle the naked female's stiff chest, but was forced to hide under the sheet next to the well-endowed cadaver:
"What? I ain't doin' nothin'. What am I gonna do with these big-ass fake dead titties?"
"Female Corpse"
(Jessica Karr)
The Brown Bunny (2003)
This independent, low-budget arthouse film from narcissistic, maverick and vain producer/director/actor/writer Vincent Gallo was essentially a cross-country road-trip movie. The film would undoubtedly have been given an NC-17 rating if submitted for review, so it was distributed unrated. It further broke down the division between pornography and erotica.
When the self-absorbed film was first screened for the press at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003, it was derided and scorned by critics and audiences. Critic Roger Ebert called it "the worst film ever shown at Cannes," prompting a prolonged feud of words between Gallo and Ebert. The feud with Ebert ended when the film was re-cut (approximately 26 minutes of the two hour film were excised) and re-released, and Ebert gave the film his 'thumbs-up' endorsement. Further controversy arose over large billboards conspicuously placed in Los Angeles, heralding the infamous fellatio scene.
It told about two characters:
• unshaven, long-haired motorcyclist racer Bud Clay (Vincent Gallo), a tortured, empty-hearted loner
• his former and estranged girlfriend Daisy Lemon (Chloe Sevigny, Gallo's real-life ex-girlfriend)
Bud often idealized and thought about Daisy.
This film further broke down the division between pornography and erotica. In the film's most notorious, explicit and controversial scene of unsimulated fellatio at the finale, Bud and Daisy were in a starkly-white hotel room (soon-to-be-revealed as a fantasy masturbatory sequence) - both lonely and needy individuals who were attempting to connect and speak to each other. Twice, she went to the bathroom to smoke crack cocaine. Soon, the couple began kissing as he took her head/face forcefully with his two hands on her cheeks and hungrily kissed her. He undressed her down to her black bra and panties as she reclined back on the bed. After more kissing and fondling of her naked breasts, as he stood before her at the side of the bed, he undid his belt buckle, released his pant's fly, and she took his male member into her mouth to begin the infamous 'blow-job' scene - as he held himself. As she pleasured him in her mouth, they still engaged in a conversation about their love for each other. When he was finished and satisfied, he stuffed himself back into his underwear and zipped up his fly.
The Infamous Scene of Oral Sex
Between Bud (Vincent Gallo) and Daisy (Chloe Sevigny)
The controversy-provoking film ended with a shocking, melodramatic plot twist to explain Bud's complex personality and downer mood throughout the film regarding Daisy as his lost love - the only woman he ever loved. The film's ending gave greater meaning to everything that came before, including the sex scene. It was revealed that Daisy had in fact died as a result of the incident (choking to death on her own vomit) - "I was dead" - and was later taken away in the ambulance. Bud's intense guilt about abandoning her and his continuing crisis of masculine insecurity were informed by the appearance of the deceased Daisy (in his mind only!) - as Bud had been masturbating alone to his memory of her.
Bud and Daisy
The Rape/Assault of Daisy
Bruce Almighty (2003)
Director Tom Shadyac's comedy (his third film with Carrey) posited the following: "If you could be God for one week, what would you do?" (the film's tagline).
It told about a self-centered Buffalo, NY TV field reporter in a dead-end job named Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey). He was troubled and discontented over not finding employment as an anchorman when a fellow rival worker Evan (Steve Carell) was promoted to lead anchor.
In a moment of frustration and inappropriate anger when he was on-air at Niagara Falls, he was fired from his job. He complained to God (Morgan Freeman) about his unfair treatment:
"Well, it was nice to meet you, God. Thank you for the Grand Canyon, and good luck with the Apocalypse. Oh, and by the way, you SUCK!"
He railed at God:
As a result, in an abandoned warehouse ("Omni Presents"), the home of God, Bruce was given the Almighty's divine and omnipotent powers to see if he could do a better job.
A few of the more ridiculous things that occurred was that his girlfriend Grace Connelly's (Jennifer Aniston) breasts grew larger overnight (she observed: "It's weird. I woke up this morning and I swear my boobs felt bigger. Do they look bigger to you?"), and he parted tomato soup. He also used his newfound powers to make the newly-promoted, obnoxious anchorman Evan fail at his job.
In a miraculous love-scene, Bruce also caused Grace to have a 'no-contact' uncontrollable, mental orgasm without human touch. While alone in her bathroom; he sexually aroused her through mental powers, and she moaned as she fell back on the toilet seat: "Oh, my God! Ooh!...Oh, God! Oh, Good God!" She appeared from the bathroom bedraggled, sex-hungry and ready for more - and received a body-slam into the bed.
A "No-Contact" Orgasm
for Grace Connelly
(Jennifer Aniston)
Carmen (2003, Sp.)
After her success in Sex and Lucia (2001), sultry Paz Vega took the title role in director/co-writer Vicente Aranda's film based or adapted from French writer Prosper Merimée's 1845 novella about obsession, passion, jealousy and murder in Spain of 1830. Tempestuous Vega's nudity was liberally and fully on display throughout much of the film.
The beautiful Paz Vega starred as the feisty, troubled Andalusian gypsy-whore Carmen (Paz Vega), who first met on-duty Basque Sergeant, Jose "The Navarrese" Lizarrabengoa (Leonardo Sbaraglia) with the tempting, flirtatious words: "Do you know how many beauty spots I have on my body?" and then threw him a red carnation flower (which he placed inside his uniform next to his heart). At her work at a cigar factory, Carmen found herself slashing both cheeks of rival co-worker Fernanda (Maria Botto) after being insulted: "Your dirty tits stink and you smell like a gypsy's insides."
The film then skipped ahead with the tale of archaeologist/writer Don Próspero (Jay Benedict) who first met fugitive bandit and murderer Jose in the forest, where he was told that he had a price on his head: "Life has made me the opposite of who I wanted to be." At a church where he was doing research, Prospero met the seductive and alluring fortune-teller gypsy Carmen who told him: "I correspond with Satan." After telling his fortune, she coyly suggested "the remedy for your evils" -- but their session was interrupted by mad-looking Jose, who entered the home and recognized Prospero from earlier. A few days later outside the gates of the town, Prospero watched as Jose rode away on horseback, carrying a naked but draped Carmen in his arms (seen in context during a later flashback).
Prospero witnessed the bandit/murderer's trial where Jose was charged with murder and armed robbery, and sentenced to garrotting. The story was then related in flashback, as Prospero listened to condemned prisoner Jose in his cell while describing his tragic affairs with Carmen. After she had injured her co-worker, Carmen was taken to be jailed, but Jose abetted her escape - and as punishment for dereliction of duty, he was demoted to Private and imprisoned for one month. Although he saw her as a lying she-devil, he became obsessed by the thought of her.
Later, when Jose and Carmen next met at a tavern where she was prostituting herself, she whispered: "Has anybody ever eaten your heart out?," took ten units of currency from him, suggested: "Let's spend it all. I'll let you pamper me," and took him to her brothel. Virginal, he experienced his first night of sexual passion with her while entranced and seduced. She was reassuring as she lowered herself onto him: "I'll show you how to do it, soldier. There. Tonight, you'll learn it all."
When Carmen disappeared, Jose prayed to the Virgin Mary for her to return: "Make her love me. Let me love her." She did return, temptingly offering him another night of fornication in return for letting smugglers through the city's gates. When he assisted her plan, she again met him at the brothel and vowed she didn't love him anymore, but laid back on the bed and hiked up her skirt anyway: "Didn't you want a c--t? Here it is." With tears flowing, he prophesied: "If I killed you now, I'm sure I'd save many tears in the future." She purred back:
"If you arouse me, I might just love you a little bit again...I wish I didn't love you, but I do. They say that's the best way to love. I can't help it. I think of you day and night."
He became obsessed and driven insane by her irresistible charms and only wanted her for himself. Madly jealous when he saw that his commanding lieutenant also became smitten by her at the same brothel, he called Carmen a whore. With his sword, Jose angrily killed the lieutenant in front of her in a fit of rage. Now a fugitive, Carmen helped him to flee into the hills to join her rebel group of bandits in a cave-hideout. She said that the "proof of her love" was that she never asked for money. After Jose killed the lieutenant, she claimed that he had been given "freedom and a woman." As a symbol of their union, he gave her a gold ring, and she joined him in the hideout where they boldly made love in front of the others one night.
Jose soon learned that Carmen had a gangster husband named Garcia recently released from prison, nick-named One-Eyed. But when the husband turned drunk and couldn't perform the first evening he returned, she secretly came to Jose and confided before offering herself: "You're the one I love...You came to me at the right time. When I'm with him, all I can think of is you." When One-Eyed continued to treat Carmen disrespectfully in front of him, Jose murdered his love rival in a knife duel - with Carmen's help (she covered her husband's head with a cape during the fight) (Carmen: "It was time for him to go. It will be your time, too").
Jose thought he now had Carmen all for himself, but then her wanton ways caused her to become infatuated with another male - a handsome matador named Lucas Domeque (Josep Linuesa) who caught her eye, leading to more tragic and uncontrollable passions and deadly consequences. When she bedded the bullfighter (Carmen: "Penetrate me. Pierce my body. Moan with me. I want you to yell"), Jose caught them together. After Carmen taunted: "If you have guts, shoot. Or leave," Jose shot the man point-blank in the face, and then rode with her (draped but naked) from the city on horseback.
He dragged her into the church in front of the Virgin Mary statue and pressured her to repent and faithfully be his wife, feeling that she had made him look like a fool: "Swear that you won't do it again...Swear that you'll be mine and only mine forever" - but when she refused, said she didn't love him, and vowed to never be with him or live with him again ("I want nothing from you. I don't want to ever see you again. Go! I've never loved you!"), he was resigned to again murder for her. She held her arms out: "I dare you to kill me. Kill me or let me go...Kill Carmen. Kill her."
Carmen's (Paz Vega) Final Scene With Jose: "I Dare You to Kill Me"
He fiercely kissed her and then fatally stabbed her in the abdomen. He laid her naked body on a table in front of the altar and kissed her flesh from her feet to her head, still believing she was alive. Jose told Prospero: "Carmen was mine at last." In his last words in the film, he wouldn't disavow knowing Carmen, even though it led to his own destruction. He answered: "No, no, of course not," when Prospero asked: "Would you blot Carmen out of your existence?"
Carmen (Paz Vega)
Carmen with Jose
Carmen with
Matador Lucas
The Cooler (2003)
They experienced a very realistic bedroom sex scene during their first-time lovemaking in his dumpy motel room on green sheets. She did a striptease down to a tight white leotard that revealed a pair-of-dice-tattooed on her left buttocks - to the piano-tinkling tune of "Luck Be A Lady Tonight" ("You may not be an angel, 'Cause angels are so few").
Although he was embarrassed when he prematurely climaxed rapidly as she straddled him, she assured him: "You gotta great cock!" and then cupped his genitals with her hand as they laid side-by-side.
Their second love-making scene was much more graphic, and engendered the most controversy. It began with a closeup of her sweaty and straining face as she had a prolonged and pleasurable orgasm from oral sex. Then as he moved up on her body, there was a brief glimpse of her trimmed pubic hair (a shot of her private parts was cut) before he affectionately kissed and nuzzled both of her breasts.
The Cocktail Waitress Natalie (Maria Bello)
with Cooler Bernie (William H. Macy)
dot the i (2003, US/UK/Sp.)
This R-rated British erotic psychological thriller was the debut film of writer/director Matthew Parkhill. It was set in London, where it began with a girls-night-out (bachelorette party) session at a fancy French restaurant.
Young, sexy Spanish flamenco dancer Carmen Colazzo (Natalia Verbeke) was allowed to give "one last kiss" to a stranger before getting married - her "farewell to a single life."
The bride-to-be (dressed in a Charlie Chaplin outfit with a mustache for her "hen night") chose to kiss unemployed Brazilian/ Brit actor Kit Winter (Gael García Bernal). They shared an unexpected passionate kiss that soon led to fears of stalking, but they did meet again ("What harm is there if you see me just once?"). Their meeting was a hot-blooded orgasmic, semi-clothed sexual encounter coupling the two lovers, after which they attempted to cover up the betrayal.
A dilemma and difficult love triangle ensued because of the striking contrast to her normal boring relationship with wealthy, boring Englishman fiancee and film director Barnaby F. Caspian (James D'Arcy).
The film's twisted and intriguing plot eventually revealed that Barnaby had set up the events in the film with a preconceived plan, casting Carmen in the lead role of his artistic snuff film, and hiring (and paying) Kit to seduce her. The duplicitous and manipulative Barnaby had wanted to have Carmen feel doubtful about having married him, and instead desire to be with Kit. Barnaby then faked his own suicide (by shooting himself in the mouth with a gun) due to feeling suitably depressed. He then sent a videotaped copy of his phony suicide to Carmen, so that she would find further comfort in Kit's arms.
Later, in a startling and abrupt reveal scene, Barnaby told the couple that his death was an acted scene in his film, and he joked to himself that he was a "dead man walking." He paid off Kit for his acting and participation, while reminding him about his amoral role in the film:
"You've grown a conscience all of a sudden. You didn't seem to mind f--king another man's wife."
He played back a recorded scene, shot from a hidden camera, of the two making passionate love with her loud orgasm, claiming: "Oh, this is really good stuff....That's about as authentic as it gets." He also described how when he first met Carmen, he knew she would be perfect for his film:
"The moment I saw you, I knew I'd found my character. Tempestuous, vulnerable, needy...It is brilliant casting on my part, you must admit."
He explained his motivation for the deception - he was bored, he had the time and the money, and "I did it because people like me get to play with the lives of people like you, 'cause you so desperately wanted to believe in love." He also said he was jealous when he saw the two first kiss: "You never kissed me like that. Not once." He also revealed that he had thought of everything as a film director to cross the t's and dot the i's. He had tricked fiancee Carmen into signing an "Artist Release Form" when she thought she was signing their marriage certificate. As he left, he turned and said: "You'll thank me one day."
When Barnaby released the film to box-office success, the film ended, revealing that Kit and Carmen had actually fallen in love, and were plotting to pay back the cynical Barnaby.
Carmen (Natalia Verbeke) with Kit
(Gael Garcia Bernal)
Director Bernardo Bertolucci's NC-17 explicitly-rated film of sexual discovery and intimacy was set in the summer in Paris in 1968. It was the first NC-17 rated film in 6 years, after the release of the NC-17 rated independent film Orgazmo (1997), Bent (1997, UK) and Cronenberg's Crash (1996). Earlier in his career, Bertolucci had experienced ratings issues with his controversial X-rated film Last Tango in Paris (1972/1973, It./Fr.).
The arthouse film involved a continual series of semi-incestuous encounters between the three characters, all fellow cineastes. It included frequent total nudity (male and female) during the trio's improvisational sexual games:
• Isabelle (Eva Green), an uninhibited, naturally-buxom blonde
• Matthew (Michael Pitt), an American cinema exchange student studying in Paris
While the twins' parents were away for a month at the seaside, the game-playing duo claimed they were conjoined at the upper shoulder, where scars were visible. Their tests of cinema trivia were interwoven with clips and play-acted homages to classic moments in cinema (Breathless, City Lights, Top Hat, Queen Christina, etc.) - with the loser forfeiting and having to engage in specified sex acts. Following Theo's failure to identify Blonde Venus, he was forced to masturbate in front of them to a picture of Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel.
After Matthew's failure to identify the film Scarface (1932) for Theo, as Isabelle stripped down before him, his forfeit was to serve as a mediating lover between the twins by making love to Isabelle in front of Theo. She removed the underpants of a partially-resistant Matthew followed by the memorable "blood-on-the-face" scene, in which he copulated with and deflowered the surprisingly-virginal Isabelle on the apartment's kitchen floor as Theo non-chalantly fried eggs on the nearby gas stove. After they finished having sex, Theo touched Isabelle's thigh and brought up his fingers covered in blood - and Matthew also took some of the blood from her broken hymen/vagina and smeared it onto her face as he ardently kissed her.
The "Blood-on-the-Face" Scene Between Matthew (Michael Pitt) and Isabelle (Eva Green)
In another subsequent scene of lovemaking between the two, the camera panned slowly up Isabelle's completely naked body as Matthew lovingly kissed her.
The threesome also bathed in a tub where her menstrual blood was seen on the water's surface (a symbol of sexual awakening?), and they slept together nakedly-intertwined in an indoor tent.
Isabelle (Eva Green)
11:14 (2003) (aka Eleven Fourteen)
The brain-teasing film's title was the debut black comedy film of writer/director Gary Marcks. The film's intricate plot, told in flashback, was similar to the taut, reversely-told and non-linear Memento.
The title referred to the time of an unfortunate night-time car accident in a small-town - the hitting of an already-dead body on a freeway. The ensemble story was told through five seemingly-random events or story-lines (including graveyard sex and death, gunplay and robbery, and genital dismemberment of a penis) of all the five inter-connected individuals, that fatefully converged together at 11:14 pm:
• Jack (Henry Thomas), a drunk driver
• Buzzy (Hilary Swank) and Duffy (Shawn Hatosy), two convenience store clerks
• Cheri (Rachael Leigh Cook), a two-timing, pregnant teen (faking pregnancy, and scheming to steal $500 from the convenience store for her 'abortion'), and her father Frank (Patrick Swayze)
In one of the numerous strands, manipulatively-desperate teen femme fatale Cheri had clothed sex in a dark graveyard while straddling Aaron (Blake Heron) when his head was crushed by a tombstone (with a stone angel on top) that fell onto him and instantly killed him.
Later, Aaron's body was dropped onto the road and hit by drunk driver Jack (and stashed into his trunk where it was discovered by a police officer). Jack was eventually taken into custody, and Cheri was killed in a hit-and-run accident at 11:14 pm, hit by a van driven by Mark (Colin Hanks) (with two other malicious teens inside: Tim (Stark Sands) and Eddie (Ben Foster) - who accidentally had his penis amputated in the closing van window).
(Rachael Leigh Cook)
Graveyard Scene
Final Examination (2003)
Director Fred Olen Ray's (noted for Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)) amateurish, direct-to-video slasher-horror-thriller broadcast its intentions with its two taglines: "You fail. You die" and "Are you ready for your photo shoot? One click and you're dead!"
It told about a group of beautiful sorority friends of Omega Capa Omega who were in Hawaii for their five-year reunion and for a photoshoot with Cavalier Magazine. They were being killed by an unknown, black-garbed murderer, who left behind his calling card at each crime scene - a final-examination paper with a red-inked grade of "FAILED" stamped on it. The murders were investigated by LA cop Shane Newman (Brent Huff) and his partner Julie Seska (B-movie queen Kari Wuhrer, not nude in this film, however).
The film contained lots of bare breast shots (often silicon-enhanced), particularly of well-endowed scream queen Debbie Rochon (as Taylor Cameron).
Final Examination Nudity
A Lengthy Shower Scene with Sorority Girl Kristen Neal (Amy Lindsay)
A Jacuzzi-Pool Scene with
Sorority Girl Terri Walker
(Kim Maddox)
Topless Sorority Girl Amanda Galvin (Kalau Iwaoka) Answering the Phone
Taylor Cameron
(Debbie Rochon)
In the eleventh installment of the long-running film franchise, Freddy vs. Jason (2003) (aka Friday the 13th, Part 11), now a hybrid between the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street films, the same equation of sex=death was followed.
After the film's prologue, on a dock at nighttime, camp counselor Heather (Odessa Munroe) opened her buttoned shirt to reveal her breasts and did a silly little striptease as she called out for her unseen boyfriend Mike, before stripping entirely, running down the dock, and diving into Crystal Lake. Spooked when Mike didn't appear, she swam back, returned to her clothes to get dressed - and began running in fear. She came upon the hulking figure of serial killer Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger) in the foggy mist, and fled in terror in the opposite direction. Suddenly, Jason impaled or pinned her in her gut to a tree with a machete and the tip of the machete's blade pierced through to the opposite side of the tree, although it all appeared to be a dream.
In a later scene set on a stormy and rainy night at 1428 Elm Street in Springwood, hockey-masked Jason murdered bossy boyfriend Trey (Jesse Hutch) apres love-making to his busty, but tomboyish girlfriend Gibb (Katharine Isabelle, body-double Tammy Morris) who was taking a shower at the time (seen from a top-view).
The film-makers also were able to cleverly insert nude pictures into a magazine article about models seeking perfect bodies with plastic surgery.
In one of the dream world sequences, protagonist Lori Campbell (Monica Keena) was sent back to Camp Crystal Lake in the year 1957 on a bright sunny day - she watched as other campers cruelly taunted young Jason Voorhees (Spencer Stump), calling him "Freak show." They covered his bald head with a cloth sack to conceal his ugly face, and dragged him onto the dock.
She saw two pairs of uncaring, flirtatious camp counselors making out on a porch of a cabin nearby, who ignored the taunting. As Lori cried out: "Aren't you going to help the kid?," one now-naked, dead female (Jacqueline Stewart) was being rapidly thrusted into by her boyfriend in a standing position, who retorted: "Can't you see I'm busy here!" Then, the guy turned, revealing himself to be Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), cackling: "It's not my fault this bitch is dead on her feet."
(Odessa Munroe)
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Gigli (2003)
In this famously laughable romantic comedy by writer/director Martin Brest, real-life tabloid lovers (at the time) Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez (dubbed "Bennifer") were featured as star-crossed lovers, although they projected little if any sexual chemistry. Regarded as one of the worst films ever made, it won six Razzie Awards: Worst Picture, Worst Actor, Worst Actress, Worst Director, Worst Screenplay, and Worst Screen Couple - a "grand slam."
The two portrayed characters who often debated with each other:
• Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck), a dim-witted chauvinistic LA mobster
• Ricki (Jennifer Lopez), a lesbian-leaning ("clam-licker") hitwoman assigned to watch over Gigli
During a three-minute debate-argument while she performed yoga in blue spandex shorts, the two compared the relative merits and attractiveness of the male and female sex organs. She offered a monologue of her description of the real power in the world (her vagina) and told him the penis was overvalued:
"Let us reconsider women for a minute, shall we?...Their form, neck, shoulders, legs, hips, I think pretty cool. Now, as far as your famous penis goes, the penis is like some sort of bizarre sea slug or like a really long toe. I mean it's handy, important even, but the pinnacle of sexual design, the top of the list of erotic destinations? I don't think so. One's first impulse is to kiss what? To kiss the lips. Firm, delicious lips, sweet lips surrounding a warm, moist, dizzingly-scented mouth. That's what everyone wants to kiss. Not a toe. Not a sea slug. A mouth. And why do you think that is, stupid? Because the mouth is the twin sister, the almost exact look-alike of what? Not the toe. The mouth is the twin sister of the vagina. And all creatures big and small seek the orifice, the opening, to-to be taken in, engulfed, to be squeezed and lovingly crushed by what is truly the all-powerful, all-encompassing -- no, if it's design you're concerned with, hidden meaning, symbolism, power. Forget the top of Mount Everest, forget the bottom of the sea, the moon, the stars, there is no place nowhere that has been the object of more ambitions, more battles than the sweet sacred mystery between a woman's legs that I am proud to call my pussy. So I guess this is just my roundabout way of saying that it is women who are, in fact, the most desirable form. Wouldn't you agree?"
Speechless and only able to agree, Gigli could only respond later:
"In every relationship, there's a bull and a cow. It just so happens that in this relationship right here with me and you, I'm the bull, you're the cow. All right, bull, cow. Got that?"
In another romantic scene, when she kissed him and squeezed his nipple, he flinched and she told him: "I thought you wanted to be my bitch" - he responded: "This is so f--ked up," but he kept on kissing her. She leaned back, rocking her leg back and forth and notoriously and animalistically requested oral foreplay during the seduction scene, as she gestured toward her own crotch with her legs spread: "It's turkey time...Gobble, gobble" - to his amazement. She further clarified:
When he tried to explain how a man was at a disadvantage with a woman ("...actually a woman might know more...about what feels better to another woman. She's a woman herself"), she stopped him: "Shut up and get over here." They kissed further and made love in an extended love scene, after which he told her: "God bless you, penis." She concurred with him about how all relationships had a bull and a cow - after which he 'moooed.'
(Jennifer Lopez)
High Tension (2003, Fr.) (aka Haute Tension, or Switchblade Romance)
Alexandre Aja's low-budget, breakout film was partially dubbed in English for its North American release in 2005. Lionsgate released it with the NC-17 rating (rather than unrated) - due to its homoerotic and gritty horror tale, and graphic violence (some of which was edited or trimmed). The film was later released as R-rated.
Two female law college student friends, during a break, went to Alexia's farm home in the French countryside:
• heterosexual Alexia (or "Alex") (Maiwenn Le Besco)
• wild-spirited, blonde, short-haired lesbian Marie (Cecile De France)
A brutish van driver (Philippe Nahon) on their first night invaded the home, ferociously killed the family members, and kidnapped a bound Alexia. After witnessing the murders, Marie hid in the back of the nameless killer's blood-stained, rusty van to pursue him and help rescue her kidnapped friend. The action was told from the vantage point of escapee Marie, who was trying to save her friend.
The film's highly improbable conclusion revealed the gimmicky, reality-shifting, absurdly-surprising "Gotcha" twist that the male killer was in Marie's psychotic, schizophrenic imagination - she was actually the killer.
This fact was hinted throughout the early sequences of the film, including:
• Marie's introductory dream credits sequence (a dream when she was sleeping in the back seat of the car, in which she described how she was a slasher who chased herself through the forest ("It wasn't a guy. It was me. That was the weirdest part. It was me running after me"))
• a strange necrophilia-tinged shot of the killer in the van having sex with a decapitated head in his lap that he discarded out the window as he drove off
• the intercut scene of the killer's arrival while Marie masturbated to the song Runaway Girl by U-Roy with lyrics: "She's just another girl, that's what you are. You are just another girl" after she had spied on love interest Alexia through an upstairs window as she took a shower
Undoubtedly Marie felt homicidal rage for being repeatedly sexually spurned. Another clue to Marie's split personality was the shot of a doll's face split in two by a large crack. An obscure clue was provided with the Latin saying on the back of Marie's tight T-shirt which read: Audaces Solum (literally "Boldly Alone" or "Very Lonely").
In the conclusion, the male killer with a chain saw was transformed into Marie after he told Alexia: "You really know how to drive a woman crazy, don't ya, ya goddamn bitch!...Do you love me?" As the bloodied Marie kissed Alexia, she repeatedly told her: "Nobody will come between us ever again, Alex. Never again. I won't let anyone come between us anymore" - explaining her murderous actions to kill her own family so that she could obsessively be with her.
In the last scene, Marie was in a mental institution (the same images were present in the film's opening when Marie stated: "Are they recording?" - making the entire film her own nightmarish flashback), where Alex looked at Marie through a one-way mirror as Marie sensed her presence and gestured with open arms toward her.
House of the Dead (2003)
This inept, reviled zombie film, with a few gratuitous nude scenes, was from notorious German-born director Uwe Boll. It was set on a mysterious island named Isla de la Muerte near Seattle where a weekend rave party was to be held.
In an early scene, topless, airhead blonde Cynthia (Sonya Salomaa) on a chartered fishing boat going out to the island turned around, sarcastically told the first mate Salish (Clint Howard): "Did you get a real good peek there, huh?", and was given a small crucifix for protection ("It'll ward off evil spirits and protect you and your friends from harm"). She responded dumbly: "It's OK, I'm on the pill."
There was time for one party-goer, brunette Johanna (Erica Durance, or Erica Parker) to walk to a body of water with her male companion Matt (Steve Byers), and suggest skinny-dipping: "Come on, let's go swimming." After they kissed, she removed her orange top, baring her breasts, and then her bottoms (down to a white thong), and walked into the cold water with her arms outstretched. She told him: "Come on, you big wimp!" as he told her: "You have a good swim, babe."
Johanna's (Erica Durance) Skinny-Dipping Scene
He watched from the shore, as she appeared to be spied upon from afar and from under the water. She became spooked (with accompanying Jaws-like music) when bubbles floated up from below, and she hurriedly swam back to shore, although Matt had disappeared - she called out: "Come on, Matt, don't play games. Matt, where are you?"
(Sonya Salomaa)
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Scientists Dispel Myths, Provide New Insight into Human Impact on Pre-Columbian Amazon River Basin
MELBOURNE, FLA. —A paper published this week in Science provides the most nuanced view to date of the small, shifting human populations in much of the Amazon before the arrival of Europeans. The research, which includes the first landscape-scale sampling of central and western Amazonia, finds that early inhabitants were concentrated near rivers and lakes but actually had little long-term impact on the outlying forests, as if they merely tiptoed around the land far from natural sources of water. In doing so, the new study overturns the currently popular idea that the Amazon was a cultural parkland in pre-Columbian times.
The Amazon Basin is one of Earth’s areas of highest biodiversity. Therefore, understanding how Amazonia was modified by humans in the past is important for conservation and understanding the ecological processes of tropical rainforests.
Researchers, at Florida Institute of Technology, the Smithsonian Institution, Wake Forest University and the University of Florida looked at how widespread human impacts were in Amazonia before the Europeans arrived. If the Pre-Columbian Amazon was a highly altered landscape, then most of the Amazon’s current biodiversity could have come from human effects.
The research team, led by Florida Tech’s Crystal McMichael and Mark Bush, retrieved 247 soil cores from 55 locations throughout the central and western Amazon, sampling sites that were likely disturbed by humans, like river banks and areas known from archeological evidence to have been occupied by people. They also collected cores farther away from rivers, where human impacts were unknown and used markers in the cores to track the histories of fire, vegetation and human alterations of the soil. The eastern Amazon has already been studied in detail.
“There is strong evidence of large settlements in eastern Amazonia, but our data point to different cultural adaptations in the central and western Amazon, which left vast areas with very little human imprint,” said Bush.
They did not live in large settlements throughout the basin as was previously thought. Even sites of supposedly large settlements did not show evidence of high population densities and large-scale agriculture. All the signs point to smaller, mobile populations before Europeans arrived. The impacts of these small populations were largely limited to river banks.
“The amazing biodiversity of the Amazon is not a byproduct of past human disturbance,” said McMichael. "We also can't assume that these forests will be resilient to disturbance, because many have never been disturbed, or have only been lightly disturbed in the past."
Certainly there is no parallel in western Amazonia for the scale of modern disturbance that accompanies industrial agriculture, road construction, and the synergies of those disturbances with climate change.”
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How far is the horizon?
Asked by prasad (3824 points ) July 20th, 2012
Assuming everything is flat (or more precisely visible) around, how far is the horizon from where I stand? Approximately?
I know, it can be mathematically calculated, but I’m just lazy now.
And, how much area would that be that I can see all around me 360 degrees? What is the shape of the area called? I imagine the shape like cornea of the human eye or a contact lens.
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Nullo's avatar
I think I heard once that it’s about 20 miles, if you’re in Kansas or the desert-y part of Australia.
Horizon calculator here.
jerv's avatar
Variable. I am six feet tall, so for me, the horizon is a little further away than it is for my wife who is 5’5”.
But there are calculators to figure it out for you.
That figures out to about 3 miles for an average person standing on the ground, or about 12 miles for someone standing ~100 feet off the ground.
Brian1946's avatar
I’m about 5’10”, so I’m 2.7 miles from where I see the horizon.
Now it says that I’m 3 miles from there, so my horizontal vision has gained a few yards.
gasman's avatar
What the calculators don’t show is a simple approximation formula, given by Wikipedia here, where distance to horizon is proportional to square root of height. Excerpt:
Distance to the horizon
Ignoring the effect of atmospheric refraction, distance to the horizon from an observer close to the Earth’s surface is about
d ≈ 3.57 √h
Examples, assuming no refraction:
For an observer standing on a hill or tower of 100 metres (330 ft) in height, the horizon is at a distance of 39 kilometres (24 mi).
For an observer standing at the top of the Burj Khalifa (828 metres (2,717 ft) in height), the horizon is at a distance of 111 kilometres (69 mi).
With d in miles[6] and h in feet,
d ≈ 1.22 √h
kess's avatar
As far as I know the horizon is that indefinite observable distance.. so give it a measurement it would mean it is no longer indefinite, thus ceasing to be the horizon but a definite point out in the distance.
bkcunningham's avatar
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
“It is futile,” I said,
“You can never —”
“You lie,” he cried,
And ran on.
—-Stephen Crane
PhiNotPi's avatar
On a perfectly flat plane, the horizon appears to be at exactly eye level and is an infinite distance away.
On a perfect sphere, the horizon is a finite distance away and depends on the diameter of the sphere and the height of the observer on the sphere. In order to find the distance to the horizon, you can use trigonometry and other geometry.
Imagine a triangle OCH, for observer-center-horizon. C is located at the center of the sphere, and H is the point on the sphere that appears as the horizon.
It should be easy to see that the visual line of sight (line OH) will be tangent to the sphere, since it can’t intersect the sphere and can’t be looking away from the sphere. Line CH is a radius of the sphere. These two facts combined mean that angle H is a right angle, so triangle OCH is a right triangle.
If the radius of the sphere (CH) is r, and the height of the observer is s, then the length of OC is equal to r + s.
By the Pythagorean theorem, (OH) = sqrt( (CH)^2 + (OC)^2 )
OH = sqrt(r^2 + (r+s)^2) = sqrt( r^2 + r^2 + 2rs + s^2)
This gives the length of the line of sight to the horizon
To find the distance to the horizon following the curve of the sphere, you need trigonometry.
This law of sines states that
OH/sin( C ) = CH/sin(O) = OC/sin(H)
We want to find angle C.
OC = r+s
H = 90
sin(90) = 1 {this makes the problem a lot easier}
OC/sin(90) = r+s = OH/sin( C )
OH = r
r+s = r / sin( C )
sin( C ) = r / (r+s)
C = sin^-1(r / (r+s)) #inverse sine
Now that we know angle C and that the circumference of the sphere is 2*r*pi, we can find the portion of the circumference that is the distance from the observer to the horizon.
Distance = 2*r*pi / 360 * sin^-1(r / (r+s))
where r = radius of Earth (or any sphere) and s = height of observer off the ground
mattbrowne's avatar
Don’t forget that the Earth is a potato, not a perfect sphere. So even on the ocean the calculator won’t work perfectly. Gravity is not homogenous and does vary.
Dutchess_III's avatar
@PhiNotPi I wonder if Chris Columbus knew all that math before he went road trippin’!
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Toffee is a confection made by boiling molasses or sugar along with butter, milk and occasionally flour. The mixture is heated until the temperature reaches 150-160°C (302–320°F)—this is known as the hard crack stage to confectioners. While preparing, toffee is often mixed with nuts or raisins. The process of making toffee involves boiling the ingredients until the mix is stiff enough to be pulled into a shape which holds and has a glossy surface. The resulting mixture will typically be poured into a shallow tray and allowed to cool to form a sweet. Different mixes, processes, and (most importantly) temperatures of toffee making will result in different textures and hardnesses, from soft and often sticky to a hard brittle material. A popular variant is English toffee, which is a very buttery toffee often made with almonds. It is available in both chewy and hard versions; there is some debate as to which is the traditional English style and which is an Americanized version. A popular presentation of English toffee is covered in chocolate and almond pieces. Heath bars are a type of candy made with an English toffee core.
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Quote# 7687
[On the animals getting back home after the flood]
Also after the flood and especially during the subsequent ice age there were many natural land bridges available so there would not neccessarily have been much swimming involved, and of course different animals have in the past been rafted from one location to another on mats of floating vegetation, of which there would have been an abundance after the flood.
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It has been theorized, by creationists, that floating vegetation mats were possible, but for insects, not Koala bears!
Have you ever considered continental drift as a possibility?
8/30/2005 11:07:54 PM
They should just admit it, they got there by magic, everything's fucking magic, the ark, the flood, the animals, and it just has never happened again and nobody noticed it that time because that's what god wanted.
And to TheGrappler, Those are some fast continents then, but I guess if they say there was hyper-microevolution, then they can accept hyper-plate tectonics as well.
8/31/2005 2:47:41 AM
OF COURSE, everybody knows about the abundant rafts of floating vegitation, the ones that god programmed to ferry polar bears north, penguins south, and silverback gorillas out east. Those gorillas would've had a hell of time getting home if it wasn't for the ice bridge to China.
You're not so much debating christianity, as defacing it.
12/20/2006 10:53:44 AM
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Ummm...so there was an Ice Age that followed the flood 5000 years ago? You'd think that we'd have some fucking evidence for all of this, no?
Oh, and drifting vegetable islands = retarded on innumerable levels.
10/2/2010 6:36:48 PM
Another pathetic attempt to explain the impossible. Give it up already. Every time you guys manage to sound dumber than the last time.
Floating vegenation indeed.
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User avatar #145 - mcquiston (01/10/2014) [-]
Scotland don't hate English people, they hate their government who don't seem to have a fucking clue.
One of the reasons Independence is upon us.
#187 to #145 - tasomo (01/10/2014) [-]
Honest question as I don't know UK law: What happens if Scotland gains independence then has an economic meltdown? Can they petition to rejoin the UK or will pride be too high to allow this (both English AND Scottish pride)?
#159 to #145 - anonymous (01/10/2014) [-]
>Implying people are actually going to vote for independence.
I'd like it myself. But theres too many people that don't want to risk it. Even though its a 33/33/33 chance on it getting better staying the same or getting worse. Staying in the UK, and that george cunts plans to cut another few billion (How much are we betting he doesn't cut the trident despite that being the biggest waste of money.), its 70% chance getting worse and 30% chance of staying the same.
Tl;Dr: Too many people are happy taking taking every piece of shit it tossed at them because they're scared to take a chance.
Pic related, we should all just get mwi and go "Fuck it, it'll be a laugh"
User avatar #203 to #159 - mcquiston (01/10/2014) [-]
What have we got to lose? that's my take on it.
#231 to #203 - anonymous (01/11/2014) [-]
Exactly, the worse that could happen is we fuck up, then Westminster takes the golden opportunity to reclaim us and the oil. Everyone is saying its the final decision, if we leave we cant turn back. But if that was the case, then Westminster wouldn't be trying so hard to keep us in the first place.
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User avatar #154 to #146 - DisgruntledTomato ONLINE (01/10/2014) [-]
Only emotional hogs will vote for Scotland to go independent it is really unsustainable. They want to keep the pound and have access to the UK's central bank which is ridiculous.
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#36 - sportsmaniac (11/08/2013) [-]
I mean it's a good movie and everything, but I don't think it's the greatest superhero movie ever made like some claim. It's nowhere near The Dark Knight trilogy in my opinion.
#144 to #36 - protectorofwings (11/08/2013) [-]
i completly agree with you good sir, take a gwtb pic for your troubles
User avatar #127 to #36 - slowbroking (11/08/2013) [-]
You can't compare The Dark Knight films to The Avengers. Aside from heroes they're two entirely different films.
User avatar #87 to #36 - priestoftheoldones (11/08/2013) [-]
I haven't even fucking watched it.
User avatar #109 to #87 - alstorp (11/08/2013) [-]
I watched it like 2 days ago. You really should watch it. I wasn't interested at all but my gf really wanted to see it and man, it as really good actually.
#76 to #36 - anonymous (11/08/2013) [-]
a bunch of superheroes fighting someone who´s dressed like a power ranger villain
#37 to #36 - mastercolossus (11/08/2013) [-]
its the equivalent of the first "blade" movie as a step forward. because of the success we can expect more crossover movies.
User avatar #38 to #37 - sportsmaniac (11/08/2013) [-]
But are crossover movies really what we want? The Dark Knight trilogy did just fine without Superman, The Flash, etc.
#40 to #38 - mastercolossus (11/08/2013) [-]
was the avengers movie bad? what we want is the movies we always wanted in the past with the justice league etc without it being bad or horrible. btw the batman movies couldnt have had those other guys because no one had powers.
User avatar #42 to #40 - sportsmaniac (11/08/2013) [-]
The Avengers wasn't bad, but it sacrificed story and character development for lots of action. That's the danger with crossovers: you get so many superheroes with each of them needing their "moment", that story has to take a backseat.
TDK trilogy was great because it wasn't overcrowded. This allowed for much more screentime to be spent on character development, which was something The Avengers couldn't afford. I realize that some people just want to see buildings explode, but the movie still needs to have some substance.
That's the main reason why I'm not a huge fan of crossovers.
#45 to #42 - mastercolossus (11/08/2013) [-]
who really needed character development? almost all of them had their own movie before that one or they were part of someone elses, not to mention the entire marvel universe.
#44 to #42 - wanicochil (11/08/2013) [-]
I'm gonna be honest, I watch the solo movies for story
I watch the cross over for action, action and more damn action
There is nothing wrong with a movie that is all about action
User avatar #46 to #44 - sportsmaniac (11/08/2013) [-]
A good point, but can we really say that a movie about action can be the greatest superhero movie ever made? I don't believe we can.
User avatar #62 to #46 - grapefruity (11/08/2013) [-]
Depends what you want from your superheroes?
I want:
1. Action
2. Jokes and quirky characters (Stark, Loki)
3. Story
But it is all subjective at the end of the day
User avatar #147 to #62 - sportsmaniac (11/08/2013) [-]
You're completely right when you say it's all subjective, and there's no doubt that The Avengers checked off the first two items on your list (the third is debatable). Yet it just seems like superhero movies as a whole are starting to cater to your demographic (more action, less story), and are moving away from mine.
It's something I don't quite understand, seeing how successful TDK trilogy was. You could even feel the shift in Man of Steel, which I thought was way too overcrowded with action scenes and could've used more character development (especially Lois Lane). And it'll only get worse with the Batman/Superman crossover and the eventual Justice League of America movie.
I guess I've still got X-Men to look forward to.
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#1 Bacterius Crossbones+ - Reputation: 8178
Posted 29 January 2012 - 09:15 AM
Team name:
< not decided >
Project name:
I was thinking "Space Drifters" but it's not definitive
Brief description:
The game would be something simple and replayable. I have a game in mind, so I'll briefly explain - more details in Additional Info. The game would take place in space, where the player controls a starship, and the goal is to acquire new technology for your ship (in various categories, like weapons, shields, warp drives, power generators, and misc. things like radars). You get that technology by getting experience points, collected by destroying enemy ships, which is done in realtime, in 3D. A multiplayer mode is easily conceptualised as well, with each player controlling his own ship, and a chat interface.
Target aim:
Freeware - although if it's very good I suppose we could sell it, but that's not why we're doing this.
No monetary compensation is offered, it's all voluntary and to acquire experience!
The target system is PC Windows, Vista/7. The programming language is C#, and we'll be using SlimDX or similar to interface with the graphics driver. We'll be aiming at DX10-capable or later systems only. I suspect we'll need a ton of other stuff to but these are the immediate requirements.
Talent needed:
For the moment I'm looking for programmers with little to average experience in C# D3D programming (using SlimDX if possible, but I suppose it's fairly easy to learn a new framework). Now it might sound counter-intuitive to ask for inexperienced people but the point of this project is to learn and acquire experience, while getting a usable result out of it, and that getting projects of any considerable size done by myself is fairly hard, but at the same time I don't want to feel useless! I think those in my situation will understand. There's no reason newbies can't team up!
We'll need graphics/sound artists later on but until we've laid down the game engine we can make do with free, temporary assets.
You'll need to have a DX10-capable or later graphics card since that's our target hardware, and know how to code in C#. If you know how to use SlimDX, SharpDX, or the likes, excellent.
Team structure:
I'm the only one in for the moment - I'll be a developer (C# programming).
If you are interested in joining reply to this topic and/or send me a PM and we can exchange email/messenger (I'm receiving enough spam as it is...)
Previous Work by Team:
Well I've (since the team doesn't exist yet) done some quick projects (mainly to test out stuff like bump mapping, procedural generation, etc...), but no large project. I tend to get bored of things very quickly when I only work by myself, but when in a group it's much easier to stay on focus.
But if that helps here's a link to a screenshot of a useless project I did when experimenting with grass: http://tinypic.com/r/1ihnw0/5
Additional Info:
So the idea would be to make a simple game, not too complex and graphically attractive. The game would be reasonably deep, with various types of technology to be purchased to be able to face harder AI-controlled opponents. The types would include rechargeable weapons (like lasers) which are a one-time purchase, high-power weapons which can only be purchased in batches. Then you have shields (more or less strong, and some of them would have special features such as reflecting small weapon fire), engines, and generators to provide energy to the spaceship, and cloaking devices, etc... There would also be warp drives (classic!) which can be used to retreat, or just to travel very fast (but harder opponents will be able to use those too, so they can chase you and even force you to drop out of warp speed using weapons, etc... to give some complexity to the game). Enemy AI could be adaptive, i.e. it would learn from how you react to their actions and try to adapt and defeat you.
I think it's pretty well thought-out, even if it's fairly classic, but of course we'll probably end up changing parts of the specifications. There's still lots of stuff to work out, but it's a start.
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#2 advancedmusicsubstitute Members - Reputation: 95
Posted 19 March 2012 - 09:49 AM
I understand it's early in your development (as of your post, anyway), but please don't settle for awful royalty-free, widely available music. I'll do custom tracks just to get my name out there. Describe what you want in terms of how many tracks, what style/genre (I'm an electronic musician but I can do pretty much any style), and what length. I'll be happy to be a part of your team. The link in my signature is where you can find examples of my work, and you can email me at [email protected]
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currently no Credits list, so basically I haven't gotten any help, but you
may be the first one to help me if you find something out.
The only real thing that this Game gets credits for is the Game Makers,
whoever helped making this game and the Company that owns it and produced
Game Script
Doctor Octopus: Technology is the light that can cut through the darkness.
When humanity conforms to a single truth, a truth based in technical
progress and scientific method, we will be unstoppable. I Doctor Otto
Octavius vow as a scientist and businessman that my duties to humankind will
be fulfilled. Thank you. Thank you.
Peter Parker: Yeah nice words Octavius, if these executives knew you the way
I do. I wonder if they'd be so quick to applaud.
Eddie Brock: Just keep shooting Eddie. When J Jonah Jameson sees these
photos my career is going be right back on track.
Security Guard 1: Check one, where's your twenty?
Security Guard 2: Dispatch H, all is...
Doctor Octopus: Who dares? Face me coward, face a worthy foe. Spider-man?
Peter Parker: Last time I checked, I was Spider-man.
Eddie Brock: Spider-man, what's he doing?
Peter Parker: Gotta get into my costume and take out this imposter. Can't
get free of this crowd.
Eddie Brock: Can't get a shot. Jameson would pay any price to get this kind
of dirt on Spider-man.
Peter Parker: That was Eddie Brock.
Eddie Brock: Who the? He looked familiar. Whatever, stay focused. He's
stealing Octavuis' device. Oh no, he sees me. My camera, noooooo. Ah it's
over, it's all over. I blew it again, I can hear Jameson's voice already.
Imaginary J Jonah Jameson: Brock you loser. If I had given a real
photographer that job I would finally have the evidence to send Spider-man
away forever. You're through Brock. When I am done with you, you won't be
able to get a job taking wedding pictures in Siberia.
Eddie Brock: I tried to fight it, can't fight him anymore.
Venom: Again innocence falls prey to the evil of Spider-man. Rest easy Brock,
Venom is here, and if it's the last thing we ever do, Jameson and the insect
are going pay.
Doctor Octopus: Phase one complete, let us begin phase two.
Carnage: Hehehehehe yes it begins hahahahaha very soon.
Doc Ock and Carnage: Hahahahahahahaha.
Cop in helicopter 1: Eagle one to tower, ten thirty-three in progress, en
route to bank.
Cop in tower: Roger Eagle one, keep your eye out for Spider-man.
Cop in helicopter 2: If Halloween boy shows up, he's one dead bug.
Cop in helicopter 1: New York City Police department, cease and desist at
once. Lay down your arms and prepare to be ahhhhh.
Spider-man: These guys are serious.
Spider-man: Jonah, I have shots of the bank robbery...
J Jonah Jameson: Parker shut up and dial 911. Scorpion's here, you have to...
J Jonah Jameson: Listen Gargan, it's a new millennium, lots a high tech.
There may be some way we can get you out of that suit.
Scorpion: You put me in this suit, now I'm going to make you pay.
J Jonah Jameson: Get over it Gargan.
Scorpion: You ruined my life, so now I'll end yours.
J Jonah Jameson: I don't know what you're trying to pull by saving my life,
but it won't work.
Spider-man: Oh you're just too clever for me JJ.
J Jonah Jameson: There he is officers. The man behind the science expo
heist. Shoot him now, shoot him.
Spider-man: JJ you're out of the will, I mean it this time.
DareDevil: Hold it Spider-man. I don't want to believe that you pulled the
heist today, but I've got to make sure.
Spider-man: DareDevil, I haven't got time to explain.
DareDevil: Just tell me your side of it. I'll know if you're lying.
Spider-man: How am I supposed to know you're the real DareDevil?
DareDevil: What?
Spider-man: Listen it's true. A Spider-man made off with Octavius' new
invention, but not the Spider-man, not me. Somebody's framed me. Why? I
don't know yet and if New York's finest catch me, it may be too late.
DareDevil: Then you better get going. NYPD is coming fast.
Spider-man: That's it, you believe me?
DareDevil: I don't have to believe you. I know you aren't lying.
Spider-man: But how?
DareDevil: Let's just say, you've got your super powers and I've got mine.
I'll spread the word about your innocence, not that it'll help with the
cops. Good luck.
Spider-man: Since when of I had and, uh oh.
Cop in helicopter: Impact with a transmitter tower, I'm out of pursuit.
I've gotta land this thing now.
Spider-man: Hey you going pay for that tower. Uh oh, spider-sense tingling.
One more step and it's a load of web fluid sticking you to that wall.
Black Cat: Well it's not the most romantic proposition I've ever had.
Spider-man: Black Cat, I'm so glad it's you.
Black Cat: Good to see you to, big boy, but you got a problem. Venom's got
control of the jumbo tron at Times Square. He's been ranting for hours with
a message for you.
Spider-man: Venom's ugly face on that big screen, now that's scary.
Black Cat: That's not all. Rhino's on a Rampage over at Omnitec as well.
Spider-man: What is this, the bad guy Olympics? Look Times Square is on the
way to Omnitec. Let's find out what Venom's up to, then we'll tackle Rhino.
Venom: Hahahaha the Venom marathon continues on the biggest TV in New York.
We're shouting out to the whole big rotten apple here people. Hahahaha.
Spider-man: Sad thing is, he'll probably get his own talk show after this.
Venom: So we've got this beautiful redhead. You know her, she's one of those
famous bimbos. We have decided that this poor little lassie has twenty-four
hours to live. Twenty-four hours. Oh by the way, her name is Mary Jane
Spider-man: No, Mary Jane.
Venom: So just incase someone, I don't know who it could be. If any of you
tight wearing freaks out there wanna save little miss fashion model. Then
bring it on. Meanwhile New Yorkers, the Venom marathon will continue.
Black Cat: Listen you realize what this means. Forget about helping me at
Omnitec, I can handle Rhino.
Spider-man: Rhino by yourself? Thanks Cat, but no thanks. Look being
Spider-man has given me a lot and taken a lot away. But one thing never
changes. My responsibility to use my powers for others before myself, no
matter what the cost. There are innocent people at Omnitec and they need our
help right now. I won't let them down. Then I'll stop Venom and this time
it's for the last time.
Spider-man: We're too late, that makes two major technology heists in two
Black Cat: That leaves one question. Where's Rhino? Ahhhh
Spider-man: CAT!
Rhino: Well if it aint bug boy.
Spider-man: Uh oh.
Spider-man: Uh oh, spider sense tingling. Oh the boys in blues again, better
hide. Best seat in the house. Octavius, what's he doing here?
Doctor Octopus: Please stand back officers, allow me.
Spider-man: Doc Ock helping the police, maybe he is reformed. Ock's taken
care of Rhino. I need to find out what happened to Black Cat.
Peter Parker: This is a job for Peter Parker, not Spider-man.
Black Cat: Eh, eh, eh.
Peter Parker: Hey wait, Cat, Cat, it's Peter.
Black Cat: Peter help me, they're not really paramedics.
Doctor Octopus: Perfect, perfect. Hahahahaha.
Doc Ock and Carnage: Hahahahahaha.
Spider-man: Well that's my story Johnny.
Human Torch: Looks like you're in a lotoftrouble. You'll find Venom.
Spider-man: But how? Venom is invisible to my spider sense.
Human torch: Knowing your luck, Venom will find you. Have faith Spidey.
Spider-man: Where could she be? I gotta find her, I've got no choice.
Venom: Hahahahaha, waaah waaah waaah. What a wuss. Hey wanna race? Parker
hates it when I get the drop on him.
Spider-man: I hate it when he gets the drop on me
Venom: Where'd spider-wuss go? Spider-wuss come out and play.
Spider-man: Tag.
Venom: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Spider-man: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Venom: Hahahahaha.
Spider-man: Oh no, ahhhhhh.
Venom: Got to stop falling for us Parker.
Spider-man: Why Venom? Why did you come back?
Venom: You should know Spider-man. The heist you pulled at the science expo.
You're the bad guy this time.
Spider-man: You idiot, think Eddie, think back to that day. I was with you
on the crowd. The imposter Spider-man was on stage. He burned both of us and
now we've been played against each other.
Venom: You're right Parker.
Mary Jane: Ahhhhhhhhhh.
Spider-man: Mary Jane.
Venom: Gotcha, you and your wife are innocent Parker, our bad.
Spider-man: Our bad, our bad, I'm going kill you.
Mary Jane: Peter Parker, just get me out of here now.
Venom: Bummer, you're in the dog house now dude.
Spider-man: Coming Honey.
Spider-man: So we're partners but only for now. After we bust those tech
thieves, it's pay back time for kidnapping my wife.
Venom: Eh jeez, one little mistake, we said we're sorry.
Spider-man: Yeah whatever. Now the imposter was a shape shifter, so that
means it was either Mysterio or the Chameleon.
Venom: Hey chameleon was our idea, we thought of that.
Spider-man: Think of this Einstein. Who could've wanted to steal Octavius'
Venom: Oooh oh, we know, we know.
Spider-man: Who?
Venom: The Submariner.
Spider-man: Submariner? Get serious will ya.
Venom: The mighty Thor.
Spider-man: Are you out of your mind? Don't answer that.
Venom: Galactus.
Spider-man: Forget it Eddie, I need Jameson's help on this. We're going to
the Bugle.
Venom: Jameson, we hate Jameson.
Spider-man: You bonehead, we're not going to see Jameson, we're going to use
his computer database.
Venom: Oooooh are we going surf the web?
Spider-man: Let's just go, okay.
Spider-man: Here it is, the records room.
Venom: Surf the web, surf the web.
Spider-man: Shut up Brock, we don't have time.
Venom: Parker wait. Could it be?
Spider-man: Could what?
Venom: Yes, we sense our other.
Spider-man: Who, sense who?
Venom: It's our other, the symbiote known as Carnage. We must stop him.
Spider-man: Now?
Venom: Yes now, we have no choice.
Spider-man: Great make more noise, I'm only breaking and entering here.
Spider sense tingling, now what? Spidey whoever's behind all this, symbiotes.
Spider-man: I gotta say, you look just like me except you're more angry back
alley than friendly neighborhood.
Imposter Spider-man: Ooh for decades I've wanted to shut that mouth of yours.
Mysterio: Finally that time is upon me, and now I will crush you once and for
all ahahahahaha. Now little spider, you will die.
Spider-man: Heh, is it too late for us to be friends?
Spider-man: Right now you're thinking, if only you'd taken that giant act to
Vegas instead.
Mysterio: Curse your endless babble Spider-man.
Spider-man: Speaking of babble, let's hear it. Who's behind all this?
Mysterio: I'll never tell you. Mysterio may be defeated but the symbiote
invasion cannot be stopped.
Spider-man: Symbiote invasion, there are more of them?
Mysterio: You fool, there will be more than you can imagine. That fog which
blankets the city is preparing everyone in New York for symbiosis.
Spider-man: You're the fool Mysterio. Where are they coming from?
Mysterio: Go then, on the waterfront, warehouse 65, the secret passage. If
only I could watch them destroy you.
Spider-man: Whoever your boss is, he's off his rocker. No one can control the
Mysterio: Correction, no one before now.
Spider-man: Spare me the propaganda. Okay, this isn't a game Mysterio. The
symbiotes will destroy everything in their path unless I can stop them.
Microchip: I'm here Frank, what's up?
Punisher: Spider-man's here Microchip.
Microchip: What range?
Eh: One-hundred yards maybe, easy shot.
Microchip: Very funny frank.
Punisher: Eh, he spotted me. But how could he? I lost him.
Microchip: What happened?
Punisher: He took out my scope.
Spider-man: Hey tuff guy, sorry about hat expensive lens, Punsher.
Punisher: Something tells me we have the same objective here. That's the
place, warehouse 65. We can team up, you cover my back.
Spider-man: Huh, no thanks mister death wish. I'd like to keep the body count
low if you don't mind.
Punisher: Fair enough.
Spider-man: Punisher's guns can't solve this problem. Gotta play this one my
Doctor Octopus: Hehehehehehehehehe.
Spider-man: Listen, whoever you are, no one can control the symbiotes, no
Doctor Octopus: I need not control the symbiotes Spider-man.
Spider-man: Doc Ock.
Doctor Octopus: We will work as one. It's a new world. Humanity needs the
skills that my technology will get them, symbiosis is the only way.
Spider-man: I should've known a reformed Doc Ock was too good to be true.
Doctor Octopus: A perfect world order. Those who cannot share my vision will
be crushed by it.
Venom: Speaking of crushed.
Spider-man: Huh?
Venom: It's show time freaks. Oooh I smell bad symbiote and it aint me.
Carnage: Bring it on grandpa.
Spider-man: Alone at last.
Doctor Octopus: Let us end this Spider-man.
Doctor Octopus: The end, this plan.
Spider-man: One down, one to go. I wonder how Venom's doing.
Venom: Arrrrrrr.
Spider-man: Eddie, are you alright? Talk to me, wake up Brock.
Venom: Look out Parker, behind you.
Spider-man: What'd you say?
Carnage: Ahahahahaha.
Spider-man: You are a born loser Cletus Cassidy. Like I told Mysterio, no
one can control the symbiotes, no one I've met anyway. Take a breather
Spidey, it's over. Well just another day in the life woah. What the? Is that
Spider-man: Move it, move it. Oh no Ock. After all that, it was the symbiote
that saved Ock. You've gotta be kidding. A perfect end to a perfect day. Huh,
what the?
Venom: Grab on.
Captain America: It's a good thing Black Cat gave me a call son.
Spider-man: Looks like just in time.
Venom: Hey Spidey, can you get us Captain America's autograph?
Spider-man: Oh brother.
Captain America: Punisher, do you have any threes?
Punisher: Go fish. So nice of you to join us for once Spidey.
Spider-man: Oh I'm sorry, I was out saving the world. Beating you guys at
cards out of be pretty easy.
DareDevil: Your spider sense won't save you here.
Punisher: Look who's talking DareDevil, you've been looking at my cards all
DareDevil: I don't need to look at your cards Punisher, your bluffs are so
Captain America: Okay, Okay, let's keep this a nice friendly clean game.
Punisher: Uh, who keeps inviting this guy?
Spider-man: Hey will you guys keep it down?
Human Torch: Hey loosen up kids, I'm on fire.
Scorpion: Wait, hold on, time out. All of you guys were working together and
you still couldn't take down Spider-man?
Mysterio: Ha it's not my fault. Doc Ock's plan was horrible, everyone knows
you can't control the symbiotes.
Rhino: Hey wait, so I'm a Rhino, You're a Scorpion, and he's an Octopus.
What's a Mysterio?
Scorpion: So Rhino, you got any threes?
Rhino: Uh hey hey I got a bingo. Haha, you guys think you're so smart but I
won. Ha who's your daddy, Doc Ock? Hahaha victory is mine. You're always
laughing at me but who's crying now, huh? Wait a minute, I made a mistake.
This file is Copyright 2007 Uman Shahzad. It is not to be posted in other
sites without permission. It is not to be sold at price. It is only to be
used for personal use such as reading it to help yourself. If you would
like this to be on your site, then you must e-mail me at
[email protected] and I will give you a response to whether you may,
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Question from colepatrick
Asked: 6 years ago
where can I find the fifth heart pillar?
Where can I find the fifth heart pillar in flipside?
Top Voted Answer
From: _Colonel20100_ 6 years ago
You need to go to the first floor of Flipside (where Saffron lives, the cook who made the dish to wake up Peach), and go all the way to the end. There, you should see a crack in the wall. Blow it up, flip, and go through to the back alley of Flipside.
Here, keep walking down until you see (at the centre) a mark for you to use Fleep. A block should appear, hit it. This will open another way for Mario to flip and walkthrough. At the end of this, there's a building. Enter it and find multiple coloured blocks, hit them from left to right.
1 - > 2 - > 3 - > 4 - > 5 - > 6, etc
Just go from left to right.
This will open ANOTHER place for Mario to flip and go through. Exit the building on this side and flip and walk down 'til you're in Flopside. It's like the opposite of Flipside, and the Heart Pillar is on the third floor!
Hope this helps, and I hope my memory serves me right on the details. ^_^
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You can't find it in Flipside.You have to flip-flop. To access Flopside go to the ground floor of Flipside (card shop and kitchen floor) and go right. There's a crack in the wall that you have to destroy with Boomer. Flip and go through. Walk left until you see a lightning bolt shaped silver mark. Use Fleep. Flip and go through to the newfound building. There are 8 blocks. Hit every single one a ODD number of times. Doesn't matter of the order. You can even hit everyone of them once only. Go through the cracked mirror. Walk out the door and you'll notice the sadder music D=. Go out and act like as if your in Flipside(except reversed) and take the elevator up. Go to the flip-flopped area of the first Heart Pillar in Flipside.
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