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Linksys Wireless Router WKPC54g
By sdevico
Jun 7, 2005
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1. I have 2 desktop PCs in my home. The host PC
has a DSL modem. The second PC (call it PC2) is connected via
phone line using software called HomePortal provided
by Bellsouth. I purchased the WKPC54G kit in order to
bring a laptop into the mix.
The router works fine. The host PC can "see" the laptop and
PC2. The laptop can "see" both desktops. The problem is,
PC2 can no longer "see" the host PC, though the Internet
connection still works. It appears that the presence of the
router has affected the ability of PC2 to share the files
residing on the Host.
Any ideas?
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Pirates of the Burning Sea: Beta Extension
Posted Wed, Dec 26, 2007 by Aelryn
Just one more week of tweaking...
According to a post at the Burning Sea website, the Pirates of the Burning Sea Open Beta will be extended through January 1st. In addition to that news, Flying Lab is also planning to reward their players with a special flag and sail design available exclusively to beta testers, and some fun in-game events to celebrate the end of beta.
The Pirates of the Burning Sea Open Beta will now run until the morning of January 1st, 2008! That gives everyone one more week to play the game, see what we’re doing, and check out the very latest improvements and changes.
Learn more at the Flying Lab website.
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_ /\ _ _ /\ _ / \_/\_/ \_/\_/ \ M M 0000 0000 SSSSS EEEEEEE / \_/\_/ \_/\_/ \ \_____/ () \_____/ MM MM 0 //0 0 //0 S E \_____/ () \_____/ / \ M M M M 0 // 0 0 // 0 SSSS EEEEE / \ / \__/ \ M M M 0// 0 0// 0 S E / \__/ \ /__________\ M M 0000 0000 SSSSS EEEEEEE /__________\ DDDD RRRR OOOO PPPPP PPPPP IIIII N N GGGGG SSSSS D D R R O O P P P P I NN N G S D D RRRR O O PPPPP PPPPP I N N N G GGG SSSS D D R R O O P P I N NN G G S DDDD R R OOOO P P IIIII N N GGGG SSSSS A-M00SE-ING ANECDOTES AND ILLUMINATION BY AND FOR THE PAWNS OF THE M00SE ILLUMINATI Issue #20| Disclaimer: The Editor will place almost anything | Dec. 9, 1988 ---------- in this newsletter out of a frantic desire to fill --------------- the issue, so don't blame him for the quality or content of the submissions. Excepting those he may have written himself, the enclosed items do not in any way represent the Editor's opinions. In fact, let's be real safe, and say that as far as this newsletter is concerned, he has no opinions at all. Okay? Good. ================================================================================ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **************************** EDITORIALS AND LETTERS **************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings. Due to the hugeness of the issue, there will be no editorial. Sorry it took so long. There are a couple items that will be held till next issue, due to size. This issue will be followed by a complete Chapter list. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************* EVENTS AND NEWS ******************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- << Two letters, one of them in response to the multi-thr0ng-a-thon Megathr0ng-a-thon idea. >> This idea can stick. I like it. Ok, where are all the mid/south m00ses, huh? Or is this the only throng in the south/mid area? where are the folks from IN, ILL, TX, AR, LO, KT, and other surrounding areas huh? Let me know, and we can decide on a place for the M-T-a-T Middle-United-States-Housing (that's MUSH). I would be willing to say, have it here in Fayetteville, but a lot of m00ses might not be able to make it. Plus I am a poor M00se, and dont own a house or anything like that here. Anyway, let's talk MUSH ppl. M00seMan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Greetings earthm00ses. I have pondered the future m-t-a-t and have come up with 2 reasons to have it in the Andromeda galaxy, convenience,proximity, and ease- 3! 3 reasons to have it in the Andromeda galaxy: convenience, proximity, ease and we all have spaceships- 4! 4 reasons to have it in the Andromeda galaxy, (specifically the twenty-third planet from the star, specifically in the little village of Myrsxxxphildweeeeblebl00p...nice little town with a few alien m00ses whose antlers are fourty feet long...oh dear, I seem to have strayed from the main subject...) 4 reasons to have it in the Andromeda galaxy: convenience, proximity, ease, we all have spaceships and it's nice-oh damn... Well, you get my point. A very confused and whacked out Mr. S. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I do hereby propose the last weekend in January for the MTAT. Any support or objections? Pickle. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - << From Mitsya, the Red M00se. >> Over thanxgiving vacation, a m00se was killed in the town of Wiscasset, ME. It was apparently a hit and run accident, and there was an immediate funeral and burial, so the identity of this particular m00se remains in question. If there is a m00se whom you know, and was anywhere *near* the Wiscasset area, and is now missing, please contact me (ip85033) This cannot be tolerated. Spaceebaw bolshoi. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***************************** FICTION AND POETRY ******************************* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- << Here we have a not-original filksong of sorts, which I found on a listserv the day after the election. I'm including it because I want to. >> Yesterday George Bush seemed so far away Now it looks as though he's here to stay Oh, I believe in yesterday Suddenly There's not half the choice there used to be There's a shadow hanging over me Oh, yesterday came suddenly Why He Had to run I don't know He wouldn't say He's Got Most things wrong Now I long For yesterday Yesterday War was just an easy game to play Help me find a place to hide away Oh, I believe in yesterday - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - << Two of our most productive contributors this issue are Goblin_m00se and Salmon M00se. This might, perhaps, fit better under EVENTS, but due to the way it was written, I figured "what the hell?" >> ADVENTURES IN THE 11TH CENTURY or WHEN GUMBY WENT TO WAR (From the Files of M00selock Holmes) It was a dark and stormy night... raining cats and dogs, London-style. The night of 21 October, 1988, to be exact. I followed a m00se's vehicle through the sheets of rain, to a large brown-and-white house somewhere in Connecticut. With a great roar, the yellow Toyota came to a stop. Its owner, grabbing a tape out of the glove compartment, cursed as he stepped into a large puddle. He ran up to the front door, peered in the side window. Seeing no lights, he vaulted back down the front stairs and ran around to the side of the house. There was a light on in the cellar, and several above ground level. He must have realized his actions looked suspicious, because he ran back to the front porch and rang the doorbell. Generally, when people ring doorbells at 11:30 PM, a house's owner answers the door with a shotgun. Not this time, though. The m00se was let into the house. I crept up to the newly-lighted window and tried to peer beneath the window shade, in the 2-millimetre gap between it and the window frame. Wats0n sneezed, and I shoved my pipe up his nose, to prevent further noises. I turned back to my vigil. Inside were four m00ses: Fuzzy, Snarf, SalmonM00se, and Goblin_m00se. Attaching my suction-cup stethoscope to the window-glass, I sat back on Wats0n's hunched-over form and listened. The tape played; at first I thought it was a Beach Boys' song, but its lyrics had something to do with a Soviet sub grounded in Malibu. Odd, these four were. They talked quite a bit, their conversation centering on mead, Scotch-guard, and Lazer Tag. Eventually, around 3:30 AM, they went to sleep. Some of the more interesting snatches of conversation involved removing Goblin_m00se's clothes and taking pictures while she slept... <->-<->-<->-<->-<-> It was a dark and stormy morning. Two people left; SalmonM00se, as I could identify him now, and the female non-m00se after him. The rain continued, pouring like dead cats. (I have nothing against cats, mind you, as long as they're stuffed.) I kicked Wats0n's sleeping form and told him to climb up to the third-floor window and see what was going on. He fell off the side of the house, and I left him stuck head-first in the mud. I had more important things to do. I climbed to the bedroom window. Goblin_m00se was curled up in bed, pillows everywhere. One m00se, Fuzzy, stuck his head in, wondering if she was going to sleep forever. Goblin_m00se finally staggered out of bed, looking like the living dead, then began dressing in tenth-century clothes. I cursed Wats0n for not buying more film. Eventually, with two others, they climbed into a Mercury Marquis and sped off. I tossed Wats0n into my orange Isuzu and pulled out after them. Finally catching up to them on the motorway, I was hard-pressed to keep up with them. Their velocity was increasing rapidly, as was mine. I saw, from the corner of my eye, a hidden police car. As we passed, the radar, which was pointed lazily out the window, exploded. I had no time to contemplate this happenstance, as we went to PLAID. During the ride through hyperspace, Goblin_m00se's automobile metamorphosed into a maroon dragon. My own vehicle, I am sad to note, could muster no more than a brightly-coloured iguana. It sufficed, however. We were at our destination. We were in a large, rutted field. The dragon was becoming mired in the soggy ground, and several people ran towards it. "Oh dear," I thought, "They're going to kill Goblin_m00se." I hopped off of my iguana and hid. After a second thought, I grabbed Wats0n down from the iguana and pulled him to my hiding place. The people were more benevolent than I thought; they merely helped the dragon to an empty space. Its four riders piled off and walked to a table marked TROLL BOOTH. There were four: Goblin_m00se, Fuzzy, and two others, one of them a monk. The monk looked faintly m00sey, but I couldn't tell from that distance. They paid some gold to the troll, and walked past. Not much happened for a while, except that they met up with SalmonM00se and a female M00se whose name I didn't know. I'll have to refer to her anonym00sely. The entire field was full of mediaeval people. I checked my watch; it read "SOMEWHERE BETWEEN AD 600 AND AD 1650". Well, that's Japanese technology for you. The m00ses eventually entered a large barn, with the rest of the middle-aged people. (Well, most of them were fairly young.) I watched as His Immensity, the Baron Beyond the Mountain, held court. Immediately following, the King of the East held court. My head fairly split from the volume of the "VIVAT! VIVAT! VIVAT!" cries that followed every award. After that, there was a four-hour Bardic circle, where a couple of the m00ses sang songs, or told tales. Eventually they wandered off somewhere to sleep. The next day, only a few items of interest happened: 1) Fuzzy and SalmonM00se fenced for a while. 2) SalmonM00se almost shot the King and Queen (Bow & arrow) 3) Goblin_m00se and SalmonM00se took instruction from a knight named Sir Andrea. They practiced until well after dark. (Goblin_m00se looks extremely sexy when she swings a sword.) After that, they went back to the modern world, stopping at a supermarket without changing their clothes. This elicited many stares. None of them cared. As I left the house, Wats0n chanced upon a small bag of herbs that I had bought while in the Middle Ages. He looked into it, and said, "Holmes, whatever could you be doing with this? I replied, "Elementary, my dear Wats0n... I'm biding my thyme!" - copied from M00selock's files by SalmonM00se & Vegi-M00se Postscriptum: A very m00sey thing to do is to watch Black Adder on Public Television. (Especially Blackadder II.) Watch for the episode with the turnip thingy. COMING SOON: Goblin_m00se and Salmon-M00se are thinking of transcribing the scripts of Blackadder II... Requests may be sent to the following accounts: LEE_JES@CTSTATEU (BITNet) WITHALL@CTSTATEU (BITNet) Users from off-BITNet domains (such as EDU) may send to: LEE_JES%[email protected] WITHALL%[email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - << Here we have a story typed in and contributed (though not written) by Valerie. :) whose name doesn't lend itself to anything m00sey. >> GOING THE M00SE WAY HOME by Jim Lattimer (Excerpts selected by myself.) "M00se is tall, a hill on hoofs and thin stork legs. He has bony shoulders, long ears, soft eyes, a mobile muzzle, and a beard." (Gee....I never knew we looked like that...and I suppose I ought to do something about my beard then....) "On his way home, m00se sometimes stands beside the county road to watch for license plates, though he does not know how to read. Once he saw Iowa, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island; He sees a lot of Minnesotas, because he lives in Minnesota and sometimes M00sechusetts (his spelling!!!!)" (Gee....I never knew we were illiterate...yet could read those license plates!!) THE M00SE AND THE TROLL "M00se said simply, "I'm a m00se." A m00se, thought the troll. Like a *Buffalo*, he thought, feeling suddenly hungry. The troll came out to look, and there was m00se, a hill on quiet hoofs, seven feet tall and eleven hundred pounds. The troll hesitated. He fidgeted, muttering to himself. 'I do not feel hungry for a m00se,' he said at last." CHRISTMAS AND THE COWS or is it M00semas and the cows or ChristM00se and the cows ??????????? "On Christmas morning m00se passed a snowy field along the county road. He didn't quite pass. Twelve black and white cows with steaming breath and sad eyes huddled together close to the fence. The cows stared at m00se, their breath frosting the fur on their foreheads. M00se stared back at them. One of the cows flapped its ears. Then another cow flapped its ears. M00se flapped his ears experimentally, searching for the cows' meaning. 'Hello,' he called to them, but the cows didn't answer. They stood, steaming and staring, ears flapping, looking very sad. 'Merry Christmas,' M00se called. The cows did not wish M00se a Merry Christmas. 'Happy Chanukah' he said, though Chanukah was almost two weeks past. The cows did not answer him." (Poor,poor m00se.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - << Here is that other, rather brilliant contribution by Salmon M00se and Goblin_m00se. >> Transcriber's Note: All of our comments will be enclosed in [brackets]. Recently published in a nameless newspaper of ill repute was the following Article: [TrashyFacts: More people read the National Enquirer than any other publication!] UNDERWATER BL00PING FULLY EXPOSED! [Fully exposed? That sounds rather RUDE, doesn't it?] The information contained in this article was found in the safe of the late Doctor Frood, of the Link0ping Institute in Sweden, after his death. Doctor Frood was found dead in a locked bathroom, in a tub filled with chocolate m0usse. Nearby was found a calling-card bearing an odd pyramid, with the initials S.M.S. printed underneath. Also found in the vicinity were 5,000 crushed kiwifruits. Authorities are baffled, but Inspector LeStr00de of Scotland Yard insists that the culprits are a terrorist tourist troop from Taiwan. [If they only knew! Heh heh heh] THE PRACTICE OF UNDERWATER BL00PING By Dr. Vroomfondel Frood What is Underwater Bl00ping? The Art of Underwater Bl00ping was discovered in the quaint little village of Farmington, Connecticut, in the United States of America. This practice, shunned by most Americans, is a secret rite practiced by an underground organization, of which this researcher has found extremely little information. In point of fact, the practice is not only shunned by most individuals, it is relatively UNKNOWN - a fact which points to the conclusion that this secret society is a mind-bogglingly large organization filled with the most devious individuals, all bred to superhuman abilities. It is these abilities which make underwater bl00ping possible - but these powers are not visible to the normal eye. Never have I encountered any sort of signal whereby the members of this society may make themselves known to each other - but nevertheless, apparently THEY can tell the difference between a normal human being and one of their own terrible kind. In my researches at the Miskatonic University, located in Massachusetts, I found amongst the fragmentary Pnakotic Manuscripts a reference to this practice, mentioned in conjunction with, of all animals, the moose. The passage reads as follows: ORIGINAL PNAKOTIC TEXT TRANSLATION Ichi ya fernandop00, Of the great god Fernando Poo, Zum bagel lox The skalds of old wisely refrain et kreemcheese t00. to sing. Khargle alkazeltsur ickkity-ack, For if they do, their stomachs Pleah, mitzvah barbell distend and they do fart destroyeth plaque. violently unto their deaths. Yippi-kiy-yiy-burgerking Nevertheless, there (are) those Barbi-queued twinkies whose whispers He will suffer, hys praysez sing. those of the dark Underground. Yoo luk mahvelous, In their secret rites, that zi lectroids bl00p, Bl00ping which they do, Io Grand M00se P00bah The Grand P00bah M00se presides Leviam00se goeth plaid. and they all went home for tea. As the reader can plainly see, this passage hints at even darker possibilities, more terrible than even the original translator of the Pnakotic Manusctipts, L. Howard Phillips, had guessed. For the signs of these rites can still be seen today! This Bl00ping is carried out even as I write! Around the nation, and perhaps even the world, people congregate and perform these dark rituals! And what of the moose? Where do they fit in? And yet, the common person on the street knows naught of this matter. This researcher walked up to 97 people and pronounced the secret word "Bl00p". Ninety-six people showed no useful reaction. The ninety-seventh, a policeman, arrested the researcher. Perhaps even the police have been infiltrated? It cannot be said at this time. The President of the United States of America, when asked if he had any knowledge of this matter, replied: "Well... as President of this great nation, I can assure you that lima beans and Twinkies continue to be this country's greatest resource. If it were not for our country, our nation would not be where it is today." Although these Bl00pers are clever, there are some methods of detecting their actions. The following paragraphs record actual eyewitness accounts of chance discoveries of the rituals: LANSING, NEW YORK: It was horrible! I was standing in the supermarket check-out line, buying food to bring back to my camper, when two women bl00ped at me! I declare! It frightened me so much that I dropped my eggs right on little Bobbi-Jo! SOMEWHERE, MASSACHUSETTS: Verily, I tell thee, 'twas not more than twelve feet away from me! I could not believe mine own ears! An entire throng of people shouted, "BL00P"! Sixteen tents then collapsed! GNOME, ALASKA: I was walking along, worried about my new lipo- suctioned nose, wondering if I looked as dashing as Sean Penn, like the doctor said I did, when a whole lodge of them, dressed as tourists, Bl00ped! The ice cracked, and I fell into the water. My nose got so cold that it swelled back up to its original size! I was crushed! Hey, are you herring what I say? Further documents reveal that Underwater Blooping are generally held in reservoirs. It is with this practice that the members of this secret society find their greatest... (We are sorry to announce that this work was not completed due to the untimely death of its author. Dr. Vroomfondel Frood was found in his bathtub, pummeled to death by 5,000 kiwifruits. The Swedish Coroner's office has marked his death as "Due to Natural Causes".) - Transcribed by SalmonM00se & Goblin_m00se -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************** MISCELLANEOUS NONSENSE ***************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- << From Salmon M00se. >> Q. How many M00ses does it take to change a light bulb? A. None. They'd prefer to keep people in the dark. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *************** AND, OF COURSE, THE UBIQUITOUS M00SE LIST UPDATE *************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will follow the issue.
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Letters to the editor
Responses and reverberations
Hollowing Out the Middle
In response to Don Peck’s September cover story, “Can the Middle Class Be Saved?,” readers looked back on our more prosperous past, assessed the present-day follies of the government and callousness of the super-rich, and offered grim predictions for the future.
A great political realignment is likely coming soon, along the lines of what Don Peck suggests. The foundations of today’s political groupings (strong middle class, strong unions, large religious laboring class, limited campaign contributions) have radically shifted. Many natural alliances have not yet formed. For instance, liberals would make natural anti-immigrant sloganeers (“Immigrants undermine our entitlements!”), while conservatives should be embracing immigration (“Cheap labor makes America competitive!”).
The problem is, neither party seems to be real sure what it stands for at the moment—as exemplified by the Tea Party and President Obama. The radical fiscal conservatives of the Tea Party are willing to undermine national security with military-budget cuts, something unheard-of in the conservative movement. Obama has offered up the sacred cows of liberalism to pay the debts brought on largely by tax cuts for the rich, two foreign wars, and huge bailouts for one of the wealthiest sectors of American industry. The schizophrenic nature of current alliances makes it difficult for either party to offer sensible policy, and gives the extremists much more power in the national debate, because they can at least offer a coherent narrative and a consistent ideology.
Alex Ferguson
Portland, Ore.
I think there’s validity in the complaint about corporate propagandists demagoguing taxes so that the rich can detach from their responsibility to society. But the larger issue might be globalization. There is little loyalty to this nation, because capital can flow wherever the best investments are. It used to be that wealth was recycled into our nation and cities. That’s gone. Local bankers are gone. Local stewards have largely vanished. What we have instead is a kind of branch-office economy that has taken custody of America’s remaining wealth. If there’s a better deal in Asia or Latin America, investment will zip over there in a heartbeat. The truth is that the middle class was always expected to shoulder the burdens of globalization by learning new skills and expecting less security.
Walter Hall
TheAtlantic.com comment
Before we concede defeat about the middle class, whose collapse has deprived our economy of its source of demand, why not revisit some of our political decisions over the past few decades? If dramatically cutting taxes on the top 0.1 percent has only accelerated dangerous changes, why not undo the cuts? If political decisions that destroyed private-sector unions (which have dropped from one-third of the private workforce down to 7 percent) have depressed wages, why not reverse those decisions? The super-rich were hardly suffering back then, and everyone else was vastly better off.
TheAtlantic.com comment
This article has a glaring omission—immigration policy. We’ve imported more than 40million new people in just three decades, swamping the middle- and working-class labor markets. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that our population will grow by another 130 million by 2050, and 82 percent of that growth will be driven by future immigrants and their children. How can anyone talk about wage decline and the loss of jobs for working-class males, and simply ignore the impact of immigration policy?
Jonette Christian
Holden, Maine
In today’s highly technological world, the booms of the 21st century (in computing, robotics, medicine, etc.) will dwarf the ’90s tech boom as global waves of middle-class job creation. America should strive for leadership in these areas (which will involve increased state spending in certain domains, for instance education), so that when these middle-class job booms happen, they happen here.
Victor Quintanar-Zilinskas
Irvine, Calif.
As economic stagnation gives way to inexorable contraction later this decade, it won’t be just the middle class that’s in trouble. With global finance in shambles, governments will even have trouble bailing out the financial predators that have been eviscerating the middle class. Greed and usury will once again become sins, and Ben Franklin’s aphorisms will come back into fashion. That is, if we somehow manage to survive the riots and chaos.
Dick Burkhart
Seattle, Wash.
When we plugged all the e-mails responding to the September issue into a word-cloud generator, the result revealed that our readers, like the rest of the country, are much preoccupied by concerns about the economy—and that they responded in large numbers to Don Peck’s cover story, “Can the Middle Class Be Saved?”
Deconstructing the Second Amendment
Adam Winkler wrote in September’s “The Secret History of Guns” that the ambiguous wording of the Second Amendment lends credence to both sides of the gun-control debate. In their responses to the article, readers proved Winkler’s point.
Far from being unthinkingly opposed to any “gun control,” the National Rifle Association favors and insists on an implementation of such controls as will deny use or possession of firearms to people who use them for criminal purposes, while advancing and defending the basic human right to own, possess, and use personal firearms as effective means of self-defense—a right ensured (but not created, endowed, or granted) by and through the U.S. Constitution.
Leonard C. Johnson
Moscow, Idaho
Adam Winkler is entirely correct that the Second Amendment (“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”) is “maddeningly ambiguous.”
Our Founding Fathers used a common Latin and Greek grammatical structure—the absolute—in writing this amendment, and this construction is responsible for the ambiguities. The first part of the sentence, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,” is the absolute, and hence stands syntactically apart from the main clause.
The difficulty lies in the participle being, whose exact relation to the main clause must grammatically and logically express either (a) cause: because a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state; (b) time: when a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state; (c) condition: if a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state; (d) concession: although a well-regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state; or (e) attendant circumstance: this is not a possibility here, since a militia is not something that might occur as a circumstance of nature (as in “the weather being cold”).
Possibility (d) makes no sense in the sentence; (e) is excluded because an abstract necessity can’t be the kind of contingent circumstance the construction requires. So it appears that interpretations (a), (b), and (c) would grant a right to bear arms only when there is a need connected causally, temporally, or conditionally to a militia. In the absence of actual militias, a strict interpretation of the amendment would favor the right of the state to control arms.
James A. Arieti
Thompson Professor of Classics
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney, Va.
Gadgets of Desire
In September, Rob Walker wrote that our gadgets can’t wear out fast enough (“Replacement Therapy”), noting that the makers of iPods, Kindles, and the like are not forcing obsolescence on consumers—instead, this “progress” is something consumers demand.
While the market may give us “exactly what we want,” we would be ill-advised to dismiss the power of the market to shape the desires it so readily satisfies. Mr. Walker writes as if the desire for the latest gadget were natural, and thus in no need of explanation. That some people would happily keep their functioning and functional devices indefinitely ought to encourage exploration into the origins of the “demand” for “progress” defined as the appearance, and subsequent purchase, of one marginally superior device after another.
I suspect we may find that the market, and its marketers, are as adept at the fabrication of desire as they are at the manufacturing of the devices that are the putative objects of desire. The devices, after all, are no longer merely tools; they are badges of status and identity, with which consumers form affective bonds. The fact that obsolescence is now a “demand-side phenomenon” may not indicate the end of supply-side tactics; rather, it may just as easily signal their triumph.
L. M. Sacasas
Winter Park, Fla.
Tweets That Make You Go “Hmm”
Following @TheOnion and @TheAtlantic is interesting. Especially when you can’t tell which is which by the tweets. #signofthetimes?
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
Classic Double Challenge - Eyre vs Lindner
vs Jane
The Classic
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
This is the tale of a girl who grew up in a house where no one liked her, let alone loved her. Her cousin, John, would constantly bully her. In fact, all her cousins were considered "better" and had the clothes, food, and fun to prove it. Jane endured this until the glorious day, at the age of ten, when Mr. Lloyd took her away to Lowood Institution. At Lowood everyone has the same clothes, terrible food and basically no fun. But, Jane has Helen Burns! and Ms. Temple! People who love her and teach her how to love and life is, at least, more bearable. Jane grows up and becomes a teacher at Lowood herself.
But Jane's good fortune does not end there! She gets a governess position at Thornfield Hall with Adele, the ward of Mr. Rochester! He of the average but brooding visage. They soon grow to love each other but, as everyone knows, there is a Mrs. Rochester hidden in the attic. So, peripeteia, again! Jane is thoroughly humiliated and forces herself to leave Thornfield. "Farewell! was the cry of my heart..." Poor Jane! She doesn't have anywhere else to go! But she leaves anyway and she endures hardships. Yes, but she endures!
After much begging and wandering, Jane ends up at the house of Mr. St. John Rivers and his sisters, Diana and Mary. Almost turned away by the maid, St. John himself rescues Jane from the doorstep and assured death. St. John, the parson, soon to be missionary, took a special interest in our Jane. Sure, the sisters loved her but he knew she was destined for greatness, for something more than teaching the poor. But first, let her teach the poor. And she did. And then fate turned and Jane got rich and found out she was cousins with the Rivers! She has a loving family! But her story doesn't end there, no! I told you St. John wanted more for Jane? He wanted her to be his wife! Not for love but to help him with his mission work! But, Jane's heart did not belong to her anymore. She could not give it to him.
Do you remember Mr. Rochester who needed the governess? So does Jane. And he remembers her.
The Contemporary
Jane by April Lindner
And now, dear Reader, we turn to Jane Moore. Poor Jane had to drop out of college due to lack of funds. She decides to find a job as a nanny. This Jane has two siblings, a sadistic brother and an unfeeling sister. But, family issues aside, due to her lack of love for modern music, Jane gets to work at Thornfield Park and work for Mr. Rathburn, a huge rock star who has custody of his only child, Madeline.
But, more about Jane. Her siblings are five and six years older than she is, which isn't much but their lives were very different. Jane and her mom just never gelled. She was like the forgotten child. Her brother, Mark, was cruel to her but her mom always took his side. Her sister, Jenna, was a child model who their mom doted on. Jane was used to being invisible. Jenna is now a rich girl married to an investment banker and Mark has disappeared after selling the house and taking all the proceeds. For reasons unknown, Jenna is loathe to help Jane out so she must find a way to survive. Nanny it is.
While nannying at Thornfield, Jane is falling in love with Nico Rathburn the rock star. But, she gets a strange call from her sister and drops everything to go home and help Jenna out. Mark, it seems, has blown through his cash and now wants to sleep on Jenna's couch. So she calls Jane. Who has no house and no money. Who she hasn't spoken to nor likes. And Jane goes.
So Jane settles her sister and brother and hightails it back to Thornfield Park where she is reminded that Nico is engaged! But, he starts hitting on her. And says he doesn't love Bianca, he loves Jane. And they celebrate their love. For reals.
Then Nico starts buying her stuff and takes her out on tour with him and proposes to her. Jane's head is swirling. But, alas, the wedding is not to be! So Jane leaves. And mails away her cell phone. Really. No, she doesn't change the number or turn off the location, she gets rid of it so Nico cannot find her!
She makes her way to the big city and she is lonely and broke. But, thankfully, she is rescued by Diana, a waitress with a big heart. Diana takes Jane back to her humble apartment and she moves in with her, her sister, Maria, and their brother, River. The St. Johns are good to Jane. River gets Jane a great administrative assistant position where she can finally start earning her keep. Along the way River tries to get Jane to become his wife and help him with his missionary work to Haiti.
You can guess the rest!
The Contest
For me, there was no contest. Jane Eyre is by far the better book. It was all I could do to write about Jane Moore without letting my feelings for that book come through. I didn't like it as much as I'd hoped. I was constantly reminded I was reading an update instead of a story of it's own. It was as if Lindner did some sort of search and replace. This felt less like a homage to Jane Eyre and more like a ripoff. And the story itself didn't seem believable to me. Jane Moore speaks in the beginning of seeing a poster of Nico Rathburn on her brother's wall at the age of 11 and then she doesn't recognize him when she sees him. There is talk of Nico taking off his "stockbroker's jacket" and then you could see his tattoos. So stereotypical. And why would she go to the aid of a sister and brother who were never kind to her? Who had more money than she did? Who led to her dropping out of school and not helping her? Nothing in the past said she would help them. I did not see that compassion. And why did she have to sleep with Nico so easily? He really didn't have to say more than a sentence to change her mind. I just couldn't get behind this story.
Jane Eyre wins this one.
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1. Still oddly intrigued by the redo... I guess Rochester would have to be a rock star or something to have a nanny. Hmmm. Have to think about this one.
2. Great redux - I LOVE "He of the average but brooding visage" as that describes him pretty much completely. I totally agree with your assessment of the new Jane. I found that she wasn't nearly as strong as the original. And it was a bit too much of an exact plot for me too, though I think I liked that too. It's a hard balance with retellings.
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Gluten-Free Week: Ingredients
The grains that contain gluten that Celiacs must avoid are: Wheat Barley Rye Triticale Oats are also on the possibly-exclude list; studies on them as a gluten source are incomplete, but better safe than sorry. Beer, of course, is primarily made with barley (and often wheat), so brewers of gluten-free beer need to resort to other gluten-free grains as their main source of fermentables. The primary ones are: Sorghum Buckwheat Maize (corn) Rice Millet Most … Continue reading →
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Assad’s Lethal Arsenal of WMD
He’s fighting off an uprising, but the Syrian leader holds a trump card: the region’s most powerful arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. And Bruce Riedel says Assad would use it against a NATO assault.
Syria’s embattled President Bashar al-Assad is sitting on a powder keg of angry citizens who want his brutal regime to end. He also sits on the Arab world’s most lethal arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, hundreds of chemical warheads and dozens of Scud missiles that can deliver them anywhere in the Levant.
Like almost everything else in Assad’s Syria, the arsenal of chemical weapons and missiles is a legacy of his father Hafez al-Assad. After the Syrian army and air force were defeated by Israel in Lebanon in 1982, the elder Assad ordered development of a chemical arsenal to provide a deterrent against the Israelis. Syrian scientists developed an effective chemical weapons program using the nerve agent sarin, which is 500 times more toxic than cyanide and was discovered by German scientists in the 1930s. In 1988 Saddam Hussein used sarin in his war against the Iranians and in attacks on Iraqi Kurds, with devastating impact.
Syria mated the nerve agent with Scud missiles acquired from the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s. When Israel learned of the Syrian weapons, it considered military action to destroy the program but concluded it was too developed and too disbursed to be susceptible to air attacks without an unacceptable risk that Syria would respond by firing chemicals into Tel Aviv. Instead Israel embarked on building an anti-tactical ballistic missile program called Arrow.
Hafez al-Assad apparently also began Syria’s nuclear weapons program shortly before his death. When Israel and the United States learned of this program in 2007, Israel decided to act. On Sept. 6 of that year, the Israeli air force destroyed Syria’s nascent nuclear facility in al Kibar. The CIA released a video about the facility in April 2008 that demonstrated it was a North Korean-built, gas-worked, graphite-moderated nuclear reactor designed to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons. It was a clone of North Korea’s Yongbyon reactor. After the raid the Syrians bulldozed the site and have since blocked inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Would Bashar al-Assad use chemical weapons against a NATO military operation like the one that assisted the Libyan opposition? Almost certainly he would. He clearly has few scruples about mass murder, and foreign air bases would be a logical target for Scuds. He also might be tempted to use them against Israel in a desperate, Samson-like move to destroy his enemies. Scuds are notoriously inaccurate, and cities are much easier targets than airfields.
Would he use them against his own people? Would his army support such a move? This is harder to know. His fellow Baathi Saddam used them on Iraqi Kurds. Using them on Syria’s Sunni Muslim majority would antagonize the entire world and set Assad and his cronies up for war crimes trials. It would mean terrible reprisals by the Sunni sooner or later.
The fact of Syria’s chemical and missile arsenal is well known to NATO governments. There is no reason it should discourage support for ending the Assad dictatorship.
If Syria collapses into chaos over the next few weeks and months, or the army splits between Assad’s fellow Alawi Muslims and the majority Sunnis, a key question will be the fate of these chemical weapons and their delivery systems. Terrorist groups, such as Assad’s friends Hezbollah and Hamas, would love to get sarin warheads. Whether they could maintain and use them is another question. Chemical weapons in amateur hands can be very dangerous both to the amateur and his enemy.
The fact of Syria’s chemical and missile arsenal is well known to NATO governments. There is no reason it should discourage support for ending the Assad dictatorship. It does, however, argue for caution in how to do so.
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A league of his own
Mark Gatiss has taken time out from playing twisted miscreants in The League of Gentlemen to write his own novel - and as he tells Angelique Chrisafis, the book, like the TV show, was inspired by his dreary childhood in a grim post-industrial Durham town
The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss
Out of the mist of the Wicklow mountains, The League of Gentlemen's demon butcher squelches through the bog, plopping out his false teeth as he walks. The locals round here, in "the garden of Ireland", would sooner fix you a sandwich than burn you at the stake for stepping into the village shop, which is how the grotesque characters of the comedy show routinely threaten outsiders. But County Wicklow is currently doubling as a post-apocalyptic Royston Vasey, the nightmarish northern village in which the cult series is set, for the League of Gentlemen film. And so Wicklow's windswept landscape is now home to the cult TV characters once described as Twin Peaks meets Mervyn Peake meets Peak Practice.
Of course, Wicklow has strange phenomena all its own. In the back room of a post office in a nearby village, a statue of the Virgin Mary famously wept blood for all to see. The local extras for one scene were so well chosen, says Mark Gatiss, co-writer and co-star of the TV series and film, that they reminded him of his childhood growing up opposite a Victorian psychiatric hospital in County Durham.
Gatiss, 38, is sitting by the radiator in a trailer, smoothing the bloody apron worn by Hilary Briss, the village butcher he plays in the hit series. It is 10 years since he and three friends from a Leeds drama college - Steve Pemberton, Jeremy Dyson and Reece Shearsmith - first performed the the League of Gentlemen sketch show, at the Cockpit theatre in London. A Perrier award at the Edinburgh festival led to three TV series and a stage tour, and now a £4.2m feature film.
The success of the TV series has allowed Gatiss to indulge in some of his personal obsessions. Having already written four Doctor Who novels (the first published while he was penniless and sleeping on Pemberton's sofa), he has written an episode of the new Doctor Who series. But his latest venture is perhaps his most unlikely. An offer in 2002 by the publishing house Simon & Schuster to publish "whatever he wrote" has resulted in what Gatiss describes as his first "grown-up" novel.
The Vesuvius Club, written in 18 months alongside the League of Gentlemen screenplay, is a pastiche Edwardian James Bond thriller about Lucifer Box, the most fashionable portraitist of his generation and a government assassin. The Royal Academy of Arts is revealed to be the headquarters of a bizarre arm of His Majesty's secret service, run by a dwarf "M" character called Joshua Reynolds. "I thought, what if the Royal Academy was so much more than it appeared, what if it was a front?" says Gatiss. Of course, Anthony Blunt, the British agent and Soviet spy, was an art historian and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. And the painter Walter Sickert, who is referred to in the novel, was Jack the Ripper, according to US crime writer Patricia Cornwell. So is he simply developing an existing idea? Gatiss winces. "I can't bear the Patricia Cornwell thing. It's my bete noire. First, because it's the oldest theory in the world. Second, Sickert was in France for the whole time the Whitechapel murders were happening. So unless he had very long arms, it wasn't him."
The most interesting thing about the book is that, aside from the old newspaper adverts lining its cover ("We buy old or disused false teeth"), the beau monde of Lucifer Box could not be further from the suffocation of Royston Vasey. In fact, it seems clear that Gatiss dreams of being Box himself. He has installed a Victorian laboratory in a room in his north London house, fully equipped with gas burners and a stuffed cat. It was the realisation of a childhood dream, he says, except the novelty wore off when he realised he never used it: he was just showing it to dinner-party guests and shutting the door.
Gatiss's embrace of escapism began when he was a child growing up in a village in County Durham. "I went back to Heighington once, and discovered it was the most idyllic English village with a maypole and water pump. I thought, why didn't I realise this before?" he says. "But Newton Aycliffe, where I went to comprehensive, was a postwar town and I hated it. I used to wish I had been brought up in Oxford or somewhere pretty. I retreated into Sherlock Holmes. I wanted to live like an 1895 detective, not in a grim post-industrial town."
Both his parents worked in the psychiatric hospital opposite: its patients he viewed simultaneously as completely normal, and endlessly fascinating. "I used to go and watch films shown there. I remember watching Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and being almost as frightened of the people sitting around me as [of] the Child Catcher. The faces and personalities were true northern Gothic.
"In my first year at college I got a job there as a gardener. I got a totally different view of it. One patient, Peter, would be walking back and forth every day. He would come and talk to me, he was so sweet. And he had been put in there when he was about 15. Three of his brothers and sisters had gone into other institutions. He would say to me: 'I'd just like to see my sister.' " One day, while he was clearing away some grass, he found an old plaque which read: "Aycliffe colony for the mentally defective."
After drama school, he went to London to "scratch a living" as an actor. When work slowed, he sat up writing Doctor Who novels. When the first copy of his first book arrived, he took it to the launderette: "I sat there staring at it because it had my name on it, willing more to come out of it."
Gatiss wrote The Vesuvius Club, he says, because he could never find the book he wanted at the airport. "I have memories as a child of going to visit lots of elderly relatives in an Alan Bennett-ish way. They always had support bandages and what Bennett calls the three Ds: dirt, death and disease. Conversation was all about people dying off: 'Have you heard, so-and-so died?' It used to really depress me. That's what I wanted to escape from."
Is the novel perhaps less of a risk than translating cult TV comedy to the big screen? He takes a slow breath. "Yes, there is always a risk, and I'm aware of the unhappy history of it. But there are happy examples too. Monty Python is now more recognised by the films than by the TV series.We have tried hard to make sure it's accessible, and not just a cheap rip-off."
Then he disappears back to the set and into the sheeting rain - made worse by the sadistic addition of a rain and wind machine - explaining: "I've just got to stick a knife in someone's throat."
· The Vesuvius Club is published by Simon & Schuster on November 9, price £15.
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Bruce Springsteen: The Promise – review
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Billed as a lost Springsteen album, these 21 songs were left over from the 40 or so he recorded for 1978's Darkness on the Edge of Town, which is re-released this week in the form of a luxurious, multiple-disc box set. Heard here for the first time, they reveal the author working through his influences – Roy Orbison, doo-wop, classic rock 'n' roll – and while a thrill for fans, the truth is he was right first time. Not only do the songs not quite fit Darkness's tightly edited tales of struggle, they're not quite up to its high standard either. Gareth Grundy
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.308 or .30-06 ???
November 5, 2003, 10:06 PM
I'm getting ready to purchase a Model 70 Winchester. This will be my dedicated utility, long range "sniper (so to speak)" rifle. It's going to be a standard barrel, not bull as I plan to hump through the woods alot in search of deer. It will be scoped of course. The only problem is that I'm torn between .308 and .30-06.
I already own rifles in both so ammo commonality is not an issue. I have an M1-A and FN-FAL in .308.
I have an M1 Garand and an '03-A4 Springfield in .30-06.
All are un-scoped except for the '03-A4.
The '03-A4 is almost surgically accurate, but the old Weaver 330-C just isn't powerful enough for what I'll be using the Model 70 for.
I've been told that the '06 has about 150 yards or so on the .308 and the flatter trajectory is very noticeable.
I've also been told that the '06 has about 100-150 feet per second on the .308 at 100 yards or so. So, which is it. Any input would be appreciated.
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November 5, 2003, 11:08 PM
For maximum reach, and maximum impact, why don't you add a German 88 to your battery. Just don't ask the wife to carry it.:D
Quintin Likely
November 5, 2003, 11:24 PM
At distances where you'd commonly take deer (at least in my parts of the woods), there ain't no difference between the .308 and the '06. Out to 800 yards or so, I don't think there's a big enough difference to be concerned about. Regardless of bullet weight, the .308 takes backseat to the '06 for the handloader. However, given today's factory loads, these differences are only experienced in the extremes.
Me personally, I don't own anything in .30-06 yet, and while I want a Garand, it's admittedly one of the last things on my list of wants. I like the .308. It's readily available in everything from hunting loads at Wally World to factory match loads to lots of military loaded surplus and brass. It's readily available and does the job, and sends bullets downrange a lot more accurately than I can tell.
November 6, 2003, 12:41 AM
As you know, the .308 is the defacto standard military bolt rifle ammo. This being said, good quality military surplus is easy to find and priced well (compared to '06). Also, due to the slightly smaller case, .308 loads have less "empty space" inside the brass, which leads to uniform powder ignition. This probably won't be an issue for you unless you get into really precise shooting, but I'll just throw it out for ya to chew on. Also, when loading for the '06, if not loading max powder charges, its sometimes difficult to find high volume, lower yeild powders which will fill the case, yet burn slower, thus reducing chamber pressure.
As I said above, these are just very minor points and their worth looking into if your comparision between the .308 & '06 stays neck & neck.
Mike Irwin
November 6, 2003, 12:55 AM
Flip a coin.
Either way, you win.
But, since you already own rifles in both calibers, why not go for something different?
Art Eatman
November 6, 2003, 07:20 AM
I'd suggest a handloader go for the '06; otherwise, the .308.
Now, if the barrel is not 24" or 26" inches, the only way an '06 will do better is with the 190- to 220-grain bullets. For a 20" or 22" barrel, the .308 will equal the '06 for velocity.
November 6, 2003, 07:21 AM
At the risk of asking the obvious, why not upgrade the glass on the Spfld? Dwonside is that this option doesn't get you another toy:mad:
November 6, 2003, 08:33 AM
Why not get one in 300 Win Mag? A friend of mine has a model 70 in 300 win mag and it is a blast to shoot.
November 6, 2003, 08:41 AM
I'd have to agree with Daedalus, .300Mag's a hoot! Also if you handload, check out the .338 lapua. The army & marine corps sniper teams have started deploying this round for those 1,000+ yrd shots. I checked into this round a couple months ago, and I'd only get it if you reload though. BTW, if you buy your bullets, powder & primers in large lots, the .338 lapua works out maybe $0.02-$0.05 cents more than top quality .308 handloads with sierra BTHP's. You can never have enough unique calibers :D
November 6, 2003, 05:44 PM
There is not enough difference between these two cartridges to worry about it, pick the one you want and be happy.
Quintin Likely
November 6, 2003, 08:32 PM
.300 Win mag and .338 Lapua are pretty brisk on both ends. They're not pleasant to shoot for extended periods at a bench, they're loud, and they're expensive to feed. Barrel life is short compared to an '06 or .308 as well.
November 6, 2003, 08:34 PM
The Speer reloading manual I have shows they are the same max velocities(within a few %) until you get into 180gr and bigger bullets, then the 30-06 has an advantage.
9 m&m
January 10, 2004, 02:56 PM
a .308 is a 30-06 short they use the same bullet weights and designs the biggest velocity difference i have seen in them is around 50-70 fps. I would go with the .308 because its more accurate.:cool:
January 10, 2004, 03:25 PM
Personal preference is the .308 but the .06 is a great weapon too. Both of them have a wide variaty of ammo that is available in nearly every country under the sun. I prefer the .308 because it perceived recoil for me is less which allows faster follow up shots if needed. I think it's a little more accurate too but that's just my opinion and not based in facts of my own production.
January 10, 2004, 04:13 PM
The .30-06 served the US military for nearly 50 years quite effectively.
Then they said "Hey, this round is great, really. But could you make it juuust a little shorter so it'd fit in a smaller semi-auto and maybe not weigh quite as much? *DON'T TOUCH IT'S BALLISTICS THOUGH! WE LOVE 'EM!*"
Then came the .308, which really did what they asked (ok, it lost ~100fps. Still pretty good.) It has served the military for another 50 years.
Literally .308 is a .30-06 case that's shortened. That's really it.
Both are great rounds, .308 is more 'modern' if you will, but .30-06 has not been ignored in the intermeaning time either.. (some loads do leave empty space in '06 cases.) It may be a twinge more accurate. .30-06 does have a ~100fps velocity edge, but 2900fps vs 2800fps?
Both have huge ammo selection and availability, at any place in the US and beyond.
.30-06 generally has a more 'hunting' selection of loads (heavier bullets by default.)
Also .30-06 M2 AP (surplus AP) is legal to own, one of the few noted exceptions. .308 AP is not exempted.
You really can't go wrong either way, it comes down to what other guns you have, and are likely to carry with the Win Model 70, just to have commonality of ammunition.
January 10, 2004, 07:59 PM
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Is my Colt .38 super worth anything? Pics Inside--------->
March 31, 2004, 02:59 PM
My uncle gave me a Colt 38 Super Auto. It came complete with a .22 conversion. The .22 kit has a slide stop, slide, barrel, extractor and magazine.
Here are the pictures.
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March 31, 2004, 05:40 PM
it's worth about $20, but I'll give ya $40 cuz I'm a nice guy.
Black Majik
March 31, 2004, 05:45 PM
Take it out to the range, if it runs great... you'll realize that the Colt that was given to you by another family member is "priceless".
Gotta give congrats to ya on a fine looking Colt though. That's a beauty. :)
(Sorry it wasn't quite the answer you were looking for)
You might wanna give a little bit more infor, such as when it was made and such. The condition you would rate it, how it performs. Then, someone here might be able to give a better idea of how much that pistol is worth.
Good luck.
Old Fuff
March 31, 2004, 06:01 PM
Dear Big Blue"
You've posted some nice pictures, but without a partitial serial you won't get much detailed information. Post it like 73xxx or whatever.
Oh, and yes. The outfit is worth a fair amount of money ....
Jim Watson
March 31, 2004, 06:11 PM
If the serial number is in the 20,000 range as it appears to be, it is a pre WW II .38 Super. (The last Super before Colt went over to wartime production of .45s was near 37,000.) The .22 conversion has the old style adjustable sight and is very likely prewar, also. In its factory box, too. The outfit in UNALTERED condition is worth a good deal of money, two or three grand in the Blue Book. I'll look at some ads and see what the speculators are asking for them.
Unaltered. Don't be tempted to have a nice old piece like this refinished or customized. If you don't like the way it shoots buy something new. Any alteration could cut its dollar value in half.
Not to mention the family connection which would be worth a lot to me.
March 31, 2004, 06:22 PM
Serial number is 71xxx. Any idea as to what year it would be?
Old Fuff
March 31, 2004, 07:12 PM
Yes, Big Blue. The serial number indicates that it’s an early post World War Two gun, made in 1948. I think the grips have been replaced, but correct ones are available and inexpensive. The .22 Conversion Unit was made about the same time and may have been purchased with the gun. In their present condition(s) both are valuable collector’s items as well as good shooters. I would strongly advise that other then possibly changing the grips you don’t make any alterations to either. My off-hand estimate would value the whole setup at between $1,200 to $1,500 dollars, perhaps more to the “right party.”
But I hope you keep them in the family.
March 31, 2004, 07:45 PM
Thanks for the reply old fluff. What do the original grips look like? Should I just look at a mil-spec SA??
Old Fuff
March 31, 2004, 08:26 PM
They were made out of a brown plastic called "Coltwood" and looked much like the ones on the gun except there was a Colt Pony logo molded into the upper-middle part. Most people didn't like them and replaced them with something else. The only reason to get a pair (often found at gun shows in someone's junk box) is if you want to return the gun so that it is exactly as original. I wouldn't be suprised if someone on this forum had and extra pair.
Edited to add: I think the grips on the gun are WW-2/USGI.
March 31, 2004, 08:43 PM
RE: the plastic grips that Colt used was an early phenolic plastic resin material. They had a very bad habit of "curling". Most people replaced them with USGI surplus grips. I agree completely with Old Fuff regarding the price and NOT shooting it. I suggest a NRM Colt or Rock Island Arms 45. The RIA 45 is the closest to a genuine USGI 45 that I have seen. Springfield has quality control problems and I would not suggest buying one.
Mr. Mysterious
March 31, 2004, 09:33 PM
How long has it been in the family?
March 31, 2004, 10:58 PM
Was given to my Uncle by my grandpa's brother. So been quite a while. BIG BLUE
Andrew Wyatt
April 1, 2004, 01:07 AM
Those people who tell you to not to shoot it are wrong, IMHO.
It was given to you by a family member and has a lot of family history. that's even more reason to shoot it. dollar values mean nothing if you're not going to sell it.
April 1, 2004, 06:42 PM
Coltwood grips tend to crack over time. I'd bet that is worth a pretty penny, just based on the going prices for a .38 Super on Guns America.
April 2, 2004, 07:33 AM
That Super .38 will headspace on the cartridge RIM instead of the mouth.
They're a little persnickity accuracy wise. If it was mine and i wanted to shoot it I would get a Bar-Sto barrel for it that headspaced on the case mouth for better accuracy. And keep the original barrel pristine for the value.
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A: Great question! There are many facets to this questions and also please note that a pond will never be as clear as a pool. If your pond is murky, the first question I would ask you is, "Do you have catfish or koi in your pond & lake?" If the answer is "yes", then thats the issue. Catfish and koi are known as "bottom dwellers" and will stir up the bottom of a pond and no matter how hard you try to settle it out, the catfish and koi will just keep stiring it up. If you do not have catfish or koi, then we have to dig a little deeper for find the answer.
What I would do next is a glass jar test. Take a clear glass jar and fill it up with your pond's water. Wait 24 hours and either two things will happen. One, the cloudiness settles and the water becomes clear or two, the water is green and nothing settles. If the water is green, than we have to treat for algae. See Algae Control.
If the cloudiness settles at the bottom and the water is clear, then the cloudiness is caused by suspended particulates instead of algae. If this is the case, a double dose of Nutri-Defense will flocculate the particulates and a regular maintenance of Pond-Clear Packets will help maintain that clear water. Also, Nutri-Defense & Pond Clear are both safe for people, pets, fish, livestock & wildlife.
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Just as eggs is eggs, so IBM's PC division is pants.
A story in yesterday's Wall Street Journal has disclosed that Big Blue shifted 1,000 staff at its troubled PC division sideways, in a bid to cut costs and so return the unit to profitability.
Weary and regular readers of El Reg do not need to be reminded that Big Blue seems to utter these words every year or so, while competitors of IBM, such as Dell, Gateway, Fujitsu Siemens and now, apparently, Compaq, make hay while the sun shines.
This time round, David Thomas, who ran the PC division until he resigned earlier this week, is repeating the "direct sales over the Web" mantra that IBM has chanted for the last year.
Before IBM assumed the lotus position and started chanting this mantra, it tried humming various other monosyllables in an attempt to turn its ailing PC division round.
The mantra two years back was that the small and medium business market was ripe for the plucking. No doubt IBM was right about this, but the trouble is, according to sources close to Big Blue, no-one could figure out quite how to reach these people.
Meanwhile, small and medium business people went straight to Dell Direct and bought their boxes from them.
The irony here, of course, is that it was IBM which introduced the x86 based PC in 1981 to an unsuspecting world. Both Dell and Compaq originally made their money by copying IBM's successful strategy.
The rest is hysteria... ®
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Beer trumps satellite comms on the Ionian Sea
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Here we are, four of us on a Sunsail flotilla boat in the South Ionian Sea. Yes, yes, I know, it's a tough job, but someone's got to do it, and all that... but the thing is, the whole point of the trip is to gain some sailing expertise. And, to fund that, I'm testing this Inmarsat BGAN satellite terminal.
Well, the good news is I've tested it, and it works. I stuck the dish on the deck of the boat at our last stop, on the island of Meganisi, connected my Ethernet cable to it, and dealt with a few "error message" problems, and then: bingo - broadband for a mobile planet.
An hour later, the satellite system popped up a notice saying: "Battery low" and so I disconnected everything, closed down, and got on with the serious business of sailing. And at this point, a conversation began with The Cook.
Talk turned to the boat's power supplying abilities and we discovered a slight conflict of interest. Now, The Cook is actually a painter and teacher by trade and also, unfortunately, an Akido black belt. [His name wasn't Steven, was it? Ed] The conversation was, therefore, somewhat short because no one wants to pick a fight with the person who will be making dinner, doubly so if that person is artistically martial.
It turns out that the Oceanis 393 boat is really good at generating electricity - as long as the boat is running the engine. But we're here for the sailing. Who wants to listen to a big diesel engine chugging along in the peaceful seas around the islands of Kephalonia, Ithaca, Meganisi, and so on?
You can, of course, run your equipment from the ship's battery. To do that, you need a special device called a "cigar-lighter connector" - exactly the same thing as you'd find for connecting you PC to the battery on your car. Inmarsat staff gave me one, and I've left it in London. Well, what do you expect?
So the alternative is to turn on the mains power in the boat. And yes, of course you can do that! first, you turn on the big 50 bhp diesel engine, and second, you turn off the fridge.
"You turn off what?"
On a boat, morale is important. I judged it best for morale among the crew that dissent between the Skipper (me, apparently) and The Cook be avoided. Feeling that such a feud would also upset the Owner and the Irish Rugby Player, I decided to avoid one. So I let him keep the fridge running, and returned to my GPRS data card.
He paid for this. In the end, it turns out that the seas around here have a problem with normal ship to ship VHF wireless. You can chat over quite long distances, as long as there aren't mountains in between. It so happens that all these Greek islands are, in fact, mountains. So the only way of getting in touch with the fleet leader is a mobile phone.
Guess what else ran out of power?
Yup: the Cook's mobile. Serve him right. Mind you, the food was excellent. We arrived in Vathi to discover that the town charges roughly the same sort of prices for food as Greek restaurants in London do. We found a nearby restaurant which offered us Red Snapper - fresh caught that day - and a huge 1.2 kilo fish. It looked delicious. It costs 80 Euros per kilo. We told him it wasn't Gold Snapper, and made scrambled eggs and other delicacies on the boat.
And all that thanks to the Cook being in a good mood, because of the cold beer.
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Tim Clare & Sachin together presents a real-world example integrating IBM Informix & ZK to create rich, powerful applications. Informix is a flagship IBM RDBMS product, while ZK is a Java-based web application framework supporting Ajax applications. This event-driven framework enables creation of rich user interfaces with minimal knowledge and use of JavaScript. ZK's unique server-centric approach enables synchronization of components and events across the client and server via the core engine.
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July 26, 2013 9:51:12 PM
I know that this is a stupid question, but I couldn't find the answer on google anywhere.
Basically, the CPU I'm getting doesn't have integrated graphics, but the motherboard says that it has UEFI BIOS. I want to make sure I have the computer properly assembled before I put in my GPU, so would I be able to access the BIOS with no integrated graphics? I'm not entirely certain how the BIOS works in that respect.
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July 26, 2013 10:02:41 PM
What board are you going to get? My board has no integrated graphics and UEFI BOIS as well. The only way to my knowledge is to use the graphics card. I had to install my card to get display, I believe that is the only way.
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July 26, 2013 10:08:29 PM
Yep, if your mobo has no on-board, a card is the only way to get any kind of output. That's the same with any type of BIOS, or just using the machine in general, having no output keeps you from doing anything.
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January 27, 2006 8:52:34 PM
i just purchased and built a new computer. this was my very first time building one. here are my computer specs:
amd x2 4400
asus a8n-e
corsair twinx2048-3200 - (2) @ 1gb each
hitachi sata2 160gb
antec tpii 480atx
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upon downloading files and installation, i continually get "CRC" errors. i'm asking some computer friends and they say that the memory might be bad. also, when i go to a page with images, many of them become "corrupt" and don't display right: i.e. there are some chunks of the image that just don't show up.
does anyone have any advice on how to fix this? do i need to tune any memory settings in the bios?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
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January 27, 2006 9:37:56 PM
CRC errors are cyclic redundancy checks. That typically points to an error in a data packet or some other form of data that was transmitted.
Does this happen everywhere or just on the internet? If its just on the 'net, then you might want to check your ethernet drivers and protocols. Try pinging and make sure you're not losing packets, etc.
If its local on your computer, you probably have a hardware issue.
If I remember right from my networking class 3-4yrs ago, the CRC is calculated by the transmission of a division equation, basically they say divide x/y and the remainder is R. Then R is tagged into the CRC part of the data packet and it compared to insure data integrity.
January 27, 2006 11:08:48 PM
it seems to only be happening on the internet. i'll have to check any i/o through the dvd rom drive. i did a ping on some sites and didn't have any real issues with lost packets. they all turned up 100%.
i did read about the issues people were having with the built in nvidia firewall so i turned it off. i still get errors on downloads.
i especially interested in downloading the windows xp sp2 file from their it section. however, i am never able to get a "valid" file. when i check the file properties/digital says "not valid".
and still, when i look at photo albums, there are some files that will have the "strips" of green, etc.
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January 28, 2006 12:28:50 AM
When you download files they are stored in RAM (OS WriteBack DiskCache) before being written to the HDD. Thus if your RAM is bad you will get CRC errors during the extraction of compressed data. eg: Installation programs, ZIP, RAR, etc files downloaded from the Internet.
The CRC errors are occuring when you extract / install the download files right ?
The CRC data (in this case) is stored inside the ZIP, RAR, Installation packages most the time, and is recalculated / checked when data is extracted to ensure it is not corrupt. Athough CRC (and other similar checks, like MD5, etc) is used for many things in computers to assist detecting faults. Some are also used for encryption.
CRC errors on a TCP/IP network are far less likely to be noticed by someone building their 1st PC, as if a packet is corrupted in transit it justs get resent. (Only if your network is totally stuffed will no packets get through)..... Once the data gets from the NIC to the PC/OS it is stored in RAM - This is likely where the fault lies (as you can download a file, but once downloaded it is corrupt).
You need to test your RAM, to isolate the fault, and possibly correct the timings manually, then perhaps flashing the BIOS (when you are 100% certain the memory is working, not before) wouldn't be such a bad idea.
Also don't "play" with the timings because someone tells you lower is faster, or higher clocked is faster. If you don't know exactly what a BIOS option does, leave it alone..... at least until you are well read up on it.
Tools to help isolate the fault: - SiSoft SANDRA has a memory benchmark that isn't too bad at "detecting" bad memory. Just turn off the "Use 50% memory only option during testing" and have some memory testers. also has a memory tester burried somewhere. "Prime95" is also quite good at assisting to isolate faulty RAM so long as the right options are used.
The above tools are mostly useful for isolating faults to RAM.
There is a slim chance it could be HDD related, or HDD cable related, or even chipset / driver related, <- if you didn't install them, and not RAM related. However HDD failures are more noticable, even to the rookie, and faulty RAM / incorrect configuration of RAM is far more likely.
You could try underclocking the RAM (and CPU), and/or turning off AI NOS, (and any and all other BIOS dynamic overclocking options Asus boards have - consult the manual for info on how to disable each one), and/or reducing the RAM timings to the slowest setting (3-3-3-8 should work with that RAM I think), and try 2T Command Rate.
Then gradually decrease the timings (should be marked on the sticks anyway) and see if instability returns. Do not use your OS to test for instability (as it may corrupt the registry), instead use / boot from a MemTest86+ floppy or CD-R.
Once you have the system stable reinstall your OS (Windows XP) and start from scratch. Anything you have downloaded is potentially corrupt, the larger the file the more likely it is corrupt... so consider logging them all up, deleting them all, then downloading again.
Welcome to the world of computer hardware btw - [:P]
Generally speaking, Asus 1.00 BIOS defaults are very aggresive, as it makes them look better in reviews / benchmarks, (which boosts their sales), then their 1.02 or 1.05 BIOS changes the defaults to more 'normal' levels and 'fix the bugs' [cough]. MSI used to be similar when their CoreCell came out, but they don't turn dangerous options on by default.
Before Asus, MSI and others had AI NOS, PEG Link Mode, Aggro RAM timings, and various other dynamic overclock options (some on by factory BIOS 1.0 default) I used to like them. Although as I am aware of the issues going back to them if need be won't cause much heartache. I've never had a major issue with their (or anyone elses) boards btw, just a few default settings and how the defaults 'change' when flashing to a new BIOS.
If you can not get it working the RAM or Mainboard might actually be faulty. However if the system was assembled DIY style then the shop, or shops, can indicate the RAM, Mobo, etc was working before it left the shop and only became faulty when installed DIY style. (By someone other than one of their own techs). Depends on how nice the shop(s) are, you may need to RMA the faulty component(s), if any, yourself.
Cross your fingers it is just a setting (or settings) in the BIOS.
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January 28, 2006 4:13:31 PM
tabris & nobly:
thanks for the help! i ran the memtest86 and didn't run into any errors. i did only run it for about an hour though. should i be running it longer and have it cycle through more of the tests?
i also did a scan disk on the drive. it found no errors.
what i did notice (could have been coincidence) was that when i swapped dsl modems, it seemed to have *less* corrupted downloads. however, i still occasionaly get corrupted files, though only after downloading from the internet.
as for the bios, i have the asus a8n-e board and updated the bios to the "1010" revision. it might have helped slightly, but i still have download problems, which of course is unacceptable.
anyone else have any suggestions?
January 28, 2006 4:42:18 PM
Note: This is all assuming HDD and Network cables are OK btw.
Run MemTest86 / 86+ in extended mode overnight with all tests, except the FADE test, which 86+ skips by default anyway. It will loop until interupted and just list errors.
It is good for 'burning in' memory aswell. Maybe you got a few intermittent memory errors but after using the system for extended period of time they have reduced to 0, or near 0.
Test #5 and #8 are the best ones to run if you are short on time though. If it lists any errors (especially consistantly between iterations), let it burn in for awhile, see if it can do 2 iterations in a row with 0 failures.
If it can do 2 passes in a row each with 0 errors, then running (Start, Run, "SFC /SCANONCE") from Windows XP then rebooting will likely reinstall anything corrupted and get you ~95% good again. Then re-install any mainboard chipset (eg: nForce4 drivers), video and sound drivers (in that order, rebooting between each one), and also uninstall / re-install your Network Card Drivers, etc.
Then run a "netsh int ip reset c:resetlog.txt" which will reset the TCP/IP in Windows XP and setup your TCP/IP settings again from scratch.
That is almost as good as re-installing Windows XP, without actually doing a re-install.
Any issues after that, then you guessed it, re-install Windows XP. :p
January 28, 2006 4:58:59 PM
thank you tabris for, again, the quick reply. i'll run memtest overnight and see.
i'm leaning toward doing a clean install once again since i've updated the bios and also was able to download xp sp2 without a glitch.
it's interesting to see that memory can be burned in.
hopefully this does it. i might have to test the hard drive one more time and maybe test with another ethernet cable.
January 28, 2006 5:07:03 PM
In '70s and 80's systems would need to be burned in for a full week before one would Quality Assurance 'Pass' them. Otherwise they'd have 10x the problems you've had in just a few days in the first day of use alone.
These days most components are sort of 'pre-burned' after manufacturing, and 19/20 times you can just Plug'n'Play (so to speak), but 1/20 it is more like Plug'n'Pray instead, if you get my gist. :p .
If the memory won't do 2 passes with 0 errors I would return it though. Assuming all other settings (BIOS, etc) are correct. Can always try +0.1 volts to VDIMM anyway, as a last ditch before returning it. (Assuming it keeps getting 1 or more errors on each pass).
Also FarCry is an excellent memory testing application, it can 'fail' from faulty memory faster than Prime95 can detect a fault in just an hour or two of game play. (Sometimes minutes it all it takes, depends if it is timings, or just a bung bit in memory at an address that is rarely used and hard to recreate faults on, but thats what MemTest86 and Prime95 are for. You can run them in your sleep. :p )
I just remembered the Prime95 settings to use aswell, to save time... 'Torture Test in Blend Mode', all the other combiniations in Prime95 are less geared towards hammering RAM. If need be run 2 Prime95 processes at once, each with 51% memory so there is some overlap and paging is forced (better safe than sorry).
Good to hear your PC is ~95% stable already too. :)
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April 13, 2007 1:32:59 AM
Simple question:
Are there any benefits in performing a full format rather than a quick format on a brand new hard drive? I normally do a full format.
April 13, 2007 1:33:54 AM
i always do a quick format on new and used hdds, never had a problem.
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April 13, 2007 2:36:47 AM
I suppose I'll continue to do a full or regular format just to make sure my new drives are not defective.
April 13, 2007 2:40:10 AM
no problem, i guess it's a smart decision just to be on a safe side :)
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April 13, 2007 2:56:19 AM
Yeah, it seems I have the "Touch of Death" when it comes to hard drives.
Just today I had my 5th HDD failure in 7 years. My 120GB Hitachi drive died after only 2 years. The others were 3 Maxtors, and 1 Seagate.
Funny enough, the most reliable drive I have is the infamous IBM "Deathstar" 75GXP 60GB HDD which I bought back in 2000. I'm going to replace that drive real soon though, 7 years for a HDD in continual usage is pushing it.
April 13, 2007 4:16:51 AM
yeah, that's life, sometimes no-name/old hdds last longer than brand new hdds
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Hello, I just finished my first build, and I only have one problem left to solve. When I boot, neither the hard drive nor the dvd drive show up in the bios. The dvd's indication light shows no sign of life, and the hard drive dosent spin. They are connected to both the motherboard and the psu. I have tried both of the sata cables that came with my pc, and I have had no effect. I cant use one or the other, and in the bios, no sata devices are recognized. I have updated the bios, and their is no effect. Are my sata cables dead? Or is it my drives. All of the parts are new, and sata, the psu and the two drives are listed below. What is my problem, and what can I do?
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July 7, 2010 3:10:27 PM
Try different sata ports on the motherboard and the PSU just to rule out the chance that you have a bad one, if that still doesnt work then i suggest RMAing the drives.
July 7, 2010 3:16:59 PM
Okay, I have tried every sata port and power connector, so you recommend rmaing both of the drives?
July 18, 2010 2:35:54 PM
Hmm, before you went ahead and RMA both drives. Do you have older drives to try out? Like from older PC and use the cables what came with your new drives to test.
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She had never looked; her promise to her brother was still standing no matter how much she hated herself for keeping it. It had still come to her, though. Her body had still cringed and then stiffened; face slipping into a blank mask—she still found her lost sister.
The world around her rippled, twisted, and then cleared into a different scene then in reality. She saw her beloved sister and best friend, head down, scraggly brown hair falling around the desk that she was silently shaking on.
The woman—Alice—wanted to scream out, to call out to her best friend, to find some way to comfort her in her pain, but she couldn’t, body mute and frozen in her. She could only watch further.
Isabella’s shoulders shook, trembled, with loud wrenching sobs in the middle of the class. To the vampire’s complete fury and horror, the class continued, the shallow girl leaning away from Alice’s sister. How could they do that!? Why wouldn’t they help her? At least ask what was wrong?
Someone popped their gum loudly.
The heartfelt pain for the used to be little sister was crippling enough to almost pull her out of the vision. Almost. She wished it would.
After les then a second, the withered shoulders of the woman sat up in the realistic vision, face blank, eyes—so deeply set!—rimmed with a bright red. Her gray, unhealthy looking skin was glistening with tears.
They didn’t stop, the tears. They continued thickly but Ms. Swan was now quiet, eyes finally gone of the twisted, anguished pain that made her look like she was being burned. The tears still fell, nevertheless.
Time was strange in the young woman’s visions, and it jumped, morphing, never giving her a chance to return to reality, to try and fend off the painful sights, into a large hallway that she recognized with stinging familiarity.
Everyone swarmed everywhere, moving with quick buzzing movements. People laughed; people skipped around, messing with their friends; people held hands, and giggled to one another. Isabella did not. She stood stone still in the middle, unmoving in the sea of people. Like an invisible shield around her, no one approached her, a wide two feet free of the jostling children.
Mary Alice wanted this vision to stop more fervently then she could ever remember—even the time when young Isabella had almost been killed by a deranged tracker. And she knew exactly why, too. Because with this pain, this living hell Mrs. Whitlock was dragging the lost human through, was her families fault, her fault; and it was supposed to last forever in Isabella’s life.
Mrs. Mary Alice’s true vision, the one where she could pick out the smallest specks, was coming back, and her sister was fading, still standing, so lost, in the over packed hallway. Warm, strong arms encircled her, holding up her now shaking frame.
Alice dug her head into Jasper Whitlock’s shoulder, sobbing dryly into her only, her last, support. “So lost,” she moaned. “She’ll never find herself.”
The man, her husband, was scared, honestly. There was a tremendous amount of guilt and anguish rolling off his beloved wife; his waves a peace and calm were bounding off, unnoticed to her with the intensity of her emotions.
His own grating guilt and pain was only adding on to each of another—their emotions were one.
The vampires cradled each other while they had no option but to mourn the loss of their brother and sister—for they certainly had lost them. The first, the brother, had departed quickly upon the leaving of the small town of Forks. He had demanded the small black haired woman’s oath in not watching his love, made her swear to never look in a future that he would no longer effect.
What a fool he had been! He was still, would always, effect the young human’s life. One can’t reverse the irreversible. Yet he was so persistent in his pointless cause—all he’d managed was to rip up every heart in the family—including his and his lover’s—and run away into some damned corner of the world.
How he could do it, how he could separate himself from his very need in life, was unfathomable to his brother, Mr. Hale.
The Cullen family was of no more. They hardly used their previous last names anymore; it seemed pointless. If they were going to break apart wouldn’t their last names, their last weld to one another, change also?
The small woman in the former general’s arms twisted after an unaccountable amount of silence. Her gold eyes flashed and Jasper Whitlock savored the look—it had so long since he’d seen anything there but pain and emptiness—before turning wary. He knew his wife long enough to know it meant no good.
“I must find her,” she stated matter of fact like. Her tinkling bell like voice was strong yet still held the slightest note of pleading. She would do anything now to fine her beloved sister and drag her brother home.
Jasper wanted to argue but it was the note, the desperate plea in her voice, the broke him before he could argue. To have her beg of something of him much as this was torture to the scared man’s heart and ears. “We must find them,” he corrected gently.
They would find Edward Cullen if it meant combing through the whole world and drag him back to the little inconsequential town of Forks to the little inconsequential Isabella Swan that was the bindings of their family.
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1. Boredom is irritating, really
Rating 5/5 Word Count 734 Review this Chapter
Welcome to my world.
I don’t think you know how dangerous my world is though. My world if filled with danger, danger lurking behind every corner.
This world has hardships that nobody can imagine. My world is filled with people that can’t stick up for themselves and therefore, die.
My world is outrageous. My world is insane and unnatural. My world is a world that many people have entered, but haven’t survived.
I am secret agent Bella Swan. And this message will blow up in thirty seconds.
You better run…
It was late afternoon and I was bored. I wasn’t used to no excitement. I mean, before Forks, I was living on edge, unmasking drug deals and scandals. Then after Forks, it was fighting vampires and werewolves.
Today I have nothing to do. It’s around one in the afternoon and I’m home by myself. Charlie is fishing with Billy, and Jacob is attending a pack meeting. Alice and Rose are shopping and the rest of the family is hunting.
I was completely bored.
I went up to my room, in hopes that there would be something to do. I picked up Wuthering Heights and got through a chapter before I fell asleep.
Edward’s POV
I had just finished hunting and was slipping in through Bella’s window when a cell phone rang. It played the tone of mission impossible and it was coming from under Bella’s bed. I watched at the window as she groaned and rolled over, reaching under the bed.
She pulled out a metal, silver briefcase. She typed in a combination and flipped the briefcase open. She pulled a tiny silver phone out and flipped it open, annoyed.
“What, Bethany?” she asked, clearly annoyed that her rest was disturbed. But who was Bethany?
“Bella! We need you!” I heard a female’s voice say on the other line. Bella sat up straighter, still not noticing I was there. She seemed alert.
“What’s wrong? Is everyone okay? Kenda? Bridget? Louise? Oh please tell me that you’re all okay!” she cried into the phone. She was gripping her bed sheet with one hand, clearly frightened.
“Were fine. But Jeff just caught wind of a drug deal going down at The Kitty Kat club. This is top of the line business, Belle! You’re the best the agency has, we need you for this.” The girl explained. Bella calmed a bit, but still looked frazzled.
“I’ll be there tonight. Send the jet.” She ordered as she snapped the phone shut. I decided this would be a good time to make my presence none.
Bella’s POV
“So where exactly are you going tonight?” a voice asked behind me. I jumped, falling out of bed and hitting my head on the bedside table. I looked up and Edward was sitting next to the window looking amused. Had he heard the whole thing? My case was till sitting on my bed along with my phone. Oh no…
“How much did you hear?” I demanded, getting up and going over to him. He held his arms open so I could sit on his lap. I gladly accepted the offer, setting down.
“Well, I heard something about someone needing you; you were worried about some people. Why is that? And then something about you being the best and flying out on a jet tonight. You own a jet?” he asked, humor in his eyes.
He heard the whole conversation. Oh no. I knew the day would come when I would have to tell him. Tell him that I’m not really this clumsy little human always in need of protection. The day when I would have to admit to my adventures.
“Edward…there’s something you and your family need to here…” I hedged. I was so selfish. Sure, he can tell me the secret of all secrets, he’s a mythical creature. But I can’t tell him my career? My job, my life choice? I’m so completely and utterly selfish! Ugh!
“What is it, Bella?” he was worried now. No, that was the last thing I wanted!
“I’ll tell you in a minute. I want your family to hear this too.” I explained, a little scared. I’m sure he would react rationally; I mean he is a vampire. He’s battled vampire’s centuries old; he’s fought new borns with twice his strength. This shouldn’t worry him at all…
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Arduino Pointers and the Ping for Automated High Five
highfive2Charles Stutzman submitted this article about using C pointers in Arduino code. He combines an Arduino, a ultrasonic range sensor and a servo in this article. Pointers are used to move data around. Much of the code here is intended to show the use of pointers. The Parallax Ping sensors and general servo interfacing is also covered.
Charles submitted this article as part of the uCHobby giveaway program. Read Charles’s article after the jump and leave a comment.
Charles Writes:
Pointers, pointers to pointers, and reading information at the memory address pointed to by the pointers. These are topics that I haven’t seen addressed in the Arduino environment yet.
I was having a problem getting a variable to pass globally from one function to another. I declared the variables that I wanted to use in multiple functions globally outside all the functions and setup(). I tried declaring the variable in every function, and passing it using the return function, and putting the variable to be passed in the function call, i.e. function(variable). No success, I kept getting errors about scope, or the program will compile and upload, but the variable will be empty in the other function where I am trying to read the value.
I talked to David at uCHobby about the problem, and he pointed me to an article about using the volatile modifier on variables. It is a modifier that is rarely taught in depth but can make a difference in the programming especially when there is an optimizer in use (the Arduino uses an optimizer to make the code more efficient or take up less memory, I am not sure which, David could tell you). [David: the volatile modifier tells the compiler not to keep a local copy of a variable in a register. Its important when an interrupt could update the value making a saved copy invalid.]
I built a set of code from a few examples to try and quickly make something work. I was trying to use a PING sensor, some servos, some LEDs, and the serial monitor. I built the system I was working with one piece at a time, starting with the PING. Compile example, upload and voila. Simple. I can put my hand in front of the sensor and the serial monitor reads the distance my hand is from the sensor. pingsensor servo
Next lets make the LEDs dim and brighten based on how far away the PING is from an object. Something like:
analogWrite(dimLED, inches);
where dimLED is a LED on a PWM pin that is dimming as the variable inches gets smaller. Success. I can make a sensor affect the LED.
Now let’s make the servo move. The Servo knob example works great for this. It lets us use an analog input to move a servo through its range. You will note that later in the actual example I put together, I did not use the servo library, or this example, but rather used an example from Robotgrrl.
Now lets make the ping sensor talk to the servo. Should be simple but the first attempt I had of this made things very jittery. The refresh rate on the servo and the PING sensor made it necessary for these to be set up as separate functions. Separate functions ended up meaning that we needed a timer to call them at timed intervals so that the refresh rates did not make the servo jittery. Separate functions and library calls eventually made it difficult to have the variables working correctly. The inches variable from the PING example was not passing to the servo function. Leaving me with a servo that did not move, but the PING was getting data. I moved the variable to make it global, and that didn’t fix the problem.
Scope errors, and undefined in this type messages drove me nuts. I consulted C++ tutorials on passing variables and global variables, and then tried the volatile modifier David at uC Hobby suggested. I talked to a computer programmer and he suggested I use pointers. Here is a good reference that helped me realize how to use pointers. I vaguely remember using pointers in my C programming class, but that was 8 years ago. I then set up the variable globalInches and a pointer to it *getInches:
int globalInches;
int* getInches=&globalInches;
To read the variables in and write the variables, as they are needed you have to reference them:
int inches1 = *getInches;
*getInches = inches;
The article about pointers goes into pointers to pointers, to pointers… and how to point to a memory address of a variable as opposed to a variable. The reason for pointing to the memory address instead of trying to pass the variable is that likely the program will try making a new variable rather than checking for the existence of a variable already. Whereas pointing to the memory address will get you the data that is in that position always. The last example they use is like this one:
int main()
int instruments(12);
int* p_instruments = &instruments;
int** p_p_instruments(&p_instruments);
int*** p_p_p_instruments = &p_p_instruments;
***p_p_p_instruments = 6;
Table for current information from above code
Variable Name Variable Type Memory Address Stored Value
instruments int 1279 6
p_instruments int* 1377 1279
p_p_instruments int** 1477 1377
p_p_p_instruments int*** 1000 1477
I put the last memory address lower than the first to show that a computer doesn’t care when a variable is declared, it will put it into memory at the first available location and during a program run, memory addresses can and will be emptied at any moment.
This makes instruments = 12, then points p_instruments to the address of instruments, then points p_p_instruments to the address of p_instruments, then points p_p_p_instruments to the address of p_p_instruments, then lastly dereferences p_p_p_instruments to put 6 in the instruments variable. Each * is a “dereference operator”, and takes the location that the variable has stored and uses it to look at the data in the memory location. The & symbol is “the address of operator”. It points the variable to the address of the variable it modifies. Reading the operators like they are called makes the line of code make more sense.
int* p_instruments = &instruments;
Reads like “int* p_instruments equals the address of instruments”.
*p_instruments = 6;
Reads like “dereferenced p_instruments equals 6”, meaning that the memory location that p_instruments is pointing to will now have 6 as it’s value. It just so happens that that memory location is the variable instruments, so now instruments = 6.
After getting it all working and tweaking the values I have a program that can make the servo with a flag on it move closer to the sensor till the servo is at or almost at the sensor, and then move it away as soon as it gets to an inch or so away. The action to start the servo to the sensor will be initiated by a button push. pushbutton
Note to programmers on keeping track of problem versions of code. In doing this example, and making it work from multiple source code parts and pieces, I ended up with many versions of the same file that all work in different fashions, or not at all. I apparently never saved any of the ones that had numerous errors in them, and I should have made a separate sketch folder for failed code, so that I could go back and see what didn’t work in doing this example. As it is I have only the memory of variable failures, and not the code to show and repeat the errors for this article. I wish I had a library of the bad code to be able to give the exact errors that came up.
highfive1The physical pin outs for the example is as follows using a Bare Bones Board kit:
Bare Bones Board Arduino in the breadboard
4 pin momentary on push-button with one pin at pin 2, one on the opposite side to 5+, and one to
ground with a pull down resistor
Servo with power and ground to the respective power lines, and the signal to pin 6
PING sensor with power and ground to the respective power lines, and the signal to pin 7
LED to pin 13 and ground
Here is the breadboard and Bare Bones Board with the sensor, servo, pushbutton and LED hooked up ready to go for this example.
|| @file highfivePINGaervo.pde
|| @version 1.0
|| @author Charles Stutzman
|| @contact
|| @description
|| | This sketch takes a button push and initiates a high five style motion from a servo to a PING
|| | sensor.
|| | based off of the TimedAction example ThreeExamplesAtOnce.pde by Alexander Brevig
|| |
|| | has three TimedActions, that interact and initiate a high five motion, and one that is a
|| | heartbeat to show activity on the board
|| | May contain parts and pieces from Ardiuno Examples Library (PING, Blink LED, Button
|| | digital Input, and
|| #
//TimedAction initialization of the circuits heartbeat
TimedAction heartbeatAction = TimedAction(1000,heartbeat);
//TimedAction initialization of the Servo position function
TimedAction servoAction = TimedAction(20,servo);
//TimedAction initialization of the PING sensor read function
TimedAction pingAction = TimedAction(200,ping);
//TimedAction initialization of the button push for the start of a "high five" between the servo flag //and the PING sensor
TimedAction buttonAction = TimedAction(50,button);
// globalvariables for ping and servo functions
int globalInches;
int* getInches=&globalInches;
//heartbeat variables and pins
const int ledPin = 13;
boolean ledState = false;
//servo variables and pins
const int servo1 = 6;
int servoAngle1;
int pulseWidth1;
//ping variables and pins
const int pingPin = 7;
//button pins and variables
const int buttonPin= 2;
int buttonState = 0;
//set up for servo position setting
void servoPulse1 (int servo1, int servoAngle1) {
pulseWidth1 = (servoAngle1 * 11) + 500; // Converts angle to microseconds
digitalWrite(servo1, HIGH); // Set servo high (turns it on)
delayMicroseconds(pulseWidth1); // Wait a very very small amount
digitalWrite(servo1, LOW); // Set servo low (turns it off)
// Typical Refresh cycle of servo (20 ms) normally a delay would be here, but the delay is in the //TimedAction calls
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);// there for debugging and watching the sensor values
pinMode(servo1, OUTPUT);
pinMode(buttonPin, INPUT);
void loop() {
heartbeatAction.check(); //trigger every second
servoAction.check(); //trigger every 20 millisecond
pingAction.check();//trigger every 200 millieconds
buttonAction.check();//trigger every 50 milliseconds
//checks for a button push to initiate the "high five"
void button() {
buttonState = digitalRead(buttonPin);
if (buttonState == HIGH){
*getInches = 6;// makes globalInches go to a value that the servo will move when the servo checks //the value
//beats the LED at pin 13 at 1 beat per second as a heartbeat
void heartbeat() {
ledState ? ledState=false : ledState=true;
//moves the servo according to data in *getInches
void servo() {
int inches1 = *getInches;
if (inches1 > 2) {
if (inches1 < 7) {
servoAngle1 = inches1*3;
else {
servoAngle1 = 60;
servoPulse1(servo1, servoAngle1);
Serial.println(" inches from sensor."); //datalogging for debugging
//gets data from the ping sensor
void ping() {
// establish variables for duration of the ping,
// and the distance result in inches and centimeters:
long duration, inches;
pinMode(pingPin, OUTPUT);
digitalWrite(pingPin, LOW);
digitalWrite(pingPin, HIGH);
digitalWrite(pingPin, LOW);
pinMode(pingPin, INPUT);
duration = pulseIn(pingPin, HIGH);
// convert the time into a distance
inches = microsecondsToInches(duration);
Serial.print(" inches is what the sensor just read.");//there to help identify the number
*getInches = inches;
long microsecondsToInches(long microseconds) {
// See:
return microseconds / 74 / 2;
Here is the sequenced pictures of the action:
Have fun and enjoy making the Arduino interact with others and its environment.
Charles Stutzman
Posted in Arduino, Ideas, Microcontroller, Projects.
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1. signal7 says
While this is a good introduction to pointers, it doesn’t mention the best feature of using pointers: arithmetic.
If you declare an array of type int, what you are really doing is creating a pointer to a location in memory that consists of a sequence of 4 byte blocks (because int’s are typically 4 bytes to most* compilers). You can then reference the elements of the array using simple addition and subtraction. array[3] is the same as *(array + 3). I know that might seem confusing, but the compiler knows the type of the array and also knows that each element is 4 bytes so when you add some number to the pointer, the compiler internally computes array + (3 * 4) to arrive at the correct address.
This might not seem useful – I’ll grant you that. However, when you start using arrays of structs or other more complicated data structures, this will be holy grail of understanding the usefulness of pointers. Maybe it’s overkill for the arduino environment, but with these AVR parts coming with more and more memory, I’m sure more data processing applications will be coming.
* I say most compilers because there is no guarantee that an int is 4 bytes and you can’t really depend on it being 4 bytes if you want to write reliable code. If you really need a 4 byte int, use int32 instead.
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What is Podcasting?
According to Wikipedia, “Podcasting is a method of publishing files to the internet, often allowing users to subscribe to a feed [source] and receive new files automatically.” [read the Wikipedia definition]
Podcasting thus refers to choosing audio files from a designated web resource and loading them on a digital music [MP3] player or a computer. You may choose to listen to a podcast on either equipment at your convenience.
A unique feature of a podcast is the ability to subscribe to a feed , which automatically updates at intervals defined by your podcast software. All you need is a connection to the Internet and podcast software, which is available in Information Technology Services[in either Macintosh and Windows versions] free of charge.
What is NOT a podcast?
• Audio file(s) embedded in a Web page, blog, etc., without the ability to subscribe.For example, putting an audio file in eDocs and linking to the file from Blackboard, a blog, or a webpage.
• Audio file(s) that is streamed from a streaming server.For example, linking to an audio file, that is on a streaming server, from Blackboard, a blog, or a webpage.
Both the options mentioned above do not have the capability to enable “subscription” for a course-related lecture, presentation, etc. On the other hand, a podcast allows an individual to “subscribe” wherein any new episode(s) of a podcast automatically appears on the individual’s podcatching/podcasting client such as iTunes.
Educational Uses of Podcasting
Steve Sloan offers ideas on podcasting and how it allows to create rich learning environments for your students:
• Class lectures. You can record and put your class lectures online so that your students can subscribe to them easily. You subsequently add and update additional lectures to the list of podcasts as the need arises.
Benefits – Use of a podcast enables self-paced learning, content review, support students that are differently-abled, etc.
• Guest interviews. You can put interviews online and make the audio file[s] available for the students in your class.
Benefits – You can feature guest speakers, and make access convenient at anytime/anywhere for a larger group of students.
• Resource materials. You can put additional class resources online for your students as a part of their readings [or listening, in this scenario].
Podcasting in Education
What is Vodcasting?
Vodcasting functions similarly to podcasting, but has the added feature of video and/or still images. According to Wikipedia, “Vodcast (or Video Podcast) is an emerging term used for the online delivery of video on demand content via RSS enclosures.” [read the Wikipedia definition].
Vodcasting in Education
For his liberal studies course, “The Beatles: Popular Music and Society,” Professor Michael Cheney prepared vodcasts that included lectures and supporting material. Students used Apple Computer’s iTunes software to listen to and watch the vodcasts.
“I came up with the idea as a way to further enrich the online learning experience. Having students not only read the material – but also listen to my comments and view images – gives them a fuller experience, especially because this course deals with many sounds and images,” said Cheney.
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Impy, WHAT THE HELL??!?!
I thought Chemical Brothers and Dust Brothers were completely different dudes? /me goes to check names and compare....
CB = Thomas Owen Mostyn Rowlands and Edmund John Simons
DB = Michael Simpson and John King
I think what I just read, said that The Chemical Brothers used to be called the Dust brothers but got legal advice to stop it.
So how well do they do? Well, put it this way: this album makes it clear why the Chemical Brothers used to call themselves the Dust Brothers, back before they received legal advice that this may be a really bad idea. Well, unless they wanted to be sued and kicked to death. After all, if you were going to ass yourself of as any of the major proponents of modern producer-made music, it would be this pair. They finally teach the world what producers do: everything.
not sure about reliability though. But the Dust Brothers I am talking about did the Fight Club soundtrack, my favorite soundtrack ever.
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look up any word, like cleveland steamer:
A word that describes an unattractive female.
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Words related to Bunk Cheese
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look up any word, like blumpkin:
Misleading a person or group to exit an area without announcement while leaving the people behind shocked, surprised and potentially in harm.
-You can either dufresne or be dufresned.
The boss of a small group was recently dufresned by his employee after he came into work and realized he had an email from the employee stating he quit and he would not be returning with zero notice while leaving the unit with tons of work.
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du frane
-adjective and adverb
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A brilliant last name, pronounced Doo-frane, not Doo-fres-nee or Doo-frenz. Think Andy Dufresne in the Shawshank Redemption. Everyone's innocent, right?
Common nickname, "Insane Dufresne"
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look up any word, like hipster:
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Usually preceded by "Don't have an..." it's a slang comment referring to a situation that is about to descend out of all control.
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A: How many eppies of Avatar: The Last Airbender are there?
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short for episode, specifically a episode of a television show
Do you want to come over and watch the new eppy of American Idol?
Shit! I can't believe I missed the premiere eppy of All That!
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look up any word, like swag:
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look up any word, like blumpkin:
Something weird or annoying that happens at a party, such as a girl spilling punch all over your new shoes, that cost 100 dollars that could be considered nuggish.
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Allie:"hey whats u-
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The smell a thong acquires after it's been up a pretty black girl's booty all day.
Yo girl, that thong be smellin' pretty nuggish, know what I'm sayin'?
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to get done done on some chicken nuggets
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New York's Improv Everywhere staged one of its most ambitious pranks in 2008 when they attempted to "stop time" inside bustling travel hub Grand Central Station. Passersby were stunned, confused, and delighted by the performers (all of whom looked like ordinary travelers) as they pulled all stood frozen in place, even getting bewildered cops involved before everyone suddenly continuing on their respective ways. This one's for the viral history books.
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Altar, Pulpit and Lectern, St. Fin Barre's Cathedral (variously spelt). William Burges. Designed 1862-63; consecrated 1870; fully completed 1879. Interior built of Bath stone lined with red Cork marble. Cork, Republic of Ireland. Photograph and text 2006 by Jacqueline Banerjee, 2009. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL.]
A cathedral has overlooked Cork from this spot since as early as the seventh century, but in 1865 the remains of the medieval structure, and its eighteenth century rebuilding, were demolished to make way for a new, larger and grander edifice. To win the competition for it, Burges had designed a compact yet impressive cathedral in the French Gothic style, narrow inside but soaring to a great height, with three spires — one at the crossing and two others at the west. He also designed a wealth of architectural sculpture, especially for the west front. Amongst other figures below the intricately carved rose window are those in the highly wrought resurrection scene of the tympanum, while the wise and foolish virgins (the latter dejectedly holding their empty lamps) approach the bridegroom on each side of the central doors (see Matthew 25:1-13). Numerous gargoyles and other embellishments can be seen throughout.
Rightly described as "one of the most coherent expressions of Victorian church architecture in Western Europe" ("The Present Cathedral"), this is the only one of the three cathedrals designed by Burges in which he could realise his vision for such a project: his designs for a cathedral in Lille were taken over by French architects, and another cathedral designed for Brisbane was never built at all (see Turnor 70). Here, however, he could put his heart and soul into the work. A mark of his commitment was his own gift to it, the "Resurrection Angel" made of copper covered with gold leaf, crowning the sanctuary roof. Like the use of gold leaf elsewhere in the external decoration, and the glowing colours of the stained glass (designed by Burges, mostly cartooned by H. W. Lonsdale, and made by Gualbert Saunders), this adds much to the dramatic impact of the building.
The fine detail everywhere is rich in symbolic significance as well as in craftsmanship. For example, on the pulpit St Paul is depicted as "sitting on an upturned 'pagan' altar," while the brass reading-stand on the pulpit is supported by "a winged dragon which symbolises evil taking flight at the sound of the Word being preached" ("St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork"). Amid the "single iconographic scheme" of the stained glass windows (Williams 6), which progresses from the Old Testament at the west end to the New Testament in the ambulatory, is one erected by Alfred Burges to the memory of his eldest son, "Architect of this cathedral." Designed by Burges himself, it shows the King of Heaven presiding over the four apostles, who hold open the Word of God. As elsewhere in the cathedral, Matthew is shown in human form, while Mark is shown as a lion, Luke as an ox and John as an eagle. Below them flame the seven candles of Revelations 1:20, representing the seven churches of Asia Minor. Under the inscription is a simple shield and a small, worn-looking plaque with a mosaic surround, bearing Burges's entwined initials and name.
However, everything here, including the church fittings, furnishings, mosaics, ironwork and stained glass, shows Burges's distinctive hand, making the whole cathedral a memorial to him and to his own distinctive style of "Burgesian Gothic."
Other Views and Related Material
Crook, J. Mordaunt. "Burges, Wiliam (1827-1881)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Online ed. Viewed 23 August 2009.
"St Fin Barre's Cathedral, Cork" (welcome leaflet available in the cathedral).
"The Present Cathedral" (Cathedral website). Viewed 23 August 2009.
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Well, this is promising: Pixar just released a two-and-a-half-minute scene from Brave, its upcoming feature about a Scottish princess and her wild highland adventures, and based on the evidence at hand (which, granted, is just a teaser and one scene, but still), the studio's much-discussed "woman problem" is solved. This looks adorable! Congratulations to the curly-haired girls of America, who finally have a worthy action heroine to call their own. That hair reveal? A+. And how awesome are those bow-and-arrow skills? Did Katniss Everdeen ever slice another bow in two with her bull's eye? We think not. Finally, Vulture approves of any movie that might teach the children of American to crack jokes in Scottish accents. This could be great.
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One thing you can say about Google is they don’t stray too far from their Birkenstocks –aside from the legal department, where the smell of free love will get you shot on sight. But two new environmental layers added to Google Earth are evidence of those patchouli-scented sandals.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based search company recently added two new features to the "Global Awareness" section of Google Earth – one to raise the eyebrows of those unaware that coal mining companies have blown the lid off half the Appalachian mountain chain in search of bituminous wealth; the other to help the World Wildlife Fund un-endanger an overmuch of now-rare animals.
Mary Anne Hitt, Executive director of Appalachian Voices, recounts flying over the mountains of southern West Virginia, and peering down into the scalped remains of those ancient green giants, and questioned the dire costs of energy.
"That’s why we at Appalachian Voices, and our partner groups, created the National Memorial for the Mountains, using Google Earth to tell the stories of more than 470 mountains that have been lost, as the centerpiece of our website www.iLoveMountains.org," she writes at the Google Blog.
On the other side of the planet, in Africa, the WWF wants people to know that there are "80 species of mammals, including endangered elephants, gorillas and chimpanzees, as well as at least 302 species of birds, 122 species of reptiles, more than 80 species of amphibians, 249 species of fish, and a high level of endemic plant life" just hanging out at Campo-Ma’an National Park in Cameroon.
"It is the local people who make this area so special," writes James Leape, Director General of WWF International. "The communities living near the park are keen to protect their natural resources, but also desperate for economic development. WWF is working in partnership with them to promote community-based nature tourism as one solution."
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This isn’t the early 90′s any more and there’s hardly a correlation between concern for the environment and wearing of Birkenstocks these days. Anyhow, as someone who’s visited the Google campus, I swear a got nary a whiff of patchouli – it was generally populated by workaholic geeks who have forsaken the 60s-style highs for the heady rush of good computer code.
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Honduras: 94 House Members Sign Dear Colleague Concerning Human Rights Abuses in Honduras
Please thank your Rep. if he or she signed this letter! March 12, 2012
Link to official letter with signatures below.
The Honorable Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Dear Secretary Clinton,
We are concerned with the grave human rights situation in the Bajo Aguán region of Honduras and ask the State Department to take effective steps to address it. The abuses taking place in this area of the country reflect a larger pattern of human rights violations in which human rights defenders, journalists, community leaders and opposition activists are the subject of death threats, attacks, and extrajudicial executions. We appreciate the November 9, 2011 State Department statement urging Honduran authorities to take measures to end the violence and impunity in the Bajo Aguán. We urge you to continue to pressure the Honduran government to protect the fundamental human rights of its citizens, and to investigate and prosecute abuses.
Forty-five people associated with peasant organizations have been killed in the Bajo Aguán area between September 2009 and February 8, 2012. One additional peasant association member, Francisco Pascual López, remains disappeared since May 2011. Seven security guards, a policeman, a journalist and his partner, and three other persons have also been killed.
This critical situation was the subject of an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) hearing in October 2011. The IACHR concluded that it is “particularly concerned about the situation in the Bajo Aguán region of Honduras…. The Commission received information regarding the criminalization of the campesino struggle and the militarization of the area, which has reportedly placed the peasant farmers and human rights defenders in the Bajo Aguán in a state of high risk.”
Private security guards on farmlands in dispute are cited by witnesses as the perpetrators of many of these crimes, according to information presented to the IACHR by human rights groups. In some cases, the security guards are reported to have acted in collusion with army and police agents. In mid-August, the Honduran government initiated a joint military-police action in Bajo Aguán known as Operation Xatruch II. At least nine peasant organization members, including two principal leaders, have been killed since this operation was launched.
According to information presented to the IACHR by human rights groups, police and military associated with Xatruch II tortured community members. In one case, the 17-year-old son of a peasant leader was allegedly tortured by police and military, doused with gasoline and threatened with being burned or buried alive. On November 1, a group of small farmers and their families returning from visiting a cemetery were fired upon, allegedly by private security guards. One was killed and four wounded, one of whom subsequently died.
These cases have yet to be effectively investigated and prosecuted. In September 2011, Human Rights Watch reported that while some arrest warrants have been issued, no one has been arrested or charged for these killings. While the Honduran judicial system has failed to effectively prosecute perpetrators of extrajudicial executions, it has been remarkably efficient in issuing arrest warrants for Bajo Aguán peasant organizers. Legal proceedings have been initiated against at least162 small farmers and more than 80 were temporarily arrested, largely on charges of trespassing and theft of farm produce, between January 2010 and July 2011.
Underlying the violence are long-standing land conflicts that urgently need to be resolved. Land in the Bajo Aguán was titled to small farmers by a government agrarian reform initiative in the 1970s. According to peasant associations, fraud and coercion subsequently were used to force many to sell their lands.
Several associations reached an agreement with the Zelaya government to resolve the land conflicts, and, when this agreement was not fulfilled after the June 2009 coup, small farmers began occupations of the lands they claim as their own. An agreement reached between the Lobo government and peasant groups in April 2010 to transfer land to their communities has not been implemented. The Honduran government has also failed to comply with provisions of Honduran law that mandate that state-owned land belonging to the former Regional Military Training Center in the Bajo Aguán area be transferred to landless farmers. Further, the government has not protected the rights of settled communities with long-term legal titles to their land, which have been attacked and evicted.
We know you share our firm belief that given U.S. support for the Honduran government, including assistance for the police, military and judicial system, we have an obligation to ensure that human rights are respected. Indeed, it is our understanding that the United States is providing training to the 15th Battalion of the Honduran military which is operating in the Bajo Aguán region.
We ask you to urge the Honduran government to take immediate action to protect human rights in the Bajo Aguán region and throughout the country. This should include investigating and prosecuting those responsible for the murders, threats and other abuses, including the intellectual authors of such abuses, and immediately suspending, investigating and as appropriate prosecuting members of the military and police credibly alleged to have committed or acted in collusion with such abuses. We urge the State Department to request an accounting of the specific status of these cases and provide us with an assessment on their status rather than just a general evaluation of efforts to strengthen the judicial system.
The Honduran government should provide basic protective measures, in consultation with beneficiaries, to witnesses, victims, human rights defenders, and peasant leaders at risk in the region. We also believe that the Honduran government should regulate the private security companies that have, thus far, acted with impunity. In addition, the Honduran government should comply with the agreements already signed with peasant associations to address the land conflicts in Bajo Aguán and seek comprehensive solutions to lack of access to land and livelihoods that underlie this conflictive situation.
We also ask you to suspend U.S. assistance to the Honduran military and police given the credible allegations of widespread, serious violations of human rights attributed to the security forces. We note that the foreign operations appropriations bill for FY12 requires the State Department to certify that the Honduran government “is investigating and prosecuting in the civilian justice system, in accordance with Honduran and international law, military and police personnel who are credibly alleged to have violated human rights, and the Honduran military and police are cooperating with civilian judicial authorities in such cases.” In addition to the Bajo Aguán cases, there are numerous other allegations of police and military involvement in threats, excessive use of force and extrajudicial executions. For example, the U.S.-supported Truth Commission, which examined 20 emblematic human rights cases resulting in death that took place in the period between the June 2009 coup until the Lobo government took office, determined that more than three-quarters can be attributed to excessive use of force by army or police, or selected killings by government agents. The overwhelming majority of such abuses remain in impunity.
The U.S. government has an obligation to vigorously enforce the Leahy provisions included in laws governing both foreign operations and defense appropriations funding. We request specific information about efforts made by the U.S. Embassy to apply the Leahy provisions in relation to abuses allegedly committed by members of the police and military in the Bajo Aguán, including in relation to the 15th Battalion and the various police and military units that have participated in Operation Xatruch II.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter concerning strengthening the rule of law in Honduras.
cc: Ambassador Lisa Kubiske
Maria Otero, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs
Roberta Jacobson, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
Frank Mora, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs
Daniel Restrepo, Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs, National Security Council
Kathleen FitzPatrick, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Senator Patrick Leahy, Chair, Senate Foreign Operations Subcommittee
Alphabetical list of signers:
List of Signers to
Schakowsky Dear Colleague Letter on Honduras
As of March 9, 2012 – 10:00 am EST
1. Schakowsky
2. Blumenauer
1. Bonamici
1. Brady (PA)
1. Capps
1. Capuano
1. Carnahan
1. Chandler
1. Cicilline
1. Clarke (MI)
1. Clarke (NY)
1. Clay
1. Cleaver
1. Cohen
1. Conyers
1. Costello
1. Cummings
1. D. Davis
1. DeFazio
1. DeGette
1. DeLauro
1. Deutch
1. Doggett
1. Doyle
1. Edwards (MD)
1. Ellison
1. Eshoo
1. Farr
1. Fattah
1. Filner
1. Frank
1. Garamendi
1. Grijalva
1. Gutierrez
1. Hahn
36. Hastings (FL)
1. Heinrich
2. Higgins
1. Hinchey
1. Honda
1. Jackson
1. Johnson (GA)
1. Kaptur
1. Kildee
1. Kucinich
1. Langevin
1. Lee
1. Levin
1. Lewis (GA)
1. Loebsack
1. Lofgren
1. Lujan
1. Markey
1. Matsui
1. McCollum
1. McDermott
1. McGovern
1. McNerny
1. Michaud
1. Miller, G.
1. Moran
1. Nadler
1. Neal
1. Norton
1. Olver
1. Pascrell
1. Pastor
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1. Pingree
1. Polis
1. Price (NC)
1. Rangel
1. Richardson
2. Roybal-Allard
1. Rush
1. Sanchez, Linda
1. Sanchez, Loretta
1. Sarbanes
1. Serrano
1. Slaughter
1. Speier
1. Stark
1. Thompson (CA)
1. Tierney
1. Tonko
1. Towns
1. Van Hollen
1. Velazquez
1. Waters
1. Waxman
1. Welch
1. Wilson (FL)
1. Woolsey
1. Yarmuth
2. Bass (CA)
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Migraine abet.?
I'm pregnant and experiencing terrible migraines that engineer me almost non-functional. I also wear contacts, and when I take them out it seem to help near the headaches. Any suggestion? What kind of niggle medication is safe and will abet? Could my contacts be to blame (I keep them really verbs and replace them often). I hate wearing specs! Why is being pregnant making my contacts confer me migraines? What brands of contacts are good when the brand you wear incentive you to feel similar to you've been looking cross-eyed adjectives day? Thanks!
How death-defying is it to take a morning after pill?
I suffered next to migranes while I was pregnant and you can recieve treatment if mandatory, but DO NOT take ANY otc meds in need consulting YOUR OB first. I was a big lover of the torridol injections, non narcotic and basicaly high dose ibuprofin, smaller number risk to baby and hasty pain nouns. If wearing your contacts is causing you a problem switch support to your glasses, you may entail new contacts.
Menstral cups vs tampons.?
Well within all cases it's best you other check with a doctor/optometrist back blindly following advice on the internet. Here's my suggestions, but PLEASE check beside your health professionals.
Advil Liquid-Gels Migraine
As for contacts, explain the situation to your optometrist and he can/will provide you next to the information for your contact prescriptions and suggestions as to what you should be using instead. Although maybe for the duration of the pregnancy, eyeglasses would be best.
V.C.F. and Monistat-1 interactions? Could I be pregnant?
Treatment of migraines during pregnancy can be tricky. You should really talk to a doctor for specific diagnosis and treatment. Check this connect for advice: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/headach...
What can I do to stop excessive sweating?
Consult your OB/GYN doctor and grasp an eye exam for your contacts. Don't take any affliction meds without your doctors OK
Female request for information..?
You need to bring this up beside your doctor.. and only the doctor.. Nothing is secure to take when your carrying a child unless the doctor prescribes it to you.. Every party is different..
Maybe it is the contact solution your wearing or your contacts aren't right for you anymore.. Also see a eye doctor and have your eyes checked..
Good luck and congradulations..
I am going to pilfer an estrogen pill to build up my bones since my OB GYNE suggested it to me. Is it really sfe
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Indexes versus indices
Q From Bert Forage, Australia; related questions came from Mark Smith and David Parks: I wish you wouldn’t spell the plural of index as indexes in your side banner! We’re being dragged screaming into the American version of English.
This is why we now prefer crematoriums to the Latin crematoria and forums to fora, though the Latin plurals are still regularly used by some writers. Other words retain their Latin plurals, but we have to work at remembering them because the English plural marker has otherwise so few exceptions: apices (of apex), corpora (of corpus), helices (of helix), matrices (of matrix), vertices (of vertex) and many others.
Index is a good example of a small subgroup in which both plurals are alive and well but in which usage has separated their senses. Another is appendix, in which appendices refers to books but appendixes to bodily organs.
Indices has survived in scientific work, especially in mathematics. When index refers to a number or symbol, such as an exponent — the superscript figure 2 to indicate a number is to be squared, for example, as in x2 — it has the Latin plural. Statisticians also talk about indices when they mean figures comparing a value to a standard, so that retail prices index turns into retail prices indices in the plural. An example appeared in the Observer on 12 October 2008: “Britain has more national house price indices than any other country — and they have seldom varied so much in their analysis.” Despite Bryan Garner’s comment in his Modern American Usage that indices is pretentious and highfalutin, this technical plural form is well established and unlikely to fall out of use any time soon.
But it’s the only situation in which it’s found. The usual plural is indexes, which first appeared in the seventeenth century. If you’re talking about several of the sort in books, for example, that’s the right one to use. Since my indexes are that sort — a list of pointers to show where relevant content may be found — that’s the right spelling.
By the way, people sometimes think indices is an English plural and so make a singular noun indice from it (apice, matrice and vertice are also occasionally seen, created in the same way). Examples of indice can be found going back a century or more and not always in uneducated writing by any means. Charles Doyle contributed one in a note that appeared in the Winter 1979 issue of American Speech: “At a recent academic gathering, a literary savant began his speech with a quotation that spoke of certain indices. Thereafter, at least a dozen times, the speaker referred to this or that indice (ending like jaundice).” It also appeared in the Washington Post on 22 August 2008: “Yet as an indice of some of the lines of attack that the McCain camp is employing it is of great interest.” Thus does language change ...
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You see the problem is we got dudes today who come on here an post they feelins bout God, God is man made blah blah shit stain drawers..... Then you got the young kids who think they life is bad an insist there is no God, they will follow this person's veiws because they feel "if there was a God I wouldn't be sufferin. "For anythin to exist so must its opposite how could there be death if somethin never knew life" there is false prophets who spread this shit round an it was written in the bible this would happen an it is happenin more then it ever has. Some of you might laugh at what I say an present your evidence an say "Good luck spendin ya life worshippin somethin that does not exist. But my answer to that is I can't prove God parted the sea for Moses or I can't prove there is somethin better for all of us believers. I done need to prove anythin cuz when I observe a beautiful sun as its setting no matter how bad my day went I realize God has blessed me wif a present, I done need proof, I have faith and even more then faith I feel God's presence and its somethin beautiful main. Prayin has helped me through some difficult shit.
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The Value of Open Standards
Tuesday, February 16. 2010
...or why HTML 5 will fail as replacement for Flash (at least for the next years).
But first let me make clear that I am not a fan of closed standards and closed source. I love Open Source and I use Open Source software wherever possible. However sometimes it's better if there is one instance that has the control not just over a format, but also about the interpreter and renderer.
With the announcement of Apples iPad a big discussion started regarding the non-existence of Flash on it. Steve Jobs responded. He claims that Apple won't support Flash since they claim it's buggy and responsible for a lot of crashes on Mac OS, but what really makes me upset is that sentence:
No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML 5.
Also in blogs postings that talk about this topic several people mention that HTML 5 will be the future and that no one needs Flash.
Bullshit! Will people never learn from the past?
The History of Problems With HTML
Some years ago CSS 2 was praised for being a solution to layout and styling nightmare we faced with HTML 3. But ever created a complex page with HTML 4 and CSS 2? And then tested it in different Browsers? If you did that and claim that you never had experienced difficulties due to different behaviors of different browser you're a liar. Because either your page was a really simple page or you had difficulties.
These problems are nothing new. They are existing since HTML 3 and became worse the more complex HTML got and especially since Microsoft did not care about the W3C standards and started to interpret HTML their own way. But also other browsers had their own behavior - intentionally or not. HTML designers are used to hefty workarounds to make a page look like it was intended in all browsers.
What about HTML 5?
A little excerpt from an article on Wired:
Opera and Safari have been pioneering HTML 5 support for some time, but Firefox and Google Chrome aren’t quite as far along with their HTML 5 support (although the coming Firefox 3.5 will close the gap considerably). Internet Explorer 8 is somewhat further behind, though it too incorporates a few HTML 5 features.
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Some thoughts of what could happen if that headline above could become a reality. Most probably you've already heard about Steve Jobs dislike of the Adobe Flash Player. A War that started when it was announced that the iPad will not support Flash and hi
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#1 Florian on 02/17/10 at 09:06 AM
*First of all, your post is a buzzword parade, I'm not, and never will be, interested in *anything* billed as "enterprisey ready", I have star trek next generation at home on DVD, thank you very much.
Testing, in general, should be an automated process, regardless weather you have to support one platform or many, and if it isn't, well, you know who to blame, yourself.
As to cross browser issues, I don't know what rock you've been living under, but those things got a *lot* better in the last couple of years, to the point where I can, (gasp), write a webpage, test it only on one browser, and it runs exactly how I want it on all major browsers (admittedly, if you've no clue whatsoever and no experience in html, and you don't know about the meaning of "don't use CSS/HTML hacks, ever!" then you might be out of luck).
Now in regards to your oh so shiny flash/flex wonderland. Let's face it pal, it sucks. It sucks because, well, I can't just sit down, bash out a couple of lines of text, be done, and have something that runs. It also sucks because it just fails at a couple of its core competencies (like playing back video, which is just mirred with so many issues I won't even begin to describe that train-wreck).
Now it's true, HTML won't supplant flash anytime soon. However, if you want to write RIA applications, you don't *have* to do that in a proprietary standard using convoluted tools. It's true, you won't get all of the vector niceties of flash, and you'll have to deal with the occasional cross browser issue, but these aren't killer issues anymore, they're not even major.
What I think gets you so rilled is that, despite all its messyness, and cross browser gotchas, and open standardyness, HTML is *actually* inching to a position where it takes on *some* of flashs core competencies, and consequentially, people use it for that. And I think that makes you scared, since you'd have to basically learn HTML now, of which you obviously do not have any clue.
#1.1 Alex on 02/17/10 at 09:18 AM
Very true, but the amount of effort required to write a nice UI that works across the majority browsers is enormous despite the likes of GWT - better to use something like Flex or JavaFX/Java which is designed for this kind of thing, rather than push the square peg into the round whole.
#1.1.1 Margery on 07/08/11 at 08:24 PM
*Whoever wrote this, you know how to make a good artlcie.
#2 Alex on 02/17/10 at 09:08 AM
*Nice post: the RIA part is often overlooked when it comes to these comparisons.
Indeed, building moderate to extremel complex UI's in HTML/CSS/JS is very hard work and not really what those tech's are designed for: I don't think the new Canvas tag will do much to resolve this either - but I could be totally wrong...
Personally, I think that HTML 5 will trundle along, and, like you pointed out, will have pot holes and surprises for all developers due to different companies implementing the spec slightly differently.
#3 SM on 02/17/10 at 11:50 AM
*Each technology has its advantages in certain types of tasks!
#4 Danny on 02/17/10 at 06:54 PM
*"Flash works well in linux"? It routinely gobbles up 100% of the CPU and only in the last year or so has solved the issue of the video and audio not being in sync.
No, flash on Linux sucks, even if it sucks less than it used to.
#4.1 Carsten Schlipf on 02/17/10 at 07:42 PM
*Hi Danny,
well, sure there are configurations on Linux, where Flash does not work properly. But I can assure you that I do not have any problems at all on various Linux systems for more than the last 2 years.
At least it's not as worse as Steve Jobs describes it for the Mac, where he claims that Flash can crash the whole system.
#5 Darren on 02/18/10 at 12:58 AM
*@Florian, all I can say is that your designs must be very simple if you code once and they work in all browsers from IE6 to Opera. And tell me how you do *automated* testing across IE6, IE7, IE8, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera on a Mac? I can sit down, bash out a few lines in Flex and it runs - yes, across all browsers, with built-in unit testing if I choose. Playing back video in Flash is a train-wreck? I've written a video annotation tool in Flex that works perfectly, thank you very much. Show me your cross-borwser, non-Flash solution then? Are you going to encode all your videos twice (Theora and h.264) and also offer a Flash fallback for IE? Let me know when you've written an app like Aviary in HTML/CSS/JS and I'll buy you a case of beer.
@Carsten, Steve Jobs didn't say that Flash could crash the whole system. That would be an admittance that OSX is a failure if a browser plugin could crash the entire OS. He was talking about figures from crash reports which are sent when programs (in this case Safari) need to be terminated prematurely. There's an argument that this represents an issue with Safari too - Flash can't bring down Chrome on Windows for example. I'm not looking forward to the world where all the crappy programmers are making their ads in HTML5 instead of Flash. Because it's the crappy programmers who are to blame, not Flash.
#5.1 Carsten Schlipf on 02/21/10 at 01:14 AM
*Hi Darren,
an excerpt from"
Well maybe he hasn't said that and the article does not reflect his words exactly. But as Jobs is quoted here, I understand that it's the system (Mac).
But well, you're right. I doubt that Flash can really bring down the whole system.
#6 venkatnarayan on 04/11/11 at 11:26 AM
*Great article. Apple is going to fall soon and that will be because of Steve Jobs and his ego.
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First look: Grant Morrison's 'Wonder Woman: Earth One' and 'Multiversity' comic books
With his run on "Action Comics" completed and and his time with Batman coming to a close, after he killed off Robin, comic book writer Grant Morrison is ready to talk about what's next. Morrison has not just one, but two new titles he's launching.
The first is "Wonder Woman: Earth One." The book features both Diana Prince/Wonder Woman and her mother, Queen Hippolyta, and is part of the "Earth One" graphic novel series. Morrison is writing the comic, while Yanick Paquette is drawing. As "Earth One" titles are released in graphic novel form, rather than s single issues, the new Wonder Woman title clocks in at 120 pages, according to Morrison.
In the artwork shown for "Wonder Woman: Earth One," Queen Hippolyta kills Hercules, the son of Zeus.
Morrison's other project is "Multiversity," which is a series that will run nine issues, focusing on different characters. The series allows Morrison to explore the various worlds in the DC Universe. One issue centers on the children of Batman, Superman and the like, which Morrison refers to as MTV's "The Hills" with superheroes. Another finds retired heroes from generations past taking place in battle reenactments.
That's not to say there aren't more serious tones, though. One issue deals with what Superman would have been like, had his spaceship landed in Nazi-occupied territory during World War II. "Imagine you're Superman and for the first 25 of your life you were working for Hitler," Morrison says, "And then you realize, 'Oh my god, it's Hitler!'" Morrison further explains, "Not only is he a Nazi Superman, he's a Nazi Superman that knows his entire society, though it looks utopian, was built on the bones of the dead. Ultimately it's wrong and it must be destroyed." The issue will see the caped hero going up against enemies he knows are right, as he comes to terms with the fact that the principles he was raised with are wrong.
The art released by Morrison and DC for "Multiversity" come from an issues titled "Thunderworld," which is based around the Captain Marvel character. He likened that issue to a Pixar cartoon, saying it's accessible to all ages.
The series will be book-ended by two issues that will tie everything together. Morrison is excited for "Multiversity," calling it his "magnum opus." At this point, there has been no release dates announced for "Wonder Woman: Earth One" or "Multiversty."
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Build your own high-performance video/photo editing PC ... for under $1,500 | ZDNet
Summary: Continuing my "Build your own" series, I'm going to follow on from building a Home Theater PC and today look at building a how to build a high-performance video/photo editing PC ... for under $1,500.
There are several requirements for a high-performance video/photo editing PC that differ from your average PC. In fact, even a high-performance gaming PC might not be ideally suited to photo and video editing.
Note: This is a bare-bones system so I'm not including peripherals (keyboard, mouse and monitor), OS or a case in the listing.
Here are my requirements:
• Fast (but not super-fast) CPU
• Lots of RAM
• Plenty of storage
• Fast storage
• Ability to burn CDs/DVDs/Blu-ray
OK, let's pull the parts we need together!
OK, I'm looking for power, but I don't want to pay crazy money for that power. For this design I've chosen an Intel Core i7 processor, but rather than blow nearly $1,000 on the 975 Extreme Edition, I've gone for the more modest 920.
The Core i7 920 is a 2.66GHz, quad core part that's built using 45nm architecture. Not only is it a quad core part, but each core is capable of handling two threads each.
This part is also supports Intel's Streaming SIMD Extension 4.1 (SSE 4.1)making it ideally suited to dealing with multimedia (such as video encoding and decoding).
Some downsides are that this CPU needs a specific motherboard (Socket LGA 1366) and DDR3 RAM, both of which add to the price of the system.
Price: $290
Next -->
OK, so we need a Socket LGA 1366 motherboard to pair with the Core i7 CPU. Given the availability of these boards now, this isn't a problem.
I've gone for the Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R for this build because it's a robust, high-performance and versatile board that's ideal for the kind of build we have in mind here.
It's a good board because it's already well set up out of the box, but has plenty of tweakability for those who like to tinker.
Price: $210
For this build we're going to need DDR3 RAM, and because this machine is going to be handling multimedia, let's make sure we have plenty of it.
You don't need super-fancy RAM, so I suggest that you go for Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600. 6GB (3 x 2GB) will set you back under $200. If you want to up the RAM to 12GB, grab two packs. (I've had reports in that this motherboard,this RAM and Windows 7 don't play well together when you have 12GB installed ... I'll look into that)
Price: $190
Hard drive
If you're going to be handling photos and video, you're going to need plenty of storage.
There are plenty of scope for choice here. You could choose solid-state hard drive if you have plenty of cash to spend, but that's only an option for those looking for a super-spendy system.
Another option is to use RAID to pull together two drives into a RAID 0 array. I like this but two drives doubles the chances of failure, and hand-holding RAID isn't for everyone.
Instead, I'm going to suggest two drives. One fast drive, and another high-capacity drive.
For the fast drive I'm recommending the Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB. This makes an excellent OS drive of a scratch disk for applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro. I'd suggest fitting two of these drives to the system.
For capacity, I'm recommending a Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB. Bags of storage, good reliability and a decent price.
Price: 2 x VelociRaptor 300GB @ $240 each | Caviar Green 2TB @ $190 (Total: $670)
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Graphics card
You don't want anything insane here. Leave the high-priced stuff to the gamers!
I recommend a Radeon HD 5750 with 1GB of GDDR5. This card offers all the power you need at a decent price.
Price: $160
Optical drives
A system like this needs at least two optical drives.
First, a regular DVD burner to act as a workhorse drive. My current favorite is the LG GH24NS50, which is cheap and cheerful.
Then you need a drive that can handle all formats including Blu-ray. A good drive for this is the LG WH10LS30K.
Price: LG GH24NS50 (DVD) @ $25 | LG WH10LS30K (Blu-ray) @ $170 (Total: $195)
Power Supply Unit
For this build you need a nice mid-range PSU that's efficient, reliable and provides ample power. The Antec EarthWatts 650W PSU is ideal.
Price: $70
Total price: $1,495
Add to this:
• 64-bit OS (Windows 7, Linux ...)
• Chassis
• Peripherals
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• Blu-Ray
I'm wondering... How is Blu-Ray on the PC? Decent? Any noticeable differences than DVD?
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• DRM: Avoid like the plague
• Yawn
A real platform with a program like Any DVD can take care of the DRM. Back up your movies and play any kind of DVD with any hardware no sweat. One of the best programs I have.
• Very nice.
Blu-ray looks more like you're standing in front of the scene looking at it with your eyes than looking at some pixelated computed garbage (dvd). If you go to blu-ray.com, in the forums, they have a screenshot thread so you can look at how different blu-rays look and so on, and you can see screen shots in many blu-ray reviews on different sites. But in motion it is really a sight to behold over the regular dvd. Well worth it, if you have some favorite movies you watch again and again (and those movies are out on blu-ray). You'll need a HDCP vid card and monitor, nvidia drivers tell you if you are OK here, don't know about ATI.
• Thanks
Already have an HDCP card (GeForce 260). Just no Blu-Ray player (Yet). Haha.
I just didn't know if it would be worth it on smaller monitors. Mines a 20 inch.
The one and only, Cylon Centurion
• Slysoft is cheaper than a a new monitor.
Any DVD rules.
• You missed something
If you're looking to edit video (and I don't mean Youtube clips strung together in Windows Movie Maker or Pinnacle Studio), there are graphics cards specifically built for this purpose. Additionally, most third party plugins for Premiere and Avid are GPU accelerated, so putting money into a video card designed to handle it is a worthwhile investment.
nVidia has their ecosystem using QuadroFX cards with third party certified software (http://www.nvidia.com/object/builtforadobepros_plugins.html; the site is oddly flaky). Another popular one is Matrox (http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/rtx2/), which vertically integrates an analog capture interface, real-time effects processor, and first-party software plugins.
Both are designed to accelerate MPEG-4 compression. Depending on one's needs, the nVidia solution boasts more flexible compatibility (virtually every software plugin available supports DirectX/OpenGL acceleration) and is less expensive (well, depending on which card and how many third party plugins you get), but the Matrox offering provides a vertical solution and an analog capture card.
Yes, I am fully aware that I am splitting hairs a bit and that either solution will blow the $1,500 price tag out of the water, but it's an important consideration. Additionally, a RAID-5 array of drives could serve the purposes of a single mega-storage drive; it provides the added bonuses of fault tolerance and being able to keep up on sustained analog captures.
• Video encoding is moving to the GPU.
While the current offering from ATI (AMD) has some issues its AVIVO technology for encoding is VERY fast. Faster than just about anything I've seen. (Assuming you have a mid to higher end video card.) I fully expect thier product to see significant improvements in the short term and in the longer term I expect to see other applications push video encoding to the GPU.
• Video encoding is moving to the GPU
I use TMPGEnc and Baddaboomit with my GTX 285 video card. I'll take on any new $1000+ CPU and crush it!
• Slap that puppy together Adi and we'll take it for a spin!
Yes? Yes!........ ;)
• $1600 AMD v2.0 setup (includes case & os)
[edit] Fixed to fit in the $1600 range
$566.96 -- HIS Radeon HD 5850 1GB
^combo -- 8GB OCZ Gold DDR3 RAM
^combo -- GIGABYTE GA-790XTA-UD4 AM3 790X w/ USB 3.0
$179.99 -- AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE 3.4 GHz
$149.98 -- Thermaltake Xaser VI Full Tower Case
^combo -- Thermaltake W0319RU 850W 80 Plus Modular PSU
$159.99 -- 2TB Samsung Spinpoint F3EG w/ $20 instant rebate
$129.99 -- 40GB Intel X25-V SSD Drive
$99.99 -- SilverStone HDD Boost (turns SSD into 40GB HDD cache)
$190.00 -- Blu-Ray and DVD drive (mentioned in article)
$1631.15 after tax, shipping, & $75 in MIRs.
If you shopped around, you could probably get some this on Amazon or similar retailer to save $100 or so by avoiding tax.
• Windows tax
You mentioned Windows OS but didn't list the actual "tax" for it.
Windows 7 Home Premium is $180 on amazon.com.
And of course, one needs video/photo editing software to make it truly a
"video/photo editing PC".
What would you suggest?
• I agree, the PC is useless without OS and software
The risk is that this "el cheapo" PC will not be so cheap once it's brought to a state in which it can be truly useful for the tasks he mentioned.
An iMac starts at $1199.
A Mac Pro starts at $2499.
• What Tax?
I build the new system, take my OS from the old system I won't be using any longer (because I have the new system) and so what tax are you talking about?
The OS is bought and paid for, so I'm not charged for it again, so it's "free".
John Zern
• Better reread your ULA
Unfortunately what you just stated generally is not true. If you had an OEM copy, you cannot move it to another motherboard, period.
If you had a box retail version, you can move it once. But not again after that. This applies to Vista and 7.
• No... not exactly.
[i]If you had a box retail version, you can move it once. But not again after that. [/i]
From that EULA you spoke of:
a. [b]Software Other than Windows Anytime Upgrade.[/b] You may uninstall the software and
b. [b]Windows Anytime Upgrade Software. The first user of the software may reassign the
license to another device one time[/b], but only if the license terms of the software you upgraded from allows reassignment.
So yes, if you have a [b]retail box[/b], you can move the install as many times as you want... but not with the Anytime Upgrade.
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• Don't be silly - everyone knows you can only do video editing on a Mac :)
Sorry - could't resist. :)
Good and very useful article.
• Disagree, as long ago I realized that
the sum of bleeding edge components doesn't imply a
bleeding edge system; in such systems usually I've spend
more time making it to work, instead of only using it.
Much more reliable would be go for a branded workstation.
• The problem with mainstream brands
is that hardware vendors don't put near as much effort into making the system "work" as they do into cutting costs. We've bought and discarded high-end models from both HP and Dell because while they looked good on the order menu, internally they had design issues where the vendor scrimped on some key item like memory or motherboard. So you end up with exactly the situation you described, a bleeding-edge set of components that are not well-balanced. And things like RAID arrays on a desktop workstation? Forget it, both Dell and HP support were clueless.
So we work with a local supplier who integrate and test high-end workstations for us. These guys know our environment and software, and they do a great job at making sure we get what we pay for.
We still use HP and Lenovo for laptops, because there isn't really an alternative, but anybody who buys performance desktops from a mainstream vendor (in less than 1K quantities) is doing their users a disservice.
terry flores
• Ya. Why get only one year warranties...
...on hardware from system builders when the component manufacturers will give you three years when you buy your parts from them. Cost me $70(Canadian Pesos) for the shop down the street to slap it all together.
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Add Network Connections Shortcut in Windows 7 Desktop
March 11, 2010 | Filed under Windows 7
It could get annoying if you have a laptop and constantly needs to change your network settings everyday when you go to work and comes back home because the network configurations are different. There are many ways to get to the Network Connections place to manage your Local Area Connection or Wireless Network Connection. First method is to right click on the network icon at system tray, select Open Network and Sharing Center, then click change adapter settings at the left pane. Then another way is to go to Control Panel and then type net at the search box at the top right and click View network connections that appears on the list. Another way is to type ncpa.cpl at the Run window or Search programs and files bar.
Windows 7 Network Connections Shortcut
The easiest way to access Network Connections is just to put a shortut in Windows 7 desktop so you can just double click on it to and instantly access the Network Connections without typing anything or going through multiple clicks.
First method is right click on desktop, go to New and select Shortcut. Type ncpa.cpl in the box and click Next. Finally name the shortcut to Network Connection and click Finish.
Second method is to also right click on desktop, go to New and select Shortcut. Type the following line to the box explorer.exe ::{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E} and click Next. Name the shortcut as Network Connection and click Finish.
The second method has an icon by default but the first method doesn’t. You can always change the icons by right clicking on the shortcut, select Properties, click the Change Icon button and select the icons that is available.
One Response to “Add Network Connections Shortcut in Windows 7 Desktop”
1. Joseph says:
well thanks for showing how to create a Network Connection, DT SC.!
[why they never supplied R/C?]
NOW, after it comes up, there are the dozens Available ones, duh; no Right Click; Create Short cut there either..
If there is a way to do this, have a DT SC for our modem, please email me.
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• by mikael_j (106439) on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @09:35AM (#34172674)
Because you don't live in the very small section of the world where Spotify is allowed [wikipedia.org]? Also, LimeWire is GPL where as Spotify is proprietary (what are they storing about you?).
Us europeans will stop pretending Spotify is available everywhere when all the americans realize that those of us over here can't download TV shows through the iTunes store and that Hulu blocks access as well (well, there are always US iTunes accounts and proxies but it's a serious PITA).
• Re:Why (Score:3, Informative)
by zach_the_lizard (1317619) on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @09:57AM (#34172914)
My cousin uses limewire. How do I know? I was called in to remove the layers of viruses, Trojans, and rootkits from the machine. As soon as I saw that Limewire was on the machine, I knew this was a lost cause.
• Re:Why (Score:5, Informative)
by MBGMorden (803437) on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @10:30AM (#34173354)
True, but some trackers will not allow you to seed more than a certain number of torrents before it stops accepting connections from you. I've had this happen several times before when all my torrents went dead for a few days until I noticed that the tracker was sending back a "Too many torrents" error message. Pruning the list of active torrents a bit returned it to normal.
Also, I'm not sure how true this is for other people, but for me, most files in torrents have an abhorrent naming convention, and just going into my giant default "Bittorrent Downloads" directory doesn't work well. Most stuff I'm going to rename and move to a more organized directory structure within a few days of download.
Don't get me wrong, I still use Bittorrent more than anything, but for older or less popular files, I often find them on the ED2k network via aMule. Downloads are like molasses, but sometimes that's ok depending on what you're trying to find.
• Re:Limewire??? (Score:2, Informative)
by tehcyder (746570) on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @11:38AM (#34174332) Journal
Well (a) you have to pay for the full spotify service, the free version is limited in the amount of time you can listen and has ads, and (b) there are other things than music that people download (movies, programs...)
• by br00tus (528477) on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @11:57AM (#34174558)
Limewire is written in Java, meaning it is portable. Limewire can download via a Bittorrent mesh of pieces, and it can also download via a Gnutella mesh of pieces, with Gnutella often able to use Tigertree hashes. So you have the best of both worlds.
I don't see what has come out that surpasses Limewire. Bittorrent is dependent on a web page for searching for files and for finding peers. DHT and Peer Exchange help in this somewhat. Bittorrent is also dependent on web pages in searching for files. Tribler, Cubit and Torrent Exchange are attempts to solve this, but nothing has come out that deals with this, while it has been OK from day one with Gnutella. Gnutella is fundamentally peer-to-peer and extensible. If something better has replaced Limewire I haven't heard of it.
• by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @02:42PM (#34176852)
musicians make music because they love music. they do it for that reward alone. any money beyond that fact is just icing on the cake. no one goes into music saying "i have to generate a positive net cash flow in the third quarter." no one writes songs like that, well, no songs you want to listen to anyways...
I seem to remember an interview someplace with the members of Kiss where they said they did it to make money and bag babes.
Oh wait you are talking about musicians and making music. So sorry... nevermind.
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Wikileaks Aiding Snowden - Chinese Social Media Divided - Relations Strained
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• Focus on the NSA (Score:1, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 24, 2013 @09:00AM (#44091325)
I wish they'd go after the NSA with as much fervor. But I guess it's easier to punish an individual.
Also.. With America 'not prying into the lives of it's own citizens', and the UK doing pretty much the same. Doesn't anybody see that they can 'share intelligence' and get the whole picture without having to break the rules?
UK: Oops, seem I picked up all of the emails any US citizen ever send in my spying bureau. Here you go US, a copy. Do you have the copy of all the UK people's communication with you?
Again, the witch hunt after Snowden is just to distract from the main issues.
• Vietnam (Score:4, Interesting)
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• by surmak (1238244) on Monday June 24, 2013 @09:30AM (#44091621)
Not surprising at all. The flighpath from Moscow to Havana goes over Western Europe, and I would not be surprised if the plane would be unable to get the airspace clearance to complete its planned flight. Another risk is that the plane may be forced to make an unscheduled landing in a country that has a better extradition relationship with that US than China or Russia does.
• by sageres (561626) on Monday June 24, 2013 @09:36AM (#44091677)
It is my personal opinion that Snowden (and even Assange) will only be safe as long as Correa is in power in Quinto.
But as a history of Equador (and frankly entire Latin America) predicts from the past -- it will not be too long before the power will change due to hunta (as 1972-1979), or removal from the office (like Abdalá Bucaram) or a continues power struggle (Rosalía Arteaga / Fabián Alarcón).
Either way, Equadorian history predicts that the next government will be pro-American.
• by MaWeiTao (908546) on Monday June 24, 2013 @09:42AM (#44091743)
If you actually lived in any random European country I doubt you'd be making that claim. I know quite a few people who DO live in a number of European countries and they'd disagree with you. Not that it's necessarily worse than the US, but it's definitely no better.
• by xelah (176252) on Monday June 24, 2013 @09:50AM (#44091827)
In any case, no country is actually obliged to require a visa or passport. The US cancelling his passport isn't an instruction to Russia not to let him in (and I'm sure Russia would absolutely love to ignore a US instruction anyway). After all, Russian border control is no business of the US. It's not like he needs a passport to prove who he is or where he's from anyway.
• One law for all (Score:5, Interesting)
by Roger W Moore (538166) on Monday June 24, 2013 @09:52AM (#44091855) Journal
Preferably, those liberties should extend to immigrants as well as natives.
The US is the only place I have ever been where that is apparently not the case. I was quite shocked to hear politicians and government officials on the news at one point explaining that the protections of the US constitution did not apply for foreigners in the US. While it is understandable that things like voting and extended habitation rights do depend on citizenship laws concerning the rights of someone accused of a crime, or freedom of speech have to be the same for everyone - it's fundamental to justice. They are called human, not US citizen, rights for a reason.
• by Andover Chick (1859494) on Monday June 24, 2013 @10:03AM (#44091979)
How wonderful China and Russia are aiding Snowden! Both countries are obviously homes to all forms of freedom of expression. As a citizen of China and Russia you can always voice your opinion against the government without worry of incrimination. If you see corruption in the Russian government or brutality against gays then write it about online or in a newspaper. If you think China is oppressing dissidents or sentencing citizens to the death penalty for minor offenses the just tweet about it. That is how truly free those countries are. No need to fear the FSB, Black Dolphin, or MSS. These are happy places full of smiling, jolly police and intelligence officials who welcome criticism.
• by Yomers (863527) on Monday June 24, 2013 @10:12AM (#44092115) Journal
"All crows are black"
• by Clsid (564627) on Monday June 24, 2013 @10:25AM (#44092231)
Hmm, I don't know, Europe has a lot of good things but I do consider racism is less of an issue in the US, especially the east coast than what some friends of me had to endure in the Netherlands, Spain and Germany. They are wonderful countries but talk to any immigrant that does not look European and that knows both sides of the pond. I guarantee you most responses will favor the US.
• by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 24, 2013 @05:08PM (#44096225)
citation needed - if you're not in the US, how is it illegal for NSA to spy on you? what law is that breaking?
Citation. [google.com] It would be illegal if it violates the laws of that nation. I'm sorry I don't know what specific law of, say, Germany it would be violating. I'm not that familiar with German law. But it appears that if the NSA gets your personal information by forcing and gagging Apple and such to turn over said information, it would violate their laws.
Furthermore, if I myself am abroad and the NSA spies on me, that's illegal because I don't magically give up my 4th admendment rights and they are not allowed to spy on me. You know, cause I'm a citizen of the USA. This thing they have where they're allowed to make a judgement call about my foreignness is pretty much bullshit. And the fact that we allow them to spy on foreigners is really only due to an interpretation of the constitution that those rights only apply to US citizens. It really only declares that it applies to "the people". That's not so cool and makes for these sort of glaring loopholes where they can simply claim "we thought he was a foreigner".
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World Social Forum 2004
The fourth annual World Social Forum was, for the first time, held in a different location from Porto Alegre, Brazil, its usual home. But it wasn’t just the location that was different — the city of Mumbai, this year’s location, was of an entirely different magnitude. Mumbai is home to more than ten million inhabitants and was a bold but necessary experiment, away from the safe havens of the clean and orderly Porto Alegre. Mumbai is overcrowded, poverty-stricken, polluted, and crime-ridden. One prominent Indian figure frequently featured at WSF events, expressed last year that moving the WSF to India was a bad idea. Corrupt and nationalist politicians may subvert the process and Mumbai was not as hospitable to progressive social ideas like Porto Alegre. As far as I could tell, that did not quite happen. But the organizers had less than a year to put on the massive event and lacked the advantage of experience.
Mumbai was a Step in the Right Direction
And yet, in my opinion, the World Social Forum was an overwhelming success. There were certainly some problems, but the WSF’s ever-growing attendance managed to converge inside the dusty compound of the NESCO grounds in Goregaon, and found ways to cross pollinate ideas.
Better organized:
Last year’s WSF in Porto Alegre, despite being better funded and having had the benefit of two years prior experience, had a very poorly organized schedule with rooms and speakers being double booked or not making it onto the schedule entirely. In Mumbai, however, rooms were where they were supposed to be, events were scheduled properly and speakers mostly showed up. This was an Herculean accomplishment.
Better Represented:
In Porto Alegre a large number of the delegates were poor peasant farmers and indigenous peoples. But in Mumbai, at least via a cursory and probably subjective view, the majority of the delegates from poorer sectors of society was even greater. There were large numbers of Dalits and Adivasis, women, farmers and other rural workers, raging in the streets of the NESCO grounds chanting their slogans in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and other languages.
More Culturally Expressive:
In Porto Alegre the cultural expressions of people’s politics was an important component. But in Mumbai, the WSF was bursting with rich, passionate cultural traditions, refashioned to express current political ideologies. Every one of the various outdoor stages was constantly filled with diverse groups of performers. Every lane was occupied at all hours with demonstrations of dancers, drummers, and singers carrying their banners. Cultural expression was the very life blood of the South Asian movements that were present.
Closer to Reality:
In Porto Alegre, the very real poverty of Brazil was out of sight. It was easy to discuss creating a new world away from the inconvenient stares of the dispossessed on every street corner. But in Mumbai, the reality of the “Third World†festered just outside the walls of the forum. Mumbai’s undeniable poverty clarified the urgent context of our work. Yes, it was horribly difficult. It was smelly and filthy and beggars tugged at our sleeves and followed us around constantly… and we need to get used to it. We have to face the ugliness of this world in order to change it.
Accessible to a Different Set of Movements:
In Porto Alegre, Brazilians and other South Americans were the largest proportion of delegates for three years in a row because of obvious geographic proximity. But in Mumbai, Indians and other South Asians were the largest proportion of delegates – there were tens of thousands of people who couldn’t afford the airfare to Brazil and wherever else the WSF goes in the future. South Asian political movements and activists from the rest of the world were finally introduced to one another. And hopefully, in two years, the same opportunity will be available to African or East Asian movements depending on where the WSF heads.
How can we Make the Forums more Effective?
The World Social Forum has come a long way and moving to Mumbai, India only improved it. But, this essay would be incomplete without a set of critiques of the WSF in general. If we are to build a better world, the very process by which we begin a dialogue on a new world has to be under constant scrutiny. So here goes:
Sponsor fewer “Starsâ€:
In the last two years that I attended the WSF, an obvious feature of this “space†(that isn’t supposed to be a conference I’m told), was that it was designed quite like a conference. Despite the large numbers of small, self-organized events, the huge, grand plenary sessions with left-wing superstars such as Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Jose Bove, Nawl El Sadaawi, and many many others, were center-stage. These huge plenaries inevitably overwhelmed the self-organized events. And in fact, one speaker told me that she would never have come to the WSF had they not paid her way. The large number of high profile speakers is a financial drain on the WSF that could be better used to provide facilities for the general attendees. Is it necessary for the world we want, to heap privilege on a chosen few? I imagine the logic of superstar speakers is to attract large numbers of people to register for the WSF so they can hear from their favorite writers and thinkers. So why not have fewer key plenary sessions, with just a handful of high profile speakers, but completely different ones each year? The most committed high-profile speakers who are also activists interested in hearing what others have to say, will make their own arrangements to attend — like the rest of us.
Emphasize Solutions, Not Ills:
At the World Social Forum we gather to envision and create another world. We are not there to protest World Bank elites or George Bush-like tyrants. Most people present are politically educated and organized and benefit little from hearing about the destructive nature of corporate globalization. Even the details are fairly unimportant (one can pass out flyers or announce websites to disseminate information). I came to the WSF to hear how activists in their diverse communities are winning their fight and what strategies and ideologies they are employing in that fight, so that I may learn how to apply it to my organizing. I suspect most delegates would benefit from an emphasis on ideas and solutions rather than lectures and rhetoric. Unfortunately I heard much more of the latter at the last two WSFs.
Design a Better Translation System:
It is imperative that while we are globalizing our struggle to remake the world, we figure out how to talk to one another via our various languages. The solution cannot be for all to learn a single language such as Spanish or English (like a business school graduate learns Chinese or Arabic to better serve their capitalist career). I heard the interpreters at the last WSF announce that they were working on designing a complex system of translation for WSFs to come. I await that technology with impatience and laud the interpreters for their important work and vision. Much precious time was wasted in attempts at translating between all our languages of choice at the forums. And even more time, in my opinion, wasted on some speakers decrying the use of English to communicate as English is a colonial language (so is French, Spanish and pretty much every other modern language – language use should be judged by accessibility, not history).
Adopt Specific Goals, But Democratically:
One common complaint against the WSF is that it is too vague, not focusing on any goals, not willing to take stands on anything. While I initially agreed with the importance of having an open space, I think it is a mistake for us to not harness the energy and power of our ever-growing, ever-globalized movements. Another critique is that decision making at the WSF needs to be more democratic and transparent. I was pleasantly surprised to read that the World Social Forum decided to endorse the March 20th march against the occupation of Iraq and take a specific stand on an issue of global importance. However, I have no idea how that decision was reached and who exactly made the decision — and that is disturbing. Delegates like me read about the decision to back the March 20th event in the headline of an article in Terra Viva, the daily WSF newspaper. What if at each WSF, delegates picked a small set of goals for the year from a series of short proposals submitted by other delegates, published in the schedule? Delegates could potentially cast votes at the end of the forum and decide, to varying degrees, to tackle one or two issues that year before the next WSF.
This critique of the World Social Forum is written in a spirit of excitement over our growing global movement. And the forums are a yearly message to the elites of the world – that we have power and it is growing every year.
Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and co-producer of Uprising, a daily morning public affairs program on KPFK Pacifica Radio, Los Angeles.
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SECONDE CHAMBRE introduction (FRA)
SECONDE CHAMBRE -lord brain , 1985 *
SECONDE CHAMBRE - selftitled , 1986 #
COMPLOT BRONSWICK, MINIMAL COMPACT, DAZIBAO, and of course MECANO are some of the names come in my mind listening to these two albums (there must be a third LP also) of SECONDE CHAMBRE, a cold wave, guitar-bass-drums outfit which have given some fine moments to the genre. Sharp-heavy sound, indie-industrial-dark directions and the distinctive "french" melancholy...
Sampling few tracks from each album looks like a good idea for introducing this band... but ones interested in the whole, they can ask for it, via our email adress only.
sampler`s tracklist:
01Therese Neumann*
02.Ton Regard*
04.Nuits Claires#
05.Le Miel D`Hier#
06.Compte a Rebours#
(approx time 24 min)
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noisepress said...
i'm really interested to hear more
from Seconde Chambre.
thank you much for all good sounds that you share!
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Matt Lauer: Can KSM's "Tortured" Testimony be Trusted?
Current CNN Poll:
As far as I know, this is the first MSM news source to question the confession. Let's see if any other MSM commentators pick up on this. Of course, KSM may be dead. And he might have been a patsy and an asset. Or he might never have confessed, since we have only the Pentagon's word for it, and KSM's statements supposedly came through a military spokesman. But Lauer's questions about torture will hopefully be the first crack in this Pentagon psyops campaign.
Update: Reprehensor points out that KSM says he made false statements due to torture, and that his witness requests were not granted. And Prisonplanet has an absolutely hilarious take on the KSM confession story.
Raw Story's got the goods
On Thursday, NBC's Today show explored whether the confessions of alleged 9/11 'mastermind' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed can be trusted since he claimed to have been tortured after being detained.
"Let's talk about the issue of torture," NBC's Matt Lauer said. "He says in his statement that he didn't make this statement under duress or pressure, but he does also say that he was tortured by the CIA after his capture."
Last September, CIA sources told ABC News that the harshest technique they were authorized to use on "high-value detainees, such as the 9/11 attacks architect Khalid Sheikh Mohamed...was called 'water boarding,' in which a prisoner's face was covered with cellophane, and water is poured over it (pictured above) -- meant to trigger an unbearable gag reflex."
Brian Ross and Richard Esposito reported for ABC's The Blotter that "new rules issued by the Pentagon today prohibit water boarding, though there was no clear acknowledgement that it was permitted previously," and that "CIA officers told ABC News that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed lasted the longest under water boarding, two and a half minutes, before beginning to talk."
Lauer notes that "this is a subject" that he discussed during a September of 2006 interview with President Bush, in which he asked, "I mean, if, in fact, there was water boarding used with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and for the viewers, that’s basically when you strap someone to a board and you make them feel as if they’re going to drown by putting them underwater, if that was legal and within the law, why couldn’t you do it at Guantanamo? Why did you have to go to a secret location around the world?"
"I’m not going to talk about techniques," Bush responded to Lauer in September. "And, I’m not going explain to the enemy what we’re doing. All I’m telling you is that you’ve asked me whether or not we’re doing things to protect the American people, and I want the American people to know we are doing so."
Lauer wondered "how credible" was "the laundry list of targets" named by Mohammed if they were named after he had been water boarded: "Won't you kind of spew out all kinds of locations just to make it stop?"
NBC News terrorism analyst Roger Cressey said that's always a concern when "rather invasive techniques" are used.
The Raw Story article also contains a video clip from NBC's Today Show.
KSM was THE source for most of the claims in the 9/11 OCT report
so this is really not a new issue--the 9/11 commission report is basically a summary of his "testimony". Now it's being brought out again in the form of a military tribunal show trial. Except that they probably won't show us much at all...
sigh, what a joke this all is...
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911 Truth Surge
I think it is all a distraction from the snowball growing and presently about to roll over Gonzalez, or, it is related to this brand new 911 Truth Video which slams the Bush Administration hard.
Truth Surge
CNN Poll as of 7:40pm EDT
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Torture and False statements.
The new way. True, false, no matter. Here's your script. Say it.
Calling on Guantanamo military personnel...
We need eyewitness reports on what actually happened in that court room.
The fellow probably spoke in Urdu, since he is Pakistani, and in that case (or if it were Pushtu or Dari or whatever) he'd need a translator.
I would not be too surprised if military personnel at Gitmo might visit this blog, and read this story along with these very comments.
If anyone reading this knows the translator, please get a report on what actually happened. Write it up. Submit it here. Your identity will be safe, since most of us use userids anyway.
does anyone have the link to
does anyone have the link to that CNN poll?
It's still up on cnn's homepage.
too little too late
Way to go Lauer. Where were you and every OTHER member of the mainstream media during every major world-changing event for the last six years?
given that we know CNN to be, um, not so trustworthy
What should we make of this seeming admission that this is not exactly credible? Are they preparing the ground for more skepticism (having given up on the coverup?) Are they floating a trial balloon for the powers that be to see what they're up against?
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CNN Polls seem to be usually honest...
The one that always seem dodgy are the AOL Polls (aka Diebold Internet Voting Corp)
That's my observation anyway.
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Something just struck me
Something just struck me about the wording of the poll that I didn't notice before. The question is "Do you believe all of the claims ALLEGEDLY made by accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?" Allegedly? CNN seems to imply that the whole confession may be fake. Very interesting.
Confessions that spring from
Confessions that spring from illegal detentions in prison facilities that are known to be hotbeds of torture should be dismissed on those grounds alone.
I'm glad to see people aren't buying Muhammed's "confession". I guess it just goes to show how desperate the Bushies have become that they would release such an obvious piece of disinfo...
yeah, what else have they got at this point?
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KSM arresting mystery
This is a webarchive article the Sunday Times of London don't want you to know:
Was Khalid arrested where the FBI said he was?
Inside the villa in Rawalpindi where police say they arrested Khalid, an old woman sobbed gently, shoulders shaking, as she gathered a black shawl around her head and across her mouth and nose so that only her eyes were visible, writes Christina Lamb.
The Qadoos family point to the photo of Khalid released by Pakistani authorities, purportedly showing him under arrest in the house, looking fat and dazed in a baggy vest as he stands against a wall of peeling paint. A thorough search of the house shows there is no such wall.
Courtesy The Sunday Times.
The direct links are dead or new written, the webarchiv of the Sunday Times link is dead thanks to a robtot.txt
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Nigeria: Soyinka in the Forest of Olodumare
Heart-warming is the news of the completion of yet another English translation of the novels of the late Yoruba writer, D. O. Fagunwa by no less than the author of his very first translation, Wole Soyinka. Good news because, Fagunwa is not an easy writer to translate, especially knowing that translating his peculiarly flavorous style of narration demands much more than stringing words together in a new lingual surrounding. What needs to come with the baggage must include the appropriate sounding of the speech in its original form, otherwise words may travel with the translator to his target language environment but leaving much behind. And what blatantly refuses or resists relocation would sometimes differ from narrative to narrative.
In the immediate work under reference, there are long sentential structures over-laden with similes. In Irinkerindo, translated by the writer, there is the deliberate or what I tried elsewhere to describe as Fagunwa's insistence on a keen farcical edge.
In Ogboju Ode first of all, and also in the rest of the Yoruba writer's fictional engagements, there is the phonaesthetic, the drumming with words; a rendering which sounds quite apt in its own natural tonal settings but dithers, disobeys the aural pattern in a different linguistic universe.
Soyinka describes an element of this as a matching of sound and action. His strategy in that first translation was to look for auxiliaries where the translator felt they served the essential purpose better than their exact English equivalents.
In other words, no one would approach Fagunwa with the mind of translating him without ensuring that he sounds right in the English text, and that takes quite a lot. In my own case, I translated one passage at a time, then read over and over to friends who had been familiar with the Yoruba text to see how they fared, thereby revising and revising until something nearly close was approached.
What a lot of critics who slammed Soyinka over the first of Fagunwa's trilogy failed to realise was that, translating Fagunwa is like translating no other. It is partly a business of adapting, of appropriating, of multiple if not desperate attempts at encapsulating; a complete creative voyage, which was why they complained that there was too much of the translator in the work, without recognising how much we owe to Soyinka's pioneering effort. It is the reason that there have been rare translations of Fagunwa, which I suspect is not the same as a few attempts at Fagunwa. It is just that, only a few amassed the confidence to approach completion. I mean, of what value would be a translation attempted by a scholarly mind that produces a clinical prose which leaves behind all the flavouring of the original mode of speech?
It may sound excessive to say, but statistically evident based on proof of a very low turn-out of translations in this milieu: regular theories about translation, devised on the experience of translating mostly from one European language to another, do not apply to the experience of Yoruba translations. The creative and intellectual contribution from the translator, without attempting to diminish the original author in any way, far outweighs what goes into their trans-European language counterparts. The former is more densely collaborative, creatively participatory than in the latter. I wonder how long it would take to have that well-acknowledged master of children's stories, J. F. Odunjo, translated into English, in spite of the deceptive lucidity of their richly succinct tales, moded for imparting moral education to the young.
The translator's decision to retain Yoruba names of towns, spirit personages etc coined by Fagunwa was made I believe in recognition of the fact that, a significant readership of the translation would be speakers of the Yoruba language who seek to experience the same text they have been familiar with in its new form. Next to those are the Yoruba-born speakers who are not good readers of the language and others of the diaspora with very scant knowledge of their mother-tongue. Moreover, there is a feeling that the original - names, pseudonyms and terminologies - evokes that tempts their retention in the new rendition. Soyinka of course introduces his translations of such, often in elucidatory terms, in a bid to drive as close as possible to their original aesthetic delights.
I will like to bear witness that no choice, however close to the original, is ever completely satisfactory. The translation of many expressions, even as delicately and deftly as they've been given by Soyinka from his enormous pouch of English words and expressions, still leaves the translator and his readers who have a knowledge of both languages with the feeling that something somehow has been lost to translation. In this translation of Igbo Olodumare, I particularly enjoy the translation of such expressions as "The Forest of the Lord of Deities" for "Igbo Olodumare"; "Akara-ogun, the man wedded to food to the gates of death" for "Akara-ogun, Abolonje ku"; "minnows of the air" for "alapandede"; "python of rage" for "ojola ibinu"; "The Forest of Impenetrable Silence" for "Igbo Idakeroro"; "Tiny Fiend of the Border" for "Esu-kekere-ode" etc.
In Fagunwa's novels, names are not just names, but are indicative of character, suggestive about the nature of the person, from the human type to the otherworldly. Names evoke interest in the character well in advance and through speech and deed, they eventually fulfil their call. The Tiny Fiend of the Border is one such example, a malevolent being who solely inhabits an entire forest. His home in the Forest of Impenetrable Silence is a habitation to no other than himself because of the fierceness of his temperament. The description preceding his manifestation and the voice of his speech are typical of how Fagunwa creates some of his most gripping narratives.
Esu-kekere-ode meets the hero whose unwelcome presence is greeted with contempt and seen as a real affront. He gives the following address: "Who are you? What are you? What are you worth? Of what are you made? How are you rated? What do you seek? What do you want? What are you looking for? What do you see? What's is in your head? Where do you call home? What earth do you tread answer me? Surely you have courted trouble this day. You have climbed the tree beyond its branches, you have fallen from a great height into a well, you have heedlessly swallowed poison, you saw an overcrowded farm yet proceeded to plant groundnuts in it! You untutored man, you know that the lion and the antelope cannot set eyes on each other, that the leopard and cattle can never be friends, even as the day when the cat glimpses the mouse is the day the mouse's existence ends. You saw me, I saw you, I approached you approached, you did not commence a rapid dialogue with your legs, rather you swaggered towards me in disrespect. You mean you are not struck with fear? Your heart did not leap out in fight? Have you never heard of me? Never heard people speak of me? The skulls of those greater than you have served me for a cooking pot, their bones littering the corner of my room, the rib cages of such unteachable ones serve as stools within my house..."
Any wonder Fagunwa is such a reading delight and was the most popular writer in any indigenous West African language. Soyinka's handling of his speeches and narration is most apt, especially here where Soyinka the translator is more so purposely lucid in spite of the occasional occurrence of canine-breaking words such as "tintinnabulation" which may have been occasioned by the dire need to capture sense, sound and action that are so replete in Fagunwa's fictive universe. There is obviously a matching of mastery between the author and his translator. Fagunwa's mastery of Yoruba and his outsize imagination and Soyinka's sensitive absorption of Fagunwa's spicy Yoruba and what they demand to be rendered in a strange tongue.
Long before Soyinka's translation of it, Ogboju Ode was the most critically acclaimed of Fagunwa's works comprising of the trilogy, two additional novels, a travelogue and other short pieces. The translation of Ogboju Ode by Soyinka was published in 1968. Soyinka himself in his long prefatory note accompanying this publication acknowledges the fact. The narrative tone in the earlier work is more felicitous.
Much as one also finds this quite enjoyable, not many Yoruba speakers and readers of the Forest of Thousand Daemons recollect how the original Yoruba text sounds anymore. We tend to prefer communing with the translation. I am willing to suggest also that Soyinka may have withheld his literary fires in this effort deliberately, unlike his no-holds-barred approach to the first. This is only a suspicion because as already indicated, the second book only ranks second. But even in Soyinka's regular creative writings, his stylistic restlessness is to be observed. Soyinka never writes two books the same way, even when closely linked, like in the case of the two Jero plays, The Road and Madman and Specialists. with Ake: The Years of Childhood finds no stylistic continuation in Isara etc etc.
The new translation is a sturdy addition to the growing collection of Fagunwa's writings making their crucial passage into English. And without the engagement of a talent of Soyinka's immensity, readers who would only know Fagunwa in English could not truly appreciate his worth.
• Adeniyi writes from Lagos
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I'm an LPN who worked for many years at an MR/DD respite business. I never had to fill out admission or insurance forms for admission. But I've recently signed up with an agency that is sending me to LTC facilities where... Read More
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OP - it's nearly impossible to give you much advice because typically the required paperwork is different in all facilities. A couple of pointers that I always try to give new nurses are:
1. Make sure you've got all the pages of the transfer sheet. Our local hospital is infamous for sending page 1 of 4, page 2 of 4 and page 3 of 4. Of course things like ABT, coumadin or insulin is found of the page 4 of 4 that never made it to the facility.
2. At least scan the H&P from the hospital so you know why the resident was in the hospital to begin with. Amazes me when the nurse fails to document a surgical wound to the hip and when asked seems perplexed that the resident HAD hip surgery.
3. Critical thinking skills - If they have coumadin, make sure you have a PT/INR follow up order. If they have a wound, make sure there is a treatment order in place. If they are receiving insulin make sure they have accuchecks in place. Make sure there is something to address whatever it was that sent them to you to begin with (ABT for urosepsis, therapy orders, etc)
4. Get a code status ASAP. Nothing worse than a code within the first 24 hours and no one has bothered to ask what resident, family desire was!
5. Do a complete head to toe. This includes removing all dressings (unless there is an order to specifically not remove them). Measure and describe every area you see. This prevents any wounds being discovered later and then having to be included as an in-house wound rather than an admission wound.
6. Don't forget to fax orders to pharmacy as soon as you get them ready
7. Don't spend more time worrying about the task than the time it actually takes to get the task done. After hearing several of the nurses recently moan and groan that I just didn't understand how long the whole paper work task took I told them I would just do the next admission paperwork myself. Grabbed the transfer papers at the desk and stood and did the orders (yes, I had plenty of interruptions too). It is simply a matter of copying line by line, checking each line off as I go (so I don't inadvertently skip a line), taking a second look to make sure I got all those extras like I mentioned above included, faxing the pharmacy and moving on to the head to toe. It just didn't take as long as they kept trying to tell me it did. Some of them spend the first 20 minutes complaining about the length of time and I was nearly done in 20 minutes.
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Consul Julius Caesar was one of the greatest rulers of Rome. During his reign he had set the stage for transferring the Roman Republic into a worldwide empire. Caesar was born in 100 B.C. and ruled Rome for 5 years stating in 49 B.C. which is where he appears on the Bible Timeline with world history. Gaius Julius Caesar was born to into the gens Julius family which was one of the oldest, wealthiest and most well known family lines in ancient Rome. This particular family group was supposed to have descended from a god named Iulus who is supposed to have been a son of the goddess Venus. The name Caesar is derived from caesarian which means “to cut” in Latin. Historians are not clear about Caesar’s childhood but since he was a member of a wealthy patrician clan it is safe to assume that he was educated in his youth. His father was also named Gaius Julius Caesar and he was a governor of Asia. His mother was named Aurelia Cotta and she was also a wealthy woman. Caesar had lived a good life during childhood and father died when he turned 16 years old. Caesar was also chosen to be the head priest of the temple of Jupiter. He had to marry a woman in order to keep this position and he married his first wife named Cornelia before he reached 18 years old. A Roman leader named Sulla had become dictator and decided to eliminate all of his political enemies. Caesar was listed as one of his nemesis because he was the nephew of one of his enemies named Marius. He was stripped of his position as high priest, he lost his inheritance and was forced to divorce his wife. He had to go into hiding until conditions were favorable for his return. Eventually Caesar was able to go back to Rome but he turned toward a military career since he lost his priesthood. His early days in the military consisted of typical army related duties such as besieging enemy towns and making alliances with kings. Caesar was also captured by pirates whom he later located and had executed. He was elected military tribune and quaestor by 69 B.C. Some even compared him to Alexander the Great. He had served in Spain as a military commander and when he returned from his duties he became the Pontifex Maximus or Roman high priest. Caesar had also become involved in the legal field and had helped to persecute corrupt Roman governors. Caesar had six legions under his control and he used these forces to subdue the barbarian tribes all throughout Europe. Caesar had also managed to become a leading politician in Rome. He was popular with the people and when he was not fighting against Germanic tribes in the north he was forming political alliances and dealing with enemies in Rome. He formed an alliance known as the First Triumvirate and it consisted of Caesar, Pompey and Crassus. The First Triumvirate was a secret alliance of wealthy and politically powerful men who ruled Rome despite the senate. Their power ended in 53 B.C. with the death of Crassus and the alliance between Pompey and Caesar fell apart when Caesar’s daughter (who was married to Pompey) died in childbirth. Pompey was elected sole consul of Rome and married the daughter of one of Caesar’s enemies. This move clearly revealed that Pompey no longer desired to be aligned with Caesar. A civil war was about to break out in Rome. Pompey accused Caesar of treason and insubordination and told him to disband his army. Caesar did not comply with his demands. In 49 B.C. Caesar took one of his legions and marched on Rome. Pompey and the senate who supported him fled Rome even though they had a standing army. Caesar left Mark Antony in charge of Rome and pursued Pompey until he defeated his forces in Greece. Pompey had managed capture and ended up in Egypt where he was assassinated. Once he arrived in Egypt stopped the civil war between Cleopatra VII and her brother Ptolemy. He favored Cleopatra VII and had an affair with her. She gave him a son that he would not allow to become heir of Rome. Caesar had destroyed the last remnants of Pompey’s supporters and he began to work on transforming the republic into an empire. He centralized a powerful government in Rome, he put down all resistance from conquered territories and he then brought all of the provinces of Rome together under one central authority which stemmed from Rome. These three steps transformed the republic into an empire. Caesar was assassinated in 44 B.C. by people who opposed his reforms. Caesar’s life was full of adventure, intrigue, deception, murder, love, passion and politics. He is forever remembered as one of the greatest rulers of Rome and in the history of the world. References:
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"But first and foremost, I'm an octopus!"
— Octavian, Animal Crossing: Wild World
Octavian - Animal Crossing New Leaf
"Don't be a sucker!"
Gender Male
Personality Cranky
Species Octopus
Birthday September 20th
Star sign Virgo
Initial phrase sucker
Initial clothes big star shirt
Skill Trivia
Goal Fisherman
Coffee House Blend,
No milk,
No sugar
Style Official
Favorite song K.K. D & B
Appearances Animal Forest,
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Animal Crossing: Wild World,
Animal Crossing: City Folk,
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Regional names Flag of Spain small Octavio
Flag of France small Octave
Flag of Germany small Ottfried
Octavian (おくたろう, Octarou) is a cranky octopus villager from the Animal Crossing series, first appearing in Animal Forest. The prefix of his name, "Octa-," means eight, which is a reference to the species he is: an octopus. His name is also a reference to Octavian (a.k.a. Augustus), the first emperor of ancient Rome. He is most notable for being the only octopus until Dōbutsu no Mori e+, where Marina, a normal villager, appears as an islander.
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His initial phrase is based on the fact that octopi have suction cups on their tentacles.
Octavian is a light red octopus with a jet, which is normally associated with octopi, relocated to mimic a mouth. He has a white patch in an "x" shape on the back of his head, made out of two bandages. Being an octopus, his mouth is puckered. He has two tentacle arms with suckers and six octopus legs, adding up to be eight, as a real octopus would have. He has puffy, puckering cheeks with peachy blush marks and angry-looking, squinted eyes. His initial shirt is the Big Star Shirt. He will also carry a melon umbrella on rainy days.
Octavian is a cranky villager. He may seem rude at first but will open up to you eventually if you talk to him enough and be nice to him by doing favors he asks, etc. Sometimes, if you are friends with him and the beach is in view, he will say that the sea brings back memories of his youthful days and his mama and papa. This hints that he spent his childhood near the sea. He will like fishing and all the other usual things.
Octavian's house has the Space Theme like Ribbot, with the Lunar Horizon (a star-clustered wall) and the Lunar Surface (a cratered, moon floor).
He has the Rocket, Space Shuttle, Flying Saucer, a Satellite, a Lunar Rover, Spaceman Sam, two Asteroids, the Robo-Chair, and the Robo-Stereo that plays K.K. D & B. This song (and the electronic beeping noises from the Flying Saucer) gives his home an intense space mission feel, due to the sound textures of each item. As with all villagers, items in his house may be removed or replaced after the player sends him new wallpaper, carpet, furniture and/or articles of clothing through the mail service.
• Octavian bears some resemblance to an Octorok, an enemy from the Legend of Zelda series, and Octillery, a Pokémon. As both games are also made by Nintendo, it's possible this was done purposefully.
• If you catch an octopus and Octavian is in the vicinity, he will become angry, telling the player "I saw what you just did there!"
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Let us, just for the moment, set aside the gross intellectual dishonesty underpinning every single story beat of Roland Emmerich's Elizabethan political thriller Anonymous - a herculean task, I will admit. But simply because Emmerich and screenwriter John Orloff and a whole bunch of classically-trained British actors who, in a happier world, would all know better, have built an entire 130-minute motion picture around the crackpot and classist idea that the 37 plays traditionally credited to William Shakespeare were in fact written by Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, does not mean that the film is necessarily bad. It's tempting to point to the example of JFK, with its insistently ridiculous conspiracy narrative about how President Kennedy was assassinated by, in Richard L. Berke's irresistible phrasing, "a cabal of gay anti-communists", as being a film that is offensively bad history that manages to succeed as one of the absolute best paranoia thrillers in cinema history. JFK, however, had the erratic visionary Oliver Stone at his most stylistically inventive; Anonymous has the fuckwit who directed the American Godzilla, and whose last attempt at a history lesson attempted to convince us that there was a thriving, pyramid-building Egyptian culture in 10,000 BC. Poor Bill the glover's son never had a chance.
And oh, yes, they do bring up the glover's son thing, with Derek Jacobi in a modern-day prologue sniffily assuring us that a middle-class man with but a grammar-school education obviously could not have access to the knowledge to write plays about Roman emperors, and if you have not previously been familiar with the Oxfordian theory, I have just shared with you its ideological underpinnings. But I said, "let's set that aside!" and here I am, not setting it aside at all. Anyway, here's what you get when you set it aside: De Vere (Rhys Ifans, in enough makeup to look like a drag king version of himself - not a terribly convincing one, either) has been writing since God knows when, but his foster-father/father-in-law William Cecil (David Thewlis), chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I (Vanessa Redgrave in the late 1590s, and Joely Richardson - her daughter - in the flashbacks to the 1560s) is a Puritan, and it is anyway not alright for a man such as the 17th Earl of Oxford to publish something so trashy as a play under his own name. Ah, but De Vere, who was one of Elizabeth's many, many paramours when he was a young man (Jamie Campbell Bower), suspects that Cecil's machinations go deeper than a religious hatred of actors - that, in fact, he is secretly plotting to put the nefarious gay midget King James VI of Scotland (James Clyde) on the English throne after Elizabeth's death.* For reasons that, surprisingly, make sense while you're watching, De Vere combats Cecil and his hunchbacked son Robert (Edward Hogg) by publishing his juvenile plays under the name of hack author Ben Jonson (Sebastian Armesto), though Jonson's pride leads him to throw the task upon the drunk, dissolute, altogether awful human being that is actor Will Shakespeare (Rafe Spall). This results in the finest body work in the English language being preserved for all history, but Emmerich and Friends give absolutely zero shits about the quality of the plays in question, regardless of who wrote them. Which, honestly, I find sort of refreshing.
If I were to take a look at all that, and try to judge Anonymous as a nail-biting thriller of court intrigue, lies, and rebellion, I would be forced to admit that, yes, Lisy Christl's costume designs are really pretty goddamn good. I'm drawing a blank on anything else. The film's biggest problem is that it utterly fails to find a tone it's willing to stick with for more than a scene or two: parts of it feel like they desperately want to be campy, but the only genuinely camp scene is when one of the plot's many villains finally explains the whole evil plot in plummy, self-satisfied tones MINI SPOILER ALERT including when he pronounces the word "incest" with four syllables and at least three T's. And then, if it isn't campy, at least it should be playful, but Emmerich (for whom this was a long-gestating passion project), is much too serious about every last little thing, and he and cinematographer Anna Foerster shoot everything in a uniform shade of squelchy black that serves to make even the wackiest turns totally mirthless - and by God, but there are wacky turns, and if you can't imagine somebody directing wackiness with dead sobriety, you clearly are no Emmerich fancier. I especially enjoyed that Shakespeare, as a comic rascal, was plainly modeled after Russell Brand, though whether Brand was a approached and wisely refused, or if they didn't even bother, I cannot say.
The production design could be good, if only it did not announce its CGI-ness quite so loudly; the atmosphere is rife with the kind of over-baked foreboding where lightning strikes that punctuate great speeches come across every fifth scene or so. The acting is uniformly unhinged, with Redgrave's sex-fiend Queen Bess being a highlight (Richardson's performance isn't quite as giddy, though she does get the oral sex scene that gives the whole movie that extra bit of frisson). The whole thing is at once obviously costly and so fucking ludicrous in execution - leaving aside content completely, I reiterate - that it can't help but be a huge bad-movie delight. The single drawback is that, like Emmerich's desperately straitlaced 2012, it's simply too long to maintain whatever crazily stupid energy drives it: a 90 minute Anonymous could have been nothing but unalloyed kitschy gold, but the heavily-padded running time does tend to make everything altogether plodding.
But now, let us return to the film as a history lesson. There are a lot of reasons the Oxford hypothesis doesn't hold up, and I don't see why I need to go into them all here, but really, Anonymous isn't trying to prove Oxford wrote the plays, so much as it takes that to be given, and proceeds to spin out its story from that postulate. What fascinates me much more than this one grand "fuck you" to common intelligence is the almost uncountable litany of ways that it fucks up everything else: from getting the order of plays' premiere dates entirely wrong (e.g. Macbeth, a late tragedy, showing up before Richard III, an early history; Henry V, the writer's last solo work of English history, as his first produced play - and boy oh boy, but the orgy of groundling enthusiasm that greets the St. Crispin's Day speech is proof enough that Emmerich is an insane genius), getting the very content of the plays wrong; performing a hatchet job on Ben Jonson's talents as a writer comparable to the way that Amadeus would have you believe that the very good composer Antonio Salieri was an incompetent buffoon; keeping Christopher Marlowe (Trystan Gravelle) alive a full five years too long, and completely revising the already very movie-friendly circumstances of his death just to make that FUCKING GLOVER'S SON even more of an asshole.
Of course, I have no wish to blame a movie whose single goal is to educate us about the greatest literary cover-up in history while also being a rollicking thriller of cloak-and-dagger machinations for getting almost every possible detail about that cover-up wrong. Hey, Elizabeth did die in 1603! You nailed that one, Roland! Which almost excuses the scene indicating that Julius Caesar ends with the title character's death, which actually takes place in Act III, scene 1 of a five-act play. But that's probably me being nitpicky.
Rick said...
Anonymous has yet to play in my area, so I can't comment on the film. However, I did listen to the audio-book Shakespeare by Another Name by Mark Anderson. It's a hoot: after our Sweet Swan of Avon's death, we're suppose to believe that his grave and the bust at the church give us clues that Shakespeare was a front and that EVERYONE knew it. As I listened to it, I kept wondering when the Oxfordians had gone all Da Vinci Code on us. When they present conjecture as proof positive (such as if you note how he holds his quill, it shows he DIDN'T write) you can't take them seriously.
As I've said, whenever I saw the trailer and Sir Derek Jacobi said, "What if I told you Shakespeare did not write a single word?", I would always yell out LIAR! at the screen.
Too-Tickii said...
Really that seems like the best way this film could be done. It sounds kind of like what Alan Moore did in From Hell, except instead of being told by perhaps the most talented writer working in the story's respective medium, it's the guy who made "10,000 BC."
Brigdh said...
You almost make this sound so bad it's good.
I also wonder who came up with the title. I half expect to hear that 4chan has launched an attack on the production company for stealing their name.
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I have a first generation iPad with many documents in iBooks. This iPad is still synchronized with a laptop that is no longer in my possession. This means I can't sync to my new laptop over Wi-Fi. How do I remove the Wi-Fi sync connection to my old laptop?
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I've only been able to cut the umbilical cord using a full restore of the unit. Probably not what you want. Perhaps a backup in itunes first can then be restored after the brainwash. – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Sep 15 '12 at 18:16
An edit might help people to help you - Do you not know how to go through the steps to sync the device or are you worried about the prompt that warns you that the existing content will be deleted? – bmike Sep 16 '12 at 18:29
@ThorbjørnRavnAndersen and bmike - I have already synced by device with my computer and made a backup. All the apps are in the backup and synced. But in the backup the content of I books is not in here. As you write bmike Iam worried about the warning. If all the existing content is deleted, I have no backup any more. So therefore I am carefull. Who knows the answer what to do? – Marco Sep 20 '12 at 20:53
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If you're only worried about losing items purchased through iTunes on the Apple ID you're currently using, like iBooks, then this will work:
1. Make sure you're logged into iTunes with your Apple ID. (The one you made all of your purchases with.)
2. Sync the iPad to your new computer. Yes, the existing content will be deleted.
3. From within iTunes, navigate to the iTunes Store. In a column to the right, you will see a link (under the heading, "Quick Links" that says, "Purchased." Click on that link.
4. The new store page that will be displayed is broken down into sections, which you'll see across the top (Music, Movies, TV Shows, Apps, Books). You should be able to re-download any content you previously purchased, including books. I just tested this by deleting a book I previously purchased, and I was able to re-download it this way.
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Even without syncing you can get the music, apps, and books which you bought via iTunes to the computer:
1. Visit the iTunes Store with the Apple ID you used for buying the books.
2. In the menu on the right-hand side, you can find an entry Purchased. Depending on the store, this might be in a different language. You can first visit the US store, figure out where the menu entry is, and then switch back to your store and look for the same entry in your language.
3. Click the Purchased entry. This will bring you to a page where you can find the music, apps, and books you bought via iTunes.
4. Click the cloud symbol to re-download items to the computer.
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Go to Settings > General > Reset, and then Reset All Settings
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ابحث عن أية كلمة، مثل: porb
gnarly. a better word than dank.
look at his gnar hair!
بواسطة johnna283742 يناير 23, 2007
I shread the gnar up on skinner's butte.
بواسطة Value684 نوفمبر 20, 2006
Anything you can shred
بواسطة Katherine Humberson ابريل 16, 2007
The act of being jewed.
بواسطة omfgkyle مايو 19, 2008
Usually something that is gross or weird
بواسطة Jackson Bla يونيو 12, 2007
when something awesomly awesome to the max.
بواسطة Herbert Yanocnock اكتوبر 15, 2003
A term/prefix used to describe any thing that causes a feeling of positive stimulation throughout the central nervous system. An etymological cousin of gnarly and gnardeath.
"That shwag is to gnarkill-overboard-man-at-sea to handle"
"Damn, that girl is hot, shes practically the lord of gnarington"
"are your parents retards, your special"
بواسطة shwagtonian420 يوليو 19, 2003
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Re:Fine article - doesn't work yet
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 09, 2006 06:30 AM
As the article says you also need to add the server name or ip in the file<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc/sane.d/net.conf ( on the client side).
Also, the article forgot one detail: the file<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/etc/sane.d/saned.conf must be edited on the server to allow the client IP.
For example, to allow all clients of my local network (192.168.1.*) I added the following line:
If that still does not work then start saned manually on the server side with debug enabled:
saned -d
That should tell you if a connection attempt is made.
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IBM dives into development
Posted by: Anonymous [ip:] on September 10, 2007 08:17 PM
Excellent news, hopefully ODF will be come more mainstream soon, as I am sick of people assuming I am able to afford MS word, i use Openoffice because a) it works, b) its affordable and c is free software in addition i know the file formats are open and will always be accessible,
i feel sorry for those people who have created time capusules and used .doc format, in 100 years time will these be readable
probably not
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Barely a month at Charles’ home and Erik was still amazed at how quickly he’d fallen into certain routines. The early mornings and training schedules were nothing new. Those he’d had for years in one form or another - first under Shaw and then under his own regime. Those were meant to hone his body and powers for the day he would kill Shaw.
It was the other routines that unsettled him from time to time - with the comfort they provided and a sense of contentment he hadn’t felt since his family had been torn from him. It was the long, hot showers after training followed by a quiet time before supper where he was alone with his thoughts. Most often, he found himself preparing a cup of tea (Charles had gotten him hooked), before wandering through the house, learning its’ secrets and hidden spaces. He’d found several rooms that offered solace and good light to settle down to read or think, depending on his mood.
After dinner the norm had become to withdraw to retreat to the parlor where there was a roaring fire to chase away the damp night air, a chessboard and good brandy to drink while conversing with Charles over a variety of topics. Those nights were a quiet joy Erik had never expected to find.
Today, Erik took his tea into one of the rooms that overlooked the forest behind Charles’ mansion. From the window he could gaze out on the land left to the wild compared to the perfectly kept grounds of the rest of the place. He’d already seen a few deer moving through the trees.
As he looked out, Charles came around the house, hands shoved deep in his pockets as he strolled towards the woods. Erik watched him, wondering, not for the first time, where the other man occasionally disappeared to in the time before dinner. Erik found himself setting down the teacup and walking outside, stretching his legs to better follow Charles.
His friend had disappeared beyond Erik’s sight. Erik found a winding footpath at the edge of the forest that led him deeper into it. It was a quiet place, leaving him feeling calm and at peace as he listened to the sounds of animals moving about. After walking for a while, it opened up unto a grassy shore overlooking a lake. It was here Erik discovered what his friend did when he disappeared.
Charles’ skin was pale under the late afternoon sun. Erik took in the breadth of his shoulders down the line of back as it tapered into his hips. As Charles bent to slide his pants and underwear down his legs, Erik couldn’t look away. He lingered over the swell of Charles’ ass, the slender lines of his body, and the glimpse of his prick hanging between his legs.
Charles walked to the end of the dock, obviously very comfortable being naked. The last few steps were at a run as he dove. Erik moved out into the open, wanting to see more of his friend. Charles was sleek, moving through the water with barely any waves behind him. The late afternoon sun shimmered on the surface of the water, sometimes blocking Erik’s view of Charles. He moved closer, until he stood on the dock, and watched, drawn to the elegant beauty that was Charles swimming. He reminded Erik of the otters Erik had once seen years ago in the way Charles twisted and turned, clearly taking pleasure in his swim. Erik found himself smiling at his friend.
As though sensing him, Charles stopped swimming, turning around to tread water as he looked up at Erik. Erik gazed back at Charles, seeing the enjoyment the other man was experiencing in the lake. One of the benefits of his gift - Erik had yet been unable to sneak up on him along with the children. If Raven knew of a way she wasn’t telling anyone.
“Come join me.” Charles said. “The water is cool but quite refreshing.”
Erik didn’t hesitate to pull his turtleneck sweater over his head, letting it drop onto the pile of Charles’ clothes. Charles watched him, just as avidly as Erik had watched Charles earlier. Erik kept his eyes on Charles as he stripped off the rest of his clothes to stand naked before Charles. The look in Charles’ eyes found an answering curl of heat fill Erik’s belly.
Erik dove off the dock and swam out to meet Charles. The water was cold but bracing and, invigorating Erik. Charles turned and started to swim again, Erik easily matching his strokes. He could see why Charles took such pleasure in this. The sun was warm against his face while the water flowed freely over his naked body.
They both ended up heading towards the shore at the same time. As soon as he could, Erik stood up, the water lapping at his chest. Charles turned to face him, smiling, the touch his mind against Erik’s conveying warmth and affection.
Erik returned the smile, feeling the attraction that had been steadily grown over the weeks as he’d gotten to know Charles. It was an unexpected feeling much like several of his new routines. Erik was used to bedding strangers in quick, impersonal encounters, enough to sate his body for a time and leave him free of emotional entanglements as he continued his hunt for Shaw.
He’d never taken the time or permitted himself to engage in the slow building of desire between himself and the person he wanted. It – this feeling for Charles – was as thrilling as it was scary for Charles had become his friend when it had been such a long time since Erik had been close to anyone He saw the same feelings mirrored on Charles’s face as they stood there silently. Erik found himself savoring the moment, and the sweet build up of his own desires. He could feel it echoed back to him from Charles as the telepath sank gently deeper inside Erik’s mind, tiny pulses of pleasure wrapping around Erik’s own need.
Erik reached out to touch Charles’ cheek, feeling soft, damp skin under his fingers. The touch lingered for a long moment as the physical sensation mingled with the mental one. He traced the planes of Charles face, over cheekbones, the arch of his nose, and Charles’ red lips. He lingered there, feeling the flick of Charles’ tongue against the pad of Erik’s finger the same time Charles’ mind caressed Erik’s.
Then Charles moved into Erik’s arms, his mouth pressing lightly against Erik’s. Erik kept his eyes open as he returned the kiss. His eyes soon drifted shut as one kiss flowed into the next one, as he learned the taste and texture of Charles’ mouth. The slow, simmering heat that had been building over the past few days warmed his body as much as him mind. He tilted his head, slanting his mouth over Charles as he deepened the kiss. His hands slid around Charles, pulling him closer until their bodies were pressed together. Erik cupped Charles’ face between his palms, enjoying the brush of stubble against his skin and the contrast of sleek skin over hard muscle as the water lapped around them. With most of his life steeped in blood, pain, and anger, Erik couldn’t quite believe the joy he experienced at being here like this with Charles. He’d not only discovered he wasn’t alone in his mutation but found a friend and equal in Charles. This happiness flowing through him seemed almost foreign but becoming more familiar the more he felt it.
Charles’ hands slid over Erik’s body, exploring him just as his thoughts eased through Erik’s. Erik could feel the enjoyment Charles took in the hard lines of Erik’s body and the sharp angles of Erik’s mind. Erik lost track of time in the taste of his friend, the smell of his skin, and the wet warmth of his mouth. Desire swept through him, but he felt no urgency to take things further beyond exploring the lean length of Charles’ body and the movements of Charles’ tongue stroking over his.
Slowly, they broke apart, staring at each other. Charles’ mouth was red and swollen, his eyes dark with desire that found its match in Erik. Erik knew their chess game later tonight would be an interesting experience. A form of foreplay as they took their time to tease each other, knowing both of them would end up in either his or Charles’ bed, skin to skin as they took their pleasure in each other.
He sent that wordless knowledge to Charles’, feeling how Charles’ mental touch grow sharp with anticipation. They waded back out of the lake, pulling their clothes over damp skin as Erik looked his fill, seeing Charles do the same.
They walked back to the mansion, shoulders brushing against each other in comfortable companionship. Charles’ mind still lingered at the outer edges of Erik’s, leaving Erik to wonder what it would feel like to be fully immersed with his friend, physically and mentally, later tonight. It sent a shiver of want through him as he looked toward to finding out.
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The Children of Brinn
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Gunball Saves Christmas
Monsters TD 2
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Simple point and click, similar to The Sagittarian.
This was a bit of an experiment, and I realize it might be a tiny bit more text heavy than some players might like. That's okay though, I had a good time making it, and it was a fun experience.
I was trying to think of a way to combine rpg dungeon crawl elements with fantasy book bodies of text. Originally it was going to track stats and all kinds of goodies, but it was conflicting with the story-telling elements of the text pretty heavily.
It's something I'd like to revisit in the future though, and maybe refine. I think a bit more art, and a bit less text would be good, but no so much as to destroy the idea.
Anyway, hope you guys like it, thanks for playing!
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List of All Announcements
Chandra Electronic Bulletin No. 30
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Welcome to the Chandra X-ray Center's Electronic News Bulletin Number 30.
CXC Web site: cxc.harvard.edu
to let us know.
Please use this website to update your address or email:
1. Topics for a Chandra Science Workshop Summer 2005
2. CALDB 2.28 Released - 11 August 2004
3. Chandra Fellowship Competition
4. Chandra Fellows Symposium
Item 1. Topics for a Chandra Science Workshop Summer 2005
The CXC is organizing Chandra Science Workshops on topics of interest
to Chandra observers and theorists alike. Workshop goals are to
optimize Chandra science productivity by
* identifying science areas ripe for progress
* identifying the most pressing scientific questions
* debating good Chandra strategies to answer them
We are soliciting ideas for such a workshop around late July
2005. At the moment, no obvious meeting conflicts are apparent for
that time period, but before making a suggestion, you may wish to
check the current list of International Astronomy Meetings at
The scope of a suggested workshop topic should be likely to generate between
50-100 attendees. Chandra Science Workshops aim at 2-3 days duration,
have no registration fees, but also provide no travel reimbursement.
As an example, this July 2004, we hosted a workshop entitled
at the Sheraton Commander Hotel here in Cambridge. Nearly 100
people attended and there were many excellent presentations, a lot of
useful discussion, and some lively debate. To see the program, access
If you suggest a Workshop topic, please feel free to suggest some
likely members of a Scientific Organizing Committee as well.
We especially encourage participation of theorists. Thanks for your
Incidentally, note that we also plan as usual a broader biennial
symposium which will celebrate Six Years of Chandra Observations in
the Fall of 2005.
Best Regards,
Paul Green
for the Chandra Director's Office
Item 2. CALDB 2.28 Released - 11 August 2004
++ The CalDB version 2.28 is now available to download from
CalDB 2.28 contains the following:
- ACIS QE and -120C QEU upgrades, which fix the discrepancy
that has existed between ACIS-S3 and ACIS-I3 measured
source fluxes.
- LETG/ACIS-S +/-1st order LSF parameters for the RAND_TG=0.0 case.
- Modified LETG Grating efficiencies for higher orders
specifically 2,4,5,6,7.
Full release notes are available at
++ Everything is also on the European mirror site at:
As always please send questions to the CXC HELPDESK
- Dale Graessle, Chandra CalDB Manager
Item 3. Chandra Fellowship Competition
The Chandra X-Ray Center (CXC), is pleased to announce the eighth competition
for the Chandra Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, in cooperation with host
institutions throughout the United States. The primary objective of the
Program is to provide opportunities for postdoctoral research on problems
that are broadly related to the scientific mission of the Chandra X-ray
Observatory and compatible with the interests of the Host Institutions. This
program is open to applicants of any nationality who earn doctoral degrees
between January 1, 2002 and September 1, 2005 in astronomy,
physics, or related disciplines. The Fellowships are tenable at any U.S.
institution where Chandra-related research can be carried out.
The Fellowship is initially for two years, with the expectation of a
third year, contingent upon performance and available funding. Subject
to the availability of NASA funding, up to 5 Chandra Fellows will be
appointed this year, through grants to United States institutions.
The Call for Proposals, which includes detailed Program policies,
application instructions, and forms, is available on the
World Wide Web at http://cxc.harvard.edu/fellows/Chandra_fellow.2005.html.
Alternatively, the same information may be obtained upon request to the
address below. An application includes a cover form,
a research proposal, letters of reference, a curriculum vitae, and
other relevant materials as detailed in the instructions. Applications
should be sent to the attention of Chandra Fellowship Program Office
at the address below.
The application deadline is 4 November 2004. The Chandra Fellow
appointments are expected to begin on or about 1 September 2005. Women and
members of minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
Chandra X-Ray Center
60 Garden St.
MS 4
Cambridge, MA 02138
E-mail: [email protected]
WWW: http://cxc.harvard.edu/fellows/Chandra_fellow.2005.html
Nancy Remage Evans
Item 4. Chandra Fellows Symposium
Oct. 13, 2004
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
We welcome people interested in hearing what the Chandra
Fellows have been doing.
Further information about the Symposium and the program
(as it becomes available) can be found here:
Nancy Remage Evans
This Electronic Bulletin is used for the dissemination of important
announcements and information about the Chandra X-Ray Observatory to members
this email to let us know.
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ASP.NET MVC, Web API and Web Pages use NuGet to help you easily incorporate components for certain functions. You can incorporate these dependencies into the solution more easily using the NuGet Package Restore feature and the public NuGet feed managed by Outercurve Foundation. Within these projects, themselves, we have implemented a config file that invokes NuGet’s Packager Restore feature. If you wish to incorporate these dependencies, run either of the following two commands in the root directory:
build RestorePackages
By running “build RestorePackages” or “build”, you will be initiating the download of other software from a NuGet-based feed that is owned by the Outercurve Foundation. You are responsible for locating, reading and complying with the license terms that accompany each such software. Each software that you obtain through this feed is licensed to you by its respective owner. Microsoft grants you no rights for non-Microsoft software from this feed.
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davidmatson Oct 11, 2012 at 6:59 PM
brynkeller and mathewrphillips, Thanks for the comments. We've updated the build command so that it no longer requires having the project root directory as your working directory.
brynkeller Jun 29, 2012 at 3:35 AM
And you have to run it from a command prompt - powershell won't do (or perhaps it would if you started powershell after cd'ing into the project root).
eugeneagafonov Apr 20, 2012 at 10:38 AM
I got "(407) Proxy Authentication Required" error running build RestorePackages. However I managed to resolve this, editing WebStack.NuGet.targets. Find the code:
zipTempPath = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), Guid.NewGuid().ToString());
and insert the following lines after:
WebProxy proxy = new WebProxy("yourproxyname:port");
proxy.Credentials =CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;
webClient.Proxy = proxy;
save the file, and run "build RestorePackages" again.
Maybe its worthy to use the "Enable NuGet Package Restore" option for this solution.
scottw512 Mar 30, 2012 at 6:17 PM
I successfully git clone the repository, but the build RestorePackages gives me the error, Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel. [C:\aspnetwebstack\src\Microsoft.Web.WebPages.OAuth\Microsoft.Web.
How can I get around this? Thanks.
mathewrphillips Mar 28, 2012 at 1:48 AM
Just in case anyone is confused, the "build RestorePackages" command needs to be run from the command line from the project root directory
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Classical Reissue Reviews
HOLST: The Planets; BRITTEN: Variations & Fugue on a Theme of Purcell – Ladies of the BBC Chorus/ BBC Sym. Orch./ Gennadi Rozhdestvensky – ICA Classics
Russian maestro Gennadi Rozhdestvensky seems to trump the British at their own standard repertory in these intensely explosive readings of two classics.
Published on June 19, 2012
HOLST: The Planets, Op. 32; BRITTEN: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell, Op. 34 – Ladies of the BBC Chorus/ BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Gennadi Rozhdestvensky – ICA Classics ICAC 5053, 68:07 [Distr. by Naxos] *****:
The ability of Russian-born musicians to transform their styles, like chameleons, into the national personae of others remains a pure example of artistic alchemy. The generalization proves true in the examples of both the late Evgeny Svetlanov and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (b. 1931), the latter of whom assumed the helm of the BBC Symphony 1978-1981. He then migrated to the Vienna Symphony and the Stockholm Philharmonic. But even prior to his appointment to the BBC, Rozhdestvensky had made spectacular points with the British audience with British repertory, as is the case of the Holst The Planets Suite, performed at London’s Royal Festival Hall, 12 March 1980. BBC cellist Charles Martin commented that Rozhdestvensky embodied the past master at his baton technique, and he accomplished much of his seemingly spontaneous effects through little discussion but merely by dint of his stick, “for purely musical reasons.”
In both scores, the Holst and the Britten (this performed in Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, 1 June 1981), the emphasis lies in non-sentimental readings of explicitly virtuoso vehicles for the extraordinary wind and brass players of the BBC. The extroverted colors of The Planets, especially its “Jupiter” sequence with its own grand hymn theme, assumes a hearty resonance, a full-blooded Technicolor spectacle that neither pines nor languishes in nostalgia. Rozhdesvensky’s pianissimi prove as potent as his lavish crescendos, especially in the last two bits of interstellar mystery, “Uranus” and “Neptune.” The quicksilver figures in “Mercury” convey Mendelssohn’s impishness colored by the convention of “jolly good fun.”
Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra could hardly receive a less “didactic” reading: rather than a conscious application of orchestral choirs to a specific tune from Purcell, the regal march undergoes an organic series of transformations that pits blocks of sound against densities and colors much in the Pierre Boulez, deconstructionist mode, especially given the freedom of the BBC battery. In both instances, the Holst and the Britten receive such a consistent level of focus and sonorous energy, it becomes virtually impossible to resort to others’ interpretations. Two old pieces of United Kingdom wine poured into Russian-crafted bottles! Sometimes less commentary is more: definitely Best of the Year vintage, these performances.
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Type: Limited series
Total Issues: 7
Published: May 2008 - March 2009
Creators: Grant Morrison
When the Source initiated the demise of the Fourth World and the Death of the New Gods, it did so on one mistaken assumption: that extinction would end the animosity between the New Gods of Apokolips and New Genesis. The New Gods resumed their war in heaven, a war that ultimately ended when the forces of evil gained control of the Anti-Life Equation which can destroy free will. With this, Darkseid, the Dread Lord of Apokolips and God of Evil, finally achieved his ultimate goal, and in his victory, the survivors on both sides fell through reality, landing on New Earth just before the Infinite Crisis. From here, Darkseid consolidated his position, possessing a mobster named Boss Dark Side and uniting the evil gods of the Fourth World. The good gods could not fight him.
Building his position, Darkseid began using his godly power to alter reality, subtly removing the positive effects of the Fourth Worlds: as a result, Bruno Mannheim founded a cult dedicated to the evil of the Fourth World. Metron, a scientist connected to the Fourth World, fought Darkseid's actions across time and space: convincing "Mister Miracle", an escape artist, to take the role of the spirit of freedom; inspiring Anthro with "fire and knowledge". But it was not enough - Darkseid's evil was spreading over the universe like a shadow.
After the villains escaped from the prison planet, Darkseid sent Libra to lead them in the preaching of his word. Taking control of the Secret Society of Super-Villains, he transformed it into something resembling a terrorist organization. When the time was right, Darkseid arranged the death of Orion. It was only then that the heroes of Earth realised that something might be amiss. As their leading lights were picked off, the heroes united to fight them... but it was too late. Darkseid's followers spread the Anti-Life Equation across the world, taking control of everything, while at the same time taking possession of Dan Turpin. Earth itself became a doomsday singularity, a black hole corrupting time and space, where several weeks transpired inside in the matter of a few days. Worse, because the Multiverse rested upon New Earth's survival, Darkseid's presence was destroying space and time around him, which could in turn destroy the multiverse. However, there is one hero no-one could have predicted... Barry Allen, the second Flash.
At the same time, Superman, along with a number of alternate "Supermen", was called away to help the Monitors deal with the threat of Monitor Dax Novu, a fallen monitor who had become Mandrakk the Dark Monitor. To his horror, Superman discovered that Mandrakk's fall was because he had fully embraced his nature: the Monitors were celestial parasites who fed off the Bleed, and Mandrakk sought to feed off the multiverse itself. Superman was able to defeat Mandrakk, but Monitor Rox Ogama, who had conspired with Mandrakk and banished Monitor Nix Uotan to Earth, simply assumed his mantle. Superman dispatched Captain Marvel of Earth-5 to gather all the Supermen of the 52 to form a force which would be able to defeat Mandrakk. Superman was then called by the Legion of Super-Heroes to deal with Superboy-Prime, but the Legion were unable to return Superman to his time period until after Darkseid's rebirth. Recognizing that a desperate course was needed to deal with Darkseid, Brainiac 5 showed Superman schematics for the Miracle Machine.
On an Earth overwhelmed, the last remaining superheroes worked with Checkmate to try to turn the tide against Darkseid. Although they made progress in the battle of Bludhaven, Darkseid assumed full control over the people enslaved by the Anti-Life Equation. In his dungeons, Nix Uotan remembered the name of his lost lover, Weeja Dell, restoring his monitor powers, while Metron, also a prisoner, reactivated his Mother Box. Learning of Darkseid's presence on Earth, the Guardians of the Universe sent a team of Green Lanterns under Hal Jordan to eliminate Darkseid.
However, Darkseid had underestimated the resolve of Batman. Recognizing Darkseid's existence as a threat, Batman made a once-in-a-lifetime exception and used a gun to fire the radion bullet Darkseid had used to kill Orion. Darkseid was hit with the radion bullet, but not before he unleashed the Omega Sanction, the "death that is life", upon Batman. Superman then returned to New Earth, breaking through Darkseid's forces and finding what appeared to be Batman's corpse. As Darkseid mocked his old enemy and fired the bullet that killed Orion, Barry Allen and Wally West lead the Black Racer to Darkseid, who removed his soul from Dan Turpin. Superman allied with the Secret Society under Lex Luthor and Doctor Sivana, managing to break the Anti-Life Equation's hold over Wonder Woman, who in turn bound Darkseid's corpse with the Lasso of Truth, breaking the Equation's hold over the people of Earth.
Forced to miniaturize and place the people of Earth into cryogenic stasis, Superman set about building a Miracle Machine to reverse the damage done by Darkseid. Once it is complete, Darkseid makes a last ditch attempt to defeat Superman and claim the Miracle Machine. However, Superman sang a note at a frequency that countered Darkseid's own vibrational frequency, shattering his essence. Superman then needed a sample of Element X to power the Miracle Machine, and planned to make a sample using Metron's Mobius Chair. Mandrakk then returned to take his revenge as Superman used the solar energy in his body to power the Chair. Before Mandrakk could react, the Supermen appeared to hold him off while Nix Uotan restores the humanity and powers of the Zoo Crew (then trapped as ordinary animals) to be reinforcements. Hal Jordan and the Green Lanterns arrived and, with the last of their power, killed Mandrakk. Superman then used the Miracle Machine to restore Earth to its normal place in the multiverse. Recognizing that he and his fellow monitors were too dangerous to be allowed to continue, Nix Uotan banished himself and his kind throughout the multiverse, again separating himself from Weeja Dell. As Earth began the long process of recovery, the people of Earth were left with the knowledge of the multiverse.
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I recently met with a ranch family in which one of its members had a fear of debt. His insistence on becoming and remaining debt free is a major obstacle to the growth and profitability of that family business. He isn't alone.
I often hear ranchers say one of their goals is to be debt free. It's an understandable comment given sleepless nights and the weight of worry from operating notes that grow a little each year and long-term debt of six or seven figures.
But, I think we often confuse being debt free with financial security. Certainly, improper use of debt can kill a business. But properly used debt (borrowing) can be a powerful tool to help achieve high economic returns and financial security.
The wise use of debt begins with understanding the difference between economics and finance. In economics, the issue is profit. In finance, the issue is cash flow. If economics is the engine of the business, then finance is the fuel that makes the business go.
When the business is economically viable, it pays to leverage our own money through borrowing. When the business is unprofitable, borrowing only increases the loss.
Let's say a business venture is expected to yield a 20% return. If we invest $10,000 of our own money, we'd expect a return of $2,000 at year's end. Not bad.
But if we make the same investment using only $5,000 of our own money and borrow the rest at 10% interest, we'd make a 30% return ($2,000 return - $500 interest = $1,500 return on our $5,000 investment). If we only use 25% of our own money and borrow the rest at 10% interest, the rate of return on our capital increases to 50%. Wow! Let me in on this deal.
Unfortunately, there's a down side. Let's say things don't go as well as we'd hoped. Instead of making 20%, the deal loses 20%. If we'd invested $10,000 of our own money, we'd lose $2,000. If we'd borrowed half the invested money, we'd lose $2,500 (a 50% loss on our capital). If we had borrowed 75% of the capital invested, our loss would be 110% of our original investment.
The greater the degree of leverage (borrowing relative to equity), the greater the potential return (positive or negative) on our own money.
A little bit of leverage may be a good thing, but that doesn't mean a lot is even better. Too much leverage can leave a business too vulnerable to risk.
The degree of leverage that is reasonably safe depends on the risk of investment, the drought risk of the environment, the track record of the borrower and several other considerations.
Solvency ratios show the degree to which a business is leveraged and indicate its ability to withstand risk and remain solvent. One solvency ratio is the net capital ratio. It's calculated by dividing the total assets of a business by its total liabilities. This ratio generally exceeds 2:1 (>2) in a healthy business.
Another important indicator is the debt to equity ratio. It shows the extent to which a business is leveraged. It's used as a measure of the financial risk carried by a borrower.
The debt to equity ratio is calculated by dividing total debt by the equity (net worth). A ratio of less than 1:2 (<0.5) is usually considered safe.
If the business is economically sound, it can be more profitable by borrowing judiciously — but it must be profitable. Economics come first when you are ranching for profit.
David Pratt, of Ranch Management Consultants, teaches the Ranching for Profit School. Visit www.ranchmanagement.com, or contact him at 707/429-2292 or [email protected].
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[Beowulf] Performance characterising a HPC application
Mark Hahn hahn at mcmaster.ca
Wed Mar 21 04:50:00 PDT 2007
>> cluster (obviously diagnostic).
> ... which is what the nxnlatbw microbenchmark distributed with MPICH
> does.
<shrug>. I have no qualms about reinventing wheels. but I also can't
find this code - it doesn't seem to be in a copy of mpich2-1.0.5p3
I have sitting around, and google doesn't know the string.
in truth, I had more of microway's link-checker in mind.
> Perhaps you have other things in mind. But, how about a
> microbenchmark that does what actual programs do?
which actual app performance can be factored into?
regards, mark hahn.
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Moving BI off the Mainframe
When IT professionals use the acronym "MF" in the near future, they may no longer be referring to "Mainframe" as they have for decades. Instead, that term may soon stand for "Micro Focus."
So how could a UK-based software vendor replace the Big Blue Mainframe?
Well, I am seeing it first-hand with a client that is swapping their IBM MVS/TSO platform for Red HatEnterprise Linux. All applications and data move off the mainframe and are exchanged for Micro Focus substitutes.
The magic sauce to mainframe modernization comes in the form of the Micro Focus Enterprise Server, which basically provides a mainframe replica on a cheaper box. One major benefit is that mainframe Job Control Language (JCL) batch processes can be ported as-is to a mid-range computer. Differences between the mainframe and the new platform are hidden under the covers.
For example, the mainframe dataset names (including PDS libraries, GDGs, etc.) are kept in the legacy JCL code. Even though the job now runs on completely different technology, it continues to use mainframe terminology. This is possible because Micro Focus handles an underlying cross-referencing via a system catalog connecting mainframe names with their real physical file correspondents.
Within Enterprise Server, Micro Focus provides a full application development and deployment environment for COBOL and PL/1 technologies. Also, common IBM utilities used within JCL code have Micro Focus replicas.
Micro Focus stresses the importance of modernization while minimizing risk. Their technology enables companies to leverage existing (and often substantial) investments in applications while running them in newer, less expensive environments. The vendor makes the following points about using their mainframe re-hosting technologies:
1. Moving application development off the mainframe to a cheaper platform (e.g., Windows, Unix, or Linux) can provide additional CPU capacity for each developer, eliminate resource contention, and improve delivery times
2. Moving testing off the mainframe can overcome capacity barriers and help developers meet schedules on time and on budget
3. Moving workload off the mainframe can provide rapid cost savings in mainframe MIPS and software costs
On their website, Micro Focus tells how several customers have saved large amounts of money moving off the mainframe. For example, Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, saved a quarter million dollars each year, achieved three- to four-fold improvements in their batch processing times, and achieved ROI within one year by moving to Micro Focus.
Munich-based Stahlgruber GmbH migrated from the mainframe to Linux, saving 70% of the costs and achieving ROI in less than two years. In addition, Stahlgruber saw a dramatic improvement in computing performance. One program that took forty-five minutes to run on their mainframe zipped along on a four-processor Linux box finishing in only four minutes.
Other Micro Focus success stories include Tesco, the leading UK food retailer; the City of Inglewood government in the US State of California; and the Kansas City Southern Lines railroad (which cut annual mainframe maintenance costs by 90%).
At my particular client, our team is responsible for moving legacy FOCUS 4GL applications to a WebFOCUS Linux environment. Our first objective is to port existing batch jobs off of the expensive platform to achieve cost reductions. Once that has been done, the client will then take advantage of new BI features available in the WebFOCUS product.
To reduce time, cost, and risk of porting FOCUS to WebFOCUS, we also leverage Partner Intelligence's BI Modernization Workbench to simplify the up-front analysis work and to automate any manual code conversion work.
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
Average speed is computed so that average speed = total distance / total time. This means that if you go up a hill, which takes a long time, your average speed drops. This isn't regained on the downhill, since going down takes so much less time.
If you compute the average over distance instead (i.e., your speed every tenth of a mile), the uphill and downhill are equally weighted, since they have the same number of samples. This means that your average is closer to what your speed would be on flat ground.
Your speed over flat ground seems more important to me. It doesn't depend on how hilly your route is, and that way you could compare cyclists more easily. Why don't we compute the average speed over distance instead?
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Because that's the way it's done. Simple and easy to understand. You can always compute it the other way if you wish -- just learn how to program an Android. – Daniel R Hicks Jun 15 '13 at 20:41
I don't understand what you mean by computing it over distance. Could you give an example of what that equation would look like? – jimirings Jun 15 '13 at 21:07
@jimirings One useful definition: calculate the average pace and then calculate its reciprocal – anatolyg Jun 16 '13 at 21:33
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This is an interesting point of view. Let's unpack this a bit.
Assume I have a ride that is 10 miles of flat, 10 miles of ascent, and 10 miles of descent.
On the flat I maintain a constant 20 miles/hour.
On the ascent I fall back to a constant 10 miles/hour.
On the descent I maintain a constant 30 miles/hour.
My average speed for this would be:
(10 miles + 10 miles + 10 miles) / (0.5 hour + 1.0 hour + .33 hour) = 16.39 miles/hour
By the proposed calculation I would have:
(100 tenths/mile * 20 miles/hour + 100 tenths/mile * 10 miles/hour + 100 tenths/mile * 30 miles/hour) / 300 tenths/mile = 20 miles/hour
If I had an average of 20 mph I should be able to complete the course in 1.5 hours. The trouble is that the course would actually take 1.83 hours to complete at the actual average of 16.39 mph. I know it hardly seems fair, since by all rights you did the vast majority of miles at 20+ mph. The caveat is that you spent by far the greatest amount of time at 10 mph.
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+1 because mathematics is always right. – Carey Gregory Jun 15 '13 at 22:59
Can you always assume that your speed difference is the same for uphill and downhill? You can say that the force is always the same (m*g*sin(theta)), but there's also wind resistance (and other factors, I'm willing to bet) to factor in. – Scott Jun 15 '13 at 23:05
@Scott - The speed difference could be the same, but the rider's power output could vary substantially in relation to a number of factors. The best metric is probably WTHarper's suggestion of work/distance or work/time. See the graph of resistance and velocity in their post. – Craig Bennett Jun 15 '13 at 23:23
@Scott - You definitely cannot assume that the speed difference is the same going up vs down. Likely nowhere close. I may average 15 mph on the flat, hit 30 going down a given hill, without even pedaling, and go up that same hill at 6 mph. And consider that, as a hill gets steeper, the uphill speed will eventually reach zero (ie, the cyclist simply cannot climb that hill). But downhill speed can easily exceed 50 mph. – Daniel R Hicks Jun 16 '13 at 1:53
This isn't worth adding another answer for, but speed is defined as the derivative of distance with respect to time: dx/dt. The average speed is almost the same formula: (end_x - start_x) / (end_t - start_t). No good can come from redefining well accepted mathematical definitions. – amcnabb Jun 16 '13 at 13:56
Your average speed is always going to be a measure of distance over a period of time. What I think you're trying to get at is accounting for your grade losses (i.e. riding up a hill), but it would be equally pertinent to include losses for wind resistance and friction as well. This would allow you to determine the amount of work per distance (or per time) for the trip, but calculating all of the variables which would verify your actual work is impractical for the average cyclist.
Products like Power Tap hubs allow you to generate torque and cadence data from your rides. That information would give you better insight into your speed with regards to sustained torque and cadence and it will also better illustrate where total resistance is increased or decreased (e.g. going up or down a hill.)
As far as taking average speed over a set distance, you're still averaging. It doesn't matter if your sample is 0.1 miles or 10 kilometers, it is still a measure of distance per time.
Here is some more information on calculating propulsion resistance. I don't remember how to do much calculus, but it is there for anyone better equipped.
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+1 for identifying average power as the measure that the poster is looking for. – amcnabb Jun 16 '13 at 13:49
The main issue with what you're talking about is that from a mathematical perspective, 'average' already has a strict meaning, and in this context nearly always means 'arithmetic mean'.
Arithmetic Mean
If you want to talk about another measure of speed, you have to drop the term 'average speed' at the very least. What your method seems to be referring to would be something like the average of multiple constant interval average speeds, and as such two people both reporting their AoMCIAS could vary wildly, even if they traveled side-by-side.
For example, why pick tenths of a mile? There are infinite variants of division lengths unit choices such that two AoMCIAS numbers can't even be related (unless the distance has been mutually agreed upon before measurement collection). Good luck getting the U.S. to adopt the metric system or the rest of the world to adopt Imperial units, so at minimum you'd have U.S. bicyclists reporting it over 0.1 mile intervals and everyone else at, perhaps, 0.2 km intervals.
For that matter, why use length as the interval control? If you use a GPS, it's storing the data in semi-regular interval time units (depending on the unit and resolution setting), perhaps someone else tries to unify the U.S. with the rest of the world and proposes 10 second intervals as the new standard.
The result is that AoMCIAS speed numbers would not convey enough information in and of their own value, like averages do. You'd have to report them as "24.56 miles/hour AoMCIAS over 0.1 mile intervals", and that value would vary so wildly by interval choice that it could ONLY be compared to other AoMCIAS speeds with the exact same interval. There wouldn't be a static conversion that could be done, either, you would need to completely resample the intervals from raw data, if it was even available.
All of this is completely independent of it's relevance as a speed measure for bicycling (I have a mathematics degree, and don't time any of my bicycle rides). What I mean by this is: it's possible that you could devise a creative method such as AoMCIAS with an ideal interval distance or time such that the number reflects something more accurate about bicycling performance, and it may even be useful inside of the bicycling context (and likely ONLY the bicycling context). However, it will be of little to no value to anyone else, mathematically or even quick comparison-wise in colloquial speech. Two numbers could only really compared with equivalent intervals, and any ability to do neat things quickly in your head with such values would be relegated to special calculators, computer programs, and perhaps some genius savants.
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You cant't compare it - that's a good reason. – Uooo Jun 19 '13 at 8:25
By computing your average speed over a distance, you basically sample the distance (delta S) and measure the time (t_i) each time you reach the defined sampling distance. The formula then to compute your average speed would be:
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Then the problem starts. By decreasing your sampling distance as previously proposed to increase your "accuracy", you will reduce the time difference (t_i - t_(i-1) ). Let say you decrease your sampling distance towards zero, your time difference will tend towards 0 to... Which lead to a mathematical problem of 0/0, which is undetermined... The only correct average speed you can get from this formula is by choosing your sampling distance to the complete distance of your ride. You have then only one sample (n=1) and t_0 is your start time and t_1 your end time.
But if you want to "mathematically" increase your average speed, then you can apply this formula and chose a sampling distance which corresponds to your wish.
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+1 Well put! This is indeed the right answer – Javier Jun 19 '13 at 18:55
Calculating the average speed after a tour is easy. You know the start time, the end time, and the length of your route. Therefore, you can find out the average speed.
Using "average over distance" approach: What if your track is so hilly that calculating every 10th of a mile is useless again? Then we would need to use every 100th of a mile. This will get more accurate, but will not be exact.
You could use a unit like "speed per meter". You would have to track the average speed of every meter then, which will be extremely difficult (even with assistance of a bike computer/smartphone). Still, every meter is an average speed, so, mathematically seen, it is still not exact. You would need the speed of an infinite small part of a meter to get the exact speed, which is impossible.
So, from my point of view, it is not done for two reasons:
1. Difficult to track
2. Mathematically incorrect
However, you can calculate anything the way you want. We will not tell anyone ;-)
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There are other, non-exacting ways to go about this, and they're used often in devices like GPSes. They receive and store point data - latitude, longitude, elevation and time in chunks as fine or course as your unit and settings specify. From this, you can get "speed between each point", and is one way they can use to calculate the total average, though the intervals are spaced by time units and not distance. For these devices it is both easy to track and mathematically as accurate as your device is calibrated to. – Ehryk Jun 19 '13 at 8:19
@Ehryk as accurate as your device is calibrated - of course you can do that. But the device limits the accurateness (although it is still very exact). The question was Why aren't average speeds computed over distance? (in general), and this are the reasons I can think of. Nothing blocks you from calculating it differently, if you want to. – Uooo Jun 19 '13 at 8:22
Agreed, I just wanted to add that the points you have apply more to human tracking, and aren't much of a factor to modern electronics. – Ehryk Jun 19 '13 at 8:25
A statistic is a just a mathematical tool for summarizing data so as to answer a particular question (or set of questions).
The usual definition of average speed relates time and distance, and helps to answer questions which crop up regularly in practice: "how long will it take me to get home?" "can I make it to the café before it closes?" "do I need to take lights on this ride?"
It's not clear to me that there are any practical questions that your statistic helps to answer.
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It would at least likely match the algorithm used within Expresso exercise bikes when stating the speed of the "pacer". – Daniel R Hicks Jun 21 '13 at 1:03
This is really a statistics / maths question rather than a bicycles question.
I think the sum you are proposing would be closer to the median speed than the mean (average). There are 3 key statistical measures that can all be useful:
Mean or average in the case of speed would be distance/time.
Let's say we take the average speed over every 1 minute over a 60 min ride, the median is the speed at which 30 of the samples are below the median and 30 are above.
The Mode is the most commonly occurring average speed.
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Indeed your average speed is total distance over total time
Regarding sampling this is where you go wrong:
No they are not equally weighted. The denominator is time (not distance). You need to take even samples in time. You cannot sample on distance if you want to average the sample.
20 miles up the hill and 20 miles down the hill.
Up assume 10 mph and down assume 30 mph.
First total distance over total time
Total distance is 40 miles
Total time is 20 miles / 10 mph + 20 miles / 30 mph = 2 hour up + 2/3 hour down = 8/3 hour
Average speed = total distance over total time = 40 miles / 8/3 hours = 120 / 8 mph
= 15 mph
The average speed is not the 10 + 30 / 2 = 20 mph because spent more time at 10 mph. Spent 3 times as long at 10 mph compared to 30 mph.
If you sampled every mile then indeed you would get the wrong answer of 15 mph average.
But if you sampled every minute you would get the right answer.
Up the hill you would have 120 samples at 10 mph and down the hill you 40 samples at 30 mph.
(120 * 10) + (40 * 30) / 120 + 40 = 1200 + 1200 / 160 = 240 / 16 = 15.
If you want to average the sample then the sample needs to based on the denominator.
But it is easier to just use total time over total distance.
If you had a magic hill that was 10 miles up and 30 miles down then your average speed would be the average as you would spend the same amount of time going up as down.
You can use any number you want for up versus down the hill. 18 mph up and 20 mph down. The average speed will not be speed up + speed down / 2. Because you will spend more time at the lower speed.
Average speed is caluculation:
d is total distance
su is speed up and sd is speed down
total distance / total time
d / (d / 2*su + d / 2*sd)
d / ( sd*d/2*su*sd + su*d/2*sd*su )
d / ( (sd*d + su*d) / 2*sd*su ) d*2*sd*du / d(su + sd)
2*sd*su / (su + sd)
hill same distance up as down
average speed = 2*sd*su / (su + sd)
try 10 and 30 and get 15
try 20 and 20 and get 20
try 18 and 20 and get 19.95
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Main Street
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Main street in Budapest, Hungary (by Antal Berkes)
Main Street in Chesterton, Indiana
The term is commonly used in Scotland and the United States, and less often in Canada, Australia and Ireland. In most of the United Kingdom the common description is High Street. In Jamaica the term is Front Street. In some parts of the south west of England the equivalent used is Fore Street.
In some larger cities, there may be several Main Streets, each relating to a specific neighborhood or formerly separate city, rather than the city as a whole. In many larger U.S. cities "Main Street" is a U.S. Highway; "Main Street of America" branding was used to promote U.S. Route 66 in its heyday.
American cultural usage[edit]
Main Street was a popular term during the economic crises in 2008 and 2009: the proposed bailout of U.S. financial system, the 2008 presidential campaign, and debates. One widely reviewed book was Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street (2012) by Neil Barofsky.
Main Street, or small town life generally, was a symbol of stifling conformity drawn by the social realists from 1870 to 1930.[1] Sherwood Anderson, for example, wrote Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life in 1919. The best-selling 1920 novel Main Street was a critique of small town life, by the American writer Sinclair Lewis. The locale was "Gopher Prairie," presented as an 'ideal type' of the Midwestern town, while the heroine, Carol Kennicott, as the 'ideal-typical' Progressive.[2]
Walt Disney[edit]
Preservation and Main Street[edit]
International use and equivalents[edit]
The main street in the Peruvian town of Máncora, which happens to be the Pan-American Highway.
Baylis Street, the Main Street of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales
The Main Street of Cullinan, South Africa
Looking across Main Street in Queens, New York, United States, at a post office. All five boroughs of New York City have streets named "Main Street", but this is the only street named "Main Street" in the city that is truly an arterial road.
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Trial by ordeal
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Trial by ordeal was an ancient judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused was determined by subjecting them to an unpleasant, usually dangerous experience. Classically, the test was one of life or death and the proof of innocence was survival. In some cases, the accused was considered innocent if they escaped injury or if their injuries healed (or sometimes the reverse: see below, "Ordeal of cold water").
In medieval Europe, like trial by combat, trial by ordeal was considered a judicium Dei: a procedure based on the premise that God would help the innocent by performing a miracle on their behalf. The practice has much earlier roots, however, being attested as far back as the Code of Hammurabi and the Code of Ur-Nammu, and also in animist tribal societies, such as the trial by ingestion of "red water" (calabar bean) in Sierra Leone, where the intended effect is magical rather than invocation of a deity's justice.
In pre-modern society, the ordeal typically ranked along with the oath and witness accounts as the central means by which to reach a judicial verdict. Indeed, the term ordeal, Old English ordǣl, has the meaning of "judgment, verdict" (German Urteil, Dutch oordeel), from Proto-Germanic *uzdailjam "that which is dealt out".
Priestly cooperation in trials by fire and water was forbidden by Pope Innocent III at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 and replaced by compurgation, later by inquisition.[1] Trials by ordeal became rarer over the Late Middle Ages, but the practice was discontinued only in the 16th century.
Ordeal of fire[edit]
After being accused of adultery Cunigunde of Luxembourg proved her innocence by walking over red-hot ploughshares.
Ordeal of fire typically required that the accused walk a certain distance, usually nine feet (about 3 metres), over red-hot ploughshares or holding a red-hot iron. Innocence was sometimes established by a complete lack of injury, but it was more common for the wound to be bandaged and re-examined three days later by a priest, who would pronounce that God had intervened to heal it, or that it was merely festering—in which case the suspect would be exiled or executed. One famous story about the ordeal of ploughshares concerns Edward the Confessor's mother, Emma of Normandy. According to legend, she was accused of adultery with Bishop Ælfwine of Winchester, but proved her innocence by walking barefoot unharmed over burning ploughshares.
Another form of the ordeal required that an accused remove a stone from a pot of boiling water, oil, or lead. The assessment of the injury and the consequences of a miracle or lack of one, followed a similar procedure to that described above. An early (non-judicial) example of the test was described by Gregory of Tours in the late 6th century. He describes how a Catholic saint, Hyacinth, bested an Arian rival by plucking a stone from a boiling cauldron. Gregory said that it took Hyacinth about an hour to complete the task (because the waters were bubbling so ferociously), but he was pleased to record that when the heretic tried, he had the skin boiled off up to his elbow.
During the First Crusade, the mystic Peter Bartholomew went through the ordeal by fire in 1099 by his own choice to disprove a charge that his claimed discovery of the Holy Lance was fraudulent. He died as a result of his injuries.
In 1498 Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola, the leader of a reform movement in Florence who claimed apocalyptic prophetic visions, attempted to prove the divine sanction of his mission by undergoing a trial by fire. The first of its kind for over 400 years, the trial was a fiasco for Savonarola, since a sudden rain doused the flames, canceling the event, and was taken by onlookers as a sign from God against him. The Holy Inquisition arrested him shortly thereafter, with Savonarola convicted of heresy and hanged to death at the Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
Ordeal of fire (Persian:ور ) was also being in use for judiciary in ancient Iran. Persons accused of cheating in contracts or lying might be asked to prove their innocence by ordeal of fire as an ultimate test .As an example of such ordeal, the accused had to pass through fire, or molten metal was poured on his chest . There were about 30 kinds of fiery tests in all. If the accused died, he was held to have been guilty; if survived, he was innocent, having been protected by Mithra and the other gods. The most simple form of such ordeals required the accused to take an oath, and after that he had drink a potion of sulphur (Avestan language saokant, Middle Persian sōgand, Modern Persian sowgand). They thought fire has an association with truth, and hence with asha.[2]
Ordeal of water[edit]
English common law[edit]
In the Assize of Clarendon, enacted in 1166 and the first great legislative act in the reign of the Angevin King Henry II of England, the law of the land required that: "anyone, who shall be found, on the oath of the aforesaid [jury], to be accused or notoriously suspect of having been a robber or murderer or thief, or a receiver of them ... be taken and put to the ordeal of water."[3]
Ordeal of boiling water[edit]
This was still a practice of 12th century Catholic churches. A suspect would place his hand in the boiling water. If after three days God had not healed his wounds, the suspect was guilty of the crime.[5]
Water-ordeal. Engraving, 17th century.
Ordeal of cold water[edit]
The ordeal of cold water has a precedent in the Code of Ur-Nammu and the Code of Hammurabi, under which a man accused of sorcery was to be submerged in a stream and acquitted if he survived. The practice was also set out in Frankish law but was abolished by Louis the Pious in 829. The practice reappeared in the Late Middle Ages: in the Dreieicher Wildbann of 1338, a man accused of poaching was to be submerged in a barrel three times and to be considered innocent if he sank, and guilty if he floated.
Gregory of Tours recorded in the 6th century the common expectation that with a millstone round the neck, the guilty would sink: "The cruel pagans cast him [Quirinus, bishop of the church of Sissek] into a river with a millstone tied to his neck, and when he had fallen into the waters he was long supported on the surface by a divine miracle, and the waters did not suck him down since the weight of crime did not press upon him."[6]
Ordeal by water was later associated with the witch-hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries, although in this scenario the outcome was reversed from the examples above: an accused who sank was considered innocent, while floating indicated witchcraft. Demonologists developed inventive new theories about how it worked. The ordeal would normally be conducted with a rope holding the subject connected to assistants sitting in a boat or the like, so that the person being tested could be pulled in if he/she did not float; the notion that the ordeal was flatly devised as a situation without any possibility of live acquittal, even if the outcome was 'innocent', is a modern exaggeration. Some argued that witches floated because they had renounced baptism when entering the Devil's service. Jacob Rickius claimed that they were supernaturally light and recommended weighing them as an alternative to dunking them.[7] King James VI of Scotland (later also James I of England) claimed in his Daemonologie that water was so pure an element that it repelled the guilty. A witch trial including this ordeal took place in Szeged, Hungary as late as 1728.[8]
The ordeal of water is also contemplated by the Vishnu Smrti,[9] which is one of the texts of the Dharmaśāstra.[10]
Ordeal of the cross[edit]
The ordeal of the cross was apparently introduced in the Early Middle Ages by the church in an attempt to discourage judicial duels among the Germanic peoples. As with judicial duels, and unlike most other ordeals, the accuser had to undergo the ordeal together with the accused. They stood on either side of a cross and stretched out their hands horizontally. The one to first lower his arms lost. This ordeal was prescribed by Charlemagne in 779 and again in 806. A capitulary of Louis the Pious in 819[11] and a decree of Lothar I, recorded in 876, abolished the ordeal so as to avoid the mockery of Christ.
Ordeal of ingestion[edit]
Franconian law prescribed that an accused was to be given dry bread and cheese blessed by a priest. If he choked on the food, he was considered guilty. This was transformed into the ordeal of the Eucharist (trial by sacrament) mentioned by Regino of Prüm ca. 900: the accused was to take the Eucharist after a solemn oath professing his innocence. It was believed that if the oath had been false, the criminal would die within the same year.
Both versions are essentially the opposite of ordeals, as they rely on the guilty parties' self-incrimination, while providing what amounts to a presumption of innocence. They are designed to be physiologically harmless and safe rudimentary lie-detection rituals, calling on divine intervention not to save the innocent (who aren't subjected to any real risk at all), but merely to mark the guilty, and using the power of suggestion to force the guilty party to reveal itself, via preemptive confession or self-fulfilling expectation of choking. They are intended to exert great psychological pressure solely on those accused who believe themselves guilty, and furthermore either initially believe in the premise, or are impressionable or superstitious enough to be swayed by the pomp and formality of the administration of said rituals. As with a modern lie detector, they rely on the guilty party inadvertently giving themselves away by reaction, and are furthermore far less likely to give false positives as compared to any contraption, since the design evokes a confession or bizarrely unlikely reaction from a knowingly guilty party only, while reassuring the innocent of their absolute safety throughout (since it calls for divine intervention to wreak an unlikely outcome - choking on a token quantity of food - on the guilty oathbreaker, the opposite of most ordeals' expectation of divine intervention saving the righteous and innocent from near-certain injury or death). They operate on a sort of placebo effect, placing great strain to confess and a self-fulfilling expectation of choking on the guilty in the Franconian variant, and greater yet incentive to forgo perjury in the ordeal of the Eucharist, whose secondary built-in failsafe is to drive successfully passing guilty defendants to literally "worry themselves to sickness" for the next year.
Both ordeals are unusually safe and merciful, as they subject innocent believers and all non-believers to no real personal risk whatsoever, and are furthermore designed to subject innocent believers to no psychological strain whatsoever and grant them great (and reasonable) expectation of impending vindication. With the exception of the low risk of generic, everyday accidental choking, the only undue burden and possible injustice of the ordeals is to the legacy and estate of a defendant, who has the misfortune of dying of unrelated causes soon enough afterwards, as to be deemed a death by divine retribution for perjury. One of their few drawbacks is that they are both easily manipulated and passed by a composed and rational non-believer, no matter how blatantly guilty.
Another version states: "The priest wrote the Lord's Prayer on a piece of bread, of which he then weighed out ten pennyweights, and so likewise with the cheese. Under the right foot of the accused, he set a cross of poplar wood, and holding another cross of the same material over the man's head, threw over his head the theft written on a tablet. He placed the bread and cheese at the same moment in the mouth of the accused, and, on doing so, recited the conjuration: 'I exorcize thee, most unclean dragon, ancient serpent, dark night, by the word of truth, and the sign of light, by our Lord Jesus Christ, the immaculate Lamb generated by the Most High, that bread and cheese may not pass thy gullet and throat, but that thou mayest tremble like an aspen-leaf, Amen; and not have rest, O man, until thou dost vomit it forth with blood, if thou hast committed aught in the matter of the aforesaid theft.'"
Numbers 5:12–27 prescribes that a woman suspected of adultery should be made to swallow "the bitter water that causeth the curse" by the priest in order to determine her guilt. The accused would be condemned only if 'her belly shall swell and her thigh shall rot'. It is known as the Sotah. One writer has recently argued that the procedure has a rational basis, envisioning punishment only upon clear proof of pregnancy (a swelling belly) or venereal disease (a rotting thigh).[12]
Ordeal of poison[edit]
Some cultures, such as the Efik Uburutu people of present-day Nigeria, would administer the poisonous calabar bean (known as "esere" in Efik) in an attempt to detect guilt. A defendant who vomits up the bean is innocent. A defendant who becomes ill or dies is considered guilty.[13]
Residents of Madagascar could accuse one another of various crimes, including theft, Christianity, and especially witchcraft, for which the ordeal of tangena was routinely obligatory. In the 1820s, ingestion of the poisonous nut caused about 1,000 deaths annually. This average rose to around 3,000 annual deaths between 1828 and 1861.[14]
Indeed in early modern Europe, the Mass was unofficially used as a form of poison ordeal: a suspected party was forced to take the Eucharist on the grounds that, if he was guilty, he would be eternally damned, and hence his willingness to take the test would give an indication of his guilt.[15]
Ordeal of boiling oil[edit]
Trial by boiling oil has been practiced in villages in India[16] and in certain parts of West Africa, such as Togo.[17] There are two main alternatives of this trial. In one version, the accused parties are ordered to retrieve an item from a container of boiling oil, with those who refuse the task being found guilty.[16] In the other version of the trial, both the accused and the accuser have to retrieve an item from boiling oil, with the person or persons whose hand remains unscathed being declared innocent.[17]
Other ordeal methods[edit]
An Icelandic ordeal tradition involves the accused walking under a piece of turf. If the turf falls on the accused's head, the accused person is pronounced guilty.[18]
Theoretical approaches[edit]
According to a theory put forward by economics professor Peter Leeson, trial by ordeal may have been effective at sorting the guilty from the innocent.[19] On the assumption that defendants were believers in divine intervention for the innocent, then only the truly innocent would choose to endure a trial; guilty defendants would confess or settle cases instead. Therefore, the theory goes, church and judicial authorities could routinely rig ordeals so that the participants—presumably innocent—could pass them.[20] Of course, the authorities could rig ordeals for all sorts of other reasons, without regard for guilt or innocence, which they themselves may not know.
See also[edit]
2. ^ Boyce, Mary. "ĀTAŠ". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 2013-09-24.
3. ^ The Assize of Clarendon, as published in English Historical Documents v ii 1042—1189, D C Douglas editor, Oxford University Press, London 1981, p 441.
4. ^ Medieval Sourcebook: The Laws of King Athelstan AD 924-939
5. ^ Medieval Sourcebook: Ordeal of Boiling Water, 12th or 13th Century
6. ^ Historia Francorum i.35
7. ^ Superstition and Force, Henry C. Lea, 1866
8. ^ Böhmer, ius eccles. 5.608
9. ^ Sacred Books of the East, vol. 7, tr. Julius Jolly, chapter 12
10. ^ XII.
11. ^ MGH, Capitularia regum Francorum, c. 138, 27.
12. ^ Sadakat Kadri, The Trial: Four Thousand Years of Courtroom Drama (Random House, 2006), p.25.
13. ^ "Calabar Bean". Flora Delaterre.
15. ^ Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), Folio Society 2012, p. 42
16. ^ a b "Men undergo trial by boiling water over stolen food". The Irish Independent. 19 September 2006.
17. ^ a b "Justice". Taboo. Season 2. Episode 1. 6 October 2003.
18. ^ Miller, William Ian. “Ordeal in Iceland,” Scandinavian Studies Issue 60, 1988. pp. 189-218
19. ^ Peter Leeson, "Ordeals."
20. ^ Peter Leeson, "Justice, Medieval Style," Boston Sunday Globe, January 31, 2010.
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bird of reality
A Quote by Siddhartha Gautama Buddha on reality, spiderweb, bird of reality, existance, emptiness, middle way, and dharma
The four catagories of existance, non-existance, both existance and non-existance, and neither existance nor non-existance, are spiderwebs among spiderwebs which can never take hold of the enormous bird of reality
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: The life story of Shakyamuni Buddha
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Cool Green Morning: Thursday, April 26
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Good Morning! Grab your coffee and let’s talk…breakfast.
1. Burger King announced that the chickens and pigs that provide eggs and meat for their restaurants will be completely cage free by 2017. (Treehugger)
2. For the first time, one of the 30-40 Amur leopards left in the world has been captured on camera. (MNN)
3. Take a deep breath: the American Lung Association says U.S. air pollution is at a 10-year low, but that U.S. air quality standards are “woefully outdated.” (Christian Science Monitor)
4. Canaries are no longer the only birds that should be wary of mines – especially in the American west. (New York Times)
5. A new analysis suggests that a hybrid approach to farming is the only way to feed the world and preserve the environment. (Scientific American)
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Indirect Effects, Bruce Griffing, and Mean Plants
One of the striking results of the Wade group selection experiment is just how effective group selection was. Indeed, it was far more effective than anybody ever expected. On thinking about this Wade (and I as a hanger-on starting graduate student) a likely cause of this unexpected response quickly became clear. When Thomas Park did his work on the ecology of his population size strains of Tribolium confusum he concluded that the different population sizes were maintained by differences in cannibalism rate. From this we (ok, really Wade) speculated that the unexpected response to selection was due to group selection being able to act on interactions among individuals in general, or in the case of Tribolium on cannibalism rates.
This is an important point, because David Mertz told me (sadly, I doubt this is published) that they were unable to identify any nutritive advantage to cannibalism in standard high nutrient culture conditions typically used in the lab. If this is the case then cannibalism is a purely neutral trait at the individual level, but based on Park’s results, changes in cannibalism has huge consequences at the population level. Thus, we can speculate that the reason that group selection is so effective is that it can act on genetic effects (interactions among individuals) that have no effect on individual fitness, and simply cannot contribute to a response to selection at the individual level.
Not surprisingly, at some level we were re-inventing the wheel. It turns out that we were rediscovering something that plant breeders had known for a long time. That is, it has long been known that if you have a field of plants and you select the individuals with the greatest yield and plant up their seeds in the next generation you will frequently see a negative response to selection. That is if you select individuals for high yield, the yield per hectare will go down. The solution that plant breeders arrived at is “strain selection” in which they planted a plot of a particular cross, and chose plots that have the highest yield. In other words, they realized that if you want to increase yield per hectare, you should select on yield per hectare, not on yield per individual.
It also turns out that there are some very smart theoreticians in the plant-breeding world, and one of them was Bruce Griffing. Griffing decided to develop a quantitative genetic model that was done excruciatingly correctly, and as a result very confusingly. To get some idea of how detailed these models are, between 1981 and 1982 he published 10 papers on the subject in the journal of theoretical biology. Fortunately for us an abstract of this opus was published in 1977 (Griffing, 1977. Proceedings of the International Congress on Quantitative Genetics, August 16-21, 1976 ). (See Wolf, Brodie, Cheverud, Moore and Wade.1998 TREE13: 64-69. for a more modern approach to this problem)
Without going into the actual model, Griffing assumed that there were two traits, one which was direct effect of an individual on itself, and the other which was the indirect effect of an individual on others. Thus, for example, a direct effect trait might be the ability of a plant to absorb nutrients from the soil, and an indirect effect trait might be the extent to which a plant prevents neighbors from absorbing nutrients from the soil. The phenotype of an individual then is a combination of its ability to absorb nutrients, plus its neighbor’s ability to prevent it from absorbing nutrients.
Root competition
(Taken from: )
He also assumed that there was a genetic correlation between them. In the example of our nutrient uptake, plants that were good at taking up nutrients would do so by taking from their neighbors, and thus suppressing their nutrient uptake. This makes logical sense. That is, the way a plant obtains more nutrients is to increase the root system, and to aggressively extract nutrients out of the soil. The nutrients have to come from somewhere, and where they come from is from nutrients their neighbors would otherwise have absorbed.
This is the problem with individual selection. Individual selection can only act on the direct effects. The indirect effects are neutral with respect to individual selection. Thus, selecting for the highest yielding plants selects for those plants that can most successfully extract nutrients are selected regardless of what effect they may have on neighboring plants. The next generation, when the selected offspring are planted together, the aggressive interactions prevail, and instead of getting an increase in yield, you get an increase in aggressiveness, and with it an overall lowering of yield. In other words, aggressiveness is a neutral trait evolves as a correlated response to selection, and this correlated response lowers the overall yield of the population. In still other words, you get a field of mean plants that spend their time beating on each other instead of doing their job.
In contrast group selection the aggressiveness is not neutral since selection is on the yield of the entire group. When selection is applied at the group level those fields that have the overall highest yield will be selected. This will favor a balance between the direct effects (ability to garner nutrients) and indirect effects (aggressiveness) that maximizes overall yield of the field or group. Notice that the yield of individual plants in this group are likely to be lower than could be attained by individual selection alone, but so will the aggressiveness towards other plants. In short it will be a typical compromise, where nobody is happy (that is, no sub-trait is maximized), but the overall outcome is best for all (total yield is maximized).
The point of this parable is that there is an important shift that takes place as selection moves from one level to another. Aggressiveness is not a trait that individual selection can act on and genetic variation for aggressiveness has no effect on individual fitness. As we move to the group level, aggressiveness does contribute to the response to group selection. Thus, this higher level of selection is drawing in components of variation that were not available to individual selection. In short group selection leads to a qualitatively different adaptation than will occur as a result of individual selection. That is also why the classical models failed so miserably. They assumed that variation in traits measured at the group level were simply composites (averages) of traits measured at the individual level. Instead, group level traits must be assumed to be different traits with a different genetic basis that simply cannot be extrapolated from individual level effects.
Take that Haystack Model! (Maynard Smith 1964. Nature 201: 1145-1147.) (
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Qatar: How To Pronounce It, With Help From KISS
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Yeah, Houston won't be hosting any World Cup games. Qatar will.
Qatar actually has some Houston connections: HCC has a campus there, Qatar Airlines flies only to New York, DC and us in the U.S....but no one knows how to say it.
We turn to KISS, as in all things.
I know a thing or two about it
I know it'll only make you wail
The letters look like nothing normal (normal?)
But when you say it you're gonna fail
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OBA Part 5 - Building the SharePoint 2007 Workflow
OBA Part 5 - Building the SharePoint 2007 Workflow
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In my last few app building posts we've been building a simple Office Business Application (OBA) for the new Northwind Traders. If you missed them:
Today we're going to build out the SharePoint workflow using Visual Studio 2008 SharePoint 2007 workflow templates. There's a plethora of information on building these in the MSDN library. In order to develop against SharePoint you will need to set up your development environment properly so I would read this first if you're just getting started. My SharePoint development environment is a 32bit Windows 2008 Server running MOSS 2007 and Visual Studio Professional 2008 Service Pack 1. OBASPDiagram1
If you recall our architecture diagram of our Northwind Traders OBA involved our Sales Reps submitting purchase orders as Word 2007 documents up to SharePoint which kicked off a workflow to parse the document and update the database with the order data through our data service. This allows us to store the unstructured document on SharePoint and the structured order data in our database.
In Part 3 we built the code that does the parsing of the document, now we just need to get that code into our workflow. We’ll also build in a delay so that the workflow can check the database later to see if the order has been shipped and update the status appropriately. We’ll also take advantage of SharePoint’s workflow history and task list to report outcomes or any issues that may arise.
Creating a Document Library for the Purchase Order Documents
For this example we need to add a document library called Orders for the purchase order documents that are submitted. To create the document library, navigate to your SharePoint site and then in the right-had upper corner drop down the Site Actions, select Create (or just navigate to /_layouts/create.aspx) and then under Libraries select Document Library.
The only other property that I changed here is the document template, change that to Microsoft Office Word Document and then hit the Create button. This will bring you to the doc library and you’ll see the default fields in the column headers. We’re going to need to modify these to show the Order Status, an Order Number, the Shipped Date and the email address of the Sales Rep that submitted the order.
Click on Settings then select Create column to create new columns for the orders in the document library.
For this example I added the following columns:
1. Order Status
Choice (New, Processed, Shipped, On Hold, Canceled)
Required = No
Default = New
Add to Default View
2. Order Number
Single line of text
Required = No
Add to Default View
3. Shipped Date
Date Only (no Time)
Required = No
Add to Default View
4. Sales Rep Email
Single line of text
Required = Yes
Add to Default View
After I added these columns I added a new default view to display them in the order I want. Click on the Settings again and select Create view.
The only thing the user is required to fill out when they upload a new purchase order document is the sales rep’s email address. (Recall that we added this field to the database when we built the data service). The Order Status and Shipped Date will actually be filled out automatically by the workflow depending on whether the order is new or has been updated by the Excel client (which we built in the last OBA post) that the shipping department uses to mark orders as shipped. Order Number will also be assigned by the workflow. We’ll use this to correlate the data with the purchase order document here in the list so we’ll need to add this field to the database.
Adding the Order Number to Northwind
So now we have the document library set up, we’re almost ready to write the workflow. First we’ll need to add the OrderNumber field to the Orders table in the Northwind database and then refresh our data service service so that this starts to show up as an available field on the Order.
USE Northwind
OrderNumber nvarchar(25) NULL
In order to pick up this new field we need to refresh the Entity Data Model behind our data service. In the NorthwindDataService project open the NorthwindModel.edmx and then right-click on the design surface and select Refresh from database. This will pick up the OrderNumber field on the Order entity. Rebuild the data service.
Options on Hosting the Data Service for Workflow Development
If you’ve been following along and playing with the sample, you’ll notice that the NorthwindDataService project is currently set to be hosted in the ASP.NET development server right now so that testing the Excel and Outlook clients is easy. However at this point you may opt to deploy this to IIS instead so that you don’t have to remember to start it up manually every time you want to test the SharePoint Workflow. And of course for deployment to production you’ll need to host it in IIS anyway.
It gets slightly tricky if you want to host the data service in IIS on the same server as SharePoint because SharePoint takes over Port 80. So the easiest thing to do is to open IIS Manager and just create a new web site on Port 82 called NorthwindHost and then create a new application virtual directory called Northwind under that. By default, when you create a new web site it should also create a new Application Pool for you running under the identity NETWORK SERVICE. The identity you use here will need to have read and execute file permissions on the physical locations of any virtual directories you create as well as proper database permissions.
It’s XCOPY deployment at that point. Just copy the Web.Config, Northwind.svc and the \bin directory over to the physical location of the Northwind virtual directory and you should be good to go. You can do this in Visual Studio (if running as an administrator) just right-click on the NorthwindDataService project in the solution explorer and then select publish. Then enter http://localhost:82/Northwind/ (or whatever you named it) and it will build and publish the files there automatically.
Note however, that before the WCF service will activate you have to install the WCF service handlers into IIS. These may not be installed automatically so in Windows 2008 check the Server Manager, scroll down to the Features Summary and select “Add Features”. Then expand the first node “.NET 3.0 Features” and check WCF Activation.
Remember if you change the location of the data service then you need to update the settings in the Excel and Outlook client (app.config file).
Creating the SharePoint Workflow
If you’re not doing this already, restart Visual Studio and Run as Administrator. This is necessary so that you can deploy and debug your workflow. Next add a new project to the solution, File –> Add –> New Project. For this example we’re just going to create a simple SharePoint 2007 Sequential Workflow. (Note: You will need Visual Studio 2008 Professional and higher to get these templates.)
As I mentioned before the workflow will kick off when a new purchase order is added to the document library in order to parse the data in the document. So when the order is first added to the list it will have a status of New. After it is parsed we will set the status to Processed, which happens right away. Later, after the shipping department enters the shipped date in the Excel client and updates the Orders.ShippedDate field in the database, we need the workflow to wake back up and set the order status to Shipped. For this example I’m going to build a delay into the workflow to check the database (via our data service) every so often. For testing it can be a couple minutes but once we deploy we can set it to every couple hours. Note that if you’re building more statuses or states into your own workflows you may want to take a look at the State Machine Workflow template instead.
So the next step is to specify where your SharePoint site and document library resides, for development this is going to be http://YourServerName. Once you specify the site you can then select the Orders document library in the Library dropdown. Leave “Automatically associate workflow?” checked so that Visual Studio can deploy the workflow to the site automatically for us.
On the next page check off how you want to start the workflow. For this example we’ll select “When an item is created”. You can also check “Manually by users” which can be helpful when testing but it’s not necessary for our example. Note that you can change these settings later on the Workflow project -- from the Project menu select “SharePoint debug settings..”. You need to be running Visual Studio as an administrator to open these settings. You’ll need to do this if you’re going to run the Workflow in the sample code against your own SharePoint site.
When the project is created it will automatically add a workflow called Workflow1 and open the designer which will display an event activity for onWorkflowActivated. An OnWorkflowActivated activity must be the first activity in a Windows SharePoint Services workflow so Visual Studio automatically sets one up for us. I renamed Workflow1 to ProcessOrder in the Solution Explorer (I like descriptive names ;-)) which means I’ll also need to update the values for the CorrelationToken.OwnerActivityName as well as the WorkflowProperties.Name to set them to ProcessOrder:
Now you can start laying out the design of the workflow. If you have used the WF designer before then this part should be familiar. Take a look at your toolbox and you’ll see the SharePoint specific activities listed under the Workflow 3.0 and 3.5 tabs. The design of the workflow for this example will be simple.
There are three main blocks to the workflow that we’re going to build:
1. First is the parsing of the order data in the document which is a standard code activity that you find in the Windows Workflow v3.0 tab on the toolbox.
2. The second block is a standard While loop that contains a delay activity. This piece will periodically query the database until the Order.ShipDate is updated in the database by the Excel client.
3. The third block will be an IfElse activity which will check the Order status and either write an informational message to the History list in the case the order shipped successfully, otherwise we create a Task and assign it to the administrator for further investigation. The LogToHistoryListActivity and the CreateTask items can be found in the SharePoint Workflow tab on the toolbox.
Before we start writing the workflow code, let’s create some constants that we can use to refer to the data service URI, our order statuses, and list column names (I just added a new Module called Constants.vb):
Friend Module Constants
Public Const OrderStatusColumn As String = "Order Status"
Public Const OrderNumberColumn As String = "Order Number"
Public Const ShippedDateColumn As String = "Shipped Date"
Public Const SalesRepEmailColumn As String = "Sales Rep Email"
Public Const NewStatus As String = "New"
Public Const ShippedStatus As String = "Shipped"
Public Const ProcessedStatus As String = "Processed"
Public Const OnHoldStatus As String = "On Hold"
Public Const CanceledStatus As String = "Canceled"
Public Const ServiceURL As String = "http://localhost:82/NorthwindService/Northwind.svc"
End Module
Parsing the Order Document (CodeActivity parseOrder)
The Workflow kicks off immediately after a purchase order document is checked into the document library. The first code activity out of the gate is parsing the order document’s customXML for the order data we need. I already demonstrated a simple console application for extracting the order data from a Word document in Part 3. This code uses the Open XML SDK so you’ll need to download that and install it on your SharePoint server so that the assemblies are in the GAC. Then add an assembly reference to DocumentFormat.OpenXML.
From that console application project I copied the DocumentOderData.vb, Extensions.vb code files and the OrderEntry.xsd into the workflow project. Module1.vb had a method called ParseOrderDocument which parsed the docx file and populated a DocumentOrderData class with the information. I took that code and created a new class called Shredder and modified the interface a bit so that we could pass it a Microsoft.Sharepoint.SPFile class instead:
Imports DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging
Imports <xmlns="urn:microsoft:examples:oba">
Public Class Shredder
Public Function ParseOrderDocument(ByVal docFile As SPFile) As DocumentOrderData
Using docStream = docFile.OpenBinaryStream
Return ParseOrderDocument(WordprocessingDocument.Open(docStream, False))
End Using
End Function
Public Function ParseOrderDocument(ByVal wordDoc As WordprocessingDocument) As DocumentOrderData
We also had a means for adding this data to the database via a method called AddNewOrder. The only change we need here is to create a unique OrderNumber string, add it to the Order entity, and return it to the workflow so we can also set it on the list item in SharePoint. You can decide how you want to generate unique order numbers, whether you want them to be GIUDs or timestamps or some other random number. I like using a combination of the CustomerID and the current date&time so that it’s human readable.
Dim orderNum = Replace(Replace(Replace(cust.CustomerID & Now.ToString(), "/", ""), ":", ""), " ", "")
This will work as long as there aren’t two orders for the same customer submitted within the same second so depending on your actual scenario you may opt for a different strategy :-). So this AddNewOrder code I placed into a class called OrderManager which also encapsulates all calls to the data service. Speaking of our data service, we’ll need to add a Service Reference to the workflow project called NorthwindService (right-click on the workflow project and select Add Service Reference) which will add the database entity types to our project.
Now drop a CodeActivity onto the Workflow designer and in the properties window name it parseOrder. Then right-click on it in the designer and select Generate Handlers to automatically generate the parseOrder_ExecuteCode handler. If the order data is extracted and added to the database successfully then an order number is assigned and the status is set to Processed. If the document does not contain the <OrderEntry> CustomXML then the status will be set to Canceled. If there is a problem adding the data to the database then the status is set to On Hold. (Notice that this code also uses the Application.Log to write messages to the Event Log which you can see how to set up here.)
Public Class ProcessOrder
Inherits SequentialWorkflowActivity
Public workflowProperties As New SPWorkflowActivationProperties
Public Sub New()
End Sub
Private Sub parseOrder_ExecuteCode(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
'This method is executed once the purchase order is uploaded
' and checked into the document library
Dim orderNumber As String = ""
Dim shredder As New Shredder
'Valid OrderStatus: New, Processed, Shipped, Cancelled, On Hold
' (See Constants.vb for column and status strings)
Dim status = workflowProperties.Item(OrderStatusColumn).ToString()
If status = NewStatus Then
'Get order data out of the document
Dim docData = shredder.ParseOrderDocument(Me.workflowProperties.Item.File)
If docData IsNot Nothing Then
Dim manager As New OrderManager
Dim employeeEmail = workflowProperties.Item(SalesRepEmailColumn).ToString()
'Add order data to the DB (through the service) and return the order number.
orderNumber = manager.AddNewOrder(docData, employeeEmail)
If orderNumber <> "" Then
status = ProcessedStatus
My.Application.Log.WriteEntry( _
String.Format("Order {0} added to database successfully.", _
orderNumber), TraceEventType.Information)
status = OnHoldStatus
My.Application.Log.WriteEntry( _
String.Format("Order could not be added to database for {0}.", _
Me.workflowProperties.Item.Name), TraceEventType.Error)
End If
status = CanceledStatus
My.Application.Log.WriteEntry( _
String.Format("Invalid purchase order submitted for {0}", _
Me.workflowProperties.Item.Name), TraceEventType.Error)
End If
End If
If status <> "" Then
Me.workflowProperties.Item(OrderStatusColumn) = status
If orderNumber.Length() > 0 Then
Me.workflowProperties.Item(OrderNumberColumn) = orderNumber
End If
End If
Catch ex As Exception
End Try
End Sub
Now that the order is in the database, you can open the Excel client we wrote in part 4 and enter a ShippedDate and click save to update the order.
Querying the Database Periodically (WhileActivity waitForProcessed)
Next we need a WhileActivity so that we can check the database to see if the ShippedDate has been updated. Drag a standard While activity from the toolbox under the parseOrder and name it waitForProcessed in the properties window. Right-click on the designer and select View Code and write the following method:
Private Sub orderProcessed(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As ConditionalEventArgs)
Dim status = Me.workflowProperties.Item(OrderStatusColumn).ToString()
Dim orderNumber = Me.workflowProperties.Item(Constants.OrderNumberColumn).ToString()
If status <> ProcessedStatus Then
'End while branch and go to next step in sequence if status is:
' Canceled = invalid purchase order (no <OrderEntry> CustomXML found)
' On Hold = Could not add data to database (see error log for details)
e.Result = False
'Get order from DB
Dim manager As New OrderManager
Dim processedOrder = manager.GetOrder(orderNumber)
'If order was shipped (ShippedDate not NULL) then set Order Status to Shipped.
If processedOrder IsNot Nothing Then
If processedOrder.ShippedDate IsNot Nothing AndAlso _
processedOrder.ShippedDate.HasValue Then
My.Application.Log.WriteEntry( _
String.Format("Order {0} has shipped as of {1}", _
orderNumber, Now()), TraceEventType.Information)
Me.workflowProperties.Item(OrderStatusColumn) = ShippedStatus
Me.workflowProperties.Item(ShippedDateColumn) = processedOrder.ShippedDate
'end while branch and go to next step in sequence
e.Result = False
My.Application.Log.WriteEntry( _
String.Format("Order {0} has not shipped as of {1}", _
orderNumber, Now()), TraceEventType.Warning)
'keep workflow running until shipped or canceled
e.Result = True
End If
My.Application.Log.WriteEntry( _
String.Format("Order {0} has been deleted from the database", _
orderNumber, Now()), TraceEventType.Error)
Me.workflowProperties.Item(OrderStatusColumn) = CanceledStatus Me.workflowProperties.Item.Update() 'end while branch and go to next step in sequence e.Result = False End If End If Catch ex As Exception My.Application.Log.WriteException(ex) End Try End Sub
Notice in this code we’re referring to a method on the OrderManager called GetOrder which simply queries the Order entity from the database via the data service using LINQ:
Imports OBADemoWorkflow.NorthwindServiceReference
Public Class OrderManager
Private ctx As New NorthwindEntities(New Uri(Constants.ServiceURL))
Public Function AddNewOrder(ByVal docData As DocumentOrderData, _
ByVal employeeEmail As String) As String... Public Function GetOrder(ByVal orderNumber As String) As Order Try Dim theOrder = (From o In ctx.Orders _ Where o.OrderNumber = orderNumber).FirstOrDefault() Return theOrder Catch ex As Exception My.Application.Log.WriteException(ex) Return Nothing End Try End Function End Class
SPOBA11 Now you can go back to the designer and set the Condition on the waitForProcessed WhileActivity to the orderProcessed method. Set the Condition to a Code Condition and the dropdown will contain only those methods that have the right signature, i.e. have a ConditionalEventArgs parameter. The orderProcessed method will set the e.Result = True only if the order is in the Processed state, is still in the database, and its ShippedDate is still NULL. This means that the While activity will continue to run.
Because the shipping department most likely will not ship the order out the door the second the order is entered into the database (<g>), we need a way for our workflow to delay and check periodically. Depending on your business you may want to check hourly or even daily. For testing you probably want to check every minute or two. This is where the DelayActivity comes in. Drag a standard Delay activity onto the designer inside the While Activity and set the Timeout Duration in the properties window to 3 minutes or so.
Before we go on I want to mention that there were known issues with the Delay activities not firing correctly in SharePoint that are addressed by this KB Article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953630/. The SharePoint timer service (OWSTIMER.exe) is set to only wake up every 5 minutes, so you probably want to set that to a shorter interval in your testing environment otherwise you’ll have to wait at least 5 minutes no matter how short you set your Delay activity. Another other issue I noticed was sometimes on rebuild & redeployment I needed to restart the timer service manually from an admin command prompt:
>Net Stop SPTimerV3
>Net Start SPTimerV3
Also there is an issue with debugging delays. I couldn’t just press F5 to debug the workflow after the delay. Up until that point I debugged just fine (which is where almost all our code is in this example) but if I wanted to see the rest of the code execute after the delay then I needed to attach to the OWSTIMER.exe process (while you’re debugging, on the main menu select Tools –> Attach to Process). This is also one of the reasons why I enabled the Application.Log to send messages to the Event Log.
Wrapping Up the Workflow (History Logging and Creating Tasks)
The last piece of the workflow is simple, if the order is shipped we’ll just log a message to the workflow history list otherwise we’ll create a task for the administrator to investigate. Drop an IfElse activity under the While activity set and name it checkIfShipped. Then name the first branch ifShipped and the second branch elseNotShipped. In the ifShipped branch drop a LogToHistoryListActivity which is found in the SharePoint Workflow tab on the Toolbox. In the elseNotShipped drop a CreateTask activity. On the properties window for the CreateTask create a new field binding for both the TaskID and TaskProperties and enter a correlationToken with the parent activity set to ProcessOrder (the workflow).
Then right-click on both the CreateTask and LogToHistoryActivity and select Generate Handlers in order to generate the method stubs for each of them. We’ll also need a method called isOrderShipped with the same signature as the orderProcessed method above to be able to set it as the Code Condition of the ifShipped branch. We need to check the workflowProperties.Item for the order status and set the e.Result = True if the status is Shipped.
Private Sub isOrderShipped(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ConditionalEventArgs)
'Returns True if Order Status equals Shipped
Dim status = Me.workflowProperties.Item(OrderStatusColumn).ToString()
e.Result = (status = ShippedStatus)
End Sub
Private Sub createTask1_MethodInvoking(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
'This will execute if the workflow is ending but the Order Status
' is not Shipped (i.e. Canceled or On Hold).
' This code creates a workflow task item so the AssignedTo can investigate.
Dim status = Me.workflowProperties.Item(OrderStatusColumn).ToString()
Dim name = Me.workflowProperties.Item.Name
createTask1_TaskId1 = Guid.NewGuid()
createTask1_TaskProperties1.AssignedTo = "obavm09\wssdeveloper"
createTask1_TaskProperties1.Title = String.Format("Problem with order {0}", name)
createTask1_TaskProperties1.Description = String.Format("Order {0} as of {1}", status, Now)
Catch ex As Exception
End Try
End Sub
Private Sub logToHistoryListActivity1_MethodInvoking(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) logToHistoryListActivity1.HistoryOutcome = "Order has been shipped." End Sub
Testing the Workflow
In Visual Studio (still running as Administrator) Rebuild the solution. Then right-click on the OBADemoWorkflow project and select Deploy from the context menu. Now we can head over to the document library and upload some purchase orders. I used the one we created previously in Part 3 with ALFKI as the CustomerID. Go to the Orders document library, click Upload, Browse for the purchase order and click OK. Then fill out the required field Sales Rep Email (this is the Employee.EmailAddress field we added to the database in Part 1). Once you click “Check In” the workflow will kick off.
The Order status is first set to “New”….
But if you quickly refresh the list you will see that the Order Status and Order Number change as the order is processed and entered into the database.
Now the workflow is in its delay activity waiting for us to update the Order.ShippedDate. Open up the Excel client and enter something in the ShippedDate field and save the sheet (or manually modify the database). The next time the SharePoint timer runs it will waken our delay which will check the database again and set the status appropriately.
If you select the OBADemoWorkflow status (the last column in the view which is added automatically for us when we deploy) then you can see the status message in the Workflow History list. To see a task get created you can perform the same process but instead of updating the ShippedDate, delete the Order from the database (or delete the OrderNumber) and the workflow will set the status to Canceled and you will see a task in the list instead. And remember in testing we set the delay to a few minutes but in production Northwind Traders will be good with a 12 hour delay (gourmet foods don’t ship that quickly ;-)).
I’ve added this workflow to the sample code we’ve been building up on Code Gallery so have a look. I hope this real(er)-world, componentized sample has given you a good introduction into OBA and some of the awesome VSTO features of Visual Studio 2008.
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There a new and very interesting project on CodePlex today. It's a "bridge" that allows Subversion clients (like TortoiseSVN) to work against a TFS server. This project has been created by the team that develops CodePlex itself due to the popularity of Subversion clients. This bridge works at the protocol level by transforming the SVN protocol to the TFS protocol and back. It's still in it's infancy but it's something worth keeping an eye on.
Here's the project:
Keep in mind, of course, that using it still requires a TFS CAL, sorry - no free lunch here :)
Let me know what you think!
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Friday, February 03, 2012
Roasted Bits of Cabbage Heaven
Here was the question I asked on Facebook last week: "Do you eat vegetables? And I'm not talking about corn and potatoes, turns out those don't count. What's your favorite vegetable recipe? I'm in need of some new recipes and Pinterest is just filled with cake pops or clever ways to make cupcakes look like lady bugs, or crock pot meals. Help me eat more veggies! I'm bored with salad and green beans."
Turns out my friends do eat and cook vegetables, a lot. And did I get a lot of responses? Heck yeah, I did. Veggie loving creative friends to the rescue. I've got almost 25 new recipes to try. And zero excuses to eat salad all the time. So I'm going to work my way through most of these new recipes over the next few months. And other than an aversion to bok choy, leeks and mushrooms, Joe is up for it too.
I started this veggie recipe extravaganza with something I am familiar with and love on Monday. Because it was a Monday night and I'm notoriously low-key, read lazy, on Monday nights and not up for anything challenging or exciting. So we went with a modified version of Bethany's roasted Brussels sprouts. They were divine. I took her advice to use a little bacon fat on the sprouts and it made all the difference and while I had to cook some bacon to do that, why not toss about three crumbled pieces of bacon and some shallots into the mix? Joe and I devoured them. I had the leftovers for lunch the next day and I groaned in happiness, thankfully I was alone or I might have gotten some weird looks. But these sprouts are groan worthy. Like What About Bob groan worthy.
We had roasted asparagus on Wednesday night, but I forgot to take pictures. So you'll just have to trust me that we didn't have boring salad. I figured out the key to making roasted asparagus taste as good as it does in a fancy restaurant. More salt! Like more salt than is dignified or safe for those with high blood pressure. Salt did the trick and the asparagus were perfect. And it really wasn't that much salt, just more than I normally use. And though we did have salad twice this week, the inclusion of avocado, sweet grape tomatoes and some gorgonzola made it delicious. As Joe says, "I want to put avocado on everything."
Next week we are getting more adventurous with the veggies. We are trying green smoothies for breakfast, balsamic glazed carrots and quite possibly something cabbage based, if I can get over my aversion to actual cabbage. My grandfather used to just eat raw cabbage like he was biting into an apple and he made me try it once and I nearly threw up on myself. So cabbage and I are not friends. We'll see if we can work on that relationship. Can you roast cabbage in bacon fat? Because that might work. What are you eating this week?
Roasted Brussels Sprouts (from Bethany)
1. Preheat oven to 500F. Adjust one rack to lowest position and place baking pan on rack to preheat.
2. Prepare 2 lbs of brussels sprouts by removing the outer leaves and cutting off the bottom of the stalk on each sprout. Cut each in half from stem to top.
3. In a bowl, drizzle some olive oil (or melted bacon grease, yum) over the brussels sprouts and stir with your hands to make sure they're all evenly coated.
4. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Mix
5. Arrange sprouts on a baking sheet. I like to arrange mine so they're all face-down at first.
6. Roast for 10-15 minutes, turning sprouts halfway if you like. Roast until deeply charred and tender.
7. (I added this step) Eat and enjoy deeply, possibly moaning inappropriately in mixed company.
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AmyK said...
"And other than an aversion to bok choy, leeks and mushrooms, Joe is up for it to." JOE! you have some serious issues. Leek fritata? Garlic-worcestshire grilled portobello caps? Tender bok choy in the most amazing duck-based broth you've ever had? Sigh.
Kassie - Properly cooked cabbage is far and away better than its raw counterpart. And the braised cabbage recipe I sent you, absolutely use the bacon fat on it.
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CFP: Production, Critical Race Analysis and Literary Studies (grad) (11/20/06; 2/23/07-2/24/07)
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PRODUCTION: Critical Race Analysis and Literary Studies
Graduate Student Conferece
New York University, 23-24 February 2007
Coordinators at New York University seek abstracts for a two-day
conference on "production" at the intersection of critical race
analysis and literary studies. Organized by the Critical Race
Analysis and Literary Studies Colloquium (CRALS) at NYU, this
conference will provide an opportunity for graduate students to
present work that reflects on the significance of critical race
theories to teaching, research, and writing in departments of English
the analysis of cultural production, we are interested in examining
race as it bears meaning in the production of new critical frameworks
and in academic relations of production at the university level.
workplace are especially welcome. Other possible topics include:
-Genealogies of critical race analysis
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conceptions of the paraliterary
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Abusing Discrimination
Abusing Discrimination
In America at century’s end, the surest way to obtain special treatment for a social group is to assert that its members suffer from "discrimination." That catechism is well understood by feminists who are currently lobbying the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) on behalf of victims of domestic violence.
Bowing to pressure from a handful of self-styled consumer advocates, an NAIC working group that polices "unfair discrimination" in the insurance industry has spent the past several months drafting something called the "Unfair Discrimination Against Subjects of Abuse in Property and Casualty Insurance Model Act." The law would prevent property insurers from denying a claim if a policyholder’s loss occurred because of "abuse." Insurers would also be prohibited from canceling policies or raising premiums "on the basis of abuse status or abuse-related claims of the applicant or insured." Similar legislation has been introduced in Congress.
The impetus for this kind of regulation isn’t hard to understand. The O.J. Simpson trials greatly increased public awareness of – and sympathy for – victims of domestic abuse. As a consequence, politicians and citizen activists suddenly look askance at insurance companies that respond to an abuse victim’s escalating damage claims by raising rates or canceling coverage. Terry Fromson of the Women’s Law Project captured their visceral revulsion well when she announced to the NAIC working group at its June meeting in Chicago, "Victims of domestic abuse shouldn’t be penalized for something they’re not responsible for."
Unfortunately, that maxim misconceives the nature of insurance underwriting. Insurers are not moral arbiters. They don’t assign blame for life’s misfortunes, and they don’t apply sanctions. Moreover, it is extremely disingenuous to suggest insurers are practicing unfair discrimination when they respond to the higher loss costs associated with domestic violence by raising rates or denying coverage. That is, after all, how insurers treat all high-risk insureds.
Like any business, insurance providers try to structure the price of their products to reflect their costs. An insurer’s costs are largely determined by the loss experience of its customers. Since not all insureds have the same risk of incurring a loss, insurers try to control their costs by selecting and classifying the persons or properties to be insured on the basis of characteristics that are known to be associated with risk. The price and amount of coverage offered is determined by the risk class to which one is assigned.
Typically, if a property-casualty policyholder files three or more damage claims within a given period, either his premium will increase or his coverage will not be renewed. The proposed law prohibiting "discrimination" against victims of abuse would require insurers to grant a special dispensation if the policyholder claimed that a loss occurred because of domestic abuse. That this would establish fertile ground for fraud is only too obvious. But it should also be noted that to treat abuse-related claims less rigorously than other claims, as the model law would require, is itself an act of discrimination in favor of a particular class of high-risk individuals.
One must not overlook the significance of the qualifier "unfair" when considering what might constitute unfair discrimination in the context of insurance underwriting. Insurers practice fair and reasonable discrimination every day when they assess and classify applicants for insurance on the basis of risk.
Because insurance regulators understand that the modern system of insurance could not survive if insurers were required to treat all risks the same, they have tended historically to define "unfair discrimination" as discrimination unrelated to risk. Thus, if an insurer denied coverage due to racial or religious animus, rather than if the applicant presented an unacceptably high degree of risk, that would constitute unfair discrimination under the laws of all states. The subjects-of-abuse model law attempts to mimic this tradition by pretending that victims of abuse are an oppressed minority group – as if being abused were an immutable characteristic akin to race, gender, or disability.
So insulating claims that are ostensibly abuse-related from neutral, risk-based underwriting standards has nothing to do with preventing unfair discrimination. But that doesn’t mean policymakers are precluded from deciding that society’s interests are best served by mandating special treatment for a particular class of insureds.
There may, after all, be a broad social consensus in favor of recognizing yet another victim group and creating for it an entitlement to insurance coverage. Framing the issue in this way, however, raises troubling questions. Is it fair to force low-risk insureds to subsidize the increased cost of insuring high-risk policyholders? Considering the already high incidence of fraudulent damage claims plaguing the insurance industry, how are insurers to verify that a given policyholder’s claim stems from domestic abuse? And what might be the long-term effect of establishing a regulatory precedent that equates risk-based discrimination with invidious discrimination motivated by malice or bigotry? Also deserving scrutiny is the notion that insurance regulation should protect consumers from adverse underwiting decisions that stem from circumstances they cannot alter. A prominent argument advanced by the model law’s proponents is that since being a victim of abuse is not within the insured’s control, it is unfair for an insurer to treat abuse-related claims similar to damage claims resulting from voluntary high-risk activities, such as skiing or skydiving. In testimony before the NAIC, proponents of the model act repeatedly stressed that being a victim of chronic domestic violence is "not a voluntary lifestyle." As a rationale for special treatment, however, this assertion is problematic.
There are potentially a great many high-risk insureds who could plausibly argue that their risk characteristics are beyond their control. An incompetent driver, for example, could explain his history of multiple accidents by citing his congenitally slow reflexes.
Conundrums such as these are obscured when the question of how to treat abuse-related property insurance claims is cast in terms of prohibiting discrimination. So it is hardly surprising that advocates have persistently invoked the discrimination mantra. In written comments submitted to the Unfair Discrimination Working Group at the NAIC’s summer meeting, the Northwest Women’s Law Center urged regulators to "protect the innocent victims of domestic violence from discriminatory insurance practices." According to the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the NAIC’s mission must be to "prohibit insurers from penalizing victims of abuse on the basis of the acts of the batterer." A complex policy debate is thus reduced to a Manichean struggle that pits the enemies of discrimination against its practitioners.
None of this is to suggest, of course, that the problem of domestic abuse should be ignored. The state has a fundamental obligation to identify, arrest, and prosecute those responsible for domestic violence. Charitable and religious organizations can lend their assistance by counseling victims to disengage themselves from their abusers. But the NAIC should reject the canard that treating abuse-related claims like other claims constitutes unfair discrimination. Then perhaps we can have a rational conversation about how insurance companies and others should respond to a tragic and vexatious social problem.
Robert Detlefsen is Director of CEI’s Insurance Reform Project.
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Friday, 10 January 2014
Rewiring Stem Cells
Rewiring Stem Cells
Friday, 10 January 2014
This is a set of chromosomes in haploid mouse
embryonic stem cells. Credit: Martin Leeb.
The method uses stem cells with a single set of chromosomes, instead of the two sets found in most cells, to reveal what causes the "circuitry" of stem cells to be rewired as they begin the process of conversion into other cell types. The same method could also be used to understand a range of biological processes.
Embryonic stem cells rely on a particular gene circuitry to retain their original, undifferentiated state, making them self-renewing. The dismantling of this circuitry is what allows stem cells to start converting into other types of cells - a process known as cell differentiation - but how this happens is poorly understood.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute have developed a technique which can pinpoint the factors which drive cell differentiation, including many that were previously unidentified. The method, outlined in the Thursday (9 January) edition of the journal Cell Stem Cell, uses stem cells with a single set of chromosomes to uncover how cell differentiation works.
Cells in mammals contain two sets of chromosomes – one set inherited from the mother and one from the father. This can present a challenge when studying the function of genes, however: as each cell contains two copies of each gene, determining the link between a genetic change and its physical effect, or phenotype, is immensely complex.
"The conventional approach is to work gene by gene, and in the past people would have spent most of their careers looking at one mutation or one gene," said Dr Martin Leeb, who led the research, in collaboration with Professor Austin Smith.
"Today, the process is a bit faster, but it's still a methodical gene by gene approach because when you have an organism with two sets of chromosomes that's really the only way you can go."
Dr Leeb used unfertilised mouse eggs to generate embryonic stem cells with a single set of chromosomes, known as haploid stem cells. These haploid cells show all of the same characteristics as stem cells with two sets of chromosomes, and retain the same full developmental potential, making them a powerful tool for determining how the genetic circuitry of mammalian development functions.
The researchers used transposons – "jumping genes" – to make mutations in nearly all genes. The effect of a mutation can be seen immediately in haploid cells because there is no second gene copy. Additionally, since embryonic stem cells can convert into almost any cell type, the haploid stem cells can be used to investigate any number of conditions in any number of cell types. Mutations with important biological effects can then rapidly be traced to individual genes by next generation DNA sequencing.
"This is a powerful and revolutionary new tool for discovering how gene circuits operate," said Dr Leeb.
"The cells and the methodology we've developed could be applied to a huge range of biological questions."
Contact: Sarah Collins
Genetic Exploration of the Exit from Self-Renewal Using Haploid Embryonic Stem Cells
Martin Leeb, Sabine Dietmann, Maike Paramor, Hitoshi Niwa, Austin Smith
Cell Stem Cell, 09 January 2014, 10.1016/j.stem.2013.12.008
For more on stem cells and cloning, go to CellNEWS at
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I've noticed sometimes in polite company or in the company of strangers some people will saying they are going to wash their hands 去洗手 (qù xǐshǒu) instead of going to the toilet 去上厕所 (qù shàng cèsuǒ).
Alternatively, asking for the 洗手间 (xǐshǒujiān) instead of the 厕所 (cèsuǒ).
Is this something that should be copied? Does it matter for guys, is this more feminine to say 洗手?
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I highly doubt 洗手 is more feminine. The two terms are basically synonymous for bathroom/toilet, but you could say 洗手 is more like an euphemism – Zhanger Dec 15 '11 at 10:11
补妆 is more feminine not 洗手 – AntiGameZ Dec 15 '11 at 10:14
Lucky you don't have friends like mine, some of the boys just go 拉屎 (lit. pull a shit) which I think sounds pretty nasty! – Ciaocibai Dec 15 '11 at 10:29
@Ciaocibai: That is a bit funny 8-) – dr Hannibal Lecter Dec 15 '11 at 15:34
厕所 could sound unrefined... My mother told me when I was a child that I should say 卫生间 instead of 厕所... – user58955 Sep 23 '13 at 6:46
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Roughly speaking, 洗手间 = bathroom/restroom and 厕所 = toilet.
洗手 literally means wash hands. It's not feminine, it's just more polite as you mentioned.
You can use either in most cases. You would use 洗手间 while eating or when talking to someone you don't know very well.
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