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Are you a creative person who desperately wants to tell the world about your talents and your art but lacks the time, money, and know-how? Self-Promotion for the Creative Person is full of clever and creative ideas you can use to successfully get the word out about who you are and what you do quickly, easily, and cheaply.
Everything you need to know about marketing yourself is included in this book. Self-Promotion for the Creative Person is packed with proven techniques that will work for you whether you are an author, actor, artist, or accordion player who wants fresh, off-beat, and cost-effective ways to build a business or develop a successful and fulfilling career.
Full of winning strategies, innovative ideas, and proven sales and marketing techniques, Lee Silber will show you how to go from starving artist to superstar status with smart advice, including:
* How to market without money
* How to create marketing materials that will sell you even when you're not around
* How to build a buzz using word of mouth
Self Promotion For The Creative Person has not yet been reviewed.
Self Promotion For The Creative Person
by Lee Silber
June 26, 2001
ISBN #0609806262
352 pages
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Job Creation: The Beginning
This cartoon from The New Yorker came to my attention via Facebook:
The comments on the Facebook page were interesting, with many pointing out that the perspective of Genesis is that God did create jobs for Adam and Eve: gardening.
But is it the job of God or government to create jobs for human beings? And if the human beings in question are required to work in specific jobs they cannot choose for themselves, isn't that Communism? And if it is a question of doing manual labor picking fruit for no pay, there are, I am told, plenty of such jobs around – but they are not what most people have in mind when they talk about “job creation.” :-)
• angievandemerwe
People will go to any extent to control others. Those that love power are to be held accountable, otherwise, we will all be serving “The Powerful One” at his bequest!
• Beau Quilter
As a society, we have chosen to invent laws for ourselves that define our vocations:
Laws about paying income taxes.
Laws about property and land use.
Laws prohibiting or regulating hunting or farming (the professions that sustained humans for millenia).
Laws about what jobs are banned: e.g. the selling of our bodies (the second oldest profession?), and certain substances.
Laws about acceptable currency.
Laws about who we can marry (marriage, including polygamous marriage, has, for milenia, been a way creating vocational partnerships as well as preserving or gaining land and possessions.
Since society (in the form of government) creates such limiting regulations on how we, as humans, sustain ourselves and our families (by getting jobs), society is responsible for making jobs available. If humans cannot sustain themselves, they will rebel against the society that makes it impossible for them to sustain themselves.
• Peter Kirk
But God created Jobs, and Jobs created the Apple, and look what happened: now even AAR/SBL is in bondage to its apps!
• Aaron Basko
God is still creating jobs for people, we just don’t often ask which jobs we were created to do. We each have a blue print (that’s God’s part) and our task is to figure out where that purpose can be used. When we are working within that purpose we find satisfaction and maximum impact. So the question (as always) is, “Do we trust God to know what is best for us?”
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Web & communication software
The Best Web Browser: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, or Safari?
The battle of the Web browsers: Firefox 4.0 beta
The battle of the Web browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 beta
The days when practically everyone used Internet Explorer are long gone, but the browser continues to dominate, thanks to the fact that it may or may not be integrated with the Windows operating system, depending upon the political winds. Microsoft noticed the erosion from total world domination several years ago and is now rapidly adopting some of the best features from the alternatives. Tabs were added some time ago, and Internet Explorer add-ons are now plentiful enough to form a gallery. Many of the innovations that began with Firefox and Opera are now available with IE8.
Some of Microsoft's claims may strike you as a bit funny. The company notes on a checklist that IE8 supports "Web standards," then points out it supports only CSS 2.1 because it's more common than the newer CSS 3.0. Well, yes, and CSS 2.1 will remain more customary until IE officially adopts it because most Web developers will want to avoid heavy use of any feature that doesn't work on one of the most ubiquitous browsers.
But if Microsoft isn't on the cutting edge of the new standards collectively called HTML5, it's pushing its own features. IE8 helps people "browse safely," a worthy goal that it pursues by offering more and better ways to check the provenance of the information. I'm not sure whether it's possible to actually attach a number to this protection -- Microsoft claims that IE is "5 times better than Chrome" and "2.9 times better than Firefox in protecting against malicious malware." The company claims IE can do a better job of catching fake URLs and URLs that lead to sites pretending to be something they're not. Whether or not this can be quantified, it's a promising path to take because the provenance of information is a big, big challenge for the Internet.
This focus, however, is coming after a long series of security holes in either IE or the add-ons given too much power by IE. Any search engine can help you find stories about hundreds of vulnerabilities found and patched. The root of all of these troubles seems to come when IE is a bit too generous to plug-in packages. This is almost certainly a deep failure of a strategy to let developers add many features that work very well with Windows and not other systems. ActiveX controls, for instance, offer nice performance through deep integration with the operating system, so they help cement IE and Windows' position. The only problem is that this deep integration has produced many, many vulnerabilities over the years, and it's not clear that Microsoft has finally stopped them all.
I'm personally torn about the approach Microsoft has taken. While this deep integration has opened up many opportunities, it has also created problems beyond the security dangers. Add-on developers have access to the registry and other weird corners of the operating system, a big difference from the simpler sandboxes used by the other browsers. I'm sure some Web-based game developers appreciate this speed, but I think a simpler model would have been easier on everyone.
IE9 now offers many of the features that drew me to other browsers. There's a nicer developer tool for debugging JavaScript, and the speed is catching up to the others. The collection of IE add-ons is large and markedly different in style from those for other browsers. Many come from merchants who offer to help make it easier to search their catalogs, spy good deals, and of course spend money. There are so many toolbars that it's easy to build a browser with a fat header and a tiny spot for real content.
In the end, IE's greatest strength may continue to be its fading dominance. Web developers may skip testing on Safari or Opera, but they know that the boss or the boss's boss is probably using the default browser shipped with the computer. Despite the prevalence of good cross-platform libraries, I continue to find Web pages that only work on IE. This is the kind of feedback loop that reinforces dominance.
Best for: People who don't care or don't want to care. IE is still the most likely to work with most websites.
Worst for: People who worry about browser-based attacks and those who want to try the latest HTML5.
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Eva Longoria Parker can't stop gushing about the newest man in her life. "Todd and I found each other through mutual friends and fell in love," says the actress. "I couldn't be happier."
Don't worry, Tony: Mrs. Parker's relationship with chef Todd English is strictly business. The star and the chef have teamed up to open a Latin-inspired eatery in L.A. called Beso ("kiss" in Spanish). Desperate Housewives fans might be surprised to hear that "I'm actually more of a Bree," says Parker, referring to the show's domestic diva. "Every other week, I'm cooking for 30 people for Game Night at my house. Everyone is like, 'Open a restaurant—it would be easier!'"
Restaurateurs JT Torregiani and Jonas Lowrance introduced her to English, a onetime Iron Chef competitor with 19 restaurants in 10 states, including his flagship Olives in Boston. "I loved his food," says Parker, 33. The feeling is mutual. "She's a great cook," says English, 47. "And she's probably 98 lbs. soaking wet, but she can chow!" Beso's menu is a mix of his Mediterranean specialties and her Texas roots: "I'm renowned for my tortilla soup and guacamole," Parker says. And unlike her TV alter ego, she's displayed no high-maintenance behavior. Jokes English: "It'll be me throwing pots before her."
For Eva's Guacamole and Tortilla Soup Recipes, go to people.com/eva_recipe
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Friday Feature: Explanations of Health-Related Absences, Innovation Stalls, Strengths-Based Goal Setting
It’s Friday folks.
What did your week look like? Was it productive? What impact did you make?
I had the opportunity to attend a company HR meeting in Minneapolis – lots of great HR talk, building strategy and synergy, project outlines, and fun.
Enough about that…now to share some content we have found over the week:
Requiring Employees to Explain Health-Related Absences May Be Unlawful
Are you requiring your employees to specifically explain why they were out for health-related reasons? If so, check this out.
Three Issues that Stifle Innovation, and How to Overcome Them
What does 2012 look like for you and your team? Does it include innovating your processes, ideas, etc? Learn how to overcome issues that stifle innovation.
Ambition = success = happiness? Not quite.
Does success equal happiness? What about lots and lots of money? Apparently, not so much.
Strengths-Based Goal Setting
If you haven’t already set your performance goals for 2012, take a read at this information.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Chris Ponder II
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It's tempting to cast the Bill MacCallum career bio in cinematic terms. There is conflict here. Elements of black comedy, too, and some old-fashioned territorial feuding.
MacCallum is director of the Arizona Motion Picture Office. Maybe his movie is a Western, suddenly a popular genre again. To his supporters, MacCallum is the grizzled, peace-keeper type--the town sheriff, maybe--a good old boy who doesn't go by the book, but who manages to keep his friends happy and his territory intact. MacCallum is undoubtedly proud that Arizona is ending its best year ever for film production, with an estimated $60 million in spending by TV and film crews who have worked the state, from Page to Yuma, on such marquee productions as Geronimo, Tombstone, God's Army and The Quick and the Dead. Movies and TV are among the cleanest of industries, using little in the way of natural resources, creating nothing resembling toxic waste. A film company does its business and departs, leaving only money and empty vodka bottles.
It's been a record year: $60 million, clean. And Sheriff MacCallum no doubt had a lot to do with it.
To his detractors, though, Bill MacCallum is a bad guy--an intemperate lout made obsolete by the passage of time. Cue the calendar pages, blowing in the wind. While Arizona rejoices about its $60 million, film and TV production in North Carolina will top $130 million this year, an annual increase of $100 million in the last decade. Florida's numbers are even more impressive, topping $300 million this year.
In the same time period, production companies will have spent more than $140 million in Texas; in Utah, more than $90 million.
A state-by-state comparison of production dollars is a risky proposition. Nobody official keeps nationwide statistics. (The above figures were compiled state by state, with voodoo-economics "multipliers"--used by some states to show presumed economic impact--divided out. Uncounted, but far from insignificant, are the related dollars generated by shoots for music videos, TV commercials and still-photography sessions.)
However, Robert Warner, a Scottsdale-based producer with a long list of film and TV credits (the direct-to-video nonepic titled The Vagrant, shot in 1991 on a side street off Central Avenue, is one of his more recent credits), says Arizona probably once ranked behind only California and New York as a film location.
Today, he says, it ranks out of the Top 10.
And there's a posse of folks that thinks Bill MacCallum had something to do with that, too.
@body:Historically, Arizona has been a film-community favorite--at least for shooting Westerns. In fact, the John Ford oaters filmed here framed the nation's notion of what cowboys should look like and where they should live. In the past, its proximity to L.A. (a quicker trip by air than many Southern California freeway commutes), its widely varied topography (you can shoot everything here but glacier scenes and beach movies, say location scouts) and its right-to-work labor laws have made the state a prime location destination for films as aesthetically divergent as Oklahoma! and Psycho. The Grand Canyon State could be--and has been--called one big back lot. "They know from movies," says Jonathan Zimbert, until last week a producer at Morgan Creek Productions in L.A. "There is some level of crew base there, which is important, and by and large, the weather is good. Hot is not an issue. Rain is. And by and large, the weather is very good." About a decade ago, Los Angeles, forever the capital of the movie business, seemingly began to hemorrhage producers, cameramen, directors and grips. The more than $400 million dropped in North Carolina and Florida this year came from somewhere. The film-biz term is "runaway dollars."
But like a lot about the nation's least-livable piece of paradise, that image is a bit of an illusion. L.A. still hosts more than $5 billion in production a year. (New York is still considered No. 2, at about $3 billion.)
"There is still no single better place to produce a film than in Los Angeles County," says John Evan Frook, who writes about location shooting for Daily Variety. "One of the reasons that there's a lot of production out of state is that there's just a lot of production right now. The United States is making a lot of movies. Almost every sound stage in Los Angeles County is filled by the studios almost all the time. "The bottom line is that the wealth is being shared everywhere."
Savvy states and municipalities long ago began to get truly hip to the share-the-wealth notion. "Historically, if you look at the evolution of film commissions . . . ten, 15, 20 years ago, you would've found the governor's buddy [in the office] who wanted to go Hollywood," he says. "It would be this person who was sort of active in politics or whatever, and they would sort of sit on their haunches and wait until a movie came to town, and then they would sort of schmooze and help secure locations. It really wasn't all that difficult of a gig.
"That's the way it used to work. And now what you're seeing are people who have really added a very sophisticated spin."
@body:"Sophisticated" and "spin" are not the images that come to the minds of Bill MacCallum's critics.
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Posted by Marian on November 19, 2001
I came across this in an article in the November 10th-16th issue of The Economist. My Webster's Third International Dictionary reveals that it is a British slang term, origin unknown, for a scientific expert. To quote the article,
"So Wall Street's number-crunchers are busy revising down their predictions. Economists at Goldman Sachs, for instance, now expect America's GDP t o contract at an annual rate of 3.5% in the last quarter of 2001, with a further annual-rate contraction of 1% in the first quarter of 2002. And yet, judging both by the boffins' forecasts and the stockmarket's sanguine response to the bad news, Wall Street's conviction that this will be a swift, relatively mild, recession remains undented.
My question is: is the word 'boffin' meant as a derisive or otherwise derogatory term for scientific expert?
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Fantastic! This is just great, keep 'em coming.
Daniel*Swords - thanks for letting me know about the taxonomic syntax!
Addicted2sp33d - I left off the Black Tetras because they get to be 2½-3 inches... however, if you know something I don't about how well-suited these guys are for nanos, I can add them. Let me know. Thanks!
AnneRiceBowl - pics would be great, but also space-consuming. Just use Google Image Search and probably start by looking for the scientific name first, then the common name (and make sure you put it in quotes so they search for the exact phrase, not just either/or of the names). is good for this too.
Jhoetzl - Excellent point about the Endlers; like I said in another post somewhere, they breed like rabbits on Viagra, to use a colorful euphemism... anybody interested in more about these guys should check out, the Endlers Livebearers Association of America. But yeah... if you keep this fish, be prepared to deal with scads of fry!
Lil boy blue - an obvious choice that I overlooked. Thanks!
It seems that sooner or later we're going to have to further refine/organize this list - species that are best kept in groups (i.e. the earlier question about Corys, for instance), species that are best kept alone or with specially selected neighbors (Bettas), perhaps categories for water conditions (some of these guys like it cold, some warm, some like hard water, others die unless they're in soft water, etc.) - stuff like that.
For now though I'm really happy about the feedback, and hope this proves to be a useful resource in the future.
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Here we see a crazed, knife wielding Mary Bromfield about to kill Billy Batson and Freddy Freeman.
And people were surprised when she went evil a little while ago…
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1. Sallyp says:
You really can’t blame her. They probably left the toilet seat up…again.
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59 New APIs: Citrix, Dropmark and Contentful
Wendell Santos
Jul. 07 2013, 08:00AM EDT
This week we had 59 new APIs added to our API directory including a content management system for applications, file sharing and organizing service, text processing and translation service, product customization service, and multi-channel commerce platform. In addition we covered an issue tracking API and an API for managing email newsletters. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.
AsposeAspose API: Aspose provides cloud-based services for document generation, conversion, and automation. It works with documents created in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe, and OpenDocument. It is also designed to handle barcodes, optical character recognition (OCR), and email formats and protocols. The Aspose REST APIs enable users to integrate many document processing and management tasks into their applications. These tasks include, but are not limited to, document assembly, file conversion, text extraction, barcode generation, and email tracking.
Bitcoin 24/7Bitcoin 24/7 API: Bitcoin 24/7 is a Bitcoin exchange and merchant service that offers a Bitcoin wallet in which to store Bitcoins, and a payment service to allow merchants to accept and make payments using Bitcoins. The Bitcoin 24/7 API allows merchants to automate accepting Bitcoins as a payment. It also offers users the ability to send Bitcoins as payments from an account for use as refunds or withdrawals. The API uses REST calls and will returns JSON or XML. An account is required with service.
Bitcoin-ContactBitcoin-Contact API: Bitcoin-Contact is a site that lets users receive and send messages to Bitcoin Addresses. They aim to all Bitcoin owners to validate the identity of those they are speaking/exchanging with, and simplify otherwise anonymous communication. The Bitcoin-Contact API allows users to make queries that return Bitcoin addresses associated with an email address, and return public information on identities associated with a Bitcoin address.
BitMarketBitMarket API: BitMarket is a Bitcoin exchange platform that allows users to buy and sell Bitcoins in a variety of currencies. The BitMarket API allows users to submit REST requests to get the market volume, min and max prices for all currencies, get active currency offers, and get latest completed transactions. An account is required with service and SSL is used for authentication.
CicerOOs Semantic GraphCicerOOs Semantic Graph API: CicerOOs is an Italian travel search engine and virtual tour guide. CicerOOs exposes its service through the CicerOOs Semantic Graph API.
The API provides a variety of search tools for accessing CicerOOs’ tourism data. Examples of supported methods include searching semantic content of major tourist websites and social networks, and searching for the best destinations as they relate to a specified keyword. The API accepts HTTP calls, requires an API Key, and returns JSON formatted responses.
Citrix Online GoToAssist Remote SupportCitrix Online GoToAssist Remote Support API: GoToAssist is a customer service platform provided by Citrix Online that comes with Remote Support, Service Desk, and Monitoring modules. The Remote Support module enables users to deliver live support to Mac, PC, and mobile devices as well as access and control unattended computers. It can also be used to manage tech teams and accounts.
The GoToAssist Remote Support API enables developers to integrate the module's functions with third party applications using JSON-formatted REST calls.
ContentfulContentful API: Contentful is a content management system (CMS) for mobile and web applications. Contentful offers a variety of CMS features for mobile and web app publishers and delivers the content to multiple channels from the CMS.
The Contentful API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of Contentful with other applications. Some example API methods include setting up content spaces, retrieving content, pushing content out, and managing content.
Cumulonimbus PressureNETCumulonimbus PressureNET API: Cumulonimbus is a Canada-based software company that creates Android apps. Cumulonimbus has released an App called PressureNet which is a global network of crowd-sourced atmospheric pressure readings. The service aims to provide improved weather forecasting by increasing the availability of data that describes the atmosphere. The API provides users with access to data feeds receiving over 300,000 measurements of atmospheric data per day.
DFM Ticker DataDFM Ticker Data API: The Dubai Financial Market (DFM) is a public institution that operates as a secondary market for trading securities, bonds, investment funds, and other financial instruments. The DFM provides the Ticker Data API, which allows users to retrieve ticker data from the site using SOAP calls issued in XML format. The DFM website is provided in English.
drngddrngd API: drng is a URL-shortening service that also enables you to track and view statistics for your URLs. The service is accessible through an open API, allowing developers to easily integrate and use drng to monitor URL popularity.
Fasilkom Handwriting Image EnhancementFasilkom Handwriting Image Enhancement API: The Fasilkom Handwriting Image Enhancement API is designed to enhance the clarity of images of handwriting that are submitted by users. These enhanced images are then returned as output. Sample images are available, as is a web console for demo use. The Handwriting Image Enhancement service operates over SOAP calls issued in XML format.
Fasilkom Image ProcessingFasilkom Image Processing API: The Fasilkom Image Processing APIs provide numerous functions for image enhancement, feature extraction, and pattern recognition. Also falling under this category is the Batik Information Retriever API, which gets information related to images of Batik fabric patterns submitted by the user. All of these APIs are provided by the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Indonesia and operate via SOAP calls.
Fasilkom Painting IdentifierFasilkom Painting Identifier API: The Fasilkom Painting Identifier API is a service that identifies a given painting as being either abstract or realistic in style. The API only accepts images as queries. Sample painting images are available for users to try with the online demo web console. The Painting Identifier API can be accessed using SOAP calls issued in XML format.
IcestackIcestack API: Icestack is a customer relationship management system. Icestack allows companies engage with their customers for customer service, as well as enables social media feedback.
The Icestack API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of Icestack with other applications. The main API methods include retrieving requests, sending requests, and managing account information.
InfraprintInfraprint API: Infraprint is a cloud printing and mailing service allowing users to upload files to be printed and mailed. Applications include automating bills and invoices, sending thank you notes and welcome letters, direct mail marketing, and on-demand printing.
Infraprint is accessible via a REST API. Third party applications simply send Infraprint an object and an address over HTTP POST. The API supports options such as specification of print settings and delivery options.
LocalDealLocalDeal API: LocalDeal pulls data from multiple deal sites around the country to deliver up-to-date daily deals. Users can subscribe to an email that contains all of the best deals in their city or search the site for deals available in a specified area.
Daily Deal offers an API that allows developers to incorporate their deals into their own applications. Deals are targeted to fit audience and location. API documentation is available by request.
MiniplayMiniplay API: Miniplay (AKA Minijuegos) is a website that hosts a variety of free, Flash-based games. It offers both solo and multiplayer games from a variety of genres, including action, adventure, racing, classics, sports, strategy, and board games. While the API documentation and developer information are given in English, the rest of the Miniplay website is in Spanish.
The Miniplay REST API allows developers to retrieve user information and high scores as well as send, retrieve, and reset users' game stats. It also provides functions for storing and retrieving up to three saved games and an unlimited amount of user-created content. Developers using the REST API can also manage game items purchased using Minicoins. The JavaScript and ActionScript 3 APIs give internal games interoperability with the site and allow users of external games to authenticate through their Miniplay accounts.
New Hope OahuNew Hope Oahu API: New Hope Oahu is a Foursquare Gospel Church and Christian fellowship. New Hope Oahu hosts an API providing developer access to several online services intended for church websites. Supported services include access to daily bible readings, daily online devotions, and an online self-evaluation tool allowing visitors to discover their spiritual gifts.
Our Manna Daily VersesOur Manna Daily Verses API: Our Manna is a non-commercial online Christian magazine featuring articles, videos, audio sermons, and daily bible verses. Our Manna exposes its daily bible verses through an API. The API is freely accessible, requiring no authentication. Supported response formats include text, XML, RSS, and JSON.
Parallel Kingdom Trade DataParallel Kingdom Trade Data API: Parallel Kingdom is an online game were uses go on quests, fight monsters, and interact with other users in an online world. The Parallel Kingdom Trade Data API allows users to make requests to get trade post, and trade tent data. The API will returns information fro only the prior day, and includes data on price, quantity, pricetype, itemtype, itemsubtype, itemquality, and itemHP. The service uses REST calls.
QuickpayQuickpay API: Quickpay is an online payment solution for merchants that allows the secure integration of credit and debit cards with an arbitrary site on the Internet. The service works with all major credit cards as well as Paypal, Sofort Banking, and other e-banking facilities.
The QuickPay API enables merchants to handle payments in a simple manner. Based on SSL encrypted HTTP communication, all actions are performed by sending a HTTP POST request. Responses are sent as an XML document.
The Social DigitsThe Social Digits API: The Social Digits offers tools for personalized e-commerce. Social Digits services allow you to target your customers with automated, personalized product recommendations, boost online sales by tracking visitors, improving your on-site search, and retain and attract customers with target email marketing.
The Social Digits offers a RESTful API. API methods include targeted campaigns, campaign products, product alternatives, search suggestions, visitor history, and more. All responses are returned as JSON objects.
Trippin' InTrippin' In API: Trippin'in is like Nielsen for places.
UPCDatabase.orgUPCDatabase.org API: UPC Database is a global database of barcodes. The database includes UPC, EAN, and the Bookland system. The site was created to provide users access to the barcode meta data. The site also offers a digital check calculator, a QR Code generator, and a mobile site. The UCP Database API REST calls and allows users to get information from the site in JSON or XML. Users can also use cURL to add barcode information to the database. An account is required with service.
UpCloudUpCloud API: UpCloud is a european based Infrastructure-as-a-service company that provides server deployment and bills based on hours of use. The UpCloud API enables users to perform server resource management programmatically communicating with the UpCloud Control Panel or through a mobile application. The API allows users to automate server resource management. An account is required with service and detailed API documentation is available with login to the user control panel or through a site search.
Voindo Barcode GeneratorVoindo Barcode Generator API: Voindo.eu provides the "Ultimate Barcode Generator" to allow users to generate BarCodes, QRCodes, DataMatrix, and PDF417. The Voindo Barcode Generator allows users to submit barcode information through the API, and receive a barcode image in return. No account is required, the API requires no authentication, and the API uses AJAX queries.
WeGreenWeGreen API: WeGreen is a German web service allowing users to evaluate and connect to sustainable products and services. Features include an online marketplace, company sustainability rankings, and the WeGreen Sustainability Footprint—a graphic representation of the environmental and social commitment of vendors and products.
The WeGreen Sustainability Footprint API allows developers to integrate the service into their own applications. The API is available in both Javascript and REST forms. The REST API supports both JSON and XML formats.
Zmags PublicatorZmags Publicator API: Zmags is a digital publishing solution for companies that want to offer their customers a consistent brand and commerce experience across all digital channels. A Zmag is an online catalog, a brochure, a magazine, or an interactive publication, all delivered via today’s digital media platforms.
Zmags offers a RESTful API to their CommercePro customers. The Product service provides access to information in the product database. The Product Image service provides access to image information in the product database. An API key is required for all requests.
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Postby sekigawa » Sat Sep 25, 2010 7:41 am
I want to join two existing DXF files (say, "no1.dxf" and "no2.dxf")
to create a new one (say, "no3.dxf") by "block insertion."
In the simplest case, only one instance of "no1.dxf" and "no2.dxf" are
inserted into "no3.dxf" without rotation, magnification, and transformation.
Then, the command line would look like
$ joindxf -i no1.dxf -i no2.dxf -o no3.dxf
How can I achieve this using "dxflib" ?
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[linux-lvm] "Incorrect metadata area header checksum" after a pvmove and pvresize
Hi guys.
Excuse my english, I'm from Brazil.
Last day I pvresized the pv who had my vg and after a reboot I couldn't activate my vg anymore. I got the message "Incorrect metadata area header checksum".
The whole history:
My HD had a sda3 pv that had my whole vg. It's had around 55GB. Some days ago, because of an emergency situation, I transformed a 6GB partition (sda5) into an LVM pv and added it to the vg. Now to organize my HD I liberated space after sda5 and wanted to expand my sda3 to the end of my 80GB disk.
Then I took an auxiliar hard drive, booted my machine with system rescue cd, created a small sdb1 in the begining to temporary store the contents of sda5, pvcreated sdb1, "vgextend vg /dev/sdb1" and "pvmove /dev/sda5". Everything ran ok. Then I "vgchange -a n", cfdisk on /dev/sda, deleted sda3 and recreated it in the same place but filling the drive until the final and finaly "pvresize /dev/sda3", who now occupies almost whole drive.
Then I rebooted to continue the work with my real system running and got a "kernel panic" with the initrd complaining about "Incorrect metadata area header checksum", now I cannot access the metadata backup to try a vgcfgrestore.
I searched the list but no one had suffered the same problem and LVM HOWTO on tldp.org only shows how to recover a pv using a previous metadata backup. I don't want to try something dangerous like a pvcreate before have sure it's will not wipe out all my data.
Someone knows what I made wrong and what I can do to put my vg to work again?
At this URL are the results of many useful commands:
As can I see the sda has a pvmove0 lv just where was my old sda5. What this fucking sheet are still doing there? This shouldn't have been excluded?
The lv hosted in the old sda5 is a part of tmp-paludis lv. Why the pvmove0 on sdb1 was not renamed to the correct name tmp-paludis?
Any help will be apreciated.
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The ajaeng is a Korean string instrument. It is a long zither with seven silk strings, played by means of a long, thin stick made of forsythia wood, which is scraped against the strings in the manner of a bow. It is generally played while seated on the floor. It has a deep tone similar to that of a cello, but more raspy. Some contemporary players prefer to use an actual horsehair bow rather than a stick, believing the sound to be smoother. The instrument is used in court, aristocratic, and folk music, as well as in contemporary classical music and film scores.
The ajaeng is derived from the Chinese yazheng (simplified: ; traditional: ).
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A coilgun is a type of synchronous linear electric motor which is used as a projectile accelerator that consists of one or more electromagnetic coils. These are used to accelerate a magnetic projectile to high velocity. The name Gauss gun is sometimes used for such devices in reference to Carl Friedrich Gauss, who formulated mathematical descriptions of the electromagnetic effect used by magnetic accelerators.
Coilguns consist of one or more coils arranged along the barrel that are switched in sequence so as to ensure that the projectile is accelerated quickly along the barrel via magnetic forces. Coilguns are distinct from railguns, which pass a large current through the projectile or sabot via sliding contacts.
A coilgun, as the name implies, consists of a coil of wire - an electromagnet - with a ferromagnetic projectile placed at one of its ends. Effectively a coilgun is a solenoid: an electromagnetic coil with the function of drawing a ferromagnetic object through its center. A large current is pulsed through the coil of wire and a strong magnetic field forms, pulling the projectile to the center of the coil. When the projectile nears this point the electromagnet is switched off and the next electromagnet can be switched on, progressively accelerating the projectile down successive stages. In common coilgun designs the "barrel" of the gun is made up of a track that the projectile rides on, with the driver electromagnetic coils around the track. Power is supplied to the electromagnet from some sort of fast discharge storage device, typically a battery or high-capacity high voltage capacitors designed for fast energy discharge. A diode is used to protect polarity sensitive capacitors (such as electrolytics) from damage due to inverse polarity of the current after the discharge.
There are two main types or setups of a coilgun, single stage and multistage. A single stage coilgun uses just one electromagnet to propel a ferromagnetic projectile. A multistage coilgun uses multiple electromagnets in succession to progressively increase the speed of the projectile.
Many hobbyists use low-cost rudimentary designs to experiment with coilguns, for example using photoflash capacitors from a disposable camera, or a capacitor from a standard cathode-ray tube television as the energy source, and a low inductance coil to propel the projectile forward.
A superconductor coilgun called a quench gun could be created by successively quenching a line of adjacent coaxial superconducting electromagnetic coils forming a gun barrel, generating a wave of magnetic field gradient traveling at any desired speed. A traveling superconducting coil might be made to ride this wave like a surfboard. The device would be a mass driver or linear synchronous motor with the propulsion energy stored directly in the drive coils.
One main obstacle in coilgun design is switching the power through the coils. There are several main options—the most simple (and probably the least effective) is the spark gap, which releases the stored energy through the coil when the voltage reaches a certain threshold. A better option is to use solid-state switches; these include IGBTs (which can be switched off mid-pulse) and SCRs (which release all stored energy before turning off). A quick-and-dirty method for switching, especially for those using a flash camera for the main components, is to use the flash tube itself as a switch. By wiring it in series with the coil, it can silently and non-destructively (though there will be a flash of light) allow a large amount of current to pass through to the coil. Like any flash tube, ionizing the gas in the tube with a high voltage triggers it.
Despite heavy research and development by the amateur and professional community, great obstacles have yet to be overcome.
Projectile saturation
One of the greatest limitations to the coil gun is the rate at which the ferromagnetic projectile becomes fully saturated by the magnetic field and the rate at which it loses its magnetic saturation. Once a ferromagnetic object becomes completely saturated the amount of force in which it can be attracted stops increasing. The rate at which the projectile loses its saturation is critical; as this rate is constant, greater distances between drive electromagnets are needed to compensate for this rate. As the projectile increases in speed it reaches drive electromagnets at progressively faster rates. Without compensation for desaturation time, there will be less and less effect to the velocity of the projectile, resulting in significantly lower efficiency per drive electromagnet stage as the projectile travels down the line. Once the amount of force exerted to the projectile is less than or equal to the amount of resistance exerted on the projectile due to air friction and friction in the barrel the projectile will no longer gain velocity.
Electrical resistance is a major limitation because when dumping large amounts of electrical energy into a conductor the majority of the energy is converted to heat due to resistance and therefore effectively lost as it is not driving the projectile. This could be overcome through the use of a superconducting material.
Energy dissipation
The coils have an electrical resistance, and resistive losses are often very significant indeed.
The energy in the magnetic field itself does not simply dissipate; much of it returns to the capacitor when the electric current is decreasing. Unfortunately it does this in the reverse direction (via a 'ringing' mechanism due to inductance of the coils), which can seriously damage polarized capacitors (such as electrolytics).
In the circuit the magnetic field keeps the current in the coil flowing after the capacitor has discharged, so that it keeps discharging and builds up a negative voltage (see Lenz's law). This is similar to an LC oscillator.
The capacitor charging to a negative voltage can be prevented by placing a diode across the capacitor terminals.
Some designs bypass this limitation by using couple of diodes. Then, diodes reverse polarity to charge capacitors instead with proper polarity again, effectively re-using remaining coil energy.
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It is a melancholy truth that time lost to nonsensical or nonessential committees is gone forever.
All workable national-health-insurance schemes depend on controlling access to nonessential services.
Likewise, executives have found themselves diverted from their agenda by truckloads of nonessential work.
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Grief And Loss
Why Choose Cremation what is Cremation Embalming vs Cremation Cremation and Ashes to Ashes
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. That is what we often here about our eventual re-joining of the matter from which we came. Then the funeral industry came along and embalming became the preferred method for “preserving” the body for as long as possible.
What about cremation? Cremation is a good alternative for those of us who are given very few alternatives indeed.
In most states, burial or cremation are the only choices. If you want your body to be left in the forest to disintegrate naturally, and/or to feed wild plants and creatures, that is likely illegal. Cremation is the closest you can come to such a choice. Once cremated you can designate your remains to be sprinkled to the four corners of the world, beneath a favorite tree in the garden, or to sit comfortably upon someone’s fireplace mantel. PLEASE tell your survivors which you prefer, don't make them squabble, or have to make a choice one or more may be unhappy with making.
Cremation is a good choice, (or as mentioned the only other) for those of us who are not thrilled about the idea of having our blood drained, being pumped full of ethanol, methanol, formaldehyde and “disinfected” by poisons that only humans, not God, could have concocted.
Most of us are socially squeamish about death and dying. That is why we know very little, and do not want to know what happens to our body after death. There are sutures, or at least glues, for mouths and eyelids. There are drains for veins, and disinfectant sprayed everywhere. Blood is siphoned off, and goes to no good cause known, although one would presume this protein could somehow nurture some endangered someone, somewhere, somehow?
Embalming is an idea is presumably based on the theory of keeping a “life like” appearance. What about death is it that we so strongly prefer a life like appearance that we’ll gladly shell out more than we probably ever did for plastic surgery and make up in all our living days? Of course, if we are spiritual or not, we know the real person is not "THERE" in any case.
Cremation may sound horrific to some, but in most cases that is because they do not know the alternative is rather grisly, toxic, expensive, and rooted in weird traditions.
One last word about cremation. Once you have become ashes, you are not adding quite so much to the toxins of the world, displacing much room in any eco-system, and you are free to orbit earth for eternity if your descendents can arrange it. This seems a far better, sensible, and noble way to return to the stars from which we came.
When it comes to other alternatives, eventually, we will have those too. Although, at present, many are cold, but few are frozen, as technology advances, we may choose preservation of our DNA and cellular materials to be rebuild later on with cryonics.
There are just a handful of people who are now frozen, and if it takes a thousand years or more to reconstitute, thaw, or clone them, isn’t that a slightly, every so slightly, better chance at another life, than not being frozen at all?
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Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
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Servings 8
Preparation Time
Cooking Time 30 minutes
Key Nutritional Value Calories 340Cal
Phosphorus 140mg
Potassium 430mg
Protein 20g
Sodium 575mg
clove garlic, minced 1
medium onion, finely chopped 1
oil 1 Tbsp. (15 ml)
ground beef 1 1/2 lbs. (675 g)
tomatoes 1 can (16 oz.) (450 g)
tomato paste 1 can (6 oz.) (170 g)
sugar 1 tsp. (5 ml)
pepper 1 tsp. (5 ml)
oregano 2 tsp. (10 ml)
cooked spaghetti 8 cups (2 L)
Combine garlic and onion in oil over low heat until tender.
Add meat; cook and stir until brown; drain fat.
Stir in remaining ingredients; break up tomatoes.
Simmer uncovered over low heat about 30 minutes.
Please check with your own renal dietitian or healthcare professional that the dish is suitable for you.
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Program 352: Curry Nation; Java Trekker; Open Phones
Release Date: 01-18-2014
The stereotype of bland food in Britain is changing. Actress and cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey tells us how Britain has become a "Curry Nation." Also, the owner of a fair trade coffee company explains the workings of the coffee industry, from the perspective of the growers.
• Actress Madhur Jaffrey, author of "Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Nation" (Ebury Press) and "At Home with Madhur Jaffrey" (Knopf)
• Dean Cycon, proprietor of Deans Beans and author of "Java Trekker" (Chelsea Green Publishing)
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Program 352 Extra 1 - Actress Madhur Jaffrey is also known for her many helpful cookbooks for Indian food. She tells Rick why mustard seeds are like a "Jeckyll and Hyde" of spices. (runs 1:29)
Program 352 Extra 2 - Dean Cycon, author of Java Trekker, explains what the process is for certifying a coffee grower's operation as "organic," and why that makes for a more flavorful coffee, and what "fair trade" practices means for people in coffee growing countries. (runs 4:23)
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Subject: Re: iPod Nano sound quality:rockbox vs apple
Re: iPod Nano sound quality:rockbox vs apple
From: Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:46:15 -0500
I believe an RMAA analysis showed that Rockbox and the original Apple
firmware had equivalent output without equalizers or sound altering
settings enabled. What exactly are you basing your comparison on. When
you say it's purely suggestive, I worry that you're saying there's a
difference in sound quality without actually testing under more
objective conditions: if so, it could very well simply be your own mind
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Snooki: America's No. 1 Party Girl
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At 23, Polizzi is the youngest of the Jersey Shore eight – and its biggest star, center stage when the cast rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, parodied on South Park, caricatured on SNL, chided by Sen. John McCain for not wearing sunscreen. She's become a single-name pop-culture staple who in the past year has spent most of her off-camera time trying to monetize that happy circumstance. She's got a line of Snooki jewelry and is already moving vast numbers of Snooki Slippers. She's written (or at least phoned in some ideas for) a roman a clef-type novel, A Shore Thing, about two girls doing the beach thing, which has spent a month on the New York Times bestseller list. She also does public appearances, making between $15,000 and $25,000 for two hours of her time, as she did last night both at Wake Forest, and then, later on, at a club called Allure. Plus, she's filmed a pilot for a Jersey Shore spinoff with her pal JWoww, about their Laverne-and-Shirley efforts to find a new home in suburban New York.
"Nicole has this innocence to her that I wish I still had," says Farley. "She's naive to the world and day-to-day things. All she's about is having a good time, which is how it should be, and our show is going to be about us just being us."
"And then, when Jersey Shore ends," Polizzi says, "I'm going to do more spinoffs, and if MTV doesn't want them, another network will. Like, 'What does Snooki do now?' or 'Snooki's getting married!' What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand. She makes millions. It's only been a year, but I'm actually very smart about this business. I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job. I mean, how do I go and sit behind a desk? It's insane. I can't. I'd like to finish my degree as a vet tech, but just to do that? I mean, what am I going to do?"
She's saying this up in her downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, Marriott hotel room, leopard-print Snooki Slippers on her feet, pouf not yet constructed, wrapped up tight in a snug pink Hello Kitty robe, facing the day after a relatively easy night of drinking, no blackouts involved. On the show, she sometimes looks like one of those grenade girls the guys try so hard to avoid. In person, she's much prettier, more delicate, not as jagged around the edges, despite the resilient, unwavering squawk of her voice. She seems pensive, though, and it's odd to hear her expressing anxiety about the future, because her normal stance is that she only exists in the now. "If I had a motto, it'd be, 'Party it up, live it up, and don't be sad over stupid shit,'" she says. And usually that's exactly how she is: upbeat, outgoing, ready to drink, dance and make out with all comers, probably texting and tweeting at the same time. "The first time I met her, I was like, 'Oh, my God, this girl's just like me – I'm having a freaking blast!'" says Cortese. "The minute we met each other, we were taking shots." But now she's not like that. She's quiet, or, more accurately, speaking softly, because when it comes to gabbing, she is second to none and can spend hours engrossed in talking about Jersey Shore, revealing numerous compelling and hitherto unglimpsed facts and shocking tabloid-worthy secrets along the way.
For instance, it's been reported that the cast made $5,000 to $10,000 an episode for the first season; in fact, according to Polizzi, the only money they took in came from working at the T-shirt store. It was like the early days of rock & roll.
"We were naive," she says. "We didn't know what was going on. They put us in a room and gave us, like, 500 pages of stuff to read. Nobody read the contracts. I'm 21, what am I going to read? We just signed away. I really didn't care about the money. I just wanted to be on TV. I was just like, 'Yay!'"
And then there's how it is for her and the others during the filming of the show. None of it is apparently staged. But they all know what's expected of them, and they do their best to deliver.
"The first season, we definitely amped it, because we didn't know if the show was even going to air, so we went all out," she says. "But I kind of party a little bit too much, to where I don't want to, but if I don't, I know I'm not going to get airtime, and if you don't get airtime, that hurts you in the end." And despite all the airtime it earned her, getting arrested for public drunkenness last July was especially upsetting: "I was very depressed, and then having the camera in your face all the time doesn't help the situation."
And there are lots of cameras. According to show co-creator and executive producer SallyAnn Salsano, the lineup includes 35 cameras in fixed locations around the house, run by remote control; 12 hand-held cameras; one big IMX camera; and six DV cameras. "We're wired a couple of miles down the boardwalk, too," Salsano says. "If they're on the Ferris wheel, I can watch them." And watched they are, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for the two months it takes to film a season.
"Yeah, they have cameras everywhere, all the time," Polizzi says. "In my bedroom, they're in all four corners, small ones up high, so they can get everything. They zoom in and out. You can hear them moving all night. You're always being watched. You kind of get a little paranoid, because you're like, Who's watching me?' Well, there's 10 people watching you even if you can't see them. When it's over and I'm back home, I'll dream that I'm still in the house with a camera in my face, and I wake up and I feel like I'm still in the house. It's trippy. It messes with your head. But that's why we go crazy. That's why we fight with each other. That's why we drink. We're living in a house for two months with that shit. We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like a prison, with cameras. The only time we're not on camera is when we're in the shower, and that's why we all take three-hour showers, just to get away from it. Another reason is, if you masturbate, you probably only do it in the shower. Otherwise, you'd know that people are looking at you. That's awkward."
She's beginning to look a little exasperated. She says that the way the show is edited, she seems like maybe the world's biggest slut, but it just isn't so. "The only person I've had sex with on Jersey Shore is my boyfriend, which is in an upcoming episode, and that's the only time. The guys you see me bring home, we're only cuddling and making out like any other person would do, but we're on camera and the whole world's seeing it, and it does look like I'm having sex."
Unloading like this, she suddenly seems vulnerable in a whole new way, and very fragile. She's no longer the "Party's here!" girl. She's some other kind of girl, with more smarts, more insight, more confusion, more anxieties. What else is she going to do, indeed. She's trapped, she knows she's trapped, and she knows she's going to stay trapped, until Jersey Shore's inevitable last call and its final late-night drunken stumble down the Seaside Heights boardwalk.
Actually, like many of the Jersey Shore gang, Polizzi is not Italian and not from New Jersey. She's Chilean. She was given up for adoption at six months, and was raised by Andy and Helen Polizzi, of Marlboro, New York, a small upstate hamlet on the Hudson River. She was frisky as a kid, always getting into trouble, stealing checks from the bank so she could play banker at home, stealing paper bags from the Shop Rite so she could add them to her paper-bag collection ("I was 10. I actually collected shopping bags. Isn't that weird?").
Around seventh grade, she started getting called Snooki; contrary to popular belief, the nickname is derived not from her exploits as an early teenage make-out artist, which was yet to come, but from a character in the movie Save the Last Dance.
In eighth grade, on weekends, she would go to teen nights at a club called Matrix across the river that was frequented by lots of dolled-up Italian-American babes from Long Island. They dazzled her. "I'd never seen girls like that before. I envied their style and attitude and confidence. I mean, I already had confidence, but this was different. While everyone else went emo or goth, I evolved into the guidette lifestyle, with the tanning, the pouf high hair and the hot clothes, and everyone was like, 'Oh, my God, you look so hot,' stuff like that. It was sexy."
Luckily for Polizzi, both her father, a volunteer firefighter and auto-salvage supervisor, and her office-manager mother took a more or less hands-off approach to child rearing. "If you tell kids what to do, they get resentful and do just the opposite," says Andy Polizzi. "We just tried to guide her in the right direction and let her mold herself. Do I agree with some of the things I see on the show? Definitely not. But you stick by your children."
That summer, Polizzi kissed a boy for the first time, skipped home afterward, and "was, like, 'Yay!'" she says. "And then after that, he and I would just make out like freaks. I like kissing. Kissing is important. But if a guy sticks his tongue down your throat, it grosses me out and makes me want to throw up and I'll be like, 'That was gross,' and I walk away. Why would I keep doing it if I didn't like it?"
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Maria had to buy food for herself and her son. Divorced for ten years, she was used to doing the shopping for her son. He was a junior in high school, which meant that he would be entering college in two years. Then she would be shopping only for herself. She felt sad when she thought of this. She hoped that he would attend the local junior college and then transfer to a university. That way he could continue to live at home for another two years. She loved him, and dreaded the day that he would no longer be her daily company.
Maria drove to Costco, a chain store that sold food in bulk packages. By selling in bulk only, the store helps its customers save money. She parked far from the entrance. That meant a longer walk, but also a faster exit from the parking lot. She grabbed one of the big shopping carts outside and pushed it into the store. Her purse stayed tightly hung over her shoulder. Surprisingly, the store wasn't too crowded.
In the produce section, she examined nine packages of seedless green grapes before she found one that she liked. She carefully selected some bananas, apples, and other fruit. But she couldn't find her son's favorite brand of tangerines. On the way home, she planned to stop at another market or two until she found them.
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Here's Your Mega Man Legends 3 Bonne Mecha Contest Finalists!
And some excellent fan-made work, it is.
12.11.10 - 2:11 AM
I told you a few days ago that the Bonne Mecha Event was coming to a close, and now we have ten finalists from both the Japanese and North American Mega Man Legends 3 sites to vote on.
For the North American finalists, there are some great designs. I don't want to post them all here, so check out the Capcom Unity post to see them all. This design is all around excellent and well thought out in particular:
As cool as the NA designs are, I think the Japanese entrants - or at least the finalists - took things to another level. Not only do they all have German names, keeping with the Bonne naming conventions, but each is accompanied by storyboards, diagrams and copious amounts of text explaining the mechanics of the mecha and how the player would fight it in-game. It's quite impressive how talented and in-depth these people got. Here's an example below, and make sure to check out all of the Japanese entries here.
Oddly, the North American site also asked entrants to submit details on how their mecha would fight and such, but these were not posted on the blog. An oversight perhaps? Keep checking the post above, since I hope they'll want to share more details.
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September 3rd, 2007, 17:26
Originally Posted by Sir_Brennus View Post
That's an easy one:
Abandoned Places 2 - Not radically different, but drastically improved. Shame it never was ported to DOS.
Ambermoon - (sequel to Amberstar) Better grafics, better GUI, better story. Shame the DOS port never was released.
Weired Wars - (sequel to Another War) still not great, but vastly improved
Ancient Evil - (sequel to Trial by Magic) better grafics and streamlined GUI
Baldur's Gate 2 - as mentioned before
Bard's Tale 3 - best of the series (the PC version sucked, though)
Daggerfall - (sequel to Arena) bigger, better, more bug free
Demon's Winter - (sequel to Shard of Spring) better story, better quests
Diablo 2 - even if not as much better as most people say, it very much more diversive
Dungeon Siege 2 - now comes including a GAME!
Eye of the Beholder 2 - better GUI, better grafics and END SEQUENCE!!!
Ishar 3 - I think it sucks, but is considered the best game of the Arborea saga
Megatraveller 2 - less complicated, less ugly
Might & Magic V - peak of the old series
Might & Magic VII - peak of the new series
Phantasie III - even improved over pt. 2 that never surfaced for the PC
Rage of Mages 2 - nearly idential, but more diversive.
Questron 2 - does it count, if the prequel was not released on PC?
Pools of Darkness - not better than Pool of Radiance, but better than the rest of the series
System Shock 2 - very different from pt. 1, but considered to be superior
Ultima 7 - tops everything from the first to trilogies
Windwalker - (sequel to Moebius) a little bit more polish
Wizardry 7 - speaks for itself
I am unsure about Wiz8 and the Realms of Arkanias.
Oh YES, I SO agree with that!
We really should more focus on the positive than do so much "bashing top tens".
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What gets you in the mood?
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08/04/2010 at 11:05
On the morning of 25th April (as before any long run or event) on the way to Blackheath, I'll have my earphones in listening to the most inspirational and motivational music I can think of.
Which songs do people listen to to get themselves psyched up before the big race? What kind of music gets peoples blood pumping? What songs get the hairs on the back of your neck standing up prior to running 26.2 miles?
Or indeed, what other methods do people employ to get themselves in the mood on race day?
08/04/2010 at 11:47
Bit of faithless- insomnia seems to get me right in the mood!
08/04/2010 at 14:22
well, I normally hate Bryan Adams but his "I'm gonna win" helps me to be in the fighting spirit.
08/04/2010 at 14:32
my friend is training for the marathon and sent me her blog and she's asked me to spread the news!!
08/04/2010 at 14:47
I have a playlist of cheesy classics including:
Born To Run - The Boss
Proud - Heather Small (the BBC seem to love this one!)
Keep on Running - Spencer Davis Group
Greatest Day - Take That (dont judge me please!)
Wake Up - The Arcade Fire
and a playlist of heavier stuff:
Anything by Faithless, The Prodigy, Basement Jaxx, The Chemical Brothers, Pendulum
Which one I listen to will very much depend on my mood that morning!
08/04/2010 at 14:47
Something around 84 bpm for me
08/04/2010 at 15:00
my 3 & a half year old daughter always insists on having high school musical on a sunday morning before i go out on my LSR's... it seems to work - or rather it gets me out the house...
08/04/2010 at 15:58
Elbow - One Day Like This
U2 - Beautiful Day
Clash - London Calling
And the London Marathon theme which you can search for on iTunes
I presume it's inspration you're after not pace?!
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The Clemson triathlon is May 11, 2013.http://www.setupevents.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=event_detail&eventID=2359
This has always been a well run event in the past and a race I would recommend. I would not call it a good first timer race because it is very popular and attracts a lot of very fast athletes. The open water swim is 750 meters and can be very intimidating to athletes who have never done an open water swim. The bike is fairly challenging with 2 climbs and a lot of rollers. The run is relatively flat with the exception of a brutal hill leading up to the dike.
For anyone interested, we could set up some training open water swims, bike rides and even run the course. There is a semi-supported open water swim on Wed evenings that should be starting fairly soon. It goes off in 2 groups 5:30 and 6:00 I rarely make the first group but usually catch the second wave. There is still enough light afterwards for a run or bike. The first couple of sessions require a wetsuit but the water warms up quickly after a few sunny days.
If there is any interest let me know. We have 8 weeks to prepare. If anyone wants an 8 week training plan, I would be happy to try and help out.
Well, I wasn't too nervous about this one but I am now. Nah, kidding. I'm up for the challenge.
Yes, I am interested and my friend, Beth, is interested as well.
Let me know when and where for any training sessions.
Stronger than excuses!
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March 2006
Just discovered an aspect of Fedora 5 that to me seems rather dumb (to say the least): the startup script for the X font server rewrites the fonts.dir files in all the fonts directories configured for it. It is just a minor incovenience that it does it incorrectly, ignoring any PostScript Type 1 fonts. I surmise that this was done in a misguided and ignorant attempt at imitation of that horror, Fontconfig/XFt2, but of course this is deeply wrong because one can put into a fonts.dir file stuff that cannot be deduced automatically from scanning font files.
Even worse, the startup script for xfs rewrites the fonts.scale file, which to me seems astonishing, because quite a bit of that cannot be deduced from font files; moreover the very logic of the existence of fonts.scale is based on that: the idea is that fonts.dir might be created if it does not exist by running mkfontdir and then appending fonts.scale to the resulting fonts.dir.
Anyhow the idea is that utilities like mkfontdir or ttmkfdir are just helpers to produce initial font list files that can then customized by hand, and I do, because they produce somewhat incomplete or inappropriate font configuration.
Looking at the /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs script the code looks overwrought and overclever, in a way that that reminds me of Debian scripts like the Debian update-conf series of scripts. Too bad, as leaving that misguided cleverness behind is one reason why I switched to Fedora after trying out Debian for quite a while.
Recently I have also switched from an Athlon XP 2000+ (1.6GHz) to an Athlon 64 3000+ (2.0GHz). This has of course required changing the motherboard, but thanks to a careful choice (same chipsets) it has required no reinstallation or extensive changes in MS Windows 2000 or in Fedora 5. The new motherboard ought to allow the Athlon to support ECC.
As to speed the major differences are in memory bandwidth and IO speed. Now I am still using the Athlon 64 in 32 bit mode for now, but I downloaded an AMD64 GNU/Linux Live CD to look around a bit. Using hdparm -T /dev/hda to get an idea of actual memory speeds, I got around 420MiB/s with the Athlon XP 2000+ with a VIA KT266A chipset, 1,500MiB/s with the Athlon 64 3000+ in 32 bit mode, and 3,300MiB/s with the same in 64 bit mode. The memory sticks are the same, but instead of running at 266MHz they now run at 400MHz (they are 400MHz sticks, but of course they can be run at lower speeds).
As to disk speed I normally run disk-disk backups. With the Athlon XP 2000+ they used to run at 25-30MiB/s with around 50-60% CPU usage. Now they run at 35-40MiB/s with 25-35% CPU usage, this on disks capable of around 5-60MiB/s transfer rates. Note that nothing other than CPU and motherboard has changed, in particular the memory sticks are the same and even the ATA host adapter is the same, because I use a PCI card for that, not the motherboard provided one.
So I get several times faster memory speeds and around 40% greater IO speed just by getting a faster processor with a different motherboard, since the memory sticks and the ATA host adapter are the same.
For the memory it is pretty obvious that the memory controller embedded in the Athlon 64 CPUs is much, much more efficient than the one in the north bridge of my previous chipset, as even if they are now clocked at 150% the rate, they now seem to deliver 300% the bandwidth in 32 bit mode and 670% in 64 bit mode, and what about IO.
Put another way, the kernel cannot manage back-to-back reads or writes even with a Athlon XP at 1.6GHz, and evidently not with an Athlon 64 either. However, with either sequential reading from a single disk, as in hdparm -t /dev/hda3 does obtain almost the maximum theoretical bandwidth of 55-60MiB/s with around 15-20%CPU usage; curiously dd bs=16k if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/null runs at 60-65MiB/s. Even more curiously, pure sequential writes are faster, as dd bs=16k if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda3 runs at 65-70MiB/s.
So how comes that copying between two disks (and I made sure they are on different ATA cables) is rather slower than either reading or writing from a single one? Well I suspect that a large of the story is that the CPU overhead for both managing the buffer cache and for managing IO in the Linux kernel is rather high and IO scheduling cost are so much lower that the interval between successive reads and successive writes is much smaller, allowing to utilize the disc subsystem better.
This would account for both why same disks and same host adapter perform so much better on a faster CPU, and why just reading or just writing perform so much better than reading and writing interleaved.
My final comment is the usual one: obviously kernel developers have the money to enjoy top end PCs and thus don't much notice those huge CPU overheads, so it is not their itch; as to those who are unfortunate enough to suffer that itch, well they are outsiders, and kernel development seems to me to be ever increasingly territorial, as owning a chunk of the kernel often means getting and keeping a well paid and cool job.
So I have upgraded to Fedora 5. I have been using Fedora 4 now for several months and overall I am fairly pleased. The best news are that there are regular updates of a Fedora release until the next released and for some time after that. Which means that it is fairly stable but not totally frozen, and older versions are still updated for a while after newer ones come out, making it possible to update once instead of twice a year (but I still update twice a year, as I like to track the latest stuff).
Given that Fedora is a testbed for RedHat's product line updating from a version to another can be fairly imposing, especially if packages from non official repositories have been installed. This has made my own update from Fedora 4 to 5 quite a bit more involved than I had expected.
But then there are several non official repositories for the less popular packages, and some of them are pretty well maintained.
The major drawback of Fedora is that Red Hat are evolving it towards things like udev (which I have disabled) that are very unlike UNIX, and anyhow seem to me poorly conceived and realized hacks. But then most Linux developers are doing like that, because of the Microsoft cultural hegemony...
Thanks to an email on XFS mailing list I have discovered this LKML article about very delayed written block saving under Linux which reports that without the included patch the Linux page cache system, in some important cases, delays saving modified pages by a long time. Now I understand why I had to run a while sleep 1; do sync; done loop in parallel to my disc-to-disc backups, and why they, involving large amounts of writing, had some undesirable side effects; for example a sync under them would take a long time. Well, with the included patch that is mostly fixed. Good to know. Curious that it has not yet made into the kernel.
Just read two recent interesting tests (XBitLabs part 1, XBitLabs part 2, HardOCP) of whether current PC games are more CPU or GPU bound. The tests are mostly about with rather advanced games, on a rather fast GPU, and with rather fast CPUs. The conclusion is that many current games are CPU bound for Athlon 64 CPUs below 2.4GHz and for Pentium 4 CPUs below 3.2GHz. Of course with cheaper GPUs the GPU becomes the bottleneck, but then one would play at less than 1600x1200 with AA and AF both turned on.
On my poor Athlon XP 2000+ (1.6GHz, 256KiB cache) most recent games I play are CPU bound, in particular Doom 3, Quake 4, the Battlefield 2 demo, and to some extent F.E.A.R. too.
The amazing aspect of the tests however is that a few games, for example Quake 4 and Serious Sam 2 seem to multithread pretty well, when the graphics card is fast enough that they become CPU bound. For these games the Athlon X2 of a given rating delivers a higher frame rate than the Athlon 64 of the same rating, even if the speed of the two cores is slower; for example the X2 3800+ with two 2.0GHz cores slightly outperforms the 64 3800+ with a single 2.4GHz core.
This could also be due to the greater cache, as the X2 has 2x512KiB and the 64 512KiB only, but the CPU utilization graphs make it clear that both CPUs get engaged. Still the advantage is not awesome, as two 2.0GHz cores are roughly equivalent to a single 2.5GHz one, or an efficiency of around 60% overall, or seen another way, the second CPU adds only 25% to performance (but from the CPU graphs in some article a with a lot more effort).
Finally the tests are yet another demonstration of just how large is the price/performance advantage of Athlon/Sempron CPUs over Pentium 4/Celeron D ones especially in the middle and lower price ranges.
Videogames have achieved indeed some rather important status, as the Financial Times devotes a full article to the impending release of the Godfather videogame, noting that its delay reduced EA's market value by US$800m, or 5% of its total valuation.
Just finally made available sabifire, a fairly elaborate shell script to set up a good set of Netfilter (a.k.a. iptables) rules suitable for an internet leaf node, either as a standalone system or the gateway for a single subnet. I have used it for a couple of year on my own home PC and colocated web server, together with sabishape. Apart from being carefully designed (it demonstrates, like sabishape, how an elegant shell script should look like), it has some unusual features, like the ability to set up much the same rules for IPv6 as for IP.
An outline of the design of the rules and of the script itself is contained in my draft Linux iptables. One of the interesting aspects is just how non trivial the script is. In part yes, because it is fairly robustly engineered, but in part because the subject area is intrinsically subtle, complex and difficult. After some time I have stopped trying to help people in the IRC channel #iptables because in general they try to do very difficult things without having much of an idea of just how hard it is. Sure, anybody can use the iptables command, and it is very easy to do so; but how easy it is to use a command does not correspond to how easy it is to use well a command.
In some way free software has lowered too much the perceived barriers to usage. No question that it has lowered them, and that it has been beneficial, as a lot of the mystique of writing operating system and network code was excessive. But an unwelcome side effect of easy availability and transparency has been that in the minds of some users there is now the impression that if something is physically accessible, it is also accessible without skills (however this has long been the assumption of hiring managers in the IT industry).
Another symptom of this attitude is the large number of people that attempt to compile recent versions of software from sources without being programmers, or being programmers without building skills (surprisingly rare even among experienced ones I have often noticed). Sometimes these packages contain step-by-step instructions and sometimes they even work in every possible context.
But many times over they do not, and the users ask for help on IRC/mailing lists/Usenet about issues that are quite difficult to describe, never mind master.
The interesting array processor architecture from Clearspeed may be of interest to AMD. It is somewhat Transputer like, with 96 processor with 6KiB each and 128KiB of shared memory, which makes it sound like an optimizer's extreme challenge, much more so than PS2 and PS3; the company's previous incarnation as PixelFusion was about using it as a fully programmable graphics accelerator. Interesting stuff, especially as it allegedly only drawn 10W.
Just cleaned the mesh dust filter at the bottom of my Lian-Li PC-7 case where the bottom fans and hard disks are. It was not that clogged, still hard disk temperatures went down 4C° from 37C° and CPU and chipset temperatures down 2C° from 50C° and 34C° (ambient temperature around 20C°). I occasionally vacuum my CPU heatsinkfan and motherboard to prevent trouble. A guy I know burned his CPU because of dust buildup in the heatsink and in the CPU fan, even if it was not as bad as this.
Having had a fresh look, I have finally managed to figure out at least some part of how to define and make use of parametric virtual devices in an ALSA configuration file. Givent that I think that the documentation is extraordinarily (and perhaps deliberately) bad, this required quite a bit of experimentation. I shall update my sample asound.con and my Linux ALSA notes with the details soon.
The usual sycophants of the Microsoft way of doing things have infested the ALSA code too, consider for example these two entirely awesome error messages in the ALSA library:
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:832:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Which value? Which slave? Have a guess! must give a wonderful sense of empowerment to some software engineers...
Sometimes the details matter, and I noticed a detail as I was helping someone get an X server modeline for an Acer AL1916WS LCD display (which apparently is pretty good and at £180 not that expensive). The detail is that the monitor has a 1440x900 pixel size and is sold as a 19" LCD monitor, as it is widescreen and has a diagonal of 19" or equivalent.
The amusing aspect is that a regular 17" LCD with a pixel size of 1280x1024 has 1,310,720 pixels, and that the alleged 19" monitor has 1,296,000 pixels, which is just a bit lower.
What is happening here is that the alleged 19" monitor is by my reckoning just equivalent to a 17" one, just with an 8x5 aspect ratio that being more asymmetrical than the 5x4 results in a longer diagonal. But classifying monitors by diagonal size is usually done under the assumption that the aspect ratio is 4x3 or close to it. Quoting monitor diagonals for rather oblong monitors seems a bit misleading to me.
It is little known that pragmatics is an important aspect of programming, because pragmatics really is about programming-as-communication, not merely programming-as-tool. As to pragmatics, one important aspect of the UNIX style is that data should be easily sortable. Well, as to that unfortunately a few very common datatypes don't sort naturally, where naturally means in lexicographic order: dates, internet domain names, and IP address for example. Recent variants of the sort command (for example msort) can handle properly month names for example, and that helps a fair bit, but internet domain names and dotted quad IP addresses are still a problem.
Part of the issue is that internet domain names violate another important rule of pragmatics, that in left-to-right scripts one should put the most specific part of a datum to the right. That is a domain name like should really be written as; similarly email addresses should be written not as localpart@domainname but viceversa, as in
Curiously two non-internet systems had this right, that is the (otherwise unlamented) UK ISO system and UUCP style mail addresses (which were relative, also a good idea).
As to IPv4 addresses, the problem is that for some inane reason they are commonly notated in decimal dotted quad fashion, as in, instead of in hexadecimal dotted quad or, even better, pure hexdecimal notation, as in 0x7f000001; unfortunately IPv6 addresses are so long that a non-numeric and non-lexicographic notation is hard to avoid, but even so the standard could have required leading zeroes in non zero hx digit quads... The hexadecimal notation for IPv4 is actually perfectly legitimate and properly written tools will accept it too (as well as decimal numbers):
# ping 0x7f000001
PING 0x7f000001 ( 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from icmp_seq=1 ttl=99 time=0.033 ms
# ping 2130706433
PING 2130706433 ( 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from icmp_seq=0 ttl=99 time=0.106 ms
but not all networking tools are properly written. Even more importantly, just about no networking tools have the option of printing address in hexadecimal, which makes them sort of useless as the source of a command pipeline.
Interesting results from a comparison of top end video cards with 256MiB and 512MiB of RAM: in high resolution (1600x1200 and higher), high quality (AA, AF) modes modern games can use up 300-400MiB of texture memory, in which case 512MiB cards have a definite performance advantage.
However at 1024x768 and even at 1280x1024 there is little difference, around 10% at most. Unfortunately at max quality none of the three games tested would use less than 128MiB, which is what my videocard has got, but then it can't really handle max quality speedwise either (it is just a value priced 6800LE).
Just read an article on the CPU costs of shared libraries which add up to something fairly significant. But the much larger costs, especially for badly constructed shared libraries, are in memory usage.
Just read an amazing e-mail message (thanks to from Mark Shuttleworth about delaying the next Ubuntu release by a few weeks for extra polishing.
The amazingness is not in the delay but in the reasons he gives for the delay:
However, in some senses Dapper is a "first" for us, in that it is the first "enterprise quality" release of Ubuntu, for which we plan to offer support for a very long time. I, and others, would very much like Dapper to stand proud amongst the traditional enterprise linux releases from Red Hat, Debian and SUSE as an equal match on quality, support and presentation. We would like Ubuntu Dapper to be a release that companies can deploy with confidence, which will be the focus of certification work from ISV's and IHV's, and which will bring the benefits of Debian to a whole new group of users.
There are several aspects of this statement that have shocked, shocked me :-), one is that Unbuntu obviously wants to compete with the likes of RedHat and SUSE (commercially that is), and the other is that bring the benefits of Debian sort of implies that Mark Shuttleworth regards Ubuntu not as a fork but as a variant of Debian.
Belated article on IBM using Cell for compute servers. It is a bit late because a few months ago the same thing was demonstrated at LinuxTag in June 2005...
Engaging article on virtual machine based rootkits created as a proof of concept by Microsoft and UofM.
As to their undetectability, more or less any rootkit that modified the OS kernel is also undetectable like a VM based one, because the OS kernel in effect provides a VM to applications. The only reliable way to detect a rootkit is to scan a disc with a known-good system, for example with a good copy of one of the many Linux based live CDs.
But most importantly this proof-of-concept demonstrates how dangerous it may be to have DRM based on VM technology because it can be easily misused, as the recent discoveries on the Sony DRM for CD-ROMs has amply demonstrated:
More speculation from an article on the PS3 launch cliffhanger:
The company is known to be aiming for a September launch, but this may still be an unrealistic goal.
The market is becoming impatient with Sony, which has still not officially moved from its 'spring' launch schedule, despite the season's arrival.
As to the second quote, amusing naivety: some people count as spring April, May, June (that is, the spring quarter, or Q2), and in any case a deadline of specified as an interval conventionally means the last day of the interval, not the first.
In another article on the same subject peculiar statement by the head of SCEE:
Reeves also talked about the fight with Xbox 360. "Most of the first million people who buy an Xbox 360 in PAL territories will also buy a PS3," he predicted.
which sounds very peculiar to me: is there really a mass market of households prepared to spend around US$1,000 to buy both consoles? And that on top of one PC or two? If so, the sales of the game industry will expand dramatically. My impression is that most households will buy one or two PCs for general internet access and to play MMORPGs, and one major console, plus possibly a portable or small one, like a Nintendo Revolution or DS or a PSP.
Unless the quote above means that SCEE expects Xbox 360 and PS3 to target mostly the enthusiasts with lots of disposable income, the sort of people that buy US$400 video cards for their PC, not to the mass market. This may indeed be what he means with Most of the first million people above.
Reading some of the usual speculation as to the PS3 launch date and price, which Sony insists will be sometime this spring. Well, I suspect that sometime this spring will mean June 30th (the last day that might still qualify), and they will pull an Xbox 360 trick, with just a small initial run of heavily subsidised prototypes, and then a long wait for the real production systems, which will be much cheaper to manufacture in volume.
As to the price of Xbox 360 and PS3, it is quite likely that both Microsoft and Sony, in slightly different ways, hope to make their console so expensive that households will not be able to afford the other (if customers buy both, they will split their game purchases between the two, and the take-up ratio of both will be too low).
Thus going for a winner-take-all strategy, probably geographically based (Japan to PS3, the USA mostly to Xbox 360, the rest of the world mixed); conversely Nintendo obviously hope that the Revolution will be so cheap (same or less than a Sony PSP!) that it will be the second console of choice for those who buy either Xbox 360 or PS3.
This strategy also makes more sense for Sony, because the price of Xbox 360 and PS3 is comparable to that of many low end PCs, and there is no question that Sony is trying to harm Microsoft's sales of OS licences as much as possible: low end PCs are ideal for Microsoft, because the OS licenses they sell are priced per-unit, not as a percentage of the sale price, so they make a lot more money when two US$400 PCs are sold than one US$800 PC is sold.
Interestingly the price range of the Xbox 360 is high enough (especially when one considers that it comes without a monitor or a printer) that it overlaps quite a bit the price range of low end PCs of some of Microsoft's largest licensees, like Dell. Just about the only thing that the Xbox 360 lacks to compete with a low end PC is a port of MS Office, and of course it would not take much for Microsoft to do one; but for now Microsoft are still holding back from competing with their own licensees, the mere possibility being enough for now to concentrate minds on who is in control.
Which suggests that Sony will not only deliver GNU/Linux on PS3, but that will quite deliberately include something like or KOffice as every MS Windows or MS Office license sale that a PS3 displaces helps Sony cut the air supply of Microsoft.
Was discussing the next-gen consoles, and my argument is that if Nintendo chooses like they did in the previous generation, the Revolution will be really high performance and a lot easier to port PC to then Xbox 360 or PS3, and there have been some rumours that seem to indicate Nintendo are quite wise; in particular the 256KiB primary cache and 1MiB level 2 cache sizes are going to matter far more than the extra 2 CPUs of the Xbox 360 or 7 SPEs of the PS3. Sure the extra processing power of the other other two, especially the PS3, will matter if game developers completely rethink their game architectures, but that is not going to happen, because the obvious way to do it is to make game code platform specific.
The cache is so important, because in effect memory is another processing unit, which latencies that are much higher and throughput much lower than that of convention CPUs, so as a rule it is memory, not CPU, that is the bottleneck.
Some of the specs in the rumours above however look suspicious, like having 512MiB of main RAM and 256MiB of GPU RAM; but the most suspicious is the presence of a physics accelerator chip with 32MiB. It is suspicious because it is quite unnecessary, and existing physics acceleration chips are rather power hungry and not very effective.
However if the physics accelerator is just another PPC core with some onchip RAM, then it is a good idea, because PPC is pretty good at doing physics. My idea of a good, cost effective, physics accelerator for PCs is just a PCI/PCI-X card with a PPC core and some RAM on it. No need for bizarre custom chips except of course to tell investors stories about owning intellectual property.
I have just repeated my earlier test on JFS performance degradation with time. I have upgraded my relatively slow 80GB disks to rather faster 250GB and slightly increased root partition size to 10GB from 8GB about 2 months ago, and done a fair bit of upgrading in the meantime, and here is comparison between reading the whole root partition, on the same quiescent disc, first as is, and then after reloading it with tar, which would ensure pretty much optimal layout:
Used vs. new JFS filesystem test
File system Repack Avg. transfer rate
used JFS 12m32s 51s 10.8MiB/s
new JFS 05m53s 50s 21.3MiB/s
Over time the filesystem has become twice as slow, which is not bad, at least compared with seven times slower for ext3 even if the latter was over a longer period of time and perhaps more frequent updates.
It is also very notable that on the new 250GB disc both times are around half those on the older 80GB discs, I suspect mostly because I chose the new disc (a Seagate ST3250823A) to have a short seek time.
Well, now that dual core CPUs cost little more than single core ones, intel have announced the end of HyperThreading which was a way to do a dual CPU system by sharing most parts between the two CPUs, and thus allowing only partial parallelism between them. It worked fairly decently for what it cost: something like adding 5% to the complexity of one CPU for something like a 10-30% gain. Full dual cores add 80-90% to a single CPU complexity for a 50-90% gain. In both cases the gain applies only to well written multiple threaded code.
As Intel leaves HyperThreading behind, game console manufacturers endorse it in the Xbox 360 and PS3 Cell CPUs. I suspect it will not do much good, in part because current game structures are hard to multithread, even if I have some ideas on what kind of coarse partitioning might be done for games.
Interesting news from the game industry, about Lionhead downsizing because of unexpectedly low sales apparently due to shrinking of the PC games market. However what is interesting is the numbers of people left and how many projects they are working on:
A spokesperson said the firm is focusing on two next generation products.
Molyneux has decided to focus on only two games at one time; one has been in development for a year and the other is just ramping up. The firm will also retain a small 'prototyping' team.
Lionhead's staff has therefore been cut from about 250 to 200, 180 of whom are developers.
Presumably since one project is being developed and the other is just ramping up their team sizes will be different, but even assuming an equal division of manpower and a dozen or two developers on prototyping, that's at least 80-90 developers per next generation project. Pretty huge.
February 2006
As to game I was really delighted to discover that the source to one of my favourite games, Enemy Engaged: Comanche Hokum has been released and therefore that splendid game is being updated and upgraded by the community of its users.
There are some mostly GNU/Linux based that I play semi-regularly, and they are all online multiplayer ones, as they allow me to jump in for a match, spend half an hour, and then continue. Perhaps it is because everybody else is playing MMORPGs (World of Warcraft has now more than 5 million subscribers by itself, and there are statistics that show that the median time spent playing is 20 hours per month), but there are very few players online for UT2004 or Quake 4 even if there are still a few for Tribes 2.
It is a bit of a pity, because the scarcity of players means that some game modes or modifications attract nobody at all; for example in UT2004 almost only Onslaught mode has some players on it, and virtually nobody is playing UTXMP whis is a rather complete, polished Team Fortress style modification.
Ironically, the MMORPG market is almost entirely PC platform based, and it could be argued that because of it the PC platform is dominant again. Considering the tremendous increase in price for next generation Microsoft and Sony consoles and games, buying and installing an MMORPG on an existing PC may seem a cheap option, even factoring in some months of fees.
I have discovered recently that the development of KIAX proceeds apace and the recent KIAX 0.8.5 is quite improved even over the version I had previously mentioned.
The Inquirer rightly makes fun of the Firefox programmers for the memory leaks in particular the intentional one where the browser caches recently visited pages in their entirety to make it quick to go back to them.
Konqueror and other browsers also have this feature which greatly contributes to the bloat, because caching things just in case is only worthwhile when one has infinite memory.
Also, I suspect that the cache is not per-tab, as when a tab gets closed the history relevant to the tab should be thrown out, but I very much doubt it is; closing all tabs does not seem to reduce the memory footprint much in most browsers.
Thanks to a friend I have dicovered the video recordings of the Google engEDU talks. Among these I was quite interested in the one by Hans Reiser about Reiser4 which was interesting in several ways. For me the major one was that I quite like his insistence about handling large nonhierarchical namespaces, search engine like; however Reiser4 is still quite hierarchical, unlike for example this proposal for keyword based file names. Somewhat related is also remember a quite interesting dissertation by Robert Stroud on Naming Issues in the Design of Transparently Distributed Operating Systems which concludes that precise relative names scale but don't work, and precise absolute names work but don't scale, and therefore fuzzy names are probably best.
As part of a highly unofficial interview with at least one PS3 game developer on the capabilities of the new console's GPU and CPUs; in particular, probably most games will not support 1080p, except via hardware upscaling, and an interesting statement on software (probably means SPE) use, to add to the massive power of the NVIDIA GPU:
SCEI's Masa Chatani describes PS3 architecture as elegantly simple with outstanding performance, and developers say they love the streamlined Open GL environment. But our guide adds: "Cell is weird and difficult to work with... coding has progressed with high speeds and paper specs in mind, it's one of the reasons framerate specs aren't met yet. We've been anti-aliasing through software which also means a performance hit, although the 720p upscaling minimises that problem a bit."
Well, yes various types of postprocessing are indeed one of the possible uses of the SPes. A bit of a waste perhaps.
Just discovered an interesting paper from Intel about ELF symbol visibility and ELF dynamic linking performance; these exist because ELF was designed for exception flexibility in an age in which programs were much smaller and so were shared librarieas.
I have already mentioned the contribution of Ulrich Drepper and others to improve practices with dynamic linking, it is nice to see other people care.
The ECC RAM product by Kingston that I recently purchased comes with a very interesting list of supported motherboards and this is in essence a list of all motherboards that support ECC RAM known to Kingston. Which is useful, because motherboards manufacturers, never mind resellers, often don't mention whether a motherboard does ECC. That list seems mostly reliable, even if it includes some ABIT motherboards, and ABIT technical support told me none of their motherboards do ECC.
The point here is indeed performing ECC, as virtually all motherboards support ECC RAM sticks in the sense of compatibility, accepting them and ignoring the ECC data. ECC typically depends on two aspects of the motherboard, whether its memory controller can do ECC and whether the wiring is such that it can actually be performed. Usually, but not always, if the memory controller can do ECC the wiring is there.
So the question most of the time is which memory controllers can perform ECC. Memory controllers are usually part of the north bridge of a motherboard chipset, except for Athlon 64 and Opteron motherboards, as the memory controller is part of the CPU. My current understanding is that among desktop and workstation class northbridges: Intel have tables of their chipset features which shows support which ones support ECC and which do It is also interesting to list popular chipsets or manufacturers that I think do not support ECC:
• Socket A: all non-AMD chipsets.
• Socket 478: Intel 845G, Intel 865 (all variants), Intel 81x, almost all VIA, SiS, NVIDIA.
• Socket 775: Intel 915.
So what about the new MacIntel systems? Well, they show why ever Apple decided to switch from PowerPC to IA32: the Core Duo CPUs are just very good revisions of the classic Pentium Pro design, delivering pretty good performance at very low power consumption (around 25W); while PowerPC is still competitive with the Pentium 4, the market, and in particular Apple's, is moving ever more towards mobile or small form factor computers (more than half of all computers sold are laptops nowadays, and I guess that for Apple the percentage is much higher).
The new Intel Core Duos are fairly impressive even if they are not AMD64 compatible, but the next generation will be. With that Intel will have largely caught up with AMD in terms of performance and features; and when they add virtualization (which contrarily to some reports is not yet implemented as part of Core) they will have an extra feature.
But still the most interesting development is that in effect it is now Intel that in some market segments is attacking AMD's product lineup from below, offering lower cost alternatives, as in the case of the much less expensive Pentium D 820 vs. the Athlon X2 3800+.
It is quite interesting that Intel seems determined to continue being the cheaper alternative to the Athlon 64 X2 with the Core Duo, as the prices per chip are reported to be around US$240.
Discussing what use can be a Cell style architecture for simulations, and the previously mentioned idea of coarse partition of the processing, I was asked for some examples other than textures/lighmaps and characters. Well, several years ago I met the people who were aiming to do a ray traced game called Vigilance (the demo is still available and despite not becoming famous and not being quite finished it got even some fairly fairly positive review).
That was of course a bit too ambitious for the time (partly as a result of overambitious goals the game was released even in a not quite really polished state), so they ended up with static light sources and ray traced lights on fixed geometry.
But some members of the Vigilance team have kept working at the technology, and a credible if small dynamic ray tracing system was already sort of feasible on a 2GHz PC. Others have developed some dynamically raytraced gamelets. Now the beauty of ray tracing is that it is the poster application for non shared memory SMP/NUMA/... systems, as it partitions really well, for example it was used to demo Transputer based machines extensively (then, far from real time).
Part of the attraction of something like PS3 for graphics is that it can be used to implement graphics techniques that are not just polygon/texture based, which so far have utterly dominated if only because they are the only ones for which cheap hardware accelerators are available.
There have been rumours that the PS3 originally was to be, or could have been, a two Cell machine, with fully software synthesized graphics. However in the end Sony apparently preferred a classic NVIDIA GPU to the second Cell; the reasons rumoured have been that even two Cells could not deliver high enough software graphics performance.
Perhaps, but I suspect that the real reasons probably were providing a familiar PC-like graphics system for first wave games (PC-style game programmers are heavily invested in PC-like graphics tech), and perhaps even more importantly the anticipated difficulty to manufacture enough Cells for launch never mind if each PS3 had two of them.
Whatever, every PS3 will have 7 spare SPEs and 256KiB memory areas, and these should be put to good uses, among them for example stuff that is expensive or difficult to do on the NVIDIA graphics chip.
Finally, another possible use for one SPE: in game streaming video, off that big Blu-Ray disc. Games like GTA III have demonstrated how entertaining in-game audio can be, if done well. Well, Sony own a large film library at MGM/UA etc., and they have already released several movies for the PSP UMD. However of course in-game audio is less distracting than video. We shall see...
January 2006
Slower, less power hungry, hard drive spinup is an important parameter, even if it is hard to find information about it. But I was delighted recently to see that Western Digital have added such an option to make it more likely that external USB/FW2 boxes will work with their drives. But I was astonished to see that this is for a 2.5" drive, and 2.5" drives are pretty low power already. But then many external USB/FW2 boxes don't have a power supply and draw power from the bus, so it is more understandable.
Western Digital also have had for a while, like other manufacturers, the option to delay spin-up until from power-on to when a command is received; this is useful to prevent all drives in hard drive arrays to spin-up at the same time, staggering instead their coming online.
But I wonder why both mechanisms are not replaced by a much simpler automatic feature: monitoring the 12V power rail and when it starts going down, slowing down the spin-up rate. In this way perhaps spin-up will not be as fast if the power supply is marginal, but far more reliable.
As to the fatal issue of ECC and RAM, the same smart friend who pointed out an additional problem with RAID5 has observed that the main advantage of no using ECC with RAM also applies to lack of security and security auditing measures: just as a system without ECC for RAM appears more reliable than a system with, because a lot less problems get reported, a system without security measures appears more secure than one with, because a lot of less security problems get discovered.
As some corporate data center guy once famously said, As far as I know we never had an undetected error.
Now that I remember, a smart friend pointed out another reason why RAID5 is a bad idea especially for writing: given that every write to a single logical blocks involves multiple reads and writes, this considerably worsens the assumptions about wear and tear on the drives involved. Just say no to RAID5.
Interesting news that in a number of benchmarks WINE under Linux outpeforms MS Windows at running WIN32 applications. This is not unexpected (except for memory and swap, Linux is fairly efficient), but I was surprised that Quake 3 reportedly run nearly as fast as under MS Windows.
This probably is because Quake 3 uses OpenGL even in its WIN32 port, and then it is not difficult for WINE to just wrap WIN32 OpenGL calls to native Linux OpenGL calls, which with the right drivers can be fully accelerated. For DirectX games though I think that Cedega (which is a WINE derivative) does pretty well too.
But then I think that it is much better to have native GNU/Linux versions of games, of which there are quite a few already: providing an alternative implementation of the WIN32 and DirectX platforms just adds to their value. This was the OS/2 curse: it would run WIN16 applications better than MS Windows 3, and so well that there was no point for developers to target the native OS/2 APIs, which therefore lost relevance, and eventually this extended to OS/2 too.
As to games, a fascinating or terrifying graph just discovered about estimated total number of people playing MMORPGs, where the numbers are around 250,000 at the beginning in July 1999 to around 5,000,0000 in July 2005.
The graph and the numbers are truly impressive, and while they surely are marvelous news for the MMORPG industry, they must be quite terrifying to those that develop and sell other types of games.
Each of those 5,000,000 people is paying a monthly fee, and each quarter pays around the whole price of a new game, and spends a lot of hours in their MMORPGs, and this means that they have less money and time to play traditional single or multiplayer games.
Given this, it is far from surprising that as John Carmack says:
The PC market is getting really, really torched. Todd mentioned a statistic: last year saw the PC make half the gross revenue of three years ago.
as those 5,000,000 online players, which are usually the most committed game players, the mainstay of the PC game industry, are putting something like US$600m in fees into MMORPGs every year, and thats a lot of money they are not spending on traditional PC games, never mind the time it takes; and time matters, as gaming time is a finite and scarce resource, because those that have plenty of time to play games usually don't have the money to pay for them, and those that have plewnty of money to buy them usually don't have as much time to play them.
No surprise that it looks like there is a lot of piracy (and there is some) in the PC game market: the MMORPG industry is pirating a lot of customers and recurrent sales. No surprise that recent game consoles, whether desktop or portable, emphasize networking so much.
Chatting with someone about my game technology views, I mentioned a note in a recent issue of the Edge magazine that game console, the latest and greatest of which have multihreaded multiple CPUs, are meant as vehicles to sell some signature games.
Indeed these games are so important that a good way to assess the architecture of a game console is to ask if it fits well the needs of the most important ones.
Now the most important signature games for Sony consoles has been the Gran Turismo series and this leads to a some speculation about the PS3 architecture, 1 CPU and 7 independent CPUs with a small dedicated memory each: that it was designed to run Gran Turismo particularly, dedicating each CPU to a different car in the race.
In other words still coarsely partitioning the load but not by processing phase or by global effect (like lights) but by actor in the simulation. Now what could be so time consuming and at the same time localized to each actor that might warrant a CPU dedicated to it? Well, as usual graphics, in particular I think lighting effects and texturing, if not generated dynamically, at least updated on the fly.
Partitioning by actor (where perhaps the level itself can be considered an actor) fits well also with the idea that in most games, which are simulations, actors are the focus of action, and there are either a few, or very many: a few for example in single person or multiperson fighting games, and very many in strategy games or massive online games. With a few each can be (semi) permanently loaded onto a separate CPU, with very many the very many can be processed by subsets each subset onto a distinct CPU.
This style fits well other Sony classic game series, like sports games and dojo fighting games.
I have recently been looking at games and the main reason is that it is what pushes technology at least for smaller systems. That I had to expand my RAM was mostly due to the demands of recent high end games.
But game programmers constantly push the boundaries of technology, resulting in things like graphics cards that cost much like a PC, and that are in effect massive array processors.
One of the reasons is that there are two types of games:
• Rule based games, where victory mostly comes from exploiting the rules. For example chess, sudoku, or board games. The skill needed to play them is mostly intellectual, and usually more strategic than tactical.
• Behaviour based games, where victory mostly comes from dexterity performing actions. For example football, capture-the-flag, or Mikado sticks.
Of course the boundaries are not totally sharp, as there are rules in behaviour based games, and some elements of behaviour in many rule based ones (for example chess and Go are symbolic simulations of war).
What matters to technology is that behaviour games are essentially simulations, they are based on a let's pretend logic.
Many, if not most, computer games are behaviour games, and require simulating some virtual world, whether realistic or imaginary, even if some are transpositions of board games. Behaviours inside simulations are very expensive on computers, in part because our senses have amazingly high resolutions, and in part because the analog world is not that compatible with digital logic.
So, in the pursuit of better simulations, technology has to be pushed hard, and so it will have to be for a long time and, crucially, PCs are upgradeable, unlike game consoles.
Now, what is interesting to me particularly is that game are pushing technology towards parallel architectures. This push has been going on for quite a while, and not just recently about SMP machines. For example the very use of autonomous and very powerful array processors with large memories, which is what recent graphics cards are is an example. But also many massive online games are increasingly based on simulations that run on large parallel clusters (also 1, 2).
Well, I have been rather skeptical about the merits of RAID5 for a while, and I was eventually fully persuaded by the arguments (1, 2) of the BAARF campaign that RAID1+0 (striping mirror sets) is overall a lot better.
Well, I was chatting with some smart friends about this and they decided to try to switch some of their storage to RAD10 from RAID5. Now that was a backup area, so not exactly the most suitable for RAID5, but still backup rates improved from 450 megabits/s to 5,000 megabits/s.
Since the discs used are capable of around 300-400 megabits/s sustained, that means that in write-intensive usage RAID5 was delivering no striping advantage, while RAID10 did deliver the full advantage of striping across the mirror pairs.
Well, eventually I sold out and bought 1GiB of PC3200 DDR RAM for my ancient PC. And yes, this is a kind of if you can't beat them join them situation, for someone like me that has been pointing out that my previous 512MiB should have been enough, and and that most Linux developers have 1GiB and more of RAM and could not care less about memory and swapping inefficiencies because they never arise on their systems.
Well, that was quite right: since I upgraded my system no longer swaps, and works a lot better. My deduction is therefore that the no longer poor Linux kernel developers have at least 1GiB RAM and that Linux is simply unsuitable for any situation where virtual memory exceeds real memory, a conclusion that I was reluctant to draw.
My excuse is that I want to try out some recent games that simply don't fit in 512MiB: for example Quake 4 requires 600MiB, and F.E.A.R. rather more; and games are real time programs and simply don't work well with paging, even if it is done well, and it is even more pointless than for other programs to argue that they should be optimized for memory usage.
Of course, even if my current (temporary) motherboard does not take advantage, I bought ECC capable RAM, simply because it costs only a bit more than RAM without ECC support (9 instead of 8 chips per side), and sooner or later I will upgrade to a motherboard with ECC support too.
Just found a photo of a high performance WD drive with a clear plastic cover, which shows it has 2.5" platters as previously mentioned.
Thanks to a friend for sending me a link to extensive online test of various compression programs which nicely adds to my own decompression tests. The common unavoidable conclusions are that lzop is by far the fastest, bzip2 by far and away the slowest, and gzip is sort of average.
Well, I am always interested in how technology develops, and in particular in SMP and power consumption, and it is interesting to see in this Athlon 64 X2 3800+ review a nice comparison of the power consumed by some recent single dual core CPUs (a rarely mentioned issue, but the review is on XBitLabs, which is a particularly good and informative site).
It was interesting but not equally pleasant to see that a few current CPUs draw (and dissipate) more than 130W. Wow! It is basically a pretty high output lamp under that heatsink :-).
Also, how good XBitLabs are as to technical detail is also shown by this interesting comment:
In fact, they could have achieved even higher power saving efficiency if the cores could turn to economy mode independently. However, it looks like this feature will only be implemented in the dual-core processors designed for the mobile segment.
I was chatting recently about trends in game development: in particular that games, especially PC games, but not just, tend to be mostly mods, even those that actually sell themselves as original games. In particular many games are mods based of Unreal Tournament 2003/2004 or of Quake 3 or Doom 3.
Indeed an argument can be made that Unreal Tournament 2003/2004 or Quake 3 or Doom 3 are mods too, of themselves. What is happening is that famous game engines like those developed by Epic Games or id Software get a lot of attention because of their signature games, but these companies often make more money by licensing the engines than from the signature games themselves, so in a sense the signature games are promotional mods for the engine.
Large multistudio game companies have a similar position, developing base engines and then many games which are mods for those engines, with slightly different gameplay.
Now, what's the deal for small and middling independent studios? They can license the well known engines, or the unknown ones, or they can roll their own.
Licensing a well known engine is very expensive, in particular because it involves a large upfront fee and then royalties. This is because basing a game on a well known engine is a selling point in itself, as the engine has cachet that adds to the marketing of the game.
Licensing an unknown engine means still having a bit more of a struggle for integration, and then owning in effect only art assets and scripts.
Developing a custom engine adds cachet to the company, as then it controls almost completely its own intellectual property. But then the really valuable properties are not the technology and not even the art assets, but the brand names, and those usually are controlled by the publishers anyhow...
However developing a custom engine is a lot less hard than people think; in part because one can be clever (not that many try), and in part because there is virtually no proprietary technology, all technology one needs being in books and papers (most games of the same generation look very much alike because game developers download the same SIGGRAPH papers :-)), as the last thing that game studios can afford to do is to fund original reseach.
Developing a custom engine also has a very important marketing effect: one can offer to customers, whether retail or other studios, the ability to developer their own freeware or commercial mods, that can significantly increase sales of the signature game, even if relatively few people play it. Many may buy it simply because they want to run a particular mod, as it happened with Counterstrike and Half-Life. This means that the useful shelf life of a game, usually pretty short (months) gets significantly extended, and that can rather improve the economics of the situation.
There is a far more comprehensive interview with John Carmack starting page 62 of the January 2006 issue of PC Gamer which is really quite interesting. Some highlights and comments:
There is an argument I get into with people every year. Every generation, someone comes up and says something like procedural and synthetic textures and geometry are going to be the hot new thing. I've heard it for the past three console generations -- it's not been true and it's never going to be true this generation too. It's because management of massive data sets is always the better thing to do
I massively disagree with the last assertion, if not with the forecast. Sure, I expect most current generation games to be about massive static data sets, (like Carmack's megatextures for the Doom 3 engine) not dynamically generated ones. But the reason is not that static massive data is better, but just more familiar.
Because most games programmers are at heart PC programmers, and one can always expand a PC until it handles massive static data sets, which are more familia to program for. Dynamic content, as in the demo scene, and as notably exemplified in .kkrieger, requires a different mindset, a bit like parallel programming (but parallelo programming requires more than a different mindset).
The familiarity of massive static data sets means that there is good hardware support, in the form of graphics chips, for the most traditional and familiar form (triangle meshes and static textures) and this reinforces the preference.
Several technologies have been thrown in the dustbin of history, like voxels and ray tracing, because they require different thinking, and are not supported by hardware accelerators. Never mind things like the ellipsoid based rendering used in Ecstatica over ten years ago.
Sure, PS2 and its EE CPU and GPU did have some primitives that meant is was particularly suited to generative programming, and in particular with NURBS or similar stuff, but very few game programmers used that, and just did straight PC-style triangle static mesh stuff for which the PS2 was poorly suited (lots of vector power, slow small memory).
Well, I suspect that a few games that have been PS2 only by PS2-culture programmers, like Gran Turismo 4 actually do use all the power of PS2, but thats very rare inded.
I have a quote here from Valve's CEO, Gabe Newell, talking about the next generation of processors and consoles, and what they mean to gaming. He says that the problems of getting things running on multicore processors are not solved. We have doctoral theses but no real-world applications. Do you agree with him? The difference between theoretical performance and real-world performance on the CPU level is growing fast. ... but the new generations make it much, much worse. ... when you do a straighforward development process on them, they're significantly slower than a modern high-end PC. .... The graphics systems are much better than that though. Graphics have an inherent natural parallelism. The capabilities of the Xbox 360 and of the PlayStation 3 are really good on the graphics side -- although, not any head or shoulders above any PC stuff that you can buy at a higher price point.
Exactly! If one looks at these architectures as if they were PCs, then they only perform well in the aspects that are most PC like. Hot bits: straighforward development process means familiar PC mindset; slower than a modern high-end PC means that what matters is the sort of immense PC a millionaire like him can afford; really good on the graphics side but not better than any PC stuff that you can buy at a higher price point reinforces the notion that the mindset if about PC programming and PC graphics accelerators which are all about what is familiar, like triangle meshes.
... probably all of our gameplay development and testing will be done on the Xbox 360. It's a really sweet development system.
Exactly again! It is the one that looks most like a PC development system, with something like Visual Studio etc.; familiarity again. What a sad statement though from someone who was doing games on a NeXT cube (on which Doom was developed). The grip of the Microsoft cultural hegemony...
But while piracy is surely a significant issue, hints like this are misleading. The economic climate in three years has changed a lot, and the gross of plenty of other things has gone down a lot. For example, computer science departments have been sacking a lot of people because student numbers are way, way down (after having exploded), and this has not been because course notes have been pirated. Also, sales of recorded music have gone down, thanks to a combination of lower disposable incomes and price increases by music publishers.
Indeed, as to disposable incomes, three years ago geeky people who buy games were a lot more prosperous than today. But employee compensation, and not just for geeks, has been going down by a few percent a year for the past few years, and the tech industry, in which many hardcore gamers used to work, has shrunk significantly (and while the income of the wealthy has been going robustly up, they are too few, and in any case they don't much play games).
A fall some percent a year in average earnings is no laughing matter, and it would be astonishing if it did not result in much lower sales of luxuries like games especially those that require high end PCs, when consoles are rather cheaper.
Interesting interviews to the usual John Carmack on game engine technology and multiple CPUs and mobile gaming. The interview with the Grauniad says that the occasion is the PR for the launch of the Doom RPG version for mobile phones game. Just like another interview with BuzzScope (mentioned on Blue's News) is also mostly about his new Doom RPG for mobile phones. A comparison among PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 is also made, and unsurprisingly he reckons that PS3 is a bit faster in principle, but Xbox 360 has more easily usable power.
As to mobile games, Carmack says he finds them interesting, and the technology is rapidly improving.
He reckons that J2ME based games lose out a lot in in performance compared to those based on BREW, a native code environment (which however has security implications, and is most suitable with devices with two CPUs, one dedicated to the networking, and one to the user interface aspects). I also found a nice article of a few years ago comparing BREW and J2ME and a good set of BREW tutorials including a BREW/J2ME portability guide.
Discovered a nice list of favourite command line tools with which I mostly agree. Some notes:
• One does not need to run X; it lets me have multiple xterms on the screen at once. as there is a Curses based windowing envirnment, TWIN, which is a bit like screen but with multiple resizable windows.
• For web browsing I also like the variants of Links. It is also described in a nice comparison of text mode GNU/Linux browsers.
• I wish that I could replace BASH with Zsh as I think the latter is written rather better (I don't care much about clever autocompletion, and there is a very powerful autocompletion scheme for recent versions of BASH). Unfortunately this is impratical as there are several BASH specific scripts in the average GNU/Linux distribution.
• I like wget too, but also pavuk and cURL.
• Among editors I use Emacs/XEmacs too, but I also like Vim as it starts quicker than Emacs/XEmacs, and it is more convenient in some cases (where its line orientation is of advantage, mainly), and it has many more colorization schemes, which double as minimal syntax checking.
• As a command line interactive FTP client I particularly like lftp.
• I don't normally use a file manager/explorer, but sometimes the GNU Midnight Commander is quite useful, in particular because it can access remote directories, and can open most archive files.
The cultural hegemony (1, 2) of the Microsoft way of doing things is ever expanding: the Elektra project is about switching Linux to a clone of the Microsoft Registry for configuration:
Elektra provides a universal and secure framework to store configuration parameters in a hierarchical key-value pair mechanism, instead of each program using its own text configuration files. This allows any program to read and save its configuration with a consistent API, and allows them to be aware of other applications' configurations, permitting easy application integration. While architecturally similar to other OS registries, Elektra does not have most of the problems found in those implementations.
A great feature of elektra is that you can implement your own Backend with a set of functions. So it is possible to have the database in the way you want. Filesys is ready for use, Ini-Style and Berkleydb are nearly finished and some other are planned.
Never mind ditching several decades of proven, consistent UNIX practice that configuration files should be text files and organized as tables, for example like /etc/passwd, so that they can be easily edited and processed by command pipelines.
After all many configuration files are still text but in Microsoft .ini format, which is hard to process in the conventional UNIX way, and thus switching to something like the Microsoft registry is bound to be an improvement.
But then cluelessness is rampant, and one needs only to look at the several status files under /proc, or the output of several popular programs, to see that many Linux kernel developers just don't get the pretty good UNIX way of doing things.
Looking at hard drive specifications for checking things like number of platters, maximum seek time or peak spin-up current drawn, and it is not that easy to find them. My impression is that sooner or later these specifications will stop being published, as the overwhelming majority of people whose purchase hard drives does not even know that they exist, never mind that they matter; and this will mean that such specifications will get worse.
A similar phenomenon has happened for another feature that I care about, the availability of ECC for RAM on motherboards.
It is difficult to find information as to whether or not a particular desktop motherboard supports ECC for RAM, never mind to find one that does support it. It is indeed safe to assume that if there is no mention of ECC, the motherboard does not support it.
What is particularly annoying is that ECC for RAM is not just a very important feature, but that also it is damn easy to add to a cheapset's memory controller for almost free. Indeed many past chipsets have had ECC for RAM supported, and then motherboards using them did not.
The reason why ECC for RAM is not supported is that most buyers don't understand how important it is, and that desktops without ECC for RAM appear to work; indeed they appear to work better than those without, as the latter never stop working because a memory check has failed, as memory errors usually just corrupt data, or can be easily confused with software issues, and those are hard to noticed without ECC (which is precisely the reason why ECC is so important!).
It should be perhaps the task of reviewers to point out the important of ECC for RAM, especially given large RAM sizes prevalent nowadays, but they don't do that, and they concentrate on superficial features like layout. But then they do the same for GNU/Linux distributions, which are mainly rated as to ease of installation and graphic glitziness, rather than long term maintainability and robustness.
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p. 179
On the dark shores of the Melas, at Tamassos in Pamphylia, I, Bilitis, daughter of Damophylos, first saw the light. I rest far away from my birth-place, you see.
As a child I was taught the loves of Adon and Astarte, the mysteries of holy Syria, and death and the return to She-of-the-full-rounded-eyelids.
If I have been a courtesan, wherein lies the blame? Was this not my work as a woman? Stranger, the Mother-of-Everything guides us. She cannot be wisely ignored.
In gratitude to you who have paused here, I wish you this fate: May you be loved, but not love. Farewell, and in your old age remember that once you gazed on my tomb.
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Women and Power
Prerequisite: Open only to first-year students in the y:1 program. This course will examine women's relationship to political power by seeking to understand various facets of women's involvement in political activity, from voting to activism to candidacy. What explains the rate of female participation in politics in different countries? Are female politicians as effective as men? Do women in office attempt to address "women's issues"? How do women's roles outside of formal politics (for example, in civil society) influence the political process? In trying to answer these and other questions, we will study specific countries from around the world. Countries that will be studied include the United States, Germany, India, Pakistan, Israel, Namibia, Rwanda, and Argentina. III.O, V.4, V.5
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Is my vagina really loose?
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Sarah replies:
You can tell your partner that he's incredibly misinformed.
You might want to check out my answer to another question about vaginal tightness. But the short answer here is that your partner is woefully confused about female sexual anatomy and arousal. The vagina does not permanently change due to penetration or sexual activities. Heck, a baby can come through the vaginal canal and (in most cases) not cause any significant changes to it...why in the world would a penis cause changes if a baby won't? I don't know about you, but I've never seen a penis the size of a full-term baby!
While permanent changes do not occur, temporary changes do happen during arousal. When a woman is relaxed and aroused, the vaginal canal loosens and the cervix pulls up to create more room in there. So things feel loose because you're aroused and because that's the way they're supposed to be when you're participating in penetrative activities that you want and are into. If you're "tight," that's a good sign that you're not aroused or that you're not really wanting or ready for penetration.
If your partner thinks that you should be tight during penetration or that you must be cheating if you're not tight, then he's the one that's wrong here, not you. Your body is just responding the way that it should. Unfortunately, we've developed this cultural obsession with a) tightness being a good thing, and b) the state of a woman's vagina as some indication of fidelity. Both of those are completely wrong.
So let you're partner in on the truth. If he refuses to believe you, you're welcome to send him here and we'll tell him the same thing! And if he still doesn't like it, then your best bet is to find a new partner who understands the way that arousal works and wants you to enjoy sexual activity.
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Men Are From Mars (and So Are Women)
What do women want???
I am a good-looking guy. I'm fit and trim—ski instructor in winter, boater during summer. I'm in my mid-40s and bring home a six-figure income. Believe me, I know how to treat a woman right, both in and out of the bedroom—flowers occasionally, jewelry for birthdays and Christmas. I have a nice home, and all my grown kids are out of the house. I have no financial or chemical-dependency problems.
Now my girlfriend of about two years tells me we should open our relationship to see others. This is the jealous girl who asked me to drop all others for her about five months into our relationship. Now I'm in love with her, and she drops this bomb on me! She asked why we can't do this!
I looked her straight in the eyes and told her, "I can't do this because I love you!"
Wow, my heart has been ripped out and jumped on! What is with you women? Where did I go wrong?
Kicked to the Curb in Seattle
First of all, thank you for sending along the handsome photo. You are indeed a good-looking fella. And while the tux is a nice touch, for future reference, the Girl of Date prefers artful nudes—bearskin rugs, coy smiles, a rose gripped between the teeth . . . that kind of thing.
Now, to get to your problem: This isn't about what women want; this is about what your woman wanted. I'm going to be blunt here, so sit down. It sounds to me like she met someone else. Someone who she wasn't quite sure returned her affections, hence she wanted to keep you around as the safety net. Which is completely shitty behavior, but not gender-specific. I've had men pull the same crap on me, though thankfully not two years into the relationship.
I urge you not to blame all women for one broad's tacky behavior. The longer I write this column, the more I'm convinced that gender disparities—when it comes to cruelty—don't exist. For every wretched ho making some man's life an exercise in misery, there's a sociopathic creep phone-stalking his ex. Too bad they don't just date each other.
I just had coffee with a gentleman, and my agitation has nothing to do with the near-pharmaceutical dose of caffeine I quaffed. This charming man, who recently asked me out during a class we take together, just spent the last half-hour explaining how I can help ease his way through his divorce and adjust his nutrition. Lucky me.
Ambush No. 1: current divorce. But my question really stems from the second point. I'm a personal trainer with a pretty successful client base. Please tell me men aren't stupid enough that he could think he's going to charm me into giving away free services. Because I might consult further on his nutrition/exercise, but I don't date clients.
I'll probably help him professionally and write off the bad manners as post- traumatic relationship funk. But if he is actually interested, thanks to all the startlingly large red flapping flags, I think I'll pass.
The recently divorced or dumped should not be allowed to interact with other human beings until they've been deemed "over it" by a panel of their peers. It would save all of us unsuspecting single folk an assload of aggro. I'm sure in this guy's deranged mind he was just flirting with a pretty girl— finding common ground, talking about his feelings, whatnot. Flattering though his intentions might be, you really don't need some moany, almost-divorced fella bending your ear about all his myriad problems.
Because that's exactly what you'd be getting yourself into, I suggest you keep it professional. Make sure you carry a price list of your services with you at all times. This way, the next time he talks about how much you can do for him, you can show him how much it'll cost him. (And if he eventually quits acting like a heartbroken retard, you can fire him as a client and keep him as a studmonkey.)
For free advice, write Dategirl at or c/o Seattle Weekly, 1008 Western Ave., Ste. 300, Seattle, WA 98104.
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How to Perform a Restriction Enzyme Double Digest Protocol
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In this video, Dave Hough, Production Scientist at New England Biolabs, Inc., explains restriction enzyme double digest protocols can be easily performed using New England Biolabs’ CutSmart buffer or Double Digest Finder application.
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A Hamburger Today
We Try the Caramel Apple and Mac 'N Cheese Crunch Bites at Del Taco
[Photographs: Erin Jackson]
Del Taco has two new deep-fried snack items on the menu: caramel apple crunch bites and mac 'n cheese crunch bites, a returning champ that's back "by popular demand" if the in-store signage can be trusted. After tasting several items on the summer menu back in July, I wasn't too optimistic that the crunch bites would be anything more than passably edible, so I ordered the smaller size of each (5 pieces of the caramel apple for $1.59, and 4 pieces of the mac for $1.79).
Two minutes after the photos were taken, all of the food was gone, but in this case, it wasn't because I walked down the hall and unceremoniously dumped it down the garbage chute. It's because both of the crunch bites were inhaled in seconds. Yep, that actually happened.
The caramel apple crunch bites are stuffed with warm apple pie filling. I was expecting molten goo on the inside but instead, there were chunks of apple both soft and still firm enough to have a pleasant crunch.
The batter was crisp and a bit flaky, and the caramel sauce was glossy, with a balanced sweetness. It had a tinge of butter flavor, like breakfast syrup, and wasn't so sweet that you couldn't double (or triple) dip each crunchy stick. I'd take an order of these over a McDonald's apple pie any day.
The mac 'n cheese version was even tastier. The triangle-shaped bites are covered with a flaky batter that tastes like crisp, griddled cheese. Inside, al dente noodles are coated in a thick, gooey sauce that's creamy, with sharp cheesy notes. There's no doubt that it was frozen at some point, and it's no substitute for homemade mac, but it's actually quite tasty as a quick, cheap snack.
The bites don't come with a dipping sauce, and they're just fine plain, but you could definitely dunk them in some nacho cheese sauce or salsa, or slip a few of them into a taco or under a burger bun.
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A Sandwich a Day
A different sandwich profiled every single day.
A Sandwich a Day: Breakfast Torta from Taqueria El Jarocho in Seattle
In the landscape of Seattle taco trucks, Taqueria el Jarocho is a relative newcomer, but it sets itself apart from the crowd with two words: breakfast torta. Sure, there are excellent tortas elsewhere in the city (including the nearby Barriga Llena), and you can put an egg on them and maybe call them breakfast, too. But el Jarocho, this is no "put an egg on it" type of situation.
El Jarocho marries eggs and chorizo, scrambling the two together until the broken-up spicy sausage hugs every last bit of egg. Any tasty juices from the mixture run into the beans and mayonnaise that provide a thin layer of protection for the crispy-edged griddled bun. Invoking the grand obligation of any sandwich, this is a torta that is far greater than the sum of its rather mundane ingredients.
Perhaps, though, it is the everyday ingredients that keep this sandwich so simple, and even, dare I say it, somewhat light (for a torta). There was less of the grease-mop, gut-bomb feeling that so many meat-heavy tortas offer. The simple egg and meat combo and the thin layer of grilled bread meant this torta lived up to the promise of a breakfast torta: you could go on with your day, sans food coma nap, quite happily afterwards.
Taqueria el Jarocho
10200 Greenwood Ave. N, Seattle WA 98133(map)
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French in a Flash
French in a Flash (Classic): Wild Mushroom Vol-au-Vent
[Photographs: Kerry Saretsky]
Whenever I think of puff pastry, I wonder how anything that should be so heavy could ever be so light. It is that lightness that gives meaning to vol-au-vent, literally "flying in the wind." But in my family, we always translated them as "gone with the wind" because they fly off into people's stomachs so quickly.
There are a million and one ways to make vol-au-vent, and even though the classic lidded nest in this recipe is the classic shape, I often just make little triangles or squares and call them by the same name, stuffed with anything from goat cheese and jam to brie and brown sugar. They really are blank canvases. This vol-au-vent is well grounded in tradition: a bite-size canapé made from bought puff pastry and stuffed with a creamy mushroom duxelles. The puff pastry is flaky and crispy, ready to crumble and collapse layer by layer at the very hint of a bite. And the mushroom filling is earthy and woodsy from mushrooms and thyme, and smooth from the crème fraîche.
I've always promised to show how to make classic French dishes easy with a little help from the store. This is how you do it.
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Yield:9 canapés
• 1 sheet of frozen puff pastry, thawed but very cold
• 1 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 8 ounces wild mixed mushrooms, chopped to a rubble
• 1 whole, smashed garlic clove
• 2 stems fresh thyme
• 1 tablespoon dry white wine
• 2 tablespoons crème fraîche
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Use a paring knife to gently remove the center disc from each puff pastry shell. Reserve. Fill the cavity with the mushroom mixture, and replace the pastry disc.
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Ward Polk mounted his wife, stuck his pecker into her steaming pussy, and began thrusting in and out until he shot his load and rolled off of her. "Jeez, Lou, you're the best," he told her while still panting, "was it good for you too?!?" Louanne reached over and patted her husband on the arm and replied, "Sure, honey, it was really nice for me too!" In a matter of minutes, Ward slipped off into a deep sleep, leaving his young wife frustrated and hurt! Ward Polk was a professor of philosophy at the university, and that is where he had met Lou. At that time she was a sophomore in his class, and immediately she was mesmerized by the older sophisticated man, and even though he had hundreds of students in his classes, Professor Polk was instantly smitten by the long legged brunette, and going against one of his long time decrees, he asked Louanne out on a date! The following summer they were married in the university chapel, and her life as the wife of a tenured professor began. At first thing were great, well, good any way! Ward was attentive to all of her needs, and even though she missed the fun of being with people her own age, life with her new husband was better than okay. Their age difference of thirty years didn't bother either of them in the least, but after five years of marriage things had changed for the worse! It wasn't as if her husband wasn't trying, but their wa?s no passion in their relationship! Try as he might, Ward just wasn't up to the task of keeping his young bride sexually satisfied, and the sad part about it, was that he didn't even know it, and Lou was too afraid to tell him! Like tonight for instance, a little cuddling and tit sucking for foreplay, and then he would mount her and thrust for a minute or so, and that would be it!!! If he were hung it might have been better, but her husband was on the small side in the cock department, so his thrusts did little more than whet her appetite! As she lay there next to him, tears welled up in her eyes and she tried to go to sleep. She felt as if nothing would ever change, but fate was about to intervene
"Good evening Professor, and you too Mrs. Polk, the other guests are having drinks in the drawing room," greeted Norman, the Waite's butler. "Thank you, Norman," replied Ward Polk, "I can see Professor Davis and his wife out of the terrace, we can find our own way, thanks again!" Ward took Louanne by the arm and led her through the crowd, stopping by the bar to pick up a couple of drinks. Louanne was already bored by the whole affair, and turned to see if there was anyone her age in attendance, and as her eyes moved around the room, they stopped dead in their tracks when she spied a tall handsome black man standing in the corner talking very seriously to several faculty members. He looked to be about six feet six inches, and dwarfed everyone else in the room, in not only physical size, but also charisma, he seemed to have a magnetism about his that was palpable! Lou continued staring at the magnificent figure, and when he glanced her way, their eyes locked for a few brief moments and she felt her cheeks redden and her heart beat faster! A small smile crept over his face, bemused really, and then he returned back to his conversation. Lou took her drink and followed Ward over to where the Davis's were standing, but Lou's thoughts were still on the black stranger? that had given her that smile!
After listening to Meg Davis drone on for what seemed like an eternity on her new living room drapes, Lou excused herself and headed off to the bathroom to freshen up. The door was closed an locked, so Lou waited patiently for the occupant to finish, and as the door swung open, she was startled to see her large black friend standing before her! Again she felt her tummy tie up in knots and her cheeks get warm, and she stammered, "I saw you earlier from across the room, you must be new here 'cuz I've never seen you around before!" He smiled a dazzling radiant smile and offered in a thick Jamaican accent, "I'm just here for a conference this weekend and will be returning to home to Jamaica on Tuesday, by the way my name is Philip, Philip Acera!" Lou extended her hand and said, "I'm Louanne Ward, my husband is a professor here at the university, let's go out on the terrace and where we can talk!" Lou led the way and soon they were alone and out of sight from the rest of the crowd. "There, that's better," said Lou, "it was so stuffy in there!" For the next few minutes they made small talk, until out of the blue Philip looked her in the eye and said, "Upstairs, there is a bedroom at the end of the hall, be there in five minutes, I'll be waiting," and then he was gone, leaving her standing alone and stunned!!! "My god," she thought, "what makes him think I'll take a chance like that with my husband here!!!" She stood there for a few minutes, trying to collect her thoughts, but all the while the feeling that had started in her stomach had moved about ten inches lower and was throbbing with need! Almost in a daze she made her way through the maze of mingling guests and found the stairway to the second floor. She looked around casually to see if anyone was watching, and then turned and climbed the steps. A moment later she was standing in front of the bedroom door at the end of the hall.
He was standing in front of the windo?w with his back to her when she entered the room. He turned to face her and said quietly but firmly, "Close the door Mrs. Polk, and come over to me!" With a shaky hand Lou shut the door and stood before the towering black man while thinking, "What on earth was she doing here!?!" His gentle face had become more stern, and he reached out and touched her breast and caressed her through her dress. A shiver ran through her body, and when he ordered her to lift dress and expose herself to him, she unhesitatingly obeyed him! She was nude under her outer clothing, and her pouty vaginal lips glistened with moisture through her thin blonde patch of pubic hair, and automatically his hand moved from her breast to her pussy, where an index finger slipped easily into her sopping wet cunt. "Mmmmmm," he hummed, "madame's pussy is in need of some special attention!" Holding her dress in the air with her legs spread and getting her pussy fingered by this strange black man was the most erotic thing that had ever happened to her, and almost involuntarily Lou had a hard climax right then and there! Philip merely smiled at the shaking woman as he slowly began unbuckling his belt. Her arms were getting tired holding up the dress, but he admonished her to keep them up so that he could see her naked pussy. She quickly forgot about her tired arms when Philip Arcera's cock popped out of his pants, it was at least nine inches long and thick as her wrist, inducing Louanne to let out a long low moan at the sight of the huge pecker now just inches from her dripping vagina! Philip took his member into his hand and fisted a few strokes and asked, "Much like your husband's!?! Lou, now in a complete state of sexual heat stammmered, "Oh god, no, nothing like that, you're magnificent!!!" "Hold your dress up, Lou," Philip ordered again, while in one motion picked her up like a rag doll and placed her cunt directly over his fully erect organ! Slowly but surely he lowered her onto his blac?k pecker, feeding it into her inch by inch until she was totally impaled by the black dominator! Lou wrapped her legs around his waist and let her weight rest on his massive erection, while her cunt muscles gripped and ungripped the thick cudgel that sprang from Philip's groin. With out so much as a thrust or movement on his part, Lou felt the orgasms cascading through her as her pussy was being stretched to the max! Ten minutes later, her cunt feeling like a shredded piece of old cloth, she slipped off of his pecker and onto the floor in a heap, her clothing and hair a disheveled mess, but she didn't care a whit, because for the first time in her life her pussy was totally content!
"Now my turn," Philip intoned, and Lou for the first time in her life tasted a black pecker! She had of course sucked her husband, but his small little cock did little to satisfy her hunger, while she would have done anything to please this ebony satisfier! The contrast in skin color turned Lou on more than she could imagine, and as she slurped on the giant pecker, her cunt began to pulsate with anticipation, it needed to be fed again, and what it needed was another course of black dick!!! Philip could sense that Lou needed another injection, so he pushed her back and had her spread her legs wide so he could mount her. Her already well fucked cunt bulged obscenely with the head of her erect clit clearly visible to the naked eye, and with one massive plunge he buried his meat deep into the pretty white woman's pussy, causing her to cry out in a mixture of pain and ecstasy! Now feeling like a complete slut, Lou begged Philip to ram her harder, begged him to fuck her with his black pecker for all her was worth!!! Both of them now were way past the point of no return, and as each of his thrusts were met her own, she knew at that very moment that she would be on the plane back to Jamaica on Tuesday! Their crotches now were moving in perfect harmony, driving each other to the orga?sm each so desperately needed, and all the years of frustration that were pent up in Lou's tight cunt were released as she crashed on the rocks of complete sexual satisfaction!!! Unfortunately neither she nor Philip noticed when the door to the bedroom quietly swung open and Ward Polk stepped into the room just in time to see his wife being fucked like a bitch in heat by the monster black erection!!!
As the plane left the ground Lou looked out the window to the life she was leaving behind. She had few regrets, however, and she was going to make up for lost time! She leaned over and kissed Philip on the cheek and settled in against him and thought, "Now it's my turn!!!"
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• Dysentery is highly infectious. It is commonly caused by ingesting the bacteria Shigella through unclean food or water. You can also catch dysentery from swimming or bathing in water that carries the bacteria.
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Minimally Invasive Surgery - Less is More
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Bernie Gburek MD- Urologist and his OR team did the first robotic prostatectomy in October 2002
FDA-approved for use in general, thoracic, gynecological, urological and certain heart-related procedures, the daVinci robot has arms with surgical instruments which are placed through small incisions. It is operated by a trained physician using a 3-D magnification viewfinder and special computerized controls at a nearby console.
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Initially performed in areas such as orthopedics and gynecology, minimally invasive procedures are now increasingly available across a broad spectrum of medical specialties.
Scottsdale Healthcare’s experienced physicians, for example, are using minimally invasive techniques to perform hysterectomies and other gynecological surgeries, as well as urological, spinal, weight loss and certain joint replacement surgeries.
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Party People Lyrics - Timbaland
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(feat. Jay-Z, Twista)
Guess who? Uh, uh-uh uh-uh
Jigga, ya heard?
Uh-uh, a-Timbaland, ya heard?
Uh, Twista, ya heard? C'mon, c'mon
Uh-uh, uh-uh, g-ge, ge-geah
Yo.. yo.. ye-yea, ye-yea
Turn this up.. yo, yo, yeah
When the war's on, the pores are drawn like pictures
The niggaz is all gone when these triggers get witcha
Nigga before long you need stitches in your longjohns
A.K., t-t-t-t, heartbeat, t-t-t-t
Eight figures you fake twitchy niggaz can't stop (that)
Jigga, Twista my nigga Timb on the hot track
How you gon' stop that? We can't be slowed
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Niggaz (?), look at your clothes
When I'm in crazy mode, three-eighty blows like
Maceo, leave acey holes
That's just Jay-Z doe, crazy flow
Rhyme great, dominate your radio
C'mon, get your gun, your mask and gloves
I don't ask for love, I blast 'em up
Respect my gangsta dude, or your life's in danger dude
Doctors pushin on your chest tryin to bring you through
[Chorus: Timbaland + (Twista)]
All my party people gon' do what? (Gonna get buck)
Get some liquor in the gut (So whassup?)
(Get them lighters lit up, make them get up
with somethin the East and West gon' bump)
All my party people gon' do what? (Get crunk)
Get some liquor in the gut (So whassup?)
(Get them lighters lit up, T got some gangsta shit
that's beatin in yo' trunk)
Fuckin with Mag, nigga end up in a hospital
Sittin on the corner of the bed, sick cause of what I said to him
On a track star beef take it in the kitchen
Cookin MC's all niggaz taste like chicken
Hittin 'em high, right in the ear
Slicin on 'em muh'fucker vampire style, I'm a bloodsucker
You turnin into a mad ducker, tellin ya dog
I'm at the Rucker with a bad Puerto Rican chick
Fat as my cash and she a dick sucker, get up outcha car
You ain't goin real far, see the chainsaw?
Breakin the law, like turnin a dyke
when it come to that man that just like Mike
I don't care what you like, I'll make you run in outer space
If you go to court man, only wish you got a case
For real, I'm fuckin faced on a hill of ice
Mag hot now nigga 50 G's the price
Timbaland good for that - [beat plays, he scats]
[scatting] - I invented that
Hear the hi-hat, hear the bassline on the track
Remember "One in a Million" when I left ya back
Producers sayin, "How you get your sound like that?"
I don't know playa, I'm a creative cat
Got party people dancin to dis and dat
Got party people sayin, "This a dope-ass track!"
Timbaland hit 'em with the um, ah-um, ah-um-ahh, you gon' do what?
Stop frontin you bumpin the new cut
like a shoe ah, um ah-um ah, hit 'em in the gut
Twitchin and itchin to get up, I hit 'em up
With some skanless to vibe to and ride to
with the stanky inside you - listen to while a freak lickin you
Go on a bogus mission to, somethin you crip-walk in the kitchen to
Somethin you bump on the porch or the park
Or pump it while you displayin yo' heart when you flex on a mark
You can play it to clear your head from drama with the feds
and all the homies like down for when they in the dark
Used to rock up at the block club, players wasn't ridin slick
You can let your mind cruise for miles
They can't tell no sucker who's allowed, with a strap on the mic
I'm thinkin how can I move the crowd, move the crowd
[Chorus - repeat 2X]
.. bounce wit me, bounce wit me, bounce, ow ow ow
Ow ow ow-ow ah, shake wit me, shake wit me, shake wit me, shake..
.. bounce wit me, bounce wit me..
Shake wit me, shake wit me
Ow, one time, bounce wit me, bounce wit me
Yo, ahh
Remember when you first found me?
I was workin at Burger King
Now take a good look around me
Look at all these cars, look at all these girls
Why you always tryin to put down me?
Why you always tryin to put down me?
You get 'round your friends and try to clown me
Why you always tryin to pull that boo-boo?
I'm gettin tired of all that bullshit
Always talkin dis and dat
Your girls screamin, "We looove him!"
See girls, they LOVE me
Girl that's just, only Tim
Yes, it's only Tim
Whatchu talkin 'bout that's only Tim?
Yeah whatchu talkin 'bout that's only Tim?
[Timbaland: repeat 2X]
I made it this far (this far)
Made it without yo' money (yo' money)
Made it without yo' car (yo' car)
Made it without yo' naggin (what?)
Now look who's the star (whoo!)
Why it gotta happen to people like me, I don't get it
I don't understand it
That's why people like myself, only hang with self
Hahaha, and nobody else
Easy now
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It’s certain now you’ve gone too far
You’re finding out the worst about you
The wrong inside runs so thick
How did you let it go on?
Try breathing in, try breathing out
Release the source of all the doubt
How could I choose not to forgive?
With everything you choose to forget
And still we will be loved
It’s making sense, the telltale signs
The root of it, the taste so bitter
The source of pain, the jealous grudge
That you allowed in anger
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Welcome to K C Yan's Singapore Math blog!
Singapore Math
Friday, August 9, 2013
A Singapore Math Age Problem
On this Singapore's 48th National Day (or Independence Day), let's look at another question from Lorraine Walker's Model Drawing for Challenging Word Problems: Finding Solutions the Singapore Way. The author solved the following grade 4 or 5 age problem, using the bar method.
Rolff is now 4 years older than Erik.
Five years ago Rolff was twice as old as Erik.
How old was Rolff 5 years ago?
Her model-drawing solution is as follows:
Method 1
No doubt, the second color makes it easier to visualize what's happening, but what if students aren't given the choice to draw their model in more than one color? In fact, it wouldn't be surprising for critics of the model method to argue that there's no need to "complexify" the solution with all these bars and arrows, when the question could easily be solved without a model drawing.
Are there other valid models?
In this before-and-after word problem, is there an alternative or better model that may depict the relationship between the ages of the two persons? Let's look at two quick-and-dirty methods of solution, which a number of local students would have used in solving this question.
Method 2
In this method, we assume that we're not aware that the age difference between Rolff and Erik is a constant.
Here, we make use of the fact that the distance of "1 unit + 5" is equal to the distance of "5 + 4."
From the model drawing,
1 unit = 4
2 units = 2 × 4 = 8
Five years ago Rolff was 8 years old.
Method 3
Since the difference between their ages at any point of time is a constant, in the "before" diagram, the difference is 1 unit (2 units – 1 unit), and in the "after" diagram, the difference is 4. So, 1 unit must be equal to 4.
The choice of the smaller age numbers and the relatively small number of times one person is older than the other, makes it difficult for one to appreciate the power of the model method in this before-and-after age problem.
A slightly modified question
A modified version of the original question could probably help convince one why the bar method might serve as a useful strategy in revealing the relationship between the ages of the two persons.
Rolff is now 12 years older than Erik.
Five years ago Rolff was three times as old as Erik.
How old was Rolff 5 years ago?
From the model drawing,
2 units = 12
1 unit = 12 ÷ 2 = 6
3 units = 3 × 6 = 18
Five years ago Rolff was 18 years old.
This age problem shows that in posing word problems that lend themselves to the bar method, we'd attempt as far as possible to constructing them in such a way that the model method is seen to offer a better problem-solving strategy than other traditional (or formal) methods in solving the questions. Otherwise, there's no incentive for one to wanting to draw a model drawing than use other strategies, which might even be shorter or easier.
Walker, L. (2010). Model drawing for challenging word problems: Finding solutions the Singapore way. Peterborough, NH: Crystal Springs Books.
© Yan Kow Cheong, August 9, 2013.
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New Device in Development That Detects Skin Cancers
Posted: December 4, 2009
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel are developing a new device that detects cancerous skin tumors, including melanomas that aren't visible to the naked eye.
During initial testing, the OSPI instrument (Optical Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging) revealed new textures of lesions that have never been seen before, including melanoma in patients who were diagnosed with various skin lesions and were awaiting surgery for their removal. The instrument diagnosed 73 types of lesions, some of them cancerous.
Dermatologists and plastic surgeons typically diagnose skin tumors by their appearance with the naked eye and only rarely using a dermatoscope, a magnifying tool that allows tumors to be examined in detail. The OSPI biosensor uses safe, infrared wavelengths and LC devices to measure tumor characteristics, including contours and spread.
"This is an exciting preliminary development since the initial testing shows that we can now identify microscopic tumors in the biological layers of the skin," explains Professor Ibrahim Abdulahim, who is head of the BGU Electro-Optical Unit in the faculty of engineering sciences and is leading the research group. "As we continue to develop the OSPI, we also see an opportunity to use this technology for detecting other types of cancerous growths."
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• Entropy
When a system has more degrees of freedom and more constituents, there are more possible states for it to occupy.
Lets have a look on micro & macro states before proceeding further
• A microstateis a particular configuration of the individual constituents of the system
A macrostate is a description of the conditions from a macroscopic point of view
It makes use of macroscopic variables such as pressure, density, and temperature for gases
For a given macrostate, a number of microstates are possible
It is assumed that all microstates are equally probable
When all possible macrostates are examined, it is found that macrostates associated with disorder have far more microstates than those associated with order.
• A connection between entropy and the number of microstates (W) for a given macrostate is entropy, S = kBlnW
For all macroscates the entropy will be the submission of all.
More information is hence required to exactly specify the system.
Entropy is defined as the amount of information needed to exactly specify the state of the system. More the information required more is the entropy
Example, shuffling a deck of cards rarely separates them into their original "orderly" state (by suit, ordering each suit Ace through King) because there are only 4 factorial (4! = 24) such states out of 52! possible states.
• Every system wants to achieve equilibrium which in turn is at least energy.
In other words the system proceeds towards the direction of least energy. So the system moves from orderly state to disordered state.
The probability of a system moving in time from an ordered macrostate to a disordered macrostate is far greater and more information is required specify disordered state, implies the entropy is more.
Entropy is a measure of disorder or randomness
• Q. From where this energy comes, which needed to be dissipated to attain stability?
Answer is, that it is internal energy.
Q. And from where the internal energy comes in?
So this gives the another view angle to entropy.
“a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work”
• Entropy is a unidirectional like spontaneous process, and can proceed in one direction only, the direction of dis-orderness or low energy
• Some features
It was stated earlier that exothermic processes are spontaneous..
• Consider the following reaction:
H2O(s) H2O(l) DH°rxn = +6.02 kJ
• Endothermic…..yet spontaneous!
• Consider the following problem: Mixing of a gas inside a bulb adiabatically (q = 0).
• q = 0, w = 0, DE = 0, and DH = 0
….but it still happens
• Entropy, S
One property common to spontaneous processes is that the final state is more DISORDERED or RANDOM than the original.
Spontaneity is related to an increase in randomness.
The thermodynamic property related to randomness is ENTROPY, S.
Reaction of K with water
• The entropy of liquid water is greater than the entropy of solid water (ice) at 0˚ C.
Because Liquid state is more disordered then solid state
• Entropy, S
So (J/K•mol)
H2O(liq) 69.95
H2O(gas) 188.8
S (gases) > S (liquids) > S (solids)
• Entropy and States of Matter
S˚(Br2 liq) < S˚(Br2 gas)
S˚(H2O sol) < S˚(H2O liq)
• Entropy does not violate the second law
800 K
Q=2000 kJ
500 K
Show that heat can not be transferred from the low-temperature sink to the high-temperature source based on the increase of entropy principle.
DS(source) = 2000/800 = 2.5 (kJ/K)
DS(sink) = -2000/500 = -4 (kJ/K)
Sgen= DS(source)+ DS(sink) = -1.5(kJ/K) < 0
It is impossible based on the entropy increase principle
Sgen0, therefore, the heat can not transfer from low-temp. to high-temp. without external work input
• If the process is reversed, 2000 kJ of heat is transferred from the source to the sink, Sgen=1.5 (kJ/K) > 0, and the process can occur according to the second law
• If the sink temperature is increased to 700 K, how about the entropy generation? DS(source) = -2000/800 = -2.5(kJ/K)
DS(sink) = 2000/700 = 2.86 (kJ/K)
Sgen= DS(source)+ DS(sink) = 0.36 (kJ/K) < 1.5 (kJ/K)
Entropy generation is less than when the sink temperature is 500 K, less irreversibility. Heat transfer between objects having large temperature difference generates higher degree of irreversibilities
• Why ordered state is having more energy then unordered state?
• Entropy, S
Entropy of a substance increases with temperature.
Molecular motions of heptane at different temps.
Molecular motions of heptane, C7H16
• Entropy, S
Increase in molecular complexity generally leads to increase in S.
• Entropy, S
Entropies of ionic solids depend on coulombic attractions.
So (J/K•mol)
MgO 26.9
NaF 51.5
Mg2+ & O2-
Na+ & F-
• Entropy, S
Entropy usually increases when a pure liquid or solid dissolves in a solvent.
• Standard Molar Entropies
• Origin of entropy
Carnot’s Principle:
Sadi CARNOT
A steam machine needs 2
sources of heat:
• a hot one: temperatureTh
• a cold one: temperatureTc
Th > Tc
Stated that “no change occurs in the condition of the working body”
• Rudolf CLAUSIUS
Gives a mathematical interpretation by questioning the nature of the inherent loss of usable heat when work is done, e.g. heat produced by friction.[10]Clausius described entropy as the transformation-content, i.e. dissipative energy use, of a thermodynamic system or working body of chemical species during a change of state.[
Definition of entropy:
• d S = d Q/T
Entropy: definition
• Ice melting example
S= δQ/T,
For system dS= δQ/273 K.
But dSsystem > dSsurrounding
Hence entropy is positive
• 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
A reaction is spontaneous if ∆S for the universe is positive.
∆Suniverse = ∆Ssystem + ∆Ssurroundings
∆Suniverse > 0 for spontaneous process
First calc. entropy created by matter dispersal (∆Ssystem)
Next, calc. entropy created by energy dispersal (∆Ssurround)
• 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
2 H2(g) + O2(g) ---> 2 H2O(liq)
∆Sosystem = -326.9 J/K
Can calc. that ∆Horxn = ∆Hosystem = -571.7 kJ
∆Sosurroundings = +1917 J/K
• 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
∆Sosystem = -326.9 J/K
∆Sosurroundings = +1917 J/K
∆Souniverse = +1590. J/K
• Spontaneous or Not?
Remember that –∆H˚sys is proportional to ∆S˚surr
An exothermic process has ∆S˚surr > 0.
• Conclusion form the statements of entropy
This mathematical statement of the second law affirms that every process proceeds in such a direction that the total entropy change associated with it is positive, the limiting value of zero being attained only by a reversible process. No process is possible foe which the total entropy decreases.
• Some facts about entropy
• Heat Death of the Universe
Ultimately, the entropy of the Universe should reach a maximum value
At this value, the Universe will be in a state of uniform temperature and density
All physical, chemical, and biological processes will cease
The state of perfect disorder implies that no energy is available for doing work
This state is called the heat death of the Universe and the universe will….
• Entropy and life
I’d look for an entropy reduction, since this must be a general characteristic of life
• 2 Information and computer science
3 Mathematics
4 Other sciences and social sciences
5 Music
6 Modern culture
Spirituality and low entropy culture
• Entropy is a vast topic and still to define entropy is very complex
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9 reasons the Northwest pilots missed their destination
Oct 23rd, 2009 | By | Category: snewz
airplaneIn the evening of Wednesday October 21, 2009, Northwest Airlines flight 188, which was supposed to land in Minneanapolis, missed its destination, traveling an extra 144 miles before realizing where they were and where they were going.
The NTSB plans to review the flight recorder information, but the latest news is that the flight recorder on the plane only stores 30 minutes of audio. With this limited amount of audio, the true reason for why these airline pilots missed their destination might never be known.
The pilots had explained that the reason they had missed their destination was that they were “distracted during a heated discussion over airline policy.” This explanation is the employment equivalent of telling your wife that you cheated on her because you love her soooo much.
Though we’ll never know for certain why the pilots missed their destination, through the power of conjection, we can come up with some real, scientifically sound theories as to why Northwest Flight 188 passed Minneapolis and kept going for 150 miles.
Why they missed Minneapolis
Passed out after attempting erotic asphyxia
Months after hearing about the death of David Carradine, these pilots found themselves in a heated debate, but it wasn’t about airline policy. Knowing that the cockpit is locked away from the rest of the cabin, they decided to take a moment for a little experimentation.
The earliest recorded death by erotic asphyxia was a classical double bassist. Not this one, though.
Too drunk to care
Although this is a little stereotypical of airline pilots, it is still a more reasonable explanation for missing a destination by 150 miles than talking about airline policy. Heck, if this were the 1970′s, everybody would be having a good laugh about it and the story would be over. Stupid progress.
Alcoholism is not a joke... except here.
Alcoholism is not a joke... except here.
Trying to avoid their next assigned flight to Delaware
Be honest. Would you rather be in a heap of trouble with your job and the government in Minneapolis, or be stuck in Delaware? I’d say that if the pilots come clean and give this as their reason for missing the landing, there’s no court in the country that would convict them.
Alcoholism is not a joke... except here.
Fun things to do in Delaware
Abducted by aliens
Although alien abductions generally tend to be limited to attention-seekers in the middle of nowhere, aliens have been bolder in recent months. They demonstrated in this video that they have the technology to abduct an entire plane, so it’s not unreasonable to think that they may also be able to abduct pilots. If the plane was on autopilot, the pilots may have been taken for quite a while and returned long after they were supposed to have landed the plane.
Flash Forward
Sure, the TV show Flash Forward may have effected the entire world for only 2 minutes. Just the same, as a television addict, I can’t imagine that such a phenomenon couldn’t be both real and isolated in a single cockpit.
Missed the exit and the next one wasn’t for another 144 miles
Surely this has happened to anyone who has ever traveled a long distance in the Midwest. One minute you’re in Chicago and the next thing you know, you’re in the middle of Nebraska. The only problem: You were trying to go to Ohio.
Forgot they weren’t playing flight simulator game
They really have become incredibly realistic.
They really have become incredibly realistic.
Attempted to steal the plane so they could sell it to the Ruskies
Perhaps it took them 15 minutes before they remembered that the Soviet Union has been dismantled. Maybe they realized that the plane they were in control of was a commercial airliner and not a secret government prototype. Maybe… just maybe… they were foiled by a group of high school kids who weren’t going to let their country down in its hour of need.
Made a wrong turn at Albuquerque
That's All, Folks!
That's All, Folks!
If you enjoyed this article, you might want to check out Top Ten Creepy Letterman Sex Partners for a look at people you don’t want to see David Letterman having affairs with.
If you’re into classics, Petey the Quaker Parrot: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the Bird is the article for you. It’s one of the earliest known Snewzbutton posts.
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Snow Blowers and Throwers
HOW TO REBUILD Carburetor on 4-5HP Tecumseh Snowblower Engine Part 1/3
Written By: Snow Blowing Man - Feb• 13•13
HOW TO REPAIR Carburetor on 4-5HP Tecumseh Engine on Toro Snowblower. Visit my channel for more repair videos;
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Originally posted 2011-10-14 05:07:14. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
1. shaymaster1 says:
Will do
2. donyboy73 says:
@shaymaster1 tell ur friends about my videos,
3. shaymaster1 says:
Thanks Dony for this series of carb rebuild vids they reallyed helped me i rebuilt my carb today and now my snowblower works. your a great mechanic. Thanks again
4. donyboy73 says:
@seasonedtoker good idea and the pics won’t cause any damage,
5. seasonedtoker says:
don guitar picks are very useful for removing fuel lines, plastic parts, trims etc. it is also highly practical when rebuilding a carb for removing metering membranes when the lower gasket simply sticks and won’t come off. and you can easily shape it to suit your current application
6. dukesroc01 says:
I took the fuel lines off on a really old 5 hp snowblower and got sprayed in the face with gas
7. 1972FordF150 says:
Cool video man !
8. 1972FordF150 says:
@soverato3 Because it is designed to run in the winter with snow. And there is no dirt kicked up in the air when it is snowing;
9. donyboy73 says:
@daand12 yes the old camera uses tapes, i guess i should make a vid of it because many people are asking me about it
10. daand12 says:
so if i understand don. It does have an Tape in your old cam right??
11. donyboy73 says:
@Dicofole yes sometimes replace the spring or adjust the governor
12. Dicofole says:
I was wondering if the spring on the linkage ever needs to be changed? I have the exact same engine on a Ariens and it seems like the governor isn’t doing its job. I guess the spring on it isn’t working fine.
13. soverato3 says:
why does these engines have no airfilter???
14. 383chevystroker says:
great video man, great info! you really know your stuff!
15. 383chevystroker says:
16. moddkilla says:
i have the same motor!
17. donyboy73 says:
@wheely132 tough old camera though, i have dropped it on the floor and it still works, also made about 350 youtube videos with it
18. wheely132 says:
@donyboy73 Oh okay. Yeah I was thinking it would be a VHS camcorder because of the slight sound you can hear in the background and by the resolution.
19. donyboy73 says:
@wheely132 old camera is an old JVC VHS , some videos will still be regular resolution like this vid until everything is transferred over and i upgrade my pc
20. donyboy73 says:
@TheHossHobart part 2 tommorrow mate
21. wheely132 says:
Your old camera worked quite well but now they are gonna be in hd! That is awesome! Oh and what kind of camera is your old one?
22. TheHossHobart says:
@donyboy73…I hope you come out with part 2 soon mate.
23. 30GB says:
had the same blower, the low jet got clogged so i replaced it with a newer one and transferred the linkages over
24. GarrettJDB says:
I like how simple these are to rebuild
25. donyboy73 says:
@ncrdisabled no that is the toro, actually these videos were made before i got my HD camera so some vids are still lower resolution
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Column: My NAMM Guitar Shopping List Is Going To Hurt My Wallet
Richard Beech lists everything from NAMM he now wants to add to his rig 28-Feb-14
Richard BeechAmped columnist Richard Beech has made a list of all the products he would like to add to his rig after attending this year's NAMM show (if he had a never-ending supply of money), and it's a pretty big list...
So NAMM 2014 feels like a distant memory, even though I still have a headache from the cacophony of swirling noise.
After every NAMM show we announce the winners of the Sonic State Best of NAMM Awards for the best synth, tech, studio and guitar products.
But in a way this is my own personal Best of NAMM awards article, it's my shopping list from NAMM. The products I'd like to buy for my guitar rig, and why I'd like to buy them.
It's going to be a long list, because I saw loads of incredible products from the guitar world, particularly when it comes to amplifiers - it very much felt like the year of the valve amp for me.
There a lots of things I saw that I'd love to add to my rig if I won the lottery, and that list is probably going to grow with MusikMesse just around the corner. Sigh.
So without further ado, here I go (again on my own) with my wish list of NAMM gear.
Fender Pawn Shop Vaporizer:
It's a 12-watt amp with three knobs, two inputs, a footswitch and one hell of a cool aesthetic. The amp was inspired by the era of 50s B-Movies and very much has a "surf" feel to it.
I feel like the amp would pair beautifully with my Gretsch G5120, sustained chords with Bigsby tremolo and the Vaporizer's reverb would just be a perfect clean sound.
But it goes dirty too, turn the volume all the way up and you get the pure sound of a power amp working in full overdrive sounding like it's on the edge of a nervous breakdown. I like it.
Plus there's THIS little fact:
Retail - $399.
65Amps Whiskey
This was easily the product I was most excited about ahead of NAMM 2014, Dave Freidman and Dan Boul working together on a high gain amplifier sounded like it would result in something brilliant.
Plus, it's called the Whiskey, you can't go wrong with that.
When I caught up with Dan at the 65Amps booth, I was blown away by the depth to the distortion channel on the Whiskey, it was kicking some serious bottom end out of a 1x12 speaker. It still had the beautiful signature 65Amps clean tone too, with a bell-like EQ curve emanating in sparkling high mid-range.
I was just about to pick up a guitar and test it out for myself when Earl Slick (David Bowie's guitarist) walked in and started playing through the amp. You can watch the video footage of that here if you want to see one of the coolest moments from NAMM 2014.
This one is on my shopping list, but it'll dent my wallet!
Retail - $2,699.
(Click here to see/hear the Whiskey in action).
Vox Night Train G2 NT15C1 (15 watt combo)
This might seem like a weird choice, and it probably is, but in terms of buying a product that would actually add something to my rig, this would be a good choice.
It's a small lightweight combo that's loud enough for pub and small club gigs. The clean channel is beautiful, you wouldn't expect anything else from Vox, and the overdrive channel can kick out an surprisingly high level of gain.
It's a good workhorse to have in your rig, and I think it represents good value for money too.
Retail - $700 (best price I've seen it for online).
(Click here to see/hear the Night Train G2 range in action).
Are there any other amps I'd like to buy? Well yes, but if I'm going to keep this shopping list even remotely close to being realistic, I need to only list things I'm seriously thinking about getting. I might end up with none of the amps listed above, but I'm hoping to add them to my collection.
Other great amps at the show included the Supro Thunderbolt reissue, and the Fender '57 Deluxe Head. I also think the Orange Dual Dark is a great amplifier for somebody who wants a high gain tone with a bit of gritty character.
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Tannoy HTS 200 Home Theater Speaker System
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If size were not a factor and budget were limitless, building truly awesome loudspeakers would be easy. One can imagine (and purchase) close approximations to the perfect speaker. For most of us, however, reality intrudes. Realistically, we need speakers sized to fit into our media rooms (leaving space for a nice bigscreen TV and one, or preferably more, people). And some of us would prefer not to tap into our home equity to meet our entertainment needs. As a result, we need speakers that are comfortably small and reasonably priced. Tannoy, no stranger to the realities of loudspeaker building, honed that equation and brought forth the HTS 200 home theater speaker system.
Priced at $999, the HTS 200 comprises short and slender towers, small but not tiny center and sats, and a comparably abbreviated subwoofer. (Substitute the same sats for the front towers, and you get the company's $699 HTS 100 system.) Frankly, having been traumatized by the George Washington/cherry tree story as a child, I've never been a fan of cherry finishes. But these, I must say, are quite nice, especially considering the relatively few Washingtons they will cost you.
SETUP One good thing about small speakers is the reduced probability that you'll have to log onto WebMD to research "hernia" or "slipped disk." This time it was easy to drop the speakers into my media room. I placed the subwoofer along the front wall midway between the center and the left tower. To help the direct-radiating surrounds conceal their precise locations during listening, I placed them somewhat to the rear of the more side position I typically use for dipole surrounds.
Each tower sports a 0.75-inch titanium-dome tweeter and two 3-inch woofers, though my ruler measured the woofers a bit less than that. Either way, that isn't a lot of transducer acreage, but they are assisted by a cabinet with enough interior volume to support some decent bass. The center speaker uses the same driver complement in a smaller cabinet. The surrounds carry on the two-way theme but downsize to one woofer instead of two. The subwoofer, meanwhile, provides 100 watts of muscle driving a downward-firing paper cone spec'd at 8 inches diameter (though, again, it measured a bit less). The nice folks at Tannoy supply wall-mounting brackets for the center and surrounds and a small pedestal for tilting the center-channel speaker (an increasingly common inclusion, and welcome because correct aiming of the center speaker is often vital for good dialogue quality). Also in the package are coupling spikes and wood floor protectors for the towers, a foam plug for the sub's port tube, and even 65 feet of speaker cable. The towers are shipped with wooden bases detached; some trivial assembly is required.
I powered up and spent a few minutes tweaking the sub. As is typical, it has level and crossover (50 to 200 Hz) controls, as well as a 0/180-degree phase switch. After some preliminary listening, I settled on a crossover frequency of about 110 Hz and no phase shift. I experimented with the foam plug and eventually decided to use it for music but remove it for movies. The plug mainly affected the upper-bass response, with the system delivering tighter bass with the plug in and louder (but boomier) bass with it out. Also, after some listening, I pulled the towers away from the wall a short distance till the front grilles were about 12 inches from the wall behind them. This marginally tightened the upper-bass response in my room. Of course, your room and speaker placement will uniquely dictate your decisions.
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Although ants have brains the size of a pin-head, scientists believe they act similarly to individual neurons which, when combined en masse, have greater levels of thinking known as “collective intelligence,” allowing them to perform feats they could never achieve individually.
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He is a songwriter and pianist who wrote the musical Promises, Promises and the film score for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
He was an English philosopher and statesman who is known as the 'father of the scientific method' and pioneer of the scientific revolution.
He was a Nazi leader who headed the Gestapo in Lyon from 1942 to 1944, and was held responsible for the death and deportation thousands.
He was a Scottish dramatist, best known for writing the play Peter Pan.
She was an educator, nurse, and founder of the American Red Cross.
She is an American opera singer who is widely considered to be among the finest coloratura sopranos of her time and has won five Grammy Awards.
He was an Irish poet and dramatist who contributed greatly to 'Theatre of the Absurd.' His most famous play is Waiting for Godot.
He was prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983 and was the co-recipient of the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.
He choreographed more than 20 Broadway shows, and he also directed and choreographed Hollywood films starting in the 1930s, including 42nd Street.
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She was the Prime Minister of Pakistan and the first female prime minister of a Muslim nation. She was killed by a suicide bomber in 2007.
He was the founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. He died from injuries suffered while in police custody.
He is a French composer who is best known for the realistic opera Carmen, a work that established itself as the model of opéra comique.
He was a voice actor and entertainer who provided voices for Bugs Bunny and over 400 other cartoon characters.
She is best known for severing her husband's penis while he slept, in retaliation for his sexual assaults against her.
He was the military general who became the first Emperor of France. His drive for military expansion changed the history of France and the world.
He was a European painter of the late Middle Ages. His two most famous works are The Garden of Earthly Delights and The Temptation of St. Anthony.
She was mistress and later wife to Adolf Hitler.
He is the British-born producer and director of a number of highly popular shows in the United States, including Survivor and The Apprentice.
He was a naval officer and fearless explorer best known for being the first to reach the South Pole by air.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Coach Tom Coughlin and the New York Giants knew Victor Cruz wouldn't show up for the organized team activity without a contract, so his absence was expected.
Not so with fellow receiver Hakeem Nicks.
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Deploy Changes DataSource Definition
Discussion in 'SQL Server Reporting Services' started by dmatta59, Feb 17, 2004.
1. dmatta59 New Member
Have succeeded in making reports accessible to users with the following options
on the DataSource Definition:
CreditialRetrieval Store
WindowsCredentials True
ImpersonatUser False
UserName DomainLogin
However, the windowsCredentials option changes when the shared data source is re-deployed.
Cannot seem to find how to set this in the shared data source. Can only set the option manually from the Report Server Manager. Is there any other way?
2. dmatta59 New Member
Apparently had changed some of the datasource values of a deployed report using the report manager. So, the values become "out" of sync and the "missing" values are noticed when the report is redeployed.
Fixed the problem by changing the datasource values at the source.
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Brian Knight, a SQL Server MVP, MCITP, MCSE, and MCDBA, is the owner and founder of Pragmatic Works. He is also the co-founder of,, and Brian runs the local SQL Server users group in Jacksonville (JSSUG), is a contributing columnist at several technical magazines, and does regular webcasts at He is the author of a dozen SQL Server books and a frequent speaker at conferences such as PASS Summit, SQL Connections, TechEd, and many Code Camps. You can find his blog at
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Giving up the Ghost
Day 3 of 50 | Published Tuesday, June 11, 2013
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Giving Up the Ghost
Chapter 4
So far: Wendy hesitates to tell even a close friend about the ghost.
I still couldn’t bring myself to sleep in our bed. Too much space. Empty space. Some nights I slept in the guest bedroom with the flannel sheets and old quilts.
Often I ended up sleeping in the living room on the couch. I would read until the dark of night fell on my eyelids. Sleep I worshipped, taking me away and making me forget for a while.
• • •
Last night I woke up and wasn’t sure what had aroused me. Then I heard a horrible noise, a terrible screeching. A bunny getting snatched by an owl, a mother missing her child, a ghost haunting the woods.
I sat up and turned on the light next to the couch. The pool of yellow made the shadows more ominous. I listened for the sound. Nothing. I padded into the kitchen and got a drink of water. As I was standing at the sink, looking into the leafed darkness, the shrieking started again.
I walked to the door and turned on the outside light.
The yowling sounded like it was coming from the end of the driveway. I grabbed a jacket and slipped my feet into boots that stood by the door. Crunching down the gravel, I looked around.
When the howl erupted one more time, I almost ran back to the house. But the sound was quite near. I noticed the garbage can was still out by the mailbox and the lid was on the ground. Cautiously, I peered into the can. At the bottom was a very small ball of mangy fur with big eyes. When the furball saw me it opened its tiny mouth and let out a raspy cry.
I reached down into the garbage can. Before I could grab it, the tiny soft-gray kitten latched onto my jacket, then scooted up my arm and ended up in my hair, shrieking.
• • •
Richard and I never had children. He didn’t really want them, but he could have been persuaded. While I had moments of great longing for them, most often I continued to choose the life we were leading. I would have liked children, but I loved the life we had, the two of us working together.
• • •
The reason we didn’t have animals was much simpler. Richard was allergic. If a cat touched him, he broke out in hives. If a dog licked him, he puffed up. If it was spring, he sneezed. In summer, his eyes watered. Fall brought on coughing and sometimes pneumonia. Winter was his favorite season, although the cold could make his asthma act up. He lived with inhalers and pills.
• • •
I didn’t know what to do with the kitten. I felt paralyzed. If I brought it into the house would the ghost be allergic to it?
• • •
The kitten clung to me. It sat on my shoulder and licked my face. Then I lifted it off and held it out to look at it. The kitten had oily gray fur and crooked ears. Its eyes looked too big for its head. Even its purr was over-sized and sounded like an electric shaver gone bad. I knew I couldn’t leave it outside.
• • •
In the house, I poured some milk into a bowl and mixed in a little bread and a bit of tuna. The kitten ate so fast I feared it would choke. In the middle of eating, it looked up at me and chirped. The happiest sound I had heard in quite a while.
• • •
After giving it a bath, which it hissed and scratched through, I noticed it had a small white patch of fur on its back and so I named the kitten Cloud.
Chapter 5
The thing about a funeral is it ends.
All your friends and family surround you for a few hours with their sorrow and love. Hymns are sung, shoulders hugged, then they leave and you know that they’ve gone back to their regular lives.
You are left with that big ever-expanding empty hole that gobbles up all matter in its growth.
• • •
At Richard’s funeral in Minneapolis, I bubbled tears. They seeped out of me as if I contained a natural spring. Constantly, quietly crying. But at least no hysteria for me.
Richard’s coffin was closed. He had always said he wanted it that way the few times we talked about our funerals. Since he was older, he was sure he would die before me so he gave me some instructions.
He told me, “Let them remember me laughing, not stuffed into some box.”
Everyone said how sorry they were that he had died, what a surprise, he had seemed so alive. I knew I was not alone in missing him.
Richard had been a good friend to many people. Even those who didn’t like him liked him — rival painters, harsh critics. They all loved to have a beer with Richard. That’s the kind of guy he was.
So many people touched me that day, and I felt so alone.
Tomorrow: Chapter 5 continues.
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st: RE: Artificial neural networks
From "Nick Cox" <>
To <>
Subject st: RE: Artificial neural networks
Date Fri, 5 Aug 2005 19:55:03 +0100
My impression is that this has not attracted Stata programmers
to date. Perhaps, like me, they have the prejudice that this
approach has been massively oversold. Be that as it may, and
I haven't checked, I also have the impression
that there is a great deal of code in R, so free alternatives exist.
But as the archaeologists say, absence of evidence is not
evidence of absence.
Yingge Lin
> Has anyone ever used Stata to run Artificial neural networks(ANNs)? I
> wonder whether it is doable in stata. If it is doable, what command
> should I use? Could you kindly help me out and give me some examples?
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st: Alternatives to boxplot+line
From "Allan Reese (Cefas)" <>
Subject st: Alternatives to boxplot+line
Date Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:20:07 +0100
Nick Cox, as ever, provides interesting questions and constructive suggestions.
I'm loath to move to v10 and the graph editor, because that route doesn't provide an audit trail or commands for production use.
The stripplot route would provide the nearest to the request, with a bit more code to plot outliers. Regardless of personal preferences, boxplots have documented conventions (which I personally like) and it doesn't aid communication to arbitrarily ignore them - there are enough badly-drawn graphs in publication without deliberate tinkering. As a comment on the plain stripplot, it's potentially misleading unless points are jittered to show concurrencies.
What I forgot to mention was that my boxplot does have categories as well as a metric. The actual example show the good linear fit over a range of concentrations, each concentration tested in two sets of equipment. I can fudge that by moving each set to the side of the nominal concentration, but I'm now clearly doing a lot of one-off coding to get the raw values, as Nick says, for rbar.
Looking at the jittered stripplot+line, I thought a sunflowerplot might work even better. It gives a nice impression of density of data - note the "missing values" plotted as well, which are the basis of a logistic fit for the probability of getting a reading.
sunflower gi lconc , binwidth(.25) addplot( lfit adjgi lconc if adjgi>25) legend(ring(0) pos(9) col(1) order(4 "Linear" 1 "Single observation" 2 3 )) xlab( 0(1)-7 ) ylab(20 "No reading" 26.2 30(2)42 44.3 ,angle(0)) ti(Alternative presentation of gi values and linear fit)
Final question - how can one provide example graphs on the list if attachments are forbidden? (uuencoded .gph?)
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Subject st: Are the estimation results for -gllamm- documented anywhere?
Date Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:36:50 +0000
I have what I hope is a quick query about -gllamm-. Is there any documentation (preferably available for free) about the estimation results saved by the SSC package -gllamm- in -e()-? I ask because I am working with -gllamm- now, and I have not yet managed to find any documentation of the -e()- results on the website
and my colleagues would like me to get some results soon, amnd I would ideally prefer not to have to rely on guesswork.
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Audio Research M300 monoblock power amplifier Page 3
I won't pretend for a moment that reproducing disc warps is a good thing; it increases LF distortion from the speakers and wastes amplifier power that is better directed toward reproducing program material. But the place to control that garbage is in the cartridge/tonearm, through the choice of a sensible, well-damped LF system resonance, and in the preamp phono stage, by adherence to the IEC/RIAA's standard playback flatten-out below 50Hz. Even the subsonic filters found in some preamps tend to thin out the low end. If the arm/cartridge LF resonance is effectively damped, so the peak is of negligible amplitude (as is the case with the Ortofon/Versa Dynamics combination), subsonic response is of no consequence except with very badly (or abruptly, as with pinch warps) undulating discs.In other areas, the M300 is as close to being absolutely neutral as any amplifier I know of, and perhaps as close as it is possible to get. It is, perhaps, a very tiny bit forward, but I couldn't be sure of that: when you get this close to dead center there is really no way of telling precisely where that center is. But this amplifier is definitely laid-back, crisp, rich, warm, or sweet. It is, in fact, hardly there at all. The sound, from top to bottom, is completely coherent, with no audible changes in texture from the deepest bass to the extreme treble. Highs are completely grainless, with an effortlessness and openness that must be heard to be believed. They are, simply, musically right. Talk about air! These sound as if they just keep going out toward the radio band, even though the amp has, in fact, rather less HF extension than some solid-state units.Soundstage presentation, too, is superb, with the breadth and spaciousness I have come to take for granted from true dual-mono power amps. (Harry Pearson, reviewing the M300 in The Abso!ute Sound, claimed that it compressed stage width. I emphatically disagree.) Its front-to-back depth is not as great as I have heard from some power amps (notably the conrad-johnson Premier One), but is, I believe, as accurate as one can get. I base that last statement on having listened to a number of recordings I made myself, which allow me to compare the depth I hear with the mike/instrument distances that actually existed when the recordings were made. I won't pretend that exaggerated depth doesn't sound nice, but then we're all interested in accuracy, right?
Conclusions: As you may have gathered, I was immensely impressed with this amplifier. After having lived with a pair of them for a week, and sampled countless (well, uncounted anyway) old and new recordings on it, I still cannot find anything to criticize about its sound, although I'm working on it. But then, I came to the M300 with, perhaps, less prejudice than I have approached other power amps with recently, because prior to my first listen I had been away from home for two weeks, and thus did not go straight from listening to my "reference amps," the Threshold SA-1s, to the new ones. Then, after listening to the M300s for about a week, I went back to the Thresholds.
I believe that, after two years with the Thresholds, the time has finally come to switch allegiances, although I will have to make some changes in that part of my monthly budget now assigned to electric bills. Of course, I probably couldn't distinguish between these amps on the basis of blind A/B tests in an unfamiliar system, just as I found it almost impossible to distinguish ARC's SP9 and SP-11 preamps under those conditions. But in this case, I don't think Bill Johnson will insist that I try.Since a pair of M300s costs more than any other stereo amp (or pair) I have ever encountered, I cannot really compare them with "the competition." I can, however, compare them with some other costly units I've heard in recent months. Note, though, that these comparisons pertain to operation with my Sound Lab speakers, which have neither the absurdly high current requirements of some others (notably the big ribbon systems) nor the rounded-off high end of most dynamic systems.Overall neutrality of the M300 is comparable to that of the Threshold SA-1s, although the ARC is a little more forward and "alive" by comparison. The Krell KSA-100 is a trifle warm and rich, while the Mirror Image is somewhat laid-back, and the original Rowland Research Model Seven a bit more so. On bass performance, the M300s are very similar in heft to the Krell and the Threshold, but with a little less impact and tautness. The Mirror Image 1.1S is slightly leaner and tighter than any of these three, the Rowland 7 just a trifle more so. Of the three, the M300 has the least sonic texturing, being about as liquidly transparent as any amp I have heard. It is followed very closely here by the Krell, Mirror Image, and Rowlands, while the Threshold, by comparison, is a bit dry.
At the high end, the M300 just doesn't warrant comment; it is, for all intents and purposes, perfect in that area. Of the others, the Krell, Rowland, and Mirror Image are all gorgeously sweet and open at the top, but by comparison with the M300, they sound more as if they have an extremely fine grain up there than being completely texture-free. (Until now, they had the best top of any amps I had heard.)
Soundstaging: The Krell, Rowland, and M300 are comparable in breadth and spaciousness, but the M300s seem to deliver depth better—not by having more of it, but by making front/back perspectives more readily audible. No other amplifier(s) I have ever auditioned can produce the M300s' holographic imaging of three-dimensional instruments in space. They are, simply, there, right before your very ears! I think it is long past time, though, that we expressed here as a generality something we have all been observing for the past few years: namely, that the widest, most natural soundstaging is only attainable through the use of completely separate power supplies.All of the other amplifiers I mentioned cost substantially less than a pair of M300s. Is it really worth the difference? I would love to be able to say "No way!," but since I can't think of another amplifier that sounds better in so many areas, or even as good, regardless of cost, I can hardly argue with that cost. OK, Bill, now how about a 100Wpc stereo version of the M300 that sounds just as good at lower levels but costs a mere $3000?—J. Gordon Holt
Audio Research
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2002 Records To Die For
It's that time again—time for Stereophile's annual "Records To Die For" extravaganza. This year, when it came time to write my intro for the 12th edition of this ever-popular feature, I found that several books I'd been reading had passages that applied to "R2D4."
First, from Sex for Dummies (1995, Running Press, miniature edition), a slight tome given to me by my co-workers in a sweet gesture the import of which I prefer not to contemplate, this section heading: "The G Spot: Myth or Fact?" For some reason, that started me thinking about music...which is probably why I was given the book in the first place.
What is it that drives audiophiles, record collectors, and tape traders—all those obsessed with possessing and listening to more and more music? For nearly two decades I've hung on the everyday arrival of the mail, anxiously awaiting that next advance, that next record by someone I love or, conversely, someone I don't know but am about to discover. My music G Spot is pure fact. I'm hooked, a condition I know exists in the hearts and minds of the rest of the writers who happily participated in this year's "R2D4." To them, as always, go my thanks for their good energies and ideas. We literally couldn't do it without them.
But why are we hooked? When I go on a trip—even a mere hour's flight over dry land—what compels me to carry 20 or 30 CDs...just in case? Going criminally insane is one thing; this is a progressive illness that, once contracted, is incurable—a spell that allows the victim to live on, passing unnoticed through society, waiting, wondering, stewing over when the next rip-off Velvet Underground boxed set will be released, seething over the how many great records have been maimed by the overuse of compression.
For a clue to this riddle, I turned from Dummies author Dr. Ruth and put my faith in one Alfred Einstein, and his A Short History of Music (Vintage, 1957). At the end of his very informative survey, Einstein concludes, about the music of Béla Bartók, "He demonstrates that the future of music does not lie in imitation, in the parody of the past, or in a vain return to the past, nor in this school or that clique, nor in any particular system. But in the great and creative personality of the individual—that is, in the human."
Seems to me that this cousin of the old diviner of the Theory of Relativity hit it on the head. In an audiophilic world, where glowing lights, brushed-aluminum façades, and the almost silent hum of power, power, and more power seem like wonders, it's the music that is the real human magic. And so, to quote Dr. Ruth from the introduction to Dummies, I ask: "Why not get the most out of the pleasures our bodies (particularly our ears), are capable of giving us? Relax and read on".—Robert Baird
Note: If a recording listed here has previously been reviewed in Stereophile, whether in "Record Reviews," "Quarter Notes," or past editions of "Records To Die For," the volume and number of the pertinent issue appear in parentheses at the end of the review. For example, a listing of "(XVIII-10)" means that a review appeared in Vol.18 No.10 (October 1995).
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Depicting Abu Ghraib
Friday, April 25, 2008
Music Playlist
1. Are you Gonna Be My Girl?
Artist: Jet
Album: Get Born
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2. Tissue No. 7
Artist: composed by Philip Glass, performed by Wendy Sutter
Album: Songs and Poems for Solo Cello
Label: Orange Mountain Music
Purchase: Amazon
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Bob Forsberg from Newport Beach, CA
The real tragedy of Abu Ghraib was media interpretation of pranks played on criminals as torture.
I remember far greater embarrassment in college, hazing and fraternity hell nights than was portrayed as torture in those jail pictures. Do we fail to understand what we actually see because we analyze it to death and look for meaning other than what it actually is?
What pleases Al Quaida most is our public criticism of our own actions by our own people. Airing our dirty laundry in full view of our enemies empowers them beyond anything Osoma Bi Laden could ever do.
What most New Yorkers (I was born in NYC) overlook, there is a reason subways haven't exploded and more planes haven't destroyed buildings. Our military is fighting those in Iraq who would otherwise be here in America on our streets creating that chaos.
Al Quaida has sworn to kill all "non-believers". What side of the world do you want them to be killing non-believers?
May. 02 2008 02:50 AM
Bill Hobler from Newport News, VA
These images will continue to be used by terrorists to degrade America's reputation in the world. They should be used to encourage Americans to act against any of these practices.
Our occupation of Iraq encourages the worst behavior of people who otherwise live honorably. Abu Ghraib repeats processes well known from psychology studies here in America.
Americans should see the human cost of war, the bloody wounds of military and civilians the psychological wounds of both. Perhaps we would be less inclines to declare war.
Iraq was and is just what Al Quaida wanted, we played right into the hand of terrorist recruiters.
Apr. 26 2008 11:09 AM
Jennifer Perry from Brooklyn, NY
Thank you for airing this incredible show. I have been working with images from the Iraq war as well as Goya's Disasters of War etchings (which by the way, were of the Peninsular War in Spain, not the Inquisition), embroidering them with human hair, as in the tradition of mourning pictures. (My work is on
I feel that the public needs to continuously be reminded about the tragedies at Abu Ghraib and of war in general; it is very easy for us in the United States to forget and turn our eyes away.
Thank you again.
Jennifer Perry
Apr. 26 2008 10:49 AM
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Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible
Ecclesiastes 7
Verse 1
Some scholars see this chapter as an attempt to answer the question implied in Ecclesiastes 6:12, "Who knoweth what is good for man"? However that verse may be read as a declaration that, "No one knows what is good for man." Many of the assertions in this chapter reveal that Solomon himself, in spite of all his vaunted research, experience, and searching had by no means solved the problem with any degree of completeness.
God supernaturally endowed Solomon with great wisdom; but that cannot be a guarantee that everything Solomon either said or did was invariably correct. Like many another person, Solomon's experiences, at least many of them, were of a nature to confuse and deceive him; and, here and there in his writings, one finds unmistakable evidence of that truth. We do not proceed very far into this chapter before we encounter examples of it.
Ecclesiastes 7:1-4
"A good name is better than precious oil; and the day of death, than the day of one's birth. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men, and the living will lay it to heart. Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made glad. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth."
This paragraph deals with that second clause of Ecclesiastes 7:1. It is true in a number of ways, but not in others. When some promising young person is the victim of some terrible accident and is thus cut down in the prime of life, the day of such a death is not better than the day of his birth.
However, the death of Christ was better than the day of his birth; because his Church celebrates his death, not his birth. Paul declared that, "It is better to depart and be with Christ (Philippians 1:21-23), Also; "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints" (Psalms 116:15). In spite of these scriptures, we find it very hard to believe that Solomon had anything like that in mind.
His viewpoint here seems to be like that of a tribe in Thrace mentioned by Herodotus, "Who bewailed the birth of a child because of its entry into the trials of life, and celebrated death as a joyful release from life's trials."[1]
"A good name is better than precious oil" (Ecclesiastes 7:1a). This simply means, "Honor is better than vanity."[2] Some renditions have attempted to duplicate the alliteration found in the Hebrew: "Better is name than nard;"[3] and, "Fair fame is better than fine perfume."[4] We might paraphrase it by saying, "A good reputation smells better than the most expensive perfume."
"It is better to go to the house of mourning" (Ecclesiastes 7:2). In Biblical times, funeral celebrations lasted several days; and the `house of mourning' here refers to such celebrations. Why should this be called 'better' than going to the house of feasting? As Psalms 90 eloquently states it: "So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom" (Psalms 90:12). "The solemn and necessary thoughts that come to one at a funeral are far more uplifting and beneficial than those that result from attending any kind of a feast."[5] "Going to the house of mourning is useful because the living are confronted with the fact that death is also their own destiny; and it is certain."[6] Every funeral is a prophecy of one's own death and burial.
"House of feasting" (Ecclesiastes 7:2). What is this? "One of the Qumran scrolls reads this as `house of joy,' `place of amusement,' as in Ecclesiastes 7:4."[7]
"Sorrow is better than laughter" (Ecclesiastes 7:3). Solomon is still contrasting the house of mourning with the house of joy; but this does not mean that Christians should not attend such things as wedding feasts and other joyful celebrations. Christ attended a marriage feast in Cana and made eighty gallons of wine to aid the celebration! In this connection, it is good to remember that:
"We should not take Solomon's words either literally or absolutely. They are not laws of invariable truth. To treat them this way is to err in their application."[8] "The warning here is for those who wanted only the parties and the good times, and who studiously avoided all sad and sorrowful occasions. The wise man partakes of both."[9]
"The heart of fools is in the house of mirth" (Ecclesiastes 7:4). As noted above, the Qumran manuscript in this place makes the house of mirth here the same as the house of feasting in Ecclesiastes 7:2. Grieve was certain that the reference here is to something like a tavern with its, "Licentious and vulgar tavern songs (Amos 6:5; Ephesians 5:4)."[10]
The "better ... than ... etc." pattern in the first half of this chapter is exactly the same as that followed by Solomon in his Proverbs (Proverbs 15:16; 8:11; and 3:14).
Many of the statements in this part of Ecclesiastes are very similar to sayings of Solomon in Proverbs. Proverbs 22:1 is like Ecclesiastes 7:1, here.
Verse 5
"It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools. For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the look this also is vanity. Surely extortion maketh the wise man foolish, and a bribe destroyeth the understanding."
Here are denounced songs of fools (Ecclesiastes 7:5), the laughter of fools (Ecclesiastes 7:6) and the behavior of fools (Ecclesiastes 7:7).
"Songs of fools" (Ecclesiastes 7:5). "These are probably mirthful drinking songs such as are mentioned in Amos 6:5." These are the same as those sung in the house of mirth (Ecclesiastes 7:4).
"Crackling of thorns under a pot" (Ecclesiastes 7:6). Here again, there is a play on words in the Hebrew text, and this English rendition catches the spirit of it: "For like nettles crackling under kettles is the cackle of a fool."[11] "In the East, charcoal is commonly used for fires, but thorns (nettles) or stubble might be burned by the hasty, but the result was noise not heat."[12] This is an excellent simile for the noisy and worthless meaning of a fool's laughter.
"Extortion maketh the wise man foolish" (Ecclesiastes 7:7). It does not appear in our translation whether the extortion is the practice of one who was wise, but fell into sin, or if it was the extortion against the wise man by an oppressor. We believe the key is in the second clause (Ecclesiastes 7:7b). A bribe destroyeth the understanding (Ecclesiastes 7:7b). The parallelism of these two clauses in Ecclesiastes 7:7 indicates emphatically that extortion whether endured or practiced can cause even a wise man to lose his head and do foolish things; and that, "Whether he is either giving or receiving a bribe, either or both are foolish and sinful deeds."[13]; Isaiah 33:15 denounces the taking of a bribe as sinful; and it is just as sinful to give one. Again, the evil of bribes here reflects the teaching in one of Solomon's proverbs (Proverbs 15:27).
Verse 8
"Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof,, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these; for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this."
"Better is the end ... than the beginning." (Ecclesiastes 7:8). Here again, the truth of this hinges upon the question of whether or not the "thing" spoken of was good or bad, wise or foolish. The end of a wicked ruler's reign is, of course, better than the beginning of it. Apparently the burden of the meaning is that the completion of some great project is better than the beginning of it.
"The statement here is not a repetition of Ecclesiastes 7:1, but states a truth generally applicable to certain situations. The end is better, because at that time we can form a right judgment about a matter."[14] "Of course, this proverb is too pessimistic to be true without qualifications."[15] In fact Solomon gave two proverbs in which this is not true, namely, in Proverbs 5:4 and in Proverbs 23:32.
"Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry" (Ecclesiastes 7:9). Here once more Solomon virtually repeats a proverb he gave in Proverbs 14:17, "He that is soon angry will deal foolishly."
"What is the cause that the former days were better ...?" (Ecclesiastes 7:10). This, of course, is exactly the kind of question that may be expected of nearly any old man. "This is always the plaint of an old man."[16] However, something else may also be true of such questions. The downward spiral of human wickedness in many situations is radical enough to justify such an old man's question, because, as an apostle said, "Wickedness shall wax worse and worse" (2 Timothy 2:13).
Also, there is a quality in human life that romanticizes and glorifies the days of one's youth, conveniently forgetting its hardships and disasters, dwelling only upon those memories which are delightful and pleasant; and this very human trait frequently leads old people to glorify "the former days" with a halo of desirability to which those days are in no wise entitled. The ancient poet Horace has this:[17]
Morose and querulous, praising former days
When he was boy, now ever blaming youth ....
All that is most distant and removed
From his own time and place, he loathes and scorns.
Thus, Solomon's proverb here fingers an action on the part of old people that is very generally foolish, although, of course, exceptions undoubtedly exist also. Paul also gave us the good example that included, "Forgetting the things which are behind" (Philippians 3:13).
Verse 11
"Wisdom is as good as an inheritance; yea, more excellent is it for them that see the sun. For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it."
The proposition stated here is that wisdom is more precious than (better than, or more excellent than) money. The weakness of this passage was cited by Kidner. "Wisdom here is being treated on much the same footing as money, for its utility. However, the true worth of wisdom is incalculable."[18] In fact, Proverbs 8:11 declares that wisdom is so valuable that nothing on earth may be compared with it.
Even in Ecclesiastes the infinite superiority of wisdom is apparent. Here it states that wisdom may save a man's life; but in Ecclesiastes 9:18, it is revealed that wisdom saved an entire city.
Verse 13
"Consider the work of God" (Ecclesiastes 7:13). "The author (Solomon) here has not given up belief in God, although he is a pessimist."[19]
"Who can make that straight which he (God) hath made crooked" (Ecclesiastes 7:13b)? This means that, "No one can change, with a view to improving it, what God has determined shall be."[20]
"Man shall not find out anything that shall be after him" (Ecclesiastes 7:14b) The underlined words here are not in the Hebrew; and we have often observed when the translators add that many words, even including verbs expressing the future tense, it is very probable that there is uncertainty of the meaning. This is true here.
Franz Delitzsch stated unequivocally that the literal translation here is, "That man may find nothing behind him," but added, "That is meaningless."[21] Most modern translators have concurred in this; but this writer finds it impossible to believe that the literal translation is meaningless. In fact, it is our version (American Standard Version) and the whole crop of current translations (which are not translations at all, but are the words of the translators) - it is these current renditions that are meaningless. Read our version here. What does it say? That God has set the days of prosperity and adversity side by side so that man cannot predict the future; but, of course, HE CAN PREDICT THE FUTURE. He can be absolutely certain that in the future the good days and bad days will continue to be side by side exactly as God has ordained it! The true rendition of this place is:
"God hath also set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing AFTER him" (KJV).
This translation uses the word "after", which is a synonym for "behind". If the family of a deceased person follows behind the hearse on the way to the cemetery, then they most certainly follow after it. This verse (Ecclesiastes 7:14b) simply means that God has mingled the good days and the bad days in such a manner that man's estate shall be exhausted by the time of his death; and the experience of millions of people corroborates this. For the vast majority of mankind, when the medical expenses of the terminal illness and the funeral expenses are all paid, nothing is left.
As a general principle, it is certain that God blesses the righteous and judges the wicked; but Solomon here deals with exceptions that he has seen in the operation of this law.
Verse 15
"All this have I seen in my days of vanity; there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil doing. Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself? Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth from them all."
"There is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness" (Ecclesiastes 7:15). Solomon did not need to gather such information as this from what he had seen in his `days of vanity.' He should have known this from the Mosaic account of what happened to Abel at the hands of Cain (Genesis 4:8). There would be many other `exceptions' in the subsequent days of the Jewish monarchy. Naboth, the sons of Gideon, Josiah, and many other `good people' would die untimely deaths. Also an evil man like Manasseh enjoyed one of the longest reigns in Israel's history.
Rankin wrote that, "Experience does not support the view that God rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked."[22] However, he overlooked the fact that this very passage confirms the general law, while citing exceptions to it. Exceptions to any valid principle do not negate it.
The friends of Job who held the false view that there were no exceptions to the general rule of God's rewarding the righteous and punishing the wicked were rebuked by God Himself for teaching, with reference to God, "Things that were not right" (Job 42:8); but it is an equally false affirmation that God does not reward the righteous nor punish the wicked. This truth is freely admitted in the words that the wicked "die before their time" (generally) (Ecclesiastes 7:17) and in the tremendous affirmation of Ecclesiastes 7:18 (See comment below).
As for the reasons why there are exceptions, we discussed this thoroughly in the Book of Job; but the summary of them is: (1) the activity of Satan, (2) freedom of the human will, (3) the primeval curse upon the earth for Adam's sake, (4) the element of `time and chance' happening to all men. (5) the lack of wisdom, sometimes, on the part of the righteous (Luke 16:8). and (6) the impartiality of natural disasters such as floods, tornadoes, etc. (these are related to (3).
Therefore, we reject the conclusion of Barton that, "Ecclesiastes here takes issue with two orthodox Old Testament doctrines: (1) that the righteous have a long life (Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 4:40; Psalms 91:16; Proverbs 3:2,16; and 4:10), and (2) that the wicked shall not live out half their days (Psalms 37:10; 55:23; 58:3-9; and Psalms 73:18)."[23] This doctrine is true; it is not contradicted by the exceptions cited here; and it is gloriously confirmed in the New Testament. (Matthew 28:18:20; Mark 10:30-31; Ephesians 6:3; etc.). Solomon's own wicked life was cut short; and Ecclesiastes 7:18 here emphasizes the same doctrine.
"Be not righteous overmuch ... be not overmuch wicked" (Ecclesiastes 7:16,17). The first clause here probably refers to the hypocritical `righteousness' like that of the Pharisees who were so severely condemned by Jesus. Their fault was that of `specializing in trifles,' and neglecting the `weightier matters of the law' (Matthew 23:23). Eaton agreed that, "The emphasis here is upon legalistic righteousness, not any excess of true righteousness (there is no such thing), but self-righteousness."[24]
"The suggestion that Ecclesiastes 7:17 is intended to advocate a middle course between sin and virtue is at variance with the tenor of the whole Book (the Bible)."[25] Of course, that is exactly what some radical scholars say that the passage means. Barton wrote, "That one may sin to a moderate degree is what he (the author) undoubtedly implies."[26] No! A statement that `overmuch wickedness' leads to an untimely death cannot be intelligently understood as any kind of an endorsement of a so-called moderate wickedness. It was the moderate wickedness of Adam and Eve (What's the harm in eating a little fruit?) that plunged all mankind into disease, misery, violence, construction and death.
There is a warning in this passage against going to extremes in anything. The same thought also appears in Proverbs 25:16. "One must not even eat too much honey." "Especially, The end result of wickedness-run-riot is an untimely death."[27] It is absolutely amazing what some teachers of God's Word have written about this passage. Note:
"The view is that, in certain situations in life, it is advisable and right for a man to compromise in his actions and decisions. He should conform when circumstances make conformity the only safe (for him) and wise course."[28] This is exactly what the servants of Adolph Hitler pleaded as their excuse for operating the death camps for Jews during World War II. A million times NO! If one compromises his conviction to preserve his own safety, ease or comfort, his guilt is not diminished in any degree whatsoever.
"He that feareth God shall come forth from them all" (Ecclesiastes 7:18). Here again we have a disputed verse. The current wisdom interprets this as meaning that, "He that feareth God will set himself free of all, the extremes just mentioned, and will acquit himself of one as well as the other."[29] This is only another way of saying that the fear of God, which is the beginning of all wisdom, will give ultimate victory, not only from the extremes mentioned here, but from sin and death, thus endowing the servant of God with eternal life.
As the words stand, they also suggest that there shall at last emerge from earth's boundless populations those who are truly triumphant: "There shall come forth (emerge) from earth's incredible multitudes (from them all) those who fear the Lord." Whether or not that is what was intended by the Hebrew, this is what the English translation says to this writer.
Verse 19
"Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city. Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good and sinneth not. Also take not heed to all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee; for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others."
"Wisdom is a strength ... more than ten rulers" (Ecclesiastes 7:19). The statement here is a variation of what Solomon wrote in Proverbs 21:22. The story of Job's capture of the ancient stronghold of Salem (Jerusalem) is an illustration of this truth.
"There is not a righteous man ... that sinneth not" (Ecclesiastes 7:20). New Testament writers echo this same conviction (Romans 3:10-12; 1 John 1:10). This is also exactly the same thing that Solomon said in 1 Kings 8:46. Eaton pointed out that this charge of man's sinfulness, "Includes both sins of commission (doeth good), and sins of omission (sinneth not)."[30]
"Take not heed unto all the words that are spoken" (Ecclesiastes 7:21) "... thine own heart knoweth" (Ecclesiastes 7:22). These verses are an appeal to man's conscience. "The Hebrews had no word for conscience, and they used heart as an equivalent. One knows how little meaning attaches to many of one's own idle words, and should not therefore pay any attention to the idle words of others."[31]
Verse 23
"All this have I proved in wisdom; I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who can find it out? I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness."
"But it was far from me" (Ecclesiastes 7:23). Why would the wisest man of his day have failed to find wisdom? He was searching for it by 'experience,' rather than trusting God for the truth. "This line is an honest confession of Solomon's failure to find wisdom,"[32] and the failure was due to his method of seeking it. "He found out here that wisdom (derived from earthly experience) cannot answer the ultimate questions."[33]
"My heart was set to search out ... and to know (find out) that wickedness is folly, etc." (Ecclesiastes 7:24). Instead of taking God's Word for it that the multiplication of wives to himself and the acquisition of horses from Egypt, and all such things, were both wickedness and folly, Solomon here announced his purpose of `proving' whether or not all this was the truth. He found out, all right; but in doing so he lost his relationship with God, was seduced into paganism, and laid the foundation for the destruction of Israel. Today, there are men who take this same approach. They will try everything out for themselves; they will discover their own religion; they will choose what is wise, etc., etc. Barton, in these verses, credited the author of having actually found out that, "Wickedness is folly, and that folly is madness";[34] but that information came from God, not from Solomon's experience."
Verse 26
"And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, laying one thing to another, to find out the account; which my soul still seeketh, but I have not found: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found. Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions."
"I have found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets" (Ecclesiastes 7:26). This is fully in harmony with what Solomon had written in Proverbs 2:14; 5:3,4, etc. "Solomon himself had experienced much bitterness from the sin and misery into which women can lead their victims."[35] In this verse, however, he is speaking particularly of the wicked woman described repeatedly in the first seven chapters of Proverbs. Nevertheless, as Barton charged, what Solomon wrote here is sufficient grounds for assuming that, "He was a misogynist."[36] After all, it was not Solomon, but Lemuel, who wrote that magnificent 31chapter of Proverbs in praise of women. Such thoughts as are written there seem never to have entered into Solomon's heart. The bitter words Solomon wrote here should be understood as Waddey said, "They are the words of a man speaking purely from his own distorted, sinful reason and experience. It would be sinful to quote what Solomon said here as God's assessment of women."[37] After all, "By woman came the Christ and salvation for mankind."
"God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions" (Ecclesiastes 7:29). At least, this was one valid discovery that Solomon actually made. Moreover, his experience had nothing to do with it. All men can read it in Genesis 1:26.
"Many inventions" (Ecclesiastes 7:29). What are these? Scholars are in agreement that scientific and industrial inventions are not mentioned here. "These verses reflect the writing of Genesis 4:21ff, and Genesis 6:1ff. Perhaps they were intended to suggest that the harem was one of man's wicked contrivances."[38] Waddey also, a very dependable scholar accepted this interpretation. "Man has corrupted himself by seeking out evil things and doing them. Modern man is still busily engaged in a frenzied attempt to out-sin his progenitors."[39] Solomon's bitterness in the final paragraph of this chapter was explained by Grieve, "Either as the result of some bitter personal experience, or from the intrigues of the harem."[40]
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Thursday throwback 1981
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DIFFERING VIEWS: NZ Police officers in 1981 at the Bay of Plenty versus Springboks game at Rotorua borrow a photographer's camera to watch the action up close.
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In 1981, as we all know, everyone knew which side you were on.
With the Springboks touring New Zealand under the ugly spectre of apartheid they were not given too warmer welcome by most folks.
But there was still rugby to play, and games to cover, although they often had a much heavier police presence than we are used to these days.
These boys in blue were on duty at the Bay of Plenty versus Springboks clash on September 2 but they seem more interested in watching the paddock than for signs of tour protestors.
They are shown here having a squiz through the lens of a sports photographer's camera.
It had been a turbulent week in Vegas.
Protestors occupied Rotorua airport in an attempt to disrupt the Springboks' flight from Wellington.
They were cleared from the runway before the plane landed, but managed to paint BOKS GO HOME in three-metre high letters on the tarmac.
None of the 35 marae in the region extended an invitation to the tourists and the Whakarewarewa thermal area was closed to the Springboks.
On the field Bay of Plenty went down narrowly 29-24.
A lot has changed since 1981, but we kind of wish men still had sideburns like that. Shot, bro.
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Re: Python 2.6 is ripe
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curious... don't know much about python embedded... is this a lightweight version? what problem do you have with regular python?
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ii. defense
iii. support
iv. all-around
v. long-range
D. Water [river]
i. attack
ii. defense
iii. support
iv. transformation (i.e. Proto)
v. all-around
vi. long-range
E. Neutral [nullvoid]
i. attack
ii. defense
iii. support
iv. all-around
v. long-range
4. The Perfect Team? [teamatk]
A. Japanese [asia]
i. Mihu
ii. Futabi
iii. F-Raptor
B. Rhinoceros [rino]
i. Elasmoth
ii. Brothoth
iii. Arsith
C. Thick heads [pack]
i. Stygi
ii. Pachy
iii. Goyo
5. Time table [tempus]
A. Triassic [220mya]
i. ancient world
B. Jurassic [sauropod]
i. time of giants
C. Cretaceous [asteroid]
i. the final hour
D. 65 mya - 8,000 B.C. [k-t]
i. Epocene - Pilocene
ii. Plestocene
6. Credits [copyright]
i. credit to...
ii. with permision from...
iii. ending statement
7. Reference Pages <book>
A. exticntion theory <gone4good>
B. new discoveries <fixed>
C. species that got sunk <JackHorner>
D. vivosaurs REAL name <genus>
E. museum data <statue>
}}Fossil Guide{{
keyword: amber
- You have no idea how much time this took! I had to go back through the
game WHILE typing this.
keyword: gunash
- This will be short and (mostly) to the point.
Rarity Meter
- If you see this: ~##~, then you have seen the Rarity Meter. It works by
measuring the chance of finding *blank* fossils as a percentage rounded
to the nearest tenth. I'm still working on adding this.
What's this?
- You may wonder why I choose the names for the Ctrl + F search. I picked
something I would never say unless directly refering to it. Example:
I picked GUNASH beacause I don't refer to Gunash in my Guide at all.
I can't make heads or tails of this!
- This is for the <keyword> symbol.
The <keyword> will only appear towards the end of the Guide.
It is there for a very special reason: to take you to a historically
accurate area of the Guide, otherwise known as the REFERENCE PAGES.
keyword: $bone$
- Cough up some money to get insanely rare fossils! Did I mention
that there are close to 24 fossils in each? Pay up and DIG!
Greenhorn Plains
- For merely 3,000 G, you can get tons of rare fossils! I bet you
think it's not worth the money. Guess what? IT TOTALLY IS! Also,
about 1/3 are DARK fossils! Oh yeah, Carno is here. Now go and get some!
Rivet Ravine
- Just 4,000 G, and YOU and ME are going to set some new Vivosaurs
FREE! Not sold yet? Pachrhino and Dimorph are found here, and only
here. They are both awesome, so go now and get some fossils!
}Greenhorn Plains{
keyword: newguy
- Amazing, isn't it? Lush, green, and open. There are 4 Vivosaurs
found here.
- This lush, open area is constantly wind-swept. It gives the fossils
here that airy feel, no? So, of course, they are all of the Wind Type!
What's that you say? You think the Wind is weak? Well, I will prove
you wrong! Go ahead, try to beat the whole game without any wind, once
it's possible. I'llwait right here. Doesn't work well, does it?
I thought so. You were wrong, and I was right.
- You will find Spinax, Shanshan, Goyle, and V-Raptor here.
}Knotwood Forest{
keyword: digadig
- Well, this is the home of the famous Digadigamid Ruins! You may find
5 Vivosaurs here.
- The actual forest is home to lots of Fire Type Vivosaurs. If you travel
inside the Digadigamid Ruins, you are sure to find 2 Earth Type Vivosaurs.
Now, of course the Digadigamid is old and, well, ruined. As such, there are
numerous things you must get through, including a trapdoor. Just be careful
out there, okay?
- You may find Nychus, Venator, S-Raptor, Lexo, and Pachy here.
}Rivet Ravine{
keyword: screwball
- This mess of tunnels is sure to get you lost. As such, follow the map
closely. There are numerous Vivosaurs here.
- Map:
}}Special Vivosaurs{{
keyword: spvivo
- These vivosaurs won't fit in the any group. There are plenty of oddballs
tunnel 1
$dig| tunnel 2
| | | tunnel 3
| | | |
\___| | |____unknown tunnel
/ \
[ ]
\ /
Note that this map is not completely accurate. It's pretty close though.
- Alectro, Meglo, Coatlus, Nasaur are some fossils found here.
In the pay to dig, there are: Dimorph and Pachrhino.
}Bottomsup Bay{
keyword: rexmouth
- You will automatically receive and wear the Diving Mask. The only
fossils here are all wet!
- This large bay is filled with DENTURE SHARKS. Also, the large pirate
ship is filled with treasure! But be careful, there are many dead ends,
and the BB Bandits are messing with the resident ghost! Also look for
rare Saphires here!
- You will find Shoni, Futabi, Elasmo, and Plesio fossils here.
}Mt. Lavaflow{
keyword: lavanose
- This firey location has a LAVA VALVE somewhere, which allows you to
drain the lava away!
- The lava is impassable until the VALVE is shut off. Now that you've
done that, there are many Guanlong and Sachian fossils here.
- Some of the fossils found here are: Amargo, Guanlong, Tro, and Sachian.
}Secret Island{
keyword: secret
- the crashed spaceship is found here.
- This crash site is home to some rare fossils. There is 1 known fossil
- This is not all of them, it's just all I know currently. There are
Maia fossils here.
}Coldfeet Glacier{
keyword: coldft
- Brrr! It's icy cold here! There are lots of water fossils, of course.
I believe there are at least 5 fossils found here.
- This icy location is believed to be the home of a fluffy white creature.
A snowman? Abomintable? Whatever it is, it's definitely a sidequest.
- I know of Mammoth, Sucho, Spino, and Brontoth fossils here. There are
liely to be Paki, Arsith, and Cryo here as well. But I'm not sure.
}Parchment Desert{
keyword: osiris
- It's hot, dry, and sonar doesn't work. Wait, no sonar means no fossils!
Perhaps there is a sidequest?
- This oven-hot area messes with more than your head, it messes with your
sonar! The key to finding the great T-rex fossils here is to buy and plant
- I know for a FACT that T-rex fossils are here. Of course, you won't get
any without those oasis seeds! There are probably many more fossils, but
I haven't got around to the 3rd Oasis Seed yet. But it WILL be added to
this Guide once I get the information!
}Flying Vivosaurs{
keyword: bird
- These amazing creatures are: Jara, Coatlus, Ptera, Dimorph, and Guera.
Shared traits
- Thesw all have either POWERFULL suport effects, or SLEEP, KNOCK, and
}Swimming Vivosaurs{
keyword: fish
- These aquatic vivosaurs need seperate explainations, so you don't get
- This large MOSOSAUR, or short-necked aquatic reptile, is very large.
The only known MOSOSAUR that is larger is most likely Lioplerodon, the
T-rex of the seas! Note that Lioplerodon is not in the game. If it was,
it would completely wreck the whole 100 vivosaurs thing. That and the
developers had their reasons.
Futabi, Plesio, and Elasmo
- These PLESIOSAURS, or long-necked aqautic reptiles, are somewhat large.
Unlike the earlier NORTHOSAURS, they could not go onto land to lay eggs.
Therefore, it's thought they reproduced like mammals, with live birth.
I prime example of this is in the next section.
- A ICYTHOSAUR if there ever was one, Shoni reproduced by live birth, as
well as looking like a fish. It's very slow to develop, so integrate a few
parts before you send it up against anything.
}Not a Dinosaur!{
keyword: mammal
- These crazy creatures can be found all over! Maybe it's because they
went extinct closer to the present day?
- These beasts include Hoplo and Smilo. They both eat some type
of large mammal: Hoplo eats mammoths, and Smilo eats bison.
- This TERROR BIRD lived in prehistoric South America, until the Smilos
came and killed them all!
- These are not your average rhinoceros! The Arsith, Brontoth, and Elasmoth
would all charge first, see what it is after it's dead. They Brontoth in
particular had troubles with Andrarch.
- These include: Aopteryx, the first bird, Paki, the first whale,
Andrarch, a meat-eating goat, Megath, a giant ground sloth, and Mammoth,
a wool-coated elephant.
}}Normal Vivosaurs{{
keyword: normvivo
- This is the second longest section, and it's nothing but a list! Of
course, I will later add more information.
keyword: Vulcan
- If this was Star Wars, these vivosaurs would be the Dark Side. They're
evil, attack-orientated monsters capable of disembowling they're foes.
But, since this is a E-rated game, the insane, gory, violence is not shown.
The classes will come in a later update.
keyword: mountain
- The good defenders! Very good defenders! I will add the classes in a
later update.
keyword: tornado
- Yes I know it's actually Air. The classes will come in a later update.
keyword: river
- These are not the swimmers though! The classes will come in a later update.
keyword: nullvoid
- I will add the classes later.
}}The perfect team?{{
keyword: teamatk
- Here I will explain 3 good combos. But I don't have the team in game, so
of course there will be gaps in the information.
keyword: asia
- Just read the vivo's bios!
- Mentioned above, WAY ABOVE, this vivo is good with his STEER THE STORM
team skill.
- This defense-class vivo is awesome for his support effects.
- This little vivo went to the Dojo! He can slice you to pieces if you're
not careful.
keyword: rino
- The team skill RUIN BEAM is very powerful.
- A word of warning: once you've had a taste, you'll just want more! And
who wouldn't? Arstih's Somnia Beam is the ultimate!
- I must warn you to never go near that Phobia Beam! Unless you WANT to be
- This is your final warning! Turn back before he uses that Toxia Beam on
you! I say it again! Turn back!
Too late now:
^^ Toxia Beam ^^
I warned you.
}Bone Heads{
keyword: pack
- Read the bios.
- With Rock Barrage in his arsenel, there is no hope for any Water-Type in
his way!
- With Fiendish Barrage in his aresnel, there is no hope for any Earth-Type
in his way!
- With Iron Barrage in his arsenel, there is no hope for any Wind-Type in
his way!
}}Time Table{{
keyword: tempus
- You should know that any gaps are there because I can't get that vivo's era.
keyword: 220mya
- The first dinosaurs were from here. There shouldn't be that many of course.
Ancient World
- Shoni.
keyword: sauropod
- The biggest quadropeds came from here.
Time of Giants
- Guan, Megalo, S-Raptor, Cryo, Yango, Goyle, Dimorph, Plesio.
keyword: asteroid
- The end is near! For them, at least.
The final hour
- Alectro, Shanshan, venator, Spinax, Nychus, U-Raptor, V-Raptor, Spino,
Angato, Sucho, Amargo, Saichan, Nasaur, Maia, Pachy, Penta, Pachrino,
Coatlus, Elasmo.
}65mya - 8,000 B.C.{
keyword: k-t
- The dinosaurs have died forever. Well, maybe not forever, because the
Vivosaurs are Dinosaurs also, right?
Epocene - Pilocene
- no data. sorry!
- Elasmoth.
keyword: copyright
- Well, I guess this about the end, right?
credit to...
- RED ENTERTAINMENT for this awesome game!
with permission from...
- no-one! I didn't need permission from anyone because I didn't use anyone
else's work!
ending statement
- Well well well, what have we here? You read the whole guide? I'm touched.
Now go. Shoo! There's nothing after this, I swear! That section on the
Table of Contents was a lie! It's not in the guide!
Are you STILL reading????
Okay, you got me. There is a section at the end.
Just don't tell anyone please!
}}}Reference Pages{{{
keyword: book
- You're lucky I'm letting you see this. I didn't originally want to make
this section.
}}extinction theory{{
keyword: gone4good
- Stop reading if you don't care about how they died.
The extinction of the dinosaurs was most likely caused by a large asteroid
impact. Proof can be found in the thin line of chalk between the end of the
mezozoic and beginning of the cenozoic eras, otherwise known as the K-T
Boundary. Of course, there are some problems with a normal asteroid impact
killing the dinosaurs. But a crater tells us otherwise: the asteroid was
6 miles across (for any non-Americans, that's 9.6 kilometers). The impact
itself would kill all dinosaurs within the area, but the debris launched
into the air could have rained down on the opposite side of the world. The
planet would have been blanketed in dust, blocking out the sunlight and
killing plants. Then the herbivores would starve to death. The carnivores
}}new discoveries{{
keyword: fixed
- This will make the game about 5% realistic. Don't read if you don't
want the game ruined.
}Pachy didn't really butt heads!{
The 10 inches (cenimeters unknown) of solid bone on the pachy's skull was
really a soft bone. If they butt heads, then they'd kill themselves! Now
what good is that?
}Tricera and friends: the horns are a lie?{
The horns make you think that they must have fought their predators, or at
least fought each other. But most ceratopsians had a soft skull: they had
huge holes to make their head lighter. These include Styrac, Enio, and a few
others. But what about the ones with solid heads? Well, in reality, the worst
place to have a weapon is on your head. When you kill the T-rex attacking
you, it would just fall right on your head. Who want's that? So what about
fighting each other? Well, if you look, closely, the nicks and scratches on
the heads of ceratopsians are really lines where the blood vessels where.
That proves that the horns and big frills were really just supposed to
look good.
}}species that got sunk{{
keyword: JackHorner
- If you read this, about 1/3 of all the vivosaurs will be the same thing.
}dracorex hogwartsia --> stygimoloch --> pachycephalosaurus{
Dracorex is a new discovery. It's bone-dome wasn't even there! It was all
spikes! And of cousre Stygimoloch, or Stygi, must have been it's own
kind of bone-head, with all those spikes AND the bone-dome? What about
Pachycephalosaurus, in other words, Pachy? Well, it turns out, the insanely
different species are really ALL PACHYS! How? Have you noticed that back
in reality, Dracorex is the smallest, Stygi is medium-sized, while Pachy is
bigger than both of them? It's because Dracorex is a baby Pachy, Stygi is
like a teenager Pachy, and Pachy is an adult Pachy. Never thought of that,
did you?
}the triceratops life cycle?{
This time, we already knew they were the same. We just couldn't prove it.
So we start with a small Tricera, with short, stubby horns. Then we go to
a teenager, and the horns point UP IN A CURVE. Then the adult, with horns
pointing STRAIGHT. Just like humans change when as they grow, so did
dinosaurs, apparently.
}T-rex? nanotyrannoasurus? gorgo?{
Same with the pachys. The baby is Nanotyrannosaurus. The teenager is the
Gorgo, the adult is the T-rex. Wait, there's something else: the VERY
youngest T-rex probably looked like a bigger version of a Comspo! Oh yeah,
the babies hunted small stuff, so they had teeth like a bunch of needles.
Good for cutting and tearing. The adults had big teeth like steak knives!
They were used to crush bones.
}}Vivosaurs REAL name{{
keyword: genus
- This is in the in-game-museum. Now let's begin, shall we? Remember that
missing Vivosaurs are not in my current database. Beginning list now:
Alectro = Alectrosaurus
Amargo = Amargasaurus
Angato = Angaturama
Coatlus = Quetzalcoatlus
Cryo = Cryolophosaurus
Dimorph = Dimorphodon
Elasmo = Elasmosaurus
Elasmoth = Elasmotherium
Goyle = Gargoyleosaurus
Guan = Guanlong
Maia = Maiasuara
Megalo = Megalosaurus
Nasaur = Leaellynasaurus
Nychus = Deinonychus
Pachrino = Pachyrhinosaurus
Pachy = Pachycephalosaurus
Penta = Pentaceratops
Plesio = Plesiosaurus
S-Raptor = Sinraptor
Saichan = Saichania
Shanshan = Shanshanosaurus
Shoni = Shonisaurus
Spinax = Altispinax
Spino = Spinosaurus
Sucho = Suchomimus
U-Raptor = Utahraptor
V-Raptor = Velociraptor
Venator = Afrovenator
Yango = Huayangosaurus
}}Museum Data{{
keyword: statue
- Length in Feet and approximate Meters, Diet, Dig Site, Notes.
49 ft (16 m) long
Diet: Piscivore
Notes: This huge icythosaur is the largest swimming vivo.
42 ft (14 m) long
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: This vivo is actually bigger than T-rex, but is lighter.
42 ft (14 m) long
Diet: Piscivore
Notes: The massive plesiosaur always had an eye on the fish.
39 ft (13 m) long
Diet: Piscivore
Notes: Named after an Aztec god, this massive pterosaur could swallow
a human with ease.
36 ft (12 m) long
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: Its name means "Crocodile Mimic" because it looks like a 2-legged
29 ft (9 m) long
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: This thing is slow. It's evasion is close to zero!
29 ft (9 m) long
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: This is my favorite vivo!
29 ft (9 m) long
Diet: Herbivore
Notes: This would be scary if it was black.
29 ft (9 m) long
Diet: Herbivore
Notes: One of the few vivos to care for their young.
26 ft (8 m) long
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: Void Blast is a different version of Alectro's Posion Breath with
different effects.
26 ft (8 m) long
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: It lived in Antarctica! It must like freezing to death...
26 ft (8 m) long
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: Does this remind you of Dynal? Because this IS Dynal. At least in
terms of skills and stuff...
26 ft (8 m) long
Diet: Herbivore
Notes: Leaping Gore my foot! It's a body slam!
23 ft (7 m) long
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: Who gave it the name Sinraptor? It makes less sense than a Turducken!
23 ft (7 m) long
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: It's only found in Utah, U.S.A.
23 ft (7 m) long
Diet: Herbivore
Notes: I wonder if it's really something else like the Pachys...
23 ft (7 m) long
Diet: Herbivore
Notes: It's about time they appreciated less popular vivos like him.
19 ft (6 m) long
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: I would have thought it would be bigger.
16 ft (5 m) long
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: Great unmasking is the worst idea ever. Your positive support effects
turn to negative support effects!
16 ft (5 m) long
Diet: Herbivore
Notes: Ice Age Beast, ID = 31a5m0th
13 ft (4 m) long
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: It's name means "Terrible Claw." They wern't kidding either!
13 ft (4 m)
Diet Herbivore
Notes: By now you have realized they are in order of size, haven't you?
13 ft (4 m)
Diet: Herbivore
Notes: There is plenty in the 2nd and 3rd sections...now shoo!
10 ft (3 m)
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: Wow, this is really small.
10 ft (3 m)
Diet: Herbivore
Notes: I swear, this is an archtype...
10 ft (3 m)
Diet: Herbivore
Notes: For once, I thought it would be smaller.
6 ft (2 m)
Diet: Carnivore
Notes: This is my favorite dinosaur of all time. But not in this game because
they make him weak.
6 ft (2 m)
Diet: Piscivore
Notes: Okay, honestly, how the fossils is this so small?
3 ft (1 m)
Diet: Piscivore
Notes: This is a midget! He's just a little bit bigger than your arm.
,,;this is the real end of the guide. thank you for your time;,,,
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,;once again, my email is: [email protected]
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After the webmaster warnings of March 2012 and the Penguin update of April, like many in the SEO community, we wondered if negative SEO (NSEO) was now a possibility. For years Google had abided by the principle that nothing external to a site could harm it directly, ensuring that sites would be safe from the malice of competitors. Evidence for NSEO had been initially unreliable and anecdotal, so we decided to try it ourselves.
The Experiment:
For ethical reasons we didn’t use a competitor’s site, but chose an internal property, Pool-Cleaning-Houston.com, for the experiment. This site ranked well for its domain name keyword match and a number of lesser terms, and has enjoyed a stable position in its market for years. This site because it is the SEO equivalent of the proverbial “Los Angeles dog walker.” It is not a particularly powerful site, but it is positioned in a market where it could easily provide a small business owner with a comfortable living.
We chose the following negative SEO techniques for our study:
• 45,000 Comment links. Anchor text “Pool Cleaning Houston.” Cost: $15
• Sidebar blog links on four trashy blogs, yielding nearly 4000 links (although it appears that only 100 of those links have been indexed to date). Anchor text “Pool Cleaning Houston.” Cost: $20
The Execution:
The initial purchase of 45,000 comment links was a disappointment. The seller of the service had marketed the links as NSEO, but it soon became evident that few of the comments were being accepted by moderators, and even fewer were dofollow. The followup purchase of 7000 forum profile links seemed more promising. This was not billed as NSEO, but as a positive, albeit black hat, Scrapebox service. Then a week went by and our site failed to be destroyed.
We had built a relationship with the webmaster of the trashy blogs when we asked him to remove the sidebar links he had sent to one of our clients. He removed the links for a fee, and when we asked, he put on new links to Pool-Cleaning-Houston.com for a similar fee. Within a few days the links delivered a killing blow.
The Results:
The bulk of the traffic for the site comes from the search “Pool Cleaning Houston.” For a week after the blast of thousands of NSEO links, the ranking actually went up from position #3 to #2. Then we followed up with the blog sidebar links. By the next day Pool-Cleaning-Houston.com was off the front page and essentially invisible to potential customers.
Besides the primary keyword, there were another 51 minor keywords tracked during the study. 26 went down noticeably, 21 stayed the same throughout, and 5 keywords improved slightly. Taken on average, the keywords dropped about 2.5 spots (among the keywords that did drop, the average decline was closer to 9 positions).
The total rankings of all the keywords clearly shows the effects of NSEO not just on selected searches, but on the overall ranking power of the site. For a period of three days following each NSEO burst the site improved slightly in the SERPs, and then abruptly lost the ground it had gained and then some.
It is now cheap and effective to destroy the livelihood of a small business. In a local market it could cost as little as $20 a month to knock a competitor off the first page of search returns. This low cost makes NSEO accessible to virtually anyone, from unscrupulous companies, to disgruntled employees, spiteful customers, or even idle pranksters. It’s too early to make a definitive claim about the exact causes of the Google algorithm penalty, but an effective NSEO campaign may include the creation of a backlinks profile with artificially repetitive anchor text, as well as links from a bad neighborhood.
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1. Don
Nice study.
Question. Why aren’t you concerned about your embed code for your infographic causing you to be penalized by penguin? If the infographic goes even semi-viral you would gain 100 links with the exact match anchor text, “Austin Seo”. That certainly enough to send you into penguin hell.
1. Two answers: checking our anchor text profile in SEOMoz’ Open Site Explorer, we know that our incidence of “Austin SEO” is actually quite low. Now, if it rises too much, we’ll change the embed code to something more natural, like our business name, “TastyPlacement”, or even a raw link like TastyPlacement.com.
2. Spikes in inbounds links generate movement in serps. I’m wondering where that site will rank in a few weeks… Weaker sites tend to fall and rise when new links appear.
3. Interesting. There are a lot of other factors to consider here. What did the backlink profile look prior to the NSEO bomb? It seems that the driving force was links associated with spammy blogs, as was likely the case with the WPMU story. Were you using a specific anchor text, such as “Pool Cleaning Houston?”
This can be devastating news for SMB’s for sure, but IMO there’s no way that this stands the test of time. If NSEO becomes prevalent in the marketplace, then the pendulum will likely shift and the algorithm will focus on different factors.
4. Hey Michael,
Great study and I’m appreciative of this information. Unfortunately, we’ll probably see some of this going on. People don’t always fight fairly.
I am wondering though, if the results would have been the same on an active website where the blog was being updated on a regular basis. This site, although very keyword rich looks a little thin. Do you have any insight into whether you believe the strength of an established website would matter? Things such as domain age, current posts, and number of “good” backlinks. Will these kinds of things help?
1. Sure, an active site would probably enjoy some immunity from negative SEO. But our whole point was that there are a lot more small business websites out there than premium, active websites. So, we thought this would be illustrative of what a small business person would face should a competitor start to play dirty. It’s very unfortunate that this was so easy.
2. Excellent point, Leigha –
There really is no substitute for an active, well-developed site.
Way too many small business owners still operate under the premise that a simple 5 page “brochure site” is going to deliver boat loads of traffic and new customers to them every month.
Appreciate the eye opening post! :) *Shared*
5. Interesting data and thanks for sharing! I wonder how frequency and type of link impacted whether Google detected and ignored, or detected and acted upon the links found. So… perhaps they already had rules in place that would ignore a massive influx of comment spam or forum links (created in a set period of time) entirely.
1. The sidebar links were from some guy in Indonesia that picked up old domains and put up spam blogs. I’d rather not give the sites, but I know at least one isn’t up anymore. The outbound links on those sites were all very nasty gambling, viagra links, etc.
6. This is very interesting stuff, but the bigger question, is what can one do to stop this if you’re getting attacked? Just say I wanted to knock out my competitors for, say, photography, I could spend a few hundred bucks on a few targets, but can they do anything to fight back / vice versa
7. Great study. It is something that our team has discussed to great depths and voiced concerns over being SEOs.
I just hope the future of SEO is not beating each other with sh**ty sticks over and over until one gives in to be replaced by another using the same tactic. I’ve only just started my new career and enjoying it, but this kind of stuff, I’ll be out of the door and declaring SEO is dead ;)
8. Nice post & infographic, Michael. Interestingly there still seems to be a big debate as to whether or not negative SEO is really a problem. See this recent SEOmoz post, for example.
If there is a cheap and easy way to hurt competitors and increase their own online leads and sales, you know there will be a minority of unscrupulous SMB owners and SEOs who will capitalize on this. There are tools and spam lists out there (I won’t mention them) that can have a substantial negative effect for as little as $5! I really wish Google would implement a disavow links feature similar to the one Bing has in its Webmaster Tools.
I pinned the infographic to this Pinterest board: http://pinterest.com/pin/20055160811422559/
Please let me know if you would like me to change attribution or remove the pin.
9. Well it’s been almost a year since Penguin was unleashed on webmasters and the panic has appeared to die down, but there still seems to be occasional discussion of negative SEO. I’ve seen firsthand the effects it can have, especially on small/new/thin websites, which unfortunately makes up most small business sites.
Many hoped that Google would, by now, revise their algo update and “scale back” the penalty for off-site factors that could potentially be out of the webmaster’s control. I don’t see this happening. I believe the only real protection is to build up such a good/strong backlink profile that your site essentially becomes “immune” to NSEO attempts. Obviously lots of great content that gets shared, combined with highly active visitors will help shield any site, but I think all webmasters should really focus on building up a VERY diverse, quality backlink profile.
10. Negative SEO till now seemed to be myth but thanks to you this horror has come out in real. I am really aghast by seeing the results. Any one can pull you down. What do you suggest to counter this ?
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One grave doubt had been on my mind since I first considered going to China, and the brute facts of the organization of the sciences there brought it to the fore. Is it possible to build a modern scientific establishment, doing important and original work to world standard, by ordering it from the top down, bringing it into being like a steel or automobile or electronics industry?
Good science in our era is done in groups within groupings, from the individual laboratory to the research institution to the national network with its professional associations and controls and rewards, multiple levels of scientists judging scientists, to the world scientific community, integrated however loosely by shared attitudes and standards. New ideas, discoveries, grow from the bottom up.
The culture of science, the ethos of science, must be rooted in the basic unit, the individual laboratory. From the laboratory’s leader – called in China, as in the United States, the principal investigator, or PI – through senior colleagues down to postdocs, graduate students, and laboratory technicians, the group fosters and enforces the ethos of science. This is where the young scientist accepts the discipline, internalizes it, makes it a part of his or her personality. Or does not – for there are sick institutions in Western science, laboratories and larger institutions where the ethos falters.
The deep question for China, then, is how to plant and cultivate the discipline of science, the ethos. I raised this question with every scientist I talked to. Two problems demonstrate the difficulties – the Confucian problem and the plagiarism problem. These are not oddities or incidental aberrations. They are rooted, ingrained, internalized.
Howard Temin was an American molecular geneticist, who shared in a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of the enzyme reverse transcriptase. He was a man of iron rectitude who had thought long about styles of doing science. In a conversation in March 1993, he told me, “One of the great strengths of American science…is that even the most senior professor, if challenged by the lowliest technician or graduate student, is required to treat them seriously and to consider their criticisms. It is one of the most fundamental aspects of science in America.”
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Rand Paul is Not Like His Father
Senator Rand Paul was introduced to the CPAC audience as "the only opponent to sustaining the PATRIOT Act", as someone who is "continuing to fight TSA abuses every day" and as "true champion of liberty" as opposed to the fake ones.
An introduction like that sets you up to attack Republican Party positions and Paul chose to take on...no Republican sacred cows. It was primarily a speech about Barack Obama, the Solyndra scandal, and an attack on Obama's donors. ("Is anyone else tired of hearing about Warren Buffet's secretary?")
To be sure, there was some scolding of the Republican Party, but very little. He warned that "The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values" and that the GOP presidential race needs to "take someone who can turn the coldness of austerity into the warm embrace of prosperity."
It is a far cry from his father's speech at CPAC last year about how "Neo-Jacobins" are ruining America's foreign policy.
This is the key to Rand Paul's success as a politician and how he will expand on his father's legacy: his supporters know what he stands for and are convinced he is one of them, but in his speeches and public communications he will eschew the language that his father would use.
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Limited-Edition Fudge Covered Ritz Crackers, So Wrong
GutterGourmet reports on a classic cracker reinterpreted with chocolate
Limited-Edition Fudge Covered Ritz Crackers, So Wrong
I'm a firm believer that chocolate improves anything. Peanut butter? Check. Bacon? Why not? Crackers? Of course. After all, graham crackers are practically synonymous with chocolate. Don't forget Streit’s seasonal chocolate covered matzo which is, let’s face it, really a cracker.
So when I stumbled upon Nabisco’s “Limited-Edition” Fudge Covered Ritz Crackers in my local supermarket, I thought I had made another rare discovery similar to my earlier supermarket eureka moments with Tim Tams, Entenmann’s impossible to find blackout cake, and the always elusive seasonal Nabisco Mallomars.
So, not knowing whether “limited edition” meant that I’d never see them again and after nearly toppling over the display, I grabbed as many boxes as I could carry and rushed home to consume an entire box, ignoring once again for the sake of food journalism the nutritional information on the box (Four crackers totaled "Calories: 160, Fat: 8g, Carbs: 23g, Protein: 1g").
Ritz crackers are said to have been first introduced to America by Nabisco in 1934. I used to love them as a little kid. I'd top them with a slice of (what else?) Kraft American cheese — carefully torn into quarters and draped over an equal number of the buttery, salty, scallop-ridged crackers. I would also drop an entire wax sleeve of Ritz crackers into my bowl of Campbell’s tomato soup. Later on, mini Ritz Bits Sandwiches filled with “real” cheese or peanut butter not only appealed to me but nourished me during my drunken college years.
Unfortunately, I have to report that the fudge-covered Ritz crackers do not work. The fudge is good quality, but envelops the entire cracker, making it virtually indistinguishable from any other chocolate-covered graham cracker. If Nabisco is reading this, I implore you to consider covering only part of the cracker (as one of the crackers portrayed on the side of the box looks) so that the salty, buttery flavor and texture of my beloved Ritz can retain its integrity.
In the meantime, I’m going to try covering the chocolate ones I have left with American cheese or dropping them into my tomato soup. I’ll let you know what happens.
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I can't believe you can't solve this problem on your own. Just put a fudge covered cracker on top of a regular cracker. Or add another below the new cracker for a sandwich. Just add or subtract crackers until you get the perfect ratio of salty, buttery crunchy goodness to chocolate. Besides, it's a great excuse to go through a couple of boxes of Ritz crackers as you selflessly do research on behalf of all noshing mankind.
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Chapter 1 Start! - Life Source
Tamerlane on Feb. 14, 2006
Well although I don't like it…It was really fun to work on, especially the shiny parts heehee! This probably isn't an 18+ comic but I'm not going to trust myself to stay PG
My monitor is crappy so I can't see just how bad the colors really are.
Someone gimme a name for the black hair guy plz!
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You might know what you're getting for Christmas but do you know about the presents people get in novels? Take our fun and festive quiz to find out how some of your favourite characters celebrate the holidays
Charlie Bucket in the film version of Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
It wasn't a golden ticket if that's what you're thinking! What did Charlie get for Christmas? Photograph REUTERS/Peter Mountain/Warner Bros./Handout Photograph: REUTERS
1. 1. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, what does Charlie Bucket get for Christmas, as well as his birthday?
2. 2. In Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, what is something the four sisters don't get for their mother?
3. 3. What does Harry Potter get for Christmas from Dumbledore in the Philosopher's Stone?
4. 4. In The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis, what does Lucy get from Santa?
5. 5. In Clean Break by Jacqueline Wilson what present do Emily and her siblings get from their dad?
6. 6. In The Tailor of Gloucester, by Beatrix Potter, what do the two mice help sew for the mayor's wedding on Christmas Day?
7. 7. In The Long Winter, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, what do Almanzo Wilder and Cap Garlandfor do for the town in the middle of the blizzard?
8. 8. In The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg, what does the boy get at the end of the book?
9. 9. What does the Jolly Christmas postman deliver to Red Riding Hood from the Big Bad Wolf?
10. 10. In Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever, what does Rowley bring to Greg's house?
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Religion's role: separate but engaged
While religion must be separated from the state, it should have influence in politics
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Until a few months ago I was chaplain to the then lord mayor of London, Ian Luder. Apart from participating in various arcane ceremonies, my main function was to say grace at Mansion House banquets. I quickly discovered that while the formulaic uttering of religious platitudes was expected, it wasn't obligatory. Providing, that is, I stuck to two minutes or less. So I had great fun: "As we enjoy our bread this evening, we do so in the knowledge that it symbolises our economic life, our markets which must be regulated by equity and integrity, concern for others as well as ourselves." And: "Of course we have our worries and anxieties. But they are as nothing compared with the anxieties of Jews and Palestinians in southern Israel and Gaza who are neither able to enjoy a meal in peace and security nor, in many cases, enjoy a meal at all."
I got several "highly commended" as well as a few "stick to religion, rabbi".
I understand the necessity of separating state and religion. Both state power and religious power are huge and, in the same hands, far too much. Religious parties working for sectional interests are a disaster – for the state, and for religion.
But I simply don't understand the notion that politics is one thing and religion is another and religion should have no influence or say in the political arena.
The prophetic tradition of the Hebrew Bible is one of humanity's gems. Few statements are more powerful than Amos's demand for justice to roll down like water and righteousness as an unending torrent. The constant calls to love the poor, the needy, the widow, the orphan and the immigrant are formative. Isaiah's insistence that, in the last analysis, religion is not about cult and fasting but about dealing one's bread to the hungry and letting the oppressed go free is what turned me on first to politics but then to religion as the source of my values.
You simply cannot commit to justice, ending oppression and compassion for the needy, and then emasculate religion as private rites for the weekend.
What really gets me is that the call to separate religion and politics is most often heard from those of vaguely liberal religious tendencies. The fundamentalists and evangelicals have absolutely no problem with entering the debate. The problem is that, all too often, they give religion a bad name by confusing the assertion of personal convictions with reasoned argument, and the democracy of the public square with seeking to impose a view or a veto. Whether it be over abortion, assisted dying, sexual equality or human rights, religious values should be advocated with passion in the public square but not imposed by legislative bullying.
At the HQ of the Movement for Reform Judaism in Finchley, we invite leading politicians to address key ethical issues during the runup to a general election – immigration, global warming, intervention in totalitarian states. This year's programme has started, and we have noticed a dramatic fall in numbers turning out. I am deeply worried about this disillusionment with politicians. If you give up on politicians, you give up on politics. If you give up on politics, you give up on society. Religion which runs away from society denies its very meaning and purpose. Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness as an unending torrent wasn't just Amos's message. It was God's – and therefore, if you will forgive the chutzpah, Christ's and Allah's too.
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A very modern midlife crisis
Middle-aged man is spurning the fast car for a flash bike. But is this the tip of a fitness iceberg or just a yearning for expensive gear?
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What every middle-aged man wants? Expensive road bikes are replacing fast cars for men overcoming the midlife crisis.
The evidence, such as it is, isn't what you would really call cast-iron, but let's not be churlish, because what we are looking at here could be nothing less than a whole new dimension to the hitherto deeply predictable male midlife crisis: a sudden and unexpected concern with health.
Traditionally, of course, men have eased the existential angst that afflicts them between, say, 35 and 50 by driving small but potent sports cars, sitting astride large and throbbing motorbikes, or running off with younger women who haven't yet seen them at 3am when they get up for a pee and forget momentarily to suck their stomachs in.
Now, according to the retail analyst Mintel, they are buying top-of-the-range racing bikes instead, with the biggest growth in cycle sales this year coming from 35- to 45-year-old family men treating themselves to premium road bikes (as well, regrettably, as the eye-watering Lycra shorts, figure-hugging racing jerseys and special shoes that go with them). It is, the report proclaims, "the 'noughties' version of the midlife crisis".
And if it's not a newfound passion for cycling, it's a sudden urge to run a marathon. A survey of 2,000 middle-aged men last month (by, oddly, the winemaker Redwood Creek) found that half of them had set themselves a daunting physical challenge in the last year, from distance running to conquering the Three Peaks (Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis in 24 hours) and even walking the Great Wall of China. And while more than half – deluded fools – insist it's only about losing weight, 10% admit that it's all down to "the midlife crisis".
It is worth mentioning, at this point, that many experts doubt the existence of a male midlife crisis at all (or at least, they recognise that something sometimes happens to males in midlife, but won't call it a crisis). A 1999 study of 8,000 US men by the respected MacArthur Foundation found that while all were familiar with the term, only 23% reckoned they'd had something resembling a midlife crisis, and only 8% saw it as linked to the realisation that they were ageing.
"There is no handier excuse for human misbehaviour than the midlife crisis," says Richard Friedman, professor of psychiatry at America's Weill Cornell Medical College. Of course, he wrote in the New York Times, middle age has its challenges: first signs of physical decline, gnawing questions about personal and professional accomplishment. But all too often the classic responses – buy fast car, change job, dump wife – are more of a selfish "search for novelty and thrill than for self-knowledge", Friedman says. "But you have to admit, 'I'm having a midlife crisis' sounds a lot better than 'I'm a narcissistic jerk having a meltdown.'"
Still, if the net result of this crisis- or-meltdown is that a generation of middle-aged men start living healthier lives, who cares? Men, as we all know, neglect their bodies something rotten; it is one of the reasons women, for no biological reason, live five years longer. "Better that a midlife male buys a mountain bike than a Porsche; better that he runs a marathon than runs off with the babysitter," says Jim Pollard, author of the award-winning User's Guide to the Male Body and editor of the website malehealth.co.uk, who has written extensively on the male midlife crisis (although he, too, won't dignify it with that name).
"If that's the response to whatever it is that happens to men in midlife, then it's all to the good," Pollard says. "It could reflect the fact that more blokes are recognising this for what it is – looking their mortality in the face, and deciding to try and postpone it for as long as they can – rather than just trying to be 21 again." He is concerned, though, that the flash bikes mean that if this is a new trend, it is an affluent, middle-class one, that is not going to bridge the male health-wealth gap. And he suspects there is another reason middle-aged men are getting into bikes. "You can buy lots and lots of kit for them," he says, "and you can tinker with them. Blokes like that, and you can't do it with modern cars, can you?"
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Why Can’t I Lose The Belly Fat?
Are you struggling to lose belly fat? If so, then your diet may be the culprit. Foods that contain chemicals, artificial sweeteners and large amounts of sodium have a tendency to trap fat around the midsection. You should try your best to limit processed foods and eat more natural foods.
Stress can also cause you to accumulate belly fat. When you are stressed, your body produces more of a hormone called cortisol. Cortisol has been shown to trap fat around the midsection. Therefore, it is very important for you to make sure that you keep your stress level in check. Exercising is one of the things that you can do to reduce stress. It can also help reduce belly fat.
In some cases, belly fat is an indication of an underactive thyroid. If you still struggle to lose belly fat after changing your diet and exercising, then you should consider seeing a doctor.
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The Internet Reacts to the Big Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Title News, Brings the Snark
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Our first reaction to hearing the title of the Man of Steel sequel will be Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was “wait a diggy damn minute, [PERSON A] v [PERSON B] is a court case.” But other people around the Internet, particularly on Twitter, had different reactions, because the World Wide Web is full of many different variations on snarky smack talking. Here’s a sample.
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Jack Black needs a new act, especially after 'Year One'
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One good movie and two bad ones make up this week's DVD review column.
The Objective
"The Objective" has one of the best trailers I've seen of any recent movie and I'm happy to report this film from writer and director Daniel Myrick, the co-creator of "The Blair Witch Project," lives up to the hype.
Set in November 2001 in Afghanistan, a CIA operative leads a group of Special Forces soldiers into the mountains to supposedly find a Muslim cleric whose support would be valuable to win the hearts and minds of the non-Taliban citizens of the country.
That, of course, is not the real deal. Actually, the agent is pursuing a phenomenon he heard about when he was training Afghans to fight the Soviets. This force is an unstoppable weapon.
There are some familiar themes here. The group of soldiers being picked off by unseen foes harkens all the way back to John Ford's "The Lost Patrol" and continued more recently in a film such as "Southern Comfort." Myrick makes it work, though.
To say much about the film would be a disservice to viewers. It is an extremely solid adult film that delves into the same territory as "Blair Witch" in that people in a natural environment are facing something quite unnatural.
There are some good thrills, but unlike "Blair Witch," which pretty much scared me as no film had done so since I was a kid, "The Objective" filled me with an uneasiness and dread a different reaction but an effective one.
This is definitely a film to see. It's on DVD, so what are you waiting for?
Dead Girl
I received a copy of "Dead Girl" and I had little idea what I was getting into. I hadn't read any buzz about it other than the pitch from the publicist that promised a horror film that was more about a rite of passage of two teenage friends and the testing of their friendship as two high school outsiders.
The word "poignant" was actually used to describe this movie.
After watching the film, I wondered how the heck I was going to write about it in these newspapers. These are family newspapers, so how do I describe a movie in which two high school losers discover a flesh eating zombie in the basement of an abandoned hospital?
Well, I guess I can say the film's events are anything but "poignant."
Apparently someone lost the will to actually sell this movie for what it is. It is an amazingly nasty zombie movie not so by effects or visuals but by idea. I'm sure that would have appealed to a certain audience.
Apparently, according to the "making of" feature, everyone involved wanted to talk about the friendship and teen angst angle. I suspect someone might be just a little guilty about making this movie.
If mean-spirited zombie movies are your cup of tea, grab some "Dead Girl." If you see this movie on the front of the Red Box, consider yourself warned.
Year One
Performer, writer and director Harold Ramis has had a long career in comedy. He has written such hits as "Caddyshack," "Analyze This" and "Groundhog Day," just to name three films.
So you would think that he would understand comedy enough not to lay such a leaden egg as "Year One."
Ramis wrote and directed the film and appears in it as well.
This film takes two stupid cavemen and has them interact with characters from the Old Testament. The mirthless concoction has our heroes Zed (Jack Black) and Oh (Michael Cera) meet up with Abraham, Isaac and Cain and Abel and they wind up in Sodom.
Part of the trouble is that Black just recycles his established obnoxious loser character - quickly becoming predictable and boring - and Cera has a mumbling Woody Allen style role. Neither is funny.
The film is quite "adult" for its PG-13 rating with sexual and scatological humor. It's not one to watch with the kids.
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Every cash transaction you make that's right every single time you put your hand in your pocket or your purse or whatever it is you use and take out some of the filthy MONEY to buy your dope or your haircut or your cheese sandwiches or whatever it is you use well listen to this because it's the only chance you're likely to get to hear something true.
Which is well, OK, then you might think it's just a question of dope or haircuts or cheese sandwiches but in fact what you're doing is worshipping the system and screaming out at the top of your voice COME AND GET ME I'M YOURS and lying down in the middle of the road so the cars can drive over you.
Because all that dealing with coins and bits of paper and plastic credit cards and even just a safe little signature on the bottom of a list of numbers well it's not so safe as it seems that's what you should understand no no it's not safe at all because that's how the money monster works boys and girls that's how it does its thing it reaches its sharp sharp little fingers into your life like that and if you were really awake (you know what I mean), if you were truly and expertly alive with all your senses going zing zing and all your nerves tingling and all your ears open like a jungle creature or a bird in the sky or even just a simple little bug such as you might find creepy-crawling along under the carpet or up the wall or something like that well what I'm saying is that if you even had an ounce of common sense like that well then every time you handed over some of your oh-so-precious MONEY for one of those things which you want and want oh-so-very-badly which I won't list again because well I wouldn't be able to stomach it you see well OK then I mean I can't stop you doing it and I mean you're not alone are you as you've probably noticed but what I think you should try and grasp if you are not terminally indoctrinated and well sold is the most accurate way of putting it now isn't it well if you have not entirely and 100% sold your soul and your body and everything else you can conceivably sell already well then what should happen every single time you hand over even a single cent or crown or drachma is you should imagine a great big stinking voice screaming right in your face with its foul breath getting up your nose and catching in your throat and its humid stinking saliva settling on your skin in a nasty grey and slimy film and what's it shouting boys and girls well I'll tell you exactly what it's shouting so try and open your ears just for a few seconds because here it comes it's shouting F*CK OFF AND DIE YOU IDIOTS because that's the long and the short of it and that's the real and exact truth about what kind of plans the money monster has for you in the future and if you're expecting anything else from it well you can have my sympathy because it's free but that's about all you're going to get from this foul and heartless world as long as the money monster is around so you'd better get used to it.
And if you're wondering what the way out is well there is no way out and if you're looking for a better alternative then that's right you guessed it there is no better alternative but just try and change your attitude and just to keep in practice try giving some of it away that's it just give it to beggars so they can spend it on drink because it's the system that's put them there and that means you because you are the system and if a voice inside you says well why should I do that then all I can suggest you come up with as an answer is WHY NOT?
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Mabry-Hazen House and Bethel Cemetery
Although Confederate supporters, the Mabry home became a headquarters and supply depot for both Confederate and Union troops. Earthworks and fortifications were built throughout the property.
The Civil War’s impact on the Knoxville homefront is nowhere better told than at this lovely Italianate dwelling, built just three years before the war began as the home of Joseph Alexander Mabry II and his wife, Laura Churchwell Mabry.
In 1861, the Mabrys were outspoken supporters of the Confederacy. Joseph Mabry received the honorary title of "General" for donating an estimated $100,000 to outfit local Confederate troops. C.S. Gen. Felix Zollifcoffer established headquarters here. Confederates also operated a railroad supply depot on the property and kept troops here.
In September 1863, U.S. Capt. Samuel Lunt occupied the home as his headquarters. Like many Knoxville businessmen during federal occupation, Joseph Mabry signed an oath of loyalty to the Union. Federal troops built earthworks and fortifications on Mabry’s property, and Laura Mabry sketched a map on how the defense lines crisscrossed her home. Federal officers made Mabry's Hill the eastern anchor of the Union’s defensive network north of the Holston River. After the Battle of Knoxville, U.S. Gen. Ambrose Burnside officially designated the position as Fort Hill, in honor of Capt. John W. Hill of the 12th Kentucky Calvary, who had died in the fighting.
At the foot of Mabry’s Hill, local Confederates established Bethel Cemetery, which holds the remains of over 1,600 Confederates. Soldiers who died in the assault on Fort Sanders are buried there; however, most of those who rest there died of disease in military camps and hospitals around Knoxville. The cemetery also contains the remains of some 50 prisoners and 20 Civil War veterans. The names of 1,465 of these men are recorded on the undertaker's list. In 1892, the Ladies Memorial Association dedicated a Confederate monument that continues to stand watch over these men.
• The Bethel Cemetery contains more than 1,600 Confederate dead, including 300 from the battle of Fort Sanders, and nearly 50 Union prisoners.
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Tolkien Gateway
(Redirected from Ring of Sapphire)
Vilya as conceived by The Noble Collection
Vilya (Q, pron. [ˈviʎa]) or Wilya (pre-SA and Vanyarin, [ˈwiʎa]), as a proper noun, was one of the Rings of Power made by the Elves of Eregion. Vilya, Nenya, and Narya were the Three Rings of the Elves, more powerful than the rings given to Dwarves or Men. Like the other Elven Rings, Vilya was jeweled: it contained a great blue stone set in a gold band, which contributed to its titles as the Ring of Sapphire and the Blue Ring. A lesser-used title of Vilya was the Ring of Air, signifying its preeminence even over the other Rings of the Elves; it was generally considered that Vilya was the mightiest of these three bands.[1]
[edit] History
By S.A. 1590,[2] Celebrimbor, the lord of Eregion, had forged all Three Rings independently of Annatar, a guise of the Dark Lord Sauron. As a result, none of the Three were stained by his evil. However, like all the Rings of the Elves, Vilya was still under Sauron's influence when he wielded The One Ring, which held dominion over all the others.
When Sauron made his Ring, Celebrimbor became aware of his designs and in gave the Three Rings to Elven guardians,[2] with Vilya sent to Gil-galad in Lindon. Sauron waged war against the Elves in Eriador but was eventually defeated. Afterwards, Gil-Galad gave Vilya to Elrond,[3] who bore it through the later years of the Second Age and all of the Third.
Upon Sauron's destruction in T.A. 3019[4], the power of Vilya faded and it went over the sea along with Elrond at the end of the Third Age.[1]
[edit] Quenya Noun
vilya, when not referring to the Ring of Air, is a noun meaning "air" or "sky" in Quenya.[5]
[edit] Tengwa
Vilya is also the name in Quenya of the twenty-fourth letter of the Tengwar alphabet.[5] It is the fourth letter of the sixth grade or Tyellë, which contains "semi-vocalic" consonants and it is the sixth letter in the fourth series of consonants.[6] In early written Quenya this letter represented W when the letter was called Wilya. Over time this letter ceased to have a clear function. However, in the Mode of Beleriand (as seen in the West-gate of Moria inscription) Vilya is used for a following W in the diphthong iw.[7] The Westron name for this letter is 'Á.[8]
[edit] Etymology
The word derives from the Primitive Quendian root WIL.[9]
[edit] See Also
Rings of Power
The One Ring
Three Rings
(Narya · Nenya · Vilya)
Seven Rings
(Ring of Thrór)
Nine Rings
[edit] References
8. See Westron Tengwar.
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Poker Hands
Rankings of poker hands for Holdem and standard five card poker games are shown below, ranked from the best to the worst poker hand. This page also contains many new strategy articles from our team of authors, with photos of our favorite poker babe. You can also brush up on your game rules, tells & terms on our reference pages.
Poker Hands
Starting Poker Hand Analysis
Here is the start of Dead Money's analysis of starting poker hands where he dissects each hand to uncover juicy tips and techniques.
Hand Analysis
The Best Poker Hand: AA
Poker Hands: Big Slick (AK)
A Good Opening Hand: AQ
Starting Hand Analysis: A2s
Hold'em Hands: AX (Ace-Any)
How to Play the Hand: KQs
Playing Trap Hands: KJ
Poker Hand Analysis: QQ
Poker Starting Hands: JJ
Poker Drawing Hand: JTs
Starting Poker Hands: 33
The Worst Poker Hand: 72o
Practice Hand Example #1
The Rock/Scissors/Paper Effect
Poker Math for Hands, Odds and Outs
The Math of Hands
Dead Money has written a series of articles called Poker Math, with information for calculating odds, counting outs and analyzing hands.
Poker Math 101: Pot Odds and Counting Outs
Poker Math 201: Drawing Hands vs. Made Hands
Poker Math 301: Starting Hand Odds
Poker Math 401: Application of Knowledge
Poker Math 501: End Game Mathematics
♣ PokerHo also explains how to calculate outs, pot odds & implied odds.
Poker Hand Rankings
Royal Flush: Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10, all of the same suit.
Straight Flush: Any five card sequence of the same suit.
Example: 7, 8, 9, 10, and Jack of ♣.
Four of a Kind: A poker hand with four cards of the same value (rank).
Example: 7, 7, 7, 7 (and any other card).
Full House: Three of a Kind combined with a Pair (see below).
Example: Queen, Queen, Queen with 6, 6.
Flush: Any five cards of the same suit.
Example: 2 of ♣, 4 of ♣, 7 of ♣, 9 of ♣,and King of ♣.
Example: 3 of ♣, 5 of ♥, 9 of ♠, 10 of ♥, Jack of ♣.
Three of a Kind: Three cards of the same value (rank).
Example: 8, 8, 8 (and any other two cards).
Two Pair: Two separate Pairs (see below).
Example: Jack, Jack with 5, 5 (and any other card). Also see Note (1) below.
Pair: Two cards of the same value (rank).
Example: 9, 9 (and any other three cards). Also see Note (2) below.
High Card: Poker hands that do not contain any of the above combinations are ranked by the highest card in the hand. (Ace is high, 2 is low).
Notes on Poker Hands with the Same Rank
NOTE 1: If two players have Two Pair, the poker hand with the highest Pair wins. If they have the same high Pair, whoever has the second highest Pair in their hand wins. If they have the same Two Pairs, then whoever has the highest fifth card wins the hand.
NOTE 2: If two players have the same value Pair, the highest card(s) outside of their Pair wins the hand.
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Using Woody Biomass To Extract Hydrogen From Water & Carbon From The Atmosphere
Wood contains carbohydrates, and is sort of obvious, the "hydrate" suffix in the term "carbohydrate" implies hydrogen. It gets there from water, during photosynthesis. By simple pyrolysis, essentially just a matter of heating wood in an oxygen starved "retort," it's easy to extract this naturally collected hydrogen and a bit of methanol, setting aside, if we wish, the charcoal byproduct for sequestration. The charcoal might just be "buried" as suggested in a research paper on this topic published in the journal Biomass and Bioenergy Technology Review. Alternatively, the charcoal byproduct of wood pellet pyrolysis could be used for a soil amendment. Viewed and managed in this way, trees become the ultimate climate protection machines, certainly deserving of the Richard Branson-offered prize. But who gets the award? The extraction is very old technology after all. Judging by a few of the comments made at Technology Review blog, we're guessing that a number of our readers will be thinking that it is a waste not to burn the carbon "char" byproduct for energy. To evaluate this notion, we need also to understand that all hydrocarbons in commercial use...there's that "hydro" prefix again... function as hydrogen carriers and that much of the energy extracted from gasoline, for example, comes from the combustion of that carried hydrogen. (Coal is not generally considered a hydrocarbon.) The critical difference is that woody growth removes carbon from the air, while fossil fuels, hydrocarbons included, only put more in. This is definitely not a stretch contrast. Gasoline refining is one of the single largest commercial markets for hydrogen. Refineries add that hydrogen to let them assemble more straight chain, hydrogen rich molecules that burn well and are less toxic (it's called "cracking"). That refinery-used hydrogen, for the most part, is extracted from the pyrolysis of natural gas, a fossil fuel.
Of course it was those clever Scandinavians, once again, who got us thinking out of the wooden box. Perhaps they deserve the award.
Image credit and referral to original source: Via Technology Review.
Tags: Biomass | Scandinavia
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Welcome to TriRig.com
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Unless otherwise stated, all content and images are © Nick Salazar and TriRig LLC, all rights reserved. That means that in general, unauthorized usage of any content is prohibited, and constitutes a violation of copyright.
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
I ordered a PandaBoard today. It is the next generation ARM platform from TI. It has a full gig of RAM, dual core processor and onboard wireless, among other goodies. Also, it will run the current Ubuntu, which is what SchoolTool would use on the ARM platform going forward. The SheevaPlug is a bit of a dead end in that respect.
OTOH, the PandaBoard is more expensive ($174), and that doesn't include a case, power supply, etc. I'm hoping I can make a slick display case using the laser cutter at AS220 Labs to use at demos.
It's back-ordered right now but should arrive next month sometime.
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Six Pixels of Separation - The Blog
September 1, 2009 8:56 PM
The Saddening State Of Mass Media
From Blogs to Twitter, there is a potential appetite for groups like the FCC to become more involved as a means to protect the public from unscrupulous Marketers. After the weekend I had, they may want to buckle down and pay a little closer attention to traditional mass media. Over the weekend, I decided to do some personal media outreach for the release of my first business book, Six Pixels of Separation (which will be in-stores on September 7th, 2009). I approached about one hundred individuals I know who publish content (some were Bloggers and others were Journalists, Editors and Publishers with some of the most highly regarded publications in the world) with an email request for help in getting the word out about the book.
What happened next shocked me.
Even though it was less than a handful of the respondents, I got back multiple emails that basically said if I wanted coverage in their publications it would have to be in exchange for:
• Buying advertising.
• Providing free copies of my book for them to distribute to clients for the holidays.
• Sending them solid advertising leads.
• Providing Digital Marketing services from Twist Image to the publication in exchange for editorial coverage.
• Creating "non-biased" original content that they would pre-approve and then use on their properties.
That smells like payola. It is highly unethical. It is very disturbing.
As a former Publisher of multiple magazines, I was both shocked and disappointed that the state of media has come to this. My first reaction was to go to the publisher's website and see if there was any form of disclosure that some of the editorial content presented within their properties may be either advertorial or sponsored by an advertiser. It won't shock you to hear that none of them had such a disclosure.
Why not just buy an ad?
If I wanted biased and paid content, all that we would have to do at Twist Image is buy some advertising. It's almost humorous to think that these mass media publishers now see their own content as nothing more than a commercial channel for advertising. What happened to editorial content and advertising acting more like church and state?
Does this disgust, scare and sadden you?
By Mitch Joel
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German Language
With an estimated 95 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages. There are also approximately 500,000 German native speakers in Canada, and the Fraser Valley is home to many families who have immigrated from Germany. Competency in this powerful language will give you access to the biggest economy in the European Union, and profound insight into a vibrant and rich culture.
Program Structure
Presently, we do not offer a program explicitly in German. German courses can be taken on their own or as a complimentary course or courses within another program, such as the Mennonite Studies Certificate. German courses may be used to satisfy elective requirements in some programs. Please review your program rquirements in the UFV Academic Calendar or with your program advisor.
Courses Offered
GERM 101 - Beginner's German I
Prerequisite(s): None
GERM 102 - Beginner's German II
Prerequisite(s): GERM 101 or equivalent
If you already have the 101/102 component (i.e. Grade 12 level), you may be eligible to have the first-year requirement waived.
GERM 201 - Intermediate German I: Composition Skills
Prerequisite(s): GERM 102 or instructor's permission
GERM 202 - Intermediate German II: Language and Culture
Prerequisite(s): GERM 201 or instructor's permission
Need More Info?
For German course descriptions, please see the UFV Academic Calendar. For more information regarding German courses, please contact the Modern Languages department assistant at 604-557-4035 or via email at
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Tomaskovic-Devey to Explore How Data Can Make EEOC More Effective
March 31, 2014
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
Sociology professor Donald Tomaskovic-Devey will discuss his recent work in a talk titled “Identifying Equal and Unequal Opportunity Workplaces” on Monday, April 7 at 12:15 p.m. in 620 Thompson Hall.
As Tomaskovic-Devey will explain, the current regulatory function of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is largely reactive. Individuals, and more rarely groups, file discrimination complaints and the EEOC reviews the complaint. Litigation is rare, and most complaints are at the individual level and are ineffective in changing firm behavior.
But Tomaskovic-Devey asks what if the EEOC could identify a set of employers with very low representation of women or minorities in the firm or in management and target them for proactive enforcement? His project aims to develop a diagnostic model, using the EEOC’s own data, as to the pool of best and worst organizations in terms of the diversity of their workforce.
This is the final lecture in the Center for Public Policy and Administration’s spring Faculty Colloquium series, which consists of informal talks, often about works-in-progress, with presenters providing a significant amount of time for audience discussion and feedback. They are open to the public and brown bag lunches are welcome.
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Understanding Islam
Tuesday, Jul 29th
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Punishment for Apostasy
My question is about the death penalty for apostasy.
Isn't this punishment too barbaric?
Question from United States of America
Saying that a particular punishment is too barbaric or otherwise, is basically giving a value judgment about that punishment. If that punishment is fixed by Allah or any of His prophets, it is the belief of all Muslims that then that punishment, whether severe or soft, serves justice.
Now let us turn to the real point of your question. In a nutshell, I do not ascribe to the opinion that the punishment for apostasy is death. As I shall explain in the following paragraphs, in my opinion, the Shari`ah has not fixed any punishment for apostasy. I must also point out here that there is, more or less, a consensus among the scholars that an apostate should be killed. However, I think that the basis of this opinion of the Muslim scholars is questionable. I do acknowledge the possibility that the opinion of the majority of the Muslim scholars is correct, but I request all those who read this reply to please point out the error in my reasoning that follows, rather than informing me that I have presented an opinion that is different from the majority of the Muslim scholars. I present my opinion with the necessary details in the following paragraphs:
As you should be aware of the fact that the basis of the opinion regarding the death penalty of an apostate is not any verse of the Qur'an , but a saying ascribed to the Prophet (pbuh), as reported by Bukhari, in his "Kitaab al-Jihaad wal-Siyar", "Kitaab istitabah al-Murtaddeen" and "Kitaab al-ai`tisaam bil-Kitaab wal-Sunnah", in which the Prophet (pbuh) is reported to have said:
Whoever changes his Religion, kill him.
Obviously, if the matter had ended here, I would probably have had no objection in submitting that the Prophet (pbuh) has fixed the punishment for ALL apostates to be death.
Nevertheless, the matter does not end here. We know that the Qur'an has referred to the issue of apostasy at more than one place (for example see Al-Baqarah 2: 217, Al-Baqarah 2: 108, Aal Imraan 3: 90, Al-Nisaa 4: 137 and Al-Nahl 16: 106). But at none of these instances does the Qur'an mention the punishment of death for such people, who change their religion. The Qur'an does mention that such people shall face a terrible punishment in the hereafter, but no worldly punishment is mentioned at any of these instances in the Qur'an . This situation obviously raises a question mark in the mind of the reader that if Allah had wanted to give the punishment of an apostate a permanent position in the Shari`ah, the punishment should have been mentioned, at least at one of the above mentioned places. If the Qur'an was devoid of any reference to apostates, the matter would have been different. The strange thing is that the Qur'an mentions apostasy, and still does not mention the punishment (if any) it wants the apostate to be subjected to.
Moreover, the Qur'an clearly mentions in Al-Baqarah 2: 256 that:
There is absolutely no compulsion in religion
While if the referred directive (regarding the apostate) ascribed to Prophet (pbuh) is taken to be general and not specific for a particular people, the Qur'anic statement: "There is absolutely no compulsion in religion" would lose all its meaning. If a person is to be killed in case he converts to another religion, it would imply that the statement of the Qur'an only means that a person cannot be forced to accept Islam, but he CAN be forced to remain a Muslim throughout his life. It is quite obvious that such is not the case.
Furthermore, the Qur'an has strictly disallowed the imposition of the death penalty except in two specific cases. One of them is where the person is guilty of murdering another person and the other is where a person is guilty of creating unrest in the land (fasaad fi al-ardh) like being involved in activities that create unrest in a community, for example activities like terrorism etc. The Qur'an says:
Whoever kills a person without his being guilty of murder or of creating unrest in the land, is as though he kills the whole of mankind. (Al-Maaidah 5: 32)
Obviously, apostasy can neither be termed as "murder" nor "creating unrest in the land".
Thus, in view of the above facts, we are left only with one option. We can only say that either the saying has been wrongly ascribed to the Prophet (pbuh), as it is clearly contradictory to the Qur'an and the Prophet (pbuh) could not have said anything contradictory to the Qur'an , or that the saying ascribed to the Prophet (pbuh) relates not to all apostates, but to a particular and specific people.
If we look at the Qur'an again, this time in a slightly different perspective, we see that although the Qur'an clearly mentions that no one can be forced into Islam (nor forcibly kept a Muslim), it makes the direct addressees of the Prophet (pbuh) an exception.
The Qur'an tells us that Mohammad (pbuh) was not only a Prophet (Nabi) but was also a Messenger (Rasu'l) of God. The Qur'an tells us that when God sends His messenger in a people, these people are not allowed to live on God's earth if they reject the messenger; It tells us that these people are given time in which to make up their minds and to present all their objections against the messenger (Rasu'l); It tells us that when the All-knowing God decides that these people have been given adequate time and that they are now absolutely clear about the truthfulness of the messenger and thus are not left with any excuse for their rejection, yet are still persistent in their rejection, then God directs His messenger to migrate from the area and then He destroys all those who have rejected His messenger[1]. The Qur'an refers to the peoples (nations) of the messengers of old - Nuh, Hud, Lut, Sho`aib, Saaleh, Musaa (pbut) - and narrates the result of their rejection. It declares to the direct addressees of Mohammad (pbuh) that if they do not accept the message of God's messenger (Mohammad) their fate shall be no different from those nations that have gone before them (See Surah Al-Qamar, the whole Surah especially verse 43 - 45).
In short, the Qur'an says that it is the unalterable law of God that when He sends His messenger in a people, these particular people are left with no option, but to accept His message or to face the punishment of death and sometimes complete annihilation[2].
The Qur'an goes further to tell us how this punishment was implemented on the polytheists from among the direct addressees of the Prophet (pbuh). It tells us that although the previous nations of the messengers of God were annihilated, because of their rejection, through (apparently) natural calamities, the believers of Mohammad (pbuh), because God has given them rule in a land (Medinah), shall fight the rejecters and through these believers shall God implement His punishment (Al-Taubah 9: 14 - 16). It directs them that the Mushrikeen should be killed, without any exception. They should only be allowed to live if they accept Islam (Al-Taubah 9: 5). On the other hand, it also directs them that the Jews and the Christians (because they were not polytheists - i.e. Mushrik), even if they do not enter the folds of Islam, they may be allowed to live if they accept to live under the Muslim rule and agree to pay the Jizyah[3] (Al-Taubah 9: 29).
Thus, the Prophet (pbuh) sent his messenger, who declared at the time of Hajj that no one from amongst the rejecting polytheists shall be allowed to live after the prohibited months, if he does not accept Islam. As a result of this declaration, most of the people of Banu Ishmael, who previously were polytheists, accepted Islam and thus the all-encompassing punishment of God was avoided[4].
In my opinion, the directive ascribed to the Prophet (pbuh) regarding the apostates is only with reference to the direct addressees of the Prophet (pbuh). If seen in this perspective, the saying ascribed to the Prophet (pbuh) actually would mean that these people who were to be punished, according to the law of God, had they not accepted Islam, would face the same punishment, if at any time during their lives they leave the folds of Islam.
In view of the above explanation, it is my opinion that the saying ascribed to the Prophet with regard to apostates, although general in its words applies specifically to the direct addressees of the messenger of God.
7th December 1998
[1] It should, however be added that from amongst the direct addressees of the messenger, only those rejecters are punished by death, who remain persistent in ascribing partners to God - i.e. the Mushrikeen.
[2] Refer to the previous footnote.
[3] The punishment of the non-polytheist rejecters of a messenger is the political and collective subservience of these rejecter, to the believers. Jizyah was a part of this punishment.
[4] as in the case of the prophet Jonah (pbuh).
Answer published by Moiz Amjad
Discussion(s) regarding this Question
Discussion on the Punishment for Apostasy
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Re: G95: just say no to second underscore
Mark Hadfield <m.hadfield@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Do g95 users have to use -fno-second-underscore when compiling a
>> fortran program with the netCDF library?
> Yes, they would have to do this.
>> If I just set -Df2cFortran when compiling netCDF, g95 works without
>> any further fuss. What is wrong with doing that?
> Only that g95's default "second-underscore" name mangling complicates
> building other packages, e.g. the MITgcm ocean model, and you can't
> mix libraries that use different name mangling conventions. (The same
> but personally I think it's simpler to use "-fno-second-underscore"
> everywhere.
I certainly understand your point, but I think that, by default, I
should not use the -fno-second-underscore with g95.
The goal is that, once netcdf is built for your fortran compiler, you
should not need any special flags to compile a netCDF fortran program.
If I set the flags as you suggest for the netCDF build, then the user
would have to know to set them when compiling any fortran netCDF
program. This would generate a lot of support questions from people
who built the netCDF fortran library, but couldn't get a fortran
program to correctly compile, because they didn't know to set the
So I am going to leave things as they are, and let g95 users who want
to work with other packages set the flags as they wish. If you set
these flags before building netCDF, it will not try to override your
choices, so knowledgeable users can use the no-second-underscore flag
if they wish.
I have added the following note to the Porting and Installation Guide:
"GNU compilers, and the g95 fortran compiler, use the f2cFortran
flag. This is turned on automatically by configure.
Some g95 users recommend instead setting the following, which handles
the underscores differently, and reportedly works better when
integrating with other packages or libraries:
@end example
If this approach is taken, all fortran programs which use netCDF must
be compiled with the -fno-second-underscore flag."
Ed Hartnett -- ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Graduate Faculty
Course Descriptions
People Degrees Admission to Graduate Program
Teaching Assistantships & Funding
Frandsen Vines Vertical
The list below provides a snapshot of graduate faculty and their fields of research expertise. For fuller profiles please see the Faculty Biographies.
Kathleen Boardman. Professor; PhD, 1992, University of Nebraska. Composition and rhetoric, autobiography and memoir, Western literature.
Phillip Boardman. Professor; PhD, 1973, University of Washington. Arthurian tradition, Middle English literature, Chaucer, the Bible.
Michael Branch. Professor; PhD, 1993, University of Virginia. American literature before the 20th century, ecocriticism and environmental literature, humor studies, film studies.
Stacy Burton. Associate Professor; PhD, 1990, Cornell University. 20th-century comparative literature, literary and cultural theory, modernism and postmodernism, narrative, the novel, travel literature, gender studies.
Catherine Chaput. Associate Professor; PhD, 2002, The University of Arizona. Rhetoric and cultural studies, the rhetoric of political economy, rhetorical theory and criticism, globalization studies.
Christopher Coake. Associate Professor; MFA, 2004, Ohio State University. Creative Writing (Fiction), Contemporary American Literature, Film.
Dennis Cronan. Associate Professor; PhD, 1986, University of Minnesota. Old and Middle English language and literature, Beowulf, Old Norse.
Jane Detweiler. Associate Professor; PhD, 1995, University of Louisville. Composition and rhetoric, narrative theory.
Elizabeth Francis. Associate Professor; PhD, 1970, Yale University. Victorian literature, children's literature, judicial writing.
Valerie Fridland. Associate Professor; PhD, 1998, Michigan State University. Sociolinguistics, language and gender, phonetic variation in regional speech.
Katherine Fusco. Assistant Professor; PhD, 2008, Vanderbilt University. American realism and naturalism, modernism, film studies, the novel, theories of celebrity, American studies.
Steve Gehrke. Assistant Professor; PhD, 2006, University of Missouri. Creative Writing, American literature, British romanticism.
Justin Gifford. Assistant Professor; PhD, 2006, University of Virginia. American literature, African American literature and culture, critical theory, American studies.
Cheryll Glotfelty. Professor; PhD, 1990, Cornell University. Ecocriticism and theory, environmental literature, Western American literature, Nevada studies, women's literature.
Donald E. Hardy. Professor; PhD, 1988, Rice University. Stylistics, computational linguistics, discourse analysis.
Jen Hill. Associate Professor; PhD, 2000, Cornell University. Nineteenth-century British literature, cultural studies, literatures of science and exploration, creative writing.
Ann Keniston. Associate Professor; PhD, 2002, Boston University. History and theory of poetry, modern and contemporary poetry, modern American literature, postmodern literature and theory, women's literature, creative writing (poetry).
William J. Macauley, Jr. Associate Professor and Director, University Writing Center; PhD, 1999, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Composition and rhetoric, writing program/center administration, working-class studies.
James Mardock. Associate Professor; PhD, 2004, University of Wisconsin. Renaissance literature, drama, Jonson, Shakespeare, London in literature.
Ashley Marshall. Assistant Professor; PhD, 2009, Penn State University. Eighteenth-century British literature, satire, Swift, historiography and history.
Susan Palwick. Associate Professor; PhD, 1996, Yale University. Creative writing, speculative fiction, Tolkien, medical narrative, women and writing.
Gautam Premnath. Assistant Professor; PhD Brown University. British Literature after 1800 Comparative literatures / Postcolonialism Cultural Studies Literary Theory Multiethnic literature
Eric Rasmussen. Professor; PhD, 1990, University of Chicago. Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, medieval drama.
Lynda Walsh. Associate Professor; PhD, 2003, The University of Texas at Austin. Rhetoric of science, pragmatics, writing research methods, 19th-century American literature, digital rhetorics.
Jim Webber. Assistant Professor; PhD, 2012, The University of New Hampshire. Public and political rhetoric, composition studies, writing teacher preparation, writing across the curriculum/writing in the disciplines.
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Deep Breathing (Smoking Cessation)
Deep breathing is a very useful tool to quit smoking. You can use deep breathing as a coping skill. Here are some of the benefits:
• Helps cravings pass
• Promotes relaxation
• Relieves feelings of tension, anxiety, and nervousness
• Increases oxygen and blood flow to the brain
• Improves memory, alertness, problem solving, and decision-making skills
Learning the technique
The 5 steps below teach you how to practice traditional deep breathing:
1. Take a slow, deep breath through your nose. Breathe in for 3 seconds. Feel your abdomen (belly) expand as you inhale.
2. Hold the breath for 3 seconds.
3. Pucker your lips, and exhale through your mouth. Breathe out slowly and evenly for 6 seconds. Feel your abdomen (belly) move inward.
4. Repeat the first three steps 3 to 5 times to experience the calming effect of deep breathing.
5. Practice often so you can use deep breathing effectively.
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look up any word, like b4nny:
Singular Noun, A Bird, a Nigga that Flies.
*Editors note Not necessarily an african american, all races, classes, and creeds can be included in the world of niggerdom*
She's treating me disrespectfully, shes acting like i'm some kind of bird ass nigga. i ain't no "Bird Nigga"
by Black Violin June 01, 2010
Words related to Bird Nigga
bird ass nigga
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look up any word, like plopping:
A hot girl who grew up in the country, she can rope and ride, barrel race, even calf rope. Likes to have fun not as crazy as a redneck girl.
Look at the country girl rope.
by xXtoxic~truckslutxX November 27, 2007
Typically hot, hardheaded, determined, always polite. Remembers her manners but will drop them on a dime to teach someone 'What's right'. Loves horses, knows how to ride, good cook, traditional type women that can still hold their own. Look just as natural in jeans and boots as they do in dresses. From farm family, or area, loves animals and children.
Usually underestimated and mistaken for the southern type. A country girl will often be referred to as 'the one that got away'. Country girls offer their men the typical lovers traits, with an added challenge thrown in. Often a country girl will have a man that provides well enough, but will constantly be pushing to provide just as well.
They believe in 'honesty is the best policy' and are typically humble unless challenged.
You can find country girls in the mid-west region of the USA. You'll be lucky to find one on the coast, as a country girl feels most at home in the mid-west.
From eHow:
Act sweet but have a strong side. Country girls retain all the charm and gentility of an old-fashioned gal, and mind their manners. But they can also be strong-willed when they need to be, protect the family farm or property, milk the cows, drive a tractor or operate the town post office by themselves.
A country girl knows how to use pots and pans. She bakes cakes for birthdays and special occasions, and picks the apples for her home-baked apple pie herself.
by Country Girl at heart September 03, 2010
A girl who grew up in the country and loves it. Usually listens to country music, might ride a truck or wear Wranglers. No, she doesn't necessarily have to know how to ride horses to be a country girl, since many country girls live on a farm without animals, just many crops. Chances are she has worked in the fields and helped with harvest. Perhaps she likes fishing and hanging with country boys.
Every country girl needs a country boy.
by robotpopsicle85 October 21, 2011
Typically thought of as a redneck, daddy's girl, but in reality, usually an average girl of the south. She wears cowgirl boots, not neccasarily on a regular basis. She's alright with wearing dresses and lookin pretty, but, just like any other girl, prefers jeans. Country Girls coome in all shapes and sizes, and are typically not whores, meaning, some are virgins some aint. country girls love their Jason Aldean and you can't forget Sugarland, so, yes, they love country music, but they don't limit what they listen to, to jus that, they also like pop-hits, just as much. Most, I'd say, go to church, half or more, don't really give a damn though. They just go cause it's more of a ritual of the south than anything.
Most Northeners & Californians, mistake country girls and rednecks, so let me make it clear, Polk County, TN = rednecks whereas most other counties in TN, have country girls and boys, and not so many rednecks.
A: Didja know Reese Witherspoon, was raised up as a country girl ?
B: Yea, she was good friends with my aunt, back when they were youngins' like us.
by True Country Girl May 19, 2011
takes value in honesty, honor, integerty. Hunts know her horses and farm animals. Loves life and people. Takes pride in what she does. loves countryboys...
wranglers,cowboots,hat,dusty,horse,long hair,browneyes..
by Alex March 12, 2005
Imaginary expectation of what a girl from some shithole in the middle of nowhere is like. They are just average teenage girls that will never be anything more than a fat housewife in the future, which the "country boy" will settle for. They are exactly like the "basic" bitches found in the city only they claim to be tomboys and join in backwoods activities such as mudding, bonfiring and hunting and only actually go once or twice. These girls commonly boast about being country on social network sites and apps such as Facebook, instagram and Twitter. They also listen to shitty modern pop-country music and bring a radio everywhere they go because they absolutely HAVE to listen to it every day. Around the age of 25-26 the constant alcohol intake gets to them and they begin to gain weight, also around this time they dont mention being "country" anymore and begin to have children to complete the cycle.
by DouchebagOnInternet July 28, 2013
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