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RAND objection
From: Bryan Montford <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 11:10:25 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
I won’t waste time restating arguments previously made by others. But it
seems to me that there is a clear and prevalent message – Patents and Web
“Standards” should be kept as far apart from each other as possible. At
minimum, there should be complete disclosure of any license issues with any
current or proposed technology. And the W3C shouldn’t encourage entities to
pursue patents on proposed “standards” and their related technologies.
I’ve been a strong supporter of the W3C since its inception. It troubles me
to see this proposal and makes me stop and question what I’ve been
supporting all of these years.
I hope that the W3C will discontinue this current course of action and once
again embrace a mission to help further communications in our global
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Does RDF overlap w/XML Schema
From: Jay Roberts <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:51:26 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
RDF is a new topic for me. Reading the FAQ, it sounds a lot like XML
Schema - an XML-based meta-data system. Is there some standard boilerplate
about why there is a need for two XML meta-data systems?
Jay Roberts
(w) 202.628.4438
(x) 202.628.7120
The Adrenaline Group
1445 New York Ave, NW
4th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
After (Hardcover)
Devon is fifteen-years-old. She's a soccer star with a sketchy mom. She gets straight-A's and plans to play for a Division 1 school. All is going according to plan.
Until Devon gives birth and throws the baby into the dumpster behind her apartment.
Devon is quickly arrested and sent to juvie. Her whole defense on the I-didn't-know-I-was-pregnant-despite-birthing-a-baby-and-putting-it-in-the-trash situation is that she doesn't remember what happened. Hell, who would want to remember that? The only problem though (besides this being quite possibly the worst defense ever) is that Devon is having flashbacks.
As hard as it is for ex-good girl Devon, she starts to integrate into the juvie's school. The school work is too easy for Devon, though. As the teacher explains, a lot of the girls are barely scraping by doing the seventh grade work. Devon was an AP student. The teacher offers to let her learn independently. That's great and all, but Devon still has to deal with Karma, Devon's very first frenemy. Yep.
Most of the book focuses on the hearing to determine if Devon's case will be tried in juvenile or grown-up court. Yep. Page after page of some quality court. Woo!
The book ends rather abruptly as Devon decides her next move. Dun dun dunnnn.
• The book is really about Devon's defense. How wrong is she if she can't remember what she did? What about the contributing factors leading to Devon having deep enough denial to ignore a pregnancy? How miserable was Devon growing up with a teenage mother that she'd rather ignore her own pregnancy and throw away the baby than face motherhood?
• Holy moral dilemma!
• I remember having the What-would-you-do-if-you-got-pregnant? conversation with some friends during freshmen year of college. Without hesitating one friend said, "I'd just exercise and not eat. I know I could do it. There would be no baby." Uh, what? Anyway, I count this as evidence that the hypothetical pregnancy of a 19-year-old was causing the girl to shit a brick. Think about a 15-year-old.
• So yes. Devon did the wrong thing by throwing her baby in the trash. There's no excuse for that. But I think a lot of people can relate to her feelings of desperation and panic.
• Except...I'm pretty sure that if I got pregnant even now, my parents would be pissed, but they'd deal with it. A baby is a hell of a lot easier to deal with than a prison sentence, though.
• And actually, my mom has had those really uncomfortable talks with me. The Please-tell-me-if-you-ever-get-pregnant-rather-than-hiding-it-and-throwing-the-baby-in-the-trash talk. Literally.
• Devon Sky Davenport. Definitely an unfortunate name.
• Why is Devon so hung up on the name Sky? I know at least two people named Skyler. It's even gender neutral. It's not a problem for either of them. Why such a problem, Devon?
• I'd be way more upset about the Devon Davenport situation. Devon admits that her mother had wanted her to be a soap opera star. So the soap opera character name was for good measure?
• There are constant soccer metaphors. I get it Devon. You played soccer. Does that really mean that you relate every single thing to soccer? Do you really equate your trial to a giant game of soccer?
• For being a high achiever, this girl is really focused on the fact that her lawyer is a woman. Silly woman. She should stop defending Devon and get back in the kitchen.
• I want to punch Karma in the throat. Every sentence out of her mouth is a quote from her "good friend Anonymous."
• There's a Hey Arnold (I think...) where a love poem is signed Anonymous. Arnold (again, I think...) thought that Anonymous was the name of a person. Someone should tell him that Karma knows her!
• Devon had to pick out people to be character witnesses. I would be terrible at that. I can barely ask people for letters of reference.
• I do feel bad for Devon because of her mother. Her mother works two jobs and is constantly parading men through their apartment. Devon's mom seems more the type that wants to be your friend rather than your mother. That's not fair to Devon.
• I do feel bad that no one has called Connor, the boy that fathered Devon's baby. He never even knew that Devon was pregnant.
• Witnesses kept saying that there was no way that Devon didn't know she was pregnant. Uh, isn't the show I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant showing us that it is possible to give birth without knowing that you're pregnant?
• My aunt works at the same university that I attend. She told me that about two or three students a year pull a I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant. It's a medium sized school. Damn.
• A little author's note says that it is estimated that one baby is thrown in the trash a day. Holy crap.
• Even scarier? There are safe haven laws. So how many babies were abandoned before the safe haven laws?
• The book reminds me a lot of Jodi Picoult books. I've read a couple and come to regret it every time. Like JP's books, this one puts most of the focus on the court trial. Which yes, that is the focus of the story...but really...Do you want to read 200 pages of testimony and court proceedings and depositions and what not? Yeah, me either.
• I can't even say how hard I'm working to hold back on the spoiler situation. Because this one is worth it. And not obvious from the beginning. In a totally out of character move, I didn't even peek. Except once on accident, and I only read the last sentence which I interpreted completely wrong.
What Would Dumbledore Do?
He'd fight for his right to marriage equality!
(via theborderline)
P.S. You can find both of these images at the kick-ass tumblr Fuck Yeah, Protest!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Th1rteen R3asons Why
Dudes. This is gonna be a short one. As in few to no spoilers. Normally, I'm all about the spoilers. I like knowing that a character I like will still be alive and well at the end of the book. No sense in getting emotionally attached to a character if he/she/it is just gonna die in a few hundred pages. So, anyway, this is one book that spoilers would have ruined for me. Meaning that I have little to nothing to say about it.
Clay comes home from school one day to find a box sitting on the porch. Addressed to him, it's full of tapes. Creepily enough, they're from Hannah. She committed suicide two weeks earlier. The tapes include instructions to listen to the complete set and mail them onto the next person on the list. If the tapes aren't passed on, a third party person has a set, too. In that case, the person has instructions to release the tapes to the public, thus exposing the people on the tapes for who they really are.
Clay spends one extremely draining night listening to the tapes. They detail the thirteen reasons why she committed suicide. Thirteen people why. There are thirteen people, Clay included, that were part of something bigger than they could have imagined.
Tape after tape, Clay can't figure out how he is related to the whole mess. He didn't window peep or start rumors about Hannah. He didn't cause an accident or allow a crime to occur. He just loved Hannah from afar. He just worked at the same movie theater to be close to her. He had just made out with her the first time a few weeks earlier. He was just there too late.
• I don't know how to describe why this book is good. It's not that it's extremely well written. It's not that you get a lot of background on the people mentioned on the tapes. The suspense is where it's at, though. It's the idea of hearing Hannah's voice from beyond the grave, spilling the reasons for her suicide--reasons that the people on the tape could have prevented.
• Everyone is effected (affected? I'll never know...) by suicide in some way or another. Most people know someone that has (or, unfortunately, will) commit suicide. I am no exception. Chances are, neither are you.
• Do you know what kind of hot commodity this book is? I went to go check it out at the library and it was bad news bears. Someone had stolen this book. Who the hell does that? Good news, though. It was returned. Obviously.
• I'm not even going to pretend like I'm not annoyed by the title's brush with l33t. With the exception of my constant attempt to work the word n00b into conversations, I'm too old for that shiz. I celebrate the fact that my peers have moved past that, so now they can use their grown-up letters when communicating with me via internet or text.
• Okay. I just got that the numbers in the title are 1 and 3. Like 13. Like 13 reasons why. Durrr.
• I love Hannah's shoes on the cover. And her hat. And skirt. And sweater. Just based on fashion choices alone, I'd want to be this girl's friend.
• Did I mention the suspense factor? Holy crap.
• Clay's feelings for Hannah definitely remind me of Ben's feelings for Amy in The Secret Life of the American Teenager. And yes, I am embarrassed to have just made that comparison.
• How could so many people in one high school be so terrible? The book just covers what Hannah witnessed...and was horrible. What's going on in the rest of this high school?
• The entire time I was reading this book, I kept thinking that Clay sounded like the kind of boy I should could have liked in high school. Mmmmmm.
• Conclusion: Totally an up-to-4am-reading kinda book. You've been warned.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key
I put this book on hold at the library the day after I got home from school. It had an 89 day wait. Clearly, this book is way ahead of it's schedule. I understand why. I read this bad boy in less than 24 hours. Possibly because I'm unemployed (but only for another day!!!).
There was something that really bothered me about this book though. Read this book. And then read Tracy Chevalier's Virgin Blue. In the interview with Rosnay at the end of the book, she even cites Chevalier's other book, Girl With a Pearl Earring, as one of her favorite books. The similarities between Virgin Blue and Sarah's Key are a little too much for my taste:
Alternating chapters between a woman at a historically important time and a modern woman. Historical event is rather obscure, but still very important. Modern woman is transplanted from America to France and feeling out of place. Arrogant, unsupportive architect husband that is always away on business trips. Difficult pregnancies. Modern woman's obsession with historical woman. Secret research trips to the French countryside. End of marriage. Implied relationship with man that was connected to the research on the historical woman.
But hey, that's probably a more common theme than I realize.
Anyway. About Sarah and her key:
Julia is that modern day woman mentioned before. She's American but living in Paris with her arrogant architect husband. They have one daughter, Zoe, but Julia would have loved more children. Her in-laws are stereotypical French people--basically, they have giant sticks up their asses. Classic.
Julia's a reporter for a magazine for Americans living in France, Seine Scenes. Cute name, right? Julia's boss tells her to research the Vel d'Hiv for it's 60th anniversary. I know, I know. You're like Vel d'what? Me too, me too.
So timeout for a history lesson 'cause the French don't like to tell us about it:
It's World War II. July 16, 1942 to be more specific. The Nazis are out collecting the Jewish townfolk. The French get an order to round up some Jewish adults. Previous round ups had only collected men, so all the menfolk were hiding out. Leaving just the women and children at home. The French police were so darn eager to please and avoid Nazi intervention that they arrested the kiddos too. (The Nazis had intended for the under fifteen crowd be sent to foundations.) About 4,000 children under the age of fifteen were arrested that day. (And actually, I heard before that this was the power of Hitler. He didn't order a lot of the torture in the concentration camps. People were just really eager to please him by going above and beyond. That worked out well...) The French police reaction to the round up was described as "enthusiastic."
Where does one store 13,000 Jews that have been ripped from their beds? In the stadium, of course. 13,000 people were held in the Vel d'Hiv stadium for six days. In the summer. Without food or water or bathrooms. Basically, the Vel d'Hiv was a post-Hurricane Katrina Superdome but much, much worse. All the while, the French police kept on doing their jobs. And Parisians didn't really think much about what was going on.
After six sweltering days, the people were sent to Drancy, a concentration camp in the Parisian 'burbs. Yup. Right there in the 'burbs. (It's been renovated. It's now an apartment complex. Seriously. That's sick.) The men and women were immediately sent to Auschwitz. The kids were left behind. Eventually, the children were sent away to be killed, too.
Back to plot:
In this story, eight-year-old Sarah thinks that her family will return to their apartment later that day. She doesn't know that her family is being rounded up for a death camp. She decides to tuck her three-year-old brother into a hidden cupboard to hide. The key is hidden in her pocket. As one can imagine, Sarah is devastated by each second that she is away from her brother.
After about a week, Sarah and her family are taken to Drancy. There, her father is immediately sent to Auschwitz. After a few more days, Sarah and her mother are separated. Her mother is sent on to Auschwitz. The children are told that they'll all be reunited there. Sarah ain't no fool, though. The kids' names aren't recorded. And they're not getting much food.
Sarah and a girl named Rachel decide to climb under the fence to run away. What choice do they have? As Sarah is wriggling under, someone grabs her ankle and pulls her back. Lucky her, though, it's her friendly neighborhood policeman! He recognizes Sarah and encourages her to run away. He even slips her some money.
After a night in the woods and a near brush with some Nazis, the girls fall asleep in a dog house. In the morning, the owner of the house finds them. Thankfully, he and his wife are sympathetic to them and take them in. Unfortunately, Rachel has developed dysentery. The couple find a doctor to treat Rachel, but the doctor ends up turning them in to the Nazis. Rachel is taken back to the camp, but Sarah is kept safe. The doctor never saw or heard about Sarah.
Sarah survives the war and grows up as the couple's granddaughter. But first she gets them to take her back to Paris so she can find her brother. Awesome idea, right? Especially since it's WWII, and the Nazis frowned upon having undocumented Jewish kids running around. Luckily, Sarah's able to bribe people to let her on and off the train. I question this.
That's basically what's going on at Sarah's end of things.
Back to Julia and her research--She finds out from her husband's grandmother that the family's apartment was vacated in July 1942. Coincidence? Nah. Julia's father-in-law ends up telling her about this little girl that came to the apartment during WWII. She had a key for a cupboard that no had ever noticed before. By this time, it's around August or September. The father-in-law never saw what was in the cupboard, but he heard the girl shitting a brick. But mostly he remembered the smell. Julia's all ripped up about this. I can imagine why.
She heads to New York to visit her family for the summer. While there, she looks up Sarah and heads to Connecticut or wherever to meet her. Without calling first. When Julia shows up, it's immediately evident that she is not talking to Sarah. Actually, it's Sarah's husband's second wife. Sarah died in the '70s.
So what's the next logical step? Why, fly to Italy to find Sarah's son, Paul. He's there. He shits a brick 'cause guess what! Sarah never mentioned the whole being Jewish/having a brother/escaping a concentration camp to him! So this guy is flipping out (as one would expect) and Julia's sitting there possibly miscarrying the baby she conveniently conceived recently after years of struggle. Mmmhhm. Julia's husband was super pissed (of course!) because he finds out his wife and daughter are in Italy after receiving a phone call that Julia is in the hospital there.
Julia's marriage ends. (A special thanks goes out to her husband's long-term mistress and his abort-or-divorce ultimatum!) Julia, Zoe, and the baby move to New York City. Do you know who else is recently divorced and living in New York? Why Paul, of course! And who, as Zoe predicted, was Googling Julia as she Googled him? Paul! They meet up and have coffee. He's come to terms with all that shiz that Julia laid on him. It's definitely implied that Julia and Paul may be pursuing a relationship. Which is kind of sick, considering Julia's previous obsession with his mother. Or the part where she named her new baby after Sarah. Creeepy.
• Apparently, you could rent the Vel d'Hiv out for your own purposes. Sporting event, family reunion, birthday party, Nazi sponsored round up. That doesn't look good on a brochure. And thus, the building was bulldozed a few years later.
• What are the chances that the police officer from Sarah's neighborhood would be the one to catch her trying to escape the camp?
• The concentration camp that the people from Vel d'Hiv were sent to before Auschwitz is now an apartment complex. Yep. You, too, could rent a cell apartment to raise your family in. How wholesome!
• Sarah's chapters end about halfway through the book. Disappointing! They were my favorites!
• I did like that all of the chapters were about two or three pages long. None of that rambling crap (that I am sooo guilty of!) that make me start to skim!
• And Julia? Sometimes she was kind of boring...
• Sarah's husband's second wife is from Italy. So the man had a thing for the foreign ladies.
• Do people really just jet off to other countries on whims? I've never had a whim that awesome or the frequent flier miles to justify it.
• I am not nice enough person to be a Frenchman's wife. Uh-uh. I would bust a cap at the first proof of a mistress. Not cool, dude. Not cool.
• I think having an 89 day hold made me like more than if I had just read it without knowing that other people were clamoring for it. I don't like that that swayed me toward liking it. Even after the Virgin Blue situation.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Don't Piss Me Off.
Disclaimer: Yes. I am a closeted bitch. I just spent more than ten hours of my day in three different airports and three more hours in a car. I've been awake since 3:30 in the morning, too. Sorry I'm not crapping rainbows and butterflies for y'all. (I learned that word in Texas...)
I don't hide the fact that my main source of literary irritation is my BFF Nicholas Sparks. I'm happy to report that my previous post about how much I just love him resulted in my very first bitchy comment:
what is wrong with you Nicholas Sparks is like the most amazing and powerful writer there will ever be. you probably tried writing and failed miserably so why don't you get over your self and learn to appreciate good literature??? Because Nicholas Sparks rocks my socks!!! <3
Sadly, this commenter left a name but not a link to a blog or e-mail. Thus, I am forced to address this here with a good, old literary analysis.
Let's see.
1. What is wrong with me? I've read a lot of books. I've hated a lot of books, but I've loved even more. I trust myself to know what is a good book and a bad book. I am capable of recognizing bad writing. That's what's wrong with me.
2. Am I a failed writer? Uh, no actually. Unlike this darling commenter, I have a firm grasp on the punctuation situation. I also like to keep my run-on sentences to a minimum. (Low blow, I know. It had to be said, though.)
3. My writing experience is limited to this blog and my public school education. In no way do I claim to be a professional writer or have I ever attempted to profit from anything I've written. Commenter, if you're wondering, I took two years of Advanced Placement English. I scored a five in language and a three in literature. This is evidence that I actually do know a thing or two about grammar, punctuation, and literature. Also, I was published three separate times in an annual tri-county journal for elementary school writers. In fifth grade, I was published in Kaleidoscope, a book of "outstanding student writing" from the kiddos of Michigan. I also got a B+ in English 201, despite sleeping through it most days. And yes, my mother is very proud.
4. I am over myself, thank you. I didn't realize that expressing my opinion on my own blog was a problem for you. Next time, I'll refrain from that.
5. I do appreciate good literature, thank you. My bookshelves are crammed with books by people named Shakespeare, Austen, Bronte, Chabon, Eugendies, Doyle, Hemingway, Mitchell, Camus, Plath, Tan, Maguire, and, of course, Ann Martin and J.K. Rowling. Most people (including literary experts!) agree that these people are responsible for "good literature." Don't worry, I do appreciate them! (Except Camus and Chabon, a little.)
6. I shouldn't have to say this, but this is my blog. Respect me, please. I have no problem if you want to disagree with me. Dawn Schafer is your favorite BSCer? Back that shit up! So Nicholas Sparks is the "most amazing and powerful writer there will ever be"? He rocks your socks off? How is he the most amazing and powerful? I believe I gave plenty of evidence supporting my claim that Nicholas Sparks was not the "most amazing and powerful writer there will ever be." I offered you quotes from him comparing himself to the Greek tragedies and criticizing Shakespeare, Hemingway, and Austen--authors that are confirmed to be "amazing and powerful," timeless, and classic. Did I mention that these authors changed the way that people write today? As with Sarah Palin, I really would love to hear a better argument than "amazing and powerful." Please, do tell.
7. Nicholas Sparks rocks your socks. You said it yourself. He doesn't rock my socks, though. I don't even own socks to be rocked, if you must know.
8. Literature is a form of art. Everyone has different tastes. Not everyone loves Monet or Bernini or Dali. Not even Sister Wendy. I find it hard to believe that this commenter loves every piece of "literature" that she reads. As a matter of fact, neither do I.
9. Nicholas Sparks is, in my opinion, a terrible writer. Yup. I stand by that statement. Despite the commenter's compelling argument, I am not swayed in the least.
P.S. Thanks for the rude comment! I am actually kind of proud! I feel just like a post-op Heidi Montag! And no, the comment did not wound me in the least. I'm more irritated by the grammar and poor argument than I am by being insulted. Take note, future haters!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Choke (Paperback)
Victor Mancini is:
1. A sex addict.
2. A medical school drop-out.
3. A reenacter at 1734 colonial Dunsboro.
4. A fake choker.
5. Possibly the son of Jesus, the grandson of God.
Except guess what!(?) (I'm never sure if a question mark should go after 'guess what'. People do it both ways. I'm not asking you to guess. I'm demanding it!) None of this really plays a big role in the story. Each of these details just has a guest appearance in the actual story.
Yeah, he's a sex addict, but he hardly goes to meetings. When he does go to meetings, he's probably busy having sex in the bathroom with one of the girls on release from jail to go to the meeting. Or he's "raping" Gwen, the fellow sex addict he found in the book store.
And yeah, Victor did drop out of medical school. This is really just a teeny detail. The only way it's brought in is with Victor's obsession with self-diagnosis. Medical school taught him to see the worst in every symptom. On the bright side, his training did lead to him advising a stripper to have her mole checked out. Possible melanoma averted!
Mmm. Yes. The choking. Victor chokes. Or at least he pretends to. Then, people in the restaurant give him the Heimlich, feel like heroes, and send him checks for his birthday. This seems like a really complicated scheme. Like what if the person doesn't feel inclined to send him money? Anyway, the people send him cards and money. 'Cause Colonial Dunsboro doesn't pay so much. The job sucks. Enough said.
The last important thing with Victor is his genetics. He has no idea who his father is. His mother is in a nursing home/psychiatric hospital with Alzheimer's so she can't tell him. It doesn't help that she was a con artist in her younger years. Victor doesn't know what to believe from her. She filled his childhood with lies and manipulation.
Everything was a sign for something else. Paging a certain name meant a bomb. Playing a certain song meant disaster. Victor's mother communicated with him through these signs. Time after time, she'd get released from prison and Victor would hear a page or a fire alarm. He'd make his way outside to be reunited with her while his foster mother waited unsuspectingly.
At his mother's care home, there is Dr. Paige Marshall. She's intent on saving his mother, who requires a feeding tube Victor can't afford. Paige's more cost effective solution is to repair his mother's brain by using embryonic tissue...tissue that would be obtained from a fetus with Victor-Paige DNA and conceived the old fashioned way. Victor balks at this idea. Because, yes, he is a sex addict and under other circumstances, he'd want to be with Paige, but he can't get behind the idea of having a fetus aborted to save his mother. Truth be told, he doesn't know if he wants to save his mother.
Victor's mother thinks that Victor is one of her many public defenders, rather than her son. She insists that she has to see her son so she can tell him about the secret of his paternity. Victor brings in his friend Denny in to pose as him. His mother tells Denny/Victor that his paternity is revealed in her diary. So Victor cracks that bad boy open. Problem? It's written in Italian. Luckily, Paige reads Italian! After a few days, she tells Victor that he was conceived through an experiment at the Vatican. His Y chromosome came from the foreskin of Jesus Christ himself. She's even called clinics in Italy that are corroborating her story. This makes Victor even more hesitant to impregnate Paige to save his mother. You can't abort God's grandchild, even if it is to save your dying ex-criminal mother.
Finally, his mother tells him the truth about his paternity. And maternity. She needed American citizenship. Therefore, she needed a baby. So, how does one procure a little Victor Mancini? By snatching him out of his stroller in Iowa. Victor's mother was really his kidnapper. Fabulous.
It all ends with Victor trying to feed his mother pudding to save her. She chokes and dies. Paige tells him that she'll take the blame. She's leaving soon anyway. She has to go back to the year 2053. Yup. Paige isn't really a doctor. More of a psychiatric patient that the hospital humors by playing along with her delusions. Good thing Victor didn't take her up on the whole impregnation thing.
• My feelings for this book are hard to describe. I liked it because the voice was extremely different from everything else I've read lately. I also didn't like it, though.
• You know those low-budget indie movies that people just love? Because they're life changing and deep or whatever? And I'm always the only one to point out that there isn't much in the way of a plot? Yeah. Right here.
• I could have lived without hearing about the overweight man dressed as Tarzan having his trained chimpanzee put walnuts into his anus. Yep. Mark walnuts as one food I won't be consuming anymore.
• Colonial Dunsboro sounds disgusting. The staff is always high or having sex in barns. Fourth graders shake the chicken eggs up, resulting in mutilated chickens. And Denny is always locked in the stocks with his ass hanging out and his nose dripping on his shoes. Yum.
• My grandmother choked on shrimp in a restaurant in 1999. There were paramedics already there for someone else. One ran over, gave her the Heimlich, and returned to help give the other person CPR. It was all very dramatic. Except? No one sends my grandmother checks or feels connected to her for the rest of their lives. And I haven't eaten shrimp since.
• How does Victor get the people hooked into regularly sending him money? Or feeling a life-long connection?
• How did Victor always know when it was a signal from his mother? How many fire alarms did he ignore because they weren't from her? How many people were paged with him knowing that it wasn't really his mother?
• I'm a little pissed that Victor never searched out his biological parents. If what his mother said was true, it shouldn't be hard to locate them.
P.S. I won't be around for awhile, so don't miss me too much. The state of Texas requires my presence, so I'll be back next week! And, joy of joys, I've already got blogging to catch up on. That pile of books isn't going to take care of itself!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
We're all familiar with the movie version, right? You better be. The book version is a bit different, though. Like less about Caroline. And by less, I mean almost nothing compared to the movie. Like she doesn't get lost. Yep.
In honor of Nick and Norah, my status as a music whore, and a deep desire to crawl through my iTunes (almost 18,000 songs!), I'll be summarizing the plot in playlist form. In super cheesy let's-put-it-on-a-mix-tape playlist form. Ready?
Enter book plot:
Nick is heart broken. Tris broke up with him three weeks and three days ago. He sees her at his queercore band's show. Already, she's with a new guy. Nick can't understand how she's already moved on.
Norah and BFF Caroline are at a show when they run into Tris. Tris is not a friend and not not a friend. She falls into an in-between place where she helps Norah through a pregnancy scare but cheats on her boyfriend, much to Norah and Caroline's disgust.
Nick grabs Norah at the bar and asks her to be his girlfriend for five minutes. With Tris and her new man quickly approaching, he needs to look like he's moved on.
Norah agrees but only to show Tris that she's not "frigid."
Nick's band mates are thrilled that Nick is talkin' to a real-live girl, as opposed to pining over Tris. With that, they agree to take Caroline home if Norah shows Nick a good time. It sounds like a good deal. Norah's getting fed up with always taking care of Caroline's ass. Not to mention that she's a total creeper and memorized the mixes that Nick made for Tris. Those mixes kicked ass. Cue great conversation and banter.
Enter Tal, Norah's Evil Ex. He constantly belittles her and tells her what he wishes she were--a better kisser, better in bed, more well-read, more Jewish...Just your basic douchebag. After a judgment lapse, Norah sent him a letter saying she wants him back. Tal shows up when Norah is sitting in Nick's car. He wants her to say hi. He wants her choose him over her.
The only problem with going for Nick is that his Yugo--aka the getaway vehicle--won't start. It is a Yugo after all. Finally, the old girl starts. The couple makes their escape. Tal is left behind.
Nick and Norah head to a burlesque show. Their all-time favorite band, Where's Fluffy, ends up playing a surprise show there. The night is ruined, though, when Norah pulls Nick into a closet to keep him from seeing that Tris has showed up. They make out a little, Nick's boy parts "need adjusting", and Norah runs away to a Ukrainian diner. The girl does not handle pressure well.
Nick is sitting outside the club upset. Tris sees him, and he explains that Norah just left without explanation. According to Tris, Norah's been a runner forever.
(And for this song, let's ignore the weird video. Apparently people would rather post their shit quality concert videos that anything with quality audio. Here's to you mustache girl!)
Tris has this whole spiel where she lets Nick go. She broke up with him because it wasn't fair that he was making long-term plans when she didn't feel the same way.
Cue Nick running to find Norah. With skills he appears to have picked up from Olivia Benson, Nick calls his cell phone. Which he had left in the pocket of the jacket that he borrowed gave Norah. Location identified!
There is a mutual decision that someone needs to jump someone else's bones like right now! Somehow, Nick and Norah find themselves very nearly having sex in the ice room at a Marriott Hotel. They realize how dang classy they are, but hey--Girl's gotta jump his bones somewhere. Before they can get entirely disrobed, though, an old couple walks in on them. That couple seemed to be more likely to high-five them than call the cops. I doubt the reality in this reaction.
Norah comes to understand that she made the wrong choice by turning down Brown to go to a kibbutz with Tal. Recent developments have made her understand what a douchebag Tal is and that she deserves much better. She confesses to her dad about turning down Brown. He's pretty calm about it. Mainly because he already knew and had intercepted the letter in the mail. He RSVPed the girl for school in the fall.
Everything is perfect. Nick and Norah. Norah and Nick. Love love love. There may be a unicorn frolicking in the background here.
Nick and Norah ride the train home. They're clearly going to be pursuing this relationship.
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Opinion: Kerry’s Swiss Miss
Wonder Land columnist Dan Henninger on the Secretary of State’s meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, plus Vladimir Putin’s message to America. Photo: Getty Images
Transcript +
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I ... Secretary State John Kerry is in Switzerland today ... for talks with his Russian counterpart about the disposal of chemical weapons in Syria ... I've got Wonderland Columnist Dan Henninger here to ... talk about this adventure and and ... that the news side of the Wall Street Journal ran a big story this morning saying that Syria's rebels are being hurt ... by this delay ... so what are these talks exactly supposed to accomplish ... well the talks is low but difficult to know exactly what this the Hawks are supposed to accomplish I'm not sure the administration quite understands nominally is about ... a disposing of these chemical weapons of that Syria has denied the deed is what purportedly nodded John Kerry insert the Lavrov ... are indeed talking about in Geneva right now ... but just posit one factor was in the Wall Street Journal today the United States has been disposing of its own chemical weapons the process began in nineteen seventy is expected and in twenty twenty three ... the other ... is a farce this isn't as artists of the idea that you just sort of ... overnight decide that we're going to dispose of flow some buddies chemical weapons this ridiculous now the idea was to suppress the use of these weapons disposing them is an incredibly complicated process in the meanwhile we have Russia's Vladimir Putin ... weighing and on the op and pages in your times this morning ... what sharing awesome put up a quote here from that piece ... to read it and I quote I carefully studied his main present Obama is addressed to the nation on Tuesday ... granted this agreement a case in an American exceptionalism stating it's the that the U S policy is ... what makes American different it's what makes us exceptional ... it's extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional ... whatever the motivation ... to react to them ... the merrier that bad out there but hidden in the New York Times is almost to the childish in a sense it is such so so too obvious blatant propaganda ... a month ago with an offer to New York Times I don't think they would've accepted it because it's so ridiculous ... now of course they do because he has been elevated to co equal status with the present United States and resulting debt ... problems in Syria why hasn't he been elevated that way because the present United States except that apply to refute his offer to negotiate over these chemical weapons and suddenly he's at the table ... and that's why we're an hour reading this really quite blatant propaganda in the New York Times the third partner here at the table mainly the United Nations because there's also talk here ... of the UN resolution ... Russia says it doesn't want any threat of force included the sign says sees waning and ceiling doesn't want force included in that ... I you know how does that complicate the process is incredibly complicates it ... National Security Advisor Susan Rice gave a speech in Washington Monday in which former UN ambassador enumerated point after point after point of the Russians blocking progress in the Security Council over Syria ... and her final point was we have come to a dead and that's not working we have to go in another direction ... but now we're back in the Security Council to take a full circle your regional point Mary ... the ... Syrian opposition over there has to be sitting there going weren't on ... no one has our back the United States is not going to help with the wind is going out of the sales of the initial proposal ... to strike Assad or to harm them and I think they are the ones who really have to sit and decide where is our words our interest in this in their interest I think is looking very weak at the moment about a minute left ... there's also the view of Americans of their own government and its own competence ... he wrote in a column about the Laurel and Hardy presidency ... on it yet this presence can be in that chair for another couple of years here Dan ... I ... is it a wake up to see the he's the team played years of living and changes we are a laughing stock well he will be present for those three years and diplomatic slapstick just is not fun and that's what we've had almost by consensus the last few weeks it's been a terrible performance ... and if Barack Obama has ... any self awareness to think the US to stand back and decided just running foreign policy on to be his own instinct isn't sufficient ... he's getting his head handed to him by plotter a few minutes we get into another crisis in the next three years ... it can not be in and Hawk ... process like this suspending need some strategic ... vision for dealing with the rest of the world and it doesn't exist now it's almost unbelievable to me that that that you can say those words that they need a strategic vision in a cool occupies the White House without that ... I guess this guy really land dangers assault by doing a any any says funneling Columnist and Henninger was the last word thank so much beginning on the show ...
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Think the answer may be "when his wife's out of town"? Think again. According to recent research, the answer may have far less to do with circumstance than it does with time of day.
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According to a recent study published in "Psychological Science", both men and women are less ethical in the afternoon than they are in the morning. And while the phenomenon can apply to matters of the heart, it's far from exclusive, with researchers claiming that it also applies to how men and women interact with friends, coworkers, teachers, and bosses.
For more small changes that add up to big-time bliss, learn the 6 Secrets Of A Happy Relationship.
In the study, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Utah's David Eccles School of Business had study participants look at patterns of dots on a split screen. The subjects were asked which side of the screen had more dots, then given money based on their answer. The catch? Instead of being rewarded for the right answer, participants were given ten times the amount of money if they guessed the right side of the screen, regardless of whether or not the right side was the side with more dots. And while lying occurred in both groups, researchers found that instances of cheating increased in the afternoon sessions. Not only that, but subsequent online studies on the phenomenon conducted by the team found that people were more likely to say they had solved an unsolvable puzzle in the afternoon than they were in the morning, and, most worryingly, send a dishonest message to a virtual partner.
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So why are we more prone to lying as it gets later? It's because our self-control depletes throughout the day.
"We measured self-control fatigue and found it to be the underlying mechanism contributing to this phenomenon," explains Maryam Kouchaki, PhD, co-author of the study and a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. And that may be especially true for people who tend to have a high standard of morality. "The most honest people may be the most susceptible to the negative consequences associated with the morning morality effect," the researchers said in a statement. In other words, if you want the best shot at a real heart-to-heart, you might want to consider asking the tough questions before breakfast.
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[vox-tech] Mirrored drive setup for backup
[vox-tech] Mirrored drive setup for backup
Hi everyone,
I am looking into some methods of keeping some of our labs shared data in a
slightly safer disk setup. Currently there are two single 300Gb SATA drives
in this machine. I am thinking about installing another set of mirrored 300Gb
drives and using this mirrored setup to hold all of the shared data. This
would give me two single drives for operations which require instant access
(i have heard that a mirrored setup is not as fast as a single drive), and
the mirrored array for redundancy. This machine is running Debian/Unstable,
and has a Tyan Thunder K8WE motherboard. It looks like this board supports up
to 4 SATA drives, along with RAID 0, 1, 0+1, and 'JBOD' .
Another machine in this lab only supports RAID level 0 for the SATA
connectors. Is there a workable software RAID strategy for mirroring disks in
linux or will I need to purchase a new hard disk controller?
Would this type of setup be either possible or worthwhile for a simple
safeguard against hardware failure? If not, are there other options which
would be better suited for this task?
Thanks in advance for any ideas!
Dylan Beaudette
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Help suppress coughing and reduce gagging in cats or dogs.
natural treatments to suppress coughing and gagging in cats or dogs
Select a Topic
1. What is Coughing?
2. What Causes Coughing?
3. Diagnosing Coughing
4. Help for Coughing
5. More Information on Coughing
What is Coughing?
Coughing in pets is not something that occurs frequently. However, when it does occur often, this should be a reason for concern. A cough is usually a result from an irritation of the respiratory system. The respiratory system consists of the mouth, nasal passages, throat, voice box (larynx), trachea, bronchi and the smaller airways of the lung. Coughing may also be caused by inhaling irritants or as a result of an underlying disease. When a cough persists continually, it has to be treated immediately as this may be an indication of more serious illness. It tends to be more common in dogs than cats.
The sound of a cough may indicate its cause. If a cough is moist, it may be due to fluid and mucus build up in the throat, airways or lungs, and may be a sign of lung infection or congestive heart failure. A honking, brassy cough may also indicate some form of respiratory disease or tracheal trauma from pulling your pet’s collar.
A faint, weak cough may be a symptom of pulmonary edema (fluid in the lungs). Coughs that are deep and wheezy may be an indication of bronchitis or occur after exercise, while a dry cough could be a sign of kennel cough or a scratchy throat.
What Causes Coughing?
Coughing may occur as a result of several factors. It is often associated with various respiratory disorders such as asthma, bronchitis, respiratory infection, kennel cough or lung edema or a collapsing trachea. Heart diseases and parasites such as heartworms can also cause pets to cough. Foreign materials such as food, drink or hairballs may also travel into the airways and cause a coughing episode.
Cats often have hairballs lodged in their throats that they are trying to cough up – this happens if they are not groomed properly. Allergic reactions to particles in the air such as pollen, dust, chemicals or smoke can also bring about coughing episodes. If your pet is exposed to other animals in a boarding environment like kennels or a shelter, they are more at risk of being infected with a cough.
Diagnosing Coughing
If your pet has been coughing for a few days, you should consult your vet. Your vet will ask you certain questions such as what does the cough sound like, when did the cough start, how long has your pet had the cough or when does the pet cough. A thorough physical examination as well as other diagnostic tests may be performed. These tests include chest x-rays (thoracic radiographs), complete blood count (CBC), blood chemistry profile, urinalysis, heartworm test or fecal exam. Additional tests may include a trans-tracheal wash, bronchoscopic exam or fine-needle aspirate.
Help for Coughing
Treatment generally depends on the cause of the disease. Your vet may prescribe medications such as cough suppressants, antibiotics or steroids to relieve cough symptoms. Remember, never to administer medications prescribed for humans to your pet as they may cause some negative side effects.
More Information on Coughing
There are a number of things that you do to prevent a coughing attack
in your pets and these include:
• Avoid vacuuming, sweeping or dusting when your pets are around as air pollutants such as dust, pollen or household cleaners may cause them to cough – take them to pollutant-free area
• Keep windows open when cleaning with household cleaners
• Bring pets indoors during allergy season
• Make sure that your pet eats a healthy well balanced diet to boost his immune system
• Stop smoking – not only is it bad for your health but also for your pet’s health
• If the air in your house is dry, use a humidifier, vaporizer or steam from a warm shower to clear up the air and reduce your pet’s cough
• Keep your cat well groomed to prevent unnecessary hairballs being lodged in its throat.
• Boost your pet’s immune system with immune support supplements
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A Starpulse Writer's Pop Culture TV Christmas List
December 19th, 2009 8:00am EST
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Buy a physical copy
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7. Intro to the Radio Room
8. The Outsider
9. Blue Ruins
10. Transmission
11. Prillicians
12. In Echoes Forever
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Subject: 1.0, IIsi, IIci kernel to test
To: None <>
From: Allen 'Time?' Briggs <>
List: macbsd-development
Date: 10/30/1994 19:21:40
If you've been having problems with your IIsi or IIci with 1.0 when an
older kernel worked fine, please try (via anonymous ftp):
Let me know how it goes.
PS. If it works, kudos go to Lawrence for an excellent set of eyes.
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Subject: pkg/34629: www/epiphany-extensions cannot (now) be installed
To: None <,,>
From: None <[email protected]>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 09/26/2006 16:35:00
>Number: 34629
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: www/epiphany-extensions cannot (now) be installed
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Sep 26 16:35:00 +0000 2006
>Originator: Robert Elz
>Release: NetBSD 3.99.15
Prince of Songkla University
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
www/epiphany-extensions is at version 2.14.*, and requires
www/epiphany at version 2.14.* to work.
However,it currently has a dependency upon www/epiphany
which is at version 2.16.* (for the ast week or something).
Attempt to make www/epiphany-extensions
Expect to see this amongst all the output ...
checking for catalogs to be installed... bg ca cs da de el en_CA en_GB es fi fr gl hr hu it ja ko lt nb ne nl no pa pl pt pt_BR ru rw sk sq sr sr@Latn sv th uk vi wa zh_CN zh_TW
checking for GDU_MODULE_VERSION_CHECK... yes
checking whether epiphany-2.14 is available... no
configure: error: Epiphany API version 2.14 is required
This API version is used in the 2.14 stable series, and
the preceeding development series. Please ensure you have the appropriate
Epiphany version installed.
*** Error code 1
It is (these days) not possible (using pkgsrc) to install
a epiphany-2.14 version of epiphany as that has been deleted from
Either upgrade the extensions to version 2.16, or
put back ephiphany-2.14 (in something different than
www/epiphany I expect) and depend upon that rather than
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Seven till Seven scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 16:09:40 PDT 2008
Topic: Moose - objects and antlers
Speaker: Ben Hengst
a big smelly creature.)
Er, it is a postmodern object system which allows you to remove much of
the hairiness from your object-oriented Perl code. Moose borrows
and more.
Ben will present a brief introduction to Moose, followed by an overview
of (and real-world examples from) a database-linked search/results
system built on Moose.
* Saddle the Moose (intro)
* a perl object system
* meta syntax for object/class declaration
* simple example
* not *that* weird
* Ride the Moose (code in "the real world")
* Constructors for free
* under the hood - the meta() method
* getters and setters
* example
* possible name space collisions
* 'rw' vs 'ro'
* timing issues ( lazy => 1 )
* strict types
* things die if they are wrong, just like they should (assertion)
* roles
* less code to test
* Love the Moose (techniques and practices)
* composition / modularization / encapsulation
* layout of logical file structure with roles
* easier team workflow / merging
* QA notes
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[SciPy-dev] Import strategy
Pearu Peterson pearu at scipy.org
Mon Jan 9 02:47:31 CST 2006
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Nils Wagner wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am still confused by the new import method.
> Who can explain the difference between the "old" core/scipy and the
> latest numpy/scipy ?
> And where can I find some documentation wrt this topic ?
See scipy.pkgload.__doc__.
> In the past I have simply used
> from scipy import *.
> How should I modify my programs such that I can still use
> linalg.inv
> linalg.signm etc.
You still can use simple
from scipy import *
to get all symbols that scipy packages provide + numpy symbols. If not,
then it is a bug.
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I'm wanting to modify a 2005 Shadowcat by putting 16" straight limbs and a Dynacam on it. Can I get any info on part availability, limb deflections, string/cable lengths? I'm thinking this setup would be very close to a 2003 or 2004 Cougar with the same setup. Maybe a little more brace height.
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100% Absolute Certainty
Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Featured, Thoughts | 13 comments
The universe is an incredibly complex place. At any given moment there will be more actions taking place universally than a human mind can possibly comprehend. Add to this, even the most advanced computer simulation will not be able to predict with absolute certainty the outcomes of a given situation. Things are just too complex, there are too many variables, there are factors we may not take into consideration, and there is human error; all of these factors can change the outcome of a situation being tested.
Even daily occurrences cannot be predicted with absolute certainty. There is enough going on outside of your control that you can’t possibly know for absolute certain that your plans for the day will pan out as you want them to. For instance, let’s imagine that every night before you go to bed you set your alarm for six in the morning, with full expectations that it will sound giving you enough time for your daily constitutional and to arrive at work on time. But maybe a storm cut power to your house while you were sleeping, the cat kicked out the cord from the wall socket, or maybe you went to bed late and slept through the alarm. To your mind when you went to bed there was no reason to suspect that any of these things would cause you to be late for work. In any case, the certainty you had that you would get to work on time turned out to be outside of your control. If you had known all the variables in advance, you may have been able to take action to avoid being late. But there is no certainty there, there is only reasonable expectations based on expected reasonable occurrences.
These occurrences, while unlikely, are much more likely than waking up to find that your cat had turned into a pumpkin, or waking up to discover that while you were sleeping that you morphed into a cockroach (as happened in the Kafka story “Metamorphosis“); that is so unlikely that we could label it impossible, within reason. And you could say with a reasonable level of certainty that you will not wake up in the body of an insect. Has something this ever happened before in all of human history? Outside of the Kafka story, I’d say not. And with this in mind, some things are more likely than others, and this should give us a basis for the level of certainty we hold about given situations. The more spurious the claim, the lower the likelihood that it is true, and the less certainty there should be given to this claim.
If however a friend told you that they’d woken up one morning to find themselves in the body of a giant cockroach, and that they still inhabit that form, although it is clear to you that they are in human form, you would tell them that maybe they should seek help for their obvious delusion. Perhaps medication and counselling would assist with their problem?
But these kinds of unliklihoods can be written off as impossible, there is no precedent for them, no known way they could occur, and are far more likely to be the product of an ill mind than the laws of the universe conspiring together for this outcome.
While the ridiculous situation outlined above may seem too far fetched to even be worth consideration, claims of this sort are made regularly and with apparent 100% certainty by people who believe in the literal interpretations of the holy books. Water, which has no grape juice in it, can turn to wine, and bread made from wheat can somehow turn into a complex living organism in the form of a fish. In fiction, things like this can happen all the time, but in reality, the world we all inhabit physically, these things are not only very, very unlikely, but are so unlikely to occur that we label them impossible.
In science, outcomes from experiments may vary from time to time, but there is a level of predictability that can be ascertained by repeating the experiment. The level of variation in outcomes is not as great as in the Kafka example, but there is some variation. Through controlling the environment of the experiment (sterile equipment, removal of anything that may interfere with what is trying to be measured), persistence and repetition we can arrive at a reasonable level of expectation of outcomes, but 100% certainty of outcomes is not one of them. There are simply too many variables for every possible factor in the universe to be taken into consideration.
There is even an entire physical principle which hinges on uncertainty. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle shows that within quantum mechanics, “the more precisely one property is measured, the less precisely the other can be controlled, determined, or known.” (from Wikipedia) This has been a fundamental discovery in the understanding of quantum physics and quantum mechanics.
The recent “faster than light neutrino” claims coming from CERN, which instantly drew skepticism from people in the scientific community, for it went against the accepted laws of physics. As it turned out, it was too good to be true, and the results of the experiment could be blamed on a faulty cable. In this case, something too good to be true was in fact false. This skepticism from the scientific community shows fact that a single result is not enough to make something factual. And note, the results coming from CERN were not announced as “absolute proof of faster than light particles”. Rather the question was posed based on the fact that further testing was needed. If in fact we do discover that a particle can travel faster than light, it will not be decided by one single test, rather from many tests.
Uncertainty is part of reality, part of science. In fact, if it weren’t for uncertainty, mankind would never have asked what was beyond the next hill, why we stick to the ground instead of floating away, and what is beyond the stars. It is the uncertainties about our existences that keep us moving forward. Without uncertainty, we would still be stuck in the Dark Ages courtesy of the apparent “certainty” that religion offers. Religion placates the uncomfortable doubts about our existence and the nature of the finality of death by replacing them with the “certainty” of the existence of God, heaven and the afterlife. There are no worries, then, of doubting the purpose of your existence.
Benjamin Franklin is often quoted as saying “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” I’d like to add a third, that a person claiming absolute certainty is certainly deluded.
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Subject: RE: Triangle Constructions
Author: Gale75
Date: Jun 20 2011
On Jun 20 2011, Gale75 wrote:
> While the technology is good, many standard constructions can be
> done with paper folding (altitudes, angle bisectors, medians, and
> perpendicular bisectors).
On the other hand, to construct the
> triangle itself, D-Stix or constructions paper (cut to various
> lengths and punch a hole in for brads) can be used easily. Most
> students can measure with a protractor (or taught to do so). When
> you are given an angle, tape the parts down. When you don't know
> the length of a side, use the longest piece you have and tell
> students that they do not need to reach the end. I challenge
> students to try to make one that is different. When they think they
> have one, trace it on an old piece of transparency (which can be
> flipped easily, when necessary) for comparison. Just when they
> think that 2 pieces of info are ALWAYS enough, I given them a SSA
> set that produces two different ones.
I meant three pieces of information, although for a RIGHT triangle, two pieces
are sufficient (at least 1 side) because you have a 90 degree angle already.
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Happy Holidays!
MR: Go on.
Me: And it’s definitely not that there are multiple universes.
MR: That sounds sensible enough.
MR: So just what IS the whole thing about then?
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1. Robin Blume-Kohout
Hah! You’ve made my holiday season. Here I was, in a funk because I can never explain what a quantum information theorist does in less than 5 minutes (and even then, not satisfactorily). You’ve made me realize that it could be worse.
On the other hand, at least you get to be honest. Me, I always take the “Oh, it’s got technological implications” approach… and end up with this vaguely dirty feeling. As if I’d just been talking to a funding agency.
Happy Solstice,
2. Thing is, I do also do quantum information (or at least I have to say that in case there are any funding agency people reading). This summer I spent about 15min carefully explaining RSA, complexity theory, Shor’s algorithm and quantum cryptography to a friend’s Mum. The response after all that was: “So, it’s about making faster computers then?” After that, I made a mental note that “It’s about making faster computers” is a good getout, although about as inaccurate as what most people would say about quantum foundations.
3. The only thing I like less than trying to explain the area of my work (quantum foundations) to lay people, is trying to explain it to fellow mathematicians. A pretty typical response is, “Gee, that’s interesting … but tell me, where does one publish this sort of stuff?”
4. I can sympathise. Right now my grandmother thinks that quantum mechanics is about studying “very very small things”. I’m quite happy; anything beyond this would be too much to ask.
That being said, it’s quite an exercise to try and explain to a layperson what your research is about, but it’s a worthwhile exercise because it forces you to strip everything down to its most essential points. I’ve found a similar thing taking classes; I always felt I learned the most not by studying alone but by explaining the material to my fellow students.
5. Thanks for a great post. I spent a good deal of time trying to explain to my grandmother what it is that I do, and all she had to say was: “but why would you want to do that?” Very frustrating, indeed.
Anyway, thanks for a great blog.
6. Hahaha, great post! Maybe the best way to explain your subject indeed is telling what “it is not exactly”… especially when you’re dealing with quantum foundations.
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Male Black Widows Practice Cannibalism, Too
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Black widow spiders, nature’s femmes fatales, have earned their name from a long-held belief that the females typically devour their male counterparts immediately after mating. But recent research has uncovered at least one species of the spider in which this less-than-romantic habit is reversed.
After studying different pairings of the spiders (making sure to keep them well-fed, in order to rule out hunger-driven cannibalism), a team at Mazaryk University in the Czech Republic has concluded that, within the Micaria socialbilis species, male spiders are actually much more likely to eat the females than to be eaten. Unlike the instances of female cannibalism, the M. socialbilis males most often eat the females after their first contact, before any mating has taken place. Older females are more likely to be eaten; in the study, the reverse sexual cannibalism saw a peak when summer generation males encountered older females from the spring generation. Among these older female spiders, even large body size or virginity—desirable traits that usually only whet a male spider’s sexual appetite—can’t save them from becoming a meal.
Despite the macabre subject matter and endless ammo for sexist jokes, the study is actually a breakthrough. Said researchers Lenka Sentenska and Stano Pekar in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, “Our study provides an insight into an unusual mating system, which differs significantly from the general model. Even males may choose their potential partners and apparently, in some cases, they can present their choice as extremely as females do by cannibalizing unpreferred mates."
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1)According to the text, which of the following best explains social problems? 1) _______
A)people who seek self-actualization
B)problems caused by societal conditions
C)people who violate norms
D)None of the above is true.
2)When Adam Smith argued that an "invisible hand" regulates the economy, he was referring to 2) _______
A)free and open competition. B) government intervention.
C)consumer backlash. D) entrepreneurial wisdom.
3)Which of the following does not contribute to the problem of food shortages in the Third World? 3) _______
A)shrinkage of productive land
B)population growth in countries that are already poor
C)low rates of population growth
4)In the last stage of modern demographic transition, nations become more urban and 4) _______
A)agricultural production goes down and the birth rate increases.
B)the birth rate declines, slowing the population growth.
C)the birth rate stabilizes.
D)None of the above is true.
5)The saying "what goes around, comes around," applies to which possible area(s) of involvement between the U.S. and other countries? 5) _______
A)imports of produce B) arms sales
C)both A and B D) none of the above
6)According to the text, factors involved in the poor "breeding themselves into poverty" include all of the following except 6) _______
A)ignorance and religious superstition.
B)lack of family planning and birth control.
C)both A and B
7)American corporations do business with Third World countries because 7) _______
A)they are able to save money and increase their profits without regard for workers' health and safety.
B)Third World nations that purchase products dumped by U.S. companies are good sources of profit.
C)the Third World accepts toxic waste, allowing American corporations to meet EPA standards.
D)All of the above are true.
8)Which one of the following is not a characteristic of Third World nations? 8) _______
A)rapid population growth
B)low infant mortality rates
C)high rates of poverty, hunger, and misery
D)relative powerlessness
A)an increase in the number of women using contraception.
B)an increase in the relative poverty rate in less developed nations.
C)a decline in the number of children born in less developed nations.
D)a decrease in annual population growth.
10)Among the reasons Third World nations are underdeveloped is 10) ______
A)their economic domination by developed nations in the postcolonial era.
B)geography, climate, and lack of arable land and minerals.
C)a history of continuous warfare.
D)All of the above are true.
11)"New slavery" in the Third World results in all of the following except 11) ______
A)workers who escape to the U.S. and successfully apply for refugee status.
B)boys who are frequently forced into working on coffee or cocoa plantations.
C)girls who frequently end up as domestic workers or prostitutes.
D)women and children who end up as bonded labor in factories and sweatshops.
12)According to the text, wealthy nations should provide aid to developing nations with all the following provisions except 12) ______
A)that aid reaches the intended targets and not the well-off elite.
C)that it be used for truly humanitarian purposes.
D)that goods purchased with the new resources be purchased from American companies.
13)Which of the following is a characteristic of the systemic imperatives the authors discuss? 13) ______
A)the inertia of institutions that happens because no change is easier than change
B)the promotion of domestic tranquility by the government squelching dissidents
C)participation in the political system by those who represent a wide array of interests
D)Both A and B are true.
14)The consequences of corporations shifting production from the U.S. to other countries include all of the following except 14) ______
15)Interlocking directorates (the linkage between corporations) take the form of 15) ______
A)individuals serving on the board of directors of two or more companies, which is a direct interlock.
B)two people who are related serving on the board of a company, creating a virtual interlock.
C)two companies each have a director on the board of a third, which creates an indirect interlock.
D)Both A and C are true.
16)The interests of the power elite are served in a number of ways, including all of the following except 16) ______
A)the structure of the social, economic, and political systems.
B)the elite's influence over elected and appointed government officials at all levels.
C)individual decisions made by owners of small businesses.
D)the elite's ideological control of the masses.
17)The principles of "trickle-down" economics are adopted by government because 17) ______
A)government officials are more likely to hear the arguments of the powerful because the weak are poorly organized.
B)government officials, who tend to come from the business class, bring a conservative ideology to office with them.
C)Both A and B are true.
D)None of the above are true.
18)The authors point out that the problems that exist in U.S. society largely result from 18) ______
A)the distribution of power.
B)the form the U.S. economy takes.
D)both A and B
19)The authors produce all of the following as evidence to their argument that the powerless bear the burden of carrying the cost of the system that benefits the powerful except 19) ______
A)corporations that are owned by the powerful pay more than their share of taxes, leaving the poor to provide the needed labor.
B)the poor absorb the costs of societal changes by doing the back-breaking work on government projects that most benefit the wealthy.
C)when threatened by war the government institutes a military draft through which a much greater proportion of the poor is drafted than the well-to-do.
D)a certain level of unemployment (of the poor) is maintained continuously, not just during economic downturns.
20)The U.S. principle of majority rule is violated by special interests that use all of the following means to accomplish their goals except 20) ______
A)slick brochures, technical reports, and expert testimony on matters of national interest.
B)secret slush funds, easy-term loans, and high-paying corporate directorships.
C)large campaign contributions to political candidates.
D)representing the interests of minority groups, the poor, and the mentally retarded.
21)Contributors of large sums of money to political campaigns receive which of the following benefits? 21) ______
A)access to politicians
B)influence over the positions of politicians on public issues
C)Both A and B are true.
D)None of the above are true.
22)The authors of the text caution against using an extreme system-blame orientation when studying social problems because 22) ______
A)it is only part of the truth.
B)it may absolve individuals from responsibility for their actions.
C)Both A and B are true.
D)None of the above are true.
23)Which of the following statements is accurate about sociologists doing research on social problems? 23) ______
A)Sociologists agree on a liberal agenda that sides with the disadvantaged.
B)The study of social problems cannot be value free.
C)Personal values of the researcher do not affect his/her research.
D)All of the above are true.
24)Our social system is rarely seen as causing social problems because of all of the following reasons except 24) ______
B)it is only a small percentage of the population that suffers from these problems.
C)we have a hard time questioning our cherished traditions.
25)Which of the following is not a reason that the system-blame approach should be emphasized when sociologists study social problems? 25) ______
A)Society's institutional framework is responsible for creating many social problems.
D)Social systems are overlooked because they impact social problems less than other conditions.
26)According to sociologists, norm violators are 26) ______
A)guiltless for their actions.
B)solely responsible for their actions.
C)universally admonished.
D)the symptoms of social problems, not the cause.
27)Social Darwinists like William Graham Sumner would oppose social reforms like social welfare because 27) ______
A)they allow people to get money for doing nothing.
B)they are too expensive to produce viable results.
C)they perpetuate the existence of unfit groups in society who would otherwise disappear.
D)it is more effective to provide technical training for the poor
28)According to William Graham Sumner, the rich are successful because of 28) ______
A)their being superior.
B)a conspiracy by the powerful who keep the poor down.
C)their having worked hard.
D)All of the above are true.
29)Relying too heavily on a person-blame approach to social problems is a problem for all of the following reasons except 29) ______
A)society does not need to be protected from individuals who would harm society.
C)it directs blame at individuals and away from the system.
30. The story "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" by Horace Minor illustrates
a. a little known culture in North America
b. the sociological imagination
c. looking at oneself in a new light
d. b and c
e. all the above
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The Salvation Army was founded by William Booth in 1878 in the East End of London and has been based in the city ever since. At the turn of the millennium, the Army's old headquarters, located on this same site, had become too big for them. Realizing that they only needed a third of the space, they decided to redevelop. Rentable office space was constructed on two thirds of the site, which paid for a new headquarters on the remainder and most prominent portion of the plot. The top three floors are given to administrative functions, whilst the lower three are for the public. A chapel is located immediately above the entrance. Glass is used extensively, in order to provide transparency and a feeling of openness. Through the glass one can see the raked concrete legs that support the upper floors - a little dramatic touch that helps to lift the building.
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In this article, Clearing the Cobwebs, (Meg Tebo, ABA Journal, October 2005), solos share some ideas on what they do to get unstuck. Solutions include working the New York Times crossword puzzle, surfing the web, seeing a matinee and restarting the day by eating breakfast. The last one sound odd, but Barbara Kessler, who recommends it, swears it works.
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Original colour I Am Alive artwork revealed
Xbigy Games Writes: Some of the original artwork for I Am Alive has been spotted online on NeoGaf forums.
I Am Alive never has the most stable development history. The game was originally worked on in 2001 by French development team Darkworks. After they had completed work on Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare and Cold Fear Ubisoft decided to pick up the title themselves in 2006. (Dark Works, I Am Alive, PS3, Ubisoft, Xbox 360)
showtimefolks + 777d ago
this game had so much potential but failed in more than one way
still a good game but needed a lot more polish and some of the ideas needed more development/though time
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Submitted by JonnyBigBoss 387d ago | opinion piece
Why the PS4 Will Likely Launch Before the Xbox One
CraveOnline writes: "As of right now neither Microsoft nor Sony have revealed the release dates of the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. All we know for certain is that by the end of the year gamers will be enjoying next-gen graphics. So which will release first?" (PS4, Xbox One)
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Wedge19 + 387d ago
Whenever it launches, I have release day delivery from Amazon. I won't have it at midnight, but it'll be in my hands that day.
JonnyBigBoss + 387d ago
Same. It's going to be a good holiday season.
brodychet + 387d ago
I cannot wait :3
zeee + 387d ago
I have a question. I pre-ordered launch day edition at Amazon and also at Bestbuy.
Both came with the same default dates of Dec, 31.
When I pre-order BF4 for PS4, the date says October 29th!? How can the software be out so early if PS4 was launching in late November or something?
Also, is it me or did ND just leave an easter egg in The Last of Us regarding PS4 release date?
BatRastered + 387d ago
@zeee BF4 is coming to 360/PS3/PC as well. They probably just copied the PS4 version's release date from that. I wouldn't read too much into it.
DarkBlood + 387d ago
dont forget some vita games were out a week before the actual hardware so it isnt too far from the idea.
moparful99 + 386d ago
@zee That dec 31st date is nothing but a place holder so they can start taking pre-orders.. Sony is on record saying the PS4 will be out holiday season 2013 which incorporates from Halloween all the way to New Years.
greenlantern2814 + 387d ago
already paid for just want it as soon as possible.
since neither company has confirmed a release date you never know who will launch first but i doubt if you really want ps4 it coming out after xb1 by a week or 2 is going to matter. same goes for the xbox fans they arent gonna go out and by a ps4 just because it is out first. basically all the first and second shipments of the ps4 are spoken for so no bodies just gonna go and grab 1
cellur111 + 387d ago
Unless amazon is wrong, the xbox one get released November 27th. In the US anyway.
kneon + 387d ago
Best buy bumped up the ship date for my order to Nov 30th from the original default date of Dec 31st. But I doubt they would release the day after black friday so I'm expecting at least a week earlier than that.
demonsoul + 387d ago
Sony Got the Balls to launch while MS got their Eggs to Hide to avoid Being a Humpty Dumpty who sat on the wall only to suffer a great fall. MS Deserves it.
Mark My Word, PS4 > > > The Rest. Same Generations as the PS2 Domination Era. :)
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Chaostar + 387d ago
This is the most hilariously random analogy I've read on here, well done.
UNGR + 387d ago
The PS2 was great but having no competition would suck. We need all 3.
Denethor_II + 387d ago
Nothing like opening a fresh package from Amazon, especially when there's a new console inside. I'll be going to a midnight launch personally.
Akuma2K + 387d ago
I thought about going to the Gamestop midnight launch by my house to get my PS4 but i'll get mine the next day in the morning.....lol
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smokelocc + 387d ago
Same here! Im gonna be so broke by the end of november, PS4 and xbox one pre-ordered day one. Excellent gaming holiday coming!
Campy da Camper + 387d ago
Midnight release at GameStop for me. I figure get home by 1am hook it up go through settings and all that then pass out. When I wake up game in tray ready to go!
DEEBO + 387d ago
yeah right.you're going to pull a all nighter,gaming away until you pass out.i know i am.
Aleithian + 387d ago
Same here. Just got to get from the store to my car without being mugged...
DaGR8JIBRALTAR + 387d ago
Fuck gamestop...you gotta stop supporting these scam artist!
MuleKick + 386d ago
I agree with you 100%. I don't understand how people can't see it. Just sell your games on Ebay or something. You get so little back for trading your games then they sell it for a $5 discount. Ripoff!!!
They're all going out of business soon (10-15 years). This is their last gaming generation. All digital is right around the corner.
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adumbpolock + 387d ago
I have to have it shipped to an APO (Okinawa) address so I'll most likely get it a week later but still can't wait.
madpuppy + 387d ago
I think that Sony is playing MS again, they don't release a launch date and let MS release theirs, just about 2 weeks before the launch of the Xbone, Sony will announce that it will be releasing a week before the Xbone's date of release.
I think that now that Sony has the upper hand they are going to milk the heck out of it, just to spite Microsoft.
It won't change sales that much but, it will drive the execs at MS bonkers. :P
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ylwzx3 + 387d ago
Same. I'm glad I ordered it as soon as it was posted :D
showtimefolks + 387d ago
It's ore ordered already so it can launch whenever. In Louisiana gamestops are getting 6 Xbox one units per store to 65 ps4's
And most if not all already sold out of both for launch day
dbjj12088 + 387d ago
Plus Sony's already sending PS4's to media.
Chaostar + 387d ago
There was also that rumour about low ESRAM yields affecting Xb One production.
XisThatKid + 387d ago
That sucks...
nukeitall + 387d ago
There was also the one from "well placed development sources to Eurogamer" saying memory performance (es ram) improved for production console.
Point being, pre-orders hasn't stopped being taken for launch day consoles suggesting MS doesn't have production issues.
ThatCanadianGuy514 + 387d ago
You pretty much just confirmed Chaostars theory, Nuke.
Where would they get a slight boost memory bandwith without changing any specs unless they..*gasp* downclocked!
eyeDEVOUR + 387d ago
The article is not saying anything about production improving...lol
Did you read it?
It's saying that the "product" is better than it was first believed...
roslindros + 387d ago
"While none of our sources are privy to any production woes Microsoft may or may not be experiencing with its processor, they are making actual Xbox One titles and have not been informed of any hit to performance brought on by production challenges. To the best of their knowledge, 800MHz remains the clock speed of the graphics component of the processor, and the main CPU is operating at the target 1.6GHz. In both respects, this represents parity with the PlayStation 4." http://www.eurogamer.net/ar... And also downclocking would not free up memory, TruthFact....
nukeitall + 387d ago
@DayZ :
Downclocking causes a boost in memory bandwidth? That is a new one. Clearly shows the technical knowledge you have there.
Remeber kids, stay in school. If you are not a kid, oh boy!
It is saying the performance increased, which is key.
If you have yield problems, what do you do?
You start downclocking or disabling things to see if the chip will still run within those constraint. Since MS isn't disabling things or reducing ES RAM, then the only other option is to downclock right?
Seeing how ES RAM is performing better than they expected, means? NO DOWNCLOCK, which means NO YIELD PROBLEMS!
Intel does the exact same thing producing their CPUs. The CPUs that fail higher frequency is tested for lower, if it passes the test it is marked and sold as a lower specced component.
Need4Game + 387d ago
The Quicker the PS4 launch the Quicker we can disassemble it. Show us its insides already. We want to see the Chips, the Heatsink, the fan, the PSU, the ram, the wifi, the motherboards, everything.
Gratisfaction + 387d ago
I get it for the games sir. Not to dissect it...
zeee + 387d ago
^ Perhaps YOU do but not everyone's just about games. Some people like to see what's under the hood and THAT my friend is actually very healthy.
It teaches a lot about how hardware was designed, how we could change things in the future, modders take it to the next level and lets not forget, we learn how to repair stuff!!
CRAIG667 + 387d ago
As someone who builds his own PC's I have to agree, it's always cool to see the guts of the beast
nunley33 + 387d ago
im not going to buy one to tear down myself but i certainly wanna see the insides. I'll be hitting youtube for those tear down videos for sure.
Merrill + 387d ago
I can't wait to see this for the PS4 & Xbone. Very excited for that.
DarkBlood + 387d ago
so you want Bender to jack off to the insides of a ps4 is what your saying?
fOrlOnhOpe57 + 387d ago
It will be the final part of Sony's very successful strategy and bury the ghost of launching behind the 360 this (last?) gen.
JBSleek + 387d ago
Launching two weeks is different than a year.
ala_767 + 387d ago
ur right... lol still we fanboy are dying on this topic :D
madpuppy + 387d ago
like I commented earlier, I think Sony will try to launch 1 to 2 weeks earlier just to drive MS nuts.
It won't effect sales but, it will have an impact. :P
C-Thunder + 387d ago
I'm expecting some jaw dropping when the date is given.
Rockstar + 387d ago
I feel like it's going to be October
MizTv + 387d ago
I fn hope so
Insomnia_84 + 387d ago
Me too! I think it will release the same day as Battlefield 4!
You heard it from insomnia first!!
SynestheticRoar + 387d ago
I just want to play the new killzone.
WeAreLegion + 387d ago
I just want my kids back.
Biggest + 387d ago
I'm not homeless. I'm Tom Jane.
WeAreLegion + 387d ago
Bubbles, my friend.
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madpuppy + 387d ago
Man! I love that short! would love to see Jane as Frank Castle again!!
PositiveEmotions + 387d ago
I just want it to come out soon as possible so i can get my hands on it.
And i finally pre order my ps4!!! I put a $100 deposit at gs :D
xReDeMpTiOnx + 387d ago
I'm saying this much my GameStop is already gonna have a midnight release so I'm gonna buy booze, smoke a fat bowl and game all night long
avengers1978 + 387d ago
I like your idea, sounds very similar to mine... KZSF multiplayer all night long
greenlantern2814 + 387d ago
hell yeah kz mp hope it is like 2 and that will be great
PositiveEmotions + 387d ago
Same here but without the drugs. Im still debating on getting watch dogs idk if its worth it. Ik ima buy knack for sure even tho is not a game that i want badly but im only getting it because its the only game that i might enjoy.
Im also gonna get the ps4 eye to test it on driveclub (free from ps+)
xReDeMpTiOnx + 387d ago
With drugs or without drugs still gonna be a great night, but a toke here and there keeps my irritation levels at a minimal and well makes everything more enjoyable :)
@avengers yup will be a kill zone night for sure. I just hope it's more like kz2 than 3 otherwise it will be collecting dust
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supraking951 + 387d ago
i say late October launch date, maybe day BF4 and AC4 is out? Im hoping they go for The Last of Us "Date of Evacuation" launch Oct 17,2013 :D
Rowdius_Maximus + 387d ago
That'd be great
Jaqen_Hghar + 387d ago
Too bad all the preordered bundles will be pushed back then :( Oh wait a man didn't get Watch Dogs, AC, or BF4 one he got the KZ Shadowfall with a year of Plus! A man will have KZ and Knack launch day!
Until then he just got BF3 and SR3 on Plus and still has to finish collecting and MP on LoU for platinum. A man has a busier Summer than he thought.
Also Puppeteer, KH HD, and GTA5 are all coming early September so a man will be very busy until PS4 launch since he's getting the pre-order bonuses for those and the CE of GTA5 on Amazon (just $20 more as opposed to the stupid $150 Gamestop one with plastic crap. A man just wants the bonus unlock codes for the actual game to be better/easier). A man will sell the art books and make bank just like he did on the LoU one ($36 on Ebay) so he can pay less than the usual editions ($80-36=44<60). Same thing happened with GoW Ascension CE ($80 and a man sold his statue and PSallstars code for over $30). A man just likes steel cases.
Also a man has Beyond 2 Souls CE on preorder for its steel case and actually got that one from Gamestop for the extra 1/2 hour of gameplay and it's still $60.
A man has a busy holiday to be sure but has kept costs down by saving some purchases for BF (SR4 and BF4 or Watch Dogs or something else that comes out this year if AC4 is any good) and selling art books.
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ala_767 + 387d ago
Sony will not do the same mistake with the ps3!!! Sony will take every chance to win this generation!!! HELL YEAH SONY!!!
Metfanant + 387d ago
How about July 16th? awesome...sounds good to me
JonnyBigBoss + 387d ago
You are so right...
In a perfect world.
6DEAD6END6 + 387d ago
That would be sweet since that's my birthday.
JonnyBigBoss + 387d ago
Happy birthday!
6DEAD6END6 + 387d ago
Thanks man. :)
Campy da Camper + 387d ago
Dude if they release on that date there will be a global collective of bowels emptying at once.
WolfOfDarkness + 387d ago
Remember this date " 30/10/2013 .....it's the release date of PS4 .
WolfOfDarkness + 387d ago
Is it possible ?
Is it possible that Sony can upgrade the current PS4 specs ? If no , why ?
Can anyone answer please ,
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Metfanant + 387d ago
No, its not possible at this point without a SERIOUS (think a year) delay...components will have begun manufacturing quite some time ago...Sony would have to eat all of that cost, plus R&D on new hardware, plus the backlash from saying its going to be delayed...
just no way...and this goes for the PS4 and Xbone
WolfOfDarkness + 387d ago
Thanks bro .
Williamson + 387d ago
Sonys more prepared this time and from various rumors/reports it seems microsoft were caught of guard by the ps4 and have been rushing with the X1.
cunnilumpkin + 387d ago
I am hoping for September
my birthday month!
plus, the wait has been sooooo long, 8 long years of jaggies, screen tearing, bad performance, low res textures and sub-hd
sure, there have been some simply AMAZING ps3 and xbox360 exclusives, but they look so dated
the time is long overdo for console games to get close to pc level graphics for a while!
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C-Thunder + 387d ago
I don't think September is impossible, but it would depend on wether their first party titles ate ready.
If they could put it out a month before the major third party titles are out, it'd be a huge boost for their own games, not being forced to compete.
Only problem is they keep saying "this holiday" and I doubt they count Labor Day as part of the holiday season, of course, it could just be misdirection on their part.
They've come out swinging on all fronts, a September release would be a major advantage on top of everything else they've got going for them.
My_Outer_Heaven + 387d ago
It might have to launch earlier because of the sheer amount of pre-orders they have to fulfill.
CRASHBASHUK + 387d ago
I agree with everyone when they oct I do see them doing it too BUT I been very shocked If its sep I mean at aug gamescom 2009 they showed the ps3 slim and it came out in sep 2009 so u never know
and the same for slim 2 sep TGS 2012 then came out oct 2012
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RIP_Cell + 387d ago
with all that exclusive NFL content I would think MS want to launch it near the start of the football season, by November half the season is already over.
Hicken + 387d ago
What was the last smart thing MS did?
Insomnia_84 + 387d ago
Smartglass? lol :D
tigertron + 387d ago
Fingers crossed for October.
stage88 + 387d ago
Lets hope it releases befor the xbone.
ceedubya9 + 387d ago
Would be fine for me. Already have the ps4 paid off as it was the cheapest. Gives me more time to save money for the Xbox
azshorty2003 + 387d ago
"It's a safe bet that Microsoft engineers are still working tirelessly to deprogram the system to comply with the new consumer-friendly policies."
I've been wondering this. To completely change what the foundation of the console was about can't be easy to change. There is no switch to just turn it all off. They must be working like crazy to reprogram everything.
Supermax + 387d ago
Ps4 will be launching last week in sept.
MultiConsoleGamer + 387d ago
I hope so only because I don't have an Xbox One pre-order.
vlonjati77vlonjati + 387d ago
I dont care about ps4,as long as ps3's successor comes out I will be happy .already preordered it :p
cellur111 + 386d ago
Um the ps4 is ps3's successor.
FAT MAN GO BOOM + 387d ago
OCt 17th si when we will see the PS4... that is the day that I think we will see the ps4 released...
I know it is early than most but I really think that it is going to be than... I think they are way ahead of what MS is as far as development...
LeRise + 387d ago
I perfectly understand why PS4 must be launched before Xbox One, tell me HOW it can be launched before it.
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airgangstarr + 387d ago
4 months give or take from launch an still no word on a launch date thanks sony an microsoft wouldnt want ur customers to take off work in advance ... i personally dont like both consoles launchin at same time its like spygate out here
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Skins is an unflinching look at the complicated world of an upper-middle class British teenager’s life. Each episode focuses on a single character and explores some of the issues that teens face as they approach adulthood — like coping with intense peer pressure and dealing with feelings of inadequacy, abandonment, and betrayal. But in order to appreciate these themes, viewers must be able to look beyond the risky behavior that some of the young characters engage in. From sex to drug use, these activities are presented as both expected and accepted parts of their daily lives — and most of them have few consequences. As a result, it’s sometimes hard to tell whether the teens’ actions complement the deeper and more meaningful storylines or are included gratuitously to entice would-be audiences. It also leaves you wondering whether you should be rooting for them or wishing that they’d get caught and ultimately learn some important lessons about growing up
Obviously, the show’s mature content rules it out for kids and makes it pretty iffy even for teens. But for mature viewers, the series does offer well-written, often funny entertainment. Though not always likable, the characters are well developed and emotionally genuine. The storylines also cleverly blend the lives of various adult characters into the ongoing teen narratives, which often makes what some of these teens are going through more poignant, funny, and/or disturbing. And throughout it all, the teens characters remain close and loyal. If you’re comfortable with (or can look beyond) the stronger content, this British import’s focus on friendship certainly has something to say.
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New World Settlers Took 20,000-Year Pit Stop
Ker Than
for National Geographic News
February 14, 2008
Human settlement of the New World occurred in three separate stages and involved a 20,000-year layover on the land bridge that once connected Asia to the Americas, scientists say.
The trip was also a much larger affair than previously thought, involving about 4,500 individuals instead of the hundred or fewer previously estimated to have made the journey.
"Our model makes for a more interesting, complex scenario than the idea that humans diverged from Asians and expanded into the New World in a single event," said study co-author Connie Mulligan.
(Related news: "Did First Americans Arrive By Land and Sea?" [November 6, 2003].)
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Florida, appeared in a recent edition of the journal PLoS ONE.
Beringia Land Bridge
The researchers compared differences in the DNA sequences of modern Native American and Asian populations.
"By looking at the kinds and frequencies of these mutations in modern populations, we can get an idea of when the mutations arose and how many people were around to carry them," said study co-author Michael Miyamoto.
According to the new theory, humans heading east after leaving Asia about 40,000 years ago were blocked by two huge glaciers that met at present-day Alaska.
With no way forward, the humans settled on the land bridge, called Beringia, that connected
Asia and North America.
There they remained for 20,000 years. Beringia was cold and harsh, comparable to winters in modern-day Siberia. Small populations of mammoth, bison, caribou, and other animals provided sustenance for the migrants.
Then about 15,000 years ago the world warmed and a path through the glaciers opened up. After generations of perhaps imagining what lands might lie beyond the impassable walls of ice, the people living in Beringia moved east into North America.
(See a map of human migration routes about 15,000 years ago.)
Testable Theory
One of the virtues of the new theory is that it is testable, said David Meltzer, an archaeologist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, who was not involved with the research.
Rising seas submerged much of Beringia about 10,000 years ago.
But if humans once lived in the region, archaeological evidence should exist, Meltzer said.
"The [new study's] model implies a long term and significant archaeological presence that, to date, has yet to be found," he said.
"[But] that does not mean it won't be."
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Q&A with Daniel ChavarrÃa
Chavarría’s Adios Muchachos (245 pages, $13.95) is the second
work of "Cuban noir" from Akashic Books, following their 1999 publication
of Outcast by José Latour. Adios Muchachos is a comic mystery
that left me giggling as the bizarre and unpredictable story took its final twist.
Though the book is set in Havana, the international cast of characters reveals
much about the composition of the still-blockaded island. The story revolves around
Alicia, "the loveliest bicycle whore in all Havana," according to mystery
writer William Heffernan. And despite the alleged machismo of Latin men, Chavarría–presumably
a straight guy–reveals no timidity or prejudice when diving deep into the
erotic behavior of his gay and transsexual characters–a point I took up with
him at the start of our interview.
is a very sexualized book, and the subject matter isn’t confined
to heterosexuality. In fact, two of the main characters are either gay or bisexual.
Your treatment of sexuality strikes me as very open-minded and very playful.
love the word "playful." It is exact, because my literary relish of
human sexuality is a result of my classical training. I wrote my thesis on the
comedies of Aristophanes, where sex–in every way, shape and form–was
exactly that, playful, ribald, with a humor born of the agrarian rites and the
wholesome geniality that nature teaches us. In my novel The Eye of Cybele
[coming from Akashic in 2002] there is an invective against the prudishness of
19th-century Europe, which could not bring itself to utter the word "ass."
They went to the ridiculous extreme of inventing the ugliest of words to avoid
it. One of the attributes of Aphrodite is "kallipygos," which means
"beautiful ass," and English puritanism came up with the cacophonous
"callipygian," which was later copied by the rest of the erudite community
of Europe in their respective languages.
regards Adios Muchachos, I’m certain it will not provoke a scandal
in the United States. After all, you have learned to say ass, and you have come
to understand gays and prostitutes, and I imagine interracial sex as well.
are many dark themes in your novel, but the book is also extremely funny at times.
Is it difficult to mix humor with deceit and violence?
Kennedy once asked Charles De Gaulle who, among all the statesmen he had ever
met, had the greatest sense of humor. And the General answered: "Stalin,
you always been a writer? What did you do before you were an author?
traveled a great deal since a very early age, and I’ve had to do all kinds
of jobs to make a living–miner, fashion model, clandestine guide at the El
Prado museum, actor and many other things. Later, when I returned to Uruguay,
I sold books, taught languages and put myself through college. Then, in Buenos
Aires, I became a literary translator from English and German, and I wrote scripts
for radio and tv. In the mid-60s I panned for gold in the Amazon, did a little
smuggling in Colombia and Venezuela, and when I was around 40, I was signed by
the University of Havana to teach Latin and Greek. My first novel was published
when I was 45 years old.
you consider yourself a "mystery writer"?
partly, but not full-time. I write mysteries, historical novels and a genre that
is very similar to the spy novel but which I prefer to call the "political
adventure novel." And that is mainly what I am: a writer of adventures. I’m
interested in exceptional characters in exceptional circumstances, and I’m
convinced that adventures have been the raw material for the most interesting
plots of all time. Homer is adventure; the theater of the three great Athenian
writers of tragedies based on the ancient Greek myths–that, too, was adventure;
the medieval novel is adventure; Don Quixote–and almost all of Shakespeare–is
adventure. And from the Renaissance to our times, the list would be endless. I
might add that Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, written some 2500 years ago,
is the most original of all mystery plots, where an investigator is searching
for a criminal who turns out to be himself–a fact that he does not discover
until the end when he has killed his father and copulated with his mother.
did you hook up with Akashic Books?
caught me with the age-old hook of friendship–but there was also a measure
of chance here, a measure of emotion that contributed to a lyrical commercial
relationship, as unorthodox as my novels. The guy who runs Akashic [Johnny Temple]
is a musician who loves books. A rare combination. And even rarer when you consider
his long-range vision and his creativity in steering through the twists and turns
of the market.
you like working with small/independent publishing companies, or would you
prefer to be working with larger ones?
relationship with big publishing houses has, so far, been limited to Mexico, Spain,
Germany and France. In France, I have had considerable success and developed a
truly human relationship with my publisher. In other cases I’ve run up against
bottom-liners who make me feel like a number and an anonymous piece of merchandise.
My biggest market successes have been in Greece and Italy, with small editors
who have loved my books and bet on me; and it is with them that I have had my
best results on the market.
always surprised to find that writers from different countries know each other.
How do you meet writers from other countries? Is there an international network
of writers?
course! There are lots of networks. And when we read a good writer whose work
we like, whose content tells us he’s intelligent, has a sense of humor and
amenable political positions and philosophies, he’s practically a brother.
Then when we get to meet in the festive environment of a literary convention,
well, a few get-togethers and eight or 10 drinks–and you become friends forever.
That’s the way I’ve met the authors who have contributed their blurbs
for Adios Muchachos. Larry Block and I danced salsa together on the pyramid
at Chichen Itza; I taught Donald Westlake a few tango steps in Turin; I took Martin
Cruz Smith to a Macumba; William Heffernan, Tom Adcock and I bet a case of rum
on a pistol sharpshooting contest; and Paco Taibo is an old and dear friend at
whose home I stay when I’m in Mexico. And so on.
American literature been much of an influence in your writing? If so, which American
authors have had the greatest impact?
read a great deal of literature from the United States. My initiation as a reader
of novels began with Mark Twain at the age of eight, and I discovered great poetry
with Walt Whitman, who is still, together with Catullus, the object of my adoration.
But during my youth I was a passionate reader of the writers of the Lost Generation.
My favorites were Dos Passos and Fitzgerald. Then I came to worship the writers
of the South. I think my literary development is indebted to the formal mastery
of Faulkner and the dramatic minimalism of Caldwell. In the area of crime fiction,
80 percent of everything I’ve ever read is by American writers. I think that
novels like Donald Westlake’s The Ax and Wambaugh’s The Choirboys
belong in the ranks of the finest literature of the last century.
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If life was a romance novel...
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Damn straight girls. Seriously...it's stupid. Really, incredibly stupid. Sexuality is fluid, damn it! The chance that she's a 0 on the Kinsey Scale is really incredibly small. I mean, she could be a 1 and it wouldn't matter 'cause she'd be incidentally homosexual--which, seriously, is enough for me.
During art club today, S. (my straight girl crush) revealed to me what the whole "It's too awkward to tell you thing" was. No, she didn't come out to me. Not that I really expected her to, but still. I mean, it makes me want to live in a romance novel, or at least a half-way decent fanfiction. At this point, she'd confess that she's loved me since the day she laid eyes on me and would then proceed to sweep me away into the supply closet and snog my brains out. Which would be lovely. I'd withstand buckets of purple prose dumped on me just for that. Or maybe a more watered-down version--anything involving the words "I'm possibly gay and like you in that way" would do for me.
Well, hope lives eternal. It's not my fault she listens to ambiguous love-songs with me and continually comments about our compatibility. -_-
Anyway...GSA was meeting today, and I kinda wanted to go, but I didn't. Because, you know, our GSA is completely stupid and actually makes life worse for queer people in the school. Like, they celebrated the Day of Silence thing in April or whenever, and it became a complete joke. It was stupid. And they have all these dinky little posters with SPELLING MISTAKES that have all these stats on them and stuff. I mean, I'm find with the posters. But what's with the spelling mistakes?!
So. Yeah. High school sucks. What a surprise, huh?
Midnight's picture
I wish...
I wish my school had a GSA. If you actually want to know whats with the spelling mistakes either they want people to pay attention or their spelling isn't very good. (I can't say anything my spelling sucks too:-))
raining men's picture
Oh yeah
Welcome to straight people. Sadly they don't magically change. Not their fault of course but it is bloody annoying
jeff's picture
You're skipping the other possibility, she could be a six and still not be interested.
This is the part where things get interesting, when you meet someone gay that you like and they're like "I'm not feeling it."
Always interesting to read on here when people wish their crush wasn't straight, as though two gay people naturally have chemistry. :-)
cynical1inthecorner's picture
Heh. Well, I do know that.
Heh. Well, I do know that. It's just that if she were gay I'd have a much better chance. :) Which probably wouldn't make life bearable if she still wasn't interested in me. But still.
Besides, we so have chemistry. She just doesn't realize it. :P Jk, jk.
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If life were a romance novel, I'd be the character that gets killed off.
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From the archives: Don’t Worry, Be Happy
By Nick (originally posted 16th May 2012)
A happy geologist
Want to know the secret of happiness? Whisper it quietly, but the answer might be to study geology.
A national student survey in the UK showed that Geology students are the happiest with their degree. An overwhelming 95% of geology studying respondents were happy with their degree.
This is an old survey from 2008, but it recently popped up on my radar again, and I thought it might deserve a post. If only to highlight how awesome my subject is.
Photography was bottom with 67% with business and administration at 69%. It seems that languages also scored highly along with the more applied disciplines of biology.
So why is geology so popular? This wasn’t included in the survey but I might hazard a few guesses of my own. 1) awesome subject matter: volcanoes, dinosaurs, plate tectonics, climate, ice sheets, earthquakes, planets, structure of the earth, oceans and so on and so on. 2) field-trips: lots of them. 3) the chance to work with top level scientists right from the first day of an undergraduate degree: a small community really helps. 4) contains both practical elements relative to today and more purer science. 5) its hands on. 6) it develops new ways of thinking about thinks, not just gaining knowledge and finally 7) Generally awesome people!
And some more good news (well, opinion), unlike other sciences, geologists tend not to peak early, so the good times can keep on rolling (even if there is the odd sticky patch – you’ll get through it Kelly!).
So the secret is out, we’re a pretty happy bunch doing fun things in our discipline. Come and join us!
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NOVEMBER 20, 2009 10:25AM
Last Call
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"And everything looks worse in black and white...."
-- Paul Simon
Nearly last call on a cold November night.
Carol, the barkeep, one eye on the clock, has already dimmed some of the lights and is wiping down tables while a couple of hangers-on hunch over the bar. One, his eyes goggling, sucks down the last dregs, carefully puts down his empty OV bottle and wanders unsteadily toward the exit. Carol follows, locking the door: No more customers tonight.
I should leave now, but it doesn't feel right. Not quite yet.
"Beer and a shot, please, Carol," I say, forearms on the bar. "Beer and a shot before I go."
Carol looks at me, looks again at the clock, shrugs, draws a draft and fills a shotglass with Canadian Club.
I toss the rye back, and begin to sip the beer. Suddenly: "Hey -- aren't you that military history guy?"
I tell the man -- Tim, as it turns out -- I probably am who he means, and we start talking about his family back home in Newfoundland -- The Rock. Some of his relatives had been with the Newfoundland Regiment when it was torn to pieces during the First World War, and he wants to tell me their story.
While he's rattling on, in the way that semi-drunk strangers in a bar are sometimes wont to do, his greeting echoes around in my head, taking me back to another time, another bar near closing time, another life....
* * *
"Hey -- aren't you that photographer guy?" He was not quite belligerant, but edging up on it, the way semi-drunk strangers in a bar are sometimes wont to do.
The barkeep, another Carol, with long curly black hair, a lively face and four kids to bring up on her own, raised an eyebrow, getting a whiff of maybe trouble. It wasn't a biker hangout or bucket of blood, but it could have been without much effort, and she had sensitive, finely tuned antennae.
"That'd probably be me," I said. "Beer and a shot, please, Carol. I'm cold."
I was dog-tired, drained and about as miserable as I'd ever been in my life. I'd lost twenty or more pounds, almost down to my high school wrestling weight but without the fitness. Grey-faced haggard all the time, I felt like I hadn't slept for months, not since a third of the town's business district was obliterated by a natural gas explosion. It'd been almost a year since that frigid February, a year of accidents, murders and mayhem. And fires. The fires that always seemed to happen in the middle of the night. Flames, smoke, flashing lights. Body bags.
It was wearing me down. I had no family any more, no personal life at all. Weeks of twelve to sixteen hour days didn't leave much time for a wife or kids, not when my body and soul craved the rush that action always brought ... although it was probably killing me one crisis at a time.
The semi-drunk, considerably larger than my nondescript five feet, six inches, self, loomed down the bar. I didn't know what to expect, but ... a tiny surge of adrenaline.
"You were at that fire last night, weren't you," he said. Not exactly a question, something hovering around the edges.
"You were there when they brought the bodies out, right?"
"Those little kids," he said, "that was pretty bad, huh?"
"I had kids...."
And he rattled on, the way semi-drunk strangers in a bar are wont to do sometimes, about losing his own kids, not to a fire but a messy divorce, how mothers are always the ones who get custody no matter what. Fathers only got screwed, he said, angrily and sadly at the same time.
I looked across the bar, caught Carol's expression: She knew exactly what it was like for the women in those situations. I did too. I sank the shot, felt the glow start to seep out. I was hoping he'd keep blathering on about his kids, but he returned once again to the fire, pressing for details, wouldn't leave it alone, until I started shivering, and the beer slopped a little out of the glass, over my hand and onto the bar.
"You okay?" the semi-drunk stranger asked, surprised. Even Carol, with her seen-it-all eyes, looked concerned.
"Sure," I said, taking a deep swallow of the beer. "Must've been a cold draft."
I chuckled stupidly at the lame pun, let them know everything was fine. Truth is, I was cold, and wasn't certain when I'd be warm again. Not since standing just after midnight in melting ice and snow, catching overspray as firefighters tried to get on top of the flames gouting from the isolated two-storey farmhouse. Pumpers from three different volunteer departments ran relays to the nearest hydrant, a half-mile away.
Six people, they said, six people inside. Three of them kids under five. One look at the blazing disaster as I drove up had told me all I needed to know: If they hadn't made a door in the first few seconds, they wouldn't be coming out at all. Not alive. No smoke alarms, a century-old building and an over-heated wood stove are a deadly combination.
I was, as usual, by myself, wearing my foul weather gear -- army combat boots and a now-soaked pea jacket, jeans and watch cap. I had my Nikon Fs with a Honeywell strobe, wrapped in the ever-present green garbage bag I carried as an emergency poncho, and all kinds of Kodak Tri-X black and white film. I already had the stock shots of firefighters with icicles hanging off their turnout coats and helmets, of flames shooting through the roof and out windows. Stock shots: Nothing very exciting, just scene-setters. I needed something more ... dramatic.
Suddenly a shout came from around the back, and I hustled over in time to see a booted figure starting down a ladder from a second storey window, holding something in his arms. Something small. One of the kids. He paused when he saw me.
I raised my camera and zoomed onto his face, lit with flames, black with smoke and tear-streaked. I zoomed out a little more to frame what he was holding. He stared down at me; I stared up at him from behind the viewfinder, right index finger on the shutter release, 60th of a second at f8, and ...
... and I didn't take the picture.
Instead, I pulled the camera down and took a couple of involuntary steps back. He nodded down at me and began descending again. When he got to the bottom, before he headed for the coroner and the unnecessary ambulance with his small burden, he paused once more.
"Thanks," he said. "Thanks."
It wasn't until I tried to nod in response that I realized I was shivering hard.
* * *
I'll never know why I didn't take the picture. Compassion? Didn't have much. Fear? Not much of that, either. Good taste? Not really -- the focus of attention would have been on the anonymous firefighter's shocked face, not the sad bundle he was carrying. An award-winner for certain, given his expression, except I didn't work for awards. Burn-out? Partly. Maybe. I don't know.
The moment never happened to me again. A few months later in early spring, I'd capture a scene at another fire, daylight for once, a small, blanketed bundle in a firefighter's arms, paramedic checking for a pulse, cop agitatedly directing people away. That's the shot, I said to myself as I hit the shutter release. That's the one I'll tell them to print out of the 36. And I was right.
But that winter night haunts me, awake and asleep.
* * *
..."Last call," Carol says, as Tim at last lurches toward the exit. "Last call."
"Beer and a shot, please, Carol. One more for the road. I'm cold...."
Closing time, one last call for alcohol, so finish your whiskey or beer.
Closing time, you don't have to go home but you can't stay here....
-- Closing Time, by Semisonic
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Very good! Now I'll always wonder why you didn't take the shot!
Those last calls are haunting. I'm so happy to read some more of your other life. Your compassion and sense of right and wrong despite the artist eye is what gives you the heart and soul which is is the last call of humanity...one I hope will be heeded.
Great story, so well told. R
Quite nice. It stirrs the imagination and leaves us lingering in wonder.
very noir ... reminded me of Weegee
This is so evocative I could swear I already knew the story and your reactions and your, well, humanity. It's always the shots you don't take that haunt you, their images burned into your mind. Will you show us the one you did take?
Lee, this smells like "faction" to me. Maybe mostly fiction. But I'd bet you anything there's more than a hint of fact in there as well.
Excellent writing. Now I have to go do something about that chill you've imparted.....
I've "last call" many times in my life. I understand why you didn't take the picture; your words describing the shot is the picture. ~R~
I've heard... he meant to write.
When I worked for WCVB in Boston, Stanley Forman, the great Boston Herald photographer, was at the station making the transition from still photography to videography. He won a Pulitzer in 1976 for a sequence of photographs showing a young woman and a two-year-old girl falling from a collapsed balcony during a fire. I never had the guts to ask him how he managed his nerves.
Great story. Rated.
Scanner, I don't know.
Buffy, I dunno about the compassion, back then especially. That other life can be somewhat ... ahhhhh ... compromising. Or compromised. I'll get my mind around it someday.
Spot on, Cat. The imagery is seldom very far away. Interestingly, it usually is in black and white. I was somewhat forcefully reminded of it not long ago, hence the post.
65, I'm gratified.
Noah Tall, if you mean Usher Fellig, I was a simpleton compared.
Sally, I ditched almost all the mementoes, including (especially) photos, from that era. Every new beginning....
Dunno about perfect, KK and Walk Away, but thank you for saying so.
Bill, I called it fiction because it doesn't tell the truth. Or at least, not all of it.
Wow, the master shows us how it's done. Outstanding piece but it's a little more than your standard 500 words, I think.
Chuck, I suspect we have much in common (besides Chapin, I mean).
Jeff, you'd be amazed what can be blocked by looking through a camera lens.
Simply incredible. Great writing.
Cappy, thanks -- and of course you're right. Fingertip dysentery, I'm afraid.
Well done, friend. Well done. The image that haunts me almost as much as the image of the fireman and child is the one you paint of the photog. I know something of that burned out, washed out feeling of throwing yourself at some work as if that is the salvation you need, yet never quite finding it as your insides waste away and you wonder what the hell it is all about anyway.
Philip, thank you.
Monte, I know you do. The photog's fine, though, and I suspect you probably know why.
If this was indeed fiction, it was very nicely done. I suspect though there was a bit of fact in this as well.
Thanks, Torman. As I rather inelegantly said to Bill S, I called it fiction because while it's true, it's not the truth.
I can't imagine how one can see something like that and ever close their eyes again...
I have no good answer, but others on OS have seen far worse than I ever did.
I'm starting to love fiction Friday.
I wrote a post about my uncle in WWII and I have now met the man I wish would have written it. I was there... I saw the fireman's face, felt the heat, saw the reflection of the flames off his tears.
Un... frickin'... believable.
Thanks to WSFTC for bringing your wonderful talent to my attention. I have a lot of catching up to do.
Evocotive and haunting. Thriller and killer.
brings on much.
Goog, just bloody good.
More please. give us more... I want more....
Just plain excellent writing. Powerful.
(Yikes. Thanks for the mention, Cat.)
NoFrills, thank you.
Scanner, me too.
Chris, I read (and rated) the piece you wrote about your uncle after you referenced it. I don't think you need someone else to write anything for you.
Mission, I can only say I'll try.
Owl, oh my. Thank you.
Barking, your friend is pretty much right. There is a distance through the viewfinder that allows the mind to objectify. Most of the time. Does he miss the darkroom magic? I do....
Cat send me over. Loved the story. Loved your writing.
Those lines from 'Closing Time' were running through my head as I read, before I saw you'd included it. Great snapshot, and your prose provided such vivid images.
Trilogy, thanks. I'm glad you liked it.
NN, I love that song. It has a certain resonance for me. I'm pleased it came through in the story.
Thanks, Emma. (And when are you going to be writing some more?)
beautifully sadly evocative.
I know why you didn't push the button, and it wasn't a gift to the fireman.
I have a big book of Weegee here; I know whereof Noah speaks.
Your opening line reminded me of John Prine's Lake Mah-ree:
"You know what blood looks like in a black and white video? / Shadows, Shadows...."
You ev
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Connie, Prine's quite right: Shadows, black as ink. No blood that night, though: That was a night for other things.
Good prose B1, good prose. You are indeed a writer.
I'll be back. Sooner or later, likely sooner. We need to talk. This is good.
Any time, old son. I'd be glad to talk to you. And thanks for the compliment.
Captivating and raw. The only way this kind of story deserves to be told. I think I know why you didn't take the picture ... your gut told you not to.
My daughter's best little school chum died at 7 years old with her baby brother in a house fire just around the corner from ours. The fire station was close (only a couple blocks over) but a freak snowstorm with high winds had blown up unexpectedly that night and there were drifts everywhere. The house was a bungalow and the kids were sleeping on the first floor. Never shoulda happened but it did. Fuck! The father who was home with the children got out alive ...
I used to sell wine to the Captain of the fire department and asked him about it, after the fact. He said something to the effect, "The public will never know (or the papers will never print) how that fire started." I never knew what he meant and I kinda don't think I want to but it crosses my mind ...
Thanks, Scarlett.
I can't imagine what fire department would sit on the actual cause of a fire or what newspaper wouldn't print it. Very intriguing. But how sad for your daughter and her chum.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
NBI: Random Blogging Thoughts
This post is part of the Newbie Blogger Initiative.
"No, like WoW."
"WoW? What's WoW?"
"World of Warcraft."
"That thing? That's for weirdos."*
Such is the life of an MMO blogger.
Write for yourself first, then write for others.
1. Wise words from a blogging veteran :)
and why do I have the feeling that last comment about "Sunny Day" may have actually happened to a certain somebody? haha!
I am still SO looking for a workplace with chances are pretty lousy though. oh well - one more reason for blogging, right?
p.s. now that you admitted to fanfiction, there's no going back. do eeeeet! :D
1. Considering I received my first smartphone from work last week, no it wasn't me. I was in the meeting, however. ;-)
I don't like smartphones --or any cell phones-- very much. That's because to me the concept of a cell phone = work. You're never off the clock, and can be called back into work at a moment's notice.
There are geeks in every workplace, but a geek-heavy workplace is more a matter of an individual company versus an entire field. A software company I worked for had a higher concentration of geeks than my current employer, but at neither place were geeks in the majority.
The fanfic argument --to do it or not?-- is a long standing one. I've read some terrible fanfic over the years, and I've read some great fanfic. I've pretty much resolved that if I can make the story stand alone, it might be worth posting. The problem is I haven't had it even get to that level of quality yet, because I'm constantly changing things as I write. Non-fiction flows much easier for me.
2. Oh, Syl is right. The cat is out of the bag, you've got to share that story!
Yes, I should take a notebook on walks. For whatever reason it's when ideas come to me but most of the time they're forgotten by the time I get home.
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The Jayson Blair epside: What took so long?
Fine, 27-year-old ex-New York Times reporter Jayson Blair has a very long history of fabrication and plagiarism. For example, 36 of the 73 articles he wrote since he arrived at the Times’s prestigious National Desk in late 2002 contain errors, many of which are brazen and outrageous. He made up quotes, pretended to be places he wasn’t, and generally wrote fiction.
So I have two questions:
1) Given his history — he had been warned in 2002 when he was still on the NY Times Metropolitan Desk for playing loose with the facts (one editor said in an email that Blair should be taken out of the paper entirely) — how did he end up as a national reporter mere months later?
My answer: Affirmative action almost certainly played a role. As Mickey Kaus points out, the Times’s Howell Raines was bragging to the National Association of Black Journalists about the Times’s affirmative action program, and specifically mentioning Blair, while Blair was already in hot water for making up stuff.
2) What took so long? I mean, the guy pretended to talk to people he hadn’t spoken with, said he was places that he wasn’t at, with people he wasn’t with, and so on. As any online journalist will tell you, you’ll be skinned very quickly for that sort of thing online. So why did no-one notice that Blair’s Times stories were so awry?
Some people did notice, but not enough apparently. You start to wonder if people read the paper critically. After all, Blair lied about being at the house of Michael and Martha Gardner as they listened to war missives while their son was fighting in Iraq — yet the parents clipped the article and thanked the Times for the piece.
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1. Matthew says:
How many warnings did the editors of Times recieve?
2. Tonya says:
STOP making this a black and white issue. He was a liar and probably a drug addit. They should have a drug testing policy. And why did they hire him with sub standard skills he never graduated from college. If you are going to hire people of color for a job that require skills at least make sure they complete their education! I
agreee that Howell Raines should be punished for flaughting he EEOC policy, but being fired is a little harsh! Make sure the punishment fit the crime. All companies should implement drug testing policies to stop these addits from managing our American businesses.
3. Tired of excuses says:
Please. Why is that when a non-brown/black person does something, he or she is the problem, but when a brown/black person does something, it is indicitive of an entire race? What does affirmative action have to do with Blair being a liar and a con-artist? Those of you who are against anyone other than whites prospering in this country make me ill. I wish that some of your ancestors would have complained about the treatment of my people, as you complain about the poor white people. If affirmative action is the issue, then what was the issue with the very rich, white, greedy enron execs? MCI execs? Or any other non-black/brown common thief? Has anyone served any prison time? If so, how many? Are they suffering from infectious greed? Oh yes, I forgot, when you are white, you are right. Steal a country, enslave generations of innocent people but whine foul when you feel that you aren’t getting EVERYTHING. Give me a break!!!!!
4. Renette says:
I wonder how this whole situation would have played out if the person in question were not of african-american descent. Granted, what occured was without a doubt wrong, but it is not indictive of all african-americans. And how does affirmative action play into this? What happened could have easily taken place with blacks, whites, women, gay, etc. This was just a man who thought that he could get away with false facts and lying. Let’s just the get rid of the race card once and for all.
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A solar furnace is a device that concentrates the sun's light on a small point to heat it up to high temperature. One can imagine that in the limit of being completely surrounded by mirrors, your entire $4\pi$ solid angle will look like the surface of the sun, at about 6000K. The target will then heat up to 6000K and start to radiate as a blackbody, reaching thermal equilibrium with the sun.
The question is: is there any way to surpass this temperature, perhaps by filtering the light to make it look like a BB spectrum at higher temp, then concentrating it back on the target?
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That would violate the second law of thermodynamics, assuming all the optics are passive. – Mark Eichenlaub Jan 10 '11 at 15:34
If you assume equilibrium, then there is no way. Black body must always emit as much radiation as it receives. The upper limit is given by total Sun's output corresponding to 6000K. – Marek Jan 10 '11 at 17:03
By the way, you might want to read up on Dyson sphere. – Marek Jan 10 '11 at 17:04
If you surround the Earth-sun system with ideal mirrors, everything on the inside will eventually heat up well beyond 6000K. Just divide the total mass by the heat derived from fusing everything to iron. – Scott Carnahan Jan 11 '11 at 13:11
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Theoretically the answer is yes. That is because the sun is not a blackbody emitter, there is an excess of UV radiation. So if you were able to achieve radiative equilibrium with only UV light (which is maybe 1% of BB radiation at those temps), you could do it. Practically, I'd think it would be just about impossible, as your filter would have to have it's innermost surface at nearly 6000K.
Note: The solar UV primarily comes from the chromosphere and corona, which is heated (in some not too well understood way) by mechanical/magnetic energy derived from convective processes. The X-ray excess is even greater than the UV excess. Even the earth gives off detectable gamma rays, and that would be impossible thermally.
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Friday, August 17, 2007
Writer's envy...
By Lonnie Cruse
Ever read a book by an author you admire and wish you could write like that? Wish you had the same way with words? Wish you could make readers laugh or cry that easily? Remember a scene you wrote years later? Me, too. Sigh.
All authors have different “voices.” And no matter that the book jacket says, “Writes like Shakespeare,” or “Will put you in mind of Hemingway,” we’re all different. All unique. Nobody really writes like anyone else, even when covering the same subject. But there are ways to develop our talent, polish our prose, and improve our writing, taking it to a much higher level. Maybe as good or better than our favorite authors? Maybe.
One way to improve our writing is by taking classes, either online or by attending workshops in person. Another is to read what other writers have to say on the subject, and there are dozens of how-to books on writing, editing, pitching, selling, and getting a manuscript published. Working with other writers in a critique group situation is also an excellent learning tool.
But possibly one of the best ways to improve our craft is to study the fiction of the writers we admire. What is it in their books that makes us laugh, or cry, or remember a particular scene forever? How does the author present a setting or a character? Has the author done his/her homework about real life facts? Are there any “speed bumps” that pulled us out of the story, and if so, how would we avoid writing them?
Studying how a favorite author pulls us into their story and keeps us there until we reach the last page, probably slightly worn out from the ride and definitely wanting more, will help us learn how to do the same in our own writing.
War and Peace, anyone?
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Sandra Parshall said...
I learn something from every book I read -- even if I hate it. I've learned more about creating suspense from reading Tess Gerritsen, Thomas Cook and Ruth Rendell than I could ever learn from reading a how-to book. They inspire me to push my own writing to a higher level.
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Is Sweet Scent worth it?
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All it does is lower your Evasion by one level and to find wild Pokemon. You can just walk to find Pokemon in the wild because its way faster. So, is it worth having?
asked Jan 28, 2011 by &Psychic x
It can be useful for the great marsh/safari zone
Yeah, I use it there all the time. It is really great there.
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Too put it in a word.............................No it is useless for competive play only ingame does it do anything semi useful
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Since Dive wasn't an HM in FireRed/LeafGreen, can you teach a Pokemon Dive in R/S/E Dive, trade it to FR/LG, and migrate to D/P/PT/HG/SS?
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Never mind, I just found out. You can't migrate Pokemon with Dive into Gen IV from FR/LG.
answered Nov 24, 2011 by Mewderator
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Yes, because Dive is a move in FR/LG.
answered Nov 21, 2011 by Kyogreruler
but it was introduced in third gen
FR LG is Gen III
Your source?
The fact that FR and LG were released between R/S and Emerald
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Procedure: Qualitative and Quantitative Measure 1. Satisfactory Progress: Satisfactory progress will be measured according to the following scale: Number of Hours Attempted 0-24 25-36 37 & ABOVE Required Cumulative GPA 1.5 1.75 2.0 2. Incremental Measure: Full-time students receiving Title IV assistance must pass a minimum of six (6) semester hours during any semester in which assistance is received. Students enrolled on a part-time basis must pass 50% of the semester hours attempted. Failure to do so results in suspension of eligibility for financial assistance. Time Frame A student has six (6) full-time semesters in which to complete the degree or certificate requirements. The maximum number of allowable semesters for part-time students is adjusted, with the calculation based on an average full-time load of 15 semester hours. There are no provisions for financial aid beyond the second degree and/or certificate. Financial Aid Probation: A student is placed on probation if the minimum required cumulative grade point average is not met for one semester. During the probationary semester the student is eligible for assistance. Financial Aid Suspension: A student is placed on suspension if the minimum required cumulative grade point average is not met for two consecutive semesters or if the incremental measure requirement is not met for a term in which financial assistance is received. Eligibility is re-established when minimum standards on the satisfactory progress scale are met. 1. Cumulative record: A student's entire instructional record at Pearl River Community College will be evaluated to determine eligibility for financial aid regardless of whether or not the student received aid. Transfer Credits will not be considered. 2. Remedial Courses: Remedial courses are included in the calculation of the Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy. 3. Repeated Courses: Repeated courses are counted in the determination of the number of semester hours attempted, but do not affect overall GPA. 4. Withdrawals: All withdrawals will be counted as hours attempted. A grade of "W" will not affect GPA. 5. Hours Attempted: The number of hours attempted will be considered the number of hours in which a student is enrolled at the close of late registration. 6. Reinstatement: Students may re-establish their eligibility for financial aid after they have been suspended by attending Pearl River Community College at their own expense and earning the minimum requirement. Students who were suspended as full-time students must re-establish their eligibility as full-time, and students who were suspended as part-time students must establish their eligibility by enrolling in at least the same number of hours as when suspended. 7. Appeal: Students who wish to appeal their suspension from financial aid must submit a written request to the Director of Financial Aid. Only exceptional circumstances or an improved academic record will be considered.
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Psychic Dream Astrology: May 7 - 13, 2014
May 7-13, 2014
March 21-April 19
Too much is too much. It doesn't matter if it's a good thing or bad. You're tapped, and no more "doing" is going to help to level you out. Rejuvenate your frayed mind and heart before you try to fix anything else, Aries. If you come at things with nervous tension you're only likely to multiply your stresses.
April 20-May 20
The only person you should be trying to change is you, Taurus. Instead of focusing on what others are doing or getting caught up in your version of the story being more right than theirs, seek the description of the truth that is the most generous and compassionate. Life may not fair, but you can be.
May 21-June 21
The way to keep up with the changes in your life is to get clear about your priorities. So much is happening and you need to invest your time and energy wisely. Get back to basics and make a list of the top six things that are important to you, Gemini, and then don't treat a 5 like a 1.
June 22-July 22
Protect what and who you love, Cancer. Your relationships need you, so come out of hiding! There's a way you can get caught up with life and go through the motions with the people you love. Make time for your beloveds and then show up, even if that requires some vulnerability and risk-taking.
July 23-Aug. 22
You don't need to know what's going to happen or even how long the path is. Uncertainty is just a part of life. What you need is to be kind to yourself and others as things develop. You are capable of creating so much joy for yourself and others, Leo, so don't sweat the small stuff this week.
Aug. 23-Sept. 22
What have you let go of in the past month and what have you achieved? Pay attention to all that has come to pass and feel good about the effort it took from you, even if you're not yet where you want to be. You're making great progress, Virgo, and there is great wisdom in appreciation this week.
Sept. 23-Oct. 22
Thoughtfully work on your relationships, Libra. You may want everything to be OK, even if it's not, or conversely feel itching to go to battle even though this is not the time for it. Slow down and make sure you ego isn't motivating your actions. Remember that you want love and connection and act from that place.
Oct. 23-Nov. 21
If you aren't acting in ways that you can sustain you'll pay the price in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Be honest with yourself and others about where you're at and what you're game for. If you are successful at things that aren't true to you it will feel kinda awful. Be real, even if it slows you down.
Nov. 22-Dec. 21
This is a great time to bring your ideas into fruition, Sagittarius, but you may have to collaborate to do it right. Your vision and talent won't be diluted by group efforts this week, so don't worry that you won't get the kind of recognition you deserve by sharing the spotlight. Sharing is caring, love.
Dec. 22-Jan. 19
You're not in control of the trajectory of your life. Bummer. But you can (and should!) be very goal oriented, and proactive in trying to make your visions reality. The magic that you'll need to pull this off without going cray is patience, my dear Capricorn. And a healthy dose of it this week.
Jan. 20-Feb. 18
Stay away from overthinking your worries this week because it will only serve to make things worse. Get in touch with yourself and make sure that your actions are aligned with your intentions. Wherever you find they're not, make a simple action plan to correct it, or change your mind.
Feb. 19-March 20
There is no struggle that can't be eased by a little loving kindness, Pisces. Pick the three things or people that you are the most committed to and focus your energy on preserving the goodness there. Don't dilute your vital energies by being pulled in too many directions this week.
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Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field; a field encompassing all of space which exerts a force on particles that possess the property of electric charge, and is in turn affected by the presence and motion of those particles.
The magnetic field is produced by the motion of electric charges, i.e. electric current. The magnetic field causes the magnetic force associated with magnets.
The term "electromagnetism" comes from the fact that electrical and magnetic forces are involved simultaneously. A changing magnetic field produces an electric field (this is the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction, which provides for the operation of electrical generators, induction motors, and transformers). Similarly, a changing electric field generates a magnetic field. Because of this interdependence of the electric and magnetic fields, it makes sense to consider them as a single coherent entity — the electromagnetic field.
This unification, which was completed by James Clerk Maxwell, and formulated by Oliver Heaviside, is one of the triumphs of 19th century physics. It had far-reaching consequences, one of which was the understanding of the nature of light. As it turns out, what is thought of as "light" is actually a propagating oscillatory disturbance in the electromagnetic field, i.e., an electromagnetic wave. Different frequencies of oscillation give rise to the different forms of electromagnetic radiation, from radio waves at the lowest frequencies, to visible light at intermediate frequencies, to gamma rays at the highest frequencies.
The theoretical implications of electromagnetism led to the development of special relativity by Albert Einstein in 1905.
The electromagnetic force Edit
Main article: electromagnetic force
The force that the electromagnetic field exerts on electrically charged particles, called the electromagnetic force, is one of the four fundamental forces. The other fundamental forces are the strong nuclear force (which holds atomic nuclei together), the weak nuclear force (which causes certain forms of radioactive decay), and the gravitational force. All other forces are ultimately derived from these fundamental forces.
As it turns out, the electromagnetic force is the one responsible for practically all the phenomena encountered in daily life, with the exception of gravity. Roughly speaking, all the forces involved in interactions between atoms can be traced to the electromagnetic force acting on the electrically charged protons and electrons inside the atoms. This includes the forces we experience in "pushing" or "pulling" ordinary material objects, which come from the intermolecular forces between the individual molecules in our bodies and those in the objects. It also includes all forms of chemical phenomena, which arise from interactions between electron orbitals.
According to modern electromagnetic theory, electromagnetic forces are mediated by the transfer of virtual photons.
Origins of electromagnetic theory Edit
The scientist William Gilbert proposed, in his De Magnete (1600), that electricity and magnetism, while both capable of causing attraction and repulsion of objects, were distinct effects. Mariners had noticed that lightning strikes had the ability to disturb a compass needle, but the link between lightning and electricity was not confirmed until Benjamin Franklin's proposed experiments in 1752. One of the first to discover and publish a link between man-made electric current and magnetism was Romagnosi, who in 1802 noticed that connecting a wire across a Voltaic pile deflected a nearby compass needle. However, the effect did not become widely known until 1820, when Ørsted performed a similar experiment. Ørsted's work influenced Ampère to produce a theory of electromagnetism that set the subject on a mathematical foundation.
An accurate theory of electromagnetism, known as classical electromagnetism, was developed by various physicists over the course of the 19th century, culminating in the work of James Clerk Maxwell, who unified the preceding developments into a single theory and discovered the electromagnetic nature of light. In classical electromagnetism, the electromagnetic field obeys a set of equations known as Maxwell's equations, and the electromagnetic force is given by the Lorentz force law.
One of the peculiarities of classical electromagnetism is that it is difficult to reconcile with classical mechanics, but it is compatible with special relativity. According to Maxwell's equations, the speed of light is a universal constant, dependent only on the electrical permittivity and magnetic permeability of the vacuum. This violates Galilean invariance, a long-standing cornerstone of classical mechanics. One way to reconcile the two theories is to assume the existence of a luminiferous aether through which the light propagates. However, subsequent experimental efforts failed to detect the presence of the aether. In 1905, Albert Einstein solved the problem with the introduction of special relativity, which replaces classical kinematics with a new theory of kinematics that is compatible with classical electromagnetism.
In addition, relativity theory shows that in moving frames of reference a magnetic field transforms to a field with a nonzero electric component and vice versa; thus firmly showing that they are two sides of the same coin, and thus the term "electromagnetism". magnets can repel and atract with a north and south pole melissa morley has made compass experiments who is highly educated.
Failures of classical electromagnetismEdit
In another paper published in that same year, Einstein undermined the very foundations of classical electromagnetism. His theory of the photoelectric effect (for which he won the Nobel prize for physics) posited that light could exist in discrete particle-like quantities, which later came to be known as photons. Einstein's theory of the photoelectric effect extended the insights that appeared in the solution of the ultraviolet catastrophe presented by Max Planck in 1900. In his work, Planck showed that hot objects emit electromagnetic radiation in discrete packets, which leads to a finite total energy emitted as black body radiation. Both of these results were in direct contradiction with the classical view of light as a continuous wave. Planck's and Einstein's theories were progenitors of quantum mechanics, which, when formulated in 1925, necessitated the invention of a quantum theory of electromagnetism. This theory, completed in the 1940s, is known as quantum electrodynamics (or "QED"), and is one of the most accurate theories known to physics.
Related conceptsEdit
The term electrodynamics is sometimes used to refer to the combination of electromagnetism with mechanics, and deals with the effects of the electromagnetic field on the dynamic behavior of electrically charged particles.
SI electricity unitsEdit
See alsoEdit
• Tipler, Paul (1998). Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Vol. 2: Light, Electricity and Magnetism, 4th ed., W. H. Freeman. ISBN 1-57259-492-6.
• Jackson, John D. (1998). Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd ed., Wiley. ISBN 0-471-30932-X.
• Rothwell, Edward J.; Cloud, Michael J. (2001). Electromagnetics, CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-1397-X.
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The Information Search Process (ISP) is a six-stage process that information seekers go through when seeking information. ISP was first suggested by Carol C. Kuhlthau in 1991. The six stages of ISP are as follows: Stage 1: Initiation, Stage 2: Selection, Stage 3: Exploration, Stage 4: Formulation, Stage 5: Collection, Stage 6: Presentation.
During the first stage, initiation, the information seeker has a topic for which they need information. As they think more about the topic, they may discuss the topic with others and brainstorm the topic further. [1]
In the second stage, selection, the individual begins to decide where to get the information needed. Some information retrieval may occur at this point.
In the third stage, exploration, information on the topic is gathered. During this stage, new personal knowledge is created. [2]
During the fourth stage, formulation, the information seeker starts to evaluate the information that has been gathered. At this point, a focus begins to form and there is not as much confusion and uncertainty as in earlier stages. [2] Formulation is considered to be the most important stage of the process. [1]
During the fifth stage, collection, the information seeker knows what is needed to support the focus. At this point, the search is more effective because the focus is clear. [3]
In the sixth and final stage, presentation, the individual has completed the information search. Now the information seeker will summarize and report on the information that was found through the process.
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Notes Edit
1. 1.0 1.1 Shannon, Donna. “Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process.” School Library Media Activities Monthly, Vol. 19, no. 2, October 2002: p. 19-23.
2. 2.0 2.1 Isbell, Dennis and Lisa Kammerlocher. “Implementing Kuhlthau: A New Model for Library and Reference Instruction.” Reference Services Review, Fall/Winter 1998: p. 33-44.
3. Rubin, Richard E. Foundations of Library and Information Science. New York: Neal Schuman Publishers.
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The right hemisphere (aka right brain) mirrors a large part of the aspect if the left brain but also has distinct functions
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Linear reasoning[1] and language functions such as grammar and vocabulary[2] often are lateralized to the left hemisphere of the brain.
In contrast, prosodic language functions, such as intonation and accentuation, often are lateralized to the right hemisphere of the brain.[3][4] Functions such as the processing of visual and audiological stimuli, spatial manipulation, facial perception, and artistic ability seem to be functions of the right hemisphere.
Other integrative functions, including arithmetic,[5][6] binaural sound localization, and emotions, seem more bilaterally controlled.
Left hemisphere functions Right hemisphere functions
analytical[7] holistic[1][7]
verbal[1][7][8] prosodic[8]
logical[1][7] intuitive[1][7][9]
numerical computation (exact calculation, numerical comparison, estimation)
left hemisphere only: direct fact retrieval[5][6]
numerical computation (approximate calculation, numerical comparison, estimation)[5][6]
language: grammar/vocabulary, literal[10] language: intonation/accentuation, prosody, pragmatic, contextual[10]
See alsoEdit
1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Left/Right Processing.
2. Dr. C. George Boeree. Speech and the Brain.
3. Ross ED, Monnot M (January 2008). Neurology of affective prosody and its functional-anatomic organization in right hemisphere. Brain Lang. 104 (1): 51–74.
4. George MS, Parekh PI, Rosinsky N, Ketter TA, Kimbrell TA, Heilman KM, Herscovitch P, Post RM (July 1996). Understanding Emotional Prosody Activates Right Hemisphere Regions. Arch Neurol. 53 (7): 665–670.
6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Stanislas Dehaene, Manuela Piazza, Philippe Pinel, and Laurent Cohen. Three parietal circuits for number processing. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 20:487-506
7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Right-Brain Hemisphere
8. 8.0 8.1 Handedness and Brain Lateralization.
9. Converting Words into Pictures--Reading Comprehension Guide--Academic Support
10. 10.0 10.1 Taylor, Insep, and Taylor, M. Martin (1990) "Psycholinguistics: Learning and using Language". p. 367
Further readingEdit
• Ornstein, R.E. (1997). The Right Mind: Making Sense of the Hemispheres. Harcourt Brace & Company
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What is pubscout?
We've all been there. You're out in a new area on a Friday night and it's ticking on to 11pm. You hear the dreaded last orders and you panic because your choices are to wander aimlessly in hope or go home.
Pub Scout finds your current location (from a mobile or desktop) and tells you what's open, what's on and tells you about any features you may be interested in.
Because venues can update the information themselves, you can always keep up to date, whether it's your local or your favourite pub in the Lake District, and choose to get updates directly from them.
Why does pubscout want to know my location?
We'd like to know your location so we can give a more accurate overview of what's around you. You don't have to give your location, of course, and we'll find an approximate location of where you are instead.
My location isn't accurate. How do I find my exact location?
Click the 'Locate Me' button (the one that looks like a GPS icon) to let us try and find you again. If it's still not right, click the compass button and you'll be able to enter your current location or (for more accurate results) your postcode. This will be stored as your current location.
Tip: To get back to your current location, just click the home button no matter which page you're on.
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You can find what you're looking for by typing any related searches in the search bar at the top right. For example, if you wanted to find a riverside pub in Richmond, just type in riverside Richmond, or for a pub quiz on Monday in W1, just type pub quiz Monday W1. It's as simple as that.
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Aside from Black-Scholes with crazy skews, what major models are used for energy derivatives? I'm thinking particularly of electricity derivatives, but I'm also interested in natural gas and other volatile contracts(*).
(*): pun intended
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That's a complicated question. There are many paths.
One path is to build a model of the underlying supply/demand relationships. For example, the sudden loss of a power supplier (or transmision corridor) shifts the supply curve to the left spiking the price. The key to the game is data, data, and more data (price, weather/wind, season, power loads, current power generation, stand-by generation, transmission line overload, etc).
There are several books written on the subject. If you dig around, you'll find everything from over-simplified books, to books that over-kill on a specific area of the business. Just a quick Google gives:
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This guy listed a list of key papers relative to commodities price modeling. That could perhaps help you get started.
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Re ''Down Time From Murder,'' by Roger Cohen (column, Sept. 24):
Juxtaposition of the barbaric with the banal, photographically documented at the United States Holocaust Museum, is not at all surprising. Evil is banal; only the targets and the methods of dispensing it change throughout history.
Although impossible to extinguish it, we should never shy from exposing its practitioners to each new generation. The fact that they look like our neighbors and relatives is a lesson worth passing on. Paul Bloustein
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Follow these steps to clean up your user accounts.
1) Choose one user name that you will define as the Default user name, or the single account you will retain at the end of this cleanup. (Note: this is less about choosing a 'favorite' user name and is more about choosing the account that has access to the largest number of applications. The key is picking the right user account and that should be entirely based on 1) which account has access to which apps and 2) which account manages which apps. You can always rename your user name later.)
Click the user dropdown on the Global bar, then click My preferences & profile. In the My User Information section, click Manage multiple user accounts. Select one as the Default Account. This will be the user name you will retain after the cleanup.
2) Go into account(s) you want to get rid of by logging in as that user name and doing the following:
• Transfer ownership of apps that the "old" account manages to the Default account. (If applicable.)
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(Note: You will need to give the app manager the user name of the Default account so that they will know which account to search for).
• Edit the user profile on the old account and change the email address to and clear out the First, Last, and User Name of the user. This is done so that other users won't continue to find the old account when searching for them. ( is an example of what you can change it to if your email address is
Repeat Step 2 as necessary to eliminate all unwanted accounts. For more information, please see our Transfer Ownership of an Application help topic.
3) The default user name will see alerts on the My Apps page which should be accepted to complete the transfers.
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U.S. History- Chapter 25 Vocab
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Japanese Americans that were born in this country and therefore citizens and were shipped to interment camps during WW2.
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
this economic board was created by Congress to insure that prices and commodities were not overcharged with price gouging. This board fought inflation by freezing prices.
War Production Board (WPB)
this board created by Congress was established to insure that needed resources were received by industries so the war could be won.
the establishment of fixed amounts of goods able to be purchased by citizens that were needed by military.
Dwight (D) Eisenhower
Operation Torch was commanded by this general. He later would become the commanding general of all forced in Europe.
the day allied forces invaded the coast of Normandy as it began the final defeat of Hitler.
George Patton
he was an American General that lead the invasion force of France and later Germany.
Battle of the Bulge
Germany's last counter offensive. This military drive broke through American lines. Lasting for a month, Germany retreated finally as the battle was carried to Berlin.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
he was the Commanding General in the Pacific. He was likewise the leader of occupying forces that entered Japan.
Chester Nimitz
He was the commander of naval forces in the Pacific. He was the brilliant leader that lead forces to Midway and finally to Okinawa.
a suicide plane tactic used by the Japanese in the Battle for Leyte Bay.
Manhattan Project
this was the best kept secret of the war. Likewise, it was the most ambitious scientific enterprise of the war. This program established the atomic weapons that would end the war.
J. Robt. Oppenheimer
he was the leader of scientist at Los Alamos that actually built the Atomic Bomb.
the first city that was destroyed using a nuclear weapon. This military location in Japan ceased to exit on August 6, 1945.
a second site, this city in Japan was also destroyed by an atomic bomb.
Yalta Conference
in February 1945, Roosevelt met with Churchill and Stalin at a city on the Black Sea. Here the leaders made important decisions about the furutre of Peace in Europe.
United Nations
this was to be the new organization of countries that would serve as an international peacekeeping body.
Nuremberg trials
after the fall of Germany, this event taking over year was conducted to expose and convict the leaders of Germany responsible for the war and the crimes committed against allied countries.
GI Bill of Rights
this bill passed by Congress, provided education and training for veterans. Over half of the returning soldiers attended college and technical schools under this bill.
James Farmer
he was the founder of an interracial movement aimed at confronting urban segregation in the North. This was in response to the problems that broke out with the migration of African Americans to the Northern industrial cities.
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
this inter rational organization staged sit-ins at segregated sites throughout northern cities. These demonstrations were designed to create awareness and resolution to the new inter rational problems caused when African Americans migrated to the North.
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
this organization was formed to charge Congress with paying reparations to Japanese Americans that had been interned.
Adolf HItler
he was the leader of the Nazi party and Germany itself during WW2. It is his name with all evil is associated.
he was the leader of Italy during the WW2. He formed a Nazi party and preferred to be called, "el duce."
although he was not the emperor of Japan, as military leader and the new prime minister, he designed the Japan war plan in the Pacific theater.
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Ch. 35 - Nationalism and Political Identities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
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Indian National Congress
most influential association against British rule of India
Muslim League
the league that sought to counteract the Hinduism factors of the Indian National Congress (eventually Muslims created Pakistan)
known as the "Mahatma" (great soul,) encouraged Hinduism and discouraged industrialism, sought to increase the power of the untouchables, and was active with the peasants as well as politics
a moral philosophy Gandhi embrace after he spent 25 years in South Africa. It means "tolerance and nonviolence"
a technique of passive and resistance developed from Gandhi's ahimsa. It means "truth and firmness"
Gandhi was highly against the caste system do to his belief of human equality. He hated all discrimination and was determined to eradicate the injustices of the caste system. The word Harijans refers to Gandhi's main target of fixing, which was the injustice against the casteless untouchables. The word means "children of God", which is a symbolic way of saying that everyone is equal even the untouchables.
a city in the Punjab region of India; the location of a brutal massacre of unarmed Indian protesters by British troops in 1919
The Indian Act
a compromise between the British government and the Indian nationalists; otherwise known as the "Government of India Act", it formed a fully-fledged Indian government, which would still be under British management.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
brilliant lawyer as well as the head of the Muslim League in India. Proposed the split between Pakistan and India, with Pakistan becoming the new home for Indian Muslims
As revolutionary and nationalist uprisings gained support, a revolution in 1911 forced the Xuantong emperor to abdicate the throne. The Qing dynasty fell quickly after that.
Sun Yatsen
proclaimed China a republic and briefly assumed position as president, Three Principles of the People: Nationalism, Democracy, and the People's Livelihood (elimination of privileges for foreigners, democratic republican government based on universal suffrage, national reunification and economic development)
The Republic
China unstable after fall of Qing dynasty. Warlords took over and established themselves as provincial or regional rulers. There were still unequal treaties with other countries who had control over China's economy
May Fourth Movement
Chinese people, especially youths and intellectuals protested against imperialism. They were against foreign interference, especially the Japanese.
Chinese Communist party
organized in Shanghai in 1921. Modeled after Marxist thoughts, and led by Mao Zedong, this was supposed to be a social revolution to cure China's problems. Came after the United states and other western powers did not intervene for China when Japan invaded. Among other things, they promoted women's rights.
Mao Zedong
A former teacher and librarian who was an early member of the CCP. He advocated the belief that a Marxist inspired social revolution would cure China's problems, and held the belief that divorce should be allowed, people should be allowed to chose who they marry, and that foot binding is cruel.
Three Principles of The People
Put forth by Sun Yatsen, he wanted the elimination of special privelages for foreigners, national reunification, economic development, and a democratic republican government based upon equal suffrage for all. This was to be accomplished through united all of China under the Nationalist people's party.
Nationalist People's party
Led by Sun Yatsen and opposed to a dictatorship or communism, this called for a more democratic approach to government, as was meant to unite all of China. It initially allied with the CCP and accepted aid from the Soviet Union.
Jiang Jieshi
Was a young general who had been trained in Japan and the Soviet Union. He did not hold a vision for social revolution that involved the masses of China. He launched a political and military offensive, known as the Northern Expedition, that aimed to unify the nation and bring China under Guomindang rule
Civil war
A war between people of the same country. After the death of Sun Yatsen, leadership of Guomindang fell to Jiang Jieshi. Towards end of his succesful campaign, he turned against his allies and the alliance between the Guomindang and CCP to a bloody end by a civil war
Long March
A epic journey of 10,000 kilometers (6215 miles) that 85 thousand troops and auxiliary personnel of the Red army took
Imperial Japan
After the Great War, Japan achieved great power status and accepted the international status quo ~ joined the League of Nations as one of the "big five" powers, and underwent treaties to improve relations with other countries
Kellogg-Briand pact
Signed by the Japanese government which renounced war as an instrument of national policy
Inukai Tsuyoshi
Japanese politician, cabinet minister, and prime minister of Japan. His assassination was the climax of a campaign of assassinations targeting political and business leaders
China's unification threatened Japan's sphere of influence in Manchuria. Japan established a presence in Manchuria because of their control of the Manchurian railroad. They retained transit rights and stationed troops leading Japan's military forces to assert control over the region
The Mukden Incident
Japanese troops used explosives to blow up a few feet of rail on the South-Manchuria railway. They then accused the Chinese of attacking their railroad thus becoming a pretext for war between Japan and China
Lij Iyasu
was supposed to rule Ethiopia, but was never crowned because of his excommunication by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church
War in Africa
Africa was under colonial rule from many different powers. The Great War began, in which most colonial powers were involved and Africans were forced to take part as soldiers for various sides. During this war, the Africans challenged European authority and staged many armed revolts, which were violently put down.
Challenges to European Authority
African subjects noticed a weakness in European rule and took advantage by revolting, but Europeans put them down quickly and violently
what Africa was dependent on to become integrated; ports, roads, railways, and telegraph wires were built throughout the region; it lead to conquest and rule, but linked the agricultural wealth to the outside world
Farming and mining
Europeans took advantage of the African colonies that they ruled over and forced the Africans to work in mines for minimal wages and work as farmers for minimal wages, only farming cash crops. The Africans were forced to do this hard work because the Europeans taxed the Africans so hard that they had to work in those two areas. They were also given the worst of the land to work on in each colony while the Europeans took the best land and the most land even though their population was much less than the Africans
Jomo Kenyatta
Studied abroad in Europe for 15 years, came back to Kenya and led them to independence from the British
Marcus Garvey
Thought that all of the Africans who were descendents of slaves in the U.S. and the Afro-Caribbeans should form a single African state. Preached about black pride and called on black living in the African diaspora to go, "Back to Africa"
W.E.B. Dubois
University protests
students were the first to rebel against the economic power of the U.S.; hailed the Mexican and Russian revolutions; began to demand reforms in the 1920's and wanted more representation within the educational system; long-term politicization of student bodies at universities served as a model political system for future politicians
Fidel Castro
university's political system served as a training ground for him, as he became a Cuban dictator later in his life
Jose Carlos Mariategui
felt pity for the poor and for the Indians; castigated Peru's leaders in journals and newspapers for not helping the poor & suffered exile to Europe as a result; came back as a Marxist and established the Socialist party of Peru in 1928; also helped create the Peruvian Communist Party in 1930
Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (Popular American Revolutionary Alliance); gave another voice to those critical of Peru's ruling system
followers of the APRA; advocated indigenous rights and anti-imperialism among other causes; Aprismo offered a radical but non-communist alternative to Peruvians, & it was based off of the ideas of VIctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
Haya de la Torre
A political activist who began as a student protester and as a supporter of a workers' movement. He imparted his views on anti-imperialism and a plan for capitalist development that had peasants and workers cooperating with the middle class on the Popular American Revolutionary Alliance (APRA)
Diego Rivera
A Mexican artist who trained in Mexico in his youth and then moved to Europe to study, not returning until 1921. He was influenced by the work of both Renaissance artists and cubists. Rivera also experienced the turmoil and shifting political sensibilities taking place during the Great War and its aftermath. He blended his artistic and political visions in vast murals that he intended for viewing and appreciation by the masses. He believed that art should be on display for the working people. Rivera shaped the politicized art of Mexico for decades
Dollar Diplomacy
A policy that President William Howard Taft urged the United States to undertake by substituting "dollars for bullets" in foreign policy. Taft wanted businesses to develop foreign markets through peaceful commerce and believed that expensive military intervention should be avoided as much as possible
Getulio Dornelles Vargas
A dictator of Brazil who turned his nation into an estado novo or "new state." Vargas and his government during the 1930's and 40's embarked on a program of industrialization that created new enterprises. The Vargas regime also implemented protectionist policies that shielded domestic production from foreign competition, which pleased both industrialists and urban workers.
Estado novo
"new state" - What dictator Getulio Vargas turned Brazil into. With the backing of the military but without the support of the landowning elite, Vargas turned Brazil into a powerful state
Good Neighbor Policy
a reassessment of foreign policy,"sweetheart treaties" were inacted, given the U.S control of the Caribbean economies of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, in which marines maintained order. This revamped U.S approaches to relations with Latin America
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) enacted the Good Neighbor Policy and during this time the limits of his neighborliness was highlighted
U.S financial interests had influenced Nicaragua. In the mid and Late 1920's civil war broke out and U.S marines went in and tried to keep order
Augusto Cesar Sandino, was a nationalist and liberalist general who was opposed to the idea of peace based on U.S marines on Nicaraguan soil.
Guardo National
To remove marines, the U.S trained a Nicaraguan National Guard.
Juan Batista Sacasa
supervisioned in 1932 brought him into power in Nicaragua; U.S. troops departed
Anastacio Somoza Garcia
placed as the commander of the Guard in Nicaragua by the U.S.; became president of his country after he ordered the death of Sandino; a very good neighbor to U.S.; collected greatest fortune in Nicaragua's history; established a political dynasty that ruled the nations for decades
Convention on the rights and duties of States
says "no state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another"; signed by Secretary of State Cordell Hull in December 1933; renounced the corollary to the Monroe Doctrine enunciated by Theodore Roosevelt
Lazaro Cardenas
Mexican president who challenged the idea that no state has the right to intervene in the internal or external affairs of another when he nationalized the oil industry in March 1938 (much of which is controlled by U.S. and Britain); the matter was peacefully resolved and U.S. did not receive as much compensation from Mexico than they should have
Carmen Miranda
1905 - 1955; Latin American singer adopted by Hollywood who softened representations of Latin Americans; source of Brazilian pride, helped repair relations between U.S. and Latin America
Chiquita Banana
a female banana look-alike of Carmen Miranda; symbolized U.S. eco control of Central America and Caribbean; promoted United Fruit Company bananas, made Latin Americans look less threatening (U.S. didn't like the migrations)
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Saturday, July 07, 2007
Genre Movie Image of the Day: The Giant Claw poster!
If this movie wasn't used on MST3K, it should've been.
Comic Book Cover of the Day!
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Here's The Atom #1... which I'm posting just because it's an "a"-title... that is, a title beginning with the letter "a", probably from my 1-10 files.
One minor quibble... a "Venus's Flytrap"??? Every reference I've ever seen to these things calls them Venus Flytraps, no possessive needed.
And honestly, how big a threat would a carnivorous plant be to a guy who, even while six inches tall, can increase his mass to 180 lbs?
Friday, July 06, 2007
Classic Collectible of the Day!
Batman and Robin Marionettes.
Let me just type that again. Batman and Robin Marionettes.
Just in case you have a fantasy of what if Gerry Anderson had made the 1960s Batman TV show, now you know what it would look like.
Weirdest. Batman. Item. Ever.
(Now, if they had produced an all-wooden Flash marionette, I would not only understand it, but I'd want it!)
Genre Movie Image of the Day: King Ghidorah!
Or, if you prefer, Ghidrah... either spelling has been used... as well as Gidrah, I'd imagine!
I don't have to tell you how big a fan I am of the Toho monsters, do I?
Comic Book Cover of the Day!
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Yes, it's Avengers #4, with the return of Captain America, one of my favorite Marvel Silver Age covers of all time!
Thanks to the Way Out Junk blog, you can download the Golden Records book and record version of this classic comic. I already downloaded it myself and listened to it... and I've got to say, if I wasn't fairly familiar with the book already, I'd have had a hard time keeping track of who was speaking at various times! The voice for Cap is just plain wrong.
I'm hoping that eventually Way Out Junk will come up with an MP3 of the Fantastic Four #1 Golden Records album (which I used to have long ago, minus the reprint comic, of course) or any of the other ones that were done! These were the precursors of the 1970s Power Records book and record sets!
Geek-Related Stuff About T3 (Older Foster Child)
So, if you've been reading the "Building Our Family" blog about Jessi and I doing foster parenting, you know we've got two boys placed here, whom we refer to on the blog as T1 (the one-year-old) and T3 (the three-year-old). Both their names start with "T," hence the numbers.
Anyway, when we were first told about T3, we were informed that T3 loved Spider-Man, which was good news for me, being a comic book geek! But by the time he was placed with us, when we mentioned Spider-Man, he told us that "Spider-Man is naughty."
This confused us, because we couldn't figure out where he got that idea. Perhaps it was from commercials for Spider-Man 3 (I can't imagine someone taking a 3-year-old to see Spider-Man 3)... his former foster mom, N, told us in a recent email that she didn't let him watch super-heroes, because in her experience, it made children violent. (She also claimed she only let him watch certain cable channels, so I don't know how he could've seen commmercials for that movie)
Well, I'm sure you'll agree with me that that's a complete load of crap. If a child is going to be violent, they're going to be violent. But I'm not going to go off on a rant here about parents who won't let their kids watch the same cartoons they used to watch as kids and didn't have their minds warped.
Instead, I'll talk about the success I've had with the geekification of T3, if you will! Not too long after he moved in with us, we needed to keep him a bit occupied while we were getting T1 to bed (or something). Since I have Krypto, we figured that maybe he'd like watching the Krypto the Superdog DVD with the pilot episode that I got free with one of the Krypto action figures.
Well, he just loved that... he's watched it at least 20 times since then, and we're going to be ordering the boxed sets of Vol. 1 and 2 from Amazon in the next few days.
The next victory? He loves Spider-Man again, and it's all thanks to the 1966 Spidey cartoons, which I naturally have the DVD set of! He watches at least one episode each day before story time.
He-Man, on the other hand, he wasn't impressed with (I have all the He-Man episodes, plus the New Adventures, on DVD thanks to my transcription work). I'm going to try him on Super Friends next, once I get the original series on DVD (I only have Vol. 1 of Challenge of the Super Friends currently).
One of these days, I'll try him out on some Popeye and Looney Tunes, too... and maybe the 1960s live-action Batman movie.
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Gettin' Some Link-Love!
Well, two of my favorite blogs have mentioned me and my column lately...
First up, there's the always-cool Patrick Owsley's Cartoon Art and More, with his posting of some of the "Comics They Never Made" covers which I created using some of his artwork (with his permission, natch), and which will be appearing in the not-too-far future in "Cover Stories"...
And then over on This is Pop Culture, John there mentions the Batman merchandise from the Montgomery Wards catalog!
Granted, some of these may be old news to you guys (especially if those posts led you here -- in which case, welcome!)... but this is the first night I've had a chance to read anyone else's blog in some time!
Classic Collectible of the Day!
I have no idea if the battery-powered Batmobile seen here from the 1966 Montgomery Ward's catalog is one of the ones I've posted before or not... I just wish I had one.
Genre Movie Image of the Day!
Ah, Forbidden Planet... one of the true classics of sci-fi movies, and probably more of an inspiration to George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry than either of them ever acknowledged!
I'll bet I've never written about the first time I saw this movie. Some of you may remember I used to, in my youth, belong to a science fiction club based out of the Tacoma area. Actually, there were two clubs... the first was a Star Trek club, and when the Puget Sound Star Trekkers basically evaporated, our local club transformed into a general sci-fi club, with a loose affiliation with the Northwest Science Fiction Society.
I don't remember if we were still part of PSST or if it was after that, but about a year or two after Star Wars was released, one of the Seattle theaters was doing a revival showing of Forbidden Planet. This was probably, as I said, about 1979 or 1980. I'd heard about this movie, but had never seen it before, so I was happy when our group decided to plan a road trip to Seattle to attend as a club!
I was spellbound watching this wonderful movie... Robby became one of my favorite characters in the movies (I can kind of understand why some people confuse him with the Robot from Lost in Space... most people don't pay that close attention to anything around them, y'know).
I am very happy that nobody has decided to try to remake this movie these days, too... you just know that Robby would be CGI'ed (as well as the Beast from the Id) and all the charm would be lost, because he'd be completely redesigned (kind of like the movie version of Lost In Space's robot bore only a vague resemblance to the original).
Comic Book Cover of the Day!
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We do seem to be in my "Bad Dog!" files now, as witness the above cover with Ace, the Bat-Hound, appearing to help one of those strange aliens that plagued Gotham City during this period of Batman's career.
But I'm not going to talk about the alien era of Batman. Nope. This just reminds me of one of my "Comics They Never Made" ideas that I haven't done yet, but which I hope to some day, and could be a lot of fun.
It occurred to me that all I've done to date are Gold Key, Dell, and Charlton CTNM covers... not a single DC or Marvel title. So, I have been thinking about what I could do there that would be a bit different from what my Cover Stories readers have come to expect from me.
And then inspiration struck. I could create a "missing" issue of Showcase. "Missing," at least, in the sense that it would be a different issue than the same one in our reality. Maybe it would take the place of the "Windy and Willy" issue that was just altered Dobie Gillis reprints, for example.
The first idea (and only one, so far) that I had for that was a teaming of the extraordinary animals of the DCU in the 1960s. Yes, I know, there was the Legion of Super-Pets, and that's all well and good... but that excludes all present-day animals that don't wear red capes with yellow s-shields! What about Ace, the Bat-Hound, or Detective Chimp, or Rex the Wonder Dog?
And I know there were other animals that appeared in the DCU books... heck, the Golden Gorilla from Congorilla could be brought into this, without being possessed by Congo Bill!
The cover idea I have in mind would show the JLA laying on the floor of their cave headquarters, with Gorilla Grodd facing the reader, announcing that his evolutionary anti-ray (or something like that... basically it affects humans or humanoids only) has let him beat the JLA, and now the world is his... while the assembled animals are charging onto the scene, thinking, "That's what you think!"
First thing that's stopped me from going further on this is coming up with a decent name... Justice League of Animals is just not right. I was tempted to call them the Power Pack, as a "pack" is a term for a group of animals, but that's just canines. Maybe the Mighty Menagerie, or the Zoo Crew (with a nod in the text that "maybe this inspired Roy Thomas") or something like that.
Anyway, there it is.
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Classic Collectibles: 1966 Montgomery Wards Batman Items!
Wow, is this Batman costume pathetic or what? But I suppose at the time this was the best the manufacturer wanted to do. No gloves, no boots, the mask is a two-piece hood and domino mask, no decent utility belt, no scallops on the bottom of the cape, and they've got Batman's name on the insignia!
I tell you, if my son wants to be Batman for Halloween, you can be darn sure he'll have a much better-looking costume than this one!
Now, doesn't this Batman game look like it'd be more fun than the Superman ones I've previously posted? I can't say if it plays well at all, since I've never seen a copy of it before... but I do have a fridge magnet of the box art, and it looks great in color.
If they made this Batmobile today, I would've already bought it for my kids. 'Nuff said.
More Batman items from the 1966 Montgomery Wards catalog to come!
Genre Movie Images!
Destination Moon Still
Wow, it's been a long, long time since I've seen this movie! I believe it was loosely based on one of Robert A. Heinlein's books, and for the most part, it was pretty accurate in showing what a moon mission would look like!
Doctor Cyclops Still
Speaking of movies I haven't seen in a long, long time... Doctor Cyclops is another one of those movies in which people get shrunk, and as long-time readers know, I always dig movies in which things are shrunk or enlarged!
Escape from the Planet of the Apes Still
Now, this one I've seen more recently! I am a huge fan of the original Planet of the Apes and its spin-offs, and for a while, I was regularlly checking the cable channels to see when they'd be showing them. Bizarrely, there was a one-week period of time when Planet of the Apes, Beneath, Conquest and Battle were all shown, but not Escape! They finally got around to showing it about three months ago, but I forget if it was Sci-Fi or a different channel that broadcast it.
I'm guessing that you guys are all familiar with the plot behind this, but just in case you're not: At the end of Beneath the Planet of the Apes, the mutant's Omega Bomb was set off by a dying Taylor, destroying the future Earth. But as we found out early on in this entry, Cornelius and Zira managed to find Taylor's old ship, and with the help of another Ape scientist, managed to get it running so they could flee their planet. Somehow, they hit the time warp Taylor (and the astronaut featured in Escape, whose name escapes me now) went through, but in reverse, landing on Earth in the early 1970s.
Things are then reversed... the humans, of course, are the dominant species, and everyone looks at the Ape-O-Nauts in fear, especially when they learn they're from Earth's future... and that Zira is pregnant! One man in particular decides that the apes must be killed to save mankind, but a few humans help them escape the zoo they're being held at, and they hide out on a deserted ship.
However, it's discovered where they are, and Cornelius, Zira, and a baby chimp are all killed (the scientist died earlier).
But all is not lost! The baby chimp who died wasn't the real child of C & Z! Their child, named Caesar, was placed in the hands of Ricardo Montalban, who plays the owner of a travelling circus, and as the movie comes to an end, Caesar says "Ma-ma!"
Roddy McDowall returned to play Cornelius here, having had to hand the part to someone else in Beneath, due to a prior engagement. He'd return in the remaining two films to play a grown-up Caesar, and also in the live-action TV series to play Galen!
Comic Book Covers!
Since it seems that I'm still having issues posting on a regular basis, thanks to my new fatherhood status, here's a multiple posting!
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So here's Batman Family #1, from the era of DC's Giant books, which supplanted the earlier 100-Page Super-Spectaculars (and would, before long, give way to Dollar Comics). If I recall correctly, the only new feature in this issue was the Batgirl-Robin story, in which they battle the reanimated Benedict Arnold (hey, it was the Bicentennial, after all). I think Mike Grell did the interior art as well as the cover. Grell was still learning the ropes here (as well as in his Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Legion stories), but you can still see his style emerging, which would become full-blown in the pages of Warlord.
Batman Family was one of DC's best-selling books, from what I've read... in fact, it even outsold Detective Comics! When the Dollar Comics format started, DC actually considered cancelling Detective, because it was selling so poorly, believe it or not... but then, someone pointed out that Detective was the book that gave DC its name, and to cancel that would be madness. Since Batman Family was selling so well, Detective got converted to Detective Comics Featuring The Batman Family, and all was well and good.
At least, until the Dollar Comics format went away, then Detective went back to just Batman stories (without even a back-up... well, that may have gone away a while after that).
While we're on the subject of Batman...
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Here's Batman 100, which features several different covers from the previous 99 issues. This was pretty much the norm for DC's big number books, or at least the super-hero titles. I think even the "anniversary" issues in the 1970s used the same kind of format, although by then, the cover reprints would be background for a new piece of artwork!
I wonder if any kids buying this issue thought it contained reprints of those cover-featured issues?
And last, for no apparent reason...
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Here's Captain Marvel Adventures 105, which I believe I also have in my "Bad Dog!" files. You'd never see Superman intimidated by a non-super-powered dog, no matter how big it was... but here, Cap reacts much like any of us would! Based on the size, I'd guess the big dog is a Great Dane.
Monday, July 02, 2007
Genre Movie Images!
Poster: Curucu, Beast of the Amazon!
Curucu, Beast of the Amazon is yet another of those many, many monster movies that I've never seen (at least, not to my knowledge!).
I do have one bit of trivia about this movie, though: Bevery Garland, the heroine of the picture, later went on to play Lois Lane's mother in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" (actually, the second to play her... originally, I think Noel Neill had the part). She also owns and runs a Holliday Inn!
The Day the Earth Stood Still!
And now, a very special presentation! And isn't this poster one of the most misleading of any classic SF movie?
One of the first movies I bought on DVD was this one, The Day The Earth Stood Still. Actually, I think I bought it twice, because I had one copy, then sold it when I was out of work, and then latched on to another one!
It's been one of my favorites for many years, almost surprisingly so because there's really very little special effects work in it, compared to most sci-fi movies of the period!
I suppose it's the script, more than anything else, that makes it a classic. The acting is... well, in my opinion, some of the acting (especially by the leads) doesn't really work all that well, at least taken out of context. And, too, there's a few moments in the script that, if you think about it too much, makes one wonder...
But still, when it comes down to it, the movie is a classic, and one that made director Robert Wise's career, at least in the eyes of genre movie fans!
Bonus Barris Picture!
Here's the real Munsters car, which of course was designed by George Barris, who also designed the Batmobile, the Monkeemobile, the Black Beauty, and pretty much all the cool TV and movie cars of the 1960s and 1970s.
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Classic Collectibles of the Day (3-in-1)
Aurora's Vampirella kit... probably one of the hardest to track down these days, eh?
The classic "Big Frankie" seen above was actually used in an episode of the Munsters!
And now... the first page of the Montgomery Wards Toy Catalogs that I thought you'd be interested in!
This is the 1955 catalog, featuring Lone Ranger stuff.
Three-In-One Comics Cover of the Day!
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Sick and Tired...
...literally, I've been sick as well as tired, too much so to post the past few days, but I'll do my best to get caught up here tonight!
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MEG Scalar Energy Device
Patented - Production Starts Next Year
From Bill Morgan
Tom Bearden has explained the operation of the MEG on his website Cheniere.org, and also speaks about the new fearful weapons that can and have been made using the same "longitudinal waves" of the vacuum.
The complicated physics of how the MEG works is explained in the paper "The Motionless Electromagnetic Generator: Extracting Energy from a Permanent Magnet with Energy Replenishment from the Active Vacuum," which can be found at Tom Bearden's website:
Tom Bearden, one of the inventors has said "I will admit that the chief scientist of an important experimental group in a large company was rather stunned at the type of output we were able to obtain. The MEG may look like just a transformer, but it is not. It is a completely different breed of cat." This cat, it would seem, is out of the bag now. The ordinary EM waves we are familiar with are called "transverse" waves, to distinguish them from the new "longitudinal" EM waves of the vacuum.
Bearden has explained in depth on his website cheniere.org that wherever there is a dipole (battery, generator, magnet) there is an unseen flow of longitudinal EM waves in that local vacuum, the only problem is in tapping that energy and "transducing" it to electricity. Bearden says that the problem with all the electrical circuits we have is that they are two-wire circuits, a loop by which half the energy goes back to destroy the dipole. In the MEG that closed loop is never made. So the dipole is not being destroyed.
What is somewhat astonishing to me is the discovery by Bearden et. al. that time itself is actually compressed energy, and that this free energy is actually coming from the time domain, the ocean of longitudinal EM waves which fill the empty vacuum of spacetime. In fact, time is energy compressed by the same factor that matter is compressed energy: the speed-of-light squared. Thus there is a new companion to Einstein's E=mc2. Can you say "E equals delta-tee-cee-squared?" The "tee" is time and delta-tee is change in time.
I have put together a kind of "Bearden for Beginners" article which explains some of the basic concepts of the current state of scalar technology.
The granting of the MEG patent is the herald of the new era of scalar electromagnetics, and the free energy which flows forever and never runs out.
Bill Morgan [email protected]
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
In plain sight
This is a link to someone's California (I think) hiking photos, focused on the rock stack/columns that the author and friends came across and built themselves while on the walk. But in the middle of the album is a picture of a real rock pile, they did not even see cuz they were busy photo'ing the moss.
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Norman Muller said...
Obviously New Age. I saw similar piles in Sedona, AZ, last summer.
Geophile said...
You mean the one where they call the moss 'lichen'?
Paul Huang said...
This is the author of those pictures. How do you define a 'real rock pile'? I suppose you're talking about this picture:
And yes, this is in California, about an hour from San Francisco.
pwax said...
I should have said "ancient rock pile" rather than " real rock pile".
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Ivan Zugec (Ivan Zugec)
Tue 19th Jun 2012 -- Lee Rowlands
In this episode we chat with Ivan Zugec at Drupal Down Under 2012 about his favourite bits of Drupal.
Ivan has been using Drupal for around 5 years, coming to Drupal looking for an ecommerce solution back in the 4.6 days. He gave ecommerce a try but couldn't get it to work. Around the same time he needed a CMS solution that provided clean-urls for a client and at that time, Drupal was the only open-source product providing that at no cost.
Bevan Rudge (bevan)
Tue 19th Jun 2012 -- Lee Rowlands
We talk with Bevan about his experiences at Drupal Downunder 2012.
Bevan discusses his highlights of Drupal Down Under.
Bevan discusses his transition from web-designer (or in his words wannabe-designer!) to the technical side of building the web.
Having worked with Drupal for 6 years Bevan is a Drupal veteran in Australia and New Zealand.
We discuss the growth of Drupal in Australia and the demand for Drupal talent.
Simon Hobbs (sime)
Tue 19th Jun 2012 -- Lee Rowlands
In this episode we catch up with Simon Hobbs (sime).
Simon is quite well known in the Australian Drupal community.
Simon talks about the early days of Drupal in Australia with the beginnings of the meetups in Melbourne.
We talk about Simon's experiences running his own company and his transition to working for Peregrine Adventures.
We discuss updating sites from Drupal 6 to 7 and the future of Drupal 8, in particular the push towards Drupal becoming more framework-oriented to adapt to today's developing web.
What's happening with Drupal Yarns?
Mon 18th Jun 2012 -- Lee Rowlands
Just a quick update to all of those who were kind enough to participate in an interview with me during Drupal Downunder 2012 to explain what's happening with Drupal Yarns.
I've not forgotten you!
Things have changed considerably for Nick and myself, both of us have accepted permanent positions with PreviousNext, Australia's largest Drupal Firm. As a result Rowlands Group has effectively wound down all activities.
Getting Views Bulk Operations working with Draggable Views.
Wed 29th Feb 2012 -- Lee Rowlands
In Drupal 6, Views Bulk Operations and Draggable Views defined views style plugins in order to deliver their respective functionalities. While this is great it meant you could only have one or the other, not both.
Miguel Jacq (mig5) on the Ægir project
Wed 15th Feb 2012 -- Lee Rowlands
In this episode of Drupal Yarns we catch up with Miguel Jacq (mig5) one of the maintainers of the Ægir hosting platform.
We discuss how mig5 came to work on the Ægir project covering his initial discovery of the project from a need to automate upgrades through to submitting numerous patches which ultimately resulted in the maintainers giving him commit access.
We talk about the origins of the Ægir project and the future directions of the project, in particular some of the new features available in the Ægir contrib space.
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"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of His testimony."—REV. 12: 10, 11.
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HATEVER may be ultimately concluded respecting the origin and intent of the Great Pyramid, it is certainly one of the most astonishing works ever produced by man. Apart from all else, the coincidences between it and our most advanced physical sciences, together with the thorough correspondence between it and the Scriptures, as pointed out in preceding lectures, establishes for it a wonderfulness if not a sacredness unequalled by anything outside the sphere of miracle. But the history of traditions and opinions concerning it is quite as remarkable as itself, and also strongly confirmatory of the conclusions towards which we have been advancing. To show this and to indicate some of the attendant results is what I propose in the present lecture.
It is a singular fact and not without significance that whilst this oldest, largest and highest edifice of stone ever piled by human hands
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has been before the eyes of the most intelligent portions of the race for more than four thousand years, the learned world has not yet been able to settle what to think of it. Strange to say, it has always been a puzzle and a mystery.
The Jews up to the Saviour's time had a cherished tradition that this Pyramid was built before the flood. Josephus, the learned scribe, gives it as historic fact that Seth and his immediate descendants "were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam's prediction that the world was to be destroyed, they made two pillars, the one of brick, the other of stone. They inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain and exhibit these discoveries to mankind." He also adds, "Now this (pillar) remains in the land of Siriad (Egypt) to this day." (Jewish Antiquities, i, 2.) Such an idea so strongly rooted in the mind of God's chosen people is very noteworthy, to say the least.
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The Arabians had a corresponding tradition. In a manuscript (preserved in the Bodleian Library, and translated by Dr. Sprenger) Abou Balkhi says, "The wise men previous to the flood, foreseeing an impending judgment from heaven, either by submersion or by fire, which would destroy every created thing, built upon the tops of the mountains in Upper Egypt many pyramids of stone, in order to have some refuge against the approaching calamity. Two of these buildings exceeded the rest in height, being four hundred cubits high, and as many broad, and as many long. They were built with large blocks of marble, and they were so well put together that the joints were scarcely perceptible. Upon the exterior of the building every charm and wonder of physic was inscribed."
Massoudi, another Arab writer, gives the same even more circumstantially, and says that on the eastern or Great Pyramid as built by these ancients the heavenly spheres were inscribed, "likewise the positions of the stars and their circles, together with the history and chronicles of time past, of that which is to come, and of every future event."
Another Arabic fragment, claiming to be a translation from an ancient Coptic papyrus,
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gives a similar account of the origin of the pyramids, and states that "innumerable precious things" were treasured in these buildings, including "the mysteries of science, astronomy, geometry, physic, and much useful knowledge."
So, too, the famous traveller, Ibn Batuta, says, that "the pyramids were constructed by Hermes, the same person as Enoch and Edris, to preserve the arts and sciences and other intelligence during the flood." And it was by reason of fanciful exaggerations of this same tradition that Al Mamoun made his forced entrance into this edifice.
Of course these accounts cannot be accepted in their literal terms. They are manifestly at fault in various particulars. The very oldest of the pyramids, by its own testimony, was not built till six hundred years after the flood. Seth and Enoch therefore were not its builders, whatever they may have contributed indirectly to it. Nor was the motive for it just the one alleged, though perhaps involving something of the truth. The idea of the storage of material treasures, or of literal inscriptions on the walls and stones, has also been proven erroneous, at least as to what now remains of the edifice. But where so much smoke is there is
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apt to be some fire. Nearly every superstition in the world has some truth at the bottom by which it was brought into being, and there is every probability that there is here also some kernel of reality. The pyramids certainly exist, and they exist just where these traditions locate them. The great one also proves itself possessed of a marked scientific character. Much of this science must necessarily have come over from antediluvian times. Six hundred years were too short for mankind to have made all the observations here recorded. Noah had special revelations in the science of measures, mechanics, and all that superior wisdom necessary for the building of a ship larger than the Great Eastern, and capable of weathering a wilder and wider sea than ever was navigated before or since. What he and his fathers knew before the flood he certainly would not leave behind when he embarked for a new world, which it was his conscious mission to people. The implements used in the building of the ark, the knowledge of their uses, and how to manufacture them, together with all that God had taught or man had learned on the other side of the flood, he took with him into the ark, and with the same disembarked on our side of that awful water.
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[paragraph continues] By some of his immediate descendants only a short time after the death, if not within the lifetime of his son Shem, the Great Pyramid was built. Of necessity, therefore, the science by which and to which this pyramid was fashioned, and perhaps the very tools which helped to build the ark, at least the knowledge of how to make and use such tools, came over from beyond the flood, and found imperishable memorial in this monument. Hence, though not built by Seth and the Sethite antediluvian patriarchs, there was still a real connection between it and them—between their science and what it embodies.
And even what these traditions state with regard to the intent of the building is not wholly without basis in reason. It is pretty clear that there was an atheistic and God-defiant science before the flood the same as now, which would necessarily create anxiety on the part of the holy patriarchs to preserve and perpetuate the pure truth as God had given it. Their religious fidelity would involve this, and we know that they were faithful in this respect. As a false worship, an oppressive rule, a corrupt system of weights and measures, and a perverted life in general were set up by Cain and his wicked seed, luring the world to destruction,
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[paragraph continues] Seth and his posterity, as they "continued to esteem God as the Lord of the universe and to have an entire regard to virtue," held to another theology, science, and system of things very sacred and dear to them, which they would be most religiously concerned to preserve and transmit to remotest generations. Noah as a faithful Sethite would be specially anxious and diligent to inculcate and perpetuate that order, his faithfulness to which had saved him and his house when all the rest of mankind perished. The faithful among his descendants could not but share in the same anxieties, particularly when they saw mankind again relapsing into the old Cainite apostasy. Out of devotion to the truth of God, nothing could be more natural for them than, over against the impious Babel tower, to wish for some permanent memorial to God and the sacred wisdom and teaching which they had from him. Acting thus under the holiest of impulses, especially if aided in it by divine inspiration, as Noah was in the building of the ark, just such a modest but mighty science-laden pillar as the Great Pyramid might be anticipated as the result, and the essential import of these strange traditions thus be realized.
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But over against all such ideas there is a long array of the most diverse and contradictory opinions.
For a long time it has been customary to regard the pyramids as mere monuments of the power and folly of the monarchs by whom they were erected, and of the enslavement of their subjects. Pliny says that they were built for ostentation and to keep an idle people at work. Hales calls them "stupendous monuments of ancient ostentation and tyranny." F. Barham Zincke enlarged on the theory that "capital is bottled-up labor, convertible again at pleasure into labor or the produce of labor;" that as there were no government bonds, consols, and productive stocks in which to invest in the time of the pyramid builders, they might as well invest their barren surplusage in making for themselves eternal monuments, or some safe and magnificent abodes for their mummies, as to conceal it in barren treasuries to tempt other people's covetousness; and that this is the way to account for the pyramids! Robinson refers to them as "probably the earliest as well as the loftiest and most vast of all existing works of man upon the face
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of the earth," but thinks "there is little room to doubt that they were erected chiefly if not solely from the vain pride of human pomp and power." Stanley speaks of them as the product of a silly ambition, the study of which can make them only "more definite objects of contempt." To such an estimate Brande has sufficiently answered that "this is a very superficial and prejudiced view of the matter. The varying magnitude of the pyramids, the fact of their being scattered over a space extending lengthwise about seventy miles, and their extraordinary number, appear to show pretty conclusively that they must have been constructed (in their original, at least) from a sense of utility and duty, and not out of caprice or from a vain desire to perpetuate the names or the celebrity of their founders."
Some trace the pyramids to Nimrod, and think they were meant to be towers of security. But the idea of a Nimrodic origin of these structures is a mere surmise, wild and without a particle of evidence looking in that direction. And as retreats for men in case of flood or invasion, no such structures ever could have been thought of by any rational people, and none others could have built them. Destitute of habitable space within, incapable in
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their perfect state of being ascended, and furnishing neither standing room nor shelter on their summits, they would be a poor resort for safety in any such emergency.
Mandeville considered them the granaries built by Joseph to store up the products of the seven years of fatness against the succeeding seven years of famine. But nothing could be more ill adapted for a purpose of that sort. They were a thousand times more costly than the worth of all the corn they could hold, and any one of them would require more time to construct than double the number of years Joseph had to prepare for the famine. We also have the highest evidence now that the Great Pyramid, which alone was capable of serving in this line, was built hundreds of years before Joseph was born.
Others have regarded them as astronomical observatories, and some have even figured an imaginary base around each where the students of the sky might sit and contemplate like great heavenly choirs. But that such amazing buildings all in one low place and incapable of being ascended should have been erected merely to furnish sittings for a few star-gazers, for whom any rock or hillock would answer as well, is a little too much for credulity
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itself. And the modern uncovering of the Great Pyramid's finish at the base has effectually dispersed forever all these imaginary choirs.
Others have supposed the pyramids intended as artificial barricades against the sands of the desert or the breaking forth of the Nile. But the eye of an observer sees at a glance the paltry absurdity of such an idea. The Nile never had any notion of breaking over this hill of solid rock, and if it had the pyramids were a vain thing to hinder either it or the sands of the desert.
A more extensively accepted opinion now is that the pyramids were all designed for royal sepulchres "and nothing else," which is doubtless true of most of them. It is possible also that the idea of a tomb for Cheops may have mingled with the original design of the first and greatest of them, though there is no evidence to that effect. It may have been given out for a tomb for him as a mere blind to the nation at large, but in any event the tomb idea never could have been more than subordinate and incidental.
We know now that this pyramid was built
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during the reign of Cheops, in the so-called Fourth Dynasty of Egyptian Kings. But it is nearly as certain that Cheops never was entombed in it. The account given by Herodotus is sometimes quoted in proof that he was, but it is clearly a misunderstanding. That account says that Cheops was buried in some subterraneous place where "the Nile water introduced through an artificial duct surrounds an island." But there is not a single opening either in or under the Great Pyramid which is not far above the highest Nile level. That Cheops never was entombed in the so-called King's Chamber is therefore certain in so far as what Herodotus tells about it is accepted. Personally he knew nothing. He only records what was told him. And the priest from whom he got his statement either was as ignorant as himself, or Cheops never was buried in this pyramid. Diodorus says positively that Cheops was not buried here, but in some obscure and unknown place. For six hundred years after Al Mamoun broke open this pyramid the Arab writers who tell of the feat, say not a word of any human remains or indications of sepulture being found. Shehab Eddin Amed Ben Yahiya, on the contrary, says that "nothing was discovered as to the motive or time of its
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construction." Massoudi tells of certain findings, such as colored magic stones, columns of gold which nobody could move, images in green stone, and a cock with flaming eyes, which stories none but a Moslem can believe; but says not a word of the finding of any man or any evidence of the use of the place as a tomb. And not less than a dozen of the best European authors on the subject, from Helfricus to Sir Gardiner Wilkinson's Guide Book to Modern Egypt, though some of them believe that the Great Pyramid was intended for a sepulchral monument, agree in stating that there is no proof that anybody ever was entombed in it. *
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But if this edifice was reared to be a royal sepulchre, why was it not used as such? Very curious are the explanations to which the tomb theorists have resorted to account for the failure. Diodorus among the old writers, and Baumgarten among the more modern ones, say, that the people of Egypt were so enraged at the sufferings endured from the builders of the two greatest pyramids, and at their various violent actions, as to threaten to tear them out of their sepulchres, whereupon "they both charged their relatives at their death to inter them secretly in some obscure place." To this Colonel Vyse has conclusively answered, "If Cheops reigned fifty years, and had sufficient power to construct the Great Pyramid, it can scarcely be supposed that his body was not deposited in it [if so intended], particularly as his successor is said to have reigned fifty-six years, and to have erected a similar tomb for himself, which he could scarcely have done had his predecessor's tomb been violated or any doubt have existed about the security of his own."
Helfricus and Veryard get over the difficulty
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by assigning the Great Pyramid to that Pharaoh who perished in the Red Sea while pursuing the departing children of Israel. As that monarch's body was never recovered, they say of course his sepulchre never was used! Still others explain that the tomb was Joseph's, and became vacant at the time of the Exodus, as his brethren took his body with them when they went up to the land of promise. But unfortunately for these explanations, the Great Pyramid was built some six hundred years before Moses and several hundred year's before the viceroyalty of Joseph.
The truth is that the tomb theory does not fit the facts, the traditions, or any knowledge that we have on the subject. It is wholly borrowed from the numerous later pyramids, ambitiously and ignorantly copied after it, which were intended and used for royal sepulchres, but with which the Great Pyramid has nothing in common, save locality and general shape. In all the examination to which it has been subjected, whether in ancient or modern times, and in all the historic fragments concerning it, there is nothing whatever to give or to bear out the idea that its intention was simply that of a royal sepulchral monument, or that can legitimately raise the tomb
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theory any higher than a possible but very improbable supposition.
It is also important in this connection to note that something wholly distinct from a mere sepulchre, or something additional and of much greater significance, has always haunted the convictions of those who have most profoundly studied this wonderful structure.
Sandys gives place to the idea of a tomb, but considers it a tomb built with special reference to the symbolization of spiritual doctrines and hopes, together with "conceits from astronomical demonstrations." Greaves accepts it for a tomb, but one framed with intent to represent spiritual ideas. Shaw denies its tombic character altogether, and pronounces it a temple of religious mysteries. Perry admits that it may have served as a royal tomb, but had special reference to sacred beliefs. Jomard gave but little credit to the treasure theory of the East or the tomb theory of the West, and considered this pyramid likely to prove itself gifted with something of great value to the civilized world, particularly in the matter of measures and weights. Wilkinson considers
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the pyramids tombs, but is persuaded that some were "intended for astronomical purposes." Mr. St. John holds them as meant for religious uses and symbolisms. Agnew takes them as tombs, but at the same time as embodiments of science—"emblems of the sacred sphere, exhibited in the most convenient architectural form"—a squaring of the circle outside (which is true only of the Great Pyramid) and a setting forth of various geometric, astronomic, and mathematical mysteries inside. Sir Isaac Newton considered them sources of very important information on the subject of measures. Sir John Herschel was persuaded of the Great Pyramid's astronomical character, and found in it standards of measure which he urged England to adopt in preference to any other on earth. Beckett Denison admits it to be a highly scientific monument of metrology, mathematics, and astronomy. Hekekyan Bey, of Constantinople, in a volume published in 1863, ignores the idea of the granite Coffer being a sarcophagus, and speaks of it as "the king's stone," deposited in its sanctuary as a record of a standard of measure. Proctor argues that it is "highly probable" that the builders of the Great Pyramid sought "to represent symbolically in the proportions of the
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building such mathematical and astronomical relations as they were acquainted with," and "may have had a quasi scientific desire to make a lasting record of their discoveries, and of the collected knowledge of their time." And since what has been written and pointed out by John Taylor, Piazzi Smyth, Sir John Vincent Day, Rev. T. Goodsir, Captain B. F. Tracy, Mr. James Simpson, Henry Mitchell, Dr. Alexander Mackey, Charles Casey, Rev. F. R. A. Glover, Hamilton Smith, J. Ralston Skinner, and others, within the last fifteen years, we can but wonder that any one at all read up on the subject should think of withholding from this colossal monument the award of something vastly more than a mere tomb.
That subterranean chamber cut deep into the solid rock would seem to indicate a tomb, but that chamber never was finished, and no one pretends that it was ever used for sepulture. It must have been meant for some other purpose. A vast tumulus, solidly built, with but few and narrow openings, terminating in finely polished rooms in its interior, would seem to agree with the idea of a grand sepulchre, but when we find in it a transcendent geodesic plan of location, equally dividing the
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earth surface between the equator and the north pole, palpably marking the centre of all habitable land distribution on the globe, and giving the best meridional line for the zero of latitude for all nations, surely we ought to begin to think of something else. A square with four sloping sides built up to a point in the centre, would seem to be a proper device for an enduring royal mausoleum, and hence the same was long accepted in Egypt for sepulchral monuments of the kings, but when we find in the first and original of them a perfect geometric figure, so framed that the four sides of its base bear the same proportion to its vertical height as the circumference of a circle to its radius, that each of its base-lines measures the even ten millionth part of the semi-axis of the earth just as many times as there are days in the year, that its height multiplied by 109 gives the mean distance between the earth and its great centre of light, that its unit of length is the even five hundred millionth part of the polar diameter of the globe we inhabit, that its two diagonals of base measure in inches the precise number of years in the great precessional cycle, that its bulk of masonry is an even proportion of the weight of the earth itself, and that its setting and shaping are
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squared and oriented with microscopic accuracy,—nothing of which is to be found in the 4 scores of neighboring pyramidal tombs,—by what law of right reason are we to dismiss from our thoughts every idea but that of a mere sepulchre? A polished stone coffer, conveniently deep, and wide, and long to accommodate the body of a man, and put up in noble place as here, would seem to bespeak a royal sarcophagus, but when we find that Coffer of the utmost plebeian plainness, quite disproportioned to such a purpose, devoid of all known covering, ornament, inscription or sepulchral insignia, incapable of being placed in its chamber with a body in it, is there not room for rational doubt that it was ever meant or used for a burial casket? And when we perceive in it a most accurately shaped standard of measures and proportions, its sides and bottom cubically identical with its internal space, the length of its two sides to its height as a circle to its diameter, its exterior volume just twice the dimensions of its bottom, and its whole measure just the fiftieth part of the chamber in which it was put when the edifice was built, we may well wonder what all such unparalleled scientific elaborations have to do with a mere tomb! The inclined entrance
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of a fitting size to receive a coffin, and down which a coffin could be conveniently slid to some chamber in the depths below, would be in keeping with a tombic intent, but when we find it terminating below in what never was a burial-chamber, and turned above in a sharp angle which no coffin such as the Coffer could pass, and that entrance most inconveniently located just to bring it into the plane of the meridian at an angle to point to the lower culmination of a pole star at the same time that the Pleiades are on the meridian above,—does it not become necessary to think of something more than a mere tomb, if not to abandon that idea altogether? All the other pyramids of Egypt were meant for tombs, but none of them have any upward passages or upper chambers. The Grand Gallery in this edifice, so sublime in height, so abrupt in beginning and termination, so different from all the other passages before or beyond it, so elaborately and peculiarly contrived and finished in every part, is absolutely incomprehensible on the tomb theory or on any other, save that of a high astronomical, historical, and spiritual symbolism, having nothing whatever to do with the entombment of an Egyptian despot. And when we find in this edifice throughout, one great system of
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interrelated numbers, measures, weights, angles, temperatures, degrees, geometric problems, cosmic references, and general geodesy, which modern science has now read and verified from it, reason and truth demand of the teachers of mankind to cease writing that "no other object presented itself to the builder of the Great Pyramid than the preparation of his own tomb."
That all these things should appear in a great metrologic, scientific, and symbolic structure, meant to memorialize the most important features of universal nature, history, and theology, we can easily understand. But that they should turn up in what was never meant to be anything but a tomb, as Lord Valentia, Shaw, Jomard, and others have submitted, is beyond all rational comprehension or belief. Mere literary Egyptologists, whose world of inquiry is bounded by classic tombs, Siriadic sepulchres, and heathen temples,—a few sneering scientists, who find here an impediment to their atheistic philosophies,—consequential theologues and pedants, who have reached the boundaries of wisdom,—and all the wise owls of stereotyped learning, ensconced in their hollownesses of decay,—may pooh-pooh and hoot, but if this pyramid was meant for a tomb
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it is the most wonderful sepulchre ever constructed, the mere accidents of which are ten thousand-fold more magnificent in wisdom, interest, and worth to mankind, than all the tombs and Pharaohs of all the dynasties, and all their other works besides,—a tomb, too, to which there has now fortunately come a resurrection morning, second only to that which split open the rocks of Calvary and demonstrated a glorious immortality for man.
Brande has expressed the opinion, that "if we had sufficient knowledge of antiquity, it would probably be found that the motives which led to the construction of the pyramids were, at bottom, nearly identical with those which led to the construction of St. Peter's and St. Paul's, and that they are monuments of religion and piety, as well as of the power of the Pharaohs." To whatever extent this was the fact with regard to the Great Pyramid, there is no evidence that it was built for an idol temple, whether to Athor, as suggested by Mr. St. John, or to Cheops, as insinuated by Mr. Osburn. Certain Eastern peoples may have made pilgrimages to it, as the Western people do now, or as the Queen of Sheba came
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to hear the wisdom of Solomon. The Egyptians themselves may afterwards have accepted it as "the great temple of Suphis," and even appointed priests for the celebration of his worship in connection with it. But that can be much better explained in other ways than by assuming that Cheops built it either as a tomb for his body or as a temple for the honor of his soul.
Egypt was a hotbed of idolatry from the beginning. Its people began by the worship of heroes and heavenly bodies, and ended in the worship of bulls, and goats, and cats, and crocodiles, and hawks, and beetles. Their false religion was in full sway when Cheops was born. Lepsius tells us that the whole land was full of temples, filled with statues of gods and kings, their walls within and without covered with colored reliefs and hieroglyphics in celebration of the virtues of their hero gods and their divine and ever faultless children. "Nothing, even down to the palette of a scribe, the style with which a lady painted her eyelashes, or a walking stick, was deemed too insignificant to be inscribed with the name of the owner, and a votive dedication of the object to some patron divinity." And yet, here is the Great Pyramid, the largest, finest, and
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most wonderful edifice in all Egypt, situated in the midst of an endless round of tombs, temples, and monuments, all uniformly loaded down with these idolatrous emblems and inscriptions, and yet in all its thirteen acres of masonry, in all its long avenues, Grand Gallery, and exquisite chambers, in any department or place whatever, there has never been found one ancient inscription, votive record, or the slightest sign or shred of Egypt's idolatry! In the centre of the intensest impurity, the Great Pyramid stands without spot, blemish, or remotest taint of the surrounding flood of abominations,—like the incarnate Son of God, sinless in a world of sinners. And to hold such a monument to be itself a temple of idol worship is like calling Christ a minister of Beelzebub.
Passing then to the historic fragments relating to the subject, we find additional reason for the same conclusions.
It is given as a fact, and specially emphasized, that during the building of the Great Pyramid the government of Egypt was strangely and oppressively adverse to the established idolatry of the nation. Cheops stands
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charged on all sides as at that particular time very "arrogant towards the gods," having shut up the temples, interdicted the customary worship, cast out the images to be defiled on the highways, and compelled even the priests to labor in the quarries. Hence the indignant hierophant whom Herodotus consulted, said, "The Egyptians so detest the memory of these kings that they do not much like to mention their names." It thus appears that Cheops was the positive foe and punisher of idolatry at the time this building was being put up, which fact alone wholly and forever sweeps away all idea of this pillar having been erected for any idol's temple or as a votive offering to any god or gods of the Egyptian Pantheon.
It further appears from these fragments, along with other indications, that after the Great Pyramid was completed, late in his life, Cheops relapsed into the old Egyptian idolatry, became a devotee of the very worship which he had so sternly suppressed, and not only reopened the temples, but actually put forth a book on the gods of his country, which was highly esteemed for ages after. * How,
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then, did it happen that during the thirty or more years in which the Great Pyramid was building, this man, born and reared in idolatry, and dying a devôt of it, was the suppressor of its temples, the enslaver of its priests, and the defiler of its gods? The answer may perhaps be found in another particular with which these fragments make us acquainted.
During the building of the Great Pyramid there was a noted stranger abiding in Egypt, and keeping himself about the spot where the building was going on. The priest consulted by Herodotus describes him as a shepherd, to whom rather than to Cheops the Egyptians attribute this edifice. The precise words recorded by Herodotus are, "They commonly call the pyramids after Philition, a shepherd who at that time fed his flocks about the place." (Rawlinson's Herodotus, vol. ii, p. 176.) Here is a most remarkable and significant item of information,—an unknown but conspicuous stranger, possessed of flocks and herds, abides about the locality of the Great Pyramid for all the years it was in building, and is so related to the work that all Egypt for more than seventeen hundred years considered him its real originator and builder, Cheops merely furnishing the site, the workmen, and the
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materials. Nor was he some great professional architect, whom Cheops heard of and sent for to build him a sepulchre. The account says he was a shepherd—a keeper of flocks—and hence of an order whose business lay in the line of keeping sheep, but not in the line of building pyramids to the order of foreign kings. He is called "Philition" or Philitis. This would seem to imply that he was one of a peculiar and special religious brotherhood, or that he was a Philistian,—one who carne from or located in Philistia.
There were several classes of Philistines, different in religion and race. The Philistines of Jewish times are of unsavory odor. But it was not so with certain earlier Philistines whom the Scriptures mention with honor as a people specially favored of Jehovah. When Israel was on the way to Canaan, in order to revive their drooping confidence, God told them of a much earlier people whom he had in like manner conducted up from Egypt. He calls them "the Caphtorims which came out. of Caphtor" (Deut. 2: 23). This Caphtor was the very region of Egypt in which the Great Pyramid stands, and these Caphtorims from Caphtor, God elsewhere calls "the Philistines," whom He "brought up from Caphtor."
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[paragraph continues] (Amos 9: 7.) So that not only from Herodotus and his informant, but from the Bible itself, we learn of Philistines once in the neighborhood of the Great Pyramid, who were the objects of the Divine favor, and whom God brought up from thence, as he long afterwards brought up the children of Israel. *
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There is also another remarkable fragment bearing on the subject. Manetho, an Egyptian priest and scribe, is quoted by Josephus, and others, as saying, "We had formerly a king whose name was Timaus. In his time it came to pass, I know not how, that the Deity was displeased with us; and there came up from the East in a strange manner men of an ignoble race, who had the confidence to invade our country, and easily subdued it by their power without a battle. And when they had our rulers in their hands they demolished the temples of the gods." (See Cory's Fragments, p. 257.) This Timaus of Manetho is doubtless the same person as the Chemmes of
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[paragraph continues] Diodorus, the Cheops of Herodotus, and the Chufu or Suphis of the monuments. The description is peculiar, and though tinctured with Egypt's proverbial hatred to this class of shepherds, indicates a wonderful influence won over the king by purely peaceable means, which could hardly have been less than supernatural. Manetho himself refers it to the pleasure and displeasure of the Deity, and further adds, that this people "was styled Hycsos, that is, the shepherd kings," and that "some say they were Arabians." *
Manetho wrote about three hundred years
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before Christ, and his statements are somewhat mixed with the history of another set of shepherd kings of a long-subsequent dynasty, but the ground of the story belongs to the period of Cheops and the Great Pyramid, for it was then that this peaceable control was obtained over the reigning sovereigns by a shepherd prince, the temples closed, the gods destroyed, and the people oppressed with labor for the government. Manetho says that these "Arabians" left Egypt in large numbers, but instead of going to Arabia, they went up "that country now called Judea, and there built a city and named it Jerusalem."
It would thus appear that the shepherd prince connected with the building of the Great Pyramid was from Arabia, and subsequently located in Palestine (Philistia), hence probably called "Philition"—the Philistian. The connection of him with the building of Jerusalem is very remarkable, and may serve to identify him with some Scripture character. Joseph us quotes the passage as referring to the Jews, but that can hardly be the case. The Jews did not originally build Jerusalem. They did not even have possession of it till the time of David, about five hundred years after the Exodus. Jerusalem existed, and wore at
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least a part of its present name, full a thousand years before David. As early as Abraham's time it was the seat of a great king, to whom Abraham himself paid reverence and tithes, and from whom he accepted blessing and communion, as "priest of the Most High God." With reference to his character and office, the Bible calls him MELCHISEDEC, plainly a descriptive and not a proper name, he being first "king of righteousness, and after that also king of Salem." (Heb. 7: 1, 2.)
An illustrious personage thus breaks upon our notice with all the sudden grandeur of the Great Pyramid itself. Who he was has been something of a question for thousands of years,—a question which perhaps cannot be positively answered. Kohlreiff, in his Chronologia Sacra (Hamburg, 1724), as cited by Wolfius, identifies this personage with the patriarch Job. There is also more to sustain this view than any other ever presented.
The time is the same. On general internal evidences, Dr. Owen (in Theologoumen.), assigns the Book of Job to the period immediately preceding Abraham. The length of Job's life places him in the pre-Abrahamic age of Serug,
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[paragraph continues] Reu, and Peleg. * He evidently lived before the Exodus, and before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, for though the Book of Job refers to Adam, the fall, and the deluge, there is. no allusion whatever to the awful disaster to the cities of the plain, the Sinaitic laws, or any of the miraculous events of Israelitish history. Such an omission in such a discussion, in the vicinity of these great
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occurrences, could not happen if these events had preceded it. Job speaks of the rock yielding him a spring of mineral oil (19: 6), and such oilsprings there evidently were in the region of Sodom and Gomorrah prior to the great burning of those cities, and the earth under and about them; but they have never since been found. Moses alludes to the same, but only by way of metaphor drawn from the Book of Job, for no such circumstance ever literally occurred in the history of Israel. Those oilsprings were drained and exhausted when those cities burned. Besides, sundry astronomical calculations made from notices of constellations contained in the Book of Job fix the time of the patriarch's great trial contemporaneous with Melchisedec. *
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The country of the one is also that of the other. Abraham met Melchisedec in Palestine, but no one claims that he was born and reared there. There were important Shemitic migrations hitherward prior to that of Abraham. In the Chronicon Paschale the tradition
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is received with strong assurance, that Melchisedec, like Abraham, calve from beyond the Jordan. Nor is there any doubt of Job's having come from that same mysterious "East."
In general character and position, Job and Melchisedec appear to be one and the same. Paul calls on his Jewish readers to "consider how great this man (Melchisedec) was," and of Job the sacred record is, "This man was the greatest of all the men of the East." Melchisedec was "priest of the Most High God," and of Job it is written that he sent and offered burnt-offerings for his sons and daughters "continually." Melchisedec was a princely personage—"King of Salem;" and all agree in assigning a princely rank to Job. It remains a question till now, whether he was not a real "king," many maintaining that he was.
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[paragraph continues] He certainly was at least a great emir. Melchisedec was a worshipper of the one true God, outside of the Abrahamic line, and the same is true of Job. From these and other coincidences it would seem that in Melchisedec, King of Salem, we do really meet the great patriarch of Uz, near the end of those one hundred and forty years of glory which succeeded his sore affliction.
The genealogical tables also supply a name which would seem to indicate the existence of an Arabian Job, who appears at the right time and in the right connections to be this same identical patriarch. In the tenth of Genesis, the sacred historian departs entirely from his usual method, in naming the thirteen sons of Joktan, as if for the special purpose of reaching the last in the list. * He sets down
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that name as Job-ab, which is quite capable of being read father-Job, in allusion to some such position and career as that of the great patriarch of Uz, or Melchisedec. Alterations were likewise made in the names of Abraham and Sarah in allusion to their special calling and office. The seventy translators from tradition, most of the Hebrew authors, Origen, the Coptic version of Job, the Greek fathers, and various modern writers, represent Job-ab and Job as one and the same name. In that case we would here have a Job, a veritable Arabian, a descendant of Eber (through Joktan, as Abraham through Peleg), and hence a true Hebrew in the older and wider sense, who answers well to all we know either of Melchisedec or the Uzean patriarch.
From Job we have the most unique and independent book in the sacred canon—the sublimest
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section of the inspired records,—a grand monument. of patriarchal life, manners, and theology,—evidencing a knowledge of earth and sky, of providence and grace, and a command of thought, sentiment, language, and literary power, which no mere man has ever equalled. In it we find a familiarity with writing, engraving in stone, mining, metallurgy, building, shipping, natural history, astronomy, and science in general, showing an advanced, organized, and exalted state of society, answering exactly to what pertains above all to the sons of Joktan, whose descendants spread themselves from Upper Arabia to the South Seas, and from the Persian Gulf to the pillars of Hercules, tracking their course as the first teachers of our modern world with the greatest monuments that antiquity contains.
It has become the fashion to refer all this to Arabian Cushites, or a people of Hamitic blood, but it is one of the blunders of the would-be wise. Because the name of Cush, usually rendered Ethiopia, became early attached to some undefined portions of Arabia, and because the children of Canaan originally settled in Palestine, therefore everything relating
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to prehistoric Arabians and dwellers along the Mediterranean shores must needs be credited to the children of Ham, though it should leave to the Shemites scarce a place on earth! Such a theory may have its day, but there is every evidence, biblical and secular, literary and monumental, that the greatest and mightiest population of the ancient Arabia was mainly, if not exclusively, of pre-Abrahamic Shemitic stock. The tribes which possessed it were mostly of the seed of Joktan, son of Eber, till the descendants of Abraham through Esau and Keturah, and the descendants of Lot, began to fill in from the northwest. * These Joktanites were the true Arabians, and the superior people who occupied the most important portions of the country, populated its shores, gave it their Heberic language, cultivated every interest of human society and greatness, planted their colonies in Eastern Africa, around the whole eastern coast
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of the Mediterranean, and westward as far as Carthage, the Guadalquiver, and the shores of the Atlantic. They were
The true ancient Erythræan stock,
E’en that sage race who first essayed the deep,
And wafted merchandise to courts unknown;
The first great founders of the world,
Of cities, and of mighty states, and who first viewed
The starry lights, and formed them into schemes. *
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Nor does it argue anything against Job's being Joktan's son, that in the Mosaic or subsequent
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editing of the Book of Job, his friends are said to be from countries called after the
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names of some of Abraham's descendants. Names which did not exist for thousands of
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years afterwards are in like manner given to the country about the Garden of Eden. (Gen. 2: 11-14.)
There is no evidence that the chief river of Palestine bore the name Jordan—River of Dan—till long after the time of Moses and Joshua, and yet that subsequent Jewish name is everywhere inserted in the antecedent records. And so Eliphaz might much more intelligibly be said in Moses' time to have been from the country then known as Teman, and Bildad from the country then known as Shuah, though they both lived and occupied those regions hundreds of years before Teman and Shuah were born. There may also have been an earlier Teman and Shuah whose names others long after them in some way inherited. The original name of the territory in general is preserved in the designation of the country of Job himself, which also plainly antedates the Teman and Shuah descended from Abraham. From Stony Arabia to Damascus, along the whole east of Palestine, the country is called Uz. The more precise region whence Job came, likely was that portion of Arabia bordering on the east of Edom, south of Trachonitis, and extending indefinitely towards the Euphrates. Uz is a Shemitic name, called
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[paragraph continues] Aws in the Arabian antiquities, and denotes the region where Shem himself probably lived and died. * Judging from chapter 8: 8-10, and 12: 12, we may readily believe that Job himself saw, heard, and often consulted Shem, and got his sacred wisdom from him. In the providence of God he in a measure at least, and perhaps by special call and ordination, took Shem's place as the principal representative of the patriarchal religion after Sheen's death, as Abraham subsequently, whom Melchisedec blessed and consecrated as meant to fill this office after him, till he, of whom Melchisedec was the illustrious type, should come.
And as Melchisedec and Job were most likely one and the same person, so the same would seem to be the Philition of Great Pyramid notoriety. Job was the youngest of a
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family in which was the science, faith, and enterprise for such a work, beyond all others then living. Job was an Arabian, and a shepherd prince, just as the Egyptian fragments testify respecting Philitis. Job's account of his own greatness, doings, and successes, depicted with so much beauty in chapter 29, grandly harmonizes with Manetho's story of the strange power of the Hicsos over the Egyptian rulers obtained "without a battle." He held idolatry to be a crime punishable by the authorities (chap. 31: 26-28), just as Cheops was persuaded while the Great Pyramid was building. He was a true man of' God, a public instructor in sacred things, with whom Jehovah communicated, and whom the Spirit of God inspired. * The Almighty speaks to
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him in chapter 38 as if he were the identical person who had laid the measures of the Great Pyramid, stretched the lines upon it, set its foundations in their sockets, and laid its topstone amid songs of exalted triumph. * Chap. 19: 23-27 looks like a description of the high intent of the Great Pyramid, and a prayer that it might endure with its glorious freight even to the end of the world. And the more I study the Book of Job in the light of its author's identity with the mysterious Arabian stranger to whom the Egyptians attribute the Great Pyramid, the stronger and
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more satisfying to me becomes the likelihood that here is the mighty prince and preacher of Jehovah from whom we have that monument. All the facts, dates, and circumstances amply accord with the theory that "Melchisedec" was Job, and that the same was the "Philition" of Herodotus.
But whether such identity can be established or not, the effect in this argument is essentially the same. If these three names denote three distinct persons, they all belong to the time of the Great Pyramid's erection and to the same general community or class of people. They were all shepherd princes. They all hated idolatry, worshipped the true God, and fulfilled a sacred mission mostly before Abraham came upon the stage. And closely related to them were others of the same faith and spirit, and scarcely inferior in dignity. Eliphaz, and Bildad, and Zophar, and Elihu, must be counted with them, and of them we may judge from what we read and hear of them from the Book of Job. From all these together we get an impression of the age and communities in which they had their homes, and what sort of men then lived and operated. What we find in them we may put
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down as characteristic of their period, and from it safely reason.
We thus learn what is indeed of very great moment, to wit, that God then had his priests and worshippers upon earth, and that they were the most princely, learned, and commanding people living. We thus learn that it was God's habit to converse with them, to direct their ways by special revelations, and to inspire them for the utterance and recording of his mind, will, and purposes. We thus learn that they were the family kindred and blood relatives, the same in language and country, with those whence the after world obtained all the original elements of science and civilization. We thus learn that with them was the competency and every qualification, both natural and supernatural, for the erection of just such a monument of science, theology, and prophetic history, as we find in the Great Pyramid. Nay more, we thus learn that it was the subject of their special craving, that their words, wisdom, and immortal hopes should be engraven with pens of iron in imperishable memorials of rock! (Job 19: 2327.)
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No matter then whether Philitis, Melchisedec and Job were one, or two, or three; such mighty men of Jehovah there were in that far-off age. They believed in one God, and in holy angels, and in a devil, whose subtle depravity had inoculated all natural humanity. They feared sin, and sought forgiveness and salvation through bloody sacrifice. They hoped for a coming Redeemer, and for resurrection through him. They treasured the primeval records, traditions, and revelations from Adam down, even the same from which Moses compiled when he framed his Genesis. *
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[paragraph continues] Special communications, teachings and impulses from God were also as common to these people
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as to Abraham after them. (See Job 4: 12, 13; 6: 10; 23: 12; 33:14-16; 38:1; 42:5-7.)
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[paragraph continues] They had the moral and intellectual qualifications to furnish the sublimest section of the holy Scriptures. There was no superior enlightenment, no higher civilization, no purer faith, no truer science, no more intimate familiarity
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with the works and purposes of God, than they possessed. And a princely member of their mysterious and loving brotherhood it was who dwelt in Egypt while the Great Pyramid was building. Having obtained peaceable possession of the king's heart, he induced him to shut the temples, punish the priests, cast out the gods, and lend his royal co-operation for the building of a pillar to Jehovah of hosts, which should last to the end of time, and which men should open and read in this last evil age, and know that it is from Him who is about to judge the world for its apostasies.
Thus then, by a chain of traditions, facts, and Bible testimonies, we connect the origin of the Great Pyramid with a mighty prehistoric people, wholly separate from Egypt and its abominations,—a people among whom inspiration, as true and high as that of Moses, wrought, and from whom we have not only the noblest of the sacred books, but likewise the noblest edifice on earth, equally fraught with holy intelligence, divine truth, and inspired prophecy.
What have we then in this unrivalled pillar, but A MIRACLE IN STONE—a petrifaction of wisdom and truth, revealed of God, preserved
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among his people from the foundation of the world, and thus memorialized by impulse and aid from Him, that it might outlive the apostasies of man, and stand as a witness to the Lord Almighty when he cometh to judge the world, and to fulfil his promise of "the restitution of all things."
Men may combat and scorn a conclusion so sublime. They may utterly reject it, as they also rejected Christ, and still reject his salvation. But it involves nothing impossible—nothing improbable—nothing but what we might reasonably expect in view of what God did in ancient times, and promised to the fathers. It is agreeable to every item of history of which we can avail ourselves. It conforms to the remarkable traditions on the subject, which cannot otherwise be accounted for. Passages and allusions in both Testaments imply, if they do not positively declare, that it is a thing of God. And the great monument itself gives palpable demonstration of what cannot be rationally explained on any other hypothesis.
Materialistic and skeptical science appears disposed to settle upon the belief that man is a being who has had to educate himself up to
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what he is, from a troglodyte, if not from something much lower. Of course this goes against the Scriptures, and sets aside as fable and mythic superstition all the most essential substance of the Scriptures. But what care such scientists for that? Such consequences to a theory they take rather as a recommendation. But no such philosophizing can stand before the Great Pyramid. If the primeval man was nothing but a gorilla or a troglodyte, how, in those far prehistoric times, could the builders of this mighty structure have known what our profoundest savants, after a score of centuries of observation and experiment, have been able to find out only imperfectly? How could they know even to make and handle the tools, machines, and expedients indispensable to the construction of an edifice so enormous in dimensions, so massive in its materials, so exalted in its height, and so perfect in its workmanship, that to this day it is without a rival on earth? How could they know the spherity, rotation, diameter, density, latitudes, poles, land distribution, and temperature of the earth, or its astronomic relations? How could they solve the problem of the squaring of the circle, calculate the π proportion, or determine the four cardinal points? How could
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they frame charts of history and dispensations, true to fact in every particular for the space of four thousand years after their time, and down even to the final consummations? How could they know when the Mosaic economy would start, how long continue, and in what eventuate? How could they know when Christianity would be introduced, by what great facts and features it would be marked, and what would be the characteristics, career, and end of the Church of Christ? How could they know of the grand precessional cycle, the length of its duration, the number of days in the true year, the mean distance of the sun from the earth, and the exact positions of the stars at the time the Great Pyramid was built? How could they devise a standard and system of measures and weights, so evenly fitted to each other, so beneficently conformed to the common wants of man, and so perfectly harmonized with all the facts of nature? And how could they know to put all these things on record in one single piece of masonry, without one verbal or pictorial inscription, yet proof against all the ravages and changes of time, and capable of being read and understood down to the very end of the world?
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they are in solid stone, displayed to all eyes, and challenging the scrutiny of all the savants of the earth. Men may sneer, but they cannot laugh down this mighty structure, nor scoff out of it the angles, proportions, measures, nature references, and sacred correspondences which its makers gave it. Here they are in all their speaking significance, stubborn and invincible beyond all power to suppress them. Nothing now can blot out this record, and on it is written the true Scriptural dignity of primeval man, fashioned in the image of his Maker, furnished of God with everything requisite to his highest life on earth, and illumined and impelled of heaven to make this memorial of his sacred possessions, ere they should be finally lost amid the ever-increasing deterioration. It is a record whose antiquity none can dispute, whose authenticity none could corrupt, and whose readings none can construe without the admission of a Divine intervention!
And then what? Why then inspiration is a demonstrated reality,—then miracle is a tangible fact,—then the foundations of infidelity are dissolved,—then the Scriptures are true,—AND THEN OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH AND HOPES ARE SURE, AND CANNOT DISAPPOINT US!
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Wondrous Providence of a wondrous God, to have planted in our world such a memorial as this,—
Building in stone a real revelation,
Which in Time's fulness has at last been read!
It is not a substitute for our glorious Bible that we find in this marvellous pillar, nor a thing to be put on equality with the Scriptures, as though the written word were in any manner deficient. We throw back the imputation that we would propound a new religion with a new oracle. Our vaulting scientists have quite monopolized that business. The world resounds with the pratings of their varied sects and schools, agreeing in nothing but in negations of the supernatural. We are content with what our holy books record. But when a sacrilegious rationalism would emasculate them, and an Epicurean philosophy would trample them into the slough, we rejoice and thank God that before he gave these books he caused this mighty pillar to be stationed in the very path of vaunting science, that his assailed, abused, and oft-bewildered children in the extremity of the ages might
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be able to appeal to it exultantly for monumental attestation of their faith, and, amid the wrinkles and infirmities of failing Time, still have to show an unfaded memorial of its glorious youth.
183:* Helfricus (1565) and Baumgarten (1594) considered the Great Pyramid a tomb, but held that no one was ever buried in it. Pietro Della Valle (1616), Thevenot (1655), and Maillet (1692) give it as the common belief that no one ever was therein entombed. Vausleb (1664) could find no clue by which to determine why this pyramid was built. Shaw (1721) denies that it ever was a tomb or ever was intended to be one. Jomard (1801), having studied all the features of this edifice, and compared them day by day with all the facts and forms of old Egyptian pyramids, wrote concerning it, "Everything is mysterious, I repeat it, in the construction and distribution of this monument, the passages oblique, horizontal, sharply bent, of different dimensions!" "We are not at all enlightened either upon the origin or the employment, the utility or any motive whatever for the Grand Gallery and various passages." Sir G. Wilkinson says, "It may be doubted whether the body of the king was really deposited in the sarcophagus," as he calls it. p. 184 And Mr. St. John does not consider the Coffer a sarcophagus at all, and thinks the Great Pyramid never was and never was meant to be a tomb.
196:* See Osburn's Mon. Hist. of Egypt, vol. i, p. 277. Also, Shuckford's Sac. and Prof. Hist., vol. i, p. 157. Also, Lenorment and Chevallier's Anc. Hist. of the East, vol. i, p. 207.
199:* It has been found very difficult to trace the origin and history of this early people. The Philistines of the. time of the Judges, and of David, were a long subsequent people, who do not appear in the settlement of Israel under Joshua. They are not mentioned in any of the assaults and conquests of the Jews on their first arrival. Ewald considers this conclusive against their being inhabitants of Palestine at that time. Still, in the time of Abraham, we read of Philistines in Canaan. (Gen. 21: 32-34.) Abraham was on friendly terms with them, entered into a covenant of peace with them, and "sojourned many days" with them. They feared and reverenced the true God. (Gen. 21: 22.) Ewald agrees that their language was Shemitic. They were an organized and powerful people. Their sovereigns had the title of Abimelech, a Hebrew word, meaning Father King, as the sovereigns of Egypt were all called Pharaoh, and the sovereigns of Rome, Cæsar. The Caphtor, whence they came, Stark makes the Delta of Egypt, and they themselves some early part of the Hycsos or shepherd kings, known to Egyptian history. Dr. Jamieson says, "There is every reason to believe the sovereigns were connected with the shepherd kings of Lower Egypt, and were far superior in civilization and refinement to the Canaanitish tribes around them." (Com. on Gen. 20: 2.) The Phœnician traditions say they came from Arabia. They differed from the Egyptians in dress and manners, as proven by the monuments; and also in language, laws, and religion, as justly inferable from the Bible notices of them. The intent of the reference to them in Amos 9: 7 plainly is to show that Israel was not the only people which p. 200 had been divinely led from one country to settle in another. R. G. Pool considers the allusion as seeming to imply oppression prior to the migration, but that is not necessarily involved. There is no allusion to deliverance, but simply to a bringing of them thither by special divine direction. Abimelech in Gerar, and Melchisedec in Salem, would seem to be closely related as to religion, language, and race. They were perhaps the representatives of two branches of one and the same people, who came into Palestine at one and the same time, from one and the same place in Egypt, under one and the same motive, close about the time of the completion of the Great Pyramid. There certainly is nothing to disprove this conclusion. The name of Abimelech's general-in-chief, Phicol, though made up of Hebrew syllables, is not a Hebrew word, but seems to bear an Egyptian influence in its formation, as Pi-hahiroth, Pi-beseth, Pi-thom. It is most likely a designation of office, bearing traces of some connection with Egypt, but not of it.
201:* Wilford, in his Asiatic Researches, vol. iii, p. 225, gives an extract from the Hindoo records which seems to sustain, in some important particulars, this fragment of Manetho. The extract says, that one Tamo-vatsa, a child of prayer, wise and devout, prayed for certain successes, and that God granted his requests, and that he came into Egypt with a chosen company, entered it "without any declaration of war, and began to administer justice among the people, to give them a specimen of a good king." This Tamo-vatsa is represented in the account as a king of the powerful people called the Pali, shepherds, who in ancient times governed the whole country from the Indus to the mouth of the Ganges, and spread themselves, mainly by colonization and commerce, very far through Asia, Africa, and Europe. They colonized the coasts of the Persian Gulf, and the sea-coasts of Arabia, Palestine, and Africa, and were the longhaired people called the Berbers in North Africa. They are likewise called Palestinæ, which name has close affinity with the Philition of Herodotus. These Pali of the Hindoo records are plainly identical with some of the Joktanic peoples. See infra.
204:* "The lives of mankind were so much shortened ere the days of Abraham, that though he lived but one hundred and seventy-five years, yet he is said to have 'died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years.' Peleg, who was five generations before Abraham, lived two hundred and thirty-nine years. Reu, the son of Peleg, lived as many. Serug, the son of Reu, lived two hundred and thirty. But the lives of their descendants were not so long. The LXX in their translation say that Job lived in all two hundred and forty or two hundred and forty-eight years Nahor, the grandfather of Abraham, lived but one hundred and forty-eight years. Torah, Abraham's father, lived two hundred and five. Abraham lived one hundred and seventy-five, Isaac lived one hundred and eighty, and the lives of their children were shorter. If, therefore, Job lived two hundred and forty or two hundred and forty-eight years, he must have been contemporaneous with Peleg, Rau, or Serug, for men's lives were not extended to so great a length after their days. He lived one hundred and forty years after his affliction, and when that affliction came he had seven sons and three daughters, and all his children seem to have been grown up and settled in life from the beginning of his misfortunes." His age could not therefore be less than two hundred years at the least. See Shuckford's Sac. and Profane History, vol. i, p. 263, 264, who also makes Job contemporaneous with Suphis (Cheops).
205:* Four constellations are mentioned together in the Book of Job 9: 9, and 38: 31, 32, and in four opposite quarters of the heavens, Kimah, the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus; Kesil, the equinoctial nodus in Scorpio, the name being perpetuated in the Chaldean Kislev or November; Mazzaroth, Sirius or literally Egypt's star sign; and Ish, Aquarius, who in a manner revenged himself on the sons of men in the deluge. These four are named in their oppositions, and so in Job's day, they correspond to the two equinoctial and the two solstitial constellations. Kimah answers to the vernal equinox, Kesil to the autumnal, and Mazzaroth corresponds to the summer solstice, and Ish to the winter solstice. President Goguet, in his Origin of Laws, a translation of which was published in Edinburgh, in 1761 (the Paris ed. of 1758), makes the calculation by the p. 206 precessional cycle, and says that it fixes the epoch of Job's trial in the year 2136 B.C., which would be just thirty-four years after the building of the Great Pyramid. Dr. Brinkley, of Dublin, repeated the calculation, and brought it out somewhere about 2130 B.C. Dr. Hales adopts the calculation by Brinkley, and refers to another calculation on the same data by Ducoutant, in a Thesis published in Paris, in 1765, which gives the same within forty-two years. Such a coincidence, says Wemyss, is very striking, and the argument deduced from it, if well founded, would amount nearly to a demonstration.
206:† "The primeval Canaanites were of the race of Ham, and no doubt originally spoke a dialect closely akin to the Egyptian, but it is clear that before the coming of Abraham into their country they had by some means become Shemitized, since all the Canaanitish names of the time are palpably Shemitic. Probably the movements from the country about the Persian Gulf, of which the history of Abraham furnishes an instance, had been in progress for some time before he quitted Ur, and an influx of emigrants from that-quarter had made Shemitism already predominant in Syria and Palestine at the date of his arrival"—Rawlinson's Herodotus, vol. i, p. 537.
Ewald, in his Hist. of Israel, argues to the same effect. He says, "It is clear that there was here a primitive people which once extended over the whole land of the Jordan to the left, and to the Euphrates on the right, and to the Red Sea on the south," and that "these people," who had very largely displaced the old Canaanites in Palestine, "were of Shemitic race."—Vol. i, p. 231.
Hence, as Wilkins observes, Abraham on his arrival found the population consisting, at least in a very large measure, of p. 207 tribes with which he would have close affinities of blood and language. Hence, also, we have no hint in the Biblical narrative that points to any difference of language, such as we often have when the Jews came in contact with nations whose speech was really unintelligible to them, as the Egyptians (Psalm 81: 5, 114: 1). On the contrary we find Abraham negotiating with the children of Heth, making a treaty with Abimelech, Jacob and his sons communing with the people of Shechem, Israel's spies conversing with the inhabitants of the land, and Solomon corresponding with Hiram, without the slightest reference to the need of any interpreter between them. See Wilkins's Phœnicia and Israel, pp. 3-10.
208:* "The design of Moses after he has completed the narrative of the dispersion of the third and fourth generations of the descendants of Noah, and thus related the ancestry of the chief nations of the world, undoubtedly was to continue the line of Shem to that of Abraham only. All interest in the other patriarchal families appears to have ceased; he takes no notice of any but that of Joktan. The family of Joktan were not the ancestors of the Messiah; neither were any of the sons of this patriarch so peculiarly distinguished in the subsequent history of Israel, that the enumeration of their names only might have been anticipated in this genealogy. But nothing is written in the Holy Scriptures without an object, and in the absence of any other object for which Moses deviated from his plan, and p. 209 recorded the names of the sons of Joktan only, terminating the list with the name of Job-ab or Job,—I conclude that his design was to tell us that the Job who was the youngest son of Joktan was the Job who lived in the land of Uz, though he was not born there, and who suffered and was tempted as the Book of Job has recorded. The sons of Joktan were enumerated that the name of Job might be placed before the children of Israel as the witness to the truth of those doctrines which their patriarchal ancestors received, which Moses taught, and which the Church of God in all ages has believed."—Dr. Townsend's Bible, vol. i, p. 131.
211:* "Ethnologers are now agreed," says Rawlinson, "that in Arabia there have been three distinct phases of colonization—first, the Cushite occupation, recorded in Gen. 10: 7; secondly, the settlement of the Joktanites, described in verses 26-30 of the same chapter; and thirdly, the entrance of the Ishmaelites, which must have been nearly synchronous with the establishment of the Jews in Palestine."—Rawlinson's Herodotus, vol. i, p. 357.
212:* The names of the progenitors of these peoples, and the notices we have of them and their descendants, abundantly indicate all this.
Almodad means the measurer, and the Chaldee paraphrase of Onkelos and Jonathan attests that he was accounted the inventor of geometry, and the man who lined or measured the earth with lines; hence, also a great astronomer.
Of Sheleph, the same paraphrase says that he led forth the waters of rivers, that is, instituted canals, and operated in water-works, perhaps the inventor of water-mills.
Hazarmaveth gave his name to a country which still bears it, and was, according to tradition, a great grammarian.
Jerah, the fourth son of Joktan, who is called Ierab in the ancient Arabic records and traditions, is the man from whom we have the name of Arabia, the land of Ierab. He gave his name to a province of Tehama, in which he settled, and thence it became extended to the country in general, which the natives still call the Peninsula of Ierab, son of Joktan, whom the Arabians call Kahtan. The Jerachæans were growers of grains, miners, and refiners of gold.
Uzal peopled the great country of Yemen, "famous from all antiquity for the happiness of its climate, its fertility, and riches." Its capital, Sanaa—the city of learning—vied with Damascus in the abundance of its fruits, and the pleasantness of its water. His descendants were manufacturers, merchants, and travelling traders, whom Ezekiel refers to as present in the fairs of Tyre, with possessions of bright iron, cassia, and calamus. p. 213
Dikla was the father of a great tribe of traffickers in aromatics.
Obal peopled the southern extremity of Arabia, whence colonies crossed the Straits of Babelmandeb, and took possession of the bay still called after him, the Avalitic. His descendants were great merchants, and carried on large trade in the best myrrh, and other odorous drugs, also in ivory, tortoiseshell, tin, wheat, and wine.
Sheba was the father of one of the tribes of the Sabeans. There was a tribe of Cushite-Sabeans, whose vulgar depredations are referred to in the Book of Job, and also a later tribe headed by a son of Jokshan, grandson of Abraham The Joktanic Sabeans were located near the Red Sea, and were the richest of all the ancient Arabians in gold, silver, and precious stones. Ezekiel mentions them as trading with ancient Tyre. They were metallurgists, lapidaries, and dealers in all rare luxuries. They were among the wisest and most intelligent, as well as the richest and most enterprising of ancient peoples. It was their queen who came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from among them, according to the Egyptian accounts, there came up delegations to visit and view the Great Pyramid as if comprehending and reverencing it as no Egyptians ever did.
Ophir is the very word for wealth, and from the name of the descendants of this son of Joktan, we have our word magazine, illustrative of their consequence as bankers and depositaries of treasures. From them Solomon got almug trees for pillars to the temple, brought in the ships of Hiram, himself being of this same Joktanic blood and language
And with Job to complete the list we have here beyond question the most illustrious family of peoples of prehistoric times.
Baldwin, in his Prehistoric Nations, says, "It would he unreasonable to deny or doubt that in ages farther back in the past than the beginnings of any old nation mentioned in our p. 213 ancient histories, Arabia was the seat of a great and influential civilization. This fact, so clearly indicated in the remains of antiquity, seems indispensable to a satisfactory solution of many problems that arise in the course of linguistic and archæological inquiry. It is now admitted that they were the first civilizers and builders throughout Western Asia, and they are traced by remains of their language, their architecture, and the influence of their civilization on both shores of the Mediterranean. It is apparent that no other race did so much to develop and spread civilization, that no other people had such an extended and successful system of colonization, that they seem to have monopolized the agencies and activities of commerce by sea and land, and that they were the lordly and ruling race of their time. The Arabians were the great maritime people of the world in ages beyond the reach of tradition. As Phœnicians and Southern Arabians they controlled the seas in later times, and they were still the chief navigators and traders on the Indian Ocean when Vasquez di Gama went to India around the Cape of Good Hope."—Pp. 66, 67.
From Herodotus we learn that the Phœnicians came from the Erythræan Sea, which he explains to be the Persian Gulf, that having crossed over from thence they established themselves on the coast of Syria on the Mediterranean, and that their chief cities were Tyre and Sidon. McCausland says they were once supreme throughout the Mediterranean, and even beyond the pillars of Hercules. Tyre sent forth numerous colonies and founded flourishing commercial communities in various parts of the world. Her merchant princes spread their dominion over Cyprus and Crete and the smaller islands of the Archipelago in their vicinity. They also made settlements in Sardinia, Sicily, and Spain, and their vessels penetrated as far as the islands of Madeira to the west, and to the British Isles and the Baltic on the north. Traces also are found of them in India, Ceylon, and onward across the Pacific to the shores of the New World. Carthage, for a long time the rival of the Roman p. 215 Aryans, was the most flourishing and last surviving of the Phœnician colonies. The renowned Hamilcar and Hannibal were members of this family, also Cadmus, who was the first to introduce letters into Greece, and Ninus, the just and wise king of Crete, who according to Thucydides, was the first known founder of a maritime empire.—McCausland's Builders of Babel, pp. 53-55.
That the Phœnicians were Shemitic, and not Hamites, is proven by their language, which from the inscriptions they have left is manifestly and incontrovertibly the same for the most part and in every case with what is familiar to the modern student as Hebrew. See Gesenius's Scripturæ Linguæque Phœniciæ Monumenta, where that distinguished scholar, as Gale and others have also observed, says "Omnino hoc tenendum est, pleraque et pæne omnia cum Hebræis convenire, sive radices spectas, sive verborum et formandorum et flectendorum rationem."
Rawlinson, in his Essays on Herodotus, Bunsen, in his Philosophy of Un. History, and Wilkins, in his Phœnicia and Israel, with every degree of confidence assert and maintain that the Phœnicians were Shemites, and hence of the Joktanic lineage. Rawlinson also remarks that these people possessed, "a wonderful capacity for affecting the spiritual condition of our species, by projecting into the fermenting mass of human thought new and strange ideas, especially those of the most abstract kind. Shemitic races have influenced far more than any others the history of the world's mental progress, and the principal intellectual revolutions which have taken place are traceable in the main to them."—Herodotus, p. 539.
An item of evidence of Melchisedec's connection with this people is found in the name of the Deity given in Gen. 14: 18, where the God of Melchisedec is called, not Eloah or Elohim, but Eliun, which is the Phœnician designation of God used by Sanchoniathon, the Phœnician sage, from whom sundry fragments have been preserved. See Kenrick's Phœnicia, p. 288.
217:* "Sham appears in his own annals as one who had left his native [original] land, and in the course of ages migrated west and south from the primitive common seat of the civilized stock of Central Asia, with an unceasing tendency towards Egypt."—BUNSEN'S Univ. Hist.
217:† This would give us a most remarkable and unbroken succession or line of sacred prophets from the foundation of the world—Adam, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Sham, Job, Abraham and the chosen people, terminating in Jesus Christ and his Church, which abides to the end of this present world.
218:* Dr. Lee renders chap. 29: 7, "When I went forth from the gate to the pulpit and prepared my seat in the broad place" Herder translates the same,
"When from my house I went to the assembly,
And spread my carpet in the place of meeting."
In verses 21-23, there is a further allusion to his addresses to the people, and the reverence and eagerness with which they listened to him.
The account of the convening of "the sons of God," given in the first chapter, implies the existence of assemblies for worship in those times, and the giving forth of instruction on those occasions.
219:* The spirit of the passage admirably interprets in this sense. The object is to convince Job of his incompetency to judge of and understand God, and the address runs as if the Almighty intended to say to him, "You laid the foundations of the great structure in Egypt, but where were you when I laid the foundations of the far greater pyramid of the earth? You laid the measures on the pyramid in Egypt, but who laid the measures of the earth, and stretched the line upon it? You fastened down in sockets the foundations of the pyramid in Egypt, but whereupon are the foundations of the earth fastened? You laid the pyramid's completing capstone amid songs and jubilations, but who laid the capstone of the earth when the celestial morning stars sang together, and all the heavenly sons of God shouted for joy?" The image is unquestionably that of the pyramid, and the appeal is best interpreted and tenfold intensified on the hypothesis that it was the builder of that pyramid who is thus addressed. This would also give adequate reason for the departure from the idea of the earth's nature and position given in another part of the book, to take up the image of a pyramidal edifice in this grand passage.
222:* From Luke 1: 69, 70, and Acts 3: 21, we learn that there were sacred prophets, inspired of God, from the earliest beginnings of human history. Who were they? Adam, Seth, Enoch, Noah, and Shem were most eminent among the primeval worthies, and most blessed and honored of God of all the ancients; these would then be the greatest sacred teachers, and the men most fitted to hand down accounts of the things they saw and had learned of the Lord. The indications also are that they did severally record and transmit what they knew and held as sacred, and that Moses in making up the Book of Genesis incorporated these sacred heirlooms into his records, weaving them into one narrative, condensing, adding to, but carefully preserving the ancient texts which he employed. Hence the name of the art called Mosaic work. Nor would it seem impossible, even at this late day, to point out what parts of the holy records have come from each.
I. If we take Genesis 2: 4, on to the end of the third chapter as the Book of the Prophet Adam, it at once assumes a life and vividness which it does not otherwise possess. Its title and contents show that it is a monograph. Its close would seem to p. 223 indicate the time when it was written and its probable author. Certainly no one was so well qualified to write it as Adam himself. And if he wrote anything, it must above all have been this. Assuming also that he, and not Moses, was the original narrator, we are greatly helped with regard to the allusions to the topography of Eden, which doubtless was much changed, at least in the apprehensions with which men looked upon the geography of the earth in the time of Moses, from what it was in the time of Adam. Two thousand years make a wonderful difference in the statements of a gazetteer, even with regard to the same localities. The account of the temptation and fall also becomes more intelligible and interesting in its simplicity as Adam's own statement, than as that of so remote a historian as Moses. The name for the Deity (Jehovah Elohim), Jehovah God, is also peculiar to this one section of the divine word.
II. Genesis 4: 1-26 is again a distinct monograph, the close seeming to indicate the author, who speaks of the Deity always under the name Jehovah. If we have anything from Seth, this is the section above all others that would fall to him. It is perhaps only the conclusion of an ampler record from that holy patriarch.
III. From Enoch we certainly have at least a fragment which is preserved in the Epistle of Jude, beginning at verse 14. He uses the name of Deity the same as Seth.
IV. From Noah we would seem to have several books, the first including Gen. 5: 1-32. Its title shows its monographic character, and its close indicates when and by whom it was written. It denotes the Deity exclusively by the one name (Elohim) God.
V. A second Book of Noah would seen, to be Gen. 4: 9-22; 7: 7-24; 8: 1-19; 9: 1-27. None was so competent to write this account as he, and the occurrences are so wonderful that it could hardly be otherwise than that he would, as a preacher of righteousness, have solemnly recorded this momentous account. Its end is indicated by a change in the name denoting the p. 224 Deity in what follows. It also adds greatly to the life character of the narrative to take it as from the hand of him who was the most deeply concerned in the matter.
VI. There is probably a third Book of Noah, in the form of an apocalypse of the creation work, given in Gen. 1: 1-31; 2: 1-3. The nature of this revelation was quite apart from any personal experience or recollection, and could as well have been given to one prophet as another. The form of designating the Deity (Elohim) is that in the sections which appear to have come from Noah, and the style corresponds to those sections as to no other portions of the Bible. It is a complete monograph in itself, and can be best conceived by referring it to the prophet Noah.
VII. Genesis 4: 1-4, 6-8; 7: 1-6; 8: 20-22; 9: 28, 29; 11: 1-9, shows quite a different style from either of the other sections. It does not appear as a continuation of the Noachian narrative, but rather as fragments of an independent account, from which Moses has interwoven parts to give a greater fulness to the record in general. It designates the Deity (Jehovah) the same as Seth and Enoch, and not as either Adam or Noah. The author evidently lived after Noah, though personally familiar with the affairs attending and following the deluge. Therefore, it is most probable that we have these fragments from the patriarch Shem.
VIII. So, Genesis 10: l-32 and Genesis 11: 10-26, are plainly monographs, and as plainly from distinct sources. Had Moses been the original author of both, the one would have been made to correspond with the other, and we would have had one symmetrical statement of the genealogy, continuous and digested. The first bears internal evidence, amounting almost to certainty, that it was composed by Eber from his own personal knowledge, and while living with his younger son Joktan. That it was written before Sodom was destroyed is proven by verse 19. Had it been written by Moses, he would not have said, "as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah, p. 225 and Admah and Zeboim," but "as thou goest unto the Salt Sea," as in Deut. 3: 17 and elsewhere. The genealogy in the eleventh chapter is also more orderly in style, and was most likely made up by Torah or Abraham, from information handed down from father to son in the family from which he was himself descended.
It would be presumption to speak confidently on such a subject, or to claim that this is beyond mistake the authorship of these several sections of the sacred word. The inspiration of Moses is warrant enough for all of them. But Moses nowhere claims to have been the original author of these records, neither does the Scripture assert that they were written by him. On the contrary, it tells us of a succession of inspired men from Adam's time, from whom we have nothing, except as above indicated. And as the nearer the historian lived to the events which he relates, the more satisfactory his account; if there is reason to believe that these documents were written by the parties personally concerned, they become the more impressive, interesting, and easy to be understood.
It is at least interesting to take the Bible and read the several portions as above assigned to Adam, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Shem, etc., in order to see what life and spirit these records take on, when viewed in a way which is at once so probable and so fully in accord with other statements of the Scriptures.
From the texts in Luke and Acts it is clear that the Gospel is as old as the race, and that there never was a time when it was unknown and unsounded. It is traceable in the constellations of the heavens, as represented of old; it is reflected in the traditions and mythologies of all ancient peoples, and in every age there were holy prophets who treasured the divine oracles, and prophesied and taught concerning the coming and achievements of Jesus Christ, and "the restitution of all things."
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Fallout 3
by sandersn 10. March 2012 11:03
Fallout 3 is a "memento mori"
Fallout 3 is a memento mori, one of those pieces of art that mediaeval artists drew with skulls and rotten fruit to remind us that we will all die someday. Maybe it's a sign that the 20th century has ended and we can admit now that our modern civilisation maybe won't live forever. We can think about what it will be like after we're gone.
That makes Fallout 3 a frequently wistful game. Well, frequently for a 50-hour game, at least. It was about every other hour or so: I would be set upon by bandits who had nothing to live for. Or talk to some hopeless villagers relying on their inadequate walls to keep the big, scary world at bay. Or sneak through the crumbling hallowed places of American democracy, while quiet horns played in the background, evoking patriotism for a dead country. Or just looking out over the crumpled remains of a civilisation's corpse.
At a higher level Bethesda reinforced the wistfulness by the four (or so) factions, all in some way claiming to be legitimate heirs to the mantle of the United States. Some of them military, by right of force (most of them really), some by right of possessing artefacts, holy relics, of the old republic.
In a way the game is more about the resurgence of the mediaeval, life after the fall of a civilisation, than specifically life after the fall of the US. The shape of life in Fallout is clearly inspired by the European dark ages. The game gives the player a picture of what post-civilisation life would be like, and in fact would have been like.
Of course the setting is still uniquely American in its details -- even if the details are clearly satirical. Do you remember Motel of the Mysteries? In it, the amateur archeologist Howard Carson/Carter visits America almost 4000 years after it is buried under a 100-foot layer of junk mail. He discovers a buried hotel room and begins to misinterpret the contents as fast as he can. Motel of the Mysteries could have been the inspiration for Bethesda's obsession with in-game junk.
In actuality, I suspect it was an obsession with providing enough loot to populate a post-apocalyptic world. Bethesda's previous games were well-populated worlds where you couldn't possibly loot everything without becoming some kind of Broom King. In Fallout, the mundane items are not only worthless for trade, they're actual junk. Otherwise it wouldn't be realistically post-apocalyptic.
It fits the fiction, even though I think this is another case of Bethesda succeeding by mistake (see also:most of Morrowind). Fallout is set 200 years after nuclear war, but it gives the sense that most of the devastation wasn't from the nukes. It was from the fall of civilisation that resulted. We got so good at producing stuff that even 200 years after we stopped, the survivors do little but fight over the remnants. Scavenging is the main method of survival, not farming or hunting or commerce.
Fallout is a memento mori for RPGs as well. RPGs are not dead yet, but it's not long before it will make sense to ask "Who killed RPGs?" (much like Old Man Murray asked "Who killed adventure games?") What this really means is that games are growing up and nearly all games now incorporate RPG elements.
The same thing happened to adventure games much earlier -- all that's left of adventure games today is (1) nostalgia (2) Capcom and (3) the good parts that live on in other genres. The story-telling of adventure games was their primary innovation, and their primary legacy. The actual gameplay of adventure games was an odd sort of item management and puzzle-solving, which in its extreme form is essentially insane (see again Old Man Murray's essay, this time looking for references to Moon Logic), and in its mild form, not that interesting.
So why are RPGs the next to go? Let's step back and look at what makes games unique: interactivity. Games started with tiny interaction loops, story-free--nothing but the joy of pushing buttons and getting a reaction from the machine. In contrast, adventure games focused on the long loop -- so long, in fact, that it was essentially the narrative arc found in other kinds of narrative art. RPGs, then, are the original medium-loop game genre. That is, they were the first genre to give the player something between twitch gaming and thoughtful (?) stories and worlds like Zork. In replicating table-top gaming, they created a gameplay loop measured in minutes, not seconds. And the loop offered a sense of progression which could be tweaked and tuned, unlike the simplistic short-loop systems of the 80s, where the only progression was More Speed Until You Die.
Because of sense of progression, RPGs had the first narrative arcs that emerged from gameplay. Ultima 4 is a good example: the medium-loop, RPG gameplay is similar to Ultima 3, but the dungeon questing and dialogue are in service of a overarching, vaguely stated narrative. The real genius of Ultima 4 is the way that most of the narrative emerges through gameplay mechanics instead of through traditional story-telling.
Fallout is an interesting case in which the emergent narrative conflicts with (or at least doesn't support) the explicit narrative. The explicit narrative is a really boring Hero's Journey that's about as floaty and disconnected as Bethesda's combat systems. There's, like, scientists and water purifiers and neo-American military, and ... I just didn't feel any connection. What's worse, they throw in a non-sequitur (charitably: "twist") ending which makes it really obvious that they played Portal (2007) a bunch of times before releasing their game a year later.
But the emergent narrative -- well, I already talked about it. It's the story of Mediaeval America. I think it's a story we need to hear, and I think Bethesda meant to tell it. In Morrowind, I felt like the emergent narrative was there by mistake. In trying to make a "realistic" world, Bethesda inadvertently tweaked some variables just far enough in one direction to not only model racism, but make it an issue that players would have to encounter. I think that Fallout forced Bethesda to outgrow their purely "realistic" aspirations. Without that, they would have continued to make detailed games that are good by mistake. (I haven't played Skyrim--maybe Fallout is a fluke. Which would be sad.)
But back to the original question: if RPGs are so good at emergent narrative, why are they dying? Well, if we look at RPGs as they developed, the truth is that, while their medium-loop gameplay was innovative, their short-loop gameplay was dismally dull for a long time. At best, they had a simplistic rip-off of Stratego; at worst, a simulation of choosing Copy and Paste from OS 7's Edit menu over and over again. Bethesda's games have always aimed to improve this, but even there, if you compare the stealth in Fallout to that in Metal Gear or Splinter Cell, it's pitiful. If you compare the swordplay to Demons' Souls, it's double pitiful, because Demons' Souls also has the numbers. You just can't win on their strength alone.
But games have grown up. They have huge teams working on them, and they can afford to give you great short-loop action, great medium-loop systems and a great long-loop story. And it turns out to be easier to add RPG elements to an action game with sound short-loop gameplay than it is to add action elements to an RPG. Why? I'm not sure. Maybe RPG designers spend all their time modelling an entire world with numbers, while action-game designers spend all their time making sure their characters feel awesome when they move. And unless you're an idiot savant, it's easier for your brain to appreciate exciting moving things than it is to appreciate a numeric model.
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Ballad du Hochjadgsfest
THE Evening was upon us by the time I did arrive, the location was a camp ground somewhat distant from our shire.
For some, it was a puzzle; but for me a pleasant drive, for I knew the site quite well when camping in my Scout attire.
I set my tent in darkness, only aided by some lamps, and the studious Petronella (who's a visitor to our land).
The deed was done, we sallied forth to see the other camps, and to gather in the food-hall with the rest of our good band.
The drinking had well started, and young Friedrick held the lead, with a grip upon his wine-cup that was fearful to behold.
Alas, his grip on soberness was starting to secede; he joined us in some drinking games - I fear we left him cold.
We started with a curious game called Whiz Boing Bounce Bang Boom, or some such other moniker, (it goes by different names.)
The object: to propel a ball around and round the room by gestures and quick shouts - a sup of wine for faulty claims.
The other games I dare not speak aloud, for they were coarse; we played them heedless of the gentle women nearby.
Their laughter only spurred us on - we drank like warriors Norse, we swore, we staggered, and gave Friedrick cause to curse and cry.
I went away, I was quite tired. I lay my head to sleep.
The merriment and laughter drifted up from far away.
Eventually, they too did rest.
Night did her counsel keep, and then the birds' sweet song did herald in the newborn day.
I wandered high, I wandered low, I wandered loud and long, I practiced playing dancing tunes, recorder in my hands.
I feared to wake the others with my tootling and song, And so, returned with soaking boots - the dew was on the lands.
Eventually, the cooks arose to make the morning meal; their culinary efforts were enjoyed by one and all.
We then attempted to construct Stefano's tent; 'twas an ordeal!
We strove with might and main until we heard the lunch-time call.
That afternoon was filled with bows and archery galore: at first we had a target shoot, and combat arrows flew.
The target filled with holes, and no-one knew the final score, but soon arose a greater need; a hunting-horn then blew!
All archers quickly rallied round and sallied forth to hunt, with scores of pretty maidens and some noble marshals too.
The game was spied; the hunters lined up at the front, and all the rest stood back and watched a stag come into view.
It was a small, but noble beast; its antlers like a crown, 'twas such a sight, the archers closed and feathered arrows flew.
But curse and blight, the undergrowth did thin the arrows down, and scarcely one could find its mark though trees bruised black and blue.
The stag drew nigh and charged; the archers called to fire upon a word, a volley thick as hail went out, but did not hit the prey, and Leofric, the proud young man, was very badly gored.
The rest of us, for safety, very bravely ran away.
But gradually our aim improved, and soon its dusky coat was caked with blood from arrow-holes, but yet it fought the pain.
It charged once more, but thankfully a branch ensnared its foot, we managed to regroup before it found its feet again.
It moved uphill, we followed too, and tried to shoot the game, but in a final madness it did gallop forth once more.
Another archer fell to it (I did not catch his name), ill-caught by underbrush he was and sadly lost in gore.
A few more shots were well enough to bring it to its knees, and then it died; a nobler beast we thought not to be found.
We rested for a while then, a-savouring the breeze, and searching high and low for arrows scattered all around.
But then, a shout was heard; a new foe hove into our view, two Centaurs, brave and fierce, shouted of their master's wrath.
They dared us all to follow.
Well, by Jove, what could we do, but follow them and hunt them down upon the forest path?
'Twas then that Courtain drew his bow, he knew well what to do.
His shots, some true, some hitting wayward trees, did spur him on.
Alas! a loud report was heard - his bow had split in two; he was given a replacement, for our hunting was not done.
We now had some experience, and soon we hit our mark.
They yelled, but soon went down as accuracy grew.
And then a fop in Cavalier attire did call us, "Hark, you've rescued us, and here's the trophy-horn to prove it too!"
We all marched back, and tidied up for feasting and a fire. more people joined us for the dinner and the revelry galore.
Six lovely fairies served us as the crackling logs burned higher, and cloved lemons did the rounds - they numbered more than four!
I must relate a curious sight, for one strange fairy there, was not as small as dainty as the rest that hovered round.
He was tall, he uttered "Flutter. Flap."
He had disheveled hair, and oft he threw a log onto the fire that scorched the ground.
The Lord of all the Forest, with his sniv'ling hunchbacks two, came near and told us he would kill our champion on the green.
But when he had departed, then the fop returned anew, and told us it was not a quest (though some were rather keen.)
Then Killian struck up a tune, he sung just like a laird, with songs both sad and bawdy we did liven up the night.
The fare was past comparison, the wine was never spared, and merriment and smiles shone in the firelight.
Good things will come unto an end, and so too did that feast, though several people tried to keep it going, but in vain.
And finally, until the sun drew night from out the east, the dorm reverberated to the snores of Alaric and Courtain.
That morning, sev'ral people were not quite the best of health, I must include myself with those that did not feel quite well), but with hot and tasty breakfast, and with total lack of stealth, those healthier than us did make us not feel like a pell.
'Twas not a day for fighting, nor for harsh aerobic sport; 'twas just a day for lounging, as a Florianite only can.
We drew the bow at boars that raced 'til they could not be caught, and listened to sweet tunes and watched as down the river ran.
The day was sweet, the day was pure, the day was long and bright, and food came out in plenty o'er that pleasant holiday.
To sit amongst the greenery was a manifest delight, and every one of us was very sad to go away.
Thanks to Blaine, Stefano, and everyone else who made it possible.
Dominic of Oxford
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Curriculum Studies Plan B Projects - 2007 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:48:51 GMT 2014-07-29T13:48:51Z A Reflective Look at an Inclusive Classroom through a Formal Self-study This self-study involves a teacher researcher who systematically studies her teaching as she implemented a literature unit designed for an inclusive third grade classroom. The research methodology involved videotaping the teacher, and reflection and analysis of the videotapes. Curriculum Studies Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT 2007-05-01T00:00:00Z Ratke, Anne Marie
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Getting started on a Unix-to-Linux migration, part 1
Here are some tips that can make a Unix-to-Linux migration less complex and more fun.
Unix to Linux migration: Now that you have your Linux server up and running, what's next? We can turn it into a Web server, an e-mail server, or even more fun, let's port your Unix-based applications to that new box. That's easy for me to say, but it's not going to be a snap for you. This is certainly not an overnight project, nor a project that should be taken lightly. Here are some tips that can make a Unix-to-Linux migration less complex and more fun.
Though Linux certainly is Unix-like, it is not Unix. Even if it were, there still would be a lot to do to port your application over successfully. For instance, you may have an application that runs on Sun Solaris, but perhaps it has not yet been ported over successfully to IBM's AIX. It would be shortsighted and foolish of you to undertake such a task on your own without support either from your hardware vendor or applications group. Similarly, porting your functioning Unix based application to a Linux environment is going to take some work and proper planning. Planning and planning well is the key to success. That's the first tip.
Let's look at a migration project to see what can happen along the way. I'll keep things vendor- and product-neutral. In this way, you can see that the basic steps will work regardless of the specific platform you are running. For example, you have an application X, which is running on a Y database. It is running on a server made by Z running W Unix.
First off, behind the scenes without your knowledge, the CIO has already been tasked to cut costs in all areas of IT. After doing a detailed cost analysis, she has determined that using Linux would cut support costs of your application 200%. You've been tasked to make it all work.
Where do you start? The most important piece is the assessment. You must write down exactly what you want to accomplish and what you have to work with. Start with what you've got, and break it down by hardware, software, database, data and network. Get all the version numbers down carefully, because you will find that some versions might run better than others on Linux, and some might not be supported at all.
Do some research and find out if your application has already been ported to Linux (and if it has, what variant, and on what kernel). You don't want to rewrite the same script if it already has been written. If it has, then you're in good shape. If your application is home-grown running on a Y database, then your first step must be to contact Y. Ask if Y has been ported to Linux. If not, you may be out of luck. If it has, you can move on.
Your next step: Find out what is involved in moving the database over to Linux, and get your DBAs start learning about how to support this database on that platform.
From here, you'll move on to determining the right Linux server for your environment. As you know, there are many Linux variants out there. What is right for you? As usual, it depends. Are you the type that likes a lot of handholding, or do you tend to Google around for all your answers? Do you like industry-standard stuff, or are you more the rebellious open source type that frequents NYLUG meetings on 59th Street in Manhattan? You might be the latter, but if you have a corporate CIO breathing down your neck, you must choose wisely to keep your job.
Breaking my code of neutrality, I'd go with either SuSE or Red Hat; you can't go wrong with either one.
After you've picked your distribution, bring it in as quickly as you can, and start playing. Make sure you spec out your Intel or AMD PC wisely. If your RISC box is a four-way IBM p690 with 4GB of RAM, don't bring in a single processor box with 512 MG of RAM and expect the application to run nicely. I also would advise you not to get a pre-installed version of Linux on your hardware, but to install it yourself. That's the only way you'll learn.
Stay tuned. After Linux is up and running, we can move on to the next steps, which I'll cover in the next Migration & Integration tips.
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I'm using nmap and I am having trouble finding which ports are dangerous and pose the greatest security risks.
Which ports are potential security risks for nmap?
I was thinking samba, telnet, vnc and ftp will pose security risks but I'm unsure.
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It doesn't really work like that.
Ports don't pose a security risk in themselves; it's the application listening on a port that has the risk attached.
And, how vulnerable any given application might be depends on many factors - is the application well patched? Is it well configured? So you can't just say "VNC is a risk", what VNC server is it? What version? How is it configured?
And, of course, security is always more complex. For example, I bet you picked telnet because everyone always says "telnet's insecure, use SSH instead", right? Which is true, but that's because the protocol telnet uses isn't secure against eavesdroppers, it's nothing to do with there being exploits for telnetd (i.e. the application that typically listens for telnet connections).
What you're meant to use nmap for in this context is to check that only the applications that need to have a port open actually do have a port open.
If a host doesn't need sshd, but nmap finds one listening, then you know to go onto the host and fix that. Which is nothing to do with how secure sshd or ssh is.
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All open ports providing services are a potential security risk. The nature of the security risk depends on nature of the service that a program provides. Services providing Samba, VNC, FTP, SSH, HTTP, ... protocols all pose a risk to your security, each in its own (but not unique) way.
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Cutting Edge > Early Career > Previous Workshops > Workshop 2011 > Program > Teaching Activities > Exploring Snow
Exploring Snow
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This activity is intended to get students engaged and thinking about the role that snow plays in our climate system. It is a hands-on inquiry-based activity that students with no background knowledge can do. The students dig shallow snow pits on campus make observations of texture and color, sketch any layered or other patterned structure, measure the density, and view and sketch crystals in a microscope.
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This activity is intended for the first day of a semester long course called Ice in the Climate System. This is a 3rd year undergraduate course required for geophysics students, but the activity would work for any upper level undergraduate science major (or lower level undergraduate with slight modifications).
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered
As an introductory activity, they do not need any skills or concepts before the activity, just an initial curiosity.
How the activity is situated in the course
It is intended for the first day of the lab class (3 hours maximum), but could be used at the beginning of a short unit on snow or climate also.
Content/concepts goals for this activity
snow crystal growth in atmosphere, Snow pack structure, snow metamorphism (equilibrium and temperature gradient), snow albedo and the snow albedo feedback, techniques for making field observations
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity
recognizing the difference between observations and inference, framing a scientific question, formulating a hypothesis, designing a method for measuring density.
Other skills goals for this activity
This activity is completed in teams; therefore working in groups is a skill goal. At the end of the activity, each team will spend 5 minutes discussing their results for the class; therefore, synthesizing results toward making an oral presentation is a key skill.
Description of the activity/assignment
The students will come into this activity with no or very little knowledge of snow. They will divide into groups, each group receiving the first list of questions (on Rite-in-Rain paper). The questions help guide them through their inquiry and are divided into groups: A) initial observations, B) measurement and detailed observations, and C) inferences and hypotheses. They dig a snow pit to the ground (typically < 2ft).
Part A, they study the layered structure, the texture of different layers, the color (presence of sediment?), initially using basic sketching. Then they decide what aspects are worth measuring in further detail (such as thickness of layers, hardness of layer, density of layers, size of crystals) and come up with a plan.
Part B, they are allowed to begin making their measurements and they are given guiding questions, such as what are the errors in these measurements? How many measurements is sufficient to describe the characteristic you are describing?
Part C is primarily brainstorming ideas and hypotheses among their group, and they can return inside if they choose. They are asked consider the role that snow plays on the landscape. How does the snow affect the ground underneath it? Would that role be different at the coldest part of winter than during the spring melt? Does snow affect the air above it? How might snow play a role in the large climate system?
Oral Synthesis: after completing Part C, each group is given a different overarching question, they must use what they have learned and their ideas to give a 4-5 minute oral synthesis to the class.
This activity is meant to give them new insights into a common geologic material and to recognize the linkages between the atmosphere above the ground and the geology and ecosystem below.
Determining whether students have met the goals
The activity involves the students answering 3 series of questions, some of which have more explicit answers than others, which are more open ended. The open ended question are explicit in that they identify the number/type of ideas they should right down. The final task is to synthesize what they learned into a 4-5 minute oral synthesis (given guidelines for the synthesis).
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I would like to know if there is a way to deploy (or migrate) an XsltListViewWebPart with a content deployment job ?
To explain further, I have two environments, "Authoring" and "Production", and I create the list view webparts using the well-know export process (SPD, "export", upload in WP gallery). These webparts are used in the sub-sites to display lists and libraries located at the root site. The thing is that if I don't specify the , I have the "list does not exist" error message, but then, it does not work in the destination site. On the other end, the Destination site has to be created beforehand in order to create the content deployment path. Therefore, the site GUID will be different and if I want my webparts to work on the destination site, I have to adapt the tag before running the deployment job. And I would like to avoid the creation of webparts specific to the "Production" in the "Authoring" one.
Additionally, I played long time with the different elements of the .webpart file, , and , but none of the combination worked.
So, is there a way to solve this problem, creating a XsltListViewWebPart on an environment and using the content deployment jobs for the migration to another environment ?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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I suggest you follow the instructions in the post below, which describes the process for deploying the data view webpart in 2007 (same problem, slightly different control).
You can also see within the members of the XsltListViewWebPart that it has the same ListName property described in post (distinct from the GUID)
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Hello Neil, Unfortunately, it seems that the XLVWP is enough different from the DVWP which does not make the first one to work anyway. According to what I found today here : intheknow.it/… It sounds not possible to make it work correctly and I will probably have to go with the DVWP. Thanks again. Regards Yves – Yves Peneveyre Jan 18 '11 at 16:42
I think you really need to look again at the MSDN piece. The XsltListViewWebPart inherits from the DVWP and so offers the same basic functionality. Try following the instructions here: blogs.msdn.com/b/joshuag/archive/2008/11/10/… Try it for a basic DVWP and then carry across to an XLWVP. Would be interesting to find out if that works for you. – Neil Richards Jan 19 '11 at 0:49
Indeed, the last link led me to a solution, even if I had to play a lot until I had something.... Thanks Yves – Yves Peneveyre Jan 21 '11 at 14:54
Good stuff. Do you mind posting the code / additional sample for the benefit of others? – Neil Richards Jan 21 '11 at 17:23
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I'd dry-swallowed the last instant coffee days ago, but the thought “Oversleep and he'll eat your brain” gutkicks you awake. No matter how tired you are. Two or three nights with only a couple of hours sleep puts sand in your brain and smothers your joy in life. Six nights like that, and your brain glues shut and your energy dwindles into bovine endurance just this side of death.
I spasmed awake at the first flicker of dawn. When I saw that enough tide remained to leave a ribbon of saltwater between Wednesday and myself, I released my breath and massaged crud from my eyes. Nothing had changed. A hundred-foot rock in the middle of the South Pacific. The shattered plane I slept in. And the dead man, Wednesday.
Wednesday stood so still the island danced in comparison. Sunlight glinted off the golden hoop dangling from the desiccated stub of his left ear. His right leg ended in twin spears of worm-eaten brown bone. Salty air coursed through the crack in his skull and out his broken teeth, whistling loudly enough to penetrate the crash of the ocean's fierce churn around us, and the corrugated tear across his gut displayed mummified bowels and stumps of rib. I couldn't imagine how long he'd been on this rock – years? Centuries? How long did it take to turn a human being into jerky, and how long could human jerky last? Six bullets had lodged harmlessly somewhere inside him, and the flare gun hadn't singed his petrified invulnerability.
Only paces behind Wednesday, the island's west end rose in a flattened dome of broken rock. Hundreds of seagulls wheeled overhead, and the rising sun flickered on the waves, but nothing else moved. The sky mirrored the ocean, diffusing the horizon. Traditionally a castaway gets a single coconut tree, but I'd been shorted even that. Robinson Crusoe even got a native to help him live like a civilized man. I'd called mine Man Wednesday, as he was obviously a couple days short of a Man Friday. It had seemed funny, the first day. Everything had seemed funny that first impossible day, but the endless days bludgeoned surrealism into blunt reality.
If I could survive long enough to be rescued, it would be on seagulls and plane wreckage alone.
I forced myself to relax, leaning against a spire of rock and cradling the strut I'd finally pried out of the wreckage. The strut had felt solid and invincible when I'd been pounding and prying and scraping at the bolts holding it to the wing over the past few days. Now it felt too frail to support the hope I had for it. I'd had a much better shaft the first day, solid steel an inch thick and two feet long. I'd tried to crack Wednesday's skull the rest of the way open. He'd raised an arm to block it, and the impact of the bar against his exposed bone was like hitting a light post. The shock had stunned my grip open and I let the shaft bounce deep into the churning water. That was when I realized that if Wednesday came close enough to grab me, I was dead.
The cuts and tears lining my palms and fingers weren't painful compared to how the rest of me felt.
The receding tide had almost erased the moat when a seagull landed on Wednesday's shoulder and tentatively pecked at a tangle of human jerky. Wednesday resisted as much as any other piece of garbage, so the bird sank his beak into a tricep and flapped to tear it free. Rattlesnake-quick, faster than I could follow, a skeletal hand lashed up and seized a wing. The bird screeched and thrashed, but in moments Wednesday had gnawed open its skull and scraped out the runny gray insides with his ragged tongue. I had thought brain-eating zombies were just in the movies, but once again he dropped the hollowheaded carcass at his feet.
When Wednesday finished eating, the tide had fallen enough that he could totter towards me without getting wet, the bones in his right leg skewing around each other with every step. I staggered a wide circle around him, skirting the north edge of the island, then slowed so he could trail only a few yards behind.
The island's west end jaggedly plateaued ten feet or so above the low-tide line, cracked by exposure into a three-dimensional jigsaw with countless handholds and ledges. Kids would love climbing that slope, but six nights of scattered sleep weakened my grip and scratched my vision. Each step was an act of will. The strut clenched in my armpit made me a little more clumsy, but I'd circled this rock every fifteen minutes, eighteen hours a day, for days now, and my hands and feet knew the best route without troubling my exhausted brain. I clambered a few yards across the rock until I hit the spot where two small stone shelves cradled my heels a foot above the crashing water and I could rest my buttocks on the slope.
Wednesday's sunken eyes studied me, then he stumbled into pursuit just as he had every other time. Stump leg flapping uselessly, he dragged himself across the slope with his hands and used the remaining leg as a brace. His fingernails, brown as gnawed tombstones, did not break no matter how fiercely he clawed the stone. He needed almost two minutes to haul himself to within five feet of me. The first day I'd learned that if I got more than twenty feet ahead he circled around the other way, which made his stumpy leg almost useful. If I let him come too close, he'd use those cadaverous teeth on my head.
He never stopped following. Never. No matter how I begged, or screamed, or prayed. Without the twice-daily high tide to put six feet of uncrossable water between us for a couple precious hours of sleep twice a day, I would have been dead a week ago. I'd tried bashing in his head with a steel bar. I'd tried a lasso, and a tripline. I'd rigged the plane's battery and salvaged wire into an electrical trap that would have knocked me out. He couldn't be crushed, he couldn't be tied up, and electric shock hadn't even raised the few ghastly strands of hair left on his head. I was down to sticks and stones – and on this rock, I had to provide my own stick.
Halfway around the island, instead of resting, I threw the strut on top of the rock and pulled myself up after it. Usually I'd follow the easier route near the water, but this turgid chase would end today. It had to end today. I didn't have the strength to try anything else.
Fractures and crevices covered the summit, and I quickly wedged my strut into the crack I'd selected days ago. With Wednesday out of sight I only wanted to rest, but I leaned into the lever instead. Cadaverous hands clenched the edge as I felt the crevice groan, and a rock about my size might have shifted underfoot. I caught two deep desperate breaths before Wednesday's head appeared. Once he started hauling himself up, I dropped down the other side.
I veered from the loop to snatch the decapitated seagull. If I didn't have a zombie after me I could catch my own seagulls, but until then I'd live on Wednesday's leavings. For the last three days, I'd used these most of these precious minutes to pound and scrape at the bolts holding the strut in place; a few moments to simply breathe felt almost like a vacation. My hands plucked as I waited, spiny feathers inflaming my savaged hands.
When Wednesday shambled into view around the rock I took a deep breath, waiting for him to come close enough that I could trot around him and make him scuttle all the way back to the rock, treasuring every minute I could to try to rest.
First trip of the day, finished. Dozens more to go.
On the sixth circuit I finished plucking and used my pocketknife's last remaining blade to scrape out the bowels, then spread the carcass on the wreck's south wing for what cooking the sun provided. My mouth tightened at the thought of an evening spent perched on the wrecked plane devouring that juicy pink flesh, only faintly grilled by the sun-heated wing, watching Wednesday shuffle back and forth, frustrated by six feet of thigh-deep salt water. Seagull and a couple pints of collected rain water would hold me together for another day.
Then I went back to heaving at the rock. My head spun and my guts burned, but I pushed for a panicked few moments every time we circled the rock. My twelfth session, the rock creaked and left a finger-wide gap behind it. I left the remaining skin from my right knee behind in payment, stumbling and swearing until the sting stopped.
A brief rain shower interrupted me on my twenty-second trip around the rock. Wednesday kept after me, but with the slope too slippery to ascend I contented myself with following the easier path around the shoreline, soaking up water in my shirt and licking it from crevices in the rock. I lost track of how many times we went around before the rain stopped, the sun dried the rocks, and I could climb back up again.
During my twenty-ninth stint at the prybar, the rock shifted far enough that I could thrust a fist into the gap. Finally, on the thirty-first circuit, the boulder groaned and lurched free, shifting a vital few degrees towards the edge. I held my breath, afraid a scream of hope and frustration and would drive the rock over the edge and into the water. When the rock balanced and held still, my laugh sounded more like a harsh croak. For once, I felt like telling Wednesday to hurry up.
The next pass around I took the lower, easier path rather than climbing to the summit. That route had the best resting spot, a smooth patch some three feet wide with a gentle pitch towards the ocean. My boulder now loomed over it. I jammed my abused hands flat against my legs to force my fingers straight, grimacing, waiting.
Wednesday dragged along my trail, the stump of his right leg flailing uselessly over the water. His hip scraped with each lurch. Five feet away, the grind of dead flesh against rock drowned out the ocean's constant splash, and I smothered an urge to bolt. I'd never let Wednesday come this close before, but I needed his feet on the very spot I stood. A bright slice of blue ocean shone through his cracked skull and out his mouth.
One bony hand gripped an outcropping a foot from my head and I leaped, seizing a ledge beside the loosened boulder and blowing out air as I dragged myself up. I imagined those withered claws snatching my legs, and I kicked frantically as I clawed and jackknifed my weight, not even slowing as my fingernails ripped from their beds. Wednesday's hands scuttled below as I knelt beside my teetering rock, only a few feet above him. In less than a minute he'd find a way up, or decide to go around. I wedged the strut tightly against the rock and heaved.
The boulder groaned against its parent rock, immobile. I suddenly thought that I'd been wrong, that this chunk of rock was actually the tip of a spire rooted deep below, it wasn't actually detached and I was trying to split raw stone with my puny lever. I pulled even harder. Wednesday shuffled back and forth underneath, almost ready to circle around to an easier slope.
The boulder shifted a foot, and the strut screeched into a curve. I threw my feet against the freshly-exposed stone, braced my back against another rock, and straightened my legs. The boulder lurched away from the plateau and balanced, wobbling, as if considering falling back towards me. With a wordless snarl I shoved harder. I tasted thick blood, pain fluorescing in my back and panic in my brain, then gravity snatched the boulder and yanked it down. The thunderous crash wasn't as harsh as its echo through the rock.
I lay motionless, trying to make my lungs stop heaving and my empty bowels unclench. Even the thought that I'd missed, that Wednesday was climbing after me, didn't give me strength to move for another dozen breaths. I finally dragged my legs under me and shuffled painfully to peer down.
The boulder had nailed Wednesday, pinning his legs and lower torso. He'd stopped sliding short of the tide line, but the way his arms flailed at the boulder proved he couldn't get enough leverage to move. My head drooped over the outcropping, eyes glazing, then I rolled onto my back and painfully sucked air for a few minutes before allowing myself a bloody-toothed smile. I idly wondered if I'd mention Wednesday to whomever found me.
I awoke in that spot at sunrise with fresh seagull shit on my chest, a new layer of sunburn, and my brain where I'd left it. Every joint felt full of ground glass, and my nose and mouth burned. I'd never been happier. Below me, Wednesday still flailed at the boulder, possibly just a little less quickly. Seagulls had soiled my dinner, so I chucked the carcass into the ocean and promised myself fresh poultry that evening.
Weakness had replaced hunger, so I worked slowly and cautiously. Favoring my sprained back and endless contusions I assembled scraps of twisted metal and fabric into a dark SOS against the shiny fuselage. By noon, a plastic bag became a funnel to guide more rainwater down the wings into a makeshift bucket, and I found nine salt-damp gumdrops between the seat cushions. My white shirt became a distress flag. A soapless saltwater bath in a still tidal pool deliciously scoured days of sweat and filth from my skin. When the rain came I lay on my back and laughed as fresh water burned my sunburn and gnawed lips.
Seagulls whirled overhead. I hurled a fist-sized rock at one.
I missed.
Seagulls were harder to catch than I had thought. They dodged thrown rocks, not that I had many to throw. A sharp twist of fuselage became a spear, but they fluttered away before I came close enough to stab. If I stood still they approached, but never close enough to seize. The screaming rush with outstretched hands didn't work at all.
My checks on Wednesday assumed new intensity. If he grew resigned and stopped thrashing, gulls would approach him. Surely I could spear a decapitated seagull from beyond his reach! His movements slowed, but grew no less constant. Surrounded by blue water mirroring the sky, with no horizon between the two, I felt suspended in an endless waste. Weak swallows of precious rainwater couldn't drown the tastes of rancid gumdrop or seat padding. I began wondering if I could slice chunks off Wednesday, or was his flesh too pickled by age and salt to chew? Forget cannibalism; was “dead man walking” contagious?
I tried fishing, standing in the ocean two feet from the shore but up to my waist, sheltered from the ocean current by the rock itself. My line was thread from the seat, the hook a twist of wire. Fish don't bite on seat cushion. I managed to seize a few of the tiny minnows in the tidal pool, but the starfish I chewed up had me doubled around my gut in pain for an afternoon.
Days passed. Maybe a week. My body felt as if it belonged to someone else and I just sat behind the eyes occasionally pulling levers. Sweet, luscious gull meat filled my dreams. I heaved chunks of broken engine at the sky and fashioned baitless traps from wreckage. Succulent seagull taunted me from just out of reach. Soon, I would be just as sun-dried as Wednesday. Unable to escape or eat, Wednesday would eventually lie still in real death.
Too little sleep is better than the long sleep. I had spent an agonizing day trapping Wednesday, but pushing that rock off him and into the ocean only took three minutes.
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V Anand: From chess prodigy to World Champ
May 12, 2010 12:27 IST
After playing exhaustive chess for over three decades, Viswanathan Anand has assured himself a place in the league of all time greats as he retained the World Championship crown with consummate ease against Veselin Topalov in his own den in Sofia, Bulgaria on Tuesday.
V AnandWith this win, Anand has accomplished something which no other chess great, not even Garry Kasparov has done. He has asserted his supremacy in world chess by winning the title in every possible format of the tournament. Anand has won the world chess title three times in a row and against various opponents, including two different ones in matchplay format.
He has won in the knock-out, round-robin and two matchplay formats to show his critics that he can stand the test of time.
Anand now has to his credit, a rare combination of three consecutive World Champion titles and four overall, including the knockout format that he won in 2000.
Anand started playing chess at the age of six and won his first national title in the sub-junior tournament with a record hundred per cent score of 9/9 points in 1983-84. Hereafter, there was no looking back for the Chennai chess king.
He was tied second place and awarded the bronze medal at the World sub-junior Championship in 1984 and later became the Asian Junior (under-19) Champion in 1983-84.
His success rate scaled heights when he was crowned International Master at 15, the youngest Asian to achieve this distinction. Then in 1986 he went on to become the youngest national champion at the age of 16, and year later he became the first Asian to win the World Junior Championship in Baguio City in Philippines.
The World was introduced to India's first Grandmaster in 1987. Anand earned the title only making two GM norms in quick time in India itself.
He build his reputation as the 'Tiger from Madras' over time and strengthened it by winning the Reggio Emilia chess tournament in Italy in 1991. The Reggio Emilia was one of the biggest tournaments of that time and he made the world sit up and take notice by winning the tournament ahead of Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov.
His spectacular profile kept growing as he became the first Asian to play the World Championship and attained the World No 2 position in the PCA Rankings list in 1995.
Anand won his first Linares title, the strongest tournament ever in the history of chess, in 1998 and in the same year he climbed up to the World number two in rankings. He also has the unbeaten record of claiming the prestigious Corus chess tournament five times.
He reached the pinnacle of his career when he became the 15th World Champion in 2000 after defeating Alexey Shirov in Teheran and ending Russian dominance over the game.
Anand has also won the first two editions of the FIDE World Cup in 2000 and 2002.
Famous for his lightening fast moves, Anand also established himself as the master of rapid chess with great victories at the Melody Amber tournament.
His other famous victories have come at Dortmund, Mainz, Wijk Aan Zee, Leon and Corsica Masters. At Mainz his record is a perfect 10 after he won the 10th title there in August in the main event of the chess Classics.
Anand also has the distinction of playing six computers simultaneously and winning (4-2) at an exhibition match at the Aegon Man Vs Computers chess event.
Anand, who returned to play in the Chess Olympiad after a gap of 12 years in 2004, captained an all-Grandmaster Indian team and emerged as the top scorer in the event. The team registered it's best-ever finish at the tournament after finishing a credible sixth.
Anand has also been honoured with the Chess Oscars three times on the trot. He is the only non-Russian after late American chess ace Bobby Fischer to win the award.
He has also been bestowed with the inaugural Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour, in 1991, besides the Arjuna Award, the Padmashri (the youngest recipient of the title), the Padma Bhushan, the Soviet Land Nehru award, the BPL Achievers of the World and Sportsworld's 'Sportsman of the year 1995' Award.
Anand, who shifted to Spain for better opportunities, also received the 'Jameo de Oro' the country's highest civilian award given to a foreigner.
Anand has also penned a book titled 'My best Games of Chess' in 1998. The tome won the British Chess Federation's (BCF) Book of the Year award.
And, having revolutionised chess in India, the 40-year-old Anand, who holds a degree in commerce, promotes chess through NIIT.
Some of Anand's major achievements:
World Championships (2000, 2007, 2008 and 2010)
Corus Super GM Turnament at Wijk Aan Zee (1989, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006)
Dortmund (1996, 2000, 2004)
Corsica Masters (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
Chess Classic of Mainz (2000, 2001 2002 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
World Cup (2000, 2002)
Melody Amber tournament (1994, 1997, 2003, 2007)
Reggio Emilia (1991)
Linares (1998, 2007)
The credit Suisse Masters (1997)
Dos Heramnas (1997).
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SQL Agent Error Handling with PowerShell
When you run a PowerShell script in a SQL Server Agent task (or JobStep, as the SMO object is called) I've figured out that when the step fails, Agent records the PowerShell error (as in what line in the script failed), but I've been sending my detailed error messages to the console via Write-Output. This caused a lot of frustration in trying to figure out what the problem really was.
Because I like to have a standard way of building scripts (call me lazy, my wife certainly does) I didn't want to figure out where on the filesystem I could put a home-grown log file. However, every Windows system has an Application Event Log that we can use! Also, because PowerShell sits on top of .NET, we can easily take advantage of the tools available in the framework.
Now, when the errors occur, I've instantiated a Server object like this (where $inst contains the instance name):
# Connect to the specified instance
And I've already documented looping through the error messages here. So, now it's just a matter of adjusting the code to use the WriteEntry method of the Diagnostics.EventLog object to write to event log, like this.
# Handle any errors that occur
Trap {
# Handle the error
$err = $_.Exception
$errmsg = $err.Message
while( $err.InnerException ) {
$err = $err.InnerException
$errmsg = $errmsg + "|" + $err.Message
[Diagnostics.EventLog]::WriteEntry($s.Name ,"Job Error: $errmsg","Error")
# End the script.
Once this is done, the message is written to the Application log. It'll have a strange message like this at the start:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event:
This is because your application isn't registered with Windows, which is ok. After that block you'll see your actual error message. For example:
Check tables failed for Database 'TicketsalesDB'. |An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch.|Object ID 354100302, index ID 0, partition ID 72057594039107584, alloc unit ID 72057594043367424 (type In-row data): Page (1:65) could not be processed. See other errors for details. Table error: Object ID 354100302, index ID 0, partition ID 72057594039107584, alloc unit ID 72057594043367424 (type In-row data), page (1:65). Test (IS_OFF (BUF_IOERR, pBUF->bstat)) failed. Values are 12716041 and -4. CHECKDB found 0 allocation errors and 2 consistency errors in table 'CorruptTable' (object ID 354100302). CHECKDB found 0 allocation errors and 2 consistency errors in database 'TicketsalesDB'. repair_allow_data_loss is the minimum repair level for the errors found by DBCC CHECKDB (TicketsalesDB)..
This was from a CheckDB failure (which I expected because I use a corrupt database to test Database Mirroring).
Now you can use this method to get the details of errors that occur from within PowerShell scripts in your Agent Jobs.
Published Monday, November 15, 2010 2:15 PM by AllenMWhite
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Chad Miller said:
You can also use a try/catch block. Here's a snipset of code from SQLPSX:
try { <do somthing> }
catch {
$ex = $_.Exception
$message = $ex.message
$ex = $ex.InnerException
while ($ex.InnerException)
$message += "`n$ex.InnerException.message"
$ex = $ex.InnerException
Write-Error $message
November 15, 2010 2:04 PM
AllenMWhite said:
Thanks, Chad, but for now I'm writing my scripts using PS1.0 methods for sites that haven't installed 2.0. I looked at Write-Error and found it depended on 2.0, so shelved it until after Denali is released.
November 15, 2010 2:13 PM
Nick Weber said:
Thanks Allen for posting this update to your TRAP. Since I'm running 2.0 I might start playing more with Chad example.
November 19, 2010 12:38 AM
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AccountMate and Edge Technologies have joined to integrate Visual AccountMate (VAM), AccountMate’s financial information package, with Account Wizard, Edge Technologies’ product line that provides users with a complete Web site. The integration offers AccountMate’s customers a powerful e-business solution. Account Wizard will automatically update a user’s Web site with information the user enters into the VAM software. Account Wizard also sends out notifications of new shipments, monthly statements, and past due notices each time the Web site is updated. “For companies conducting business on-line, accounting system integration with an e-business solution is no longer an option, but instead is crucial for their success,” said Geri Jameson, Edge Technologies’ vice president of sales and marketing.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Today I have a serious day of copywriting ahead of me, which leaves no time for my usual routine of skipping around my favorite blogs, checking my email six times, rooting through Freecycle for today's finds, and feeling morose about the fact that I have nothing to blog about, which usually leads to me hugging myself and chanting affirmations about how creativity is a fragile spark and should not be thrown too soon to the harsh winds of scrutiny.
Today I will embrace the I-have-nothing-to-blog-about moroseness for what it truly is: an excuse to get some work done.
And in case you're not quite sold on how boring I am right now, I'll tell you the single most exciting thing happening in my life today. I'm eating dinner at McDonalds. There. Now everyone, please check your pity at the door and thanks for not laughing behind my back.
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C#: Static readonly vs const
Which is preferable in this instance (no pun intended): "const" or "static readonly"?
I changed some const declarations to static readonly after either reading that was better or being adivsed somewhere (quite possibly here on StackOverflow).
Now ReSharper wants to change:
private static readonly int NUMBER_OF_QUARTER_HOURS = 96;
private const int NUMBER_OF_QUARTER_HOURS = 96;
Should I submit or "draw iron"?
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marked as duplicate by Tim Schmelter, Dour High Arch, Austin Salonen, Reed Copsey, Danny Varod Jun 7 '12 at 21:57
This question is asked every second day on SO. – Tim Schmelter Jun 7 '12 at 21:56
Have you noticed that the naming conventions for .NET are NumberOfQuarterHours for static and const fields? (PascalCase and not ALL_CAPS.) – Danny Varod Jun 7 '12 at 21:56
@Danny - Yes, I have seen that before, but I don't like it, as it's then not clear (to me, anyway) that it's a const. – B. Clay Shannon Jun 7 '12 at 22:01
How does the consumer of a constant care whether it is constant or not? – Tergiver Jun 7 '12 at 22:03
@ClayShannon Does it really matter if it is a const!? What matters is that the values is correct (unless you are trying to pass it as a parameter to an attribute). Anyway, the IDE gives great indications in the auto complete dialog and on mouse over. Uniform standards gives a great advantage and .NET has a pretty good standard. – Danny Varod Jun 7 '12 at 22:04
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const if you know the value before compile time.
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That is not necessarily true; the link @Tim posted shows an example where a compile-time value should be static readonly. – Dour High Arch Jun 7 '12 at 21:59
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I'm writing a code for a deck of cards which shuffles the deck of cards. I tested the code but I don't really know if it's actually doing what it's supposed to be doing correctly? What do you think?
This is the code for the shuffle method:
public void shuffle()
for( int x = myDeck.size(); x > 0 ; x--)
Random rn = new Random();
int index1 = rn.nextInt(52);
Card c = myDeck.remove(index1);
My output seems shuffled in its numbers but not by the name of the card like spades hearts etc,
For example this is my output when I test the code :
Deuce of spades
Seven of spades
Eight of spades
Ace of spades
Three of hearts
Five of hearts
Six of hearts
Seven of hearts
Nine of hearts
Ten of hearts
Queen of hearts
King of hearts
Ace of hearts
Seven of diamonds
Eight of diamonds
Jack of diamonds
King of diamonds
Three of clubs
Seven of clubs
Nine of clubs
Jack of clubs
Queen of clubs
King of clubs
Ace of clubs
Queen of spades
Deuce of clubs
Three of spades
Nine of diamonds
Four of spades
Four of clubs
Deuce of hearts
Jack of spades
Ten of clubs
Six of diamonds
Jack of hearts
Six of clubs
Four of diamonds
Five of diamonds
Ace of diamonds
Four of hearts
Nine of spades
Ten of spades
Five of spades
Three of diamonds
Six of spades
Five of clubs
Deuce of diamonds
Eight of hearts
King of spades
Ten of diamonds
Eight of clubs
Queen of diamonds
Like there's always repeated names. is it wrong since the point of shuffling is to mix it up?
This is the actual question: When playing cards, it is, of course, important to shuffle the deck, that is, to arrange things so that the cards will be dealt in a random order. There are several ways to achieve this. One strategy involves repeatedly picking a card at random out of the deck and moving it to the end. The following code uses the Random class (which you met on page 8 of the “ArrayLists” section of the online course) to perform one such “pick and move to the end” operation:
Random rn = new Random();
int index1 = rn.nextInt( 52 );
Card c = myDeck.remove( index1 );
myDeck.add( c );
To shuffle the deck effectively, this operation should be repeated many times (say, 500 times). Create a new instance method, shuffle, for the Deck class that uses a single Random object and a for loop to shuffle myDeck. After suitably modifying the main method, use it to test your new code.
So my main question is: am I doing this wrong?
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Can you utilize the Collections.shuffle method with the Cards in your Deck? - docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/… – Dan W Aug 6 '12 at 21:04
One violation is "uses a single Random object". You are using one per iteration of your loop. – jeff Aug 6 '12 at 21:04
I've added the homework tag based on the "actual question". – pb2q Aug 6 '12 at 21:04
If you have to use the method specified, the blurb you posted with it says you have to call that method 500 times or so to actually shuffle your deck. Are you actually shuffling that many times, or are you simply calling it once? – Sean Cogan Aug 6 '12 at 21:04
the point of the exercise is to be able to do what .shuffle does using Random I think – Panthy Aug 6 '12 at 21:05
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Just change rn.nextInt(52); to rn.nextInt(x) and you have a proper Fisher-Yates shuffle. No need to do more than 52 iterations.
Why this works:
• In the first iteration (when x is 52) you'll select a random card from the full deck and move it last.
• In the second iteration (when x is 51) you'll select a random card from the remaining cards and move it last.
...and so on.
• After 52 iterations, the first card selected, will have ended up in the first index. Since this card was selected randomly from the full deck, each card is equally probable.
• Same applies for second index, third index, ...
• It follows that each possible permutation of the deck is equally probable.
(In production code, just use Collections.shuffle in these situations.)
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To give a little more, the problem most likely is that you're reinitializing your random number generator each time, which is not how they're usually meant to be used. Declare it once, and the numbers you pull in each iteration will be more random. – Carl Aug 6 '12 at 21:06
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't this change make it a Knuth Shuffle? – Dennis Meng Aug 6 '12 at 21:06
@Carl, that shouldn't matter technically speaking. – aioobe Aug 6 '12 at 21:07
@aioobe It seems the whole point of this assignement is not to use Collections#shuffle! – assylias Aug 6 '12 at 21:07
@Rohan Your loop needs to run more than 52 times: for (int x = 0; x < 500; x++) would work better and is what you are being asked. – assylias Aug 6 '12 at 21:17
The best way to do this would be to use the built in Collections.shuffle() method, which will shuffle your ArrayList for you in a random way (or near enough to random.)
The problem with your logic at the moment is that it's picking out a random card from the deck, and putting it on the end - and doing that 52 times. Now you've got a good change that you'll end up doing this to a number of cards multiple times, and some none at all - hence the problem you're getting with lots of cards that appear to have not been randomised.
You seem to have the logic that you need to do this operation for the number of cards in the deck, which is flawed; you need to perform it many more times.
You've got two main logical solutions, you could firstly do this many more times - say 10 times more than you're doing at present, or you could re-engineer your code to use a built in (or more effective) shuffling algorithm.
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Doing 520 iterations would A) not be very efficient B) not yield a result where all permutations are equally probable. – aioobe Aug 6 '12 at 21:50
@aioobe I agree it's not ideal, hence my mention of Collections.shuffle() - but if the OP has to use that method, then using more iterations will be better than not. – berry120 Aug 6 '12 at 22:58
Not really. 52 iterations is enough. See my answer. – aioobe Aug 7 '12 at 8:35
The question gives a hint:
Whereas your loop only runs 52 times (myDeck.size()). So you remove a card and replace it randomly 52 times only. That does not seem to be enough.
ps: it is more usual to write for(int i = 0; i < max; i++) than for (int i = max; i >0 i--).
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I agree, 52 times is definitely not enough. 1+ – Hovercraft Full Of Eels Aug 6 '12 at 21:06
52 times is enough if you do it right. (Have a look at the Fisher-Yates algorithm for instance.) If you do it wrong, it doesn't really matter how many iterations you do, you'll always have a bias towards certain permutations. – aioobe Aug 6 '12 at 21:44
@aioobe I don't think I agree - It would be enough if the cards were removed from the deck and added to a new deck - but since they are put back into the deck (as proposed in the assignement), the fact that the random function is (roughly) uniform is not enough as one card can be shuffled more than once. – assylias Aug 6 '12 at 21:54
@aioobe Your latest edit adresses that issue. – assylias Aug 6 '12 at 22:08
Simplified my answer though... – aioobe Aug 6 '12 at 22:14
Change the loop to:
ArrayList<Integer> myDeck = new ArrayList<Integer>();
Random rn = new Random();
for( int x = 52; !myDeck.isEmpty() ; x--) {
int index1 = rn.nextInt(myDeck.size());
//Card c = (Card)myDeck.remove(index1); -> this comment here should be removed
System.out.print(index1 + ", ");
This way you won't repeatedly select the same card, plus you'll always pick a number (cell) < myDeck.size() which is constantly changing when you remove cards, AND bail-out when there are no cards in the deck
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why not change the for to a while? – aioobe Aug 6 '12 at 21:48
@aioobe that's definitely an option! – alfasin Aug 6 '12 at 22:25
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Im trying to setup a program that will accept an incoming email and then break down the "sender" and "message" into php variables that i can then manipulate as needed, but im unsure where to start.
I already have the email address piped to the php file in question (via cpanel)
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Start with:
$lines = explode("\n",$message_data);
$headers = array();
$body = '';
$in_body = false;
foreach($lines as $line)
$body .= $line;
elseif($line == '')
$in_body = true;
list($header_name,$header_value) = explode(':',$line,2);
$headers[$header_name] = $header_body;
// now $headers is an array of all headers and you could get the from address via $headers['From']
// $body contains just the body
I just wrote that off the top of my head; haven't tested for syntax or errors. Just a starting point.
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Have a look at the eZ Components ezcMailParser class. You'll need to implement an interface - ezcMailParserSet - to use it.
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I like this solution better than my own – Josh Aug 2 '09 at 22:07
Here is working solution
#!/usr/bin/php -q
// read from stdin
$email = "";
while (!feof($fd)) {
$email .= fread($fd, 1024);
// handle email
// empty vars
$from = "";
$subject = "";
$headers = "";
$message = "";
$splittingheaders = true;
if ($splittingheaders) {
// this is a header
// look out for special headers
$subject = $matches[1];
$from = $matches[1];
} else {
// not a header, but message
// empty line, header section has ended
$splittingheaders = false;
echo $from;
echo $subject;
echo $headers;
echo $message;
Works like a charm.
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can I be so rude as to ask you to check out my question: stackoverflow.com/questions/12619056/…, just need some help filtering out the message from all the details that are sent through. Thanks a million. – Smudger Sep 27 '12 at 10:40
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I've seen some ABCpdf questions on this site but not this one yet. I am working on a project that requires PDF output with some rather specific options. ABCpdf seems to be able to offer this through their API but the documentation is confusing and/or incomplete.
using (var xpsStream = (MemoryStream)xps.Write(doc))
xpsStream.Position = 0;
pdfDoc.Read(xpsStream, new XReadOptions
FileExtension = "xps"
pdfDoc.Rendering.DotsPerInch = 72;
pdfDoc.Rendering.ColorSpace = XRendering.ColorSpaceType.Cmyk;
pdfDoc.Rendering.IccCmyk = "device";
This renders a PDF that does not come across with the set rendering properties. The documentation does state that in order to save the rendering properties they must be saved via the Save() method in the XRendering class. So I would have to do something like:
pdfDoc.Rendering.DotsPerInch = 72;
pdfDoc.Rendering.ColorSpace = XRendering.ColorSpaceType.Cmyk;
pdfDoc.Rendering.IccCmyk = "device";
pdfDoc.Rendering.Save("blah", stream); // they want a "name" argument
The name argument in their documentation is described as "A dummy file name used to determine the type of image required." Later they say "The file name extensions which may be used are .TIF, .TIFF, .JPG, .GIF, .PNG, .BMP, .JP2, .EMF, .PS and .EPS."
Then after the latter version of the code runs, I do get output but it is not PDF, it is either TIF, JPG, or whatever I choose from that list. If I say 'mom.pdf' it throws an error. This is terrible because this is the way they beging the description of the Save() method in XRendering is "Use this method to render the PDF."
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There are two different things here.
1) The Doc.Save method which saves the document in PDF, XPS or other similar document format.
2) The Doc.Rendering.Save which renders the current section of the current page to an image format like TIFF or JPEG.
The Doc.Rendering properties are used to control the rendering. Not saving the Doc.
For control over saving the Doc you want the Doc.SaveOptions.
You cannot mix and match the two.
It seems to me from your code, that what you are trying to do is to import an XPS document and convert it to CMYK.
The way to do this is to change the color space of the document before you save it using Doc.Save.
To change the color space of the PDF you need to use the RecolorOperation class. This will allow you to change the color space of your document to RGB, CMYK, Grayscale, ICC / ICM or indeed whatever you fancy.
If I am wrong then presumably you want CMYK output in TIFF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PSD or similar. To do that you need to use the doc.Rendering options to control the color space and bit depth (either 8 or 16 bits per component) and then call doc.Rendering.Save.
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long time lurker, first time question askerer. Please excuse any typos as I have an inverse relationship between coffee consumed and typing accuracy.
What I am trying to do is create a simple uploader application for a fan facebook page. I have decided to write it in Python as, well, it's the only language that I know, and is supported by FB Dev.
The goals for this application are pretty modest:
1. Users should be able to simply click on a box that will open a dialogue to select a file on their hard drive and upload it to a cloud (I've settled on dropbox, more on this later)
2. The uploader should only accept specific file extensions.
3. Users should be able to browse and be able to download said files.
4. The application should be able to detect flood attempts, and in an ideal world be able to detect which facebook user is uploading them. (It's a sad indictment of my coding "skills" that the second half of this goal is a stretch target).
5. Users should be able to ideally be able to move files cloud to cloud, as well as cloud to disk. This isn't as important.
Okay, so now that I've laid out the aims for my magnum opus, I'll follow up with where I'm at, before humbling approaching the Overflow Gods for guidance.
So first of all I created an account on Heroku, and created the application there. It's basically sitting there at the moment, with no code in it what so ever.
After this I began looking over the web for simple Python file uploaders. After searching around, I found this code on the DropBox dev site. So I went through the signup for a dropbox SDK, and had to install "setup tools' via this http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools I used the ez_setup.py and simply ran that which seemed to get past the "setuptools module" not found error.
I've posted the code below.
# Include the Dropbox SDK libraries
from dropbox import client, rest, session
# Get your app key and secret from the Dropbox developer website
APP_KEY = 'xxxxxetc.'
APP_SECRET = 'xxxxxetc.'
ACCESS_TYPE = 'dropbox'
sess = session.DropboxSession(APP_KEY, APP_SECRET, ACCESS_TYPE)
request_token = sess.obtain_request_token()
# Make the user sign in and authorize this token
url = sess.build_authorize_url(request_token)
print "url:", url
print "Please authorize in the browser. After you're done, press enter."
access_token = sess.obtain_access_token(request_token)
client = client.DropboxClient(sess)
print "linked account:", client.account_info()
f = open('working-draft.txt')
print "uploaded:", response
folder_metadata = client.metadata('/')
print "metadata:", folder_metadata
f, metadata = client.get_file_and_metadata('/magnum-opus.txt',rev='362e2029684fe')
out = open('magnum-opus.txt', 'w')
Hereafter I have arrived at the error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "F:/Python27/FAUploader (Roaring-gorge)/Roaringgorge101", line 2, in <module>
from dropbox import client, rest, session
File "F:\Python27\dropbox\__init__.py", line 3, in <module>
from . import client, rest, session
File "F:\Python27\dropbox\client.py", line 52, in <module>
from .rest import ErrorResponse, RESTClient
File "F:\Python27\dropbox\rest.py", line 8, in <module>
import pkg_resources
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
I'm beginning to get a little bit worried that this may be travelling in the wrong direction & I'm not very good at coding, and even worse at asking for help. So I'm just going to post this now before I spend too long trying to make my question too perfect. I am really into learning coding, and if you guys could help me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated. It just seems everyone, even people with little experience, are capable of completing these kinds of projects much faster than I am.
These are the references I've been using/sites I've been visiting
I was not allowed to post more hyperlinks, as I am too noob, apparently. '-_-
Anyways I digress, any help would be much appreciated.
EDIT/Progress Report
So I managed to update the Python enviroment to get past the error described in the post above. However I've only managed to succeed in getting a new one that confuses me a bit more.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "F:\Python27\FAUploader (Roaring-gorge)\Roaringgorge101", line 22, in <module>
access_token = sess.obtain_access_token(request_token)
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\dropbox\session.py", line 205, in obtain_access_token
response = self.rest_client.POST(url, headers=headers, params=params, raw_response=True)
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\dropbox\rest.py", line 260, in POST
return cls.IMPL.POST(*n, **kw)
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\dropbox\rest.py", line 207, in POST
post_params=params, headers=headers, raw_response=raw_response)
File "build\bdist.win-amd64\egg\dropbox\rest.py", line 183, in request
raise ErrorResponse(r)
ErrorResponse: [401] u'Token is disabled or invalid'
I tried mucking around with DropBox directly seeing if there was anything in the application that might help me with all this, but the code, my browser, and the dropbox app all seem to completely ignore each other.
Once again much help appreciated. I think I might go bang my head against some SQL for a while.
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When one is aware of an inverse relation between coffee consumption and typing ability it behooves one to proof-read one's posts more carefully in proportion to the amount of coffee consumed. – Hans Then Sep 18 '12 at 8:21
you should know that your post is waaaay too long for 99.9% of readers – wroniasty Sep 18 '12 at 8:30
@wroniasty: His post is long, but it'll help him get a good answer. Some questions are very specific and require some context to be answered. It has introduction, explicit requirements and the OP's own considerations and researching efforts. I think this is a great first question on SO. – Morten Jensen Sep 18 '12 at 13:11
still, I was halfway through my second coffee by the time I finished reading it (I'm a slow reader I guess ;). But seriously - it is a good question, just a little longish. – wroniasty Sep 18 '12 at 13:15
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Response to the ErrorResponse: [401] u'Token is disabled or invalid' was getting the same thing in my code
From the Dropbox API: In the case where a token is no longer authorized, the REST API will return an HTTP Error 401 Unauthorized response
I copied the generated link and authorized the app again to get my code to work :)
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Execute the setup tools script as follows
curl http://python-distribute.org/distribute_setup.py | python
This should take care of that error
ImportError: No module named pkg_resources
The rest of the plan sounds like it should work as Heroku's free package wouldn't have the space to hold those files
Just authenticate via Facebook Authentication flows http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/ and you can then log the current user with
With Facebook Python library like facepy
pip install facepy
it works like
from facepy import GraphAPI
graph = GraphAPI('your_access_token_goes_here')
There is logic missing here such as the auth to a web page like Dropbox did but this is the general gist.
So everything looks okay so far, I don't think you are at the stage of Facebook API checks now as this is a Dropbox API problem and Python setuptools issue
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pastebin.com/Nw5HbgS3 – Anaryl Sep 20 '12 at 10:26
Hey oops pasted that without context, sorry, not sure how that happened, waywayrd enter perhaps. So I updated the python environment as you described, also went out and and got virtualenv & pip, but now it's throwing up the error described in the pastebin above. Also should I update the OP to reflect progress or comment down, like a forum ? – Anaryl Sep 20 '12 at 10:28
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I'm learning C# and am trying to get my head around when to use classes and when not to.
If I was writing an app for a bank, I know I would use classes for customers which would include their name, account number, balance, etc. Would I use a static class for the methods that would deposit into their account, withdraw, change their address, etc since I only need to write them once?
Also, what would I use to keep track of every customer object? Having 2,000 Customers:
exampleName = new Customer();
in my code doesn't seem right. I'm not at the point of learning database's yet and am just learning classes.
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@slugster Fair point. – nickhar Oct 13 '12 at 2:39
List<T> and other types of collections are important. Check MSDN, too: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6sh2ey19.aspx – varg Oct 13 '12 at 2:49
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Having a database would be ideal, but in the mean time you could use an IEnumerable to hold your Customer objects, like this:
List<Customer> myCustomers = new List<Customer>();
myCustomers.Add(new Customer {Name = "Bob", Address = "123 Anywhere St." });
Then you can just pass the list around where needed.
Typically you will then have a property on the Customer class that holds the accounts:
public class Customer
public Customer()
_accounts = new List<Account>();
public List<Account> Accounts
get { return _accounts; }
set { _accounts = value; }
private List<Account> _accounts;
And so on. Note that I'm keeping this simple and doing things the more long winded and descriptive way as you are a beginner.
Using lists of items in this way is a good way to start because you will natuarlly use these when you get to using a database; you will retrieve result sets from the database and then translate those result sets into lists of business objects.
As for using static methods to do business logic like adjusting balances, changing addresses, etc., for you at this stage it doesn't matter. If you are using tools like Resharper it will nag you with suggestions like that, but in your case you can safely ignore that particular one. What you should look for is keeping everything as self contained as possible, avoid leakage of data and leakage of responsibilities between objects - this is just good coding discipline and a good way to prevent bugs that are caused by loose coding.
Once you've got your functionality laid down and working, you may have a desire to move some functionality into static 'helper' style classes. This is absolutely fine, but do be careful - helper classes are fantastic and everything but can quickly turn into an anti-pattern if you don't maintain that coding discipline.
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You don't need to use a static class, or static methods, in order to only write the methods once. It may or may not make sense to do so, but this is a perfectly valid way to write the methods without repeating yourself:
public class Customer
//properties, constructors, etc.
public virtual void Deposit(decimal amount) { }
public virtual void Withdraw(decimal amount) { }
This also allows you to make use of polymorphism, e.g.
public class BusinessCustomer : Customer
public override void Deposit(decimal amount) { //some other implementation }
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what for withdrawls, deposits, etc
Those would be called Transactions.
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This is meant to be in addition to the other answers. This is example of polymorphism with interfaces.
public interface IDeposit {
void Deposit(decimal amount);
public interface IWithdraw {
void Withdraw(decimal amount);
public class Customer : IDeposit, IWithdraw {
public void Deposit(decimal amount) { throw new NotImplementedException(); }
public void Withdraw(decimal amount) { throw new NotImplementedException(); }
public class DepositOnlyATM : IDeposit {
Keeps concepts separate, and allows for implementing multiple interfaces, or just one. With class inheritance approaches you only get one, and you get all of it. Inevitably you end up with spaghetti in my experience because sub-classes want some of the behavior, but not all of it.
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Static classes are used when you aren't going to instantiate objects. You get one "instance" of that class - you can't do things like:
MyStaticClass m = new MyStaticClass();
when you've got a static class. Instead you'd use it by using the class name itself. Something like:
As to what would you use to keep track of every Customer object? You could use some sort of collection to hold these. Granted, in a real system there'd be some sort of persistence piece, likely a database, to hold the data. But you could just make something like:
IEnumerable<Customer> Customers = new List<Customer>();
And then add your customers to that list
Customers.Add(new Customer() { ... });
Back to the question about static methods...
So, the deal here is that you're not going to be referencing instance members in a static method, so you wouldn't use static methods to update a particular Customer's address. Assuming your Customer class looked like:
public class Customer
public string Address { get; set; }
You couldn't use a static method like
public static void SetAddress()
because each Customer (presumably) has a different address. You couldn't access the customer's address there because it isn't static. Get that? Instead, you'd use a static method if you were wanting to do something that didn't need to deal with instance data. I use static methods for things like utility functions.
public static double ComputeSomething(double someVal) { ... }
Here, the ComputeSomething function can be called by anybody like:
var result = MyStaticClass.ComputeSomething(3.15);
The takeaway here is that static classes aren't used to instantiate objects, rather they are used really as a convenient container to hold functions. Static functions are ones that can be on a non-static class but can't access any of the instance data.
One place where a static function would be used would be for the Singleton pattern. You make the constructor non-public so folks can't call it, and instead provide a static method on the class to return the one and only instance of the class. Something like:
public class MySingleton
private static MySingleton instance;
private MySingleton() {}
public static MySingleton Instance
if (instance == null)
instance = new MySingleton();
return instance;
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I would recommend instead of getting into the implementation details right away that you first write down some simple user stories for your bank example. For instance
1. As a customer I would like to open a new account so that I can make deposits and withdrawls
Just in that requirement, we can envision a couple of classes (customer and account). From there just functionally decompose what the customer should do and what the account should do.
I've found that the book "The Object Oriented Thought Process" is a good read and will help answer some of the questions as to "when do I do this vs. that".
Good luck and have fun!
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I am developing an app for the iPhone where I need to convert an date from an XML feed into just a HH:MM format.
I have the following method that doesn't work and I have no clue what I am doing wrong.
As an example, the timeToConvert string would be: "Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:55:00 +0100" (without the quotes)
The method works when the region is set to US (I get back the correct date), but not when I change the region (in Settings->General->International) to Spain, or other regions (in that case I get back nil).
- (id)timeConvertToHHMM:(NSString *)timeToConvert {
NSString *newPubDate = timeToConvert;
//Let's remove any rubbish from the code
newPubDate = [newPubDate stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
//create formatter and format to convert the XML string to an NSDate
NSDateFormatter *originalDateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[originalDateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEE, d MMM yyyy H:mm:ss z"];
//run the string through the formatter
NSDate *formattedDate = [[NSDate alloc] init];
formattedDate = [originalDateFormatter dateFromString:newPubDate];
//Let's now create another formatter to take the NSDate and convert format it to Hours and minutes
NSDateFormatter *newDateFormatter = [[[NSDateFormatter alloc] init] autorelease];
[newDateFormatter setDateFormat:@"HH:mm"]; // 24H clock set
// And let's convert it back to a readable string
NSString *calcHHMM = [newDateFormatter stringFromDate:formattedDate];
NSLog(@"CalcHHMM: %@", calcHHMM);
return calcHHMM;
Any hint on why this is not working, and just returning NULL will be more than welcome.
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Do you get an error or is it returning the wrong hours? – DyingCactus Feb 1 '10 at 22:39
Just returns NULL... looks like all works up till formattedDate = [originalDateFormatter dateFromString:newPubDate]; – Cy. Feb 1 '10 at 22:49
The code works for me except it returns the time converted to my local time zone. What is the value of formattedDate when you pass it the example string? – DyingCactus Feb 1 '10 at 22:52
It returns NULL – Cy. Feb 1 '10 at 23:02
Ok, for some reason, it's not able to parse the string using the format you supplied in originalDateFormatter. Don't know why it works for me but you may have to do a setLocale on your formatter? Also, when you remove the "z" at the end of the format, it will return the hours as is without converting to local time. – DyingCactus Feb 1 '10 at 23:05
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Problem appears to be your region setting is not "en-US" so the date formatter doesn't parse the string using the en-US format supplied. Although there may be a more elegant, general solution, doing a setLocale on originalDateFormatter to en_US can be used as a workaround to solve the problem.
As you've already tried in your code:
[originalDateFormatter setLocale:[[[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"en_US"] autorelease]];
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I had the exact same issue. My problem was that my initial date string had a single millisecond character:
Example: 2011-02-06 08:13:22:1
and was being parsed with this format :[formatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"];
The iPhone simulator was forgiving and successfully parsed the date with the milliseconds, however when building to my iphone it did not.
Changing the formatter to: [formatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S"]; solved the problem.
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Unfortunately, despite having tried to learn regex at least one time a year for as many years as I can remember, I always forget as I use them so infrequently. This year my new year's resolution is to not try and learn regex again - So this year to save me from tears I'll give it to Stack Overflow. (Last Christmas remix).
I want to pass in a string in this format {getThis}, and be returned the string getThis. Could anyone be of assistance in helping to stick to my new year's resolution?
Related questions on Stack Overflow:
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This question has been added to the Stack Overflow Regular Expression FAQ, under "Advanced Regex-Fu". – aliteralmind Apr 10 at 1:36
@Kobi: The FAQ is a wiki. Anyone can edit it. So edit it. – aliteralmind Apr 26 at 11:33
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If your string will always be of that format, a regex is overkill:
>>> var g='{getThis}';
>>> g.substring(1,g.length-1)
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An example of excellent requirements analysis. The customer says "give me this solution" and you heard "give me a solution to this problem". – Darron Jan 5 '09 at 14:43
Substringing is one of those things that changes based on the language you work in. Javascript takes the index to stop at, PHP takes the length of the desired end result (unless it's negative, in which case it takes the number of characters to remove), C# is different again...nice and confusing. – jvenema Jan 26 '10 at 0:55
...and Python just has slicing, which IMO is better than anything else :p. – Grant Paul Mar 3 '10 at 6:25
Sweet, but not sure how that's a regular expression. Perhaps he was asking for regex, and I came here for the same answer.. sadly the answer has nothing to do with the question.. – baash05 Nov 30 '11 at 0:04
@baash05, if you read the whole question, the OP didn't even want to learn regex, so I don't think it's the academic exercise you seem to be suggesting it was. – Kev Dec 7 '11 at 16:50
That means, match any character between { and }, but don't be greedy - match the shortest string which ends with } (the ? stops * being greedy). The parentheses let you extract the matched portion.
Another way would be
This matches any character except a } char (another way of not being greedy)
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Odd to get a downvote some 9 months later... – Paul Dixon Sep 23 '09 at 16:31
Yeah, someone downvoted mine too. (?) – Kev Sep 23 '09 at 18:42
Awesome, I was just looking for something like this! :) – Alex Jan 5 '10 at 3:24
added modifier q and was good to go. bedanke – Gutzofter Mar 26 '10 at 21:17
this is excellent, but is it possible to match anything between a variable number of curly-bracket-combinations? E.g.: "{this should be matched}this shouldnt{this kinda should again}and so {on}"? I'd like to retrieve the value, which is not within curly brackets. Also: curly brackets will not be used in the sentence and there is no stacking (this would never occure: "{some {text}}"). Anyone an idea how to do it :)? Thanks! (p.s.: upvoted this solution) – Igor May 26 '13 at 17:22
/ - delimiter
\{ - opening literal brace escaped because it is a special character used for quantifiers eg {2,3}
( - start capturing
[^}] - character class consisting of
^ - not
} - a closing brace (no escaping necessary because special characters in a character class are different)
+ - one or more of the character class
) - end capturing
\} - the closing literal brace
/ - delimiter
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I was looking to find if curly brackets were special chars in java regexp and this helped alot. 10x. – Amir Arad Sep 14 '09 at 12:30
@meouw, thank you so much – Gutzofter Mar 26 '10 at 20:43
Perfect! This was what I was looking for. – David Ryder Mar 14 '11 at 18:09
This is awesome! Thanks for the step-by-step walk through. I was able to derive a solution I needed from your answer due to it's clarity and conciseness. Thanks! – josephvilla Jul 26 '12 at 15:59
@meouw sa = s.split("/\{([^}]+)\}/"); gives a compile error. illegal repetition, invalid escape character. – likejiujitsu Dec 26 '12 at 0:22
This one works in Textmate and it matches everything in a CSS file between the curly brackets.
selector {. . matches here including white space. . .}
If you want to further be able to return the content, then wrap it all in one more set of parentheses like so:
and you can access the contents via $1.
This also works for functions, but I haven't tested it with nested curly brackets.
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Here's a simple solution using javascript replace
var st = '{getThis}';
st = st.replace(/\{|\}/gi,''); // "getThis"
As the accepted answer above points out the original problem is easily solved with substring, but using replace can solve the more complicated use cases
If you have a string like "randomstring999[fieldname]" You use a slightly different pattern to get fieldname
var nameAttr = "randomstring999[fieldname]";
justName = nameAttr.replace(/.*\[|\]/gi,''); // "fieldname"
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You want to use regex lookahead and lookbehind. This will give you only what's inside the curly braces:
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There should be a backslash escaping the curly braces above. They got stripped out in my submission. – Robert Cesaric Nov 11 '10 at 12:28
Thanks, this helped me today. – ProfessionalAmateur Dec 22 '10 at 17:28
any disadvantages of this method? – Somatik May 11 '12 at 13:24
@Somatik—yes, negative lookahead and behind are't supported in ECMAScript. – RobG May 4 at 7:28
var re = /{(.*)}/;
var m = "{helloworld}".match(re);
if (m != null)
console.log(m[0].replace(re, '$1'));
The simpler .replace(/.*{(.*)}.*/, '$1') unfortunately returns the entire string if the regex does not match. The above code snippet can more easily detect a match.
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If you're using PHP and you have the following strings and want to extract the albumid.
preg_match('/albumid\/(.*?)\?/',$item->guid, $match);
$match would contain something like this.
Array ( [0] => albumid/5241920314542926625? [1] => 5241920314542926625 )
Array ( [0] => albumid/5200211976033472801? [1] => 5200211976033472801 )
So basically use match[1] to get the value that you need inside your delimiter.
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no relevance to question – David Ryder Mar 14 '11 at 18:09
Sorry, but your response has nothing to do with the question being asked. – Camille Sévigny Jun 24 at 14:59
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i have retrieved mysql data from one table in json using the following script
$table_first = 'abc';
$query = "SELECT * FROM $table_first";
$resouter = mysql_query($query, $conn);
$set = array();
$total_records = mysql_numrows($resouter);
if($total_records >= 1){
while ($link = mysql_fetch_array($resouter, MYSQL_ASSOC)){
$set[] = $link;
echo json_encode($set);
how can i retrieved data from two other tables in which there is a foreign key of this table in both of those tables. OR simply how can i retrieved data from 3 mysql tables in php.
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You can get all data firstly. Then merge the data array. Finally use json_encode to change the data format.
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There is a foreign key of this table in both so you can use "join" to retrieve values from other tables.
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I believe the best way to go here is using a JOIN or just something like this:
$sql = "SELECT
tabl1.*, table2.*, tabl3.* FROM table1, table2, table3
table1.fk1 = table2.id AND
table1.fk2 = table2.id";
//Do the whole selection process...
If you make the queries separately, you'll be forcing 3 queries onto your database and will end in a performance hit that you dont need. So, the idea is load all the data from the DB using joins or similar that and then encode the results. Is faster and you'll leave the merging work to MySQL
Hope I can help
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thanks guy but this query retrieved the whole record at once and what i want to do is that it should print only the relevant records i.e for id 1 of table 1 there are 5 relevant records in table 2 and three records of table 3. First it should print id 1 of table 1 than all the 5 records of table 2 and of table 3.than for id 2 of table 1 it should be same like this – hunter Dec 3 '10 at 7:20
so should i use three queries but how can i manage all the three queries and send to json_encode. – hunter Dec 3 '10 at 7:21
Suppose that there are two tables as State(st_id,st_name) and City(ct_id,ct_name,state_id). Now, primary key are st_id & ct_id respectively of tables State & City.
Connection between this two table can be establish by joining State.st_id and City.state_id.
Now, coming to your problem to retrieve data from two table State & City, we can make sql query like following,
$sql="select s.*, c.* from State s, City c
where s.st_id=c.state_id ";
Using above query you can fetch data from database and convert into json format and can send it to android system. here is a good article http://blog.sptechnolab.com/2011/02/10/android/android-connecting-to-mysql-using-php/. i hope you like it.
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1. Is it possible to create GUI firewall that works as Windows and Mac counterparts? Per program basis. Popup notification window when specific program want to send\recv data from network.
2. If no, than why? What Linux kernel lacks to allow existence of such programs?
3. If yes, than why there aren't such program?
P.S. This is programming question, not user one.
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possible duplicate of create iptables rule per process/service – Brian Roach Mar 27 '11 at 18:19
Please use the search before posting a new question. – Brian Roach Mar 27 '11 at 18:19
This isn't a duplicate. The mentioned question asks for ways to setup rules for known processes - this one involves triggers on unknown processes. – Erik Mar 27 '11 at 18:21
"This is programming question, not user one." - I am not sure I can agree. For me it's a typical How Stuff Works computer user question, isn't it? – Grzegorz Oledzki Apr 7 '11 at 20:31
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up vote 1 down vote accepted
To answer your 3rd point. There is such a program which provides zenity popups, it is called Leopard Flower: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leopardflower
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So, here (netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_queue) is the answer... Thanks! – Marko Kevac May 18 '11 at 11:54
According to the stackexchange page: "As of 2014-01-12, this project [Leopard Flower] is no longer under active development." – nealmcb Feb 27 at 21:04
1. Yes it's possible. You will need to setup firewall rules to route traffic through an userspace daemon, it'll involve quite a bit of work.
2. N/A
3. Because they're pretty pointless - if the user understands which programs he should block from net access he could just as well use one of multiple existing friendly netfilter/iptables frontends to configure this.
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It is possible, there are no restrictions and at least one such application exists.
I would like to clarify a couple of points though.
If I understood this article correct, the firewalls mentioned here so far and iptables this question is tagged under are packet filters and accept and drop packets depending more on IP addresses and ports they come from/sent to.
What you describe looks more like mandatory access control to me. There are several utilities for that purpose in Linux - selinux, apparmor, tomoyo.
If I had to implement a graphical utility you describe, I would pick, for example, AppArmor, which supports whitelists, and, to some extent, dynamic profiling, and tried to make a GUI for it.
OpenSUSE's YaST features graphical interface for apparmor setup and 'learning' , but it is specific to the distribution.
So Linux users and administrators have several ways to control network (and files) access on per-application basis.
Why the graphical frontends for MAC are so few is another question. Probably it's because Linux desktop users tend to trust software they install from repositories and have less reasons to control them this way (if an application is freely distributed, it has less reasons to call home and packages are normally reviewed before they get to repositories) while administrators and power users are fine with command line.
As desktop Linux gets more popular and people install more software from AUR or PPA or even from gnome-look.org where packages and scripts are not reviewed that accurately (if at all) a demand for such type of software (user-friendly, simple to configure MAC) might grow.
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1. Yes. Everything is possible
2. -
3. There are real antiviruses for linux, so there could be firewalls with GUI also. But as a linux user I can say that such firewall is not needed.
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1) It's possible in a very contrived way to achieve this effect, though thoroughly pointless.
2) N/A, it is possible. Even if the kernel didn't allow it, it'd still be possible - Linux is Open Source Software, so if what you're trying to achieve is ultimately unpossible because of Linux source code... change it.
Such a program is unnecessary on Linux. The reason UAC and the Windows Firewall work the way they do is because processes running on Windows need to be trusted by the OS before they can run. It's kinda like asking why you can't get regedit.exe for Linux. Fundamental differences in the software's design, basically.
If you're interested in this kind of topic, I suggest you browse the O'Reilly bookshelf for books on Linux and Unix systems administration and networking.
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I will just comment on the 3), since the 1) and 2) have already been answered.
The reason why there isn't something like this already is that Unix (and Linux) operates on a fundamentally different principle then Windows (where this kind of firewall is common).
On Linux you install software only from verified sources and 99,9% of the software is either open-source or analysed by experts.
If you want to run unverified software on Linux you turn to virtualization or other form of encapsulation, therefore even if the software would like to do something bad it simply can't.
Plus on Linux, even if a users account is compromised it doesn't mean that the machine itself is compromised.
Now, there are still some cases left, like you don't want some random software to send spam from your machine, but these cases can be solved using generic rules.
One last reason why there isn't software like this is that Linux doesn't promote stupidity. If you do run unverified software from some risky source, run in as root and don't use virtualization or some other form of process encapsulation you are the one to blame.
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MacOS is also unix-like system. As Linux, you are not admin by default. As Linux, you can install verified software. But in MacOS you have Little Snitch. – Marko Kevac Apr 4 '11 at 17:21
There is a huge difference between verified and verified. If I install software from Microsoft it is a verified software, but that doesn't mean that it can't do anything I wouldn't like (like sending my personal information to Microsoft). That is why we have per-program firewalls in the first place. – Let_Me_Be Apr 4 '11 at 17:38
I think the reason is not that Linux is somehow "inherently more secure" or that Linux software is "inherently friendly" or that Linux users are magically smart enough never to install untrustworthy software. Rather, it's that there are (by comparison with the other mainstream systems) very, very few desktop Linux users, and so not as many people bother writing malicious or otherwise untrustworthy software, and so there's not as much malicious or otherwise untrustworthy software out there, and so people don't have as much of a problem and don't need the feature you're requesting. – Jonathan Tomer Apr 8 '11 at 15:25
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
On my Wikipedia user page, I run a Wikipedia script that displays my statistics (number of pages edited, number of new pages, monthly activity, etc.).
I'd like to put this information on my blog.
Is there an API that would allow me to do something like this?
locked by Will Jun 21 '13 at 17:37
How on earth is this not constructive, it's been viewed over 50,000 times for goodness sake. – SSH This Feb 28 '13 at 23:25
I agree with the above comment, that this question is constructive. This is a great question. Hopefully answers will provide useful links about the various API options for the wikipedia. For instance, I've been searching for 1 hour now to find information about a JSON interface to the wikipedia with no luck. Getting such information here would be great. – Elisabeth Mar 27 '13 at 23:25
I love me some stackOverflow, but yes, sometimes the best quetions are closed - lame! – B. Clay Shannon May 31 '13 at 15:46
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MediaWiki's API is running on Wikipedia (docs). You can also use the Special:Export feature to dump data and parse it yourself.
More information.
en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php – ZJR Mar 9 '11 at 15:11
Wikipedia is built on MediaWiki, and here's the MediaWiki API.
Here is a quick example how it could be done in .NET http://www.kozlenko.info/blog/2010/07/20/executing-sparql-query-on-wikipedia-in-net/
JWPL - Java-based Wikipedia Library -- An application programming interface for Wikipedia
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
We are switching hosts and the old one provided a sql dump of the postgresql database of our site. Now I'm trying to set this up on a local wamp sever to test this.
The only problem is that i don't have an idea how i can import this database in the postgresql 9 i have set up.
I tried pgAdmin III but i can't seem to find an 'import' function. So i just opened the SQL editor and pasted the contents of the dump there and executed it, it creates the tables but i keeps giving me errors when he tries to put the data in it.
ERROR: syntax error at or near "t"
LINE 474: t 2011-05-24 16:45:01.768633 2011-05-24 16:45:01.768633 view...
The lines:
COPY tb_abilities (active, creation, modtime, id, lang, title, description) FROM stdin;
t 2011-05-24 16:45:01.768633 2011-05-24 16:45:01.768633 view nl ...
I've also tried to this with the command prompt but i can't really find the command that i need.
If I do
psql mydatabase < C:/database/db-backup.sql;
i get the error
ERROR: syntax error at or near "psql"
LINE 1: psql mydatabase < C:/database/db-backu...
What's the best way to import the database?
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up vote 87 down vote accepted
psql databasename < data_base_dump
That's the command you are looking for.
Beware: databasename must be created before importing. Have a look at the PostgreSQL Docs Chapter 23. Backup and Restore.
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I've tried that psql mydatabase < C:\database\db-backup.sql but i get the error Invalid command \database. I also tried with " " around it. – dazz Jul 27 '11 at 10:05
Have you tried cd'ing to C:\database und calling psql mydatabase < db-backup.sql? – Frank Schmitt Jul 27 '11 at 10:45
@Dazz You have to do this command from your command prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd) , not from the postgres prompt. – Jacob Jul 27 '11 at 10:48
@Dazz:You could use -f switch (or --file) too – Grzegorz Szpetkowski Jul 27 '11 at 10:56
psql --username=postgres databasename < data_base_dump.sql – Laguiz Jun 18 '13 at 18:27
I believe that you want to run in psql:
\i C:/database/db-backup.sql
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Had to use this because Emacs' eshell doesn't support input redirection. Thanks. – duma Mar 30 '13 at 3:11
Here is the command you are looking for.
psql -h hostname -d databasename -U username -f file.sql
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Good, but better append also the "-L logfile.log" param to log the output on file. – zerologiko Feb 12 at 9:29
You can do it in pgadmin3. Drop the schema(s) that your dump contains. Then right-click on the database and choose Restore. Then you can browse for the dump file.
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
I have some problems with Azure Compute Emulator not restarting properly. To resolve this I want to add csrun /devfabric:stop call to a pre-build step in Visual Studio solution.
The problem is csrun.exe is located in C:\Program Files\Windows Azure SDK\v1.4\bin on my machine and that path is not on the %PATH% directories list. I don't want to hardcode that path in my solution.
Is there some way to deduce the path like using some environment variable or something similar?
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Regrettably, I've not found such a way... – Jeremy McGee Oct 4 '11 at 12:18
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You can read the Azure SDK path from the registry by version. The last part of the path is the version ... Your code can either be set to a version or you can iterate over the v keys finding the latest. I would recommend having a constant for the version you support and as you take a new SDK as a pre-req.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\ServiceHosting\v1.4
There's an "InstallPath" key under those paths.
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I want to copy a file from sdcard to /system/etc. Below is the code in my application: Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cat /sdcard/settings.txt > /system/etc/Settings.txt" It doesn't works. I run cmd on pc, it works well. I did as below: adb shell $cat /sdcard/settings.txt > /system/etc/Settings.txt
Why doesn't the cmd work in java code? What's my mistake? Thanks a lot.
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This does not work on your android device because of a permission issue. – Jan Højriis Dragsbaek Dec 1 '11 at 10:21
Do you know what permission must be added? – vicky Dec 1 '11 at 10:25
Your device must be rooted before you can do it the same way AFAIK – Jan Højriis Dragsbaek Dec 1 '11 at 10:25
Yes, that's right. But the command doesn't work in java code. – vicky Dec 1 '11 at 10:31
possible duplicate of copying files from sdcard to android internal storage directory – Macarse Dec 1 '11 at 12:15
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You will need to remount the system partition in read-write mode, something like this (the block device will almost certainly be different):
This is not something a normal application would ever, ever do. It will also only work on a phone that has root access (you need to do this via su)
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I also used this code in my application, but it doesn't work. Do you know what permission is needed? – vicky Dec 2 '11 at 2:20
You need to be running as the root user. I recommend reading up on unix operating system user permissions. These are very different from your application permissions. You are almost certainly not doing something which requires you do do this. Try opening a question about what you really need to do. – Tom Whittock Dec 2 '11 at 13:21
To note. If you are going to do anything with root, then checkout RootTools: code.google.com/p/roottools – Jakar Dec 20 '11 at 21:06
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Home > Guides > Core Developers Guide > Type Conversion
Built in Type Conversion Support
Type Conversion is implemented by XWork.
• String
• boolean / Boolean
• char / Character
• dates - uses the SHORT format for the Locale associated with the current request
• arrays - assuming the individual strings can be coverted to the individual items
• collections - if not object type can be determined, it is assumed to be a String and a new ArrayList is created
Note that with arrays the type conversion will defer to the type of the array elements and try to convert each item individually. As with any other type conversion, if the conversion can't be performed the standard type conversion error reporting is used to indicate a problem occurred while processing the type conversion.
• Enumerations
• BigDecimal and BigInteger
Relationship to Parameter Names
Here are some tips for leveraging the framework's type conversion capabilities:
• Use OGNL expressions - the framework will automatically take care of creating the actual objects for you.
• Use JavaBeans! The framework can only create objects that obey the JavaBean specification, provide no-arg constructions and include getters and setters where appropriate.
• Remember that person.name will call getPerson().setName(). If the framework creates the Person object for you, it remember that a setPerson method must also exist.
• The framework will not instantiate an object if an instance already exists. The PrepareInterceptor or action's constructor can be used to create target objects before type conversion.
• For lists and maps, use index notation, such as people[0].name or friends['patrick'].name. Often these HTML form elements are being rendered inside a loop. For JSP Tags, use the iterator tag's status attribute. For FreeMarker Tags, use the special property ${foo_index}[].
• For multiple select boxes, it isn't possible to use index notation to name each individual item. Instead, name your element people.name and the framework will understand that it should create a new Person object for each selected item and set its name accordingly.
Creating a Type Converter
Create a type converter by extending StrutsTypeConverter. The Converter's role is to convert a String to an Object and an Object to a String.
Applying a Type Converter to an Action
Create a file called 'ActionClassName-conversion.properties' in the same location of the classpath as the Action class itself resides.
Eg. if the action class name is MyAction, the action-level conversion properties file should be named 'MyAction-conversion.properties'. If the action's package is com.myapp.actions the conversion file should also be in the classpath at /com/myapp/actions/.
Within the conversion file, name the action's property and the Converter to apply to it:
Type conversion can also be specified via Annotations within the action.
Applying a Type Converter to a bean or model
When getting or setting the property of a bean, the framework will look for "classname-conversion.properties" in the same location of the classpath as the target bean. This is the same mechanism as used for actions.
Example: A custom converter is required for the Amount property of a Measurement bean. The Measurement class cannot be modified as its located within one of the application's dependencies. The action using Measurement implements ModelDriven<Measurement> so it cannot apply converters to the properties directly.
eg. for com.acme.measurements.Measurement, create a file in the application source/resources at /com/acme/measurements/Measurement-conversion.properties:
Applying a Type Converter for an application
Application-wide converters can be specified in a file called xwork-conversion.properties located in the root of the classpath.
A Simple Example
Type conversion is great for situations where you need to turn a String in to a more complex object. Because the web is type-agnostic (everything is a string in HTTP), Struts 2's type conversion features are very useful. For instance, if you were prompting a user to enter in coordinates in the form of a string (such as "3, 22"), you could have Struts 2 do the conversion both from String to Point and from Point to String.
point = com.acme.PointConverter
After this is done, you can now reference your point (using <s:property value="point"/> in JSP or ${point} in FreeMarker) and it will be printed as "3, 22" again. As such, if you submit this back to an action, it will be converted back to a Point once again.
com.acme.Point = com.acme.PointConverter
From the JavaDocs:
There's a hook (fall back method) called performFallbackConversion of which could be used to perform some fallback conversion if convertValue method of this failed. By default it just ask its super class (Ognl's DefaultTypeConverter) to do the conversion.
Advanced Type Conversion
Null Property Handling
The following rules are used when handling null references:
• If the property is declared exactly as a Collection or List, then an ArrayList shall be returned and assigned to the null references.
• If the property is declared as a Map, then a HashMap will be returned and assigned to the null references.
• If the null property is a simple bean with a no-arg constructor, it will simply be created using the {@link ObjectFactory#buildBean(java.lang.Class, java.util.Map)} method.
Collection and Map Support
Indexing a collection by a property of that collection
It is also possible to obtain a unique element of a collection by passing the value of a given property of that element. By default, the property of the element of the collection is determined in Class-conversion.properties using KeyProperty_xxx=yyy, where xxx is the property of the bean Class that returns the collection and yyy is the property of the collection element that we want to index on.
For an example, see the following two classes:
To enable type conversion, put the instruction KeyProperty_fooCollection=id in the MyAction-conversion.properties file. This technique allows use of the idiom fooCollection(someIdValue) to obtain the Foo object with value someIdValue in the Set fooCollection. For example, fooCollection(22) would return the Foo object in the fooCollection Collection whose id property value was 22.
Unlike Map and List element properties, if fooCollection(22) does not exist, it will not be created. If you would like it created, use the notation fooCollection.makeNew[index] where index is an integer 0, 1, and so on. Thus, parameter value pairs fooCollection.makeNew[0]=Phil and fooCollection.makeNew[1]=John would add two new Foo Objects to fooCollection -- one with name property value Phil and the other with name property value John. However, in the case of a Set, the equals and hashCode methods should be defined such that they don't only include the id property. Otherwise, one element of the null id properties Foos to be removed from the Set.
An advanced example for indexed Lists and Maps
The Action has a beanList attribute initialized with an empty ArrayList.
These conversion.properties tell the TypeConverter to use MyBean instances as elements of the List.
• When submitting this via a form, the id value is used as KeyProperty for the MyBean instances in the beanList.
• Notice the () notation! Do not use [] notation, which is for Maps only!
• The value for name will be set to the MyBean instance with this special id.
• The List does not have null values added for unavailable id values. This approach avoids the risk of OutOfMemoryErrors!
Type Conversion Error Handling
There are two ways the error reporting can occur:
1. Globally, using the Conversion Error Interceptor
Common Problems
Null and Blank Values
Generics and Erasure
The following is an example of this problem:
Next: Interceptors
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009
The Letters
Fiona Robyn has been going on a blog tour with her book The Letters. Here's her intro to the novel:
Violet doesn't have the best people skills in the world, but when she moves to the coast after her divorce she's determined to become a part of the community. She's just finished a stormy relationship with a new lover when mysterious letters start arriving on her doorstep. They're written by a young girl who's staying in a mother and baby home, and they're dated 1959. Who is this young girl, and why are the letters being sent to Violet?
Think you'll agree it sounds very enticing... but sadly I didn't find time to read The Letters before my allotted blog tour spot (what with the theses and all) - so instead I decided to challenge Fiona to a little game, involving the *other* sort of letters! A bit of a tangent (and do go find out more about the book or Fiona's blog tour at her websites) but it really makes me want to read the copy I've got...
A, B, C - three adjectives to describe The Letters
Bolshy (well, the main character Violet is)
Cat-filled (this is a new adjective as I got stuck)
D - if you like d_____, you'll like The Letters (this could be any word, a book or not)
Digging home-grown new potatoes from the dark crumbly earth
E - something to do while reading The Letters
Eat cake, of course.
F - someone to give The Letters to
Your best Friend.
G, H, I - you're making a menu to serve with The Letters... what do you serve?
Greek salad
Horseradish (the only other food-stuff I could think of was haddock and I hate haddock)
Ice-cream (very expensive ice-cream, maybe pistachio)
J, K, L - three adjectives to describe yourself
M - favourite character in fiction beginning with M?
Owen Meany (from John Irving's marvellous A Prayer for Owen Meany)
N, O, P - find three words in The Letters beginning with these letters, to pull us in...
Q - favourite word beginning with Q?
R, S, T - three books you love?
Anything by Raymond Carver
Sit Down and Shut Up, Brad Warner
Tinker at Pilgrim's Creek, Annie Dillard
U, V, W, X, Y, Z - here's a challenge... try to write a sentence using words beginning with these letters...
Under very wet xylophones, young Zebras!
1. I have been meaning to read The Letters too and I need to email the lovely Fiona back as well so thanks for the reminders of both... I am reading Alice at the mo in your honour!
2. What fun. I liked that. Also room for a bit of fun with letters. I want to suggest 'Hominy' as a food beginning with H as I don't like Horseradish or Haddock, but actually Hominy sounds quite nasty too, although it has a great name. Perhaps there are few tasty H foods.
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On Ubuntu 10.04, How to enter interactive mode at boot time? Can I choose which driver to be enabled? or which Service to be enabled?
System blocked at boot time, and closed screen display -- no signal to the monitor.
How to troubleshoot?
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Can I up the question by add comments? – sean Aug 20 '10 at 7:01
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You can try the "recovery mode" from the grub menu (hold down the left shift key during boot up to get to the grub menu).
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I entered recovery mode, but it closed my screen, I can't see any words, I can't shoot the trouble. When I heard a "po" when the system starting, then the screen was closed (suspended mode, not only blacked). Can I get which driver or service got my screen closed from syslog? – sean Aug 17 '10 at 2:36
can you recommend a article to introduce the trouble shooting of linux boot up? – sean Aug 19 '10 at 3:40
If the screen goes blank before you can actually enter the Grub menu, it might be motherboard/BIOS issue. Have you tried with another monitor?
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can't find my app world after downloading it
Can some help me plz I had app world on my bold 9780 but then I updated it then said restart my fone so I did now I can't find app world no where on my fone
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Re: can't find my app world after downloading it
Hello and welcome to BlackBerry support community forums.
Check the below KB article -
• KB29422 BlackBerry App World icon is missing after upgrading to BlackBerry App World to
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Kolla upp vilket ord som helst, t.ex. thot:
4 definitions by Sloan
Someone who mines asses, sometimes with hat.
Check out Sanchez. What an assminer.
av Sloan 28 september 2003
aged, gone bad, past ones prime
The milk has gone skroose
av Sloan 29 oktober 2004
a zest for life
The way she tears it up on the dance floor shows that that girl's got virgy.
av sloan 30 mars 2003
to detained, tie up, usually with ill intentions
"I'm like baffled, they got me gaffled, with the duct tape
So I remain raw, in come this chainsaw" -- ICe Cube
av Sloan 25 januari 2003
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Quick-Start Guide (suggestion for)
From: Suresh Govindachar <sgovindachar_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-08-16 23:50:57 CEST
I spent time trying out svn-win32-1.0.6.zip on a Windows
machine. Addressing the following items could help other
new users:
A) Mention the need to configure.
- Mention the absence of a .rc file.
- Mention the hidden side-effects of commands.
For example, mention that things will be created
in places such as
c:/WINDOWS/Application\ Data/Subversion/
WITHOUT any prompt to see if the user desires a
DIFFERENT location. (I still have no idea when that
directory and the stuff in it got created and do not
like this hidden, non-configurable side-effect.)
- Point out that things (section headers and values)
in .INI files need to start in the first column.
(This came as a total surprise to me.)
B) Mention the need to configure after the create command.
- Mention that one needs to modify the file
<repos>/conf/sunserve.conf This is so even though
the README.txt in <repos> says:
"... use the 'svnadmin' tool to examine it. Do not
add, delete, or modify files here unless you know
how to avoid corrupting the repository."
Now, I could be wrong about having to hand-modify the
file <repos>/conf/sunserve.conf; if so, mention the
correct way to do it.
- The file <repos>/conf/sunserve.conf has the lines:
### This option controls the location of the password database. This
### path may be relative to the conf directory. There is no default.
- What is the relationship between what is being
discussed here and what goes in
c:/WINDOWS/Application\ Data/Subversion/auth?
- Are there options in regard to the format in which
the path can be specified? If so, what are they?
C) In regard to the "user" commands such as import.
- Mention that the import command will prompt for the
user name (and depending on the configuration, the
password too).
- How come there is no way to specify the username
and password as command line arguments to the
command (like, -u <user> -p <password>)?
D) Mention the system requirement -- especially the
following from the FAQ:
"To reiterate, a Subversion server can be run on all
platforms except Win95/Win98/WinMe. The Subversion
client can be used on any platform where APR runs."
in a PROMINANT place.
It took me several hours to figure out the preceding.
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Received on Mon Aug 16 23:50:30 2004
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Re: Re: new swish-e 2.X version
From: David Norris <dave(at)>
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 22:14:38 GMT
Bill Moseley wrote:
> Here's the config file and a file that makes it hang.
> Maybe it's due to the oddly escaped html? Or the string length?
I think maybe it's the odd HTML. Netscape 4.7's source browser marks
that as invalid. I would concur. < and > are disallowed by HTML in
that context. I think that would confuse SWISH-E. Values should be
plain text.
The string length may close but I don't think it's too long (without
counting). That's easily changed, of course.
,David Norris
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- Groucho Marx
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Archive for September, 2008
Sep 24 2008
I have been sleeping…
Published by under Graphics
… way too long. Too busy packing stuff and tying loose ends. Today I found out that one of the earliest 3D modelers I used, TrueSpace is now available for free, gratuit, gratis, for noppes, nada, nix. Caligari is the company that created TrueSpace and the company was acquired by Microsoft a few months ago. […]
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Sep 23 2008
Getting some work done…
Published by under Graphics,Poser
Tempting… sitting in front of my PC… staring at the screen… casually browsing a bit and have nothing to worry about for a while… and time slowly moves on… and on… and on… Then suddenly it hits me! Ohw man… I FINALLY have some time to make real progress and work on all the stuff […]
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Sep 10 2008
Back on-line
Published by under Uncategorized
WOW.. been a bit hectic lately! And I suppose that follows directly from the limited number of posts sofar *grins* I have packed all my stuff and relocated to the other side of the world. Getting there was not so hard, getting ready to go there was. And in all dust whirls caused by packing […]
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