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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90329	yeah my grammer was off there. prob because i smoked pubz at the time and didnt know where i was. but i meant to say that there was supposed to be waves on sat-sun and then they dissapeared. but then the waves maps all of a sudden showed there being waves again. I am just wondering if the winds are messed up or something?
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90333	Skip to main content. home \| support \| download Back to List Archive Re: [SWISH-E:389] Swish/Wget From: Brian Rankin <brankin(at)> Date: Tue Jul 28 1998 - 05:15:04 GMT Zaheed, that's an interesting idea, but I don't see how it can be implemented w/o a major rewrite of Swish. I'm using wget & maintaining the archives - not for updates, but for my search results screen. As Swish displays each results line, a perl scripts reads-in text from the wget archive and builds a search-results page Altavista style (with a few lines of text from each returned document). a 2GB SCSI drive costs about $300.00. Brian Rankin Phone: 415-565-3096 Telecommunications Director Fax: 415-565-3012 730 Harrison Street San Francisco, CA 94107 On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Zaheed Haque wrote: > Hi, > I am new and still learning to operate Swish and Wget..So here we go.. > I use WGET to collect info from about 50 Web sites these sites are > Universities.. and then I use Swish to index them. > Problems: > 1. Due to limited disk space WGET fills up my disk and I have no room > for indexing and index. > 2. After the indexing process is done I delete my resource/collected > files.. so when I do update I have to do all the thing from start > again.. which is a pain! > Well the solution is more disk space offcourse but I don't have any > money :-) > What I wonder is .. > 1. I want to run WGET and Swish in a sequence .. where.. > a. WGET gets a file from the external site and then saves it to a temp > diectory.. > b. SWISH starts indexing from the temp directory > c. WGET/Swish deletes the temp file > d. Swish fixes up the relative linking > e. Do a stamp/MD5/mark on the index so when I update the index it will > not add a old documents which I have already index last week. > or > 2. Swish uses some protocol and do crawling and indexing at the same > time.. > What do I do any help!! Thanks for your help > Cheers > Zaheed > == > Regds > Zaheed Haque > _________________________________________________________ > Get your free address at Received on Mon Jul 27 22:26:53 1998
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90353	On the Frontline What's New Table of Contents Index of Authors Index of Titles Index of Letters Mailing List subscribe to our mailing list: Critique of Intelligent Design Evolution vs. Creationism The Art of ID Stuntmen Faith vs Reason Anthropic Principle Autopsy of the Bible code Science and Religion Historical Notes Serious Notions with a Smile Letter Serial Correlation Mark Perakh's Web Site Theses on the nature of human morality By Alexander Eterman Posted June 6, 2004 Morality is the historical reincarnation of the rules of mutual social assistance as practiced by the obsolete tribal system. B. Gadunov The author of these lines is unlikely to die a natural death. There are things whose deflation meets with severe and inevitable punishment. Then again, to a true moralist no death is unnatural. Moreover, he is sure to find himself in good company. Let us begin by stating that morality (let alone the things that are intuitively held to be morality) is not a set of acts we define as honorable or moral, and certainly not a theory that defines these acts. [1] Even so-called moral behavior is at best a graphic illustration of morality, one of its manifestations. We should keep in mind that even those noble acts we consider as being purely altruistic -- the kind whose doers are compared to Mother Teresa -- are time and again performed by scoundrels and animals, too, yet -- justly, though not always for the right reasons -- we do not call these acts moral. Why? Is it for the sole reason that scoundrels do not count and animals are not blessed with intelligence? Perhaps. What is far more important is this: in the most widely held view altruism is much more diverse and extensive than morality, which does not in any way depend on the abilities and experience of its bearers or on their material and spiritual habits. For this reason alone morality can hardly be envisioned as divinely inspired, eternal, absolute, and universal. Furthermore, if it were all that, it couldn't really be practically serviceable. There is no doubt that morality is one of the functional spheres of our social fabric, one that has a palpable practical application. Unfortunately, it is this latter that usually gets all the attention. Yet when discussing morality, it would be sensible to focus on the key concept -- that of so-called altruistic motives. For example, is it true that any help given to the poor -- even unselfishly -- involves moral considerations whose nature is still unclear to us? Hardly. For centuries, the entire impoverished populace of Rome was fed at the state's expense -- even when the imperial capital was prudently moved to the remote Balkans, and the City became the hinterlands. This systematic philanthropy had no moral rationale, but the rationale it did have was no less intriguing: it represented a distinctive political and cultural tradition which subsequently evolved into a deeply entrenched custom. On the other hand, it is an interesting question whether it is by accident that we intuitively couple concepts like morality and honor. What can we say about the moral image of Roland or Cid? What is akin to the readiness to fight a duel over a sidelong glance or a dropped handkerchief? Is it the honorable behavior of Albert Schweitzer -- or the mad capers of Don Quixote? Or does their kinship lie on the moral, maternal side? The last is quite likely. It is no accident that knighthood, while it seriously existed, described itself as noble and gracious and all the rest as base; whichever way you look at it, a name does have an impact on behavior. Those who buy noble titles today seem to think so. Nevertheless, morality is not a useless and obsolete toy, as it was depicted by some of the last century's classic writers. On the contrary, it is one of the mainstays of our social orientation -- in fact, a highly useful mechanism. Thus it is not enough to say that morality is a historical concept -- meaning that it undergoes changes with time -- for we ourselves change at a much more rapid and painful pace. On the contrary, we consider morality as more stable than our social fabric, and in an effort to defend it we frequently resort to arguments and means that sound suspiciously moral. What is more, morality possesses remarkable qualities that imbue it with a sentimental, otherworldly aura, making us view it, despite all logic and experience, as all but the only tangible perfect abstraction, a living example of a magically transcendent phenomenon devoid of any clear material value and mechanism and needing none -- as if moral experience (the a priori concept of good and evil) came first, and only later did morality begin to fulfill itself by unfolding through history. Essentially, this is nothing but insipid social creationism. Liberal thinkers persist in finding a utilitarian or historical aspect in notions of good and evil (which they continue to view as the main content of morality), believing them to be something akin to an unfolding of the social cube, its emotionally two-dimensional projection -- but this is usually as far as they go. Yet morality is a living phenomenon that cannot be reduced to its external manifestations, just as economic activity of a company cannot be reduced to the rate of its shares on the stock exchange. We should note that indisputable evil can be moral while undeniable good can be amoral. The most important thing here is not to get bogged down in terms. Furthermore, it would seem that good and evil are at least partially relative, so that the context must be firmly kept in mind at all times. The Talmud has a story about a certain sage who sentenced his own son to death, knowing that he was innocent -- all for the sake of maintaining legal formalities. The conduct of this sage, a Jewish Cato, was definitely highly moral, albeit disgraceful. Even those who fearlessly believe morality to be a natural, evolutionary phenomenon, something akin to biological vision or economic relations, rarely take the main question of what it is all about to its logical conclusion. Since the entire set of social interactions is patently evolutionary, it is easy to mistakenly credit morality with everything that takes place between humans without being contingent on anything substantial, reflecting current customs as well as generating emotional evaluations. Regrettably, this approach is unproductive. Unless morality by definition is viewed as a mechanism for evaluating events that unfold in front of us, then it is totally unclear within the framework of this premise where morality came from and why it is held in such esteem by society. This nominalistic premise transforms morality from a functional phenomenon into a trivial label randomly attached to an amorphous set of social phenomena that have nothing in common with each other (in the spirit of Napoleon's aphorism), living yet not fighting together -- and most importantly, into a construct void of any organizing or prognostic power. In a similar vein, the term weather can be applied to anything that happens in the atmosphere without trying to simultaneously understand the elements of relative phenomenon, labeled ad hoc with a relative term. However -- using a different school of thought -- weather may also be defined in functional terms, leaving aside such intriguing atmospheric phenomena as pink dawns and crocodile-shaped clouds, while paying extra attention to the wind speed and the amount of precipitation. Then weather becomes a neat physical package whose parameters can be successfully predicted -- or at the very least correlated -- by means of differential equations. The question that must be asked is this: when discussing morality, do we imply something definite, coherent, and substantial? Are we looking for another innovation besides the linguistic -- or at least for concreteness? Is it our intention to explain or predict anything? I sincerely hope that the answer is an earnest yes. To be sure, our task is and will continue to be hampered by traditional terminology. Once we are fully justified -- the language cannot be changed -- in referring to the actions of Mother Teresa as moral, it is not only natural but probably even accurate to add on the noun morality. For example: morality is a set of behavioral patterns that guided the renowned nun and her ilk. Such a straightforward approach is blatantly tautological, and probably downright fallacious. It is not only that the same highly moral deeds may be inspired by various reasons, including those that are morally irrelevant, the opposite is also true: the same motives frequently produce morally ambiguous results. In other words, an altruist who behaves in an amoral or simply obtuse manner will almost inevitably make a mess of things. Even more importantly for us, functional morality -- as opposed to altruistic behavior -- should obviously be collective. Indeed, let us imagine the moral aspect of Robinson Crusoe's actions before he met Friday. Moral tree chopping, moral house building, moral goat raising -- a patent absurdity. Then again, it would not be difficult to put together a morality-emulation model -- the quasi-model behavior of a solitary man on an uninhabited island -- but this would be nothing more than a crude fabrication. Roughly the same means may be used to emulate love. The mind of a solitary person has no place for morality -- save perhaps a reminiscence, a dream of morality as a kind of a dream of society (or perhaps this is a mere flirting with God, one's cell mate). Therefore we should concern ourselves with classification, take a good look at examples. Handing out cookies on the street is not a moral deed -- at best it is an exotic act, an offshoot of altruism unassimilated by the collective mind, at worst a publicity stunt. Helping an old lady cross the road is a far more fitting example of an ideal moral act. Self-improvement usually has nothing in common with morality, while returning a dropped bill to a hapless passer-by clearly does. The fact that "anyone would have done the same" (at least in front of witnesses) only goes to reinforce this thesis. On the other hand, it is obvious that morality (or even moral motivation) is not precluded by an individual's amoral behavior. Putting oneself outside the collective moral consensus is far from an easy task. On the contrary, amorality may very well prove to be a manifestation of moral zeal. Certain Gnostic sects declared daily amoral conduct to be a sanctified standard, either in an attempt to eradicate amorality from this world through its active practice or simply assuming a mirror effect in the moral relations between worlds: all that is amoral down here is moral up there and vice versa. A truly boundless trust in today's rules of morality! To the same extent, violating an ordinary law does not eliminate that law in the offender's mind. On the other hand, laws meet their natural end not only on an uninhabited island but also after crossing state borders. In London bigamy is a crime, while in Riyadh it is the rule. This begs the question of whether the power of British law over the respectable Englishman evaporates the moment the latter disembarks at the Saudi airport. Be that as it may, morality is one of the most fascinating evolutionary products created by the human society and existing only within that society, one of the most important mechanisms of our collective (rather than individual) behavior. [2] It contains at least one distinctive element that is usually left outside the framework of moralistic inquiry. Let us try to track it down. There is no doubt that society, having an evolutionary interest in ensuring that its members behave in a reasonable manner, creates and legalizes dialectically evolving stereotypes of desirable behavior. For society, it is important to prevent its members from killing and robbing one another, to have them follow the same cult, respect the elderly, fight for common causes, prefer their compatriots to outsiders, protect the environment, and much more. Society only survives to the extent that it manages to create effective tools for encouraging its members (not with one hundred percent success, to be sure, but evolution is satisfied with less) to consciously follow the desirable stereotypes. The principal natural tool that serves society's collective needs from the moment of its birth is the law, demarcating the initial domain of social phenomena, a domain that is sacral in nature and functional in purpose. This refers not only to the formally adopted tribal, state, or religious law, but also to any rule that carries a punishment, inspiring fear in the offender and thereby intimidating him into toeing the line. A law may be written or unwritten, manmade or passed down by tradition -- in fact, it can be any or none of these, as long as it inspires fear or wields a punishment. In early societies practically every sphere [3] of human life -- let alone of collective life -- was ordained and tightly regimented. Primitive society left practically no degree of freedom to the individual. Freedom -- no matter how theoretical -- was a negative concept, viewed as akin to deviant behavior (this should be easily understood by those from the former Soviet Union, where any "deviation" was a crime), a departure from the true path, associated with death, and realizable only outside society and at the cost of renouncing the real and/or sacral protection it provided -- i.e. at the cost of the individual's social and sacral death. To merely raise the issue of freedom (specifically freedom from the law, the freedom to violate the law, to deviate from the law) was the equivalent of blasphemy, of siding with evil, undermining the fragile sacral edifice of the social habitat. Ignoring the law was viewed by the tribal society as a refusal to contribute one's share to the common cause, as an evasion of the vitally important collective mission, as a patently useless and invariably punished apostasy that posed a threat not only to society but to the entire world. A loyal individual needed no freedom in the earliest totalitarian societies.[4] In theory, the picture has not changed in the case of ultra-Orthodox Jews, for example. Their entire life is in principle ordained by Halacha; they view any action, no matter how insignificant, as imbued with sacral meaning, so that it must be understood and meticulously performed in full conformity to the letter of the law; on the other hand, the law does not overlook the tiniest detail. Thus their life has no place for freedom, not even for raising the issue of freedom. For the Jews (or the Bushmen -- the Jews are not alone in this), striving for freedom constitutes a sacrilege, tantamount to an attempt to overthrow the yoke of the law! For the ultra-Orthodox Jew, any degree of freedom is a result of oversight, weakness, disregard for the divine truths, as well as their society's failure to foist the required sacral restrictions on its members. All of this is possible only in a tribal society that is primitive in its structure. It should be stressed that the degree of regimentation is a key structural feature of society. The amount of natural, non-censured freedom allowed by society serves as the key indicator of its evolutionary distance from the primitive tribal system. One hundred percent regimentation is used only in the sacral structure of the tribal type -- no matter whether it is an ancient society or one that has deteriorated into a tribal state. We should keep in mind, however, that even in more advanced societies any rigid social regulation has a sacral quality. Even where the language has evolved to a sufficient degree, and numinous (I continue to be an admirer of Jung's language) terminology seems incompatible with society's nature, rigid constants are still called -- and are -- "sacred cows." Thus in the course of its development -- or rather de-sanctification, or, what is essentially the same, the liberalization of its norms -- the evolving society gave birth to a fascinating phenomenon: the de-sanctification and abolition of the law due its relative superfluity. This brings us to a crucial conclusion: at some point the law ceases to be the sole, principal, and (most importantly) most effective means of ensuring compliance with basic rules of social interaction, losing some of its relevance as a result. The classical mechanism of coercion through law and fear of punishment is replaced by a new socio-psychological mechanism. It turns out that social habits hitherto enforced by law are capable of sustaining themselves without the intervention of the latter. In other words, most if not all members of an evolving society are willing to comply with key social customs on a voluntary basis. It must be noted that in most instances the existence of the mechanism for self-sustaining social norms does not result in the abolition of the laws that actively safeguard those norms. Thus the fact that murder has long become unacceptable and abominable did not lead to the annulment of severe punishment for the murderer -- the violation of the rule "thou shalt not kill" is considered too dramatic to rely exclusively on social psychology in this matter. However, the law in the society we are familiar with is intended to restrain only the "marginal" would-be murderer -- a psychopath or the out-and-out vermin. It is not without reason that today virtually every murderer or rapist undergoes psychological testing in order to understand his irrational motives, as well as find out whether he is sane enough to bear responsibility for his actions. Social mechanisms that prevent murder have long been operating side by side with the law, and to a much better effect. Consider the fact that the reason the overwhelming majority of people do not kill their enemies is not their fear of retribution but because they regard murder as physically repugnant or even impossible -- unless carried out in the heat of passion. Abhorrence of murder saves far more lives today than the fear of retribution! And yet this has not always been the case. A mere several hundred years ago, murder per se did not particularly disturb the charming D'Artagnan as he strolled around civilized Paris knocking off Richelieu's men without batting an eye. Today, a musketeer brandishing a long sword would appear as a savage to the average Parisian. In 99% of the social domain in Paris there has long been no need for a law against murder, for it inspires the Parisians with visceral abhorrence. The law retains its relevance solely due to the remaining one percent. It should be noted, however, that not so long ago this abhorrence only applied to certain members of society. Subsequently this moral injunction acquired a universal nature, making it unthinkable to kill any human (and for some any animal), though not to an equal degree.[5] It is this mechanism of unregulated, self-sustaining social norms that deserves the title of morality. Let us try to give it an accurate and concise definition. Morality is a socio-psychological mechanism motivating society members to obey social norms and rules that are not regulated by law or that act independent of law. It should be noted that the root of morality, its line of descent, runs through society's assimilation and acceptance of the norms set down by law, so that even if the law does not die off completely it ceases to be essential on the macro-social level. Yet this is only one aspect of the issue. The moral mechanism is fully capable of invention, of creating new norms that are inherently moral or of extending old norms to people or objects previously unaffected by them. This, in fact, represents its main advantage over the law. Consider this: even today we are not overly concerned by the terrible hunger in Africa, although we would never tolerate a similar situation on our own turf -- even if the law did not demand it of us. Yet a mere couple of centuries ago in Europe, the view of the plight of the lower classes was roughly the same to as the genocide in Rwanda today; the only aid to the poor came from a handful of individual benefactors who had been the first to extend their class ideas of society to include other sectors of population. In their eyes a humble pauper became part of the same social fabric they belonged to -- a revolutionary innovation. It was different when members of privileged social groups found themselves in dire straits -- their well-to-do brethren supported them in a "natural" fashion. Next social morality spread to the entire population of Western Europe; yet it was not so long ago that Albert Schweitzer and Mother Teresa were the only ones to pay humanitarian visits to Africa or India, today's outsiders. Their choice was predetermined by the moral mechanism we have outlined, the same one that once turned the murder of a neighbor from a forbidden to an unacceptable act; they were merely among the first to have extended the psychological boundary of their society to the Third World. The expansion of social boundaries made it unacceptable for the majority of Parisians to treat with indifference a person starving to death on Champs Elysees or a public beating of a weaker person by a stronger. For the majority of Europeans, the same applies to the ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia. This should come as no surprise: the Europeans have finally come to embrace the Yugoslavians as more or less their own, denizens of the same Europe that has spread eastward and swallowed up the Balkans. We can see why these same Europeans placidly tolerate the genocide in Chechnya -- the moral mechanism has not yet persuaded them to adopt the Chechen as "their own." We see a classical example of a moral action in helping a man who falls down on the street and dislocates his leg. There is no law that obliges one to help the victim up and take him home or to the hospital (some countries, religions, and cultures do have statutes that require one to help a sick person, but even there it is enough to simply call the police or an ambulance). Nevertheless, the moral mechanism works like a charm: sincerely concerned people rush to help the victim from every side, as if by reflex. Make no mistake: what we are seeing is not a basic illustration of the effect of the moral mechanism, but a typical instance of expanded moral domain. The only primal force was probably the obligatory clan welfare, resembling the military framework where the care for the wounded lies with the System. In ancient Rome no one would have paid the slightest heed to a beggar sprawled on the ground and calling for help. In today's Western society, aiding the fallen is an entrenched moral norm. Understanding the nature of the moral mechanism enables us to give a reasonable answer to the following question: How do we explain the invariable failure of any attempt to build a modern society and economy based on the abolition or severe curtailment of individual initiative? We should keep in mind that, formally at least, the communist economy contains no insurmountable contradictions, so that generally speaking it is quite capable of survival. Furthermore, as we know, it was successfully launched on numerous occasions -- and yet the communist endeavors inevitably came to a bitter end. It was often pointed out that banning individual initiative, curtailing property rights, centralizing distribution of material good, and non-egotistic work motivation run contrary to human nature. It is obvious, however, that this is a matter of a cultural, i.e. transitory, contradiction -- for possessiveness is by no means an inborn trait. It is sufficient to remember that mankind went through a long period of primitive communism [6] and that private property is a relatively recent invention. Thus it is appropriate to offer a more modest explanation: individual initiative is a natural and inevitable element of an advanced civilization, and all attempts to suppress it are nothing but childish yearning for the anachronistic past. Unfortunately this assertion -- whether true or not -- is superficial and explains nothing. In order to give it substance we must determine why known civilizations are incapable of existing on the basis of communist principles, at what stage in social evolution this inconsistency went into effect, and most importantly, whether it is eternal -- in other words, how will the events unfold from now on? In short, we must create a sound theory of the socio-psychological mechanism that drives economic relationships. In fact, the moral theory provides us with a ready answer, and one that is not at all far-fetched. The revolutionary essence of a communist economy consists of transferring the idea of property from the regulated sphere to the moral one. This, incidentally, marks the dramatic difference between modern and primitive communist: in early antiquity private property was not even a social option, and society did not expect any material altruism from its members. Since social relations were rigidly and absolutely determined by sacral law, the problem of choosing a system of economic behavior did not even arise. On the other hand, today's communist is perfectly aware that the publicly owned cow or car could very well belong to him, so that acceptance of their collective status entails a personal sacrifice on his part. The question, thus, has to do with the nature and scope of this sacrifice. More often than not, economic communism was introduced by means of a decree that nationalized the means of production. As a rule, such a reform did not cause any essential problems.[7] Therefore the law is quite capable of establishing new economic relations -- all that remains is to prove their viability. It is here, unfortunately, that society meets with failure. As we have already remarked, the modern communist system, unlike its ancient counterpart, must compete with another, egotistic initiative both on the psychological and the economic fronts. Today members of communist collectives are expected to exhibit a consciously selfless work ethic, essentially amounting to an economic altruism, while at least aware about the existence (even if only in theory) of an egoistic alternative; at times the latter is very real, entering into a direct confrontation with the altruistic impulse. It is here that the problems begin: in practice, the amount of selfless industriousness was invariable never enough. To be sure, the lack of diligence may be counteracted by adopting coercive laws. Laws of this type (written or unwritten, but equally binding) were frequently introduced in different societies, yet they never solved the problem. The fact of the matter is that the very idea of forced altruism (as opposed, in a way, to forced labor) contains a serious inner contradiction. Exactly to the extent that economic altruism is at odds with today's society, a law such as we have mentioned proves futile -- forced altruism has no chance of taking root since it looks too much like slavery! As for slavery, civilization has decided its fate long ago and irrevocably, and on a competitive basis as well: had forced labor been sufficiently productive, slavery would never have been abolished. All in all, forcing people to work efficiently against their will is extremely hard -- industriousness is far too intimate an entity. Thus the success of a communist economy boils down to people's willingness, or even ability, to voluntarily display genuine industriousness in the framework of a system that does not repay them with adequate individual rewards. Yet this is nothing less than a moral problem as defined above! Let us rephrase it: Is there a socio-psychological mechanism capable of motivating people in today's society to diligently observe the rules of a communist economy without the use of coercion? Unfortunately, we are forced to answer this question in the negative: at the present time, there is no such mechanism. As a matter of fact, there are a number of indirect signs that clearly point toward this conclusion. For a communist enterprise to be efficient and competitive (in other words, where workers put as much effort into making it succeed as they would into their own business), people must be willing to devote themselves to their work regardless of rewards. It would be safe to assume that a society with such a work ethic would be virtually free of theft, so that if a person lost a wallet, there would be a 99% likelihood of his getting it back, and unopened too. In other words, the concept of possession in such a society should have shifted to the moral sphere, without any real need for formal regulation.[8] However, to this day this has not happened anywhere. What is more, most members of all societies continue to view the material sphere as one that permits discreet rapaciousness based on the time-tested motto "Whatever is not forbidden is permitted." Society's present attitude to economic egoism is no less positive than it was a century or two centuries ago; what is more, it has remained virtually unchanged. In business, unfortunately, altruism is still impossible, so it would be premature to give up the services of the bookkeeper and the watchman. Simply put, the material sphere still requires directed regulation, which is incompatible with the moral communist economic policy. That is why communist economic entities are rapidly and ruthlessly eaten away by the discrepancy between their moral appetites and society's incapacity to function in a non-regulated manner in the economic sphere. An extremely interesting question is whether changes in this sphere are possible in the foreseeable future. A serious discussion of this question would lead us far afield; it should be noted, however, that there are considerable grounds for cautious optimism. In recent centuries many crucial areas of social behavior have gradually started to become non-regulated. At present, human life and basic human rights need regulated protection to a far lesser degree than earlier -- though they have quite a few economic aspects. In our opinion there is a real chance for social and psychological change [9] in the sufficiently near future which will make the attitude to property more moderate than it is today, with material altruism becoming socially "passable" as a result. It is quite possible that in such a society the basic material relations between people will easily withstand being regulated by a moral non-decreed mechanism. In such a case the communist economic system will once again appear on the agenda, probably with better chances of success than it has today. We would like to discuss, at least in passing, a crucial and relevant issue -- the moral concept of ultra-Orthodox Judaism. It is of particular interest in the context of the moral mechanism theory proposed above, due to the aforementioned extremely regimented nature of the Jewish religion. Judaism has not only armed itself with practical commandments for every possible situation, but also supplied theoretical grounds for their necessity. The all-embracing concept of the world as an arena for man's worship of God effectively rules out any intellectual or moral human autonomy. Man may retain [10] his freedom of choice, but he is in no way the measure of good and evil. Even individual views on this issue are absolutely intolerable. Any predetermined situation is evaluated beforehand by the collective -- by Halacha, if you wish, expressing God's will and interpreted by the rabbis -- so that every ultra-Orthodox Jew is instructed from outside, or simply knows beforehand what is good and what is bad and how to act in any given case. All he has left, therefore, is choose between obedience (to God, the rabbi, and the law) and disobedience (to the same), the latter tantamount to transgression. This state of complete legal predetermination eradicates all other spheres of human autonomy, including the moral. In Judaism man does not decide what is good and what is bad (even what is white and what is black), and even when he does not know the right answer the most he can do is decide which way to turn. He is forbidden to create morality or even to discuss moral issues, for listening to the authorities does not constitute creativity and discussion, but rather choice through obedience, so that in today's positivistic terms he can be simply said to have no moral categories (or independent notions). In a society where the only available choice is between obedience and lawbreaking, man is happily freed from the "mirage of conscience," as aptly observed by one of the last century's totalitarian thinkers. Perhaps the original Jewish paradigm for making moral decisions is the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham, unlawful a priori (since it was forbidden by Jewish law itself), yet redefined as a necessary, moral (ordained) act commanded by God. This paradigm removes morality from human usage once and for all, returning it to Heaven. All in all, "good" in Judaism is synonymous with "ordained," which essentially leaves no room for "moral" in our sense of the word. In Judaism the moral non-regimented mechanism is simply inapplicable. This state of moral affairs is perfectly consistent with all the other elements of Judaism as a tribal religion, or, if you will, a religion of the tribal period. In this, Judaism is far from alone. These factors acquire particular significance when we proceed to examine the attempts made by liberal Orthodox Jews to manipulate those classical halachic injunctions which they view as inconsistent with the social standards of today, being downright amoral (by an apt definition, irreconcilable with the non-regulated norms of the society they were brought up in) from the standpoint of Western values. Their attitude is understandable: the prohibition against returning lost goods to a gentile does not look too appealing in present-day New York. However, it is precisely the tribal nature of Judaism that makes these attempts ludicrous. The moral watershed runs along the boundary that separates the tribe from a more advanced social unit. In a sense, morality is synonymous with freedom. Since these reformers are still Orthodox, the world in their eyes remains regulated, regimented, subservient to Halacha -- it has no room for the freedom to decide, and thus for the moral mechanism. As a consequence, the classical formulae cannot be repealed, retaining their sacred status as God's living word; returning lost goods to a gentile, at least ideally speaking, is an undesirable act. One may, however, take another road, one that does not disrupt the concept's unity: to arrive at the required social rule through more or less legitimate rabbinical methods, i.e. to authoritatively conclude that in our day and age, given our weakness and so on, the classical amoral prohibition (as viewed by the liberals, that is -- in the fundamentalist world, there is no morality or amorality) must unfortunately be temporarily suspended. In other words, the liberals, dissatisfied with Halacha, make use of the same Halacha to find justification for returning lost goods to a gentile. For a time this may be convenient for practical life, but it is totally inadequate from the moral standpoint. Since the essence of morality is that it flourishes in the non-regulated sphere, the obtained halachic permission is not even moral -- at best, it envelops the conduct of a liberal Orthodox Jew in a light moral veil, barely creating a veneer of a moral mechanism. Morality, whose essence lies in replacing rather than revising the law, does not need legal sanction. In fact, this was perfectly clear to the classical halachic thinkers, the Talmudic sages and the rishonim, who treated the few quasi-moral indulgences they issued as precisely that -- a veneer. Maimonides, who simultaneously prohibited the Jews from swindling gentiles, talking about them in positive terms, and returning goods they had lost, sensibly pointed out [11] that the moment the Jews win real power over the gentiles, or at least real independence from them, all the indulgences concerning Jewish-gentile relations will be abolished, while the principle of "for the sake of peaceful coexistence" that provided the basis for these indulgences will immediately evaporate. What is more, the Jews will not tolerate even the temporary presence of the most righteous gentile on the territory they control. There is no cruelty involved in this -- only the harsh tribal logic according to which Judaism has no room for morality as social factor, as a factor of social freedom, for the sacral law does not leave a single square millimeter of the social domain unfilled with decrees. Attempts to inject morality into Judaism are nothing but coarse modernization, inspired by ulterior motives, performed by people contaminated by alien -- usually European -- intellectual values. In their essence, these attempts are anti-Orthodox. The intellectual zeal of their instigators creates an outlandish picture: the law they have revised (the law and only the law -- after all, Orthodox Judaism, as well as all other Orthodox products of tribal mentality, knows nothing else) permits the Jews to return goods lost by a gentile while their suddenly awakened conscience pulls them to an ideal halachic time, a time when Judaism rises in all its glory and a Jew is finally able to draw a free breath, where there will be no indulgences either for the Jews or for the gentiles. In other words, the Jew is returned in his sweet dreams and prayers to a time when he will be allowed once again to not return the lost goods to a gentile with a clear conscience. [1] Let us leave aside the question of what ethics is, for if ethics -- as people often claim -- is the theory of morality, we still have to begin by defining morality. [2] Individual behavior -- provided it even exists as such -- is driven by completely different mechanisms. Yet what is individual behavior? A man raised outside society by monkeys or wolves is hardly a man. Robinson Crusoe on his tropical island incessantly reproduces a picture of the world learned previously in the British human society, behaving in a strange, not fully comprehended domain without people as if they are about to appear at any moment. To be sure, we can define individual behavior as behavior that is atypical, having no collective analogies and improvised by the individual, behavior that a priori has no social relevance due to its uniqueness. Yet is such behavior possible? Does it exist? And if it does exist, does it have any moral relevance? We are not about to step into this quagmire: man rarely realizes the extent to which he is a social animal. If he were not such an animal, he would not be able to realize anything at all. [3] Legends of primitive freedom and blissful tribal communism are as fictitious as the tales told by Russian Bolsheviks about the free socialist existence in Stalinist Russia. Freedoms, alas, are won at the high price of introducing complexity into social structures, including public production -- complexity that we appropriately call liberalization. Simplicity is synonymous with rigid constraints and severe punishment for any deviation from the letter of the law, always an offense by definition. [4] Continuing the topic of the preceding footnote -- it is amazing to what extent the primitive renunciation of freedom for the sake of global welfare resembles the political system of Soviet Russia! Nor is it any wonder: in order to force the people to voluntarily (a terrible oxymoron) give up freedom, the Bolsheviks had to create a total, world embracing picture, and proclaim it sacred to boot! [5] One might reasonably ask: what about the sanctioned murder committed in war? The answer is very simple: unfortunately, the social framework of civilian life does not apply to military reality. There, the division into "us" and "them" retains its original freshness, so that the extermination of "them" is transformed from a crime into a virtuous deed. But just try to harm one of "us" in war, especially a superior -- and you will immediately experience the force of the law in its early, unspoiled form. Admittedly, there do appear every so often peace-loving heroes who confuse the civilian and the military worlds and try to apply civilian social mechanisms developed by evolution to wartime. The results of their endeavors are plain to see: the civilized armies of today strive to kill only enemy soldiers, while sparing and even feeding innocent civilians. How well they do it is another question. [6] In fact, this period makes up almost the entire nominal history of mankind. [7] In several instances, it was even introduced in a relatively peaceful manner, with the consent of the members of communist collectives -- the Israeli kibbutzim are one example. Yet what was involved in those cases was not expropriation of existing assets, but rather creation of new and initially harmless economic entities. [8] Communist systems are well aware of this. No wonder they all declare as their primary objective the cultivation of the so-called new man, imbued with intrinsic altruistic values. The problem is that such a man cannot be cultivated -- although one day he might naturally hatch forth from society. [9] To begin with, society will become sufficiently wealthy and organized to guarantee members a decent standard of living; today even the richest countries cannot make this claim. [10] Actually he retains nothing of the sort, but that is quite another matter. [11] In chapter 11 of Hilchot M'lachim, Mishne Torah.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90388	Dan Gilbert se întreabă: De ce suntem fericiţi? TED2004 · 21:16 · Filmed Feb 2004 Subtitles available in 41 languages View interactive transcript 9,358,509 Total views Your impact Share this talk and track your influence! Dan Gilbert, autorul cărţii Stumbling on Happiness, contestă ideea că vom fi nefericiţi dacă nu obţinem ceea ce ne dorim. "Sistemul imunitar" al psihicului nostru ne permite să fim cu adevărat fericiţi chiar şi atunci când lucrurile nu merg aşa cum le-am plănuit. Psychologist; happiness expert 2000 characters remaining Please log in or sign up to add comments. Sort comments by There are currently no comments for this talk.
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90436	Kerry Faces the World What would a John Kerry foreign policy look like? In some ways a lot like one the current President's father could endorse In early February I sat in a Starbucks in downtown Washington with Dan Feldman, who is helping to organize Senator John Kerry's foreign-policy team. We discussed Kerry's vision of America's role in the world, and the people who might play important roles in his Administration if he is elected President, touching on everything from the crucial issue of Iraq and the simmering crises in North Korea and Iran to NATO and the proper balance between international alliances and the brute force necessary to secure American interests abroad—collectively, the foreign-policy questions that are central to the next election, and to the next four years. Even before Kerry triumphed in the primaries, foreign policy generally, and Iraq specifically, dominated the campaign—a state of affairs from which he unquestionably benefited, though the benefits may not hold indefinitely. His experience, both as a senator and as a combat veteran, proved instrumental in his victory, and as the situation deteriorates overseas, he and Bush, who was expected to be comfortably ahead, are essentially running neck and neck. At the same time, Kerry has come under constant attack for failing to articulate a clear plan to halt Iraq's slide into anarchy. As we discussed this, Feldman outlined a course that starkly departed from the one charted by President Bush, yet was equally unlike the approach—characterized by soft multilateralism and fealty to the United Nations—portrayed by Republicans as typical of Democratic foreign policy. Feldman emphasized the need for skilled diplomatic management and a willingness to use force abroad, but also an essential caution. The more he spoke, the more he called to mind the policies of the first Bush Administration. George H.W. Bush has receded into history. But his Administration's traditional if unimaginative attitude toward foreign relations lives on through his National Security Adviser, Brent Scowcroft, who re-emerged two years ago as one of the most unabashed and difficult-to-dismiss critics of the buildup to war in Iraq. Democrats once viewed Scowcroft as the champion of an amoral and shortsighted foreign policy that sacrificed American values in order to achieve stable relations with great powers and avoid trouble in hot spots like the Balkans (a view, incidentally, shared by many of the neoconservatives who surround the current President). It was Scowcroft who secretly traveled to Beijing shortly after the Tiananmen Square massacre to reassure the Chinese that government-to-government relations needn't suffer despite the bipartisan indignation of the American public. But in 2002, lacking a consistent criticism of the drive toward war, many Democrats eagerly took shelter in Scowcroft's high-profile opposition. Wondering how he would take it, I said to Feldman, "What you're describing to me sounds a lot like what I'd expect from Brent Scowcroft." "Yes," he said. "I think a lot of what you'd see from a Kerry Administration might be like that. I think there'd be a lot of similarities." When I later made the same suggestion to Kerry's chief foreign-policy adviser, Rand Beers, he agreed. John Kerry has yet to flesh out his positions on many key foreign-policy questions. But he has nonetheless provided clues—through his speeches, public statements, and choice of advisers—to how he would govern if elected. What's more, it's not difficult to identify the people he would be likely to rely on in the area of foreign policy—they're a close-knit group, many of them veterans of the Clinton Administration. During the spring I interviewed a wide range of people who are in the running for roles in a Kerry Administration, including such probable candidates for Secretary of State as Senator Joseph Biden and Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, current Kerry advisers such as Jonathan Winer and Rand Beers, and many of the lower-level bureaucrats and congressional staffers who would fill out the foreign-policy apparatus of a new Democratic Administration. Last December, Kerry delivered a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations titled "Making America Secure Again," in which he declared, "Those of us who seek the Democratic presidential nomination owe the American people more than just anger, more than just criticisms of the Bush policy, or even piecemeal solutions. We need to convince America that we Democrats are responsible stewards of our national security and of America's role in the world." As a Democrat trying to unseat a Republican in time of war, Kerry faces a historic challenge. In the period after Vietnam the Democratic Party became a house divided against itself, with an articulate and energetic dovish base battling a diffuse but larger Cold War constituency. This had two effects. First, it created a poisonous dynamic whereby Democratic politicians came to approach national-security policy less in substantive than in tactical terms—searching for the sweet spot of political safety or attempting to dispense with national security as quickly as possible in order to move on to matters with which they were more comfortable. Over the years this habit of reflexively adopting the politically expedient position sent voters a clear message: many Democratic politicians were just not serious about national security. The second effect was to cede the ideological and intellectual battlefield to Republicans. In the post-Cold War era Republicans developed a foreign-policy vision based on the notion that America should aggressively assert itself abroad, and in which the problem of Saddam Hussein became an idée fixe. These twin perceptions—of Democratic feebleness and Republican assuredness—combined to devastating effect in the 2002 elections. Democrats were trounced, and President Bush seemed unstoppable. But as conditions in Iraq have grown steadily worse, the terrain has shifted. What voters once viewed as the President's steely resolve many now see as stubbornness, which has led to skepticism about his practical know-how and ability to carry out the mission of stabilizing and democratizing Iraq. Against this backdrop Kerry's foreign policy could prove attractive. Democratic foreign-policy hands tend to be less ideologically driven than Republican ones. Their strengths lean toward technocratic expertise and procedural competence rather than theories and grand visions. This lack of partisan edge is best illustrated by the fact that two of Kerry's top advisers served on Bush's National Security Council staff as recently as last year (Beers as senior director for counterterrorism, and Flynt Leverett as senior director for Middle East initiatives). The team that advised candidate Bush in 1999 and 2000—the so-called "Vulcans"—was practically the mirror opposite of the Kerry team. Though all its members had served at least one stint in government, most had held political appointments rather than working for decades in the security bureaucracy, as Beers did. And whereas Kerry's team is the embodiment of the nation's professional national-security apparatus, key members of Bush's team, such as Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, had spent entire careers trying to overthrow it. In a telling sign of the parties' differences on foreign policy, discussion of the next Secretary of State is rampant among Democrats. (The issue of who would run the Pentagon—more of a power base in Republican Administrations, particularly this one—is a subject of much less debate.) Speculation focuses primarily on Richard Holbrooke, Clinton's former ambassador to the United Nations, who gained fame and no little notoriety for his peacemaking efforts in Bosnia; and Joseph Biden, a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who remains its senior Democratic member. Both men are stars in the somewhat gray firmament of Democratic foreign policy; both boast outsize personalities and loyal followings; and the two scarcely differ in their approach to the major foreign-policy issues of the moment. Other key appointments would most likely be filled by the advisers who have surrounded Kerry since he launched his bid for the nomination. Rand Beers is often touted as a Democratic successor to Condoleezza Rice; he functioned as the equivalent of a National Security Adviser to Kerry throughout the primaries, crafting many of his policy positions. Others who figure prominently are Nancy Stetson, the chief foreign-policy adviser on Kerry's Senate staff, and Jonathan Winer, a longtime aide who specialized in international money laundering and terrorist financial networks for Kerry in the 1980s and early 1990s, and later in Clinton's State Department. From the archives: "Spies, Lies, and Weapons: What Went Wrong" (January/February 2004) How could we have been so far off in our estimates of Saddam Hussein's weapons programs? A detailed account of how and why we erred. By Kenneth M. Pollack From Atlantic Unbound: Interviews: "Weapons of Misperception" (January 13, 2004) Kenneth M. Pollack, the author of The Threatening Storm, explains how the road to war with Iraq was paved with misleading and manipulated intelligence. A number of former Clinton officials, turned out by Bush's victory, would probably return to fill additional positions in a Kerry Administration. Some likely candidates are Ron Asmus (a State Department veteran and a possible assistant secretary of state for Europe), Jamie Rubin (Madeleine Albright's chief spokesman at the State Department), and several notable veterans of Clinton's National Security Council staff, including James Steinberg, Ivo Daalder, and Kenneth Pollack. Although some divisions exist among them (Daalder was an adviser to Howard Dean, for instance), these veterans tend to take a more hawkish approach to foreign policy than most professional Democrats of the post-Vietnam generation and even many current Democratic voters. Pollack is the author of The Threatening Storm, an influential book that argued for regime change in Iraq and was frequently cited by Republicans during the buildup to the invasion. Late last year, when Howard Dean was the front-runner, Pollack, Asmus, and another key Kerry adviser—the former State Department official Greg Craig—signed a manifesto titled "Progressive Internationalism: A Democratic National Security Strategy," which aimed to put the Democratic foreign-policy establishment on record against Dean's perceived slide toward the party's dovish past. Over the course of Clinton's presidency, especially during his second term, the President's foreign-policy team crafted a new vision of how America should engage with the post-Cold War world. Because this process got into gear well before 9/11, when the world was less keenly attuned to lofty questions of foreign policy, their vision received far less attention than the high-octane theorizing of Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney, and the neocons before and after the attacks. Nevertheless, it offers a road map to the probable overall direction of a Kerry Administration—one that might surprise people familiar with Kerry only through his relentless criticism of Bush on the campaign trail. These ex-Clintonites are quite comfortable with the use of force, and actually agree with the Bush Administration on some key goals—for instance, exporting democracy and political liberalization—though they differ significantly on how they would pursue them. They also differ on the question of where the true threats to America lie and how to combat them. Kerry's advisers focus less exclusively on nation-states like those Bush identified in his infamous "Axis of Evil" speech and more on the host of diffuse dangers that have arisen in the wake of globalization: destabilization, arms smuggling, and terrorism. As the situation in Iraq has worsened, Kerry has stepped up his criticism of the Bush Administration. In an April 30 speech at Westminster College, Kerry laid out a three-part plan for the occupation and reconstruction of the country. First he would expand and internationalize the security force by seeking the support of the UK, France, Russia, and China, and also NATO, which, he suggested, might take control of the borders and train Iraq's army. Second he would propose an international high commissioner to oversee elections, write a constitution, and organize the reconstruction efforts. Third he would launch a "massive training effort" to expand Iraqi security forces. Taking those steps, Kerry declared, "is the only way to succeed in the mission while ending the sense of an American occupation." On the surface this may sound like merely a difference of emphasis—as though the only change Kerry proposes is a dash more multilateralism and UN involvement. But beyond specifics, the significance of which can be misinterpreted, lies a fundamental difference in world view between Democrats and Republicans—a difference in how they see the nature of the threat facing America. This, more than any distinction between hawk and dove, is also the fundamental foreign-policy difference between Bush and Kerry. From its inception the Bush Administration has viewed states as the key actors on the world stage, and relations among them as the primary concern of U.S. foreign policy. It is a mindset rooted in the realities of the Cold War, which defined U.S. foreign policy at the time when most of the President's key advisers gained their formative experience in government. The fixity of this mindset also explains why the Bush Administration spent its first months so heavily focused on the issue of national missile defense, and seemed so surprised by al-Qaeda's transnational terrorism. The Bush team didn't discount the problem of weapons of mass destruction; it simply expected trouble to come from an ICBM-wielding "rogue state" like Iraq or North Korea, rather than from Islamic terrorist groups. Viewed through this lens, the Administration's fixation on Iraq after 9/11 becomes somewhat easier to understand. As Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith explained to Nicholas Lemann, of The New Yorker, on the eve of the Iraq War, "One of the principal strategic thoughts underlying our strategy in the war on terrorism is the importance of the connection between terrorist organizations and their state sponsors. Terrorist organizations cannot be effective in sustaining themselves over long periods of time to do large-scale operations if they don't have support from states." First as a military negotiator in Bosnia and later as NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during the second Clinton Administration, Clark was one of the figures at the center of the process that shaped current Democratic foreign-policy views. In its early years, rhetoric aside, the Clinton Administration hewed closely to George H.W. Bush's policy of studied non-involvement in the Balkans, even as Yugoslavia slid into chaos. But over time that region became a forcing ground for re-evaluating Democratic beliefs about foreign policy. The Balkans proved that soft-sounding concerns like human-rights abuses, ethnic slaughter, lawlessness, and ideological extremism could quickly mount into first-order geopolitical crises. By the mid-1990s this had led the Clinton Administration to focus on terrorism, failed states, and weapons proliferation, and as it did, its foreign-policy outlook changed. The key threats to the United States came to be seen less in terms of traditional conflicts between states and more in terms of endemic regional turmoil of the sort found in the Balkans. "The Clinton Administration," says Jonathan Winer, "started out with a very traditional Democratic or even mainstream approach to foreign policy: big-power politics, Russia being in the most important role; a critical relationship with China; European cooperation; and some multilateralism." But over the years, he went on, "they moved much more to a failed-state, global-affairs kind of approach, recognizing that the trends established by globalization required you to think about foreign policy in a more synthetic and integrated fashion than nation-state to nation-state." As Winer argues, the threats were less from Russia or China, or even from the rogue states, than from the breakdown of sovereignty and authority in a broad geographic arc that stretched from West Africa through the Middle East, down through the lands of Islam, and into Southeast Asia. In this part of the world poverty, disease, ignorance, fanaticism, and autocracy frequently combined in a self-reinforcing tangle, fostering constant turmoil. Home to many failed or failing states, this area bred money laundering, waves of refugees, drug production, gunrunning, and terrorist networks—the cancers of the twenty-first-century world order. In the Balkans, Holbrooke, Clark, and other leading figures found themselves confronting problems that required not only American military force but also a careful synthesis of armed power, peacekeeping capacity, international institutions, and nongovernmental organizations to stabilize the region and maintain some kind of order. Though the former Yugoslavia has continued to experience strife, the settlement in the Balkans remains the most successful one in recent memory, and offers the model on which a Kerry Administration would probably build. As Holbrooke told me, the Bush Administration's actions in Iraq have shown that the Administration understands only the military component of this model: "Most of them don't have a real understanding of what it takes to do nation-building, which is an important part of the overall democratic process." A key assumption shared by almost all Democratic foreign-policy hands is that by themselves the violent overthrow of a government and the initiation of radical change from above almost never foster democracy, an expanded civil society, or greater openness. "If you have too much change too quickly," Winer says, "you have violence and repression. We don't want to see violence and repression in [the Middle East]. We want to see a greater zone for civilization—a greater zone for personal and private-sector activity and for governmental activity that is not an enactment of violence." Bush and his advisers have spoken eloquently about democratization. But in the view of their Democratic counterparts, their means of pursuing it are plainly counterproductive. It is here, Holbrooke says, that the Administration's alleged belief in the stabilizing role of liberal democracy and open society collides with its belief in the need to rule by force and, if necessary, violence: "The neoconservatives and the conservatives—and they both exist in uneasy tension within this Administration—shift unpredictably between advocacy of democratization and advocacy of neo-imperialism without any coherent intellectual position, except the importance of the use of force." Because Afghanistan was the Bush Administration's first order of business following the 9/11 attacks, the results of this policy have advanced the furthest there. And because Kerry is on record as saying he would increase the number of U.S. and allied troops in Afghanistan, it's probably the clearest measure of how a Kerry Administration would differ from Bush's. Afghanistan is a subject that Kerry's advisers and other senior Democrats turn to again and again. When I interviewed Joseph Biden in late March, he recounted a conversation he'd had with Condoleezza Rice in the spring of 2002 about the growing instability that had taken hold after the Taliban was defeated, in late 2001. Biden told Rice he believed that the United States was on the verge of squandering its military victory by allowing the country to slip back into the corruption, tyranny, and chaos that had originally paved the way for Taliban rule. Rice was uncomprehending. "What do you mean?" he remembers her asking. Biden pointed to the re-emergence in western Afghanistan of Ismail Khan, the pre-Taliban warlord in Herat who quickly reclaimed power after the American victory. He told me: "She said, 'Look, al-Qaeda's not there. The Taliban's not there. There's security there.' I said, 'You mean turning it over to the warlords?' She said, 'Yeah, it's always been that way.'" Biden was seeking to illustrate the blind spot that Democratic foreign-policy types see in Bush officials like Rice, who believe that if a rogue state has been rid of its hostile government (in this case the Taliban), its threat has therefore been neutralized. Democrats see Afghanistan as an affirmation of their own view of modern terrorism. As Fareed Zakaria noted recently in Newsweek, the Taliban regime was not so much a state sponsoring and directing a terrorist organization (the Republican view) as a terrorist organization sponsoring, guiding, and even hijacking a state (the Democratic view). Overthrowing regimes like that is at best only the first step in denying safe haven to al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. Equally important is creating the institutional bases of stability and liberalization that will prevent another descent into lawlessness and terror—in a word, nation-building. This marriage of power and values is the essence of the foreign-policy vision espoused by leading Democratic thinkers. Out of political caution Kerry's campaign advisers still tend to seek the safety of a Scowcroftian middle ground, but the foreign-policy advisers who would serve President Kerry have quite a different vision—much more ambitious and expansive than anything pursued by the first Bush Administration. In my interviews with the people around Kerry, it became clear how this Democratic world view would apply to some of the major problem areas in the world. For example, Kerry Democrats do not believe that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the cause of Middle East instability and extremism. But they do believe that almost nothing the United States does to liberalize and pacify the region can have much chance of success so long as the standoff on the West Bank remains unresolved. This is another area of disagreement between Bush and Kerry. Before the war Bush Administration hawks said that the road to Middle East peace ran through Baghdad. They meant that deposing Saddam Hussein would ease negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians. This claim was based on three beliefs: that ousting Saddam would remove a threat to the Israelis, making them more willing to accommodate; that regime change in Iraq would deprive Palestinians of a potential ally; and that building a modern democracy in the heart of the Middle East would blunt persistent doubts about U.S. intentions—doubts that had hampered previous efforts. Today that vision looks increasingly improbable, and Kerry's team believes it is deeply misguided. The Kerry team's plan for handling the looming crises in North Korea and Iran is similarly distinct from the Bush Administration's, principally in its willingness to seek a negotiated settlement in each case. Whether such settlements can be achieved is debatable. But the approach is a marked departure from that of the Bush Administration, which has been unwilling to negotiate with the North Koreans but equally unwilling to risk using force—the only serious alternative to some sort of agreement. On Iraq, Kerry's policy is more obscure, in part because, as his advisers point out, they simply don't know what the country will look like next January—and the possibilities are becoming ever more limited in light of the worsening state of affairs there. But Kerry's top advisers make clear that their main priorities would be internationalizing the occupation and adopting a broader regional approach to stabilizing the country. As the situation deteriorated throughout the spring, Bush grudgingly embraced several policy alternatives long advocated by his critics, including Kerry—such as increasing the number of troops in the country and creating a substantially larger role for the United Nations. But Kerry's advisers argue that the Bush team is simply too invested in ideology and too compromised by its mistakes in Iraq ever to truly make the right decisions. Some allies simply distrust the Administration too much to lend a hand. Only a new Administration, they argue, can make the clean break that America needs in Iraq. Polls show that the public's faith in Bush's ability to manage foreign policy has dropped precipitously over the past year, and that more voters now oppose his Iraq policy than support it. 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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90477	Glassjaw Bio Band members Daryl Palumbo - Vocals Beck - Guitar Todd N. Weinstock - Guitar Manuel Carrero - Bass Larry Gorman - Drums Glassjaw Naked and truthful. Pure and brutally direct. Glassjaw work stray chords, a Radiohead-ish swirl of guitar and a barrage of bared emotions into a frenzy that's singular and uncompromising. Glassjaw's IAM/Roadrunner debut, Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence is as riveting and personal a record as you could ask for. One where beauty turns to disgust; where melodies turn molten. From the start, the members of Glassjaw didn't know or care about anything other than playing together. Vocalist Daryl Palumbo and guitarist Justin Beck may have been 14 or 15 at the time they started making this glorious racket in their Long Island parents' basements. "We've always kind of done whatever we want." says Beck, now 20.. "We always knew that we'd go get a lot further doing something on our terms rather than what everyone else was doing around us," Palumbo, also 20, chimes in. "We were always too dorky looking to be metal kids...and we looked like skaters. Nobody knew what to think of us!" At that point, who played what instrument wasn't even the issue, Beck serving as the band's occasional bassist and on-and-off drummer. What was important was making music without confine. To Glassjaw, sticking out like a sore thumb made more sense than blending into the pack. One person whose ear Glassjaw managed to catch was producer Ross Robinson who calls the band "The new post-millennial destroyers of Adidas rock, R.I.P." Known for his work with Korn and Limp Bizkit, as well as his IAM label imprint through Roadrunner (already home to the likes of Slipknot), Robinson heard a mere few seconds of the band at first on a crudely recorded demo a few days later at rehearsal and the IAM/Roadrunner deal was sealed. "Ross showed up at a practice," Beck recounts. "We start a song; 5-4-3-2-1. Ross stands up, waving his hands and he's like, 'It's over, it's done. I want to do this, you've got a deal!' he told us. It was chills from the start. We couldn't believe it...and actually didn't believe it for weeks." The ensuing two months of recording at Indigo Ranch in Malibu, CA were focused and intense. "The first day of preproduction, we had no idea what to expect," says Beck. "We start the first song and Ross is yelling 'Stop! Stop! He says to Daryl, 'What's this song about?' Daryl starts telling him and we start giggling a bit. He stopped us dead in our tracks and basically let us know that this wasn't a joke at all. It was dead serious. It put us all in check. He made Daryl spell out exactly what the song was about which was extremely personal. He taught us that the more you hold back, the more you cheat yourself and the more you cheat everyone else." That honesty is core to Glassjaw. From the gnashing guitars of "Pretty Lush"; the plunging bass-lines of "One Eight Becomes Two Zeros"; the gnarled pop of "Ry Ry's Song" straight to the musical and emotional meltdown of "Motel of the White Locust", Glassjaw's debut speaks volumes. It's as delicate and sensitive as it is venomous. Palumbo's lyrical point of view is one of utter brutality and a keen intelligence; "Punk times fifty!" he exclaims; cribbing bits and pieces from sources as diverse as Elvis Costello, the Bad Brains, Squeeze and Japanese Anime and monster flicks. "Collage is the art form of the 20th century!" he states emphatically. For instance: "Godzilla is a metaphor for life," he states with a smile. "Every song I write is originally named after something relating to a Godzilla movie. Don't laugh! Godzilla movies singlehandedly taught me about growing up; taught me about relationships, respect. If you get fked, you have to level Tokyo!" Expect moments as gnarled and powerful as the title track, a cascade of pure sound and emotion that culminates in Palumbo screaming "THIS IS WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE ALONE!!!!!" A wired howl from a frontman who's spent the past few years dealing with the intestinal disorder, Crohn's Disease. "I'm not exactly the most positive person in the world, but it's important for me to share this experience with people," the frontman believes. "I know what I wish I could have heard when I was diagnosed with this incredibly serious disease. I know what it feels like to be alone in a hospital room. I'm just a fkin' 20 year old dork, but if I can make people feel less alone, that's important." Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence isn't necessarily an easy listen; it is, however, as truthful as a 20 year old can be. "This record is basically a modern take on love," the frontman explains. "You can write a record that's an anti-relationship record or a broken heart record or a revenge record. Fact is, I'm in plain English saying what's on my mind as bluntly as possible. Sorry, real life isn't politically correct. This is how I feel in my heart and my guts. If you say you can't relate to this, then you haven't had your heart broken."
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90489	'You can't base a marriage on terror alone': Tim Dowling responds to readers' questions Weekend columnist Tim Dowling answers readers' questions about his marriage, DIY, coping with below the line comments, American humour and his pet snake tim dowling Tim Dowling being scanned for a 3D model being made of him at iMakr in Clerkenwell. Photograph: Linda Nylind Writer, journalist, parent to three children, and husband of 20 years Tim Dowling will answer your questions live next Wednesday. You can ask him anything including what it means to be a 21st century husband; what it's like working as a Weekend columnist; his role as 'head of household maintenance'; or what it's like living as an American in England. User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor OK, I'm here, I think. Thanks everybody for posting, and I'll answer as many as I can. Only now does it occur to me that I should have got an avatar for this account. I had all bloody morning to sort that out. Too late. Onward! Which actors would play you and your family in a biography of your life? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor This is a conversation I actually had to have, believe it or not, because my book got optioned. The producers named a bunch of American actors I'd never heard of, but when I looked them up later I decided none of them was good-looking enough. The part of my wife was described as "high-end" casting. I'm not sure what what means. Why did you let your snake suffer a slow, painful death? Why did you get a pet in the first place, when animal welfare is clearly so unimportant to you? Why do you think animal neglect and cruelty are suitable topics for a comedy column? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor Well, it wasn’t a slow decline by snake standards - Mrs Hammerstein hung on for 5 months - and as for painful, there was never any suggestion from the vet that he was in pain, or that immediate euthanisation was required. We waited a while to hear whether he had mouth rot, which might have got better, or a tumour, which wouldn’t. When it turned out to be the latter, the vet said when he needed to be put down, she would have to arrange for a special snake gas chamber to be delivered to the surgery. I don’t know exactly when a snake’s quality of life has deteriorated to the point where being dead is better, or the precise day when a child’s fondness for a snake must give way to the inevitability of the snake’s deterioration. But a little over 2 months after his last meal I felt that Mr Rogers had reached a point where I was prepared to do the right thing by him, without waiting for a gas chamber to be arranged. In the end, I didn’t have to. I’m sorry if I upset anyone by admitting I was prepared to chop a snake’s head off. It won’t happen again - I’m all out of snakes. After who was Mr. Rogers named? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor Mr Rogers was named after the snake in The Mighty Boosh, by one of my children. He was not named after the host of US children’s TV show Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood, although that’s still what I think of when I hear the name. I would like to know about the car wing-mirror!!! Can we get that solved?? Also, how do you cope with the lack of humor from all the people posting nasty things below your articles? I for one look forward to your Sat column, all the way from Argentina!! User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor I wish I had an answer for you. The wing mirror is still mismatched, and I still have no explanation for it. The most likely possibility - that I changed it myself and have absolutely no memory of doing so - is to terrible to contemplate. Thanks for your continued remote reading. As an economic migrant how are you coping with the current climate of anti immigrant rhetoric? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor Like all the rest of us, I'm just here to do the jobs no one else wants to do. Do you read the BTL comments on your weekend articles, and if so, do the negative ones depress you? I imagine your wife does, even if you don't, and takes great pleasure in reading out the more critical ones User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor I do read them, and you're right - if I were ever to miss one, my wife reads them out to me with a certain amount of glee. The only one that ever irritates me is when people leave the comment "first world problems". They're always going to be first world problems, every time. There is never going to be a week where I get cholera. You got more flak for your article about killing your snake than any other issue. Did you play up your prevarication for comic purposes? Was cumulative sum for the two columns you wrote about the animal's suffering less than the £200 vet's bill for a swift, humane exit? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor I think I got more flak for admitting I had a cleaner, as JackChinaski, says. User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor I don't think you could base a whole marriage on terror alone, but a little fear is no bad thing. It keeps you on your toes. You should never be so secure in a relationship that you can't imagine the whole thing falling apart over a long weekend. It seems that being slightly terrified of your wife (who I admire greatly) played a big part in both your initial attraction to her, and the on going success of your marriage. Do you think this is an overlooked secret to a successful marriage? Camping? Really? Why? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor 1. Your Weekend column teaches me a valuable lesson in the futility and banality of existence ? Why then do I feel the (jealously guarded) need to read your column before my wife of a Saturday morning ? Psychoanalyse please. 2. You ruined the effect of being the totemic symbol of everyman-ism by allowing publication of that rather hipsterish photo from the 90s. Too cool for school Mr D, some of us only have a picture of ourselves wearing brown corduroys and NHS glasses outside McDonalds in Bromley High Street from that era. So whats it to be : (1) genuine struggler with the horrific ongoing joke that we call life or (2) Mr Sorted, just giving the audience some hope before raising a peripatetic (a good word for an audio CD) eyebrow at the bohemian coolness of his own existence ? Since there's not too many questions so far I figured I could post more than one :) If you had to give just one piece of advice to your boys on 'how to be a good husband' what would it be? You're very self-deprecating in column and your book - if your wife had to be objective (by which I mean not in a mood to go through a list of 'Tim; the inadequacies of'!) would she agree that how you portray yourself is accurate? Did you ever successfully stop self-googling? And do you think you've developed a fairly thick-skin in response to the kind of nasty comments that sometimes get posted, or did you ever (/do you still) find them hurtful? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor That photo was taken with a timer in a cheap hotel room in Naples, just after we'd run out of money on honeymoon and had to beg a loan from the British vice consul. It was not a cool or hipsterish moment in my life, although I'll admit the lighting and composition were pretty good. Accidental, I assure you. User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor OK - 1. Learn to be wrong most, if not all of the time. 2. She knows it's accurate, but I come across as more self-aware than she's prepared to accept is true. 3. Self-googling doesn't really work any more - there's millions of Tim Dowling out there, and far too much information to wade through. Fortunately, I now get my hate delivered weekly. Tim, do you think that your Weekend column would amuse an American audience? Could it be syndicated in the USA? What are the differences, that you have noticed, between American and British humour? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor I don't think there are any real differences in the mechanics of humour between the US and Britain, but the cultural references are different. You sort of have to live in the same world as your audience. That said, I've adapted a lot of old American gags over the years, while pretending I've invented them. 1. Why didn't you just take your snake to the vet when he became ill? 2. Do you accept that you caused Mr Rogers unnecessary suffering? 3. Did the RSPCA contact you about it? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor 1. we did. 2. No. 3. No. Are you passing on your considerable DIY skills to your children, or will they look everything up on You-tube when they need to put shelves up or unblock a toilet? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor They haven't learned much from me, apart from little lessons in coping with humiliation and failure. I just want to instil in them the sense that it's worth having a go. What little expertise I possess will probably be useless soon anyway. They'll be unblocking the toilets of the future, with lasers. The opening paragraphs of your novel read like a tribute to David Lodge's "Therapy". Had you read the Lodge novel and decided to pay tribute or was this a mere accident of intertextuality? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor I'd never read it, so the latter. But I did just read the Look Inside bit on Amazon, and it is pretty eerie. Middle-aged men are bedevilled by similar things, I guess. Do you believe in Doppelgänger families? We have 3 kids, 2 dogs, a husband who is as good at DIY as you and a wife who swears and is as bossy as yours. We sneak into tesco and occasionally lose a dog in the park. I can't wait to read your column to see what we've been doing all week. User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor I already have a doppelgänger in Cornwall called Neil. You, in fact are my trippelganger, or perhaps "verdreifachenganger" In any case, welcome aboard. Which DIY project is your wife most proud of? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor I think she was impressed with my re-tiling in the bathroom. She even said so. She can't have looked at them that closely. I enjoy your column Tim. What's the worst thing the Guardian has made you do for an article? And what was the best thing? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor The worst thing may have been dressing up as a bus conductor and then speeding a day trying to lure commuters onto a cattle truck in central London. It's really hard to park a cattle truck. But they did just send me to Italy on a lovely second honeymoon for a travel piece. Does it make up for the cattle truck thing? No. User avatar for CarmenFishwick Guardian staff Hi Tim. What do you make of Kirstie Allsop's comments on motherhood? And what role do you think men should play is this issue? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor On t one hand, I think the idea of women putting real estate and babies first and university second amounts to a risky bet about which is going to be more expensive in 15 years’ time. If the property bubble bursts and university fees rise to £60 a year, you’re going to feel like a fool. Anybody who wants to be a parent - man or woman - has to reckon with the fertility window, and everybody has to make compromises in life, but what Kirsty Allsopp is suggesting - that you do whatever job you can get without a university education until you’ve secured a flat deposit and a boyfriend - make the situation sound bizarrely desperate. University takes 3 years. I think a man ought to be prepared to share out the career sacrifices that come with having children, but it’s usually an economic decision, not a moral one: second-highest earner stays home, unless that person earns more than a nanny. How do you feel about having so many comments removed and deleted when your articles appear? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor How do you feel about it? User avatar for jameswalsh Guardian staff Hey Tim, I want to talk bluegrass. What other bands on the circuit have you been impressed by? What are your favourite venues? Ever been to What's Cookin' in Leytonstone or seen the Coal Porters? Also what's your favourite depiction of a banjo in literature? It's three men in a boat, isn't it? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor At the moment I'm listening to Hatful of Rain's new album, which isn't strictly bluegrass but has some fine banjo work on it. Good stuff - I recommend. I'm going to say Deliverance; not certain, but I think the banjo in Three Men is probably a 4-string. Do your family find you funny? User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor Not when I'm trying to be funny. But when I'm not, often. User avatar for TimDowling Guardian contributor I think that's my time up. I'm going to see if I can put an avatar on this account now; my first attempt failed spectacularly. Thank you all. 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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90491	Beth Ditto: 'I'm constantly learning how to be confident' Now in her 30s, Beth Ditto's priorities – and her music – are changing. Here she discusses her forthcoming marriage and how Abba became an influence on Gossip's latest album beth ditto Beth Ditto photographed for the Observer in London. Photograph: Suki Dhanda for the Observer Beth Ditto is tremendously unflappable, even at the end of a long day with a schedule that's starting to come apart at the seams. As people whirl about her, armed with make-up brushes, cameras and notebooks, she remains quietly unhurried and benignly encouraging. "Press on!" she exhorts me cheerily, as I sense she's about be spirited away to her next appointment. "You do what you've got to do!" It's partly, as she explains to me, that an upbringing shaped by poverty and hard work makes her eminently realistic about her life now – "As soon as I start to get a little bit down on it, I'll just feel like, you're not going to the factory" – and partly that preciousness just doesn't seem an element of her character. She clearly loves a certain kind of artifice – the unfettered costumes, the wild make-up looks – but in conversation, she's immensely down-to-earth and natural, veering from giggly girlishness as she talks about her upcoming wedding to a frank elaboration of the most recent musical turn taken by Gossip, the band she has fronted since its formation in 1999. It's the group's fifth studio album, A Joyful Noise, their first since 2009's Music for Men, that has brought Ditto out on the road now. And there's a lot to talk about. Gossip have always been tricky to categorise – with their early work most commonly labelled as punk or indie rock, they've also been influenced by soul, gospel, country, hip-hop, electropop, dance, funk, disco and garage music. But A Joyful Noise, produced by Brian Higgins, who has previously worked with Kylie, the Pet Shop Boys and Girls Aloud, is unapologetically bold, brassy and highly accessible – and a world away from punk's defiantly simple three-chord tradition. At times you could close your eyes and think you were listening to Madonna, circa Ray of Light; at others, the 80s electro synth stabs recall late Blondie. And it could just be me, but the hip-hop intro of "Get a Job", a rather strait-laced injunction to knuckle down and take responsibility for your life, gives way to a bass-line that almost sounds like … Kraftwerk. And then, of course, there is Abba, the band that Ditto confides she listened to solidly for the year that this record took to make. She had, she says, become intrigued with the possibilities of songs that were rigorously constructed and produced: "That's the thing about Abba. There is zero rawness. That's so incredible to me. I think I'm really infatuated with that right now because that's not the music I usually listen to. It never caught my attention before." At 31, Ditto is, of course, too young to have been into Abba the first time round, although she credits her mother's eclectic musical tastes with broadening her own listening habits from an early age. That and growing up in rural Arkansas where, paradoxically, the lack of music available – "we didn't have a record store, we had Walmart" – and a shortage of funds led to unexpected discoveries, often made by meticulously combing through yard sales. She and fellow Gossip founder member Nathan Howdeshell (aka Brace Paine), who also grew up in Arkansas, frequently talk now "about how the reason why we are so connected to old music is because we weren't necessarily connected to pop music, even though we listened to it and we knew it and enjoyed it on a level. But we wanted more, so the only other option was old music because that was the kind of thing you could find ... It was cheaper, too: it was $10 for a cassette tape and 99 cents for an old cassette tape. And you could have four, or like 10, and that was always really exciting." Her chatter skips enthusiastically over Abba to Nina Simone, Paul Simon and Loretta Lynn, who she says particularly appeals to her because of the way that she brought her accent into her singing; Ditto, whose musical training was limited to her stint in the school choir, was taught to take her southern twang out of her voice. But those aren't the rules she's most savouring breaking right now. Instead, she explains, she's reacting against a sort of orthodoxy that, for a long time, she didn't even know was there. "I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter – I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all," she says. Except she did write songs, I point out. "I did. And I didn't even know that that's what I was doing. I never let myself feel the joy of it, ever. I can't explain it." Gossip (in fact, "the Gossip" when they started out) were involved with punk from their inception – not unusually, since the music is both relatively simple and cheap to make, and also instantly confers on its practitioners a certain confrontational image and outsider status. For Ditto, who grew up as a lesbian in highly religious small-town America, it was liberating, even though she now says, "I think I took the liberation too far, to where it couldn't sound like Abba." What she means, I think, is that all the concentration on breaking down barriers became, in the end, a barrier of its own. "It's not because the punk scene is a bad place, but I feel like the way I interpreted it, there were a lot of rules to adhere to in order to be a part of the scene, and I felt very aware of those rules. In the kind of punk scene I came from it was so important for girls to have confidence, so important for women to empower each other. It was about taking the academia out of music, taking it out of radical movements such as feminism and social movements, making it accessible to everyone, which worked and was amazing, but at the same time, when you're young and impressionable, I think you can get these rules in your head. I know I got these rules in my head, that I had to be a certain way, but I didn't know that until I got older." Turning 30 last year, she says, was a huge milestone. By that time her career – both as part of Gossip and as one of the music industry's most recognisable and outspoken figures – was well established. The band had released four studio albums and the live albums Undead in NYC and Live in Liverpool. They earned widespread attention with their 2006 album Standing in the Way of Control, which they released shortly after drummer Hannah Blilie had taken the place of original band member Kathy Mendonca. The record's title track, an anthemic attack on the Bush administration's opposition to same-sex marriage, travelled exceptionally well, becoming popular enough in this country for Gossip to perform it on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, and also feature on the soundtrack for teen drama Skins. Meanwhile, Ditto's personal – and non-musical – profile was soaring. In the same year as Standing in the Way of Control she topped the NME's annual cool list. Three years later she both covered up and stripped off, launching her own clothing collection for the plus-size high-street chain Evans and appearing naked – save for a shocking-pink fig-leaf and a beatific expression – on the cover of the first issue of Love magazine. Under the strap-line "Icons of Our Generation", Ditto kept company with the likes of Kate Moss, Iggy Pop and Courtney Love. Clearly, the public fascination with her went way beyond her music, homing in on her evident ease with her body size and shape and her willingness to sound off at the drop of a hat on the issues she felt strongly about, whether it be the iniquities of the fashion industry or the urgency of furthering civil rights legislation. Most simply, she clearly didn't care. The Daily Mail, for example, once pictured her getting out of a car in slightly inelegant fashion, noting censoriously that "Someone needs to remind Beth Ditto about the rules of stepping out of a car when there are teams of photographers on hand to capture the moment." It rather fantastically missed the point, which is that she'd have most likely done exactly the same if the entire world's photographers were there – or not. But Ditto – at least Ditto in her 30s and in one-to-one conversation – is an unlikely rabble-rouser or, indeed, exhibitionist. She's open and plainspoken, sure, but she's just as happy to sit chatting about her preparations to marry her girlfriend, Kristin Ogata, next April. "She's from Hawaii and I'm from Arkansas, and I'm like, this is going to be the most hilarious cultural matching," she laughs. "It's going to be hysterical." But while her head is full of plans for the day – including the logistics of transporting her large family, including her mother and seven siblings, all of whom have "at least one child" to Hawaii – her eyes are also steadfastly fixed on the longer-term. "I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we've been best friends since I was 18. There's not a thing we haven't been through except for marriage… We've had talks about what we would name our kids since we were in our 20s." Children, she says, are very much on the agenda. She and Kristin live in Portland, Oregon, in a house that Ditto treasures so much that it comes as less of a surprise than you might expect to discover her favourite television programme is How Clean Is Your House? What she loved, she says, was the relationship between Kim and Aggie, and the fact that "it didn't take money, it was just cleaning". There's an obvious line here back to a childhood of make-do-and-mend – she looks after her house, she tells me, because "I don't want it to, I don't know, get ruined" – and, I think, a determination not to take what she has now for granted. "My mom always said, 'you're poor, you're not stupid; you're poor, you're not dirty'. That was a big thing for her. So we were always clean and we spoke well, and we weren't allowed to use double negatives, and things like that. And especially being southern too, she was adamant that we presented ourselves really well, and that we learned. And that's the thing. I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think: you don't even know how to make a bed." Resourcefulness in the face of scarcity has also informed much of her way with clothes: "I had one pair of jeans, and I had to make that pair of jeans look different every day because you get made fun of for being poor. And there was a certain time in my life where I just stopped caring – I don't give a shit – that's when I discovered punk. But before that I had to be on my toes all the time, and I still love that challenge." As a little kid, she tells me, she used to do girls' hair for prom nights; when she moved to Olympia, Washington, prior to starting Gossip with Howdeshell and Mendonca, she did punk-rock haircuts to pay the bills. The thing that strikes me, I say, is that even for the most confident of larger women, there's a temptation to hide away, to wear something if it fits and to be agonised when it doesn't. Ditto never does that. In fact she doesn't always seem to care that much whether something fits or not. Her watchwords are comfort ("this doesn't have to be hard") and fun. She'll often send text messages like "I got it: paper-thin eyebrows, no eye-shadow" to her make-up artist in the middle of the night, and she's recently collaborated with Mac on a limited-edition cosmetics collection. So where did the joie de vivre, and the point-blank refusal to be inhibited, come from? "I always had a hard time understanding why people had a hard time with it. I remember just being – I don't get it, I don't know why it has to be like this. And then at one point being, it doesn't have to be like this. I make that decision. I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you? You're constantly reprogramming yourself." It's been a long journey, I say, from Searcy, Arkansas. One of her most frequently quoted interview snippets is that, as a child, she ate squirrels. She'll take her children back to Arkansas to visit, she tells me, but "I don't think I would subject them to a childhood of that". On the other hand, she's doubtful that growing up somewhere "super-progressive" would have helped her creativity and ingenuity to flourish; her upbringing taught her "how lucky I am that I get to do what I do, but nothing is handed down to you". So what would she do if it all stopped tomorrow? "I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next," she replies. "I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision." Sometimes, she says, she thinks she'll be a hairdresser; at others, she'll work for some kind of creative thinktank ("I don't know how you do it for a job"). And what she thinks would be really "hilarious" would be to write for a TV show. For the foreseeable future, though, she'll be "touring. Touring. And probably touring"; planning her wedding (at which both the brides and the guests will wear white); and trying not to get too anxious about the US elections: "Gay people and women, and immigration, all of these things that could go in a buck-wild direction if we don't get someone else in office who cares, and someone who is going to protect our rights. It's going to be a really scary situation. It'll just be the Reagan years times 20. It'll be the Reagan years with the internet. That's how I feel about it." After we've talked I remember that Ditto's most openly delighted moment came when I told her how loudly I'd played A Joyful Noise, and how, when a lorry thundered past my window with horn blaring, it hadn't been able to drown the Gossip sound out. I suspect that some of Gossip's oldest fans will find the album's more stadium-friendly tracks a bit of a stretch but Ditto is insistent that it's an accurate reflection of the band's current musical preoccupations rather than a grab for mainstream sales. It doesn't, she says, mean that Gossip will never make a very raw, stripped-down record again. "It wasn't the record we wanted to make now. And if we wanted to make it again, we would do it because we wanted to, and that's the sound we would want to have, not because that's the sound that's expected of us, I think. To me, that is the punkest thing that I've learned about myself."
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90500	Rifle values? November 21, 2004, 07:20 PM Hey folks. I was browsing my local pawn shop and saw a couple rifles that I was interested in. However, since I never trust pawn shops, I wanted to ask y'all if the prices they were charging were fair. Two of them were Marlin Model 60s, and they were asking $69.99 each. The finish was worn on the stock of one and etirely absent on the other. However, the metal was clean and unrusted, and they seemed fairly tight. The other rifle was a Remington Model 700 in .30-'06. It had a scope with Weaver mounts, although I didn't note the brand of scope. It felt like a light, fast-handling gun. The stock was dinged pretty thoroughly, and there was a patch of rust about half the size of a dime on the bolt. Working the bolt was good, though. No play, but smooth as silk. For that one they were asking $369. Do y'all think those prices are fair? Would I have some haggling room? I've kinda been wanting a .30-'06, and a new .22 is always fun. Thanks a lot. If you enjoyed reading about "Rifle values?" here in TheHighRoad.org archive, you'll LOVE our community. Come join TheHighRoad.org today for the full version! November 21, 2004, 08:51 PM The .22s are probably in the ball park. I would offer $300.00 cash for the .30-06. Cash usually goes a long way in a pawn shop. An ATM/Visa check card is not the same as cash. Used scopes add no real value unless they have a high-end German sounding name attached to them. November 21, 2004, 08:55 PM I just bought a 1989 Remington Model 700 in .30-06 with a Simmons 3.5-10 X 40 scope in better condition than the one you describe, few scratches on stock, good bluing, no rust. Your find sounds high. November 23, 2004, 11:57 AM Thanks for the advice, guys. I went ahead and picked up the better of the two .22s, and got it for $65 out the door. I figure I did okay. I still like the .30-'06, and the gal said that they'd take 20% off next week, so I may go back in and see if it's still there. The scope on it was a Leupold, by the way. Thanks again. November 23, 2004, 06:06 PM I'd grab it next week at the 20% off if the gun looks good overall. A vari X II Leupold in 1X4 will cost $250 new. Where is it so if you dont want it? If its within a 100 mile drive I'd be interested in it. November 24, 2004, 08:49 AM Did you notice whether the Remington 700 was an ADL or BDL? A BDL has much nicer wood, plus a black (ebony) fore-end cap. Check the bore, too, to make sure it's clean. Anyway, if the Leupold scope is a nice one, ~$300 (the 20% discount) is a great price. November 24, 2004, 09:02 AM I say get the remmy when the price drops. I gave $325 for my LNIB 700 ADL in 300WM last year and I got no scope or rings. November 25, 2004, 01:10 AM Hey guys, I missed the further replies. The bore looks good, and it's definitely a BDL. Hopefully if it's still there next week I'll be acquiring a .30-06. And sorry, Daniel, but I'm outside Austin. Much more than a hundred mile drive for you. November 26, 2004, 10:02 PM If you really want the Rem 700 I'd go back before they mark it down and make an offer of $350 cash. You may miss being first in line once the price drops and miss out on the deal. Even with a lower end Leupold like a VX-1 or Rifleman scope, $350 would be a very good deal around here. Actually $369 with Leupold is not a bad deal for a used 700 BDL with Leupold in my area. In any case good luck. Smokey Joe November 27, 2004, 02:36 PM So, James, didja snap up the Rem '06 or not? And how is it for accuracy? I, too, subscribe to the theory of "Don't wait until they drop the price a smidge." Go in there, wave cash in their face, get the best deal you can whine and plead out of them, and getcher self a nice Rem. So what if you pay a little more for it--you will have GOT it. Jeez, it's only money. And if you say, yeah but it's my money you're spending, I reply, that I've done the same thing with my own money, and glad I did. While I like a bargain as well as--or better than--the next man, there are only so many screaming deals to be had out there, and frankly I've got better things to do than stand around forever waiting for one to hit me. I'd ruther be out shooting.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90524	Upshur couple arraigned on underage sex charges May 21, 2013 A pre-trial conference for a Buckhannon couple charged in a six-count indictment on sexually related charges in which they are alleged to have gotten a teenaged girl drunk and photographing her in...... « Back to Article sort: oldest \| newest No comments posted for this article. Post a Comment You must first login before you can comment. *Your email address: Remember my email address. I am looking for: News, Blogs & Events Web
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90525	Neilah Revealed: Yom Kippur’s Epiphany Moment Photo Galleria: If Judaism were the sport of baseball, then Yom Kippur’s Ne’ilah prayer would be the ninth inning of a World Series game. The liturgical and spiritual experience of Ne’ilah truly offers a once-a-year intensity through its personal and religious intimacy. To best understand its deeper meaning, JInsider spoke with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, author of the best-selling “60 Days: A Spiritual Guide to the High Holidays.” This practical and thoughtful companion to the High Holiday prayer book is a great playbook for novices and professional shul-goers. Inner Journey Through Prayer The preparation work in advance of Yom Kippur is a journey inward that culminates in the fifth and final prayer of the Yom Kippur service — Ne’ilah (the “Locking of the Gates”). Every day we have three prayers — Maariv (the evening prayer), Shacharit (the morning prayer) and Mincha (the afternoon prayer). On Shabbat and every other Jewish holiday we have a fourth — Mussaf (the additional prayer). But only on Yom Kippur is there a fifth — Ne’ilah. This is because Ne’ilah corresponds to the fifth and highest dimension of the soul — the Holy of Holies of the soul — which we access only on this one day at this one time. The Soul & Prayer Scorecard: Inner Access through Liturgy Part of Soul Biological Life Emotional Life Intellectual Life Transcendental life Shabbat &Holidays Yom Kippur Finale All days of the year we’re able to access the three dimensions of our soul; on Shabbat we access the fourth, chayah, but only on Yom Kippur can we access the fifth, yechidah — oneness with God. This is because during Ne’ilah, before the gates are locked, everything is open and we are able to reach even yechidah, which is the most intimate, vulnerable, gentle part of the soul of the human being, unshielded by the defenses of the other levels. We reach it at the precise moment when Ne’ilah is said, and when, at its conclusion, we declare Shema Israel: “Hear O Israel, God is our Lord, God is One.” The Epiphany Moment The Shaloh, the great 16th-century sage, writes, “There is no higher experience for the Jew as when he acknowledges the oneness of God and his readiness to give his entire life to God.” This is the moment when the spark and the flame come closest all year round. This is the most powerful moment of the year. This is the moment that you are the closest that you can come to the essence of everything, to God. Message for 5771 If you were to ask this holiday season for one thing, “achas sho’alti,” ask for this: That your core purity should surface. That you should have the ability to dwell in and be embraced by its warm arms all the days of your life. That you should sense with awe and behold its beauty. And above all, that you should integrate all that power into your daily grind — making the ordinary extraordinary; swimming the waters, but always remaining above the waves. More on Rabbi Simon Jacobson Rabbi Jacobson is the author of the best-selling book “Toward a Meaningful Life” and heads The Meaningful Life Center, which bridges the secular and the spiritual through a wide variety of programming. His programs take place at the Sixth Street Synagogue in Manhattan. ( Last Update: 09/14/2010 - 23:34 Comment Guidelines Add comment By submitting this form, you accept the Mollom privacy policy.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90537	Wait, what? Here is A Grizzly Bear Eating R2-D2 Bear Time Susana: I have a video of a grizzly bear eating R2-D2. Jamie: That sounds awesome, though I have a ridiculously cute cat who can’t figure out how chairs work. Ladies and gentlemen: The Internet. (via Nerd Bastards.) Filed Under \| © 2014 The Mary Sue \| About UsAdvertiseNewsletterJobsContributorsComment PolicyPrivacyUser AgreementDisclaimerContactArchives RSS Dan Abrams, Founder 1. Mediaite 2. The Mary Sue 3. Styleite 4. The Braiser 5. SportsGrid 6. Gossip Cop
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90545	Apr 24, 2012 Update to MINDdroid - Android NXT App They people over at LEGO have updated the MINDdroid app that allows you to control your NXT robot from any Android device. A few of the new features: Upload a program to your NXT from your phone, no PC needed! Control sounds and play music Get sensor readings converted through text to speech "What about doing xyz?" I hear you ask? We no problem at all, they have also released all the code as Open Source, so if you're good with programming, you can dive in and modify to your hearts content! Open Source Software: https://github.com/NXT/LEGO-MINDSTORMS-MINDdroid No comments: Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90561	New graphics engine imperils users of Firefox and Chrome Disable WebGL now, researchers warn The Power of One eBook: Top reasons to choose HP BladeSystem The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team is advising users of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers to disable a recently added graphics engine that can be exploited to steal data or crash end user computers. The web standard known as WebGL opens the browsers to serious attacks, including the theft of images or denial-of-service attacks, independent research consultancy Context Information Security recently warned. The technology made its debut in version 9 of Chrome and was added to the recently released Firefox 4. WebGL is also present in builds of Opera and Apple's Safari. “Based on this limited research Context does not believe WebGL is really ready for mass usage,” Context researcher James Forshaw wrote. “Therefore Context recommends that users and corporate IT managers consider disabling WebGL in their browsers. The technology is designed to render web-based 3D graphics by allowing the browser to have greater access to a computer's graphics hardware. Until now, the security of graphics gear hasn't been much of a concern, but the wide availability of WebGL should change that. Malicious web masters could exploit inherent weaknesses in the standard to cause computers to display the infamous blue screen of death or steal potentially sensitive data. A Google spokesman didn't address the claims in the Context report head on, but did offer the following: Many parts of the WebGL stack, including the GPU process, run in separate processes and are sandboxed in Chrome to help prevent various kinds of attacks. To help ward off lower level attacks, we work with hardware, OS, and driver vendors to proactively disable unsafe system configurations and help them improve the robustness of their stack. I'd also point out that Chrome doesn't run on some system configurations if lower level stack issues are identified. This is a key intermediate step to help protect Chrome users. The spokesman didn't say if these measures are enough to prevent the Webgl vulnerabilities described by Context from being exploited in Chrome. A spokesman for the Khronos Group, which maintains the WebGL standard, similarly didn't address the Context report directly in an email to The Register. Instead, he referred to an official statement that said the graphics engine comes with an extension "specifically designed to prevent denial of service and out-of-range memory access attacks from WebGL content." The extension, known as GL_ARB_robustness, "has already been deployed by some GPU vendors and Khronos expects it to be deployed rapidly by others," the statement continued. "Browsers can check for the presence of this extension before enabling WebGL content. This is likely to become the deployment mode for WebGL in the near future." The statement didn't name the GPU manufacturers or say what percentage of shipping GPUs make use of the measure. On Tuesday, members of the US-CERT echoed the advice that WebGL be disabled. So far, neither Context nor CERT has given instructions for turning off the standard in various browsers. In Firefox 4, type “about:config” (minus the quotes) into the address bar and set webgl.disabled to true. In Chrome, get to the command line of your operating system and add the --disable-webgl flag to the Chrome command. On a Windows machine, the command line would be "chrome.exe --disable-webgl". ® This article was updated to include comment from The Khronos Group. It was later updated to correct the types of attacks Context said WebGL is susceptible to. The report doesn't include the possibility of code-execution attacks, as incorrectly reported earlier. Designing a Defense for Mobile Applications More from The Register next story DARPA-derived secure microkernel goes open source tomorrow How long is too long to wait for a security fix? Synology finally patches OpenSSL bugs in Trevor's NAS Exodus vows not to sell secrets of whistleblower's favorite OS Roll out the welcome mat to hackers and crackers Researcher sat on critical IE bugs for THREE YEARS VUPEN waited for Pwn2Own cash while IE's sandbox leaked Four fake Google haxbots hit YOUR WEBSITE every day Goog the perfect ruse to slip into SEO orfice prev story Designing a Defense for Mobile Applications Implementing global e-invoicing with guaranteed legal certainty Top 8 considerations to enable and simplify mobility Seven Steps to Software Security Boost IT visibility and business value
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90565	Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/10/google_v_facebook_contact_fight_round_two/ Facebook engineer bashes Google for Gmail block When hypocrisies collide By Cade Metz Posted in Media, 10th November 2010 01:29 GMT "Openness doesn't mean being open when its convenient for you," Mike Vernal, a member of the Facebook engineering team, wrote in response to a TechCrunch bloggy thing on the matter. "We strongly hope that Google turns back on their API and doesn't come up with yet another excuse to prevent their users from leaving Google products to use ones they like better instead." On Friday, Google updated the terms of service for its Contacts API, preventing Facebook and other third-party applications from tapping the programming interface unless they offer something similar. Using Google's API, Facebook has long offered its users the ability to import contact names and email addresses from Gmail, but it prevents them from automatically exporting such data to other sites, including Google services. Facebook does offer a tool for downloading your "friends list." But you can't download email addresses or phone numbers. So, as Google changed its terms of service, it promptly severed Facebook's access to the Contacts API. This means that new Facebook users can no longer automatically import contact info from Gmail, though Facebook is offering a workaround. You can still manually download your contacts from Gmail. In a statement released to the press, Google said it's preventing data from moving between Gmail and Facebook because it believes data should be set free. "Google is committed to making it easy for users to get their data into and out of Google products," the statement reads. But with his post, Facebook's Vernal says that in the past, Google's social networking site, Orkut, has treated contact information in much the same way as Facebook. In the fall of 2009, Google prevented Facebook from exporting contact data from Orkut via its Comma Separated Value (CSV) file. "Less than a year ago, Google issued this statement when they blocked their own users' ability to export their contacts from Orkut to Facebook: 'Mass exportation of email is not standard on most social networks – when a user friends someone they don't then expect that person to be easily able to send that contact information to a third party along with hundreds of other addresses with just one click,' [see quote here]" Vernal says. With the Gmail Contacts API, he says, Google has changed its stance yet again, preventing users from easily moving Gmail data to another service. "Openness doesn't mean being open when its convenient for you," Vernal continues. "On Google's website, dataliberation.org, Eric Schmidt says, 'How do you be big without being evil? We don't trap end users. So if you don't like Google, if for whatever reason we do a bad job for you, we make it easy for you to move to our competitor.' How does limiting user choice honor this commitment?" According to a source familiar with the matter, Google blocked access to Orkut's CSV file for the same reason it's blocking access to the Google Contacts API: Facebook wasn't reciprocating. That said, this isn't what Google said at the time. Whatever the case, Google now says that if Facebook reciprocates, it will restore access to the Contacts API, which Orkut syncs with. Google stance – at least today – is that it will let you automatically export your data if others let you do the same. But Vernal reiterates that Facebook will not allow users to export email addresses to other services, because, well, a social networking service isn't an email service. "Each person owns her friends list, but not her friends' information. A person has no more right to mass export all of her friends' private email addresses than she does to mass export all of her friends' private photo albums," he says. When we asked Facebook to officially comment on the situation, a company spokesperson pointed us to Vernal's post. The issue here is that Facebook has what Google wants: a sweeping picture of who knows who on the interwebs. Such a picture would suit Google's efforts to make epic amounts of money with closely-targeted online ads – whatever its commitment to "data liberation." But Facebook is reluctant to give up such information. And not just for reasons of privacy. Facebook's stance surprises no one. Nor is it surprising that the company is trying to say that although it couldn't possibly give up email addresses, Google should give them up tout de suite. Facebook is fighting hypocrisy with hypocrisy. When two large web outfits are fighting for over your data, that's just the way things work. ®
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90651	Bill of Rights July 27, 2012 Dear?Editor, This is a reply to Ben Lofton's Bill of Rights letter in the 7/24/12 edition of the Times Leader.... « Back to Article sort: oldest \| newest No comments posted for this article. Post a Comment You must first login before you can comment. *Your email address: Remember my email address. I am looking for: News, Blogs & Events Web
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90653	We deserve answers December 22, 2011 It is clear that in the time since the photo-op to announce a state Anchor Grant almost two years ago in front of what was supposed to be the Allegheny Center for the Arts something went terribly...... « Back to Article sort: oldest \| newest No comments posted for this article. Post a Comment You must first login before you can comment. *Your email address: Remember my email address. I am looking for: News, Blogs & Events Web
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90664	CVS Best Practices Vivek Venugopalan Revision History Revision 0.72005-10-15Revised by: vv A bunch of minor fixes as suggested by readers. Revision 0.62002-09-10Revised by: vv Added content related to tagging and daily builds. Changed Linuxdoc URLs to tldp. Fixed stale links and added other corrections suggested by readers. Revision 0.52002-08-25Revised by: vv Fixed some more errors in the document and added references to other CVS sources and some server side scripting Revision 0.42002-03-10Revised by: vv Added new email address, Added an example flow to show how the practices help Revision 0.32001-12-06Revised by: vv Grammatical errors cleanup Revision 0.22001-11-27Revised by: vv Incorporated first round of feedback and some minor fixes Revision 0.12001-11-20Revised by: vv Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1. Copyright Information 1.2. Disclaimer 1.3. New Versions 1.4. Credits 1.5. Feedback 2. Focus Areas 3. Using GUI Tools 3.1. Use GUI CVS client 4. Developer Sandbox 4.1. Keep System clocks in Sync 4.2. Do not share the sandbox 4.3. Stay in sync with the repository 4.4. Do not work outside the sandbox 4.5. Cleanup after Completion 4.6. Check-in Often 5. CVS Server Configuration 5.1. CVS access control 5.2. Server side scripting 5.3. Server Notification 6. Branching and Merging 6.1. Assign ownership to Trunk and Branches 6.2. Tag each release 6.3. Create a branch after each release 6.4. Make bug fixes to branches only 6.5. Make patch releases from branches only 7. Change Propagation 7.1. Merge branch with the trunk after release 8. Software Builds 8.1. Build Early and Build Often (BEBO) 8.2. Automate build Process completely 8.3. All necessary files must be checked-in before build 9. Institutionalize CVS in the Organization 9.1. Implement Change Management Process 9.2. Make CVS Usage part of Objectives 9.3. Collect metrics on CVS usage 10. Best Practices in Action 10.1. Inception 10.2. Development and Delivery 11. Conclusion A. GNU Free Documentation License 0. Preamble 1. Applicability and Definitions 2. Verbatim Copying 3. Copying in Quantity 4. Modifications 5. Combining Documents 6. Collections of Documents 7. Aggregation with Independent Works 8. Translation 9. Termination 10. Future Revisions of this License How to use this License for your documents This article explores some of the best practices that can be adopted while using CVS as the configuration management tool in your software projects.
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90690	The 10 Biggest Robot Bastards By Rob Bricken in Daily Lists Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 5:02 am 5) Roy Batty, Blade Runner It’s easy to chide replicant Roy Batty for his murderous streak, or his annoying tendency to wax eloquent, misquote William Blake, and get all Christ-like while watching the night sky, talking about fiery angels falling, and ramming a nail through the palm of his hand. But really, Batty is on this list for one reason: the bastard gets to you. Damn you, Roy Batty. Damn you for making me care. Also, quit being so damn chatty. It's raining outside, jerk! 4) KITT, Knight Rider Sarcastic, intolerant, irritable, and in love with the sound of his own automotive voice. That’s KITT, played by William Daniels, as foil to none other than the Hoff himself. KITT was frankly obnoxious, and seemed to enjoy it too—he knew he was the shit as high-tech talking vehicles went, and he obviously didn’t care what else you thought of him. The funny thing is, William Daniels played the exact same character as Chief of Surgery Dr. Mark Craig on St. Elsewhere, and no one noticed. 3) Thundercleese, The Brak Show Thundercleese is your basic jerk-neighbor: overly concerned with his garden, lacking basic social skills, yearning for the sweet taste of battle, that sort of thing. But then again, any killbot with both a lightswitch of Total Devastation and a secret love of vacation surfing can’t be all bad. 2) Superman's Robots You know, you’d think if a superhero had the ability and wherewithal to actually build a secret army of super-men, he’d then use said secret army for, you know, things like saving airliners from crashing or evacuating villages from an approaching lava flow, or even catching bad guys. But no; these robots basically wait around in a Fortress of Solitude closet for Superman (whom they disturbingly call “Master”) to use them in yet another in a long line of schemes to trick Lois Lane. Now that’s heroism for you. Granted, this means that Superman is really the dick here, and that the robots are just programmed for dickishness, but you know, potato, pot-ah-to. 1) Bender, Futurama Just because he works so hard at it. He smokes, he gambles, he whores it up, he cheats, he steals, and he lies. And he’s proud of all of it. Of course, like all true bastards, he has some saving grace; sure, he loves folk music, and sometimes a soft spot for his friends. But more importantly, he snuck into the Cantina scene in the Family Guy’s Blue Harvest, which is awesome. And he kidnapped Jay Leno’s disembodied head. That last one alone makes him my hero. More links from around the web! Email Print
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90729	Thread: S.S. Valiant View Single Post Old August 16 2008, 05:18 AM #1 Fleet Captain Tallguy's Avatar Location: Beyond the Farthest Star S.S. Valiant Hi all. This is a project I'm working on for aridas sofia over at Federation Reference. I'd done a quick mock-up a couple of years ago ('zooks! Has it been that long?) and he's asked me to finish it. So far I'm getting a feel for what I want the surface to look like. I'm really shooting for a NASA kind of look (that I haven't achieved yet). I want that kind of stark feel to it. Also upping the polys where needed. aridas asked me to post at my usual haunts, so I'm posting. He had asked in particular for comments from some of the luminaries here. I quite like this little ship. It'll be a shame to have to blow her to bits. Here's aridas' original. -- Bill "Tallguy" Thomas "All I ask is a tall ship..." Tallguy is offline Reply With Quote
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90730	View Single Post Old September 2 2008, 03:50 PM #643 HappyDayRiot's Avatar Location: Cardiff, Wales Re: (UEFA) Football Thread - Football not Soccer ^ take the pressure off Derby? Nah, Derby are already better than Newcastle. 4 points out of 6 from them remember KK is officially gone by the look of it on both SSN and BBC. So, other than the dead-cert idiot Wise, who's next up for the poisoned chalice? Knowing Ashely, he'll probably engineer the second coming of... Souness. HappyDayRiot is offline Reply With Quote
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90777	Large PrintHandheldAudioRating Twisting The Hellmouth Crossing Over Awards - Results Is your email address still valid? By the light of the moon StoryReviewsStatisticsRelated StoriesTracking Summary: Willow's faces a new world when she is infected with lycanthropy Categories Author Rating Chapters Words Recs Reviews Hits Published Updated Complete Anita Blake > Willow-Centered > Pairing: RichardArticulatedreamFR1356,9360108,75130 Jun 036 Apr 04No Understanding the world Willow believed in things that weren’t there. The things that went bump in the night. Hell she’d dated one. That thought made her shiver. How could she do this? She wasn’t like Oz had been. Wasn’t strong. She didn’t want to turn into a monster for three days a month. But she was going to. Wasn’t she? She had heard Angel on the phone in the other room with someone. Probably Jean-Claude. He had sounded as if he wasn’t sure she was going to be a werewolf. A shape-shifter. A lycanthrope. It had a name, this…disease in her blood. Lycanthropy. Willow bit back a hysterical laugh that threatened to turn into crying. She could feel herself crumbling. Angel had given her the odds. Wolf Lycanthropy was the most contagious, her chances of not turning into a…monster were slim to none. Percentages said she had less than a 10% chance. It was all too fast too soon. Willow crushed her palms into her eyes trying to deal with everything. She almost didn’t feel the plane land she was so immersed in her thoughts but when people around her began getting up and heading towards the head of the airplane she stood up took her only bag, a carry on and started towards the exit. It could have been a scene from two years ago when she had returned from England. Except that she wasn’t invisible, this wasn’t Sunnydale, and the gang was nowhere nearby. She wasn’t sure who was picking her up so she just headed towards the crowds and sat down at a nearby bench. It was only a minute or two later when a man not much older than her with shoulder length hair a lovely dark brown flanked by a woman who had a predatory look in her eyes and a man in a business suit. “You would be Willow?” She looked warily at the man who had spoken. The one with the shoulder length hair. She answered hesitantly. “I am Willow….are you Richard then?” He smiled. “Yeah, I’m Richard.” He gestured behind him to the people flanking him. “This is Sylvie and Shang-Da. Do you have any other bags?” “No….Angel said he could send the rest of my stuff over in a few days.” “Come on then.” Willow followed the three wolves silently. Still pondering the changes in her life. It wasn’t until they were in the car and Sylvie and Shang-Da were up front that Richard began to talk. “Willow. Do you know much about Lycanthropy or were-wolves?” “Well, in high school and part of college I dated one. I know that were-wolves are real. That they are monsters, we had to lock him up three days out of the month so that he didn’t maul anybody.” Willow hadn’t been prepared for the horrified look on Richard’s face. “Why did you lock him up?” “H-he was like a demon or something, I mean. Giles said it might have been the hellmouth b-“ “You lived on the hellmouth?” “Yeah. My whole life. Well until we closed it two years ago. Since then I’ve lived with Angel in L.A.” “Willow. The hellmouth…it distorts things. Especially those with Lycanthropy. It drives our beasts mad. Makes them like demons, what was happening to your boyfriend isn’t what usually happens.” “Okay…then what does?” “Well, when we get back to town you’ll be bunking with me. You need a mentor and I’m going to be him. I’ll teach you about the Lukoi. This pack. I know it’s a bit much for you tonight, but starting tomorrow you’ll be learning a lot…” :: The Next Day:: Willow awoke fairly early; a look at the digital clock nearby told her it was almost 10:00. It was Friday morning and Richard was probably already up. He had explained that he was a schoolteacher most of the time but school had gotten out a little less than a week ago. She pulled herself out of bed walked into the kitchen and plopped herself down into a kitchen chair. Right across the table was Richard he looked almmost as if he was waiting for her to wake up. “Glad to see you’re up.” “I’m an early riser….have any coffee?” At his shake of head Willow's jaw dropped. "You don't drink coffee?" "No, I don't." Willow hit her head with her face let out a huge yawn and dropped inot a chair. "Then I guess I'll have to wake up the long way huh?" "Theres orange juice in the fridge if you want something else to drink..." “Not gonna help,I like the caffeine rush. Thanks anyway though. So when do we start my lessons into werewolf lore?” “Now, I suppose. Okay. The werewolves have a system of government so to speak. The head of that…………..” Several hours later Willow sat on the kitchen chair quietly taking in all of the information that Richard, her Ulfric, her king had divulged to her. It was more than just a little confusing but she was dealing. Richard was in the other room at the moment, she had asked for a few minutes alone and her had agreed. “Will I go with you to the lupanar or will I go with somebody else?” “You’ll go with me this time, after we finish your mentoring we’ll find you an apartment.” “So, how to control my inner puppy…that’ll be after the lupanar right?” “Yes.” He was leaning the doorway speaking to her; his sorrow was almost tangible. He had expressed his regret at Willow’s infection, he had told her they probably wouldn’t know for another day or two if she was well and truly infected. Willow knew she was. It could have just been paranoia but she could almost fell something within her stirring. Awakening. “Okay, so when will I greet you? Before the lupanar? Or after everybody is there? And…Goddess this is so confusing!!” Richard was looking at her concernedly and then a thought came to Willow unbidden. Her magic! That dark magic which lingered inside of her, it was not a good thing for her to truly loose control. But that was exactly what she was going to do in just a few nights time. “You’ll greet me before the lupanar. Willow….willow?” “We may have a problem..” “Well remember how I told you I lived on the hellmouth…well I’m also sort of a practicing witch. And a few years back I got into some bad stuff…some dark stuff. It’s not really a good idea for me to loose control….” “Well you aren’t truly loosing control. It’s like shifting it. Your beast is a part of you now. For a few hours you will relinquish power to it. But it isn’t loosing control.” “Are you sure?” “I’m scared.” Richard looked at the tiny girl sitting at his kitchen table looking down at her hands. She seemed so small, so fragile and yet. He could see her backbone, her strength. The fibre of her personality was strong. She could do this. And she was frightened, anybody in their right mind would have been. He tried to comfort her as best he could. “I know that you are scared right now…but Willow. Look at you, you’re going on. Surviving. Don’t let this stop you. Try to live on through your beast…you have to let it become part of you. You can’t live a life separate from it. It isn’t possible. For almost as long as I have been a wolf, I’ve despised my very nature. But you can give it a good start…you can try to live with it…” he trailed off. Willow was looking at her hands clenching and unclenching them systematically. He smelled the blood before he saw it, but she had dug her fingernails into her palms so deeply that they were bleeding freely. He grabbed two dishcloths and tied them around her hands. Her voice was haunted when she spoke again. “I can smell the blood. It’s really going to happen isn’t it?” “Yes. It is…” She closed her eyes and Richard realised something. She had been hoping against hope. Trying to believe that she might get lucky and that it wouldn’t happen. That she would stand in the lupanar under the full moon and nothing would happen. It was a happy illusion but one that had just been shattered. :: Two days later:: Willow awoke once again to the morning sun and pulled herself out of bed, headed towards the kitchen. Richard was up and she greeted him as she had been told first a rub of cheeks and then a sniff behind his ear. It was eerie but she could already tell it was Richard with a scent. She walked over to the coffee machine poured herself a coffee and then sat down. “So what am I to learn today o great master?” “Today you are going to meet Anita.” Willow didn’t show any outward signs of nervousness but her heart rate speeded up and Richard looked up. “Don’t worry, everything will be fine. She won’t kill you right off the bat.” Willow’s eyes which had been normal size got big as saucers and she visibly paled. “Anita will be here in a few hours. I called her house and Cherry told me that She’ll be here around noon. Which is in a little more than an hour.” Willow nodded in agreement her expression shell-shocked. She finished her coffee and then headed upstairs to take a shower. When she emerged again A short dark haired woman was in the kitchen arguing with Richard. She only caught snippets of information but it was enough. “…don’t even know her!” “she’s…scared…know what I’m doing” “….last time…” Willow tried to hurry back upstairs not wanting to burst in on the two of them when a voice called out from the kitchen. “I know you’re on the stairs Willow, come on!” The red head sighed and hesitantly entered the kitchen. Richard was leaning up against the stove definitely not looking at the dark haired woman-Anita Willow presumed- who was glaring at him from across the room. As neither of them took any heed to her presence Willow coughed. Nita spun around and gave her an appraising glance. Willow looked right back at her eye to eye. She might have been slightly intimidated by the woman but she was not going to give her the pleasure of seeing her squirm. Willow saw something in her eyes, or rather a lack of something. It was the coldness, the deadness a person’s eyes gained when they killed. When they killed another human, without regret or remorse. Willow had that look from killing Warren and Rack, Anita had it in spades. Willow wondered who it was that she had killed, and then decided she didn’t want to know. “Willow right?” “You lived on the hell mouth before so I’ll give you a warning. I don’t trust you, you hurt Richard. I’ll kill you. I’m sure that he’s informed you of my position within the pack. I’m executioner a-“ It was Richard who intervened. “Anita. She’s scare enough without you scaring the shit out of her.” “She doesn’t look scared” “I can tell.” Anita threw Richard a look and then turned back to Willow. “Fine. Don’t screw up, I don’t want to have to kill you.” With that Anita took her leave and Willow collapsed into a nearby chair. She probably couldn’t have stood much longer if she had tried. She had faced down demons and oogidie-boogiedies for almost a decade, faced down a psychotic vampire hell bent on torturing her to get to her best friend, a hell goddess and the first evil itself but damned if they all didn’t just pale in comparison to Anita Blake. That woman was just scary… Next Chapter StoryReviewsStatisticsRelated StoriesTracking
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90831	From Earth Science On-Site < ERC \| KS4 Jump to: navigation, search The Ercall, Shropshire © GeoconservationUK ESO-S Project, 2014 KS4 Homework answer sheet It is only possible to get an absolute age in millions of years, for a geological event if it is possible to use radiometric dating techniques. The most usual form of dating for geological events is to establish a relative age: i.e. which order the events in a sequence occurred. Thus geologists use two concepts of time, an absolute time scale, and a relative time scale. Research is constantly attempting to improve accuracy of the absolute timescale, and the match between the two. The fundamental geological principle is The Principle of Uniformitarianism: which states that the biological, physical and chemical processes we see today, operated in much the same way in the past, i.e. “The present is the key to the past”. In establishing the relative time scale the following six laws and principles are used: 1. Law of Original Horizontality: All sedimentary rocks were originally laid down in a more or less horizontal attitude. 2. Principle of Lateral Continuity: In principle, a sedimentary rock is laid down in a layer (or bed) that extends sideways (originally horizontally) and a bed may therefore be found in other places. 3. Principle of Superposition: In any sequence of strata that has not been overturned the topmost layer is always the youngest and the lowermost layer the oldest. 4. Principle of Faunal and Floral Succession: Fossil organisms have succeeded one another in a definite recognisable order over geological time. It follows that the same combinations of fossils in rocks have a similar (relative, not absolute) age, as do the rocks that contain them. This means that the relative age of sedimentary rocks may be identified by the fossils they contain. 5. Principle of Cross-Cutting Relationships: Any structure (fold, fault, weathering surface, igneous rock intrusion, etc.) which cuts across or otherwise deforms strata must be younger than the rocks and structures it cuts across or deforms. 6. Principle of Included Fragments: Particles are older than rock masses in which they are included. So the pebbles in a conglomerate are from rocks older than the conglomerate itself. At The Ercall the sequence is worked out in the following way: Intrusive igneous rocks, by definition, must have been intruded into other rocks (called “country rocks”) even if these country rocks are not visible at an exposure. Therefore the igneous rocks are younger than the country rocks (Law of Cross Cutting relationships). Also, since the conglomerates lie on top of the granophyre, and contain rare weathered pebbles of granophyre, the conglomerates must also be younger than the granophyre which supplied the pebbles. (Principles of Superposition and Principle of Included Fragments), with weathering and depositional events between the two. So F, then A then D. After deposition the sands and pebbles must have been cemented, so C is next. Later the rocks were uplifted, faulted, tilted and eroded, (Law of Cross-cutting Relationships) thereby exposing them for quarrying. Afterwards the quarries were protected. So G then E then B The correct order with oldest first is: B. The quarries are sold to Shropshire Wildlife Trust as a nature reserve. E. Resistant rocks are dug out of the ground for use as road stone. G. Uplift, tilting, faulting and erosion of the conglomerate and sandstones occurs. C The pebbles and sand are cemented into hard sedimentary rocks. D. Pebbles and sand, weathered from older rocks, are deposited in beds on top of the granophyre. A. The overlying rocks are eroded until the pink granophyre is exposed at the earth’s surface. F. Magma is intruded into older rocks and crystallises into a pink igneous rock called granophyre. This is an example of awful doggerel that could be used to motivate students. Ercall Pome. “Pardon my intrusion”, said the pink granophyre as it rose up from the mantle but could not get much higher because the cooling of the magma meant its crystals were quite small and when they had solidified it wouldn’t move at all. “Forgive my erosion said the shallow sea as it flowed over the surface and it plucked the pebbles free, but the pebbles that were made from the underlying rocks got cemented together in a seven metre block* “Excuse my sedimentation” said the grains of sand as they sank to the sea bed and became a quartzite band. The rocks got deeply buried in the time that these things take so the forces of earth movements made some large earthquakes. “I apologise for digging”, said the Shropshire quarryman as he blasted out the road stone for where the new roads ran but the rock is most hardwearing so it’s very good to use and the nice pink colour makes our pathways pretty to use.** “Welcome to our Reserve” said the Shropshire Wildlife Trust as they started to look after all the landscape as we must. And this is how we got to here so now I’ll have to run because it’s getting rather late but at least my homework’s done. * I know it’s not a block, it’s a bed – but it doesn’t rhyme! ** I am running out of rhymes Answer for Pupil Worksheet for Locality “B” Pupil Work sheet for Localities “C” & “E” Reading the clues in the sedimentary rocks 1. Carry out all of the tasks at locality C and then complete the information for the sandstone by ticking the correct boxes in the table. 2. Carry out all of the tasks for Activity 1 at locality E and then complete the information for the conglomerate by ticking the correct boxes in the table. The completed table will give you a summary of some of the things you have found out about the sandstone and conglomerate and how they may have formed. Sandstone Conglomerate The rock shows layers so it was probably deposited in water. The rock is made of medium sized grains (0.5 to 2mm across) so it was laid down in low to medium energy conditions. The rock is made up of coarse grains (more than 2mm in size) so it was laid down in higher energy conditions. The particles are rounded so they were transported for a long period of time. (But not necessarily over a long distance, if they were moved up and down the same beach). Most of the particles are made of quartz and/or quartzite. The particles are made of a mixture of different rock types. Answers for Pupil Worksheet for locality “D” Descriptions Put a tick to show the word(s) that describe the ripples Shape of ripples in cross section: symmetrical? Shape of ripples over the crest: peaked? Shape along the crest: roughly straight/ parallel? roughly straight/ parallel but splitting? curved/ sinuous? Ripple measurements Write your measurement here (in mm) wavelength (L) 170 height (H) 15 Calculation of the ripple index (R.I.) Write your working here RI >17 suggests wind formed ripples RI<15 suggests water formed ripples 170 / 15 = 11.33 or an approximate answer Calculation of the Ripple Symmetry Index (RSI) RSI = l(long) divided by l(short) (see the diagram below to get the right measurements) Write your working here. (A low answer, close to 1 or 2). Ripples with RI below 15 AND an RSI below about 2.5 are those formed by wave action. (See Earth Science briefing) On diagram 3 draw in an arrow to show the current direction that may have produced these ripple marks: Answer for Pupil Worksheet for Locality “E”, Activity 2 Note: This gives a clue to the answer. The pupils may produce a slightly different final drawing showing where the unconformity lies, but they may be right! (The key point is that they identify an uneven/irregular boundary between the two rock types). Answer for Pupil Worksheet for Locality “F” Rock When it was formed How it was formed Wrekin Quartzite 540 million years ago. In the Cambrian Period. From sand & gravel deposited on the sea floor. Granophyre 560 million years ago. In the Precambrian Era. From magma. In an igneous intrusion. Answer for Pupil Worksheet for Locality “G” Describe the shape & size of slickensides. Long (0.5 – 1.0m long), shallow (0.5 – 1.00cm deep) parallel grooves. What is the orientation of the slickensides? Approximately horizontal & running approx. west to east. How were the slickensides formed? When one rock surface moves over another under pressure / when the rocks were faulted. When did the slickensides form? After the sandstone formed, when later earth movements must have occurred and the rocks were faulted. What else may have happened when these slickensides formed? The rocks fractured & slipped causing an earthquake. Describe one other pieces of evidence you’ve seen today for ancient earth movements in the Ercall quarries 1. Tilted layers of originally horizontal sandstone & conglomerate (at locations “C” & “D”). 2. Small fault (brittle fracture) cutting across the ripple marked surface (at location “D”). 3. Granophyre at location “E”, which formed deep under the Earth’s surface, but is now on the surface, is evidence of vertical earth movements (as well as the erosion which has removed the overlying rocks). 4. Ripple marked surfaces appear twice in the face of quarry 2 (at location “F”). Answer for Pupil Worksheet for Locality “H” Describe the rhyolite: It has crystals so small you can’t see them, and they lie in thin bands of lighter (pinker) and darker colour. Explain how the rhyolite was formed: It was cooled very quickly because the crystals didn’t have time to grow to a larger size. This means it is an igneous rock which probably formed at the Earth’s surface, not underground. Use the evidence from your observations around the quarries to work out the relative age of these rhyolites and fill in the table below. (Relative age means “Is it older, or is it younger than the rhyolites?”) Is the rhyolite older or younger than these events? Answer: older or younger The evidence to support this is: Quarrying? OLDER The rhyolite itself has been quarried. Law of Cross-cutting relationships : the quarry face cuts the rhyolite, so the rhyolite is older than the quarrying. The deposition of the conglomerates? OLDER Pebbles weathered from the rhyolite have been found in the conglomerates. (The Law of Included fragments states, the rock providing the pebbles must be older than the rock containing the pebbles). The deposition of the sandstones? OLDER The conglomerates are older than the sandstones because they are underneath them (Law of Superposition). If the rhyolites are older than the conglomerates, (see above) then they must also be older than the sandstones. The tear faulting? OLDER The tear faulting cuts across the sandstones. This means the sandstones are older than the tear faulting, and the rhyolites are older than the sandstones (See above). So they must be older than the faulting. The episode of tilting of the rocks? OLDER The tilting affects the sandstones. This means the sandstones are older than the tilting, and the rhyolites are older than the sandstones (See above). So they must be older than the tilting. Present day weathering? OLDER Present day weathering can be seen to affect these rocks. The Law of Cross-cutting relationships states that the rhyolite must therefore be older than the weathering. The formation of the granophyre? ? In fact radiometric dating shows that the rhyolites pre-date the granophyre (which must therefore cross-cut them). However, NO evidence to indicate these relative dates has been seen by your group. Point out that Earth Scientists often have to work with pieces of evidence which are missing because they have never been preserved, have been eroded away, or are still buried. Top of Page © GeoconservationUK ESO-S Project, 2014 Site created by Salticus Web-hosting National Stone CentreNSC Natural EnglandNatural England This page was last modified on 25 December 2008, at 11:45. This page has been accessed 1,896 times.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90833	What Is Behind the 1-4-5 Rule? author: Rockin_Louie date: 04/02/2014 category: guitar techniques rating: 7.4 / votes: 18 What Is Behind the 1-4-5 Rule? I've had several students ask me "What is behind the 1-4-5 rule?" For this, you have to understand how basic music theory works. "Ugh… what is with everyone trying to ram music theory down my throat? Just teach me how to play guitar!" Well, in this lesson, if you can't listen to a song on the radio, pick up your guitar, and start playing along, maybe guitar isn't for you. Everyone thinks learning to play guitar means to learn how to play chords first. While that's a good approach, how do you know where and when to use them? I teach scales first… especially the C scale seeing as it has no sharp or flats. In the C scale, you have 7 notes: C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. If you consider these numbers from 1 - 7, C would be 1, D would be 2, and so on. Knowing the names of the notes in the scale, we can now develop chords by using the 1-3-5 method. To make a C major chord, you take C, E, and G (1-3-5 notes of the scale). If you take the 2-4-6 notes of the scale (D-F-A), you would get the D minor. Again, if you take the 3-5-7 notes (E-G-B), you would get the E minor chord. Continuing on, you would eventually end up with what is called the "C major chord progression." How does this help with the 1-4-5 rule? Well, now that we have chords to play, we can actually play a song. How many songs do you know of that are purely solos or melodies? Not many, I'm sure. The 1-4-5 rule allows you to take the first, fourth, and fifth chord from a chord progression and make a song out of it. Don't believe me? Play the C chord, followed by the F chord, then the G chord. Almost sounds like "Twist and Shout," or "Labamba." Or, try playing G-F-C-G While no songwriter really sits down and says "Okay… I need to use the 1-4-5 rule to write all my songs, and I'm in the key of C, so I need to use C, F, and G," it does form the basic building blocks of many songs you hear. What about minor progressions? It's the same thing. If you know the relative minor of C is A minor, you can figure out almost any song in the key of A minor. Your 1-4-5 would be A minor, D minor, and E minor. All the same chords as in the key of C. No, you do not need to stick with 1-4-5, but it will help you learn to play almost any song you can think of, or create your own. I hope this helps. And remember: a little music theory goes a long way. More Rockin_Louie lessons: + Keeping It Simple: How to Play the Same Riffs in Different Places Guitar Techniques 05/07/2014 Your captcha is incorrect
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90852	What's Next? OK, so this may be an under construction thing, but oh well. Some of the topics I plan to get wordy about: 1. The shape of the future: nanotechnology, artificial life, and humanity's destiny 2. Science fiction malnutrition: where is the good SF? 3. Why can't programs ship on time? 4. What about nonmonogamy? 5. FAQs and hotlists: the leverage of net writing. Links and the Web: the abstraction of interest. Backlink page. 6. How out can you get on the Net? The truth comes out, when it can. Is it exposure to write to the whole world, or is it protection? 7. Storm chasing. A hobby is born? Where will you be in 1999? The whole eclipse-laden saga. 8. How long does everything take, anyway? Why the future is further away than you think. 9. Give me a new kind of lever, and I'll move everybody: is technology the best way to change the world? 10. The Big Idea: hypertext for knowledge augmentation... revisited 11. Drucker's notion of the new American civil society, the end of the savior state, the end of cultural liberation... personal liberation next? Green awareness? ??? 12. Mental loops, cognitive distortions, depression (personal experience), and the deep mud of our minds, which we can trample into new shapes (prozac vs ecstasy, physical/mental effects on these loops) 13. Building cyberbeings: applied simulation architecture, feedback loops, artificial consciousness 14. Is education the deep answer when tech simply removes jobs? Back to Unreal Enterprises. Created 25 August 1995, last updated 6 May 1995, and copyright by Rob Jellinghaus.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90864	look up any word, like blumpkin: 3 definitions by Big URBAN a whole lot; lots of; too much; a shitload; large amount That dude just made a G in 1 day. Now thats money out the ass. by Big URBAN July 21, 2006 We don't dance, we juke in the club. by Big URBAN July 21, 2006 it is the acronym for facebook. it can be an acronym for football as well. i just sent my boy a message on fb. WORD!!! by Big Urban April 17, 2007
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90952	NFL Blitz 2001 Platform: DreamcastAlso on: PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Developer: Avalanche Software Genre: Sports Release History NFL Blitz 2001 Midway GamesNorth America14th September 2000Retail Game Overview NFL Blitz 2001 is a sports game developed by Avalanche Software and released on Dreamcast, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, PlayStation. External Links
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90962	The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomi, Suomen tasavalta, Swedish: Republiken Finland) isaNordic countrry that borders on the Scandinavian Peninsula with Sweden to the west, Russia to the east and Norway to the north while Estonia lies to its south. Finland is bounded by the Baltic Sea with the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west. Finland is a country of thousands of lakes and islands It has187,888 lakes and 179,584 islands One of these lakes, Saimaa, is the 5th largest in Europe. Finland is mostly flat with few hills and its highest point, the Halti at 1,328 metres, is found in the extreme north of Lapland at the border between Finland and Norway. Finland is covered mostly by coniferous taiga forests, fens, and with little arable land. inland is near enough to the Atlantic Ocean to be continuously warmed by the Gulf Stream, which explains the unusually warm climate considering the absolute latitude. A quarter of Finland's territory lies above the Arctic Circle, and as a consequence the midnight sun can be experienced. At Finland's northernmost point, the sun does not set for 73 consecutive days during summer, and does not rise at all for 51 days in winter. Unlike Denmark, Norway, and Sweden,which are constitutional monarchies, Finland has a republican form of government. The Sami are an indigenous people living in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. In addition to their own Sami languages, they have their own way of life, identity and culture. Common history, traditions, livelihoods and customs unite the Sami living in different countries Viking House Finnish lmports
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90964	To Ed Park: What a mean, self-satisfied, sneeringly arrogant review of the Harry Potter movie, books, and author ["Magical Mystery Tours," November 13-19]. You must be very proud of yourself. In your desire to convince readers of your sophistication, you've exposed your own insecurity and lack of imagination, joy, and good, old-fashioned fun. Have you ever been a child yourself? Were you a bully like Draco Malfoy, or did you dream of contributing something worthwhile to life? Harry Potter is an intelligent, sensitive little boy who, despite his history of deprivation, found the courage to stand up for himself. In addition, you're apparently unaware of the fact that millions of children as well as adults have been stimulated to read. Marcia C. Sherman Santa Barbara, California Ed Park replies: I was never a child; I sprang fully formed from the brow of a Korean mountain-deity. Sherman's bizarre assumptions about my tony upbringing expose her own insecurity, etc.; the rest of her comments could convince millions of children, as well as adults, tostop reading. Re "A View to a Kill" [November 20-26]: I certainly have no beef with Michael Atkinson dumping on the new Bond film, Die Another Day, which was a major disappointment with its CGI Spider-Man heroics and endless chases. But I have three grumbles: 1. When reviewers harp about Bond being pointless after the Cold War it just shows poor memory of their subject. From the first film, Dr. No, the Soviets and Communists were never Bond's main adversaries, and only occasionally come into the picture at all. In fact, Die Another Day is the first film in which Communists are the central villains. At any rate, the film Bond was never a true Cold Warrior. 2. Atkinson seems to be surprised this particular Bond film ran over two hours. With maybe one exception, they all run over two hours. 3. Hey bud, I don't know about your dog, but mine's not stupid. Lots of things have a different and lesser intelligence, or no intelligence at all: That's not stupidity. But even if a dog was stupid, that wouldn't make me want to kick her. Now, turning Bond into a surfing superman, that's stupid, even if it does mean making more money. Otherwise, Atkinson was dead-on. Louis Parks Houston, Texas Michael Atkinson replies: Thanks so much for writing. 1. Bond may have never been fighting Communism, but he often went up against Russians and Germans; anyway, the very idea of espionage being glam, cool, and heroic is a distinctly Cold War vibe. 2. Of the first six films, onlyThunderball exceeded a deuce. 3. I never meant to suggest your dog isn't bright, and I'm glad you don't kick her, in any case. Many thanks for James Ridgeway's Mondo Washington [November 13-19]. He is the first pundit to place the blame for the Democratic Party's recent disaster in the right place—at the feet of the stealth Repub-Enrons of the Democratic Leadership Council who have successfully gutted the party of any principles or values in their quest for elite contributor dollars. Most of the punditocracy, like the DLC, are busy trying to spin away the truth. Bravo! H.H. McCool Signal Mountain, Tennessee Re Tom Robbins's "Sundown on the Patronage Party" [November 13-19]: Congratulations to you. You had as much (if not more) to do with the demise of the Liberal Party as we at the Working Families Party did. I like to think of this as the year Ray Harding lost 140 pounds, 65,000 voters, and one ballot line. Again, a great piece of writing. Michael McGuire WFP State Treasurer Gramercy Park Toni Schlesinger's recent Shelter on a rock star-physical therapist [November 20-26] just reconfirmed that of all the Voice's columns, I think Shelter is the only one that really captures "the way we live now." Schlesinger is the Voice's Anthony Trollope. She may personally be a trollop—I don't really know—but she does something for her truly diverse subjects that even the highest-paid decorator could never accomplish: She makes them interesting. D. Adler East Village Sylvana Foa's assertion that the Israeli blockade of Jenin has not proven effective against terrorism is obviously inaccurate ["," November 6-12]. The Israeli blockade has significantly reduced terrorist attacks originating from Jenin. The "99 percent" of the "good people" of Jenin are real victims. But they are complicit in their own wretched fate, as evidenced by the UN's discovery of thousands of terrorist devices, each of which was produced under the anarchy of Palestinian leadership. Michael Zuckerman Stuyvesant Town VICE, VICE BABY As a former Viceintern, I was taken aback by Joy Press's feature on the magazine [" Vice Bust," November 13-19]. She calls Vice "a big sham" and compares the magazine to Maxim. Maybe the Voice just isn't getting it: Vice is successful because it targets and exploits a niche market—young street-smart kids—and keeps the reader's interest with articles about the "old standbys": sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. The core readers of Vice, the young kids who keep every issue and write in with story ideas, are some loyal fucks who made working there worth it. As for the clothing stores, record label, and movie deals, the founders are living the American dream (even if they're Canadian) and deserve to cash in on the success of the brand that they work so hard for. Next Page » My Voice Nation Help Sort: Newest \| Oldest
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/90985	Skip to content, or skip to search. the industry Sylvester Stallone and Viggo Mortensen to Make Manliest Alcoholic-Poet Movie Ever? Photo: Getty Images Stallone and Mortensen Do Poe? Cinemablend reports the awesome — and totally unverified — rumor that Sylvester Stallone has offered Viggo Mortensen the lead in his upcoming Edgar Allan Poe biopic. Really? Stallone and Mortensen? Shouldn’t these two just scrap the whole Poe thing and make The Life of Attila the Hun or something? [Cinemablend] What’s-His-Name to Continue Dominating Box Office: Lionsgate acquires the rights to Tyler Perry’s next two films, Meet the Browns and Madea Goes to Jail. Studio execs will continue to be shocked when each film opens at No. 1. [HR] White Stripes, Beck, to Confuse You: See if you can follow this: The White Stripes will release three singles this December on colored seven-inch vinyl — a black one, a red one, and a white one. All three will contain the Stripes track “Conquest,” though the version on the red one will be acoustic mariachi. Finally, each record will contain a different B-side co-produced by Beck. Each single will contain a trading card featuring a famous matador. Click the link; we aren’t making any of this up. [Billboard] The Foxx Network: Jamie Foxx and his production partners close a deal with MTV Networks to create new reality shows for MTV and VH1, starting with From G’s to Gents, in which men are made over into gentlemen. Presumably Step 1 is “No more dog fights.” [Variety] Minor Role in Major Movie, Part 1: Matt Frewer, best known as the eighties icon Max Headroom, joins the cast of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen as the fallen super-villain Moloch. [MTV] Minor Role in Major Movie, Part 2: Meanwhile, Jesse Cave, star of BBC drama Summerhill, joins Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince as Hogwarts student — and Ron Weasley love interest — Lavender Brown. Cave reportedly beat out several thousand girls who auditioned for the chance to make out with Rupert Grint. Suck it, George Clooney! [CBBC]
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91019	• General 18.04.2009 No Comments Just a little nugget to tempt the taste buds while I spend a week offline When I get back to the world of work and web I’ll be adding a number of new guides as well as providing info on a new kit that will also be available in the OctoInkjet product range soon • R240 mod instructions • R1900 mod instructions as well as few tips and tricks learned the hard way • PX800FW images and instructions with thanks to Andrea • The new WIBOX Double Header kit from OctoInkjet (connecting one/two printer(s) to a single waste tank) Also worth noting that while I’m offline the OctoInkjet store will be offline to new orders but for the savvy, there’s a discount code on the home page that will work from 26th April to 2nd May 2009 as a small thank-you for waiting. • The trick to using Epsons adjustment utilities in Vista is apparently incredibly simple so just to share the solution. 1. Download the Adjustment utility as you would normally and set your systems date/time as required by the instructions 2. Right click on the “Adjprog” and select “Properties 3. Choose “compatibility” and select “windows xp“. 4. Find and select “Run as Administrator” (if you have this option) 5. Click OK at the bottom You then follow the instructions as normal to complete the waste counter reset. Ref: http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/forums/printer/57513#7 Tags: compatibility, Epson, vista
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91089	Sigma Delta Pi Sigma Delta Pi is an honor society for those who seek and attain excellence in the study of the Spanish language and in the study of the literature and the culture of Spanish-speaking people. Requirements for membership include an average of 3.0 in all Spanish courses and a ranking in the upper 35 percent of their class. At least two Spanish courses on the 300 or 400 level must be completed; one of these needs to be a course in Hispanic literature or culture. Successful applicants are assessed a one-time fee of $35, which pays both national and local dues. $ + & * # of Members: 7 Joel Postema Mailbox: 55 Last Updated Wednesday, October 2, 2013 $ - organization requires payment of dues + - organization requires maintenance of a determined grade point average & - organization has a selection process * - recognized student organization by Student Life and Athletic Council Box # in bold indicates permanent mailbox.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91124	Edit Article Edited by Shivanshu Srivastava, SilverSparkz, MA, Nid.khandelwal and 1 other Creating Email Alerts lets you to get Emails with links of your topic. Suppose, you want latest updates on pictures of flowers, then the alert will send you email you immediately when a new page with the words 'pictures of flowers.' The email will have information as well as links to the site. 1. Create a Google Email Alert Step 1.jpg Open www.google.com/alerts 2. 2 Type in the keywords. After the 'Search Terms:' type the keyword(s), you want to have in your results. Create a Google Email Alert Step 2.jpg 3. 3 Select the results you want. After 'Type' select the type of results you want. If you results on news, then select News. If you want results with links of a blog, select blog. if you want results with Google Realtime, select Realtime. If you want videos on that topic, select Video. If you want results on Google discussions, select Discussions. If you want results of all type, simply select Everything. Create a Google Email Alert Step 3.jpg 4. 4 Choose your email delivery. After 'how often' select the time of your Email delivery. Create a Google Email Alert Step 4.jpg 5. 5 Select volume of emails. After 'volume', select the volume of your emails. Create a Google Email Alert Step 5.jpg 6. 6 Press Create Alert, and your alert is ready. Create a Google Email Alert Step 6.jpg 7. Create a Google Email Alert Step 7.jpg Return to Google Alerts to manage your account. To edit, manage, or delete your alerts later, just go to http://www.google.com/alerts/manage?hl=en&gl=in Add your own method Article Info Categories: Email and Instant Messaging Recent edits by: Nid.khandelwal, MA, SilverSparkz Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 3,407 times. Was this article accurate? an Author! Write an Article
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91125	Edit Article Edited by Niu, Maluniu Three Methods:Respond to an OfferTalk to your BankApply to Credit Card Companies Credit cards get a bad rap because of their interest rates, late fees and encouragement to pay only the minimum amount due every month. They have benefits, however, and can come in handy if you are faced with an emergency or a large expense. Get a credit card by responding to an offer, filling out an application or talking to a financial representative who can help you find the best card for your budget and lifestyle. Method 1 of 3: Respond to an Offer 1. Get a Credit Card Step 1.jpg Look for credit card offers in your email or your mailbox. Credit card companies will often advise you when you are "prequalified" or "preapproved" for credit, meaning your financial information indicates you are eligible for a credit card. 2. Get a Credit Card Step 2.jpg Review the offers to determine which one is most attractive. Look at interest rates, annual fees and payment terms. • Find a card that gives you benefits you can use. For example, if you travel a lot, a credit card that offers frequent flyer miles or points towards hotels and rental cars might be a good option. 3. Get a Credit Card Step 3.jpg Fill out the application. Email offers will come with a link to the online application. You can also call the toll-free number or fill out the paper application if your offer came in the mail. • Provide your offer code when you apply for the card. Most letters or emails will have a code including letters and numbers that will allow you to access the specific offer made to you. 4. Get a Credit Card Step 4.jpg Say "yes" at the register. Many stores offer you their consumer credit card when you are checking out. Department stores and specialty shops often offer savings on your purchase if you fill out an application for credit. • Pay attention to the terms. Retail cards often come with interest rates that are higher than typical Visa, MasterCard or Discover cards. Method 2 of 3: Talk to your Bank 1. Get a Credit Card Step 5.jpg Ask your bank or credit union to open a credit card account for you. Established customers are often able to link their credit cards to their bank accounts, making payments easy to manage. 2. Get a Credit Card Step 6.jpg Discuss options with your banker. Most financial institutions offer several different cards. The best one for you will depend on your financial situation, spending habits and credit score. 3. Get a Credit Card Step 7.jpg Complete any application paperwork and wait for the bank's decision, which you should have right away. Method 3 of 3: Apply to Credit Card Companies 1. Get a Credit Card Step 8.jpg Search for credit cards through credit card companies such as Capital One, Chase, Citibank, Discover and American Express. 2. Get a Credit Card Step 9.jpg Review the available cards based on what you are looking for. You can look for cards with low interest rates, reward programs and balance transfer offers. 3. Get a Credit Card Step 10.jpg Look for cards that target your credit situation or age. For example, you can search for cards available to those with bad credit or no credit. You can also search for cards that are good for students, seniors or businesses. Add your own method • Consider using a site that matches your information to potential credit cards, or helps you find an offer that makes sense for your credit history, income level and credit need. You can get help finding a card just by providing a bit of personal information. • Check your credit before applying for a credit card. This will help you determine how likely you are to be approved for a particular card. Article Info Featured Article Categories: Featured Articles \| Obtaining Credit and Debit Cards Recent edits by: Niu Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 7,646 times. Was this article accurate? an Author! Write an Article
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91126	Edit Article Edited by Aquamarine2011, TechFlash1, Teresa, Carl Belken and 3 others Ever want to preserve a puzzle after you've worked hard to complete it? This article will tell you how to do just that! 1. Glue a Finished Puzzle Step 1.jpg Put your puzzle together 2. Glue a Finished Puzzle Step 2.jpg Get puzzle glue or Mod Podge. Puzzle glue is available at hobby stores or you can get Mod Podge from craft stores. There are many types of puzzle glue available including spray-on, powder and liquid. 3. Glue a Finished Puzzle Step 3.jpg Put a sheet wax paper larger than the puzzle on hard, flat surface such as a kitchen tabletop. Then, put the puzzle on top of the waxed paper. 4. Glue a Finished Puzzle Step 4.jpg Use a brush, sponge or spreading tool to apply the glue or Mod Podge to the puzzle, thinly and evenly. Make sure that the glue is applied to every piece. Let dry for 30 to 60 minutes. 5. Glue a Finished Puzzle Step 5.jpg Apply a second, thin layer of glue for added strength. 6. Glue a Finished Puzzle Intro.jpg Add your own method • If the edges of your puzzle curl up, turn your puzzle over and apply glue to the back pieces. Another option is to place the dry puzzle underneath a flat weighted object and leave it there for a day or so. • The best way to display your completed puzzle is in a glass frame. Hobby stores like Hobby Lobby in the US offer framing services which allow you to dry mount your puzzle. • If possible, choose glue that's made by the same company that made your puzzle. Some companies, like Educa, provide glue with puzzles of 500 pieces or more. [1] • If you choose a powder glue, make sure your follow the instructions so you mix it correctly. Otherwise, it may not work well. • Avoid using too much glue as this can cause your puzzle to swell or peel. • Avoid using glue on metallic puzzles or puzzles with glossy or lenticular finishes. Instead, try Puzzle Presto, an adhesive paper that you apply to the back of the puzzle to hold it together in preparation for mounting. [1] Article Info Categories: Puzzles and Memory Games Recent edits by: Maniac, Nicole Willson, Carl Belken Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 14,325 times. Was this article accurate? an Author! Write an Article
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91127	Editor's Note: We debated over whether to include this, but we kind of specialise in this kind of weird stuff. How to Tickle Your Mum Tickling your Mum's feet can be great fun especially if your Mum is really ticklish and loves having her feet tickled! 1. If you've ever wondered if your Mum is ticklish - especially on her feet - then why not find out! 2. Choose a time when she's removed her slippers and is sitting on the sofa with her bare feet exposed. 3. Just gently run your forefinger lightly as possible down one sole and see what response you get! If she pulls back and demands you stop immediately, try once more but stop and wait for another time. 4. If she lightly giggles and says,"I'm very ticklish, but it relaxes me, so be careful and take it easy." Then you could be in for a great time. 5. Now you might try trailing fingertips across the other sole, wait for her to laugh a little, then continue on both soles, gently increasing the tempo and see if she still keeps her feet there. 6. Notice any hyperticklish spots that make her laugh out loud and linger a little more on those spots each time. 7. Top tickle spots are usually the arches, just under the ball of the big toe, across the toe pads and tips and inside the toe crevices. 8. Always wait to see what response you get each time, especially after each outburst of laughter. 9. Continue and be prepared to stop at any point. You can always ask how it feels and if she answers,"it tickles like crazy", but she doesn't pull her feet away, then she wants you to continue because she's obviously enjoying the tickling sensation. You can always tease a little by asking, "you've got really ticklish feet Mum, haven't you". If she answers, "you're tickling me to death here, just go easy", then she's loving it and you know you can continue tickling her feet for quite a bit longer. Perhaps up to an hour! 10. One sure sign that she enjoyed your session is if she comes into the room while you're watching TV, plops her bare feet into your lap and asks for her feet to be tickled 'like last time'. 11. It may even become a regular session! 12. Why not sneak into her bedroom when she's having a snooze or lie-in, pull back the end of the bed covers and tickle her feet until she's awake. You are likely to find that her warm feet will be even more ticklish than ever! 13. She may even recommend your tickling prowess to one of her ticklish friends. Then you may be in for a great treat - tickling both your Mum's feet and her best friend's feet, both at the same time! Article added: 26 July 2010 The less weapons, the better. Bookmark and Share
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91130	Print this page Share Science, Culture and Society: Understanding Science in the 21st Century ISBN: 978-0-7456-2974-2 224 pages September 2005, Polity Science, Culture and Society: Understanding Science in the 21st Century (0745629741) cover image What is science? Science, Culture and Society tackles this difficult question. We used to be quite certain about science, and science used to be quite certain about the world: it was the form of knowledge and set of practical activities that would allow us to unravel the ‘mysteries of creation’ and the ‘laws of nature'. Yet despite the important contribution made by science to today's knowledge economies and knowledge societies, it is considered by many to be remote, and even dangerous. As science becomes more important, we have less understanding of what science actually is. Science, Culture and Society attempts to redress this knowledge gap and to provide an alternative framework for making sense of science. The book addresses key questions of what science is and how it is carried out, what the relationship between science and society is, how science is represented in contemporary culture, and how scientific institutions are structured. Drawing on methods from cultural studies and sociology the book locates science in a social and cultural perspective and provides a wide-ranging introduction to the social and cultural dimensions of science. Designed as a primary text for undergraduates at all levels it will be key reading on courses in the sociology of science, cultural studies of science and technology, philosophy of science, and science and technology studies. See More List of Boxes. List of Illustrations. Part I - Language, Art and Science. 1. Paolozzi and Faraday: Science and Art. Part II Doing Science. 2. In the Laboratory. 3. Scientific Knowledge. 4. History. 5. Scientists and Scientific Communities. Part III Representing Science. 6. Popular Science Books. 7. Science Fiction. Part IV Living with Science. 8. Investigating Science in a Cultural Framework. See More Mark Erickson, is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton. See More • Easily accessible textbook that addresses key questions about science, and the relationship between science, culture and society. • Explains clearly the central social theoretical and philosophical approaches to science. • Provides a cogent and stimulating explanation of key scientific theories, such as genetic engineering, and uses a wide range of lively examples of science in a cultural context. • Designed as a primary text for undergraduate courses in the sociology of science, cultural studies of science and technology, philosophy of science, and science and technology courses. See More "A timely, accessible and engagingly written overview of the interdependence between 'formal' scientific practice and knowledge and wider social and cultural representations of science." "What is notable about this book is not only that it covers the ground that you would expect in an undergraduate text book with this title, but that it also makes a sustained argument." New Genetics and Society "Erickson's examination of the ways in which science is represented within culture is compelling and his argument for the inclusion of analyses of science fiction within STS is both refreshing and convincing. His advice on how students might go about completing a small research project in the cultural studies of science will be particularly useful." BSA Network "Science and technology studies is a field that claims many disciplinary allegiances and areas of substantive concern. Mark Erickson's Science, Culture, Culture and Society is the first textbook to provide an entry point into all of them. Whether you're classically trained in history, philosophy or sociology, on the one hand, or someone with a background in science, technology or art, on the other hand, or even simply a fan of science fiction, you will be invited to see your field with fresh eyes from perspectives that are bound to increase in significance in the coming years." Steve Fuller, University of Warwick "This is fresh, vivid look at science as a process and a social system. Erickson has brilliantly redrawn the map of science studies to encompass art, philosophy, popular culture, science fiction and sociology. He is right on target when he identifies science as profoundly dispersed, unfolding across multiple domains, and engaging not only with the laboratory but also with the mass media, trash fiction, high theoretical philosophy and Congressional hearings. Vonnegut, Paolozzi, William Gibson, the Terminator, and Richard Feyman join Fleck, Kuhn, Popper, Latour and other standard characters in science studies in this clear-eyed exploration of the state of the field. In the process Erickson illuminates the powerful networks of knowledge production that reflect twenty-first-century, in all its uncertainty and hopefulness. This accessible and engaging book should be required reading for every undergraduate, or for anyone who has to make their way through the forms of life that constitute science in culture." Susan Lindee, University of Pennsylvania "Erickson has a gift for explaining complex philosophical ideas in accessible terms without doing damage to them. This lively, readable book does a fine job of demystifying science while introducing the reader to key ideas in the important new field of science studies. In an era where our lives are increasingly dominated by science and technology, this is an indispensable introduction to an exciting set of ideas." Hugh Gusterson, MIT See More Related Titles Back to Top
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91140	Promoting Server Core to a Domain Controller by Chris Sanders [Published on 17 June 2008 / Last Updated on 17 June 2008] The typical method used to promote a Windows Server 2003/2008 computer to a domain controller is through either the server management console or the dcpromo utility. These tools however are both graphically based, so how do you accomplish this same task in the entirely command-line oriented Windows Server 2008 Server Core? Luckily, the dcpromo utility can be run from Server Core, but there is a little bit of preparation required beforehand. Dcpromo requires an unattended installation file to be run on Server Core. You can create one of these manually, or generate one from a standard Windows Server 2008 installation. After generating one of these unattended installation files you can run the following command to kick off the promotion: Dcpromo /unattend:C:\unattendfile.txt Featured Links
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91144	Help support J.Brown (Ender/Amigo) ender at Sun Nov 10 03:40:34 CST 2002 Just so people don't double up, I'll let everyone know I'm working on a CHM viewer. Although I still havn't worked out how I will do the actual HTML viewing, my first priority is to actually build code to parse the file :) I might even ponder implementing a simple IWebBrowser implementation based off of Konq-Embedded/khtml, which would be -extremely- easy... and best of all, light-weight (there is NO way I'm going to install Mozilla/Win32 to have large portions of WINE working, I can't afford the diskspace!) Of course the whole GPL vs LGPL thing is a bit of an annoyance. - Ender More information about the wine-devel mailing list
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91189	Slowcooking Do's and Don'ts Get tips on cleaning, food placement, when to cover and more By Jenny Ko Photo by: Comstock Special Offer Cooking pointers from Woman's Day sister publication Slow Cooking 2. Gently wash your cooker’s insert with hot soapy water so it’s completely clean before using it. And allow the insert to cool completely after cooking before cleaning and storing it. 8. Read the recipe you’re using carefully—it will usually tell you at what point you should test the food for doneness. And don’t forget to wear oven mitts when you do—both the lid and the cooker insert can get very hot! 3. Never reheat leftovers in your slow cooker. It won’t reach a high enough temperature in time to meet food safety standards. Use the microwave instead. 4. Don’t put the cooker insert over direct heat, such as a gas or electric burner. Extreme or sudden temperature changes can cause breakage. For the same reason, you shouldn’t use the insert in the oven or put it in the freezer. 9. Preheating your slow cooker isn’t necessary unless the recipe you’re using specifies doing so.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91195	Skip to definition. Noun: burnish bur-nish 1. The property of being smooth and shiny - polish, gloss, glossiness Verb: burnish bur-nish 1. Polish and make shiny "burnish the wooden floors"; - buff, furbish Derived forms: burnishes, burnishing, burnished Type of: effulgence, polish, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine, smooth, smoothen, smoothness Encyclopedia: Burnish
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91196	Skip to definition. Noun: sapodilla plum 1. Tropical fruit with a rough brownish skin and very sweet brownish pulp - sapodilla, sapota, naseberry Derived forms: sapodilla plums Type of: edible fruit Part of: Achras zapota, Manilkara zapota, sapodilla, sapodilla tree
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91197	Skip to definition. Noun: synechia si'ne-kee-u 1. Adhesions between the iris and the lens or cornea resulting from trauma or eye surgery or as a complication of glaucoma or cataract; can lead to blindness Type of: adhesion Encyclopedia: Synechia
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91214	Official CNBC app brings your favorite shows to Windows Phone Windows 8 Apps+Games British newspaper The Mirror launches official app for Windows 8 Indian apparel brand ZOVI launches official Windows Phone app Official Bidorbuy Marketplace app now available for Windows Phone Ladbrokes releases official betting app on Windows Phone Microsoft News Enjoy Microsoft's Xbox E3 presentation with the official Windows 8 app India's ICICI Bank releases official Windows Phone mobile banking app ITV releases gorgeous new viewing experience for Windows Phone Official McDonald's UK app launches on Windows Phone 9GAG launches official app for Windows Phone to make you giggle Windows Phone News UK transport giant Arriva working on Windows Phone app Instagram for Windows Phone finally adds Lock screen support Windows Phone News Heatmiser UK looking for beta testers to trial their Windows Phone app Windows 8 Apps+Games Find inner peace with the official app for Windows 8 The Times newspaper working on official Windows Phone 8 app Thanks, Michael, for the tip! There are 22 comments. Sign in to comment Yay. About time they got involved. Drewidian says: Will I be able to subscribe to it here in the US or will it be region locked? dinod says: Would love Daily Mail - UK version of TMZ... SleepyTheDon says: The big dogs keep on coming! Get with The Times guys L0gic Bom8 says: That's what they keep saying! squiggs1982 says: This is a disaster - they've been saying they're bringing out a Windows 8 app for over a year. I have no fewer than three emails from their digital team promising this, but they "don't know when". If they've pulled the Windows Phone app, this doesn't fill me with confidence they'll replace it any time soon Josh Harman says: You should really say "The Times, in the UK" in the title. England isn't the only country in the world and the New York Times is the real Times... Blah, Blah, Blah topleya says: The Times is clearly the real times and New York Times is not The Times founded in 1785 New York Times founded in 1851 will this app include all the football highlights videos as well like on iOS and Android. When i tweeted Oliver Kay of the Times sports writers, was told to avoid Windows Phone, when i asked why there was no Windows Phone support. olivermills6 says: But... it's already on WP8 - I use it often? I'm more concerned about why The Times' Goals app isn't scheduled to be coming... they've advertised it so much and it's only for iPhone and Android... olivermills6 says: Just checked, it works on my HTC 8X but must have been pulled from the Store. It definitely once was available for WP8 though. Why did it leave? Brandchefen says: Can i get it in sweden? No one cares...however, I would really REALLY like to have a WatchESPN app. Pretty please with cherries on top? ivo_apo says: @Wilber: you've been living in different planet. The Times (UK) is one of the most respectable newspaper in the world. It' great that the BIG guns are joying W8. So, yes. We do take care of this 'small' fact. Wake me up when the print media becomes relevant again. Until then, WatchESPN please. fishyuk says: Well, I can see your insightful world view is coloured by a Sports Channel but for many (thankfully) the "Print" media is a valuable source of considered journalism and a broadening of horizons beyond 5 second blogs (normally chosen to reinforce a preference or established worldview than to challenge one). I'm annoyed they have pulled The Times App as it worked fine on Windows Phone 8 though it could have done with more features and offline support. I hope they pull their finger out soon, as my 1020 may eventually ship and I'll miss it. Not having the App on Windows 8 has prevented me from getting a Windows 8 tablet so far, I really want one and would have bought a £279 RT for that alone. If I look at my tablet use (HP TouchPad with Cyanogenmod) then reading the "paper" could be 30min to 60min every day. I really don't want another Android tablet though. yellowmage says: Nice to have more choice, but I'll stick with The Guardian, thanks. hwangeruk says: Ugh, the Guardian, pretentious like its readership (no offence). Of all the UK papers, The Times is just about the only bearable one.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91262	XLR8R - logo The Tape Vs. RQM Public Transport RQM has soul. The sweet smile of the longtime Brooklyn (now Berlin) MC reflects in his flows, but you can also hear heartache in his distinctive voice. Public Transport is RQM at his most introspective, written as a mixtape for suicidal lovers, traversing many topics that intersect with that mysterious emotion. Producer Robert Koch of Jahcoozi creates a perfectly complimentary soundtrack, guitars and beats glitched-out but always in consort with both RQM's flows and the vocals of the women who serve as his Greek chorus. Both the newly in love and the jilted lover will find something here, and the album wears its heart on its sleeve, emotionally ragged and touchingly sweet at the same time. Follow us on... Get the lowdown weekly newsletter XLR8R Downloads Player
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91278	Brazilian bookshop named after Amos Oz - Israel Culture, Ynetnews Israel News Israel News World News Israel Opinion Israel Business Israel Culture Israel Travel Worldwide Popularity Amos Oz Photo: Colin McPherson Amos Oz Photo: Colin McPherson Brazilian bookshop named after Amos Oz Renowned Israeli writer surprised to find one of his biggest fans in Belo Horizonte, Brazil Itamar Eichner Published: 11.22.11, 15:11 / Israel Culture Israeli writer Amos Oz is very popular around the globe, but he too was surprised to discover that one of his biggest fans lives on the other end of the world – in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The fan, who owns a bookstore and an Internet café, decided to rename his business "Oz" after the Israeli author. On a sign at the front of the store he placed a large picture of the novelist, and inside the shop one can find additional pictures alongside quotes from his books, as well as Oz novels translated into Portuguese. Last week, the fan traveled seven hours to Sao Paolo to meet his favorite writer, who arrived in the Brazilian city to attend an event held in his honor by the Israeli Consulate. Consul-General Ilan Sztulman introduced the two, and the guest showed the excited Oz pictures of his shop. commentcomment PrintPrint Send to friendSend to friend Tag with Bookmark to 2 Talkbacks for this article See all talkbacks Please wait for the talkbacks to load Site developed by YIT Advanced Technology Solutions פיקוד העורף התרעה במרחב: רשימת יישובים במרחב
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91289	Pepper Pop Quiz! Last week I told you about the ESPN reporter who accidentally ate the world's hottest pepper. I shared it because I thought it was a fun food tid-bit, but little did I know that November is actually National Pepper Month! We've already got the funny part of hot peppers out of the way, so now I thought I'd test your knowledge. How well do you know pepper (both black pepper and hot chile peppers)?
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91318	DOE Training Session Presentations from LIGHTFAIR International 2014 Photo of a man speaking in front of a group of people. Once again, DOE hosted its award-winning informational booth and free training sessions at LIGHTFAIR® International, held June 3–5 in Las Vegas. The LFI "Best Booth" in 2012 had new features for 2014, including expanded training sessions on specifying and using LED products, expert Q&A on today's toughest lighting issues, and touchscreen kiosks for drilldown details on DOE resources.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91360	Friday, April 13, 2007 yinyang thoughts (2) Yin is sitting in his usual demeanor, calmly watching the waves of the sea. Yang is pretty excited like a child, “ What is it Yang, you seem pretty pumped up” questions Yin. “Yin I learned a lot today. Everything in the world of computers depend upon a simple logic called the Boolean Logic: True or False or rather a 1 or 0.” Yin ponders for a minute and nodding his head says “ Umm I understand….Its like the real world where everything depends on only two things truth or untruth. Yang goes on… “ There are seven simple gates I learned about, using them we can build any digital component you can imagine ” Like seven gates to heaven …. Sounds interesting… please go on“ says Yin There are three primary gates, NOT, AND and OR gates. The NOT gate is called the inverter meaning if the input is 1 the output is 0 and vice versa. The AND gate peforms a logical “and “ operation on two inputs meaning if input A is 1 and input B is 1 the output Q is 1. But if input A is 1 and B is 0 or A is 0 and B is one or A is 0 and B is 0 resluts in a output 0. Where as the OR gate is like the logical “or” operation meaning if A is 1 or B is 1 (or both are 1) then the output Q is 1. These are the three and its easy to know the other two gates called the NOR and the NAND gates. “Wait a minute says Yin “ . “I think I got it, does it mean t negates the output of OR gate and AND gates respectively “. “Exactly says Yang”. “There are two more called the XOR and XNOR gates. The output of XOR is 1 only if A or B is 1 and not both. XNOR gives a 1 only if both A and B are same meaning they should be either both a 0 or both a 1. “ “ Now with these basic gates adders, multipliers can be created and all the mathematical operations can be performed “. “But the most important thing you can do with these gates is make it hold on to its value meaning we can create memory out of these. A circuit which does this is generally referred as a “flip flop”. “Fascinating, Its like how we cling on to our past forgetting the now, may be there are millions of flip flops in our head says Yin ”. “Yin it’s even more fascinating when you find out that the physical implementation of these gates is on a submicroscopic transistor etched onto silicon chips. And there are millions and millions of them on a single chip.” "Yang I am reminded of a Zen story when you talked about the flip flop, the circuit which holds on to its value." says Yin and starts narrating the story as Yang listens attentively. There were two monks, one old and the other young, crossing a river to reach their monastery on the other side of the bank. As they were wading through the neck deep water, the monks hear cries for help. They notice a young girl struggling against the current in the river. The Younger monk comes to her rescue and lifts her in his arms and takes her safely to the bank. The monks then retire in their monastery. Its night and the younger monk notices the older one being perturbed. He asks him the reason. The old monk tells him that he should not have done that. The younger monk asks him what. The old monk tells him being a monk he should not have carried her in his arms, for this the younger monk replies " I left her at the bank and you are still carrying her ". The old monk realizes his folly and apologizes to the younger one. "Did you get the story Yang " quizzes Yin. "Yeah , that machines can have memory but we as humans should live in the "Now" and not carry our past". "Exactly says Yin". Yang is in a hurry to leave. "Sorry Yin I can't wait to learn more, tomorrow I would tell you how computers work ". Yin looks at Yang and smiles "you are like the waves of the ocean excited to reach the shore, But remember you like the waves you too would calm down soon." Yang does not trouble his head to comprehend what Yin said and leaves in a hurry as Yin settles down calmly to watch the waves of the sea. Thursday, March 22, 2007 yinyang thoughts Yin & Yang are sitting on a beach watching the calm sea. The sun is about to bade goodbye behind the mountains. Yang quizzes Yin, " look at this beautiful sight, I am bursting with energy, I feel like grabbing the red ball out there, I wonder how u can stay calm all the time ". "All this is illusion.... its called Maya, if you could see through this you will be at peace with yourself ". Yang starts laughing sarcastically,"Maya...Umm looks like a beautiful girl's name...". Yang notices Yin drawing something on the sand. "What's this shape... Looks like a big zero" questions Yang... "yeah you can call this that.Life is a full circle you know.... you would have to come back to its source...replies Yin. " Listen to this story Yang .....You will understand more....Yin starts reciting the story. A young man seeking truth finds an old man beneath a tree. The young man knew that he had to leave on a pilgrimage—but to where? Seeing the old man, he thought, “He must know the road.” So he asked. The old man instructed, “Follow this road till you come to a tree”—he described the tree in detail, leaves, fruit, everything—“and you will find an old man like me but 30 year solder. He will be your guide.” The traveller was happy. He thanked the man and rushed on. For 30 years, he wandered but the tree and old man never came. He was tried, and older himself. Finally, he decided, “It is better to go home. God knows when the guide meets me, what guidance it will be!” He turned back. He passed the same old tree and was shocked! It was the same man, only 30 years older. The young man said, “My god! Why did you waste may 30 years?” The older man said, “Did I waste your 30 years, or did you waste mine? Then you were not ripe enough to be guided. You didn’t look at the tree, though I described it in detail. I described your guide. You were in a hurry; too you. But I actually waited knowing one day you will come.” Did you get the point Yang quizzes Yin. "Somewhat..... But do you mean to say that "don' go after this beautiful world or what?... I can't control myself..... says Yang. " No says Yin, I am just emphasizing that you would come back to me where ever you go... "Lets see that Yin... I am going to a beautiful new world of computers do you want to come along". Yin and Yang start walking along the beach. "I know all about it says Yin... "Did you see the zero I drew on the sands... That's the basis on which computers where born ...." yeah Yin I have heard that one's and zeros are foundations of digital science...adds Yang. " Yes the two opposites like You and Me "says Yin. Both smile at each other and say in synergy " Like Yin and Yang.... " Monday, March 12, 2007 Are we all Yin Yangis ? Are we all YinYangi’s Before the Point The concepts of yin and yang originate in ancient Chinese philosophy which describe two primal opposing but complementary principles said to be found in all objects and processes in the universe. Yin (Chinese: yīn; literally "shady place, north slope (hill), south bank (river); cloudy, overcast") is the darker element; it is passive, dark, feminine, downward-seeking, and corresponds to the night. Yang ( yáng; "sunny place, south slope (hill), north bank (river); sunshine") is the brighter element; it is active, light, masculine, upward-seeking and corresponds to the day. Yin (receptive, feminine, dark, passive force) and yang (creative, masculine, bright, active force) are descriptions of complementary opposites rather than absolutes. In western culture, the dichotomy of good and evil is often taken as a paradigm for other dichotomies. The Point So coming to the point, we, all have the inner side searching for something (yin), the outer side trying to extract the maximum from the world (yangs). So we can call a truly creative person an Yin‘gi’, an real outward person, say some one like Richard Branson (virgin atlantic) as an Yangi. An Alexander would be categorized as a perfect Yangi and an Buddha an perfect Yingi. Sometimes we listen to our Yin's voice more and some times to our Yang's . I remember an interesting story by OSHO about Alexander. Alexander had heard about the cynical strange philosopher Diogenes who lived in a bathtub, with just a lantern as his possession on the city of Athens so he went to meet him. The story goes like this: Diogenes was sitting half naked on the bank of a river, never paying heed to Alexander who had come to see him. Alexander is angered, he tells him “Do you know who I am, I am Alexander the prince of Macedonia. “ Diogenes gives him a look with a sarcastic smile suggesting “So what ?”….. Alexander becomes even more angry and tells him with a sense of pride “ you will not laugh if you know what my ambition is ?, I want to conquer the world “. Now Diogenes bursts out laughing, He starts laughing like a mad man . Alexander asks Diogenes why he is laughing, But Diogenes keeps laughing even louder. Alexander has never been insulted by anyone like this before, Now Alexander feels he has had enough of this man, He begs him to tell him why he was laughing. Diogenes replies “ All my life I have been sitting with a lantern on the river front trying to conquer myself And I have failed all the time “ and here you are telling me that You would want to conquer the whole world. “ Alexander did not get the point and went ahead on his ambition only to end up being a loser. Quote of the Day: When one sees Eternity in things that pass away and infinity in finite things then one has pure knowledge: The Bhagwad Gita
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91377	Bass Are Treated Like Royalty Treating bass like kings and queens. That's how the fish caught during the BASSMASTERS ELITE tour are treated all four days of the tourney. Noreen Clough is a Conservation Director hired by BASS to come along on the fishing tour stops. (Click for Audio) She says it's almost a science to keep the bass alive while they are weighed in and released back into area waters, A process approved by the DNR and the FDA. Does the city offer too much financial help to developers?
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91419	What Defines a Gastropub Burger? [Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt] I was in San Francisco last weekend and found myself at The Monk's Kettle, one of those San Franciscan places that serves 78 beers, none of them light. I mean, I'm not really a light beer drinker, but sometimes I just want something...refreshing? Anyhow, they've got a burger on the menu, so I ordered it, and it turned out to be really good (see picture above). Well seasoned, super juicy, not quite beefy, but more what I'd just call generic meaty (turns out that they use an 80/20 blend of ground sirloin and pork). Sweet onion jam, really flavorful aged cheddar, a soft, buttery bun from Acme bakery, and some house-made bacon which, while not quite as smoky or sweet as I like it, was plenty flavorful. The fries were great as well. But here's the thing. As I was eating it, I realized that in Adam's epic and exhaustive Guide to Hamburger Styles, this particular burger didn't fit quite squarely into any of the categories. I mean, it's certainly got the large patty size of a pub burger and it's served in a pub, but it seems a bit too highbrow for a regular, American cheese-clad pub burger. On the other hand, it's also got many of the hallmarks of a fancy-pants burger—house-made mayonnaise, designer bacon, arugula, artisinal cheese—but it didn't feel quite fancy enough to be a fancy-pants burger, and Daniel Boulud was certainly nowhere to be seen. [Illustration: Robyn Lee] There are other burgers I've had that seem to not fit squarely into any of the categories in a similar way. Say, the burger from LA's Father's Office, or the grass-fed version from Seattle's Spur. How about the Hickory Burger from Spitzer's Corner in New York? Fresh ground beef, housemade sauce, brioche bun, but hardly fancy-pants, I'd say. Heck, even the freakin' awesome burger from The Spotted Pig should qualify as "fancy-pants," what with its brioche, artisan cheese, fancy beef, and celebrity chef name attachment. But somehow it just doesn't feel fancy to me. So I propose a new subcategory: The Gastropub Burger. I'm still working out the exact definition, but here are a few things that indicate what you're about to bite into is in that strange land of not quite pub, not quite fancy-pants: • The meat must be freshly ground, or at the very least delivered freshly ground every day. No generic patties or log beef here. • The chef must have thought about the blend of beef and fat ratio they are using. • The burger must be relatively large, but not so large that it become messy and/or gluttonous. Around 6-ounces seems right. • The bun can't be a regular white bun or potato roll. Brioche is standard, but a good local bakery will do. • Kobe beef and/or dry-aged beef shove the burger out of gastropub and into fancy-pants territory. • Your burger should be served in an establishment that serves at least a dozen varieties of beer, majorly leaning towards small-batch or artisinal type brews. • Bare wooden countertops and casual service are a must. White tablecloths and fancy wine lists imply fancy-pants. • No ketchup. Fancy mayo or perhaps homemade mustard only. If it has ketchup, it should be oddly flavored and/or homemade. • If the burger has onions on it, they should be cooked in some way or another. Grilled, caramelized, or turned into a jam. Gastropub burgers tend to have some sort of sweet element going on, most often from the onion. • Cheese should be well melted and can be anything but American. White is preferred over yellow. I see now that a lot of these things fit into Ed's previous definition of a fancy-pants burger, but there still seems to be a fundamental difference. Anyone else with me on this one? What defines these burgers to you? I guess I could take the easy way out and just say, "It's a gastropub burger if it's served in a gastropub, duh." Add a comment Previewing your comment:
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91421	Throwing numbers at a map Since I'll be undertaking a research trip to the UK this November or so, I need to think about exactly what I'm going to do there. Giving a paper at the AHA is part of that process. That will hopefully help me formulate my approach or at least identify potential approaches to comparing airship, spy and invasion scares in the First World War. But I also need to nail down where I am going to go in a very physical and literal sense. This is because I want to get out of London for at least a week, to look at scares in a provincial area, and raid the local archives for civil defence files or personal diaries and so on (which of course I can supplement in the London archives). This is partly because it'd be nice to avoid the London-centric perspective for change, but also because I suspect that such fears could be as or even more intense in outlying areas -- particularly on the eastern coast facing Germany. I had been thinking somewhere like Hull, which was raided by Zeppelins on multiple occasions, or East Anglia which is the closest part to Germany and so an obvious (at least in the folk sense) place for a German invasion or raid. Both areas also had notable phantom airship sightings in 1913. So maybe there. Or maybe somewhere else. I wondered if it there was perhaps a systematic way of gauging fears along the invasion coast, something better than throwing darts at a map. And it occurred to me that I might be able to use the British Newspaper Archive (BNA) for this. We're all used to n-grams by now, which are great for tracking the varying usage of words over time. Tim Sherratt's QueryPic does this for Australian newspapers based on the Trove Newspapers corpus; though there's nothing similar for BNA that I know of, you can manually extract the data yourself without it getting too tedious. What I am thinking of might be termed an n-map: an n-gram across space instead of across time. It's a very obvious thing to do, but I don't think I've seen it done for the databases I'm used to using. It's really just GIS (without an actual map). Or distant (newspaper and map) reading. There's no publicly-available BNA API to make it possible to do this in an automatic way, but again it is actually not too difficult to use the BNA interface manually. This is because BNA has a very fine level of geographic discrimination: all newspapers in the database are allocated a place (e.g. Hull), a county (e.g. East Riding of Yorkshire) and a region (e.g. Yorkshire and the Humber). These appear as filters when you do a search, and listed beside each filter is the number of issues the search has thrown up for it. So you can just copy down the numbers into a spreadsheet to construct your own low-tech n-map (or n-gram, for that matter). So now the question is, what keywords do I use? This is not completely straightforward, though neither does it have to be airtight. This is just back-of-the-envelope stuff, after all. After some experimentation, I ended up going with 'zeppelin'; 'invasion'; and 'spy'. (BNA automatically searches on plurals as well.) Here are the number of articles in the BNA for each keyword for each region, for the period 4 August 1914 to 11 November 1918. Borders, Scotland10592103 East Midlands, England269912972657 East, England530395354 Grampian, Scotland271018403429 London, England204148 Lothian, Scotland661432968 North East, England156911641690 North West, England510434086854 South East, England629569656 South West, England477739604917 Strathclyde, Scotland224207349 Tayside, Scotland236116083849 West Midlands, England852247856552 Yorkshire and the Humber, England598830755575 You can click on the arrows at the top of each column to sort them numerically (or alphabetically, for the region column). Two regions are in the top three for each keyword, both England: the North West and the West Midlands. But I'm only interested in local fears, and these words will appear in other contexts as well: Zeppelin raids on London, the invasion of Romania, the trial of Mata Hari. That is to say, in reference to actual Zeppelins, invasions and spies. So I decided to include another keyword with each search: 'rumour'. This hopefully will correlate more with more localised fears rather than real war news. Borders, Scotland842 East Midlands, England198115121 East, England241724 Grampian, Scotland148127239 London, England012 Lothian, Scotland241518 North East, England10096133 North West, England304219284 South East, England192047 South West, England313299311 Strathclyde, Scotland272436 Tayside, Scotland114124185 West Midlands, England404305261 Yorkshire and the Humber, England288196185 Now the top three regions are the same for each keyword, again all in England: the North West and the West Midlands once more, and the South West. However, these are absolute numbers of articles. This can be misleading. The more newspapers BNA has from a particular region, the more hits would be expected, in general (and vice versa). So the numbers need to be normalised against the total volume of newspapers in order to show which regions were relatively more interested in airship, invasion and spy rumours. Again this is easy to find out with BNA, just by doing an empty search. So here's the total number of issues in BNA for each region during the war, and then the ratio of the data from the previous table to that number for each keyword -- in other words, the average number of articles each keyword is mentioned in per issue. Borders, Scotland1700.050.020.01 East Midlands, England28680.070.040.04 East, England6900.030.020.03 Grampian, Scotland26760.060.050.09 London, England920.000.010.02 Lothian, Scotland7900.030.020.02 North East, England12220.080.080.11 North West, England50060.060.040.06 South East, England12030.020.020.04 South West, England60300.050.050.05 Strathclyde, Scotland2460.110.100.15 Tayside, Scotland28120.040.040.07 West Midlands, England69440.060.040.04 Yorkshire and the Humber, England51440.060.040.04 This changes the result dramatically. Now there are two regions in the top three for each keyword: Strathclyde in Scotland and the North East of England, or, in terms of major population centres, Glasgow and Newcastle. Do I believe these results? BNA's wartime run for Strathclyde amounts to only 246 issues, comprising two newspaper titles. So it's possible that this high result is not representative of concerns among the people generally, it could due to be an idiosyncratic editor. It does seem surprising that there would be particularly grave concerns about invasion and so on, since this is the opposite end of Great Britain to Germany. (Then again, as a major shipbuilding centre it may have been felt that Glasgow was a prime target for German intrigues; and the 1913 phantom airship scare provides many examples of scares in non-obvious locations.) Newcastle is at least on the east coast, facing Germany, so that seems to make more sense. On the other hand, newspapers in the areas which I had initially picked as being most scared, so to speak, in BNA's terminology Yorkshire and the Humber, and East, don't seem to be particularly interested in rumours about Zeppelins, invasions or spies. In the case of East, or East Anglia, this may be because that area is underrepresented in BNA, which has only 690 issues from the war period from there, out of 36592 total, or 1.9%. According to the 1911 census, East Anglia had a population of 2.95 million; while all the areas covered by BNA in 1914-18 (which most notably exclude Ireland and Wales) had a population in 1911 of 33.8 million, which is 8.7%. So either East Anglia had very few newspapers relative to its population, or else it is just poorly represented in the BNA database. In the end I'm not entirely convinced that I've solved my problem here, but I'll certainly be looking more closely at Newcastle. One interesting thing: the three keywords seem to correlate with each other. That is, where one appears more (or less) frequently, the other two tend to as well. That could be evidence to support my suggestion that the scares reinforced each other. Or maybe it's just a spurious correlation. Creative Commons License 2 thoughts on “Throwing numbers at a map Leave a Reply
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91426	My favorite pegging scenes are the ones that capture the sensuality and intimacy of the act. The first few times, it can be a pretty powerful and difficult thing for a guy to be penetrated by a woman as it requires he deal with a lot internalized macho bullshit, so having a caring and supportive domme to lead him into it makes the experience far better for both parties. Make him watch as the dildo invade him…….
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91427	Alex Cook Music Alex Cook New Music Info Get Adobe Flash player Alex is available to: • Perform a concert in your church or community; • Paint a mural in your Sunday School or Sanctuary; • Give a talk on creativity and spirituality; • Consult with you to help your own creative process. Visit my contact page to get in touch with me! A book of poems, stories, and drawings by artist and musician Alex Cook, The Beauty follows an arc from darkness to light. Also check out my lyric book with words to all songs from four of my CDs!
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91435	The worst code you've seen? - page 3 by jesshopper12 10,390 Views \| 21 Comments Hello fellow nurses - I have been a nurse now for almost 5 years, and I've seen quite a few codes. So I am wondering: what is the worst code you've seen/been involved in?... Read More 1. 0 Where do I start?? Too Many... This one though has stuck with me for awhile (wasn't my pt thank God) Transferred a pt to our unit at 2300 from small outlier hosp with initial unstable angina, suspect non-ST MI which was relieved by a nitro drip (the hosp had a 24/7 cath lab). Cardiologist wanted to wait to cath the pt till morning because the pt was a diabetic with renal failure (on outpatient dialysis) and had allergies to contrast dye. Plan was to do bicarb drip overnight and load pt with Benadryl before the procedure. The pt was hemodynamically stable with no active symptoms at the time of admission, and we started a heparin gtt upon admission. Through the night the pt became progressively more symptomatic (all the classic signs including now ST elevation in multiple anterior and lateral leads), called the doc 4 times insisting the pt was unstable and needed to be cathed, still didn't want to cath and by change of shift (when docs started rounding) pt was being prepped for emergent cath (duh!!) Well, during shift report the pt of course coded, I responded to the code and initiated compressions, the first compression I did I could feel the pt's entire sternum fracture which spread to the pt's ribcage bilaterally. After we got the pt intubated, copious amounts of blood were coming out of the ET tube (didn't help he was on Heparin overnight) and literally the way we ventilated was RT would give 1 breath and 1 of the nurses would suction. So breath, suction, breath, suction. This went on for over 45 minutes before we finally called it (and the room looked like a murder scene by this point, though not nearly as bad as some of the ruptured aneurysms mentioned above, so are the worst!) The sadest part of the story was about 10-15 min before the code, the pt called their spouse to let them know everything was ok and to not rush in (about an hour drive for the spouse from where they lived). We couldn't get a hold of them during the code after multiple attempts, by the time the spouse got there the pt had expired (needless to say we had a Chaplin there when we broke the news, heartbreaking...) 2. 0 I wasn't the primary nurse of this patient, but I was in charge. The primary RN was asking me for advice for her patient, a 94-yo who had a bad case of pulmonary edema. You could hear how wet the patient sounded just by standing in the doorway. The patient kept having random bursts of v-tach and they were confused. Abdomen was VERY distended. I had a feeling in my gut and this thought crossed my mind - "this patient is going to code by the end of the night." They were a full code, too. We spoke to the hospitalist on call who didn't want an NG tube placed and also didn't want to transfer the patient to ICU because "I don't think they would do much more there than what you are doing here." I was at the desk and noticed on the monitor that the patient's O2 sat started dropping...80's to 70's, then 60's...I called RT and ran into the room, then the patient stopped breathing, so we started to code them. Feces then started to literally POUR out of the patient's mouth. That patient aspirated, for sure. We flipped the patient on the their side and it was like a waterfall on the side of the bed. We dropped an NG tube and filled up two and a half suction canisters within minutes. That abdomen shrank in size. That was a very messy code. We were able to get a pulse back and we transferred the patient up to the ICU, but by the end of the night the patient's blood pressure started tanking and they coded the patient again right before shift change. The patient didn't make it that time.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91460	Thursday, May 13, 2010 the fastest quickie i ever had... get your minds out of the gutter i'm talking about auditions what else. I was sent on a gosee for something or other (at this point i dont even bother to ask questions i just go and hope i can smile big enough to impress whoever i need to so they might want to throw me couple hudred bucks)So i am running to this gosee downtown in between my 2 classes (a body dynamic and voice) and am hoping i can get in get seen and get out realitively quickly...well be careful what you wish i am trying to find this place in the west village on some street i have never heard of (bethane st or something...and if you even think you have heard of it you are a dirty dirty liar...apparantly its by the west side highway and washington st in the cluster fuck that is the west village) so i am frantically running with my 20 million bags in my hand...ok maybe not 20 million but 2 really big ones that kept knocking me in the legs as i am trying to run which is definitley no bueno...i finally find this building and i think ok finally i made now all i have to do is take the elevator up to the 13 floor (yup lucky number 13) and i am home wrong i mean why would it be that no no.. as i am about to take the elevator i hear the building doorman screaming out here take this..clearly i am an asshole and have my ipod in so i dont think he is screaming to i attempt to get in the elevator and he again is screaming out "come here you need the directions" directions to what...narnia...i mean how complicated could this really be...well allow me to retype the nice little 'directions' they handed me... note the following is exactly what was written down word for word Directions to 13th fl: take elevators to the 9th fl.turn right. walk to the end of the hall and turn left do not take the single elevator go to the set of elevators. take either of these elevators to the 13th fl. Did you all get that. yeah cuz if you didnt then your basically screwed. Doomed to walk the god awful amonia smelling hallways. So after I made it through the maze of hell that they call 'directions' i get up to the room where there about a million other girls in front of me. fine i am used to this. Normally it goes by pretty they line us up well lucky for me there were 2 girls in front of me the one girl they took like 10 minutes with having her pose in every pose possible and we hear...well we want to make sure you get a good you can either take this as something really nice like aww they care or your second option is to face the reality and face the music that for some reason or other this bitch is getting special treatment...ok so i am trying to remain calm but let me ask you how do you keep composure when you know you are about to walk into the lions den and get fed to the wolves or in my case you just know you are about to get screwed..(and not in a good way) while this girl is in there apparantly trying to get a good picture one of the guys who is monitoring the line comes out and is like 'ok guys they want to see personality they are gonna hire on personality.' ok this i know i have. I have alot personality hell i have multiple pick which one you want. But how in the world are u supposed to show your personality when you go in after little miss 20 min girl and nobody even looks up at you to aknowledge you (im not even kidding...these people didnt even tell me where to stand they just started snapping away and then it was over) it totally sucked not to mention the fact that i had just had body dynamics (its kind of like an intense stretch class) and my leg would not stop shaking...i probably looked like some nervous crack whore with a serious addiction problem that i was coming off of (they were probably like oh great another strong out poser) i so wanted to yell out i just had a stretch class im not on dope (yeah i said dope what up 1990) least it wasnt just me.. as i was getting in the elevator the girl who was standing behind me was like hold the elevator...yeah apparantly everyone after the perfect girl were all the losers and we all knew kind of reminded me of highschool where you run against the popular girl for office and everyone votes for her and you know that was what was gonna happen but you still want to think you have a chance anyway...oh that didnt happen to anyone else...hmmm... 1. When I get home, babe Gonna light your fire All day I've been thinkin' about you, babe You're my one desire Gonna wrap my arms around you Hold you close to me Oh, babe I wanna taste your lips I wanna fill your fantasy, yeah I don't what I'd do without you, babe Don't know where I'd be You're not just another lover No, you're everything to me Ev'rytime I'm with you, baby I can't believe it's true When you're layin' in my arms We do the things you do You can see it in my eyes I can feel it in your touch You don't have to say a thing Just let me show how much Love you, need you, yeah I wanna kiss you all over And over again I wanna kiss you all over
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91464	Archives for: adobe flash 10.1 - BBC iPlayer Android app will broadcast live and on-demand TV Comments Off Continue Reading Android News Adobe Flash for Android downloaded 1 million times Today is Adobe’s big day. It looks like according to them that Flash for Android has been downloaded over 1 million times from the Android Market. Flash was announced to be coming to Android months ago and… Continue Reading Continue Reading Android Apps Adobe Flash Player 10.1 officially available…for “mobile platform partners” Comments Off Adobe has announced the official availability of Flash Player 10.1. Of course, some of those lucky enough to have been using a phone with Android 2.2 Froyo will have already experienced Flash on mobile device,… Continue Reading
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91465	Tuesday, 5 June 2012 Beyond the Internet Week 13: Lest we Forget: War Memorials 1. This is a memorial of a sort: "Please treat the church and houses with care; we have given up our homes where many of us lived for generations to help win the war to keep men free. We shall return one day and thank you for treating the village kindly." Notice pinned to the door of Tyneford Church by departing villagers, Christmas Eve, 1941. From the book: "The House at Tyneford." 1. Thank you for sharing that moving piece. I now need to investigate further about what happened at Tyneford. 2. Thanks for joining in Julie. You're very right that these memorials inspire such a sense of loss. How did people ever recover who lost even one, let alone more, family members or loved ones. Thanks also to loverofwords for that quote about Tyneford. How it must have hurt those families to give up their homes as well as all the other sacrifices made. Thanks to both of you for sharing. Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91475	Astronomy Picture of the Day 2010 February 20 See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. Geostationary Highway Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN) Explanation: Put a satellite in a circular orbit about 42,000 kilometers from the center of the Earth (36,000 kilometers or so above the surface) and it will orbit once in 24 hours. Because that matches Earth's rotation period, it is known as a geosynchronous orbit. If that orbit is also in the plane of the equator, the satellite will hang in the sky over a fixed location in a geostationary orbit. As predicted in the 1940s by futurist Arthur C. Clarke, geostationary orbits are in common use for communication and weather satellites, a scenario now well-known to astroimagers. Deep images of the night sky made with telescopes that follow the stars can also pick up geostationary satellites glinting in sunlight still shining far above the Earth's surface. Because they all move with the Earth's rotation against the background of stars, the satellites leave trails that seem to follow a highway across the celestial landscape. For example, in this wide view of the nearly equatorial Orion region, individual frames were added to create a 10 minute long exposure. It shows Orion's belt stars and well-known nebulae along with many 2.5 degree long geostationary satellite trails. The frames are from an ingenious movie, featuring the geostationary satellite highway. Tomorrow's picture: stellar butterfly NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply. NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC & Michigan Tech. U.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91487	Lego Mindstorms by Jonathan Gennick Friday I had great fun visiting a Lego Robotics class at Great Lakes Adventist Academy in Cedar Lake, Michigan. I'm learning that many schools teach classes involving Lego , a family of Lego products combining the study of robotics and programming. There's even an international competion run by First Lego League International . I'm very interested in all this. Friday's class began with one team finishing a previously assigned problem that involved having their robot push black film-canisters out of a circle while leaving white film-canisters in place inside the circle. There were a few bugs to begin with, but after a few trial runs and adjustments the team managed to produce a working solution. Cool! Steve and Alan Students work together to solve "problems" posed by the teacher The teacher then gave out the next problem, a rather interesting "enhancement" of the previous. I was impressed at the way team members worked together to attack the new challenge. I was even more impressed when I saw students reusing code, building their new program using previously developed solutions for simpler problems. For example, the students all seemed to have a canned line-following routine that they could just drop-in when needed. Lego Mindstorms look to be a really fun way to develop logic and problem-solving skills. And when you're done writing a program, you have something tangible that anyone, programmer or non-programmer, can appreciate. Kids today sure are I want to learn more. Post below, or drop me a line ( if you're using Lego Mindstorms at school. Let me know what you're doing and how it's working. 2003-12-08 10:09:07 Remember Logo? Granted, not as flexible or utterly cool as Midstorms, but Logo was da bomb back in my day (my day being 1985, when I was in fifth grade... do the math...) What was cool about Logo was that it taught you a bit of procedural programming (do this, then do this, then do this), some geometry (most of the procedures were distance and turn radius commands) and some basic programming to boot (loops, if-thens, etc.). This was before OOP was the big buzzword, so it was pretty hightech for what we had. PLUS, you could hook up a robotic "turtle" to your serial port and actually draw your Logo programs on actual paper. Very nifty. Makes me wonder what the next generation will play with to learn their programming skills. -- Rob Z. 2003-12-08 11:29:08 Another cool modular robotic kit Jonathan Gennick 2003-12-08 11:34:49 Remember Logo? I do remember Logo, though I only played around with it once for a couple of days. What I see the kid doing with Lego (at least so far) resembles your description of using Logo. (Logo, Lego, they're oh, so close). The big difference I see is that with Lego programming, the results are tangible, physical, and that's actually a lot of fun. One of the kids showed me a killer robot that would beam "turn off" signals at any other robot on the floor. He'd thrown it together one day as a lark. 2003-12-08 21:33:27 Remember Logo? Well, I just started grad school in Northwestern University's "Learning Sciences" program (which combines computer science, cognitive science, design, and education) with the express purpose of building new, better tools for students. And you know what? Logo is still totally cool and amazing. Uri Wilensky (who will probably be my PhD advisor) has been extending Logo for years, and has produced NetLogo, which lets you create all sorts of cool high-level models in Logo. Yeah, you're still using turtles -- but now you have hundreds or thousands of them, each representing a gas molecule, an ant, or a family. You can check out NetLogo at 2003-12-29 11:48:11 Remember Logo? I'm pretty sure MindStorms came from the same lab that Logo did. Adam Fistival 2006-05-10 17:55:56 my team lego robot is now ready to compete
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91536	[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Opening Files from Finder Home : September 2004 : Group Archive : Group : All Groups From: BrucesFB3@... Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:44:06 EDT I meant to say, "handbook" Yes, "Switching to FuturueBASIC," does have a lot of good stuff on files. Some of it needs editing though. On p. 114 of that handbook is a listing for writing sequential files using FSSpec. Unfortunately as printed it won't run. I wrote a correction for it (see below). I think I have it right. Please, anyone, I welcome corrections and improvements if I made errors. FSSpec is still quite new to me, but I am progressing. Bruce Gottshall On Mon Sep 6 19:38:58 2004 Scott Spencer <sj3@...> wrote: >That will be one of the Chapters in the Handbook, but the book >"Switching to FuturueBASIC" has a pretty good chapter on Files. >On Sep 6, 2004, at 1:55 PM, BrucesFB3@... wrote: >> I believe Scott S is working on a manual for FB4. Please, Scott, >>make it strong on file handling. I know I am out of date and >>need to catch up. >Scott Spencer ===p. 114 (modified) from "Switching to FuturueBASIC,"=== clear local Dim AppFolderRef as word dim dataFileSpec as FSSpec dim 5 a$ dim result as word local fn DoSeqFiles window 1 def open "TEXTAbcd" // Comment OPEN "0"-- out and open "O", 1, "Data File" // you will get an error close 1 AppFolderRef = system(_aplVol) result = fn FBMakeFSSpec(AppFolderRef,0,"Data File", dataFileSpec) long if result = _noErr open "O",#1,@dataFileSpec a$ = "One" : write #1, a$;5 a$ = "Two" : write #1, a$;5 a$ = "Three": write #1, a$;5 close #1 open "I",1,@dataFileSpec read #1, a$;5: print a$ read #1, a$;5: print a$ read #1, a$;5: print a$ close #1 print "An Error Occurred" print "Result = ";result end if end fn fn DoSeqFiles until 0
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91540	Thursday, December 21, 2006 When Christian belief is "deluded" to mainstream Christians 1. When did I become indefatigable? :. 2. I dunno. The last time you indefatiged, I guess. 3. This is an EXCELLENT blog! Very well written! :) 4. tracie harris12/22/2006 7:51 AM Please feel free to correct my grammar in future quotes (if they're [sic] are any future quotes from my e-list posts!) ;-) There is another Bible story Matt brought up on AE once about a man who vowed to sacrifice whatever met him at his door after a victory in battle. It turned out to be his daughter--and the sacrifice went through without a reprieve from god or any message from god that it was inappropriate. I guess human sacrifice is more acceptable than whatever Cain offered--as there is no indication in the story that this man killing his daughter as a sacrifice was not acceptable to Jehovah. Any Xian who says, "God wouldn't ask this" is disregarding the Abraham story. Abraham believed the god Jehovah WOULD and DID ask this--and he was ready to do it. Any Xian who is not ready to do likewise, and who claims "that voice couldn't be from god," is denying their own belief if they actually believe the Abraham tale as factual. Abraham didn't think he was hearing delusional voices. He completely believed such a command WOULD and DID come from Jehovah. This is a very relevant point--but may be too subtle for most fundamentalist Xians to grasp: Abraham worshipped a god that he fully accepted WOULD ask a father to kill his own children as a sacrifice. This is the character that Abraham attributed to Jehovah. And it conflicts with the character most modern Xians want to have of Jehovah--that if you hear such a voice in your head--it couldn't be god, because god would _never_ ask or expect you to do such a horrendous thing. As a Xian, I would _never_ have understood the subtle nature of this point (and neither would my peers at the church have): Abraham characterized god as a deity who WOULD ask for human sacrifice. Abraham didn't think "this couldn't possibly be Jehovah--it must be Satan, or I'm possessed or mad." He believed his god was the type of god who would demand this and expect a follower to follow through with it. Unlike today's Xians, Abraham did NOT consider this out-of-character or strange or something he should _know_ was not from Jehovah. In Abraham's mind, Jehovah was the type of personality who WOULD ask you to kill your own kids. And he was OK worshipping that god. And that's the god we predominantly worship in this country today. Even though we try to re-characterize him as something other. 5. Tracie, that other Bible story about a man who sacrificed his daughter is Jephthah. You can read all about it starting at Judges 11:30 6. Tracie, your comments are usually so smart that it's kind of a relief to see the occasional misspelling. Makes the rest of us realize you're not completely infallible and so we're less insecure. 8. ginh!, When we talk about the story of Abraham preparing to sacrifice Isaac, and the story of Jephtha sacrificing his daughter, we're not taking this from fanatic or fake pastors. It's in the Bible. If these women are "nutters" (and I agree that, in many ways, they are), so are Abraham, Jephtha, and their God--who, recall, later had his own son Jesus killed as a sacrifice to himself. As a human being with a functional mind, you are fully qualified to use your judgment. It should be telling you that the God of Abraham is not worth having a relationship with, because according to the Bible, that God welcomes child sacrifice. He is a god of nutters. Alternatively, those Bible passages are lying--in which case, why trust anything else the Bible says? 9. I had many thoughts on this topic. But, I couldn't think of something intelligent to say. 10. Martin, et. al., Excellent post. 11. tracie harris12/28/2006 4:43 PM Stephen: This is what I meant in my post when I said the point is too subtle for most fundie Xians. I don't know if "haphazard" read my note or not--but she illustrates my point perfectly. She simply disregards what necessarily follows from the Abraham/Jephthah stories--that Jehovah's most dedicated followers believed Jehovah was OK with human sacrifice (specifically child sacrifice), and that it was not--in their minds--outside of Jehovah's character to require human sacrifices from his followers. Abraham believed this was something god would ask a follower to do. Jephthah didn't think for a second that he'd incur Jehovah's wrath by killing his daughter as a sacrifice to Jehovah--he believed god would expect him to follow through and show his dedication. Abraham never doubted that god would ask this and expect child sacrifice from a follower. And Abraham is referenced over and over as a righteous man who knew and loved god's ways. He isn't called a deluded man who totally misunderstood Jehovah's intent. Abraham "got it". Today's Xians do not. Abraham "got" that his god was OK with human sacrifice and would ask his followers to engage in it; Abraham was ready, willing, and able to kill his child for Jehovah--just like the woman in Martin's blog--the "nutter"--as haphazard called her. As you point out so rightly: Abraham was a "nutter" as well then--because he believed god asked him to do EXACTLY the same thing--and he was totally going to do it--because he knew that's just the kinda god Jehovah is. As you point out: This must be the god of the nutters. This flies RIGHT OVER the Fundie heads. They simply don't see this point--no matter how you explain it. All they see is that god stayed Abraham's hand and that Jephthah acted independently of any orders from Jehovah. The lightbulb doesn't go on to expose the question of "WHY" these followers of Jehovah's thought their god would be OK with what they were doing--sacrificing their children to Him. WHY didn't Abraham think this was an odd request? THAT'S the real question--not "Oh, but god stayed his hand..." Abraham didn't KNOW his hand would be stayed in the story. He believed completely he was on a righteous mission to murder his only son at god's bidding. And it didn't strike him as at all a questionable request from his god. And it he's praised for being the type of person who would have murdered his own child rather than try to argue with god about the morality of such an act. There is so much wrong with this whole tale! 12. Tracie's analysis is spot on. 13. I'd like to point out the obvious: In the story of Abraham and Isaac, God provided a blood sacrifice. And while you rightly point out Abraham was ready and willing to sacrifice his son, it's pretty clear that his God provided a substitute that most 'fundie xians' consider to represent Christ. Further study of the Abrahamic covenant mirrors the story of Isaac, with God passing through in lieu of Abraham also viewed by fundie xians as a sign of God's promise of a messiah. The problem with your use of the story as an illustration is that you cutely leave off the end of the story or the context at which the story is told or its place in Jewish, Islamic and Christian history. Further, you guys seem to confuse fundamentalists with charismatics, but that's beside the point I'm trying to make here: what you do here in this blog is the equivalent of what Jerry Fallwell did when he said 9/11 happened because God was angry with America for having gays and lesbians. It's sick and abstract. Real life tragedy deserves more respect than smarmy detachment. 14. Anonymous from 1/16, 15. I know this is an old post, but I'm reading backwards (having just found this blog through a link on PossumMomma's blog), and I had to comment here. I can answer that one for you. Yes, they would kill their kid for Christ. Back in my formative post-bornagain days, there was a musician who made a huge impact on me: Keith Green. (He would give his albums away free as a "ministry tool.") On his album Prodigal Son, there was a song called "Pledge My Head To Heaven." In the liner notes, he said he wrote it after a "broken night of prayer" or some such, contemplating the Abraham & Isaac story, and came to the realization that if he "was called to do so," he would in fact sacrifice his wife and infant son for the sake of "The Gospel Of Jesus Christ." (Two side notes here -- one, "gospel" means "good news"... I find it hard to comtemplate that giving your wife and infant child, willingly, over to death is "good news." Second, as I was typing, my fingers went too fast and the resultant typo, with my fingers one key over too many on the board, typed out "Jesys Curst." Um, ouch.) The lyrics aren't nearly as bad as the liner notes (they don't really talk about him giving over his family to death for the sake of preaching), but they aren't especially nice either.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91559	Blog Revamping 16 Oct 2012 Monday, 10 September 2007 Long Beans Fried Rice Long beans fried rice Juice all dried up for a proper food post. Since I need to live up to my Fried Rice Queen title, here's another simple fried rice dish where I've used long beans, carrots, eggs and diced Chinese waxed sausages to cook up with some rice. Topped with some fried shallots for the extra fragrant taste. Refer the following posts for method. Colourful Vegetables Fried Rice Garlic Fried Rice Cabbage Fried Rice Sardine Fried Rice IMBB#24: Make it in 30 Minutes Review: Maggi Belacan Fried Rice Mix Technorati Tags: + KampungboyCitygal said... queen of fried rice is living up to her name again..that's what i alwiz do during the weekend..lap cheong n egg is my favourite ingredient babe_kl said... kampungboycitygal, i guess that's the simplest meal but yummiest to warm our tummy huh? daphne said... Queen of fried rice! Hey, this dish is simple, relatively cheap and mouthwatering delicious!!!!!! Besides, yours look terrific! I experimented with tomyum paste before too.. hahaha.. life on a student budget :p babe_kl said... daphne, otherwise i wont be crowned as the queen by boo_licious LOL Tummythoz said... My eggs in fried rice never turn up like that, Did u fry it separately? MamaBoK said... You know .. Babe.. i really miss long beans...! i never thought it will come a day i would say this. But we donch have long beans here.. :( babe_kl said... yes tummythoz, fried separately and dun over fried them, leave them a bit runny. then only add them in towards the end mamabok, any reasons long beans cant be planted?? can sub with french beans perhaps? Jason said... I still prefer char siew and french bean in my fried rice. Used to add the egg at the beginning so it always got a little bit overcooked at the end. Michelle said... Hi, since u love fried rice, u can try fry rice with the canned pork rendang. The pork rendang can be found in most hypermarket's non-halal section (the place where u can find the maling luncheon meats). Fry shallots or garlic, then pour in 2 eggs, lightly beaten. Put rice just when the eggs are about to be cooked. Mix eggs with rice well. Then dunk in the whole can of pork rendang. Fry until not soggy. Serve with cucumber. Nice for a rainy afternoon. Beware! It's spicy. I hope u'll like it. babe_kl said... jason, leceh to purposely buy char siew for fried rice hehe moreover usually fried rice is sort of like emergency food hehe thanks michelle. that chinese rendang is called Yuk Ting. i tried not to eat that often cos its very oily. moreover it's from china, so now it's currently being banned from my kitchen :D
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91560	Thursday, October 20, 2011 New Islamic Hijab Styles october 2011 More and more new and beautiful Hijab Styles keeps on coming every week and month by different companies which attracts a large number of Muslim Women due to their good quality and nice style. Following we have brought some New Islamic Hijab Styles of September 2011. Reality of 786 In Islam You must have seen this number somewhere, remember where did you see this number? If it is hard for you to remember, then do not worry, this is the mathematical number of Bismillah hirrahman nirrahim. There is an ilm called “Islamic numerology” which gives people this ability to convert the complete surah’s into few numbers. You will find the naqsh of every surah which are squares and they are further divided into cell and in each cell there is written a number. We do not know and do not find any evidence from Quran or hadith about numerology. We do not have any hadith even fake hadith which supports the numerology. When there is no single evidence from islam about this conversion, how can Quran then be converted into numbers? Some people argue that numerology and nqash makes it easy for everyone to carry those big surahs of Quran that otherwise cannot be carried everywhere. Logical brains should come up with this question that, how can those numbers be same like the surah? What is the need of carrying surahs of Quran? Is there exemption from ALLAH swt that we should not understand Quran but carry it in numbers? What is the method with which verses and surahs are converted into those numbers? Some say it is the number of words and alphabets, we say okei, the nmber represent words, what is so sacred about the number of words in a surah? Or number of alphabets in the surah? The sacred thing is surah itself not the number of its words. Same thing we see in 786. Instead of writing complete verse people write 786 in their letters, in their speeches and on the face of their houses etc. this number 786 cannopt replace the verse which is so blessed and pure in meaning that when it was revealed, shaitan was beaten with thrones and every time when some muslim reads it satan is beaten. This numerology has come from shiaism and today some brelvi and sufi people practice it and promote it. We must fear ALLAH and must not dare to change what HE had given us from understanding. The best way to carry Quran always is to memories it. in this way Quran wil be safe in heart and mind and there will be no need os taweez etc. what is Martyr in Islam Martyrdom in islam has the highest rank among all the good deeds done by a muslim. Shahadat is that brilliant rank which is bestowed on very few, those who are really blessed. Those who die in the name of ALLAH, for ALLAH, in this way of ALLAH are called shaheed. Al-Quran 4:69 “And whoso obeys ALLAH and this Messenger shall be among those on whom ALLAH has bestowed HIS blessings - the Prophets, the Truthful, the Martyrs, and the Righteous. And an excellent company are they.” There are few people who are near to ALLAH swt because of their deeds. These are the prophets, the truthful and the martyrs. Thus ALLAH swt has identified HIS liked people and HIS loved people. This had become a trend that every well known person who dies in an accident or every politician who dies while he is in power or people who die in enmity are called shaheed at once. For example, it has become a trend in Pakistan that if a politican dies he is called shaheed even if he is a gustakh-e rasool. But in islam, martyr is not every tom dik and harry. A martyr is one who is brave and not only brave but also a very practicing muslims. He is the one who fights for ALLAH, and his death happens due to that fight. He is not the one who fights for the country and then dies and called shaheed. He is not the one who dies in personal enmity and called shaheed. The term shahadat is pure and cannot be related to anything which we wish. In an hadith, Muhammad s.a.w.w identified that there are some people who, when die attain the status of murder, among them are those who die for ALLAH, they have the highest rank, then there are people who die because of drowning in water, those who die due to stomach disease etc. there are no politicians, or fighters of army no fighter of tribes, no people who die for personal enmity etc who are called martyrs in islam. Second thing is that ALLAH swt said that those who died as martyr should not be called dead people. They are alive and ALLAH swt is giving them rizq in His own ways. this looks so strange that the martyrs are not dead, this shows how blessed they are. People have seen those who died in ALLAH’s name that their wounds were fresh, their blood was fresh, their bodies were fresh and warm as if they were sleeping. There was a smile on their face as if they are alive. Thus, even from the dead, some people have higher rank, the martyrs have that rank. May ALLAH choose our lives and give us the honorable death of martyrdom. Dua to Marry a Woman of Choice Asadullah Khan Assalaamu alaykum.....can i make dua to marry a girl of my own choice,,,,,???? i love one girl, but she doesnt like me, my parents are ready coz i am serios and had gud intentions ...also my parents had send my proposal in her house, in between 5 months had been passed, initially her mother told we will say yes if she agrees,,, but now they said no coz tat gal hates me alot. ησσя-υℓ-нυ∂α εﺓз assalamualikum brother it is matter of choice and likeness. islam has given ful permission to both boys and girls that they can marry person of their choice and they cannot be forced to marry the one who they dont like. when that girl does not like you, she has expressed her emotions by saying no. so, you should also move on. by makign dua you cannot bribe ALLAH swt or cannot change her decision. Asadullah khan but i had heard der is no harm if a believer makes supplications to Allah Subhanah to help and enable him to marry the women of his choice........aur Allah swt duwa se taqder badal sakte na???? if i am nt wrong??? ησσя-υℓ-нυ∂α εﺓз ji bilkul esa he hey dua is your right. but it also disliked in islam that you do not marry any other girl because you have not married the girl of your choice. as i already said, the girl has already given ansswer in no. now what if she marries some one else? this is her life and her right brother, ALLAH swt has also told us to be rational and reasonable. Asadullah khan i think u r slightly deviated toward her side coz u r also gal....if i am smoker and my wife mak duwa for me to leave this habit,,,,but if i said her i am not going to leav smoking so does tat means hence she shudnt pray and make duwa for my evil act of smoking????? ησσя-υℓ-нυ∂α εﺓз brother, since i do not know that sister, so i cannot be her advocate or cannot be your advocate. the only thing i am saying is, when that sister has already expressed her emotions for you, you should also move on. making dua for some one for his goodness in encouraged and a good act. that is another topic which is not related to your issue. ησσя-υℓ-нυ∂α εﺓз [Yoosuf 12:24] Asadullah khan i kno,,,she is nt ready for me but i had strong believ in Allah(swt),,,i kno he is our creator and he can do anything for anyone @ any time........all things of dis world are under his control, so if i repent , if i do salaah and make duwa to change her heart , do u think it is impossible for ALLAH swt to do it, mai aisa ek hadees me suna hu agar allah is duniya me jisse jo chahe wo dete toh uske samandar me se bund barabar kuch kam nahi honga!!!!! so i had only one question shud i pray or move on????? ησσя-υℓ-нυ∂α εﺓз brother ALLAH does the best for us. he has created us, he know what is best for us. it is your right to pray but it is also your duty to obey to ALLAH swt. if you are not given something in this world, its ajar is saved for you and ALLAH swt gives you somethign better that what you desire, in this world. leave this matter on ALLAH, and move on. may be when you leave it to ALLAH, ALLAH also give you what is your heart's desire Asadullah khan sister der are 2 kinds of love one pure and another wateva u had copy pasted is all abt for impur love....which wont be applicable to my love ...coz my love is pure,,,as i dont want to do anything illegal wt her , i want to marry her,,,my proposal is nt college affair proposal 2 enjoy gf\ bf relationship but my proposal is marriage proposal ......i want 2 show her my true love ..... ησσя-υℓ-нυ∂α εﺓз brother, that girl is not ready to marry you, she might like someone else. ap es baat ko apna ego ka prpblem banao gey tau you will never be able to move on and lead a purposeful life. what i have quoted is about the only love which every muslim should have in his heart, i.e. ALLAH 's love. thats it. in a hadith Muhammad s.a.w.w said that there is nothing liked for those who love each other, than marriage. jog lena koch b nahe hey. it is wrong. in this way, in the name of praying, you will ruin your life further. you can pray since it is your right, but you also move on. ησσя-υℓ-нυ∂α εﺓз Asadullah khan Impure love is an action of an empty heart and pure love is an action of honest heart!!!!!!! Assalaamu alaikum. Brother, u can make duwa but Allah may not answer yo duwa if it z not good 4 u .. Allah knows wat z best 4 u vch u dont kno. Since the gal has already rejected u n u said she hates u then i think u shud leave thinkin f hr perhaps dat z best 4 u .. "It is possible that you dislike a thing which is good for you, and you love a thing which is bad for you, But Allah knows those things which you dont know" - Perform Istakhara first. (ask Allah's Will about this issue) - Stop contacting the girl or sending her any other proposal or any communication, as it can worsen the situation. - There is a hadith which i read somewhere, i am not sure its exact words it says "if a believer knows that how much reward he will get, as Allah takes something very precious, what he likes, then the believer (after death or in jannah) will say that "I wish, Allah would have taken everything away from me, which i loved". so keep in mind, in this world, we should not expect that we will get everything that we wish for. in such matter, we have to leave everything on Allah, and Ask Dua in a way. "Ya Allah, if her marriage with me is good for me, and her, and our future, then help me in making this relationship, otherwise take away her love out of my heart, As you know the best, i know nothing" Simply Noor from a girls psychological perspective i can only say brother that if she does not want to get married with u then dont try too much. the much you would try to convince her, the much she would try to go away. there is a sense that works inside a girl, a 'click' happens and she says 'yes' or 'no'. and it would be really very sad thing for her to marry a man she does not like, thats why Allah has given her rights to say yes/no. sometimes there may be no any reason that she can tell.... it just happens, the guy may be very good, but the girl may not like him, without any due reasons. if she wont be happy, u would also not be happy. i cant say confirmed about 'love' as its a feeling and not an action that u can get rid of easily. but u can restrict ur actions. and u must. and if you would pray to change her heart, believe me she would also be praying, 'ya Allah no no no no, please not this man'. so its better to pray that whatever best for u in this world and after this world u may get. My suggestion to u is that brother pray that "O Allah if its best for me then let us get married and let her feelings towards me change and if SHE is NOT good for me then distance her from me and change my feelings and give me a better muslimah in her stead who will be the coolness of my eyes and who will make a good wife for me. O Rabb give me a wife who will be BEST for me" While speaking about the change of feelings u can call out to Allah saying "YA MUQALLIBUL QULOOB" - O Turner of hearts. So that way brother, u are a winner both ways. Another du'a which i think is not AS good AS the first one is "O Allah make her best for me and change her feelings towards me" And then whatever u want ur wife to support u in u can add. Also brother if you love her then my advice would be not to send messages pleading or telling others/bragging about your love for her and trying to make a big scene out of it. Being a girl i know that it irritates when a guy does this, when the girl is focused on something in life. You've sent a formal proposal. That's the right thing to do masha allah. My advice would be the du'a I gave u. Many guys say they love the girl, they don't get the girl and they move on! One case was where one guy claimed he couldn't live if he didn't get her but it didn't work out probably due to differences and he moved on and no one died alhamdulillah Im not faking this case. You can look around u and see that it happens. I do not say its easy for the person going through it specially since i haven't alhamdulillah. It maybe very difficult. But constant du'as will help insha allah Keep praying that Allah makes u love Him more than anything else. And keep asking for what is best for you and that he should keep u happy with ur Qadr . Asadullah khan last night i thaught , i wasted my time here ,coz ppls thaught my pure love as bollywood lust and started pasting me fatawes 4m der school of thaughts which wer out of context,,,but today i feel gud after hearing so many answers.....thnks for all ur support .....i specially thans 2 sis amatullah....coz i got all satisfactory answers 4m her n tat 2 in very best manner....may Allah bless her....i like de suggestion of Arim but i will do it in legalised way ,if i get a chance.........The Prophet (saws) said "Both the halaal (lawful) and the haraam (unlawful) things are (made) obvious, and in between them are (suspicious) doubtful matters...last i want 2 clear one doubt , assume she is not my soulmate , if allah had not made her for meee, so can dua change my soulmate ??? After going through these posts, I was afraid that brother Asadullah would fall into Arim's trap. ARIM sounded much like Shahrukh Khan in NDTV (We the people) who is like a Filled Cup of Water which cannot accept anymore water into it. I am glad that Asadullah responded politely by saying Legalized way. Acting by Haram & Halal is nothing, but like a chip embedded into your brain which warns you when a thing you do is liked by Allah or disliked by HIM. In simple terms, we call it God Consciousness or Taqwa. Allah knows best. lots of wisdom in everyone's post. I do not want to refine it by schools of thought or message delivery, but they all have 2 things in common. 1. When she doesnt like, why to force her..thats not fair to her. 2. If you insist, pray to Allah(SWT), either He gives you or gives something even better... Leave it to him.. Allah(SWT) is with people who exercises patience. I am not formaly educated in Islam to give you the right dua.. But thought I would share this...some people will find someone attractive while the other wouldn't, that is common. And it is very normal for us to think, he/she as ultimate soulmate. Only Allah(SWT) knows who is ideal match. Not every love marriage is successful nor every arranged marriage is a disaster. I have witnessed people who married their sweethearts, but living a helllife and also people who moved on without having opportunity to marry their crush, but living very happily. Do not get frustrated or depressed over this. As sister Noorul Huda pointed out, love is also a sickness. That will affect one's ability to focus on studies, career and day to day life. In this turbulence, do not let your career/future be affected... thats the last thing we want. Muslims Scientists Pictures If we go few centuries behind in history we will find that Muslims played a very important role in progress of science and many Important Inventions where done by Muslim Scientists. Following are Pictures of some famous Muslim Scientists. Jabir Ibn Hayyan (Geber) Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari Al-Razi (Rhazes) Al-Farabi (Alpharabius) Abu Al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi (Albucasis) Ibn Al-Haytham (Alhazen) Ibn Sinna (Avicenna) Omar Al-Khayyam Ibn Rushd
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91567	Henry Craik, ed. English Prose. 1916. Vol. IV. Eighteenth Century Critical Introduction by Norman Moore Gilbert White (1720–1793) [Gilbert White was born at Selborne, Hampshire, where his father had a small estate, on 18th July 1720. His schoolmaster was Thomas Warton, father of the Professor of Poetry, and he entered at Oriel College, Oxford, in December 1739, and was elected a fellow of the College in March 1744. He took holy orders, but never held any other preferment than his fellowship. He settled at his native place and only left it to pay brief visits to friends, filling his time with the study of the natural history and antiquities of the parish. In 1789 he published The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, and died at Selborne on 26th June 1793.] 1 The Natural History of Selborne was the first readable book in English on natural history, and before White no one had carried out the method of describing all that he had observed in a particular locality. The book consists of genuine letters to several correspondents. The letters are simple in style, and seldom long, and contain lucid accounts of the habits of birds and other animals. There is no attempt at decoration in the composition; the writer, in the simplest English, succeeds in arousing in others the interest which he himself feels. His sentences convey exactly what he had seen, and he never becomes either uninteresting or rhetorical. Mingled with his own observations are questions and discussions of unsolved problems of natural history, glimpses of rural society, and sufficient allusions to literature to show that a well chosen set of books had been read, so as to form part of the author’s mind. White may be regarded as the founder of a new branch of English literature, and few of those who have followed him have had so much to tell, or have succeeded in conveying so much in so short a space. In the narration of the features of events so as to give a clear idea of the details, as well as of the whole, White, in the natural world, shows skill comparable to that of Cowper in the description of his domestic circle and its incidents. The letters of White are less numerous and briefer than those of Cowper, and of somewhat less literary power, but they have the same kind of merit, and while making clear what their writer saw, unconsciously furnish a portrait of his own mind. 2 Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91574	Midgard 2: more than just PHP, more than just CMS As Midgard 2 is already in alpha stage, I though it would be good to update the architecture diagram to showcase the new Midgard structure. This includes multiple language bindings, MidCOM3, D-Bus interprocess communications and other things. Midgard 2 architecture With these changes Midgard 2 can function either as a full-fledged CMS, a PHP MVC framework, or a persistent storage framework for multiple different programming languages. XMPP replication is also mentioned, but work on that will actually start later this month. Technorati Tags: midcom, midgard, mono, php, mvc, python Read more Midgard posts.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91593	BioModels Database logo BioModels Database Izhikevich EM (2003), Simple model of spiking neurons. May 2010, model of the month by Michele Mattioni Original model: BIOMD0000000127 Modeling is always a trade off between abstraction and reality; in computational neurobiology there is another trade off to make: computational power and models' details. In 1952, Hodgkin and Huxley [1] proposed a mathematical formalism [BIOMD0000000020], to model ionic channels, where the biochemical gates are explicitly expressed. This system offers an accurate way to investigate the properties of the channels in a small amount of neurons. However, this cannot be used for a larger network of neurons due to the demanding computational power. The integrate and fire neuron [2,3] formalism has been used to model very large networks of neurons, as they are not computationally demanding. However, this formalism is not capable of simulating any kind of complex firing patterns of a single neuron. Izhikevich 2003 [4, BIOMD0000000127], in this paper, proposed a different kind of formalism which is able to replicate different rich firing patterns, using two simple equations with only one supralinear term. The equations are: v' = 0.04v2 + 5v +140 - u + I → (eqn 1) u' = a(bv - u) → (eqn 2) with an auxiliary to reset the voltage after the spike to the resting potential: if v = 30 mV, then v ← c, u ← u +d The four parameters: a, b, c and d have completely different roles. The parameter "a" represents the recovery of the membrane after the spike, the parameter "b" takes into account the sensibility of the neuron to the fluctuation of the voltage, the parameter "c" is used to set the maximum amplitude of the spike after which the neuron's voltage is reset and the parameter "d" determines the after-spike overshoot reset. Figure 1 Figure 1: Known types of neurons correspond to different values of the parameters a, b, c, d in the model described by the equations (eqn 1) and (eqn 2). RS, IB, and CH are cortical excitatory neurons. FS and LTS are cortical inhibitory interneurons. Each inset shows a voltage response of the model neuron to a step of de-current I = 10 (bottom). Time resolution is 0.1ms. Figure taken from [4]. Figure 2 Figure 2: Simulation of a network of 1000 randomly coupled spiking neurons. Top: spike raster shows episodes of alpha and gamma band rhythms (vertical lines). Bottom: typical spiking activity of an excitatory neuron. All spikes were equalized at +30mV by resetting v1 first to +30mV and then to c. Figure taken from [4]. The author shows in Figure 1, the possibility to replicate the firing patterns of some of the known neurons in the cortex just by changing the parameters in a proper way. The neurons varies from the excitatory neurons - like the Regular Spiking (RS), to the inhibitory ones - like the Fast Spiking Interneurons (FS). The model was used to run a simulation of 10000 spiking cortical neurons with 1000000 synaptic connections using only a 1Ghz desktop PC and C++. The result of this simulation is shown in Figure 2. The model is able to replicate known types of cortical states like the alpha and gamma wave. Other known states of the cortex, like sleep oscillation or spindle wave can be produced by changing the synaptic strength and the thalamic drive of the model. In 2008, Izhikevich et al. [5] used this formalism in a large-scale model of mammalian thalamocortical systems, where compartmental neurons where used. Although this formalism is not too demanding from a computational point of view, the model ran for 50 days on 27 CPUs cluster to simulate 1 second. In conclusion, the formalism presented in this paper by Izhekivich is the first model being able to simulate large scale network neurons with rich firing patterns with a less computational cost. Bibliographic References 1. Hodgkin AL, Huxley AF. A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve. J Physiol. , 117(4): 500-44, 1952. [CiteXplore] 2. Lapicque L. Recherches quantitatives sur l’excitation électrique des nerfs traitée comme une polarization. J. Physiol. Pathol. Gen. , 9: 620-635, 1907. [Wikipedia] 3. Abbott LF. Lapique's introduction of the integrate-and-fire model neuron (1907). Brain Res Bull. , 50(5-6): 303-4, 1999. [CiteXplore] 4. Izhikevich EM. Simple model of spiking neurons. IEEE Trans Neural Netw , 14(6): 1569-72, 2003. [CiteXplore] 5. Izhikevich EM, Edelman GM. Large-scale model of mammalian thalamocortical systems. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A., 105(9): 3593-8, 2008. [CiteXplore]
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91636	University of Minnesota Driven to Discover Back In The Classroom As an elementary education major I volunteer regularly in an elementary school classroom. Yesterday was my first day back since last year, and it was so exciting to be around little kids again. I help a teacher with her 5th grade class for about an hour, two days a week. Yesterday I went to help the kids during their writing lessons. Each student keeps a journal and is supposed to write stories in it regularly. I was so surprised by their eagerness to share their stories with me. It was really interesting to hear a 10 year-old's thoughts and feelings about life. One girl told me all about the ups and downs in her relationship with her best friend. I was impressed by how she included themes and morals to her story. I am looking forward to another year of volunteering at this school. Especially because the class this year seems more outgoing and more willing to accept my help. Post a comment The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91661	President Signs Indecency Bill On the First Amendment front, the big news coming out of Washington this week was that, well... your government still doesn't really believe in the First Amendment! President Bush signed into law a massive increase in broadcast "indecency" penalties. The new law, called the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act, would boost the fines that the Federal Communications Commission could impose on television and radio broadcasters from a current maximum of $32,500 to $325,000--a 10-fold increase. No surprise here, of course. It's an election year and this sort of thing wins you brownie points with certain constituencies. While I don't want to get into an extended legal analysis about why I think all this will eventually be struck down by the courts--see this essay for that discussion--I just want to point out, for the umpteenth time, the radically unfair and illogical nature of all this. Let's just lay out the current state of affairs in terms First Amendment protection in America: Newspapers = Full First Amendment protection Magazine = Full First Amendment protection Cable TV = Full First Amendment protection Satellite TV = Full First Amendment protection Movies = Full First Amendment protection DVDs = Full First Amendment protection CDs = Full First Amendment protection Satellite Radio = Full First Amendment protection Internet = Full First Amendment protection Blogging = Full First Amendment protection i-Pods = Full First Amendment protection Podcasts = Full First Amendment protection Video Games = Full First Amendment protection ... and then... What is so troubling about this is that all these "broadcast indecency" laws and new fines are premised on the idea of "protecting the children." As much as I appreciate the government trying to raise my kids for me, I feel I have this job under control on my own and don't need them to come in and play the role of surrogate parent. But here's the real news flash for our lawmakers: Kids are increasingly tuning-out broadcast TV and radio and tuning-in to all those other media outlets and technologies listed above. Therefore, would someone please explain to me how we are "protecting the children" here instead of just protecting adults from themselves? Now I'm not about to advocate extending censorship laws, fines and regulations to all those new media outlets (indeed, if you read what I've published here, here, here, here, and here, you'll see I am totally opposed to such a notion. Nonetheless, I think that if you want to make a principled, consistent argument in favor of protecting children through government regulation, then you simply cannot ignore the rest of the modern media universe the way our lawmakers have done here. You have to make the case for regulatory parity by applying censorship laws equally across all media platforms. (Of course, good luck accomplishing that!) Moreover, I just want to again point out that all the traditional regulatory rationales for regulating broadcasting differently don't work anymore either. "Scarcity" was once the lynchpin of all broadcast regulation, but today scarcity is the last word that anyone thinks of when discussing media in light of the sheer volume of media at our disposal. "Pervasiveness" is an equally bankrupt regulatory rationale in that it proves too much; it could cover anything public officials deem to be widely available or "uniquely accessible" to children. That leaves the old "public airwaves" argument. Never has there been a bigger fiction in the history of regulation than the notion that "the public owns the airwaves." Can you cite one single line anywhere in the U.S. code that says anything about the "people" owning broadcast spectrum? You cannot because it is a myth. Back in the 1920s and 30s, however, Congress did unwisely choose to give the FCC the authority to regulate the electromagnetic spectrum and in doing so extended a certain amount of authority over speech. This was a serious mistake and it was--and remains--a historical anomaly. Again, all other media are granted full First Amendment rights. Bottom line: This entire regulatory house of cards is set to crumble. It's only going to take the right court case to do so. In the meantime, we know that lawmakers and regulators will continue to feed us false promises about how massive increases in broadcast TV and radio fines will somehow "help American parents by making broadcast television and radio more family-friendly" in the President's words. It's utter nonsense. Television and radio, like all other media outlets, will continue to reflect the tastes and desires of our diverse American citizenry. Moreover, we don't need government's help controlling media flows into our home. Families already have it within their power to take steps to bring whatever media they want into their houses. Here's about 50 first steps. posted by Adam Thierer @ 12:55 PM \| Free Speech
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91703	by Shelby Britton March 24, 2014 5 ways webinar recordings result in 100%+ content consumption Reaping 90% content consumption from your webinar production efforts simply by recording the live event seems like a no-brainer (and effortless!). In fact, a webinar recording is content that keeps on giving – offering 100%+ content consumption for months (and even years) to come. Here are five ideas to get the most out of your webinar after you press ‘record’: 1) Send the recording to ALL registrants Attending a webinar live has the advantage of interactivity and direct access to the speaker – but life happens for many well-intending webinar registrants. Expect only 30-40% of your webinar registrants to show up live. However, keep in mind that the act of registering for the webinar indicates their strong interest in the content you are offering. So take advantage of this interest by capturing the content and sending the recording to everyone that registered. As stated above, you will be rewarded by an increase in the content consumption of that webinar by 55% on average. 2) Re-purpose the webinar recording Now that you have recorded the webinar, you have an everlasting piece of content. If it is thought leadership content, consider posting it on YouTube or your website for immediate access by your target audience. Generate awareness for it via Twitter, LinkedIn or other social media resources at your disposal. If the webinar was a bottom of funnel activity like a demo, consider allowing access to the recording via a form to continue gathering leads after the live event. 3) Break recording into segments Downloading the recording offline onto your desktop and using a tool like Adobe Premiere Elements allows you can break up the recording into several segments. For continual lead generation, it might make sense to create a short teaser using an interesting part of the webinar to entice more folks to sign up to view the entire recording. Or perhaps you can pull out an interesting segment that can stand alone as a new piece of content. If there are several segments that can be pulled out, consider using them together as a series of content. 4) Start a content snowballsnowball The webinar recording can be used to begin a content snowball to create even more content – a perpetual challenge for content marketers. Consider reviewing the recording yourself to write up a blog post with a summary of the key points from the webinar and using some screen shot examples to visually spice up your post. Conclude the post with a link to the actual recording. You could also send the recording to your agency or internal demand generation team to write what I call a ‘webinar guide’, which is similar to a whitepaper and reviews in more detail the content of the webinar in written form. Or write this yourself if you have the time and skills. 5) Ensure your recording is interactive Many webinar platforms offer interactive activities that can be deployed during the webinar, which makes the webinar so powerful in the live format. Some platforms will preserve this interactivity in the webinar recording itself. Look for ways to include activities in the live event that will also make your recording interactive even after the webinar – such as providing files to download or live weblinks to click on. Go on – press Record! You’ll be glad you did. Shelby Britton Shelby Britton • By Paul Ban - 3:10 PM on March 26, 2014 Great tips! Especially liked suggestiion to make the webinar more interactive.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91706	Site menu: About George Washington’s Acts of Congress Blog The Presidential Libraries of the National Archives are honored to host George Washington’s personal copy of the “Acts of Congress” for a national tour March-September 2013. One of the most historic publications owned by Washington, the book testifies to his crucial role in the implementation and interpretation of the Constitution and the establishment of the new American government. The first Congress ordered the printing of 600 copies of the Acts, which were distributed to federal and state government officials. Chief Justice John Jay and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson owned volumes similar to Washington’s. See the tour dates, photos, and learn more here:
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91712	The Whizzinator vs. Waconia Categories: General Archive Colliding airplanes barely edge out prosthetic penises Google news tracks a weeks' worth of local stories that the media blows up, exploits, or virtually ignores. Big surprise: Anglers get more attention than the angling Gov.'s tired "no-new-tax" pledge, even as the Legislature has to scramble by considering raising license-tab fees and gas and cigarette taxes. But the Whizzinator just might beat them all: Whizzinator: 214 results collision + airport: 231 results Waconia + school: 32 results Vick + St. Paul: 295 results "cigarette tax" + Minnesota: 40 results "gas tax" + Minnesota: 108 results "tab fee" + Minnesota: 4 results Pawlenty + "no new taxes:" 52 results fishing + opener + Minnesota: 59 results Now Trending Minnesota Concert Tickets From the Vault
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91717	Comments on: Scientist Smackdown: When Did Europeans First Harness Fire? Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: David David Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:10:03 +0000 The notion that a small gut requires cooking is simply nonsense. Have any of these brainiacs ever looked at the gut of a cat? Meat is fully edible without a complex gut, and it is known from their coprolites that Neanderthals ate almost nothing but meat. By: Aly Aly Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:08:57 +0000 Why cant it be that the “evolution” actually happened at the level of our gut bacteria? Why does it have to be “us” that got better at cooking and extracting calories from food, why could it not be the bacteria that made the leap? By: Brian Too Brian Too Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:14:54 +0000 @12. E. Manhattan, Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence. By: E. Manhattan E. Manhattan Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:53:40 +0000 Researchers often seem to be able to run excellent, rigorous studies – and then come to conclusions completely unsupported by their excellent, rigorous studies. By: bob sykes bob sykes Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:41:05 +0000 Who are these “humans”? From the timing, I would assume these are neanderthals. They certainly aren’t early H. sapiens. Or are we talking H. erectus? Didn’t erectus have fire 800,000 years ago or more? By: HI55 HI55 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 07:23:24 +0000 Smackdown…really? Is that necessary? I expected better. By: NotStradamus NotStradamus Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:08:38 +0000 Silly scientists. Everyone knows that Prometheus stole fire from Zeus to give to humanity. By: Whomever1 Whomever1 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 04:29:22 +0000 “… Try to go to England now without warm clothes.” And why are you saying they didn’t have warm clothes 1,000,000 years ago? By: Heather Spoonheim Heather Spoonheim Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:46:19 +0000 I agree with John Lerch. It may be likely that the first Europeans simply didn’t light fires within their caves. One of the earliest sites, the Beeches Pit site in England, is described as revealing fireplaces. Although the fireplaces are not described and may be very simple, this does suggest some technique of fire-safety that could have only developed after an extended period of fire usage. By: Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor) Amos Zeeberg (Discover Web Editor) Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:48:23 +0000 @Brian and @John: Obviously the researchers didn’t just summarily ignore those sites because they didn’t like them—they concluded there wasn’t good enough evidence that there had been purposeful use of fire at those sites.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91718	By Phil Plait \| December 15, 2011 7:00 am Something that big has a lot of gravity, and that’s the key to what happened here (PDF). As the clusters approached each other prior to the collision, gas in one cluster was drawn off and headed toward the other. Once the clusters passed, the gas got whipped around by gravity, reversing direction, and essentially, well, sloshed. The analogy the astronomers used was wine in a wineglass as you swirl it; if you suddenly whip the glass a bit faster the wine will slosh up the side in a wave. That long blue curved streamer? That’s the wave: extraordinarily hot gas (30 million degrees C!) that got sloshed around by the cluster’s gravity. The scale of it is simply epic; that streamer is over a million light years long! Again, for comparison, the Milky Way is 100,000 light years across, 1/10th as big as that wave. Craziness. The interior portion is no less amazing. You can see swirls in there too, as well as two holes that look a bit like eyes. Those aren’t really holes so much as bubbles of hot gas expanding inside the surrounding cooler gas; they’re also buoyantly rising, pushing on the surrounding gas and compressing it. That’s what hot gas does, whether it’s in a balloon here on Earth or heated to millions of degrees in the center of a cosmic collision 500 million light years away. But as I looked at that image of the core, I couldn’t help but think it looked familiar… and somehow sad. And then I realized, ironically… Even when two galaxy clusters merge, they’re still forever alone. Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/BU/E.Blanton; Optical: ESO/VLT CATEGORIZED UNDER: Astronomy, Cool stuff, Pretty pictures Comments (28) Links to this Post 1. eBookitude » Blog Archive » Bad Astronomy \| December 25, 2011 1. lol, a galactic troll! Expect it to start regurgitating right wing talking points. 2. It’s not a coincidence that you receive photos right after posting “The Best Photos…” because you have a bazillion people visiting your site who are interested in Astronomy. Somebody is going to feel slighted that you didn’t include their favorite photo and probably tell you about it. :) 3. Whoa. What an image! The universe never fails to amaze and awe. (But now I can’t stop seeing that face in the center…) 4. Steuard Are images that appear (or appear on your radar) in late December eligible for the following year’s list, or are they just out of luck? (I’ve always wondered why so many “Best of the Year” lists get published before the year is in fact over.) 5. HRJ Your post reminded me of this APOD: which I think is even more impressive than this one. 6. OtherRob Steuard makes a good point. Maybe you should wait until early January to post your year’s best pics. 7. Zafod I just read the PDF and found it interesting that so much information can be gathered from such a distant object. I also ROFLOL the troll face in the center. 8. It kind of looks like a blue version of the Ghostbusters ghost. Protect your hot dogs and don’t get slimed! 9. Relativity It looks more like Fatso in the Casper movie… But really, that 30 million degrees thing…Is that measured as a whole (million ly) condensed to a point (summed up by integration) or a scale down to where we can understand like a “point” in that cloud swirl? For example, it is cold in Minnesota as I can see the thermometer measuring a volume of say 1 cubic ft? How is temperature measured on that massive scale? 10. Nobody Next year there isn’t going to be a next year, so he has to get them done a little early. 11. Prufrocker I’m going with the baby from 2010: The Year We Make Contact. 12. David Please do not make references to obscure stupid internet memes. Especially ones that start at a forum where pictures of animal abuse are routinely posted i.e. 4chan. 13. Björn Lammers WHOAH. This makes your galactic collision image in the year’s best series look a bit… puny? I guess you would most certainly notice this if it were happening in your vicinity… Thanks for the explanation yesterday, I really enjoyed the whole thing! It was certainly worth the hour and a half of lost sleep. 14. Thomas Siefert It’s your own fault for posting too early. You don’t see shops putting up their Christmas decorations in October now, do you?… Oh wait…! Eh, never mind. 15. David Beautiful descriptions of the scale of this thing. Just massive. I have but one question: How does something ‘buoyantly rise’ when there is no ‘up’? I take it that refers to moving from a high-pressure to low-pressure system. Is there really no way of describing that process within a free frame of reference? 16. Wow. Just… wow…. ow. Ow! I sprained by awesome-lobe. Serious question, though – if that “arm” is ten times the size of the Milky Way, why can’t we see any individual galaxies in these clusters? I see several problems with your post. -First, the meme is not obscure; in fact it’s one of the better-known memes on the intertubes. -Second, all internet memes are stupid, so a request for a non-stupid internet meme is an oxymoron. -Third, roughly 95% of internet memes originate from somewhere in or around the 4chan region of the internet (sometimes forming around the outskirts in the swirling accretion disk of lolcats and porn). Again, see my second point. Also, do you consider Limecat animal abuse? What standards are we using, here? In my experience, animal abuse is the one form a cruelty that 4chan et al will NOT tolerate. They’ll spend all day ridiculing a random blog entry or picture of someone, but mention someone mistreating animals and all of a sudden everyone’s a justice-obsessed vigilante. 17. Messier Tidy Upper Superluminous image here. I love it. :-D The scale of this is just incomprehensible really – at first I thought it had to be nebulosity of some sort in our own Galaxy but to think of it, no, to know it as collision of two clusters of galaxies is .. whoah! :-o Just puts everything into a mind blowing perspective. :-) 18. I’m still not sure exactly what I’m looking at. Is this the entirety of the two clusters, or a close-up? Is the blue stuff all intracluster gas, or are we seeing individual galaxies? Are galaxies in these clusters more closely packed then the galaxies in our local group? 19. Wow! A truly cosmic dance if ever there was one! How long will this phenomenon last? 20. Nigel Depledge @ Joseph G (19) - If I have understood correctly, the blue stuff is the X-ray glow from gas that has been smashed or drawn out of some of the galaxies. It is, apparently, very very hot. 21. Darrin Relax, man. 4Chan may be a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but animal abuse is the one thing NO ONE there tolerates. Gore and porn? Fair game. But post a video of abusing an animal? God help you. They’ll unleash internet justice. Hard. Besides, most memes start on Reddit or 4chan. “Forever Alone” is by no means an obscure meme, it’s quite well-known. Not to mention that Phil is a citizen of the interwebs, and so is most of his readership. Thus, there is absolutely nothing wrong with making what equates to an internet in-joke from time to time. 22. DanO Phil, or anyone else here who can answer my query. When you say the gas is 30 million degrees, does that mean that the atoms and/or molecules are VIBRATING at 30 M degress or are they moving at a speed that equates to 30 M degrees? My understanding of how to measure temerature of a gas outside of a container is lacking, so I’d appreciate if someone here could explain it to me. Thanks in advance. 23. Downer @Joseph G That tail is at least 10 times longer than the diameter of the Milky Way. Yet the total mass of these two clusters is 10,000 times greater than the Milky Way. I guess the reason you can’t see individual galaxies is because matter is too tightly packed in the center, which in turn has smeared galactic structures to oblivion when it stretched out the other cluster. The density of gas is still so huge the whole structure is, judging from the blue color, a ginormously humongous stellar nursery. If I’m totally off here, somebody please correct me. 24. Anthony How long until we make contact with an advanced civilisation running from this? 25. Joseph G @ Downer: Wow. That’s what I was wondering – is this thing dense enough to be a sort of super-galaxy? I wonder if there’s a mass limit to galaxies, for that matter… 26. Warren In your book, DEATH FROM THE SKYS you mentioned that when two galaxies collide the mass of the BLAK HOLES in the center of each galaxy merge to become one supermassive black hole. Example: your book says the MILKY WAY blackhole mass is that of 4million suns and Andromeda’s is 30 million syuns. When they merge the new BLACK HOLE mass equals 34 million suns. Since there are trillions of black holes in thes galaxy clusters, won’t there be a significant chance that a monumental monster black hole will. Discover's Newsletter See More Collapse bottom bar Login to your Account E-mail address: Remember me Forgot your password? Not Registered Yet?
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91736	Viewing Excel Files in Document Library history East from Kynetix pointed my attention to what seems (to me and to him) like a bug. If you ever tried using the "Version History" option inside Document Libraries, you probably noticed something interesting about the "View" button that's associateden-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)re: Viewing Excel Files in Document Library history, 25 Jan 2008 00:49:11 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7227633Andy <p>Has this issue been further resolved?  Is there a bug with versions, and is there a more secure workaround?  I would like to use minor/major versions of a workbook so that the author can make incremental changes, but all other viewers would see only his most recent "complete" version, until ready to replace it with a new "complete" version.  But when I attempt to do so, the minor version displays in the EWA webpart as well as when I open it in the document library.  Is the version feature not working as intended, or am I missing something?</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="" width="1" height="1">
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91739	Countdown to PDC2008: In this week’s edition of the PDC Countdown (only 65 days to go), Mike and Jennifer host the event marketing manager of the conference who talks about all of the great opportunities to win, win, win! Trips to LA, tickets to the Dodgers or Lakers, a movie premiere, or a trip down the red carpet at the Emmy’s could be yours. Or you could design the PDC t-shirt that will be handed out to thousands of attendees!! Wow, you could go down in PDC history if you’re the winner! Plus, I suppose we also need to talk about content and sessions. . . .so in a double whammy line-up, the creative director of the PDC appears on the show to discuss the new Agenda Builder and My Sessions user experience on the PDC web site. So much to talk about, so little time! And there’s also Mike’s Hard Hat Challenge – can you solve it in 6 hours or less? On your marks, get set, go!
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91750	About the SA Blog Network Opinion, arguments & analyses from the editors of Scientific American Observations HomeAboutContact What will space tourism mean for climate change? Email PrintPrint SpaceShipTwo test flightIf space tourism ever becomes big business, as plenty of well-heeled backers hope, the danger of the enterprise might not be confined to those who book a ride to the edge of space. A robust suborbital spaceflight industry could deposit enough soot in the stratosphere to cause significant global climate change, according to a new study. Although the study, set to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, does not mention spaceflight companies by name, the authors seem to have Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and its competitors in mind. The researchers modeled climate effects from hybrid motors, the type used by Virgin Galactic, launching repeatedly from southern New Mexico, where Virgin Galactic has a 20-year lease at Spaceport America, a publicly funded commercial spaceport. Hybrid motors using synthetic solid hydrocarbons as a fuel and nitrous oxide as an oxidizer would inject black carbon soot into the stratosphere, explain the study’s authors, Martin Ross of the nonprofit Aerospace Corporation, Michael Mills of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Darin Toohey of the University of Colorado at Boulder. If the space tourism industry matures to the point that 1,000 hybrid-powered suborbital flights depart annually, those trips would deposit roughly 600 metric tons of soot into the stratosphere each year. Over decades of launches, those emissions would form a persistent and asymmetric cloud over the northern hemisphere that could impact atmospheric circulation and regional temperatures far more than the greenhouse gases released into the stratosphere by those same flights. In a 40-year climate model incorporating rocket soot, ozone concentrations decreased at the tropics and increased at high latitudes. In midlatitudes of the northern hemisphere, where the carbon cloud would effectively act as a sunshade, temperatures fell by about 0.4 degree Celsius. That might sound like a welcome offset to the effects of rising greenhouse gas concentrations, which are expected to raise average global temperatures in the coming decades, were it not for the fact that rocket soot also had the effect of warming both poles in the researchers’ climate model, boosting temperatures there by nearly a full degree C in local winter. The specific climate outcomes rest on complex modeling and a series of assumptions that will need refining, specifically regarding the amount of carbon in hybrid exhaust and the interplay between climate changes caused by stratospheric soot and those caused by future increases in global greenhouse gases independent of tourism launches. Nevertheless, the researchers warn, "rocket emissions on this scale clearly cross a threshold to be considered a human-influenced climate impact of global importance." Photo from a Virgin Galactic glide test: Mark Greenberg/Virgin Galactic Rights & Permissions Comments 10 Comments Add Comment 1. 1. dvaudio 11:09 am 10/23/2010 Oh Good Lord….you people worry about the dumbest things! LOL Link to this 2. 2. BoRon 12:06 pm 10/23/2010 Those people worry about crazy stuff, invisible demons like UV light, radon gas, lead in paint and gasoline. You, apparently, worry about more important things like your clothing and high tech gadgets. Perhaps you should help them prioritize. Link to this 3. 3. quincykim 3:54 pm 10/23/2010 "…to the point that 1,000 hybrid-powered suborbital flights depart annually…" That’s 3 per day, every day, all year long. Is that a reasonable estimate? Based on what? Link to this 4. 4. loopsyel 7:42 pm 10/23/2010 "If the space tourism industry matures…" That’s what it’s based on, the first part of the sentence. That is how many flights it will take to deposit that much soot. No one knows how many flights there will be in a year, and they never said that there would be any certain number. But apparently 1000 per year will make that much soot. Link to this 5. 5. bloomingdedalus 10:39 pm 10/23/2010 So, run the space tourism industry on hydrogen like we run spaceflights on now. Of course, one still has to pollute to perform electrolysis on water. Link to this 6. 6. Orkneygal 7:21 am 10/24/2010 Why doesn’t this organisation report on real matters of scientific interest/ Such as- Where is the missing Tropical Tropospheric Hot Spot and was is the implication for that for the creditability of the IPCC GCM models of climate? Link to this 7. 7. dbtinc 8:39 am 10/24/2010 Oh my, someone has way too much time on their hands. You know what I’m worried about? What happens if we all stop eating beef thus reducing the cow population and simultaneously eliminating cow flatulence thus helping to cause global cooling. OMG, I need to write a senseless article for SA! Link to this 8. 8. Snowray 1:08 pm 10/24/2010 I wish that those whom love to see all the bad, WHEN AND IF certain conditions exist, would get a life and live with what does exist! The Earth is a living body that is constantly going through cycles and periods of cooling and heating. Yes, we humans are acting in a way that is not consistent with our position as stewards of the planet. What we must do to bring us to actions that will help the planet does not mean that we should enact laws that would be a cash cow for some individuals or organizations. Link to this 9. 9. seeqer 11:53 pm 10/24/2010 The pollutants would be mostly soot and aerosols. While not exactly GOOD for the environment, these produce, mostly cooling effects. Not something to worry about right now, considering the warming effects of CO2 that we’re dealing with. I’d be much more worried about the damage being done to the Ozone layer. Link to this 10. 10. Dr. Strangelove 10:31 pm 10/29/2010 I thought about these non-rocket propulsion systems. An abrupt acceleration like the Jules Verne big gun method would kill the passengers, the high g’s will break their bones. A gradual acceleration like a centrifugal rail or slingshot would produce so much force that it would break the steel rail or cable before it reaches orbital speed (18,000 mph). We currently have no material strong enough to withstand the pressure except for carbon nanotubes. But this is not yet produced in large scale. Link to this Add a Comment More from Scientific American Scientific American Dinosaurs Get Total Access to our Digital Anthology 1,200 Articles Order Now - Just $39! > Email this Article
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91786	The Motley Fool Discussion Boards Previous Page Investment Analysis Clubs / Macro Economic Trends and Risks Subject: Re: Water Problems in the West Date: 2/25/2013 8:12 PM Author: PolymerMom Number: 416697 of 455703 Perspective it is. A friend of mine was working on Illinois Wilderness Areas. He attended a Sierra Club meeting in San Francisco. He asked them what they were doing in regards to Eastern Wilderness and someone replied that they were looking at the Grand Canyon<G>. Welcome to "the East"!
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91789	Joe Johnston From Fettpedia Revision as of 08:59, 5 April 2009 by Bffc admin (Talk \| contribs) Jump to: navigation, search Artist - Boba Fett's Designer Art director / visual effects creator on The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He is now a major director, having completed The Rocketeer (1991), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Jumanji, and October Sky. His most recent project was Hidalgo. He also directs ads for ILM's commercial department. Super Troopers "I designed the final version of Boba Fett. Ralph and I both worked together on preliminary designs, and we traded ideas back and forth. Originally, Boba Fett was part of a force we called Super Troopers, and they were these really high-tech fighting units, and they all looked alike. That eventually evolved into a single bounty hunter. I painted BobaÂs outfit and tried to make it look like it was made of different pieces of armor. It was a symmetrical design, but I painted it in such a way that it looked like he had scavenged parts and had done some personalizing of his costume; he had little trophies hanging from his belt, and he had little braids of hair, almost like a collection of scalps." Source: Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays (p. 184-185) Contributors to this Fettpedia record • BFFC Admin About Fettpedia
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91813	code / art / projects Writing a Streaming Twitter Waterflow Solution In this post Philip Nilsson describes an inspiring, principled approach to solving a toy problem posed in a programming interview. I wanted to implement a solution to a variant of the problem where we’d like to process a stream. It was pretty easy to sketch a solution out on paper but Philip’s solution was invaluable in testing and debugging my implementation. (See also Chris Done’s mind-melting loeb approach) My goal was to have a function: waterStream :: [Int] -> [Int] that would take a possibly-infinite list of columns and return a stream of known water quantities, where volumes of water were output as soon as possible. We can get a solution to the original problem, then, with ourWaterFlow = sum . waterStream Here is the solution I came up with, with inline explanation: {-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} -- start processing `str` initializing the highest column to the left at 0, and -- an empty stack. waterStream :: [Int] -> [Int] waterStream str = processWithMax 0 str [] processWithMax :: Int -> [Int] -> [(Int,Int)] -> [Int] processWithMax prevMax = process process [] = const [] -- output the quantity of water we know we can get, given the column at the -- head of the stream, `y`: process (y:ys) = eat 1 eat !n xxs@((offset,x):xs) -- done with `y`, push it and its offset onto the stack \| y < x = process ys ((n,y):xxs) -- at each "rise" we can output some known quantity of water; -- storing the "offset" as we did above lets us calculate water -- above a previously filled "valley" \| otherwise = let col = offset(min y prevMax - x) cols = eat (n+offset) xs -- filter out zeros: in if col == 0 then cols else col : cols -- if we got to the end of the stack, then `y` is the new highest -- column we've seen. eat !n [] = processWithMax y ys [(n,y)] The bit about “offsets” is the tricky part which I don’t know how to explain without a pretty animation. It took me much longer than I was expecting to code up the solution above that worked on a few hand-drawn test cases, and at that point I didn’t have high confidence that the code was correct, so I turned to quickcheck and assert. First I wanted to make sure the invariant that the “column” values in the stack were strictly increasing held: import Control.Exception (assert) --process (y:ys) = eat 1 process (y:ys) stack = assert (stackSane stack) $ eat 1 stack Then I used Philip’s solution (which I had confidence in): waterFlow :: [Int] -> Int waterFlow h = sum $ zipWith (-) (zipWith min (scanl1 max h) (scanr1 max h)) to test my implementation: Waterflow> import Test.QuickCheck Waterflow Test.QuickCheck> quickCheck (\l -> waterFlow l == ourWaterFlow l) ** Failed! Falsifiable (after 21 tests and 28 shrinks): Oops! It turned out I had a bug in this line (fixed above): --old buggy: --cols = eat (n+1) xs --new fixed: cols = eat (n+offset) xs The solution seems to perform pretty well, processing 1,000,000 Ints in 30ms on my machine: import Criterion.Main main = do gen <- create rs <- replicateM 1000000 $ uniformR (0,100) gen defaultMain [ bench "ourWaterFlow" $ whnf ourWaterFlow rs I didn’t get a good look at space usage over time, as I was testing with mwc-random which doesn’t seem to support creating a lazy infinite list of randoms and didn’t want to hunt down another library. Obviously on a stream that simply descends forever, our stack of (Int,Int) will grow to infinite size. It seems as though there is a decent amount of parallelism that could be exploited in this problem, but I didn’t have any luck on a quick attempt. Have a parallel solution, or something just faster? Or an implementation that doesn’t need a big stack of previous values?
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91837	Call of Duty Wiki Warrior man4528 17 Edits since joining this wiki January 21, 2012 Welcome to the wiki!Edit Sandman MW3 Welcome Template Here are some links that you may find helpful: -- Raven's wing (Talk) 21:15, January 21, 2012 ...because I've been on this Wiki way longer than you and I know what I'm doing. Also, you didn't even have proper spelling/grammar. Plus, I know those characters were in the operation, but they were in the fan film, this, which was a non-canon film, decipiting that it hardly has anything with the actual Call of Duty events. Only Ghost, Sandman, Price and Soap took part of the actual opertaion, see here. So before you start anything, I know what I'm doing. Please don't go off like that, and if you start an edit war, it will end with a block. Stop; and I would highly advise that you read out policies. Thanks -- KillFeedz OGTalk to Rainbow Dash!RD Okay, one: "Cool story, bro" is not needed. Second: I'm glad that you understand the difference between the canon and non-canon events. Third: I removed your info too because just like pretty much all other playable characters, they don't talk. Plus they're both sergeants, who cares? Many playable character are sergeants and don't speak. In short, it's not necessary. So stop trolling and have a good day. -- KillFeedz OGTalk to Rainbow Dash!RD Ignore KillFeedz's ramblings above, he's misguided. You're doing fine. -- sactage (talk) 02:51, March 2, 2012 (UTC) Hello Edit Hi, I wanted to apologize for what just happened with Killfeedz, that is not how users are treated here. Also, we decided in the War room that the Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish (Fan Film) is not canon, whereas Operation Kingfish is due to info found within MW3. So your edit was not completely wrong, just the part about Frost's involvement because outside of the fan film, there is no evidence that Frost was involved. Other than that, you did fine and you're in no sort of trouble over what happened. Carb 0 02:56, March 2, 2012 (UTC) Re:Black Ops Riot Shield Edit Fixed Barricade =/= Riot shield, regardless of how it is being used. DX1mnCh.pngRaven's wing Talk23:37, March 16, 2012 (UTC) Licensing Your Images Edit • For images that are game screenshots, use Copyrighted Media. 23:52, March 16, 2012 (UTC) Around Wikia's network Random Wiki
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91881	HOME > Chowhound > General Topics > Chocolate for Mom -- Suggestions Please • n • nosh Dec 7, 2006 06:57 PM • 19 • Share Mom is a chocoholic -- even her license plate is personalized "CHOCLT." She prefers dark over milk, and isn't thrilled by added nuts, fruits, or liquers. She is disciplined and enjoys and shares the occasional truffles or artistically decorated pieces, which are preferred over bars. But it is hit-and-miss; she has enjoyed some of the simpler confections over some of the more expensive. Depth of the chocolate flavor seems to be key. I'd like to send her some chocolate for the holidays. She lives in St. Louis, if that matters. I'd like to hear people's suggestions as to mail-order chocolates or truffles that might really make her smile. Price isn't necessarily the key -- she has enjoyed some from Trader Joes and Sees, it seems, as much as a couple of the hoity-toity artisinal chocolate I've sent her. Your experiences, and even weblinks, would be appreciated. 1. Click to Upload a photo (10 MB limit) Posting Guidelines \| FAQs \| Feedback 1. my favourite place in toronto is soma chocolate. i know they do mail order, so i dont think there would be a problem in sending them to the states. david concentrates on origin chocolates, so you can get single origin bars made from cocoa from around the world. (he processed and roasts the cocoa beans himself) www.somachocolate.com. their website gives a good idea of the different gifts and ideas 1. http://www.johnandkiras.com Most chocolate lovers have their favs, mine is John and Kiras. They ship, they are artists and for a seasoned choc-o-holic worth every bite! Happy Shopping! 1. Chocolate Potpourri out of Chicago is fabulous! Especially their chocolate toffee. Here's the web site: 1. I felt that the offerings from Holl's were special. Take a look. 1. try http://celadongifts.com They are out of Petaluma CA. They have chocolate Voodoo dolls, chocolate paint, less racy chocolate items. They also sell a giant apple (non GMO) chocolate carmel covered that you can slice like a pie. 1. Bissingers is a st louis tradition and the makers of really good chocolate. Their dark chocolate is as good as any I've had anywhere (Belgium, New York, SF) You can order at www.bissingers.com. 2 Replies 1. re: bluto I would second Bissinger"s in St. Louis. Hubby & I were in St. Louis Easter weekend and one of our first stops was Bissinger's! We're especially fond of their dark chocolate malted milk balls. Bissinger's easily stands up to any chocolate I've gotten in NYC. 1. re: Anne I would think if she lives in St. Louis that chococolate from St. Louis wouldn't be as big a treat as chocolate from elsewhere -- if she's a big chocoholic she's probably very famliar with the local scene. I'd get a sampler of single-origin chocolates from one of the European makers (or a sampler of chocolate from a single origin -- like Chauo or Madagascar -- from different makers). (And yes, I know, this is a moot point, since the original post was in December -- but Mother's Day is coming up!). 2. A couple of thoughts: First, Chocosphere.com (http://www.chocosphere.com ) generally has an excellent selection, great service, and is a really fun place to shop if you're into chocolate. A gift certificate or membership in the "Chocolate of the Month Club" there might be good, or you could pick out something for her. They have a very good selection. Chocolate is sort of a personal thing, and I obviously don't know your mom's tastes, but some of my favorites are the Santander bitter sweet bars (both the 65% and the 70%), the Domori Blend No. 1, and the Guittard "Coucher du Soleil" bittersweet chocolate. (I tend to like strong, not too sweet, bitter sweet chocolate, and I'm put off by high acidity. Second, L.A. Burdick in New Hampshire (http://www.burdickchocolate.com/ ) does really nice stuff, and the chocolate flavors tend to be nice and strong. Also, their presentation is gorgeous. One thing about Burdick chocolates that I've noticed, however, is that because they use fresh cream, they don't last more than a week or two without refrigeration (which often doesn't help the chocolate any either). Third, Pierre Marcolini, in New York, (http://pierremarcolini-na.com/index.asp? ) makes some really excellent, really intense, chocolates, including a variety of single origin and blended bean dark chocolate bars. One final suggestion is Max Brenner, which used to be available through Chocosphere, but now is starting to be sold (not as well, in my view) through their New York boutique: http://www.maxbrenner.com/ . Great, great, chocolate candies, with wonderful flavors and an excellent, fun presentation. I've literally never tasted a Max Brenner chocolate that didn't bowl me over. Hope this is of some help. Please do let us know what you decide to do and how mom likes it. 1 Reply 1. re: David Kahn Huge 2nd to Burdick (their chocolate mice & penguins are a uniquely charming) and to Pierre Marcolini for ultra high quality chocolate. I'd add Richart for elegance & extraordinary quality as well....http://www.richart-chocolates.com/ Haven't tried Brenner or chocosphere, so can't comment.... 2. You could check out Jacques Torres for an artisanal spin...his stores stock about 40 kinds of reasonably-priced truffles which you can control the selection of. Keep in mind that since Hershey's purchased the ScharffenBerger brand, they have begun (for better or worse) to dabble in upscale goods. Some CH Boarders have argued that S-B has diminished in quality, but then Hershey's has also been marketing its' own "CACAO RESERVE - 65%" bars...two bucks or so per bar at Walgreen's, strikes me as a bargain. Trader Joe's carries a VALRHONA selection at half the price of Dean & DeLuca's (NY) and other high-end markets. 1 Reply 1. re: Mike R. Second Jacques Torres. You can switch up the gift by adding the spicy hot chocolate mix, if she enjoys that. 2. I second chocosphere.com. Great bars from all over the world. Excellent selection & service. 1. I love Chuao chocolates, they've got some of the most innovative and delicate truffles I've seen. I think they're only in southern california, but they do have an online store. They can be a little pricey, but if you're comparing them to Godiva, I think the quality is far superior. Might be a little late for christmas.... maybe mother's day? 1. i'M A TRUE FAN, I ADMIT, but I think ordering personalized M&M's is a really cute idea. Now that they're in Dark chocolate your Mom might get a kick out of them. www.m&m.com 1. My favorites are from Richart and Maison du Chocolate, both of which are available online. Richart makes floral infused ones that are to die for. 1. If someone were to go online and order me a dozen truffles from Teuscher, I would be very, very happy. 1. My best recommendation would be to order from Aux Petits Delices. Not too sweet, very rich, real French butter... And you can get them in very pretty, nicely giftable boxes. 1. Woodhouse Chocolates out of St. Helena California have some of the best chocolates i've ever had. They offer a selection of "mostly dark chocolate" or just look at what they have an order the exact pieces you want. They have one that tastes like a mini-bite of the best chocolate pecan pie you've ever eaten.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91884	HOME > Chowhound > General Midwest Archive > New to Kansas City • 10 • Share I am new to KC from Oklahoma and I am looking for the best places to eat, go out etc. Most importantly I need to find a good coffeehouse with some talented baristas who know what they are doing. Hopefully there will be one on the plaza or south of it for my convenience. Also any good wine bars. I look very forward to hearing what you have to say. 1. Click to Upload a photo (10 MB limit) Posting Guidelines \| FAQs \| Feedback 1. Welcome to KC. When I was a student at UMKC (just a few blocks south of the Plaza) I always went to Muddy's. Haven't been there for a while, so I can't speak to their current state of affairs, but I always enjoyed it. Muddy's is basically at 51st and Oak. There is also a pretty good pizza place (Pizza 51) and chinese (Kin Lin) as neighbors. for Coffee in Westport and what I consider the best in the city: coffee in Brookside which many people also love: JP Wine Bar is great. It's in the downtown/Crossroads area 1. Welcome and I second all of the recommendations from dtma. The Roasterie is my favorite coffee shop, best coffee in town. Check out their clover it makes the best cup in town You should also check out boozefish wine bar. Its kind of a hole in the wall but its real laid back and fun. 2 Replies 1. re: zach There's been a running topic on Midwest coffeehouses (http://www.chowhound.com/topics/367599). It includes some KC places. How about that futuristic-looking place around 63rd & Wornall? Have any of you been there? 1. re: sigerson57 Would that be The Roasterie? 2. Everyone needs their coffee. I believe that would be the roasterie but its at 63 and brookside blvd. 1 Reply 1. re: Judy Butts OK, thank you, Judy and jdl98. I believe I've found my future hangout. 2. Not that those two coffee shops are bad, there are many more out there that are wonderful. My personal top ten list: 1. YJ’s Snack Bar 2. The Crave Café 3. Espresso dell’Anatra 4. You Say Tomato 5. Toto’s Coffee 6. Parkville Coffee & Fudge 7. Eddie Delahunt’s Cafe & 8. Broadway Cafe 9. Soho Coffee 10. Room 39 (as further explained here: http://www.kcperky.com/top-ten-shops/ ) 1. I thank you all for your input. I look forward to checking all these places out. I must say thought The Roasterie is AMAZING. 1. The Drop is a really fun place too, and the food is great! Lots of fun cocktails and beers, in addition to wine. 409 E 31st St, Kansas City, MO 64108 1 Reply 1. re: Katie Nell I'll second that. I found my new favorite wine there during their happy hour: Primativo A Mano. Combined with the cheese board, its unstoppable. I hear their bruchetta is great too.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91890	HOME > Chowhound > Food Media & News > KFC $10 Challenge?? • 37 • Share Has anyone else seen this and promptly hurled the remote at the TV? In case you don't click on the link, the commercial features a mom and 2 kids who try to purchase the ingredients for a KFC 7 piece meal (fried chicken, biscuits and mashed potatoes) at a grocery store for less than $10. They somehow can't, they cheer, they go to KFC!! Do people not go grocery shopping enough to know this is completely absurd??? Are all commercials this stupid? When will my Tivo be fixed??? 1. Click to Upload a photo (10 MB limit) Posting Guidelines \| FAQs \| Feedback 1. Unless I was buying some fancy free-range organic chicken, I can't see how this would be difficult at all to accomplish. 3 Replies 1. re: Firegoat >>Do people not go grocery shopping enough to know this is completely absurd??? No. Never underestimate the stupidity of the consumer. >> Are all commercials this stupid? Yes. Some are just funnier than others. 1. re: dolores What about the Sargento Salad Finishers commercial where the lady calls her husband at the supermarket and wants to make a really "creative" salad using chicken, a really good cheese...and then the husand chimes in with toasted almonds...and then they both agree, "PERFECT!" I mean, what a truly creative salad! 1. re: iluvtennis Haha, funny you mention this. I want to hurl every time I see this commercial. 2. Can't hurl remote at TV, still paying for 40" LCD we bought in January (pre economic meltdown). That's why I don't watch the presidential debates! It IS a stupid commercial--I can buy better chicken for less money. KFC does have tasty biscuits, though... 1. Well, despite the replies to this, the fact is that you could not buy everything you need to make fried chicken, biscuits and mashed potatoes for under $10. Let's see... chicken (pretty cheap), but add a large can of oil for frying, bag of flour for the biscuits, potatoes, cream or milk, butter (whoops, there goes 4 bucks), seasoning, etc. But the fact that you can eat cheaper at KFC than at home isn't the point to me. The point is the quality of what you can create at home, the act of actually preparing the food, maybe getting the kids involved, etc, etc. Comparing this to picking up a bucket of cold chicken with a few sides is what is ridiculous. 10 Replies 1. re: bnemes3343 Comparatively, it would be cheaper. Seven pieces of chicken -- dirt cheap (or it was) in a family pack. Not the whole sack of flour -- just some. Not an entire can of shortening, I would hope. Not a boatload of potatoes. Not an entire pound of butter, unless one is generous. Yup, KFC is a genius. 1. re: bnemes3343 As Dolores pointed out, you can't count the entire bag of flour, the entire pound of butter, the entire jar of spice/dried herb, etc. unless this is the one and only meal you ever intend to prepare using these ingredients. Additionally, all those items periodically go on sale. I just bought Gold Medal Flour for $1.79 for a 5 lb bag, and chicken pieces 50% off, much of which I froze. I NEVER pay $4/lb for butter (more like $2.50/lb), there is always a decent brand on sale in the Shop-Rite I shop in. I also never buy big containers of oil until they go on sale, then I stock up. So this is indeed a very stupid commercial, on more than one level. 1. re: flourgirl You could also factor in the cost of "cooking" the meal at home. Power consumption using the stove, cleaning your dishes, running your lights. Finally, what is ones time worth spent making and cleaning up the dishes? We can probably call the travel costs to the market to be a wash with the cost of going to the KFC outlet. What is a persons time worth? What else would we do with that time? All those things can be factored into the cost of the home cooked meal if we want to include everything. 1. re: Servorg Right. But if you are going to include those things, the cost of power needed for the preparation of that one meal is pocket change. And if I choose to prepare a meal for my family I most certainly save in real dollars the cost of paying someone else to do that. But on the other hand, I do not see any savings in actual dollars for my labor if I choose to eat out and pay someone else to prepare the food. 1. re: Servorg Some of the most vivid, and happy, memories from my childhood revolve around the kitchen and food--helping my mom, who taught me everything I know, being in charge of preparing a specific dish for the dinner, setting the table and cleaning up afterwards. Hmm, how much is THAT worth? I would think a little more than memories of driving through the KFC drive-thru and arguing over original or extra crispy. 1. re: dmjordan "Hmm, how much is THAT worth?" As the Master Card marketing people so cleverly put it; priceless. I was simply pointing out that there are other actual costs associated with making a dinner at home, other than just the ingredients themselves. 1. re: Servorg I totally agree with your assessment. Time is money. 1. re: Miss Needle This may sound crazy but cooking for jfood is a relaxing and enjoyable part of the day when the music is on, he and mrs jfood are standing at the island talking and the dog (good looking avatar huh?) is sitting there waiting to hear her favorite words, "clean up in aisle 1." So for jfood making dinner is a contra-cost at this time of his life. 1. re: jfood to say nothing of the fact that the homemade dinner is tastier, at least 94% of the time. 2. re: Servorg I suppose you can start counting in your own electricity consumption, but once you reach that point, you might as well count all kinds of crazy things (the oil in the plastic bag that your KFC meal comes in contributes to oil depletion which causes gas prices to rise which causes you to pay more at the gas pump next time, the health problems your children have in the future leads to expensive medical bills, etc.) 2. It's so funny that you posted this because I saw that ad for the first time last night (before I saw this post) and I turned to my husband and said, "What the....?!!" I suppose if you had to buy every single item including flour and butter it might cost a bit more than $10 but I would assume most people have some pantry basics such as flour and dried herbs. Or, as dolores pointed out, you could just buy what you need for the recipe. There are a LOT of things a family can cook that are cheaper and healthier than going to KFC! 1 Reply 1. re: ms. clicquot I'm glad I'm not alone in this. Just like ms.clicquot, I said the same thing to my SO. 2. You have got to remember that You CANNOT purchase the Col's 11, 13? SECRET spices at any cost, so there is no way you could make KFC for 10 dollars or any amount for that matter. However if you got the Bush's Beans talking dog, maybe he could get the spice list for you, he does seem kinda sneaky. 4 Replies 1. re: littlestevie Funny, my husband's response to my annoyance at the commercial was 'Yes, but can you make it with the 11 secret herbs and spices?' :) 1. re: ms. clicquot True, but I prefer my own blend of "secret spices" any day. I saw the commercial last night too and was like WTF, most people have the basics and even if you don't ,to calculate the cost of the meal including oil, flour, etc...you could still make it under $10. 2. re: littlestevie I wouldn't want the Colonel's secret spices, KFC is pretty bad. I couldn't make chicken for less than $10, the peanut oil for the deep fryer is over $6.00 alone now. But it would be much better than what KFC turns out thats for sure. We have a KFC near where I live, but I am surpised they stay in business since the area I live has some of the best fried chicken around at pretty much every bar, pub, and restaurant. Cooked to order, juicy, and cheap( around$8.00 for a half a fried chicken, soup or salad(sometimes salad bar with soup and salad), bread, and potato. 1. re: swsidejim I actually went out to a local place(Monari's 101) last night and got 1/2 mixed chicken(1 thigh, 1 breast, 1 wing, and 1 drumstick), salad, and a large portion of hasbrowns for $7.00. The place I went has fried chicken that is 20X better than anything KFC makes. 3. That commercial is rubbish and I agree with some of the other posters-there are cheaper and better alternatives to be found in the grocery store. And if you absolutely must eat fast food chicken, eat Bojangles!! 1. To me, the 10$ challenge is kind of a "MacGuffin". Even if you did purchase the ingredients to make the chicken it would be debatable whether the results of the cooking would be equal to KFC. The lady in the commercial may not be a good cook. Plus, fried chicken is a labor intensive, messy endeavour that many do not relish. I like to cook but fried chicken is something I'd rather buy out. You may get "better" fried chicken at a mom and pop (debatable to me, because I like KFC ) but can you get 7 pieces , a side a 4 good biscuits for 10 beans ? Probably not. So, said family of 3/4 can eat a pretty tasty meal for 3.33 a person. That is pretty good. So, to me, that is the point of the commercial, you get decent meal that would probably cost you more elsewhere and do you.?.can you ? really go home and fry up similar chicken. The commercial was interesting to me, but certainly didn't get me upset. If you don't like KFC the commercial is moot to you anyway. I'm assuming the family in the commercial would like their food. So would I. If you just dismiss KFC out of hand than it should not matter to you what they sell. 3 Replies 1. re: rochfood UGH! Everytime I see that commercial my head wants to pop! LOL When I get home tonight, I will do a pantry accounting for you, to tell you how many 'KFC' meals I can make with my pound of organic flour, my chicken I debone myself, etc etc... These are skills people should learn if they're so feeling an economic pinch, anyway. KFC makes me ill, but that's beside the point, lol. I've never thought fried chicken to be labor intensive. This just drives home what I've been saying for months...people are taught not to cook for themselves, nor basic accounting, or life skills. And we wonder about our economy...lol. 1. re: sommrluv You cook 365 days a year ? I cook plenty just not all the time. I don't even go to KFC hardley ever (1-2 times a year ?) (Poor english., I know) Just because someone goes to KFC doesn't mean they don't cook. I don't cook all the time. I go out to taste someone else's cooking and I don't purport to cook every thing expertly. So maybe a little less overreacting and generalizing is in order. And maybe to you deboning chicken and getting out the ole messy wet and dry pans to dip in and than heating up the oil is a breeze, but to others, myself included ,it can be done, but it is a bit of an endevour. So how about another "lol" ? 2. re: rochfood There's a little soul food place near where I live - for just over $10 you get 2 pieces of chicken (much better than KFC), 2 small sides & cornbread. 3. I did not hurl the remote, but I did unleash a fury of profanity. The commercial really hits at the core of the problem with the general American view of food, namely, that it is fuel, and the cheaper you can get your fuel, the better. Fried Chicken is not a "easy weeknight meal" that can be made at home. It requires a lot of work, so I think in that regard, it would make sense to go to KFC if you absolutely MUST have it for dinner. I would rather see the mom shopping for chicken pieces to be sautéed in a little olive oil, with some fresh vegetables on the side, and some rice or the like. 1 Reply 1. re: gatorfoodie gatorfoodie, remember the 'you're an idiot and can't make breakfast so eat it out' commercial? Equally stupid. But hey, if someone falls for these ads -- they deserve it. 2. There are hidden costs to the KFC meal. There are the health care costs of both the consumer and the company employees: the consumer for ingesting a body-damaging product, and the uninsured employees who receive health care provided by taxpayers. There is also the damage to the health of the planet from every stage of corporate food production- waste-producing, drug-injecting factory farms, carbon emissions from trucking frozen product far distances, food containers with long half-lives. Fake food may be fast, but when you amortize all of the costs, $10 is deceptive. 1 Reply 1. re: julietg A post I could have written myself. The "$10.00" thing isn't deceptive: it's absolute bull-hockey. The fact that such insipid and dull-witted and deceptive advertising works is depressing. 2. Being of Southern extraction, I am a big fan of fried chicken. In a rare moment of sloth I decided to introduce my son to KFC just last week. I found the chicken so profoundly salty that I had a hard time eating it. Now I live significantly above the Mason-Dixon line, and decent fried chicken is hard to come by. I might have to learn to make it for a once-a-year treat. 1. Kurt Friese took on the Colonel and won! 1 Reply 1. re: mpjmph How funny. Good for him. Nice that he included his recipes, too. 2. This is a bit off topic, but on the same token I read a recent article about how McDonalds is surging in popularity. Its $4-6/meal. A whole chicken and a bag of beans is under $10. 1. I can make the 7 piece meal with less than $10. Yes. I shop for ingredient at ValueMart (it's like a discounted supermarket but with all fresh produce and poultry). But if you count making from scratch, like having to purchase oil, seasoning, etc. Than no.
global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91892	HOME > Chowhound > Cookware > Tramontina 8 piece set made in China not Brazil • 16 • Share I recently purchased the http://www.walmart.com/ip/Tramontina-.... I was expecting it to be made in Brazil not China. Is there any difference in quality? Would it be realistically possible to get an 8 piece Tramontina Tri-Ply Clad set that was made in Brazil? 1. Click to Upload a photo (10 MB limit) Posting Guidelines \| FAQs \| Feedback 1. You can get Emeril by All Clad, Stainless Steel 12-Piece Cookware Set for $ 179 at Amazon. Amazon also has an open box special of the same set for $ 145 5 Replies 1. re: Antilope True. Just want to be clear that the Emerilware are also made in China. No, I have not heard of any complaints of the quality. If "Made in China" bothers you, then you can return your set, and purchase something else. 1. re: Chemicalkinetics We bought a set of the open box special for our daughter. Beautiful set. Aluminum encapsulated base. The only complaint, on the 8-inch fry pan, the balance is off and the pan tips when empty. I still would buy the Emerilware over the Tramontina. 1. re: Chemicalkinetics If a lot of the positive reviews are from owners who have Tramontina that's made in China I really don't have an issue. I would only have an issue if the "made in China" Tramontina was inferior to the "made in Brazil" Tramontina. 1. re: GoodEatsSF As far as I understand, it is exactly the case that all the raving reviews of Walmart tri-ply were reviews of Chinese manufactured tri-ply. Done of the disc bottom stuff is Brazillian, but I believe all off the tri-ply came from China. Buy with confidence. 1. re: GoodEatsSF My understanding is that there are no difference between Made in China vs Made in Brazil for the same line. Now, there are different lines of Tramontina cookware, but that is a different aspect altogether. 2. FWIW, i bought 2 Tramontina pots this week from Costco: a 5 qt saute pan and an 8 qt multi cooker ( pot with pasta insert, steamer basket and SS lid). Both are made in Brazil. These are fully clad, not disk bottom. 1. <Would it be realistically possible to get an 8 piece Tramontina Tri-Ply Clad set that was made in Brazil?> I think so. IIRC, the only the stuff sold at WM is induction ready and made in China. The stuff sold elsewhere, same construction, but not induction capable, is made in Brazil. <Is there any difference in quality? > Most Tramontina goods, regardless of origin, are good quality. The 4 quart saucepan I ordered from WM (china) was heavy and well built, with just one flaw; even at medium heat, with liquid in it, it always developed a blue rainbow. I know this happens to SS over high heat, but it didn't happen in my Calphalon Tri-Ply except at high heat, and not with a pan full of liquid. 1. We have Tramontina pans made in both Brazil and China and have not noticed a difference in performance. Remember that not all goods made in China are junk. Your iPhone, if you have one, was made in China. 6 Replies 1. re: John E. +1. If most of us take a look around our homes, we'll find a wide variety of items made in China. Most of them perform quite well. 1. re: DuffyH I know that a lot of Chinese manufactured products are of good quality. However I still believe one of the most common phrases said by Chinese laborers is (translated) "What do the Americans do with all of this plastic crap?" 2. re: John E. I'm sad to say a subset of folks seem to constantly look past the BRILLIANCE of Chinese culture to always presuppose Chinese manufacturing inferior. (Present company on this board of course excluded!) 1. re: CaliforniaJoseph It has nothing to do with Chinese culture or what China was capable of hundreds of years ago, it's about competitive pressures to make paroduct at the lowest possible price point. To do this, Chinese manufacturing takes every possible shortcut to make sure they are the low cost manufacturer. I personally have had customers who were having product made in China and the manufacturer was not using the correct polymer, the polylmer that the OEM company had submitted to Unerwriters Laboratories to confirm the product was safe. This has nothing to do with Chinese culture, but the pressures of being the low cost supplier and still make a buck. The laundry list of made in China products that are known to be made of inferior or dangerous raw materials, is far to great to go into here. Different companies have different levels of control over what is made in China, it's just impossible to know which companies have that superior level of control. 1. re: mikie Yes, seriously. I maintain - without meaning to invalidate any of your concerns - that it's a "babies & bath water" scenario. I cannot discount it all. 1. re: CaliforniaJoseph I'm not stating everything is bad, however there is probable cause for concern when it comes to the quality of many products where the reason for manufacture in a specific country or region is the lowest price. 3. The line was slightly redesigned. The Brazil pieces are slightly lighter meaning less SS was used in the production of the pieces. Lids and pots are the same size and interchangeable. The most noticeable difference is the handle design. The Brazil models are larger and hollow. IMHO they are a better design but they should have kept everything the same or started a new line. The weight of the lids might be a slip in quality control on Tramontina's part. Great stuff either way and I noticed no difference in performance.
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global_05_local_4_shard_00000656_processed.jsonl/91933	Friday, May 20, 2005 When people embody the stereotypes about them "filthy barbarians, that's all they are" As seen on the College Republicans blog at the end of a post about Islam. To the blog's credit, Nigel points out in a comment that, "I agree that some individuals who continue to incite this type of violence aren't very helpful people for the image of their religion, but I think it's important to remember many of them are very different from the millions of muslims who are as peace loving as their christian, hindu, jewish, atheist and other brothers and sisters." I wonder how the author would rationalize the fact that: The results with respect to Islam do not support the notion that it is inimical to growth. On the contrary, virtually every statistically significant coefficient on Muslim population shares reported in this paper -- in both cross-country and within-country statistical analyses -- is positive. If anything, Islam promotes growth. with his understanding of 'filthy barbarians.' Allison L said... An ironic comment, to be sure. I'm sure I'll be hearing from one of your lovable bloggers and his inability to escape stereotypes quite soon, seeing as all I write is bush-bashing and military-hating. marco said... I guess we all embody our own stereotypes... does that mean they are true? Allison L said... I don't think we necessarily embody them all the time- but it's probably fun to. But then, predictability would get boring after a while. Stereotypes can be so randomly generated- one way, for instance, is the matchup of a rare event with a member of a minority. That rare event could be almost anything, but usually something negative. Stereotypes are probably true for a few individuals, but not the majority of the people stereotyped. Randfan said... two valid points were made in that C.R. article; those who wish us dead are filthy barbarians, but of course, not all Muslims. Also, Islam is not a Religion of Peace, at no point in all of it's history, has it been. Islam has been reworked to created totalitarian states that represent the exact opposite of what libertarians believe. If Islam = change/progress, why are they still in the 1300s? check out this article supporting the same point at the Ayn Rand Institute: Jeff said... India is a fairly backwards country and they're mostly hindu. Why not hate on hindus? China is a fairly backwards county. Why not hate on buddhists? I suggest you talk with some muslims before you make the uneducated comment that their religion is any more different from Christianity than Judaism is. Remember, Christianity has been used to justify wrongful acts before. And I don't just mean the Crusades. Perhaps you're aware that slaveholders in the early 19th Century generally quoted the Bible as proof that slavery was acceptable to God. But slaveholders did not represent true Christians. They represented a small group of people that misinterpreted the Bible. Just as the terrorists that run amok in the middle east are a small group of people that are misinterpreting the Koran. To associate the average Muslim with Osama Bin Laden is as silly as associating yourself with Nathan Bedford Forrest. Anonymous said... Jeff said... I'm sure someone could go through the Bible and try to manipulate the words to words of terror. And people are certainly influenced - the Bible was used to justify slavery, the crusades, etc. And there are some people who are influenced by the terrorist interpretation of the Koran. But to say that the MAJORITY of muslims incorrectly interpret the Koran this way is just insulting to the religion. Nigel Tufnel said... I agree with Jeff here. Any work can be contorted to make it seem to be violent. I personally am not suggesting that extremists are the ones in the majority, but they may be the ones in power. Francesco said... The problem here, is that the behavior in London, is apparently being sanctioned by National Muslim Associations. If this attitude and sentiment is not representative of the entire muslim people, which I sincerely hope it is not, the perceived sanctioning of these "evil" messages are not doing anyone any favors. To outsiders, like myself, who have no real way to gauge "true" muslim beliefs and ideal, a sanctioned demonstration would seem to inditate that the message is at least, in part, supported by the muslim community. Rarely do we seem to hear or read opinions from "moderate" muslim leaders who express a more realistic view on world affiars. Until people stand up to the radical messages being broadcast around the world, you can't blame non-muslims when they think the entire religion has gone mad. Francesco said... This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

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