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Take the 2-minute tour × How would you go about reverse engineering malware W32/Malware!Gemini. Recently I found it installed on my computer and would like to trace where the data is being sent. share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 3 down vote accepted Well there's a slight difference between the two. The best way to try and determine where the data is being sent is to monitor and trace all of your outbound traffic. If you'd like to reverse engineer it to possibly learn more about it and if you are missing anything as far as what it is doing or what it is sending there'd be a slightly different path. Monitoring a clean and controlled system, using packet sniffers in conjunction with IDS(s), trying to disassemble any binaries you find that it adds, debugging/looking at the strings/hexediting as best you can should garner you plenty more information about it than you currently know. share|improve this answer So wireshark to sniff. Where would I start? Any specific filters that would be more likely to sniff this exact traffic? Do you have a IDS that you recommend? Thank you for the reply. –  m4ck Jan 29 '12 at 6:12 @m4ck - You want an honest answer? If you do not already know where to start, then you do not have the tools nor the ability to track where the data is being sent to, besides what are you going to do if you do find the desination of the data? I guarantee you its in a country that could careless about your rights. –  Ramhound Jan 30 '12 at 15:11 Everyone has to start somewhere. I would forward the information I found to proper authorities or someone that might possible care or take proper action. Or use the information for record keeping purposes. –  m4ck Jan 30 '12 at 16:52 Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × We use numerous make and model of laptops in our research. To this point we've always used "ghost" to image them (w/ XP). Im wondering about the feasibility of using MDT instead. Would I need a separate image for each make / model or is there some way to generalize an installation so it will work on different types of hardware? share|improve this question 3 Answers 3 up vote 1 down vote accepted Yes, where you are is exactly where we were about two years ago. Jump head first into MDT and luxuriate in the freedom of the single image :-) You will need three tasks ideally (IMO - many people combine tasks 1 & 2) 1 build vanilla XP SP3 (then install all the software you want on this machine) 2 capture the 'reference' machine. 3 deploy the captured image to all other devices. share|improve this answer So I need an image with drivers specific to that model? –  ethrbunny Mar 17 '12 at 13:32 No, you gather all the drivers in your domain and add them to the "out-of-box drivers" section. Then as MDT deploys the image it'll grab whatever drivers it needs from that list (in theory :-) ) –  Kieran Walsh Mar 17 '12 at 14:57 Yes, the current thinking when using MDT is not to image them but to "deploy" them. A "deployment" consists of the base OS (thick or thin) + model specific drivers, plus any apps for the particular role you are deploying. Driver management can be as specific as you want. See this article for a video walkthru of how to deploy a system with MDT share|improve this answer To expand a little on Kieran's answer you can get driver packs that will help you out too. Dell put out drive packs on their community wiki. Also you can user Driverpacks.net too. share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Cenzic 232 Patent Paid Advertising sla.ckers.org is ha.ckers sla.cking Go to Topic: PreviousNext Go to: Forum ListMessage ListNew TopicSearchLog In Yahoo! redirects unleashed Posted by: 2fingers Date: January 24, 2009 08:13PM Copy/Paste from http://hackersblog.org article: Yahoo redirects are and have been continuously used for spam, phishing and black SEO. Even though Yahoo is struggling to solve this problem, they are easy to find. When I say ease i mean seconds not minutes or hours. The whole trick is to know how a patched link looks like. Its not hard at all. All you need is: Link Gopher add-on A search engine. How does a link that can be used as for a redirect looks like? How does a link that can NOT be used as for a redirect to a site outside *.yahoo.com look like? How can we tell which link can be used? Notice this part of the link (from the first example): After /* there follows the unaltered link to a diffrent domain. The second link is a bit diffrent. Don't mind the number of "stars". This is what tells us that this redirect is useless: http%3A//. All links from redirect that start with http%3A// cannot be used for sites outside yahoo.com. I can bet that there wont be more then a week from now (the moment of posting the article) and this bug will be fixed cause we noticed a sudden love from Yahoo who is kind enough to pay us visits almost every day :) // End of article // Video demonstration: http://www.trilulilu.ro/hackersblog/b07ad9934d9738 Options: ReplyQuote Re: Yahoo! redirects unleashed Posted by: xc0r3 Date: January 30, 2009 10:21AM cool ! [ Xc0re Security Research Group ] Options: ReplyQuote Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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Forgot your password? Comment: Re:Keep It Ready (Score 1) 206 Comment: Re:Translation (Rough) (Score 1) 230 by Karl Cocknozzle (#47444969) Attached to: Geographic Segregation By Education Apparently you never went to college. Most four-year college kids aren't in technical program. They're in liberal arts programs. Typically they have lots of trouble getting up early enough to get to a 10 AM class, and bitch and moan that an 8-hour day is required to earn an A. I don't know where you went to college, but if this was the norm you picked a party school. Real university is real work. Comment: Translation (Rough) (Score 2, Insightful) 230 by Karl Cocknozzle (#47442077) Attached to: Geographic Segregation By Education "We want to be as wealthy and well-positioned as people who worked their asses off in their 20's even though we couldn't be bothered to educate ourselves after high school and spent our 20's living with our parents, partying, and having a sweet car that we could only afford because we lived with our parents." Here's a thought: Teach your kids the concept of long-term goals... It worked wonders for me. Comment: Re:And if it doesn't work? (Score 1) 265 by Karl Cocknozzle (#47433249) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Unattended Maintenance Windows? Comment: Re:I hope they get whatever they can for them (Score 4, Insightful) 232 by Karl Cocknozzle (#47231985) Attached to: US To Auction 29,656 Bitcoins Seized From Silk Road Let me blow your mind right now: all currency is fake. That's what makes it currency instead of bartered goods. This. Times a million Every currency (Yes, Virginia, even gold-standard currencies) are completely fake and arbitrary. The difference between fake and arbitrary fiat currency and fake and arbitrary gold-standard currency is exactly one layer of abstraction, because the "value" of gold is in itself pretty arbitrary. It is somewhat rare, but it's "value" is completely generated by the human mind. Which is actually for the best--can you imagine how high the price of gold would be if it was actually useful for something besides making jewelry and helping Fox News scam old people out of their savings with terrible gold investment opportunities? Humans assigned "value" to gold because it was rare-enough to avoid hyper-inflation, but common enough that you didn't have to worry about deflation. And that worked just fine for a few tens of thousands of years... until there were too many humans for the world supply of gold to adequately represent new wealth and value as they're created. If a more numerous race of aliens had evolved on this planet they might have assigned value to blades of grass, pebbles, or certain kinds of trees in a similar matter based on their own needs. Which is why the entire "gold standard" argument (that "our money is fake and worthless") is so stupid: Yes, it is fake and worthless. So is all other money, everywhere--the value comes from the perception. So it doesn't matter if its "backed by gold" or "backed by Jell-O Pudding pops" the fact is, the value is based totally on the perception of value of something. With fiat currency, it's the perception of the value of what you can buy, with "gold-standard" currency it's the perception of the value of the gold. But neither has any "real" value without that perception. Comment: Re:Culpability at the Top (Score 4, Informative) 307 Why did GM write into their bail-out a few years ago the clause that they cannot be held responsible for malfeasance which occurred prior to that bail out? Makes me sick thinking about it. GM's "bailout" was actually a managed bankruptcy with the terms pre-arranged, and bankruptcy in most US states incldues the discharge of liability, not just debts. It is done that way so creditors can't short-circuit the bankruptcy system and just "Wait to sue" until after you're out of bankruptcy protection. This liability discharge is one of the main features of bankruptcy. It is why the company that polluted the Elk River in West Virginia (leaving the 2/3 of the state without safe drinking water--some of them to this day) declared bankruptcy in short order after the incident--they knew they had no possible defense against the legal onslaught that was coming, and their executives (who were owed sizable bonuses--coal executives really rake it in) wanted to make sure they filed for bankruptcy BEFORE anybody filed suit, because if a suit was pending when they filed bankruptcy that party could go to court to stop bonuses and incentive pay owed to executives from being payed out. Because if the company was facing a bankruptcy judge and had an already-filed suit for billions in damages he would never (EVER) approve bonus payments to executives and would probably listen pretty favorably to a creditor who insisted the executives not be able to loot the place ahead of their judgement. Comment: Re:Just one detail they've overlooked (Score 1) 355 Well, the vandalism aspect can be "solved" by the simple means of on board video cameras. And since entry to the taxicab would most like require some form of ID prior to the doors unlocking, you could be pretty darn sure as to the identity of the passenger. And the "official" rational for the camera? Why, it's to gauge the customer's reactions to the advertisements. After all, that lets the system present advertisements that the customer finds more receptive. George Orwell didn't go far enough. Google is correcting that mistake. ...Because on-board video cameras can't be vandalized, of course! And it may be the case that you have to identify yourself before the door opens on the car, true, but that doesn't stop a vandal from hopping in one of the other doors and damaging the car after you've identified yourself... Or they could just steal your mobile phone and summon a robot car with the robot car app... Trust me: If it exists, there's a way to break it without getting caught. My first instinct is to use the technique used on british speed cameras: Kitchen plastic wrap strapped tight across the camera lens. If done correctly, the camera doesn't look "broken" to a casual observer, but this effectively renders images from the camera a useless, blurry, translucent mess. Comment: Re:News at 11 (Score 1) 97 Random groupings of people say bad things about major international deal without any supporting evidence. Seriously, the best they can do is "The language used is vague"? How about doing their own analysis instead of just pointing out that the documents aren't perfect? I think the point is that the language is intentionally vague to conceal the meaning from an uncritical public. If critics of the agreements say they contain language that "could allow" certain bad things to happen, proponents can smear-them as "conspiracy theorists" to discount their point of view, and a pliant, lapdog corporate media will lap it up, eagerly. Comment: We treat ours grand! (Score 3, Insightful) 255 ...We promoted him to Director and now he sits in his office being distracted by shiny things, allowing the rest of us to accomplish the actual business of operating our department. Try it sometime! The only way it can backfire is if the person has actual-authority over something important--then the company might go out of business. But other than that I'm drawing a blank on negatives. Comment: Re:Just one detail they've overlooked (Score 1) 355 That's because we old farts have learned to tune out the ads and use the time to think about something else. I'm about halfway between the two extremes: I find ads jarring and disruptive to the narrative of programs. It is especially unpleasant to watch a movie on TV. A movie "enjoyed" in this fashion is essentially a butchery of the original picture, with TV commercials awkwardly inserted every 20 minutes or so. TV shows are slightly-less-bad in that the writers of the show at least know where the commercials will go, but that's annoying and makes shows predictable since you we've all, by this point, become adept at recognizing the rhythm of TV shows... how many times have you looked at your watch or phone and "known" it was going to end with a " To Be Continued..."? It's because you know how shows work--their narratives all flow int he same basic patterns because of TV commercial breaks. Comment: Re:ads in car (Score 2) 355 Are you sure they have overlooked this? I think the words "google" and "car" and "driver" have been used in a lot of sentences over the last few years, especially with the word "driver" modified. They have a vision, all right: About annoying human beings with advertisements at every waking moment. The part I suggested they were overlooking was the part where it is, at present, illegal to do what they're talking about doing. Yes, of course, they're google and they have scads of money to buy whatever laws they want, but I mean today. Comment: Re:Just one detail they've overlooked (Score 2) 355 And it is still working. As for the car, what about the car navigation voice telling you that you are nearing a burger drive-thru because it knows its time for you to be hungry again (it also know that you likely are hungover from activities day before and your Google searches...) and that you love your burgers.. For now, because there are so many of us old-fogeys from a time before advertisement skipping was possible/easily accessible to the masses. Once we die off the advertisers are in for a world of shock: Young people do not tolerate advertisements. Without exception, NONE of the people I know under the age of 25 listen to the radio (and thus radio commercials) in their car, despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of older people still do. Among that group, also, most won't watch TV without having the show recorded on DVR either entirely, or at least enough of it recorded to time-shift the start long-enough so they can zap the commercials. They've been raised to be advertising-averse by the sheer volume of crap that's been shoved in their faces their entire lives. It's funny, but kids are actually smarter than us in a lot of ways. Comment: Re:Just one detail they've overlooked (Score 1) 355 As far as the automotive portion of this, they've overlooked a pretty critical detail: With the exception of navigation and car-control, the driver cannot be in a position to view moving video or flashy graphics--it's explicitly illegal to design a car in such a way that such garish distraction could catch the driver's eye at a critical moment. And now the reason for the autonomous car research by Google is revealed. Somehow, I suspect that the laws prohibiting moving video and flashy graphics will go away, or stop being enforced once autonomous vehicles are common place. You may be right, since by definition that person isn't "driving" anymore in his robot-car. But since the other side of the robot-car equation is that most people won't own their own cars anymore because it would be essentially unnecessary, cars would become a much more communal resource--more like a taxicab that everybody owns. But unlike a taxicab, passengers are likely to be alone in the cars frequently, so it wouldn't surprise me if advertisement surfaces were regularly vandalized. And if that means nobody can ride in the car until the advertising screen is repaired (because it's also the "enter your destination" screen) then I guess that's too bad, and maybe Google shouldn't be trying to skeeve more ad impressions out of us.
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I have found a tricky issue with EXPT behaviour in different implementations. Namely, evaluating (expt 0.0 0) yields: 1.0 in SBCL 1 in CLISP 1.0 in Lispworks. (expt 0 0.0) results in: 1.0 in SBCL error in CLISP error in Lispworks CLHS says that 0^0 = 1, and gives no details about float/integer combinations of these zeros. So, what is the valid answer here? Is there some complex math theory behind all this?
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Friday, December 31, 2004 Good lessons from a bad year What this guy says: Happy New Year, kids! Are they talking about the same Person? Those of you that know me know that I'm what some people refer to as a "souless atheist". I don't see it that way, quite, but it seems to me no person has an undying part. If we do our best to make the world a better (or worse) place, our actions and ideas can and do live on. But when we sleep, we sleep, and it's silly to stay up nights and worry about it. A friend sent me a link awhile back, pointing out that there are a lot of Christians who actively oppose what Bu$hCo is doing to America. Let me apologize to him: I lost the link. There are lots of Christian voices against what Bu$hie's pushing on us. But on the other hand, there are a lot of wack jobs like this who not only support Bu$h, but extend their fear and hate out to the "heathen" world. If you haven't encountered it, an excellent parody site of the mindless side of the Christian religion is found here . I particularly like their Bible Quizzes , which are pretty well designed to show you no rational human being since about, oh, 3000 B.C. would believe the Bible is the Literal Word of God. For those True Believers out there, my apologies and my sympathies. Unrequited Love hurts the most of all. Wednesday, December 29, 2004 When you believe in things you don't understand There's a fundamentalist mindset that is eager to assume the sinners deserve the wrath of God. Be it tsunamis, plague, or ingrown toenails. Or something like poverty. Or war. I find it offensive. And they site the miraculous to justify their lack of any empathy. "The animals weren't found dead" . The only miracle about this is that the people who find this miraculous manage to hold a steady job. Seeing as how it's mostly jungle around the Indian ocean, and we're getting footage of the recent tsunami from survivors on the second floor of many ports, presumably most animals can climb- or swim to an elevation of thirty feet or so to where they can climb out of the muck. Elephants are excellent swimmers, in fact. Being unencumbered by niceties like trying to rescue property or people. Additionally, most of the ravaged areas were beaches with tourists, docks, or industrial areas. Let's face it, people are going to be the major casualties in these areas- and when a dog sees surging water, curiosity isn't going to lead him up to the water's edge to see what's happening. There are real miracles in the world. Human courage, for one. But this world works by reason, and citing the irrational to justify your own bigotry is not cool around here. It will get comments deleted every time. I can't delete Bu$hCo, but I can delete offensive posts. Go away if you don't like it. This blog is for my friends. It's that simple. Tuesday, December 28, 2004 What is a government good for? Why does it take an op-ed piece in the N.Y. Times to remind them of what should be blindingly obvious? This is a wild unstable world we live in, and civilization exists so that we can help protect each other from it. Disasterous earthquakes aren't just isolated to the Pacific Rim. Nor are they unpredictable. You might chose to ignore it, but geologists have been warning of a disaster poised to devastate the entire East Coast for some time now. And it's not only primed for a natural disaster. This particular volcano is riddled with mine shafts going through the fault line. Why should a potential terrorist struggle with trying to import a nuke into an American city, when it would be much easier to smuggle into this semitropical island and imbed into the base of this fault? Try to defend against that, office of Homeland Security. And they don't think it's passed across anyone's mind? Before now? Exactly what do they think we're up against? Perhaps it all really is a Great Game being played within the Carlyle Group members. But sometimes games get out of hand, to produce unintended consequences. I keep on hearing calls from idiots to shrink government. Some of these idiots are very powerful. And it's not just one or two. It's the whole Bu$hCo Administration , with both elected and unelected members. But without science, without regulatory oversight, you get "lifesaving" drugs that kill . Without government support, we can't even monitor , much less predict, the weather. One can only hope the near misses extend indefinitely. And even if they didn't you couldn't trust this bunch to do more than take care of their own- and possibly play the market ahead of time. So shrink away, evil secular government. Dump the secular sinners from the Institutions created to serve and protect Americans. God loves the Child who's got his own. Sunday, December 26, 2004 All this, and tax day too 1 in 60 ? The highest Torrino scale score yet? A gigaton impact if it hits? Remind me to stay away from the Gulf at spring break this year... Friday, December 24, 2004 Before and After Pics Click right here to see pictures showing the effects of global warming on shrinking glaciers in Alaska. It's real, folks. Once you get to the page, click on the windows on the left to see Glacier Bay from a number of different views. The whole story is here . It's hard to appreciate on a Christmas Eve in Ann Arbor with a temperature of minus 10 Fahrenheit... but the world's more than what's happening today. After all, the Great Lakes don't freeze over anymore, either. Merry Christmas! Thursday, December 23, 2004 Fueling the long, slow climb back into the light The crusading chimpanzee alpha males are having a hurrah at the expense of all else that would listen to their screams of indignation and alarm and heed their call to War. The sapient protest, but lacking the tooth and claw, mostly use their intelligence to avoid the battle with the armies of the ape. But even the sapient feel despair as the chimpanzee- emperor wannabe cheerleads the depletion of the pivotal resource of civilization: the cheap energy that fuels our economy and eases life. Which they are justified in feeling- if the resource is really non renewable. There is methane ice seeping from the sediment of the Gulf of Mexico, in places up to 300 feet thick. There are whole communities of animals that live in the methane seeping from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. Methane is produced naturally by a group of anaerobic bacteria. Anaerobic bacteria normally live in the absence of free oxygen- such as in the silt at the bottom of the ocean or deep underground. In the natural carbon cycle, most of the methane produced in the ocean is by a species of Archaeobacteria . Much of this exists as methane hydrate, an ice-like compound, can be found in the deep ocean beds. The mechanism production of hydrocarbons is somewhat controversial among geologists- or geology NeoTheo Con geology revisionists , anyway. Many insist hydrocarbons are generated spontaneously in the mantle of the earth, but there is much evidence against this idea. If you ask the Government, it tells the kids methane's a nonrenewable fuel. It even calls the methane ice on the floor of the Gulf a fossil fuel, although it's being continually generated by bacterial action. Actually, there's evidence both biotic and abiotic processes are at work : Most serious scientists don't argue: much methane, and even oil, is the product of the biological decomposition of biological products (see Nature 426, 344 - 352 (20 November 2003); doi:10.1038/nature02134 for a review). Any biological product can be produced by a combination of molecular genetics, biochemistry, and chemical engineering. It's all a matter of isolation of the organism(s) doing the job, determining the genes, and working out a scale up. Hydrocarbons could be produced from garbage or plant biomass at high yield- with a little research and development to pave the way. So, yes, for the present, maybe for a generation or so, the Chimperor can royally screw up the economic basis for prosperity. But sooner or later, some bright kids somewhere are going to put it together: an alternative energy source that doesn't require the destruction of some of the most pristine wild places on the planet for it's exploitation. Who knows? It may be something as simple as cloning methanogenic genes into a transgenically rewired photosynthetic blue-green algae grown under glass, in nitrogen+ carbon dioxide, without oxygen, and over wet garbage to produce an endless source of power for the world's industrial economies. It would make Saudi Arabia worth only about as much as its sand, and pauperize the robber barons that've been busy creating Endless War in order to get the Blank Check from the Faithful. I think it would be a good idea. Tuesday, December 21, 2004 Happy Festivus! It's here. The world is about as far from the sun as it gets right now, and to make matters worse, the northern hemisphere tilts to its extreme away from the light. On the other hand, when you can see it, Orion is the jewel of the evening right about now. The NeoTheo Cons hatch their plans for glory and conquest late into the night. The Ukranian Presidential candidate gets slow poison- poison so slow, in fact, he realizes he can't easily blame his bitterest overt enemies. The darkness lasts, and lasts, and the cold grows. But water becomes a crystal, and the stars are the clearer because of it. Sunday, December 19, 2004 Dick and Rummy's Excellent Adventure 2 You might think with soldiers having to patch together armor and getting busted for it that the NeoTheo Cons might want to dig in and beef up before expanding their portfolio. You would be wrong . But don't be too surprised. After all, we're dealing with a group of successful if corporate revolutionaries . Remember, the success of any revolutionary movement may depend upon tactics its opponents can not or will not use. Friday, December 17, 2004 The 300 lbs gorilla hiding in plain sight In case the barrage of disinformation is really making you believe that Bu$hie needs scrap social security to borrow a trillion or so bucks- in your name- and invest it for you- in your name, read this : And ponder this: It leaves many retirees in poverty. Wednesday, December 15, 2004 Grand Moff Rumsfeld's black budget follies Some ideas are just too good to write off because of a little thing like feasibility. On the other hand... And since this is a multiverse , on yet another hand... and still another ... Tucked inside Congress' new blueprint for U.S. intelligence spending is a highly classified and expensive spy program that drew exceptional criticism from leading Democrats... Which may be related to this: Awfully friendly of the D.o.D. to be able to disable our allies ability to navigate. With friends like those in Bu$hCo... you really need to navigate a multiverse. Thanks to Lambert at Corrente for the tip. P.S. You also might like to see what Pandagon has to say about what happened this week. When your friends keep raising prices... you might as well foment revolution in your old competitor's back yard. After all, it's just another move in the Great Game . The real question is: which side is the Bush family playing for? Monday, December 13, 2004 It's so hard to find good spooks these days Using dioxin to poison a prominent politician. Good grief. They're implying it was the Ukranian security chief that did it, since Yushenko had dinner with him the night before he went to the hospital. But that sounds just too blindingly dumb. Even if Yushenko's over the immediate crisis, his liver is probably jello, and he's bound to have tumors starting all over his body. Dioxin is no clean way to go. Look at what happened to the Viet Nam vets hit with agent orange . Are the spy agencies in the new Russia that amateur? This sounds more like a traditional Poppy Bush Company hit, and less like the old KGB Putin headed- and certainly not Tenet's CIA. You want a martyr? Feed him dioxin, so the whole world can watch him die. Feed him dioxin, so he can continue to rage against you more effectively than ever before as he slowly falls apart. How incredibly stupid. Sunday, December 12, 2004 ..."The world, she's flat like a pancake..." "I don't believe in evolution!" There are a lot reasons why statements like this are given air by the talking heads in cable land. But there's a simple logical fallacy at the bottom of it. Evolution, like Gravity, is a theory designed to account for observable facts in the world around us. Scientists don't believe anything. When we observe the world around us, we come up with ideas to explain what we're seeing. Then, we figure out how to test those ideas. We test them, and then modify our ideas as needed. That's why explanations are always changing. And that's why after decades and centuries of testing our ideas, modifying them, and testing again, we come up with explanations like Evolution and Gravity to explain data accumulated from diverse sources and disciplines. Evolution is like gravity or thermodynamics. It really doesn't matter if you believe it or not. It just is. There are many very powerful people who don't approach life this way. Since they are inclined not to think too much about the world, their motivations, or the consequences of their actions, they build their lives on Faith. Fundamentalism is the dead worst of this Faith-based, as opposed to Reality-based world view. In this country, there are an increasing number of people who feel that: ...these people Welcome to the 21st century. The beginning of the new Dark Ages, if the Wrepublicans have anything to do with it. A religion that lets the robber barons, rape, loot, and burn as much of the world as they like. Friday, December 10, 2004 Riding a hoax of a different color John Titor advised moving out of the cities. The Disappearings here, like the bad years in Argentina, start in 2005, apparently. The global situation continues to deteriorate. It's getting a damn good start now, with Putin accusing the CIA of interfering in the Ukraine and Chechnya. Apparently nukes will be exchanged in 2015. Now, I realize this is all a lot of garbage. Certainly this must be a hoax. And not even funny. In fact, since the first set of predictions were made, in spring 2000, we've done the unthinkable. We went to war in Iraq. We are decidedly spiraling towards a NeoTheoCon fascist state. So what if the John Titor hoax is a hoax of a different color? If you were deep in the intelligence community, and you found that your peers weren't simply CIA, they were Bu$hCo Company people, and that they had a definite plan for the unthinkable and a timetable for that plan, maybe you would try to leak out the details of that plan. Just sayin'. Strangling the old folks in the bathtub It doesn't matter if the market is wrecked to the Masters of the Universe. As long as they can take your money they don't care. They have no long term view, because they have realized that destruction of the system will make the rise of a new feudalism inevitable. For people that have been living in a cave, no , there is no failure of Social Security that can occur any time soon, and yes , it could be fixed with a marginal tax increase when it does start to have short falls, about 30 years from now. Without sending the government further into hock for billions, if not trillions, of dollars. But why would they want to do something like this? Why wreck the market with hot money for speculation wildcatting, why drive the government further into bankruptcy ? The answer is that it's all part of the plan. Ask Grover Norquist . Plus, they can get filthy rich doing it, allowing them to consolidate their grip on power when the gas tank hits "Empty". Thursday, December 09, 2004 Unsurprising bedfellows Who funds the DLC? Lookee here : The DLC and its close associate, the Progressive Policy Institute, are the recipients of grants from many Fortune 500 companies and such right-wing foundations as the Bradley Foundation. Corporate contributors to the Progressive Policy Institute include AT&T Foundation, Eastman Kodak Charitable Trust, Prudential Foundation, Georgia-Pacific Foundation, Chevron, and Amoco Foundation. (17) The Third Way Foundation, an umbrella group of the New Democrats in the DLC, receives funding from the Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Ameritech Foundation, and General Mills Foundation. According to one magazine report, the DLC enjoys funding from Bank One, Citigroup, Dow Chemical, DuPont, General Electric, Health Insurance Corporation, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Occidental Petroleum, and Raytheon. Compare to who funds AEI : Major donors include the heavy hitters of the conservative foundation world--the Smith-Richardson Foundation, the Olin Foundation, the Scaife Foundation, and Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (4). According to People for the American Way, corporate donors have included the General Electric Foundation, Amoco, Kraft, Ford Motor Company Fund, General Motors Foundation, Eastman Kodak Foundation, Metropolitan Life Foundation, Proctor & Gamble Fund, Shell Companies Foundation, Chrysler Corporation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, General Mills Foundation, Pillsbury Company Foundation, Prudential Foundation, American Express Foundation, AT&T Foundation, Corning Glass Works Foundation, Morgan Guarantee Trust, Smith-Richardson Foundation, Alcoa Foundation, and PPG Industries. Some of these donors are quite like the others, some of these donors are kinda the same... Any questions where the DLC's loyalties lie? Wednesday, December 08, 2004 Babies with rabies needed... Bobo and his Masters want more breeders to feed the War Machine. Take a large, physically powerful, ignorant but ambitious white teenager indoctrinated to callous violence by endless propaganda. Give him a weapon of mass destruction, and release him to kill as many as he can of those he is led to believe threaten his way of life. He is guaranteed to keep the Blank Checks rolling in and Endless War rolling on. The more wealthy and insulated the child soldier is, the higher up in the command structure he ends up. Those suburbanites sensitive and confused enough to get involved with the Counterculture tend to succumb to drugs and/or sexually transmitted disease and are weeded out of the pool of breeders. Sounds like an AEI/ PNAC/ Carlyle group scheme if I've ever heard of one. Tuesday, December 07, 2004 The fix was in. What happened November 2nd? And Why? Kerry and Edwards said they were going to count every vote. They told everyone they were going to make sure the debacle of 2000 wasn't repeated this year. But the day after election, Kerry concedes, despite widespread reports of voting errors, malfunction, and suppression in two of the most pivotal states, Florida and Ohio. Kerry is part of the same culture that produced the Bush family. He belongs to the same society as both Poppy and Junior at Yale. This was one thing that disquieted a lot of people. Obviously there are major differences between Bush and Kerry. Kerry's usually come down on the progressive side of things. He's developed some very powerful allies, among of which is a major donor , the multibillionaire George Soros . Soros is an interesting player. In addition to being a major bankroller of the Democratic party, he's also a major source of income for MoveOn. Recently he's also become a patron of the most vocal liberal blog sites and partisans like Michael Moore. Soros is also a major contributor and investor of the Carlyle Group . You know, Poppy Bush's people . Established right after Poppy stepped down from Gerry Ford's CIA. Where old cabinet members, presidents, and CIA agents go to bank their money. It wasn't an election, it wasn't a selection, it was merely an attempt at a friendly takeover. The guys at the top of the heap worry most about keeping the blank check coming in for endless war. The Democrats rolled over because their constituents- and a big chunk of America- were ready to seriously shake up the system if they acknowledged the Republicans had stolen yet another one. That would have been bad for business. Soros makes far more money off of Halliburton and General Dynamics and General Electric and Becthel and all the other Carlyle subsidiaries than even the Bushies do. When the same megacorporate conglomerate makes money no matter who's in office, you have to look at the whole issue a little more carefully. The final issue is what are these guys thinking? What motivates their policy? I think at one level it's this : In 50 years much of the industrial world will be moving to a preindustrial state because there won't be fossil fuels to run industrial economies. Saudi Royals- big investors in the Carlyle group- are using religion and the war against Israel as a method to consolidate their power over a significant portion of the globe before their energy resources run out. The Bush family- a wanna-be royal dynasty if there ever was one- has decided to use Christianity the way the Saudi royal families have decided to use Islam. The Great Game is on again, and this round, winner keeps all, because they'll be no more fuel when they call time. Soros may represent the social Darwinist fraction of the Carlyle Group. But basically he's in it for the bucks like everyone else. He's convinced pragmatism will ride the tide which ever way it shifts. And as long as it's endless war, the blank check just gets bigger. Cyberspace from outer space. People at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence are thinking about beaming the Google data base into space. Now that's an idea. Give 'em a good warning before they come knocking. The porn database alone will doubtless interest the silicon-based lifeforms.
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15 March 2011 Season of Nonviolence – Day 45: Mastery Day 45: Mastery The dictionary defines mastery as 'expert skill or knowledge'. We can earn degrees that confer the title of Master, just as tradesmen can attain master status in their craft. Experience, skill, and knowledge have many applications beyond their specific field. For example, when one truly understands literature, they have a greater understanding of the human condition. When one is a master cabinet-maker, they have also gained knowledge of balance, beauty and functionality. What have you mastered? Are you a master of juggling multiple projects or priorities? Maybe you are a master at getting what you want or helping others make their own dreams come true. We all have complete mastery over how we choose to show up in the world, even if we aren't aware of it. How we use our skills and knowledge makes all the difference! Labor organizer Cesar Chavez teaches, "If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle." Breathe deeply, silently counting backwards from ten to calm yourself and cool off before your speak or act with impatience or anger. Do this at least once today. Journal about or contemplate what you have mastered, going beyond work and educational achievements. Have you used your mastery to make a positive difference in the world or to serve your own purposes? No comments:
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Take the 2-minute tour × We have a project which uses Robot Frameworh 2.7.7 and we are using HP-QC fpr bugtracking Is possible to integrate robot Framework with HP Quality center? share|improve this question What do you want the integration to do? –  corsiKa Feb 27 '13 at 23:02 Well, like QTP is integrated with QC. A test is connected to a bug. When the test is fullfilled the status of the Bug changes at QC. –  Luixv Mar 1 '13 at 10:23 If you use Jenkins, there is already a plugin for Robot. –  djangofan Jul 5 '13 at 20:37 1 Answer 1 Integration can be done in multiple ways. One of the way is to use VAPI. If you are using VBS or Java VAPI, (visual Application programming Interface) will be useful. The VAPI integrator can be used for integration with ROBOT. The integrator has capability of launching third part applications which can be used to launch ROBOT test suite. The Robot testscript have capability to save execution result in external file. The VAPI integrator can get inputs from this dynamically updated file as test cases keep on updating results. At he end it is possible to script to parse Robot result file and update required fields in QC. I think you are looking for specific case of case tied up with bug. The script will change the bug related test case status after execution. share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I've got a backbone.js model which contains a calendar. The user can go back and forth in the calendar and I can get the events for the selected calendar day. In my Model, I have initialize: function(){ get_cal: function(){ alert('get calendar'); and in my view I have cal_date: function(move){ when the date changes, I expected backbone to trigger the change event, and get the calendar events for the new date. Unfortunately, that isn't happening. I've also tried putting the printed date into the model as Myapp.cal.set({print_date: formatted_date}); thinking that maybe backbone is missing the update because I'm not calling 'set', or because it sees a date object and thinks that it already had a date object and therefore didn't change. I've also tried to trigger the change with Myapp.cal.trigger('change'), in the view but that didn't work either. Nor did removing the calendar events by calling Myapp.cal.cal_events.refresh() where cal_events is the collection holding the days events. Do you see what's wrong here? share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 3 down vote accepted I think the issue is with the parentheses after get_call on this line: You should remove them because they call get_call right in initialize instead of making them an event handler. share|improve this answer that was right Ivan, any chance you can explain, or point me to something that explains the difference between calling the this.get_cal() function, and this.get_cal without the braces? I don't understand why one works, and the other doesn't. –  pedalpete Nov 2 '12 at 5:05 @pedalpete With parentheses(this.get_call()), get_call will get executed right away. Without the parentheses(this.get_call), you are passing the function object which will be called later when the appropriate event occurs –  Pramod Nov 2 '12 at 10:25 @pedalpete function in JavaScript is a data type like string or integer. Without parentheses you pass function itself like an argument (that's what you usually want to do when you specify a callback), with parentheses - it's return value. –  Ivan Blinkov Nov 4 '12 at 17:15 Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I have a href tag linking to a php page where I can download a file dynamically from what the user clicked. The download works on Chrome and Firefox, but not Internet Explorer. Here is my tag. <p class='order-item-list'><a href='singleDownload.php?download=".$x['id']."&type=".$x['fileType']."' target='_blank'><input id='downloadSingle' type='image' src='images/download-single.png' alt='Submit' value='download' /></a></p> I have it enclosed the p tag for styling purposes. I've tried going directly to the file with the inputted GET parameters and it works on IE. Just the link is not firing for whatever reason. share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 4 down vote accepted Use a validator, your HTML has errors in it. If you want a link containing an image, then use a <a> containing an <img>. If you want a server side image map then use a <input type="image"> and don't use an <a>. share|improve this answer Example: <a href="http://www.google.com"><img src="pic.jpg" /></a> –  Serg Nov 26 '12 at 15:42 @Serg — alt attribute! –  Quentin Nov 26 '12 at 15:42 But it would break my nice single line comment! –  Serg Nov 26 '12 at 15:44 Thanks for your help guys! I forgot about the validator. I don't know why that was an input tag, anyways it is all fixed. –  wowzuzz Nov 26 '12 at 15:45 Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I'm a newbie to both R and LaTeX and have just recently found how to plot a standard time series graph using R and save it as a png image. What I'm worried about is that saving it as an image and then embedding it into LaTeX is going to scale it and make it look ugly. Is there a way to make R's plot() function output a vector graphic and embed that into LaTeX? I'm a total beginner in both so please be gentle :) Code snippets are highly appreciated! share|improve this question 4 Answers 4 up vote 34 down vote accepted Shane is spot-on, you do want Sweave. Eventually. As a newbie, you may better off separating task though. For that, do this: 1. open a device: pdf("figures/myfile.pdf", height=6, width=6) 2. plot your R object: plot(1:10, type='l', main='boring') -- and remember that lattice and ggplot need an explicit print around plot. 3. important: close your device: dev.off() to finalize the file. 4. optional: inspect the pdf file 5. in LaTeX, use usepackage{graphics} in the document header, use \includegraphics[width=0.98\textwidth]{figures/myfile} to include the figure created earlier and note that file extension is optional 6. run this through pdflatex and enjoy share|improve this answer I should also mention that separating the task as Dirk has done can be beneficial for very big documents: having to rebuild the entire document from scratch every time can be painful, not to mention the agony of debugging a big Sweave document. –  Shane Dec 11 '09 at 20:06 There caching tricks and packages for that though. But yes, the takeaway is that the power of Sweave comes at a bit of a cost in terms of complexity and opaqueness. To put it mildly :) –  Dirk Eddelbuettel Dec 11 '09 at 20:28 Thanks! You might update your answer with a few things I ran into so it's easier on other newbies like me that might come by: you have put \usepackage{graphicx} in the document header for this to run (found this here: tuxmann.blogspot.com/2006/06/…); and you're missing a 'd' on with=0.98 –  obvio171 Dec 12 '09 at 15:50 Thanks for those corrections. –  Dirk Eddelbuettel Dec 12 '09 at 17:28 Is there an alternative of latex() from Hmisc for plots? Ie something that prepares \includegraphics with an environment, "capture", etc. So to avoid writing this code manually. –  Anton Dec 3 '13 at 8:48 I would recommend the tikzDevice package for producing output for inclusion in LaTeX documents: The tikzDevice converts graphics produced in R to code that can be interpreted by the LaTeX package tikz. TikZ provides a very nice vector drawing system for LaTeX. Some good examples of TikZ output are located at: The tikzDevice may be used like any other R graphics device: require( tikzDevice ) tikz( 'myPlot.tex' ) plot( 1, 1, main = '\\LaTex\\ is $\\int e^{xy}$' ) Note that the backslashes in LaTeX macros must be doubled as R interprets a single backslash as an escape character. To use the plot in a LaTeX document, simply include it: The pgfSweave package contains Sweave functionality that can handle the above step for you. Make sure that your document contains \usepackage{tikz} somewhere in the LaTeX preamble. The advantages of tikz() function as compared to pdf() are: • The font of labels and captions in your figures always matches the font used in your LaTeX document. This provides a unified look to your document. • You have all the power of the LaTeX typesetter available for creating mathematical annotation and can use arbitrary LaTeX code in your figure text. Disadvantages of the tikz() function are: • It does not scale well to handle plots with lots of components. These are things such as persp() plots of large matricies. The shear number of graphic elements can cause LaTeX to slow to a crawl or run out of memory. • The package is currently flagged as beta. This means that the interface or functionality of the package is subject to change if the authors find a compelling reason to do so. I should end this post by disclaiming that I am an author of both the tikzDevice and pgfSweave packages so my opinion may be biased. However, I have used both packages to produce several academic reports in the last year and have been very satisfied with the results. share|improve this answer +1 Excellent post and very cool project you've got! I'll keep the pdf answer as "accepted" because it's easier on newcomers, but I'm trying out yours. Is there anything I need to specify on the LaTeX side besides the include? Got this error: Environment tikzpicture undefined. –  obvio171 Dec 12 '09 at 15:53 Sorry, I should have made it more clear that you need to use the tikz package in your LaTeX document. Post edited. –  Sharpie Dec 12 '09 at 18:26 Great package! For me, this was the first R package I installed and it took me a while to find out how to do this. For the next person: use the install.packages() command from within R - easy! @Sharpie, I would be interested in how to get the R CMD install tikzDevice command to work (I struggled with this for a while, 'with missing destination file operand' error) –  Tom Jul 6 '11 at 9:19 @Tom R CMD INSTALL is a little misleading if you have used other package managers---you have to point it at a file that you downloaded yourself. Hence the missing destination file. To have the package downloaded for you, use install.packages from inside R. –  Sharpie Jul 6 '11 at 19:49 It seems tikzDevice was removed from the official CRAN repository. I followed this guide to install it. –  saffsd Feb 15 '13 at 3:11 You might want to consider using Sweave. There is a lot of great documentation available for this on the Sweave website (and elsewhere). It has very simple syntax: just put your R code between <<>>= and @. Here's a simple example that ends up looking like this: \title{Sweave Example 1} \author{Friedrich Leisch} In this example we embed parts of the examples from the kruskal.test(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality) which shows that the location parameter of the Ozone distribution varies significantly from month to month. Finally we include a boxplot of the data: boxplot(Ozone ~ Month, data = airquality) To build the document, you can just call R CMD Sweave file.Rnw or run Sweave(file) from within R. share|improve this answer I 2nd Sweave. I would only add that RStudio has wonderful integration with Sweave, which might be particularly important for a beginner (install a LaTeX distribution and click one button in RStudio). –  Chris Beeley Apr 25 '12 at 20:54 This is a dupe of a question on SO that I can't find. But: http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/tikzdevice/ -- tikz output from r and http://www.rforge.net/pgfSweave/ tikz code via sweave. Using tikz will give you a look consistent with the rest of your document, plus it will use latex to typeset all the text in your graphs. EDIT http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1395105/getting-latex-into-r-plots/1395553#1395553 share|improve this answer That question is the opposite of this question: Here the OP is asking how to add R plots into a LaTeX document. There the OP was asking how to add LaTeX equations into an R plot. –  Shane Dec 11 '09 at 21:52 The title was an intentional paraphrase :) –  obvio171 Dec 11 '09 at 22:18 True enough, but isn't the answer the same ;) –  Mica Dec 12 '09 at 0:08 Not quite, it is all a matter of the final product you are attempting to create. LaTex into R makes plots with LaTex elements while R into Latex creates laTex documents including R plots. –  fsmart Jul 9 at 12:33 Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I'm working on a Rails application. I have a Module called Animals. Inside this Module is a Class with the same name as one of my Models (Dog). show_animal action: def show_animal require 'Animals/Bear.rb' #Works require 'Animals/Dog.rb' #Fails So the first require definitely works, the seconds fails. MissingSourceFile (no such file to load -- Animals/Dog.rb): I noticed that Dog.rb is the same file name as one of my models, is that what's causing this? I'm using Webrick. share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 2 down vote accepted Try using the full path: require File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'lib', 'Animals', 'Dog.rb') share|improve this answer just had a similar problem, but I didn't have any naming conflicts, rails just didn't want to LOAD the file, go figure –  leopic Nov 12 '11 at 23:04 Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × Need your help in over coming the following issues. 1. i need to send opt-in newsletters to the user. But using "gmail SMTP", i will not be able to send more than 400 mails per day. 2. Even if i use the mail option given in the shared server, i will not be able to send mails more than 300 mails per day. Can you please suggest any other way i can handle this issue. Is it possible to use PHP mail functions? are there any limitations in sending the number of mails to the users. can a server control the mails sent using PHP mail function. Thanks for reading. thanks a lot share|improve this question first, what are you doing to ensure true "opt-in"? –  jcomeau_ictx Nov 30 '10 at 4:32 have you considered generating an RSS feed instead? receiving an email daily in the form of a "newsletter" can be annoying. you don't have a guarantee either that the user is just sending your emails to a spam folder. –  stillstanding Nov 30 '10 at 4:36 4 Answers 4 up vote 1 down vote accepted The limitation on the number of mails you can send per day/hour is set by your SMTP server. In case of the mail() function, it is once again set by your host. If you wish to remove this limitation, generally you would: 1. Talk to your host's tech support and ask them to raise the limit. Some hosts like Fatcow raise your limit from 500 to about 5000 (don't remember the exact numbers). 2. You can buy a dedicated virtual server with no such restriction, where the limit would only be the speed at which you could send your emails. 3. You can try newsletter mailing software/add-ons like ConstantContact that help you manage your newsletters effectively. share|improve this answer 1- you can buy vps and send many mail 2- you can buy smtp server for many sent 3- you can buy valid ip and set in your pc ... run somethings like postfix and sent mail in this way ... share|improve this answer Use an smtp relay service. I've had good experiences with smtp.com in the past (I'm not affiliated with them in any way). You can grab a library to connect to it and get going relatively fast. share|improve this answer Yuou should check this link http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/tips/server-smtp-limit.html Every server comes with its own smtp/mail limit, usually 300-500 for shared and between 500 and 2k for dedicated. This is by ICAN regulations i believe to control spam as much as possible. Most of the dedicated servers out there will increase your mail/smtp relay limit on a request mentioning why you need to increase,etc. You will also need to include an unsubscribe link in the newsletter so that users who recieve the mail can opt out from future mails. Increasing the mail limit is sequential usually and it can be upto 100,000 on a godaddy dedicated server from what i got from chat support @go daddy. As for gmail smtps, you can't send more than 500 a day and 2000 for business/educational google apps account. share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I have a question about comparing a string with the empty string in Java. Is there a difference, if I compare a string with the empty string with == or equals? For example: String s1 = "hi"; if (s1 == "") if (s1.equals("")) I know that one should compare strings (and objects in general) with equals, and not ==, but I am wondering whether it matters for the empty string. Thank you. share|improve this question Isn't comparing the length better way?? I feel length comparision is more optimized than string comparision –  Ravisha Jun 7 '11 at 9:27 7 Answers 7 s1 == "" is not reliable as it tests reference equality not object equality (and String isn't strictly canonical). is better but can suffer from null pointer exceptions. Better yet is: No null pointer exceptions. EDIT: Ok, the point was asked about canonical form. This article defines it as: Suppose we have some set S of objects, with an equivalence relation. A canonical form is given by designating some objects of S to be "in canonical form", such that every object under consideration is equivalent to exactly one object in canonical form. To give you a practical example: take the set of rational numbers (or "fractions" are they're commonly called). A rational number consists of a numerator and a denomoinator (divisor), both of which are integers. These rational numbers are equivalent: 3/2, 6/4, 24/16 Rational nubmers are typically written such that the gcd (greatest common divisor) is 1. So all of them will be simplified to 3/2. 3/2 can be viewed as the canonical form of this set of rational numbers. So what does it mean in programming when the term "canonical form" is used? It can mean a couple of things. Take for example this imaginary class: public class MyInt { private final int number; public MyInt(int number) { this.number = number; } public int hashCode() { return number; } The hash code of the class MyInt is a canonical form of that class because for the set of all instances of MyInt, you can take any two elements m1 and m2 and they will obey the following relation: m1.equals(m2) == (m1.hashCode() == m2.hashCode()) That relation is the essence of canonical form. A more common way this crops up is when you use factory methods on classes such as: public class MyClass { private MyClass() { } public MyClass getInstance(...) { ... } Instances cannot be directly instantiated because the constructor is private. This is just a factory method. What a factory method allows you to do is things like: • Always return the same instance (abstracted singleton); • Just create a new intsance with every call; • Return objects in canonical form (more on this in a second); or • whatever you like. Basically the factory method abstracts object creation and personally I think it would be an interesting language feature to force all constructors to be private to enforce the use of this pattern but I digress. What you can do with this factory method is cache your instances that you create such that for any two instances s1 and s2 they obey the following test: (s1 == s2) == s1.equals(s2) So when I say String isn't strictly canonical it means that: String s1 = "blah"; String s2 = "blah"; System.out.println(s1 == s2); // true But as others have poitned out you can change this by using: String s3 = new String("blah"); and possibly: String s4 = String.intern("blah"); So you can't rely on reference equality completely so you shouldn't rely on it at all. As a caveat to the above pattern, I should point out that controlling object creation with private constructors and factory methods doesn't guarantee reference equality means object equality because of serialization. Serialization bypasses the normal object creation mechanism. Josh Bloch covers this topic in Effective Java (originally in the first edition when he talked about the typesafe enum pattern which later became a language feature in Java 5) and you can get around it by overloading the (private) readResolve() method. But it's tricky. Class loaders will affect the issue too. Anyway, that's canonical form. share|improve this answer +1 for a great explanation. But you may want to explain what "canonical" means in this context -- that the JVM holds a table of created strings so it doesn't need to create the same string repeatedly. One of the few places Java has a clear performance advantage over C and C++. –  rtperson Feb 10 '09 at 18:48 For C/C++, GCC at least has a compile-time option to reuse string constants. It's smart enough to support substrings where possible, too. It doesn't do this at runtime, though (unless you have a library which does this, e.g. using implicit sharing like Qt). –  strager Feb 11 '09 at 1:56 +1 for "".equals(str) ... can't believe this never occurred to me. –  Tom Mar 13 '12 at 22:38 Please, I want to see your "clear performance advantage". raid6.com.au/~onlyjob/posts/arena –  ActiveTrayPrntrTagDataStrDrvr Nov 20 '13 at 13:17 It's going to depend on if the string is a literal or not. If you create the string with new String("") Then it will never match "" with the equals operator, as shown below: String one = ""; String two = new String(""); System.out.println("one == \"\": " + (one == "")); System.out.println("one.equals(\"\"): " + one.equals("")); System.out.println("two == \"\": " + (two == "")); System.out.println("two.equals(\"\"): " + two.equals("")); one == "": true one.equals(""): true two == "": false two.equals(""): true Basically, you want to always use equals() share|improve this answer May be worth showing a code example of equals() too. –  Kieran Senior Feb 10 '09 at 10:23 It's a bit sideways from your original question, but there's always if(s1.length() == 0) I believe this is equivalent to isEmpty() method from 1.6. share|improve this answer This one will suffer from a NullPointerException if the String is null. You can always use if(s1 != null && s1.length() == 0)... That way, your conditional will short-circuit out of evaluating length if s1 is null. –  rtperson Feb 10 '09 at 18:44 Yes, but so will s1.isEmpty() or s1.equals(""). –  eaolson Feb 11 '09 at 4:20 Seems to be the best option, but there is also Stringutils.isEmpty(s) contained in the Apache commons lang library share|improve this answer Interesting, a library call which is longer and more obscure than the code it replaces. ;) –  Peter Lawrey Feb 10 '09 at 20:17 While I wouldn't add commons-lang for this if I wasn't already using it for something else but the chances are I would be using it. The null pointer avoiding version of the statement has always given me hives and I hate the check for null way as well so I prefer the StringUtils version. –  Michael Rutherfurd Feb 11 '09 at 1:06 while its longer, its not more obscure to use a library call like StringUtil.isNullOrEmpty(someString); , and the reason is that having a name there makes it much more readable. the performance hit is negligible, so its a win. –  Chii Feb 11 '09 at 12:44 i guess this falls into the subjectivity of readability :) To me StringUtils.isEmpty(foo) is more readable than "".equals(foo), but i can understand Peter Lawrey's point of view. –  Raibaz Feb 11 '09 at 12:52 A string, is a string, is a string, whether it's the empty string or not. Use equals(). share|improve this answer Use String.isEmpty(), or StringUtils.isEmpty(String str) if you need a null check. share|improve this answer I wish java had a String.Empty that you could set a string to like in C#. It would make the isEmpty() method make more sense, and make it easier cleaner to make a variable equal the empty string. –  Knoxie Jun 4 '12 at 12:43 Given two strings: String s1 = "abc"; String s2 = "abc"; -or - String s1 = new String("abc"); String s2 = new String("abc"); The == operator performed on two Objects checks for object identity (it returns true if the two operators return to the same object instance.) The actual behavior of == applied to java.lang.Strings does not always appear to be consistent because of String interning. In Java, Strings are interned (at least partly at the discretion of the JVM.) At any point in time, s1 and s2 may or may not have been interned to be the same object reference (supposing they have the same value.) Thus s1 == s2 may or may not return true, based solely on whether s1 and s2 have both been interned. Making s1 and s2 equal to empty Strings has no effect on this - they still may or may not have been interned. In short, == may or may not return true if s1 and s2 have the same contents. s1.equals(s2) is guaranteed to return true if s1 and s2 have the same contents. share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I am using the blobstore to upload and download files in the python version of Google App Engine. I understand how to write objects to the blobstore line-by-line and I understand how to POST and download a blobstore item, but how do I read data back out of the blobstore line-by-line if all I have is the blobstore key? file_name = files.blobstore.create(mime_type='application/octet-stream') with files.open(file_name, 'a') as f: # Get the file's blob key blob_key = files.blobstore.get_blob_key(file_name) #starting with the blob_key, read from the blobstore line-by-line. # ??? #with files.open() as f: #foo = f.read() share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 2 down vote accepted I think you need the blob reader. Here is an example of use: from google.appengine.ext import blobstore blob_reader = blobstore.BlobReader(blob_key) for line in blob_reader: share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × can anyone help me on how to connect to a database of another computer in same local network using vb.net? We already enable remote connection in the sql server configuration and also sql browser and we already connected with one another using wireless network. Here is our connection in vb.net "Data Source=NEWUSER0602akz\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=sample;Integrated Security=True" is there something wrong with this? because when i input a data it always show me the error "An network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing to SQL Server" why it is always showing even though we already set the remote connection etc. can anyone help me with this? THANKS IN ADVANCED. :)) share|improve this question For MySQL, use the .NET connector for it. They have some good tutorials here in the manual: dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/… –  Bjoern Feb 26 '12 at 14:27 @Bjoern is this what you are talking about the .NET connector - "Data Source=NEWUSER0602akz\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=sample;Integrated Security=True"? –  Polo Ravales Feb 26 '12 at 14:35 No. The .NET connectior is a piece of software from MySQL: mysql.com/downloads/connector/net –  Bjoern Feb 27 '12 at 5:29 @Bjoern hey sir? why is it that it always show the error "A network-related or instance-name cannot establish a connection to sql server" even though we are connected with one another? Is there a problem with our connection string? Data Source=NEWUSER0602akz\SQLEXPRESS;Database=sample;Trusted_Connection=True THANKS FOR YOUR IMMEDIATE REPLY SIR :)) –  Polo Ravales Feb 29 '12 at 2:15 As Kamil has replied, your connection string to a SQL server seems fine. Follow his advice to continue debugging whats going on there. My reply was aimed at the MySQL part of your question. –  Bjoern Feb 29 '12 at 5:29 1 Answer 1 This connection string is ok, if NEWUSER0602akz is a server/another computer name. Probably firewall on server is blocking connections. MSSQL uses 1433 port by default. You should also check, if TCPIP protocol is enabled on that server. Find "SQL Server Configuration Manager" on your computer (in menu start, its probably in SQL Server 2005/2008 folder), open it and find "SQL Server Network Configuration". Turn on TCP/IP if is disabled. You can also - try to connect with IP address instead of name - check network configuration of client computer share|improve this answer we already set up all in the sql server config also the firewall. i think the only problem with our connection is the network connection that we made. can you help us how to set up a home group? we already try this one but when we ping the server it shows Request time out so it is not connected right? please help us with this thing. i think this is our only problem. coz we didn't know how to set up a wireless network. THANKS in advanced. :) –  Polo Ravales Feb 26 '12 at 17:21 how are we going to setup a wireless network instead of wired network.? –  Polo Ravales Feb 26 '12 at 18:00 This is website to solve problems with programming, not networks. Read this stackoverflow.com/faq –  Kamil Feb 26 '12 at 18:14 oh I'm SORRY! I didn't know. I thought its ok to ask questions like this. –  Polo Ravales Feb 27 '12 at 2:16 Im sorry too, im too lazy to solve problems which needs more than 2-3 minutes :) –  Kamil Feb 27 '12 at 7:34 Your Answer
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Essential Questions • I. How Do We Know What We Know? • II. What Are The Problems of Knowledge? • III. What is the role of Perception in attaining Knowledge? • IV. How does Language influence how he gain Knowledge? • V. How does our use of Reason help or hinder us as we attempt to gain knowledge? • VI. Is Emotion the best way to gain knowledge? ToK Essay In a 3-5 page TYPED paper, please address the following question. Essays are due May 22. I. Why are informal fallacies (i.e. Ad ignorantiam, Hasty Generalization, Circular Reasoning, Special pleading etc.) often plausible and convincing? II. In regards to Enron, when, where and by whom were they formulated? Please be specific and cite the movie and the Gladwell reading (only if you want an A or a B). III. Are there circumstances under which the use of informal fallacies can be justified? For example, in public advertising campaigns aimed at persuading us to donate money for good causes. Consider Gladwell's quote that "It's your fault as well." What are the implications of this? What would be the counterclaim? IV. Have you ever used informal fallacies? In a paragraph, provide specific details on when this occured. Opening paragraph, body, transitions and conclusion needed to receive highest mark on Organization section of rubric. The essay will be graded on the ToK Essay Rubric found on this blog. No comments:
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Is there an application that can alter the commands for the remote? Back To Product Follow this Question 1 Answer from the Community • Answer Yes, Remote Buddy by IOSpirit produce an excellent app for Apple Remote customisation. Was this useful? Answer 1 1 of 1 people found this useful Related Questions
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Take the 2-minute tour × When I run ps2pdf I get the following error messages: norman@host:~$ ps2pdf test.ps test.pdf While reading gs_dbt_e.ps: ERROR: /syntaxerror in -file- Operand stack: (gs_cidfm.ps) 1 --nostringval-- Execution stack: %interp_exit --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- %array_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:928/1123(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:74/200(L)-- --dict:928/1123(G)-- --dict:8/8(G)-- --dict:1/1(G)-- Current allocation mode is global Current file position is 4623 I have tried re-installing gs and gs-esp without affect. Files test.ps, gs_dbt_e.ps and gs_cidfm.ps all checked against a working system as being good. Regardless of what postscript file I try to convert, the "Current file position is 4623" remains exactly the same. The host is running Ubuntu 7.04. Any suggestions as to what I should re-install will be much appreciated. share|improve this question Does ghostview test.ps and gs test.ps display the file correctly? –  hlovdal Mar 20 '10 at 9:36 'ghostview' command not found. 'gs test.ps' gives the same error as ps2pdf. –  simplr Mar 20 '10 at 12:56 I found that if I execute 'gs' without any parameters I still get the same error message. –  simplr Mar 20 '10 at 13:07 1 Answer 1 Which version of Ghostscript do you use on your Ubuntu? You can check with the gs -v command. The latest released one is v8.71. Your problem could come from 2 sources: 1. Your file 'test.ps' contains a bug (invalid PostScript code). Some PS bugs can be worked around by some viewers and PS processors, some not. 2. Your version of Ghostscript contains a bug that is triggered by some procedure contained in your 'test.ps'. Without access to your 'test.ps' file, there is no way for me to tell. I'd recommend you try processing your 'test.ps' with a newer version of Ghostscript. Don't use the ps2pdf utility. ps2pdf is just a small shell script that tries to simplify Ghostscript usage for PDF generation, but at the same time leaves a lot of Ghostscripts power behind. Rather use gs directly. Like this: gs \ -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \ -dBATCH \ -dSAFER \ -sCompatibilityLevel=1.4 \ -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress \ -sOutputFile=/path/to/test.pdf \ -c ".setpdfwrite" \ -f /path/to/test.ps share|improve this answer Thank you for your reply, pipitas. The gs version is "ESP Ghostscript 8.15.4 (2007-03-14)". My test.ps file converts without error on other systems running the same version of gs. An fsck of the hard disk volume reported and repaired about 30 file allocation table errors. So no doubt something is corrupted. I re-installed gs and gs-esp. What other programs or libraries should I re-install? I did recommend to the user a complete update of the Linux, but they have not done so yet. –  simplr Jun 26 '10 at 2:01 If not even a command gs -h works without spitting out an error, then surely your gs installation (or your harddisk) is corrupted somehow. –  Kurt Pfeifle Aug 2 '10 at 16:48 To find out which are the dependent .so files, you can run the 'list dynamic dependencies' command: ldd $(which gs). This list will show you what libraris gs needs to run, and also where it found them (or not). With that list of files you can figure which other packages you may need to re-install. (Or run dpkg-query -s ghostscript | grep -i depends.) –  Kurt Pfeifle Aug 2 '10 at 16:59 Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × My computer has Ubuntu and Vista and I use both equally. I want to know if it is possible to continue my torrent download from both the OSes. For example, I start a torrent download in Vista using uTorrent but the next time I boot to Ubuntu can I continue the download I started in Vista? share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 2 down vote accepted The easiest way is to mount your Windows partition from Ubuntu and point the torrent to the folder containing the partial download. Trying to go the other way around requires ext2ifs drivers and it doesn't always play well. Ubuntu comes with an NTFS driver built in, so it makes things a little easier :) After adding the torrent to the Linux client, the file will be checked (may take some time depending on the size) and once the amount downloaded is verified, it will continue. I would recommend using the same client across OSs to streamline things a little bit. Deluge is a good choice and has encryption capabilities built-in. share|improve this answer umm how do I mount my Windows partition from Ubuntu? –  infoquad Jan 29 '11 at 6:00 @inf please see help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions –  John T Jan 29 '11 at 6:02 Also use the same torrent file. Most clients have an option for putting current and completed .torrent files in specific directories. –  MBraedley Jan 29 '11 at 13:43 umm would an external hard drive make things easier? –  infoquad Jan 30 '11 at 4:27 Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I opened up the connections tab in Process Hacker and saw this... So my questions is this, What gives? share|improve this question 2 Answers 2 up vote 23 down vote accepted When you made activate.adobe.com point to localhost in your hosts file so that you could steal whatever Adobe products you use it made process hacker show that as your address. In other words those are just programs connecting to the localhost and because you named localhost "activate.adobe.com" it is showing that as your local address. share|improve this answer +1 Also quite amusing that when modifying a hosts file people will just blindly follow instructions without knowing what they're doing. –  Joe Taylor Mar 22 '11 at 11:22 @jb48394, @Joe Taylor Yeah I copied a friends huge ad-blocking hosts file (false accusation >_>), Anyway this leaves a couple of questions, how come all these programs are requesting from, and how come it does not say (Is the reverse lookup the work of process hacker) and why doesn't it show localhost? (which appears higher up on the file). –  fax Mar 22 '11 at 12:07 That's how a lot of programs work by connecting back into themselves and other thing running on the computer... I am assuming it does not show "localhost" because it is not a FQDN like "activate.adobe.com". I would suggest flushing your hosts file if your friend was letting cracks alter it there might be malicious entries. Instead you should use Ad-Block for your browser assuming you are using Chrome or Firefox. –  Arctor Mar 22 '11 at 12:15 @Neddy That's interesting point. Many programs use localhost to communicate with themselves, but to me this output looks a bit excessive. –  AndrejaKo Mar 22 '11 at 12:16 @AndrejaKo He/She sorted by "Local Address" that is why they are clustered together like that. –  Arctor Mar 22 '11 at 12:22 It looks like you have activate.adobe.com set to or in your hosts file. You or someone else may have done this to prevent adobe software from trying to activate. This program is then doing a reverse lookup for or and finding it in your hosts file. share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I need to analyze the channel my wifi card is operating on. I have found a program called Chanalyzer Pro, offered by metageek. However, it is not really worth it for me to buy the software if I will only use it one time. Does anyone know of any freeware alternatives, preferably for Linux? share|improve this question 2 Answers 2 If you have an Android device, grab Wifi Analyzer - its free and really good for showing whats going on with WIFI - and portable too. Most Linux WIFI connection programs should show you usefull "dumbed down" information, but you can see exactly what the signal strengths are by (from a terminal) typing iwlist WLANDEV scanning | less This will show you all the broadcasting ESSID's and quality, signal strength, noise level, security, mode, supported bit rates, Mac addresses - only its not very pretty. share|improve this answer up vote 1 down vote accepted While iwlist does show signal level, it does not show noise and other information which the spectrum analysis tool shows. I have discovered a program called Horst which is a simple channel analyzer, not as detailed as the commercial ones, but it does its job. Apparently, Kismet also has this capability through plug-ins. I will have to try that a bit later, when I get the time. share|improve this answer IWLIST does show the noise level for me, on the same line as the signal and quality. A quick and dirty command "iwlist eth1 scanning | egrep "ESSID|Noise" shows this. Horste does look pretty cool though - it seems to merge the output from ISLIST (or equivalent) and TCPDUMP (or equivalent) –  davidgo Feb 1 '13 at 20:17 @davidgo $ iwlist wlan1 scanning | egrep "ESSID|Noise" only shows the name of the ESSID for me –  b-vigilanT Feb 2 '13 at 18:50 Your Answer
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Oops, an error Loading. Please wait. Aint That A Shame Power Tab 3,563 views 9 this week no commentswrite comment 1 2 3 4 5 worth learning x 1 set tempo 34 Kb lead guitar WARNING: You are trying to view content from Ultimate-Guitar.com in an unauthorized application, which is prohibited. Please use an official Ultimate Guitar Tabs application for iPhone, iPad or Android to access legitimate chords, guitar, bass, and drum tabs from Ultimate-Guitar.com database. Type "ultimate guitar tabs" in Apple App Store's or Android Market's search to find the application. "Aint That A Shame" by Cheap Trick or get full version To get full version of this and 200,000 more tabs start free trial or play demo again Click here to download the latest Flash player. You can get instant access to “Aint That A Shame” right now. Get unlimited online access to 200,000+ tabs with HQ playback and tempo control by starting your free 3-day trial! Get FREE Trial To download “Aint That A Shame” Power Tab tab click button below Please note that you must have Power Tab software installed on your report bad tab 1 2 3 4 5 I want to post or [tab] You may want to rate the tab now too: select rating
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Team Ico Wiki Shadow creatures 150pages on this wiki The Shadow creatures (Japanese: 影 Kage, lit. "shadow") appear in both Ico, as enemies to be defeated, and Shadow of the Colossus, as spiritual entities representing something more. Their inherent connection between the two games is not obvious, but is still present. In Shadow of the Colossus they represent lesser foes, shadowed by the idols and their related colossi. In Ico, they are vicious enemies bent on taking back Yorda for their Queen. While their true nature is hidden, they play an important role in understanding both games. In Ico ShadowCreatures Ico Shadow creatures pursue Ico and Yorda. In Ico, the shadow creatures arise out of portals in the floor and charge Ico in an attempt to capture Yorda. All horned, they come in several varieties: some fly, some are bipeds, and some skitter around as bugs. While only the humanoid ones can attack Ico and snatch Yorda, the smaller, bug-like creatures become humanoid if the others have fallen, making them formidable foes in the quest of Ico. The shadow creatures are fixed on taking Yorda into the portal from which they came, and only attack Ico as a means to an end. They can be cleared entirely from an area in some instances, though in other instances they must be fled from. All shadow creatures can be vanquished by Yorda's unlocking of an idol door. If Yorda is left unattended in another area for too long, a single shadow creature appears to abduct her. The origin of the shadow creatures is not disclosed in Ico, but much speculation arose over their appearance in Shadow of the Colossus (see below). Clearly they are servants of the Queen who wish to bring Yorda back to be used in the Queen's ultimate purpose: self-preservation. Their shape suggests some kind of spiritual oddity: not quite human enough, not quite beast enough. In one of the final scenes of the game, shadow creatures in the forms of young boys similiar to Ico, appear. It is almost a certainty that these are the other horned boys who were captured and sacrificed to the Queen. This seems to indicate that the shadow creatures encountered throughout the game were the other sacrificed boys all along. The behavior of these horned shadows is aberrant at best; some of them attack Ico, only to flee at the sight of conflict, while others fly in circles with each other, paying little attention to Ico. There are 39 total; Ico would have been the 40th had he perished in his tomb. Spider Wraiths These scampering creatures will congregate around Yorda, but will not attempt to capture her. However, if Ico defeats a larger spirit that is nearby, they may morph into a replacement and launch an attack. Sentry Spirits Sentry Spirits attack with their flightless wings. They will often try to separate Ico and Yorda before picking her up and walking into a portal. Sentries are difficult to defeat as they can create protective shields around themselves. Fortress Ghouls These huge hulking spirits have the power to knock Ico across a room. They sometimes attack in pairs with such violence that Ico will find it impossible to counterattack. One of their main tactics is to back him into a corner so that he cannot protect Yorda. The sentinels are a pair of fierce and deadly apparitions. If they manage to capture Yorda, they will use their powerful wings to fly her out of Ico's reach. Horned Boys They appear only at the end of the game, in the pod room of the beginning of the game. Their behaviour is inconsistent, though for the most part they ignore Ico and only surround and stare at Yorda. Some attack Ico, some flee at the sight of conflict, while others fly in circles with each other. It is likely that all the shadow creatures that are encountered in the castle are these spirits in alternate forms. In Shadow of the Colossus Our first glimpse of the shadow creatures in the "spiritual prequel" to Ico is in the very opening scene as Wander arrives in the central Shrine of Worship. In his essay Antagonism and Continuity, Bruno Figueiredo describes the scene and its inherent connection to Ico like this: Shadow creatures from Shadow of the Colossus. The shadow creatures that reside in the Shrine of Worship are far more passive than their counterparts in Ico, simply congregating around Wander to stare at his unconscious body whenever he is returned to the shrine. "When Wander reaches the temple and places Mono over the altar, some shadowy figures appear before him. These are clearly a resemblance to ICO’s enemies or, as we know now, the dark essences of fellow horned boys, refined and under the possession of the Queen. As they appear 'rom the ground, Wander swiftly beckons Agro to move away as he raises his sword, reflecting a light which dissipates these creatures. At this moment, the skies are filled with thunder and a god, answering by the name of Dormin, awakes. He is immediately aroused by the sword Wander possesses and recognises that weapon for some unknown reason. It shouldn’t be too unreasonable to affirm that these mystery shadows are indeed the first step of a pre-arranged trial. Our character has the sword, so we proceed, but let’s imagine, for a brief moment, that he didn’t: this might have been an obstacle harder to outdo. The sword is much like a key in this land, awakening Dormin, reflecting the light and defeating the Colossus. And this is where the first connection with ICO appears. These foes are very similar to those who were seen in ICO. This, I think, is not without a meaning. Ueda was trying to remind us of those foes from his previous game, so troublesome and hard to defeat, at times. Well, this game is a whole new story... Wander defeats these with no trouble. He is warning the intelligent player that a whole new challenge is to come, much harder and... larger, eventually." And so we see that the role of the shadow creatures, in terms of conflict, is ultimately diminished in Shadow of the Colossus. Their role is a much more subtle one. As stated above, we gather hints to the origins of the shadow creatures in this game. Each time Wander defeats a colossus, he is transported back to the Shrine of Worship where we find him unconscious, surrounded by a number of shadow creatures equal to the number of colossi defeated. From this came the idea that the shadow creatures represent the spirit of Dormin broken and stored in the temple idols, now free thanks to the defeat of their related colossi. Additionally we see, in the closing scene, Wander possessed by Dormin. His appearance is that of a huge, shadowy creature. After the closing sequence Wander is reverted to the form of a baby with horns. And hence comes the theory that Wander and Mono produce the first generation of horned boys, the progeny of whom would become our protagonist Ico. Moreover the shadow creatures seen in Ico are presumably of the same breed as those who inhabit the Shrine of Worship in Shadow of the Colossus. It should also be noted that the official website (UK Version) states that, referring to the shadow creatures, "Everything casts a shadow" and also that "when an entity exists beyond the mortal realm, a shadow is all men can see." This confirms the nature of the shadow creatures to be supernatural, as they are the shadows of spirits which exist in another dimension or realm. Characters Wander  · Agro  · Mono  · Dormin  · Emon Magic Sigil  · Hard Mode The Forbidden Lands Shadow creaturesSave shrinesFruit treesWhite-tailed lizards The Shrine of Worship Soundtrack Roar of the Earth Walkthrough Time Attack Giantology campaign Characters Eric BelsonCasper ShillingEd GuylerArkady SimkinBoris AtlasovAndrew and Ellie Sayre Media Giantology podcasts (FirstInterview with Arkady SimkinThirdFourth) • IPICP memo Around Wikia's network Random Wiki
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Take the 2-minute tour × I can not find TTF version of popular LaTeX font family: Latin Modern Roman. I have found only OTF version. Is there any restrictions about TTF implementation or I am bad in searching? share|improve this question Why do you need a TTF version? –  Khaled Hosny May 14 '12 at 12:14 Because code that I write can not access OTF fonts –  Michael Z May 14 '12 at 12:17 I see. No there isn’t, but you can use a proper font editor to do the conversion, as answered below. –  Khaled Hosny May 14 '12 at 12:19 1 Answer 1 Not a direct answer, but a workaround: If you already have the otf font you can use e.g. FontForge to convert the files. OTF is just an extended version of TTF, the method how glyphs are specified is the same, so the characters will stay the same. share|improve this answer I don't think so. OpenType has two flavors, one TrueType one PS. I believe LM is PS flavor OTF and thus a CFF font and the glyphs are described in cubic Bézier splines while TrueType fonts use quadratic Bézier splines. Converting are possible but I am so sure that they will be identical. In addition, CFF and TrueType have very different hinting mechanism. –  Yan Zhou May 14 '12 at 13:14 I checked again, and you are right. OTF seems to be able to use cubic and quadratic splines, whereas TTF font only use quadratic splines. If the conversion algorithm is good it should not matter, the TTF font would just use (many) more control points than the OTF font. Anyways, if the OP has to use a TTF font there is most likely no alternative, I doubt that one would go through the chores of designing the font twice, once for OTF and once for TTF... –  Andreas Wallner May 16 '12 at 13:27 Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × In my preamble I am using: When I make a \cite reference the output is for example: (Lovell, 1972, p.133) What would I need to change in order to have the comma after the year appear as a colon? Such as: (Lovell, 1972: p.133) share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 Use \setcitestyle{notesep={: }}. See section 2.9 of the natbib manual for details. \setcitestyle{notesep={: }} author = {Author, A.}, year = {2001}, title = {Alpha}, Some text \citep[p.~99]{A01}. enter image description here share|improve this answer Wonderful! Immediate help, thank you very much. –  Martin Hall Dec 7 '12 at 9:33 Your Answer
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[Exclusive] Remix Phoenix's "Trying to Be Cool" According to the commentary version of Phoenix's new album Bankrupt! (available on Spotify), "Trying to Be Cool" was one of the first songs the band started writing for the album, but one of the last that they finished. We're not sure why it took so long, but we couldn't be happier with the result. We've already seen the band play the song live on Letterm an and SNL. Now so they've sent us its stems. Stems, for those who aren't aware of the technical jargon, are the individual components that make up a song (drums, vocals, horns, keyboards, etc.). You can download the stems below, and then remix them using whatever software or hardware you prefer. Don't hesitate to add in your own vocals and instruments, as well as any other changes you see fit. Download the stems here: Once you've finished your remix, send it to us on Soundcloud via this DropBox widget. Over the next few weeks, we'll share some of our favorites on the blog. Send us your sounds One last note: If you haven't yet, you can purchase Bankrupt! here: For more on Phoenix, watch Noisey's documentary In the Studio:
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Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Dissonance Listener David Sanders writes: My question is simple: why is it that when I point out people’s logical fallacies, they get extremely pissed off? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I feel that it is irresponsible to arm the skeptical public with the tools to defend itself without warning them ahead of time of the potential consequences of their actions. But seriously, keep fighting the good fight, David Sanders Consider yourselves warned. Many people will indeed get mad when their logical fallacies are pointed out to them. I have been often accused of making personal attacks when all I have done is correct a bit of bad logic – even when I was extremely careful not to make any statement about the person themselves but just to focus on the logic. When I really want to tweak someone I then point out that their accusation is based upon a false premise, is a non-sequitur, and also (if they had attacked me personally, which is often the case) represents the fallacy of inconsistency. That’s usually enough to drive away the angry e-mailer. But David wants to know why people get pissed off (perhaps his question was rhetorical, but I’m going to answer it anyway). The answer, I think, has to do with cognitive dissonance. You have to ask – why do people commit logical fallacies in the first place? Sure – it’s partly because they lack sufficient awareness of proper logic and fallacies to avoid, but that explains why they are vulnerable to committing fallacies, not necessarily why they make them. Let me back up one step further – how do people typically come to the conclusions they make? Neuroscience research and psychological research agree on the answer to this question: most people most of the time (this means you) arrive at conclusions for emotional and subconscious reasons. We humans have evolved emotions specifically to make decisions for us, so we won’t be bothered thinking all the time. Better to be disgusted by tainted food then to have to analyze it and think about the risks vs benefits. It’s quick, easy, and correct often enough. Another example – it is apparently more evolutionarily advantageous to be sexually attracted to a mate with physical features that are associated with being a good breeding partner, than to have to think about those features consciously. But humans also have this enormous frontal lobe, which is really useful for decision-making. This is where we get our “executive function” – the ability to see the big picture, take the long view, and exert some control and planning onto our actions. So the primitive bits of our brain take care of the day-to-day, down and dirty, life and death decisions (should I run from this angry tiger?) while the more recently evolved frontal lobes deliberate, plan, and scheme. The brain, of course, is a functioning whole. So what happens when our subconscious primitive bits conflict with our higher thinking bits? This creates what is called cognitive dissonance – the brain is conflicting with itself. I really want to eat that cheesecake, but I also know it is not good for me and I want to lose some weight. This chick is nothing but trouble, but my goodness does she have a sweet rack. I really need to think of myself as a good person, even though I just screwed over my colleague at work. You get the idea. Cognitive dissonance occurs whenever we try to hold two conflicting beliefs at the same time. At some level we recognize the conflict, and it makes us feel bad. (Normon, coordinate!) The brain punishes us for this cortical transgression by releasing unhappy neurotransmitters (admittedly, this is a bit of an oversimplification). So, in response, we search for a way to resolve the conflict. This is called a rationalization. People are really good at this. (As an aside, we also compartmentalize our beliefs to keep them from conflicting.) Once we have found a way to resolve the conflict our brains reward us with a jolt of happy neurotransmitters – this strongly reinforces the behavior. So we tell ourselves things like – I worked out yesterday so I can reward myself with a little cheesecake. I know she’s a handful, but that’s because of her troubled childhood – she just needs more support. My co-worker deserved what they got. This is often where the logical fallacies come into play – during the rationalization phase – the lies we tell ourselves to relieve our cognitive dissonance. It is a lot easier to commit a little logical fallacy, than to work hard at changing our emotional makeup, or to challenge long and strongly held beliefs. When logic and emotion conflict it is a lot easier to subtly (or not-so-subtly, depending on the sophistication of the person) twist the logic, rather than to painfully force ourselves to grow emotionally. In fact, intelligent people are often better at rationalization and are not necessarily more logical. Now back to the question – what happens when you point out a logical fallacy to someone. Well, you just pulled the carpet out from under their juicy rationalization. You are threatening to remove their happy neurotransmitters and reestablish cognitive dissonance. People really hate this. Now they have to search for another logical fallacy to shore up the one you are so rudely threatening. This often involves attacking you – which is a convenient way of dismissing your pesky logic. It helps to recognize that we all behave this way. It’s just the way our brains evolved (and if you think about it, what would you change?). Being rational involves years of hammering away at our false beliefs, tearing them down one by one. It involves becoming emotionally invested in the process – in logic and empiricism – rather than in specific cherished conclusions. It involves growing emotionally and becoming more secure. You can’t expect someone to do this instantly, any more than you can expect someone who has never exercised to suddenly run a marathon. In practical terms, you have to decide what your goal is in discussing logic and science with someone. If it is a family member you want to become more skeptical, then you have to gently plant seeds of doubt and logic, then nurture them often over months and years. You have to deal with their emotional investments, not just their logic. If, on the other hand, it is an obnoxious e-mail or forum poster – fire away. In fact if you really want to piss someone off, do not attack them or give them any justification for their rationalizations – just get hyper-logical on their ass. 12 comments to Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Dissonance • James01 “This chick is nothing but trouble, but my goodness does she was a sweet wrack” Is it just me, or does that not make sense? :) Interesting post though. • dhawk Maybe you could comment on the following: On the forums, a question was posed about whether or not pointing out logical fallacies is a valid way to debate. In his words, “So what gives logical fallacies their authority, since using a logical fallacy doesn’t necessarily mean the argument is false?” The thread has gotten rather long, and I think a good summary of it is here. I think this has relevance to this post because many people might not accept the validity of your criticism. • Steve Page I think it’s a typo, based upon “…does she have a sweet rack (a slang word for major boobage)”. Steve, Re: Cognitive dissonance, I think it’s an over-simplification to suggest that it’s subconscious v conscious/executive vs functional. I think your subsequent paragraph – (paraphrased) “two conflicting beliefs that cause discomfort until resolution, upon which our brain rewards itself” – is excellent in its conciseness, and I fully intend to use in my forthcoming social psychology exam. :) Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson’s “Mistakes were made (but not by me)” (2007) is a fantastic review of dissonance theory starting from Festinger in the 50′s and covering the following half-century, and I highly recommend it. One highlight: In one experiment, [social psychologist Lee] Ross took peace proposals created by Israeli negotiators, labeled them as Palestinian proposals and asked Israeli citizens to judge them. “The Israelis liked the Palestinian proposal attributed to Israel more than they liked the Israeli proposal attributed to the Palestinians,” he says. “If your own proposal isn’t going to be attractive to you when it comes from the other side, what chance is there that the other side’s proposal is going to be attractive when it actually comes from the other side?” Closer to home, social psychologist Geoffrey Cohen found that Democrats will endorse an extremely restrictive welfare proposal, one usually associated with Republicans, if they think it has been proposed by the Democratic Party, and Republicans will support a generous welfare policy if they think it comes from the Republican Party. Label the same proposal as coming from the other side, and you might as well be asking people if they will favor a policy proposed by Osama bin Laden. This ties in with what you said on the SGU podcast recently, in that a skeptic should be more concerned about the process/method than the outcome. IMO, skeptical thinking aids the resolution of cognitive dissonance, because if one gets a finding that one really doesn’t want – say for example a believer finds out that their belief in the supernatural does not hold up when explored under experimental conditions – they either create a false justification that undermines the validity of the experiment, or they change their opinion about the supernatural. If one’s main concern is the method or the process, changing one’s belief is not a big deal. I’d happily accept that psychokinesis, mind-reading or scrying were factual, as long as the results were replicable, peer-reviewed and consistently successful. • XalXuffasch While I think you are partially correct, with cognitive dissonance, I think there is a simpler explanation. I think when most people are having arguments they are not arguing “logically.” People end up misinterpreting “You argument is flawed.” for “You are an idiot.” In colloquial arguments how often does an argument’s defense go straight to ad hominem? • GHcool Excellent post, Steve. As a hobby, I enjoy editing Wikipedia and I find this to be especially true on there when I come into conflict with ideologically minded editors who try to add disinformation into articles (such as Holocaust denial into articles about the Holocaust). Thanks to your podcast and your various blogs, I have some great tools for pointing out why that is not acceptable on Wikipedia. When arguing with the ideologues, I even include a Wikipedia link to the logical fallacy they commit so they can read up on it themselves. This tactic has proven extremely successful to me and I very rarely lose an argument with these people. • JazzMac251 i’d just like to say, sweet rack FTW • “just get hyper-logical on their ass” haha nice • jedischooldropout Such a well timed post… I am in fact dealing with this at work right now. A long story, not worth recounting at length to practical strangers, but it’s been an excellent challenge. I am totally the bad guy on this one… except in the eyes of those who are looking at things rationally. Which is nice support. But most importantly is how challenging it is to try to look at my own positions with logic and one by one back down from the positions which I know I have been wrong about… but do you think that is happening in both directions? No. Of course not. It’s a bit tiresome, but fascinating all at the same time. • Aragon You people need serious help! No offense but I used to suffer from the same hyper intellectualism that you all are exhibiting in spades. Then I got married. For most people, the point of argument is to win. Yes, I know that is not the best way to find the truth. I know that is not the best way to collaborate and analyze. That is not the best way to interact with your fellow human for purposes of coming up with the best solution. That is not the scientific method. That is not honest! But, it is, likely, evolutionarily advantageous. What matters more to your social hierarchical success – reasoned argument or pursuasive argument won at any cost to the truth. It is axiomatic to state, as goes your status, so goes your procreative success! You don’t need Charles Darwin to get this one. Merely observe teenage female or male interactions. Does anything look even remotely rational? Congitive dissonance, attribuition theory, etc… huey… . Actually, as a Cal Berkeley Major in Psych, I found that these theories are supported and confirmed by really interesting experiments and attendant results however in this instance reference to theories over simplifies the obvious. Someone refers to basic unavoidable facts showing that you are wrong it will precipitate one of two responses: You will get pissed, call them a liar, and end the conversation while hoping to salvage matters later or, You will admit your falacy, perhaps lose status, definitley confer upon our oponent status, and walk away a definite loser. In terms of evolutionary theory the “truth” of the matter is of “zero” consequence. What is of consequence is option 1 or 2 as shown above. And, of course, these options are not exhaustive, please resist the temptation to say, but.. but,… but… , and realize I have a post character limit here. Fact of the matter is that you are dealing with humans whose main currency is not truth but is social status same being a surrogate for procreative success. • Aragon, Your premise is that evolutionary selective pressure operating within human social systems favors competition. However, increasingly there is evidence that within groups there is as much or greater selective pressures for cooperation. Your argument is actually wrong on three levels. It commits the naturalistic fallacy that whatever is natural for humans is preferred. Rather, we can understand human nature and then work with that to achieve a more optimal outcome. Second, it is based upon an outdated and flawed concept of selective pressures. Third, teenagers in the throws of hormones and competition for mates should not determine the optimal behavior of humans at all stages of life. Once married with children, how does status affect your future reproductive success? Perhaps cooperation is more adaptive – better for your children – at that age. I maintain that it is much more advantageous to consider that the purpose of argument is to achieve common ground – not to win at all costs, even if you are wrong. If you do that, people will generally not be fooled (we are all much more transparent to others than we care to admit), and you will actually lose status. Admitting your own error and correcting it will earn respect – and will improve your opinions and arguments. These outcomes, if anything, are adaptive. • Aragon I over generalize. My comments and analysis should limit themselves to the class of individuals whose reaction to the truth is as described by you. The reference to teenage interactions was for illustrative purposes and certainly is not a good measure of anything. But I thought the illustration somewhat irresistible in a rhetorical sense :) . Forgive me. And yes admitting mistakes is good and sometimes the way to go if one is looking to maximize status. But if you are talking about the typical angy reaction from people you are describing then I think that they are pursuing a base evolutionary strategy. This is not to say it will be successful. Now, you have confronted me with facts or arguments which contradict my position. However, it bothers me not, as my purpose here is to engage and learn. Additionally, I have the facility to qualify my position or change my position or modify my position so as to concede the point gracefully or to change the subject alltogether. Others however, lacking the same facility, have fewer options available to them when confronted by facts which may make them look silly. In terms of what response, cooperation versus competition, in the context of argument style, has the most utility, I would only note that the complexities of this are beyond me but would reference gaming theory as perhaps the best instrument for purposes of such an analysis. But, as relates to the response you described and allowing for huge generalisations on my part I’d say that the response is one calculated to save face and not one born out of cognitive dissonance. That said, I am amazed at the reaction of Run Away Man Made Global Warming proponents to any factual challenge. It’s like they go nuts! Perhaps this is the dissonance you refer to because you are getting this reaction from scientists, academics, and others you’d think would be interested in the give and take. Or maybe it exemplifies what I am pointing to. Because, this conversation is happening in the public arena thereby changing the dynamics typically associated with the exchange of ideas among scientists and academics. • [...] Logical Fallacies and Cognitive Dissonance [...] Leave a Reply
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The Twilight Saga Views: 349 Replies to This Discussion Well actually I loved that part in the movie. It was sorta funny and cool but people just assume way to fast! I think it's okay that they did that. In my opinion, I didn't think they were mocking the cover at all. But you know those movie biz people, they have to add something to the movie that wasn't in the book. Yep I know what you mean I had this talk before the movie came out with my friends say ppl are going to think that. well the movies always have different parts and the books do to in all of the movies some parts are their just shorter but I think ur right they did not play chest in the book and it should have not been in the movie AT ALL! Right!!!! and I don't think Chess is something that Bella would like anyway!!!!! I can see Edward likeing it but deffiantly not Bella!!!! well in Eclipse bella goes to the cullens and plays chess after she and her dad talk about the plane tickets so I think she mite like chess but maybe not I knw Edward does though Well.. that seems reasonable enough.. Yeah.. I didn't like it very much because it is totally unrelated and makes it very unnatural. And the part where Edward catches the apple in twilight, too! It mocks the cover of the book totally, but that didn't seem unnatural. In fact, that's one of my favorite parts in the movie! But yeah, the chess part in breking dawn wasn't a hit scene. Exactly! it just doesn't seem real enough! © 2014   Created by Hachette Book Group.
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T NATION | Newest in Training The Intelligent & Relentless Pursuit of Muscle™ Stop Using Flat Bench Press! The Flat Bench Press Screws You Up! I love the bench press, but even with solid technique and balanced muscular development, I always end up suffering shoulder problems. This, of course, has always frustrated me. Well, thanks to a conversation I had in the gym with John Meadows, I decided to try something different, something that will no doubt be regarded as heresy by a majority of lifters. What I tried drastically reduces shoulder stress and is actually a better chest builder! The answer is a decline bench press — not the conventional decline you probably do every once in a while when you remember to add it to your routine, but a very slight decline bench press. When I say slight decline, I'm referring to about 3 degrees. As a practical matter, simply put a 25-pound or 45-pound weight plate under the foot end of a bench, which will increase the foot-end elevation by 1.5 to 1.75 inches. Advantages of the Slight Decline Press Even if the angle difference is barely noticeable, the 3-degree decline reduces shoulder involvement immensely. It's simply a more natural pressing angle. You can use a little more weight at this angle, which is why powerlifters use such a big arch: it simulates the slight decline angle. But that's not the main reason why the 3-degree decline is effective. The angle simply shifts more of the load to the chest instead of the front delt. I never liked traditional declines done on a decline bench because you can't use leg drive. But the slight decline allows you to do that. From my perspective, there's no downside and no reason to do a pure flat bench. The 3-degree decline is pretty much a flat bench, but it's safer and more effective. The slight decline is really no different than a regular bench press as far as setup is concerned. In fact, you hardly notice you're in a decline, so you shouldn't modify the mechanics: Lower to the nipple line or slightly above. Keep the elbows directly under the bar at all times. Press the bar in a slight backward arc so that it ends up moving toward the eyes as you press up. Ignore the masses. Adding a slight decline to bench produces better pec development with no shoulder issues. You really can't beat that.
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Tolkien Gateway Chris Seeman Revision as of 09:50, 3 April 2010 by Morgan (Talk | contribs) Chris Seeman Biographical information EducationPh.D. in Near Eastern Religions OccupationAssistant Professor in Religious Studies LocationCoe College, Iowa Christopher Joseph Seeman is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has written both scholarly articles and gaming material concerned with J.R.R. Tolkien's works. Selected (and incomplete) list of works. Roleplaying Game Modules External links
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Monday, December 10, 2012 There is still justice in the world. *Warning* Do not have anything in your mouth when you read this. PETA Crashes Biker Gathering  What a wonderful coming together of two diverse groups! We need more gatherings where the idiot activists are given warm, moist, aromatic welcomes like this one. This is why PETA usually protests women wearing fur rather than bikers wearing leather. Sounds to me like the old saying, “you mess with the bull, and you get the horns”. Gee, I guess these characters thought that Bikers where going to be politically correct like the rest of the wimpy world. 1. I'm confused. The Snopes link debunks the story. 2. Seen it before, but still tickles my funnybone. :-)
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What's Happening collapse/expand topics back to FiveManBand/LiveActionTV-G-M 11:34:27 PM Sep 26th 2012 edited by nirao01 Can I add this? Glee - New Directions (The remaining members in season 4) The LeaderBlaine (elected leader of the club) The LancerBrittany (vice president to Blaine) The Smart GuyArtie The ChickTina The Big GuySam Tagalong KidsJoe and Sugar The MentorWill Sixth RangersWade/Unique, Marley and Jake 01:08:03 PM Sep 27th 2012 edited by Nocturna No. 1) There's too many characters. 2) The fact that it's "the remaining characters" suggests that there's no real team dynamic. 3) It violates the 4 guys and a girl Chick criteria. If the first five characters are actually a team of five, and they form two pairs of Foils with the fifth character as a mediator, you can add it to the sandbox page for the upcoming supertrope. (The sandbox page is linked in the first post of the cleanup thread.) back to FiveManBand/LiveActionTV-G-M Privacy Policy
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 Sun’s marketing out to confuse the world As noted in my previous post, that there is an ultra 45, turns out my internal sources inside Sun say that it’s a Sparc based workstation. Can it get any more confusing? Untill the Ultra 20, all Sun Ultra’s were SPARC based, then they went and muddied the waters with a Ultra 20, and soon to be released Ultra 40, that are AMD Opteron based system, now Marketing has the Ultra 45 on the table supposedly a SPARC machine? How do they justify there numbering scheme. For more blogs related to Sun, workstations, x64, sparc, Opteron, marketing OpenSolaris and Solaris. Blogger Phillip Fayers said... You don't really need internal sources to tell you the Ultra 45 is a SPARC. Just do a search on Sun's web site. That will point you to a copy of the Solaris 10 Sun Hardware Platform Guide which lists the Ultra 45 under SPARC systems. Its platform name is SUNW,A70 codename Chicago. 5:56 PM   Anonymous Anonymous said... hopefully the u45 uses a shallow motherboard like the SB2500 it is replacing 1:00 PM   Post a Comment << Home
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The UFO Iconoclast(s) Thursday, June 28, 2012 Why ufologists are NOT taken seriously From Clark: From Ledger: UFO exist! (Yes, ABC News confirms it) Click HERE for ABC News report... Tuesday, June 26, 2012 Up, up and away? (Maybe not) The October 1977 issue of Official UFO magazine had the article, pictured above, about Richard Shaver and his “revelations.” The article by Richard R. Toronto [Page 33 ff.] elaborated on Shaver’s Detrimental Robots (Deros) as related to Toronto by a “guru” – Kid Revahs. Toronto’s piece also covers Ray Palmer’s insertion into the Shaver oeuvre. It’s all a little goofy, and can be dismissed by the more circumspect of you. This is Shaver, visiting a cavern, where he said Deros live: Richard Shaver was not quite right, as you know. And I ignore the ramblings of men who sport beards like Shaver’s. Such men are a little off kilter in my estimation, and we’ve dealt with the matter in an earlier posting here (and elsewhere.) That aside, where and why did the idea of underground men (or gods) derive? One can understand gods or life-forms from the heavens, but from beneath our feet, from the underground? No UFO creature, who has allegedly communicated with their witness (see Jose Caravaca’s repository at his blog, The Caravaca Files) indicated they were from the nether regions. Even as figments of witness imagination or input from an external reality (the Caravca Distortion hypothesis), the underground is virtually absent as the originating venue for UFO visitors. Fiction writers (science fiction and otherwise) have created people from below, but UFO witnesses haven’t bought into that scenario for their experiences. (Shaver’s views have pretty much been ignored by everyone who purports to be part of the fringe, either as a witness to strange happenings or as an investigator of same.) Mythology is rife with gods and beings from the nether regions but, apart from the Irish legends of leprechauns and wee people and the religiously fevered few who have been bedeviled by demons from hell or the underworld, UFO witnesses’s beings are usually (almost always) from the skies. Shaver’s psychotic creation of The Elders, Deros, Teros, and all the rest, promoted by Ray Palmer, never caught on with anyone, at least any one with an ounce of common sense. But UFO visitors from outer space still capture the imagination of many and creatures of the underworld have all but disappeared from Fortean literature. Does this mean that there is some kind of validity to UFO reports of beings from space? Or will UFO creatures from galaxies far, far away also go the way of Shaver’s beings? If bearded ufologists have their way, we’ll be stuck with extraterrestrials for some time to come. Sunday, June 24, 2012 UFO Group Think? (Of course) A piece in the June 25th 2012 New Yorker (pictured above) by Ezra Klein, Unpopular Mandate: Why do politicians reverse their positions [Page 30 ff.] has material that is applicable to ufology and many who comment at this blog and especially elsewhere (UFO UpDates and Kevin Randle’s blog). The material I’m referring to is psychological in nature, and caught my attention with this paragraph on Page 31: “Jonathan Haidt, a professor of psychology at New York University’s business school, argues, in a new book, “The Righteous Mind,” that to understand human beings, and their politics, you need to understand that we are descended from ancestors who would not have survived if they hadn’t been very good at belonging to groups…our minds contain a variety of mental mechanisms that make us adept at promoting our group’s interests, in competition with other groups… One of those mechanisms is figuring out how to believe what the group believes… once group loyalties are engaged, you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments [italics mine]. Thinking is mostly just rationalization, mostly just a search for supporting evidence. Psychologists have a term for this: “motivated reasoning” which Dan Kahan, a professor of law and psychology at Yale, defines as “when a person is conforming [italics mine] their assessments of information to some interest or goal that is independent of accuracy [italics mine, again].” Writing about political parties, which I’m applying to UFO groups, Klein says this [Page 32]: “…parties, though based on a set of principles, aren’t disinterested teachers of truth. They’re organized groups looking to increase their power [me again]. Or, as the psychologists would put it, their reasoning may be motivated by something other than accuracy [yep, italics mine]. Finally (from Page 33) “…we’re increasingly able to choose our information sources based on their tendency to back up whatever we already believe, we don’t even have to hear the arguments from the other side, much less give them serious attention [italics mine, of course].” Thought-bias among ufologists and UFO mavens is palpable to most, but that bias need not be endemic to the discussion of the UFO phenomenon. That group-think remains the so strong in the UFO community is distressing, but not unexpected, as the UFO topic has the tendency to attract a large segment of society that doesn’t have any intellectual acumen. If we can, here, keep our comments (and postings) free of group think or “motivated reasoning,” we’ll be more than pleased with our small effort to upscale UFO thought and hypothetical thinking.
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From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia Revision as of 19:03, April 15, 2012 by (talk) Jump to: navigation, search Jewish stuff More Jewish stuff “ I do enjoy listening to a bit of Ko$ha.- ” ~ Oscar Wilde on Kosher Kosher (Also kosher kheshim and shevim netekhevim) is a mysterious Jewish spice consumed by Jews in large quantities, without which food is unpalatable to them. Despite the consumption of such large quantities of this substance for so long a period of time, little is really known about its composition, other than that the flesh of swine contains an enzyme which instantly and permanently inactivates it. (This is due, of course, to the total control by Jews of the media, by which means they are able to suppress the publication of the composition of Kosher, thus keeping the proceeds of the lucrative Kosher Tax to themselves, with which they control world finance.) See also, "The Protocols of the Elders of Empire Poultry". Kosher, comes from the Hebrew word "Kasher" meaning "toxicity" or "inedibility". Some experts say that observant Jews eat the Kosher spice as a form of self inflicted pain, so as to atone for one's sins. Although many attempts have been made to crack the secret of Kosher, resulting in such products as Kosher Delis, Kosher pickles, Kosher salt, etc., the true Jewish person cannot even bear the taste of a minute quantity of such ersatz products, although occasionally the lesser Jews may dabble. To date, the closest approximation to Kosher has been by the Chinese in their numerous eating establishments, acceptable to all but the most fastidious of Jews. Some researchers suspect that this mysterious Jewish spice is chemically similar to MSG, also known as Mad Stinking Goat extract. One of the many consequences of eating kosher Any such attempts at producing Kosher are investigated by a committee of Rabbis (from the word, kohlrabi, a kosher vegetable which is nonetheless inedible, and an obvious reference to the Kol Nidre, a prayer said on Yom Kipper, a day on which no food is eaten, except kippers; the connections are quite clear when delineated thusly), and if the attempt is deemed successful, the food is granted the coveted hechsher (meaning, a sound most often followed by Gesundheit). In United States, the most common hechsher is "Oh, you can eat this now!", usually shortened to OU. On their holiday Passover, Jews subsist on a special variety of Kosher called the matzoh from the Hebrew word for found, as in "I just found this, do you think it's edible?". The response of most people when offered a matzoh to eat gives the festival its name. The laws of Kashrut are not, however, applicable in Chinese restaurants or when on holiday. edit Kosher transfer Some scholars have proposed that Kosher properties can be transferred to otherwise non-Kosher objects. For example, pigs are not non-kosher per se, they are non-kosher because of their habits and lifestyle. Though it would be difficult to raise pigs outside of a porcine lifestyle and environment, in theory, it may be possible to create Kosher pigs and hence, Kosher bacon. edit Possible Sources Many scientists speculate over what causes this kosher spice. Studies have found that the blood of young virgins is high in it, which may explain the odd practice of something known as a brissבְרִית מִילָה . In which blood can easily be obtained to bless food with. The result, of course, is delicious. edit List of Kosher Foods Definitely edible • Kosher salt • Beef • The nasal hairs of pigs (ear hairs accepted if they visit temple) • Chicken • Christian Babies • Chinese Food • Matzo Ball Soup • Grues • Monkeys • Various types of metallic alloys • Carbon • Nitrogen in liquid form • Nuclear Waste • Domestic Cats • Pikachu • Money • Kittens • Matza • Veggie Bacon • Muslims (only those that own anal beads) • Ben Randall • JELLY (to be eaten with every meal) • Powergrain cereal • David "BPS" Haxton (must be blessed first) • Quavers • Pee • G'filter fish edit List of Non-Kosher Foods Pork flakes Be a good Jewish child and eat your pork flakes edit See also For those without comedic tastes, the so-called experts at Wikipedia think they have an article about Kosher. Personal tools
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From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Bloink1 solid This text does not appear to be entirely English. Either move it to the appropriate wiki or finish the translation and clean up the prose so it reads proper here. If this page is not fixed in 30 days, it may become a candidate for deletion. Personal tools
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Slash Boxes All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report use Perl Log In Log In [ Create a new account ] cwest (1514)   (email not shown publicly) AOL IM: caseyrwest (Add Buddy, Send Message) Perl geek. Journal of cwest (1514) Friday May 03, 2002 11:06 AM [ #4648 ] I have a family reunion to attend tomorrow. The only link I have to this family is my mother and she won't even be there. Thankfully, I don't be staying with relatives to make their life miserable, what with a screaming baby at midnight. On the other hand, the majority of this family is sane. I don't think we have any criminals and most everyone has jobs and legitimate children. All the old folks are retired Air Force or married to one, or widow of one. All the folks in grandma and grandpa age are cool, except my grandmother. All the other grandmas and grandpas tell stories about her, from years gone by. Since the baby was born my grandmother has seemed quite normal though. Interesting, that. All the middle aged people are either in mid-life crisis mode or, the majority, are layers, accountants, doctors; anyone who can be too good for me. At the last reunion I had an uncle of some kind lecture me on the woes of not getting a bachelors degree, he said "You'll never get into management without moving past a two year degree, you'll be stuck going nowhere." I'd like to feel that at least my meaningless job titles more than make that statement false. It should be interesting to see his reaction to how I "turned out." Everyone in my age group is cool. We're all funny and witty, and we all have something to talk about that's interesting. It would seem that we have had enough interesting experiences with extended family to make the 10 hour party bearable with story telling. And the young kids, spoiled or... spoiled. I usually just ignore them and they're quite fine with that because they weren't going to share with me anyway. Now it comes to my family. I have the new baby on the block, and my wife is still a mystery to many. The ones that know her, love her. That should be both good and bad during this trip. Chastity and I are quite protective of your bundle of joy so I think we may have a rough time with the baby passing at the reunion. Things like, "How do we know she washed her hands after she wen't to the bathroom, now she's putting her finger in the baby's mouth!" tend to bother us. Now it's time for packing up baby clothes, daipers, furniture, blankets, washing basins. Traveling with baby is an adventure in cargo capacity. Not to mention I need a hair cut, my car needs washed, my lawn needs cut and my wife is sick as a dog in a rain storm. :-) More | Login | Reply Loading... please wait. • I have a bachelor's degree, and I have no intention of moving into management any time soon, if ever. Not all careers are "successful" careers, but success does not have to include being a doctor, lawyer, or manager. In fact, most non-programmers I know instantly recognize my career as a "success." Do you want to move into management some day? If not, don't let it bother you. All the same, that bachelor's degree can open doors. And I'm not talking management doors.
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Slash Boxes All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report use Perl Log In Log In [ Create a new account ] Journal of nicholas (3034) Monday February 08, 2010 06:04 AM ... unless you're a Sikh [ #40166 ] I didn't know about that one. I knew that a practising member of the Sikh faith is allowed to wear a turban instead of a helmet when riding a motorcycle. I wonder how many other such exemptions are carefully written into UK law. I need a list - Wikipedia you fail me! :-( More | Login | Reply Loading... please wait.
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Slash Boxes All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report More | Login | Reply Loading... please wait. • If you write it like a perl app from 10 years ago, they will probably freak out. If you tell someone who doesn't read source code that it is a perl app, they might freak out. If you write it like most Catalyst devs say to, you'll probably have a well-engineered and maintainable app. Disclaimer: I'm not a webapp developer. • The "freak out" comment was more about it being in Perl than the technology. I suspect that if we pitch it as a black box that does HTTP we'll be okay, but I'm a little wary -- because of inexperience, not because I don't think Perl can do what it's supposed to. Good words about Catalyst though, thanks. • A pre-written app like webmin [1] might suffice. But if you're writing it, I suggest starting with CGI::Application. As for a database, I'm doubtful you will do well without one, so add BerkeleyDB [2] to the mix. [1] [] [2] [] • Regarding no database: you can do an awful lot with the filesystem. I have a couple of reasons for wanting to ditch the database: 1. Acceptance: It's another piece of technology for end-users (IT folks) to object to -- "Perl's okay, but we're an MSSQL shop!" 2. Complexity: Typical ORM mismatch foo. Good thought about BerkeleyDB though. Even though it's gained a lot of complexity you can still use it very simply. • It is actually quite easy to separate the build system from krang. I did that and use it in my projects. I have put it on google [] • If you're looking for something with low dependencies and low learning curve, CGI::Application is definitely the way to go. You could also use something like Titanium which is pretty much just a bundle of C::A and some of it's more useful plugins. As far as self-contained apps go, you could go the Krang, PAR or CPAN route. All of which have problems: PROS - This is what I did for Smolder and it makes installation fairly simple if you know what platforms you're going to deploy to since you can prebu • Catalyst has some builtin PAR support. [] • If you're allowed to build things a bit from the ground up, you should play with Continuity. I've found it to be fantastic for almost direct ports from command line to web interfaces.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 Elizabeth Báthory alias the Blood Countess User Rating: / 7 Article Index 1. Elizabeth Báthory alias the Blood Countess 2. Iron Maiden 3. Blood Baths 4. Castle Csejthe 5. The Tortures of Elizabeth Bathory Countess Elizabeth Báthory (Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, Alžbeta Bátoriová in Slovak, Alžběta Báthoryová in Czech, Elżbieta Batory in Polish, 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614), was a Hungarian countess from the renowned Báthory family. Erzsebet (also written Elizabeth) Bathory was born in 1560 to a wealthy and prominent family during a time of war between the Turks and Austria-Hungary armies. She was the daughter of Baron and Baroness George and Anna Bathory.  She had many powerful relatives: a cardinal, princes, and a cousin who was prime minister of Hungary. Though frequently cited as Hungarian, Erzsebet is more likely to belong to the Slovak Republic (During this time, her land shifted hands between the armies of Europe.) Most of her adult life was spent at Castle Cachtice, near the intersection of Austria, Hungary, and the Slovak Republic. In 1571, her cousin Stephen (1575-86) became Prince of Transylvania and additionally assumed the throne of Poland. He was a very effective ruler, but his plans of uniting Europe against the Ottoman Empire were foiled by the invading armies of Ivan the Terrible. A strange coincidence: Prince Steven Bathory of Transylvania participated in an expedition led by Vlad Dracula in Walachia in 1546 to recover his throne. A Dracula fief, Castle Fagaras, became a Bathory possession during the time of Elizabeth. Both families had a dragon design on their family crests. At fourteen Erzsebet gave birth to an illegitimate child fathered by a peasant boy and conceived at the chateau for her intended mother-in-law, Countess Ursula Nadasdy. She married Count Ferencz Nadasady on May 8th 1575, when Erzsebet was fifteen and Ferencz twenty-six. Erzsebet retained her own surname, while the Count changed his to Ferencz Bathory. She took over household affairs at Castle Sarvar, the Nadasdy family estate while Ferencz headed for the battlefields and began scoring victories against the Turks as early as 1578. He eventually earned the nickname "Black Knight of Hungary". He also lent the Hungarian Crown a great deal of money to finance the war against the Turks. Erzsebet Bathory was a woman of exceptional beauty. Her long raven hair was contrasted with her milky complexion. Her amber eyes were almost catlike, her figure voluptuous. She was excessively vain and her narcissism drove her to new depths of perversion. The Countess would spend days in front of her large dark mirror she had designed herself. It was so comfortable that it even had supports on which to lean one's arms, so as to be able to stand for many hours in front of it without feeling tired. Erzsebet gave birth to another three daughters, Anna in 1585, Orsika (Ursula), Kato (Katherina) and eventually one son, Paul in 1598. While Ferencz was away on one of his military campaigns, the Countess began to visit her lesbian aunt, Countess Karla Bathory. Klara was a sort on nymphomaniac who also enjoyed killing people in the Roman way. Her four husbands died (the first two perished by her hand) and she was finally raped by an entire Turkish garnison before being stabbed to death. Erzsebet became acquainted with the art of inflicting pain and death, in the same time she was also developing an interest in Black Magic. Thorko, a servant in her castle, instructed her in the ways of witchcraft, at the same time encouraging her sadistic tendencies. Erzsebet wrote one day to Ferencz: “Thorko has taught me a lovely new one. Catch a black hen and beat it to death with a white cane. Keep the blood and smear a little of it on your enemy. If you get no chance to smear it on his body, obtain one of his garments and smear it”.  Her husband, when he was home, also took part in torturing the servants, giving her lessons from his own experience of torturing war prisoners. When the Countess became romantically involved with a black-clad stranger with pale complexion, dark eyes and abnormally sharp teeth, the villagers who believed in vampires had more reason toe be wary of Csejthe Castle. Perhaps, to the imaginative, the stranger was Dracula himself, returned from the grave. The Countess returned alone from her sojourn with the stranger and some of the villagers stated that her mouth showed telltale signs of blood. When Count Nadasdy returned he quickly forgave his wife's infidelity. Page 1 of 5 All Pages Famous Vampires The Vampires Gallery
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Kim Harrison- The Good, The Bad and The Undead Rachel Morgan has found that she's a lot stronger then she thought. She can tap into Ley line power, which is something a Earth witch shouldn't be able to do, that's for Ley and black witches. Nick the ex-rat is now Rachel's boyfriend but Rachel's eye still sees some nice looking male meat around the Hollows. Like the evil Trent, who she now thinks is killing Ley Line witches until he hires her to clear his name and Kist who is a living vamp. While trying to learn about her powers and pass a class in school Rachel accidentally makes her boyfriend her familiar, no one should be able to make a human into a familiar, this was done because Rachel didn't know she was using  a spell book written by a demon . Now all her powers must be grounded by her familiar and goes through her boyfriend and can kill him if she's not careful.  At the same time Ivy, her living vampire roommate, wants her and even though they have talked about only being friends Ivy's vampire family wants her to get control of Rachel and make her hers. When this doesn't happen the Undead Vamp that has treated Ivy as a daughter rapes and claims her as his. This sends Rachel there to stake him. Unable to kill him she turns him into the FIB which is like the human Men In Black instead of the I.S.  After word gets out that Rachel has bagged a master vampire her business picks up. Still no real Loves in this book, there was finally some loving but it was short and not too sweet. My Rating: 3 No comments : Post a Comment Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...
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Variety Insight premium subscribers can access phone, email and more. Elliott Slutzky EVP, Distribution : Open Road Films Want to see projects Elliott Slutzky is developing? Visit <a href=""> VarietyInsight </a> . Latest Headlines: Elliott Slutzky Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp. has licensed its Theatrical Distribution System (TDS) -- programming software that aptly uses the company's digital network -- to startup distrib Open Road Films.
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The Dual Mix 4 Layer Livid OhmRGB Slim Template Download the completed VDMX project file and sample movies for this tutorial.  If you don't have a Livid OhmRGB Slim, this is still a great tutorial / template to review for the general technique.  This template is a variation on the four channel video mixer template in which we have two groups of layers (left and right bus) set up making it possible for a VJ to prepare, preview and transition between mixes on the fly, similar to how a multi-deck DJ works live. Here the idea is similar, but instead of two mixes that use separate sets of clips, in this template each bus shares the same set of four sources, each with its own set of controls for layer opacity, FX and blend modes. For an added twist, the fourth source for this template is used as a mask overlay for each bus that can be used in a variety of ways to combine the two separate mixes together in the main output. Also in this series of templates check out the basic two channel video mixer Livid OhmRGB template , or try using the Movie Recorder plugin to capture the video output from this one. Left and right side faders set opacities for sources 1, 2, the overlay, and the masking for each bus separately. Use the Control Surface plugins to change layer settings by mouse, or remap to other MIDI instruments. Create different variations using the same set of sources and apply layer masks to black out areas before mixing.
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Human Resources Department Human Resources at MIT Logo * Using CompQuick * Downloads * Learning More * The MIT Selection Process Using CompQuick Competency-based interviewing can be easily integrated into your normal interviews–conducted by you individually or by a team or committee. The CompQuick steps below will take you through a simplified version of the competency-based interview process. These steps will help you prepare for, conduct and assess your interviews. (General guidelines and information about hiring and interviewing at MIT can be found in The MIT Selection Process.) A couple of important points: Screen your candidates for technical skills and basic qualifications prior to interviews. There is no point in expending the effort to assess someone's behavioral competencies if he or she is not a realistic candidate for the position. Be sure to be consistent across interviews in the ordering and framing of your questions. Keep in mind the basic principle of interviewing for competencies: Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. • Step 1: Get Your Materials • Step 2: Plan Your Competency Interviews • Step 3: Prepare for Each Interview • Step 4: Conduct the Interviews • Step 5: Assess What You Heard • Step 6. Contact Us • Competency Interviewing Tips Hiring for Competencies at MIT Step 1: Get Your Materials Send comments to Last updated January 2000 | What is CompQuick? | What are Competencies? | | Using CompQuick | Competency Interviewing Tips | Downloads | | Learning More | The MIT Selection Process |
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Data Structures Course Lecture Notes Prepared by: Prof. Robert C. Holte 314 MacDonald Hall, University of Ottawa 562-5800 ext. 6678 Dr. Denys Duchier These notes are used for two courses at the University of Ottawa (CSI-2114 and CSI-2301) and the course T26 at the Institute for Government Informatics Professionals (IGIP). CSI-2301 and T26 go through the notes cover to cover in 12 3-hour lectures. CSI-2114 covers all the material except chapters 2 and 3, B-trees and hash tables, in 12 2-hour lectures. The course material is almost entirely independent of a particular programming language, but the concepts are best learned by implementing and using them. C happens to be the programming language used in the notes, but at the University of Ottawa the courses actually use Pascal for instruction and assignments.
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A polymodal sound toy. Click on a square to activate it, click again to change its orientation. Press play to set active squares in motion. Tones are sounded when an active square hits a left or right wall. Which tones are sounded changes when an active square hits a top or bottom wall. When squares collide, their orientations change by a single clockwise turn. The basic mechanics are based on Batuhan Bozkurt's Otomata, but because of the twist in which the top and bottom walls change pitch mappings instead of sounding a pitch, the output tends to be somewhat less note-dense and has the potential to be both somewhat more dissonant and varied. Feedback is welcome, either via twitter, or email (obtain the address by replacing the dot between my domain and subdomain with an @).
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From Gnash Project Wiki Jump to: navigation, search = point1: pixel units(PIXEL or TWIPS)doesn't necessarily make different coordinates spaces, just a matter of scaling. Udo: "coordinate system" may be not the correct mathematical term, but I think it will help when talking about coordinates, as a replacement for a unique unit for each scaling = point2: check how many extra matrices we need in addition to those defined in SWF files first. Udo: one for each "coordinate space" strk: zou was talking about "in addition to those defined in SWF files". The SWF contains all statically-defined coordinate spaces (timelines?). In addition to them we have the GUI/Renderer coordinate space, which I belive is the only (or only two) *additional* ones. = point3: one single transformation matrix used for framebuffer to GUI conversion is enough for all the things. Udo: coordinate translation core<-->mouse and core<-->renderer is done frequently. We should have a matrix ready for each of these situations as concatenating a matrix is generally faster compared to a matrix xform + following scaling. zou: (1)mouse pointer's coodinates should be already transformed to GUI space(player window) by the mouse driver, so I guess there should be no extra matrix for mouse to core translation(keep it simple). zou: (2)core to renderer convertion doesn't need to be bidirectional. The model from core to renderer is: input1: shapes in defintion(defined by swf or AS) input2: shapes transformation matrix from VM(defined by swf or AS) input3: shapes transformation matrix from GUI(definded by the Player) given input1,2,3, the renderer should have enough information to draw all shapes to the framebuffer. Or the renderer need to do more things than just drawing? I agree we should have a matrix ready for those.
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Wishlist/Point of Interest Framework From Openmoko Jump to: navigation, search Point of Interest Framework This feature may serve as framework for Wishlist:context_based_to-do_list and Wishlist:Location_based_reminders. The idea is to notify the user of certain events based on their location, direction, or any event a daemon is able to trigger. Tagging may be used to filter or control a called application. It should be tightly connected to Wishlist:ANARM and Wishlist:Profiles Use Cases It combines the use case of Wishlist:context_based_to-do_list and Wishlist:Location_based_reminders • Let any application or daemon start another application by simple rules defined in a GUI • A daemon checks for location POIs and call the events (aka. starts applications or do dbus calls) that are tied to the tags of that POI • A daemon checks for the GSM cell id you are in and activates an certain user profile • A daemon checks for near Bluetooth devices and call an event if a device matches • ...checks for your WiFi SID and do the VPN connect to your home network • Cron starts an alarm and therefore the associated events at a specific time • A simple script polls a log file, finds some uncommon connection attempt on your log file an give you a notice Design Ideas • It should be a GUI based application and a daemon • It should be a bidirectional daemon, allowing a applications to drag out a list of POI objects tagged for itself and being called by an application with event 'bar' and parameters 'foo' or tags 'foo-bar' • This application itself should to two sided • one side a few standard input daemons or triggers like GPS, time or 'just a few tags' with a specific dialogue for each type. • The other side is the event what would be called like calendar events='tag a' or show notification with specific dialogs for each know event type and a command line incl. parameter expansion. For powerusesr there should be the possibility to do a D-Bus call as well. • each input can be connected to each event just by dragging them onto • these connection should be 'or' by default and group able by an extra dialogue. So powerusers can specify like (Input A and Input B) or Input C or even full boolean trees. The application may aggregate triggers or several seconds to accomplish that. • once configured it may run as permanent daemon and awaits incoming triggers • new event types should be easy to implement by an XML configuration file, so the user just installs a package and that drops the appropriate config file for that daemon. • new inputs/triggers should by configurable by XML too • import / export of selected connection between triggers and events Design Issues • How to hide the complexity of this system for Joe Doe? - Different levels of complexity? perhaps from Noob to Pro? See Wishlist:Profiles for more details • How to handle multiple times the same event? Like staying at a certain GPS location should the event triggered more then once? • There should be an import for several GPS based POI[1] formats Existing Technologies • GPS devices checking for POIs and show them on map or warns the user [2] • inetd does that for network traffic on specific TCP or UPD ports • D-Bus[3] or DCOP[4] does a lot of this but doesn't offer a GUI Personal tools
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Change station spread From OpenTTD Jump to: navigation, search A setting that allows you to change the maximum size of a station. The station spread is the maximum distance between two station tiles. There is a limit to how spread a station is allowed to be. If the station already covers this amount of tiles in a certain direction, you cannot add any other part to the station in this direction. With this patch you can change the maximum station size to anything between 4 and 64 tiles, the maximum value being larger than the longest train you can have, about 50 tiles. Be careful if not using the YAPF pathfinding though: The game will slow and then become unstable when you set this to a value higher than the default of 12. The default station spread is 12. You can change this value through the configure patches -> stations window or use the following syntax in openttd.cfg: station_spread = 12 1. - An extremly wide-spread station Personal tools
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From the Wikimedia Foundation < 2007/Donate-options Revision as of 20:58, 1 October 2010 by Cbrown1023 (talk | contribs) (2007/) Jump to: navigation, search Ti te podi jutar Wikimedia a canbiar el mondo Struca uno de i botoni qua soto par scegliare un modo de pagamento Carta de credito Deposito direto Azsegno (par posta normałe) Dona doparando ła to carta de credito contribute with your Credit Card through PayPal Cata fora na vałuta Retrieved from "http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=2007/Donate-options/vec&oldid=48417"
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Take the 2-minute tour × I work between 8am and 2pm from Monday to Friday. However, on 21 March my company will host an event that will happen at 8pm. However, I go to school from 7pm until 11pm and my employer knows that. My predecessors usually helped in the organization of the event. To go to this I will have to skip my class and I do not want to do that. This subject has been brought up before and I said that I can't go because I have an appointment. They didn't say "You have to go" but said "Your presence is really important." In the near future, can they make me go (or else I lose my job)? I am not looking for legal advice. And in order to keep it open and on-topic - What does Brazilian law say regarding employers requiring off-hours work? And how should I approach my employer about this situation? share|improve this question Is this US? Do you have an employment contract? –  ReallyTiredOfThisGame Mar 7 at 15:11 @Chad No, I'm a brazilian. And yes, I do have a contract. –  athosbr99 Mar 7 at 15:12 What does your contract say? This is a legal advice question here... sorry. –  ReallyTiredOfThisGame Mar 7 at 15:12 @JoeStrazzere - Yes, but I do not think that is going to help the OP since the OP has a contract. The contract could specify something that protects or removes any protection that may exist in the law. Most of these types of protections have exclusions that allow for contracts that vary from the normal legal requirements –  ReallyTiredOfThisGame Mar 7 at 15:36 @athosbr99 The laws of your country is literally what you're asking about. And how to raise this issue with your employer may well be based on those laws. –  CMW Mar 10 at 9:38 6 Answers 6 up vote 19 down vote accepted It's quite simple, you need to decide the priority, going to university or the job. If the former, go to your class, if the latter, go to the event. Take the long term view and act as required. When I was a student I worked a weekend job in retail. One year in November I found I had an exam on a Saturday morning and asked for it off in good time. The answer came back no, too close to Christmas (our peak time of the year, but still 5 weeks after the requested date). I spoke to the store manager, who basically told me I had to decide where my future lay, going to uni, or working for him. The decision was easy (although surprisingly a shock to him, he later backed down and granted the time off when I offered to leave immediately, but that's by the way). I often think of this though when I hit a similar choice, always think of what matters long term, even if the short term seems difficult. share|improve this answer Good advice, but OP needs to be aware of the fact that his employer will be asking themselves the same question about his dedication to them and OP needs to be prepared for the outcome. Trading your part-time retail job for university is one thing. Losing full-time employment is another. OP may not get fired for it, but is likley not creating a good impression. –  cdkMoose Mar 7 at 18:26 Yeah he should, but that was what I was meaning about being difficult short term. If there was a negotiated stance, there wouldn't be a need for this question. As it is, the OP should decide what matters and be true to that, even if they need to cause bad feeling in the job. In my own example, my card was pretty much marked after that and I think I lasted a couple of months past christmas. Actually I also left that Uni eventually, but looking back 25+ years later do I regret making that choice, no. –  Mark Chapman Mar 7 at 18:43 Oh, and although that was a weekend job, it was 50% of my living expenses due to what I could make, so it wasn't just chipping in a bit of spare cash. –  Mark Chapman Mar 7 at 18:48 Don't say you can't go because you have an appointment. Tell them honestly that you have class at that time and that you cannot skip it. They may find having a class more imporatnat than just an appointment. They may not remeber that you take classes. When they say your presence is important, they generally mean that. Even if they don't fire you over that (and whether they can will depend on the laws in your country), that will make an unfavorable impression of you and that will carry over into how they assign work, how they reward performance and how they perceive you in general. You wil be perceived as someone who is not a team player and that can be a very hard perception to overcome. You have to make the call as to whether you are planning to move up in this company or if your education is more important. If this job is just tiding you over until you get a degree in a completely differnt field and look for a totally different job (like working as a waitress while you get your medical degree), then you may not care as much as if this were company where your new degree will allow you to move up to a better job in the same field or with the same company (such as getting a computer science degree in place where you are junior programmer). How bad is it really to skip one class? If you aren't having a test, can you make arrangements with another student to share notes? Can you talk to the professor about the issue and see if he can give you some outside help to catch up if you have to do this for your job? share|improve this answer Actually, I'm not in high school. By law, every brazilian university (state-funded and private-funded) requires that a student have to take a test and pass to be eligible to enter the university. Since I failed in 2013, I'm studying to pass this test and I'm going to a "special school" only for this. It is very expensive and since my parents are paying, I don't want to "waste" money. –  athosbr99 Mar 7 at 15:21 And yes, my current job can be compared as the "like working as a waitress while you get your medical degree". –  athosbr99 Mar 7 at 15:32 The point of communicating, both with your manager and with your professor, can not be understated here. I can't tell you how many problems at work (and what I read here) that just boil down to communication breakdowns. –  corsiKa Mar 7 at 19:14 I'm also working in Brazil, and I can tell the OP is covered by law in all aspects. He is not forced to work out of the contracted hours, the company must pay those extra hours and if embarrassed or fired by refusing to work out of those hours, the OP can sue the company and is very likely to receive compensation for it. That said, there's the "political" in the question. The OP's manager is not likely to miss him, and I assume he clarified that. The OP must decide what's more important: his career in the company or the studies. I can advocate in favor of studies. A well educated, good worker is invaluable and will find a job in another (possible better) company. athosbr99 Let your manager know you will not miss your class and don't get afraid of "looking bad". Your manager is probably not caring about your needs, only their own. share|improve this answer I agree. My initial impression was "jobs come and go..." so I'm glad you articulated it. –  Rob Y Mar 8 at 21:22 There seems to be mostly a communication problem here. You told your manager "I have an appointment". That does honestly not sound very important. You could have said "I go to school from 7pm to 11pm; my father pays for it, and if he finds out that I'm not attending school he will throw me out and I'll have to live on the street". Now that sounds important. Your manager said "it is really important that you are at work". You should have asked: How important? Maybe the answer is "well, we are asking you because Joe who has plenty of spare time is on his lunch break so I can't ask him right now". Or may be "well, Joe who does this normally because he has plenty of spare time complained and said that you are not working late because you are too lazy and I completely forgot about your school". These are extremes, but you are talking about legal consequences, losing your job and so on, when it is quite possible that the whole problem could go away if you talked to each other properly. share|improve this answer I believe that most of the rules that exist between employees and their employers are not stated in contracts or laws, but are not written and sometimes even not spoken (i.e. implicit). This is natural and does not imply that you are in a toxic work environment. However, "your presence is really important" is just an example of doublespeak. It is likely that your contract protects you from being fired or punished in case you don't comply with this kind of request. However, this is far from being a decisive answer. If you don't comply with the demands of your employee (regardless they are stated in the contract or not), you may miss the rewards and/or career advancements you deserve, unless you manage to carry out some form of moral suasion towards your employer (using your negotiation skills) or reach consensus among many of your peers (beware: this is an aggressive strategy, it is not necessary in most cases, and is very risky!). I suggest you to go to this event for this time asking some of your "schoolmates" to take notes for you. Then, provide your employer with the schedule of your classes kindly asking to minimize, if possible, the collisions with the extra-hours they require you. Do remark that this is very important for you and will affect your performance at work making you a "more educated, satisfied, and self-confident individual". If collisions continue to happen all the times, try to find a trade-off (say 50-50) between school and work, by constantly probing the mood of your employer. Adapt the trade-off by favoring school or work as needed. And last, when you go to these events, make sure you are not invisible (this does not mean you have to be a lap dog but at least don't hide under some table or stay alone in a corner, like "I don't want to be here"). share|improve this answer The question is, can they make me go? And the answer depends on the laws of your country, state, locality, etc. In the US, laws vary from place to place. My answer is based on the laws I know, from my US location. Companies can't make you do anything. However, they can fire you for not showing up. You need to consult with your local human resources (or equivalent) person. share|improve this answer Your Answer
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On Air Now Upcoming Shows Program Schedule » Current Conditions(Green Bay,WI 54303) More Weather » 72° Feels Like: 72° Current Radar for Zip Scattered Thunderstorms 75° Thunderstorms Early 55° Mostly Sunny 75° 'Fresh Meat' Nails the College Experience By Laura Smith, Hollywood Staff While the high school experience has been culturally immortalized on television through countless shows, the experimental college years have rarely been captured accurately on screen. The UK series Fresh Meat perfectly illustrates this magical time period of false confidence, sexual missteps, perpetual poverty, and substance abuse... or, as we know it, higher education. With its third season premiering on Hulu, this UK import is slowly gaining an audience stateside for its college hijinks with dysfunctional twist. The familial cultural markers of beer pong, fraternities, and dorms may be missing, but the spirit of awkward inhibition remains the same. The brilliance of the show lies within the diversity of the cast. Five freshman: Vod, Oregon, Josie, Kingsley, JP and one upperclassman live in shared housing off-campus where they're forced to interact mostly with each other with some occasional interlopers. No longer the clueless freshmen they once were, the crew returns to their decrepit lodgings in Manchester to deal with the fallout over break and a new semester. As anyone who's dealt with random roommates, their chemistry arises out of their contradicting personalities and the way they ground one another while also forcing each other out of his or her comfort zone. Theirs is not a glamorized experience. They work part-time jobs, sleep with their professors, discover bodily fluids in odd places, pull coke-fuled all nighters to write poetry and make mistakes … just like the rest of us. The collegiate experience calls for a tenuous balance of drama and comedy, but that is what Fresh Meat does best. In the end, these forged friendships happen organically and make for some of the most quotable television moments to date. As Fresh Meat enters the annals of timeless college TV series alongside Undeclared and Felicity, let's take a look back at the dismal track record of some of our American collegiate series. The problem with many of our beloved teen sitcoms when they transitioned to the college years lies in two parts: one - many of these shows continued past their prime and their character arcs, and two - the whole appeal of college is the excitement of new characters and not dealing with the same drama from high school. Ditching the lockers for dorm rooms does not a successful series make.
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Image description How To Pick A Savings Account January 3rd, 2013 Personal Finance If you're trying to save money, having a savings account can be incredibly helpful. Not only does it ensure that your money is protected, but most banks pay some amount of interest on the account balance. Granted, it tends to be a relatively low percentage, but it's better than nothing! Opening a savings account is a relatively simple task, though there are a few things you'll want to take into consideration before signing on with a bank. One of the most important things to keep in mind is which bank you'll be doing business with. You want one that is fairly easy for you to visit in person. Also take note of what sort of interest they pay - some banks offer more interest based on how large your account balance is, while others provide a set amount no matter how much money you have. Have a look at what sort of fees the bank charges. Most major ones will at the very least deduct a certain amount from your account once a month as a maintenance fee. Naturally, this money will come out of your savings, so you want to lower how much you'll have to pay. You may even want to consider signing on with an online bank. Although they don't have any physical branches, many offer larger interest payments and fewer fees than their brick-and-mortar counterparts. Have a look at any rewards a bank might offer you for opening an account. You may even be able to pick up an extra $100 or $150 simply by starting a savings account! This may require you to jump through a few extra hoops, but if you're willing to do so, it could yield decent returns.
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Skip to main content News and Announcements 09 January Alert Notice 477: Supernova 2013E in IC 2532 = PSN J10000552-3414013 January 9, 2013 Event: Supernova 2013E in IC 2532 = PSN J10000552-3414013 Discovered by: Stuart Parker (Canterbury, New Zealand) Discovery Date: 2013 Jan. 4.58 UT 09 January Special Notice #320: CH Cygni monitoring campaign continues January 9, 2013: Further to AAVSO Alert Notice 454 ( and AAVSO Special Notices #267, #268, and #294 (, -268, -294), Dr. 04 January Alert Notice 476: Multicolor photometry of triple system b Per requested 04 January Special Notice #319: HST COS observing SDSS J093249.57+472523.0 2013 January 11-12 January 4, 2013: Further to AAVSO Alert Notice 471 ( and AAVSO Special Notice #317 (, HST COS is scheduled to observe the U Gem-type cataclysmic variable 03 January Paper copies of JAAVSO 40.2 (epsilon Aur) are now available Buy a paper copy from for $13 plus shipping. 23 December Special Notice #318: SN 2012hr, a Type Ia supernova prior to maximum December 23, 2012: SN 2012hr was discovered by Peter Marples (Loganholme, QLD, Australia, Backyard Observatory Supernova Search (BOSS)) [not by Colin Drescher (Calamvale, QLD, Australia; BOSS) as originally reported in AAVSO Special Notice #318; Drescher reported Marples' discovery to CBAT as announced in CBET 3346] on 2012 December 16.53.  The object was discovered at a red magnitude of 14.8.  Subsequent spectroscopy by Milisavljevic et al. and Morrell et al. 22 December Alert Notice 475: Monitoring of the dwarf nova U Geminorum in support of HST observations 21 December JAAVSO special epsilon Aurigae issue is published! The special epsilon Aurigae issue of the Journal of the AAVSO is published as Volume 40, Number 2. Go to the issue's webpage: to view the abstracts and articles, to download the issue (members only), and to purchase printed copies (printed copies are expected to be available by the end of the month). 20 December Special Notice #317: HST COS observing HS 0218+3229 2012 December 22 and SDSS J093249.57+472523.0 is probable next target December 20, 2012: Further to AAVSO Alert Notice 471 ( and AAVSO Special Notice #315 (, HST COS is scheduled to observe the U Gem-type cataclysmic variable HS 0218+3229 on December 22: 20 December Charts and Sequences Update December 2012 The following charts (listed in order by constellation) have new or revised sequences since September 28, 2012. This list is quite long and includes all the stars in the new Binocular Program. A .csv file is available as an attachment here at the bottom of the page as well. If you observe any of these stars please update your charts as soon as possible. 18 December Solar Bulletin - Volume 68, Number 11 The November 2012 Solar Bulletin is now available! 17 December Special Notice #316: Monitoring of the dwarf nova U Geminorum in support of HST observations 14 December Alert Notice 474: Multiwavelength campaign on delta Ori (Mintaka) December 14, 2012:  An international team of astronomers, including Drs. 10 December Citizen Sky Workshop to Produce a DSLR Photometry Manual The Citizen Sky Project - Workshop III Sponsored by: The National Science Foundation and The American Association of Variable Star Observers When and Where: 07 December New Chinese Visual Observing Manual You can get both versions of the Chinese Manual here: 05 December Special Notice #314: HST COS scheduled to observe V405 Peg December 7 December 5, 2012: As announced in AAVSO Special Notice #313 (, HST COS is scheduled to observe the UG-type dwarf nova V405 Peg                         7 December 2012 02:31:20 through 07:50:03 UT 03 December 2013 JD Calendar The 2013 JD Calendar is now available. Clear Skies! 03 December New eJAAVSO preprint: Variable Stars South EB Database ej224: "The Variable Stars South Eclipsing Binary Database" by T. Richards 30 November Special Notice #313: HST COS observing CW Mon tonight and V405 Peg is next target November 30, 2012: Further to AAVSO Alert Notice 471 ( and AAVSO Special Notice #311 (, 27 November Special Notice #312: Supernova 2012gx in MCG -02-2-72 = PSN J00380175-1351395 24 November Solar Bulletin - Volume 68, Number 10 The October 2012 Solar Bulletin is now available! 20 November Special Notice #311: HST COS to observe CW Mon 2012 November 30 - December 1 November 20, 2012:  The HST COS far ultraviolet observations of the dwarf nova CW Mon will be taking place 2012 November 30 20:54:49 through 2012 December 1 02:26:15 UT (AAVSO Special Notice #309, 19 November Eye candy from Bright Star Monitor South At the moment, I'm taking a short break from doing some programming and beta testing for our latest AAVSOnet telescope to come online, Bright Star Monitor - South.  This is a twin of the Bright Star Monitor that ran in New Mexico for the past few years, but installed on the opposite side of the world.  BSM-South is hosted by Peter Nelson (NLX) a few dozen miles east of Melbourne, Australia, and has been operating in a "hands-on" capacity for several months now.  15 November Special Notice #310: Continued observing of V452 Cas requested
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 graphic poetry? I really like Christine Panushka's drawings here: the last 2 (one of which is to the left) could be seen as abstract comics, with sequential developments from box to box, or as an ambient feeling emanating from the boxes, in no particular order. I'm inclined to call the second interpretation "graphic poetry" rather than "abstract comics". 1. hey Tim! what about graphopocomix? = ) i think you're right about the "sequential developments from box to box" in these works & how you bring up the ambient feeling is spot on as well, we're uncovering an amazing variation of possibilities within abstract comics here on this blog, eh? 2. I would actually include all of the pages as an overarching storyline--very cool. Please note that anonymous comments will be rejected.
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JLU Question. Posted by superfriend on January 25, 13 at 15:40:15 Because I campaigned hard to get it made and whenever my son says, "I have a question, Dad." I turn around, pick it up and say, "I do too!" Really fun and annoying. Follow Ups: Post a Followup Optional Link URL: Link Title: Optional Image URL: Verification Code:
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comments_image Comments The Day After: Tea Party Numbers Were Low; Hardly a 'Revolution' This is not a burgeoning political movement. One of the smarter aspects of the Tea Party protests was making them accessible to participants at the local level. If organizers had attempted to hold one big rally, on the Washington Mall, for example, it would have probably run into more trouble. For one thing, it would be compared against other Mall events. For another, plenty of conservative activists nationwide would have struggled to get to D.C. Organizers, then, made stronger turnout far more likely by hosting hundreds of events from coast to coast, rather than one event in a prominent location. Committed activists didn't need to travel hundreds of miles to register their outrage; chances are, there was a gathering of like-minded folks in their own area. Did it pay off? It depends on one's standards and expectations. It's almost impossible to get a reliable count of just how many people attended these events yesterday, but The Atlantic 's Chris Good offers a rundown and tries to at least apply a minimum number. A bare minimum of 25,650 people turned out for tea party protests across the country today, according to news estimates, a survey of reports from local newspapers, TV affiliates, and wire services shows. Presumably, more than that turned out. The tendency of smaller cities (particularly state capitols) to draw larger crowds makes counting difficult, and many news outlets were not specific in their estimates (reporting "hundreds" or "thousands," for instance, as opposed to specific numbers -- the 25,650 figure assumes the lowest possible numbers within those ranges). Fair enough. Just for the sake of conversation, let's take Good's minimum number, which is likely too low, and quadruple it. That would give us an estimate of about 100,000 activists attending rallies yesterday. The next question, I suppose, is whether 100,000 protestors represents a significant force. Yesterday, before the events had even begun in earnest, Marc Ambinder said, "If ... 100,000 Americans show up to protest their taxes, the onus to dismiss them as a nascent political force shifts to the Democrats." See more stories tagged with:
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Amoeblog > Tag > asteroids Amoeblog posts marked with asteroids. Asteroids in animation, games, movies & television <div style="text-align: left;"><strong>Asteroids</strong> have capitivated the imagination ever since rocks first looked into the heavens and asked, &quot;Are we alone?&quot;&nbsp;The entertainment industry has shown asteroid fields to be a place to hone your space navigation skills and target shooting and rogue asteroids as hell-bent on destroying humankind.&nbsp;As far as threats&nbsp;go,&nbsp;to me the gigantic, silent, soulless killing machines arouse a similar fear to that inspired by sharks. And now, as announced in the <em><strong>Hollywood Reporter</strong></em><strong> </strong>earlier this month, <strong>Universal</strong> has acquired the rights to the classic<strong> Atari </strong>game and plans on adapting it into film. <strong>Matt Lopez</strong> (<em><strong>Race to Witch Mountain</strong></em> and <em><strong>Bedtime Stories</strong></em>) pitched the idea and found himself at the center of a bidding war between four studios.&nbsp;From <em><strong>Wing Commander </strong></em>and&nbsp;<em><strong>Double Dragon </strong></em>to <em><strong>House of the Dead </strong></em>and <em><strong>Hitman</strong></em>, films adapted from video games are generally quite good.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /> <img height="327" width="500" alt="asteroid size comparison chart" src="" /></div> <br /> Although the chart above shows the existence of many real life asteroids, the&nbsp;entertainment industry almost always portrays fictional&nbsp;or&nbsp;just un-named space rocks.<br /> &nbsp; <br /> <strong>ASTEROIDS&nbsp;IN&nbsp;COMPUTER&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;VIDEO&nbsp;GAMES<br /> <br /> </strong><img alt="Asteroids 1978 Atari" style="width: 175px; height: 228px;" src="" />&nbsp; <img alt="Descent computer game" style="width: 188px; height: 228px;" src="" />&nbsp;&nbsp;<img alt="The Dig computer game" style="width: 185px; height: 228px;" src="" />&nbsp;<br /> <img alt="Final Fantasy IV" style="width: 209px; height: 209px;" src="" />&nbsp; <img alt="Homeworld" style="width: 176px; height: 209px;" src="" />&nbsp; <img alt="Orion Conspiracy" style="width: 160px; height: 207px;" src="" /><br /> <br /><div style="clear: both;"><a style="font-size:13px;" href="/blog/2009/07/eric-s-blog/asteroids-in-animation-games-movies-television.html">Continue reading...</a></div> Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:26:00 GMT
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Amoeblog > Tag > nepal Amoeblog posts marked with nepal. Obscure and Unrecognized South Asia & Indian Ocean <div style="text-align: center;"><strong><img alt="South Asia" src="" width="500" /><br /> </strong></div> <strong><br /> South Asia</strong> is the most populous and densely populated region in the planet's most populous continent. Not surprisingly, therefore, it's home to many culturally rich nationalities who still struggle in the post-Colonial world for recognition, equality and self-determination. <div style="text-align: center;"><br /> ******<br /> <br /> (If interested, there are similar entries about <a href=""><strong>Caucasia</strong></a>, <a href=""><strong>Eastern Europe</strong></a> and <a href=""><strong>North Asia</strong></a>.)<br /> <br /> ******</div> <br /> <img alt="Flag of Assamese Seperatists" border="2" height="133" src="" width="200" />&nbsp;<br /> <span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Assam</strong></span><strong><br /> <br /> </strong> <div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Assamese Dancers" border="2" height="329" src="" width="500" /><br /> <span style="font-size: smaller;"><strong>Assamese dancers (photo by <a href=" ">Ramesh Lalwani</a>)</strong></span></div> <br /> The earliest known settlers in Assam are believed to be the <strong>Khasi</strong> and <strong>Synteng</strong> people of southeast Asia. The were later marginalized by the arrival of the Tibeto-Burman language speaking <strong>Monpas, Sherdukpens,</strong> <strong>Bhutan, Mishings, Deuris </strong>and <strong>Bodo-Kachari</strong>. The last major wave of immigrants&nbsp;seems to have&nbsp;been the&nbsp;<strong>Hindus</strong> around 500 BCE, although small numbers of many other groups have arrived since. As such, Assam today is a highly hybridized place that nonetheless is struggling for autonomy.<br /> <br /><div style="clear: both;"><a style="font-size:13px;" href="/blog/2010/05/eric-s-blog/obscure-and-unrecognized-south-asia-indian-ocean.html">Continue reading...</a></div> Sun, 30 May 2010 18:30:00 GMT
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Actually, it's more a case of USD rising against GBP (and the Euro etc). GBP has been pretty stable against EUR for the last six months or so. The bottom line is the same of course: it's much cheaper for USA peeps to buy from the UK than it was just 2 months ago -something like 20%.
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10 Stunning Malibu Homes Architectural Digest’s editors present their favorite homes from the tony coastal California enclave A house in Malibu, California, designed by Gwathmey Siegel, melds streamlined modernist forms with rich detailing. “There’s also a counterpoint between sculptural elements, like the stairway, and the rectilinear frame of the house,” says Charles Gwathmey. The 1995 untitled bronze is by Joel Shapiro. Photo: Erhard Pfeiffer
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[Top] [All Lists] Re: Operating VRI (Radio Interferometry) Subject: Re: Operating VRI Radio Interferometry Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:23:47 +0000 Newsgroups: sci.astro W. Watson wrote: On another thread, we drifted off on to the topic of the Java VRI program that's on the web at <>. That thread is getting a bit long, so I thought I'd pick up on VRI here. I'm interested in completing a single example. The other thread gave me some clues how to proceed, but I thought I'd try this out here (* see note at bottom). This is pretty much an arbitrary and ficticious example based on a limited knowledge of how this works. I learned in the other post that the sequence, Source, FFT, Apply and FFT-1 is basic to the operation. The rest was obtained by playing with this. There are four panels arranged as: Image Panel (IP) | Antenna Panel (AP) Transform Panel (TP) | Coverage Panel (CP) AP has a green background with a single dish icon CP has a background with a red point. If the nearby In (Zoom) button is pressed, it's dashed line. I created the acronyms for convenience here. There are various buttons around the panel. Initially, there are three buttons to the side of each panel that are common: In (Zoom), Out and Reset. As I proceed with the example as below, a FFT and FFT-1 (inverse) will appear. Above the four panels are fill-in boxes for the source and antenna. Below the panels are fill-in boxes for the source, HA interval, frequency and bandwidth of the source, and source declination. 1. Select source as Wide Double, two point objects appear in the IP 2. Set the Lat to 45.0. Press Enter to make sure it's set. Use the slider bars at the bottom to set the Dec to 0.0 and the HAs to -5.1 (top slider) and +5.1. You may not get +/- 5.1, so do what you can to be close. 3. Drag the antenna icon four times to form a square with one icon in the center. Make each side about 1". A A A A OK but this won't give particularly good u-v coverage. As a nice simple example to get started use the classic E-W equally spaced dish configuration. It is much easier to understand. A A A A A Then when the Earth rotates for 12 hours you get ellipses depending on the the declination of the object (perfect circles for object at the pole). Another cute configuration for small numbers of antennae is a Golumb ruler: A A A A 1 3 2 This gives a set of unique baseline lengths 1,2,3,4,5,6 Press the Plot button and some red horizontal lines will appear in the CP. The FFT button appears on the left. When this button appears seems to vary. It may appear in an earlier step. 4. Press the FFT button and vertical grey lines appear in the FP with a white background, and the FFT-1 button appears on the left. 5. Press the Apply button below the CP. if The Ampl choice is set below the TP, then a group of dashed horizontal lines appear in the FP. 6. Press FFT-1. Two vertical rows appear of dots (circles?) in the IP. So what have I got in the IP? Can someone offer a more meaningful example? The transform of on instantaneous set of data. To get a meaningful image you need to set the start and end hour angles of the observation to be -6h to +6h (any 12 hour period will do provided the source doesn't set). After changing this press "Reset" and you should see a nice set of red ellipses in the U-V coverage domain. * I find VRT sometimes rather erratic (inconsistent) in its behavior. Sometimes buttons like FFT and FFT-1 just appear at almost a whim. They should appear when there is something relevant for them to act upon. I find the naming of the "Reset" button to make observations less than intuitive. In a way it is a shame that the Image Panel is reused for the output synthesised image since it prevents a direct comparison. I'm forced to start again because of some missed item, I reload the page. Proceeding again often does not get quite the same responses. The behavior of this program is somewhat inconsistent. If one sets up the antennas as above, but uses the sliders before setting them, then the extreme values (5.1 vs 4.9 hrs) will be slightly different than if done afterwards. The initial default value for lat ( changes in the number of decimal points once you select Custom. I sometimes wonder about the effectiveness of the Reset button. Sometimes it doesn't seem to help recover from a previous bad entry. It worked as I expect when I tried it before, but then I probably do what it is expecting (quite possible that it doesn't recover gracefully from some unexpected or inconsistent initial states I suppose). Just checked again. Hmmm... something has gone wrong with it! The Hour Angle settings offered here currently range from 0h to 0h for both start and end of observations. Unless you can get it to observe for a few hours to generate tracks in the U-V plane it will always give unsatisfactory results in the synthesised image. The mirror at Jodrell Bank that I use is still working OK. Try that instead : Martin Brown <Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
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Francis Thompson. 1859–1907 875. The Poppy SUMMER set lip to earth's bosom bare,  And left the flush'd print in a poppy there;  Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,  And the fanning wind puff'd it to flapping flame.  With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank         5 The blood of the sun as he slaughter'd sank,  And dipp'd its cup in the purpurate shine  When the eastern conduits ran with wine.  Till it grew lethargied with fierce bliss,  And hot as a swinkèd gipsy is,  10 And drowsed in sleepy savageries,  With mouth wide a-pout for a sultry kiss.  A child and man paced side by side,  Treading the skirts of eventide;  But between the clasp of his hand and hers  15 Lay, felt not, twenty wither'd years.  She turn'd, with the rout of her dusk South hair,  And saw the sleeping gipsy there;  And snatch'd and snapp'd it in swift child's whim,  With—'Keep it, long as you live!'—to him.  20 And his smile, as nymphs from their laving meres,  Trembled up from a bath of tears;  And joy, like a mew sea-rock'd apart,  Toss'd on the wave of his troubled heart.  For he saw what she did not see,  25 That—as kindled by its own fervency—  The verge shrivell'd inward smoulderingly:  And suddenly 'twixt his hand and hers  He knew the twenty wither'd years—  No flower, but twenty shrivell'd years.  30 'Was never such thing until this hour,'  Low to his heart he said; 'the flower  Of sleep brings wakening to me,  And of oblivion memory.'  'Was never this thing to me,' he said,  35 'Though with bruisèd poppies my feet are red!'  And again to his own heart very low:  'O child! I love, for I love and know;  'But you, who love nor know at all  The diverse chambers in Love's guest-hall,  40 Where some rise early, few sit long:  In how differing accents hear the throng  His great Pentecostal tongue;  'Who know not love from amity,  Nor my reported self from me;  45 A fair fit gift is this, meseems,  You give—this withering flower of dreams.  'O frankly fickle, and fickly true,  Do you know what the days will do to you?  To your Love and you what the days will do,  50 O frankly fickle, and fickly true?  'You have loved me, Fair, three lives—or days:  'Twill pass with the passing of my face.  But where I go, your face goes too,  To watch lest I play false to you.  55 'I am but, my sweet, your foster-lover,  Knowing well when certain years are over  You vanish from me to another;  'So frankly fickle, and fickly true!  60 For my brief life-while I take from you  This token, fair and fit, meseems,  For me—this withering flower of dreams.'  .      .      . The sleep-flower sways in the wheat its head,  Heavy with dreams, as that with bread:  65 The goodly grain and the sun-flush'd sleeper  The reaper reaps, and Time the reaper.  I hang 'mid men my needless head,  And my fruit is dreams, as theirs is bread:  The goodly men and the sun-hazed sleeper  70 Time shall reap, but after the reaper  The world shall glean of me, me the sleeper!  Love! love! your flower of wither'd dream  In leavèd rhyme lies safe, I deem,  Shelter'd and shut in a nook of rhyme,  75 From the reaper man, and his reaper Time.  Love! I fall into the claws of Time:  But lasts within a leavèd rhyme  All that the world of me esteems—  My wither'd dreams, my wither'd dreams.  80 Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
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Fiction > Booth Tarkington > The Magnificent Ambersons Chapter XIV “ALMOST” was Lucy’s last word on the last night of George’s vacation—that vital evening which she had half consented to agree upon for “settling things” between them. “Almost engaged,” she meant. And George, discontented with the “almost,” but contented that she seemed glad to wear a sapphire locket with a tiny photograph of George Amberson Minafer inside it, found himself wonderful in a new world at the final instant of their parting. For, after declining to let him kiss her “good-bye,” as if his desire for such a ceremony were the most preposterous absurdity in the world, she had leaned suddenly close to him and left upon his cheek the veriest feather from a fairy’s wing.   1   She wrote him a month later:   No. It must keep on being almost.   Isn’t almost pretty pleasant? You know well enough that I care for you. I did from the first minute I saw you, and I’m pretty sure you knew it—I’m afraid you did. I’m afraid you always knew it. I’m not conventional and cautious about being engaged, as you say I am, dear. (I always read over the “dears” in your letters a time or two, as you say you do in mine—only I read all of your letters a time or two!) But it’s such a solemn thing it scares me, It means a good deal to a lot of people besides you and me, and that scares me, too. You write that I take your feeling for me “too lightly” and that I “take the whole affair too lightly.” Isn’t that odd! Because to myself I seem to take it as something so much more solemn than you do. I shouldn’t be a bit surprised to find myself an old lady, some day, still thinking of you—while you’d be away and away with somebody else perhaps, and me forgotten ages ago! “Lucy Morgan,” you’d say, when you saw my obituary. “Lucy Morgan? Let me see: I seem to remember the name. Didn’t I know some Lucy Morgan or other, once upon a time?” Then you’d shake your big white head and stroke your long white beard—you’d have such a distinguished long white beard! and you’d say, ‘No. I don’t seem to remember any Lucy Morgan; I wonder what made me think I did?’ And poor me! I’d be deep in the ground, wondering if you’d heard about it and what you were saying! Good-bye for to-day. Don’t work too hard—dear!   George immediately seized pen and paper, plaintively but vigorously requesting Lucy not to imagine him with a beard, distinguished or otherwise, even in the extremities of age. Then, after inscribing his protest in the matter of this visioned beard, he concluded his missive in a tone mollified to tenderness, and proceeded to read a letter from his mother which had reached him simultaneously with Lucy’s. Isabel wrote from Asheville, where she had just arrived with her husband.   I think your father looks better already, darling, though we’ve been here only a few hours. It may be we’ve found just the place to build him up. The doctors said they hoped it would prove to be, and if it is, it would be worth the long struggle we had with him to get him to give up and come. Poor dear man, he was so blue, not about his health but about giving up the worries down at his office and forgetting them for a time—if he only will forget them! It took the pressure of the family and all his best friends, to get him to come—but father and brother George and Fanny and Eugene Morgan all kept at him so constantly that he just had to give in. I’m afraid that in my anxiety to get him to do what the doctors wanted him to, I wasn’t able to back up brother George as I should in his difficulty with Sydney and Amelia. I’m so sorry! George is more upset than I’ve ever seen him—they’ve got what they wanted, and they’re sailing before long, I hear, to live in Florence. Father said he couldn’t stand the constant persuading—I’m afraid the word he used was “nagging.” I can’t understand people behaving like that. George says they may be Ambersons, but they’re vulgar! I’m afraid I almost agree with him. At least, I think they were inconsiderate. But I don’t see why I’m unburdening myself of all this to you, poor darling! We’ll have forgotten all about it long before you come home for the holidays, and it should mean little or nothing to you, anyway. Forget that I’ve been so foolish!   Your father is waiting for me to take a walk with him—that’s a splendid sign, because he hasn’t felt he could walk much, at home, lately. I mustn’t keep him waiting. Be careful to wear your mackintosh and rubbers in rainy weather, and, as soon as it begins to get colder, your ulster. Wish you could see your father now. Looks so much better! We plan to stay six weeks if the place agrees with him. It does really seem to already! He’s just called in the door to say he’s waiting. Don’t smoke too much, darling boy. Devotedly, your mother           But she did not keep her husband there for the six weeks she anticipated. She did not keep him anywhere that long. Three weeks after writing this letter, she telegraphed suddenly to George that they were leaving for home at once; and four days later, when he and a friend came whistling into his study, from lunch at the club, he found another telegram upon his desk.   4   He read it twice before he comprehended its import.   Papa left us at ten this morning, dearest.   The friend saw the change in his face. “Not bad news?”   6   George lifted utterly dumfounded eyes from the yellow paper.   7   “My father,” he said weakly. “She says—she says he’s dead. I’ve got to go home.”   8   ...His Uncle George and the Major met him at the station when he arrived—the first time the Major had ever come to meet his grandson. The old gentleman sat in his closed carriage (which still needed paint) at the entrance to the station, but he got out and advanced to grasp George’s hand tremulously, when the latter appeared. “Poor fellow!” he said, and patted him repeatedly upon the shoulder. “Poor fellow! Poor Georgie!”   9   George had not yet come to a full realization of his loss: so far, his condition was merely dazed; and as the Major continued to pat him, murmuring “Poor fellow!” over and over, George was seized by an almost irresistible impulse to tell his grandfather that he was not a poodle. But he said “Thanks,” in a low voice, and got into the carriage, his two relatives following with deferential sympathy. He noticed that the Major’s tremulousness did not disappear, as they drove up the street, and that he seemed much feebler than during the summer. Principally, however, George was concerned with his own emotion, or rather, with his lack of emotion; and the anxious sympathy of his grandfather and his uncle made him feel hypocritical. He was not grief-stricken; but he felt that he ought to be, and, with a secret shame, concealed his callousness beneath an affectation of solemnity.  10   But when he was taken into the room where lay what was left of Wilbur Minafer, George had no longer to pretend; his grief was sufficient. It needed only the sight of that forever inert semblance of the quiet man who had been always so quiet a part of his son’s life—so quiet a part that George had seldom been consciously aware that his father was indeed a part of his life. As the figure lay there, its very quietness was what was most lifelike; and suddenly it struck George hard. And in that unexpected, racking grief of his son, Wilbur Minafer became more vividly George’s father than he had ever been in life.  11   When George left the room, his arm was about his black-robed mother, his shoulders were still shaken with sobs. He leaned upon his mother; she gently comforted him; and presently he recovered his composure and became self-conscious enough to wonder if he had not been making an unmanly display of himself. “I’m all right again, mother,” he said awkwardly. “Don’t worry about me: you’d better go lie down, or something; you look pretty pale.”  12   Isabel did look pretty pale, but not ghastly pale, as Fanny did. Fanny’s grief was overwhelming: she stayed in her room, and George did not see her until the next day, a few minutes before the funeral, when her haggard face appalled him. But by this time he was quite himself again, and during the short service in the cemetery his thoughts even wandered so far as to permit him a feeling of regret not directly connected with his father. Beyond the open flower-walled grave was a mound where new grass grew; and here lay his great-uncle, old John Minafer, who had died the previous autumn; and beyond this were the graves of George’s grandfather and grandmother Minafer, and of his grandfather Minafer’s second wife, and her three sons, George’s half-uncles, who had been drowned together in a canoe accident when George was a child—Fanny was the last of the family. Next beyond was the Amberson family lot, where lay the Major’s wife and their sons Henry and Milton, uncles whom George dimly remembered; and beside them lay Isabel’s older sister, his Aunt Estelle, who had died in her girlhood, long before George was born. The Minafer monument was a granite block, with the name chiselled upon its one polished side, and the Amberson monument was a white marble shaft, taller than any other in that neighbourhood. But farther on there was a newer section of the cemetery, an addition which had been thrown open to occupancy only a few years before, after dexterous modern treatment by a landscape specialist. There were some large new mausoleums here, and shafts taller than the Ambersons’, as well as a number of monuments of some sculptural pretentiousness; and altogether the new section appeared to be a more fashionable and important quarter than that older one which contained the Amberson and Minafer lots. This was what caused George’s regret, during the moment or two when his mind strayed from his father and the reading of the service.  13   ...On the train, going back to college, ten days later, this regret (though it was as much an annoyance as a regret) recurred to his mind, and a feeling developed within him that the new quarter of the cemetery was in bad taste—not architecturally or sculpturally perhaps, but in presumption: it seemed to flaunt a kind of parvenu ignorance, as if it were actually pleased to be unaware that all the aristocratic and really important families were buried the old section.  14   The annoyance gave way before a recollection of the sweet mournfulness of his mother’s face, as she had said good-bye to him at the station, and of how lovely she looked in her mourning. He thought of Lucy, whom he had seen only twice, and he could not help feeling that in these quiet interviews he had appeared to her as tinged with heroism—she had shown, rather than said, how brave she thought him in his sorrow. But what came most vividly to George’s mind, during these retrospections, was the despairing face of his Aunt Fanny. Again and again he thought of it; he could not avoid its haunting. And for days, after he got back to college, the stricken likeness of Fanny would appear before him unexpectedly, and without a cause that he could trace in his immediately previous thoughts. Her grief had been so silent, yet it had so amazed him.  15   George felt more and more compassion for this ancient antagonist of his, and he wrote to his mother about her:   I’m afraid poor Aunt Fanny might think now father’s gone we won’t want her to live with us any longer and because I always teased her so much she might think I’d be for turning her out. I don’t know where on earth she’d go or what she could live on if we did do something like this, and of course we never would do such a thing, but I’m pretty sure she had something of the kind on her mind. She didn’t say anything, but the way she looked is what makes me think so. Honestly, to me she looked just scared sick. You tell her there isn’t any danger in the world of my treating her like that. Tell her everything is to go on just as it always has. Tell her to cheer up! Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
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Fiction > Montesquieu > Persian Letters Montesquieu (1689–1755).  Persian Letters.  1901. Letter XLVII Zachi to Usbek, at Paris I HAVE great news for you. Zephis and I are reconciled, and the seraglio, which had taken sides in our quarrel, is reunited. I need nothing now in this abode of peace but you. Come, my dear Usbek, come to me, and let love be triumphant.  1   I made a great feast in honor of Zephis, to which your mother, your wives, and your principal concubines were invited; your aunts and some of your female cousins also came; they arrived on horseback, covered by the dark cloud of their veils and garments.  2   Next day we set out for the country, where we hope to have greater liberty. We mounted our camels, four in each palanquin. As the party had been improvised, we had not time to send round the courouc, 1 but the chief eunuch, always attentive, took another precaution: to the cloth which hid us from sight, he attached a curtain so thick, that we could positively see nobody.  3   When we reached that river which we have to cross, each of us went, in the usual way, into a box which was transported in the ferry boat; for we were told that there were a great many people on the river. One inquisitive person who approached too near the place where we were shut up, received a mortal blow, which cut him off forever from the light of day; another, who was found bathing naked on the bank, met the same fate: those two wretches were sacrificed by your faithful eunuchs to your honor and to ours.  4   But listen to the rest of our adventures. When we had reached the middle of the river, so violent a wind arose, and such a dense cloud covered the sky, that our sailors began to lose hope. Terrified at the danger, we nearly all swooned away. I remember that I heard the voices of our eunuchs in dispute. Some of them said that, to save us from danger, we must be set at liberty; but their chief insisted, unfalteringly, that he would sooner die than permit his master to be so dishonored, and that he would plunge a dagger into the breast of any one who should dare to make such proposals. One of my slaves, quite beside herself and all undressed, came running to my assistance; but a black eunuch seized her brutally, and thrust her back whence she had come. Then I swooned away, and returned to myself only after the danger was past.  5   How distressing journeys are for us poor women! Men are exposed only to those dangers which threaten their lives; but we are in constant terror of losing either life or virtue. Farewell, my dear Usbek, whom I shall always adore.   THE SERAGLIO AT FATME, the 2nd of the moon of Rhamazan, 1713. Note 1. Courouc (back! back!) is the cry of the eunuchs who accompany the women’s litters. [back] Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
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The Language of Healing How to use intuition to help relieve pain. BY: Dr. Judith Orloff Continued from page 2 To deal with your pain, first, open up communication. Odd as it may seem, use meditation to ask your pain for help. Healing is collaboration, an opportunity to learn from a sometimes demanding but most enlightened master. Approach your pain with deep respect-without hatred or blame or remorse. Pain can literally sound like a person living inside of you and using its own unique voice. We each deal with pain differently. As a physician, there are some classic types of coping mechanisms I've seen that can work against the healing of pain. Pain can often become a metaphor for your life and beliefs. Type 1 is The Blamer, the person who blames herself for bringing on the pain, or blames someone else for causing it. Type 2 is the Victim, the person who says, "Why has God done this to me? This pain is tormenting me. I'm being punished for no reason." Type 3 is the Complainer. This person may be suffering terribly and seeks experts for help, but doesn't accept the pain as a messenger or a helper in some way. She lets everyone know her misery, a difficult dynamic for family and friends. Type 4 is The Stoic, the person who silently suffers, and doesn't reach out for help. Stoics often were never given permission in their families to express their feelings; they may feel "weak" or ashamed for showing vulnerability, so they try to push though pain. In contrast to these types, what I'm suggesting is a new model for dealing with pain that can point the way toward wellness. In my model, harmonizing with pain and illness will relieve them, not make them worse. Also, see pain as a teacher with a message you can learn from. I know this goes against much of what we've been taught. Still, the fact remains that each of my patients who've trusted enough to explore this in therapy have experienced significant reduction in pain or improvement in an illness, even when all else has failed. I never lose sight of how relentless chronic discomfort can be. I know personally the nagging pain and ongoing fatigue that can come from irritable bowel syndrome. If I don't eat well and get plenty of rest, a cycle of irritable bowel can be set off which can be debilitating. When the pain comes, I tune in, try to consider it a spiritual riddle containing layers of meaning. Sometimes the pain is saying, "This person is bad news. Get out of the situation," or sometimes it says, "Cancel all social engagements and rest." In the same way, I suggest you look to your body for answers. Continued on page 4: » comments powered by Disqus
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City of Brass City of Brass On Hadith and righteousness: a debate posted by Aziz Poonawalla A few years ago, blogger Yursil had an interesting and provocative post about hadith and the theological methodology of the Salafi and Wahabi sects of Islam: The opposite of Taqlid is the approach taken by the Ahl ul Hadith (People of Hadith), otherwise known as Salafi’s or Wahabi’s. Their influence has been far and the printing press has been their friend indeed. Wrapped in source texts they seek every answer in between marks on paper, not realizing the heaviness of those texts and the burden they bear. Hadith were an attempt at capturing the Amal (Manners) of the Prophet (??? ???? ???? ? ???) in a supplementary way for future generations. They were not meant to replace those who the Prophet (??? ???? ???? ? ???) himself described as his inheritors and those who the Quran praises. Reading Hadith to achieve those manners is possible for pieces here and there, but at the same time it is quite like parents communicating to their child only through one way text messages. Such an approach is insufficient to handle the needs of transmitting the fundamental expressions of our faith (including ritual prayer) much less raising a well rounded person. Today’s Muslims are, for the most part, like such children. This is an interesting critique, especially since it draws a implicit line between those who would consider themselves “traditionalists” and the Salafi movement. I posted this excerpt at Talk Islam and it generated a fascinating and broad discussion. Here are a sampling of the responses. Abu Noor, who also self-identifies as a traditionalist but also has Salafi leanings, took issue with Yursil’s contention: Much of this is somewhat of a strawman, since all “Salafi” scholars and teachers I have read or studied with stress the importance and value of having teachers and of learning manners and character especially from human examples. [...] At the end of the day, Yursil seems to be saying that one should follow the example of the “righteous awliya” unquestioningly but that one is obviously free to ask lots of questions and search far and wind to convince oneself of who these righteous awliya are. Many of us are nervous about such assertions because both within and outside of Islam, there are plenty of examples of the status of being considered a “righteous saint” can become institutionalized and/or hereditized and become a label that gets attached to people who don’t seem to deserve it. Willow chimed in: I find myself on one side of the fence with regard to religion generally, and on the fence itself when it comes to the tension between traditionalism (ethics through isnad, if you will) and modern sunnah (emphasis on textual ethics over taught ethics). On the one hand, I disagree with Aziz about institutionalizing righteousness-institutionalized righteousness inevitably becomes self-righteousness, as those in power become more and more convinced of their own infallibility. (After all, they have the benediction of an institution.) On the other hand, the ability of the individual to interpret textual Islamic ethics has clearly become flawed in the extreme. I don’t know why. You can get so lost in the hadith that they cease to make any kind of sense. I know far too many Sunnis who can tell you exactly how to enter and exit a bathroom, but cannot answer basic questions about the nature of Islamic justice. (Indeed, having spent the majority of my Muslim life among the Sunniest of modern Sunnis, I cannot for the life of me tell you what is meant by Islamic justice. But I know exactly what the hudud punishments are for fornication vs. adultery.) What all this means, I don’t know. I’ll go to my grave before I agree to follow a single scholar or alim or supposed wali without recourse to any others. On the other hand, I have learned nothing of use by gathering information in such a diffuse way. Buzzkill shared a relevant anecdote that i found very illuminating: I went to a ISNA Conference in Dallas some years ago and had a book table with some titles that rattled some of the umma. One discussion went this way: Attendee: This book is bida’at. It is introducing innovation into the Deen. Me: How so? Attendee: It investigates areas of Islam that are not for us to consider. What we need to know is only the mastery of the Five Pillars and to read and believe Qur’an majid. Me: Do you read the Qur’an? Attendee: Yes Me: How does Sura 2 begin? Attendee: “This is the Book; in it is guidance sure, without doubt, to those who fear Allah…” Me: Doesn’t It begin, “ALM?” Attendee: This is only for the Prophet to know, not us. Me: You think Allah has put something is His Holy Book which is private and only for Prophet Mohammad? Attendee: Yes. Me: Does this seriously make sense to you? Attendee: Yes. At that point I realized he and I follow a very different religion. What we don’t understand, sometimes we ignore or explain it away. This just scratches the surface, however, with many more insightful comments than the above, from other commentors. It’s a great discussion and deserves a look from anyone interested in how Muslims disagree on the question of religious authority. Comments Post the First Comment » post a comment Comments are closed. 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Revelation 3:14-22 (The Message) View In My Bible 14 Write to Laodicea, to the Angel of the church. God's Yes, the Faithful and Accurate Witness, the First of God's creation, says: 15 "I know you inside and out, and find little to my liking. You're not cold, you're not hot - far better to be either cold or hot! 16 You're stale. You're stagnant. You make me want to vomit. 17 You brag, 'I'm rich, I've got it made, I need nothing from anyone,' oblivious that in fact you're a pitiful, blind beggar, threadbare and homeless. 18 "Here's what I want you to do: Buy your gold from me, gold that's been through the refiner's fire. Then you'll be rich. Buy your clothes from me, clothes designed in Heaven. You've gone around half-naked long enough. And buy medicine for your eyes from me so you can see, really see. 19 "The people I love, I call to account - prod and correct and guide so that they'll live at their best. Up on your feet, then! About face! Run after God! 20 "Look at me. I stand at the door. I knock. If you hear me call and open the door, I'll come right in and sit down to supper with you. 21 Conquerors will sit alongside me at the head table, just as I, having conquered, took the place of honor at the side of my Father. That's my gift to the conquerors! 22 "Are your ears awake? Listen. Listen to the Wind Words, the Spirit blowing through the churches." Link Options More Options
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Hebrews 2 (New American Standard) View In My Bible Give Heed Earth Subject to Man 5 For He did not subject to angels g14the world to come, concerning which we are speaking. 6 But one has testified 15somewhere, saying, "16WHAT IS MAN, THAT YOU REMEMBER HIM? OR THE SON OF MAN, THAT YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT HIM? 7 "17YOU HAVE MADE HIM hFOR A LITTLE WHILE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS; YOU HAVE CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR, iAND HAVE APPOINTED HIM OVER THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS; 8 18YOU HAVE PUT ALL THINGS IN SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET." For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. But now 19we do not yet see all things subjected to him. Jesus Briefly Humbled 9 But we do see Him who was 20made jfor a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, 21because of the suffering of death 22crowned with glory and honor, so that 23by the grace of God He might 24taste death 25for everyone. 10 For 26it was fitting for Him, 27for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to 28perfect the k29author of their salvation through sufferings. 11 For both He who 30sanctifies and those who 31are lsanctified are all 32from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them 33brethren, 12 saying, "34I WILL PROCLAIM YOUR NAME TO MY BRETHREN, IN THE MIDST OF THE CONGREGATION I WILL SING YOUR PRAISE." 13 And again, "35I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN HIM." And again, "36BEHOLD, I AND THE CHILDREN WHOM GOD HAS GIVEN ME." 14 Therefore, since the children share in m37flesh and blood, 38He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that 39through death He might render powerless 40him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and might free those who through 41fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives. 16 For assuredly He does not ngive help to angels, but He gives help to the odescendant of Abraham. 17 Therefore, He phad 42to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might 43become a merciful and faithful 44high priest in 45things pertaining to God, to 46make propitiation for the sins of the people. 18 For since He Himself was 47tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted. Link Options More Options
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View Single Post Old 07-05-2008, 12:27 PM Daniel B Daniel B is offline Officially Welcomed to the 'Fest Location: Sweden Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 363 Mein Auto: X6 3.5d Originally Posted by CAFleming View Post Why would anyone buy less performance and utility for more money just because they can afford it? That's absurd. And the average wagon doesn't have more utility than the average SUV, but it sure has more utility than the X6. "Any car that is desirable but gets poor mileage will gravitate to the affluent buyer." That's ridiculous too. I find most high end buyers like bitching about the price of gas just like everyone else. And I find I rather enjoy it when my 6 cylinder Porsche getting 19 mpg blows the doors off the Escalade in the next lane getting 12 mpg. It's a double win. And I'm not alone. Well...BMW sold 40 000 X6 so i guess there are some who wants them ;-) BTW have you test drive the X6? If not i can tell you its like driving an 911 and the 911 its nice! But the best part is that can i put a lot of stuff in my car to, got a sportcar with space!!! This is an good example of "think outside the box" Its importent to test things before i talk about them, otherwise i will just look jealous. And yes i had an -05 911 Have a nice day! Last edited by Daniel B; 07-05-2008 at 01:57 PM. Reply With Quote
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User Settings LAN Parties Upcoming one-time events: Regularly scheduled events Report this Comment 29. Re: Op Ed May 12, 2012, 00:57 eunichron Jerykk wrote on May 11, 2012, 23:54: This guy has no idea what he's talking about. Diablo 3 is going to get cracked and you'll be able to play it just fine in single-player, just like any other cracked game. While your character data will be stored online for legal copies of the game, crackers will just hack it so that that data is stored locally instead. Voila, problem solved. The author seems to be under the misconception that the game's assets will be stored online and then somehow streamed to the player during gameplay. He also doesn't understand the difference between cloud gaming and server-side character storage. The game's assets are stored locally, but things like creature AI, inventory, spawn locations, and dungeon randomization are stored server side. For the crackers to get a true SP game out of it they would need an emulated server (which already existed in the beta), but everything mentioned above would not work. I won't link any here, but you can easily find videos on YouTube showing off the beta server emulators... and yeah, you can play, but it's a severely gimped version of the game. Though, modders and crackers are industrious types, I'm sure it won't take long for someone to code AI and replacement content. Avatar 13977 Login Email   Password Remember Me Forgotten your password? Click here. .. .. .. Blue's News logo
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Saada/ Sadda Haq, Aithe Rakh Meaning (Rockstar) More from Rockstar: Anonymous said... AKS said... Thank U Gfox said... Thansk Bro. Anonymous said... Anonymous said... Thx. Gr8 impact with just 4 words. Anonymous said... fuck you! Anonymous said... arr is god Krishna said... aw...!! thanks for the meaning.....!! Anonymous said... the way in which you are explaining.. is gr8.........thanku very much... smarty said... great explanation. thanks bro Azimul said... Sure its a gr8 song, awesome tune from ARR. It reminds me of a Bangladeshi Bangla film song of 80s. amar sara deho kheo go mati amar chokh duto mati kheo na ami more geleo tare dekhar shadh mitbe na ko mitbe na tare ek jonome valosese vorbe na mon vorbe na. It means, oh soil, digest my whole body, except my eyes. My desire to see her wont be done (end) even after my death. It wont be satisfying for me to love her for only one life. Now thats awesome! taranjs said... Thanks Azimul. The lines of the song you posted reminded me of these lines by Sheikh Fareed: "O Raven, you have searched my skeleton, and eaten all my flesh. But please do not touch these eyes as I hope to behold my Beloved (Lord)." - Sri Guru Granth Sahib See an illustration of the same in the top right image in the below link: Anonymous said... No, It Meant that "i dont care about the haq(rights) or such s#*t, let it go to hell... i am gonna do what ever i wanna do" prem said... Thanks for the info :) "Subscribe to BollyMeaning" L o s t ?
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Life Before Man Enlarge View Life Before Man Written by Margaret AtwoodMargaret Atwood Author Alert Category: Fiction Format: Paperback, 400 pages Publisher: Seal Books ISBN: 978-0-7704-2825-9 (0-7704-2825-8) Pub Date: September 30, 1998 Price: $10.99 Add this item to your cart Life Before Man Written by Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780770428259 Our Price: $10.99    Quantity: 1  Friday, October 29, 1976 I don't know how I should live. I don't know how anyone should live. All I know is how I do live. I live like a peeled snail. And that's no way to make money. I want that shell back, it took me long enough to make. You've got it with you, wherever you are. You were good at removing. I want a shell like a sequined dress, made of silver nickels and dimes and dollars overlapping like the scales of an armadillo. Armored dildo. Impermeable; like a French raincoat. I wish I didn't have to think about you. You wanted to impress me; well, I'm not impressed, I'm disgusted. That was a disgusting thing to do, childish and stupid. A tantrum, smashing a doll, but what you smashed was your own head, your own body. You wanted to make damn good and sure I'd never be able to turn over in bed again without feeling that body beside me, not there but tangible, like a leg that's been cut off. Gone but the place still hurts. You wanted me to cry, mourn, sit in a rocker with a black-edged handkerchief, bleeding from the eyes. But I'm not crying, I'm angry. I'm so angry I could kill you. If you hadn't already done that for yourself. Elizabeth is lying on her back, clothes on and unrumpled, shoes placed side by side on the bedside rug, a braided oval bought at Nick Knack's four years ago when she was still interested in home furnishings, guaranteed genuine old lady twisted rags. Arms at her sides, feet together, eyes open. She can see part of the ceiling, that's all. A small crack runs across her field of vision, a smaller crack branching out from it. Nothing will happen, nothing will open, the crack will not widen and split and nothing will come through it. All it means is that the ceiling needs to be repainted, not this year but the next. Elizabeth tries to concentrate on the words "next year," finds she can't. To the left there is a blur of light; if she turns her head she will see the window, hung with spider plants, the Chinese split-bamboo blind half rolled up. She called the office after lunch and told them she would not be in. She's been doing that too often; she needs her job. She is not in. She's somewhere between her body, which is lying sedately on the bed, on top of the Indian print spread, tigers and flowers, wearing a black turtleneck pullover, a straight black skirt, a mauve slip, a beige brassiere with a front closing, and a pair of pantyhose, the kind that come in plastic eggs, and the ceiling with its hairline cracks. She can see herself there, a thickening of the air, like albumin. What comes out when you boil an egg and the shell cracks. She knows about the vacuum on the other side of the ceiling, which is not the same as the third floor where the tenants live. Distantly, like tiny thunder, their child is rolling marbles across the floor. Into the black vacuum the air is being sucked with a soft, barely audible whistle. She could be pulled up and into it like smoke. She can't move her fingers. She thinks about her hands, lying at her sides, rubber gloves: she thinks about forcing the bones and flesh down into those shapes of hands, one finger at a time, like dough. Through the door, which she's left open an inch out of habit, always on call like the emergency department of a hospital, listening even now for crashes, sounds of breakage, screams, comes the smell of scorching pumpkin. Her children have lighted their jack-o'-lanterns, even though there are still two days before Halloween. And it isn't even dark yet, though the light at the side of her head is fading. They love so much to dress up, to put on masks and costumes and run through the streets, through the dead leaves, to knock on the doors of strangers, holding out their paper bags. What hope. It used to touch her, that excitement, that fierce joy, the planning that would go on for weeks behind the closed door of their room. It used to twist something in her, some key. This year they are remote from her. The soundless glass panel of the hospital nursery where she would stand in her housecoat for each of them in turn, watching the pink mouths open and close, the faces contort. She can see them, they can see her. They know something is wrong. Their politeness, their evasion, is chilling because it's so perfectly done. They've been watching me. They've been watching us for years. Why wouldn't they know how to do it? They act as though everything is normal, and maybe for them it is normal. Soon they will want dinner and I will make it. I will lower myself down from this bed and make the dinner, and tomorrow I will see them off to school and then I will go to the office. That is the proper order. Elizabeth used to cook, very well too. It was at the same time as her interest in rugs. She still cooks, she peels some things and heats others. Some things harden, others become softer; white turns to brown. It goes on. But when she thinks about food she doesn't see the bright colors, red, green, orange, featured in the Gourmet Cookbook. Instead she sees the food as illustrations from those magazine articles that show how much fat there is in your breakfast. Dead white eggs, white strips of bacon, white butter. Chickens, roasts and steaks modeled from bland lard. That's what all food tastes like to her now. Nevertheless she eats, she overeats, weighting herself down. There's a small knock, a step. Elizabeth moves her eyes down. In the oak-framed oval mirror above the dressing table she can see the door opening, the darkness of the hall behind, Nate's face bobbing like a pale balloon. He comes into the room, breaking the invisible thread she habitually stretches across the threshold to keep him out, and she is able to turn her head. She smiles at him. "How are you, love?" he says. "I've brought you some tea." Friday, October 29, 1976 He doesn't know what "love" means between them any more, though they always say it. For the sake of the children. He can't remember when he started knocking at her door, or when he stopped considering it his door. When they moved the children into one room together and he took the vacant bed. The vacant bed, she called it then. Now she calls it the extra bed. He sets the cup of tea down on the night table, beside the clock radio that wakes her every morning with cheerful breakfast news. There's an ashtray, no butts; why should there be? She doesn't smoke. Though Chris did. When Nate slept in this room there were ashes, matches, ringed glasses, pennies from his pockets. They used to save them in a peanut butter jar and buy small gifts with them for each other. Mad money, she called it. Now he still empties the pennies out of his pockets every night; they accumulate like mouse droppings on top of the bureau in his room, his own room. Your own room, she calls it, as if to keep him in there. She looks up at him, her face leached of color, eyes dark-circled, smile wan. She doesn't have to try; she always tries. "Thanks, love," she says. "I'll get up in a minute." "I'll make dinner tonight, if you like," Nate says, wanting to be helpful, and Elizabeth agrees listlessly. Her listlessness, her lack of encouragement, infuriates him, but he says nothing, turns and closes the door softly behind him. He made the gesture and she acts as if it means nothing. Nate goes to the kitchen, opens the refrigerator and pokes through it. It's like rummaging through a drawer of jumbled clothes. Leftovers in jars, bean sprouts gone bad, spinach in a plastic bag starting to decay, giving off that smell of decomposing lawn. No use expecting Elizabeth to clean it. She used to clean it. She will clean other things these days, but not the refrigerator. He'll tidy it up himself, tomorrow or the next day, when he gets around to it. Meanwhile he'll have to improvise dinner. It's no large trial, he's often helped with the cooking, but in former times--he thinks of it as the olden days, like a bygone romantic era, like some Disneyland movie about knighthood--there were always supplies. He does most of the grocery shopping himself now, carting a bag or two home in the basket of his bicycle, but he forgets things and gaps are left in the day: no eggs, no toilet paper. Then he has to send the kids to the corner store, where everything is more expensive. Before, before he sold the car, it wasn't such a problem. He took Elizabeth once a week, on Saturdays, and helped her put the cans and frozen packages away when they got home. Nate picks the dripping spinach out of the vegetable crisper and carries it to the garbage can; it oozes green liquid. He counts the eggs: not enough for omelettes. He'll have to make macaroni and cheese again, which is all right since the kids love it. Elizabeth will not love it but she will eat it, she'll wolf it down absently as if it's the last thing on her mind, smiling like a slowly grilling martyr, staring past him at the wall. Nate stirs and grates, stirs and grates. An ash drops from his cigarette, missing the pot. It isn't his fault Chris blew his head off with a shotgun. A shotgun: this sums up the kind of extravagance, hysteria, he's always found distasteful in Chris. He himself would have used a pistol. If he were going to do it at all. What gets him is the look she gave him when the call came through: At least he had the guts. At least he was serious. She's never said it of course, but he's sure she compares them, judges him unfavorably because he's still alive. Chickenshit, to be still alive. No balls. Yet at the same time, still without saying it, he knows she blames him, for the whole thing. If you had only been this or that, done this or that--he doesn't know what--it wouldn't have happened. I wouldn't have been driven, forced, compelled . . . that's her view, that he failed her, and this undefined failure of his turned her into a quivering mass of helpless flesh, ready to attach itself like a suction cup to the first crazy man who ambled along and said, You have nice tits. Or whatever it was Chris did say to get her to open the Love Latch on her brassiere. Probably more like, You have nice ramifications. Chess-players are like that. Nate knows: he used to be one himself. Nate can never figure out why women find chess-playing sexy. Some women. So for a week now, ever since that night, she's spent the afternoons in there lying on the bed that used to be his, half his, and he's been bringing her cups of tea, one each afternoon. She accepts them with that dying swan took of hers, the took he can't stand and can't resist. It's your fault, darling, but you may bring me cups of tea. Scant atonement. And an aspirin out of the bathroom and a glass of water. Thank you. Now go away somewhere and feel guilty. He's a sucker for it. Like a good boy. And he was the one, not her, not Elizabeth, who had to go and identify the body. As her stricken eyes said, she could hardly be expected to. So dutifully he had gone. Standing in that apartment where he'd been only twice but where she had been at least once every week for the past two years, fighting nausea, nerving himself to look, he'd felt that she was there in the room with them, a curve in space, a watcher. More so than Chris. No head left at all, to speak of. The headless horseman. But recognizable. Chris's expression had never really been in that heavy flat face of his; not like most people's. It had been in his body. The head had been a troublemaker, which was probably why Chris had chosen to shoot at it instead of at some other part of himself. He wouldn't have wanted to mutilate his body. A floor, a table, a chess set by the bed, a bed with what they called the trunk and limbs lying on it; Nate's other body, joined to him by that tenuous connection, that hole in space controlled by Elizabeth. Chris had put on a suit and tic, and a white shirt. Nate, thinking of that ceremony--the thick hands knotting the tie, straightening it in the mirror, God, his shoes were shined even--wanted to cry. He put his hands in his jacket pockets; his fingers closed on pennies, the house key. "Any reason why he left your number on the table?" the second policeman said. "No," Nate said. "We were friends of his, I guess." "Both of you?" the first policeman said. "Yes," said Nate. Janet comes into the kitchen as he's sliding the casserole dish into the oven. "What's for dinner?" she asks, adding "Dad," as if to remind him who he is. Nate finds this question suddenly so mournful that for a moment he can't answer. It's a question from former times, the olden days. His eyes blur. He wants to drop the casserole on the floor and pick her up, hug her, but instead he closes the oven door gently. "Macaroni and cheese," he says. "Yum," she says, her voice remote, guarded, giving a careful imitation of pleasure. "With tomato sauce?" "No," he says, "there wasn't any." Janet runs her thumb across the kitchen table, squeaking it on the wood. She does this twice. "Is Mum resting?" she says. "Yes," Nate says. Then, fatuously, "I took her a cup of tea." He puts one hand behind him, against the kitchen counter. They both know what to avoid. "Well," Janet says in the voice of a small adult, "I'll be seeing you soon." She turns and goes back through the kitchen door. Nate wants to do something, perform something, smash his hand through the kitchen window. But on the other side of the glass there's a screen. That would neutralize him. Whatever he does now will be absurd. What is smashing a window compared with blowing off your head? Cornered. If she'd planned it, she couldn't have done it better. Friday, October 29, 1976 Lesje is wandering in prehistory. Under a sun more orange than her own has ever been, in the middle of a swampy plain lush with thick-stalked plants and oversized ferns, a group of bony-plated stegosaurs is grazing. Around the edges of this group, protected by its presence but unrelated to it, are a few taller, more delicate camptosaurs. Cautious, nervous, they lift their small heads from time to time, raising themselves on their hind legs to sniff at the air. If there is danger they will give the alarm first. Closer to her, a flock of medium-sized pterosaurs glides from one giant tree-fern to another. Lesje crouches in the topmost frond-cluster of one of these trees, watching through binoculars, blissful, uninvolved. None of the dinosaurs takes the slightest interest in her. If they do happen to see or smell her, they will not notice her. She is something so totally alien to them that they will not be able to focus on her. When the aborigines sighted Captain Cook's ships, they ignored them because they knew such things could not exist. It's the next best thing to being invisible. up Back to top | e-mail or print this page Excerpted from Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood Copyright © 1998 by Margaret Atwood. Excerpted by permission of Seal Books. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. book cover Click here to learn more!
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The Comedy of Errors Quiz | Lesson Plans Eight Week Quiz A Buy The Comedy of Errors Lesson Plans Eight Week Quiz A Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________ Multiple Choice Questions 1. Who says, "What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face, being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave"? (a) Antipholus of Syracuse. (b) Antipholus of Ephesus. (c) Dromio of Syracuse. (d) Dromio of Ephesus. (a) Wander the city. (b) Find some food. (c) Sell some jewelry. (d) Visit a friend. (a) Money. (b) A chain. (c) A ring. (d) Some papers. 4. In what setting does Act 1, Scene 1 take place? (a) A palace hall. (b) Antipholus of Syracuse's house. (c) Antipholus of Ephesus' house. (d) A market. (a) By sunset. (b) In two days. (c) One month. (d) In a week. Short Answer Questions 1. What sum of money does Antipholus of Syracuse mention in Act 1, Scene 2? (see the answer key) This section contains 290 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) Buy The Comedy of Errors Lesson Plans
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Walden Two Test | Lesson Plans Final Test - Hard B. F. Skinner Buy the Walden Two Lesson Plans Final Test - Hard Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________ Short Answer Questions 1. In the part of the debate when they speak about democracy, what weaknesses of this system does Frazier point out? 2. At the group's Sunday breakfast, how does Barbara's behavior affect Frazier? 3. According to Frazier's explanation of behavior theory, what two contradictory forces occur simultaneously when it is applied? 4. During the Sunday evening debate about behavior control, on what point do Castle and Frazier agree? 5. After the observation of the new arrivals, when Burris questions Frazier about the example of an aggressive adolescent, how does Frazier suggest that this would be handled at Walden Two? Essay Topics Essay Topic 1 The main purpose of Walden Two is the expression of the author's scientific theories about the science of behavior and how it should be used to manage societies. To what extent is this purpose accomplished? Essay Topic 2 Today's audiences have been fed a steady diet of science fiction through cinema, television, and theater. Discuss the pros and cons of the observation that this diet has reduced the impact of "Walden Two" as an example of this genre. Essay Topic 3 Discuss the evolution of the adversarial relationship between Castle and Frazier, and comment on the role played by this relationship in the novel. (see the answer keys) This section contains 356 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) Buy the Walden Two Lesson Plans
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Welcome Visitor: Login to the siteJoin the site He's back Novel By: Crystal Rose Emily thought her life was finally normal. She had a summer job, a best friend, and she was living with an awesome guardian. Her life was perfect, until he came back. View table of contents... Submitted:Aug 19, 2013    Reads: 16    Comments: 0    Likes: 0    My legs were on fire, I couldn't breathe, and I was gasping for air. But I didn't stop running, I couldn't stop running. He was after me, he was gonna kill me I couldn't stop running. I finally made it home I was dizzy and I felt ready to collapse, but I managed to climb up the stairs and unlock the front door. I was home, I was safe but for how long? How long did I have before he figured out where I lived? My legs were weak I needed a glass of water. I headed into the kitchen praying Allison wasn't home yet. She had enough things to worry about, the last thing she needed was for me to lay another worry on her. But unfortunately the universe was on my side today because there she was. Sitting at the kitchen table, sipping her juice and reading the latest mystery novel. She looked up at me and gasped. I imagine I looked like a mess. Hair messed up, sweat running down my face, gasping for air I must of looked awful. "Emily! Wh-what's wrong? What happened?" she asked rushing over to me, a look of worry displayed on her face. I couldn't answer her; I was still trying to catch my breath. She handed me her juice. I drank it in record time. She stood there looking me over, waiting for me to tell her what was wrong. But I didn't, instead I burst in tears and ran into her arms. She hugged me and patted my back while rocking me gently. She kept asking me over and over again. "Emily please! Tell me what's the matter." I continued crying for a few more minutes. I just couldn't stop crying, I wanted to tell her but the tears just wouldn't stop. Finally I managed to choke out the words "H-he's…..he's….he's back Alison! He's here…" She gasped and stared at me "but I thought he was in prison, how could he escape?" I felt like crying again "I don't know, but he's back. I know it, I saw him!" Alison hugged me tighter "it'll be ok Emily, it'll be ok. I promise" She was trying hard to reassure me but I could hear the fright in her voice, and I could tell she was almost close to tears too. "It'll be ok, I promise" Would it? Would it really be ok? | Email this story Email this Novel | Add to reading list
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What just happened? More information about how we have ‘runified’ this site Australia LandscapeKew at the British Museum 21 April – 16 October 2011 Museum forecourt Part of the Australian season Supported by Some highlights of the landscape WattleAcacia baileyana and A. dealbata Produces abundant pollen and is used as a bee plant in the production of honey. Find out more at www.kew.org Evergreen kangaroo pawAnigozanthos flavidus Young rhizomes of this plant are consumed by Indigenous Australians. Find out more at www.kew.org Coast banksia Banksia integrifolia Specimens of coast banksia were collected on Captain Cook’s circumnavigation of the globe in the Endeavour in 1768–1771. Find out more at www.kew.org Australian tree fernDicksonia antarctica Indigenous Australians ate the pith of this fern raw, or roasted it over ashes. Find out more at www.kew.org Tasmanian blue gumEucalyptus globulus This species is the floral emblem of Tasmania. Find out more at www.kew.org Tea treeMelaleuca alternifolia Traditionally, Indigenous Australians used crushed tea tree leaves to treat skin infections. Find out more at www.kew.org Sturt’s desert peaSwainsona formosa Named after Charles Sturt – a 19th century explorer who searched in vain for an inland Australian sea. Find out more at www.kew.org Wollemi pineWollemia nobilis The oldest Wollemi pine alive today is around 1000 years old. Find out more at www.kew.org BalgaXanthorrhoea preissii These plants are resistant to fire. Find out more at www.kew.org
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mental models Beliefs, ideas, images, and verbal descriptions that we consciously or unconsciously form from our experiences and which (when formed) guide our thoughts and actions within narrow channels. These representations of perceived reality explain cause and effect to us, and lead us to expect certain results, give meaning to events, and predispose us to behave in certain ways. Although mental models provide internal stability in a world of continuous change, they also blind us to facts and ideas that challenge or defy our deeply held beliefs. They are, by their very nature, fuzzy and incomplete. And everyone has different models (that differ in detail from everyone else's) of the same concept or subject, no matter how common or simple. Use mental models in a sentence Related Videos Have a question about mental models? Ask for help in the advertise here
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Should MTV Just Change Its Name Already? On Tuesday, MTV execs announced that they are renewing some shows, like Teen Cribs and Is She Really Going Out With Him?, and picking up a bunch of new series as well, like "the Ashton Kutcher-produced American Idiots, the scripted comedy Hard Times and an untitled comedy/variety project starring Rob Hoffman." Perhaps I'm dating myself here, but I recall when MTV, or "Music Television," was a network devoted to a lot of music-related things. Doing a word search for "music" in this article about MTV's next season brought up exactly one result, when the word is used to describe one of the reality show members as a "hip music executive." Everyone knows MTV has lacked actual music for a long time now. Should the network just change the name already?
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View Full Version : Amp stopped working when subs blew 08-04-2012, 07:54 PM I had two 12" Rockfords hooked up to a Hifonics HFi 1000.1D amp and ending up blowing them not long after i got them hooked up. I was pushing them at a higher power than they were rated for by mistake but now my amp won't get power to any subs hooked up in my car. The amp is getting power but it won't push the subs. Did I damage my amp when I blew the Rockfords? 08-04-2012, 10:55 PM welcome to the site. hope you enjoy it here. come to the dome and hang out 08-04-2012, 10:58 PM wrong section... but its possible you were clipping the **** out of the subs and amp therefore damaging the amp 08-04-2012, 11:07 PM The amp is pouting....just give it a couple days 08-04-2012, 11:10 PM 08-04-2012, 11:12 PM 08-04-2012, 11:19 PM The subs blew cuz u blew the amp..... Buy a multi meter and read the setting gain stickie in the amp sections of the forms
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"Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization" by David Singh Grewal [Full Text] Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 23.1 (Spring 2009) Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization Network Power: The Social Dynamics of Globalization, David Singh Grewal (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008), 416 pp., $30 cloth, $18 paper. Stefano Guzzini (Reviewer) David Singh Grewal's book is motivated by a paradox: many of the actors who try to join global processes are the same actors who complain about the dominating effects of globalization. Why, then, do they consent to being constrained? To better understand this paradox, according to Grewal, we need to understand globalization as a process in which we participate by choice but not necessarily voluntarily—one in which we are increasingly pushed into a "game of social coordination" (p. 2), where common standards allow more effective coordination, yet also entrap us in their pull for convergence. Globalization, writes Grewal, is "the disruptive and uneven process by which we come to share common standards after the eclipse of distance" (p. 20). Standards are a type of convention, a "shared norm or practice" facilitating cooperation in a network (p. 32). Yet the collective effect of interdependent individual choices can reach a tipping point where one standard—if widely accessible, but neither flexible nor easily compatible with other standards—starts to crowd out the alternatives. In these circumstances, staying with a different standard imposes too high a cost for the individual actor—hence, although joining the dominant standard is an active choice of the individual (p. 26, emphasis in original), which Grewal calls "free," it is not thereby also a voluntary choice (pp. 109–11). In other words, signing up to a standard is an act of conscious choice without consent. The dynamics driving this process of convergence is what Grewal calls "network power" (p. 106). Network power is visible in such different fields as technology (for example, in the dominance of Microsoft's operating systems), trade (international organizations, such as the WTO, and their standards), and culture (English as a lingua franca). To be able to perceive such networkpower domination, certain conceptual moves are necessary (which Grewal takes mainly from Steven Lukes's authoritative study Power: A Radical View, first published in 1974). Power, on Grewal's account, is not necessarily hierarchical or based on coercion: it may be diffuse and non-intentional, and should be conceived as working impersonally through structures, such as networks defined by shared standards. Nevertheless, the author argues that such an analysis is compatible with methodological individualism, which aims at explaining and understanding social phenomena as the mere aggregation of decisions by individuals, because, if I read correctly, it is ultimately our individual "desire to cooperate with others" that is the driving force behind network power (p. 172). In a third step, Grewal links this empirical and conceptual discussion to moral 78 recent books on ethics and international affairs theory, where an analysis of domination meets a normative concern centered on freedom. Freedom is related here to the safeguarding of an individual’s interests and identity, both of which can be negatively affected by network power in its pressuring for behavioral and cultural homogenization. Furthermore, the dynamics of dominating standards amount to a form of "systematic private power" (p. 189), which tends to (privately) enclose what otherwise amounts to common goods that might be publicly available. Grewal argues that it is therefore morally imperative that politics reassert itself—as difficult as this may be in decentralized international affairs—by creating and protecting a transnational public sphere that reclaims authority over globalization's convergence dynamics (that is, over network power) in order to open up alternative options for the individual (and hence freer choice), a more widely beneficial control of the commons, and a pluralistic recognition of cultural difference. None of these ideas are really new on their own. For instance, when Grewal discusses globalization, showing how the last turn in our rationalist modernization increases both our capacities and our level of entrapment, he openly refers back to Max Weber's metaphor of the iron cage, which Weber surely saw as an international, and not just national, dynamic of competitive convergence. Meanwhile, Grewal's normative call for the protection of a transnational public space is clearly in line with a republican tradition in political philosophy, substantially developed by Jürgen Habermas and others. On the conceptual level, defenses of a methodological individualist position in power analysis have recently been proposed by the author Keith Dowding, among others, and also from a more heterodox position like that of Peter Morriss. It should be noted that the book's emphasis on agency as choice leaves untouched an understanding of agency as habitual action (as in Weber or Pierre Bourdieu, for example). Equally, Grewal does not address the critiques of methodological individualism, including those made by Lukes himself. One can consciously decide ("choose," in Grewal's terminology) on a certain action in the course of following a rule one was not consciously aware of: the explanatory weight for understanding this action is in this case on the rule, not on the reasons given for the choice—the intersubjective, not the individualist, element drives the explanation. Finally, Grewal admits to avoiding certain foundational issues in the agency-structure debate (pp. 68–69) or in a theory of justice (p. 143), which would move those debates forward. But if the individual ideas contained in Network Power are rarely novel (and if some of them remain underexplored), the book's major contribution is in bringing these ideas together. Grewal does well to organize his argument around the concept of power. Power analysis falls at the crossroads of at least two domains of inquiry that follow different logics, social theory and political theory/philosophy, and two levels of analysis, the individual and the social. Political theorists are interested in power for understanding order and rule (on the macro level) or freedom and autonomy (on the micro level). Social theorists use power for understanding domination and hierarchy (macro) or influence and causality, if not agency (micro). Hence, a book that wishes to understand the interaction between globalization and freedom, the "politics" of recent books on ethics and international affairs 79 globalization, as it were, finds itself immediately on the turf of power analysis. In turn, any analysis of power will inevitably touch these different domains in social and political theory, although many scholars avoid addressing them at the same time. Not shying away from an explicit discussion of these connections, elucidating the diverse literature of power in an accessible way, and competently reenvisioning it through a single lens that allows a focused understanding of globalization are Network Power's major achievements. —STEFANO GUZZINI The reviewer is Professor of Government at Uppsala University and Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen. He is working on a forthcoming book, Power Analysis and International Relations. Read More: Globalization, Cultural Rights, Globalization, Global Related Resources: blog comments powered by Disqus Search Our Site People  |  Advanced Search Join our Mailing Lists Online Magazine Online Magazine Social Network Social Network The Journal The Journal
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Does Planned Parenthood Even Know What An Abortion Is? So, there’s a bit of controversy surrounding the proposed informed consent law in Virginia that would require women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound. Of course, radical abortion advocates find this offensive. Because women can’t be trusted with information about their bodies, I guess. Read more. 6 thoughts on “Does Planned Parenthood Even Know What An Abortion Is? 1. Team D says: So I must disagree with this (as a pro-life doctor)! First, a transvaginal ultrasound can and does provide a more accurate picture of the baby growing inside the womb (especially before 20 weeks and depending on the body habitus of the woman), and the goal is to provide an accurate exam right?. Second, there has been such outcry about the ultrasound requiring vaginal penetration. I even heard one pro-abort say it is a law that “rapes” women. It is as if opponents of this law are intentionally failing to admit that a surgical abortion will result in a far more invasive, injurious, and quite frankly violent form of “vaginal penetration.” So if it is done to image a baby that is “wanted” it is an appropriate medical exam. If it is done to rip a baby from the safety of the mother’s uterus it is also an “appropriate” medical procedure. But if it is done to image a baby that is “unwanted,” it is inappropriate and violating…just what are the pro-aborts afraid of? Truth perhaps!? 2. GREG SMITH says: Pia – It’s not at all clear that a woman looking at a transvaginal ultrasound will be any more disposed not to go through with an abortion than an abdominal one. The purpose of specifying the type was clearly to put another obsticle in the way of a woman who wants to have one. The problem is a) it won’t work and b)insisting on a vaginal penetration for no medical reason “shocks the conscence” of most Americans and is counterproductive to pro-life efforts. 1. Bruce says: Liberal catholycs are a dying breed, Greg. Its best to jump ship before it sinks. ~Pax, Awesomeness. 2. Jason Phillips says: Greg, you sound ridiculous. First and foremost, ultrasounds do, in fact, reduce the incidence of abortion. When women are clearly shown “here’s the heart, here’s the femur, here’s the head” it personifies the so-called blob of tissue. I think that’s common sense. My father routinely gives ultrasounds to women coming to him seeking abortion, and NOT ONE of them has chosen abortion. Furthermore, a transvaginal ultrasound ought not to “shock the conscience” of anyone. It is a regular, often-used procedure for working up many women, pregnant or not. It is simple, easy, and voluntary. The idea that we can equate this to molestation or somehow infringing on a woman’s dignity is absurd on its face. The people who make this argument are trying to feed on the general public’s ignorance of medical procedures. Even if I were pro-abortion, it would be damn near malpractice to perform a surgical abortion without first performing an ultrasound – you have to know where the baby is first if you want to kill it!! And in the beginning of pregnancy transvaginal sono’s are much more accurate than abdominal sonos. Shouldn’t we go with the more accurate imaging techniques? Why don’t you want the best medical care for women? Wake up, man. 3. Marsha says: Pia, isn’t this ultrasound requirement being done to try to get pregnant women to not have an abortion and thus forcing the American public to pay for a procedure that is only being done because of religious beliefs? And if yes, isn’t this exactly the same thing Obama is doing to the American public regarding forcing the American people to pay for contraceptives? 1. Esnofla says: Hardly. I can answer this question and so could a child of five years old. Does the government not run schools at tax payers expense? What is the ultrasound mandate. It’s education. Yeh, that’s right. EDUCATION. Since the abortion mills love to tell people that they are extracting a mass of tissue and not a human being then it is up to the federal government to educate people, to make them more intelligent; to increase their ability to make better decisions since a democracy can only survive if its people are intelligent, correct. Actually, a democracy can only survive if there are people! :-) Leave a Reply Receive our updates via email.
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Channel 4 Learning Click for home pageClick for main credits page Picture of James Berry Click for author list James Berry was born and brought up in a tiny seaside village in Jamaica. He learnt to read before he was four years old, mostly from the Bible, which he often read aloud to his mother's friends. As a child he loved the stories of Anancy Spiderman, and he began writing his own stories and poems while he was still at school. When he was 17, James went to work in America, but he hated the way that black people were treated there, and returned to Jamaica after four years. In 1948, he made his way to Britain, and took a job working for British Telecom. He took up writing seriously two years later, but it was some time before he started writing poetry. In his poems, he uses a mixture of standard English and Creole, the language of Jamaica. He is active both as a writer and in promoting black writing, especially black poetry. James has won many awards for his poems and stories, and was the Grand Prix Winner of the Smarties Prize in 1987 for A Thief in the Village. In 1990 he was awarded an OBE for services to Poetry.