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Arkham Origins, We Need to Talk About Your Story Batman: Arkham Origins has been out for about a month now, and I finally got around to finishing the story. Now, let me preface this post by saying that I do like the game. While it does feel a tad derivative at times, WB Montreal did a good job of taking a core structure and adding their own unique spin to it with new gadgets and combat mechanics. There are enough reviews of the game out there by now, though, and we don't really need another. Instead, I'd like to focus on some aspects of the game's story that left me a little miffed and confused. It probably goes without saying, but just to be safe, THIS POST CONTAINS MANY, MANY SPOILERS FOR THE GAME. If you don't wish to have the story spoiled for you, then stop reading. If you already know or don't care, though, then venture onward. When I first heard about Arkham Origins I was pretty excited at the prospect of a bit of fresh air being breathed into the series. Not that the first two games were by any means bad or stale; in fact, I consider them to be two of the best games of what I suppose is technically now the last generation. Yet it is always interesting to see what happens when a series falls into new hands. When I heard that the premise of the game was going to revolve around Black Mask hiring a bunch of assassins to take out Batman, I got a bit giddy. I love when big franchises like this utilize some of their lesser-known characters, and Roman Sionis has always been one of my favorite Gotham baddies. The game starts out fairly strong. Black Mask leads a breakout at Blackgate Penitentiary and, with the help of Calendar Man (for God knows what reason), executes Commissioner Loeb. He then, in a move that seems somewhat unprovoked and slightly out-of-character for Sionis, offers some of the DC Universe's deadliest assassins a bounty of $50 million to kill Batman. Perhaps it is merely the way that the events are presented so abruptly that make them seem odd, but given that there is no exposition given as to what exactly Batman has done to hinder Sionis' operation, and considering that Batman has only been around for about two years at this point, it seems unlikely that Black Mask would offer so much money to get rid of one guy. I went along with it, though, as comic books (and even more so their adaptations) tend to take various liberties with the source material. In retrospect, this should have been a warning of things to come. As the plot continues and Batman tries to track down Black Mask and his assassins, we begin to learn about a mysterious new criminal in town called The Joker. Now, I already knew that Joker was going to be in this game, it was in all of the advertisements. So, I figured, this was going to be a reference point to where the story takes place in the Batman chronology. We're going to get to see the first interaction between Batman and his arch-rival and maybe see how Joker plays a part in, or even derails, Black Mask's plans. He could prove to be a departure from hero and villain alike; a new, third type of entity, that plays by new rules and forces both sides to contend with something radically different. Unfortunately, that's not what happens. Arkham Origins, We Need to Talk About Your Story In a twist that I feel is probably one of the worse decisions made by the development team, it turns out that the "Black Mask" that had hired all of the assassins and caused all of this trouble had really been Joker all along. Apparently, Joker kidnapped Sionis, disguised himself as Black Mask, and took over his entire organization over the course of, I don't know, a few days. This is almost an M. Night Shamylan quality plot twist in that it seems improbable and didn't really need to happen. There are dozens of ways they could have made the Joker a prominent villain in the story without resorting to "Surprise! This guy was really someone else all along!" It's almost like watching an episode of Scooby-Doo. But bizarre theatrics aside, this is indicative of a greater problem facing this series: the Joker does not have to be the villain of every damn Batman storyline. Don't get me wrong, I love the Joker. I find him to be one of the most interesting and well-developed villains of all time (right below Emperor Palpatine). But I don't need him to be in every Batman story. Plenty of the best Batman tales revolve around villains who are not the Joker (The Long Halloween, Dark Victory, Knightfall, the list goes on). Hell, even The Dark Knight Returns, arguably the best Batman story-arc, only features a brief appearance by the Clown Prince of Crime, with the story largely focusing on Batman's age and stubbornness as the real threat. The Arkham games, however, seem to have fallen into the unfortunate rut of feeling the need to shoe-horn the Joker into being the center of every storyline. It needs to stop. That point aside, from the plot twist onward the story feels rather unfocused and confusing. Joker becomes the villain for a bit, then he goes to jail. After that, despite losing the promise of the $50 million bounty and for reasons that are never adequately explained, Bane decides to stick around and hunt down Batman. We even discover that Bane has discovered Batman's true identity as Bruce Wayne. But wait! Before Bane can really do anything meaningful, Joker escapes from prison, seemingly within mere hours of being put there. So Joker becomes the villain again. Meanwhile, Bane continues to hang around. They stage some kind of test for Batman in the prison that is supposed to force Batman to compromise his values and which he, unsurprisingly, manages to find a way around. Then, in classic fashion, Bane gets underrepresented as the genius he is supposed to be and becomes an enormous, hulking behemoth for the final boss fight, which plays out a bit like a stupider version of the Mr. Freeze fight from Arkham City. Finally, there's a brief confrontation with Joker to wrap things up which is mostly there to reiterate Joker's newfound obsession with Batman. All-in-all it's a fairly unsatisfying ending which barely manages to tie together a few of the main plot points. That brings me to another point, though. While the main plot itself is a bit lacking, the real travesty of this game is the sheer number of plot holes and unfinished or underexplored storylines. Let me list off just a few more things that I take issue with. The Joker I know I just got through talking about the main story, but there's one more thing about the Joker's motivation that I just can't wrap my mind around. Right after we discover that Joker has really been Black Mask the whole time, the game makes it abundantly clear that Joker doesn't give two shits about Batman. He essentially tells Batman that he's got more important things to do than deal with him and drives away. It's not until later, when Batman saves his life, that Joker develops a fascination with the Bat. There's even a lengthy sequence where Joker explores his newfound feelings. With that in mind, what the hell was the reason behind taking out the bounty on Batman in the first place? The mercenary storyline seems to have relatively little to do with Joker's overall plan to terrorize the city, and actually almost makes less sense than if it had actually been Black Mask to take out the bounty in the first place. Making his video game debut in this game, I felt that Anarky was one of the more interesting characters in the game. While his ideals fall in line with Batman's, it's his practices that set them at odds. There's a lot of story potential in two characters with similar beliefs but huge fundamental differences, which is why it's so disappointing that the Anarky side-story is wrapped up so quickly. Three short missions, a quick boss fight, and it's over. Sure, after the boss fight you can sit and listen to a tied up Anarky prattle off various beliefs and talk about how disappointed he is in Batman, but this is all information that could have been organically built into a much longer series of missions surrounding the character instead of having him hurl words at your face like he were trying to give you an intervention or something. The Assassins While a few of the assassins play big parts in the main plot, a few of them seem to be relatively forgotten. Electrocutioner is done away with almost immediately, as are Killer Croc and Deathstroke. Deadshot gets his own very short side quest, culminating in what can barely be described as a boss fight. Truthfully, I don't even know what happened to Shiva. Either her part is so inconsequential that I don't remember it or she's relegated to some side quest so obscure that I never came across it in the course of the main game. It's almost like the developers forgot about her. Ultimately, the Assassins plot line starts off strong, but kind of piddles out, leaving Bane as the only real important member of the group. Alfred plays a rather large support role in the game. He fluctuates between giving Bruce support and scolding him for dangerous behavior. All in all I don't have too much problem with Alfred in the game, but there is one thing that bugs me. At the beginning of the game, Alfred is very confrontational and tries to play and almost dominant roll over Bruce. There is even a scene where Alfred straight up tells Bruce that he is acting irresponsibly and that the city doesn't need him. This is awesome. It's great to see different aspects of Alfred's character being developed. The problem comes later in the game when Alfred has a massive change of heart, recognizing Batman as the hero Gotham needs, with relatively little reason for doing so. Granted, it is just after Alfred is nearly killed by Bane, and near-death experiences often have great effects on peoples' personalities, but there is simply not enough justification given for why Alfred displays this change of heart. The scene essentially amounts to Alfred waking up from near death, merely an hour or so after having a huge fight with Bruce about his vigilante shenanigans, and going "Oh, I understand now. Well, off you go! Save the city and all that." Other Side Characters There are a few famous Batman characters that show up throughout the game, often as what I can only describe as a poor understanding of how cameos are supposed to work. The two main offenders here are Penguin and Barbara Gordon. Both character show up at pivotal moments in the main story and the game gives the impression that they are going to remain important characters throughout the plot. Sadly, what actually happens is that they show up, say some things, and then in some way bestow you with a list of macguffins to collect or destroy, and then disappear forever. Perhaps they show up at some point in the future, but after completing a rather large number of their arbitrary side-quest objectives the game has provided no evidence that they intend to show themselves again. A similar thing could be said about Calendar Man, who actually shows up very early in the story and seems like he's going to play large part in the plot. Hell, the opening cinematic even talks about his execution as a major event. However, after Loeb's execution he disappears, never to be seen again. As I said in the beginning, the game is good, and if you liked the first two games you should definitely play it. However, don't expect the same level of polish displayed by Rocksteady's entries in the series. The biggest problem, I feel, is that the game started off based around utilizing characters from the Batman mythos that people don't care about as much. Unfortunately, rather than developing those characters and making the audience realize how awesome they are, the developers themselves seem to have stopped caring about those characters as well in favor of more recognizable faces like Joker and Bane. It's sad, really, because this game had a lot of potential to explore the less popular areas of the Batman universe, but ended up not having the heart to do so, leading to a story that often feels unfinished and hollow. Hopefully, if they decide to add another game to the series, they can bring back Paul Dini to try something a little different.
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02 April 2008 NetBeans6.1+EJB3+Struts [PART 2] Click Next and in packages you type entities and hit the Finish button. This will generate the Java POJO's for you directly from the Database with all of the Annotations required. Now navigate to Source Packages and open your Java Class. Take a look at how much code the IDE has already created. Also methods like hashCode, equals and even a @NameQueries annotation was added. Now add @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO) to the top of your id field. After adding the Annotation your code will look like this: @Column(name = "ID", nullable = false) @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO) private Integer id; This will tell the Entity Manager to take care of the ID sequence. Right click again on MyApp-ejb, New->Other->Persistence->Session Beans for Entity Classes. Click on Next select the entity class available click Add > And click Finish. This will create the the Session Bean interface and the implementation. Two classes will open in your editor. Click on the Facade one and check it out all of the methods that the IDE generated one more time for you. You have a CRUD just with few clicks. ;) Creating all of those classes through the IDE diminishes the eventuality of error-prone code of the many, many Session Beans you might be creating by hand. And also removes the tedious/slow work of editing xml's and the necessity of redundant code writing. ;) No comments:
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A crawler transporter slowly maneuvers Space Shuttle Discovery, with its external tank and solid rocket boosters, into High Bay 1 of the Vehicle Assembly Building to repair damage to the external tank's foam insulation caused by hail. The necessary repair work could not be performed at Pad 39B due to limited access to the damaged areas. The work is expected to take two to three days, allowing Discovery to roll back to the pad by midweek for launch of mission STS-96, the 94th launch in the Space Shuttle Program. This is only the 13th time since 1981 that a Shuttle has had to roll back from the pad. Liftoff will occur no earlier than May 27. STS-96 is a logistics and resupply mission for the International Space Station, carrying such payloads as a Russian crane, the Strela; a U.S.-built crane; the Spacehab Oceaneering Space System Box (SHOSS), a logistics items carrier; and STARSHINE, a student-shared experiment. (Photo Release Date: 05/16/1999 ) KSC-99PP-0535 - Raw ASCII Text Caption file KSC-99PP-0535 - Low (GIF Format, 320x240 pixels x 256 colors, approx 50 Kbytes) KSC-99PP-0535 - Medium (JPEG format, 1024x768 pixels x 256 colors, approx 250 Kbytes) KSC-99PP-0535 - High (JPEG, 2040x2640 pixels x 16 million colors, approx 400 Kbytes) STS-96 KSC Photo IndexNext Image KSC-99PP-0536 DISCLAIMER: No copyright protection is asserted for these photographs.
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a38c Welcome, Slate Readers – Dispatches from the Creation Wars Dispatches from the Creation Wars Welcome, Slate Readers I don’t know how this happened, but I got linked by Slate magazine today regarding the Dover trial. So if you’re new here because you saw the link in Slate, stick around. I’m guessing you’ll either love me or hate me. 1. #1 Tanooki Joe September 27, 2005 We aren’t allowed to be ambivalent about you anymore? 2. #2 carpundit September 28, 2005 If they were reading Slate, they’ll love you. Not a lot of ID people read Slate, I think. 3. #3 raj September 28, 2005 carpundit at September 28, 2005 07:51 AM Not a lot of ID people read You probably could have stopped there ;-) 4. #4 rjg September 28, 2005 I did find your blog from Slate, and I am very glad I did. You are now in my list of bookmarks and will be read regularly. Thank you for thinking,
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Dispatches from the Creation Wars Yep, it’s Stevens Senator Ted Stevens’ spokesman confirmed that he was indeed the senator that put a “secret hold” on a bill that would increase government transparency and help us find where our tax dollars are going to. Apparently, the memo about committing political suicide got stuck in the tubes when one of his aides sent him an internet. 1. #1 Jim S August 30, 2006 If the only way we could get rid of Ted Stevens would be to kick Alaska out of the U.S. I think I’d be willing to see it happen. I certainly know that given the quality of politician they’ve been giving us there are some southern states that I’ve occasionally thought should have been allowed to secede. And that’s really sad given that’s where my family is from. 2. #2 Grumpy August 30, 2006 Jim S, that’s really mean. Speaking from Alaska here. Though you’re right about the only way to get rid of Stevens. 3. #3 Ron H. August 31, 2006 I am confused. Please explain to me exactly how Stevens action helps Alaska? 4. #4 Ick of the East August 31, 2006 It’s probably payback for other Senators trying to take his bridge (to nowhere) away in order to help pay for Katrina. 5. #5 Rev. BigDumbChimp August 31, 2006 Don’t forget, Ted “Tubes” Steven won the Hogzilla award last year from Citizens Against Government Waste for his $646 million in pork for Alaska. That’s around $985 of pork per Alaskan. Ranked #1 in the country for pork per capita. His reasons are obvious. 6. #6 Rev. BigDumbChimp August 31, 2006 Stevens. I’d hate to blame the Salmon cannery worker Ted Steven for Ted Stevens’ porktacular appropriations. 7. #7 Stogoe August 31, 2006 That’s it. From now on I’m calling him Tubey McSenile. Or maybe His Tubeyness, Senile McPorkster. This guy deserves all the disdain that can be thrown on him. 8. #8 Andrew_Wyatt August 31, 2006 It’s a credit to the populist power the Web and the widespread hatred of pork among grassroots activists of all stripes that a non-partisan site (Porkbusters), a conservative site (GOP Progress), and a liberal site (TPMmuckraker) banded together so fast to uncover the identity of the “masked Senator”.
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Home page logo fulldisclosure logo Full Disclosure mailing list archives Re: Re: Session data pollution vulnerabilities inweb applications From: Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:30:25 -0600 On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 19:18 +0000, Dave Korn wrote: Yes he is. He's polluting sanitized data with tainted data. It's a fairly reasonable description if you ask me. I didn't see any sanitized data. It's a POST input, not something clean and trusted. NO! You've /completely/ failed to understand the post. The underlying issue is not that the user-supplied data is trusted, because it isn't, it gets validated. Where did that happen? I haven't seen a validation in his example. The _underlying_ issue is that the *same* location is used to store both trusted and non-trusted data, and there's no way for the application to know which kind of data was last stored in that location. You're not telling me that $_POST['login'] is trusted data, are you? against your ports. Attachment: signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/   By Date           By Thread   Current thread:
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Gerry Brown of Business Insider recently wrote, “Last week, Google announced a brand new algorithm for its search engine, called Hummingbird. Although Google often produces updates and enhancements (such as the ‘Caffeine Update’ in 2010, and ‘Penguin’ and ‘Panda’ since), the last time Google introduced a brand new algorithm was 2001, so it is a big change. Although Google has not given away many details, it said that Hummingbird is focused on ranking information based on a more intelligent understanding of search requests. As Internet data volumes explode we increasingly have to type more and more words into Google Search to gain greater accuracy of results. Often we need to conduct multiple searches to find the information we are looking for, which is frustrating and time consuming.” Brown continues, “This is because the Search results we currently receive reflect the matching combination of key words that a search phrase contains, rather than the true meaning of the sentence itself. Search results produced by Hummingbird will reflect the full semantic meaning of longer search phrases, and should in theory produce more accurate results. For example Hummingbird will more greatly consider question words like ‘how’ ‘why’, ‘where’ and ‘when’ in search phrases, in addition to content keywords. Hence Hummingbird moves the emphasis of search from ‘results’ to ‘answers’. Google also has acknowledged that the number of mobile and voice-based searches is increasing. Such voice searches are in natural language, and may not therefore contain the keywords we might finesse on a computer keyboard. These ‘on the fly’ searches are likely to return poor results using a keyword search system.” Read more here. Image: Courtesy Flickr
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Shlomi Fish’s Humorous Collections of Facts There is an ongoing Internet meme of collecting various funny or otherwise amusing “facts” about Chuck Norris. This meme has expanded to cover facts about other people or entities. These pages house my contributions to this trend, which I find very amusing. Many people I talk with don't enjoy them as much as I and some of my friends seem to, so don't worry if you do not. The Collections Chuck Norris Facts These are additions to the Chuck Norris facts by my Internet friends and by me. Most of them are kinda geeky (or even computer geeky), but some are more generic. Reading from the wikipedia page: Chuck Norris 'facts' are satirical factoids about martial artist and actor Chuck Norris that have become an Internet phenomenon and as a result have become widespread in popular culture. The 'facts' are normally absurd hyperbolic claims about Norris' toughness, attitude, virility, sophistication, and masculinity. Buffy Facts Facts about Buffy Summers, the main protagonist of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as created by Joss Whedon and portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar. Facts about Clarissa Darling, the protagonist of the show Clarissa Explains It All, as created by Mitchell Kriegman and played by Melissa Joan Hart. Emma Watson Emma Watson is a 1990-born British actress and model, who rose to fame playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, and (quoting from the Wikipedia page): “Knuth is not God” Don Knuth is a professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University, and is the creator of TeX, inventor of several important algorithms and author of The Art of Computer Programming. These facts explain why he isn’t God, but pretty close. Larry Wall Facts Larry Wall is the creator of the Perl programming language, and the inventor of the patch program. These facts illustrate his “hacky” (= rule bending) awesomeness. NSA Facts Summer Glau Facts Summer Glau (born 1981) is a Hollywood actress best known for playing River Tam in Firefly and Cameron in the Television series The Sarah Connor Chronicles. She is also notable for being featured in the online comics, xkcd, and for being featured as a fictional version of herself in the realistic, political, fan-fiction, screenplay, Summerschool at the NSA. Glau is notable for being the first non-fictional and real-life female, which is the subject of such facts here. Xena (the Warrior Princess) Facts XSLT Facts XSLT is short for Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Transformations and is an XML-based language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents. These facts illustrate how evil XSLT (supposedly) is. I think XSLT has many legitimate uses and can be pretty sweet, but an IRC conversation we had on ##programming started this meme and it seems cool. In Soviet Russia Additions to the In Soviet Russia… (or “Soviet reversal”) meme by my friends and me.
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Michael Jeffery From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Michael Jeffery Major-General Philip Michael Jeffery (born 12 December 1937) was the 24th Governor-General of Australia from 11 August 2003 until 5 September 2008. He was appointed by John Howard. Before this he was Governor of Western Australia. He quit the army in 1993 when he became Governor. Biography[change | change source] Jeffery was born in 1937 in Wiluna, Western Australia, and he was educated at Cannington, East Victoria Park State Schools, and Kent Street High School.[1] When he was 16 years old, he left Perth to go to the Royal Military College, which was Duntroon. After he graduated there in 1958, he went to Malaya in 1962 for a special service with the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Royal Australian Regiment.[1] In 1965, he was seconded to go to the British SASR (Special Air Service Regiment) for a tour in Borneo. Then he returned to Australia as the leader of the SASR in Perth. From 1966 to 1969, he worked in Papua New Guinea with the 1st Battalion. He married Marlena Kerr, who lived in Sydney during this work. After that, in 1972, he was chosen to go to the British Army Staff College at Camberley. Then he was chosen as the person to help with the 2nd Battalion in Wewak PNG. In 1976, he became the commander of the SASR and was appointed as the member of the order in Australia. He was also chosen to attend the Royal College of Defence Studies in London in 1985.[1] From 1986, he became the commander of the Army's 1st Division. In June 1988, he even became the Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to the Army, and in 1989, he became the Assistant Chief of the General Staff.[1] In January 1990 he became the Chief of the General Staff, and he was responsible for the Army. Later in 1991 he became appointed as the Assistant Chief of the General Staff for Material, which also included taking care of the Army equipment and building projects. On the first of November 1993, he was sworn in as the 27th governor of Western Australia, and he also became a Companion of the Order of Australia, until 2000.[1] General Jeffery's interests were about young people, education, environment, and national security. Also, the Queen made him the Prior for Australia, and a Knight of Justice of the Order.[1] He and his wife Marlena have seven grandchildren, three sons, and a daughter.[1] His hobbies are listening to music, reading, golf, and fishing.[1] References[change | change source]
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Forgot your password? + - BBC iPlayer to stream for Linux & Mac users-> Submitted by Albanach Albanach (527650) writes "The BBC has confirmed that television shows available to download for Windows users within the UK will be available to Linux and Mac users by the year end. The BBC has signed a deal with adobe to make streaming versions of these programmes available using Flash. While the BBC have not ruled out a download and watch later version for Linux and mac users, they state "It comes down to cost per person and reach at the end of the day"." Link to Original Source
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Forgot your password? Comment: Re:Google should then provide signed certs (Score 2) 299 So why can't they move their feet out of the fire by verifying the public key themselves and uploading it into their own Gmail account? No registrar can beat the verification of me pasting the public key from my own server and verifying the fingerprint out-of-band. Comment: Re:So in normal development (Score 1) 125 by vsync64 (#40624505) Attached to: Firefox 15 Coming With Souped-Up, Faster Debugger I have. In fact I've deployed Firefox and other Mozilla applications to tens of thousands of users. I built the configuration and packaging environment, as well as some tools for us to manage site- and role-specific autoconfigs. A coworker of mine spent a lot of time in the JavaScript autoconfigs themselves and came up with some pretty impressive automations. I can see how you might want GPO support if you're into it but for us it was great that we could deploy variants of one single file and support all 4 major OS platforms in use within our organization. We were able to provide preview releases of new Firefox builds that hadn't yet been tested with all the corporate apps and users could switch between them. As far as locking the settings or preventing auto-update, both of those tasks were both trivial and obvious. Honestly Firefox and the rest of the products were fine to configure. The hassles really came a bit from what you'll have trying to automate any large organization, and most especially the politics from middle managers arguing about whether we could just push the update yet. Oh, the politics. Comment: Re:Not on topic but how is this (Score 1) 169 by vsync64 (#40592313) Attached to: Samsung Blames Galaxy SIII Burn On "External Energy Source" This is the fault of game " 'UI' 'designers' " who insist on drawing their own things instead of using system widgets. At best they act like the designer's preferred platform no matter where the application is running. More likely, they only approximate the coarsest features of the thing being emulated and leave the user with a constant feeling of frustration. Really? You have to develop your own scrollbar? (Scrollbars are actually a good example. I should note that this idiocy is now making its way into Web "design", where thanks to the "everything should be a tablet" crowd, you start to see people making custom scrollbars that hide unless you happen to mouse over the right place, and are too thin to grab with the mouse.) Comment: Re:The problem even extends to "journalism". (Score 1) 878 by vsync64 (#40592163) Attached to: Does Grammar Matter Anymore? As of late I've been noticing and commenting to friends about a growing disregard for spelling, grammar, and proper English as a whole. In school I was taught to never use contractions when writing a "professional" piece; I see that constantly now. The problem is that your classes conflated a particular style (not using contractions) with basic rules of quality writing (spelling, grammar, and proper English). As a result, when you complain about the latter, people assume you are talking about the former and write you off as a dinosaur. This is an unfortunate consequence of the arrogance of the last generation of English teachers. If, however, you're in fact using the latter to complain about the former, you're part of the problem and not the solution. spell out any number ten or lower This rule is harmful and it enrages me. It seems to me that "Tweetspeak" and shorthand common to texting and Facebook messaging are now considered acceptable to journalism editors, particularly online. It seems to be a common problem that people associate rules with media rather than giving any thought to what is necessary or unnecessary (e.g., "I'm not printing this onto a piece of paper, therefore I should misspell things"). Not to mention that while I think of it as a sign of respect for coworkers to write things in a legible manner for them, there sadly seem to be some who think the opposite. Comment: you can build great Web apps using Java (Score 1) 409 by vsync64 (#40199417) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Tips For Designing a Modern Web Application? I have had great experiences using the "Java EE" toolkit (basically just a combination of servlet and JPA technologies) and Spring MVC (Spring's front-end Web framework) to build nice clean modern Web sites and applications. The great thing about this combination is nothing is too different from the stuff you've done before if you've done any medium- to large-scale Java programming before. Multiple vendors, commercial and FOSS, implement the specifications. JPA is one of the better ORMs I've seen (second only to CLSQL and probably more comprehensive, anyway). Most everything is done with simple annotations. And Spring is very well-mannered; you can take as much or as little as you like. Once I had to hook a Web front-end up to an application with a custom authentication system... it was cake to implement the Spring interfaces and suddenly my application was a fully acceptable auth provider for its own Web interface. I have started a write-up on this at http://quadium.net/~vsync/tech/java-servers/ and my goal was to consolidate and smooth some of the information I had to scrounge over the years about the process. There is a lot of Java information out there but lots is outdated and much seems to assume familiarity or use of this or that IDE, and at least online I haven't found many comprehensive sources. That said, sadly once you get past the first bits of my write-up it gets to be more and more of an outline. But your perspective as someone familiar with Java but wanting to get into this aspect of it would be greatly appreciated. If you're interested I believe a while ago someone on Reddit gave me some links to some Spring MVC tutorials that seemed decent as well. I can try to dig them up if you'd like.
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"what do you mean you don’t know your wifi password?" (via breakfast-with-satan) (via breakfast-with-satan) Rene Magritte - The Blow to the Heart (via intheeyesofasinner) Timestamp: 1406643641 Handmade crowns by Elemental Child. OH MY GOD I want go get married in the rose Quartz one omfg (via behind-a-veil-of-lies) Timestamp: 1406643564
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Quick Bites News in one quick bite. Quote of the Day: Glide on the Pizza Train Quote of the Day"You know what they need to start? A food train trend. So get this — you get one train car, an old one that is fueled by a wood-burning engine. Here's the genius — the wood would also power the wood-fired pizza oven! I know nothing about pizza ovens or trains, but that sounds like it would be easy to rig. Maybe the people at Kesté or Grimaldi's in NYC can figure that out." —Aziz Ansari, in Bon Appétit Add a comment Previewing your comment:
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January 23 to March 4, 2012 Ensemble Transmission Photo: Céline Côté, September 2009. From January 23rd to March 4th, 2012, the ensemble will include Ana Sokolović’s work during its tour of various cultural centres on the island of Montreal. Something to watch out for! Concert Dates Composing in the Present! Page even_detail@hommage2011_29067 generated in Montréal by litk 0.600 on Monday, June 30, 2014. Development & maintenance: DIM.
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Need a gift for a gifted musician? Gift page "I'm a brazilian independent multi-instrumentalist and self taught musician born on 04/25/91. My very first instrument was a nylon guitar given by my mother in 2001. I took some classes but everything was boring for me at that age so I decided to take a break for a couple of years. As time goes by I made up my mind and decided to take some particular classes with my godfather. After months he told me I was ready to learn with one of the greatest guitarists of town. Sincerely I wasn't feeling very well learning stuff from the same old method that all instructors used to do. Then I told my-self I would buy an electric guitar and learn music on my own. One year later I found me playing that electric guitar on a small studio improvised in my apartment. At that time my little brother had picked a cheap drum set. We used to play each other instrument and make some jam together. At the end of the day I was in love with that drum so I started practicing it every day. I've played in great bands as a drummer since I was 12. The year 2009 was like life changing for me cause I finally took my old guitar and started composing instead of just playing cover songs on the drums. Currently I'm trying something new, playing different instruments and composing just to reach my goal: Living abroad with my wife through my music and making people fell something good about my compositions. Getting my songs to this next level is something only YOU can help. I know it sounds cliche but it's legit." Check out my official website: Gleisson Assis Gleisson Assis, Araxá, Brazil • Original Compositions 5 tracks, 15.38 Gleisson Assis on January 31, 2013 17:44 1. 1. Gleisson Assis - Solution (MASTERED) 2.15 305 plays 2. 2. Gleisson Assis - Running To You (MASTERED) 3.38 319 plays 3. 3. Gleisson Assis - She's 18 (MASTERED) 3.20 136 plays 4. 4. Gleisson Assis - The Same Way (MASTERED) 3.46 451 plays 5. 5. Gleisson Assis - Beat The Bros (MASTERED) 2.38 67 plays Share to WordPress.com Add a comment 0 comments at 0.00 Click to enter a comment at
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LifeLines / News: Recent posts New lifelines FAQ page Thanks to Larry Hamilton, lifelines now has a FAQ page. Posted by elsapo 2005-11-20 lifelines internationalized LifeLines is a genealogy program to help with your family history research. Its primarily strengths are its powerful scripting language and the ability easily import and export information in the GEDCOM format. Recent copies of lifelines now include Danish, French, German, and Swedish message catalogs. Posted by Perry 2003-01-17 Linux RPMs available -- includes documentation and reports Binary and source RPMs for Linux/i386 are now available. They include all the documentation and report scripts. Posted by Marc Nozell 2000-07-22 lifelines-3.0.5 released A new release of LifeLines is now available. It is primarily a bugfix release. Posted by Marc Nozell 2000-06-06 Report scripts available! Download the lifelines-reports-0.0.2.tar.gz and try them out. Posted by Marc Nozell 2000-06-06 Reports are almost ready I'm in the process of checking into CVS all the existing lifelines reports. CVS is new to me, so pardon the mess... Posted by Marc Nozell 2000-05-06 SGML version of manual now available Thanks to Rafal Prinke, the LifeLines manual has been converted to SGML. It has just been checked into CVS in lifelines/docs/lifelines.sgml. Posted by Marc Nozell 2000-04-01
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Take the 2-minute tour × I had a little database fu*k-up and now I have to check If a User has flattred something in the last month to not double flattr these things. What's the best way to do it with the API? Is there anything more elegant then simply getting the list of the authenticated users flattrs and then check if the given thing is in that list? Thanks :) share|improve this question You know you can't double flattr a thing in our system? If you try to flattr a thing that the current user already flattred you get a error from our API. –  Simon Gate Jul 10 '12 at 19:56 1 Answer 1 up vote 2 down vote accepted You need to check the users flattrs to look for a date and the ID of the thing to find out if a user has flattrd a thing last month. If you want to know if the user has flattred a thing in the current period there is a parameter called flattred with is a boolean. share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I'd like to move up to v2 of the Box API, however I cannot currently retrieve the tags like you can in the previous api. Can you add the tags as a field in the GET call to the v2 api? Thanks all, share|improve this question The v2 API documentation doesn't mention anything about tags -- as far as I can tell there's no way to add them to a file/folder. I wonder if they might be deprecated? –  John Hoerr Oct 23 '12 at 14:47 I sure hope not, we use those pretty heavily. –  Chad Kapatch Oct 23 '12 at 14:55 1 Answer 1 up vote 4 down vote accepted They are a part of the V2 API. If you look at the documentation for folders, you can see that the tag entry is a green entry. That means that you have to explicitly ask for that field in order for us to return it to you. The ?fields parameter will let you ask for only the fields you want (instead of the default set that Box automatically gives you as part of it's responses) Note that if you are trying to get this info for all the items in a folder, there is a difference in asking for the details about a folder, and asking for the details about every item in a folder. ?fields works for both (and also works if you're doing a POST or PUT operation too). If you want the details about a single folder: GET ./folders/<id>?fields=a,b,c If you want the details about all the items inside a folder GET ./folders/<id>/items?fields=a,b,c share|improve this answer Thanks! Looking forward to it. –  Chad Kapatch Oct 24 '12 at 4:22 Can we get an update on this? I wanted to do a both-way sync of tags, but that does not seem possible at this moment. When will you be releasing the appropriate API to interact with documents tags? –  Wurzelgogerer Apr 24 '13 at 23:07 I'm really interested in getting tags from files also. –  Christian80 Apr 29 '13 at 6:54 Is there any update on this, we are getting closer and closer to the end of V1's life and I'll need to know asap the status of this. –  Chad Kapatch Aug 19 '13 at 20:23 Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × Suppose I'm editing a very long and messy HTML file. With my cursor at an open tag, is there a way to jump to its closing tag? share|improve this question 2 Answers 2 up vote 11 down vote accepted Assuming you're using nxml-mode: C-M-n runs the command nxml-forward-element, which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `nxml-mode.el'. It is bound to C-M-n. (nxml-forward-element &optional ARG) Move forward over one element. With ARG, do it that many times. Negative ARG means move backward. share|improve this answer Incidentally this is the same binding as you'd use to navigate closing/opening parenthesis/brackets/braces in many language modes. –  EmacsFodder Jan 2 '13 at 5:24 And if you're using sgml-mode or its derivatives (e.g. html-mode): sgml-skip-tag-forward is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `sgml-mode.el'. It is bound to C-c C-f C-c <right> and bound to the menu bar: <menu-bar> <sgml> <sgml-skip-tag-forward>` From emacslisp: (sgml-skip-tag-forward arg) Skip to end of tag or matching closing tag if present. With prefix argument arg, repeat this arg times. Return t if after a closing tag. share|improve this answer Conveniently, these functions are written to work regardless of the mode (provided that the sgml-mode library has been loaded); so if you use some other mode for editing HTML, you can still call sgml-skip-tag-forward and sgml-skip-tag-backward. –  phils Jan 2 '13 at 10:00 Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × In my software, I'm using a PF_UNIX-socket for IPC. Until now I need to allocate a (pre-)buffer via malloc to prepare the data before writing it via write into the buffer. Now I was wondering: The socket-fd already has a buffer of eg. 64kb, so why can't I simply directly prepare & write my data into that buffer like in this way: // stupid example-code, don't copy void *fd_buffer = get_buffer_of_fd(fd) fd_buffer[0] = 1 fd_buffer[1] = 2 fd_buffer[2] = 3 memcpy(fd_buffer, 5, 5) commit_buffer_of_fd(fd, xbytes); // xBytes is DYNAMIC and not known until this point!! If this would be possible, I could save the roundtrip of copying into the pre-buffer, writing into the socket from the pre-buffer and even allocate the pre-buffer. Has anyone an idea if that is possible? share|improve this question I am fairly sure what you want is not supported by anything. Also if the time it takes to copy data on a socket is such a big deal why don't you just use shared memory to communicate? It will be faster, cleaner and actually supported. –  Alex Sep 10 '13 at 15:25 Thank you very much for your feedbacks. It's no big deal, I just searched for maybe better ways :-) As I'm on Android there is sadly no method for shared memory. Thank you very much! –  Martin M. Sep 10 '13 at 15:33 Some exmaples on splicing: ogris.de/howtos/splice.html –  alk Sep 10 '13 at 15:42 Good hint, thank you I will analyze this :) –  Martin M. Sep 10 '13 at 19:41 1 Answer 1 up vote 0 down vote accepted The socket buffer is owned by the kernel, you will never be allowed to write into kernel space. Never, ever. Too much of a security risk. The only way to do zero-copy is to use vmsplice(2), but it is not officially supported for sockets and is not recommended to use for anything other then pipes. If you do decide to use vmsplice, keep in mind that you must then commit your data in chunks of pages sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE). Also it is a Linux only syscall and not portable. share|improve this answer Isn't a socket a pipe? I thought sockets were pretty much the major justification for splice e.g. sendfile. –  Duck Sep 10 '13 at 15:31 @Duck A pipe is essentially just a fifo with a certain buffer. A socket has an underlying protocol, it's associated control stack and other socket control methods aside from being generally bi-directional. It's a far more complex structure and splice/vmsplice were not designed for use with sockets. –  Sergey L. Sep 11 '13 at 9:56 Pipes, fifos and sockets all fall under the general term pipe. A socket may or may not have an underlying protocol, e.g. the domain sockets of OP's question, which are in effect just a kernel managed buffer with socket semantics. Splicing to and from tcp sockets has been (officially or not) supported for 4 or 5 years now since 2.6.25 –  Duck Sep 11 '13 at 13:51 Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × How do you stop tracking a remote branch in Git? I am asking to stop tracking because in my concrete case, I want to delete the local branch, but not the remote one. Deleting the local one and pushing the deletion to remote will delete the remote branch as well: Can I just do git branch -d the_branch, and it won't get propagated when I later git push? Will it only propagate if I were to run git push origin :the_branch later on? share|improve this question 7 Answers 7 up vote 132 down vote accepted You don't have to delete your local branch. Simply delete your remote tracking branch: (This will not delete the branch on the remote repo!) See "Having a hard time understanding git-fetch" there's no such concept of local tracking branches, only remote tracking branches. So origin/master is a remote tracking branch for master in the origin repo As mentioned in Dobes Vandermeer's answer, you also need to reset the configuration associated to the local branch: git config --unset branch.<branch>.remote git config --unset branch.<branch>.merge That will make any push/pull completely unaware of origin/<remote branch name>. share|improve this answer The remote tracking branch is recreated after git fetch. Is it possible to exclude these? –  Matt R Aug 6 '10 at 10:46 @Matt: I believe this would be done by setting the remote.<name>.fetch refspec config setting, but I am not sure if you can exclude a branch when specifying a refspec. –  VonC Aug 6 '10 at 11:04 It appeared that way to me too; I was able to rebase my local branch though and after the fast-forward the apparent connection between the branches disappeared. –  willoller Aug 30 '10 at 21:18 Didn't work for me. When pushing, I'm still getting warnings about the branches I deleted. As the OP, I want to stop tracking some of the remote branches I pushed to in the past. So after git branch -d -r origin/development, when I git push I still get ! [rejected] development -> development (non-fast-forward) –  ruffin May 15 '12 at 15:59 @ruffin: this is completely normal: git branch -d -r origin/<remote branch name> will delete a remote tracking branch as declared locally, in your repo. It will not delete the branch on the remote repo itself (only a git push :development would do that). So when you are pushing your local development, with an history different than the remote development branch (on the remote repo), you will still get the non-fast-forward warning. –  VonC May 15 '12 at 18:06 To remove the association between the local and remote branch run: git config --unset branch.<local-branch-name>.remote git config --unset branch.<local-branch-name>.merge Optionally delete the local branch afterwards if you don't need it: git branch -d <branch> This won't delete the remote branch. share|improve this answer worked great! Thanks! –  Jason T Featheringham Dec 17 '12 at 22:59 git branch -d <branch> is not required to remove the association. –  Marco Mar 11 '13 at 15:27 The simplest way is to edit .git/config Here is an example file repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true ignorecase = true [remote "origin"] url = [email protected]:repo-name [branch "test1"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/test1 [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master Delete the line merge = refs/heads/test1 in the test1 branch section share|improve this answer +1 I cannot say definitively that this is the easiest method, but it certainly proves the easiest for me to understand (and hopefully therefor to remember)! –  sage Jan 9 '13 at 20:07 Nice solution +1. This is actually the place where the tracking is registered, easy to change, clear what it does. Commandline .git/config is available, too. –  hakre Apr 24 '13 at 13:43 fyi, this is the same as the "git config --unset" solution by Dobes Vandermeer. "git config" edits this file. –  J.Z. Jul 28 '13 at 16:03 You can delete the remote-tracking branch using as VonC mentions above. However, if you keep your local copy of the branch, git push will still try to push that branch (which could give you a non-fast-forward error as it did for ruffin). This is because the config push.default defaults to matching which means: (see http://git-scm.com/docs/git-config under push.default) Seeing as this is probably not what you wanted when you deleted the remote-tracking branch, you can set push.default to upstream (or tracking if you have git < upstream - push the current branch to its upstream branch. git config push.default upstream and git will stop trying to push branches that you have "stopped tracking." Note: The simpler solution would be to just rename your local branch to something else. That would eliminate some potential for confusion, as well. share|improve this answer The easiest way to do this is to delete the branch remotely and then use: git fetch --prune (aka git fetch -p) share|improve this answer I'm confused, the OP did not wanted to delete the remote branch. –  madth3 Oct 2 '13 at 23:46 I have the recipe submtted by @Dobes in a fancy shmancy [alias] entry in my .gitconfig: # to untrack a local branch when I can't remember 'git config --unset' cbr = "!f(){ git symbolic-ref -q HEAD 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's|refs/heads/||'; }; f" bruntrack = "!f(){ br=${1:-`git cbr`}; \ rm=`git config --get branch.$br.remote`; \ tr=`git config --get branch.$br.merge`; \ [ $rm:$tr = : ] && echo \"# untrack: not a tracking branch: $br\" && return 1; \ git config --unset branch.$br.remote; git config --unset branch.$br.merge; \ echo \"# untrack: branch $br no longer tracking $rm:$tr\"; return 0; }; f" Then I can just run $ git bruntrack branchname share|improve this answer +1. Nice alias, in addition to my answer above. –  VonC Jun 4 at 17:02 If you are using Ubuntu, press Ctrl + H (in Nautilus) while you are in the directory that connected to the remote repository. It will show you the hidden files and folders. Just delete the .git directory. That's it! share|improve this answer Why down voted? –  Naseer Jan 30 at 7:11 Probably because doing this will un-gitify the directory altogether, which is not even remotely similar to removing a single remote-tracking branch. –  cHao Feb 5 at 23:16 @cHao The original question is How do you stop tracking a remote branch in Git? –  Naseer Feb 6 at 10:21 Which has a pretty specific meaning in Git. Tracking a remote branch means automagically watching what commit the remote head is on. (It's how Git tells you "your branch is 2 commits ahead of origin/branchname" and the like, and only makes sense for local branches that are meant to stay in sync with the remote.) The OP is asking how to undo that tracking, not how to remove the entire directory from version control. –  cHao Feb 6 at 14:01 If you have local changes in your git repo, removing the .git directory will destroy them. –  qneill Jun 4 at 14:49 Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × Instead of specifying the width and height of a Raphael canvas, I need it to be 100% the size of its container. So I could just do a Raphael("container", containerElement.width, containerElement.height) and set the onresize function to reset those values. But then the content gets very jumpy and hectic as I resize the window or container because the scrollbars (which I want if it gets too small) flash in and out of existence. Is this the proper way to bind Raphael's canvas to the full size of a container? I'd also like to provide the option to make the Raphael canvas "full screen" taking up the entire browser window. share|improve this question 3 Answers 3 up vote 19 down vote accepted If you are using a div then you could use CSS to set that to 100% of the width and height. You then use the Raphael("container", "100%", "100%") As for making it full screen, most browsers have a command to do this. So if you really are doing 100% then when you press the command button e.g. (F11 in firefox) it will become FULL screen. share|improve this answer I got the impression from reading the docs and other posts in their google groups discussion forum that you had to enter a number (for the number of pixels) in the Raphael constructor, not a percentage. I will try that, thanks. Regarding full screen, I just meant full screen of the browser window, so 100%, 100% will allow that. –  at. Nov 15 '10 at 17:51 The Raphael documentation shows using specific sizes but using percentages does work, from self experience. I'm assuming that you know about the Raphael documentation, but here's a link if you don't: raphaeljs.com/reference.html –  Adam Holmes Nov 15 '10 at 23:56 Thank you Adam, looks like this is the answer! I read the documentation, but it specifically said we had to put a number of pixels there. –  at. Nov 16 '10 at 3:41 Thanks for this answer. I also checked the online reference and it said that we had to enter a number. –  Curious2learn Dec 22 '11 at 14:37 "100%" works fine in Safari and Chrome but not with Firefox it seems. –  Gant Aug 22 '12 at 15:05 Raphael("container", "100%", "100%"); will fill the canvas to width/height of the DIV container. This works fine in Chrome and Safari. To get Firefox on board you'll need to give body and html 100% width/height in the css, otherwise the vector will be clipped. share|improve this answer Isn't that the same exact answer as the accepted one? –  at. Feb 14 '12 at 8:17 no, the accepted answer doesn't say anything about 100% html and body on firefox –  supercrabtree Mar 28 at 7:10 A little bit late on this one but I'll post here for other people searching. var h = $('container').height(); //get the container height into variable h var w = $('container').width(); //get the container width into variable w //set your Raphael canvas to the variables var contpaper = Raphael("container", w, h); var doit; //function to reload the page and/or do other adjustments function resizedw(){ //call function 200 ms after resize is complete. doit = setTimeout(function() { }, 200)}); This solution is cross browser and mobile safe so you can use this to incorporate responsive design. By adding caveats for viewport width or height to your javascript in the form of if statements, you can define all of your shapes based on the same variables. share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × Can any one provide me with an example of how to encode data and pass it to a php file using JSON and flash? share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 You can use fast actionjson library for it. And vote for native encoder/decoder in ActionScript (FP-1631) Now you can use native JSON with Flash Player 11 share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I have another question! I have a configure Activity in my app. On it, I have a ListView. Now adding & removing items to & from it works, but when I rotate the screen to landscape or back, all added & non-saved items in the ListView get removed... I wonder why this is... Why is this? share|improve this question This has been answered lots of times already, please do a search before posting new questions. –  DKIT Feb 15 '11 at 14:35 3 Answers 3 up vote 3 down vote accepted When screen orientation changes, by default, the activity will be destroyed and create again. That means, the onCreate will be called again once the orientation changed. There are basically two way to solve your problem: 1. Save your activity state before destory and load it back when create 2. Set the Activity in AndroidManifest that not to handle screen orientation change. <activity name="..." android:configChanges="orientation" .../> share|improve this answer Is there a method I can override when the orientation changes? –  ThaMe90 Feb 15 '11 at 10:28 onConfigurationChanged(). But normally you shouldn't save activity state there, better save when onPause() (which is a good practice as, for example, user pressed "home" key and leave your app, when he's back, your app still retain the state). –  xandy Feb 15 '11 at 10:50 But onPause() won't be called when the orientation changes (I think)... –  ThaMe90 Feb 15 '11 at 10:54 No, it must. onPause must be called prior to any onStop or onDestroy, see the diagram in developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html –  xandy Feb 15 '11 at 10:56 and I mean if you go for the first option in my answer (not changing the manifest), whenever orientation change, it should go something like: onPause -> onStop -> onDestroy -> onCreate -> onResume –  xandy Feb 15 '11 at 10:57 When you rotate the handset, the onStart method of you Activity is invoked. Check maybe you do some sort of initialization there. share|improve this answer Your answer is a little unclear, as onCreate is called first, and then later onStart –  dave.c Feb 15 '11 at 10:35 ok, thank you for the clarification –  Elijah Saounkine Feb 15 '11 at 10:36 I've solved it partially. Now it is able to hold on to the changes when changing to landscape view, but not the other way back to the normal view. I did it through the use of protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle saveState). But as I said, this doesn't work when it changes back from Landscape... Anybody got any ideas about this? share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I am looking for a way to make IIS Express contained within a project along with other tools project requires and being able to run project from that self-contained IIS Express. It looks like IIS Express stores settings under user specific %MyDocuments% folder, which doesn't help for my goal (CI eventually). Thank you. share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 0 down vote accepted If you don't want to rely on %mydocument% folder, you can provide your own applicationhost.config file(which contains all your settings) to iisexpress.exe with /config command line switch. Following link may help you http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/870/running-iis-express-from-the-command-line/ share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × Is it possible to easily manage and compile native Java classes alongside Clojure in a project using leiningen? I am working at a pretty low level (with netty nio) and thinking that some of the plumbing classes would actually be easier to handle as raw java both in terms of constructing the code as well as performance. share|improve this question 3 Answers 3 up vote 36 down vote accepted In Leiningen tutorial there is following statement For projects that include some Java code, you can set the :java-source-path key in project.clj to a directory containing Java files. Then the javac compiler will run before your Clojure code is AOT-compiled, or you can run it manually with the javac task. so it should work out of box if :java-source-path option is set share|improve this answer Must have missed that one, cheers! –  Toby Hede Mar 25 '11 at 13:07 As of Leiningen 2.x, :java-source-path has been replaced with :java-source-paths, whose value is now specified as a vector rather than a string. A good place to find a full (up-to-date) documentation of Leiningen features is to peruse the sample project file. In this case, you will see: share|improve this answer Use Vinyasa - I wrote it especially to deal with this problem Here is a blog post Dynamic reloading of java code in emacs/nrepl share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I have an array results = [duplicate, otherdup] that contains a list of duplicates I have a regular original_array = [duplicate, duplicate, duplicate, otherdup, otherdup, unique, unique2, unique_etc] How do I iterate through the results array (list) and Pop all but one from the original_array to look like this: oringal_array = [duplicate, otherdup, unique, unique2, unique_etc]` share|improve this question 3 Answers 3 up vote 1 down vote accepted A simple unique function could look something like this: Array.prototype.unique = function() { var uniqueArr = []; var dict = {}; if(!(this[i] in dict)) { dict[this[i]] = 1; return uniqueArr; You could then easily do: var unique_array = original_array.unique(); share|improve this answer Will this work with JQuery? I notice prototype in this function –  JZ. May 31 '11 at 18:52 @JZ: yes, this is plain native javascript. It is true that Prototype is the name of another javascript library, but it's named so because it makes heavy use of prototyping, which is native to javascript. –  David Hedlund May 31 '11 at 19:10 I would use John Resig's Remove() method: // Remove() - Completely removes item(s) from Array // By John Resig (MIT Licensed) Array.prototype.remove = function(from, to) { this.length = from < 0 ? this.length + from : from; return this.push.apply(this, rest); You can loop through your array and just pass the index you wanted removed to the Remove() function. share|improve this answer Yes. jQuery is simply a JavaScript library. –  Code Maverick May 31 '11 at 18:55 My use case is a scenario where I needed to keep track of my open jQuery UI dialogs. I stored the dialog id's in an array called openDialogs. When a dialog is closed, I would get the index of the dialog in my array by using var index = $.inArray("some-dialog-id", openDialogs);, and then pass that to the remove() function like: openDialogs.remove(index); –  Code Maverick May 31 '11 at 18:59 Isn't Prototype a competing library? –  JZ. May 31 '11 at 19:00 Not sure, but I know that jQuery uses prototype. Just open the jQuery file and do a search for prototype = and you will see. –  Code Maverick May 31 '11 at 19:03 are you looking something like this but before calling pop you will be checking it should be popp[ed out or not by running through a loop!! share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I am getting the following exception while trying to write an .xlsx file using Apache POI NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/stream/XMLStreamException Here's the Code Snippet:- XSSFWorkbook wb = new XSSFWorkbook(); Sheet sheet = wb.createSheet(); Row row = sheet.createRow(0); Cell cell = row.createCell(0); FileOutputStream fileOut = new FileOutputStream("D:\\workspace\\April\\Excel Test\\workbook.xlsx"); I have the following jars included • dom4j-1.6.1 • poi-ooxml-3.5-FINAL • poi-3.6-20091214 • xmlbeans-2.3.0 • ooxml-schemas-1.0 Please let me know what i am doing wrong here or i am missing something. share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 up vote 3 down vote accepted You're missing the stax API jar If you look at the POI Components page you'll see that the ooxml-schemas jar depends on a STAX API jar (most typically provided by stax-api-1.0.1.jar) Look in your POI binary download, and in the ooxml-lib directory you'll see the jar you need. Alternately, if you use Maven, it'll download the dependency for you share|improve this answer Thanks a ton man..it's working now.:) –  Vivek Sep 14 '11 at 9:09 Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I'm wondering if there's a way to animate the very first view in UIPageViewController so that it looks like the one of the page corners is flapping a little bit? As if a little breeze bristles the pages when you first arrive on this particular screen. This to add some sort of UI affordance to indicate that screen can be swiped. The content we're displaying with UIPageViewController doesn't take up the entire screen like a book does but would like to make it more obvious to the user that they can use gestures to navigate horizontally. Any suggestions would be helpful. share|improve this question Nice question. Are you looking for more of an animation or will just a curl (like in the Maps app) suffice? If you want just a curl, you can create an image and put it in the correct spot. –  Jack Humphries Apr 3 '12 at 1:36 Looking for the animation. –  Jonas Gardner Apr 3 '12 at 16:25 It was too long for me to remember - but we tried to do this but found it very tedious to stop and play the built-in animation - instead we did a 5 image animation. Later in user testing users found it sufficient to understand how it would work. –  Magnus May 2 '12 at 11:41 r u looking like animation of book page? –  Saad May 8 '12 at 8:56 2 Answers 2 Have a look there: https://github.com/brow/leaves This guy made a new ViewControllers / View class allowing this kind of animation. Hope that helps. share|improve this answer How about overlaying an animated GIF in the corner of the page bobbing about a bit, which you can then dismiss as soon as the user interacts with the page? (I know GIFs are a pain to work with on iOS, but it's certainly possible.) share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes a failing automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces code to pass that test and finally refactors the new code to remove duplication and to improve its design. TDD tends to lead to low-coupled, highly-cohesive designs, with no more functionality than necessary to satisfy requirements. The test serves as the first consumer of the new interface, and provides immediate feedback on its clarity and usability. Developers give themselves an incentive to write easily testable, stateless, simple modules; all hallmarks of good design according to the SOLID design principles. It is one of the practices of Extreme Programming. It is often said that TDD is not about testing, but rather about design. Hello World: def test_hello_world assert.are_equal "hello world", hello_world history | show excerpt | excerpt history
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Blogging Since June 9th 2012 "I’m gonna make you wait. You’re gonna have to wait a long time and watch me carry it around, hauling it to strange and mysterious places. And with each passing moment, the mystery will become more tantalizing. Your imagination will inflame, but so will your frustration, never knowing, only guessing, what could possibly be inside that box! Or… you could let me buy you a drink sometime, and I’ll tell you right now." Your Thoughts… Who do you guys think is the beloved fairytale character that is murdered in the upcoming episode The Cricket Game? install theme
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Take the 2-minute tour × I took a computer that was not updated for months. Internet was working just fine so basically, I updated zonealarm, avast and installed all windows updates and especially SP3. After that, when I reboot, Internet works fine but after few minutes, Firefox says that the connection was reset. IE does not work either. However, my connection is still up and running as I can make a ping on www.google.com for example. Here are the solutions I tried with no success so far: 1) Uninstalling SP3; 2) Uninstalling IE8 and IE7; 3) Manually setting DNS and IPs; 4) Removed proxy settings from Firefox and IE; 5) Restarting DNS and DHCP related services; 6) Reset TCP/IP with netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt; 7) Updated my ehternet card driver; 8) Restarted, tweaked all the connections in any directions and any configuration possible I believe; 9) Disabled Zone Alarm and Avast; Also, update kb981793 always fails on install. Please, help me as I spent two days already on this and I cannot find any solution. If I cannot fix this problem tomorrow, I will have to format-reinstall everything. Thanks for any help. share|improve this question Has the network card driver been updated? Sometimes, a new driver can be flaky and cause the machine to drop the network connection. –  cole Jul 21 '10 at 14:41 Yes, see point 7. –  Korchkidu Jul 21 '10 at 14:43 I'd be willing to bet that the problem is with ZoneAlarm (ZA makes me sad :(). –  squircle Jul 21 '10 at 17:40 Well, I disabled it and no difference... –  Korchkidu Jul 21 '10 at 19:39 are you 100% sure there is no problem from ISP side? –  tumchaaditya Jun 25 '12 at 6:20 2 Answers 2 I've seen this behaviour before on machines. Both cases it turned out to be ZoneAlarm. Not sure why those specific machines and not others. Very strange. share|improve this answer I completely disabled it. No change...;( –  Korchkidu Jul 22 '10 at 12:22 I had to remove it, disabling didn't help. It appears to stick something into the system that interferes, whether running or not. –  Brian Knoblauch Jul 22 '10 at 13:44 No change... I finally reinstalledt everything. –  Korchkidu Jul 23 '10 at 7:32 Just a shot in the dark, but, clear your DNS cache and use some alternate DNS server(e.g. which is google's own DNS server) share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × As for GTK apps under Gnome environment it's possible to set all applications to use Emacs-like input scheme: $ gconftool --set -t string /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme Emacs $ gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme I wonder if it's possible to adjust input for all QT apps in a similar way. share|improve this question 2 Answers 2 KDE doesn't use registry tools such as gconf everything done by system settings, but you can try kwriteconfig to set global environment for KDE applications. But I'm not sure either. You can read Hidden KDE Options and Features tutorial. share|improve this answer That won't help him if Qt doesn't support Emacs key bindings. –  Erik Jul 30 '12 at 5:19 Solution for Unity: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "Emacs" share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × The closest I can come up with is: echo 123 > out.txt However this gives a trailing space and also a trailing newline. share|improve this question migrated from serverfault.com Oct 13 '12 at 21:24 Echo and cat are different beasts - cat reads a file, echo prints what you give it on the commandline. What are you trying to do? –  Tom Newton Oct 11 '12 at 20:14 @TomNewton Basically, I am creating some scripts in TeamCity to be run during a deployment process. I need to basically create a text-file from a script that is then later read in by another script during another process –  CoolUserName Oct 11 '12 at 20:19 Then leave out the space before after the ">", and strip the trailing newline when you read the file. –  John Gardeniers Oct 11 '12 at 20:38 The original title referred to cat 123 > out.txt; I've just edited it to refer to echo. –  Keith Thompson Oct 13 '12 at 21:28 5 Answers 5 up vote 3 down vote accepted coreutils contains "echo". You can use the "-n" flag to supress the trailing newline share|improve this answer In PowerShell: write-output 123 | out-file test.txt There is no trailing space, but there is a newline. If you want to do this in cmd, the answer you provided in your question is the "correct" way, but there are obvious formatting issues share|improve this answer I've used this with success: echo|set /p="123" > test.txt share|improve this answer +1 Neat, although the result still has the trailing space. Tweaked: >text.txt (echo|set /p="123") –  Ansgar Wiechers Oct 11 '12 at 21:04 Ah, my mistake. The output has a trailing space when the double quotes are omitted (set /p=123). It's fine with the double quotes in place (set /p="123"). –  Ansgar Wiechers Oct 11 '12 at 21:25 It's because you type a space in front of the >. –  Tom Wijsman Oct 13 '12 at 21:34 It worked for me as-is. –  Brian Oct 15 '12 at 13:07 I think you want this for text-based output: type filename > output.txt share|improve this answer type only works with existing files it seems. In my case, I want to be able to specify the text inline. –  CoolUserName Oct 11 '12 at 20:17 @CoolUserName: Then your use of "cat" in your question is misleading. –  Brian Oct 11 '12 at 20:56 Use copy con C:\tmp>copy con mynewfile This is my new file I am typing stuff 1 file(s) copied. C:\tmp>type mynewfile This is my new file I am typing stuff Press Control-Z to end input 'con' is a keyword signifying console. copy src dest copy con mynewfile src - con - console dest - mynewfile - destination share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × In Ubuntu, I want to scroll up while a command is running in my terminal window and generates new output (actually the command running is rspec). I can scroll up, but each time rspec generates a new line of console output it throws me back down to the bottom. Is there a way to scroll all up? I'm using terminator on Linux Mint/Ubuntu 12.04 LTS I found a possible workaround Terminator homepage says that with stty ixon you can turn on "XON/XOFF flow control for terminal output. Being able to pause output by typing ^S and resume it by typing ^Q [...]" This it not totally what I wanted though, without having to pause the output (and maybe wondering when forgetting to turn it on again), I thought there might be a simple modifier key like shft-alt with mouse wheel scroll-up.. Any better solutions? share|improve this question That's one thing that I really like about LXTerminal (LXDE). –  Matthew Lundberg Jan 24 '13 at 14:37 Are you scrolling by Shift-PgUp or by scrollbar? –  ott-- Jan 24 '13 at 15:25 @MatthewLundberg Normally with mouse scroll wheel, so scrollbar. But it also doesn't work with shift-pgup :( Can I have lxterminal inside of terminator as well, do you know? –  Yo Ludke Jan 24 '13 at 15:33 xfce4-terminal has an option called Scroll on output that you can uncheck and does just what you asked. –  Martín Canaval Jan 24 '13 at 16:16 As a workaround, you could send the output to a file, open another terminal and tail -f file.txt to see it as it is generated. That would leave your 1st terminal free to scroll back and still let you watch the output in realtime. Not elegant I know. –  terdon Jan 24 '13 at 17:43 2 Answers 2 up vote 5 down vote accepted Although I'm a bit late, I'm posting this here so that anyone who comes here gets a solution. For me, the solution to the same problem was: Terminator preferences -> Profiles Tab -> Scrolling [sub]tab -> Uncheck 'Scroll on output' option. I hope this helps share|improve this answer cool :) Is it possible to create a shortcut to toggle this option? –  Yo Ludke Apr 5 '13 at 8:14 I've searched a bit, but haven't found any way to toggle it with a shortcut within terminator. However, as the option is written in the terminator config file at "$HOME/.config/terminator/config", it should be possible to assign a global shortcut to a command that toggles the option on and off directly in the config file. –  Chikitulfo Apr 6 '13 at 11:13 Still, making that change to the config file won't affect already running terminator instances, but rather it will only affect new terminator instances launched after the edit. So if you want to toggle it on a running terminator, you have to do it manually, afaik. In any case, with the option toggled to false, as soon as you scroll down to the last line, it continues auto scrolling on output. It only stops autoscrolling if you manually scroll up. So I don't see any real need to toggle the option on and off. –  Chikitulfo Apr 6 '13 at 11:29 tail -f log.txt | less will update to advance to the new information, and you can then go up or down. You can also use less search features and so on. With the pipe method, you can also parse the moving output. And the same idea, but without the pipe : less +F log.txt . (This assumes you can work with your content in this fashion.) The old Unix way was to hit Ctrl-S in your terminal to stop, and Ctrl-Q to restart output scrolling -- this is basically what terminator is letting you do with stty ixon. With scrollbars added, this seems pretty decent to me -- hit Control-S, scroll up to whatever you like, and then Control-Q to go back down. Yes, you will occasionally forget to unpause the output. Because I'm exceptionally lazy, and because I like the flexibility of output redirection, I'd use tail -f with the pipe (assuming that fits the case) . Then I can stop it, arrow-up and add something like a grep, and it still runs: tail -f tac_plus.log | less | egrep 'peerip' Throw some cats and tee in there and you have a real party. share|improve this answer I wanted to use this for rspec spec's - The problem is, with the tail/less approaches, the colors get lost (the output is black and white instead of green/red if I run the command directly) –  Yo Ludke Jan 31 '13 at 9:19 @YoLudke I'm not familiar with rspec or how it does colorizing. There are ways to pass colors through grep, etc., but that might not work here. Are you doing something like running pointing rspec to a persistent/looping/long-running process, and getting your output from that? –  belacqua Jan 31 '13 at 17:58 Your Answer
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011 No Strings Attatched. I went to watch no strings attached with val today. It was a great girl to girl day. Im gonna buy a small cuddle buddy. I think a hamster will make me happy right now. haha! something to look forward to when i get home, and something to play with when i get bored. Found these pictures on Metro park fb. Great photos. i love their style. i am LOVING the army style boots. i found one browsing in the malls of San Fransisco, but sadly they didn't have my size :/  Sunday, January 23, 2011 Hyori is so beautiful. One day :) i wanna slowly be there. haha I bought lunch meat today.. but i forgot bread. so i didnt get to enjoy my sandwich. -_- Gosh i wish taxes would come through already.. im so broke and there are so many things i need right now. Friday, January 21, 2011 I'm not gonna lie. watermelon would really cheer me up right now. I'm so heartbroken. Thursday, January 20, 2011 I would love to take photos like this. Slowly.. I am going to learn it all. I want to go see a waterfall... Wednesday, January 19, 2011 masturbation. i mean.. rasterbation. Friend told me about a cool idea to do in a room. I might actually try it out. rasterbation: Tiled printing, sometimes known as rasterbating, is a feature of many computer programs that enables them to print images larger than a standard page. I soo would LOVE to do that to my wall. PROJECT COMING SOON! Friday, January 7, 2011 blogging on my phone. Blogging on my phone seems 10 times easier than doing it on the laptop lol. Im too lazy to transfer over the damn pictures and then upload and blah blah. Lol But i finally signed up for a gym.. Today i ran about 35 min and burned like 300 calories ;) Did some leg excercises andd ab work. Ill work more on abs and arms tomorrow :) i cant wait to be fully fit and happy. Running makes me clear my head.. but it always gives me a fat headache. Haha i dont know what it is. Plus i get like beet red and i get veery embarrassed but whatever im totally there to work out.. not look cute doing it :) I got another long shift tomorrow. 11 to 8pm. I might go in a little later cuz i got some bills to take care of. Oh how much i despise u bills. I dont hate it asss much.. i kinda got used to it i guess. Well goodnight world! Im gonna crash b4 im really hungry or sad :) i want to enjoy my sleep. I havent been getting much lately.<3 Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.5
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Let Them Eat... Let Them Eat: Yellow Squash Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting Eat your veggies...with chocolate. [Photograph: María del Mar Sacasa] You're probably thinking that it's part of my job to like all the cake recipes I develop. Even if there's something I don't like, I have to sell it, don't I, so that you, dear readers, will be tempted to strap on an apron and bake. But, scout's honor, I do in fact really, really like most of my cakes. Some, like the recent bourbon-peach extravaganza, I even ate until there were only crumbs left clinging to the top of the Tupperware container (I licked those off). As I was writing that recipe, I knew it would be a favorite, but once in a while there comes along a cake that catches me off guard and sweeps me off my feet even though it is decidedly not my type: this is one of those surprises. It's summer and by this point we've all been badgered with zucchini, squash, and squash blossom recipes ranging from frittatas and simple sautées to breads and stuffed, deep-fried flowers. So here's one more for your book, because I know you still have a few leftover squash in your kitchen. Most of the zucchini breads and cakes I've had are similar in texture and spicing to carrot cake—tender crumbed and moist, usually made with vegetable oil or a combination of butter and oil, flavored with warm cloves, cinnamon, and allspice. Delicious, to be sure, yet those flavors make me think of fiery leaves and the brisk air of fall. For this recipe, I wanted to go in a lighter, more season appropriate direction. So instead of those russet spices, I use floral cardamom and finely grated citrus zest (a winter fruit, but refreshing and sunny) combined with bright yellow summer squash. The squash is subtle—it hides in the batter and leaves people wondering what the secret ingredient is. A chocolate cream cheese frosting tops the cupcakes, the orange and cardamom flavors accentuating its rich flavor. Go on, eat your vegetables. With chocolate. Get the Recipe Yellow Squash Cupcakes with Chocolate Frosting » Add a comment Previewing your comment:
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Oops, an error Loading. Please wait. Blacking Out The Friction Acoustic Ukulele Chords 57 views 1 this week no commentswrite comment 1 2 3 4 5 please rate add to favorites launch autoscroll font size highlight chords display chords set tempo WARNING: You are trying to view content from Ultimate-Guitar.com in an unauthorized application, which is prohibited. Please use an official Ultimate Guitar Tabs application for iPhone, iPad or Android to access legitimate chords, guitar, bass, and drum tabs from Ultimate-Guitar.com database. Type "ultimate guitar tabs" in Apple App Store's or Android Market's search to find the application. this is an acoustic version of blacking out the friction. i'm pretty sure it's correct. enjoy. G Cm7 Am7 Dm e 3 3 3 3 B 3 3 3 3 G 0 0 2 2 D 0 2 2 0 A 2 3 0 0 E 3 0 0 0 G Cm7 G Cm7 G Cm7 I don't mind the weather G Cm7 I've got scarves and caps and sweaters G Cm7 G Cm7 I've got long johns under slacks for blustery days. G Cm7 I think that it's brainless G Cm7 To assume that making changes G Cm7 G Cm7 To your window's view will give a new perspective. Am7 Dm G Cm7 And the hardest part is yet to come G Cm7 G Cm7 I don't mind restrictions G Cm7 Or if you're blacking out the friction G Cm7 G Cm7 It's just an escape that's overrated anyways Am7 Dm G Cm7 The hardest part is yet to come Am7 Dm G Cm7 When you will cross the country alone. G Cm7 till end. print report bad tab 1 2 3 4 5 I want to post or [tab] You may want to rate the tab now too: select rating
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Oops, an error Loading. Please wait. Sylvias Mother Chords Whole song More versions @911Tabs.com 44,010 views 99 this week 3 commentsread comments 1 2 3 4 5 x 9 add to favorites launch autoscroll font size highlight chords display chords set tempo WARNING: You are trying to view content from Ultimate-Guitar.com in an unauthorized application, which is prohibited. Please use an official Ultimate Guitar Tabs application for iPhone, iPad or Android to access legitimate chords, guitar, bass, and drum tabs from Ultimate-Guitar.com database. Type "ultimate guitar tabs" in Apple App Store's or Android Market's search to find the application. From: [email protected] Subject: /d/dr_hook/sylvias_mother.pro Date: Tue, 29 Aug 95 17:03:53 MESZ # Here's another great Dr. Hook song which I thought was missing here. # I got it from the '*.pro' - song base # http://www.nada.kth.se:80/~f91-jsc/guitar (<- that's where the credit goes...) # (quite an interesting site since it is not an exact mirror of this place) # and took the freedom to upload it here. # Wolf Krueger ([email protected]) {t:Sylvia's Mother} [A]Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's busy, too busy to come to the p[E]hone Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's trying, to start a new life of her [A]own. [D]Sylvia's mother says S[A]ylvia's happy... So w[E]hy don't you leave her a[A]lone? And the [E]operator says :" Fourty cents more, for the next three minutes." Ple[D]ase Mrs. Adria, I've j[A]ust got to talk to her [E]I'll only keep her a wh[A]ile [D]Please Mrs. Adria, just w[A]ant to tell her [A]Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's packing, she's goin' to be leaving tod[E]ay. Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's marrying, a fellow down Galveston-W[A]ay [D]Sylvia's mother says "P[A]lease don't say nothing... To m[E]ake her start crying and[A] stay." [A]Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's hurrying, she's catching the nine'o'clock t[E]rain. Sylvia's mother says:"Take your umbrella, cause Sylvia it's starting to r[A]ain." And [D]Sylvia's mother says "T[A]hank you for calling... And so [E]won't you come back agai[A]n." Tell her goodbye Please, tell her goodbye print report bad tab 3 comments total. 0 reply [C]**J wrote on July 16 2006, 06:05 pm i thought that this tab was not easy to understand and i disliked how it didnt show the staff and/or the numbers for the fretts. i must say that i was very dissapointed considering this is a great song. +1 reply nomorebadtown wrote on January 10 2011, 12:41 pm i dont get why this tab has such bad rating, it has the correct chords and the lyrics, the formating could be clearer but otherwise its perfect. 0 reply Dragon53 wrote on January 5 2013, 06:01 pm It's "Mrs. Avery" not Adria. I want to post or [tab] You may want to rate the tab now too: select rating
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Oops, an error Loading. Please wait. Freezing Moon Mayhem Guitar Pro 3,883 views 6 this week 1 commentread comment 1 2 3 4 5 x 2 set tempo 83 Kb WARNING: You are trying to view content from Ultimate-Guitar.com in an unauthorized application, which is prohibited. Please use an official Ultimate Guitar Tabs application for iPhone, iPad or Android to access legitimate chords, guitar, bass, and drum tabs from Ultimate-Guitar.com database. Type "ultimate guitar tabs" in Apple App Store's or Android Market's search to find the application. "Freezing Moon Mayhem" by Vader or get full version To get full version of this and 200,000 more tabs start free trial or play demo again Click here to download the latest Flash player. You can get instant access to “Freezing Moon Mayhem” right now. Get unlimited online access to 200,000+ tabs with HQ playback and tempo control by starting your free 3-day trial! Get FREE Trial To download “Freezing Moon Mayhem” Guitar Pro tab click button below Please note that you must have Guitar Pro software installed on your report bad tab 1 2 3 4 5 1 comment total. 0 reply gorundur wrote on November 2 2013, 10:24 am the solo is the original version of Mayhem and not the solo that is played by Vader in their cover version I want to post or [tab] You may want to rate the tab now too: select rating
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1. Style Send to a Friend via Email Female Genital Piercings: Outer Labia Outer Labia [Picture] Not as well suited for most women, outer labia piercings can be done as a single piercing or multiple piercings on either or both sides. Outer labia piercings tend to be rejected (skin rejects the piercing by pushing the jewelry right out) more often than inner labia piercings. Labia piercings were once often used by men to prevent wives and slaves from having sexual intercourse with other men. Both outer labias would be pierced with a lock holding them together. Other cultures have used the piercings for decorative purposes only. Labia piercings can easily be aggrivated by tight clothing and sweat. Wear proper clothing and exercise diligent hygiene to prevent infection. Feminine deodorant sprays should be avoided during the healing process. Recommended jewelry for labia piercing is 12 to 10 gauge captive bead ring. Estimated healing time: 8-12 weeks. More on this Feature: Christina, Clitoris, Fourchette, Horizontal Clit Hood, Inner Labia, Outer Labia, Triangle, Vertical Clit Hood, Others, Aftercare ©2014 About.com. All rights reserved.
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Export (0) Print Expand All Expand Minimize SQL Server 2000 Removes rows from a table.     [ FROM ]         { table_name WITH ( < table_hint_limited > [ ...n ] )          | view_name | rowset_function_limited     [ WHERE         { < search_condition >         | { [ CURRENT OF                 { { [ GLOBAL ] cursor_name }                     | cursor_variable_name             ] } < table_source > ::=     | view_name [ [ AS ] table_alias ]     | rowset_function [ [ AS ] table_alias ]     | < joined_table > < joined_table > ::=     | < table_source > CROSS JOIN < table_source >     | < joined_table > < join_type > ::=     [ INNER | { { LEFT | RIGHT | FULL } [OUTER] } ]     [ < join_hint > ] < table_hint_limited > ::=         | HOLDLOCK         | PAGLOCK         | ROWLOCK         | TABLOCK         | TABLOCKX         | UPDLOCK < table_hint > ::= { INDEX ( index_val [ ,...n ] )         | HOLDLOCK         | NOLOCK         | PAGLOCK         | READPAST         | ROWLOCK         | TABLOCK         | TABLOCKX         | UPDLOCK < query_hint > ::=     { { HASH | ORDER } GROUP         | { CONCAT | HASH | MERGE } UNION         | FAST number_rows         | FORCE ORDER         | MAXDOP         | ROBUST PLAN         | KEEP PLAN Is an optional keyword that can be used between the DELETE keyword and the target table_name, view_name, or rowset_function_limited. A table variable, within its scope, or a four-part table name (or view name) using the OPENDATASOURCE function as the server name also may be used as a table source in a DELETE statement. WITH (<table_hint_limited> [...n]) Specifies one or more table hints that are allowed for a target table. The WITH keyword and the parentheses are required. READPAST, NOLOCK, and READUNCOMMITTED are not allowed. For more information about table hints, see FROM. Is the name of a view. The view referenced by view_name must be updatable and reference exactly one base table in the FROM clause of the view. For more information about updatable views, see CREATE VIEW. Note  If the table or view exists in another database or has an owner other than the current user, use a four-part qualified name in the format server_name.database.[owner].object_name. For more information, see Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions. Is either the OPENQUERY or OPENROWSET function, subject to provider capabilities. For more information about capabilities needed by the provider, see UPDATE and DELETE Requirements for OLE DB Providers. For more information about the rowset functions, see OPENQUERY and OPENROWSET. FROM <table_source> Specifies an additional FROM clause. This Transact-SQL extension to DELETE allows you to specify data from <table_sources> and delete corresponding rows from the table in the first FROM clause. table_name [[AS] table_alias ] Is the name of the table to provide criteria values for the delete operation. view_name [[AS] table_alias ] Is the name of the view to provide criteria values for the delete operation. A view with INSTEAD OF UPDATE trigger cannot be a target of an UPDATE with a FROM clause. WITH (<table_hint> Specifies one or more table hints. For more information about table hints, see FROM. rowset_function [ [AS] table_alias ] Is the name of a rowset function and an optional alias. For more information about a list of rowset functions, see Rowset Functions. derived_table [AS] table_alias Is an optional alias to replace a column name in the result set. Include one column alias for each column in the select list, and enclose the entire list of column aliases in parentheses. Is a result set that is the product of two or more tables, for example: FROM tab1 LEFT OUTER JOIN tab2 ON tab1.c3 = tab2.c3 ON tab3.c1 = tab4.c1 ON tab2.c3 = tab4.c3 For multiple CROSS joins, use parentheses to change the natural order of the joins. Specifies the type of join operation. Specifies all matching pairs of rows are returned. Discards unmatched rows from both tables. This is the default if no join type is specified. Specifies that all rows from the left table not meeting the specified condition are included in the result set, and output columns from the right table are set to NULL in addition to all rows returned by the inner join. Specifies that all rows from the right table not meeting the specified condition are included in the result set, and output columns from the left table are set to NULL in addition to all rows returned by the inner join. If a row from either the left or right table does not match the selection criteria, specifies the row be included in the result set, and output columns that correspond to the other table be set to NULL. This is in addition to all rows usually returned by the inner join. Is a keyword to indicate that an SQL-92 style join be used in the delete operation. ON <search_condition> Specifies the condition on which the join is based. The condition can specify any predicate, although columns and comparison operators are often used, for example: FROM Suppliers JOIN Products ON (Suppliers.SupplierID = Products.SupplierID) When the condition specifies columns, they need not have the same name or same data type; however, if the data types are not identical, they must be either compatible or types that Microsoft® SQL Server™ can implicitly convert. If the data types cannot be implicitly converted, the condition must explicitly convert the data type using the CAST function. For more information about search conditions and predicates, see Search Condition. Specifies the conditions used to limit the number of rows that are deleted. If a WHERE clause is not supplied, DELETE removes all the rows from the table. There are two forms of delete operations based on what is specified in the WHERE clause: • Positioned deletes use the CURRENT OF clause to specify a cursor. The delete operation occurs at the current position of the cursor. This can be more accurate than a searched DELETE that uses a WHERE search_condition clause to qualify the rows to be deleted. A searched DELETE deletes multiple rows if the search condition does not uniquely identify a single row. Specifies that the DELETE is done at the current position of the specified cursor. Specifies that cursor_name refers to a global cursor. Is the name of the open cursor from which the fetch is made. If both a global and a local cursor with the name cursor_name exist, this argument refers to the global cursor if GLOBAL is specified, and to the local cursor otherwise. The cursor must allow updates. Are keywords indicating that optimizer hints are used to customize SQL Server's processing of the statement. Specifies that the aggregations specified in the GROUP BY or COMPUTE clause of the query should use hashing or ordering. Specifies that all UNION operations should be performed by merging, hashing, or concatenating UNION sets. If more than one UNION hint is specified, the query optimizer selects the least expensive strategy from those hints specified. Note  If a <joint_hint> is also specified for any particular pair of joined tables in the FROM clause, it takes precedence over any <join_hint> specified in the OPTION clause. FAST number_rows Specifies that the query is optimized for fast retrieval of the first number_rows (a nonnegative integer). After the first number_rows are returned, the query continues execution and produces its full result set. Specifies that the join order indicated by the query syntax is preserved during query optimization. MAXDOP number Overrides the max degree of parallelism configuration option (of sp_configure) only for the query specifying this option. All semantic rules used with max degree of parallelism configuration option are applicable when using the MAXDOP query hint. For more information, see max degree of parallelism Option. Forces the query optimizer to attempt a plan that works for the maximum potential row size at the expense of performance. If such a plan is not possible, the query optimizer returns an error rather than deferring error detection to query execution. Rows may contain variable-length columns; SQL Server allows rows to be defined that have a maximum potential size beyond the ability of SQL Server to process them. Usually, despite the maximum potential size, an application stores rows that have actual sizes within the limits that SQL Server can process. If SQL Server encounters a row that is too long, an execution error is returned. Forces the query optimizer to relax the estimated recompile threshold for a query. The estimated recompile threshold is the point at which a query is automatically recompiled when the estimated number of indexed column changes (update, delete or insert) have been made to a table. Specifying KEEP PLAN ensures that a query will not be recompiled as frequently when there are multiple updates to a table. DELETE may be used in the body of a user-defined function if the object modified is a table variable. A four-part table name (or view name) using the OPENDATASOURCE function as the server name may be used as a table source in all places a table name can appear. The DELETE statement may fail if it violates a trigger or attempts to remove a row referenced by data in another table with a FOREIGN KEY constraint. If the DELETE removes multiple rows, and any one of the removed rows violates a trigger or constraint, the statement is canceled, an error is returned, and no rows are removed. When a DELETE statement encounters an arithmetic error (overflow, divide by zero, or a domain error) occurring during expression evaluation, SQL Server handles these errors as if SET ARITHABORT is ON. The remainder of the batch is canceled, and an error message is returned. If you want to delete all the rows in a table, TRUNCATE TABLE is faster than DELETE. DELETE physically removes rows one at a time and records each deleted row in the transaction log. TRUNCATE TABLE deallocates all pages associated with the table. For this reason, TRUNCATE TABLE is faster and requires less transaction log space than DELETE. TRUNCATE TABLE is functionally equivalent to DELETE with no WHERE clause, but TRUNCATE TABLE cannot be used with tables referenced by foreign keys. Both DELETE and TRUNCATE TABLE make the space occupied by the deleted rows available for the storage of new data. A. Use DELETE with no parameters This example deletes all rows from the authors table. USE pubs DELETE authors B. Use DELETE on a set of rows Because au_lname may not be unique, this example deletes all rows in which au_lname is McBadden. USE pubs WHERE au_lname = 'McBadden' C. Use DELETE on the current row of a cursor This example shows a delete made against a cursor named complex_join_cursor. It affects only the single row currently fetched from the cursor. USE pubs WHERE CURRENT OF complex_join_cursor D. Use DELETE based on a subquery or use the Transact-SQL extension This example shows the Transact-SQL extension used to delete records from a base table that is based on a join or correlated subquery. The first DELETE shows the SQL-92-compatible subquery solution, and the second DELETE shows the Transact-SQL extension. Both queries remove rows from the titleauthors table based on the titles stored in the titles table. /* SQL-92-Standard subquery */ USE pubs DELETE FROM titleauthor WHERE title_id IN (SELECT title_id FROM titles WHERE title LIKE '%computers%') /* Transact-SQL extension */ USE pubs DELETE titleauthor FROM titleauthor INNER JOIN titles ON titleauthor.title_id = titles.title_id WHERE titles.title LIKE '%computers%' E. Use DELETE and a SELECT with the TOP Clause Because a SELECT statement can be specified in a DELETE statement, the TOP clause can also be used within the SELECT statement. For example, this example deletes the top 10 authors from the authors table. DELETE authors FROM (SELECT TOP 10 * FROM authors) AS t1 WHERE authors.au_id = t1.au_id See Also Was this page helpful? (1500 characters remaining) Thank you for your feedback © 2014 Microsoft
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Export (0) Print Expand All URL Authorization in IIS 6.0 Updated: August 22, 2005 URL authorization helps simplify access management by authorizing user access to the URLs that comprise a Web application. IIS 6.0 works with Authorization Manager, a management tool available with the Windows Server 2003 operating systems, to implement IIS URL authorization. For information about Authorization Manager, see "Authorization Manager" in Help and Support Center for Windows Server 2003. To use URL authorization in IIS 6.0 you must perform the following configuration tasks, in the order specified below: Was this page helpful? (1500 characters remaining) Thank you for your feedback Community Additions © 2014 Microsoft
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Take the 2-minute tour × I want to create a figure with 3 plots, a vertical reference line, and marks at the intersections of each plot with the reference line. The plots come from an external table. Plotting works, but naming the plot for usage with the intersections library does not. Here is an example: \begin{loglogaxis}[log basis x=10,log basis y=10] \addplot[name path=SProPath] coordinates {(1e-1,1e-7) (1e1,1e3)}; \node[coordinate] (Ref) at (axis cs:1,1) {}; \node[coordinate] (RefPathStart) at (Ref |- current axis.south east) {}; \node[coordinate] (RefPathEnd) at (Ref |- current axis.north east) {}; \path[name path=RefPath] (RefPathStart) -- (RefPathEnd); \fill [red,opacity=0.5,name intersections={of=SProPath and RefPath}] (intersection-1) circle (2pt); I'm getting the following errors: ! Package tikz Error: I do not know the path named `SProPath'. Perhaps you misspelt it. ! Package pgf Error: No shape named intersection-1 is known. The path SProPath should be known to tikz. Is my way of naming the plot wrong? How can I create intersection between "drawn" paths and plots? share|improve this question Perhaps there is some sort of scoping problem going on, since addplot frees local variables after its visualization. Does name path global make a difference? I remember that Jake posted something related some time ago... –  Christian Feuersänger Jul 5 '11 at 16:17 I've tried, but name path global does not work either. I'll have to find the problem Jake posted - or can you link to it? It doesn't seem to be tagged with intersections. –  Christoph Jul 5 '11 at 17:40 I believe it was [tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21408/… ... but there it seemed to work. Is that related to your problem? –  Christian Feuersänger Jul 5 '11 at 18:10 Changing the two name path to name path global seems to work for me. You should also have a look at the link Christian pointed out, and this related quetion on clearing paths named with name path global –  Peter Grill Jul 5 '11 at 19:32 Here is the graph I get after using name path global –  Peter Grill Jul 5 '11 at 19:38 1 Answer 1 up vote 4 down vote accepted As has been said in the comments, \addplot commands are executed in their own scope, so the name given to a path using name path will be lost immediately. To get around this, you can use name path global instead of name path, which will make the name available in all other scopes. The same is true for the other path in your example: TikZ commands like \path and \draw inside an axis environment are not executed immediately, but only after the rest of the plot has been drawn. For this, each of the \path commands is wrapped in its own scope again. So you could either use name path global for the path as well, or you could pass the the \path and the \fill commands to a \pgfplotsextra{...} command. This will make sure both commands are executed in the same scope after the plot has been drawn, so name path global is not needed. share|improve this answer Your Answer
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Take the 2-minute tour × I'd like to use the external library with TikZ. There I want to use the "up to date check". But when activating the key in this minimal example I got the error: ! Package pgfkeys Error: I do not know the key '/tikz/external/up to date check' and I am going to ignore it. Perhaps you misspelled it. This is the minimal example I used: \tikzexternalize[ prefix=figures/ %, up to date check=md5 %, force remake \node[draw, circle, minimum width=2cm, red] {}; \draw (0, 0) -- (1, 1); I updated my MiKTeX distribution, but nothing changes. share|improve this question closed as too localized by lockstep, Martin Schröder, Stefan Kottwitz Nov 26 '12 at 12:59 I can't find anything in the documentation about that key, where did you read about it exactly? –  T. Verron Nov 26 '12 at 10:47 I read it in the manual pgfmanualCVS2012-11-04.pdf (texample.net/media/pgf/builds/pgfmanualCVS2012-11-04.pdf) on page 405. –  Dirk Nov 26 '12 at 11:01 Will replacing \tikzsetexternalprefix{figures/, up to date check=md5, force remake} instead of \tikzexternalize[ prefix=figures/,up to date check=md5, force remake] work for you? –  hpesoj626 Nov 26 '12 at 11:13 That is the manual of the CVS version, which is not same as the one found in the MikTeX repos. You'll have to download the CVS build from Texample, and install it manually. –  Torbjørn T. Nov 26 '12 at 11:21 I get the same error on a current TeXlive (full update literally minutes before I post this). The pgfmanual I see the option described in is from May 2012, so I guess it should work by now. Not sure "too localized" is the correct answer here. –  Raphael Nov 26 '12 at 21:09 Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.
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Bell Curve The Law Talking Guy Raised by Republicans U.S. West Sunday, March 16, 2008 The War, Its Consequences and Good Judgment Dr. Strangelove said... RbR makes excellent points about the war: that it was disastrous, and predictably so. He makes a lot of good points here. And I agree that history has shown overwhelmingly that Obama's instinct was right about the war. Yet I believe Hillary's decision to vote for the resolution was also correct. I know that sounds contradictory at first, so please let me try to explain. Back when all this started (September 2002) some of you may recall that I also supported a "Yes" vote on the resolution to authorize the use of force in Iraq. I supported the resolution for pretty much the same reasons Hillary cited when she explained her vote on the floor of the Senate back then. I won't dredge those reasons up again because we've all been over it a lot. But I would like to remind everyone that voting for the Iraq Resolution was not actually identical to voting in favor of going to war. I believe Hillary and Obama were both right, even though they came to opposite conclusions, because they were working from different sets of information when they framed their views. In his deservedly famous 2002 speech, Obama acknowledged that Saddam Hussein had developed chemical and biological weapons, but he added, "I also know that Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors..." That statement was contradicted by the classified intelligence briefings given to Senators at that time. Raised By Republicans said... I genuinely we have the contents of those briefings available? It would be one thing if the Senators were getting "slam dunk" analysis from the CIA but it would be quite another if they had access to the "unfiltered" raw intelligence data. The Law Talking Guy said... Clinton has stated that she voted to authorize the President to use force in order to give him negotiating leverage. She has said that she did not think she was authorizing war and nothing else. That runs contrary to Dr.S's suggestion that Clinton was authorizing war based on the clear and present danger presented by Saddam Hussein. Does anyone really think that Hillary Clinton did anything other than decide that war was coming and that she couldn't politically afford to oppose it? Isn't the real question she asks of Obama when she challenges him for not being in the Senate at the time just asking: wouldn't he also have made the same political calculation? Dr. Strangelove said... LTG: I think you misunderstood what I was saying, or I was unclear. Hillary felt the President required maximal negotiating leverage with Saddam because she believed that he posed a direct threat. And yes, I believe Hillary voted for the Iraq resolution because she felt it was right, and because of some personal history. She saw how the Republicans opposed Clinton's war with Kosovo and was still smarting from that. She made references to that in her speech. The contents of those briefings remain classified. However, we have heard news reports of what was in them, and everything I have heard in the open press indicates that Senators were given the "slam dunk" analysis. We have heard that caveats the CIA would have liked to add were often relegated to footnotes--but even so, there was little debate in the intelligence community about the core premises that Saddam was stockpiling WMD. As for access to unfiltered raw intelligence data, that is almost never passed up the food chain. It might even just be categorically never. Dr. Strangelove said... I just re-read my comment and realized I left out something important. I said I believed Hillary voted for the Iraq resolution for reasons of policy and personal conviction. But I want to be clear that is not the whole story. (And I did not say this before, though I should have.) What LTG said is also true. Surely Hillary also looked at the political implications. (I'm sure every Senator did, but never mind.) For all I know, those political implications/calculations were the deciding factor for her. I expect she will always weigh the political consequences before deciding. But I do not believe she will always do the easy or safe thing, politically speaking. I think that last part is the heart of where LTG and I differ about Hillary. USwest said... FYI: reread my comment, please. I never said that Obama has failed to show good judgment. I said that he couldn't come up with anything other than his anti war vote. Perhaps he should talk to RBR about preparing a better answer to that question. no argument about the colossal mistake that Iraq was and is. But I am not 100% sure of what all of Obama's thinking was behind his vote. I really hope it was all the things RBR stated. As for Hilliary, another political calculation that she might have been looking at was the Jewish voters in her state. I don't recall where Israel was on the war issue. My guess is that they were quite concerned about Saddam and would have been supportive of quick, decisive action. USWest said... Just another thought: I have read many of Dr. S' comments and I see how they are being interpreted incorrectly and he is having to restate things, etc. He has been very diplomatic here. And I see how my own comment was taken to an extreme that was surprising to me. People, I hope that the rather strong devotion to Obama that LTG and RBR have isn't clouding the clarity of their usually cogent analysis. One thing that concerns me is the cult of personality both Obama and Hillary are becoming. She gets deamonized, he gets "Oprahized" and we end up in a split party. We had this personality cult thing before and the result was GW. I've warned about this in previous comments. Now neither HRC nor Obama are evil or stupid as is GW. However, I fear that one unintended consequence of the long primary season is that the candidates have become personalities and celebrities rather than potential leaders of the free world. I fear that voters will fall into the same trap that they did with GW: we like him, he makes us feel good. So let's vote for GW. Some crap, different day, different people. I go back and forth over who is better, HRC or Obama. What I find is that Obama irritates me more for some reason. But I am not thrilled with HRC. But I at the end of the day, I think she is a little more honest. I think Obama will talk about no torture, no this, no that, close Gitmo, etc but I think once in office, he is going to have a hard time following through on this. And neither of these people is going to pull troops out of Iraq. It took 2 years to get out of Iraq 100% in 1991 after a 100 day war. Don't think you can just move people out in 1 year after 5 years of war and with over 100K contractors in the place. So when I hear Obama saying all the "right" things, I feel like I am being conned. Now, with that, my friends, I am off to France for 3 weeks. Maybe I will feel more idealistic after 3 weeks of eating pastries and drinking wine! Dr. Strangelove said... Enjoy your pastries and wine, USWest. And thank you for your comments. I have become more comfortable with Obama as the nominee over the past few weeks. While I have in the past argued as you do that Hillary feels "a little more honest" in some respects... And I still mostly feel that way... I have more respect for the ability of Obama and his team to accomplish what they say they will. I am at least more comfortable with the idea that I am willing to give it a try. I think the personality cult thing is worrisome. To me, that is what starts to make the gulf between Hillary supporters and Obama supporters unbridgeable. That is what truly threatens to split the party. Because once the golden idols start to take on a life of their own--once the images of the candidates eclipse the candidates themselves--Hillary and Obama will lose their power to heal the split in the party. USWest said... You are too nice. Obama bugs me the way some men started to bug me after 3 dates. All of the sudden, the very thought of them started to make my skin crawl. Once that happens, the whole affair is over. So I'm in with HRC. If Obama gets nominated, he will have a very hard task with me to convince me to vote for him rather than sit out the election altogether. That's bad, I know. But I'm sick and tired of the whole thing. And I am not alone. I think many people are in the same spot. It's gone on and drug out and we are sick of it. Time for vacation . . . I love Paris in the spring time . . . Dr. Strangelove said... "Obama bugs me the way some men started to bug me after 3 dates." I wouldn't know. Gay men don't usually bother to go past the first date... :-)
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Ft. Collins, CO Los Angeles in the year 1996. The streets are ruled by acts of violence and terror, nothing and nobody is safe. Anika Pyle is one of the worst criminals that Los Angeles has ever seen, and only one band can stop her – L.A.P.D. officers Elway. When Elway apprehended Koch, they were surprisingly found as accessories to her recent crime and were also sent to the “Cryo Prison”. During Elway’s sentence, Los Angeles’ theme and society had dramatically changed from one of violence to one of peace. Pyle, revived for a parole hearing managed to escape and uses Los Angeles to her advantage. The Police are unable to stop her with their non-violent solutions and have no choice but to let out Elway to stop her. Now, Elway not only has to stop Pyle, but to adapt themselves to the future society they have no knowledge about.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012 A Proposal Regarding Proposals Mom: It’s a rhetorical question.  Me: What is? Mom: 'Speak now or forever hold your peace.' Me: Well, it’s not a question, it’s a command… Mom: Regardless, it’s culturally rhetorical. Me: But, if it’s a truly great friend, won’t they listen to dissent, even respect the dissenter? Mom: You overestimate the power of logic over emotion. This is the conversation I had with my mother at least once a week for approximately three months. But I remained unconvinced. So, to one of my closest friends, a person considered to be family, I sent a letter detailing how his recent engagement made me uneasy. This act and the fallout made me realize that marriage proposals are strange, deeply mysterious, and more a matter of faith than anything else. And maybe a proposal should be thought of like a religious conversion? James (not his real name) was my older brother’s high school friend. When I was 12, he adopted me as a little sister. Upon meeting me, James said, “She’s a pothead, right?” I was not a 12-year-old pothead, but I had perfected the dull-eyed, I-don’t-give-a-shit look. Upon getting to know James, I said, “His nerdiness gives me a headache.” By which I meant he made my brain experience growing pains in real-time by asking too many questions about things I didn’t know. And thus began one of those rare hetero boy-girl platonic friendships. When James proposed to a woman he’d known for only a year, I experienced a variety of emotions, most of them about me. I was mad that James hadn’t consulted me about his decision to propose. And, good God, had I listened to this kid complain, cry, yelp and *insert variety of onomatopoeias* for years about the state of his heart and what it may or may not be telling him. (To be fair, he put in equal or probably more time listening to me complain about the same.) On the most basic level, I had the I-get-to-hear-about-the-bad-stuff-but-when-good-stuff-happens-you-don’t-care-what-I-think kind of anger. But there were deeper grounds for my disquiet. First, I was at a loss as to how anyone could make the decision to marry in only one year of dating. Secondly (and more balefully), I was at a loss as to how anyone could make the decision to marry. My letter said, in so many words, that it was too fast. Well, no, that’s not quite fair. "Letter" might not even be the proper word. I third-person narrated the story of James’s romantic life over the past few years to show him the emotional rollercoaster ride he’d been on lately. Maybe proximate emotions were overwhelming objectivity? To no one’s surprise but my own, this communiqué was not well received. Apart from disinviting me to the wedding, James has given me the silent treatment ever since.  Lesson number one? Don’t be a solipsistic idiot. No matter how close a friendship, keep your mouth shut when it comes to fiancées and marriage, always. (Apparently, everyone but me already knew this.) Another lesson? Marriage is really weird, especially when it comes to marriage between secular individuals in an increasingly secular society. Marriage these days isn’t necessarily a spiritual commitment whose statute of limitations extends into the great beyond. Agnostics and atheists marry in churches (or other religious venues) and recite liturgy that declares their union to be sanctioned by and dependent on an institution not personally meaningful to them. And this oddness is accepted because there is no secular ceremony that offers the pomp and circumstance of religious marriage rituals. (And, not to be morbid, but same goes for funerals.) Then, there’s the idea that it’s just not possible for two people to make an open-ended and unconditional earth-bound promise to one another. A person can’t prove that the decision to marry is logically legitimate because you can’t index countless hypotheticals. Logic should trump emotion, right? James was like me. He’d argue both sides of an argument, not just as an arrogant display of intellectual dexterity, but also because he was never entirely sure of his opinion. How could a person like James (a person like me) be so certain of a marriage? And, given his uncharacteristic certainty, why hadn’t James taken my letter as a challenge and written a 3,000 word missive pinpointing the ways in which I was mistaken? (Because that’s how James would normally react to disagreement.) What I’ve come to understand is that the decision to marry is inherently like a religious awakening. It’s not about certainty; it’s about taking a leap of faith. At its best, faith in the rightness of a marriage is just a thing that settles inside the guts of a person. It’s an instinct. It’s largely indescribable. (Or, that’s what people tell me.) If James had had an other-worldly experience, subsequently undergone a spiritual metamorphosis and then made plans to live at an ashram for a year to contemplate the meaning of life (after reading Eat, Pray, Love?), I would not have asked him to subject that overtly spiritual awakening to the scrutiny of logic — though I would have made fun of him, because that’s how we do. James didn’t explain his faith in his decision to be married because faith is not a thing that can be explained. I had no right to call his faith into question because faith can only be known by the person experiencing it. While I don’t understand the faith of those who subscribe to traditional religion, I do accept and, more importantly, respect the fact that I don’t understand. And that’s where I needed to get with James’s proposal — a place where my inability to understand wasn’t a thing to be remedied. Perhaps because of growing secularism or because of general religious diversity, we’re not in the habit of talking about decisions as spiritually mandated (except in Utah, where, if Big Love is to be believed, “I have a testimony, do you have a testimony?” is every other sentence). Still, even if those entering into a marriage are themselves not religious, marriage is like religion. It’s about faith. (But, maybe I’m just really slow on this particular subject and everybody knew this already too?) Previously: Animality. When Janet Mackenzie Smith was 15, she thought that she was the next Kant. Now, she is a paralegal with a superfluous master’s degree, $90K in student loans and an excess of bitterness. Her forthcoming book is called Generation Special, unless her agent renames it. 233 Comments / Post A Comment This is kind of depressing. I've been with the same person since 1999, when I was 18, and been married for 8 of those years. Even though I feel like I look like a child bride in my wedding photos, sometimes I'm really thankful I met the person I wanted to marry before I evolved anything like an adult sense of logic, becuase I'm not sure I could ever have felt reasonably comfortable with making the decision to get married otherwise. How was I able to shrug off whatever doubts I had at 22? Who knows. I've seen most of my friends get married since then, with two divorces so far and who knows how many coming, and it's interesting to see the kinds of choices people have made. Marry a guy pretty quickly, marry a long-term friend-turned-lover, do the typical date for 5 years/live together for 2 of those/get married deal, etc. None of these seem like guarantees of long-term happiness (and obviously I can't make any pronouncements about my own marriage approach yet either, since I'm neither dead nor divorced yet). I will say that some leaps of faith have turned out better than I thought, and some "obvious" couples seem less happy than you'd expect. So yeah, who knows? @sophia_h omg, me too, down to the exact years and everything! Could not be happier, btw :) I just finished reading State of Wonder and one of the highlights of the book was musing on how you have to be naive to marry and have children with someone or else you wouldn't have the courage to do it. It was really beautiful and true. Wait, how many years is one supposed to date someone before getting married? @WaityKatie It's one of those things like knowing if someone is too old or too young for you to date... you take your age and divide it by half and then add 7 and move the decimal one space to the right. That's how many years. Tuna Surprise @WaityKatie - Who knows? Except those in their early 20s...who think it must at least be a year plus consultation with certain friends. @Tuna Surprise The Youngs, they want to crowdsource everything... @WaityKatie As long as the author of this post thinks is the correct number, apparently. sarah girl @WaityKatie While we're discussing timing things, what's a good amount of time to date someone before moving in together? Asking for a friend...... @Sarah H. I believe you're supposed to use @Tuna Surprise's calculation, and subtract 6 months. I'm Right on Top of that, Rose @WaityKatie Yeah, this author doesn't give us any reason to doubt the marriage other than it seems to soon. She's not in that relationship, so why should she feel like she's able to make that call? Sounds more like she's feeling left out, which, you know, she is, because she's not marrying either of them. Tuna Surprise @Sarah H. - You should know someone six weeks before you move in. @Sarah H. You should probably save yourself some trouble and consult your best friend's younger sibling(s) on that one. @Sarah H. Ooh, that's a tough one. I moved in w my ex bf after just four months and that wasn't long enough. I waited for a year and a half with my current and that was juuuust right. @Sarah H. If you can't poop if you know he/she is in the next room, it's too soon. @Sarah H. I moved in with my boyfriend after we'd been dating for 2 weeks - he needed help with rent, I needed out of my parents house. Fast forward ten years and we're happily married and still living together. So, obviously two weeks is the correct answer for everyone regardless of circumstances ;) @Sarah H. Depends heavily on the relationship and the people in it. My dude and I have been living together officially since like two months after we started dating, and unofficially since like two days after we started dating. But we also were able to come to specific terms, since he had very little stuff and we were moving into a house I owned, so it was clear that the space mostly belonged to me and he was basically renting part of it. I think it would have taken us more like a year or two if we had to jointly find and fund a place just because of all the weird adjustments and emotional balancing acts that would take. @Sarah H. A friend of mine goes by the idea that if you spend more than half of your time at each others' places, you're ready to live together. I don't know whether I agree with that, but my (now-)husband and I were spending 4-5 days a week with each other, wishing it could be more. And for timing... he asked me to move in with him about 9 months into our relationship, but with the intention that I wouldn't move until the lease was up on the place I lived at the time (which was like 6 months after that). Judith Slutler @Sarah H. I'd start talking about it at like... a year into the relationship? But I really value my personal space and would only give it up for something very very special. Hot Doom @Sarah H. Here's a ripe one for ya! I haven't moved in with my husband yet! Weeeee! I've been married for three months, living in student housing while I finish my dissert and have to move in with my spouse AND his friend in three days. Also, I've never lived with dudes before...or had a roommate of either gender for that matter. This will be entertaining/tragic probably. By all means, move in with your person before you are married. cecil hungry @Sarah H. I've been dating my bf for 3 years, and we're still not living together. We've talked about it, but neither of us want to give up our alone times. So... @City_Dater I still can't and we're engaged and living together? Weekends are tough. sarah girl @all Thanks for all the responses! I wish there was an easy answer, but it doesn't seem like there is :( I'm about 10 months in with my boyfriend and we already spend most of our time together/at each others' places, so we've been talking seriously about moving in together but can't figure out when to do it. I would be moving to his condo since he owns and I rent, which worries me a little; I definitely had a meltdown the other night that started with "but I want to keep my BEAUTIFUL HEADBOARD!" The vast majority of me is really excited, though! Just need to figure out when to bite the bullet. @cecil hungry I have lived with my dude for a few years and we just kick each other out of the house at least once a week. Others' mileage may vary, but it helps me a lot (I REALLY didn't want to give up alone time entirely). @WaityKatie If circumstances allowed, I'd have moved in with Dudefriend pretty quickly - right around the 6 month mark. Given that it took me 4+ years to get to that stage with my ex, it feels quick when I look at it in words, but there was a distinct shift towards "I want to be with you every day, and do stupid things like go grocery shopping and fight about the electricity bill being so high because I hate being cold" at 6 months. Unfortunately, it will probably be a few years before it's a reality. @WaityKatie OH SNAP. @City_Dater It's been three and a half years and I am still deeply uncomfortable with that. @SarahP Wait. . .what? If I spend more than half my time at the other's place, and the other spends more than half her time at my place, it seems like there is going to be a wedge of time when I am alone at the other's place, and she is alone at my place (and not necessarily at the same time, either. . .). Huh? @Sarah H. I moved in two weeks before I started dating an ex (moving in was not the issue, we lived together for approx. four years: it was lovely) so I'd say there really isn't a minimum. Think to yourself about how well you handle conflict and consider what level of messiness would drive you batty (or in my case, how many times I can deal with being told to be slightly less messy) and then decide. Totally there isn't a rule although if there were it would be some sort of modular arithmetic puzzle like they use in cryptography. :) @cecil hungry ME TOO! Almost 3.5 years and people are bugging us to move in. But I enjoy my own room, soooo.... I actually kept getting attitude from my friends last year which led to some mental unpleasantness but then I realised there was no Big Book of Relationship Rules, which has made me a lot more relaxed. @WaityKatie When you can't wait any longer is probably the best answer I can give from the heights (age in years) of my experience! I dated a man for 3 years, married him, moved in together (after the wedding thats how long ago it was) and knew it was a mistake after 5 weeks. Fast forward twenty years. I spoke to a colleague on the phone most work days for 2 years, met him, moved in together 6 weeks later (he moved cities) because we couldn't wait a second longer, married him 2 years after that, Blissfully happy (mostly!) 11 years later, not a second's regret. @Emmanuelle Cunt. What a wonderful name! @purefog I can't tell if you're being facetious, but if you're really lost, it's supposed to mean that the two of you are spending more than half of your home-time together. It doesn't matter whose place you're spending the time at, which is why it's "each other's places." Good for you, for having the strength to tell your friend! And here's why I think that: I had a disastrous first marriage. I knew it was a mistake even as I was going through the wedding motions, but did so anyway because we had been together a long time, etc, etc. It was only after the marriage and subsequent divorce that many of my friends quietly told me that they really wanted to stand up and object at the wedding but didn't have the guts to do so. Maybe I would have been mad at them at the time, but maybe, just maybe, it would have given me the impetus to say yeah, this isn't a good idea after all. And that would have saved me a lot of time, money and heartache. Beatrix Kiddo @kgg Thanks for this-- As the designated representative for my entire group of friends, I told one friend that he shouldn't be moving in with his emotionally abusive girlfriend. I was afraid he'd hate me for it, but he was actually fairly receptive and understanding...except for the fact that he moved in with her anyway and then proposed. I just hope he knows I was trying to help. Judith Slutler @Beatrix Kiddo That happens sometimes. You have to wait for people to come around on their own, you know? But you can live in hope that he will know he can come to you when he needs support, and make a resolution to support him when that day comes. @kgg I did tell my best friend not to marry her fiance, and she did break the wedding off. It was an extreme circumstance where secret gambling addiction and money stealing was discovered a week before the wedding. ugh though, it was such a nightmare and they never even did break up really and there was a second wedding planned that I told her I wouldn't go to and finally after years of him being awful I've told her just one too many times he is bad news and we aren't friends anymore. I think I would do it again in a heartbeat, but only in an abusive or borderline abusive situation. If he's just a douche, well, I don't know. @Beatrix Kiddo Big difference between "don't marry this person, they're abusive" and "don't marry this person, you've only been together a year," though. What I'm trying to say is, you were right to talk to your friend. The author wasn't. Beatrix Kiddo @Emmanuelle Cunt Thanks. I hope he does! Beatrix Kiddo @TheclaAndTheSeals There's definitely a difference. I feel like the most she could possibly say to the guy, if the short relationship is the only thing wrong with the situation, is, "wow, that's fast! but congratulations!" @kgg My dad literally whispered to me as we began walking down the aisle, "You don't have to do this. I fully support your right to turn around now and we can just leave." I was 19, pregnant, and Daddy was RIGHT. I wish I had listened. Except that I stayed long enough to have two more kids, and all three are amazing wonderful people. @MoonBat That's similar to a story my mom tells about a friend of hers. Her dad said that too. And the bride said, "Well, everyone's already here..." and, unsurprisingly, got divorced a few years later. I used to have dreams about such a situation. Glad you got three great kids out of the marriage! Chesty LaRue I hope you can get things sorted out with James. It seems like you've lost a great friendship and grown in the process, but I hope James is thinking about you and you guys can repair that somewhat. @Chesty LaRue I know! It must have been a real doozy of a letter to completely end a friendship, or at least it must have read like that to him at the time. Hopefully they'll reconnect. I wish there were a way to have an anonymous comment box on partners of friends - just a way to give a friendly "Hey, you seem a lot less happy/outgoing/healthy/whatever with this person, maybe you should look into that?" before marriage. I made the decision to marry my ex-husband despite all my friends thinking he was horrible, because I got engaged very quickly. We'd known each other for nine years, but most of that had been spent cursing each other as a terrible person. We'd started dating as adults about nine months previously, but we'd been off-and-on for the first three and had only lived in the same town for two months. But we got engaged anyway, and I never gave anyone a chance to give my feedback at all because all of those months of dating were during the most isolated period of my life, after moving cross-country post-college-graduation. I knew people were against my dating him in the first place (see: my cursing him as terrible for nine years, the awfulness of the off-again part of our early adult relationship), so I think I felt like I could prove everyone wrong by being SO IN LOVE that we were GOING TO GET MARRIED NOW THANKS. I listen constantly for quiet feedback on my current partner of two and a half years - the kind of quiet comments people made that should have drawn my attention to red flags with my ex. I get all good feedback, unsolicited - people say stuff like "Hey, I just want you to know I like your boyfriend, since I promised I'd never hold back again after you married that one douche" - and I love the guy and want to spend my life with him and STILL worry that people just aren't telling me something that I'm not noticing, because that was how it went the first time around, and because I know once we do get engaged no one will ever feel like they can say anything. The best way to deal with a friend who's chosen an inappropriate partner for marriage? Ask them if they're happy every now and then (and don't argue if they say they are, even if you know they really aren't), listen to them when they're sad (unless it's a bad enough situation that it hurts your mental health to do so, in which case probably just avoid them, sadly), and be there for them if their marriage does fall apart without an I-told-you-so. @Jenn@twitter Oh yeah, and if you really can't be supportive at their wedding, don't go. It will hurt your friendship, but it is better than being a jerk at the wedding. Otherwise, go and keep your mouth shut. sarah girl @Jenn@twitter Yesyesyes, you're definitely on to something with the whole "proving everyone wrong" aspect of staying in a bad relationship. One thing people don't quite understand about bad relationships is that it can be really embarrassing when you finally get out. Even if the person was unspeakably awful and everyone in your life is just relieved that you're safe now, you still sort of think that everyone is going "ha, what an idiot, can you believe she stayed with him for so long?" So if you could just make the relationship work, as terrible and unhealthy as it is, you'll never have to feel that shame of "I told you so," whether explicit or just implied. It sucks. Blerg. I wish people could just SAY things. I live in fear that people aren't saying things to me. But then, I listen to what they do say (Like yesterday, when I mentioned my boyfriend in conversation and my friend John explained who Mr. Hammitt was by saying "You know how I hate everyone all of my friends date? Not him. He's great. You should meet him!") and realize its nice and just have to trust that? I guess its why the whole "faith" part of this resonates. Because we're never not going to have doubts. But if marriage is a thing we want then we have to look our doubts in the face, take a deep breath, and jump. @ThatJenn Yes I am also of two minds about this! I got engaged to my ex after about a year, and then, after we were divorced, my friends started 'fessing up to "always hated that guy." I wasn't sure if it was a legitimate hate of the guy pre-marriage, or a post-divorce hate that they projected onto the past. Who knows! I am sort of torn about whether or not they should have said something to me before we got married ... would it have changed anything? Would I have left? I am also always listening for public feedback on my current situation. It helps that he has many friends who I respect and admire, and I think that speaks volumes about the kind of person you are. (My ex, on the other hand, did not have a ton of friends) @Sarah H. YES, it is so hard and embarrassing to go, "You know how I've been insisting for years that everything was peachy keen? Turns out I was letting someone do things to me I never would have imagined I'd allow to happen." @ThatJenn This may not always work though, because most of my friends did not know how much of a d-bag my ex was to me, and that was because we hid it very well when together, and I didn't really tell them any of it until after the fact. My sister is probably the only person who knew because she actually saw/was part of some of our fights. @ThatJenn After my friend and his fiancee broke up, he said how his mom and friends hadn't liked her much, and I quietly said I felt the same way. And he said -- not angrily or wistfully, just straightforwardly -- that he wished people had spoken up at the time, because he might not have wasted so much time. But who knows if he would have followed our advice at the time? He's engaged to someone I like a lot now, and he seems much happier. Ugh, my comment deleted and I hope it comes back! :( I basically said that maybe the approach was the problem, not the actual "talking about relationships." @mysterygirl I think it's reasonable to say "Hey, I'll support you if you decide this isn't for you" but not so much to say "here's why your relationship sucks, time to give it up." I'm Right on Top of that, Rose @mysterygirl OFF SUBJECT, but your name doesn't have anything to do with Santa Olivia, does it? @Jenn@twitter : Yes, I agree, but I also think that in many friendships you can often find a gentle way to say the latter and have it be ok. And sometimes you can use the former to mean the latter, like a Jedi mind trick. "I'll support you if this relationship isn't for you." "...This relationship ISN'T for me!" @I'm Right on Top of that, Rose : It doesn't, but now I'm super curious! @mysterygirl I think it's fine to object if the fiance(e) has shown objectionable qualities, or if your friend seems unhappy in some way, but if your only objection is that the timing seems fast (Which, a year? Please.), or that you have issues with marriage in general? Just let it go. @mysterygirl: Ok, like a jerk I'm replying to myself to basically reconstitute my original comment, not that anyone cares but it's driving me nuts that it's missing :) I know that the author has concluded that her friend doesn't have to prove his faith to her, but I also wonder if her taking a different approach could have saved their friendship. I wonder if she could have just sat down with him and said, "I feel like I don't know anything about [Fiancee]; tell me everything you love about her so that I can love her, too!" or something else light-hearted like that, he would have had the chance either to demonstrate to the author that his Fiancee is great and she could have just let herself be happy for him, or to realize through the process of talking through what's in effect his marriage criteria that maybe he *is* rushing into things (if this is what she's worrying about; not that she's right or wrong to do so). Using a letter immediately puts people on the defensive; I'd be upset if I got such a letter but not if a friend over coffee wanted to know more about him. I also am in favor talking about marriage and fiancees, as long as you're careful to frame it around making sure that they are happy. @SarahDances : I agree. I think that the big problem was that instead of learning more about her friend's relationship and making it about them, she wrote a letter that sounds like it was mostly about her. I'm Right on Top of that, Rose @mysterygirl Oh, it's just part of this book series that I finished this weekend. Find it here: http://www.amazon.com/Santa-Olivia-Jacqueline-Carey/dp/044619817X @SarahDances Yes, this. Part of reaching an age where many of your friends are getting married (or so I'm finding) is that people you are otherwise close with will genuinely want, and choose, things you would never ever want for yourself, and maybe even really disagree with. That stuff is Not About You, and also unless you think someone is going to get hurt, realize that they are getting married and are Busy. Beatrix Kiddo @SarahDances I agree. Who's to say that they're not ready? I have a friend who married someone she'd only known a month, and seven years later, they're still really happy. Another friend married her boyfriend of ten years, but then almost immediately got divorced. Time is a terrible predictor of marriage success. @themmases One of the greatest things I've ever read is a sentence that goes "This person isn't doing X(getting married/moving/going to or dropping out of grad school/making a life choice) AT you." People are entitled to their own lives. @mysterygirl I agree that it's important to make it clear you only have concern because you care about your friend's well being. I can be too blunt sometimes and it's gotten me into trouble, so I try really hard not to condemn relationships I have bad feelings about (if there's no concrete reason). One of my best friends is planning to propose to his girlfriend who is not wildly offensive, but I don't like her for him at all and I don't like the way I can tell his mind is working in regards to her. (And she to him.) And yet we're able to talk about it civilly, without him feeling attacked, because there's a great understanding between us of criticism being without any intent to hurt, only to express care. I get it from him too and I really value that. But I know it's rare, and even with that dynamic I'm super careful, because anyone with any feelings about anything is going to bristle when you attack something they love. I'm Right on Top of that, Rose I get where the author is coming from, and I have my own capital-F Feelings about marriage, but this feels off. Having faith in a marriage is having faith in another, physically present human being, with whom you can have conversations and make decisions. It feels more solid than a spiritual conversion, because you can see, touch, smell and affect this other person with your own actions. I don't know, seems different from a personal, spiritual conversion to me. Maybe if you never believed in marriage before and then decide to do it? @I'm Right on Top of that, Rose But is some ways it is less solid. Because what you are saying is "I have faith that however you change, that will be okay with me. I have faith that whatever happens, you will stay by my side. I have faith that despite the fact that we KNOW humans change, constantly, always, we will change together." And there is nothing all that solid about that. I'm Right on Top of that, Rose @Hammitt I mean, yeah, I guess it's less solid than whatever sort of greater power you understand in your mind, because those tend to remain static. But if you've got a problem with said higher power, it's not like you can say, "Hey, we should talk about this or go to counseling," and higher power says, "Sure, yeah, I think that's a good idea because we're not communicating very well." (Or if it can, then that's a whole new conversation.) Sure, humans are imperfect and need ways to handle those shortfalls (maybe through spirituality), but calling someone's decision to marry similar to spiritual conversion is disingenuous because it doesn't seem take the interpersonal relationship between the soon-to-be spouses into account. @I'm Right on Top of that, Rose Solid point! Previous point of mine rescinded. I'm Right on Top of that, Rose @Hammitt Oh man, no need to rescind! It's all a matter of faith, and it's all so funny because everyone has a unique perspective on higher powers and such, so there are no absolutes. I liked your point, it made me think harder about mine. @I'm Right on Top of that, Rose Maybe other people experience what the author is talking about, but I really could not relate to it. I also have Feelings about marriage, am not always sure it's for me, but think I probably want it with this one specific person. I have direct evidence that a marriage-ish relationship with a dude that will not squick me out is possible! I'm enjoying it. When I weight that against my Feelings about whether I see myself married, it's evidence that maybe I could. If someone questioned that, I'd be offended that they questioned my judgment, or the character of someone I consider family, not my faith. I don't have faith. But maybe others do? @I'm Right on Top of that, Rose Yeah, the whole "marriage is weird" thing didn't resonate with me. What she's calling faith, in terms of marriage (or mine anyway), is actually trust... and not being able to understand or relate to a relationship that requires trust says a lot more about the person who doesn't understand it than about the institution. I'm Right on Top of that, Rose @SarahP Right. That's where I think she's off base; she's not taking James' relationship as an entity in and of itself, and an entity that frankly doesn't include her. I'm Right on Top of that, Rose @themmases I see what you're saying too, which is sort of what I was trying to say? Like, questioning and inserting yourself a friend's relationship with another person, without having evidence that it is bad (like abuse, for instance), is pretty self-indulgent. I don’t know why this series is called Homilies; I’ve never heard a homily where every other sentence ended in uptalky question marks. (Or, to borrow the style: is this our generation's take on moral and ethical certainty? To not really be certain about anything at all, but to make a philosophy of our uncertainty?) Anyway, I could not agree more about the act-of-faith dimension of choosing to get married, especially now that most of us don’t just HAVE to do it because it’s expected. And I don't think your shock and curiosity were out of line--it might just be that you didn't frame your curiosity about his engagement in the best way possible. (Yes, of course, no one ever needs to justify their life decisions to their friends, but I think most of us would be willing to shed a little light on our decision to get married if a close friend asked.) It’s hard not to be mystified occasionally by the decisions of our closest friends and family. Other people are surprising and essentially unknowable, which is often what makes them lovable. @KatieWK I'm guessing you didn't grow up in the Episcopal church then? @franceschances Or with the Unitarians. You probably know the joke. @franceschances Haha, no, I did not. I didn't want to pile on before, but since everyone else has, I just want to point out again that beyond the is-she-a-bad-friend quibbling over the content of the essay, this piece is not well written at all. "Maybe proximate emotions were overwhelming objectivity? To no one’s surprise but my own, this communiqué was not well received" sounds like terrible Pale Fire fanfic. Full disclosure: My brain may be overwhelmed by bafflement/jealousy that this lady has an agent. @KatieWK On the other hand, I would totally read terrible Pale Fire fanfic. By definition it would already be better than the 50 Shades books. I always envied what I assumed was my married friends' complete lack of doubt. I thought the fact that I sometimes have doubts about my partner means we're doomed and I should stay away from talking about the M-word. But if you think about it in terms of religion, people are allowed to have doubts about the existence of God--you don't leave church/synagogue/etc. the minute you have doubts, you're allowed (at least I think) to keep going even though you can never really be sure. And you're allowed to be okay with never really being sure. And with wanting to believe. It's a helpful framework to think of marriage in! Good luck sorting things out with "James." Just gonna say that there are SO MANY weddings that are totally secular and don't take place in a church/temple/other religious area that offer all of the pomp and circumstance. @Jaya And funerals! The best time I went to my grandfather's amazing/funny/sad/comforting potluck funeral in a former Quaker meetinghouse and then we all had beers. @Ophelia Quaker funerals are wonderful, and can be truly moving, even to an atheist such as myself. (Partially because the whole concept of friends getting together and spontaneously sharing memories is something which transcends an individual religion.) We got married by a justice of the peace in a park using a completely non-religious legal ceremony, and my mother still managed to bawl her eyes out. Much better than subjecting my guests to an hour and a half full Mass! (Not that there's anything wrong with that! 'Cept it's really long!) @Jaya FUN FACT: the puritans who first came to the US didn't believe in religious marriages either. They were religious people, obviously, but to them marriage was a secular/political institution, not a religious one. They were married by government/state officials and didn't think marriages were "destined by god" or anything, but were contracts between people who loved each other. So we have a long tradition of secular marriage in the US! @SarahP That is what I tell everyone who tries to argue against same-sex marriage! It's amazing how many people don't understand that the civil ceremony and a religious ceremony are NOT THE SAME THING. @Jaya AND, no matter how religious a couple is, they STILL have to have the civil component (the marriage certificate) to make their marriage official. It's not the flowery ceremony in front of a cross that makes people officially married EVEN if those people are super religious. Cat named Virtute Ugh, even though it was two years ago, this still hits too close to home. Marriage and relationships can change people so dramatically, which is scary to someone like me who has not really had a successful relationship but who has been abandoned multiple times by friends who disappear into theirs. @Cat named Virtute My best friend did this. Completely disappeared into her relationship, then marriage, then family. It got to the point where I was viewing online pictures of parties, vacations [with neighbor couples], etc that I was never invited to, and just crying while viewing them. I attempted at least one heart-to-heart about it before they were even married, but nothing really changed. It had been a full year between the second to last time I saw her and the last time, which was at a party I hosted. She went out of her way to say we needed to hang out more, but I did an experiment to see if she'd ever call or text or invite me to anything. Nope... over another year later, no contact, so I blocked her from all social media and that's been that. I still get sad about it, but mainly because I wish I had more long-term friendships where people didn't bail on you for a partner. @Cat named Virtute: My best guy friend did this. Disappeared up his wife's butt. We lived together for 4 years and were best buds, but when he found 'second mommy' he vanished. Elizabeth K. Sounds like she just didn't want to be around you any more. I have mixed feelings about this essay. On the one hand, I admire the author's openness & self-deprecation, and she does seem to understand that she was wrong to send the letter and genuinely pained that she lost James' friendship. At the same time, it seems like there is still an odd gap in this story where the emotions and empathy should be. I imagine that receiving such a letter from one's close friend was probably really hurtful. To attribute James' response to his supposed lack of rationality regarding marriage and suggest that he must have experienced a religion-like conversion that renders him incapable of logical discussion on the topic seems both condescending and misguided. I'd like to suggest that, in fact, it is possible to sensitively discuss both marriage and religion without retreating to the position of "Well, I just understand that I'll never understand!" However, when you send someone a long letter that harshly undermines one of their major life decisions because it threatens your own ego, they tend to get angry and stay that way. I'm Right on Top of that, Rose Yes, this is what I've been trying to say. You are better with The Words. @I'm Right on Top of that, Rose I spent so long typing it that I didn't realize that you had written basically the same thing above. Oops! @Kristen This. I've been trying to formulate a response to this essay, but you've done it better. I'm Right on Top of that, Rose @Kristen Goodness, don't say Oops about this. You said it better than I could. @Kristen Yes indeed. I feel like my main reaction to getting a letter like that would be: "Mind your own damn business." @Kristen And there's something about writing a letter that's very final. Like, if you were sitting down with a friend and started to talk to them about your concerns, you'd quickly see from their body language and reaction that what you were saying was not being well-received and you'd change your tactic, I imagine. It's not hard to imagine that if I had been with someone for a year (which is actually a fairly substantial amount of time) and I received a letter from my childhood friend that turned out to be a long lecture on how I was misguided in my plans for the future, I'd be pretty pissed off, too. And maybe I'd think that my childhood friend was still treating me like the person who I was instead of the person I had grown into, and I would sadly realize that if they were clinging to an old me while rejecting the new me's major life decisions, then maybe I needed to break free from that friendship and continue to evolve as I best saw fit without unsolicited advice on how to live my life. /hella run on sentence @Kristen You just managed to state my own feelings about this article perfectly. Thank you! @Kristen I completely agree. I was on the receiving end of something very similar to the author's letter, and...it made me realize I didn't need that friend in my life anymore, if he wasn't going to accept that I wasn't his auxiliary in all things. On the other end, my initial reaction was very much like the author when my brother announced he was going to get engaged to the woman he'd been on all of one date with. I was close to trying to stage an intervention before I realized I should chill out and meet his girlfriend first. A year and a half later, they're happily married, and I figured out the world didn't revolve around my preconceptions of what the "right" amount of time is. @Kristen I'm going to join the chorus: nice response. Exactly what I wanted to say. I'll only add: the author seems very, very young. @Kristen Exactly this. I think that to decide for somebody else what their decision to get married was ("It was a conversion because I said so, and I am right! For evidence, please see my letter.") is fairly self absorbed. We don't get to dictate the terms of somebody else's life, nor are we active participants in any of their relationships except the one we have with them. And if I am not an active participant in a relationship, what grounds do I have to decide anything for it? Gah. I am stumbling over my words, so I'll stop and just join the chorus - you did a great job summing up the issues I had with this. @insouciantlover TIMELY Can I just share with y'all? That I literally just got a call from my childhood friend who had some teary rant worked up about "how I've changed" and I was like, whoa dude, I was just talking about how I don't take this shit anymore! This! Exactly what I was thinking, but more eloquent. As someone who knows all too well the hot-faced realization that you've said something entirely unwelcome and unsolicited and painful that you can't possibly take back or amend or qualify and that the timeline of your friendship with the person you've just said That Thing to will now be divided into The Time Before You Said That Thing and The Time After You Said It, Even Though You Apologized (Why Do You Persist In The Delusion That A Well-Worded Apology Is The Same Thing As A Time Machine), you know, I feel ya. @melis Ah. Yes. I have what you might call a familiar feeling. Yep. @melis that's realizations, multiple, right? :\ (for me it is) @melis another reason why we need time machines. why isn't time machine technology more advanced by now? @JessAndNo if only life had a 5 minute edit button (more like a 5 day edit button) @JessAndNo Probably because of the patriarchy. Reginal T. Squirge I'd prefer five years. @TheBourneApproximation YUUUUUUUP @TheBourneApproximation I was told when I was getting married that you're actually not supposed to say "Congratulations" but "Best wishes" to the bride (old etiquette, I guess). I find "Best wishes" to be easier to choke out than "congratulations" when I'm feeling yucky about the match, because, well, I DO wish them the best... it's just that I think the best is not getting married. simone eastbro @TheBourneApproximation xoxoxox Vera Knoop @ThatJenn This is why I love "mazel tov!" I find it impossible to hear criticism of my ex without taking it as criticism of me, my taste, my judgement. To be in your presence after you've explicitly done so makes me cringe, to the extent that I'd kind of rather never see you again. @laurel ooh it's so tempting with exes too to be like "yeah it's over let the slandering of character begin!" but that has definitely come back to bite me in the ass, and also has raised my hackles. It's kind of like family - I can shit talk them, but when you start to ... Weirdly, my boyfriend likes to shit talk my ex. And then I wonder, "do you realize that the part where you are indicating that I had terrible taste in men would therefore apply to... you?" @laurel Really? My friends have said not-flattering (though not mean-spirited) things about my exes that have been really helpful to me, and also give me confidence that they would tell me if they thought I were about to make A Huge Mistake. It's hard for me to imagine ending a friendship over that, but I guess it depends on the friend. ...that said, if they put it in writing and made it all about themselves, I probably would not react well. @Mira I think it's a complicated response though ... some shame that you were with that person so long (if they were really awful anyway), defense of your taste in partners, resentment that they think they presume to know your relationship, or resentment that they may have hit the nail on the head ... @Mira I have found some commentary about my ex useful, but when people go too far - they criticize something I still don't think is his fault, they say he's worthless and I shouldn't care about his well-being, they tell me I must have had really low self esteem to stay with him, etc., I get defensive. He did some crap things, but I think all people are worth something, I do still care (tangentially) about his well-being and wish him happiness, and there were actually some good points about our relationship that I still cherish (and which I kept in mind as I looked for a healthier relationship in the future). @Mira: "Impossible" was too strong a word, but still. It depends on the friend and what they have to say. It's easier to tolerate criticism of specific actions as opposed to general character. It also matters how well they knew him independently from me (the better they knew him the more tolerance I have for their opinion). I'm thinking of a specific couple with whom the ex and I were friends. They were so clueless in their comments. I can't imagine how they thought the things they had to say would be welcome. @laurel I think that's a problem you should look into; I'm not even joking, that's personalization and self-blame that's not very founded and is probably very detrimental to your happiness. @hotdog: No, it's really not about me, though I'll admit I have a low tolerance for others' opinions about my life. Some people, like the poster and the couple I described above, aren't terribly thoughtful, in their enthusiasm for judging and gossiping, about how their comments come across. @laurel @redheaded&crazie That makes sense. I think I am often the friend who is a little too Real Talk for what people need from me, actually, so it's also possible that I'm just trying to justify myself. (But seriously, my friend's new dude is so awful, you guys! I'm telling you so I can stop myself from telling her!) @ThatJenn It is legit pretty terrible to tell your friend that her ex is "worthless." @Mira the worst is how many friends i have had come to me and be like "okay but you KNOW me. do you think I will be happy with this guy? is he right for me? what do you think of him?" ahhhhhhhh whyyyyyyyy panic attack you're handing me the petard to hoist myself on! (or whatever the appropriate phrase is) @redheaded&crazie Ugh I have no idea how you would answer that! Way too much pressure. @Mira swirl your cape over your head and disappear in a poof of smoke is the only thing that's ever worked for me. @Mira My friend's dude she broke up with a few months ago was awful. The worst part was before I even met him our other friend pulled me aside and said, "[Friend]'s new dude is kind of awful and she already knows it, but she also knows this relationship isn't permanent." And [Friend] told me herself, unbidden, that he kind of sucked and that her family was relieved to learn he was not a permanent fixture. Why was she with him for months??? Why did I have to make small talk with him? Everyone agreed he was awful including his girlfriend! (This is rhetorical. I made my friends sit through three years of my awful-to-be-around ex-husband, so I kind of get it, but on the other hand I was sticking it out because I was married to the guy?) @redheaded&crazie "You seem so happy! I'm so happy that you seem so happy! Who wants another drink?" @ThatJenn I would assume he was really good in bed if I could bear to think such a thing about him. @Mira "Bartender: make it a double." @redheaded&crazie: Jeez, who could say? Relationships are such strange, highly specific alchemy. @laurel I get this, I think. Or I have my own version of this. Like when my last relationship ended, I was pretty heartbroken, largely because my ex was a pretty great dude with whom I was still in love, though I was learning how to make that past tense, and with whom a relationship simply wasn't possible in that time and place. And then I had friends who would be like, "Oh, what an asshole. He sucks," and the like, as if that was a sufficient summation of things. And that was neither true nor helpful for me in any way (although these friends also tend to talk about their own exes that way, so maybe it works for them). I am not opposed to Real Talk. If a person is legitimately terrible - abusive, negative, thoughtless in a way that constantly erodes at a person's self-esteem, well it's time for an intervention. And if you want to talk to someone about their relationship, past or present, then great, especially if that person actually wants to talk about it. But editorializing about a friend's ex veers dangerously into analyzing your friend's choices, and that kind of talk is best saved for behind a person's back. @redonion: Exactly. Real Talk is one thing, but glibly talking shit in the painful aftermath of a break up--here's where I tell you all the things I've always disliked about the person you were until recently building a world with--is just clueless at best. @redonion golden finishing statement. @laurel When talking about exes, like when talking about all emotionally and psychologically fraught issues, it's often best to frame people in terms of actions, not inherent, unchangeable traits. Example of a bad "supportive friend" thing to say: "Boy, you're ex was a big waste of time huh? And not even cute! What a jerk! All those years!" Example of a better "supportive friend" thing to say: "It was really terrible how he did X and Y thing to you. And boy that (appropriately funny and non fraught clothing item he wears) looked so ridiculous!" @KatnotCat: I agree, specificity is key. Also timing. And maybe saying less and listening more. @redheaded&crazie It was the closing statement in my work up for the pilot episode of "Law and Order: Toxic Friendship Unit" @ThatJenn It truly doesn't help that many women seem to think that there is a necessary "girl bonding" thing they need to do with friends, during which they talk shit about anything and everything regarding the ex, never recognizing that there were situations and nuances that they refuse to recognize. I mean, we can discuss the things that he sucked at, but why pretend like I was just dating someone who had NO redeeming qualities? How does that make me feel better, particularly when it's a "men suck" fairy tale? And then there are the times that your friends begin applying their incredibly narrow and harsh ideas of "what love should be" to your life. It's not that marriage is about a leap of faith, or about some kind of deep spiritual impulse. At the most basic level, it's about two people making a decision about their future together -- one that doesn't involve outsiders. This is why the author doesn't get it, and why James is absolutely right to be mad at her: she made his decision about his future all about her. Ham Snadwich "And, good God, had I listened to this kid complain, cry, yelp and *insert variety of onomatopoeias*..." Lisa Frank @laurel But was it a mighty yawp? @Ham Snadwich Meow? @Lisa Frank ugh a former paramour is so into that fucking Whitman line @Ham Snadwich @insouciantlover Snadwich Meow is now officially my favorite onomatopoeia. Anon Internet Catlady This post, and the actions that inspired it, is self-indulgent and immature. It boggles my mind that not only would this person write this letter to a friend, but then recount it as if it were still James' fault that he hadn't responded in a "logical" manner. This isn't about whether Logic > Emotions - this is about courtesy and politeness and regard for someone whom you claim to have a close friendship. I'm Right on Top of that, Rose @Anon Internet Catlady Yes. Being someone's friend for longer than they've known their fiancee does not give you ownership over their decisions. Natasha Simons@facebook @Anon Internet Catlady Yes, exactly. It is 0.0% shocking that James decided to cut her off as a toxic ridiculous friend instead of having an ~intellectual debate~ or something about his future wife. @Anon Internet Catlady I'm not going to add any criticism of the author because, as melis pointed out above, i do stupid foot in mouth shit all the time and some of it has taken a long time for my friendships to recover from. But re: the emotional response, I just want to add that it goes way beyond any defensiveness of one's partner, because i don't think anybody ever wants to lose a close friendship either, and making a decision to cut off a friend, from your wedding and/or from your life, is really hard as well! I feel for everybody in this scenario, and I guess I just feel thankful that I've learned my lesson about shit-talking relationship partners or exes before my friends have reached the wedding stage of life. (hopefully the lesson sticks) @Natasha Simons@facebook I can definitely feel the author's pain and bafflement that James did not react the way she expected him to. I also have relationships where there's lots of making fun (which she said she would have done if he'd actually converted), and realizing one of my observations was actually just unkind is probably a top-5 bad emotion. It would hurt me too if a friend reacted to me in a way I'd never known them to before, and I could see myself maybe considering the religious conversion analogy, but probably not still finding it plausible after trying to write it up. Since James is not speaking to her, and obviously has either changed or was never fully known to her in the first place, she really has no way to know something so specific and personal. Still, I couldn't agree more that the expectation that he have an intellectual debate about that topic is ridiculous. I'm not a big Feminism 101 person for the same reason-- that is my life, not one intellectual exercise among many. @Anon Internet Catlady Very well-put. I'm curious as to whether this author finds that all of her close relationships function upon "logic." Logic doesn't often dictate intimacy and love. This story strikes me as all sorts of immature in that regard. Furthermore, and this is kind of more @redheaded&crazie, there is an episode of Sex and the City about talking shit about a friend's lover/fiance/husband/whathaveyou. It is one of the only actually smart episodes. The lesson is basically: DO NOT DO IT. With a few exceptions (abuse of some sort being the most obvious), this is a good rule to follow. (redheaded&crazie, it sounds like you've kind of already figured this out :) ) Rock and Roll Ken Doll Q: I've been invited to a wedding on the other side of the country. I really can't afford that kind of travel right now, but I'm afraid to tell that to the bride for reasons that this letter doesn't really explain in a way that makes sense. A: Try writing the bride a letter about how the marriage is a bad idea so she'll disinvite you. Problem solved! Judith Slutler I don't really understand judging other peoples' decisions like this. That's all I have to say about that. My first thought, a few lines in: "well THIS is not going to end well." Better to Eat You With When I got engaged to my husband, my then-best-friend said, "If he turns out to be an asshole, I don't want to hear about it," because she had talked me through a brief but unpleasant breakup during the six years he and I had dated. For some reason, this was not the final straw in our friendship. That came later. Captain Awkward says never send the FEELINGS letter and the Captain is rarely wrong. @Kinloch Sometimes you can't entirely control the impulse to send the FEELINGS letter - it becomes like a cheesecake sitting in the fridge that develops an overwhelming power over you - but not once have I sent a FEELINGS letter and had a good result come of it. Bad results every time, guaranteed. @werewolfbarmitzvah I have set up a special email address where I send FEELINGS letters (and other private journal-type things) so I can send them and not send them to the person in question. @ThatJenn and then re-read them with a sense of grim satisfaction at a later date. YES! (I have a word document) @werewolfbarmitzvah Yes- I know the temptation of FEELINGS mail. I have only sent one in my life, and it was so traumatic and scarring, that I have never sent another. Now I have FEELINGS mail composed, and I send them to the do-not-reply mail demon, to be bounced forever, but protected from being read by a human being. @Kinloch Captain Awkward is awesome and rarely wrong! Also, she's suggested writing out the FEELINGSletter and then never ever ever sending it, which makes a lot of sense to me because it's more likely to be all about your own feelings than concern for the other person. @werewolfbarmitzvah Cheesecake in the fridge that develops a wicked case of mold and gives you irritable bowels? Yes, I've had that cheesecake (metaphorically). @ThatJenn I want to be that email address where everyone I don't know sends their FEELINGS letters. I am a dirty emotional voyeur. @TattyEmu me too. I used to read people's Live Journal's all the time for this very reason. But!! I had a feelings letter sent to me once by friends (not regarding a romantic relationship, but how they thought I should treat my dad...it was high school), and to this day I still think that was none of their fucking business. It's great that these two girls had thoughts on how I should live my life, but writing a letter was not the way to do it. These types of things are best handled in person, and if you can't muster that, then mind your own business. @Kinloch Urgh, I just wrote a FEELINGS letter today and I think my heart will just break if I don't send it, but sending it would be beyond inappropriate and probably end in a lost friendship. But oh my god, the intended recipient really should hear it. AUGH. @glitterary Sadly you know what to do in this scenario. I learned the hard way if I can't say what I feel face-to-face using my words, then I shouldn't send a letter with those FEELINGS. I can certainly write/journal it out for my own peace of mind, but it's *my* own. Good luck with your situation. I do highly recommend captainawkward.com for useful what-to-do advice. I learned two really great things on that site- 1. People who like you will act like they like you. 2. There are no magic words or ritualistic dance that you can do to keep someone from getting their feelings hurt. @Kinloch Great advice! I used to default to writing letters because I felt more persuasive writing. And then I realized that I didn't need to be persuasive and, in fact, that could be a pretty destructive goal. If I need to express something for the plain reason that it really needs to be known, then doing that in person usually works-- with the added bonus that the other person gets a chance to respond! @Lyesmith EXACTLY. FEELINGS mail and FEELINGS bombs are about you, and I always ask myself "What do I want to happen? What benefit is there in this? Is it just for myself ?" Nine times out of ten*, it's to make ME feel better about a situation/person. Well, only I can control my feelings, and once I realized I was laying responsibility for my emotions on someone else, I quit it. *The only situation I say send the letter, is a situation of abuse/sexual assault - if a friend was marrying/dating/hanging out with a rapist or abuser, you can bet I will let them know my opinion on that relationship. hm. i received an email like this (so much like this - it was even written in the third person) about 3 years into my first marriage from my former BFFle from college. to this day, I think it's easily the most arrogant expression of "concern" I've received from a friend. it felt like she was using her concern as an opportunity to do some daring and edgy writing techniques or something, it was so much about her, it was just... grotesque. @teenie Yes! Whether or not to gently voice your concern or misgivings is one debate. But writing a letter in third person form about their romantic life story is something completely else. And that something else is GROSS. @yeah-elle I would love to see the letter!! How does the story even begin? "Once upon a time, James met an adorable young girl named me. Then he had this magical-unicorn friendship where he could share EVERYTHING. And then he had some bad dating experiences, and then he met some woman. Then in the blink of an eye(year) he proposed. What. a. fool. He will rue the day he didn't consult his bff. FIN" That's how I imagine it. @adorable-eggplant Yeah, the whole thing sort of reeks of "why didn't he pick meeeee???" @adorable-eggplant that was... basically about it. the first half of her message was reminiscent of our friendship, then the second half was talking about how i met someone and now my life was over. ugh. @WaityKatie - one of our mutual friends wondered if that's what she felt with me too? but... I haven't had enough interactions with her since to figure out if that was the case. obviously, even if it was, her methods of communicating this were pretty awful. @teenie People who are the center of their own universe never cease to amaze me with their brazen indifference to anyone's narrative or experience beside their own. Sorry your friend was like that. :( I think I would have been devastated if I got a letter from a close friend questioning my impending marriage. But on the other hand, when my ex and I broke up after 5 years everyone, and I mean EVERYONE told me they knew all along he wasn't right for me or he was a bad guy, etc. And I was so sad that no one felt like that they could have told me while he and I were together. I'm Right on Top of that, Rose @totallyunoriginal You know, people say what you've said - that they wish people would have told them they were in a bad relationship - once that relationship is over. But when they're in it, they don't tend to be as receptive to such suggestions as one may think. Judith Slutler @totallyunoriginal I really wonder where this stuff comes from... like, are they just trying to reassure you that you made the right decision? Did they actually dislike him? are they trying to pick the right "side"? It's strange. @I'm Right on Top of that, Rose Yeah, and in many cases, people try to gently talk to a friend about the boyfriend to see if they can have the "I don't like him/he's a bad guy" conversation, and the friend gets immediately defensive. @thebestjasmine This is totally true. It was just overwhelming how everyone from very close friends and family to acquaintances were like, "Oh my god, finally! He was such an asshole. Everyone hated him" But yeah, it's definitely a hard conversation to have with someone and you never know how someone is going to respond. I have no idea how I would have reacted if someone had told me while we were still together that my then boyfriend was an asshole. Yes, definitely. I once had to have a surreal conversation with a married friend that began," you know, your other friends and I will support you no matter what choice you make" followed by "no decision has to be final, you know, not even marriage." It was teary, lots of hugs and held hands across the dinner table, but it went fine, we remained good friends, and it had absolutely no effect on her life choices. She got divorced a year or two later, but for various reasons I know our conversation was in no way a factor. She just came to the conclusion separately. It really is the sort of thing people just have to realize for themselves, on their own... and thank god for that, in a way, too -- you know? This is my new username @Emmanuelle Cunt I think sometimes recent past colours our memories of how we initially felt about people. I definitely have a gut reaction of "I ALWAYS hated him" about one of my friend's exes. In reality it was probably more I was ambivalent and then grew to hate him as time went on. He was totally at minimum an emotionally abusive asshole (I suspect maybe more, but that has never been explicitly stated). At the time I didn't necessarily recognize it as that, I just considered him to be an asshole. Anyway, it definitely took time for me to think these things about him, but looking back my gut instinct is to say I always hated him, but that was not the case. I did learn a valuable lesson about how telling your friend their significant other is terrible is not a great idea, and that they probably need to figure it out on their own. I do think, had I been better equipped to handle something like that, there are probably things I could have said that may have been more helpful, but "uggghh get rid of your boyfriend, seriously, he's revolting" was not it. @harebell are you one of my friends? I honestly had a very similar situation with two friends of mine, about a year before I finally left my douchecanoe ex for good. It was honestly the best thing that could have happened - we weren't doing well, we'd already halfway broken up more than once, and i was putting on this facade of happiness. These friends saw through it, and just offered their support, and let me know there are worse things than being alone. Stuff like that was the structure I built my separation from him on: it gave me the strength to make that decision. *Sigh* How do you know if you should marry the person you're with though? Nobody's perfect, my boyfriend of 4 years drives me nuts a lot of the time, but we do really love each other. I don't know if all my friends like him, I know he's not a fan of all my friends, but that's not a reason to *not* marry someone, surely? It's all so complicated. Yeah, it's hard to figure out The Best For Me when all you get is The Best I Ever Had. Just as an aside, does anyone actually include "speak now or forever hold your peace" in wedding ceremonies these days? The number of weddings I've attended in which those words were actually uttered? Zero. @Bittersweet I'm not sure if having read Jane Eyre during my formative years should have made me MORE or LESS likely to include that line in my wedding ceremony... @Bittersweet It was said at my brother's wedding, but the preacher told my brother & sister-in-law ahead of time, "Unless it is either of y'all saying something, I'll ignore them. Never actually had anyone object, anyway." @Bittersweet One of the only things that makes me want to have a big floofy wedding one day, instead of just living with my dude in sin forever, is the idea of putting that line in the ceremony and hoping some nerdy friends will start cracking wise about bigamy and wives in the attic. Otherwise, I can't see a ceremony being much fun. ETA: I clearly like the way TheBourneApproximation thinks! @Bittersweet Yes, this is a movie thing. Like most things that happen in movies about high school where all of the actors are in their late 20s. Jennifer Culp @Bittersweet It was included at the last wedding I attended. First time I'd ever heard it at a wedding! I was scared to move or even breathe, just in case. @BadWolf Glad I'm not the only one thinking about the important parts of weddings, like mandatory crazy attic wife checks! Daisy Razor So the author sent a screed against not just marriage in general, but James' particular decision to marry, having never met his fiancé? The fact that the fiancé is a complete non-entity in this essay also suggests that the author has never bothered to find out anything about her. Yeah, I can't imagine why James cut off all contact. I get feeling really strongly about something and saying it even when you think you probably shouldn't, and then having the consequences blow up in your face and feeling like butt. I get that! What I do not get is how someone thought it was a good idea to send another person a letter detailing their love life in 3rd person perspective. Whoa. This seems like an act of drama llamadom to me! I mean, we all have our opinions on our friends' partners, but if your objections are mostly that your friend's reasons are hard for you to understand, then, well, eeeeh. Ugh. How else was this going to go? Especially when the letter is partially "look at your crazy romantic history" and partially "I don't get it." Especially the analysis of what went wrong: relationships 1-20 part. When some of my friends were getting married around the age of 25 or so, I had feelings about it. That I kept to myself, because honestly it is borderline anti-social behavior to feel like you have the right to comment on a choice like that, and people will NEVER listen to you when they are in love. NEVER. But then, I wasn't really interested in serious relationships. Now, I've been dating for several years, I've had a lot of heartache/been in relationships that were never going to wind up long-term, and it helped me figure out what I want in a partner. I've been with my boyfriend for 6 months (THAT IS ONLY HALF A YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!) and we both know that this is headed to the "altar" (probably not a real altar, though). Someone upthread said that you have to be naive to make a lifelong commitment to someone and have kids with them. I'd say hopeful and optimistic. I think it's incredibly naive to have the attitude of the author. Years of unsatisfactory dating leads one to know what they want. Your friend seems to think he found it. I wish you could be happy for him. @rocknrollunicorn I love this comment! Super-hearts, mega-hug love this comment. @adorable-eggplant Thank you! I suspect you are, in fact, an adorable eggplant :) @rocknrollunicorn Awww, shucks. :) @rocknrollunicorn I completely agree. one very unhappy marriage, tons of therapy, and tons of dating, led me to the point where I knew EXACTLY what I wanted, and I knew EXACTLY when I found it with Mr. Teenie. Ups and downs and heartache and woe and rolling in Feelings about people helps you define and understand yourself. It sounds like James was doing exactly that whilst the author sat by and provided commentary... to the point where she provided it where she really shouldn't have. "And thus began one of those rare hetero boy-girl platonic friendships." Who do I need to talk to to get this nonsense stricken from our cultural consciousness? Rock and Roll Ken Doll Sadly, Nora Ephron. @TheUnchosenOne Ahaha, I'm going to send this comment directly to my (argh I can't even type the original phrase out to be snarky, because my fingers are twitching like rolling eyeballs) friend. I'll tell him he's a white elephant. Mwhahaha. El Knid "Honey, you remember Janet, right? You know, the one who wrote that 10+ page screed about how we shouldn't be getting married?" Hellion of Troy @El Knid I can only imagine the fiancee thought the author was somehow in love with/obsessed with this guy. I mean can you imagine? @Hellion of Troy I might have kind of thought that myself? Holy crap, this post. Why on earth would you think that you're entitled to having your friend run his major life decisions past you, or that he should argue with you about the philosophical meaning of marriage when it's his particular nuptials that matter? Being a friend is not an act of ownership of that person (even if we feel protective of them because we love them). I know I'd be insulted if someone sent me a letter implying I am unable to make my own life choices like a grown, fully capable adult and that furthermore, I owe it to THEM to check if they're okay with me doing so. You also state no reasons why this particular woman was unsuitable for him besides you being upset that you weren't consulted about his marriage (and again, why would you be?) and that it was "too fast" (again, by your standards.) I can understand having a sit-down conversation with him if she was abusive, or unstable in some way and wasn't working on it, or was cheating on him ... or any other real reason that the relationship wouldn't work. Your thoughts on the subject of marriage in general have nothing to do with how rudely you've treated your friend in his particular situation of finding the woman he loves and marrying her. I'm not surprised he's made the choice to end your friendship. Hellion of Troy Where's the part where A Spider tells her she's made a terrible mistake and should put herself in the recycling bin because she is being a juicebox? Seriously though,telling someone that their fiancee is bad news is a friendship minefield, but writing someone who you call a close friend a letter where you basically say "You can't get married, you are too broken to get married," is an act of emotional violence. And now you're turning that into an essay where you "learn" that marriage and religion are the same, again interrogating James' choices instead of your own. Sister Administrator It's interesting that the author compares the decision to get married to an act of faith, but refers specifically to secular marriage. Which is what, a particularly sentimental civil contract? You know what? Divorce isn't the end of the world , especially when you haven't promised Jesus (or whatever) that your union would be scared and eternal. Wish them the best and if they divorce in a few years and you are still missing being the center of attention, allow yourself your mean satisfaction. @Sister Administrator This is something that's kind of nearly taboo to say, and I didn't want to be the one to do so... but, yes, divorce. It exists and doesn't result in hellfire. Give people space to do their thing, to love and lose and grow. Or, for god's sake, just to love. Sheesh. Sister Administrator @rocknrollunicorn It is kinda taboo to say, and this in spite of the prevalance of divorce! A lot of handwringing about believing or not believing in marriage carries this weird holdover-idea of marriage as a religious institution. But why worry so much, if you don't believe your immortal soul is at stake? I am divorced... and all I can say about the decision to get married is that I really, truly meant it at the time. But things changed. Of course it gets messier with kids. But that's a whole other decision, and I think whether to bring a human being into existence is a much more weighty matter than whose health insurance you're going to be on. Hmm. Except I've known couples who have done everything "right" (dated for years, cohabitated more or less peacefully for years, finally gotten married with their friends' and families' approval) and still gotten divorced or wound up in unhappy marriages. I don't think the time two people spend test-driving their relationship really deserves all the credit it seems to get (within reason, of course). There are just too many confounding factors--who knows what will happen down the road? At some point, to paraphrase Ron Swanson, you just roll the dice and hope for the best. The oddest part about this essay is that I suspect the author still doesn't realize why she was wrong to send that letter. Why it is not just inappropriate, or some deafness to social norms. It was fucking rude, hurtful, and wildly, bizarrely narcissistic. His marriage is none of your business. NONE. Zero. He owes you no explanation on why he is getting married, why he chose his partner, what factors he considered, his thought process along the way. It is a thousand shades of bizarre that anyone would feel entitled to that information, let alone a friend. I have a bee in my bonnet on this issue, but fuck, people, being a friend often requires you to mind your own business. You aren't entitled to your friend's innermost thoughts on the hows and whys of their Big Decisions, and you sure as shit aren't entitled to share your opinion on what you imagine are their hows and whys. If you can't shut the fuck up, keep your opinions to yourself, and refrain from demanding access where it hasn't been extended, you aren't a friend. You weren't entitled to any explanation from him. You were in the wrong because you thought were. He didn't ask you for your opinion. You are in the wrong because you forced it on him, and on a topic of such deep personal significance that you disrespected him on nearly every level. And while I am at it, marriage isn't just an emotional leap of faith, but also a very, highly conscious decision to go "all in," no matter what. It is an act - very often a reasoned, considered, intellectual decision. Not just some whim of hope and faith and fingers crossed. And you still aren't entitled to know his deliberation process. Leanne Mok@facebook Dear Author: Thanks so much for your article. Like you, I have been a "skeptic"of marriage for many years. (I'm almost 30 years old). Couples who get married seem like lemmings who are gambling their freedom for a hypothetical lifetime of probable unhappiness (based on how many marriages I've seen end this way). My skepticism was strengthened when someone very close to me (similar to your relationship with James) became engaged to someone who in my opinion was controlling and oppressive. And, like you, I felt the absolute need to say something about it. I don't wish to contradict the above comment and argue that I'm not narcissistic, I am. But I don't believe that this was related to my need to voice my thoughts. I think the reason stemmed from a feeling that, since this person had confided in me and asked for my advice, I shared some responsibility in this person's ultimate happiness in her relationship. The outcome of my giving my opinion was similarly disastrous. It took many months and difficult conversations to come back to a place where we can now resume our strong friendship. It's still a little tainted, but I'm thankful that we were able to work it out. (please take heart, and trust in time). More importantly, since that fiasco I suddenly find myself in a position where I am now also considering sharing my life with someone (like a lemming), and having been happily single my whole life, I am coming to a series of epiphanies. All that to say, I agree with you that marriage can be seen as a leap of faith, which is dangerous and our initial instincts are to protect those we love. However, I have since learned that I must allow my friend to find her own definition of happiness, as well as her own definition of love. My current relationship looks nothing like her current relationship because our partners are completely different, and yet both relationships and partners have compelled us to make a decision to share our lives with another person. Whether that decision is marked with a wedding, a ceremony or a simple exchange of words, unfortunately because we are all different, we will all find our happiness in different ways, places and people. Don't regret your decision to "not hold your peace". This is a form of love too. And even though you and I cannot relate to or understand the love that our friends have found, we can be grateful for the love we do have. I did have to come to terms with the fact that my friend is going to marry this person, and that I must find a way to be happy about it. I hope you find a way to be happy for "James". :) I agree that "Forever" is an unrealistic promise, for love or holding one's peace, but let's continue to toss the word around freely. It's something we lemmings can hang on to...even if it's completely impractical. @Leanne Mok@facebook ... Never mind. Now that you have me thinking about it, I don't believe there is or should be a hard and fast rule about questioning a dear friend's engagement or wedding plans. I had a dear friend who asked me to be his best man. Instead of raising my own concerns about whether the person was really "right" for him, I kept quiet and agreed to stand next to him at his wedding. A year later, he disappeared with another woman. Needless to say, the marriage didn't survive. I did step in and challenge a beloved cousin of mine, though, about the woman he was engaged to marry. Within a week, the engagement was off. My cousin caught hell from the ex-fiancee, but I know he felt the grief was worth it because he'd found the strength to speak up for himself. Regarding your friend, it's a shame that he couldn't have opened up to you in response to your reaching out. Yes, you may have stepped over a line, but you also probably put your finger on something of import that good friends should bring up before a very important step in life is taken . . . I can't tell if this was facetious or not (and I know this is an extremely minor detail) but hetero boy-girl platonic friendships are really not that rare. I just cringe every time I hear this implication. Does everyone have doubts about their relationship? I have been in this one for 9 months, and sometimes I have doubts - this tends to coincide with more difficult moments, either within the relationship or sometimes other areas of my life that transfers into the relationship. Then at other times I hold a great deal of confidence in it, and can imagine us together - happily - for a very long time to come. Does everyone have the "what if this ain't 'right' thoughts" and they just don't talk about it, or are there people who simply never have doubt in their partner/the relationship? And does that say more about the individuals in question, or the relationship itself? @HappyBeet Doubt is 100% OK and normal. No relationship is happy skippy wonderful, fairy tale swoonworthy, all of the time. @HappyBeet I sure hope so. This is a beautiful post. I think it is pretty clear that the author is here writing about what she discovered about the nature of marriage as an act of faith through this experience - I don't think she meant to defend her intervention in this particular case (which is perhaps why she says little about her motivation for doing so), but more than that she seems to me to be exploring her own doubts and uncertainties about the very possibility of marriage. I'm grateful she shared this profound understanding of this mystery from a secular perspective. Thanks for this. I just proposed to my adorable fianceé this past weekend, and it is definitely a leap of faith that I have full confidence in, but it's something I never thought I'd do. In past relationships I put marriage off into the future as something we'd do if we worked for 2+ years. I've known Fianceé a little less than a year at this point, and I already know that the reason I used to put it off is because I didn't WANT to commit to those people. I want to commit to Fianceé though, like way hard. And it feels awesome and a little bit scary but mostly awesome. Sometimes things just hit you, and you take them up on it because not doing so would be way awful. Vera Knoop I can't help but think the writer would have been better off Asking A Lady. I'm in the "marrying" season of my life (everyone is getting married! What the what!), and I've had to learn to take my sister's advice: If they don't ask you for your opinion, don't give it, because if they do get (and stay) married, you'll forever be perceived as the "enemy to their love." It's hard, because you love and care about these people and don't want to see them get hurt, but if you're really close and they're not asking, it's because they, for whatever reason, really don't want your opinion :(. So far I've found some friends don't want to ask for opinions because they already know the answer, but want to bury their heads in the sand to avoid it, so when you bring it up unsolicited, their reaction is to lash out, and stuff like this^ happens. Bad news bears all around :(. For those of you who said you're worried your friends aren't being honest about your significant other, maybe sit down and look them straight in the eye and say, "No, for realsies. I really, REALLY want you to tell me honestly what you think, and I will not ditch you as a friend if I don't like what I hear - I promise." Sometimes friends just need the reassurance and the go-ahead :). That's my plan, anyway, if I ever meet a dude I'm getting serious about! Matthew Hedgecock@facebook Holy crap this is douchiest thing I've read in a LONG time. Shawn Pavey@twitter Great post, kid! Forthcoming book? I couldn't be more proud of you. Post a Comment You must be logged-in to post a comment. Login To Your Account
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The Millions Is Publishing Books Now! Our friends over at The Millions are branching out: in addition to the features on their fantastic website, they’re starting to publish ebooks. The inaugural volume is called Epic Fail: Bad Art, Viral Fame, and the History of the Worst Thing Ever, but judging by the excerpt they’ve posted, there’s nothing fail about it. We’re excited both to read the whole thing and to see what The Millions can do with their new publishing model in the future.
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baby namesHow much is your future baby's name worth to you? Most people would tell you that you can't put a price on something that special, right? Not Los Angeles mom Natasha Hill, however. She thinks $5,000 is just about right and recently sold the right to name her child for that amount. Seriously. It came out of a contest launched by BellyBallot, a website that lets your friends and family vote on your baby name via Facebook and other social media sources. To grab some publicity, they launched a contest to be their national "Belly Branding" winner. "One lucky pregnant couple will win $5,000 in exchange for letting the entire world decide their baby’s name," the site proclaimed. And people actually entered. How many I'm not sure, but Hill was the winner, and after the voting, which is to take place from March 18-22, they'll be given both a boy and a girl name that they will then be expected to bestow upon their baby. Does anyone else find this all a little ... wrong?! I'm definitely of the belief to each his or her own when it comes to choosing a baby name (as horrifying as some choices may be), but to thousands of strangers and their own, not so much. Hopefully people will be kind and pick something respectable, and the way the contest is designed (BellyBallot will select a list of names based on what's trending and some from advertisers, and users can vote based on those). But you never know. More from The Stir: 24 Baby Names You'll Wish You Thought Of I understand that times are tough, and $5,000 is a lot of money, but the thought of anyone selling the right to name their own baby is pretty depressing. I mean, if she was starving or something, that would be one thing, but Hill says she just wants to pay some bills and put some away for the kid's college education. I suppose on one hand, it's "just" a name, and you could always use a nickname once you pocketed the cash, but still. A name is the very first thing we give our child. My children love to hear stories about why I chose their names (and argue about what which ones would have been better). I can't imagine telling them that I just let a bunch of strangers pick them. I hope she saves some of that cash for the therapy the kid might need one day. Would you ever sell the right to name your child? Image via jetsandzepplins/Flickr
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Frank Gibson Frank Gibson is a writer from New Zealand. In 2011 he re-located to Los Angeles with his fiancee Becky Dreistadt, with whom he works on all his projects! He is mostly known for writing the online comic Tiny Kitten Teeth and its companion kids book Tigerbuttah. In 2012 they published the Capture Creatures hardcover book with B9 Kingdom, featuring 151 creatures of their own creation in Becky’s signature watercolor style. Frank is also the voice of Wallace in the web-series Bee & Puppycat.
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main index Topical Tropes Other Categories TV Tropes Org Film: The Blair Witch Project aka: Blair Witchproject Heather, in an oft-parodied scene The Blair Witch Project is a horror movie, shot entirely in the style of a documentary gone horribly wrong. Three college students are researching "The Blair Witch", and go on an expedition into the local forest where the legend is supposed to have started. Things ultimately take a turn for the worse. Now what it's really notable for is having one of the best Viral Marketing campaigns ever, and certainly one of the first to demonstrate the effectiveness of internet advertising: fake online documents, footage, published dossiers, interviews, and even a couple of professional-looking television documentaries blurred the line between truth and fiction like few other campaigns had done before or since. Many were convinced that the movie was based on a true story, or even consisted of actual footage. Even more were subtly convinced that the "Blair Witch" was a real legend, as opposed to something the film-makers made up themselves. Had a poorly received sequel which upped the Mind Screw and pretty much killed the franchise off. The directors are still thinking of coming back for a third, though. The Blair Witch Project contains examples of: • All There in the Manual: The tie-in materials flesh out the Blair witch legend and the back story, which makes the movie ten times creepier once you realize what a lot of things mean. For example, those three odd piles of stones they find around their tent one morning early on in their trip? Rustin Parr kidnapped kids to his house in the woods, murdered them, and buried them in the basement before making their graves with piles of stones. They were doomed from the start. • Apocalyptic Log • Big Bad: The witch. • Bloody Handprint: They could be ink or paint, but it's hard to tell. • Break the Haughty: Though friendly and reasonable, Heather is also a very overconfident and egotistical person in the beginning. As soon as she begins losing control and getting scared she is on her way to a Despair Event Horizon. • Breaking Speech: Josh delivers a savage one to Heather when it becomes clear how hopeless their situation is. "I wanna make movies, Heather. Isn't that what we came here to do? Just make some movies? Let's make some movies. Okay, here's your motivation. You're lost, you're angry in the woods. There's no one here to help you. There's a witch, and she keeps leaving shit outside your door. There's no one here to help you! She left little trinkets, you took one of them, she ran after us! There's no one here to help you! We walked for fifteen hours today and ended up in the same place! There's no one here to help you! That's your motivation! THAT'S YOUR MOTIVATION! ... You gonna write us a happy ending, Heather?" • Burn the Witch!: Or, rather, Torture and Hang the Witch, according to the backstory. • Call Back: Rustin Parr would take a pair of kidnapped children into his basement, then force one to stand in a corner facing the wall while he killed the other one. When Heather follows Mike into the basement of Parr's house, just before she screams and drops the camera, you see a shot of Mike standing in the corner, facing the wall. • Captain Obvious: "Mike? There's something out here." • Cluster F-Bomb: Due mainly to the improvised script. It's not Casino levels of bad, but you can tell it's the favorite word of the movie. • Covered in Gunge: Their equipment gets mysteriously slimed near the end of the movie. • Creepy Children: The crew hear some little kids giggling out in the woods late at night. • Creepypasta: The Viral Marketing for the film may well be the Ur Example, building up a legend about the ghost of a witch through the power of the '90s internet. • Daylight Horror / Freeze-Frame Bonus: If you look closely as Heather turns away from the open bag fashioned out of Josh's shirt, containing his teeth, hair and blood, breathing hysterically, she pauses for three-odd seconds looking at a stick carefully placed behind her horizontally upon two small plants. Not a METER away. Definitely not there when she walked behind the tent. • Developing Doomed Characters • Dizzy Cam: The Trope Codifier. • Don't Go in the Woods: Just to make it worse, once you go into the woods, you can't leave. • Downer Ending: The main characters remain trapped in the woods and given the last shot of the movie they won't live enough to regret their decisions. • Eldritch Abomination: The witch could be this. • Eldritch Location: The normal laws of reality do not apply in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland. The best example of this being when Mike and Heather spend an entire day walking south, only to end up right back where they started. • Expanded Universe: Tie-in short films, books, comics, even computer games... • Foregone Conclusion: Everyone dies. This is, in fact, the premise of the movie. • Found Footage Films: Probably the Trope Codifier • Gainax Ending • Genius Loci: One theory is that there's no witch and that the forest itself may be sentient and being the true responsibile of all that people's disappearance. • Ghost Story: The whole movie (especially the ending) is like a scary campfire story put to film. • Going in Circles: It's the SAME LOG! • He Who Must Not Be Seen: The witch. Though there's been action figures, described by Cracked as looking "like Treebeard got it on with Swamp Thing". • Horror Struck • A House Divided • Jitter Cam • Kill 'em All • Literary Agent Hypothesis: The original marketing for the movie claimed that it was found footage of a true story, presented to the public by the producers. • Mockumentary: And several Mockumentaries were made about the mockumentary. • Or cutting from Mike and Josh sarcastically singing the national anthem together to the three coming across the log in the stream that they had already crossed hours before. • Nostril Shot: The apology scene. Heather aims her camera on her nose and eyes. • Nothing Is Scarier: The entire movie is made of this trope. • Poor Communication Kills: Arguably one of the reasons why they get lost in the woods in the first place. • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "FUCK!! YOU!!! LOG!!!!" A little easy to miss, but an underappreciated gem. The line, according to the feature-length commentary on the DVD, is actually "FUCK! YOU! GOD!" • Regularly Scheduled Evil: Though not operating on as tight of a schedule as some other supernatural woods creatures, the Blair Witch likes to pull some freaky shit every fifty or sixty years or so. • Spiritual Successor: Paranormal Activity and Grave Encounters. • Too Dumb to Live: Why don't they just follow that river? You know, the one with the log... Supernatural forces were at play. It's likely that no matter what they did, they wouldn't find a way out. note  • There's also Mike kicking the map into the river out of frustration. Josh and Heather are rightfully furious and attack him in anger. • Trope Codifier: For all those minimalist First Person Camera Nothing Is Scarier horror movies that are so popular these days. • Ultimate Evil • Unbuilt Trope: • This movie spawned plenty of imitators, especially in the late 2000s (Cloverfield, Diary of the Dead, The Last Exorcism, and now Unaware). However, those films all had pretty high budgets, slick editing, and plenty of scary CG monster/alien/whatever effects. This film's minuscule budget, realistic location, and rambling, unscripted nature make it feel like a deconstruction of the very films it influenced. • It should be noted that, even though the Horror Mockumentary genre was an unbuilt trope at the time, it is not the first to do this. Cannibal Holocaust was perhaps the first and The Last Broadcast was released just before this film but to less fanfare. • To be fair, its still fairly standard practice to have the person filming the Found Footage to be portayed as either mentally ill, or a Jerk Ass. This happened in both the original Paranormal Activity, and Chronicle. • The Unreveal: During the final sequence, Heather is heavily implied to have seen the antagonist, but drops her camera before she can get a shot of it. We never find out the meaning behind...well, much of anything, really. • Wicked Witch: The titular witch. The sequel contains examples of: Black SnowFound Footage FilmsCannibal Holocaust Ben DrownedCreepypastaCaptain's Log Friday the 13th (1980) 100 Scariest Movie MomentsThe Serpent and the Rainbow Big DaddyFilms of the 1990sBlast from the Past BlaculaHorror FilmsBless the Child CubeB-MovieBig Money Hustlas alternative title(s): Blair Witch Project; The Blair Witch Project Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from Privacy Policy
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main index Topical Tropes Other Categories TV Tropes Org Heartwarming: 6teen • The second season finale "Snow Job" had plenty of these moments, two that particularly stand out are Wyatt's love song to Marlowe and the scene where Jonesy and Nikki get back together: Nikki: What are you even doing here? I thought you were supposed to be at the dance with the prettiest girl in school! Jonesy: Well, maybe I'm with the prettiest girl in school right now! Nikki: So then why didn't you ask me? Jonesy: Maybe I was scared to! Nikki: Jonesy... Jonesy: Just shut up for a second and let me say something! I was at the dance with this really hot girl, and things shoulda been great, but all I could think about was you. Annoying, sarcastic, totally frustrating you! Nikki: * speechless* Jonesy: Nikki, you're the only girl I wanna go out with. So I'm asking you... * pulls out a corsage* Will you go to the dance with me? Nikki: * sniffling, holding back tears of joy* ...yes. * they kiss deeply* • There's also the part where Jonesy tries to make Julie feel better and breaks up with his Jerk Ass date after she insults her. • In Dude of the Living Dead, Jude gets dangerous when he hears that Starr is in trouble. Of course, it was only a dream. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Awesome. 3-2-1 Penguins!Heartwarming/Western Animation9 Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from Privacy Policy
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What's Happening collapse/expand topics ykttw archive back to Main/HateSink 07:52:28 PM May 23rd 2014 Do the popular kids from The Fairly Oddparents count? They are design to act mean, and since they're the type that picked on Butch Hartman, he really wants you to hate them. 06:34:24 AM May 9th 2014 Someone removed a bunch of examples with the reason "A Hate Sink can't be an actual villain, then they'd just be a villain." Where does it say that? The description says they're not always a villain, but doesn't say it can't be one. In fact, the fact that Politically Incorrect Villain is a subtrope, I'd say a villain definitely can be a Hate Sink. Especially since as the page points out, there are definite examples of villains whom the writers don't intend audiences to hate. 09:21:30 AM Dec 8th 2013 What if I like these characters? 09:39:10 AM Dec 8th 2013 It's perfectly fine to like the characters. The purpose of a hate sink character is that the author intends the audience to boo and hiss at him or her, and people find it cathartic to hate a character whose purpose is to be hated. People "love to hate" these characters. 10:16:19 AM May 18th 2012 edited by DrBB So as a sometime Prof. who teaches a course on SF, I've always referred to this type as "The Guy Who Just Doesn't Get It." I agree that the key feature in identifying this character type is that he/she is NOT necessarily the villain, or a traitor who works for the primary Big Bad. But the function isn't just about catharsis (venting hate). This character is there to provide a moral dimension to the story that would otherwise be lacking (the monster/Big Bad is just an Eldritch Abomination). Ripley's invidious comparison of Burke to the Aliens (in paraphrase: "I don't know who's worse, you or them—they're just doing what they're evolved to do") makes that explicit, but it also forges a metaphorical connection between the Critter and what Burke represents, namely corporate greed (allied to Social Darwinism) in its nastiest form, the Military Industrial Complex. Etc. etc. A force that knows no ethics/mercy and will destroy all humanity (in metaphorical as well as literal sense). But note that there are other characters performing this exact function who are not at all the object of hate, and thus Hate Sink ends up being a subsidiary instance to the larger He Just Doesn't Get It function. The "it" being whatever moral dimension the story is actually about. For instance, Prof. Morpheus in Forbidden Planet. A classic and wonderfully compressed instance of the type. He Doesn't Get that his "beloved Krell" created a god-like power that led to their—and his—downfall. The "IT" being the "Monster from the Id," specifically Morpheus's id ("it") which he denies to the end. The thematics of his failure to get It being all about brain and no body, They Dared Think of Themselves As Gods, etc. More commonly you have all those blinkered adults in teen-oriented 50s monster movies, who think the Kids Are Just Making Stuff Up when there really IS a weird deadly radioactive Thing in that swamp. Stodgy adult authoritarianism, lack of perception/imagination being the thematics there. They're objects of teenage frustration and resentment maybe, but "hate" is really too strong a term. It's their failure to be hep to what the young cats are saying that is their real crime, like all adults in teen movies. And what really focusses me on the Just Don't Get It aspect as being the most salient point about this character function is the fact that they almost always meet their demise at the hands (talons/tentacles/pseudopods) of whatever It is that they've denied the existence or significance of. This frequently becomes literally true: their ignorance almost always results in them stumbling into the way of the Thing and being devoured or horribly shredded by it. Thus the ultimate proof of their failure to Get It: if you don't Get It, It's gonna Get You. ykttw archive back to Main/HateSink Privacy Policy
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Jamie Grace so excited cause my nails r all long and healthy then i tried to play guitar for the first time in a week & that dream was over. #girltweet my friends Justen Harden loves the Lord so much and is able to share God's love using social media, often times... I bought myself a pearl necklace this year but honestly I loved the box more until last night when I had to attack a weird creature and use my beautiful little box until my dad can come and assist me with further decisions... Also I wrote this on it so I wouldn't forget in the morning... What is my alright i should probably attempt sleep! :) everyone just tuning in or seeing these tweets don't worry it (will) won't happen again ;) So the guy next to me today looked at me like it was strange for a BIG biker looking dude was rocking out to some @jamiegraceh? Retweeted by Jamie Grace oh wait no i don't eat colorful cheese that tastes like stuff rich people eat uh uh i'm talkin feta, cheddar, goat, pepper jack... i mostly eat lettuce, kale, spinach, arugula, cheese (literally ALL cheese), milk, water, chicken, tacos, fish, pizza and hot pockets :) sugar, bread, pancakes, waffles, olives, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, mushrooms, steak, bacon, ham (not religious reasons) or jelly oh my gosh i'm such a picky eater.. like this is everything i don't eat... you guys @emelisande is on twitter! why am i so giddy about that! ah! :) @jamiegraceh "everyone is chocolate. There's white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate... But we all chocolate." Retweeted by Jamie Grace like i'm not offended to be called black/brown. pretty proud of it actually & i love bein able to appreciate diff aspects of all cultures :) @jamiegraceh that wasn't rude in any way, rude would be "so this idiotic whit guy". Nope, I spy no rudeness :) Retweeted by Jamie Grace @jamiegraceh People always gotta have something to criticize haha. You handle all the hate really well though! Retweeted by Jamie Grace anyone who follows me that isn't awake right now is gonna hateeeeee these tweets in the morning, hahaha maybe that's worse like i'm over here like, "maybe i should've called him apricot..." haha y'all are making me feel better about life @jamiegraceh Jamie, that's not rude. 😂 would it be rude if I called you black? I sure hope not! Retweeted by Jamie Grace like i thought rude words were like, "ugly" or "dumb"... i thought white was like... a generic word... like if i called him black...? okay y'all legit people said it was rude that i called him white... please tell me i'm not crazy... how is that rude? tweet me back once you watch it! okay first, watch this 15 second video:… ok let's have a deep convo. y'all ready for this?
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Workplace Gothic (condensed grotesque for computer UI text) altsan's picture As I mentioned in the thread for Workplace Sans, at some point I tried experimenting with a variant design that didn't look so stiff and homely. The alternate design was called "Workplace Gothic", and aimed for more of a grotesque style. A few months ago I dusted it off and started trying to rework it into something fit for the life of day. Like Workplace Sans (with which it shares most of its basic proportions), Workplace Gothic is intended mainly for user interface text in computer software. It's not hinted beyond TypeTool's autohinting; I expect it'll typically be anti-aliased where used. Sample PDF: And some images for the link-shy or lazy:, it's not particularly original, or beautiful. (It was the second font I ever designed, and started before I'd ever done any real study of fonts & design principles, although I've updated it a fair bit now.) But it seems to work OK for its intended purpose, and IMO looks better doing it than its older sibling Workplace Sans. Syndicate content Syndicate content
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Trying to identify a font from a logo fragment Daniel Couper's picture This isn't much to go on, but I'm trying to find out which font was used for the 'M' in this horrible logotype. Apologies! donshottype's picture Two separate fonts. Note sharp join of the serif on the lhs, found in relatively few fonts, vs. the smooth join on rhs which is found on many. The thick lhs stroke for M may help to narrow the selection, assuming it was not added by the logo designer. However, without some more letters a single matching font is problematic. The white space effect in the lhs is sometimes called "handtooled" or "open face." It may have been in the original font or added by the logo designer. You could try to Google "fonts handtooled" and "fonts open face" and see if you like any of the matches. Also check the collection at the Fontscape typeface directory of openface serif typefaces. None match but it does give an idea of the possible effects for other letters. Perhaps someone else recognizes lhs M as from a font? defiantone's picture the drop shadow inside the rhs makes me think the designer gave it a zero fill and applied a stroke, then the shadow effect. Daniel Couper's picture Ach, I thought this might be the answer. Just trying to save myself a bit of work + have a font I can reuse in a stylesheet. Thank you very much for the advice; it looks horrible anyway, so I think I'll go and dig out something similar yet pleasant. Cheers Syndicate content Syndicate content
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Take the 2-minute tour × I am trying to install either Debian or CentOS on a home server (Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX100 S3). I first tried installing Debian. The whole installation was successful (including grub). But after rebooting, the OS would not boot up. My partition was the default setting for new users: /dev/sda1 primary /dev/sda5 logical (swap) After booting, it gets to Intel Boot Agent and says it can't boot from media. I even tried disabling the DVD drive as a boot option. There is another device listed in boot options but the name is so ambiguous (IBA GE Slot 0200 v1372), I don't even know for sure if it refers to the hard drive. I then tried CentOS, and the same problem occurred. I have looked around this website, some other StackExchange websites, and also general internet searching, and it seems that my problem is related to the boot process. My problem is that I just don't know exactly where to begin looking. This is my first time setting up a Linux OS on a physical machine. Am I correct in assuming it is not reaching the BootLoader program properly? Or could this problem be caused by other things (ie, hardware)? share|improve this question Sounds stupid, but make sure you're installing the bootloader to /dev/sda. –  Hello71 Apr 29 '12 at 2:05 Don't worry, I'm new to this. So it's a valid point to bring up. I actually tried manually installing the bootloader to /dev/sda1after it was not successful with /dev/sda. Any other suggestions? –  penguin egg Apr 29 '12 at 3:35 You need to '@' this guy while replying .. but anyway , did you choose to boot from HDD ? –  warl0ck May 29 '12 at 12:27 2 Answers 2 up vote 1 down vote accepted Try to disable RAID controller in Advanced BIOS configuration and use standard AHCI or IDE SATA controller. This could help - from the boot menu there's more option including booting from disks. share|improve this answer Thanks, this was the issue. –  penguin egg Aug 19 '12 at 20:35 It looks like you need a special driver for the hard disk. If I google "Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX100 S3 CentOS" the first hit is a link to a whitepaper on CentOS on this server. share|improve this answer Your Answer
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PHP 5.4.31 Released کلاس DOMDocumentFragment Class synopsis DOMDocumentFragment extends DOMNode { /* Properties */ /* Methods */ bool appendXML ( string $data ) /* Inherited methods */ DOMNode DOMNode::appendChild ( DOMNode $newnode ) DOMNode DOMNode::cloneNode ([ bool $deep ] ) public int DOMNode::getLineNo ( void ) bool DOMNode::hasAttributes ( void ) bool DOMNode::hasChildNodes ( void ) DOMNode DOMNode::insertBefore ( DOMNode $newnode [, DOMNode $refnode ] ) bool DOMNode::isDefaultNamespace ( string $namespaceURI ) bool DOMNode::isSupported ( string $feature , string $version ) string DOMNode::lookupNamespaceURI ( string $prefix ) string DOMNode::lookupPrefix ( string $namespaceURI ) void DOMNode::normalize ( void ) DOMNode DOMNode::removeChild ( DOMNode $oldnode ) DOMNode DOMNode::replaceChild ( DOMNode $newnode , DOMNode $oldnode ) Table of Contents add a note add a note User Contributed Notes 2 notes matthijs at stdin dot nl 3 years ago Note that DOMDocumentFragment is a bit special when it's added to another node. When that happens, not the fragment itself is added as a child, but all of the children of the fragment are moved over to the new parent node. For example, consider this script: /* Create a document and a fragment containing a single node */ $doc = new DOMDocument(); $fragment = $doc->createDocumentFragment(); /* Now, the foo node is a child of the fragment */ /* After appending the fragment to another node, the children of the * fragment will have been transfered to that node (and the fragment is * not present in the children list!) */ /* So the fragment has no children anymore */ /* But $doc has a single child, which is the foo element, not the * fragment */ This produces the following output: object(DOMElement)#3 (0) { object(DOMElement)#3 (0) { 3 years ago DOMDocumentFragment only appears useful if created from a parent DOMDocument eg. 1. $dom = new DOMDocument("1.0","UTF-8"); 2. $docFrag = $dom->createDocumentFragment(); 3. Now append items to $docFrag 4. Graft $docFrag contents back onto $dom at the desired location Conversely taking this approach: 2. $docFrag = new DOMDocumentFragment(); 3. Now append items to $docFrag ...will fail on step 3 with a "read only" error as $docFrag is not created as a child of  DOMDocument. I'm not sure of the reason for this: on the web people have cited security, and others have cited poor design however whatever the reason, it is really limiting when wanting to encapsulating generic independent DocumentFragments into classes for easy grafting to the desired tree. The only workarounds i have seen look expensive from a performance perspective and cumbersome from a coding perspective ie. create a  dummy $dom for temporary use. (This is valid as of PHP 5.3) I've put this here as i've wasted a lot of time finding it out - I hope this saves others some heartache. Using new DOMDocumentFramt To Top
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Slash Boxes All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report More | Login | Reply Loading... please wait. • A bittorrent seed would be a good backup when Dreamhost tells you you don't REALLY get 6TB of bandwidth. :-) • If you want to set one up I'd be happy to add a link. So far the download hasn't been very popular so I don't think it would work very well. Bittorrent really shines when you've got a lot of downloaders. -sam
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i want to kiss damien rice, drink with ernest hemingway and marry f scott fitzgerald have a nice day my gay self my gay poetry im sick of poetic bullshit. the best way 2 sum me up is that im so depressed everything is funny and i think im the best fuckers i'm the biggest faggot don’t give me anymore drugs you said when you were 10 don’t give me- but your words oozed and were blue and didn’t make any sense as you came in and of the conscious   that was your you kept asking for 7 minutes. opening brown eyes to meet your mothers and your fathers and our Father and why didn’t they listen? when you screamed in the sea that you didn’t want to be on the ward with the cancer kids and beaten kids because you were a normal 10 year old boy with the spark to be a superstar who now wasn’t far from being lost in the sea with your soul and limbs.  it’s amazing how much life you can experience from a hospital bed.  you lost your virginity to me on (once your own but now) our that night you didn’t remove your limbs and you kept the conversation flowing and you chose to kiss me of all the things you could choose to ever do it wasn’t even as if you didn’t want to. right after you admitted; 'i've been wanting to do that all day,’ and boy do we know; we had had a long day. soon enough you were feeling my arms and the last time this had happened i felt harm and blue but no desire- but this time, our first time’s, you made me feel new.  i’ve loved you then i’ve loved you now you’re all i’ve thought of for the past 364 days/ i’ll think of you for the future baby you’re my best friend, don’t ever wave goodbye baby you’re my best friend, let’s go get high on durnford street. baby, staddon heights is burning i’ve stitched your name into all my headbands i love it when you play guitar but still love me with all your fans. meet me in 29219 days i’ll show you baby i’ve thought of you for all this time.  'the meadows' sounds so nice. you held her hand 'round the earl and instead you did not find me at home trying on my mother’s pearls for the last time i’ve now spent 281 days paying the price. she mangled up your hair, took your last dime to pay for her taxi fare home did you go for the ride with her? just to give the company? and sure, you thought i’d be fine with it and still fuck you as if you were mine and whatever’s mine was yours. but why lie every time i asked you to put down the phone and come back to bed where you are the king and i am the throne. 'the meadows' sounds so nice will you take me there?  Soft as she whispers It’s falling through the trees She’s counting all her pennies I’m counting down in threes Her supersonic stigmas Reminds me of Thursday eve                    ‘You’re my sputnik                    sweetheart, revolutionarily                     rationalizing my                    stupidly sour and spare                    of the second                    rapturous respect and So… Shy away instead of flourishing, and then finishing and fucking me and you no one else can love you, darling Because you’ve I’ve really messed up my shit this time Fuck it Give me another drink Another lavender lullaby sent with the love of my baggy brother and black skinned racist I don’t know where my heads at She’s definitely gone for good Thanks to her grandparents for raising such a bastard whore she should’ve stopped after the fourth man she met in her third week of knowing me.  R n B She took my money And all my clothes She simply left me With dirt on my nose I helped her out of her frilly, tight stockings Bit off her false nails with my teeth, She wailed and she moaned But I know she loved to be touched. Joe asked me if I’d been up to much- But how do I tell him I’ve just been up on my toes? I’m loving his girl, she’s 15 and pretty sweet But sticking to the loose and the mothers in the Barbican bars Let’s just say I’d prefer to bring up another man’s kid than take another man’s girl Who is young enough to be my daughter.  this time last year i was planning on what dress to wear to our and now i mustn’t even dare of planning what to say to you the next time we meet  In the darkness of content, Amy gives you all. Do you keep your hand in for worry all your cards will fall into mine? keep your heart strong and your legs wise; Keep your body at the heart of day, let her guide you when i can’t spell my own name. Do you feel okay? When I’m reading my words to another boy, when I don’t even hold the smallest remorse for letting you feel right with I am sorry for hitting you that night in Stonehouse- I’m sorry for kissing him; letting him undo my blouse. for walking you home still expecting a lift, causing a stress when you pulled me down on that hill. being annoyed you’d smoked all the Camels with everybody holding your hand after finding out and making you realise this was the last time you’d ever be so close to my mouth.  But (this is achingly true) I am not sorry how wrong you were with her but for only how I did not meet you i want to read every drunk text you have ever sent/every word you have ever written/every letter of intent.  i want to hear every chord you have ever strummed/every  scream you have ever yelled/ every song you have ever i want to see every ocean you have ever sailed/every girl you have ever kissed/ every breath you have ever i want to touch every mole  you have ever had/every hand you have ever held/ every person that has made you feel bad. i want to mend every muscle that’s ever ached/every broken heart you have ever had/every crumpled cake you have ever i want to know what i am the first of; what kind of kiss/touch/fuck/hold? i want to know if i make you feel loved or old or groggy or clean? if i make you feel enough, i’m sorry if this is all too much.  build up don’t be off-put you cannot draw the eiffel tower from i cannot play harmonics on the piano as beautifully sounding as beethoven’s pieces how neither of us care that jesus paid for our smoking and drinking and drug fuelled beach trips.  just be put-off for the day i leave you for an artist in paris, who can pay for the piano lessons your mother promised me all those years and be bothered and know our youth has if the next time we see each other is singing Sunday hymns.
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villa korsh Sben Korsh focuses on architectural and urban issues in American cities. His work addresses socioeconomic and environmental justice issues in housing, coastal landscapes, and urban parks. Currently he researches twentieth century planning policies of New York City’s Jamaica Bay. Korsh interns with the Institute for Public Architecture. Previously, he interned with the Architectural League of New York and the Skyscraper Museum. In the past he fundraised for Friends of the High Line, interned with editors of Metropolis magazine, volunteered with Van Alen Institute, and edited Spitzer School of Architecture’s Informality journal. He studies history through an independent program at the City University of New York, studying mostly at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture. The City College Fellowship, Thomas W. Smith Academic Fellowship, and Josh & Judy Weston Public Service Scholarship support his education. Raised by two architects in Minneapolis, he now lives in New York. National Gallery of Art - East Building by I. M. Pei &amp; Partners Washington D.C. (1971-78) 1. National Gallery of Art - East Building by I. M. Pei & Partners Washington D.C. (1971-78) 1. 42 notesTimestamp: Wednesday 2012/03/21 19:36:28Architecture1970'smodernismI. M. PeiWashington D.C.National Gallery of ArtMuseum 1. artofthemasters reblogged this from abeachfortwofaithfulchildren 2. abeachfortwofaithfulchildren reblogged this from villakorsh 3. henriettef reblogged this from jb-bt 4. wehateheroes reblogged this from silkyblackgold 5. silkyblackgold reblogged this from villakorsh 6. eyebrowgirl reblogged this from contagium 7. tigerdrottning reblogged this from contagium 8. bakerdean reblogged this from scavengedluxury 9. andsheshookedtothesilverscreen reblogged this from scavengedluxury 10. scavengedluxury reblogged this from jb-bt 11. topplingmoleskine reblogged this from jb-bt 12. vapidchaos reblogged this from psyhco 13. psyhco reblogged this from contagium 14. sit-down-stand-up reblogged this from cycomu 15. cycomu reblogged this from jb-bt 16. maisonaristoalexioskazuki reblogged this from jb-bt 17. jb-bt reblogged this from villakorsh 18. villakorsh posted this
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Main > Software Development > Compilers & Interpreters > Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 Sponsored Links Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 Ranking & Summary RankingClick at the star to rank Ranking Level User Review: 8 (258 times) File size: 8.7 MB Platform: Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows License: Freeware Downloads: 10009 Date added: 2008-11-01 Publisher: Inprise Corp. Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 description Borland C++ Compiler is a fast 32-bit optimizing C++ compiler.The Borland C++ Compiler includes the latest ANSI/ISO C++ compliance including the RTL, the STL framework and C++ template support. It also offers you more control of the virtual table in order to optimize for speed or size by supporting dynamic functions. Other features of Borland C++ Compiler include: improved template generation semantics; exception handling; enhanced Visual C++ source and header support; and support for additional type library information. Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 Screenshot Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 Keywords Bookmark Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 Hyperlink code: Link for forum: Borland C++ Compiler 5.5 Copyright do not provide cracks, serial numbers etc for Borland C++ Compiler 5.5. Any sharing links from, or are also prohibited. Allok Video Splitter 2.2.0 Review: Name (Required) Featured Software Want to place your software product here? Please contact us for consideration. Related Software Write and compile C programs for command line. Free Download paxCompiler is an embeddable compiler of Pascal and Basic programming languages that generates machine code for Intel compatible processors. You can use the compiler as a scripting engine. Free Download A Free C/C++ compiler for the for Win32, Win16, DOS32 and DOS environment. Free Download FREE-ASPT for Windows (GNU C Compiler) - develop stand-alone real-time adaptive filters executable programs for Windows Free Download Assembler-written library for complex-number arithmetics . Free Download Simplify compiling C++ with this shell for Borland Compiler. Free Download
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7:55 am Fri December 14, 2012 December 16, 2012 On the Marquee On this week's show, Kristin and Nick discuss new releases The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and A Royal Affair, new Blu-rays Ted and The Bourne Legacy, and more. About the Hosts:
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Sound Configuration/10.1 From PC-BSD Wiki Jump to: navigation, search Figure 8.16a: Sound Configuration Utility An example of the "Sound Configuration" screen is shown in Figure 8.16a. To determine which audio devices are available, click the drop-down menu. In the example shown in Figure 8.16b, this system has four available sound devices with the FreeBSD device names pcm0 to pcm3. The default device is the Conexant CX20590 on pcm2. Figure 8.16b: Selecting the Audio Device Using Mixer Desktops that include a system tray will have a speaker icon which can be used to fine-tune sound settings. If this icon does not appear in the system tray, type pc-mixer to add it. If you right-click this icon, you will see a screen similar to Figure 8.16c. Figure 8.16c: Mixer Icon In this example, the volume is less than 100% and sound is currently muted as indicated by the red "X" next to the speaker. To see the screen shown in Figure 8.16d, click the "Mixer" button. Figure 8.16d: Mixer Settings This screen provides sliders to modify the left and right channels that control volume, pcm (the sound driver), the speaker, the microphone, the recording level, and the sound provided by the monitor. The drop-down menu is used to determine which of those bars shows when you right-click the speaker icon in the tray. The "File" menu can be used to quit this mixer screen or to close both this screen and remove the icon from the system tray. The "Configuration" menu provides options for accessing the "Sound Configuration", "PulseAudio Mixer", and "PulseAudio Settings" utilities. For desktops that do not provide a system tray, type mixer from the command line to see the current settings: Troubleshooting Sound If you only get one or two mixer setting, you need to change the default mixer channel. As the superuser, try this command: sysctl -w hw.snd.default_unit=1 Other languages:German 17% • ‎English 100%
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DRIFT by Alan King ISBN  978-0-9852877-0-2 Willow Books To order: http://aquariuspress.myshopify.com/collections/poetry/products/drift Praise for DRIFT: “In this collection, Alan King’s words sparkle like the season’s first snow. Here, we marvel at the  crystals of language that have accumulated into stanzas that wall the city of his imagination. Like the brick and mortar metropolis in which his work is set, this city is oriented to the Cardinal points. Here, Love brightens the night sky and a young man learns to navigate by its gleam. Here, the neon glow of the Diner, the flicker of the street light, the white finger of the headlight is Polaris. Let us be thankful we have this star to follow.” —Joel Dias Porter (DJ Renegade), author of 4000 Shades of Blue and Libation Song (CD) “Alan King’s work sings and surprises. It deftly unmasks and unpretentiously describes the world. The poems contained within Drift are also chock full of rhythmic verve. His verses and individual lines are often redolent of great drummers like the late Max Roach . . . They excite, make you think. Or rethink. They break your heart. To quote vocalist Archie Bell—”they not only sing, they dance just as good as they want.” –Reuben Jackson, author of Fingering The Keys BlackBerry Speaks/Txts so u got it bad, huh? think u know hard times w/ ur recession— u w/o a job & time 2 smell da fresh air, time 2 pick up a hobby da way idle hands pick me up & start stabbing me w/ thumbs. talk abt violated. don’t know how i feel abt having my ball fiddled w/. wat u take me for, that iFreak? da next hot thing w/ an iBody so “touch- friendly” u can pinch her lush apps like–well, u get da pic. dis life ain’t e-z. a crack on da screen or anything else & u get discriminated against, u get labeled harsh things. know where gadgets like me end up after da hoopla, wen da next hot item appears like a pop-up on ur screen? well, it aint da afterlife. no bon voyage of tears, no luv-bots beaming & txting abt what a device it was, or how its features were a one of a kind. it’ll just be pieces of wat i once was in a pile of other pieces of wat once had a helluva run in its heyday. still think u got it bad? Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Twitter picture Facebook photo Google+ photo Connecting to %s
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Windward Community College Logo Pathfinders - Creative writing See Also Where do you go after Wikipedia? Try browsing the PN101 to PN249 section in either the Main or the Reference collections. Writing down the bones : freeing the writer within by Natalie Goldberg (PN145 .G64 1986) What if? : Exercises for Fiction Writers by Anne Bernays (PN3365 .S64 1998) You Can Write a Novel by James Smith, Jr. (PN3365 .S64 1998) Make Every Word Count : a Guide to Writing That Works--for Fiction and Nonfiction by Gary Provost (PN145 .P7) Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande (PN3355 .B7 1981) On Becoming a Novelist by John Gardner (PN3365 .G37 1983) Being a Writer : a Community of Writers Revisited by Peter Elbow (PE1408 .E378 2003) Writing Without Teachers by Peter Elbow (PE1409.5 .E5 1998) Careers for writers & others who have a way with words by Robert Bly Power and identity in the creative writing classroom : the Authority Project by Anna Leahy, editor Hawaii Writing Project Audio-Visual Resources Good Will Hunting (DVD) Freedom Writers (DVD) page last updated: August 13, 2012 Log in
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Welcome to WiredCosmos! I’ve been fascinated with technology (and the universe in general) for as long as I can remember. I saved up my allowance and bought my first telescope when I was 8 years old. I think it was around $15-20 – you can imagine the “quality” of my viewing experience but for a kid with an imagination, it was just enough. Around the same time, my father gave me my first computer – a Tandy TRS-80. This was my first experience with programming. Who remembers BASIC? I used cardboard boxes to build a mock space shuttle console in my room using some glossy photos NASA sent me in the mail as a point of reference. I would spend hours playing astronaut during the day and looking at the sky at night. I wanted to become an astronaut naturally (what young boy doesn’t?) and while that didn’t happen, I was hooked on the stars from the first moment I looked through that little telescope. I’ve been interested in gaining a better understanding of the universe (and our place in it) ever since. What I Write and Care About I am passionate about justice, transformative technologies, and the history/future of humanity. I’m also deeply interested in the study of human interaction with machines/tech/non-humans and the intersection of technology and law. Thanks for reading! Jason Carr, M.Ed.
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 ... people looking for racism when it isn't there? Shine's Joanna Douglas is at it again. This isn't the first time Ms. Douglas has written an article indicating that she really wants to see racism where, in fact, there is none. (I'm thinking of the ridiculous piece she wrote in which she mislabeled Vogue's spread of a white model in varying shades of dark and light body makeup as "blackface" and said that "it could ... be considered racist". Yes, it could, if the person considering it had some sort of agenda, or weren't thinking too clearly.) So Ms. Douglas, please stop. It's not always about racism. You can't judge everything through that lens. Ms. Douglas said it best herself: "Vanity Fair may have been looking for the most promising batch of talent for their issue, but they should have been looking for a diverse group of women as well." The point is, she's missing the point. It's not a spread about a diverse group of women; it's a spread of the most promising batch of talent. If Vanity Fair doesn't think that there are any non-white actresses who deserve to be included in that group (and as some posters have pointed out, maybe there aren't any of the same caliber as those pictured on the cover), then it shouldn't change the criteria it is using just for the sake of including some. People know when they're being included because of their talents and they know when they're being included because of their race. The latter isn't a positive thing. Expecting less of people because they're not white -- what George W. Bush, in a rare fit of eloquence (ok, his speechwriter wrote it), referred to as "the soft bigotry of low expectations" -- achieves inclusiveness in the short run, at the cost of high standards and to the detriment of those being patronized. And once again, Ms. Douglas: please stop the race-baiting. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, sometimes dark body makeup is just dark body makeup, and sometimes a bunch of upcoming stars who happen to be white is just a bunch of upcoming stars who happen to be white. Monday, December 14, 2009 ...poorly edited news articles? Check out this gem from Reuters, "Berlusconi attack prompts Italy soul searching". (Emphasis mine in each example.) The third paragraph decides certain prepositions are unnecessary when it tells us that Berlusconi "was complaining sharp pains in the head and face". The fourth paragraph throws comma use out the window: "Some commentators said the attack would help Berlusconi whose high ratings have been hit by accusations of corruption and sex scandals." In the seventh paragraph, we are given the following nonsense: "The word 'hate' was used in many headlines and commentators as Italy searched its soul". (To which Groucho Marx might respond, "Inside of a commentator, it's too dark to write.") In the eighteenth paragraph (fourth from the end), someone decided that hyphens are now out of style: "Berlusconi allies strongly attacked Antonio De Pietro, an ex magistrate who now heads a small opposition party". Meanwhile, AFP has run out of verbs for its first paragraph of "Greece readies debt measures, unions threaten action": "The Greek government is later Monday to outline measures to combat the worst debt crisis in the country's modern history but its plans are threatening to spark fierce union resistance." Doesn't anybody read these articles before they're published? Saturday, December 12, 2009 ...journalists who abuse the English language? The word "data" is a plural noun. The singular form is "datum". Why, then, are these Associated Press journalists writing "skeptics challenged how reliable certain data was" and "[i]t is not clear if any data was destroyed" (my emphasis)? And take a gander at this sentence: I'm curious: is the term "handful" so precise that we need the modifier "about" in order to add the required element of imprecision? And why the repetition of "e-mails"? Finally, can e-mails really "stretch" over a period of time? I'd write this sentence as follows: "And most of those e-mails, written in a period stretching from 1996 to last month, are from only a handful of scientists." Friday, October 30, 2009 ... media outlets trying to get people upset about things they shouldn't be upset about? Wednesday's episode of "America's Next Top Model" had Tyra Banks taking the six remaining contestants to Hawaii for a photo shoot which required each model to represent a different blend of two different races. To do this, the contestants had body makeup applied to change their skin tones and wore fashion interpretations of cultural garb. Oddly enough, a number of media outlets are deeply concerned. Yahoo! News, AOL News, E! Online, and Entertainment Weekly all are trying to bill this as controversial and to encourage their readers to be worried about the deep racial insensitivity behind the ANTM shoot. EW, for instance, tells us that "It's impossible to 'transform' someone's race without setting off some serious blackface alarms". Scott Harris at AOL Television writes, "Tyra Banks re-imagines the remaining contestants as biracial models through the use of skin darkening agents and ethnic costumes. Or, in other words, blackface." The problem is, "blackface" is not actually another word for "skin darkening agents and ethnic costumes". The term "blackface" refers to a very specific type of entertainment aimed at negatively stereotyping black people; ANTM's photo shoot, as anyone would know who bothered to watch the episode, had absolutely nothing to do with blackface. In fact, even comparing the two indicates a serious lack of understanding on the part of all of these writers of the real issues behind why blackface was cruel and insensitive. The idea of "blackface" that (rightfully) elicits negative reactions dates back to American minstrel acts of the 19th century in which white comedians would darken their faces (using burnt cork, greasepaint, or shoe polish), exaggerate the size of their lips, put on woolly wigs, and perform as clowns; the clownishness, the humor, of their acts derived from the caricatured features and the portrayal of negative character stereotypes (laziness, dishonesty, cowardice, etc.). So, too, did the racism. The issue, in hindsight, was that the blackface comedians were saying, essentially, "all black people are laughable because they look, talk, think, and act in this ridiculous way," a way that was negative and demeaning. The central problem of blackface, in other words, is in the representation of negative stereotypes for mockery and comedic purposes. Tyra Banks' photo shoot had nothing to do with this. Did it portray stereotypes? Sure. The models wore colorful "traditional" outfits "inspired" by the clothing of the cultures they portrayed. But Tyra told the viewers and the models that "every outfit is not necessarily what people of that culture are wearing now... it might not even be a necessary exact [replica] of what they've worn, even in the past... it's a fashion interpretation of it." And, as fashion interpretations, the clothes were glamorous and beautiful. Did the models know anything about the cultures they were representing? Not really. (Erin, the contestant assigned a role as part-Tibetan said that all she knew about Tibet was that "it needs to be freed.") Did the models act in a ridiculous way? No more than they normally do to complete their photo shoots. Did they portray negative character traits in order to mock the cultures they were portraying? Not at all. There is no real reason why this photo shoot should at all be associated with the negative connotations surrounding the term "blackface" -- not unless those writing about it are looking for something to label as racism. This brings to mind the "controversy" surrounding the recent French Vogue photo shoot, in which light-skinned model Lara Stone was photographed in varying shades and combinations of body makeup (including white makeup). This, too, was quite erroneously labeled as "blackface", and a number of "news" types got very upset about it. (Jezebel.com, one of the loudest complainers, very conveniently posted only seven of the fourteen pictures, leading the reader to believe -- incorrectly -- that the majority of the shoot involved Stone in dark makeup.) The spread, however, did nothing to further negative racial stereotypes; if anything, it just showed (as did the ANTM shoot) that skin color is irrelevant to beauty. Some inanely asked why, if the editor and photographer of the Vogue shoot wanted a model with dark skin, they didn't hire a black model. A quick look at the pictures will show that the point of the spread wasn't "a model with dark skin", it was "a model in colored body makeup". In this case Vogue wanted to photograph Stone. Why? They like her. They dedicated a whole issue to her in March, and she showed up on the cover again in September. They used the model they wanted to use. If Lara Stone happened to be black, they would have used a black model. They would have put her in colored body makeup, too. One of the funnier lines is from Shine's Joanna Douglas, who says, "While the photos are not necessarily portraying model Lara Stone in a negative way, it could still be considered racist." Yes, it could be... if one were looking for opportunities to consider things racist. Which, it seems, is exactly what Douglas, those at Jezebel, and all of the other wolf-criers are doing. Seek, and ye shall find. So yes, the ANTM episode will set off "blackface alarms" if one is uninformed enough to automatically associate the changing of skin tones with blackface. Thus far, though, it seems that the only people so uninformed are the people who are writing these articles. Judging by the comments posted on most news stories about this, the bulk of ANTM viewers felt, quite rightly, that there was no reason for them to be in any way fazed by what they saw. Thursday, October 29, 2009 ... people who think they're being discriminated against when they're not? Trevor Keezer, a cashier from Home Depot, was fired from a Home Depot in Florida for refusing to remove an item of clothing that violated the company dress code. It seems pretty straightforward. Not particularly newsworthy, at any rate. Home Depot has a policy for its employees; an employee violated the policy; he suffered the expected consequence. The reason we're hearing about this is that the item of clothing in question was a button saying "One nation under God, indivisible." Now Keezer's attorney, Kara Skorupa, is planning to sue Home Depot over religious discrimination. What Keezer and Skorupa seem to be overlooking is the fact that company policy would have prohibited Keezer from wearing any button that wasn't provided by the company, regardless of the message. Nor did the execution of the consequence come without fair warning. According to Keezer, "... I was told it had to come off, or I would be sent home. So they sent me home for six straight days without pay. And then today they terminated me." In case you missed the little gap in his story: given the option of taking off the button or being suspended, Keezer chose to keep his button on. Why did he refuse, you might ask? "It never crossed my mind to take off the button because I'm standing for something that's bigger than I am. They kept telling me the severity of what you're doing and I just let God be in control and went with His plan," Keezer said. It never crossed his mind to take the button off -- not even when he was told that it was a severe violation of company policy? Who wouldn't fire him? If it was indeed God's plan for Keezer to be fired from Home Depot, then why, one wonders, is Keezer unhappy with the outcome? P.S. Many readers who have commented on this story on other sites have been outraged that Home Depot is violating Keezer's First Amendment rights. This is, however, quite untrue. First of all, as law professor Michael Masinter points out in the Yahoo! news article, the First Amendment relates only to the government's ability to restrict the freedom of speech -- not to that of private companies like Home Depot. It says, in full, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Notice that the Amendment makes no mention of private companies. More importantly, though, to construe Home Depot's actions as abridging the freedom of speech in any meaningful way is simply going too far. Home Depot has a policy governing, and therefore limiting, the way in which its employees can express themselves. So do schools that require their students to wear uniforms. So do businesses that require their employees to wear suits and ties. So too, do the United States Armed Forces, whose employees must wear uniforms (and, although they certainly care about defending the United States, those employees are not allowed to wear buttons expressing that sentiment, either). In each case these limitations are intended to a) make the group governed by them more effective, and b) create a certain culture. None of these institutions is guilty of violating the First Amendment, or of abridging anyone's freedom of speech, as a result. ... automatic flush toilets? Do these things ever work the way they're supposed to? If you're like me, you like to put a seat protector on the seat before you sit down. You pull that paper thing out of the holder on the wall, you unfold it, you pop out the center, you lay it down on the seat, the center tongue thing hangs down into the water, you try to make sure that it's balanced just so so that it doesn't fall in. You have it in place, you turn around, you take off your pants, you're about to sit down -- splooooosh! The thing flushes, dragging the seat protector in with it. You're in that halfway crouch, you haven't quite sat down, and you think, "Nuts! Now I have to go through the whole maneuver again." So you stand up, and this time your pants are already down, and you yank the seat protector out again, and you're all flustered and annoyed so you rip it as you're unfolding it, and meanwhile -- splooooosh! This time you have to wait to put the protector on, because if you put it on while the toilet is still flushing, it'll drag it down there again. Meanwhile, don't forget that you are in the bathroom for a reason, and now that your pants are off, what you need to do is that much closer to the surface. You're getting impatient. You're muttering at the toilet, "Come on, come on!" It finishes flushing, and you get the stupid thing on the seat again, and then you're faced with a dilemma: Do you do a quick spin move to try to fake out the sensor, or do you try to turn around reaaaaallly sloooooowly so that it doesn't think you're moving at all? Either way, you're matching your wits against the machine. You're thinking, "sure, this thing is built to detect motion, but maybe I'm good enough, maybe it won't detect MY motion." Or maybe you think "maybe I should put my hand over the sensor, so it can't detect anything at all" -- so you have one arm in front of you against the wall, and then you're trying to twist around so that that arm doesn't move but is somehow behind you, keeping in mind that your pants are still down around your ankles. Some people, in fact, would rather give up at this point. They say, "you know what, I'd rather soil myself than finish this." This is where the impetus for the adult diaper industry originally came from. But if you get past that part, and you're finally sitting down and taking care of business, inevitably you are going to need to shift your weight, and -- splooooosh! There it goes again. Of course, those industrial-strength flushes have a way of throwing the water out of the bowl. Isn't that a great feeling? "Hmm, some of my own waste just splashed up onto my body." That has to be one of the greatest indignities of our human existence. So you're sitting there, and you're trying not to make the thing go off again as you're tying up all the loose ends, and then you're done. You stand up, and... That's right, nothing happens. You're pulling up your pants, you're turning around, clearly you're moving quite a bit, yet this motion sensor, which up until now was so sensitive that it could tell when you shifted your weight from both cheeks to just one -- this motion sensor now refuses to sense any motion at all. You're waving at it, you're gyrating, you're doing a little dance, you're doing the whole put-your-hand-really-close-then-move-it-back-again thing... nothing. It's like the thing is taunting you. Or maybe it's bored, maybe these obvious movements are too easy to detect, and it's insulted that you'd expect it to react to something that simple. It's just sitting there, watching you, thinking, "What is this idiot going to do next?" You know it's mocking you. Finally, you give up, and you reach over and push the little button. The toilet has now flushed a total of seven times since you entered the stall, and only once was it actually flushing something meaningful away. These things are intended for what, saving water? Tuesday, October 27, 2009 ... people who "clock out"? About a year ago I encountered some significant problems while traveling with United Airlines to my Christmas destination. As reparations, they awarded me a booklet of travel vouchers, each good for a certain amount of money. Inconveniently enough, these vouchers cannot be redeemed over the Internet; the customer must phone in a reservation and then either mail in the vouchers or take them to the local airport to apply them to the price of the ticket. This past weekend I made my Thanksgiving travel plans and intended to use the vouchers. I made my reservations over the phone, and the customer service representative I spoke with told me that I would need to redeem them at my local airport within 24 hours or the reservation would expire. She informed me that the ticketing counter at my local airport would be open until 7 PM, and that the best time to be there would be after 2 PM. The next day I showed up to the United counter at my local airport around 6:15 PM. The LCD display above the United counter said "This counter open until 7:30 PM". The counter was unstaffed when I arrived, but I waited around because I assumed that someone would notice a customer waiting and come by to help me. Eventually a uniformed United employee did arrive. "Are you waiting for the United counter?" he asked. "Yes," I said. "The counter is closed," he said. "I'm under the impression that that's not the case," I said, nodding towards the screen. "Oh, that's a mistake," he said, "we close at 6 on Saturday." "The people on the phone at United told me that you were open until 7." "They're wrong. We're all closed down." "You're here." "I only came over here as a courtesy. I'm clocked out. You'll need to come back tomorrow." "I can't," I said, "I made a reservation over the phone and I need to pay for it before midnight tonight or I'll lose it." "I'm sorry," he said. "We're all closed down here. All the computers are off, they took the money away. I only came over here as a courtesy." "I appreciate that," I said. "Since you're here, can you help me?" "No," he said, "I've clocked out. You're going to need to call United on the phone and ask them to extend your reservation." "Could you do that for me?" "No," he said. "I've clocked out." "I just think that they might be a little difficult," I explained. "They're not always that helpful. They might not just let me ask for an extension. Wouldn't it be better coming from you?" "I'm sorry," he said, "I can't call them. I've clocked out." "Can I call them and just put you on?" "I don't understand," I said. "Are you legally prohibited from calling them after you've clocked out?" "I'm not getting paid to work anymore," he said. And that is the crux of the problem. Because he was no longer being paid to work, he ceased to think that he had any obligation to act as though he were working. I do understand that he never had to come over to the counter in the first place. I do understand that it was after hours for him. I do understand that dealing with United Airlines over the telephone can be frustrating and time-consuming. It pains me, though, that this man felt unable to do something if he wasn't being paid for it. (Not only did he not do anything to help me, he also did nothing about the screen that projected the wrong information. The computers may have been off, but he could at least have put a piece of paper across the screen. I pity the next customer who, misled by the same sign, waited for help at an unstaffed counter until 7:30.) It reminded me of a time I was shopping at Wal-Mart. I purchased six of an item but the cashier charged me for seven; when I pointed out her mistake, she told me that I would have to go to the Customer Service desk to get my money back. When I arrived at the desk, one woman was being helped, and I was the next in line. I waited at least twenty minutes before someone helped me. Of course, it makes sense that sometimes we have to wait in line at stores. In this case, though, there were two Wal-Mart employees behind the Customer Service counter in addition to the one who was helping the first customer. Why, one might ask, was I forced to wait twenty minutes? The other employees were on their break, of course, so they couldn't do any work. They couldn't even lift up a phone to summon an employee who was working. (I haven't set foot in a Wal-Mart since, except to use the bathroom.) What is the deal with this? Why do these people care so little about the impression they make on their customers that they so visibly demonstrate their indifference to their needs? Why are these people so lazy that they refuse to lift a finger if there is no monetary compensation forthcoming? Why do they take so little pride in what they do that they don't care whether they do it well or not? Is this a question of corporate culture? Do these large, faceless organizations neglect to inculcate helpfulness in their employees because, due to the size of their market share or the nature of the services they provide, they have the consumer at their mercy no matter what they do? Is customer service not a priority to these companies? Is this, perhaps, the influence of unions? Are the workers' unions at these companies so concerned about protecting employees from their employers' demands that they must commit to being entirely disengaged when off the clock? (As it turns out, Wal-Mart employees are not unionized.) A couple of organizations at the opposite end of the spectrum stand out in my mind as modeling excellent customer service and as proof that things need not always be so awful. The first is Nordstrom department stores, where the employees (known as "Nordies") provide service to their customers beyond what any reasonable person would expect. Consider the following exemplars (originally described by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras in Built to Last; quoted from p. 73-74 of Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath): The Nordie who cheerfully gift-wrapped products a customer bought at Macy's; And even the Nordie who refunded money for a set of tire chains -- although Nordstrom doesn't sell tire chains. The second is the KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) network of charter schools. KIPP teachers and administrators give their cell phone numbers to their students so that the students can call them in the evening for homework help. They stay after school during the week and come in on weekends to work with struggling students. Consider these stories from a local KIPP school: The teacher who drove a student to school every day for months when she couldn't find a ride; The group of teachers who drove to a student's house to intervene when he was exhibiting signs of gang affiliation; The principal who sat with two students every night after school to ensure that they finished their homework; The teachers who drove groups of students to visit a sick classmate in the hospital; And the teacher who took a student shopping for new uniform clothes when his family couldn't afford them. It is hard to imagine either a Nordie or a KIPP teacher ever saying "I can't help you because I've clocked out"; to the contrary, I don't think the latter ever actually do clock out. Why, though, are these wonderful people seen as unusual or extraordinary? Why are they the exception and not the rule? What is wrong with us as consumers that we are complacent enough to accept apathy and indifference as a substitute for genuine customer service?
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Take the 2-minute tour × How would I move elements of the WordPress comment form, which is called in comments.php with the following: <?php comment_form(); ?> For instance, I'd like to wrap cancel_comment_reply_link in h4 tags and place it below get_post_reply_link. But I don't see any way to do it. Formerly, all the code for the comment form was there in comments.php. You could easily move the elements around and place them where you wanted. Now, all of those elements are buried as functions in comments-template.php. Has someone created a function and callback, similar to the one that exists for wp_list_comments, that provides access to the elements of the comment form? If so, we might more easily edit the code to move links, labels and fields. share|improve this question 1 Answer 1 I think your best bet is to take a look at Otto's post all about the comment form and functions, here: http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-theme-tip-the-comment-form/ If you want to cut to the chase, you can add this function to your functions.php: function my_fields($fields) { return $fields; Then set new defaults, changing your HTML and Class/ID's as you like: $defaults = array( 'id_form' => 'commentform', 'id_submit' => 'submit', In this case, I'm unsure if you can apply a class or ID directly to the "cancel reply link". You can try wrapping it in a <span> tag here, or just use some creative javascript to find it and apply a class: $('a:contains("Cancel Reply")').addClass('cancel-reply-link'); share|improve this answer Tom, I've been up and down Otto's post, inside and out. At this point, I've given up on doing anything with a link in the comment form but add some CSS style. But as I am not an accomplished scripter, let me at least ask this question: Say I want to change the text of cancel_reply_link to, "Cancel your reply". What specific code would I paste in functions.php to accomplish this? –  user5486 Jul 20 '11 at 1:16 Your Answer
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Skip to Content WoW Insider has the latest on the Mists of Pandaria! • Dumag • Member Since Oct 2nd, 2008 Are you Dumag? If So, Login Here. WoW42 Comments Recent Comments: Breakfast Topic: I love {WoW} Sep 14th 2009 3:22PM You know what I loved? The feeling of getting epic flight for the first time. I farmed for weeks to get it. I auctioned leather and buff food, I scrimped and saved every piece-of-garbage grey I pulled off a Talbuk. I vendored all the non-essentials. But at the end of it all, there was my shaman, freewheeling through the Nether-blasted skies of Draenor on the back of his very own Swift Red Windrider, wrapped in broken hunter mail and never happier. That's freedom, hard-won and exhilarating, whirling and pinwheeling over the alien minarets of Shattrath. 15 Minutes of Fame: The furry fandom {WoW} Jun 15th 2009 6:05PM So, what does this have to do with WoW, exactly? It's all well and good that you're legitimizing some random fetish with this article, but what the does this "Aishalove" do in the game? She doesn't raid, she doesn't PVP, she's not in a furry guild, she isn't connected to any kind of a furry community in WoW. If I wanted a history lesson on people who make believe they're half Alsatian, half Manticore I'd wikipedia it. Come on, Lisa. At least try to stay on message here. Apr 8th 2009 4:15PM Five minutes or so. And here's the real kicker: While yer shaman is dancing, he can re-drop the totems! Breakfast Topic: New Old Heroics {WoW} Apr 5th 2009 12:09PM I guess it's not a popular opinion, but I was annoyed enough that they recycled Naxxramas. The Warcraft universe is rich enough that we can afford to clear up some old storylines. Something involving the Grimtotem clan would be appropriate. Or the Searing Blade. Or what about some of the other Orc clans that weren't dealt with in Burning Crusade? How about putting an end to the Shadow Council once and for all? Let's crack open Gilneas before we re-do Wailing Caverns. The old instances are part of what makes leveling an alt so appealing. Where once I ran Wailing Caverns as a wide-eyed noob, learning about things like aggro and why some other players are idiots, I can now return as a fresh level 20 and relive those days. Insider Trader: Who keeps the shards? {WoW} Mar 7th 2009 11:18AM When did enchanters get such a hair up their butt? Fine, I see both sides of the issue, but crying about it in pugs merely shows off your angry nerd entitlement issues. If it's such a big deal, whine about it before the run. That way, everyone can just roll need on everything and you can happily disenchant whatever falls into your pack. Or, to keep things nice and fair, you can insist on rolling for those cobalt nodes and borean leather. Or, you can realize that there are always other pugs, there will always be more shards, and just play your best. Too many times have I see someone be "that guy" and ruin everyone else's enjoyment over something petty. Jan 13th 2009 11:04PM I haven't finished a heroic Gundrak in weeks because the PUG healers I end up with have been in frigging Merciless gear and level 72 quest reward blues. I actually made a post about this on the healing forum and kind of got stomped for it. This post is spot on. Don't be the guy dragging the rest of the group down. Don't be the rogue doing 800 dps, or the healer with 13k mana who goes OOM on the first pull. It wastes my time as a tank, it wastes the group's time, and it wastes your time getting saved to a doomed heroic simply because you overreached your gear. No sense being lazy. Relics of Ulduar to stay soulbound? {WoW} Jan 10th 2009 5:27AM ... So what the hell good are they? They take up bag space, you pick up hundreds of them doing Hodir dailies (an efficient source of income even for those already exalted), and vendor for peanuts. They're like the Argent Dawn rep turn-ins redux. It won't break the game to let us trade 'em. The exalted enchants are going to be necessary once Ulduar hits, and a lot of dedicated raiders are already exalted with the Sons anyway. Breakfast Topic: Calling it quits {WoW} Jan 2nd 2009 10:07AM I don't have a universal rule. Usually I go with my gut. I've run enough heroics by this point in the expansion to know when there's a problem - either mobs aren't dying fast enough, there's not enough threat going on, or if the people I'm running with are too tough to deal with, I'll usually make my excuses and leave. In my opinion, wipes aren't an acceptable excuse for abandoning a PUG. Wipes happen, whether the healer was too close and Skadi one-shotted him, or the DPS wouldn't stop hitting Zuramat while Shroud of Darkness was up and got healed to death. They just happen, and you just look like a prima donna if you leave in a huff. Percula reveals future of BLIND {WoW} Dec 30th 2008 2:57AM Awesome! WTB Craft of War: Stormstrike, pst. Nov 14th 2008 3:33AM Bubble hearth! Bubble hearth!
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Frequently Asked Questions General | Rods | Reels | Pliers/Knives/Perfect Tool | Luggage | Vise 1. Where is my closest authorized dealer? 1. You can click on the “dealer locator” link on the top of our website or click here. Select the location by either the zip code or state. If you are not familiar with any shops listed, feel free to contact us at the factory. 1. What are your business hours and how do we contact you? 1. We are open Monday through Thursday 7:00 am to 5:30 pm Pacific time, and Fridays from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. Our phone number is (805) 484-8789, and fax is (805) 482-0701. We can also be reached by email at 1. What is the warranty on both the Freshwater and Saltwater rods? 1. All Abel rods are warranted against defects in material and workmanship. If a fly rod is broken, it will be repaired or replaced at a minimum cost: Tip Section, $ 40; Mid Section, $ 50; and Butt Section, $ 100. Repaired rods will be returned within 3 weeks. 1. Is the Freshwater Series only to be used in fresh water? 1. No. Our Freshwater Series is very saltwater worthy. We build our Freshwater Series with the identical aluminum reel seat as the Saltwater Series. All components will stand up to saltwater corrosion as well. 1. Who rolls your blanks and where are the rods manufactured? 1. Our rod blanks are designed by Steve Abel and manufactured in California. We stack, glue and sand the cork, as well as wrap and finish the rod in our CA factory. 1. Where do I return my broken rod? 1. Send your entire rod (All Pieces) to: Abel Quality Products, 165 Aviador St., Camarillo, CA 93010. Please return your rod with proper insurance value and enclose a check or credit card for the warranty repair charge. Tip Section, $40; Mid Section, $50; and Butt Section, $100. Please include $15.00 for shipping and handling. 1. Can I upgrade my reel to make it the new style click out? 1. Yes, but you’ll need to purchase the newly designed spool and drag plate assembly for your frame. 1. What should I do after use in saltwater? 1. If on a saltwater trip, simply rinse the reel in freshwater after each day on the water. When you get back home rinse the reel in running lukewarm water, and take a toothbrush to the 90-degree angles i.e. foot, counterweight, handle, etc. It’s also a good idea to spray it with WD-40, and wipe it clean with a paper towel. WD-40 will not harm your flyline, backing, or mono. It is not necessary to lubricate the cork on the drag plate. This only needs to be done if it does not feel just as smooth as a brand new reel. Please see our easy care-instructions for additional details: reel-care.htm 1. Is my reel convertible? If so, how do I convert my reel? 1. Yes, click here for instructions: reel-drag.htm 1. Can you interchange both the big game and super series spools? 1. Yes, each Super Series Reel is designed to interchange with a Big Game Spool. See page 20-21 in the 2006 catalog, under each Super Reel listed is the spool it interchanges with. You can also click here for details on our website: reel-spec.htm 1. What is the difference between the old style and new style Big Game reels. Have you discontinued your standard Big Game reels? 1. No. We changed the appearance of our big game spools from round holes to oblong holes to make them lighter, and match the porting on the Super Series frames. 1. Are your Big Game reels only available in ported? 1. No. You can order your reel with either a solid, or ported frame. 1. What type of maintenance is required on my Abel reel? 1. See the above answer regarding saltwater use. If the reel squeaks when line is pulled out, or if the drag is not smooth, apply a few drops of pure neat’s-foot oil to the cork on the drag plate. The neat’s-foot oil, and all other lubricants needed to maintain your reels, knives, pliers and tools are assembled in our Sportsman’s Lube Kit: lube.htm 1. What is the charge and procedure to have my reel serviced? 1. Abel will clean, lubricate, and inspect reels for $20.00 each plus shipping and replacement charges. 1. Where are your reels manufactured? 1. Every component of our reels is manufactured at our factory in Camarillo, CA. 1. I lost my locknut, can I still fish with my reel? 1. Yes. The locknut is not a part of the functioning reel. You can still fish with confidence without it. Keep some drag on the reel, and purchase a new one upon returning from your trip. parts 1. What is the lead-time on custom finishes? 1. Gold and Platinum = 1 - 2 weeks Artistic Anodize = 3 - 4 weeks Fish Graphic Anodize = 6 - 10 weeks 1. My reel has a scratch on it. Can I send it back to be re-anodized? 1. Unlike plating, anodizing actually penetrates the aluminum. We’d have to strip the reel of it’s anodizing in order to re-anodize it, making the walls of the reel thinner, and less durable. We try to think that scratches build the reel’s character, and tell a story of a fishing trip...kind of like a badge of honor for the tumble you took on that rock or down that hill. 1. I have a black Abel reel, can I have the artistic or fish graphic finish put on it? 1. No. The same reason as the above answer applies here as well. 1. I broke the handle on my reel, what should I do? 1. See your local dealer, or click here: reel-parts.htm 1. I lost my pawl springs, what should I do? 1. See your local dealer or click here: reel-parts.htm Pliers / Knives / Perfect Tool 1. My pliers jaws have rusted, what do I do? 1. If the rust has appeared, simply take a scotch brite pad to remove the rust by scouring the jaws, and then spray them with WD-40. 1. How do I order replacement pliers jaws? 1. Our pliers jaws are heat-treated to ensure they will hold an edge for a lengthy period, but they can be replaced if necessary. You can order your replacement jaws directly from us: pliers.htm 1. What type of maintenance is required with my Abel Pliers? 1. Simply rinse them with freshwater, and spray them with WD-40 after a day out in the salt. You do not need to lubricate the plier bushing. **Do not leave your pliers or knife in a wet leather sheath for an extended period of time. 1. Can I send my blade back to have sharpened? 1. We do not offer a knife sharpening service. We recommend just using a standard sharpening stone, or ceramic/diamond coated stick. 1. Can I order the lanyard for my pliers separately? 1. You can order our plier lanyards separately online: pliers.htm 1. Where is the Abel luggage Manufactured? 1. All Abel luggage is Manufactured in our Camarillo, CA factory. We use only the highest grade Cordura and fabrics available. Heavy-duty corrosion-proof Nylon zippers and sliders are used exclusively on our saltwater bags. 1. My zippers are stuck, what do I do? 1. Spray all zippers and sliding tabs with silicon spray. We also recommend doing this after each use in saltwater. 1. Where do I send my luggage back for repair? 1. Send your Abel Luggage to: Abel Quality Products, 165 Aviador St., Camarillo, CA 93010. If, after inspection, we determine the product defective, we will repair or replace it at no charge. Non-Warranty damages will repaired, or replaced at current pricing. Please include $15.00 for shipping and handling. 1. What type of maintenance is required on my Abel Luggage? 1. We recommend cleaning and lubricating all zippers and sliding tabs with silicon spray after each saltwater trip. 1. Will the new bobbin cradle fit on my 1st edition Supreme Vise? 1. Yes, the new style bobbin cradle can be easily installed on the the stem of your 1st. edition vise. The charge for this new cradle is $50.00. Vises.htm 1. My Supreme vise is beginning to tarnish, what can I do? 1. 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Include a Legislator in Local Section Activities An invitation to become involved in your local section would be both an honor for a public official and an opportunity to build on your relationship with them. Ideas include: • Invite a public official to speak at a local section meeting. • Sponsor an award for public service. For example, ACS regularly presents members of the federal government with a Public Service Award. • Hold a symposium on a public affairs topic. • A similar idea is to invite a public official to your Local Section’s National Chemistry Week or Chemists Celebrate Earth Day events. Some words of advice are necessary here, because this is not as simple as it seems. 1. Set a date • Start with a flexible date in mind • Best if date coincides with legislator break. OPA can help with this, or check online. 1. Invite the Legislator • Send, via fax, an invitation Summarize Who, What, When & Where | Sample Invitation Letter • Include a copy of any past/present publicity or recognition you have received regarding a similar event. • Follow-up with phone call to district office • Most likely will need to resend letter 1. Have a back-up • Legislator’s schedules often change, so establish an emergency back up even if they have been confirmed. 1. Follow up afterwards
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How Many Calories in a Bagel with Cream Cheese? How Many Calories in a Bagel with Cream Cheese? There are many correct answers to the seemingly simple question “how many calories are in a bagel with cream cheese?’ Peaking in popularity from the mid 80′s to mid 90′s, bagels were widely consumed as a healthy ‘on-the-go’ breakfast alternative to doughnuts. Bagel sales have steadily declined since 2004-05, due largely to negative publicity regarding their high-calorie/carbohydrate content and poor nutritive value. The calories in a bagel with cream cheese depends upon factors such as the bagel size and type; the fat content of the cream cheese; and cream cheese portion size. Calories in a bagel with Cream Cheese: Average The original bagels available for purchase in grocery stores, manufactured by Lender’s®, Sara Lee®, etc., considered to be ‘normal-sized’ were small; 3-inches in diameter and 69 grams. For some varieties, such as oat bran and cinnamon-raisin, a 3.5-inch bagel (71 g) is comparable. An onion, seeded or plain 3-inch or oat bran/cinnamon-raisin 3.5-inch bagel offers 170 to 194 calories, 5 to 7 g protein, 35 to 38 g carbohydrate, 2 g dietary fiber, 1 g fat and ~ 350 mg sodium. The Cream Cheese Factor Smearing 1 tbsp. regular cream cheese on your bagel adds an extra 50 calories, 5 g fat, 3 g saturated fat and 47 mg sodium. This adds up to 220 to 240 calories in/for a bagel with cream cheese. The macronutrient distribution for this bagel with cream cheese, derives, on average, 64% of its calories from carbohydrate, 12% from protein and 23% from fat. To add to the confusion, cream cheese is available in many varieties, including flavored, plain fat-free, low-fat, reduced-fat and full-fat or ‘regular.’ Size Matters Deli or coffee shop bagels always were, and still are, much larger than 69 g. Now, ‘mini-bagels’ are available in most grocery stores (2.5-inches in diameter or 26 g). Of course, size does matter as, the larger the bagel, the more calories it provides. The largest bagels are 4.5-inches in diameter, 118 g. Type impacts calorie count as well. Egg and cinnamon-sugar bagels are higher in calories than plain bagels. Calories in a Bagel with Cream Cheese: Least to Greatest You can take in a modest amount of calories in a bagel with cream cheese by going ‘small and light.’ Choosing a mini-bagel and topping it with 1 tbsp. fat-free cream cheese provides about 100 calories (70 calories for the bagel and 30 calories for the cream cheese), 7 g protein, 15 g carbohydrate and only 1 g fat. On the other hand, if you select a large bakery-style bagel (4.5-inches diameter and 118 to 130 g) and spread it with 2 tbsp. regular cream cheese, you’ll take in roughly 460 calories, 16 g protein, 70 g carbohydrate, 12 g fat (6 g saturated) and over 800 mg sodium! While the ‘typical’ 4.5-inch bagel weighs 118 g, a Starbuck’s specialty bagel (any variety) is denser/larger at 142 g. One bagel provides 440 calories, 13 g protein, 96 g carbohydrates, 3 g dietary fiber, 1 g fat and about 600 mg sodium, without cream cheese. Add 2 tbsp. (a ‘standard’ serving) of cream cheese for a breakfast providing 540 calories, 15 g protein (not high-quality protein), 96 g carbohydrates and 11 g fat (half saturated). About the author
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تكنولوجيا سهلة – أنا فتاة مثير This entry was posted in مقتطفات يوتيوب and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 20 Responses to تكنولوجيا سهلة – أنا فتاة مثير 1. Grazvydas Simulis says: now its 16 2. ohlalaitsjessica says: Dafuq did I just listen to? 3. ani6757 says: I am the sexy girl, I like, when you fuck me well, You are come back for me, So tell me why that can’t you see? My body, my pussy, my ass and my mouth, all it’s waiting for your fuck (for your fuck) [Ref] When you’re touching me, when you’re fucking me, when you’re licking me, I feel good and I’ll explode! Xd 4. Mateusz Szumilo says: thats just gay 5. Rogow27 says: I am a guy and I consider myself the sexy girl 6. rspkmage3 says: yes becouse they are guys 7. Rogow27 says: 9 people are not the sexy girl 8. Pyro3rroR says: ohhh yeah coll bass 9. Megaherzwerk says: i’m russian and this accent sounds in some places like russian accent =) for ex. “So tell me why that can’t you see?” 10. japaneseimports says: Putting the song aside all i want to know is what the hell kinda accent is that? 11. sexykatie90 says: thumbs up if you liked this Easy Tech - I am The Sexy Girl 12. alibahman45 says: nice Beat , shitty song 13. TheMutant147 says: żal to ma być fajne? 14. MrMaciek94 says: when i hear this i think Justin Bieber like this 15. 9LIVESOILDER says: make it 5 now -.0 i luv this song Comments are closed.
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Page is loading... Relying on the Position of a Verse in the Qur’an As for relying on the position or location of the purification verse in the Qur’an to support their argument (without providing any other evidence), they would be ignoring the fact that the verses of the Qur’an descended at different times and was not revealed all at once. Furthermore, a verse from the Qur’an or a word or phrase used to descend in different situations and different places. These verses were later reorganized by the Holy Prophet (SA) and placed in its proper positions and Surahs, by the orders of Allah (SWT). Therefore, the mere presence of a verse in its position does not necessarily indicate a specific interpretation, except after turning back to the traditions of Rasulullah (SA) for verification. Prophet Muhammad (SA) is the determiner in that, and he is the one who interprets, clarifies, and explicates the verses because according to Allah (SWT), he does not speak out of his own desire. As Allah (SWT) says in the Qur’an, “It is naught but revelation that is revealed.[53:4] In addition, Rasulullah (SA) stated, “The Qur’an has been revealed to me along with its interpretation and wisdom.” So if there is any doubt or question, one has to refer to the hadeeths and sayings of Rasulullah (SA) for clarification. In this case, one should ask him/herself if there are any hadeeths narrated from Rasulullah (SA) that would support the claim of those who believe that the wives of the Prophet (SA) are the ones referred to by the purification verse. The truth is that there does not exist any such hadeeth, despite the fabrications and alterations that have been done in the narrations of Rasulullah (SA). We do not even find one hadeeth, fabricated or not, that indicates that Rasulullah (SA) stated that “the purification verse in Surat Al-Ahzab refers to my wives.” So, based on what do the advocates of this idea build their arguments on, except if they blindly interpret and say their own opinions about the Qur’an simply based on the position and location of the verses. This is forbidden (haraam) and prohibited because Allah (SWT) says, “None knows its interpretation except Allah and those who are firmly rooted in knowledge.[3:7] Allah (SWT) also said, “Those who enter into false discourses about our communications, without knowledge, without guidance, and without any opinionated interpretation that is not based on an illuminating book”. Along these lines, the Holy Prophet (SA) has stated, “Whoever interprets the Qur’an with his own view and opinion, his interpretation is invalid even if it is right.” All the respected religious scholars of interpretation acknowledge that fact and act accordingly. They do not speculate or make a deduction based on solely the presence of a verse in its location, nor do they interpret except after referring to the traditions of Rasulullah (SA). If they do not find such hadeeth, it is not their right or anyone’s to deduce or presume or speculate or interpret solely on the contents of the verses in the Qur’an. This is especially true if a controversy or doubt exists regarding that topic, and the proofs, evidence, or narrations from Rasulullah (SA) proved the exact opposite of what they argue. In that case, it is not their right to speculate, assume, or interpret after that. Share this page
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Ah, but what about the Lumia 820? The best Windows Phone for an ex-Symbian user? Published by at As a Symbian fan, Nokia's move to Windows Phone may have left you stone cold and frustrated. Or you might well be as much in love with Nokia's hardware as Symbian, in which case you might want to give the new Windows Phone 8 a chance. Why am I mentioning this now? Because Rafe's just reviewed the Nokia Lumia 820's hardware over on our sister site, All About Windows Phone, and because the 820 is perhaps the first smartphone I've seen on that platform that might be a good fit for some Symbian users, since it has both removeable battery and microSD expansion. From the review: It's easy to say that someone should just pay the extra to buy the Lumia 920 because it's a superior device. And in markets where operator control is highest it's not an unreasonable viewpoint. (After all, thanks to standard smartphone contracts, the only difference between the Lumia 820 and 920 on AT&T in the US is the upfront free... and the Lumia 920 can be had for as little at $49.) It's the cat's paw Is the Nokia Lumia 920 the cat's paw for the Nokia Lumia 820? Or maybe it's the other way round... However, this rather misses the point. Yes, the Nokia Lumia 820 is a lower cost device, and yes, in unsubsidised markets, that will be enough of a difference to drive some sales. But, it's important to realise that some of the differences between to two devices are driven, not by cost, but rather a different set of design priorities. The most obvious example of this is the smaller physical size, but we would also highlight the differences in overall design (removable battery, customisable shells, weight), screen technology (AMOLED), and storage (microSD). Of course, there are also differences driven by cost considerations too, such as the camera specification (no OIS, no BSI), screen (resolution), storage (less internal memory), and battery (capacity). But the critical point is there are a number of hardware factors that serve as reasons why someone might justifiably choose the Lumia 820 over the Lumia 920. It's not just about the cost. For example, we think, because of the hardware mix, that many of Nokia's more traditional users, especially those coming from a Symbian device, will prefer the Lumia 820. So, having established that the hardware in the Lumia 820 is a reasonable continuation of the flexibility we've been used to in the Symbian world, it just leaves the software. Windows Phone 8 is a lot more complete than version 7 was, but there are a few restrictions remaining. Microsoft and Nokia are working on updates through 2013 that will hopefully address these, plus we'll continue our articles on the All About sites trying to help in getting the most from the current state of Windows Phone, just as we have done for Symbian here on AAS. The next two articles to look out for from us are a detailed look at the length and breadth of Windows Phone 8 (from Rafe) and a look at the potential showstoppers in making the Symbian-Windows Phone 8 (from me) - how serious are they and can any be worked around? Source / Credit: All About Windows Phone
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The United States is Greece Morgan Taylor It is now becoming clear that the world is headed into another financial crisis.  There is now a growing list of countries facing serious problems and potential insolvency.   Some nations such as France are now being added to the list; however among the worst is the United States.   There has been much conversation that the United States is becoming Greece and in fact it is well on the road to passing that country as the most profligate and most dangerous to the global economy. In a recent American Thinker article by Steve McCann, a national insolvency index was promulgated which reveals those countries facing the worst crises and why.  In essence the index is a combination of the annual budget deficit as a percent of Gross Domestic Product and the current unemployment rate.  From the article: The accelerated level of deficit spending, except in times of a major war (such as World War II), is indicative of a lack of fiscal discipline and tax...(Read Full Post)
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Hi Chris, Nice to see you again. Good to see you're having so much fun at GEH! re: "So how important is the nozzle size and the pressure?, or is rate of addition the more important factor??" It's hard to imagine all the alchemy and uber engineering that was engaged in to make Polaroid products, but this film, http://thelightfarm.com/cgi-bin/showvideo.py, starting at 7:56 minutes gives an idea of how important extreme precision was to Kodak, not all that long ago. (Spoiler alert: NOT )
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120 FAQs about General Cosmology (The Astronomy Cafe) Age of the Universe: NASA MAP Mission Related articles: By Dr. Odenwald  Patterns in the Void - A personal view of the invisible universe and the nature of darkness. 1. [Updated]What exists beyond the current universe into which the universe is expanding? 2. [Updated]What did people think of the universe in 1700? 3. [Updated]What did people think of the universe in 1850? 4. [Updated]Will we ever be able to see what the big bang really looked like? 5. [Updated]How did galaxies form from a smooth expanding big bang? 6. [Updated]What is the Anthropic Principle in cosmology? 7. [Updated]How long did it take an object now 10 billion light years away to get there since the big bang? 8. Are the spaces between galaxies filled with stars or gas? 9. Will better images than the Hubble Deep Field ever show the edge of the universe? 10. What fraction of the universe is permanently hidden behind the Milky Way in the sky? 11. How big is the universe? 12. What is the temperature of space? 13. When the Big Bang exploded, why wasn't a large empty region created? 14. Do any other theories explain the cosmological redshift as well as Big Bang theory does? 15. If distant observers looked at the Milky Way, what would they see? 16. Hubble's original value for the expansion rate was 500 km/s/mpc. Why is this now considered wrong? 1. [Updated]Where does space end? 2. [Updated]There must be space reserved for the expansion of the universe, so where does it come from? 3. [Updated]Do atomic orbitals expand as the universe expands? 4. [Updated]Does the blue shift of the Andromeda Galaxy contradict Big Bang cosmology? 5. [Updated]How is the age of the universe determined? 6. [Updated]What is Olber's Paradox and how does modern cosmology resolve it? 7. [Updated]If the universe is finite, what's outside? 8. [Updated]What is out past the farthest reaches of where the universe has expanded into? 9. [Updated]Is there 'dark matter' that is really not matter in the universe? 10. [Updated]Is it just a curiosity that the rate at which the moon is receding from the earth is nearly the same as the Hubble Constant? 11. [Updated]What is on the other side of the expanding universe? 12. [Updated]If the universe is open and infinite, what is it expanding into? 13. [Updated]Could the universe be rotating, and if so, with respect to what? 14. When you look into space, what is the black stuff you see between the stars? 15. What is the universe a part of? 16. If space increased faster than light moments after the Big Bang, why do we see anything near us in space at all? 17. Why do galaxies ever collide if they were all ejected from a point at constant speed? 18. What does 50 kilometers/second/megaparsecs mean? 19. If the Big Bang happened instantaneously, why are all the fragments at different distances and velocities? 20. How much of the galactic redshift is due to cosmology and to ordinary Doppler effects? 21. Did space really expand faster than light? 22. What is the cosmological redshift? 23. Am I being stretched along with the expansion of the universe? 24. Could the interaction between photons and intergalactic matter cause the cosmological redshift? 25. Could the universe be collapsing without our knowing about it? 26. Is there a center to the universe? 27. Is it possible the Milky Way really is the center of the Big Bang? 28. Wouldn't the expansion of space show up inside the solar system in the predicted positions of the planets? 29. Were does the concept of infinity fit into physics and cosmology? 30. Why has the temperature of the cosmic background fallen since the Big Bang? 31. If we are not seeing evidence for rapid expansion near us, could this mean that the universe is no longer expanding? 32. Stars convert some of their mass to light. Does this explain the 'missing mass' in the universe? 33. Do galaxies move at the speed of light at great distances? 34. What is the actual evidence that space expands and galaxies stay put? 35. What percent of the universe is not visible yet? 36. Why don't the distances between stars also 'expand' with the universe? 37. How can we still be seeing light from galaxies billions of light years away? 38. If gravity causes objects to rotate, wouldn't the universe be rotating? 39. When the universe collapses will the night sky turn bright? 40. What is the current best value for the cosmic background temperature? 41. Do you agree with the idea that the visible universe was once smaller than an atom? 42. Is the cosmological redshift real, or just an optical illusion caused by dust? 43. Could our universe be a quark in another, bigger universe? 44. Why can't we see infinitely far into space? 45. Why are galaxies colliding if the universe is expanding? 46. What would an observer outside our visible universe see if they looked in the direction of the Milky Way? 1. [Updated]Have there been many major paradigm shifts in cosmology? 2. [Updated]What existed in space before the Big Bang? 3. [Updated]Could some of the 'missing mass' in the universe be in the cosmic background radiation itself? 4. [Updated]What is on the other side of the expanding universe? 5. [Updated]Would Dark matter go away if Newton's Law of Gravity were incorrect at intergalactic distances? 6. [Updated]What does the polarization of the cosmic background tell us about the big bang? 7. How can an infinite universe have had a finite beginning in time? 8. Why doesn't the actual location of galaxies right now make any difference? 9. I was taught the universe was infinite. How can an infinite universe expand? 10. Why does it make a difference if a neutrino has a rest mass if it carries energy anyway? 11. What is a space time continuum? 12. If we see an object where it was 14 billion years ago, where is it now? 13. Could the fundamental constants in nature be changing to give us the illusion that the universe is expanding? 14. What is the cosmological redshift? 15. Why doesn't 'tired light' explain cosmological red shifts? 16. What is the formula that relates redshift to distance in cosmology? 17. What would the contraction of the universe look like? 18. What is space, itself, made of? 19. How can space have a temperature if atoms are so far apart? 20. If our universe is a balloon with galaxies on the surface, what is inside the balloon? 21. How do astronomers know that the cosmological redshift is NOT caused by a galaxy's gravitational field? 22. What is the difference between a 'metric' distance and light travel distance in the universe? 23. How could inflation have expanded the universe faster than light without violating relativity theory? 24. If energy cannot be created or destroyed, and it takes an infinite energy for the universe to expand infinitely, where did the energy come from? 25. < 26. How much expansion did the universe go through during 'Inflation'? 27. How do quasars get to be so far away unless they travel faster than light? 28. If the cosmic background is so smooth, why is matter in galaxies so clumpy? 29. What does the recent announcement of their being 5 times more galaxies than previously known, do for the missing mass problem? 30. Why is the temperature of the universe 2.7 K and not absolute zero? 31. If the universe is closed now, was it also closed before the Big Bang? 32. What does it mean for a closed, finite universe to be a part of an undefinable, mysterious embedding space that is beyond observation? 33. What is the cosmological significance of neutrinos having a small, but non-zero, mass? 34. Is there a connection between the laws of the microcosm and the structure of the universe? 35. Where does the energy to accelerate the expansion of the universe come from? 36. How close to the Milky Way were the Hubble Deep Field proto-galaxies when the Milky Way was born? 37. If the ultimate fate of our universe is so bleak, what then is its purpose? Return to Ask the Astronomer
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Public Health Statement for Toxaphene September 2010 CAS#: 8001-35-2 Toxaphene Public Health Statement PDF PDF Version, 53 KB This public health statement tells you about toxaphene and the effects of exposure to it. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies the most serious hazardous waste sites in the nation. These sites are then placed on the National Priorities List (NPL) and are targeted for long-term federal clean-up activities. Toxaphene has been found in at least 68 of the 1,699 current or former NPL sites, respectively. Although the total number of NPL sites evaluated for this substance is not known, the possibility exists that the number of sites at which toxaphene is found may increase in the future as more sites are evaluated. This information is important because these sites may be sources of exposure and exposure to this substance may be harmful. 1.1 What is toxaphene? Chlorinated camphene Manufactured insecticide Banned for all registered uses in the United States Toxaphene was banned for all registered uses by 1990. 1.2 What happens to toxaphene when it enters the environment? Movement between air, water, soil, and sediment When toxaphene is released to the environment, it can enter the air (by evaporation), the soil (by sticking to soil particles), and the water (from runoff after rains). Toxaphene does not dissolve well and evaporates easly. Toxaphene is more likely to be found in air, soil, or the sediment at the bottom of lakes and streams. Breaks down slowly Once toxaphene is in the environment, it can last for many years because it breaks down very slowly. Transported by air over long distances Toxaphene levels may be high in some predatory fish and mammals because toxaphene accumulates in fatty tissues. Even when levels are low or confined to a certain area, they could be high in individual animals. 1.3 How might I be exposed to toxaphene? Hazardous waste sites People living near a location with heavy toxaphene contamination, such as a hazardous waste site, may be exposed to higher levels through breathing contaminated air or through direct skin contact with contaminated soil or water. Eating contaminated soil Infants and toddlers, who are likely to put things in their mouth, may be exposed to toxaphene by eating contaminated soil. Eating fish, shellfish, and wild game People who eat large quantities of fish, shellfish, or wild game animals from areas contaminated by toxaphene may have higher exposure to this substance since these animals tend to concentrate toxaphene in their fatty tissues. Drinking water Individuals may be exposed to toxaphene through drinking water contaminated with toxaphene runoff from contaminated soils. 1.4 How can toxaphene enter and leave my body? Toxaphene can enter your body if you eat food contaminated with toxaphene, such as fish caught from water where toxaphene is present. Toxaphene in drinking water can similarly enter your body, although when toxaphene has been detected in drinking water, levels have been generally more than 1,000 times lower than levels measured in toxaphene-contaminated food. Toxaphene could enter your body if it were to come into contact with your skin (for example, by bathing or showering in water contaminated with the chemical) or if you were to breathe air containing toxaphene. Leave through bodily fluids Toxaphene is quickly broken down into other substances in your body. Toxaphene and its breakdown products leave your body mostly in urine and feces. Small amounts may leave through breast milk and exhaled air. 1.5 How can toxaphene affect my health? Nervous system Immune system Toxaphene temporarily damaged the liver of a man who attempted suicide by drinking a large amount of an insecticide that contained toxaphene. Liver damage was seen in laboratory studies of animals that were given toxaphene by mouth in amounts that you would not likely get by eating food or drinking water containing toxaphene. Toxaphene temporarily damaged the kidneys of a man who attempted suicide by drinking a large amount of an insecticide that contained toxaphene. Swollen kidneys were seen in a small boy who died after drinking a large amount of toxaphene. Kidney damage was seen in laboratory studies of animals that were given toxaphene by mouth in amounts that you would not likely get by eating food or drinking water containing toxaphene. Toxaphene caused liver cancer in mice and possibly thyroid cancer in rats that were given toxaphene by mouth in large amounts that you would not likely get by eating food or drinking water containing toxaphene. We do not know whether toxaphene would cause cancer in humans. However, based on animal studies, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has determined that toxaphene may reasonably be anticipated to be a carcinogen. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has determined that toxaphene is possibly carcinogenic to humans. The EPA has determined that toxaphene is a probable human carcinogen. 1.6 How can toxaphene affect children? Effects in children Developmental effects 1.7 How can families reduce the risk of exposure to toxaphene? Reduce consumption of foods and drinking water that contain toxaphene For people who live in areas where surface waters (lakes) have been contaminated with toxaphene, consumption of toxaphene-contaminated foods such as fish may need to be reduced. Also, do not drink water that has been contaminated with toxaphene. 1.8 Is there a medical test to determine whether I have been exposed to toxaphene? Can be measured in blood and urine Toxaphene and some of its breakdown products can be measured in blood and urine. However, it is not likely that you would be exposed to enough toxaphene to affect your health. Some regulations and recommendations for toxaphene include the following: Levels in drinking water set by EPA EPA established a maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 0.003 mg/L for toxaphene in drinking water. Bottled water The FDA has determined that the concentration of toxaphene in bottled drinking water should not exceed 0.003 mg/L. Levels in workplace air set by OSHA OSHA set a legal limit of 0.5 mg/m3 for toxaphene in air averaged over an 8-hour work day. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 2010. Toxicological profile for Toxaphene. (Draft for Public Comment). Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service. Where can I get more information? 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Lower Respiratory Tract Infections Return to Syllabus   General Goal: To know the major mechanisms of defense in the LRT, the major mechanisms invaders use to avoid the defenses of the LRT, and the common modes of transmission. Specific Educational Objectives: The student should be able to: 1. describe most common modes of transmission of pneumonia. 3. describe defense mechanisms the body uses to protect itself from infections. 4. the mechanisms microbes use to infect the LRT. Lecture: Dr. Neal R. Chamberlain A. Epidemiology of lower respiratory tract (LRT) or parenchymal respiratory infections. B. General Anatomy 1. As mentioned previously the respiratory tract is usually divided into three segments. 2. The alveoli are lined with two types of cells, the Type 1 and Type 2 pneumocyte. The Type 1 pneumocyte is a very large thin cell stretched over a very large area. This cell can not replicate and is susceptible to a large number of toxic insults. Type 1 pneumocytes are responsible for gas exchanges occurring in the alveoli. The Type 2 granular pneumocyte is smaller, roughly cuboidal cell that is usually found at the alveolar septal junctions. This cell is responsible for the production and secretion of surfactant. The Type 2 pneumocyte can replicate in the alveoli and will replicate to replace damaged Type 1 pneumocytes. C. Mechanisms of defense. 1. Particles from 2 um to 0.2 um can go all the way down inside the alveoli avoiding the defenses of the upper respiratory tract and the mucociliary elevator. (Note: Most bacteria and all viruses are 2 mm and smaller.) 2. The following defense mechanisms in the alveoli protect the parenchymal cells from invasion by microorganisms. 3. Once a microorganism arrives in the alveoli it can be opsonized by IgG in the fluid lining the alveoli. These organisms will then be ingested by the macrophage. If no specific antibody to the organism is present then the macrophage may still be able to phagocytize the invader however, at a slower rate. Once the microorganism is phagocytized the macrophage will destroy the organism, if it can, and present microbial antigens on the surface to awaiting B and T cells. Once activated the B and T cells can produce more antibody and/or activate the macrophage. Meanwhile the macrophage is also releasing factors that help bring in polymorphoneutrophils (PMN) from the blood stream and initiate an inflammatory response. Along with the PMNs come more antibodies and complement components useful in destroying the invader. The invaders can also at this time leave the lung and get into the general circulation. This is probably why systemic signs of infection (fever, malaise, myalgia, etc.) occur in pneumonia. D. Mechanisms invaders use to avoid the normal defense mechanisms of the lung. 1. To kill the microorganism in the alveoli it must be phagocytized by the alveolar macrophage. If these microbes can avoid phagocytosis or survive once phagocytized they can survive in the lung. Microorganisms have developed a number of ways to avoid phagocytosis. Once phagocytized certain organisms can survive in the phagocyte. 2. Mechanisms used to avoid phagocytosis. 3. Mechanisms used to survive in the phagocyte. E. Modes of transmission 1. Inhalation of small airborne infectious particles (airborne transmission). Most microorganisms that cause pneumonia are able to survive on airborne droplets. These droplets can float in the air for quite a long time and if still infectious can sometimes cause pneumonia. 2. Aspiration of resident naso-oropharyngeal flora or large airborne particles after deposition in the naso-oropharynx (aspiration pneumonia). Usually aspiration of material into the lungs occurs during sleep. Certain people aspirate more than others during sleep and as a result have more problems with LRT infections. Other groups of people bothered by aspiration related LRT infections are alcohol abusers, drug abusers, and comatose patients. 3. Hematogenous spread to the lung from another site of infection. People with endocarditis, septic pelvic or jugular thrombophlebitis may also experience LRT infections. Pneumonia acquired by hematogenous spread to the lungs often times is bilateral and uniform. Pneumonia transmitted by bronchogenic infection (inhalation, aspiration) are usually unilateral and tend to localize in the lung. 4. Direct extension from a contiguous site of infection. Entamoeba histolytica can cause pneumonia by direct extension from an amebic abscess in the liver. Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Viruses can spread from the upper respiratory tract to the LRT via infection of the respiratory epithelium. 5. Exogenous penetration and contamination of the lung can occur due to accidental trauma (car accident) or surgery. Inhalation and aspiration are the two most common means of acquiring an infectious pneumonia. F. Pathogenesis of Pneumonia 1. A microorganism enters the alveoli and proceeds to grow in the rich environment provided by the lung. Oftentimes the organism contains a capsule or is intracellular and can avoid phagocytosis for a period of time. As a result of tissue injury an inflammatory response occurs. Tissue injury can occur due to exotoxins produced by a bacteria, cell lysis caused by a virus, or death of alveolar macrophages and dumping of their lysosomal contents in the alveoli due to growth of an organism in the phagocyte. Vascular permeability increases and PMNs arrive at the area attempting to contain and eliminate the organisms. Along with PMNs come many of the serum components. Meanwhile other alveolar macrophages are being recruited to the area of inflammation. This accumulation of microorganism, immune cells, and serum components causes the alveoli to fill up and can result in spread to other alveoli in close proximity. This inflammatory response is what is described as an opacity or consolidation when viewing a roentgenograph (a X-ray film). Not only are serum components coming into the alveoli but certain products made by the microorganism are able to leave the lung and exert systemic effects. Examples include endotoxin from gram negative bacteria eventually resulting in fever and septic shock, and cell wall components of gram positive bacteria that can eventually lead to fever production and septic shock. All of the microbial products producing or indirectly resulting in systemic changes have yet to be clearly determined. 2. The deleterious effects on the host fall into two categories: G. Enumeration of organisms capable of causing pneumonia Bacteria  Viruses Streptococcus pneumoniae Influenza Streptococcus pyogenes (Grp A) Parainfluenza  Streptococcus agalactiae (Grp B) Cytomegalovirus Staphylococcus aureus Adenovirus Bacillus anthracis Epstein-Barr Virus Other Bacillus sp. Herpes Simplex Virus  Nocardia sp.  Varicella-Zoster Enterobacteriaceae Coxsackievirus Pseudomonas aeruginosa Measles Acinetobacter sp. Rhinovirus Burkholderia pseudomallei Respiratory Syncytial Virus Burkholderia mallei Fungi Yersinia pestis Aspergillus sp. Francisella tularensis Mucorales sp Hemophilus influenzae  Candida sp. Bordetella pertussis Histoplasma capsulatum Neisseria meningitidis Blastomyces dermatitidis Legionella pneumophila Cryptococcus neoformans Legionella-like bacteria  Coccidioides immitis Bacteroides melaninogenicus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis Fusobacterium nucleatum Pneumocystis carinii Peptostreptococcus sp.  Parasites-Protozoa Peptococcus sp. Plasmodium falciparum  Actinomyces sp. Entamoeba histolytica Mycobacterium tuberculosis Toxoplasma gondii Other Mycobacterium sp.  Leishmania donovani Mycoplasma pneumoniae  Parasites-Nematodes Branhamella catarrhalis Ascaris lumbricoides Chlamydia trachomatis Toxocara sp. Chlamydia psittaci Ancyclostoma duodenale Chlamydia pneumoniae Parasites-Cestodes  Coxiella burnetii (Q-fever)  Echinococcus granulosus H. Complications of Pneumonia- Basically there are two types of complications Send comments and email to Dr. Neal R. Chamberlain,  [email protected] Revised 8/5/02
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From [email protected] Tue Oct 17 20:48:54 2000 From: Kevin Beyer To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:42:47 -0700 Reply-To: Subject: [BUGTRAQ] [TL-Security-Announce] traceroute TLSA2000023-1 ___________________________________________________________________________ TurboLinux Security Announcement Package: traceroute-1.4a5 and earlier Date: Tuesday October 17 11:30 PDT 2000 Affected TurboLinux versions: 6.0.5 and earlier TurboLinux Advisory ID#: TLSA2000023-1 ___________________________________________________________________________ A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above. Please update the package in your installation as soon as possible. ___________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Summary There is a bug in the traceroute command that can possibly be use by local users to obtain super user privilege. It is suggested to upgrade your traceroute to the version provided. 2. Impact Possibility for regular user gaining root access on a machine. 3. Solution Update the package from our ftp server by running the following command: rpm -Uvh --nodeps --Force ftp_path_to_filename Where ftp_path_to_filename is the following: The source RPM can be downloaded here: **Note: You must rebuild and install the RPM if you choose to download and install the SRPM. Simply installing the SRPM alone WILL NOT CLOSE THE SECURITY HOLE. Please verify the MD5 checksums of the updates before you install: MD5 sum Package Name --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1cf930da2a35d76ed3a9f76040a8a925 traceroute-1.4a7-2.i386.rpm 71f10681bdb18840b8432ab890ff4280 traceroute-1.4a7-2.src.rpm ___________________________________________________________________________ These packages are GPG signed by Turbolinux for security. Our key is available here: To verify a package, use the following command: rpm --checksig name_of_rpm To examine only the md5sum, use the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg name_of_rpm **Note: Checking GPG keys requires RPM 3.0 or higher. ___________________________________________________________________________ You can find more updates on our ftp server: for TL6.0 Workstation and Server security updates for TL4.0 Workstation and Server security updates Our webpage for security announcements: If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact: ___________________________________________________________________________ Subscribe to the TurboLinux Security Mailing lists: TL-security - A moderated list for discussing security issues in TurboLinux products. Subscribe at TL-security-announce - An announce-only mailing list for security updates and alerts. Subscribe at [Part 2, Application/PGP-SIGNATURE 240bytes] [Unable to print this part]
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Hello, guest. Log In or Return to Forum   View Topic « Prev    Next » Re: When did it change? Posted by anymouse 4/29/2009  10:11:00 AM "I attended the 1st hustle ( latin ) convention in the U.S.( all teachers ) in the mid seventies -- its basic was premised on WCS... BUT.. with a different time sequence..and, it was ( and still is in some locales ) being taught until the late 80s." You have to be very careful to read between the lines of something like this to see the range of possible true meanings. For example "it's basic was premised on WCS" could mean literally that. Or it could mean that people who were already dance teachers described to each other this new thing invented in the clubs by using the context of what they already knew as a teaching community, and said to each other "well, it's kind of a like a WCS ... except that ..." Copyright © 1997-2014 BallroomDancers.com
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The Harvard Classics.  1909–14. Act IV Scene I   LOV.  ’Tis well; give me my cloak; I now discharge you From further service. Mind your own affairs; I hope they will prove successful.   ALL.        What is blest        4 With your good wish, my lord, cannot but prosper. Let aftertimes report, and to your honour, How much I stand engag’d, for I want language To speak my debt; yet if a tear or two        8 Of joy, for your much goodness, can supply My tongue’s defects, I could——   LOV.        Nay, do not melt: This ceremonial thanks to me’s superfluous.        12   OVER.  (within.) Is my lord stirring?   LOV.  ’Tis he! oh, here’s your letter. Let him in.   OVER.  A good day to my lord!   LOV.        You are an early riser,        16 Sir Giles.   OVER.  And reason, to attend your lordship.   LOV.  And you, too, Master Greedy, up so soon!   GREEDY.  In troth, my lord, after the sun is up,        20 I cannot sleep, for I have a foolish stomach That croaks for breakfast. With your lordship’s favour, I have a serious question to demand Of my worthy friend Sir Giles.        24   LOV.        Pray you use your pleasure.   GREEDY.  How far, Sir Giles, and pray you answer me Upon your credit, hold you it to be From your manor-house, to this of my Lady’s Allworth’s?        28   OVER.  Why, some four mile.   GREEDY.        How! four mile, good Sir Giles—— Upon your reputation, think better; For if you do abate but one half-quarter        32 Of five, you do yourself the greatest wrong That can be in the world; for four miles riding Could not have rais’d so huge an appetite As I feel gnawing on me.        36   MAR.        Whether you ride, Or go afoot, you are that way still provided, An it please your worship.   OVER.        How now, sirrah? Prating        40 Before my lord! No difference! Go to my nephew, See all his debts discharg’d, and help his worship To fit on his rich suit.   MAR.        [Aside.]  I may fit you too.        44 Toss’d like a dog still!  Exit.   LOV.        I have writ this morning A few lines to my mistress, your fair daughter.   OVER.  ’Twill fire her, for she’s wholly yours already.—        48 Sweet Master Allworth, take my ring; ’twill carry you To her presence, I dare warrant you; and there plead For my good lord, if you shall find occasion. That done, pray ride to Nottingham, get a licence,        52 Still by this token. I’ll have it dispatch’d, And suddenly, my lord, that I may say, My honourable, nay, right honourable daughter.   GREEDY.  Take my advice, young gentleman, get your breakfast;        56 ’Tis unwholesome to ride fasting. I’ll eat with you, And eat to purpose.   OVER.        Some Fury’s in that gut: Hungry again! Did you not devour, this morning,        60 A shield of brawn, and a barrel of Colchester oysters?   GREEDY.  Why, that was, sir, only to scour my stomach, A kind of a preparative. Come, gentleman, I will not have you feed like the hangman of Flushing,        64 Alone, while I am here.   LOV.        Haste your return.   ALL.  I will not fail, my lord.   GREEDY.        Nor I, to line        68 My Christmas coffer.  Exeunt GREEDY and ALLWORTH.   OVER.        To my wish: we are private. I come not to make offer with my daughter A certain portion,—that were poor and trivial:        72 In one word, I pronounce all that is mine, In lands or leases, ready coin or goods, One motive to induce you to believe        76 I live too long, since every year I’ll add Something unto the heap, which shall be yours too.   LOV.  You are a right kind father.   OVER.        You shall have reason        80 To think me such. How do you like this seat? It is well wooded, and well water’d, the acres Fertile and rich; would it not serve for change, To entertain your friends in a summer progress?        84 What thinks my noble lord?   LOV.        ’Tis a wholesome air, And well-built pile; and she that’s mistress of it, Worthy the large revenue.        88   OVER.        She the mistress! It may be so for a time: but let my lord Say only that he likes it, and would have it I say, ere long ’tis his.        92   LOV.        Impossible.   OVER.  You do conclude too fast, not knowing me, Nor the engines 2 that I work by. ’Tis not alone The Lady Allworth’s lands, for those once Wellborn’s        96 (As by her dotage on him I know they will be,) Shall soon be mine; but point out any man’s In all the shire, and say they lie convenient And useful for your lordship, and once more        100 I say aloud, they are yours.   LOV.        I dare not own What’s by unjust and cruel means extorted; My fame and credit are more dear to me,        104 Than so to expose them to be censur’d by The public voice.   OVER.        You run, my lord, no hazard. Your reputation shall stand as fair,        108 In all good men’s opinions, as now; Nor can my actions, though condemn’d for ill, Cast any foul aspersion upon yours. For, though I do contemn report myself        112 As a mere sound, I still will be so tender Of what concerns you, in all points of honour, That the immaculate whiteness of your fame, Nor your unquestioned integrity,        116 Shall e’er be sullied with one taint or spot That may take from your innocence and candour. 3 All my ambition is to have my daughter Right honourable, which my lord can make her:        120 And might I live to dance upon my knee A young Lord Lovell, born by her unto you, I write nil ultra 4 to my proudest hopes. As for possessions and annual rents,        124 Equivalent to maintain you in the port Your noble birth and present state requires, I do remove that burthen from your shoulders, And take it on mine own: for, though I ruin        128 The country to supply your riotous waste, The scourge of prodigals, want, shall never find you.   LOV.  Are you not frighted with the imprecations And curses of whole families, made wretched        132 By your sinister practices?   OVER.        Yes, as rocks are, When foamy billows split themselves against Their flinty ribs; or as the moon is mov’d,        136 When wolves, with hunger pin’d, howl at her brightness. I am of a solid temper, and, like these, Steer on a constant course. With mine own sword, If called into the field, I can make that right,        140 Which fearful enemies murmur’d at as wrong. Now, for these other piddling complaints Breath’d out in bitterness; as when they call me Extortioner, tyrant, cormorant, or intruder        144 On my poor neighbour’s right, or grand incloser Of what was common, to my private use; Nay, when my ears are pierc’d with widows’ cries. And undone orphans wash with tears my threshold,        148 I only think what ’tis to have my daughter Right honourable; and ’tis a powerful charm Makes me insensible of remorse, or pity, Or the least sting of conscience.        152   LOV.        I admire The toughness of your nature.   OVER.        ’Tis for you, My lord, and for my daughter, I am marble;        156 Nay more, if you will have my character In little, I enjoy more true delight In my arrival to my wealth these dark And crooked ways, than you shall e’er take pleasure        160 In spending what my industry hath compass’d. My haste commands me hence; in one word, therefore, Is it a match?   LOV.        I hope, that is past doubt now.        164   OVER.  Then rest secure; not the hate of all mankind here, Nor fear of what can fall on me hereafter, Shall make me study aught but your advancement One story higher: an earl! if gold can do it.        168 Dispute not my religion, nor my faith; Though I am borne thus headlong by my will, You may make choice of what belief you please, To me they are equal; so, my lord, good morrow.  Exit.        172   LOV.  He’s gone—I wonder how the earth can bear Such a portent! I, that have liv’d a soldier, And stood the enemy’s violent charge undaunted, To hear this blasphemous beast am bath’d all over        176 In a cold sweat: yet, like a mountain, he (Confirm’d in atheistical assertions) Is no more shaken than Olympus 5 is When angry Boreas loads his double head        180 With sudden drifts of snow. Enter LADY ALLWORTH, Waiting Woman, and AMBLE   L. ALL.        Save you, my lord! Disturb I not your privacy?   LOV.        No, good madam;        184 For your own sake I am glad you came no sooner, Since this bold bad man, Sir Giles Overreach, Made such a plain discovery of himself, And read this morning such a devilish matins,        188 That I should think it a sin next to his But to repeat it.   L. ALL.        I ne’er press’d my lord, On others’ privacies; yet, against my will,        192 Walking, for health’ sake, in the gallery Adjoining to your lodgings, I was made (So vehement and loud he was) partaker Of his tempting offers.        196   LOV.        Please you to command Your servants hence, and I shall gladly hear Your wiser counsel.   L. ALL.        ’Tis, my lord, a woman’s,        200 But true and hearty;—wait in the next room, But be within call; yet not so near to force me To whisper my intents.   AMB.        We are taught better        204 By you, good madam.   W. WOM.        And well know our distance.   L. ALL.  Do so, and talk not; ’twill become your breeding.  Exeunt AMBLE and WOMAN. Now, my good lord; if I may use my freedom,        208 As to an honour’d friend——   LOV.        You lessen else Your favour to me.   L. ALL.        I dare then say thus:        212 As you are noble (howe’er common men Make sordid wealth the object and sole end Of their industrious aims) ’twill not agree With those of eminent blood, who are engag’d        216 More to prefer 6 their honours than to increase The state left to them by their ancestors, To study large additions to their fortunes, And quite neglect their births:—though I must grant,        220 Riches, well got, to be a useful servant, But a bad master.   LOV.        Madam, ’tis confessed; But what infer you from it?        224   L. ALL.        This, my lord; That as all wrongs, though thrust into one scale, Slide of themselves off when right fills the other And cannot bide the trial; so all wealth,        228 I mean if ill-acquir’d, cemented to honour By virtuous ways achiev’d, and bravely purchas’d, Is but as rubbish pour’d into a river, (Howe’er intended to make good the bank,)        232 Rendering the water, that was pure before, Polluted and unwholesome. I allow The heir of Sir Giles Overreach, Margaret, A maid well qualified and the richest match        236 Our north part can make boast of; yet she cannot, With all that she brings with her, fill their mouths, That never will forget who was her father; Or that my husband Allworth’s lands, and Wellborn’s,        240 (How wrung from both needs now no repetition,) Were real motives that more work’d your lordship To join your families, than her form and virtues: You may conceive the rest.        244   LOV.        I do, sweet madam, And long since have consider’d it. I know, The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife:        248 And there, well to discharge it, does require Equality of years, of birth, of fortune; For beauty being poor, and not cried up By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither.        252 And wealth, where there such difference in years, And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy:— But I come nearer.   L. ALL.        Pray you do, my lord.        256   LOV.  Were Overreach’s states thrice centupl’d, his daughter Millions of degrees much fairer than she is, Howe’er I might urge precedents to excuse me, I would not so adulterate my blood        260 By marrying Margaret, and so leave my issue Made up of several pieces, one part scarlet, And the other London blue. In my own tomb I will inter my name first.        264   L. ALL.        Aside.  I am glad to hear this.—— Why then, my lord, pretend your marriage to her? Dissimulation but ties false knots On that straight line by which you, hitherto,        268 Have measur’d all your actions.   LOV.        I make answer, And aptly, with a question. Wherefore have you, That, since your husband’s death, have liv’d a strict        272 And chaste nun’s life, on the sudden given yourself To visits and entertainments? Think you, madam, ’Tis not grown public conference? 7 Or the favours Which you too prodigally have thrown on Wellborn        276 Being too reserv’d before, incur not censure?   L. ALL.  I am innocent here; and, on my life, I swear My ends are good.   LOV.        On my soul, so are mine        280 To Margaret; but leave both to the event: And since this friendly privacy does serve But as an offer’d means unto ourselves, To search each other farther, you having shewn        284 Your care of me, I my respect to you, Deny me not, but still in chaste words, madam, An afternoon’s discourse.   L. ALL.        So I shall hear you.  [Exeunt.]        288 Note 1. A room in Lady All worth’s house. [back] Note 2. Devices. [back] Note 3. Stainlessness. [back] Note 4. Nothing beyond. [back] Note 5. Apparently a slip for “Parnassus.” [back] Note 6. Promote. [back] Note 7. Gossip. [back] Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
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What Paul solemnly affirms is how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. The verb translated yearn (epipotheō) means “to have a strong desire for someth[ing], with implication of need.”1 Paul regularly uses this verb to describe an intense desire for fellow believers (Romans 1:11; 2 Corinthians 9:14; 1 Thessalonians 3:6; 2 Timothy 1:4), and will do so later in the letter to describe Epaphroditus’s longing for the Philippians while he was with Paul (Philippians 2:26). In the LXX of the Psalms it expresses a longing for God (Psalms 42:1 [2x]), his courts (Psalms 84:2), his word (Psalms 119:20, Psalms 119:131) and his salvation (Psalms 119:174).2 Paul uses this strong term to indicate the depth of his longing to be with the Philippians and experience in person their fellowship in the gospel. And again he emphasizes that he longs for all of them, not merely some. He yearns for them with the affection of Christ Jesus. The word rendered affections (splanchnon) in the first sense refers to one’s inward parts such as the kidneys or intestines, but came by extension to refer to a person’s seat of emotions or a feeling itself.3 It “concerns and expresses the total personality at the deepest level.”4 This usage is similar to the way that we might speak of the heart; when we say someone feels sorrow in his heart, we do not mean sorrow in the physical organ that pumps blood throughout the body. Paul always uses this word in connection with fellow believers, including later in Philippians 2:1. In the Gospels the related verb splanchnizomai repeatedly describes Jesus’ compassion for people (Matthew 9:36; Matthew 14:14; Matthew 15:32; Matthew 20:34; Mark 1:41; Mark 6:34; Mark 8:2; Luke 7:13; Luke 10:33). This observation is interesting in light of Paul describing his affection as being of Christ Jesus. While there are a number of different ways this expression could be understood, it most likely means “the affection that comes from Christ Jesus.”5 Paul longs for the Philippians with a deep-seated affection that comes from Jesus Christ himself as they experience fellowship in the gospel.6 As believers we experience the very same affection that Jesus Christ showed those he encountered, because Christ lives in us to experience and express that affection for others.7 “Paul’s deeply emotional expression of Christian affection in this verse is not primarily the sign of a gushing temperament, but of a gushing Christology!”8 1. BDAG. 3. See BDAG; EDNT. 4. TDNT 7:555. 8. Bockmuehl, Philippians, 65.
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1 Samuel 12:14 1 Samuel 12:14 &c.] All worship and service of God, and obedience to his word and ordinances, should spring from fear and reverence of him; and therefore the whole of worship, both external and internal, is sometimes expressed by the fear of the Lord: and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord; break it, and thereby exasperate him, and provoke him to wrath and bitterness: continue following the Lord your God; the Targum is, ``after the worship of the Lord your God;'' which was their duty to do, and is expressed in the preceding clauses; and this therefore is rather a promise of some benefit and privilege to their duty, and to encourage them to it, since it stands opposed to the threatening of punishment in the next verse; and the words in the original are, "then shall ye &c. be after the Lord your God" F12: that is, though they had in effect rejected the Lord from being their King, by asking and having one; yet notwithstanding, if they and their king were obedient to the commands of the Lord, he would not cast them off; but they should follow him as their guide, leader, and director, and he would protect and defend them as a shepherd does his sheep that follow after him; so Jarchi takes it to be a promise of long life and happiness to them and their king, ``ye shall be established to length of days, both ye and the king.'' F12 (hwhy rxa-Mtyyh) "eritis post Dominum", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Piscator. Read 1 Samuel 12:14
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Mark 3 (Third Millennium Bible) View In My Bible 1 And He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had a withered hand. 2 And they watched Him to see whether He would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse Him. 3 And He said unto the man who had the withered hand, "Stand forth." 4 And He said unto them, "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days, or to do evil? To save life, or to kill?" But they held their peace. 5 And when He had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved by the hardness of their hearts, He said unto the man, "Stretch forth thine hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored whole as the other. 6 And the Pharisees went forth and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him. 7 But Jesus withdrew Himself with His disciples to the sea. And a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, and from Judea, 8 and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond the Jordan. And those from around Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things He did, came unto Him. 9 And He spoke to His disciples that a small boat should await Him because of the multitude, lest they should throng Him. 10 For He had healed many, insomuch that they pressed upon Him to touch Him, as many as had plagues. 11 And unclean spirits, when they saw Him, fell down before Him and cried, saying, "Thou art the Son of God!" 12 And He strictly charged them that they should not make Him known. 13 And He went up onto a mountain, and called unto Him whom He would have, and they came unto Him. 14 And He ordained twelve, that they should be with Him, and that He might send them forth to preach, 15 and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out devils: 16 Simon (He surnamed Peter); 17 and James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James (and He surnamed them Boanerges, which means The Sons of Thunder); 18 and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thadaeus, and Simon the Canaanite, 19 and Judas Iscariot who also betrayed Him. And they went into a house; 20 and the multitude came together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. 21 And when His friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on Him; for they said, "He is beside himself." 22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, "He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casteth out devils." 23 And He called them unto Him, and said unto them in parables, "How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan rise up against himself and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. 27 No man can enter into a strong man's house and despoil his goods, unless he will first bind the strong man; and then he will despoil his house. 28 "Verily I say unto you, all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men and blasphemies, however they shall blaspheme; 29 but he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation"; 30 because they said, "He hath an unclean spirit." 31 There came then His brethren and His mother, and standing outside they sent unto Him, calling Him. 32 And the multitude sat about Him, and they said unto Him, "Behold, thy mother and thy brethren outside seek for thee." 33 And He answered them, saying, "Who is My mother, or My brethren?" 34 And He looked round about on those who sat about Him and said, "Behold, My mother and My brethren. 35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is My brother, and My sister, and mother." Link Options More Options
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[Back to review index] BibleWorks 5 Software Review by James T. Dennison, Jr. Kerux: The Journal of Northwest Theological Seminary 17/1 (2002): 71-73., May 2002. This is the current version of arguably the premier digital Bible on the market. For years, scholars have touted the Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament packaged in BibleWorks by Hermeneutika. Not only is the famous morphologically tagged Westminster Hebrew text available, it stands beside the UBS 4th Edition/ Nestle-Aland 27th Edition of the Greek text (for the LXX, BibleWorks loads the Rahlf's version). Though computerized versions of the original languages of Scripture are the ultimate motivation for the scholar, pastor, student, the digitalized Hebrew and Greek are only the beginning of the treasures in this program. English versions abound (KJV, RSV, NASB, NIV-23 in all), but French, Spanish, German, Latin-even a Vietnamese-editions are present. More than the text of the Bible are works on the Bible. Our compilers have included the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia/ISBE (1915 ed. with articles by B. B. Warfield and Geerhardus Vos), Nave's Topical Index, A. T. Robertson's New Testament Word Pictures and much more. And there are lexicons! Hebrew-Brown-Driver-Briggs (unabridged); Koehler-Baumgartner (coming hopefully later this year); Greek-Thayer (unabridged); Liddell and Scott (abridged); Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich-Danker (3rd ed., add on price of $85); Louw and Nida (semantic domains) and Friberg (analytical). None of the versions, lexicons or reference tools is "locked", i.e., requires additional fees or passwords for use. The entire program (90 Bible versions in 28 languages; 9 versions of original Greek or Hebrew texts; 7 morphological databases; 5 Greek and 3 Hebrew lexicons; 8 reference tools) is priced at $299.95 (upgrades from previous versions are $150). Meanwhile, the publisher is seeking permission to include "little Kittel" (the abridged Theological Dictionary of the New Testament), Holladay (Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon), Balz (Theological Dictionary of the New Testament) as well as introductory Greek and Hebrew grammars. There are "three levels of use" in this new edition: beginner, standard, power user. Use of the program in beginner mode is intuitive and straightforward. The advanced features will require some time (and study). The program comes with nearly four hours of videos (loaded on your computer during installation) which provide step-by-step details for building complex searches. In addition to the videos, the 387-page manual is thorough, superbly illustrated and well indexed. BibleWorks 5.0 requires an IBM compatible PC running Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. 32 MB of RAM and a minimum of 200 MB of hard drive space are necessary. A CD drive will be needed to load the program and a sound card is essential for the videos. (NB: Loading the two CDs on my computer took less than 10 minutes!) Users may register their copy via the Internet and receive information on future updates as well as pertinent tips and news releases. There are other digital Bibles and scholars packages on the market. Bible Works 5.0 does not have as many peripheral texts (for which extra dollars must be ponied up to "unlock" restricted features), but it has all the texts the Old and New Testament scholar/user needs, plus the essential tools for penetrating those texts. This is a superb product at a reasonable price with prospects for continued expansion. That all translates to a bargain! Every church budget ought to include $299.95 for this powerful tool. Their pastors will rise up and call them "blessed"! James T. Dennison, Jr. is Professor of Church History and Academic Dean at Northwest Theological Seminary and editor of Kerux, the Journal of Northwest Theological Seminary. [Back to review index] BibleWorks News Want to review BibleWorks on your website? Want to write a review for your website or blog?   Click here...