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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40360 | Does ISO do anything in RAW but set point for opening in converter?
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So, probably a stupid question...
If you shoot RAW, does the ISO actually affect the exposure? That is, is there any difference between shooting at say, ISO 800, to have a mediumly-exposed image when you open in your converter, versus just shooting at ISO 100, and upping the exposure by 3 stops in the converter?
My real question, I suppose, is, does changing the ISO actually change the output from the sensor, or just gain up the output from the sensor? I have heard it both ways.
The reason I am asking is that I do exposure to the right. However, unless I am using flash, I rarely can do that by having more than enough light. Generally, I am operating at the slowest shutter and widest aperture I can tolerate, and exposing to the right using ISO. Then I decrease the exposure in my converter. I have kind of come to think I am being stupid here. I wonder if I am as well off to just keep the ISO lower in the first place.
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Microsoft Loves Linux: What's With That?
In November, Microsoft and Novell announced a five-year patent and technology agreement around Microsoft software and Novell's SUSE Linux software. The parties to the deal called it a "patent covenant." Others called it a sellout, a FUD attack, or a declaration of war on Linux specifically and open-source software generally. So what is this Microsoft-Novell deal really about?
In trying to understand any legal agreement, it's usually helpful to look at the money flow. In this case, it's a little complicated—with some of the money flowing now and some later, and with Microsoft buying Linux support coupons from Novell, committing money to market Novell products to Microsoft customers, and granting patent indemnification to Novell customers while receiving patent indemnification for Microsoft customers from Novell.
It nets out, though, to hundreds of millions of dollars flowing from Microsoft to Novell. So you'd think that the question would be, "What did Novell give Microsoft for the money it got from Microsoft?" But instead, the reaction to the announcement was all about something that Microsoft was giving to Novell, or rather to Novell customers, under the agreement: A promise not to sue them for intellectual property infringement.
Which is something that Novell's SUSE Linux users didn't realize they needed until Microsoft pointed it out to them. Something that, some would say, they still don't need. It's not good journalism to attribute opinions to unspecified parties as I just did with the word "some," so I'll change it: Something that, Novell would say, they still don't need. If it sounds odd to you that one of the partners to the deal is denying that one of the key elements of the deal has any value, you're right. It is odd.
Technologically, the deal is less puzzling. According to Microsoft and Novell, the agreement is about three things:
• Virtualization.
• Web services for server management.
• Compatibility between Microsoft Office and
It gets simpler, though. According to Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith (I don't know why a lawyer is weighing in on this, but I think he's right), the truly important element is virtualization. The kind of virtualization at issue is the kind used by IT departments to consolidate development, production, and app-serving tasks onto a single machine with some kind of virtualizing platform running multiple virtualized operating systems. Such virtualization is a growing market in which the exact roles of the potential players—including that of the operating-system vendor—are not yet defined. That's a situation fraught with opportunity and risk. Microsoft wants more than just to play in this market—it wants to control it, and that requires astute technological and legal strategy.
Because any action by a large company has public-relations implications, you have to think that the PR aspects of the deal were analyzed carefully. Whether they were analyzed successfully is another matter. I'd say clearly not in Novell's case. One unanalyzable and unpredictable element of public relations for Microsoft is the company's, um, enthusiastic CEO.
In presenting a deal like this to the public, most technology CEOs would probably concentrate on the technological aspects and throw around a lot of eight-syllable words like "interoperability" and try to generate a warm fuzzy feeling that they'd done something generally good for their customers and for the industry at large. Microsoft doesn't have that kind of CEO. Steve Ballmer can throw around eight-syllable words with the best of them, and he did some of that, but mostly he was intent on emphasizing the IP aspect of the deal. This is about IP compliance, he emphasized. Microsoft's customers and Novell's are worried about Sarbanes-Oxley, they want a legal guarantee that they won't be sued. The deal, he said, gave such assurances. But his assurances sounded more like threats. "[T]here's nothing in this covenant not to sue," Ballmer said, "that is exclusively offered to Novell." Implying that if other Linux providers don't want their customers sued, they should maybe talk to Microsoft. And nobody'll get hoit.
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When I was messing around on my browser I went to facebook and noticed it told me that I should download the facebook app for my LG Optimus 2X. Im using an X2 but why would it tell me that I'm using the Optimus? Is there some sort of significance that a dev could use in the coding or is it just the phone / internet making a mistake?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40398 | WTP PMC Agenda/Minutes for September 02, 2008 Conference Call
WTP PMC Agenda/Minutes for September 02, 2008 Conference Call
Call Info
Tollfree in the US: 877-421-0030
Alternate: 770-615-1247
Access code: 269746#
Full list of phone numbers
Call Time: 1500 UTC
Announcements and General Business
• Creative Common License - Attribution-Share Alike
We in WTP plan to post some educational materials that will be licensed under the Creative Common license. Specifically, that flavor of "Attribution-Share Alike" for "non-code" sources such as presentations, images, and/or documents, either
• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ for older things, but newer work will be
but still EPL for sample code, examples and snippets. Everyone we've talked to thinks this is a good idea.
• Board Presentation: 17th ... implies sent to Board on 10th ... implies PMC Review on 9th (next PMC call)!
Reports, Actions, Issues
Architecture: Tim deBoer
Requirements: Raghu Srinivasan
Planning Process Document has been started.
Eclipse-level dates and requirements have been clarified in a Planning Council message (and elsewhere). Should we adjust ours?
Education: Naci Dai
Please review: Resource Page Proposal
Naci was approached (and countered) with some proposed articles for Eclipse (online) magazine [need link. only one I found last published in 2007?] Naci will invite authors for a series of articles for "WTP Uncovered":
1. web developer tools (xml, xsl, html, css)
2. web applications with Java (jsf, jsp, server)
3. enterprise application (jpa/ejb)
4. soa, webservices
5. adopters/extending (maybe)
Planning: David Williams
• WTP 3.1 M1 (respinning)
• ?Pre 1.0 release of ATF component mid October
• 3.0.2 and 3.0.3
• JPT 2.1
• 2009, Galileo Release
Quality: Neil Hauge
Neil investigating "close old bugs" policy.
Neil has estimated approximately 800 bugs (of 2000 untargeted bugs) could be considered "old bugs". He'll prepare a table and note to send to project with encouragement to PLs to handle ... something like either triage individually and assign a target, or mark with 'helpwanted' or mark in mass with a kind comment to re-open if still an issue (with reason for the mass update, etc.).
WTP User Experience Lead: Kaloyan Raev
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PMC Calendar
• Eclipse World
Raghu and Neil have submitted.
• Eclipse European Summit. Known cases of presentations to be submitted: Kaloyan "project creation?", Naci will attend but (probably) not present. JPA, probably Shawn probably combined with EclipseLink. JSF, probably Cameron.
• EclipseCon 2009. September we'll start recruiting talks.
Back to meeting list.
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Abstract:The crisis of 200809 has focused attention on money and credit fluctuations, financial crises, and policy responses. In this paper we study the behavior of money, credit, and macroeconomic indicators over the long run based on a newly constructed historical dataset for 12 developed countries over the years 1870 2008, utilizing the data to study rare events associated with financial crisis episodes. We present new evidence that leverage in the financial sector has increased strongly in the second half of the twentieth century as shown by a decoupling of money and credit aggregates, and we also find a decline in safe assets on banks' balance sheets. We also show for the first time how monetary policy responses to financial crises have been more aggressive post-1945, but how despite these policies the output costs of crises have remained large. Importantly, we can also show that credit growth is a powerful predictor of financial crises, suggesting that such crises are "credit booms gone wrong" and that policymakers ignore credit at their peril. It is only with the long-run comparative data assembled for this paper that these patterns can be seen clearly.
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There may be no direct route from the politics of Jesus' day to the politics of modern Britain, but there are embodied principles and narratives in the Gospel which directly challenge the marginalisation of the poor and the use of ideology (religious or otherwise) to prop up the status quo, says Jonathan Bartley. These have a good deal to say to us as we assess the Spending Review and those it benefits and penalises. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40420 | Boy Lyrics
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After all you're still quite small
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You was only swearing yesterday
Oh you want to win the world away
But now you got nothing to say
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You've got to make a stand
So put the coke away
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Got to let the people know
You got the strength to stay
I can see you run, I can see you hide
Oh your heart is aching
Lost in a dream of what might have been
You're the guide, you're the number one
And your knees are shakin'
Stand and deliver in an endless dream
Schizophrenic, photogenic, aggravates me so
Only yes men have a guess man
Watch the spirit go
Batman zips the monster as he bleeds
And gets up on the buzz he needs
And a kid on the street just reads
And reads and reads and reads
And reads and reads and reads
Boy it's them hard case city blues
Cagney is the news
Does the giant ring a bell?
Boy it's the Hudson east river cruise
It's the Empire State buffoons
Oh you know the story well
Do you have to run, do you have to hide?
There's a new tomorrow
Yes, you're a mess but you're more than less
When this battles won you can look inside
Oh you did not borrow
Yes you're the best but you still can't rest
You know, you know the carnival is closed
Your street's alive with ghosts
But a friend says, "Don't look back"
Don't look back, don't look 'round
Your vision is your fate
Through long electric nights
When a woman helps you write
Cheer up mate put the dramas in the past
See you did not have to fast
Euphemism lasts and lasts and lasts
And lasts and lasts and lasts
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Boy if you've got an axe to grind
Be thankful for this time
For it gives you what you need
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It'll tell you what to say
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Turn the people on to beau geste
'Cause that's what you did the best
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Sing the words till they fall forlorn
Like the pieces of a jigsaw jet
Boy shoot a rocket clean out of your brain
No these people ain't the same
You can hear another call
They don't show us how to grow
They only show us how to win
And boy the secret's in the bicycle shed
Ain't no answers now they're dead
To seek is a mortal sin
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40424 | Straight from El Jobso's mouth at today's notebook keynote: "Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It's great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we're waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace." Phil chimed in with "We have the best HD movie and TV options in iTunes." Damn. As if that weren't enough to make Mac-lovin' home theater junkies cringe, Steve also commented (when asked about the dearth of HDMI in his introductions) that HDMI was "limited in resolution," and Philip Schiller elaborated by saying that "for typical computer use, DisplayPort is the connector of the future." So, does that mean we can't count on Blu-ray support in OS X 10.5.6?
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Sometimes I get an e-mail describing to me a guild leader who fails for so many reasons that I am simply at a loss for words. However, words are all I have to work with here, along with my trusty Picard ASCII (courtesy of Blizzard poster Datth), so I will do my best. I warn you that this e-mail is a very long read. But those of you who want some insight into exactly what not to do as a guild leader, read on!
Dear Scott,
Around May the more progression-ready members of my casual guild started filling in spots for an established raiding guild doing 10man content with promises of moving to 25man content fairly quickly in order to see the BC raid instances pre-WotLK. One thing led to the other and I ended up gutting my guild of those more dedicated members and all of us joining up with the raiding guild which seems to be usually how these things go.
What I ended up discovering is the guild I joined into had been much bigger and more organized at one time but was in its last throes and the person who brought the two guilds together was given the GM role in order to facilitate his, and others, dreams of 25man content. Long story short the raid guild had long since mastered Kara, but always struggled on ZA, and had only barely glimpsed the insides of the 25man instances.
From the day I joined I was quickly promoted to the role of MT, even though they had several already, and started gearing up in the best that KZ and badge gear could offer while working with them on succeeding in ZA. But a month into joining they started bleeding old members to the tune of 1 to 2 a week as the GM and all the officers had me busy running them through every daily heroic as well as Main Tanking the 10 man raids up to four nights a week. Not only that the officers were all gearing up their alt characters all the while having a strict no ALT policy in place, meaning non-officers had to pick a char they wanted to progress but were near forbidden on playing any level 70 alts unless the raid absolutely needed that character to fill the spot, but if this were the case they would more than finagle their alts into the spots while filling the raid up with every one else's mains.
Along with the problem with the Alts, the favoritism started becoming very apparent, and half the people I had moved over into this guild quickly became jaded as the GM was changing the rules weekly on how guild repairs were handled, whether or not we were going with a dkp system to increase retention, and would always support the officers in grievances over regular members which became constant.
When the guild started bleeding members my first action was to try to work with the people who were being left out of everything, to the chagrin of the GM, who felt that constant recruiting would replace those who weren't happy in the guild which ultimately lead to a revolving door of players joining and leaving the guild. The GM's feeling was that weaker members weren't worth the trouble of working with to make them better and that getting good members was as easy as offering guild invites after a seriously informal application process.
All this led to me enduring so much stress in the game, that when a RL emergency came up, I more than jumped at the chance to take a month off of playing, which I did with no warning, well in my defense I tried to approach him about what was going on and he was less than concerned which cemented my decision to take a well deserved break. This left the guild in a hard spot since I bailed out on the friends I brought over, who pretty much stopped playing their mains in the guild, as well leaving the guild with one tank, who was the GM himself, since the rest had either quit the guild or been run off. So pretty much from that point the guild really fell to pieces, even filling Kara spots internally became a struggle so I have found out.
I just got back into the game this past week, and the GM isn't even on speaking terms with me, even cordially. He's changed the rankings where nearly half the guild are now officers with their alts promoted as officers, he shut the guild bank down to the rest of the membership unless your an officer, and implemented the dkp system with no way for anyone to currently earn points. I've picked back up playing with my friends I brought over from the casual guild but several already plan on quitting soon no matter what, others want to quit the guild if things don't improve while several worry about not being able to get into another actual raid guild at level 80. Compounding the problem I've gotten tells from a few of the remaining non-officers stating if I were to break ties with this guild they would likely come along with if I were to form a separate, obviously more casual, guild for leveling into the WotLK content.
So, what do I do from here?
I, and some others, are on the fence whether we should try to stick with it through the hard spot and get into the WotLK content while trying to work with the GM on loosening back up. He really wasn't such a bad guy before we were absorbed into his guild and he was made GM. Or should I take this point in time as a good one for severing ties and beginning WotLK anew with a core group of around 10 people or so? The only caveat is that when you leave this guild you are out for good as there's no chance for redemption or return.
I'm just so,
Frustrated and Confused
Well, F&C, I think you're probably regretting your decision to move most of your old guild into this one. It sounds like you didn't really do your homework about what this guild was all about, who was running it, and what their policies were. Or maybe they misled you. Either way, what's done is done.
I would strongly recommend you cut your losses at this point and move on. Try to salvage whomever you can from your old guild, because this one is a sinking ship. I'm actually surprised you're even considering sticking around when the guild leader won't even speak to you!
This guild will never succeed while its leaders run it in such an arbitrary and corrupt fashion. Let's go through the failure point by point:
1. There are different rules for officers.
Special treatment can be OK sometimes. If someone has sacrificed a lot of time and energy for the good of the guild, then maybe they've earned getting that ultrarare enchanting recipe when it drops, because you know they'll stick with the guild through thick and thin.
But when the only way to bring an alt to a raid is to be an officer, and you just promote all your friends to leadership ranks, that's beyond special treatment. That's just enforced unfairness.
And why are they bringing alts anyway when you're struggling to learn encounters? That's not only selfish and an abuse of power, it's just plain stupid. No wonder they can't even beat Zul'Aman.
2. The officers don't value their members.
Good luck filling your roster with quality raiders when you never take the time to help anyone get better. You can't treat your members as disposable if they don't measure up to your standards. You'll end up with a revolving door when people figure out they're one bad run away from a /gkick. Who wants to be part of a guild like that? Elitist jerks?
3. Policies change all the time.
The officers clearly don't know what they're doing, and so they're just making up rules as they go along, probably to suit whatever benefits them the most in any given week. It sounds like they've now set up a crooked DKP system so that only their friends get loot.
4. The guild leader is emo.
Refusing to speak with a member because he took a break for a real-life emergency? Is this guy 10 years old? Grow up! Get over yourself!
And the fact that he actually got upset when you tried to resolve some of the drama tells me he's not mature enough to handle anyone else taking initiative. He probably considers it a threat to his position.
5. The guild leader has let power go to his head.
You say he wasn't a bad guy before he took over. Clearly, the power he now wields has revealed his true colors. He has total control over the guild bank and the DKP system and he isn't letting anyone who's not an officer have even a sniff of either one. He's basically running the guild like a corrupt dictator, showering favors on his friends to the exclusion of everyone else.
Pretty soon these favored officers are going to be the only ones left. What will happen when the officers are the only members left? I imagine the entire thing will implode under the weight of its bloated, top-heavy ranking system. The officers might even turn on each other, currying favor with their guild leader by backstabbing and spreading rumors.
A long time ago I wrote a column called How to Destroy Your Guild. It's almost comical to me how many of those destructive choices this guild leader and his officers have made.
Leave now, F&C, and don't look back. I wish you luck in WotLK!
Send Scott your guild-related questions, conundrums, ideas, and suggestions at [email protected]. You may find your question the subject of next week's Officers' Quarters! For more WoW Insider gameplay columns, click here.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40428 | Canabalt creator Adam Atomic talks indy gaming, documentary on the way
Adam Atomic's real name is Adam Saltsman, but regardless what you call him he's the man behind Canabalt, a killer parkour-inspired title in which you control a dude running across a rooftops with just a single button -- jump. Though it has simple mechanics and simple aesthetics the thinking behind it was anything but, a topic that Adam explores in the video clip embedded for you below. The footage is the product of James Swirsky and the team behind the upcoming documentary Indie Game: The Movie, due out next year and promising to explore the art and craft of the independent game movement. It's too early to tell whether the film might be able to knock The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters from the top of our documentary chart, but this segment (not actually a part of the movie) certainly makes things look promising.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40430 | And you thought Ricoh's G700 was fully featured. Premiering at Photokina this week, the souped-up G700SE is a modified version of the G700 that appeared last month, with this guy able to accept add-on modules that can boost functionality by a good bit. The prototype unit here in Germany was showcased alongside of the GP-1 GPS dongle and a BR-1 bar code scanning module, with the latter meant more for governments and enterprises. It's still encased in a dust- and water-resistant shell, and it packs integrated 802.11b/g WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR to boot. All of the other specs remain the same from the original G700 (which you can peek here), and if you're looking to buy one, you'll have to wait until the earlier half of 2011 for it to splash down at around €799 ($1,070) -- according to booth representatives, anyway.
Oh, and for fans of the GXR series, we stumbled upon an A12 28mm f/2.5 lens module that'll slot right into the company's interchangeable camera starting in Q4. So long as you have €649 ($869) to spare.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40435 | Many of you might not remember the trailer at the top of this Breakfast Topic. I remember looking for it a few months ago and just not being able to find it in hard media form, only remembering that it was on one of the Blizzard discs that I had lying around my apartment. It was a futile attempt. However, someone sent me a link to the YouTube version, so I was very excited. To be honest, I don't even remember where I saw it. My best guess would have to be on the Warcraft III disc with all of the cool trailers for upcoming Blizzard games.
What struck me about this video is how much of Warcraft is still here, so many years ago today, than what was originally pitched to us. That orc shaman has the exact same kind of mannerisms and mysticism surrounding him in his few seconds of screen time that it feels like Thrall has in his storyline. It felt fun and prophetic to look back and see the World of Warcraft still relatively the same tonally, even though we've all changed so much since we first saw that video.
Oh, yeah, that's Peter Cullen doing the voiceover. What do you guys think? Would this trailer still sell you on the Warcraft?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40437 | Garrosh has been killed captured many times over, thanks in part to the heirlooms that he drops. Everyone wants one, and players are frustrated at what is seen as a very low drop rate. I am among those players, so Lead Encounter Designer Ion "Watcher" Hazzikostas' tweets are music to my ears:
This is great news, and indeed, on my tenth kill of Garrosh on my shaman, my 14th kill across all characters on that account, my bad luck was finally protected, and I got my first heirloom. The message to keep at it is a good one, and maybe in time, as the expansion wears on, the game's tolerance for bad luck will be adjusted. Or people will have killed him so many times that they're drowning in heirlooms.
I'd love to know a little more about how bad luck protection works, too. How unlucky do you have to be, does getting one drop completely reset its count no matter how long that drop took to happen? How's your luck? For clarity, these heirlooms only drop from Flex and above.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40447 | Soldiers' Pay Summary
Summary (Masterpieces of American Fiction)
A work of literary modernism influenced by T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), William Faulkner’s first novel, Soldiers’ Pay, brings “the lost generation” to Faulkner’s native ground. In describing the impact upon a small Southern town of the return and slow death of an aviator horribly wounded in World War I, the novel re-creates the mood of disillusionment, deflation, and spiritual malaise which was prevalent in postwar American society and art. Eliotic despair is substantially countered, however, by Faulkner’s insistence, often in rich, poetic prose, on natural cycles of renewal, on the essential decency, strength, and humanity of the principal characters, and on the faith and integrity of the blacks who have remained impervious to white society’s spiritual alienation.
The novel opens with an ironic epigraph taken from an “Old Play (about 19-?),” a fragment of dialogue about shaving between Achilles and Mercury cast as sergeant and cadet. The scene is a graphic undercutting of the heroic mood and an effective introduction to Joe Gilligan and Julian Lowe, a demobilized soldier and a young air cadet, respectively, whose opportunity for martial glory has been “cruelly” thwarted by fate: The Armistice had been declared before they could reach the Western Front. On a train heading south from Buffalo, they give vent to their frustration in drunkenness, dramatizing their essential isolation while casting themselves as “lost foreigners” in a “foreign land.”
Into this histrionic scene enters Donald Mahon, a young pilot with a ghastly scar across his brow. He is a symbol of the physical and psychic wounds inflicted by the war, while serving as a focal point of the characters who project onto him their unrealized aspirations. For Lowe, Mahon is the epitome of glamour and heroism, a dying pilot whose wings suggest both angelic martyrdom and, unconsciously, sexual achievement. “Had I been old enough or lucky enough, this might have been me,” Lowe thinks jealously. Yet the novel soon moves beyond Lowe’s adolescent romanticism (and, appropriately, he disappears after chapter 1, persuaded by Margaret Powers to return home—he reappears only through his semiliterate love letters to her) in order to explore the real costs of war, suffered by the soldiers and noncombatants alike.
If Mahon represents the wounded, dead, and dying soldiers, Margaret Powers, whom Gilligan and Lowe meet on the train, represents the women who become widows before their time....
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Soldiers' Pay Bibliography (Masterpieces of American Fiction)
Blotner, Joseph. Faulkner: A Biography. 2 vols. New York: Random House, 1974. Once criticized for being too detailed (the two-volume edition is some two thousand pages) this biography begins before Faulkner’s birth with ancestors such as William Clark Falkner, author of The White Rose of Memphis, and traces the writer’s career from a precocious poet to America’s preeminent novelist.
Brodhead, Richard H., ed. Faulkner: New Perspectives. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1983. One volume in the Twentieth Century Views series under the general editorship of Maynard Mack, offering nearly a dozen essays by a variety of Faulkner scholars. Among them are Irving Howe’s “Faulkner and the Negroes,” first published in the early 1950’s, and Cleanth Brooks’s “Vision of Good and Evil” from Samuel E. Balentine’s The Hidden God (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1983). Contains a select bibliography.
Cox, Leland H., ed. William Faulkner: Biographical and Reference Guide. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1982.
Cox, Leland H., ed. William Faulkner: Critical Collection. Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1982. These companion volumes constitute a handy reference to most of Faulkner’s work. The first is a reader’s guide which provides a long biographical essay,...
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40449 | Functional Adaptations
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Body designed for burrowing: nematode
The body of nematodes dictates their movement techniques via a strong external cuticle, longitudinal muscles, and pressurized core.
"Nematodes, or roundworms, contrast sharply with the various sorts of flatworms. They have a strong external cuticle, a normally round cross section, and longitudinal muscles only. A grotesquely large species, the intestinal parasite Ascaris, was studied by Harris and Crofton (1957). Ascaris has a normal fiber angle of about 75 degrees; being unflattened, it lives just on the curve of figure 20.2, part way down the left-hand slope. Contraction of its muscles can only shorten it further. But shortening can only happen if it decreases in volume to move down the slope, which it can't, or if the fibers stretch, which they do very little. Mainly, muscle contraction makes it much stiffer, generating internal pressures up to 30 kilopascals--around a third of an atmosphere. The hypertensive worms do get shorter, but only by about 10 percent. Nematodes can bend by contracting muscles on one side only; and this, too, increases internal pressure. Circumferential muscles are quite superfluous--the resilience of the cuticle antagonizes the action of the longitudinals. Or, looked at another way, with a pressurized core as strut, muscle on one side can antagonize muscle on the other side just as do the biceps and triceps muscles of our upper arms. The scheme permits nematodes some unpleasant life-styles such as burrowing through our flesh." (Vogel 2003:413-414)
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The Astral plain.
Let me tell you about the digital Vietnam this free-to-play MMORPG put me through. Let me tell you about XAES.
XAES is a low-level instanced dungeon, the first one lots of Allods players will get the chance to attack. It's some kind of magical power plant filled with traitorous engineers. Making the decision to do a run of XAES is pretty dramatic, partly because XAES is a level 10 instance sat in the middle of a city containing the game's only quests for levels four to 10. So, the 14 or so hours you spend reaching level 10 are also spent being battered black and blue by 'Looking For Group To Run XAES!!!!!!!' messages in area chat.
Deciding it was my time to hit XAES felt like a coming of age. I didn't care that it took 20 minutes camped in front of the portal to get a six-strong group together. This was it!
"It" turned out to be a featureless trudge through the uninspiring grounds around the building for two hours, wrestling plain-looking enemies with ferocious stats. Even for our balanced team of two tanks, a healer and three damage-dealing classes, defeating each one was like tipping a car.
There were no set-pieces, no enemies requiring special treatment, no surprises and nothing pretty to look at. There was just eroding hard numbers with the same series of hot-key presses over and over, with each death on our side (there were lots of deaths on our side) acting like a rope wall in a mental obstacle course. If this was a coming of age, it was one of the ones practised by tribes in the middle of nowhere, involving nudity and pain.
Allods does have the best clothes of any game I've played in years. Look at my guy in the middle there!
And you know what our reward was for the two whole hours we spent pressing past enemies in these dismal, building-site surroundings? The discovery that we couldn't beat the instance's final boss. His stats were too high. We took him on three times, got flattened three times, and ran all the way back to him three times like drunks sprinting into a glass door.
"It's not happening," I typed from the metal gantry overlooking this horrible mage. My group either fell silent or swore with grubby net illiteracy.
XAES exemplifies the only real problem with Allods Online. Outside of moments like this, everything else is pretty, in place and as it should be, designed with intelligence and a touch of charm. Squint, and Allods is perfectly poised to achieve its mission: lure people in by offering them something similar to World of Warcraft, except for free, and then reap their money back with straightforward micro-transactions.
In the bottom left corner of your screen in Allods is a tiny, unobtrusive treasure chest, and clicking on it brings up a dirty great item shop of things you can buy with your real-world money. This is actually implemented really well, in that it's perfectly possible to play Allods without ever handing over your credit card details (the item shop's even been disabled for most of the beta), but the fabulous bargains on sale appeal anyway.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40472 | Who among us probably thought there was no need to worry about dogs and cats ending up on dinner tables, because such a thing has surely been illegal in Pennsylvania for time out of mind?
Show of hands? Wow, that's a lot of hands, a lot of sensible but totally mistaken hands.
It seems that the slaughter of dogs and cats for human consumption has never been illegal in Pennsylvania, so long as that slaughter happens in a humane fashion, as though that might possibly make some kind of difference.
In fact, only about a half-dozen states have laws on the books banning the butchering of cats and dogs for their meat, including New York and New Jersey.
It seems Pennsylvania may be about to join them.
The state House passed a bill recently to prohibit the killing of dogs and cats for meat, and also ban the breeding, selling and processing of dogs and cats for food.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Rep. John Maher, R-Allegheny, introduced the bill in October as a measure against what he called “slaughterhouses” hiding in plain sight.
Discoveries of such operations have been rare, he said, sharing with the Inquirer a memo to fellow lawmakers describing the incidents as “infrequent but disturbing. ... Perhaps more disturbing is the knowledge selling or slaughtering dogs and cats for human consumption is not illegal in Pennsylvania.”
It seems his House colleagues strongly agreed, since the vote to approve the bill was unanimous.
Look, we understand that some cultures find nothing odious about eating cats and dogs. Plentiful meat of any kind is probably a godsend for people perpetually in a state of near-starvation in certain regions of the globe, and far be it for us to suggest that the life of a dog or cat should be prioritized over that of a human being. The human survival instinct is what it is.
But one of the side effects of Americans' quality of life — admittedly and perhaps luckily much higher than others' — is that we long passed the days where basic survival needs relegated all animals simply to potential sources of protein. Our working animals eventually became near and dear companions, to the point where eating them became widely taboo.
And despite our respect for the cultural diversity that comes with our founding as a nation of immigrants, some things remain out of bounds to the much larger part of our population that finds eating cats and dogs repugnant.
This is very much a case of a loophole existing precisely because so few modern Americans would ever assume that such a thing wouldn't already be illegal within our own culture.
We expect the Senate will likely agree, approve this bill as soon as possible, and send it along to our governor to become law. |
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5. The Sugar Factory
If you eat more sweets than you need, then an exceedingly detailed and flawless system in your body goes into action to prevent your blood-sugar level from rising:
1- First, the pancreas cells detect sugar molecules from among the millions of molecules in the blood and separate them from the others. Moreover, they decide whether there are too many of these molecules or too few, literally counting their number. How can invisibly small cells without eyes or a brain possess criteria for the proper level of sugar molecules in the blood? That's a matter requiring reflection. (Figure 23).
2- If the pancreas cells determine that there's more sugar in the blood than needed, they move to store this surplus sugar. However, they do not perform this storage themselves, but order it to be carried out by other cells at a considerable distance away.
a. The pankreas
b. sugar
c. pancreatic cells
Figure 23: Pancreas cells are able to distinguish sugar molecules from among the millions of other molecules in the blood.
Moreover, they literally count the sugar molecules, and decide whether there are too many of them, or too few.
3- These distant cells do not normally store sugar until they receive a command to do so—when the pancreatic cells emit a hormone that instructs them to begin storing sugar. The formula for this hormone, known as insulin, has been recorded in their DNA since the instant when pancreas cells first came into existence (Figure 24).
4- Special enzymes (or "worker proteins") in the pancreatic cells decipher this formula and produce insulin in line with its instructions. Hundreds of enzymes, each with different jobs, work together in its production.
5- The insulin produced is sent to the target cells by way of the blood, the body's most reliable and fastest transportation network. Some of these target cells lie in the liver.
a. insulin
Figure 24: Pancreas cells send a hormone telling the relevant cells to start storing sugar. This hormone is known as insulin.
Figure 25: The insulin hormone is produced by special enzymes in the pancreas cells and reaches the liver and other relevant organs via the bloodstream.
6- The liver cells receive the insulin's command to store sugar and obey unconditionally. Chemical "gates" that permit the sugar molecules to enter the cells are opened (Figure 25).
7- However, these gates do not open at random. The storage cells in the liver distinguish only sugar molecules from among hundreds of different molecules in the bloodstream, and then catch and imprison them inside themselves (Figures 26 and 27).
8- The liver cells never disobey a command reaching them. They never misinterpret that command, or trap the wrong substances, or store excessive sugar. They work with enormous discipline and self-sacrifice. Therefore, when you drink a cup of tea with too much sugar in it, this extraordinary system goes into action and stores the surplus sugar in your liver. If this system did not function properly, then your blood-sugar levels would rise rapidly and you would enter a diabetic coma, commonly resulting in death.
a. Storage cell
b. The pancreas
Figures 26 and 27: Storage cells in the pancreas can distinguish sugar molecules from among all the millions of molecules in the blood, and stores as many as they require.
9- This is such a perfect system that it can also work in the opposite direction when necessary. If the sugar in your blood falls below normal levels, the pancreas cells produce another hormone, known as glucagons, which tells the cells that were formerly storing sugar to release it. The cells obey this command, and release the sugar they had stored (Figure 28).
How can cells with no brains, nervous systems, eyes or ears flawlessly come up with such complex calculations and functions? How can these unconscious assemblages of protein and fat molecules perform tasks that are beyond the capability of educated human beings? What is the source of this awareness exhibited by unconscious molecules? Of course, these events are just a few of the countless proofs of the existence and might of God, Lord of the universe and of all living things.
In verses God states:
God—Him from Whom nothing is hidden, either on earth or in heaven. It is He Who forms you in the womb however He wills. There is no deity but Him, the Almighty, the All-Wise. (Surah Al 'Imran, 5-6)
a. Release sugar into the bloodstream
b. Glucagon
Figure 28: Glucagon carries an instruction for the cells that previously have been storing sugar to release it into the bloodstream. The cells obey this command and release the sugar they have stored into the blood.
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Social technologies in Brazil: A new partnership for FAO
On August 15th, the Director-General of FAO signed a partnership agreement with Fundação Banco do Brasil to join technical capacities and information exchange with program and project development in order to end hunger.
During his recent visit to Latin America, José Graziano da Silva signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Fundação Banco do Brasil (FBB) . This new partnership utilizes both entities’ knowledge and skills, resulting in an innovative approach to end hunger.
Fundação Banco do Brasil has an approach to development that uses Tecnologias Sociais (Social Technologies) for development. They have certified 504 of them, all of which are readily available for use off of their website as a Banco de Tecnologias Sociais (BTS). These social technologies are being translated into other languages as well.
The approach to the partnership will be as follows: FBB will mediate technical capacity building and information exchange related to the BST and FAO will support the development of programs and projects for the application of social technologies in different communities. Examples of social technologies in the BTS are a system which recovers food suitable for human consumption but that was not commercialized, as well as a special cistern which combines pisciculture and hydroponics. |
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Two types of cookies using the same base 'dough'. They’re both flavorsome, nutty and crunchy! Sure to please any taste buds.
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1. Mix the three flours in a bowl, by hand, until incorporated. Add the ginger powder, baking powder and sea salt. Melt the coconut oil and honey (bain marie) and add them to the bowl, together with the water. Then mix the dough by hand until completely combined. Allow it to rest for 20 minutes.
2. After those 20 minutes, preheat the oven at 150C and line a baking tray with baking paper.
3. Roll out the dough on a slightly floured surface until relatively thin (about 1/3 cm) and cut out 16 shapes using a pastry cutter (we chose to make them round). Place 8 of them on the prepared baking tray and bake them in the oven for 4 minutes. Meanwhile, using a smaller shape of the same type, cut out the middle parts of the remaining 8 dough shapes.
4. Take out the baking tray and put the ‘fresh’ dough shapes on top of the semi-baked ones. Use a fork to ‘seal’ the outer margins of the cookies. Add 1.5 tsp of jam in middle of each cookie and bake them again for 9 minutes, swapping the tray halfway through to ensure even baking.
5. Once ready, remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool on a rack.
6. With the leftover dough you can make a second type of cookies.
7. Knead the dough again, until combined, roll it out and use the smaller pastry cutter to cut out shapes. Place them on the same baking tray you used for the jam cookies, grate some raw walnuts on top and bake them for 9 minutes, swapping the tray halfway through.
8. These cookies are not very sweet, but they’re very flavorsome, nutty and crunchy!
9. Make sure to adjust the quantity of honey (maple syrup) to taste if you like your cookies very sweet. |
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by John Sullivan Contributions Published on Jun 02, 2009 05:03 PM
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I'll be giving a workshop titled "Copyleft and the War on Sharing" at the Connecticut Film Festival in Danbury, CT, this coming Saturday from 4pm to 5:30pm. I'm looking forward to doing the talk and to hearing what experiences people interested in film and art have had with both free software and broader free culture issues.
We'll talk about the history and experience of GNU, the FSF, and the free software movement; and about some of the different fronts in the War on Sharing being waged against the public by groups like the RIAA, MPAA, BSA, Microsoft, and Apple.
The FSF will also have a booth at the event with t-shirts, stickers, and information about free software, thanks to some awesome volunteers.
If you're in the Danbury area, come by and check us out!
If you're running an event and would like a speaker from the FSF to attend, just drop us a note.
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User avatar #2 - PlaystationGuy (10/08/2013) [-]
College, im thinking about dropping out.
#8 to #2 - amuzen ONLINE (10/08/2013) [-]
Feels like the only way for it to REALLY be a waste is to drop out or fail.
User avatar #5 to #2 - stafeezy (10/08/2013) [-]
Hey man, i'm in college and I'll tell you what. You aren't the only one thinking that way, but I wholeheartedly encourage you to keep on trying. Sometimes, it just takes a little bit of self discipline to get **** done. You made it that far, you're not dumb, you're not stupid putting a lot of faith in you there, don't disappoint .. you may just need to adjust the way you approach things. Cheer up and please don't give up. There are others.
If indeed there is something better out there to do then, by all means, go make yourself happy but don't drop out for nothing.
User avatar #4 to #2 - thegamerslife (10/08/2013) [-]
Maybe try something else.
#3 to #2 - jopemon (10/08/2013) [-]
Me too, i enjoyed my summer welding and doing general steel work more than this. I was also making decent money!
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#7 - caelinnis (04/05/2013) [-]
>mfw i have a foot fetish
User avatar #295 to #7 - luckiestcharms (04/06/2013) [-]
I'm jelly of all those Northern Hemisphere nations now as summer is otw, and you know what that means!
flipflop/slipslop/thong season
User avatar #52 to #7 - supermegasherman (04/06/2013) [-]
is it like total foot fetish or like "a girl shouldn't have nasty-ass lookin feet"
because all my ex girlfriends make fun of me for that
inb4 0 girlfriends
User avatar #365 to #52 - caelinnis (04/06/2013) [-]
Both, I can't stand dirty feet. I mean I'm not gonna dump a girl or not give her a chance just because her feet are ugly but is someone has plain gross feet, I'm done.
User avatar #366 to #365 - supermegasherman (04/06/2013) [-]
yeah man i totally understand, i HATE when a girl's feet are nasty as hell.
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I'm currently playing through Red for the first time in....many years, and I am trying to get the the fullest experience possible out of the game. Catching EVERY Pokemon, Collecting EVERY item. even talking to every NPC which I don't think I have done since my first time playing the game back in the 90's
Anyway, I hop aboard the SS Ann and eventually make my way to the kitchen, rather then stroll right over to the garbage can and collecting my Great Ball, I go around and see what all the cooks hav to say, when I got to the head chef he said he was making "SALMON du Salad"
I know it's not a big deal, but I have always ALWAYS thought there was no mention, no matter how descret of any real life animals in any of the Pokemon games/anime.
Can anyone else think of any references to real life animals in Pokemon? There are probably plenty, but this is the first one I've ever seen.
Pokedex types designations obviously don't count.
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LOL… so an IED explodes next to you tearing off both legs and one arm, but it’s ok, you have this magic stuff on your face that will give you up to a minute to wiggle away from the blast???
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40731 | Power sliding / Drifting in Real Life
#1 Edited by mikeeegeee (1619 posts) -
So we recently got a dusting of snow here in Nebraska, and that usually means that I'll end up doing cookies in a parking lot before the week is over. But I'm also inclined to power slide around corners, I think because of the influence of playing videogames and because of the influence of it being really badass. I won't do it when there's cars parked on the street or if there's traffic, obviously, but most any other opportunity I will. Anyone else excited for these opportunities?
I'm told time and time again that it's dangerous and stupid, but I like to think that I've gotten pretty good at it. And if I used the term "power slide" when I actually meant "drifting," I'm sorry, but I can't discern the difference in this context.
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Hell yeah. I actually ditched my car last years snow cause I tried the same thing at this corner going around to my house. Can't help it though, nothing like speeding up and slamming the brakes to send you flying across the backroad. :D
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I don't think i've ever been more pissed off or scared than when my drunken brother randomly pulled up my handbrake while i was dropping one of his friends off a couple of years ago. It felt pretty badass that i didnt skid off the road but im never pulling that kind of stuff, even if its of my own volition.
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How do you do it? I drive a manual car. Do I just use the e-brake as I'm turning?
*I see bad things in my future*
#5 Posted by JJWeatherman (14797 posts) -
That seems like a stupid idea. If I ever did that, it would be in an empty parking lot or something.
#6 Edited by mikeeegeee (1619 posts) -
@chogi: Well, yeah. I mean, I learned from playing a bunch of games, and typically you just give the e-brake a bit of a touch when you want to start sliding. And then depending on how much speed you have, how much you e-brake, brake, turn, and accelerate, you glide around the corner. It's a process that's really well simulated in videogames.
And even better, you drive a manual, which I do as well. You can really get into it by adjusting how much you clutch, how much gas you give it, and how fast you release the clutch. Tons of fun.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40749 | Please Explain Georgia WMAs
Discussion in 'Hunting, Fishing & Camping' started by Yankee2718, Oct 11, 2012.
1. I am having a heck of a time trying to figure out how deer hunts on WMA's in Georgia work. I'm from NY and our WMA's were open the whole season, just show up. How do I figure this stuff out?!:wow: It seems like unless you own/lease land you're screwed!
2. I would swing through the WMA near you and speak to the rangers that are running the area. Q&A with them I am sure they will help. the areas are open but they have event hunts. I did not see anything on the calendar but talking to them is the best way
3. Are they open for hunting all season, or only on days when specified?
4. generally you need to follow the area regulations for the WMA and for whatever in season. I would start here;
It answers about 99% of the question and would be way better than stopping a ranger since sometime, they don't even get it right.
Always read the WMA regs and they trump anything that might be in the State Regs when your on that WMA.
Good luck and post us on that big 12pt buck that you kill
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40847 | Mentha Pulegium. Pennyroyal.
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Pennyroyal consists of the dried leaves and flowering tops of Mentha Pulegium, Linn. (N.O. Labiatae), a plant which is indigenous to Britain and most parts of Europe. The stem is very much branched and prostrate or erect, the leaves are petiolate, ovate, and from 6 to 18 millimetres long, the whorls are all separate, and the calyx and pedicels pubescent or hispid. Odour, strong and characteristic; taste, pungent.
Constituents.—The chief constituent of pennyroyal is the volatile oil (see Oleum Pulegii).
Action and Uses.—Pennyroyal has similar properties to peppermint, and is used as an antispasmodic, but it is somewhat more irritant to the genito-urinary tract during excretion, and may thus reflexly augment uterine movements; it is, therefore, also used as an emmenagogue. The volatile oil is chiefly employed.
Dose.—2 to 4 grammes (30 to 60 grains).
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Behind the scenes of Anna Karenina
If there's one thing the lavish sets of Anna Karenina can teach us, it is (ironically) to maintain the notion of authenticity in decor
Behind the scenes of Anna Karenina
From Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: All the world's a stage, as another famous writer once said, so we should play our parts with honour.
Photograph by: Laurie Sparham , National Post
Director Joe Wright's new film, an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, mixes the illusions of the stage with realities off the stage, and inadvertently provides a lesson for renovators and decorators.
For those who haven't seen the film, the narrative shifts between what's happening in a theatre to the same thing in a realistic context such as a house interior or a natural setting. The point is to communicate that people play roles in life. We're all onstage. Calamity befalls the heroine, Anna, when she confuses appearance and reality, and this can happen to anyone.
What's this got to do with design? Many homeowners don't understand that a house isn't a stage set, art-directed to promote their status and good taste. But just as many people make the opposite (and usually more appalling) mistake, assuming that their guests want a dose of reality when they cross that doorstep.
It's easy to appreciate why too much artifice at home isn't a good thing. It's phony and impersonal, no matter how chic it is. We've all been in perfect houses that look either like the showroom at Pottery Barn or a space within a trendy boutique hotel. You can see that the homeowner liked the look of a highly staged space and thought, "Why not make my house look like this?!" - and then was dumb enough to do it.
Often decorators bully insecure clients into accepting the idea that their existing furniture and furnishings have to be disposed of to make way for new stuff (which the decorator wants to sell them). Even well-meaning designers can go too far; rather than take the time to educate a client (which can be a challenge when that client is too busy making money or being fabulous to find the time to learn), they make all the design decisions on behalf of the homeowner. As with people, the artificial is more palatable if nicely contrived, but that doesn't make it right or, more to the point, human.
The absolute worst in the contrived-decorating category occurs when a decorator tries to create a personal ambience with things that should have meaning and be special, but by its very process renders it the opposite. It's not so bad if the decorator picks out the curtains or sofa, but when he buys the art or arranges the family photographs, it's gone too far. Never let yourself say, "I could move right in and not change a thing."
But the authentic must have its limitations, too. Some people believe in being themselves to the point of not tidying up before guests arrive. Make the bed? Why bother, no one is going in the bedroom. Wash the dishes in the sink or make the big effort to put them in the dishwasher? "I don't think so," these people might say. "Our friends can take us the way we are." The looks seen in such magazines as the World of Interiors may be shabby chic, but they're sanitary. Think seriously on it: Even the picturesque clutter that might look good in a magazine can be an abomination to spend time in - especially for those who are visitors to that space.
Guests to your home shouldn't feel like they're dealing with a reality TV show. There's nothing wrong with colours being co-ordinated, there's no sin in having seating that is comfortable and arranged so it makes conversation pleasant, and no harm in spending money on beautiful things that, in general, will give you and your guests pleasure.
We all like people who make an effort for us. But shouldn't we make our own place look nice because of our own sense of self-worth? However, if you don't care, then even just for the sake of visitors, learn to fake it.
Take a good look around your living room and think: "If this were a movie set, what movie would it be?" Perhaps you'll find that it's time to rewrite the script.
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Palin's Enemies List: Lashes Out At The Media, Bloggers, And SNL Writers
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During the months that she served as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin had what could best be described as an acrimonious relationship with the press. Thrust into the national spotlight from relative political obscurity, the former Alaska Governor saw her professional record and personal story come under a powerful microscope. And as controversy was exposed and questions were raised, the animosity that Palin felt for the fourth estate became nearly all-consuming.
In her upcoming book, "Going Rogue," the former governor spends ample time airing her grievances with the way she was and continues to be treated by the media. The cast of characters she disparages range from the famous to the obscure, the national to the local - all of whom are accused of either peddling scandal or playing out political vendettas.
At one point in the book, Palin recalls ridiculing Hillary Clinton for complaining about her treatment in the press. "I wasn't really accusing her of whining," Palin writes. "Still, before criticizing her on this point, I should have walked a mile in her shoes. I can see now that she had every right to call the media on biased treatment that ended up affecting her candidacy. In fact, I should have applauded her because she was right..."
The animosity wasn't always there, as Palin writes. As governor of Alaska she had what she described as a "fine relationship" with the media - even offering up her personal cell phone number to local reporters. But a move from the statehouse to the campaign trail brought with it more critical coverage and a much larger pool or reporters. From the onset, things were rocky.
Palin writes with disgust that the "tone some reporters (and many bloggers) seemed to want to set was one of 'hypocrisy.'" Calling those who questioned the circumstances of her daughter's pregnancy "Trig truthers," she scoffs at the bloggers who, if they "weren't busy pushing fairy tales, would post threatening stories about any number of looming scandals that would drive me out of office."
Mostly, she recoils at the fourth estate's supposed sanctimoniousness. "I was amazed at how many liberal pundits seemed floored by a pregnant teenager," she writes, "as if overnight they'd all snuck out and had traditional-values transplants."
From there, Palin accuses various outlets, including the Huffington Post, of mischaracterizing her appearance at the Wasilla Assembly of God church, in which she called the war in Iraq "a task from God."
She even bemoans the writers at Saturday Night Live for having bad taste.
"I looked at the script," she writes of the preparation for her appearance on the show. "It wasn't all that funny. SNL writers had taken the campaign's 'Drill, baby, drill' mantra and turned it into a risqué double entendre about Todd and me. I thought, Nah. C'mon, New York talent, we can do better than that."
The toughest words, in the end, are saved for Katie Couric, the CBS anchor whose interviews with Palin became a major embarrassment for the McCain campaign. As Palin writes:
"Though Katie edited out substantive answers, she dutifully kept in the moments where I wore my annoyance on my sleeve.... There was much Katie appeared not to know, or care to hear about."
"But Katie wasn't interested in discussing these issues. And when I did, she didn't air them. Instead, when I tried to describe frequent Russian incursions by figuratively referring to Vladimir Putin entering our airspace, CBS researched the Russian leader's actual flight over the United States and called my statement inaccurate. And when I referenced Alaska's narrow maritime border to describe our close proximity to other nations, CBS reported that the Coast Guard monitored the border and not the governor."
"But Katie's purpose - shared by most media types - seemed to be to frame a 'gotcha' moment. And it worked. Instead of my scoring points for John McCain, I knew that I had let the team down."
"I don't think she really wanted to hear my answer because she interrupted me five times as I tried to give it. The badgering had begun. This is really annoying me, I thought. Then she asked me about abortion and the morning-after pill twelve times. Twelve different times."
"I answered as graciously and as patiently as I could. Each time, I reiterated my pro-life, pro-woman, pro-adoption position. But no matter how many ways I tried to say it, Katie responded by asking her question again in a slightly different way. I began to feel like I was in the movie Groundhog Day."
Palin's anger towards Couric became so consuming that even when recounting a wholly different campaign controversy -- the $150,000 in clothes purchased for her by the RNC -- she felt compelled to go back and take a swipe at the CBS anchor.
Katie Couric even weighed in on the trumped-up 'controversy,' writing: 'There aren't a lot of Joe Six-packs out there who can drop six figures on a new wardrobe, so Gov. Sarah Palin's $150,000 shopping spree seems excessive to some people."
This is especially ironic coming from Katie, whose own stylists, the B Team was told, was part of the team the campaign hired to do the convention shopping before I even arrived.
The end of the campaign did not bring with it an end to the frosty relationship between Palin and the press. There was, for example, the interview she did with the local television station KTUU for a routine Thanksgiving Day story
The station, Palin writes in her book, "set up an odd camera angle to capture turkeys being decapitated behind me... The photographer couldn't post it to the Web fast enough. The video became an instant YouTube hit."
"Now, I'd be the first person to tell you where your Thanksgiving meal comes from," Palin adds. But this was a deliberate move to make some noise."
Then there was the coverage of the various ethics complaints filed against her. Palin writes of reporters from the "lower 48" essentially stalking her daughter Piper on her walk home from Harborview Elementary School. She claims journalists were camping out "at the end of our driveway in Wasilla and on the ice in front of our home," and "incessantly call[ing] and stop[ping] by my parents' and siblings' and in-laws' homes and businesses."
The relationship, of course, is a two-way street. And to this day, the former Alaska Governor has not given a public news conference since being tapped as the vice presidential candidate. Palin, in "Going Rogue," proclaims that it was McCain campaign operatives who restricted her availability. "It got so bad," she writes, "that a couple of times I had a friend in Anchorage track down phone numbers for me, and then I snuck in calls to folks like Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity and someone I thought was Larry Kudlow but turned out to be Neil Cavuto's producer."
But, even then, the disdain she felt for the media -- whose coverage she described as "pathetic and chilling" -- was entirely obsessive.
"Perhaps the national press outlets just don't have the resources anymore to devote to balanced coverage," she writes at one point. "Perhaps they've all just given up on themselves, so we've given up on them, too, except to treat their shoddy reporting like a car crash -- sometimes you just have to look." |
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Radiohead 'Creep' Covered By Ex-Broadway Singer Carrie Manolakos (VIDEOS)
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Radiohead's Thom Yorke is famous for having one of the best singing voices in rock 'n' roll, and now a former Broadway actress has paid homage to one of his band's greatest hits.
On April 2, Carrie Manolakos rocked the room at Greenwich Village's Le Poisson Rouge with her emotional cover of Radiohead's career-launching 1992 alternative rock anthem "Creep."
Manolakos, who Gawker reports "made her mark as Sophie Sheridan in Mamma Mia!" is no stranger to giving pop music the Broadway touch. But while her high notes are nothing short of stratospheric, the subtler moments of Manolakos' performance really shine.
Viewed in the context of the Radiohead discography, which has famously morphed from radio-friendly alt-rock, to mixed-breed electronica, to much-celebrated et cetera, "Creep" is one of the English band's most accessible, recognizable songs. If singers like Manolakos can imbue that tried-and-true rock "standard" with new flavor, what's to say the public wouldn't palate an entire Broadway muscial's worth of Radiohead covers?
The Huffington Post reached out to Manolakos for comment, but did not receive a reply as of press time.
Manolakos wrote back to HuffPost on Monday. The independent singer said that her boyfriend originally suggested that she cover "Creep" over brunch.
"I was familiar, but on the walk home, I listened carefully to the song on my iPod. By the time I got back to my apartment, I knew it could work," she wrote in an e-mail.
And as for a Radiohead musical: "Radiohead could definitely work on Broadway," Manolakos wrote. "Their cannon is filled with narrative-driven songs that speak of the human condition, which is precisely what theater explores... theater artists are only limited by their imaginations."
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Stephen Colbert Compares Paul Ryan's Misleading RNC Speech To An Athlete 'Doping' (VIDEO)
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After GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan made a speech at the RNC that was so full of lies even Fox News couldn't ignore it, Stephen Colbert was ready to defend him from the "lamestream nit-pick patrol" we call the media.
On Thursday night's "Report," Colbert went over the most contentious parts of Ryan's speech, like the story he told about a GM factory closing due to President Obama, when it really happened under George W. Bush. He also lauded CNN for taking the right approach to covering the speech (which would be ignoring all of the mistakes).
But it was Colbert's analogy for Ryan that was the highlight of the segment. He pointed out how that just like in a real race, you sometimes have to cheat to win. In Paul Ryan's case, if he wins the race, it's logic that loses.
"Ryan stretching the truth to make his speech more effective is just another form of doping... In that if you believe him, you are a dope," Colbert joked.
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Classic Literature Isn't Dead: No Ifs, Ands, or Buts
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THIS JUST IN: Contemporary writers are no longer influenced by classic literature -- or so claim a team of mathematicians from Dartmouth and Wisconsin in a recently published paper entitled, "Quantitative patterns of stylistic influence in the evolution of literature."
But, aspiring writers, don't be fooled: This study doesn't prove that reading the classics is no longer important. In fact, when it comes to the influence of classic literature on contemporary writing, the study doesn't prove much of anything.
The Dartmouth and Wisconsin mathematicians have come to their conclusion by analyzing the frequencies of "content-free" words such as "a," "but," and "she" in literature published since 1550. Now, you might ask: What does the number of times the word "because" appears in a given work tell us about whether or not an author was influenced by classic literature? Nothing. The conclusions presented in the paper would be laughable -- if they weren't being taken seriously.
The (all male) team of mathematicians proclaims "the so-called 'anxiety of influence,' whereby authors are understood in terms of their response to canonical precursors, is becoming an 'anxiety of impotence,' in which the past exerts a diminishing stylistic influence on the present."
"Anxiety of influence" is a term coined by renowned literary critic and Yale professor Harold Bloom in his 1973 book The Anxiety of Influence. But what does Bloom know? These guys have numbers to back them up. And numbers don't lie, right?
Using the digital database of Project Gutenberg, the mathematicians calculated the frequency of appearance of 307 "content-free" words in over 7,000 works of literature written in English between the years of 1550 and 1952 (which is the most recent date of the works included in Project Gutenberg). The study defines "content-free" words as "words that convey little meaning on their own but form the bridge that convey meaning"--prepositions, pronouns, and conjunctions, for example. This is an example of a technique known as stylometry, the quantitative analysis of literary style. Stylometric analysis has most commonly been used as a technique for determining authorship. Certain authors use recognizable and consistent syntactical patterns, and syntax and diction can be very helpful for dating a work. But, as a means of identifying literary influence, it's impotent (to use the paper's terms). Although stylometry can chart stylistic similarities, it is not a useful tool for the analysis of literary influence. The study's findings are alternately unsurprising or woefully unsubstantiated.
In this study, "literature" is defined as "written works." The texts analyzed include works of poetry as well as prose, and fiction as well as non-fiction. It comes as no surprise to learn that "[h]istorians and naturalists do not only write about different topics, they write about them differently," the paper explains. Poets, novelists, and playwrights also differ markedly in terms of diction and syntax, believe it or not. The study also finds that the rate of change in literary style has accelerated in the 20th century.. But an accelerating rate of stylistic change do not prove or even suggest the diminishing influence of classic works of literature. The authors equate stylistic similarities with literary influence -- and herein lies the critical problem with this study.
The paper identifies Modernism as a critical turning point:
The negative influence of authors from a preceding generation in the period 1907-1952 could be explained by the Modernist movement. Modernist authors, who are contained within this time period, display a radical shift in style as they reject their immediate stylistic predecessors yet remain a part of a dominant movement that included many of their contemporaries.
Modernism did indeed break with the stylistic conventions of 19th-century realism -- but it did not mark a break with literary influence. Hardly. If you read modernist literature in words, as opposed to numbers, it's hard to miss the influential role played by classic works of literature. For example, take Eliot, Joyce, and Woolf -- arguably the foremost Modernist writers. James Joyce's Ulysses is a rewriting of Homer's Odyssey. T.S. Eliot's Modernist masterpiece "The Waste Land" is saturated with literary allusions --starting with the opening line ("April is the cruelest month... ") which is an allusion to the opening of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Virginia Woolf wrote that Cowper's 1799 poem "The Castaway" was one of the primary inspirations for her 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse.
Both T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf discussed literary influence in their non-fiction writing as well. In his essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent," T.S. Eliot reflects, "Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know."
In an essay entitled "Reading," Virginia Woolf describes her belief that all books are linked to those that have come before them. She writes:
"If I looked down at my book I could see Keats and Pope behind him, and then Dryden and Sir Thomas Browne--hosts of them merging in the mass of Shakespeare, behind whom, if one peered long enough...Chaucer perhaps, and again--who was it? some uncouth poet scarcely able to syllable his words; and so they died away."
But Virginia Woolf herself was probably not very influenced by Shakespeare, because the word "it" appears over 2,000 times in Mrs. Dalloway, and it appears fewer than 300 times in Hamlet.
And in Michael Cunningham's The Hours, "it" only makes 100 appearances! The publisher may claim that The Hours is an homage to Virginia Woolf and Mrs. Dalloway -- but clearly this is just a marketing move, because "it" makes only 100 appearances in The Hours, whereas, in Mrs. Dalloway, it appears more than 2,000 times. And "anyway" appears 13 times in The Hours, but not even once in Mrs. Dalloway!
Clearly, there are some major flaws in this stylometric analysis -- but, disconcertingly, the "findings" of the study are being taken seriously by a number of news outlets. The Guardian reports that, although the study only covers works written prior to 1952, Daniel Rockmore, one of the paper's authors and the chair of the Mathematics department at Dartmouth, "believes the decreasing influence of the canon will only have continued in the authors of today." Novelist Lionel Shriver, The Guardian explains, "agreed that this was probably true in her case - and suggested it was likely to apply to her contemporaries as well." This line is followed by a quote from Shriver -- but the problem is that the quote itself doesn't quite line up with The Guardian's prefatory gloss. Shriver is quoted as saying:
"About all I can do is confess that while I myself devoured classics in my teens and 20's -- even 30's, come to think of it -- I now read contemporary fiction almost exclusively...I feel ambivalent about this evolution, but between reviewing, blurbing occasionally, and keeping up with what's out there on general principle I don't often get around to touching base with the literary canon. When I have tried to, say, reread a Dostoevsky novel, I've discovered that I don't have the patience any longer -- for the long philosophical digressions, for example. I bet I'm not alone in this reduced tolerance for the stylistic traditions of the past."
Like the study, The Guardian article conflates 'stylistic traditions' and literary influence. In this quote, Shriver does not say that classics have not played an influential role. Rather, she recalls a passionate relationship with the classics -- describing herself as "devouring" them. It would not be unreasonable to suppose that the classics played a critical role in her development as a writer. The fact that she no longer has the patience for Dostoevsky's meandering, digressive literary style does not mean that she was not influenced by Dostoevsky. The paper's authors suggest that contemporary writers are not well-versed in or influenced by the classics -- which is absolutely not the case for Shriver. She talks about not wanting to reread Dostoevsky -- not about reading him for the first time. (Not to mention the fact that you don't have to like a book in order to be influenced by it). And yet, The Guardian presents Shriver's quote as evidence in support of the study's findings.
Lionel Shriver won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005 for her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin. The recipient of the following year's award was Zadie Smith's On Beauty -- which, as Smith states in the prefatory note of the book, is an homage to E.M. Forster's Howards End. This year's winner, announced just this week, is Madeleine Miller's The Song of Achilles, which was inspired by Homer's Iliad. Suffice to say, these writers are familiar with the classics (and, like Eliot and Woolf, Smith has written about how classic literature has influenced her writing in essays).
An article in The New York Daily News, which cites The Guardian's interview with Shriver as corroborating evidence of the study's findings, goes so far as to suggest that "while traditionalists may lament the loss of historical perspective, it is worth asking how much has truly been lost. After all, the presence of the great themes and elemental emotions does not depend merely on paying respects to Dead White Males. There's something to be said about originality, isn't there?"
Indeed. But there is nothing incompatible about "originality" and literary tradition. To quote T.S. Eliot, a spectacularly "original" writer: "[W]e shall often find that not only the best, but the most individual parts of [a poet's] work may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously." So, aspiring authors, take note: reading the classics is just as important as ever, and the best writers know this.
Furthermore, regardless of your tastes, you've still been getting some of the classics in your literary diet, whether you know it or not. Even the literary atrocity that is Fifty Shades of Grey contains a number of allusions to and quotations from classic literature (Tess of the d'Urbervilles) -- as does Twilight (Wuthering Heights).
In the world of contemporary literature, the classics are not suffering from an "anxiety of impotence" (to use the paper's terminology) -- but, when it comes to understanding contemporary literature, perhaps this team of mathematicians is. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/40967 | Evolution of Humans February 20, 2012 by
About 98,000 to 13,000 years ago, anatomically modern Homo Sapiens started to migrate out of Africa and replaced the other hominin populations(basically anything related to humans that were not as advanced as the Homo Sapiens) that have migrated out of Africa. Now these Homo Sapiens were were not evolving all around the world in different places at the same time. In order to evolve, they had to stay in one place for a long time. This got me thinking about how we will evolve in the future. If a species can only evolve if they are grouped together in one area, does that mean we have slowed down the evolutionary process? Or have we just made the process faster on a much larger scale? Since our population is spread out across Earth, does that make it harder for Natural Selection to get rid of the stupid or weaker people?
During my Astronomy class today, I started to think about how we could start space colonies and eventually live on other planets. I know this probably won't happen for a while but I like to think about this kind of stuff. That's when more questions about evolution came to my mind:
• When we eventually go to other planets and start space colonies, will that speed up the evolutionary process since we will have somewhat isolated groups living on planets?
• Will this lead to different types of humans like what happened to us?
• Will we adapt to planets once we live on them for a couple hundred thousand years?
As we become more dependent on machines to help us with everyday activities and as technology becomes better/ easy to use, it is obvious that technology will also evolve as we adapt to new environments. I believe that its is nearly impossible to know exactly what technology will be like 100, 000 years from now. We can only guess what life will be like and what we will look like in the future. Even the people back in 40's and 50's guessed at what life would be like in the future:
Here's a look into what will/ might happen in the future:
What do you think the future will be like? Have we slowed down the evolutionary process by having a world wide population? Or are some groups in different parts of the world already evolving to become a new type of human being? Will living in space change our species for the better?
Thanks for reading and I look forward to reading your your thoughts on this.
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1. IPwnFools
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Since 1994, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) rates video games hitting the store shelves. Ratings can help gamers and parents decide which games to buy. Although, there are times when I feel the ESRB
gets the ratings wrong. Here are video games undeserving of their ESRB rating and why.
The HALO Series
HALO games are rated Mature for Blood and Gore, Mild Language, and Violence. Yes, the games are violent. They center around humans warring with aliens. The aliens want the humans dead and we've got to stop them. It's a noble cause any human can rally around. Master Chief and the Spartans aren't gunning down innocent people. The problem with HALO's rating is there really isn't blood or gore and there's only a few curse words. Most of blood that's shown is purple or green alien blood. Think of it as a PG-13 movie. In fact, the new HALO Legends movie is rated PG-13. The video games should be rated T for Teens.
Super Smash Bros Melee and Brawl
These wildly popular fighting games pit classic Nintendo characters against each other. Both video games are rated Teen. Melee has Comic Mischief and Mild Violence. Brawl has Cartoon Violence and Crude Humor. I've played both of the games with my son. I can't understand the rating. You can be Mario and slap Donkey Kong around. It's Nickelodeon type fighting. As for Crude Humor unless you count "Pikachu" being said repeatedly, there's not much talking. Wario has a farting attack, that's about it. If your kids are allowed to watch Spongebob, they should be able to play Super Smash Bros games. These video games should be rated E or E10+.
Destroy All Humans 2
Set in the 1960's, gamers play as the alien Crypto. It pushes the Teen rating to the extreme. Content includes Crude Humor, Sexual Themes, Strong Language, and Violence. There are numerous sexual references, especially Crypto's over the top flirting with Natalya. The game also features a gun that anally probes people. Innocent humans walking down the street are free to be killed. It's almost like a science fiction Grand Theft Auto. I do love this game and had a blast playing co-op with my husband. I just think the Teen rating isn't enough. There's no blood or gore, but the language and adult themes warrants a Mature rating.
Bethesda's epic role play video game was originally rated T. A gamer modified the PC version unlocking an art file never meant to be seen or used by players. The file rendered female characters topless. The ESRB stepped in and re-rated all versions of the video game, even though consoles can't unlock that file. The decision to give Oblivion a Mature rating is also attributed to additional violence the ESRB claims it was unaware of during the original rating process. Bethesda complied with the new M rating, but stood by the first one. A patch was issued for the PC version that disabled the topless mod. Since the controversy was started by a third party modding the game, I believe the original rating should have been kept.
Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess
Twilight Princess was the first game in the series to receive a Teen rating for Fantasy Violence and Animated Blood. Link's fought many of the same monsters since the earlier games, so there's some violence. I can't remember any blood in the game. The enemies usually disappeared in a puff of smoke when dealt with. Twilight Princess is a long, text heavy game. I can see why some children might not be interested. The characters don't talk and every conversation must be read. Perhaps the amount of text influenced the Teen rating. I believe that children around 9 or 10 could follow the story and have a great time. I hate to think young gamers where kept from playing because of the higher rating. It should have been rated E10+ at the most.
The ERSB isn't perfect. While I agree with the vast majority of ratings, sometimes they get it wrong. Games have grown over the years with complex stories, stunning graphics and multiple themes. Video games like the ones featured could fit into different rating categories. It's important to read and research before you buy.
[u]Any games you think undeservedly received an ESRB rating it shouldn't have?[/u]
2. stryder25.0
stryder25.0 Life could be simple...
Jul 14, 2007
God of War 3 should be rated E for Everyone. ESRB doesn't know what it's doing.
3. CastlevaniaNut18
CastlevaniaNut18 Nurse Lindsey
Oct 2, 2005
ESRB usually gets it right, but i'd agree with your assessments up there. i never saw ANY blood in Twilight Princess.
i also didn't agree with the M rating they gave Castlevania: Curse of Darkness for blood and violence. i didn't see it as anything worse than Lament of Innocence, which got a T rating. it was just another hack and slash with monsters.
i'm sure theres more, but i can't think of any at the moment.
4. mferrara24
mferrara24 Noob
Feb 24, 2010
I am gonna have to agree with how ESRB is hit or miss. There are some games that have been rated M that I just don't understand. The Halo series is definitely on this list and I think that the first modern warfare is as well. It had blood and shooting but no more than other games that are teen.
5. ProjectOverkill
ProjectOverkill Supreme Damned Bastard
Nov 6, 2005
I was surprised at the amount of swearing in the Uncharted games, which are Teen rated. They never drop F bombs, but they pretty much say everything else.
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These are extra modes and take some of the same lessons you've encountered in Adventure Mode and tests you against them. Retrying is part of the learning experience, so have fun.
Completing the extra challenges awards you with more money, and you're sure to pass a lot of time with these games. Don't forget about your Zen garden.
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Section 8 Walkthrough
==«== Part One Part Two Part Three ====
III. Operation: Guardian (Continued)
You'll continue now through an area that is crawling with an endless supply of enemy soldiers, so it's important to be on your guard. As usual, try to take care of them one at a time and stick as close to your fellow squad members as is convenient, but you do need to advance toward terminals since this isn't a zone that you can clear just by tending to a finite number of foes. You'll find the two additional terminals along the far left wall. Hack them like there's no tomorrow.
Now you should have hacked a total of four terminals. You'll find the last two positioned in odd positions: one in a hanger along the higher level (just use a catwalk to reach it) and the other in a corner near the base level (right near the base of the platform that you can defend when first approaching the complex from the area where the mission began). If you watch closely on-screen, you should see white little slivers that indicate objective targets. These also tend to appear on the mini-map. Use them to help locate the last terminals if you're having trouble.
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Drive the tank slowly over the bridge or else...
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...your tank could get stuck in a useless position along the edge.
Once the last of the six terminals have been hacked, you'll be able to clear any soldiers from the area and they'll finally stop coming as a note appears on-screen to advise that you have purchasing ability again. This time, you'll need to summon tanks to assist with the operation.
When you summon a tank, that will trigger a checkpoint. You can head over to where the tank drop was positioned and press the indicated button to enter the vehicle. Now it's time to roll forward toward the approaching enemies, but do so with caution as the tank controls take a prohibitively long time to grow accustomed to. If you're having trouble staying on top of things, know that pressing up and down on your stick control forward and backward movement while the left and right directions produce pivots, but your perspective makes it difficult to tell which end is the front or back. Besides that, you can't really turn while advancing or retreating, only pivot.
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I am using MS access as Database and i dont want to access it through JDBC-ODBC Bridge. Kindly tell me a suitable free type4/pure-Java API for accessing MS Access DataBAse.
I have developed some java classes for database handling using JDBC-ODBC bridge . i want that using new API should not break my existing code.
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It's a pure Java Type III JDBC driver for access. Doesn't exactly meet your requirements, and it's not free, but give it a try. It should be better than using a JDBC-ODBC connection.
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Book Notes - Nick Harkaway "Angelmaker"
Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker is a complex literary thriller layered with philosophical and social undertones, a fast-paced rollercoaster of a novel that is easily the most fun book I have read all year.
The Telegraph wrote of the book:
"Angelmaker is an intricate and brilliant piece of escapism, tipping its hat to the twisting plots of John Buchan and H Rider Haggard, the goggles-and-gauntlets Victoriana of the steampunk movement and the labyrinthine secret Londons of Peter Ackroyd and Iain Sinclair, while maintaining an originality, humour and verve all its author's own. "
In his own words, here is Nick Harkaway's Book Notes music playlist for his novel, Angelmaker:
Stop reading! Stop immediately! You need to be listening to
"Another One Bites The Dust" (Queen)
before you go further! Why? Because that's what I'm listening to, right now, writing this, and the over-caffeinated almost macho urgency of what I'm about to say is coming straight from August 1980. How can we possibly understand one another if you're not biting your lower lip like a nervous weasel while you take in what I'm saying? Go! I'll wait.
All right, great. So we're all on the same musical page now. And that's the main thing I use music for, I suppose: mood. I'm listening to Queen because the main character in my new novel is about to do something brassy and masculine and sublimely stupid, but it's sort of admirable, too. And musically the choice works on two levels (that I'm presently aware of): the out-and-out prideful rock of the song in the first place, which summons the whole insane 80s decade to my mind - and even conjures a sense of it if you are mercifully young enough to have missed it - and the wiser feeling of stunned, even awed horror looking back at how deranged the whole thing was. The decade from 1980-89 would have ground up today's gossip shocks and political stupidity and injected them directly into its eyeball just to get the night started.
Or maybe that's just how the song remembers them. Music is zeitgeist.
I'm not musical myself, by the way, except in the sense that if you put me in one of those giant hamster-balls and rolled me across an orchestra I'd probably try to squash the brass section first. I wish I were. Or, I think I wish I were. But then maybe I wouldn't be able to do words, and words are amazing. But if ever I lose the ability to speak somehow, I'll reach for music and mathematics.
Mathematics... Angelmaker, my second novel, is not about mathematics. It's about a man who accidentally switches on a doomsday machine and has to fix the problem he's created. Except that nothing is ever simple, so there are mad monks and a very dangerous old woman and lawyers of questionable morality and submarines, clockwork and elephants. But yes, there is a mathematical genius in it, and she does build the strange device which might destroy conscious life in the universe - or usher in a new age of peace and humanity.
I needed a lot of mood music to get around a story which starts - for the characters, though not for us - some time in the early 1900s and ends tomorrow. I needed music for my main character: male, late 30s, living alone in London's warehouse district, son of a famous gangster.
A lot of the time, I played
"Rosie" (Jackson Browne)
I have a live recording, and it's hugely atmospheric. Great about being the other guy, the one who somehow doesn't get the spotlight. I also spent a lot of time with
"Furr" (Blitzen Trapper).
But Joe Spork (my hero) came easily to me. He and I have a certain amount in common - age, and the experience of a wonderful but possibly overwhelming parent, for a start. Speaking of which... Mathew Spork, Joe's lamentable dad, prince of London's 70s gangster scene, corduroy and sheepskin menace, sharp-suited dandy. That had to be an opportunity to max out on
"Daddy Cool" (Boney M.)
Well, you wouldn't, wouldn't you?
Then at the heart of the story, in a way, is in Joe's chosen profession: clockwork. The ethos and the virtue of making things by hand, and the relationship between humanity and technology, runs quietly through the book. So there's a bit in
"City of New Orleans" (Arlo Guthrie)
which kept going around and around in my head:
"The sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their fathers' magic carpet made of steel"
It's perfect: it encapsulates the sense of loss I sometimes feel about that era of transport, but it also has just a whisper of the Big Industrial Problem Solving vibe which runs through the 20th Century - the Hoover Dam, the nuclear industry, the New Towns, the exportation of unsuitable techniques of agriculture to the developing world... and that almost Futurist vibe is also a part of Frankie Fossoyeur's decision to ‘fix' the world with her machine. Frankie would have an acerbic relationship with music: she'd hear it as information as much as experience it, and she'd probably argue. That doesn't mean I don't have songs for her - like
"Misery" (Professor Longhair)
"Di Goldene Pave" (Chava Alberstein and the Klezmatics)
- but they're images of her, and her musical themes mostly get swallowed by the soundtrack of what's happening around her. The secret agent who rescues her from various fates, though, definitely has her own collection.
Edie Banister is my second lead, and she slightly steals the show. Ancient when we first meet her, in her WWII and Cold War heyday she's an adventurer, an SOE-style international hero with an evening gown in one pocket and a pistol in the other: the sort of spy they don't make any more. Edie has plenty of music as she roves through the decades from 1939 to the present day. She's stylish, energetic, angry, and sexy, so I played
"The Jackal" (Ronny Jordan)
"Bad Things" (Jace Everett)
while she was being subtle, and for her fight sequences in south Asia and Europe I used tracks like
"Unbelievable" (EMF)
"Lust for Life" (Iggy Pop).
The person who really isn't easy to capture with music is the villain: he's what everyone else is fighting against, of course, but there's just not any music which conveys how evil, how jarring and dissonant he is in the world which isn't also really hard to work to. Maybe that's my audio-environment limitation talking, of course - perhaps a good composer would have no problem at all - and I'm constrained in what I listen to while I'm working because it can't be something which will break me out of the zone. That means that a lot of the time I'm listening to something quite simple and not too assertive - much of Angelmaker was written in the company of simple guitar and vocals. For sure, I couldn't have used Dire Straits' Telegraph Road for anything, or Ice T's That's How I'm Livin' - the words are too strong. So I spent a lot of time with songs from from albums Il Canto di Malavita, such as
"Ergastulanu" (El Domingo)
which has the overwhelming advantage that I don't understand it even though I speak some Italian, and which is both connected to the whole gangster thing by being about the Mafia, and is melancholic and elegant like my favourite formal dance music, Argentine Tango. When I really had to work with Shem Shem Tsien and understand him, I turned the whole thing on its head and tried to imagine he was the good guy - so instead of something bleak and atonal, I let him have fun. In the musical Negative Energy Universe, the Opium Khan's internal soundtrack was
"A Well Respected Man" (The Kinks).
Which really only leaves - well, no, that's not true, there's so much I could say, but I won't - the moment when I stopped working at the end of the day. After all that, I needed something to turn me back into a human being so I could make dinner with my wife, hug my daughter, and not dream about budo and fedoras. When I was a kid, I used to listen to this piece over and over and over again, and I sort of still do. Worse (or better) yet, I've passed the habit on to my daughter, who refers to this as “daddy's music", a vast and growling inaccuracy which I will one day have to correct. No, I did not write it, little bear. I just love it as much as you do - music to soothe and enlighten:
Clarinet Concerto in A: Adagio (Mozart).
Nick Harkaway and Angelmaker links:
the author's website
the author's Wikipedia entry
video trailer for the book
A.V. Club review
Barnes and Noble Review review
Guardian review
Independent review
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Kirkus Reviews review
Los Angeles Review of Books review
The Millions review
Observer review
Open Letters Monthly review
Publishers Weekly review
SF Signal review
Slate review
Telegraph review
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Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B, February 26, 2006
First reading, Hosea 2:16b-17b, 21-22
The Historical Situation: Hosea was married to an unfaithful woman. He was also a member of a tribe whose leaders were unfaithful to their God. Hosea used the tragic difficulties of his marriage to illustrate his prophecies about the tragic sinfulness of Israel. Sometimes he mixes his two concerns so closely that it's hard to tell if he's talking about his marriage or his people's religion.
In today's verses, he recalls the time when the Lord had led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt into the desert. That was a kind of courtship, when the Lord re-introduced himself to the Hebrews, who had more or less forgotten their ancestral religion while enslaved. Hosea speaks with great tenderness and hope. He thus portrays God as hoping, wistfully, that his beloved will be wooed successfully.
Proclaiming It: The congregation listening to you, the lector, will probably know none of this background. How are you going to make clear to them, at least a little, the drama they're hearing?
Second Reading, 2 Corinthians 3:1b-6
The Historical Situation: Saint Paul had founded the Christian community at Corinth, then left for further missionary work. Corinth was a doubly dangerous place to leave a newborn religious community: it was Greek and a seaport. It didn't take long for wild ideas to sweep through the community, causing division and turmoil. Some challenged Paul's authority as an apostle. Today's lines from Paul's second letter to this congregation respond to that.
Letters of recommendation are an old institution, as we can see here. Paul says he needs no paper letter, for the community life of the Corinthians is that letter. Ragged though it is at times, that community shows that Paul's work among them had been empowered by the Spirit. Thus the "letter" is the converted hearts of the Corinthians.
The second paragraph is Paul's disclaimer. It wasn't his own talent or effort that converted the Corinthians, it was the spirit of God. In this paragraph, the word "letter" has a different meaning. It refers to "the letter of the law," the code of legal prescriptions that Jews thought they had to keep to stay on the good side of God. Paul himself had tried to live that way, but realized that no human can keep the law so well as to deserve God's love. The Spirit gives life and love as an undeserved gift, not as a reward for good behavior. Trying to keep the letter of the law keeps one focused on oneself, filling one with deadly frustration. Admitting one's helplessness about keeping the letter of the law opens one to the saving Spirit. That's what's new about the new covenant.
Proclaiming It: This is all quite hard to make clear to a congregation, no matter how careful your proclamation as lector. Read it slowly, emphasizing the contrasts. Hope that the preacher in your parish explains it in the homily.
Lutheran pastor and college teacher Dan Nelson's notes for a study group
"The Word" column by Diane Bergant, C.S.A., from America magazine, March, 2003
Father Frank Cleary's column from the Saint Louis Review.
Columns by Father Roger Karban covering these readings:
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41257 | Running Remote Applications
One of the advantages to using a GNU/Linux system is the separation of the display system from the underlying operating system. The Linux desktop has at its core the X Window System, a software architecture that provides layering of display components. Each component provides its own set of display features. These features include the ability to change out window managers, directly drive hardware, provide alternative desktop environments and even remotely display some or all of a desktop.
Most Linux users will be familiar with window manager and video display hardware tools, because the desktop paradigm has long assumed the user is sitting in front of the system running the desktop applications. Remote display, although not new to the X Window System, is discussed less often, because end users were thought to have only one system in use. But, end-user needs have grown more sophisticated, and applications like media and Web servers, for example, provide ample reasons to manage multiple PCs remotely, even within a single household.
In this article, I discuss the variety of methods available to Linux users for running Linux applications on a remote system for display locally. I cover basic configuration issues, discuss limitations and advantages, consider security implications and contrast the reasons for using each method. All of the tools discussed in this article should be available from any popular Linux distribution, although package names may vary. Examples and discussion focus on GNOME-based solutions running on Fedora, although similar functionality and applications exist for KDE users. This article does not specifically address display of Mac or Windows applications on Linux systems; however, the section on VNC is closely applicable.
The GNU/Linux Display Architecture
From a very high level, the GNU/Linux display system can be viewed as three distinct components (Figure 1). At the lowest level comes the Linux kernel and the display server and its associated libraries (referred to commonly and collectively as X11). The display server and kernel work together to provide management of the display hardware, and the libraries provide higher-level software a convenient means of using them.
Figure 1. The Linux Display System Stack
The desktop environment sits in the middle of this stack. This includes GNOME, KDE and Xfce, the three most popular desktop environments. In support of these environments are application libraries, such as GTK+ and Qt, as well as a variety of other general-purpose libraries used by desktop applications.
Applications sit above the desktop environment. These are the actual tools users run to view movies, listen to music, communicate with friends and coworkers and purchase products from the Internet.
Remote display of applications is handled by features found within the Infrastructure and Desktop layers. Applications that run in the desktop and X11 environments can be told to display remotely but leave the details of how that is done to the underlying layers of the stack.
There are three methods by which users can run an application on a remote system and have it display locally—that is, on the screen in front of which they are seated. The first method involves the use of the X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP). This protocol is part of the X11 specification and is implemented on Linux systems using the GNOME Desktop Manager (GDM) or when using KDE, by the KDE Display Manager (KDM), both of which are replacements for the X Display Manager (XDM). This method is focused on running individual applications, although there are applications that can provide a complete remote desktop.
The second method relies on OpenSSH support of X11 protocols. It also is focused on running individual applications and is typically easier to configure and use.
The last method is based on Virtual Network Computing (VNC) mechanisms that are operating-system-independent and more suited to complete desktop sharing.
Using XDMCP via GDM
In X11 parlance, the server is the thing that manages your display hardware, and the client is the application that needs the server to display windows. This often confuses people, because it's backward from one's normal understanding of the terms client and server, as now the server is the computer in front of you and the client is the remote computer.
Most applications on the Linux desktop provide the -display command-line option. This option is equivalent to setting the DISPLAY environment variable, and it tells X11 clients (applications) which X server to display on. The default setting is to display on the local server, referenced as :0.0. A remote server can be specified by prefixing this value with the hostname (or IP address), such as galileo:0.0. The reference to galileo:0.0 works only if the host galileo is running at least one instance of an X server.
The use of the -display option is tied to the configuration of XDMCP on the X server. XDMCP is the old-school method of displaying remote applications on a local display. Most old-time UNIX and X11 users are familiar with its use, although configuration issues have evolved with the Linux desktop.
On GNOME systems, XDMCP is controlled by GDM. GNOME users are familiar with GDM from the graphical login screen. That screen is actually only one part of GDM and not related to our discussion. GDM also controls XDMCP usage for an X session, otherwise known as a graphical login. The graphical login starts a new X server with various options. By default, GDM does not permit XDMCP connections to the X server from remote client applications. To enable it, edit the file /etc/gdm/custom.conf to look like this:
# GDM configuration storage
The [xdmcp] section has a single option, Enable, which when set to true, allows XDMCP connections. However, GDM also needs to be told to allow TCP connections in order for the remote applications actually to use XDMCP when communicating with the X server. The [security] section option DisallowTCP must be set to false in order to disable the feature that denies TCP connections.
Note that XDMCP is the higher-level protocol (the way a client application and an X server will communicate), while TCP is a lower-level protocol, which for our purposes can be defined as the networking port that the communication flows through.
Once configured, restart GDM. You can do so by changing the run state to 3 and then back to 5 with the following commands, with a short pause between them recommended. Be aware that if you execute the first command in a terminal/shell window, the window will disappear, because this command kills the X server. You'll be dropped into a virtual console/terminal, at which point, you probably will have to log in to execute the second command:
sudo init 3
sudo init 5
Now the local X server is configured to allow remote applications to connect to it. One additional step is required to specify which hosts have access to the local X server. There are two ways to do this. One is to edit the /etc/hosts.allow and/or /etc/hosts.deny files. A simpler method is to run the xhosts command after logging in to the local system:
xhost +<hostname-or-ip>
xhost -<hostname-or-ip>
xhost +
The first command allows a specific host to display locally, and the second denies a host. The third method allows any host to display locally. This option should be used only on a trusted network, such as your network at home that is behind your firewall. The xhost settings are applicable only to the current login session.
Now, open a terminal window, log in to the remote system (preferably with SSH, but Telnet if you must), and start another terminal with the display option set to the local X server:
xterm -display galileo:0.0
The xterm started here is running on the remote system but displaying on the local X server (on the computer in front of you). You can start other applications the same way with each appearing as an ordinary window on the local desktop. In this way, the remote applications mix seamlessly with the local desktop. If for some reason your shell prompt doesn't include the name of the host in the prompt, you probably should set it so that you know on which system each xterm is running.
GDM comes with GNOME, so as long as you have GNOME installed, you can use this method of remote application display. With KDE, you normally would use KDM, but its configuration is not covered here.
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2. saidseni
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Niice! Love cow pictures!
3. juano
juano ·
cowwwww muuuuuuuuu
4. urbantristesse
urbantristesse ·
hehe, this is awesome.
5. tikismeekis
tikismeekis ·
lol! nice pose!!
6. marcel2cv
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7. bloomchen
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@marcel2cv @juano @tikismeekis @saidseni @urbantristesse @raquellogs: thanks a lot for the comments. i took the picture of this cow because of this straw/gras in the corner of the mouth. looked pretty much like those dudes that gnaw on toothpicks and demosntrate coolness.
unfortunately i couldn´t take a picture of the cow i named elvis! those where so special cows there and one had a rockabilly quiff. but it came never close enough to take a pic on which you could easily see it.
8. raggymaggie
raggymaggie ·
love love love!!
9. marcel2cv
marcel2cv ·
If coolness means the ability to chill, than cows are definitely cool. :-)
10. neanderthalis
neanderthalis ·
Farm chic :)
11. littlekoala
littlekoala ·
so funny!
12. funfun
funfun ·
cool cow! haha~
13. sixsixty
sixsixty ·
hi cow!
14. cbadajos
cbadajos ·
Haha great shot!! Funny cow :P
15. emkei
emkei ·
great photo!
16. robter
robter ·
hehehe!! nice!
17. regina_falangi
regina_falangi ·
hahahaha, big nose!
18. digitaljunk
digitaljunk ·
I think it likes you :-)
19. margaridamourao89
margaridamourao89 ·
muuuuuuuuh :P ahah
20. julievdb
julievdb ·
This photo made me smile :)
21. djtriki
djtriki ·
what the f... are you doing??? :) nice shot!
22. fish300
fish300 ·
23. adam_g2000
adam_g2000 ·
A rockabilly quiff on a cow? Do you remember that thing people started where you're supposed to stick eyes on everyday objects - we need to go out at night and quiff cows.
24. catarella
catarella ·
25. pearlgirl77
pearlgirl77 ·
oweee <3
26. gatokinetik-o
gatokinetik-o ·
muuuuu! :D
27. bloomchen
bloomchen ·
@adam_g2000 yes, this cow looked so awesome. almost all cows over there had this weird tiny tuft of hair. and one of them looked like a rockabilly cow. i really should have gone to the farmer and ask if he could bring this cow to the fence so i can take a pic. it looked so cool.
28. bonzone
bonzone ·
very nice!
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30. eskimofriend
eskimofriend ·
don't eat them cows they're too awesome!! obviously
31. crismiranda
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32. crismiranda
crismiranda ·
33. xephryrus
xephryrus ·
mooooooo.. this is so cute.
34. sexyinred
sexyinred ·
cute cow.....here's another moooooooooooo
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36. wil6ka
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37. bravebird
bravebird ·
mmmmmmuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh :D
38. bellslomography
bellslomography ·
what a lovely photo of a lovely cow :)
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I'd use DivX though, as XviD isn't as popular, and Windows Media Player doesn't like it (Mine doesn't anyway).
Jannar, I've got a good 50mb of decent, pretty fast space that I don't use with my ISP (It is actually pretty fast). I'd be happy to upload your movie for you - You used to be on my MSN contatcts, but I had to change accounts - It's - add me or mail me.
I don't understand though - LucasArts now want FanGames, which essentially means Lucas-related game made by fans, uploaded? The same Lucas Arts with the "cease" and "desist" attitude that we all love so much? Because as I understand it, games like Pleughburgh and Rob Lowe are "Amateur Games", and not "Fan Games". I need a shrugging emoticon to go here.
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The female Stormtrooper looked down at the woman she shot, the Rebel commando she was cloned from, as the ship shook from the gunfire of attacking ships.
"This place isn't safe," she decided, dragging the fallen warrior towards the escape pods. She heard a beeping from the body, reaching for it to find it was a radio.
"Alixe, do you copy?" She didn't recognise the woman looking for her, the clone assumed it was a Rebel.
"I'm fine." Luckily it was voice only otherwise whoever was looking for Alixe would be able to tell right away that it was a ploy.
"We lost communication with you. Were you able to place the explosives?" She had to think about that one a moment, continuing her way to evacuate.
"I couldn't find a place to set them off effectively. This ship is too heavily guarded, there's someone important on board." Whoever the clone was communicating with pondered this turn of events before replying.
"That would be security when they believed you were Mothma." A lighthearted tone crept into the woman's voice. "Only a fool allows themselves to be caputred, huh."
"She gives the orders, I just follow'em no matter how dumb they are." And the clone had heard a few, not the least coming from those who served, and died, under Vader.
"We're sending in a strike force to take out the ship you're on. I'll swing by and pick you up." The clone shut off communictions with that decided, activating her locator so she and Alixe could be found on the planet below. The Rebels would not survive the trap she had laid out for them.
Jan Ors pondered her communications with 'Alixe' for a moment, thinking that somehow it didn't sound right. The voice on the other end was definetly her, she could tell that even given how bad the quality was. She wondered if maybe it was a droid she spoke to, but if it was why would it impersonate Alixe? It didn't make sense. What bothered her about it Jan couldn't figure out.
"Alixe, she radioed again, getting whoever it was she spoke to. "Turn your locator on would you?"
"Yeah, I got it." She waited a moment while it was done. "Makes sense. You reading this okay?" Listening the voice didn't seem as artificial as she heard it. Somehow that bothered her.
"Affirmative, I'll be able to find you."
"Right. Let me get moving."
"Move it then. Jan out." The voice somehow seemed diffirent, maybe it was being out there fighting that did it. Jan wasn't sure. It did make her uneasy, but the ship Alixe was on had to be destroyed, she had no choice but to go in and pick her up before it was. |
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What point? Marriage is open to two consenting heterosexual couples today and we do not allow polygamist marriages. What are you worried about that homosexual couples would demand to be polygamist? Otherwise I see no point to this argument.
No, he's legitimately pointing out that polygamist groups and pedophile groups for that matter could use this argument to say that they should be allowed to marry too. Because once you open it for one group, you open it for the others.
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So I agree either ban marriage altogether or allow everyone the same and equal rights.
The difference between the others and marriage between a man and a woman is in order for children to be born. You need one man and one woman to mate and the offspring would be there child, thus in order for there to be a stable situation for that child, you can argue that marriage between a man and a woman is different from the others.
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Here I take the migration from my remote host to my XAMPP local test environment for example, because I first installed magento at my remote host then I want to develope it at my hard drive for convenience and speed. Some remote hosting company provides script installer and it is faster to install magento with it.
1. Always create database dump from the magento backend / admin panel >System >Tools >backups >Create Backup, and then download the dump file by clicking on the “gz”. Save the dump file in a place and no need to extract it.
Create a database from phpmyadmin and import the dump.
Note: Sometimes the dump can’t be imported successfully, then you need to repeat the above.
2. Enter the file manager from the cpanel, and compress the magento folder into zip file.
My installation is under folder, so I created a in the root folder. I downloaded it to my hard drive, too.
Now you can extract the file structure to the local XAMPP environment. I extracted to C:xampphtdocsmagento.
3. Open C:windowssystem32driversetchosts and insert the following lines:
4. Go to C:xampphtdocsmagentovar and delete all files in this folder.
5. Go to C:xampphtdocsmagentoappetc and delte use_cache.ser
6. Open C:xampphtdocsmagentoappetclocal.xml and update the following settings: dbuser - by default is root, dbname - the database you created in step 1, pass - by default is blank.
Everything is done! Note: you can now enter your local test website by entering in the ie address bar.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41320 | Bracing for a bump at the airport
Empty seats on a plane
Tess Vigeland: So, do the airlines not want customers? Because they seem to be doing everything in their power to tee us off.
This week, JetBlue added pillows and blankets to the list of extras you'll have to pay for and according to a government study fully one quarter of all flights were late in the first half of this year.
But even worse than leaving or arriving late is not getting to leave or arrive at all. It goes something like this: "I'm afraid this flight's been overbooked and I don't have a seat for you. Um, sorry?"
So what can you do? I bet Scott McCartney knows. He writes the Middle Seat Column for the Wall Street Journal.
Thanks for sitting with us.
Scott McCartney: Good to be with you.
Vigeland: Can you still get compensated if the flight is overbooked and you're involuntarily bumped?
McCartney: Yes, you can. In fact, the government recently doubled the amount that the airline has to pay to you for a penalty for bumping you from a flight involuntarily up to as much as $800 now, which I think is a more appropriate level. The level hadn't been changed in 30 years, it was only $400 and there was too much incentive for an airline to bump somebody, pay a $400 penalty and put somebody on the airplane who'd pay $1,000 for a seat.
Vigeland: Can you explain to us quickly why airlines have this business model where they do so much overbooking?
McCartney: You know, it's really unique in business and they did get permission years ago from the government to do this. The theory is that some people don't show up for flights and the airlines face a real problem where they can't inventory their product; once the door closes, that seat is gone, and in that case, the government allows airlines to overbook so that they don't end up with empty seats.
Vigeland: There are some people who actively look to get bumped because they want these free tickets or vouchers, what have you. I've done it myself; In fact, I'm sitting on $1,200 worth of Delta dollars because I got bumped a few months ago. Is this a good idea?
McCartney: It can be. You have to sort of know the rules and you have to know how to game the system. You're right; there are people that try very hard to get bumped. They book crowded flights on Friday evenings knowing that the airline's likely to start asking for volunteers. And then there's the game of when do you volunteer? The airline starts low, maybe offering $200 to people to give up their seats and if nobody comes forward, they go higher. A couple cautions: One is that those vouchers often come with restrictions. They can be difficult to redeem. It may only apply to certain fare categories. Some airlines are better at allowing you to use them electronically and others require you to do it over the phone or in person, even.
Vigeland: In which case, they'll probably charge you.
McCartney: Right, so you need the assistance of one of their agents and that's a $20 or $30 charge.
Vigeland: Right.
McCartney: You have to be tricky on that end and I think the other thing you have to watch out for these days is because flights have been so full, it may be some time before there's an empty seat to get you where you want to go or if you're just going to be on the standby list, it could be two days before you get an empty seat. You may have walked into something far worse than you bargained for.
Vigeland: Well, aside from a voucher, is there anything else you can negotiate for when you are bumped?
McCartney: Not if you voluntarily give up your seat, but if you are involuntarily bumped, the airline, by law, has to pay you cash. Now, most airlines don't want to do that and may not offer you cash, but understanding your rights, you can demand cash from the airline. If the airline can get you to where you're going within two hours of your original schedule, the penalty is the value of your one-way ticket, up to $400, and if it's more than two hours, which in most cases it would be, it's up to $800 maximum.
Vigeland: What about, say, if you requested to be upgraded on that next flight that they're able to get you out on? Maybe try for first class?
McCartney: You can certainly try. That's basically up to the airline. It's going to depend on how good a customer you are, what your fare was, things like that. These days, airlines are really hesitant to give out upgrades. They're trying to sell first class seats, they're trying to sell upgrades to people, so that may be more difficult to land than it used to be, but certainly worth a try.
Vigeland: Scott McCartney writes the Middle Seat Column for the Wall Street Journal. Thanks so much for joining us again today.
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Serotonin syndrome symptoms usually occur within several hours of taking a new drug or increasing the dose of a drug you're already taking. Signs and symptoms include:
• Agitation or restlessness
• Confusion
• Rapid heart rate and high blood pressure
• Dilated pupils
• Loss of muscle coordination or twitching muscles
• Muscle rigidity
• Heavy sweating
• Diarrhea
• Headache
• Shivering
• Goose bumps
• High fever
• Seizures
• Irregular heartbeat
• Unconsciousness
When to see a doctor
If you suspect you might have serotonin syndrome after starting a new drug or increasing the dose of a drug you're already taking, call your doctor right away or go to the emergency room. If you have severe or rapidly worsening symptoms, seek emergency treatment immediately.
Excessive accumulation of serotonin in your body creates the symptoms of serotonin syndrome.
Under normal circumstances, nerve cells in your brain and spinal cord (central nervous system) produce serotonin that helps regulate your attention, behavior and body temperature.
Other nerve cells in your body, primarily in your intestines, also produce serotonin. In these other areas, serotonin plays a role in regulating your digestive process, blood flow and breathing.
Although it's possible that taking just one drug that increases serotonin levels can cause serotonin syndrome in susceptible individuals, this condition occurs most often when you combine certain medications.
For example, serotonin syndrome may occur if you take an antidepressant with a migraine medication.
Another cause of serotonin syndrome is intentional overdose of antidepressant medications.
A number of over-the-counter and prescription drugs may be associated with serotonin syndrome, especially antidepressants. Illicit drugs and dietary supplements also may be associated with the condition. These drugs and supplements include:
• Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), antidepressants such as citalopram (Celexa), fluoxetine (Prozac, Sarafem), fluvoxamine, paroxetine (Paxil) and sertraline (Zoloft)
• Bupropion (Wellbutrin, Zyban), an antidepressant and tobacco-addiction medication
• Tricyclic antidepressants, such as amitriptyline and nortriptyline (Pamelor)
• Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), antidepressants such as isocarboxazid (Marplan) and phenelzine (Nardil)
• Anti-migraine medications such as triptans (Axert, Amerge, Imitrex), carbamazepine (Tegretol) and valproic acid (Depakene)
• Pain medications such as cyclobenzaprine (Flexeril), fentanyl (Duragesic), meperidine (Demerol) and tramadol (Ultram)
• Lithium (Lithobid), a mood stabilizer
• Illicit drugs, including LSD, Ecstasy, cocaine and amphetamines
• Herbal supplements, including St. John's wort, ginseng and nutmeg
• Over-the-counter cough and cold medications containing dextromethorphan (Delsym, Mucinex DM, others)
• Anti-nausea medications such as granisetron (Kytril), metoclopramide (Reglan), droperidol (Inapsine) and ondansetron (Zofran)
• Linezolid (Zyvox), an antibiotic
• Ritonavir (Norvir), an antiretroviral medication used to treat HIV/AIDS
Some people are more susceptible to the drugs and supplements that cause serotonin syndrome than are others, but the condition can occur in anyone.
You're at increased risk of serotonin syndrome if:
• You recently started taking or increased the dose of a medication known to increase serotonin levels.
• You take more than one drug known to increase serotonin levels.
• You take herbal supplements known to increase serotonin levels.
• You use an illicit drug known to increase serotonin levels.
Serotonin syndrome generally doesn't cause any problems once serotonin levels are back to normal.
If left untreated, severe serotonin syndrome can lead to unconsciousness and death.
Because serotonin syndrome can be a life-threatening condition, seek emergency treatment if you have worsening or severe symptoms.
If your symptoms aren't severe, you're likely to start by seeing your family doctor or a general practitioner. Here's some information to help you get ready for your appointment and to know what to expect from your doctor.
What you can do
• Be aware of any pre-appointment steps you need to take. When you make the appointment, be sure to ask if there's anything you need to do in advance, such as quitting any of the current medications or supplements you take.
• Take a family member or friend along, if possible. Sometimes it can be difficult to absorb all the information provided to you during an appointment. Someone who accompanies you may remember something that you missed or forgot.
• Write down questions to ask your doctor.
Preparing a list of questions will help you make the most of your time with your doctor. For symptoms you think may be caused by serotonin syndrome, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
• Is serotonin syndrome most likely causing my symptoms, or could it be something else?
• What kinds of tests do I need?
• What is the best course of action?
• Can I still take the medications I've been prescribed, or will I need to change them or change the dose?
• Are there any restrictions that I need to follow, such as avoiding certain drugs or supplements?
Don't hesitate to ask your doctor any other questions you have.
What to expect from your doctor
• When did you begin experiencing symptoms?
• Have your symptoms been continuous or occasional?
• How severe are your symptoms?
• What prescription and over-the-counter medications do you take?
• Do you use any illicit drugs?
• Do you take any dietary supplements?
No single test can confirm a serotonin syndrome diagnosis. Your doctor will diagnose the condition by ruling out other possibilities.
Your doctor will likely begin by asking about your symptoms, medical history and any medications you're taking. Your doctor will also conduct a physical examination.
To make sure your symptoms are caused by serotonin syndrome and not due to another cause, your doctor may use tests to:
• Measure levels of any drugs you're using
• Check for signs of infection
• Check body functions that may be affected by serotonin syndrome
A number of conditions can cause symptoms similar to those of serotonin syndrome. Minor symptoms can be caused by numerous conditions. Causes of moderate and severe symptoms include:
• Anticholinergic syndrome, malignant hyperthermia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome, serious conditions caused by certain medications
• An overdose of illegal drugs, antidepressant medications or other medications that increase serotonin levels
• Withdrawal from illegal drugs
Your doctor may order tests to rule out other causes of your symptoms. Tests may include:
• Blood and urine tests
• Chest X-ray
• Computerized tomography
• Spinal tap (lumbar puncture)
Treatment of serotonin syndrome depends on the severity of your symptoms.
• If your symptoms are minor, a visit to the doctor and stopping the medication causing the problem may be enough.
• If you have symptoms that concern your doctor, you may need to go to the hospital. Your doctor may have you stay in the hospital for several hours to make sure your symptoms are improving.
• If you have severe serotonin syndrome, you'll need intensive treatment in a hospital.
Depending on your symptoms, you may receive the following treatments:
• Muscle relaxants. Benzodiazepines, such as diazepam (Valium) or lorazepam (Ativan), can help control agitation, seizures and muscle stiffness.
• Serotonin-production blocking agents. If other treatments aren't working, medications such as cyproheptadine can help by blocking serotonin production.
• Oxygen and intravenous (IV) fluids. Breathing oxygen through a mask helps maintain normal oxygen levels in your blood, and IV fluids are used to treat dehydration and fever.
• Drugs that control heart rate and blood pressure. These may include esmolol (Brevibloc) or nitroprusside (Nitropress), to reduce a high heart rate or high blood pressure. If your blood pressure is too low, your doctor may give you phenylephrine or epinephrine (Adrenalin, EpiPen).
• A breathing tube and medication to paralyze your muscles. You may need a breathing tube and medication to paralyze your muscles, such as etomidate (Amidate) or succinylcholine (Anectine, Quelicin), if you have a high fever.
Milder forms of serotonin syndrome usually go away within 24 to 72 hours of stopping medications that increase serotonin and by taking medications to block the effects of serotonin already in your system if they're needed.
However, symptoms of serotonin syndrome caused by some antidepressants could take several weeks to go away completely. These medications remain in your system longer than do other medications that can cause serotonin syndrome.
Taking more than one serotonin-related medication or increasing your dose of a serotonin-related medication increases your risk of serotonin syndrome.
Talk to your doctor about possible risks. Don't stop taking any such medications on your own. If your doctor prescribes a new medication, make sure he or she knows about all the other medications you're taking, especially if you receive prescriptions from more than one doctor.
If you and your doctor decide the benefits of combining certain drugs that affect serotonin levels outweigh the risks, be alert to the possibility of serotonin syndrome.
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It's normal for a toddler to have temper tantrums. But you might be able to reduce the frequency, duration or intensity of your child's tantrums by following these parenting tips:
• Pick your battles. Only say no when it's absolutely necessary.
• Make it fun. Distract your child or make a game out of good behavior. Your child will be more likely to do what you want if you make an activity fun.
If your child has a tantrum, remain calm and distract him or her. Ignore minor displays of anger, such as crying — but if your child hits, kicks or screams for a prolonged period, remove him or her from the situation. Hold your child or give him or her time alone to cool down.
Enforce consequences
Despite your best efforts, at some point your toddler will break the rules. Consider using these parenting tips to encourage your child to cooperate:
• Timeout. When your child acts out, give a warning. If the poor behavior continues, guide your child to a designated timeout spot — ideally a quiet place with no distractions. Enforce the timeout for one minute for every year of your child's age. If your child resists, hold him or her gently but firmly by the shoulders or in your lap. Make sure your child knows why he or she is in the timeout. Afterward, guide your child to a positive activity.
If all else fails, tell your child that you are taking a timeout away from him or her for a few minutes — even if it means staying in the same room and simply not responding to your child — because of a specific behavior. Be sure to explain the behavior you'd like to see.
Set a good example
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By Mayo Clinic Staff
Mayo Clinic urologic surgeons have extensive experience performing cystectomy and urinary tract reconstruction for people with bladder cancer and other conditions.
If you're considering cystectomy, your Mayo Clinic treatment team will conduct extensive testing and consultations to understand your condition and your needs in order to recommend the most appropriate treatment for you.
At Mayo Clinic, you have access to a variety of procedures and treatments. When combined with the expertise of Mayo Clinic specialists, this ensures you will receive exactly the care you need.
Cystectomy procedures and reconstruction procedures used at Mayo Clinic include:
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41423 | Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 20 Critics
Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 0 out of 20
2. Negative: 16 out of 20
1. It follows the beloved storyline with a wonderful cinematic flair, top-notch audio design, colorful yet simple graphics and a basic set of gameplay mechanics. However, a lacking of innovation and overall gameplay and graphical polish stunt the game's full potential and leave it as a just-above-average title only fans of the material and/or genre will find any value in.
2. Kids and adults will find themselves frustrated with bad camera angles and dimwitted Oompa Loompas.
3. The story of Charlie and his journey into the surreal world of Wonka is completely misrepresented in this game and it is unfortunate to see how poorly executed the experience is when compared to other child friendly offerings on the market.
4. 45
It could have played like a slimmed down version of Pikmin crossed with quirky, yet solid platformer elements. Unfortunately, bad control and poor execution ruin the experience.
5. The fantastical wonder that is the factory just doesn't feel as interesting or as fun as the movie and much of the situations begin to feel more like work. I highly suggest you skip this one.
6. This has to be one of the worst games I've had the displeasure of playing in quite some time. [Sept 2005, p.100]
7. A bare-bones run-of-the-mill 3D puzzle-actioner saturated with eye-bleeding color and overflowing with tired devices and clunky gameplay. [Sept 2005, p.56]
8. Well, it does have nice music and decent voice-acting. That's all though, and for the same amount of money this game costs, you could see the movie and buy Psychonauts off eBay.
9. Kids aren't going to want to rescue the bad guys of the movie, kids want to explore the factory, swim in the chocolate lakes and hijack cars.
10. This factory comes off more like a real industrial complex than the fantastic playground of a fop who makes candy with magical midgets.
11. This third-person adventure had a lot of potential, but the bugs and overall sloppy design make this sweet treat leave a bad taste in our mouths. [Oct 2005, p.102]
12. 35
The musical score of the game will get on most peoples nerves within the first 20 minutes.
13. One particular puzzle is solved by gathering Oompa Loompas and setting them to tasks while Charlie does the more physical work such as throwing vine balls into pipes. It's as pointless a task as Sisyphus' punishment in Hades, and you have to do it five times. In a row.
14. Atrocious. And not "atrociously good fun" either. Simply atrocious. It's like biting into an Oh Henry and discovering that it is indeed, a big fat solid chunk of stanky human dung and undigested peanuts.
15. 30
As I painfully maneuvered my Charlie from room to room, I grew more and more desperate in my attempt to find redeeming qualities in the game.
16. (Altogether now) Oompa Loompa Doompadee Dah, I'm stunned I bothered getting so far. You will live in misery too, if you play this Oompa Loompa Loompa Doompadee Doo. (Doompadee Doo.)
17. 25
An abysmal, close to unplayable mess.
18. The controls are awful, the camera is beyond appalling, the graphics are hideous, the environments are bare, the gameplay is unbearably repetitive and the whole thing is an utter chore to play.
19. The product just feels unfinished, likely rushed to launch alongside the film, lacking the polish and additional development time that would have made this a worthwhile experience.
User Score
Overwhelming dislike- based on 7 Ratings
User score distribution:
1. Positive: 0 out of 3
2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
3. Negative: 3 out of 3
1. JackN.
Nov 7, 2005
I gave this game to my cusin for his birthday, after about 30 seconds of playing he started to cry. (luckey i had the receipt.)
2. p2roar
Aug 9, 2005
Horrible to play,horrible to watch,horrible to subject a child to.They will be crying all day!
3. JeremyD.
Jul 22, 2005
Similar to pikmin.......but worse confusing puzzles, confusing puzzles and more confusing puzzles they could have made this game ALOT better!Similar to pikmin.......but worse confusing puzzles, confusing puzzles and more confusing puzzles they could have made this game ALOT better! the best thing they could have done was change the gameplay! this game kinda sucks but its ok. IF you really like c.a.t.c.f. just rent it! Full Review » |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41424 | Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critics
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1. Positive: 12 out of 17
2. Negative: 0 out of 17
Watch On
1. 75
This story is unthinkable in a Hollywood movie, but there is something about the matter-of-fact way Saeko explains her problem, and the surprised but not stunned way that Yosuke hears her, that takes the edge off.
2. A movie about love, friendship and finding oneself, and it takes all its subjects very seriously while seeming to treat them with the lightest and most piquant of touches. Like its bizarre heroine, it irrigates our souls.
3. 75
A rather luminous movie on the power of love.
4. One never knows where "Warm Water" is going and even though the film's objective feels a little fuzzy even at the end a parable on female sexuality? an ode to liberty? there's such a joy in the telling that it doesn't matter terribly.
5. Reviewed by: Janice Page
No porno flick posing as art. Nor is it science fiction, though it does contain a few scenes with B-movie overtones. This is a deep and meaningful film, ultimately far more poignant than it is titillating.
6. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
The film may be lighter in tone than Imamura's more recent work, but it still has a number of serious things to say about life in contemporary Japan.
7. Imamura's delight in the infinite oddity of men and women is goofy; it's also, at heart, reverent.
8. 100
9. 100
May well be Imamura's funniest film; it is also one of his most accomplished. It is the work of a mature artist who has kept his adventurous spirit alive, which he has expressed in a complex and risky work carried off with an effortlessness that comes only from wisdom and experience.
10. 80
Imamura has said that Warm Water Under a Red Bridge is a poem to the enduring strengths of women. It may also be the best sex comedy about environmental pollution ever made.
11. 40
Plays like a nutty psychological mystery.
12. 63
There's not enough here to justify the almost two hours.
13. Acute sense of color and offbeat storytelling style aren't enough to make this sometimes sensual fantasy more than a whimsical trifle.
14. Maintains a light, dainty tone despite the heavy-handed metaphor, but in crossing the Pacific to the U.S., it is bound to leave most viewers dry.
15. 90
While Imamura films generally have their droll moments, this is the most blatantly comic work he's done since the '80s -- richly entertaining and suggestive of any number of metaphorical readings.
16. Reviewed by: David Stratton
A film with a terrifically engaging concept that overstays its welcome by quite a stretch.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41425 | Universal acclaim - based on 27 Critics
Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 22 out of 27
2. Negative: 0 out of 27
1. Akin to Bowie's 'Hunky Dory', in its senseless but brilliant eclecticism.
2. The Magic Position is a euphoric listening experience not even being a critic can spoil.
3. For anyone who has enjoyed even the briefest of flirtations with pop music, The Magic Position is as bold and captivating a record as you will surely hear all year.
4. These tracks... show an entirely new side of Wolf: one that finally puts impeccable pop songcraft ahead of lachrymose keening.
5. 82
Fey, agonized chamber pop at its most tortuously fetching. [#25, p.90]
6. Worth investigating. [Mar 2007, p.115]
7. Even at his laziest, Wolf sounds vastly more intelligent, committed and interesting than his supposed rivals, and "The Magic Position" is full of heart, warmth and beauty.
8. It’s easy to overlook a few fizzles in an album stuffed with fireworks.
9. But so what if The Magic Position ends up creaking slightly under the weight of its own ambition – surely that’s better than settling for the norm?
10. 80
A lot of artists are creatively bankrupt by their third album. But being still only 23, you suspect Patrick Wolf is just coming into his own. [Mar 2007, p.99]
11. A true work of genius by a true eccentric.
12. If you were looking for a new Bowie, Patrick Wolf is proving himself the Thin White Duke's successor in more than just his extravagant dress sense.
13. 80
The third outstanding album of his career. [Mar 2007, p.103]
14. The only missteps are when he tries to conjure the more dour sensibilities of his older works.... But they're tiny mistakes on an otherwise irrepressible and delightfully inventive pop album. [#17, p.88]
15. 80
His best full-length. [May 2007, p.98]
16. Ranging from dense electronica to stark piano ballads to an amalgamation of indie pop, electronica, and concert orchestra, The Magic Position envisions a magical world where Wolf has everything he could ever want at his disposal.
17. Rarely has spilling one's heart been such a colorful affair.
19. Wolf's joy is contagious, and there's nothing remotely not awesome about him. [22 Mar 2007, p.80]
20. Complex yet catchy, lush yet groomed, and organically digital, The Magic Position is how pop radio must sound to the brutally insane. [May 2007, p.63]
22. Wolf sometimes succeeds in emulating Kate Bush’s knack for combining the utterly bizarre with godlike musicianship, but sometimes he falls short.
23. Detractors will complain that there's nothing to rival the brutal impact of his earlier recordings, but only towards the end does the new-found positivism grate.
24. The Magic Position sounds laboured by the end. However, it's difficult not to respond to such delirious joie de vivre.
25. 60
The songs are about love and sex, but a hint of nihilism still lingers in Wolf's melodramatic vibrato. [May 2007, p.91]
26. The Magic Position feel[s] more like a missed opportunity than a legitimate breakthrough album.
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Universal acclaim- based on 56 Ratings
User score distribution:
1. Positive: 16 out of 21
2. Negative: 3 out of 21
1. seand
Jul 29, 2007
starts off with some of the best songs of the year and energy to match then just kind of peters off around the middle and picks up slightly starts off with some of the best songs of the year and energy to match then just kind of peters off around the middle and picks up slightly at the end Full Review »
2. PWolf
Jul 25, 2007
I'm sorry I made such a shit record
3. NikkiG
Jul 11, 2007
Fun when it wants to be... yet convincingly serious when it wants to be as well. Very enjoyable to listen to! |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41467 | Thread: SSH Help
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Complete beginning to end instructions for usbnet are not available and one has to piece the needed steps from documentation and forum posts and mix in some experimentation. Not sure why it's not as well supported as the other hacks as this doesn't seem 'more linux' than usual. But here is how I got ssh over wifi working with auth keys in a Windows environment:
1. Install usbnet hack.
2. Mount kindle and edit file \usbnet\etc\config
3. Download and run puttygen:
4. With (x) SSH-2 RSA selected, click Generate.
5. Copy the text under 'Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys file'.
Do not be tricked by: Conversions > Export OpenSSH Key.
6. Paste into a new file named authorized_keys.
I previously thought authorized_keys was a folder to be created and placed my key file under that... wrong!
7. If you plan to use the filezilla client for sftp, do not enter a key passphrase as that is not supported. Click Save Private Key to the local PC.
8. Copy file authorized_keys to \usbnet\etc\
9. Unmount kindle.
10. Turn on WIFI. The kindle should obtain an IP address from your wireless access point. A quick way to find the kindle's IP is to go to Settings and then type 711. On a private WIFI network, set up a DHCP IP reservation so your kindle IP is always the same. Or just change your kindle wifi settings for a static ip address (the usbnet config file can not be used to set the WIFI ip address).
11. On Kindle, type:
To connect with Putty for shell access:
1. Configure your putty session to connect to the Kindle's IP over SSH. Under Connection > SSH > Auth > Private key file for authentication, choose the private key you saved locally.
2. Connect to the kindle, enter username root, enter key passphrase if you used one, and you should be in. To save a step, you can set Connection > Data > Auto-login username: root.
3. As you can tell from the login banner, if you need to change anything that is not in /mnt/us, then you will need to first mount the filesystem as RW (readwrite):
mntroot rw
Once you're done, you should put the filesystem back to RO (readonly):
mntroot ro
To connect with Filezilla client to transfer files:
1. Edit > Settings > Connection > SFTP > Add keyfile, choose the private key you saved locally.
2. Create a new connection entry with server type: SFTP, Logon Type: normal, User: root, and blank password.
3. You can save some time by setting your Default Remote Directory to: /mnt/us to match the directory you see when mounting over usb.
4. Unfortunately, filezilla doesn't support sending custom commands over sftp, which makes using it annoying. See WinSCP below for a better alternative.
To connect with WinSCP client to transfer files:
1. Create a new session filling in fields for 'Host name', User name (root), and Private Key File (WinSCP does not support private key passphrases).
2. To add a custom command for refreshing the Kindle:
1. Preferences > Commands > Add...
2. Description: Refresh Kindle
3. Custom Command: dbus-send --system /default com.lab126.powerd.resuming int32:1
4. (x) Remote command
5. Select a Keyboard Shortcut if you like.
To invoke the command, either Files > Custom Commands > Refresh Kindle
or Options > Toolbars > Custom Command Buttons or use the keyboard shortcut if defined.
Note that if you reboot your Kindle, the hack is disabled and you have to run the following commands again:
Alternatively, to have usbnet be enabled after a reboot, simply rename \usbnet\DISABLED_auto to auto and reboot.
Since you're using SSH over wifi instead of over usb, a setting of 'auto' is not so dangerous since you can still mount the kindle over usb to fix something. People using networking over usb can run into an issue where they change something on the kindle that prevents them from connecting over SSH, but since they have auto enabled, they can't mount the kindle to fix it.
FYI: if you keep the Kindle on usb (unmounted or charger), then the WIFI will stand on even when the screensaver kicks in.
I've tried this tutorial on my kindle with usbnetwork-0.28. It successfully connects with rndis adapter via usb and I was able to putty as well as filezilla into kindle with sshkey. However when I try to connect with wifi it fails to connect. I changed IPs in config file to match my network and I could only ping it. Both putty and filezilla can't access over wifi. Am I missing something here?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41469 | Dark Fall: The Journal (Windows)
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This first-person, point and click adventure is an atmospheric ghost story which takes place primarily in an old train station and a nearby hotel in Dorset, England.
The game begins as you listen to a phone message from your brother urging you to meet him immediately because "something has gone wrong" and that "what they were looking for has found them." You leave immediately and, upon arriving, you discover that your brother is only one of many whose disappearances are unexplained.
Your investigations into the past and present will involve reading diaries, newspapers, letters and other records to uncover the secrets hiding in the buildings. You will be finding clues to puzzles as you explore the creepy environment where apparitions come forth without warning.
The in 2009 released Classic Edition adds support for Windows XP and Vista, new sound effects and other technical adjustments.
Dark Fall: The Journal Windows Train to Dowerton
Dark Fall: The Journal Windows Searching rooms on the upper floor of a hotel
Dark Fall: The Journal Windows Men's toilet
Dark Fall: The Journal Windows Ladies' toilet
Alternate Titles
• "黑暗之秋" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "Обитель Тьмы" -- Russian spelling
• "Dark Fall: Rencontres Avec L'Au-Dela " -- French title
• "Dark Fall - Il Diario dei misteri" -- Italian title
• "Dark Fall: Das Journal des Geisterjägers" -- German title
• "Dark Fall (Classic Edition)" -- 2009 re-release title
• "Dark Fall 1" -- Common title
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Thrills and chills abound in this spooky, mystifying adventure! Jeanne (75505) 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars
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Quandary Jul, 2002 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars 90
Puntaeclicca.it Feb, 2004 8.5 out of 10 85
Gamers' Temple, The Dec 23, 2003 80 out of 100 80
GamesFire Jan 21, 2004 79 out of 100 79
Adventure Lantern Dec, 2007 78 out of 100 78
Netjak Aug 13, 2003 7.8 out of 10 78
Game Chronicles Sep 16, 2003 7.1 out of 10 71
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GameSpot Aug 06, 2003 6.4 out of 10 64
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There is a subdirectory on the CD, which contains instructions for the gameplay, a making of and a full hint system.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41470 | R:Racing Evolution (Xbox)
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The Xbox version of the game includes a special H1 Hummer not found on the other consoles.
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At one time, when you bought the GameCube version of R: Racing Evolution at a store, such as EB Games, you were also handed a free copy of Pac-Man Vs..
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Only the Brave
R| 1 hr. 39 min.
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During World War II a combat unit composed of Japanese-American volunteers rescues 211 members of the Texas "Lost Battalion" and becomes one of the most highly decorated units in American military history.
Cast: Lane Nishikawa , Jason Scott Lee , Mark Dacascos , Yuji Okumoto , Tamlyn Tomita , Jeff Fahey , Pat Noriyuki Morita , Guy Ecker
Director: Lane Nishikawa
Genres: War, Historical drama
Only the Brave (2006)
Release Date: February 17th, 2006|1 hr. 39 min.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41529 | Beef lasagne
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Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme Wed 28-Nov-12 22:45:31
My dm used to make it even quicker than that.
Stick frozen mince in a bowl. Pour over a jar of Dolmio. When heated through pour in dish layering with pasta. Pour over a jar of Dolmio white sauce and stick in oven.
Bless her, cooking was not her strong point.
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Indith Wed 28-Nov-12 20:41:16
Bol sauce, white sauce with nutmeg. Layer up (I always put a layer of pasta sheets on the bottom of the dish too otherwise I wouldn't get enough pasta in to fill dh the family up). Cheese on top. Oven.
Much simpler than that, but probably also less healthy...
Brown a load of mince, add stock cubes, mustard powder, oregano, tomato puree and Lea & Perrins, then a pack of passata. Leave to simmer.
Meanwhile make a cheese sauce.
Half the meat sauce into the dish, then lasagne sheets, then cheese sauce, repeat then finish with grated cheese.
Stick the pans in the dishwasher while its in the oven grin
Ilovemydogandmydoglovesme Wed 28-Nov-12 20:35:32
Fry beef mince in pan. Add chopped onions, mushrooms & tomatoes. Chuck in Worcestershire sauce, red wine, rosemary, basil, garlic, beef stock, umm, think that's it. Let simmer.
Whip up a cheese sauce. Add nutmeg, salt & pepper.
Layer mince, lasagne sheet, sauce, mince, lasagne sheet, sauce on top. Grate a bit of Parmesan and crack some black pepper over, then bung in preheated oven for 30 minutes.
racingheart Wed 28-Nov-12 20:22:21
make a pint of fairly thin white sauce, flavoured with nutmeg, thyme and bay
make a vegetable sauce with sieved tomatoes, onion, garlic, peppers, mushrooms, courgettes and herbs, which I then stick in the blender for a few seconds.
cook the beef and mix it in with the veg sauce.
butter lasagne dish and put a layer of meat sauce in, then layer of lasagne (uncooked), white sauce, meat sauce, lasagne etc until top layer, which has white sauce and then thick layer of grated cheese on top, usually mozzarella or cheddar.
Cover with foil,bake for 40 mins. take off foil, bake for another 20 mins.
It's a faff and uses every pan in the house, but DC love it.
how do you do yours? I'm always after a homemade version that doesn't use every chuffing pan I own.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41535 | Vox amps documentary now on BBC iPlayer
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A new BBC documentary on Vox Amplification's impact on the '60s, 'Vox Pop: How Dartford powered the British Beat Boom', is now available to watch via BBC iPlayer.
As you may have guessed from the lengthy-but-very-informative title, the programme looks at how the Dartford-based instrument manufacturer became the brand of choice for the bands of the British beat era movement, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds, before declining at the end of the decade.
Of course, there's a top notch line-up of interviewees, most notably Brian May and Bruce Welch (The Shadows), along with more contemporary names like The Horrors.
You can watch the documentary on BBC iPlayer until 6 December, or download it temporarily to watch later.
In other Vox news, an extremely rare Vox UL730, previously owned by George Harrision, is due to go to auction in London on 12 December. Guess how much it's estimated to go for…
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41563 | TY - JOUR AU - Gurkaynak,Refet AU - Wolfers,Justin TI - Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty, and Risk JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 11929 PY - 2006 Y2 - January 2006 DO - 10.3386/w11929 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11929 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11929.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Refet Gurkaynak Bilkent University Department of Economics 06800 Ankara, Turkey E-Mail: [email protected] Justin Wolfers Department of Economics University of Michigan 611 Tappan St Lorch Hall #319 Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Tel: 734-764-2447 E-Mail: [email protected] M1 - published as Refet Gürkaynak, Justin Wolfers. "Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty, and Risk," in Jeffrey A. Frankel and Christopher Pissarides, editors, "NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2005" MIT Press (2007) M2 - featured in NBER digest on 2006-08-01 AB - In September 2002, a new market in %u201CEconomic Derivatives%u201D was launched allowing traders to take positions on future values of several macroeconomic data releases. We provide an initial analysis of the prices of these options. We find that market-based measures of expectations are similar to survey-based forecasts although the market-based measures somewhat more accurately predict financial market responses to surprises in data. These markets also provide implied probabilities of the full range of specific outcomes, allowing us to measure uncertainty, assess its driving forces, and compare this measure of uncertainty with the dispersion of point-estimates among individual forecasters (a measure of disagreement). We also assess the accuracy of market-generated probability density forecasts. A consistent theme is that few of the behavioral anomalies present in surveys of professional forecasts survive in equilibrium, and that these markets are remarkably well calibrated. Finally we assess the role of risk, finding little evidence that risk-aversion drives a wedge between market prices and probabilities in this market. ER - |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41564 | @techreport{NBERw13586, title = "The Impacts of Renminbi Appreciation on Trades Flows and Reserve Accumulation in a Monetary Trade Model", author = "Li Wang and John Whalley", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "13586", year = "2007", month = "November", doi = {10.3386/w13586}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w13586", abstract = {Given the rapidly growing reserves in Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan) and the pressures from trading partners to revalue, there is a need to examine commercial policy in more than a pure barter model. Here we evaluate the joint impacts of exchange rate appreciation on trade flows and country surpluses using a general equilibrium trade model with a simple monetary structure in which the trade surplus is endogenously determined in the exchange rate setting country and the exchange rate is exogenous. We illustrate its application to the Chinese case using calibration to 2005 data. Our results, while elasticity dependent, suggest that the impacts of Renminbi (RMB) revaluation on the surplus are proportionally larger than on trade flows, and that changes in trade flows can be substantial. Different treatments of China's processing trade have small impact on changes in China's trade flow under RMB appreciation, but significant impacts on the change in the surplus. Results are elasticity dependent; larger substitution elasticities in preferences yield larger effects on trade flows and the surplus.}, } |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41565 | TY - JOUR AU - Angrist,Joshua AU - Fernandez-Val,Ivan TI - ExtrapoLATE-ing: External Validity and Overidentification in the LATE Framework JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 16566 PY - 2010 Y2 - December 2010 DO - 10.3386/w16566 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16566 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16566.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Joshua Angrist Department of Economics, E17-226 MIT 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: 617/253-8909 Fax: 617/253-1330 E-Mail: [email protected] Iván Fernández-Val Department of Economics Boston University 270 Bay State Rd Boston, MA 02215 E-Mail: [email protected] AB - This paper develops a covariate-based approach to the external validity of instrumental variables (IV) estimates. Assuming that differences in observed complier characteristics are what make IV estimates differ from one another and from parameters like the effect of treatment on the treated, we show how to construct estimates for new subpopulations from a given set of covariate-specific LATEs. We also develop a reweighting procedure that uses the traditional overidentification test statistic to define a population for which a given pair of IV estimates has external validity. These ideas are illustrated through a comparison of twins and sex-composition IV estimates of the effects childbearing on labor supply. ER - |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41566 | @techreport{NBERw18437, title = "The White/Black Educational Gap, Stalled Progress, and the Long Term Consequences of the Emergence of Crack Cocaine Markets", author = "William N. Evans and Craig Garthwaite and Timothy J. Moore", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "18437", year = "2012", month = "October", doi = {10.3386/w18437}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w18437", abstract = {We propose the rise of crack cocaine markets as an explanation for the end to the convergence in black-white educational outcomes beginning in the mid-1980s. After constructing a measure to date the arrival of crack markets in cities and states, we show large increases in murder and incarceration rates after these dates. Black high school graduation rates also decline, and we estimate that crack markets accounts for between 40 and 73 percent of the fall in black male high school graduation rates. We argue that the primary mechanism is reduced educational investments in response to decreased returns to schooling.}, } |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41567 | @techreport{NBERw19290, title = "Regression Discontinuity and the Price Effects of Stock Market Indexing", author = "Yen-cheng Chang and Harrison Hong and Inessa Liskovich", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "19290", year = "2013", month = "August", doi = {10.3386/w19290}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w19290", abstract = {Studies find price increases for additions to the S&P 500 index but no decreases for deletions. Additions come with good earnings news, suggesting these studies are not just measuring an indexing effect. We develop a regression discontinuity design using Russell Indices for cleaner identification. Stocks are assigned to indices based on their end-of-May market capitalizations. Stocks ranked just below 1000 are in the Russell 2000. The indices are value-weighted so these stocks receive index buying whereas those just above 1000 have close to none. Using this random assignment, we find price effects for both additions and deletions.}, } |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41580 | Star Trek Meets Monty Python
What could possibly be more awesome than Star Trek and Monty Python? Why, the two of them mashed together, of course!
Here's a mashup of the original Star Trek series with the Knights of the Round Table (Camelot) song from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Link [embedded YouTube clip]
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Cobaltblaze, that ain't no young-looking Patrick Stewart there. That's the one where they all live underground in an asteroid, and McCoy's dying and falls in love with the High Priestess. There's a little more just after that shot that's from the same episode. The episode title ends "I have touched the sky".
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Can anyone tell me what episode is happening at 1:11? i swear that looks like a young Picard that is being fought, and I'd like to figure it out :)
great mash-up though :)
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Now who would think of that...!
I'd like to see Monty Pythons Fish Slapping Dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1Y1s&feature=fvst performed by the original Star Trek crew...
But those fragments from Star Trek also do show how things have changed since then in the depiction of science fiction...
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41586 | The Ooze Cheats
The Ooze cheats, Tips, and Codes for GENESIS.
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One thing you need to avoid is getting shot in the head. If you get shot in the head, you die no matter how big you are. Also, on the Toxic Dump Part III, when you see a sign with a skull and crossbones, that means it's where garbage and toxic stuff get dumped. Next to the sign, notice that the edge of the land is smoother than the other edges of land. When you go across, stay away from that side, because if you're wondering why you'll die if you just try to go across the land with the light post things on each side, it's because if you touch the edge of the land where the dumping area is your ooze will start to drain into the water. Losing too much ooze too fast will kill you. If your too big, touch the edge only a little bit so you'll lose health, but you'll survive and be small enough to cross safely. And one last tip, you should use the attack that makes you reach out at enemies-your control settings in the options menu might be different than mine, but for example, if you press A to spit ooze at enemies, press the arrow of where you want to aim and B or C at the same time. If B doesn't work, then do it with C.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41694 | First Listen: Exitmusic, 'Passage'
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Passage, the first full-length album from Brooklyn's Exitmusic, is a dark, sludgy beast of a record that slithers before it strikes. It broods and rumbles, full of anger and anguish and loneliness, before erupting in a squall of tortured release. It's mostly bleak and intensely emotional, but also beautiful.
Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church, the married performers behind Exitmusic, offer little hope in these meditations on grief and heartache — what's wrong, guys? — but they make their strange world of sound alluring enough to be enjoyable. They pull it off with a simple but potent formula built around stark contrasts: Palladino's voice is both creepy and seductive. It floats elegantly in an otherwise crude and densely layered sea of guitar noise. Simple, spare beats hold chaotic soundscapes together while delicate melodies tell troubled tales. The songs are gorgeous and gruesome, soaring and sad, glittering dreams and haunting nightmares.
Palladino and Church began writing songs together after meeting in New York several years ago. Church had just returned from teaching English in India and Taiwan, while Palladino was already an accomplished actress, appearing in Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and Todd Solondz's Storytelling, among many other films. (Most recently, she's played Angela Darmody, a key character in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.) But nothing in her screen roles has even hinted at the stunning voice she possesses. In Exitmusic, she wields it like a fine but powerful instrument, finessing it with incredible nuance.
Passage, out May 22, isn't the most uplifting record you'll hear this year. Its brightest spot, "The Night," finds Palladino rallying just enough to sing, "My aim is slightly high in the silent night" and "It's only a dream, and the dreamer is bound to awake." In the world of Exitmusic, those qualify as affirmations. But even (or perhaps especially) in its bleakest moments, Passage is one the most memorable and absorbing records you'll hear in 2012.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41695 | Tim Storms Holds Record For Lowest Sung Note
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Tim Storms has broken the world record twice for the lowest sung note ever recorded. He recently won a competition to sing a low E, more than two octaves below middle C, on a new album by composer Paul Mealor, called, Tranquility: Voices of Deep Calm with the St. Petersburg Chamber Choir.
OK, we're about to hit a new low. The London-based record label Decca held a competition earlier this year. The label was looking for someone who could sing an incredibly low note: the low E.
TIM STORMS: (Singing) E.
GREENE: They found their man. This is Tim Storms, who won the competition. You can hear why. And he will now sing the note in a new piece by the Welsh composer Paul Mealor called "De Profundis." Tim Storms is an American singer who usually performs in Branson, Missouri. We reached him in London this morning and asked how long he's had this talent.
When did you first realize that you could sing this low? I mean, did you hit puberty as a kid, and then all of a sudden you're, like, wow, I have something going on here?
STORMS: Actually, I didn't go through that adolescent, voice-changing phase. My voice was always just kind of low, even as a little kid. I was about eight years old when I began listening to this Christian a cappella music group. And I kind of gravitated toward the bass part. I learned that I could sing right along with it, you know. And then by the time I was in the eighth grade, I just got really serious about singing all vocal music.
GREENE: And when you're growing up in, you know, the eighth grade, what was the reaction of your friends, other students, to your talent?
STORMS: I remember being in the concert choir in the eighth grade, and there was me and probably two or three other, quote, unquote, "basses." When you're in eighth grade, nobody's really a bass.
STORMS: But I had a real good rapport with my choir teacher. And I let her know what was comfortable for me. And what was comfortable for me was singing everything an octave lower, because, especially in the eighth grade, the bass parts are quite high, as far as bass goes. And so she would let me sing it an octave lower. And one of the guys beside me would always say: You're singing the wrong note.
GREENE: And you would say, no, it's just a lot lower than you're used to.
STORMS: Right.
GREENE: OK. So you've broken the world record for singing the lowest note ever recorded two times, as I understand it, the Guinness record. And tell us, how do they measure that?
STORMS: They use a frequency analyzer, or vibration tester, as some engineers call it. It has a little microphone hooked up to it, and you just sing into it. And it has to be in a controlled studio environment to be free from any outside frequency interruptions. But you just sing into the little microphone, and it picks up every frequency that you're giving it and tells you exactly how loud you're singing each frequency.
GREENE: And what do they usually use these types of machines for?
STORMS: They usually use them for - to test frequencies in dragster engines - race cars. Or some people use them out in the field, like, to measure elephants communicating with each other.
GREENE: Tim Storms. Most days you can find him in Branson, Missouri, where he sings at the Pierce-Arrow Theater. Thank you so much for talking to us.
STORMS: Oh, it's been a pleasure. Thank you so much.
GREENE: Tim, as I understand it, you do a heck of a version of "Amazing Grace." Can you give it to us before we let you go?
STORMS: Sure. Yeah.
STORMS: (Singing) Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.
GREENE: This is NPR News.
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But now, most cases cannot be prevented. Even routine fetal monitoring during labor and delivery has failed to diminish the number of babies born with cerebral palsy. In fact, the ability to rescue very premature, tiny babies has only increased the number who have some form of cerebral palsy.
Even those cases of cerebral palsy directly caused by lack of oxygen during birth, often the subject of malpractice suits with astronomical jury awards, are not preventable in most cases. They may occur because the placenta separates prematurely, the umbilical cord strangles the baby, the baby's shoulders cannot fit through the birth canal, or some other birth mishap that the doctor cannot control.
Varying Disabilities
Cerebral palsy is a catchall term to describe any movement or posture disorder caused by faulty development or damage to motor areas in the brain. By definition, it is nonprogressive, though symptoms may change as a child matures. Still the disorder, diagnosed in 4,500 American children yearly, is incurable.
There are several types of cerebral palsy that result in varying degrees of disability. Spastic cerebral palsy affects 70 percent to 80 percent of patients, causing muscles to stiffen and contract permanently.
Athetoid cerebral palsy, representing about 10 percent to 20 percent of cases, results in uncontrolled writhing movements that may affect the hands, feet, arms, legs and muscles of the face.
Ataxic cerebral palsy, a rare form, affects balance and depth perception and may cause shaky movements and problems with muscle coordination. Then there are mixed forms, typically combinations of spastic and athetoid.
Some children, for example, are mildly affected with a symptom like an awkward gait that is hardly noticeable. Others may be so severely affected that they cannot operate their own wheelchairs.
Symptoms of cerebral palsy may include trouble maintaining balance and walking, involuntary movements, drooling, seizures, mental impairment, difficulty speaking, difficulty with fine motor tasks like writing and vision problems.
A third of people with cerebral palsy are of normal intelligence, though it can be a challenge to determine this in a child who cannot speak. Another third have mild mental impairments, and the remaining third are moderately or severely mentally impaired.
Once a diagnosis is made, usually by age 2, physical therapy should begin immediately to prevent contractures and atrophy of muscles that worsen the child's disability.
Parents should seek out a hospital-based treatment center and commit themselves to working at home each day with the child. Some symptoms can be reduced by drug therapy, others by surgery. Still others can be minimized by mechanical aids and biofeedback. But physical activity remains critical.
For more information and guidance to helpful organizations, consult the government Web site, www.ninds.nih.gov, and search for cerebral palsy. Also, contact United Cerebral Palsy (www.ucp.org) at 1660 L Street NW, Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20036, (800) 872-5827.
Photo: Dr. Janice E. Brunstrom, a pediatric neurologist who helped establish a center in St. Louis for children with cerebral palsy, works with a patient at a karate class. (St. Louis Children's Hospital) |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41798 | Is George W. Bush stupid?
musicabonita_2000 asked this question on 11/9/2000:
I would like all republicans to give me a good reason to like Bush. I really am open minded to this even tho i'm generally a democrat or a liberal. It just seems that evertime that i hear a reason to vote for Bush is because of something that Clinton has done or something else that has nothing to do with Bush's capability as a president. You always say he hasn't served in an dishonest adminstration. But is it not possible that he could in the future? Or is it possible that he already has served in a dishonest adminstration and yet the democrats just havent tried to pry into his life the way Republicans did to Clinton.Blaming Gore for the stupid things Clinton has done seems to have no justification. I mean do you guys really think that Bush's plans make sense and that they will actually work or do you just vote for him because you hate Al Gore, even tho, to me and lots of other people, he's clearly smarter and more capable of running this country? It's funny to me that Bush's DUI charges are no big deal to most of you and it has nothing to do with his character yet i've yet to hear anything against gore that has been proven (him inventing the internet,etc) and yet his credibility is shot. I dont even think he said any of these things. I think he said something a bit similar to these so called lies and its gotten blown out of proportion. And even if he did say these things what in the world does this have to do with his effectiveness as a president? To me, this has as much to do with the presidency as Bush lieing and saying he was in the military,or the dui. And can you honestly say that if it had been al gore who had dui charges, that you would have been so forgiving? Would it have mattered then if Gore had been in the exact same situation? I've sincerely been looking for answers to this questions. Prove to me his godlyness, his honorableness, his integrity and all these qualities that i keep hearing that he has and yet to have seen. Please no more answers that make no sense like i've been getting for a while now. I've yet to hear any republican to make any sense on these questions. Since you all are experts i'm hoping to get an intellegent answer for one. You never know. YOu could change my mind. Thanks for reading
JesseGordon gave this response on 11/9/2000:
I voted third-party all around in this election, and I call myself a liberal-leaning libertarian. I'll consider myself qualified to answer because I run a non-partisan web site (issues2000.org).
I've been thinking since the primaries were decided that the electoral process worked pretty well this year. Bush is clearly more qualified than McCain (although I voted for McCain in the primaries, and hope to see him again in the future; but I do think he needs to practice moderation more before he's electable). And Gore is clearly more qualified than Bradley (although I hope to see Bradley in a future race too).
Bush has been particularly effective in governing with a Democratic legislature in Texas. He indeed made this point quite often in the campaign, and it seems to me his strongest qualification for the presidency -- the ability to achieve a bipartisan consensus, which implies getting things done. While it may not matter this year (assuming Bush is elected), the tradition of mid-term elections is that the president's party loses a few seats in Congress. With the tight balance, it's likely Bush would have a Democrat Senate, and maybe House too, in 2002.
Bush is also unafraid to take on tough issues. Social Security in particular has been called "the third rail" of politics -- touch it and you die -- for decades. Bush says things like "I'll touch the third rail because that's the only way to fix it." It was risky -- and if he loses, that stance will be blamed, since it was a key issue in Florida. But he took it on, and he has changed the opinion of millions of Americans -- retirement privatization is now a popular opinion.
He's done the same with school vouchers -- that has become a mainstream issue at the federal level. Prior to this election, it was a out-in-the-wings idea in a few states.
Even if Bush ultimately loses (which I don't think he will), he will have achieved a major shift in American opinion on those two issues. If he takes office, he will presumably do the same on other tough issues.
Bush also follows strongly in the tradition of Ronald Reagan in being a leader who outlines his ideas, and then delegates the power to implement those ideas without interfering with the details. Some people considered that a negative aspect of Reagan (like in Iran-Contra), but it certainly was an important characteristic of his, and made him an effective leader. I think Bush shares that. His father did not -- he was much more detail-oriented, and I think that was the main reason he was not as effective as Reagan.
Bush also has the ability to capture the crowd with his confidence and vision. I don't think he did this very often during the campaign, but when he did, it was very powerful. I saw this most clearly in his convention speech, when he stared into the camera with fire in his eyes at each repeat of the phrase "They have not led. We will." I was moved, even though I did not at that point nor at any time since intend to vote for Bush. But I was certain at that moment that the man was unbeatable for the presidency, and that he would be a good president.
He exhibited that same "spark" a few times during the debates, on issues he was confident about. I think the confidence that's behind his ability will come naturally if he becomes president, since power provides confidence. So we'll see a lot more of that spark if he takes office, and I think he'll be a fine leader.
musicabonita_2000 asked this follow-up question on 11/11/2000:
that was probably the most intellegent answer i've ever received but your not a republican so i'm not sure it counts lol. It was good. YOu actually made sense (tho you didnt answer all of my questions but oh well). Tho his issues arent what i believe in, if more people put it the way you did then I wouldnt think they were so ignorant. Yet i talked to two more republicans last night and the reason they would vote for bush "because of what clinton did". Can you not understand my frustration with these people. They seem to blame everything on other people and they have not done anything wrong untl they get caught in a lie and all of a sudden they are sorry for what they have done. Thanks for you answer. I wish i could get an answer like this from a Republican but oh well, it may never happen :)
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JesseGordon gave this response on 11/11/2000:
Alright, I'll try to address your other questions too, but I asumed some of them were rhetorical.
Yes, if it had been Gore who had been caught in a DUI offense, I'm sure it would have hurt him severely and cost him any chance he has in the election. And no, it didn't hurt Bush much (although in an election this tight, hurting just a little bit can be enough!) But I think that's because Bush handled it well (with honesty) and Gore would have nbeen perceived as having covered it up (more on perceptins below).
In terms of Bush's issues, yes, I agree that some of them will help the country. As I've said above, I'm not a Bush supporter, but I certainly thinnk his voucher plan is better than Gore's idea to "close failing schools and re-open them with a new principal." Bush's social security plan was good enough to force Gore to make a similar plan. And his tax cut plan, which focuses on "getting the money out of Washington while the getting is good" makes a lot of sense too (although I do prefer Gore's plan on that, but Gore's plan was a response to Bush's too).
In terms of why these things stick to Gore and not to Bush, that's all about perception. Gore is perceived as the legalistic type, who'll wangle his way out of a straight answer. Anything he says to reinforce that stereotype gets reported (and distorted) in full, such as the Internet claim, the Love Story claim, the Love Canal claim, etc. He DOES exaggerate more than he needs to, and that character flaw has appropriately been magnified by the press. But Gore is not perceived as dumb, so if he flubs his words, or mis-states soemthing, the press lets it go.
Bush IS perceived as dumb, so anything that reinforces that stereotype gets magnified by the press. From "subliminable" to "non-federal Social Security", Bush will be portrayed forever as a word mangler and a concept mangler, and the press will seek out things that reinforce that. And the truth is, Bush probably is NOT as smart as Gore -- but so what? There's no IQ test for the presidency, and Reagan did pretty well with a pretty low IQ, while Carter did pretty badly with a pretty high IQ.
With regards to Republicanism, you may have a hard time finding Republicans who'll defend Bush well NOT because he's hard to defend, but because Republicanism is getting weaker, as parties themselves weaken. More people call themselves Independents (as I do) these days than call themselves either Republicans OR Democrats. I've proudly voted for Republicans (William Weld, John McCain, John Anderson) and I've proudly voted for Democrats (Ted Kennedy, Joe Kennedy, Bill Clinton). The vast middle ground of voters who don't unquestioningly stick to one party or the other -- that's where elections are won and lost, and therefore those are the perceptions and opinions that count.
I was under the impression that Reagan wasnt a good president but i really dont know much about him.Anyways, I was with you until you said so what about Bush not being too smart. I dont care about his i.q.is. I dont know how smart that means you are. But i do think that your intellegence matters in how effective you are as a president. How can it not? Perhaps the i.q. test reagan and carter took didnt rate him on their political knowledge and maybe that's why Reagan could get a low score and be a good president and carter could have a high score and not do so well as president.I've never taken a i.q test but no matter what the outcome was I wouldnt think of myself as any less intellegent than i do now.And I'm sure that Bush is smarter in some matters than Gore is but i dont think that's the case in this matter.
JesseGordon gave this response on 11/11/2000:
Yes, of course, there are many areas of intelligence, and of corse, every president would score highly on some of them. If you measured something like "ability to read people" as a form of intelligence, Clinton wuold probably come in first of all presidents in this century, followed closely by Reagan, with Al Gore very distantly behind both of them as well as behing Bush. But in terms of academic intelligence, or knowledge of public policy and the ability to consider options, Bush (and Reagan) just aren't as smart as Gore (and Clinton and Carter).
But no, I don't think intelligence matters. On a political quiz I wrote for this election for PBS (see "CandidateMatch" at http://quizzes.frontline.tv), we considered a series of criteria to measure the personality of the candidates. We thought about havnig "intelligence" as a criterion, and rejected it as not sufficiently miportant in a president to determine people's votes or to determine presidential ability (see "rejected concepts" at http://www.issues2000.org/frontline/works2.html).
As to why I consider Reagan a good president, well, he achieved what he set out to achieve.
1) His purpose upon election was to end the "American malaise" as Pres. Carter described it, and replace it with "Morning in America." He certainly did that -- the 1980s were an optimistic period, and I think if Carter won the 1980s would not have been.
2) His policy goals included rebuilding the military, lowering taxes even if that emant deficit spending, and establishing SDI (Star Wars). He succeeded at all three of those goals.
3) I'd put Star Wars in the category like Bush's "third rail of socail security" and making school vouchers a mainstream idea. Prior to Reagan, no one considered SDI a serious idea; Reagan not only made it get taken seriously, but he put it onto the American political agenda strongly enough that the debate still continues today. And he convinced enough people that it could work that even Gore and Climton support a limited version of it now.
4) Most importantly, I think Reagan made a substantial shift in the way Americans thought about government and the presidency. We began to think that maybe government wasn't the solution to all problems, which laid the groundwork for numerous privatization initiatives in various policy areas. And we began to think that maybe the president could delegate authorty to trusted subordinates and could successfully lead blaying out the big picture. That wasn't nuique to Reagan, but it was certainly an important characterstic and one which he'll be remembered for, as well as a characteristic which Buish and others emulate.
musicabonita_2000 asked this follow-up question on 11/20/2000:
You probably thought i wouldnt write back but i've just been busy. I just wanted to say that not only do i not agree with you on the intellegence factor but i also dont understand it, which is rare for me. I can usually understand other people's points of view even if i dont agree with it. Perhaps you could try explaining it tho i think you already tried to and i still dont understand. I think your saying that you can be dumb and still be an effective president but somehow this just doesnt seem right to me. Tho i dont guess it matters but its still strange to me. I'm not sure there a point in trying to explain it to me but perhaps your up to the challange.
musicabonita_2000 added this clarification on 11/20/2000:
JesseGordon gave this response on 11/21/2000:
Well, I certainly wouldn't use the phrase "you can be dumb and still be a good president", but yes, that certainly captures the essence oif what I'm saying. I do not think that academic intelligence and knowledge are the most important characteristics for leadership.
I think the confusing point is in the definition of "intelligence." In common usage, "intelligence" means academic ability, the ability to apply logic and reason, having a large body of knowledge ready to apply, and other things like that, which are measured on classic IQ tests. I certainly think that Mr. Bush is less "intelligent" on that scale that Mr. Gore. However, that is the scale thaty I think is not so important in presidential leadership.
There are other forms of intelligence, which are not so readily measured by tests and academic degrees. The one I cite above is the ability to read people. That's a form of intelligence, too, I think, and one which can never be measured on a test. This ability means, you can go into a room full of people and sense their mood; you can alter a speech in the middle to capture the crowd's attention and shift them to enthusiastically support what you are saying; you can get people who are in your presence to feel that you are "connected" to them and that you understand them and their needs. That ability, which is NOT usually called "intelligence" at all, is certainly a more important characteristic in a president that I.Q.
Ronald Reagan was extremely good at sensing people's moods, and at shifting their moods to one of optimism and enthusiasm. Bill Clinton was a master at making people feel like he was talking directly to them, even when there are hundreds of people in the room. Jesse Jackson is reknowned for making speeches that capture people and move them.
None of those three people are particularly reknowned for intelligence in the academic sense, i.e., they probably would not do very well on an I.Q. test (maybe Clinton would. Reagan certainly would not). But "people intelligence" is something the three of them share, and that sort of intelligence, I think, is more important to presidential leadership than academic intelligence.
Mr. Bush would score lower than Mr. Gore on an I.Q. test. But there's little question in my mind that Mr. Bush would score much, much higher on any test of "people intelligence" than Mr. Gore.
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by samad on Mon 17th Sep 2007 15:39 UTC
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This is solid proof the US is far more draconian with treatment of consumers in favor of companies. In the EU, it's at least understood there exists a more humane social contract. This premise barely exists in the US.
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Butt kissing 101
by demopoly on Fri 24th Jul 2009 19:15 UTC
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This is the proper way to kiss up to someone. Flatter them endlessly, put them on a stage, and insult anyone who disagrees with them.
The only disease is in the mind of the person writing this article.
When a person slaps you every day for 20 years, it's right to hate them. I don't care to listen to people who say "don't hate." They can go rot.
MSFT has hit Linux every day for 20 years, and is a criminal corporation. I know Linus is a conservative, and I do not respect his opinions just because I use his software. Linus's attitude is the very reason why GNU came into being.
Linus is a boomer, and has his own blinders on, just as the person who wrote this vitriolic sham piece that poses as news.
Now they release drivers, and I'm supposed to say, 'oh thanks kind MSFT, for publishing drivers, after attempting to destroy me for 20 years.' Thanks. Yeah, not bloody likely.
Intel and MSFT are criminals, and dinosaurs, and it's right to hate them with the same intensity that one hates Pedophiles.
I do not buy MSFT "certified" hardware. I do not buy MSFT software. I've had it shoved down my throat everywhere, and I feel no reason why I should aplogize to some troglodyte for hating MSFT.
Go cuddle your MSFT stocks and enjoy your wet dreams of being a "journalist."
You disgust me, why don't you go to work for CNN? or FOX?
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RE[2]: Great Release!
by josi on Thu 19th Mar 2009 15:41 UTC in reply to "RE: Great Release!"
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KDE isn't default in Mandriva. KDE and Gnome is equal.
Debian on the other hand doesn't threat KDE and Gnome equally, it's more like they have Gnome as a semi default.
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by tomcat on Sat 25th Sep 2010 21:29 UTC
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There's another way to look at this. People keep analyzing this as if it were the mobile phone market share that matters. Maybe not. Maybe it's the location service that matters.
If it can be claimed that Google's location services have a monopoly on mobile devices -- when you look at their sum total market share across mobile platforms (Android, iPhone, etc) -- then Google may have antitrust problems tying their location service to Android. I'm not claiming they have a monopoly; merely positing that the possiblity exists.
If that's the case, then Skyhook may be able to extract a HUGE settlement with Google, and set Google up for regulation under a DOJ consent decree (like Microsoft).
Even if this isn't the case _today_, it will happen, sooner or later. We're going to see substantial consolidation in the mobile phone market among services like location, identity, etc. This seems like the likely path of antitrust enforcement, as well.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41854 | Patheos Watermark
Religion Library: Protestantism
Missions and Expansion
Written by: Ted Vial
Protestantism spread quickly among Europeans (in Europe and America) for a couple of reasons. Europe in the 16th century was to a great extent a place of religious anxiety. The theology preached by the priests, which emphasized human cooperation with God in achieving salvation, did not match a society that had come through the Black Plague, Church schism (there had been at one point three popes simultaneously), and massive social changes such as urbanization and the rise of a middle class. The Protestant message of salvation based on God's grace alone, and not depending on human efforts, resonated with many people. An unsettled population was relieved to have their salvation solely in the hands of God.
It also spread because of political tensions in Europe. Many princes found it convenient to align themselves against the pope and/or Emperor, especially since joining the Protestant reform movement made it possible to "secularize" church property (seize it for the good of the people, as administered by the state). It also released rulers from certain tax and tithe burdens owed to the Catholic Church, and allowed civic rulers in many cases to take greater influence over church leadership, rather than having church leadership selected by the pope in Rome.
As Europeans immigrated to America, they brought their religion with them. German and Dutch Protestants often formed ethnic churches, such as Lutheran Churches in Missouri, or Dutch and German Reformed Churches in Pennsylvania. (Most of these ethnic denominations have merged or otherwise reached out to become more diverse and less narrowly ethnic.) English settlers brought both Anglicanism and Puritanism with them. The first English settlers in America were Anglicans, who landed at Jamestown in Virginia in 1607. In 1620, English Puritans landed in Massachusetts.
In Europe, the primary thrust of evangelism and missions at the beginning of the Protestant movement was directed toward Roman Catholics who, the reformers felt, were deceived about their salvation and thus in need of a fresh presentation of the gospel. Only after the violent conflicts created by Roman Catholic and Protestant groups trying to subjugate one another—often called the Wars of Religion, which began soon after Luther's first acts of dissent—ceased with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 did Protestant groups begin to develop a greater interest in evangelizing other people groups.
Nicholas von Zinzendorf (1700-1760), a German Protestant, became one of the early advocates for missionary work. He worked closely with the Moravians, a Bohemian group of believers that had actually developed from Jan Hus' (1369-1415) ministry even before Luther. These Moravians had migrated north and had settled on lands belonging to Zinzendorf. Together they initiated the first major organized missionary efforts of the Protestant churches. They sent missionaries (usually lay people, not clergy) to the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, and the Far East.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/41855 | Pat McNamaraEmma Schmidt was 40 years old in 1928. An Iowa native, from childhood she was a practicing Catholic, but for twenty-six years she had experienced almost continual psychological and spiritual unrest. She heard voices sexually tempting her. Obsessive thoughts nearly drove her to suicide. Over time she developed an indefinable anger toward religious objects. When a priest blessed her, she flew into a rage and attacked him. She also found herself able to understand languages she never studied, like Latin and German.
Doctors could find nothing physically wrong with her, so Emma looked to religion for help. But Church authorities are slow to acknowledge possession before extensive investigation. After carefully examining her case, Bishop Thomas Drumm of Des Moines gave the approval for Emma's exorcism. He then called Father Theophilus Riesinger (1868-1941), one of the few American priests known to have any experience in this controversial area.
Born in Germany, at age 20 Riesinger joined the Capuchins, a branch of the Franciscan order, and was sent to America. Ordained in 1899, he was assigned to Manhattan. How his exorcism ministry began is unclear, but over time Church leaders called on him when addressing this sensitive issue. From 1912 until his death, he served in the Midwest. Preaching was his main work; exorcism was an occasional task assumed at a bishop's request. By 1928, he had performed nineteen of them.
Father Carl Vogl, who interviewed everyone involved in Emma's case, published the story (with Church approval) in 1936. Begone, Satan! became the first American book to cover an official Catholic exorcism. Riesinger's friend, Father Joseph Steiger, pastor of a church in Earling, offered the use of a local Franciscan convent, where the exorcism occurred over three weeks during December 1928.
As Emma stepped off the train, she felt an overwhelming urge to attack the Sisters waiting there. At the convent, she was offered food that had been secretly blessed, but she refused, purring like a cat for hours. The next morning, Father Theophilus began the exorcism. Emma was placed on a bed, with a group of Sisters nearby. As the prayers began, Vogl writes, "a hair-raising scene occurred":
With lightning speed the possessed dislodged herself from her bed and from the hands of her guards; and her body, carried through the air, landed high above the door of the room and clung to the wall with a tenacious grip. All present were struck with a trembling fear. Father Theophilus alone kept his peace.
Later "a loud shrill voice rent the air . . . as though it were far off, somewhere in a desert." Everyone, Vogl records, was "struck with a terrible fear that penetrated the very marrow of their bones."
Riesinger identified four main spirits operating in Emma. One called itself Beelzebub, another Judas Iscariot. Two were spirits of deceased relatives. One was Emma's father Jacob, an alcoholic who sexually abused her and placed a curse on her. The other was her aunt Mina, Jacob's mistress, a child murderer who practiced witchcraft. When Emma was 14, Mina put a spell on her food. Father Theophilus asked the demon's intent. It answered: "To bring her to despair so that she will . . . hang herself! She must get the rope, she must go to hell!" |
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