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While not very common in most parts of the world, a roll cloud basically refers to a low, horizontal, tube-shaped, and relatively rare type of arcus cloud. They differ from shelf clouds by being completely detached from other cloud features. Continue reading for five more amazing things you probably didn't know about roll clouds.
5. Motion
The rolling motion happens because of winds changing speed and/or direction at the inversion - when the air temperature reverses from its usual state, resulting in warm air on top of cool air - along which the weather disturbance is traveling. "The 'shear' across the inversion sets up a rolling motion much like that of a rolling pin used in a bakery," said Stephen Corfidi, a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
4. Morning Glory
One of the most famous frequent occurrences is the Morning Glory cloud in Queensland, Australia, which can occur up to four out of ten days in October.
3. Cause
One of the main causes of the Morning Glory cloud is the mesoscale circulation associated with sea breezes that develop over the Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf of Carpentaria. However, similar features can be created by downdrafts from thunderstorms and are not exclusively associated with coastal regions.
2. Coastal
Coastal roll clouds have been seen in many places, including California, the English Channel, Shetland Islands, the North Sea coast, and costal regions of Australia.
1. Do Not Cause Storms
Their more commonly spotted cousin, shelf clouds, form on the leading edges of thunderstorms; while shelf clouds are attached to the bulk of a storm, roll clouds aren't. Tornadoes are also associated with storms, but they occur when thunderstorm updrafts tilt rotating air vertically. Unlike tornadoes, roll clouds aren't dangerous.
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An autonomous robotic flea has been developed that is capable of jumping nearly 30 times its height, thanks to what is arguably the world’s smallest rubber band.
Swarms of such robots could eventually be used to create networks of distributed sensors for detecting chemicals or for military-surveillance purposes, says Sarah Bergbreiter, an electrical engineer at University of California, Berkeley, who developed the robots.
The idea is that stretching a silicone rubber band just nine microns thick can enable these microrobotic devices to move by catapulting themselves into the air. Early tests show that the solar-powered bots can store enough energy to make a 7-millimeter robot jump 200 millimeters high.
This flealike ballistic jumping would enable these sensors to be mobile, covering relatively large distances and overcoming obstacles that would normally be a major problem for micrometer-sized bots, says Bergbreiter.
Such sensors could be scattered from a plane but may not land in the most ideal positions, so making them mobile could allow them to be repositioned, if somewhat haphazardly. “Distributed sensors in general give you the large picture,” Bergbreiter says. This is because they can provide a more detailed resolution over a larger area compared with more-traditional nondistributed approaches to sensing.
“With miniature robots, hopping is a good option if you’re trying to move over uneven terrains,” says Metin Sitti, an assistant professor at the nanorobotics lab at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh. “At that size, the critical issue is power, so it is a good choice to store energy,” he says.
The impressive jumping skills of insects such as fleas come from their ability to store energy in an elastomeric protein called resilin. This allows them to store a large amount of energy and then release it very suddenly as movement. But while insects store the energy through compressing an elastomer, Bergbreiter opted for a system that stretches one.
Working with Kris Pister as part of the Berkeley Smart Dust Project, which was set up to build distributed-sensor networks that can communicate over long distances using mesh networks, Bergbreiter aimed to give these kinds of sensors useful mobility. She created a tiny solar-cell array to power the device, a microcontroller to govern its behavior, and a series of micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) motors on a silicon substrate. The last were used as part of a ratcheting mechanism called inchworm motors, which draw two hooks apart as a means of stretching the rubber band.
Bergbreiter, in collaboration with the Smart Dust Project, created the rubber band by cutting a circular strip measuring just nine microns thick and two millimeters long out of a thin sheet of silicone using a very fine infrared laser. It was then hooked onto the robot’s stretching mechanism using nothing more than a pair of ultraprecision tweezers, a stereoscopic microscope, and a steady hand. This was a bit like playing the children’s game Operation, only harder, says Bergbreiter.
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1. Hello I have Windows 7 starter on my HP Mini Laptop
Suddenly I cannot:
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I attached how my pc looks when I click on things like firewall, system restore, system information etc.
Also, I often see corrupt disk notices and there was a notification on my desktop that said my WIndows version was unlicensed or something like that.
My Windows come up and I can get on the Internet with no problem, but the first thing that made me realize something was wrong was when I kept getting corrupt disk messages. Chrome corrupt disk etc.
What I have tried: I went to the tech support forum and took care of any malware problems AND I pressed F2 to run all the test and everything passed, hardware etc.
How could this be fixed?
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Hello there,
Download and install Advanced SystemCare 5 from IObit/MajorGeeks (free version), (sorry I can't provide any links, I'm on a cell phone) and run a Deep Care.
Otherwise, just contact the dealer who sold it to you, and tell them about the software counterfeit notif first. There are ways to circumvent this, but I unfortunately can't help you that way. Ask for a replacement, or a refund. Copy all your personal data to a USB Drive or any other storage device, wipe/shred your files from the laptop if you return it. You get the idea.
Here's what else you can do:
Right-click on C: Drive>Properties>Tools>Check Now in the Error Checking field.
Do the same for all drives.
I'll check Google for problems similar to yours. And their solutions. Meanwhile you do the same.
Good luck.
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Hard Drives: Quick Format vs. Full Format
Yes, there is a difference between the two.
All the years I've been formatting things (hard disk drives, floppy disks, USB flash drives, etc.) I've seen format and quick format options without knowing the difference.
I was glad to come across this article that explains the difference between the two types of formatting as it's one of those things that's been rattling around in my brain for years that I've been vaguely curious about but didn't take time to learn.
The big difference between the two types of formatting has to do with scanning the drive for bad sectors. A full format will scan the hard disk drive for bad sectors, a quick format will not.
Head on over to Extreme Tech to get additional interesting information and details.
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by Peteo on 20. November 2012 - 8:42 (102369)
A shame that poor, short ExtremeTech article was pointed to on this otherwise fantastic site (that I go to often for the great freeware info). Its full of misleading info, including from the time when it was written (2008).
That article uses limited info from the Windows XP (2001) & and prior eras. Its invalid to anything after XP and modern hardware using a file system other than FAT16/FAT32. As of 2007, Windows Vista was released. And as per formatting with Vista and everything afterwards (7, 8, Windows Server 2008, etc.), things have changed.
In "Change in the behavior of the format command in Windows Vista" is the following text: "By default in Windows Vista, the format command writes zeros to the whole disk when a full format is performed. In Windows XP and in earlier versions of the Windows operating system, the format command does not write zeros to the whole disk when a full format is performed."
In the XP link you posted as a followup to someone below, "the hard disk is scanned for bad sectors" with XP full formatting. But nothing is said about that for Vista+later full formatting.
Highly unlikely Vista+later also scans for bad sectors in addition to writing zeroes because...hard drives since XP was released do a much better job than in the past of automatically reallocating bad sectors themselves. Vista+later formatting facilitates this; if a bad sector error is detected by the drive during the writing of those zeroes, it will be reallocated.
That's also likely why full formatting isn't an option in Windows installs since Vista; its only available formatting inside the installed OS.
SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) in hard drives has been improved since XP. As per this circa-2003 article (also quoted in the Wikipedia page for SMART), "The latest SMART technology not only monitors hard drive activities but adds failure prevention by attempting to detect and repair sector errors. Also, whilst earlier versions of the technology only monitored hard drive activity for data that was retrieved by the operating system, this latest SMART tests all data and all sectors of a drive by using off-line data collection to confirm the drive’s health during periods of inactivity."
And a (PDF) paper more fully detailing each SMART iteration up to 2007; the latest released ATA standards are from 2008: (as you cannot direct link PDF files here, check the first link on Google searching with the following text: "HP SMART IV").
So hopefully people will move on from that outdated XP data. Once they are no longer using XP or earlier Windows OSes and are using circa-2003 & newer hard drives (with SMART version 3 or later), of course.
by bob Cat (not verified) on 6. May 2012 - 20:50 (93139)
I agree that a quick format is normally sufficent, however I have encountered problems installing Windows 7 that could only be repaired by doing a full 2hr format. I had to use an old Windows XP disk because Widows 7 does not have this option if you boot from the DVD.
The hard drive in question was damaged by a catastrophic blue screen, which dumped the MFT and left the computer unable to boot, even in safe mode, and left the hard drive unable to accept any new Windows install using a standard 'quick' format option on the Windows 7 boot install. Did a full format using XP, problem solved completely!
Full format is still required in certain circumstances, so it's a mystery to me why it's no longer an option on a Windows 7 boot from disk install.
by rhiannon on 7. May 2012 - 20:46 (93185)
@bob Cat; Good points. I've wondered why full format isn't an option in Windows 7 disk install too.
by Feliciano (not verified) on 15. February 2012 - 0:15 (88875)
There is a difference between full and quick format.
A quick format is like putting a white sheet over a dirty table. You can eat on the table and not notice the dirt. But the dirt is still underneath.
A full format is like taking a bucket of soap and water, and washing the dirt off the table. The dirt is really gone.
In practical terms, I used to do quick formats whenever I needed to reinstall my operating system (whether it was Windows XP, Windows 7, or Ubuntu.) I loved it because it was so quick.
HOWEVER (and this is a big one), I often encountered problems right after installing. BIG problems. Like the computer crashing, or not being able to boot an operating system. And I'm talking about a modern, new, expensive laptop that otherwise created no trouble.
When I formatted the hard disks with a full format, and then installed the OS, I would have no problems whatsoever after that.
So if it's something important, like really wiping the disk clean before selling your PC, or reinstalling an operating system, I would recommend you don't take any chances and have patience for an hour (or two, or three), while the PC does a full format.
If it's something not so important (like formatting an external hard disk, or a hard disk on the computer which doesn't contain an operating system, or formatting a USB flash disk), then you can go for the quick format, because the chances of something going wrong if there's no OS on the disk are minimal.
Hope that helped.
by Darshan (not verified) on 10. November 2012 - 4:57 (102099)
clear my all doubts after reading this artical.
by davwar on 23. August 2011 - 8:23 (78188)
On a slight tangent:
I regularly replace my OS partition with a backed-up partition image - a clean copy of XP.
I'm guessing that this action would over-write any record of bad sectors from a full format??
After completing the restore, I can run "chkdsk /r" to seek out any bad sectors.
Is there anything else that I should do for the health of the partition after a restore??
by Johnny Platter (not verified) on 22. August 2011 - 10:41 (78141)
Come along gardner old boy, bring us up to speed with these new-fangled hyper-discs that no longer need full formatting?
You're not confusing HDDs with Etcha-Sketch, perchance? (Think "Dilbert's P.H.M." rebooting his laptop).
De-gaussing! Now that was a good way of getting a HDD ready for formatting, back in the day.
by Ebony on 21. August 2011 - 15:47 (78091)
I am more confused now than before. Based on the comments below the article, a full format is useless. Are there other articles that address this same issue?
by rhiannon on 21. August 2011 - 19:06 (78104)
by Jorpho (not verified) on 21. August 2011 - 17:49 (78100)
I agree, this is a rather terrible article. It keeps hopping back and forth between "a Quick format is just like a Full format but without scanning the disk for bad sectors" and "a Full format rebuilds the file structures but a Quick format does not". D minus.
by Anonymous56895168 (not verified) on 21. August 2011 - 17:27 (78098)
The article is not too well written and throws around some terms in vague fashion. For example a quote: "format removes files from the partition". What a format does is remove entries in the file tables, the directions you computer uses to locate a file. But the file itself, your personal data such as account names and numbers, are left intact on the disk. A determined individual with the right software can find read your personal data even thought you had "formatted" the disk.
Think of a book where someone has torn out the index and table of contents pages. It would be very difficult to find something. But the information, like the data on the disk drive, is still there if you want to really search for it.
by TBubba (not verified) on 21. August 2011 - 17:09 (78096)
The comment on that page about SMART aren't quite right. How about an analogy? Imagine a library with hundreds of shelves, all containing dry erase boards instead of books. You also have a card catalog, also dry erase. A quick format just wipes off the card catalog, presenting the impression of an empty library. A full format actually looks at the card catalog and the shelves, erasing everything - and notes any damaged dry erase boards in the library. So, a full format is still valid and important if you want to know if the "library" has any damage - missing shelves, broken white boards, whatever. If you trust the library is in great shape, a quick format is fine. Generally, use a full format if: it has been over two years since the last full format (playing it safe), the drive being formatted is new to you (making sure you're starting out with a good drive), you've had/suspect hard drive issues (looking for problems), or your data is very important to you (playing it safe).
by Mike Feury (not verified) on 21. August 2011 - 17:07 (78095)
The article is from 2008, the comments are from the last few days. So the comments are more relevant for new disks.
Full format is mostly useful these days for making sure the disk is clean. Even new disks from reputable manufacturers have on rare occasions shipped with malware, never mind one from eBay, your local computer shop, or a friend.
If you usually build your own computers, and get your hands on a system manufacturer's machine [eg Dell], it may be a good idea to do a full format to get rid of all the pre-installed junk. A quick format 'might' do the trick, I'm not familiar with if/how manufacturers hide their stuff.
With a new disk, I do a full format. The main reason is that it means I can eliminate disk problems as a possible variable in future troubleshooting. That makes it worth my while to let it chug overnight once-off.
by rhiannon on 21. August 2011 - 19:14 (78105)
@Mike Feury; Formatting a hard disk drive if the computer is from a manufacturer such Dell, HP, etc. may void the warranty (unless you call tech support and that's what they tell you to do if you have a problem).
This program does a decent job of removing pre-installed programs:
Crappy PC No More! | The PC Decrapifier
If you want to uninstall trial programs (usually anti-virus, though others are common) I use Revo Uninstaller which now comes in a handy portable version. :-)
by gardner (not verified) on 21. August 2011 - 15:13 (78089)
Full format no longer required with today's hard drives. I suggest you research your material further in the future.
This is a good example of the credo "Don't believe everything you read on the internet".
by Anonymous666 (not verified) on 22. August 2011 - 11:42 (78143)
You sir have no idea what you're talking about.
by Doubter (not verified) on 21. August 2011 - 16:07 (78093)
Enlighten the unwashed masses here why full format is no longer necessary?
I had a brand new WD 1TB Caviar Black hard drive that was having problems in a new computer installing Windows7 on it. After doing a full format on it the problem was fixed.
by Vant (not verified) on 21. August 2011 - 12:46 (78084)
Bravo rhiannon;
Another "great", "informative" and "must keep" article.
Thank you
by rhiannon on 21. August 2011 - 21:14 (78110)
Thanks Vant. :)
by CJ (not verified) on 21. August 2011 - 12:41 (78083)
Erm, I got to say, the comments below the article at your link lead to additional food for questions on the same topic of full versus quick format.
by Jeff C (not verified) on 5. August 2011 - 18:08 (76986)
holy cow... were you watching me last night? I just installed a new hard drive and was looking up this exact question! Kinda creepy to see this today.
by Nora (not verified) on 21. August 2011 - 9:59 (78077)
..we all have the occasional thoughty, you know.
by rhiannon on 6. August 2011 - 1:21 (77001)
Jeff; Noooooo, I wasn't watching, but I can tell you that this has happened before - somebody needs something and a post from Tech Treats drops in their Inbox with just what they needed at the moment. Coincidence? Synchronicity? I have no idea. :) Rhiannon
by Rui Sousa (not verified) on 5. August 2011 - 8:31 (76953)
Along with the bad-sectors Scan comes the hard weight of TIME.
That's why they call the other way "quick".
Regards, Rui Sousa
by rhiannon on 5. August 2011 - 16:56 (76984)
Rui; You're right, it takes a looooong time to do a full format.
by Rich (not verified) on 5. August 2011 - 0:38 (76938)
Uh..... years?? Are you serious? The first time I encountered the "quick" option, I had to know what the difference was. That was back in like, oh... 1987-8.
by CJ (not verified) on 21. August 2011 - 12:29 (78081)
Oi, Rich, I see your point, but in my case, from the git go, 'quick' was all I needed. I instantly knew where to click and never gave a second thought to the difference. Until today. Thanks, Rhiannon. Will put on Fleetwood Mac in your honor.
by rhiannon on 21. August 2011 - 21:12 (78109)
@CJ; :-) Glad you found it useful.
by rhiannon on 5. August 2011 - 16:53 (76982)
Rich; Yep, years. 1988-9. Hardware wasn't something I thought about or did anything with then. :)
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Jun 3 2013: i don't have a ps3, but i saw reviews and video footage. everyone that tried had an emotional blast and long lasting impression of loneliness, decay, sadness, joy of meeting someone, grieve of losing someone, and such things.
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Its a prime example of what Indie Games are doing for the game industry... If a game could be considered Art it will probably be an Indie game....
and while I haven't played it myself, I have sat behind friends while they played it and found my self mesmerized by the styling and soundscape. It is a beautiful experience....
Another surreal game is a bit more mainstream but if you ever play it or watch someone play it "Katherine" is an amazing game that has a lot of meaning and symbolism mixed into what is essentially a puzzle game... but the way the game plays, the ambiance, the pacing; it leaves your deeply engaged and present as the game unfolds..... If you don't feel like you're going crazy by the end of Katherine you probably were't playing Katherine...
• Jun 5 2013: Just like films, books and music, video games are starting to get the same categoric division. One end would be the purely entertaining games like Warcraft etc. and the other end would be games like Journey and others which have a deeper dimension.
I saw a playthrough of Journey on YouTube, it's about 1:30h and it's amazing. The design, the music and the unbelievably emotional aspect of meeting an anonymous companion along the way are clearly an example of how video games can be channeled to present a whole new kind of interactive artistic expression.
One other game I would point out to is Planescape: Torment. I was very young when I played it but I still remember how fantastic and complex the story was. Ultimately it was a fantasy game but it raised philosophical, moral and ethical issues, relations and self-reflection posing a very interesting question "What can change the nature of a man?" The end was almost reminiscent to that of a Greek tragedy and I highly recomend it to everyone. The story was of course acompanied with amazing visuals for that time and very, very creative ambient and setting (though taken from D&D it was brilliantly adapted and brought to life).
In a few years I honestly expect to find masterpieces of art among games that don't focus on entertainment but rather on a more complex form of expression much like films, which will integrate a multitude of disciplines such as direction, visual design, interaction design, camerawork and writting.
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Everyone has it. It's a natural 'instinct' that we've had since we were born. Love. We're born with that delicate innocence, no knowledge of all the hate in this world. We're a clean slate. A clean soul. All we know is love and happiness...except for the occasional unhappiness of a messy diaper. Other than that...Angel kissed innocence.
As years pass, we learn things. How to walk, how to talk, how to sing our ABC's and 123's. We also start to get a sense of who we are. Who the people are around us...And as that happens, our innocence starts to fade. Not even fade--It's like it's brutally ripped away from us, and we're forced to accept the cruelness around us as we are introduced to new things.
We're introduced to a whole new world full of hurting. We meet Hate. Opinion. Judgement. Lies. Jealousy. Discrimination. People...
The same people who used to be blessed with that angel kissed innocence are the same ones who turn into beasts. Ripping you into pieces. Leaving you confused wondering--"What the hell happened?" Life. Life happened.
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I've always wondered what happened when you've given all of the love that the monsters in this world left you with. What happens when that angel kissed innocence is dead and gone...
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In this scene, Jonny has escaped his Memphis hotel room at night to hang out at his nightclub with his opening band, the Latchkeys—twenty-something indie rockers testing the major-label waters—and their charismatic front man, Zack. Along with them are four of the Latchkeys' female fans.
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"Ginger ale," I told him. All soda is crap for the vocal cords, but ginger ale has a little less sugar and doesn't cause as much mucus production. I couldn't ask for diet in front of everyone, though.
"Ginger ale on the rocks," Zack ordered, which is what I was going to say from now on. He whispered something else to Irena before she went off. When she came back with our drinks and was handing out the last one to Zack, the DJ kicked into the Latchkeys song "Frog-Legs Franny." I caught Irena smiling at Zack, and I figured he'd requested it, to impress the girls, but they were already impressed, so maybe he just wanted it anyway. "Well, that's embarrassing," Zack said after Irena left. By now a bunch of people in our section were looking over at us, mostly at me and Zack.
The Latchkeys talked about books and movies and musicians I hadn't heard of. They all had opinions on everything and used words like aesthetic and ideology and polemic. Maybe I knew more about slave autobiographies than them, but that was it. I thought about asking if they'd read The Confessions of Nat Turner, which was the best one I'd read so far, because it was short but also it has the most action and Nat Turner kills a bunch of white people just with a small sword, like he's in Zenon, except he says he wants to slay his enemies with their own weapons, which in Zenon would mean stealing someone's weapon and using it against them, and I don't think the game actually lets you do that since you can't inspect an enemy's inventory until he's dead. They wouldn't know about Zenon, though, so I stayed quiet. The girls didn't say as much except for Vanessa, who used those kinds of words and argued with them all, especially Zack. Making smart music got you smart groupies who understood what you were doing with your sound, even if it meant a smaller overall base. I had fans who'd never even heard of MJ.
They were discussing the one movie I had seen, Back to the Future, and Zack was like, "It represents not merely a nostalgic desire to regress to the safety of adolescence, but to the conservative fifties, the notion that we only have to roll back the biological and temporal clocks and we'll be happier. It's a total by‑product of the anxieties of the cold war . . ."
The song that was playing switched into something familiar, and after a few bars I picked up that it was "Summa Fling," but a remixed club version I'd never heard before. It sounded decent, but it cut down my lyrics to the words "Summa fling, two-month thing, I wanna sing to my summa fling," and overlaid a lot of other beats not in the original song. My producer for that album, Charles, had the philosophy that the music had to hook the listener but the vocals were what kept them there, and when you had someone with my vocal strength, you didn't mess around with overproduced songs. We probably got a good royalty rate for the sampling. Jane watches that stuff like a hawk.
"This one of yours?" Zack asked me, and he gave me a little wink no one else could see so I knew he'd requested it from Irena. I said it was, and he said it was cool and told the other Latchkeys they should do their own remix about briefly dating the valedictorian of summer school called "Summa Cum Laude Fling," and took Vanessa's hand and danced with her. A ton of people in the crowd were dancing, too, and even if it was only like a quarter of my original, it somehow felt cooler to watch people here dancing to it while I drank ginger ale than it did when they danced at my concerts. Part of it was because the crowd was older and where we were, but the biggest reason was that Zack had requested the song, which meant he knew about the club remix already, and he was dancing to it.
The one thing I didn't like about the remix was the original has a long fadeout, where I'm singing the chorus over and over for about thirty seconds, and what I like about fadeouts is how, after the song is over, it feels like it's still playing somewhere, only you can't hear it. It's a nice idea, that just because you're not listening to a song in front of you doesn't mean it doesn't exist somewhere else. It works even better for "Summa Fling," since it's like, Even this two-month relationship is going on in some way, that's why I'm singing about it forever. The remix had a hard stop. You know a song is over then.
They ordered a second round of drinks from a new waitress, and Zack asked for a double rye. When it came, he said, "Jonny, let me get some of your ginger ale?" I handed it to him, and he brought it down below the coffee table with his rye and poured half his drink into mine. He passed it back to me without looking.
The drink smelled mostly like ginger ale, but also like Jane's breath when she drank. I took a sip. It was sweet, but it stung my tongue like an arrow piercing your armor in Zenon and slid down my throat like a mage's fireball that caused some damage. But it got easier with each sip, until when I was halfway through Zack reached for my glass again and dumped in the rest of his drink. The fireball fell inside my stomach, but it was a relaxing fireball, and it spread out like a smoke cloak in Zenon for hiding yourself, and then it was like the damage was healing. What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger. Now I got why Jane does this. You don't worry about anything anymore. I could say something dumb that everyone knew about Back to the Future and not care how the Latchkeys reacted, like that I thought the coolest part was how different everyone's lives became in the future after one little thing changed in the past.
By the time I was almost done with my drink, Vanessa was sitting on Zack's lap on his chair and making out with him like in a music video. My vision was getting blurry, and I didn't have the energy to keep it straight, so I only saw their outline, and then I had this picture in my head of Zack sitting in an armchair like the one he was in, but it was in a home, in a real living room, and there was a fireplace behind him and he was reading the newspaper, and I went up to him as he patted his lap and I crawled onto it and sat there while he read the paper.
And the weirdest part was, I was getting hard. Probably it was because my eyes were sort of on Vanessa's legs where her skirt was riding up on her thighs and I could almost see her underwear, so I focused my eyes on her there and got harder and shut my eyes totally and put my drink on the table and thought about what Vanessa looked like naked and humping her.
Next thing I knew, someone was shaking me awake. It was Vanessa. "Wake up, sleepy boy," she said, almost like Jane singing, "Go to sleepy, little baby."
I don't know how long I was out for, but it was way worse than waking up early from zolpidem. The Latchkeys and the girls were all getting their stuff together and leaving. The nightclub was still pretty packed, though not as much as before. I swung my feet onto the ground and wobbled back to a sitting position on the couch before Vanessa broke my fall backward with her arms. "Easy there, fella," she said. "Zack, help?"
Zack bent down right in front of me. His eyebrows looked concerned. A long lock of his hair touched my forehead. "You okay, little man?"
I made sure I wasn't going to fall again before I stood up. "I'm solid."
Zack gave me a fake punch on my cheek, lightly touching it with his knuckles, and said, "Cool. Walk out with me." He put his jacket and hat on me and his hand on my back again, but this time I think it was to make sure I didn't collapse or depart the realm.
We left through the secret passage from before and there was a long line for cabs, but Irena let us cut in front and told us to come back anytime. I went with Zack and Vanessa again. The cab ride seemed longer than the way there, since we were quieter and time always goes slower after you've left something than before you've arrived. Zack sat in the middle, and after a few minutes Vanessa leaned on his shoulder and fell asleep, and I got tired, too, and my head found its way onto his other shoulder, but I wasn't falling asleep and I didn't really want to be asleep, I just wanted to stay like that forever, smelling the cigarettes in his jacket I was wearing and his cologne me and him were both wearing and resting on his shoulder as we drove silently in the dark of a strange city.
We arrived at the hotel after the two other cabs. Zack and Vanessa took me up to my floor in the elevator. I was hoping we'd pretend to sneak around again, but I think they were too tired. They escorted me inside my room and took Zack's jacket and hat off me. "Change into pajamas," Zack said. "You don't want your mom asking why you're still in your clothes."
While I changed in the bathroom, I was hoping Zack and Vanessa would say they were so tired, could they just crash on my couch? And I'd be like, "Yeah, I don't really like my bed and I kind of want to sleep on the couch, too," so I'd go on one of the couches and they'd take the other two, and we'd have a sleepover like I used to have with Michael and maybe even make a cushion fort. I changed my clothes super-fast so I could tell them they could crash there if they wanted, in case they were afraid to ask.
But when I came out, they weren't in the living room. "Zack?" I called.
They weren't in the bedroom, either. I guess they wanted a real bed. I got under the covers. It had that feeling of being too big, like it was an ocean and I was a stone someone skipped in it, where you watch it carefully at first to count how many times it skips, and then it sinks, and you pick up the next stone and forget about the last one.
Related: Talking To Teddy Wayne About The Difference Between Fiction And Humor Writing and My Three-Month Facebook Dialogue With A Scammer From Malaysia Pretending To Be A Beautiful Woman
Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels The Love Song of Jonny Valentine and Kapitoil, for which he won a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award. On Twitter, follow either him or Jonny Valentine.
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Internet Lady Says It's Your Fault For Reading Internet
"There are no captive audiences on the Internet. Whereas discussing your sex life at the Thanksgiving dinner table may be TMI for Grandma, discussing your sex life online does not necessitate Grandma’s participation. If you follow someone on Twitter and you find that her tweets are too much for you, then you may unfollow her. If you continually recoil at TMI, it's because you lack the willpower to stop consuming (or foresight to avoid) the information in question. That’s your fault."
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January 29, 2011
A Students = Academics; C Students = Billionaires?
Posted by Usha Rodrigues
So apparently there was a session at Davos' World Economic Forum that pitted Larry Summers against Amy Chua, Tiger Mom. No, I am not making this up
Summers remarked: “It is not entirely clear that your veneration of traditional academic achievement is exactly well placed. Which two freshmen at Harvard have arguably been most transformative of the world in the last 25 years? You can make a reasonable case for Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, neither of whom graduated.”
From the WSJ: "The A, B and C alums at Harvard in fact could be broadly characterized thus, [Summers] said: The A students became academics, B students spent their time trying to get their children into the university as legacies, and the C students—the ones who had made the money—sat on the fund-raising committee."
This split may be true at Harvard. Do you, dear readers, think it's true for law school? My gut says no. Clearly the A students are more likely to choose the ivory tower, but my sense is that many of them go on to make the big bucks in law firms, investment banks, etc. The B students also often end up with large paychecks, but the C students are not as prosperous. Am I wrong?
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WOM 620
Internet recipe search: seasons' eatings
Examining when certain recipes are popularly searched for on the internet reveals some interesting habits and some predictable panics. Oliver Thring reports
Wheel of hunger
The 'wheel of hunger' shows the most searched-for recipes for each day of the year. See the full size version at Duncan Bloor's blog, Search insights. Illustration: Adam Hinks
The response to last week's post on the best and worst recipe websites and blogs was a reminder of this corner of the internet's astounding diversity. This week we're looking at people's search habits, starting with the graphic above conceived by Duncan Bloor and designed by Adam Hinks. It's called the Wheel of Hunger, and it shows the 20 most common food searches that Brits make across the internet, month by month.
If you want to look at it properly, you might be best downloading it so you can zoom in. The title isn't great: the name seems to imply more serious forms of hunger than are in fact intended. But the idea behind the wheel is brilliant, as are the content and design.
The results are revealing, amusing and rather lovely. You trace the thoughts people are having about food throughout the year, from the guilt-riddled "healthy recipes" (the second most popular search term in January), "Mother's Day recipes" (most popular in March), the elderflower cordials and Pimm's of June and the soup dishes of September, until you get to mince pies and mulled wine in the month you'd most expect them.
It may be a symptom of Americanisation that, at this time of year, the three food terms the British are searching for most are pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie and "Halloween recipes". But I love that the fourth most-popular search in October is "Christmas cake recipe": we're perhaps more organised than we claim for ourselves. By the start of November, Christmas cake will be the number one term, followed by chilli con carne – as perfect a November dish as any I can think of.
Even better are the little clues the wheel offers about the workings of people's minds: what their searching says about them. February is top-heavy with inevitable pancake stuff, but then it segues into something rather more revealing. You can almost see the once-a-year cooks Googling "starter recipes", "Valentine recipes" and "dessert recipe". And I also love the wheel's steady cycle from lean times to fat and back again: the parsimonious promises of the new year, the sod-it-all bread and butter puddings of March, the beach-body-focused "low fat recipes" of April, through to the stews and toads-in-the-hole (toads-in-holes?) of late autumn.
Some of the results are frankly bizarre. Why is banoffee pie the second most-popular search in March? Why is special fried rice the third most-popular of April? Can "courgette recipes" really be the most searched-for food in July, followed by marrows?
Of course, the Guardian food pages have their own search, powered by What Could I Cook?. The three all-time favourite ingredients here, by some margin, are cheese, eggs and chicken. Among the dishes it's cake, soup and – intriguingly – cucumber soup, which come ahead of bread, curry, risotto and salad. Without month-by-month data I can't test whether the Guardian search matches the Wheel of Hunger, but there are few surprises on the list.
And this brings me to the last thing I'd like to mention. We've been proselytised for about a decade now about the virtues of seasonality, about the tasteless, wasteful folly of green beans in January and year-round asparagus. Much of this made sense. But those who have so fiercely promoted this seasonal mantra sometimes speak as if the British public had no idea if it was snowing outside or if it was weather for flip-flops.
In fact, the wheel shows we're a ruthlessly seasonal country, and probably always have been. We search for asparagus and hollandaise in May, we turn to shepherd's pie once the air chills and the days begin to shorten, we assuage the over-indulged soul with leek and potato soup in January. I've suspected it all along, but I'm glad to see it confirmed.
Do you find yourself searching for the same recipes year to year? Does your eating follow a sine wave of cakes to lettuce and back again? Or are you one of the people who does a panicky search for "starter recipes" at 9am on 14 February?
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Idpa ?
April 20, 2003, 03:09 AM
I encountered an interesting question today. My interpretation of the rules regarding IDPA reloads.
As I understand it the IDPA rules no ammo can be left on the ground. So if I shoot my gun until only one is left in the pipe then drop the mag, I am not leaving anything behind and shouldn't have to retain the mag. After all if the idea is to save rounds for later use what good is an empty mag?
However, my shooting companions seemed to think that if I did not shoot to slide lock then I couldn't drop the mag. What has been your experince?
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April 20, 2003, 07:17 AM
Your buds are right. There are only 3 legal reloads in IDPA; tactical reload, reload with retention, and slide-lock. I also think as long as you don't leave ammo behind it should be OK, but according to the rules, as written, it is not.
John Forsyth
April 20, 2003, 11:49 AM
That is correct. If you drop the mag and leave it with the slide forward, you just got three seconds added to your score if it's empty or not. The rationale is that you are not supposed to be counting rounds.
I did not make the rules, I just know what they are and follow them.
April 20, 2003, 04:45 PM
Actually, my understanding is if you accidentally drop the mag with one left in the pipe, you can avoid the procedural if you rack the slide prior to shooting. This is slower than a slide lock reload, though.
John Forsyth
April 20, 2003, 08:20 PM
For those who pistol does not lock back after the last round, of which I have one that does it with certain magazines, if you drop the empty mag insert a fresh one and rack the slide to pick up a round, you will not be assessed a precedural. If you rack the slide and a fresh round comes out, you may or may not get one, it's up to the SO. At least I will not give you one. You will also not be assessed a procedural leaving ammo behind due to a clearance from a malfunction.
April 21, 2003, 12:02 AM
If that is the case then I take it back the "get shot in the head while I fumble with this stupid mag" reload is not the dumbest rule in IDPA.
Saving a spent mag is dumber.
I read the rules and saw the three types of reloads but later on it goes into the need to retain a partially spent mag. It never says to retain an empty mag, that is where the confusion comes from. Oh well I guess I just need to shoot to slidelock more often. Nothing I like better than running my gun dry.
This game needs to seriously rethink its reloading rules. Just because Bill Wilson hates IPSC doesn't mean you need to throw the baby out with the bath.
April 21, 2003, 04:19 AM
As with all things IDPA it comes down to whether something happens accidentally or trying to out-game the stage designer.
If I were SO'ing and I thought it was intentional, as in trying to hit the reload while changing targets and gives an advantage, then I'm giving them a procedural.
April 21, 2003, 03:27 PM
This is addressed in the LGB(little green book) at the bottom of page 3 ...
"There are NO provisions for a slide down (speed load) in IDPA shooting. All reloads must be either made from slide-lock OR be of the tactical-load/mag change with retention type. A shooter is deemed "loaded" and may move from a position of cover ONLY when the magazine is fully seated and the slide is closed or revolver cylinder is closed"
Additional Point: The retained mag must be stowed prior to next shot...
May 2, 2003, 01:13 AM
I would comment on this but I have to shoot with Faustulus and John Forsyth. I shot IDPA with a good group of people so I try to over look the things I find the opposite of tactical:banghead:
Any day out shooting is a good day right!
May 2, 2003, 02:18 AM
If you shoot IDPA to learn tactics and subsequently find yourself in a gunfight, you may very well prevail, but it's not the best training ground for such a situation.
If you treat IDPA as an opportunity to practice gunhandling under pressure, and apply correct non-game training techniques to solving real world problems, your odds will probably be much better.
Personally shoot IDPA, IPSC, and enjoy the opportunities these games give me to improve my gunhandling skills.
However, I've trained at Gunsite and have learned what to discard with respect to these activities. I feel that forcing one to shoot to slidelock through artificial downloading ranks high among "dumb ideas" but the rules of the game are there for all to see.
May 2, 2003, 03:25 AM
you know I don't think any of the rules would bother me if it weren't for some people who insist that this is the 'way they do it in real life'
May 2, 2003, 04:43 AM
Do it the way you'd do it in 'real life'.
Maybe you won't 'win' the 'game'..........
Think (while 'playing') "how would I do THIS if it were in defense of my family?"
May 11, 2003, 02:04 AM
Got my blood pressure up several times. Strictly following the rules of IDPA could get you killed on the street. Following the rules of real world survival in IDPA will likely get you Procedural penalties. Yes I'm an SO.
IDPA is a game. Games have rules. Follow the rules and have fun.
Years ago, the ref had to touch the ball after a basket was scored before the other team could throw it in bounds. I thought that was the stupidest thing in the game. Now here we are a few years down the road and that rule has gone away. Give it a little time.
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What Is the Best Substitute for a Dutch Oven?
Good Questions
Q: I am a graduate student, trying to survive on a graduate student budget, which means I don't have a whole lot of money to invest in really good cookware. I have been slowly adding nice things as I can afford them. One of the next things on my list will be a Dutch oven (probably Le Creuset), but until then I am having trouble adapting recipes requiring oven-safe pots, like Beef Stroganoff or Julia's Beef Bourguignon.
I have a CrockPot, and sometimes I will use the ceramic inside for things like No-Knead-Bread, and just cover it with foil, but I think it would be hard (and dangerous) to put it on the stove and use it like a pot. Any tips or suggestions?
Sent by Allison
Editor: Allison, well, before you write off Dutch ovens themselves, do check out some of the less expensive alternatives. Check out this post for some ideas.
As far as substitutes go, I would recommend a metal pot over a ceramic one. Do you have a 4-quart stockpot or soup pot? Use that, with the lid, or with foil over the top. Also check out more ideas here:
No-Knead Bread: Alternative to Dutch Ovens
Readers, what other advice do you have?
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WTAP - Entertainment
Entertainment News
This is a super day for getting on with your work. You're in exactly the right mood for it, especially if you're writing letters, making phone calls or attending meetings. This is also a good opportunity for getting to know a colleague or customer better, so maybe you should ask them out for a drink or get chatting to them over the photocopier.
Keep your mind as active as possible today. You're interested in a wide range of ideas and activities right now, and want to devote as much time to them as possible. If there's a holiday or long journey coming up, this is a good opportunity to check that all the arrangements are still okay. You'll even be inspired to buy a guide book to your destination so you'll know more about it.
Turn your attention to your finances today, especially if you want to check that a project hasn't gone over-budget or you're currently devising a new fiscal strategy. If you're waiting for a payment, it's a good opportunity to chase it up, but you'll make more progress if you're polite and considerate than if you're heavy-handed or threatening.
This is a fantastic day for being spontaneous, especially if you're still feeling slightly rattled by what happened yesterday. So if someone suggests doing something on the spur of the moment, you'll be very tempted to say 'yes'. You might also be thrilled when you bump into the last person you were expecting to see.
Your work goes really well today and you'll enjoy feeling that you're in control of what you're doing. At some point you could have an interesting conversation with a colleague or client, especially if it brings you closer together. It's also a good day for discussing a health matter to someone who knows what they're talking about.
You shine in social settings today because you're feeling so friendly and outgoing. You'll manage to find something nice to say to everyone you meet, even if they're a complete stranger. You're also in the mood for some entertainment, so how about going to the theatre or cinema, or curling up at home with one of your favourite TV programs.
Your home life is looking really good today and you'll thoroughly enjoy being with your nearest and dearest whenever you get the chance. You might even decide to alter some of your arrangements so you can spend more time at home. It's a wonderful day for recharging your batteries in familiar and comforting settings, and you'll also enjoy a little time to yourself.
You'll be happiest today if you can keep switching from one activity to another to stop yourself getting bored. You need plenty of variety right now, especially if it arrives in the form of lively loved ones and lots of social events. If you don't have anything exciting planned, remedy the situation immediately otherwise you'll soon start to feel stale and fed up.
You make a point of getting on well with whoever happens to be around today, even if they aren't one of your favorites. It's a particularly good day for talking to people you respect and admire, and you could glean some valuable information from them in the course of your conversation. You're happy to learn from their wisdom right now.
You're pinned to your chair by what someone tells you today. This might happen when a certain person tells you a fascinating story, or you could be gripped by something you hear on the radio or TV. Listen carefully to what you're hearing because it could contain an important message for you, whether for now or in the future.
You're in the mood to spend some money today, especially if you do it on the spur of the moment. You'll enjoy the slightly reckless sensation, as well as the fun of buying things when you clap eyes on them. But, of course, this won't be such good news if it lands you in debt or leaves you out of pocket for something more important but less exciting.
A friend really brightens up your day today, especially if they suddenly appear out of the blue and mean that you have to change all your plans. Don't worry because this will be great fun, and the new arrangements will be much more enjoyable than the old ones. It's also a good day to take part in a group activity, although it will involve a few surprises or unexpected developments.
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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/04/ibm_sap_hana_appliances/
IBM rolls up SAP HANA appliance on SUSE Linux, x iron
Wiener schnitzel not included
By Timothy Prickett Morgan
Posted in Servers, 4th October 2012 17:24 GMT
With the HANA in-memory database selling like hotcakes among SAP customers and the German software giant offloading the job of configuring and selling the hardware, IBM wants to get a piece of the action, and do so before HP, Dell, and others (excepting Oracle, which has its own appliances) snap up the business.
To that end, IBM has announced two HANA appliances based on its System x series of rack-mounted x86 servers, which are tooled up with a special version of SUSE Linux as well as a single-node implementation of IBM's own General Parallel File System (GPFS), originally created for parallel supercomputers.
HANA is short for High-Performance Analytic Appliance (yeah, I know, that's actually HPAA, but you know marketing departments), and this is an in-memory data mart created by SAP before it bought Sybase to accelerate queries that would otherwise pester production ERP, SCM, and CRM systems and slow them down.
The first HANA appliance is based on the System x3690 X5 configured with two Intel Xeon E7-2870 processors running at 2.4GHz. The x3690 X5 is a 2U rack server and was announced in August 2010 with the eight-core "Nehalem-EX" Xeon 7500 processors and then updated a year later with the ten-core "Westmere-EX" Xeon E7 processors.
The EX line of Xeon chips are aimed at big, fat memory x86 machines, and in this case the E7-2800 models are designed to scale up to two sockets and 1TB of main memory across 32 memory slots in a 2U box. The Max5 memory expansion card, which has 32 memory slots and which allows you to push up to 2TB using regular 32GB memory sticks, is not certified to run HANA at the moment.
Despite the fact that HANA eats memory for breakfast (and wiener schnitzel for dinner), IBM is offering the HANA appliance based on the System x3960 X5 with either 128GB or 256GB in the base configurations. It seems likely that customers will be encouraged to add memory as they try to cram more data into memory to do analytics on it.
IBM seems content to tell customers to cluster HANA appliances together to scale them up, and has put ten of its eXFlash 1.8-inch solid state drives, which weigh in at 200GB, into the machine to boost the I/O performance of data moving into the main memory. The machine can support up to 24 eXFlash SSD bays if you want to stay all flash, and can handle up to 16 2.5-inch disks normally, but a bunch of those slots are used up for the ten flash drives.
IBM's HANA appliances: System x3690 X5 on top, System x3950 X5 on bottom
IBM's HANA appliances: System x3690 X5 on top,
System x3950 X5 on bottom
IBM is adding four 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and six Gigabit Ethernet ports to the box for connectivity to the outside world, and loading it up with SLES 11 for SAP Applications, a special version of SUSE Linux tuned for SAP workloads, as well as a single-node license to GPFS.
Both SLES and GPFS come with a three-year license and support contract on the box, which also has a three-year warranty. By the way, the box is rated at a total of 1,400 processor value units (PVUs) using IBM's performance-based software pricing scheme and the GPFS license that is sold on the HANA appliance is not portable or available on other machines.
The second HANA appliance that IBM has crafted is based on the fatter System x3950 X5 server, also based on the Westmere-EX processors from Intel. But in this case, the x3950 X5 is a 4U racker that can span up to eight sockets using the Xeon E7-8800 series of processors.
IBM is offering this HANA box with a base of two Xeon E7-8870 processors and 256GB of memory, and you can scale processors up in twosies with 256GB allocated to them until you reach an eight-socketeer with 1TB of memory. That E7-8870 runs at 2.4GHz and has 30MB of L3 cache, just like the E7-2870 above. The difference is that it can scale across sockets and costs a lot more.
The x3950 X5 HANA appliance gets loaded up with the same SLES, GPFS, and SAP software and has three-year licenses and warranties, too. And if customers want more memory, the box scales up to 2TB, and in this case, IBM is putting eight 900GB SAS drives in the machine and is not bringing up the eXFlash option.
You might want to see when SSDs are going to be available, because the one thing you don't want from an in-memory appliance is to have to restore the data if it hiccups from disk drives. You really need flash because of the high I/O rates it offers.
The two IBM HANA appliances ship on October 24. Pricing information was not available, but these being hefty boxes, expect proportional pricing. ®
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No, Neither Asians nor Blacks All Look Alike
Race Manners: Sorry, the problem's in your head, not in the faces of people of other races.
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Her conflict gets right to the heart of your confusion. How much responsibility should one have to take for a mistake made without any intent to harm? But what if that mistake sends a dismissive signal that people placed into the same racial group are interchangeable?
Well, my answer to "How much responsibility?" is "A lot." That's because the problem that caused the confusion most likely originated in your head, not in the "similar features" of the two Asian receptionists. But here's the good news: You don't have to make this type of mistake again.
Let me explain.
When you have a harder time recognizing or distinguishing between members of racial ethnic groups other than your own, what's at work is known as the "cross-race effect." It's been widely studied and researched around the world in contexts such as criminal justice, where it can really mess up eyewitness identifications.
The basic theory, introduced back in 1914, uses language about race that's a bit oversimplified for 2013 America. It assumes that we all have defined racial groups that are apparent to others and that we spend most of our time around other people from our own group. That's less true all the time. But just go with it for the sake of this explanation.
One cross-race effect theory on racial mix-ups is what's called the "experience-based" hypothesis: We find it easier to recognize and distinguish and remember faces of our "racial in-group" than we do "racial out-groups" simply because we see the in-group features more.
Then there's the related "coding" or "categorization" hypothesis: When we see a member of another race, our minds pay more attention to what makes the person an out-group member than to his or her individual features. We lose some of the distinguishing details in the process.
Kurt Hugenberg, a professor of psychology at Miami University who has spent much of his career studying stereotyping, prejudice and cross-race face identification, told The Root that this categorical thinking is a useful tool for the human mind in many cases, but "when you use these categories, they can make members of racial out-groups seem more similar than they actually are."
Hugenberg also pointed out that, although the way our society is set up means your "in-group" often shares your race, research shows that it's really defined by who you see most often every day, not how you see yourself or what you see in the mirror.
So, no, it's not the case that Asian people "really do have similar features," said Hugenberg, adding that "people who grew up among Asian people are quite good at distinguishing visibly among Asians." Just as most African Americans would avoid some of the celebrity slipups listed above.
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It would stand to reason that, in a democracy, a more educated populace will vote more responsibly, elect better leaders, and thus live in a better-run society. But it turns out that educating voters is hard and that, in many cases, showing them facts actually makes them less responsible in their political preferences and voting behavior. With misinformation and partisanship widespread in the U.S., facts can sometimes backfire. Here's what we'vee learned.
• Study Shows How Facts Backfire The Boston Globe's Joe Keohane reports, "Facts don't necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger. ... Instead of changing their minds to reflect the correct information, they can entrench themselves even deeper."
• Why It's Getting Worse Liberal blogger Digby posits, "It turns out that our brains are designed to create 'cognitive shortcuts' to cope with the rush of information which I'm guessing is more important than ever in this new age. I'm also guessing one of these cognitive shortcuts is trusting in certain tribal identification and shared 'worldview' to make things easier to sort out, which is why things are getting hyperpartisan and polarized in this time of information overload. ... We've seen the beginnings of a sophisticated manipulation of this effect during the Bush administration's experimentation with epistemic relativism."
• Is This Really a Problem? Liberal blogger Matthew Yglesias shrugs. "The good news and bad news is that democracy has never involved a well-informed citizenry reflecting on the issues of the day. I think the misinformation literature needs to be read in tandem with the research indicating that overall levels of political information are extremely low. Two thirds of Americans can't name any Supreme Court justices and only one perent can name all nine. The reason the system functions is that democratic accountability doesn't depend on voters knowing what they're talking about. Most people have strong partisan identities, and just vote for the same team. And swing voters' views are driven overwhelmingly by economic performance."
• Blame Human Neurology Joe Keohane explains, "Part of the answer lies in the way our brains are wired. Generally, people tend to seek consistency. There is a substantial body of psychological research showing that people tend to interpret information with an eye toward reinforcing their preexisting views."
• Kill Misinformation With Kindness Joe Keohane suggests one possible fix. "One avenue may involve self-esteem. [Lead researcher Brendan] Nyhan worked on one study in which he showed that people who were given a self-affirmation exercise were more likely to consider new information than people who had not. In other words, if you feel good about yourself, you'll listen -- and if you feel insecure or threatened, you won't. This would also explain why demagogues benefit from keeping people agitated. The more threatened people feel, the less likely they are to listen to dissenting opinions, and the more easily controlled they are."
• Can We Fix The Media? Joe Keohane doesn't think so. "If you increase the 'reputational costs' of peddling bad info, [Nyhan] suggests, you might discourage people from doing it so often. 'So if you go on 'Meet the Press' and you get hammered for saying something misleading, you'd think twice before you go and do it again.' Unfortunately, this shame-based solution may be as implausible as it is sensible. Fast-talking political pundits have ascended to the realm of highly lucrative popular entertainment, while professional fact-checking operations languish in the dungeons of wonkery."
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NATO: F-16 crashes in Afghanistan, killing pilot
KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO says an American F-16 fighter jet has crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing the U.S. pilot.
NATO said in a statement today that the cause of Wednesday's crash is still being investigated, but initial reporting indicates that there was “no insurgent activity in the area” when the plane went down.
The U.S.-led military coalition did not disclose where the plane crashed.
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Good deal, pop a cap in their sorry butt's & maybe some of these worthless junkies might start to think twice b4 taking what doesn't belong to them. When the punishment outweighs the crime then & only then will the criminals start to change their ways. This seems like a good start
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Combination wrenches haven’t changed much over the last 50 years, but with its revolutionary gear sprocket at the enclosed end of a wrench, GearWrench made spinning wrenches much, much easier to use. Much like the innovative original ratcheting wrench, GearWrench continues to evolve the hand tool world by creating the XL X-Beam wrench. What looks to be a simple twist of the steel handle reveals a clever design and better ergonomics upon closer examination. Gripping the wrench is much more comfortable than a traditional-style wrench, and the larger surface area of the grip provides more power and leverage. Fatigue is also reduced, evident by the ease-of-use commendation awarded to the X-Beam by the American Arthritis Foundation. A simple fip of the directional lever allows you to loosen or tighten a nut/bolt without removing the wrench from it—saving time and frustration. The XL in the title represents the 25 percent longer handle, again adding to the torque capabilities, but also allowing access to those hard-to-reach areas.
We tested the 12-piece metric set (PN: 85388), which features every metric size from 8 mm through 19 mm, and also included a plastic blow-molded storage case. Thanks to the wide range in sizes, you only need to buy one wrench set to perform most afermarket installs and home auto repairs. One of the frst things we noticed was the small indentation on the open-end jaw, which actually helped secure a solid grip on fasteners. The boxed end also gripped fasteners securely, thanks in part to GearWrench’s patented Surface Drive opening, which prevents rounding the edges of nuts and bolts and only needs as little as 5 degrees to turn. In our hands, the X-Beam was considerably more comf than our other wrenches, and the long handle enab tighten bolts down with impressive torque. With a s of $214.99, we found several websites selling the 12around $150, averaging out to just over $10 per wren technology and features, and what you have is an im point for wrenches with a lifetime warranty.
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This story is No. 1 in the series "Slayer Trek". You may wish to read the series introduction first.
Summary: Nearly a month after the events of Star Trek: First Contact, the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-E, is fully repaired, and it's ready to come back into service. But not all the Borg tech on board was removed...
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Chapter 8
Trek to the Hellmouth. Redux Edition
by Antonio Cabañas
Chapter Eight
Star Trek in all its incarnations and all related characters are property of Paramount Pictures. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and all related characters were created and are owned by Joss Whedon. Star Trek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation created by Gene Roddenberry. I created Tony Castro and the USS Corsair, other adventures of her can be found in my site (address in my profile)
Buffy to season 4, Angel to season 1, although due to the nature of the story there is some spoilers to later seasons. Star Trek to Star Trek: First Contact, and to Deep Space Nine season 5.
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Ana tied Toni tightly, and hid her in an abandoned alcove. Something bothered her, so she stepped back and looked to the other woman. Now she saw it. It was almost creepy to realize how the years had softened the physical differences between them. Some resemblance was to be expected due to her being created from Toni's DNA, but they were now practically twins.
'Not the weirdest thing that I have seen, but creepy as Hell' she thought. 'And I speak with first-hand knowledge'
She sighed, thinking back to the years that she had been in Hell, years of fighting almost non-stop until she found a portal back, even if it was a few years before she fell. But the years seemed to not have been easy on Toni either. When she had removed her clothes, she had seen that she had her own scars, and she could say that some of them had been caused from demons, looking at a nasty looking scar in her right arm.
She then went to examine the objects that Toni had. A tricorder, smaller and sleeker than the ones that she was used to, with some kind of multicolored touch interface, something that was probably a type-2 phaser, and an stylized Starfleet insignia. And every single one of them looked pretty much like the equipment from the future Starfleet ship that they had found here, now that she think about it. What the hell had happened after she had fallen into that dimensional crack?
She was going to leave, but hesitated. In the past she would have left her there, as she had been taught, nothing mattered except the mission. But now... after what she saw first hand what they did to people in Hell. No. She couldn't leave her like that, easy prey for any passing vampire or demon. She produced a vicious-looking knife, that she had got from one of the demons she had killed in Hell, and left it in her hands.
Borg Hive
The former laboratory had already been almost completely transformed into the site of the new Borg Hive.
"We have enough drones already for what we discussed earlier." Said Adam to the Queen. Of course they weren't physically talking, they were exchanging thoughts through the Hive Communication Matrix.
"I agree. The energy that the primitives denominate magic is similar to the energies of Particle 010." answered the Queen "We need to understand it, to be able to use it."
"Yes, and it'll be a delicious vengeance to see the face of the Slayer when she has to confront them." Said Adam, smirking.
"Vengeance is irrelevant." Said the Queen, nodding "But it's a welcome extra." And then she did an mirk of her own "And I'll show Locutus and Data what they have missed just before assimilating them"
Initiative Complex
Adam wasn't where she had left it.
'Figures. As if the Universe was going to give me a reprieve.' Thought Buffy
Captain Picard entered the small room and looked at the signs of fight in the room, and noticed that Buffy was looking at a certain point in the floor. A point where the fallen debris and pulverized concrete had left an empty space, which looked roughly human-shaped.
"I gather that this is where 'Adam' was." Said Picard
"Good thinking, captain Obvious." Answered Buffy, sarcastically.
Picard rolled up her eyes, not rising to the bait, and asked something that had been bothering him since they noticed that they were heading to the same place.
"Would you be able to track him through the sewers? Data says that our tricorders will lose effectively very quickly as we get closer to the Hellmouth."
"Maybe," said Buffy, grimacing , "but he knows what I can do and I suppose that the 'Queen' knows about yours."
"You can say that." He said, and grimacing in turn, remembering Locutus. But he thought that he could turn that against them. The Borg knew him, but that meant also that he knew the Borg. "But I know the Borg as well as they know me. If I were them, I would have left patrols on certain points to delay us and get an early warning. Also, I would have tried to assimilate as many people as possible while keeping a low profile, before going out in force. " Then he realized something. "Damn. How much did Adam knew about you and your people?"
"He had access to the Initiative files, so I think that pretty much everything. Why?..." then she realized what Picard had just thought "Oh, shit! Do you think that those cyber-zombies could try to attack them?"
"Yes. I only hope that we aren't too late." He said as he pressed a commbadge that he produced from a pocket in the jacket. "Picard to Enterprise"
Riker's answer was static filled, but still understandable, although barely.
"Riker here, captain. Some news?"
"No, but we think that the Borg could attack the allies and family of the Slayer. Ms. Summers?"
"Xander's parents are in Vegas, and Willow's are... out, I don't know where. So you only have to go to..." she gave her address, and Willow's and Xander's "Willow lives with her girlfriend, Tara."
"Did you hear, Number one?"
"Yes, sir... One moment..." Picard heard Will talking to Deanna in the background "Captain, Admiral Castro beamed down to find you. Apparently she thinks that there can be another hostile in the zone." Said Rike "An Augment, physically identical to the Admiral."
"What is an Augment?" interjected Buffy "Some kind of demon?"
"A genetically engineered human, with abilities nor unlike yours, miss Summers." Supplied Data
"Captain, Admiral Castro is here." Said Irina as she entered the room.
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Phantom of the Opera: ALW version: Organ player?
Ok, who's grinding out the organ part heard in the 25th anniversary edition at royal albert hall? I strongly suspect it was recorded most likely and just played back, heck it's probably the same from the original master back in '86... but who's the grinder anywho? They are a master that's for sure.
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look up any word, like fluffer:
"Fat Above Pussy Area"
The gelatinous fanny-pack residing just above the vaginal region, typically on a rather hefty female.
"How was Ms. Keyson last night?"
"Well, it's not that she was fat, she just had a little extra."
"Extra? Where?"
"Like, right above her pussy."
"Oh, you mean she had FAPA?"
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Fat Above-Penis Area. Also see fupa
That guy at the bus stop had a fapa bigger than most fupas.
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The pouch on a otherwise skinny girl between the top of her pussy and her belly-button.
"Stands for Fat Above Pussy Area"
I wanted to fuck the bitch but I became nauseous and ran once I saw that she had a FAPA.
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Fat around pussy area
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look up any word, like guncle:
1. One who takes being a total dick to a new level.
2. A way to describe how much a particular situation is unfortunate.
That guy just dude just snatched my two drunk ladies, what a major league dick.
Oh, you are going to fail your biology class? That MLD, bro.
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look up any word, like blumpkin:
A word used to discribe a younger white male with very female like man tits. when you call someone this you have to say it in a rap type way.
man mark is really a b to the o to the o to the b to the s to the l to the e to the g to the e boobslege.
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look up any word, like fellated:
godly good fucking game
1. The most intense form of gg, it is more significant than gfg, used to express godly ownage or something really fucking awesome.
guy1: omfg 100 kills 0 deaths on u noob lmao
guy2: stfu
guy1: GGFG
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At Ga port, river respirators to help fish breathe
— As government engineers work to keep the nation's fourth-busiest seaport from losing its competitive edge, they are also planning what amounts to a massive science project to ensure fish in the harbor can still breathe.
When the Savannah harbor is deepened to allow for supersized cargo ships, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to install a dozen machines that function like bubblers in a home aquarium to compensate for an expected drop in dissolved oxygen. The 20-foot-tall steel cones suck water from the river, swirl it with oxygen from a generator until the bubbles break down and then pump it back.
Buying and installing the machines costs a hefty $70 million, plus yearly operating costs of $1.2 million. And the manufacturer says they've never been used for a project of this scale.
The oxygen machines are a piece of the $653 million proposal to dredge the Savannah River shipping channel to the Port of Savannah, a project officials hope will win final approval later this year. East Coast seaports are scrambling to deepen their harbors to accommodate supersized cargo ships expected through an expanded Panama Canal in 2014.
Deeper water will mean less oxygen toward the river bottom for bacteria, worms, shrimp, crabs and fish. But some scientists aren't sure the machines will be able to boost low oxygen levels as planned along 27 miles of the river.
"It's like putting the river on a respirator," said Chris DeScherer, an attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center, which has sued on behalf of environmentalists who say the project would do irreparable harm.
The Army Corps of Engineers said in its final report on the harbor deepening this month that the Savannah River would lose relatively little dissolved oxygen overall. Still, it would dip below minimum standards set by Georgia and South Carolina, which share the river.
Pumping oxygen into water has been done since the 1960s, though usually in smaller bodies such as reservoirs and lakes, said Alexander Horne, an ecological engineer who has consulted on more than 20 projects to replenish oxygen in stressed waterways.
"It's like giving these systems an extra breath," said Horne, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. "If I were a fish, I would vote for it hands down."
Rivers tend to be shallower and more turbulent, making them better at mixing oxygen on their own. But some still need a mechanical boost. A 12-mile stretch of the San Joaquin River in northern California installed an oxygen injection station in 2007. The Thames River in London uses barges equipped with bubblers.
Rivers naturally take in oxygen from the air, and their flows help mix it down below the surface. The deeper the water, the harder it is to push oxygen to the bottom. That's especially true in the Savannah harbor, where the land is flat and motion is slowed by pushback from the ocean tides.
Oxygen levels in the harbor, which stretches 38 miles from the Atlantic Ocean to the port upstream from downtown Savannah, are already stressed by decades of dredging. The river was deepened five times between 1912 and 1994, nearly doubling its depth from 21.5 feet to 42 feet.
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This image released by Item 7 shows Rachel Mwanza in a scene from "War Witch." (AP Photo/Item 7)
— A grave 12-year-old African girl, abducted from her village by vicious armed rebels and forced to wage war as a child soldier, guides the viewer through the horrors of Canadian director Kim Nguyen's engrossing Oscar-nominated drama "War Witch." Managing to be neither sentimental nor sensationalistic, the film tells its story from the heart, and from the simple, straightforward viewpoint of young heroine Komona, warmly played by the talented Rachel Mwanza in her screen debut.
Certainly, watching a little girl live through events that far exceed most adults' nightmares is not easy, and only Komona's indomitable courage and will to survive make the journey bearable. As the off-screen narrator, she tells her unborn baby the story of how she became a child soldier. The real-life horrors she recounts fold into a smooth, dream-like screenplay that doesn't require a lot of on-screen blood and gore to describe what's going on. Despite its extreme cruelty, Komona's story is told with commendable delicacy and reserve, if those terms can be applied to such a tale, but in any case circumventing the usual voyeuristic, colonialist perspective.
The film was shot in the Democratic Republic of the Congo but the action takes place in an unnamed African country, where guerrilla forces lead by youthful warlords wage constant battle0 on government soldiers sent into the jungle to kill them. The rebels replenish their losses by raiding villages. When Great Tiger's rebels descend on the poor patched-together houses of a coastal village, they kill most of the inhabitants and force the terrified Komona to gun down her own parents; if she doesn't obey, they will kill them, painfully, with machetes. After performing the fateful act, she is proclaimed a rebel, thrown into a dugout canoe and taken deep into the jungle, under the guidance of a screeching male sorcerer who casts spells along the way.
Komona and the other kidnapped children are given huge Kalashnikovs and told, "Your gun is your mother and father." Scared to death and beaten mercilessly by the head soldier, she is given "magic milk," an intoxicant culled from white tree sap, to ease her pain and hunger. She is the only one who survives a government ambush, thanks to her eerie ability to see eyeless gray ghosts in the trees who warn her of the enemy's presence. Recognizing the usefulness of her gift, Great Tiger gives her an AK-47 with magic powers and names her his "war witch." It's a dangerous post, should her intuition fail her, but Komona seems confident of her macabre visions.
Her only friend in the group is an albino boy she calls Magician. The crack of rifles momentarily gives way to some personal happiness when they escape from their captors. They take shelter in the home of Magician's uncle, a butcher who has lost his family in a way so terrible, says Komona, it cannot be told. When Magician announces to the not unwilling girl he wants to marry her, she bargains for time by sending him in quest of a mythical white rooster. This part of the film allows a glimpse into "normal" life, which surreally seems to co-exist side by side with the terror in the jungle. The butcher even has a picture of assassinated Congolese independence leader and prime minister Patrice Lumumba, suggesting an overturned world of legality out there, somewhere. But the only reality the children know is the barrel of a gun and the sharp edge of a machete, and their nightmare is not yet over.
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PlayStation All-stars characters have all been revealed
Monday, 1st October 2012 05:17 GMT By Naren Hooson
Sid Shuman, senior social media specialist for Playstation Blog has stated that the full launch lineup of characters for PlayStation All-stars: Battle Royale has been revealed.
Thatvideogameblog say it expects there will be DLC characters following the launch of the game, but the current lineup is as follows:
1. Big Daddy (from BioShock)
2. Cole MacGrath (from inFamous)
3. Evil Cole MacGrath (from inFamous)
4. Colonel Radec (from Killzone 2)
5. Dante (from Devil May Cry)
6. Fat Princess (from…Fat Princess)
7. Heihachi Mishima (from Tekken)
8. Jak and Daxter (from Jak and Daxter)
9. Kratos (from God of War)
10. Nariko (from Heavenly Sword)
11. Nathan Drake (from Uncharted)
12. PaRappa the Rapper (from PaRappa the Rapper)
13. Raiden (from the Metal Gear sagas)
14. Ratchet and Clank (from Ratchet and Clank)
15. Sackboy (from LittleBigPlanet)
16. Sir Daniel Fortesque (from MediEvil)
17. Sly Cooper (from Sly Cooper)
18. Spike (from Ape Escape)
19. Sweet Tooth (from Twisted Metal)
20. Toro (Sony’s Japanese mascot!)
Purchasing the game for console will also give you a version for Vita, which will include all the same features and will run at 60 fps.
1. ssorc_bro
Disappointed by the obvious lack of a Final Fantasy character, Crash or Spyro, and Lara Croft even, seriously, some of the biggest franchises from the PS One era, best fix this post launch via dlc.
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2. DocCylon
@1 Yeah I most certainly disappointed by the lack of Crash. But for a launch lineup it’s still a good bunch.
#2 2 years ago
3. Pytox
Atvi owns the rights of Crash bandicoot :x
#3 2 years ago
4. Clupula
Discount bin it is, then.
#4 2 years ago
5. lexph3re
As long as they support it wih DLC i will still buy this game. The Beta has been a lot of fun with the 5-6 playables i dont mind having 14-15 more characters. Sweet Tooth is crazy fun
If i can get some Kat Dlc too i will be thrilled
#5 2 years ago
6. Ireland Michael
Translation: They took a bunch of characters out before release.
#6 2 years ago
7. viralshag
I will be surprised if this game sells well. I like Sony but I couldn’t care less for most of those characters.
Will be interesting to see how it does either way.
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Hyrule Historia is Amazon’s number one bestseller
Tuesday, 29th January 2013 04:51 GMT By Brenna Hillier
After 93 days in the top 100, The Legend of Zelda’s Hyrule Historia is in the top position on Amazon’s charts. In the UK it’s number five, but it’s only been in the charts for 39 days and is on the rise. A very limited edition of the 272 page artbook was announced in November.
Thanks, NintendoLife.
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Rotherham Workhouse and Hospital. Photograph courtesy of Rotherham Archives. Text by Marjie Bloy Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore.
The hospital complex is in the centre of the photograph. Most of the buildings are three storeys high and the original workhouse — the cruciform shaped building in the middle of the complex — is at the core of the hospital. The large building (bottom left) was Alma Road School.
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[Victorian Web Home —> Visual Arts —> Sculpture —> George Frederic Watts, RA]
George Frederic Watts, R.A., 1817-1904
33 inches
Watts Gallery, Compton
The unfinished marble version, which is now in the Guildhall Gallery, London, was exhibited at the 1868 Royal Academy. This bronze version was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, London, 1881-1882. [British Sculpture 1850-1914, p. 35.]
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The Refreshingly Amateurish New Hope City
The Refreshingly Amateurish <i>New Hope City</i>
Sue Kessler
Revenge of the skeezeballs
Are you ready to rarty? Well, grab two or swiez of your friends and trek out to Bushwick. There lies New Hope City, a multimedia concert-pageant-danceathon from Pass Kontrol. In case you're scratching your head: "rarty" might mean party; "swiez" is definitely a mystical number in the vicinity of π; and Pass Kontrol is one of Bushwick's favorite lo-fi, high-energy rock quartets. (The program will clue you in to their techno-mystic-futuristic Jabberwocky jive.)
The plot, insofar as it exists: In an unspecified future, mega-corporation Media Corps has founded a chain of urban centers. But on the outskirts, the skeezeballs and dudes persist. And three of them are hatching a plot to pump their music—and that of their favorite half-robot indie star—right into the heart of this shiny McMetropolis. If it needs spelling out, the message is: "We think Bushwick rocks. Now blow a raspberry toward Manhattan, flip Williamsburg the bird, and let's dance!"
New Hope City
By Pass Kontrol
The Bushwick Starr
207 Starr Street, Brooklyn
Refreshingly (and deliberately) amateurish, Pass Kontrol and their friends improvise their way through deadpan banter, drawling Spanglish, and a concert or two. It's pure attitude—but of an unpretentious, wide-eyed sort that just might leave you wishing dystopia would hurry up and get here.
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In the next few days, Frank will lose his job, become completely estranged from his young daughter, and be diagnosed with brain cancer. It's like a nihilistic parody of Akira Kurosawa's 1952 Ikiru, in which a fatally ill, unloved middle-age bureaucrat, played by Takashi Shimura, is forced to find meaning in what life he has left. Shimura's character exchanges a wasted life for selfless action, turning a cesspool into a public playground; Frank, however, decides to waste those responsible for the cesspool that America has become—starting with an ungrateful brat he sees on a program that's clearly based on MTV's My Super Sweet 16.
A veteran, Frank is a crack shot and quickly gains an admiring groupie in Roxy, a high school classmate of his first victim, who tags along to spur Frank into a program of cleansing cross-country killing, targeting members of a Westboro Baptist Church–type group, a bullying right-wing TV host, Tea Partiers, and even some nonpartisan assholes. (Lucky for Alice Cooper, they don't seem to recollect that he voted for Bush.) I cannot remember an American movie that has painted such a vulgar picture of the pop-culture landscape since Idiocracy or Ghost World—the latter of which also, curiously, revolved around the mutually revitalizing relationship between a middle-age male misanthrope and a teenage female version of same, though Frank is exceedingly careful to maintain decorum with the underaged Bonnie to his Clyde. ("So we're platonic spree-killers?" she asks, disappointed.)
The brief filmography of choke-voiced stand-up and God Bless America writer-director Goldthwait boasts some real black-comic accomplishments, including 1992's Shakes the Clown—a dirty-joke burlesque of the spiritual cost of life in the comedy industry—and 2009's World's Greatest Dad, with Robin Williams grappling over how to grieve the death of a son who hardly deserved grief.
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What World's Greatest Dad found in the friction between emotional and intellectual instincts, and what God Bless America lacks, is conflict. Goldthwait's latest doesn't interrogate Frank's warped decency or his conviction that "some folks just need killing" and offers no significant reason to second-guess him at any time. The interplay between Murray and Barr is closely and carefully handled, but when the monotonous squib-popping subsides, the movie is often static and talky, lapsing into criticism-hedging qualifications and anti-everything speechifying ("Nobody talks about anything anymore, they just regurgitate everything they see on TV"). From the film's blinkered POV, there is no such thing as an "innocent bystander," and no perspective is available outside of the all-enveloping disgust of Frank, Roxy, and their doting creator, who absolves their crimes while serving up paper targets and irreverent soundtrack cues.
Goldthwait must understand the irony of a protagonist condemning a society "where the weak are torn apart every week for our entertainment" and "nobody cares that they damage other people" in a movie that revels in the slaughter of the unarmed. And he must, understandably, have thought that any flinch might crack his film's deadpan. But what's less obvious is what this turkey shoot is meant to do, aside from providing a like-minded audience the vicarious cathartic thrill of watching a douchebag apocalypse—which Piranha 3D did with more élan and no self-righteousness. God Bless America adopts the scorched-earth moral certitude and guiltless body count of the "angry white male" Reagan-era action movie while turning the jingoistic politics inside out. It's such a carefully studied parody, you might think you're looking at the original.
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Nick... come on man... why don't you just say what we all are thinking... Tim Burton jumped the shark a long time ago. His movies are as predictable as President Obama's economic strategy, but Burton doesn't have someone he can keep laying the blame on because Depp is too popular.
You actually had to bring up a film that is almost 20 years old to give your readers hope that perhaps Tim Burton's career has a better chance of making a comeback than the Celtics.
In the end Burton would be best off having only Nanci Pelosi critique his films. This way he can thank her for telling everyone they need to see the movie in order to know whether it is good or not!
Still, I enjoyed your comments as did George W. Bush, and thanks to men like GWB and our current CIC we need better movies because it's one of the few ways we can escape the past 20 years of solidly bad leadership in our country!
UtahBubble... the name explains itself!
the BLACK CUBE OUTSIDE UNITED NATION'S is in evil sybolism represents saturn,satan.....,,a cube flying thru sky being chipped off ! to destroy earth is ther real plan ! not protect it..... absolon 2001 ''now you'll see the reality of nwo ! guy chained down....,city of lost children,join us help build new good earth ! with trailer with eye on it and triangle of nwo....occupy toronto thay did triangle hand signs.......chanting together... many fronts,many tricks..draco reptilin dinosaur dna pincture of the dragon.... head is rothchild or rokafeller...,,rothchild is head consultant to nigeria in united nation's.......
MARTIAL LAW IMMINENT ! in a film movie lots are owned by illumanti 4 banks,read weishapt illumanti evil manifesto....,evil triangle in this film,the video miss's out the film title....thats not good.......,but alan wats voice over radio on it,is an evil so calle truther,but actually an evil kabalist....,maddona his kabalist,,, there are 9 circles in a network luciferian.......
Ok...did someone forget their meds?
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Ayn Marx 666
Writing that sort of thing *is* their meds.
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Flying Piece of Metal Almost Smites Hunky Vampire
Yesterday on the clearly out-of-control set of Twilight 2: Twice Shy, the dreamy, well-coiffed, hunktastic piece of man meat that is Robert Pattinson was injured when a gust of wind sent a metal sign flying into his head. Hey, Summit Entertainment, that's what you get for sending Catherine Hardwicke packing in favor of some penis-having dude! (And yes, he's okay.) [X17]
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Name of the tool: sparql-wrapper
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21 Metadata
21.1 Introduction
Metadata is information about a document.
The W3C Note "Metadata and SVG" [not yet published] discusses in detail various issues concerning metadata and SVG. The document provides a current set of recommendations about appropriate uses of metadata in conjunction with SVG.
The W3C has ongoing metadata activities which provide general metadata guidelines. One of the W3C's metadata activities is the definition of Resource Description Framework (RDF), a W3C Recommendation for specifying metadata. The specifications for RDF can be found at:
Another activity relevant to most applications of metadata is the Dublin Core, which is a set of generally applicable core metadata properties (e.g., Title, Creator/Author, Subject, Description, etc.).
21.2 The 'metadata' element
Metadata which is included with SVG content should be specified within 'metadata' elements. The contents of the 'metadata' should be elements from other XML namespaces, with these elements from these namespaces expressed in a manner conforming with the "Namespaces in XML" Recommendation [XML-NS].
Authors should provide a 'metadata' child element to the outermost 'svg' element within a stand-alone SVG document. The 'metadata' child element to an 'svg' element serves the purposes of identifying document-level metadata.
The DTD definitions of many of SVG's elements (particularly, container and text elements) place no restriction on the placement or number of the 'metadata' sub-elements. This flexibility is only present so that there will be a consistent content model for container elements, because some container elements in SVG allow for mixed content, and because the mixed content rules for XML [XML-MIXED] do not permit the desired restrictions. Representations of future versions of the SVG language might use more expressive representations than DTDs which allow for more restrictive mixed content rules. It is strongly recommended that at most one 'metadata' element appear as a child of any particular element, and that this element appear before any other child elements (except possibly 'desc' or 'title' elements) or character data content. If metadata-processing user agents need to choose among multiple 'metadata' elements for processing (e.g., to decide which string to use for a tooltip), the user agent shall choose the first one.
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Attribute definitions:
Attributes defined elsewhere:
21.3 An example
<svg width="4in" height="3in"
<desc xmlns:myfoo="http://example.org/myfoo">
<myfoo:title>This is a financial report</myfoo:title>
<myfoo:descr>The global description uses markup from the
xmlns:rdf = "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/"
<rdf:Description about="http://example.org/myfoo"
dc:title="MyFoo Financial Report"
$through 2000"
dc:publisher="Example Organization"
dc:language="en" >
<rdf:li>Irving Bird</rdf:li>
<rdf:li>Mary Lambert</rdf:li>
21.4 DOM interfaces
The following interfaces are defined below: SVGMetadataElement.
Interface SVGMetadataElement
The SVGMetadataElement interface corresponds to the 'metadata' element.
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Getting your content online
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This Web Standards Curriculum article aims to provide a quickfire guide for getting your website online. You’ll find out about how to get yourself a domain name and some hosting. You’ll also find out about the software required to upload websites, along with best practice for structuring a site and ensuring you always have safe copies of your work.
What’s in a name?
A domain name is an important component when creating a website: it’s your text-based link to the world—the thing people type into a browser’s address bar to access your site (such as, or The best domain names are memorable and straightforward, and therefore superior to the URL you may be given with some free web space, which typically includes your ISP’s domain and your broadband or dial-up username (such as
When choosing a domain, avoid complexity. Imagine yourself reading it out over the phone—if you have to say things like “hyphen” or “the numeral two”, or if your spelling of a word is awkward or non-standard, think of a different name. As millions of domains are already in use, it pays to be armed with at least a half-dozen alternatives. For example, try being more specific with your name: there's no chance that you’d be able to buy, but if you added “in” and your location after “gardening” (such as “”), you might.
To find out if a domain is already in use, do a search. The majority of domain resellers have a search form, which enables you to search domains with various suffixes (such as .com, .net, .org, and so on—more on those later), but a decent, impartial and non-commercial resource is at
If you’re on a commercial site doing searches, you might be presented with alternatives should your first choice already be taken. In such scenarios, only settle on alternatives if they’re exactly what you're looking for. Don’t be tempted by strange word combinations or unusual suffixes. People remember “dot com” or their local equivalent (such as “” in the United Kingdom). This is less often the case with awkward combinations like “” or newer suffixes such as “.info”. Also, if someone else has a domain with a more popular suffix, you run the risk of losing traffic to them.
Note that even if you’re creating a personal site or blog (such as my own Revert to Saved—see Figure 1), it pays to grab a memorable domain. For example, friends and family will find it easier to find your site if it’s based around your name, and domains also make associated email accounts more useful, enabling you to use, rather than a borderline random collection of characters prior to your ISP’s domain. Also, domains have the advantage of being a constant—should you move ISP and “lose” your free web space, you’ll have to start from scratch. However, with a domain name, the address is always the same, meaning that even a move between entirely different web hosts typically only leads to a couple of days of down-time for your site.
When it comes to buying a domain, you have the option of buying it on its own from one of myriad resellers, or buying it alongside a web-hosting account, all from the same organisation. If you’re a beginner, I strongly recommend buying your domain and hosting at once. It means you only have a single company to deal with for support issues, and the company’s system will likely know what’s going on, enabling you to “attach” a newly acquired domain to a hosting account you’ve purchased via an online administration panel. If you decide against this, you can buy a domain name from one company and “point” it at hosting purchased elsewhere. To do this, you’ll need to update your domain’s nameservers and IP address (things that enable the domain to “know” which site it should be pointed at) in line with the requirements of your web host.
Note that pitfalls can occur during the domain buying process. Some sellers inflate prices to make more profit (which is absurd in the current market), and some at the cheaper end of the spectrum charge when you want to move your domain at a later date. Therefore, prior to buying a domain, always check to see whether you can freely move it. Also, don’t be bullied into buying extra domains unless you really need them—if you have your chosen name and a .com, you won’t need a .biz or a .info equivalent as well, so save your money. Finally, if you’re offered private registration during the buying process, it’s worth consideration. By default, your details (name, address, telephone number) will be available when people investigate ownership of your domain; however, for a few bucks, most domain name resellers enable you to “hide” your details, only showing generic details for the registration organisation.
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Figure 1: The domain for my blog, Revert to Saved, was carefully chosen. It’s memorable, a string that’s unbroken by hyphens, and has a .com suffix, which is one of the most common.
The host with the most
Once you have a domain name in mind (or already purchased), you need somewhere to upload your site. Chances are you already have free web space with your broadband or dial-up account, but it’s almost certainly restricted in some way, perhaps in terms of bandwidth (the amount of data users can download over a set time period), storage allocation (the number of megabytes or gigabytes you have for storing content), or by way of other technologies (such as support for various types of scripts or for things like databases). Free hosting tends to offer the bare minimum, meaning you could be scuppered should you later want to expand your site’s scope or feature set.
Luckily, improvements in technology have proved to be a good thing for hosting, and competition has pushed down pricing. Cheap hard drives have resulted in paid-for web hosting typically offering masses of space, even on cheap plans. Also, expectations for included features are changing, and so many paid-for hosts provide PHP and MySQL support as a matter of course. In all cases, investigate the technology you’re going to need for hosting the kind of site you’re building before purchasing; if unsure, talk to your potential host’s support, or ensure that a straightforward and affordable upgrade path exists should your requirements change.
There are also further questions to ask. You need to know about levels of data transfer, and what happens if you exceed this level (your site may be temporarily “closed”, or you could be charged), although this is only a major concern for very high-traffic websites; you might want to investigate whether readymade items are available, such as preinstalled scripts, forums and contact forms; and if your plans amount to more than a solitary website, you need to be aware of any restrictions relating to hosting multiple domains or sites on a single hosting account. Also, if you’re relatively new to setting up sites, it’s wise to choose a host where you can speak to an actual human being when you need to, rather than end up stuck waiting for an email to arrive from a semi-automated help system.
A pretty good global tip for hosting is to shop around. Various sites, such as (see Figure 2), offer opinions and advice regarding the current champions of hosting, and you can also try contacting hosts directly to ask questions. If they respond promptly and suitably, that’s a good indication that you’ll be in safe hands if problems occur later. In any case, take your time and don’t necessarily go for the cheapest option—shop around, do your homework, and ensure the host you settle on is a good match for your needs. As mentioned earlier, though, we recommend that first-timers buy their hosting and domain from the same company; usually, you can then “attach” your domain to your hosting account via an online administration panel, in a straightforward and non-technical manner.
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Figure 2: Various websites offer comparative reviews of hosting services, and it’s a good idea to scour these prior to parting with any cash.
Getting it on(line)
Once you’ve got your domain and hosting sorted, you can start putting content online. Your web host will provide you with some pieces of information that you’ll need to keep safe. You’ll likely get details for accessing your account with the host itself, enabling you to access online administration features. You’ll also get details for accessing your site via FTP, which stands for “File Transfer Protocol”. Although the information provided by web hosts varies, you’ll likely be given a username, a password, a location to upload files to (often your URL, but this varies by host), and perhaps a path to the folder where your web pages should be stored. (Note that although you should be able to access your space very quickly via FTP, it can sometimes take up to three days before the entire internet is able to “see” your domain, so don't fret if people can’t access your site right away after you’ve uploaded it.)
Myriad FTP applications exist, such as the free (but decent) CoffeeCup Free FTP for Windows, and the excellent Transmit for Mac OS X. Some web-design applications, such as Dreamweaver, also offer built-in clients, although most aren’t as fully featured as a standalone equivalent. FTP applications vary massively, but the majority are roughly comparable in terms of workflow. Typically, you’ll have some means of storing favourite locations to connect to (one of which will be your own site). For each favourite, you’ll need the details your host provided you with, as mentioned earlier.
Once you’ve connected to your web space, you’ll see the empty folder structure of your website, which also varies by host. In some cases, you’ll see nothing at all. In other cases, a few default folders might exist for storing things like scripts and visitor statistics. A good rule of thumb is that you should just leave alone any folders that are there by default. Most FTP clients also provide a local view (as in, that of your hard drive)—see the screen grab of Transmit (Figure 3) for an example. To upload a file to your website, you merely have to drag it from the local to the remote location, or click on the local file and choose a relevant “upload” option.
If you’re working with scripts, you may also have instructions to change the permissions of certain files. This is typically done by getting a file’s info and clicking relevant checkboxes, but also might be referred to via a “chmod” option—“chmod” being the name of a Unix command for amending file and directory modes. Most FTP clients also offer many more features, including the ability to compare and synchronise local and remote folders and to automatically set a local folder when a favourite is accessed. Again, shop around, and bear in mind that most FTP clients are cheap (or free) and have fully working demo versions.
Transmit screen grab
Figure 3: Transmit, available for Mac OS X, is a fairly typical dual-pane FTP client, showing a local view on the left and remote files on the right.
Work in progress
In the previous section, I mentioned how FTP clients often show remote and local files simultaneously. This is a good thing—as any decent web designer will tell you, work solely online at your peril. If you screw up a change when working on a live site, the entire world will see it until a fix is made, and if something happens to the site (hosts do take back-ups, but they aren’t always successful, nor as regular as they should be), you lose everything if you’re only working online.
Instead, you should work on local copies of your files and only upload them when they’re ready. By doing this, you can test changes before they’re uploaded, ensuring that they work and that things like text and images are proofed and readable. You can also take back-ups of a site prior to working on major changes, ensuring that if a total disaster occurs, you have a version to fall back on. Only when you’re totally happy with your changes should you upload them.
On site structure, it’s largely down to the individual how things are organised, but it pays to create a sensible folder structure, enabling you to store things like images, PDFs, MP3s and movies in specific, named folders (see Figure 4), rather than bunging everything in the root folder of the site, which can be messy and make things increasingly hard to organise and sort over time. Some web designers also advocate placing stylesheets, JavaScript documents and even groups of web pages into named folders, although this is only really necessary when you have a fairly large number of them. Over time, if the site expands, it may be wise to add sub-folders within folders, to better organise media.
Site structure
Figure 4: A fairly typical site structure, awaiting content.
From a development standpoint, ensure your local and remote folders are identical in structure, otherwise updating and keeping your “test” and “live” sites consistent will be borderline impossible. (Note also that some hosts request that certain file types be placed in specific folders. The most common example of this is CGI scripts, which often have to be within a cgi-bin folder to run. Also, some configuration options—such as for databases—are host-specific. As always, ask your host for advice if unsure.)
Overall, when it comes to everything mentioned in this overview, caution and research are the two most important considerations. Don’t rush headlong into anything and you won’t make a costly mistake. Do your research (on domains, hosts, how best to use your web space, and how to upload and maintain your site), and you’ll have an easier time of it.
Note: This material was originally published as part of the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, available as Supplementary: Getting your content online, written by Craig Grannell. Like the original, it is published under the Creative Commons Attribution, Non Commercial - Share Alike 2.5 license.
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View Full Version : Why flex seed oil, why not olive oil??
01-30-2001, 07:44 AM
yeah you heard me~ =)
01-30-2001, 08:11 AM
About 2 days ago i posted my diet down there.. But i believe it was gino... or someone else told me have flexseed oil then olive oil.. Why?? i though olive oil was good monosaturated fat source... Is there special reason?
01-30-2001, 08:22 AM
Omega 9 fatty acids(olive oil) are much different than Omega 3 fatty acids(flaxseed). Yeah, you heard me:)
By Peter Jaret
WebMD Medical News
May 19, 2000 -- Robert Vogel, MD, tested the effects of three different meals on a group of 10 volunteers who had normal cholesterol levels. One meal consisted of canola oil and bread. Another was olive oil and bread. The third meal was a piece of salmon. All three meals contained 50 grams of fat.
But their effect on blood vessels was very different. Before and again three hours after each meal, Vogel's team measured constriction of the volunteers' arteries. Sharp constriction can injure the inner lining of blood vessels, according to Vogel.
The arteries didn't constrict much after the salmon meal. After the meal containing canola oil, they constricted slightly, reducing blood flow by 11%. After the olive oil and bread combination, however, blood flow plummeted 34% -- exactly the effect that Vogel had seen in previous research after volunteers ate a Big Mac with fries.
The Hidden Culprit
Vogel believes the culprits in olive oil are the omega-9 fatty acids that make up most of the oil. These fatty acids seem to cause blood vessels to constrict. Omega-3 fatty acids, in contrast -- the same kind found in fish oil, and the ones added to canola oil -- don't appear to have this effect. What's that got to do with heart disease? "When
blood vessels constrict, their lining, called the endothelium, may be injured," says Vogel. "Repeated injuries can add up to a higher risk of coronary heart disease." What's more, in people with diabetes, which typically causes damage to blood vessel linings, the effect of olive oil could worsen an already dangerous condition, Vogel says.
[Edited by gino on 01-30-2001 at 10:22 AM]
01-30-2001, 10:01 AM
THanks GINO!!! appreciate your reply!!
~~~~ TO THE HEALTH STORE!!! (to buy flexseed oil =_)
01-30-2001, 10:22 AM
You're very welcome. Flax is good stuff.(although I still indulge in olive oil every now and then) Keep liquid flax refrigerated to preserve the Omega 3 effectiveness.
01-30-2001, 10:33 AM
Thanks, i learned something too. i tought Olive oil was just as good as flax, but i guess i dont know everything after all :D
01-30-2001, 12:49 PM
Omega 3 and Omega 6 are the ONLY essential fatty acids required by the body. I recently read about hemp seed oil, having Omega-3 20%, Omega-6 58%, and Omega-9 11% (GLA is 1-2%). Although, they warn that you should not consume it if you have to take drug tests where you work.
[Edited by Anthony on 01-30-2001 at 07:50 PM]
Darcy Tucker
01-30-2001, 03:01 PM
Flax seed oil is completely different than Canola oil right?
From reading that would you advise somebody to use canola over olive oil in their eggs?
01-30-2001, 03:30 PM
Canola oil has SOME of flax's omega 3 fatty acid in it, but no where near as much. I wouldn't suggest adding ANY oil to eggs, but I guess if you must use one, use the canola...
02-06-2001, 01:36 PM
sorry, my english isn't the greatest here, but from what i'm reading here, flaxseed oil is the best out of the bunch, canola is 2nd, and olive is 3rd?
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Department of the Treasury
Money. We all use it but what do we really know about it? Who invented it? Who designs it? Find out everything you ever wanted to know about our currency at the Department of the Treasury Web site.
1. Use your WWW browser to access the site whose URL is:
2. Explore the site. Use the bookmark capabilities of your browser to save the site location for future use.
3. Use the exit command to quit your WWW browser.
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BGR the Burger Joint - Clarendon
3024 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201
Neighborhood: Arlington
Cuisines: American, Deli/Quick Bites
Opening Hours:
Open Monday through Thursday 11 to 10, Friday and Saturday 11 to 2 AM, Sunday 11 to 10
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Price Range: Inexpensive
Dress: Informal
Noise Level: Chatty
Reservations: Not Needed
Website: http://www.bgrtheburgerjoint.com/
Best Dishes:
Cheddar-bacon burger; lobster burger (seasonal); lamb burger; sweet-potato fries; onion rings; flavor-of-the-month milkshakes, such as peach and chocolate-covered strawberry.
Price Details:
Burgers, $7.98 to $14.99.
Special Features: Wheelchair Accessible, Kid Friendly
Cheap Eats 2011: BGR the Burger Joint Clarendon
Mark Bucher's burger chain isn't as big as Five Guys, but it's really taken off since its Bethesda flagship opened three years ago, popping up not just in DC and its suburbs but in Alabama and Florida. The big, juicy patties are crafted from dry-aged beef, grilled as ordered, and set on puffy brioche buns. We like them dressed the old-fashioned way, with cheddar, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, and grilled onions, alongside a double chocolate shake and sweet-potato fries. The only caveat: You have to eat the burger fairly quickly or the bun will fall apart. If you're getting takeout, the sliders hold up much better.
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Lets say you just bought a hot sexy thong and you want it to show in public. All you have to do is read this article to find out more learn the steps the ways and guys will be staring at your buttocks all over the place. (only for hot girls)
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Put your thong on.
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Put a pair of low rise jeans or any type of covering (which hot ladies really don't need) just above your butt crack.
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Make sure your thong is equal to the height of your jeans or just barely slightly above. (Any higher and you look desperate)
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When you see a hottie or somebody you want to impress, act like you dropped some thing so when you bend over your thong shows powerfully. The same type of thing will happen when you sit down like at school. You could sometimes put your hand back there to check if it is showing like some paranoid girls do and make it look like you are trying to tuck it back in but totally fail at it. People's eyes will be drawn to your movement and then will see your thong still there because your jeans are too low rise to pull up anymore and you fail at tucking your thong in. Or just pull your pants down.
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Another way is to wear a dark-colored thong under light-colored, thin spandex leggings, hot pants, or mini skirts where it will show through.
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An overripe tomato is a deep red color, and they are often very soft in texture. They can have spots on them that are beginning to discolor, or the skin may even have split. Tomatoes can over-ripen when they're left for too long on the vine, or they sit on your counter or the supermarket shelves for too long. A tomato that is too ripe may no longer be good for salads or sandwiches, but they certainly are not only fit for discarding. Here's how to use an overripe tomato.
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Freeze for later use.
• In order to freeze overripe tomatoes, first cut away any bad or leaking spots, then wash the tomato. Dry the tomato and then put it in a freezer-safe plastic bag. You can add the tomatoes to the bag as they become overripe.
• Once you've accumulated 8 to 10 tomatoes, you can use them to make your favorite tomato sauce. Alternatively, single tomatoes can be added to enrich a store-bought sauce. Allow the tomato to thaw, remove the loose skin, dice it and add it to your sauce.
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Make tomato soup.
• Tomato soup is, for many, the quintessential comfort food soup. It is enjoyed all year round, and overripe tomatoes are suitable. Substitute overripe tomatoes in your favorite recipe if it calls for canned tomatoes. 4 to 6 medium sized overripe tomatoes provides about the same quantity as a 28 fl. oz. (828 ml) can of diced tomatoes.
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Make oven-dried tomatoes.
• Oven dried tomatoes made from overripe tomatoes are especially rich in flavor. They may take additional time to dry in the oven, but the process is the same. Slice the washed and trimmed tomatoes into 1/4 inch (0.5 cm) thick slices. Arrange them on a cookie sheet that has been lined with parchment paper. Dry them in a 250 degree F (120 degree C) oven for about 2 to 6 hours, or until the edges have shriveled and there are no runny juices.
• Oven dried tomatoes can be used sliced in salads, pasta dishes, baked into breads, or any other variety of applications.
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Make tomato juice.
• Overripe tomatoes are a good kind to use when making your own tomato or vegetable juice. Wash and trim the tomatoes of any blemishes, then add them to your juicer as per manufacturer's instructions.
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Give yourself a facial.
• Tomato pulp has just enough acidity in it to revive your skin, increase circulation and give you a healthy glow. Cut an overripe tomato in half and using a spoon, discard the seeds. Mash the tomato pulp with an equal amount of plain yogurt and spread it on your face. Wash it off in 10 to 15 minutes and admire your new glow.
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• Small blemishes in overripe tomatoes can be cut away. If the tomato tastes sour, or off, or has mold, then adding it to the compost bin is all it is good for.
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It's always the way with sequels: bigger, better, more. In the case of Monsters University, it's hundreds more. This prequel takes Monsters, Inc's Mike and Sulley back to college with an army of monsters of all shapes and sizes. "It was overwhelming at times," admits director Dan Scanlon.
So how abstract did Scanlon go in his creation of otherworldly beasts? "We want these characters to look bizarre and original," he says, "but we still want you to be able to relate to them."
Scanlon's team based most of their 400 critters on five basic body types, including slugs and fungi. "And from that," he says, "they could stretch them around, so out of each individual category they could make several varieties of that species."
Scanlon enthuses the most about one-off characters such as Dean Hardscrabble, who has a lizardy face and bat wings and was based on a poisonous Peruvian centipede. They had one to study in meetings. "It was kept in a plastic jar that looked like it had coleslaw in it previously," laughs Scanlon. "I thought I'd walk into someone's office one day and that thing would be missing. But it's safely back home."
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Should I Buy an Internal or External Hard Drive?
An internal hard drive.
An external hard drive may be moved easily between multiple computers.
An internal hard drive with case removed.
An SSD internal hard drive.
An external hard drive.
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When choosing between an internal or external hard drive, it can help to consider the types of uses and needs you have for the drive. Internal devices often run faster and can be easier to use once they are installed into a computer. External drives, however, may be easier to use with multiple computers and can be more secure against potential data theft. Whether you should choose an internal or external hard drive depends largely on how you view the strengths and weaknesses of each device.
Data Access Speed
In general, an internal drive provides better speeds for accessing data and running software programs than an external one. This can depend a great deal on different models of hard drives, however, but a Solid State Drive (SSD), for example, inside of a computer tower typically offers faster speeds than an external device. If you are considering an internal or external hard drive, then you should compare speeds between different models and choose the fastest device you can afford.
Storage and Backup
One common strategy for maintaining a backup of a primary or "C:" drive is to use two matching internal hard drives. In this case the system keeps a real-time mirror of your C: drive on the second one, providing you with constant backup support. If the C: drive should fail, you simply remove it and make the secondary drive the new primary, adding a new drive in the secondary position.
You can also use a software utility program to capture an "image" of your C: drive so that you can rebuild it quickly on a new device. An image is essentially a copy of your hard drive, including configuration files and all other contents. Storing a image on an external drive is an excellent form of backup, since it does not take up room on your primary drive and can be updated regularly. This means that either an internal or external hard drive can backup your data, as long as you use the right setup.
Portability of Information
An external disk can be easily moved between computers in a home or office. Memory sticks are nice for moving smaller amounts of data, but do not always offer the same flexibility of having a portable hard drive with a lot of memory. While an internal hard drive can be moved from one computer to another, it requires opening up both cases and can involve changing settings on each computer to properly recognize it.
Privacy and Security
One of the best features of an external drive is that you do not have to have it accessible at all times. This makes it ideal for loading and using programs that you want kept secure and away from others or protected from malicious software. By keeping your finance programs, spreadsheets, and personal data on an external drive, you can leave it off when navigating the Internet and only turn it on when you need it. Additionally, you can take it with you when you go on vacation to use with a laptop, leave it at home locked away, or remove it when children or roommates use the computer.
Data on an internal hard drive can be password protected, but this often involves more effort than simply unplugging a device. These passwords may also be vulnerable to attacks and leave your information exposed for someone else. If you want either an internal or external hard drive for sensitive data, an external device is usually easier to protect.
Using One Device for the Other
One thing to consider, however, is that both devices are often interchangeable. An internal hard drive can be placed inside an "enclosure" that allows it to be easily plugged into an external port on a computer. Similarly, most external devices can be opened up, though this usually voids its warranty, and the hard drive within can often be installed directly inside of a computer. This means that a single device can function interchangeably as either an internal or external hard drive with just a little modification.
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I'd buy an external hard drive. they are cheaper and if you want you can use them as an internal hard drive too. if you don't care about the warranty, just open the case up. there's a regular internal hard drive in the case.
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Well my opinion is you should get an external hard drive. they are much more useful.
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osakachan: your bios is set to boot to your external hard drive first. you have to edit the boot menu in your bios to boot to your windows drive first.
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We recently bought an external hard drive. 1tb, its awesome. problem is we have to unplug it from the computer before we turn it on or our computer boots up into the external rather than the internal. Is there anyway to correct it? Can we just link the two of them?
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To install your old hard drive in a new pc is as easy as 1 2 3.
If your new pc has no hard drive, just put it in the hard drive bay and connect the corresponding PSU (Power supply unit) cable and the IDE channel cable (The other ones- mine are grey), then boot the PC. The bios menu might open but only to confirm the hard drive's presence. This hard drive will act as the C: drive, assuming the hard drive has an OS ( operating system) installed.
If you already have a hard drive installed in your new pc and you want to add the old hard drive as an extra hard drive it'll be slightly trickier but not bad.
Both the new and old hard drives will probably need to be jumpered so take the new hard drive out. Basically- in between the hole where the IDE cable goes in and the power cable goes in there are extra IDE pins and one or two plastic sleeves called jumpers. They way they are arranged tells the pc what the hard drive is acting as. When two hard drives are installed at once, one will have to act as the master drive and the other, the slave. The way the jumpers should be arranged are called the jumper settings. The jumper settings are different for each hard drive, but on Maxtor hard drives the settings are printed on the top of the drive. other hard drives have the settings printed in the user manual. Assuming you have done your Homework and know which hard drive you have and you know where to put your jumpers on each drive, its as easy as putting them where they should go. (On a maxtor 9 pin drive the slave drive needs no jumpers at all to act as a slave and the master needs one connected to pins 5 & 6.) Then the hard part is done. With both hard drives configured, slide the hard drives into separate hard drive bays and connect one PSU cable into each one, then connect one part of the IDE channel cable into one hard drive and the other part of the same IDE channel cable into the other. (the one cable should be connected to both hard drives) With the storm overcome, you are free to admire your work. Make sure all cables are properly fastened and switch the power on. The bios menu will open to confirm the new hard drives existence and then will run windows with both the old and new hard drives installed.
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If you want to use your internal hard drive as an external hard drive, buy an external hard drive enclosure from your local computer store (about $30) it will have everything you need in the kit. You may be required to format the drive in order for it to be compatible.
To salvage an internal hard drive and use it as an internal hard drive in a newer computer, simply plug it in, in the new computer, and hook it up to one of the unused cords from your new computers power supply.
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Is there a way to download programs to an external hard drive and transfer them to another computer?
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I have an internal hard drive outside of a computer that the motherboard does not work. I have a new computer and would like to recover the data from my internak hard drive. What do I need and how can I connect my internal hard drive to my new computer?
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My computer crashed and my internal hard drives are OK. What do I need and where can I get the stuff to connect my internal hard drive to a new computer I got and transfer all my information to my new computer?
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Adjective: smiling smI-ling
1. With a face showing happiness, friendliness or optimism
"a room of smiling faces";
- beamish, twinkly, smiley
Noun: smiling smI-ling
- smile, grin, grinning
Verb: smile smI(-u)l
1. Change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
2. Express with a smile
"She smiled her thanks"
Derived forms: smilings
See also: cheerful
Type of: evince, express, facial expression, facial gesture, grimace, make a face, pull a face, show
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Noun: splenic vein
1. A vein formed by several small veins on the surface of the spleen; joins the superior mesenteric to form the portal vein
- vena lienalis
Derived forms: splenic veins
Type of: vein, vena, venous blood vessel
Part of: lien [archaic], spleen
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‘Argo’ is the best movie of 2012
By brendon December 27, 2012 @ 12:43 PM
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are a glamorous couple
By brendon November 30, 2012 @ 6:37 PM
Ben Affleck asked to direct the Justice League movie
By brendon August 08, 2012 @ 5:49 PM
Ben Affleck is patriotic
By brendon July 05, 2012 @ 9:47 AM
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are making another movie
By brendon October 25, 2011 @ 1:13 PM
For the fist time since ‘Good Will Hunting’ (no one counts ‘Dogma’ for some reason) Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are starring in a movie together.
Damon will star as Boston mobster Whitely Bulgar, with Affleck co-starring and directing. Though they won’t write the script (which of course is what they won their Oscars for in 1997), they have a more than capable replacement in ‘Boardwalk Empire’ creator and writer Terence Winter.
You may remember that Bulgar was also the inspiration for the Jack Nicholson character in ‘the Departed’ (a mobster allowed to run wild because he was an FBI informant), so this will be like that except probably not as good. Needless to say you probably won’t see that quote on the poster.
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Ben Affleck looks like this now
By brendon October 03, 2011 @ 10:14 AM
At first I wondered why Keanu Reeves was pretending to be Anthony Kiedis and taking Ben Afflecks daughters to the farmers market in Pacific Palisades yesterday, but then I eventually figured it out.
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Release Notes for XWiki 4.2
Last modified by Marius Dumitru Florea on 2013/07/20
This is the third release of the 4.x cycle (Roadmap).
The following important issues were found in this release after it was released:
• The new Application Panel is empty when on Oracle
• Send page by email and Reset Password are broken. You can work around the Reset Password issue.
• The new experimental Distribution Wizard (see below) doesn't work yet with Oracle
If you need these features you should wait for 4.3 or 4.2.1.
If you're upgrading from an older version and you use the new Distribution Wizard to upgrade your wiki pages you'll notice that it'll ask you to merge all pages that have been modified between your version and XWiki 4.2. This is because currently the Distribution Wizard doesn't know which version you have and thus asks you to perform the merge manually. This operation may take a long time (up to 20 minutes or so). Thus at the moment if you're upgrading from a previous version we recommend that you Cancel the Distribution Wizard and instead Import the new XAR. This problem is reported in this issue and should be fixed in the next release.
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 4.1)
Extension Manager improvements
Main improvements:
• An administrator of a subwiki can now install XAR extension (as long as it does not require a JAR extension).
Experimental install/upgrade wizard
Accessing a wiki page in view mode after an upgrade or when the database is empty (new install) will trigger a wizard that will allow you to install or update the default set of wiki pages and to upgrade or downgrade the extensions you may have previously installed.
The wizard is not yet production ready. It has a couple of issues we hope to fix very soon:
• information about core extensions is collected lazily and thus if you check distribution details just after starting XWiki you get incomplete information
• installing or checking the details of the user interface extension takes a couple of minutes depending on your internet bandwidth and the load of the remote extension repository
• some merge conflicts are reported even when the database is empty
The wizard currently has three steps. The first step offers an overview of the installation process by explaining the goal of the wizard and listing its steps.
In the second step you can see which XWiki distribution you are running and what is its recommended default set of wiki pages (the default user interface). You should install, upgrade or downgrade the UI so that it matches the distribution version.
The Continue button becomes available after the recommended version of the user interface is installed.
In the third step you can upgrade the installed extensions. We group them in two categories:
• extensions that don't work with your current distribution but which have new versions available that are compatible with your current distribution. These extension require an upgrade.
• extensions that should work fine with your current distribution but which have upgrades available. Upgrading these extensions is optional.
You can refresh the list of extensions by recomputing the upgrade plan. The Skip and Cancel buttons have the same meaning as in the previous step. The Continue button is available only after the required upgrades are performed.
At the end you'll be redirected back to the wiki page you have accessed in the first place.
Improvements to the Extension Repository Application
We modified the extension sheet to display the release notes for all the available versions of an extension. Check for instance the release notes for the Extended TODO Application:
JIRA Macro
• No Programming Rights required
• Supports issue ordering
• Displays closed issues as Striked-out
• Written in Java with automated tests
New field types for email and list of pages
Two new types of class properties have been added:
• The Email type extends the normal String type, adding by default a validation regular expression that should accept only a valid email address
• The Page type extends the normal DBList type, and allows to select one or more documents from the current wiki
These two new properties are still in development, and further improvements will be implemented in the next milestone.
Computed class fields
Another new type of class fields adds support for virtual values computed live from other class values, data from the database, data obtained from an external service, or practically any other source of data. These fields are non-editable and aren't stored in the database, since they only provide some wiki content that will be rendered each time such a property is displayed.
Traditionally, this kind of computation would have been written directly in the sheet used to display instances of that class, but putting it in a class field allows easier reuse of the code, since the property will be displayed in livetables, when indexing the document in Lucene, when displaying documents in an index page, and so on.
Improved upload UI
The new HTML5 FileUploader has been integrated in a few places:
• The standard attachment upload form
• The Import section of the Administration
See below for more details about this feature.
New logging administration UI
It's now possible to review and modify the log level for all registered loggers.
New Applications Panel
There's now a new "Applications" panel by default in XWiki Enterprise. This panel displays the applications present in your wiki.
Administrators will get a couple of additional links, allowing them to install applications through the Extension Manager, or to create new applications thanks to the App Within Minutes feature.
Note for application developers: your applications can provide their own entries in this menu by declaring a UI Extension.
Chart Macro Improvements
New Content Macro
The new Content macro allows to enter content in any of the supported Syntaxes and thus allows to have content written in various syntaxes. For example, in a page in XWiki Syntax 2.0:
This is in **bold**
{{content syntax="confluence/1.0"}}
This is *bold* too!
Documents Macro improvements
The {{documents}} macro now supports specifying the list of columns to display. For example:
{{documents count="5" actions="false" space="Main" parent="Main.WebHome" columns="doc.title"/}}
would display:
Search improvements
The Lucene index also stores the MIME type of the indexed attachments, allowing to customize the search to only include or exclude attachments of a certain type. The new field is named mimetype and it contains a valid MIME type string, as returned by the container in which XWiki is running. For example, add -mimetype:image/* to a query to exclude all image attachments from the results, or add mimetype:application/pdf to only search inside PDF attachments.
Remember that in case of an upgrade, you have to rebuild the entire index to have this new field for existing documents.
• Improve OOB support for JBoss AS7:
• The IRC Bot Application now recognizes XAR import events and when receiving one, it doesn't send subsequent IRC notifications for modified or created documents to avoid spamming the IRC channel.
• Display the request URL in the IRC channel when the Link Checker bot listener is active and a broken link is found, thus making it easier to reproduce and debug the broken link
For Developers
New Git Module
import org.eclipse.jgit.api.*
import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.*
import org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk.*
import org.gitective.core.*
import org.gitective.core.filter.commit.*
def service = services.get("git")
// Do a Git pull to get latest commits
def finder = new CommitFinder(commonsRepository)
def countFilter = new CommitCountFilter()
def authorFilter = new AuthorSetFilter()
def filters = new AndCommitFilter()
filters.add(countFilter, authorFilter)
println ""
println "The following committers have participated in those commits:"
authorFilter.getPersons().each() {
Default custom displayers
While XWiki allowed to specify a custom display for a given field, it was impossible to change the way field types, such as DateProperty or IntegerProperty, are displayed in general. Now it is possible to define custom displayers at the farm or wiki level, which gives the administrators more power to change the look and feel of the wiki. For example, this allows to use HTML5 input types for dates and numbers, to use custom suggestions for list of users fields, or to always add a validation input for all the password field types.
To use this feature, first you need to compute a type name for your property type. This is obtained from the java class simple name, removing the Class suffix, and lowercasing. For example, for numbers the java class used is com.xpn.xwiki.objects.classes.NumberClass, with the simple name NumberClass, which gives number as the type name. For a database list, we get dblist from DBListClass.
Next, there are three places where a default custom displayer can be defined.
1. If a document whose name is the type capitalized and suffixed with Displayer exists in the XWiki space in the current wiki, then its content is used as the default custom displayer for that type of property. For example, localwiki:XWiki.NumberDisplayer and localwiki:XWiki.DblistDisplayer.
2. If a document whose name is the type capitalized and suffixed with Displayer exists in the XWiki space in the main wiki, then its content is used as the default custom displayer for that type of property. For example, xwiki:XWiki.NumberDisplayer and xwiki:XWiki.DblistDisplayer.
3. If a velocity template whose name is the type suffixed with .vm exists in the current skin, then it is evaluated as the default custom displayer for that type of property. A skin file can be defined in many places, such as an attachment of a skin document, a file in a named skin on the filesystem, or a file in the templates/ directory.
If a specific class property provides custom display code in the XClass, then that code takes priority over an eventual default custom displayer for that property.
As with property custom displayers, when evaluating the display code several objects are placed in the context:
• name is the name of the property being displayed
• prefix is the HTML name prefix to append to an eventual input field name, and contains the XClass name, an underscore, the object number, and another underscore, for example XWiki.XWikiUsers_0_
• object is the object owning the displayed property, an instance of the public com.xpn.xwiki.api.Object class
• type is the target display type, one of view, edit, hidden or search
New API to manipulate log level
Several method as been added to org.xwiki.logging.LoggerManager to manipulate the log level of registered loggers.
* Associate the passed logger to the passed log level.
* @param loggerName the logger
* @param level the level of the logger
void setLoggerLevel(String loggerName, LogLevel level);
* @param loggerName the logger
* @return the log level associated to the logger
LogLevel getLoggerLevel(String loggerName);
* @return all the registered loggers
Collection<Logger> getLoggers();
New HTML5 File Upload widget
The File Upload widget can enhance HTML input elements of type file to provide an interactive upload UI. It can submit files either automatically when the user selects local files, or after the user presses the container form's submit button.
To use this widget, it is enough to create a new instance of XWiki.FileUploader passing the target input element as the first parameter, and an optional configuration object as the second parameter.
new XWiki.FileUploader(targetInput, {
autoUpload: true,
progressAutohide: true
It's now possible by default to add skin extensions located in JAR files. Example usage:
The content of the resource is obtained using the current context class loader. The path starts on the root of the jar that contains the requested file.
Attachment Picker improvements
It is now possible to specify a different document for the source (and target in case of uploads) of attachments, using the new targetdocname macro parameter.
Extension Manager improvements
• the custom Maven property <xwiki.extension.features> now accept any number of new lines and white spaces between elements
• new custom properties added to overwrite standard Maven properties:
• to overwrite <name>
• xwiki.extension.summary to overwrite <description>
• to overwrite <url>
XAR format improvement
It's now possible to indicate the extension identifier right in the XAR package descriptor (package.xml). Among other things this allow standard import UI to find what it currently importing and register it automatically as installed extension if it can be found in the registered repositories during import process.
The XAR Maven plugin automatically take care of adding this information to the generated package.xml for Maven project. If for some reason you need to indicate it by hand you can use the property <extensionId> under the the <infos> element in the package.xml file.
<name>XWiki Platform - Extension - UI</name>
<description>XWiki Extension Manager, an application for managing extensions in a wiki.</description>
New UI Extension mechanism (experimental)
We're in the process of allowing applications to insert custom content in pre-defined places in the user interface. A first Extension Point has been defined in the new "Applications" panel, you can read more about this in the UI Extension module documentation.
Deprecated and Retired projects
<description of deprecated and retired projects>
The following dependencies have been upgraded:
• Infinispan 5.1.5
• JDeb 0.11
• JGroups 3.1.0
• Tika 1.2
• GWT 2.5 RC1
• Selenium 2.25
• Prototype.js 1.7.1
• Jython 2.5.3
• Pegdown 1.1.0 (used by the XWiki Markdown Parser)
• Xalan 2.7.1
private ComponentManager rootComponentManager;
private Provider<ComponentManager> contextComponentManager;
• The AbstractMockingComponentTestCase testing framework class has been modified. Read the Testing page for more details on how to use it.
The following translations have been updated:
• Danish
• French
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Russian
• Hungarian
• Italian
• Latvian
• Swedish
Tested Browsers
Known issues
Test Report
Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes
General Notes
API Breakages
The following APIs were modified since XWiki 4.1:
• The logging module is new and is still considered a "young API". Added new methods to manipulate loggers levels.
org.xwiki.logging.LoggerManager: Method 'public org.xwiki.logging.LogLevel getLoggerLevel(java.lang.String)' has been added to an interface
org.xwiki.logging.LoggerManager: Method 'public java.util.Collection getLoggers()' has been added to an interface
org.xwiki.logging.LoggerManager: Method 'public void setLoggerLevel(java.lang.String, org.xwiki.logging.LogLevel)' has been added to an interface
• New #isValid() method
• The Extension module is relatively new and is still undergoing some API tuning. New method to access environment extension. Also added new methods to execute custom checking before installing/uninstalling an extension and new methods to access local:installed extensions.
org.xwiki.extension.handler.ExtensionHandler: Method 'public void checkInstall(org.xwiki.extension.Extension, java.lang.String, org.xwiki.job.Request)' has been added to an interface
org.xwiki.extension.handler.ExtensionHandler: Method 'public void checkUninstall(org.xwiki.extension.InstalledExtension, java.lang.String, org.xwiki.job.Request)' has been added to an interface
org.xwiki.extension.repository.InstalledExtensionRepository: Method 'public org.xwiki.extension.InstalledExtension getInstalledExtension(org.xwiki.extension.ExtensionId)' has been added to an interface
org.xwiki.extension.repository.LocalExtensionRepository: Method 'public org.xwiki.extension.LocalExtension getLocalExtension(org.xwiki.extension.ExtensionId)' has been added to an interface
org.xwiki.job.Request: Method 'public boolean containsProperty(java.lang.String)' has been added to an interface
org.xwiki.job.Request: Method 'public java.lang.Object removeProperty(java.lang.String)' has been added to an interface
• New methods in the oldcore/wikimacro bridge
• TODO Andreas: Explain why we have to break backward compatibility for the Chart module
org.xwiki.rendering.macro.chart.ChartMacroParameters: Method 'public java.util.Map getParametersMap()' has been removed
org.xwiki.chart.model.DefaultChartModel: Class org.xwiki.chart.model.DefaultChartModel removed
org.xwiki.container.servlet.XWikiServlet: Class org.xwiki.container.servlet.XWikiServlet removed
• Added a new sendMessageFromTemplate method signature that uses a map of parameters instead of a VelocityContext
com.xpn.xwiki.plugin.mailsender.MailSender: Method 'public int sendMessageFromTemplate(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.util.Map)' has been added to an interface
Created by Jerome Velociter on 2012/09/26
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This CD cover image released by Vagrant Records shows "Wonderful, Glorious," by the Eels.
Eels, "Wonderful, Glorious" (Vagrant Records)
Fans of the Eels will be surprised to know that the band's frontman, Mark "E" Everett, seems to have been lifted from his melancholy—a sentiment that has inspired the band's previous material. Even the title of the Eels' 10th record, "Wonderful, Glorious," oozes optimism. The album's opener exudes funk and sex appeal, thanks to E's unique vocals. The song "Peach Blossom" is melodically interesting, with a pounding, rhythmical drum and angry guitar.
"On the Ropes" does hark back to the indie rockers' original sad sound with lyrics like: "I'm not knocked out, but I'm on the ropes." It's reminiscent of moments on the band's "Electro-Shock Blues" (1998) and "Blinking Lights and Other Revelations" (2005) albums. While "Wonderful, Glorious" is interesting and good, it doesn't match up to the Eels' previous work. We prefer E's tortured soul.
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Oxford University
Mathematical Institute
Lissajous curves
Nick Trefethen, October 2010
(Chebfun example geom/Lissajous.m)
[Tags: #complex, #sinewaves, #geometry]
Lissajous figures or Lissajous curves are the curves in the x-y plane obtained by taking x and y to vary sinusoidally with respect to a parameter t, typically with different frequencies. They are named after the 19th century French mathematician Jules Antoine Lissajous.
To keep things simple let's assume that the sine waves in both directions have amplitude 1 and the frequencies are both positive integers, hence rationally related. Then the Lissajous figure is a closed curve (i.e., 2pi-periodic with respect to t) that we can define by parameters m, n, and d.
x(t) = sin(mt), y(t) = sin(nt+d*pi).
For example, here are the cases m=5, n=6 with d=0 and d=1/2:
t = chebfun('t',[0 2*pi]);
m = 5; n = 6;
x = sin(m*t);
y = sin(n*t);
LW = 'Linewidth'; lw = 1.6; FS = 'fontsize';
subplot(1,2,1), plot(x,y,LW,lw)
axis([-1 1 -1 1]), axis square off
title(sprintf('m=%d n=%d d=%3.1f',m,n,0),FS,12)
y = sin(n*t+pi/2);
subplot(1,2,2), plot(x,y,LW,lw)
title(sprintf('m=%d n=%d d=%3.1f',m,n,0.5),FS,12)
As usual with 2D computations, it's convenient to use complex arithmetic, defining
Here's an anonymous function that returns a Chebfun corresponding to parameters m,n,d:
lissajous = @(m,n,d) sin(m*t) + 1i*cos(n*t+pi*d);
Here are six Lissajous curves drawn at random:
colors = [1 0 0; 0 .8 0; 1 .75 0; 0 1 1; 1 0 1; 0 0 .75];
for np = 1:6
m = ceil(10*rand);
n = ceil(10*rand);
d = rand;
title(sprintf('m=%d n=%d d=%5.3f',m,n,d),FS,10)
Just for fun, let's draw a cube in which each face is a different Lissajous figure:
f = lissajous(23,5,.5);
plot3(real(f),imag(f),1+0*t,'r'), hold on
f = lissajous(7,16,2/3);
f = lissajous(13,17,0);
plot3(real(f),-1+0*t,imag(f),'color',[0 .8 0])
axis equal off
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From ZDoom Wiki
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int MorphActor (int tid, [str playerclass, [str monsterclass, [int duration, [int style, [str morphflash, [str unmorphflash]]]]]])
This function and its complement UnMorphActor give the ACS coder direct access to the engine's morph subsystem, instead of having to strategically place DECORATE items and suchlike.
• tid: The actor(s) to morph. The activator is used if this parameter is zero.
• playerclass: Defines what class to morph a player into.
• monsterclass: Defines what class to morph a monster into.
• duration: Defines the duration of the morphing effects.
• style: Defines the behaviour of the morphing effects.
• morphflash: Defines the effect flash actor to spawn when the player morphs. If omitted, the game's default teleport fog is used.
• unmorphflash: Defines the effect flash actor to spawn when the player unmorphs. If omitted, the game's default teleport fog is used.
Excepting tid, the parameters are the same special properties defined by the MorphProjectile class. They are summarised above; for full details and additional notes, please refer to the MorphProjectile class.
Important note: the optional arguments are for the moment not optional due to a limitation in the current implementation of ACC. As a workaround, please treat all optional arguments to MorphActor as mandatory until the problem is resolved. Specify 0 for unused integer arguments and "" for unused string arguments. (This Wiki entry will be amended when the problem has been resolved.)
This function does honor the MRF_WHENINVULNERABLE flag when used on a player, provided that player is also the activator of the function.
The return value is the number of actors successfully morphed. This also means that for TID = 0, it's also a "boolean" (0=failed, 1=succeeded).
The following example assumes that a Cyberdemon with the DONTMORPH actor flag disabled has a TID of one. The function call turns him in to a pitiful little puppy demon, so you can kill him with ease. :)
Note that the Demon's DECORATE code is reproduced from zdoom.pk3 because the engine currently requires that all morphed monsters must inherit the MorphedMonster class and ZDoom does not support multiple inheritance; at the moment, you cannot arbitrarily morph one kind of monster into another.
script 1 (void)
int morphed = MorphActor(1, "", "MorphDemon", 1048576, 0, "", "");
ACTOR MorphableCyberDemon : CyberDemon replaces CyberDemon
ACTOR MorphDemon : MorphedMonster
Game Doom
Health 150
PainChance 180
Speed 10
Radius 30
Height 56
Mass 400
SeeSound "demon/sight"
AttackSound "demon/melee"
PainSound "demon/pain"
DeathSound "demon/death"
ActiveSound "demon/active"
Obituary "%o was killed by a dem... cyberd... well, by something anyway"
SARG AB 10 A_Look
SARG EF 8 A_FaceTarget
SARG G 8 A_SargAttack
Goto See
SARG H 2
SARG H 2 A_Pain
Goto See
SARG I 8
SARG J 8 A_Scream
SARG K 4
SARG L 4 A_NoBlocking
SARG M 4
SARG N -1
SARG N 5
Goto See
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Day by Day
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Quote of the Day, OH YEAH edition
Over the dinner table, while discussing the Ragin' Step-son's desire for non-alcoholic daiquiris.
Ragin' Mrs: I think he likes Strawberry Kool-Aide
Me: Doesn't everybody like Strawberry Kool-Aide?
Ragin' Step-son: Not the Kool-Aide man!
Ragin' Mrs: Yep, but that Kool-Aide guy got all those kids to drink him!
Me: You think he was a pedophile?
Ragin' Mrs: Nah, I just think he had a Jesus complex.
Me: I'm so putting this on the blog.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Quote of the Day, Self-Hating edition
My quote of the day from May 20th of this year, right after Obama tried to throw Israel under the bus:
Here’s the truth: Barack Obama could suggest that the Palestinians solve their problems with Israel buy building a great many gas-powered ovens with attached cyanide showers, and an awful lot of American Jews would still trek right off to the polls and pull the lever under his name.
At Legal Insurrection, it's pretty much confirmed:
Want to know why? This is why:
Now, I know that the context of the quote is somewhat skewed. I'm OK with that. It's still the truth, and so long as a good portion of this country is poisoning themselves with the New York Slimes' toxic brew, they'll continue to slowing kill themselves off, until they're too weak to stop the last jackboot from crushing their skulls.
Just the way the Democrat American Communist Party likes it.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Can you feel the love?
Or better yet, can you feel Esquire Magazine dropping to their knees and giving their Liberal Lord and Messiah a full-on blowjob and rimjob, complete with a bukake facial?
Read it. Read it all. And understand that these people are the enemy. They are the propaganda corps for the Democrat American Communist Party. Dear god, just look at how they gush for their man-child on a pedestal. I guaran-damn-tee that every time Obama comes on TV, every pair of panties in the Esquire building get all wet and squishy.
Gutless Punk Bitch runs away from harsh reality
Or, as the New York Times might put it, "Brave God King Obama Refuses to deal with Lesser, Impudent Mortals!"
My disgust with that worthless piece of shit grows every passing day. Did you see him threatening Social Security checks if he didn't get what he wanted? That slimy, corrupt parasite is almost to the point of throwing himself on the floor, drumming his heels and going into a shrieking temper tantrum.
I can't believe he's president. This is one long nightmare. And I'm finding myself hating the half of the country who voted for that pathetic asshole. He is Incompetence times Corruption squared.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Nothing today
Quite frankly, between Mitch McConnell turning into Charlie Brown, the SEIU goons who beat Kenneth Gladney into a hospital bed being found "Not Guilty" by a union jury, or any of the various outrages perpetrated by the government against the people of this country, I just don't have anything to say that would be constructive, other than keep your powder dry.
That's if you can afford powder in the Obama economy, where prices just keep going up up UP! Except the price on my house. Of course.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Boogie Woogie
After listening to a bunch of music on the radio while driving, I've been needing some real good music to cleanse my eardrums out. So buckle down, I gots ta boogie! First up, some classic tunes:
And to bridge the gap....
Enjoy. I'm going to dance into the shower now.
What is the point
Of having a commander in chief, if that CinC can't even be bothered to react when Americans are attacked? Or as Micheal Ledeen asks, "Are we going to do anything about those who kill Americans?"
As someone who can find himself at the pointy end of the spear, and who saw how horrible the Clinton Administration was with regard to Rules of Engagement and allowing American Soldiers to defend themselves, this Obama Administration scares the living shit out of me. I see nothing that shows me Obama or any of his military leadership would defend this country from any kind of attack, or that they would defend American lives from our enemies overseas. The most Obama would do is issue some mealy-mouth platitudes that tries to show he cares, and then he'll do NOTHING of substance. That would require integrity and backbone, and Obama has neither. How do we know? Because it's what he's doing now.
Pathetic. Gutless. Spineless. Hopeless. I can't believe what I'm seeing from the White House right now. The French have more balls than we do.
I think this is a good summation
"Let me be clear: No New Taxes, until you bitter clinger morons have re-elected my anointed self."
There's a reason I never watch an Obama speech - I can't stand that level of arrogance, narcissism, stupidity, and Marxism rolled into one putrid display.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Call your Congresscritters
Pepper them with facts, and then ask when the impeachments start.
There is no reason for anyone involved in Operation Fast and Furious to continue having a job in the government. Ever. We can only calculate how many people have died due to the Obama Administration selling guns to drug cartels.
Let's repeat that last little bit, shall we? The Obama Administration is/was selling guns to Mexican drug cartels. All the reasoning after that means bupkis. We know that Obama wants to use the "American guns are finding their way into Mexico!" as a reason to impose gun control. There are some folks out there who think that this is the reason the Obama administration was selling guns to the Mexican drug cartels. But the reasoning behind it still means bupkis. The Obama Administration was selling guns to the Mexican drug cartels.
Why haven't the impeachment proceedings started yet? Call your congresscritter and ask.
Back from my break
So posting will resume something that resembles coherent. Maybe. Depends on the level of coffee in my bloodstream.
Just to add on
Susan Feinberg is the perfect example of a raving, psychotic, lunatic moonbat that infests the Left.
Paul Ryan should expect more of the same. The lunatics of the Left always want to tear down the sane.
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Using Linear-threshold Algorithms to Combine Multi-class Sub-experts
Chris Mesterharm
We present a new type of multi-class learning algorithm called a linear-max algorithm. Linearmax algorithms learn with a special type of attribute called a sub-expert. A sub-expert is a vector attribute that has a value for each output class. The goal of the multi-class algorithm is to learn a linear function combining the sub-experts and to use this linear function to make correct class predictions. The main contribution of this work is to prove that, in the on-line mistake-bounded model of learning, a multi-class sub-expert learning algorithm has the same mistake bounds as a related two class linear-threshold algorithm. We apply these techniques to three linear-threshold algorithms: Perceptron, Winnow, and Romma. We show these algorithms give good performance on artificial and real datasets.
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William Culbertson
If someone told you they had a $14,500,000 inheritance from their father stuck in a bank account in Burkina Faso, you would likely laugh in their face and offer them some Viagra and a penis enlarger in exchange for a slice of the fortune.
But what if they told you this while you were sitting in a conference room of a corporate law firm, and the person was flanked by Baker Hostetler attorneys who vouched for the legitimacy of the African fortune?
Under those circumstances, a group of Ohioans invested over one million dollars to help Willia Burton recover her supposed windfall from a foreign bank account. But it’s been five years, and it’s become evident that — sur-freaking-prise! — it’s actually a scam.
Now the nine gullible investors are suing Burton and her Baker Hostetler lawyers, William Culbertson and Paul Feinberg, for fraud, civil conspiracy, and negligent misrepresentation.
Unfortunately, there’s no claim to be made for the public humiliation they shall now suffer for falling for a “Nigerian bank account scam”…
double red triangle arrows Continue reading “Baker Hostetler Attorneys Accused of Aiding an African Bank Fortune Scammer”
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Genomic Maintenance & Repair
(PP338) Changes in transcription of selected DNA repair genes induced by exposure of medaka cells to Cd and ionizing radiation.
Moskalenko, Oleksandr*,1, Grygoryev, Dmytro1, Zimbrick, John1, 1 Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Fort Collins, CO, USA
ABSTRACT- It is known that the formation of ionizing radiation-induced DNA damage is modulated by a number of factors such as heavy metal ions. Many of these ions are cytotoxic and carcinogenic. Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic transitional metal that has been recognized as a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. It can affect the activity of cellular DNA repair systems. The biological effects of cadmium are cumulative. We studied cellular responses to single and combined -radiation and Cd exposures via transcriptional profiling of a number of key DNA repair genes using medaka fish (Oryzias Latipes) and medaka embryonic cell culture as model systems. We found changes in expression of a number of key DNA repair genes in treated versus control cells. For example, we find that ogg1, a gene that produces a glycosylase that excises oxidized DNA bases, is upregulated in treated cells. We will present data on the changes in activity of ogg1 and selected other key vertebrate DNA repair genes found in the medaka genome.
Key words: medaka, Cadmium, radiation, DNA
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Academic Commons Search Results Academic Commons Search Results en-us The knob of the discord Amarante, Massimiliano; Maccheroni, Fabio Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:53:43 +0000 For (S, Σ) a measurable space, let C1 and C2 and be convex, weak* closed sets of probability measures on Σ. We show that if C1 ∪ C2 satisfies the Lyapunov property, then there exists a set A ∈ Σ such that minμ1 ∈ C1 μ1(A) > maxμ2 ∈ C2 (A). We give applications to Maxmin Expected Utility and to the core of a lower probability. Economic theory ma734 Economics Working papers Ambiguous events and Maxmin Expected Utility Amarante, Massimiliano; Filiz, Emel Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:20:32 +0000 We study the properties associated to various definitions of ambiguity ([8], [9], [18] and [23]) in the context of Maximin Expected Utility (MEU). We show that each definition of unambiguous events produces certain restrictions on the set of priors, and completely characterize each definition in terms of the properties it imposes on the MEU functional. We apply our results to two open problems. First, in the context of MEU, we show the existence of a fundamental incompatibility between the axiom of "Small unambiguous event continuity" ([8]) and the notions of unambiguous event due to Zhang [23] and Epstein-Zhang [8]. Second, we show that, in the context of MEU, the classes of unambiguous events according to either Zhang [23] or Epstein-Zhang [8] are always λ-systems. Finally, we reconsider the various definitions in light of our findings, and identify some new objects (Z-filters and EZ-filters) corresponding to properties which, while neglected in the current literature, seem relevant to us. Economic theory ma734, ef2011 Economics Working papers States, models and unitary equivalence I: Representation theorems and analogical reasoning Amarante, Massimiliano Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:15:50 +0000 I show that virtually any model of decision making under uncertainty is associated to a certain structure. This contains three fundamental ingredients: (1) The domain of the acts; (2) Another set, which is called the set of models for the decision maker; and (3) The decision maker's information about the set of models (an algebra of subsets of the set of models). A consequence of this finding is that that the decision maker's choices can be viewed as the outcome of a two-stage process. First, the set of acts is mapped into a system of hypothetical bets on the set of models. Then, the latter are ranked by the decision maker. I show that this procedure can be thought of as describing a general form of analogical reasoning. I also observe that the appearance of two different sets implies that the decision maker is uncertain about two different objects and that he may receive information about any of them. In particular, information about the set of models affects the decision maker's ranking of the available alternatives. In the sequel to this paper, I show that certain natural information structures lead to an inherent inability of assigning probabilities on the domain of the acts. In a formal sense, their properties describe the idea of Knightian Uncertainty. Economic theory ma734 Economics Working papers
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Norweigan recycle company advertises in Urdu!
Norweigan recycle company advertises in Urdu!
Norway has understood what adapting a campaign to the target market really means. Norsk Resirk target market for the campaign that encourages recycling is "the entire population of Norway". Enter a clever media buyer working at an equally clever agency and you have ads adapted for where they are actually placed - common ad sense that is far too often overlooked or ignored.
During the Pakistani culture festival Mela in Oslo the recycling company advertised with a full page advert written in Urdu.
Synnøve Castillano, information executive at Norsk Resirk says that the response has been overwhelmingly positive, and doesn't think excluding the Norweigan language on the poster meant it excluded Norweigans from receiving the message: "The recycle logo is so well known that anyone would have gotten the message".
The ad was printed in the daily newspaper the day before the festival started. The main problem with creating this ad was finding a word equal to the norweigan word pant which doesn''t exist in Urdu and many other languages. Pant is both the redemption and the deposit in one word - so in the end the Urdu ad reads: "Cans and bottles can always be recycled. Get money back from all soda selling shops by returning your used cans and bottles. Always."
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Welcome back to our series on AdWords Optimization Tips. A number of our readers have written in to ask about managing and optimizing their bids for best performance, so that is the topic we'll address today. Please note that some of today's tips are directed towards readers who also use Google Analytics, while others are general tips for all AdWords users.
When you are optimizing your bids, you should test how adjusting your bids and changes in your ad ranking affect your return-on-investment (ROI). Below, we cover a few tools and tips that can help you measure these results so you can make the best decisions for your campaigns.
AdWords Keyword Positions report from Google Analytics
If your AdWords account is linked to a Google Analytics account, the easiest and most effective way to optimize your bids is to use Google Analytics. (You can find out how to link the two accounts here.) You can use the Google Analytics Keyword Positions report in the Traffic Sources section to see where your AdWords ads appear on Google search results pages as well as in which position your ad performs best at in terms of total number of visits, conversion rates, etc. To access this report, sign in to your Analytics account, then go to Traffic Sources > AdWords > Keyword Positions. Positions T1 through T3 mean your ad was promoted to the top of the search results page. Positions 1 through 8 indicate placement or location in the right-hand column of ads on the first page, with 1 being the top position, and so on.
You might learn from this report that your ad actually converts better when it is at a lower position than a higher position and you may want to consider adjusting your bid to achieve the best performing position. However, if you do decide to increase or decrease your bids, you should still check back in a week or two to make sure that your keyword is performing similarly since changing its average position.
If you wish to automate the process of testing and adjusting bids, you can use the AdWords Keyword Positions report in conjunction with the Position Preference feature within AdWords to actually optimize your ad's position. With the Position Preference feature, you can select a specific position as a target. If you have determined that you achieve highest ROI with positions 3 through 4, for example, you can set your position preference to these positions. The system will then try to show your ad in positions 3 through 4 by increasing or lowering its bid. You should keep in mind though your changes may improve the ROI of your campaign because your ads are converting well at a lower cost, it could decrease the total amount of traffic to your site if you've specified that you'd like your ad to be in a lower position on the page. Be sure to check out tips in our Help Center on choosing settings and pricing for Position Preference.
If you use Analytics, you can check out more ROI tips from the Google Analytics Conversion University.
Traffic Estimator Tool
If you don't use Google Analytics, you can still adjust and optimize your bids using the Traffic Estimator Tool. For each keyword you select, you will be able to see the minimum bid, maximum CPC, the search volume bar, Estimated Ad Positions, and other information. The most relevant column for the purposes of testing ad ranking against ROI is the Estimated Ad Positions information. The Estimated Ad Positions column shows your ad's estimated position on each of your keywords with your current maximum CPC. If you're unhappy with the estimated ad position, enter a new maximum CPC in the Maximum CPC field and click 'Get New Estimates.' You can follow a step-by-step guide on how to use Traffic Estimator here.
Testing again and again
Lastly, you can always measure results without any special tools by simply looking at your conversions and your position, and then manually adjusting your bids until you achieve your optimal ROI. We want to emphasize that bidding higher CPCs for the keywords that you want isn't always what's best for your ROI. Instead, we recommend that you find out where the keyword is converting the best for the optimal cost. In this experimentation process, you may lower your bid too much and see conversions go down significantly or you may raise it too much and see no changes in conversions. Through testing and measuring, you should be able find the sweet spot where you are most effectively reaching your advertising goals.
For a more comprehensive range of topics related to managing bids, we recommend that you visit the Managing Cost-Per-Click and 'How do I strategically maximize my ROI?' topics in the Help Center. And you may also want to read more about the Conversion Optimizer beta.
As always, we want to know about the optimization tips you're interested in. Please email us to let us know and you may see your question answered in a future post.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
"scream..deeper i want to scream, i want you to hear me.."
well i feel like crap right now i feel like how the weather is outside stormy, cold, rainy, gloomy that's how it is.
i don't even know how i feel really right now i just know i feel blah. here is how my life has been lately and then me ranting and all sorts of other nonsense
the day after the baby shower i talked about in the long entry before this one. well my dog had a seizure at like 3 or 4 in the morning on that Sunday then mom told me i had a really hard time keeping it together at church so i only watched kids and went home. and then cried like all day and then 5:45 that night she had another seizure so she got taken to the emergency vet and lots of crying on my part and stress on everyone Else's but we didn't really have answers. right now we still don't have a definitive answer on anything. but we're exhausting all options. right now we're waiting for blood tests to come back really complicated ones so we will know for sure if its her thyroid. the other thing could be canine epilepsy but I'm still not sure about that. but its all so stressful and exhausting mentally and physically i don't jump at every noise she makes anymore but we were all doing that for awhile. but even now like we have to have at least two people here at all times just in case she has another one. one has to hold her down and the other has to give her the meds we have for just in case. we're also taking a gamble on things because we were supposed to give her epilepsy meds after she had her blood taken last Monday but we didn't want to cause what if its not that and the thyroid well yeah. so just praying about that.
lets see what else I'm really blah and depressed about a lot of things and its not like i can get out and go somewhere i can't and even if i could I'd have no where to go or anyone to see so its kinda sucko.
that's not all folks it gets worse.
i really need to blog more so these don't get so effing long.
the other day i watched munchkin for 6 hours. he totally was trying to beat me up but that's not the point. the point is my neighbor has two dogs and they are either stuck inside this small pantry like room or outside. and they were in their pantry room when i got there i eventually let them out once munchkin got up from his nap. and i felt so bad for them cause they get little to no attention cause my neighbor always shoos them outside or in their little room. and it breaks my heart. but no nono its worse. so i kept them in the House well i let them outside but it was raining so i let them back in. and i was looking at them one of them the older dog is sooo unkempt like she has long hair and her hair on her feet is like longer than her paws for reals and then her nails are super long i know cause she jumped on me. they aren't trained the other one is a short hair dog so that doesn't matter. but really they are very unkempt and it makes me so sad. and they get like no attention you can tell cause they almost like barreled me over when they wanted attention i gladly gave it to them. cause they are sweet dogs i would steal them if i could. especially the little one she crawled up in my lap on the couch. shes not little little just smaller than the other dog. anyway so i went to put them back in the room cause it was raining and munchkin needed to eat dinner. but i was trying to find something to entice them to go to the room and yeah cause they aren't trained either. and i went to go find dog bones first of all the dog food bin was open. that's just not right its gross bugs can go in. well i found dog bones, they were expired in 2008! i was like are you serious? and the open bag had bugs in it. i put it back only cause i didn't feel right about going through her things and throwing stuff out. so i just got a cracker and threw it in there for the dogs. and then later i was looking in the older ones mouth. and it looks like her teeth are rotting. i swear it broke my heart so bad i cried when i got home.
on to the next subject I'm crazy with my PMS but I'm also gonna screw things up cause I'm screwball. I'm having issues and I'd like to talk to one specific person about it. but there have been things that have gone on and i just feel like i can't talk to them cause i feel like if i do I'll screw it all up and it will be all weird and we won't be like we were before i could just be neurotic but that's how i feel right now. it makes me cry literally. yesterday in fact the whole thing made me cry off and on all day and the only thing that made me stop was organizing my Cd's cause I'm a ding dong and that's what i did it took forever. I'm so blah about all of this and so sad about this particular situation and its probably not even a situation but i am choosing to ignore said person and not say anything. cause I'm a screw up its cool.
in other news my best friend Colin is taking me to see weezer in September hes amazing. that's the only good thing i have to say.
my stomach hurts super bad right now its good times anyway i guess I'll wrap this up now. late.
ugh i just don't know i'm tired my stomach hurts and i'm all jumbled up how fun.
more later
Saturday, June 20, 2009
ugh why? just WHY?
Sunday, June 7, 2009
realizations last night someone very amazing to me said this:
"yeah, I trust very few people but the people I do trust, I trust deep like family sometimes deeper"
and then i got to thinking about that really heavily and this is what i said:
so i was thinking about something you said last night about how the people you trust you trust like family and stuff and then i got to thinking and realized it was super sad because i don't trust my family for the most part and I'm not even close to most of them which is sad but that's how it is and i dunno if I'd change it honestly i would with my dads side its so weird though cause like that side is super loving when they see you hugs and i love yous and we rarely see them but its kind of weird to me cause the other side which i see a lot is like no touchy kind of thing and dirty jokes and just all around negativity and its i dunno i just think its sad in some cases i trust people who I'm not even that close to more than I'd trust family. i don't enjoy being around my moms side of the family if anyone it'd be around my cousin Heidi and her son marcell i wish we saw my dads side more but we don't and i dunno i just am not close to my family i mean i guess to some degree i am to my immediate family not really my bro though which is to be expected but i dunno its just weird and sad another thing that is sad is that when family members have died i wasn't affected by it at all i feel kinda douchey sometimes for that but i wasn't close to them i don't know them so i can't be upset I'm just not close to my family and it really is sad but at the same time i am not really sure i want to be cause i really am not fond of the people they are. that's horrible but true. *sigh* it is what it is i guess I'm just grateful for amazing friends who are more family to me than even my family is.
so there we have it. again it just i dunno like i went to a baby shower today it was my dads side of the family my cousin by marriage is pregnant and she had her shower today and then i thought about this stuff more and more cause you just see how close she is with everyone else and how "love you"'s are spread around and you can tell how loving she really is and i wish that it was like that and i wish that we saw them more i mean my cousins (they are way older than me) have had kids and I've only seen the kids like 3 or 4 times and they are like 10 at the oldest now and it just is sad missing all that. and having that closeness that we don't have but ugh i dunno.
anyway at the baby shower i won a prize i won a spa gift certificate which is super weird cause I've never won anything. but yeah and the presents we made were much loved and ooed and awed over it was good stuff.
i dunno what else i want to say so i will give up right now and go to bed.
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Is it AAOx3 or A&Ox3
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Just curious I used to write A&Ox3 last semester, this semester the teacher told us that it is AAOx3- just confused?!?!
I looked on the boards here and it is written both ways
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Either way whoever reads that will know what it means. Go by what your teacher says though. I usually write A/Ox3, and I've seen nurses at the hospital during my clinicals write it this way.
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Well AAOx3 equals awake, alert, and oriented to person, place, time. So it should be written AAOx3 or AA&Ox3.
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I use AOx3 and no one has ever had any problems figuring what it meant.
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well if your alert doesn't that make you awake? so why be redundant. Maybe it is regional but I have never see AAOx3 we usually write A&O x3.
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never heard of AA&Ox3 either--- I'm in upstate NY, maybe it is seems kinda weird really---you are assessing the level of orientation--weather the pt is awake or not is irrelavant and really doesn't it asume the pt. is awake as it is impossible to ask the pt anything to do the assessment if the pt. is sleeping!!
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AAo x 3 means, "Awake, Alert, Oriented to Person, Place and Time"... Yes you can't be alert without being awake but you can be awake and not alert. Therefore your teacher is correct, you should write AAOx3. Don't take the short cuts! Your patient depends on you!
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I don't think its a short cut. If someone is awake and not alert then you would know because you obviously wouldn't be oriented to person, place, or time so its redundent. I've never heard that being used in any courses and never heard it used in clinical. I guess if I ever do hear it I will at least now know what they're talking about.
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I use A&Ox3, sometimes see folks use A&Ox4 with the "4th" being "situation".
I think AAO is redundant - for me at least, if someone if sleeping I chart that they are sleeping.
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i say and write A&Ox3. alert & oriented times 3.
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Where is the Patient??
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I find it so annoying when the Husband/Wife/Significant Other/Parent call re the Patient after they have just left the house or just go into the Tub.
Can I speak with the Pt?
Oh he just went out to the store or he just left for his Baseball game or He is in the Tub right now.
It's like they wait till the Pt. leaves or is not available before they call us!
Caller is at work and has not seen the patient in 8 hrs and is calling you after speaking to his wife who is at home. He has next to no knowledge of symptoms so now I have to listen to him for a minute, get wife's phone number and call her back so I can get it straight from the horses mouth. Just more time consuming. I mean like the Pt. speaks perfect English just call us direct!
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
One of my favorite photos.
Happy Birthday, Dad.
1. what a handsome man!!
2. Your father was a very good-looking man. You certainly resemble him a great deal.
3. He had such a glorious smile and was such a giving man.
4. I didn't realize your dad died so young Terry. I only met your parents the once, but they had such a warmth about them that I still remember to this day. Sending a hug.
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this is an archive ;)
i moved blogs srry folks
I'm here now
i’m doing it over again and i made a crochet stache
1. discosis said: Now make a Mabel sweater! :’D
2. somethinglessstupid said: good day to you, kind gentleman
3. macproafro said: You’ve inspired me. I’m going to start making socks.
4. anniehotlipsarchive posted this
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What historical event happened on April 14th 1865?
On April 15, 1865, at 7:22 a.m., President Lincoln was pronounced dead. AnswerParty!
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Abraham Lincoln
Discharged from his command and re-enlisted as a Private.
East Midlands
The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It consists of the eastern part of the traditional region of the Midlands and encompasses the combined area of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire and most of Lincolnshire. A looser definition of the East Midlands might also include the City of Peterborough (traditionally associated with Northamptonshire, but now included in Cambridgeshire), and North Lincolnshire.
Lincoln, England
Lincoln /ˈlɪŋkən/ is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England. The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln has a 2011 population of 93,541. The 2011 census gave the entire urban area of Lincoln (which includes North Hykeham, and Waddington ) a population of 119,200.
Lincoln developed from the Roman town of Lindum Colonia, which developed from an Iron Age settlement. Lincoln's major landmarks are Lincoln Cathedral, a fine example of English Gothic architecture, and Lincoln Castle, an 11th-century Norman castle. The city is also home to the University of Lincoln and Bishop Grosseteste University. Lincoln is situated in a gap in the Lincoln Cliff 141 miles (227 kilometres) north of London, at an elevation of 20.4 metres (66.9 feet) above sea level by the River Witham, stretching up to 72.8 metres (238.8 feet) above sea level in the uphill area around the cathedral.
The 12-hour clock was developed over time from the mid-second millennium BC to the 16th century AD.
Local government in the United Kingdom
Local government in the United Kingdom has origins that pre-date the United Kingdom itself, as each of the four countries of the United Kingdom has its own separate system. For details, see:
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What is the difference between an artifact and a technological device?
A device is an instrument or tool or gadget or mechanism, which may be physical or conceptual, including hardware and software.
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ابحث عن أية كلمة، مثل: porb
a fake thug. Someone that acts all tought but really isn't.can be used as an adjective.
example 1:
Thug 1: "Hey check it look at that berry slippin over there; he 'bout to get picked!"
Thug 2: Let's do this.....
example 2:
"That fool looks all berry rocking that pink button-up shirt!"
بواسطة o1aztekdog اغسطس 23, 2006
short form of blackberry a fruit.
also a berry is a nicer name for a freak or a person that you are unable to put a label on. a person who dresses like a goth, emo, punk rocker
wooo look its a berry
بواسطة Blackberry يونيو 29, 2006
Butt cherry, the anal equivalent of the hymen. A contraction of "butt" and "cherry."
"I had anal sex and had my berry popped for the first time!"
بواسطة MBGPR يناير 21, 2006
A fake thug. Basically some lame ass trying to act hard (like at work) but is really a punk ( on the streets).Guys that try to come off like they're tough, but at the first sight of a real gangster they bitch up.Also used to describe the same.
1: (noun) That punk Renee is a lil berry; and he's about to get picked!
2: (adj.) Did you see that fool lookin all berry wearing that pink polo shirt?
بواسطة o1aztekdog اغسطس 23, 2006
a person with a really big nose who is also a noob.
Dude, you're such a berry.
بواسطة poopmasterer نوفمبر 11, 2006
shortened term for strawberry.
High beams are hardened nipples on a females breast.
بواسطة pooh ابريل 7, 2005
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TY - JOUR T1 - INvestigations of possible failures of postexposure prophylaxis following occupational exposures to human immunodeficiency virus AU - Jochimsen EM AU - Luo C AU - Beltrami JF AU - Respess RA AU - Schable CA AU - Cardo DM Y1 - 1999/10/01 N1 - 10.1001/archinte.159.19.2361 JO - Archives of Internal Medicine SP - 2361 EP - 2363 VL - 159 IS - 19 N2 - Although evidence suggests that PEP may be effective,3 failures of PEP with zidovudine have been reported.4,5 It is likely that failures of PEP with combination therapy also will occur, and one possible case has recently been described.6 Since little is known about the effectiveness of PEP for occupational HIV exposures, investigation of cases of possible PEP failure can provide important information about factors that may influence PEP efficacy and occupational HIV transmission. Reports of PEP failure may help direct future epidemiologic or laboratory studies in this area and potentially could influence recommendations for management of occupational HIV exposures. SN - 0003-9926 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinte.159.19.2361 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.159.19.2361 ER -
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The Big Blue Diaries As the trial resumed, the government produced a Microsoft competitor with a telltale journal. But did the evidence show a crime?
By Joseph Nocera
(FORTUNE Magazine) – TUESDAY, JUNE 1: "It looks like old home week," says Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, cracking a smile as he calls Round Two of the Microsoft antitrust trial to order. Round One, you'll recall, ended three months ago with Microsoft's defense seemingly in tatters and the government confident it had won the case.
In the interim, Judge Jackson presided over a grueling drug and murder trial. The combatants were busy too. A month into the recess, Microsoft and the government met to talk about a possible settlement. They were so far apart they never had a second meeting. Instead, the two sides spent the rest of their time girding for this next battle. Microsoft's lawyers, intent on making the recent AOL-Netscape merger a central part of its defense, subpoenaed merger documents and deposed AOL executives. The government's lawyers, meanwhile, went searching for a computer executive who might be willing to testify about Microsoft's alleged predatory practices. They found one from IBM who, we hear, turned over a handwritten diary filled with details about alleged threats Microsoft made against Big Blue. He's up next week.
This is the rebuttal phase of the trial. In the first part, which spanned last fall and winter, the litigants were each allowed 12 witnesses to make their cases. This time, the judge has allotted each side three witnesses--and two weeks (ha!)--to rebut the other side's earlier testimony. In an antitrust trial, that inevitably means that economists will retake the stand--and so it is here. Franklin Fisher and Richard Schmalensee--MIT colleagues who testified on opposing sides during Round One--are scheduled to return for Round Two. Fisher, in fact, is the government's first rebuttal witness, and he's on the stand right now.
As the rumpled, white-haired professor begins to answer questions put by David Boies, the government's chief prosecutor, I too am struck by the feeling that it's deja vu all over again. The witness, the lawyers, the reporters, even most of the spectators are the same people who were here last fall and winter. To me, though, it feels less like old home week than the first day of school after summer vacation: You're happy to see all your old friends, but your brain isn't ready to tackle the business at hand.
To save time, Jackson had witnesses in Round One turn in written direct testimony. In Round Two, he is letting the lawyers conduct the direct examinations in court, and Boies is using the first part of his exam of Fisher as a kind of Microsoft refresher course. Microsoft has a monopoly in the operating-system market, Fisher asserts in response to a Boies question. It has used its monopoly power to damage rivals, such as Netscape. In fact, says Fisher, many of Microsoft's anticompetitive acts--such as bundling its browser into Windows and giving it away for free--can only be explained as the actions of a monopolist trying to protect its monopoly. We trial regulars think: yadda, yadda, yadda.
Just as we're about to nod off, Fisher does something that causes our heads to jerk up. He begins to denigrate Schmalensee. We knew that he would be criticizing his colleague's economic analysis; Schmalensee, after all, testified in January that Microsoft did not have monopoly power and that its actions were not anticompetitive. Yet Fisher brings a relish to this task that is startling. He accuses Schmalensee--the dean of MIT's business school and a leading light in his field--of a "lack of systematic thinking." He says that Schmalensee is "reasonably confused," that "he behaves rather peculiarly" in some of his thinking, and that his arguments are "silly" and even "ridiculous."
What makes this so striking is that the two men aren't just colleagues, they're friends. Schmalensee was once Fisher's student. When the government first asked Fisher to testify against Microsoft, he sought out Schmalensee, who was already working for the software giant. Schmalensee told him not to worry. "This isn't a holy war," Fisher recalls Schmalensee saying at the time. But a holy war is what it's become.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2: Here's something new. Remember how, during Round One, there would be two spin cycles each day? At the lunch break, and again at the end of the day, Boies and Mark Murray, Microsoft's chief trial spokesman, would stand before a battery of cameras and microphones and take turns explaining how the latest testimony helped their respective causes. Reporters complained about the heavy-handedness of Microsoft's spin-doctoring, but we never stopped showing up. The spin sessions became one of the trial's rituals.
But yesterday and again today, only Boies has stepped to the microphones. Murray and the other Microsoft flacks have declined to appear. Mystified, reporters begin asking about this change in tactics. "The sessions just weren't that fruitful," shrugs Jim Cullinan, Murray's feisty young assistant. "They were counterproductive." He adds, "We're just listening to what you folks told us," making it sound as though canceling the spin sessions is in response to press complaints. In fact, Microsoft still has squads of PR troops at the trial and every intention of getting its message across. But the company appears to have realized that its daily courthouse statements--in which it often seemed to be saying that black was white and night was day--came across as shrill and not believable. Murray tells me that the company flacks will talk to reporters individually instead of in large groups with cameras rolling. Then he adds the shocker: Microsoft flacks are going to stop having drinks with the press corps on Thursday nights. Another Round One ritual bites the dust.
THURSDAY, JUNE 3: Does Franklin Fisher know anything about the software industry? We're starting to wonder.
Last time he was here, Fisher didn't seem particularly well prepared; this time he almost seems to be winging it. Even during his direct exam by Boies, his testimony is almost entirely lacking in hard figures--and you could just smell what was going to happen during cross-examination. Michael Lacovara, Microsoft's best courtroom lawyer, would torture Fisher over the lack of specifics in his direct testimony. This would have two consequences. First, it would cast doubt on Fisher's qualifications for making charges about Microsoft. And second, it would make Fisher squirm.
Sure enough, that's pretty much what's taken place since Boies handed Fisher over to Lacovara yesterday morning. The irrepressible "Laco" is enjoying putting Fisher on the rack. For instance, in order to show that Microsoft is charging "monopoly rents" for Windows, Fisher offered a complex calculation that uses $953 as the cost of a computer. (Schmalensee, who did his own complex calculation to show just the opposite, used a far higher price.) "Did you know that that price excludes the cost of the monitor?" Laco asks, in a tone of withering contempt. No, Fisher replies. "Do you still think it's appropriate to use $953?" "That's a fair point," Fisher concedes.
Fisher has insisted that computer prices have steadily declined during the 1990s; Lacovara displays a chart showing that the average price jumped substantially in mid-decade. During his direct exam, Fisher said that Microsoft had raised the price of Windows--which, he alleges, the company can do with impunity because of its monopoly. How much additional revenue was raised by those price hikes? asks Lacovara. When Fisher says he doesn't know, Laco snorts is disbelief. He asks if the economist has made any empirical studies to back his assertions. No, says Fisher. And Laco skewers Fisher when the discussion turns to Linux, the operating system that Microsoft claims is a potential threat to Windows. Under questioning from Boies, Fisher had claimed that Linux was not a threat because there weren't enough software applications written for Linux to give it widespread appeal. That, he said, was the "applications barrier to entry" that protected Microsoft's monopoly. Now, however, Fisher is forced to admit that he hasn't the faintest idea how many applications have been written for Linux, or any other operating system. And on, and on. "This is a Fish fry," chortles John Warden, Microsoft's lead trial lawyer, at the midmorning break.
After the break, Laco moves in for the kill. One of the critical issues in the case is whether Microsoft used monopoly power to force computer makers to abandon Netscape's browser in favor of Microsoft's. The government says that's exactly what happened--and last October former Netscape CEO James Barksdale agreed. "We're basically out of that [channel]," he testified. As he described it in court, Microsoft made threats against computer manufacturers that wanted to pre-install Netscape's browser--and they all folded.
But in the treasure-trove of AOL-Netscape documents it subpoenaed, Microsoft discovered one that put the percentage of pre-installed Netscape browsers at 24%. This document seems particularly credible because it was prepared by AOL's investment bankers, Goldman Sachs, as part of the merger's due diligence process. What's more, the document was secretly prepared last fall--just weeks before Barksdale testified!
First, Lacovara shows the document to Fisher. Then he reads Barksdale's testimony aloud. What can Fisher say? "If they really had...24% penetration," he admits, "then I think this is an exaggeration." In one stroke, Laco has undermined the credibility of both Barksdale, the government's star witness when the trial began, and Fisher, its chief economic witness. And he's clearly made an impression on Judge Jackson, who mentions the document several times before the day is out.
At the spin session after court ends, Boies dismisses the discrepancy as inconsequential and insists that Barksdale's credibility has not been seriously damaged. But the press isn't buying it; for once, it's the prosecutor, rather than Microsoft, who appears to be saying that black is white and night is day. I nudge Cullinan, who's standing next to me. "You're not going to make a statement after a day like this?" I ask. He chuckles. "I think we'll just let the events in the courtroom speak for themselves," he replies.
MONDAY, JUNE 7: Phil Malone is in some ways the unsung hero on the government's team. Operating out of the Justice Department's San Francisco office, the 40-year-old Malone led the antitrust division's investigation into Microsoft's business practices. Before Boies came onboard, Malone also served as lead prosecutor; when Boies arrived, Malone accepted without complaint his role as the No. 2 litigator. Though he has continued to play an important behind-the-scenes role, Malone only got to cross-examine one fairly minor Microsoft witness during Round One. Now, however, he's been handed the juiciest of assignments. Today Malone begins the direct examination of government rebuttal witness No. 2--yes, the IBM guy with the handwritten diaries.
The IBM guy's name is Garry D. Norris. A 41-year-old African American--the first nonwhite male, by the way, to testify in this trial--Norris bears an importance to the government's case that's almost impossible to overstate. Ever since the government filed suit last May, it has been pleading with computer manufacturers to testify. They, after all, are supposed to be the ones most at the mercy of Microsoft, since they are out of business without Windows. And they're all said to resent Microsoft's power over them. Gateway, for instance, answered a series of government interrogatories with some scathing allegations about Microsoft. Yet no one from Gateway was willing to come forward to testify.
Why has Big Blue decided to step into the ring now? No one will say. The most likely explanation is that the company has been emboldened by the government's apparent successes in Round One and sees a chance to help bury its long-time rival. (To be sure, an IBM executive did testify in the earlier part of the trial. But he was not from the PC division, and his testimony was not particularly significant.) The government doesn't really care why IBM has stepped forward. Norris is here, and on the stand--and he's making just the kind of allegations that the feds prayed for.
Here is Norris' story: Between March 1995 and March 1997, his job consisted primarily of negotiating Windows license agreements with Microsoft. When he took the position, IBM was paying a royalty of $9 for each copy of Windows 3.1 that it loaded onto its computers. That was a better deal than any other manufacturer's, the result of IBM's having helped develop the operating system. But in the spring and summer of 1995, as Microsoft was preparing to launch its all-important Windows 95, relations with Big Blue grew increasingly chilly. First, Microsoft asked that IBM stop selling its competing operating system, OS/2. When IBM refused, a Microsoft executive told IBM that it would have to pay $75 per copy of Windows 95. "Where else are you going to go?" Norris quotes a Microsoft official as saying. "We're the only game in town." (The executive who allegedly made those remarks later told the New York Times and the Washington Post that he had never said anything of the sort.)
Then, that summer, IBM bought Lotus--which had its own array of products that compete with Microsoft offerings--and relations got even worse. Microsoft demanded to know whether IBM was going to load Lotus' SmartSuite products onto its computers, and was furious to learn that it was. Gates, according to the witness, screamed so loudly at an IBM executive that Norris, who was present in the room, could hear what he said--even though Gates was on the other end of the phone. All that summer, as other manufacturers were getting access to Windows 95 to prepare for the launch, IBM was frozen out. According to Norris, Microsoft made it plain that as long as IBM was going to compete with Microsoft in such areas as operating systems and office-productivity suites, it would never get the same favorable treatment as friendlier computer manufacturers such as Compaq. Though Microsoft finally granted IBM a Windows license, the signing took place just 15 minutes before the official launch. Because it was so far behind, says Norris, IBM missed the back-to-school season, losing tens of millions of dollars in sales. In addition, it was forced to pay a higher royalty than other manufacturers--costing hundreds of millions more. This, he says, was IBM's punishment for insisting on its right to compete against Microsoft.
It is a stunning day of testimony. Norris is confirming what the government has been saying since this case began: that Microsoft uses its Windows monopoly to stifle competition. So dramatic is Norris' testimony that the Washington Post puts its account on page one. But the news stories don't convey the weirdly matter-of-fact way in which this electric testimony is conveyed. Malone is as low-key as Boies is charismatic, and he conducts his examination in a steady, methodical, somewhat bland fashion. Norris is much the same. The rare witness in this trial who does not expound, pontificate, or bluster, he is as low-key as Malone. But the testimony is so powerful that even without Boies-style fireworks, it's still riveting. When the day ends, we trial regulars all agree that Microsoft has taken a serious hit.
TUESDAY, JUNE 8: Hey, wait a minute. Where are the handwritten diaries? Weren't they supposed to be the best part of Norris' testimony? Yesterday, Malone introduced only one page of the diaries as evidence, and it didn't amount to much. But it turns out that Malone was saving the best for last. This morning he begins trotting them out--and they more than live up to their billing.
During a Feb. 17, 1997, meeting with a Microsoft executive named Bengt Akerlind, Norris wrote, "Bengt Akerlind. SmartSuite, [Lotus] Notes, World Book, etc. Gates. Why are we working with IBM when they are doing these deals? Don't work with them." When Malone asks him to explain the cryptic note, Norris says, "I recall [Akerlind] saying that Gates was really upset...that we continue to compete with Microsoft with SmartSuite, now Notes and World Book.... He [Akerlind] said that's what Gates said: 'Don't work with them.'" Malone moves to another diary entry, this from a meeting in early March 1997. The item reads, "IE 4.0. In exchange, neutral system...." Again Norris explains: Microsoft was offering to give its new browser, Internet Explorer 4.0, to IBM for free. "But in exchange," he adds, "we would have to agree to load a neutral system." What is a neutral system, according to Microsoft? "Microsoft defined a neutral system as a system that contained Microsoft software...and no IBM or competing system."
One more meeting, one more diary item: "CDT. No ship with NTW and SmartSuite...QPQ access to source, NT and Back Office and 95." This meant, Norris said, that Microsoft wanted IBM to forgo loading SmartSuite on any commercial desktop brand (CDT) that shipped with the Windows NT operating system (NTW). In return, Microsoft would give IBM access to the source code for Windows NT, BackOffice, and Windows 95.
What does QPQ mean? Malone asks. Norris look directly at Judge Jackson and responds slowly: "Quid. Pro. Quo."
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9: Maybe, just maybe, the dynamics of the Microsoft trial really are changing. Maybe the events of last week, when Laco left Fisher in a writhing heap, were not some aberration but a signal of a tidal shift. Maybe Microsoft is finally figuring out how to defend this case.
Admittedly, I did not think that yesterday afternoon, when Microsoft's cross-examination of Norris began. Richard Pepperman, a young, well-liked Microsoft lawyer, got off to a terrible start--irritating the judge with frivolous lines of questions, making a series of small but telling blunders, and generally appearing to be in over his head. During a sidebar conference in the afternoon, the judge went so far as to tell Pepperman, "I'm not sure how much progress you've made so far." Pepperman, after one slip-up, actually told the judge that it was the result of his "inexperience." It looked like Round One all over again: Witness makes searing allegations against Microsoft. Microsoft's lawyers not only fail to regain ground, but dig the hole even deeper. Judge gets mad at Microsoft. Press has field day.
But this afternoon, Pepperman raises his game to another level. In the space of two hours, he asks a rapid-fire series of questions that poke gaping holes in Norris' account. Isn't it true, he asks, that Microsoft never threatened to withhold Windows 95 from IBM, even after Big Blue turned down Microsoft's request to stop competing? Yes, concedes Norris, that's true. And isn't it true that although Microsoft originally wanted to raise the price of Windows 3.1 from $9 to $63, IBM eventually negotiated it down to $19.95? Again, Norris is forced to agree. ("Pretty good negotiating with the only game in town," adds Pepperman.) And isn't it true that Compaq got a better deal because it had helped develop Windows 95--just as IBM had done with Windows 3.1? Again, Norris has to agree.
By the time Pepperman is finished, we're wondering: What precisely is the crime that Microsoft is supposed to have committed here? If IBM consistently refused to bend to Microsoft's wishes--and still got access to Windows--how is this an abuse of monopoly power? Doesn't even a monopolist have a right to extract the best possible price for its products--and give price breaks to companies that agree to promote its products exclusively?
The Justice Department insists that Microsoft's treatment of IBM is a clear example of predatory tactics. But antitrust observers say this is far from clear--and that case law probably favors Microsoft on this point at least. In any case, as Pepperman grills him, Norris becomes increasingly petulant, argumentative, and forgetful--just like so many Microsoft witnesses during Round One. When the session ends, the Microsoft troops are positively buoyant.
Back in the old days of this trial, when Microsoft was getting killed in court on a daily basis, Mark Murray would often begin his part of the spin session by saying, "It was another good day for Microsoft." Among the press corps, it became a running joke--a symbol of Microsoft's denial of reality. Today, during a short recess after Pepperman completes his cross-examination, Murray sidles up to me and says something very similar. "We had a good day today." I don't roll my eyes. This time, black isn't white and night isn't day.
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Bad Moon Rising: The King of America
Beyond the pure insanity of a nutty cult leader having the influence that Reverend Moon has, there are so many things so very wrong here I hardly know where to begin. But I'll force myself to start with what's been in the news recently. And I'll do it briefly because, as I've said before, this topic has been discussed to death in the corporate media. And now that I think about it, it's not that it's been discussed so much, but how it's been discussed, as an endless 20 second loop, that's the problem.
If you go back as far as I do, ask yourself when the last time was, or if you don't go back that far, ask yourself if you've ever, heard the Reverend Sun Myung Moon mentioned in the corporate media. I go back far enough to remember the John Belushi skit from the documentary when it first aired on Saturday Night Live. While Reverend Wright sound bites play on and endless loop in the corporate media, a man who has more political influence and is more dangerous than all the religious nut cases you can name combined, and I don't include Wright in that group, is rarely, if ever brought up. In fact, he's only been mentioned recently in the blogosphere from what I've seen, and I watch a lot of CNN and MSNBC. And while that might not be exhaustive coverage of what the media is reporting, googling his name for news stories on him finds only a handful. One by AlterNet, none by major media outlets.
It took a blogger to break the story of his "coronation" by congressmen in a federal building and 3 months for the corporate media to catch up. And that's the other part of this story. It's why what we have right here is so important. Without it all we would have are the sensationalist stories deemed worthy of the attention by the corporate media. The same nonsense, every day, over and over again until we are sick of it. Sandwiched between stories of She Who Must Not be Named (SWMNBN) and Britney freaking Spears.
While a multi-billionaire with the not at all secret goal of undermining democracy and Christianity, buys major influence in the party of the Christian Right and with an ex-president, the media is fixated on the racially incendiary and sensational. These are the kinds of stories and the people who expose them are the people who will have little if any exposure if net neutrality is not protected. And if giant media conglomerates are allowed to continue gobble up local and smaller media outlets as they have been by the FCC. The chances that we will know that the Reverend Sun Myung Moons of the world exist, and that we will be able to force the corporate media to cover them, will be almost nil.
The mainstream media don't deserve even courtesy of the "corporate" qualifier on their name. It gives them too much credit. They should be called, and I'll have to make an exception and name she who must not be named, the Paris Hilton Media, or the Britney Spears Media. Because it characterizes, if not all the content they cover, the style of their coverage, which is anything that can be sensationalized. When they aren't protesting that they hate the fact that they have to cover the latest Britney drama, and they wish they didn't, they are putting a dramatic spin on anything else they cover. Because their goal is to sell soap, and by soap I mean anything that advertisers will pay them to sell. And it's not the selling of soap, but that it is more important to them than informing the public, that makes them no different than a soap opera. Just because they call it news, doesn't make it so.
Yet another aspect of the documentary which touches on recent "news" is the origin of stories, complete propaganda or otherwise totally false, that start with the Moon owned Washington Post and move from there straight into the mouths of Fox News and other right-wing pundits. From there into the Paris Hilton Media (PHM) or if they are don't meet the low standards of credibility to make it that far, they end up as email forwards that at least 10% to 15% of Americans actually believe.
That is why it is important now, essential in fact, that people spread this story. Spread this documentary. That they force it into the PHM. So that we are seeing endless loops of Bush 41 endorsing the Washington Times and that people know that it is owned by Moon. People need to Digg stories about it to the front page of, if not this one then the video itself.
They should forward it to their friends and send links to it to the PHM. Reverend Wright and the preachers who've endorsed John McCain have been held up to much public scrutiny yet are harmless in comparison to Reverend Moon. Moon is actually dangerous and people should know who he is and the power he wields.
John Gorenfeld said...
Thanks for the support--you are part of a blogger army escorting these secrets into the mainstream.
arevolutionofone said...
Good job on the documentary. I just hope it gets the attention it deserves. Thank you for doing the job the mainstream media should be doing.
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Sick of US Politics yet?
Just how much air time can be devoted to subjects that don't actually matter? Take for instance the Republican and Democratic candidate selection process. I'm flabbergasted at the amount of time the press spends talking about who's going to win - Obama or Hilary? Or is it Edwards? - in the various individual states.
Don't misunderstand me, it does matter who ends up winning, and ending up becoming their party's presidential nominee. What doesn't matter are all these shows trying to guess who will win. For example, for the Democratic process, professional oddsmakers put Obama at something like 33%, Hilary at 32%, and Edwards at 27%. Now, perhaps I'm a bit simple, but to me that just means "Flip a three-sided coin".
In most cases, the battle is so freaking close there simply is NO WAY to pick a winner in advance. No matter how authorative the "expert" queried, the fact of the matter is that they are just guessing. And if you examine the experts' track records after the fact, they're usually as wrong as often as they are right. Which is what you would expect from someone who is guessing.
And that's what doesn't matter. The guesses. Yet you can't turn on a television without being flooded with hundreds upon hundreds of hours of television programmind devoted to trying to guess who's going to win the primary. And this is nothing compared to what we'll get once the Presidential race begins to heat up.
Bread and circuses.
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Can an atheist join the Freemasons?
September 16, 2011 10:25 AM Subscribe
Can an atheist join the Freemasons?
A number of years ago now my father joined the Freemasons. Since then he has been very interested in having me join as well, and has done a decent job of selling it to me. The only part that's been holding me back has been that joining apparently requires you to pledge that you believe in some kind of higher power. I'm an atheist and not really comfortable with the idea of faking it. How central is this to Freemasonry? What is meant by 'higher power'? Is this something that can be addressed by a wishy-washy "I do not believe humanity is the most powerful force in the universe"?
posted by Hoopo to Religion & Philosophy (15 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
Can your higher power be science?
posted by MegoSteve at 10:35 AM on September 16, 2011
Does he not know you are an athiest? Furthermore, Masons are not supposed to recruit, the most they are supposed to do is ask someone if they have thought about joining.
There is often prayer in lodge, if that makes you uncomfortable. Please do not lie to join the Masons, they are not a drinking society. That's the Shriners. ;)
posted by entropicamericana at 10:37 AM on September 16, 2011 [1 favorite]
My understanding, from my longtime Mason dad, is that Masons must believe in the "immortality of the soul". I don't quite know what that means because he doesn't do a very good job explaining. But it is a thing.
posted by Pineapplicious at 10:40 AM on September 16, 2011
Requirements for membership from my local lodge include:
He must be a believer in God and in immortality. A petitioner who is unable or unwilling to express a belief in the existence of God lacks an essential qualification for the degrees in Masonry. In every such case the fee shall be returned with the information that he cannot become a Mason in this Grand Jurisdiction.
I assume that's pretty common among freemasons, but there may be exceptions.
posted by BurntHombre at 10:44 AM on September 16, 2011 [1 favorite]
My wife is joining the Elks so I can be part of the Women's Auxiliary.
I can't join for the same reason as you and have a hard time lying about anything.
The Women's Auxiliary enjoys all the perks of membership without having to make any statement of faith.
And, no, they don't really call it the "Women's Auxiliary" anymore. I wish they did.
posted by Seamus at 10:52 AM on September 16, 2011
Someone who is openly atheist would not be welcome with our local Masons, afaik, but someone who is privately atheist and willing to say a vague pledge about a higher power would be.
posted by thirteenkiller at 10:58 AM on September 16, 2011
I don't know anything about the Freemasons, so I'm just going off the information in this thread, but I don't see how the choice is between either lying or not joining. Doesn't it depend on what "higher" means? Higher than what? Higher than human beings? People have already mentioned science. Aside from science, what about just the universe as a whole? Truth? Reason/logic? Numbers/math? Morality? Love? Now, people can have philosophical debates about whether some of these things actually exist, but do you believe any of them do and are higher powers?
posted by John Cohen at 11:06 AM on September 16, 2011
I'm not sure, John--the "higher power" thing I got from discussions with my Dad and his .. Master or whatever it's called (that felt weird to type) who was once a leader of his lodge, and some other Masons he introduced me to. I think explicitly they ask about your belief in a Supreme Being, however the Grand Lodge in my area says they would admit a Buddhist for example. I'm not sure if this is an indication they don't really understand Buddhism (there's no Supreme Being in Buddhism) or that there's a lot of lattitude in their idea of a "Supreme Being" and that not believing in a deity is alright so long as you're not a nihilist.
The website says:
posted by Hoopo at 11:33 AM on September 16, 2011
My friend who is a freemason has specifically mentioned to me that he'd love to have me join his lodge but knows I can't be accepted as per the atheist rule. Which sucks. So, no. If nobody knows about it and you're willing to pretend I imagine it would be OK as long as you were comfortable pretending, but if anyone in the lodge knows you're an atheist they are bound by their own pledge/oath to let it be known you are an atheist before your admission is final.
posted by barc0001 at 11:35 AM on September 16, 2011
entropicamericana: "Please do not lie to join the Masons, they are not a drinking society. That's the Shriners. ;)"
Maybe this varies by lodge? I have a friend who is a Mason, and it sounds VERY much like a drinking society.
posted by Chrysostom at 1:17 PM on September 16, 2011
I am a member of a fraternal organization - a woman's group. I agree with the comments that they are not supposed to recruit. Likewise in my organization God and the Bible are referenced in every meeting. I don't think the organziation is for you because:
I joined the organization under my grandfather. Mr. BuffaloChickenWing is not a member. It is not for everyone - there is nothing wrong if it isn't for you.
posted by BuffaloChickenWing at 1:20 PM on September 16, 2011
There is no one answer that applies to all Freemasonry, as the diversity is too vast. For example, the largest Masonic jurisdiction in France explicitly allows atheists to join. On the other hand, Scandinavian Freemasonry is limited to Christians only. There are also traditions of Freemasonry that are women-only, and traditions of Freemasonry that are open to both sexes (usually called "co-Masonry").
All you can say for sure is what applies to a specific Lodge within a specific jurisdiction. For the most part, the most established and mutually-recognized Masonic jurisdictions require that their members express a belief in God, and in the immortality of the soul. Which is to say that you must be able to honestly answer "yes" when asked "do you believe in ... ?"
That said, in all of these jurisdictions, it is also explicitly stated that each individual is free to have his own conception of what "God" (or "deity") means, and what "soul" and "immortality" mean. It would be absolutely permissible for someone to join the fraternity under the conception, for example, that "believing in God" means that you believe in some ineffable higher level of meaning and universal connectedness -- and not that there is some supernatural being looking down on us and deciding whether or not to interfere in our lives. Similarly, it would be permissible to join the fraternity under the conception that "soul" means that there is a certain "you-ness" beyond mere artifacts of neurochemical processes and that "immortality of the soul" means that in some smaller or greater way the universe will be different after you have passed on for having had you in it. So long as a person is comfortable enough with these personal definitions to say "yes" honestly to those questions (and due to those personal definitions, not afraid of the fact that the fraternity references things like god and souls and scriptures and whatnot) then there is no reason not to join.
Now, of course it is also true that there are plenty of people out there for whom the above suggested personal definitions would not qualify one to answer "yes" to those questions. But one of the interesting things about Freemasonry is that no one is allowed to ask you about your own thoughts on these matters. There are two things that are not permitted to discuss in the Lodge Room (and generally considered impolite to discuss at any time Masons are meeting "as Masons") : religion and politics. The idea is that people may naturally disagree on these matters and unable to become friends, and Masonry is about promoting "true friendship among those who might otherwise have remained perpetually at a distance."
Some of this may also come down to the individual Lodge, as suggested above. Some Lodges have a very diverse membership with Masons of many different ethnic and national heritages, of many different ages, and who subscribe to a very diverse array of spiritual beliefs. Others are less so. How well you and your beliefs might fit into a Lodge will very much depend on these things. This is why it's important to get to know the guys in the Lodge (and they you) before you might even petition for membership. And part of your discussion could be on these subjects, if you think you might fit in under a scenario such as I described above.
All that said, Freemasonry is a very old fraternity. And while ecumenicism is central to the Craft and it is ecumenical enough to include everyone from the definitions I suggested above to an evangelical Christian to a neo-pagan, it is also the fact that in 1510 in Scotland, this ecumenicism tended to be rather more of the "you can be any kind of Christian you want" kind. It has evolved past that, needless to say, but there are certainly still vestiges of this influence in Masonic ritual and practice. To be as clear as possible: bibles are seen and bible-passages are heard in Masonic Lodges. It is explained that the bibles are a symbolic representation of all religious texts (howsoever you might define that to be) and the bible-passages are non-sectarian to the point where they might as well be poetry. But they're there. If this would offend your sensibilities, then Freemasonry is not for you.
posted by slkinsey at 2:01 PM on September 16, 2011
In Regular Freemasonry, in the purest black and white terms, the answer is no. The finer points of the application and initiation process vary from country to country and province to province, but you will likely be asked point blank early on if you believe in a Supreme Being/higher power.
In Massachusetts, USA, it's explained in one of the first degree lectures that it's necessary for new candidates to confirm that belief because otherwise no Obligation can be considered binding upon them. My personal take on this requirement is that what matters about men who are brought into the Fraternity is not so much whether they subscribe to any particular religion or how devout they are, just that they all agree that there is something bigger than us in the universe, and that as Masons they should aspire to understand and emulate it. I think it's an attempt to establish a moral baseline and context for the fraternity. (Not that I think atheists are immoral!)
Freemasonry is a peculiar institution; the rituals are based on judeo-christian tradition, but they're not really religious; meetings are opened and closed with prayers, with a Bible (or Torah, Quran, etc. depending on the makeup of the lodge) on the altar. The word "God" is thrown around a lot, but I think most Masons are mature and intelligent enough to understand that the word is a symbol for each individual's personal belief system. The book on the alter is sometimes referred to more abstractly as the "Volume of Sacred Law", which again says to me that it's more about a baseline than about it being a Bible. (Of course, there are unfortunate exceptions).
You could split hairs and build a semantic argument wherein you could truthfully answer that you believe in a supreme being (without qualifying that you mean Nature, Mathematics, Science, The Universe, whatever) and nobody would question your answer or assent to the obligations of each degree... but because the degree lectures are all built on the assumption that "Supreme Being" means something more deity-like, you might not get much out of the degrees, which are what separates Freemasonry from most other community/club type organizations.
And yes, officially, Freemasons are not supposed to recruit... but I expect guys have been privately inviting their sons and close friends to join since about 10 minutes after the first lodge was formed. On the subject of drinking: Lodges in the US tend to be more or less dry, an unfortunate lingering byproduct of the temperance movement. Lodges in the U.K. usually have their own bar, and alcohol with meals after lodge meetings. Also, you have to be a Mason to join the Shriners, although I've heard that the Shriners have kicked around the idea of dropping that requirement.
It can be a bummer; I also have friends who would be great additions to the fraternity, but they happen to be atheists. I think it's time to start a new all-inclusive secret society!
posted by usonian at 2:02 PM on September 16, 2011 [1 favorite]
If I'm not mistaken, one must first achieve the level of Master Mason first, before he can become a Shriner. They are related organizations.
posted by Thorzdad at 2:10 PM on September 16, 2011
I thought I'd just clear something up; my Dad and his friends aren't trying to recruit me and they wouldn't be involved in the process. They live in another province and wouldn't be my 'sponsors' or whatever it's called. For my Dad's part I think it's kind of a family tradition thing; his father and grandfather etc were freemasons, and same on my mother's side. For the rest they've just been telling me a bit about what it is, asking why I'd be interested in joining, and what to do if I decided I wanted to join.
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[Beowulf] [hpc-announce] P2S2 2010 Call for Participation
Chen, Yong cheny at ornl.gov
Sat Sep 4 06:07:42 PDT 2010
[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call.]
Dear Colleagues,
The final program for the Third International Workshop on Parallel
is now available on the workshop website:
This year the workshop features 10 highly relevant technical talks
describing improvements to parallel programming models and systems
software in the past year. The workshop also features a technical
panel titled: "Is Hybrid Programming a Bad Idea Whose Time has Come?"
where a wide range of high profile panelists in this area will argue
on programming issues in the hybrid/heterogeneous computing era.
We would like to welcome you all to attend this year's P2S2 workshop
and look forward to seeing you on September 13th, in San Diego,
Opening Remarks, Time: 08:45am - 09:00am
Session 1: Communication, Time: 9:00am - 10:30am
Session Chair: Vinod Tipparaju, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- "Efficient Zero-Copy Noncontiguous I/O for Globus on InfiniBand",
Weikuan Yu and Jeffrey Vetter
- "Scaling Linear Algebra Kernels using Remote Memory Access",
Manojkumar Krishnan, Robert Lewis and Abhinav Vishnu
- "High Performance Design and Implementation of Nemesis Communication
Layer for Two-sided and One-Sided MPI Semantics in MVAPICH2",
Miao Luo, Sreeram Potluri, Ping Lai, Emilio P. Mancini, Hari Subramoni,
Krishna Kandalla, Sayantan Sur and Dhabaleswar K. Panda.
Session 2: Panel: Is Hybrid Programming a Bad Idea Whose Time has Come?
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Panel Moderator: Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory
Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Wu-chun Feng, Virginia Tech
Allen Maloney, University of Oregon
Taisuke Boku, Tsukuba University, Japan
Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research
Session 3: Programming Models and Performance Evaluation, Time: 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Session Chair: Hui Jin, Illinois Institute of Technology
- "Performance Modeling for AMD GPUs",
Ryan Taylor and Xiaoming Li
- "A Hybrid Programming Model for Compressible Gas Dynamics using OpenCL",
Ben Bergen, Marcus Daniels and Paul Weber
- "Message Driven Programming with S-Net: Methodology and Performance",
Frank Penczek, Sven-Bodo Scholz, Alex Shafarenko, Chun-Yi Chen, Nader Bagherzadeh,
Clemens Grelck and JungSook Yang
- "Implementation and Performance Evaluation of XcalableMP: A Parallel Programming
Language for Distributed Memory Systems",
Jinpil Lee and Mitsuhisa Sato
Session 4: Scheduling and Cache Management, Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Session Chair: Weikuan Yu, Auburn University
- "Scheduling a ~100,000 core Supercomputer for maximum utilization and capability",
Phil Andrews, Patricia Kovatch, Victor Hazlewood and Troy Baer.
- "Improving the Effectiveness of Context-based Prefetching with Multi-order Analysis",
Yong Chen, Huaiyu Zhu, Hui Jin and Xian-He Sun.
- "Hierarchical Load Balancing for Large Scale Supercomputers",
Gengbin Zheng, Esteban Meneses, Abhinav Bhatele and Laxmikant V. Kale.
* Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory
* Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
* Yong Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
* William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
* Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University
* Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research
* Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University
* George Almasi, IBM Research
* Taisuke Boku, Tsukuba University
* Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory
* Franck Cappello, INRIA, France
* Yong Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
* Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech
* Torsten Hoefler, Indiana University
* Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand
* Hyun-Wook Jin, Konkuk University, Korea
* Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology
* Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego
* Jiuxing Liu, IBM Research
* Heshan Lin, Virginia Tech
* Guillaume Mercier, INRIA, France
* Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratory
* Fabrizio Petrini, IBM Research
* Bronis de Supinksi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
* Sayantan Sur, Ohio State University
* Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory
* Vinod Tipparaju, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
* Jesper Traff, NEC, Europe
* Weikuan Yu, Auburn University
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Carbohydrates are often defined as compounds with only C, H, and O and the H and usually the O atoms are in a 2:1 ratio.
Exceptions like deoxyribose exist, but why is it recognized as a carbohydrate?
What distinguishes a carbohydrate from other compounds?
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The definition of carbohydrates as compounds containing $C$, $H$ and $O$ usually with the empirical formula ${C_m(H_2O)_n}$, is outdated.
More rigorous and a accurate definition would be Polyhydroxy Aldehydes and Ketones composed of Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen. Moreover, the nomenclature including Mono-, Di-, Oligo- and Poly- "Saccharide" is preferred over the now obsolete and too-general term "carbohydrate", since the etymological origin of the word "carbohydrate" is from the greek words Carbo- for carbon and hydor- for water which indicates that the carbohydrates are "hydrates" of carbon and have the empirical formula ${C_m(H_2O)_n}$, which is not always true. Instead "saccharide" is derived from the greek word for "sugar" and hence is much more accurate as it does not limit the definition to any empirical formula.
Apart from the polyhydroxy aldehyde or ketone characteristic of carbohydrate, they have a marked structural and functional variation from other biomolecules. This includes the absence of $S$ (as in proteins), $P$ and $N$ (as in proteins and nucleic acids), presence of Glycosidic bond (as compared to peptide bond in proteins, phosphodiester bond in nucleic acid, and ester linkages in fats or glycerides) and much greater structural uniformity as compared to other biomolecules.However, these characteristics are not absolute as is evident from the fact that several monosaccharide derivatives do contain $S$ or $N$ atoms. Actually, the entire group of amino-sugars (Hexosamines etc.) are usually classified under carbohydrates since they are primarily monosaccharide derivatives obtained through enzymatic amination.
These characteristics distinguish this class of compounds without having to assign a empirical formula to it.
Adding the clause compounds which can, on simple hydrolysis yield polyhydroxy aldehyde or ketones in the definition helps involve certain non-reducing sugars like Sucrose.
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Nice summary, but haven't you gone a bit far with the "absence of..." section? What, for example, would you classify N-acetyl glucosamine as? Or isopropylthio D galactoside? These are derivatives of saccharides containg N and S respectively, and it makes no sense to not classify them, broadly speaking, with their parent molecules. – Alan Boyd Oct 9 '13 at 14:37
@AlanBoyd The absence is not absolute and I forgot to mention that(corrected). However, the compounds you mention are referred to as monosaccharide-derivatives and not monosaccharides as such. These derivatives, usually cannot be classified into one of the traditional groupings which are not defined by strict structural criteria. Broadly speaking they are carbohydrates (i.e. monosaccharides) but while distinguishing, omitting a few exceptions might help us grasp the uniqueness of each group and I guess is what the asker meant with "What distinguishes a..?". – Satwik Pasani Oct 9 '13 at 16:54
@SatwikPasani That's exactly what I meant. Thank you for this rather slick summary - very clever to limit the composition with C, H and O. – Greek Fellows Oct 10 '13 at 12:26
Not all carbohydrates are reducing. Sucrose (a disaccharide), for example, contains no aldehyde or ketone group (the anomeric carbons are linked together) but is a carbohydrate (saccharide). Trehalose, a disaccharide of two glucose units, is also most certainly a carbohydrate, but is also non-reducing. – TomD Oct 11 '13 at 10:11
@TomD The addendum tries to resolve this problem. – Satwik Pasani Mar 7 at 5:32
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Tear gas (CCl3NO2) makes people cry, and crying doesn't seem to be a simple procedure. There has to be a triggering process somewhere. Can someone explain its mechanism / how it works?
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The general belief is that these agents are irritants which do not have a very specific effect. That is to say that there is no specific cell or biological function that they set off, but that they irritate the cells, so the cells respond by putting up general defenses to insulate themselves from the noxious chemicals.
Mucous and tears wash away the compounds. I'm sure there are all sorts of things going on, but its hard to be more specific. For instance, onions have many sulfhydryl (-SH) compounds, many many of them. In particular propanethial s-oxide causes the tears we get when we cut an onion. This compound is very reactive and reacts with all sorts of proteins and disrupts the membrane, etc. Its perhaps an example of a specific irritant that is so reactive that it creates tears.
An example of a specific reaction would perhaps be capsaicin. There is a specific protein that is a heat receptor and the chemical capsaicin activates it, causing the feeling of heat/warmth.
Tear gas and mustard gas appear to fall into the former category, which are chemicals so reactive that they just tear into the cell, damaging all sorts of things in there.
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One of the sulfhydryl groups from onions reacts with tear fluid to produce dilute sulfuric acid which is a very good irritant, and stimulates tears. – leonardo May 25 '12 at 1:56
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Beyond the Silo
Games come together through the combined development of designers, editors, publishers, layout, art, printers, graphic designers, public relations, project management, playtesters, art directors, and more. It can take a stunning number of people to produce a single game, from its original note-to-self to the end product.
There are women in every possible role that gets a game to the end goal. A number of them are experienced in more than one of those roles. Without a robust presence of women in games, our stories go untold. Diverse talent means new games, new ideas, and a visible reminder that games are neither made exclusively by or for people who prefer sexist narratives. For every man who acts as an ally to women, there's another guy who thinks female characters belong in chainmail bikinis. Think of it as the fantasy- genre equivalent of barefoot in the kitchen.
Of all the sexism-related problems we have in games, the low visibility of the women working in games steadily feeds into all of them them. And it starts with coverage.
Typical tabletop coverage includes blogs, podcasts, tabletop game awards, vlogs and YouTube channels (like Wil Wheaton's Tabletop), with some coverage outside tabletop-only spheres. Even parenting magazines will have coverage of card games and board games when they're geared for a more all-ages audience. That's reasonable diversity for such a small segment of the games market.
But reviews of games often focus solely on game play, without exploring the personnel who made a game. That's not inherently bad, but it's a missed opportunity to talk about the game's creative team—one more place we lose hearing about women making games we love. How our coverage is shaped can unintentionally exclude women from being discussed. It takes conscious effort to look for good opportunities to interview women making and creating games.
The presence of women covering tabletop games is helpful, because it's hard to ignore when the column or podcast you read/listen to is done by a woman. Jennisodes, which is a much-loved podcast in the tabletop sphere, is recorded, cut, publicized, and run by Jennifer Steen. So when it comes to coverage, we have two issues: finding opportunities to talk more about women making games, and encouraging more women to become the very newsies covering the hobby.
That's an issue that takes more than one group to solve, and would benefit heavily from mentorship. Newsies showing women the ropes to become podcasters and writers, and existing newsies looking for more opportunities to talk about the work women are doing.
I've heard people toss around that women are missing from games because they either lack interest or skills. If I scroll through the list of people I follow on Twitter, I already know a number of women doing those jobs already, or can find them through friends. Women often aren't socially trained as well as men to self-promote and to network. But we're not actually all that hard to find. Going outside the industry is something we could be doing to continually build the presence of women in games. In 2012, I recruited Lisa Grabenstetter for a roleplaying setting book Kickstarter in 2012. Li isn't a seasoned games artist—she's an experienced and talented artist. That's more important than whether she had games experience before that book.
Experience in a job within a games context gives nuance to people's skill sets, but ignoring the array of talent outside games doesn't benefit us. It contributes to the tendency to silo, closing ourselves off as a hobby and seeing only what's within the silo as what we have to work with. If we recruit women from blogging, public relations, journalism, art, writing, and editing, we don't have to teach them from the ground up. We instead show them and mentor them in how those skills work in a context new to them.
If we build the visibility of women in games, and mentor talented women from outside games who could do the hobby incredible good with their skills as well, we'd set the stage for continual gains against sexism. Visibility and presence are critical for maintaining and building on the successes women have made so far. We've come a long way, but we still have a ways to go.
Photo Credit: Newsie Manda Collis running a tabletop game at Let's Play Green Bay, 2012.
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Vulpix - You are very energetic, courageous and quick witted! You love attention. However, you might find yourself being impulsive and impatient, and possibly be a little bit selfish.
Growlithe - You are patient, reliable, loyal and very detirmined to achieve your goals. Be careful of becoming possessive, self-indulgent or greedy, though.
Eevee - You’re very adaptive of any environment you happen to find yourself in. You’re also very intellectual and witty. However, a cunning person like you might find themselves being nervous, tense and afraid of imperfection.
Mew - You’re a sympathetic person, so you may find that other people’s joys and sorrows become your own. You’re also cautious, and can be very protective of those close to you. You may have a habit of being overemotional or moody, and you probably find it hard to leg go of things you love.
Wigglytuff - You’re probably the most generous and warmhearted person you know. Your enthusiasm causes people to like being around you. You’re faithful, and very loving. However, you might find yourself becoming bossy and patronizing without noticing.
Dragonair - You are a pretty modest person, right? And shy, as well. You’re a very good listener, and very diligent, too! You’re incredibly intelligent and analytical. On the downside, you might find yourself worrying about many things, including not being perfect. You also may come across as harsh sometimes, intentional or not.
Persian - You have a lot of charm. You’re a very easy going person, and you’re very sociable. You might even be called a flirt! You’re also quite changeable, or easily influenced, so be careful who you hang out with. Try your best to make your own decisions.
Pikachu - When you know what you want, you’re detirmined to get it and can be very forceful about it. You’re very passionate about many things. People are drawn to you because of your exciting, electric personality. You may have a habit of becoming jealous or resentful, though, and you can also be very secretive.
Clefairy - You are definitely an optimist. You enjoy the feeling of being free, and don’t let heavy emotions weigh you down. You’re a very honest and straightforward person. Sometimes, though, your optimism blinds you from the truth, and causes you to be careless and irresponsible.
Haunter - You’re a very practical person, and also very disciplined. People may look up to you for that. You’re also very humorous- on purpose or simply by accident! However, you may tend to be very pessimistic and judgemental. Lighten up!
Bulbasaur - You are very friendly, honest and loyal. You’re very good at using your imagination, and have many original thoughts. You’re also very good at being indepdent- you probably prefer to be alone in a lot of your free time. You’re not very emotional, though, and you tend to be unpredictable. Don’t be afraid to show your emotions.
Lapras - You’re very sensitive to the world around you. You try your best to be kind to others, and help out as much as you possibly can. You rarely worry about your own needs- you’re happy as long as the ones you care about are. However, you’re very idealistic, and feel let down when things don’t go as planned. You may also be easily led.
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Installing Drush7 for Use with Drupal8
drush_logo-blackRecently I started playing with Drupal 8 which currently is at 8.0-Alpha9 as of February 19, 2014. In order to use Drush to interact with a Drupal8 website an installation of Drush version 7 must exist on the server. If you try to install Drupal 8 using a prior version of Drush you may see an error such as:
drush make d8.make
Beginning to build d8.make. [ok]
Aborting. [cancel]
Source directory /tmp/make_tmp_138_e0b9/__build__ is not readable or does not exist. [error]
Cannot move build into place
I prefer working with Drupal programmatically or via a Shell so we need a newer version of Drush installed. The rest of this article will install a local version of Drush7 and its dependencies.
Installing Drush7 manually and in a local directory:
Drush is on github now:
Drush depends on Composer now. I chose to install Composer globally on my system for project use by following these directions
note: be sure you mv composer.phar under a system-wide $PATH value and renamed it as composer. This was a huge hangup for me because Drush will scan for composer, and not a file named composer.phar for example.
Once composer is installed. I downloaded a copy of Drush7 from Github to a local folder using Git. Drush supplies documentation for manual installation in detail.
In my project directory in a drush7 folder I issued:
git clone .
On my system at least I don’t need to mess making the drush command executable, and I’m using this Drush install locally as a test for project so I didn’t symlink drush anywhere in my $PATH. But the step 5 of the Drush manual install process from the official Drush docs is critical.
If you’ve followed thusfar we’ve:
1. Installed Composer globally on our system.
2. Fetched Drush source to a local project folder.
We now have to finish installing Drush (it’s dependencies). From the Drush root directory you must issue:
composer install
This will install the Drush dependencies so Drush will fully work when you call it. Now Drush is installed.
We can check this with a simple command:
dgurba /var/www/2014/MyProject/drush7 master > ./drush --version
Drush Version : 7.0-dev
We can now interact with or attempt to install Drupal8 using Drush at our whim.
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"Lost" Day Special -- A Wrinkle in Time Presents Yesterday's Column Today
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on May 15, 2008 at 5:19 AM, updated May 15, 2008 at 5:27 AM
Are you on the "Lost" syllabus?
Four years into its run, ABC's "Lost" is still the most imaginative, surprising and sometimes flat-out strange show in the history of network television.
Centered on the struggles of air crash survivors who find themselves on a verdant but eerie island in the south Pacific, "Lost" features characters who can travel across time and space, seemingly immune to the ravages of age and violence. Others go inexplicably mad, lose their memories or suddenly disgorge blood from unlikely places.
Long-dead relatives stroll from the shadows. Exotic animals appear in terrain they have no business inhabiting. A fearsome monster can uproot trees, smash buildings and hurl bodies 50 feet into the sky, despite consisting entirely of black smoke.
Don't even try to figure out the significance and deeper motivations of the Hanso Foundation, the Dharma Initiative and the wide-reaching tentacles of billionaire Charles Widmore's empire.
As mysterious as it is action-packed, "Lost" is also remarkably dense, basing its characters and ever-twisting plot on a wide variety of cultural and literary sources.
Biblical figures; European philosophers; Shakespearean drama; "The Wizard of Oz" and characters from Jack Kerouac's "On the Road." Every episode of "Lost" invokes some combination of them, along with an array of similar touchstones.
Not all of them are as crucial, or even as necessary, as others. But what seems clear is that no matter how "Lost's" many mysteries are resolved in the series' conclusion in 2010, the show's producers aren't just making it up as they go along. Each step of their show's journey seems guided by a remarkable collection of cultural source material.
OK. Sometimes a smoke monster is just a smoke monster. But no matter how wild things get on "Lost," it's the bigger ideas that keep you thinking at night.
Here are some of the most intriguing, and perhaps illuminating, references on the show.
Start with John Locke. Named for the 17th century philosopher, "Lost's" Locke personifies his namesake's ideas on the social contract and the individual's capacity for re-invention. Two of Locke's allies on "Lost" are named Desmond David Hume and Danielle Rousseau, whose real-life philosopher counterparts David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were followers of the real-world Locke.
Other philosophers who figure in "Lost's" cast list include a one-eyed Others hitman, Mikhail Bakunin, whose namesake is a Russian revolutionary of the 19th century; 18th century British Whig Edmund Burke; Dutch legal philosopher Hugo De Groot; and Richard Alpert, the Harvard psychologist-turned-spiritual seeker who eventually changed his name to Baba Ram Dass and wrote "Be Here Now," a 1971 best-seller about spirituality.
Even more compelling, if unstated in "Lost's" text, is the connection to 12th century Christian scholar Honorious of Autun, who wrote of a mystical, super-fertile island called The Lost, which can only be found by chance.
"Lost" also draws from a vast array of literary works, including "The Wizard of Oz," whose Henry Gale (Dorothy's uncle) inspires a pseudonym for the head Other, Ben Linus. Ben also uses a passport issued under the name Dean Moriarty, which belonged first to the charismatic drifter from Beat novel "On the Road" based on Jack Kerouac's real-life road companion, Neal Cassady.
An episode this season called "The Tempest" drew parallels to Shakespeare's play of the same name, particularly between Ben and Prospero, who like the "Lost" character is stranded with his daughter on a spirit-rich island. Stephen Hawking's book "A Brief History of Time" has made multiple appearances in the show -- placed on shelves and in the hands of minor characters -- subtly reinforcing the sense that the island exists in a parallel time/space continuum. Attempts by both Ben and Locke to wield or control the island's power have led other characters to compare them to the berserk authoritarian Col. Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."
And the castaways' own childlike awe for the place is reflected in recurring references to Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass."
"Lost's" ongoing discussion of good, evil and the quest for redemption also draws heavily on the Bible. Matters of faith inspire or haunt many of the characters, particularly Locke (the man of faith) and his reason-centric counterpart, Dr. Jack Shephard. One character, Charlie, was an altar boy. Desmond spent years as a novice in a monastery. Ex-warlord Mr. Eko came to the island posing as a priest, though he was actually an African mobster determined to redeem himself for his role in his priest brother's death.
The most intriguing new character this season is Matthew Abaddon, whose connection to the forces behind (or attempting to control) the island's power has yet to be resolved. What is clear, however, is that his name combines two Biblical figures, Matthew, the tax collector-turned-disciple, and Abaddon, the angel of destruction who threw Satan into the abyss.
As with so many "Lost" characters, Matthew Abaddon straddles two philosophies, two world views, two realities. He can go in either direction, but his ultimate destination is still unknown.
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Sunday, July 7, 2013
Fireworks Meditation
I end my meditation early to go see the fireworks
with my friend and her daughter,
who is inconsolable when the bouncy castles close down,
then enraptured when the fireworks begin.
When the echo of the finale dies away,
and people begin to murmur their question,
"Is that it?"
she issues her demand:
And the thousands who have gathered for the show
will burst forth with color and noise,
then die away,
along with their unmet demands.
Anitya feels more solid than the ground beneath me,
and these thoughts, too, die away.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Finding Happiness
I wanted to share this masterful graduation address by David Guterson (the author of Snow Falling on Cedars) about the nature of happiness and how we might go about cultivating it. I really have nothing to add to his remarks. I understand that he has received some criticism for this speech, including some heckling at the event itself. His detractors have argued that the speech was too downbeat and beyond the understanding of many high school graduates. Personally, I found the speech liberating rather than depressing, and I feel sure that even as a new high school graduate I would have been hungry for this kind of honesty and wisdom. Hopefully the controversy will gain a wider audience for his remarks, and those who are prepared to listen will find something of lasting value in them.
Anyway, don't forget the sunscreen.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
For Whom the (Mindfulness) Bell Tolls
I recently listened to a talk by Joseph Goldstein entitled "The Buddha's Discourse on Non-Self" (no link, unfortunately, but you can find it on Dharma Seed). Naturally, I've already forgotten the name of the discourse, but in it the Buddha has a discussion with six monks about mindfulness of death. The upshot is that it is not enough to be mindful that we could die tomorrow or even at the end of the meal we are currently eating; we should consider that we may die after this breath or this bite of food.
This way of thinking would probably strike many people as rather morbid, and passages such as this may contribute to the common impression that Buddhism is about withdrawal from life. My experimentation with this perspective over the last couple of days has had precisely the opposite effect: the awareness of death has not only brought me immediately into the present moment, it has also changed the quality of presence. As the precious nature of the present moment is realized, preoccupations such as self-criticism or anger toward others become unaffordable luxuries. If all fear is really fear of death, as some have claimed, then fear itself becomes almost beside the point.
Though actual brushes with death can have a significant impact on us, the linkage of awareness of mortality and intimacy with life is such a commonplace in various forms of art and spiritual teaching that it has become something of a cliché. Aside from briefly snapping me out of the trance of life, I haven't found an awareness of mortality to be especially salutary, except as an excuse to avoid unpleasant tasks. Yet somehow, consideration of the possibility of death in the next moment, rather than the next day or even the next hour, seems to bring the mind more fully into the present moment. An hour or a day means time that needs to be planned.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Karma Confusion
A friend recently asked me what initially attracted me to Buddhism, and I explained that it was the straightforward and experiential nature of the core teachings, free of dogma and metaphysical mysticism. I told her that I have always thought of Buddhism as a practical psychology rather than a religion. Then she asked the question I was secretly dreading: “What about karma?” Writing anything about karma, whose workings were considered by the Buddha to be one of the Four Imponderables, is a daunting undertaking, especially for someone like me who’s not exactly an avid reader of the Pali canon. Still, it’s a teaching that’s too widely known and too central to the Buddha’s worldview to be ignored, and I think the basic idea is much less abstruse than it might at first appear.
When I learned about Hinduism and Buddhism in high school and college, I thought of karma as the ancient Indians’ answer to an age old question: Why do bad things happen to good people? And although there are certainly plenty of Buddhists who take a mechanistic view of karma, it is my understanding that the Buddha did not claim that everything that happens to us is due to karma. In fact, karma is just one of five natural laws that govern the workings of our universe. Though everything that arises is inextricably interrelated, different processes unfold according to their own nature. An earthquake arises due to conditions in the physical world; it is not the universe’s way of punishing the living beings that happen to be affected by it.
Regardless of the metaphysics, the heart of the Buddha’s teachings about karma relate to the effects of our own actions, not the meaning of impersonal forces. All of our volitional actions have the power to bring about karmic results, and the factor that determines the nature of that karma is our intention. We cannot easily predict the specific results of our actions, since the future is shaped by impersonal forces and others’ karma, as well as our own, but we can be sure that our current intentions will condition our future well-being. This conditioning need not involve mysterious forces; it operates most simply and directly through the formation of mental habits. This is where practices such as mindfulness can allow us to affect the course of our destiny.
Of course many people’s interest in karma does not relate to the critical but seemingly prosaic matter of intention; they are captivated by the supernatural possibility of rebirth. That is an issue on which I have little to say, owing to my lack of experience. I like the perspective of the Zen monk who, when asked by a layperson what would happen to her after she died, replied that “I am a monk, but not a dead one.” It’s worth noting that some teachers, such as Ajahn Chah, did not think belief in reincarnation was necessary to follow the dharma, since the egoic self is dying and being reborn all the time.
The possibility of reincarnation probably raises as many questions as it answers. For example, what is it that is being reborn? Also, why should the moment of death carry so much weight in determining one’s future conditions? This seems unfair not only because the moment of death is so often an unpleasant one, but also because there is so much variation in the degree of unpleasantness depending on the cause of death. Could anyone maintain the clear consciousness described by the Dalai Lama while being consumed by fire?
Well, I’ll leave these metaphysical questions to the scholars and philosophers. My point in writing this post is that karma is a lot simpler and more practical than all that.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
The Best Medicine
A: Make me one with everything.
Sometimes meditation can seem like very serious business. That's certainly the impression of meditation that a lot of non-meditators have. I suspect that a lot of meditative traditions cultivate an aura of gravity and solemnity to discourage the uninitiated from noticing that practitioners are sitting around doing nothing. In my own experience, some of the most profound moments of insight have come with a healthy dose of levity. One such experience led me to ponder the nature of deep humor, and I thought I'd share what I came up with.
We laugh for all sorts of reasons. One of the most eye-opening presentations of research I ever attended was given by a sociology student named Tobiah Brown. Her disarmingly simple research question was this: Why do we laugh? She played snippets of conversation from brave souls who had allowed their phone calls to be recorded for research purposes. What surprised me was that the conversants' laughter had little to do with humor; mostly, they laughed due to discomfort or embarrassment. Even when it comes to humor, this article makes it clear that there's no consensus about what makes something funny.
I have no idea whether there is a common foundation underlying all humor, though I am skeptical of the notion. What I do know is that there is a common thread running through the humor I find most nourishing and profound: it provides a fresh perspective that snaps me out of the story of a separate self. Often, it is a reminder of the universality of human experience: either the situation described in the joke has happened to me, or the pattern is familiar enough that I can follow the other person's turn of thought. Meditation allows us to find this shift in perspective within ourselves, and when we do, it's hard not to be bemused by the limitations of our habitual ways of thinking. I like the way Hafiz describes this delight in possibilities:
What is the difference
between your experience of existence
and that of a saint?
The saint knows
that the spiritual path
is a sublime chess game with God
and that the Beloved
has just made such a fantastic move
that the saint is now continually
tripping over joy
and bursting out in laughter
and saying, "I surrender!"
Whereas, my dear,
I am afraid you still think
you have a thousand serious moves
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Translational Invariance and Newton's God
By Sean Carroll | December 15, 2010 8:51 am
Tim Maudlin is writing a two-volume introduction to the philosophy of physics, and I was fortunate enough to get a peek at a draft of Volume One, about space and time. There is one anecdote in there about Leibniz’s objections to Newtonian physics that is worth passing along. This came up in the course of the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence.
Leibniz was quite fond of proclaiming overarching a priori principles. Perhaps the most famous/infamous is the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which states that everything that happens does so for some good reason. But there was also the Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles, which states that if two things have all the same properties, they are really the same thing. Sounds reasonable enough (although one might worry what qualifies as a “property”), but it can get you in trouble if you take it too far.
Remember that Newton believed in absolute space — a rigid three-dimensional set of points that forms the arena in which physics takes place. Leibniz, on the other hand, claimed that space should be thought of purely in terms of relations between different points, without any metaphysical baggage of “absoluteness.” (From a modern perspective, Leibniz was closer to correct, given Galilean relativity; but once we allow for spacetime curvature in general relativity, the relational view becomes less useful.)
So far, so good. The weird part, to modern ears, comes in when we consider Newtonian cosmology. In order to explain matter in the universe, Newton departed from the strict consequences of his Laws of Motion. Instead, he imagined that empty space existed for an infinite period of time, before eventually God decided to create matter in it.
That’s the part Leibniz couldn’t go along with. He didn’t believe God would work that way, for reasons that amount to what we would now call the translational invariance of space. If God is going to create all this matter in empty space, Leibniz reasons, He has to put it somewhere. But where? Every point is equally good! Therefore there can’t be any “sufficient reason” to create it in one place rather than in some other place. Therefore there must be a deep metaphysical flaw at the heart of Newton’s theory. Interestingly, he didn’t go for “matter has been around forever,” but instead came down on the side of “there is no such thing as absolute space.”
Maybe he was worried about Boltzmann Brains?
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• Anonymous
Creation seems to require the breaking of a symmetry. God broke a symmetry by putting matter somewhere rather than everywhere. Does the principle of sufficient reason say that symmetries cannot be broken?
• spyder
As a philosopher by trade, i have long held the view that the discipline is dependent, to a certain degree, on the prevalent mathematics, physics and chemistry of the time. In my library, i have a book published by NASA in the mid-1980s titled SPACE MATHEMATICS. Although i haven’t looked at it lately, i strongly suspect that much of it is valid, while some is considerably out of date (well, really just well behind the times). Basing one’s philosophical perspectives on such a work, fixed in time, would limit one’s views of space; we all need to keep moving onward following that somewhat annoying arrow.
• psmith
What is interesting is how deeply the Principle of Sufficient Reason has infiltrated the fabric of Western thinking. It has become the implicit assumption in the thinking of engineers, academics, scientists and indeed most ordinary people. Putting aside the quibbles of the philosophers I would argue that PSR and the invariance of the laws of science are two of the most powerful assumptions we make in our daily lives.
• Nullius in Verba
Interesting as well is Newton’s reply to Leibniz.
He pointed out that if you take a bucket of water and you spin it about its central axis, the water surfaces curves into a paraboloid. Thus, rotation is absolute, but what is the rotation measured with respect to, if not absolute space?
• Dorothy Gale
How could God have lived for an infinite amount of time, and then “decided to create matter in it.”?
-infty + any amount = -infty , so clearly any God could only have lived for a finite amount of time before he decided to create the Universe, otherwise there could not possibly be a starting time and subsequent finite age for said Universe.
Then again, if God appeared a finite amount of time ago, maybe he’s been around only for a finite amount of time and is not around anymore.
I have the feeling I am not the first with that argument :-)
• Nullius in Verba
Quite so. How could there be infinitely many numbers on the number line, with a zero in the middle of them?
• Sean
There is no sense in which zero is “in the middle” of the real numbers.
• Nullius in Verba
Arguably, all the real numbers are “in the middle” of the Reals, including zero. It depends which dictionary you read, I guess. :-)
• Moshe
I’m curious what is the role of such proclamations (basically an expression of aesthetic displeasure with global symmetries and their spontaneous breaking) in the text you mention, or for philosophers in general. Are those ideas historical curiosities, interesting milestones in the evolution of the thought on the subject, or are they guides to future research, deep truths to be revealed to be secretly correct? Hard for an outsider to gauge the range of attitudes towards these ideas.
• Sean
I don’t think that particular proclamation would be taken very seriously at the moment, but presumably there are analogous ones that would be. And it’s not just philosophers — physicists are often motivated by aesthetic pleasure/displeasure. Einstein was, and we still are today. The trick is to keep in mind that such considerations are just rules of thumb, and are never absolute — it’s not always easy to resist the temptation to treat them as laws.
• Moshe
Yeah, I agree. At the very least these serve to identify and frame the issue, if not necessarily provide the correct answer. I was curious specifically about this one, because it does come up occasionally in conversation (e.g. as the deep reason why gravity has to break global symmetries).
• Will
I don’t get it. If we have to accept God, and we have to accept that there’s a reason for him to put matter where he put it, isn’t Liebniz’s relativity the metaphysically damaged notion? Absolute space works perfectly now — God put us near the middle so we wouldn’t see his boundary conditions.
• Nullius in Verba
I think it’s related to the idea that observable effects for which no explanation is possible fall outside the domain of scientific investigation. There is a methodological aspect to it – that you can’t test it, you can’t derive general laws or make predictions using it, and it is an easy way to give up on trying to explain something that doesn’t fit your model – and an ontological aspect – the universe appears to follow mathematical laws over most of its domain, mathematics relies heavily on symmetries, and in mathematics, a symmetry cannot be broken spontaneously. The best that can happen is that a minuscule initial asymmetry can be magnified.
• psmith
@Sean: Why should aesthetic considerations have any bearing whatsoever? There is no doubt that it influences our choices and indeed seems to be effective. But why should this be so? Surely the universe is blind to a subjective concept that only exists in our mind.
• Nullius in Verba
You need to ask the question the other way round.
Why should we have evolved an aesthetic sense that turns out to be useful in interpreting the behaviour of the universe we live in?
• AI
He can simply put it everywhere.
• psmith
@16: I have to admit that seems like a plausible argument. And yet, when I think of our long history as hunter/gatherer I fail to see how that experience accounts for our highly developed sense of aesthetics. But clearly it does. Why then did we develop this aesthetic sense? I doubt very much that it helped the hunter/gather interpret his world. More likely it was a mechanism to make our early experiences of the world more capable of being endured. Such experiences of aesthetics would have translated into profoundly satisfying emotional experiences which may have better equipped them to survive the trials of hunter/gatherer life. But there is a huge gap between satisfying emotional experiences and the experience that parsimony and elegance are a good guide to choosing between competing theories of the world.
• Nullius in Verba
It would be easy to make experience easier to endure by making the feelings of unpleasantness less intense. But the point about aesthetics is that it is selective. Only some experiences trigger it.
It’s a bit of a generalisation, but to some extent our aesthetic sense is based around the idea of spotting patterns in something that initially seems complicated and incomprehensible that enable us to understand it in terms of far simpler rules and relationships. It amounts to the data compression ratio – the ratio of the complexity of the raw input, to that of the simple rules and relationships, with a bonus when the relationships are less obvious and more challenging to extract.
A square is simple, but it is not particularly beautiful because its simplicity is so obvious. You can’t compress it much further. However, a square tessellation, or even better a complex tessellation with a square symmetry group is far more pleasing to the eye, because the image can be compressed much more. Fractals are even more beautiful for the same reason.
This same principle applies also to the explanations we generate about the world, and the feeling of pleasure when we experience that Aha! moment, spotting a simplifying connection or relationship that makes sense of the world, has a clear evolutionary benefit. It motivates us to construct parsimonious explanations of more (and more complicated) phenomena that help us better predict the behaviour of our world.
The reason it works is that the appearance of complexity of our world at every level is based on the elaboration and recursive application of simple rules. It evolved to take advantage of this property at one level of observation (where hunter-gatherers operate), but the principle applies universally, and so it has proved equally useful in domains that our hunter-gatherer ancestors could never have considered.
Humans 100,000 years ago were every bit as intelligent as humans today. Have you never wondered what they used those big brains for?
• Daniel
Leibniz was not worried at all about any mechanistic explanations of the mind. So he would dismiss the Boltzmann brain idea for that reason. He says:
• charles slavis
Perhaps God is everything eternally evolving, until our combination of atoms happens…..Death is merely the result of this eternal change, as is life…..We may already have been granted intermittent immortality since we are living proof that we can happen….I didn’t mind waiting to get here…..I won’t mind waiting to happen again. Since I don’t have a recollection of a previous life, then I have to assume that either we only happen once and go onto a reward or punishment, or my preference that we always exist intermittently, and the time in between isn’t noticed, making us seem to exist eternally. We could create our own hell through eternal repetition, or make good choices and live a life aimed at achieving perfection. I will send you an e-mail once I get there……
• charles slavis
If nothing is infinite, where would God be if God wasn’t nothing? I assume that God must be everything, since everything caused me to be. Without stuff existing, then we don’t. Something caused even Steven Hawking to exist in that body, even if he doesn’t believe in It. I waited 16 billion years to get here, and God placed me in the wrong body……I was supposed to be the richest man in the world…….Get it right, next time…….
• charles slavis
If we all are extensions of God, then at our infinitely small size is it not logical that our ability to use Gods power would only be scaled down to our size compared to infinity? And even an eternally expanding universe would still be a singularity compared to the vastness of infinity. God may have intervened at the beginning, or intervenes through man’s choices. If you are sure that God is only on your side, and every one else is wrong, and you are willing to kill everybody that doesn’t believe like you, I suggest that you walk off a cliff and prove that God will intervene on your behalf before you make evil choices in God’s name.
• charles slavis
Science can’t confirm God, since God is beyond our total comprehension, but science can confirm everything that exists, as it is discovered. Thus science confirms more and more of God, but never gets to confirm It all. Existence is the proof of what ever God is………Science is limited to the smallest parts of infinity…….
• charles slavis
Inability to find God may be similar to inability to find life beyond the earth. We only have to keep trying till we find It……
• charles slavis
So much to discover…..So little time……
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Detecting outliers in SAS: Part 3: Multivariate location and scatter
In two previous blog posts I worked through examples in the survey article, "Robust statistics for outlier detection," by Peter Rousseeuw and Mia Hubert. Robust estimates of location in a univariate setting are well-known, with the median statistic being the classical example. Robust estimates of scale are less well-known, with the best known example being interquartile range (IQR), but a more modern statistic being the MAD function.
For multivariate data, the classical (nonrobust) estimate of location is the vector mean, c, which is simply the vector whose ith component is the mean of the ith variable. The classical (nonrobust) estimate of scatter is the covariance matrix. An outlier is defined as an observation whose Mahalanobis distance from c is greater than some cutoff value. As in the univariate case, both classical estimators are sensitive to outliers in the data. Consequently, statisticians have created robust estimates of the center and the scatter (covariance) matrix.
MCD: Robust estimation by subsampling
A popular algorithm that computes a robust center and scatter of multivariate data is known as the Minimum Covariance Determinant (MCD) algorithm. The main idea is due to Rousseeuw (1985), but the algorithm that is commonly used was developed by Rousseeuw and Van Driessen (1999). The MCD algorithm works by sampling h observations from the data over and over again, where h is typically in the range n/2 < h < 3n/4. The "winning" subset is the h points whose covariance matrix has the smallest determinant. Points far from the center of this subset are excluded, and the center and scatter of the remaining points are used as the robust estimates of location and scatter.
This Monte Carlo approach works very well in practice, but it does have the unfortunate property that it is not deterministic: a different random number seed could result in different robust estimates. Recently, Hubert, Rousseeuw, and Verdonck (2010) have published a deterministic algorithm for the MCD.
Robust MCD estimates in SAS/IML software
The SAS/IML language includes the MCD function for robust estimation of multivariate location and scatter. The following matrix defines a data matrix from Brownlee (1965) that correspond to certain measurements taken on 21 consecutive days. The points are shown in a three-dimensional scatter plot that was created in SAS/IML Studio.
proc iml;
x = { 80 27 89, 80 27 88, 75 25 90,
62 24 87, 62 22 87, 62 23 87,
62 24 93, 62 24 93, 58 23 87,
58 18 80, 58 18 89, 58 17 88,
58 18 82, 58 19 93, 50 18 89,
50 18 86, 50 19 72, 50 19 79,
50 20 80, 56 20 82, 70 20 91 };
/* classical estimates */
labl = {"x1" "x2" "x3"};
mean = mean(x);
cov = cov(x);
print mean[c=labl format=5.2], cov[r=labl c=labl format=5.2];
Most researchers think that observations 1, 2, 3, and 21 are outliers, with others including observation 2 as an outlier. (These points are shown as red crosses in the scatter plot.) The following statement runs the MCD algorithm on these data and prints the robust estimates:
/* robust estimates */
N = nrow(x); /* 21 observations */
p = ncol(x); /* 3 variables */
optn = j(8,1,.); /* default options for MCD */
optn[1] = 0; /* =1 if you want printed output */
optn[4]= floor(0.75*N); /* h = 75% of obs */
call MCD(sc, est, dist, optn, x);
RobustLoc = est[1, ]; /* robust location */
RobustCov = est[3:2+p, ]; /* robust scatter matrix */
print RobustLoc[c=labl format=5.2], RobustCov[r=labl c=labl format=5.2];
The robust estimate of the center of the data is not too different from the classical estimate, but the robust scatter matrix is VERY different from the classical covariance matrix. Each robust estimate excludes points that are identified as outliers.
If you take these robust estimates and plug them into the classical Mahalanobis distance formula, the corresponding distance is known as the robust distance. It measures the distance between each observation and the estimate of the robust center by using a metric that depends on the robust scatter matrix. The MCD subroutine returns distance information in a matrix that I've called DIST (the third argument). The first row of DIST is the classical Mahalanobis distance. The second row is the robust distance, which is based on the robust estimates of location and scatter. The third row is an indicator variable with the value 1 if an observation is closer to the robust center than some cutoff value, and 0 otherwise. Consequently, the following statements find the outliers.
/* rules to detect outliers */
outIdx = loc(dist[3,]=0); /* RD > cutoff */
print outIdx;
The MCD algorithm has determined that observations 1, 2, 3, and 21 are outliers.
Incidentally, the cutoff value used by MCD is based on a quantile of the chi-square distribution because the squared Mahalanobis distance of multivariate normal data obeys a chi-square distribution with p degress of freedom, where p is the number of variables. The cutoff used is as follows:
cutoff = sqrt( quantile("chisquare", 0.975, p) ); /* dist^2 ~ chi-square */
In a recent paper, Hardin and Rocke (2005) propose a different criterion, based on the distribution of robust distances.
Robust MCD estimates in SAS/STAT software: How to "trick" PROC ROBUSTREG
The ROBUSTREG procedure can also compute MCD estimates. Usually, the ROBUSTREG procedure is used as a regression procedure, but you can also use it to obtain the MCD estimates by "inventing" a response variable. The MCD estimates are produced for the explanatory variables, so the choice of a response variable is unimportant. In the following example, I generate random values for the response variable.
In a regression context, the word "outlier" is reserved for an observation for which the value of the response variable is far from the predicted value. In other words, in regression an outlier means "far away (from the model) in the Y direction." In contrast, the ROBUSTREG procedure uses the MCD algorithm to identify influential observations in the space of explanatory (that is, X) variables. These are also called high-leverage points. They are observations that are far from the center of the X variables. High-leverage points are very influential in ordinary least squares regression, and that is why it is important to identify them.
To generate the MCD estimates, specify the DIAGNOSTICS and the LEVERAGE(MCDINFO) options on the MODEL statement, as shown in the following statements:
/* write data from SAS/IML (or use a DATA step) */
create X from x[c=labl]; append from x; close;
data X;
set X;
y=rannor(1); /* random response variable */
proc robustreg data=X method=lts;
model y = x1 x2 x3 / diagnostics leverage(MCDInfo);
ods select MCDCenter MCDCov Diagnostics;
ods output diagnostics=Diagnostics(where=(leverage=1));
proc print data=Diagnostics;
var Obs Mahalanobis RobustDist Leverage;
The robust estimates of location and scatter are the same, as are the robust distances. The "leverage" variable is an indicator variable that tells you which observations are far from the center of the explanatory variables. They are multivariate "outliers" in the the space of the X variables, although they are not necessarily outliers for the response (Y) variable.
tags: Data Analysis, Statistical Programming
1. Posted February 2, 2012 at 2:57 pm | Permalink
Good stuff!
When there are a bunch of dimensions, every data point is an outlier .... it might make a good post to talk about the "curse of dimensionality".
2. Jim
Posted August 6, 2013 at 9:48 am | Permalink
Mentioning "curse of dimensionality": how can I simulate the distance convergence of (dist_max-dist_min)/dist_min -> 0 like mentioned in
• Posted August 6, 2013 at 10:08 pm | Permalink
Sorry, but that paragraph is poorly written. Distances between what? And what is being held constant as n-->infinity? I don't understand what they are trying to say.
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Celebrity Justice 101: Can Fame and Dollars Buy You Innocence?
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*The Ramseys ran free after JonBenet's death. Apparently someone came into their house without a trace, didn't bring paper, wrote a ransom note with found materials, and never bothered call for the ransom money--because they'd left dead little JonBenet right in the basement! Uh-huh.
*Robert Blake was found not guilty of slaughtering his wife in 2005. The fact that he clearly did it was overshadowed by the jury's awe that they were in the same room as Baretta!
*Phil Spector was (temporarily) saved by a hung jury in 2007. I guess kooky Lana Clarkson accepted Phil's offer to come over, thinking "Gee, maybe he has a loaded gun there and I can kill myself! This will be productive!"
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