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Iowa education reforms make sense, for now
February 1, 2013
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has proposed a reform plan for the state’s public schools. It includes higher teacher pay and bonuses for teachers who act as mentors for their younger colleagues....
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Samson and the Lion
Judges 13 to Judges 14:6
The children of Israel made many other conquests after the fall of Jericho. On one occasion God caused both the sun and the moon to stand still in the heavens, that the day might be long enough for them to complete the defeat of their enemies. They had possession of almost the whole land of Canaan, and they divided it by lot among their twelve tribes, the descendants of Israel's twelve sons. Then God gave them rest from the attacks of their enemies round about them and they served Him faithfully.
The Philistines were the most powerful of nations that oppressed the Israelites and to help them against these, God gave to them a judge named Samson. Before he was born, an Angel appeared to his mother and told her that her son should begin the deliverance of the people from the Philistines. She did not know it was really an Angel, but told her husband that a man, who looked like an Angel of God, had said these things to her. Manoah, her husband, prayed to God that the man might come again, and tell them how they should bring up their child.
So God sent the Angel again, and they still thought he was a man. When they began to dress food for him, the angel told them offer it to God as a burnt-offering and when they did so, he went up, as it were, to heaven, in the flame that rose from the altar. Then they knew it was God's angel with whom they had been speaking.
When their child was born they called him Samson, and did all that the Angel had said they should do with him. God blessed Samson, and made him the strongest man that ever lived. One day, when he was going with his father and mother into the country of the Philistines, a lion sprang out roaring against him and God gave him such strength that he seized it with his hands and tore it to pieces.
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Fun with Sunflowers
Inspired by Country Girl’s “beauty marks,” I’ve been playing around with some of my favorite sunflower pictures. Feel free to add them to your blog if you’re a farmer’s daughter, too (by blood or in your heart).
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Marie Silverman tells her story of escape from Antwerp.
[MOVIE] "A Time of fear and confusion."
[MOVIE] "Heading toward France."
[MOVIE] "The Germans found our hiding place."
[MOVIE] "To a deportation camp."
[MOVIE] "We escaped from the camp."
[MOVIE] "One becomes strong."
[MOVIE] "With the help of the underground."
[MOVIE] "We would have to be brave."
[MOVIE] "We crossed the Pyrenees on foot."
[MOVIE] "Five years after."
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Papers Published
1. Poulikakos, D. and Bejan, A., Unsteady natural convection in a porous layer, Phys. Fluids (USA), vol. 26 no. 5 (1983), pp. 1183 - 91 [1.864266] .
(last updated on 2007/04/08)
The focus of this paper is on the functionals of the transient mechanism responsible for the establishment of natural convection in a two-dimensional porous layer confined between isothermal vertical walls and insulated horizontal walls. In the first part of the paper, pure scaling arguments are used to identify the characteristic time scales of the phenomenon and, based on these scales, the evolution of the porous system to steady state. The type of steady state is shown to depend on the relative order of magnitude of the characteristic time scales. Distinct vertical boundary layers are shown to be possible if (L/H)Ra1/2>1, and distinct horizontal layers if (H/L)1/2Ra1/4>1. In the second part of the paper, these and other scaling laws of the transient evolution to steady state are successfully tested against a series of transient numerical experiments conducted in the range H/L=0.2-5 and Ra=10-50
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En Route
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"Logan, I'm serious," Scott's voice insisted. "We've got a schedule to keep, so we aren't going to wait around for you and Chuck," Logan said. "You two are welcome to join the party."
Category: X-Men: The Movie - Rating: PG-13 - Genres: Action/Adventure - Characters: Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Professor Xavier, Wolverine - Published: 2005/09/04 - Updated: 2005/09/04 - 895 words
"Are you sure she will be alright?"
"What I mean to say is that she's been unconscious for a while."
"I said 'yes.' I've touched Rogue a lot longer than she did and I'm fine."
"Ja, but you were also unconscious for a little under a week. You also have an enhanced healing factor."
Rachel's eyes fluttered open slowly. She could see that the indigo blob was arguing with a tan smear. She blinked. The images started to solidify, but she still felt lethargic.
"Bus," Rachel groaned. "I just got hit by a bus."
From the backseat, Kurt placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. Rachel's head lolled back towards the new source of warmth.
"See?" Logan grunted. "She's fine, fuzzball."
"Your face, liebchen," Kurt whispered to Rachel.
She smiled at the yellow eyed man and assumed her psychic mask.
"Thanks, Elf," she murmured.
"Care to explain what the hell we're doing?" Logan asked gruffly.
"Rogue didn't?"
"It's Magneto and his Brotherhood or whatever they're calling themselves," Rachel explained. "They've realized the implications of what will happen if Graydon Creed is elected president. It'll be concentration camps, Sentinels and hounds for anyone with an X-gene."
"Sentinels and hounds?" Kurt asked.
"Not important." Rachel shook her head. "So they're going to kill him."
"So?" Logan growled. He rolled down his window and lit up a cigar. "The bastard deserves it."
"But think about it," Rachel insisted. "A group of muties off a guy who was concerned with the dangers of mutantkind. It proves him right."
"And turns Creed into a martyr," Kurt realized.
"Someone with mutant tolerant views isn't going to be elected president," Rachel continued. "The people are going to rally behind some militant jerk who's hell bent on ending the mutant menace."
"So we're looking for Magneto and his woman?" Logan decided.
"It'd be easier if that were the case," Rachel admitted. She gripped her seatbelt nervously.
Logan's knuckles turned white around the steering wheel. "What do you mean?"
"Magneto's included Sabretooth in his plans," Rachel said.
"Sabretooth's dead," Logan replied, a tendril of smoke curled out from his nostril. "I saw him pitch off the Statue of Liberty."
"Do you think you're the only one with a healing factor?" Rachel snorted. "Sabretooth has a taste for death. He's unpredictable. Either Magneto was desperate or is looking for a bloodbath."
"Or just stupid enough to think he can control him," Logan offered.
"So we need to only worry about Sabretooth?" Kurt asked.
"Mystique has to pose as Senator Kelly at this debate, so she'd only blow her cover if absolutely necessary," Rachel explained. "Sabretooth will be our first problem, but I'm sure that Magneto will be somewhere."
Their conversation was interrupted by a low buzzing. Kurt grinned sheepishly and motioned towards his belt loop.
"My comm," he explained. Kurt brought the comm up to his ear and pressed a button. "Yes?"
"Kurt?" Scott's voice crackled on the other end. "Thank God you picked up. I want you three to stay where you are. The professor and I are coming to get you."
Kurt shot Logan a questioning glance, who in turn looked at Rachel. The girl shook her head furiously.
"Sorry, One-eye, no can do," Logan replied.
"Logan, I'm serious," Scott's voice insisted.
Rachel flinched. "This is exactly what I didn't want," she muttered.
"Logan, you're making a big mistake," Scott sounded strained. "You don't have the authority, I want you to wait."
"The decision's been made, bub," Logan replied. "Kurt, turn that thing off."
"My apologies, Scott," Kurt said as he flicked off the comm and Scott's ensuing protests.
"Logan!" Scott raised his voice. "They turned their comm off."
"It was to be expected, Scott," Xavier replied calmly.
"But you know what Logan's capable of," Scott argued. The light glinted off of the man's ruby quartz visor dangerously.
"Yes," Xavier agreed. "That's precisely why Rachel chose him. He doesn't fear death."
"I don't mean to interrupt, but could someone explain to me what's going on?" Kitty Pryde asked from her seat in the Blackbird. The girl wore her leather X-Man garb cautiously and knotted her fingers in her brown hair to calm her nerves.
"If what I scanned from Rogue's mind is any indication of what Rachel has planned, we need to stop her," Professor Xavier said.
"But what am I doing here?" Kitty asked. "Shouldn't I be back at the school looking after Peter?" Her face flushed scarlet before she added, "and the others?"
"Scott and I are going to intercept Rachel and the others," Xavier replied. "Of everyone else remaining at the school, Kitty, you are the most qualified to fly the Blackbird. If the need for a hasty retreat is made, you'll be ready and waiting for us."
"Professor, are you sure it's necessary that you come with me?" Scott asked.
"Absolutely," Xavier affirmed. "The only way to combat a telepath is another telepath."
"Do you really expect Rachel to fight us?" Scott pressed.
"I pray that doesn't happen," Xavier replied. "But we need to be prepared for the worst."
"I think she's a good kid," Scott said.
The professor sighed. "Even good kids can get scared," he replied.
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A bit off-topic, but...
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hi friends,
i would like to know whether there is any command to clear the screen at
runtime from a java program. for example we give cls at the dos command prompt
for clearing the screen. i want to know if there is any similar command in
java and if so what it is and what is its syntax
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Old 10-09-2012, 18:58
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The run up to her X factor appearance?
Saying the word fact, doesn't make it a fact. I could say she was once suspended from school for being caught in the boiler room with the old caretaker and a bucket of melted chocolate and an adapted mop, FACT!
Does that make it true?
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So... You would expect all your friends who had built a friendship/relationship with your ex and your child, not to see or have any involvement with them just because you don't want them too?
That is incredibly selfish IMO
The story is clearly implying that Chris and Jayne are romantically involved.
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View Full Version : On FW HD, Formats, and Cross-Platformness
Apr 14, 2004, 01:31 PM
I am in the market for a 160+ Firewire hard drive. When I ship off to college next year, it would be insanely great if I could plug the drive into a friend's PC to swap files, but my brief attempt to do so with a Lacie drive failed to mount on the PC (for obvious reasons; the drive was designed for Macintosh and formated HFS+).
If I buy the right drive, can I possibly achieve my desired file sharing by formating the drive FAT or something? What do I need to know?
Your input is greatly appreciated.
Apr 14, 2004, 01:48 PM
You should be able to format any drive to any file system. Format the drive as Fat 32 and it will be readable by Mac OS and Windows. Won't Linux read Fat 32 also?
Apr 14, 2004, 04:46 PM
Awesome, thanks.
Apr 14, 2004, 05:13 PM
yes, the solution offered here is correct. the Mac can read FAT32 volumes with no problem, whereas the PC cannot read HFS+ (at all). whether the Mac does this to "play nice" or as a competitive necessity is unknown - but it does work and it's a good thing.
one often-overlooked advantage of this... you can format an iPod as FAT32 and it will work in parallel on both platforms. the first thing i did when i got a 40 GB iPod was re-format it as FAT32 so that it would be accessible by either platform... this was a big help when i wanted to use my PowerBook's SuperDrive to burn backup DVDs of my 3D Studio Max projects and other work, which would have taken a very long time to transfer over Ethernet (or to burn onto CDs).
on the music side of things, i've used my iPod on a Mac with iTunes, and on a PC with iTunes and EphPod, and you can go back and forth between the two platforms with no problems whatsoever.
it should be noted that this fact contradicts early Apple iPod marketing, which stated (among other lies) that "you can't re-format your iPod as a Windows iPod once you change it to a Mac iPod."
to answer the question above, there isn't one "Linux," but yes, many distributions of Linux can co-exist on a FAT32-formatted hard drive (i.e. for a dual-boot Windows/Linux system).
Apr 14, 2004, 05:21 PM
Nevermind...People never got it to work fully.
But isn't there a 32GB FAT32 limit? Would NTFS be better?
Apr 14, 2004, 05:43 PM
I forgot about that, but I think you're right. I don't think the Mac will read NTFS. It won't format NTFS.
Apr 15, 2004, 09:06 AM
i'm pretty sure OS X will mount NTFS as read-only.
Apr 15, 2004, 11:36 AM
That could be it. I know there's some issue or another.
Apr 16, 2004, 12:31 AM
But isn't there a 32GB FAT32 limit?
i have two 120 GB hard drives in my PC and they're both formatted as FAT32, with just one partition for each drive.
this site ( http://www.allensmith.net/Storage/HDDlimit/FAT32.htm ) states that FAT32's theoretical limit is somewhere around 2 TERABYTES.
i think you'll be OK...
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How accurate is the Garmin FR60's cycling sensor?
I know it's not a dedicated cyclocomputer but for its price (on eBay), it seems pretty tempting and lots of good has been said about it. Basically, what I'd like is a cyclocomputer with a reliable heart rate monitor which wouldn't break the bank. Don't forget that a Malaysian bank is quite a lot smaller than an American one.
Was looking at the Sigma BC 2006 HRM for a while but it seems a lot of negative reviews have been posted about it with quite a number from members of this forum.
If it's not as accurate as a dedicated cyclocomputer, can someone please point me to some decent ones with heart rate monitors. My budget's not great. Perhaps around USD100 at most.
The features I need would be :-
Speed (of course)
Average speed (not 100% necessary but would be nice)
Total distance (no brainer here)
Lap distance (another not 100% necessity but would be nice)
Heart rate monitor (definite must for certain reasons)
Clock function
Time spent
That's all. Not very much to ask for, right?
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I'm pretty sure from the specs that the FR60 with HRM and speed/cad sensor will do what you want. It uses the same speed/cad sensor that all the Edge models use and I haven't heard anyone complain about the accuracy of it to this point. If anything, just about everyone says it's more accurate than GPS in many cases. I think you'd be in good shape going this route.
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I just tested my 97 legacy outback 2.5 dohc with 188k miles. The car does not overheat, just has a slight blip in the idle. Gets kind of sluggish every once in a while. I hooked up my compressor to the engine using part of my compression tester. The driver side of the engine is tight, just a very slight leak, barely audible, on number 4. But the passenger side, number one, is really bad. But I'm confused. At TDC, I hook up the compressed air and you can hear it leaking out the intake AND the exhaust. enough that I was able to put my hand on the tailpipe and feel the pressure. Same thing with the intake. Now when I think about the leaking, it makes me think it's coming out the valves, like they aren't sealing. Now the number 3 cylinder is leaking out the intake as well. I was expecting to see a blown head gasket, which would cause leaking out of one cylinder, but I guess it could cause leaking out of both. If the gasket blew, how could the air get to the intake and exhaust? I was trying to picture this dohc head, but I have only seen the sohc heads off, so I'm trying to make sure that it's the head gasket. I really hope that the head isn't cracked. I've read a few posts about blown head gaskets, but I haven't seen much comment on cracked heads or symtoms of. One other question is if a normally operating engine is run with the radiator cap off, will the coolant overflow or not. Mine comes out very slow and consistent. Just barely flows over the rim. I only let it do that for about 10 min, and the temp gauge stayed solid in the middle. If it is the head gasket, can you change it in the car, or is that too much trouble? Just take the engine out, I know it's not too bad to pull. Do I change both gaskets? or just the one that's blown? I've heard all the bad stories about this engine and head gaskets, but I figure it's worth $200 to change the gaskets and see if I can get another year or so out of it. I'm about to start on it this afternoon, so any advice is appreciated.
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Rehabbed my knee for about 4 months and started lifting heavy again a few months back on a 4 day split and am almost back to where I was pre-knee rehab. Knee feels as good as it has in years but still a little nagging pain from time to time but nothing that isn't manageable.
Starting Wendlers 5/3/1 program today (also ran it for a few months before rehabbing). Starting a little lighter than probably what my true 1RM would be per Wendler's suggestion in the book.
Here is how my first cycle looks for the 5/3/1 portion:
Week 1: 85x5, 95x5, 110x5+
Week 2: 90x3, 105x3, 115x3+
Week 3: 95x5, 110x3, 125x1+
Week 4: deload - will probably only deload every other cycle.
Week 1: 170x5, 195x5, 225x5+
Week 2: 185x3, 210x3, 235x3+
Week 3: 195x5, 225x3, 250x1+
Week 4: deload
Week 1: 130x5, 150x5, 170x5+
Week 2: 140x3, 160x3, 180x3+
Week 3: 150x5, 170x3, 190x1+
Week 4: deload
Dead Lifts:
Week 1: 200x5, 230x5, 260x5+
Week 2: 215x3, 245x3, 275x3+
Week 3: 230x5, 260x3, 290x1+
Week 4: deload
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Mathematica 9 is now available
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Sinval Santos
10/23/04 08:37am
Somebody knows the expression that relates the torque among two systems in translation
For two systems in rotation have:
To = H'[t]+ Omega x H[t]
To = Torque (or moment) in relation to the fixed system
H = Moment angle in relation to the system in rotation
Omega = speed angle of the system in rotation
Expression exists, similar for the translation, in that appears fictitious torques?
Some book exists on the subject, send me the title
To who to help,I am very grateful
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I would like to make a request.
It would be very useful to be able to select a portion of a sound to loop, rather than just the whole audio file.
If this could be implemented in the future, it would be a significant improvment.
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Thursday, January 09, 2014
French Fry Diary 552: Dunkin' Donuts Hash Browns 2014
On a recent episode of The GAR! Podcast, my partner Ray Cornwall espoused the virtues of Dunkin' Donuts Hash Browns. You can hear that episode here. I knew I had reviewed them once, and talked about them again a year later, and was more than unimpressed. Ray raved about them, so I felt it might be time to try them again.
Despite Ray's description of them as UFOs and flat pancakes (not necessarily incorrect or accurate either), I knew as soon as I saw them, these were the same hash brown discs I had tried years ago. These hash browns are inch wide, quarter inch high discs of shaped potato bits, similar to the offerings at, as I've said before, Burger King and Chick-fil-A.
When I saw them pulled from a drawer where they had been kept since a first deep fry, then put into a quick bake oven, I shuddered. This was not going to be pretty. They put them in a bag this time rather than a cup, but they still stuck together in a nasty greasy way.
These hash brown-ettes do have an herbal spicy kick (I'm still betting on Mrs. Dash), but that's not enough to recommend them. I imagine they might be good if they were hot and not so greasy, but I get the feeling they cannot be found thus. Sounds like Ray might have found that one percent occurrence.
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Raspberry Pi: driving a VU meter using a digital-to-analog converter
As I've mentioned in previous blog articles, my wife and I have been working on driving an analog VU meter based on the sound going out the Raspberry Pi's audio outputs. This now works!
Here's a video demonstrating the result:
The music [1] is playing from a Raspberry Pi, with software running on the Pi digitally sampling the peak output audio level and writing that out to an 8-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The DAC output is then used to drive the analog meter. If you're interesting in knowing how all this hangs together, keep reading.
The Raspberry Pi is very capable of generating digital signals using its GPIO pins but an analog meter requires an analog signal. To convert a digital value emitted from the Raspberry Pi to an analog voltage we need a DAC. It's possible, and rewarding, to build a DAC using discrete components, but it's more convenient, accurate and reliable if you use an off-the-shelf DAC packaged as an integrated circuit (IC).
We've chosen to use the Analog Devices AD557. It has the following features:
Here's how the Raspberry Pi, DAC and VU meter were connected together:
Circuit diagram
Various GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi are used to provide a number between 0 and 255 to the data input pins (1 through 7) on the DAC. The power supply and ground for the DAC are provided by the 5V power and ground pins available on the Raspberry Pi GPIO header.
The slightly odd seeming output configuration involving three Vout pins is actually just what is required for normal operation. These three pins allow for alternate configurations where a non-standard output voltage range is required. See the AD577 documentation for more details.
The CS (chip select) and CE (chip enable) pins on the AD557 warrant some explanation. The DAC will only change its output voltage when both of these pins are low (at ground). This means that you can ensure you have the right values set on the data pins before telling the AD557 to update the output to the next value, ensuring unintended changes in output voltage are avoided while a new value is being set on the inputs.
There are use cases that require both the CS and CE pins to be used which I won't go in to here. Since we only need one of these pins here, CS is connected permanently to ground. CE is connected to a GPIO pin so we can control it from software running on the Raspberry Pi. The value on CE pin needs to be dropped from 1 to ground 0 for at least 225ns in order for the AD557 to update it's output voltage to a new value.
The 15K resistor is there to limit current. The Sifam audio level meter we're using is current driven, and needs very little current at that. It will show 0 (where the meter goes in to the red) at around 300uA. At the maximum output voltage from the DAC (5V), a 15K resistor will ensure the meter gets around 333uA (5 / 15000) which puts the needle nicely just in to the red zone.
Note that although this meter is marked as a VU meter, we are in no way indicating a true VU reading. The VU term has a strict definition which we're not trying to emulate in any real way here.
Photo of prototype circuit
The code that drives this circuit is available on Bitbucket. The files are:
Have a look around. There really isn't that much code involved.
I hope you've found this post interesting and/or educational. My wife and I are about to solder up the circuit and get it and the Pi in to some kind of box. I'll certainly post some pictures of the result once that's done.
[1]Irving Berlin's Russian Lullaby, performed by John Coltrane and band.
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User avatar #87 - rippercrust (03/15/2013) [-]
I have to say this, i have spent the past 3 days in agony, pissing razor blades
USE A CONDOM! even if the girl is free of std's and cant get pregnent infections can still happen. nothing is more painful then balanitis!
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What Twitter Does To Your Brain
It's not the freak occurrence it might seem, Twitter's co-founder submitting to psychoanalysis before a New York crowd. No, this sort of Jungian free-associating is what microblogging was expressly designed to do.
Shown a picture from psychologist Carl Jung's newly unsealed "Red Book," Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey said, according to the Wall Street Journal, that it "made him think of a map. He talked about his childhood fascination with maps, which eventually spurred him to learn about computer programming so that he could create maps on a computer. He later created a company that dispatched taxis and couriers via the Web." (More in the an excerpt from a WSJ video, above, or full video, below.)
An observer, though, might have thought not of maps but of Twitter. Co-founder Biz Stone has repeatedly said the service's text limits give it "low cognitive load" that "lowers the barrier, and it gets people communicating." Sounds a lot like free association, or the free form journal-ing Jung did in his Red Book. Is Twitter a way to tap the collective unconscious and thus unify humanity? Perhaps.
But the results of micoblogging could be more nefarious. Jung warned that his Red Book scribblings contained an ingredient of insanity:
"The reason... [this] looks very much like a psychosis is that the patient is integrating the same fantasy-material to which the insane person has fallen victim because he cannot integrate it but is swallowed up by it."
Perhaps that's a new slogan for Twitter: It's all good fun until you get "swallowed up by it" and turn psychotic from huffing your own fumes.
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The Creepy New Facebook for the Staggeringly Rich and Powerful
You can only join the exclusive new social network TopCom if you're among the 200 richest people in the world. Then again, if you're on hand in Davos Switzerland when TopCom is unveiled by scary software compant Tibco, there's a pretty good chance you're in that group.
TopCom is a highly secure private social network, a sort of "combination Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, texting, and Skype" for "the people who run the world," according to Esquire. In other words, it's like an electronic, year-round version of the obnoxiously self-important annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where TopCom will be launched later this week. Here's the happy, sanitized version of how this advanced conspiracy machine might work:
For example, Japanese prime minister Yoshihiko Noda can post a video of himself - viewable only by the top two hundred - asking for help because a major earthquake has caused a tsunami ... and call for an immediate videoconference among the appropriate world leaders to get Japan aid in the quickest way. CEOs of companies that have facilities near the impact site... could join forces... [Specially-invited] experts on nuclear power and crisis management could instantly offer opinions on the likelihood of various disaster scenarios.
In reality, this will probably just be used by Goldman Sachs etc. to dole out orders to political minions (i.e. heads of state), for U.S. agents to initiate comical attempts to spy on everyone (Tibco counts Homeland Security and Lockheed Martin among its many clients), and for Joe Biden to attempt to "punk" his global colleagues via video chat. Not that TopCom will last very long: As Harvey Weinstein learned with his disastrous "MySpace for Millionaires" scheme A Small World, rich people don't need their own social network. They already spend enough time with one another, and known how to reach each other if need be. The rest of the time, they tend to prefer the company of people who they can control, who they can easily impress, and who are young and pretty. Those people won't be on TopCom.
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Dec 7, 2010
What's Lost in Translation, and What's Not (part 2)
As if I were addressing a room, rather than casting my bread upon the waters of cyberspace, I'll start with an anecdote, one which I find funny. Hopefully you will also see the somewhat dark humor in it.
Several years back, Alasdair MacIntyre was on some panel at the Modernity: Yearing for the Infinite conference at Notre Dame. I entirely forget what the discussion was about, but remember well a remark he interjected, or at least its essential content. So, in Thucydidian reformulation (having the characters in one's narrative say not what they really said but what they ought to have said, given their ethos) :
When I was a boy, we were beaten if we did not learn Greek irregular verbs well. I am not defending beating children. In fact that is a very bad thing to do, both for the children and for those beating them. It was painful, and produced anxiety. But now . . . I can read Sophocles and you can't.
A fellow philosopher Dave O'Hara and I started a conversation on Twitter about languages and translations in philosophy, one which I am certain just as much on his side as on mine, reverberates with countless conversations he carried out with other people down the years. When students in class, other professors, parishioners in study groups, fellow travelers passing the time with talk, and the host of other seemingly chance interlocutors find out that you can read a text in its original language, a language they do not know, there are some standard lines in which the discussion typically develops. Guiding, understandable, but mistaken assumptions come to light. Sometimes I point them out. nowadays, I usually just pass over them and allow the conversation to go as the other person seemingly needs it to proceed.
Dec 5, 2010
Wisdom Literature and Philosophy
Already indulging in one digression from the discussion about the value of translations and original languages in studying philosophy -- since I really ought to follow up with a post setting out my probably eccentric views on which criteria can be given, explained, and defended for what constitutes a good translation -- I'm going to take a different tack and blog about a topic which more than tangentially coincides with a long-time obsession of mine, the complicated question of Christian philosophy. And, since I like to break up my perhaps overly long and dense entries from time to time with an image, here's the cover I ended up choosing for my volume coming out soon with Catholic University of America Press.
So, after that shameless plug. . . on with the digression!
I noted that I was happy engaging an interlocutor who shared a lack of a typically modern assumption, namely that philosophy was in some way strictly separated from theology or religion. This was not an assumption commonly made in antiquity, nor in the medieval period (at least until the fields of philosophy and theology not only came to be distinguished from each other but were often separated from and opposed to each other). For my part, I don't think that this simply represented a confusion or lack of development on the part of those earlier thinkers, as many scholars seem to -- though I am willing to concede that some figures may have blurred these together.
Dec 2, 2010
What's Lost in Translation, and What's Not (part 1)
A philosophical colleague of mine, Dave O'Hara, who I must admit not to knowing well, has been carrying on an interesting exchange with me about languages, translations, and philosophy. So far, we've been conversing about it via the bite-size passages the microblog Twitter permits (though Dave used the "part 1. . . part 3" multiple post way around the length limit). I found myself, as I often do with Twitter, somewhat frustrated at having to reduce complex thoughts on tricky matters to easily misinterpreted sound bites (though I must admit, I also do enjoy the challenge), and the issues raised are genuinely deep philosophical ones, so I decided those issues deserved a blog entry.
Here's how the exchange developed:
(Dave O'Hara)
Philo tweeps: how important do you consider learning languages for the study of philosophy? Which languages?
Langs? Absolutely important! For Western: Greek, Latin, French, German. Ex: Aristotle, key concepts across texts lost in translation
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Tag reading "NOT OK" lies on wet ground
Dystopian/Scifi stuff with strong female characters?
This is an Ask a Geek Feminist question for our readers:
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66 thoughts on “Dystopian/Scifi stuff with strong female characters?
1. Katherine O'Kelly
“A Brother’s Price” by Wen Spencer is basically a gender-flip where women are warriors and queens and men (due to an extremely low birthrate of males) are the ones dolled up and married off. It’s light and readable, and a refreshing change from the “women are cattle” phenomenon you describe. If anything, it errs on the side of turning men into cattle, which opens up some interesting grounds for discussion with readers who are upset by the idea.
2. Kim Curry
S.M. Stirling’s “Dies the Fire” series, and it’s flip-side about Nantucket, “Island in the Sea of Time” both have strong female characters. In the “Dies the Fire” series, Juniper Mackenzie and her coven found Clan Mackenzie, one of the new states to arise on the Pacific coast following their particular apocalypse.
Starhawk wrote a novel, “The Fifth Sacred Thing,” that sort of follows the concepts in “The Handmaid’s Tale,” but with a group near San Francisco resisting the Stewards and forming a collective.
I’ve read a LOT of dystopian literature, and these are the two that come to mind as showing the most female-friendly societies.
3. EmilyBites
Nicola Griffith’s Ammonite is set on the colony planet Jeep, where all the men died from a virus and the women were changed by it (they now reproduce by parthenogenesis). It’s got a great and varied cast of female characters.
4. xenu01
I also highly recommend Year of the Flood if you haven’t read it already. You don’t have to have read Oryx and Crake, but if you do, you’ll get some of the references. I liked this one better because it was entirely woman-driven, and Margaret Atwood did a lot of what she does best, namely write about the complex relationships women have with themselves, each other, and the world.
5. kiki
To be honest, as a far less well-read geek than others here, the first thing that came to my mind was Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Although we don’t really see anything specific about the status of women in the movie’s mis-en-scene, and the cast is overwhelmingly male, both societies in the film (Bartertown and the Kargo Kult Kidz) are led by women. Of course, it’s ultimately a man that saves the day, but at least he manages to do it without calling anyone “sugar tits.”
6. kiki
In terms of badass women characters, I must recommend the criminally under-read manga Battle Angel Alita (in Japanese, Gunnm, ‘Gun Dreams’). Alita, the titular character, is near-godlike in her awesomeness, but unlike is so often the case in manga, she does not derive her powers from a magic amulet that makes half of her clothes fall off. She is a full-body cyborg, which means she is a human brain inside an entirely artificial body; her current body is made of morphable bio-plasticky stuff that is shaped by the user’s subconscious, and so requires an extremely strong and centred mind to control. She is the greatest exponent of the solar system’s deadliest martial art. Her brain has been described as ‘the most powerful substance in the universe’. Her power cell is a miniature, localised black hole. In short, when she punches someone, they get vaporised and the building behind them falls down.In one episode she defeats a hundred-foot-tall cyborg while she is unconscious, as her will cannot be stopped by mere lack of activity in her brain. She’s also quite a nice person.
Interestingly, the story also features a transgendered cyborg; he begins life as a replica of Alita (an artificial copy of her brain, installed in a similar female body), but decides to get himself installed in a male body as he feels it better suits his martial arts style.
7. AMM
The City, Not Long After, by Pat Murphy.
It’s an “after the apocalypse” story, not sure if you’d call it dystopian. The main character is a woman born after the apocalypse. She’s no superhero, but does more or less lead a successful attempt to defend San Fransisco from a military dictator.
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
First of all I'm completely new to the realm of GIS and ArcGIS.
Basically I need a reliable way to determine a donut hole's containing donut for a few hundred thousand polygons (where the donut holes are their own polygons in the same feature).
I've come across this question which deals with finding polygons within polygons; however, I need to actually map the internal polygon to its containing polygon (i.e. join the "lake" polygon's attributes to its "island" polygon).
ArcGIS's Spatial Join tool with JOIN_ONE_TO_MANY and COMPLETELY_CONTAINS options looks very promising but doesn't seem to work as expected. I'm guessing this is because the "lake" polygons don't actually overlap the "island" polygons; the holes are cut out of the containing polygons.
Is this possible? I'm using ArcGIS 10.
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I'll try to put up precise steps later today but basically I think you need to fill any holes (caused by islands) in your lakes, then do a spatial join between islands and hole-filled lakes. Filling is done with Union and No Gaps I think. – PolyGeo Oct 19 '12 at 23:05
Thanks for the response! I tried what you suggested and am still getting confusing results. From what I understand the fill method you described only works if the hole is void, i.e. not another polygon in the same feature. Unfortunately the "islands" (actually my data is all zip codes but the lake/island analogy fits) are all in the same layer as the "lakes." If you look at zip code 52577 on Google Maps you can see that there are two big holes in the zip polygon. These holes are actually zip codes 52534 and 52595, completely engulfed in 52577. – roadkill Oct 22 '12 at 19:30
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I would try this:
1. Use Select tool to get all your donuts (hopefully you have something like feature = "lake") into a separate feature class
2. Use Union tool, specifying that no gaps allowed (uncheck "Gaps Allowed" in the Union tool) to fill the gaps
3. Use Dissolve on the new feature class to absorb the filled in polygons
4. Perform the Spatial Join
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Thanks @PolyGeo! The process I used was a little more convoluted due to how the data was structured, but this was the general procedure I followed. If anyone wants to check out my embarrassingly complicated method I'd be happy to post it, but this should work for most people. – roadkill Oct 31 '12 at 15:04
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
There is table in SLQ-Server 2008 R2. In this table i have date column with date format like this 2006-09-08 14:39:41.000. Now i make View from this table on Geoserver side but do nothing wiht date field. And make WMST layer. Now i go into Layer Preview and not see any features.
Okey i says. I take source table and publish it on geoserver but geoserver not see date column.
Whats wrong? In Geoserver docs i see that in WMST i gonna use ISO-8601 time format. How can i convert date format in view on Geoserver?
I make some tests.
I take Shape file with date field (i.e. 2002-08-20) put it into SQL-Server using ogr2ogr. SQL-Server says that my date field is date data type. Geoserver says it too. And in Layer Preview i see my features and after addin in address line TIME=2002-08-21 parameter i can see features with other dates.
After i add datetime field in my table and put into dates like 2002-08-20 Geoserver says that its Timeswap datatype. In Layer Preview i DONT GET any features addind TIME=2002-08-21T14.00.00.0Z not help. When i click on map i get error that cant convert varchar into datetime.
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Not sure but you need to convert few things. Please check following link stackoverflow.com/questions/1509977/… – Sunil May 13 '13 at 6:07
@Sunil: So you mean that i gonna have dates in seconds format like this 2312009? – Kliver Max May 14 '13 at 5:41
Yes. you need to convert and then check the result – Sunil May 14 '13 at 7:20
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
Does WMSGetFeatureInfo need a proxyhost to allow remote server accessing the data? I use ProxyHost to allow WFS requests, but seems its not working with WMSGetFeatureInfo. the local machines retrieves data from GeoServer successfully but external machines doesn't!
Here is the select feature code:
control = new OpenLayers.Control.WMSGetFeatureInfo({
layers: [layer],
autoActivate: true,
maxFeatures: 3,
hover: false,
infoFormat: "application/vnd.ogc.gml",
eventListeners: {
"getfeatureinfo": function (e) {
var activeLayer = getActiveLayer();
if (activeLayer != "") {
var param = {
REQUEST: "GetFeatureInfo",
EXCEPTIONS: " application/vnd.ogc.se_xml",
BBOX: map.getExtent().toBBOX(),
SERVICE: "WMS",
VERSION: "1.1.1",
X: e.xy.x,
Y: e.xy.y,
INFO_FORMAT: 'application/vnd.ogc.gml/3.1.1',
QUERY_LAYERS: activeLayer.params.LAYERS,
Layers: activeLayer.params.LAYERS,
FEATURE_COUNT: 6,
SRS: 'EPSG:3857',
STYLES: activeLayer.params.STYLES,
WIDTH: map.size.w,
HEIGHT: map.size.h
param.cql_filter = activeLayer.params.CQL_FILTER;
// if (activeLayer.params.LAYERS == 'AIS:favoriteVessels');
// param.Viewparams = 'UID:' + userid;
OpenLayers.loadURL(GeoServerWMS, param, this, setHTML, setHTML);
and the GeoServerWMS is specified by:
GeoServerWMS = 'http://MYPUBLICIP:8080/geoserver/wms'
GeoServerWMS = 'http://privateIP:8080/geoserver/wms'
here is my allowedHosts
allowedHosts = ['localhost', 'localhost:8080','localhost:80', 'localhost:8080/geoserver',
'PrivateIP','PrivateIP:8080', 'PrivateIP:8080/geoserver',
'PublicIP','PublicIP:8080', 'PublicIP:8080/geoserver',
'www.openlayers.org', 'openlayers.org',
EDIT Even this event register is not working:
selectControl = new OpenLayers.Control.GetFeature({
id: 'selectControl',
protocol: OpenLayers.Protocol.WFS.fromWMSLayer(test, {
url: GeoServerWMS,
featureType: "layer"
hover: false,
click: true
Here is the error I get: Some unexpected error occurred. Error text was
urlopen error [Errno 110] Connection timed out
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Do you see any errors in Firebug? How are you accessing the wms service? Please post the code that you are using. – Devdatta Tengshe May 21 '13 at 8:36
updated my post – Shadin May 21 '13 at 8:37
Does your proxy file have MYPUBLICIP:8080 in the allowed hosts? – Devdatta Tengshe May 21 '13 at 8:57
I added them. updated my post – Shadin May 21 '13 at 9:37
what happens if you paste the url into the browser? – iant May 21 '13 at 12:02
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Firstly, I'm not sure why you are using the WMSGetFeatureInfo in this particular way. The getfeatureinfo event is fired, once the control gets the data from the getfeatureinfo request on the WMS service. You just need to show the data on this event.
Please have a look at this sample, which shows a simple WMSGetFeatureInfo control being used: Feature Info in Popup
You don't need to call OpenLayers.loadURL(GeoServerWMS, param, this, setHTML, setHTML); Further more, this function is deprecated, and I'm not even sure if uses the proxy.
If on using a WMSGetFeatureInfo control, like in the given sample, does not work, I would debug the issue, with the following steps:
• Debug the requests using both FireBug & WireShark.
• Make sure that the server can route to itself via the external IP. In most enterprise networks, the network routing on the server is severely limited for security reasons, and often it cannot route a request to any external IP, including its own external IP address.
Here is how you would check if the proxy can route to external IP addresses:
Suppose you are using the OpenLayers Proxy like this: OpenLayers.ProxyHost = "/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=";
Then, that means that your proxy is at http://PublicIP/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi
1. First try to open the Proxy link directly in your browser. If it is the OpenLayers Proxy.cgi file, then it will try to route you to the OpenLayers Site. See if the OpenLayers Site open up.
2. You could also try to open up a page in your allowed hosts. You could try to open http://PublicIP/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi?url=http://PublicIP:8080/geoserver/web This should open up the Geoserver Admin Home page.
3. You could also log on to the server and try to open a browser and browse to your external IP, or a well known public website, like google.com. Note that this is not a good idea security-wise, and your system Admin might not be happy with it.
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Thank you. but I tried several versions of getfeature methods such as event register (updated my post) – Shadin May 21 '13 at 11:50
Have you checked if the proxy can route to its own external IP address? – Devdatta Tengshe May 21 '13 at 13:14
How to do that? – Shadin May 21 '13 at 16:47
1. Yes, this url [PublicIP/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi] opened the OpenLayers site. 2. I got this error: This proxy does not allow you to access that location (PublicIP:8080). – Shadin May 21 '13 at 17:57
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As soon as Intel finished announcing the arrival of the new 45nm Penryn chips, Alienware announced an upgrade of their own, incorporating a 3GHz Penryn into their Area-51 ALX desktop. Using their advanced cooling system, Alienware claims that this PC will run at 4GHz. Starting at $5500, it will ship shortly after Christmas. [Alienware]
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Things Harder Than Sudoku: Making a Nixie Tube Sudoku Board
The board, built by tinkerer John Sarik, has two knobs for selecting the correct square and a keypad for punching in numbers.
And while we're at it—things harder than making a nixie tube Sudoku board? Bridge. But if somehow you do know how to play bridge and are up for the (lesser) challenge, Sarik as the full schematics for the build on his site. [TrashBear Labs via HackaDay via Make]
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All Ready-To-Assemble Furniture Should Be Held Together With Rubber Bands
How many times, while assembling Ikea furnture, have you stripped out a screw hole, lost piece of hardware, or finished the project, only to realize that the whole thing leans to the left? What if assembling (and reassembly) merely consisted of a few stategically-placed rubber bands? Enter the Gummitwist shelf.
There are three components to the Gummitwist: Wooden rods, metal shelves, and rubber bands. Attach the criss-crossing rods to eachother using the rubber bands, and then set the shelves on top. No screws, no nails, no tools. There's only one question left to be answered? Would you trust these rubberbands enough to handle your books/collectibles/electronics? [Nino Guelker via LooksFeelsWorks]
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Glee TV Show Wiki
On My Way
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On My Way
Season Three, Episode Fourteen
First Aired February 21, 2012
Episode Guide
"Big Brother"
On My Way is the fourteenth episode of Glee's third season and the fifty-eighth episode overall. It premiered on February 21, 2012.
In the Lima Bean, Kurt and Rachel are looking at wedding magazines, looking over different wedding dresses. Sebastian surprises them and hands Rachel an 'engagement gift.' It turns out to be a photoshopped picture of Finn, naked and in pumps. Sebastian tells Rachel not to perform at Regionals or the picture will be uploaded everywhere on the Internet, so every time someone searches "Finn Hudson" it will show. He gives her 24 hours.
In the Choir room, Rachel shows New Directions the picture. Finn threatens, along with the New Directions boys, that he is going to go after Sebastian. Rachel tells them not to worry, that they will beat them at Regionals. Finn gets upset about Rachel performing even if it means that the picture will be uploaded. He walks out after Rachel tells him that her future career depends on it.
In Sue's office, Sue tells Quinn that she is pregnant and asks her about ways to help get over her morning sickness. She tells her how she dealt with it, ate saltines, drank herbal tea and sucked on lollipops. Sue, however doesn't feel like Quinn's suggestions are helping her in any way. Quinn then asks Sue if she can rejoin the Cheerios, by explaining she wants to finish her high school career in the two clubs that made her happy. Sue tells her it would be unfair to the girls who were practicing for months, therefore, Sue doesn't let her re-join the Cheerios.
Dave dressing, preparing to hang himself
In the April Rhodes auditorium, Blaine wants to show Kurt a song for Regionals, Cough Syrup. As he sings, the scene cuts to David Karofsky, who walks into his new school's locker room. As he does, everyone stops to watch him walk to his locker. Someone has written "FAG" on it. Stunned, Dave stops and turns around to look at the other boys. He tries to leave quickly but Nick pushes him into a locker, threatening him. He backs down and runs out. As Blaine continues to sing, Dave escapes to his room. He checks his computer and sees messages from kids at his school telling him to go back in the closet, not return to school or threatening his life. He begins to go through emotional states—breaking things, calming down, and crying. He walks into his closet and pulls out his suit. He lays it on his bed and bursts into tears again. He calms himself again and begins to change into the suit. As the song ends he walks back into the closet and pulls out a belt to hang himself.
In Principal Figgins' office, Will, Emma, Sue and Shannon are talking about Dave's attempted suicide and how they should tell the student body. Out of the five of them, Sue is affected the most and starts to cry. She blames it on the pregnancy hormones, but then admits that she could've helped him when she was principal and he was going through a rough time. She feels worse thinking about what his dad must've gone through finding him.
In The God Squad meeting, Mercedes tells them that they should spend the day praying for Dave. Quinn says that they should pray for his family more. She believes what Dave did was selfish as he not only wanted to hurt himself but everyone around him. She tells them she went through things as hard as him but never could do what he did. Kurt walks in, telling her she has no idea what Dave was going through. She tries to back herself up but realizes it's not her time as Kurt lists off what he was going through, what drove him to do what he did. He tells them that the Facebook comments haven't stopped, one of them being, "Better luck next time." Quinn asks Kurt why he is there, saying she thought he didn't believe in God. Joe tells the group that Kurt asked if he could come, as he found out that they were praying for him in the session. Kurt tells them that he feels somewhat responsible since Dave called him many times but he never answered. Mercedes tells him that they are going to the hospital, and asks if he wants to come. He nods.
By Rachel's locker, Finn hugs Rachel, forgiving her. He tells her that there is nothing anyone can say or do to have him do what Dave did. She tells him that life is too short and that she wants to get married now, after Regionals.
At The Lima Bean, Sebastian is doing his homework when Santana and Kurt, along with Brittany and Blaine, show up. Santana tells him that all this underhanded blackmail is to stop and he agrees, surprising her. Revealing he called them there, nearly in tears, he apologizes to Blaine for his eye then tells the group that all the photos of Finn are destroyed. He informs them that the Warblers will be taking donations at Regionals to be given to Lady Gaga's Born This Way foundation, and that win, lose or draw they're dedicating their performance to Dave. We learn that Sebastian and Dave had a previous interaction at Scandals, in which Dave asked Sebastian for advice on how to get a guy. Sebastian answers with sarcastic and rude insult and tells Dave that he should "stay in the closet." Visibly upset, he says that "It's all fun and games, until it's not."
New Directions On My Way
Back in the auditorium, Will and the New Directions sit in a circle on the stage. He first tells the group that Rory has never eaten peanut butter before and gives him a teaspoon, to which he tells them it's the best thing he has ever tasted. He uses this to lighten the mood to what he is talking to them about, asking them to never consider doing what Dave has done, no matter how depressed or lost they feel.
Mercedes tells him that they may be dramatic but they would never consider taking their own life, to which Will reveals he did, after he was caught cheating on his Mid-Term in Junior year. He was worried about what his dad would think, the disappointment he would feel. He tells them he went to the roof, to the edge and looked down and thought that in one-step all the pain and humiliation would be over. He says that that day felt like the end of the world but if he went through with it, he would have never met them, or Emma. He asks them to tell the group what they are looking forward too.
Sam reveals he is looking forward to earning enough money to buy his parents a house so they don't have to go through what they did before. Mercedes is looking forward to meeting Rachel's children. Artie wants to see his kids' first steps. Sugar wants to see Sex and the City Part 3. Puck is secretly looking forward to graduating high school. Finn wants to petition the army to have his dad's dishonorable discharge changed to an honorable one. Quinn is looking forward to graduating from Yale at the top of her class. Santana is looking forward to the day her grandmother loves her again. Brittany would like for Lord Tubbington to stop his ecstasy addiction. Blaine wants to see marriage equality in all 50 states. Mike says he is looking forward to his first dance at Carnegie Hall. Tina says she just wants a song. Kurt is looking forward to watching his dad make a change in Congress. Rachel is looking forward to having New Directions as her friends for life, while Rory is looking forward to winning Regionals.
Performance of "Glad You Came"
At Regionals, the Warblers are first to perform. As they sing Stand, Finn is the first to stand, which surprises a Golden Goblet performer. She asks why he is standing for his competition, and he tells them "life's too short"; he encourages them to try it. Afterwards, Sebastian reminds them to make donations to a charity baskets located around them and then they sing Glad You Came. The Golden Goblets follow and begin to sing, surprising the crowd, as they are a choir group.
In the Choir room, Will tells the group to get focused and ready to go on. Finn tells the group that after the competition, he and Rachel are getting married and wants to see all of them there.
Performance of "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger"
They begin by singing Fly/I Believe I Can Fly, with Rachel's dads enjoying every moment that their daughter sang. As New Directions file off, the Troubletones appear and sing What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger), as promised by Will, one performance for every competition. When they finish, Rachel walks on and surprises her dads with a solo, Here's to Us. The New Directions girls return and sing behind Rachel as the boys appear in the balconies of the theater. When Finn appears, Rachel stares directly at him and sings the last bit of the song to him. The New Directions whole performance lasted for more than 7 minutes.
The New Directions, Warblers and the Golden Goblets are all on stage as a judge is brought on in a coffin and dressed as a vampire. He announces the Golden Goblets to be third, Dalton second and New Directions as the winners.
Quinn walks into Sue's office and Sue tells her that she always admired her, for all the ways she isn't like herself and gives her her old Cheerios uniform. Quinn happily accepts it. She walks past Kurt and Blaine in her uniform, receiving a "looking good" from Blaine. She then bumps into Rachel. After Quinn has shown her her new uniform, Rachel tells Quinn that everyone deserves to be happy and she's glad for her, Quinn interrupts her and ask that when she sang her solo, was it to Finn and only Finn. Rachel replies with yes. This makes Quinn say she'd be delighted to attend her wedding and to be bridesmaid.
In the hospital, Kurt visits Dave, who has just come out of a 72 hour suicide watch. Meaning he gets to go home the next day. Kurt tells him that he is happy that he is alive, and is sad that he didn't return the calls. Dave tells him it's okay, he understands that he made Kurt's life living hell for months and he took it. It happened to him and he couldn't handle a week. He reveals that his best friend never wants to talk to him again, his mom tells him he has a disease and could be cured. He doesn't know what to do. Kurt tells him that if he can't go back to his old school, he should go to a new one, but won't be easy and that some days where life will suck and he will be there with everyone who loves him to help him. He tells him to screw them if they can't accept him.
Kurt and David at the hospital
Kurt suggests that Dave try what Will had the kids do and imagine what he is looking forward to when he leaves. Kurt starts him off, what he will be like in 10 years. Sitting in a great office, he suggests as a sports agent. He has moved away from Lima and has a son and a partner, taking his son to his first football game. Kurt says he leans to his partner and is about to finish, until Dave chips in saying "I'm so happy right now." Dave tells Kurt that he would like to be friends, which is when Kurt takes Dave's hand and smiles.
At the court where Finn and Rachel are to get married, Will is trying to work the vending machine, when Sue walks up and congratulates him on his win. Telling him she was in the audience and was amazed by the group. She tells him that she is also pregnant. She tells him that she thinks that they could win at Nationals and wants to help the club, she reveals that there is no catch and really wants to help him.
In a corridor at the courthouse, Burt, Carole, Hiram and Leroy are debating how they should stop the wedding. Burt believes they screwed up, to which Carole jumps in saying that they didn't screw up but raised perfect, independent, loving teenagers. Hiram agrees with Burt, believing that they are in love but aren't ready for marriage. Carole and Hiram agree that if they pulled the plug, that Finn and Rachel would've eloped behind their backs and not even Patti Lupone could talk Rachel out of it.
S03E14 - Wedding
Leroy tells him that Barbra could, but they could not be able to get in contact with her. Hiram comes up with an idea of all four of them objecting to the wedding, Hiram grab Rachel and take her to a car where Leroy will be waiting, while Burt and Carole distract Finn and the judge, and drive her to Broadway hoping that she would cancel the wedding and get back on her career track.
Finn is waiting in another hallway impatiently, when Rachel appears in her wedding dress. Finn tells her to rush or else they'll miss their wedding. Rachel, who wants Quinn to be there when she gets married, texts Quinn, asking where she's staying. Quinn replies saying she went home to get her bride's maid's dress and will be there soon.
In her car, Quinn is fixing her make up, whilst she continues driving she notices that she is stuck behind a slow moving tractor. In the court New Directions are waiting to start the ceremony. Rachel, who is still waiting for Quinn, is texting her in hurry.. Back in the car, Quinn receives the text from Rachel (WHERE ARE YOU???) and picks up her phone and begins to type out ‘ON MY WAY,' not seeing a stop sign and a truck come straight at her, the truck crashes into the driver's side of her car. The episode ends with To Be Continued.
Song Title Original Artist Performer(s)
Cough Syrup Young the Giant Blaine Anderson
Stand Lenny Kravitz Dalton Academy Warblers
Glad You Came The Wanted
Fly/I Believe I Can Fly Nicki Minaj feat. Rihanna/R. Kelly New Directions
What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) Kelly Clarkson The Troubletones
Here's to Us Halestorm
New Directions
Unreleased Songs
Background Songs
• Chapel of Love by The Dixie Cups.
Guest Cast
Special Guest Stars
Guest Stars
• The Quinn and Rachel scene from the promo where Quinn says "I'm not going to sit around and watch you ruin your life by marrying Finn Hudson" and the scene at Regionals where the LeRoy and Hiram told Carole and Burt they have to stop the wedding were cut, also the scene where Sue tells Will she is pregnant, and Will asking who the father is was also cut. The whole bridal shop scene got cut. Lea Michele had tweeted that there was a scene that took hours to film with all the ladies in the bridal shop.
• Sebastian explained why Tina was absent in The Spanish Teacher.
• This episode scored a 3.0 18 - 49 rating with 7.46 million people watched this episode, up significantly from Heart. Source
• The title refers to the final text message Quinn sent to Rachel right before her car crash.
• This is the first time out of all three seasons that Kurt has performed at Regionals and won.
• This was the first time that Rachel performed a solo at a competition, and did not introduce the New Directions to the audience.
• All songs in this episode were performed at the auditorium.
• Only Mercedes, Santana, Brittany and Sugar are in all the songs at Regionals.
• Brittany and Santana were supposed to have a secret handshake before the New Directions performance but it was cut.
• During and after the original airing of this episode, calls and chat messages to the Trevor Project, a LGBT suicide prevention organization, grew by 300%.
• Dianna Agron said in an interview with TVGuide that she knew about the crash in November, and even helped Ryan Murphy come up with the story.
• On August 2, 2012, one day after tweeting the so-called "Box Scene" from Extraordinary Merry Christmas, Ryan Murphy tweeted the deleted "Bridesmaids" scene from this episode where Quinn confronted Rachel about being too young to marry (seen in the On My Way promo)
• The scene where Quinn is hit by the truck was used in a PSA about texting and driving.
• Mitch Grassi of Pentatonix (Winning group of Season 3 of the NBC show, The Sing-Off) was one of the Golden Goblets.
• This is the first time since The Sue Sylvester Shuffle that we are seeing Quinn in her cheerio uniform.
• Lea Michele has a song in her debut album, "Louder," named like this episode.
• When the New Directions said "What?" because Rory hasn't tasted peanut butter, it was shown that Rory was holding a spoon but when he stood up he was not holding anything.
• When Rachel reads the text message from Quinn saying, "Ran home to get my bridesmaids dress. Be there soon." her phone shows that it's Feb 9, 2012 and 11:01 PM. Just before this a clock on the wall says it's 4:55 PM, and the Regionals/Finchel wedding takes place after Valentine's Day.
• When Rachel texts Quinn saying "HURRY UP!!" she sends another text message later saying "where are you" the message "HURRY UP!!" isn't in the thread and it comes after Quinn's text.
• After The Warblers sing "Stand," the stage lights focus on Sebastian only. However, the next shot shows the lights are back to normal; after that the stage lights are focused back on Sebastian again.
• When Quinn is talking to Sue for the first time in the episode in Sue's office, Quinn rises from her chair but when the scene flicks to Sue's side, Quinn is seated back down on her chair.
• After the New Directions are announced the winners, Sugar runs to hug Svengoobles, but in the next shot she's seen cheering with the rest of the New Directions.
• Quinn's VW Beetle doesn't have a front license plate. Front license plates are required in Ohio.
• Quinn's back window doesn't crack but the front one does.
Sugar: If someone posted a picture like that of me online, I would probably kill myself.
Rory: Twice to be sure I was dead.
Sugar and Rory to the New Directions
Rachel: I want to get married. Now.
Finn: I have gym.
Rachel: No, Saturday. After we win Regionals.
Rachel and Finn
Hiram: New plan. I'm gonna fake an epileptic seizure.
LeRoy: You're not an epileptic.
Hiram: That's why I'm gonna fake it.
Hiram Berry and LeRoy Berry to Burt
Sebastian: If it isn’t a young Barbra Streisand and an old Betty White. Where is Gay Cyclops? Still trying to stumble his way in?
Sebastian Smythe to Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel
Santana Lopez to Sebastian Smythe
Sugar: I want to be here to see Sex and the City: Part 3
Sugar Motta to the New Directions
Tina: I just want a song.
Tina Cohen-Chang to the New Directions
"Bridesmaids Scene"01:44
"Bridesmaids Scene"
The deleted bridesmaid scene.
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How to Get from Copenhagen to Malmö
(...and from Malmö to Copenhagen)
The Oresund bridge 20130720 017F Øresundsbron (The Øresund bridget) med vattenskidbåt i förgrunden fotograferad från Scaniabadet, Västra hamnen i Malmö, Skåne (Scania), Sverige (Sweden) 20130720.
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There are several types of transportation you can use to get from Copenhagen to Malmö and back; the distance between the cities isn't far. Your transportation options can usually be booked in advance, but each option has pros and cons:
1- Copenhagen to Malmö by Train
Taking the train from Copenhagen to Malmö is a very popular option and only takes 35 minutes across the famous Oresund Bridge. The train departs either city's central train station every 20 minutes, and stops intermittently (e.g. at Copenhagen Kastrup Airport). The advantage here is a flexible schedule and low price since you won't have to pay bridge toll. You can purchase your ticket locally, or order flexible train passes for Denmark and Sweden at RailEurope.com before you go so you don't have to worry about getting tickets.
2- Copenhagen to Malmö by Car
If you'd like to rent a car to get from Copenhagen to Malmö, it's a 45 minute drive (45 km / 28 mi). Simply take the E20 across the Oresund Bridge (toll required). A beautiful and memorable drive through the tunnel and across the bridge, but you'll pay for gas and the bridge toll.
3- Copenhagen to Malmö by Bus
For around DKR 100, here's probably the cheapest option - take the Flybus 737 from Copenhagen to Malmo across the Oresund Bridge. It's a direct bus line commuting between the airports of the two cities, and also coincides with Ryanair flight arrivals from the UK. From Copenhagen, the bus to Malmö departs on Ingerslevsgade. In Malmö you'll find the bus to Copenhagen right outside Malmö airport. You can also take the greyhound bus (Gråhund), look for bus line 999.
You can also take a guided bus tour from Copenhagen to Malmö, such as the Swedish Day Trip from Copenhagen (unfortunately, it's not available year-round). This full-day tour contains bus and ferry transportation and guided group sightseeing of the Copenhagen-Malmö region.
4- Copenhagen to Malmö by Air
Malmö is located in between Malmo Sturup Airport and Copenhagen Kastrup International Airport, so flying from Copenhagen to Malmö or back doesn't really make any sense. If you want to fly directly to either Copenhagen or Malmö, compare ticket prices (on Expedia) here:
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No 'Media Cover-up" on Gruesome Abortion Doc Case
My new piece at The Nation on the Gosnell furor. Here are some added links (scene of the crimes, left):
CBS Morning News with major piece on the controversy.
AP with the latest of its many pieces on the trial. And on clinic workers saying they had no choice but to go along.
Jeff Deeney at The Atlantic: the poor women might not have ended up on the butcher's block if more funding and services for them.
Jill Filopovic at al-Jazeera: the REAL story of case is "misogyny."
Right-wingers claiming that THEY didn't ignore the case frantically linking to this Jim Geragty "takedown" of that meme. Problem is: every piece he cites is from 2011--when "liberal media" had more coverage.
NewsBusters excited that NBC mentions (supposedly caving to rightwing pressure).
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Survival, Chapter Two: Strength and Honor
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Date: 18 September 2003, 2:45 AM
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Survival, Chapter Two: Strength and Honor
"Battle alert"
"Activating defense shield, charging pulse canons and MAC guns"
"Pushing engines to one hundred fifty percent"
"All ahead one third; lure that bastard away from the Starport." Captain Malcolm Savard gripped his command chair tightly as the Hybrid swung around and roared off in the opposite direction to the Covenant war cruiser barring down on them.
"They're following, no sign of weapon activation, but their shields are up" reported Lieutenant Hayes.
"Weapons status?" asked Savard.
"MAC guns and pulse canons set to go sir" Lieutenant Bishop replied, looking up from his console.
"Target their weapons systems and shield generator. Let's try and disable her" ordered Savard. Lieutenant Bishop nodded.
"Locked on sir"
"Captain! Their powering their forward pulse laser arrays!" cried out Lieutenant Hayes. Savard watched as four strobes of white light shot out from the front of the Covenant ship and flew at them.
"Polarize the armor! All hands, brace for impact!" yelled Savard, holding his chair even tighter. The white balls of energy continued to advance on them.
"Five seconds" said Lieutenant Hayes, before she held onto her console. The energy balls hit the shield surrounding the Hybrid and disappeared. Not a single explosion rocked the ship, and Savard raised an eyebrow.
"Damage report?" he asked his engineering officer.
"Nothing sir. Shields fully charged no casualties" Lieutenant Yu answered. Savard stared at the screen as the Covenant ship continued to advance on them.
"Sir, they're preparing another volley" Lieutenant Hayes said. Savard nodded at Lieutenant Bishop.
"Fire at will Lieutenant" he ordered. Bishop nodded and pressed a single button.
The Hybrid shook violently as all four of her MAC guns fired huge uranium shells at their enemy. The pulse canon turrets let loose a controlled burst of plasma fire as well. The Hybrid's attack salvo took out the shields instantly, and ripped through several decks. She listed to port, flames engulfing most of the ship. A huge hole were her docking bay had been, remained.
"Direct hit sir"
"They're firing!" Sure enough, four additional white energy balls flew out from the crippled vessel and hit the Hybrid. They received the same reaction as last time. Nothing. Savard watched as the Covenant ship slowly began to float lifelessly in space.
"Hack into their systems, retrieve whatever data you can. Lieutenant Bishop, prepare another round, MAC guns only." ordered Savard. Because the Hybrid wasn't equipped with an AI system yet, Savard would have to rely on his crew to calculate appropriate battle calculations and Slip Stream coordinates. It wouldn't be too hard, since Slip Stream travel had improved a lot over the course of a century.
"I got what I could sir" Lieutenant Hayes said.
"Lieutenant Bishop"
"Send them to Hades, fire!" Not all of the shots fired by the Hybrid struck the Covenant ship, since it exploded once the first two MAC rounds hit it. The Covenant warship disintegrated into space, becoming nothing but flaming rubble and space dust. Savard leaned back in his chair, sighing deeply. Hybrid's first kill...
"Analysis of the download?" he asked. Hayes looked up from her console.
"From what I've gathered, the ship's name was Strength and Honor and had been part of a cleansing team over in the Ragas V system. That's all we have so far, the translation is going a little slow" she reported. Savard nodded, and then turned to Lieutenant Yu.
"Whereabouts did those white lights hit us?" he asked her.
"Well sir, they didn't really hit us, but they were directed at the engine room" she said.
"And the ship took no damage?"
"None at all sir. Whatever that weapon was, the shields on this ship stopped it cold" Savard nodded. It still didn't make any sense. The Covenant wouldn't invent some sort of weapon that wouldn't do anything to weaken the enemy ship. It was all power behind their space fleet. So why didn't this weapon do anything? Maybe Lieutenant Yu was right. Maybe the shields on the Hybrid were really powerful. Savard shook his head.
"Sir, control tower is requesting an explanation" Lieutenant Hayes reported. Savard nodded.
"Patch us through Lieutenant." A second later, Vice Admiral Avery's worried face filled the screen in front of Captain Savard.
"What's going on Malcolm? We're detecting fragments of a Covenant ship floating out there" he asked.
"A Covenant warship by the name of Strength and Honor entered this system as we were leaving the docking bay sir. We managed to lure it away from the Starport and destroy it" Savard said.
"Any damage or casualties?" Avery asked.
"No sir, nothing at all. We are completely fine" Savard said. Avery sighed.
"Thank god. Strength and Honor sounds like a powerful name. They didn't do any damage to you?" asked Avery.
"No sir, they fired some sort of white energy ball at us, but it was stopped by our shields we believe. The shields didn't even take any damage" Captain Savard explained. He could tell by Avery's expression he wasn't sure what was going on.
"We'll worry about that later. The ship is fine?"
"Ship's fine sir"
"Well, continue on with your mission, but I'll expect a detailed explanation in your report" Avery ordered. Savard nodded and saluted. "Good luck Hybrid." And with that, Vice Admiral Avery's face disappeared. Savard sighed.
"Well, you heard the man, let's continue with our mission. Helm, lay in a Slip Stream course for Ragas V" he ordered. Lieutenant Dela Cruz nodded and typed at this control pad in front of him. Ragas V was exactly one trillion light years away. Taking the Slip Stream hole would lower their original distance time by eight hours. Savard leaned back in his chair.
"Course ready sir" Dela Cruz said.
"Engage the engines, open the hole" Savard ordered. The Hybrid's engines exploded with power and the ship shot forward. The hole to the Slip Stream opened and the massive ship disappeared into it.
Tech Officer Bryan Kerr yawned out loud and nearly fell over in the elevator he rode down to the engine room. His shift started half an hour ago. The Chief wouldn't be happy. The door to the elevator opened and the young man slouched into the Hybrid's massive engine room. Normally, the huge room would be bustling with movement, but today, Kerr spotted a few technicians doing simple system checks and listening to loud roar of the engines as they sped through the Slip Stream. Bryan climbed up a ramp and stood near Tech Chief James Elliott, who was chatting with his Senior Officer, Tech Chief Todd Cassell. The two of them turned and glared at Bryan, who rolled his eyes.
"Watch it Kerr, you shouldn't be rolling your eyes like that. We did warn you what would happen if you would be late" Elliott growled.
"Yeah, but that's only if it becomes a habit. This is my first real shift onboard the Hybrid Chief, it won't happen again" Kerr said, shrugging. Cassell chuckled.
"First or last, you can't be late man" he said. Kerr finally just shook his head and walked away.
"Whatever, I'm here now and want to do some work" he mumbled, and then walked through an access door, which lead up to the maintenance level of the engine room. All it was was a huge catwalk that surrounded the engines. The odd control console stood out of the ground, which was were most technicians stood. Kerr stepped through another access door and onto the massive catwalk. Tech Officer Hal Jacobs nodded at his friend.
"Morning Bryan" he said. Kerr grunted and his friend laughed.
"Slept in?" he asked. Kerr merely nodded and grabbed a nearby data pad. Before he could read it, Jacobs pointed to the other side of the catwalk behind them.
"They're doing a check of the halls that lead to and from the external access junctions, just in case there's some internal damage we missed" Jacobs said. Kerr nodded and walked over to a small group of technicians who were gathered around a single console. Tech Officer Earl Bernard smiled at Kerr.
"Hey Bryan, we need your help" he said. Bryan nodded and spread his arms out.
"That's what I'm here for man. What's up?"
"We're afraid that when the Covenant attacked us, they might've done some damage. I just need you and the other guys here to check the external hatches and elevators" said Bernard. Kerr nodded.
"Not a problem." And without another word, Bryan slouched off through another door, which led into a few hallways. He passed two other technicians in there, and then reached the external elevator. It came to a stop and the huge titanium doors parted, allowing the single human to walk on the elevator. It was designed to hold military vehicles and large repair crews, but since the ship had just left the star base, it wasn't used a lot.
As the elevator continued to ascend, Bryan noticed that the temperature levels began to climb. Even with the somewhat large amounts of wind hitting him from the elevator, he was still sweating. He activated his radio.
"Hey Jacobs" he said. No answer. Kerr raised an eyebrow and tried again. He banged his radio a few times, and tried. Still nothing. Muttering curses, he pocketed the radio away and watched the elevator stop. The doors opened and led into a dimly light hall. Kerr walked down it and activated his flashlight. He scanned the walls and ceiling, looking for any signs of damage. Nothing. As he continued on through the hall, he could hear the steady sound of water dripping. This confused Bryan, since water wasn't used at all in the engines of UNSC vessels. He pressed on, keeping his eyes and ears open for the source. He rounded a corner and walked into a somewhat large room, whose lights weren't giving off enough light. Bryan scanned the room. There were a few consoles which were offline and some repair crates, but nothing special.
Suddenly, the sound of water dripping could be heard again. Bryan turned around and looked up at the ceiling. Along the wall was what looked like some sort of blood, but it was a greenish color. A large puddle of it was formed in the corner. The dripping was coming from the ceiling. As Kerr squinted to get a better look, he could hear a squishy noise behind him. He whirled around and aimed the flashlight around. A shadow moved near the offline consoles. Bryan look at is, but saw nothing. His heart was hammering and his sweat coming down his face didn't help. It was so hot. The squishy noise returned. Bryan's hand shook as he aimed his flashlight around. Suddenly, the dripping behind him increased. Kerr watched it come down a lot more forcefully and the puddle expanded. Bryan had to get out of here. He began to back out of the room, still aiming his flashlight around. He finally turned and almost ran into a shadowy figure blocking the hall. Bryan grinned.
"Jacobs, thank god" he said. Bryan aimed his flashlight up. What stood in front of him made his voice disappear as he tried to scream. Without warning, a smaller figure appeared at the large grotesque's feet and latched onto Bryan's neck. His voice returned and he screamed as he tried to get the thing off. A tendril of some sort entered the tech officer's neck and found his brain stem. Without warning, Bryan Kerr blacked out.
"Jacobs to Kerr, come in Kerr"
"Tech Officer Bryan Kerr, this is Tech Chief Elliott, please respond." Hal Jacobs lowered his radio.
"The area he's in should allow radio communication" he said. Elliott nodded.
"Did he take his radio?"
"Of course sir, he always does" Jacobs answered. Elliott nodded again.
"Okay, Jacobs, Bernard, you're with me. The rest of you, keep working" Elliott ordered. Hal Jacobs fastened his radio to his belt and also made sure his M6D pistol was there. He looked up at Elliott.
"Bryan didn't have his pistol sir, he didn't have it on him" he said. Elliott looked up from his own pistol, and then slowly nodded. Bernard stood waiting by the access elevator, looking up and calling Bryan's name. Jacobs and Elliott joined him.
"No answer, just my echo" Bernard said. Elliott smirked, and then climbed onto the elevator. The huge catwalk trembled as it slowly began to ascend into the external access junction. Bernard wiped his forehead.
"Is it just me, or is it hot up here?" he asked. Jacobs nodded. He too had suddenly become very hot. The elevator came to a stop and lead into a dimly light hallway. Elliott led the way, Jacobs right behind him and Bernard bringing up the rear. They walked slowly through the hall, listening hard for any noises. Elliott had his flashlight out and came to a corner. He stood frozen to the spot.
"Oh god" he whispered. Jacobs rounded the corner as well and stared at the floor. A huge buddle of green and red blood blocked their path. The green blood was slowly consuming the human red blood, as if infecting it. Suddenly, a series of bangs echoed throughout the hall. Elliott turned around.
"Bernard, will you....Bernard?" Jacobs turned and suddenly realized that Tech Officer Bernard was gone.
"Bernard!" called Jacobs. No answer. Jacobs looked at Elliott, who took out his pistol and cocked it. Jacobs did the same. They began walking back to the elevator, pistols up at the ready. They reached it and the two of them nearly vomited at what lay on the titanium catwalk.
It was Bernard, or at least, half of him. His body from the waist up lay on the elevator, his intestines and other vital organs hanging out. Bernard was still alive, but barely. He looked up the two technicians, but was shaking too much to talk. His mouth moved.
"What?" asked Elliott, leaned in closer. Bernard coughed and blood went flying. Jacobs suddenly realized that Bernard was covered in some sort of green fungus, and it was still growing. Elliott didn't notice however, he was trying to get an answer out of the nearly dead technician. Jacobs leaned closer as well. Bernard looked at them.
"Run" he whispered. Without warning, the elevator let out a bang and began to drop to the ground. Bernard screamed widely and reached for help. Elliott was about to fall, but Jacobs caught him and held him back. The elevator disappeared, Bernard still screaming.
Following the huge bang from the elevator smashing into the ground below, the air was filled with barks and gurgles noises. Jacobs and Elliott both turned around and pointed their pistols into the hallway they had been in. Jacobs could make out movement, but couldn't see what it was. Suddenly, a single figure appeared into the light off the elevator hall. What had been a human was now a dead human corpse, dug up from its grave after being left in it for a few years. Jacobs stared into the glazed over eyes of Bryan Kerr. He was sort of limping towards them; his one arm was some sort of long tentacle. In fact, his whole body was sprouting tentacles. That green fungus that had been on Bernard's body had totally covered Bryan. His head wasn't even on straight. It hung off to the side, held together by a few strands of flesh.
"Bryan?" asked Elliott beside Jacobs. Without warning, Bryan charged forward, raising his tentacle arm and flinging it at Elliott. Like a whip, the tip of the tentacle hit Elliott in the face and beheaded him. The Tech Chief's corpse fell backwards and disappeared down the elevator hole. Jacobs screamed and fired off several pistol rounds. They struck Bryan in his stomach area and the grotesque being fell over. Jacobs was breathing hard and was about to scream for help, when Bryan's body began to shift. He suddenly stood up completely and even more pissed. Jacobs raised his pistol, but Bryan smashed it away, breaking Jacobs's wrist in the process. The technician screamed, and then punched Bryan with his other hand. His fist met completely hardened flesh and Jacobs felt several bones in his fingers snap. He howled with pain. The last thing he saw was a little ball with tiny tentacle legs rush forward and latch onto Hal's face. The technician screamed and tried to get it off, but the little thing inserted a tendril and Hal blacked out.
As the Hybrid continued through the Slip Stream hole to its destination, the engine room was slowly being taken over by an enemy known as the Flood. The white balls of energy had actually been Covenant boarding ships, but had a special shield that glowed white and allowed the ship to breach the shields and latch onto the hull of the enemy ship. Soon, the entire crew company of the Hybrid would be fighting for their lives onboard their own ship.
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Lekgolo (Ophis Congregatio)
Biographical information
Physical information
Average height
4'10" (147 cm) in length[1]
Average weight
50 pounds (23 kg)[1]
Skin color
Small worm-like creatures that unify into single entities, such as Mgalekgolo
Military and political information
Covenant, Separatists, Loyalists, Covenant Remnant, Te
Notable individuals
Lekgolo composed colonies: Ogada Nosa Fasu and Igido Nosa Hurru
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The Lekgolo[2] (Latin Ophis Congregatio, meaning "Assembly of snakes",[3]) are a species of small colonial worm-like creatures that can join together to form purpose specific assemblages, such as Mgalekgolo, commonly referred to by humans as Hunters. Lekgolo are also able to integrate themselves into machinery such as the Scarab (the Halo 3 model) and use their combined intelligence to pilot, or control, the vehicle or machinery.[4]
Every worm-like creature is an individual eel, about 1.4 meters long, with its own central nervous system. It is speculated that the Lekgolo have microscopic muscular cilia which are used to connect to other Lekgolo and that each cilium is capable of communicating chemically similar to a synapse, explaining how the species can become a collective being in the form of the Mgalekgolo.
The only times that individual Lekgolo can be seen in the Halo games are in Halo 3. If you shoot at a Hunter's exposed Lekgolo worms, small eel-like creatures will fly out of the corpse, but will disappear after a few seconds. Also, they appear by themselves in the book Contact Harvest being used to explore the Forerunner Dreadnought.
The Lekgolo evolved on their homeworld of Te and fed by burrowing through the ground of their planet. They first came into contact with the Covenant when the then young alien collective landed in search of Forerunner artifacts. They found only the destroyed remains of a Forerunner space station which had once contained many relics, but was now bare due to the actions of the worms, which had broken down and eaten the devices. The San 'Shyuum viewed this as heresy, and declared war on the Lekgolo in what would later be called the Taming of the Lekgolo.
Covenant fleet commanders soon found that indiscriminate destruction would have unacceptable consequences, however: since the Lekgolo lived in the sacred relics that the Sangheili were trying to preserve, simply annihilating the Lekgolo would have resulted in the destruction of some or all of those relics. The Arbiter that was created during this crisis suggested that they could be tamed and put to better uses as part of the Covenant Hierarchy.
Thus, those Lekgolo colonies which preserved Forerunner relics were incorporated into the Covenant, while those that destroyed relics were eradicated.[5] This extermination campaign proved to be difficult, as the Lekgolo were able to combine into powerful Mgalekgolo; consequently, the Lekgolo won most, if not all, ground engagements. The Covenant's forces were completely overwhelmed by the sheer size and ferocity of their foes. On the verge of defeat, the Covenant took desperate measures, threatening to orbitally bombard the planetary surface of Te unless the Mgalekgolo surrendered.
In 784 BCE, the Covenant absorbed the Lekgolo incapable of consuming Forerunner relics into their ranks and eradicated the colonies which had caused harm to the Forerunner relics in orbit.[6] The Mgalekgolo gestalts were later given thick armor plates and Assault Cannons to help them serve the Covenant as shock troops.
During the Great Schism, the species was divided between those that supported the Covenant Loyalists and those that supported the Covenant Separatists, though it is thought the majority supported the Separatists given their loyalty to the Sangheili.
During the Requiem conflicts many Lekgolo sided with the Covenant Remnant.
Known variantsEdit
There are several permutations that Lekgolo colonies can form if they so choose and if local gravity allows.
• Lekgolo blood is a luminescent orange, and supposedly smells like burnt plastic.[8]
• A Lekgolo worm stopped 032 Mendicant Bias from taking off in the Forerunner Dreadnought by short circuiting the ship's systems.
• In Halo 3, Scarabs are controlled by the Lekgolo, proven by the fact that they appear around the rear reactor. They also make up the joints of the legs of the Scarab.
• The Lekgolo are the most plentiful members of the Covenant, numbering in the trillions.
• When you shoot a Hunter in Halo 3, a Lekgolo worm will fly out of the main colony, wriggle, squirm, and then disappear, as if it is going underground; the Lekgolo probably vanished due to technical reasons in order to avoid framerate problems.
• Lekgolo worms do not have sufficiant biomass to sustain flood infection[9]
• It is unknown whether Lekgolo would be eradicated by the Halo Array since a Lekgolo outside a colony can be considered non-sentient.
1. 1.0 1.1 Halo Encyclopedia, page 141
3. Bestiarum
4. Bungie Weekly Update 01/11/08.
5. Halo Encyclopedia, page 114
6. Halo Encyclopedia, page 114
7. Halo 4: The Essential Visual Guide page 130
8. Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, page 221
9. Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level, Keyes
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Something that has been bothering me lately (although they aren't exactly new or recent) is the categories grouping articles together by virtue of having some characteristic which is, as of yet, unknown to us. If I wasn't able to make myself plain, I am referring to categories such as Category:Individuals with unknown blood status, Category:Individuals of unknown nationality, Category:Unknown deaths, Category:Hogwarts students of unknown House. My reasons are these:
1. They are redundant and pointless. Using the first category I cited, "Individuals with unknown blood status", as an example: if an individual is not categorised under "Muggle-borns", "Pure-bloods", "Half-bloods", "Squibs", or "Muggles", then it springs to mind that that probably is so because we don't have enough information to support the claim that they are of one of those blood statuses. In other words, that would mean that that particular character's blood status is unknown. What I am trying to say is that, basically, whenever we are in a similar situation, in which knowledge of some characteristic implies that the article should be categorised under that characteristic, lack of category is enough to ascertain our lack of knowledge.
2. They are out-of-universe. We tend to keep our article categories as in-universe as possible (with the exception, of course, of maintenance categories, and even those are sometimes made to remain hidden). When we say that something is "unknown" we are not saying that, in-universe, that particular piece of information is unknown; what we're saying is that we, in an out-of-universe perspective, do not know enough about it. Categories should be about the subject of the article, not about how we view the subject of the article.
3. They add little to our understanding of the subject, and have little meaning as categories. Categories are intended to group together pages on similar subjects. By grouping all these articles about which we don't know something, we may end up grouping articles with literally no information in common: we are potentially grouping together Muggle-borns and Pure-bloods, Ravenclaws and Gryffindors, Americans and Brits, and so on, and so on.
4. They are, on the whole, difficult to keep neat and complete. For instance, I find it hard to believe that the category for "Individuals with unknown blood status" has only 53 pages in it, when in the whole canon there must be literally hundreds (thousands?) of characters whose blood status is not known for sure.
5. They constitute an awful precedent. It holds the door open for many other ridiculous categories. I don't see how more legitimate it is to have a category for "Individuals of unknown nationality" than it is to have categories on "Individuals of unknown underwear preference" or "Individuals of unknown favourite holiday". -- Seth Cooper owl post! 15:50, December 4, 2013 (UTC)
There is little to say other than I agree that they should be deleted. -- 1337star (Drop me a line!) 22:47, December 4, 2013 (UTC)
Anyone else? -- Seth Cooper owl post! 00:59, December 8, 2013 (UTC)
Naturally, I would concur. --Hunnie Bunn (talk) 01:01, December 8, 2013 (UTC)
Bumping. As of now, there seem to be three people for deletion, and no one against. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 01:05, December 23, 2013 (UTC)
Also in favour of deletion.--The-Boy 16:12, December 23, 2013 (UTC)
I would agree. We should probably keep the canon ones though, like unknown spells that were in the books. The unknown Death Eaters however could maybe just have a spot with their pictures on the main Death Eater page. You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (talk) 18:05, December 30, 2013 (UTC)
I think you misunderstand, General. We're only talking about deleting these categories, not any of the pages in them. We already have a policy for dealing with minor, unnamed articles. -- 1337star (Drop me a line!) 18:16, December 30, 2013 (UTC)
Ah yes I did misunderstand, okay that makes much more sense. I still agree. You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! (talk) 18:51, December 30, 2013 (UTC)
As I take it, there are 5 for deletion, 0 against, which constitutes a majority under HPW:VP. Shall I make the necessary changes? -- Seth Cooper owl post! 21:19, January 21, 2014 (UTC)
Motion carried. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 15:06, January 29, 2014 (UTC)
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Chocolate Ice Cream and Broken Hearts by blacksouledbutterfly
Chapter 1 : A Surprise For Molly
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Hermione Granger should have been furious. Maybe she was. Truth be told she was too upset to be angry. She felt like her heart was being torn out of her chest. No, that wasn't a good way to describe it. It wasn't as though she truly knew what it was like to get your heart torn out of your chest, but she might as well have for all of the pain she was in. She blinked back tears, took a deep breath, but the pain was a burning sensation in the back of her throat. She felt sick, felt the bile rise in the back of her throat. She rubbed harshly at her eyes, hiccuping as the continued to cry.
"He's a git."
She shook her head. "It's my fault. It's all my fault."
"I did this to him," she insisted. Nothing was right. Why not blame herself? What could it hurt?
"You didn't do anything, Hermione. He hurt you, not the other way around."
"I made him do it. If I had been prettier, or more fun-"
"That's bullocks and you know it!"
She sniffled, pressing her face further into her pillow. It smelled like him, the whole Burrow did. She was so angry at herself. Why did she come there? Summer was almost over! Why not wait and see him at school? No, she wanted to see Ron, had to see Ron, felt the need build up like a snake coiling up in her chest. She had been such a fool to believe he wanted to see her too. "I was stupid to come here."
"Hermione, you are always welcome here."
"He doesn't want me here."
"I told you, he's a git. A prat. A bloody moron. You know that, Hermione."
"But he's not!"
"He is."
Her body shook as another fit of crying broke through her body. "Why does it have to hurt so bad?"
The bed shifted as he sat down next to her. "Love always does, Hermione. You're a smart enough girl to figure it out."
"I'm not smart. I'm stupid."
He scoffed. "You, Hermione Granger, are anything but. A little pushy, a bit to serious at time, and a hopeless bookworm, but you are far from stupid."
"Then why did I get hurt so badly?"
"Because you fell for him. Hard."
"Because I'm stupid."
"You're not stupid."
"I want to crawl under this bloody bed and die. It hurts so much. My heart is being torn apart."
"You don't want to die, Hermione. Right now it may feel like you do, but you don't. It'll get better."
"No, it won't!"
She felt a warm hand reach out and stroke her hair. "It will. It'll just take time. I know its hard, and right now it hurts more than anything, but it will get better."
"I just want everything to be normal again."
"It can't be."
She lifted her head up, turning to glare at him halfheartedly. "Why not? Why can't it ever be the same again?"
Fred smiled down at her sadly. "Because, he messed up. Rather badly. That can never be undone."
"I want to die."
"No you don't. You want him to die."
"Yes, that too."
"It'll pass."
She pressed her face back against the pillow and continued to cry, feeling him stroke her hair and listening to him mumble: "It'll pass...it'll pass...it'll pass...it'll pass...it'll pass...it'll pass...it'll pass...it'll pass....."
Ron Weasley sat at the breakfast table at the Burrow stuffing his face with pancakes. His mother, Molly, was busy in the kitchen, talking to his father about some business at the Ministry. What is was, Ron couldn't care less about. He was more concerned with getting his fill before his brothers came and ate. Not to say that Molly made a small amount of food that morning. Oh, on the contrary. She had made plenty, but Ron was unusually hungry that morning, and the prospect of his brothers eating the food was almost enough to make him sick.
The door to the Burrow opened and closed as his father headed off to work. His mother was still mumbling in the kitchen, but now about how much work there was to be done before the start of term.
As footsteps began to descend down the stairs towards the kitchen Ron quickly pilled a few more pancakes onto his plate and dug his fork into them, marking them as his own. He waited, anxiously, for his brothers to enter the kitchen. He was too afraid that the food would be gone in a matter of moments to worry about anything else.
Fred and George Weasley entered the kitchen each, for once, looking as though they were actually awake. The twins stopped at the landing, glanced at each other, nodded and then proceeded into the kitchen, only to smack Ron on the head each in turn.
"Oi!" Bits of food flew from Ron's mouth as he grabbed his head. "What was that for?"
"You're a right foul git," Fred told him scathingly as he sat across from him.
"Completely horrid," George agreed taking a seat next to his twin.
"What did I do?"
"You are a complete and total wanker. You do know that, don't you?" Fred shook his head in disgust.
"You don't even deserve to be sitting here and eating Mum's food. As a matter of fact she would beat your arse raw if she knew what you did. Think we should tell her Fred?"
"By all means George. Would serve the little wanker well to get the tar beaten out of him."
"Right you are."
"What in the bloody hell did I do?"
"Jerk!" A new smack upside the head.
Ginny glared her brother as she grabbed an orange from the bowl in the center of the table.
"Not you too!"
She glared at him for a moment before turning to the twins. "Should I take up a plate?"
The two shrugged. "Can't hurt," Fred said. "Might not do any good mind you, but can't hurt."
Ron glanced at his siblings deciding they were completely mental. He watched Ginny place three pancakes on a plate, grab another orange, and send him another glare as she headed upstairs.
Molly came rushing into the kitchen. "Oh, good, you two boys are up. Don't want to be late for work."
Fred smiled at his mother, but there was something in his eyes that told Ron he was up to no good. "It's Ron you should have expected to sleep late," he told her.
"He had a rather long night last night," George added, smiling slightly. "Didn't you Ron?"
"N-n-no." What were they on about he wondered.
"'Course you did Ron. Don't you remember? Up all hours last night, you were. Made an awful bloody racket too."
"I was not! I did not!"
"Ron, dear, did you really stay up late?"
Ron turned to his mother. "No. I didn't."
Fred scoffed. "Really Ron. Lying to Mum's face like that. Now from George and I-"
"-it's expected," George finished. "But from you?"
Fred clutched his chest dramatically. "It'll break her heart."
Molly swatted at both of her sons. "Stop it you two. Leave Ron alone."
"But Mum, ask him what he did last night. Ask him."
Molly sighed. "Oh, alright. If it will get you two to quiet down I will." She turned to her youngest son. "Ronald, what did you do last night?"
"He was entertaining," Fred told her.
"A friend? What friend George?"
"A girl. From school."
Molly placed her hands on her waist. "Did Hermione come by last night?"
Fred laughed slightly. "It wasn't Hermione, Mum. And not that kind of friend."
George's face broke out into a wicked grin. "Your son was shagging Lavender Brown, his former girlfriend, under your own roof."
Molly glanced between her three sons, her mouth opening and closing like a fish. "He...he...he did what?"
"I did not!" Ron protested.
"Did too!" Ginny was entering the kitchen carrying the plate, untouched. "We all heard you. Surprised Mum didn't, you jerk."
"Ronald Weasley! How dare you! In my house!"
"But Mum-"
Ron, however, did not get to finish that sentence before a pitcher of milk was poured over his head. He sat there for a moment, gapping, before he turned to see Hermione holding the now empty pitcher, looking down at him with bloodshot eyes. "Hermione, I-"
"Do.Not.Even.Try.To.Explain.This.Away.Ronald." Her teeth were gritted. "I hate you, you bloody git. How could you do this to me?"
But Hermione had put a hand to her mouth and was running back up the stairs crying.
"You broke her heart, Ron," Ginny hissed.
Fred took a bite of his pancake smiling at his Mum. "Pretty sure he forgot a charm to prevent pregnancy too."
Molly Weasley, her head spinning, opened her mouth to speak but instead fainted.
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Title: Adar & Ion: Happy Birthday, King Thranduil!
Series: Adar & Ion
Author: Sivan Shemesh
Beta: Tena
Rate: K
Disclaimer: The plot is mine the characters are not… Tolkien is…
Warning: Fluff, family. AU.
Summary: King Thranduil has been called to Imladris, believing that his son hurting badly.
Note: No Estel in the story.
A/N: This ficlet dedicate to Liri - eliriel, you made my week lighten, thank you sweetie!
A/N2: Belated ficlet for "Father's Day", Verse 2.
A/N: Related to "Adar & Ion: Biggest Losers"
"Lord Elrond, do you think my Adar will come?" the elfling asked the lord.
Elrond stared at the elfling in front of him, seeing the fear as a shadow covered the blue sea eyes, he said with assurance in his voice, "Your Adar will come, and I give him at least two or three days. I made sure that he will come."
"How did you do that, my lord?" Legolas asked with curiosity.
"Very simple, Legolas, I simply note to him of his condition of his son," Elrond grinned.
"But I am all right, my lord," Legolas said. "Would it be a lie?"
"It will, but we mend it with the surprise party for him," Elrond answered.
"I do hope that he will not do something rash… because Ada could be very rash and scared to see me hurt, my lord Elrond," Greenleaf explain to the lord.
"Well, Princeling, let us both hope that nothing will happen." Elrond said smiling.
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3 Days later…
King Thranduil rode in haste through Imladris' borders, passed the guards with grave matters on his mind, thinking of his elfling's health.
Thranduil stopped his horse as he arrived at the garden near Elrond's house. His guards following him as close as they could, as they knew he was worried.
"King Thranduil," Erestor greeted the king, "How are you?"
"I am here, for my son," Thranduil replied in haste, as he tried not to get upset in front of Lord Erestor, the advisor and Librarian of Imladris.
"Oh… then what are we waiting for?" Erestor asked as he hid the grin from the king, and led him toward the garden.
"Why are we going toward the garden? If he is hurt we should go inside," Thranduil pointed to the advisor.
"Well, your Majesty, since Lord Elrond had so many patients lately he decided to build another house near the garden," Erestor hoped that the king would believe him.
"Patients?" Thranduil asked, "Is this because of his trouble making twins? What did they do?"
"Troublemakers?" Erestor asked with a smile.
"Aye, although they are enjoyable when you beat them in 'Hide and Seek'." Thranduil grinned.
"Oh… well they played with arrows and swords, and unfortunately some elves were in the middle, and that is why Elrond found himself surrounded by wounded elves, including his own son," Erestor replied to the king's earlier question.
"I hope that my son is all right…" Thranduil mumbled in concern.
"I hope so too, your Majesty." Erestor said to him.
"Umm… Lord Erestor, I think that I need to correct you; I am not a king here, so please call me by the name my Adar gave me, Thranduil."
"I will do my best, K… oops, Thranduil." Erestor said with a smile.
They walked through the flowers and trees that colored the area, and Thranduil noticed the birds sang with happiness, and the trees were blooming and decorated and he wondered, 'Is Elrond having a feast and did not let me know about it?'
Then they finally arrived at Elrond's second house healing, and Erestor knocked.
Elrond heard the sign that they were there and opened the door.
Erestor waited outside and let the king enter first, and then his guards, following them in.
King Thranduil hurried to the bed where he saw his son lying under the blanket.
"Ion-nin, are you all right?" Thranduil asked, as he stroked his son's golden hair.
Princeling Legolas removed the blanket and jumped in his Adar's frowning face, and yelled, "Happy Birthday, Adar!"
Thranduil held his son firmly, not letting him fall down, and swallowed the lump down his throat, shocked, he tried to gather himself.
"Happy Birthday, King Thranduil!" the elves cheer, including his guards.
No single word left the king, and Princeling Greenleaf was worried.
Greenleaf patted softly his Adar's cheek as he asked, "Do you hate me, Ada?"
Thranduil stared at his elfling with a frown, and answered, as he stroked his son's hair, "Nay, I will never hate you, I… I am just surprised. I thought you had been hurt because of those troublemaker twins."
"Troublemakers?" Elrond asked.
"That is the same thing I ask him," Erestor answered to his lord.
"Who?" The twins asked in unison, and then added with innocent looks, "Us?"
"Aye, Lord Erestor told me that both of you wounded lots of elves, and this is the second house of healing," Thranduil replied.
'He bought it.' Erestor grinned, and then he let the smile disappear as he noticed the glare that Elrond gave him. 'I am so much in trouble now.'
"Ada, Elrond and I made you a cake," Greenleaf said to his Ada.
Thranduil put him down and followed him to where the cake was, and on the way Thranduil said to Elrond, "Hannon-le, mellon-nin."
"Happy Birthday, my friend," Elrond smiled to him as he watched how Elladan sliced the cake, and gave Thranduil a piece that he shared with his elfling.
The End
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Status: General
Completion: Complete
Era: 3rd Age - The Kings
Genre: General
Rating: General
Last Updated: 11/20/07
Original Post: 11/20/07
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6. Battling the Beast
The monster screams thunderclap-loud in the confines of the temple and is suddenly engulfed in brilliant, blinding flames- rapacious red flames that pour out of its every awful pore and threaten to engulf all in their path.
The two blue-clad Wizards stand their ground, though their hats are scorched and their beards are singed and their robes seared.
"Have courage, brother!" cries the one in the light blue robe, even as flames lick at his eyebrows. The one in the dark blue robe shakes his head.
"We have need of more than that, brother..."
The flames die down as the Wizard's words echo away into nothingness, and the monster seems disappointed not to have deterred its enemies from their positions. Screaming again, it casts its arms wide and throws back its awful head in an unholy ululation that sets the teeth on edge and the bones a-shaking.
"...We need faith."
The Wizard in the dark blue robes speaks only three words, but they are enough to break the horrible hypnotic cadence of the monster's howl.
The Wizard in the light blue robe nods and begins a counter-chant, but it is too late- the monster's spell is completed.
All around the monster the bodies of fallen cultists begin to rise, ignoring even the deepest of cuts, the most savage of wounds. Life has long fled these poor unfortunates but the music of their Dark Lord's chant suffuses their misbegotten corpses with a dreadful, diabolical energy.
Something arcane and abominable glitters in their dead eyes, something evil from beyond the dawn of time and space, something eternal and evil that lusts for savagery and slaughter...
...something that directs all its hideous hate towards the two brothers in blue.
The Wizard in the light blue robes continues his counter-chant, but he knows that without help he stands no chance.
The Wizard in the dark blue robes provides exactly the help he needs, just as he always has done.
A savage battle-cry upon his lips, he flings himself into action, his blade bursting into brilliant blue flame as he does so, casting himself into the fray like a whirlwind. The un-dead cultists stand no chance before his savagery and fall like wheat before the thresher, but even as he drives them back the Wizard realises the futility of his actions- he is only striking down that which has fallen already.
The dreadful song of the monster- truly a Dark Lord now that it is general of a noisome, necromantic army- will reanimate its inhuman soldiers again and again until the end of Time itself unless the spell is broken, he realises- the spell will not be broken unless the monster's song is silenced.
Eyes blazing with righteous anger, the Wizard begins his own song, but it is not a song of wanton murder and mayhem- far from it.
This is naught but a song of righteous rage.
Of revenge.
Even as he cuts down the un-dead cultists they rise again, but the Wizard cares not- they could die a thousand times each and it would only add to his power. Yes, cultists they might be- craven cowards the lot of them, fools following a fraud following a foulness...
...but they were human once. They do not deserve to be puppets of a beast, do not deserve to be servants to an abomination. Even they- weak and foolish as they were- deserve better than this, this....
Better than this mockery.
Louder and lustier and longer Alatar the Wizard sings, his sword swinging this way and that, a veritable whirlwind of death- and he hopes that his efforts are enough.
Pallando watches his brother give himself to savagery and slaughter and prays that his brother's actions will be enough.
His counter-chant stops the monster summoning still more monsters into this realm- even now he sees hideous, horrible apparitions clawing at the boundaries between reality and the void, turning the walls of the temple-cavern into artwork more monstrous than anything dreamed of by any human artist- but at the same time keeps him from aiding his brother more directly.
He watches, horrified, as the un-numbered hordes of walking dead attack his fellow Wizard- watches as they shred his robes, as they yank the hair from his head, as they tear great bloodied rents in his flesh.
Yes, Alatar is a Wizard, Pallando thinks...
...but he is still mortal.
It is the curse of the Five, he thinks- when they took human form they gained great power but lost greater power still.
Infinity cannot be made flesh, he thinks, and in that instant realises what must be done.
Closing his eyes, he begins to sing a different song.
Blood pouring from a thousand different wounds, Alatar suddenly finds that he is no longer attack. A second's pause gives him respite enough to heal his wounds...
...but also gives him time enough to recognise that awful, uncanny knowledge that he is sealing his brother's death-warrant.
With a slight change in song, Pallando has turned the blood-lust of the un-dead horde and now the bright-blue Wizard is the one in danger of being over-run. The walls grow horrible, hulking limbs, batrachian tentacles that have no business being real, massive fanged mouths that shriek and gibber in praise of their Dark Lord...
Even as Alatar watches the shambling tide overwhelms his brother and the light of his staff is snuffed. He wishes he could cry out, wishes he could draw their attention back to him and away from his brother, his friend...
...but realises that in doing so he would doom both of them. Whispering a plea for forgiveness, he clenches his fists even tighter around the hilt of his sword and leaps high into the air.
The monster was not expecting this, and as the Wizard in dark blue robes flings himself through the air towards it the howl dies upon its lips.
In that single second the spell is broken and the un-dead cultists fall like puppets whose strings have been cut, the vile energies sustaining their assault dissipated like mist before the morning sun.
In that single second, the walls become naught more than carved stone again- albeit stone obscenely carved.
In that single second the monster's advantage is lost...
...and in that single second Alatar is upon the monster, one hand sunk deep into the burning flesh of the creature's thing's chest and the other one wielding his sword like it was the blade of great Tulkas himself.
Even as his hand scorches and sears irrevocably, though it blackens and scars ever more awfully with each and every moment it is in contact with the burning heart of his hateful, horrible foe, Alatar realises that he must hang on or be lost.
He screams with pain and fury and hopes his sacrifice will be enough.
His staff blood-slicked in his hand, Pallando watches appalled as his brother recklessly throws himself at the monster.
Surely things did not have to end like this, he thinks- surely there could have been a different conclusion to this story...
...but even as he drops to his knees, exhausted by his battle against the monster's un-dead servants and the multitude of monstrous allies it summoned from beyond the walls of reality, the Wizard in light blue robes realises that this is the way the battle had to end, the only way it was ever going to end.
Muttering dark syllables to himself, the Wizard summons every last bit of his strength and uses his staff to pull himself one last time to his feet.
He only hopes his final act will not be too little, too late.
The monster beats at him with titanic fists, delivering blow after blow and breaking bone after bone, but still he hangs on, though every passing second is an eternity of agony.
It spits ancient curses at him, venomous hatred from beyond the dawn of time that scars him as surely as any sword, but still he hangs on, though every fibre of his being begs him to give in, to bring an end to the agony.
It buffets him with its awful wings, battering him as if he were caught in the heart of a tornado, but still he hangs on, though his every thought is to merely let go and borne away into the blissful peace of the void.
It screams with primeval rage, deafening him permanently, but still he hangs on in grim silence even as blood runs down the sides of his head from his burst eardrums, defiant that he will not- cannot- be beaten.
Its fiery blood spills onto him in great scorching gouts and sears him down to the very bone, but still he hangs on. Even the horrible smell of his own molten flesh is not enough to defeat him- still he hangs on.
He can do nothing else.
Pallando closes his eyes and continues his chant, though he knows it will be the end of him.
He is already weakened by the attack of the monster's un-dead servants- this will be his final act, and he knows it.
He wishes things could have been different- wishes that his brothers could have been here with him, wishes that the end he now faces could have come later, or less painfully, or never at all...
...but he knows deep down that wishes do not come true.
Even as he falls to his knees, his vision blurred, he continues his chant.
Even as he speaks the last word, the last entreaty to the One, he drops to his knees, his last spark snuffed.
And it is only then- there at the end of all things- that he realises that the only truth is the one that you make yourself...
Pallando smiles and throws his head back.
A terrible scream fills the temple cavern, and the monster ceases its assault on the Wizard attacking it just long enough to glance across to where the other one kneels upon a mountain of what used to be cultists in its servants.
A death-scream, it thinks- how apt. Now to...
It is only now that the monster realises that it had forgotten all about the Wizard whose arm is sunk elbow-deep into its chest.
The scream of the Wizard distracts the monster.
The scream of the monster as the Wizard crushes its hateful, hideous heart in his fist is enough to bring great chunks of the cavern down, destabilising the mountain the temple was carved into.
The scream of the Wizard as his foe dies is one of both triumph and tragedy.
Five minus two was not enough- two plus one equals zero- numbers are nothing, when you come down to it- blue burned long enough by red will eventually become black, just as red quenched by blue will always eventually become black, no matter how hot the fire...
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Last Updated: 04/05/14
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Literary Giants: House of Sand and Fog
In this page-turning, breathtaking novel, the characters will walk off the page and into your life. House of Sand and Fog is a narrative triumph in which a traditional immigrant success story and a modern love story are turned upside down with brutal, heartrending consequences. It is an American tragedy, and a shockingly true picture of the country we live in today. (Club Rating: 8)
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5 Easy Ways to Add Learning to Your Day
Tips to Help You Make the Most of Your Time and Space
In the book Cheaper By the Dozen, efficiency experts Frank and Lillian Gilbreth took every opportunity to help their kids learn -- from playing foreign language records in the bathroom to painting the alphabet in Morse Code on the walls. You don't have to go that far, but there are many easy ways homeschooling families can make use of otherwise unused time or space. Here are few quick tips to get you started.
1. Set the Table With Educational Placemats.
Tot Talk Placemats
I hate memorizing facts, but I can recite pi to about 14 decimal places. What's my secret? When I was a kid, I had a cool poster on my wall that showed the digits swirling around in a spiral. Every night I memorized another digit as I fell asleep, just for fun.
I've never been big on making my kids memorize facts either -- that's what Google is for -- but I did buy them cool placemats featuring different topics: states, presidents, planets, the periodic table, the multiplication table and on and on. Learning the names of the planets and their moons isn't hard when it's staring up at you next to the mashed potatoes.
The plastic wipe-off placemats aren't expensive and come in a wide variety of subjects. You can also make your own (or have your kids make them) and seal them with peel-and-stick clear plastic. Give each child a different subject and let them quiz each other on their placemat's topic. Look for them from companies like Tot Talk, The Learning Company, and Melissa & Doug.
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2. Keep a Marker Near the Map.
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My friend Laura Grace Weldon, author of Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes Everything, came up with this one. She hung a large, laminated world map in her kitchen. Next to it, she hung a dry-erase marker on a string, so her kids can scribble on it.
They mark cities they've visited, write notes about places in the news, and invite friends to circle their hometowns. But they also like to underline unusual place names, draw arrows to the locales they hope to see some day, and even decorate the map by turning islands into cartoon animals.
Laura believes it's the marker that makes all the difference -- the doodles give her kids a chance to amuse and communicate with the rest of the family. Hands-on learning at its best!
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3. Sing Along With Mnemonic Songs.
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If you're like me, you have to start humming the alphabet song to remember if "r" comes before "t." And kids who grew up watching "I'm Just a Bill" on Schoolhouse Rock will never forget how laws are made. Setting information to music is an old trick that really works, so use it with your kids.
Aside from the above-mentioned mnemonic songs, other tunes that have been borrowed for teaching purposes include The Elements by Tom Lehrer, which contains every substance then known on the Periodic Table, and Billy Joel's song We Didn't Start the Fire, which lists important names from the 1950s. You can find more gems among the Music Education Lesson Plans on the About.com Music Education site.
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4. Turn Car Rides Into Read-Alouds With Audiobooks.
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My family loves audiobooks. They let us catch up on our "reading" and keep us entertained on long trips at the same time. And it's easier than you think to find a books that both adults and kids will enjoy. Audiobooks can vary in quality depending on who's reading them, but there are a lot of excellent titles out there.
When my boys were younger, we did very well with old classics such as The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame and bestsellers like the Harry Potter series. More recently, we got wrapped up in modern YA masterpieces like the Leviathan steampunk adventure series by Scott Westerfeld (read by the amazing Alan Cumming), The Giver by Lois Lowry, and vlogger John Green's bestselling The Fault in Our Stars. On shorter jaunts, the public radio series Selected Shorts introduced us to many wonderful short stories, both classic and contemporary.
Nonfiction audiobooks, even adult titles, are another great choice, but be careful what topic you pick. We had a great time listening to Peter Benchley, best known for the novel Jaws, read his own nonfiction book Shark Trouble, full of fascinating information on sharks and their real role in our planet's ecosystem -- but it probably wasn't the best selection for our trip to the beach!
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5. Practice Stealth Teaching With Coffee Table (or Bathroom) Books.
Time for Kids
This is a tip I picked up years ago from another homeschooling mom -- if there's some topic you want your kids to explore, leave a book about it lying around where they can find it on their own. No one in my family can sit still for more than a minute without rooting around for something to read, so this one's a natural for us.
But it can work for reluctant readers, too, if you choose the right material. Almanacs for kids filled with factoids about geography, science or sports are perfect reader-bait. Or get a bunch of nice coffee table-sized books full of beautiful pictures on your child's favorite subject that are sure to be noticed. It's a great way to get kids to read something new.
Remember, this technique works best when the kids think the book was left there by accident. Don't let them know you're carefully planting them in strategic spots!
Bonus tip: You can also try this idea for things like art materials or science kits. Every now and then, pull out something the kids haven't seen before or haven't used in a while and leave it lying around where you wouldn't mind them using it on their own. Who knows, it could be just the spark they need to start their next big project!
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Design Wall Monday 11-7-11
Goals for Week of 10/31/11
Finish binding on Quilt for Kids
Wash, package up and send Quilts for Kids quilts
Keep plugging away on beige and turquoise
Sew rows together on 16 patch quilt
Make lavender wreath
Goals for Week of 11/7/11
Package up and send Quilts for Kids
Trim and bind red, white and blue twin
Finish beige and turquoise top
Piece backing for beige and turquoise top
Quilt two baby quilts
Finish counted cross stitch ghost ornament
1. Now that's a cool log cabin block! I have to try that. :-)
2. Bonnie, you've got a lot going on there, too!! I really like your re-do on the QOV quilt. Very pretty!! :)
3. Great guy quilt, it is funny how one fabric can drive us nuts.
4. I have 2 QOV ready to go, as well. We gotta work faster! 8-)))
I'll have 37 finished blocks for viewing in the next few days! Thanks for the mention and I'm looking forward to seeing what you might have. 8-))
5. As always, you're at top speed! I'm not having the same reaction of yuck that you were with the teal and blue :) Days are flying toward Christmas, aren't they? Have fun with your stitching.
6. Great choice on your change. You are making lots of progress.
7. I agree that your change in fabric was perfect.
Two QOV were mailed this morning to Alycia. I need to get busy and make some more.
8. Wow, you are busy! You know I kinda liked the teal that you ripped out, maybe not spaced so close together but sprinkled here and there, it's a nice little surprise. But I understand completely when a fabric drives you nuts like that, it's just gotta go. Can't wait to see it all done.
9. Your qult will be a cool guy quilt. It's always good to fix the stuff that's going to drive you crazy before you get too far along.
10. I see what you mean about those strips. Much better. I love cross-stitch. My eyes won't let me do the fine small stitching that I loved to do... but I still long to get a piece out and try. Oh well! Now I quilt.
11. Hi Bonnie, just dropping in! I like the beige and teal strips, it will be perfect for Quilts of Valor.
12. You'll feel better about working on that quilt now that you've solved your "what's bothering me" problem. Looks great.
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Princess of Mars fanfic from the 1960s puts some damn clothes on Deja Thoris
The Onion AV Club's editor has been reviewing a stash of pulpy paperbacks he got at a garage sale, and now Keith Phipps has hit on a fascinating double-novel by a semi-forgotten author. It's sort of twisted, quasi-feminist Barsoom fan-fiction.
I'd never heard of A. Bertram Chandler before reading Phipps' review, but I'm now dying to check out his work. Apparently he had a full career in the merchant marine before starting to write SF novels in 1961. Phipps writes:
Chandler's background is pretty evident in the two novels collected in Ace Double M-129. Both concern men and women serving in intergalactic navies, and both feature alien races subjugated by the colonizing forces of more technologically advanced cultures, areas of concern no doubt inspired by Chandler's life and surroundings. But two other less-expected themes poke through in each: the role strong women could play in traditionally male-dominated cultures, and the push and pull between the fictions we consume and the world around us.
Phipps' musings on the genre pastiches in Chandler's work are all pretty entertaining, but the funniest part is probably the bit where one of Chandler's heroes actually travels to an alternate Mars that looks surprisingly like Barsoom, and he goes in search of Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous heroine, Deja Thoris. Instead, he meets Delia Doris, who's much closer to what a Martian warrior would probably be like in real life: tough, mean, and not that attractive. [AV Club]
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Google yourself
Sometimes Googling yourself could be a funny way to lol. Here i found a funny picture on internet about googling yourself. Characters involved in the funny photo are Jack and Tracy, Tinay Fey and Tracy Morgan who are very hilarious
Googling yourself
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Al Bundy Quotations Women and Sex
Al Bundy's quotes/quotations about women and sex, some of em are very funny and hilarious. Some are really hard ones, ladies please don't mind... Its just for humor.
Women, you can not live WITH them ... End.
Bed them, but do not wed them.
Six dollars is too much dough, to waste on a woman.
Only widowers have angels as women.
Sex gets better every time ... as long as it is not always with the same woman.
That's no lady. That's my wife!
Wife standing near, soon comes a tear.
Women, what are they good for? 2 C's: cooking and kitchen.
The women need us as much as we need them. And why? We can get it to them. Her mother and she can not imagine a battery.
As long as I do not pay for it, to me nothing is too good for my wife.
Women have it like to be staring at her like a piece of beef.
I HAVE to sleep after sex does not sleep ... I WILL! I long for the darkness.
Ah! The home shopping channel! Man! That's a good idea for women. It was always hard to go with a sofa strapped to my ass in the department stores.
If there was no beer, there were at least three people who were not married: me, Jefferson, and possibly Lisa-Marie Presley.
There is only one kind of kiss. The man stands with eyes closed before the woman and imagines it would be different.
I feel like a shipping company whose tanker has caused an environmental disaster: An unwanted effusion and I paid for it 'till the end of my life.
Coffee after sex? How will that work? How can you drink in a deep sleep?
If you want to have sex, the children must go out. If you want to have great sex, you have to go out!
If I only one of the children from marrying forbid, I have done my duty as a father.
It's okay to drive a gas-guzzlers, if you can tear it bitches.
I guess it's true what they say: You are what you marry.
I have lived, I have loved ... and later I even got married!
Christmas is not a time to repent. For this wedding days are there.
Many a time I look at my wife sitting there much like you and I think 'Go home.' Then the horror hits me. She is home. Now I'm depressed, Steve.
My driver's license has expired? Why can not run even a marriage certificate?
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Funny Baby Story
cute funny baby story
Once a baby Girl went to a shop with her mother. The shop keeper looked at the small cute child and showed her a bottle with sweets... And said, "Dear Child, you can take the sweets".
But the child didn't take. The shopkeeper was surprised Such a small child she is and why is she not taking the sweets from the bottle.
Again he said take the sweets. Now the mother also heard that and said, "Take the sweets dear".
Yet she didn't take it. The shopkeeper seeing the child not taking the sweets. He himself took the sweets and gave to the child. The child was happy to get two hands full of sweets. While returning home the Mother asked the child Why didn't you take the sweets, when the shop keeper told you to take..?
cute baby girl story
Can you guess the response:
sweet baby story
When we take we may get little but when GOD gives He gives us more beyond our expectations more than what we can think of Because His blessings are more better than we can even imagine :)
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Sometime before we finished up our evening in the company of one of Royal Oak, Michigan's finest , we made a new friend by the name of Bill Jagenow from Brothers Custom Automotive. Jagenow's driving what to one of our untrained eyes is a "rat rod," a term that came from an article written in Hot Rod Magazine by Gray Baskerville about cars painted in primer. And although a lot of rat rodders do not consider their cars to be rats, but actually "hot rods" we've yet to meet someone who so vociferously argues the point as Bill here does. Check...
...out the video to hear Bill explain it for himself, but the gist , as a fellow Jalopnik-ite explains in the video, is that he didn't customize the jalopy to look old, it just wasold. Ok, fair enough — so there's no external mods made to look delapidated — but it's still got plywood and mexican blankets for upholstery and although he's got a couple of "security modifications" — you know, like a fire extinguisher and encasing the drivetrain (it's still frigging sitting there next to your leg) it still is rat-like. But as long as Bill here's happy with it — he should call it whatever he likes. All we know is it's cool as hell, and we've got to see some more of his stuff.
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In case anyone missed the line from yesterday's SEMA-stained press release from the boys and girls at the General, it looks like Popular Hot Rodding's famous (or is it infamous, which we hear is like famous only more so) '57 Chevy "Project X" project car is finally ready for business due to a plethora of parts and labor donated by the boys n' girls at GM's Performance Division. Took 'em long enough — PHR's only had the '57 on hand since like — umm — 1965. [Popular Hot Rodding]
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ICON CJ3B: An Old School Off-Roading "Dog" With A Few New Tricks
Do you lament the ever-increasing size and complexity of so-called off-roaders? Do you mourn the passing of the flat-fender Jeeps and the old FJ Cruiser? The upcoming ICON CJ3B might be for you. They call it "The Dog."
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We got a heads-up on the new model, currently undergoing development at ICON and we gotta say, it looks like a pretty appealing concept. Take all the simplicity and capability of classic Jeeps and Toyotas and combine them with modern engineering and parts into a rugged, simple, knockdown kit you can build with hand tools alone. It will launch set up for power from GM's excellent Ecotec four cylinder and the ICON guys are working on an all-electric version with in-wheel motors for ultra-green wheeling. Ambitious, yes, but at the same time, very cool.
Although its official name is the ICON CJ3B, Icon affectionately calls it "The Dog." Here's what ICON had to say in a quick e-mail to us along with these shots:
So we did not make it to Frankfurt (joke), but we are hard at work on a new ICON model we will release in the fall. We affectionately call it "The Dog" yet it's official name is the ICON CJ3B. As our production ICON FJ's are inspired by the original Toyota Land Cruiser, the new model is inspired by the old Willys flat fendered CJ3B. We designed this one in Solid Works form scratch, with a dedicated coil suspension chassis, production Rubicon axle assemblies, Jeep application AX15 five speed and New Process 231 transfer case. Target weight of 2400 lbs, 260 HP. We will build a dozen or so as full turn key vehicles, thus refining the process to allow for clients to purchase it in "kit form", ala the old Popular Mechanics back page ads of the 1960's. A modern take on the classic, CAD designed, simple fun father and son project, using simple hand tools (no welding). We intend to launch with an Ecotec 4, yet are developing a pure EV variant with four in wheel hub motors and a driver controlled variable crawl ratio for off road versatility.
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What's the point of creating the tree of life if Adam was already immortal when created?
I can understand the tree of knowledge of good and evil, since Adam was lacking in this knowledge and if he eats from it, he acquires knowledge of good and evil. But what is the symbolism of the tree of life?
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Do we know Adam was immortal when created? Maybe that was only after he ate from the tree of life. – Double AA Oct 10 '12 at 13:06
he never ate from the tree of life. as we see, after the sin, Gd placing Cherubin to guard the path so that Adam never eats from it – ray Oct 10 '12 at 13:22
so that Adam never eats from it...again! Why do you say he didn't eat from it originally? – Double AA Oct 10 '12 at 13:23
@DoubleAA, maybe he never ate, but was meant to. – JNF Oct 10 '12 at 21:16
@RaymondSebag What is your source that Adam was created immortal? – user1292 Oct 11 '12 at 16:01
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The Rebbe Rashab explains in his Kuntres Eitz Chaim (Chapter 10): Kabbalistically the Tree of Knowledge refers to the Divine attribute of Malchus, and the Tree of Life refers to the attributes of Ze'r Anpin. Malchus is the source of the false feeling the world has that it is an entity which enjoys seemingly self-sufficient existence, as if independent of its Creator. Thus it is essential that is be a unity between the Malchus and Zeir Anpin which does not allow any nurture to the external forces. Adam’s sin was that he attached himself to the level of Malchus (The Tree of Knowlege) alone, and rejected the level of Ze'r Anpin (The Tree of Life). For when Malchus is taken alone, it is natural for the external forces to prevail. Therefore, the influence of the Tree of Life is also necessary. As the Mikdash Melech states in the name of Rabbi Chayim Vital, Adam should have first eaten from the Tree of Life, or he should have eaten from both Trees together, so that there would be a congruence of the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge. When this is accomplished, even the Tree of Knowledge will not provide a source of nurture for the external forces. On the contrary, it will refine them.
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very interesting. do you know if there's a more "pshat" answer to this? – ray Oct 10 '12 at 13:21
R’ Pinkas answers that death can come either through a killing agent, or because of not having a reason to keep on living. The Eitz Hachayim not only stopped death, it also gave a reason to live. He brings the story of the Chasam Sofer, who was sick after Sukkos and died at the end of Tishrei, who said that he had made it through the Yomim Nora’im well, but he didn’t do well on Hoshanna Rabba. If the psak is already done, but the ‘piskim’ are brought in on Hoshanna Rabba, why would he have died? The answer is, that even though there was no psak against him, he still needed the ‘piska’ of life to be delivered. He also uses this to explain “sifrei chayim vesifrei meisim psuchim lefonov”. This means that a person not only has to be mispallel to avoid being written in the sefer of misah, but also needs to be mispallel to be put into the sefer of chayim.
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America’s Psyche Is Bushed
America's strained psyche
The above editorial cartoon by M.e. Cohen is presumably intended to parody comments made by President Bush in his press conference last week. When asked whether he was frustrated about the escalating conflict in Iraq—which many view as a civil war—Mr. Bush offered the following response, which pretty much speaks for itself:
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Claire: [teary] Not me...ever
Allison: It's unavoidable, it just happens.
Claire: What happens?
Allison: When you grow up, your heart dies.
Sitting on the sofa tonight, watching "Cairo Time" with trillian_stars my mind drew one line to another to another and it dawned on me that one part of knowing your significant other was knowing who, among all the archetypes of The Breakfast Club, they would most like to date. Trillian said she'd never seen The Breakfast Club and it dawned on me that not everyone has. That movie was ... well, it was The Breakfast Club of my generation -- which is probably the only real way to explain it. So Trillian and I watched it and I was pleased to discover that I knew exactly who she would most like to date from that list of characters. Wondering about the rest of you. Feel free to discuss in the comments.
Poll #1897454 Your ideal date in The Breakfast Club is....
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 140
Of all the characters in The Breakfast Club, who would you most like to date?
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Brian (Anthony Michael Hall)
15 (10.8%)
Allison (Alley Sheedy)
50 (36.0%)
Andrew (Emilio Estevez)
4 (2.9%)
Claire (Molly Ringwald)
4 (2.9%)
Bender (Judd Nelson)
60 (43.2%)
Someone else (the principle, the janitor, someone's dad in the car, the sculpture in the library)
6 (4.3%)
* (yes I know I spelled principal wrong)
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Papal Issues
I'm compiling, here, some discussions I've had with people about papal issues, so that I may reference them when the topic comes up again.
From the ex-CoC board. Many quotes are only the parts of the posts that were relevant to the topic, to see all of the posts in their entirety, go here.
Pope as Head in Scripture and Early Church Writings
Counsellor: The scriptures accepted by Catholics do not support the idea of a Pope. It would be interesting to look at the earliest post-NT writings to see when the idea of a Pope first emerged.
Actually, scripture does support the idea of a Pope. I'm not as eloquent an apologist as Steve Ray, Scott Hahn, Karl Keating, I'm just going to point you in the direction of people who do a better job than I do of explaining things! Here's an interesting article.
Personally, reading "Upon This Rock" by Steve Ray was when I really started to see the Catholic viewpoint (not necessarily agree with it yet, that took a little more time, but it helped me see things from an angle I hadn't considered before.)
Counsellor: The missing piece in scripture is where Peter is referred to as head of the church on earth. In Peter's own letters, he does not refer to himself as head or servant of servants or by any exclusive title but rather "fellow elder." He says only Jesus is "Chief Shephard." When Paul goes to Jerusalem mentioned in Galatians, he fails to refer to Peter in any exclusive way except to point out Peter's fault. Paul refers to Peter as one of three "pillars" named in Jerusalem. In the very places one would look for a special reference to an exclusive title or office for a human head of the church, there is a conspicuous silence. Peter did not allow anyone to bow to him, uncharacteristic of RC popes.
Counsellor, what you don't seem to understand is that the Pope IS a "fellow elder." He IS a fellow priest, and even today the pope will address other priests and bishops as "my fellow priests." So this doesn't really prove your point. And as for Paul rebuking Peter, he did so precisely Peter WAS such an example to others, and he wanted to make sure people didn't think Peter was implying the Mosaic Law was still binding. Here, this explains it better.
And I used to think the same thing about people bowing down to the Pope, etc, but then I saw video of popes (namely John Paul II) lifting up people off their knees, saying "no no, that's not necessary." Also, I have friends who were able to get a blessing from the pope because they were newlyweds...they were told specifically "Do not kneel, just go and shake his hand," lol, but they kneeled anyway because they just love and respect their Papa. But even so, Peter didn't want people to *worship* him, and when people bow or kneel to the Pope, it's just out of respect for his office (quite like people standing when a judge comes into the court.) It's not because they think he's an object of worship, it's just a sign of great respect. It's not like one man can force a massive group of people to not bow or, I'll bet you if it was a small group or one-on-one (like with Peter in the scriptures), the Pope would say "Now now, no need for that" or something similar. Contrary to what people think, most of the popes have been very very humble men, I mean our Pope now didn't even want to accept the office because he felt he wasn't worthy (same with JPII)...and that's usually the sign that he would be good for the job.
Counsellor: Stephanie, I won't belabour the point. Yes Peter was a fellow elder but not a fellow priest as none are mentioned in the NT, but he was not the head of the church on earth. Not even the earliest post-NT writings speak of a singular human head of the church. Ignatius does not refer to such when he writes to Rome, and Hermas speaks only of elders who preside over the church. And then there's the letter written from Rome in response to a request from Corinth, again no reference to a singular human head of the church, only to elders in the local church.
Well, the word priest comes from the Greek word "presbyteros," which is translated as elder in the scriptures. So elder=priest. If you notice, the way the Catholic church is set up, there are priests at each church, and bishops over each diocese, and they often write to each other. Now, the bishop of Rome is a bishop just as the bishops of other cities were...but they looked at him as the head bishop. Here's a quote from Ignatius:
"Ignatius . . . to the church also which holds the presidency, in the location of the country of the Romans, worthy of God, worthy of honor, worthy of blessing, worthy of praise, worthy of success, worthy of sanctification, and, because you hold the presidency in love, named after Christ and named after the Father" (Letter to the Romans 1:1 [A.D. 110]).
You see how he says the church which holds the presidency? That's referring to the Church at Rome, and its bishop, which is seen as the head over others.
Counsellor: The Ignatian letter does not refer to a singular bishop in Rome and this is important. Ignatius recognizes the importance of the Roman church to the Romans and so he refers to "presidency" but not over the whole church. In addition Ignatius is bold to give direction to the Roman church just as he does to other churches and says "You shall also signify to them that I draw near..."
Hmm...those are some good mental gymnastics Seriously, though, I did the same thing! (Believe me, I fought tooth and nail against becoming Catholic, lol, but the Holy Spirit won in the end.) It took backing up for a moment, it took refraining from frantically bending over backwards trying to find holes in every argument and simply looking at the big picture for me to realize what I was missing. It took looking at history, and scripture, and the teachings of the Catholic Church as a whole (and not compartmentalizing as I was taught to do in the CoC) to see how all the pieces of the puzzle fit together.
Again, as I said before, there is no verse that says "And then Peter was made Pope, the head of the Church on Earth." Why? Because there was no need then, because it was a well-known fact, it was understood. Up until the protestant reformation, everyone understood that. It is only when we look back at things through 21st century non-Catholic eyes that we don't see it, especially if we don't exactly have the right idea of what the pope did or looked like.
As an example, if the idea is in my head that Catholics believe the pope is infallible in word and deed and action, and I look back and see that there were popes who made mistakes in personal matters, I'm going to think "Aha! There, that proves my point." The problem there, though, is not that the pope made a's that I have an incorrect assumption about the pope and his infallibility, so I'm looking for the wrong thing. See?
And this is, I think, the case with you. You have a certain idea in your mind about what the Pope is supposed to be like, and how people are supposed to act towards him, and what it would look like in history...and when you don't see that, you think "Aha! There, that proves my point," but the fact is it's your idea and understanding of what you're looking for that is clouding your view. You're looking through 21st century non-Catholic eyes for an incorrect image of the pope, and so it's no surprise you're not finding it.
Believe me, I understand because I did the same thing, lol! And I'm sure you'll deny it, as I would have, because you don't realize it. And this is why I recommend Upon This Rock, because it helped me clear up my view and change what I was looking for...and when I did that, then I was able to see what I was missing.
Counsellor:We could look at Clement I and II, but Ignatius is enough for now.
1. Why does Ignatius not refer to a singular bishop in Rome while he does so for the many other churches he writes?
2. Why does Ignatius not exhort the other churches to agree with the Roman church, although he does exhort the members to submit to their congregational bishop?
3. If his goal is to promote unity and combat gnosticism, which apears so, why does he not tell the other churches to agree with the bishop in Rome who has power to bind and loose, keys of the kingdom, etc.?
1. I already showed you where he refers to Rome as having the "presidency." You don't agree, ok, but to me (and more importantly to most learned scholars) this shows that he sees Rome as prime among the local churches. As for why he doesn't specifically mention the bishop of Rome, well he isn't writing the letter to the bishop of Rome, he's writing it to the church there, the people, so that's why he doesn't address the Pope. Also, though in this particular letter he doesn't refer to a singular bishop of Rome...nor does he refer to any plurality of bishops of Rome! So a lack of mention of a bishop of Rome is hardly proof that there wasn't a bishop of Rome! His letter was just to ask for prayers and to tell the people he was going to be martyred, and he was glad to do so. In the other letters, he's talking to the people and saying "You need to do what your bishop says!" The letter to Rome is not the same kind of letter, it's simply to tell people he is going to be martyred, it's giving news of himself, not trying to preach.
2. He doesn't tell the other churches to agree with the Roman church because that's a given! Today, if a bishop writes to a church and says "Be sure to do what your bishop says!" this doesn't mean he's denying that there's a pope, and it doesn't mean that he's telling them NOT to do what the pope's just that this is a given! What the bishop teaches and what the pope teaches should be one and the same! There's no need to mention it!
3. See above, he doesn't mention it because it's a given that they all need to be in agreement with Rome. The problem at this time was not bishops not agreeing or following the pope, it was more likely people not following their bishop, so this is what he addresses. If there had been a problem with bishops not following the pope, there surely would have been letters addressing this...but since that wasn't the case, you won't see that. Again, this is no proof that there was no pope.
So far, your arguments consist of "If there was a pope, why don't I see that mentioned specifically in the letters?" I hope I've explained the whys to you, and again I remind you that a lack of mention is no proof of a lack of pope. You have yet to show me anything that actually contradicts Catholic teaching or positively denies that there is a pope.
Furthermore, if you step back and look at what IS in those letters, you will see a description of the early Church that includes a plurality of priests (presbyters), and ONE bishop over each local church. Hmmm...does this look familiar? Why, this is how the Catholic Church is set up!! There are also, in these letters, teachings referred to which are obviously Catholic. For instance, that of the Eucharist.
"I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the bread of God, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David; and for drink I desire his blood, which is love incorruptible" (Epistle to the Romans 7:3 [A.D. 110]).
"They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ, flesh which suffered for our sins and which that Father, in his goodness, raised up again. They who deny the gift of God are perishing in their disputes" (Epistle to the Smyrnaeans 6:2; 7:1 [A.D. 110]).
That the Eucharist is, in fact, the flesh and blood of Christ is obviously a Catholic belief.
So if we add this up, we have no definitive proof that there was no pope, only a lack of mention of one in one man's letters (which again, is not a proof), and we do have definitive proof that at least Ignatius held to the beliefs Catholic profess today. (There are more than just that of the Eucharist, by the way, this is just one example.) So...I remain unconvinced that the early Church I see in these letters is not the Catholic Church, and that there was no pope.
And by the way, here's a good article about Ignatius and his writings if you're bored and would like to read, lol (it's quite long).
The Pope's Role
I'd like to add something about the role of the pope.
Look, the pope is not like a king with servants who can do whatever he wants or a head in that's more subtle than that. I mean, he is a bishop with fellow bishops. He is ordained a bishop...he is never ordained a pope! He is not there to rule on every matter and his office does not take away the authority that other bishops have. He has just as much authority as other bishops, with one difference...he is able to have the last word, with the promise from Christ that by the guidance of the Holy Spirit this last word will be correct. All that happens when he becomes pope is he is elected, asked if he will accept the office, and if he accepts, he is pope! All this means is the fellow bishops say "We choose you as pope, we will defer to you when there are disagreements, and if we choose you and you accept, then we know without a doubt God will use you to settle any problems we may have, because this is how he has promised to guide His Church."
So for instance, often times you see in early Christian writings that the bishops assemble and discuss certain things. The fact that it's not the pope alone talking with everyone listening does not mean he doesn't have this special role. In fact, he may not need to speak at all, especially if all the bishops are in agreement. When he IS needed is when a dispute arises that the bishops can't agree upon among themselves. They have all agreed that when they have a disagreement about doctrine that they cant settle, they will defer to the pope, not because he's special, but because of God's promise to keep the Church from error, and they have all agreed this will be the man God will speak through to do just that, in a sense, to set them straight.
So, unless there is some big disagreement or something that needs to be defined because of widespread heresy, often there's no need for the pope to speak about anything! He's just another bishop among the bishops. He can't ordain any more or less than other bishops, he can't perform mass any better or more or less than other priests. But when there is a problem, it has been decided that he is the man who has the last word, and whom God will guide by the Holy Spirit.'s like if you're playing a game (and I am so not a sports person, I have no clue how things work, lol, so just go with the flow here!) and you have several referees. Most of the time all the referees are able to come to an agreement about stuff, and they all consider each other's authority to be equal. But imagine that to settle disputes when a conflict arises where they can't come to an agreement, they decide to make one of them the tie-breaker, the guy who gets the last word. They all agree to give one guy this kind of special authority...most of the time he doesn't have to use it, they are all able to agree. But sometimes, every once in a while, there is a disagreement that some of the refs just can't agree on, and per their previous deal, they go to the chosen ref to have the final say. This is kind of how we see the pope's role, except the bishops didn't just get together and decide to do it, we believe God told his apostles, specifically Peter, that someone would have this role, and he promised he would protect the Church from false teachings through this role.
So why would God create this role? Well, I'll show you a great example why...look at the many, many, many splits of the CoC. What usually happens? The elders get together, and some disagree with others. Imagine if there were a man that they could go to, whom they knew God would guide with the Holy Spirit and would keep from error when settling these disputes! He would be able to settle things once and for all, and keep the church from splitting off into splinters because of doubts about the Truth.
You see, it just doesn't make sense to me that God would create a system where people could not be certain of the Truth. Yes, they say "our only authority is the Bible," but what happens when people disagree on the interpretation of the Bible? Who is the authority then? In the Catholic Church, you have a complete system that leaves no doubt as to what the Truth is. When questions arise, we have a visible head to be able to authoritatively declare what the Truth is, so there is no doubt, no question, no confusion, and more importantly no splitting up.
Admittedly, the pope's role has become a bit more pronounced as the Church grew, which is why people misunderstand that he is still just a bishop among bishops, with a special role to fulfill. But even so, the core idea that the bishop of Rome "has the last word" when problems arise so to speak, with guidance fromt he Holy Spirit has been consistent since Peter was made the first pope.
So maybe that will help you to understand a bit more why you don't see early Church fathers writing about the pope as if he's their king, and mentioning him as a fellow bishop, etc. See, it's another one of those things where if you're looking for the wrong thing and don't see it, you think you've proven your point, when actually you've just misunderstood what you're looking at.
Papal Infallibility
BH: For the sake of argument let's say the Pope does say something that can be proven erroneous. What would Catholics do then?
Let's say Pope Ratzinger was to get on tv one day and tell the whole world that Christianity is a farce, a fairy tale, and all believers are suckers. What would the Catholic Church do then?
Really, you don't have to go that far. Let's say that the Pope, any pope, comes to power and screws hookers. If he refuses to repent, who excommunicates him for being disorderly?
BH: First of all, as I explained before, the pope only speaks infallibly in certain situations, namely when there is an argument or disagreement of some sort that he has to clear up. And he has to follow a special formula to show that this is, in fact, an infallible statement. So, just picking up any random thing he says, like "Oh, I think it's going to rain tomorrow" and it doesn't rain, is not going to prove anything.
(By the way, it's Pope Benedict now, not Cardinal Ratzinger or Pope Ratzinger ) First I'd say, Benedict would never do that, period. But, for the sake of argument, if he DID do that, I'd say he had gone crazy...and as I explained, simply saying something doesn't mean he's making an official, infallible statement. It has to follow a certain formula, AND it's usually written out beforehand, not just said on the spur of the moment.
I mean come one...your hypothetical situation there is just a bit much. It's like saying "What if Jesus came down and proclaimed that the Bible was a big hoax, and none of it ever happened?" lol
Besides, I would point out to you that this HAS NEVER HAPPENED in 2000 years of popes. So while you're looking at hypotheticals, I'm trying to stick with facts.
As for your last statement, you're misunderstanding what infallibility is all about. Again, the pope is not *impeccable*, that is he is not kept from sin or from mistakes. He is only protected from proclaiming falsely Church Teaching, teaching that has to do with matters of faith and morals. So even if a pope DID go and sleep with hookers (and I'm not denying, there have been some corrupt and sinful popes in history) this still does not prove anything. In fact, it's even more amazing that even with corrupt people in the past as pope, the teachings were still kept the same and protected by the Holy Spirit.
More on papal infallibility.
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Monday, January 05, 2009
The unreality of war, part two
The above image, courtesy of the Tate, is one of Wall's "history" or "epic" photographs. Like others of this period, it is as meticulously crafted as a hyper realist painting and just as false. Wall spends months creating these diorama-like settings, hires professionals to do makeup, recreates in other words, an entire world. It reminds me of the film version of Atonement, recommended for the war scenes alone which are surreal and disturbingly beautiful. Why, I wondered when I first saw this image, is Wall turning to Afghanistan? (And read the dates folks, the image is from 1992 and the battle from 1986.) But why not? War is part of the fabric of our lives. Whether we acknowledge it or not, war is as much a part of our daily Canadian life as gardening and ice hockey. Both times I drove to Toronto last month along the "highway of heroes" traffic slowed from Belleville to Scarborough as the overpasses, lined with fire, police, and military men and women, stood silent with Canadian flags waiting for Canadian soldiers coming home in boxes from Afghanistan. We are all very much invested in these wars.
Meanwhile, generations elsewhere are growing up in the middle of wars, knowing nothing of the west but battles and masses of photographers and reporters filming and photographing these incursions. Making war, photographing war, commenting on war, discussing war, protesting war, making more and more war. Where in the world would notions of peace come from? Can anyone in the middle east believe in peace? What would their model be?
Sontag also writes about the above photograph, which she singles out as exemplary among contemporary war photographs for its "thoughtfulness, coherence, and passion." It is, she argues, "the antithesis of a document...a Cibachrome transparency seven and a half feet high and more than thirteen feet wide...mounted on a light box." The photograph makes me think of one of the photographs Woolf was reacting to in Three Guineas, the photographs that landed on her breakfast table arguing for war, providing proof of war, attempting to elicit various responses--outrage, support? As was the photograph in yesterday's post which seemed to resemble a War Game, a virtual experience of war promising new generations of North American boys a future that might include the handling of such guns. Someone, somewhere no doubt authorized that image. War photography is groomed. Normally. I won't get into the horrifying photographs of naked prisoners of war...
"We can't imagine how dreadful, how terrifying war is...and how normal it becomes..." Sontag concludes. And that is precisely it: war has become normalized. Yet, one remembers that it was the images of Vietnam that helped put an end to that. What images now? What images would it take to stir? How deeply must the images penetrate to rouse any hope for anything but more of the same?
I once taught a research writing class titled "War & Ethics," which understandably, attracted a 90% male student body. It was just prior to 9/11 and war seemed very far away indeed. Not one person in the class could imagine peace. No one argued for pacifism (fanaticism?). In a military-focused nation what would the point of that be? And many of the students had intense knowledge of particular battles, historical moments, and of course, US Military history. It was a fascinating semester, and while none of the students could imagine peace, they were very passionate about the parameters of war, the morality of the just war. In fact I have rarely seen students want to work so hard to make their cases. It might be a fabric of their young lives, but if it was, it was a fabric that needed to be accounted for.
Perhaps that is one difference that one feels as a Canadian: it is not our past is it? We are not a militaristic nation are we? I always thought we were peacekeepers, sweepers, tenders, the fair witness. I'm not sure any of us can hide behind that idea any more.
Brenda Schmidt said...
Excellent posts. Indeed, as you say, we are all very much invested in these wars. War is part of the fabric of our lives, yes, and that fabric has a flannel feel to it. The groomed war photographs that you speak of. The news stories. Fuzzy and flat. What images now, you ask. Good question and one I've thought about more and more since this summer after I attended a presentation by Ted Barris titled "When a Nation was Born: Vimy Ridge." It was outstanding. Like many, I've read about Vimy in texts, but never in context. That is, not until Barris introduced us to certain soldiers. Their photographs. Their faces. He told us how they died. He fleshed them with their stories, making them into people, people we could relate to. People we know. People with hometowns and families and loves. With goals. Like ours. He gave us photographs, oral histories, excerpts from personal letters. It was riveting. I was not the only one with tears soaking my collar. So now, being a hockey fan, I think about Barris's presentation each week as I watch Coach's Corner with Don Cherry during Hockey Night in Canada. When Canadian soldiers are killed, the last portion of Coach's Corner is dedicated to their memory. To our loss. They show each soldier's photograph as they give the name and some personal details. I don't know how many years they've been doing this. Regardless, these are the images that move me. I never fail to cry. I never fail to dwell on it. And each time I seem to dwell on it more. I'm betting I'm not the only one.
elena said...
It is one thing to be invested in the imperial making of a collective self via subscribing to the military machine of murdering elsewhere. It is another thing to be caught in between.
I doubt that the Woolf of Three Guineas would look at her own emotional response to the passing of her nation's soldiers without some critical sense of distance. The lures of man-centered nation-building are powerful indeed!
Anyway, here's some perspective from a 'political' poet, Mahmoud Darwish:
When the fighter planes disappear, the doves fly
white, white. Washing the sky's cheek
with free wings, reclaiming splendor and sovereignty
of air and play. Higher and higher
the doves fly, white white. I wish the sky
were real (a man passing between two bombs told me)
from A state of Siege, 2002 (translation by Fady Joudah)
Lemon Hound said...
Thanks for the Darwish poem. "I wish the sky were real..." gets at the problem doesn't it? As does your point about being caught in between.
Hard to believe it is the same sky.
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Seeing isn't always believing
God, family, friends & ♥ EXO ♥
"我一般不搞笑。" - Zhang Yixing
"I can’t give you the best, but I will give you my best."
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[linux-dvb] How to switch power supply for active antennas?
Johannes Stezenbach js at linuxtv.org
Fri Mar 4 14:51:52 CET 2005
Sebastian Schneider wrote:
> I got a Technisat Airstar 2 DVB-T PCI Card running in my PII 400 MMX
> with kernel 2.6.10 and vdr 1.3.17 together with the dxr3-plugin 0.2.3-pre2.
> Here's my problem:
> I measured 5V DC on the antenna input of my Airstar 2, which makes me
> believe that it is configured for the use with an active antenna. As I
> read, active antennas can lead to worse quality if they are used in
> regions where the signal strength is quite strong enough for passive
> antennas. So I got a passive one, but now I have to turn the 5V DC off.
> I'm studying computer science so i'm a bit experienced in programming. I
> - of course - searched the internet and looked in/changed various kernel
> modules (skystar2, mt315, mt352, stv0299) but didn't manage to turn it
> off. I read parts of the DVB-API documentation as well, but all I found
> were functions concerning the power of LNBs.
> Could someone tell me how to turn the 5V DC off? Is it even possible?
I am not sure if it can be turned off, but I am quite sure
that it isn't necessary to turn it off to use a passive antenna.
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From:Colin McKinnon Date:October 26 1999 3:16pm
Subject:Re: using radius server for user authentication
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At 15:02 26/10/99 +0200, Uwe Pilz wrote:
>I have the mysql server up and running on Suse-Linux 6.2 with apache and
>Is it possible to authenticate access to the databases with an existing
>radius server
>which already serves hundreds user accounts over Novell NDS ??
>Any websites regarding this problem ?
>I found only the other way: users in mysql db , but thats not my needs.
>Thank you for reply
I suppose you could drop the user based MySQL authentication (use the same
account to do db access) and authenticate access to your programs using pam
- I think there's a radius module out there somewhere.
using radius server for user authenticationUwe Pilz26 Oct
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Tugger the SLUGger!SLUG Mailing List Archives
Arunava Sen wrote:
> Hence, X support for these side-buttons seem out of the
> question.
I thought all buttons after 3 were software dependant anyway, which is
what makes most of them pretty useless.
> So what so I do? Slashdot to the rescue!
> They have this cool article about the best damned aussie product I've ever
> seen... http://www.claw.com.au/
Hey - something for the Lefties - Rock On! {:-)}}}}
I really loved the conditional lines about replacing your keyboard (for
3D games ) because it will be faster!!!. I suspect this might be on the
three main buttons, but definitely not on your pinkie or a thumb faced
with four positions.
If you really want to contribute something in development, look at
tablets. An overlay/app converts these into the biggest multibutton
mouse around and I believe they are pressure sensitive now (brush stroke
stuff becomes direction and acceleration). That to me seems far more
intuitive that an army of mice with individual button arrangements.
Just my 2c
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Re: clarification on Adobe Blocking
From: Doug Schepers <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:53:06 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: Larry Masinter <[email protected]>
CC: Sam Ruby <[email protected]>, Philippe Le Hegaret <[email protected]>, Shelley Powers <[email protected]>, HTMLWG WG <[email protected]>
Hi, Larry-
Larry Masinter wrote (on 2/12/10 2:29 PM):
> That's all there was, Sam. Who told you there was
> a "Formal" objection?
I think people are referring to an earlier email you sent [1]:
So I object to the chairs' decision that these documents are in scope.
If I need to use the word "formally" in there somewhere, or if there's
some "Formal Appeal Change Proposal" form I'm supposed to fill in,
recapitulating all of the email arguments made to date, suggesting the
documents "change" by disappearing, and written in iambic hexameter,
please let me know.
That could be read as saying it's a Formal Objection, or as asking what
the formal process for deciding the scope of the group's deliverables is.
I suspect, from your most recent email, that you meant the latter...
that you were wanting to find out how to escalate the issue without
raising a Formal Objection.
I gather that, since the topic of the scope of these deliverables has
been debated before and the general consensus was that they are in
scope, there is no way of changing that now short of a Formal Objection.
If you were to make such a Formal Objection, the presumption is that
it would be on behalf of Adobe unless you stated otherwise.
I'm not speaking on authority of W3C here, I'm just trying to help
disentangle a situation that seems to have gotten messy. I leave it up
to Larry, the Chairs, the Team Contact, the Domain Lead, and ultimately,
the Director to resolve.
-Doug Schepers
Received on Friday, 12 February 2010 19:53:13 GMT
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Re: One ontology schema - heterogeneous instance bases
From: Xiaoshu Wang <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:10:59 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: Eric Jain <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
Eric Jain wrote:
> Xiaoshu Wang wrote:
>> [...] Is its semantics any different from the "creator" defined by
>> the dublin core? If there isn't any, (at least from what I can
>> tell), then bioPAX SHOULD NOT reinvent the wheel to mint this term
>> because, if every "ontology" developed its own author term, then,
>> there will be hundreds of "authors/creators" etc., that we have to
>> align when the so-called BioPAX data is mixed with other kind of
>> data. [...]
> Can't speak for BioPAX, but I can say that for me one problem with DC
> is that it's RDF(S), so I can't use the properties in my OWL
> restrictions etc!
> There are some OWL versions (Protege even allows you to import one),
> but I don't know if that is a good idea, as far as I can see this
> isn't official?
I think it is better solution that minting a new URI. It is only one
import statement. Of course, if URI for the OWL version is under a
seemingly application-specific namespace, such as under protege's URI,
then just copy it to a namespace that you feel comfortable. Eventually
either DC is OWLed, or there is a namespace URI that most people will
import to OWL DC. For you, the only change is the import statement and
nothing is affected. I think it is a much much better solution than
creating a bioPax:authors, chemPax:authors, mged:AuThors, etc...
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Re: basic decisions underlying DAML-ONT
From: Drew McDermott <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:19:25 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
[jim hendler]
Actually, we did want to include defined classes in this release, but
there were some problems we couldn't resolve right away, so they are
on a TO-DO list (which is a good idea, thanks Peter). The key
problem was that a goal of DAML as a language is to allow things to
be stated, but not necessarily to force one particular inference
model on things. Consider the case which Ian Horrocks and I
discussed of "expensive-printer" -- we want to have a defined class
for this that says a printer is an expensive printer if it costs more
than $500.
Easy to express, we would say there is some
DefinedClass (expensive-printer)
type printer
cost >$500
notice this is different than the primitive class "printer" because
we want it to be inferred that some printer is in this new class when
we learn that its cost is greater than $500.
But here's the problem - remember the new game! We're on the web, so
someone somewhere defines something as a printer, some catalog
somewhere defines its cost as $1000. Is the system inconsistent if
we don't return that printer as an expensive printer??? That is, can
we insist that there must exist a distributed mechanism that will
somehow find these two facts (which are likely on different pages,
maybe even pointing to different name spaces that in turn point to
other things that eventually both share the same DefinedClass)??
I don't quite understand the danger here. The fear seems to be that
we might have a set of facts represented and a consequence of those
facts which is not explicitly represented (or easily inferrable on
demand). Surely this is inevitable, regardless of whether the facts
are scattered around the web or located in one place.
-- Drew
Received on Thursday, 12 October 2000 13:19:45 GMT
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Re: [CSS21] Test Suite
From: Chris Lilley <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:24:17 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: Boris Zbarsky <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
On Thursday, July 22, 2004, 11:17:36 PM, Boris wrote:
BZ> Chris Lilley wrote:
>> MM> handle this syntax (probably due to the incompatible definition of
>> MM> <style> element content between HTML 4, and XHTML 1). The effect is that
>> MM> the first rule is ignored (or all rules in the case of Firefox).
>> Bleurgh.
BZ> That was my reaction too. Per conversation with Mark, this ONLY happens when
BZ> the file is served as "text/html". Using XML or XHTML MIME types works fine in
BZ> firefox.
OK, I un-bleurgh. Whatever a browser does in tag-soup mode is
undocumented black magic. If it works in the standards mode then fine.
BZ> The reason CDATA sections in text/html cause issues is that the tag-soup parser
BZ> doesn't really understand them, so the "<[CDATA[" part is passed to the CSS
BZ> parser. This last treats it as an error and skips forward, matching pairs of
BZ> quotes, parentheses, and (most importantly) square brackets. So the entire
BZ> sheet is skipped.
Right. I agree that putting this into something served as text/html is a
really bad idea. Since the discussion was xhtml I assumed it was served
with the correct MIME type.
BZ> Of course sending XHTML 1.1 markup (which these tests are) as text/html is an
BZ> issue in itself...
Yes, its a broken misfeature that should never have been suggested.
Trying to send XML to a tag-souper and saying "don't use this" "leave a
space here it might help" etc is a disaster.
Chris Lilley mailto:[email protected]
Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
Received on Thursday, 22 July 2004 17:24:17 GMT
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SOAP 1.1 interop work on soapbuilders mail list
From: Dave Winer <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:34:22 -0700
Message-ID: <067101c0c42f$374af460$33a1dc40@murphy2>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Yesterday at the W3C Web Services Workshop the subject of SOAP interop came up, and it was clear that many people in the room didn't know about the work being done on the soapbuilders mail list to attain interop.
If you have a SOAP implementation and are concerned about interop, bring your concerns to the soapbuilders list.
Received on Friday, 13 April 2001 11:35:20 GMT
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Why Does Harry Reid Hate Cancer Patients?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) recently took to the Senate floor to call a cancer patient a liar. This week his crusade against cancer patients who are getting shafted by Obamacare continues. He dismissed the concerns of a fellow Senator, who is also a doctor and a cancer patient, as merely “getting into the weeds.”
Read the whole thing.
This is the superior care Nancy Pelosi blabbered about, you know, because they really didn’t intend to cover all of those uninsured Americans.
Oh, and in other Obamacare news, employers are saying it will cost them about five grand more per employee. So when workers start seeing those costs deducted from their paychecks expect Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to dismiss them as liars, too. Or maybe they’ll just suggest that they de-couple from work and go on Medicaid.
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Re: enough about other people's loops! (LONG)
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001 00:18:21 -0400, Tom Ritchford <[email protected]>
>Copyright law seems to work *fairly* well. Individuals have actually
>used copyright laws to make money from large corporations. Without
>SOME sort of copyright, if I made a great CD, it'd be copied and
>distributed by huge companies and I'd not make a penny.
Which is exactly why copyright can't be abolished entirely. I used to
think that would be the answer, but then I actually sat and thought
about it for like... five minutes. Copyright is *essential*.
>If you have a good solid suggestion for changes, lay 'em on us.
The primary problem I find with copyright law is its failure to
recognise that a single broad set of guidelines won't work for all art,
and that the guidelines currently in place assume that duplication and
distribution is available only to a few entities. Different types of art
should be managed differently, not with a few minor exceptions, but with
entirely separate statutes.
>>Now, you see, *that* is the CONCEPT of copyright. The part that's
>>"absolutely essential". There's also a valid fair use defense, but I
>>intend to challenge the whole damn system on constitutional grounds if
>>anyone's ever dumb enough to take me to court.
>You will lose. "exclusive rights" is exactly what
>you are NOT respecting by sampling other people's works.
There's still the fair use defense, but all the same I honestly don't
care whether I win or lose. All I need is the forum. All my music is
produced and distributed rather quietly via links over three or four
mailing lists and web fora, so I don't really have anything to worry
about right now.
>>Dumb enough? Am I that arrogant? You betcha. No matter *how* it comes
>>out, I win. Oh, I may be held responsible for infringement and told to
>>pay millions of dollars, sure -- but between the media blitz, the
>>subculture rabble-rousing, and the marketing synergy, I guarantee you
>>I'll manage to get rich off it.
>This is an interesting plan. You get sued and you'll make
>money off it!
Not off being sued, but I can sure as hell use it as a springboard for
any number of other things. The CD's one option; a book is another; and
just plain old stirring up trouble will raise awareness. There is no
such thing as bad publicity, and with a flag I can fly, there are
effectively no limits.
>Do you have a real plan for this?
Most definitely. The worst case scenario is I go bankrupt, which isn't
exactly all THAT terrible. After all, I can still make music the same as
ever; the value of my work isn't in what I've *done*, but in what I am
*capable* of doing. (If everyone understood that, copyright would become
a lot less important to them.) By the time anyone sits up and takes
notice of anything I'm doing, though, chances are I'll be doing
something entirely different. The sampling thing is really more of a
hobby than anything, and I don't anticipate ever trying to sell anything
that's been produced in this fashion. I have plenty of stuff that isn't
sample-based at all, so if I ever feel I've gotten good enough to sell a
CD (and I ain't nowhere close yet) it probably won't even raise an
>Do you think that people will buy your non-label album just
>because you are in the news (and in the business section,
>too, not on the front page?)
Of course not. They'll buy it because it's good. They'll *hear* about it
because it's in the news. Oh, and I don't expect papers to shove me in
front page news because of the *case*... it's the press releases that
will prick their ears. I don't expect to get any further than a capsule
on the front page leading to A5 or something, and I'll be surprised if I
get that.
>>And if I tear down the whole damn thing
>>and manage to start something that at least PRETENDS to protect the
>>artist, I just *might* become the single most important figure in the
>>history of sampling.
>too late:
Oh, I know I'll never be the first, but nobody remembers Grand Wizard
Theodore either. They remember Q-Bert. Theodore may have invented
scratching in general, but Q-Bert was the one who invented most of the
techniques we see today.
>Long in chutzpah you may be, but you need some substance to
>go with that.
Got some. Ain't showing enough of it yet, unfortunately, but at least I
realise it isn't showing. Some of my best ideas are lurking on the
sidelines waiting for a concept worthy of their glory; the
CD-in-progress "RABBAN" is going to absolutely kick ass once it makes
its way to mastering, and there won't be a single sample on it.
>Your music is perfectly competent and quite stirring... I do
>rather like that sort of thing... it's well-produced...
Really? I've always thought my production skills were pretty crap.
>but it's nothing memorable, at least if
>is any indication. It's just regular breakbeat
>stuff, and in fact you don't really use
>the samples that well.
No excuses here. I *like* regular breakbeat stuff. It's not supposed to
take the world by storm. (The project that's expected to do *that* has
been on the drawing board for years, and I'm still not quite ready to
start actually producing it.) "Singa" was just a fun little piece. I
think I pitch-shifted the main sample down too far, in retrospect.
>Though the samples fit together neatly enough, there are
>just too many of them. You don't seem really interested
>in any of them specifically and it becomes some sort
>of guessing game.
Rather accurate interpretation, to be honest. I was just playing around
with some beat effects, halfway watching the first episode of "South
Park", and the "I like to singa" bit came on. So I thought "Hey, that's
funny! I should sample that!" and spent the next hour or two putting the
track together. I didn't have any particular message in mind, so it's
primarily just screwing around with samples. Hey, I could call about
half my tracks "Screwing Around With Samples, Volume XLIV" or something
similar. ;)
>Quickly the ear grows a little tired
>and wants to hear something new and memorable.
Yeah, I think the "theme" samples were too long and over-repeated. If I
were to go back and do it again, I'd probably chop the main sample after
the second measure, shorten the "take it up the ass" portion, and drop
the "Rebel Without a Pause" bit entirely. That was just something I'd
always wanted to do and I'd never gotten around to it, so when I needed
something else toward the last half of the track I thought I might as
Come to think of it, most of my work spirals into the toilet during the
last half. I'd like to get past that, eventually.
>You also use some samples that are rather, er, jejune.
>(tired, old, stale). Give Chuck D a rest!
Never! If I like it, I'm gonna use it. I don't think any artist should
think "I want to use that, but too many other people use it so I won't".
Hell, I think only three or four tracks I've made in the last year
*don't* say "oh my God, that's the funky shit".
>And the unfamiliar samples still fall into familiar
>categories (anal sex references seem to be all
>the rage recently in hip-hop, what's with this??)
Don't know. I was making those references as far back as '93. Ahead of
my time, I suppose. :P
>(You don't fall into the third trap, predictable
>return of a previous sample after 4, 8 or 16 beats.)
I hate it when people do that. It's so annoying. It's like "I don't want
to evolve! I don't like change! I wish it was 1980 again so I could have
sex without condoms but disco would still be dead!" or something.
>It's entertaining and it's slick but it isn't going
>to make you the Great Man you are trying to set yourself
>up to be with all this blather.
If I became famous for tracks like "Singa", I'd shoot myself. It's fun,
but that's about all. It could be worse, of course; I could end up
famous for something like this:
My GOD that track was so *astonishingly* bad. I forgot all about it
until a couple weeks ago when I was converting my RealAudio files to
MP3, and I couldn't even finish listening to it. I waited for it to get
better for about thirty seconds, but it just kept getting worse so I hit
stop. What a godawful piece of crap. I produce a *lot* of crap, but this
one was just crap squared.
>Why not do something REALLY different?
Well, because I don't really *want* to be "different". What I want is
essentially seventies rock with a healthy dose of hip-hop, which a lot
of people are *almost* doing so I'll probably look like just another
rap/rock crossover. That's one of the reasons some sort of "look at me"
tactic is required; I expect most people to go "oh, shit, another one"
and not bother to check it out until someone shoves it in their face and
says "LISTEN". Then they'll realise what a fantastic godlike genius I am
and give me all their money for being such an incredibly cool guy.
But until I can effectively provide that experience, I'll settle for
doing stuff that's just plain fun. ;)
>Your comments are solicited. Go crazy.
Hrm. Um, I don't like it. No real reason though. There are *parts* I
like, but overall it's just not my sort of thing. Not busy enough, I
suppose; the only real musical criticism I could make is that the high
frequencies seem a bit prominent, but that's strictly a nit and not even
altogether bad. Maybe it will grow on me.
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Cat Mama Soothes Kitten from a Bad Dream
Kitty wakes up from a bad dream, but mama cat is there to sooth the tiny one and cuddle up. A hug goes a long way.
cute foster kitten sleeping with cat mama
Wah! Bad dream.
cute kitten wakes up from a dream
It’s ok. Mommy is here.
cute cat mama comforts kitten cuddles her to sleep
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awwww….how sweet
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Awwwww……..Cats are just BEAUTIFUL babies! LOVE, love, love this pic!
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Adorable, such lovely photos. Wish I had a cat mama to sooth me after a bad dream.
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Kitties are such good moms!
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Thanks for sharing these priceless pictures!Nothing better to go to sleep; thinking in such a unconditional love; The “little tiger” is “una monada”.
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Joe Orton wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:06:14AM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote: >>Surely the point is that the function and the function pointer actually >>_do_ have compatible types, but we hold the pointer in a variable that >>doesn't. That is, we cast it to an incompatible type for storage, then >>cast it back. > > The issue is the call to apr_dynamic_fn_register, here's how I read it: > > (((void (*)(const char *, APR_OPTIONAL_FN_TYPE(name) *)) > &apr_dynamic_fn_register)(#name,name)) > > this takes a function pointer (&apr_dynamic_fn_register), then casts it > to a different type (void (*)(const blah blah)), then calls the function > using this type. That has undefined behaviour, since the type of > apr_dynamic_fn_register is not compatible with the (void (*)(const blah > blah) type. I misunderstood, sorry. Cheers, Ben. -- "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
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Subject: Re: Kernel: compilation probleme
To: None <>
From: Christian Biere <>
List: current-users
Date: 12/26/2006 15:29:20
kamel derouiche wrote:
> I get the following error when I try to 'make depend'
> a NetBSD current 4.x.x Kernel.
The usual way to compile a kernel is using nowadays.
For example, to build a GENERIC kernel, you'd typically run this:
sh /usr/src/ -D /usr/destdir -O /usr/obj -T /usr/tools -Uu kernel=GENERIC
> make:
> "../../../../conf/../../../../conf/"
> line 75: Malformed
> onditional (${HAVE_GCC} > 3)
If you really wanted to use make, you could workaround this by setting
HAVE_GCC appropriately but unless you know what you're doing, that's
not a good idea.
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Subject: Re: english -> german translation
To: None <>
From: James K. Lowden <>
List: netbsd-docs
Date: 08/06/2003 21:04:09
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 08:27:32 +0200, rolf scheurer <>
> i'd like to help translate some english NetBSD guides/howtos/... to
> german. i've got good NetBSD skills.
> i prefer network related stuff, but it's not required.
Hi Rolf,
No problem, there's lots to do!
You'll want the NetBSD documentation sources, in the $CVSROOT/htdocs in
the CVS archive. Here's how to to get them:
You'll note the main network documentation is more plentiful than its
German counterpart:
$ pwd; ls Documentation/network/ |wc -l; \
ls de/Documentation/network/ |wc -l
When you have a new file or diff ready, post it with send-pr(1).
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Re: Mutt-devel fails to display text correctly with ncurses
On Sun 14 Sep 2008 at 15:51:09 +0200, Rhialto wrote:
> I have used the "ncurses" option with mail/mutt-devel (and mail/mutt)
> for a long time, since NetBSD's own curses seemed to ignore SIGWINCH and
> also it didn't know the function use_default_colors(). [ I haven't
> checked recently if this is both still the case. ] This breaks resizing
> the terminal window, resp. some colour setting in the .muttrc.
I just checked curses: it does seem to respect SIGWINCH now and know
about use_default_colors(). It even displays all characters correctly,
BUT it does have a fault displaying the index (it inserts a newline in
the subject of the mail with the cyrillic username). Ncurses also had
this problem.
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Quote1 By God, Old Skull, we've DONE it! ZOMBIES HAVE SAVED THE EARTH! Quote2
-- Killraven
Appearing in "The Humblest Things"Edit
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Other Characters:
• Tripod
Synopsis for "The Humblest Things"Edit
A week ago, Howard the Duck, an agent of A.R.M.O.R., is sent to find Machine Man in Milwaukee. There he finds a drunken Machine Man, who is greatly depress in motor oil because of Jocasta for leaving to her "ex-husband" (Ultron). Howard explains to Machine Man that he is assigned on a new mission from Michael Morbius that he had find a cure for the zombie virus thanks to Spider-Man's radioactive blood. However, the zombie virus is so virulent and metamorphic it's nearly impossible to lock down its genetic code. But according to A.R.M.O.R. forecasters, that a Planestorm will merge several alternate realities together, which all are afflicted with a variation of the zombie virus. In so, Morbius assigned Howard and Machine Man in bringing back the variants of the zombie virus from each kind of the undead. And comparing them together would allow Morbius to unlock the virus' genetic code and find a cure.
In the present, Machine Man, Howard, and their new ally Jackie Kane (who goes by her alias Swift Cloud) are tasked in finding a "Boyle" virus in Earth-691. A world where H.G. Wells' Martian invasion novel War of the Worlds is fact, and that Earth in the year 2020 is already conquered by the Martians. The three saved Carmilla Frost and her baby from a Martian Tripod piloted by a Skar unit. After crippling the Tripod and destroying the android, Machine Man is attacked by Killraven and his Freemen, M'Shulla Scott and Old Skull, who they mistake Machine Man and his companions as "Martian Mutates". Fortunately, Carmilla defended the three and explains to her husband M'Shulla and the others that the three saved her and her son. Despite the resolution, Killraven is not apologetic who then explained to Swift Cloud and Howard of his world's grim and dire situation under the tyranny of the Martian Masters.
That night, Killraven and his companions learned from Howard and Jackie of their mission in finding the Boyle virus. When Howard explains of Machine Man of keeping a sample from Earth-483 and that he is becoming more suicidal, Carmilla is interest in this and whisper something to Killraven.
Meanwhile, Killraven approach Machine Man, who is repairing himself from his encounter with Killraven. He explains to Machine Man that being an empath, he can tell Machine Man's feelings and knows that he lost his purpose in life. Though he also knows that he is a hero at heart, and propose an offer that deserve him a "hero's death."
The next morning, Swift Cloud and Howard are awaken to explosions coming from the Martian Masters' headquarters, follow after by Black Smokes. Carmilla, M'Shulla and their baby have already left safely, and Jackie noticed that Machine Man is gone. She demanded Killraven as to what happened to him but are cut short by the arrival of zombie pregnant human slaves. As they fight off the zombies, Killraven explains to Jackie that he had just simply "poisoned the enemy's food supply." After Old Skull was bitten at the arm and had to be amputated, Jackie again demands to Killraven what he done to Machine Man. He reveals that the night before, he necessarily used Machine Man to be captured by the Martians where he will be taken to Alteration Division in which Killraven then mentally control the Martian Sacrificer to use Machine Man's virus and crossbred with microbes to be release in the facility. Despite infecting the human prisoners, it was the best Killraven had to destroying the Martians. Soon then they are attacked by zombie babies from the zombie pregnant women, in which they immediately dispatched. Following this, Jackie and Howard are determined to find Machine Man with Killraven having to escort Old Skull back to camp for medical need. Just then, Killraven picks up the Martian Masters' mental broadcast and learns that the Martians had calculated the spread of the zombie virus and decided to leave Earth for being unsuitable. Joyfully making Killraven's plans and dreams to come in fruition.
In the facility, Jackie and Howard are swarmed by the numbers of zombies as they are running out of ammo. However, they are then save by Machine Man, who has connect himself to a Tripod and begins to slaughter the zombies. He tells to Howard and Jackie that while on the operating table he heard them looking for him, in which it fulfilled him that he is still care for.
• Back in 1975, Defenders Vol 1 #26 said that the Martians abandoned Earth by 2075 at the latest. This story establishes their departure to have been in 2020.
• The "Boyle" zombie virus is named after director Danny Boyle, who directed 28 Days Later. As the zombies seen in this issue are similar to the "Rage" infected in the 28 Days Later franchise.
• This is the first appearance of M'Shulla and Carmilla's son. Carmilla was revealed to be pregnant in Marvel Graphic Novel Vol 1 #7. The boy was apparently named after Carmilla's father, Andre Frost.
• The title of this story, "The Humblest Things", is taken from Chapter Eight of War of the Worlds, 'Dead London': "And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians--dead!--slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth."[1]
• Coincidentally, the November 2009 Doctor Who episode, "The Waters of Mars" also occurred in November, and depicted Martian zombies that spread an infection originating in food.
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Addendum to Earlier Posts: Dantian as Origin of Forces
1. Hello Mr. Sigman - just a quick thought: these two views might bot be in strict contradiction to one another.. the first (seems to) deal with force in terms of "Biomechanics" - the other (seemingly) with "Energy" - that most difficult to explain / vaporous of terms.. While part of me enjoys the philosophy of language, the old ex martial artist in me was often annoyed by constantly misunderstanding the often bizarrely convoluted (and often just plain wrong) attempts by instructors to explain what's happening - *especially* when they performed their movements correctly and my heels left the ground. Sincerely, Phil Raptor
2. Hi Phil:
Actually,IMO, the western view is fairly simply about forces which use the ground as a base. The dantian-centric view is influenced more by how forces from the ground are utilized. I knew about this "dantian origin" of forces long ago, but it a long time before I understood it in the context of manipulating forces on a sophisticated level. But regardless, both ways describe getting a force to the hands, but the eastern way describes more in a "how it's done" way.
3. I have a lot of mid-back problems, which is what brought me to Tai Chi in the first place.
Through the school and a kinesiology coach I've been learning a bit about the psoas muscle. It is a large trunk muscle that connects your back to your thighs and is vastly overused by most of us westerners. Because of where it is and how it attaches it puts a lot of sheering stress on the spine. It's also part of the reason we have problems with range of motion.
The antidote for this, I am told, is to involve a few of the outer thigh muscles (posture and stance) and all of the abdominal muscles - the dantian. With the load shared more evenly around the trunk muscles you are less tense, more mobile, and stronger.
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"So why haven't 100% of blog network sites been hit, if it was algorithmic"
You ask a great question here, but then you answer a totally different one. If the network takedown was algorithmic, why didn't it get all of any network (other than BMR) with the same footprint? Or even over half?
There are networks that were 30% or 50% deindexed, but the entire network of sites are identical in everything but background color. If it was algorithmic, you'd expect all those sites with the same footprint to be deindexed.
That's interesting! The ones we looked at are all over 21 days. For the sites you examined, did you have rankings reports going back to before they started buying links? Or how did you verify that the phrase-only penalty was a penalty and not a result of losing their links and anchor text?
I'm sorry, I suppose I could have been more clear. Rankings dropped as a result of the links being de-indexed and no longer passing value -- so the rankings returned to where they should be without those paid links. The rankings drop seemed due only to the change in the backlink profile.
By no penalty I mean that Google took no direct action against the site to artificially lower it's rankings: their rankings returned to where they were before the link buying, and no other rankings on the site were lowered. So though some of them got a Webmaster Tools warning, their site was not penalized.
Every site we looked at here had pretty strong evidence that their artificial links improved rankings. The ones who had links deindexed were the clearest case, since we were able to see the rankings fall to the previous levels once the links went away.
Certainly though it's a good example of paid linking strategies getting blown up by Google.
From what we're seeing specific to the link networks, is that there was no penalty even when there was a Webmaster Tools Warning (it's been 3-4 weeks for these guys now). I suspect the warnings had more to do with trying to find more paid link sources.
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But I'm still very curious to know how other companies determine what to charge. For example, your minimum 2,500 per month: what are the deliverables on that program? About how many man-hours of work can that client expect each month?
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Links to Soothe a Weary Soul
• Laird Hunt has a blog. And it gets its name from a line in a Paul Celan poem, a sign of great taste and intelligence.
• If you've ever worked at a bookstore, you might have experienced the sometimes painful, sometimes delightful practice of stripping mass market paperbacks of their covers and just sending the cover back to the distributor. And you might have also experienced the returning of trade paperbacks and hardcovers to the distributor whole. And you might have wondered about these things. Now we all need wonder no more, because the Honorable Dr. Justine Larbalestier was willing to ask why? about those publishing practices (and some others), and the Esteemed and Knowledgeable Patrick Nielsen Hayden provided some answers.
• Also thanks to Dr. L: "How to Fail in Literature" circa 1890.
• Fred Ramey of Unbridled Books asks: "Why does it seem that the publishing industry can gainfully expect fiction readers to muscle their way through a slough of artlessness to get to the heart of a story but rarely believes that readers will be willing to slip into the currents of an artful telling to get there?"
• MySpace vs. Friendster, and other cultures and subcultures in social life: "Often, people don't need simplicity -- they want to feel proud of themselves for figuring something out; they want to feel the joy of exploration. This is the difference between tasks that people are required to do and social life. Social life isn't about the easy way to do something -- it's about making meaning out of practice, about finding your own way." (via Alan DeNiro)
• The second issue of Green Integer Review is now online.
• Ben Yagoda on the awfulness of NYT reviewer Michiko Kakutani.
• Textbooks can be so gay. (via Scott Esposito)
• Don't forget Samuel Beckett's 100th birthday on April 13. I expect to hear you all singing. I'll try to post a Beckett link every day between now and then. Here's one. (via Bud Parr)
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1. Aha - the great Mr Beckett. Waiting for Godot still lingers in my mind long after my reading back in the early 1990s. Happy belated birthday Mr B!
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 In Development And Multi-platform
GSC Game World announces S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 - the official sequel to best-selling game series - in development now. A completely new multi-platform technology developed by GSC will make the core of the game. (PC, PS3, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, Xbox 360)
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GWAVE + 1445d ago
STALKER has always been cool but incredibly glitchy. If it comes to consoles I hope they iron out the gltiches.
2late + 1445d ago
you never played Call of Prypiat
anyway I hope to god they won't consolize it
Johandevries + 1445d ago
They maybe will. And that sucks hard.
But look at Mafia 2, a positive example for PC gamers. It's either a PC game being consolized or a console game is PC-dominated.
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raztad + 1445d ago
What does mean "consolize"?
I love STALKER btw, only played Shadow of Chernobil some time ago because my PC is not a dedicated gaming device.
I hope I can build a decent (not more than $400 Pc) that can be plugged to my TV and play Call of Prypiat.
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Arnon + 1445d ago
What do you think it means? It means possibly dumbing it down so a console can run it. I'm hoping multi-platform refers to Mac and PC. It seems everyone is upset with seeing this being a multi-platform title.
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Akagi + 1445d ago
They wouldn't have to "consolize" it if wasn't pirated so much.
free2game365 + 1445d ago
the original Stalker sold something like 3 million copies, and the new one that came out earlier this year sold 2 pretty easy. Even if it's getting pirated, they probably don't care. Hell that's what Bioshock 1 managed to do on the PC and 360. Not to mention 2 million is more than what Bioshock 2 sold on three platforms.
raztad + 1445d ago
Well, that is a stupid definition. If any devel "consolize" their game is their choice, probably the game is just a bad port from xbox360 to PC. That means a cheap afterthought, for the quick cash. Nobody is expecting console games to be equal than PCs, so dumbing them down is a conscious developer decision, and only developers are to blame not consoles themselves. I wonder if "Consolize" then is just the PC being more and more irrelevant perhaps?
Regarding STALKER. I can see why PC gamers feel entitled to this game, similar situation to FFXIII moving to the xbox. However contrary to FFXIII, and quite similar to what MAfia 2 developers did, I dont doubt GSC will put together the best game they can running on PC. They have the experience and the engine. I dont see why the game should be "consolized".
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JsonHenry + 1445d ago
This is probably one of my favorite game series ever. I really hope they do it right so that PC gamers will not immediately feel like they got bent over and console only kiddos will enjoy a great game.
number47 + 1445d ago
Well GWAVE... you wont have to worry about any glitches.
Most of the reason it had glitches was due to the high level of performance the engine demaned.
Based on previous console titles, I'd imagine its going to be quite the reduced experience. Gameplay fundamentals are still good though.
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BattleAxe + 1445d ago
I own STALKER: Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat, but I haven't gotten around to playing them yet. I bought way too many games during Steam's summer sale.
As far as STALKER 2 goes, if its the same situation as Mafia 2 where there are frame rate issues and noticebly reduced detail in the graphics, then I'll get the PC version for sure, but if they do a good job on the console versions of this game I might get it for PS3. I'm still waiting to see how Crysis 2 is going to be like on PS3.
NarooN + 1445d ago
Shadow of Chernobyl runs fine on the latest patch, I dunno about Clear Sky, and CoP didn't even have any bugs when I played the NA release.
Johandevries + 1445d ago
Raoh + 1445d ago
i just installed Call of Prypiat a few weeks back, started it but havent continued yet due to back log of games..
i just got back into pc games and it was the worst decision i made.. the mods are keeping me away from my console
i fell in love with fallout 3 all over again thanks to mods..
i hope to finish Call of Prypiat by next week though..
pr0digyZA + 1445d ago
lol im also playing fallout 3 because of mods
gillri + 1445d ago
meh PC's needs STALKER 2 alot more than console's do thats for certain, anyway it ll a bug ridden mess like the original,
PhilipLarkin + 1445d ago
This is the single best piece of news I've heard all year.
RedDead + 1445d ago
just started shadow of chirnobyl again, awesome game despite the glitches. Best post apocalyptic mood ever .
EDIT ---G36 for the win.
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marioPSUC + 1445d ago
I cannot wait, I just hope they dont dumb it down, which for some reason that tends to happen when they make a PC only game into a multiplatform game.
AllroundGamer + 1445d ago
this is a PC nerd developer just like with Mafia 2, who should leave consoles alone! cause we can only await some really bad ports...
comp_ali + 1445d ago
Haha, so you don't play GTA series or Call of Duty because they originated on PC as well. Fail
AllroundGamer + 1445d ago
can't argue with that, but i'm also a PC gamer since the old Cyrix times, so that was a miss :D i just can't stand when companies/developers want to make a quick buck with console ports... and therefor moneyhungry PC developers fail :p
comp_ali + 1445d ago
@ allround
it is not a specific thing about PC devloper , console devlopers also make bad ports most of the time.
STONEY4 + 1445d ago
Ugh, this could reaaally get dumbed down for consoles. I'm happy they're finally making S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 though (although Call of Pripyat is honestly worthy of that title).
RyuDrinksTheDew + 1445d ago
ah man, had to happen at some point i suppose. anything that is slightly popular eventually makes its way to consoles nowadays.
TheColbertinator + 1445d ago
Damn.Stalker 2 will be gimped for the sake of putting it on consoles.Good news about Stalker 2 but I'm still pissed
dkgshiz + 1445d ago
Why wouldn't anyone want this game multiplatform?
It would just increase the sales of the series and the more money they had the better the following games would be.
STONEY4 + 1445d ago
Because if you've played the other ones, you could tell that they'ed have to completely redesign the interface for consoles. The general design of the game itself feels made for mouse and keyboard.
And with how big the game is and the fact that the series is generally VERY demanding game (the original barely ran around 30fps with objects dynamic lighting on GeForce 7800s when it came out, let alone FULL dynamic lighting. 8800s drilled through it nicely though)
I do admit that the first one was badly optimized though, but still. The graphics made up a huge part of the atmosphere.
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dkgshiz + 1445d ago
I have played Shadow of Chernobyl.
It was okay. The game gets kind of stale pretty quickly.
lolzers + 1445d ago
Because they are more than likely going to take everything out that made the games so great in the first place. Take a look at Deus Ex 2, a prime example.
lolzers + 1445d ago
You couldn't have played it for that long then because the game gets better as you go on. The first hour or two is the worst part of the game as you only start off with a pistol. As soon as you get the automatic weapons the game really kicks off.
I can't see how anyone would think it was stale once they got to the sewer section, and beyond.
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NarooN + 1445d ago
Completely redesign it? Dude. It's an FPS with a few RPG elements and a friggin' inventory system. That's it. Did you forget somewhere down the line that the PS3 has full keyboard/mouse support anyway? Hell, you can control the pointer with a pad anyway. There's nothing overly complex about STALKER. I love the game but you and everyone else is acting like it's some super-hard, omega-complex game of doom when it's really not. If a game like Demon's Souls can be released on PS3 as hard and complex as IT was, then so can a proper STALKER game.
And as for graphics...Where have you been? Killzone 2 came out in 2009 and looked heaps better than vanilla STALKER, let alone STALKER with mods. It was a nice-looking game but it was just poorly optimized and ran on a shitty engine to boot. I've had lengthy convos with many modders of STALKER and they've all complained to me about how crappy the engine is to work with. That's what happens when you delay a game for almost a decade before releasing it.
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yewles1 + 1445d ago
*puts on kevlar and leaves S-L-O-W-L-Y*
PhilipLarkin + 1445d ago
Look at Metro 2033, another Eastern European developer (I think they were Ukrainian) who made for both PC and consoles - they 360 version wasn't dumbed down a bit. GSC know that they have really hardcore fans, and that they're a PC cult, so I have total faith they're not going to dumb it down.
Hey - this isn't Activision we're talking about! HIIIIYOOOO!
Johandevries + 1445d ago
Metro 2033 consists of people who split up from GSC
PhilipLarkin + 1445d ago
See! Backs up my point!
On a slightly seperate note - if they can make STALKER 2 look anything near as Metro 2033 on highest settings, I'm in. The lighting was nothing short of stunning, and it was so goddamn moody.
STONEY4 + 1445d ago
Metro felt more like a PC game ported to consoles than a multiplat work. I've seen screenshots of the 360s graphics, and they are awful compared to the PC version. It looks like it killed the atmosphere. The gameplay felt like something made for PCs too.
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Rubberlegs + 1445d ago
The 360 version of Metro 2033 looks great. Maybe you should play the game instead judging from some screenshots. It didn't have the physx support like the PC version has but still looks good.
Raider69 + 1445d ago
Metro 2033 on the 360 run full of framerate problems!And the game itself is average!It seems something before the release (all the hype and nice looking screenshots!)but then,it did not live up to all the fuzz,and the framerate really sucks!
dkgshiz + 1445d ago
You must not have much faith in GSC...
If you cant believe that they could make a great multiplatform game without downgrading the series just because its on the consoles.
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troll + 1442d ago
Finally, a real sequel. Stalker is awesome.
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Anonymous said...
Nice film, Ed!
What's the status of The Poker Club? Looking forward to seeing it.
ben said...
Speaking of "The Poker Club" I just got the novel, can't wait to dive into it.
Also, is your website down Ed? It takes me to currently.
Brian Drake said...
I just watched the film version of your story. They did a terrific job. It doesn't quite capture the mood that your story does (which is one of my favorites, by the way), but, wow, it's a shocker no matter what.
I don't know if you'd be interested in this, but I have a friend who runs a film festival a few times a year featuring short pieces like Shane's, and I forwarded it to him to see if he might be able to add it. Not only good exposure for the filmmakers but for you, too. --Brian
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Sure Brian. If h's interested have him write me at I'll pass it on to John. I assume he'd be very interested.
Ben-I haven't heard from anybody else who's had trouble reaching the site. But since I live at the mercy of computers I know never to knock them in public. They get you back.
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In the premise of the show, Sam and Cat buddy up as roommates and start a babysitting business to fund for their adventures after her best friend Carly Shay (Miranda Cosgrove) left with her Dad to Italy after the last ICarly web cast ended. (For real life, Miranda Cosgrove went to College.)
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On August 3, 2012, Nickelodeon announced that Dan Schneider, the creator of iCarly and Victorious, will be making a pilot for a spin off of both shows called Sam & Cat. The pilot was ordered in August 2012, and it was filmed in September. The series was picked up for 20 episodes on November 29, 2012, with the show premiering in 2013. The series began production in January 2013.On july 11, 2013 th first season order was doubled to 40 episodes with filming beginning in late September.
The pilot suggests they will be roommates who launch a babysitting business for income. The television program will show all the journeys that both characters experience. Supposedly, Sam travels from Seattle (where iCarly was set) to speak about the web show at Hollywood Arts, the setting for Victorious. There she and Cat meet up and eventually become friends and roommates and partners in a babysitting business.
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• Catarina "Cat" Valentine (Ariana Grande) Cat is a super sensitive drama queen with flighty tendencies. She is guilty of being an over-actor and is always at level 10 emotionally. Though Cat can be a lot to handle, she is a close friend to Tori.
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Sam & Cat Coming to Nickelodeon in June!
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Nickelodeon in June 2013!
Sam & Cat New Trailer! (from Dan Schneider) 00:36
Sam & Cat New Trailer! (from Dan Schneider)
Preview of: "Sam & Cat"
"New Trailer!"
"Coming Soon"
Sam & Cat Season 1 Intro for
Episode 1-"TBA" to 20-"TBA"
(Production code#: 101 to 120)
Sam & Cat Season 2 Intro
Sam & Cat Season 3 Intro
Awards and nominations
"Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards":
• 2014 Kids' Choice Awards: Favorite TV Show (Nominated)
• 2015 Kids' Choice Awards: TBA (N/A)
Other Spin Off
Gibby Sing
middle-school students.
"This Show Is Reported Cancel"
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OBO Foundry Principles
OBO is an open community and, by joining the initiative, the authors of an ontology commit to its maintenance in light of scientific advance and to working with other members to ensure the improvement of these principles over time. The OBO Foundry is an attempt to apply the scientific method to the task of ontology development, and the scientific method rests on constant criticism and on the assumption that no resource will ever exist in a form in which it cannot be further improved.
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The current list of OBO Foundry Principles are listed on the OBO Foundry Wiki:
Current List of OBO Foundry Principles
Note that as of July 2011, every principle has its own unique identifier. The principles are divided into two categories:
To comment on, or ask questions about, any of these principles please send e-mail to the OBO discussion list. .
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"To my buddy who said I’d never host the Tonight Show. You owe me $100."
Jimmy collects on his $100 bet with friends like Robert De Niro, Lady Gaga, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Mike Tyson, and more.
"Not everyone you lose is a loss."
- (via karowww)
(Source: starlate, via socialsmoking)
(via moon-mistress)
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Original Trinity Hymnal, #496
Go, labor on: spend, and be spent,
Thy joy to do the Father's will;
It is the way the Master went;
Should not the servant tread it still?
Go, labor on: 'tis not for naught;
Thine earthly loss is heav'nly gain;
Men heed thee, love thee, praise thee not;
The Master praises—what are men?
Go, labor on: enough while here
If he shall praise thee, if he deign
Thy willing heart to mark and cheer:
No toil for him shall be in vain.
Go, labor on while it is day:
The world's dark night is hast'ning on.
Speed, speed thy work, cast sloth away;
It is not thus that souls are won.
Toil on, faint not, keep watch and pray;
Be wise the erring soul to win;
Go forth into the world's highway,
Compel the wand'rer to come in.
Toil on, and in thy toil rejoice;
For toil comes rest, for exile home;
Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom's voice,
The midnight peal, "Behold, I come."
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GM code WA122V - blue
This blue automotive paint color is most commonly known as Berlin Blue. Other common color promotional names include Blue Ray, Night Race Blue, Sapphire Blue, and Graphite Blue. The color formulation has been used between 2013 and 2015, primarily by GM. We have records of this color appearing on the following models: Corvette, Chevy Truck, Cadillac, Camaro, Chevrolet, Cruze, Sonic, and Buick. See the full detailed list below.
Variations of the exterior paint code WA122V, which may appear on body data tags include: 122V, U122V, and L122V (the prefix U for upper body, or L for lower body). Location of the GM paint code plate varies depending on the year and model of the vehicle common places are on the top or near the top of the back engine compartment shroud panel just behind the steering wheel, hinge pillar of the driver's side door, trunk or rear hatch, side of door, glove compartment, or behind the driver's seat. Check for either the short year/make/model paint code or the longer manufacturing (Fisher) paint code.
Example of the color GM WA122V
See more information on GM code WA122V
Examples of GM code WA122V (click on image for larger/detailed view)
Usage list of GM paint code WA122V (more information)
yearmanufmodelcodepaint namecomment
2013GMGXHBerlin Blue
2013GMBuickGXHGraphite BlueRegal
2013GMCadillacGXHSapphire BlueXTS Escalade
2013GMCamaroGXHBlue Ray
2013GMChevy TruckGXHBlue RayTahoe Suburban
2013GMCorvetteGXHNight Race Blue
2014GMGXHBerlin Blue
2014GMCadillacGXHSapphire BlueSRX XTS
2014GMCamaroGXHBlue Ray
2014GMChevroletGXHBerlin BlueCruze Sonic
2014GMChevy TruckGXHBerlin BlueCaptiva
2014GMCorvetteGXHNight Race Blue
2014GMCruzeGXHBerlin Blue
2014GMSonicGXHBerlin Blue
2015GMCorvetteGXHNight Race Bluenot confirmed
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Friday, October 29, 2010
Fan Expo 2010 Commissions
Dr. Doom. 2010. Watercolor on paper, 9 x 12".
October is almost over, but all I can seem to think about is how awesome my new Wolverine claws are. If you haven't seen, I've been going nuts taking pictures of myself and posting them on twitter. While they aren't as cool as the retractable ones I made in college, they certainly make up for it in the "posing a real danger to myself and those around me" category. I should probably lay off the sauce this weekend.
Pictured above is the always lovable Dr. Doom, one of my sketches from Toronto. I've plowed through about a quarter of the commissions I took on at the New York Comic Con, which I'll ship out today (thanks for your patience). Aside from that, I finished up 2 covers this week, both of which should be in next month's solicitations.
Have a happy and safe Halloween weekend... and I'll try not to stab myself with my own costume.
1. Woah. Where did those claws come from? Did you make another pair?
2. Oh, no, sir. Those were purchased. I no longer have as much time as I did in school.
3. Word. I also bought something extremely nerdy for Halloween. Pictures will be posted soon.
4. I would expect no less—looking forward to it.
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Take the 2-minute tour ×
I am in the process of filing a reexamination request for patent 8,605,152: Method and apparatus for yoga class imaging and streaming.
Under what grounds would I challenge a patent for an instructional video?
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A reexamination request has a filing fee of $6000, assuming you qualify as a small entity. I would highly recommend getting professional assistance to insure it was well spent. – George White Dec 13 '13 at 1:09
Also look into micro entity fees. That could be as low as $3,000. – Aron Stein Dec 13 '13 at 3:40
There is an asterisk on that $3000. It is not available for third parties, only for the patentee themselves. – George White Dec 13 '13 at 5:07
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The grounds for an exparte reexamination are restricted to novelty and obvious challenges based on patents or published documents and on section 112 issues. Section 112 includes the requirement for proper support for claims in the specification, the claims not being indeterminate, and the specification being enabling.
The allowed grounds do not include section 101 which sets out subject matter requirements. Claim 1 of this patent seems to positively require students, who, I presume are human. It may seem silly, but this is "patenting humans" and is not allowed under previous policy and was codified in the AIA.
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Infinitec - DEADLINE for completing quizzes is Monday, Dec. 2. This is required for teachers new to the district in the 2013-14 school year.
The link to sign into Infinitec is here.
The directions for creating an Infinitec account are linked here.
Required Quizzes for all staff:
1. Anti-Harassment
2. Bloodborne Illness - Hepatitis
3. Bloodborne Illness - HIV
4. Diabetes
5. Ethics
6. Food Allergies
7. Mandated Reporting
8. ADHD
9. Educator Ethics Quiz
To locate and take the required quizzes:
• Click the Online Classroom tab.
• There is a small dropdown menu marked "Resource" located under the video.
• In the Resource dropdown menu, choose "Commonly Required Presentations".
• Choose a required video and play it.
• Take quiz.
• Review quiz results.
• 80% and higher is passing.
• You may retake quizzes as many times as needed to pass.
Once all required quizzes are complete, print out a list of your completed quizzes and scores. You can get this report by following these steps:
• Log into myInfinitec
• Click the Online Classroom tab
• Click the Review Quiz Results button. This will create a one page document which you need to print and give to Matt before the end of the day on Dec. 2.
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mod_pLua Preprocessed Lua for the Apache HTTP Server #mod_pLua - Preprocessed Lua for Apache2# mod_pLua is an Apache HTTP Server 2.x module for developing web applications with Lua. With mod_pLua, you can use Lua for scripting in two distinct ways: ### Embedded Lua scripting: ~~~ <html> <body> <? get = parseGet(); --# Parse any GET data passed on to us. name = get['name'] or "unknown person"; x = (x or 0) + 1; --# Increment a persistent, global variable x. ?> <h1>Hello, <?=name?>!</h1> <?if (x > 3) then?> X is > 3! <?end?> </body> </html> ~~~ ###Plain Lua scripting: ~~~ setContentType("text/html"); local vars = parseGet(); local user = vars["name"] or "unknown person"; print("Hello, ", user); ~~~ (This example can be achieved using the pLuaRaw directive) ## Additional features mod_pLua precompiles all scripts and caches the compiled binary code so that each new call to the same file will be lightning fast, allowing you to serve hundreds of thousands of requests per minute on any modern server. Mod_pLua supports both the traditional Lua interpreter as well as LuaJIT for both Windows and UNIX platforms. If your web server supports it, mod_pLua also utilizes APR_DBD and mod_dbd to handle databases through the dbopen() Lua function. And last, but not least, mod_pLua is of course thread-safe. 0.54 2.5, 2.4, 2.2 2013-01-21 23:02:57 ## Changes in 0.54: - Fixed a bug where mod_dbd was required even though mod_pLua wasn't built for mod_dbd - Added string.md5() for making md5 hashes.
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Diabetes in Pets
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These resources will help you with your diabetic cat or dog.
General informationEdit
Note that he advises pet owners to learn everything they can about diabetes in both humans and animals.
Forums and communitiesEdit
In other languagesEdit
Special External Topics Edit
The following topical links are also in the wiki, but are specially useful so are copied here.
Inducing remission in catsEdit
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