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ClinQuiz: Ectoparasites - Answer 2A
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Correct. The inflammation caused by Cuterebra species larvae migrating to the brain or spinal cord can produce severe neurologic disease in infected cats.4 Prevention recommendations include keeping cats indoors where they will not come in contact with the Cuterebra species larvae and routinely applying residual insecticides, such as imidacloprid and fipronil, which may limit the duration of infestation.5
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American Saw Mill Machinery Co.
Hackettstown, NJ., U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery & Steam and Gas Engines
Last Modified: Sep 9 2012 9:34PM by joelr4
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This important maker of circular sawmills and general-purpose woodworking machinery was founded in 1903 and lasted until the late 1950s or early 1960s. In their prime (the 1920s) they were the largest maker of circular sawmills in the country. After that time they moved their focus somewhat away from sawmills and towards shop machinery, including planers, jointers, and tablesaws.
During the 1950s the company used another name, American Woodworking Machinery Co., for marketing, presumably do de-emphasize their sawmill roots. This name should not be confused with the earlier, and larger, American Wood Working Machinery Co. The former name is associated with Hackettstown, NJ, and was used in the 1950s and possibly the early 1960s. The latter name is associated with Rochester, NY and Williamsport, PA (among others), and was active between 1897 and 1925.
Over the years, quite a few brand names were used by American Saw Mill: Champion, Climax, Clipper, Hercules, Ideal, Jewel, Lightning, Monarch, Perfection, and Royal. When the company ceased operations, the Monarch Uni-Point radial arm saw product was purchased by Northfield Foundry & Machine Co., and is still available. The Monarch 8" bench jointer was sold to American Machine & Foundry Co. (AMF), and was sold under the DeWalt label for a brief period. Tooling for the other machines ended up in the Hackettstown landfill.
Information Sources
• Batory's catalog list says that this firm was founded in 1903.
• The earliest catalog we've seen so far is from 1908. That catalog shows a lot of sawmill-related machinery, but 1923 and subsequent catalogs show only standard woodworking machines: tablesaws, jointers, planers, etc. Wendel's book (see below) shows ads from as late as the 1950s for their sawmills, however. It is likely that from 1923 onwards they had separate catalogs for the sawmill machinery versus their general shop machinery.
• C. H. Wendel's The Circular Saw Mill reports a 200-page 1922 catalog that included sawmills, and says that American's All-Steel sawmill was offered as late as the 1950s.
• An ad in the 1955-56 Hitchcock's Wood Workers Digest Directory uses the name American Woodworking Machinery Co.
• American Saw Mill also manufactured saw blades under the name American Saw Works. A 1923 American Saw Mill catalog features these blades.
• American Saw Mill catalogs appear surprisingly often on eBay. Thus far we have seen 1908, 1923, 1928, 1930, 1938 and 1950 catalogs.
• An ad in a 1915 issue of "Carpenter and Builder" features the "American" contractors' portable variety woodworker.
• Besides sawmills and woodworking machines, American Sawmill also sold engines. Until 1929 they sold Hercules engines. When Hercules discontinued production of their Model S engine, American Sawmill switched to Hercules look-alike engines from Plessisville. American Sawmill stopped selling engines when Plessisville stopped making them, in 1946. This information comes from postings on SmokStak.com, especially from Glenn Karch.
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These are the steps necessary to set up Microsoft Outlook 2007 for use with a Pipeline email account via the POP3 protocol.
Step 1 - Open Outlook 2007
Step 2 - Account Settings
Select New... from the Email tab.
Step 3 - Auto Account Setup
Step 4 - Choose Email Service
Select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP and then click Next.
Step 5 - Internet E-mail Settings
2. Choose POP3 for Account Type.
4. Enter your Pipeline Username (without in the User Name field along with your Pipeline password in the Password field.
Step 5 - Authenticated SMTP
4. Now change to the Advanced Settings tab.
5. Verify that the outgoing port is set 587.
6. Select OK.
Step 7 - Confirm Settings
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I can't get into Yahoo email and keep getting the same crap from Yahoo support: an engineering problem on the East Coast that should be fixed in 2-6 hours.
Meanwhile, three days have passed! The password has been reset 100 times, and I have been told it's not a problem on my end. I tried everything suggested here in a previous post, including us.m.yahoo.com/p/mail.
Is there any way I can access my mail?
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closed as too localized by Eight Days of Malaise, Barry Nov 23 '11 at 11:04
Although the frustration is understood, the question could be phrased better. – Eran Mar 17 '11 at 16:54
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You can try using Yahoo's POP3 service with a mail application that supports POP3, such as Thunderbird or Outlook/Outlook Express/Windows Live Mail.
Here's yahoo support page on it: link
BTW, I have no problem logging into the Yahoo Mail inbox at login.yahoo.com, but I'm not at the "east coast" (of the USA I suppose).
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If its an authentication problem, and not just with webmail, then POP3 might still fail, but it is worth a shot. Trying something will statistically provide better results than doing nothing. If it is an authentication problem and is only for the east coast servers, try a west coast proxy server to access yahoo, it might route you to a different server that might work. – MaQleod Mar 17 '11 at 18:22
According to this website yahoo.mail was down earlier today but it is supposed to be working right now.
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To: rush-list-all
Subject: RUSH Fans Digest of 09/13/90 (#49)
RUSH Fans Digest, Number 49
Thursday, 13 September 1990
Today's Topics:
Rush on the radio
Who says radio sucks?
Resume the Final Count
Forgot to do this the other day...
Victoria Day
From: Manager, RUSH Fans Digest <>
Subject: Administrivia
Ok folks, there's a couple of things I need to say, then I'll get out
of your way. First of all, there was no Digest for Wednesday, 9/11.
I was flat on my back from this #$%^& ankle and didn't make it to work.
Secondly, let me say (much to my chagrin) that the duplication problem
that has plagued this list is still with us. For those new to the list,
let me reiterate (the rest of you can yawn, stretch, get coffee, whatever):
This list is being run from a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix, a flavour of
UNIX. Due to the large size of the list (about 350 people, I haven't
counted recently), the mail sits in the outbound queue for an extraordinarily
long time. This confuses the mail daemon, which for some unfathomable
reason, decides to send a second copy. It happens just about every time,
and always only two copies (not three or four). I have tried different
things to fix this, including two system upgrades, but to no avail. I
could split the outbound list into two or more sub-lists, but that would
require time I don't have right now, and would make administration more
tricky. Unfortunately, I'm faced with a deadline at work, so there will
be no change until at least October. Please bear with us, and just delete
that second copy. NOTE: Check that issue number! There may be multiple
issues on any given day. This brings me to my next point:
Long postings. I'm talking about tourbook transcriptions, source stories
for songs, etc. These are wonderful submissions, and we're all grateful
for them. Unfortunately, they are also LARGE. I have at least one site
which rejects mail that's too large, and I probably shouldn't distribute
such large postings in one chunk anyway. So here's my solution: if you
have something large to post (over 100 lines) that's a special item, not
just a reply to the Digest, please send it to the administrative address.
This way, I'll distribute them as special editions of the Digest (Extra!
Extra! Read all about it!), and we can make things easier all the way
Remember, any pertinant addresses for mail are at the end of every Digest.
Please don't send subscription/cancellation mail to the posting address,
and vice versa. This makes life easier for me in general.
One more thing: Once again, PLEASE keep your postings down to 70 char-
acters/line. There are still people who are posting with lines from
85-200 characters. Apparently your systems are making you think the
lines are being broken when they really aren't. The solution to this
is to manually break the lines; if you leave about an inch between the
end of the line and the right side of your screen/window, that should
take care of the problem.
Well, enough of me. Onto the interesting stuff!
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 13:27:12 CDT
From: (Scott Kisting)
Subject: Rush on the radio
I have a question and a comment to make about Rush's airtime. First, I
am located at the University of Illinois (central Illinois), and there
actually is a pretty decent college station here called WPGU. Every week day
at lunch the station plays songs from a single group, a year, or a genre of
rock music. As luck would have it today was Lunch with Rush. I got a full
hour of Rush plus two songs for dessert, an hour and 10 minutes total time.
This station typically gets in two or three Rush tunes a day which I can
live with so all in all the radio is an enjoyable diversion.
Now for my question. This in mainly for any subscribers in or from the
Chicago area. I frequently travel through the Chicago area on my way to
Wisconsin, and when driving through I listen to WCKG. CKG touts itself as
playing all the classics from the '60's, '70's, and '80's. I've logged up
some pretty heavy listening hours on CKG and I've yet to here one Rush tune.
What's there problem?? I have heard plenty of Led Zepplin (of course), Yes,
Kansas, ELP, etc. (bands with a progressive image). In general, I enjoy all
of these bands but I fail to understand why Rush is not on their playlist.
Any suggestions?
Scott Kisting
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 90 05:59:33 PDT
From: "An Cat Dubh dtn223-6886 12-Sep-1990 0855" <>
Subject: Who says radio sucks?
I had quite a pleasant ride home last night from my fiance's house...
I flip to some station in Worcester, and I hear the beginning of "Tom Sawyer",
when that's over I flip to a Providence station... "Show Don't Tell" is
playing, and right after that, they play "Limelight"... flip again... to a
Boston staion I think..."New World Man" is just starting....
WOW! 4 Rush songs, rapid fire, on 3 different stations. What a great drive!
If you were wondering why I'm listening to the radio instead of Rush tapes in
my car... my tape deck ate half of them.... 8^(
I just had to tell you all that...
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 90 11:19:44 EDT
From: [email protected]
Subject: Resume the Final Count
RADIO AIRPLAY: In Washington, D.C, Rush gets very little
airplay. When they are played, it's usually "Spirit of Radio".
This miserable state of affairs brings up a question: does
anybody have any figures on the sales of Rush albums and/or singles?
What is their biggest seller? How does this compare to the sales of
the artists that get constant airplay?
SPEAKING OF NUMBERS: While we're playing the numbers game,
here's some tables you might find interesting. Then again, maybe not.
Here they are anyway.
STAGE ALBUM Word Count
(4) Presto 2240
(3) Hold Your Fire 1946
(3) Power Windows 1512
(1) RUSH 1447
(3) Signals 1427
(1) Caress of Steel 1349
(1) 2112 1188
(3) Grace Under Pressure 1182
(2) Moving Pictures 1049
(1) Fly By Night 1125
(2) Hemispheres 958
(2) Permanent Waves 879
(1) A Farewell to Kings 848
STAGE ALBUM Number of I's
(1) RUSH 114
(4) Presto 57
(3) Hold Your Fire 51
(1) Caress of Steel 45
(1) Fly By Night 33
(1) 2112 28
(3) Grace Under Pressure 22
(2) Hemispheres 17
(2) A Farewell to Kings 11
(2) Moving Pictures 10
(2) Permanent Waves 5
(3) Power Windows 5
(3) Signals 4
The first table is a word count of just the lyrics for each
album. This count excludes titles and extra text, like the story text
in 2112. The second table is a count of the number of times the word
"I" appears in the lyrics.
I thought this analysis might lend some insight into the
evolution of Rush and maybe reveal why I liked certain albums more
than others ** just from the lyrical perspective **. For example,
would songs with the first person "I" actually feel more personal?
(The string 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 was not counted as an "I").
It turned out that this kind of analysis didn't provide me
with much insight into how I respond to the various albums. I like
them all so much it's hard to put any kind of preferential order to
them! I also realize it's the music that seems to have more of an
overall affect; but while one brain hemisphere gets entranced by the
music, the other hemisphere is busily processing the words.
However, there are a couple of interesting items to notice in
the above two tables. Stage 1 and 2 definitely dominate the lower
half of the Word Count table, while the later Stages dominate the top
half. Neil is getting wordier as he matures. This seems to be a
characteristic of most writers.
I don't know how to interpret the Number of I's table. The
first album, RUSH, had exactly twice as many I's as the next
contender, their latest album. Does this mean that the first album
was twice as "personal" as Presto? Not for me; in fact, the reverse
is probably true. Oh well, enough blathering for now.
What? Get a life, you say? Ha ha ha. Rush *is* life!
I felt so lost and disillusioned
Look around -
Summer's going fast -
parade from paradise
Reaction making contact -
We don't see what they're made of
With the answers - but no clue,
Del Gordon
\/ \/ \/ Del Gordon |><-
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 90 08:51:03 hst
From: Hinano Akaka <[email protected]>
Subject: Forgot to do this the other day...
WORQ: "Lakeside Park, willows in the breeze,
Lakeside Park, so many memories..."
Puanani Akaka
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 90 17:11 EDT
From: Chris Bhagwan Fuzzy Normandeau <>
Subject: Victoria Day
Alright, alright already, so I can't see past the nose on my face!
All the time I was looking for the holiday on the 24th of May, I did not
bother to look at the adjacent days for other holidays. Victoria Day is not
that popular in Quebec as it refers to the ENGLISH monarchy. Here we have
an alternative holiday called Dollards Des Ormeaux (some guy in some war
not sure which, I don't celebrate this either). It hadn't occurred to me
that Victoria Day was not on a specific DATE instead of DAY.
Anyways, see you later.
For administrative matters (additions, deletions & changes), send
mail to:
the management.
List Management
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Professor Komby, the Forging NPC
Professor Komby, the Forging NPC
About Forging
With the Tower of Chaos' appearance came a new system developped by Megalo Company for the players to improve the equipments they won through the fights in the dungeon: the Forging System. This system, held by Professor Komby in the safe floors of the Tower, will alow you to merge two equipments into a signle one, with hopefully better stats.
How To Forge
First thing to know when you want to forge an equipment is that only Chaos, Requiem and Altiverse and Random Box with the special icon equipments can be forged. Professor Komby will ONLY accept Chaos, Requiem and Altiverse items, while Lena will ONLY accept Random Box items.
There're three settings in the Forging: Forging Chaos & Requiem equipments, forging Altiverse equipments, and Random Forging, which will be explained down below.
Chaos & Requiem Equipment Forging
(The two types work the same way).
To be able to use the forging, you need two pieces of the same equipment. We'll be using here two Requiem Ruby Hat with the following stats:
• Hat n°1: 1MA, 476MD, 37DP (2 slots)
• Hat n°2: 21MA, 110MD, 11DA, 52DP (3 slots)
As you can see the n°1 has more MD, but the n°2 has better stats and slots.
Now speak to Professor Komby to initiate the forging. You'll end up on the following window:
Put then your two equipments in the first and second slot. Depending on which hat was placed first, here's what we'll obtain:
As you can see:
• If the equipment in first slot has the best stats or slots, it'll keep the stats.
• If the equipment in first slot has NOT the best stats or slots, the system will make a range between the stats of the two hats (for example on the second picture, the forged hat could end up with 1 MA, or 21 MA; its totally random.
Altiverse Equipment Forging
You can also forge Altiverse Equipments, with the difference that the higher stats of 2nd slot equipment will be transfered directly into the first equipment, like this:
• If the equipment in second slot has the best best stats or slots, the system will trasfer them to the first slot equipment.
For example, the better AC of the 2nd slot's hatwill be transfered into the first hat and give this:
Random Forging
This version of forging is provided by Lena in Megalopolis Shop, it functions similarly to Chaos & Requiem forging except that only Random Box items that have the special icon can be used in random forging.
This version of forging is more risky since both items will disappear if the random forging fails.
Important Notes About Forging
• As previously shown for the Altiverse Equipment, if you have an equipment with refine and/or fuse and/or compounds, put it in the first slot, or else you'll loose all the benefits you previously had on that equipment.
• Forging success is 70%. To put it to 100%, buy a Willie's Stabilizer in MyShop for 1,200 points or use the Willie's Stabilizer Ev and add it in the forging window.
• You CANNOT forge if the 2nd slot equipment has ALL stats lower than the 1st slot equipment.
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Im developing a smaller wp solution and we have both blog posts and products (custom post types) Id like to link them together so when you read blog posts it will suggest relevant products (that we have choosen) and when you look at products it will suggest blog posts (that we again have choosen).
Right now im achieving this by adding a customfield and populating it with, in the case of products, posts ids seperated by commas if more than one. E.g post_ID = 1,2,3,4,5
When i want to display them i just explode them and use get_posts with the argument post__in.
And it works fine! However the code i have created to handle the ux part behind the scenes is less than ideal, and i must admit i havnt been coding in a long time.
This is how i do it: Add a meta box with relevant stuff. Create a select box with all posts.
and use the following code to save the data:
I really do apologize if my code offends anyone, i tried my best :-)
function save_link_posts_to_ydelser(){
global $post;
// to combat the problem of the select is default on the empty option, thus deleting my custom field if admins saves!
if($_POST["update"] == true) {
// if admin wants to remove the linked products
if ($_POST["artikler"] == '') {
update_post_meta($post->ID, "post_ID", "");
// we check if the field is set or not
$meta = get_post_meta($post->ID, "post_ID", true);
// its not
if($meta == ''){
update_post_meta($post->ID, "post_ID", $_POST["artikler"]);
// it is
} else {
// we have to grab what ever is in there and combine it with the new data
$existing_data = $meta;
$new_data = $_POST["artikler"];
$combined_data = $existing_data .",". $new_data;
// we check if the chosen ID exists in the array already
$existing_data_array = explode(",", $meta);
if(in_array($_POST["artikler"], $existing_data_array)){
// it does, we do nothing
} else {
// we update it with the new stuff
update_post_meta($post->ID, "post_ID", $combined_data);
For some reason this changed my permalink aswell?
Thank you so much in advance!
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I would not proceed like that. I would use instead a special query to links post and custom post type according to tags. See wp_get_post_tags() to grab post tags. And then run a query to link posts with the same tags. – JMau Jun 8 '13 at 9:05
What is the save_link_posts_to_ydelser function hooked to? – s_ha_dum Jun 8 '13 at 12:48
add_action("save_post", "save_link_posts_to_ydelser"); – Anders Jun 8 '13 at 18:57
TweetpressFr, yea that would be one way of doing it, it just not that user friendly :-) – Anders Jun 8 '13 at 19:00
Had you looked into Posts 2 Posts plugin? It's staple for post relationships and probably would be more robust than solution made from scratch. – Rarst Jun 8 '13 at 20:34
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Hi Guys and thank you in advance for giving me some attention with this. I have this code in wordpress that I just can't get right.
I have the US states in a drop-down form. When the user chooses an option from the select form and presses the "set new location" button, I need a cookie to be written , containing that location's ID (or actual name). I am using (or at least trying to use) the jquery cookie plugin (https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie) - but probably the main problem is I know almost no jQuery, lol.
The think that is not working is jQuery.cookie('my_cookie', 'my_value');
Can you help me? Here is the code I am working on:
<form id="categoriesform" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>" method="get">
<?php $cats = get_categories($args);
$termID = $_COOKIE['my_cookie'];
$term = get_term( $termID, 'location' );
$name = $term->name;
<select id="categories">
<?php foreach ($cats as $cat) : ?>
<option value="<?php echo get_term_link($cat, $cat->taxonomy) ?>" ><?php echo $cat->name ?></option>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Set New Location" />
jQuery.cookie('my_cookie', 'my_value');
window.location = jQuery('#categories').val();
return false;
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If you don't give the cookie an expires time it will only be available during that session. You will also need to destroy an existing cookie if it is already set.
jQuery(function() {
jQuery('#categoriesform').submit(function(e) {
if (jQuery.cookie('my_cookie') ) { jQuery.cookie( 'my_cookie', null) }
jQuery.cookie('my_cookie', 'my_value', { expires: 30 });
Have you tested to see if the cookie is being set? Use the network tab in chrome developer tools and load the page. Click on the first item on the left which will be the url of your site then click on cookies tab and see if the cookie is there.
When reading your cookie you should also check to see if it's there.
if (isset($_COOKIE['my_cookie'])) {
$termID = $_COOKIE['my_cookie'];
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Hi Chris, thanks for hearing me on this! Nope, the cookie is not being set unfortunately! – Gabriela Nov 15 '11 at 10:43
You will need to do some more debugging then. Try entering jQuery.cookie('my_cookie', 'my_value'); directly in the developer tools’ console; do a simple console.log('x'); in your submit handler to see if it actually gets triggered; etc. – Geert May 21 '12 at 8:53
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Here with the structure of content in text editor
Content Before
Content After
I wanted to remove the "Content Before" in my single post
so instead I have this
Content Before
Content After
I will have the "Content After" on my single post only
Content After
How can I achieve this display?
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set the $stripteaser parameter to true;
the_content('readmore', true);
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wow this so simple nice :) – idontknowhow Oct 9 '12 at 7:43
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I’ve a created wordpress membership site using wishlist member plugin. But I want to have different header.php based on different logins.
Eg: Users are: Print, Web and Free
1. When Free user logs in – I want header1.php to load and stay till he logs out
2. When Print user logs in – I want header2.php to load and stay till he logs out
3. When Web user logs in – I want header3.php to load and stay till he logs out
If nobody has logged in the default header.php stays.
Please assist on how to do this.
Regards, Raghav.
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Could you show us some code that you wrote, and tell us what's not working with it? – Lea Cohen Jan 17 '13 at 11:09
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You can achieve this by getting the Membership Level of the current user, and making a conditional based on this. As I do not have a license for wishlist member, this is untested.
I suppose $member_id to be the same value as the WordPress ID of the logged in User.
global $current_user;
$member_id = $current_user->ID;
$api = new wlmapiclass('http://yourblog.com/', 'yourAPIKey');
$api->return_format = 'php'; // <- value can also be xml or json
$membership = $api->get( /members/{$member_id} );
$membership = unserialize( $membership );
print_r( $membership ); // see in which value the actual ID or slug of the membership is stored, I cannot reproduce that..
As TomJNowell pointed out, it would be even better to change the include to
get_header( $membershiplevel );
So you are good to go for future Membership levels.
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why not just do get_header($membershiplevel); ? Then you'd have header.php header-Free.php header-Print.php and header-Web.php, and it'd be futureproofed if a 4th member type ever came along – Tom J Nowell Jan 17 '13 at 10:23
@TomJNowell of course, silly me, did not think of that ;) – fischi Jan 17 '13 at 10:29
Where actually this script will go? in the themes function.php? – Raghav Jan 17 '13 at 11:01
This script goes to this place where you would normally include your header file, so usually in the page.php or the single.php. You can also make it a function. – fischi Jan 17 '13 at 11:03
This is a question that is purely related to the wishlist member plugin, so you should ask there for support in this matter. The WordPress-Part, as above, should work this way. – fischi Jan 17 '13 at 11:04
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1.3.1: What are those black threads on the male Forsaken?
[Hawk, Pam Korda]
When Rand has battled the male Forsaken, he has sometimes seen black threads, wires, or cords running off from them. This is seen when Rand battles Ishy in [TEOTW: 51, Against the Shadow, 637-640], and Asmodean in [TSR: 58, The Traps of Rhuidean, 671-675]. So what's the deal with these strings?
The thick black threads are the Forsaken's connection to the DO. The connection with the DO is what keeps the male Forsaken from falling prey to the madness from the taint on saidin (see Asmodean's statements to Rand in TSR after his black "thread" was severed). Rand's thread in TEOTW was silver and thinner because it was from that pure pool of saidin that was the Eye of the World.
We've never seen the threads on a female Forsaken, so it is possible that the threads are themselves the protection from the taint. Perhaps they act as a kind of filter on saidin, or a conduit through which the DO siphons off the taint when the Forsaken draws upon the Source.
It's also been suggested that the threads are a connection for channeling the True Power. This isn't very likely. The problems with this idea are:
1. The female Forsaken can use the TP, but nobody ever sees the black cords on them;
2. The black cords were seen on Asmodean, and of all the Forsaken, Asmodean is the one who we'd least expect to use the very dangerous TP in an instance where the OP would serve just as well (Skimming); and
3. From [ACOS book signing, Dunwoody, Georgia; 9 October, 1996, report by Erica Sadun], "Access to the TP is a matter of wanting it and the Dark One letting you. NOT black cords."
Another suggestion is that the presence or absence of the threads could be used to identify male Forsaken. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The black cords are only seen/sensed under very special circumstances. Rand has only seen them in two places--T'A'R and the in-between space used for Skimming. Note that Rand has seen male Forsaken without seeing the cords: Aginor and Balthamel at the Eye, Be'lal in the Heart of the Stone, Moridin in Shadar Logoth, and Dashiva/Osan'gar on many occasions. Furthermore, he doesn't ALWAYS see the black threads when he's in T'A'R with a Forsaken--he never saw them on Rahvin. So, the black threads are not a reliable way to identify Forsaken under any circumstances, even those under which the threads have been seen in the past.
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Know Your Lore: The Second War
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Cataclysm: For Gnomeregan!
Our very own Michael Sacco actually got his hands on a copy of that PC Gamer full of Cataclysm details, and there was apparently one that we missed: Gnomes may be coming back to Gnomeregan. The little tidbit above is frustratingly vague, but it appears that as long rumored (and long hoped by the shorter denizens of Azeroth), Deathwing's return may break the whole war for the Gnomish capital wide open, and they might finally reclaim their mechanical homeland.
We say "might," because, according to this blurb, it could be anything at this point -- a questline that begins a takeover, a questline that represents a failed takeover, a new phased experience that leads to a takeover, or some kind of questline that brings Gnomeregan up to Heroic status (we know Shadowfang and Deadmines are already getting that treatment, so it wouldn't be too far off to expect other old instances to come around in future content patches).
Then again, let's not kill hope: maybe the Gnomes are finally heading back to Gnomeregan to have a capital city of their own, in all of its Gnomish engineering glory. We can dream, right?
Filed under: Gnomes, Virtual selves, Blizzard, Instances, Quests, Expansions, Lore, NPCs, Cataclysm
Gnomestock this weekend, Gutrot throwing a party next weekend
Two cool in-game events we've heard about recently:
• First up, our friend Gutrot, the naked Troll Warrior, is finally hitting 80, and he's throwing another party over on EU Aerie Peak to celebrate. He had another party about two years ago at this time, and it went pretty well, so expect this one to be fun, too: he'll have some drinking and merriment (Brewfest will be going on, so that will be fun), lots of naked dueling, we're sure, and probably an Alliance capital raid as well. That all starts on EU Aerie Peak a week from Saturday, September 26, at 9:30pm UK time. If you're on the EU servers, roll a Troll and go say hi.
• If you're more of the Gnomish persuasion, there's a party for you, too: Slice and Dice is throwing a Gnomestock party this Saturday, the 19th, and it sounds like a good time, too. There'll be Gnaked Gnome Racing, two mini-games going in Ironforge, a zonewide game of hide and seek, and since Saturday is Pirates' Day and the sponsoring guild is called Bucklers of Swash, there'll probably be some piratin' going on as well. That's this Saturday, 9/19, at 7pm Eastern (which is also 6pm server) on the US realm of Mug'thol.
As usual, if you go to either event, please do take pictures and send them along -- always fun to see big player-run events like these.
Filed under: Gnomes, Trolls, Events, Fan stuff, PvP, Humor
Breakfast Topic: Awesome animations
There have been some truly spectacular visual moments in Azeroth; scenes that make you gasp and glee. I'm thinking of occasions like the Scourge Invasion of Stormwind and Orgrimar or Kael'thas blowing up his room in Tempest Keep. Who can deny Wrathgate was incredible. However, there are also some awesome little animations that really add so much to the game. It's these little things that we can take for granted but sometimes jump out at us as something wonderful.
Even on a hard night of raid wiping in our guild, if someone chugs a stack of Pygmy Oil and /cower's it's bound to bring a laugh. Many a machinima has featured a /dance, from one race or many, with variously spectacular and humorous results.
Who's /flex is better, Draenei or Blood Elf? Have you ever left one of your characters alone for a while and then had their idle-animation surprise you? Are there any actions or animations you wish were in the game? What animations bring a smile to your face?
Filed under: Gnomes, Machinima, Breakfast Topics, Draenei, Blood Elves
All the World's a Stage: Cataclysm's new race/class combinations
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Why your (race) can't be a (class)
BlizzCon 2009: Initial thoughts on the Hunter changes
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BlizzCon 2009: Cataclysm race-class combo matrix online
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• Blood Elf Warrior
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What about you? What's your favorite?
What's your favorite Alliance male dance?
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Finally an answer on Gnomes in the cinematics
We've very closely covered the lack of Gnomes in any of Blizzard's major cinematic pieces so far. We had hoped to see them in the Wrath cinematic, but of course Blizzard went a completely new direction with that one (retelling the story of Arthas rather than showing players fighting), and so they weren't there either. In fact, the problem has gotten so bad that at least one person has remade the Burning Crusade cinematic, filling it with Gnomes just to see what it would be like. And while we've gotten some snide comments from the Blues before ("they're there, they're just too short to fit in frame"), Bornakk has finally given us an honest answer as to why the Gnomes haven't been show in cinematic form: they're just not awesome enough?
Wait, that's not what he really said? Well that's what we heard -- he says that the cinematic folks go for what seems most awesome, and Gnomes have just never been a part of that combination. He says Trolls have gotten nearly the same treatment, and while that's true, you can see a Troll for a split second in the Burning Crusade cinematic -- they haven't had the complete shutout that the shorter denizens of Azeroth have had so far.
In fact, Murlocs have gotten more screen time than Gnomes have. But the good news is that the more Blizzard leaves Gnomes out, the more awesome it'll be when they finally appear. The cinematic team can't leave them out of the game forever, right?
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1. Hello.
My question is how to display window (frame) with some content to player when he is trying to exit the game (logout), wait until he press some button "exit" on that window, and only then really exit the game?
I am trying to work out PLAYER_LOGOUT event, but it seems not to be appropriate for such task.
Do you have any ideas?
I don't think that there is an event for this, it's normally triggered by an API call. Perhaps you could hook the Logout() function?
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The Java utility "IBM Secure Diagnostic Data Upload Utility" (IBM SDDUU) helps customers transfer support data to IBM faster, more securely, and more conveniently. A command line client and a GUI client are available. Both versions support the same functionality. Key features include:
• Parallel upload via anonymous FTP (up to 8 parallel sessions are possible)
• Data encryption using AES-128 key for each file part and RSA-2048 key for the key exchange
• Online compression
Please note that file names must use standard ASCII characters (no double byte characters).
The Java utility supports English, German, French and Japanese languages and has been tested as functional on the AIX, Linux, Windows, i5 and z/OS platforms.
For z/OS the z/OS utility should be the first choice.
Network settings
In the "Network Setting" configuration window, the target server can be selected from a list.
Note: Please use the server closest to your physical location.
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Bob's Links and Rants
Monday, August 29, 2005
Scary thought du jour
--Ivor van Heerden, director of the Louisiana State University Public Health Research Center, in a CNN article titled Katrina may be 'our Asian tsunami'.
Good luck, New Orleans--looks like you're going to need it.
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Netscape Revived With Firefox Backing
AOL is bringing Netscape back to life. This time they’re basing it on Firefox. (via WaSP)
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OS X comes equipped with everything a regular user might need to complete everyday tasks. You will, of course, need to install apps to serve your specific needs, but even in their absence, OS X ensures you can manage the basics like opening/creating documents, viewing pictures, chatting, and sending & receiving emails without the need for third-party software. For viewing documents, OS X has Preview – a feature rich app that opens a large number of file formats, allows you to fill PDF forms, and open old versions of a file. In addition to Preview, OS X also offers the Quicklook feature that, as its name implies, gives you a quick view of a file. It’s the go-to app if you want to see what’s in a document without actually opening it even in Preview. The only problem with it is it won’t let you select text when you open a text or PDF file. That’s not to say it can’t be done; the feature is very much there and can be enabled with a Terminal command detailed after the break.
Open Terminal and enter the following command:
defaults write QLEnableTextSelection -boolean YES;
killall Finder
You can now open a text or PDF file in Quicklook and select text as you normally would in TextEdit, Preview, or your web browser.After being selected, the text can be copied to your clipboard and pasted anywhere.
preview select
If you want to revert things back to the way they were, just enter the following in Terminal:
defaults write QLEnableTextSelection -boolean YES;
killall Finder
The functionality might seem trivial to many, especially since Quicklook is mostly used only to see what’s in a file. Extracting information or editing a file isn’t something that Quicklook does but selecting text is a very basic feature that can come handy no matter what reason you have to preview a file. Note that this method doesn’t work in the quick preview that you get for Spotlight’s search results; it only works when you select a file in Finder and hit the Space bar (or click the Quicklook button on the toolbar), and for attachments that you open from Mail. It’s simple and easily reversible; just leave it enabled for a few days and you will be surprised how often you bypass using Preview over it when all you need to do is copy some text from a file.
[via Lifehacker]
• Yakov Hadash
this tip is fantastic!
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I'm Co-Founder and Lead Developer for Itzy Interactive. Growing up in rural Alberta, I've been an avid gamer since my first days of playing Gorf on my Commodore Vic-20. After spending countless hours entering and modifying game code from Compute’s Gazette magazines on my C-64 as a boy, I never lost my love for gaming even as I eventually fell into a career in finance. After a decade in the brokerage industry, a layoff, and an uncertain economy, I re-evaluated my career goals. I went back to school, retrained and started Itzy Interactive with a few like minded individuals and now I'm set on fulfilling a childhood dream by making some video games. Father, movie geek and indie game developer. You can check out our current projects at (www.itzyinteractive.com) or visit us on Facebook at (www.facebook.com/ItzyInteractive)
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Something that we’ve heavily relied on as a new, independent developer is user feedback which we listened to every step of the way in order to improve upon our final product. There’s no doubt that some feedback is more useful than others. For every well thought out piece of criticism we’ve received there’s the guy who just offers “it’s mediocre” with no explanation. For every user that emails us with something they’d like to see, there’s another who leave one star ratings without leaving even a hint as to the reason. As Plato once observed “Out of every hundred a hater is born and without effort, a hater’s gonna hate.” For the others who continue to bring us feedback, you’ve all been a tremendous help in creating Itzy3d (now available on the Apple App store as well as the Android Marketplace, plug..plug..plug). I thought I’d take a moment to highlight how some of the feedback we received changed our game during development.
“It looks like a grave yard”
Itzy3D was always about creating from the beginning. The central idea that the entire game was based on was that users like to create things, they like to draw, they like to make patterns, and they like to feel like they have an impact on the game world they’re part of. In Itzy3D’s case we gave the player the opportunity to create spider webs of various shapes and sizes, enough to complete a level and advance in the game. However our core group is made up of programmers, not artists and as we looked at other indie games like Feist, Limbo and Pixeljunk Eden, we liked the idea of a muted or shades of grey color scheme and the plan was to bring color to the levels with multicolored fireflies and spinning multicolored webs. The webs were quickly ditched. They looked awful. Rainbow spider-webs seemed so good in my head, but in reality it just didn’t play out. Add to that, our 3D, shades of grey layout made it nearly impossible to distinguish the background from the foreground which made it hard for users to figure out just where they should be making their webs.
Itzy3D Before
Itzy3D After
“Give me a way to kill those buggers”
Another idea we had from the onset was that Itzy3D should be a relaxed, casual and user-friendly title. We didn’t want users to feel they had failed playing the game. We wanted each play through to be fun, but relaxed fun rather than hectic fun. One of the main enemies in the game is the wasps which zoom around each level before spotting Itzy and attacking. Rather than take away a life or lead to a game over scenario, we simply had them knock Itzy down if he wasn’t hidden and remove a portion of his available web. So we threw in an enemy that could never be defeated, much like the old Qix arcade game that had inspired Itzy.
We had no idea just how frustrating gamers would find this decision until our demo was released and we started to receive feedback about the inability to mount any offense whatsoever. And it was from this feedback that Itzy received a system of power-ups based on the color of large fireflies caught. Now, aside from other power-ups such as improved speed and web stretch, Itzy could also freeze his enemies in place, listening to them buzz furiously or actually take the fight to the enemies for a limited time much like Pac-Man powering up, but instead of eating the wasps he incapacities them temporarily with his mighty, Kung-Fu Punch!
“Monkey Factor 5”
I had the opportunity to sit down for coffee with a game industry vet and ex-Bioware employee who offered up this piece of gaming wisdom that has stuck with me. When discussing game controls, ease of use is king. While we thought our controls were simple enough, he asked “Yes. But are they Monkey Factor 5 simple?” The answer was a resounding no. For the sake of variety we built-in a few different moves for the player to interact with Itzy’s world. One problem, that was pointed out to us more than once was that we had two different controls for web spinning. A swipe started Itzy spinning a web strand; a tap on Itzy anchored the web strand. Watching people play Itzy, what we thought was straight forward always seemed to trip up players. They would swipe to start and then swipe, expecting it to anchor the web to an object. Or they’d swipe, then figure out the tapping, but then try tapping again when starting a new web. There was no reason to have two separate motions for web spinning. The two moves seemed simple enough, but they certainly weren’t “Monkey Factor 5” simple. Now, spinning webs is easy. You simply tap Itzy to anchor the web strands, stretch them out and anchor by tapping again.
“I’ve been playing for a minute already and I haven’t even seen your main character”
We struggled with the tutorial. Like the controls, we thought our game was simple enough yet realized that we had a lot going on that needed to be explained somewhere. We originally weren’t even planning on including a tutorial, but no one would read our instructions included and ultimately would play the game without any idea as to what they were meant to do. So we included a small tutorial level that the player needed to complete to move on to the meat of the game. We included our instructions as slides within the tutorial and we felt the need to explain absolutely everything.
We realize now, there were so many things wrong with that idea. No one likes to read walls of text, first off. They just skip through so we might as well have not had anything. Secondly, it’s not a game at this point. As a helpful developer offered, when you begin the game you’re immediately hit with walls of text. Games should make an impact immediately and our game had you reading text before we were even introduced to the main character.
The tutorial never satisfied any of us but we just couldn’t put our fingers on what was wrong and through the feedback we revamped the tutorial to encourage the gamers to explore and learn the game mechanics through play, not through walls of text.
We’re indebted to our fans and to the developer community for their continued feedback on our games. Time is a valuable commodity for everyone, so it means a lot to us to those of you who have offered your time to help us create better products. Cheers!
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 12:24:20 -0400 From: Jerry Miller Subject: Re: ?Gordon Bennett James Gordon Bennett was the publisher of the New York Herald, founding it in 1835. It was a fairly sensational rag for its time, but it also pioneered in the field of covering religion and generally is credited for creating "beats" for reporters to cover. While Bennett Sr. did some pretty outrageous things in his day, it probably was his son, James Gordon Bennett Jr., who outdid him and, perhaps, produced the exclamation you asked about. It was Bennett Jr., for example, who sent Henry Stanley to Africa to find Dr. Livingstone, I presume. I'm not sure who started the balloon race, however. Hope this helps a little. Jerry Miller Pulliam School of Journalism Franklin College (Ind.) millerj[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]
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[Free][App][2.2+] Calc Sense
[Free][App][2.2+] Calc Sense
Postby kristof.jannes » Wed Jul 03, 2013 6:02 pm
Calc Sense is a scientific calculator with all the functions you need.
It brings an intuitive but powerful calculator to you with the Pure Android feeling.
It is built for Android Jelly Bean 4.2, but is compatible with Android 2.2+
On tablets, you can directly click on secondary functions.
• Power and root functions
• Trigonometric functions in degrees and radians
• Percentage
• Logarithm (natural and 10-based)
• Built-in help
• More than 200 built-in constants
Free functions:
• 5 customizable constants
• 3 memories
• History (max 5)
Premium functions:
• Unlimited customizable constants
• 26 memories
• Unlimited history
• Support for Android 2.2+
• Support for tablets
• Support for App2SD
You can find it here:
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There is also a youtube video:
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You are on Anime Take Downloads » Clannad After Story
Here you can find all the anime episodes released so far for the anime series: Clannad After Story.
The anime episodes for Clannad After Story are available for download via torrent or direct download.
Events in After Story take place between Tomoyas final year of high school and after graduating. After declaring his love to Nagisa, they begin to have a close relationship. But Nagisa and Tomoya’s life together will be faced with unexpected challenges.
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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:57:13 -0800
Newsgroups: sci.astro,, rec.aviation.military
> he didn't figure on opening up the country so that anyone with even a
> little mad on at the USA could get into it and make home made bombs and
> blow up US troops.
So why didn't any of his military advisors suggest closing the borders
with all neighbors and forcing everything to pass through checkpoints
where terrorists and materials for weapons could be stopped?
(Same question for the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. Why still open??)
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figurative, abstract, modern, performance, landscape, mixed-media
I am interested in the marks we make. How do you and I move? How do we sense each other through space? What vibrations do we create? What is the space between us? How are we like a flock of birds or a school of fish?
When I paint I am dancing—improvising with the other dancers—the trees, grasses, light, earth, water and air…
Painting can be a ritual for me. There’s something about laying out my colors and mapping the forms and movement of a place that is like an invocation. I invoke the spirit of a place.
My work spawns from my duel practices of being in the moment as I paint directly from life and from my practice of deep dance improvisation. As I strive to capture motion and be the motion, I hope to engage the viewer in some aspect of the intimacy of creation.
Recent Exhibits
Andrew Purchin participated in these exhibits:
May, 2011 EDGE: Art on the Westside
R. Blitzer Gallery
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Andrew Purchin has Exhibited at these venues:
R. Blitzer Gallery
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What is the difference between a money order and cashier's check?
Go Banking Rates notes that the main differences between a money order and a cashier's check are how each is purchased and how much money each can be written for. A money order can be purchased at retail outlets, the post office and check-cashing services for a small fee. The money order is secured by an upfront cash payment. Cashier's checks can only be purchased at a bank.
About.com reports that a cashier's check is secured by the funds in a customer's account. The cashier's check is guaranteed by the bank to be valid. Cashier's checks can be used for large purchases, such as the down payment on a house or car. A money order may have a financial limit, such as $1,000, depending on the issuer.
Anyone with the cash for it can purchase a money order while a cashier's check may only be available from a customer's bank. Someone who does not have a bank account may not be able to purchase a cashier's check. My Bank Tracker notes that some banks may be willing to issue a cashier's check for a non-bank customer if the person has the full amount of the cashier's check available in cash. The bank may also charge a larger fee for issuing the cashier's check than it would for a bank customer.
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A cashier's check is created by a bank. You must have the money on deposit and cleared with your bank or present cash for the transaction in order to get a cashier's check. The bank
Certified checks are rarely used in today's banking world. They formerly signified that a bank was certifying that the funds represented by the customer's check were actually in the
What’s the difference between a money order and a cashier’s check? Money orders are similar to cashier’s checks. They’re documents you can use to make payments
Cashier's checks are available only at a bank or
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What is an example of a crime of omission?
The word omission has a number of meanings in different fields. The word can refer to something that has been neglected or omitted. In criminal law, the word will constitute an actus reus and it will give rise to liability merely when the law obliges a duty to act and the defendant is in a breach of that duty. In Catholic teachings, it refers to a failure to do something a person can and ought to do.
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Omission is defined as the act of omitting.
omissive: characterized by omissions
Lying by omission means allowing another person to believe something to be true that one believes is false, or allowing them to believe something is false when it is really true.
[ōmish′ən] Etymology: L, omittere, to neglect (in law) intentional or unintentional neglect to fulfill a duty required by law.
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the act of omitting.
the state of being omitted.
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Q: What is going on in a nuclear reactor, and what happens during a meltdown?
Physicist: Nuclear reactors are very 19th century in a way.
The nuclear fuel is basically a bunch of very hot metal, and the more of it you get together in one place, the hotter it gets. That heat is used to turn water into steam, which turns turbines.
Uranium and plutonium (nuclear fuel) undergo radioactive decay on their own, at random. This is the base radioactive rate. But some isotopes can also be made to decay by hitting them with an extra neutron (it’s called being “fissile“). As luck would have it, when uranium (and plutonium) decays it generates a spray of neutrons, and can induce nearby material to decay as a result.
So, you can “throttle” how much heat the fuel rods (bars of nuclear fuel) produce by shielding or not shielding them from each other: the more they’re exposed to each other, the more they make each other react, and the more heat they make. So you can never “turn them off”. Each fuel rod will continue to produce heat, even on it’s own (just less). We’re used to thinking of things cooling off on their own, but that’s exactly what nuclear fuel doesn’t do.
In a reactor, the average number of other atoms set off by each decaying atom is less than one. This means that the rate of radioactive decay levels out at a relatively low level. I mean, you wouldn’t want to be in the room, but it’s not going to blow up either. The base radioactive rate (the random decays) keeps the rate from dropping all the way to zero.
However, if the average is more than one, then the rate of decay will keep increasing exponentially. This is called a “run away nuclear chain reaction” or, in the more common vernacular; “a bomb”. The amount of material you need to bring together to produce this effect is called “critical mass”.
In an emergency, the rods are generally dropped into slots so that they can’t interact (this didn’t happen at Chernobyl, and resulted in a runaway chain reaction). However even without critical mass, if there’s a failure in the cooling system then the rods, and all the supporting material, will eventually melt. Depending on the types of materials used you can also get nasty chemical effects, like the coolant water being broken down into hydrogen and oxygen (this is one of the things that happened at 3 Mile Island).
There isn’t really a maximum temperature that the nuclear fuel can reach. Or at least, it’s really, really high. It’ll just keeps heating up until it can spread out, somehow.
And that’s a meltdown.
Some of the worst case scenarios are: the fuel melting through the floor of the power plant and getting into the water table, melting and pooling together at critical mass, or getting so hot that it vaporizes. There are a lot of safety precautions in place to keep this stuff from happening.
It would be bad if all of the fuel in a nuclear plant vaporized (mostly to nearby people). But, to put it in perspective, it’s much, much worse to leave coal plants running normally. It has been estimated that in 1982 alone more than 10,000 tons of Uranium and Thorium (both nasty) was released into the air by coal powered generators world wide. There are a lot more coal plants open these days, but I can’t find the exact data.
Not to go off on a tangent; but the world would be much better off with a Chernobyl sized disaster every month, than it is with the amount coal pollution we produce today.
For those of you (not presently living in Japan) worried about radiation exposure, just spend an extra minute or two not in direct sunlight. That should more than make up for it.
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10 Responses to Q: What is going on in a nuclear reactor, and what happens during a meltdown?
1. John says:
Why exactly is a meltdown bad?
Why is water splitting up in hydrogen and oxygen bad?
Lately, the news seems to focus on the scaryness of these big bad plants, but they don’t bother to explain why exactly we should be scared of the effects.
2. The Physicist The Physicist says:
It’s bad when the radioactive material gets out.
The hydrogen build up is a problem because hydrogen has a way of exploding suddenly (as oppose to just getting hot).
The danger of a meltdown is that it releases radioactive stuff into the surrounding area, but it’s a very local danger.
3. Lewis Mead says:
I’m glad you stated how much more dangerous coal plants are, the media seems to have a vendetta against all things nuclear.
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5. Scott says:
Radiation is scary because it’s generally undetectable, and related to bombs and cancer. Nuclear plants and meltdowns are scary because there is a very small, but very real danger of major catastrophe. Probably similar to the way that our brains are programmed to hold on to losing stocks much longer than we hold on to winning ones, people seem to be much more comfortable with a low level of statistical mayhem than we are with a remote chance of catastrophe, even if that catastrophe is less harmful in total than the mayhem.
6. tonyf says:
Actually the absolutely dominat heat production after the nuclear reactor is switched off by the inserting the control rods fully is from the decay of the fission products (if the reactor has before that been running for a while so a lot of fission products has been produced). That is e.g. what causes the problems in the Fukushima reactors. The heat from the residual radioactivity of the uranium fuel is negligible in comparison.
7. lemony says:
You could look at Japan as proof that, so far, the statistics don’t show nuclear to be that deadly, considering that the earthquake and tsunami were so catastrophic as to kill upwards of 12,000 people and yet no one yet died from the nuclear reactors. Even Chernobyl only killed a couple hundred people, and that was without containment.
For coal statistics you can see the Energy Information Administration website, http://www.eia.gov/coal/ . Somewhere on the site there are also data tables on coal use internationally, coal imports and exports, estimates of emissions, and a million other things.
8. JRS says:
Two quibbles:
“Critical mass” is not the mass needed to produce “a bomb”, it’s the (smallest) mass needed to produce a self-sustaining reaction. Criticality very specifically means for every one atom that fissions, one additional atom (no more!) is caused to fission – a sustained, controlled burn; not an explosion. What you’re describing as a “runaway chain reaction” is a *super*criticality, not criticality.
Quibble the second: in all the plant designs I’m aware of, you don’t “insert fuel rods into slots to keep them from interacting”, you insert *control* rods into slots in the core; the control rods (which are not fissile) absorb free neutrons, thus greatly lowering reactivity in the core. Fuel rods are an immobile part of the core itself; they’re bundled together into fuel “elements” which are never moved for anything but complete replacement once spent.
9. Ron says:
Sure, nuclear is relatively safe yet sometimes causes problems. Sure, coal is fairly safe yet still causes problems…
Solar, however, is ALWAYS safe! It is even economical too, if we are willing to let economies of scales work in our favor by abandoning the idea that we can escape from the energy grid. Photo-voltaics are expensive, however solar troughs are not.
10. Daniel Moreno says:
Thank you for putting fossil fuels into perspective. I work in Japan and many of my coworkers are always surprised, somehow repeatedly(I blame the Japanese hive mentality), that burning fossil fuels releases immense amounts of “natural” radiation. What are your thoughts on the Experimental Molten Salt Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory?
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In a world in which cheating on a girlfriend or spouse has become much easier -- thanks to websites dedicated to adultery and phone apps specifically designed to hide indiscretions -- staying faithful can feel like a 24-hour job even to the most devoted individual.
Women enter a relationship with the intent of being in it for the long haul. They want to know their partner is making the same commitment. Prove from the start that you’re faithfully committed -- watch that wandering eye in public, and don't go exchanging flirtatious texts with old flames -- and she’ll do the same.
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Nissan Patrol rides in with Rolls-Royce getup
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We hardly have words for the machine you see above. On the one hand, we adore the Nissan Patrol with every last ounce of our little black hearts, and there are only a few itches a good Rolls-Royce can't effectively scratch. So, you'd be forgiven for thinking the progeny of those two players would be automotive nirvana for us. As is so often the case, reality differs heavily from concept. Some enterprising soul in Dubai has apparently stitched the two machines together with questionable results. The finished product doesn't really look like some half-baked creation, though it isn't what we... Read More
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First Drive: BMW X1 xDrive28i
The next-generation 3-series, due in 2012, won't be sold as a wagon in the United States. Surprising? Probably not. The writing was on the wall when BMW decided not to import the 2011 BMW 5-series wagon. Upsetting? Unlikely. Just 1700 people bought 3-series wagons last year. So why should you care? As the crossover shrinks smaller and smaller in size, it gets closer and closer to becoming a wagon. And BMW's new X1 is the smallest luxury crossover yet.
Downsizing is nothing new for mainstream automakers, which have been pumping out subcompacts for several years now, but the X1 presages a coming tide of smaller luxury vehicles, both cars and crossovers. Audi has an X1 rival in the upcoming Q3 and Mercedes-Benz is readying a car smaller than the C-class. To our eye, the X1 would only need to sit an inch lower on its springs and struts to qualify as a wagon. It is more compact -- in width and length -- than the 3-series wagon, but it's much closer in size to that car than the larger X3 crossover is.
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The X1 doesn't just speak to the future of the 3-series wagon, it is also a harbinger for BMW's powertrain future. Under the hood, there's the new 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder that's set to replace the normally aspirated six-cylinder in use throughout the BMW lineup. Eventually, it will show up in the 1-series, 3-series, 5-series, X3, and Z4.
Compared to the outgoing inline-six, the new four-cylinder is both more powerful and torquier, using direct injection, Valvetronic variable valve lift, and a twin-scroll turbocharger. Output is rated at 240 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque, versus 230 hp and 200 lb-ft in the outgoing six-cylinder. BMW pedants will dock the new engine for being neither as smooth nor as sonorous as the outgoing inline six, but it pulls harder and should deliver better fuel economy. The eight-speed automatic transmission found in the 5-series and elsewhere will be the popular choice for our market, but our test car was equipped with a six-speed manual, which also will be available to U.S. buyers. It is marked by the usual BMW precise action, nice effort, and longish throws. BMW claims a zero-to-62 mph time of 6.1 seconds with a six-speed manual, and while the company isn't talking about fuel economy numbers, we expect the X1 with an eight-speed automatic to return about 22 mpg in the city and 29 mpg on the highway.
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One question comes to mind: how well will the X1 sell if it is smaller than a 3-Series wagon? Presumably, people choose an X3 or an X5 over a 3-Series wagon because a the wagon was much smaller than the crossover. That's the point of a crossover, even a relatively small one like the CRV. You can cram more stuff into it than you can cram into a sedan or a wagon. In that regard, the X1 and similar crossovers do not make any sense, especially if they cost over $35,000. You can get a full-sized crossover for that kind of money.
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Mr Ferguson has no plans to report the matter to Avon and Somerset Police.
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Mr Ferguson, who became the city's first directly elected mayor last year, told BBC Radio Bristol: "[I was] welcomed at the gate and, of course, even before I'd got in the door I was caught by loads of people wanting to argue with me about everything that I'm to blame for.
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Comments for the name Carly
Comments for CARLY:
The name Carly also means 'Song of Joy'.
-- Anonymous User 8/5/2005
My name is Carleigh, and it is a very original way of spelling Carly. I like it, because I've never met anyone else with the same spelling. Although it is impossible to find any pencils or magnets with my name.
-- Anonymous User 11/16/2005
My name is Carly, and I USED to love it because I felt unique and no one else had the name. But now I know 7 other Carly's, so I warn you now... This name is catching on and it's not that unique anymore.
-- Carly52 12/8/2005
There is a character on the tv show General Hospital with this name, and personally she has ruined this spelling of the name, Carly, for me. There are actually two Carly's who go to my school. One who spells it Carly and one who spells it Carleigh. I prefer Carleigh.
-- Anonymous User 12/30/2005
Carly Simon is a musician known for her song "You're so Vain."
-- breakofday 12/30/2005
Carly is a pretty name, but a little too girly. I don't think it would be taken seriously on an adult. A real adult, not a woman in her twenties.
-- Dogsy 1/22/2006
I don't know why you would want to spell Carly:
It just looks wierd and you can never find personalized things for them with the name spelled correctly. So what's the point?
-- bjd1994rts 1/25/2006
Carly is the title of the 4th book in The Women of Ivy Manor series by Lyn Cote.
-- Anonymous User 3/9/2006
I like the name, very pretty. BC vital statistics show the name dropping in popularity quite a bit.
-- Anonymous User 4/25/2006
Carly Patterson is an Olympic gymnast.
-- Anonymous User 6/8/2006
Also spelled Carlea, Carlee, Carleigh and then the same for the "K" spellings. Very pretty name, elegant and dainty.
-- Anonymous User 6/29/2006
This was so almost my name. I like it better than Lindsey. I know 4 other Lindsey's and only one Carly.
-- pink_floyd_fan 7/27/2006
Carly Patterson (born Carly Rae Patterson on February 4, 1988) was the 2004 Gold Medalist in Women's All-Around Gymnastics. She also won a Silver medal in both the Balance Beam and the Team competition. In addition, Carly may soon be a well-known singer.
-- Anonymous User 8/29/2006
I personally think spelling it "Carleigh" is prettier. The other ways look too much like a nickname. Or something you'd name a dog.
-- Anonymous User 6/4/2007
There is a girl in my school who spells it Karliegh. I think I like that spelling.
-- Brianna Angela 6/11/2007
I know a girl named Charlotte who goes by the nickname Carly. I think it's so cute.
-- Anonymous User 6/29/2007
Carly is cute. Carleigh is a stupid and convoluted made-up combination of two names resulting in the meaning "man meadow." I am quite partial to the spelling Khaarlaei though.
-- Agonotheta 7/21/2007
Don't really care for this name, although this spelling is better than all the other crappy variations out there by ten-fold. My pet peeves are people named: Carli, Carlie, Karlie, Carleigh, etc.
-- gracielou16 8/25/2007
My name is Carly. While I agree it isn't a grown up sounding name I find it stupid to say no one will take you seriously, sitting there thinking about it yes but it is artificial, if you were faced in a situation like someone said surgery you wouldn't actually go 'oh no, I'm not having this, her name is Carly'. Also bear in mind everybody's names are like that, it will be normal now, everybody shall we say has a 'young' sounding name now, like - georgia, stacey, ella, daisy, emily - that sound bizarre when thinking of an old person with the name.
Also @gracielou16 - 'Carleigh' was the original spelling.
-- OldHouse 5/3/2014
On Nickelodeon (NICK) there is a new show called Icarly. Miranda Cosgrove plays Carly, a girl who just started her own web show.
-- Anonymous User 9/10/2007
-- mhavril39 10/21/2007
My name is Carly and I actually like my name. I don't think that it is babyish at all.
-- carlyuk 10/25/2007
My name is Carly. I am 14. I used to like my name but over the last while I've started to really not like it. A thing that kinda is a bummer about it is that there aren't very many names that come out of Carly. There's Car and that's about it or Carl but that is a guy name. I guess that it would be okay of it was spelt another way like:
but mine isn't so if you are thinking about naming your kid Carly think long and hard about it. This is coming from a girly girl too.
-- carly_ann 1/5/2008
Cute name. Prefer 'Carliey' though.
-- Patricia Underwood 2/22/2008
I used to spell my name Carly but I know 3 other Carlys and decided that I didn't want to be like everyone else so now I spell it Carleigh. I also never thought of it but I really like Carliey, that's really cool too, thanks person before me. :P
But if you're naming your kids Carly think of an original way to spell it. It makes it way cooler and think of this, it is next to never that I find Carly things anyway!
-- Anonymous User 4/27/2008
My best friend's name is Carli, and I love her name! I don't know why, but the name always reminds me of a pink flower.
-- drpepper 7/4/2008
I absolutely loathe this name. Why not go with the nice and classy Carla?
-- nox 9/15/2008
There are two well-known soap opera characters with this name: Carly Corinthos on General Hospital, as mentioned above, and Carly Tenney on As the World Turns. Both are awesome, tough and spirited, and have made me like this name a lot.
-- Anonymous User 12/28/2008
I hate this name. It is so ugly. If you're gonna name your kid this here are some better spellings.
-- italiannames 8/20/2009
NOTE: before you consider naming your child this, think: a 40 year old woman named Carly. Hmm does that sound right? Name her Carla and use Carly as a nickname and when shes older she will think "Wow thank gosh my parents named me Carla, cute NICKNAME Carly, but now since I'm married and have kids it just sounds better!"
Yeah Carly as a nickname = ADORABLE
First name: no
-- italiannames 8/31/2009
The 'Carl' part in the name makes it really ugly and unfeminine I'm sorry to say.
-- Anonymous User 1/26/2010
I love my name Karly; however, I don't like the look of Carly with a "C." It looks masculine and ugly, it angers me when people spell my name wrong. I also do not like the cutesy, illiterate-looking variations like "Carlee."
My name is spelled with a K because of my Hungarian descent and the long line of Karls in my family.
-- Anonymous User 8/11/2010
I completely agree that the name doesn't sound professional, but really? Not taking someone with the name seriously? When it comes down to things it doesn't matter -you will judge the person if they are right. Think about it -most people have names like this now. People's names are now young sounding like - isabelle, michaela, ella, stacey ect. Names like that are now normal.
@anoymous, 8/11/2010 - funny you should say that, I think Karly with the K sounds more masculine, it's just personal preference.
-- OldHouse 6/19/2014
I think this is a very feminine name that works for girls and women. I've only encountered the "Carleigh" spelling.
-- Lomesir 1/15/2011
The only path that I find acceptable when speaking of the 'name' "Carly" is if it is a nickname... no more, no less. I am rather fond of it being a diminutive for the masculine "Carl" (pronounced KAHRL-ee), to add. Otherwise, it is an unprofessional, childish, unintelligent, ugly, attempted ornate, atrocity of a name. Misspelling it makes it "kre8tiv" and even tougher to swallow.
I personally cannot imagine a brain surgeon named Carly Meriwether. Or a lawyer known as Carly Cherry. I urge you not to create barriers in your child's future career success because of the name that you gave her (or him, for that matter).
Personally? I find it very hideous-- written and to the ear.
-- Francesca 5/15/2011
I love the name Carly. My name is Karley. I think the spelling is different and awesome. Sure, it can get rather annoying when no one spells my name right, but I'd rather have a different name to spell, than be 1 of the 20 Melissas or Taylors.. I think it's pretty and will make for a lovely name in adulthood.
-- Anonymous User 4/18/2012
A friend of mine named her daughter Scarlette and called her Carly as a nickname.
-- KittyKat78 7/27/2012
Carly Rae Jepsen is the singer of Call Me Maybe.
-- Buneary 11/12/2012
My name is Carly, spelled CARLY, but it's short for Caroline. I like the name Caroline, and I personally think "Carly" is a more original nickname for it than "Carrie," although having lived with the name for so long, I've gotten a bit tired of it. Also, I think it confuses substitute teachers when they call out "Caroline" and I say, "I go by Carly."
Anyway, I can understand why people are saying it's too childish I suppose, but I've been "Carly" for so long that it doesn't seem that way to me, and I still haven't decided if I'm going to switch over to "Caroline" or not.
Also, I don't really know any other Carly's, of any spelling. There used to be another Carly at my school, and some of my friends know other Carly's, but it doesn't seem to be very popular where I live.
-- ageknocksloraine 10/9/2013
Hah, my name is Carly, and I guess I should probably change it considering what people are saying about it.
Anyway, I think it's a pretty name, and, yeah, I suppose it's better as a nickname.
Oh, well. I'm fifteen, so I haven't had to get a job yet... Given from the comments, I won't have any luck getting one, though. Wish me luck, haha!
Eh, I'm immature already, so I guess it helps, haha.
-- Anonymous User 1/8/2014
Are you serious?!? People think that someone isn't going to be taken seriously or get a successful job because their name is Carly?! Wow... If you think about it, in 60-80 years from now most elders are going to have "childish" names because of how popular they are now.
Carly is a wonderful name and I would even consider using it. The comments on this name and other names like it are just rude.
-- Anonymous User 3/12/2014
My name is Carlee. It was originally supposed to be spelled Karleigh, which I think looks better. But the "Lee" part is after my dad. Personally, I just think it's a weird name. Maybe it's from over thinking. But I do like having it, I haven't met many people with my name. However, there is a girl I know whose name is spelled like this, "Karlee".
-- Carlee2369 4/2/2014
My name is karly and I am a 30 odd yr old girl and every one I know takes me seriously, lol. I have friends also named Carly and carlie but I prefer mine as it's a little different. Almost everyone gets my spelling wrong but I get the nickname karla.
-- Karly ann 6/12/2014
Carly is the English spelling of the Irish surname Carlin(?).
There are a significant number of Irish familes born around Strokestown Roscommon with that surname. In fact some are mentioned on the paque at Strokestown House (the 490 missing persons at the time of the famine)
The name is male, but is now exclusively feminine. This can be very unfortunate if your mother retained the surname (which mine did) and most people think you have a girls name!
-- ausmalle 7/7/2014
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The Liberal Arts major is a student-driven and designed program that allows you to customize your studies to a specific area of your individual interest.
In consultation with your faculty adviser and the Liberal Arts major coordinator, you’ll choose 10 courses to complete the major. You can elect to focus your studies in a specific area of interest not covered by an existing Bentley major — for example, behavorial sciences or modern languages. Another option is to choose courses from several departments to create an interdisciplinary major with a specific focus.
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[Beowulf] Please help to setup Beowulf
Robert G. Brown rgb at phy.duke.edu
Mon Feb 16 20:27:46 PST 2009
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Indrajit Deb wrote:
> Hello,
> to setup beowulf for the begining to the end i will be grateful.
> Thanks.
Can you give us more details?
a) How many systems (boxes with network interconnects)? A "node" is
usually a single box that can hold anywhere from 1 to 4 CPUs (or even
more) -- but it usually has only one, sometimes two, network
interconnects. A "cpu" nowadays can have anywhere from 1 to 4 cores,
with more on the way soon. So your "eight node cpu" is a bit ambiguous.
It might mean a single box and 8 cores or 8 boxes with a single core
each or anything in between.
b) If it is many boxes, what kind of network do you have? 100 Mpbs
Ethernet? Gbps Ethernet? Something else?
c) How much storage, memory, etc per node?
d) What is your actual simulation? How does it work? Is it an MPI
application, or something that runs independently?
e) Anything else that might help us help you.
directories from a shared server. Make sure all nodes have libraries,
make sure that development nodes or your front ends have programming
tools and libraries and compilers.
The write or install your application(s) and run it(them).
Really, that's all there is to it.
> Indrajit Deb
> Research Scholar.
> Dept. of Biophysics, Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics
> Calcutta University
> Kolkata
> India
> Ph. +919239202278
Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
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Top 100 Soul Songs
Welcome to the land of the best soul songs ever! These are truly the greatest of all time and encompass all sorts of soul sounds from sweet soul music, southern soul to everything in between!
This is a list of the top 100 soul songs ranked on many factors. The vast majority were soul music hits that fared well on the Billboard Hot Black Singles/ Hot Soul Singles Chart as well as often being hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
Sound Familiar?
Other songs are chosen for their influence or enduring popularity through the decades. If you are a big soul fan you will probably recognize many, perhaps all of them. Even if you are new to soul, you will surely have heard many of them on the radio or on television.
These are the best soul songs that have been released over the years. Of course in a list of 100 many very good songs missed out, but I'm sure you'll find much listening pleasure from those that have made the list.
Is Your Favorite On Here?
So where will your favorite songs rank? Perhaps you are a fan of Sam Cooke or Aretha Franklin and wonder where or how many times they will feature. The big names in soul are all here, but where do they rank?
Once you countdown to the top 10 there are videos next to the songs so you can enjoy the best soul has to offer. So get comfortable, start the list and start reminiscing about all those great soul songs you forgot about...
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Age is age, but I am grateful, always, for longevity
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
I have a friend.
That's how the stories begin. I have a friend, and we....
Here, today, is my "we" story.
I have a friend. I have known her forever. I have known her family, too. A little high school. A week in Hilton Head. All of college. Her graduate school. The little business I began. My wedding. Her wedding. Children. She has stood with me by mother's grave and has walked with me at the park, and I have walked with her. Last night her eldest graduated from high school and in the hours afterward, I sat in my friend's festive home, with my friend and my friend's mother, father, husband, sons. We sat as if it had not been years since we'd all been together.
I have reached that age when I value, enormously, long stretches, real memories, honest connections. People who don't just talk, but also listen. People whose children I prize and whose parents I know. People whose parents know me. The jokes are on us, and with us, and it is good to laugh, and we do.
Age is age, and I have regrets, of course.
But I am grateful (and will be until life is no more) for the room long friendships make for me.
Serena said...
Yes, these are good friendships to have
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Big Blue is Calling
Nan Mooney
By Nan Mooney
Change is difficult, and our world is changing at an ungodly rate. Sometimes it seems easiest to just bow out. My 70-year-old father has yet to set his fingers on a computer keyboard and my guess is he never will.
My guess is he'll just nestle a little deeper into a previous era, one in which highways were paved with concrete instead of information. One that's already fading like the colors in an old painting, replaced by neon and fast-cuts, DSLs, MSNs, dotcoms, and iMacs. The gap between tradition and technology is stretching daily, getting grander and grander until soon it will be impossible to negotiate with a single leap. You'll be stuck on one side or the other. I don't mind leaving my father behind; he's happy there.
But racing doesn't have that luxury. It's got to jump and it's got to do it soon.
The Internet alone is crawling with potential opportunities. There's the chance to provide fans with floods of easy-to-access, well-linked, user-friendly, and free information. There's a forum for Internet auctions offering everything from yearlings to stallion shares to Breeders' Cup tickets. There's the ability to form partnerships that snake around the world, collecting enthusiasts from Hong Kong, Australia, and Brazil in one virtual marketplace. And of course there are the megabytes worth of income and intrigue that might be generated through Internet betting. The industry is moving forward in all these areas, but slowly, more akin to my father's pace than that of a high-speed modem. Things aren't moving faster, looking flashier, or arriving first every time. And in today's competitive sports arena, you simply can't afford to get trapped mid-pack.
So how does a sport which has spent thousands of years grounded in tendons, muscles, flesh, and bone morph itself into wires and servers and microchips?
It seems to me there are two options: it can grind away steadily, observing other businesses, accumulating knowledge, and hiring outside sources to boost its technological insight. Or it can wish like hell for a high-tech fairy godmother to transform everything with a wave of her server-secured wand. In an ideal fantasy world, we just might call her IBM.
When I read about IBM's interest in the racing industry (and this is IBM mind you; if it isn't extremely interested, it doesn't bother), I nearly started turning cartwheels down the hallway. It would take the sport years, decades, or most likely forever to gain the computer savvy IBM can pass on in a few nanoseconds. I'm paraphrasing here -- IBM stated it far more diplomatically -- but when the company went public about a possible agreement with the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, it said the Thoroughbred industry is more technologically backwards than any company it has ever seen. Ever. If today is racing's spring of computer enhancement, the sport clearly hasn't wintered well. But talk about an instant makeover. IBM could take us out of the 19th Century and plug us straight into the 21st. We'd be putting in bullet works and running grade I's in no time.
Unfortunately, my brush with delirium didn't last. A few weeks later, I read about the newest high-tech development. Not contracts getting pounded out, tote companies actively analyzed, or IBM CEOs having lunch in turf clubs across the land. I read that the racing industry has some serious doubts about too much change too quickly, that it's actually considering turning IBM down. I have only one question:
Are you crazy?
When Cinderella's fairy godmother appeared, did she decide to keep sweeping the fireplace just because the dress didn't fit quite right? No. She wanted to go to the ball. She knew what racing can't seem to digest. Chances like this don't come along very often. For most people, they don't come along at all. If the industry waffles too long, I can pretty much guarantee that, when and if it comes to its senses and decides this IBM thing could be profitable after all, IBM will be long, long gone.
I like to think I'm an optimist. I like to think that Thoroughbreds are eternal and a sport born when the Olympics were still held in Greece will survive no matter what. But I'm also a realist. Real enough to know that this is no time to start riding scared. This is it, racing, your golden opportunity.
Let's get out of the gate and see if we can fly.
Nan Mooney is a freelance writer based in New York.
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
"Vampires From Beyond" & "The Doom Witch"
Off the bloody bat, The Bloody Pulp wishes to say a bloody thank you to loyal reader and pal, Gumba, who recently donated several outstanding issues of Eerie Pub. mags to the cause! Thanks a million, my fiend, for your outstanding generosity!
Before moving to the stories, let's drool a bit over this cover, which is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Not only is the black haired wench being dismembered stone cold sexy, she's animatronic! You really can't ask for more. Plus, you have to love a girl that wears aqua pumps to a boneyard.
Now, let's get right to the meat of the matter and break into all the stories from Horror Tales Vol. 2 No. 4, July 1970. First up we stumble upon a Eerie Pub. redraw and the pitchy work Antonio Reynoso in "Vampires From Beyond." Go on, treat yourself. If you aren't good to yourself, who's going to be? Trot your ass on over to my pal, Karswell's The Horrors Of It All to catch the orignal version! Of note, the kind of originality Reynoso brings to the table when doing an Eerie Pub. redraw!
Oscar Stepancich was one of the best pure draftsman in the Eerie Pub. stable, here strutting his skills in "The Doom Witch," a redraw of "Heads of the Dead" (Beware #7, 1954)
Prof. Grewbeard said...
Probably my favorite Reynoso work though it's hard to choose. the mind-blowing art really puts the concept across! Reynoso should have been the mind behind the 60s Outer Limits comics and in b/w (yeah, right!), he would've been totally suited for the task...
Prof. Grewbeard said...
oh yeah and the gears-in-place-of-guts weirdness that features on several Eerie pubs covers, what's up with that!?
Mykal Banta said...
Prof.: So nice to hear from a fellow Reynoso fanatic. Wouldn't it be beyond cool to get one of those currently published prestige hardcovers of his work? I'd give a dollar and a dime for that!
Regarding the gears and wires in place of tendons and muscle, that was a real Eerie Pub. tradmark - and, if you notice, the characters still bleed like humans!
Also so cool is the monster combo packs that Eerie Pub. loved - like on this cover! the Abominable Snowman/Werewolf combo is typical!
Gumba G Gadwa said...
Two great ones -- The Stepancich art is Warren quality, and the Reynoso art makes the vampire, er, demons, er, shapeless spectres thingies look a lot more frightening then they would if done in regular line art.
In Eerie reprints, demons and vampires seem to be interchangeable!
The thing about the cover -- what do these monsters have to gain? Are they making a wish? Do they need parts to finish some electronic project? Are they both in love with her and this is their compromise?
Mykal Banta said...
Gumba: Thanks again!
Regarding the cover, all your scenarios are possibilities! The covers are one of my favorite aspects of Eerie Publications! So "lowbrow" but so incredibly addictive. And the crazy stories they tell!
I also agree with your assessment of the art: "Warren quality" is a good way to look at Stepancich. And Reynoso is, for me, a under-appreciated and virtually master.
Karswell said...
Good lord I went back to my original post and noticed all the idiotic spam comments... I guess I just didn't care back then, haha
Thanks for the plug, chum!
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DeVry Students in Debt
Students at Caribbean medical schools amass more debt than their U.S. counterparts -- a median of $253,072 in June 2012 at AUC in St. Maarten versus $170,000 for 2012 graduates of U.S. medical schools. That gap is even greater because the U.S. figure includes student debt incurred for undergraduate or other degrees, while the DeVry number is only federal student loans taken for AUC.
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Need advice on how to go about screening the eave vents on our home. Original was tacked on the inside which we can't do now. Thought about using 1x3s in 22.25" lengths and drilling holes, but don't think it would provide enough airflow. The opening is actually only about 1" in height. Tried using a Glavanized Eave Vent, but it doesn't fit cleanly and don't know if paint would cover cleanly. Could use some suggestions. A photo is attached.
Thanks in advance!
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We had terrible damage to our roof and vents this summer from storms and I'm still trying to find someone in the Boston area to fix it.
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First step you want to measure insight height and hole size to be modified based on our requirements.then fix the opening height for installation.
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Desperate, Seduction
By: santhoshg
Page 1, She\'s hot. He\'s desperate. Lust is endless....
Ashish and I were friends since school days. This story is about me and his sister Pinky. I had never paid attention to her before. She was in her early 20’s. She was incredibly cute and infinitely hot. We three used to spend together most of time.
One fine morning, when I went to his home to collect my books I found him still asleep. So I entered Pinky’s room to wish her morning. As I opened the door I found her draped in towel standing just outside her bathroom door!!! We both were taken aback at each other’s presence...!
Damn.. My jaw dropped down on seeing her in this and I got an instant hard on… on top of that I was wearing shorts with no underwear inside. So the bulge on my front was visible very clearly, which I realized later on.
I stood there like a stupid moron, gaping at her beauty, or I may say devouring upon her delicious body. Pinky’s eyes strayed down at my bulge and suddenly I came to my senses and told her that I just dropped by to say hi.. before she could reply anything or utter a word, I shut the door and bolted back to my house, to my room.
I did not go to their home for 2 days, afraid of what would be Pinky’s reaction to that incident. On the 3rd day, my mom told me that Ashish was calling me to his home for some work. I started sweating and with throbbing heart went there. Being noon time, only Pinky and Ashish would be available at home. This comforted me a little. I rang the doorbell and to my horror it was Pinky who opened the door. She said hi in a casual way as if nothing had happened. This made me confident and I greeted back with a smile.. I asked if Ashish was there, but she told me that he had gone out and will return in the evening. I said okay and started to walk away when she held my hand and asked me “Why are you leaving? Give me some company. We’ll play cards or watch TV. Only if you want to..”
How was I to say no to that.??! “ya sure!” I said and entered her drawing hall and she came closing the door behind. Fantasies started erupting in my mind with two devilish horns appearing on either side of my head, and that made my tool go hard.. but this time I had taken care to make sure that the bulge remains hidden…!!
I followed her to her room, surprisingly feeling quite confident and myself though I was alone with a girl.. We started watching “Small Wonder” a TV show very popular that time. We were sitting adjacent and out of corner of my eyes I started checking her out…Hairs clasped neatly in a bun.. Healthy sensuous lips.. Cleavage held tightly by a black bra inside a pink t-shirt. Blue shorts beneath that. Her fragrance was petrifying me. It felt as if everything about her was teasing me to make a move.. As if inviting me to take her in my arms, let her hairs fall down.. to kiss that sensual lips.. bite her neck.. to enjoy her fragrance.. to feel her breast n suck them madly.. to make love to her.. to fuck her..“WHAT ARE YOU STARING AT??” Pinky asked suddenly..
Holy shit..!! I came to my senses and found myself turned facing her and staring at her stubbornly.. I said “nothing.. nothing” my throat went dry and she could sense my uneasiness.. so I told her that I want a glass of water. She stood up and went to the kitchen to fetch me water. Lust had a complete control over my senses and without thinking anything I followed her repeating to myself in my mind ” I’ll not behave stupid this time.. don’t be afraid.. you are a man.. and you need her.. so go for it” While she was filling water in glass, I stood behind her and gently allowed my penis to rub against her ass.. Doing so, I asked her if she had any chewing gum as I felt like chewing it.. she felt my dick on her ass but didn't say anything.. but it did affect her glass filling act. Instead of pouring water in glass she was pouring it outside. This gave me a green signal that its good to go ahead.
I completely pressed my dick on her ass and gently grabbed her waist from behind.. “ohh..” she moaned silently and the water jug fell down from her hands.. she was breathing heavily and so was i.. slowly my hands started exploring their way to her breasts.. I leaned forward on her back.. she stood still.. she was breathing very heavily.. I could hear hear gasping silently for air. She arched a bit back and my chest and her back came into contact.. it felt as if we both were brought in contact with a live wire.. I finally grabbed her breasts from behind.. “ohhhh my goddd..” a moan escaped her lips… I started nuzzling her neck.. her feminine scent had dazzled me completely.. slowly I started brushing my lips on her neck and shoulders while fondling her boobs. “Rohan please stop it…” she kept on moaning.. and she clenched my waist in the same position.. she started caressing her toe on my leg.. meanwhile I slid my hand under her T-shirt.. Oh my god, my hands had never touched anything so warm smooth and velvety.. I caressed her belly and navel.. we both were shivering with excitement.. ‘hmmm… ohhhh… hmmm” she was moaning in ecstasy..
I managed to find her boobs under her bra.. and she let out a huge moan… the very next moment she turned to face me and my hands were out of her T-shirt. Her eyes were closed and she hugged me tightly.. I could feel her boobs crushed against my chest.. my penis bulge rubbing against her vagina.. I started biting her ear lobes.. kissing her neck... and she kept on moaning.. She suddenly held my face in her hands and at the very next moment we were kissing each other passionately.
Her lips felt so soft against mine.. so juicy.. so warm.. I kept on sucking them.. something felt odd.. maybe the height.. The next thing I did was grabbed her ass and without breaking the kiss lifted her up on the table.. our kissing grew more intense.. more violent.. as if we both were hungry for this special treat.. both sucking each other’s lips hungrily.. she was now sitting on the table and I was standing in front.. I put my arms around her waist whereas she was still holding my face.. she was rubbing her legs against mine… I was grinding my penis bulge against her vagina.. it felt so heavenly.
Slowly her hands reached down and started caressing my penis.. soon she reached inside and held my dick in her bare hands.. a chill ran down my spine.. “ohh.. Pinky…” I started moaning.. she kept on fondling my dick.. I could not bear any more teasing and brought her hands out. I then let her hair fall down.. she closed her eyes, raised her legs and tangled them around my waist..
I’ll never forget her face.. she was so sexy.. with open hair.. and face full of ecstasy.. as if she stepped right out of a condom advertisement into my arms.
I kissed her collar bone.. and slowly went down towards her boobs with t-shirt on… “don’t tease me. Please fuck me now…. Please make love to me” she begged.. and then she lowered herself backwards on the table, pulling me along with her as my face was buried over her boobs. Her scent intoxicated me. I started kissing her neck. My hands explored her tummy and slowly grabbed her boobs over her bra…..
To be Continued.....
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Those Olympic athletes may have earned medals for their superhuman feats, but let me ask you this: Can they beat Cashetta, South Florida’s most prolific drag magician and entertainer, in a game of Wii Bowling? And with one hand tied up with a cocktail? Unlikely! But you, my friend… you can try every Monday at 6 p.m. and Wednesday at 9 p.m. when Bill’s Filling Station (2209 Wilton Dr.,... More >>>
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Everyone that believes that the average public servant is corrupt or out to make an easy living at the expense of taxpayers just got some vindication.
College students in India who cheated during an experiment were more likely to want to get a government job after graduating.
Additionally, cheating in the experiment was predictive of actual corruption from government workers, showing that this sort of dishonesty could be linked to later corruption, according to a new working paper from Rema Hanna of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Shing-Yi Wang of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
The initial task was pretty simple. Participants were asked to roll a single die and self report the number they rolled. The higher the number, the more money they received from the researchers.
Each person rolled the die 42 times. The degree of cheating was measured by how much the reported numbers varied from the theoretical normal distribution, which describes how an average set of 42 rolls with unbiased dice would turn out.
Students that likely cheated, since they reported numbers significantly above the median, were 6.3% more likely to want a government job.
That tendency held true regardless of whether these were low or high ability students based on tests of memory and cognitive ability. Even separating out the highest ability students didn't change the propensity for cheating. That's important because it means that the sorts of aptitude and ability tests many countries use as a barrier to government service are only going to be so effective.
In a separate sample of government nurses, those who scored themselves above the sample median (likely cheaters) were 7.1% more likely to be fraudulently absent from their jobs, meaning that they collected paychecks for days that they had not actually worked.
Below is the test that was given to students to determine their propensity for cheating. It's particularly effective because it's impossible to identify for certain if someone is a cheater, unless they claim to have rolled 42 sixes in a row, since researchers weren't watching or recording the actual rolls:
Find the full paper here.
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An Xbox That Bleeds Into Your Walls
It’s a concept from Microsoft called the Illumiroom. And it’s real. Ish.
The average size of TVs, like phones, seems bigger all the time. There are simple constraints to how massive a TV can be, though: it needs to fit inside of your cramped hovel. But, what if you turn your hovel into a screen? That’s exactly what Microsoft’s IllumiRoom does. And it’s real — Microsoft Research has built a working proof-of-concept using a Kinect and a projector, turning an entire living room in a giant Xbox screen. The system “can change the appearance of the room, induce apparent motion, extend the field of view, and enable entirely new game experiences.”
Turning physical environments into computing surfaces isn’t a new idea — it’s long been considered the next logical step as the inputs, data and displays multiply in our lives beyond counting. A Microsoft concept video imagines what an entire world architected that way would be like — it feels strangely limitless, like you’re being constantly swallowed by data. Or you know, aliens.
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A couple are one of each, two of the same are a pair....marriage is the happy couple not the happy pair....
If homosexuals want to marry in Church then start their own religion or break away and build or buy a Church to suite, don't mix the two, it's male and female that have kids to keep the human race going it's been like that since time began, I have no problem with the homosexuals doing what's right for them, but don't let them bully you into their's is the divine right, man and woman have that title for both being equipped to have Children, with out one or the other there's no kids, for married homosexuals to have children they either have to adopt, the other way is for one of them to commit adultery, which is not in the marriage vows we say, or can they be altered to suite homosexuals?....
The European Union are trying to GAG free speech because it interferers with their planned domination of this Country and the rest of Europe, in Sweden it's already began, it's against the Law to quote the bad things about killing kuffars in the Quar'an even though it's all true....wake up British Natives, a couple of decades down the line you'll be frog marched down the Mosque, and we all know what Islam thinks about Homosexuals and how they dish out their Sharia Law on them and us the Kuffars....(non-beli
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What about the homosexuals among the "British Natives", should they wake up too, or are you only addressing those with racist or homophobic views?
Read the post correctly, Liberal Elitist race card holder, don't like anyone saying anything about your sexual preference's, sorry to disappoint, not everybody agree's with the rights of homosexuals, the law shuts up debate as your aware, again Islam is NOT a race numpty, go and practice homosexuality in Saudi Arabia, cossy up to your Asian friends tell them your an homosexual see how they distance them selves from you, you need to stop reading your Guardian the worlds not all fair and happy..."
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NEWS CCW Staff Writer Residents of rural Alaska may find it difficult enough to keep up with their shopping, let alone stay current with their preventative medical care. But for 17 years, the mobile mammogram van has brought breast cancer screening directly to women of Southeast Alaska's rural communities.
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The Tragedy Industry
THE TRAGEDY INDUSTRY....I don't agree with every sentence in Rosa Brooks' op-ed today about the Virigina Tech shooting, but she does manage to put into words something that bugs me as well:
....Count me out. There's something fraudulent about this eagerness to latch onto the grief of others and embrace the idea that we, too, have been victimized. This trivializes the pain felt by those who have actually lost something and pathologizes normal reactions to tragedy. Empathy is good, but feeling shocked and saddened by the shootings doesn't make us traumatized or special — these feelings make us normal.
It's well past time to dial down the Virgina Tech coverage. There's a point where genuine empathy turns into artifice, an attempt to loudly and publicly demonstrate our continued empathy bona fides rather than a genuine demonstration of empathy itself, and I think we passed that point some time ago.
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Lesbian - wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, A lesbian is a female homosexual ; a female who experiences romantic love or sexual attraction to other females. the term lesbian is also used with regard to sexual. Homosexuality - wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Homosexuality (from ancient greek ὁμός, meaning "same", and latin sexus, meaning "sex") is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between.
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1. Hello, I am JCR and I have a blog about books www.frequencyofsilence.blogspot.com
Can I add your blog to my Link List?
2. Both those Austen challenges look tempting, but with my piles of challenges, the mini-challenge is probably more doable.
I'm going to visit JCR just because he's so polite!
3. Mme H- lol. Yes, he is. I checked out his site and it looks pretty good.
JCR- I will add your blog to my blogroll. And yes you can add mine.
4. You know, I was planning on watching the Masterpiece Theater Persuasion, and I just didn't have the time. I meant to Tivo it, but I forgot. How sad!!
Looks like I'll just have to Netflix it!
5. Stephanie- Too bad. It was good. I'm really looking forward to Northanger Abbey this Sunday.
6. Oh, hey, thanks for reminding me about this month's carnival!
7. Ooh, good idea, Stephanie! I hadn't thought of that.
8. So, you liked Persuasion? I saw it last year in England and thought it was, uh, okay. But I love the book, and found glaring omissions and alterations in the TV adaptations. If you're interested, there's a whole heap of opinion about the current crop of Austen on TV over at AustenBlog.
9. Well, Rob, he might not do it for you but Capt Wentworth was not bad to look at! I did notice the omissions and all that running at the end was weird but I did enjoy it. Did you see Northanger Abbey? Because I am looking forward to that.
10. I actually liked Northanger Abbey, but it does contain a lot of cuteness (Felicity Jones and Carey Mulligan). It was probably the most purely entertaining of the three new adaptations. The real mess was Mansfield Park; my favorite of the six novels, and by far the lousiest adaptation.
11. Mansfield Park is the only one I haven't read. I'm fixing that soon. I wonder if I should even watch it. No, I think I'll wait.
Really can't wait for Sunday now. Thanks!
12. I never did care for Jane Austen (weird, I know). I liked Daphne du Maurier. However, my restless personality and wanton desires just could never seem to settle down and commit to one particular author. I must sound like a character from an Austen novel, lol....
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An archaeologist, two bottles of whiskey, and the cavemen of the Mississippi: Digging for the city beneath the city
"You'd expect nothing to be left. But there were no rules about removing all vestiges of human habitation when they demolished buildings like there are now. Things just got filled in and filled over. It's like some places in the Middle East--cities built on cities built on cities."
Clouse stopped beneath a crumbling wall with small, dark windows that seemed to open up from the riverbank. "Let's see if there's anybody living here today," he said. Water from the previous night's rain was dripping down the side of the wall and pooling in a gasoline-colored puddle at the bottom. The grotto was strewn with plastic vodka bottles, half-rotten scraps of clothing, and all the other sorts of detritus that go hand in hand with regular human habitation. Behind some brush and hidden from view from the bridge above, there was an opening just wide enough for one person to squeeze through. Behind that, there was a cave that extended about ten feet into the dark and was piled with an even greater assortment of refuse. Clouse explained that people were usually living in it and the nearby storm drains. He poked his head into the opening and waited for his eyes to adjust to the darkness. An awful, hot smell came from inside. At the rear of the burrow, nearly buried in old bottles, was an oblong form wrapped in a ratty sleeping bag. It may have been someone's stash of winter clothing or it may have been a body.
Clouse decided not to investigate. "Looks like someone's sleeping," he whispered and stepped back out into the light.
When Clouse began his excavation in 1983, he shared the site with a regular cast of homeless people. As the city grew up around it, the derelict riverfront became one of the last urban refuges for railroad tramps. The abandoned mills were a regular shelter; at one time, as many as 100 people lived in the Washburn Crosby complex. It was pitch-dark inside and there was no plumbing, but the temperature stayed a constant 56 degrees inside the limestone shells, and was thus more agreeable than an outdoor camp in January. The inhabitants stripped the walls for copper wiring, but some also carted in furniture and decorated their corners of the place. Flour dust was still settling in the air, though, and cooking fires periodically set the buildings ablaze.
Finally, after a rape and homicide near the grounds a few years ago, the city closed off the crumbling outbuildings. The people who'd been living inside scattered into smaller camps along the river. A few found refuge in this little cave by the edge of the Mississippi. Pat Wood, a street worker with People Incorporated, remembers these people only vaguely. "They were Caucasian guys and they drank a lot. They slept in the cave at night. No one down there was an angel, but they were a resilient bunch."
One man, who goes by the name Viking but whose real name is Melvin, has been living in the cave for three and a half years. He stayed in the one of the Washburn Crosby storage buildings before it was demolished and carries in his back pocket a faded color photograph of the old mill and a girl named West Bank Mary who used to live there with him on occasion.
"There was four people in there," he said. "Me and Pete and Lisa and Linda. You have to go underground to get inside, through the tunnels. And it was pitch-black. There was a spiral staircase up to the sleeping rooms. Windows was far and few between in there."
Viking stripped off his socks as he talked and began rubbing his feet, which were raw and red. His camouflage shirt was hanging open over a round, pale belly, and his long and tangled hair was pulled back behind a red bandanna. He is a regular in the area and spends his days sitting outside the entrance to his den, in the deepest part of the grotto where the water collects after rainstorms in a greasy pool. He often has visitors. One of the common callers is Dave, a younger man with a shock of dark blond hair who lives underground in one of the old mill tailraces about a mile down river. The two sit on rickety white folding chairs in front of the mouth of the grotto, hidden from view by a wall of scrub growth, and talk about things.
Together, they have an encyclopedic, if unofficial, record of the area's underground history. "Back in the 1700s," Viking said, "There was two bridges here and an old logging camp right by the river. There was houses down by the water. They built that Stone Arch Bridge in 1873. Now they're trying to tear all this up. Gotta find a new place to stay pretty soon.
"Anyhoot, I lived in the mill. It was me and Pete and Linda and Lisa. They killed Kenny. They tried to beat me up, but I had a bowie knife. They goddanged raped Lisa and Linda, and beat the heck out of Keith and Pete. I've been down here three years and I'm doing all right. That's why I'm still down here."
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Suburban Plight
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When I recieved the email above I went nuts. It's amazing how such a simple word of approval can lift your spirits and make all your work worth it!
Truthfully, I was a bit ambivalent about using all this copyright music in this film, and I spent a while afterwards looking for a composer to rescore it so I could submit the film to festivals. I finally came across the composer Jared Hudson, who did a really great score for me. Shortly afterwards I came across the website of composer Steven Gutheinz, who gave me permission to use his jazz piece, "Pursuit of Happiness".
Watch the version with the alternate soundtrack here.
When Craig Wilson, obsessed with the integrity of his lawn, encounters a rather peculiar pest, he decides to confront the situation.
About the Production
Let me go on a little rant here...
Filmmaking is tough. Especially when you're working alone. There were exactly two people involved in the making of this movie: the actor -- my dad -- and the guy who did everything else -- me.
When the editor, director, cameraman and animator is the same person, no two tasks can be worked on at once. Making a movie with such a bountiful crew takes a hell of a lot of time. And if one person is in charge of doing everything, something is bound to end up being weak. I mean, a guy who's skilled in composing shots may not be able to rig a 3D model, and a guy who's great at mixing sound effects may not be so good at directing actors.
But I didn't want this movie to be weak in any particular area. I wanted the animation to be equally as solid as the camerawork, and the story to be equally as solid as the compositing. Although that didn't quite happen, I think it's a good thing to strive for. This might explain why this movie took me so long to make. I began working on this movie in 2004. Two years later, after working with 4 hours of footage for months and months, we're left with a 5-minute short film. Was it worth it? I still haven't decided.
In any case, I really really hope you enjoy those 5 minutes.
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Comics 101
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Jud Myers Retales
2012-05-13 - A Study in Scarlet
But we all know what really gives us the biggest charge from comic collecting. What reaches into the depths of our brains and illuminates a moment in time from our personal histories. What reminds us where we were when we first held, read, bought a specific comic book. What we wore in those days. Who we were dating. What our favorite foods were.
It’s the covers, damn it!
While thinking about writing an Avengers column, I dug back into my memories and was reminded of just how many memories were trapped in my brain that revolved around these particular images. Preserved in amber in this head of mine that couldn’t tell you as I write these words where the heck my keys are.
Maybe not the most important issues in Avengers history, but important to me. Important because of their timeline in my evolutionary growth as a reader and comic fan.
AVENGERS #161: Bugs crawling all over our heroes. The truly weird part of this cover wasn’t that it creeped me out. It was that I was just feeling the tingle of my pre-teen years and the Scarlet Witch totally turned me on. Bugs and chicks. It explains a lot about who I’ve become.
AVENGERS ANNUAL #7: Jim Starlin. The Avengers in an “Epic Cosmic Conflict!” It’s Avengers Star Wars.
AVENGERS #167: The Avengers in space again! The Beast taking the lead! The beginning of the ten-part (10!) Korvac Saga! Weird-ass aliens from the future! Doesn’t get any better.
AVENGERS #181: One of those “the old guard changeth” covers, where everyone is hovered around the Avengers table-round, terribly afraid of the dude with the orange crew-cut. Gyrich. What a great villain.
Even better was the interior scene, where a totally different Avengers crew is seated around the table, and this time they all look like they’re going to kill this guy. Did I mention Wanda is in full-on dominatrix mode? Whoo-baby!
AVENGERS #187: There’s Wanda again. Only this time, she’s seething evil. A devil dominatrix, enjoying every minute. Again, it explains a whole lot.
AVENGERS #189: I always loved those “WHO?” “WHAT?” “WHY?” “WHERE?” covers. Pretty much any comic cover that asked me questions piqued my interest. It was like a game show and I had to open the pages to see how I did. And, umm, Wanda’s on the cover...
AVENGERS ANNUAL #10: This time, it isn’t questions thrown at us. It’s a series of temptations. “SEE!” “WITNESS!” “OBSERVE!” “BEHOLD!” There’s also a “Shock mystery guest!” and a great, incredibly tiny depiction of an Avengers vs. X-Men scene, with Wolverine giving them his version of the “finger”. Ever notice that Wanda and Hawkeye share the pointy-mask-headress thingamajig?
AVENGERS #223: Wow. Just brilliant. A cover conceived by the great Ed Hannigan. Ant-Man looks like he’s going to literally fly off the page and up our noses. If only Wanda was on the cover, it would have given a whole new meaning to the “SOMEBODY’S GONNA GET IT!” line.
There’s more, but I’ll wait until next week. Right now, I’m going to turn off my computer and go reminisce about a woman named “Maximoff”, the lady in red who did so much for me in the 70s and early 80s.
Yeah, I know it’s weird! But don’t you dare tell me you don’t have a favorite of your own that kept you up at night. And just maybe that cover is still hidden away in your closet for those very special and veeeery personal occasions...
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Zaius was one of the only apes in the city who knew that a human culture predated the time of the apes, a fact he eventually confronted his nemesis, Colonel George Taylor, with.
Zaius also was well aware that ancient humanity was responsible for it's own destruction. As he said, humanity's madness walked hand in hand with its genius.
For that reason, Zaius diligently kept the devolved remnants of humanity in a state of mute savagery - refusing to let them grow and prosper.
Upon meeting the astronaut Colonel George Taylor, Zaius was horrified to see a human who could talk like an ape.
Although Taylor attempted to explain his origins, Zaius regarded him as nothing more than a mutation. Along with two others, he officiated at Taylor's inquest and determined that he had no rights under ape law, and that he was to be executed. Taylor later escaped custody and Zaius led a contingent of gorillas to track him down. Taylor captured Zaius outside of the Forbidden Zone and forced him to call off the hunt. A short time later, Zaius discovered that a true mutant community was discovered living in underground ruins in the Forbidden Zone. Along with gorilla military leader, General Ursus, Zaius led an expedition into the Forbidden Zone where he once again encountered Taylor. The mutants had in their possession a leftover relic of the 20th century, the Alpha-Omega Bomb. The bomb was activated and nearly everyone on the planet including Zaius were killed.
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Put Your Thinking Hats On – It’s VSS Time
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Hi all – iNACOL has opened up its process for presentation proposals for sessions at the Virtual Schools Symposium. The theme of this year’s symposium will be “Transforming to Student-Centered Learning.”
As you may know, iNACOL organized a strand of presentations on competency education last year. This year we want to make it even better by being a bit more strategic – by finding out what topics people want to learn about as well as pro-actively constructing a set of presentations that build upon each other.
So first step – can you use the comments section (or email me) to list any topics you would really like to see covered at VSS? We videotape some of them so they can be used later as well. Or, if you are already working on a presentation proposal, let us know so we can coordinate around it and avoid duplication.
The conference will be held from October 27 – 30, 2013 in Orlando, FL at the Swan and Dolphin Resort. The Request for Presentation Proposals (RFP) is currently available on the conference website. To access the RFP and submit your presentation, please visit http://vssrfp.inacol.org. The deadline for submitting presentation proposals is March 25, 2013.
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Samir Nasri, Carlos Tevez, and Mario Balotelli (above) are among those who love them; Rio Ferdinand, Roy Keane, and most old-school Brits despise them—yes, we're talking about soccer's most controversial winter accessory, the "snood." The increasingly popular neck-warmer is in the news today, as FIFA is discussing a possible ban due to its safety concerns. Well, that's what FIFA says is the reason, but we think the powers that be just see snoods as a little girly and want to get rid of them. We tend to agree. FIFA convenes to talk about this and other issues on March 5, so until then, let's hope none of these guys choke on their own snoods. [via The Guardian]
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Point-'n-click PC flickbook puzzle classic comes to DS
These days, the 1994 design is really showing its age, but there's definitely still a certain mysterious charm about it.
The whole thing can be completed in just a few minutes, if you know what you're doing, but it's more likely to take several days on your first attempt.
As good as this one big puzzle is, it's let down by the limitations of CD-ROM. It's just a series of static pictures, which makes navigation a bit of a nightmare if you're used to today's games.
Also, the heavy compression used to fit it all into a DS cart means the image quality is awful, and it's hard to see what's going on in the tiny, grainy pictures.
If you want to experience the world of Myst as it was meant to be, it makes a lot more sense if you're sitting at a desk, looking at a crisp PC monitor.
The verdict
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Pictures of Antarctica
Devon Island - Croker Bay
The gently sloping sea bed continues on shore to give a gently undulating plain in front of the mountains of fractured and broken rock. In the nooks and crevices between the rock however where soil has had a chance to accumulate alpine plants have managed to take a hold and start to grow. Little delicate pretty flowers amongst the harshness of the landscape adding a somewhat unreal element as if they have been accidentally dropped by a passing gardener.
Air temp: +3ºC Latitude: 74º30'N Longitude: 83º31'W
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HTML::Template::Associate::FormField. ================================================= The README is used to introduce the module and provide instructions on how to install the module, any machine dependencies it may have (for example C compilers and installed libraries) and any other information that should be provided before the module is installed. A README file is required for CPAN modules since CPAN extracts the README file from a module distribution so that people browsing the archive can use it get an idea of the modules uses. It is usually a good idea to provide version information here so that people can decide whether fixes for the module are worth downloading. INSTALLATION * Module::Install is used. perl -MCPAN -e 'install Module::Install' To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install or perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install AUTHOR Masatoshi Mizuno ElusheE<64>cpan.orgE COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Put the correct copyright and licence information here. Copyright (C) 2007 by Bee Flag, Corp. E, All Rights Reserved. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
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Sunday Decryption Challenge - difficult but possibly trivial
Inspired by TheIdeasMan: http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/lounge/108371/
- The message is an English sentence
- Start at 0,0 and wrap around after 15
- There are only 5 instructions
- There is randomness involved but every byte has a purpose
No other encryption or compression is used, this is something I invented a few years ago. It's not really effective if you know how to break it. I don't think you could do it by hand, but you will need a table.
If this takes a long time to solve I'll post the program I used to generate it (it only encrypts though because I just threw it together quickly).
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Ok then, here's the program that encrypts messages:
use the arrow keys to select a character and spacebar to add that character to the message.
How about you give us the source code, pseudocode and full documentation instead of a mere trojan? [/semi-joke]
It wasn't written in C++, that would have taken too long - it's just a simple app that I threw together in under ten minutes :p if you're willing t pay for the software that I made it in you can definitely have the source.
Now I'm curious, what software did you use to make it?
Multimedia Fusion 2: https://www.clickteam.com/
@ LB: When you say "Wrap around after 15" are you telling us that the key is 15 characters long? Also, by "There are only 5 instructions" do you mean that there are 5 layers of encryption? Sorry Crypt-analysis is an on again off again hobby for me, I'm not too familiar with the terminology.
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@ LB: You seemed to have forgotten to filter for control characters. This isn't even reversible, never mind crackable.
The key is that 16x16 grid in the application (does 15 sound familiar now?). And I don't know what you mean by control characters. I can easily write an application to reverse the encryption. If you don't figure it out I might even write it in C++ :p
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@ LB: OK, I'll give in. I actually stopped trying at this sometime last night and haven't been able to build enough interest to go at it again. To me it looks like a bad cipher, its not that it doesn't encode the same character the same way twice in a row since I expect someone at your level would be seeding it anyway. My problem is that it doesn't encode them to the same length every time, which is why I suspect you did not filter out control characters such as 'delete' from the possible output. I even tried to account for white space being part of the cipher but either I am really bad at this or your "code" isn't reversible. If you did do all of this on purpose though, let me say that I thought it was a pretty good idea to put EOF in the sample output you provided, that one had me going for a minute.
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It doesn't encode the same length because you're not using the same combination of arrow key presses :)
I'll write the decryptor in a moment...
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I think I tried that already, I know you're seeding it with something else besides keyboard strokes (maybe mouse movements?) either that or you're not accurately counting the number of arrow key presses (less likely).
The test I did wasn't to in depth, I simply output the first character, null, then renamed the resulting file and did the same thing again. In Notepad++ the first file displays as "GS" and the second one is a "xEO", which I could translate to their integer values and look up in the ASCII chart to see what they are but I have already seen enough to know that the cipher isn't consistent.
I tried something similar with 'A' using the same key presses, but that doesn't even encrypt to the same length consistently so I must be missing something.
Try decrypting each of your tests:
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <limits>
int main()
signed x = 0
, y = 0;
std::ifstream in ("encrypted.dat", std::ios::in|std::ios::binary);
char op;
switch(static_cast<unsigned>(op) % 5)
case 0: //right
if(x > 15) x = 0;
case 1: //left
if(x < 0) x = 15;
case 2: //up
if(y < 0) y = 15;
case 3: //down
if(y > 15) y = 0;
case 4: //select
std::cout << static_cast<char>(x + y*16) << std::flush;
It works for me ;)
OK, so I gave up way too early then and I probably should have looked at your clues a little better. I see what you did here. When you mentioned the wrap around after 15 I was expecting a straight forward Vigenère or a Key cipher which is why I got suspicious when I noticed the control characters. But you wouldn't need to filter for them in this case (But I noticed you swapped them out for white space anyway). You win this round.
EDIT: Does anyone thing it would make things too easy if we named the type of cipher? Not like the length of the key or anything that would immediately give it away like that.
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That's not my doing, that's just how the Windows console represents control characters.
Also, I'm not really into encryption or cyphers that much, this is the only encryption I am really familiar with because as far as I know I invented it (or at least came up with the idea independently while it was already invented) so you probably know a lot more than me.
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Out of curiosity, how strong is this encryption? There's some factors to consider here. In my example there are five instructions, and I take he remainder of division from the randomized value to get which instruction it is. I cold use any set of numbers for each kind of instruction, and I could also have nop instructions and backspace instructions, shift instructions, etc. or even multiple bytes per instruction. I could also change the character grid so instead of 16x16 of the usual ASCII chart, it could be scrambled. Therefore the key would be the chart used and also the instructions and their values.
How strong then could this encryption be?
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The heaviest rainfall ever observed in Colorado happened 75 years ago this week. Back in 1935, a giant storm soaked eastern Colorado in up to two feet of rain in a single day. As the swollen Republican River pushed eastward, people reported hearing a wall of water approaching even before they saw it. The flood washed away entire homes and killed more than 100 people in three states. State Climatologist Nolan Doesken's researched the flood, and heard about it first hand from a close relative who was an eye-witness.
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5 Grossly Inappropriate Jokes Hidden in Children's Cartoons
Cartoon writers have the unenviable task of creating something a toddler will love, without it making mom or the babysitter want to blow their own brains out. So, the way they do this is by throwing in little racy jokes they know will go over the kids' heads.
But, as we've mentioned before, some of the stuff they slip past censors is pretty shocking ...
#5. Yosemite Sam Braces for Prison Rape
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Warner Bros. has been making Looney Tunes cartoons since 1934, back when they played before movies in the theater instead of on Saturday mornings on television and were routinely seen by way more adults than children (and because it was the 1930s, the cartoons contained way more Nazis). So it's pretty much always been standard practice for the writers and animators to throw in jokes aimed specifically at the grown-ups in the audience.
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This short was originally titled "Duck you, Hitler!"
The transition from movie theaters to children's television didn't compel Warner Bros. to stop sprinkling risque humor into the otherwise G-rated antics of Bugs Bunny, and we're not even talking about all the times that Bugs tricked Elmer Fudd into belching ruinous shotgun blasts into Daffy Duck's face.
For example, in the 1995 episode "Carrotblanca," Bugs manages to trick Yosemite Sam into locking himself in prison. As soon as Sam realizes his mistake, he turns around to discover that he is trapped in a cell with a Island of Dr. Moreau-era Marlon Brando lookalike wearing pink bunny slippers and a "nobody can hear you" grin.
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"Yosemite? When we're done you're going to be Grand Canyon."
Yosemite Sam's cellmate is a bulbous commercial fisherman with an exposed midriff, a pink shower kit, and a singular desire to remind Yosemite Sam that there is but one bed in their shared dungeon. The scene lasts only for a second, but it isn't exactly bursting with subtlety -- Bugs Bunny has just sentenced Sam to be prison-raped by an impossibly beefy bunkmate for all eternity.
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I wish I could tell you that Yosemite fought the good fight, and the animators let him be.
There is no other way that gag could possibly be interpreted, although it does manage to provide some context for Sam's general antagonism towards Bugs Bunny. This is something of a running gag in the world of cartoons, by the way. There's another prison rape reference in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants. He shows his pet snail two bars of soap and with a wink warns him not to drop them:
It sounds like a nonsense warning (who cares if you drop a bar of soap?) unless you know it's a joke phrase used to warn people about getting raped in a prison shower. As in, "Don't drop the soap, because when you bend over to get it another inmate will shove his cock into your ass."
And speaking of cartoon references to anal penetration ...
#4. Arthur Almost Gets an Anal Probe
Arthur is a long-running educational cartoon series on PBS starring some kind of rat/aardvark creature and his equally difficult to classify animal friends, who teach young children important lessons about school, bed-wetting, and not making fun of kids with asthma. It's basically exactly as tame as you'd imagine a cartoon whose highest aspiration is to teach little kids not to be assholes would be.
Then there's the bizarre episode "The Contest," which parodies the animation styles of several other popular cartoon series, including fellow kid-friendly shows like Dexter's Laboratory and tap-dancingly adult programs like Beavis and Butthead; Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist; and South Park. Because what preschooler doesn't delight in the occasional Dr. Katz reference?
"The SquiggleVision soothes me." -Fictional Baby for this caption joke
The point when things really get out of hand occurs during the South Park homage. It's baffling enough that Arthur would reference a show in which the main characters throw the word "fuck" around like rice at a wedding, but the specific episode of South Park being referenced is the accurately titled "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe," wherein Cartman gets a hunk of sentient metal embedded deep within his asshole by marauding extraterrestrials.
In the Arthur episode, Arthur (depicted in South Park's trademark cardboard cut-out style) is kidnapped by aliens and taken aboard their spaceship. Arthur is put on a table:
And hit with a beam that makes his clothes fly off:
"Want me to zap your glasses? You're not going to want to be able to see this."
Arthur says, "You're not going to eat me!" because he, unlike the writers, doesn't know what source material is being referenced. Specifically, this:
Comedy Central Productions
Accurately. Titled.
But just exactly at the moment when the adult viewers are saying, "Oh holy fuck they're going to show Arthur getting his anus smashed by an alien probe oh god why," the aliens abruptly change their minds and eject him from the ship. It's a clever little "See what almost happened there?" wink from the writers, where what "almost happened" was the main character getting anally violated. Which at this point we're convinced is some kind of standard in-joke among cartoonists.
#3. Spider-Man Makes a Semen Joke
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The Spectacular Spider-Man, oft-referred to as the greatest Spider-Man cartoon ever made, was praised for its sharp dialogue and its ability to freshly portray the innumerable characters in the Spider-Man universe while still remaining loyal to the source material. The slavish adherence to character accuracy held true even for characters that would normally be disqualified from children's programming, such as Black Cat:
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They did change certain things.
Black Cat is a thief/occasional vigilante who routinely tries to thwart Spider-Man by dealing out massive, incapacitating boners that are impossible to conceal in a skin-tight unitard and thus neutralize his ability to pursue her without breaking several public decency laws. She does this with the cunning use of sexual innuendo, a character trait that The Spectacular Spider-Man decided must be included, despite the fact that its target audience was around 10 years old.
For example, in one episode, Spider-Man is attempting to apprehend Black Cat by chasing her around a warehouse, spraying his web all over the place like Jackson Pollock. After some of it lands on her hand, Black Cat teasingly warns, "You better not get your goop in my hair."
For you innocent-minded types who may not know: There is a long-running joke in the franchise that Peter Parker's webs are an analogy for puberty and semen. And by "joke" we mean we're pretty sure that's what the original writers intended, too -- he hits high school and suddenly starts squirting the white stuff all over his bedroom. Just to drive the point home, Spider-Man replies to Black Cat with, "Don't worry, it comes off with ice or peanut butter." We can safely say that this scene makes The Spectacular Spider-Man the first children's cartoon to give helpful tips about getting cum out of your hair.
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4.20.5 Creating Crystal Space RPM's
Written by Vincent Knecht [email protected]. Last updated 19 March 2006.
Creating Crystal Space RPM Packages
It is possible to build Crystal Space RPM's. This is useful if you want to distribute pre-built Crystal Space packages, or if you want to install Crystal Space on your machine using the normal package management facilities of your host. For this purpose, ‘CS/scripts/rpm/cs.spec’ file is provided with Crystal Space.
Configure to Build RPM Packages
Building RPM packages involves a few settings, which are covered at the following page:
Building Your Own RPM's From Source Archive
Once you've set your system to build RPM packages as a regular user, perform the following steps:
1. Get Crystal Space sources archive (see section Where to Get Crystal Space) and put it in your ‘rpm/SOURCES/’ directory.
2. Go into your ‘rpm/SPECS’ directory.
3. Extract the ‘CS/scripts/rpm/cs.spec’ file, and put it in your ‘rpm/SPECS/’ directory. You can also get the latest ‘cs.spec’ file at http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/crystal/CS/trunk/scripts/rpm/cs.spec
cd /home/user/rpm/SPECS
tar xvjf /home/user/rpm/SOURCES/cs-current-snapshot.tar.bz2 \
mv CS/scripts/rpm/cs.spec /home/user/rpm/SPECS
rm -rf CS
4. Verify the source archive filename you downloaded is set in accordance with the filename part of the URL in ‘Source:’ line of ‘cs.spec’, otherwise rpm won't be able to do his job.
5. Build the RPM's.
Build options are specified by using --with switch. The following values are supported:
So, to build all packages, with Perl support, use:
rpmbuild -ba cs.spec --with perl
The binary RPM's should be under ‘rpm/RPMS/’, and the source RPM in ‘rpm/SRPMS/’.
The process creates four Crystal Space binary RPM packages:
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The alternative to an Israeli attack on Iran
Serious diplomacy, not military action, will bring regional security.
Is war between Israel and Iran inevitable? To listen to Iran's radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or Israel's Iranian-born transportation minister Shaul Mofaz, or even recent reports that Israel carried out a major military training mission over the Mediterranean to rehearse an attack on Iran, you might be left with that impression.
Mr. Mofaz's comments last month indicating he would attack Iran didn't help perceptions either. The immediate effect of his statement was a record increase in oil prices – giving Mofaz's Iranian nemeses a windfall of several million dollars.
Mofaz and Mr. Ahmadinejad are wrong. Israel and Iran are not destined to be enemies, nor does the military option present a real way out of the current impasse. In reality, it doesn't offer a solution at all.
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Logistical challenges of hitting Iran's nuclear facilities and regional consequences of war aside, military strikes wouldn't destroy any potential clandestine facilities in Iran nor Iran's knowledge of the enrichment process.
Even the most successful bombing raid would leave Iran with some nuclear capability. At best, proponents of this option admit, bombing would set back the program five years. During that time the expectation is that the Iranian people miraculously would unseat the country's ruling clergy and dismantle the nuclear program permanently.
This unjustified expectation underlines a central flaw in the outlook of both Jerusalem and Washington: the tendency to treat the risks and repercussions of military operations with extreme optimism, while treating the diplomacy challenges with extreme skepticism.
A much more probable scenario: Tehran would use the attack to invoke Article 10 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and withdraw from the treaty altogether. This article gives each party the right to withdraw if it decides that extraordinary events "have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country." Iran would cease all cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, expel all UN inspectors, and by that, deprive the international community of much-needed transparency and insight.
More ominously, the attack could prompt the Iranian leadership to make the crucial decision to seek an actual nuclear bomb and not just the capability to build one, while accentuating Iran's role as a power against the status quo.
To make matters worse, any military attack would reduce rather than increase the likelihood of a democratic takeover. As unpopular as the Iranian government is, the expectation that a secular democratic government would emerge in the aftermath of a bombing campaign is wildly optimistic and reminiscent of the Bush administration's miscalculations going into Iraq. War with Iran would be the death knell and not the savior of the Iranian democracy movement.
That said, Israeli-Iranian enmity is not entirely dissociated from the Arab-Israeli dispute. The latter definitely facilitates and enhances Iran's strategy of regional destabilization. A regional system of security and cooperation in the Middle East cannot be established without an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict. And it is equally important to address the question of nuclear disarmament.
For regional security to be possible it is not only necessary for Iran, Israel, and the US to grant one another minimum levels of recognition, it would also be necessary that Israel discard the notion that the regional order should be based on its nuclear monopoly.
The real choice in the long run is not between suspension of enrichment or war – it is between a verifiably nuclear-free Middle East or uncontrolled proliferation.
Shlomo Ben-Ami is vice president of the Toledo International Center for Peace and former foreign minister of Israel. Trita Parsi is president of the National Iranian American Council and author of "Treacherous Alliance – The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the US."
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What do we know about the Database Technology used today for Large Scale Data?
Vast variety of services around the world are accessible by users anywhere at any point of time, thus accelerating the increase of the amount of processed data in a very short period of time. For example, bus route finder applications for Smartphones are overwhelmed by data-traffic as the number of Smartphone users rises. In addition, the rapidly evolving Web service technologies challenge the traditional theories and approaches to databases. Overall efficiency and flexibility have become more crucial than the individual process result between a transaction and a record, as these days it is not just a couple of DB servers that access the SAN storage.
Many argue that the traditional database theories and the current RDBMS are inappropriate for handling large-scale data (more commonly known as big data). Michael Stonebraker, a database guru, points out such facts in The End of Architectural Era, a paper that he wrote for The VLDM Journal in 2007. In the paper, he claims that relational DBMS technology, which began to flourish in late '70s and reached its height in late '80s, was a project to develop a universal Database Management System (DBMS) that could be used in any field for any application, including the fields of Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Database Warehousing (DW), science and the Web, but it is perhaps time to leave this 25-years-old 'one size fits all' approach and its dusty code, and come up with a new approach that is needed to handle the large-scale data.
In the past 5 years many specialized DBMSs have been introduced, as well as database systems with new storage schemes [1]. These can be categorized by the type of the applied technology. In this article we will explain the four most popular types of database systems currently used by top corporations like Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Misrosoft, Amazon, etc.
• Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) or parallel DBMS – A system that parallelizes the query execution of a DBMS, and splits queries and allocates them to multiple DBMS nodes in order to process massive amounts of data concurrently.
• Column-oriented database – A system that stores the values in the same field as a column, as opposed to the conventional ow method that stores them as individual records.
• Streaming processing (ESP or CEP) – A system that processes a constant data (or events) stream, or a concept in which the content of a database is continuously changing over time.
• Key-value storage (with MapReduce programming model) – A storage system that focuses on enhancing the performance when reading a single record by adopting the key-value data model, which is simpler than the relational data model.
RDBMS Characteristics
Before we go on, let's see the characteristics of the current relational database management systems. RDBMS is characterized as:
• Has relational data model – All data is shown in tables, and its correlation can be expressed.
• Uses SQL – Has advanced technologies in optimizing queries, as it is a declarative language.
• Disk-based storage - Records are stored in consecutive disk blocks. Implements B-tree, a disk-based indexing method.
• Concurrency control and log-based recovery – Ensure integrity while allowing multiple accesses to a single piece of data simultaneously, by means of the lock or multi-version.
Universal DBMSs that pursue the 'one size fits all' approach while satisfying all the characteristics described above are somewhat lacking when compared to systems that specialize in a specific area, such as text processing or Database Warehousing. As they are operated by Web log analyses and BIs that handle massive amounts of data, or through IDCs around the globe, the commercial RDBMS alone – the hero of conventional database technologies – cannot meet the demand of large Web services in which data response speed is crucial. New database technologies are being researched to find ways to analyze logs, amounting to several hundred gigabytes each day, or to allow a user in the U.K. to access a blog (through a Web server) that has been stored (in a DB server) by a user in the US in real time.
Below we explain each of four types of contemporary solutions for large scale data management.
Massive Parallel Processing / Parallel DBMS
As database management systems use a single CPU, they have inadequate processing power to handle data in terabytes at 10,000 TPS. For this reason, many technologies have been introduced to implement 'parallel query processing' on the SMP hardware since the '80s.
For example, the sort and hash join functions are often parallelized because they are some of the most time-consuming operations of a DB.
Another important technique in parallel processing is the pipelining, which parallelizes each step of a series of long and complex SQL queries. Parallelization is widely used in data analysis such as BI. Such parallel DBMS technology has surpassed the single-node SMP hardware and is being advanced to the massively parallel database system, which is based on clusters in the 'shared-nothing' structure.
For example, the 6.5 petabyte-scale DW database of Ebay or the Everest Architecture of Yahoo for 10 petabyte-scale data analysis are based on the MPP structure and technologies.
Other examples of MPP DBMS are Greenplum and Aster Data, both of which are developed by using PostgreSQL, an open-source DBMS. The Greenplum system has an advantage in the DW market; it gained popularity when it was adopted by eBay [2]. Both Greenplum and Aster Data process massive amounts of data with parallel clusters, while utilizing existing tools such as the relative data model and SQL. In these systems, the data is properly distributed (partitioned or shared) to each DB node and the data analysis SQL is executed at each node in parallel.
It is similar to the MapReduce programming model, which has been frequently used as of late. Both Greenplum and Aster Data provide a feature of combining SQL and MapReduce. The following is a description of the SQL used by Greenplum and the manner in which it is processed.
Each node in a DB executes SQL for the local data (similar to what happens in the mapping phase) and then merges the results in sequence. This is possible because the data is separated by condition (similar to what happens in the reducing phase).
The MapReduce method [3] announced by Google is one of the technologies used for analyzing massive amounts of data such as MPP or parallel DBMS. Hadoop is an implementation of the framework that uses the MapReduce method in Yahoo. The following table shows the comparison of a parallel database and the Hadoop system.
Parallel Database Hadoop (MapReduce)
Data Designed for structured relational data Designed for unstructured data
Query Interface SQL MapReduce programs Java, C++, Script, SQL-like
Query Execution Pipelines result between operators Materialized results between Map and Reduce phrase
Job Granularity Entire query Determined by data storage block size (Runtime scheduler)
Strength High performance (Query on structured data) Scalability (thousands of nodes)
HadoopDB is one of the noteworthy open-source projects that combine Hadoop and RDBMS. HadoopDB is based on SQL and the Hadoop system, and uses RDBMS, whereas Greenplum or Aster Data with MapReduce use HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System). While HadoopDB adds the SQL functions on top of the MapReduce engine, Aster Data uses the MapReduce functions inside an SQL query, a method called 'In-Database MapReduce.' To be more precise, HadoopDB uses the functions provided by Hive, a scripting engine developed by Facebook that can execute pseudo-SQL queries in the HDFS/Hadoop system, while using an RDBMS file, instead of an HDFS file, to execute the map function.
The following is an example of an SQL/MR used by Aster Data. In the example, the sessionize() MR function is implemented with Java and then used for an SQL query.
The SCOPE project, announced by Microsoft, implements a MapReduce process such as Hadoop in the Windows and .NET environment.
Column-Oriented Databases
Column-oriented DBMS is a system that stores data in a sequence of columns, instead of rows. For your reference, the RDBMS storage system [4] stores and manages the rows of the table (or records) as shown in the figure below.
In this structure, several records are stored in a single disk page.
The column-store stores the identical column values found in a table in succession,and manages them. A file is created for each column, and the identical values found in a column are stored in a disk page in sequence.
The characteristics of row store and column store listed in the following table show that the latter is more suitable for the application of a massive database in which most operations involve data reading. However, column store is unsuitable when frequent writing is required. It is also inefficient when there are several columns to be processed, as the size of an intermediate result in a query is larger than that of row store, and more steps are involved when compared to row store. These shortcomings are due to the fact that column store processes one column at a time even when there are several conditions. The following table shows a comparison of Row Store and Column Store.
Row Store Column Store
Suitable for adding or deleting records. Has an advantage in reading related data.
Reads unnecessary (unused) column values causing disk I/O. Several entries need to be modified to change a record causing disk I/O.
Relatively low record-level compression rate. Compression rate is good as the columns of a domain can share the same value.
Has an advantage in performing random access because indexes are configured at record-level (such as B+- trees). Has an advantage in performing range quries.
To overcome these drawbacks, a variety of methods are used, including:
1. compression
2. late materialization [5]
3. block iteration [6]
4. and invisible join
The figure below illustrates the SQL execution process in column store.
In conclusion, column store and row store are complementary, and neither is superior to the other. For this reason, they are often used in conjunction with each other. The write of data is executed in a row store DBMS. When a certain amount of data is collected, that data is moved to column store (after data compression and other tasks are executed) for read-heavy analysis or other tasks.
Stream Processing / ESP or CEP
Stream processing, event stream processing, and complex event processing derived from an effort to process dynamic data in a database. The StreamSQL standard, an extension of SQL, has been proposed for this purpose. One of the forerunners is Truviso, who came up with the 'continuous analysis' concept with the support of the snapshot query and continuous query features [7]. Other commonly-used data processing techniques adopt the 'store-first-query-later' method, in which an external event is converted and stored in a database and then a query is executed.
When SQL processes a table with a fixed number of records, StreamSQL processes a table at which infinite tuples are generated. That is, not all data is present in a table at any given time. The following figure illustrates the system architecture of Aurora, the forerunner of what is now StreamSQL.
It has become a common practice to apply the concept of stream processing to Web services. In normal operation of a Web service, the DB is rarely modified, as the service merely presents prepared content in the DB or queries the UCC data that already exist in it.
(See the figure above) However, it is not uncommon to create a Web service with a system that engages in data I/O process even before all the input data is given, as it is preferable to handle a massive amount of data in real time when searching or analyzing logs.
(See the second figure below) Stream processing will become a necessity even for Web services, as is already the case in web services in which a sensor device generates a never-ending stream of data, or Smartphones, in which multiple user-content providers create content data for other user-consumers.
Key-Value Store / MapReduce
The byword of the recent key-value stores is either the BigTable from Google or the Dynamo (simpleDB) from Amazon. Key-value store is an old storage system that predates RDBMS. For example, the DBM library of UNIX or more advanced BerkleyDB came out quite some time ago, and some would go as far as to consider them the precursors of RDBMS. The most recent entry in this field is Tokyo Cabinet, a new iteration of the DBM library of UNIX.
It is my opinion that the newer key-value stores differ from the traditional ones in that they are based on DFS. BigTable, Dynamo, and Yahoo's PNUT also work in the distributed environment. As the size of processed data increased, it exceeded the performance and capacity of single-server systems or storage systems similar to the SAN system. The answer to this situation was distribution storage using a large number of servers which is more service-ready and cost-effective, and has a better work load-distribution capacity than RDBMS. What ultimately born was the distributed key-value store in the form of an extendable hash, which is used for processing Web services or single data processes at the performance level of the single key-value pair.
However, as the characteristics of the key-value store prevent it from utilizing well-developed declarative queries such as SQL, a programming model called MapReduce was introduced to circumvent this limitation. It becomes clear, when one looks into Amazon's Dynamo (simpleDB) or Yahoo's PNUT, that the key-value store has an architecture suitable for catering cloud DB services that are used for developing Web services. This is the case because the key-value store can be operated by using only basic functions such as Get/Set, for most of the actions involve single value retrieval, and that it is convenient to provide interfaces by using Web service protocols such as HTTP or REST. The key-value store is extremely useful when ease of operation, good performance, scalability and availability are crucial. It is a database technology for areas where RDBMS cannot cover.
It must be noted as well that much effort has been invested in a variety of disciplines to enhance the performance of databases so that they can meet the ever-growing demand. However, this effort does not yet translated into the phasing-out of commercial open source RDBMSs, such as Oracle or MySQL, as they are being widely used in more areas than ever before. On the contrary, many RDBMS-based solutions are being suggested. Still, the fact remains that many of the key-value stores such as Google's BigTable, Amazon's Dynamo, BerkleyDB and Tokyo Cabinet, and distributed key-value stores in particular, are found useful in many new ways.
1. There are many other successful cases of open-source or commercialization that are past the research phase as well. Also, it is known that numerous large corporations develop and use in-house systems. However, these in-house systems can hardly challenge Oracle, the most popular commercial RBDMS of today.
2. According to the information provided by Greenplum, it processes about 17 trillion records (6.5 petabyte in size, 150 billion new records are inserted every day) with 96 DB nodes.
3. It would be more appropriate to consider MapReduce as a type of programming model, or a pattern and a framework rather than a new technology or system. When the paper was patented, the originality of MapReduce's algorithm was challenged, as it looked the same as the decades-old divide & conquer algorithm.
4. A DBMS consists of a storage system and a query processor. The storage system has features such as transaction logging and concurrency control to maintain the effectiveness and integrity of its file structure.
5. A technique that reduces physical data-read costs through materialization, in which a list of the positions of the values passes to the next process, rather than creating individual intermediate result when processing queries.
6. Also known as the vector-ized processing.
7. Truviso also uses an expanded PostgreSQL, an open-source DBMS.
By Park Kieun, the CUBRID Cluster Architect.
Massive Parallel Processing / Parallel DBMS
• Aster nCluster In-Database MapReduce, Aster Data Systems.
• SQL/MapReduce: A practical approach to self-describing, polymorphic, and parallelizable user-defined functions, Eric Friedman (Aster Data), VLDB 2009.
• Greenplum DW Appliance: Technical View, Sun.
• Sun Oracle Exadata and Database Machine Overview, Oracle, 2009.
• MAD Skills: New Analysis Practices for Big Data, Jeffrey Cohen (Greenplum), VLDB 2009.
• HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads, Azza Abouzeid (Yale), VLDB 2009.
• Osprey: Implementing MapReduce-Style Fault Tolerace in a Shared-Nothing Distributed Database, Christopher Tang (MIT),
• Parallel Database Systems: The Future of Database Processing or a Passing Fad?, David J. DeWitt (UW), 1991.
• Parallel Database Systems: The Furture of High Performance Database Processing, David J. DeWitt (UW), 1992.
• Hive - A Warehousing Solution Over a Map-Reduce Framework, Ashish Thusoo (Facebook), VLDB 2009.
• HIVE Data warehousing using Hadoop, Facebook Data Team.
Column-Oriented Databases
• C-Store: A Column-oriented DBMS, Mike Stonebraker (MIT), VLDB 2005.
• Column-Oriented Database Systems, VLDB 2009 Tutorial.
• Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?, Daniel J. Abadi (Yale) , SIGMOD 2008.
• A Comparison of C-Store and Row-Store in a Common Framework, Alan Halverson (UW), VLDB 2006.
• Read-Optimized Databases, In Depth, Allison L. Holloway (UW), VLDB 2008.
• Integrating Compression and Execution in Column Oriented Database Systems, Daniel J. Abadi (MIT), SIGMOD 2006.
• Query Execution in Column-Oriented Database Systems, Daniel J. Abadi (MIT), MIT 2008.
• Performance Tradeoffs in Read-Optimized Databases, Stavros Harizopoulos (MIT), VLDB 2006.
• Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct, Stefan Manegold (CWI), VLDB 2009.
• MonetDB/SQL Meets SkyServer: the Challenges of a Scientific Database, M. Ivanova (CWI), SSDBM 2007.
• Sybase IQ, An Evaluation paper by Bloor Research, 2006.
• The Vertica® Analytic Database Technical Overview White Paper, Vertica Systems Inc, 2008.
Key-Value Store / MapReduce
• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, Google, OSDI 2004.
• BigTable: A Distributed Storage System for Structued Data, Google, OSDI 2006.
• HIVE data warehousing using Hadoop, Facebook Data Team.
• Hadoop Architecure and its Usage at Facebook, Dhruba Borthakur (Apache), 2009.
• Data Intensive Super Computing, Randal E. Bryant (CMU).
• Cloud Architecture, Jinesh Varia (Amazon Web Services).
• GAIA & Neptune, Joon Kim.
• Hadoop과 오픈소스 소프트웨어를 이용한 비지니스 인텔리전스 플랫폼 구축, 김영우 (다음 커뮤니케이션).
• Stream Processing.
• Toward a Streaming SQL Standard, Namit Jain (Oracle), VLDB 2008.
• Big Data and Real-time Structured Data Analytics, Ben Lorica (O'Reilly), 2009.
• Aurora: A New Model and Architecture for Data Stream Management, Daniel J. Abadi (Brandeis University), VLDB 2003.
• Continuous Analytics technical whitepaper, Truviso, 2010.
• Handling Large Datasets at Google: Current Systems and Future Directions, Jeff Dean (Google).
• Challenges in Building Large-Scale Information Retrieval Systems, Jeff Dean (Google), WSDM 2009.
• A Large Scale Search Engine System in 2010, Shihua Ming (Yanbian), 2010.
• PNUTS: Yahoo!’s Hosted Data Serving Platform, Brian F. Cooper, (Yahoo! Research), VLDB 2008.
• Sherpa: Cloud Computing of the Third Kind, Raghu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo! Research and Platform Engineering Team).
• PNUTS - Platform for Nimble Universal Table Storage,
• Sherpa: Hosted Data Serving | Yahoo! Research,
• Overview of Microsoft SQL Azure Database, Microsoft, 2009.
• Simiarities and Differences of SQL Azure and SQL Server, Microsoft, 2009.
• Introducing the windows azure platform, David Chappell, 2009.
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RE: AMD's response
By Khato on 1/27/2007 3:28:17 PM , Rating: 2
I find it somewhat sad that IBM is touting this like it's some new innovation that they got to first. I do wonder how well their planned integration into their 45nm process will go though. Just because Intel was able to get their first product for the 45nm node to work on the first stepping doesn't mean it's easy - Intel had first high-k gate dielectric transistors in lab in Nov '03, so process engineers have had plenty of time to tweak it into production.
One curiosity in that press release, nothing is mentioned about the previously touted low-k interconnect dielectrics and immersion lithography. Would be rather humorous if there were some incompatibility between the high-k gate dielectric/gate metal and the immersion lithography process.
RE: AMD's response
RE: AMD's response
By Viditor on 1/28/07, Rating: -1
RE: AMD's response
By Khato on 1/28/2007 2:32:47 PM , Rating: 2
Ayup, they're three completely different technologies, which is why I'm ever very careful to label the high-k as gate dielectric and low-k as interconnect dielectric. There shouldn't be any problem combining the two different dielectrics seeing as how they'd have limited contact points. But the gate metal might not like the low-k interconnect dielectric, or water - highly improbable, but it would be humorous.
Heh, Intel behind again? I guess if you go back far enough, IBM had a manufacturing technology lead. I somewhat doubt that there's much difference between the respective low-k interconnect dielectrics, while Intel's high-k dielectric is most probably quite superior.
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Definitions for audileˈɔ dɪl, -daɪl
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au•dileˈɔ dɪl, -daɪl(adj.)
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2. auditory, audile, auditive(adj)
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1. audile(Adjective)
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Definitions for taphouseˈtæpˌhaʊs; -ˌhaʊ zɪz
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word taphouse
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tap•houseˈtæpˌhaʊs; -ˌhaʊ zɪz(n.)(pl.)-hous•es
1. Brit. a tavern.
Category: British
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1. taphouse(Noun)
A tavern.
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1. Taphouse(noun)
a house where liquors are retailed
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Inventive Recycling: 22 Creative Beer Can and Bottle Creations
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An essential French Quarter stop, Café Du Monde has been serving chicory-spiced coffee, black or au lait, for over 150 years. Chicory, first introduced to stretch coffee supplies during the Civil War era, is still used for its flavor, which enhances the rich chocolate undertones of dark-roasted coffee. Tourists and locals line up at all hours for the specialty coffee, paired with the café’s justly famous beignets.
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Looped Exceptions
Is there any way to catch exceptions repeatedly, instead of just once? For example, when creating a Date object with a String, an IllegalArgumentException can be generated and caught. In the catch statement, if an attempt is made to create the Date with another String, there isn't anything I can do if it also throws an exception. Is there some sort of looped catch statement?
There is no such thing as a looped catch statement in Java. Code that requires such a construct should probably be restructured. Sometimes an exception handler is forced to catch an exception, but this does not require looping. A common example is a socket I/O operation that generates a fatal IOException. It is often necessary to do some cleanup and call close() in the catch statement rather than a finally clause or later in the code. This call can also cause an exception, but the exception can be caught and ignored.
An exception is usually either fatal or recoverable. Recoverable exceptions are handled within the context of more general logic. For example, if you are reading user input and receive an invalid date, you would probably ask the user to re-enter the date. This would be handled in a loop and would require only one catch statement. For example:
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Test Zinc Levels
Test Zinc Levels: Overview
There is no single laboratory test that adequately measures zinc nutritional status.
The best method of accurately determining zinc status is through measuring white blood cell levels. Since this test is not readily available and may be more expensive, serum zinc is routinely used as a screening tool.
Hair levels may show deficiencies or excesses but are generally not considered as reliable as other tests of zinc status. While low hair zinc is likely to be indicative of poor zinc status, elevated hair zinc may be indicative of low zinc in the cells or contamination from the use of zinc-containing shampoos.
This simple, non-toxic zinc taste test uses a test solution of zinc sulphate in purified water, at a concentration of 1gm/liter. Once prepared, the solution should be stored in a refrigerator and discarded after six months. The solution should be removed from storage and left at room temperature for about two hours before carrying out the test. The test involves taking a sip of the solution (approximately 5-10ml) and holding it in the mouth exactly ten seconds. Due to the possible influence of recently consumed food or drink on the taste experienced, it is essential that neither be taken for approximately one hour before the test.
Expected Outcome
For the zinc taste test, the defined standards are:
1. Grade one response: no specific taste sensation: tastes like plain water. This indicates a major deficiency of zinc requiring a supplement of at least 150mg of zinc per day.
2. Grade two response: no immediate taste is noticed but, within the ten seconds of the test, a 'dry' or 'metallic' taste is experienced. This indicates a moderate deficiency requiring a supplement of 100mg of zinc per day.
3. Grade three response: an immediate slight taste is noted, which increases with time over the ten second period. This indicates a deficiency of minor degree requiring a supplement of 50mg per day.
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Test Zinc Levels is highly recommended for Alcohol-related ProblemsAlcohol-related Problems
It is clear that brain zinc content changes during disease states and that brain zinc deficiency is possibly dynamically related to alcoholism. McLardy (1973) observed a 30% deficit in brain zinc levels amongst chronic alcoholics.
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Normal zinc levels are required for a strong immune system.
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Zinc levels amongst patients with rheumatoid arthritis are usually reduced. Results from zinc supplementation trials amongst rheumatoid arthritis patients have been mixed, though most find some improvement.
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The zinc taste test can be used to evaluate this common state of deficiency.
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Zinc is concentrated in ejaculate, and important for prostate health. Zinc stores can be reduced by frequent ejaculation. Marginal zinc status is associated with poor sperm count and motility (especially if testosterone levels are low).
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Dictionary Meaning and Definition on 'Interference'
Interference Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0
interference n
1. a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries [syn: intervention] [ant: nonintervention, nonintervention]
2. the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding [syn: hindrance]
3. electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication [syn: noise, disturbance]
4. (American football) the act of obstructing someone's path with your body; "he threw a rolling block into the line backer" [syn: blocking, block]
5. any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome [syn: hindrance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance]
Interference Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Interference \In`ter*fer"ence\, n. [See Interfere.]
3. (Patent Law) The act or state of interfering, or of claiming a right to the same invention. Interference figures (Optics), the figures observed when certain sections of crystallized bodies are viewed in
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101 Dirty Talk Examples To Drive Men WILD!
To help you get started spicing up your sex life here are 101 dirty talk examples that will blow the socks off your man in bed!
good-dirty-talk-examplesBut before I get into it, remember, great dirty talk is different for everyone.
While the below examples have been known to work and are recommended from men across the board …it’s all about the delivery.
I suggest you customize each one for your guy to really drive him crazy.
Enough talking …on to the examples!
101 Irresistible Dirty Talk Examples:
1. I love your hot c*ck
2. I want you inside me right now!
3. I’m going to rock your world right now
4. I feel so sexy in your arms
5. Stand right there… I’m going to slowly undress you…
6. You’re so hot and sexy
7. You look so hot… I want you right now
8. Is that a present for me wrapped up in your boxers?
9. I’m gonna take control tonight baby… and you have to do *everything* I say!
10. I want your c*ck in me
11. I’m going to s*ck you till you c*m so hard!
12. Mmm… I love the taste of you
13. Naughty boys like you need to be punished
14. You’re so big!
15. Have you been bad today?
16. You have a very skilled tongue
17. What are you going to do to me?
18. What do you want to do to me?
19. I want to give you so much pleasure
20. I want to your hard d*ck in my mouth
21. You make me so wet
22. Lick me right here and I’ll c*m (then show him slowly with your hand)
23. You’ get me off like no other man can
24. S*cking you off turns me on so much
25. You have the nicest c*ck I have ever seen
26. I love it when you say my name while we’re having sex… it turns me on so much
27. You feel so good when you’re deep inside me…
28. Your body feels so soft and smooth… I love it when you’re pressed naked against me…
29. I’d love you to f*ck me from behind
30. We fit so perfectly together baby… you feel wonderful inside me
31. You’re making me squirm with pleasure
32. I can’t get enough of your sexy broad shoulders and gorgeous chest
33. Your c*ck fits me perfectly baby
34. I love it when you c*m inside me
35. Oh that feels so good!
36. I love looking into your eyes when we’re having sex, it turns me on
37. I love it when you wrap your muscular arms around me
38. I love it when you f*ck me fast/slow like that
39. Your c*ck feels huge!
40. That’s so good… you’re going to make me c*m
41. Yeah… f*ck me baby
42. Mmm… I want you to c*m INSIDE me
43. Where do you want to c*m?
44. Take it slowly baby
45. Are you gonna c*m?
46. I want you to c*m all over me
47. I’m your bad little girl
48. It’s going in so deep, almost too deep
49. Does that feel good baby?
50. Take me now baby
51. You give me the best sex I’ve ever had
52. Give it to me tiger!
53. I want to taste you baby
54. That was hot, let’s do it again!
55. I want to ride you right now baby
56. Come here big boy
57. No one has ever turned me on like you can
58. I can’t wait to do you!
59. You have the most beautiful c*ck I have ever seen
60. Your p*nis drives me wild!
61. Your body is so hot
62. I want you to be gentle
63. Stick it in, plllllllease
64. Rub my cl*t with your nice c*ck
65. I’m going to f*ck you so hard and fast
66. I love feeling your hard c*ck deep inside me… stretching my p*ssy when you thrust like that
67. Your c*ck is stretching me out
68. I love putting my hands all over your gorgeous shoulders and arms while I ride your hard c*ck… it makes me want to f*cking scream!
69. I want to ride your hard, fat c*ck so it fills my tight p*ssy until you make me scream baby
70. Your hard c*ck fills my p*ssy and makes me scream every time
71. I just wanna scream with pleasure when you’re pounding me with your hard c*ck
72. I get so wet when I see your ripped abs and chest pressed against my tits
73. Take it slowly baby… your hard fat c*ck is stretching my tight wet p*ssy
74. I just wanna scream when I feel your hard c*ck come inside my tight p*ssy
75. Keep f****** me just like that baby… your c*ck feels amazing!
76. It makes me so wet when you look at me while you’re pounding my p*ssy with your hard c*ck
77. I get so wet when you hold me close and thrust your hard c*ck inside me
78. I love having my wet p*ssy filled with your hard c*ck when you bang me hard like that
79. Oh yeah… I want to feel every inch of that hard throbbing c*ck inside me
80. Keep f*cking me like that and I am going to c*m so hard
81. Yeah… pound my p*ssy with that big c*ck of yours
82. I want you to fill my p*ssy with your c*m baby
83. I want you to c*m all over my chest baby
84. Go slowly baby… I want you to ease your c*ck into my tight p*ssy
85. Do you want to c*m on me baby?
86. I’ve been a very naughty girl and you need to punish me with your c*ck
87. You’re filling me all up baby… I love your hard fat c*ck stuffed inside my p*ssy
88. I want to make you moan and scream when I touch you all over… till you can’t take it any more
89. Fill my p*ssy with your throbbing d*ck baby
90. You make me c*m so f*cking hard baby
91. I can’t wait to wrap my lips around your hard c*ck
92. Why don’t you come up here so I can s*ck on it then you can put it back in?
93. That was f*cking incredible… f*ck me again!
94. How about I go on top and ride you for a bit, big boy?
95. Slow down there big boy, I need a break
96. Tease me with that nice c*ck
97. Tell me how much you love it
98. Slap my *ss
99. Slap my *ss harder
100. Finish on my *ss
101. Whew! That’s a great workout
There you have it!
I hope these examples give you LOTS of ammunition for not just in the bedroom but for some red-hot sexts as well!
Remember, these dirty talk examples can give you some fast ways to turn your man on, but if you REALLY want to learn how to drive your man wild then learn how to talk dirty FROM a guy.
Stay Sexy,
Evan Michaels
P.S Thanks to your help we’ve been featured on PlayBoy radio and helped over 30,000 people have the super-charged sex life of their dreams! Please like & share my posts if you enjoy them and want more!
Evan M.101 Dirty Talk Examples To Drive Men WILD!
• lucy
You have a very skilled tongue
What are you going to do to me?
What do you want to do to me?
• Cristina
hey look my pussies are dry il make them wet opr do you wanna do it for me?
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This is the internet, not network television- you don’t need to censor yourself. Fuck, shit, fuck, piss, pussy, cock, slut. See: no stars necessary!
• star69
Baha these are hilarious. If anyone said “Whew! That’s a great workout” to me after sex, I would eject them from the bed immediately.
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Why come no ass stuff?
“Shove that big c*ck in my Ass over and over until you make me squiirt out of my little tight c*nt”
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Some that gets my man going!
Eat me til I squirt all over your face
Clean all my c*m off my dripping wet c*nt
F*ck me like the little wh*re I am
Make me a good girl
F*ck the bad out of me baby
• diane
I’m gonna snail trail your face
• Brittney
i love this site……makes me feel more capable of pleasing my man in every way i can…..thnx for sharing
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Caring for Your Natural Hair Extensions
Your hair extensions have been attached and you are feeling stylish and beautiful. Now you want to stay that way and that means taking the greatest care of your new extensions.
Mainly this means treating your whole head as you always have. You can wash, colour and style your hair as if it were all naturally yours. But make sure that the products you use will give the best results. Replacing them may be the only change you need to make.
Maintaining the Condition
The products and processes you use should always be gentle ones. You could even invest in some new products on the market specially designed for hair extensions. Some people like to use baby shampoo, but to maintain health and shine you could alternate it with a moisturising option, followed by a moisturising conditioner.
Two to four times a month, give the hair a deep conditioning treatment that you leave in for some time. To be sure of added shine, use a serum after the washing process. Apply it to your wet hair and finger it right through to the ends to protect the cuticles.
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Virtual Vineyards' New CEO Savors Opportunity to Sell Wine, Food Online
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A sure sign that e-commerce is maturing was the recent announcement that Michael Parker had left his post as president and chief operating officer of specialty food chain Trader Joe's Company, Pasadena, CA, to take over as president and CEO of online wine seller Virtual Vineyards, Palo Alto, CA. Though Virtual Vineyards ( doesn't make its sales numbers public, the business must show promise because it lured Parker from a retailer with more 100 stores nationwide and more $1 billion in annual revenue.
The top spot at Virtual Vineyards brings Parker a new set of challenges, including the opportunity to brush up his direct marketing and lobbying skills in various states where the online sale of alcoholic beverages is drawing political fire.
For instance, New York State Attorney General Dennis Vacco earlier this year set up a sting operation in which minors were filmed accepting deliveries of alcohol resulting from orders placed online without having to show proof of age.
Parker spoke with DM News recently about his plans for Virtual Vineyards and his feelings about the various states where online wine selling raises regulatory hackles.
DM News: Where aren't you currently shipping?
Michael Parker: Florida, Georgia, essentially the Deep South. It's all about money.
DM News: Will you expand on that?
M.P.: The regulations governing alcoholic beverages are archaic. The alcoholic beverage business is one of the few where monopolies are allowed in wholesale tiers. And most of it is to protect vested interests. These people [distributors] don't want to compete, but what they do is rattle the saber of protecting our children and keeping alcohol controlled when in fact what they're doing is protecting a monopoly. I don't know of any time when that happened [minors ordering alcohol online] other than [Vacco's] sting operation. When we're young, our needs tend to be a little more immediate [than placing an order and waiting for the shipment to arrive].
DM News: Are you lobbying in the South?
M.P.: We are very active with a couple of coalitions. But quite frankly, I'm not concerned about certain markets because wine consumption in those markets is awfully small.
DM News: Do you think the Web poses a threat to traditional distribution channels?
M.P.: No more than direct marketing poses a threat to brick and mortar. They coexist because there are deficiencies in both. Are [Web merchants] ever going to overtake brick and mortar? No. Are we ever going to overtake direct [selling]? Probably no. But I think there are going to be marriages and mergers, and there will be a nice blending.
DM News: Why did Virtual Vineyards choose now to go outside the organization and hire you?
M.P: The business has been growing at a two- to three-fold rate per year. And they were at a point where they needed to expand the assortment [of merchandise]. They have the technical expertise on the Web, and they have a great wine person. What they were looking for was a foodie, I guess -- a person with the retail background to integrate with the technical and the wine experience.
DM News: What made you leave retail for the Web?
M.P.: I don't think I did actually. I really feel that this is the next major breakthrough in retailing. In a sense, and not a negative one, the Internet is dumbing down. We started with highly sophisticated users five years ago and are now moving toward more common users like myself, who happen to be interested in good food and good wine.
[On the Internet,] we can make it much easier for customers to have a pleasant experience by not making them drive home in the rain. We can fulfill in a way that makes their life easier, like having a case of wine arrive at their house once a month or a package of gourmet food arrive at their house once a month. For the customer, it's one less thing they have to do.
DM News: What is Virtual Vineyards' average order size and how much repeat business does you get?
M.P.: Our average order size is around $90. About 40 percent of our business is repeat, but that number is deceiving because our growth rate is so high.
DM News: What types of prospecting do you plan?
M.P.: I don't want to prospect until we get our content a little broader. We want to expand our appeal. We want it to be more recognizable [in terms of brand], more consumable with snack-type things that get consumed when you open them.
DM News: When you do expand your marketing efforts, will you rent e-mail lists, postal lists, or both?
M.P.: Yes we'll probably rent lists but not necessarily e-mail lists, which we've found aren't terribly productive. I think we're more interested in targeting the market based on income, education and reading preferences. For example, Sunset magazine here in California, or Gourmet magazine or Leisure and Travel. They have a fairly broad audience, most of whom have computers.
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Drink of the Week for Nov 22nd, 2006: Mom's Apple Pie
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When you get to work, sometimes you just know it's going to be a long day. This is, of course, assuming that you go to work, which if you're anything like our editors, may not be a valid assumption. But we digress. To illustrate our point, if you start your day with a meeting where someone puts up a slide that has a picture of the internet as some sort of cloud, with lightning bolts connecting it to things outside of the cloud, you're guaranteed a long day. Toss in a crazy guy on your commute and some buzzwords like "core syntactical value migration", and you'll know why our jobs involve drinking. Is there some sort of law that says when you get an MBA you have to use at least one fake or incomprehensible word per sentence, upped to three if you're in a meeting? If you don't understand the word "meeting", then you're one of them, and probably like to call it a "two-way open dialog".
To make our day better, we're going to have a two-way open cyber-dialog with you to provide some target-market beverage facilitation instruction. You're our favourite kind of demographic, which is either you're getting this email, or you're some kind of cyborg from the future that can synthesize and dispense candy at will. If you're the second one, we have a job opening for you. If you're the first one, then enjoy this drink before we have to start leveraging our market focus on you. Also... please, send help.
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Mom's Apple Pie Drink Recipe
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• 1 sprinkle Cinnamon
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Add vodka and apple juice to shot glass. Puff whipped cream on top, sprinkle with cinnamon.
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How to Mark Up Excel 2013 Worksheets with Digital Ink
If you’re running Excel 2013 with a computer connected to a digital tablet or on a touchscreen, you can mark up your worksheets with digital ink. Excel 2013 running on a computer equipped with a digital tablet or running on a touchscreen device contains a Start Inking command button located at the very end of the Ribbon’s Review tab.
When you tap this command button (or press Alt+RK), Excel displays a Pens tab on the Ink Tools contextual tab.
By default, Excel chooses the felt tip pen as the pen type for annotating the worksheet with digital ink. If you’d prefer to use a ballpoint pen or highlighter in marking up the worksheet, click the Pen command button or Highlighter command button in the Pens group.
When using the highlighter or either of the two pen types (felt tip or ballpoint pen), you can select a nib from the Pens palette displayed in the middle of the Pens tab. You can also select a new line weight for the ink by choosing the point size (running from 3/4 all the way up to 6 points) from the Thickness command button’s drop-down menu.
You can also select a new ink color (yellow being the default color for the highlighter, red for the felt tip pen, and black for ballpoint pen) by clicking its color swatch on the Color command button’s drop-down palette.
After you select the pen nib, color, and line weight, you can use your finger or the stylus that comes with your digital tablet to mark up the spreadsheet as follows:
• To highlight data in the spreadsheet with the highlighter, drag the highlight mouse pointer through the cells (just as though you had an actual yellow highlighter in your hand).
• To circle data in the spreadsheet with the felt tip pen, drag the pen tip mouse pointer around the cells in the worksheet.
• To add a comment with the ballpoint pen, drag the pen tip mouse pointer to write out your text in the worksheet.
The figure shows a copy of the Income Analysis worksheet after the Highlighter and Pen commands on the Pens tab were used to highlight cell B4 in the worksheet, circle it, and write the comment “verify” in digital ink.
If you make a mistake with ink, you need to remove it and start over again. To delete the ink, select the Eraser command button in the Write group and then tap somewhere on the highlighting, drawing, or handwriting you want to erase with the eraser mouse pointer. (Sometimes you have to drag through the ink to completely remove it.)
Then, reselect the highlighter or felt tip or ballpoint pen and reapply your ink annotation.
When you finish marking up the worksheet with ink, click the Stop Inking command button on the Pens tab of the Ink Tools contextual tab. Excel then closes the Ink Tools contextual tab, once again displaying only the normal Ribbon tabs.
After marking a workbook up with your comments, you can then share it with clients or co-workers either by sending an e-mail message inviting them to review the workbook or actually sending them a copy as an e-mail attachment.
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DEEP in the sweaty Sierra Leonean bush, the Land Cruiser’s air conditioning broke down. No problem: the car-hire firm sent another car. Dirty diesel from a diamond-mining town fouled its engine, and the second car broke down. Again, no problem. Flash Vehicle Rentals sent a third Toyota.
The small west African nation of Sierra Leone is not a good place to be stranded. It has few trustworthy places to get a car fixed. And it is not entirely safe. The civil war, during which thousands of people had their hands hacked off as a punishment for voting, ended in 2002. But your correspondent narrowly missed a riot in another mining town, and the roads are always littered with cars wrecked by untrained drivers.
None of the big global car-hire firms operates in Sierra Leone. Yet the foreigners who have flocked here to invest in mines and farms need a reliable way to get around. David Dobrowolski, a 30-year-old Canadian, seeks to supply one. With two friends, he set up Flash Vehicle Rentals two years ago.
Today its fleet comprises 70 four-wheel-drive Toyotas, which are good on terrible roads. Some were bought at auctions—the aid agencies and UN bodies in Sierra Leone typically sell their cars after five years or 100,000km (62,000 miles). Most are simplified versions of the cars sold in the rich world, with fewer temperamental electronics.
Sierra Leone is, though, a tricky place to keep any vehicle going. There is no unleaded petrol available, no Toyota dealership and no recovery service. Flash keeps its own store of spare parts and has imported a mechanic. It protects its highly portable assets with a GPS system, which tracks the location of each car and transmits it back to head office using the mobile-phone network. If necessary, Flash can immobilise a car from afar.
Its chief selling point, however, is its breakdown service. It vows to send a replacement if any of its cars malfunctions, anywhere in Sierra Leone. This gives customers peace of mind, but it does not come cheap. Within Freetown, the capital, a Flash car costs $110 a day, excluding fuel. In the most remote patches of bush, that can rise to $225 a day. Some 90% of Flash’s customers sign long-term leases with bespoke rates. Short-term hires cost more.
Mr Dobrowolski, who came to Sierra Leone in 2008, started Flash because he was frustrated at the costly, shoddy car-hire services in Freetown. It is a tough business—credit is expensive in Sierra Leone. But Flash rushes in, where Avis fears to tread.
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@techreport{Fehr2009Pension, abstract = {The present paper studies the growth and efficiency consequences of pension funding with individual retirement accounts in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic lifespan and labor income uncertainty. We distinguish between economies with rational and hyperbolic consumers and compare the consequences of voluntary and mandatory retirement plans. Three major findings are derived in our study: First, we quantify the commitment effect of social security for myopic individuals by roughly 1 percent of aggregate resources. It is possible to recapture this commitment technology in IRAs, if those are annuitized. Second, despite the fact that our consumers have an operative bequest motive, the welfare gain from the (implicit) longevity insurance of the pension system is significant and amounts to roughly 0.5 percent of aggregate resources. However, mandatory annuitization reduces unintended bequests so that future generations are significantly hurt. Finally, our results highlight the importance of liquidity effects for social security analysis. These efficiency gains are only attainable if accounts are voluntary and not mandatory.}, address = {M\"{u}nchen}, author = {Hans Fehr and Fabian Kindermann}, copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen}, keywords = {H55; J26; 330; individual retirement accounts; annuities; stochastic general equilibrium; hyperbolic consumers; Alterssicherung; Rentenfinanzierung; Private Rentenversicherung; Konsumentenverhalten; Zeitpr\"{a}ferenz; Versicherungspflicht; Wohlfahrtseffekt; Allgemeines Gleichgewicht; Overlapping Generations; Theorie}, language = {eng}, number = {2724}, publisher = {CESifo}, title = {Pension funding and individual accounts in economies with life-cyclers and myopes}, type = {CESifo working paper}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/30564}, year = {2009} }
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Understanding the FDTD Method
I once considered publishing a book on the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method based on notes I wrote for a course I taught. But, why go through the hassle of publishing through a publisher when you can give away something for free? (Okay, I can think of several reasons, but I’m going to ignore them.)
So, here is what I have written. In addition to my students, several people who have stumbled across these notes via a search engine have told me this material has been quite helpful to them. Hopefully if you read through this you’ll find it helpful too. But, here are a few things to note:
ENTIRE BOOKUnderstanding the FDTD Method by John B. Schneider.
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Design Lively E-Learning with Action Mapping
Cathy Moore in here e-learning blog Ideas for Lively E-learning lays out an excellent technique that can help you focus eLearning on intended outcomes based on desired actions.
Moore recommends working backward from the intended business goal--an action. This avoids the trap of a linear information content dump and piling up irrelevant information that does not really help learners get to the desired goal. Action mapping is a four-step process as follows:
1. Identify the business goal.
3. Design activities that help people practice each behaviour (the "to do's" noted in #2).
4. Identify the minimum information people need to complete each activity.
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It didn't take long for the iPhone's release for it to get a VNC client enabling remote desktop access. No surprise, then, that it's taken even less time for Palm's Pre to get similar functionality -- well, the beginnings of similar functionality, anyway. As the thrilling video after the break proves, it's possible to get today's hottest smartphone to connect to a VNC server, but rather sadly keyboard and mouse support aren't there yet. So, while you can watch all those wonderful command prompts and other windows majestically move across the screen, you can't touch a single one. Surely that'll be fixed soon, but will it be soon enough?
VNC on the Palm Pre lets you look at your desktop from afar, but not touch it
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HTML5 is supposed to set the web free. Free to deliver and shape online media in any web browser. However, several of the standard's greatest champions want to be able to restrict the use of audio and video tags through encrypted media extensions. A draft proposal has been submitted by Google, Microsoft, and Netflix to the W3C -- the curators of HTML5 -- to add encrypted media extensions to the web standard's spec. The proposed system works using a key-based content decryption system controlled by applications, thusly providing the copy protection that so many content owners desire. Naturally, the proposal specifically states that "no DRM is added to the HTML5 specification" if it's adopted, but letting apps lock up audio and video content sure sounds like digital rights management to us. However, there's already some discord amongst the W3C's members as to whether the proposal will work as promised, so its addition to HTML5 is far from assured. You can read the full proposal at the source below, and check out the more coverage links for some added perspective.
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Certifications: Worth It or Not?
By Daniel Dern | Mar 1, 2002 | Print this Page
There is one major exception, Lubert points out -- on the channel side. VARs, dealers, integrators, resellers, et cetera. Here, customers want, often mandate, that people providing services be certified. "So resellers almost always wants the people to be certified, because that's the foot in the door."
"Sometimes, when you have a disaster, it's people without the certifications who can do it, because they understand what's happening at the network level, not just the vendor and API level," points out Mark Lesswing, VP at the National Association of Realtors' Center for Realtor Technology. "I look for people who had been in a shop that had undergone a paradigm change while they were there, such as taking subnetting a corporate network, or moving to a new vendor or technology. These are fundamental changes you need to understand. I look for people who have lived and survived changes like these."
A Prerequisite In The Employment Process
Regardless of whether they mean someone will be a more valuable employee, certifications are often in the employment criteria.
"Requiring a candidate to have the certification can be used as a high-level discriminator to help a hiring manager quickly cull out some people. However," Lubert cautions, "Some of those culled may be highly qualified individuals who don't believe in certification or who haven't gotten them yet."
"Having a certification often pigeonholes someone," points out Jason McKinney, a independent network administrator previously in charge of the networks and systems for a small multinational corporation. "The argument can be made that the major value of it is to provide search engine fodder, e.g. to enable a person to be found by the hiring manager, so that they get an interview."
The Life Cycle of Certifications -- And Knowledge
The 'life cycle' of the certification is also a growing issue. Ernest Lilley, an independent network engineer, previously Director of Operations at Synaptic Pharmaceutical Corp, points out, "Though corporate buyers and consumers alike are rebelling against the short OS and Software product cycles that we've experienced for the past decade, software developers aren't going to give them up without a fight. As a result, the useful lifespan of any given certification is often no longer the period it takes to acquire it."
A similar argument can be applied to the amount of experience, though.
"Two to three years of applying a technology is enough," states Howard Marks. "Frequently, five to seven years becomes two to three of experience and then more of it over again." On the other hand, though: "The only people who can do something like design a Win2K network are those who have done it three time. The first cookie is always burnt, and the second cookie is always underdone. The third time is the charm."
Education's What Counts
"Certification should never be confused with education," states Lubert. "If you take education away from your people, you'll never keep them. Really good people continue to reinvent and improve themselves.
Be sure to support on-going learning. "If I were the CIO or MIS manager, the last thing I would care about whether they were Cisco-certified, but would care if they were educated," stresses Howard Lubert. "I'd make sure they went to class, went to school, had the tools needed, and had the time to work on -- in a non-production environment -- the products. This would enhance their value to the company."
This doesn't necessarily mean certification-oriented courses are without value.
"People who take the vendor training on top of the knowledge of a computer science background will get a lot more out of that training than just cookbook knowledge," says Beth Cohen.
The flip side, Lubert notes: "It is almost never in a company's best interest to encourage people to get certifications, because that makes them more marketable to companies who place a value on certification."
Advice to Network Managers
"More of the work today on networks and PCs is troubleshooting and fixing things -- more of the routine activities have become automated," points out Cohen. So try to hire people with good troubleshooting skills."
"Be very leery of employees who are discussing wanting to continue or get certification, as opposed to getting experience, when they are in the interview process," cautions Howard Lubert. "That's a big red flag to me."
Daniel P. Dern is a free-lance technology writer. Most recently he was Executive Editor of Byte.com. His web site is at www.dern.com.
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