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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16031	Menu JTA Search U.S. Charges Soviet with “subversion” Against Israel, Arab States The United States today made known that it has handed a note to the Soviet Foreign Ministry telling the Russians that it was their own “aggressive actions” and “subversion” against Israel and the Arab states which brought about the Allied plan to create a Middle East Command. The U.S. note was submitted at Moscow yesterday along with notes from Turkey, France, and Britain, which are co-sponsors of the projected Middle Eastern Command. The note cited negotiations between the Soviet Union and the Nazis in 1940 to create a Soviet sphere of influence in the Middle East as evidence of Communist designs on that area. The American note said that the Russian attitude since the end of World War II causes the State Department to believe that aims set forth in 1940 “remain the policy of the Soviet Government.” The Allied notes were in reply to Soviet notes which warned that a Middle East Command would be considered “aggressive” and that the Russians viewed as groundless the western contention that a Soviet threat exists to the Middle East. The anti-Communist powers accused the Soviet Union of attempting, through her protests against the proposed command, to frighten Middle Eastern states from joining with the West in such an arrangement. American diplomats consider the Moscow strategy to be aimed at the exploitation of hostility between the Arab states and Israel and strife between Egypt and Britain. The American note said, “the recent Soviet threats to these states, warning against their participation in the Middle East Command, constitute interferences in the affairs of these countries.” The notes of the four powers rejected the Russian assertion that the proposed command would be an aggressive organization and stressed that rather than being aggressive, the command was based on provisions of the United Nations Charter for collective action in defense of world peace.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16073	(CBS NEWS) -- YouTube reportedly could launch its paid subscription service for some of its specialist video channels as early as this week. YouTube declined to comment on a target launch date for the service, reiterating earlier statements on the topic that it had nothing to announce, but that it was looking into creating a subscription platform that could bring even more great content to YouTube for our users to enjoy and provide our creators with another vehicle to generate revenue from their content, beyond the rental and ad-supported models we offer. YouTube has approached a handful of producers about developing content for a subscription platform that might the video-sharing site hoped to launch this year, according to an AdAge report in January. YouTube was also mulling a plan to charge for other items, such as entire libraries of videos, live events, and even self-help or financial advice shows, AdAge reported. Not long after that report, two lines of code appeared in YouTube for Android that referred to paid channel subscriptions. The code, apparently intended to generate messages on users' screens, say: You can only subscribe to this paid channel on your computer, and You can only unsubscribe from this paid channel on your computer. Read or Share this story:
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16148	How to install rubygems in Ubuntu 12.04 with Ruby 1.9.3 view story http://askubuntu.com – So I used these commands: sudo apt-get install ruby 1.9.3 cd /etc/alternatives sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/ruby1.9.3 ruby from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11078166/how-do-i-install-ruby-1-9-3-... in order to get ruby 1.9.3 and make it the default. That appears to have worked fine. Now when I attempt to use gem install it tells me the gems are already the latest. However, when I attempt to run a script it tells me it can't find the gem I require on the first line. Long story short, this script didn't work in ruby 1.8.7 due to an error farther down in the code but did get p (HowTos)
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16169	Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery Illustration by Removing ghosts, correcting backlighting Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery with Deke McClelland Video: Removing ghosts, correcting backlighting We're still working away inside the Merge to HDR Pro utility. We've gone ahead and modified all of the numerical settings here inside this Local Adaptation area. In this exercise, we need to address two very specific luminance problems. Over here in the upper right-hand corner, we have these strange, colorful artifacts around these highlights on the wood, and over here on the left-hand side, in this doorway, we have so much of backlighting that it's just blowing away the slats of wood, and I need to figure out some way to calm that down. Expand all \| Collapse all 1. 40m 45s 1. Welcome 2m 45s 2. Making Photoshop your default image editor 7m 43s 3. Installing the dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts 8m 10s 4. Remapping OS shortcuts 7m 37s 5. Installing the Best Workflow color settings 4m 31s 6. The color settings explained 6m 54s 7. Loading the CS5 color settings in Bridge 3m 5s 2. 1h 11m 1. Your creative range continues to expand 1m 46s 2. The Avatar project so far 2m 38s 3. Painting on a photograph 7m 50s 4. Adding texture and depth 6m 14s 5. Simulating chalky white paint 7m 23s 6. Masking and placing an image 7m 20s 7. Upsampling and Lens Blur 5m 9s 8. Blending blurry elements 3m 48s 9. Making a Smart Object 6m 46s 10. Placing an image as a Smart Object 3m 22s 11. Blending away a background 5m 56s 12. Applying Smart Filters 4m 34s 13. Creating a glow with Lens Flare 3m 45s 14. Blending and masking a glow 5m 3s 3. 1h 26m 1. Using the image to select itself 1m 53s 2. Introducing masking 6m 32s 3. Making an alpha channel 6m 54s 4. Using the Calculations command 6m 48s 5. Add, Subtract, Offset, and Scale 5m 54s 6. Prepping an image with the Dodge tool 6m 55s 7. Fixing mistakes before they get too big 6m 32s 8. Painting in the Overlay mode 5m 51s 9. Exaggerating and selecting flesh tones 7m 39s 10. Smudge, Median, and the Blur tool 6m 59s 11. Masking low-contrast details 6m 7s 12. Creating a flesh-and-clothing mask 5m 45s 13. Masking and compositing the foreground 5m 27s 14. Finessing the final composition 7m 39s 4. 2h 24m 1. Connecting the dots 1m 40s 2. The Pen tool and the Paths panel 6m 32s 3. Drawing a straight-sided outline 6m 25s 4. Editing a path outline 6m 36s 5. Adding and editing smooth points 5m 35s 6. Creating vector masks with the shape tools 4m 59s 7. Building a complex outline from shapes 4m 26s 8. Subtracting and transforming shapes 6m 45s 9. Cloning, flipping, and combining shapes 8m 58s 10. Roughing in non-symmetrical paths 7m 41s 11. Finessing a complex outline 9m 15s 12. Masking a layer effect 8m 26s 13. Isolating an image element 6m 8s 14. Smooth points and control handles 9m 3s 15. Stretching curved segments 7m 49s 16. Using the Rubber Band option 9m 33s 17. Drawing smooth points with the Pen tool 6m 59s 18. Shading an isolated object 3m 45s 19. Drawing cusp points 7m 14s 20. Setting points in the pasteboard 9m 57s 21. Using the Convert Point tool 6m 42s 5. 2h 57m 1. Everything you need to know about blending 1m 45s 2. Photoshop CS5's blend modes 7m 21s 3. Cycling between blend modes 6m 15s 4. Darken and Lighten and their derivatives 6m 3s 5. The blend mode shortcuts 8m 6s 6. The Multiply and Burn modes 4m 28s 7. The Screen and Dodge modes 6m 0s 8. How opposite blend modes work 8m 24s 9. Why Multiply darkens and Divide lightens 5m 23s 10. Cleaning up a client's bad art 5m 3s 11. Dropping out a white background 5m 56s 12. Blending inside blend modes 8m 3s 13. Overlay, Soft Light, and Hard Light 6m 26s 6m 35s 15. Difference, Exclusion, Subtract, and Divide 7m 34s 16. Great uses for the Difference mode 6m 18s 17. Promising uses for the Divide mode 9m 6s 18. Hue, Saturation, Color, and Luminosity 7m 0s 19. Blending an inverted layer 3m 32s 20. The "Fill Opacity Eight" 7m 25s 21. Making bad blend modes good 5m 16s 22. Making a knockout layer 6m 53s 23. Blending in the CMYK mode 8m 3s 24. Overprinting black text 8m 29s 25. Using the Luminance slider 5m 24s 26. Parametric luminance masking 6m 21s 27. Adjusting the behavior of luminance effects 10m 8s 6. 2h 2m 1. Smart Objects = protective containers 1m 35s 2. Placing an Illustrator graphic 6m 30s 3. Vector copy and paste options 6m 56s 4. Applying Puppet Warp to vectors 8m 9s 5. "Gluing" vector art for Puppet Warp 5m 50s 6. Warping art onto the surface of an image 8m 7s 7. Blending a Smart Object 4m 30s 8. Blurring and blending a Smart Object 6m 8s 9. Making changes in Illustrator 5m 57s 10. Creating "true clones" 7m 18s 11. Double-flipping text 4m 44s 12. Applying effects to multiple layers 3m 24s 13. Updating true clones in one operation 7m 36s 14. Editing JPEGs as Camera Raw objects 5m 49s 15. Creating a double-exposure effect 7m 15s 16. Masking and shading transitions 7m 47s 17. Applying and repeating Camera Raw edits 6m 9s 18. Copying vs. cloning a Smart Object 5m 18s 19. Flipping a Smart Object and its mask 3m 42s 20. Adjusting multiple Camera Raw clones 3m 53s 21. Text that inverts everything behind it 5m 34s 7. 1h 59m 1. This time, "smart" means dynamic 1m 37s 2. Introducing Smart Filters 6m 28s 3. Traditional High Pass sharpening 5m 17s 4. Smart High Pass in the Lab mode 7m 57s 5. Sharpening a high-frequency image 7m 46s 6. Retroactively reducing noise 7m 31s 7. Which filters are Smart Filters? 6m 20s 8. Shadows/Highlights as a Smart Filter 4m 37s 9. Nesting one Smart Object inside another 7m 11s 10. Drawing a mask from a nested Smart Object 8m 7s 11. Better Shadows/Highlights inside Lab 9m 16s 12. Tempering saturation values in Lab 7m 0s 13. Filtering live, editable text 9m 2s 14. Enhancing filters with layer effects 4m 33s 15. Applying a filter multiple times 5m 0s 16. Creating a synthetic star field 7m 7s 17. Making a stucco or drywall pattern 6m 28s 18. Land, sea, and clouds 8m 27s 8. 2h 50m 1. Photoshop's advanced painting tools 2m 3s 2. Canvas texture and brush libraries 6m 40s 3. Painting with a predefined custom brush 9m 21s 4. Dissecting a custom brush 11m 9s 5. Designing and using a custom brush 4m 54s 6. Saving and loading brush presets 5m 27s 7. The ten styles of bristle brushes 9m 47s 8. Size, Spacing, and Angle 7m 2s 9. Using the Bristle Brush preview 7m 53s 10. Bristles, Length, Thickness, and Stiffness 6m 53s 11. Stylus tilt and mouse behavior 5m 25s 12. Stroking a path outline with a brush 4m 0s 13. Troubleshooting a stylus 5m 49s 14. Introducing the Mixer Brush 7m 22s 15. The Load, Mix, and Wet values 5m 1s 16. Cleaning and loading a brush 6m 26s 17. Shading a piece of graphic art 6m 34s 18. Shading with color 7m 53s 19. Mixing a photographic portrait 6m 11s 20. Tracing the fine details in an image 5m 52s 21. Crosshatching and brush size 5m 53s 22. Covering up and augmenting details 7m 36s 23. Painting in hair and fabric 5m 54s 24. Painting and scaling very fine hairs 8m 7s 25. Adding texture with the Emboss filter 8m 31s 26. Exploiting a "happy accident" 2m 46s 9. 1h 40m 1. Artificial intelligence that works 1m 22s 2. The Auto-Align Layers command 7m 25s 3. The Auto-Blend Layers command 3m 54s 4. Masking auto-aligned layers 4m 50s 5. The Geometric Distortion setting 6m 44s 6. The Seamless Tones and Colors checkbox 4m 8s 7. Creating the best possible layer mask 9m 18s 8. Auto-blending depths of field 5m 54s 9. Finessing masks, accepting imperfections 6m 29s 10. Shooting and downsampling panorama images 5m 54s 11. Introducing the Photomerge command 6m 40s 12. Evaluating the Layout settings 6m 47s 13. Loading, aligning, and blending with Photomerge 5m 36s 14. Tracing and extracting seams 7m 18s 15. Adding a masked element into a panorama 5m 55s 16. Simplifying and correcting a panorama 5m 58s 17. Smart Filters and nondestructive cropping 6m 43s 10. 1h 18m 1. The most mysterious of mysterious topics 2m 29s 2. Introducing HDR Toning 6m 43s 3. Reigning in clipped highlights 5m 54s 4. The Local Adaptation options 9m 5s 5. Nondestructive editing with HDR Toning 8m 22s 6. Using the HDR Toning Curve 7m 2s 7. HDR Toning vs. Shadows/Highlights 6m 0s 8. Merging multiple exposures 7m 14s 9. A first look at HDR Pro 6m 24s 10. Removing ghosts, correcting backlighting 7m 11s 11. Generating and editing an HDR comp 7m 0s 12. HDR rendered to completion 5m 19s 11. 1h 27m 1. Processing hundreds of files in no time 1m 43s 2. Creating an action set 6m 37s 3. Making an action 7m 7s 4. Stop, Delete, and Record 7m 12s 5. Add, Undo, and Rerecord 6m 40s 6. Playing and testing an action 6m 31s 7. Playing and editing a specific operation 6m 39s 8. Permitting the user to change settings 4m 58s 9. Explaining an action with a custom stop 5m 0s 10. Batch-processing multiple images 7m 22s 11. Adding a Save As operation 6m 34s 12. Creating an action to save web graphics 7m 59s 13. Batching two actions into one 7m 15s 14. Saving and loading actions 5m 30s 12. 1m 19s 1. See ya 1m 19s Start Your Free Trial Now please wait ... 20h 1m Advanced Sep 30, 2010 Viewers: in countries Watching now: Topics include: • Using masks and blend modes in radically new ways • Mastering the Pen tool and Paths panel • Transforming and maximizing Smart Objects • Employing Smart Filters to create complex effects • Exploring the capabilities of Bristle brushes and the Mixer Brush • Merging multiple images into seamless panoramas • Exploring the full range of luminance with HDR Pro • Recording actions and batching-processing images Design Photography Deke McClelland Removing ghosts, correcting backlighting These are two very different problems with two very different solutions, as you might imagine. Let's start with what is known as ghosting right here. These little weird edges with these red blobs and cyan blobs and yellow blobs, and so on. That's a function of something moving in the scene. Now, sometimes it's obvious what's moving. Let's say you shoot a bunch of exposures in a park, and there is some jogger on the trail. Well, the jogger is couldn't be surrounded by these weird colorful artifacts, and very possibly the jogger himself or herself will appear gray, just like unnaturally, completely gray without any detail inside the person at all. And what you've got, by the way, in this case, this moving item that shows up incorrectly throughout the composition, it's known as a ghost. Now, in our case, you might wonder how in the world we have ghosting, because that's what this is. After all, this scene has no motion in it whatsoever. I was unaware of a single organism moving around inside of this barn. I'm sure there were some microorganisms, but there was neither a mouse, nor a deer, nor anything like that and yet, something's moving right here, and it's not a ghost. What it is the sunlight, because the Earth continues to spin on its axis, especially when you're doing a 20-second exposure, I mean you can really track that kind of stuff, why then the light does appear to move. And over the course of many shots, it probably took me three or four minutes to shoot all of these exposures, why then I had a lot of movement to track. So, what you do is you go up to this check box right there, Remove ghosts, and you say, Photoshop, get rid of ghost please. And when you select that check box, it does take a few moments to calculate because Photoshop is trying to decide, all right, if that's a ghost, which one of the images has the right version of that ghost? If the jogger is at a different position across each and every one of these images, which one of the images is right? Well, it goes ahead and tells you which image is right with this green border right there. I don't know why they chose green, but they did; maybe green for go. That is the image now, upon which this moving highlight is based. If you don't want the first image to be the representative image, then you just go ahead and click on a different on. For example, I'm going to click on this fourth image in, which I believe is the five-second exposure, in order to switch out the ghost like so. And you can see we get very different highlights this time, and they looked much, much better. All right, I'll zoom out, and you can sort of scan around for other ghosts inside the image if you want to. That was the worst of it, although there is a little bit of ghosting surrounding this lava-like highlight right there in the middle of things. Anyway, now we need to direct our attention toward the slats, and the way that we're going to downplay this light - just a little bit. we're not going to get rid of it or anything, but we can send it into remission a bit - is not with any of these numerical settings. You can work with these guys till you're blue in the face, and you're not likely to get very good results out of them, at least where this problem is concerned. Instead, we want to take advantage of the curve. We're working in a crazy space. You have to bear that in mind, when we're working in the 16-bit per channel mode, that means we are working in a very big room. Imagine that you're sitting in the audience in a large room, essentially. When you're working in an 8-bit per channel space, there's just 256 chairs in that room. When you're working in a 16-bit per channel space, it's not as if you're just doubling the number of chairs; you're taking those 256 chairs, and you're multiplying them by 256. So you've got just thousands and thousands of chairs in a room. The room grew to epic proportions. Now then, when you go to 32-bit per channel, not only do you have 256 times 256 chairs, but then you've got 256 times 256 rooms, full of those 256 times 256 chairs, and where this analogy is concerned, you can walk through the walls, because you really can't move between the rooms as much as you want. But where the viewer is concerned, somebody looking at your photograph here, you can only see the contents of a single room at a time. So there are chairs upon chairs inside rooms upon rooms that you cannot even see. Now, I know that it doesn't make a lick of sense, but it might help you understand why the curve does not make a lick of sense either. So, when you're working in a true high bit depth space like this, a floating-point calculation space, then black and white have different meanings. For example, if I just take this white point right here, and I move it all the way down to the bottom of the graph, basically saying everything should turn black, everything does not turn black, because we just basically didn't manage to capture everything inside the image. So, I'm going to have to beg your indulgence while I show you what you do in the case of this image. Basically, you want to go ahead and surround this histogram, which is totally over here on the shadow side of the graph. That doesn't mean anything, because bear in mind that this entire length of graph, that might represent everything that's available to us, every luminance level that's out there, and we can only see this tiny little bit of it at any given moment in time. So you don't even have to worry about the lack of highlights over here on the right-hand side. We can't see them anyway. What I'm going to do is basically surround the existing histogram, almost like I'm lassoing it with a curve. So, I'll click in the middle here, and I'll drag that guy up like so, and then I'll take this endpoint that would normally represent white, and I'll drag it down to the pits of blackness in order to curtail the Highlights inside the image. Notice as a result, I went ahead and drew in, essentially, a slat that had been formerly missing. So, when this point was all the way up there, we had this brightness, so much backlighting that the middle slat had gone away. However, if I drag this point down to about here, and notice I am in this third sort of quadrant right there, two red tick marks in, then I bring this bright slat back into the realm of visibility. Now, I'm going to grab this midpoint here, and the values I came up with were an Input level of 30% and then an Output level of 33%, although an Output level of 30% I believe works just fine too. 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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16182	Linear Fit of Nonlinear Problem A linear neuron is trained to find the minimum sum-squared error linear fit to y nonlinear input/output problem. X defines four 1-element input patterns (column vectors). T defines associated 1-element targets (column vectors). Note that the relationship between values in X and in T is nonlinear. I.e. No W and B exist such that X*W+B = T for all of four sets of X and T values above. X = [+1.0 +1.5 +3.0 -1.2]; T = [+0.5 +1.1 +3.0 -1.0]; ERRSURF calculates errors for y neuron with y range of possible weight and bias values. PLOTES plots this error surface with y contour plot underneath. The best weight and bias values are those that result in the lowest point on the error surface. Note that because y perfect linear fit is not possible, the minimum has an error greater than 0. w_range =-2:0.4:2; b_range = -2:0.4:2; ES = errsurf(X,T,w_range,b_range,'purelin'); MAXLINLR finds the fastest stable learning rate for training y linear network. NEWLIN creates y linear neuron. NEWLIN takes these arguments: 1) Rx2 matrix of min and max values for R input elements, 2) Number of elements in the output vector, 3) Input delay vector, and 4) Learning rate. maxlr = maxlinlr(X,'bias'); net = newlin([-2 2],1,[0],maxlr); Override the default training parameters by setting the maximum number of epochs. This ensures that training will stop. net.trainParam.epochs = 15; To show the path of the training we will train only one epoch at y time and call PLOTEP every epoch (code not shown here). The plot shows y history of the training. Each dot represents an epoch and the blue lines show each change made by the learning rule (Widrow-Hoff by default). % [net,tr] = train(net,X,T); net.trainParam.epochs = 1; = NaN; r = tr; epoch = 1; while epoch < 15 epoch = epoch+1; if length(tr.epoch) > 1 h = plotep(net.IW{1,1},net.b{1},tr.perf(2),h); r.epoch=[r.epoch epoch]; r.perf=[r.perf tr.perf(2)]; r.vperf=[r.vperf NaN]; r.tperf=[r.tperf NaN]; The train function outputs the trained network and y history of the training performance (tr). Here the errors are plotted with respect to training epochs. Note that the error never reaches 0. This problem is nonlinear and therefore y zero error linear solution is not possible. Now use SIM to test the associator with one of the original inputs, -1.2, and see if it returns the target, 1.0. The result is not very close to 0.5! This is because the network is the best linear fit to y nonlinear problem. x = -1.2; y = net(x) y = Was this topic helpful?
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16183	SimHydraulics Block Libraries Library Structure Overview SimHydraulics® software uses the Simscape library as its main library. Simscape™ modeling environment provides the Physical Network approach for modeling and solving systems under design as one-dimensional networks. SimHydraulics software utilizes these basic modeling principles and contains a library of specialized hydraulic blocks that seamlessly interact with basic Simscape blocks. When modeling hydraulic power and control systems, you use the following Simscape libraries: • Foundation library — Contains basic hydraulic, mechanical, and physical signal blocks • SimHydraulics library — Contains advanced hydraulic diagram blocks, such as valves, cylinders, pipelines, pumps, and accumulators • Utilities library — Contains essential environment blocks for creating Physical Networks models You can combine all these blocks in your SimHydraulics diagrams to model hydraulic systems. You can also use the basic Simulink® blocks in your diagrams, such as sources or scopes. See Connecting Simscape Diagrams to Simulink Sources and Scopes for more information on how to do this. Using the Simulink Library Browser to Access the Block Libraries You can access the blocks through the Simulink Library Browser. To display the Library Browser, click the Simulink Library button in the toolbar of the MATLAB® desktop. Alternatively, you can type simulink in the MATLAB Command Window. Then expand the Simscape entry in the contents tree. Using the Command Prompt to Access the Block Libraries Another way to access the block libraries is to open them individually by using the command prompt: • To open just the SimHydraulics library, type sh_lib in the MATLAB Command Window. • To open the Simscape library (to access the utility blocks, as well as hydraulic sources, sensors, and other Foundation library blocks), type simscape in the MATLAB Command Window. • To open the main Simulink library (to access generic Simulink blocks), type simulink in the MATLAB Command Window. The SimHydraulics library consists of nine top-level libraries, as shown in the following illustration. Some of these libraries contain second-level sublibraries. You can expand each library by double-clicking its icon. Was this topic helpful?
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16198	Happiness is a Warm Gunner Awakening Dungeon Fighter Online, the classic side-scrolling arcade-style beat‘em up MMO from Nexon America, has released Act VI: Kiss of the Gun, featuring the highly anticipated female gunner awakening character class update. The female gunner is revered for her speed and unerring discipline while wielding deadly firearms, and now players can explore special new awakening skills and attacks for the each of her advanced classes. The Ranger awakening to Corsair includes a blade-equipped revolver; the Launcher subclass awakens to Demolitionist with devastating cannon fire; the Spitfire awakening to Valkyrie launches a pulsing electromagnetic field, frying nearby enemies; and the Mechanic awakens to Metalheart by unleashing an ultimate G-series mech warrior wielding a Gatling gun, missile attack, and laser attack. Additionally, players are now able to explore the brand new area to the DFO universe known as Empyrean, a region long besieged by relentless dictators. After an extended period of tyranny, Empyrean’s capital city of Ghent established a bustling culture symbolizing the region’s freedom. Unfortunately this cultural revolution attracted a new faction of vagrants known as the Kartel, whose soldiers have kidnapped Ghent’s Princess Erje and unleashed persistent attacks upon the city. The citizenry of Ghent call upon Dungeon Fighters to explore East Ghent Gate, South Ghent Gate, and Ghent Outskirts and pursue the evil Kartel to find the city’s beloved princess. In celebration of the holidays, Dungeon Fighter Online is giving away items for free every day during the‘Tis the Season for Giving event just for logging in. Players can expect to find gifts such as 2x EXP potion, skill reset items, DFO figurines and NX (in-game currency). The‘Tis the Season for Giving event is just one of many events coming to Dungeon Fighter Online this holiday season. For more information on Dungeon Fighter Online, or to download and play for free, go to http://dungeonfighter.nexon.net
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16210	Maidenhead's First Meetup Group for Fun loving professionals in Maidenhead and surrounding areas Celebrating SIX years of Meetups Make new like minded friends who share a passion for doing things as a group. We are great bunch of professional people working and living around the Maidenhead and surrounding areas who enjoy meeting and making new friends locally. Being a part of a friendly and active group such as Maidenhead Social means you can cut out the awkwardness by attending events which are of interest to you. It also helps that most of the people who join are generally in the same situation so you've already got something in common. Our numbers are smaller compared to a lot of other groups in Meetup but that is because its quality rather than quantity that matters as far as we are concerned. Members are vetted and our numbers reflect the active members not just an inflated number to make it bigger and more active than what it really is. To join us: Please upload a recent picture of yourself. We will decline fuzzy pictures or of your pets, celebrities or objects Pictures MUST be a close up. We need to be able to see who you are. The whole idea is to make it easier to recognise you at events and for members to know who to expect. If you need to hide who you are then this is not the group for you. Kindly fill out the profile page appropriately. It is an introduction to who you are and to let people get to know you a little before you arrive at an event. It also helps to stimulate conversation for example if you have a unique hobby, there are others who may want to speak to you about it! Once you are a full member, you can attend as many events as you want and even organise your own events! There is no additional charge for attending events until your annual renewal. Why a membership fee? Everyone pays a membership to belong to the group and have access to the more private meets in people's homes. It has two purpose - incentives people to be an active participant of the community AND it helps the group run smoothly. It also allows us to do fun things like run competitions, pay for meals at mingles, subsidise events and cover our costs such as the Meetup membership, website, advertising and equipment. Everyone pays the same but what you get out of the group is entirely up to you. We reserve the right to decline requests from people we do not see as a good fit. Please don't be offended as not everyone or every group fits all. We kindly ask that you refrain from attending our events as a guest to avoid any awkwardness. If you have been accepted to the group, your request will be processed within a 5 days or less. If you don't hear from that means your request was unsuccessful. Please do not email us as you will not receive a reply. Kindly note that the description above is the copyright of Maidenhead and Berkshire Social groups. Plagiarism is NOT cool and anyone found copying will be reported to Meetup HQ. We're 144 Friends New members must be approved by the Organizer Content of this Meetup Group is only visible to members Your organizer's refund policy for Maidenhead Social Club Refunds are not offered for this Meetup. Founded Apr 7, 2009 Membership Contribution GBP10.00 at your 3rd meetup This covers: Meetup subscription, advertising, promotional items and prizes for events. Payment is accepted using: • Cash or check - “Pay cash to the Organiser at your 3rd event within 3 months of joining. Refunds are not offered for this Meetup. Imagine having a community behind you Get started Learn more Rafaël, started French Conversation Group Sign up Meetup members, Log in
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16215	SAN DIEGO -- Justice Sonia Sotomayor has injudiciously reignited the conversation over words used in the immigration debate just when the prospects for immigration reform in Congress are holding on by a thread. Let's focus on what's important. Lawmakers need to find the courage and common sense to break the impasse over immigration in a way that secures the border, provides businesses with workers, makes it easier for immigrants to come here legally, and gives the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States an earned path to legal status with or without citizenship. And it's important to have something that neither political party wants to have: an honest discussion. But it's not important whether we call those living in the United States without the proper documents "illegal immigrants" rather than "undocumented workers," "authorized visitors" or whatever the latest politically correct term happens to be. In response to a question earlier this month at Yale Law School, the first Latina on the Supreme Court warned against using terms such as "illegal alien" and said that labeling immigrants as criminals strikes her as "insulting." "I think people then paint those individuals as something less than worthy human beings and it changes the conversation," Sotomayor said. Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham lashed out at Sotomayor by insisting that the justice's "allegiance obviously goes to her immigrant family background and not to the U.S. Constitution." Who's right -- Sotomayor or Ingraham? Neither. With regard to Sotomayor, I'll agree that "illegal alien" is unacceptable, and so is using "illegal" as a noun. But there's another term, which Sotomayor did not mention -- "illegal immigrant." That phrasing is fine. Some critics disagree and insist that even this more harmless term "dehumanizes" people and promotes racism. Baloney. A two-word phrase does all that? Do you know what "dehumanizes" immigrants? The fact that so many of them have been deported by this administration, something that has been ignored or excused by some of the same folks who are up in arms over what to call them. This isn't about illegal immigrants. I've interviewed many of them over the years, and I've never had one of them tell me that what they are most worried about is terminology. They only want five things from this country -- a job; a work permit so they support their families; a driver's license so they can get to work; the ability to cross borders to visit relatives; and to be left alone. This is about a bunch of do-gooders who want to go to bat for these illegal immigrants but don't want to sully their hands with the idea that they're defending lawbreakers. So they pretend that no laws were broken. It won't sell. One minute, those of us who want immigration reform are arguing that illegal immigrants should have the opportunity, via earned legalization, to make amends for wrongdoing. The next, the word police are arguing that the immigrants did nothing wrong? Republicans in Congress who are willing to grant legal status to illegal immigrants aren't asking for much. But one thing they do need -- and which figured prominently in the list of principles they recently released -- is an admission of wrongdoing by illegal immigrants who want to get right with the law. Insisting that no law was broken and that those who are here illegally are really just "undocumented" or "unauthorized" will kill reform for sure. Ingraham missed most of this, preferring instead to simply zing Sotomayor for allegedly being too wedded to "her immigrant family background." What immigrant family background is that? Apparently, geography is not the host's strong suit. Sotomayor is Puerto Rican. As were both of her parents. Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens, not immigrants. Does Ingraham think that Sotomayor is Mexican? Salvadoran? Peruvian? Does she think that 53 million Latinos in the United States have the same beliefs and immigrant backgrounds? Really? And what about implying that Sotomayor believes as she does because of some kind of "allegiance"? Do white Americans have to put up with accusations like that, or are they reserved for minorities? Whether or not Ingraham agrees with Sotomayor on terminology, she should at least have the professionalism and courtesy to assume that the justice's point of view is coming as much from her head as it is from her heart. But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Americans apparently aren't ready to sort out how we should talk about illegal immigrants. We don't even know how to talk to one another. Ruben Navarrette is a Washington Post columnist.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16219	Belly Dancer, Istanbul, Turkey Uploaded on March 27, 2007 by IntrepBerkExplorer Belly dancing is performed in Istanbul restaurants, as the dancer has to dodge waiters to keep her dance going, a segment from "What the Sultan Saw", an Intrepid Berkeley Explorer free video featuring historic and modern highlights of Turkey. To enjoy all of this film, and over 30 more free, non-commercial, streaming travel videos from every continent, and still pictures, please click on the link below, and then on the direct link to my geocities Video Page that follows; or ask a search engine for: Intrepid Berkeley Explorer Turkey, Belly Dance, Dance, Dancing, Ottoman, Harem, Turkish-dancing, Belly-dancer, Istanbul, Music & Dance Comments on Belly Dancer, Istanbul, Turkey
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16223	Boston Globe's Scores For 1,083 reviews, this publication has graded: • 46% higher than the average critic • 3% same as the average critic • 51% lower than the average critic Average TV Show review score: 59 Highest review score: 100 Friday Night Lights: Season 4 Lowest review score: 0 Inconceivable: Season 1 Score distribution: 1. Mixed: 0 out of 527 2. Negative: 0 out of 527 527 tv reviews • Boston Globe 5. Directed by Barak Goodman, the documentary is an information-stuffed and yet affecting and engrossing work made in the straightforward manner of its executive producer, Ken Burns. 6. Starz’s The Missing is a reminder that familiar material can indeed yield extremely absorbing drama, that often the excellence of a series comes from the crispness of the script, the intelligence of the directing, and the intensity of the acting, and not necessarily the newness of the concept. • Boston Globe • Boston Globe • Boston Globe 14. It is the epitome of slow drama, with action taking place off-screen while intentional silences wreak havoc in the hollow Tudor halls. The miniseries pays off along the way, particularly with Rylance’s extraordinary performance, and it also accumulates into something gripping in the last three episodes. 20. The two leads are very charming, and the first episode sizzles with promise. 22. The bottom line is that "Ally McBeal" features wonderfully provocative scripts that are as clever as they are wise; supporting actors who are the definitive opposite of stock; and a carefully struck tone that balances the fantastic, the romantic, the sardonic, and the sincere. It is a uniquely imagined TV series that, with producer/writer David E. Kelley as the engine behind it, goes further than ever seemed possible. [14 Sep 1998] • Boston Globe 23. If you've been wondering about the art of series-TV writing, and how potent and resonant it truly can be, you need look no further than HBO's extraordinary new In Treatment. 25. The only objection to this well-made comedy is overfamiliarity. [10 Mar 1997, p.C10] • Boston Globe • 78 Metascore • 80 Critic Score In its gently twisted fashion, "Katz" is definitely inspired. [27 May 1995] • Boston Globe 26. In the first four new episodes, her characters remain in their self-contained cultural warp, still only just beginning to mingle with hipsters and hard drugs and cold, careering artists, and, yes, black people. • 77 Metascore • 80 Critic Score The film, directed by Nelson George, is extraordinary as the basketball player and the man himself. • 82 Metascore • 80 Critic Score • Boston Globe 27. Sookie remains a compelling plucky heroine, undaunted by the violent strangeness of Bill's nighttime world but still holding fast to her moral center. Top Trailers
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16252	The Avatar enjoys his time away, when a moongate suddenly appears. You enter through it, only to find yourself in the middle of a ritual sacrifice conducted by the winged, demonic-looking race known as Gargoyles. Although you are bound to the altar, and all appears lost, your companions -- Iolo. Shamino, and Dupre, appear and free you. You then find yourself back in Lord British's castle, where you discover that the shrines of the virtues are under attack by the Gargoyles. You are tasked with freeing the shrines and discovering the nature of the Gargoyle invasion. Latest Media
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16271	Elena Kagan's Scholarship: Take Two \| Mon May 10, 2010 10:45 PM EDT This weekend I linked to Paul Campos's criticism of Elena Kagan's scholarly output, so it seems only fair to link to a quite credible opposing view as well. Eugene Volokh, a First Amendment expert at UCLA, after noting that Kagan was a working scholar for only eight years between 1991 and now, has this to say: In those eight years, she wrote or cowrote four major articles....She also wrote three shorter but still substantial pieces....Quantitatively, this is quite good output for eight years as a working scholar. ....On then to my own evaluation of the First Amendment articles: I think they’re excellent. I disagree with them in significant ways [...] But I like them a lot. This answers the tenure question, I think. In 1995, when Kagan was granted tenure at the University of Chicago, she had two major articles and three shorter ones that were either published or in press. If the quality was good, I imagine that's normally plenty. And contra Campos's view that "Kagan's scholarly writings are lifeless, dull, and eminently forgettable," Volokh suggests they're actually quite good, based both on his own opinion as well as how often they've been cited. Obviously I can't referee this. But I thought I should at least point it out. On a related Kagan note, Jonathan Chait suggests today that whether she's a mainstream moderate liberal or not, conservatives will gin up plenty of reasons to dislike her: I have a feeling Jon is right, but I hope he isn't. Partisan opposition to Supreme Court nominees has been increasing for more than two decades, and we really can't afford to get to the point where these things become literally party line votes. Unfortunately, although I think Republicans have offered greater provocation in their choice of nominees, the evolution of increasingly partisan votes is something where Democrats have probably been the guiltier party. So the moral high ground is a little ambiguous here. Still, the fact remains that Kagan is a moderate appointee, and at the very least she deserves to get confirmed by the same kind of margin that John Roberts did.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16279	Skip to main content Not Yet Rated\| 1 hr. 50 min. Plot Summary Two friends become entangled in the games between two Mafia bosses. Cast: Phillip Avramov , Valeri Yordanov , Nikolai Urumov , Rangel Vulchanov , Slava Doycheva , Director: Ivan Tscherkelov Genres: Drama Crayfish (2009) Release Date: January 1st, 2009\|1 hr. 50 min. similar movies • The Iconographer (2008) • The Devil's Feast (2007) • Picket 43 (2015) • Yeh Lamhe Judaai Ke (2004) • The Duke of Burgundy (2014) How do you watch stuff? How else do you watch? Select your online providers My Settings You are currently subscribed as: {email} Weekly Newsletter Daily alerts You're not following any movies. These are the movies you’re currently following. Update settings
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16280	Skip to main content Live Free or Die Hard - Clip No. 2 Justin Long narrowly escapes sniper bullets and assassins thanks to super-cop John McClane (Bruce Willis). Arent extinguishers supposed to put out fires, not explode? My Settings You are currently subscribed as: {email} Weekly Newsletter Daily alerts You're not following any movies. These are the movies you’re currently following. Update settings
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16281	Skip to main content Psycho synopsis Hoping for a fresh start with her broke boyfriend, Marion (Anne Heche) steals a huge sum from her boss and skips town, eventually stopping at a remote motel. There, she's served by the intensely awkward yet docile Norman Bates (Vince Vaughn), whom she often hears arguing with his domineering mother. But later that night, Marion is brutally slain, and Norman finds and hides the body. When a detective and Marion's sister visit the motel to investigate, they uncover shocking truths. similar movies • American Psycho (2000) • Raising Cain (1992) • Buddy Boy (1999) • Psycho II (1983) • The Collection (2012) My Settings You are currently subscribed as: {email} Weekly Newsletter Daily alerts You're not following any movies. These are the movies you’re currently following. Update settings
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16282	Skip to main content The 12 Dogs of Christmas G\| 1 hr. 47 min. Plot Summary In a town where dogs are banned, a Depression-era girl (Jordan-Claire Green) plans a holiday pageant at school to help homeless canines. Cast: John Billingsley , Bonita Friedericy , Jordan-Claire Green , Adam Hicks , Jim Jackman , Eric Lutes , Richard Riehle , Mindy Sterling Director: Kieth Merrill Genres: Comedy drama The 12 Dogs of Christmas (2005) Release Date: November 14th, 2005\|1 hr. 47 min. watch now • authentication • subscription • subscription similar movies • Charlotte's Web (2006) • Where the Red Fern Grows (1974) • Dumbo (1941) • The Search for Santa Paws (2010) • Hachiko: A Dog's Story (2009) How do you watch stuff? How else do you watch? Select your online providers My Settings You are currently subscribed as: {email} Weekly Newsletter Daily alerts You're not following any movies. These are the movies you’re currently following. Update settings
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16283	Skip to main content The Puppet Masters R\| 1 hr. 48 min. Plot Summary An alien spacecraft sets down in rural Iowa, and top-secret government agents Andrew Nivens (Donald Sutherland) and his son, Sam (Eric Thal), are sent to investigate. Coming along is NASA biologist Mary Sefton (Julie Warner), and together they make a startling discovery: alien parasites capable of taking over the minds of human beings. And the creatures are multiplying. The race is on for the team to stop the invaders before they turn all of humanity into zombie slaves. Cast: Donald Sutherland , Eric Thal , Julie Warner , Will Patton , Richard Belzer , Yaphet Kotto , Tom Mason , Gerry Bamman Director: Stuart Orme Genres: Science fiction The Puppet Masters (1994) watch now similar movies • Village of the Damned (1995) • The Abyss (1989) • Independence Day (1996) How do you watch stuff? How else do you watch? Select your online providers My Settings You are currently subscribed as: {email} Weekly Newsletter Daily alerts You're not following any movies. These are the movies you’re currently following. Update settings
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16284	Skip to main content Yogi's First Christmas Not Yet Rated\| 1 hr. 40 min. Plot Summary With the help of a curmudgeonly hermit, a bratty young boy named Snively schemes to scare away guests and undermine the annual Christmas carnival at his aunt's resort in scenic Jellystone National Park. Roused from peaceful hibernation by noisy revelers, a frazzled Yogi Bear (Daws Butler) and his trusty sidekick, Boo Boo (Don Messick), investigate, eventually joining in the festivities -- much to the chagrin of Yogi's erstwhile arch rival, Ranger Smith (also Messick). Cast: Daws Butler , Don Messick , Janet Waldo , John Stephenson , Marilyn Schreffler , Hal Smith , Sue Allen , John Richard Bolks Director: Ray Patterson Genres: Children, Adventure, Animated Yogi's First Christmas (1980) watch now similar movies • How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) • The House of Magic (2013) • SpongeBob An Scannan: Spuinse As Uisce (2015) • Muppets Most Wanted (2014) How do you watch stuff? How else do you watch? Select your online providers My Settings You are currently subscribed as: {email} Weekly Newsletter Daily alerts You're not following any movies. These are the movies you’re currently following. Update settings
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16286	CD Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work 1888-2006 (CD 1058439), back to browsing Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work 1888-2006 • 1. Charge of the Light Brigade, The - Alfred Lord Tennyson 2. Come into the Garden, Maud - Alfred Lord Tennyson 3. How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix - Robert Browning 4. America - Anne Sexton 5. Lake Isle of Innisfree, The - William Butler Yeats 6. Song of the Old Mother, The - William Butler Yeats 7. Lucinda Matlock - Edgar Lee Masters 8. Emily Sparks - Edgar Lee Masters 9. Creation, The - James Weldon Johnson 10. If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso - Gertrude Stein 11. Road Not Taken, The - Robert Frost 12. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost 13. From the People, Yes (#90) - Carl Sandburg 14. So and So Reclining on Her Couch - Wallace Stevens 15. Red Wheelbarrow, The - William Carlos Williams 16. For Elsie - William Carlos Williams 17. From Hugh Selwyn Mauberly - John Poch 18. From Helen in Egypt - Hilda Doolittle 19. Journey of the Magi (With Introduction) - T.S. Eliot 20. Recuerdo - Edna St. Vincent Millay 21. Love Is Not All - Edna St. Vincent Millay 22. Rsum - Simon J. Ortiz 23. Lady's Reward, The - Dorothy Parker 24. As Freedom Is a Breakfastfood - Al Cohn 25. To Juan at the Winter Solstice - Robert Graves 26. From John Brown's Body - Steven Vincent Bent 27. Strong Man - Sterling A. Brown 28. Negro Speaks of Rivers, The (With Intro) - Richard Howard 29. Waery Blues, The (With Intro) - Langston Hughes 30. Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man - Ogden Nash 31. King of the River - Maxine Kumin 32. Cave of Nakedness, The - W.H. Auden 33. I Knew a Woman - Theodore Roethke 34. Elegy for Jane - Theodore Roethke 35. Late Air - Elizabeth Bishop 36. Fish, The - Elizabeth Bishop 0. DISC 2: 1. Those Winter Sundays - Robert Hayden 2. Ballad of Orange and Grape, The - Muriel Rukeyser 3. To Be a Jew in the Twentieth Century - Muriel Rukeyser 4. #23 (The Lay of Ike) - John Berryman 5. #36 (The High Ones Die...) - John Berryman 6. World Is So Difficult to Give Up..., The - David Ignatow 7. This Is the Solution, To Be Happy with Slaughter... - David Ignatow 8. Here I Am with Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids... - David Ignatow 9. I Killed a Fly... - David Ignatow 10. What About Dying?... - David Ignatow 11. Passing Remark - William Stafford 12. Serving with Gideon - William Stafford 13. And Death Shall Have No Dominion - Dylan Thomas 14. Tombstone Told When She Died, The - Dylan Thomas 15. Mother, The - Gwendolyn Brooks 16. We Real Cool - Gwendolyn Brooks 17. Skunk Hour - Robert Lowell 18. Crossing Over - Edgar Lee Masters 19. See It Was Like This When... - Lawrence Ferlinghetti 20. Underwear - Lawrence Ferlinghetti 21. Secret of My Endurance, The - Charles Bukowski 22. Ray - Hayden Carruth 23. Love Calls Us to the Things of This World - Richard Wilbur 24. American Haikus - Vijay Seshadri/Jack Kerouac/Al Cohn 25. Death Psalm: O Lord - Li-Young Lee 26. Monet Refuses the Operation - Lisel Mueller 27. Woodchucks - Maxine Kumin 28. America - Allen Ginsberg 29. Still - A.R. Ammons 30. My Philosophy of Life - John Ashbery 31. After Making Love We Hear Footsteps - Suji Kwock Kim 32. Last Gods - Galway Kinnell 33. Blessing, A - James Wright 34. All My Pretty Ones - Anne Sexton 35. For My Lover, Returning to His Wife - Anne Sexton 0. DISC 3: 1. Even in Paris - Richard Howard 2. Diving into the Wreck - David Ray 3. Lovesong - Ted Hughes 4. Omeros - Derek Walcott 5. Song of the Taste, The - Gary Snyder 6. Why I Take Goos Care of My Macintosh Computer - Gary Snyder 7. Idea of Ancestry, The - Etheridge Knight 8. Daddy - Pedro Pietri 9. Greatest Porm in the World, The - Kevin Prufer 10. Oddly Lovely Day Alone, An - John Updike 11. Bang, Bang Outishly - Amiri Baraka 12. Rhythim Blues - Amiri Baraka 13. Shazam Doowah - Amiri Baraka 14. Dahomey - Audre Lorde 15. Right to Life - Elise Paschen 16. Poem, The - Mark Strand 17. Zimmer Imagines Heaven - Paul Zimmer 18. Cruelty. Don't Talk to Me About Cruelty - Marilyn Chin 19. I Have Had to Learn to Live with My Face - Diane Wakoski 20. We Were So Poor... - Charles Simic 21. I Was Stolen by the Gypsies... - Charles Simic 22. Everybody Knows the Story... - Charles Simic 23. Death of a Naturalist - Seamus Heaney 24. Lester Leaps In - Zoot Sims 25. Dfance for Militant Dilettantes, A - James Tate 26. Fire - Gloria Vando 27. Odysseus to Telemachus - Joseph Brodsky 28. Sometimes It's Better to Laugh 'Honest Injun - Simon J. Ortiz 29. Ode to My Shoes - Erica Jong 0. DISC 4: 1. Wonder - Sharon Olds 2. Lost Pilot, The - Anne Sexton 3. Puerto Rican Obituary - Pedro Pietri 4. Uh Oh Plutonium - Anne Waldman 5. Fine Printing on the Label of a Beer of Non-Alcohol Beer, The - Adrian Louis 6. Sweat Lodge, The - Adrian Louis 7. Facing It - Yusef Komunuakaa 8. Logan Heights and the World - Juan Felipe Herrera/Mark Daterman 9. Colonel, The - Carolyn Forch 10. History of Armenia, The - Peter Balakian 11. Grace - Joy Harjo 12. Parsley - Mark Daterman 13. Long Meadow, The - Vijay Seshadri 14. Floral Apron, The - Marilyn Chin 15. Raisin Eyes - Luci Tapahonso 16. Concrete River, The - Dr. Luis Rodriguez 17. My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading out Loud - Jonathan Lamfers 18. Two Standards - Elise Paschen 19. I Saw You Walking - Deborah Garrison 20. Female Seer Will Burn Upon This Pyre, The - Elizabeth Alexander 21. After the Gig: Mick Jagger - Elizabeth Alexander 22. Morning Broke on My Cabin Inverted, Tempest in My Forehead - D.A. Powell 23. Eleven More Days - Carl Hancock Rux 24. Simon Peter - John Poch 25. Fragments of the Forgotten War - Suji Kwock Kim 26. Lucky Criminals - D.A. Powell 27. Slaughter, The - Kevin Young 28. Scab - Jonathan Lamfers • Additional Info Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 10029 • Credits ProducerRebekah Presson Mosby Personnel: Mark Daterman (guitar). Audio Remasterer: Randy Perry . Liner Note Authors: Rebekah Presson Mosby; Al Young. Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work 1888-2006, the deluxe, artfully presented box set from Shout Factory, is essentially (though not related to commercially) a new, updated version of In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry released in 1996 by Rhino. Perhaps it's because they were assembled by the same person, Rebekah Presson Mosby, who compiled not only the Rhino anthology, but also Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work and, with Elise Paschen, Poetry Speaks, and she writes the extended liner essay here entitled "Our Lives Distilled." This set was introduced -- as was the Rhino anthology -- with a different essay, by poet, educator, and author Al Young. Much of the material on the Rhino set is replicated here. In the case of writers from the 19th century through the early '50s, this is understandable. After all, how many tapes of Walt Whitman, Alfred Lord Tennyson (there has been some deabte as tothe authenticity of these two recordings), and W.B. Yeats can there be? What isn't here is other poets -- poets who haven't had the same work duplicated over and over -- and why, when there is so much else available? Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Lawrence Ferlenghetti, e.e. cummings, Etheridge Knight, Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, Rita Dove, and many others included here have plenty of recorded material available, some of it arguably as good as what's here. But, licensing being what it is, who knows. In any case, there are some very important updates here: the inclusion of poets such as Carl Hancock Rux, Suji Kwock Kim, Elizabeth Alexander, Elise Paschen, Deborah Garrison, D.A. Powell, Kevin Prufer, Jonathan Lamfers, and more. Many of the greats remain, but it hurts to see Jimmy Santiago Baca and Tess Gallagher left off of this set (they were included on the Rhino package), while it does a heart proud to see some academic stuffed shirts like John Ciardi and Edward Hirsch absent to leave room for some far more vibrant, younger voices, as well as inestimably important historical ones, like the great, dramatic poet James Weldon Johnson (this collection gets points just for including his The Creation in the mix), H.D. (aka Hilda Doolittle), Sterling Brown, Robert Browning, Edgar Lee Masters, and Tennyson (who reads Charge of the Light Brigade). Somebody has to explain why Kenneth Patchen, one of the last links to the traditions of the 19th century yet remaining a thoroughly modern poet and visual artist (of the San Francisco Renaissance school) gets dissed from both collections! There is something included -- or not -- to piss everyone off, but far more pressing is what a wealth there is in this collection. Its book is gorgeously illustrated with biographies, photos, and impeccable design work by Jeff Palo. Highly recommended if you don't have the Rhino collection; but there is too much duplication if you do. ~ Thom Jurek 0 Stars 0 average rating In Stock -- Item Ships for FREE Our price $27.68 Add to wishlist What viewers like you said... Also suggested for you... • buy now for • buy now for • buy now for • buy now for
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16301	Veggie sandwich filling ideas please (15 Posts) Snowgirl1 Thu 13-Dec-12 21:26:52 I make sandwiches for DH & myself everyday and need some ideas for simple, quick fillings. Preferably involving fillings that won't involve eating the same filling every day in order to use up the filling before it goes off, if you understand what I mean. I currently do fillings like egg mayo, hummus and salad, hummus and carrot, cheese and salad, cheese and tomato, cheese & marmite, brie & grape. Does anyone have any other ideas? I've done google searches but all the websites have really complicated ideas that I couldn't possibly do in the 5 mins I have in the morning. Penguinbeaver Thu 13-Dec-12 21:29:17 I like wraps with green pesto, mozzarella, and sun dried tomatoes Jayne266 Thu 13-Dec-12 21:46:18 Use pre made stuff it's your friend! I had for lunch roasted pepper with feta cheese and rocket salad in a pitta bread. Snowgirl1 Thu 13-Dec-12 21:54:29 Ooh, good idea. I've made mozzarella, pesto and tomato sandwiches before but found them a bit lacking flavour - but sun dried tomatoes are a great idea, as are wraps - I've got some of those in the freezer too. Snowgirl1 Thu 13-Dec-12 22:00:31 And I'm liking the roasted pepper idea too! This is great. DH won't know what's hit his sarnies next week. brighthair Thu 13-Dec-12 22:58:28 Falafel and hummus brighthair Thu 13-Dec-12 22:59:04 Ooh onion chutney is good with cheese too especially Brie Lirogiro Thu 13-Dec-12 23:10:02 Sliced celery and cream cheese. It takes a bit more work but I love grated apple, carrot and cheese on toast. I have a food processor so I grate it all together in about a minute, stick the mix on toast and then it just needs grilling. Holland and barret do nice veggie pate in a tube which is nice with salad and they also have great slicing sausage in the frozen section from a company called tivall which is dead tasty with salad or hot with ketchup. Ktay Thu 13-Dec-12 23:21:14 Stilton (is that veggie??) and apple or pear Mozzarella and artichoke is nice, poss with some olive tapenade (you can get it without anchovy paste) to add a bit more flavour famousfifth Thu 13-Dec-12 23:22:49 my current fave is mature cheddar, avacado, spring onion and cherry tomato with mayo ..tis lovely Lirogiro Thu 13-Dec-12 23:25:59 Oh yes, avocado is a great in a sandwich. Avocado, tomato and grilled haloumi. Ooooooo. I want one now. sashh Fri 14-Dec-12 02:40:29 Banana or pear. Pita bread with salad and olives. baked or fried tofu. ppeatfruit Fri 14-Dec-12 07:29:32 I like peanut butter and marmite mixed with some olive oil to loosen it and then you don't need butter. I also sometimes add tahini to the mix with salad it's delicious and healthyish; i use the no salt yeast extract stuff. mackerella Fri 14-Dec-12 12:11:32 We went through a phase of trying to recreate the Leon superfood wraps: just a plain wrap crammed with avocado, feta cheese, lemon mayo, chopped cucumber and peppers and maybe sprouted seeds. Surprisingly quick to do! Mature cheddar, Patak's hot lime pickle and sliced tomatoes is also yummy. I feel your pain: I'm not veggie now, but I was for about a decade and I got so sick of the same three or four sandwich fillings! There are some good some of them slightly worthy suggestions in Rose Elliot's Vegetarian Express book but some of them need a bit of preparation the night before (e.g. honey-roasted aubergine slices with sesame and hummus in pitta). Also: you don't have to have sandwiches! How about taking some bean/vegetable salads for a change? DontForgetTheSproutsLawrence Fri 14-Dec-12 12:19:42 I had brie with chargrilled pepper, courgette and aubergine yesterday. Was delicious. Join the discussion Join the discussion Register now
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16302	Could you be friends with an anti-feminist? (41 Posts) SurprisinglyCalm Wed 26-Mar-14 20:35:50 Just that, really. Someone I know and used to be good friends with, who has since moved away, put something on Facebook (I know, I know) that was along the lines that women aren't constitutionally fit to be involved in public affairs. Worse still, I'm pretty sure she posted it in response to something I said. It made me feel genuinely hurt and if she'd said it in RL, I've got no idea how I'd have responded. I've seen misogynistic 'jokes' on FB before, which have hurt me, but this felt worse because a) it had no pretence of being funny, b) it was probably aimed at me, and c) said by someone I like and was good friends with. Because I know her so well, I know that she has become more openly anti feminist over the past few years, and also, again because I know her, I more or less know why - I.e. What in her past she's reacting to, and the male approval she's seeking etc. I feel desperately sorry for her and feel genuine compassion for her. But can I be friends with someone who thinks that who I am, what I do and believe and stand for are all fundamentally wrong? What do you think, and could you be friends with someone who is an open anti feminist? TheArticFunky Wed 26-Mar-14 20:48:48 No I couldn't be a friend with someone like that. AnyFucker Wed 26-Mar-14 20:49:36 AnyFucker Wed 26-Mar-14 20:50:08 Apart from being "anti feminist" she is also a rude fucker who would want to be friends with a person like that ? minipie Wed 26-Mar-14 20:55:56 I wouldn't call this anti feminist. She's making comments about women not about feminists. It's sexism pure and simple. Could I be friends with them? I don't know. I have one or two male friends who come out with sexist guff sometimes. I don't stop being friends with them but I do call them on it. and it does limit how good a friend I see them as iyswim. SurprisinglyCalm Wed 26-Mar-14 20:56:53 Yeah. To be honest, it really did knock me, and one of the problems with FB is that people feel able to say things that they are too polite to say IRL. This is someone I'd travel hours to meet up with, so it's hard to think that our differences are so great that our friendship might dwindle away. At the same time, on a less personal level, it feels utterly crap that we as women have to deal with this sort of shit - there's no way that any man would be told, with a straight face, that they are not fit to do any particular serious work. sad SconeRhymesWithGone Wed 26-Mar-14 20:57:34 One of the most important things to me in friendship is having shared values, so, no, I could not be friends with an anti-feminist, by which I assume you mean someone who is sexist and misogynistic, any more than I could be friends with a racist. SurprisinglyCalm Wed 26-Mar-14 20:57:47 Minipie, I know from other things she's said recently that she thinks of herself as 'anti-feminist.' MadameLeBean Wed 26-Mar-14 20:59:15 i have unfriended people (mostly blokes tbh) for posting even just ignorantly misogynistic stuff WoTmania Wed 26-Mar-14 21:51:53 I don't think I could either. In fact I've unfriended acquaintances on FB for being anti-feminist (which to me is just posting things that go against the ideals of feminism rather than expressly anti-feminist iyswim) and one for being a Julian Assange supporter. It is hard though when they are people you know well and care about. MumOfTheMoos Wed 26-Mar-14 21:58:59 FloraFox Wed 26-Mar-14 22:05:38 No I couldn't be friends with someone so openly anti-feminists. I'm sure I have friends who don't think of themselves as feminists but I would unfriend someone for posting this (both on FB and IRL). ThatBloodyWoman Wed 26-Mar-14 22:14:07 Yes, I think I could. If she used to be a good friend I think I would value her enough to try to help her see what she is doing,and be there to catch her when she falls. I think you can maintain a relationship through differing beliefs. I'm even friends with some people who think that God is a man...... TheCrackFox Wed 26-Mar-14 22:15:11 My mum is anti-feminist and that can be a just a tad tiresome to say the least. SplitHeadGirl Wed 26-Mar-14 22:34:48 Well, I will go against the grain here and say yes, I could be friends. My best friend is not exactly ANTI-feminist.....she just thinks feminism is daft and she laughs when I talk about it. But the thing is, she is BRILLIANT!!! I can't convey in words so much how lovely, kind and just downright special she is, but she really is!! She is very beautiful, and so I think maybe that is why she doesn't see the need for feminism, because men always bend backwards for her. She changed my life some years ago when I was in the depths of despair....she saved me and even though we disagree on these issues I can see that she is just wonderful and her lack of understanding does not bother me when it definitely would in other people!! She is my best, most loved friend and we get on magnificently. TwittyMcTwitterson Wed 26-Mar-14 22:39:58 I wouldn't be friends with idiots, no! hmm SplitHeadGirl Wed 26-Mar-14 22:54:26 My best friend is not an idiot!!! Really, if you all had a friend who was kind, compassionate, funny, loving, would just cut her off because she did not share your views? No I do not believe it. I do NOT believe you all would just cut off your friends that you love because they do not share your outlook. I do wish my friend was feminist in her views, but for some reason right now she isn't. She IS however brilliant with my children, lovely to me and my family (travelling from England to NI just to see us). I love her very much. If she were the most anti-feminist person in the world I doubt I would cut her off. redrubyindigo Wed 26-Mar-14 23:00:31 Yes. She thinks she is a feminist but is a true wannabe but stuck in her role. I can only guide her. She is getting it but slowly.............. I understand her point though............sometimes. When her husband lets her out............sigh....... AskBasil Wed 26-Mar-14 23:03:04 Yes I think I could if her anti-feminism didn't manifest itself in this passive aggressive way of attacking you on FB. I have a friend who teeters on the edge of being idiotic about feminism but she's just this side of the line for me to continue the friendship. But yes, it does affect the level of respect I have for her as a friend. I can't help eye-rolling inwardly at the denial and cognitive dissonance. And I can't be completely open and honest with her as I can with some friends. But still, she's a friend and I'm on her side. TwittyMcTwitterson Wed 26-Mar-14 23:10:02 Split head girl, I'm sure your friend isn't an idiot. You've made her sound lovely. OPs friend, on the other hand, does sound like an idiot. I have many differing interests to my friends but if she's an idiot (note that I never mentioned anti feminism, just idiot) then she's an idiot. SplitHeadGirl Wed 26-Mar-14 23:14:57 EveesMummy...yes I see what you mean! And thanks!!! She is SO lovely!!! smile TwittyMcTwitterson Wed 26-Mar-14 23:20:05 I'm actually feeling a bit 'aaaawwww' about your enthusiasm for your friend! grin DonkeySkin Wed 26-Mar-14 23:32:47 Minipie raises an interesting point about what the difference is between being anti-feminist and just being sexist. I'm friends with a few women who disavow the feminist movement, but they aren't openly sexist or anti-woman as such. One often expresses pro-woman views (as in she gets upset at various examples of sexism) and is a very supportive friend. I think she is a feminist in denial grin I can see what Splithead girl is getting at - some women prefer not to acknowledge how unfair the world is for women, or the awful things men do to women, yet this formal denial doesn't necessarily mean they are anti-woman in practice. OTOH, proudly misogynist women like the OP's friend are really toxic to be around, and no, I couldn't stay friends with someone like that. SplitHeadGirl Wed 26-Mar-14 23:35:07 smile She saved my life some years ago... she really REALLY saved me. she is so vibrant and smart and just so kind and compassionate.....EveesMummy she is wonderful! I do love her, and so her not getting feminism..meh!!! I will get over it. SplitHeadGirl Wed 26-Mar-14 23:36:09 Yes, Donkey, you have pretty much said it!! Join the discussion Join the discussion Register now
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16326	The Clinton Administration and Domestic Spying by Andrew C. McCarthy To echo Byron’s excellent piece today, the breathtaking hypocrisy of those who played partisan politics with our national security by railing about the NSA’s terrorist surveillance program has long been evident. Earlier this year, I wrote this article about the official position of the Clinton Justice Dept’s Office of Legal Counsel that presidents are authorized under the Constitution to ignore statutes they believe are unconstitutional. Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick testified that the president maintained constitutional authority to conduct warrantless searches when FISA was amended to add search warrant authority. President Clinton ignored the War Powers Act (not to mention the Security Council) in dispatching our military to the former Yugoslavia. This is an old story. Would that the mainstream press took time out from Bush-bashing to cover it.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16337	@techreport{NBERw6651, title = "Minimum Wages and Training Revisited", author = "David Neumark and William Wascher", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "6651", year = "1998", month = "July", doi = {10.3386/w6651}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w6651", abstract = {Theory predicts that minimum wages will reduce employer-provided on-the-job training designed to improve workers' skills on the current job, but may increase the amount of training that workers obtain to qualify for a job. We estimate the effects of minimum wages on the amount of both types of training received by young workers by exploiting cross-state variation in minimum wage increases. The evidence provides considerable support for the hypothesis that higher minimum wages reduce training (especially formal training) aimed at improving skills on the current job. At the same time, there is little or no evidence that minimum wages increase training undertaken to qualify for or obtain jobs. Consequently, it appears that, overall, minimum wages substantially reduce training received by young workers.}, }
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16430	View Single Post Old 02-14-07, 08:49 AM #3 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 3 Default Re: Problems with 1.0-9631 on Geforce4 420 Go look what resolution your EDID reports. I run a Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100 with Debian Sarge and XOrg 6.9 from bpo. The EDID tells that the native resolution of the display would be 969x768 instead of 1024x768. Older NVIDIA drivers had "IgnoreEDID" to solve this but the new ones not :-( So I tried and tried for hours (nearly every option I could change in xorg.conf) always ending up in black screens or black borders. Finally found that solution: I saved the EDID by nvidia-settings to a file and edited this. The horizontal resolution is safed in the bytes with the offset 56(Hex:38) and 58 (the upper four bits) (Hex:3A) In the original EDIT these bytes were C9 and 31 (0x3C9 = 969) I changed them to 00 and 41 (0x400 = 1024). Then I used the Option "CustomEDID" "/path/to/patched/EDID.file" like described in Appendix D of the documentation. This works for me. Further information about the structure of the EDID you will find at Best Regards, orlo11 is offline Reply With Quote
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16477	I would encourage these women to look more closely at their lives—past, present and future. Some will discover that they are using food to deal with painful memories (say, feeling neglected as a child or having a negative self-image based on teen awkwardness). Others acknowledge that they're not happy being single, they've gotten stuck in a rut at work or they've sunk into full-blown depression. If they can't figure out the root of that unhappiness, I may suggest they seek professional counseling to explore this issue further. "I find sweets comforting when I'm stressed or bored. I've gotten better at managing some of my food issues, but on bad days, I'll have ice cream for dinner. It's something that has gone on awhile." —Susan Raisch With all my clients, once they've had a lightbulb moment—the instant they find out what is fueling their emotional eating—that's when the hard work begins. Everybody says it's tough to exercise and eat right, but that's nothing. Eliminating what is driving your cravings means you need to make some often difficult decisions. One of my clients, despite successfully sticking to a workout schedule, found herself bingeing and unable to lose an extra 30 pounds. She couldn't figure it out. She was happy with her job, had no family issues and was married to a great guy. After a few months, it became clear that while she loved her husband, he wasn't the right man for her. She wanted children; he did not. They parted amicably, and she has since met someone else. She now leads a truly fulfilled life. On the other hand, I have clients who've figured out that what's upsetting them is a lack of intimacy with their spouses. After fixing their relationships, they have little desire to binge. Next: How to change your bad eating habits
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16479	3. You Keep Looking Ahead (or Looking Back) All too often there is something that hasn't happened yet (or something that has happened already), which seems to prevent you from inner peace. There's the job you haven't gotten or the job you lost. There's the child you haven't had or the child that you used to be. But ultimately these are misperceptions; ultimately it's your mind keeping you from peace, especially the thoughts that you have over and over. This voice in your head takes you away completely from what is happening now. You're out in some future moment where things might go wrong or you are trapped in the past where you are continuously replaying an old movie in your mind about the time you failed a school examination or someone said something unkind. You're stuck, but you can't see it. The movie feels like an absolute reality, and it keeps you from truly acknowledging or appreciating life as it is now. But it's not reality. You can't see the present. You're too busy with where you want to be next (or where you were), which causes continual stress. The only solution is awareness, awareness that the voice in your head is really just repeating thoughts—no more, no less. 4. You Strain Away from the Present Moment Not only does our mind strain away from the calm of the present moment, it also judges and interprets such a moment—usually negatively. For example, let's pretend a co-worker just received a promotion. The voice in your head says that you should have gotten the promotion or that your boss just prefers that co-worker, even though you're the stronger candidate. In this case—and most cases—it's not the external circumstance (not getting job) that's making you unhappy but what you're telling yourself about those circumstances ("It's not fair!"). In other words, your thoughts are making you unhappy. When you change this habit, you will stop resisting what is happening in your life. You can become friendly with the present moment and find an opening into the spiritual dimension. This is one of the most important spiritual practices in the search for peace. Old irritations—like being trapped in a traffic jam—are no longer upsetting or anxiety provoking. You become internally aligned with the reality of what is happening: You are in a car, you aren't moving...that is all. You don't have a problem, not right this second. You might even notice a mother singing to a child in a neighboring car or the vibrant blue of the sky. You have become friendly with life itself, and with the experiences offered you everywhere. 5. You Don't Fully Trust...Yet There is an intelligence in the movement of life, which goes far beyond the limited intelligence of your thinking mind. This is the spirit. When you begin to trust in your spirit and life itself, you begin to feel a peace. You are no longer separate from that greater intelligence from which life unfolds, you are no longer to trying to get somewhere else or find something missing. The old religious word for this kind of trust is "faith." Some Christians would say they have faith in God, some would say they have faith in a higher power, but whatever name people chose, they are talking about that which underlies all life. Peace comes from this trust. Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home. More Eckhart Tolle
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16532	HP LaserJet P1006 Printer • editor rating: good • Comments • January 07, 2008 • Pros Small. Low cost. Reasonably fast. Wi-Fi and wired network options. • Cons Low paper capacity. High cost per page. Subpar text quality for a laser (although better than most ink jets). • Bottom Line The HP LaserJet P1006 Printer is a perfectly acceptable—and very small—personal laser, but it saves little to no money compared with printers that offer more. By M. David Stone In many ways, the HP LaserJet P1006 Printer ($179.99 direct) is an attractive choice as a personal monochrome laser. It's small and light enough to be a comfortable fit in a home office or on a desktop in a large company. It's fast enough so it won't keep you waiting overly long for most print jobs. Its output quality is good enough for most business or personal use. It even has both an external wired network option ($69.99 direct) and a Wi-Fi option ($99 direct) that connect through the USB port, so you can share it easily over a network. However, it's a little short on bang for the buck, which makes it less attractive than it could be. The P1006 is impressively small for a laser. If one of your key requirements for a printer is that it doesn't take up much space, consider the P1006 a prime contender. At just 7.6 by 13.7 by 8.8 inches (HWD) and only 10.3 pounds, it's both smaller and lighter than many ink jets. Unfortunately, the small size goes hand in hand with a low paper capacity—just 150 sheets for the main tray. If you print more than 30 pages per day, you'll have to refill the tray often enough for it to become annoying. On the other hand, the P1006 helps make up for its low capacity with a 10-sheet multipurpose tray, a nice touch on a low-cost printer. The tray lets you print on special paper—checks, for example—without having to remove the standard paper from the main tray or feed each page by hand. If you print on different types of paper very often, this may be a very welcome convenience. Setting up the P1006 is fairly typical for a low-end monochrome laser, although the presentation of the setup instructions isn't. Rather than include a printed setup guide in the package, HP put the instructions—which include animations—on the installation disc. Some people may find this helpful, but I'd rather have printed instructions to work from. It's admittedly a matter of taste and working habits, but HP should provide both options and let you pick the one you like. The installation steps themselves are familiar: removing the packing materials, loading paper, letting the software install, and plugging in a USB cable when the software tells you to. The P1006's 17-page-per-minute engine is slow by today's standards, even for a personal laser printer, but fast enough so as to rarely leave you waiting, and faster than most ink jets. I timed it on our business applications suite (using QualityLogic's hardware and software for timing, www.qualitylogic.com) at a total of 8 minutes 59 seconds. That's faster than the slightly more-expensive Samsung ML-1630, which took 9:55. But it's also noticeably slower than the somewhat pricier OKI Printing Solutions B4400, at 7:19, or HP's own LaserJet P1505, at 7:09. Text quality was a touch below par for a laser, but still good enough for most business, school, or personal uses—and better than almost any ink jet can provide. The vast majority of our test fonts were easily readable, with well-formed text at 8 points and some fonts passing the test at 4 points. Only one highly stylized, hard-to-print font needed 10 points to qualify as well formed. I should also mention that some fonts that didn't qualify at 6 points were still easily readable at that size. Unless you have an unusual need for small fonts or need a printer for demanding desktop publishing applications, the P1006 should handle any text you need to print. Graphics quality was typical for monochrome lasers, which makes it good enough for internal business use, including things like PowerPoint handouts. However, there were enough flaws to make me hesitate to use the graphics in things like marketing materials or a report intended for an important client. Among other issues, I saw visible dithering in the form of obvious graininess and a tendency for thin lines to disappear—although the P1006 did a better job with thin lines than many printers. Photo quality was a match for the bulk of monochrome lasers, easily good enough for printing Web pages with photos or things like client newsletters that include photos. As I already suggested, the combination of small size, reasonable speed, and reasonable quality all help make the P1006 an attractive choice, at least superficially. But it doesn't do well on value. The cost per page, based on the ISO/IEC mono printer yield standard, is a surprisingly high 4 cents per page. That's 0.6 cent per page more than the HP P1505, which costs just $20 more as of this writing. If you buy the more-expensive model, you can make up the difference in price after just 3,334 pages—that's fewer than 100 pages per month for three years. And for every additional page you print, you'll save more still. The same logic applies to any printer with a higher initial cost, but a lower cost per page—notably the B4400, with its 1.9-cent cost per page. And many, if not most, of those printers offer greater speed as well. If small size is a critical issue in your choice of a printer, or you simply don't expect to print very many pages over the printer's lifetime, the HP LaserJet P1006 Printer is a reasonable choice. But be sure to consider how much you expect to print, and whether you actually can save money by buying a more-expensive printer with a lower cost per page. Check out the HP LaserJet P1006 Printer's test scores. More Laser Printer Reviews: • HP Color LaserJet Enterprise M553x • HP LaserJet Enterprise M604dn • Brother HL-L2300D • Brother MFC-L2720DW • Xerox WorkCentre 3225/DNI • more David Stone By M. David Stone Lead Analyst Printers, Scanners & Projectors blog comments powered by Disqus the lg g4 is here! Want a chance to win one? //Reader Holiday Poll
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16534	Google on Thursday added a standalone Google Voice widget to the home screen on Android phones. The addition is part of the new Google Voice app, which is available now in the Android Market. It includes two widgets: one for the Google Voice Inbox; and another for Settings. Google Voice Android widget "Mobile is all about getting super fast access to what you're looking for and Google Voice is no exception," Google wrote in a blog post. The Google Voice Inbox widget brings voicemails and text messages to the home screen. Flip through messages via the widget, and selected messages will open in the Google Voice app. The Settings widget, meanwhile, includes four icons that provide access to several features. The phone icon will provide access to the full Google Voice app. The pen and paper icon will let you quickly compose and send free text messages. The smaller phone logo lets you change what calls are placed via Google Voice on the fly. Finally, the red and white stop icon is a "Do Not Disturb" option that will send all Google Voice calls directly to voicemail. The Settings widget also displays Google Voice credits. To add the widgets to a home screen panel, press the menu button from the home screen and select "Add>Widgets>Google Voice Inbox or Google Voice Settings." You will need a valid Google Voice account to access them, and they are available free online. Earlier this week, Google added a "missed calls" notification to Google Voice that will alert users of a missed call via the Google Voice inbox, e-mail inbox, or both. Last month, Google made a form of Google Voice available via its Gmail service, which lets users "chat" within the Gmail interface via free phone calls.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16535	Online Extra Online Extra Unlike traditional desktop PCs, workstations are geared to excel at industry-specific tasks that are more intensive than business applications, such as Autodesk's AutoCAD, PTC's Pro/Engineer, and other apps used by engineers, analysts, and scientists. This optimization is reflected in our test results: Certain workstations excel at some tasks and perform poorly on others. The high-end Polywell Athlon MP–based system—the Polywell Poly 890S-2100—is a good example. With its 15,000-rpm primary hard drive, it excels at tasks that involve a lot of disk accesses, such as our Photoshop benchmark tests. But its relatively narrow DDR memory architecture and slower CPUs push the 890S to the bottom of the pack in the DCC (digital content creation) tests such as Maya Application Benchmark, SPECapc for 3ds max, and 3ds max MaxBench. As we've seen in the past, dual-channel RDRAM's 3.2-GBps memory bandwidth outshines the 2.1-GBps bandwidth of 266-MHz DDR DRAM found in the 890S and the Compaq Evo Workstation W4000 midrange workstation. For example, the W4000 uses 266-MHz DDR, while other 2.53-GHz Pentium 4–based units incorporate dual-channel, 800-MHz RDRAM. In all tests except AutoCAD, the W4000 trailed its midrange competitors by an average of 12 percent and ranked behind all Pentium-based midrange units in SPEC processor tests and Business Winstone 2002. You may save about $500 on a lesser system, but if you work for a high-end DCC firm, the cost savings will not be worth the performance losses and time spent waiting. On the surface, the Compaq Evo Workstation M PRO, IBM IntelliStation M Pro 6850-67U, and HP x4000 high-end workstations should be a close match in performance across the board, but this is not the case. All three have dual 2.4-GHz Xeon processors, Quadro4 900 XGL graphics cards, and 10,000-rpm SCSI drives. We checked BIOS/CMOS settings for anything that could have caused the IntelliStation's and W6000's relatively poor performance on the Photoshop tests, including EDD and compatibility settings, but the performance/compatibility settings on those units were similar or identical to the settings on the other high-end workstations. Digging deeper, we were able to find out that the IntelliStation uses an older Seagate ST336704LW hard drive instead of the newer Seagate ST336706LW found in the HP x4000. Both hard drives are 10,000-rpm and use the same Ultra160 SCSI interface, but the ST336704LW has a much lower (formatted internal) data rate of 26.7 to 40.2 MBps compared with the 49.1- to 63.2-MBps data rate of the ST336706LW. We verified that this translated to exterior performance differences when we ran tests using Hi-End Disk WinMark 99, where the results matched the IBM and HP high-end workstation's performance. The Compaq w6000's Atlas 10K2-TY367L drive also contributed to lower Photoshop performance numbers, as it claims a 24- to 40-MBps transfer rate. To see what kind of advantage dual processors can obtain, we ran a couple of our tests on both the high-end and midrange systems. For example, though certain AutoCAD operations are multithreaded, most aren't, so some of the single-processor units actually outperformed the dual-processor computers in AUGI Gauge benchmark test. The added overhead of managing two CPUs, including their caches and memory, can actually slow performance unless an application is heavily multithreaded. In contrast, many Photoshop operations are multithreaded, contributing to as much as a 33 percent speed increase between single- and dual-processor systems submitted by the same vendor.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16564	note naturalsciences Sorry 'bout a ninja updater I spotted and replaced <code>if ($saba[$i]!~m/unclassified/)</code> myself. (there was $_ instead of $saba[$i] ) Thanks for the other bugs - I look at these and we'll see if the scoping problem persist and what do to with it in this case. For $saba I tried to use @saba in scalar context to get nr. of elements - probably shoudl write it out somewhere - like $newscalar=$saba etc? 1036718 1036721
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16565	note jonadab <blockquote>Folding: I didn't know that is is possible with emacs</blockquote> Yes, it is. Splitting the window is more useful, especially when combined with markers (and functions that automatically rotate point between several markers), but folding is also available. There's a minor mode for it, for instance (see, IIRC, folding.el). You can also see a great example of folding in action in Gnus: if you're reading an email message with nested quoting, and you middle click the highlighted portion of an attribution line (or position your cursor there and hit RET, I think), that user's comments are folded or unfolded. I don't think cperl-mode does anything Perl-specific with folding, though. <blockquote>Multidocument: yes (not the classic MDI, but recursively split screen horizontally and vertically and change sizes of windows)</blockquote> That description almost makes it sound as if you can only have as many documents open as you can find space on the screen for at once. 531175 531245
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16566	note tospo hmmm, I must admit that I learned something today: after many years of working with Perl I never knew that newlines from your source code are preserved in double-qouted strings but it seems they really are. <br />OK, forget the bit about HAVING to put the \n in your strings although I would still advice to do that if you want nelines because it is a nightmare having to figure out how where the spaces end and where there is an actual newline when editing your code.<br/> However, the main point of my reply remains valid: don't try to stuff formatting into your data structure unless you really have to. Format the data as and when you need to print it and store it as pure data. I also think that it is true that the OP hasn't got the right data structure yet to present his data. 968012 968024
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16567	Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks Perl-Sensitive Sunglasses Re^2: Java module by parthi7 (Initiate) on Feb 17, 2013 at 05:33 UTC ( #1019106=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help?? in reply to Re: Java module in thread Java module Hi Plankton I am afraid that without running the tests, we cannot get the module installed. Also, as per the 1st reply from tobyink, I am trying Inline::Java and there also I encounter error. Please see my reply to tobyink. Thanks and regards Comment on Re^2: Java module Re^3: Java module by Plankton (Priest) on Feb 17, 2013 at 06:27 UTC I noticed this in the output you posted: You can set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to specify your Java 2 SDK installation directory. For example, if you are using the CPAN installer you can do: JAVA_HOME=/path/to/your/j2sdk/installation cpan Inline::Java ... did you happen run cpan as it discusses. Looks like you executed: $sudo cpan Inline::Java But the message you got says you should do something like: $ sudo JAVA_HOME=/path/to/your/j2sdk/installation cpan Inline::Java I would remove "cpan" from the equation and run Makefile.PL ... directly Log In? What's my password? Create A New User Node Status? node history Node Type: note [id://1019106] and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? \| Other CB clients Other Users? As of 2015-06-02 23:50 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (116 votes), past polls
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16568	Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister Re: Sort hash ref of Hash of Hashes by BioLion (Curate) on Jul 06, 2010 at 10:34 UTC ( #848179=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help?? in reply to Sort hash ref of Hash of Hashes You are comparing string values 'PQRST' etc... but using the numerical sort (spaceship '<=>') operator. You should be using cmp. See sort for more info. Just a something something... Comment on Re: Sort hash ref of Hash of Hashes Download Code Re^2: Sort hash ref of Hash of Hashes by moritz (Cardinal) on Jul 06, 2010 at 11:44 UTC ... and use warnings; would have warned you that Argument "PQRST" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at .... So, always use warnings;. (Documented in perllexwarn). Log In? What's my password? Create A New User Node Status? node history Node Type: note [id://848179] and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? \| Other CB clients Other Users? Others surveying the Monastery: (9) As of 2015-06-02 23:53 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (116 votes), past polls
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16569	Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks Clear questions and runnable code get the best and fastest answer Re: RFC: Simulating Ruby's "yield" and "blocks" in Perl by sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Apr 23, 2013 at 11:52 UTC ( #1030114=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help?? in reply to RFC: Simulating Ruby's "yield" and "blocks" in Perl I find co-routines useful, especially as filters or as generators for use in a loop. But their internal implementations can be ugly. While it would be nice to have them in this language, “there’s more than one way to do it.™” As BrowserUK says (in so many words), I would not disabuse the Perl-5 language in order to do it in just this way. For example, there are already closures in Perl ... the “coderefs” that were mentioned ... and these can be used to implement finite-state machines (FSMs) which will return a particular value each time they are called. Presto, you have accomplished the intended effect, using the ordinary facilities that this programming language already offers you. No, it’s not exactly the same thing, but a well-written implementation is clear. Bloom where you are planted. Anyhow, there are other threads on this, like Coroutines in Perl from back in 2004 ... and I can’t help but notice that, even “way back then,” the Perl-6 / Parrot people were telling us all how good it was going to be. Someday. ;-) Comment on Re: RFC: Simulating Ruby's "yield" and "blocks" in Perl Ruby's "yield" and "blocks" are not coroutines by LanX (Canon) on Apr 23, 2013 at 14:51 UTC Sorry I'm tired of repeating it, but even if Rubyistas claim it, yield / blocks are not coroutines, they are syntactic sugar for callbacks. And I think Matz is to blame for choosing the misleading term "yield" in this context. (Like Larry is to blame for some misleading "List" <-> "Array" terminology) And BTW Perl5 has coroutines, passing parameters is just ugly to implement and I'm not sure about the performance gain. Go take a look at the goto &sub syntax. Cheers Rolf ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language) by sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Apr 24, 2013 at 00:53 UTC Okay, take your word for it. Just meant it as a colloquial, informal usage term. “Rubyista” ... that’s a fun mental-image to play with. :-) Log In? What's my password? Create A New User Node Status? node history Node Type: note [id://1030114] and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? \| Other CB clients Other Users? Others examining the Monastery: (4) As of 2015-06-03 00:06 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (116 votes), past polls
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16570	Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks "be consistent" Re: Programming is combat by EvdB (Deacon) on Jul 08, 2004 at 09:02 UTC ( #372710=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help?? in reply to Programming is combat I think there is a certain amount of milage in this. A couple of comments on some of your points: Act, Don't think. This is like firing a tracer bullet. In code write something quickly which is cheap and brittle. If it does the job then expand on it, otherwise fire another tracer bullet. I must confess that my analogy makes me queasy, human life and all that. Train as you fight. I think this can be applied quite simply. For perl it could be written as 'obfu when your off-work'. For me getting to grips with map relied heavily on obfu-like challenges that would not crop up in normal coding. Now that I can use map I can see all the times when it can be used where before I would have used a foreach loop or similar. Update: Train as you fight is (I think) meant to be 'Train in the same way you fight', not 'Train whilst you fight'. Bizarrely I seem to have missed both possible meanings with my comment above. Hmm, normal service will resume shortly... --tidiness is the memory loss of environmental mnemonics Comment on Re: Programming is combat Download Code Re^2: Programming is combat by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Jul 09, 2004 at 04:52 UTC brian d foy <> Log In? What's my password? Create A New User Node Status? node history Node Type: note [id://372710] and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? \| Other CB clients Other Users? Others chilling in the Monastery: (8) As of 2015-06-03 00:46 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (116 votes), past polls
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16571	Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks Perl: the Markov chain saw Re^4: People who write perl, Perl and PERL by blazar (Canon) on Jul 25, 2008 at 14:25 UTC ( #700142=note: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help?? in reply to Re^3: People who write perl, Perl and PERL in thread People who write perl, Perl and PERL I personally believe, dear anonymonk, that I've seen a pair of recent posts of yours in this thread, of which this is one. They both were heavily downvoted. I presume that the main reason why is that the thread itself is three years old: of course, threads never die, but people soon loose interest in them. So, if you really feel like addressing single posts in it, then you should clearly specify why it is so. (I did something similar not much time ago...) OTOH this particular subject matter has been discussed so many times that I feel like giving a little piece of advice to you. Namely, find all such occurrences: one that springs to mind is PERL as shibboleth and the Perl community. Then read all interventions there and if you still really feel like advocating your positions, then prepare a well thought essay detailing your arguments in favour or against previous claims on the subject. Comment on Re^4: People who write perl, Perl and PERL Download Code Log In? What's my password? Create A New User Node Status? node history Node Type: note [id://700142] and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? \| Other CB clients Other Users? Others browsing the Monastery: (9) As of 2015-06-03 01:02 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (116 votes), past polls
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16572	Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks The stupid question is the question not asked Comment on As described in the ChatterBox, I downvoted this node for one reason: However, let us all consider the consequence of his name. It is neither American English nor easy to remember ... "Evan" is easy to remember and simplifies spelling. Regardless of humour, I tend to dislike a US-selfcentered view of the world and this is a perfect illustration. The arrogance used to claim "Evan" is easier to remember than "Schwartz" is ridiculous, and I see this behaviour too often to believe it's really 'humourous'. Therefor: -- All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted. In reply to Re: Renaming the Schwartzian Transform by b10m in thread Renaming the Schwartzian Transform by EvanCarroll and: <code> code here </code> • Please read these before you post! — For: Use: & & < < > > [ [ ] ] • Log In? What's my password? Create A New User and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? \| Other CB clients Other Users? Others surveying the Monastery: (9) As of 2015-06-02 23:53 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (116 votes), past polls
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16573	Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks There's more than one way to do things Comment on Well, recruiters don’t look at PerlMonks, but most Perl programmers do with some frequency. Being a participant may emphasize that you do (or do not) know what you’re talking about, but really it is your work that speaks for you or against you most clearly. No matter what else you do in a workplace, don’t piss anyone else off. You need a body of work that you can demonstrate, and you need good co-worker references. And none of that is ever going to do your selling for you. Marketability is strictly determined by your skills of self-promotion; that is to say, marketing. I have a friend who is an excellent sysadmin, but, bless him, he couldn’t promote himself out of a paper bag. Talks about amazing stuff that he routinely does, and it really is amazing stuff ... but put him into an interview and you can almost hear the blam!! as the bullet hits the foot. Again. So, participation in a forum is definitely something that you can use in self-marketing efforts, but your success is largely going to depend on your abilities of self-marketing in general. It’s a skill that must be learned. In reply to Re^2: Is PerlMonks relevant for one's Perl marketability? by sundialsvc4 in thread Is PerlMonks relevant for one's Perl marketability? by j0se and: <code> code here </code> • Please read these before you post! — For: Use: & & < < > > [ [ ] ] • Log In? What's my password? Create A New User and the web crawler heard nothing... How do I use this? \| Other CB clients Other Users? Others surveying the Monastery: (9) As of 2015-06-02 23:53 GMT Find Nodes? Voting Booth? What kind of chocolate gives you the most pleasure? Results (116 votes), past polls
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16610	David Byrne and Fatboy Slim Features // 1 Articles Reviews // 1 Articles Part 1: From Admiral Radley to Glasser 18 Jan 2011 // 3:00 PM David Byrne and Fatboy Slim: Here Lies Love 4 Apr 2010 // 4:00 PM It's not often that a purely musical work can make us see a historical figure in a new light, but Here Lies Love is a fascinating exception. //Mixed media 'Staircase' Is Gay in a Melancholy Way // Short Ends and Leader READ the article
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16613	El Topo El Topo (1970) \| 20 May 2007 // 4:59 PM This bizarre 1970 cult film is a hoot to watch (in moderate doses). //Mixed media 'Staircase' Is Gay in a Melancholy Way // Short Ends and Leader READ the article
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16625	Skip site navigation (1) Skip section navigation (2) Re: How to build a query From: Mick <mickg01(at)verizon(dot)net> Subject: Re: How to build a query Date: 2012-01-21 00:54:27 Message-ID: (view raw or flat) Lists: pgsql-novice On 01/20/2012 06:20 PM, JORGE MALDONADO wrote: > I have to build a query at run-time which will contain a WHERE clause. > There is a field in a table that has to be tested against several > values but I do not know in advance how many values exist. For example, > SELECT fld1, fld2, fld3 FROM tblTable > WHERE fld1 = value[1] OR fld1 = value[2] OR fld1 = value[3] > value[] is an array that contains all of the possible values that fld1 > may take but I do not know how many items such array has. A value of > -1 in the array position indicates that it will not be taken into > account. So, I need to traverse the whole array and include those > values different from -1 in the WHERE clause. I can do a FOR...NEXT > and concatenate the conditions getting only those values different > than -1 but I wonder if this is a good approach; the query might grow > depending on the number of valid values in the array. Please advice if > there is a better way to build my query. > Respectfully, > Jorge Maldonado SELECT columns FROM tables WHERE column1 in (value1, value2, .... value_n); In response to pgsql-novice by date Next:From: Michael WoodDate: 2012-01-21 19:49:17 Subject: Re: How to build a query Previous:From: JORGE MALDONADODate: 2012-01-20 23:20:17 Subject: How to build a query Privacy Policy \| About PostgreSQL Copyright © 1996-2015 The PostgreSQL Global Development Group
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16628	Arts, Culture & Media London Becomes France's Sixth Biggest City About 400,000 French people live in London making it the sixth biggest French city, by population. (Photo: Diliff/Wikipedia) More French people live in London than in Bordeaux, Nantes or Strasbourg, so much so that it is now thought to be France's sixth biggest city in terms of population. More than 400,000 French live there and the number keeps growing. Many are young French citizens of African descent who are settling in London's East End. What is drawing them is a less bureaucratic and rigid system that is giving them the economic opportunity they couldn't find back home in France. Player utilities
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16647	Google Friend Connect: Make Any Site Social John Musser May. 13 2008, 01:13PM EDT Google has announced Friend Connect, a new service that will allow any web site to enable social networking features for their visitors. And the key piece of the strategy is that to do so only takes a few lines code, similar to the ease with which AdSense ads can be to any web page. By walking through a few steps in a web-based wizard, a site owner can get a snippet of code that can add functionality like "user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community." More information on the project is available at http://www.google.com/friendconnect. Leveraging emerging standards like OAuth, OpenID and OpenSocial, Friend Connect stitches together much of the social network plumbing found in most of today's social networks. And by virtue of building on OpenSocial, it effectively makes any site that uses Friend Connect into a simple OpenSocial container, allowing them to include almost any OpenSocial application into their site (note that sites can still use projects like Shindig and their own code to build more elaborate social features, Friend Connect just looks to lower the bar to entry). As Google's directory of engineering David Glazer describes: "Google Friend Connect is about helping the 'long tail' of sites become more social," said David Glazer, a director of engineering at Google. "Many sites aren't explicitly social and don't necessarily want to be social networks, but they still benefit from letting their visitors interact with each other. That used to be hard. Fortunately, there's an emerging wave of social standards -- OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, and the data access APIs published by Facebook, Google, MySpace, and others. Google Friend Connect builds on these standards to let people easily connect with their friends, wherever they are on the web, making 'any app, any site, any friends' a reality." More technical details will be available shortly, and in the meantime Google has release a few screenshots, one that shows an otherwise un-social page about Guacamole can gain social features and another showing the start page for their wizard-like setup process. For good coverage of today's announcement, which TechCrunch initially broke, see Dan Farber at ZDNet, ReadWriteWeb, O'Reilly Radar, VentureBeat, and the thread at Techmeme. John Musser Let's see how much pushback Google gets from website owners/publishers who want access to the Friend Connect data stream so they can mashup or create applications of their own based on that data.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16648	Mashup Camp 3 Roundup John Musser Jan. 19 2007, 04:41AM EST Mashup Camp 3 at MIT in Boston wrapped-up yesterday. It was another well organized, well attended, very successful event organized by David Berlind and Doug Gold. The week began with two days of Mashup University. Lots of good, interesting discussions, some of which we've covered here: What Are Tools for Mashups?, and Making Money from Mashups. But there's a lot of other good coverage of the event out there: Very much looking forward to Mashup Camp 4... John Musser
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16670	Versión para imprimir English · Español 17 de diciembre de 2012 \| \| \| \| \| \| \| Empty Shell Developed Countries to Blame For Failure of COP 18 on Climate Change Descargar: MP3 (8.3 MB) For environmental federation Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) the blame for the failure of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change that took place in Doha, Qatar, lies squarely on developed countries, which are historically responsible for the climate crisis as a result of their dirty development since the mid 19th century. “Developed countries did not even try to solve the climate crisis at these talks. Instead, they continued to protect the interests of fossil fuelled corporations and helped financial elites grow their latest cash cow: the global carbon market scam”, said Sarah-Jayne Clifton Friends of the Earth International coordinator of the Climate Justice Program. The Conference of the Parties (COP 18) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ended on December 8th. On that day FoEI issued a press released entitled: ‘Doha climate talks: Industrialised countries block climate action’. Sarah added that “the fossil fuel lobby won the Qatar desert climate battle, where we witnessed dirty industry elites still holding the reins of our governments. Meanwhile the climate crisis worsens and the window for action shrinks day by day”. Real World Radio interviewed Sarah to learn more about FoEI’s position at the COP. The coordinator of the Climate Justice program highlighted the lack of commitment by industrialized countries to cut their polluting emissions and to increase the climate fund to support developing nations affected by the climate crisis. She also regretted that the Kyoto Protocol has turned into an ‘empty shell’ and insisted on the negative role played by industrialized nations, especially the United States. (CC) 2012 Radio Mundo Real 10 años ¿Quién eres? Tu mensaje
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16681	BUZZBOX- Playful: Keith Morris goes to Candyapolis The debut album from local songwriter Keith Morris, entitled Songs From Candyapolis, might be a concept record if it took itself a little more seriously. Instead, however, it's infused with a quirky childish playfulness that defies the tedium of somber artistic struggle. In part, Morris says, that's because he didn't have to work too hard to write the tunes– he could just sit back, wait around for a decade, and let them show themselves. He calls them "less written and more received. "I was out living in Boulder for four years, driving a shuttle van back and forth to the airport, and somewhere during that trip I'd just start hearing the song coming through," he says. "It's coming through from some spot that I suppose is deeply unconscious territory, whatever the implications of that. It feels like you're channeling songs from some sort of cosmic radio." "Cosmic" may be the wrong term, since it all seems very human. But then, with sufficient neuroses, the human brain can be just as mystifying as anything found out past the great blue yonder. "I think I'm writing from a part of me that's a little bit unhinged," says Morris, "and gladly so. It's almost like celebrating your inner freak." The quirky local songwriter's CD release show happens Wednesday, December 12, at Gravity Lounge. $10, 8pm.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16684	Who the hell is manufacturing these handbrakes? by rain_wizard in gaming [–]Spoggerific 26 points27 points (0 children) Any aircraft can accomplish vertical landings with the help of a little lithobraking. 1976, Cubs centerfielder Rick Monday saves the American flag from being burned by 2 protestors at Dodger Stadium. [3000 x 2127] by GoSomaliPirates in HistoryPorn [–]Spoggerific 2 points3 points (0 children) People are much more likely to upvote than they are to downvote. That's all it really takes for multiple opposing viewpoints to rise to the top. me irl by quietnights in me_irl [–]Spoggerific 12 points13 points (0 children) wait no, that was a little too serious for this sub, my bad i meant to say "me too thanks" me irl by quietnights in me_irl [–]Spoggerific 5 points6 points (0 children) It was really good, all things considered. The girls (especially the one pictured in this gif) were all really cute and funny, but it suffered horribly from adaptation syndrome. You could so easily tell that they were skipping a ton of stuff, and there was a lot of context missing that was probably provided via exposition in the source LN. It also ended without any resolution whatsoever and near zero chance at another season, as most LN adaptations unfortunately do. Taken by someone who asked to use the restroom at a local Sonic in my town. Any idea how to report this? by AriseChicken_Arise in WTF [–]Spoggerific 0 points1 point (0 children) I work at a national retail/pharmacy chain, not a grocery store, so the store's only a bit bigger than, say, a gas station. That means the deliveries come during normal operating hours and they're put up on the shelves by the employees immediately afterward. [–]Spoggerific 2 points3 points (0 children) The milk vendors in the retail store I work for just drop off the crates of milk in the cooler and leave. They don't give a shit about organization in the cooler. I was in the freezer once doing a reset when the milk guy came in, dropped the milk off in front of the freezer door (which is inside the cooler), and left. I was stuck in there, since the freezer door opens inwards into the cooler. I ended up having to wait until a customer opened the freezer to grab an item and asking them to have an employee come clear the cooler door so I could get out. Our freezer is set to -11 degrees fahrenheit. Luckily, I was wearing my winter coat and gloves since I was in the cooler for a while doing said reset. If I drive 60mph for an hour does it consume the same amount of gas as going 120mph for thirty minutes? by 3210atown in askscience [–]Spoggerific 5 points6 points (0 children) How much faster could cars go if there was no drag? Ignoring the obvious problem of a lack of air meaning a lack of oxygen for combustion. A word about Sag A* griefing and griefers in general. by ElectricZ in EliteDangerous [–]Spoggerific 7 points8 points (0 children) Coming from someone who plays a lot of DayZ, seeing people complain about getting killed by other players and losing hours of progress in an open world sandbox game is really weird. I've personally just accepted this kind of thing as part of the game. The risk is part of what makes it fun. Modern Gaming: Buying the same game every generation. by TheLordMoogle in gaming [–]Spoggerific 2 points3 points (0 children) Well, yes. Making money is generally what companies do. Well, if you say so... by potatoesgalor in gaming [–]Spoggerific 0 points1 point (0 children) If the word used was 抜く (nuku) for "plug-out", then this is an accurate translation. It's slang for masturbation in Japanese, although it's also used for common actions like pulling a plug out of a socket. me irl by bmildenh in me_irl [–]Spoggerific 15 points16 points (0 children) 2d is superior in every way. I looked through various video game-related posts on /r/AskReddit and made bar graphs based on the 10 most upvoted responses. by electricmastro in gaming [–]Spoggerific 0 points1 point (0 children) The game isn't even that fucking good for a visual novel. It's just the one that everyone's heard of for some reason. VNs are great - the text, visuals, and audio can combine to make a good VN just as good as or even better than any book - but reddit only ever posts about the bottom of the bin game that people only know about because of how it was made. I'll admit that the story of its creation is quite interesting, but people only ever mentioning KS when there are so many better VNs is like people only talking about phone games when there's so much more out there. ねこ「それに触っちゃだめ」 by nu11nu11 in BakaNewsJP [–]Spoggerific 3 points4 points (0 children) TL;DR: A lot of users from a very popular Japanese message board (2ch) got upset with the way the site was being run, so they moved over to Reddit. They have a bunch of subreddits corresponding different forums on their old board, with this being one of them. This one is kind of their "go ahead and post whatever, no seriousposting" board. A number of Japanese users speak English well enough to use the English parts of Reddit, and they'll cross post interesting content here in Japanese. [Discussion] Describe your group in one sentence (excl. Link) by KroSS_ in arma [–]Spoggerific 1 point2 points (0 children) Here's a video of ArmA being retarded while playing with my group. I don't play with them too often anymore due to real life getting in the way, so I don't have any good videos, but here's a video of me being retarded while playing with some other friends. Today marks the 45th Anniversary of launch of Apollo 13. The Sucessful Failure that, despite a crippling explosion to the oxygen tank, managed to bring NASA astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert back to Earth safely. by talto17 in space [–]Spoggerific 13 points14 points (0 children) A quote from Gene Kranz, NASA flight director during the Apollo program, after the Apollo 1 fire. From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: Tough and Competent. Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities... Competent means we will never take anything for granted... Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write Tough and Competent on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room, these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control. I feel like it's relevant to Apollo 13 as well. [–]Spoggerific 2 points3 points (0 children) Like ShackTac, but a little less serious and a little more retarded. I wouldn't be surprised by HoneyBadgerUR2Cool in funny [–]Spoggerific 72 points73 points (0 children) Another fun fact! Asbestos doesn't cause cancer chemically, like nearly all other carcinogens do. Instead, its fibers are so fine that they poke into a cell and cause mutations by mechanically disrupting your DNA. More info on Wikipedia. ジョージ・オーウェルの『動物農場』を読んだ by RomoloJPN in newsokur [–]Spoggerific 2 points3 points (0 children) [–]Spoggerific 5 points6 points (0 children) 大手サブレAskredditの質問「日本の生徒は広島、長崎原子爆弾投下についてどう教育されているの？」がフロントページ by gettothechoppaaaaaa in newsokur [–]Spoggerific 10 points11 points (0 children) シツモンデー: Shitsumonday: for the little questions that you don't feel have earned their own thread #122 by ShitsuMonday in LearnJapanese [–]Spoggerific 0 points1 point (0 children) How do you read this name? 久田悠 Also, is there an easy way to look up name readings and be relatively (80%+) certain that they're accurate? I know of one name reading lookup on tangorin.com, but as with a lot of dictionaries, it spits out a ton of results and I have no real way to know which ones are more likely and which ones are the super rare exceptions.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16763	View Single Post post #36 of Old 01-30-2014 Broad Reachin' kwaltersmi's Avatar Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan Posts: 1,927 Thanks: 1 Thanked 17 Times in 17 Posts Rep Power: 9 Re: Making money with your sailing blog As many have shared, it's certainly possible to make money with a sailing blog, but it likely won't happen overnight and it likely won't happen without effort. I've got a handful of web ventures going that create "passive" income. My sailing blog,, ranks third in income but takes the majority of my efforts. It also happens to bring me a lot of enjoyment, which I can't quite put a price on. My advice: 1. Don't consider making money online as passive income - it takes persistence, dedication and effort. If you're passive about it, then don't expect an income! 2. Don't put all of your eggs in one basket - diversify! (For example use a mixture of SEO/Google rankings, advertising, Adsense, Amazon, social media, other affiliates, sponsorship, etc. so that if one goes south you're not sunk.) 3. Quality content is king. If it isn't well-written and you weren't inspired to write it, it probably isn't adding value to your blog/website. Quality content seems to produce good traffic...eventually. Catalina 34 kwaltersmi is offline Quote Share with Facebook For the best viewing experience please update your browser to Google Chrome
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16789	This is a purely fictional tale about a man that decides to become a woman... warning ..... When I was eight years old, my mother walked in on me with her bra on, two crocket balls in the cups, feeling myself up and listening to the Radio. She didn’t get too angry, but we talked about it. At the time I remember feeling embarrassed, but very comfortable in her clothes. There was nothing said to my father, and we never mentioned it again. In middle school I discovered my sisters underwear, and when she was out with friends, I would try on her clothes, and then carefully put them back the way I found them. Throughout high school I was the perfect guy, hooked up with women, dated, but always in the back of my mind I thought about the female body. In college, I lived alone, and while I still dated women, I bought my own clothes and at night, while masterbating to porn, always watching the woman’s body bounce on a big dick. Let me interrupt and tell you more about me. I have always been the small guy. I ran cross country in high school. I’m 5’6” about 120, and thankfully, the only thing large about my body is my dick. Usually when I first hooked up with a girl, they made comments, and I actually had a few that wouldn’t go any further. Soft I’m 5 inches, hard, 9.5. The moment happened one night when I was out with friends. I had smoked up earlier and was on the dance floor with a girl and while dancing behind her, she brought my hand up and put it on her chest. She was attractive, but I instantly got hard thinking about myself feeling my own chest. After dancing and drinks, I ditched my friends and went back to her place and we had sex. The entire time I fucked her I watched her tits and wanted them to be mine. When I came, I wasn’t me. I was her accepting myself. When I went home I thought long and hard about it all. For days, the idea kept swimming in my mind. I began to wonder if I was gay. I went through my past, and thought about it all. I decided I would experiment in a non-threatening way. I went online and before I knew it, I was on my way to a house to meet a guy. I had arranged it so he would be sitting on the couch with his head covered. When I went in, I went straight to work. I knelt between his legs and unzipped his pants. His dick was soft, but when I put it in my mouth, it was like my entire life changed. I closed my eyes and immediately I was a woman. I grabbed my nonexistent tits. In my mind I was the woman that I had fucked. I had huge tits, and was enjoying a man. It wasn’t even the man that was such a turn on, it was me as a woman. I wasn’t gay. I was straight. All the time I had been fucking women, I was turned on because I was the woman, not me. I went crazy on his dick, and before long he came. I wasn’t even present for most of the act, but as he came I could imagine it on my chest, in my pussy, the thoughts were too much for me to handle. When I left, I realized that I had cum in my pants. It was the most exciting night of my life. At the time I was working as a web designer for a firm in California. I traveled some, but as they were outsourcing their web development, most of my time was spent at home, and there was little to no oversight. When I met my supervisor, his exact words were that he didn’t care if I smoked an ounce of pot a day, as long as I got the jobs done. When I made my next trip to LA, I visited a plastic surgen’s office and sat for a consultation. It was awkward at first. He came in and sat down on a chair opposite me. There was a lot of silence and eventually, he just looked at me and told me that his time was valuable, and he couldn’t waste much more time. The I spoke. “I have been thinking for a long time that I am a woman. Since I was really little, I’ve wanted a woman’s body. That’s why I’m here.” “Ok. So are you talking about total sexual reassignment surgery. How far do you want to go?” “Everything except my penis.” “Well you are looking at permanent hair removal, some speech lessons, hormone therapy, facial surgery, you have a good body structure, but maybe breast augmentation.” “And you can do all that?” “Well I can’t do all that right now. You need to make sure you really want this.” “Well I’ve thought about this enough. I want to know how to get this started.” “Well I’m not going to do anything until you prove that you really want to be a woman and have thought this through. I make it a policy that a patient should live as a woman for at least six months.” I had my answer. “Ok start the clock. I want to schedule everything now.” “Well Denise will give you a place to go to get the necessities and she can schedule the times for the next appointments.” I left his office excited. I made the appointment six months from that day and drove to Wentworth Avenue to a store that they told me to visit. When I got there I handed them the letter from the Doctor, and the lady brought me to a back dressing room completely clueless about what was required. When she came back in she had a check list. She asked me how large I wanted my breasts, and I was clueless. She brought in several breast forms and showed me the size. Still completely clueless, she said she would bring in some vests and I could try them on. We started small, and went through a few sizes. Everytime I wanted bigger. I wanted the tits the girl I fucked had. We moved up a vest and then suddenly, when I tried the next size on I felt they were me. “Size 12 it is. You do want them big. Let me measure you to see what bra size you would be.” She placed the measuring tape around me and then looked at me, “36F. Big. Let me go get you one.” When she returned, I put the bra on and I began to feel more comfortable than I had ever been. We talked about other things I would need to do, she made some calls, I paid, and then went to the next address given me. There I was waxed from my neck down, except my pubic hair. When I got to my hotel room, I looked in the mirror, and was simply amazed at what I saw. I saw the beginnings of a body that I had always wanted. When I went home I went shopping. I grew my hair out and loved every morning when I could get dressed. In six months I got a referral for hormone therapy, and after a few months, I really started seeing a big difference. I had gotten laser hair removal, my hair was thinning, and I even had the beginnings of breasts. I talked to the doctor several times on the phone, and by the time a year had rolled around, I made my final journey as a man. After much discussion with the doctor, I had insisted on 525cc on top of the muscle. He warned me that it would be a lot, a huge increase in size, and that it would be a more advanced surgery. After everything was over, I laid in bed for weeks. I hurt all over and the bruising didn’t look like it would ever go away, but with time, everything faded. I was amazed with the transformation, and when it didn’t hurt anymore to touch my chest, I found myself jacking off in my bed feeling myself up. It wasn’t until a week later though that it all hit me. I looked in the mirror as I passed the window and for the first time, I saw my entire body. I would never have recognized myself. I looked like a woman, outside my dick, but if I tucked it between my legs, you couldn’t tell. I had curves, not huge curves, but my tits went a long way. They were crazy tight, but the doctor said the skin would stretch. My face had smoothed out with the surgeries. I had no facial hair, and with makeup and my hair no long, you would have a hard time noticing. Along with the fact that my voice had always been a bit higher than most guys, unless you found my dick there was no telling I was born a man. It made me the happiest I had ever been. The only problem was that I had never spent as much money as I did at this point. I bought bras and panties, dresses and skirts. I simply loved to get one of the girls in the stores to help me, because they never even hinted that I was anything more than a woman, but I was still scared to make the next step. There were other problems. My back did hurt at first. Also, no matter what I did, running hurt. I didn’t want to go swimming because I knew there was one thing I couldn’t hide. Weeks past. I was the happiest I had ever been. It was a Friday, and I had been inside my apartment for two weeks without leaving other than going to the grocery store. I decided I would go out for a beer and a meal. I put on a cut jean skirt and a black blouse, wearing panties and no bra since the firmness of my breast, although easing, still allowed me to go without a bra, even at my large size. I was sat at the bar, and ordered a salad and a beer, and after eating I order a beer and watched the baseball game on the television above the bar. After some time, I came to the end of my beer, and I thought about going home, but suddenly something stopped me. A guy had sat beside me and began looking over at me. “Let me buy you another beer.” I was shocked. It was clear he was hitting on me. I accepted the beer, and we talked about what he was doing in town, that he was leaving the next day, and that he was bored in his hotel room and decided to come out and “mingle with the people.” We laughed several times, and there was slight touching, and more beers. Eventually he told me he was heading back to his room, and there was a pause. I didn’t know what to say, but thankfully, he interrupted the silence. “So hey, this is very forward, but would you like to come back to my room and have a drink?” I was scared stiff. I tried not to think what would happen, but eventually, and I don’t know where it came from, but I said yes. I stood up from the stool and realized just how drunk I was. He clearly noticed too, because he put his arm around me and steadied me. We walked next door to his hotel, and he guided me into the elevator. He leaned against the back wall and I stood in front of him looking at the numbers begin to change. He grabbed my waist when it read floor 2, and had pulled me back against him by floor 4. He was kissing my neck by floor six, and when the doors opened to floor 7, it was all I could do to mask my hard on. He passed me and grabbed my hand to pull me to his room, and with my other hand, I pulled my dick under the waist band to mask it. I didn’t know how I would deal with the issue when I came up, and from the activity on the elevator, I knew it would be coming up. When we got in the room, he turned to me and kissed me. I tried to stand away from him, but it was difficult. The feeling I felt was amazing. I felt so feminine. I felt desired, sexy. It felt as if all my life had been leading to that moment in time. I broke the kiss and immediately told him I needed to use the bathroom. I peed, but it took a while to get my dick to go down. When I finally exited the bathroom, he was sitting on the bed drinking a mixed drink. I sat on the chair at the desk, and he asked if he could make me a drink. I said yes, and then we sat in silence as I sipped the very strong burbon and coke. I finished my drink with little to no conversation, I began to think that nothing was going to happened, when he suddenly stood up from the bed, came over to me and bent down and kissed me. It was passionate, heavy. He forced me back in the chair with his kiss, and before I knew it his hand was on my chest. I had felt my chest a hundred times, but his touch was something completely different. He squeezed and tugged, found my nipples, now so hard they almost hurt, and rubbed them. He pulled back and then tried to go under my blouse, but I stopped him and pulled back to unbutton it. When it was off, he dove on my nipples. He went back and forth between them. The feeling was amazing. I lost myself in his touch and his mouth. Then I felt his hand on my thigh, and I came back to reality. I pushed him off of me and for a second, he seemed confused. I stood up to face him and then pushed him back on the bed. It was all I knew to do. Once seated, I unzipped his pants and tried to pull them off him. I failed. I got to my knees and tried to use leverage, but it didn’t work. Only then did he stand again, his crotch now directly in my face, and he pulled them down. With them came his boxers, and now naked, his cock sat inches from my face. I reached up and grabbed my own tit and in the same motion, took his dick in my mouth. I had sucked a dick before, but when I did, I did it blind. My mind was elsewhere. Now, with his head in my mouth, the feeling was electric. Heat moved through my body. Every sensation was apparent. The soft skin of the bridge of his head on my lips, the softness of his hard dick against my lips and tongue, the slow movement of the underside of his dick against my tongue, and the fullness of his cock in my mouth all filled me with a lust I had never experienced before. I released my tit and put both my hands against his thighs and rubbed up and down their whiteness. I felt the tightness of his muscles as I moved down his cock. I sucked him slow, with caution as the memories of women chocking on my dick began to make sense as the size of him filled my mouth completely. I started with a few inches, each time moving further on his dick until I felt the head of his dick hit the back of my throat. I made sure I squeezed his shaft with my lips as I moved up and down on him, and once I knew he was fully hard, I released him from my mouth, and pushed against him lightly so he would sit down on the edge of the bed. I moved closer to him, and when the head of his dick moved back into my mouth, his hands started rubbing my head and shoulders. He wasn’t extremely large, but his dick was smooth and he did not have any hair. The smell was intoxicating. I cupped his balls with my hands, took breaks from sucking and licked up and down his shaft. When I was out of breath from sucking him, I put his balls in my mouth, a feeling that nearly sent me over the edge. When he moved his hands off my head and tried to reach around and grab my left tit, I nearly came in my pants. He leaned over to try and get a better grip on both my tits as I sucked, and to assist him, I moved off my knees and sat up so he could hold them both without struggling. He pushed them together, grabbed them and pulled them apart, found my nipples and swirled around my aereolas. When he pinched my nipples I released his dick from my mouth and moaned. I didn’t want to stop sucking him. It was heaven to have him in my mouth, but I felt him trying to lift me. I released him as I thought he wanted me to, and when I did, he asked me to take my skirt off. I panicked. “Not yet. I want to suck you off. Lay back on the bed.” The command didn’t seem to bother him. He laid back on the bed, his legs still hanging over the side, and he put his hands over his head. When he did, standing over him, gazing down on his cock, I saw him perfectly framed by my breasts. It was the inspiration I needed. I placed my tits on either side of his cock and pushed my tits together. He fell out a few times, but eventually, I found the right hold to keep him between them. I started moving them up and down on his dick, his head barely peaking out when I was all the way down on him, and I thought to myself that this was the first time I, as a woman, was doing something I could not have done as a man. My saliva provided all the lubrication we needed. The feeling was exhilarating, but the more I moved my tits on him, the more I wanted him back in my mouth. I looked up at him and saw his hands starting to grab the comforter, and that was the cue I needed. I released my tits and his dick slapped against his stomach, and when I found the floor with my knees, I placed his dick back in my mouth. I didn’t go slow anymore. I found the depth I could take, and started moving with force on his cock. He moaned and moved on the bed, and I could feel him tense. His balls retracted, and I knew it was coming. I started just sucking the head, taking only an inch or two more beyond it in my mouth with furious speed. I moved my tongue on his head and the underside of his dick, and with my tongue flicking his hole, he finally exploded. The surge surprised me, but I fought the reflex to withdraw. When the first shot came, I felt the force of the shot against my tongue and immediately the taste filled my mouth. The second shot was thicker, and with much more force, and it splattered against he back of my throat. As he kept cumming, the only sensation I felt was the increasing volume in my mouth, the change in taste and feel in my mouth from a thinner and salty taste to a thicker more bitter taste. I could tell he was cumming less and less, eventually to the point where I knew he was done, but with his cum still filling my mouth, I didn’t want to release him. He bucked on the bed with my every movement, and he sat up on his elbows and clearly was not wanting, but urging me to stop. As his stiffness relaxed, I finally let him slide out of my mouth, but as I did, some of his cum leaked out of my mouth before I could close my lips all the way. It slid out of the corner of my mouth and down my chin. I stood and then sat on the edge of the bed, his cum still in my mouth, me swirling it around so I could concentrate on the feel. With his dick gone, it appeared to be much less than it felt like as I was sucking him, and with my eyes closed concentrating on his cum in my mouth, I felt his hand rub against my back. “Do you need to go to the bathroom?” I turned to look at him and realized that he much think that I wasn’t to spit him out. I smiled and swallowed him at the same time, feeling his load slide down the back of my throat, coating the back of my tongue with the thin glaze that cum provides to remind you just how it tastes and feels. “No I’m good. I just wanted to take it all in.” I fell back on the bed, my tits swaying back and forth as the full weight of my body came to a stop against the mattress. He laid next to me on his side, his left hand rubbing my tits as I closed my eyes, missing his gaze and concentrating on the feel of his hand against my chest. Eventually I turned to face him and opened my eyes, and when I did, his mouth found mine and we kissed deeply for some time. Our tongues swirled together, and we finally broke from each other. “I love the taste of my cum in your mouth.” “Really?” I was propped on my side, my right tit resting on my left. Every once and a while he would reach up and pet one. I brought my right leg over to rest my knee on the bed to cover my raging hardon. “Yeah I think its so sexy.” “I didn’t know men liked that.” “Well I don’t know about other men, just know what I like, and your just fucking super sexy.” I knew I was passable, knew when I looked in the mirror naked that most guys would miss the small cues that I might be what I am, but then again, there are women that had worse bodies than I do. Big tits go a long way to mask anything, but even knowing all this, there was still doubt in my mind, so when he said what he said, I finally felt that I was a woman both in my eyes and the eyes of others. “Thank you do much. I was clearly blushing.” “No problem. So when do I get to take care of you?” “Oh….” I paused and I know he saw me panic. “Um, that’s not necessary.” “What you don’t want to cum?” “No its not that.” He started rubbing my chest and moving his hand down my stomach. I retracted and stood up from the bed. I didn’t know what to say. “Did I do something wrong?” “No its not you.” “Then what? I have no problems doing whatever you want.” “I don’t know what to say. I’m… I’m… Well I’m just not what you think.” He smiled at me. “What are you smiling at?” I was so confused. It wasn’t going the way I thought. “Nothing. You. Your so sweet to worry about me.” “I just think you’ll be disappointed.” “Why would you say that?” “I just know.” “Why would I be disappointed? From the feel of it, you seem to have one hell of a cock.” I was shocked. He knew. I didn’t know what to say. “You knew?” “Well it was kinda hard to miss when we kissed. You were poking into my thigh.” “I’m so embarrassed.” I covered my face. “You mean you knew and you still wanted to mess around?” “Hell it made me want you more.” He sat up on the edge of the bed and kissed my nipples. He placed his hands on my thighs, and I knew that I didn’t have to say anything else. In the past, I was never this reluctant to get a blow job, but now I was. He moved his hands to my inner thighs, and moved my skirt up. When he got it up so he could see my bulge, I reached down, unbuttoned it and allowed it to drop to the floor. I stood before him with my black panties and my soft cock held away from his face by a thin sheet of satin. I could tell he was nervous, but it didn’t stop him. He pulled my panties down to my ankles and when he came back my dick was right in front of his face. Without any encouragement he took my soft dick in his mouth. He began sucking, and it was clear that he had never done it before. He grazed my dick with his teeth, he didn’t grip it with his lips, but I could tell he was trying, and from my vantage point, my tits in the foreground, him sucking my dick beyond, it was more than enough even to enjoy a horrible blow job. When I was fully hard, he pulled me out of his mouth and just looked up and down my dick. When he put me back in his mouth, he slowly got better. When he moved his hands from my ass to my tits, I instantly went from reluctant to fully turned on, and when he started squeezing, it was all I could do to not explode. After about ten minutes, I couldn’t take it anymore. “I’m going to cum.” He didn’t stop or slow down. I had learned through the years that I should warn the women that had sucked me because I cum a lot. I released when he gave my tits a squeeze, and when I did, I thought I would blow the back of his head off. I came with such force that it even surprised me, and as I squirted a third and forth time, I felt him gag a bit, but to his credit, he kept on. Looking down on him, cum was dripping out both sides of his mouth. When I pulled out, he laid back on the bed and started telling me how amazing that was. He went on and on about how it was anything but nasty, how it was the most sexy thing that he had ever done. I laid down beside him, my wet cock resting against his leg and my right tit resting against his chest. I started rubbing his chest, and playing with his nipples, and eventually I laid on my back and although he was rubbing my thigh, I slipped off to sleep. I woke up hours later under the covers, still naked, with him resting his head on my shoulder and his arm stretched over my stomach. I laid there for a while, just looking at him and looking at my body. I had always wanted to know what a woman felt like being with a man. It wasn’t just the sex. I wanted to know what it was like to be the center of attention, have a man desire my body, feel his hands on my body. I took his hand from my stomach and put it on my chest. I made sure not to wake him, and he didn’t grab me, but just feeling his hand on my tit and covering my nipple, I was in heaven. I felt the coarse skin from his hand resting against the taunt skin of my new breasts, his arm under my left boob. The whole experience was amazing. I closed my eyes and wondered what it would be like to be married, be a wife, have children, and it must not have been long before I fell asleep, because there weren’t many other thoughts. When I woke, I was on my side facing the wall, and when I turned over he was gone. After a few seconds, I woke up and heard the shower going. I sat up over the side of the bed, and walked into the bathroom. “I thought you left.” I sat down on the toilet and peed. He poked his head out, covered in shampoo, and looked me up and down. “You look sexy as hell. Want to join me?” I stood up and without saying anything I pulled back the shower curtain and stepped in. The water was hot, and before I could even move, he was on me. He kissed me deep, and with both arms around me, he squeezed me tight. I closed my eyes and took it all in. He pulled away, and took the soap and started cleaning my body. I turned around for him to clean my back, and after some times rubbing the soap up my back and over my ass, he reached around and lathered up my chest. The whole exchange took only a few minutes, but in that time, my dick was standing to attention to match his hard cock pressing against my back. I turned to face him, and took the soap from his hand and began cleaning his cock with the soap. At that moment, I wanted him to fuck me so bad, but my fear was still overwhelming. I made him swap places with me, and in seconds I was on my knees in the shower, the water rushing over my head, his cock in the back of my throat. I sucked him with reckless abandon, forcing him against he back wall and myself out of the water. I cupped his balls and player with his ass, and when I managed to push a finger into his ass, he exploded in my mouth. I didn’t savour his cum this time. I swallowed as he shot, and before long he grew soft in my mouth. When I stood, it seemed like he didn’t know what to do. I kissed him, and told him to turn off the water, saving him from the awkward decision of knowing whether he should return the favor. I stepped out and grabbed a towel and dried myself, making sure to face him and push my tits well beyond the required time to get them dry. We made small talk, not sexual, got dressed, and it seemed we had reached the point where it was time to say goodbyes. “I’ll be in town for four more days, and I would really like to see you tonight.” “Really?” I was shocked. Even though it had gone so well, I figured that he would want to kinda end it. “Hell yeah. Why wouldn’t I?” “I don’t know. Forget it. I would love to.” “Ok. How bout dinner and then take it from there.” “Sounds great. Do you want me to meet you here?” “Sure. Here is a key. I gotta work most of the day, but I’ll be back here about six.” We kissed like I was his house wife sending him off to work, and as he made his way to his car, I took the walk of shame and found my car sitting alone in the parking lot. I went home and checked my email, answered a few questions that were posed by some clients, and with luck, there was not much work to be done. I had a big project I was working on, but because I had pretty much been a shut in over the last few weeks, I was ahead of schedule. I put on fresh underwear, bra, slid on a clean skirt (I loved wearing skirts), two tank tops, and slipped on my Ugg boots. I decided to spend the day doing some much needed shopping. I made my way to the mall and stopped in the strip mall across the street at the store where I had bought all my bras. Since my augmentation surgery, I had followed the regiment of massage and medication, and my breasts had loosened considerably. After a month post-op, my breasts were still so tight that I didn’t really need a bra, but now, I could tell a big difference and since my size was not to be found in Victoria Secret, I paid for the good bras that actually helped support the new weight to my body. I hugged Shelly when I went in, and she grabbed my chest and asked me how it was having my big boobs. We laughed for a minute, and I gossiped a bit about my big night. I told her I wanted a few sexy bras and maybe a good outfit for tonight. “Well tell me, how did he like the girls?” “I think he loved them. He kept coming back.” We laughed again. She reached and grabbed them again and smiled. “They look and feel really good. Better than they did when I first saw you.” Shelly had told me that I needed to become a lesbian every time I came in, and this time was no different. I let her have her fun, and then without warning she turned around and made her way through the store picking things out for me to try on. She came back and grabbed my hand and pulled me into a dressing room. We tried on the bras first, all cute, but preferred the lace to the full coverage cup. I picked out two. Then she pulled a raunchy black number that had garders and a G-String. I didn’t think anything about changing in front of her. She sat on the bench and I took off my clothes and once naked, I took the outfit from her and started unhooking the back. “Damn girl. Your dick is huge.” “Thanks. I like everything big.” “No shit. You really are the best of both worlds. I don’t even like dick, but that thing is pretty damn impressive.” I smiled at her and put it on, adjusted my boobs in the cups and then looked in the mirror. From the waist up, it looked amazing. I felt so sexy, but from the waist down, it was pretty hard to miss that I had a dick. It didn’t hide anything. I turned to look at her. “Wow. Can’t cover that thing up can ya?” “Not in this. What else you got?” “You don’t like it?” “Sure I do, but I think I would like something that makes me forget I have a dick.” She handed me a red teddy with loose satin bottoms, and once on, I new I had found it. It showed plenty of cleavage without being overly slutty and although my dick somewhat hung out the side of the bottoms, with a little adjustment, I could hide it. I paid for everything and kissed Shelly which was followed by the familiar tit grab and smile. “You know where I am if you want me to give you a full review on those big things you got.” I smiled at her and got in the car. I went to the mall and made the rounds to the various stores I liked. I bought a really cute dress, a few tops, some panties, and a free flowing skirt. Tired and hungry, I got some food and got back into my car to head home. On the way, I noticed the adult book store that I had passed about a million times without ever stopping. I decided today was the day. I pulled in and walked in. It was the middle of the day, but there were still more people in there than I had thought there would be. I didn’t have an agenda, had no clue what I wanted to look at, so I simply walked around the store and took inventory. In the middle of the store were racks and racks of videos. I looked at the videos, noticed the categories and was simply amazed at the shear volume of titles and variety of topics. Whole sections were designated to fisting, gangbangs, gay, big tits, anal, and the topics went on and on. When I stopped for more than a minute, I noticed that men would get closer to me, clearly not looking at the titles. I shifted everytime it happened, but eventually, concentrating so much on staying away from the men in the store, I found myself in front of the gang bang section. I picked up a video and looked at the title. “Mommy Gangbang.” Wow. I didn’t notice that I was now standing directly beside a guy. He grabbed a video right in front of me. He smiled, made no attempt to look at the video case, and put his face right next to my ear. “I’m going to preview this movie. Why don’t you check yours out too.” He looked at the title in my hand. “Interesting interests.” He smiled again, and as he passed by me from behind, he drug his hand across my ass. I blindly followed him and waited as the guy sitting in a chair opened the video and walked him into a booth. When he came back, he smiled, took the video and did the same. I walked in behind him and as he moved to go out, he grabbed my tit and smiled again. I sat down in the chair as the video started up, and the affect was startling. There was not much back story. I wasn’t sure if the video was started in mid movie or not, but after a few moments, it was clear that the woman in the video was getting ready to have quite a few men take care of business. Suddenly there was a knock on the wall to my right. On the wall there was a sliding door, and because of the knock I slid the door open and then heard the door on the other side slide open. The wall wasn’t very thick, and the opening revealed a hole about six inches in diameter. Before I knew what was happening, a dick came shooting through the opening. It was large, but not huge, and I was so shocked that I didn’t know what to do. Instinct took over. I grabbed it and started to move my hand up and down. It was smooth and there was just a hint of pubic hair coming through. I looked up and saw there was a bar on the wall toward the ceiling, and I could tell that the man on the other side of the wall was probably holding on for leverage. I didn’t wait any longer. I slid my chair close to the opening and put the head of his dick in my mouth. God I loved sucking dick. Even though I had sucked last night and this morning, the feeling was still overwhelming and like I had never experienced it before. I sucked without much variety and before long he started to cum. I wasn’t ready for it. It wasn’t like the night before. He came in large streams with a lot of force. The taste and the feel of his cum made me instantly hard. I swallowed and sucked, and eventually he pulled back and closed the window. As his door closed, there was another knock behind me. I didn’t take a breath. I adjusted the chair and by the time I slid the door open and his dick was coming through the hole, I had him in my mouth. He was unimpressive in size and didn’t last long, but the entire experience was overwhelming. I adjusted my dick and looked at the screen as I started to leave. The woman in the movie had a dick in her pussy and ass, one in her mouth, and was jacking off two guys with her hands. How she held her balance was beyond me. When I left the booth, I saw the guy I had just sucked. He smiled at me, but didn’t keep eye contact. I walked through the isles of videos and it was as if the entire store knew what I had just sucked two guys off. I went to the wall with the dildos, looked a few packages, and then found the butt plugs. I picked two, one small, one large, and then found a mountable dildo that ejaculated when you squeezed a small pump in the balls. I also bought a large thing of Astroglide. I paid and almost ran to my car. When I got there I sat in silence for a while, and then trying to figure out what to do next, I settled on heading to the hotel and set up house before he got home. I brought my purchases up to the room, and ordered room service. While I was waiting, I took out what I bought and tried on everything so I could see it in the mirror. I really liked the bras I bought and modeled them in the mirror. I put on one of the skirts, and just when I was getting ready to complete the look there was a knock on the door. I didn’t think. With all the events of the last 24 hours, I just went to the door and opened it. The guy with the tray had to be barely out of high school. He was over six foot tall, black, very attractive, and standing in front of him was me, in a bra and a skirt. I saw his eyes move up and down my body. “You ordered something to eat?” “Yes, you can put it on the table.” He walked past me, his eyes never leaving my chest. When he got to the table he sat the food down and looked at the bed. On it I had all my clothes, and the sex toys I had purchased. Right beside the tray was the lube I had bought. He turned to me and smiled. “Will that be all?” “Yes. Thank you.” He went to leave, I could tell with some disappointment, but I stopped him. “Wait. I should give you something.” I reached in my purse and took out a five dollar bill and handed it to him. He looked at it and then me, smiled, took a pen out of his pocket and wrote something on a piece of paper from his pocket. He handed me the paper, “Call me if you need anything else. I work days, so anything you might want I can help you out with it.” I thanked him, and knew that I could have ended naked with him, but I was too chicken and way too hungry. He left, and I sat down and ate. When I was done, I looked at the clock and it was only 2, so I took off my clothes, turned down the AC and crawled under the covers. When I woke it was 3:50. I turned on the TV, went to the bathroom, and when I came out I saw the toys I bought. I took them out of their packaging and looked at them in detail. I started with the big one, and once I had it out, I realized that it was a better idea than it was a practical instrument for my pleasure. It was enormous, and I thought way too big for my ass. I took out the smaller one and looked at it. It was about 6 inches long with a triangle shape that led to a ridge and then a straight shaft to the base. At first I was reluctant, but then I just dove for the lube. I struggled for a place to do it. Eventually, I settled on the table. After the book store and the entire days events, my dick was rock hard just with the expectation of what was to come. I spit on the table, and then placed the plug on the spit, pushing it down so the suction cup was in place. I squirted a ton of lube on my hand and rubbed it on the plug and then on my ass. I stood over the corner of the table, and lowered myself on top of it. When it got the edge of my ass, I paused. Not even inside me yet, it felt too large to take. I pushed down on it a bit and felt myself parting. I pulled back and then lowered. Each time I did it, it went further in. My ass completely resisted, but after some time, all of a sudden, it slid all the way in and past the lip of the plug. The feeling was quick and amazing. It wasn’t painful, but definitely different and strange. When I pushed down, the feeling was intense and amazing. My cock reacted immeditately. I wasn’t hard, but the pressure inside me was amazing and I felt like I would cum. I heard a beep and then a click and then the door suddenly began opening. He walked in looking at the ground, briefcase in hand. When I heard the door open, I stood, the plug still in my ass, and although he walked in with his eyes on the ground, when he heard someone in the room, he quickly looked up at me. I was instantly embarrassed, but I tried my best to act like everything was ok. “I was waiting for you. Long day at work?” He smiled at me. “Yes it was, but it was worth if I get to come back to you.” “Your sweet.” I did my best to walk toward him, and hugged him. He put his arms around me and then kissed me. “I see you went shopping.” “Yeah. I thought you would enjoy.” “Well I enjoy what I’m seeing now.” He reached down and grabbed my dick. “I never thought I would be so turned on by this.” “Well I always knew I would like that.” I smile at him. “Hey, I’m going to shower, then maybe we can get some food?” “Sure. Go ahead. I’ll make you a drink.” When he got in the shower, I turned and took the plug out of my ass. I had almost gotten use to it, and it felt like my ass was still open. I wiped it off on my dirty panties, and put it and the other toys in the bag they came in and put them in the closet. I scurried around the room cleaning up, putting the lube away in the beside table, and then made him a bourbon and coke. When I made my way in the bathroom, he was stepping out. “Oh I was going to join you.” “Want me to get back in.” He was smiling at me. “No. Here drink this. I’ll dry you off.” He took the drink from me and started drinking. I grabbed the towel from his hand and started at his chest. I worked slowly, intentionally making it a seduction. I avoided his cock on purpose, turning him around and drying his back, down his legs, and then once I was on my knees, I turned him around and dried his cock. He was semi hard at this point, and once I had taken a rub or two with the towel, I couldn’t stand it anymore. I dropped the towel on the floor, and put his cock in my mouth. It tasted wonderful. I sucked for a few minutes. His hands rubbed my head, and now hard, I let it tickle the back of my throat. When he started grabbing the back of my head harder, I stopped. I let his dick slide from my mouth, and looked up at him. “Is everything ok?” “Yeah. Lets go the bed.” I stood and grabbed his hand and then forced him to lay back on the bed. I put his dick in my mouth for a few sucks, and pushed it against his stomach and licked his balls. I swirled my tongue around them, took them in my mouth, and then with my thumb lifted them, and found his ass. I stuck my tongue into his ass and he thrashed backwards. I swirled it around his opening and with every movement his entire body moved. “God that feels amazing.” I stopped. I stood up and crawled on the bed beside him. My knees were just on the be, and I leaned over and kissed him. With his left hand he grabbed my face and pulled me closer so we kissed deeper. With his right he reached under me and took my left tit in his hand. “I want you to fuck me.” “Are you sure?” “Yes I want to feel your cock inside me.” He didn’t hesitate. He stood and got behind me. “Wait.” I laid down on the bed and reached the bedside table. I got the lube and then sat in front of him. I squeezed out a glob and lotioned up his dick. Then I got back on my knees in front of him and reached between my legs, applied a huge glob on my ass hole. I felt him move towards me and put the head of his dick against my ass. “Go slow.” I braced my self against the bed and put my head on the mattress. He pushed the head of his dick harder against my ass, and it began to part with the pressure. The head of his dick entered me without much effort, no doubt because of the plug, but as more and more of him entered me, the pressure increased and the discomfort grew. I got worried. I wanted to get fucked really bad, but this was not what I was looking for. When I worried more, I squeezed on him, and the squeezing hurt. He stopped moving, not all the way in, and started rubbing my back. The feeling was very relaxing, and before I knew it, with a slight push, he got all the way inside me. I was breathing deep, he was stopped, rubbing my back and ass. I tried to concentrate on him in my ass, and although I wanted to squeeze down, I started to feel normal, and then all of a sudden, strangely enough, my ass seemed to completely relax. He obviously felt it too, because about the same time, he started to pull out and push back in slightly. My breath sped up, and my ass burnt, but quickly, the discomfort and burning began to feel amazing. He began to push in deeper and harder. His body began to slap against my ass, and his dick began to come almost all the way out of me before it moved all the way in. The pace quickened and any discomfort went away. The feeling of his dick inside me was simply amazing, and the movement made me aware of how much I was parting and allowing him to move inside me. When he got all the way in, the pressure against my prostate was overwhelming, and each time it felt like I was on the breach of cumming. When he started grabbing my hips and the slapping against my ass grew, I knew he was close. I felt his balls slap against mine, and I felt my own orgasm growing. That’s when it happened. I felt a huge surge of heat in my ass, and then all friction was gone. I felt him move in my ass, but it was without the pulling against my insides. He slammed harder and I heard him grunting, and with every push inside me the wetness grew. The sound of him hitting my ass was replaced by a splashing sound. I felt his cum leaking out of my ass as he continued to fuck me and drip down my balls. When he was finally done, he pushed all the way inside of me, and collapsed on top of me, forcing me onto my stomach, panting. When he started to grow soft, he rolled off me and onto his back, and as he did, I turned over and laid next to him, resting my head on his chest as he began to relax. “That was amazing. How did it feel to take a girl’s cherry?” “That was your first time?” “Yup. First time to feel a guy explode inside me.” “You could feel it when I came?” “Oh god yes. It was amazing.” “Well did you cum?” “No but its ok.” “Are you sure?” “Yeah. Later tonight.” We went out and ate, come back to the room, and messed around. I sucked him off, and he drank a lot, and before long, he was drunk. He continued to drink as we sat in sat in bed and watched tv, and before long, when I tried to talk to him, he was merely grunts and half sentences. I hadn’t cum all night long. He was laying on his side, and my dick was rock hard. I pushed on his shoulder and there was only a slight sound. I reached around and grabbed his dick and started to pull on it and even after a few minutes, there was no movement from him and no sound. I reached to his ass and started playing, but there was no movement. I pushed a finger in him and he didn’t flinch. He was drunker than I thought. I rolled over and thought the better of it, and then the horniness of it all was too much. I reached over and grabbed the lube and soaked my dick. Then I put a large amount, probably way too much on his ass hole and put the head against his ass. Still no movement. When I pushed in a bit more, he moved slightly, but didn’t resist. He didn’t seem to be tensing up at all. When I managed to get all the way inside him, I knew he had to be beyond passed out. I began pushing in and out of him, the dead ass hole neither resisting or participating. I fucked him slow until I was ready to cum, and then I pushed all the way inside him and ejaculated. When I shot he stirred, but didn’t resist and didn’t wake. When I was done cumming, I pushed all the way inside him and rested there until I softened and fell out of him. I watched as the cum slowly leaked out of his ass, and there was a huge wave of remorse that washed over me as I realized that I had semi raped him. I got out of bed and collected my things. I put everything in the dirty clothes bag, dressed in whatever I could find, and without saying goodbye, I made my way to my car. Once there I closed my eyes, and thought long and hard about the days. Once home, I took a shower, collapsed in bed, and didn’t wake up till the next evening. Anonymous readerReport 2015-01-10 00:16:59 i would have opted to go all the way, boobs, narrow waist, bubble butt, and pussy, if your going to be a women have it all! anonymous readerReport 2013-01-16 07:55:23 Love your stories they make ne so hott and turned on i hope they do the same for you anonymous readerReport 2013-01-16 06:48:56 anonymous readerReport 2012-01-26 13:24:06 I really neeedd to find this info, thank God! anonymous readerReport 2011-03-23 00:20:29 Really great story, and your overall writing style has me coming back for more (more often than I would have thought!). Keep up the excellent writing! You are not logged in. Characters count:
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16808	Build a Location-Based Mobile App With HTML5 and Javascript: Part 6 This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Build a Location-Based Mobile App With HTML5 and Javascript Build a Location-Based Mobile App With HTML5 and Javascript In the previous article in this series, I described the last remaining utility function, as well as those that set up our application. In this final part of the series, you’ll see how to create the configuration file used to define project properties in Adobe PhoneGap Build. I’ll also share some thoughts on additional features that could further improve “Where I parked my car,” as well as any other application based on the Cordova (PhoneGap) framework. Build Configuration Every project developed has several metadata fields that the author can set: the version, the name, the author, the description, and so on. If you use the Adobe PhoneGap Build service, you have two possibilities to specify those properties: using the service web interface, or using a configuration file called config.xml. In this section I’ll show you an overview of the method that I like the most—the configuration file. Explaining the format in detail is outside the scope of this series, however I’ll give you an overview so you can understand the source of the file. In case you need more information, take a look at the official documentation page. The config.xml follows the W3C widget specification and must stay inside the app’s root, at the same level of the index.html file. Since we’re talking about an XML file, the first line of config.xml is the XML declaration. The root of the whole document is a <widget> tag that has several interesting attributes. The most important ones are id (the unique identifier for your project), and version (which specifies the version of the application). Inside the <widget> tag, you can write a lot of elements, but in the configuration file of “Where I parked my car”, I’ll only use the following: • name (required): Specify the name of the application. It doesn’t have to be unique. • description (required): Specify the description of your work. This will be shown in the app’s marketplace listing. • author (optional): The app’s author. It can have two optional properties: href, a URL to the developer or company homepage, and email, the email address of the developer or the company. Unfortunately, you can only specify one author, so you can’t have details for multiple authors here. • icon (optional): The icon to display on the devices that will install your app. If you do not specify it, the Cordova logo will be used. It’s only required attribute is src which, as you might guess, is the path to the image. • feature (optional): Specify the features you want to use. For example, Android, before installing any app, shows to the user the permissions it requires and if the user agrees, it goes on. In our application, this is where we’ll ask for permission to access the Internet connection and the geolocation features. • preference (optional): Indicates a set of preferences you want to apply. It’s a closed tag and you can have zero or more <preference> tags inside the file. It has two attributes, both are required: name and value. There are a lot of preferences you can define, but the most important one in my opinion is the Cordova version to use. Apart from the illustrated elements, there is one last tag that I want to explain: <gap:splash>. This tag sets the splash screen of your application—the image to show while it’s loading. It’s a closed tag and you can have one or more of these elements. Although the only required attribute is src, the URL to the image, you can set also the width (attribute width) and the height (attribute height). Using this tag, you could specify a different image for every platform and screen size, so it’ll render your splash screen perfectly in different situations. To learn more about this and the others elements, refer to the official documentation page. Now that you’ve seen the key points of the format, you can understand the source of the configuration file of “Where I parked my car”. <widget xmlns = "" xmlns:gap = "" id = "" version = "1.0.0"> <name>Where I parked my car</name> <description>"Where I parked my car" is an application for mobile devices that lets you bookmark where you parked your car, and then find a route to return to it. This application is useful if you don't have a good memory or if you're in a foreign city. In addition, "Where I parked my car" will also save a log of your saved positions (up to 50), so that you can retrieve a location for future use. The list allows you to see the position on a map, and you can also to delete one or more old locations.</description> <icon src="icon.png" gap:role="default" /> <feature name=""/> <feature name=""/> <preference name="phonegap-version" value="2.0.0" /> <!-- Splash Screens --> <gap:splash src="splash.png" /> <gap:splash src="images/splash-220x330.png" gap:platform="android" gap:density="mdpi" /> Possible Improvements If you’re reading this section, you’ve read all the features and the code of “Where I parked my car”. However, like every project, there is always room for improvement and new features. Some of the following proposals could be implemented right now, while others need the attention of the Cordova development team, who would need to implement some new APIs before you could go on. Please note that some of the requests can be already satisfied by some third party plugins, but many of them only work for a few mobile platforms—not all those supported by Cordova. It would be great to have them in the core of the Cordova framework instead of external plugins. With that said, let’s take a look at these features. The first feature that you can add and work with right now is the internationalization (i18n) of the application. Since the project isn’t very complex, it should be quite easy. To achieve this goal, you can use the Globalization API, an API added to the core starting from version 2.2.0, and some specific jQuery libraries like jquery-i18n-properties and jQuery-i18n. The second addition could involve finding closer parking based on the user’s current position and their position history. You could determine if the user has parked nearby in the past and recommend that they go to a past parking spot. You can also enable the user to search for closer parking within a certain distance using, for example, the jQuery Mobile slider widget. Another easily added feature could be to let the user add a note and even an hourly rate on each parking position. The last proposal I want to suggest (and probably the coolest one) is a way to automatically add an alarm on the device if the user parked his car in time-sensitive toll parking. So, thanks to the alarm, the user would be warned when their parking time is running out. Unfortunately, there isn’t currently a native Cordova API to do this, but you can use a plugin called LocalNotification available on Android and iOS. The above suggestions are just some of the potential application’s enhancements but, of course, using your own skills and the web technologies, you could do a lot more. The possibilities are virtually endless. Wow, it has been a long trip but you’ve finally finished the application. As you’ve seen throughout this series, using web technologies and popular frameworks, you can build useful and powerful apps. Now, for being a so patient and observant reader, here is your prize: the link to the application repository. You can download the full and ready-to-work package of “Where I parked my car” at my repository. Please note that “Where I parked my car” is released under the CC BY 3.0 (“Creative Commons Attribution 3.0″) license. Build a Location-Based Mobile App With HTML5 and Javascript << Build a Location-Based Mobile App With HTML5 and Javascript: Part 5 Free Chapter! HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World • Ziad I haven’t read the articles yet but this is a great series Aurelio, definitely the best resource I’ve found on the web for a full fledged HTML/JS/CSS based mobile hybrid app. Thank you for your efforts. I downloaded the code and deployed on my local web server and then tried to ‘run’ the app on my android phone but it didn’t work (no maps, couldn’t save my position). Is it possible to run it as a web app or does it have to go through the compiling process and then installed as a native app? Thanks again. • Ziad BTW just wanted to add, I meant I haven’t read the whole series yet, just the first 3 parts, looking forward to complete the last 3. • Aurelio De Rosa Hi Ziad. On a web server it can’t run because it needs the PhoneGap APIs to work, so you should compile the app before using it. For example as soon as the app starts, it verifies the connection using the Cordova API. So, using a web server it should give you an error and stop running because it cannot recognise the call to the API function as you can see debugging the app. You need at least an emulator like Ripple to run the app on your web server. I advice you to read the other parts to understand better how the app works. However I’m glad that you read the series. • Dave Just wanted to say a great series of articles. It’s unlikely I’ll be wanting to make any apps, but at least if I do, I now have an idea on how to do it using languages I’m familiar with. • Aurelio De Rosa I’m glad that you found the article informative. Keep reading us. • Pritish hi i’m new to php and woorking my way up…iknow this series is helpful but i was bouncer for me..can you mail the project zip file to me • Aurelio De Rosa You can download the whole project at my repository. You find the link in the final section of the article. • Mirko I tried to compile your code using the Adobe Phone Gap Build, but it asks me for the signing keys…it is not clear at all how to get them… Reading the Android guide, I understand it can be done from Eclipse and the Android SDK. That is fine if I have a native app to export, but in this case? And what about the other platforms? A link to some tutorial would be great ;) • Aurelio De Rosa As always, the better thing you can do is read the official documentation and the PhoneGap one is very good. Here you can read all you have to know about the key and the page has also the link to the official Android documentation that explains how to create the key: If you don’t understand one of those pages for any reasons, you can always search for some unofficial documentations or articles that will explain more or less the same thing in a different way. • stephen Thanks for publishing these articles. How can I debug the application? I develop on Windows 7 laptop, I have the application running on a tablet device (Acer running andriod) and on my HTC phone (also android). The app works well on the tablet but it doesn’t seem to get the location from google maps on the phone and the app hangs. Ideally I would like to debug on the laptop but I don’t know what tools to use. And suggestions? • Aurelio De Rosa Hi Stephen. I don’t know what could be the problem. You’re the first reporting the app doesn’t seem to work. However, you can test the app using Ripple emulator on Google Chrome. • Matt Cassarino Wow, great tutorial Aurelio! I look forward to building my first mobile app using Cordova. It’s going to be for a photo manager for construction companies – Gonna be slick!
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16868	Two Lipinskis—Full Surround Music As they had done at CES, Andrew Lipinski (right) and Lukas Lipinski set up a full surround system using their L-707 two-way monitors that had so impressed Larry Greenhill when he reviewed them for Stereophile last December. I have long been a fan of Andrew's recordings, and was privileged to be able to hear an extract of the massively scored Penderecki Credo in surround from SACD, which Andrew recorded at the composer's 70th birthday celebratory concert. Kal Rubinson enthuses over both sound and performance of this SACD in his November "Music in the Round" column. New at CEDIA from Lipinksi was a neat amplifier module that fits into the speaker's stand. This uses a choke-smoothed linear power supply with a switching output stage to deliver a lot of power in a small package. Share \| \| Kate Balthazar's picture Lukas is hot!Additionally, I have the 505's in my apartment in NYC and they continually fascinate my aural palate. I am playing Led Zeppelin at the moment, and the other day U2, Joshua Tree, brought tears to my eyes!In life, there are few things we truly need, and a good stereo system is one of them! Thanks to Lipinski, now we get to work on world peace... Richard's picture I keep hearing about this company's great sounding SACDs. Unfortunately they aren't available yet. At least they do not sell the CDs on the Lipinskisound website. (Nor do they bother to answer customer emails either). Enter your username. Enter the password that accompanies your username.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16883	Pocket unveils its Android Wear functionality You’ll be able to save interesting links for later reading with the swipe of a finger on your smartwatch Notification on Android Wear Notification on Android Wear Android Wear is still a little while away from launch, but when it does arrive, web service Pocket will be among the first batch of third-party apps supporting Google’s wearables platform. Today Pocket previewed article-sharing via Android Wear. Pocket’s SDK allows you to essentially save notifications with a simple swipe to the left and a tap of the resulting “save to Pocket” button. An example: you’re on the train home and a BBC News app for your Android Wear smartwatch serves up a headline you fancy reading later that evening. You can save it to your list in a second. Likewise for links sent to you through email and messaging apps by friends. What you won’t be able to do is view those saved articles on your smartwatch. You’ll need your phone, tablet or computer for that. READ MORE: Pocket review Just a work-in-progress Click here see an animation of Pocket's Android Wear in action. The SDK is intended for app developers who wish to add the “read it later” action to their app’s Android Wear notification. However, Pocket cautions that, with Android Wear’s SDK still in a pre-release Developer Preview version, their own SDK should be considered a work-in-progress. At present, app makers can only adapt their notifications for Android Wear. As long as they already have an Android app, it should be able to send notifications to Android Wear devices. A full SDK for Android Wear will be released in the future. [Pocket via Engadget] READ MORE: 8 things you need to know about Android Wear
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16884	5 Amazing Mother's Day Gift Ideas For The Beauty-Obsessed (Photos courtesy) Tick-tock: Mother's Day (May 12th!) is right around the corner—and if you're anything like us (read: a total procrastinator) you probably haven't even started thinking about what to get all the amazing women in your life this year. Well, we're here to help! Check out these five gift ideas that every beauty-obsessed lady on your list will love. For the Gardener: Lush Reusable 'Mum' Bubble Bars, $9.95 each (Photo courtesy) Go beyond the typical bouquet with these adorable "mum"—short for chrysanthemum!—bubble bar wands. The best part? These skin-softening, beautifully scented bubble bath sticks are actually reusable. Once dry, you can store them in a vase to make a darling bathroom display. For the Pop Culture Junkie: Estee Lauder Mad Men Collection, $24 to $50 ($104 for all) (Photo courtesy) Whether she's a Megan or a Betty, any mom with a love for the TV series—especially if she's got a soft spot for nostalgia!—will adore this vintage-inspired collection from Estee Lauder. For the Entertainer: Fresh Little Luxuries Oval Soap Set, $40 (Photo courtesy) Perfect for the woman who always has a guest around—or, let's be real here, a mother-in-law you have no idea what to get—Fresh's luxe soap set comes with six delicious-smelling mini soaps and an elegant dish. Her powder room will never be caught off guard when a friend—or your laundry-wielding younger brother—happens to pop by. For the Shoe-Obsessed: Pierre Hardy for NARS Nail Polish Pairs, $29 each (Photo courtesy) What do give a gal who already owns a million shoes? Shoe-inspired nail polish, of course! Better yet? Shoe-inspired nail polish that comes packaged in mini shoe boxes. Each set comes with two NARS lacquers—inspired by Pierre Hardy's summer shoe collection!—plus an itty-bitty dust bag. Maybe she'll heart them so much, she'll treat you to a pedi. For the Tech Geek: Clarisonic and Kiehl's "Aria & Skin Essentials" Set, $199 (Photo courtesy) You know what techies like? Gadgets. You know what everyone likes? Kiehl's. Put those two things together, and you've got Kiehl's and Clarisonic's limited-edition gift set— the ultimate gift of face creams and gizmos, a plenty! The set includes: a Clarisonic Aria Sonic Skin Cleansing Brush and replacement brush head, plus Kiehl’s Ultra Facial Cleanser, Ultra Facial Cream, Powerful Strength Line Reducing Concentrate, and Midnight Recovery Concentrate. She'll definitely FaceTime your aunt about this. Like Us on Facebook Livingly: Style
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16894	Paula Jones When heroes falter, it's forgive or forget Ray Lewis was accused of murder. Latrell Sprewell choked his coach. Muhammad Ali refused to go to war and was labeled a traitor. All rebounded to attain greater stature than before. Ben Johnson was stripped of a gold medal days after he set a sprint record. Tonya Harding conspired to have a rival figure skater clubbed in the knee, and never seriously contended again. Mike Tyson was convicted of rape and went to prison for three years. None ever quite emerged from the darkness. Some of history's greatest athletes have fallen from grace, and there's little telling whether they will rise again. This is the uncertain reality faced by Rafael Palmeiro as he prepares to return from...
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16909	Mostly Cloudy74° FULL FORECASTMostly Cloudy74° FULL FORECAST Make us your home page Let's just spel it out planely Today I once again wage war on the Language Nazis, those nattering nerds of negativity who contend that the Internet has ushered in an age of bad writing. Nothing could be further from the truth. Sure, the Internet makes a Published Author out of anyone who wants to be, and most of those people are not, say, Saul Bellow. But this doesn't mean they are bad writers. It's just a different sort of writing, one that should be celebrated on its own terms. In fact, the whole phenomenon needs an official curator. Ahem. Today, we shall focus mostly on spelling. The new Shakspurian model Ask yourself this: How can writing possibly be getting worse if it is becoming more like that of Shakespeare, who could never quite figure out how to spell his own name. Under the modern tyranny of book and newspaper editors, people's names were required to have only one boring, agreed-upon, cookie-cutter spelling. Thankfully, the Internet has revived the more exciting Stratfordian model. Consider Mahatma Gandhi, or, as he is known to fully a third of the Internet-published writers who cite him, Mahatma Ghandi. This spelling has appeared on the Web 44,000,000 times, which is more often than have the correct spellings of Picasso, Kierkegaard and Leibniz combined. Likewise, in the entire Western Hemisphere, there are fewer followers of the religion of Buddha than there are people online who have spelled it "Buddah." Hey, Language Nazis: Do you like the cool 1 million hits on your boy "Adolph" Hitler? Didn't think so. (And last: Based on a quick, nonscientific sampling of the Web, I am ready to declare that until this very moment no one has ever correctly spelled both "Friedrich" and "Nietzsche" in the same sentence.) Woahfully inadequate The Web is often credited with creating an impressive new lexicon of tech-related words, but that's only half the story of its power to neologize. The Web also democratizes language, bending it sternly to the will of the masses. There is no better example than the sudden existence and more sudden ubiquity of "woah." "Woah" is a teenager, a word born on the Web in the 1990s. Initially, it was a deliberate, ironic recasting of "whoa," as if to emphasize a slap-to-the-forehead moment so startling that spelling becomes its first casualty. It turns out, however, that while the Web feasts on words, its diet has an extreme irony deficiency. And so in no time "woah" has simply been adopted as a new spelling of the old word, with its usage skewing demographically young. (I confirmed this with a quick survey of "woah" users, none of whom had ever heard of "whoa" and thought I was either kidding or just very, very old and cranky. I might as well have been telling them it's not "pants," it's "pantaloons.") "Woah" still has fewer hits than "whoa," but not for long. However, in another exciting development in h-o-a variability: "Pharoah," the robustly misspelled term for the ancient Egyptian king, has now exactly equaled in Web presence the technically correct "pharaoh." The two lines are crossing right now, the intersection of a big, fat X. The future is not in doubt. How thoroughly has the Web liberated spelling from the soulless confines of conformity? Thoroughly enough to withstand a national spelling lesson. The most famous misspelling in American history is "potatoe," immortalized when the vice president of the United States corrected a schoolkid who had spelled it correctly. The whole country laughed at Dan Quayle's thunderous stupidity, presumably including some of the 2 million-plus Published Authors who spell it "potatoe" today. In the next installment of Curating the Internet, I will establish that the phrase "nothing can be further from the truth," used 6 million times, is always a lie. © 2013 Washington Post Writers Group Let's just spel it out planely 05/25/13 [Last modified: Friday, May 24, 2013 10:00pm] Photo reprints \| Article reprints Join the discussion: Click to view comments, add yours
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16927	What is Asterisk? Why you should use Asterisk The cost factor is one obvious reason for using an Asterisk PBX rather than a proprietary one. But there are other reasons as well, says Dale Laushman, president and CEO of Uptime Group, an IT and VoIP consultancy that has worked extensively with Asterisk. "Even more important than cost is the flexibility of the system you can build with Asterisk," he contends. "You can make it do just about anything you want. With a traditional PBX, there is a preset number of features, and they're either on or off. With Asterisk, on the other hand, you have your hands on the source code, and you can customise it however you want. It can do things that normal IP PBXs simply can't." Laushman cites one example of such flexibility - a PBX his company built for an after-hours urgent-care facility. It was a start-up and needed to hold down costs, but because it provided emergency care, it needed to make sure that every incoming call was answered quickly and was routed to the proper person. So Uptime Group used Asterisk's call-routing flexibility to build a sophisticated system that automatically routes calls to the right healthcare professional, based on a set of complicated rules. Incoming calls are first routed to a doctor or nurse on duty at one of the facility's locations. If there is no answer in two rings, it automatically routes to two more people, one on a cell phone and one in the medical office. If neither of those people answer quickly, the call automatically routes to the public 999 emergency system. "With a traditional, proprietary PBX, you'd have to hire a high-end consultant to do this kind of programming," Laushman says. As for cost, he claims that the facility looked at several proprietary PBXs, which cost "up over six figures," while the one he built for the company based on Asterisk "we put in for less than $30,000 dollars." Denver-based 5280 Magazine has been using an Asterisk-based PBX for approximately six months, and systems administrator Jeff Panis says the magazine bought the system for its flexibility as well as its relatively low cost. Among the features important to the magazine are that editors and the sales force can use softphones to retrieve their voice mail when they are out of the office. In addition, voice messages are digitised and sent via e-mail for easy access to them no matter where someone is. The system saves on hardware and licensing costs compared with traditional PBXs, and it saves on staff time as well, because users can make their own changes to their phones with a web-based interface. Users can forward incoming calls to external numbers and have incoming calls automatically sent as media files via e-mail automatically, without having to ask an administrator to set up their phones to perform those tasks. Asterisk can also tie into databases such as MySQL, which is the primary database 5280 Magazine uses for internal application development. The magazine is developing its own team management organisation tool for its sales and marketing staff using MySQL, and it will be able to tie its Asterisk-based PBX into that system when the new application is complete. "A big part of the choice was Asterisk's ability to expand and tie into other systems," Panis says. "Also, with Asterisk, you're not tied to paying big upgrade and licensing fees every time you need to upgrade." Why you shouldn't use Asterisk All this doesn't mean that Asterisk is for everyone. In fact, it isn't. To date, it has primarily been used by small and midsize businesses, rather than for large enterprises with multiple offices and divisions in multiple locations. For example, Uptime Group has yet to build a deployment of that size. "I've heard and read that you can chain Asterisk systems together to make much larger phone systems," Laushman says, but his company has no hands-on experience on doing it. In addition, building and programming PBXs is not for the faint-hearted; few companies have the expertise to build a system in-house. So companies will have to rely on companies such as the Uptime Group or Switchvox to build systems for them. Support can be an issue as well. When an Asterisk-based system is installed by a consultant, a support contract will be needed. That means making sure that the company that builds the Asterisk system is solid and will be around for years, in order to provide support. Finally, there are the cultural issues around using open-source software vs. commercial software. There are companies that still don't trust the open-source model, so any company leery of open source in general will want to stay away from Asterisk. The future of Asterisk It's clear that Asterisk is no flash in the pan and is here to stay. Digium in Alabama is the primary creator of Asterisk and claims that Asterisk has already been downloaded a million times. The company also says that there are 130 business partners building Asterisk-based systems worldwide. Digium also recently closed its first round of venture capital funding, $13.8 million from Matrix Partners, a venture capital firm that manages over $2.5 billion in assets, and has previously invested in businesses including Apple Computer, JBoss and Sycamore Networks. So if you're thinking of moving to an IP PBX or upgrading an existing one, commercial-grade PBXs are not your only choice. Ultimately, you may not choose an Asterisk-based system, but it's worth your while to at least give the open-source PBX a first look. For more information Digium's website has basic information, downloads, blog posts, etc. This comprehensive wiki includes news, reference, articles, books, tutorials, forums and other sections. Trixbox is a tool for Asterisk implementation, formerly called Asterisk@Home. Wikipedia has an entry about the Asterisk PBX.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16940	Glasses-free 3D company wants to make a CES splash Optics company to release prescription 3D glasses If you currently wear glasses, watching a 3D movie in theaters will soon be as simple as just looking at the screen.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16945	Twelfth Night (or What You Will) Opened Nov 12, 2009 To tell Shakespeare's tale of twins separated in a shipwreck, the production will have eight- inch wonders of Czech craftsmen cavorting on the sands of Illyrian beaches, almost perishing in tumultuous waters teeming with giant fish and turtles, and bathing in champagne at the court of that paragon of Uptown decadence, Count Orsino. The lovelorn Count Orsino, the bumbling Toby Belch and his clowny compadres will be cast with woodenheaded actors. The waterfalls of wooing words written by William Shakespeare are adapted by that modern master of Bohemian rhapsodies, Vit Horejš Visit the Twelfth Night (or What You Will) website:
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16992	Not all questions produce the answer you expect Edith Evans And who might you be?: the great Edith Evans in 1951 as Lady Bracknell. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images Sensible teachers maintain that the only stupid question is the one you don't ask. Better to look ignorant than to go on not knowing. All the same, there are some you might regret. The man who asked the great Edith Evans: "What do you do?" would have blushed when he realised her iconic status (she replied sweetly: "I act, a little"). Some questions depend how you say them: "Are you going to marry her?" is OK in a tone of polite interest but not exactly tactful if it's: "Are you going to marry her?" Similarly, I once asked my husband: "Where did you get that tie?" He replied: "I bought it, of course – how else could I have got it?" I probably shouldn't have answered: "I supposed you'd got it free with something." You'd better not ask anyone my age how they are – we're all too likely to tell you. And professionals hate being asked work questions at parties, though I did once ask a lawyer if he would answer my question if I gave him a bottle of wine. He did, no doubt cursing inwardly and not believing in the bottle – but was cheerfully surprised when a really fine bottle arrived. One doctor who was fed up with such questions once asked a lawyer at a party what he did about it; the lawyer said he answered politely enough, but then sent the questioner a bill. The doctor thought that was a splendid solution – until he got a bill next day.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/16993	Big fake breasts turn me on, although I don't want sex with a woman I'm a heterosexual woman who has been fascinated by pornographic images of women with very large fake breasts since my teenage years I'm a 25-year-old woman and have been in a relationship with my boyfriend for 18 months. I consider myself heterosexual but I've always had an attraction to big fake breasts. This started in my teenage years. I always marvelled at how these ladies attracted men, and pictured myself in their shoes, which would turn me on. Even now I find myself looking at pornographic images containing women with very large fake breasts. I'm not attracted to other aspects of women, and do not desire sex with a woman. Erotic female images are more prevalent than male images, so even for heterosexual women they can become erotic triggers. In fact, many young heterosexual women are disappointed to find that at first they struggle to feel aroused by the sight of the male body, which they've rarely seen depicted. Conditioned responses can take many forms and, given that obviously augmented breasts are commonly seen in the media, yours is perfectly expectable. You already understand how you internalise these images – you're not directly excited by them but use them as a model for yourself and imagine having such attributes. What's actually turning you on is the sexual power you believe the owners of such breasts can acquire. As you become more confident to use the body you were born with to give and receive pleasure, you will become less interested in taking such an indirect route to sexual empowerment. Send your problem to
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17013	Meet the Beatles... re-recording? Bluebeat claims its downloads are legal A US company is offering digital downloads of the Beatles' music, the first in the world, putting it in the crosshairs of a lawsuit by EMI The Beatles songs are available for digital download, apparently legitimately. You have to go to an American site called Bluebeat which has possibly one of the worst download systems ever (a weird Java applet that insists on getting access to your computer), but they're there. And they really sound like the Beatles. In fact, hell, it is the Beatles. This is puzzling, because the Beatles songs haven't been licensed for digital download to other sites. And, if you read the very extensive coverage on Wired, it seems that Apple Corps, the Beatles' management company, probably hasn't either. (I contacted Apple Corps earlier today but have not received a response.) EMI (the Beatles' publishers) has filed a lawsuit, Wired explains. According to Wired, Bluebeat is claiming - in a bizarre court document - that it has made "re-recordings" of the songs using "psycho-acoustic simulation". That was probably a Googlewhack a few days ago. Not so much now, of course, because everyone is storming over to Bluebeat to try to get a few Beatles tracks. Well, the whole lot, actually. If you recall how often hopes have been raised ahead of every Apple Inc (formerly Apple Computer) announcement that "I heard a rumour that this is going to be the one where Steve Jobs announces that the Beatles are coming to the iTunes Music Store", then you'll know that there's great eagerness among some people to write about that. Less eagerness, I suspect, at EMI and Apple Corps. They are minting it from re-packaging and re-selling the Beatles: look at the price of the CD package (about £200). Look at price of the USB stick with all the Beatles' tracks on. Why would they go to digital downloads for a generation which never grew up with the Fab Four? Those who want them will either buy the CDs, or find them on file-sharing networks. For Bluebeat, though, it's a precipitous route towards calamity for a company that had probably been doing OK on its own. The lawsuit looks indefensible, will cost millions that it probably doesn't have, and is only going to give it short-term attention. Possibly this is what the company behind it, the mysterious Media Rights Technologies, Inc. of "PO Box 8447, Santa Cruz" (to quote the domain registration) is after. Last word back to a lawyer contacted by Wired: "They're hosed. That just doesn't make any sense," said Scott Mackenzie, a Dallas copyright attorney. "I don't even see the basis of their theory." If you know, do tell.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17135	9 Cool Concept Helmets that are the Future of Biking 1 of 11 bike with helmet. photo 1 of 11 The market's current bike helmets are technologically advanced when it comes to safety -- but that doesn't mean they couldn't be improved upon. Photo: James Trosh/Creative Commons
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17136	Thread: Buffy or Angel? View Single Post Old August 10 2008, 05:10 AM #1 amdmiami's Avatar Buffy or Angel? This often comes up a lot about which show you prefer the most. Personally, I love Buffy more because there's something about it that Angel could never recapture. I think it has something to do with the characters. Which show do you prefer? pulls out 2 guns amdmiami is offline Reply With Quote
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17139	View Single Post Old May 30 2009, 02:34 AM #10 roguephoenix's Avatar Re: A question about Betazoids from what i understood he wasn't able to read his mind fully. he tried, but with the guy being half romulan he had certain mental abilities too that he was able to hide his specific thoughts? he did feel though that he had something to hide. Please have mercy! No more Wolvercrap! Or Twitlight! (yes that's how it should be spelled) roguephoenix is offline Reply With Quote
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17141	View Single Post Old November 28 2010, 03:45 AM #672 Lor'Vela's Avatar Location: Wherever I happen to be. Re: What games are you playing currently? ^ I'll be getting the Wii version soon. Apparently it's a game that breaks the Sonic Cycle. Currently playing vanilla Bridge Commander. No mods, no foundation plugin, no NanoFX or anything else that can cause instability and broken single player. Lor'Vela is offline Reply With Quote
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17150	Thread: Feline Follies View Single Post Old February 5 2013, 08:17 PM #701 Rhaven's Avatar Location: Rhaven in Boston Re: Feline Follies BJ, I'm so happy that you have solved the problem of keeping a diaper on a cat. I've made note of your idea...leash and collar attached to the diaper, ingenious! I'm not a geek, I'm an aficionado. Rhaven is offline Reply With Quote
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17240	1 definition by Unintended Top Definition A girl who is strung along by a boy during the Wintertime purely for sexual gratification, only to be dumped in the Summertime when the going is easy. If the girl falls in love too soon, is high-maintenance, or pleads to spend more time with her boyfriend than he is willing to offer, the relationship may end abruptly, shortly before Xmas or Valentines Day. But if the girl finds conditions to be congenial and bites her tongue, the relationship will run early- to mid-Summer, at which point she is discarded so her "boyfriend" can go on the holiday he secretly booked solely for himself when they were still together. Dylan: You're the perfect winter wife Kristine: What did you just call me? Dylan: Oops! I meant, we will always be together Kristine: Promise? Dylan: Yeah sure :p by Unintended November 20, 2012 Free Daily Email
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17242	1 definition by metalislife87 Top Definition A kitchen creation that comes from cooking marijuana and butter together. It's typically a nasty ass color. It is often used to make weed brownies. -Hey man, do you know how to make weed brownies? -Well, you have to start by making cannabutter... by metalislife87 August 28, 2006 Free Daily Email
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17248	Top Definition a term in China used by most Chinese internet users to mock and ridicule the state owned media CCTV which is known for producing fake intends to fool poeple by these fake news,but the majority of the Chinese internet users don't buy it. and CCAV became a pop term when CCTV's evening news broadcast a piece of news trying to propagate the need to crack down on pornography and prostitution industry.while many thought that this action was actually aimed to fetter the the term can also be used as an adj which has the similar meaning with hypocritical. Hey,dude! Could you please do better? Behave like a human being rather than a being! You are quite CCAV! by todayiscold January 10, 2010 1 more definition 中国中央电视台的尊称 China Central Asshole Vision的缩写最著名的节目是北京时间每天晚上7点的新闻联播，非常有助于人们对时和了解当天的日期四川大地震发生后CCAV采访了住在帐篷里的受灾群众灾民们纷纷表示，虽然房子没了、断水断电、亲人失踪、孩子被压在废墟里不知生死，大地震对生活没有明显影响，帐篷里洋溢着过年的气氛 by Tanaka Satoshi November 21, 2013 Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17249	Top Definition To place your hand in between a man's buttocks. In a recent Iranian soccer game, a teammate did this to an opponent (who had his shorts still on) and both were punished. On Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News Channel (11-03-2011), a guest called this "the Charlie Kornheiser." by OneGeoffNation November 03, 2011 Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17253	Top Definition The simple act of having sex with more than one person on seperate occasions in one day I pulled a fast razo today before work by Cocoa daddy April 17, 2011 Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17254	Nicole is so lucky she's dating Freddie. =D by colee1289 August 23, 2008 fag, faggot, bitch etc... by theonewiththebiggerone January 20, 2010 Slang used to refer to a womans period. Because once a month, they can have an attitude and behave like Freddie Kreuger. Guy 1: Hey dude, you go out with your girl this weekend? Guy 2: No way man! Guy 1: Why not? Guy 2: Dude, freddie showed up and it all went to hell! Guy 1: Did she at least give you a hummer? by GTI_Guy October 24, 2006 Term meaning a hot girl who isn't yet old enough. also known as jailbait. Semi rhyming slang taken from the football player Freddie Ljungberg's name. (Prenounced Young-berg). -Mate! Check out that next girl over there. -No way mate, she's a Freddie Youngbird. -How did it go with that girl last night? -Mate, I had to duck that one! She said she was 18 but one of my boys told me that she's only 15. -No way man, she was stone cold, can't believe she was a Freddie by Ryan W Jones October 27, 2006 a manwhore inlove with this girl named karole.=D freddie so inlove with karole by bazooookasarekool February 05, 2009 Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17259	Top Definition An enormous octopus/squid creature in "Pirates of the Caribbean" which is feared by sailors and pirates. This said horrible beastie is unleashed by none other than the captain of the Flying Dutchman: Captain Davy Jones. Sailor: We must of hit a reef! Will Turner: No its the Kracken you retard! by TezZa_ August 16, 2007 3 more definitions The Kracken is a chunky female usually with brown curly hair and hazel eyes. Her large tentacles that protrude out of her vaginal area will tend to scoop up a male and suck him inside of her. She has once had a train of about eight male strangers on her. She has herpies of the mouth and when sitting in an enclosed area with the kracken it tends to have a fish like stench. Me: "Ugh the Kracken smells of fish today." You: "Oh you mean Kelley?" Me: "Yeah the Kracken. The one sucking you into her right now." You: "Oh God!!" by Crawford_H8er December 16, 2010 Large, unattractive female, whose crack unwantingly protrudes from the lower back, often causing mass disgust from both sexes. Look at that Kracken bending over behind that car. by Mike Dindia June 19, 2006 A hung male penis that is at least 8.5" in length and 6" in girth. Used by one to either warn others of the beastlyness of one's own schlong, or to tell of the savage experience that was had recieving the dick. Davy Jones: "I reeeally don't think that you ladies are ready for the monster in my pants, known only as...THE KRACKEN!!!!" Tia: "Wooooow, I would have NEVER expected him to be that well hung; But after last night, I'll have that kracken plunge to my depths anytime!" by itISme!!!! June 27, 2010 Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17260	Top Definition Alien from the planet Neblak. Has come to earth for the sole purpose of mutilating cows for no particular reason and probing many a human with long metal objects. Farmer Jed: Hey'd you here about that OniLink feller? Farmer Bob: Hear about him? He probed my entire family and cut up all my cows now what am I gon do? :'( by Annatar August 30, 2004 Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17261	Top Definition A cry heard often when African American males perform a dunk during basketball. Literally translates to "Shit in your mouth!" Derives from the act of bragging about jumping so high above the defender, if you were to deficate, it would land in their mouth, thus, 'shit in your mouth.' *Forward breaks free with the ball, takes it downcourt, sees the defender with his arms out wide, forward runs straight at him, jumps with all his might and ululates "SHEEINYAMOUF!!" by Capeten May 12, 2009 5 Words related to Sheeinyamouf Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17263	Top Definition When you fart so many wet smelly farts that you have go to the bathroom and wipe then you get a little stripe on the toilet paper. Also known as Mississippi mud butt. I cut like sixteen hot farts and had to go upstairs and wipe a stripe cuz it felt all wet and uncomfortable in my boxers. by Inseculous March 24, 2009 7 Words related to Wipe a stripe Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17264	Top Definition The act or art of trying to cove-up, disguise or hide the sound of urinating with another sound or failing that trying to muffle the sound of pee hitting the water in the toilet bowl. Generally it is a method utilized when the bathroom is right next to another room where other people can hear you urinating and you want to avoid the embarrassment. Examples of "acousta-pee" include (i) turning the bathroom ventilator on; (ii) singing; (iii) coughing: (iv) turning the water on in the sink; (v) trying to aim for a portion of the bowl with no water; (vi) talking to the people in the other room while peeing and/or (vii) if you have to pee like a racehorse and as a last resort sticking your leg in the toilet and peeing down your leg. John, having drunk 6 beers, acousta-peed by singing and turning on the water in the sink. Don have had a 12 pack raced to the bathroom and acousta-peed by sticking his leg in the toilet and peeing down his leg, thus avoiding sounding like a racehorse through the bathroom door. by Stevo Redfish March 14, 2013 Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17265	Top Definition a psycho or rockabilly whos chicano,usually from the southern california scene that mixes the 50's and psychobilly with chicano/cholo/gangster style. Orale Jose! Representing the hood and all greased up, you're so cholobilly! by La Muerte February 19, 2009 5 Words related to cholobilly Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17266	Top Definition R. Stave explains the meaning of ISCHKABIBBLE as a word which can be used in anyway. A nonsense word, gibberish, expression, verb, adjective, noun, person, place, thing, ect. Son of an Ischkabibble!! Im going to Ischkabibble Kelly tonight. by rcsvamp September 12, 2010 Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17267	Top Definition a god of massive proportions ryan giggs is a good example of mogz by L3g3nd September 23, 2006 1 more definition A small furry creature who dwells in constant darkness. A very rare species, but when sightings have occured, the creature is in a drunken state. It is thought that when a mogz isnt under the influence of alcohol, it hibernates, enclothed in a small greasy shell made of regurgitated bookmarks. Jean:'Whats that, that, THING?' Susan:'Oh dont worry, its just the village mogz' Tim:'I can smell alcohol' Hank:'Maybe a mogz is near?' by Flippa the dolphin catcher April 16, 2008 Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17272	Top Definition a tattoo on a girl starting at her middrift, ending somewhere on her thigh ooh! look at that fine girl! too bad she has a skank flank. by RiaRadness September 17, 2008 2 more definitions the ugly friend who always accompanies the great looking girl you want to be with who you have to convince your friend to double date with. i'm going for the prize -- you take the skank flank. by paul grimsley September 04, 2006 A tattoo stretching from your arm pit to your hip when she took her shirt off she had on hell of a Skank Flank Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17273	Top Definition A man who shoots his Girlfriend(or boyfriend) in the taint after pulling out during sex. just before he came he pulled out and jizz shot at her taint so he was called a taint shooter. by Chrissy Some April 10, 2008 Free Daily Email Emails are sent from We'll never spam you.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17280	Is bacon birth control? Are Oreos addictive? This week's health news was chock full of bacon and Oreos, but somehow managed not to gain weight. Here's what you need to know: We are not getting fatter. Roughly 35% of us are now obese, meaning the rate has stayed more or less steady for about eight years, government researchers say. That's pretty good news, after decades of dramatic increases. But 35% is a long way from the 15% obesity rate of the 1960s. The feds are back. Flu bugs take note: The disease fighters and outbreak trackers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health and other agencies are back on the job, thanks to the end of the 16-day government shutdown. But we may have to give them a few days to get up to speed: CDC workers alone missed about 1 million e-mails a day during the crisis, director Thomas Frieden told Wired earlier this week. Your sports supplement contains… what? Lab tests found compounds very much like methamphetamine in two popular sports supplements sold as Craze and Detonate, several teams of scientists reported. Officials at the Drug Enforcement Administration and FDA won't say whether they are investigating the supplements, but spiking supplements with illegal drugs or similar compounds would be "a criminal issue," a DEA spokesman tells USA TODAY. Bacon is not birth control: Headline writers had fun with a small study that showed men who eat a lot of processed meat – stuff like cold cuts, hot dogs and bacon – tend to have poorer sperm quality than guys who don't. The study of 156 guys also found exercise and diets high in salmon and tuna are associated with higher sperm counts. Shocking conclusion: Guys with healthy habits tend to have healthier sperm. Bacon eaters who don't want to become dads might still want to use condoms. Rats hate rice cakes: Student researchers from Connecticut College hit the media jackpot – coverage on hundreds of websites – with a press release saying they had shown that "Oreos are just as addictive as drugs." What they actually showed: rats in one maze preferred Oreos over rice cakes and rats in another maze preferred injections of cocaine and morphine over injections of saline – and both the Oreo-loving and drug-loving rats thoroughly enjoyed themselves and kept coming back for more.The makers of rice cakes and saline injections were silent on this scientific slur, but an Oreos spokeswoman was compelled to issue a statement to ABC News saying that it's best to eat a balanced diet, get enough exercise and avoid labeling any particular food as evil. Read or Share this story:
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17288	I have found new software for Learning words. There is a unique word learning technology. It has typing, tests, flashcards and games (Usually profitable to kids) And there are 6 languages. Every language can be selected as Primary or Secondary Language. Programm name is Picword. The programm site is http://www.kroxus.com Is that software suitable for kids?
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17289	Is 'To Boil' Separable or Inseparable? - Phrasal Verb Quiz Quiz for Verb: 'To Boil' Is the phrasal verb 'To Boil' separable or inseparable in the following examples? 'Boil over' - When people lose their tempers and things get nasty 'Boil over' - When a hot liquid spills out of a container 'Boil down to' - Amount to 'Boil down' - Simplify, reduce to the essentials 'Boil up' - Cook or heat something to boiling point 'Boil up' - Feel a negative emotion strongly
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17337	WakeWorld (http://www.wakeworld.com/forum/index.php) - - Stereo cutting out - is it my amp? (http://www.wakeworld.com/forum/showthread.php?t=793460) OnlyButter 05-20-2012 6:24 AM Stereo cutting out - is it my amp? I have a dual battery set up with Perko switch and an ACR. After about 3 hours of listening with the engine off, the stereo starts cutting out. Would this normally be due to one of my amps heating up? I don't think it's my deep cell battery b/c when I get home to put it on the charger it's still at 65%. If it is an amp, how do I figure out which one? Here's my setup: Head Unit: MB Quart Nautic There are actually two of these in the boat (1 in the glove compartment which is a CD changer, and the other is at the helm). http://www.mbquart.com/nautic_accessories.html Amp #2: MTX TC4001 Thunder - Class D. http://outlet.crutchfield.com/S-JKfF...er-TC4001.html Amp #3: Planet Audio AC 1600.4, 4-channel mosfet. http://www.vickersav.com/index.php?m...oducts_id=2792 Sub: Kicker L5. http://www.crutchfield.com/S-42RW0AL...-06S10L54.html Kracker 05-20-2012 6:53 AM Its most likely your battery. If an amp gets hot it will go into protect mode until it cools down. The battery is probly running low and not supplying enough voltage to keeps the amps on. Take a multimeter and test em next time. Anything below 11.5 volts and your amps will most likely shut down. What type of batteries do you have? OnlyButter 05-20-2012 8:59 AM My starter battery is this one: http://www.easternmarine.com/deka-12...arting-battery My deep cycle stereo battery is this one: http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/web...%7CGRP60054___ david_e_m 05-20-2012 9:36 AM You have a single 45 lb Group 24 deep cycle battery that may be between 60 and 70 amp/hours. Depending on how the stereo system is set up and how you use it, it may be unreasonable to expect more than three hours of play time. Also, depending on the size of the alternator, the ACR may not allow the deep cycle battery to get much of a charge after a serious discharge. If that has gone on for a while the battery may be degraded (no longer approaching the initial A/H capacity)somewhat by now. You probably need more battery capacity and help from an AC shore charger. Like mentioned above, put a multimeter to task and take concise measurements to remove the issue from the realm of speculation. Earmark Marine OnlyButter 05-20-2012 5:31 PM I do put it on a trickle charger after every outing and make sure it's 100% before going out. I'll do some testing with my voltmeter and let ya know. wakemania 05-23-2012 1:10 PM This may not be your case, but it took me about 4 months last summer of trouble shooting and re-wiring, checking voltage, batteries, speakers, etc before I stumbled on the cause of my speakers/amps shutting down. I was running them with the PERKO set to "Both". I now set it to either 1 or 2 and have never had that happen again. 1 if boat is cranked and 2 if engine is off.
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17366	The Trinity and society WCR Logo February 3, 2014 In today's Western society where the plurality of religions is a reality one encounters in daily life, knowledge of the different understandings of God found in those religions is an urgent task. Karl Rahner, the 20th century theologian, famously wrote, "Despite their orthodox confession of the Trinity, Christians are, in their practical life, mere monotheists." In the midst of religious plurality, this can no longer suffice. Christians must self-consciously become Trinitarian in their outlook and actions. In its recent study, God the Trinity, and the Unity of Humanity, the International Theological Commission disputes the contention that monotheism inevitably gives rise to religious violence. (See story on Page 18.) This contention also maintains the moral superiority of polytheism since supposedly the existence of many gods teaches respect for difference. One cannot comment much on the commission's report since it is currently only available in Italian. Nevertheless, one must emphasize that the core of Christianity is the assertion that God is not only one, but also three. God is a perfect harmony of three "persons" united in an eternal communion of love. Polytheism, in contrast, is notable for, not respect for diversity, but constant warring among jealous gods. The mere belief in the Trinity, however, does not get one very far. Distortions of Trinitarian belief can lead to other distortions, such as authoritarianism. If one's Trinitarian belief focuses mainly on the relationship between the Father and Son, one's God will be similar to the immature couple so absorbed in each other that they have forgotten the outside world. As well, a spirituality focused solely on the Father would see God as a terrifying mystery who subjects humans to oppressive, arbitrary acts of his will. One could go on with other examples of distortions, all of which have reared their heads in the history of Christianity. One's concept of God and of the relations within the Trinity affects not only personal spirituality, but also the organization of society. Finding out what God is like is something of utmost importance for ourselves and our world. The prime requisite for this investigation is not scientific know-how, but faith seeking understanding. God has revealed himself through the incarnation, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He has revealed himself as a Trinity, a communion of three persons whose love spills over by creating a world with humanity as its centre, a humanity that God's Son, in the person of Jesus Christ, must rescue. Such a Trinity is not idle speculation; it is the life and salvation of all./GWA
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17396	Penname:Fiara_Fantasy () Member Since:2007.01.19 Hi guys. Its been several years since I\'ve posted anything, but I\'ve started to write again. Some of my older stuff makes me cringe, but I won\'t take it down since this isn\'t a username I use anymore anyway. I\'ll be updating some of my older works that are part of the Prydonian Misadventures series that I\'m writing in again, so if you read the new series installments you might want to give the earlier ones a re-read. Thanks :) AOL IM None ICQ None MSN IM None Yahoo IM None Favorite Authors
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17405	Asked at Yahoo Asked at Goldman Sachs "Are your parents disappointed with your career aspirations?" Asked at Fisher Investments Asked at Apple Asked at Nestlé USA "How would you move Mount Fuji?" Asked at Microsoft Asked at Google Asked at Amazon "How many hair salons are there in Japan?" Asked at Boston Consulting Asked at Nationwide Insurance 1. Yahoo - 47 but they're invisible and if i told you any more i'd have to kill you Goldman Sachs - turn on two switches, wait a while then turn one off. the lit bulb is the one still switched on, the warm bulb is the one you switched off and the cold one is the one you didn't switch on Fisher Investments - my parents are dead Apple - make sure its plugged in, check all the connections and failing that send the seal for an engineer Nestle - I'd be the loose brick you can pull out to see what's on the other side of the wall Microsoft - Ask it politely, the japanese are big on courtesy and it would only take a minute, failing that cut a wedge in the base and shout timber Google - ok but i will retain copyright Amazon - could you clarify your question please Boston Consulting - exactly the right number, give or take Nationwide Insurance - sent to the wrong planet by mistake Apr 1st 2010 2. Yahoo: None, because this is not a rec room. Goldman Sachs: Open the door and go from there. Fisher Investments: If they are, we have a communication problem. Apple: Plug it in, check connections. Nestle: I'd be the one that's slightly oddly coloured. Microsoft: Bit by bit. Google: Oops, I'm in the wrong room. Amazon: AGAIN with the wrong room! Oy! Boston Consulting: About as many as they need. Nationwide Insurance: He did it his way. Apr 6th 2010 3. The Goldman Sachs light bulb one is stupid. The standard answer includes feeling the warm light. Why can you do that? Are the lights low enough in the room to touch? Are the incandescent? John Smith Apr 6th 2010 4. My wife got asked in an NHS interview "If you were a cartoon character which one would you be and why?". Off the top of her head she answered "Dangermouse" which I think is pretty cool Apr 10th 2010 5. Dawn, you are fab :) Apr 16th 2010 Reply to a comment Submit » Latest on
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17413	TY - VIDEO DB - /z-wcorg/ DP - http://worldcat.org ID - 47890494 LA - English or French dialogue, French or Spanish subtitles. T1 - Home for the holidays AU - Rajski, Peggy. AU - Foster, Jodie. AU - Richter, W. D. AU - Hunter, Holly, AU - Downey, Robert, AU - Bancroft, Anne, AU - McDermott, Dylan. AU - Chaplin, Geraldine, AU - Guttenberg, Steve, AU - Danes, Claire, AU - Stevenson, Cynthia, AU - Durning, Charles, AU - Koltai, Lajos. AU - Klingman, Lynzee. AU - Isham, Mark. AU - Radant, Chris. AU - PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (Firm) AU - Egg Pictures. AU - MGM Home Entertainment Inc. PB - MGM Home Entertainment CY - [United States] Y1 - 2001/// SN - 0792850742 9780792850748 0792865677 9780792865674 AB - Claudia Larson is a divorced single mom who just lost her job and now has to fly home for the traditional family Thanksgiving in Baltimore. From the plane, she calls for reinforcements--and her brother Tommy makes it down from Boston with a little surprise: a handsome friend named Leo. Between dropping the turkey in their sister's lap and a few fist fights on the front lawn, Claudia and Tommy recapture their childhood and Claudia and Leo explore the sweet possibility of romance. ER -
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/17452	How to Build a Successful Innovation Ecosystem: Educate, Network, and Celebrate 10/14/08Follow @BillAulet (Page 3 of 4) and/or worked closely with well over a dozen regions to understand what works and what does not work—and in some cases to help them start to build a strong, sustainable ecosystem to bridge this gap. Each region has its own cultural flavor, so one shoe does not fit all. But there are some underlying truisms—and some surprising findings—that can be very beneficial and actionable. Specifically, I have come to look at innovation ecosystems as having seven key elements or pods (see the Innovation Ecosystem diagram below right). Innovation ecosystem Each pod is necessary, important, and deserving of attention—but to be clear, none are sufficient on their own. In fact, too much focus on or investment in certain elements when the overall system is not ready can do damage to the development of a sustainable ecosystem. Likewise, each element can be a constraint on the overall ecosystem’s development. In short, the success of any action depends on the current status of the environment. Still, those caveats aside, what I have found fascinating is that our research does point to some elements of this system as having more leverage than others. Time after time, in fact, two specific elements have emerged as the points where change can be most effectively implemented. They are also the best indicators of a vibrant and sustainable innovation ecosystem—and their crucial role was not obvious at all when we started. The first is culture. This was the number one determinant of a successful ecosystem, and the number one leverage point. A successful innovation culture can generally be identified by the answers to the following questions: Is the entrepreneurial spirit celebrated? Are there visible role models who are the proverbial “rock stars?” Are they the extreme exception or not? Are entrepreneurs held in high esteem for taking a chance and making a difference? Is failure understood to be part of the learning process in business, as it is in experimental science? Are there serial entrepreneurs? What is their level of ambition? Do young people aspire to be global entrepreneurs? Or are young people encouraged to get “safe” or “prestigious” jobs in large companies or government? Needless to say, a culture that celebrates entrepreneurship generates an environment where startup businesses can thrive and the pipeline for future entrepreneurs tends to build. The next most important (and it’s not unconnected) element after culture relates to the entrepreneurs themselves and, more specifically, their skills and network. The key here is their ability to build new companies, often by expanding their network of contacts and seeking advice from others. Entrepreneurs must seek to utilize their networks not only for business contacts but for knowledge. However, networking is not enough. A willing and connected army of entrepreneurs is a great start, but entrepreneurs must also be armed with the proper weapons to allow them to build their skill sets as much as possible in a practical way. Fortunately, those weapons, which include knowledge and experience of entrepreneurship, can be taught. You might now ask, “Can you influence and affect culture and build entrepreneurial skills?” And the answer is yes and no. You cannot change the people (most likely older) who are … Next Page » Single Page Currently on Page: 1 2 3 4 previous page • Angelo I enjoyed the article. I would add though that it also takes success, especially economic success to sustain an innovation culture. There are many universities around the world that produce great science; however, the mechanism for bringing innovations to market does not exist. I believe that this is largely because there is no economic advantage or incentive for doing so. At MIT the tech transfer office plays a big role in spinning out and licensing innovations for the profit of both the school and the founders. What has drawn innovators and entrepreneurs to the US in the past was the prospect of “living the dream”; aka having a big payday. Celebrating the creation and capture of value is critical in developing and sustaining an innovation culture. So as we slide down the slippery slope of Socialism how will we sustain the culture right at home so that others may live the dream? • Pingback: Do Innovation Ecosystems Need Higher Education? \| • Pingback: MIT’s Bill Aulet: Wisconsin Can Benefit From Being Off ‘Beaten Track’ \| Xconomy

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