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Olbermann: Does Bush want to remake US into 'invisible fascist state'?
Mike Aivaz and Muriel Kane
Published: Tuesday November 6, 2007
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MSNBC's Keith Olbermann delivered a blistering special comment on Monday concerning the true significance of the dispute over waterboarding and the essential role played by torture in maintaining the George W. Bush presidency.
"The presidency of George W. Bush has now devolved into a criminal conspiracy to cover the ass of George W. Bush," Olbermann began. "All of it is now, after one revelation last week, transparently clear for what it is ... the refocusing of our entire nation towards keeping this mock president ... and all the others from potential prosecution for having approved or ordered the illegal torture of prisoners being held in the name of our country."
The revelation to which Olbermann referred was the account of former acting assistant attorney general Daniel Levin, who, when assigned to assess the legality of the administration's "enhanced interrogation techniques," decided the most direct method was to have himself waterboarded.
"Have you, Mr. Bush, ever done anything that personally courageous?" Olbermann asked. "Perhaps when you've gone to Walter Reed and teared up over the maimed servicemen and then gone back to the White House and confirmed and determined that there would be more maimed servicemen?"
"Daniel Levin should have a statue in his honor in Washington, right now," Olbermann stated. "Instead, he was forced out as acting assistant attorney general nearly three years ago because he had the guts to do what George Bush could not do in a million years. ... They waterboard him, and he wrote that even though he knew those doing it meant him no harm ... he could not stop the terror screaming from inside him, could not quell the horror."
"Waterboarding, he said, is torture," Olbermann continued. "And he wrote it down ... somewhere where it could be contrasted with the words of this country's 43rd president, 'The United States of America does not torture.'"
According to Olbermann, Levin was forced to modify his report to suggest that waterboarding might not be torture if it was done carefully and then was fired because of his inability to lie to protect the president. "If it ever got out," Olbermann noted, once more addressing Bush directly, "you would have been screwed. And screwed you are."
Olbermann then went on to ask why waterboarding was even used on terrorists when it's well documented that "torture does not get them to tell the truth."
"Of course, Mr. Bush," Olbermann stated, "this isn't a problem, is it, if you don't care if the terrorist plots they tell you about are the truth. ... If, say, a president simply needed a constant supply of terrorist threats to keep the country scared ... if, say, he realized that even terrorized people still need good ghost stories before they will let a president pillage the Constitution -- well, heck, Mr. Bush, who better to dream them up for you than an actual terrorist. He'll tell you everything he ever fantasized of doing."
"Now, if that's what this is all about -- you tortured not because you're stupid ... but you tortured because you're smart enough to know it produces really authentic-sounding fiction -- well then, you're going to need all the lawyers you can find, because that crime wouldn't just mean impeachment, would it, sir? That crime would mean George W. Bush is going to prison."
That, Olbermann asserted, is the real explanation for the peculiar inability on the part of Gonzales, Cheney, and Mukasey to agree on a definition of torture -- along with "the giddying prospect that maybe you could ... remake a nation into a fascist state so efficient and so self-sustaining that the fascism itself would be nearly invisible.
"But ultimately," Olbermann concluded, speaking of men like Levin, "these patriots will defeat you, and they will return this country to its righteous standards and to its rightful owners -- the people."
The following video is from MSNBC's COUNTDOWN with Keith Olbermann, broadcast on November 05, 2007
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Peach and Brie Quesadillas
• Yield 12 wedges servings
Ripe but firm peaches work best. If the peaches are too ripe, the quesadillas will be soggy. Placing the fillings on one side of the tortilla and folding the other half over like a taco makes the quesadillas easier to handle.
Lime honey dipping sauce:
2 tablespoons honey
2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
1/2 teaspoon grated lime zest
1 cup thinly sliced peeled peaches (about 2 large)
1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives
1 teaspoon brown sugar
4 (8-inch) flour tortillas
3 ounces Brie cheese, thinly sliced
For the sauce:
1. Whisk the honey, lime juice and lime zest in a bowl until combined.
For the quesadillas:
1. Gently toss the peaches with the chives and brown sugar in a bowl until coated.
2. Top each tortilla with one-fourth of the cheese and one-fourth of the peach mixture and fold over to enclose the filling.
3. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
4. Place two quesadillas in the prepared pan and cook for 2 minutes on each side or until the quesadillas are light brown and crisp. Remove to a baking sheet and cover to keep warm.
5. Repeat the procedure with the remaining quesadillas. Cut each quesadilla into three wedges and garnish with strips of fresh chives. Serve warm with the sauce.
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Software Engineering for the 21st Century: A basis for rethinking the curriculum
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Progress in both software and hardware technology over the past decade make it timely to re-examine our curriculum in software engineering and related topics. This manifesto describes the Carnegie Mellon approach to software engineering, the essential capabilities of a software engineer, and the pedagogical principles that guide our curriculum design. Our objective here is to articulate Carnegie Mellon"s core academic values for the discipline of software engineering. This characterization of software engineering covers undergraduate, professional, and research curricula. It is informed by other software engineering curriculum designs, but it is independent of them. Curriculum design must reconcile the objectives of numerous stakeholders; this document states the case of the academic-values stakeholder.
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Diy Live Broadcasting Online
Live video broadcasts from a cell phone? On the flight home from CES 2008 we realized watching Robert Scoble walking and streaming live video with Qik was way cool... and something we wanted to play with on Systm.
It's pretty cool to watch somebody streaming video (and audio) live from a cell phone over the cell phone's network to an audience that can ping questions back thru the cell phone's monitor.
That's what we saw Robert Scoble, of Scobleizer fame, doing down at CES.
Unfortunately, it turns out the secret ingredient for live video broadcasts from his cell phone is Qik. It works great, but it won't work with any of the cell phones we own. It's a Nokia and Nokia only kind of deal.
So to hold us over until we can a) dump either the resident Blackberry Pearl, iPhone or Cingular 2125 for something like Scoble's Nokia N95 we set up a live broadcasting notebook.
OK, a notebook and camera isn't nearly as slick (or as portable) as using a cell phone to broadcast video over the net... but it's a lot easier to set up.
1) Get a remote connection to the net: we used our EVDO modem, since it's the most portable net connection we have.
2) Get a live streaming video account from Ustream.TV, Stickam, or one of the umpteen competitors.
3) Connect your camera, whether it's the camera built into your Macbook, or a USB or Firewire video camera.
4) Fire up the stream, and let the folks back East see that soccer game, Bat Mizvah, birthday or, hey, the annual burning of the log in your backyard.
Next week we'll be setting up our Wireless Access Truck: how about an open WAP that can do 100 mph?
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Caută orice cuvânt, cum ar fi b4nny:
A now outdated Bomberman game, Excl for IBM computers using Windows. It is somewhat Lame. Had speech that Mimicked many lines in movies and TV(Such as"Smokin" and The Mask's line of "Sombody Stop Me").
One thing that I did not Like about Atomic Bomberman was there was only multiplayer mode and in this case had no adventure.
de Light Joker 26 Aprilie 2004
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искать любое слово, например fluffer:
To Must, To be musty;
To emit a horrific odor. To smell extremely bad. To smell like armpits, boiled ass, chopped onions and fried corn simultaneously;
To smell like horse sex mixed with shrimp, rabbit urine and senior citizen shit.
Person 1: WTF is that damn smell?
Person 2: Oh sh.. PISS!
Person 1: Seriously what stinks damn?
Person 2: It's that musty ass indian dude over there, smellin' like curry and armpits n shit.
автор: FatChamp 13 июня 2006
A stank person, who smell like they haven't tooken a shower in dayz. Or somethin' that stinkz like shit.
Dayum! That trick's coochie is musty, fareal.
автор: T-Laya 20 февраля 2004
when you smell like a big pile of b.o
when you smell bad
ooooooooo jeffery is smelling musty
автор: nikki 26 сентября 2004
smelly, sweaty,dirty person who hasn't taken showers in days and has an odor
Edmund, you're so musty. Please take a shower.
автор: dragonboat 27 сентября 2010
Stank, gross, or a foul odor coming from someone.
Damn did you smell Clyde's boots? They are musty as fuck
автор: GlenBigBabyDavis69 14 мая 2009
dirty balls, men testicles that are kind of funky due to not washing.
Give you some what? I will not go down there with your musties.
автор: Angel 30 декабря 2002
A "basic" person, ugly, smelly, needs a wordrobe change and some tips on personal higeine
When you see someone wearing galaxy leggings and a yolo shirt you may utter the word musty
автор: The real @mustylegend 18 февраля 2014
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34. And likewise (there results from the Gaina, doctrine) non-universality of the Self.
We have hitherto urged against the Gaina doctrine an objection resulting from the syâdvâda, viz. that one thing cannot have contradictory attributes. We now turn to the objection that from their doctrine it would follow that the individual Self is not universal, i.e. not omnipresent.--The Gainas are of opinion that the soul has the same size as the body. From this it would follow that the soul is not of infinite extension, but limited, and hence non-eternal like jars and similar things. Further, as the bodies of different classes of creatures are of different size, it might happen that the soul of a man--which is of the size of the human body--when entering, in consequence of its former deeds, on a new state of existence in the body of an elephant would not be able to fill the whole of it; or else that a human soul being relegated to the body of an ant would not be able to find sufficient room in it. The same difficulty would, moreover, arise with regard to the successive stages of one state of existence, infancy, youth, and old age.--But why, the Gaina may ask, should we not look upon the soul as consisting of an infinite number of parts capable of undergoing compression in a small body and dilatation in a big one?--Do you, we ask in return, admit or not admit that those countless particles of the soul may occupy the same place or not?--If you do not admit it, it follows that the infinite number of particles cannot be contained in a body of limited dimensions.--If you do admit it, it follows that, as then the space occupied by all the particles may be the space of one particle only, the extension of all the particles together will remain inconsiderable, and hence the soul be of minute size (not of the size of the body). You have, moreover, no right to assume that a body
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of limited size contains an infinite number of soul particles.
Well the, the Gaina may reply, let us assume that by turns whenever the soul enters a big body some particles accede to it while some withdraw from it whenever it enters a small body.--To this hypothesis the next Sûtra furnishes a reply.
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15. Moreover there are seven.
The Smritis moreover declare that there are seven hells, called Raurava, and so on, to which evil-doers have to go.--But how do they, if moving about in those seven places, reach the palace of Yama?
Next: 16. On account of his activity there also, there is no contradiction
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Your Transfiguration
And if anyone says to you at that time, “Look! Here is the Messiah!”- or “Look! There he is!”—do not believe it. False messiahs - and false prophets will appear and produce signs and omens, to lead astray, if possible, the elect. But be alert; I have already told you everything. Mark 13:21-23
We had a discussion yesterday about the necessity during Jesus' life to be able to differentiate the Messiah from a false-Messiah. How would one do that?
Anita made a comment -- Peter, James and John were present at the transfiguration. That was probably pretty convincing evidence that Jesus was the Messiah.
What is your transfiguration? Has there been an episode in your life that you can point to and say, "This convinced me that Jesus is the Messiah?"
God still comes
Our Sunday school lesson today centered around Mark 13, the "little apocolypse." It's a difficult passage to understand, and given Christ's statement that even he does not know the day or the time of his coming, I can easily move this passage aside as something I will not worry about.
However, is there a message in this scripture for me, today? I think there may be several, but the one that spoke to me today is that no matter what happens -- no matter how terrible the suffering, God still comes. He gathers us together, and does not leave us alone in our pain. Stars may fall and the sun may stop shining, but nothing can separate us from God.
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Blue Trunk
I thought the reflections of a nearby sign illuminated with blue lights on the tree trunk was interesting.
Friday, February 25, 2011
It Makes a Difference
We do not live to ourselves, and we do not die to ourselves. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, so that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living." (Romans 14:7-9 NRSV)
This scripture arrived in my email this morning along with a quote from Jack C. Ammon, who wrote a devotional for the Upper Room in 2007. Jack tells of a time spent in the front lines in Normandy during World War II. A fellow soldier asked him why he was a Christian. Jack's answer was, "A person would have to be really dumb not to be a Christian, for you live better and you die better."
Is this why I am a Christian? I'm not sure if that is the answer I would have given to the same question, but I can affirm the truth of what Jack says. Being a Christian does make my life better. I hope it will make my death better.
Perhaps this is the key to convincing other people to give their lives to God -- convincing people that Christ makes a difference.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
In the beginning was God.
His hands itched to create,
to swirl nothingness with the power of his Word
and create goodness and glory.
Nothing existed except for God.
The breath of his Word swept across the nothingness,
until God imagined light.
From a tiny flicker of thought
in the mind of God,
there was a spark.
God pulled light out of darkness,
and it was good.
God created the Day and the Night.
God moved across the water,
dividing it with power greater than we can imagine,
until there was sea and sky.
Related and yet separate.
God imagined clouds and wind,
waves and tides.
And he created them,
and they were good.
God swept across the ocean,
and like a potter with clay,
divided out land from sea.
Mountains rose at his thought.
Valleys and canyons were carved by his fingertips.
With joy and power, he sculpted the earth,
setting into motion the tectonic plates,
floating on a core of fire.
Each detail felt his breath
until he was satisfied.
Using the fabric of life,
he quilted together the trees,
Leaves and berries were his stitches,
Pops of color in the flowers.
Seeds for the future,
creating for the perpetuation of all he designed.
As he tugged the last aspen into place
he knew that it was good.
Like a photographer, he gathered the light,
and bound it into the sun and moon.
He met the needs of his creation
for heat and light,
by swinging the sun into the sky.
The moon became an anchor for the tides.
Earthly time flew from his Words
as the movement of his creation through the sky
marked the hours and the years.
His paint bush dabbed power in the sky
as stars began to glint and glimmer.
Giving the planet a push, he set the world spinning,
creating an evening and a night.
And they were good.
The next morning, God surveyed his canvas,
and smiled, rubbing his hands together with glee.
Life began to pulse as his Word spoke.
The air lifted creatures with wings
and fish shot through the deep.
Color and variety danced on the joy of God's imagination.
Clown fish darted as anemones waved in the water.
Eagles soared as God played with ostriches.
Fish swam and birds flew
as God declared their goodness.
Cell to cell, worms and elephants began to evolve
from the imagination of God.
Serpents basked on rocks, soaking in God's sunshine,
as spiders wove webs.
Animals sprang to life,
and God planted dreams of creation in their minds.
God's hands became gentle as he whispered.
A self portrait.
Man and woman, two parts of a whole, were spoken into being.
He blessed them with his imagination, his joy and laughter.
He blew across their hearts to start them beating
with love, created out of his own depth of being.
He made them clever and emotional,
and touched their lives with an awareness of their creator.
God laughed
at the goodness of it all.
He invited them to dominion and responsibility.
He placed his creations in their care --
the moon and the stars;
the water and the air;
the plants and the animals;
each other.
He promised them his presence,
and kissed them with his spirit.
The master touched his creation,
hallowing it,
and knew that it was very good.
Exodus 1:1-2:3
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Too Close
Have you ever played the game where you start with one word, and then change the word letter by letter to create a new word? For instance:
I was reading a blog written by Tim Good, in which he said, in an adaptation of 1 Corinthians 4:5:
He will bring pure light and new vision, revealing the hidden purpose of each heart. Only then will we know real commendation or condemnation.
Do you notice how close the words commendation and condemnation are?
It reminded me how easy it is to slip from acts that would bring commendation to actions that would merit condemnation. How easy is it to step away from God? To turn our backs and ignore Christ's teachings?
I am worthy of condemnation, but I am blessed by the grace of God to be a forgiven person, made new.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
I read a review today of iPhone apps that will allow you to take notes with your phone. The gentleman who wrote the review included the features and benefits of four different apps. I read it with interest.
As I look at my phone, I find the default Notes app, an app called Dunnit! for making lists (to feed my need to check things off), and an app called aNote, where I keep notes of things I want to remember, including a directory of "blog seeds" for when I'm looking for something to write about (ideas come to me that I don't want to forget about, so I record them here). I also use email as a reminder system, sending myself a note to "not forget...." I keep a record going at work of what I do each day, who I talk to, etc. I keep a blank book with me for notes at church, and yes, I take notes during sermons (I don't want to hear your giggle; I like doing it -- it helps me, so there).
How do you remember?
My husband takes notes all the time for work. He keeps a running record of his day. When he's out and about, and wants to remember something, he writes it on his hand. Literally. And he remembers.
How do you remember?
I love this line from the lectionary reading from Isaiah:
49:16a See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands. Isaiah 49:16a
God will not forget us. He has written us on the palms of his hands. Maybe, though, "write" is the wrong word. God has inscribed us on the palms of his hands. When I look up the word inscribed, I come away with something more permanent than writing. I come away with a meaning such as engraved.
When we were first married, we had a dog named Highway. She was a black and white Cocker Spaniel. We found a Christmas ornament shaped like a cocker at a seasonal kiosk store in the mall. We bought the ornament, and they engraved it with her name. It was a terrible job, and we've always laughed that it looked like they had done it with a nail.
God has done it with a nail. We are inscribed on the palms of his hands. We are not forgotten.
Monday, February 21, 2011
The Fifth Note
Have you ever heard of a "ringing chord?" According to what I heard on television tonight, it is a chord used by a barbershop quartet to create the audio illusion of a fifth note from a chord.
Four notes combined in such a way as to sound like more than they are alone.
Is church like that sometimes? When it is at its best, does the song the Church creates (figuratively) amount to more than our voices raised in solo? Isn't it true that we can do more together than each of us alone?
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Office Flower
Saturday, February 19, 2011
From this week's RevGalBlogPals site: For this Friday Five, please list five words that identify your passions, spirituality, and/or life. Describe as much or as little as you wish.
1. Grace -- When I was younger, grace was one of those words that was a "churchy" word. I really didn't know what it meant. As I've grown older, and hopefully grown in the faith, grace has come to mean a great deal to me. It's a word whose meaning has blossomed in my faith.
2. Joy -- Joy is a word whose meaning has changed for me. It used to mean "happiness;" now it means closeness to God. The Joy of being close to God.
3. Communication -- I feel very strongly about communication. It's the glue that holds a team together. It is how you validate the worth of other team members. It takes some effort and time, but for me, it is totally worth it. I am passionate about communication.
4. Organization -- There is a scene in the television show Friends where Chandler is looking for a job. Monica takes the time to organize his options in a file box with colored labels and alphabetical stickers. He pulls out the first one -- Advertising -- and decides that is the field for him. He apologizes that she has gone to all this trouble, and she laughs at him. She finds joy in the organization of the data. I'm with her.
5. Color -- I love to play with color. Color is probably the motivating factor behind most of the things I make by hand -- the items I knit, jewelry I make, cards I put together. I use color to organize my work; in fact, I have an office supply drawer in my desk at work with about half of the space filled up with colored paper -- organized in "rainbow order." Behind the files of paper are small baskets of colored pencils and markers. I love color.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Window at John XXIII Pastoral Center, Charleston
I received this quote by Philip Yancey (Reaching for the Invisible God) today in my email:
Monastics (monks and nuns) have a practice they call statio that means, simply, stopping one thing before beginning another. Rather than rushing from one task to the next, pause for a moment and recognize the time between times. Before dialing the phone, pause and think about the conversation and the person on the other end… I find that if I take time to pray for the recipient before beginning to compose a letter or before making a phone call, it makes the task less of a chore and more of an opportunity in which to receive or express God's grace. In life, we rush from one thing to the next, or we "multitask" -- doing more than one thing at a time. Do we stop?
When I post a picture on this blog, I do a little bit of work ahead of time. I choose the image, crop it in order to focus the readers' eyes on the portion of the image I think communicates my message, or to just improve the composition, and then I add a 3 point black margin.
Should I be doing that in life? Should I be stopping, and adding a margin to what I am doing?
When I worked in the lab, and my boss would call, his first question was automatically, "What's going on?" He wanted to know what I was doing, how experiments were progressing, etc. Knowing he might be calling, whenever the phone would ring, I would pause, and formulate in my mind the answer to his question. In a world where I was probably doing five things at once, it helped to take a moment to form a cohesive answer prior to the question being asked. The preparation was useful.
Should I be doing that in life? Should I be taking time to prepare, to think, to pray, before I move from one activity to the next? Would that little bit of margin invite God in?
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
I was reading an article about the possiblity of a new planet -- Tyche. Scientists are only theorizing about its existance, based on the action of objects around it. Orbits of comets with the Oort cloud where Tyche might exist are ellipitcal, as if something is interfering with their movements.
This is my favorite quote from the article:
The IAU (International Astronomical Union) has laid out strict guidelines concerning what constitutes a planet; if Tyche does exist, it would have to meet each one of those guidelines to bring the solar system back to a total of nine planets. ....The existence -- or nonexistence -- of Tyche should be determined conclusively within the next two years.
The planet exists or does not exist completely independent of any declaration from the IAU. The Union is not deciding, in the new two years, if the planet will exist or can exist. I was just stopped by the way the sentence is worded. At my first reading, it sounds as if the conclusions of the IAU will determine the existance of the planet.
Do we do that with our faith in God? Do we fool ourselves into believing that we are entitled to declare God's existance (or non-existance)? Do we act as if our understandings of God define him?
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
This Holy Mystery
I'm working on completing Module 2A for the Certified Lay Ministry training. Module 2A is about Worship. As a part of that module, I'm reading the United Methodist Church's statement about Communion This Holy Mystery.
As I was reading it, it renewed my conviction that my beliefs align with those of the United Methodist Church. As I was reading it, several statements made me think, "Yes. Yes!" Listed below are several quotes from the document.
• This dynamic action becomes re-presentation of past gracious acts of God in the present, so powerfully as to make them truly present now. Christ is risen and is alive here and now, not just remembered for what was one in the past. (There is a whole blog post in exploring just that sentence).
• We receive spiritual nourishment through Holy Communion..... Wesley wrote that, "This is the food of our souls: This gives strength to perform our duty, and leads us on to perfection."
• John Wesley stressed that baptism is only a step in the salvation process and must be followed by justifying faith and personal commitment to Christ when one reaches an age of accountability He referred to Holy Communion as "a converting ordinance."....The Wesleyan tradition has always recognized that Holy Communion may be an occasion for the reception of converting, justifying and sanctifying grace.
• We have no tradition of refusing any who present themselves desiring to receive.
• We do not share in Communion because of our worthiness; no one is truly worthy. We come to the Eucharist out of our hunger to receive God's gracious love, to receive forgiveness and healing.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Not the greatest evening; too tired to post.
Your character will show forth in the fruit of your actions. I pray my actions demonstrate a character being shaped and changed by God.
I have spent the last 12 hours arguing (in my head) with someone I just met, whose fruit, though shiny, lacks integrity. I can see the necessity of praying, if only to quiet my own mind.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Directions for Singing
One of the exercises in my Certified Lay Ministries module is to consider Wesley's Directions for Singing. Have you ever read those? You can find them in the first few pages of the UM Hymnal, or at this link.
Here are my thoughts:
As I read these rules, I am struck by the idea that the same rules could apply (in some ways) to life in a community of believers. As you read these, be aware of the word "sing" in a metaphorical sense, not a literal one.
1. Focus first on learning what we have in common, and then branch out. Once you know how we sing, imagine how it can influence what you learn beyond our song. Imagine what you can bring to the community from other songs.
2. Accept how we sing. Learn the rhythm, tunes and words the way the community will teach them to you.
3. Be present. Sign with the community. Just sing!
4. Enter into the community with energy. Your attitude will affect all of us, so contribute your voice and you life. Do not be a drain; be a contributor. Also, know that we will not judge your voice or your song; we will accept you as you are, so do not be afraid to sing.
5. Be modest; be humble. Contribute your gifts in a way that lifts up God, not yourself. Unite with the community.
6. Move with the community, sharing one timing. Lead when called; follow when called.
7. Above all, place God first. Let him be the purpose of why you are here.
I think Wesley was trying to tell us to focus on the Church. Learn the music of the church before other music – be committed. Learn how to sing it as part of the community, in time and in harmony with the community. Do not be afraid to participate, and do not believe you are the most important voice to be heard. Before all else, place God first. What does that mean for a modern church planning its music ministry? As with any other part of worship, planning for the music should be done with an eye to God’s will.
1. Spend some time teaching music. If a tune is unfamiliar, practice it with the congregation during the announcement time.
2. Use a Song Leader when necessary.
3. Design the music ministry in worship with the same intentionality as the rest of worship.
4. Encourage people to sing.
5. Use accompanying instruments that are appropriate to the style of music.
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
Roman 12 Random Thoughts
Present yourself as a living sacrifice – remembering Dennis’ comments about a living sacrifice at the last team meeting. Brings to mind resurrection, complete commitment, surrender of self.
A sacrifice holy and acceptable to God – God must have done this; I am not on my own holy or acceptable to God.
A living sacrifice, made holy and acceptable to God – By God, the work of God. Thanks be to God.
Renewed and transformed minds – it follows, then, that this is also a work of God.
A transformed mind -- A change in the way we think. Through the work of God, we start to think with the mind of God. The way we think and react, respond, is more in line with God's leading.
Present yourself – but also a work of my own, requiring my participation.
So that you may discern what is the will of God – Transformed by God, surrendered to God, I am able to be in relationship with God.
The will of God – good, and acceptable and perfect. Do I always think of it that way?
Not to think of yourselves more highly than you ought – Listen.
Each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned – even faith, a gift from God.
measure of faith- ??Not sure what this means.
We are members, one of another – interesting to me. Not just me, a member of the Body of Christ, linked to Christ, together with others, but me, a member of one another. More than a part of something larger, but a part of each other?
Marks of a True Christian:
• Genuine love
• Abhorrence for evil
• Maintain what is good – hold fast to it
• Love one another with mutual affection – outstretched arms
• Outdo one another in showing honor – honor each other, not in return, but in response to God
• Zealous
• Ardent in spirit – on fire with the spirit – reminds me of Pentecost
• Serve the Lord – perhaps this is not a characteristic all its own, but is a motivation for the rest. When you do this, you are serving the Lord
• Rejoice in hope – so often we rejoice in cynicism
• Patient in suffering – rejoicing in hope would enable patience in suffering, I would think.
• Persevere in prayer – without ceasing. Keep talking to God
• Contribute to the needs of the saints – love
• Extend hospitality to strangers – love all
• Bless those who persecute you – reminds me of praying for my enemies – asking God to keep their best interests at heart.
• Rejoice with those who rejoice – No room for envy there
• Weep with those who weep – clear vision to the needs of others, to the hurts and grief of others
• Live in harmony with one another – singing different notes that make music, avoiding discordant notes
• Do not be haughty – How often do I need to hear these words?
• Do not claim to be wiser than you – And these?
• Take thought for what is noble in the sight of all – If there is anything good, think on these things....
• Vengeance is mine, I will repay – Trust God in this.
• In doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads – a jarring and different ending to the chapter than I would have expected.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Dear God
Sky on my way to work, Wednesday
In light of yesterday's post, when I said God called himself, "I am" when Moses asked what his name was, what is it that you call God?
Do you know what I mean? When you are praying, when it's just you and God, is there something you call him? A way you open your prayers?
I hadn't thought about this until I noticed how I opened private prayer: "Dear God,". It's as if I'm writing a letter in my head.
When I'm praying in public, with and for other people, the name of God changes. It might be "Heavenly Father," until I realize we United Methodists try to avoid gender specifications for God. "God of Power, God of Grace" -- I've used those. "God who created....." When the prayer is more spontaneous, and is accompanied by intense feelings, I'll start it with "Oh, God...." in public.
In my head, just God and me, it's "Dear God."
I have no idea why.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
I am me
I was listening to the radio the other day. You know how it goes -- you half listen to what is being said until something attracts your attention and then you "tune in."
I don't know exactly what the person who was being interviewed did for a living, but I believe he was a "life coach" or something like that. But, anyway....
He works with people to determine their goals and priorities. He starts the process by having his client write down who he is and what is importnant to him -- about six pages worth. Then, over the next few weeks, they narrow down the description, until it is boiled down to just one sentence.
He gave examples of what that sentence might be:
I am a doctor.
I am a mother who takes care of her family.
I was surprised by this end product -- a single sentence with a single description of a person. It seems very one dimensional. Do you have one role? Are we at all one-dimensional? I have many differnet hats, with many different roles in life. I am me. (or should that be I am I).
Writing this, it just occurred to me that God, when he was telling Moses who he is -- what his name is -- he says, "I am."
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Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Measure a Year
525,600 minutes
525,600 moments so dear
525,600 minutes
How do you measure a year?
In teenagers hugged.
In sons sent to school.
In meals shared, prepared.
In times of laughter
In times of frustration.
In moments of pride and amazement.
In raising two young men.
How do you measure a year in the life?
In times spent as one of a pair
In moments of love
In knowing looks and grins
In holding hands
In kisses and touches
In chores shared
In times spent in dreams.
How do you measure
Measure a year?
In sermons preached and chapters read
In Agreements and letters
In churches visited and funerals attended
In PowerPoint and Publisher
In working with a team
In serving individuals, familes and ministries
In the hope of a job well done.
525,600 minutes
525,600 moments so dear
525,600 minutes
How do you measure a year?
In friendship and family
In holidays celebrated
In coffee and tables shared
In birthdays
In emails and text messages
In shared rants and shared joys
In fellowship
How do you measure
Measure a year?
In prayers, both mindless and desperate
In study of the Bible
In worship of God
In meetings, frustration, visions and missions
In classes
In fellowship
In the Body of Christ
How about love?
How about love?
How about love?
Measure in love.
Seasons of love.
In lessons learned
In tears shed
In pure joy and times of laughter
In self-knowledge and revelation
In quiet and knitting and movies
In hours of sleeping
In growth.
You know that love is a gift from up above.
Phrases in italics from Season of Love, Rent
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Tuesday, February 08, 2011
And the winner is....
For something different for the blog, I looked at the list of Best Picture winners, and made some lists:
Winners of the award that I saw and liked:
Chicago – 2002
A Beautiful Mind – 2001
Titanic – 1997
The Silence of the Lambs – 1991
The Sound of Music – 1965
My favorite nominees for 2010:
The King’s Speech
Nominees for the award that I saw and liked:
Avatar – 2009
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – 2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings -- 2001
Chocolat – 2000
The Sixth Sense – 1999
Sense and Sensibility – 1995
Apollo 13 – 1995
Four Weddings and a Funeral – 1994
The Fugitive – 1993
A Few Good Men – 1992
Beauty and the Beast – 1991
Ghost -1990
Working Girl – 1988
The Right Stuff – 1983
ET – 1982
Raiders of the Lost Ark – 1981
Heaven Can Wait – 1978
Star Wars – 1977
Mary Poppins – 1964
The Music Man – 1962
The Ten Commandments – 1956
The King and I – 1956
The Quiet Man – 1952
The Wizard of Oz -- 1939
Winners I have seen and did not like:
Chariots of Fire – 1981
Ordinary People – 1980
Gone with the Wind -- 1939
What did I learn? There are several movies on the list that I haven't seen and would like to see. There are several on the list I have not seen and have no interest in seeing at all.
Which one is your favorite? You can find the total list here.
Monday, February 07, 2011
Communion Welcome
Rocks and the water wall at St. Marks
I really need to get out with my camera and take some pictures. I'm am just about out of image sources for the blog.
Anyway, back to communion.
We -- theologians, clergy, lay people, believers, church-members, Christians, Protestants, Catholics -- try to explain communion. We think of theories, we preach about it, we pray about it, we study it, we listen to sermons about it. We act as if we have figured out at least some of it.
Then we say (sometimes, some of us) that children should understand what is going on before they are invited to participate in communion.
Aren't we fooling ourselves? Is understanding really a prerequisite to partake?
Communion is God's action -- God's invitation -- God's grace.
I don't understand grace, and I am certainly blessed and thrilled that my understanding of grace is not a requirement to receive it. Communion is the same. I can appreciate it more through study of it, but I don't have to have an understanding of it in order to participate in it, and neither do children.
God loves you, and he invites you to share grace. Welcome.
Sunday, February 06, 2011
Please, Sir, I want some more
As I thought about communion, a scene from a book came to mind.
Did you ever read Oliver Twist or see the movie? Remember the scene when the orphan, Oliver, approaches the adult and says, "Please, sir, I want some more."
At an Emmaus team meeting yesterday, the spiritual leader of the walk told us that the work that the team must do could not be done on our own. We need Christ to be able to move forward with us. We need to take him in through communion, through our relationship with him, so that we would be strengthened and equipped for the task at hand. And then he served us communion.
Have you ever approached communion with the feeling, "Please, sir, I want some more?"
Christ always provides, always answers, "Yes." He yearns for us to ask, and gladly provides.
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Here are a couple of links about communion that you might find interesting:
Random Thoughts by a Lutheran Geek about why she allowed her toddler to take communion, against the church's tradition.
A sermon by Songbird called By the Book
What is your view of very young children and communion?
Friday, February 04, 2011
Random Friday Thoughts
Random Friday thoughts:
1. I have to be up and out of the house tomorrow by 8:15 am. Last Saturday I was able to stay home, watch TV and knit, until I was motivated enough to clean my desk. I would rather not be leaving home at 8:15 tomorrow.
2. Speaking of my desk, it is clean. I can't tell you when it was last clean, so this is wonderful. I love having a clean desk.
3. We installed a new printer last weekend. I haven't needed to print since then, but I love the idea that I can.
4. I have a cold, and I find it annoying.
5. Busy day at work. I like busy days.
6. Steve and I bought each other a television for Christmas. It's big, and we are enjoying it. People's heads end up being more than life-size.
7. Great dinner tonight with great friends. A joy.
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Holy Spirit
I was led to a couple of blogs by this post by David on Methodist I do have opinions, but I'm not going to enter the fray.
However, in reading these, I was struck by an image I had never considered. In my mind's eye, Jesus, the human (and he was 100% human, in addition to being 100% divine) was male. I gather that from what is written in the Bible. In my mind's eye, when I need an image of God, he is male. In my mind itself, God has no gender. I limit him with my male image of him, but I'm aware I do it.
But, my image of the spirit has no gender at all. I had never considered that before. I might call the spirit by the male pronoun, but only because the word "it" is too impersonal. Truly, I don't imagine any gender at all for the Spirit of God. Just Spirit. As close as my breath, part of my breath, living with in me and around me, but not male or female. Just Spirit.
Someone, Pam, I think, said the Spirit was a foreign invader, because she could not relate to him (because of the maleness). Maybe the spirit is a foreign invader (not the way Pam means). S/he is separate from me. Foreign at times, but only because we disagree, and we argue until I am convinced.
When I'm in my chair, praying, God is God. There is God and there is me, and that's it. No one else gets to dictate any part of that (not that anyone is trying to).
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Are we the church?
I found the following quote in this blog by Henry Neufeld, but the quote is from a post by Allen Belvere:
And one more thing– as long as the church wants to grow only in order to pay the bills; if we see new people not as persons made in the image of God who need God’s transforming grace as much as the rest of us; if we only see them as instruments by which to meet the general budget, then we will have really lost what it means to be the church in the world.
Too many times I have heard that we need to attract more members to our church so that we grow, can pay our bills, thrive, survive.
Is that really why we need to attract more members?
No. And I think using that motivation turns those who visit our church or those we invite to church into a means to an end -- church survival. That's not love -- we're not loving that person if we only bring him or her to church so that the institution will grow or even survive.
And here is the secret we hope isn't true -- the new person knows what we are doing.
If we aren't loving, then the person in front of us will not feel loved. He will feel used. And we aren't a church.
I keep saying something the same thing, and feeling naive, but I truly believe it is right, and I was glad to see it on someone else's blog.
It is not our goal to attract new members so that our church will survive. Our goal is to make disciples for Jesus Christ. Do that, and we are a church. Don't do that, and does it matter if the organization survives?
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Open Mind
May God give us an open mind to see his truth.
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Tanasije Gjorgoski said...
Hi Eric,
I would agree that pronouncing "I'm thinking of a pink elephant" in case you present, where "thinking of" is made equal with "referring to" is a trivial truth, but it is such because you chose a trivial case. (similar to Lakoff's witty "Don't think of an elephant").
1.That is, in my opinion, too thin notion of thinking. Thinking is not a sequence of disconnected references to things. (How do I know? By introspection.) We do think about things, but we think about them in context and in their relation to other things. So, when I usually say "I'm thinking of an pink elephant", I'm saying that I'm having some motivated thoughts about pink elephants, I'm considering something about them or in relation with them; Be it if they exist, or if I would like one for my birthday, etc... So, in general case, I don't think that reports of form "I'm thinking of..." are trivial.
And, except in this special case with very thin notion of thinking, I don't see how your attack would work on other reports like "I feel pain in my finger" and "I see dead people".
Eric Schwitzgebel said...
Thanks for the comment, Tanasije! I agree with everything you say. I don't mean to imply that claims like "I feel a pain in my finger" or "I see dead people" are trivially self-verifying. But I also think that we can go radically wrong about such things! My thought is, in fact, that the two types of case are so unlike that we can make no inference from the infallibility of the one to the reliability of the other.
pete Mandik said...
Hi Eric, I agree with your claims re vacuity in this post. However, I'm curious about how some of this relates to some stuff you said in comments on the Dennett and fiction post. In particular, I'm curious how your view that we can be very wrong about our introspective reports squares with your statement in that other comment thread about how you take phenomenology to be ontologically basic (or something like that). These two positions strike me as odd bedfellows, but I confess to not being able to state precisely what bothers me about them. I guess most people I encounter that champion the irreducibility of phenomenology view phenomenal facts as having some special epistemic status that strikes me not sitting well with the fallibilism you seem to like. Does this worry make sense?
Tanasije Gjorgoski said...
I agree that those two are of different nature, and the infallibility of the reports of our view of the world (if one is to argue it), will not be based on this kind of tautological truth as in "I'm thinking of a Pink Elephant".
My proposal that infallibility of reports can be based on infallibility of knowledge of self-agency (as response to one of your previous posts) didn't seem to convince you much :) ...
Let me try the negative approach:
When one reports sincerely "I have pain in my finger", what is that makes the report sincere?
Eric Schwitzgebel said...
Thanks for your comment, Pete! I think you accurately convey the general state of the field. I've never understood, though, why belief that phenomenology is ontologically fundamental needs to go with any especially strong "privileged access" thesis. I do think we have a means of knowing what our experience is that no others share (introspection) -- but it's not an especially trustworthy means! In this, I follow Titchener, Wundt, Kuelpe, Angell, and the preponderance of the early introspective psychologists, though they, more than I, put faith in training as a way of overcoming our introspective deficiencies.
Maybe my position is unusual because it is pessimistic? I've found that people don't generally stress the importance of phenomenology or introspection unless they think they know of a reliable means to learn about it.
Tanasije, I apologize for having failed to be convinced! ;) I do think that some self-knowledge is the self-knowledge of agency -- I think Moran, especially, is helpful on this -- but I don't think even such knowledge rises to the level of infallibility. Not unless it's also vacuous ("I'm about to do *this*"). And I don't think such knowledge is genuinely introspective or takes us very far in understanding our phenomenology.
I'm afraid I have no positive account of sincerity. (I don't think a statement is sincere just in case I believe it, for example.) Are you thinking that a sincerity condition of a report of pain be the actual presence of the pain? If so, I'm not sure why that would be. I happen to think people can be sincerely mistaken about their pains. Sorry to be giving such unsatisfactory answers....
Tanasije Gjorgoski said...
Thanks for the answer Eric.
No need to apologize, I didn't convince myself either. I believe in the infallibility of the reports, but I don't think my attempt was nearly enough.
Anyway, I asked about sincerity, as I don't see how you can give account for the sincere/lying distinction, if you admit no fact about which the subject will be sincere.
If sincerity is the case when one reports what he believes (though you seem to not accept this account of sincerity?), then the sincere reports by definition will implicate that at least "I believe that X is a fact" need to be considered as infallible introspection. (And there is not much distance from "I believe " to "it seems to me")
Eric Schwitzgebel said...
Ah, Tanasije, I think people sincerely attribute to themselves beliefs they don't have quite often (in earlier posts I talked about belief in Heaven and belief in racial equality). In such cases, one might reach a sincere judgment that doesn't accord with one's long-standing and enduring belief; and maybe you're almost always going to be right about your own current judgments. But I would distinguish claims about current judgments from claims about current phenomenology. I think the language "it seems to me..." can be treacherous at this point, since it invites equivocation between expression of a judgment and description of phenomenology. (Too quick, I know. It deserves a proper post in its own right.)
Pete Mandik said...
So, why do you think that phenomenology is ontologically basic?
Eric Schwitzgebel said...
Ah, Pete, you force me to reveal my presuppositions! Actually, ontology -- the serious a priori kind of philosophical ontology -- gives me the heebie-jeebies. Maybe, in principle, at the end of the day we can show the identity of phenomenology and some material condition (at least identity enough for science); but we're not there yet, and in the meantime if we're going to take the mind seriously we've got to take seriously this stuff, this phenomenology, whatever the best ontological account of it at the end of the day. It's no good trying to work around it for the sake of being a good materialist.
So I guess when I say "ontologically basic" I mean to be saying that the best accounts we can construct now of what it is to believe, to be happy, to intend, etc., our best accounts of the overall structure and function of the mind, can't leave it out or work around it or reduce it to something else. For now, at least, it's ineliminable.
Perhaps this is too pragmatic, and not metaphysical enough, for most philosophers' tastes. That's how I happen to think, though -- and it's what lay behind (without my articulating it to myself that way at the time) my perhaps idiosyncratic use of "ontologically fundamental" above.
Pete Mandik said...
Fair enough, Eric. Thanks for spelling that out!
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by codewarren (927270) on Thursday May 31, 2012 @10:04AM (#40166075)
If you stuck a venus fly trap for the same purpose, or you stabbed a maple tree for the purpose of making it bleed, is that also cruel? Practically everyone can see that it is cruel to do this to a human, while practically everyone can see it is not cruel to do this to do it to a plant. Somewhere between these, we went from cruel to not cruel. Is there a line, on one side of which is cruel, and on the other is not cruel, or is there a spectrum of cruelty here? And what property of these "creatures" makes it crueler to do so to some, than to others?
• Re:That's not funny (Score:2, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 31, 2012 @10:31AM (#40166287)
No, it is not that simple, not all members of the animal kingdom have enough neurons to "feel" anything. You would not conceder reflexive movement in someone who has lost most of their brain to indicate real sensation. You need a *lot* more complexity than even complex reflexes to consider anything capable of feeling (and flys have only a little more than a millionth of our complexity). Vertebrates would make a good first start, along with creatures with similar or higher complexity levels to the simple vertebrates, but the actual layout of the brain architecture probably also should be taken into account. Obviously if we actually knew about how to derive this knowledge form brain measurements a lot of ethical questions would be a lot simpler.
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by Rakishi (759894) on Thursday May 31, 2012 @11:58AM (#40167823)
Cockroaches are not humans.
By your argument a neural network running on my computer also feels "pain" and our collective computer systems are the worst set of torturers to have ever existed.
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CriptokiX is a software Cryptoki (fiXed) token based on openCryptoki. Its security is highly configurable by selectively enabling different patches.
CryptokiX extends openCryptoki by providing the following patches:
• Conflicting attributes: it is well known, for example, that it is insecure to allow the same key being used for wrapping and decrypting. In CryptokiX it is possible to specify a set of conflicting attributes.
• Sticky attributes: Some attributes once set (unset) should never been unset (set). For example a sensitive key should never be set non-sensitive. This is also useful when combined with the `conflicting attributes’ patch above: if two attributes are conflicting we certainly want to avoid that they are separately set and unset.
• Wrapping formats: It is known from previous work that it is not sufficient to specify a non-conflicting attribute policy. A wrapping format must also be used that correctly binds key attributes to the key. This prevents attacks where the key is unwrapped twice with conflicting attributes. Some devices are known to already include such wrapping formats, such as the Eracom ProtectServer.
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I've seen many people saying how some sites can infect your computer without actually clicking anything. They said that it was a "Flash Drive By" and it would use flash to download a file of any kind. Does that really exist or could it be something else?
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It's not called Flash Drive By, but Drive-By Download, and yes, it's basically downloading malware just by visiting an infected website. Usually drive-by downloads work by exploiting a browser vulnerability (or a vulnerability in plugin like Flash or Adobe Reader), which leads to remote code execution triggering the download of malware.
Unfortunately drive-by downloads are getting more and more popular, especially that many legitimate websites get infected by adding a malicious Javascript code to their pages. That in turn usually happens with SQL injection and/or XSS. So, basically, a web application vulnerability in a legitimate website may lead to system-level exploitation of clients that visit it.
You can learn more about Drive-By-Downloads, the mechanism of infections, the statistics etc. in the following OWASP presentation.
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Yes, it exists. There have been a lot of vulnerabilities in Flash that allow code execution if the user views a flash file (which most browsers will do automatically, if you have the plugin installed).
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Is it possible to upgrade from Sharepoint Foundation to the full version (SharePoint Server 2010)? We've half way implemented a site in Foundation and are running into issues. Can we just install the full version on top of foundation and have it "upgrade" to the new version? Or will we lose work and have to start from scratch?
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you should be able to upgrade it over itself, install a test box real quick and try it out.
however, don't expect issues to resolve themselves, i suggest resolving any errors before introducing a whole new level of complexity.
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Agree, I have done this successfully. Run the installer and then run the Configuration Wizard to do the upgrade. But don't forget to do backups first ;-) – SPDoctor Nov 9 '11 at 7:37
Is backing up the SQL database sufficient? – Tim Coker Nov 9 '11 at 12:46
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I develop SharePoint 2010 web application in Windows 7 + SharePoint 2010 Server machine. I have used Visual Studio 2010 for the development. In my application I have three different projects each for Site Definition, List Definitions and Visual Web parts respectively. Now I need to deploy my application in a different server machine with Windows Server 2008 with VM containing SharePoint Server 2010. Please someone help me with steps in deployment?
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You should work on your accept rate to get more feedback. – Francois Verbeeck Nov 23 '12 at 8:19
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Your VS projects will generate SharePoint packages (WSP) when you package them (right click on the project and package).
On your target environment, you'll need to create a web application then install & deploy the WSP for your site definition (that will be a farm solution). Once done, you'll be able to create a site collection of that template and afterward you'll have to install & deploy the last two WSPs and activate the relevant features to have your list definition & webparts available.
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Thank you for the guidance. I have deployed the my three wsp files and activated the features. wsp1-contains masterpage, custom css and the custom js files. wsp2-contains list definitions. wsp3-contains webparts. wsp1 and wsp2 were globally deployed and wsp3 was deployed to a web application. Now in the web application I can find all the webparts but not any lists and styles. – Suja Shyam Nov 23 '12 at 8:59
Are you sure the associated feature is activated on the target environment ? – Francois Verbeeck Nov 23 '12 at 12:55
yes am sure about it. In wsp1 and wsp2 the scope of the feature is web and wsp3 the scope is site. – Suja Shyam Nov 26 '12 at 4:08
Thank you for the supports. I resolved the issue by changing the scope of the globally deployed wsp to "Site" from "Web" and re-deploying the wsps to the web application. – Suja Shyam Nov 26 '12 at 7:46
glad to read it's solved. Good luck for the other tasks :) – Francois Verbeeck Nov 26 '12 at 20:28
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I have a Sharepoint 2007 Announcement List which have an Expiry Date for every Item ..
I have really tried too much in this, but I came up short. I want to send an alert when an Item or Announcement when it Expires (on Expiry Date). Is there is anyway I can do it, cause it is not in the Alert options provided.
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I don't think it is possible OOB. You can do it by writing custom code either in a timerjob or a workflow, which will look for expired announcements and send a mail to the intended users.
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Thanks for the Reply. Any Idea how to do that .. – 7oooda Feb 5 '13 at 9:57
Here are the steps for the timerjob: Look for the announcement which are going to expire today (Use CAML Query). Send a mail (SPUtility.SendMail) to the intentded users about the item getting expired. Finally schedule the job to run daily. However, if you are not comfortable with Timer jobs, create a console application with above logic and schedule it to run daily using task scheduler. – Nadeem Yousuf Feb 5 '13 at 10:04
Salam 3alaikom, Can I do the Seps mentioned Using this Tool : sptimerjobadmin.codeplex.com – 7oooda Feb 5 '13 at 11:59
I haven't used this tool, so can't comment on that. However, you can find following links useful:ajaxme.blogspot.in/2010/10/… andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/… – Nadeem Yousuf Feb 5 '13 at 12:08
Thanks .. Jazakallah. – 7oooda Feb 5 '13 at 12:11
Try taking a look in the document retention section here: http://www.martinhatch.com/2008/08/how-to-handle-document-retention-and.html
Hope this helps.
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Thanks, That was helpful. I'll take a deep look into it and tell you about any progress. – 7oooda Feb 5 '13 at 10:37
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Monday, September 9, 2013
Silence Turned Up High
Smile. Words – the visual elixir to my silence. Today's reading brought about an emotional entourage, with a touch of too much reality thrown in like a pinball machine in an arcade TILT. In a good way, in a bad way, in a this-is-your-life waygentle memory shakers. Silence, my two-fold blessing curse, even after all these years I still haven’t figured out which. The dichotomy? Curses can bless us in the strangest ways.
I see depths.
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The branch sways in tender protest, as leaves tug autonomously, waving in the winds breakers. On a tree's topmost limb, deeper still, a tawny squirrel flag tics, tiny wind surfer with a branch for a board. With each breeze the twig vaults higher, small claws grasp for the elusive last pear of the season. A diminutive damp nose twitches with success. Below my feet squish in the sweet rot aroma of fallen discards.
3-D perception is a dance of silence in visual cadence. Would I choose this, to hear with words, to visualize the unspoken eloquence of movement against a soundless tapestry of thoughtperhaps? There are days I want to hear a mischievous squirrel’s bellyaching chitter as they rappel from one branch to another. I want to hear the sound crabapples or pears make with a suicide pact as they pinball against branches, to bounce against a wood fence and hard earth. More than anything, I would give it all up to hear the rain fall. Small visual etiquettes with a soundboard
I see depths, beyond sound in the deeper silence of the heart. My eyes turn up the volume. Everyone has at least one ‘what-if’. Would this word espouser, see so clearly if I heard? Blessing or curse, does it matter in the long run. To quote Anne Lamont, “The most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my own life and not be ashamed.” To show up and own who I am, as a person, as a writer, and let others hear the essence of my worded silence. Subversive, revolutionary.
No matter how many times, I question my deafness or find fault with the silence, my words smooth the jagged edges of a soundless life. No curse finds beauty strewn among the broken places. I hear one word at a time in each indelicate perception within echoes of movement. So yes, I do show up for my life, in so many words. And I would be remiss if I didn’t share the brain fodder which espoused this bit of introverted prose:
Rain, you said, was silence turned up high.
It has been raining now for days.
Even when it stops
there is still the sound,
of rainwater labouring
to find some way into the ground.
We lie in grim embrace: these
two halves trying to be whole, straining
for this break in the static,
in the white noise
that was rain falling
all day and all through the sheeted night.
Silence is rain with the sound turned down,
And I stare out on a clear view
of something left out on the line:
a life, snagged there_
drenched, shrunken,
unrecognisably mine.
~Robin Robertson
Thanks to a dear friend Diana Matisz for introducing me to his work. ~ Indigo
1. I love this and I love that something I shared rang true for you. Much love x
2. I will now read this poet too, because of your stunning words set above him first, and then for the pictures I see in the poetry too.
3. You hear more with your soul than I do with my eyes. Thank you for this beautiful post.
4. a very cool poem to share...the silence turned up would be hard for me to be in complete silence...i def like the chittering of the squirrels...and little bits of life...though i do see deeper as well at times...the patterns beyond that are not dependent on our limited senses...
5. I honestly don't know which I love more: the poem, or your words. You take us into your world of silence, and envelop us with the mixture of anguish and blessing found there. Brilliant, Indigo. As always.
6. Every time I come visit, I get so swept up in the beauty of your words. You have a true gift, my friend.
7. hello indigo, i wish you could hear the rain too, especially on a tin roof or steel barrel: it pings.
you write deeplywith deep images. i have read at least some of this post three times, all of it tonight. what you share is universal, and yet i have a sense that as i get to know you, from your words, your words will be like diamonds and i will like you and that.
8. As usual, Indigo, you put it in a way that no one else could possibly come close... such imagery... your talent always shines...
9. "Silence is rain with the sound turned down" - perfect. Just absolutely perfect. What a great poem.
Your writing is gorgeous as well, Indigo. I'm so blessed to be your blogger friend and read your lovely words. You will never be silent.
10. Curses can bless us in the strangest ways.
Yes, I have been shown that many times.
You are indeed a talented writer. I wonder if your words would speak so loudly if it were not for your silence. Indeed a curse can be a blessing
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Perl for Newbies - Part 3 - Modules and ObjectsObjects in PerlMaking Your Own ObjectsObject Inheritance
4.3.3. Object Inheritance
Now, let's suppose we would like to create a class similar to Foo, that's also keeps track of the number of times its name was assigned. While we can write a completely different object, we can inherit from Foo and use what we already have in place.
Here's a class derived from Foo that has a method assign_name_ext that keeps track of the number of times it was called, and a method get_num_times_assigned that retrieves this number:
package Bar;
use strict;
use warnings;
# @ISA is not lexically scoped so it has to be declared with
# use vars.
# qw(My Constant String) is equivalent to split(/\s+/, "My Constant String")
use vars qw(@ISA);
# We use Foo during our inheritance so we should load it.
use Foo;
# This command actually inherits Foo.
sub assign_name_ext
my $self = shift;
my $name = shift;
# Call the method of the base class
my $ret = $self->assign_name($name);
if (! $ret)
return $ret;
sub get_num_times_assigned
my $self = shift;
(exists($self->{'num_times'}) ?
$self->{'num_times'} :
Written by Shlomi Fish
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Mjällby AIF
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Mjällby AIF
Full name Mjällby Allmänna idrottsförening
Nickname(s) MAIF
Founded 1 April 1939
Ground Strandvallen
Mjällby AIF is an association football club in Hällevik in Sweden. The club was founded in 1939, and played its first Allsvenskan season in 1980.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Velocity is a measure of how fast something has moved in a particular direction. [1] In physics, velocity means the time it took an object to move from one place to another (displacement), and the direction of movement - this is known as a vector quantity. An object could travel at 7 metres per second in a direction of 30 degress south of east. This is velocity.[2]
\text{velocity} = \frac\text{displacement}\text{time} plus direction.[1]
So for example something that moves in a square, and finishes back where it started, has not been displaced. This would mean that the object's displacement = zero, and it would have a velocity of zero.[1] It is different to the speed that it moved around the square. People often use velocity and speed to mean the same thing, but they are different, velocity must have a direction.
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SIP ABACUS & Mental Math Brain Training Program
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Consists of 5 Levels with Emphasis on:
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• Speed and accuracy
• Developing confidence in performing more complex computations
• Enhancing auditory, concentration and mental processing skills
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Motivation for Abacus Studies and School Mathematics
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Anonymous said...
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy!
Anonymous said...
At some point, the people will be forced into a pro-active solution to eradicate this problem, as "law enforcement" doesn't seem to have the will to deal with it effectively.
SWIFT said...
Geeeez. Why can't these news stories have a happy ending? For instance: Two thugs break into home. Homeowner blasts them both to hell. Then, homeowner searches them, confiscates their EBT card and mails it in. Then calls the Welfare office to make sure their names are dropped from the welfare roles. Then calls all funeral parlors and tells the morticians, if anyone calls trying to make arraignments for this or that name, don't do it as you'll probably get "stiffed".
Anonymous said...
Be interesting to see the boy's famliy's reaction.
"Oh! You mean brute of a killer. He was such an honor roll good boy, turning his life around."
Yeah. . . . Riiiight.
B Woodman
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Skinny Twist
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My name is Daniel Kljajic.
I come from Burgenland (Austria). I was born in Derventa (Bosnia).
As a small child I was interested in music. In elementary school I wanted to play guitar. But there was only piano for learning. Here in Klingenbach there was a group of young people. The so-called "tamburaško društvo". I went with 12 years in this group. Since ''Bugarija'', also called ''Kontra'', strong in form and function of the guitar like, I wanted to play this instrument. In the course of puberty I was interested more and more for Youth Music Styles Hip Hop and Punk. I only stayed 1 year in Tamburica group and bought a bass guitar. With a music teacher in Eisenstadt I learned to play. The bass guitar I played only half a year. Playing with instruments, I completely stopped.
When my parents bought me a computer, I tried to compose music on the PC. Even with a few DJ sets I tried, but without DJ controller and turntables. Only the PC was my only instrument. As of now, I started to produce hip hop beats.
Besides I produce hip hop, drum and bass and electro nowadays.
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Comment: Re-image/Delete not an option (Score 1) 547
by Astrogen (#40791795) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Clean Up My Work Computer Before I Leave?
I work in an environment where re-imaging and deleting is not an option. Often my work actually images an employees computer for backup purposes when they leave the company, in case any work specific files are left lying around.
I think the question here is, how can you nuke as much "private" stuff as possible, keeping the OS and possibly work files intact.
-Benjamin J. Judson
(I don't have a witty sig)
Apple's Game Center Shares Your Real Name 182
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dotarray writes "Apple's Game Center has just made itself a few enemies through a simple change to their Terms of Service. Now, whenever you send a friend invitation, your real name will be attached as well as your Apple ID." Apparently they didn't learn from the poor reaction to Blizzard's similar idea.
Sun Pushes Emergency Java Patch 90
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Trailrunner7 writes "In a sudden about-face, Sun has rushed out a Java update to fix a drive-by download vulnerability that exposed Windows users to in-the-wild malware attacks. The patch comes less than a week after Sun told a Google researcher it did not consider the issue serious enough to warrant an out-of-cycle patch and less than a day after researchers spotted live exploits on a booby-trapped Web site. The flaw, which was also discovered independently by Ruben Santamarta, occurs because the Java-Plugin Browser is running 'javaws.exe' without validating command-line parameters. Despite the absence of documentation, a researcher was about to figure out that Sun removed the code to run javaws.exe from the Java plugin. The about-face by Sun is another sign that some big vendors still struggle to understand the importance of working closely with white hat researchers to understand the implications of certain vulnerabilities. In this case, Google's Tavis Ormandy was forced to use the full-disclosure weapon to force the vendor into a proper response."
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+ - Maine passes net neutrality bill->
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+ - Cause for Warrantless wiretapping?
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Astrogen writes "The Globe & Mail (Canada's National Newspaper) has a story about how it took 5 months worth of attempts for CSIS (Canada's Spy network) to obtain a warrant to wiretap a key suscpect in the 1985 Air India bombing that took 329 lives. The delay was apparently due to a backlog of requests.
Is this a case for warrantless wiretaps? How would you suggest getting around delays like this and protecting privacy?"
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Comment: Oklahoma: new land of the earthquakes (Score 1) 49
by jmcbain (#47479377) Attached to: New Map Fingers Future Hot Spots For U.S. Earthquakes
Oklahoma has recently had a spate of earthquakes. From the LA Times:
There is controversy in that the quakes have occurred after the start of fracking (and the disposal of wastewater), and the oil companies refuse to acknowledge the connection. However, I find this stance akin to the cigarette companies refusing to acknowledge a direction connection between smoking and lung cancer.
+ - Apple and IBM announce partnership to bring iOS + Cloud services to enterprises
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+ - Apple announces new programming language called Swift
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Comment: Re:Adios MOHAA (Score 1) 329
by jmcbain (#46984621) Attached to: EA Ending Online Support For Dozens of Games
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault was such a good game! I remember playing that back in 2002-2003 when I was in grad school. I can still visualize the Omaha Beach multiplayer level in my mind, like it was an actual physical layout. Land on the beach from the landing craft, use the sniper rifle to take out the machine gunners in the high turrets, storm the base, and make your way to plant the dynamite on the big guns at the back of the map. Good times.
Comment: Lawyers didn't do their job (Score 5, Informative) 215
by jmcbain (#46978997) Attached to: Plaintiff In Tech Hiring Suit Asks Judge To Reject Settlement
From the NY Times article:
Comment: Re:Never forget where you came from (Score 1) 390
by jmcbain (#46797465) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Hungry Students, How Common?
I actually do have almost 200 hours in community service, but almost all between high school and grad school. I volunteered at hospitals, homeless shelters, and habitat for humanity. Since becoming a professional, though, I have little time for that now. What's most disturbing is that I've now become more libertarian, i.e. disgusted that I have to pay so much tax for socialist services after having spent the entirety of my 20s in CS degree programs.
Comment: Never forget where you came from (Score 3, Interesting) 390
by jmcbain (#46796485) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Hungry Students, How Common?
Comment: Re:Donald Knuth (Score 1) 197
by jmcbain (#46443203) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Online, Free Equivalent To a CompSci BS?
Hello, anonymous coward. I would say I know about computer science because I have three degrees in the field, namely BS, MS, and PhD from top-20 US universities. I would also say I know about programming because I've worked at some of the biggest companies in software and online services. I also know how to distinguish between "you're" and "your". Now, regarding your comment, computer science is in general the application of the theory of computation to practical computers and practical applications. There are fields in CS which are purely theoretical, but in general CS applies theory to real computers (e.g. Von Neumann architectures; you should look that up some time when you're not too busy with your HTML and CSS). CS is thus an extremely broad field.
Comment: Re:Donald Knuth (Score 3, Interesting) 197
by jmcbain (#46440899) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Online, Free Equivalent To a CompSci BS?
-- Modern Operating Systems, by Tanenbaum.
+ - Samsung preparing Context keylogger, spyware in upcoming Galaxy S phones 1
Submitted by jmcbain
jmcbain (1233044) writes "According to the technology blog The Verge, Samsung is preparing new smartphone software that acts as a keylogger and spyware in their future phones, like the upcoming Galaxy S 5. "Samsung has been developing a service called Context that would collect what a person types, what apps they use, and what data their phone's sensors pick up, and then allow developers to tap into that pool of data to enrich their apps." The article suggests a scenario where "by using Context a video service might be able to automatically display sports videos to someone who frequently searches for sports." Looks similar to the Google Now service, but still scary stuff in the age of the NSA."
Comment: A great American company sold to China (Score 4, Insightful) 172
by jmcbain (#46104803) Attached to: Google Sells Motorola Mobility To Lenovo For $2.91 Billion
Motorola has a distinguished history as a great American company. It was founded in 1928 and outlasted all its electronics contemporaries from that era, including RCA and Dumont. It had a great hit in the Razr (the iPhone before the iPhone). Now Google has sold Motorola to China.
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Chris Bianco Surprises With New Trattoria and Pizzeria in Phoenix
Lance Roberts 14 comments
We've been on Chris Bianco overload for the last couple weeks around here, but the maestro had one more surprise up his sleeve that we couldn't possibly ignore. What if we said he just opened a new trattoria and a second Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix? Okay, what if we told you we already checked out both? More
Top This: 'At Last' at Federal Pizza, Phoenix
Top This Erin Jackson 3 comments
In Phoenix, Federal Pizza's "At Last" pie features a bevvy of unusual veggie toppings, from fresno chilies to lemon zest. By all means, do try this at home. More
Lance Roberts 11 comments
You probably heard that Chris Bianco is opening up his second pizzeria, but that's only part of the story. We had a long talk with him to find out about his new place in Tucson, what's driving him thirty years into his illustrious career, and how he got to be so damn good at making pizza. More
Chris Bianco is Opening a Pizzeria in Tucson!
Niki Achitoff-Gray 12 comments
Dear Slice: Arizona Pizza Pilgrimage
Dear Slice Meredith Smith 17 comments
Pizzeria Bianco Opens for Lunch Today: Some Words of Welcome from Pizza's Poet Laureate
Ed Levine 16 comments
It's been almost ten years since Pizzeria Bianco has been open for lunch, and judging from the email owner-pizzaman Chris Bianco sent me this morning, both he and the serious pizza-loving community are incredibly excited at the prospect. More
Phoenix's Pizzeria Bianco to Open for Lunch, April 12
Adam Kuban 7 comments
Glendale, Arizona: Bold Neapolitan Pizza at La Piazza Al Forno
tempepizzagirl 21 comments
Justin Piazza makes it clear what you will be getting when you walk through the doors at La Piazza Al Forno. They offer wood-fired Neapolitan-style pies, made with "00" flour and topped with San Marzano tomatoes and homemade mozzarella. More
Cooking with Chris Bianco of Phoenix's Pizzeria Bianco
tempepizzagirl 6 comments
Getting a table at Pizzeria Bianco is a challenge. On any given night, most diners will wait at least two hours. The most reliable strategy is to start lining up in front of the restaurant around 3:30 p.m. (on a weeknight that is—I've never had the courage to wait in the weekend lines). Getting into a cooking class with Chris Bianco can be just as tricky. More
Scottsdale, Arizona: 'Pomo Pizzeria Napoletana
tempepizzagirl 11 comments
Statement from Chris Bianco Regarding Absence from Pizzeria Bianco
Ed Levine 18 comments
Adam Kuban 29 comments
Brain Dump: West Coast Pizza Madness 2009, Where I Visited
Adam Kuban 2 comments
The United States of Pizza: Arizona
Adam Kuban 9 comments
Another One from Norman (and Chris Bianco)
Dear Slice Adam Kuban 10 comments
Norman, who is apparently at Pizzeria Bianco this minute, just sent this photo. I guess it makes up for his earlier taunting photo-email message. Awww, thanks, guys!... More
F-Words of Wisdom from Pizzaiolo Chris Bianco
Adam Kuban 21 comments
Chris Bianco on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Tonight
Adam Kuban 7 comments
Celebrated pizzaman Chris Bianco (Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix) will be on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight. Bonus "slice" action: Mixed martial arts fighter Kimbo Slice will also be a guest. Perhaps these two slice men can have a throwdown. (Check your local listings.) Update (1/19/2009): I've posted the video of the appearance below—after the jump) (thanks for the link, Paulie). Related: All Pizzeria Bianco entries on Slice... More
Pizzeria Bianco Mops the Floor with Mozza
Lance Roberts 28 comments
Pizzeria Bianco: The DJ Bubbles Drive-By
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FlexWiki 2.0 Beta 1 Released
FlexWiki 2.0 Beta 1 has been released! A host of bugs have been fixed and one major new feature added. All features but one from FlexWiki 1.8 should now be working, including RSS feeds, newsletters, and the administration pages. Additionally, a new security model has been introduced (read more at\).
The one thing that isn't working right now is the SQL Server provider. If you store your content on the filesystem (the default), you don't need the SQL Server provider. It will be reimplemented in Beta 2.
Posted by Craig Andera 2007-05-07
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Should more social players pay less?
Here’s a great story, Valve/ Steam supremo Gabe Newell has a great interview with Develop, discussing his views on Valve, mobile gaming, social gaming, how he looks after his staff … and payment models.
The industry has this broken model, which is one price for everyone. <…> What you really want to do is create the optimal pricing service for each customer and see what’s best for them. We need to give customers, all of them, a robust set of options regarding how they pay for their content.
Interesting notion – but recognising that some people will actively build the community and be seen as more fun to play with than others is quite an interesting step. In MMO terms, this might mean charging less for successful guild leaders, a bit more for soloers, and rather more for griefers.
He gives this as a hypothetical example but I wonder if you can actually reward your more social players like this. After all, they’re creating content for your other players and making your game community a more pleasant place.
And more to the point, if you imagine MMOs/ online games are all competing to attract these community builders (at least in a sense), what if one game did offer a more appealing reward and attracted a larger amount of these players?
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1. The obvious unintended consequence is griefers feeling like they can pay $100 for a license to be pricks with absolute legitimacy.
• I think you have to assume that griefers were going to be pricks anyway and can still get banned, just now the dev makes more money out of it and maybe the griefers will decide they don’t want to pay the $100 and will switch to another game instead.
And yeah, the weak link is how you measure which are your more social players because any voting scheme can be rigged. (tbh it’s probably easier to measure the griefers because they’ll not be trying to hide it.)
• Spinks, how would you measure the players without voting? I think that an automated judgment system would be rigged more easily than voting. You can make a system where only selected group of players would have the right to vote but how would you select them?
Also, I don’t think the developers have to use “the whole package” – they can only provide discounts to the social players while charging the griefers the same as neutral players. This would stop the griefers from trying to game the system and get other people marked as griefers. (They will try to; after all, they are griefers because they grief.) On the other hand, there would still be a problem with discount trading…
2. Interesting idea – I believe DAoC gave out a few complimentary life subscriptions to people for things like identifying exploits and helping Mythic fix them with a minimum of publicity. I don’t know if the team leads (who were player representatives for each class) got their accounts comped or not.
If you do run such a scheme, it’s probably best not to publicise it – the drama from those who feel they should be entitled to a free account but aren’t would be unbearable (“but I’m a community leader! Look at my forum post count!”) On the other hand, that kind of runs against the whole point of using it to encourage more sociable play.
Maybe a better way is to make stuff like the random dungeon finder optional content – pay $10/month for the game without it, or $15 with random dungeon finder. Now players can save money by having friends lists.
However, the best way to attract the sociable players is to build a sociable game that they WANT to play instead of having to bribe them :)
3. Yeah, there’s people on Why Was I Banned, who are on their third or fourth account already, all being banned for the same transparent reasons. Charging them more will help keep the support cost/customer ratio down, because the sting of paying more for the same content will push it beyond their pain point.
Unfortunately, some of the more advanced cases have become quite proficient at rules lawyering and they will learn to bypass any automated checks. For them, subverting the system is their primary form of entertainment, not the game itself.
4. I’m working on a project that actually implements an approach to this in another way. A bit round about and not perfect though. I can’t (yet) talk about it, but it’s different from what I’m mentioning below. Now I would love to discuss on how this could be implemented in a classic MMO setting.
What would be a metric that shows you who is a social player and who isn’t? How can you be sure it won’t be gamed, or the ones gaming it, are in the sub 1% margin of irrelevance? Giving the arbitrary number of 10.00 USD per month as a starting point, you would want that the average over all players still levels out to about that. Now how would the spread look like probably? A bell curve with a large average mass and a small percentage of extremes in both directions? In what steps would you create the incentives (1%, 10 cents, 1 Dollar)? Let’s assume some random Fantasy MMO, and everyone has the same game, content and features for this theoretical approach.
5. It could work if “fun” would be something universal. But it’s not.
Should I play for free as a guild leader who made a home for 200+ players? Or should I pay extra for actively trying to grief away players I consider M&S?
Should the guy who is the joke center of /trade making everyone giggle pay less? Or should he pay more for being such a terrible player that everyone who get to LFD with him try to votekick him and drop group if that fail or on cooldown?
How about the AH goblin whose name is not even known to the people who access items they want thanks to his work?
• No point offering rewards for something that is already rewarded in-game. The point of such a system is to compensate for externalities. So the AH goblin doesn’t qualify, because while you’re performing a useful function you’ve already got your reward… You ARE making a profit, right?
6. Well to some extent this is already in – the paid name changes and server transfers in most MMOs are a licence to grief as is the simple ability to buy another account after you get perma-banned.
Still I think some sort of tangible reward is inevitable and here’s why:
– originally being a facilitator of content to other people was necessary to advance. Hardcore players made groups, built guilds and formed raids because otherwise they couldn’t progress. To socialise was part of being an achiever.
– WoW has taken MMOs in a different direction and its lead is reinforced by similar games like Rift. Now if you asked people what shows that a player is outstanding they will probably give you some kind of individual measure like performance on a damage meter or gearscore.
– games inherit players from other games and culture change is gradual. WoW inherited a wonderful core of hardcore raid leaders from earlier games who facilitated access to content for the rest of us. Wow’s legacy is not however a pack of social players with great leadership. Arguably leading is a disadvantage – I know I’d have better gear if I’d guild-hopped instead of building a guild, if I’d played with the same small clique instead of dragging new people into T2 runs all the time.
When the cultural change finally catches up with the design emphasis on self MMOs are going to really hurt for people who enliven the server. They’ll be some, socialiser is a Bartle type and they’ll always be part of the community. But the socialiser/achiever hybrids popularised by EQ’s design and Vanilla WoW’s design are a dying breed. And current game design works against us.
• I think you’re probably right. Time was when being good at the social side was pretty well necessary to play hardcore, and MMO culture does lag a few years behind current design. And also, players in general are increasingly less tolerant of new or inexperienced leaders — it’s the same issue as came up with tanks, and for some of the same reasons.
• Well quite, it’s the same issue as with tanks and WoW has already created a special payment that effectively means tanks are paid more per pug dungeon run.
To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw:
“What kind of game do you think I am!”
“Madam, we’ve already established that, now we’re just haggling about the price.”
We’ll probably see some kind of points system. “Tank 5 pugs in one day and get Tank Points as if you’d tanked 6!” “Get the highest Guild Points on your server and get a free Space Dragon personal mount for your Guild Leader!”
7. The way you implement this differential pricing is to ban players more readily, then charge them a fee to be unbanned.
Yeah, I don’t see it working terribly well either.
8. Microsoft run an MVP programme for those who contribute to the MS IT community:
It is *very* prestigious, probably adds 50% to your consultancy rate, and is decided through a fairly invisible process. People can be nominated by the community or invited by Microsoft. You don’t actually get very much (IE No cash) for being an MVP – invites to a few conferences, etc, but it’s a very effective way of encouraging community leadership.
9. This is a very Capitalistic approach to game pricing: “those who succeed in gaming and create ne gaming opportunities should be rewarded via cost cuts, those who merely consume should pay full price.”
10. But then there are guilds like Guild Perks on Proudmoore full of twinks (832) just to have free guild bonuses. What does that guild leader deserve?
Just check out the achievements and you’ll get the point:
Pay to play is a difficult thing to implement, and an easy thing to game. It might not be pure DPS (etc), but there will be another set of metrics that takes the place of true social skillz.
11. Not sure that charging soloists “more” is the best phrasing. They are, perhaps, the baseline, neither adding directly to groups nor detracting from them. Maybe maintain the PR line that high social rep leads to perks and incentivize cooperation.
…this might be best to do in-game and leave the sub price the same, incidentally. It might also be argued that it is already done that way.
…and I still say that charging for content is the ideal. Why should I pay for time that I’m not using under a sub model, or raids I’ll never play under a “buy it all” model? As usual, though, that axis of valuation isn’t usually on the radar for devs who take the subscription as a given.
• I’m going out on a limb and saying that if game devs are keen to reward people who provide more social interaction, that perhaps soloists are not the baseline they’re looking for.
And charging for content is pretty much the effect they’re looking for here. Just the content they’re talking about is player provided, to a large extent.
I guess what I wonder is whether it would bother you to know that someone else (who presumably was a key community organiser in some way) was being rewarded with lower charges? We are all used to playing alongside people who get press comps, for example.
• If they are really keen to call social interaction “content”, then they need to get rid of levels and any other barriers to people playing together. A true newbie should be able to play with a grizzled veteran on day one and not just be a millstone about the vet’s neck. The pay structure isn’t going to compensate for game design structural problems.
Beside that, it’s a marketing/psychology thing I’m talking about. For some reason, players getting in-game perks for certain playstyles is an easier sell than changing prices based on playstyle. Me, I don’t care if someone is paying less, but I’m looking at the marketability of the thing. Some people will care, and presentation of the scheme will make a difference.
…and are we really calling player interaction “content”? I’m not sold on that either, but that’s a subject that’s probably bigger than this discussion.
And I miss that cushion.
…probably enough to stop playing.
12. I already get enough social engineering – rewarding desired behaviors while punishing unwanted ones – from the government thought police. Just… ugh…
13. I think it’s right that social networks are “lumpy” and that some players are worth more to a game than others. It’s good that developers are recognizing this. But I’m not sure that adjusting player subscription rates (or developing alternative compensation models) is the best response.
What it does is apply a one-size-fits-all incentive (money) to even out those lumps. “Running with more people” doesn’t sound like fun; organizing group activities sounds stressful. Having a financial incentive to be a dynamic, positive force in a game runs against my temperamental inclination for solo-play, private exploration and limited groups. It would offer me the incentive to pay my bill with social stress instead of cash. That’s not a tradeoff I want to manage.
On the other hand, I’m certainly not opposed to paying more to tailor my playing environment to be more fun for me, as I define it. That tailoring probably means micro-transactions.
14. The real reason a business would want this kind of differential pricing is to maximize profit. If they charge a person 20 dollars but that person was willing to spend 40, they’e just left 20 dollars on the table.
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steven andresen said...
But, wasn't McCain also a corporate stooge with dodgey connections?
So, we had to decide which stooge would be President based on more nuanced criteria. Like, who had better hair and gave good speech...?
SpookyPunkos said...
It's the one party system, with two choices of lying stooge that promise everything and deliver nothing.
Organised resistance against this sort of tyranny is something to be considered. A viable 3rd party, mass protests, and a push back against the corporate media are things to aim for.
None of this is easy but the choice is to act or to let things happen and put up with the consequences.
Spook !
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
I want a regex that matches a string which contains
- At least one brace: } or {
- At least one digit: \d
- At least one instance of either: <p> or </p>
But in any order, so that all the following would be matched:
And none of these would be matched:
<p>{ alphabet 123
Here's what I have so far, which demands only one of any of those components:
My problem is that I don't know how to make it more general without also having to specify the order like this:
Or making it stupidly long to enumerate every possible order...
How can I say "Needs at least one of each of these components in any order?"
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Why <p>{ alphabet 123 is not a match? – Dyppl Nov 16 '10 at 5:08
Why this <p>{ alphabet 123 string is not valid? – Shekhar Nov 16 '10 at 5:09
@Stook and @Shekhar: because he never said an alphabet is possible; he only said brace, digit, <p>, or </p>. – BeemerGuy Nov 16 '10 at 5:14
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If your regex flavor supports lookaheads, you can use positive lookahead as:
This regex uses positive lookahead to assert that the string as atleast one of either { or }, at least one digit and atleast one of either <p> or </p>.
If you want to ensure that the string has only these and nothing else can use the regex:
which works as previous regex but also ensures that the input has no other character.
Regex implemented in Perl
The regex can be made a bit shorter as:
which makes use of the fact that \{|\} is same as [{}], <p>|<\/p> is same as <\/?p>.
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<\/?p> matches both <p> and </p> and nothing else. It doesn't exactly make the regex simpler, but it definitely makes it a lot shorter, and possibly a bit cleaner. – EmFi Nov 16 '10 at 7:02
@EmFi: You are right. I've edited my post to include your suggestion. Thanks. – codaddict Nov 16 '10 at 7:14
Thanks. I'm working in Ruby so I'll have to fiddle a little to get it working, but you've set me on the right track. – doctororange Nov 16 '10 at 8:04
I guess you'll just have to check three expressions
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Well, 9 right? In this simplified example anyway. The principal is to avoid cases where you might want to match more complex things and it blows into the thousands very quickly. – doctororange Nov 16 '10 at 5:21
Only three if you're talking full expressions... if (x ~= /a/ and x ~= /b/ and x ~= /c/). You only get the combinatorial blowout you mention when you really must test them all in one regexp comparison and don't have the Perl-style lookaheads mentioned by codaddict. – Tony D Nov 16 '10 at 5:34
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OK, I understand what the messages means, but I'm really not sure what's causing it. I'm using Safari and the Web Inspector on Mac OS X, by the way.
I've got the following in my document head:
<script src="http://local.url/a/js/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="http://local.url/a/js/jquery.inplace.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
jquery.js is handled fine, but the other file causes the warning. It also seems that the javascript in this file never gets executed.
The file is being served via mod_deflate, so it is gzip encoded, but so is the other file.
Has anybody got any ideas what's causing this, or how to resolve it?
Cheers all, Gaz.
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which version of safari? – ax. Mar 18 '09 at 14:46
Can you post a working example URL? Looking at what's actually happening from the browser's point of view would be helpful. – Sidnicious Apr 3 '09 at 2:02
It's probably a bug, same thing shows up on my Safari 4 on win. – Maiku Mori Apr 4 '09 at 19:43
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seems to be a bug in safari / webkit. maybe this one, or any of these. try upgrading your safari. if there is no more recent stable version, try the 4 beta.
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look at the next answer that actually solve the problem. This can be explained because src ="" goes to fetch the current page as the image. if you have src ="" just remove the src property – Ben Laniado Mar 26 '12 at 12:17
An image with an empty "src" attribute generates this error under Windows-Chrome:
<img src="">
... whereas ...
... does not.
I arrived here because my ajax resultset was returning "src" data which was empty yet the img was still being inserted into the page.
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This was exactly the case for me. – maxfridbe Sep 19 '10 at 8:09
you saved my life! thx a lot! – Mücahit Yılmaz Jun 24 '11 at 13:52
great answer!!! – Ben Laniado Mar 26 '12 at 12:15
@DanDascalescu reports url() - ie no src address - in your CSS or javascript is effectively the same thing and generates the same error. especially: background-image: url() – John Mee Oct 26 '12 at 5:40
I have had this error for several days. It was driving me crazy because it didnt allow me to use firefox firebug's script debugger. Finally, my error was solved when I removed an empty url in a "background-image: url()" style property.
This has been so much a pain than I really hope somebody can use this advice.
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This was a pain to debug, until I just searched from the error string on SO. The error came from a Wordpress theme, ProMotion, that simply outputted whatever the user typed in as a background image URL. Most of the time, there was no background image URL typed in. – Dan Dascalescu Oct 24 '12 at 1:11
I don't think it is a bug, Try adding the MIME type to your .htaccess file For instance, put or add the following content to your .htaccess file (which should be in the same place of your .js or above folders)
AddType application/x-javascript .js
This solved my tree "Resource interpreted as other but transfered ... " warnings. Everytime you have that kind of warning it means you don't have enough info in your .htaccess file.
BTW1: Since you are modifying .htaccess file, make sure you restart your server.
BTW2: I also could clear same warnings for GIF files in Safari 4 with this:
AddType image/gif .gif
BTW3: For other file types: see w3schools list or htaccess-guide
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You don't need to restart your server after modifying .htaccess. – Liam Oct 12 '10 at 12:43
This warning appears because no default script type is specified. Try adding the following directive to your HTML file:
You can read more about default scripting specifications here: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/scripts.html#h-
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Putting in the http-equiv resolves the problem. – dalbaeb Jul 22 '09 at 14:16
Didn't work for me with Safari 4.0.3. – John Oct 5 '09 at 23:54
Neither Safari 4.0.2 – JacobE Dec 28 '09 at 10:11
Doesn't work for chrome 8 with the same prob! =( – gideon Jan 16 '11 at 14:30
Does not work for me with IIS7.5/Chrome 8.0.552 – UpTheCreek Jan 23 '11 at 15:41
You need to use a tool to view the HTTP headers sent with the file, something like LiveHTTPHeaders or HTTPFox are what I use. If the files are sent from the webserver without a MIME type, or with a default MIME type like text/plain, that might be what this error is about.
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It is because of the period in the file name. It is stupid, but anytime there is a period in the js file name you will get this error, and I have come across situations where it will actually prevent the js file from loading.
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wow, if that is the case it is very weird. – scunliffe Mar 12 '10 at 17:01
that may be one reason, but not the only reason that this error occurs. – Kzqai Apr 7 '10 at 21:40
It seems like a bug in Safari's cache handling policies.
Workaround in apache:
Header unset ETag
Header unset Last-Modified
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Yeah there's a bug when using Last-Modified in WebKit browsers. They seem to get confused about any static file when you send that header. – kristovaher Jan 30 '12 at 16:30
I just got this and solved it locally on my mac. For some reason the javascript file in question had bad permissions. I noticed when I looked at it in firebug I was getting a 403. I hope that helps anyone.
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I had the same issue with a css file instead of javascript. (using the xitami webserver)
what fixed for me was adding under the MIME section of xitami.cfg:
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I found out that the naming of my css files was in conflict with the proxy filters
www.dating.com (which is not my site) was blocked and my css and js files were called dating.css and dating.js. The filter was blocking this. Maybe that is the case with some of you, working on corporates systems.
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This bug seem to have resurfaced (Noticed it November 2010)
I think the WebKit bug reports involved are this one and this. Essentially it boils down to incorrect cache handling when doing an If-Modified-Since which get a 304 response.
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Another common cause of this error on the Mac is Apple's quarantine flag.
ls the directory containing the resource(s) in question. If you see the extended attribute indicator, i.e., the little @ symbol at the end of the permissions block (e.g. -rw-r--r--@ ) then the file could be quarantined.
Try ls -la@e and look for com.apple.quarantine
The following command will remove the quarantine:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/file
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There seem to be many things that cause this. For me it was a lowercase rewrite rule in IIS. Changed the problem files (js and png) to lowercase and problem went away.
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Append these MIME types to .htaccess in your root. I recommend the second line, as it may help prevent any future potential MIME interpretation warnings with CSS files.
AddType application/x-javascript .js
AddType text/css .css
Restart Your Apache...
Add to your nginx.conf or your mime.types import file (Recommended Method). Add any or all as needed/relevant.
types {
text/html html htm shtml;
text/css css;
text/xml xml;
image/gif gif;
image/jpeg jpeg jpg;
application/x-javascript js;
application/rss+xml rss;
text/plain txt;
image/png png;
image/tiff tif tiff;
image/svg+xml svg svgz;
image/webp webp;
application/postscript ps eps ai;
application/pdf pdf;
application/rtf rtf;
application/vnd.ms-excel xls;
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ppt;
application/msword doc;
application/x-shockwave-flash swf;
application/xhtml+xml xhtml;
application/zip zip;
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I'm calling MSTest like this:
<Target Name='UnitTests'>
<CallTarget Targets="BeforeUnitTests" />
<Exec Command='"$(VS90COMNTOOLS)..\IDE\mstest.exe" /testmetadata:$(SourceCodeRootFolder)ASA.File.Processing.vsmdi /testlist:buildtests' />
<CallTarget Targets="AfterUnitTests" />
It's running, but whether it succeeds or fails, no errors are written to the MSBuild error file. I'm running MSBuild with these parms:
/fl /flp:v=detailed;logfile=Errors.txt;errorsonly
I have emails set up to email our team if there are errors in the Errors.txt file.
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Unless the MSTest program itself fails, you won't get errors in the MSBuild logfile, at least from the test portion of your build stream.
One of the MSTest options is to publish the results to TFS; you should be able to use standard notification setup there to let your teammates know what happened. Or you could use the resultfile parameter in the MSTest call and parse/publish based on what you find in the file.
We use Codeplex project Trx2Html to publish the results to an internal website that everyone has access to.
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Thank you DaveE – VK Macwana Jan 25 '12 at 13:21
DaveE - Unfortunately we are not using TFS., is there any other option inside Build utility from where we can capture the error ? – VK Macwana Jan 25 '12 at 13:26
You can use the resultfile to capture the test output and parse that. It's straight XML. From your description, you're only interested in errors, so you'd be looking for <UnitTestResult> elements where attribute outcome is "Failed". testName is an attribute of <UnitTestResult>, so you should be able to tell your devs exactly what test failed. There are other elements - <Message> and <StackTraceInfo> - under <UnitTestResult><Output> that you can post in the email as well. – DaveE Jan 25 '12 at 18:00
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
I'm writing a windows service that needs to sleep for long periods of time (15 hrs is the longest it will sleep, 30 mins is the shortest). I'm currently using Thread.Sleep(calculatedTime) to put my code into sleep mode. Is Thread.Sleep the best option or should I be using a timer? I've been googling this for a while and can't find a concise answer. Since this is a windows service, I don't have to worry about locking the UI, so I can't think of a reason not to use Thread.Sleep.
Any insight would be appreciated.
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I would use a timer, Thread.Sleep, could cause a blocking piece that could prevent the service from shutting down.
If the interval is that wide spread, and regular, you might just schedule it as well. But if you are talking about long, non-consistent intervals, then yes a Timer would be better.
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It's generally regarded as bad practice to use Thread.Sleep() in a lot of cases.
If you want the service to run in the background, you should use a timer.
If the service only needs to be run at scheduled intervals, I'd recommend you look into using Windows task scheduler to allow Windows to run the application when you need it to.
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Since a service may be asked to stop at any time by the Service Control Manager, your thread should always be ready to respond to these requests, so you should not use Thread.Sleep(). Instead, create a manual-reset event in the main thread and use its WaitOne method with a timeout in your worker thread. WaitOne will return false when the time expires.
When your service class's OnStop or OnShutdown methods are called, set the event and that will cause WaitOne to return true and you can then exit your worker thread.
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You should not pre-calculate such large amounts of time and sleep for hours. Sleep for a minute at best, then wake up and re-calculate the time, sleep again for no more that a minute. I assume the calculation is very cheap or it can be made very cheap with caching. The problem my advise is trying to mitigate is that computer clocks are surprisingly 'jumpy', mostly due to time drift corrected by network time service, also because of daylights savings and not least because user adjusting the clock. So is better to constantly recompute the time for such long intervals, even if it means waking up every minute or so. And don't be surprised (ie. don't assert) if you wake up in the 'past', clocks can adjust back in time.
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Another thing to consider is that threads are finite resources and each thread consumes a portion of memory (1MB?) for the its stack. They may also increase load for the scheduler.
Now, if your service isn't doing much else the wasted space is trivial, but it is wise to be aware of this before you start allocating multiple threads. Using a ThreadPool and/or Timers is much more efficient.
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Re: Metadata Searching: Hyphen gives bad results
From: Jens Olscher <JOLSC(at)>
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999 - 06:56:33 GMT
I have found the reference in the archives about having the hyphen - in the config.h header file under #define WORDCHARS, so I included it there and recompiled, but it still does not work. Should it work? Did anyone get it to work that way?
I have neither changed BEGIN- nor ENDCHARS.
Any other suggestions?
>>> Bill Moseley <> 10/26/99 12:16am >>>
At 08:41 PM 10/24/99 -0700, Jens Olscher wrote:
>If I search with this command:
>swish-e -w "DC.Date.Created = 1999-07*" -f index.ndx
>the above file WILL NOT be returned. There will be NO RESULTS whatsoever
with this search.
>If however I search using the much broader term:
>swish-e -w "DC.Date.Created = 1999*" -f index.ndx
>the above document WILL be returned, but unfortunately together with 1000s
others that have been created in 1999....
>So my suspicion is that the hyphen screws up the results. Trying to escape
too many results, same as 1999*).
What are your WordCharacters, Begin.., End.., Ignore*Char settings?
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The Future of Data Information Retrieval April 29, 2010
Posted by Andre Vellino in Data Mining, Information retrieval, Knowledge Representation.
It seems like the “Open Data” movement is at last getting some traction and the floodgates are opening. [Thanks to Daniel Lemire, Richard Akerman, Peter Turney and Paul Gilbert for all the pointers and helpful suggestions!]
For instance, just the other day the World Bank opened up its data vaults to add to the already voluminous quantities of “social science” data. It probably won’t take long for Google to add some of those data sets to its growing collection of public data that it can display with Google Motion Charts API. This is in parallel to “Google Fusion Tables” (read “Google Docs for Data”), for which visualizations are also be available.
I am not sure about Google’s commercial motives – they probably don’t know either – “build it and the money will come” seems to work for Google, somehow. But Amazon’s motive for providing 30 or so significant data sets (between 20 and 300Gb each) is more transparent: to sell their cloud-computing services for those who want to data-mine this information. What a great honey-pot for data-miners who need to chew up CPU cycles! My favourites are
There are stacks of other datasets as well, lovingly cared for by people for whom this data really matters.
The list is much too large to provide a comprehensive catalogue, although CISTI has begun developing such a list of Canadian scientific datasets at the Gateway to Scientific Data.
In sum, we have lots of scientists contributing lots of data to databases they care about. Now what?
Here’s the analogy with the web that Tim Berners-Lee makes in this TED video. In ~ 1990 we already had lots and lots of electronic documents on PC hard-disks, not to mention mainframes and even file-servers. Then came his wonderful, awesome idea – do what MacIntosh HyperCard did to “Cards” to files on the internet. Brilliant! But hypertext alone wasn’t enough. First requirement: a “universal locator scheme” for linking documents to one another. Second requirement: a harvesting / indexing method to make the content accessible via a search engine.
The corresponding ideas are now migrating to the data world. For instance Berners-Lee is spearheading the Linked Data movement. The idea of Data URIs (addressable via HTTP) is an essential first step but the corresponding second step – a data-harvesting / indexing method – hasn’t (yet) been taken. Not by conventional internet search engines anyway.
We need to be able to search for and find data, but unlike text, data itself can’t be indexed! What can we do about that? One suggestion – for scientific datasets anyway – is to make the link between scientific documents (i.e. published articles) and the datasets that they depend on and use the text of the scientific articles as “metadata” for the datasets.
Fortunately, thanks to DataCite, scientists can now obtain Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for data and cite datasets in their publications. They may even get credit for developing and publishing datasets in academic peer-review. In the not too distant future scientists in Canada will be going to CISTI to obtain those DOIs.
What might a future in which data is properly indexed and discoverable look like? A little like WolframAlpha, I expect. This “computational knowledge engine” – note the absence of “search” in this descriptor – already relies on lots of “databases” to return “search results” and compute [possibly relevant] related facts. It’s also already got a pretty cool iPad app for navigating and visualizing results. This is where the puck is going and we ought to be skating there.
Currently the state of the art for cataloging datasets is to annotate the metadata with some bibliographic standard like Dublin Core. And to “crawl” the metadata for datasets, we could use Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) as a starting point.
But we are going to need something more than just “metadata” (which is, in fact “meta-metadata”, since the “metadata” for a dataset should really be the Data Schema or XMLSchema that it conforms to). Remember David Weinberger’s advice in Everything is Miscellaneous: “The solution to overabundance of information is more information”.
So where can we find more information about the data, above and beyond how it is linked to other data and how it is referenced in the published literature? How about the putting Data-Schemas and XML Schemas to work and mining them for meaning? The idea is still a bit vague in my mind, but something like an automated way of extracting or reverse-engineering the entities and relationships from the data schema and using them to index the data elements. This could enable even more links between data elements in one dataset and elements in another.
This is perhaps where the social sciences have a leg-up on the physical sciences – there is quite a rich metadata standard for social sciences: Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) (which is a misnomer, really – it should be called “Social Sciences Data Documentation Initiative”). The value of this standard has been a framework for developing tools navigating datasets and statistical tools for analysis.
There are some such toolsets in some scientific fields: NetCDF (network Common Data Form), for instance, is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.
Perhaps if each scientific discipline can establish a similar set of standards the future of scientific dataset discovery will look as compelling as the WWW does today.
1. gawp - April 30, 2010
After watching a few of presentations by Peter Norvig (head of research at Google), I realized that Google is a Machine Learning company. They accumulate all this data because they can train ML systems to do smart things with it. There is a great presentation by Norvig (can’t find it right now) where he says that a lot of ML systems are moderately good when trained with, say, 10^5 examples. But even the crappy ones do pretty well if you can train them with 10^9 examples.
I think that Google Books, for example, is not (primarily) some attempt to get control of books, but rather to get them into a format where they can be used for training; translation systems, spell checkers, etc.
Andre Vellino - April 30, 2010
@Gareth – You might be thinking about this Google Research blog post:
2. Toward data-driven science - May 3, 2010
[...] improving access to data is fast becoming a critical issue. In a thought-provoking post, Andre Vellino sketches the future of data Information Retrieval. Some key [...]
3. Kevembuangga - May 3, 2010
we are going to need something more than just “metadata”
Yeah! We are going to need semantics (the real ones not the “Semantic Web”).
But this has been tried before to no avail, the data miners are just about to rediscover ontologies and how unruly they are.
It’s an old story, good luck…
4. Toward data-driven science | Science Report | Biology News, Economics News, Computer Science News, Mathematics News, Physics News, Psychology News - May 3, 2010
5. Data Archiving « Synthèse - May 7, 2010
[...] a previous post, I was suggesting that the text from publications and the data DOIs that are referenced in them [...]
6. Scientific Research Data « Synthèse - August 23, 2010
[...] I indicated in a previous post, one development that will help redress the problems endured by small, orphaned and inaccessible [...]
7. La difficile accessibilité des données scientifiques « meridianes - July 26, 2011
[...] je l’ai indiqué dans un billet précédent, l’émergence de méthodes de référencement unique pour les jeux de données comme celles [...]
8. Les scientifiques découvrent que seuls 20% des données climatiques sont accessibles « Les moutons enragés - September 26, 2011
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13.4. SELECT with one result
Example 13-2. examples/dbi/select.pl
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
my $dbfile = "sample.db";
my $sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users');
my ($count) = $sth->fetchrow_array();
print "There are $count number of rows.\n";
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Tapestry for JSF Users
Tapestry for JSF Users
This isa brief guide for learning Tapestry, designed for those who already know JavaServer Faces (JSF).
Because both JSF and Tapestry are component oriented frameworks designed to serve mostly the same kinds of problems in similar ways, developers who already know JSF will find it very easy to learn Tapestry. In fact, Facelets, the default view technology in JSF 2.0, was created specifically to give JSF a Tapestry-like templating capability, so Facelets users should feel right at home.
Since almost all modern JSF applications use Facelets as their view technology, we assume the use of Facelets here when discussing JSF features.
JSF is a rich, mature web framework specification, and there are lots of smart people who use it productively. This guide isn't intended as a pro-versus-con comparison or as advocacy of any kind. Instead, it just attempts to make transitions between the two frameworks easier, regardless of the reason for doing so.
Side-by-side Comparison
JSF and Tapestry have a lot of superficial similarities, so the first steps in that transition are all about relating similar concepts, terms and components in your mind:
Concepts & Terminology
Java class associated with a page or component
"Backing Bean"
"Component Class"
Component attributes/parameters
Common Attributes/Parameters
HTML Attribute used for invisible instrumentation
CSS "class" attribute name
Alternating "zebra" striped rows
class="${cycle:class1,class2}" using cycle binding prefix, or with CSS: .rowClass:nth-child(even) {background-color: #e8e8e8;}
Output and Messages
Escaped HTML from property
<h:outputText value="myBean.myValue"/>
Raw HTML from property
<t:outputRaw value="myValue"/>
Error messages
<h:message> and <h:messages>
<t:error> and <t:errors> (for forms) or <t:alerts>
Image display
use standard <img> tag
Conditionals and Looping
Render-time loop
Compile-time loop
<c:if test="#{myBean.myValue}">
<t:if test="myValue">
<ui:fragment rendered="#{myBean.someCondition}"/>...</ui:fragment>
<t:if test="someCondition">...</t:if>
<c:choose><c:when ... ></c:choose>
See Switching Cases
Server-side comment
Links and Buttons
Navigational link
<h:link outcome="nextpage.xhtml"/>
<t:pagelink page="nextpage"/>
Event-triggering link, without form submission
not available
<t:actionLink> or <t:eventLink>
Form submission link
Form submission button
Link to Javascript file
<script> or use @Import in component class
Link to CSS file
<style> or use @Import in component class
Grids, Tables and Trees
Tabular data in <table>
Table used for layout
<h:panelGrid> with <h:panelGroup>
use standard <table> tag
Hierarchical tree
depends on component library
Form Tags/Components
Single-line text input field
Password field
Select menu
Checkbox list
Radio button list
<t:radioGroup> with <t:radio>
Multiple select menu
not available (but see Palette and Checklist)
Hidden field
textarea tag
Label tag
<h:outputLabel for="...">
<t:label for="...">
Some important notes:
• With Tapestry, you don't use the ${...} syntax with parameters of components. Just use a bare expression within the quotes. For example: <t:textfield value="myProperty"> instead of <t:textfield value="${myProperty}">, because in the latter case the expression is converted to a read-only string before the textfield component gets it.
Hello World Comparison
Faces templates and Tapestry templates are superficially quite similar.
JSF template (helloworld.xhtml)
Tapestry template (HelloWorld.tml)
Though these are very similar, notice some differences:
• The #{...} syntax in JSF does not encode the underlying string, so you have to use the <h:outputText> tag if your data may contain HTML reserved characters such as <, >, or &. In contrast, the ${...} syntax in Tapestry does encode the underlying string.
• In JSF, backing beans are not necessarily related one-to-one with page templates. Often several templates use the same backing bean, and one template may reference multiple backing beans. In Tapestry, they are always related one-to-one, and therefore you don't have to specify which component class your ${...} expressions are referencing.
JSF Backing Bean (HelloWorldBean.java)
Tapestry page class (HelloWorld.java)
Expressions in templates
JSF uses the Unified Expression Language with the #{...} or ${...} syntax for accessing Backing Bean properties. For its part, Tapestry uses the ${...} syntax with a similar but more limited expression language called Property Expressions. Both allow easy access to properties via the usual JavaBean conventions, but with Tapestry you don't have to specify which class the expression starts at (because it always starts at the component class corresponding to the template). Some comparisons:
JSF Syntax
Tapestry Syntax
Property (calls getEmployeeName() or setEmployeeName())
Boolean property (calls isHourly() or setHourly())
Property chain
Null-safe property chain
5th element in a List
#{! employeeBean.hourly}
${! hourly}
Arithmetic & relational operators
+-*/% div mod
not available
Relational operators
== != ne < lt > gt <= le >= ge
not available
Ternary operator
#{myBean.foo < 0 ? 'bar' : 'baz'}
not available
Method calling
Iterated Range
not avaialble
Iterated Range (calculated)
not avaialble
not available
${ [ user.name, user.email, user.phone ] }
not available
${ { 'id':'4039','type':'hourly' } }
Features shown as not available above are absent by design, because (in both Tapestry and JSF) it is considered best to keep complex logic in the component class rather than in the template.
Event Handling & Page Navigation
Event handling
In JSF, you specify the event via the action parameter (for example, <h:commandButton value="Submit" action="employeeBean.saveChanges">). For Tapestry, event handler methods are found by method naming conventions (onSomeEvent() or by method annotations (@Event), based on a combination of the "t:id" attribute and event name, and the action name used depends on the component. For example, the "<t:actionlink>" component in Tapestry emits an "action" event when clicked, and you handle that event in your "onAction()" method.
Tapestry applications can use JSR 303 Bean Validation annotations that JSF users should be familiar with:
Post-Redirect-Get Navigation
By default, most JSF URLs are "one page behind". That is, when you click on an <h:commandLink> link or submit a form, the request goes back to the originating page, and the server returns the contents of the next page – but the URL in the browser shows the previous page's URL. To fix this in JSF you add the "?faces-redirect=true" to the URL you return from event handlers, which causes JSF to send a redirect to the browser to navigate to the next page.
By contrast, Tapestry implements this Post-Redirect-Get pattern by default. The URL will always reflect the page you're seeing, not the page you just came from.
Note that by default Tapestry does not save property values across the Post-Redirect-Get cycle. This means that you have to consider how (and whether) to persist property values from one page to the next. The usual solution is to either make the values part of the page's Activation Context (which means the values will be appended to the URL) or @Persist the properties the values in the session.
Custom and Composite Components
With JSF, creating custom components is an advanced topic. In fact, many JSF developers have never created a custom component. In JSF 1.x, creating each custom component requires a lot of work: creating 3 Java classes (component, component renderer and component tag), registering the component in an XML file, and registering the tag in the .tld file. In JSF 2.x composite components can be created without too much work (if your needs can be met by combining existing components and you don't need any custom Java), but you still have to use cumbersome <composite:interface> and <composite:implementation> tags in your component templates, and you have to list the composite components in the xml namespace declaration at the top of the pages where you are using them.
Creating true custom components in JSF 2.0 still requires several steps: create a component class (generally having the @FacesComponent annotation and extending UIComponentBase), create a renderer class (generally extending Renderer), add a <renderer> section to the facesconfig file, and create a *-taglib.xml file in the WEB_INF folder that defines the namespace, tag and component type of the custom component.
In contrast, with Tapestry, creating custom components is a beginner topic: it is expected to be a daily activity for developers, because it is so easy. In fact, the steps are the same as creating a page. All you have to do is create a (potentially empty) Java class in a "components" sub-package, and create a template file containing (X)HTML markup in the corresponding "components" sub-folder within your package hierarchy under /src/main/resources. You use a custom component just like you use any built-in Tapestry component: <t:mycomponent>.
Because they're so easy to create, Tapestry applications tend to have a lot of custom components and much less repetition of HTML than most JSF applications.
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And a Happy Tuesday night to you all! Last week, I wrote about one of the scariest games ever.
Today's going to be a bit lighter, but no less emotional. It's about an indie game, one that I bought sort of randomly, but I'm glad I did.
Game of The Week-I Can't Think of a Moon Joke For This One.
To The Moon was released only a couple of years ago, in November of 2011. Developed by a small team called Freebird Games, players are cast as two doctors, Eva Rosalene and Neil Watts. They're no ordinary doctors, however. Their "patient" is an elderly man on his deathbed named Johnny. All Johnny ever wanted was to go to the Moon, but he never got the chance. Dr.'s Rosalene and Watts work for a corporation that alters memories for people near death, to give them a chance to live their fantasies before they die.
Of course, things aren't that simple. See, first, the doctors must find out why Johnny wants to go to the Moon-except he can't remember why. Watts and Rosalene must therefore travel into Johnny's subconscious, and layer by layer (working backwards from present day) they attempt to discover what planted the desire for space travel in Johnny. Along the way, you'll basically witness Johnny's entire life, again, going backwards from elderly man to small child.
The first thing you should realize is that To The Moon is more of an adventure game, or even a visual novel, than an RPG, despite the screenshots. The game was designed with RPG Maker XP, but you'll find no battles here (except a joke one in the beginning). As the two Doctors, you'll typically find yourself in a room or other location within Johnny's subconscious, and you'll need to find various objects around the place to cause another object to appear, which serves as the gateway to another memory. There's a tile-flipping puzzle that accompanies each gateway, but it's not hard. That's the gameplay in a nutshell.
But then, you're not playing for the gameplay, you're playing for the story. And this is where To The Moon shines. It's simply one of the most emotional tales ever told in gaming, as far as I'm concerned. Despite the vaguely sci-fi premise, there's a certain believability to all the characters involved, especially between Johnny and his wife, River, who is one of the best written characters ever in my opinion. It gets to a point where you genuinely feel for everyone in the game, even Dr. Watts, who's mostly kind of a cynical jerk (but he's got some hilarious lines).
By the end of it all (which shouldn't take too long-maybe three hours), you're pretty emotionally winded. If you're eyes don't well up by the end, even just a little, then you're made of tougher stuff than I.
Bringing this game together, and in fact making it more than the sum of it's parts, is the soundtrack. If you've been reading this blog for a while, you probably know I like my soundtracks.
To The Moon's soundtrack is fantastic. It simply compliments the game perfectly. Here's a beautiful piano song called "For River" that's a recurring theme throughout the game:
The rest of the soundtrack can be bought with the game on Steam. I highly recommend getting both of them if you've got the coin.
So, if you're gaming library' s a little light this week, or you wanna try something different, I can't recommend To The Moon enough. It's the kind of game that catches you off guard and doesn't let go.
As always, hit the comments section!
Thanks to Wikipedia, and Steam.
Next week, we'll check out a game that was HUGE back in the day. Too bad there's 57 varieties of it.
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Sony’s Playstation-Branded 3D TV Hits November 13th
Next Story
Moonfruit makes play for shop identity with killer Facebook integration
Remember that 3D TV bundle that Sony announced at E3? Well, it’s finally arriving. A little later than we’d hoped, but at least it’s out in time for the holidays.
According to the Playstation Blog, the 32″ TV should be generally available on November 13th. They also answer a busload of questions about the TV, in case you were curious about the inputs, 3D glasses, and so on.
It’s too late to get a copy of Resistance 3 with your pre-order, which is too bad because I’ve heard good things about the game. You will get a copy of Motorstorm: Apocalypse, however.
The display comes with a pair of 3D glasses and an HDMI cable. It seems like a pretty solid TV for a dorm room or small apartment; Sony TVs are generally pretty solid and this one is probably a good performer as well. I’m happy with my six-year-old Dell monitor, but you might like this thing, what with its 240Hz and built-in speakers. Plus, with that shape, you can hold your hands up from a distance and pretend it’s a Vita.
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
I'm using LyX and trying to use the nomenclature package to insert a bunch of acronyms into my document.
I've inserted a Nomenclature table (Insert -> List/TOC -> Nomenclature).
I've then created a Nomenclature entry (Insert -> Nomenclature entry), and I can insert one fine.
And I've also just figured out how to insert another one - you just delete the old text and enter in new details. It's not the most intuitive, and I would have thought LyX could supply you with a list of previously used acronyms to reinsert, but ah well.
However, how do I get the actual acronyms to print the text? As it is, I have to type in both the text I want displayed, and the acronym entry. I'm fairly certain there's an easier way, but I'm not sure if I can do it within LyX or I have to use LaTeX directly?
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I am no LyX expert, but I know that nomencl uses makeindex to sort and generate the List of Nomenclatures. In the nomencl documentation it states makeindex <filename>.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o <filename>.nls. It is <filename>.nls that is used by \printnomenclature to actually typeset the List of Nomenclatures. Have you done something similar to this in LyX? Are you able to? – Werner Oct 10 '11 at 1:35
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This has nothing to do with LyX in the first place, it is just nomencl’s standard behaviour. The \nomenclature command just stores the entry for the list, but it does not print any text. However, you can redefine the \nomenclature command in order to print the text as well. You could, for instance, put the following in the preamble of your document:
The first line stores the \nomenclature command in \nomenclOrig. This is necessary, since we have to redefince the \nomenclature command. This is done in the second line. Since the \nomenclature command has two mandatory arguments and one optional argument, we have to specify 3 arguments (the [3] bit). The optional argument has no standard value (the [] bit). Then we print the second argument (which is the first mandatory argument, since the optional argument is always #1) as normal text and use the original command that we have stored in \nomenclOrig.
I tried this with LyX, without problems. Note, though, that the two lines will give an error in a document without a nomenclature entry or list, because then LyX will not load the nomencl package and thus the \renewcommand will throw an error.
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Today Texas executed Yokamon Hearn. He was the first person executed with a newly adopted single drug method. Texas had to change from a three drug method to a single drug method because of pressure applied by death penalty opponents to companies who manufacture the drugs and to governments in countries where the drug companies are located. Switching to pentobarbital, also known as Nembutal, raised the cost of drugs for each execution from $83.55 to $1,286.86.
Hearn was the 483rd person executed in Texas since executions resumed in 1982 after an 18 year moratorium. He was the 244th person executed under Governor Rick Perry.
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Rule #3- Phone Tag
I once caught myself waiting by the phone for a guy to call me. When I realized what it was I was doing, I put my cell in my underwear drawer and went off to entertain myself with a three-hour Sex and the City marathon.
Phone tag is the oldest game in the book (well since the invention of the telephone at any rate). This back and forth banter between a couple is important, and not to be taken lightly. It will either turn him off completely or leave him wanting more.
Scenario #1, What NOT to do
So the guy (the one who you can grate cheese on his abs), took your phone number last night. It’s been twelve whole hours and you are already freaking out a little bit, so you text him. A few more hours go by, no reply, so you text him again. At twelve you give up and go to bed. (after messaging him “have a good night” (: ) The following afternoon you text twice more, and still haven’t gotten anything back (you have already run every excuse from he is really busy with work, to he has been run over by a horde of cross elephants).
It would seem you missed ‘cool’ by just a little
Now, you do get I’m exaggerating my point, just a little, but it’s very easy to miss the mark when it comes to playing it cool and relaxed.
Scenario #2 – A more welcome outcome
You manage to exercise some self control. You succeeded in not overdoing it and containing your excitement in the face of the possibility of a future full of kinky sex. He calls, you resist acting like a crazy person and it all works itself out.
So, how do you bring this about?
The Rules of Phone Tag:
1. Match the other persons calls and texts! This is the cardinal rule of phone tag. It has the same rules as real tag (the ‘tag you’re it’ kind). He texts, you text, he calls, and the next call is on you.
This way you are both on the same page, and you don’t overdo it and scare him off.
2. How much is too much? Now this is the really complicated question. How can you find the balance between not seeming desperate and not seeming uninterested?
(guys and girls differ on this question, but not always, and you need to learn to spot the exception and match the other persons’ expectations. Be attentive, it’s the only way for those of us who can’t read minds)
Before you go out together, the one call to set it up and a second to make sure you are still on is ENOUGH! This way you don’t find yourself in the midst of an awkward silence, and you don’t end up putting more pressure on each other before you have even gone out.
Between the first few dates, if all goes well, my recommended dose is this: one call a day and a few texts is more than enough. This way, you will be able to keep things going, and have stuff to talk about when you see each other.
3. When you barely know each other, phone calls should be like good chocolate; short, sweet and leave you wanting more.
(Now how’s that for a tacky dating metaphor?)
1. Although a new study just came out giving a more conclusive link to cell phone use (for voice calls only) and cancer, so maybe I’ll just stick to text tag.
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SISTAR GOT CONSENT(Sources, edited: text, image)
Give it to me, SISTAR.
Or did you waive that right when you signed your contracts?
Sinfest Sex Object(Source)
SISTAR’s Soyu recently revealed her dislike of short stage outfits.
Kate Bush The Kick Inside 1978(Source)
Kate Bush provides an illustrative example:
Nine Muses of Star Empire(Source)
Nine Muses I really did my best(Source)
• CL GQKRIt’s difficult to find material on SISTAR specifically
Nana After School What's Next(Source)
Not what it may seem, Escher Girls describes it as:
Dal Shabet Legs Objectification(Source)
A) Traditional gender roles exist
Next, consider the disproportionate power of those men:
C) Women typically hold less power than men in that environment
California Beach Jewelry red(Source, right)
The final two are also self-evidently true:
E) The approval and acknowledgement of male gaze
• Consequently, it is negative sexual objectification
As many do
Ga-in Bloom(Source, above; below)
You know what I mean!
(Patricia Park, Korean Bodega, June 15)
Either way, in February Kim Da-ye at the Korea Times argued that looking at marriage this way is a relatively new phenomenon, and that it’s “matchmaking companies that rate spouse seekers by specs [that] have fueled [such] materialism”. And, as if to bolster that point, Donga-Reuters would report on exactly the same phenomenon emerging in China after I’d already begun writing this post.
And on that note, let me leave you with a translation of the image that prompted this post, a poster for last week’s Slutwalk in Seoul. The slogan reads, roughly, “Let’s stop these fantasy gender roles now. Let’s play at being ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’, 2012 Slutwalk Korea”; while the specs it mentions, though mostly universal, also have some quintessentially Korean ones:
• 키180이상 Over 180cm in height
• 전문직 A professional
• 대기업정규직 Regular worker at a big company
• 인서울4년제 Went to a 4-year university in Seoul
• 자차소유 Owns a car
• 장남아닐것 Not a first-born son
• 데이트비용 Pays for everything on a date
• 신혼집구입 Buys a home after marriage
• 사회생활잘함 Good social skills
• 성격좋음 Good personality
• 술잘마심 A good drinker
• 정력왕 Good sexual stamina
For the woman (“womanliness”):
• 키170미만 Under 170cm tall
• 몸무게50미만 Under 50 kg
• 가슴C컵이상 A C-cup or over
• 30살이하 30 or under
• 날신한몸매 Thin body
• 작고하얀얼굴 Small and white face
• 화장은기본 Always wears make-up
• 제모는상식 Shaves legs and underarms
• 명품백하나쯤 Have at least one brand-name handbag
• 애교있는성격 Have aegyo
• 시댁을부모처럼 Treats parents-in-law like her own parents
• 섹스경험없음 Be a virgin
Are there any others readers would add? Especially Korean ones?
Having said that, things definitely have changed in 8 years:
(Source: James Turnbull)
Gwangju Womenlink argued that “Are women in bikinis the only option for a tourist brochure?”, and said “We are embarrassed and perplexed that a public institution would go so far as to use such crude [James - I think this is a better translation of "낯뜨겁다" than "obscene" or "rude"] images in a tourist brochure.” (source, right)
(Sources: left, right)
International Magazines in Korea: A Cultural Invasion? (Part 1)
(Sources: left, right)
With covers like these, it’s easy to overestimate the “Westernizing” effects international magazines have on modest Korean readers. Especially by those who resent such changes.
Say, those who have ever called someone a “beanpaste girl” (dwengjangnyeo; 된장녀) for instance, a derogatory term for young women that supposedly spend beyond their means in pursuit of a Sex and the City lifestyle. But which in practice they can be called for doing no more than simply buying Starbucks coffee, nice clothes, or foreign food.
When such decadent women want to do some reading while sipping their frappuccinos though, until recently they were much more likely to be seen behind an international women’s magazine than a purely Korean one. That wasn’t just confirmation bias by their accusers.
Why are they so popular? And why, despite that, are they still not quite as big an influence as they may appear? Let’s answer the first question in this post and Part 2, and the second in Part 3 after that.
(Sources: left, right)
There are three reasons they are so popular. First, a practical one. Consider why they were once able to justify more expensive ad rates than Korean competitors, despite having much lower circulations (Sook & Firth, 2006; see the end of the post for references):
According to an interview with a media expert in an ad agency (June, 2004), international magazines justify [them] by claiming that they use modern printing techniques, higher quality paper, glossy covers, and more sophisticated advertising techniques…
I doubt that this difference in quality still applies in 2012. But when it did, it would have quite literally added some gloss to their preexisting exotic appeal. So much so, that the combination meant that international magazines:
…[could] deliver the ‘right target’ to advertisers. Instead of housewives, the major target audience of international magazines is single women. They are a segment who is interested in fashion and beauty and who possess disposable income.
Having different targets meant different content, which is the third and the most important source of their greater popularity, to be covered in Part 2. Indeed, jumping ahead, the greatest impact of international magazines has been that: a) most domestic competitors have likewise sexed-up their own content in order to better appeal to spendthrift single women; and b) a slew of wholly Korean magazines exclusively aimed at them have also appeared (e.g. Singles/싱글즈, not quite the symbol of Western depravity it may at first appear). And in light of that, it behooves me to point out that this series of posts is based on 5 and 6 year-old sources using 8 year-old data, and to reiterate that international magazines may actually no longer be the preferred choice of single Korean women.
But still: regardless of which are the more popular now, and well before consumers can get to grips with content like “His First Sex”, first they have to be persuaded to open a magazine at all. And ever since the first Korean edition of Elle appeared in the Korean market 20 years ago, international magazines’ combination of exoticism and content aimed at young, hip Korean women (rather than fuddy-duddy ajummas) has been a powerful and enduring source of appeal.
Possibly, the sophisticated consumer in you balks at that at something so simplistic-sounding, especially if you’re one of those young, hip Korean women yourself. But then no matter how impervious to suggestion we all like to think we are, on occasion we’ve all bought magazines primarily for things as frivolous as: the feel of the glossy paper; the “edgy” photography; ego-boosting headlines (“2012 Is Your Year!); the rebellious frisson of purchasing something with a nude person on the cover in a crowded bookstore; and so on. Maybe, if we’re honest, as something to be seen with too, and/or because we feel it’s what our imagined selves ought to buy. For its possession can signify aspiration towards or membership in a social class or group (in sociological terms, a form of “objectified” and/or “institutionalized” cultural capital), even if only to ourselves.
Say, like my April 2000 copy of the New Zealand music and lifestyle magazine re:mix for instance:
Partially, I present that here to demonstrate that I’m not trying to distance myself from people who buy magazines for “shallow” reasons, a common failing of commentators on pop-culture. But primarily, I do so to admit my own intellectual baggage, and the possibility that I’m simply projecting. By all means, please call me out on that if you think so, and of course just because re:mix happened to trigger various cyberpunk-millennial fantasies in me at 24 – and, ahem, still does at 36 – doesn’t mean that all 24 or 36 year-old Korean women likewise buy international magazines simply to indulge in their own Occidentalist fantasies.
But then, surely some do. And whereas I knowingly made particularly strong associations between a magazine and a life I aspired to, the possibility of consumers making any associations at all is precisely what magazine editors are aiming towards, influencing all aspects of its production. As this marketer explains:
Consumers have gathered from the beginning of consumption. Auto enthusiasts, quilting bees, and Tupperware parties are early examples of the impulse. Many consumer groups share an affiliation that is based upon enthusiasm and knowledge of a specific consumption activity.
In fact, academics and consultants have recognized these groups and dubbed them “consumer tribes” – a term borrowed from anthropology, describing groups of people who are brought together not around something rational, such as a job, but around deeper, more profound needs, such as kinship, passion, and identity.
Moreover, just like advertisers are constantly inventing new role models for consumers to aspire to, all the better to sell them products that (supposedly) help them achieve that goal, it’s especially helpful for companies if those creations are centered around their brands (think of the stereotypical Apple or Harley Davidson consumer for instance). This is especially true for foreign companies entering a new overseas market for the first time, as (source, right):
…they seek a sense of familiarity and want control over their brands. In order to meet their demands, advertising agencies focus on “developing what are deemed to be more cost-effective global campaigns that circumvent national borders by creating more expensive global consumer tribes linked by lifestyle values or preferences rather than spatial location.” (source, quoted in Sook & Firth 2006; my emphasis)
Logic which certainly applied to magazine producers (quite explicitly so by Cosmo below!), and accordingly it’s via advertising that international magazines can be said to have had the greatest Westernizing effect on the Korean media, as will be discussed next week.
But before I do, let me leave you with a parallel from the real world, lest you’re still unconvinced about the importance of branding by magazines.
To be precise, a parallel from an unidentified brand name shoe store in North England. Sociologist Steven Miles worked there for 10 weeks in the mid-1990s, posing as “an especially enthusiastic member of staff who was showing particular interest in customers and their purchases”, asking them numerous questions in order to (Miles, 1998):
…address the significance of consumption in their lives, most particularly in relation to the training shoes (sneakers) they were considering purchasing. The meanings with which these shoes were endowed, the role that these meanings played in the construction of personal identities, and the cultural context in which such meanings operated, were therefore the issues addressed….
The priority…was for the customer to discuss the role that training shoes (and often, as the conversation developed, other types of consumer goods) had in their lives, and what factors they believed influenced that role.
Sneakers may sound like a strange topic here, but recall that they were once considered so important by young people that they were prepared to mug and even kill for them, and Miles is very positive about the important, pro-active role one’s consumption choices can play in one’s identity, whether of sneakers of anything else.
However, it’s especially the next that has echoes in the purchase of magazines, by any age group (source, right):
…consider the atmosphere that the management actively seeks to promote in its stores. All branches of the sports store concerned are dominated by a large TV monitor overlooking the shop floor. This acts as a magnet for passing customers. British branches of the store often broadcast MTV…as far as the head office is concerned, this helps to create a relatively straightforward means of perpetuating a superficial feeling, on the part of the customer, of personal familiarity with what it is to experience this particular store.
And in particular (my emphasis):
What is also of interest in that paradoxically, measures are taken by the company to actively disguise the impersonal nature of the experience of shopping [there]….Though on the one hand the company’s training literature is entirely open about the importance of giving the consumer a common experience on entering the store in whatever country, on the other, any hint that efforts are being made to control such an experience are hidden from the customer’s actual perception of the shopping environment.
In the case of international magazines, these can be things as trivial as the choice of font and line-spacing, all designed to replicate the appearance and style of the overseas editions on which they’re based. Which may sound trivial, but next week I explain that, these days, Korean editions of international magazines have on average only 30% of “lift” material taken from those (down from 60% a decade ago), much of which has no more resemblance to the original articles and so on than the rough subject and the look. Or in other words, that “international” magazines sold here certainly have a foreign veneer, but are really a lot more Korean than they may seem.
Yet a veneer considered so enticing to consumers, that the Korean magazine Woman Sense/우먼센스, for instance, would change its cover title to English in 2009:
(Sources: left, right)
But all that will be discussed in Part 2 and 3. And on that note, apologies for the day’s delay with this post, the best I could do after having to get my modem changed 3 nights in a row last week(!) and thanks to all readers who tried to find copies of Sook’s and Firth’s papers below for me, and/or passed on other interesting related papers instead. As it turns out, while their download links on their citation pages here and here still aren’t working, if you do a search on the main allacademic page for, say, abstracts with the terms “Korea” and “magazines” in them, then you’ll get a list of search results with links that do work, and so you can click here and here for PDFs of them (or just ask me to send them).
- Oh, Hyun Sook. and Frith, Katherine. “International Women’s Magazines and Transnational Advertising in South Korea” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden International Congress Centre, Dresden, Germany, Jun 16, 2006
- Oh, Hyun Sook. and Frith, Katherine. “Globalization and Localization in the Production Process of International Women’s Magazines in Korea” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, San Francisco, CA, May 23, 2007
- Miles, Steven, “McDonaldization and the global sports store: constructing consumer meanings in a rationalized society” in Mark Alfino, John Caputo, and Robin Wynyard, ed.s, McDonaldization Revisited: critical essays on consumer culture, Praeger Westport, 1998, pp. 53-65.
Update, October 2013: Alas, I never did get around to writing Parts 2 and 3, feeling that they would require too much regurgitation of the source material. Instead, I wrote a single, much shorter article for the Autumn edition of Busan Haps.
Quick Hit: Disney Princesses as Cover Girls
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Thursday, December 29, 2005
Bush switches strategy - while staff short-circuits
Team Bush is rethinking its grandiose domestic agenda and downsizing to a survival plan. Having realized the political capital is spent, they finally understand that the sum total of the Bush legacy will be the war in Iraq and they should pay some attention to it. They're giving up on everything else and are focusing on re-selling the war. WaPo also has some interesting details on the infighting between the Rove camp and the younger crowd on how to spin this, led one assumes by this new guy from Duke who wrote "The Plan for Victory."
That Bush split the difference and did it half one way and half the other suggests Rove's influence may be waning a bit in light of this legal troubles but the inside line is that Bush still mostly only listens to his closest advisors and they've given up on telling him things he doesn't want to hear.
And word has it, they're burning out after trying to spin the multitude of fiascoes for so long. I remember earlier speculation that Card was going to be kicked out. Now the gossip is he wants out. Considering Powell's recent remarks condoning the NSA surveillance scandal, I'm not sure they'll let him go. I think it might be like the legend of the Mafia. Once you're in, the only way out is in a box. They own you forever.
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Given that Bush ran on national security and the "war on terror", of which it is repeatedly said Iraq is the frontline in, I don't know how it's taken them a year to figure out his only legacy will be the success or failure of this war. Bush made his bed, and now he (and the rest of us) must lie in it.
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It apparently takes the faith-based agendists a little longer than the rest of us to find reality.
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I guess it’s getting bad for the U.S. Federal Government when its own employees, over 275,000 of them, own the irs over $3.0 billion. There not much to elaborate on except that it goes to show that even the fed’s loyal employees don’t want to pay up. The departments represented in the delinquencies are vast. Here is a link to the document. Enjoy.
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buddhist swastikaAs something of a jewelry hoarder, I'm always ducking into random accessory shops wherever I go. Especially in NYC, where there are so many cultures represented, from Arab to Asian and everything in between, it's cool to see all different types of cultural symbols in the form of dangly earrings or long pendants. But a certain pair of earrings that were recently for sale in a Brooklyn shop called Bejeweled were definitely not cool. They looked like straight-up Nazi swastikas.
When a city councilman noticed the earrings earlier this week, he raised his concerns about them with the owner of the store, Young Sook Kim. She replied that they had nothing to do with Nazis ... They're a sign of prosperity in Tibetan Buddhism. True, but also, too bad ... Swastika jewelry, no matter its intended meaning, will never be acceptable in the U.S.
Truthfully, part of me does feel bad that this woman and those who would want to wear the Tibetan Buddhist sign of prosperity can't, because it looks so similar to the Nazi symbol, but at the same time, that's just too darn bad. When a symbol is more universally recognized as something so horrific, we can't help but see it that way.
To be fair and thorough, I did a little bit of quick research and found that the Buddhist swastika is almost always clockwise, whereas the one adopted by the Nazis is counterclockwise. So, technically, we should be able to tell the difference, but that difference, unfortunately, is far too subtle.
In the end, it's not a matter of ignorance or insensitivity to another culture -- it's about perception. These earrings only look like one thing to most people in the Western world: A sign of extreme hate and genocide. Sure, Eastern cultures that instead see it as a symbol of auspiciousness and good fortune certainly have a right to be ticked off that the Nazis co-opted it, but that's reality. Allowing the symbol, which would be perceived as hateful by most Americans, remain in that store would have just been wrong.
Do you agree the earrings should be been banned?
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Saturday, July 02, 2005
first day of school
Yesterday, I finished my first day of Anesthesia residency. No one died, but mostly because I didn't have to touch any patients today. It was mostly a paperwork and detail-sorting day. We were handed out a lot of information. We got a bunch of books and toys. We watched a movie about SAYING NO TO DRUGS because it is a HAZARD OF THE PROFESSION and we should UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MAINLINE FENTANYL even if we are a little curious because YOU COULD DIE. Great. Now I'm too scared to even touch the narcotics for fear that it'll somehow jump into my veins and turn me into a junkie. Also, we had to take some sort of "baseline knowledge" exam, which I'm sure proved that my baseline knowledge is zero. To leave plenty of room for improvement, right?
Also, I spent some more time with my new resident class. The biggest difference I could see right off between my old class and my new class is that it feels like my new class is all guys. At first I thought it was just a perception bias, like after I graduated from Wellesley and felt like my med school class was just packed with guys (even though the real breakdown was probably closer to 55/45 guys/gals) because I was so used to an chicks-only classroom environment . But in the case of my new class, it's true. Whereas my Peds class had 17 women and 3 guys in it, my Anesthesia class has I think 8 women and 18 guys. It's raining men.
So I met a bunch of new people. Everyone seems very pleasant and friendly and, like me, a little nervous about starting. We all asked each other the same few questions over and over again. "Where did you do your prelim year? Where are you from? Do you know what the hell we're supposed to be doing our first night on call?" (Some people were tapped to be on call their first night. They're probably relatively lucky because they'll probably be hand-held a little bit and then let out early. We're not exactly the most useful people in the department right now.) However, there was one question (aside from possibly "when are you due?") that I was asked most of all. And everyone asked it in kind of the same way.
"So, why'd you switch out of Peds?" (Knowing smile, figurative elbow in the ribs) "Couldn't take it anymore, could you?"
And while I understand what they're trying to say and even agree with them in certain respects, I can't help but to feel a little defensive for the tiny little Pediatrician that still lives inside of me. I mean, yes, let's face it, I'm very, very relieved to never have to fill out another school form or write another letter to the WIC office about how my patient needs a special kind of infant formula. But I still love Peds, and there are many things about it that I'm going to miss a lot. I'm glad that I switched departments and am excited about all the things I'm going to be doing and learning, but I'm not an out-of-sight-out-of-mind kind of girl. I have dual allegiances. I like my new department, but will cherish and defend my old department to the death.
Anyway, when my new co-residents all start having kids and are calling their Pediatricians at 2am, I'm sure they'll be glad that there is someone out there who can "take it." Even if it's not me anymore.
Currently reading: So Sandra Day O'Connor is retiring? We're doomed. At least when it was just Rehnquist, we were just faced with the prospect of replacing one conservative with another.
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1. Is it difficult to switch residencies? I am about to begin my third year of medical school and am fascinated by the switch. I was under the impression that once a residency is chosen, one is committed to completing it. Obviously, I was mistaken. How long into you Peds residency were you when you switched? Thank you for your time.
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The Obama illusion
Barack Obama faces a heavy burden of expectations from the rest of the world, just as Shrum has said.
Many Europeans hope that Obama will somehow lead America to being less obnoxiously American: less religious, less nationalist, less self-certain, less ready to use force, a country of fewer guns and more tramcars.
In the Middle East, many hope he will undo—or at least de-emphasize—the U.S.-Israel alliance.
In Russia, China, and Iran, leaders may well assess that a President Obama will be less assertive and more accommodating.
And in Africa, those dancing Kenyan villagers we saw on Election night plainly expect that a mighty torrent of American money will soon be heading their way.
Probably, almost all those expectations will be disappointed. (OK, maybe not China’s and Russia’s.) What then?
Ah, then my crystal ball goes blurry. Here, however, are two alternative hypotheses, both of which I suspect will be largely realized.
Hypothesis one:
The world is heading for massive Obama disillusionment as its Obama expectations are deflated one by one.
America is too big and its policy consensus too deep for Obama to transform the U.S. in the way in which his most ardent international supporters would wish—even supposing he wanted to himself.
He may end the increase in military spending; he won't dare cut it very much. America in 2012 will still spend more on its military than the rest of the world combined.
He may devote more energy to the Israeli-Palestinian issue. But there are tight political limits to how much pressure he can deploy against Israel.
The Senate will not ratify the Kyoto treaty on global warming or the Rome treaty that would subject the U.S. to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
And while Democratic presidents have more enthusiastically pretended to care about the United Nations than Republicans have, from Truman to Clinton they have never hesitated to ignore it when it got in their way.
As for those Kenyan villagers, they will soon discover that Democrats find it tougher than Republicans to increase spending on foreign aid. An enterprising reporter who visits Kenya six months from now will be able to collect hundreds of disappointed quotes from Obama relatives: “My cousin was elected president and all I got was this lousy tee shirt.”
Hypothesis two:
All of the above may be true, but none of it will matter. For much of the world, Obama is not a man but an icon. And icons never disappoint, because they exist in the realm of myth, not the realm of politics.
To millions of people, Obama represents a certain set of attitudes, a certain style of aesthetics, an inarticulate compilation of yearnings. Those feelings are not political, and politics will not affect them. Does it matter that John F. Kennedy was not a very good president? Does it matter that Marilyn Monroe dyed her hair or that Che Guevera was a mass murderer? Not to those who blazon their images on their sweatshirts!
Will it be that way for Obama too? If so, Shrum can rest assured that the menu at his favorite trattoria in Florence will continue to feature the owner’s grandchild in an Obama tee shirt. That will say a great deal about the trattoria owner. It will say nothing about the Obama administration.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
The death of the used game
The current generation of consoles is getting long in the tooth, and the next generation is starting to get announced. But some of the features of the next generation consoles are likely not to please gamers very much: The XBox 720 reportedly will have a system that makes it impossible to play used games.
Of course on a MMORPG blog that is kind of non-news. Or would you like to buy my used copy of World of Warcraft (without the account, which isn't transferable)? Basically a MMORPG client these days is free, and you pay an initial fee to open an account, plus a monthly fee to keep it going. Or the game is even Free2Play and you only pay for what you buy in the item store.
Most of the PC single-player games I bought over the past 2 years I couldn't possibly sell either, because I bought them on Steam. Steam has a trading market, but you can't trade used games there, only stuff like Team Fortress hats. Other PC games now frequently come incomplete, with a coupon for a free day zero DLC for the other half of the game: People buying the game used will end up having to pay for that DLC.
All of these anti used games measures rely on the internet, and work reasonably well because there aren't many game PCs left that aren't connected to that. Consoles are catching up in connectivity, and thus the system which will enable the XBox 720 to tell a new game from a used game will presumably be based on some online registration. If that is true, that could possibly lead to an even bigger piece of news, because it would mean that you can't play anything on your next XBox if that console isn't connected to the internet. I do believe there is still a rather strong demand for offline game consoles, and thus that move could backfire badly. Even on the PC there are lots of people complaining about "always online" DRM systems. It will be hard to convince people to buy a game console that doesn't work when offline.
Just the next salvo in the war against pirates.
Predictably, most of the damage will be collateral damage on consumers.
Also, I hate to imagine what these people think of libraries. How much book-burning do you think they advocate?
You do know that libraries pay a small royalty to the publishers/authors of books that they lend?
The publisher/author is not losing out on the proceeds of a sale, so they're happy. Games, DVDs, CDs etc. can also be rented in some libraries (in the UK at least) using exactly the same system.
So I'm not really sure what your point about libraries is about - it's a poor analogy if it was supposed to be an analogy.
@ Roble,
While that may be true in the UK - that has never been true in the U.S. - The court system and common law over here are not just on the side of the librarian - they are one sided, and I struggle to find even examples that *glance* in the other direction.
In the U.S. once you buy a physical product - you can do what you want with it - that includes lend it - destroy it - even *sell* it - even at a *profit*.
You can't re-publish the work as your own - but your physical copy is yours to do what you want with.
That is how a Library works - typical town libraries over here spend over 1/5 of the operating budget on buying books. A significant amount is also spent on book clubs, advertisement and basically getting people to read.
Despite cries (over 100 years ago) by the publishers about how this would destroy the industry - it actually increased readership and drove book sales.
History repeats itself again and again if you do a little research into each new 'tech' that the publishing (and recording) industry said would kill them.
And the same arguments about how piracy is killing the business were made to congress prior to the invention of the record player - about the production of *sheet* music of all things.
Don't let the tail wag the dog on this issue. Used sales still mean the publisher made money - thinking that they starve because the product is resold opens yourself into a bad place. You don't want to have to pay the carpenter, and plumber when you sell your house because they helped build it. Why is it different?
I wonder what this will do to the rental market.
If I can't rent games, my kids will not be getting any of these systems.
The only "always online" games are ones that sort of require it like BF3 or MW3 etc. In other words multiplayer games. Other games like Skyrim, ME series etc only require an initial connection during installation.
Not sure of a single player game that requires you to be "always online".
I realised after I posted that not every country had the same library royalty system, but a large number do, and it works very well.
People who wouldn't otherwise have bought a book, are happy to borrow it from the library, and the author/publisher gets a small royalty. Admittedly it's not the same amount they'd get from a sale, but it's something.
The house analogy isn't quite right. When you resell your house, you cease to benefit from it, and there is only ever one party that has benefit at any one time. That analogy would match selling a physical book or game (i.e. a single copy which transfers hands so only one copy still exists).
I'm all for being able to resell a physical item.
For lending physical books, there are always at least two beneficiaries, the library which owns the book, and the customer who reads the book and gets full benefit for no cost. Both parties have full benefit at all times.
It's still not ideal for the author/publisher but at least copies aren't being made, and if waiting lists are long, many people will just go and buy the book.
Digital distribution for no cost (i.e. piracy) is not even in the same league, as multiple copies are made, which otherwise would not have been, and large numbers of parties are benefitting at the same time, with no ability for the publisher to control it.
Stopping resale of digital copies - well I guess that's annoying, and could be overcome by Steam etc. removing the game from your account and transferring it to another, but ultimatelty you've only got a license to use the software, you've never bought a physical product, so tough, that's what you signed up for.
Comparing game development to writing a book is not an apt comparison. A book does not cost $50 million to develop. Developers don't recoup a penny on their investment when a game is resold, so it's entirely possible that a game that does too much trade in the used market and not enough in the new market will fail to make back what it cost to develop. This results in the developer going out of business and ceasing to make games.
In contrast, the up-front development cost of a book is relatively minimal as authors don't get paid for their labor, they get paid for their result -- typically through royalties. Thus it is much easier for a publisher to recoup their cost of investment on a book as they don't need to sell so many copies at full retail. Library use then entails more a loss of additional profit than a loss of life sustaining revenue.
Finally, there's the matter of scale. The number of sales lost to the library use of a single book is miniscule compared to the number of sales lost due to used game sales.
Used book sales would have been a more apt comparison, though even then most of my arguments would still apply.
I'm all for getting rid of the used game market, it's NOT as beneficial for the consumer as many like to think. It's really only beneficial to companies like Gamestop that make a huge margin by selling used games for $5-$10 less than a new one. Gamers save very little money, developers get starved for income, and innovation in development ends up being starved.
Also, although I doubt this will happen, it's entirely possible the retail price of games could come down if the ability to resell them at no profit to the developer was removed. Yeah, crazy talk I know, but it could happen :P
Delurm has the right of it.
And @Warsyde... completely wrong in so many ways.
1)"Comparing game development to writing a book is not an apt comparison. A book does not cost $50 million to develop."
And in Australia at least, a game costs $110 to buy new (usually around $80-90 used from EB and similar), but a hardcover book only costs about $30-40 new (about $2-5 at a used book store). I don't know how US prices compare, but since the pricing difference here isn't tax-based, I'd assume it wouldn't translate too differently. Who's suffering the worse mark-down here? Sell even a few thousand copies (a commercial failure which is unlikely to have had megabucks investment) and you're going to really start noticing the difference between $40 and $110.
And most authors - until they've sold well and can pick up a contract from a publisher - have to work OTHER jobs while they write, because they don't see a dime until they sell, either.
Wait... what? I think you have that one back to front. How many people check out the one library book that sits on a shelf for ten years, compared to the number of people who continually re-sell that one DVD? Are you serious?
You can test this one for yourself by going out retail shopping and asking for some assistance:
I asked a friend at EB to pull up a game for me I wanted to buy 2nd hand. It had only been turned in once. Apparently this is the norm. Used games aren't actually returned quite as often as new games, usually because they don't give the same trade-in value and because they have a lower price, the 2nd-hand seller doesn't feel like they've wasted as much money (and a desire to recover that money) if the game was a dud. The highest resale she'd ever seen of one individual item was 5 times returned.
As opposed to a library which might lend the one book out several times a month, let alone over the life of the product.
By this logic, libraries are causing TENFOLD the loss of sales, every year!
Libraries are an even greater evil than used game sales!
Also, books tend to survive multiple owners a little better than scratchable DVDs - a few stains and dog-eared pages, they're still readable. Unlike that DVD which cops one scratch and kills your game when you try to load a certain level.
> The Xbox 720 will reportedly feature a system preventing used games
Another part of the entertainment industry is strangling its own market by treating their customers as enemies, instead of creating intelligent solutions. Assuming our legislation survives these suicidal industries' attempts to browbeat or corrupt our law makers (see SOPA, ACTA etc.), let them kill themselves. They deserve the Darwin Award they have coming up (, and I am positive that the millions of creative people whose work you see each day on public platforms will create something new and better.
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Ponto Baggins II
Ponto Baggins
Biographical Information
BirthS.R. 1346
ParentagePosco Baggins, Gilly Brownlock
Physical Description
Ponto Baggins was a Hobbit of the Shire.
Ponto was the eldest son of Posco Baggins and Gilly Brownlock and the father of Angelica. They attended the Birthday Party together.[1]
After Frodo Baggins left the Shire after the War of the Ring, Ponto became the head of the Baggins Family, though in title only, as Bag End had passed to Samwise Gamgee.[2]
Portrayal in Adaptations
Ponto lives on Number 2, Bywater Road, the first house in Bywater.
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djandle88 Wrote:
Nov 14, 2012 11:38 AM
He probably can't be charged with Adultery, but he definitely can be charged with conduct unbecoming...a catch all. He is married, had inappropriate realations (regardless if it wasn't physical) with another married woman other than his wife. He has shown a lapse of sound judgement, a lapse of leadership, and has lost the faith and trust of his subordinates and the leadership above him.
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id summary reporter owner description type status priority component severity resolution keywords cc release 5741 Composite milestones (parent/child relationship) jevans anybody "We'd like to be able to better organize work within a release. For instance assign all the work for each new feature to a separate sub-milestone (using existing milestone functionality). And then assign all those milestones to a composite milestone that would show the overall progress. Ideally the roadmap page would be organized with sub-milestones listed under composite milestones, perhaps in a collapsible form." enhancement new normal Request-a-Hack normal rjollos 0.11
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BRICSion: Powerful Stories, Powerful Nations
3:06 pm
Tue September 4, 2012
In South Africa, No Crying Over 'Spilt Milk'?
Originally published on Tue September 4, 2012 5:58 pm
"After" may be the most important word in South African writer Kopano Matlwa's novel Spilt Milk. The book focuses on the "Born Free" generation — those who came of age in the post-apartheid era, which began 18 years ago. As the first passage of the book highlights, this generation's story begins "After all the excitement, after the jubilation, after the celebrations..."
A Dream Or A Lie?
In a conversation with Tell Me More host Michel Martin, Matlwa she will never forget the euphoria of that historic moment. "I was 9 or 10 years old in 1994 when the new democratic government was elected and Mandela was president, and it was such an exciting time, and there were so [many] prospects. We were the 'Rainbow Nation,' and kind of the 'golden children' of Africa." She remembers her parents telling her that her life would be so different from their own. But soon, Matlwa and other South Africans started to feel "deceit and greed and corruption" creeping into society, and she began to wonder "whether the dream was a lie."
It was this disappointment that led her to write Spilt Milk. The novel is centered on Mohumagadi, the successful black principal of her own "School of Excellence," and her relationships with her students and with a white priest who has fallen on hard times.
Matlwa says these characters and relationships symbolize the political and personal disappointments she and other South Africans endure. "It does represent the love lost between white and black South Africa, and the promises that we all made to each other in 1994 that none of us kept.
"We would never admit to each other that we actually need each other," she says, "that we can't build this country without each other."
A Writer And A Healer
In addition to her work as a writer, Matlwa is a physician. She regularly sees South Africa's inequalities in the country's hospitals. "It's shocking the extent of poverty in a very wealthy country ... and we can't keep using the excuse of being a young democracy for very much longer." She also acknowledges that the current trouble in the country's platinum and gold mines "demonstrates how ... people are so dissatisfied, let down and disappointed. A lot of promises were made post-apartheid, and perhaps they were unrealistic, but they were made, and people are now fed up."
Matlwa points out that medicine has always been her first love. Writing "was really just a hobby, and I am really grateful to God that it turned out to be more than that." She borrows the words of another doctor who was also a famous writer to explain her twin careers. "Anton Chekhov said it best: 'Medicine is his wife and writing his mistress.' I don't think I'll ever choose between the two," she explains.
Beyond 'Post-Apartheid'
Apartheid may have ended, but Matlwa is acutely aware that political inequality has only given way to economic inequality in contemporary South Africa. "What's made us dig deep and ask ourselves hard questions is that this inequality has slightly worsened post-apartheid, and it's always been easy to be the victim of apartheid, to blame everything on apartheid, but now we have to ask ourselves hard questions on what we are doing as a country."
Honesty is important to Matlwa, as she does not feel that there is enough of it in her life or in her country. "The conversations I'd have in a room with black friends would change if a white person walked into the room. ... We live apart, we live around each other, and we've learnt to be tolerant. We've learnt words we're no longer allowed to use. ... We've got affirmative action in place, but ... I think there's a lot of anger in the country," she says.
"There's a lot of hurt and disappointment, and I think we just need to start talking."
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
15th day of the Chinese New Year.
Everyone, (in Canto) Fatt-cho-mei? (in Mandarin) Far-ler-ma? (in Hokkien) Huat-liau-boi? (in Manglish) Prosper (more towards gambling winnings) yet?
Not apple-wor.
Became a fan only a few years back when I took a chance on smaller ones from Spain and China. They were sweet. Had always admired the big ones from Spain but felt the price was ridiculous. Maybe it's my curiousity streak but more suspiciously it's the spiraling prices of our local fruits (a simple unassuming pomelo from Perak state is going for RM10 minimum!), RM4.90 for an exotic looking Pomegranate from far away Spain seem to hurt my pocket no more. Well, it's not an often splurge.
Any idea whether this is the best way to get to the rubies?
It was huge. Inside, the sections were packed with rubies.
I thoroughly enjoyed the smaller ones before with sweet rubies popping in my mouth (except for a certain type from China with hard seeds). This was sourish and the relatively big and tough seeds in the rubies were quite tiresome to chew after sometime.
Still got one more in fridge. Think it'll fare better after a few days?
RM4.90 for 1 from Hock Choon Grocery, Jalan Ampang.
Note: Ang-ang-boh-hai-lang is in Hokkien dialect literately translated as red-red-no-harm-people. The colour red is auspicious to Chinese, believes to bring prosperity and good luck.
May all the good wishes and hopes written on all thrown Mandarin oranges into any water source tonight, on this HAPPY CHAP GOH MEH, come true!
thenomadGourmand said...
gong xi gong xi dear!!
Little Inbox said...
Can consider as auspicious fruit for CNY, hehe...
Selba said...
Oh wow!!! How I wish I could find pomegranate like that in Jakarta.
mimid3vils said...
quite troublesome eating this fruit but I also like it cause it's nice
CUMI & CIKI said...
that red is so deep.. gorgeous! that's the sorta color i would like to wear. happy chap go meh!
UnkaLeong said...
Lu u huat boh? Heheheh..
Tummythoz said...
Oops. Just realised my post was a day early. Macam overzealous pulak.
thenomadGourmand, huatchai-huatchai!
LittleInbox, better still if it's super sweet.
Selba, if found, post to compare ok?
mimid3vils, a fruit best consumed in privacy. =D
Cumi&Ciki, bet you'll look most alluring in that colour!
Unkaleong, unlike lucky you, Bro Lim at sua-theng-huat. =,(
J2Kfm said...
I always thought pomegranate is the sek lau zhi dessert, until AFC started educating the ignorant people like me. hehehehe :)
Big Boys Oven said...
awesome sweetness!
Tummythoz said...
J2Kfm, so did it mentioned how to choose when buying?
Big Boys Oven, will go real prettily in cake decor, right?
New Kid on the Blog said...
hmmmm.... it does look like passion fruits hor??
Tummythoz said...
New Kid on the Blog, passion fruit is definitely easier to eat.
sc said...
sometimes there's a malay peddlar selling behind our office(where the open carpark is)- have you tried those?
Tummythoz said...
sc, bought fruits from there before. Tho it was for different fruits and a couple years back, the unfavourable experience still lingers. Hmm mayb I shd give them another chance..
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The moss family Calymperaceae
The moss-ladened trunk of a coconut palm near the coast on the island of Moorea, French Polynesia, in the vicinity of U C Berkeley's Gump Research Station.
Several different species in the moss family Calymperaceae are growing at the Field Station. Species in this family are the dominant epiphytes in tropical lowland forests. The systematics and evolution of this family is the subject of a large National Science Foundation grant awarded to Professor Brent D. Mishler's lab in the Department of Integrative Biology under the PEET program (Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy).
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Bryophytes are a group of three disparate lineages (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts) that are thought to be phylogenetically basal among extant land plants. The group contains much species diversity and is particularly suited for studies of macroevolutionary, population genetic, and ecological processes. However, a major limitation in the use of bryophytes as study systems for evolutionary and ecological processes has been the lack of basic taxonomic knowledge of many groups from many regions, particularly the tropics. To achieve this knowledge it is necessary to train a new generation of taxonomists skilled in all the necessary techniques, theories, and background information. The need for cooperative, modern studies that cross national and disciplinary boundaries is paramount.
This research involves a particular bryophyte study group, the moss family Calymperaceae, chosen to allow us to achieve three goals: (1) Train students in the full breadth of systematic techniques; (2) Provide useful monographs of important groups; (3) Address issues of theoretical and conceptual interest in biogeography and evolutionary diversification.
The research focuses on three levels: (1) The circumscription and higher-level relationships of the family Calymperaceae; (2) Relationships of the genera (and major sections) within the family (the major goal being to verify the monophyly of Mitthyridium and select a few other monophyletic subgroups of the family for monographic study); (3) Species delimitations and relationships within the selected subgroups (e.g., Mitthyridium) culminating in world monographs. At all these levels, but particularly in the latter, we are also considering biological, ecological and geographic facters influencing diversification.
This research involves field and herbarium studies to discover and refine taxonomic characters useful at all three levels. Laboratory studies including SEM, morphometrics, culture studies, and DNA sequencing are being used to supplement the morphological data. The project includes training in these areas at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels.
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Basic skills for social inclusion and cohesion
Basic skills for social inclusion and cohesion was the thematic focus of the fourth Annual Conference of the European Basic Skills Network (EBSN), which was hosted by the Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources, the Hungarian Ministry of Interior, and the Hungarian Association for Lifelong Learning in Budapest, from 21 to 23 May 2014. UIL, as one of 66 members from 27 European countries and four associated members from other regions, attended the Conference to participate in debates on how basic skills learning can improve social inclusion and reach the most disadvantaged groups. Conference participants developed a set of recommendations on the issue of basic skills for inclusion. The next Annual Conference will be hosted by the Dutch EBSN partners in May 2015 in The Hague.
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Martinique is separated into two zones. Zone 1 is the Ghetto. Zone 2 is commonly referred to as the Pants Free Zone, technically named Le Avoirdupois(meaning the goods of weight)
Typical Martiniquans
edit History
Colonized by France in 1635 this island in the Eastern Caribbean was once occupied by an indigenous tribe the French named "Par Excellence", the Carib Expulsion occurred in 1660 when the island's indigenous peoples were deported but banned from returning by the French occupying forces who despite the best efforts of French officers learned the art of surrendering from the indigenous peoples. The island has subsequently remained a French possession except for eight brief periods of foreign occupation:
Spain: 1661-1701
England: 1704-1744
United States: 1747-1787
Neopets: 1788-1789
The Congo: 1790-1830
Asia: 1833-1873
Sweden: 1876-1916
The Rat Pack: 1919-1949
Bulgaria: 1952-1992
From 1635 (arrival of Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc, a French aristocrat who took possession of the island for France) to 1946, Martinique lived as a French colony producing tropical trade goods such as rum and cocoa. African captives were brought from West Africa to form the slave population that is the origin of 99% of today's population. These cultural roots combined with the influence of the French occupiers has spawned what many consider to be one of the top 3 laziest cultures on Earth. Preceded only by that of the "Chocolate City" (aka New Orleans) and Mexico.
edit Politics
As a French Colony, Martinique was not left much say in its own governing except for a local council that governed affairs confined to the island. At the head of this council the French elected a giant block of cheese which has held the post since its creation in 1660. The block of cheese has successfully turned the island into a socialist society at the request of his constituency. If you ever do something bad he will make you cut the cheese.
edit Economy
I had you going there for a second didn't I. You looked at this and saw text, and thought "Wow, this place may actually have an economy!!" But no, it doesn't. I mean they produce a fairly large amount of rum, but they drink it all themselves...while eating the little bit of cocoa they produce. And since they're society is 99% Black-French they are entirely socialist and believe that they shouldn't have to work and the government should provide them with everything in their possession. Wisely, however, the block of cheese made rum illegal in 1951. The locals spontaneously created within Zone 2 what is most certainly the largest Black Market in the region for the sales of rum. All transitions are based on the size of one's penis. Individuals with smaller penises are afforded more rum in order to make up for their natural shortcomings.
edit Culture
In order to hasten the operations of the Black Market located in Zone 2, locals simply do not wear pants. Because most of them are severely overweight due to their heavy drinking, officials have enforced an ordinance that requires the locals to cover up their privates in public. The solution most follow is to where a skirt similar to a sarong called a pareo. Most, however, garb themselves appropriately before entering Zone 1 just North of Fort De France. This is because the Ghetto is occupied by individuals whose penises are sufficiently small. This allows them to be provided with copious amounts of alcohol, which allows them to drink themselves retarded and belligerent. The occupants of the Ghetto, let us refer to them as belligerent retards(see also Black People), are bound to mug and attempt to rape anyone who enters the Ghetto simply because of their impaired state of mind.
edit Flag
Although Martinique has been occupied by many other countries over the years, and they have had many different flags, they have adopted the French "We Surrender!" Flag. Because 99% of the population is black, and the have a skin condition called "Smearing" caused from the heat and the occasional snowfall, their white flag is not as white as it used to be.
The flag before this was white with the imprints of a small penis, but Bulgaria, the country who previously owned Martinique before generously giving it back to the French, had never seen such a small thing, and made it their own flag.
edit Weather
The temperature is flamingly HOT! It is said it has sometimes gotten hotter than even God himself! Miraculously, every 40 years, Zone 1 is coverd with snow and ice, while Zone 2 is coverd with cocoa and flooded with rum, which causes Zone 2 inhabitants to party hard and crazy, while Zone 1's penises just GROW shorter and shorter. It is because of this that the nation's would give the island back to France, for fear of getting ripped apart by the Zone 2 inhabitants, and losing their schlong to the Zone 1 Inhabitants.
The "Caribbean Lockdown" has been in effect since 1992, the scorching heat not returning to the island probably because of Global Warming.
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History of Hymns: John’s sermon, Charles’ hymn celebrate justification by faith
“Let Us Plead for Faith Alone”
Charles Wesley
UM Hymnal
, No. 385
Let us plead for faith alone,
faith by which our works is shown;
God it is who justifies,
only faith the grace applies.
This is the central scripture upon which John Wesley based his doctrine of “justification by faith” as found in his sermon of the same title. (For the complete sermon, visit UMC Global Ministries resources at John Wesley Sermons / Sermon 5.)
Wesley’s sermon provides a complete and carefully reasoned explanation of this doctrine. A few highlights will suffice here:
Charles Wesley
Section II:5 notes, “The plain scriptural notion of justification is pardon, the forgiveness of sins. It is that act of God the Father, hereby, for the sake of the propitiation made by the blood of his Son, he ‘showeth forth his righteousness (or mercy) by the remission of the sins that are past.’ . . . God will not inflict on that sinner what he deserved to suffer, because the Son of his love hath suffered for him. And from the time we are ‘accepted through the Beloved,’ ‘reconciled to God through his blood,’ he loves, and blesses, and watches over us for good, even as if we had never sinned.”
On the subject of faith, we turn to Section IV:3 which claims, “I cannot describe the nature of this faith better than in the words of our own Church: ‘The only instrument of salvation’ (whereof justification is one branch) ‘is faith; that is, a sure trust and confidence that God both hath and will forgive our sins, that he hath accepted us again into His favour, for the merits of Christ’s death and passion.’”
It is at this point we may turn to Charles Wesley’s hymn “Let Us Plead for Faith Alone,” published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740) under the title “The Love Feast.” The Rev. Carlton Young, editor of the UM Hymnal, notes that this hymn “eloquently elaborates on Paul’s teaching that good works result from salvation and not the reverse.” Ephesians 2:8-10 is the central scripture for this hymn: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” (KJV)
Wesley scholar, the Rev. S T Kimbrough Jr., notes that our hymn is “one of Charles Wesley’s most succinct summaries of ‘justification by faith alone.’” The first stanza clearly states that “faith alone” precedes works. The second stanza declares that the source of our power is an “active faith that lives within.” Such a faith is stronger than “hell and death and sin.” Such a faith sanctifies the believer, or as Charles Wesley states, “hallows whom it first made whole.”
John Wesley
The third stanza stresses that such faith leads us to heaven. As “sure salvation is the end,” thus “heaven already is begun, / everlasting life is won.” Our faith moves us toward perfection in Christ.
The final stanza continues the eschatological tone as the hymn writer implores us to “persevere till we see our Lord appear.” In an interesting twist on the word “works,” the hymn concludes that we are “saved by faith which works by love.” Our faith is the response of the outpouring of God’s love toward us. The “works” are not anything that we can do on our own, but love working in us.
United Methodist professor and Wesley scholar Ted Campbell places this discussion in the broader historical and ecumenical context: “This hymn text points to a cardinal doctrine of the Protestant Reformation and a doctrine that—with some nuances—has become common to Catholics and Protestants alike as a result of the “Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification” (JDDJ) between the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church in 1999. The World Methodist Council became a signatory to the JDDJ in 2006. This declaration affirms, as Charles Wesley’s hymn does, that true Christian faith leads to good works.”
When the text of John Wesley’s sermon is juxtaposed with Charles Wesley’s hymn, one can quickly see the value of both. Even in the small portion of John’s sermon, his dense and carefully developed arguments on the topic are evident. To absorb the profound theology of John’s sermon orally would have been a challenge for all but the most astute listener then, and especially today. However, to sing the hymn composed by Charles on this theme allows the singer to absorb the essence of the doctrine. This is a wonderful example of how the lyrical theology of hymns may complement theology.
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I am curious where gnome-system-monitor and top (the command line tool) get their information about the CPU usage in %. Could you please explain it to me?
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From /proc.
At /proc/[PID]/stat you have kernel statistics about a given process.
You can find more information on about what to look for on the stat file on this previous SO question.
I'm not sure if it's a reasonable assumption but probably the current CPU usage is (100% - [the cpu usage for the idle process]).
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I would like to debug a loaded kernel module I don't have the source code to; I suspect it's a virus. Is there a way to feed it into GDB for analysis?
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You mean virus? – phunehehe Jan 10 '11 at 11:25
Its something I suspect a rootkit. I just want to dissamble it for the purpose of analysis – user3539 Jan 10 '11 at 16:22
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From a debugging perspective, the kernel is a special "process", distinct from the user space processes, which communicate with the kernel via a sort of rpc mechanism (syscalls) or mapped memory..
I don't think you can see the kernel's data structure simply by inspecting some random user process.
Another problem is, that every user space process (including the debugger) needs the kernel to run and to communicate with the users; I don't think you can just stop the kernel and believe that the debugger will continue to run.
So you need to run GDB on a second machine, and that is what is called Kernel debugging.
Please refer to (http://kgdb.linsyssoft.com/, Documentation/sh/kgdb) for more details.
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I think my question is not clear. Sorry for the confusion. I want to debug the inserted module, whose source i dont have with me. – user3539 Jan 10 '11 at 16:21
You might be able to look at the kernel code through creative use of /dev/kmem if it's enabled on your system. You'd have to get the address of the module beforehand and I don't know how to do that. – ultrasawblade May 10 '11 at 18:42
The other options other then KGDB would be debugging the kernel using the QEMU and GDB. Unlike the KGDB, the QEMU-GDB combine requires only a single machine.
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I have a new Asus G759JH laptop and it has Windows 8 installed on it. I have resized and fixed the partitions in a way I thought would work (now, I'm not sure that what I've done is actually going to work due to UEFI, which is the big problem here) but I have not dared touching the EFI partition other than mounting it to /boot/efi as a step on Arch's wiki suggested if you wanted to use the EFISTAB boot option. (?)
So, I got to the step where I would normally install grub and chain-boot it through windows->grub->arch but I didn't want to mess anything up because I don't have time to do recovery work on it if I do mess up...
Anyway, so to the point:
I have my partitions for Windows, like normal, and my partitions for Linux. The Linux partitions are on the SSD disk along with the partitions for Windows. And What I'm not sure is how to give me the option of booting either Windows 8 or Arch as soon as possible. With that I mean where/how do I set it up so that I can pick either one as early in the boot process as possible.
What I gathered about UEFI is that each OS can have their own EFI firmware or something and that you could boot different ones and go that way, or chain-load it if I go into Legacy mode. Or something like that. This is the whole reason I'm asking this question, becuase I'm very very confused.
So how do I add the option of booting Arch through UEFI and not Legacy mode? If possible.
Edit: One thing that confused me that I would want clarified is this: If I have Windows on the EFI partition (which btw is only 100mb, but as far as I know I can't resize without wiping windows) does grub just add my ArchLinux entry to it or is it a chain-load or is it wiping it clean?
That's where I actually got stuck yesterday when I tried to do it on my own. I wasn't sure what it would do so I didn't do anything without being certain.
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I have finally succeded to tripleboot my ASUS G750 JH with Linux Mint (which is based entirely on Ubuntu) and Linux Manjaro (entirely based on Arch).
I did like this: 1. Created partitions one for Mint one for Manjaro on the SSD disk after shrink of Windows partition and deletion of the 20 GB Windows recovery partition at the end of the SSD which was instead copied to an recovery USB with ASUS BAcktrack.
1. Started computer with F2 kept pressed until BIOSmeny appeared and put secure boot to disable and disabled fastboot in Windows
2. Installed Manjaro on one of the partitions from a DVD. To start from the DVD I kept Esc pressed until boot menu appeared and chose UEFIDVD as boot option. I did NOT install any bootloader for Manjaro at all
3. Then I started from a liveDVD with Mint. Started from the option UEFIDVD NOT the normal DVD option.
4. Installed Mint in its partition and the bootloader, GRUB, in the EFI partition of the Windows installation. On my computer it was DEV/sdb1
5. Restart. Now GRUB appears first and has Mint, Windows and Manjaro listed as boot choices. All work!
Good luck!
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reread the question – hildred Feb 18 at 19:11
install the grub-efi package, which will add an EFI bootentry that goes directly to grub.
you will then have an (EFI) boot options to boot either into w32 or into grub/arch or from CD/DVD or ...
note that i'm on Debian, so i don't know the exact name of the package for arch; just search for grub and efi.
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Can you describe what that package will do? I have a package installed efivar and another called something else, with grub. But I'm curious to how to do it in the way I specified. Will this do that? – Simon Sep 23 '13 at 14:19
i added a (short) description of what the package does; the efivar package is needed to interact with EFI (but doesn't do anything on it's own); i cannot say what the package "called something else, with grub" does. – umläute Sep 24 '13 at 8:11
@umläaute I meant efibootmgr and I meant what you were telling me. Like, explain to me why you said what you said. Explain how I would go about to fix it etc. Because I already knew that I needed some kind of efi-packages etc. At the moment I'm reading up on the EFI system so that maybe it will give me a hint on how to edit my entry I currently have in my UEFI so that it points to the correct place. – Simon Sep 24 '13 at 15:50
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Todays still yesterday. Late night mental venting
Sitting in my bed at 12:30 wanting to sleep. But cant. Ive got all these thoughts going thru my head, how fucked i made my life, and how fcked it was to begin with. How i fuck up whats best in my life. I feel like im falling apart from the inside out. Like these walls of strength i maintained for so long are finally starting to cave in. Is there anything really left for me to see? What am i still doing here when i shulda been gone years ago? Ive become nothing but a mess this last year. I dont feel like i just cross over the edge, but i flew the fuck off it. And my shrink said im almost done with therapy. Lol…
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Good job on not cutting :') keep it up!
This is prolly old af. Yea it was a good run while it lasted…
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Teen quotes
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Tuesday February 18, 2003
11:44 AM
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Is it a good thing to call one's coworkers customers? Especially in a university setting.
I don't like it. I think it diminishes the relationship. I am really not comfortable with the lingo and jargon being used by the IT staff at the top of the food chain.
I thought I left the corporate world.
Oh well.
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• Silly jargon (Score:4, Interesting)
I thought it was just me who got annoyed by stuff like that.
I like Doublespeak [] and the sections on language in Class [] and BAD []. They really skewer things like that.
• I like it (Score:3, Insightful)
by jdavidb (1361) on 2003.02.18 13:38 (#17208) Homepage Journal
I prefer to think of the people I work for (with) as "customers," but maybe that's because I've got that ethic that says "please the customer," "give the customer what they want," "the customer is always right," "I exist to serve the customer," etc. To me it feels like I'm giving them a compliment.
You could call them slave drivers, but that just wouldn't be the same.
• To me a customer is someone whose only interaction with you is an exchange of goods and/or services. They exist to give you money. The only reason you are nice to them is for them to continue giving them money.
However, a coworker is someone I work with. I have an interest in helping them because it helps the organization.
I feel I have a greater duty to a coworker than to a customer.
I personally don't think it is good to mistreat a customer more from an ethical and moral standpoint than a capitalist stand
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What is the difference between ebooks, audiobooks and eaudiobooks?
Here are the definitions:
• An ebook is a digital representation of a printed book. One reads ebooks. (See below or for ebook vendors.)
• An audiobook is a sound recording of a book. It may be in cassette tape, CD or MP3 format. One listens to audiobooks.
• An eaudiobook is a downloadable audiobook. Overdrive and OneClickdigital from Recorded Books have eaudiobooks.
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You can make Vim scroll the text using the shifted up/down arrows by mapping Shift-Up to Ctrl-Y and Shift-Down to Ctrl-E.
map <S-Down> <C-E>
map <S-Up> <C-Y>
Shift-Down will then scroll down (like moving a scroll-bar down, or like moving a cursor at the bottom of a window down), and Shift-Up will then scroll up (like moving a scroll-bar up, etc).
If you'd rather think about the text moving down/up instead of the cursor moving up/down, you can of course swap the mappings.
If you normally use j and k for cursor movement, and rarely use the arrow keys, you can map the arrow keys directly, in which case I'd probably map the shifted arrow keys back to cursor movement:
map <Down> <c-e>
map <Up> <c-y>
map <S-Down> j
map <S-Up> k
Vim by default maps S-Down and S-Up to Ctrl-F and Ctrl-B, for both normal and visual mode. Keep this in mind if you change some of the above mappings to "nmap", because you'll probably also want to look in to "vmap".
This would be great, but doesn't work with my combination of secure F SSH (windows) and TERM=xterm. The arrows cannot be mapped as <Up>, etc, nor the <home> key. Any idea about why?
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
When To Break The No Contact Rule! More of The Rules of No Contact!
A lot of people have heard of the no contact rule when it comes to getting an ex back, and many often question how long should no contact be or when to break the no contact rule? If you're, indeed, asking these very questions, it's apparent that you may know the rules of no contact, but DO NOT have a complete strategy in getting back an ex.
I'm not going to harp on just how important a complete strategy in getting back an ex is, because I've done it so many times. If they're worth getting back then they're worth it. If not, then they're not. Pretty simple, but I'll let you decide that.
When to break the no contact rule is a tricky question (if you knew the complete strategy, you would know), but I'll try my best to explain. You break no contact when:
1. You have accepted the breakup and the relationship is over!
Sounds confusing, doesn't it? Let me explain. You must accept that your old relationship with your ex is over! It's dead! And you really don't want your old relationship with them anyway. No contact gives you the chance to take a step back and start OVER with your ex.
Number 2 will further explain this psychology.
2. You have gotten rid of what separated you two to begin with!
This goes hand in hand with the above requirement. If you haven't figured out what separated you two to begin with and fixed it, it doesn't matter if you get them back or not. It won't last long and you two will just end up breaking up again.
You have to be willing to start from a fresh place with your ex again. DO NOT try to just pick up where you left off.
3. It has been no LESS than 30 days!
You should NEVER contact your ex unless it has been thirty days or more of no contact. The 30 day no contact rule or 60 day no contact rule is not set in stone, however. Sometimes, it takes longer for people to get themselves back under control and start thinking rationally again after a breakup.
I've known exes who have gotten back together after several months to a year. Once again, this is your call. If you've done everything you should be doing during no contact then it's time to break the no contact rule. If you're not sure, you should read and learn the rules of no contact!
Or, you can click the link and get my free ebook called Behind No Contact, which details exactly what the no contact rule with an ex is all about.
4. Do you have a strategy to get your ex back?
Here's where almost 90% of those who are trying to get back an ex fail, and it's because they have NO strategy to get an ex back. Look, I harp on this a lot for a reason.
Getting back an ex is a process! It's not just a single tactic or some magical line you'll say that will make them come running back to you. It's a COMPLETE process.
Look, before you and your ex were an item, did you have to go through a process before you got to being considered a "couple?" Sure, you did. You had to attract each other, date each other, and fall in love with each other, right?
Getting back an ex is a process of re-attracting an ex back. Too many underestimate this process and it puts them on the immediate path to failure.
So when to break the no contact rule is when you're completely armed and ready with a strategy that will give you the highest possible chance of attracting and winning your ex back. This will be the time that you need to contact your ex again, if they haven't already contacted you.
However, should you email your ex? Should you call up your ex or should you text your ex? What are you going to say? Not just anything will do. How do you subtly contact them after the no contact rule without appearing needy and desperate, or making it appear too obvious you're trying to get back together?
For that, you will need to visit the link to learn more about across the bow text messages when you make that important first contact after the no contact rule.
1. After the no contact period, should I initiate contact if she wouldn't initiate or dating someone else?
2. I've written numerous posts about this question on this blog, and it really depends how long you've been in no contact, what you did during this time, and if you've used it correctly.
How long have you been in no contact? If you've used the no contact rule correctly, you should already know the best way to initiate contact.
Depending on how long you've been in no contact and whether you have a complete strategy and know the stage after no contact - re-attract your ex or the win your ex back stage - is when you should think about reaching out to your ex again...especially if they're dating someone else.
You only break no contact when you're ready, and it doesn't sound like you are ready.
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
I would like cell A to have the max value that another cell B has ever had. How can I do that? Cell B changes value dynamically according to a =GoogleFinance() formula (every few seconds or so).
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The only way to accomplish that, is through a script, Google Apps Script that is.
function getMax() {
var sh = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var cValue = sh.getRange("C2").getValue();
var hRange = sh.getRange("B3"), hValue = hRange.getValue();
if(cValue > hValue) {
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The script is retrieving the two values, at 1 minute intervals, and compares them. If the "real" value if higher than the highest value, then the highest will be replaced by the "real' value.
Add the script under Tools>Script editor. Press the bug button to authenticate the script (as it need access to the Google Spreadsheet). Select Resources\Current project's triggers in the script editor and set it to the screenshot given.
I've created an example file for you: get max value from formula
Second Best
=MAX(INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("GOOG", "HIGH", "01-01-2011", TEXT(NOW(), "dd-MM-yyyy"), "1"),"", 2))
This formula will show all the highest day values of the Google share, from the beginning of 2011. The INDEX formula will show only the second column and the MAX formula will show only the highest value.
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I got it working with the Google Apps Script method that you describe above. I hooked it to the specific spreadsheet that I needed, and after waiting for a bit, I saw it updating the value. – 127961409810234 Nov 28 '13 at 11:53
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Mar 31, 2012
Heya everyone.
So I've recently acquired an awesome mug for work.
It's thick and big and has blue in it but that's not what makes it awesome.
What makes it awesome is you can draw on the outside with whiteboard markers!
Thought I'd just pick out some of the better ones.
I've been instagram-ing them to my twitter account. Actually it's just about the ONLY thing I use instagram for...
Makes tea time a fun and creative experience :D
Hope you're all having a great day,
Mar 27, 2012
Dr Sketchy's
Hey howdey hey!
Hope everyone's day is being splendid,
Mar 24, 2012
ANZACS: Catnip For Canadians
So, I've discovered there is a limited number of things I can cook confidently and cook well.
As long as I follow the recipe I'll get most things right, but there's a couple of things I can go back to and know pretty much how it'll turn out.
Bolognese is one, and it seems ANZAC biscuits are another.
We hit a rough patch at work, meaning people were eating most of their meals at the studio, so I thought I'd whip up a batch of good ol' Aussie ANZACs.
I don't know if it was because we were all so tired or because they were something new and different but a Quadruple batch was successfully devoured in 15 minutes flat. And I felt quite proud about that :D
Hope you're all having a grand old day,
Mar 21, 2012
A weekend of Drinking: THE MUSICAL!
Hey howdey hey awesome guys and gals!
Sorry for a bit of a slow upload lately. Insert the regular excuses here.
But hey! You get a song! That's worth the wait, yeah?
There's a weekly drawing challenge going on at the studio, where every week we get a new theme and draw up a bunch of drawings to that theme.
So this is that, except instead of doing a drawing, I'm attempting to write a song to that theme...
Week one's theme was: John in a tree.
Head's up, This song Contains a swear word. The 'F' one...
The theme was inspired by a 'got drunk on the weekend' story one of the fine respectable fellows here told us. I then elaborated on this story.
Honestly, I'm quite proud of this song. It's a bit Piano Man and a bit Home for a Rest (a common bar song in Halifax it would seem)
I'll eventually do a nicer recording with stuff like drums and bass, but that'll be a long way off.
I'm going to spend tonight chucking a bunch of time delay posts up that should last a little while.
And I've already written a song for this weeks theme (Zombie Apocalypse) So there's that to look forward to. As well as a song titled "there's no Kangaroos in Canada". I just need to learn the 'French' bit.
So, till next time, hope you're all having a fantastic day,
Mar 1, 2012
You can't waste a perfectly good beard #5
Heya everyone!
Once again I have de-bearded.
Hope you're all having a terrific day,
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Archive for the 'Trade-offs' Category
Aug 21 2012
Introduction to Basic Economic Concepts – the Economics of Zoo Keeping
Introduction: This activity can be done individually or in small groups. It may be completed as a homework assignment or as an in-class activity. Divide the class into small groups (3 or 4 people). Each group is in charge of building a zoo.
Materials needed: Several A3 pieces of paper, scissors, tape or glue, and the images of animals available here.
Instructions for students: You and your teammates are the manager of a new business that has decided to open a zoo. Your zoo is a private, profit-seeking business that will charge admission to visitors. The purpose of the zoo , as with any business, is to earn a profit.
Your task is as follows:
• You have to decide which animals to include in your zoo, but space is limited.
• You have 25 acres on which to build your zoo.
• Each type of animal requires a different amount of space, so you must choose which animals to put in your zoo. Remember, you need at least one male and one female of each animal so they can reproduce.
• With your business partners, choose which animals you will put in your zoo.
Below each animal is the number of acres just one of the animals requires. For example, one lion requires 2 acres of land. If you want four lions, therefore, you must use 8 of your 25 acres for lions.
Take a large piece of paper (at least A3) and using a marker, design the layout of your zoo. The paper represents the 25 acres you have for animals. Once you have decided which animals to include, how many of each animal, and calculated how many acres are to be used for each animal, cut out the animals you have chosen and paste each animal into its dedicated enclosure.
Once you have completed construction of your zoo, answer the discussion questions that follow.
Discussion Questions:
1. Did every animal make it into your zoo? Why or why not?
2. Did you include a turkey or a cow in your zoo? Why or why not?
3. Why didn’t you have a zoo with only monkeys?
4. Which type of elephant did you choose? Why did you choose the type you did and not the other?
5. What is the last animal to make the cut for your zoo?
6. What is the animal that just missed the cut for your zoo?
7. Did everyone in your group agree to include the the same animals?
8. Would everyone in your group have made the same choices if they did it alone?
Once you have answered the discussion questions, view this presentation, which provides answers to the above questions for discussion as a class.
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Aug 14 2012
My first Economics lesson – Scarce Chairs!!
The Economist’s Solution:
Economic concepts illustrated by the Scarce Chairs exercise:
Scarcity exists:
Choices must be made:
• We had to choose between competing systems for allocating the chairs
Rationing systems:
Something that is scarce has value:
Consumer surplus:
Equity versus Efficiency:
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Sep 02 2010
“Guns vs. Butter” – The PPC and tradeoffs in the real world
School kids feel the bite of high food prices – May. 5, 2008
A classic method of teaching the basic economic concept of the production possibilities curve is to illustrate the relationship between a nation’s decision to invest in military goods versus civilian goods. The model typically includes two “products” that a nation can choose to invest in: guns and butter. The specific goods themselves are not so important, rather what they are meant to represent: the tradeoff any nation faces between allocating more of its scarce resources towards national defense versus goods and services that benefit the nation’s consumers.
Today the United States faces a very real version of the old “guns vs. butter” model. Rising global food prices have put public school districts in a bind: how to feed kids nutritious meals as the prices ingredients has risen at unprecedented rates:
Rising food prices are making it harder for schools to cook up ways to give kids the nutrition they need.
Right now, they’re taking shortcuts and shuffling ingredients to make up the difference, but that’s only a short-term solution with long-term consequences on the horizon.
“I’ve been in school service for 27 years and this is the worst it’s ever been,” said Sara Gasiorowski, food service director for Wayne Township Schools in Indianapolis. “I have never seen food prices jump up so far…”
Food prices nationwide have risen 4.5% between March 2007 and March 2008, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index, with flour and eggs rising even more dramatically than milk. Grumbles said milk prices in her district are up 22% from last year, which means an increase of 3.5 cents for each of the federally required 16,000 half-pints she provides every day.
“For every penny on a carton of milk, it costs me $30,000 a year,” she said. “That’s $105,000 extra on my food bill.”
Flour prices have roughly doubled over the last year, according to Grumbles, to $19 per 50-pound bag. To make up for the difference, she substitutes canned peaches for fresh apples “to save a couple pennies” per meal, or she uses ground beef in place of chicken.
Unfortunately, federal funding for school lunches has increased at a much slower rate than cost to districts of providing those meals:
Federal reimbursement programs cover all or part of school districts’ lunch tabs. Congress lifts reimbursement rates every year, but Gasiorowski said it hasn’t been enough: “We need to be looking at an increase of 12% to 15%, instead of our usual annual increase of 2 or 3%.”
The current federal reimbursement program is based on household incomes; the poorest American students receive $2.47 of federal funding towards their “free lunches”, while students from the highest income bracket only receive $0.23 per meal. The problem is, the average school lunch now costs $3.10, so these days no one is actually receiving a “free lunch”, not even the poorest American students.
This article struck me in that is truly does illustrate the concept of tradeoffs as illustrated in the production possibilities curve. Society must allocate its scarce resources towards the goods and services it deems most desirable based on the needs of its citizens. Complications arise in this basic model, however, when government is involved.
The commitment to subsidizing school lunches is based on the idea that if the responsibility of feeding American school children were left to the free market, resources would surely be underallocated towards nutritious meals, representing a market failure. School lunches are a merit good, meaning they would be underprovided by the free market, since without public provision and support, millions of American children would come to school every day without nutritious meals to get them through the day.
National defense is another service that governments find it necessary to provide. If it were left completely up to the free market, national defense would probably not be provided at all. Instead, only individuals who could afford it would hire private security forces to protect their property. To protect a whole nation, however, government provision of defense is a necessity.
Clearly, both “guns” and “butter” create benefits for society. Among the countless other goods and services the government provides or supports the provision of, the United States faces a tradeoff arising from the scarce resources at the government’s disposal. Currently, the US government spends far more on its military ($660 billion in 2010!) than it does on lunches for American school children. Clearly, military spending is necessary, but it may be that in the tradeoff between these two important services more resources should be allocated towards “butter” at a period in the US economy when low income households are finding it harder than ever to provide their children with one of life’s most basic necessities, nutritious food.
Discussion Questions:
1. What do “guns and butter” represent on the PPC above? Why have economists found it useful to use these two goods on their analysis of the tradeoffs faced by nations?
2. Why doesn’t the United States just make all school lunches FREE for all American school children? Wouldn’t that make sense? Give an economic argument against this suggestion.
3. Why does the government feel it necessary to allocate any resources towards school lunches? Shouldn’t the government just let American families provide their own children with lunch?
4. Say the US government decided to increase its provision of both national defense and school lunches, without reducing its provision of some other good or service. How would it do this? Why wouldn’t the government do this?
Update: I received an email message from a reader about the above blog post:
I have to say that your “guns and butter” diagram is “interesting.” I am not clear on why the United States should spend vastly more on school lunches than on defending the free world While government provided school lunches may have a place, most Americans feed their own children and do not depend on Federal financing.
Where did you get the notion that feeding our children would be “under-provided by the free market
Here was my reply to this reader. I’m posting it here because I want to make it clear the the diagram above is not meant to make any political statement about US military spending:
Actually, the PPC was included simply to illustrate the basic tradeoff that society faces when it chooses how to allocate its scarce resources.
Having taught at least for a short while in public schools, I can say that nutritious lunches are definitely “underprovided” by the free market, that is, many students in poor communities in America depend on the “free and reduced” lunches that are provided through federal and state funding programs… I once volunteer taught in a poor Elementary School in Spokane, Washington where 40% of the students ate only two meals a day, both provided free by the school district: one at 8 in the morning, one at noon. Many of these children had parents who were poor, unemployed, often addicted to drugs, who failed to put any food on the table whatsoever.
In other words, I do think that nutritious meals are a “merit good” which by definition is one that is underprovided by the free market, therefore requires subsidies from the government. Otherwise, why would the government offer such subsidies at all, if these meals were something the free market could adequately provide on its own?
Again, I was not making any political statement with the graph, only pointing out the basic economic concept of tradeoffs and the idea that society must allocate its scarce resources towards an “optimal” combination of goods and services. The article indicates that in this time of rising food prices, not enough of America’s resources are going towards providing nutritious meals for school children, indicating that a movement along the PPC might be in order. The degree of such a move is irrelevant, only the fact that a movement must occur if nutritious meals are to continue to be provided. In fact, the x-axis could have represented any other public good the government provides for society, I chose “military spending” so that the current example was consistent with the classic example of “guns vs. butter”.
Hope that clears things up… Best regards,
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Sep 15 2009
Guns and Butter – a dangerous combination
Indexed » Blog Archive » Resources were not allocated efficiently
Econ students and teachers alike should appreciate this Venn Diagram. What happens when a nation chooses a point on its production possibilities curve somewhere between “guns” and “butter”? Answer, “Accidental shooting”… GET IT?
The punchline: “Resources were not allocated efficiently”
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Aug 23 2009
Freakonomics – Laid-Back Labor – New York Times
Discussion Questions:
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Cross Compiling
From GNUstepWiki
Cross Compiling and GNUstep depends on what you want to achieve.
The following is based on this discussion on the mailing list.
See also: Writing_portable_code
You have several options - more or less complex.
Copy source files to OSX and use gnustep-make
The simplest, and best option is obviously to install gnustep-make on your Mac.
sudo make install
Additionally to the already suggested use of Xcode, you can build GNUstep on OS X with the apple-apple-apple combo. While this might need a tweak or two to work, this gives you a thin layer of GNUstep (its additions) onto what Cocoa already provides. --Markus Hitter
Copy source files to OSX to develop, build and debug using Xcode
Add a wrapping Xcode project (in addition to the GNUstep makefile) and configure it to compile directly on OSX for OSX using the OSX Cocoa frameworks. You can share the sources e.g. through SVN. There is no problem having GNUmakefiles and some .xcodeproj in the same source code directory. The main benefit of this approach is that you can use the Xcode/gdb integration for debugging.
Examples using this approach: 1. SWK Browser from the GNUstep SWK project, DataBuilder from 2. GSCoreData (look into the sources at
Development is done by either working on Linux and using GORM/Project Center and compiling for Linux, or on OSX opening the project in Xcode. The only thing to keep in mind is that you must also update the Xcode project or the GNUmakefile if you add source files or resources. The GNUstep .app bundle is different and runs on Linux only. The OSX .app bundle runs only on OSX, i.e. there is no single bundle that covers all architectures (unless you do some additional tricks).
Install GNUstep on OSX using MacPorts
include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make
WRP_RESOURCE_FILES = gui/* Images/* Resources/*
WRP_OBJC_FILES = main.m \
snip a bunch of sources files
DEGeneralPrefsController.m \
include GNUmakefile.preamble
include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/application.make
Real cross-compiling (building on Linux for MacOS X)
I have an Xcode project and want to run on Linux
I have an Xcode project and want to run on Windows
Please refer to [1]
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Revision proposal for RDA instructions for treaties
Revision as of 08:46, 7 October 2013 by Kathy Glennan (Talk | contribs)
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Please include in your comments:
• Your name/liaison organization
• Month/day/year
Never copy and paste over the entire original wiki document.
Revision proposal for RDA instructions for treaties
Suggestion for rewording the final example in revised Instead of: "Date of adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by the U.N. General Assembly" I suggest: "Date of adoption by the U.N. General Assembly of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women." Rewording it this way makes it clear that "by the U.N. General Assembly" is not part of the treaty title.
Other comments: The first example in "Special economic assistance" - shouldn't all the words be capitalized? A.18 says "Capitalize the formal, or conventional, name of a document such as a charter, constitution, legislative act, pact, plan, statement of policy, or treaty." Same comment regarding capitalization of several examples in - 1st example, shouldn't it be: "Agreement between the United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and the United Kingdom as Administering Power of the Territories of Cyrenaica and Tripolitania regarding Technical Assistance for Cyrenaica and Tripolitania"
2nd example: "Development Credit Agreement (Santa Cruz Water Supply and Sewerage Project) between Republic of Bolivia and International Development Association"
3rd example: "Project Agreement (Anhui Hefei Urban Environment Improvement Project) between Asian Development Bank and Anhui Provincial Government, Hefei Municipal Government"
And 6.29.18: "Memorandum of Agreement between the Government of the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada pursuant to Section 4(3) of the Anti-Inflation Act"; "Joint Agreement between the State of Maine and the Province of New Brunswick"; "Master Agreement (PIPSC)"; "Concession Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Liberia and Liberia Iron and Steel Corporation" --Adam Schiff, 6/10/13 (added by Rolla)
The arguments presented on page 3 against considering signatories to treaties as "creators" are more convincing for multilateral treaties signed over a long period of time than they are for simple bilateral treaties. But taking the approach proposed here for treaties of all kinds seems preferable to establishing authorized access points for multilateral treaties one way and for bilateral treaties another way. --Robert J. Rendall (talk) 14:05, 13 June 2013 (PDT)
While I am generally supportive of the proposal, I do wonder whether general catalogers (those not working in law libraries!) will be able to determine the preferred title of a treaty based on "a short title or citation title used in legal literature; the official title of the treaty; or any other official designation by which the treaty is known". My sense is that the most likely result will be to take the title proper of the manifestation in hand as the preferred title -- which the examples suggest might not be the worst decision to make.
I note that we already have this issue with the preferred title for laws, so it is not terribly upsetting that the same issue arises with treaties. However, we should be certain we want to go further in this direction.
-- John Attig (2013/06/16)
Like John Attig, I think that most general catalogers will probably wind up taking the title proper of the manifestation in hand as the preferred title, and that this isn't a bad solution to the problem. Also, I agree that this is a problem that is similar to what we face in finding the preferred titles for laws. I think the approach makes sense.
-- Steve Kelley (CC:DA 2013/06/18)
As someone who catalogs medical literature and wouldn't know a treaty if it bit her in the arse, I know I'd probably opt for the title of the manifestation. -- Amanda Sprochi 6/21/13
Final Proposal and Constituency Responses
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Summary of LC response: Strong support, with suggestions for revisions
Substantive issue: Signatory to a treaty Is this still valid in Chapter 6 in light of the proposed revisions? This was added in Chapter 6 (rather than Chapter 19) to construct the AAPs for bilateral treaties. If this type of AAP construction is abandoned, isn't this just another category of relationship under "Other Persons, Families or Corporate Bodies Associated with Legal Works", and thus belongs under 19.3.2? If the JSC agrees, the Glossary definition should be deleted & a relationship designator should be added to I.2.2. If retained in Chapter 6, the CORE element status should be removed.
Editorial issue: Treaty or Agreement Can the references to “other agreements,” “any other formal agreement,” etc. that follow the terms “treaty” or “treaties” throughout the instructions be deleted since they are covered in the glossary definition?
Proposed revisions (summarized; for fuller details, see the response)
1: should not be core
2: should not be core
3: agree
4: agree
5: generally agree but have follow-up questions:
Is there a distinction between "official short title or citation titles and "unofficial" short title or citation titles? Does this also apply to Treaties?
Are short titles and citation titles assigned at the time the Treaty is created, or do they develop over time? Need Glossary definitions explaining these terms.
Treaty of Portsmouth example -- "Title used in legal literature": is this a short title or a citation title?
Should there be instructions for choosing the language of the preferred title when treaties have names/titles in more than one language?
Revision of Agree, with 2 suggested changes:
1: make the 1st paragraph the last paragraph.
2: 2nd & 3rd examples illustrate 6.2.2, so should be split into a separate box. (If not A.18 applies and the capitalization should be changed.) Suggest a substitute example that does not use the word "series"
Revision of Have question about NAFTA example.
Revision of Agree.
Revision of 6.20.3 (summarized; for fuller details, see the response) Generally agree, with a few suggested changes:
1: Scope - reverse order of "formally signed" and "adopted by an international intergovernmental body or by an international conference". Further expand to include some of the types of dates mentioned in the background statement? (Do as an "etc." list -- wording suggested.)
2: Because there are so many different types of dates, it would be useful for the instruction at to inherit an aspect of the Date of Legal Work at 6.20.1. to record the earliest date associated with the treaty.
3: Agree with third bullet but note that there is not instruction here or at 6.20.1 to record the inclusive dates for a compilation of treaties.
4: Suggest a revision to introduce an instruction at 6.20.3 about the language to use for the months of the year.
Revision of Agree.
Revision of Agree.
Revision of Generally agree: suggest adding a final paragraph for consistency. Also wonder about seemingly inconsistent application of A.18 to the examples.
Revision of Is there still a need to keep separate instructions for these various types of treaties? Suggest that the various types all be covered at
Revision of Propose rewording to contain a reference to
Revision of Generally agree, but think that the remaining exception isn't really an exception -- make it the base rule and move to the beginning of the instruction. Also suggest adding a non-U.S. English language example. (Proposed changes in response.)
Revision of Agree, with suggested changes (editorial)
Revision of Agree
Revision of, section g: Agree
Revision of Agree but examples could move to 19.3.2.
Revision of B.3: Agree
Revision of B.7, footnote 2: Agree
Revision of E.1.2.5: Agree
Revision of Glossary: Agree with 3 revisions
Other uses of "treaties, etc." or "treaty, etc.": Agree, with revisions at & 6.22.
Summary of BL response: Agree with proposed changes, with comments.
1. Interested in comments about impact from communities other than US law catalogers
2. Signatory of a treaty is really a relationship between the work & the jurisdictions, not a attribute of the work. EURIG was concerned that a consequence of the proposed changes is that the access by signatory would only be available as variant access points to the Preferred Title for the Treaty. Users would be better served by a direct relationship between the treaty and its signatories.
Agree with proposed revisions, but have comments about:
1. 4: Recommend JSC considers a consistent approach to recording date throughout the instructions.
2. 18: as "etc." is removed, should consideration be given to changing "protocols, etc." to "other ancillary agreements"?
Summary of CCC response: Agree, with modifications. use "in this order", not "in this order of preference" was retention of exception in error? It's redundant (see correct typo (combing -> combining)
Summary of DNB response: Agree; have suggested revisions:
Revision 1: Should not date of a legal work (RDA 6.20) be mentioned here?
Revision 2: Should not date of a legal work (RDA 6.20) be mentioned here?
Revision 5: Revision of RDA a) refers to „legal literature“. What exactly is meant by the term literature in this context: reference works like The Bluebook (cited on page 4 on the bottom of the revision proposal)?
In general, we see a problem that the preferred title should be determined according to a reference source. Suggest formulating similar to
Revision of RDA c): What is meant by “other official designation”? Perhaps it would be also more practical to omit the word “official”.
Revision 6: The reference from RDA 6.2.2 to RDA 6.19.2 seems to be a loop.
Revision 9: Should not date of a legal work (RDA 6.20) be mentioned here?
It should be possible to make a distinction between signing of a treaty and adoption of a treaty
Revision to RDA 6.20.3 reads „treaty or a protocol to a treaty ...“ – whereas RDA reads "For a treaty, or any other formal agreement ...“ . We suggest correcting this inconsistency and also preferring the broader wording in RDA Was a restriction on "protocol" intended? If so, need to understand why.
Recording the date according to RDA refers to Anglo-American use and differs from practice in European countries; recommend internationalizing instructions for recording date. Also the written out form of the month is regarded as an obstacle for research and chronological sort sequence.
Revision 15: The two references for the international corporate bodies to RDA are logical within RDA; however, there is only one reference from to Again this is a reference which is accurate but causes effort in applying the instructions.
Revision 19: There is a difference between the instructions for the variant access point (see proposal, page 29 at the top) which do not require a date, but within the appropriate examples a date is always given.
Question: Why do compilations do not obtain a date? When building a preferred access point, the date will be considered (see newly proposed wording at, Revision 18).
Question: Why there is no date required for bilateral treaties?
Revision 21: We agree to the deletion at RDA vii) however, the corporate body that signs a treaty is still a corporate body related to the work and therefore must be mentioned in RDA 19.3.2. Also Appendix I should be adjusted accordingly.
Revision 22: See revision 21 above.
Further suggestions on date and place: Date According to this proposal date of a treaty is the relevant date, which is easily ascertainable. Further dates (the effective date, the date of going out of force, and also validity information) are relevant dates for resource description and access. Furthermore treaties may show multiple dates of signing. RDA should give an orientation, which dates belong to History of the Work (RDA 6.7) and Date of Work (RDA 6.4).
Place of signing a treaty We suggest establishing a RDA element “Place of signing a treaty” according to RDA 6.5 “Place of origin of the work”.
Agree with no additional comments: ACOC, CILIP.
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Rumor: Windows Phone 8 (or beyond) to include Kinect-like functionality?
Are touchscreen phones a thing of the past? That might be a crazy conclusion to jump to when smartphones are selling in such high numbers today, but the momentum for non-physical interaction in devices like Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Kinect imply that Natural User Interfaces are the trend of tomorrow.
Speaking of Kinect and the future, rumor has it that Windows Phone could take advantage of the powerful motion sensing tech someday. VR-Zone’s ‘reliable’ sources assert that Microsoft has boosted its internal research and development on a Kinect-like NUI for Windows Phone recently, which is now receiving more resources. The site clarifies that the project remains “purely a development effort” and no other evidence proves the technology would even ship with Windows Phone 8 or a later software update.
The main obstacle in the way of Kinect for Windows Phone becoming a reality is the hardware itself. The sensor for the Xbox 360 uses two optical cameras as well as an IR camera, all three of which would be tough to fit inside of a slim and flat phone. The IR sensor in particular is used in no-light situations but as of right now cannot be shruken down to a smartphone appropriate size. Regardless of the motion tech though, the sources also say Kinect could also become a Siri competitor powered by Microsoft’s TellMe service, which is already found in Windows Phone albeit with less impressive functionality. Certainly a clever way to leverage an existing and popular brand name, but if the sensors don’t act in a similar way as the Xbox 360 hardware it could be deceptive.
The article does raise a good point though: if Microsoft releases a version of Kinect for Windows Phone that required lighting it would still be a huge new feature. Microsoft owns the intellectual property behind Kinect so it would for all intents and purposes control the technology’s presence in smartphones. The only wrinkle in that plan we can think of is the challenge of licensing out the use of the technology and the potential for inconsistencies from different manufacturer implementations. We’ll let Microsoft Research sort that out — in the meantime, excuse us while we daydream of waving our hands at our phones.
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
I'm aware there are several other posts that cover similar ground to what I'm about to ask.
I have three custom post types running, in addition to 'posts'. I want to run a loop that pulls all posts categorised under a particular category
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'testimonial',
'posts_per_page' => 1,
'tax_query' => array(
array (
'taxonomy' => 'testimonial_category',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => 'home'
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
$postcount = 0;
<?php $postcount++; ?>
//loop here
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
This is the code I have at the moment, not sure how I condense this into pulling in multiply post types from one category.
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Just change the post_type bit to:
'post_type' => array('testimonial', 'other_post_type', 'another-post-type'),
Assuming that taxonomy is valid across all 3 post types. Otherwise you'll have to leave that out.
Why? You can pass an array to post_type field.
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How do I say what category name to search in. 'taxonomy' => 'testimonial_category' – dannyw24 Jun 18 '13 at 13:49
@user2478101 : ^^ Your tax_query in the question looks OK, though I didn't test it. What are you trying to do differently? – s_ha_dum Jun 18 '13 at 13:57
I have a taxonomy in each post type with a term in called home.I want to pull in any post that has that selected – dannyw24 Jun 18 '13 at 14:00
I took a gamble and tried this, but it doesn't seem to pull in the other any posts from the custom post types. query_posts( array( 'post_type' => array('post', 'testimonial', 'casestudy'), 'cat' => 69, 'showposts' => 3 ) ); – dannyw24 Jun 18 '13 at 14:16
In order for this to work, the taxonomy must be identical for all. The terms, as far as I know, can't be linked across taxonomies. core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/12269 – GhostToast Jun 18 '13 at 14:17
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
i'm new in Wordpress and I'm currently building my personal website where my works will be published and have a blog too. For the portfolio layout I've looked up this tutorial:
It gives me what I want, more or less. The point is that when I enter on a specific project, the look of it changes a little bit. The file single.php is working right? But doesn't this means that the blog posts will have the exactly the same layout than the project details? I mean, if I edit that file I'm doing it for both blog posts and project details right?
How can I make it to look different?
Best Regards, Tiago Castro
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Install the Custom Post Template plugin and create different templates for your project pages. This works like page templates.
You may also consider a custom post type for your projects to use different taxonomies, meta data and templates.
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Well, yes if you edit single.php thats impact will be global across the site, to over come from this WordPress provides you elegant way called layout heirarchy for your post type portfolio you can use different single.php. Dont edit single create one more file called single-postytype.php for portfolio type it will be single-portfolio.php so that it loads only for portfolio post type, if you wanna have specific layout for blog post then it will be single-post.php Have a look at this hierarchy you may get idea http://codex.wordpress.org/images/1/18/Template_Hierarchy.png
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Hawkeyes hear name in NFL Draft
The Iowa Hawkeyes have sent more players to the NFL this decade than any other Big 10 school and that trend continued Fiday night. A pair of Hawkeyes were drafted in the 3rd round. C.J. Fiedorowicz was selected with the 1st pick in round 3 by Houston. Fiedorowicz becomes the 8th tight end drafted in Kirk Ferentz era. Linebacker Christian Kirksey was taken 6 picks later by the Browns.
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Default Frontier Slings
I started making some of these for my buddies locally and got a little attention on another archery forum. If anyone is interested in ordering from me, my prices are $12 for the flat/doublwide, and $14 for the round braid. I can mix up to four colors and can install grommets or leave the leather plain.
Prices are shipped to your door.
Here's some examples, thanks.
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Transparent frogs reduce dissections
Updated September 27, 2007 19:39:00
Japanese researchers have succeeded in producing see-through frogs, letting them observe organs, blood vessels and eggs under the skin without performing dissections.
Dissections have become increasingly controversial in much of the world, particularly in schools where animal rights activists have pressed for humane alternatives such as using computer simulations.
The lead researcher Masayuki Sumida, professor at the Institute for Amphibian Biology at Hiroshima University, says his team announced last week it had created the first transparent four-legged creature, although some small fish are also see-through.
"You can see through the skin how organs grow, how cancer starts and develops," he said.
"You can watch organs of the same frog over its entire life as you don't have to dissect it.
"The researcher can also observe how toxins affect bones, livers and other organs at lower costs."
Two kinds of recessive genes have been known to cause the frog to be pale.
Sumida's team crossed two frogs with recessive genes through artificial insemination and the offspring looked normal due to the presence of more powerful genes. But crossing the offspring led to a frog whose skin is transparent from the tadpole stage.
"You can see dramatic changes of organs when tadpoles mutate into frogs," said Sumida, whose team is seeking a patent.
Such frogs could theoretically exist in the wild but it is "virtually impossible" they would naturally inherit so many recessive genes, he said.
The transparent frogs can also reproduce, with their offspring inheriting their parents' traits, but their grandchildren die shortly after birth.
"As they have two sets of recessive genes, something wrong must kick in and kill them," Professor Sumida said.
While the researchers relied on artificial insemination, they said that genetic engineering could also produce transparent and even illuminating frogs.
Professor Sumida said researchers could also inject into the transparent frogs an illuminating protein attached to a gene, which would light up the gene once it manifests - for example, showing at what stage cancer starts.
Topics: amphibians, science-and-technology, animal-science, breakthroughs, genetics, research, japan
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The River’s Edge
Part 6
Jenna watched as Rosalie paced for several more minutes before her fear got the best of her. Finally she shot out of the chair, limped as quickly as she could to the other woman and grabbed her by the arms.
"What the fuck are you talking about? Do you plan on letting me in on this little secret of yours or do I have to beat it out of you?"
Shocked green eyes stared back into her own and she released her grip on the older woman’s arms. Jenna took a step back and apologized, all the while wringing her hands together. She couldn’t believe she had lost it like that.
"I am sorry," Rosalie told her after taking a deep breath. "Sit, please, and I will explain." When the blonde didn’t move she pointed to the chair and told her again.
Reluctantly, Jenna went back to the wooden chair and sat. She watched Madame Borineau expectantly until she too returned to her seat and took a deep breath.
"When you came in here I felt part of your… problem. What I did not know until you spoke, and especially not until you touched me, was how little time there is."
Jenna felt the air escaping her lungs as she slumped back into the chair. Panic threatened to overwhelm her as her mind raced over the territory she thought that Rosalie might talk to her about. However, her fright would not allow her to discern what exactly the problem was so she watched anxiously as Madame Borineau gathered her thoughts before speaking.
"Jenna, there is grave danger ahead of you, and I mean that literally. There is only a short amount of time left to act on the course you have chosen. What worries me is that I can not see who is in worse danger- you, or the woman you seek."
"What do you mean you can’t see?" Jenna blurted out and slammed her fists down on the table. "You’re the psychic here! What’s going to happen? How much time are we talking about?"
"Anger will not help you now, child. I am not sure, but I would guess that you haven’t more than a couple of weeks. Maybe a little more, maybe less. That is all I can see."
Jenna rose from her chair and paced much as Rosalie had previously. She ran her hands through her blonde hair and fought the urge to run screaming from the nightmare she had walked into.
"Is there any way to find her?" she asked after closing her eyes.
"You have found her."
Jenna took a deep breath and willed herself not to throttle the enigmatic woman. "Yes, and then I lost her. That doesn’t help me now!"
Rosalie squinted her eyes and cocked her head. She remained that way for several moments, then nodded slowly and stood up.
"We must go to the water."
Jenna was quickly running out of patience. The maddening woman had taken her sweet time about leaving, and had been even slower about driving to her home. Now, as they navigated the path to the river, she seemed more interested in smelling the flowers than getting to the place where they might actually find the answers Jenna so desperately sought.
When they did make it to the riverbank where Jenna had been having her visions, Rosalie stopped in the middle of a sentence on the uses of some of the native plants and looked at her surroundings with wide eyes. Jenna watched as she spun in a slow circle, then closed her eyes and pressed her hands together in what looked like a prayer.
"What is it?"
Instead of answering, the psychic spun on her heel and started west away from the river. Jenna watched with wide eyes as she made her way to the stand of aspen trees where Leah had disappeared. She stood next to a small tree, tracing a design in it’s smooth gray bark with her hand. When Jenna arrived at her side and took a closer look at it she nearly dropped to her knees.
"Oh my God," she murmured, dumbfounded. "All this time and I never saw it."
"Young one, sometimes you have to see with these eyes," she began, pointing to her own green eyes. "And not so much with these," she finished, pointing to her heart.
The blonde turned back to the carving in the tree that read ‘Robert + Leah 4ever’ in neat block script. How she had missed it before she wasn’t sure, but now that she had seen it she could feel adrenaline rush up inside her and threaten to gush through her pores. She could now feel the sense of urgency that Rosalie had conveyed to her earlier.
"She must know about this place," Jenna mumbled, fighting the dizziness that threatened to knock her off her feet. "Is that why I see it? The visions-"
"It is a place of peace to her," Rosalie answered curtly and stomped back toward the water.
Jenna hurried to catch up with her and followed behind her as she went further up the bank. Her mouth was so dry she couldn’t keep her tongue from sticking to the roof of her mouth. As they floundered through the thick brush that had swallowed the trail, she paused when Rosalie grabbed her arm and signaled her to stop.
The other woman raised her arm and pointed after motioning for her to be quiet. Jenna’s eyes moved in the direction she was pointing to see a picnic table and makeshift fire pit littered with what looked like used napkins. Her eyes swept the area to see three people wandering in the distance near the water, two men and a woman. And if she wasn’t mistaken, one of them was a dead ringer for Leah.
Jenna’s stomach lurched and she leaned forward, trying to be sure her eyes were not deceiving her. Sure enough, as the woman turned about she caught a glimpse of her unmistakable face. Jenna took in the short man that never seemed to leave the woman’s side and was sure that it was Robert. The other man she had never seen, but figured him to be a relative of Robert’s by the way he carried himself.
"The beginning," Rosalie muttered and tried to turn Jenna back the way they had come.
"I’m not leaving!" Jenna hissed and tried to fight, overpowered by the surprisingly strong woman.
"Now is not the time," Rosalie growled back and continued forcing Jenna away from where Leah stood.
"What do you mean?" the blonde gasped as Rosalie dragged her away, all the while looking over her shoulder to keep an eye on Leah. "She’s right there!"
"What would you do? Cause trouble and get her hurt? No! You must be patient."
Jenna grabbed the older woman’s arm and made her stop their retreat. "You were the one that was just saying there’s not much time left. Now that we’ve found her, do you think I want to just let her go?"
"Jenna, child," Rosalie spoke in a calm tone. "You would get her hurt. Do you want that? You can not just rush in there and try to do something before it is time. You must have a plan, for when the men are not around."
"Fine, we’ll wait until they leave and follow them home." Jenna folded her arms across her chest and shifted her weight to her good leg impatiently.
Rosalie smiled gently at her and shook her head. "Your heart means much good, child. But we must be careful. Please, let us return to your home and there we will find our answers."
"You said we would find our answers here," Jenna shot back through clenched teeth. "What are we going to find at my house except that we’ve lost more time?"
"We did find answers, didn’t we?" Rosalie answered while pointing in Leah’s direction. "We know now what significance the water holds. From there we will find the rest."
Jenna stared at her back as she walked swiftly away, unable to bear the thought of leaving when they were so close to… She wasn’t sure what, but it was something big. She could feel it in her achy bones. Chewing on her bottom lip, she gave Rosalie one last glance and then turned back toward where she had seen Leah. She hurried through the dense brush, trying to be as quiet as she could without Rosalie catching up to her and causing a ruckus.
As she neared the clearing, Jenna could feel her heart pounding in her throat. Here could be the answers to what had been plaguing her for months, making her doubt her own sanity. Maybe she could finally convince Laura that she really was not crazy, that there had been an explanation for her troubles other than the copious amounts of drugs she had taken.
Snapping twigs behind her alerted Jenna that Rosalie was on her way back to get her. Taking a deep breath, she stepped out in the open and walked slowly toward the trio, not wanting to look suspicious. It dawned on her then that she had no idea what she would do when she got near Leah, and by the way Robert was hovering around her she didn’t figure she would get much of a chance to speak with the battered woman.
"Just play it by ear," she mumbled to herself and pretended to check out her surroundings as she meandered toward the picnic area.
She shoved her hands into the pockets of her shorts and looked up at the sky. Cumulus clouds billowed heavenward and several birds twisted and turned through the air. Bringing her attention back to the earth, she watched Leah out of the corner of her eye. It appeared that the dark headed woman had spotted her and was watching her very intently, and Jenna wondered if she remembered her from the music store. She felt her pulse quicken and woodpeckers tearing at the lining of her stomach. Jenna wished that she had something to calm her nerves and suddenly wondered why she hadn’t taken Rosalie’s advice to leave things be for now.
‘You can’t do anything the easy way. That’s why, and you’ll probably get her killed,’ her mind scolded.
She frowned at the unwelcome thoughts and tried to clear her mind to the task at hand. She didn’t want to get Leah killed and it would require a lot of cunning to get through to her without Robert finding out what she was up to.
‘Or getting killed yourself,’ the voice mocked. ‘She already told you to let it be so you wouldn’t get hurt.’
Jenna rolled her eyes and continued toward the picnic area where Robert, Leah and the other guy were. Leah sat hunched now at the table, still watching her approach. Robert stood next to her with a possessive hand on her shoulder, talking to the man Jenna didn’t know. They seemed engrossed in their conversation and didn’t appear to pay her any mind.
Jenna wracked her brain for some excuse to approach them, all the while checking over her shoulder to see if Rosalie had followed her out into the clearing. She suspected that though she could not see the older woman, she was there watching from the bushes.
Unable to wander around any longer without feeling suspicious, Jenna made her way slowly to the table and smiled at the trio. Inside, though, she shivered when Robert looked at her, remembering how he had beaten Leah in her visions.
‘And not too long ago, from the looks of things,’ her mind piped in as she took in the yellowing cheekbone that Leah was trying to hide behind her hair. She tried not to think of how she had seen her do that before as she opened her mouth to speak.
"Hi there," she began, trying not to stare at the dark headed woman. She was stunning, in spite of the bruising. "Hey, I was just wondering if any of you had seen a puppy come this way. I looked away for a minute and the little guy was gone."
Robert shook his head no, pulling Leah toward him, and his friend turned a predatory grin in her direction. Jenna smiled and tried to ignore his eyes roaming over her body. She stole a glance at Leah, who looked like she had seen a ghost. Slowly, she too shook her head.
Jenna grimaced, trying to play along with her lie. "Well, thanks anyway," she replied and let her shoulders hang dejectedly. She turned go when an idea hit her.
"Do any of you have a pen? I was hoping I could leave my number with you in case he comes along."
Robert’s friend grinned again. "Sure thing, let me run up to the car and get one."
Jenna sat uncomfortably down on the bench facing Robert and Leah to wait for the pen. She looked back over her shoulder toward the stand of bushes, wondering if Rosalie was there or was mad enough to have left.
"What’s his name?" Robert asked, shaking her from her thoughts.
"The dog."
"Oh," she said and chuckled. "Sparky," she answered, mentally slapping herself in the forehead.
Robert raised an eyebrow and turned his attention to Leah. "We should get a dog, don’t you think baby?"
A forced smile creased her lips, and a meek "Sure" was all she said.
"Yeah, a nice Doberman or pit bull. We could name it Killer or something cool like that."
Jenna ignored the dig at her choice in names for her fictitious dog, praying that he would forget the idea. She couldn’t imagine what would happen to Leah if Robert were to sic the dog on her.
"Do you live around here?" Leah asked timidly, looking at the ground when Robert eyed her for having spoken.
Jenna’s heart ached to see the beautiful woman so beaten down, and she was afraid to answer lest she provoke a visit from Robert or his friend or both of them. But her instincts told her that if Leah were bold enough to ask, she needed to answer.
"Yeah, I live about a half mile down the river. On the other side of those bushes is a trail that leads right to my back yard." She searched for signs of recognition of the area on Leah’s face and found none.
"Sounds nice," Robert mused as he chewed on his lip. "We have a pretty nice place, don’t we babe? We’re right up-"
He was interrupted by the other man returning with a pen and scrap of paper. "Here ya go," he smiled, eagerly holding the items out to the blonde.
Jenna could have murdered him but instead smiled her thanks. She wrote the number down, deliberately handing it to Robert in hopes that Leah would be able to get to it and contact her.
He looked at the number, then tucked the paper into his pants pocket. "Good luck," he told her flatly, effectively dismissing her.
She waved and turned back in the direction she had come. As she made her way back to the brambles, she heard Robert say something gruffly to Leah. She turned to see him grab her by the arm, then let go when his friend pointed over his shoulder in Jenna’s direction. Rage boiled inside her, especially for the man that knew what Robert was doing and did nothing to stop him. She clenched her teeth and hurried back toward her house, knowing there was nothing she could do for Leah at that moment except hope for the best. She tore her way through the brush and emerged on the other side to an obviously angry Rosalie.
"Will it take her death to get you to listen?"
"I don’t think what I did was anything life threatening," she responded and crossed her arms over her chest. Her own ire was still simmering just below the surface and she didn’t think it would take much for it to spill over.
Rosalie muttered something in a language Jenna didn’t understand and shook her head. "You don’t understand the forces at work here."
"No? I understand that that man is beating the shit out of her and that he probably will kill her. I also understand that I am the only one who seems to care about helping her."
Rosalie grabbed her tightly by the shoulders and shook her to emphasize each word that she said. "What you just did will likely kill her."
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Spending in The Path of Allah
Fatima az-Zahra (sa) was known to be very modest, and humble. Because as man's desire of the Hereafter increases, his worldly lusts decrease; and when someone realizes the loftiness of the Day of Judgement, the worldly life becomes trivial to him. Besides, as man's reasoning and ability advances, his desire for lusts greatly decreases.
Have you not seen that children play, have fun, become sad and fight over worthless objects; but as they grow up and their senses mature, they refrain from such actions because they consider them to be degrading to their personalities, and contradicting to the rules of observing dignified conduct.
This is the case of righteous worshippers of Allah (SwT) who look down to the ephemeral things of this world, and their hearts cannot be attached to its vanities. They do not like this world for its worldly goods, rather they enjoy living to gain good deeds, and further worship Allah, the Exalted. They collect money to spend it in the way of Allah, feed the hungry, clothe and support the needy and deprived. These were also the fundamentals of modesty on which Lady Fatima az-Zahra (sa) depended. She deeply understood this worldly life, and realized the extent of the Hereafter. It is not amazing to learn that Fatima az-Zahra (sa) was satisfied with the minimum requirements of life; she chose for herself the noble trait of preferring others over herself, and aiding them, as we resent sumptuous and extravagant living. It is a small wonder, indeed, for Fatima az-Zahra (sa) was the daughter of the most modest whose religious and social life required him to live in modesty; and Fatima az-Zahra (sa) was the first person expected to follow the steps of her father, the modest Messenger (as).
Fatima’s (sa) marital life was also surrounded by modesty, and satisfaction. Her husband ‘Ali (as) was a devout follower of the Prophet (S) of Islam, and there was not a man known who was more modest than ‘Ali (as). Imam ‘Ali (as) was the man who used to speak to the silver, and gold in the treasury by saying:
"O you yellow and white, deceive someone else save me!!"
It has been reported that once a bedouin approached Imam ‘Ali (as) for help. The Imam then ordered his agent to give the bedouin a grant of one thousand dinars, the later exclaimed:
"Gold or silver dinars?"
Imam ‘Ali (as) replied: "They are both just stones to me, so give the beduin that which is more beneficial to him."
Here we relate several narrations, which speak of Fatima’s (sa) modesty and generosity:
1. The author of the book Bisharat A-Moustafa was quoted by Al-Bihar v.10 to have written:
Imam Sadiq (as) quoted Jabir Ibn Abdullah Al-Ansari as saying:
"One day when we had finished the Asr prayer with the Messenger of Allah an old Arab immigrant man, who was wearing worn-out clothes and was barely able to walk because of his old age and weakness came by. The Prophet asked the old man about his affair; the old man answered:
`Prophet of Allah I am starving, so feed me, I am naked, so clothe me, and poor, so help me. The Prophet then said: `Surely I find nothing to give you. Yet, he who guides to goodness is equal to him who performs it. So go to the house of she who loves Allah and His Messenger, and Allah and His Messenger love her. The one who prefers Allah over herself I mean Fatima.'
Fatima’s (sa) house was near the Prophet's (as) house. He asked Bilal to lead the man to her house. When the old man reached the house, he cried out:
`Peace be upon you, O household of prophethood, the (dwellers of the place where) angels frequently visit, where Gabriel-the holy spirit-descends to bring what the Lord of the Worlds reveals.'
Fatima az-Zahra (sa) said: `Peace be upon you; who are you?'
The old Beduin answered: `I am an old Arab man; I have immigrated to your father, The Master of mankind, from a distant place. Daughter of Muhammad, I am hungry and in need of clothing, so console me-may Allah bless you.'
When this occurred, the Prophet (S), ‘Ali (as), and Fatima az-Zahra (sa) had not eaten for three days. Yet, Fatima az-Zahra (sa) gave him a tanned ram skin, which was used as Al-Hasan (as), and Al-Husayn's (as) bed.
Then Fatima az-Zahra (sa) told the poor man: `Take this, may Allah substitute it for you by a better gift by selling it.'
The old man replied: Daughter of Muhammad, I complain to you of hunger and you give me a ram's skin? How can I eat with this?'
When Fatima heard what the old man had to say, she gave him the necklace, which was given to her by Fatima Bint Hamza Ibn Abd al-Muttalib.
The old man took the necklace and went to the Mosque to meet the Prophet who was sitting in the presence of his companions. He went to the Prophet and said: `Messenger of Allah, Fatima Bint Muhammad gave me this necklace and said: `Sell it, for Allah will grant you a solution to your problem.'
When the Prophet (S) heard what the man had to say, he cried and said: `Indeed, Allah will grant you a solution, for Fatima Bint Muhammad, the Mistress of all women gave you this necklace.'
Meanwhile, Ammar Ibn Yasir (may Allah bless his soul) said: `Messenger of Allah, do I have your permission to buy this necklace?'
The Prophet (S) answered: `Buy it Ammar, surely if all of mankind and Jinn participate in buying it Allah will not torture them in Hellfire.'
Ammar said: `How much do you want for it?'
The old Beduin said: A meal of bread and meat, a Yemeni shirt to cover my private parts and to perform my prayers in front of my Lord, and a dinar so I can return to my family.'
Ammar, who had just sold his share of booty from the battle of Khaibar, told the man: I will give you twenty (20) dinars, two hundred (200) dirhams, a Yemeni shirt, my horse to take you home, and your need of wheat bread and meat.'
The old then said: `What a generous man you are!!'
When Ammar had fulfilled his promise to the old man, the later came back to the Prophet (S) who said: Are you satisfied and clothed?'
The old man said: Yes, and I have become rich; may my father and mother be your sacrifice.'
The Prophet (S) then said: `So, reward Fatima for her kindness.'
The old man supplicated: `O Allah, surely You are our God whenever we ask You;
`We have no other God to worship besides you;
'You are the one who grants us beneficence in all conditions;'
`O Allah, grant Fatima that which no eye has ever seen, and ear has ever heard ....'
During that time, Ammar had perfumed the necklace with mush wrapped it in a Yemeni shirt, and gave it to one of his slaves by the name of Sahm, who he had bought with the money that he had received for selling his share of the Khaibarian booty. He told Sahm:
`Take this necklace and give it to the Messenger of Allah (S) and tell him that I give you to him also.'
When Sahm had delivered the message, the Prophet (S) said: `Take the necklace to Fatima and I give you to her also.' When the slave had told Fatima the message, she (sa) took the necklace and told the slave that he was free.
Upon hearing Fatima az-Zahra (sa), Sahm laughed, so Fatima az-Zahra (sa) asked him about the reason that made him laugh. He answered: `I smiled when I thought of the abundance of goodness put in this necklace; it fed a hungry man, clothed a naked man, satisfied a poor man, freed a slave and came back to its original owner."
2. Al-Majlisi, quoting Fural Ibn Ibrahim's interpretation of The Holy Qur’an in his book Al-Bihar, said:
'Abu Saeed al-Khudari said: One morning ‘Ali Ibn Abu Talib woke up very hungry and said:
'Fatima, do you have anything to feed us?'
She answered: `No, by Him who honored father with Prophethood, and honored you with successorship, we have nothing edible this morning, and we haven't had any food for two days save that which I have preferred to give you and our two children, Hasan and Husayn.'
‘Ali (as) said: 'Fatima! Why didn't you tell me, so I could bring some food for you?'
Fatima az-Zahra (sa) answered: 'Abu Al-Hasan, I surely become ashamed before my God to ask you to do something you cannot do.'
At this, ‘Ali Ibn Abu Talib (as) left Fatima az-Zahra (sa), with full trust that Allah would help him. He borrowed a dinar, and while he was holding the dinar and trying to buy some food for his family, he came upon Miqdad Ibn Al Aswad.
The sun had burnt Al-Miqdad's face and feet on that exceptionally hot day. When ‘Ali (as) saw him, he exclaimed surprisingly:
`Miqdad, what brings you out of your home at this hour?'
Miqdad answered: 'Abu Al-Hasan, ask me not about what I have left behind in the house.'
‘Ali (as) said: `My brother, I cannot leave you without knowing your problem.'
Miqdad then said: 'Abu Al-Hasan, for Allah's sake and your sake leave me alone, and do not ask about my condition!!'
Imam ‘Ali (as) said: `My brother, you should not hide your condition from me.'
Miqdad replied: 'Abu Al-Hasan, now that you insist, by Him who honored Muhammad with Prophethood and honored you with successorship, nothing forced me out of my house save poverty. I left my children starving; when I heard their cries, there remained no place for me on earth-I have come out of my house in depression; this is my story.'
Imam ‘Ali (as) cried when he heard the story; he cried until his beard was wet from tears and said:
`By Allah, that which forced you out of your house and also forced me out of my house; I borrowed a dinar, but I prefer you to have it.'
When Imam ‘Ali (as) had given the dinar to Miqdad, he went to the Mosque and performed his Dhuhr (noon), Asr (afternoon) and Maghrib (evening) prayers. When the Messenger of Allah (S) had completed his prayers, he signaled ‘Ali (as), who was in the first line, to follow him. ‘Ali (as) obediently followed him out of the Mosque, and after the Prophet greeted him said:
'Abu Al-Hasan, do you have some food for dinner so that I can accompany you?'
Imam ‘Ali (as) was too shy to answer the Messenger (as); but the Prophet of Allah (S) had detailed knowledge about the dinar, and what had happened to it; for Allah, the Exalted, had revealed to His Prophet (S) to have dinner at ‘Ali's (as) house that night. When ‘Ali (as) did not answer, the Prophet (S) said:
'Abu Al-Hasan, why don't you say no, so I may leave you; or yes, so I may accompany you?'
Imam ‘Ali (as) said: 'Accompany me!!'
The Prophet (S) then took ‘Ali's (as) hand and proceeded toward Fatima’s (sa) house. When they arrived, Fatima az-Zahra (sa) was just finishing her prayers and there was a pan oil fire behind her. When she heard the Prophet (S) coming, who was the dearest person to her, she greeted him and he wiped his hand on her head and said:
`How is your evening, my daughter?'
She (Fatima az-Zahra (sa)) answered: `Fine!'
He (Prophet Muhammad (S)) then said: `Give us some dinner, may Allah bless you, and surely He has.'
Fatima az-Zahra (sa) placed the pan in front of the Prophet (S), and ‘Ali Ibn Abu Talib...
At that moment, the Messenger of Allah (S) put his hand on ‘Ali's (as) shoulder, and said:
'‘Ali, this is a substitute for your dinar. This is a reward from Allah for the dinar; surely Allah grants whoever He wills without limit.'
The Prophet (S) cried and said:
"Praise be to Allah, Who insisted on rewarding you in this world, too, and made you ‘Ali-like Zakariya and Fatima like Maryam Bint Imran, for whenever Zakariya entered the Mehrab, he found Maryam with her subsistence."
3. It is quoted in v.10 of Bihar that Imam Husayn (as) quoted Imam Hasan (as) as saying:
"Once, on a Far-Ridha’y night, I watched my mother, Fatima, pray all night long. She kept making Ruku' and prostrating until dawn. I heard her supplicate for the believers by name; but she did not supplicate for herself, so I asked:
`Mother, why don't you supplicate for yourself as you supplicate for others?'
She answered: `Son! Prefer your neighbour over yourself. "'
4. Al-Hasan al-Basri said:
"There was not a woman in this Ummah more submitting (to Allah) than Fatima. She used to pray until her feet became swollen."
5. Al-Bihar:
'The Messenger of Allah (S) said:
"As for my daughter Fatima, she is the mistress of all women; from the beginning of history until the end. She is part of me; she is the light of my eye and the fruit of my heart.'
'Fatima is my spirit, which I hold in me; she is a human huri. Whenever she keeps up prayer in her Mehrab before her Lord, her light illuminates to the angels in Heaven just as a star shines to mankind on Earth. So Allah, Exalted is His name, says to the angels:
'My angels, look at my servant, Fatima, who is the mistress of all my female servants, keeping up prayers before Me. Her limbs shake from fear of Me and she worships Me whole heartedly. Bear witness that I have safeguarded her Shiites (followers) from Hellfire..."'
6. Idat Ad-Da'i:
"Fatima (sa) used to breathe quickly while praying, for fear of Allah. Speaking about Fatima's worship is endless; especially her supplication to Allah, the Exalted, for she realized the deep meaning of worship and supplication to Allah, and came to enjoy keeping up prayer before the Almighty. Yet, this is no strange matter, because it is in regard to her father that the Qur’an says. We have not sent down the Qur’an to thee to be (an occasion) for thy distress.' Because the Prophet would pray for long hours, Allah, the Exalted, revealed this verse to him as relief, and comfort."
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Why Do Supreme Court Justices Shift Leftward?
Authors Jon D. Hanson and Adam Benforado argue that structural, intellectual, and social factors all play a part in the leftward drift evident in so many justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Their argument appears in “The Drifters: Why the Supreme Court Makes Justices More Liberal,” published in the January/February 2006 issue of the Boston Review.
The article is both important and interesting for several reasons, including the fact that Hanson, a Harvard law professor, and Benforado, a fellow at Cambridge University, acknowledge that the pattern of liberal drift is real. They address themselves to the concerns of conservatives and explain:
They were right to be concerned. While there have been a number of relatively reliable conservative justices over the years–Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Rehnquist being prime examples–and some important right-shifting exceptions–notably Felix Frankfurter, appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Byron White, appointed by John F. Kennedy–the tendency in recent decades to drift leftward has been strong enough to gain both popular and scholarly attention. Indeed, Larry J. Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, has suggested that about one quarter of confirmed nominees over the last half century have wound up “evolving from conservative to moderate or liberal.”
Why does this happen? They offer this analysis:
At least three types of situational influences can have a large effect on a judge’s behavior and, hence, the extent of their juridical drift: the first is the unusual array of forces that sets judging apart from other lawyerly occupations such as legislating or advocacy; the second is the particular background and experiences of individual judges; the third is all the forces external to the court–including think tanks, the media, the academy, and public attitudes–that appear to strongly influence the judicial decision-making process.
The situation of judging tends to promote drift because the job itself is very different from previous occupations a judge might have had. Several elements help make the judiciary unique within the legal world: the schemas that judges face qua judges, the sources of information (theories and facts) with which they are confronted, and the structures that promote or limit judicial independence.
But here is their real agenda — concern that conservative justices represent the majoritarian culture and beliefs of American citizens. Look very closely at these paragraphs from their conclusion:
It may be that much of the perceived leftward drift of Supreme Court justices over the last several decades is exaggerated. Indeed, given the shift rightward of the American ideological “center” in that time period, a justice tethered firmly to her fixed ideological anchor could well create the illusion of juridical drift. Whatever its source, the question remains whether a perceived gap between the public and the courts is one that should be filled by making the judiciary still more responsive to majority attitudes. That would be a dangerous mistake.
In the end, the federal judiciary, and particularly the Supreme Court, is one of only a few powerful institutions, along with the academy and the press, that stands much of a chance of hearing the silenced, appreciating their situations, and making their stories known. Indeed, the very institutions that conservatives point to as the great biased hotbeds of the liberal intelligentsia are arguably the institutions with the greatest commitment to–and best situations for–pursuing knowledge wherever it takes them.
It may be that academics tend toward the left and that their conclusions conflict with the intuitions of most Americans. It may be that some judges and justices write opinions that do not always square with the weight of American opinion. And it may be that certain newspapers or journalists are not aligned with commonsense conceptions and in that respect are “biased.” But that is hardly an indictment.
This is unvarnished self-congratulation on the part of these two academics. The elites know best, and it would be a “dangerous mistake” to make the judiciary “still more responsive to majority attitudes.”
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This translation helps understanding, but didn't really like it. It's just not my kind of story.
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The human mind is unfathomable in its prowess of imagination and invention. Add a dark night plus fear of indistinct, shadowy beings, and terrible monsters seem to spring up before us. Although we know that they do not exist, we are still frightened by the monsters that rise from the gloom. Always, they come from the dark and always they are evil. Our minds concoct visions of massive hairy bodies and immense teeth, or of scaly wriggling worms breathing fire. But our imagination does not allow these monsters to simply go on with their dreadful lives unharmed so we invent mighty heroes who emerge from light and glory, and go down into the pit to destroy these demons of the mind. These imaginary beings, both of the heroes and the monsters, seem to be icons of the struggle between Good and Evil. Some of the legends written merely represent these as equal forces battling it out, while others put a righteous being above them who will ultimately end the fight in favor of good. The ancient epic of Beowulf is a vivid example of the latter, graphically portraying one man?s fight against malevolence, a heroic fight guided by the hand of God. Grendel, a demonic brute, ?God-cursed?, a hater of man, lived upon the fen in Denmark among the rest of his outcast brethren. Partially sentient, he raged bitterly when he heard the Danes celebrating the construction of Heorot Hall, the house powerful King Hrothgar. Not only was Grendel angry at the happiness of the Danes, but he was also furious when he heard the bards praising God. Grendel?s mother, hardly any less terrifying, was an amphibious creature, who lived in the depths of a dark gloomy pool where nothing lived, and nothing dared to go. When her hideous son came back mortally wounded, she killed Hrothgar?s chief friend. These two destroying creatures are representations of the servants of evil who oppose the righteousness of God. And because God could not stand their malevolence, he raised up a hero from among the Geets who was destined by God to meet both monsters. His name was Beowulf, and surrounded by his bravest warriors, arrived in Denmark with the express purpose of killing Grendel. Eagerly received by the Danish king, Beowulf lay awake that night in Heorot waiting for the beast. He did not deign to the level of Grendel by strongly arming himself to be sure of victory, but instead waited unarmed to kill with his bare hands. Grendel came that night, stealthily killing one of the Geets before he happened upon their leader. He raised his slimy claw to murder who he thought was a sleeping man when ?the alert hero?s comeback and arm-lock forestalled him utterly.? Immediately, he knew he had come to grips with a man too powerful to conquer and tried to flee to his den but Beowulf was determined to kill the monster. His thanes came to his defense, but they soon discovered that ?no blade on earth, no blacksmith?s art could ever damage their demon opponent.? But the strength of Beowulf was enough to destroy Grendel, and when he realized his demise was near he released ?a God-cursed scream and strain of catastrophe, the whole of the loser, the lament of the hell-serf keening his wound.? Finally, the fiend escaped, but not before Beowulf mortally wounded him, ripping off his arm. It was not long before Grendel?s mother came for revenge, raging when her mutilated son arrived at her lair, only to die and be delivered into hell. She fell upon Heorot while Beowulf rested in another place and killed Hrothgar?s friend. Summoned with all speed, Beowulf, fully armed this time, set out to destroy this new nemesis. He dove into the lake and attacked her in her underwater house, only to discover that his sword was ineffective against her evil powers. She grabbed him but his armor prevented her from rending him. Casting aside his sword, he threw her to the ground, but she seized him again. She tried to kill him with a knife but once again, his armor saved him. Glancing about, he saw a massive sword upon the wall, and catching it up, he struck a mighty blow which succeeded in bringing down his foe. These battles are more than tales of epic heroism and might, they are evidence of the battle between evil and the righteousness of God. Interestingly enough, in both battles, the monsters are not affected by the weapons of man. God directs His servant, Beowulf, to use the weapons He has provided. In the initial struggle, the weapon of God was the mighty strength He gave to Beowulf; in the second battle, it was an ancient blade. The author of Beowulf strongly believed that his hero had been guided to victory by the Lord: ??holy God decided the victory. It was easy for the Lord, the Ruler of Heaven?? After his fight with Grendel?s mother, Beowulf declared that ??if God had not helped me, the outcome would have been quick and fatal?I could never bring [my sword] to bear in battle. But the Lord of Men allowed me to behold?an ancient sword shining on the wall, a weapon made for giants, there for the wielding.? Beowulf?s struggle with evil is symbolic of the struggle we as Christians face daily. Paul wrote in Ephesians that ??we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.? When evil men rise in our path to destroy our faith, we are not struggling with people, the mere tools of evil, but with evil itself. Our own weapons are ineffective, so we can never hope to demolish evil without the help of God. He is the one who ultimately defeats our evil opponents. He is the one who helps us when we wrestle with monsters.
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Re: Bravo to the command team!
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From: Jan A. King <[email protected]>
To: Ken Ernandes <[email protected]>; Richard D. Burgan <[email protected]>;
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Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Bravo to the command team!
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Estimating drag long term can be difficult because even the most
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Zettai Karen Children is action comedy series written and illustrated by Takashi Shiina. The original manga series began its serialization in 2005 as part of Shugakukan's weekly manga magazine Shonen Sunday. The pilot chapter was featured on 2003 issue, later in 2004 short term test serialization was published four chapters on 2004 issues. When it gained enough popularity it finally serialized officially on following years.
The world is filled with people with psychic abilities, known as espers. However not all espers use their powers for good. To counter such people, Japanese government establishes organization known as B.A.B.E.L, short for Base of Backing ESP Laboratory. Not only B.A.B.E.L prevents disaster, mostly with espers involved, they are also in charge of helping them out, to make sure they don't misuse their powers. B.A.B.E.L's secret weapon is a trio of most powerful 10-year-old esper girls known as "The Children". However they are still little kids, so to make sure they don't cause any more trouble than they should, Kouichi Minamoto has been assigned to them and make sure they grow up properly, and not destroying the world as predicted by many precognition.
Kouchi Minamoto
Protagonist of the series. Even though he has no powers, he covers what he lacks with his intelligence. As the leader of The Children he orders them with direction during critical missions, but he is also in charge of taking care of them daily. At first The Children didn't accept Minamoto, they gradually accepted him and respected him as he is the only one who treated them equally.
Kaoru Akashi
Member of The Children, with strongest psychokinetic power. Due to her reckless nature, she ends up using more power than she should causing more troubles than fixing them. Obviously she gets scolded by Minamoto often, but she throws her tantrum by shoving Minamoto to ground or wall by her psychokinetic. Unlike average girls, she is perverted like an old man, going far as revealing panties and groping breast.
Aoi Nogami
Member of The Children, who has the power of teleportation. She is the rational of the team, and has most normal personality compared to other two team members. The running joke with her is that her chest is really flat and she is least popular among three.
Shiho Sannomiya
Member of The Children who has strongest psychometry. Using her power she can read thoughts of both living beings or non-living beings such as rocks and tools. Shino's father is one of top official at police department, and she has been helping her father by reading the murder tools and capture the real culprit. Due to her childhood Shino has witnessed various things she shouldn't had at her age, so it caused her to mature little bit more than other girls. Occasionally she let her yandere side come out, intimidating everybody else.
Kyousuke Hyoubu
Main antagonist of series. He is leader of organization known as P.A.N.D.R.A., who seeks to destroy normal human beings and make the world full of espers. Despite his appearance he is at least 80 years old, he maintains his youth by using his power. Unlike average espers, Hyoubu can use various types of psychic powers, such as psychokinetic, teleportation and more. Hyoubu is also one of few who saw the future, and he attempts to fulfill it by convincing the children to join his cause.
Zettai Karen Children (2005 - Ongoing)
Written and illustrated by Takashi Shiina. The manga made its first debut in Shogakukan's Shounen Sunday in 2003. After couple test chapter to see if it get popular, it was officially serialized in 2005. There were minor difference between unofficial and official chapters, such as Minamoto who had power to counter anti-esper in unofficial chapter but not in official chapters.
Zettai Karen Children (April 2008 - March 2009)
Anime adaptation produced by Synergy SP, containing 51 episodes which was aired from April 6, 2008 to March 29, 2009. Anime ended with time skip, when The Children grew up from elementary school kids to junior high. The anime series has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks under the tile Psychic Squad.
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Name: Zettai Karen Children
Name: 絶対可憐チルドレン
Aliases: Psychic Squad
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One was slow. The other was slow and ugly, but you could sleep in it. Both were good ideas pitifully executed by Pontiac. The Fiero wasn’t so bad looking, but only near the end of its life did it become reasonably potent with goodies like a V6.
The Aztek was no track star either, but it was a useful crossover. You could even outfit it with an attachable tent. It kept out bugs, but not insults. The Aztek is just car-crash ugly: it churns your stomach, but you can’t help staring with morbid curiosity.
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To be frank, I don't really understand, are these guidelines for stories to be written? If they are meant to be stories themselves, they very much lack emotion. A dry description of events is anything but exciting. A detailed description of what participants feel, love to do, hate to have done, exhibitionism, provocation, fear, feeling humiliated, pain, all kinds of elements that make a story come alive. I'm rather confused by this line-up and to be honest, gave up half way reading them because they all seemed to be written without any "soul" in them. No FUN whatsoever...
I've come to realize that cuntweasels, like the one above, are a waste of my time.
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Decline of Christian Extremist Influence Should Not Be Overstated
evangelismEvery few years, a story appears in the U.S. media suggesting that evangelical fundamentalist Christianity is losing political influence and is on its way out. These predictions never seem to materialize, but that doesn't stop people from making them. With Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum's poll numbers remaining relatively low even after winning the endorsement of many prominent Christian extremists, we saw another round of these stories. When Santorum drops out of the Republican presidential primary, I suspect we will see yet another. With history as our guide, I suggest that we approach such stories with considerable skepticism.
During my lifetime, the political influence of evangelical Christian fundamentalists has waxed and waned. It has never been a constant, and I'm not sure why this would surprise anyone. Again and again, we witness a rise to power, a series of overreaches that make most of the sane public quite nervous, and a loss of influence. But it would seem naive to assume that there will not be another rise in the future.
Even though I would like to believe that we are finally seeing the beginning of the end of this toxic movement, I cannot. It isn't going anywhere.
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February 17, 2005
Automated Testing != Record-Playback Tool
When people hear the word automated testing they conjure up a tool like Mercury's Winrunner, QuickTest Pro or Segue's SilkTest. While these tools seem worthwhile I would argue that for a serious automation effort these tools have a lot of drawbacks.
Maintenance Costs
Record-playback tool vendors like to focus on how easy it is to record a test scenario with their tool. Test writers simply interact with the application normally while the test tool records all their actions. But no matter how easy it is to initially record a test scenario with a record-playback tool, the bulk of time and money will be spent on the ongoing maintenance of each test as the application changes. Screens will get added, buttons will get removed, column names will get modified. A company using a record-playback tool is left with two options - either keep re-recording all the tests as the application changes or stop recording scripts and maintain the generated test scripts like a real program.
Simply re-recording all test scenarios won't hold up in the long term because there will be duplication of recorded test code when testing similar scenarios. When the application under test inevitably changes (e.g. a new button was added which needs to be pressed for each test scenario), test writers will have to re-record all the test scenarios that are affected by that change. Even if the repetitive actions have been factored out into reusable modules, these modules don't use object oriented language features to make them more effective. Record-playback scripts are more expensive to maintain because the code they generate is long, complicated, not object oriented and must be further manipulated to put into reusable components.
It would be more desirable (and economical) to write test code using a real object-oriented language (e.g. Java, C#). Automated web testing design patterns can be fully used to create low maintenance web tests that will withstand continuous changes in the application under test. I have presented and written a paper about automated testing design patterns for the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference. These patterns leverage the object-oriented language features to create tests that are low maintenance and adaptable to application changes.
Test Language
Record-playback test tool vendors are not in the business of creating programming languages. Yet most vendors create a language that is specific to their test tool. This forces test developers to learn a specialized language just to test their software. These tools ignore industry-standard programming languages that are meant to be used in a wide array of applications - including testing. There is nothing inherently so strange about test development that necessitates having a unique language just for that task.
By creating their own languages, which are inevitably not as complete as industry standard languages, test developers are left with incomplete libraries for common tasks (e.g. file I/O, string manipulation, collections libraries), which means test developers have to write and test common functions that are already available in standard programming languages. What's more, the languages these vendors come up with are not object-oriented and are designed to keep companies locked-in to their test tools, since no one else uses that language.
This increases the time needed to train test developers on how to use a record-playback tool. Usually, record-playback tool vendors offer training courses to use their programming language with their tool, costing thousands of dollars. Not only are the costs prohibitive, but test developers are less likely to learn a technology if they know it is specific to one vendor's tool.
Design Patterns
Despite what record-playback tool vendors might advertise, test development is a software development activity. As such, the same principles that apply to application development apply to test development. Namely, well designed code that is easy to change, with no duplication. Just as there are well established design patterns to write effective application software, there are analogous test design patterns that enable writing low maintenance test code. Our test tool is well suited to these test design patterns because tests are written in a real object-oriented language instead of a procedural, vendor-specific language.
By using the automated testing design patterns with an object-oriented language, test developers can write tests that insulate them from application changes as well as the test tool. These patterns help decouple vendor-specific test code from application-specific test code, making tests more maintainable and adaptable to change.
Integration with Build and Reporting Processes
Record and playback tools are designed to keep the customer fully dependent on them for all aspects of testing - test creation, execution, reporting. Most use vendor-specific language that are not object-oriented, not recognized by test developers and are not amenable to automated testing design patterns. Even the tools that claim they can generate test code in an object-oriented language generate complicated procedural code that happens to be written in an object-oriented language. This leads to higher test maintenance costs because test developers can't use proven design patterns to lower maintenance costs of tests.
Record and playback tools often sell a total solution, incorporating many products into one test suite. The functional testing component usually uses its own testing framework for test execution, test creation, test reporting, and other test related features. Not only does this lead to serious vendor lock-in when it come to testing your application, but this doesn't address the need of test developers who like to use industry-standard approaches to testing. Most test developers are already familiar with unit testing frameworks such as JUnit. However, they will be forced to use the vendor's testing framework because the vendor's test tool only works with their own framework. If a company ever wanted to switch test tools, it would have to start the process all over again because a record and playback tool is vendor specific in every way - the test code it generates, the way it runs tests, the way it reports test results. This doesn't make it easy to incorporate these tools with industry standard build tools such as Ant.
Posted by Misha Rybalov at February 17, 2005 11:35 AM
Hi All,
It is possible to use with out GUI ( Win runner )
for testing the application ?
Please explain
Thanks & BEst Regards.
Zahir Hussain
Posted by: zahir hussain at July 25, 2006 06:13 AM
Hi, Zahir. Yes, it is possible to use a test tool without a GUI. The one we've developed (www.abcwebtest.com) makes it possible to program the tests in .NET or Java. You program the tests to do what you want them to do, compile the test files and run them like a regular program.
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Life With Harry Week 37: The home stretch
When Kristin and her husband, Ed, celebrated their son Harry's second birthday, neither could believe how fast time was flying. Now that Harry's third birthday — and the arrival of his new sibling — is approaching, this Brooklyn, N.Y., couple tries to keep up with 35-month-old Harry's nonstop energy and to remember to savor every moment. In her weekly journal, Kristin chronicles Harry's adventures and her challenges. Check in with us every Monday to read the latest entry. (Editor's note: Kristin started keeping her journal in June 2001.)
Week 37: The home stretch
With my due date just a week away, more and more people have been asking me if Harry "gets it" — meaning, Does he understand that we're going to have a new baby soon? I answer that he fathoms this in the same way that my steely intellect fathoms the stock market: Up is good, down is bad. What makes the numbers jump or dip, however, is blissfully beyond me.
Harry, too, understands that Mommy's belly has grown ("It's bigger, and bigger, and bigger ... just like a dinosaur!"), and that there will be a baby living in our house soon ("He can't play. He's too little"). We even have a baby quiz that Harry knows by heart:
Question: "What's in Mommy's belly?"
Answer: "A baby brother."
Question: "Where will the baby come out?"
Answer: "At the hospital."
Question "What's the baby's name?"
Answer: "Goofy."
Last week, though, Harry wasn't interested in this drill. Whenever I'd ask him to touch my belly to feel a kick or to talk to his brother, Harry simply ignored me. Even when he was looking right at me, he'd just continue to stare as if to say, "I see your lips movin', but I don't hear a word you're saying." Not wanting to press the issue and make him associate the baby with something annoying, I'd give up and move on to a more engaging subject, like what color Popsicle Harry wanted.
Truth is, maybe the idea of a baby, without an actual physical being there to engage him, is still too abstract for Harry. He loves imaginary play now, but it always involves something that he can manipulate with his hands, like his plastic horses or cows that have "flying adventures" (translation: they're flung across the room) or that plunge from a waterfall (they're dropped off the couch). Given the physical abuse that his toys endure, I suppose I should hope that Harry continues to ignore his baby brother once he's home ...
Happy and sad together
For the first time in ages, our family is mercifully germ-free. Harry isn't sniffling or coughing, and what a difference it makes. Granted, he's usually a pretty happy guy, but for the last few days he's been a pure beam of light bouncing around our house.
Harry's also started doing something that makes me happy and sad at the same time: He spontaneously jumps into my lap, squeezes my neck in a half nelson, and says, "I love you, Mommy." Or he'll scrunch up his face to ask, "You love me, right Mommy?" This makes my heart swell, but it also brings on a nagging sadness because I know that Harry's shower of affection could evaporate as quickly as it appeared, to be replaced by a tempest of anger and frustration when I'm no longer able to focus all of my attention on him. (When exactly does "I hate you, Mommy!" enter a child's lexicon, by the way? I think I'll need plenty of time to brace myself for that.)
Luckily, the only real problem we're having right now is getting Harry into his pajamas at night, and out of them in the morning. In particular, his Woody the cowboy pj's provoke all sorts of yippee-kay-ay-aying before preschool. I've tried reasoning, wrestling, and bribing Harry into his clothes, but none of these seem to do the trick. Before, I'd just catch Harry while he was engrossed in Sesame Street and peel off his pajamas and replace them with clothes before he knew what had hit him. But the Woody pj's seem to have an alarm embedded in the fabric, because as soon as I reach for Harry's pajama pants, he jumps away and yells, "No, thank you!"
This week, though, Harry finally let me in on a tactic that would get him to cooperate: A really big hug. I discovered this one morning when he was begging for candy. "It's too early, Harry. Would you like cereal or peaches?" I offered. "No. It's easy, Mommy: candy," he countered. The negotiation quickly deteriorated, and we both ended up frustrated, though only Harry actually curled up on the floor and cried (I was merely tempted to).
Instead of ignoring Harry's behavior — which does work in some situations — or telling him to "stop it," I picked him up. To my surprise, Harry's body went limp. I instinctively gave him a big hug, rubbing my hand on his back and cooing, "It's okay. I know it's hard when you can't have something." After a minute or two, Harry lifted his head from my shoulder and said, "I want cereal, okay, Mommy?"
Of course, this bonding tactic doesn't always soothe the savage beast, but from now on I'll risk the occasional flailing kick or squirming body for the sweet reward of grateful hug.
Next week: Harry turns 3, and middle-of-the-night contractions have Kristin wondering, "Is this it?"
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Should I have a fourth child?
I have three children ages 11, 5 and 17 months. I can't help that think there is still a family member missing. My problem is a fourth child means a bigger vehicle, most likely another bedroom and my husband is a contractor and his income is very up and down. We can't really afford another child, but my feelings of wanting another child are so strong. Do I ignore those feelings or just go for it and see where life takes us. Is it unfair to my other children because money has to shared for the extra things.
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I think only you can answer that quesion. But I say go for it, money comes and goes family is forever.
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