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Typically I have been using xml web services and have used JAXB for marshalling/unmarshalling the xml. In this case, I have an xml schema for generating the classes and then at runtime I simply deal with java objects and not with xml since that unmarshalling is done under the covers for me.
What sort of libraries exist for doing something similar in json? I have to make an http Get call that returns a list of json objects and I am not sure what my java client should look like. What are the best practices here?
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String url = "www.abc.com/products/1"; // 1 = product number
DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(url);
request.addHeader("User-Agent", USER_AGENT);
new UsernamePasswordCredentials("username", "password"), "UTF-8", false));
HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
data = new String(rd.readLine());
Now you have to creae object of JSon library to parse the data or fetch particular data.
try {
obj = new JSONObject(data);
System.out.println("Final Data" + data);
String category = obj.getString("product");
System.out.println("category " + category);
} catch (JSONException ex) {
Use org.codehaus.jettison.json library to deal with json data.
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There are a lot of Java libraries out there that parse JSON. The simplest one to use is the one by org.json. For a list of various JSON parsing libraries take a look at (http://json.org)
If you have used JAXB to marshall / unmarshall value objects (POJO's) then you can also take a look at Jackson which uses JAXB annotations to determine what your POJO's representation in JSON should look like. (http://jackson.codehaus.org/)
Essentially you would need to make a HTTP GET request for your JSON, parse the request using a JSON parser and convert them into a convenient representation in Java. You can use the Apache Commons HttpClient libraries and JSON parsers in conjunction.
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If you need to create both RESTful service and its client, then I would prefer rest4j. You can describe your RESTful service using XML and implement your service as it was a plain Spring bean. You can then also generate documentation and java/python/php/c# client libraries. Marshaling and unmarshalling is done under the hood.
And there is a way to flexibly map your internal Java objects into external JSON representation, like renaming a property, exporting only a subset of properties etc.
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I have opened a large web project on elance for a social network. I got over 30 bids on my project and many of the providers recommended php even though they had .net knowledge. many have said that php with drupal has many advanteges over the .NET framework but did not say what they were. Its hard to believe that a scripting language has advantages over a compiled language. Am I missing something here.
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closed as not constructive by ceejayoz, Brad F Jacobs, Henk Holterman, NikiC, Wrikken Oct 21 '10 at 16:31
Should be a community wiki. There is no definitive or correct answer to this... – KP. Oct 21 '10 at 15:53
Scripting vs compiled: stackoverflow.com/questions/2966150/… – webbiedave Oct 21 '10 at 15:59
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PHP will run on essentially any server, for free. That's a fairly compelling feature for many folks.
There are lots of pros and cons of both, and it certainly doesn't boil down to scripting vs. compiled (incidentally, opcode caches like APC and things like Facebook's HipHop even the score on that point).
I'd say if someone's recommending PHP over ASP.NET, they code primarily in PHP. If they're recommending ASP.NET over PHP, they code primarily in ASP.NET. There's probably not much more to it than that in the responses you're getting.
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Agreed. If they want PHP, it's probably because either that's what they're used to supporting, or because they don't want to shell out for .NET servers and MSSQL licenses. It shouldn't really matter from an end-product standpoint which you use, I doubt there's anything that's doable in one that would be completely impossible in the other. – Brad Westness Oct 21 '10 at 16:03
I chose PHP because, for the long-term, I don't trust the longevity or proprietary nature of Microsoft products. – Alex W Jan 2 '14 at 22:46
Ugg, the weekly PHP vs ASP/.net argument. Let me frame it this way:
1. Both work. Well, actually.
2. Neither is really more "enterprise grade" than the other.
3. .Net developers (at least in my area) tend to make more. That being said, the Government "drank the microsoft Koolaid" and most jobs in my area are for government contractors. It may be different where you are.
4. PHP really doesn't have a great GUI yet. Not an issue to those of us who are command-line types, but it could be for you.
5. .net solutions tend to be relatively unified since Microsoft is driving the bus. There's about a million different ways to skin a cat in the PHP world because it is relatively fractured.
6. In my experience, PHP tends to be better documented with many more how-to's online. If you disagree, you might be a writer for Microsoft's tech net, which is written partially in some alien/geek mashup dialect of English.
7. MANY php how-tos and forums are frequented by non-native English speakers, and entire projects can be frustratingly impossible to understand because of the language barrier. It seems that Europe has picked up PHP at a higher rate than those of us in the States.
I was indirectly involved in a Microsoft Case Study that I think illustrates the difference. I worked at one Olympic non-profit on a php-based site. They opted to standardize on Microsoft and move to an entirely .net/sqlserver based. I moved over to another nearly identical non-profit (just a different sport) who was embarking on an in-house build of a PHP-based website with nearly identical functionality to the one I left.. The .net website, when completed, cost $1.5 million, involved 16 servers, and required 3 additional full-time staff hires to extend and maintain. The same level of service, programmed in-house by 3 guys on PHP in a shorter amount of time ran on 3 servers (two application, one MySQL DB) and cost about $25k when all was said and done. Microsoft published the .net solution as an official Microsoft Case Study success. You be the judge....when you compare the solutions, I'm not sure they're even. Both serve nearly identical traffic and process very similar amounts of money. I know where my time and money would go.
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One cannot compare two projects like that. In virtually all cases, two identical projects can cost vastly different amounts of money depending on management style, programmer proficiencies, and budget available. If you have 1.5 million to spend, they will spend 1.5 million. If they have .5 million to spend, they will spend that too. – Erik Funkenbusch Oct 21 '10 at 16:44
Well, I agree to an extent....people will spend what they feel comfortable. And I do think there was an element of ripoff by the Microsoft consultants. However, that $1.5 million had to cover servers, licensing, extra bodies, etc AND took more time. That in my book is the fail. The fact that Microsoft validated it with the published case study tells me that they thought the 1.5 million solution was the best possible scenario. For same traffic, same functionality, same e-commerce, same reliability, I don't think it's even a contest. And that's scary! – bpeterson76 Oct 21 '10 at 17:06
@bpeterson76 You can't compare like that. And if you included the licenses that's wrong too, .NET doesn't force you at all to use SQL Server (or even Windows!). So you made a lot of choices there that are not related to .NET. If they decided to use 16 servers instead of 3, SQL Server instead of MySQL and other paid tools instead of the free ones, that should be out of the equation. – Diego Jancic Dec 15 '14 at 13:28
Diego, I never said you had to use any particular servers, nor did I make a definitive statement as to which was better, which is important for this context....all I was illustrating is that two nearly identical projects accomplished their goals in two very different ways, and the Microsoft way (which was both consulted on by Microsoft and touted in their press releases as a great success) was clearly over-engineered and prohibitively expensive. The primary reason for that expense was licensing, hardware "horsepower" requirements, and overpriced consultants. – bpeterson76 Dec 15 '14 at 16:25
I tend to prefer c# development to php development, but both are perfectly valid choices.
One of the main advantages php has over asp.net is just the volume of ready made components, controls, libraries, and frameworks out there that are available for use.
It is entirely possible that your project could be assembled in php much faster than in asp.net if the right tools are available.
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The most significant advantage of PHP might be that it is free and you can start developing it without having to install too many things. (Apache, PHP and an editor)
After working with the Prado framework for a while, I don't see any big differences with it anymore.
OF Course : Visual Studio makes developing and debugging ASP.NET apps a dream.
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It doesn't really matter if you choose PHP or ASP.Net, both can deliver, both have a solid base, both are proven technologies. PHP is a mite cheaper, but ASP.Net is getting there.
Unless you're going to maintain the app for a long time ASP.Net's superior OOP capabilities aren't going to offer you much advantage. But if you've got a non-trival app then the multi-layered ASP.Net approach might be helpful.
Just get the coder you're most comfortable with.
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I would choose ASP.NET mainly because of Visual Studios, makes programming a lot easier.
I would choose PHP mainly because of variety of frameworks, such as CodeIgniter.
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How can i set the value for the attribute layout_weight for button in android dynamically from java code ?
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It'll be very similar to this question/answer: stackoverflow.com/questions/4638832/… and this one: stackoverflow.com/questions/4637233/… – Qberticus Jan 9 '11 at 19:07
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You can pass it in as part of the LinearLayout.LayoutParams constructor:
LinearLayout.LayoutParams param = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, 1.0f);
The last parameter is the weight.
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It should be param = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, (float) 1.0); – Mithun Sep 1 '11 at 12:55
If you don't want to cast from a double to a float just put 1.0f – Xample Jun 21 '12 at 14:58
Or even simpler put 1f if there are no decimal places – sandalone Aug 27 '13 at 18:48
what to do if parent layout is Relative – Pratik Butani May 13 '14 at 6:54
@pratik if parent layout is relative you don't use weights – invertigo Oct 20 '14 at 16:01
Use LinearLayout.LayoutParams:
LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(
LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);
params.weight = 1.0f;
Button button = new Button(this);
EDIT: Ah, Erich's answer is easier!
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Erich's anser may be easier to write, but yours is easier to read. Since it says which attribute the 1.0f is used for. – Johan Apr 2 '12 at 13:28
yours established that you can modify weight on the fly by calling 'view.getLayoutParams()' then modify the value. – RobGThai Apr 23 '13 at 7:58
FILL_PARENT has been deprecated and MATCH_PARENT should be used instead. – Simon André Forsberg Nov 1 '13 at 21:45
@LocalPCGuy Not true. As long as you're targeting SDK >= 8 (which you absolutely should be), MATCH_PARENT can be used instead of FILL_PARENT even on older devices. – kcoppock Feb 24 '14 at 21:24
@LocalPCGuy No one uses API 7 or less anymore. If you're trying to make your app compatible with APIs 7 or less, you'd probably run into a whole lot of other problems before worrying about FILL_PARENT vs. MATCH_PARENT. – Simon André Forsberg Feb 24 '14 at 21:26
If you already define your view in your layout(xml) file, only want to change the weight programmatically, this way is better
LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = (LinearLayout.LayoutParams) mButton.getLayoutParams(); params.weight = 1.0f; mButton.setLayoutParams(params);
new a LayoutParams overwrites other params defined in you xml file like margins, or you need to specify all of them in LayoutParams.
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With "params.weight = 1f;" you're already setting the weight on the LayoutParams object. There's no need to call "mButton.setLayoutParams(params);". – MrMaffen Mar 28 at 20:32
If the constructor with width, height and weight is not working, try using the constructor with width and height. And then manually set the weight.
And if you want the width to be set according to the weight, set width as 0 in the constructor. Same applies for height. Below code works for me.
LinearLayout.LayoutParams childParam1 = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(0,LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);
childParam1.weight = 0.3f;
LinearLayout.LayoutParams childParam2 = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(0,LinearLayout.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);
childParam1.weight = 0.7f;
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Any of LinearLayout.LayoutParams and TableLayout.LayoutParams worked for me, for buttons the right one is TableRow.LayoutParams. That is:
TableRow.LayoutParams buttonParams = new TableRow.LayoutParams(
TableRow.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, 1f);
About using MATCH_PARENT or WRAP_CONTENT be the same.
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If I someone looking for answer, use this:
LinearLayout.LayoutParams lay = (LinearLayout.LayoutParams) myLayout.getLayoutParams();
lay.weight = 0.5;
If you are initializing your layout from xml file, this will be much more convenient than providing new layout parameters for Linear Layout.
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This should be the accepted answer as it doesn't modify any previously set variables like width/height/margin/padding etc. Everything is being kept and re-used while the weight is changed. – MrMaffen Mar 28 at 20:34
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I am writing a GMail client for Android. I want to list all GMail accounts in a ListView. When the user clicks one item, I want the program to retrieve the password of the corresponding account.
However, I get a SecurityException:
java.lang.SecurityException: caller uid 10107 is different than the authenticator's uid
This is my code:
AccountManager accountManager = AccountManager.get(context);
this.username = account.name;
this.password = accountManager.getPassword(account); //this is where I get the exception
I have all these permissions in AndroidManifest.xml:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS"></uses-permission>
According to Android reference, the only permission needed should be MANAGE_ACCOUNTS.
What is the problem of my code?
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You can get an authtoken, but you can't get the users actual credentials. The actually creditials are only accessible by the application that created them. From the documentation of the getPassword method (emphasis mine):
This method requires the caller to hold the permission AUTHENTICATE_ACCOUNTS and to have the same UID as the account's authenticator.
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Sounds good to know this. I think I'm more safe right now. Thanks Kurtis. – b101101011011011 Oct 3 '11 at 19:41
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I'm trying to replicate the java guestbook example on Quercus on AppEngine and I'm getting an error having to do with preparing the query:
$greetings = $datastore->prepare($query)->asIterable();
I'm not a java developer so I can't make sense of the error trace. How can I get the greeting items without triggering this error?
Here is the entire error page:
Problem accessing /index.php. Reason:
Caused by:
java.lang.NullPointerException at com.google.appengine.api.datastore.dev.LocalDatastoreService.next(LocalDatastoreService.java:1089) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor8.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.ApiProxyLocalImpl$AsyncApiCall.callInternal(ApiProxyLocalImpl.java:498) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.ApiProxyLocalImpl$AsyncApiCall.call(ApiProxyLocalImpl.java:452) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.ApiProxyLocalImpl$AsyncApiCall.call(ApiProxyLocalImpl.java:430) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$PrivilegedCallable$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$PrivilegedCallable.call(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
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If this is a Java question why is your page "index.php"? – nnnnnn Apr 22 '14 at 22:29
Because Quercus is a java based PHP environment. By the way, I gave up on this a long time ago and learned Python. I haven't touched PHP since. – ofko Apr 23 '14 at 21:57
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If it's a null pointer exception then you are trying to access a method or property of a null object
First you need to check if $datastore is null, then if the return of the query is not null. Also you need to check if that error is on that particular line of code (maybe it fails somewhere else)
You can access the database at this link /_ah/admin. Maybe there is a corrupt entity in there
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So far I have seen these tools to compress javascript files
On Packer page there is a section "Packer versus JSMin" which says that JSMin can be more efficient than Packer. On Yahoo Compressor page it states that Yahoo compressor is more efficient than JSMin, so it looks like Yahoo compressor might be a best candidate.
What is the best option for compressing javascript files?
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marked as duplicate by Shog9, dev.e.loper, Bill the Lizard May 19 '09 at 14:56
Why don't you run a few tests with your javascript files and find out? – Malfist May 19 '09 at 14:40
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Yahoo's compressor, for a combination of safety, and decent compression.
It uses a real JavaScript parser, rather than using a set of regular expressions. It is able to do the same kind of variable renaming that Packer can, but is much safer. It won't break if you forget to put a semicolon at the end of a function definition.
Packer does have an encoding feature that generates an even smaller file. However, it's only effective if your web server does not support gzip or deflate compression. With gzip / deflate, YUI and Packer generate files that are about the same size.
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I use YUICompressor exclusively because it intelligently minifies removing whitespace and reducing internal variables down whilst maintaining external refs properly and has yet to break my code and it also does CSS to boot!
After that we serve up on a GZip HTTP connection and voila!
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Changing the server settings to use gzip compression, then you get compression on any text file, javascript, html, etc. You also won't get the decompression lag that you get with compressed javascript on each page load.
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lol @ not getting decompression lag on compressed files. GZip is compression, the client will have to decompress it to use it. Minified javascript is not compressed, just it's footprint is reduced as much as possible. – Malfist May 19 '09 at 14:48
OK, if you are only doing minified (sorry I misread) then you're only hurting readability of the javascript, I could take or leave that. Gzip compression is still the best way to do this since it can apply to a host of files, and decompression by the client is not an issue anymore since it's happening in a low-level language not javascript -- and only happening on download, not on page load. – Adam Luter May 19 '09 at 14:51
Gzip compression is not the best way to do it. Gzip + minification is the best way. Decompression by the client still happens. Downloading a page is part of loading the page, after all, you can't view the page without downloading it first. – Malfist May 19 '09 at 14:59
Minification affects code readability still, so whether or not it's best depends on if you are willing to. Download versus page load is a big difference. Download only happens once -- usually -- page load happens on every page. A javascript file is probably on several pages. Every page load would cause that javascript file to decompress in javascript. However, decompression from a http download would only happen once. Even if it only appeared on one page, revisiting this page -- whether by back button or re-clicking -- would not incur http decompression again, only javascript. – Adam Luter May 21 '09 at 15:09
Also, the most important bit, in my opinion is that gzip compression affects all content, not just javascript. Lastly, minification is something you have to remember to do everytime you make a change (or setup a process that does it for you when you publish). Whereas gzip compression is fire and forget. But as you say, both will give you the smallest possible sized file, but I normally only find about a 10%-20% gain from minification on top of gzip. Therefore, I do not bother with it because of the combination of lost readability and manually having to do it on publishing. – Adam Luter May 21 '09 at 15:11
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"Emma uses a feature called bytecode manipulation during its instrumentation phase. If you open up the instrumented class files in a decompiler, you'll notice that it would've introduced several additional lines of code.
It is this additional code that does the reporting. It will be something as simple as a simple log indicating that the code at that particular line number has executed.
When you generate the reports, emma uses the ec file to generate a human readable format of the report."
Found this information in another post here. Would like to know how can I get access to the .ec files and where are they located?
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Thanks..but the output of emma instr command says that zero classes have been instrumented and no metadata collected. what could be the problem? – HelloWorld Feb 28 '12 at 6:57
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Consider the following nonsense script as an example:
use strict;
use warnings;
my $uninitialisedValue;
print ${$uninitialisedValue}{$_},"\n";
Which is run from the command line:
$ perl warningPrinter.pl < longfile.txt
Regardless of what STDIN contains, the STDOUT will be full of:
Use of uninitialized value in print at warningPrinter.pl line 16, <> line 1.
Use of uninitialized value in print at warningPrinter.pl line 16, <> line 2.
Use of uninitialized value in print at warningPrinter.pl line 16, <> line 3.
Use of uninitialized value in print at warningPrinter.pl line 16, <> line 4.
I work with very long files, so receiving this as output when testing my script is at the very least mildly irritating. It can take a while for the process to respond to a CTRL-c termination signal and my terminal is suddenly filled with the same error message.
Is there a way of either getting perl to print just the first instance of an identical and reoccurring warning message, or to just make warning messages fatal to the execution of the script? Seeing as I have never produced a script that works despite having warnings in them, I would accept either. But its probably more convenient if I can get perl to print identical warnings just once.
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Try this other StackOverflow post: [How can I make Perl die if a warning is generated?][1] [1]: stackoverflow.com/questions/3896060/… – Kevin G. Mar 19 '12 at 11:54
Excellent. use warnings FATAL => 'all' works great for killing the process after a warning in my case. – MattLBeck Mar 19 '12 at 12:01
Don't use for when reading a file, especially when that file is large, because a for loop pre-loads its list into memory. Use while instead. Also, redirecting a file to stdin is redundant, just use the file as argument. In your specific problem, reopening STDERR to a file can be a solution. – TLP Mar 19 '12 at 12:18
Oh woops, I meant while :p. However, I find reading from STDIN both quicker to code for and the script will automatically be compatible with piping from another process. If i just took an argument from the command line I would have to check to see if the user actually wants to read from STDIN instead. – MattLBeck Mar 19 '12 at 12:32
@kikumbob The diamond operator works both on STDIN or file arguments. Your distinction is invalid. Using script.pl < file and script.pl file is for practical purposes identical when using the diamond operator <>. – TLP Mar 19 '12 at 12:55
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I thought I would show you how unique warning logic might be created. I don't recommend it though:
my %printed;
local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub {
my $message = shift;
my ( $msg, $loc ) = $message =~ m/(.*?) at (.*?line \d+)/;
print $message unless $printed{$loc}{$msg}++;
I should say that I do not recommend this as a general practice. Because it's better to have a warning policy. It's either an operation that can take an undefined value, or you don't want to handle an undef value. I try to remove all warnings from my completed code.
In the first case, putting no warnings 'uninitialized'; in the for loop is a much easier--and regular thing to do. In the second case, you'd probably want to fail.
However, if it is something you would actually like to handle but warn once about, say that you wanted robust handling of the data, but wanted to warn upstream processes that you got some bad data, you could go about creating a sub warn_once:
{ use Carp ();
my %warned;
sub warn_once {
my $message = shift;
Carp::carp( $message ) unless $warned{$loc}{$msg}++;
And call it like this:
while ( <> ) {
warn_once( '$uninitialisedValue is uninitialized' )
unless defined( $uninitialisedValue)
no warnings 'uninitialized';
Then you have decided something.
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Nice! I guess I would have to add this kind of thing to every script I want to use this logic with? Why would you not recommend it? – MattLBeck Mar 19 '12 at 12:38
@kikumbob I'll elaborate in my post. – Axeman Mar 19 '12 at 13:09
Note that the diagnostics module does all of this except for the part about considering the line number of the input chunk. – tchrist Mar 19 '12 at 14:24
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Join Date: Sep 2012
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11-03-2012, 12:34 AM
New Romulus looks good, visually. I played around there for about an hour, and during that hour it was fun. I think long-term it's going to be pretty worthless, though.
My general impression of it, in terms of game play, is that you've made new romulus into what is basically a Korean MMO. You run around and click X objects, shoot Y bad guys, collect Z plot items. Over and over. It's pointless and repetitive.
I may as well be playing some Korean MMO, or dare I say it? Even farmville. It's exactly that style of game play.
I want actual missions with stories and plots. I don't want endless variations of, "Hello! I'm a lazy NPC, go collect a laundry list of crap for me and I'll give you an incidental reward!"
If you're going to put in mindless-click missions like these, at least reduce the amount of X,Y,Z items you have to click/collect so we can get it over and done with sooner and move on to some aspect of the game that might actually be fun and engaging.
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Government Is a Fatal Attraction
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March 26, 2007
I once had a cousin named Jackie. She was a beautiful, divorced mother of three who was murdered by a stalker when she attempted to escape the relationship. I know this horror first hand. I tell you today that the relationship between good citizens and their masters in Washington is nothing short of the same, victimizing, violent, delusional, deadly disaster.
Perhaps you are a single mother, elderly or have simply been taught by other people that you are, for whatever reason, incapable of surmounting life's difficulties. You feel you are somewhat physically or psychologically handicapped and believe that it must be someone else's responsibility to make your dreams come true. You're a good person and you deserve good things. You've struggled all your life and have been awaiting the coming of your knight in shining armor, as so many people are.
Imagine meeting a new fellow who seems nice. He's obviously knowledgeable and offers to help you with a variety of problems with which you are faced. He seems too good to be true! Someone who has been around long enough usually learns that anything that sounds too good to be true usually is. You, however, decide that another offer this good may never come along again, so you cast aside your misgivings and, for better or worse, choose to take a spin around the dance floor of life with this one. If it doesn't work out, you can stop anytime you want, right? You want to believe his enticing promises and trust him to finally make your dreams come true.
I know some readers might consider this far-fetched. As a woman, I can tell you it is not. There probably aren't many women out there who would admit to looking at life this way, but subconscious or not, it truly is a rampant attitude and not just limited to women. As Fred Reed says, government schools psychologically castrate little boys, turning them into little girls and they, too, fall prey to the idea that they should play nice and the Nanny State will reward them.
What is the name of the knight in shining armor? It's Government, Democratic Government. An old family name like that has such promise! Indeed, Demmy does as he says and takes over much responsibility in your life. What a relief! Now you can relax, stop worrying and enjoy life. It calls for celebration! This is called the honeymoon phase.
Like everything in life though, in time you find that things aren't exactly the way you thought they'd be. At first things seemed perfect and full of promise. Before long, things begin to get a little uncomfortable for you. Doubts creep in. You begin to realize that when someone else assumes responsibility for you, they become the ones making the choices for you too. You also find that life becomes much more expensive than it used to be.
You wake up one morning and find that there are no bacon or eggs. You check the grocery list, you're sure you wrote them down there. You find that the eggs you used to enjoy in the morning have been crossed off the list of acceptable food items. You hate to question Demmy, he's so conscientious, but you feel better when you eat protein in the morning. Demmy sighs; from behind your newspaper he explains that cholesterol is bad for you and you'll be having oatmeal from now on, and don't forget to pick up his dry cleaning on the way home from work. He still hasn't reimbursed you for the last batch of dry cleaning, but he's so helpful, you don't want to be petty. Arguing will only upset Demmy; it's not worth it. He does so much for you!
Doubts begin to creep in at times, but you endeavor to hold fast to the dream and the promises. You feel bad for ever doubting Democrat. He assures you that he's never had anything but your best interest in mind. What ever did you do without him? All his friends assure you that he is the best and the brightest of all the Government Families.
When you leave for work, you find that Demmy has a surprise for you ' a new car! He traded in your Buick for a shiny new Prius that is 'green' and far more efficient ' he's only looking out for your best interest! Yes, your old car was bigger and more comfortable; probably safer in a crash, but you need to be responsible now. You convince yourself that he is right and objecting would be selfish and ungrateful of you. You wouldn't want to risk losing Demmy and all the wonderful things he's promised you. Besides, you're really invested in the relationship now.
Eventually the Prius goes too. It's far more efficient and fair to everyone if you use public transportation. Democrat needs his car and driver, however, because his work of managing your life is so important that he can't be expected to wait around or rub elbows with common people. (Does this sound like a politician?)
Sometimes you feel guilty because you aren't always grateful. Life is good--Demmy just gave you $50 to buy yourself some new clothes for work (a tax break). He has also begun talking about all the wonderful things he has planned for your future (Social Security, Medicare and Prescriptions). You just need to keep working and trust him.
He's balancing your checkbook for you now--another relief!--and promised you a nice retirement. It's easier for him to have access to all your accounts and pass codes instead of bothering for permission all the time. Trust him, you won't have to worry about a thing. There will always be a chicken in every pot. Making promises is indeed Demmy's greatest skill. You're learning that going along with Demmy's ideas is getting easier all the time. Besides, you're tired after a long day of work, too tired to think about very much.
Demmy says smoking and drinking are bad for you, and out of concern, he won't allow them anymore. He takes better care of you than he does of himself (he still smokes and drinks). He really cares! You've learned not to mention that you miss those things you used to enjoy, the ones Demmy says are bad for you. He is smarter than you--he must be because he is so willing to take over responsibility. He must know something you don't know.
Demmy handles all the bills now, which is really convenient. Isn't it the least you can do to make sure everything goes to him if something should happen to you? He has also decided that you need to do more for other people who have less than you do. You don't have to worry about it though, he'll just write the checks for you. When you try to approach the subject of spending money on yourself, Demmy becomes silent, evasive or even moody. After all he's done for you, the least you can do is be grateful and help others!
Some new things appear in the refrigerator! The tofu and Boca Burgers are not to your liking, but Demmy assures you that they will grow on you. You continue to ignore the feeling in your gut and concentrate on trusting him.
Eventually Demmy says you need to get a second job because taking care of you is more expensive than it used to be. You don't understand this because you are making more money than ever, but your life is becoming less affluent all the time. He says you'll have to cut out expensive lattes and skip your annual trip home to see your parents this Christmas.
Your friends aren't as excited about Demmy as you are. They don't understand that you can't eat out with them like you used to. It's all fattening food that is bad for you. Besides, it's expensive and you're too busy with that second job to see them anymore. Democrat has become everything to you. What's a little sacrifice when you have so much?
Demmy also says that the phone bills are too high, so you need to stop calling your friends. In order to keep you safe, Demmy needs to screen all your calls and emails for you, and he says those friends are not good for you anyway. Don't you want to prove your loyalty? Besides, privacy is a thing of the past. If you keep any secrets from Demmy, he can't protect you. If you're not doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide. Total awareness is security.
Demmy often stays late at the office now, sometimes all night. One day you get to the mail before he returns. It takes all the courage you can muster to gently pose a casual question about all the charges on your credit card for hotels, escorts and golf. There are also several late notices, including one on a home equity loan that you didn't know you had. (The government has been borrowing in your name, too.)
Demmy is outraged. He works so hard to take care of you ' how dare you question him like a common servant! He's a noble Democrat! He comes from a long line of Democrats! Who do you think you are?! Demmy rips the mail out of your hand and shoves you away.
The relationship is showing signs of stress everywhere now. Demmy always feels very bad for hurting you and swears it won't happen again. It's not his fault--it's actually your fault.
The doubts you refused to entertain before can no longer be denied. Now you're afraid. You've been duped, you're alone and there's no easy way to extricate this dangerous, terrifying thief from your life because his helpful fingers are on everything you own. You suddenly remember that he has guns, a lot of them, but won't allow you to have one because they are dangerous. (Sound familiar?)
This is the predicament Americans encounter when realizing they've fallen asleep at the wheel of life. Their privacy is gone, along with their civil rights and their guns. They are in more danger than ever from the terrorists in government. Waking up to the reality of confiscatory taxation, total surveillance and the police state to which America has been reduced is like waking up in a Quentin Tarantino film ' it's violent, terrifying and you can hardly believe things could get this bad. Weren't the world-improvers, as Bill Bonner calls them, supposed to make things better? Is it any wonder that most Americans will go to any length to keep their heads in the sand?
Relationships based on control always escalate to violence. Even if such a one first appears bearing candy, flowers and beautiful promises, no one in their right mind would knowingly date a person like this. Why would anyone in their right mind jump into bed with tens of thousands of these proven stalkers who are in collusion against you?! Government is never satisfied with a little piece of you. Like a smooth talking stalker, its insidious reach creeps through your life until it is in complete possession of all. You are exposed, numbered, tracked and defenseless.
It would control what you eat, what you see, hear, say or smoke under threat of violence. It will kill you if it must. Such 'freedom and democracy' has been done to tens of thousands of Iraqis for their own good. Government doesn't deliver on sweet promises; it doesn't even return your calls. It lies constantly about its actions, has never been faithful to its vows (to uphold the Constitution and limitations on itself) and never will.
Government has killed more people than all other serial killers in the history of the world combined. Isn't it childish to think that somehow this ravenous carnivore will not harm you, but actually serve and protect you and make your dreams come true? Wake up America ' that smell is a bonfire of your financial security, your liberties and your illusions gone up in smoke.
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American Fall
October 13, 2011
RATHER THAN “American Spring” (it’s the wrong time of year,) or “American Autumn” (meh,) wouldn’t American Fall have had a nicer ring to it?
Of course, what IOZ says is right on the money:
Occupy Wall Street is no revolution, and we are in no danger of replacing democracy with democracy. The protests are symptomatic of something else; they do signify change, even though they are neither the cause nor the ultimate result of it. These sorts of things are like melting glaciers and long tomato seasons: phenomenal indicators of a self-catlyizing reaction across a whole vast and complex system of systems. [IOZ]
Once can only hope that the “something else,” and “these sorts of things,” are things like the decline of global corporate empire and American power. Maybe capitalism itself? It’s obvious, at least, that there is some kind of geopolitical realignment of power underway. #OWS is a symptom of that, not an agent of actual change in terms of shifting power. So the malcontent, the overly-weepy pessimist, can’t help but wonder: is it even too much to hope that #OWS can influence any sort realignment of widely-held perceptions* of the machinations of financial power? [*See how your host adroitly avoids using the term ‘public opinion.’]
They have been, and will continue to be, criticized for the lack of a clear, unified goal and a list of specific demands. Though, I’ll admit being partial to one slogan heard early on, “Occupy Everything, Demand Nothing.” For a minute it seemed the occupiers might be trying to forge a festival-like public space where new, more egalitarian means of exchange and divisions of labor might develop, a sort of petri dish of alternatives to profit motivated capitalism. It’s not clear #OWS was ever that, really. The whole thing seemed to get bogged down in the development of, well, the democratic town hall meeting.
The unified message might have been seen in a demonstration that, yes, people are perfectly capable of getting along without The Economy. The unspoken demand might have come in the form of a realization among the horde of human participants who drive crony capitalism: better to let it fade into obscurity without a fight.
Democracy is FAKE (Part 2)
October 3, 2011
THE OCCUPY WALL STREET “General Assembly” decision making process, what I’ve read of it, is interesting. But I sense that changes are afoot. The group is starting to produce documents “working drafts” at the moment, but it would seem to indicate that there is some sort of organized core of people working on actually writing stuff down, distributing it, and, what, preparing to put it to a vote? Unless I’m wrong and they’ve some sort of open-source wiki of the document that anyone can edit or something along those lines. If so, then what follows may be moot with respect to the OWS moment in time.
One of the Principles of Solidarity under consideration is “Engaging in direct and transparent participatory democracy.” [source] Which makes Old Montag a little weepy, ’cause democracy is EVIL! The rejection of democracy that has been put forward here at The Stump is based in democracy’s basic assumption of inequality. (Which is not just the unequal value judgments foisted on us by an amoral system of financial power, but also the intrinsic need within a functioning democracy for trusted authorities to steer the ship as unequal superiors.)
Another Principle put forward by the OWS group is “Redefining how labor is valued.” Which makes Old Montag a little weepy, ’cause FUCK YEAH RADICAL EGALITARIANISM! [Hat tip: Devin Lenda] The radical egalitarianism put forward here at The Stump acknowledges that any person’s time spent contributing to the cooperative efforts of the group, regardless of utility, is of equal value.
What is the difference between voluntary, mutually beneficial,cooperative social relations and “social order” where individuals are expected to submit to custom: traditions, norms, hierarchical authority? Under the second, the relation stops being voluntary. The individual is forced to give up a part of themselves when they submit to it. Is “culture” a better word for this, maybe, than “society?” IDK.
The basis for inequality imposed by the impulses of financial power are easy to understand and can be discerned by simply asking the question: “Is there money in it?” It’s the second type of inequality that’s difficulter to pin down. What is the essence or basis for social inequality, specifically hierarchy?
What of death, the base and terrible equalizer, the only measure by which every person is acknowledged as equal? Could it be that human foreknowledge of death and fear of uncertainty is how certain specialists come to be esteemed above other members of society? Doctors, who delay death, Philosophers who help one prepare for death, Mystics who offer a sense of certainty about the hereafter, Generals who deal death to our enemies so that we may live.
Is it a false dichotomy? (Appologies, Charles Davis!) Perhaps it simply comes down always to measures of power. It’s simply that the power that currently holds sway over our social imagination is the financial power we’ve been talking about. People are willing to pay for the treatment and drugs to extend their life; to pay tuition to learn, wield, influence, and preserve society’s accumulated knowledge; pay a tithe to ease their conscience, sooth their worry, to petition some higher power for leniency or forgiveness; to purchase, at all costs, security…
The danger in venerating authority, even well-meaning, trusted experts, is that democracy doesn’t arise from, nor constitute, the consent of the governed. Democracy operates in service to a system of control. Once a movement is committed to democracy, the only matter left to decide is what form of power will be surrendered to.
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Wall Street is FAKE
October 3, 2011
Image illustrating the marriage of financial and state power
Image: jamie nyc
Inequality is FAKE
September 22, 2011
I’M SO FAR TO THE LEFT my liberal friends think I’m a reactionary small-government conservative. Which is true in a way because you can’t get much more small-government than evaluating all exercises of state force through an anarchist framework, and refusing to acknowledge any as justified or legitimate.
The Abonilox recently sketched out Left and Right positions on equality (while noting that most people’s views “fall somewhere in the middle”):
The person on the left embraces a radical view of equality that presumes and rationalizes all inequities to some form of environmental phenomenon that can be ameliorated by willful intervention (presumably by members of an educated class trained to identify such problems).
The person on the right tends more to a fatalist perspective and is more accepting of inequality insomuch as it is obvious that there are inferior specimens everywhere he or she looks. That they are less successful is not an environmental deficiency so much as a congenital one. [Abonilox]
Like the stance on government mentioned above, I find myself holding a somewhat more radical view than the Left, while sharing some aspects of the Right position. Deterministic rather than fatalistic, I recognize a certain kind of inequality: that people will differ in their aptitudes and appetites, and differ in their capacity to produce intended effects. This is the acknowledgement of the unequal distribution of power, the evidence of which is painfully plain to see. I diverge from the Right position in denying that a value judgment should be drawn from these differences. How is it that someone bound by necessity (or fate!) can be found inferior, or somehow less human, for simply persevering in their situation?
My sense of equality is an ideal. It’s FAKE. It does not obtain. Here it is nonetheless: No matter how powerful — regardless, even, of an individual’s utility to society — every person’s time is of equal value. That entrepreneurial ability, or test taking ability, or influence peddling ability are rewarded so much more richly than a strong back and a willingness to get dirty, is demented. The system of rewards is indeed a function of a demented religion of financial power. It is a system by which circumstance dictates whose potential will be fulfilled, and whose will lie dormant for lack of training or education or simply the lack of official sanction. Under such a system, circumstance always favors established power, and gatekeepers and nepotists reign.
September 18, 2011
JUST ADDED a third element to the self-description of my political leanings. Will henceforward claim the title Anti-Imperialist, Economic Disestablishmentarian, Cultural Nihilist.
I Hate Any Kind of Mob
September 16, 2011
IT’S KIND OF A PARADOX, this flavor of misanthropy Your Host suffers from. It kind of weird, right, to genuinely like nearly every individual one has had the fortune to get into a conversation with, yet despise Us All for our incurable, often irrational fear of uncertainty, desperate greed, and self-destructive tribalism?
Let’s trot this quote out once more:
Most of the people waiting outside Wal-mart at midnight on Black Friday, or outside the gates before a rock concert, don’t want to trample another human being to death. Given the choice they wouldn’t do so, even if it cost them the opportunity to get hold of a $150 widescreen tv, or prime floor space up near the stage. (This much faith I have in our humanity.) Of course, once that crowd rushes the door, who knows exactly what induces the rush, but once that moment of hysteria begins, it’s a dangerous game to stop, or try to stop, or hesitate at all. You risk being trampled yourself. Going with the flow becomes a matter of self preservation.
Upon finding out later that the older guy who fell down in front of the entrance during the rush fucking died, you may feel a twinge of regret, but it wasn’t your feet that trod on him as he lay defenseless. Despite the possibility that the person you leaned against when you got jostled in turn pressed against someone else propelling them into yet another, actions and reactions rippling through the crowd of humanity to the heavy set woman who wanted to stop to help the man up from the ground but got bumped from behind and instead dropped to one knee right on the guy’s ribcage then was only barely able to scramble over his crumpled form to reach her own safety, you can ultimately rest easy knowing that it wasn’t your fault. Someone else started the push. You couldn’t help but go along with it.
Now apply this principle to a certain idea of Nation which arises out of a sense of having done great things together and wishing to do more. Where many of the things that have been done can’t rightly be considered “great,” but where the individual whose belief buttresses the notional Nation isn’t culpable in any of its evils. Because going with the flow is simply a matter of self preservation. A nation is a mob.
Dis-Arming The Children for The Future
September 13, 2011
Mickey Mouse Operation
Image via: After The Smoke
YOU WOULDN’T BE entirely off-base to accuse me, Dear Reader, of some form of child abuse, when I confess that, yes, the youngest person in the Montag household watches a fair bit of television. A significant part of that fair bit being programming on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.
As if this kids programming wasn’t already dePLORable enough without giving it much thought, I’ve actually put enough study to it to notice that there is a trend on these channels of making light of the increasingly intrusive and violent security measures taking root in Western society. Mad lulz regarding security checks, surveillance, and a sickeningly jokey treatment of Tasers. People getting Tased is HIGH-larious!
Here’s a clip of a recent episode of the Disney Channel show A.N.T. Farm. In this episode we see two people Tased hilariously. Not in this clip though. This clip is an ode to simple old fashion police brutality. To set it up: the young woman main character’s father, a cop, suspects that she may be guilty of shoplifting, so he sends his diminutive partner undercover to her school to spy on his own daughter investigate. (Start at 1:03 or so.)
Functions as propaganda to get young people used to the idea of living in a police state, no? Makes it seem normal, more accessible. You’ll prolly tell me it’s a case of “art” (HA!) imitating life or some such — the writers of these shows making comedy out of the normal experience of everyday life in America. But I have to wonder if orders have been given.
Additional fun fact: the other pervasive theme of almost all of these programs: the characters are famous, or aspiring to some sort of fame. Pop stars, clothing designers, hosts of popular webcasts, students at Performing Arts schools, aspiring reality tv stars, Solid Gold/American Bandstand-type television dancers… Peculiar little facet of the current empire in decline.
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I have been away from linux for some years, but now I'm once again back with Ubuntu 10.04. I used to run Gentoo in 2000 and knew my commands, but now that the world of linux has progressed a bit further, aren't there many new commands to learn?
Do you know a list of linux shell commands that are in broad use now and which didn't exist 10 years ago?
Identified so far: ngrep, sshfs, pv
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closed as not a real question by random Jul 12 '10 at 0:45
Just curious, why 10 years away from Linux? :) – takeshin Jul 10 '10 at 6:03
Well, it started with .NET/C# and then years pass. I used Win XP all the time. – grm Jul 10 '10 at 9:01
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I don't know what you used in 2000. Figure out the new ones from an history meme; mine below. I expect command use to follow a long tail. The basics haven't changed, but there's a lot more to pick from.
history |awk '{print $2}' |sort |uniq -c |sort -rnk1,1 |head -n 20 |vipe
219 ls
100 git
92 cd
91 sudo
66 <custom>
64 aptitude
60 locate
54 grep
52 less
48 mplayer
45 vim
43 find
36 cat
31 <ssh alias>
26 <ssh alias>
24 dpkg
23 file
23 df
21 <pgrep alias>
20 man
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+1, Nice command! – Jarvin Jul 10 '10 at 5:26
You use git more often then cd. That is kind of cool. – Ludwig Weinzierl Jul 10 '10 at 12:58
Tried this on my laptop. sudo, cd, vim, startx and openttd... Although what is vipe? Had to leave that bit out as it's not on my system. – Macha Jul 10 '10 at 15:18
@Macha vipe is from the moreutils package, inserts an editor into the pipeline. It's OK to ignore that part. – Tobu Jul 10 '10 at 15:43
@Ludwig It seems I use hg more often than anything else, it has 5x over the next command (hg: 244, cd: 48). I'm actually surprised cd even made it, as I try to use pushd/popd as much as I can. – xorbyte Jul 10 '10 at 17:35
Actually, you probably haven't missed much. The popular UNIX reference books that were written back in the '70s (or so) are still popular and still useful - the base commands haven't really changed.
The only new thing that comes to mind immediately is the package manager; you might need to get used to the syntax of aptitude and apt-get etc., if you don't use their graphical frontends. There's also version control, i.e. svn and git are new and popular, if you are in to that sort of thing. But they're not exactly core UNIX commands.
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Yea, I have been using svn for some time, but had to start with git because 80% of all the tools I'm interested in is hosted on github. Also package.el in emacs comes handy and things like zshkit and emacs-starter-kit. – grm Jul 9 '10 at 20:47
Did you mean mercurial and git? Didn't the Internet agree SVN is kind of out? – xorbyte Jul 10 '10 at 17:29
@alexandru: No, and no, not yet. Although I guess I shouldn't have said "new and hot" - that wouldn't apply to svn, true, but it's still pretty popular among people who are not early adopters of the newest technologies (which is a lot of people, especially in business). For example, there are more [svn] questions on SO than [git] questions. – David Z Jul 10 '10 at 17:36
A big difference is now a very comprehensive aid in bash-completion. Makes it a lot easier to use command line.
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Yea, I noticed that, but a bit too late. Had already switched to zsh because of completion. :) – grm Jul 9 '10 at 20:45
+1 for zsh. Nice shell. – dag729 Jul 9 '10 at 21:45
You're not going to find much different. A few options here and there. For the most part, especially on systems like Ubuntu, you're going to find that most of the new stuff is GUI.
Concerning new commands, if you are a big of a screen fan as me, you may appreciate the new tmux or byobu.
I had to go back and check on the release dates of a lot of things... Looks like wget (1996), curl (1997), and iptables (1998) were all out a few years before 2000, so those might not be new to you.
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pv - Progress bar for long commands
pv is probably new to you. It provides a progress bar for any program that can accept input from a pipe.
To install (Ubuntu)
apt-get install pv
Show progress as you caclulate a checksum for a large file:
pv large_file | sha1sum
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ls, cp, dmesg, cat, grep, etc. Something shouldn't be changed for ages :), so in base commands you haven't missed nothing.
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The one change that I really enjoy is grep -r directly instead of combine it with find. – grm Jul 9 '10 at 20:46
Only main change (apart from desktops replacing raw X11) is probably repositories.
So the 'apt-get' syntax on Ubuntu (and similar rpm on Redhat)
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Nothing today that is more fun than gentoo back in 2000 (IMHO), well, except for Sabayon, but haven't had time to play with that yet. – grm Jul 9 '10 at 20:49
Autojump: http://wiki.github.com/joelthelion/autojump/
Instead of cding through the whole hierarchy, just type j tha and go to /data/projects/That_very_important_folder.
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Not a new command but used much more often these days:
ssh and sftp
They allow for encrypted communication.
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ngrep was around ~9-10 years ago, I'm pretty sure of it
pv is not a command, it is a CLI app. You have to install a package for being able to use it.
sshfs is not a command, it's a generic name for a network filesystem
You claim to be a gentoo user, yet your question is stated in a "send me codez" manner. It looks like it's asked by somebody who thinks that knowing command names is the silver bullet. No, using your brain is the silver bullet.
I strongly recommend you to read (again, even if you already did it before) How To Ask Questions The Smart Way, because I think your question certainly doesn't meet those standards.
If I would have to compare Linux today and Linux 10 years ago, I would emphasize the following main differences:
• access to internet is widely available now, even in some not very developed countries. This is a double edge sword: the amount of sane and adequate tech guys has increased greatly, but the percentage of them among all internet user has decreased. If you learn to avoid people that don't share your interests and hang with people that share common interests with you, you'll learn a lot from them. Even StackOverflow/ServerFault/SuperUser sites illustrate this perfectly.
• much more people are writing free software. If 10 years ago sourceforge and freshmeat were unique and SVN was the king of version control, today we have github, launchpad and bitbucket, we have a lot of distributed version control tools, we have a huge amount of communities developing software or simply exchanging knowledge. Today, if you need free software for a certain particular task and you are being persistent enough, there are high chances that you will find something that suits you perfectly. Or something that suits you "almost perfectly" and you will end contributing and giving back to the community.
Edited to include the answer to your question from the comment:
I wonder what in particular you didn't like with this questions and how could I improve it?
I didn't like that your initial question is way too general.
Usually you try to complete a particular task, you try to achieve a very special goal. You try it one way, you try it another way, you go to review some man pages and still fail. This is the moment when you go asking for help and advices. You describe your workflow, the expected result and what you actually get. Don't be ashamed to admit that you tried something and failed. People are generally nice and helpful, most of them won't point fingers and tease you, most of them won't downvote you for failing. Some of them will even warn you about a poorly stated question, accepting the risk to be downvoted themselves for pedantry :-)
Stating your workflow is useful for a couple of reasons:
• readers of your question have to make less assumptions, because they would already know you tried X, Y, Z and it didn't work
• the way you state your question allows others to estimate your level of knowledge and provide an answer that would be easy for you to understand
Here are a couple of situations:
• you need to use a sniffer to debug a networking issue. You try tcpdump (which btw was the standard 10 years ago and nowadays shares the title with wireshark), you find its output too cryptic, its default values of options not very user-friendly. Somebody suggests you ngrep, you run it, you see that it provides more user friendly output by default and you learn a new thing.
• you do cp -a to copy a big directory, you want to see progress and you need to stick to command line, not even midnight commander is available. You read the manpage for cp and you fail to find the proper options. Then somebody tells you about pv.
• you aren't happy with ftp, because it transfers the data without encrypting it, you also want to edit files "remotely". Somebody tells you about sshfs, which "maps" a remote directory to your local filesystem over an encrypted connection.
See, these are your ngrep, pv and sshfs. Is there a difference between your general questions and my scenarios? Certainly yes. I will try to explain why. So you asked people to tell you about cool commands. You got 3 answers. Someday you might need to use a sniffer. And you will probably remember this question and will use ngrep. What if you get 1000 answers suggesting 1000 new commands? Don't you thing that a huge part of them will just slip through your memory for a short time period, then you'll forget about them? That will certainly happen, because when you gain new knowledge, you need to practice applying it, to get experience. Frankly, your initial question reminds me the situation when a kid tries to learn martial arts by looking at pictures in a book :-)
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Thanks for your opinion and advice. As I wrote I have been away for some time and interested in picking up something new and was puzzled with this question. I wonder what in particular you didn't you like with this questions and how could I improve it? When it comes to ngrep, thats a new command for me. I used to work with tcpdump, but in most cases I find the addition of ngrep much more convenient. – grm Jul 10 '10 at 11:36
That's a good question with not a great answer. As zaynyatyi noted, the old friends are still there. What is most impressive and daunting are the sheer number of facilities that have been built on the infrastructure. For example, X windows is still the same, and xeyes works the same as it always did. But then there's Gnome and DBUS and Metcity and GTK and a hodge-podge boot sequence that makes SVR4 rc?.d look almost rational.
The most useful thing that is new to me - who cut my teeth on V7/BSD4.1 - is locate(1).
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One that I didn't realise for a bit was less - the joke name being "less is more". more is still there, but less is better. I think it's been around a fair bit more than 10 years, though - it just wasn't there (I think) when I was at college in the early 90s. That or maybe I just forgot.
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I've got like 6 pages were i get both POST and GET data several times (PHP). I've now made a function that get's the data for me, so instead of typing:
i now type:
The problem i have is that i'm to lazy to replace each $_POST with gpost() (and $_GET with gget(). I know how to do that. But i need to remove the [] braces aswell. Otherwise it'd look like this: gpost(['whatever']), not really what i want.
But looking at the find/replace window in dreamweaver i saw a checkbox labeled "Use regular expressions". Therefore I ask; can someone help me create a regular expression that replaces this:
with this:
The replace window looks like this:
enter image description here
EDIT: I now found a site, but it doesn't seem to work. Here's what i came up with now: trentmueller.com/blog/search-and-replace-wildcard-characters-in-dreamweaver.html
I get this error: unmatched ) in regular expression
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s/\$_POST\['(.*?)']/gpost('$1')/ should work, I believe. The $1 references the first match (The (.*?)), so if dreamweaver uses a different syntax for that you'd need to figure out what that is. – Phoshi Oct 9 '10 at 13:54
Thanks Phoshi. Is it possible to split that into two expressions somehow? In dreamweaver, there is two fields. Look at the image i posted above. – Nike Oct 9 '10 at 13:58
Ah, sorry, I forget some people aren't used to that syntax. \$_POST\['(.*?)'] is the "search" (Though the [ needs to be escaped with a \, that doesn't seem to want to appear in the comments, though), and the gpost('$1') is the "replace" – Phoshi Oct 9 '10 at 14:19
I tried the new expressions you posted, but they doesn't seem to work either. I tried escaping the [] aswell, but that didn't do any difference. I edited my post, maybe you can help me get that to work instead? Thanks once again, appreciate it! – Nike Oct 9 '10 at 14:29
The one you've copied there isn't working because the class [^<]* matches "any character that isn't < 0 or more times". < doesn't even come into it here. Otherwise, your expression isn't working because [ and ] define a "character class", and you have to escape the [ with a \ to stop it being a character class, and start it matching a literal [. – Phoshi Oct 9 '10 at 15:34
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If you need to replace this everywhere, unless I am missing something, there is no need to use Regular Expressions, simply do a regular replace and put $_POST['whatever']; as the find and gpost('whatever'); as the replace.
Change the drop downs to entire site and in source code only.
If you want to use Regular Expressions, Stack Overflow will most likely be your best bet for help, but I think you will be over complicating matters.
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The point with using regular expressions is to avoid having to do spend hours doing something. As i mentioned earlier, i have several pages with several different both $_POST's and $_GET's. They all have different "keys" in them (i only used "whatever" as an example before..). I could do something like to replace $_GET[' with gget(, but i will run into problems when i need to replace the other side, because further down in the code i have PHP arrays, which also uses [] braces, and i can't replace them... – Nike Oct 9 '10 at 13:55
You have to escape the meta character, so try:
This works for me.
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I want to disable all color in my shell. Not ls, not nano, not vi, nothing. What's the best way to achieve this?
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if you are using PUTTY to remotely access the shell, then:
- on the left panel, click Colors
- uncheck the three boxes on the right panel (they are checked by default)
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I'll have to switch to a terminal program that lets me do this. Thanks. – Poe Apr 6 '11 at 1:57
Geekosaur's answer is better for you, really. – Slomojo Apr 6 '11 at 3:21
@slomojo his answer didn't work with my terminal client – Poe Apr 6 '11 at 9:46
Oh, interesting, which client is it? – Slomojo Apr 6 '11 at 10:37
I'm using iTerm (OS X) and still getting color if I export TERM=vt220, and in 'ls' even after unsetting LS_COLORS – Poe Apr 7 '11 at 3:42
unset LS_COLORS; export TERM=xterm should do it, or at least get you most of the way there. You may need to change that to say TERM=vt220 for some overly "smart" programs.
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Definitely recommend VT220 over XTERM. – Slomojo Apr 6 '11 at 3:20
"xterm" is a color terminal, to disable colors you need TERM=xterm-mono – Idelic Apr 11 '11 at 21:37
xterm -cm
This will start an xterm with no colors.
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I need to know which applications are accessing the internet on my Mac. I want to know how much data they uploaded and downloaded. I got a steep 3G bill this month because some stupid app is downloading something in the background, and I don't know what it is.
All I need to do, is find it, and block it, or turn it off.
Can anyone please help?
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Try Little Snitch
A firewall protects your computer against unwanted guests
from the Internet. But who protects your private data from
being sent out? Little Snitch does!
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Thanks, this is perfect! – josef.van.niekerk May 11 '11 at 10:07
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Is it possible to include an .XLS file inside a PDF, so that the user could open/extract the spreadsheet from their PDF viewer? (Maybe in the same manner MS Word allows you to include a DDE object?) It would not need to show any spreadsheet content or anything fancy like that; I am just looking for a way to have the spreadsheet included with the PDF file.
If so, what tools would I need to do it?
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Do you mean displaying a link or icon in the pdf which, when activated, will open an Excel spreadsheet? – music2myear May 23 '11 at 20:08
@music2myear Sort of... I'm thinking of publishing an ebook and want to include a spreadsheet (with macros) as part of the purchase. Rather than going through a huge fuss with the publisher about having unique download codes for each customer or something like that, I'd prefer to have the file included in the PDF that people buy. (Then again, if I want the book enabled on Kindle or such, then maybe I need to do the external download anyway...) – ewall May 24 '11 at 14:01
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This may be a start until it becomes more clear what it is you are asking. Acrobat 8 (and thus, subsequent versions) include the ability to package files of different types within a pdf file: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Reader/8.0/help.html?content=WSE034CA46-D08F-4fff-AA3C-FF04510DAEF0.html
UPDATED in response to comment: I did a google search for "create pdf packages" and there appear to be several applications that cost less than Acrobat that offer this capability. I could not find an open source or free option to do this, though. Ghostscript tries to be a pretty full-featured system for creating PDFs and with more research I believe it's the best place to look for open source creation of PDF packages.
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Excellent... that is the feature I'm looking for. Do you know if any PDF software other than the full Acrobat Suite can make packages? – ewall May 24 '11 at 13:58
The Free (as in liberty) and free (as in beer) commandline utility pdftk is available for all major OS platforms (Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X). It has a sub-command to embed external files into a PDF. Try this:
pdftk.exe ^
original.pdf ^
attach_files file1.docx file2.xls file3.html ^
to_page 3 ^
output file-with-attachments.pdf
The attached files will be indicated to belong to page 3 of the output PDF. To de-tach the files embedded in a PDF, try this:
pdftk.exe ^
file-with-attachments.pdf ^
unpack_files ^
output c:\path\to\directory\
All attachments will then be stored in the named output directory.
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Y'know, I think I've used pdftk before to fix corrupted PDFs. (BTW, I accepted @music2myear's answer but gave you some points as well for answering the second part of the question.) – ewall May 25 '11 at 16:40
If you get cutePDF professional you can embed a file by doing this:
Tools menu > Commenting > Attach file
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I'd like to add a SHA, or some other kind of a hash to a Word (for Windows) document.
Is there a good program / macro that would help me with that? Or some kind of a tutorial somewhere on the net? Google didn't help.
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Are you trying to add a hash of the document to the same document, or are you trying to add the hash of document X to document Y? – Mike Insch Jul 28 '11 at 14:25
To the same document. It's a legal document I'm sending to someone to print, sign and send back to me via post. I want to make sure that the person doesn't change anything on the document. If I add a hash, if the person changes something, and I discover it after the fact, I may be able to prove in court that a change occured. – kolinko Jul 28 '11 at 14:34
The problem is that the very act of adding the hash will change the value of that hash - adding the hash will itself change the content of the document. – Mike Insch Jul 28 '11 at 14:48
What kind of "document" are you talking about? Also, you do not include the hash itself when you calculate the hash as that would indeed be pointless. Excluding the hash when you recalculate is not pointless. – Dour High Arch Jul 28 '11 at 17:01
Why not saving the document as a PDF file which cannot be changed unless someone has a full blown Adobe Acrobat but even then it is possible to secure your PDF. – Darius Jul 28 '11 at 17:37
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Despite the naysayers, this is actually a reasonable and useful thing to do. In fact, as @nik points out, it is already built in to MS Word; Insert → Signature Line.
However, the MS way requires obtaining a digital certificate from a certification authority. Those things cost money. You can easily create your own hashes without a certificate.
First download a hash generator like HashCalc.
Now a problem with generating hashes of MS Word documents is that Word constantly changes the document data for things like autosave, timestamps, the undo buffer, et al. You have to checksum the readable data, not the Word file. Do this:
1. Save your Word document as text, selecting UTF-8 as the encoding if you use any non-ASCII characters.
2. Run HashCalc on the .txt file, then copy the SHA1 or whatever hash.
3. Open the Word (not .txt) document and add the hash to the end of the document.
4. Send the hash-appended document.
5. The recipient can cut the hash from the document, save it as UTF-8-encoded text, then calculate the hash. It should be the same as what you sent.
6. The recipient sends you the payment or contract or whatever, plus the hash.
7. To verify the document, delete the hash and recalculate it as before. It must be the same as the recipient's.
One problem with this method is that it only considers the text, not things like graphics or formatting. If you need to hash those you will have to use a digital certificate in Word.
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To verify the document I can't delete the hash, because the document "to be verified" will be on paper :) But aside from that - this is the method I also discovered... I just hoped there would be an easier one. Thanks! – kolinko Jul 29 '11 at 9:23
I guess what you want to do is digitally sign the document.
Here is one reference -- Digital Signing of Microsoft 2007 Office System Documents
also see, Using an Electronic Signature in Word.
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Sorry, but I cannot comment on this site, yet, but I think what you are trying to do has no point, because: they can still change the document, the fact that you can put a hash in your document doesn't change that, and you cannot prove to any court that they didn't print the exact electronic copy that you sent them.
Why don't you send them the hard/paper copy for them to sign, in snailmail? While that may or may not work for you, the hashing won't help...
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Your points are right. But sometimes the time is short and we don't want to waste it by sending them a copy to sign. – kolinko Jul 29 '11 at 9:25
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I have a typical "Account Unknown" on many files from old/other Windows installations and there are a ton of typical answers everywhere.
However, I'm not looking for typical takeown, subinacl, xcacls or GUI solution. I'd like to change those unknown SIDs to known local SID but maintain permission types and inheritance.
So far the only thing close to what I'm looking for is PowerShell script: http://poshcode.org/2081 wich allows deleting unknown SIDs in network shares. It contains basic logic for finding unknown SIDs but I have yet to find a way to replace SID in FileSystemAccessRule object but I'm not that fluent in PowerShell or .NET.
If I'm not wrong, this article on MS TechNet is suggesting construction of FileSystemAccessRule and that can be accomplished.
Does anyone know if there is a better solution to this? Maybe there is an application, command line tool or cmdlet for this job?
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Why eliminate using subinacl when it is actually the right answer? – JdeBP Feb 4 '12 at 11:45
That would work only in cases when unknown accounts can be obtained. – AndyDeGroo Feb 4 '12 at 16:23
Otherwise it would take alot of batch coding to obtain all known accounts and compare them to each ACL. But maybe I can use combination of PowerShell and subinacl – AndyDeGroo Feb 4 '12 at 16:31
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In Powershell using Get-Acl and Set-Acl you can modify the ACL by manipulating the SDDL string.
First get the ACL object.
$acl = Get-Acl -Path C:\YourFile.txt
Now get the SDDL string:
$sddl = $acl.sddl
Now you can replace the SID in the string with what you want. This uses a regular expression to update partial matches.
$sddl2 = $sddl -replace "S-1-5-21-[0-9-]+", "ExistingSIDHere"
Then update the ACL object:
Then set the object's ACL:
Set-Acl -AclObject $acl -Path C:\YourFile.txt
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I think I overlooked SDDL option before. This must be it. The only problem is that your regex trows Invalid regular expression pattern: S-1-5-21-.+?) and after escaping that closing bracket it does not work as intended. I changed pattern to S-1-5-21-[0-9-]+ and it works. – AndyDeGroo Feb 6 '12 at 6:27
@AndyDeGroo Sorry, I didn't test the regex. Glad this worked for you! It was an interesting question :-) – Andy Arismendi Feb 6 '12 at 7:11
this solved the problem only partialy, because now it replaces any matched SIDs which can be existing users or well known group SID with domain part like S-1-5-21-{domain}-513 (Domain Users). I noticed this when it replaced owner group SID in SDDL string. – AndyDeGroo Feb 6 '12 at 7:56
@AndyDeGroo Right, either your regex search needs to be more specific or you can enumerate the SIDs and test if they exist and if they don't update the specific ones that don't. – Andy Arismendi Feb 6 '12 at 8:28
@AndyDeGroo I liked the question so I wrote a little post about it here. In the post I give you a way to dynamically determine which SID's can't be unresolved. Enjoy. – Andy Arismendi Feb 13 '12 at 4:37
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I am trying to set the value for keyword.url in the about:config page of mozilla firefox as https://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=.
But it is getting overidden quickly by the anti-virus that is installed on the machine to http://isearch.avg.com/search?.....
Can anyone help me out here, to setup the default search engine in firefox to google ?
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Uninstall AVG, or disable AVG's SafeSearch feature
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I was looking for options in AVG settings. The problem was, it has installed a addon in firefox, disabling which resolved the issue. Anyways thanks :) – mtk Jun 22 '12 at 21:16
@mtk If you found a solution, you can provide a new answer yourself. This will be helpful to other users with the same issue. :) – iglvzx Jun 23 '12 at 4:11
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Disable the AVG Firefox add-on. The default search engine would no more get over-written.
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I need to use my university's ssh access and run my programs there for testing. I don't have sudo access there. It doesn't have vncserver there either. I would work with vim and make but I need git at least. Now I am looking into rsync to sync my current source directory into a remote directory and I'll ssh into the directory and run my make file to test it. I am looking at the man page of rsync and it looks very complicated. Can anyone please help me with this? I have googled in superuser and all commands seem different for different cases.
Can anyone please help me with this?
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I use something like rsync -a --delete ~/Sites/site/ [email protected]:public_html to upload my website.
--delete delete extraneous files from dest dirs
-r, --recursive recurse into directories
-l, --links copy symlinks as symlinks
-p, --perms preserve permissions
-t, --times preserve times
-g, --group preserve group
-D same as --devices --specials
--devices preserve device files (super-user only)
--specials preserve special files
See also rsync over SSH with cron in osx-environment.
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I use "cd -" to switch between folders. like:
cd /etc/
cd -
but why "cd -" will print the address(like pwd)? How can I stop it print the address?
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SUS4 says:
When a - is used as the operand, this shall be equivalent to the command:
cd "$OLDPWD" && pwd
So, if you don't want the printing half of the behaviour, just do the first bit yourself:
cd "$OLDPWD"
Or the tilde expansion equivalent
cd ~-
Often if you need this, pushd / popd is a better albeit less portable choice.
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+1, don't know why this was downvoted since it certainly explains why it does what it does. Adding the bit that shows how to fix it. – paxdiablo Jan 19 '13 at 5:39
Dunno. Also added ~-, pushd, popd – ormaaj Jan 19 '13 at 6:09
Just redirect the stdout to black hole like this
cd - > /dev/null
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I don't like this, because it does double work: first is does a pwd which is than redirected to /dev/null. Why not just using cd $OLDPWD as ormaaj suggest? – Andreas Florath Jan 19 '13 at 10:12
Because it is more typing? And it uses some 'magic' environment variable? Granted, cd - is also a bit magical, but at the very least it is easier to remember. – JvO Jan 21 '13 at 0:52
This method is fine. It isn't "double work", it's just hiding output (the shell doesn't literally have to run through all the steps necessary to run two commands). You also have to hide output in a similar manner if using pushd/popd in a script. – ormaaj Jan 23 '13 at 4:00
The simplest way is not to use it. Run the commands in a separate shell:
(cd /etc/; ... )
This does not change the current working directory of the 'main' shell. This is typically more robust than using OLDPWD because you can have many cd commands here like
(cd /etc; ... ; cd /tmp; ... )
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That has different semantics though (especially if ... changes the environment) and creates an extra process. – Mat Jan 19 '13 at 12:59
Different semantics to what? IMHO it is completely unclear, what happens between the cd /etc and the cd -. If there are environment changes, you are completely right. If there are additional cds than maybe this is the better way. – Andreas Florath Jan 19 '13 at 13:24
What I mean is that (cd /etc; FOO=bar) and cd /etc; FOO=bar; cd -; don't do the same thing. – Mat Jan 19 '13 at 13:32
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Firiel (poem)
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Firiel is a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien which was published in 1934 within The Chronicle, Vol. 4. on pages 30-32. The poem was reprinted in a revised form as 'The Last Ship' within The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
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Analysis: Obsessed
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Funny: Hozumi Gouda
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Web Video: Teen Titans The Abridged Series
"As long as it's none of that wannabe-anime crap. That stuff is ruinin' Cartoon Network."
The Abridged Series of Teen Titans. Like other recent series, manages to avert Larynx Dissonance by having several voice actors of both sexes.
Posted on YouTube by Chaltab.
This series contains examples of:
• Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Beast Boy lampshades this in episode 10, but Cyborg tells him to "stop criticizing city planning and focus on the bomb".
• All Up To You: While Beast Boy and Raven stumble upon, work out and abandon a relationship on the sidelines, Cyborg is forced to take on Raven's "Trigon" personality shard by himself. He wins.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Played for laughs, but what's especially notable is that they stick.
• In "The Replacement", Blackfire successfully replaces her sister Starfire on the team.
• In "Aqualad Sux, L.O.L.", formerly "Deep Six", Trident and his clones conquer the world.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: parodied and lampshaded by Aqualad when he is talking about Trident:
Aqualad: On Atlantis, he is a criminal and I am a good guy, because he is ugly and I am pretty.
Raven: You are! You are!
• Big Damn Heroes: Beastboy refers to Aqualad as one in Episode 8.
• Black Comedy Rape: Implied, in a rare female example.
Cyborg: They stole my freaking arm while we were off-camera!
Starfire: That's better than what they did to me off-camera.
Beast Boy: T.M.I., Star.
• Wordof God is that Starfire was tickle-tortured, a "grave insult" on Tamaran.
• Brown Note, not quite Logic Bomb: Fix-It is defeated by being deluged with... Wedding Peach episodes. "Truly, a fate worse than dying."
• Captain Obvious: Aqualad calls Beast Boy this, who just responds "Hey, don't diss Captain Obvious! He's a cool guy!"
• Catch Phrase: "Sure, it's not like we have anything better to do."
• "This will require teamwork/Good teamwork!" while Robin defeats the enemy with one punch.
• "Sweet Cthulhu!"
• Character Exaggeration: Played with, somehow, regarding fake-Starfire duplicating Starfire's canon ludicrous ditziness.
• Comedic Sociopathy: Raven ("I hate all of you") as well as Robin and... everyone else, except possibly Cyborg.
• Lampshaded more than once in the Thunder and Lightning episode.
Robin: This city already has its own destructive jerks! The Teen Titans!
• Another example is a running gag where the Titans are confused when people refer to themselves as friends.
Raven: Destroying the national park didn't work. And destruction is all we know how to do!
• Crossover Ship: Beast Boy's nightmare is being in a Slash Fic with Sephiroth. invoked
• Depending on the Writer: Lampshaded by Starfire.
Robin: Are you an alien or just dense?
Starfire: The writers of this show could never seem to decide.
• Discriminate and Switch: When the Titans go clubbing
Beast Boy: I bet Cyborg can do a mean robot.
Cyborg: Oh sure, just because I'm black you assume I can dance.
• Do-Anything Robot: "[Cyborg's] machines can do anything the plot calls for."
• Don't Explain the Joke: Mumbo explains all his jokes and he still thinks they're funny.
• Driven to Suicide: Robin's Heroic Sacrifice in the season 1 finale is changed to this, as he realizes he's "trapped between two groups of idiots!"
• Follow the Leader
• Game Master: Bobcat's Dungeon Master Role in Episode 7 when the Puppet King attempts to use Starfire and Raven as slaves. Raven wants to make her and Starfire immune to the attack along with making Cyborg snapping out of the attack as well.
• Genre Savvy: Everyone, at some point or the other
• Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Raven lampshades how Puppet King is this by asking a lot of questions the actual episode didn't answer.
• A God Am I: Raven's gung-ho personality, who demands worship as lord and savior.
• Hypocritical Humor: Batman's reaction to episode 2 (see The Other Darrin)
Batman: I can't believe that Robin did that. You don't just replace a teammate and act like nothing happened! Where did he learn that kind of behavior?
Batman: Shut up, Jason.
Other Robin: I'm Tim!
Batman: Whatever.
• In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You: The blue fungus in the fridge says "food eats you".
• Interactive Narrator
• I Resemble That Remark: Starfire (well, Blackfire) oulls this off:
Robin: I think you should apologize [to Raven].
Beast Boy: Dude, she ruined breakfast! She should be the one apologizing!
Robin: I agree with you, but women are irrational creatures. It's why they always win arguments.
Starfire: I...am...not...IRRATIONAL! (bursts into tears)
Robin: (to Beast Boy) Look what you made me do. Now go apologize to Raven while I deal with Starfire crying for the next 3 hours.
• Lampshaded the Obscure Reference: In episode 11, after a few references were made, Robin wondered who declared it obscure reference day. He then gets annoyed when Starfire claims a Doctor Who reference would be obscure.
• Let Us Never Speak of This Again: According to Robin, what the team agreed to after their encounter with Mad Mod.
• Literary Allusion Title: episode four "How to be an Anime Without Really Trying" from "How to Succeed in Business...."
• Arguably episode five also, "Full Metal Panic!" referring to the manga series of the same name.
• Also, "All of Me," for the Steve Martin movie.
• Meanwhile, Back at the...: As ever, with a bit of Super Friends parody
• Some would say it manages to become an Overly Long Gag by the second episode.
• "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: The line "Actual Dialogue" will flash at the bottom of the screen if it's something particularly bad that the characters really did say.
• OOC Is Serious Business: In episode 3:
Robin: Titans, this will require teamwork!
Robin: No, this will require actual teamwork.
Beast Boy: That's new.
Robin: I know. I'm scared too.
• The Other Darrin: Blackfire replaces Starfire by the end of episode 2 and the others make sure she copies her completely so no one will notice.
• This apparently worked well in real life. Although she drops character every other episode, the Youtube comments always say "Oh yeah, I forgot she was Blackfire!"
• Running Gag:
• "History will forgive me! Just like Joseph Stalin and Benedict Arnold."
• "Soon after, at the Benedict Arnold Memorial Bridge..."
• "Later, back at the Joseph Stalin Memorial Park..."
• "Sometime later, at Genghis Khan avenue..."
• "A short time later, at Vlad the Impaler speedway ..."
• Schedule Slip: Episode Seven comes eight months after Six, with an Apology Vid about in the middle of the break. And then, Episode 8 came out a year after episode 7. Episode 9 finally came out, almost a year later. Episode 10 came out 2 months later. 9 months later was Episode 11 and 9 months after that finally came Episode 12 (which lampshaded how long it took to get there), which ended the season (they skipped Mad Mod).
• Self-Deprecation: Robin describes Slade as "almost as bad as the guys who make an abridged series of an 8-year-old cartoon show".
• Ship Tease: Word of God is they're aiming to do this for every ship. The biggest being when Robin and Raven's mutual Comedic Sociopathy ends with a "make-out session behind the tree."
• Or when Raven and Beast Boy break up after "dating for ten seconds".
Beast Boy: You're a hot girl who runs around in a swimsuit. Of course I like you.
• Shout-Out: Raven's 'destruction' quote above is a reference to a Futurama quote about 'murder.'
• There have been a couple references to Freakazoid, too; Raven "throws a barrel" at a monster in episode three, and the dance club in episode two plays the Freakazoid theme song. Also, Beast Boy uses the phrase Crud Vapors as an expletive.
• "Your dad[Trigon] is Vash the Stampede?!"
• When encountering multiple Ravens in her head, Cyborg's first guess is basically the plot to The Death of Superman.
• Something Else Also Rises: Apparently, the basis of how Starfire's flight works.
• Start My Own: Cyborg, with obligatory Futurama homage.
• Sure, Let's Go with That: Aqualad confesses to having no idea what Trident wants with nuclear waste. Robin suggests that maybe Trident thinks he's on Captain Planet and just pollutes as a hobby. Aqualad responds with this trope. (Unlike most examples, it's actually used in agreement)
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Starfire thinks of Robin in terms of "friendship and nothing else, and certainly nothing involving chains and hot wax."
• Take That, "second-rate magical girl anime!" (likely Affectionate Parody, considering TokuTenshi's involved...)
• Episode 5's closing stinger takes a shot at Family Guy's cutaway gags.
• Grant Morrison gets a knock at his unusual storylines in Episode 8, with the introduction of Pices the Aquadog.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: "Gravity trumps pink, bitch."
• Wonder Twin Powers: Thunder and Lightning take the form of a Deus ex Machina.
• Who Would Be Stupid Enough: Done with a flashback to the first episode. Gizmo could learn from Fix-It.
• Starfire's not an alien, she's just a cloud of swamp gas...
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This question was answered on 23rd of February 2010, 13:58 PM
How do I change my profile/bio info?
Posted by Jonell Galloway — 23rd of February 2010, 13:18 PM
I don't see where to do it. It seems to come from LinkedIn or Twitter.
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The data we have comes directly from Twitter. So, if you change you bio or anything else on Twitter, it should change accordingly on Twittercounter.
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The MoDisco role component introduced the "role" concept. A role is a kind of virtual class extension. Those "virtual classes" will never have instances. An object can conform to a role but can not be an instance of a role.
The goal of introducing the role concept is to be able to highlight some model elements having a specific role.
How to create a model role set
The first step is to create a MoDisco project.
Right-click on the MoDisco project and select the "New > Other ..." button.
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Select "Role Model" and press the "Next" button
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Choose a name for your model role set (My.roleSet in the example) and press "Next".
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Select "RoleSet" in the "Model Object" list and press "Finish"
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Open the "My.roleSet" file and open the "Properties View"
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Set the name of the role set and make sure that the role set name is the same as the containing file name ("My" in the example). The nsURI and prefix must also be filled.
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Load the resources containing the meta-model extended by the role set. To load a meta-model resource the user must use the "Load meta-model resource" action.
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Fill the "Extended package" field with the ePackages containing the virtually extended meta-model.
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Right click on the RoleSet element and choose the "New Child > Role" action to create a role.
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Set the role name and the class that the role will extend.
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To specify how to know if an object conforms to a role, we have to provide a boolean query. To provide this query we have to load the model containing its description.
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The query has to be referred to using the MoDisco protocol: "modisco:/query/<querySetName>". In the example, we use the "My" query set.
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Once the query set resource is referenced, we just have to select the query describing the role. In the example this query is named "isAbstract".
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At this step, if we save the model, the "red cross" should disappear from the file icon. This means that the role set model is now valid.
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If the role has specific attributes or references which can be calculated, we can declare them. In this example, we will declare an attribute indicating the number of abstract methods contained in the abstract class. To create a new role attribute right-click on the role element and select the "New Child > RoleAttribute" item.
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The role set is now ready to be used.
How to consult the MoDisco role set catalog through the UI
If a role set model is valid, it is registered in the role set catalog. To consult the role set catalog, we can use the "Role Set" view.
To open this view select "Windows > Show view > Other ..." in the menu bar and choose "Role Set" in the list.
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The "Role set" view presents the available role sets and their roles. For each role set the location of its description model is pointed out.
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How to programmatically use the MoDisco role set catalog
Here is an example of using the MoDisco role API. For more information please refer to the JavaDoc.
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject;
import org.eclipse.gmt.modisco.infra.query.core.exception.ModelQueryException;
import org.eclipse.gmt.modisco.infra.role.Role;
import org.eclipse.gmt.modisco.infra.role.RoleSet;
import org.eclipse.gmt.modisco.infra.role.core.RoleContext;
import org.eclipse.gmt.modisco.infra.role.core.RoleSetCatalog;
import org.eclipse.gmt.modisco.infra.role.core.exception.ModiscoRoleException;
public class Example {
public Integer getNbAbstractMethod(EObject eObject)
throws ModelQueryException, ModiscoRoleException {
RoleSet roleSet = RoleSetCatalog.getSingleton().getRoleSet("My");
RoleContext context = new RoleContext();
Role role = roleSet.getRole("AbstractClassDeclaration");
if (context.isInstance(eObject, role)) {
Object object = context.get(eObject, role
if (object instanceof Integer) {
Integer nbAbstractMethod = (Integer) object;
return nbAbstractMethod;
return null;
Role Meta-model Description
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The role meta-model extends the ecore meta-model and uses the query meta-model.
A RoleSet is a kind of EPackage. A RoleSet contains roles through the eClassifier reference. A role is a kind of EClass.
For a role instance, the eSuperType reference must be set to specify which class the role virtually extends.
The role class has one specific reference: conditionQuery. The conditionQuery reference points to the ModelQuery class. The model queries pointed to by the conditionQuery reference must return a Boolean. Those queries are used to specify how to decide whether an instance conforms to a role. If the conditionQuery is empty then all the instances of the class referred to by the role instance through the eSuperType reference conform to this role.
A role contains roleAttributes and roleReferences through the eStructuralFeature reference. The RoleAttribute and RoleReference classes have a common super class: RoleStructuralFeature. The RoleStructuralFeature has one reference named valueQuery pointing to the ModelQuery class. The valueQuery is used to compute the role structural feature value. The roleAttribute and roleReference must have the same type as the query they refer to.
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• Highborne Scroll
• "Keystone that can complete Night Elf archaeology artifacts with missing fragments."
• Sell Price: 10s
The Highborne Scroll is an archaeology keystone. It acts as 12 pieces of Night Elf Archaeology Fragments in research on Night elf archaeology finds that have 'sockets'. They can also be used in Cataclysm dungeons to grant a group wide buff. The buffs available are:
The Highborne Scroll is an uncommon find when surveying Night elf archaeology sites.
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Healthy joints: keep them moving
by Cathy Johnson
Most of us don't think about our joints until they cause us pain. But knowing a bit about your joints and how to look after them will help you keep moving.
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Our joints allow us carry out a myriad of everyday activities – so when they play up, it can be devastating.
Here are five important things to remember about keeping joints healthy.
Joints are not like light bulbs or car tyres
Throbbing knees, aching hips and sore ankles become more common as we age. Very often, worn cartilage is involved.
It's easy to assume a lifetime of activity is to blame; that with every movement our limbs make, we are literally wearing the cartilage in our joints away. But the idea our joints are like light bulbs or car tyres with a limited number of "uses" before their lifetime expires is simply untrue, says rheumatologist Professor Patrick McNeil.
Plenty of older people who've been active all their lives never develop osteoarthritis, he points out. And this misguided view can lead to people avoiding exercise, which has an important role in keeping joints healthy.
"I think it's a myth to make the general statement that exercise is bad for your joints or actually wears your joints out," McNeil says. "There's no evidence for that."
Exercise is (mostly) good for your joints
Exercise doesn't just help keep joints healthy; it's one of the best treatments for joints that are already damaged. While it's natural that when joints hurt, you want to avoid moving them, the movement actually performs an important job. Cartilage is living tissue but it has no arteries to deliver blood to it. Instead it relies on movement of the joint to create a pumping action that circulates fluid containing oxygen and nutrients.
Exercise also:
• decreases pain.
• helps maintain the mobility and flexibility of joints.
• improves muscle strength, which can help hold joints in their correct alignment, taking pressure off sore spots.
Regular exercise can also help you maintain a healthy weight, reducing stress on joints. And of course it has enormous general health benefits. The bottom line? It's much better to be physically active than to hold back because of your joints.
Know when to modify exercise
Generally speaking, your joints will let you know if your exercise is causing harm. But if you have been diagnosed with joint damage, or have pain that suggests damage, it's possible the wrong sort of exercise could make your arthritis worse. (Some discomfort in an affected joint is normal but substantial increased pain or swelling during or after activity may be a sign you need to modify your program.)
An exercise physiologist or physiotherapist can help you work out how to change your exercise regime to minimise joint pain.
Beware of overusing anti-inflammatories
People with arthritis often take anti-inflammatory medicines, also known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatories (NSAIDs), to help relieve pain. However, these medications can cause many side effects – some of which may be serious or life-threatening, such as an increased risk of stroke and internal bleeding.
When you're taking an NSAID, always use it cautiously and for the shortest time possible. If you need to use these medicines for a long time (for example, to manage the symptoms of arthritis when other therapies don't offer relief), make sure you see your doctor regularly.
Pain specialist and rheumatologist Associate Professor Milton Cohen says anti-inflammatories are overused in Australia, especially for osteoarthritis.
Though its name ends in 'itis' (which means inflammation), this is misnomer as osteoarthritis involves only low-grade inflammation, says Cohen.
NSAIDs should be more closely targeted to genuinely inflammatory conditions – the classic signs of which are swelling, redness and warmth of affected tissue.
For people with chronic pain, including pain associated with osteoarthritis, Cohen advocates simpler painkillers (such as paracetamol) combined with non-drug approaches. Non-drug strategies include changing the way the painful body part is used (where possible), and optimising sleep, diet and exercise.
Anti-inflammatories are best kept in reserve to use intermittently, says Cohen, as a "passport to activity" such as a weekly game of golf.
Noisy joints aren't all bad
Do your joints pop or snap? Or do they make more of a creaking, rubbing or grinding sound?
Noisy joints might be alarming, but not all noises are signs of a problem requiring medical attention. For instance, any movement that causes a sudden change in joint volume can make a cracking sound, says Deakin University pain specialist Dr Michael Vagg. (The noise you get when you crack your knuckles is one example. Long-term evidence has shown this habit to be harmless.)
It's thought these some noises come from sudden pressure and volume changes in the fluid-filled sac in joints, he says. This pulls some dissolved gases out of the fluid solution to form unstable bubbles that pop to make the snapping sound.
But rubbing or grinding noises, known as "crepitus", can be a sign of damaged cartilage, which can create rough surfaces (and even leave parts of bone exposed). Such surfaces can creak and grind when rubbed against each other. This is osteoarthritis and the noise is most common in the knee and the neck. And it can progress. But there's little you can do to prevent further cartilage deterioration and confusingly, it doesn't always correlate well with the pain a person feels. However, some forms of painful crepitus might be helped by physiotherapy to correct muscle weaknesses affecting the stability of joints.
If in doubt about your noisy joints, ask your doctor or physiotherapist to check them out.
Published 14/11/2013
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God, Good and Evil
Saturday 1 September 2012 5:00PM
The 20th century left a deep wound on the moral imagination of the West. From the atrocities of Auschwitz to Hiroshima and the bloodlands of eastern Europe, the sheer, undeniable presence of an "Evil" in this world engendered a kind of paralysis among many European thinkers, and even rendered a generation of theologians seemingly incapable of speaking about God. While the poignancy of those events may have subsided somewhat, their legacy lives on in the modern hyper-awareness that our lives are in jeopardy, that other people are potential, if not always actual, threats. Guided by poets, philosophers and theologians, this first in a two-part series will explore whether we have become so fascinated by the reality of evil, so aware of the ever-presence of threat in our world, that we can simply no longer imagine the Good.
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David Rutledge: Out of blood-soaked soil of the twentieth century grew a thicket of international institutions, criminal courts, law codes, human rights conventions - each symbolising the determination that humanity must never let this happen again. But did the twentieth century cost us more than just our cultural naiveté and our faith in progress? Did it also change the way we see each another, and the way we are able to ask and answer moral questions? Over the next two weeks, Religion Editor for ABC Online Scott Stephens takes us on a journey, along with a cast of guests, across the moral landscape of the twentieth century.
Scott Stephens: The twentieth century left a deep wound on the moral imagination of the West. From the book of Job to the Summa of Thomas Aquinas, trying to sort out the grammar of evil has always been an inextricable part of the attempt to speak about God. Or, as Herbert McCabe put it, "The problem of evil is not a question about what we are prepared to allow God to do. It is a question about what our language will allow us to say."
But in the aftermath of the atrocities of Auschwitz, the devastations of Hiroshima and the bloodlands of eastern Europe, and due to the moving testimonies of Robert Antelme and Elie Weisel, and the poetry of Ceslaz Milosz, the taut thread that held God and Evil in perennial tension seemed to snap - as the sheer, undeniable presence of "Evil" in this world called into question whether it made sense to speak about God any more.
In this two-part series of programs, I'll be exploring, with the help of some theologians, poets and philosophers that have had a deep impression on me, whether the twentieth century has left us so fascinated by the reality of evil, so aware of the ever-presence of threat in our world, that we in the West can simply no longer imagine the Good.
A constant point of reference on the problem of God, Good and Evil is the fourth century bishop, Saint Augustine of Hippo. For Augustine, evil simply cannot occupy the same space as God, as some kind of rival to divine power and goodness. Which is to say, for Augustine, "Evil" does not exist at all.
Benjamin Myers: Well, Augustine in his younger years really grappled with this question, and it wasn't a theoretical question for him, it was an intensely personal and compelling question. He fell in with a group called the Manicheans, who had their own extremely elegant and simple and rigorous solution to the question of where evil comes from. They simply said, "Well, there are some things in the world that are good, that were created by a good God, and there are other parts of reality that are inherently evil, and in fact are the product of a kind of evil creative principle in the beginning." So, what you see in history then, according to the Manicheans, is a kind of ongoing battle between those good elements within the world and evil elements, and the good is good all the way down and the evil is evil all the way down to its ontological foundations.
Scott Stephens: Theologian Benjamin Myers, from Charles Sturt University in Sydney.
Augustine, part of the process of his conversion to the Christian faith, was a really tormented struggling with this question, and he records this struggle in his Confessions. The solution he comes to in the end by way of many different attempts to overcome this intense problem, the solution he comes to in the end is, it's really the Christian understanding of God as creator that solves the problem for him. If God is the creator of the world, if God is the creator of everything, then everything that is, Augustine says, must be good. What's evil, then? Where does it come from? His answer is that evil is the malfunctioning of something that is good. In fact, he says, the only way you can even explain evil properly is when you understand that the only thing that ... So, he says there is no evil thing existing in the world; there is no positive evil, it's not as if evil's one of the different items within our world. Evil, rather, is that which is bent and distorted and malfunctioning in good things. So ...
Scott Stephens: Could you say, for instance, that evil is misguided? Evil is a proper desire, but a desire that's, if you like, become uncoupled from its proper object?
Benjamin Myers: Yes. So, for example, if you think of a ... if you think of a musical instrument, if someone plays a guitar and it's all out of tune, it's not that there is some evil thing called discord that has invaded that guitar; the thing that makes it out of tune is that its own virtue, its own proper nature has malfunctioned, and it needs to be tuned, it needs to be fixed.
Scott Stephens: Closely connected to Augustine's concept of evil as perversion and lack, rather than some sort of diabolical rival to the goodness of God, and indeed of creation, is his concept of sin. And yet, Augustine is far less pessimistic on this point than most people believe - certainly far less than contemporary political liberalism. John Milbank is professor of theology, philosophy and ethics at the University of Nottingham, and has been arguing for decades that an Augustinian political theory is both more realistic, and more hopeful than our modern democratic presumptions.
John Milbank: The point is with Original Sin: it doesn't say that we are evil. On the contrary, by nature we're good, we're created good by God, and we're created with good wills. But the point it that something has gone wrong. I think it's a realistic doctrine, in the sense that it's saying that we're all in this together, it's collective. Something has gone deeply wrong in human culture, human history, something is even wrong somehow in a mysterious way at the biological level as well. But the point about the doctrine of the Incarnation, the idea that God has assumed human flesh, for Augustine, is that this is a return to Paradise, the beginning of a transformation - that the original way we're supposed to be, and the original equation, can now be gradually restored.
And the strange thing is that modern political thought is far more pessimistic than Augustine, because it tends to start with the view that human beings are, by nature, egotistic and self-seeking. It tends to deny that human beings are naturally sympathetic towards other human beings and naturally charitable, naturally forgiving, and so on, and so an attempt is made to create order out of human egotism. This is far more pessimistic than Augustine. I mean, you could say that Augustine is realistic about human ego, but that he's extremely hopeful that human beings can be transformed, and start behaving differently.
Scott Stephens: The great Augustinian moral revolution was to demythologise "Evil," to strip it of any power of fascination by reducing it to the mere perversion or distortion of what is otherwise good. But the other side of Augustine's theology is that, if evil doesn't exist, then sin itself has a kind of tragic dimension to it. And indeed, what makes sin so awful is not that we are monsters, but that we are made in God's image and destined for divine communion, and thus capable of so much more. For Augustine, sin is our tragic, ridiculous attempt to be evil, against our very nature. As such, sin demands a more sympathetic than punitive response, born out of the recognition of solidarity in our shared weakness and stupidity.
But surely, to many post-war theologians and philosophers, this Augustinian vision could not but appear as a theological hoax, a cruelly inappropriate description of a world now defined by Auschwitz. I put this to Australian poet and theologian Kevin Hart:
Kevin Hart: I think you're absolutely right about the problem with Augustine, sympathetic as I am to Augustine. Augustine's view about evil, as you know, is that evil was a kind of absence or lack of the good, so it was somehow insubstantial. What happens with the Holocaust, the Shoah is it's very hard for people of any religious persuasion, or no religious persuasion, to see this as merely a lack; it seems that evil there took on a positive face. The Holocaust, Auschwitz was the great passion of the Jews, as Emmanuel Levinas says, and in completely agreeing with that I would add that it is a passion also, or should be, for Christianity. The most horrifying thing for Christians, it seems to me, the twentieth century, is the thought that the people who murdered Jews in a mechanical way at Auschwitz all knew their Catechism. Somehow the positive historical and theological knowledge of Christianity among people who are probably like you and I, did them no good whatsoever when it comes to making fundamental, and we would think, from this vantage point in history, quite elementary moral decisions.
So, the Holocaust, which remember, it took the Jews some 20 odd years to be able to write about, it was such a shock and felt to be such a shame, so it's only really been in the last 30, 40 years we've been able to digest this, with the death camps and the labour camps. Sometimes it's not even the murder of the Jews which is the most piercing thing; the most extraordinary book I've read on this is by Robert Antelme, called The Human Race, which to my way of thinking is the most extraordinary exposé of evil which we have in the 20th century. He tells about his incarceration in one of the labour camps. This is not the worst, this is not Auschwitz. Even so, the account he gives of each level of that society in the camp, of how the desire for food, the more primal desires for authority, to escape punishment, to escape disease, all of these things, how they brought out the absolute worst of people. Not just the SS, who it's easy to say are evil, but ordinary people, probably you and I, if we were there. Under these conditions, human beings immediately lose a grip on the Good, with a capital G, and start moving for the bad, with a lower case b at every opportunity ...
Susan Neiman: It was a turning point in our understanding of all kinds of things. The one thing that I absolutely refuse to do as a Jew, or at least I try to avoid, is that "my pain is worse than your pain" competitive victimhood stuff.
Scott Stephens: That's Susan Neiman. It is little wonder that, in the years immediately following World War II, the Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt would write that "the problem of evil will be the central problem for all post-war intellectuals." But as Neiman points out, so many of these intellectuals seemed to spend more time avoiding the problem of evil, than confronting it and its true nature. For them, the name "Auschwitz" had become a kind of cipher, the symbol of the unimaginable; and at the same time, "Auschwitz" had come to represent the terrible end point, perhaps even the ultimate judgment of the western tradition itself.
In the face of this moral paralysis that had gripped so much European thought, it paradoxically fell to Hannah Arendt, who wrote her dissertation on Augustine at the University of Heidelberg, to preserve the Augustinian perspective on evil.
Susan Neiman: It isn't that more horrible things or as horrible things haven't happened. So, you know, I'm not saying Auschwitz is the worst thing that ever happened to anybody. But because of the way and the place that it happened, and the amount of reflection that's taken place about it, it did mark a turning point in our moral thinking.
Now what's that? I don't think that all that many people have written terribly well about it. The great exception is Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem which has been massively misinterpreted ...
Scott Stephens: Absolutely.
Susan Neiman: For all kinds of reasons. So you get people saying, you know, the idiot claim that Auschwitz shows that the Enlightenment is evil or leads to totalitarianism. I mean this is one of my problems with Adorno and Horkheimer but it's become a standard thing to say, that Auschwitz showed that all roads lead to Auschwitz. It showed that progress in history is impossible. It's ridiculous, you know. But I think what was really devastating about Auschwitz, is the degree to which such incredible evil could be carried out with so few intentions, so little malice. And this is the great lesson of Arendt's book, what she calls a report on the banality of evil, which offended all kinds of people because they thought she was saying, you know, the evil that was done in the concentration camps was banal. She doesn't say that at all. She says it's not the evil that was banal, it's we who were banal. And of course the historians went after her and their questions about exactly her characterisation of Eichmann as somebody who was simply thoughtless, somebody who was simply, you know, he was following orders. He didn't hate Jews. He had no malice towards them. He wasn't a sadist. The one time he actually watched people being gassed it made him sick. So all of the kinds of motives that you ... you find in classic cases of evil, of individual evil, you know, malice, sadism, hatred - all of that - they weren't there. And nevertheless Eichmann himself the historians can continue to disagree about this, but even if they disagree about the man Eichmann, the Holocaust wouldn't have been possible without hundreds of thousands of people who behaved in exactly the way that Arendt said.
Scott Stephens: An avalanche of banality? The sheer accumulation of hundreds of thousands of individual acts of garden-variety bigotry and callousness and self-interest? Is this the reality of the Holocaust - not some monstrous, unfathomable, god-defying Evil, but simply we ourselves?
However we might measure the gravity of the Holocaust, what is certain is that the catastrophes of the twentieth century did reinforce the central presumption of western liberalism, from the political philosophy of Hobbes and Locke to the economic theory of Adam Smith - that egotism and even violence are fundamental, the bedrock of human nature. And that's why we need politics and law: to minimise the harm we would inevitably inflict on each other. But, there's a catch. For while liberalism seems incredibly modest in what it demands of people - that they do what comes naturally, that they simply act in their own interests - it does demand a sacrifice. What must be sacrificed within a liberal social order is the guiding concept of a Common Good, and along with it any belief in the goodness of others and indeed the capacity for moral judgment.
And so, in a social space in which it is assumed that everyone is acting in their own self-interest, it falls to the State to maintain civic equilibrium by waging a perpetual war against every discrimination, every exclusion, every form of harassment. In other words, the State is now responsible for the enforcement of what George Orwell used affectionately to call, "common decency." The question that remains, however, is whether liberalism is merely a realistic account of human self-interest - that it is simply descriptive - or whether it forms individuals who are self-interest - that it is normative. Can we, as a society, really survive without some guiding, constraining sense of the Good?
Richard Kearney: There is something in the modern epoch to which we all belong, which is governed by suspicion. And ultimately a form of fear and safety. National security. Home security. Locks on the door. And I think that comes from a certain belief that being is not good. That the world is not good; that the world is evil. This is purely from a secular point of view - and with some reason. We live after Hiroshima, the Gulags and above all the Holocaust. So any kind of notion of a naïve primary affirmation of the goodness of being, you know, has to have a sort of a health warning on it.
Scott Stephens: Richard Kearney is professor of philosophy at Boston College, and an international renowned poet and novelist. He has been one of the foremost English-speaking proponents of post-Holocaust European philosophy, and especially that of Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas - with whom he studied. And yet, Kearney finds himself increasingly dismayed by a kind of endemic pessimism, both in post-war philosophy and within western liberalism itself.
Richard Kearney: But I think in the process of sort of buying in to Hobbes's notion philosophically that it's a war of each against each, sort of radicalised by Levinas when he says that the self is nature and that human nature is actually one of evil, and that the best we can do is to have a bad conscience and struggle against our natures and try to go beyond being towards the good, because the good is not in being. It's not incarnate in being. It's not in the flesh. It's not in the other, except the other as a trace of some transcendence that is a goodness elsewhere.
So whether you look at that philosophically from Hobbes, running right up to Levinas, and many of the post-war sort of, how shall I put it, prophets of extremity and doom and deconstruction - although that can be sometimes misinterpreted - I think we need to retrieve some notion of the goodness of human beings. And another person very important in this too is Freud. Basically the libido, the drives of the flesh, the unconscious flesh, are basically for domination. However, there's another side of Freud which is Eros. There's Eros in the civilisation, and Eros, even though he felt that it was losing the war, he wrote in Civilisation and its Discontents, just as the spectre of Nazism was rising up I think it was 1933 he wrote the last note for that. He felt the […] the death instinct was an evil, was winning out over the good. He nonetheless did recognise in human nature that there was the possibility in the unconscious of an instinct for creation. And I think it's important to redress the balance. Freudian pessimism won out over Freudian optimism, and I would say the same thing about philosophical pessimism won out over philosophical optimism. And theological pessimism to some extent as well.
Scott Stephens: The Episcopalian theologian Marilyn McCord Adams, formerly regius professor of divinity at Oxford University, in many ways epitomises this theological pessimism, and our modern belief in the messianic character of political institutions.
Marilyn McCord Adams: Yes, I have a pessimistic view of human nature, and I have a pessimistic view of human institutions. In a sense, that drives my pessimistic liberalism - which is to say, human institutions are at best skilful means for organising us to pursue our lives, and that they are always going to generate systemic evils. This means that we must always be on the outlook for or the lookout for these evils and work to uproot them, and that that will be a continual process. And because we human beings are basically animals who are scared that we won't survive individually and collectively, we tend to in-group loyalties at best, right, and are easily provoked into out-group hostilities, and so on. And we're also not very smart, so we don't understand systemic properties very well. It's not that we plan all of these horrible things that our societies give rise to - they sort of are side effects, and we don't always notice them, because we need to keep believing that society's a good thing and so forth.
So, yes, I have a pessimistic view, and I think that what it calls us to as human beings is a kind of eternal vigilance; we can't just say, "Well, we're bad and so there's no point trying." We have to say, "Well, we're pretty challenged, but we need to roll up our sleeves and be realistic about ourselves, individually and institutionally, and work always to try to uproot, to spot and uproot the most egregious of the evils that we see."
Scott Stephens: And yet philosophers like Alasdair MacIntyre have cast serious doubt over the sustainability of a society that simply tries to minimise harm, that exhibits an overreliance on Law, and that fails to nurture a more holistic, consensual vision of a Common Good. MacIntyre even goes so far as to say that, while of course we cannot do without Law, the fact that law is a point of constant recourse in the settling of almost any interpersonal dispute and in the domain of almost any social conflict, suggests that, to some degree at least, our moral relations themselves have broken down. That, as MacIntyre puts it, "the motives which make us invoke the law are those of fear and self-interest. And when fear and self-interest have to be brought into play, law itself tends to be morally discredited."
For MacIntyre, this sacrifice of a common vision of the Good leads us to privatise the good, to subject "the Good" to our predilection for choice.
Some who has adopted, and at several points even sharpened, Alasdair MacIntyre's critique of the liberal social order is Stanley Hauerwas. Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University, and he himself has been profoundly shaped by the theology of Saint Augustine.
Stanley Hauerwas:Part of Alasdair's critique also involves a compartmentalisation which leads to the fragmentation of our lives. And that compartmentalisation therefore makes it very hard to conceive of a whole human life, which he wants to argue requires a understanding of the good that is a teleological conception that is very complex. It's not like you know the good in a singular fashion, since, as someone deeply shaped by Aristotle, Alasdair thinks that eudaemonia- that is, happiness- is a complete life of complete virtue, which means that you probably have discovered the good when you're dead.
And I'm… and that good is very complex, because your life is complex. Now, exactly what I take to be the case is we don't have a conception of what a whole human life would be about and therefore, given your descriptions, which I very much agree with, what the moral life is conceived of is the attempt to avoid harm. So it's not accidental that political theorists like the late Judith Shklar, a great figure, thought therefore that you understood your own life as well as political life as fundamentally the attempt to avoid cruelty. So you could come up with an account of cruelty separate from what it means to be good.
I take it that that is in some ways an articulation of Mill's harm principle; namely, that we really don't know what we should be about, but we do have some sense of what it means to avoid harm. And therefore what you get within liberal social orders is negative displays of what the moral life is about, rather than positive accounts.
Scott Stephens: Liberalism has been described as "the realm of lesser evil" - it's not that it embodies some over-arching political vision, but it simply exists to ensure that harm is minimised. For some, especially in the wake of the catastrophic twentieth century, that cannot but appear as a welcome development. After all, what's more valuable to us than peace? What means more to us that health, safety, and the opportunity to pursue pleasure? For others, this is a worrying development - the loss of a sense of goods held in common, and along with it thick conceptions of social and communal life, will be deeply mourned. For Marilyn McCord Adams, it is contemporary pluralism itself that renders the Common Good irrelevant.
Marilyn McCord Adams: You can't have common values in a pluralistic society, the same way that you might've had in a small village in the Middle Ages or a small farming community in the 19th century rural mid-west or something like that. You don't have the same sort of agreement of values, and one might think that has downsides, and it does have downsides, but pluralism also has upsides. When you think of Bellah's Habits of the Heart, and it sort of valorises the New England small town, but I tell you, I came from a small town in the rural mid-west, and it's very oppressive for people who don't fit in to the small diet of roles and who don't necessarily agree with the values that are being enforced.
So I think pluralism has prices - there's a way in which liberal society attempts to manage pluralism in a way that is socially tolerable and which will avoid the types of evils that can come out of conflicts of values. I guess I still believe, perhaps naively, that liberal institutions are necessary, because pluralism is a fact. I think it's nostalgic to say, "Oh, would that we could be back to that common sense of the meaning and purpose of life, and a common culture" and so on and so on. We're not going to go back to that, we're not going to evolve into that any time soon. So it's very uncomfortable, and it can be nasty at times because people are fighting for their ways of life, on which they think their survival depends. So it gets nasty, but I think that makes liberal institutions all the more important for managing the transition.
People can say, "We've become so litigious because, you know, it's too bad that we can't settle these things in a town meeting, face to face negotiation," or something like that. Well, that's not practical when society's gotten so big. It reminds me of the transition in antiquity from a clan organisation to Roman law. While people are saying, "Well, the clan should settle these things" - you know, "You bumped off one of my relatives, I'm going to bump off two of yours, and if we were persons of honour we would take care of these disputes ourselves." But the law comes in and says, "No, you're not; when it escalates to a certain level of harm, to other human beings, we're going to manage the conflict resolution and you're going to abide by it." And I think that was a good thing.
I don't know why society's gotten so litigious. Partly it's greed, I think, but I don't think that one should be regretting law, law as a means of conflict resolution, because in a large society it's necessary. You should be working for good laws that will entertain sensible suits and render reasonable verdicts and so forth, and not be regretting that we have to resort to courts of law to settle disputes.
Scott Stephens: Within political liberalism, the institutions of law and state have acquired a kind of messianic status, as the custodian of whatever common good we have left and the bringer of peace on our otherwise conflicted times. For some theologians, this elevates the state to a kind of idol; but for theologians Marilyn McCord Adams and Benjamin Myers, belief in the goodness of our political order - or rather, its potential to bring order - is part of one's confidence in God's providential care for creation.
Marilyn McCord Adams: I do subscribe to that, and it's because I'm pessimistic about human nature. You know, it's nicer to aim higher, but the trouble is we're not good enough or smart enough to aim higher without being nasty to each other - even nastier than before and more coercive. Now, as for God, I mean, I think that our hope is in God. You know, I'm a Christian, I'm an Episcopal priest and I'm a theologian, a Christian theologian, and I think that what holds out hope for humankind and for the meaning of human life and human society is God. Only God is good enough and smart enough to organise utopia, but God is trying to get through to each of us individually and to groups of us to win our cooperation, and to the extent that we in stumble-bumbling ways try to cooperate, then that's a little light along the path. But God isn't working with promising material, yet God is in my view able to bring it off.
There are two messages of the Bible that I think give me great hope in the face of realism about evil: one is that God is in solidarity with us in the incarnation, that God came to be part of our world and to suffer the worst that we can dish out; and, secondly, that God is big enough and powerful enough and resourceful enough to make good on the worst that can happen - that God can make good on anything, even after it's already too late. Those are the things that give me hope and keep me at it.
Benjamin Myers: Every political order is inherently good, it's part of God's creation, it's part of God's blessing on human life - that we don't have to live alone, but we dwell together in societies and we support one another and we have interaction with one another and we have language and the ability to use signs and to communicate. All of this is an enormous divine blessing on human life, and yet it's like that stringed instrument, it's like the guitar: any human society, once you strum those strings, there's something discordant, there's something that's gone wrong. And Augustine understands, therefore, every social institution, every political order as both inherently good, good in itself, in what God designed it for, and also corrupt, because they are always tending towards, instead of creating situations of human flourishing and of human community, they tend towards power and control and the lust to dominate, as he calls it.
Again, Augustine does not think that the solution to evil in the political order is to smash political systems. If you have an out-of-tune guitar, you can't fix that problem by smashing the guitar; it takes a slightly more delicate and a much more patient process of tuning and listening, and Augustine thinks of Christian. Augustine thinks of political and social conditions as something that call for both love and compassion, because we look at them, as we look at any other of God's creatures, as something that is good and noble and yet so tragically flawed and so tragically malfunctioning that you can barely even distinguish the good from the evil.
I think one of the things that's so powerful about Augustine's view of, not just of personal evil, but of social evil and the way we should respond to that is that when you look at the things that have gone wrong in the great social and political experiments of the past century, in every case one of the basic things that goes wrong is that there is some group within society that defines the current social order itself as inherently evil. Whether the solution is a revolutionary destruction of the present order and of those people who've supported it, or whether it's in the opposite direction, a kind of fascist extermination of those impure, corrupting, inherently evil element s within an inherently good society. In both cases there is this hatred of reality, a hatred of human society, and a hatred of the particular social order in which one finds oneself.
This doctrine of evil that underlies so much modern political philosophy and political practice, this doctrine of evil has for its dangerous flipside a doctrine of the nation-state as the bringer of salvation. The way the nation-state wields the sword, as Augustine would say, the only tool the nation-state has for bringing salvation is violence, and therefore you get this horrifying catalogue of modern projects of exterminating violence from society and trying to bring the end of the world, basically; trying to bring that final separation between good and evil. Augustine's political vision is a powerful tonic against that tendency, because it gives you a vision which takes seriously the evil in every social order and yet the stance of the Christian and the stance of the individual towards their social order has to be one, fundamentally, of love and of compassion.
Anywhere where hatred of reality creeps into a political theory, the demons of political salvation are lurking just around the corner with their knives in hand, and Augustine, especially through his doctrine of the last judgment - that it's only Christ who will bring salvation to the earthly city, it's only Christ who will separate what's good and evil in our societies and our political orders. His doctrine of the last judgment ends up being profoundly compassionate and a profoundly realistic way of committing oneself to one's own social order without ever worshipping it.
Scott Stephens: For Augustine, the respite from violence that the state brings is, providentially, the space God gives us for the pursuit of a more lasting peace. The great temptation, however, is to mistake the absence of all-consuming violence for the more substantial peace that arises from the patient determination to live together.
Just take, for example, the way that human rights language has come to operate. For many jurists, the inherent, inalienable rights accorded to human beings are little more than necessary fictions designed to prevent certain wrongs, rather than a more substantial belief about the dignity and sanctity of human life. But as Pope John Paul II warned, with characteristic foresight, this has led to a propensity to believe that when we show others minimal respect or offer them basic forms of protection, we are giving others their due - and that we are thereby absolved of the greater demand to love.
This means, of course, that there is something inherently risky about the liberal presumption that the best of all political orders is one in which people are released from any common destiny, and thereby set free to pursue the various and often capricious destinies we give to our own lives. Such a political order cannot help but elevate individual choice to the status of the chief of all virtues, and, in turn, regard obligations to others as a threat to our freedom.
And yet, at precisely this point, I'm reminded by Augustine's maxim that true freedom isn't the ability to choose what we want; it's the ability to choose the good. Which is why, for Augustine, the truest form of freedom is the inability to sin.
But as Stanley Hauerwas insists, in the wake of the violence of the twentieth century and in view of our hyper-awareness of the threat posed by the presence of others, part of our problem today is that we simply don't find the Good interesting enough. It hasn't seized our imaginations the same way that evil and even the blood-soaked theatre of war can. And so, for Hauerwas, it has never been more important to insist on Augustine's dismantling of evil's power of fascination.
Stanley Hauerwas: Well, obviously I take the classic view that evil does not exist ontologically. And that's why it's so powerful- because it's so parasitic on our deepest desires- and why so oftentimes the most profound evils that are perpetrated are done in the name of the good.
And so what seems paradoxical is the claim that evil is literally nothingness and yet is so powerful. I mean, how can you call shoah "nothingness"? You do it because- and it's explicable as nothingness in terms of its power- exactly because, to use language that most people won't like, the devil is so unbelievably angry at being nothing, which makes the devil so unbelievably clever. And I think that what we lack, therefore, as we started off the conversation, is an account of God's goodness that is determinative of how you are able to even begin to talk about evil. And that seems to me to make most of the talk about evil that is used today unintelligible, exactly because you don't have how it is parasitic on a more determinative understanding of the good, because...
I mean, if God does not exist - at least the God we worship and Jesus Christ - then evil becomes far too necessary to make our lives coherent. And we therefore, we produce it in ways that I think become quite literally demonic. And I think we live in that kind of world.
Scott Stephens: I remember Karl Barth saying, on the question of demons, that rather than obsess about them, or rather than trivialise them, the proper thing is to deny their existence as an act of faith.
Stanley Hauerwas: Right. Absolutely. No, that's ... what he meant by deny their existence was don't let them have you, because you don't want ... I mean, evil is so wonderfully compelling that it can be absolutely beautiful and seize our imaginations in ways that we find it hard to resist, it seems to me. So, I mean, no matter how much suffering is required or involved in that, even our own, it still seems to me it's unbelievably attractive.
Scott Stephens: You've said exactly the same thing about war.
Stanley Hauerwas: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Scott Stephens: But I think what's interesting, I can't ... every time I hear you talk about this I can't help but think of William James's great essay, "The moral equivalent of war."
Stanley Hauerwas: I know it well.
Scott Stephens: In which, as you know, he says that while we must do without war, we cannot do without war, precisely because war provides us with certain conceptions of manhood, of hardiness, of courage, of discipline, and without those things all we are left with is becoming knee-deep in ... I think he uses the phrase, "the pleasure economy."
Stanley Hauerwas: Right. Oh, he does. That's right.
Scott Stephens: So, if there's this ...
Stanley Hauerwas: ... Victorian male.
Scott Stephens: Oh yes. If there's this analogy here between the attractiveness, the seductiveness of war as almost giving our lives a dimension of meaning that we otherwise do not have, there's a kind of analogy there with evil as being attractive, as being seductive, then what is - to draw the analogy with James - what is the kind of moral equivalent of evil? What is it that can replace that attraction, that fixation, almost the fetishisation of evil?
Stanley Hauerwas: The hard work of peace. The hard work of peace. Because peace isn't just there; it is an activity that is to transform the soul in a way that helps us fear God rightly. And so, interestingly enough, fear becomes not servile fear, what Aquinas called "filial fear," becomes a way that we discover that we can live at peace with God and one another. And that is an ongoing exercise that isn't finished quickly.
Susan Neiman: ... you see, if evil can be banal or if evil can arise out of hundreds of banal actions, so can goodness, right? And then I think it becomes very very important not to talk in, you know, large and abstract terms but to look at real human beings. And look at, you know, really look at the details. What are different kinds of evil? Does evil just come in one kind? Well actually no, of course not. There are all different forms of it. Well does goodness only come in one kind? Of course not.
Scott Stephens: That's Susan Neiman, who rightly moves us beyond politics and social order, and into the interpersonal domain where the hard work of peace takes place. As many have observed, one of the defining features of modern liberalism is the pre-eminence given to individual choice - choice as an inherent good. That we have cut ourselves free of what traditionally has defined us: our family and communities, our moral and civic duties, our obligations to the past and the future, and even our biological inheritance and gender. In turn, we insist on being determined by nothing other than what we choose for ourselves, and oriented toward nothing but our own health, safety and pleasure.
This is perhaps best manifested in our fear of being dragged into the service of our unwanted elderly and our inconvenient unborn. It is also reflected in the increasing desperation with which voluntary euthanasia is being legislatively pursued in the West, where the fear of the slow loss of autonomy in old age has usurped the fear of death. It is also apparent in our intolerance of bodily imperfection in ourselves and others. Here's Richard Kearney.
Richard Kearney: So there is something about coming back to the goodness of being in the body that I think is very, very important. Because there's a fear of the body. There's a fear of the disabled, there's a fear of the dying. Look at how in our most advanced forms of western civilisation we put the disabled away. We put them into homes, very well financed hopefully by the state and so on. Or we put them into communities set apart, or we feel ashamed of them and hide them away. Ugliness, poverty - you know they're cordoned off into some part of the city or some part of society where we don't see them. And death is a perfect example of that. Corpses. I mean it's not like the old days in Ireland, where I grew up, where there was the wake. The body would be there for two or three days. You see it. You touch it, you smell it. And that's part of letting go of somebody. It's not this perfectly, cosmetically reconstructed body which looks more beautiful than the person ever did in their lives.
The extraordinary thing about Dorothy Day is she was a very, very committed Christian but at the same time, in her diary she talks about making love with the man she loves. Comes back, having been out fishing on a wharf in New York, and the smell of fish and salt water off his body, and then she'll go out and feed the poor and the homeless and so on and receive the Eucharist, and the two are not separate for her. And Jean Vanier who talks again and again about the importance of incarnation - Christian, but at the same time human, human incarnation, and vulnerability. It's one of his key terms. That in being afraid of the wounds of the other, the wounded person, the disabled first and foremost in his case, we're afraid also of our own wounds. So we have to be vulnerable in our bodies. We have to accept the wounds of our bodies in order to recognise and be open to the wounds in the other. And then there can be a celebration of the beauty of woundedness. That's not masochism. It's not miserable-ism. It's actually that in our finitude and mortality there is a beauty.
Stanley Hauerwas: Yeah. I say in a hundred years, if Christians are known as a strange group of people who don't kill their children and don't kill the elderly, we will have done a great thing. (Laughs) I mean, that may not sound like much, but I think it is the ultimate politic. I mean, if we can just be a disciplined enough community, who through the worship of God has discovered that we are ready to be hospitable to new life and life that is suffering, then, as a matter of fact, that is a political alternative that otherwise the world will not have.
Susan Neiman: There's a lot of talk about brokenness of the modern self. I mean, there is something about being human, at least after we left the Garden of Eden, that is permanently broken because we have a conception both of the way the world is and of the way the world ought to be. And to be honestly human is ... you can say this is why we have two eyes and two ears, it's to keep one eye and one ear on each side of that equation and not try to collapse them. Most people do try to collapse them. Because it's much much easier to live that way. It's much easier to say eh, ought, you know, childish wish fantasy. The world is the way it is, and it's naïve to think that it can be any better. And, you know, or there are of course fanatical ideologues who go in the other direction. But I think to be an honest human being involves recognising brokenness. I absolutely adore the songs of Leonard Cohen. I don't know if he's somebody who means something to you, but you'll recognise his the line, "There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in" - just, you know, magnificent.
Scott Stephens: That's where we'll leave our first part on God, Good and Evil. Next week, part two on why we need the example of the saints and the courage of moral heroes to recapture a vision of the Good. Thanks to Jim Ussher for technical assistance, I’m Scott Stephens, hope to catch you next week for part two.
Benjamin Myers
Lecturer in Systematic Theology, United Theological College (Charles Sturt University), Sydney
John Milbank
Professor of Religion, Politics and Ethics, and Director of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, at the University of Nottingham.
Susan Neiman
Moral philosopher and Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam.
Kevin Hart
Richard Kearney
Marilyn McCord Adams
Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina; previously Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University.
Dr Stanley Hauerwas
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• Italo Giardina :
01 Sep 2012 8:09:33pm
Is the philosophers' god the god of the neo libertarians? The 'greatest being of none greater that can be conceived' said a pre modern theologian. Though could this 'greatest' or 'all' along with attributes such as power,knowledge, ad good equate to what is out there as mind independent properties? Libertarians would like to think so, though realists seek quantifiable evidence, of which there is none when it comes to 'power' not to mention 'knowing' . So imagine knowing every particle in the universe (its easy), as well as power to move those particles (that hard). Add to this the 'all good' property. If suffering is not good , then the hard nosed realist inside the libertarian might even cite this as evidence for the non existence of a perfect being (problem of faith or belief and unbelief). This is the realist creep factor that libertarians dread. Constructivist have no problem with the identity of god, how ever such is the nature of construction that it leads to relativism and so the moral anchor is set adrift. Libertarians are prone to the hubris of moral universalism, so cannot except the constructivist claim to relativism. Libertarians also are committed to rejecting a realist account of power. It's preposterous to contemplate equating to properties of the world as the power of virtue, or 'the good'. It's a mind dependent quality that accesses 'free choice'. This leaves libertarians in a predicament of being committed to a real god, but a god that is not 'too real' to equate with arranging the structure of space/time so as to bring on the best of all possible worlds. Libertarians come full circle to 'go figure' how to avert a worse off world that could be possibly imagined as true.
• Sue :
02 Sep 2012 6:57:05pm
• A.Dillon :
05 Sep 2012 3:05:46pm
And locally let's not forget the First Nation of Terra Nullius....
• Adam Burke :
07 Sep 2012 9:30:04pm
You have chosen to take up our time and attention so would you please make your literally nonsensical "the First Nation of Terra Nullius" intelligible if you can in fact spell out what you want to say.
• John :
03 Sep 2012 1:19:32pm
To me the distinguishing feature of this interview was how superficial most of it was. Even more so because in some circles these Christian talking heads are considered to be hot shot or leading edge theologians.
Theology of course has nothing whatsoever to do with Truth and Reality. All of it, just like secular philosophy, is brain created language games.
Furthermore I would argue that appeals to someone (Augustine) who lived 1600 years ago as the presumed "authority" by which to assess the state of the now instantaneously interconnected quantum world of 2012 is indicative of the moral, intellectual and cultural bankruptcy of the Christian world-view.
Although in some sense I admire what Alasdair MacIntyre has to say, even he has to refer to the old-time 'authority' (medieval dreams) of Thomas Aquinas, and, even worse, Aristotle who lived 2300 years ago.
• Terry :
04 Sep 2012 12:42:48pm
Dear John
Where are you? Haven't you had a past? Do your ancestors have nothing to say to you? Do you know anything that Aristotle, Augustine or Aquinas actually had to say about the good life, about truth and beauty?
• Peter H :
04 Sep 2012 1:13:26pm
Why argue with him, he obviously missed the point of the program and is just weighing in with the usual stale prejudices. It's what passes for religious debate in this country, so I suppose we have to live with it. Thankyou Radio National for continuing to bash your head against the brick wall.
• Mme Owl :
06 Sep 2012 6:01:42am
Hey Peter. I think John not only got the point but he may have 'got it'; in many ways more reliably than a lot of others. To have this so called analysis, or critical look at issues around good and evil, and expect them to be swallowed by non-believers without providing any real intelligable reasoning other than because it is stated in the Bible or because one of our religious philosophical ancient thinkers pronounced it so, is arrogant. There was hardly any rigour applied to some of the reasoning, and assumptions about the existence of evil, the devil, demons and so on, were brought up without any further explanation deemed necessary. It was not the theological aspect of the discussion that rubbed, but more so the lack of credibility, logic and explanation that I found most irritating. I will listen again and hope that other guests provide a more illuminating look at this unendingly fascinating subject.
• David Miller, Atheist Society :
06 Sep 2012 3:54:35pm
Despite Scott Stephens' opening quote from Herbert McCabe, we do have the language with which to discuss gods and the reality of evil. It is Zoroastrianism that has the prior relevance to this issue, and not Manichaeanism. The latter is a gnostic reformation of Zoroastrianism.
Whilst his people were being rescued from the Babylonian Exile by the Persian Empire, Second Isaiah stood up against the Zoroastrian concept of an equally powerful God of Evil who opposed the good Creator God. In so doing, Second Isaiah inaugurated the 'Problem of Evil'.
• Adam Burke :
07 Sep 2012 9:22:33pm
Thank you for that information which I accept without checking elsewhere. Sounds plausible but I offer the solution to the problem of evil that there isn't any problem if you assume that God, being made in our image (logically, taking Genesis as correct) was selfish like us and, being bored and lonely as one would be if eternal and omniscient, simply set the show going for his diversion and entertainment.
• David Miller, Atheist Society :
10 Sep 2012 1:11:00pm
Adam, please do check. However, your solution is as good an explanation as any as to why the omnipotent (all-powerful) God of the Bible does not destroy the Devil when he obviously has the power to do so. God's 'game' seems to be to trick the Devil into thinking that he, Satan, can win the game by seducing most of the human souls. And just when Satan thinks he's won, whammo! Armageddon; the end of the world; the Second Coming. According to the Christian Fundamentalists, Jesus and the remaining loyal angels will then destroy the Spawn of Satan (that's all seven billion of us, minus the small number in the particular sect which will gain Salvation).
Zoroastrianism (circa 1400 BC, Bactria) is the origin of the major concepts of the Abrahamic religions. In the dualistic polytheism of Zoroastrianism, the good creator god (Mazda) does not have enough power to destroy the evil god (Ahriman) without humans first making the choice to help him. Ahriman's weapons are storms, floods, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. As well as blight, disease, deterioration, decay and death.
On the other hand, Manichaeanism (240 AD, Babylon) was a pacifist religion. Its founder, Mani, believed that if goodness attempts to destroy evil, then it is evil too.
• John :
05 Sep 2012 11:43:45am
I would suggest that we throw these now archaic 'authorities' away with both hands. Because their legacy is quite literally killing us.
James Joyce wrote: History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Following on from that that I say that western philosophy/'theology' is also a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. And the his-story thus created by that philosophy/'theology'.
Aristotle, more than any other philosopher, is responsible for the dismal materialism that mis-informs the consciousness of Western man (particularly males). To the degree that there is now not the slightest hope of rising above the mortal vision. No ecstasy. No beauty. No real transcendence. Ecstasy totally outlawed or verboten.
Both Augustine and Aquinas were, in their own way responsible for promoting and cementing the deeply misogynist mind-set that has always misinformed the Western mind too.
Altogether the root motive of the Western mind inherited from these three has been about power and control.
History (his-story) as we know it is essentially an ideological construct created by Western males. History is the dream/nightmare of reason. As long as man believes in this dream and seeks to acquire an historical identity, he remains unconscious of the fact that he is a bridge between the cosmic realms of heaven, and of earth. Within the dream man's hopes will always focus on a future utopia, while all around him he collectively creates a kakatopia, a psycho-technological intensification of hell on earth. His only escape from this fatal circle or mind created destiny is to wake up from the dream and Realize a cosmic, mythic, and fundamentally timeless ECSTATIC identity.
Time, distinguished from space, sequentialized into his-story, intellectualized into units of hours, minutes, and seconds, and further abstracted into money, loses its pyscho-bilogical significance. The source of this misunderstanding can be found in the orthodox Christian doctrine of the presumed uniqueness of the event of Christ, which alone givves meaning to ALL other events. From the Christ-event to the hoped for Second Coming, in the Christian view, all human activity takes place in unrepeatable units, 'redemption' being possible ONLY by relation to this presumed unique Christ-event.
The anti-ecological force of the Christian view lies in its false assertion of a significance for humans separate from that of nature. Nature is by implication corrupt, lacking either soul or intelligence.
But the world IS our body. We are completely entangled in it at many levels, both visible and invisible (and Cosmic too).
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• invig :
06 Sep 2012 3:43:07pm
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• Frederick :
03 Sep 2012 1:46:26pm
At the time of the Renaissance, a profound paradigm shift occurred in the consciousness of Western man (male and female). There was a shift from a culture centered on the "God"-idea as defined by the "Catholic" church, to a culture centered on the human individual as his/her latent potential.
The Renaissance was the collapse of the "God"-civilization that preceded it. A civilization-based om mythologized presumptions of what was traditionally conceived to be spatially "behind" and "above" the world.
With the Renaissance, "God"-myth-based civilization was replaced with human-based civilization, or ego-civilization, the civilization based on the myth of the separate human ego-"I". That ego-civilization came to its essential end in the twentieth century.
The old civilization was ego-based and ego-bound. The old civilization idealized the ego, and it ended with a world of egos destroying one another. In fact it essentially destroyed itself beginning with the First World War - the Second World War finished off the process begun in the First.
At the present time there is less and less true civilization left in the world. Now nothing but narcissistic ego-culture remains and the consequent human devastation.
That destructive course is in fact still happening. It must be stopped, but it cannot be stopped merely by force, or my naive talking head "theology". Indeed the mind-set that does "theology" IS itself THE problem.
The present-time human world is fragmented and studified, utterly misled by the grossest kind of deluded thinking about "reality".
For a perfect example of how insane the humanly created world now is I would suggest that viewing some/most/all of the speeches made at the GOP convention (and the groteque event altogether) is all the evidence that any (still) remotely sane human being needs.
• John again :
04 Sep 2012 4:49:54pm
The craziness that may be observed in the world is the manifestation of a universal, and therefore, dangerous, collective human insanity that is becoming more and more profoundly destructive day by day. There is a profound conflict in the heart and mind of humanity in the present epoch. A conflict resulting from its own false and ego-made doctrines, its own aggressive dissiciation from Reality Itself.
The science of materialism and the ordinary religion of anti-materialism are equally false, because they are visions made by the double-minded ego. They are not manifestations of Truth, but merely products of the conditional suffering, and the defensive ego-efforts, of human being.
Despite the seeming erudition and insight of the old-time 'authorities', they too were double-minded egos. Who each in their own way were very much convicted of, and thus advocates for the ancient 'spirit' versus 'flesh' fight to the death dichotomy that has always misinformed the entire Western cultural project. Indeed they helped to create the mind-forged-manacles in which we are now all trapped.
Which is to say that the dreadful situation with which we are now all faced did not just suddenly happen overnight. It has deep roots in the very assumptions at the root of Western culture altogether. It is the product of habits of thought and self-divided being that have been the norm for at least 2500 years.
Habits of thought and self-divided being that are passed on from generation to generation by what we call education. Which is to say that the sins of the fathers have always been visited/inflicted upon the bodies of each new generation.
Unfortunately that dreadful archaic cultural script has now reached its inevitable end of game.
The entire social and cultural game of antisexual 'spirit' against 'flesh' education and culture is so montrous, so opposed to incarnate happiness and human responsibility, as well as the ultimate transcendental sacrifice of the individual body-mind through moral and Spiritual processes, that it must be considered the primary social and even philosophical issue of our time.
• Greg :
05 Sep 2012 2:17:46pm
Thank you 'Encounter' for this program on good and evil. It made me and I'm sure many people think. I recently asked a high school class why it was okay to kill sheep at an abattoir but not people? They could not give me an answer. (!!!) We need more Encounter programs of this calibre.
• Charles :
05 Sep 2012 3:24:53pm
This is gold: dense content, lucidly and engagingly unpacked. Who but the Encounter team would dare, with all those holiness-denying keepers of holy cows apparently so eager to be offended? Thank you, Scott and partners.
• Sapling :
05 Sep 2012 4:04:40pm
Thank You.
What a splendid, timely and relevant programme.
Mr Stephens' programmes often leave the listener with a tangible sense of insight and a practical aspiration or suggestive means of personifying the 'Good', despite the negative influences of liberalism / neo-liberalism.
The 'hard work of peace' and generally showing patience and compassion are certainly actions worth aspiring to.
• Rose :
06 Sep 2012 3:14:00am
I suppose a non slave order of things was unimaginable in Augustine's time but that hardly means we should express uncritical adulation for him and his classic work, The City of God.
'Moreover, when men are subjected to one another in a peaceful order, the lowly position does as much good to the servant as the proud position does harm to the master ... This servitude is, however, penal, and is appointed by that law which enjoins the preservation of the natural order and forbids its disturbance.' [City of God Ch 15]
'For they who care for the rest rule—the husband the wife, the parents the children, the masters the servants; and they who are cared for obey—the women their husbands, the children their parents, the servants their masters.' [City of God XIX Chapter 14]
And the original word for servant would actually have been 'slave'.
• Mark :
07 Sep 2012 7:43:20am
A big thanks to Encounter and Scott for this programme. Of course this programme wil not please pedants or idealogues, nothing can please them as they alone are the authorities who were not consulted.
Not all answers and/or rabbit-holes were provided, such is the tyranny of less than an hour, but so much of the content was thought provoking, so much of the programme brought together diverse understandings of evil.
I particularly liked the interpretation of liberalism and its inherent dismissal of human being.I don't think that such a conclusion should rest there as I don't believe that liberalsim is a complete project, but it did allow some perspective to be shed upon it. Normally the only views are those ecstatically immersed within it, or those whose ideologies of exclusion regard liberalism as the enemy.
I have to admit though that I was bewildered by Stanley Hauerwas' intimate appreciation of Dorothy Day's love life. Too much and unnecessary information!!
But thanks again Scott, and I very much look forward to part 2.
• Josh Newington :
12 Sep 2012 1:40:34pm
Thanks very much Scott. I'm on my third listen.
• Rose :
20 Jun 2013 7:31:12pm
So Scott Stephens maintains:
How does this square with St Augustine’s City of Light, where he advocated that the head of the household administer corporal punishment where necessary to stop the moral decay of his family or servants. For Augustine, unbelievers are sinful and not truly human. He also preached acceptance of the hierarchical natural order and feudalism, rather than some progressive effort to work towards a better world for everyone.
In St Augustine, City of God (De Civitate Dei), XIX, 14, 15 and 16 you will find the following passages:
"The prime cause, then, of slavery is sin, which brings man under the dominion of his fellow... Moreover, when men are subjected to one another in a peaceful order, the lowly position does as much good to the servant as the proud position does harm to the master... This servitude is, however, penal, and is appointed by that law which enjoins the preservation of the natural order and forbids its disturbance. And therefore the apostle admonishes slaves to be subject to their masters, and to serve them heartily and with good-will." (Ch 15)
"But those who are true fathers of their households desire and endeavour that all the members of their household, equally with their own children, should worship and win God. And if any member of the family interrupts the domestic peace by disobedience, he is corrected either by word or blow, or some kind of just and legitimate punishment, such as society permits, that he may himself be the better for it, and be readjusted to the family harmony from which he had dislocated himself. To be innocent, we must not only do harm to no man, but also restrain him from sin or punish his sin, so that either the man himself who is punished may profit by his experience, or others be warned by his example." (Ch 16)
What kind of twisted logic sees this as progressive or egalitarian??
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Strange E-mails I've been receiving for the several past months. (Enigma)
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I have been receiving some odd messages through a mail of a friend who when I asked claimed to have nothing in common with it. And I am sure that is the case as he is thousand miles away from that matter, more when we looked at some of the mails the last week he was laughing and claimed the author to be nuts. Ye, I don't think of it as nutter, yet it is odd he used my friend's e-mail to send this. Or maybe it is code software program virus, i dunno, really...
Here is the full list until now, the last mail from two weeks ago, if more come I will update here. Thoughts`?
"Anything that you share with someone else, any common similar experience, is because you have agreed to create your own version of it in your reality."
"When you assume that where you are is where you need to be and begin to enjoy it and live in the moment, then you will not try to be somewhere else, and that is what will let you get there."
"Allowing everyone to live the lives they choose is granting equality and validation to everything... to All That Is, which means that you, as a part of All That Is, are automatically supporting everything you do, and letting All That Is support you."
"If you believe you need to be protected... you are inviting attack."
"All situations are fundamentally neutral. You give them meaning, 'positive' or 'negative'. When you assign a 'meaning', you invite that reality."
"If you KNOW that you know, then by definition there is nothing stopping you."
"No one can 'give' you anything. You have to create your own version of it."
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posted on May, 17 2014 @ 05:47 AM
a reply to: Egoismyname
Tat's weird - These arguments are those which I would have used to promote pacifism instead of a second civil war in America.
This one particular, I keep using it myself to demonstrate that if a people become violent and tyrannical, they are not, in the end, better than the government they criticize.
posted on May, 17 2014 @ 05:52 AM
a reply to: Egoismyname
My thinking is;
Either your friend is lying to you, and is sending emails to freak you out or play a joke on you.
His or her email account has been hacked, hijacked and people are sending these emails out to many people, in some strange 'get the message out there' fashion.
Not many other options really.
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posted on May, 17 2014 @ 06:23 AM
Well I don't know about what's going on with your email, but I will say I like a lot of the quotes. I don't think whoever is sending it is a nutter at all. They really make perfect sense to me.
posted on May, 17 2014 @ 06:35 AM
Did you check the full header info to see if they're really coming from your friend's account? If you have Yahoo email, this would be done by clicking "more" on the email, and then clicking "Full Header". Some time last year, I had several very valid looking emails from what appeared to be my bank trying to get me to call them about account issues, and aside from the phone # not matching, the header info told me it was actually coming from some .uk based phishing account.
posted on May, 17 2014 @ 06:39 AM
a reply to: Egoismyname
They are like complex fortune cookie quotes.
I would assume the hyjack virus has hit your friends email account. It uses the email address book, to send out messages. You are lucky to get decent quotes. Most hyjack viruses, send out mass p-o-r-n messages with links.
posted on May, 17 2014 @ 06:42 AM
a reply to: Egoismyname
It's the Matrix I tell ya.
It's sending you messages.
No,in all seriousness, I think your friend's email account has been hacked.
He should change his password to a more secure/longer one.
I am surprised by the contents of the messages though, what kind of hacker is this?
posted on May, 17 2014 @ 06:47 AM
malware or 'hackers' dont send you inspirational quotes.
i think youre friend is a little nuts and of coarse wont admit it.
posted on May, 17 2014 @ 06:57 AM
When I read the first quote I thought it sounded a bit like A Course In Miracles but I did a search on it and found it is from other channled material. Something called the Paradigm of Essassani channeled by someone named Bashar. Here is a link:Paradigm of the Essassani
posted on May, 17 2014 @ 07:42 AM
If your friends email has been got by a virus then it'll be sending those out to every person in there address book. Have they checked if thats the case?
As another poster mentioned, check the header!!!
Tell your friend to sort it out, because it might steal both yours and their data! that might include ID theft!
If your friend wont sort it out then block them.
posted on May, 17 2014 @ 09:35 AM
How well do you know this friend? ...maybe he has a split personality and he IS sending them to you! any rate they're not threatening messages, but someone is messing with you. If it was a hacker you'd be getting porn, or Viagra adds.and a hacker wouldn't send quotes, and be sending those quotes to a mass of people. You would hear other people talking about it too.
posted on May, 18 2014 @ 12:40 AM
Hey, at least your email stalker is sending you relatively useful advice, haha. Rarely does that seem like it would be the case. That is like someone with tourettes shouting random compliments. Maybe that actually happens, I don't know. Seriously though, except for a couple of things that seemed off to me, exploring all the paragraphs that were sent I found that the stuff is accurate. One or two either went completely over my head, or they just don't make any sense at all. Or perhaps they were purposefully vague. Some of them took a bit of pondering, and they actually seemed to me to be representing relatively intelligent and thought-provoking ideas.
There are only three viable possibilities if everything is as you say. First, your friend is sending the emails to himself from another account, although that seems strange considering he could have sent them to you from another account. So that doesn't make much sense, as why would you purposefully connect yourself to something if you were the one doing it, and you didn't want the person to know you were doing it. Unless your friend wants you to suspect that they are the ones sending them, but this seems to complicated.
The next possibility is, as you said, they are spam. Maybe some type of email worm or warez that somehow got your name and your friends email address in it, and for whatever reason sent the messages in your name to their address. That is what I took you to mean anyway.
And the other viable possibility is that someone has targeted you for this correspondence, yet sent them to your friend's address. Again, this seems unnecessary, UNLESS they don't have your email address, and know that your friend would show the emails to you. That is the only thing that would make sense. So think of some suspects, as it is likely the person knows you if you have been targeted, although targeted sounds a bit too malicious for what is going on here at the moment, and then compare those people with those who have your friends email address but not your own. I'm like freaking Matlock over here, if Matlock were a bit more tech-savvy and much hotter. And had bigger muscles. Okay my muscles aren't big, but still.
Seriously though, it doesn't seem like anything to worry about at the moment. The person definitely does sound like a pacifist. That is always a good quality in a stalker.
posted on May, 20 2014 @ 04:50 AM
a reply to: Egoismyname
Whoever is sending them isn't making any senses at all. Does your email have a way to map the IP from which they come? I did that with Yahoo mail once, when my own address was sending spam. Stuff was coming from the far east in that case.
posted on Jun, 3 2014 @ 01:43 AM
The quotes are from some essassini philosophy.
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Africa and Muslims Have Been Let Down by Obama
Africa and Muslims Have Been Let Down by Obama
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I create a comnmet each time I like a article on a website or I have something to contribute to the discussion. It's caused by the sincerness communicated in the article I browsed. And on this post IAF bombs Gaza smuggling tunnel after mortar attacks QahwaHouse. I was moved enough to drop a thought I actually do have some questions for you if you tend not to mind. Could it be only me or do a few of the responses look like coming from brain dead folks? And, if you are writing on additional social sites, I'd like to keep up with you. Would you make a list all of your communal pages like your twitter feed, Facebook page or linkedin profile?
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Back in a S3 - Planning Nurburgring trip
Discussion in 'A3/S3 Forum (8L Chassis)' started by Idrees, Jan 4, 2013.
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Hi guys
Some of you may remember me from around a year ago. I had a 2003 Nogaro Blue S3. I spent most of the last year driving a 2006 BMW 530D M Sport, I've been itching for another S3 since selling mine so bought one another just a few days after selling the BM.
I now have another 2003 in Purple with a few upgrades including FMIC, Forge recirc valve, TSR 'Stage 1' remap, H&R springs and upgraded discs/pads. Now I know she's no track animal, but I'm planning on a trip to the ring some time very soon. I'd love to take my Glanza as that was actually built for the trac but she's nowhere near ready so that's no option.
If you were to do a few upgrades before going on track, what would they be and why? This car is still going to be my daily so I'm keeping the interior in.
So far I'm thinking:
- Poly 'dog bone' bush
- Poly ARB bushes or OEM replacements. I've heard they tend to wear a lot so I'll inspect them first.
- Major service consisting of oil & filter, air filter, fuel filter, gearbox fluid, coolant flush, Haldex oil change.
- A set of spare wheels with decent tyres (if funds permit).
If I'm wrong on those please let me know. :D
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Newbie - 1.8 Multitronic Avant questions
Discussion in 'Audi S4/A4/A4 Cab (B8 Chassis)' started by Lex696, Jun 15, 2012.
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HI All
Just rejoined the forum - had an S3 sportback on order a few years back but got made redundant :( so had to buy an Ibiza Cupra with cash. Had 2 great fun years (180hp, DSG!) but the build quality is something thats just getting to me so time for an upgrade.
**IMPT** I live in Cyprus where engine duty is a killer! You pay per cc and its calculated on different tarifs. Up to 1.8 is fairly normal, but above that it gets silly. An A4 2.0 is 50,000 euros! Thats 40000 sterling. An S4 a whopping 76000! A boxster (what i really want is, gulp, 90k!)
Hence why I can ONLY choose a 1.8 multitronic (still 40k!!)
My issue is I cant drive it as they dont have demos (they dont want to have to pay for their stock cars either!) and so should I go for the avant (heavy car) with this engine - is 170PS and 320 torque enough? Has anyone any experience in the UK?
Also, in terms of extras, has anyone got any pics of the facelift on aftermarket wheel (BBS CH-R etc) as the 19" audi rims are 2500 euros and so that seems pretty steep! I did do a search, honest guv
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Revelation 12:16
Revelation 12:16
And the earth helped the woman
By opening itself, and taking in what the serpent cast out, so that it could not reach the woman, and annoy her, as follows:
and the earth opened her mouth;
as it did when it swallowed up Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, ( Numbers 16:30 ) ; to which history this may have some respect:
and swallowed up the flood which the dragon east out of his mouth;
if the flood refers to the Arian persecution, then the earth helping the woman, the church, and swallowing up this flood, may respect the Goths, who broke into the Roman provinces, under their king, Athanaricus, and fell upon the Arians, with great rage and cruelty, and infested the Roman provinces, which were nearer; they seized upon Thrace, which was the occasion of tranquillity to the orthodox; for Valens being moved by these things, desisted from persecuting them, and, leaving Antioch, he went to Constantinople to form measures for the carrying on of the war against the Goths F1; and thus the earth helped the woman. But if, by the flood, the errors and heresies of those times are meant, then the councils may be intended by the earth; which, though they consisted of men that were earthly, and greatly apostatized in other things, yet opposed, refuted, and condemned these heresies and errors, and so were the means of preserving the church from them, as some think; though others are of opinion that the barbarous nations are in this also designed, who embracing Arianism, and the corrupt religion, where they came, by which they were, in, some measure, mollified and reconciled to the Christians, did not seek to root them out, and destroy them, as Satan hoped they would; but since they themselves, with the Mahometans, are meant by the flood, the earth must be interpreted of the corrupt and antichristian church, the idolaters which sustained the force of this inundation, and for some time repelled it, and so secured the true church; and when the western empire was overrun by it, as by the Goths idolaters, earthly minded men, and carnal professors, were the sufferers, and bore the shock of it; and when the eastern empire was overrun by the Saracens, the tormenting locusts, the green things, grass and trees, were not hurt by them; none of the sealed ones, only those who were not sealed, ( Revelation 9:4 ) ; and the Turkish inundation was a scourge upon the antichristian party: so that it was the earth, or earthly part of professors, the idolaters, that bore the fury and force of this flood, and broke it off from the church. And so sometimes wicked men are helpful to the saints, as the Philistines were serviceable to David, to screen him from the fury of Saul; and Lysias, the chief captain, and Felix and Festus, Roman governors, were instruments of preserving the Apostle Paul from falling into the hands of the Jews, his enemies; and the Christians that were scattered by the persecution at Jerusalem found refuge and safety among the Gentiles.
F1 Hist. Eccl. Magdeburg. cent. 4. c. 3. p. 80.
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( Genesis 4:21 ; Job 21:12 ; 30:31 ; Psalms 150:4 ) The Hebrew word thus rendered probably denotes a pipe or perforated wind-instrument. In ( Genesis 4:21 ) it appears to be a general term for all wind-instruments. In ( Job 21:12 ) are enumerated three kinds of musical instruments which are possible under the general terms of the timbrel harp and oryan. Some identify it with the pandean pipe or syrinx an instrument of unquestionably ancient origin, and common in the East. [See Music]
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Genesis 31:36-46 NIV
36 Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. "What is my crime?" he asked Laban. "What sin have I committed1 that you hunt me down?2
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37 Now that you have searched through all my goods, what have you found that belongs to your household?3 Put it here in front of your relatives4 and mine, and let them judge between the two of us.5
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38 "I have been with you for twenty years now.6 Your sheep and goats have not miscarried,7 nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.
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39 I did not bring you animals torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for whatever was stolen8 by day or night.9
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41 It was like this for the twenty years11 I was in your household. I worked for you fourteen years for your two daughters12 and six years for your flocks,13 and you changed my wages14 ten times.15
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42 If the God of my father,16 the God of Abraham17 and the Fear of Isaac,18 had not been with me,19 you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands,20 and last night he rebuked you.21"
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43 Laban answered Jacob, "The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks.22 All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?
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44 Come now, let's make a covenant,23 you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us."24
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45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.25
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46 He said to his relatives, "Gather some stones." So they took stones and piled them in a heap,26 and they ate there by the heap.
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Simulate_PCR for amplicon prediction and annotation from multiplex, degenerate primers and probes
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BMC Bioinformatics 2014, 15:237 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-15-237
Published: 9 July 2014
Pairing up primers to amplify desired targets and avoid undesired cross reactions can be a combinatorial challenge. Effective prediction of specificity and inclusivity from multiplexed primers and TaqMan®/Luminex® probes is a critical step in PCR design.
Code is described to identify all primer and probe combinations from a list of unpaired, unordered candidates that should produce a product. It predicts and extracts all amplicon sequences in a large sequence database from a list of primers and probes, allowing degenerate bases and user-specified levels of primer-target mismatch tolerance. Amplicons hit by TaqMan®/Luminex® probes are indicated, and products may be annotated with gene information from NCBI. Fragment length distributions are calculated to predict electrophoretic gel banding patterns.
Simulate_PCR is the only freely available software that can be run from the command line for high throughput applications which can calculate all products from large lists of primers and probes compared to a large sequence database such as nt. It requires no prior knowledge of how primers should be paired. Degenerate bases are allowed and entire amplicon sequences are extracted and annotated with gene information. Examples are provided for sets of TaqMan®/Luminex® PCR signatures predicted to amplify all HIV-1 genomes, all Coronaviridae genomes, and a group of antibiotic resistance genes. The software is a command line perl script freely available as open source.
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Origins of asexuality in Bryobia mites (Acari: Tetranychidae)
Vera ID Ros*, Johannes AJ Breeuwer and Steph BJ Menken
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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:153 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-153
Published: 19 May 2008
Obligate asexual reproduction is rare in the animal kingdom. Generally, asexuals are considered evolutionary dead ends that are unable to radiate. The phytophagous mite genus Bryobia contains a large number of asexual species. In this study, we investigate the origin and evolution of asexuality using samples from 111 populations in Europe, South Africa and the United States, belonging to eleven Bryobia species. We also examine intraspecific clonal diversity for one species, B. kissophila, by genotyping individuals from 61 different populations. Knowledge on the origin of asexuality and on clonal diversity can contribute to our understanding of the paradox of sex.
The majority (94%) of 111 sampled populations reproduces asexually. Analysis of part of nuclear 28S rDNA shows that these asexuals do not form a monophyletic clade. Analysis of the mitochondrial COI region shows that intraspecific variation is extensive (up to 8.8%). Within B. kissophila, distinct clades are found, which are absent at the nuclear 28S rDNA level. Moreover, paraphyletic patterns are found at the mitochondrial DNA.
Asexuality is widespread in the genus Bryobia, signifying that some animal taxa do contain a high number of asexuals. We argue that asexuality originated multiple times within Bryobia. Wolbachia bacteria cause asexuality in at least two Bryobia species and may have infected different species independently. The high intraspecific clonal diversity and the patterns of paraphyly at the mitochondrial DNA in B. kissophila might be explained by a high mutation fixation rate and past hybridization events. Reproductive parasites like Wolbachia and Cardinium might influence these processes. We discuss the role these bacteria could play in the evolutionary success of asexual species.
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Michelle M Meyer1, Tyler D Ames1, Daniel P Smith4, Zasha Weinberg3, Michael S Schwalbach4, Stephen J Giovannoni4 and Ronald R Breaker123*
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2 Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
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4 Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA
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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:268 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-268
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Metagenomic sequence data are proving to be a vast resource for the discovery of biological components. Yet analysis of this data to identify functional RNAs lags behind efforts to characterize protein diversity. The genome of 'Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique' HTCC 1062 is the closest match for approximately 20% of marine metagenomic sequence reads. It is also small, contains little non-coding DNA, and has strikingly low GC content.
To aid the discovery of RNA motifs within the marine metagenome we exploited the genomic properties of 'Cand. P. ubique' by targeting our search to long intergenic regions (IGRs) with relatively high GC content. Analysis of known RNAs (rRNA, tRNA, riboswitches etc.) shows that structured RNAs are significantly enriched in such IGRs. To identify additional candidate structured RNAs, we examined other IGRs with similar characteristics from 'Cand. P. ubique' using comparative genomics approaches in conjunction with marine metagenomic data. Employing this strategy, we discovered four candidate structured RNAs including a new riboswitch class as well as three additional likely cis-regulatory elements that precede genes encoding ribosomal proteins S2 and S12, and the cytoplasmic protein component of the signal recognition particle. We also describe four additional potential RNA motifs with few or no examples occurring outside the metagenomic data.
This work begins the process of identifying functional RNA motifs present in the metagenomic data and illustrates how existing completed genomes may be used to aid in this task.
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Seven symptoms of little-known Hughes Syndrome
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Hughes Syndrome is a virtually unknown but widespread condition, also known as Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) or ‘sticky blood’. The condition affects around 1% of the population making it more common than Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis, and offers an explanation for numerous medical symptoms that may otherwise go unresolved.
Hughes Syndrome is an autoimmune disease which affects the blood’s ability to clot. An overactive immune system produces antiphospholipid antibodies which cause the blood to clot too quickly in both veins and arteries anywhere in the body. The condition can affect anyone, but sufferers are usually between the ages of 20 and 50, while it is significantly more common in women (for every two men with Hughes Syndrome there are seven women affected).
The incidence of Hughes Syndrome is difficult to gauge due to it often going undetected, however studies offer a conservative estimate that at least 1% of the population suffer from the condition. This translates to 600,000 people in the UK alone, making the syndrome significantly more common than Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Further to this, Hughes Syndrome can be attributed to approximately:
• 1 in 5 young (under 50) strokes
• 1 in 5 young DVTs
• 1 in 5 young heart attacks
• 1 in 5 recurrent miscarriages
Despite the prevalence of the condition and its link to serious medical issues, Hughes Syndrome remains little known among both the general population and medical professionals. Professor Graham Hughes, Consultant Rheumatologist at London Bridge Hospital, who discovered the syndrome comments: “Awareness of Hughes Syndrome remains minimal for a number of reasons. Discovered just over 30 years ago, the condition is still relatively new in the medical domain and thus far there has only been limited research conducted. In addition to this, many medical students are still not being taught about the condition, meaning that new and existing doctors may remain ignorant of the symptoms.”
Due to limited knowledge of the condition, Hughes Syndrome remains frequently undetected or misdiagnosed due to symptoms that can be attributed to better-known disorders, most commonly Multiple Sclerosis or Alzheimer’s. According to a recent survey among Hughes Syndrome cases, 33% of sufferers were initially diagnosed with MS. Typical symptoms of Hughes Syndrome are:
• Headache and migraine
• Memory problems
• Dizziness and balance difficulties
• Visual disturbances
• Blotchy skin (livedo reticularis)
• Arthralgia (joint pain)
• Fatigue
The crossover in symptoms of Hughes Syndrome, MS and Alzheimer’s leads to frequent misdiagnosis, particularly in patients who fit the profile for the two more commonly known conditions. Misdiagnosis with a debilitating and degenerative illness such as Alzheimer’s or MS causes unnecessary trauma to a patient, while any treatment administered is ultimately ineffective.
Although Hughes Syndrome all too often goes undetected, it is in fact simple and cheap to test for and easily treated in many cases. Professor Hughes expands: “A test for Hughes Syndrome costs only a few pounds, however patients are usually denied this simple means of diagnosis until they have suffered serious consequences such as stroke or heart attack. Education surrounding early indications of the condition is vital in order to increase test rates and begin treatment before more serious symptoms transpire. Treatment of Hughes Syndrome can be as simple as a daily aspirin intake, and be effective almost immediately.”
While aspirin is commonly used to treat the disease, other anticoagulants such as warfarin or heparin may be necessary in some cases. However, with the correct treatment it is possible to control the symptoms of the condition and lead a normal life.
For more information on the symptoms and treatments for Hughes Syndrome, please visit: http://www.hughes-syndrome.org/
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Orhan Pamuk, (born June 7, 1952, Istanbul, Turkey), Turkish novelist, best known for works that probe Turkish identity and history. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006.
Raised in a wealthy and Western-oriented family, Pamuk attended Robert College, an American school in Istanbul, and went on to study architecture at Istanbul Technical University. After three years he dropped out and devoted himself full-time to writing. In 1977 he graduated from the University of Istanbul with a degree in journalism. From 1985 to 1988 he lived in the United States and was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York and the University of Iowa.
Pamuk began writing seriously in 1974 and eight years later published his first novel, Cevdet Bey ve oğulları (“Cevdet Bey and His Sons”), a sweeping history of an Istanbul family during and after the establishment of the Turkish republic. He followed it with Sessiz ev (1983; Silent House), relying on multiple narrators to shape the story of a family gathering on the eve of the Turkish military coup of 1980. Pamuk first achieved international fame with Beyaz kale (1985; The White Castle), his third novel, which explores the nature of identity through the story of a learned young Italian captured and made a slave to a scholar in 17th-century Istanbul. His subsequent novels, which were widely translated, include Kara kitap (1990; The Black Book), a dense depiction of Istanbul, and the mysteries Yeni hayat (1996; The New Life) and Benim adım kırmızı (1998; My Name Is Red).
In Kar (2002; Snow) a Turkish poet living in exile in Germany faces the tensions between East and West when he travels to a poor town in a remote area of Turkey. Masumiyet müzesi (2008; The Museum of Innocence) investigates the relationship between an older man and his second cousin. Thwarted in his attempts to marry her, the man begins to collect objects that she has touched. Pamuk replicated the titular museum in reality, using a house in Istanbul to display a range of items amassed while plotting the story; it opened to the public in 2012, accompanied by the catalogue Şeylerin masumiyeti (The Innocence of Objects). Among Pamuk’s other works are İstanbul: hatıralar ve şehir (2004; Istanbul: Memories and the City, also published as Istanbul: Memories of a City), a partly fictionalized memoir, and The Naive and Sentimental Novelist (2010), in which he explicated his theories on the novel as a literary form.
Many of Pamuk’s novels, often autobiographical and intricately plotted, show an understanding of traditional Turkish Islamic culture tempered by a belief that Turkey’s future lies in the West. Pamuk drew criticism from some in Turkey for advocating the country’s integration into Europe and its accession to the European Union. In 2005, after a Swiss newspaper published an interview in which he repeated claims that Turks had deliberately killed a million Armenians in 1915 (see Armenian massacres) and 30,000 Kurds more recently, Pamuk was charged with “denigrating Turkishness” and put on trial in Turkey in December. The charges, which produced international controversy, were later dropped.
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Alternate title: Ciconiiformes
James Hancock and James Kushlan, The Herons Handbook (1984), covers all aspects of the species. Walter J. Bock, “A Generic Review of the Family Ardeidae (Aves),” American Museum Novitates, no. 1779 (1956), discusses the taxonomy of the herons. Frank A. Lowe, The Heron (1954), gives the natural history of the European grey heron (Ardea cinerea). Andrew J. Meyerriecks, Comparative Breeding Behavior of Four Species of North American Herons (1960), provides a valuable contribution to the knowledge of behaviour in the group. R.P. Allen, The Flamingos: Their Life History and Survival (1956), surveys the family. Leslie Brown, The Mystery of the Flamingos, new and expanded ed. (1973), delineates the natural history of the East African species.
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millet, any of various grasses, members of the Gramineae (Poaceae) family, producing small edible seeds used as forage crops and as food cereals. Millets, probably first cultivated in Asia or Africa more than 4,000 years ago, range in height from 1 to 4 feet (0.3 to 1.3 metres), with the exception of pearl millet, which has stalks 5 to 10 feet (1.5 to 3 metres) tall and about 1 inch (2.54 cm) thick. The heads may be spikes or racemes, in which the flowers are borne on stalks of about equal length along an elongated axis, or panicles, clusters of small florets. With the exception of pearl millet, seeds remain enclosed in hulls after threshing. Hulled seeds are usually creamy white.
Millets are an important food staple in much of Asia, Russia, and western Africa. In the United States and western Europe they are used chiefly for pasture or to produce hay, although they were major grains in Europe during the Middle Ages. Pearl millet, or cattail millet, called bajra in India (species Pennisetum americanum), is suited to soils of low fertility and limited moisture and is a popular food crop in India and Africa. Proso—the common, or broomcorn, millet (Panicum miliaceum)—ripening within 60–80 days after sowing, is used in birdseed and chick-feed mixtures and as livestock feed in the United States and as a food in Asia and eastern Europe. Foxtail varieties (Setaria [Chaetochloa] italica) having small pointed seeds are grown for hay in North America and western Europe but are important as foods in China and other Asian countries. Finger millet, or koracan millet, also called raggee (Eleusine coracana), is an important food grain in southern Asia and parts of Africa. Japanese millet (Echinochloa crus-galli variety frumentacea) is grown chiefly in Japan and the United States as a hay crop. Little millet (Panicum miliare) is chiefly a food crop of India. Browntop (Panicum ramosum) is grown in the southeastern United States for hay, pasture, and game-bird feed.
The millets are high in carbohydrates, with protein content varying from 6 to 11 percent and fat varying from 1.5 to 5 percent. They are somewhat strong in taste and cannot be made into leavened bread. Instead, they are mainly consumed in flatbreads and porridges or prepared and eaten much like rice. About 30 million metric tons of millet are produced annually, chiefly in India, China, Nigeria, and Russia.
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Irving, city, northeastern Texas, U.S. Established in 1903 and incorporated in 1914, the city developed into an industrial hub during the 1950s. A suburb of Dallas, it is the site of the University of Dallas and DeVry University. Pop. (2000) 191,615; Dallas-Plano-Irving Metro Division, 3,451,226; (2010) 216,290; Dallas-Plano-Irving Metro Division, 4,235,751.
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François Rabelais
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François Rabelais, pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier (born c. 1494, Poitou, France—died probably April 9, 1553, Paris), French writer and priest who for his contemporaries was an eminent physician and humanist and for posterity is the author of the comic masterpiece Gargantua and Pantagruel. The four novels composing this work are outstanding for their rich use of Renaissance French and for their comedy, which ranges from gross burlesque to profound satire. They exploit popular legends, farces, and romances, as well as classical and Italian material, but were written primarily for a court public and a learned one. The adjective Rabelaisian applied to scatological humour is misleading; Rabelais used scatology aesthetically, not gratuitously, for comic condemnation. His creative exuberance, colourful and wide-ranging vocabulary, and literary variety continue to ensure his popularity.
Details of Rabelais’s life are sparse and difficult to interpret. He was the son of Antoine Rabelais, a rich Touraine landowner and a prominent lawyer who deputized for the lieutenant-général of Poitou in 1527. After apparently studying law, Rabelais became a Franciscan novice at La Baumette (1510?) and later moved to the Puy-Saint-Martin convent at Fontenay-le-Comte in Poitou. By 1521 (perhaps earlier) he had taken holy orders.
Rabelais early acquired a reputation for profound humanist learning among his contemporaries, but the elements of religious satire and scatological humour in his comic novels eventually left him open to persecution. He depended throughout his life on powerful political figures (Guillaume du Bellay, Margaret of Navarre) and on high-ranking liberal ecclesiastics (Cardinal Jean du Bellay, Bishop Geoffroy d’Estissac, Cardinal Odet de Châtillon) for protection in those dangerous and intolerant times in France.
Rabelais was closely associated with Pierre Amy, a liberal Franciscan humanist of international repute. In 1524 the Greek books of both scholars were temporarily confiscated by superiors of their convent, because Greek was suspect to hyperorthodox Roman Catholics as a “heretical” language that opened up the original New Testament to study. Rabelais then obtained a temporary dispensation from Pope Clement VII and was removed to the Benedictine house of Saint-Pierre-de-Maillezais, the prior of which was his bishop, Geoffroy d’Estissac. He never liked his new order, however, and he later satirized the Benedictines, although he passed lightly over Franciscan shortcomings.
Rabelais studied medicine, probably under the aegis of the Benedictines in their Hôtel Saint-Denis in Paris. In 1530 he broke his vows and left the Benedictines to study medicine at the University of Montpellier, probably with the support of his patron, Geoffroy d’Estissac. Graduating within weeks, he lectured on the works of distinguished ancient Greek physicians and published his own editions of Hippocrates’ Aphorisms and Galen’s Ars parva (“The Art of Raising Children”) in 1532. As a doctor he placed great reliance on classical authority, siding with the Platonic school of Hippocrates but also following Galen and Avicenna. During this period an unknown widow bore him two children (François and Junie), who were given their father’s name and were legitimated by Pope Paul IV in 1540.
After practicing medicine briefly in Narbonne, Rabelais was appointed physician to the hospital of Lyon, the Hôtel-Dieu, in 1532. In the same year, he edited the medical letters of Giovanni Manardi, a contemporary Italian physician. It was during this period that he discovered his true talent. Fired by the success of an anonymous popular chapbook, Les Grandes et inestimables cronicques du grant et énorme géant Gargantua, he published his first novel, Les horribles et épouvantables faits et prouesses du très renommé Pantagruel, roy des Dipsodes (1532; “The Horrible and Terrifying Deeds and Words of the Renowned Pantagruel, King of the Dipsodes”), under the pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier (an obvious anagram of his real name). Pantagruel is slighter in length and intellectual depth than his later novels, but nothing of this quality had been seen before in French in any similar genre. Rabelais displayed his delight in words, his profound sense of the comedy of language itself, his mastery of comic situation, monologue, dialogue, and action, and his genius as a storyteller who was able to create a world of fantasy out of words alone. Within the framework of a mock-heroic, chivalrous romance, he laughed at many types of sophistry, including legal obscurantism and hermeticism, which he nevertheless preferred to the scholasticism of the Sorbonne. One chapter stands out for its sustained seriousness, praising the divine gift of fertile matrimony as a compensation for death caused by Adam’s fall. Pantagruel borrows openly from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia in its reference to the war between Pantagruel’s country, Utopia, and the Dipsodes, but it also preaches a semi-Lutheran doctrine—that no one but God and his angels may spread the gospel by force. Pantagruel is memorable as the book in which Pantagruel’s companion, Panurge, a cunning and witty rogue, first appears.
Though condemned by the Sorbonne in Paris as obscene, Pantagruel was a popular success. It was followed in 1533 by the Pantagrueline Prognostication, a parody of the almanacs, astrological predictions that exercised a growing hold on the Renaissance mind. In 1534 Rabelais left the Hôtel-Dieu to travel to Rome with the bishop of Paris, Jean du Bellay. He returned to Lyon in May of that year and published an edition of Bartolomeo Marliani’s description of Rome, Topographia antiquae Romae. He returned to the Hôtel-Dieu but left it again in February 1535, upon which the authorities of the Lyon hospital appointed someone else to his post.
La vie inestimable du grand Gargantua (“The Inestimable Life of the Great Gargantua”) belongs to this period. The second edition is dated 1535; the first edition was probably published in 1534, though it lacks the title page in the only known copy. In Gargantua Rabelais continues to exploit medieval romances mock-heroically, telling of the birth, education, and prowesses of the giant Gargantua, who is Pantagruel’s father. Much of the satire—for example, mockery of the ignorant trivialization of the mystical cult of emblems and of erroneous theories of heraldry—is calculated to delight the court; much also aims at delighting the learned reader—for example, Rabelais sides with humanist lawyers against legal traditionalists and doctors who accepted 11-month, or even 13-month, pregnancies. Old-fashioned scholastic pedagogy is ridiculed and contrasted with the humanist ideal of the Christian prince, widely learned in art, science, and crafts and skilled in knightly warfare. The war between Gargantua and his neighbour, the “biliously choleric” Picrochole, is partly a private satire of an enemy of Rabelais’s father and partly a mocking of Charles V, the Holy Roman emperor, and the imperial design of world conquest. Gargantua commands the military operations, but some of the exploits are carried out by Frère Jean (the Benedictine). Though he is lean, lecherous, dirty, and ignorant, Frère Jean is redeemed by his jollity and active virtue; for his fellow monks are timorous and idle, delighting in “vain repetitions” of prayers. Gargantua’s last major episode centres on the erection of the Abbey of Thélème, a monastic institution that rejects poverty, celibacy, and obedience; instead it welcomes wealth and the well-born, praises the aristocratic life, and rejoices in good marriages.
After Gargantua, Rabelais published nothing new for 11 years, though he prudently expurgated his two works of overbold religious opinions. He continued as physician to Jean du Bellay, who had become a cardinal, and his powerful brother Guillaume, and in 1535 Rabelais accompanied the cardinal to Rome. There he regularized his position by making a “supplication” to the pope for his “apostasy” (i.e., his unauthorized departure from the Benedictine monastery); the pope issued a bull freeing Rabelais from ecclesiastical censure and allowing him to reenter the Benedictine order. Rabelais then arranged to enter the Benedictine convent at Saint-Maur-les-Fossés, where Cardinal Jean du Bellay was abbot. The convent was secularized six months later, and Rabelais became a secular priest, authorized to exercise his medical profession.
In May 1537 Rabelais was awarded the doctorate of medicine of Montpellier; and he delivered, with considerable success, a course of lectures on Hippocrates’ Prognostics. He was at Aigues-Mortes in July 1538 when Charles V met the French king Francis I, but his movements are obscure until he followed Guillaume du Bellay to the Piedmont in 1542. Guillaume died in January 1543, and to Rabelais his death meant the loss of an important patron. That same year Geoffroy d’Estissac died as well, and Rabelais’s novels were condemned by the Sorbonne and the Parlement of Paris. Rabelais sought protection from the French king’s sister Margaret, queen of Navarre, dedicating to her the third book of the Gargantua-Pantagruel series, Tiers livre des faits et dits héroïques du noble Pantagruel (1546; “Third Book of the Heroic Deeds and Words of the Noble Pantagruel”). Despite its royal privilège (i.e., license to print), the book was immediately condemned for heresy by the Sorbonne, and Rabelais fled to Metz (an imperial city), remaining there until 1547.
The Tiers livre is Rabelais’s most profound work. Pantagruel has now deepened into a Stoico-Christian inerrant sage; Panurge, a lover of self and deluded by the devil, is now an adept at making black seem white. Panurge hesitates: Should he marry? Will he be cuckolded, beaten, robbed by his wife? He consults numerous prognostications, both good Platonic ones and less reputable ones—all to no effect because of his self-love. He consults a good theologian, a Platonic doctor, and a Skeptic philosopher approved of by the learned giants, but his problem is not treated by the judge Bridoye, who—like Roman law in cases of extreme perplexity—trusts in Providence and decides cases by casting lots. Panurge trusts in no one, least of all in himself. It is therefore decided to consult the oracle of the Dive Bouteille (“Sacred Bottle”), and the travelers set out for the temple. The Tiers livre ends enigmatically with a mock eulogy in which hemp is praised for its myriad uses.
From 1547 onward, Rabelais found protection again as physician to Cardinal Jean du Bellay and accompanied him to Rome via Turin, Ferrara, and Bologna. Passing through Lyon, he gave his printer his incomplete Quart livre (“Fourth Book”), which, as printed in 1548, finishes in the middle of a sentence but contains some of his most delightful comic storytelling. In Rome Rabelais sent a story to his newest protector in the Guise family, Charles of Lorraine, 2nd Cardinal de Lorraine; the story described the “Sciomachie” (“Simulated Battle”) organized by Cardinal Jean to celebrate the birth of Louis of Orléans, second son of Henry II of France.
In January 1551 the Cardinal de Guise presented him with two benefices at Meudon and Jambet, though Rabelais never officiated or resided there. In 1552, through the influence of the cardinal, Rabelais was able to publish—with a new prologue—the full Quart livre des faits et dits héroïques du noble Pantagruel (“Fourth Book of the Heroic Deeds and Words of the Noble Pantagruel”), his longest book. Despite its royal privilège, this work, too, was condemned by the Sorbonne and banned by Parlement, but Rabelais’s powerful patrons soon had the censorship lifted. In 1553 Rabelais resigned his benefices. He died shortly thereafter and was buried in Saint-Paul-des-Champs, Paris.
In 1562 there appeared in Lyon the Isle sonante, allegedly by Rabelais. It was expanded in 1564 into the so-called Cinquiesme et dernier livre (“Fifth and Last Book”). This work is partly satirical, partly an allegory; the Sacred Bottle—the ostensible quest of the Quart livre—is consulted, and the heroes receive the oraculous advice: “drink” (symbolizing wisdom?). This work cannot be by Rabelais as it stands. Some scholars believe it to be based on his (lost) drafts, while others deny it any authenticity whatsoever.
Gargantua and Pantagruel.
Rabelais’s purpose in the four books of his masterpiece was to entertain the cultivated reader at the expense of the follies and exaggerations of his times. If he points lessons, it is because his life has taught him something about the evils of comatose monasticism, the trickery of lawyers, the pigheaded persistence of litigants, and the ignorance of grasping physicians. Rabelais was a friar with unhappy memories of his monastery; his father had wasted his money on lengthy litigation with a neighbour over some trivial water rights; and he himself was earning his living by medicine in an age when the distinction between physician and quack was needle-fine. Though it is an entertainment, therefore, Gargantua and Pantagruel is also serious. Its principal narrative is devoted to a voyage of discovery that parodies the travelers’ tales current in Rabelais’s day. Rabelais begins lightheartedly; his travelers merely set out to discover whether Panurge will be cuckolded if he marries. A dozen oracles have already hinted at Panurge’s inevitable fate, yet each time he has reasoned their verdict away; and the voyage itself provides a number of amusing incidents. Yet, like Don Quixote’s, it is a fundamentally serious quest directed toward a true goal, the discovery of the secret of life.
Intoxication—with life, with learning, with the use and abuse of words—is the prevailing mood of the book. Rabelais himself provides the model of the exuberant creator. His four books provide a cunning mosaic of scholarly, literary, and scientific parody. One finds this in its simplest form in the catalog of the library of St. Victor, in the list of preposterous substantives or attributes in which Rabelais delights, and in the inquiry by means of Virgilian lots into the question of Panurge’s eventual cuckoldom. But at other times the humour is more complicated and works on several levels. Gargantua’s campaign against King Picrochole (book 1), for instance, contains personal, historical, moral, and classical points closely interwoven. The battles are fought in Rabelais’s home country, in which each hamlet is magnified into a fortified city. Moreover, they also refer to the feud between Rabelais the elder and his neighbour. They also comment on recent historical events involving France and the Holy Roman Empire, however, and can even be read as propaganda against war, or at least in favour of the more humane conduct of hostilities. On yet another level, Rabelais’s account of this imaginary warfare can be taken as mockery of the classical historians: Gargantua’s speech to his defeated enemy (book 1, chapter 50) echoes one put into the mouth of the Roman emperor Trajan by Pliny the Younger.
Despite these complex levels of reference, Rabelais was not a self-conscious writer; he made his book out of the disorderly contents of his mind. As a result it is ill-constructed, and the same thoughts are repeated in Gargantua that he had already set down in Pantagruel; the nature of an ideal education, for example, is examined in both books. Moreover, the main action of the story, which arises from the question of Panurge’s intended marriage, only begins in the third book. The first, Gargantua, throws up the enormous contradiction that has made the interpretation of Rabelais’s own intellectual standpoint almost impossible. On the one hand we have the rumbustious festivities that celebrate the giant’s peculiarly miraculous birth and the “Rabelaisian” account of his childish habits; and on the other a plea for an enlightened education. Again, the brutal slaughter of the Picrocholine wars, in which Rabelais obviously delights, is followed by the utopian description of Thélème, the Renaissance ideal of a civilized community. Pantagruel follows the same pattern with variations, introducing Panurge but omitting Frère Jean, and putting Pantagruel in the place of his father, Gargantua. In fact the characters are not strongly individualized. They exist only in what they say, being so many voices through whom the author speaks. Panurge, for instance, has no consistent nature. A resourceful and intelligent poor scholar in Pantagruel, he becomes a credulous buffoon in the third book and an arrant coward in the fourth.
The third and fourth books pursue the story of the inquiry and voyage, and in them Rabelais’s invention is at its height. The first two books contain incidents close in feeling to the medieval fabliaux, but the third and fourth books are rich in a new, learned humour. Rabelais was a writer molded by one tradition, the medieval Roman Catholic, whose sympathies lay to a greater extent with another, the Renaissance or classical. Yet when he writes in praise of the new humanist ideals—in the chapters on education, on the foundation of Thélème, or in praise of drinking from the “sacred bottle” of learning or enlightenment—he easily becomes sententious. His head is for the new learning, while his flesh and heart belong to the old. It is in his absurd, earthy, and exuberant inventions, which are medieval in spirit even when they mock at medieval acceptances, that Rabelais is a great, entertaining, and worldly wise writer.
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Daniel GilbertRandom House/Daniel Gilbert, Photo taken by Marilynn OliphantDaniel Gilbert
A team of psychologists at Harvard and University of Virginia found people are poor predictors of their future selves.
They underestimate how much their tastes will change in a few years time, although they can see how much they've changed in hindsight.
That means most people will never achieve what they think they will achieve. Because really, they have no idea what their future selves will want, and it will most likely differ from their current aspirations.
"Any kind of lifetime commitment is based on your belief that you know the person you're going to be in 10 years," explains Daniel Gilbert, one of the Harvard scientists who conducted the study. And unfortunately, most don't know.
Gilbert, Jordi Quoidbach and Timothy Wilson rounded up 19,000 subjects between the ages of 18 and 68 who participated in online experiments. They answered questions about themselves in the past, present and future.
One question asked: How much would you pay to see your favorite band from 2002 play next week, and how much would you pay to see your current favorite band play in 2022?
People were willing to pay 61% more for the latter. "You'd think by the time people reach middle age they'd realize that their favorite band today isn't necessarily going to be their favorite band in 10 years," Gilbert wrote in the report.
The findings suggest people assume they'll remain in their current states, more or less, forever -- even though people ten years older than them recall changing over the previous decade.
Gilbert calls the ability to accurately recall the past and inaccurately predict future aspirations "the end of history illusion."
"What these data suggest, and what scads of other data from our lab and others suggest, is that people really aren't very good at knowing who they're going to be and hence what they're going to want a decade from now," says Gilbert.
So, how do you set yourself up for a bright future if you don't actually know what you'll want in ten years?
"The single best way to make predictions about what you're going to want in the future isn't to imagine yourself in the future," says Gilbert. "It's to look at other people who are in the very future you're imagining."
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Exercise 3, Translation & UniProt --------------------------------- Answers by: Francisco Roque and Nils Weinhold (Some editing by Rasmus Wernersson) VIRTUAL RIBOSOME SECTION. ------------------------ POINT 5. How is a STOP codon displayed? *** How is a START codon displayed? >>> (Strict e.g "ATG") ))) (Alternative e.g "TTG") Does a start-codon alway code for Methionine (M)? Yes - but only if it's atucally used as a start codon. ATG always codes for Methionine. TTG and CTG codes for Met is used as a start codon otherwise they code for Leucine. The strict start codon (ATG) is used in >98% of the human transcripts. POINT 6. How did the translation succeed? Nothing is wrong with the DNA sequence. Can you come up with some good reasons for the result? The translation did not succeed very well as there are many stops in the protein sequence. The reason is that mitochondria use a different code. POINT 9. If you have chosen the right translation table, the DNA sequence can be translated without any problems.Compare the two results and answer the following questions: What is the difference in the use of STOP codons? Mitochondria don't use TGA, but TAA What is the difference in the use of START codons? ATG, TTG, CTG in standard, ATG, ATA in yeast mitochondria Are codons coding for completely new amino acids? A few codons has changed their meaning: CTN (CTA, CTC, CTG, CTT) now encodes Thr instead of Leu. By following the link to the explanation of the genetic codes (linked both in the exercise and on the VirtualRibosome homepage), the following summary of the difference can be found - "Code 3" is the Yeast Mitochondrial code: Code 3 Standard AUA Met M Ile I CUU Thr T Leu L CUC Thr T Leu L CUA Thr T Leu L CUG Thr T Leu L UGA Trp W Ter * CGA absent Arg R CGC absent Arg R POINT 11. We have up to now assumed that the reading frame for the DNA-sequence was known and that it always started at the first nucleotide. In he following, we shall examen how it is often possible to identify the most likely reading frame using computational translation tools.We shall use the the sequence below which is the complete mRNA sequence for a yeast-gene (profilin). Use your biological knowledge to answer the following questions: Yeast has introns in some genes, could this be a major problem in this case? in this case its not a problem, bec we already deal with processed mRNA Can an mRNA molecule contain more sequence than the gene in question? - yes, it can contain untranslated regions at both ends, and signal sequences like the cap, and polyA-tail POINT 12. Six reading frame exist: 1, 2, 3 (on the positive stand, i.e. the sequence as you read it), and -1, -2, -3 (on the negative strand, i.e the complementary DNA string). Since we are working with a mRNA sequence, we do not need to consider the reading frames on the complementary string. Why is this? because mRNA is translated in one direction, its already a copy of one of the strands of DNA POINT 13. Translate the mRNA sequence in the three positive reading frames (1, 2, 3). The easiest way to do this, is to use a window for each translation to be able to compare the different results. What reading frame is most likely the right one? 3 Note also hat the DNA-sequence is show equally in all three reading frames whereas the protein sequence is shifted. Why is this? because residues are produced by different triplets POINT 15. For the sake of illustration, we shall try to translate the sequence on the negative strand. Select reading frame -1, and redo the translation How does the DNA sequence look? In what direction shall it be read? The displayed sequence is complementary to the input. It is read bottom-to-top. In what direction shall the protein-sequence be read? Try to compare to the protein sequence in FASTA format. The protein sequence should be read bottom right to top left POINT 16. Now, lets try to do it all in one go. Select All (6 reading frames) and translate the sequence again. How many DNA string are displayed? Why is this? 2 DNA strings, one is the input DNA sequence in 5' -> 3' direction, the other is the computer reverse-complementary DNA sequence (shown in 3' -> 5' direction). POINT 18. We shall now use a build-in ORF finder with the most stringent criteria. Under ORF finder, select Start codon: strict (this forces the ORF to start at ATG), select "All (6 reading frames)" and translate the sequence again. Does the result fit to what you found earlier? yes, frame 3 Would it make any difference to the result if we had only a partial sequence where the last part of the sequence with the STOP codon is missing? No - by definition an ORF is an OPEN reading frame - simply a reading frame that is not interupted. What would happen is the first 50 nucleotide (with the START codon) were missing? One would find a different ORF, on -2. If we relaxed the criteria for the ORF finder to NOT require a start codon, we can still find the correct ORF. UNIPROT SECTION. --------------- POINT 20. 735. These are all the insulin hits present in both the TrEMBL (unreviewed) database, associated using computer generated annotation and large scale analysis, and the manually curated and non-redundant Swiss-Prot. POINT 21. 478. These are the hits that were reviewed by an expert team of biologists. There is a review process of the experimental data or computer-predicted data for each protein. POINT 22. INS_HUMAN. 2nd hit, cleaved in both insulin chains A and B. Accession P01308. POINT 23. By introducing further restrictions in the search query, we might get a smaller number of results. The syntax is a bit different from the exercise last week, but the same logic applies (AND, NOT, OR). a) 358 b) 52 POINT 24. 26 "organism:human AND name:insulin AND reviewed:yes NOT name:insulin-like NOT name:insulin-receptor" POINT 25. 18 "organism:human AND name:insulin AND reviewed:yes NOT name:insulin-like NOT name:insulin-receptor NOT name:substrate" POINT 27. 31. Inspecting the literature for each entry might give us one idea for the quality of the underlying data. POINT 28. Outside the cell membrane in order to increase the cell permeability to monosaccharides, amino acids and fatty acids. This field will give us keywords assigned to the protein if they are found in a specific cellular or extracellular component. POINT 33. 27,597. By combining the different search filters we can easily locate any protein of our choice. There is an autocomplete feature for the search box that might help with the term selection. POINT 34. 1,976 POINT 35. 5,943 POINT 36. 700 POINT 37. 373 POINT 38. 6
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Make sure you know how to start and quit a MATLAB session. Use MATLAB to make the following calculations, using the values: x = 10, y = 3. Check the results using a calculator.
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A short length of wire, .16m in length,is suspended above a long, straight wire. Equal and oppositecurrents are flowing in the two wires, resulting in the short wirefloating 1.5mm (.0015) above the longer wire. Tha mass of theshorter wire is .014kg. What is the magnitude of thecurrent?
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A wire of length L and cross-sectional area A has resistance R.
What will be the resistance R(stretched) of the wire if it is stretched to twice its original length? Assume that the density and resistivity of the material do not change when the wire is stretched.
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6.5: Area of Trapezoids
Difficulty Level: At Grade Created by: CK-12
Learning Objectives
• Use formulas to find the area of trapezoids – quadrilaterals with exactly one pair of parallel sides.
Area of a Trapezoid
Recall that a trapezoid is a quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides. The lengths of the parallel sides are the bases. The perpendicular distance between the parallel sides is the height, or altitude, of the trapezoid.
In the trapezoid pictured above, the bases b_1 and b_2 are ______________________ to each other.
The altitude (or height) is _________________________ to both bases.
To find the area of the trapezoid, turn the problem into one about a parallelogram. Why? Because you already know how to compute the area of a parallelogram!
• Make a copy of the trapezoid.
• Rotate the copy 180^\circ.
• Put the two trapezoids together to form a parallelogram.
Two things to notice:
1. The parallelogram has a base that is equal to b_1 + b_2.
Look at the length of the base in the picture: the left side has a length of _______ and the right side has a length of _______ so the total length of the base of the parallelogram is b_1 + b_2.
2. The altitude (h) of the parallelogram is the same as the altitude (h) of the trapezoid.
Now to find the area of the trapezoid:
The area of the parallelogram is: A = \text{base} \cdot \text{altitude}.
Since the length of the base = ____________ and the altitude = _____ ,
\text{Area of the parallelogram} = (b_1 + b_2) \cdot h
The parallelogram is made up of two congruent trapezoids, so the area of each trapezoid is half the area of the parallelogram.
The area of the trapezoid is half of (b_1 + b_2) \cdot h:
Area of Trapezoid with Bases b_1 and b_2 and Altitude h
The bases of the trapezoid in the figure above are _______ and ________.
The altitude (or height) of the trapezoid is ______.
For a trapezoid with bases b_1 and b_2 and altitude h,
A = \frac{1}{2} (b_1 + b_2) h \ \text{or} \ A = \frac{(b_1 + b_2) h}{2}
Notice that the formula for the area of a trapezoid could also be written as the “Average of the bases times the height.”
Example 1
What is the area of the trapezoid below?
Since this trapezoid is sideways compared to the ones you have seen so far in this lesson, the bases (which are parallel to each other) are on the right and left side of the shape. The altitude is horizontal instead of vertical.
Using the graph paper that the trapezoid above is on, you can count the boxes to determine the length of each important part of the shape.
You can see that the bases of the trapezoid are _____ and _____. The altitude is _____.
To find the area, multiply half of the sum of both bases by the altitude (or height):
A = \frac{1}{2} (b_1 + b_2) h & = \frac{1}{2} (4 + 6) \cdot 3\\& = \frac{1}{2} (10) \cdot 3 = 5 \cdot 3 = 15
The area of the trapezoid is 15 square units.
Reading Check
1. How many bases does a trapezoid have?
2. True or false: The bases of a trapezoid are perpendicular to each other.
3. In your own words, describe the altitude of a trapezoid:
4. True or false: The altitude of a trapezoid is parallel to the bases.
5. True or false:
The average of the bases is the same as the sum of the bases divided by 2.
6. Draw a picture of a trapezoid in the space below:
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8.4: Animal Communication
Difficulty Level: At Grade Created by: CK-12
Practice Animal Communication
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How do monkeys communicate?
You won't find a monkey texting a friend. They make noises. They make faces. They even use scents to pass along a message. Just because monkeys don't talk like you and me doesn't mean that they don't communicate!
What does the word "communication" make you think of? Talking on a cell phone? Texting? Writing? Those are just a few of the ways in which human beings communicate. Most other animals also communicate. Communication is any way in which animals share information, and they do this in many different ways.
Do all animals talk to each other? Probably not, but many do communicate. Like human beings, many other animals live together in groups. Some insects, including ants and bees, are well known for living in groups. In order for animals to live together in groups, they must be able to communicate with each other.
Animal communication, like most other animal behaviors, increases the ability to survive and have offspring. This is known as fitness. Communication increases fitness by helping animals find food, defend themselves from predators, mate, and care for offspring.
Communication with Sound
Some animals communicate with sound. Most birds communicate this way. Birds use different calls to warn other birds of danger, or to tell them to flock together. Many other animals also use sound to communicate. For example, monkeys use warning cries to tell other monkeys in their troop that a predator is near. Frogs croak to attract female frogs as mates. Gibbons use calls to tell other gibbons to stay away from their area.
Communication with Sight
Another way some animals communicate is with sight. By moving in certain ways or by “making faces,” they show other animals what they mean. Most primates communicate in this way. For example, a male chimpanzee may raise his arms and stare at another male chimpanzee. This warns the other chimpanzee to keep his distance. The chimpanzee pictured below may look like he is smiling, but he is really showing fear ( Figure below ). He is communicating to other chimpanzees that he will not challenge them.
This chimpanzee is communicating with his face. His expression is called a “fear grin.” It tells other chimpanzees that he is not a threat.
Look at the peacock pictured below ( Figure below ). Why is he raising his beautiful tail feathers? He is also communicating. He is showing females of his species that he would be a good mate.
This peacock is using his tail feathers to communicate. What is he "saying"?
Communication with Scent
Some animals communicate with scent. They release chemicals that other animals of their species can smell or detect in some other way. Ants release many different chemicals. Other ants detect the chemicals with their antennae. This explains how ants are able to work together. The different chemicals that ants produce have different meanings. Some of the chemicals signal to all of the ants in a group to come together. Other chemicals warn of danger. Still other chemicals mark trails to food sources. When an ant finds food, it marks the trail back to the nest by leaving behind a chemical on the ground. Other ants follow the chemical trail to the food.
Many other animals also use chemicals to communicate. You have probably seen male dogs raise their leg to urinate on a fire hydrant or other object. Did you know that the dogs were communicating? They mark their area with a chemical in their urine. Other dogs can smell the chemical. The scent of the chemical tells other dogs to stay away.
Human Communication
Like other animals, humans communicate with one another. They mainly use sound and sight to share information. The most important way in which humans communicate is with language. Language is the use of symbols to communicate. In human languages, the symbols are words. They stand for many different things. Words stand for things, people, actions, feelings, or ideas. Think of several common words. What does each word stand for?
Another important way in which humans communicate is with facial expressions. Look at the face of the young child pictured below ( Figure below ). Can you tell from her face how she is feeling?
Humans also use gestures to communicate. What are people communicating when they shrug their shoulders? When they shake their head? These are just a few examples of the ways in which humans share information without using words.
What does this girl’s face say about how she is feeling?
• communication : Any way in which animals share information.
• language : Method of communication using signs or symbols.
• Animals communicate, or share information, through sound, sight, and scent.
• Humans primarily communicate through use of language, facial expressions, and gestures.
Use the resources below to answer the questions that follow.
1. How do the vervet monkeys ( Chlorocebus pygerythrus ) respond when they hear a "leopard" call?
2. How do the vervet monkeys respond when they hear an "eagle" call?
3. How do the vervet monkeys respond when the hear a "snake" call?
4. Given the vervet monkeys responses to specific calls, do you think they are using language? Explain your reasoning fully.
1. What are some of the different ways tigers ( Panthera tigris ) communicate?
2. In what sort of ways do tigers communicate through smell?
3. Do you think using different smells to communicate is analogous to using different words? Explain your reasoning fully, and be as specific as possible.
1. Give some examples of how animals communicate with scent.
2. Give some examples of how animals communicate through sight.
Any way in which animals share information.
Method of communication using signs or symbols.
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Cyclic Hydrocarbons
Structure and function of molecules where the carbon chain forms a ring.
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Cyclic Hydrocarbons
From Benzene To Balloons
Although cyclohexane can be isolated from petroleum products, a major source of this chemical is the hydrogenation of benzene. Much of the cyclohexane produced is used to manufacture intermediates for the production of nylon. The nylon balloons pictured above no doubt had their start in a chemical plant where hydrogen gas and benzene were reacted at high temperatures to form cyclohexane. This cycloalkane then undergoes nitration to begin the process of forming the long strands of nylon that can be made into balloons, ropes, clothing, and many other useful products.
Cyclic Hydrocarbons
A cyclic hydrocarbon is a hydrocarbon in which the carbon chain joins to itself in a ring. A cycloalkane is a cyclic hydrocarbon in which all of the carbon-carbon bonds are single bonds. Like other alkanes, cycloalkanes are saturated compounds. Cycloalkanes have the general formula of C n H 2n . The simplest cycloalkane is cyclopropane, a three-carbon ring.
Cyclopropane is the simplest cycloalkane. Its highly strained geometry makes it rather unstable and highly reactive.
The structural formulas of cyclic hydrocarbons can be represented in multiple ways, two of which are shown above. Each atom can be shown as in the structure on the left from figure above . A convenient shorthand is to omit the element symbols and only show the shape, as in the triangle on the right. Carbon atoms are understood to be the vertices of the triangle.
The carbon atoms in cycloalkanes are still sp 3 hybridized, with an ideal bond angle of 109.5°. However, an examination of the cyclopropane structure shows that the triangular structure results in a C-C-C bond angle of 60°. This deviation from the ideal angle is called ring strain and makes cyclopropane a fairly unstable and reactive molecule. Ring strain is decreased for cyclobutane, with a bond angle of 90°, but is still significant. Cyclopentane has a bond angle of about 108°C. This minimal ring strain for cyclopentane makes it a more stable compound.
Cyclohexane is a six-carbon cycloalkane shown below.
All three of the depictions of cyclohexane are somewhat misleading because the molecule is not planar. In order to reduce the ring strain and attain a bond angle of approximately 109.5°, the molecule is puckered. The puckering of the ring means that every other carbon atom is above and below the plane. The Figure below shows two possibilities for the puckered cyclohexane molecule. Each of the structures is called a conformation. The conformation on the right is called the boat conformation, while the one on the left is called the chair conformation.
Chair (left) and boat (right) conformations for cyclohexane.
While both conformations reduce the ring strain compared to a planar molecule, the chair is preferred. This is because the chair conformation results in fewer repulsive interactions between the hydrogen atoms. However, interconversion readily occurs between the two conformations.
Larger cycloalkanes also exist, but are less common. Cyclic hydrocarbons may also be unsaturated. A cycloalkene is a cyclic hydrocarbon with at least one carbon-carbon double bond. A cycloalkyne is a cyclic hydrocarbon with at least one carbon-carbon triple bond. Shown below are the simplified structural formulas for cyclohexene and cyclooctyne.
• Definition of cyclic hydrocarbon and cyclic alkane are given.
• Names and structures of typical cyclic hydrocarbons are given.
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1. Why is cyclopropane so reactive?
2. Why is cyclopentane stable?
3. Name the two forms of cyclohexane.
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Sharp LC-D62U review: Sharp LC-D62U
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MSRP: $2,699.99
3.5 stars
CNET Editors' Rating
0.5 stars 2 user reviews
The Good Best black-level performance of any non-CRT we've tested yet; resolves every detail of 1080i resolution sources; image stays relatively true from off-angle for an LCD; distinctive two-tone styling.
The Bad Inaccurate color temperature; irregular bands across screen visible in some scenes; lacks picture-in-picture; no PC input.
The Bottom Line Although it delivers the deepest color of black we've seen yet, a couple of picture quality problems keep the Sharp LC46D62U from being a top, high-end LCD choice.
7.2 Overall
• Design 8.0
• Features 8.0
• Performance 6.0
Editors' note, November 15, /2007 The rating on this review has been lowered from 7.5 to 7.2 due to changes in the competitive marketplace.
Sharp has always been a leader in LCD technology, and the company's newest generation of panels has some of the most impressive specs we've seen yet, including a 10,000:1 contrast ratio. That's a laughably high number on paper, but does it translate into better picture quality in the real world? After testing the Sharp LC-46D62U, we can affirm that yes, indeed it does. This 46-inch, 1080p, flat-panel LCD reproduced a deeper color of black--and thus a better contrast ratio--than any non-CRT HDTV we've ever tested, whether plasma, LCD, or rear-projection. That's all well and good, but in the Sharp's case, those deep blacks come at a price: Its color temperature and screen uniformity are worse than most LCDs we've reviewed, and that's enough to keep it out of the ranks of the elite models on the market.
Editor's Note: This review has been changed since its original publication. Further testing has revealed that the television exhibited uniformity issues, which manifested as horizontal and vertical bands across the screen that we did not notice during initial testing. As a result, the performance score has been lowered from a "7" to a "6" and the overall score was recalculated.
The Sharp LC-46D62U turns in a whole new design direction for the company's Aquos line of LCDs. Gone are the cookie-cutter silver-and titanium-frames; this 46-inch screen is wreathed entirely in glossy black, the fingerprint-friendly flat-panel flavor of the year. The bezel around the top and sides is of average thickness, while below the screen it widens and assumes a chrome-lined curve along the bottom edge, like a Mona Lisa's smile. Below Sharp's subtle grin, the cabinet turns gray and perforated, concealing the speakers, then ends above a pair of glossy black legs that flow into the matching base. Overall, the look is slick yet classy and definitely differentiates the LC-46D62U from the run of HDTVs available today.
Measuring 44.4 by 31.1 by 12.2 inches WHD atop the stand and weighing 78.3 pounds, the Sharp LC-46D62U is about average size for a 46-inch LCD. You can, of course, separate it from the 10-pound stand for wall-mounting, causing its dimensions to shrink to 44.4 by 28.7 by 4.9 inches.
Sharp's long remote will be familiar to anyone who's played with an Aquos set in the last couple of years. It has full orange backlighting, the ability to command four other pieces of gear, keys that are nicely spread out and well differentiated, and a generally logical button layout. We say "generally" because the key controlling aspect ratio is stashed clear at the top of the long wand, the one for freezing the image is given an unduly important spot near the main directional keypad, and the one for changing picture modes is hidden beneath a flip-up hatch. The menu system is simple enough to navigate and includes helpful explanations that appear along the bottom. We didn't appreciate the delay of a second or so that occurred between us pressing the Menu key and the menu actually appearing, however.
The 46-inch Sharp LC-46D62U has 1080p native resolution, the highest available today, meaning that its 1,920x1,080 pixels are capable of resolving every detail of a 1080i or 1080p source. All sources, whether they're high-def, DVD, standard-def, or arrive from a computer, are scaled to fit the pixels.
Speaking of fitting the pixels, the LC-46D62U is one of an increasing number of LCDs that offer an aspect ratio control that perfectly maps the incoming image to the screen without any overscan. We recommend going with this mode, dubbed Dot-by-Dot by Sharp, unless you see interference along the edge, in which case the TV lets you select from among three other modes. Standard-def sources allow four modes.
The LC-46D62U's array of conveniences neglects to include picture-in-picture, which is a bummer for folks who enjoy trying to pay attention to two programs at once. A freeze-frame mode is available however, along with an ATSC tuner to catch over-the-air digital and HDTV signals. On the other hand there's no CableCard slot, and though that means you're out of luck if you want to ditch the cable box, we don't consider it a serious omission.
The Sharp has fewer picture controls than many high-end HDTVs, but there are still a decent number of options. You can choose from a generous six picture presets: Dynamic, Dynamic (fixed), Standard, Movie, Game, and PC, five of which can be adjusted. There's also a User setting that allows you to set different parameters for each input independently. A lot of LCDs offer the ability to fine-tune the color-temperature control, and it would have been especially welcome with the LC-46D62U since none of the five presets came very close to the standard (see Performance). On the plus side, we loved the wide range of the 32-step backlight control.
Among other picture-affecting features, the OPC is a room-lighting sensor that automatically adjusts the picture based on ambient light--we left it off for critical viewing. There's a black-level expansion setting that we set to On because it produced more natural shadow detail (a slower rise from dark to lighter). Another setting called Fine Motion is said to optimize the image for fast-moving objects, although we could detect no difference between the settings with normal program material. Finally, there's a Film mode setting to engage 2:3 pull-down.
Around back you'll find an average crop of jacks, starting with a pair of 1080p-compatible HDMI inputs. Two of the analog inputs offer a choice of component or composite video, and the third that gives the option of composite or S-Video. There's an RF input for antenna sources, an analog audio output, and an optical digital audio out to handle the surround soundtracks of over-the-air HD programs.
One missing link is a dedicated computer input. If you want to connect a PC to the Sharp, you'll have to use a DVI output and monopolize one of the TV's HDMI inputs. Update: Although the manual indicates that the set can only handle 1,280 by 1,024 via HDMI, we connected a PC and were able to feed the TV a full 1,920 by 1,080 signal. We also missed having a front- or side-panel set of A/V inputs.
Note that Sharp also makes a 52-inch version that's identical in all other respects, the LC-52D62U. The picture quality of the Sharp LC-46D62U is impressive in terms of the deep black levels it can deliver, but we found that its screen uniformity (update) and color accuracy left a lot to be desired. That's why it scored lower in this area than some of the best LCDs out there, such as Sony's KDL-XBR2 series and the Samsung LN-S4096D.
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A Simple But Surprisingly Effective Random Number Generator
Today I'd like to introduce a Random Number Generator I developed called CR-XAM. It's a simple and efficient algorithm that generates a surprisingly high quality random output. So far I've tested it with:
...and its passed them all with flying colors. I've yet to test it with other suites such as: don't write home just yet. But compared to other simple generators such as LCGs, and LSFRs, it produces much better quality, with very little decrease in speed.
So first off, what the heck does CR-XAM mean? CR-XAM is an acronymn for the five operations that make up the Random Number Generator: Counter, Rotate, Xor, Add, Multiply. I liked the sound of it, and that it's a simple name for the simple operations that make up a simple RNG... to put it simply.
Now let's dive into some code. First I'd like to show you how to use the code, and then we'll take a look at the Algorithm itself.
Using the code
If you look at the two files above, you will see one called and The difference, as you can likely guess, is that crxam32 uses 32 bit unsigned integers in its state, and crxam64 uses 64 bit unsigned integers. The 32 bit version has a Period around 2^48 bytes, and the 64 bit has a Period of 2^96 bytes. In the examples below I will be using the 64 bit version, but the code in both versions is virtually identical.
Also, despite the different bit sizes, both generators return a single byte after each call is made. I'll explain why when I talk about the algorithm.
With any Random Number Generator, the first step is seeding it. CR-XAM has 3 different options when it comes to seeding. In all 3 cases, the seeding procedure uses rand() in stdlib.h
1) crxam64_seed(uint32 Seed)
The first option is, of course, to allow the user to provide a Seed. In this case, Seed, a 32 bit unsigned integer, is passed to srand(). From there, the CR-XAM uses rand() to create the initial State.
void crxam64_seed(uint32 Seed)
setup(); // The function that creates the state
2) crxam64_init(void)
The second option is to call crxam64_init(). This will create a seed using time(0). The procedure is quite simple.
void crxam64_init(void)
time_t Seed = time(0);
Seed += (Seed >> 32);
srand(Seed & 0xffffffff);
3) Just call crxam64_genrand(void)
And last, if you call crxam64_genrand() to start getting random numbers without calling crxam64_seed() or crxam64_init() first, it will go ahead and create an initial state using rand() without calling srand() first.
byte crxam64_genrand(void)
// Rest of code will be shown later.
Generating Random Numbers
So, now that we have our generator seeded, we need to start getting some random numbers. Once again, the procedure is quite simple.
byte B = crxam64_genrand();
// OR
for(size_t I = 0; I < Buffer_len; I++)
Buffer[I] = crxam64_genrand();
Once again, both crxam64_genrand() and crxam32_genrand() return a single byte.
NOTE: I'm well aware of the fact that most the places where Random Number Generators are used are more likely to need 32 bit integers or even doubles, rather than a single byte. I will be releasing some code in a few days that will make it more convenient to use CR-XAM, and will make it easier to generate floating point numbers and Integers of larger size and within certain ranges (i.e. random number betwee Min and Max). In the meantime I apologize for any inconviences.
So those are the function calls that you can allow you to use the generator. Now let's take a more indepth look at what's happening behind the scenes.
The State of an RNG are all the variables and bits that are used to generate the random numbers. I would argue that, specifically, they are all the variables that are able to be changed by the seeding procedure.
// Generator State
static uint64 Xc;
static uint64 Ac;
static uint64 Mc;
static byte Xr;
static byte Ar;
static byte Mr;
static uint64 Accum;
static int IsSeeded = 0; // Flag
Before I explain the different variables, I would like to go ahead and point out that the datatypes uint64 in crxam64 and uint32 in crxam32, as well as byte and typedefs declared in another file "stdtypes.h".
typedef unsigned char byte;
typedef unsigned long int uint32;
typedef unsigned long long int uint64;
I'm sure most of you figured that out, but I didn't want anyone to get confused. And yes, I am aware that pretty much the same thing is in <stdint.h>
// Found in stdint.h>
Personally, that little tail "_t" just irritates me. Call me crazy, but I see it as just needless clutter in my code. I put enough clutter there myself, thank you very much. I don't need some standard library enforcing it's own clutter on me.
Setup - The Seeding Procedure
Earlier in the code I showed you the different functions you can use to Seed the Generator. All 3 of those options make use of the same function, setup().
static void setup(void)
Accum = 0;
Xc = Ac = Mc = 0;
for(int I = 0; I < 8; I++)
Accum = (Accum << 8) | (rand() & 0xff);
Xc = (Xc << 8) | (rand() & 0xff);
Ac = (Ac << 8) | (rand() & 0xff);
Mc = (Mc << 8) | (rand() & 0xff);
Xr = rand() & 0xff;
Ar = rand() & 0xff;
Mr = rand() & 0xff;
IsSeeded = 0xffff;
Many of you are probably wondering why I only use rand() to seed the generator. Why did I only let the user pass in a 32 bit seed rather than an entire array of bytes? Why? Why? WHY???
I have 3 reasons:
1. It makes the seeding procedure simpler. Instead of having to worry about getting an entire array of random bytes, you only have to worry about a 32 bit integer.
2. Using a lower quality generator to seed a high quality one is a common practice. There are several implementations of Mersenne Twister, the Sir Lancelot of RNG's if you will, that use a Lagged Fibonacci Generator to Seed Mersenne Twister.
3. I wanted CR-XAM to be used in places where people previously used rand() in stdlib.h. This makes it easier to drop in and replace srand(Seed) with crxam64_seed(Seed). (Yes, I'm aware that rand() returns a short. I'm working on it!!!).
And last but not least, the Little Black Box of this Heart of Gold.
byte crxam64_genrand(void)
Accum = rotl(State, ++Xr);
Accum ^= ++Xc;
Accum = rotr(State, ++Ar);
Accum += ++Ac;
Accum = rotl(State, ++Mr);
Accum *= ++Mc;
return (Accum >> 56) & 0xff;
Simple, no?
The Algorithm
Well, now that we've taken a look at all the code, let's discuss how this baby ticks.
First, the functions rotr() and rotl() are bit rotations. These are very commonly used functions, so I won't go over them here in too much depth here. If you've never heard of them, they shift the bits, but instead of losing bits on one end and gaining 0's on the others, the bits that would fall off are brought to the other side.
Once again the Algorithm is very simple. The Pseudo-Code for its is pretty straightforward.
1. Increment the variables Xr, Xc, Ar, Ac, Mr, and Mc by 1. Don't worry about overflow.
2. Rotate Accum to the left Xr bits, then XOR with Xc. Store the Result back in Accum.
3. Rotate Accum to the right Ar bits, then Add Ar to Accum. Store the Result back in Accum.
4. Rotate Accum to the left Mr bits, then Multiply with Mc. Store the Result back in Accum.
5. Return the top 8 bits (1 byte) of Accum as the output.
One of my favorite aspects of the Algorithm is that you can adapt it to any size integer you want (although in that case you might have to worry about overflow).
Now let's talk about the State. I tried to give the variables simple, but obvious names. The first letter, X, A, and M all describe which operation their involved in.
• Xr and Xc are involved in the XOR stage,
• Ar and Ac are used in the Addition Stage.
• Mr and Mc are used in the Multiplication Stage.
Also, the last letter, r and c, mean, respectively, Rotation and Counter (technically all the variables are counters, but I liked this naming convention, so I decided to stick with it).
Accum is the variable that all the operations are carried out on. It's where all the randomness accumulates, and is what the output is dervied from.
The Operations
The Counter, Rotations, Addition and XOR are commonly used to build Cryptographic Primitives. Multiplication is a bit of an exception to this. The late George Marsaglia, creator of the Diehard Tests and a well respected authority on Random Number Generators, claimed that in his experience, multiplication did a better job of mixing bits than XOR or Addition (I apologize, I can't remember where I read this. When I find the source, I'll post it).
The Output
Unlike many other simple RNG's, instead of returning all 64 bits of Accum as the output, I only return 8 bits. Some people see this as being inefficient. That I could be getting eight times as much output that I currently am. However I have two reasons that I believe support my choice.
1. Because of the Multiplication Operation, the top 8 bits will be the ones that are most thoroughly mixed. By only using them, we're ensuring that we're getting the best output we can.
2. A common weakness that causes most simple RNG's to fail advanced statistical tests is that many of them cannot Generate output with little statistical randomness. At some point, a True Random Number generator will generate a long sequence of all 1's or 0's. The reason most simple RNG's fail is that when they generate the out put, they use it as both the utput, and as the seed for the next output. However if there Seed has little statistical randomness (i.e. it is 111111111 or 00000000), their generator won't be able to generate any useful output. By only using the top 8 bits, we're able to ensure that we can generate long sequences of 1's and 0's, regardless of how random the actual state is.
Statistical Tests
The file contains the results of the Statistical Tests I mentiond at the beginning of the Article. One additional test I performed that I did not mention was using Ent, program that performs some basic Statistical Tests.
Entropy = 7.999998 bits per byte.
Optimum compression would reduce the size
of this 126000000 byte file by 0 percent.
Chi square distribution for 126000000 samples is 276.34, and randomly
would exceed this value 17.13 percent of the times.
Arithmetic mean value of data bytes is 127.5020 (127.5 = random).
Monte Carlo value for Pi is 3.141631810 (error 0.00 percent).
Serial correlation coefficient is -0.000067 (totally uncorrelated = 0.0).
So far I've been very pleased with CR-XAM. It's yet to fail any tests I've thrown at it, and I certainly hope it continues to do so. If you find any problems or have any questions, please feel free to bring them to my attention.
I hope you all find this useful. Happy Thanksgiving!
Jacob W.
Nov. 22, 2012 - Original Posting
- Added Results for Statistical Testing.
Algorithm License
Because this article covers both the source code I wrote and the algorithm I came up with, I felt I should cover all my bases.
All source code presented here and included in the files is in the Public Domain, and may be used however you wish.
I hereby place this algorithm into the Public Domain, and relicense all royalty rights and copyrights.
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• Chapter 172: Sons (息子)
• Chapter 173: The Desire to Fight (斬り合いたい)
• Chapter 174: Ichizo (市三)
• Chapter 175: Younger Brother (弟)
• Chapter 176: Open Mind (虚心)
• Chapter 177: Koun and Kojiro (巨雲と小次郎)
• Chapter 178: Koun and Kojiro II (巨雲と小次郎2)
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The half-black, half-latino Armando Muñoz manifested his ability of reactive evolution soon after birth, and because of it, his mother despised him. Soon after, he was found by scientists, who experimented on him and made his existence public. Moira MacTaggert then took him in as one of her own, and he became a member of the "Missing X-Men," alongside Sway, Petra and Kid Vulcan.
Darwin was created by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Pete Woods and first appeared in a back-up story in X-Men: Deadly Genesis issue 1 (2006).
Character Evolution
At first, like the rest of the Missing X-Men, Darwin was created to be a throw away character in order to show how the original X-Men survived Krakoa. However, he was brought back and became a member of the X-Men and later a member of X-Factor.
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Deadly Genesis
Giving Vulcan 'The Team'
The first time we see Darwin among the Missing X-Men, they are on a mission to save the original X-Men from Krakoa. Unfortunately, his teammates Sway and Petra don’t manage to survive. Darwin decides to absorb them and, as a result of their dying efforts, Kid Vulcan is saved. Darwin, unwilling to die there, converts himself into energy and fuses himself with Kid Vulcan, effectively giving the entire team a single body. After Vulcan is found many years later, he confronts the X-Men. Marvel Girl senses that Darwin still resides within Gabriel, so she uses her telepathic powers to draw him out, which injures Vulcan. The X-Men sees this as thier chance to finally defeat him, but Vulcan, still stronger than they thought, manages to escape.
With Vulcan gone, Beast notices that Darwin’s remains are not only alive but are beginning to restore his body. One week passes, and we see the Professor and Beast marvel at how Darwin’s body has restored itself using pure energy.
The Rise And Fall Of The Shi'ar Empire
Once fully restored, Darwin is chosen by Professor X to lead a team intended to stop Vulcan from destroying the Shi'ar Empire. When the Professor is later captured by agents of the Shi'ar, Darwin secretly jumps on the ship with intent to rescue Professor X. While he successfully boards the ship, his rescue attempt ultimately fails when he is captured upon arrival. Darwin then reluctantly accepts Vulcan's offer to be the Best Man at his wedding. Darwin attends the wedding in shackles. Darwin then learns that Professor X had been trapped in the M'Kraan Crystal by Vulcan. Fearing for his mentor's safety, he followed Charles into the depths, eventually succeeding in rescuing him.
World War Hulk
Sometime later back on Earth, the Hulk attacks the Xavier Institute. During his battle with the Hulk, Darwin manifests the ability to absorb gamma radiation, but finds that the Hulk had more then he can siphon off. With this, his body involuntarily decides that the best way to defeat the Hulk was to stay away from him teleports him out of the battle. For a time, Darwin is thought to be missing.
Messiah Complex
Darwin's return happens in the Messiah CompleX storyline, where he fights alongside the X-Men, against various teams also seeking the mutant child.
Secret Invasion and X-Factor
Sometime after Messiah Complex, Darwin goes in search of Professor Xavier because he wants to help him. He encounters Longshot, who tries to lead him to the Professor by using his powers. However, Longshot is unsure if his powers have been working correctly and tests them out on a group of people, who turn on Darwin and attack. After a brief fight, Darwin manages to get away and the crowd turns on Longshot. Afterwards, Longshot meets back up with Darwin and they are attacked by Jazinda and She-Hulk who are trailing after Longshot, who is really a Skrull named Nogor. Meanwhile, Darwin's father hires X-Factor Investigations to help him find Darwin, supposedly because he feels bad for walking out on him and his mother when he was younger.
After the investigation succeeds and Darwin is reunited with his father, he is betrayed by him and sold out to by operatives of an organization known as the Karma Project, who are experimenting on living human beings. He is eventually saved and recruited by X-Factor. When the villain Cortex takes control of Monet, Darwin bravely fights her off. He also begins to develop feelings for Monet in the process. When Madrox leaves Detroit to restart X-Factor Investigations, Darwin stays under the employment of Terry. However, Terry shut downs the office a month later, and Arman (along with everyone else) returns to New York.
To Hela and Back
Darwin after adapting to Hela's touch
Most recently, X-Factor (once again under the control of Jamie Madrox) journeyed to Las Vegas on a mission to rescue Pip the Troll from Hela, the goddess of the dead. Whilst there, and with assistance from Thor, the team battled Hela and her Undead Niffleheim Warriors.
During the battle, Hela attempted to use her death touch on Darwin, but on account of his mutant abilities, he was able to adapt to and survive the touch by becoming a death god (or at least someone with the power of a god) himself. With this new found power, Darwin was able to defeat Hela and the team escaped with Pip the Troll at their side.
Having been severely affected by his new found persona, Darwin left the team in order to reflect upon the events that transpired in Vegas. His journey took him to the desert where he had a vision of Tier, who believes himself to be the son of Rahne Sinclair, or so he claimed. Shocked and confused by this, Darwin is now working his way back to his friends in New York (X-Factor), startled by his time in the desert.
Powers And Abilities
Darwin has the power of "reactive evolution"; i.e., his body automatically adapts to any situation or environment he is placed in, allowing him to survive possibly anything; the exact nature and limits of his powers have not been revealed.
Adapting To Survive
Examples of his powers include: gaining night-vision after a few seconds in the dark; functional gills after being submerged in water; fire-proof skin after being exposed to flame; increasing his own intelligence; converting his body into pure energy; no longer requiring oxygen after being sucked into space; morphing into a sponge when shot at with a weapon designed to destroy the subject's nervous system; and acquiring comprehension of the Shi'ar language merely by looking at written samples. His power may concern itself with more efficient methods of survival than Darwin himself might choose; for example, instead of continually increasing Darwin's powers when taking punishment from the Hulk, his body simply teleported him away from the fight.
His power can also work when dealing with non-immediately-life-threatening situations, such as rendering it impossible for Darwin to get drunk by allowing his body to process alcohol faster than the human norm.
Alternate Versions
What If...? The Second Team Of X-Men Had Lived?
In this reality, the team comprised of Vulcan, Darwin, Sway and Petra survived the battle against Krakoa. Instead, the original X-Men die, leaving the Missing X-Men to become the X-Men. They are able to finally beat the Brotherhood and Vulcan is viewed as the greatest hero ever. However, it is then reveled that Vulcan was responsible for the deaths of the original X-Men. As a consequence, he is sent to live on the Island and watch the event over and over for the rest of his life. In a twist, Darwin is able to use his powers deliberately and consciously and is able to negate Vulcan’s powers.
Appearances in other Media
X-Men: First Class
Using His Powers
Darwin makes his film debut with in X-Men: First Class. Darwin is portrayed by Edi Gathegi.In the movie, Darwin's power is his ability to adapt and protect himself in specific
situations. Darwin shows off his special talents by sticking his head into a fish tank and growing gills allowing him to breath underwater. Sebastian Shaw and company show up at a CIA stronghold to recruit the newly formed mutant team. Angel decides to join Shaw's quest and his attempt to entice a nuclear war. Darwin and Havok then quickly devise a plot to eliminate Sebastian Shaw. Darwin pretends to join Shaw's crusade, but then quickly grabs Angel and yells for Havok. Havok attacks Shaw with his energy waves, but he deflects them. Shaw then uses his mutant ability and absorbs Havok's attacking energy. Using the absorbed energy, Shaw redirects it into Darwin whose mutant ability can't counteract the attack. He dies as a result.
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[sword-devel] New project - interlinear Hebrew/LXX/KJV/gloss & Greek/KJV/gloss
Chris Little [email protected]
Sat, 14 Jul 2001 22:48:45 -0700
Let me add Brenton's English translation of the LXX to my preceding
list. The edition we have now is "copyright" by MAPS even though it's
just a verbatim electronic edition of the 1851 print edition I have
sitting on my shelf (no changes are made in markup, versification, or
other). There is an edition in the making at CCEL which we'll be able
to use, though it is missing the Apocrypha just like MAPS. (People,
come join me at
http://www.ccel.org/php/stats.php?authorID=brenton&bookID=lxx and let's
give Harry & CCEL a hand.)
> Maybe the application which will be created for project eL can be used
> extended to fit our needs?
That's what I was thinking, but I haven't seen anyone step forward to
work on it. I would, but I have zero knowledge of AWT, Swing, or
interfacing with a DB and very minimal knowledge of Java in general. I
might look into doing something with PHP though since it seems like it
could handle some of the requirements.
> One thought. I am not sure if creating one huge interlinear text would
> the
> best solution. Maybe there's another way: Troy was talking about
> syncronization keys for modules which should be implemented in future.
> Maybe
> there is a way to add metainformation to the sword modules (with this
> like interface you mentioned) that would enable us to align the
> interlinear on-the-fly, when displaying them?
You're definitely right that smaller texts containing a single
translation would be a better idea as long as they could be aligned by
the engine. I can't find the discussion where Troy described OLKeys and
I can't remember much about them. Could someone refresh my memory?
I think it's easy to align the texts so long as the same OLKey or
Strong's number or whatever the alignment criterion is never occurs in
the same verse. Of course, this happens very frequently, so a little
more thought will have to go into this.
> -other modules / languages / countries could benefit from it
I had figured that once a KJV was integrated, all the other Strong's
marked texts could be added rather easily, but I'm not certain of their
copyright status so I didn't want to include them in this project.
> -don't know if it's possible
> -don't know if this is what the synchronization keys are for
Neither do I, but I hope & think so.
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Ash Patel is the likely selection to run the new global products group, which will oversee search, email, and many other functions. Some executives are not fond of Patel and have expressed disappointment in the decision. (Source: Yahoo)
Hillary Schneider will likely also share an equal leadership role with Patel in the new division. She is better liked, but some fear she's too nice for the position. (Source: Yahoo)
Yahoo executive on reorganization: "This feels crazy."
It’s tough times on the Yahoo boat. Employees are jumping ship, its purportedly earnest attempts to bring Microsoft back to the table were rebuffed, and a hostile takeover by investor Carl Icahn is looming. The atmosphere among even the most seasoned of Yahoo veterans is one of uncertainty and doubt.
Losses at Yahoo are mounting as well. Among the most recent additions to the departure list are Brad Garlinghouse, famous for his "Peanut Butter Manifesto" memo which demanded the company make a radical change of course; Vish Makhijani, general manager of Yahoo's Web search business; and Qi Lu, head engineer of Yahoo's Panama search marketing platform
Yahoo President Sue Decker announced in the Wall Street Journal that she plans to lead a company-wide reorganization of the embattled corporation. Details on the reorganization are unclear, but it seems that it may require some positions and jobs being sent overseas as Decker states that a primary focus is providing services that appeal internationally and to centralize the accounting for such services.
The new global products group, which she will be creating, is likely going to be led by Executive Vice President Ash Patel. The site AllThingsD reported that he already got the position. According to the site, much of the networks division, currently under the departed Jeff Weiner, will be shifted to the new division. This will include the search, mail, instant messenger, front page, platforms and social networking sections.
The sections, according to the report will be managed out of Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif. This shake-up could help to explain why communities SVP Brad Garlinghouse and Search SVP Vish Makhijani are leaving the company.
Front Door head Tapan Bhat, whose section will also be folded into global products is also considering an exit, stating that he is weighing his options. According to one insider, some of the executives would rather quit than work with Patel, who is not popular. The anonymous executive stated, "No one wants to report up through him. He’s a Yahoo lifer and not the kind of dynamic leader we need."
In a slightly better received move, Global Partner Solutions EVP Hilary Schneider will now extend her oversight over the entire U.S. region. She will be equal in position to Patel and report only to Decker. The Yahoo Media Group under Scott Moore, who was formerly under Weiner, will now shift to Schneider.
Moore, a former Microsoft executive, is satisfied with the move, especially since he may be getting some new organizations. However there are also reports that he is looking for startup capital, a warning sign that he might jump ship as well. Some fear Schneider is too nice to do the job. Says one anonymous source, "There is lot on her plate and, while she is good at the business side, she is not a products person."
The shakeups will include a number of other moves, but suffice to say that if early speculation holds true, virtually the entire company will experience shifts in leadership. Many employees aren't happy about this. "I am not sure right now, with all this drama and all this tension from Microsoft’s failed takeover and the rest of it, why we have to do this. This feels crazy," said one executive.
Strangest of all, some say, is that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been nowhere to be seen during the reorganization talks. Yang, who would likely be ousted in the case of an Icahn takeover, has let Decker almost entirely lead the efforts. One executive states, "Where’s Jerry here? He is like a ghost. It is nerve-wracking."
Yahoo's moves clearly strike as a desperate attempt to change course. Their effects remain to be seen, but one disturbing trouble sign is the large amount of criticism about the moves coming from Yahoo's own leadership. If this continues, it would not be surprising to see more departures in store in coming weeks.
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deja vu
By WileCoyote on 6/23/2008 10:41:52 AM , Rating: 2
It's high school all over again.
RE: deja vu
By trox5361 on 6/23/2008 10:48:26 AM , Rating: 5
I like this approach to 'reorganization'.
RE: deja vu
By Master Kenobi (blog) on 6/23/2008 10:50:54 AM , Rating: 5
I bet Microsoft is sitting back eating popcorn and enjoying some lemonade watching the Yahoo death spiral. If anything, the actions taken by Yang and the Yahoo board to block a purchase seem to have accelerated the plundge into nothingness.
RE: deja vu
By NuroMancer on 6/23/2008 6:57:15 PM , Rating: 2
To think, the actions by Yang might end up as a case in a business textbook one day. How to screw up royally and get to watch your business's demise. Almost like when someone's head gets cut off and their brain stay active for 6 seconds.
RE: deja vu
By paydirt on 6/24/2008 10:49:25 AM , Rating: 2
GOOG benefits more from this than MSFT. I wonder if the whole MSFT offer was to weaken YHOO internally, knowing that Yang would refuse any offer. Yang staying away is a bad sign, he's probably thinking that he messed up big time.
RE: deja vu
By InternetGeek on 6/23/2008 7:02:38 PM , Rating: 2
I'm willing to bet that instead of buying Yahoo MS will just inject capital in all the new startups without asking for some technological leverage. These guys would not let the money down (they're leaving because the merge didn't happen) and in the mid and long term they might just jump into using MS technology. Played wisely MS would just jump into 2.0 by having a whole ecosystem.
By DASQ on 6/23/2008 11:09:55 AM , Rating: 1
I cannot stop staring at her uneven heights of her eyes. I... just... can't ._.
RE: Seriously...
By Suomynona on 6/23/2008 11:39:18 AM , Rating: 2
I think they both qualify for that one... But then they're looking for executives, not models.
RE: Seriously...
By FaceMaster on 6/23/2008 11:43:44 AM , Rating: 3
When choosing their character they neglected the 'looks' category and pumped everything into the 'intelligence' attribute... or maybe the 'luck' one, I forget.
RE: Seriously...
By DASQ on 6/23/2008 11:55:54 AM , Rating: 2
Well, as long as your intelligence doesn't drop below 4 you'll still be able to make decent conversation and be correctly rewarded for your efforts.
RE: Seriously...
By aegisofrime on 6/23/2008 12:19:02 PM , Rating: 3
Nah, everyone knows that CH and LK are the most important stats for real life!
RE: Seriously...
By FaceMaster on 6/23/2008 11:40:23 AM , Rating: 2
Yeah it's a prerequisite for a job in this company.
RE: Seriously...
By Icelight on 6/23/2008 1:13:30 PM , Rating: 4
Tilt your monitor a bit then. Eyes are even. Voila.
By wwwebsurfer on 6/23/08, Rating: 0
RE: ......
By wordsworm on 6/23/2008 10:43:35 PM , Rating: 2
I get a preview of all my email via myyahoo. I subscribe to several journals varying from Scientific American to Google Sketchup 3d Challenge. I also subscribe to their music service, and Yahoo messenger is the only messenger service I use (though I don't use it often anymore).
Yahoo is in a better position than Microsoft in terms of search engines and other Internet services are concerned. At least that's the case for me. You even said yourself that Yahoo is better than MSN with finding unsolicited information.
I'm a fan of Google Sketchup and Google earth, but I don't feel that their email service is better. Google is a good competitor for it though.
MS... what do I use that MS makes: their OS, a keyboard and a mouse. As for an Internet presence, they're severely outclassed by Yahoo. Provided that Yahoo doesn't get mucked up too badly (it's too early to tell either way) by Icahn or any of these shake-ups, MS won't be overtaking them any time soon. As for 'all that crap on their page'... they're the world's #1 website for a good reason. People like all that crap. The only reason someone has for going to Google is to check their email or search for something. They just suck at news. Just to verify that they don't have anything to compete with Yahoo I went to see if they had anything like Yahoo. It just plain sucked.
As for search engines, I use individual search engines more often than I use Google:,,,, IMDb, Naver, isoHunt, YouTube, are better search engines for when I want something specific.
Radically changing Yahoo runs with the risk of ruining the portal - and losing the huge number of people who go there every day for one reason or another. I personally hope that the "Athenian" approach doesn't decide to convert itself to the "Spartan" approach any time soon.
RE: ......
By DanD85 on 6/24/2008 3:19:39 AM , Rating: 2
I will be very happy to see Yahoo collapse. I don't know your experience with yahoo but to me it's all negative experience.
Yahoo messenger is the de-facto messenger here in VN so I have to use it but personally speaking I don't like it, too much ads.
Google mail is head and shoulder above Yahoo mail with it simple, elegant design and speedy response compare with clunky, sluggish, annoying+flashy ads from yahoo.
Their blogging services is totally a$$. Slow, no RSS, ugly interface and worse they are so desperate that they have to kiss commie a$$ just to be alive, they fully co-operate with commie to track every blog that have "sensitive" info. They willing to close others blog because they have some porn? (why don't they have an option to warn people about the content of the blog like google did?) So I had dumped that stupid yahoo360 and sided with blogger now and in my opion is miles and miles ahead of Yahoo in this aspect.
Finally: In 2 words "YAHOO SUCKS"
RE: ......
By wordsworm on 6/24/2008 8:33:29 AM , Rating: 2
Their blogging services is totally a$$.
I never got into blogging. DT is the only blogging service I've ever read. So, I'll have to take your word for it.
You know, 2 years ago I would have agreed with you. Getting their Yahoo thingy installed on the computer was like getting a low level virus. Within hours I had deleted it.
As for kissing commie butt, I think China isn't much of a communist state. I say that from someone who thinks that communism was a great idea tried by ruthless men who didn't apply it to themselves (USSR - leaders lived in lavish conditions rather than having an equal share of the common wealth of the state.) China gets a lot of bad press. When our state 'leaders' (in my case, that would be the *gag* Hon. Stephen Harper) criticize China's track record, I can't help but want to write China's diplomats a letter asking them to remind Stephen Harper of Canada's track record in reference to Native people. Free Tibet? Give their land back? How about giving back to the Native people what really should belong to them before we start harping on other people.
As for Yahoo mail being clunky... it loaded for me in less than one second. Maybe my Internet is faster than yours - I don't know. I've heard Korea is pretty good for that, and I have no complaints.
As far as RSS feeds are concerned, you're mistaken that they don't provide them.
Anyway, how would you compare Yahoo with MSN? would you suggest that MS could improve what Yahoo had to offer? I really doubt it.
Slacker's Holiday
By Suntan on 6/23/2008 1:12:38 PM , Rating: 2
If your a low level slacker, just looking for a paycheck, it looks like a good couple of months to sit and surf the web while everyone above you runs around with their hair on fire.
If your interested in a career, it's not looking so rosy.
RE: Slacker's Holiday
By djc208 on 6/23/2008 3:18:51 PM , Rating: 2
I'm sure there's about a dozen appropriate Dilbert strips around here somewhere.
Question for you guys....
By ice456789 on 6/23/2008 1:50:21 PM , Rating: 2
Didn't I read earlier that many Yahoo employees were given contracts that stated that if their job changed at all or that they quit 'for cause' that they would be due an entire year's salary as severance? If so, such a big shuffling could cause Yahoo to eat it's own poison pill.
Someone tell me where I'm wrong, because I just don't see people in that high of a position making such an absurd move.
By Master Kenobi (blog) on 6/23/2008 2:47:02 PM , Rating: 2
I think that provision also contained the clause "In the event of a buyout or takeover".
By Ammohunt on 6/23/2008 2:44:02 PM , Rating: 2
They are suffering the common causes of problems for most large corporations....Executives! All the suits are jockeying to see how much percieved power they can obtain. Yahoo is on the downward spiral they coasted too long failing to inovate like many of the other Dot bomb internet companies.
Where’s Jerry ?
By crystal clear on 6/24/2008 9:29:50 AM , Rating: 2
Where’s Jerry here?
If you guys are looking for him ,you can find him in Washington D.C. at the capitol hill.
If you ask whats he doing there ?
Then read here below-
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Confusion over who to call during a cyber attack remains a frustration for federal bureaucracies (Source:
Dealing with cyber attacks is difficult for government security agencies because it's hard to tell if it's an act of war or just smaller-scale criminal acts. An even larger problem in dealing with cyber attacks is determining who to call when one occurs. For instance, a cyber attack on a Department of Defense network might seem like an obvious job for the military, but if the attack occurred within the U.S., it would be categorized in criminal statutes.
The September 11 terrorist attacks shed some light on the fact that federal agencies don't always work well with one another (and haven't for decades), and that some fight over who should be called first in the case of such an attack. For instance, during the September 11 terrorist attacks, the CIA, FBI and law enforcement officers were criticized for not working with one another when the CIA knew the approximate location of the attackers but did not tell the FBI.
There are four different federal agencies that deal with cyber security, including the Department of Defense (DOD), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The NSA and DHS are competitive over primacy in cyber security, where the NSA has asked for the lead role in this particular area in the past. But the NSA has a bit of a shady past with issues like its warrantless wiretapping program that was discovered in 2005. There are debates as to whether the NSA should play a lead role in certain situations, but the Obama administration noted that it recognizes DHS as the leader in cyber security.
Despite who the leader in cyber security is, these federal agencies are supposed to coordinate their efforts through Howard Schmidt, the president's cyber security coordinator since 2009. While Schmidt doesn't have the budget or staff he would like, his role in keeping the agencies on the same page helps keep some order. He also recognizes (and helped the agencies recognize) that each agency has its own area of expertise, and would know who to call in certain situations.
There are some circumstances, however, where disorganization is preferred. According to Travis Sharp, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington D.C., an "overarching" agency could be troublesome in some cases. But overall, a cyber security coordinator acting as a "clearinghouse" for these agencies is the better approach.
While feuds and debates have caused tension within the federal bureaucracies for years, James Lewis, a director and senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, noted that the different agencies have become much better at coordinating and sharing information with one another over the last three years. NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander agreed.
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By AssBall on 9/1/2011 5:49:25 PM , Rating: 2
Federal agencies don't even work harmoniously within themselves.
RE: but...
By YashBudini on 9/1/2011 11:00:21 PM , Rating: 2
As a society we are never taught to distinguish when to compete and when to cooperate. What's left is making mistakes, trial and error, and many don't even learn with those clear cut signals.
The old hot rodder's motto is "When all else fails read the instructions. Well we seem to view cooperation in the same way.
There's an old saying, "There but for the grace of God go I." It means yeah your neighbor lost his job not you, but it could have just as easily been you. That saying has been replaced by "fxxx you I got mine." Why do people feel they are competing with their neighbors? We're essentially in the same boat. Being a slave to one-upmanship doesn't alter that reality.
(I'm not hyper religious by the way, I don't use it to replace reality for instance or wear it on my sleeve.)
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Company says it's unafraid of a lawsuit
Stacy Wolff
Stacy Wolff, HP [Image Source: Engadget]
Source: Engadget
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They're most likely designed by the same company
By Solandri on 5/10/2012 6:25:56 AM , Rating: 3
Dirty little secret of the laptop industry: Dell, HP, and yes even Apple don't actually design and make their own laptops. They hire a company called an Original Design Manufacturer to do it, slap their label on it, and sell it to you.
The Macbooks are designed and built by Quanta. Doubtless Apple provided some guidance on what they wanted (e.g. type of LCD panel, non-standard screws, etc), but all the evidence I've read points to Quanta being the real genius and innovator. The unibody aluminum body was their doing, not Apple's. They're the ones who came up with it on their own and suggested using it to Apple, not the other way around.
As it turns out, Quanta also designs and builds most of HP's laptops. So in all likelihood, that's why they look similar. No sinister copying going on. It's probably the exact same Quanta employees who designed the Macbooks who designed the HP Envy and Spectres.
(This is also the problem with trying to determine reliability by brand. One model Dell could be built by Quanta just like the Macbooks, while another model could be built by Wistron (formerly Acer). All the name brand really tells you is how good the warranty support will be.)
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Chrome makes up as much as 10% of Acer's US sales
Acer C7 Chromebook
Source: Bloomberg
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By Suo.Eno on 1/29/2013 4:04:48 AM , Rating: 2
Here's why.. I use Win 8 Pro x64. It's not that bad but admittedly there are enough valid criticisms about it but that's me and I'm an end user so let's get back to the topic shall we?
If I were Acer and I'm an OEM partner to an OS platform that literally have made the company's name, in this day and age w/ the market position that I have, efforts would be better spent at starting to build internal teams to look at other OS options. With critical criterias such as available expertise and so on etc. That said, on the hardware side clearly there's more than enough room for improvements; product design, build quality, more novel feature sets etc.
Start to consider all these while putting aside some R&D money for reference systems to gain better dev/user support. These days you can't just fall back on Microsoft, yell at them for not speccing out 1 or 2 OS out of the blue to whims and watch that splat on the wall trickle down. Those days are over and serious legwork are a near must.
One may argue that it doesn't make sense to even consider investing in a single percentile potential aka Linux. I think otherwise. If there's nothing wrong w/ Chromebooks then Linux are definitely a far more worthwhile calculable risk.
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A compilation of 95 AMD products recently EOL'ed
Socket 939 and 754 on life support, long live AM2
DailyTech previously reported AMD’s end-of-life dates for remaining Socket 939 and 754 products. It appears AMD has released a few more PCNs with updates on mobile and server end-of-life (EOL), which includes single-core Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron, Turion and Opteron products. This brings the total number of EOL'ed products this quarter to 95.
On the Socket 754 side of things the Sempron 2600+, 3100+, 3300+ and 3400+ have been discontinued in favor of the unified Socket AM2 models. Turion models ML-32, ML-34, ML-37, ML-40, ML-42 and ML-44 have been discontinued in favor of newer Socket S1 parts, rounding out the list of discontinued Socket 754 parts. The MT-32, MT-34, MT-37 and MT-40 chips are also on the way out.
AMD is discontinuing three Socket 940 Opteron processors as well. The discontinued Opteron’s include the 246, 848 and 865 models. AMD is expected to launch a new generation of Opteron processors with its upcoming Socket F based processors.
DailyTech has also been told the AMD 8151 HyperTransport AGP3.0 Graphics tunnel has been EOL’ed too. This may possible be due to NVIDIA’s nForce Pro taking over the AMD professional workstation and server chipset market with its PCI Express capable chipsets.
AMD earlier issued a PCN that discontinues a major portion of its Socket 939 and 754 product lineup. The discontinued products include the single-core Athlon 64 3000+, 3200+, 3400+, 3500+, 3700+ and 3800+ models. Athlon 64 X2 3800+, 4400+ and 4800+ have been discontinued as well. Previous flagship Athlon 64 FX-53, FX-55 and FX-57 round out the list of discontinued Athlon 64 products.
Update 07/11/2006: This morning AMD has announced the planned EOL of the rest of the 939 processors for December 2006
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I give it six
By Wwhat on 7/11/2006 12:53:52 AM , Rating: 2
I give it six month tops before they introduce AM3.
No matter what they claim right now.
RE: I give it six
By Master Kenobi (blog) on 7/11/2006 8:25:48 AM , Rating: 1
I'll give it 1 year until they actually start selling them. Your forgetting 1 very important thing here, AMD is very limited in its capacity to produce chips. Theres only a few fabs cranking chips for AMD, and they still havent got all their fabs tooled for 65nm, where as intel is already building/tooling for 45nm and 32nm. Intel, ive gotta give credit where credit is due. When they switch to a smaller process, ex 65nm for CPU's, they switch the 90nm fabs over to cranking out chipsets on a new 90nm process. When they move to 45nm CPU's, we will see the chipsets move to 65nm. Really not a bad idea to get good use out of a fab without having to retool it every three years. AMD doesnt make their own chips so they are really at the mercy of 3rd parties to tool and produce chips in fabs.
RE: I give it six
By shank15217 on 7/11/2006 11:28:48 AM , Rating: 2
You are ignorant to the extreme or you are just playing troll.
RE: I give it six
By Wwhat on 7/11/2006 11:31:27 AM , Rating: 2
They don't make their own chips? are you kidding me? check the news and their site and ask your friends, AMD has several fabs and is opening new ones, the most recent one in the state of new york.
It is true that they have less capacity than intel though.
Perhaps with all the news and rumours you confused AMD with ATI?
RE: I give it six
By ferask1 on 7/11/2006 12:12:48 PM , Rating: 2
yes they do have less fabs, I mean come on its almost a monopoly Intel has like 70 percent of the market while AMD is catching up its still a very big wall
RE: I give it six
By PhantomKnight on 7/12/2006 3:32:21 AM , Rating: 2
Prob should read
AMD doesnt make their own chips so they are really at the mercy of 3rd parties to tool and produce chipsets in fabs.
I think he means chipsets coz AMD dont produce their own.
RE: I give it six
By Lonyo on 7/12/2006 9:38:40 AM , Rating: 2
AMD do have their own production of CPU;s, yes, but IIRC they also have an amount of outsourced production to 3rd party fabs to supplement their own production in their own fabs, which means when they are at peak output themselves in their own production facilities they would be at the mercy of 3rd party fabs to top up production.
There was an article somewhere about how AMD production levels were going to increase with FAB36 etc, but also there was some stretch room from I think 3rd party fabs.
They are definately NOT at the mercy of anyone else though, but if they did need more capacity they could have issues since then they would be at the whim of 3rd party fabs.
END of Life doesnt mean immediately
By ferask1 on 7/11/2006 12:11:10 PM , Rating: 2
Just because its end of life doesn't mean they are going to stop manufacturing the chips right away, give it a half a year before they stop manufacturing it by which you will still have plenty of time to have fun with your CPU's. And if you notice not all socket 939s are getting cancelled duh, AMD wouldn't do that. It's just a warning to get ready for newer CPU's in the future and like the man above said consolidate for manufcaturing.
By Anh Huynh on 7/11/2006 2:59:21 PM , Rating: 2
End-of-life sets the last date a distributor can place an order and the last date the particular model will ship...after that its gone forever...
By KristopherKubicki (blog) on 7/11/2006 3:04:51 PM , Rating: 2
Actually, it would.
RE: END of Life doesnt mean immediately
By pr0nbot on 7/11/2006 4:51:28 PM , Rating: 2
By pr0nbot on 7/11/2006 4:51:52 PM , Rating: 2
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And death comes swiftly...
By searingsky on 7/10/2006 7:36:01 PM , Rating: 2
You know, I can understand wanting to end production of some products after a certain amount of time has passes, but AMD's kinda making things get a little on the limited side. I know they wanna push people to the dual-core-only side, but really, does hacking off the vast majority of already-good products need to occur? Last I checked, comsumers did better with having choices, not stricter limitations. I dunno if this is the proper way for AMD to garner sales though. And I certainly don't think forcing retailers to yoink the products so abruptly is wise either. Ending production is fine, but retail removal just doesn't sound like a sane idea. People will eventually shift to AM2 for the AMD platform, so forcing the switch really shouldn't be happening. I mean, people will eventually buy them. It's almost like AMD products are all limited-editions these days. :/ *sigh* Ah well. Farewell, ye budget processors we loved so much... We hardly knew you (or got enough time to). *salutes*
RE: Also
By searingsky on 7/10/2006 7:39:37 PM , Rating: 2
Is it just me or does it seem they're wanting removal of the X2s just a BIT hasty? They've been out not even a year and already AMD wants to hack them off. It's slightly sounding like the Socket 423 days here, but in a different manner.
RE: And death comes swiftly...
By dagamer34 on 7/10/2006 7:41:05 PM , Rating: 2
It's simply to consolidate manufacturing. They'll improve their bottom line if they decrease the variety of chips they make. This is why we are also seeing reports of new Athlon X2 chips with only 256KB L2 cache per core. It'll probably replace their low-to-mid end lineup anyway.
RE: And death comes swiftly...
By searingsky on 7/10/2006 7:58:54 PM , Rating: 2
As long as the ends justify the means, I wouldn't mind it as much. Just hoping the price/performance ratios of the new bottom line show this.
By TheLiberalTruth on 7/12/2006 1:03:04 AM , Rating: 4
DailyTech really needs an editor. Grammar is terrible here. For example, the plural of Opteron is Opterons, not Opteron's, and something that has been discontinued can be written about as having been EOLed, but not EOL'ed.
RE: Editor
By ChEMiX on 7/12/2006 6:20:52 AM , Rating: 1
so what exactly are the grammatical rules for making words out of acronyms
It's like reading a Starbucks menu.
By Inkjammer on 7/10/2006 7:35:10 PM , Rating: 2
Now, if I only had clue what each one of those product numbers meant. I mean, I can deduce "3800" as an Athlon 3800 and "fx57" is pretty self explainatory. Reading a list of inventory parts and knowing how they relate to "off-the-shelf" is another story.
By dilz on 7/11/2006 12:24:30 AM , Rating: 2
Check out these two links and you'll be ready for the x86 version of Trivial Pursuit!
Neither one does the entire job...
Search for "AMD OPN" if you have more interest in the matter.
By syne24 on 7/10/2006 11:02:29 PM , Rating: 2
what about their obligation to warranty? So if my 939 cpu is getting rma, will it come back as an equivalent am2 cpu? Then I'm force to buy a new setup?
RE: warranty?
By deeznuts on 7/11/2006 12:34:55 AM , Rating: 2
I think they keep reserves or refurbed cpus or something. I just rma'd a s478 2.6c northwood. They rma'd it no problem.
By DangerIsGo on 7/10/2006 11:08:40 PM , Rating: 2
S754 I understand but S939 was AMDs flagship socket for a long time, prob one of the longest sockets lifetime. Why cant AMD understand that I DONT WANT TO upgrade to AM2 just yet becuase THERE IS NO PERFORMACE GAIN from 939 to AM2. The cost to upgrade my hardcore 939 comp to another comp w/ the same performance isnt worth my time AND money! Keep the opterons (preferrably the dualies) in stock as they are a big part of AMDs sales but I can see getting rid of the lower end models. I still dont understand why the FX series is getting the boot though...
RE: no!
By Lonyo on 7/11/2006 7:46:12 PM , Rating: 2
Socket 939 has been around less time than Socket 754. 754 was the mainstream, 940 the high end for a while before 939 even came to be. Socket 939 has been around 2 years (introduced June 2004), hardly a "long time" really.
They also had 2 high end chips before 939 came about, the FX51 and 53 for Socket 940.
Socket 754 was around 8 or 9 months before 939, and it's still around today.
Socket 939 was a fairly short lifetime. Socket A, now there was a monster.
AMD is the new Ford.
By smilingcrow on 7/10/2006 7:34:02 PM , Rating: 3
You can have any CPU as long as it’s AM2 and in black. :)
By pr0nbot on 7/11/06, Rating: -1
So, basically...
By Josh7289 on 7/10/2006 8:04:13 PM , Rating: 2
So, basically, by this time next year, we'll be left with only AM2 processors? Eh, whatever. Might as well speed up the move to DDR2 and whatnot.
Minor Typo
By fbrdphreak on 7/10/2006 11:37:13 PM , Rating: 2
The MT as well as ML Turion 64 processors are discontinued, not just the ML as indicated in the article. I know, I nitpick :P
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Published: Thursday, July 15 2004 11:58 a.m. MDT
Helen Mirren plays Eileen Hayes, the emotionally conflicted wife of Robert Redford's businessman character.
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Fox Searchlight has done a real disservice to "The Clearing" by deliberately opening the film during the summer as "counter-programming" to the big special-effects extravaganzas and lowbrow comedies that dominate the multiplexes this time of year.
Of course, unlike most other independent films currently trying to make a splash in the big summer-movie pond, this one does have big star power. But it's still doubtful that will help the film overcome such poor timing.
"The Clearing" is a thriller, but it's a deliberate, character-driven film that should probably open in the fall; it's not the kind of quick-paced action picture that draws audiences this time of year.
Robert Redford stars here as Wayne Hayes, an apparently successful businessman who's known for his bargaining and negotiation skills. But he's also under investigation for questionable business dealings, and possibly fraud.
Things take an even worse turn when he's kidnapped by Arnold Mack (Willem Dafoe), who claims to be an embittered former co-worker. This leaves Wayne's wife Eileen (Helen Mirren) in a dilemma. Given the mounting evidence of Wayne's infidelities and other questionable actions, she begins to wonder whether he's worth the ransom.
This is a somewhat risky role for Redford, whose character isn't particularly likable. In fact, in some ways, it's almost easier to sympathize with Dafoe's desperate, somewhat pathetic kidnapper.
As good as the performances by both actors are, they pale in comparison to Mirren's emotionally conflicted wife. As always, she's riveting, and her character is what really makes all of this watchable.
The pacing here might be perceived as too slow by audiences expecting something different, but it's quietly effective. And filmmaker Pieter Jan Brugge isn't afraid to leave a few loose ends, which makes the film all the more sinister and unsettling.
"The Clearing" is rated R for scattered use of strong sexual profanity and some frank sexual talk, and some scenes of violence (gunfire, strangulation and some brawling). Running time: 91 minutes.
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We actually had an interesting time testing the performance of CLINQ. Without being bound to any GUI, we are able to pump over 1,000,000 changes per second into a source collection (with an upper cap on collection size to avoid running out of resources) with a large CPU load, and at 100,000 changes per second the load looked to be sustainable indefinitely.
The real tricky part came when trying to bind CLINQ to a WPF GUI. Thanks to Pavan Podila from the WPF Way (pavanpodila, we were able to track down a potentially fatal problem with data binding. In our ListBox, the height wasn't explicitly set, which prevented the item container style from being a VirtualizingStackPanel. Added to that was the template selector for picking the alternating grid style that could get invoked every tick for each of the hundreds of thousands of bound rows. Lesson learned: Make sure that your bound control remains virtualized and be very careful with item styles and item container styles when working with large data sets. Taking these precautions, we were able to get nearly the same throughput into CLINQ when databound as we were when using no GUI at all.
Using code like Listing Two, I've constructed a sample Order Book demo that lets you open windows into arbitrary symbols with simulated market data coming in at fixed intervals; see Figure 2.
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Figure 2: Sample Order Book Demo using CLINQ.
This window contains two listboxes. Each listbox is bound to a subset of market data. The BUY listbox is bound to the bid ticks for AAPL and the SELL listbox is bound to the ask ticks for AAPL. As new market data comes in to the central market data store (could be from network messages or, in my case, from a background thread on a timer), each set of query results is updated dynamically. If new market data for symbols other than AAPL comes in, the query results are not affected. If a new tick comes in for AAPL, it is placed in the appropriate listbox based on the side of the tick. All of that work, decision making, and data propagation is done automatically by the CLINQ language extension.
Fortunately, language extensions and CLINQ specifically can be used for pleasure as well as business. The following query is one that might be used in a strategy game to detect all nearby ships within your particular radar range:
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Such a game could receive a continuous stream of network messages from connected peer applications and store those messages in a ContinuousCollection (such as _rawRadar). The collection _visibleObjects would automatically update everytime an object in the _rawRadar list changed position or objects were added or removed.
Figure 3 shows the results of that query bound to a custom-style listbox to create a WPF-based radar view of nearby enemies.
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Figure 3: Having a little fun with CLINQ.
Continuous LINQ is just one expansion made possible through language extensions and LINQ on the .NET Framework 3.5. By embracing these features of the upcoming version of .NET, you can be ready to not only provide the most advanced features in your applications, but you can be assured that if there are domain-specific query features that you want in your application, you can create them yourself quickly and easily.
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Most scientists now agree that some sixty-five million years ago, an immense comet slammed into the Yucatan, detonating a blast twenty million times more powerful than the largest hydrogen bomb, punching a hole ten miles deep in the earth. Trillions of tons of rock were vaporized and launched into the atmosphere. For a thousand miles in all directions, vegetation burst into flames. There were tremendous blast waves, searing winds, showers of molten matter from the sky, earthquakes, and a terrible darkness that cut out sunlight for a year, enveloping the planet in freezing cold. Thousands of species of plants and animals were obliterated, including the dinosaurs, some of which may have become extinct in a matter of hours. In Impact, Gerrit L. Verschuur offers an eye-opening look at such catastrophic collisions with our planet. Perhaps more important, he paints an unsettling portrait of the possibility of new collisions with earth, exploring potential threats to our planet and describing what scientists are doing right now to prepare for this awful possibility. Every day something from space hits our planet, Verschuur reveals. In fact, about 10,000 tons of space debris fall to earth every year, mostly in meteoric form. The author recounts spectacular recent sightings, such as over Allende, Mexico, in 1969, when a fireball showered the region with four tons of fragments, and the twenty-six pound meteor that went through the trunk of a red Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, New York, in 1992 (the meteor was subsequently sold for $69,000 and the car itself fetched $10,000). But meteors are not the greatest threat to life on earth, the author points out. The major threats are asteroids and comets. The reader discovers that astronomers have located some 350 NEAs ("Near Earth Asteroids"), objects whose orbits cross the orbit of the earth, the largest of which are 1627 Ivar (6 kilometers wide) and 1580 Betula (8 kilometers). Indeed, we learn that in 1989, a bus-sized asteroid called Asclepius missed our planet by 650,000 kilometers (a mere six hours), and that in 1994 a sixty-foot object passed within 180,000 kilometers, half the distance to the moon. Comets, of course, are even more deadly. Verschuur provides a gripping description of the small comet that exploded in the atmosphere above the Tunguska River valley in Siberia, in 1908, in a blinding flash visible for several thousand miles (every tree within sixty miles of ground zero was flattened). He discusses Comet Swift-Tuttle--"the most dangerous object in the solar system"--a comet far larger than the one that killed off the dinosaurs, due to pass through earth's orbit in the year 2126. And he recounts the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in 1994, as some twenty cometary fragments struck the giant planet over the course of several days, casting titanic plumes out into space (when Fragment G hit, it outshone the planet on the infrared band, and left a dark area at the impact site larger than the Great Red Spot). In addition, the author describes the efforts of Spacewatch and other groups to locate NEAs, and evaluates the idea that comet and asteroid impacts have been an underrated factor in the evolution of life on earth. Astronomer Herbert Howe observed in 1897: "While there are not definite data to reason from, it is believed that an encounter with the nucleus of one of the largest comets is not to be desired." As Verschuur shows in Impact, we now have substantial data with which to support Howe's tongue-in-cheek remark. Whether discussing monumental tsunamis or the innumerable comets in the Solar System, this book will enthrall anyone curious about outer space, remarkable natural phenomenon, or the future of the planet earth.
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@techreport{Brown2008Competition, abstract = {When unemployment prevails, relations with a particular firm are valuable for workers. As a consequence, a worker may adhere to an implicit agreement to provide high effort, even when performance is not third-party enforceable. But can implicit agreements - or relational contracts - also motivate high worker performance when the labor market is tight? We examine this question by implementing an experimental market in which there is an excess demand for labor and the performance of workers is not third-party enforceable. We show that relational contracts emerge in which firms reward performing workers with wages that exceed the going market rate. This motivates workers to provide high effort, even though they could shirk and switch firms. Our results thus suggest that unemployment is not a necessary device to motivate workers. We also discuss how market conditions affect relational contracting by comparing identical labor markets with excess supply and excess demand for labor. Long-term relationships turn out to be less frequent when there is excess demand for labor compared to a market characterized by unemployment. Surprisingly though, this does not compromise market performance.}, address = {Bonn}, author = {Martin Brown and Armin Falk and Ernst Fehr}, copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen}, keywords = {D82; 330; Relational contracts; involuntary unemployment; Arbeitsvertrag; Implizite Kontrakte; Unfreiwillige Arbeitslosigkeit; Arbeitslosigkeit; Leistungsmotivation; Leistungskontrolle; Arbeitsnachfrage; Wettbewerb; Theorie}, language = {eng}, number = {3345}, publisher = {Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)}, title = {Competition and relational contracts: the role of unemployment as a disciplinary device}, type = {IZA Discussion Papers}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35139}, year = {2008} }
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De Meza, David Emmanuel
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Issue Date:2012
Series/Report no.:Discussion Paper Series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6844
Abstract:Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by more than employees do is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may generate optimism or optimists may be drawn to self-employment. This paper finds that employees who will be self-employed in the future overestimate their short-run financial wellbeing by more than those who never become self-employed. When actually self-employed they are even more optimistic. Employees aspiring to start their own business are also of above average optimism. Cross-sectional findings are therefore an amalgam of psychological disposition and environmental factors, as theory requires if optimism is to be a causal influence on entrepreneurship.
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Teenage Mermaid
Spencer almost drowns in a surfing accident when a sparkling, golden girl saves him with kiss of life before she suddenly disappears. Where did the dream girl come from, and will she return?
A silver heart locket is their only clue.
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We can't even pretend that we're really excited about this week's Virtual Console release, Double Dragon, or that we didn't play it a year ago in a sexy high-res remake on XBLA for the exact same price (500 points/$5). We love us some side-scrolling and punching, but even we have limits.
But maybe you've never heard of the legend of Billy Lee and his decision to risk his kidnapped girlfriend's safety in order to keep his karate secrets to himself. If so, feel free to buy away, if only to more fully appreciate the roots of the beat-em-up genre.
This article was originally published on Joystiq.
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Now this is what you call a juicy standoff. Intel has announced that Paul Otellini will grace the stage at IDF next week with a demo of his company's next-gen CPU/GPU chip, codenamed Sandy Bridge, and not to be outdone, AMD has immediately retorted with plans to put its own Zacate competitor up on display -- at the same time, in the same city, but at a slightly different location. Both Zacate and Sandy Bridge meld general-purpose and graphical processing duties into one slice of silicon, consolidating the traditionally discrete CPU and GPU into a power-efficient do-it-all chip. You'll find details of where AMD's impromptu demo will be taking place after the break, whereas the Intel Developer Forum will probably be discoverable by the masses of bespectacled engineers trudging in its general direction. Boy, San Fran's gonna be one happening place next week!
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Emotional Infidelity
It happened two years ago, but I still cry like it happened yesterday.
We're in a long-distance relationship. Once I started going to college, he started spending more and more time with an "old friend." I'll call her "Hilda."
It just got to the point where they would spend every waking moment together... once he got off work, he would go to her house and "hang out" until 5am. It got harder and harder to keep in touch with him, and every time we would talk, he would get so angry and defensive.
He said things that made me so upset -- "you're so naive"... "we live so far away so we're not really in a relationship anyway"..."I don't even really know you...we have nothing in common...."
And he would compare me to this "Hilda" girl like she was the Holy Grail of fashion and street credibility...He confided in her in ways he used to confide in me. I thought he was being emotionally unfaithful and verbally abusive. He has denied ever having sex with her, but really, I'm not so sure.
It got to the point where a heated conversation ended with him telling me he hated me, and blaming me for his money/car/work problems. He broke up with me. Then immediately began to pursue Hilda. Hilda refused to be his girlfriend. Eventually he came back to me.
I feel like such a loser sometimes...
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My ex said stuff like that too me. Everything was my fault, if I were better somehow he would be happy and wouldn't have cheated. He said that he was feeling bad about himself and needed someone who appriciated him. He's full of it, I know that now, but at the time I just kept trying harder and harder to be what he wanted. Pretty soon I didn't know who I was. Then the clencher!! He said "It's like I dont know you anymore" I still love him and it hurts so bad be without him but I'm happier than I was with him. Thats something anyway.
It may be that I'm in a pathetically vulnerable state because my boyfriend almost just left me for another girl, but your story made me cry. I'm REALLY sorry that guys suck. Gah.
Ok... you really really need to leave him. I hate to say it but it sounded like he really wanted to be with her. Yeah she turned him down and he came back... but how long will it be until another "Hilda" comes along? My boyfriend cheated on me and I forgave him... then he did it again! Worst of all I tried to stay with him again! I made excuses for him and why it happened and believed everything he said. I was still crying about it a year later and decided it wasn't worth it. I wasn't getting over it and I was just putting myself through hell. I turned into this horrible jealous, angry, emotional girlfriend- somebody I NEVER thought I would be. I hated the way I was, I was consumed with fear and resentment. I loved him, still do. But I know what's best for me. I don't think it matters if he had sex with her or not.. the point is he wanted to. So what's the difference? You said you're in college? I think you need to focus on that. I was in college when my boyfriend cheated on me, my grades went down and I had to retake some classes. It really wasn't worth it. I know there are guys out there that would never choose to be anyone else. I won't be second choice. You really deserve more. A good friend of mine used to ask me...Do you want to be a side dish? The answer is definitely not. You need to find a guy who will think that you are "the Holy Grail of fashion and street credibility". The best way to find that guy is to not look for him. Focus on yourself. Do well in school, get some hobbies, make some positive and dependeble friends. When you develop yourself to your full potential then you will find someone who compliments that. You don't NEED anyone only yourself! So surround yourself with positive people who love you for who you are, and then Mr. Right will come along soon enough.
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MK vs DC
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MK is Japanese now?
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What are you trying to get at it TC?
2 years ago#14
Warner Brothers Games. An American company.
They were gracious enough to take on Midway's huge amount of debt to keep the series alive.
MK9 was published by them.
"I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine. I make the money. I roll the nickels."
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Yes, MK and Skullgirls
Can't think of any good Western fighting games, though.
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Orgarhythm Gets Chaotic With Musical Beats and Real-Time Clobbering
We get in tune with Acquire's mash-up of real-time strategy and music rhythm.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if back in 1995, the developers behind Command & Conquer were to integrate Frank Keplacki's industrial funk soundtrack in its actual gameplay mechanic? Developer Acquire ran with that possibly strange train of thought, with the result being an oddity of a game called Orgarhythm.
In all seriousness, it's not that hard to explain Orgarhythm's gameplay, despite its unique look and genre fusion. You just have to assign commands to your tribal foot soldiers to protect your always-grooving God of Light avatar from harm via touch-screen buttons. After picking the commands, you then drag them on to the screen to position your units to attack oncoming monsters.
The action takes place from a top-down perspective, like a real-time strategy game. However, there's not much in the way of extreme micromanaging, like in Starcraft or the aforementioned Command & Conquer games. You just have to use your elemental-themed minions against enemies with the opposite element so that they don't get hurt bad (blue against red, red against yellow, and yellow against blue).
Party rock(s) are in the house tonight.
You can also choose different types of units to deploy. The standard melee troops will rush and attack enemies up close, depending on where you send them, while the archers will hit enemies hiding behind barricades and high-rise platforms. The catapult units take a while to volley rocks, but they deal huge damage.
Your God of Light can also cast spells if there's some meter in his support gauge; it increases for each friendly and enemy unit that dies. His repertoire includes buffing the defence and attack strength of his followers, a healing spell, and a slow spell to render enemies in a temporary molasses-like state. If the gauge is maxed out, you can cast down a light-of-judgment spell that heals allies and kills enemies with bright lightning.
While this sounds like your God is well armed, the real challenge is to take into account all of the action onscreen, while tapping commands in accordance to the beat of the background music. If you follow the rhythm, you'll buff up your units, and they can take and dish out more than usual. One visual cue to help you out is a rhythm wave that pulses on the centre of the screen and gets bigger if you time your taps just right.
Furthermore, tapping the commands consecutively in a row (tap-tap-tap), instead of pausing after each input (tap-pause-tap-pause-tap), will get you a bigger unit and buff bonus. Fail to follow the beat, and your army gets miniscule and weak.
In practice, this takes some time to get used to. While the first two stages on the single-player mode were easy for us to get into the groove of, we had a bit of trouble on the fourth stage, since its background music had a much faster tempo than usual. Luckily, the game's AI makes sure that enemies don't bum-rush you as quickly as other units in other real-time strategy games, giving you enough time to get into the rhythm, before issuing commands. Still, players can get overwhelmed with bad guys if they're not paying attention.
Your followers; they be shuffling, shuffling.
Each of the four levels we played had their own end-of-level bosses. Using our quick rhythm skills and unit deployment, we bested a giant stone monolith that spits out rocks, a ziggurat with three different-coloured dragon heads corresponding to an element, and a stone horse demon-thing that's quick on its feet and charges at you during intervals.
At this point, Orgarhythm is a weird creature of a title that warrants play--the closest comparison would be the Patapon series on the PSP. It's hard to say whether it surpasses the aforementioned series on the gameplay front, but it's got enough of a unique aesthetic tribal flavour. Plus, it's got ad hoc co-op and competitive play if you can get a buddy along for the beat-inducing ride.
Orgarhythm is out right now in Japan and in Asia regions; the latter version is in English.
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Looks interesting. Can't wait for more info.
for some reason it reminds me of odama on the gcn. hoping it offers a similar sort of fun.
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Ephidel is a morph, a magical being created by Nergal.
He is unable to express emotions but he can fake them with good results. He's sent by his master to help raising the revolution against the Lycian League, by making false promises to the Marquesses and corrupting them. He then kills them when they can't stop Eliwood's army. When the plan fails, he goes back to the Dread Island, only to be killed by the dragon summoned by Nergal, who abandons him.
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Do you ever watch shows like The Biggest Loser or Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss? Lots of us do--that may be one reason why there are new ones currently casting participants. But according to new research, weight-loss shows might do more to make people change the channel than make them lose weight.
Researchers in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta found that participants who watched a short video clip from The Biggest Loser actually had negative attitudes toward exercise afterward. According to EurekAlert:
In the study, 138 undergrads were split into two groups. One group watched a seven-minute clip from early in The Biggest Loser's ninth season (when the competitors were at the heaviest, and struggling most with exercise). The other group watched American Idol.
Those who watched The Biggest Loser had worse attitudes about physical activity (the researchers say that the results were consistent no matter the participants' own physical activity levels or weight). The study's authors say that the results may show that weight-loss shows don't only not motivate people--they may even be counterproductive.
Honestly, I can see how watching someone struggle with exercise and weight loss might turn people off, at least initially. But isn't watching a show about weight loss kind of like weight loss itself--it's not enjoyable initially, but as you see the results start to happen, you get a little more invested? And as a result, a little more motivated?
But what do you think? Are you inspired when you watch someone's challenges in losing pounds?
More on weight loss:
* The $199 Weight-Loss Coach--That's Also a Robot
* The Crazy Thing That's Feeding Your Fat Cells
* Jessica Simpson's Trainer Shares His Ultimate, Slim-Down Breakfast Smoothie Recipe
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Christian who relies on God vs guns
Discussion in 'Religious Issues' started by Colubrid, Dec 5, 2012.
1. JAS104
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Luke 22:36
Then said He unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it and likewise his pack; and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one"
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2. Yes we've been over this a hundred times... read the thread.
3. Yes there is. You aren't trusting God to protect you. You are trusting in his will. If it is his will that you die in a mugging then your gun will not protect you. If it is his will that no harm come to you, your gun is unnecessary. So by bringing it "Just in Case" shows your lack of faith in his will. You mean to try and prevent his will if it is for you to die in a mugging... and you mean to hedge your bets just in case he doesn't protect you. It demonstrates a clear lack of faith in God.
Then carrying a gun is doubting his providence.
4. Why? Are you afraid of dying?
5. You can love your enemy, doesn't mean that you have to lay down and die. What if your having a gun means you can save someone else ? I trust Christ with my soul but if somebody tries to invade my house I'm reaching for a glock or a Smith and Wesson not a Bible.
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6. So you don't trust God's plan then? If you did you wouldn't have tools to attempt to escape it.
7. WOW! I learned a lot here.
I was actually the one on the other side of the fence. but now hearing you and this girl i was debating with i am rethinking my whole walk with God. not just about guns.
8. So glock36shooter,
Why do you hav a gun then?
i take it is a G36 you like. iI just sold mine. i had 3 before and keep coming back to that model.. i just like guns. The way they are made. i don't look at them as killing machines.
BTW the girl i am talking to is single and so am I. So we are speaking to work out our differences in what we agree and don't agree on.
9. Same question for you SDGlock23. Why do you have a gun then?
10. "Everyone wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die." Seems hypocritical to me.
11. I have a gun because I do not trust in a God to protect me. I understand this is a world based on reality and not mythology. There is no God watching over me. There are no Angels coming to protect me. And there is no Devil that makes people do the bad things they do. If another human being means me harm I will do to them as much harm first as is needed to stop them. This is why I carry a gun.
Believers are often hypocrites. You ask them why a child dies with cancer and they'll say God has a plan and works in mysterious ways. Yet they'll kneel a pray for God to heal a sick child dying from cancer to ask for something OTHER than God's plan. If it is God's will that the child dies then prayer is not trusting in his plan... it's asking him to change his plan. And the Christian that carries a firearm doesn't trust in God's plan either. If God means for you to be murdered then that is his will and you should want to please him and not turn away from his will. If God is truly in control and has a plan and his will shall be done... there is no need for a gun because whatever happens is his will and the believer should just accept that. But they don't. They don't trust in God's plan... in fact they mean to interfere with it if his will is for them to die. If a gun is needed by a believer... they do not put real stock in God's plan. They say they do but they don't. They won't admit it, and they'll say I have no idea what I'm talking about because their brains can't handle the hypocrisy and contradiction of their beliefs versus their ideals about defense. But there it is.
I used to... especially when I chose my screen name. I had just gotten my G36 and thought it was the coolest thing ever. Since then I have found that it didn't suit my needs so I got rid of it. I didn't like that you had to raise your pinky to reload it or risk pinching the crap out of your finger or worse failing to reload the gun. But I carry a Glock 19 daily.
I'm fascinated by the machinery of them as well. All the little working parts and do-dads. But the purpose of the gun is to be a weapon. It's purpose is to kill. Or at the very least wound. But it's a weapon first and foremost. I think Christ would have been opposed to them on principle. I think he would have been disgusted that man had found such a efficient and accurate method of killing one another.
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12. Well there is room for lots of beliefs out there. But if you want to get strictly biblical and more specifically new testament biblical (Jesus and Friends) then carrying a gun is not trusting in God's will. Resist not evil and let God's will be done. That's what Christ said.
But to say "screw that I'm carrying anyway" is what most Christians do so don't feel alone. The girl is correct however. If it's God's will... it's God's will. It's not your place to try and change it or interfere. Biblically speaking of course.
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14. I am not thinking about that. I am attracted to her obedeince and repentance to God...which is really attractive in an already attractive woman.
Quite different from what the norm is. Wouldn't you say?
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15. Most Christians I have know just talk the talk, but I have know a few that actually do their best to walk the walk. I really respect people who do that. It's a tough road.
16. Batteries? No... his will.
I don't disagree.
Praying that his will be done is just asking him to continue running on batteries... as you put it.
17. I know ONE personally. You couldn't ask for a higher quality person. Just as an example... he left $6,000 for a family that needed it to get some kind of surgery for their little girl at his church. He refused to let them know who did it. He did it just because it was what he thought was his duty to Christ. If I recall that put him in a financial position of living paycheck to pay check for about a year. Everytime that man gets a dollar he doesn't need to survive... he gives it away to someone that needs it.
18. what one does with there money shows everything.
I feel like such a hypocrite.
19. On the flip side, I know of atheists and muslims aquaintances, that behave more christian like than many of the self proclaim devout christians. Like Muscogee said, "Is a though road", many are not willing to walk it out of convenience, many are not willing to walk it out of fear, but few are doing their best to try to walk thru it the best way they can or know. We are not perfect, we are humans. IF God would have wanted perfect beings that would worship him day and night no questions asked, he could have created those creatures (robots), but He would be fooling Himself into thinking those beings would be doing it out of love and unconditionally. That is the whole purpose of the free will.
20. Yep! Me to!
They do everything that Jesus taught and they follow His teachings yet they still reject the creator and savior.
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