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Suppose that my application has an access token to some facebook user. Is there a security risk in exposing this access token in JS Code to some other users which visit my site? If so, what can they do with it?
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security.stackexchange.com might be a good forum for this question as well. – Mike Samuel Jan 30 '12 at 18:11
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You are at risk of
1. Confused deputy -- your code is granting privileges to code that might abuse those privileges either intentionally or by acting on behalf of yet more code that is malicious.
2. Theft via code injection (XSS) -- the credentials could be stolen by code injected into your page via an XSS vulnerability and then used to act on the user's behalf, possibly generating logs which indict you as the culprit.
3. Theft via eavesdropping -- if there is non-HTTPS content going across the connection between the browser and your server, then an eavesdropper with the ability to read packets could steal the credentials.
4. Theft by malware -- if there is malware running on the user's computer, then sending those credentials to the browser exposes them to that malware. The malware would probably have to read memory owned by the browser process or cache files written by the browser.
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Isn't access token limited to domain? – Muhammad Umer Apr 7 at 19:08
about #4... if there is malware then user is already in trouble, and sending access token shouldn't create another level of security flaw, no? Because if malware can control and access browser then it can just go to site and read private content.. – Muhammad Umer Apr 7 at 19:22
@MuhammadUmer, no. If a site sends credentials C to a browser running on that machine in response to a login using credentials D, now malware on that machine has access to both credentials C and D. But if that site doesn't send C to the browser, the machine only has access to credentials D. The difference is that D combined with short-lived XSRF tokens might imply C internally, but if C is sent, now malware has a wide-window in which to abuse C. – Mike Samuel Apr 8 at 16:24
I understand it creates another door.. but the whole wall is missing. C is short lived and limited (door) and if D is already compromised the wall, password and username then there is bigger problem. But i guess its a invulnerability however i argue one you could live with. Id think not saving access token in local storage but just using it by requesting it then discarding it could be enough.. .? – Muhammad Umer Apr 8 at 19:02
@MuhammadUmer, yeah, malware running on a machine can do a lot so sometimes these distinctions are unimportant. Malware on a machine can't do everything though. It's a lot easier to write malware to scrape information from the file-system and harder to get it from a process resident in memory so it is important to prevent credentials from ending up in cache files (and, as you mention local storage) where malware only needs file-system access. – Mike Samuel Apr 9 at 22:30
A Facebook access token gives the same rights your app has to a particular user to anyone that has access to the token. So, if your app acquires the rights to do actions A, B, and C and is issued a token to that effect, any other app that would be able to obtain the token would have the same rights to that user (until the token expires).
So, yes, there is risk. You need to protect the token from access to anyone/anything that should not have the same rights to the Facebook user as your app does.
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But the access token usage is restricted to the application domain. So it seems that other application won't be able to use it. – Andy Jan 26 '12 at 10:29
Your app has an access token for Facebook, per your example. That means it has rights to do actions A, B, and C on Facebook. Anyone that grabs that token now has the same rights to do actions A, B, and C on Facebook as the user in question. The application domain prevents other applications from accepting the token but Facebook will happily accept it, regardless of who is submitting. This is why OAuth tokens should be protected and be short-lived. The IETF Internet Draft on OAuth 2.0 Bearer Tokens should explain this in good detail: self-issued.info/docs/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-bearer.html – jeffsix Jan 30 '12 at 19:57
i understood. yet ... i am using an app for my own purpose and no other user is involved in it. i wanted to read comments posted for my article using cron. so i created a long lived access token which is by this date is 60 days long. i am sure it is used in server side script. i will have to store it in a db or flat file. the permission i set to that was just offline_access. if this access token got public then what what are all the actions that are possible on that access token? in other words how do i restrict that to read only comments and not any other operation? hope i had made it clear? – Jayapal Chandran Oct 20 '13 at 7:50
That access token can be used anywhere by anyone to do anything that the access token has permissions to do. Which is what makes it powerful, right?
So, exposing the access_token in javascript really depends on where that javascript is being run from, and over what type of network that access token is being sent.
If things are over https, then you should have no worries if the device the javascript is running on is otherwise secure (say a personal cell phone's browser with a screen lock).
If the device is say a commonly shared internet terminal, even with https, where everyone uses the same user account, then if a crook snooped thru history files on the browser and pull out that access token. Bad bad bad.
If communicating over http, then it's wide open to the whole world to see. Bad bad bad.
So since you haven't given us any of this information on what the environment is, it's quite a vague questions. So my bottom line is going to be not so vague. Don't do it! Just let Facebook's Javascript SDK handle the access_token for you.
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Disclosing Security Token can make your users vulnerable of getting hack
I remember a software "FaceNiff" that runs on rooted Android phone, It sniffs security token of facebook and other websites and you can login in wih any user's account who is connected to that WIFI.
There was a security flaw in another Android software that let hackers sniff your gmail calender security token and can gain full access.
Read this post http://www.techlicious.com/blog/android-security-flaw-could-expose-you-to-data-theft/
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Has anyone got any idea how to read the XML file saved by MS Project 2007? The standard binary format is .MPP but I'd like to view a project in a different viewer. I've saved the project spec as XML and the viewer I'm using needs the parent task Id for each task. Where can i find that in the rather huge amount of XML data created by ms project?
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I spend almost all day programming in Vim and I am sure that a lot of you do too. What features do you use that make your day to day coding that much better? One that I use is gv, which will let you reselect the previously selected text. It is great for reindenting!
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For historical purposes, here's a link to the original SO question: stackoverflow.com/questions/95072/… – Jax Jul 16 '09 at 1:20
Note my comment below, and you won't even have to type gv. :) – Nathan Long Feb 1 '11 at 17:41
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This command replaces all instances of x in the current file with y. This is basically just a find and replace, but I use it so often since I've learned it at work that it has become invaluable.
Also, /search string
then n to navigate through all instances of the search string within the file. Great for doing manual tweaks a lot more easily, especially if you can't apply a rule to the entire file.
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I'm actually working on converting a largish section of our codebase at work and I'm doing it entirely with vim regular expressions (so far). It works really well! – Frew Jul 15 '09 at 17:46
Add 'c' to the end of that to make the command interactive. e.g. :%s/x/y/gc – sml Sep 21 '10 at 6:21
Note that the % is where to do the substitution - % means "the current file." If you visually highlight some lines and type :s, you can do a substitution just in that selection. – Nathan Long Feb 1 '11 at 17:40
=% for auto-indenting everything within a block of code.
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Oooh! That's new to me! – Frew Jul 17 '09 at 22:09
That works if your cursor is on the beginning {. If you're inside the block, you can do =i{, for "indent inside the curly braces." – Nathan Long Feb 1 '11 at 17:38
== does nice auto-indenting on the current line.
Normally, though, I use = with a motion, like =G to indent to the end of the file, or =i} to indent inside the current set of curly braces.
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Also keep in mind >> and << which can manually do (un)indenting. – Frew Jul 15 '09 at 17:46
@Frew - yep. Also, if you add vmap <Tab> >gv and vmap <S-Tab> <gv to your .vimrc, you can indent and unindent with Tab and Shift-Tab, respectively, AND it will go right back into visual selection mode so you can indent or unindent further. – Nathan Long Feb 1 '11 at 17:34
Use * in command mode to search for the word under the cursor.
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And don't forget it's sister command, #, which does the same thing but goes backwards instead of forwards! – Frew Jul 15 '09 at 14:58
The :! command - invaluable for lsing, and the "sudo tee" trick.
I've been asked to explain the tee trick. Basically, it allows you to save a text file with admin priveleges, even if you didn't start VIM as root:
:w !sudo tee %
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You might want to explain the "sudo tee" trick in here :-) Also I like to do :!sort after highlighting variable definitions and whatnot. – Frew Jul 15 '09 at 14:57
You can really turn Vim into a great "scriptable" editor using :! and some shell/Python/Perl/other scripts. – Jonas Jul 15 '09 at 15:05
I actually have an alternative to !ls, which runs a vnew, outputs r!ls into the new buffer, and shrinks it horizontally. I can't be bothered to remember all of the files in a directory with over three in it ;) – new123456 Nov 16 '11 at 3:06
Hitting the . key repeats the previous command. Lovely for, say, editing an .ini, or so.
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this is surprisingly powerful, but it takes a bit of vim-ing before you can really get good with it. – aaron Jun 13 '11 at 4:26
syntax color highlighting
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I am always using gq to re-do line breaks on email, text files, etc. Really useful when replying to email (I use pine) and editing multiple previous replies.
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Oooh, I'd totally forgotten about this! – Frew Jul 16 '09 at 1:32
Why, oh why, can't the more popular email clients support similar functionality? – erichui Jul 16 '09 at 1:50
Where to start... Here's the things I can recall I've used in the last 5 minutes or so.
• NERD Tree - File exploring. Makes VIM more like an IDE.
• One huge thing for me is the ability to cd to a directory and then drop to a shell prompt through my shell mappings (below).
• ci for emptying whatever you're stuck between.
• :! for launching standard apps.
• I have mappings for launching a shell prompt, mysql client, apache log files, etc.
• Subversion integration is always nice. Quick diffs, stats, etc.
• :abbr for making repetitive typing of large blocks go away.
• Tabs. Need I say more?
• Splitting out files, always good. :Sex is always nice.
• :set paste! to keep from having auto-indent run amok.
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I use all of these except for abbr. I tend to make a lot more macros than abbreviations. – Frew Jul 17 '09 at 21:53
ZZ save and exit (instead of :wq!)
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Huh? What about x? – DevSolar Sep 16 '11 at 7:17
I heavily use following commands while writing or traversing C/Tcl/Perl code:
copy-paste code
CTRL-f and CTRL-b for page forward and backward traversal
% for block-by-block traversal
^ goto start of line
$ goto last end of line
start selecting code using command v (visual mode) and any of the traversal key above
y for copy
p for paste
s to delete a character and goto insert mode to type new text.
Code level traversals (requires coding style discipline)
]] for start of next function
[[ for start of prev function
CTRL-] to jump to definition of a variable/function/macro if tags are available.
* => search word (or text selected using v) in forward direction
# => search word (or text selected using v) in backward direction
n => execute previous search command in forward direction
N => execute previous search command in backward direction
All the above commands can be prepend with a number to signify how many times to execute it. The realization of the power of this additional dimension comes slowly as one uses vim more and more and challenges oneself to improve.
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Ah, ]] and [[ are new to me. That's cool! – Frew Oct 21 '09 at 19:33
I just enter Text. Everything else is just ... Sugar.
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I'm a former user of TextPad, and had memorized many of that program's accelerator keys. One of the first things I did in Vim was learning the map function to keep consistency (F5 search, F8 replace, etc.). I created my personal colorscheme, and borrowed alot from others' vimrc files. Viva Vim! Configurable to any degree.
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When I installed Windows XP, I didn't install support for my native language: Croatian.
I used a friends CD created with nLite and the languages where removed. How can I install the correct keyboard layout without re-installing?
There is no Croatian to choose from when I go to selection language
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If nLite was used to strip the languages out, there is no way to install them afterwards. nLite warns about this during the creation of the new CD, as this is tightly controlled within Windows. As per the nLite forum here, to install a MUI you also need the Help & Support component.
MUI require "Help & Support" component
You could use your install CD and try and do a repair on Windows XP, however I am not sure if this will work.
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worked; thanks for help – bbaja42 Aug 26 '09 at 9:50
Copy the file kbdcr.dll from another (Croatian) Windows XP computer to your folder c:\windows\system32 (or expand from an original Windows XP CDROM)
Open regedit and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ System\ CurrentControlSet\ Control\ keyboard layouts and search for kbdcr.dll (0000041A on my machine, when I Google it says 00020405 for Croatian keyboard layout, but I found Czech/programmer in this folder)
now edit the Registry Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ keyboard layout\ preload, change the "1" value setting to the matching key from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ System\ CurrentControlSet\ Control\ keyboard layouts (e.g. 0000041A)
Done and Dusted!
(Note: Preload\2 is used if you want to be able to switch between two keyboard layouts.)
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+1 Manual labor. Painful. But it does work thought. – BinaryMisfit Aug 26 '09 at 12:34
i was quite active in a netbookforum back then when they first came with tiny SSDs and nLite was touted to be the best thing since sliced bread. of course many users went overzelous and ripped a needed keyboard layout ... so i'm quite used to this particular question. :) – Molly7244 Aug 26 '09 at 16:36
i tried that; but there's isn't Croatian (and many other languages) showed there;
You'll have to use a different installation disk (one which has all regional packs installed, and it doesn't matter which XP edition it is) to install Croatian, after you installed 'nLite' Windows on your machine. CP - Regional... - Install/uninstall additional languages You don't need to reinstall or repair, the problem will only repeat itself if you do it with a 'nLite' installation disk.
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Have your language bar turned on, right click it, settings, add your keyboard and do not forget to have Windows never change it for you based on what you type.
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You can install support for Croatian after installing Windows XP. See Control Panel->Regional and Language Settings.
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i tried that; but there's isn't Croatian (and many other languages) showed there; – bbaja42 Aug 26 '09 at 8:57
I hope this helps!
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Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – Tom Wijsman Nov 20 '12 at 23:18
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How do I set up my webcam to capture an image on the sly each time my account (or any account) logs on? Is there some specific software that will do this?
I have a Logitech QuickCam Fusion cam and running Windows 7.
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Using AutoIt, this code will take the snapshot, just run it on startup (just use a shortcut unless you change the save path and use the include folder for the include file) Note that this will flash any LED on the camera on for a half second while it takes the snapshot, there isn't a way around that:
#include <GUIConstants.au3>
#include <Webcam.au3>
$gui = GUICreate("Webcam UDF Test",640,480)
ConsoleWrite("Taking snapshot ..." & @CRLF)
ConsoleWrite("Snapshot taken !" & @CRLF)
While 1
$msg = GUIGetMsg()
If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then
You will need to get the Webcam.au3 include file from here. Put it in the same directory as the script or into the autoit include folder. I borrowed the code from that site and modded it for your needs. The file will appear in the same folder as the script (you can change that via the Webcam.au3 file if needed).
EDIT: you will also need to add this line to the top of Webcam.au3:
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
EDIT2: The line you will change for the path in Webcam.au3 if you want to specify it is:
$snapfile = @ScriptDir & "\snapshot.bmp"
to something like:
$snapfile = "C:\snapshot\snapshot.bmp"
or if you want date and time of pic:
$snapfile = "C:\snapshot\" & @YEAR & "-" & @MON & "-" & @MDAY & "_" & @HOUR & "-" & @MIN & "-" & @SEC & ".bmp"
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You rock! I had been struggling with those files at AutoIt.com all afternoon yesterday with no luck making them take a pic! Thank you! BTW your code needs a small edit, you have $snapfile = "C:\snapshot\@YEAR and it needs to be $snapfile = "C:\snapshot\" & @YEAR & – jerrygarciuh Aug 31 '11 at 14:24
SU says I have to wait 5 more hours to award bounty. Will add to my afternoon schedule. Thanks again!!! – jerrygarciuh Aug 31 '11 at 14:25
One other note on timestamping the file- Windows won't accept the colons in the time segment and just discard everything after the first one. At first I thought it was an issue with the @MIN macro but monkeying with it revealed the colon problem. – jerrygarciuh Aug 31 '11 at 14:41
@jerrygarciuh,I'll fix the time stamp portion, my brain was thinking log note, not file name when I wrote that. – MaQleod Aug 31 '11 at 15:12
I have just built a small program called qpic.
The only requirements are .Net Framework 3.5.
Simply extract to a folder anywhere, and, when it is launched, a half second later it will close and save a JPG picture in the folder it was launched from with the next sequential number.
Simply place a shortcut to this program in your startup folder , or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run - and it should work without problems!
In order to see when someone logged on, simply take a look at the date/time of the picture.
All this aside, if your webcam has a light or similar that shows when it is active, there is no way to get around this as it is a hardware feature of the webcam... Unless you open it up and disconnect the LED/light!
(It is built off of a modified version of this project)
You can download here.
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Upvote for writing a custom tool. I was going to do similar and I also found that project. Unfortunately, the DLL throws an null reference exception for me. (Even the original project doesn't work.) N.B. The WebCam_Capture.dll is a .NET assembly and can be viewed with dot.Peek. (And really? You obfuscated your assembly? Trade secret, is it?) – BillP3rd Aug 31 '11 at 4:07
@BillP3rd - No secret, I installed an addon and my VS does it automatically on release compiling... I am happy to give the source code to anyone who wants it.... As for the project, all I did was open it up, upgrade/convert the project to vs2010, run, it failed, dragged the .dll to the project directory - it worked... changed the form start to do in order - start webcam, capture picture, save picture and modified the save routine heavily so it goes to same directory and increases the count. – William Hilsum Aug 31 '11 at 10:28
There are several ways to this.
Personally, I would make a script using AutoIt (there's an example how to take a snapshot here). AutoIt allows you to produce an executable from the script if desired.
After you have a working script, you'll need to create a shortcut for it (or the executable) in the StartMenu's Startup folder of the intended user (or "All Users" if the snapshot should be take from all users).
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Visual Basic 6 apparently has libraries for controlling webcams.
This page has source code for a Visual Basic app that will start capture from a webcam, close the cam, and offers video formatting options.
I'd imaging VBScript offers this sort of thing as well, which would probably be easier to run on system startup.
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BirthS.A. 630
ParentageSilmariën and Elatan
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Valandil was the son of Elatan of Andúnië and Silmariën, the eldest daughter of Tar-Elendil, the fourth King of Númenor. He founded the line of the Lords of Andúnië, who ruled the city on the western shores of the island kingdom of Númenor. Though he did not belong to the direct royal line, he remained close to the royal house, and was important among the Council of the Sceptre (a post he passed on to his descendants).
Valandil's mother Silmariën was Tar-Elendil's eldest child, but the Sceptre passed to her younger brother Meneldur because of the laws of succession at that time. Those laws were later changed, and if those later laws had held at the time of Tar-Elendil's death, the Sceptre of Númenor would have passed directly to Silmariën, and from her to Valandil and his descendants. Long after Valandil's time, his descendants would become Kings in their own right: in direct line through many generations, Valandil was the ancestor of Elendil, the first High King of the Dúnedain in Middle-earth. From Elendil, the line passed on through Isildur, Isildur's son (who was also called Valandil), and down the generations to Aragorn himself.
In the story of Aldarion and Erendis, Valandil held a feast around Second Age 700 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Guild of Venturers and another feast for Aldarion and Erendis after their wedding in 870.
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If ever a federal agency has made ineptitude into an art form, it has to be the IRS. After months of stonewalling and grandstanding and Fifth Amendment privilege-pleading before congressional committees, Lois Lerner and the IRS are now the subject of a federal lawsuit. In response to charges that they unfairly impeded the tax-exempt application of the organization "True the Vote," for political reasons, the IRS is invoking "the dog ate my homework" defense
In sworn affidavits filed in court by top IRS muckety-mucks, the IRS maintains that Lois Lerner's computer was sent out to be fixed by a private contractor because of an alleged problem with its hard drive. When the contractor was unable to retrieve the lost data, the computer was forwarded to the IRS's criminal unit forensics lab, which was also unable to recover any data. At that point the computer's hard drive was "degaussed" and batched with other defunct computer components for destruction and/or recycling by an outside contractor. And since the IRS doesn't assign serial numbers to internal computer parts, there's no way to track it down.
In short, the same group that requires private citizens to retain financial records for up to seven years under penalty of law is saying that they are unable to produce two years' worth of electronic correspondence relating directly to an active legal investigation, and furthermore that even if backup tapes of Ms. Lerner's emails did exist at one point, they most likely have been erased since the IRS only retains email records for six months. Six months! The IRS's six months to Joe Taxpayer's seven years. Apparently what's good for the citizen goose is not good for the government gander.
In the law, there is a doctrine called "spoliation of evidence" which basically says when a litigant has destroyed relevant evidence which is sought by the other side, the fact finder may infer that the evidence would have been adverse to the position of the one who destroyed it. This makes sense, as there would be no rational motive for someone to destroy evidence that would prove their innocence in the court of law and the court of public opinion.
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Sympathy For the Hero
A villain, gray character or bystander feels sympathy or pity for a heroic character.
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You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Sometimes I forget that, I have met so few of them in my life. When I see what honor and honesty have won you, I understand why.
This is the inverse of Sympathy for the Devil. There, a hero or Anti-Hero feels sympathy for or relates to a bad guy. Here, a bad guy, morally gray character or Innocent Bystander feels sympathy or pity towards a hero, usually because Being Good Sucks and No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.
Of course this may also be just a ploy if done by a villain, and can easily be a lead in to a Not So Different speech, offering to rule together, a Hannibal Lecture and/or trying to Break Them by Talking, etc.
Compare It Sucks to Be the Chosen One and Antagonist in Mourning.
• During the Kindly Ones volume of The Sandman, Lucifer notes that while he once swore to destroy Dream (over a fairly trivial matter) he now feels almost sorry for him when he sees the mess that Dream has gotten into.
• There's a scene in The Prophecy where Satan briefly commiserates and shows sympathy to Detective Daggett, (a cop who years earlier lost his faith just before he was set to become a Catholic priest) about how hard it is to believe and keep faith.
• Villain Protagonist Yuri Orlov shows a grudging respect and admiration for Hero Antagonist Agent Valentine several timea in Lord of War, noting Valentine's honesty and integrity, as well as showing some sympathy when Valentine is about to be betrayed by the system he has risked his life defending.
• In the 2003 film version of Peter Pan, Hook uses a Hannibal Lecture on Peter to take away Pan's flight and distract him. Throughout it Hook talks about how Wendy will grow up, and move on, leaving Peter alone, forgotten, and old. At the end he suddenly looks tremendously sad and adds "Just like me".
• Spider-Man2: after Spider-Man saves the train from falling off the tracks, he's exhausted and almost falls off the train. The people in the train pull him back in and lay him on the floor. Peter's lost his mask in the fight, so everyone in the train can see how young he is. One man notes with sympathy "He's... just a kid. No older than my son." One young bystander gives Peter back his mask, and they promise to keep his secret. Then when Doc Oc returns, they all vow to protect him. Unfortunately Doc Oc doesn't have a problem with that.
• In A Song of Ice and Fire, The Spymaster Varys berates Mr. Honor Before Reason himself, Ned Stark, for the various huge political mistakes that Ned made in attempting to be The Good Chancellor until Ned says that it was all in attempt to be merciful to innocent children. At that point Varys makes a statement that both admires Ned's integrity and weighs the cost of those mistakes, (Ned is injured and feverish while Locked In The Dungeon, his best friend was murdered, one of his daughters taken captive by his enemies, all of his men killed, etc.) where he basically concludes that no wonder other people don't try to be a hero like Ned.
• The A Song of Ice and Fire tv adaption Game of Thrones has Jaime Lannister expressing a moment of admiration for Ned Stark instead of Varys. "Poor Ned Stark. Brave man, terrible judgement."
• Near the end of the Lord of the Rings series, Saruman does a bit of this mixed with hatred (Saruman being The Resenter after all) to Frodo when Frodo shows him mercy despite Saruman doing his best to destroy Frodo's homeland and after Saurman's attempt Back Stab him.
Saruman rose to his feet and stared at Frodo. There was a strange look in his eyes of mingled wonder and respect and hatred. "You have grown, Halfling," he said "Yes, you have grown very much. You are wise, and cruel. You have robbed my revenge of its sweetness, and now I must go hence in bitterness, in debt to to your mercy. I hate it and you!"
• Near the end of the Harry Turtledove series World War, Nazi commando Otto Skorzeny has a moment where he both admires the bravery and skills of a couple of Polish sharpshooters sent after him. (He mentions even complementing one on his marksmanship while handing the guy his trigger finger.) He also has a moment of pity for the city full of Jews and Poles that he is about to blow up.
• In The Bible, Pontius Pilate only reluctantly allows Jesus' execution, acknowledging that he had done no wrong by Roman laws. This has carried over to numerous portrayals of Pilate.
• In Gor book Outlaw of Gor, when Tarl returns to Gor he finds that his city has been reduced to rubble by the Priest-Kings, and a mind-altered representative of the Priest-Kings shows up to inform him that it's all Tarl's fault. But Tarl sees that the man who is being used as a puppet by the Priest-Kings is crying for him - he feels pity for Tarl, the one emotion that's forbidden in Gorean custom.
• In the novelization of the Mortal Kombat movie, Goro sadly tells Johnny Cage's friend Art that Art fought well just before killing him at Shang Tsung's command.
Live Action TV
• In one X Files episode that takes place in a carnival, a member of the freak show wonders how Mulder can bear to be so perfectly normal in appearance.
• This was the central idea for the song Superman by Five For Fighting. John Ondrasik said the inspiration was thinking about how Superman is missing out on living because of his Chronic Hero Syndrome.
• In Cyrano de Bergerac, De Guiche, initially a villainous character, comes to feel great respect for Cyrano. He recognizes that Cyrano doesn't prosper because he never sacrifices his principles, and he (De Guiche) lives a life of prosperity because he does, and part of him wishes he had Cyrano's moral courage.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49021 | CrossoverCosmology YKTTW Discussion
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I was thinking of a trope I might call inadvertant paganism or polytheism. My example was how in the Brendan Frasier version of the Mummy, Imhotep essentially has god-like powers, and the movie seems to suggest the reality of the Egyptian pantheon. If the audience gave this some thought, they would realize that this conflicts with their likely Judeo-Christian beliefs, but no one ever seems to bring this up. The trope basically refers to scenarios where within a seemingly real-world setting, the gods of mythology exist. Examples?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49023 | * There is a reason why Skipper called Julien their best singer in The Movie and they decided on something other then a power ballad to get the MP3's attention. It all goes back to ''Madagascar''. While Kowalski has had many songs and Roger is a gifted singer, JULIEN was the one who sang over the movie's credits with "I like to move it, move it". Not only did Julien sing it, but it has a similar beat to Julien's MP3 song!
** He also sings the credits in the third Madagascaf movie.
* Julien is surprisingly good when it comes to athletics, which stems from two things: 1.) Being a dancer all his life, and 2.) Always having to deal with the fossa back in Madagascar.
** Dancing ''does'' technically count as a sport.
* In "Endangerous Species" Kowalski proudly holds up a rare atom and tells everybody there's only one in the known universe and he found Rico's gut. You don't see Rico choke anything up for the rest of the episode. He fails to choke up a chainsaw at the expected time and only coughs up a feather, which hardly counts. In fact, when Kowalski asks if he's got another, he can't find another. Looks like that atom is ''Rico's'' power source. Presumably he gets it back in time for the next episode...
** It also shows that communists in general (Red Squirrel) didn't really do as much to America as the Rockguts of this world would like to believe. The episode showed the ''real'' danger of the "Red Scare": that the paranoia caused by thinking that anyone could be working for the enemy (even your own ''friends and neighbours'' didn't escape suspicion) was more dangerous than the enemy themselves.
* The theme of the show delivering twisted morals continues in "The Big Squeeze". Instead of having the classic "Never judge a book by its cover" or "Never trust stereotypes", it says something more important; "Trust your instincts about people: if they look shifty, they probably are", as well as "There's a reason for stereotypes--there's often some truth behind them". "We know the penguins are paranoid; here's ''why''".
** Savio also functions as a jarring KnightOfCerebus for the series (around about the time DreamWorks Animation's other cartoon spinoffs got DarkerAndEdgier). ''Every'' antagonist prior had moments of [[LargeHam ham]] or [[LaughablyEvil silliness]] (even Dr Blowhole had silly moments, due to his love of EvilGloating and theatricality). Savio does not. He is also the only antagonist the penguins were never able to defeat by themselves and the only antagonist that was perfectly willing to kill (not defeat, not capture, ''kill'') the main cast.
* In one episode Kowalski proposes to [[ItMakesSenseInContext replace Rico's brain with that of a Wombat]], which he then holds up demonstratively in a jar. Now, about every animal in this series is conscious and able to talk...
* What would have happened at the end of "I was a Penguin Zombie" if Skipper didn't force himself to speak clearly. Rico would have slashed him open with a chainsaw and really would have killed Skipper. Kowlaski would have also experimented on him and subjected his own leader to a grueling series of increasingly painful test
* In "The Big Squeeze" Private, Marlene, King Julien, Maurice, Mort were eaten alive. If the other Penguins and Burt hadn't rescued them, they would have been digested alive as well.
* Rico swallows and pukes out a conscious Kowalski in "Private and the Winky Factory"
* Whatever Rico's been through before the brain switching of "Sting Operation", it was bad enough to mentally scar Kowalski. Note that this is the same Kowalski that somehow got a wombat brain and very much wanted to experiment on "zombified" Skipper's body. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49025 | ->''Woah! That's cheating, [[SubvertedTrope sneaking up]]. Do you have your legs on silent?''
-->-- '''The Tenth Doctor''' to Cybermen, "The Next Doctor"
This is a SoundFX trope relating to any robot, {{cyborg}} or MechanicalLifeform that makes mechanical creaking sounds when they move around. Most RealLife robots tend to make loud snaps and hissing noises due to the hydraulics or compressed air they use for movement and creaking noises mean that somebody has to pick up the oilcan ''stat'' unless they fancy replacing components.
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* Chachamaru in the ''{{Negima}}!?'' second series had robotic noises added to accompany her movements.
* While the Combat {{Cyborg}}s in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' are normally silent, body parts that have been damaged beyond a certain point will emit mechanical whirring sounds when they move, as shown in the hospital scene after the massive terrorist attack by Jail in ''[=StrikerS=]''.
* Dorathy from ''Anime/TheBigO'' makes very smooth mechanical sounds when she moves [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending on the Episode]]
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* ''FriendshipIsWitchcraft'' features in episode 4 a discussion about robots. Episode 5 focuses on one, and her servos could use some maintenance. Not that anyone cares.
[[folder: Film ]]
* ''StarWars'' is guilty of this, with most civilian droids making odd pneumatic whining sounds whenever they move and military droids that have an inexplicable clanking sound accompany their every step, even while walking on grass.
* Although not technically a robot, [[PoweredArmor the powerloader]] used by Ripley in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' makes satisfying hydraulic whirrs and clomps as it moves around.
* [[Film/ShortCircuit Johnny 5]] makes all kinds of noise when he moves around, but it's natural, since he's animatronic.
[[folder: Literature ]]
* In the first ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' book, Marvin deliberately makes clanking and labouring noises whenever he moves.
[[folder: Live Action TV ]]
* The bomb disposal robots in ''Series/BombPatrolAfghanistan'' are noisier than you would expect of a military gradr machine. Then again, it is designed to be remotely operated an possibly make [[HeroicSacrifice heroic sacrifices]] so the humans won't have to get up close and personal with [=IEDs=].
* The Cybermen in ''Series/DoctorWho''. Lampshaded in one episode when they somehow manage to sneak up on the Doctor and he asks them if they've "got their legs on 'silent'".
* In ''Franchise/StarTrek'', we have Borg drones that make mechanical and electrical noise when moving, or [[YouWillBeAssimilated assimilating]].
* Franchise/{{Robocop}} in [[Series/RoboCopTheSeries the TV series]]. When walking he only made stepping thumps, but moving anything else made mechanical noises.
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* The robots of SteamPoweredGiraffe let out occasional hydraulic hisses and whirrs, particularly when they start up or power down.
[[folder: Toys ]]
* Most of the ''{{Bionicle}}'' web animations have this for ''all'' the characters, even though they're partly organic and technically not robots. (Including [[FridgeLogic a few who are actually organic beings wearing armour]]). Averted in the DirectToDVD movies, however (save for a handful of instances).
[[folder: Video Games ]]
* Most robotic constructs in ''WorldOfWarcraft'' are rather clanky. Justified because most of them are hostile or potentially attackable [=NPCs=], and all [=NPCs=] have a combat noise. Robots are just noisier than most.
** For a time, having the Lil' Smokey non-combat pet out was a great way to annoy other players due to [[MostAnnoyingSound how noisy the thing was.]]
* There are creaking/squeaking robot enemies in the video games ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' and/or ''Banjo-Tooie''.
* [[{{Cyborg}} The Arachnotrons, Spider Mastermind and the Cyberdemon]] from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' make a hell of a noise when they walk around on their metal legs.
* ''{{Tekken}}'''s Jack-type cyborgs make a satisfying crashing noise when knocked over, although they're quiet when moving.
* The Dwemer Centurions in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' produce a distinct metal-on-stone clacking sounds whenever they are near.
** The Dwemer [[http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Animunculi Animunculi]] of [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]] clank, click and emit steam as they move.
* Omega makes these only in ''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgeHog2006 Sonic 2006]]''.
* The various Robot Mercenaries of Grey Mann's army in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'''s Mann Vs. Machine mode clatter, sputter, and clank as they move around. [[http://youtu.be/C4cfo0f88Ug?t=2m Most obvious in the trailer video]] but they're still fairly noisy in the game. This is masked somewhat by their tendency to babble constantly.
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* In ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', you sometimes (different series are different on this, and many things) hear sounds as the robots move. ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' in particular has fun with it, with high-pitched whirring noises that say 'high tech' for most of them, but the old geezer of a medic, Ratchet, makes much creakier noises.
* {{Subverted}} in ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Lisa's Wedding": we FlashForward to the far future [[IWantMyJetpack (2010)]] and see what we think are a group of robots clanking by, but it's really just several college kids going to ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' auditions in Tin Man costumes. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49027 | !![[Film/TheMaster Film]]:
* AwardSnub: Not being nominated for Best Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Director or Picture.
** Its score by Johnny Greenwood was also seen as something in contention for recognition, but was likewise overlooked.
* CriticalDissonance: While the film has been acclaimed by critics (scoring an 86% on both RottenTomatoes and Metacritic), it has received an extremely polarized reaction from audiences (as evidenced by the 60% and 6.8 scores on their respective sites).
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: To be expected when you have a movie whose protagonists consist of a near-animalistic alcoholic pervert and a charismatic yet megalomaniac deluded cult leader, with the latter's cruel LadyMacbeth-esque wife thrown into the mix.
* JerkassWoobie: Freddie. The guy is clearly suffering from PTSD and falls in with a bunch of people whose means of "curing him" only make things worse but he is just so repulsive and far gone that even modern psychiatry would likely write him off as a lost cause.
* {{Tearjerker}}: When Freddie first talks about Doris and much later, when the Master sings to Freddie. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49028 | Preliminaries and Episode 1: Miss Yukari
(Note: The first seven episodes are a repost from the normal forum version. I have endeavoured to correct spelling and markup wherever I notice errors, so it won't be as wonky, hopefully. I'll also be summarizing posts in between.)
Because you can never have too many liveblogs ( ;) ), I'm starting one on the anime Azumanga Daioh. I'll be watching each episode with both the English dub and the English subtitles on, then listening to the Japanese (just for the voices, really, I can only pick out a few words here and there). I'll also be comparing scenes to their manga counterparts. (If I refer to a page, I'll be using the 2007 Omnibus pagination.) I'll also be incorporating things I've found out from different sources like Wikipedia, the translator notes for both the anime (which I had to find online) and the manga (which are in the Omnibus).
Now, let's get a few things out of the way first. I personally like the voices in both the English and the Japanese, and find practically none of them ill-suited. I don't universally like the voices in one language better than in the other; I go on a case-by-case basis.
English language voices I like better than their Japanese counterparts:
• Kagura
• Kimura
• (Ko)yomi
• Minamo
• Sakaki
• Yukari
• The floating yellow cat-thing
Japanese voices I like better than their English language counterparts:
• Chiyo
Roles for which I like them roughly equally:
• Ayumu
• Kaori(n)
So what I have here is Azumanga Daioh: Class Album. This is not the one with The Very Short Movie in with it. It has five volumes: 1 & 2 are the first year, 3 & 4 are the last moments of first year up until second year is over, and 5 is the last year and finding out about their educational futures.
Volume 1: Entrance!
As a note, the OPs for episode 1, 3, and 5 are accompanied by their translations; 2 and 4 are accompanied by romaji.
Episode 1: Miss Yukari
A bird's-eye view of a section of city. The birds are twittering. Some disc thing is hit into the sky. A front view of girls with seifuku (in this case, salmon and white long-sleeved tops and brown pleated skirts) on and boys in gakuran walking. One girl, short enough that only her eyes and pigtailed red hair are visible, walks diagonally (and squeakily!) through the sparse crowd. Another disc is hit into the sky. Side view. (Some really cute extras in both views!) The aforementioned girl walks faster than the others. Only her hair is seen. The show logo appears in the sky, and the show's name is said, cut off by a "BAM!" when another disc thing hits it.
A light turns green.
Child High School Student
Along the side of the road, a woman rides a bicycle. She checks her watch (turned so that she's looking at the inside of her wrist), and is surprised at how late it is. She increases the effort she puts into pedaling, riding past stopped traffic, through the park, and through a residential area... but then it stops. She pulls over to the side, puts down the kickstand, and gets down for a look. She turned the pedal, but it doesn't move the bike forward.
A male student, concerned about his own tardiness, rides a bicycle, as well, but then he notices Miss Yukari, and stops, asking about her bike. Yukari is kvetching about what the vice-principal will likely say to her for being late on the first day of school. She mimicks what she's probably been told before, about setting a good example and them being impressionable, which she doubts. The thought raises her ire, and she starts kicking the bike. (Fiery background!) The student tries to restrain her, saying she'll break it, but this just puts her in a position to kick it more rapidly.
She apparently lets him at it, because he's able to diagnose it as simply being dechained. He's relieved, as he believes his tardiness won't count against him if he's with a teacher. He starts to say something, only to find that Yukari is riding away, on his bike! He yells after her.
(In the manga, this sequence doesn't occur on the first day of school.)
Exterior shot of the school. The flying yellow cat thing flies by, waving a noodly arm as "Westminster Chimes" plays.
Inside, a panting Yukari is leaning outside the room. She thinks she's on time, if barely, and curses the bike chain, promising repercussions for it. But she puts on a cheery face before she opens the door. She effervesces into the room, spins a few times, and writes her name on the board, and tells them she's the homeroom teacher for class 3. She encourages them to ask if there's anything they don't get, but when one boy stands up to ask, she (against a bubbly pink background, with sparkles crossing the upper and lower foreground) tells them she's not telling her measurements. She makes it clear, however, that it's not because she's embarrassed about her figure, as her measurements, she says, are pretty amazing. She then flirtatiously scolds him for what he "made [her] say" on the first day. The embarrassed boy, however, causes a Color Failure by telling her that she's in the wrong class: that's class 4. Yukari drifts out the door on the wind.
In the right classroom, we see a squeakily bobbing pigtail, the first two rows, and the doors. Yukari walks in, and we cut to the various girls that we'll get to know over this series. Each has a black balloon with a pointer pointing at them. Inside is red kanji and hiragana telling us what their names are and what they're called. A girl raises her head. This is Takino Tomo, called Tomo. A girl pushes on her glasses. This is Mizuhara Koyomi, called Yomi. A girl gazes out the window. This is Sakaki-san, no given name, well, given. A girl looks straight ahead. This is Kaorin, no family name given.
(In the manga, sometimes you have to wait a while to find out characters' names. Yomi first appears in an April strip — see the "bread run" sequence for the equivalent anime segment — and then you don't find out her name until March rolls around.)
Yukari walks to the front of the class, beside the girl standing at the front. She introduces herself, rather less enthusiastically. She notices the bobbing pigtail and pulls on it until she remembers why it's there. Cue the knees-to-face shot! She introduces us to Mihama Chiyo, the new transfer. (She gets one of those black bubbles, too!) She restates her name, and thanks them for having her. Yukari tells them that even though she's 10, she's been allowed to go to high school. The class-cloud is impressed. Then she tells them not to pick on her just because of her smarts relative to her age. This causes blue vertical lines to appear on top of the class-cloud. (In the manga, they hope Yukari doesn't pick on her.) A girl and boy cheer her on, and she thanks them.
A man with the logo on the back of his head passes us, then stops, turns, and says "UuUuUh..."
Now, Chiyo mixes with bowl and whisk against a pink gingham background with pink blobs. She wears an apron with a sunflower on it. She sings a short little song, and says it's ready: it's... a small white cat on the head of a larger one? She sings again, tilting the pan a bit from side to side, and then says it's ready: it's... a yellow cat-thing? She holds the items, and says they're not cooking at all, and laughs a bit. Awww! :D
She's a Prodigy
In the classroom, which is sparsely populated at the moment, Chihiro (no family name given; she also gets a black bubble) and Chiyo talk, but we can't hear them until Chiyo affirms that Chihiro has gotten a certain point. Yukari walks up and encourages Chiyo for getting help, and spouts Gratuitous Italian(?), German, and Spanish (Engrish only, in the original) before telling her to get help from her classmates if she's stuck. Chiyo tries to hold back tears, but fails as she lets on that she was the one being helped, and asks if she's stupid. Chiyo doesn't see what's wrong. Kaorin and another girl set out their bento boxes as a girl in braids attempts to comfort Chihiro. (In the manga, these are separate events, and it's Chihiro and another girl.)
Kaorin invites Chiyo to have lunch with them. Chiyo says that it's kind of fun to bring her own lunch, since there were only special times when they would do so in elementary school, rather than having it made there. Kaorin sounds dubious about that. Chiyo then mitigates it a bit by noting that it's hard to get up in time to make it. Kaorin and the girl are shocked that she makes it herself, since even most girls who arrived at high school age over the normal course of time have their lunches made for them. She opens her box, and it looks really good to the two. They're kind of intimidated by this.
Chiyo looks really closely at a string figure, then takes it from Yomi's fingers and puts her fingers just so, and makes the Double bridge. Yomi thinks she must be good at eveything she does, but Chiyo comes up with something she's not good at: tongue twisters. Indeed, no two iterations are the same. (In the manga, the tongue twister is "Rubber baby buggy bumpers", but here, it's different.) However, Yomi just notices how adorable this makes her in addition. (Although maybe the giggle afterwards is partially responsible.)
An unnamed teacher in an unidentified class tells all the students who didn't do their homework to raise their hands. Several do, including Tomo, who's not particularly concerned, while others, including Chihiro, are anxious. Chiyo herself is terrified. The teacher has them line up at the front. They do. Last in line is Chiyo, who's making scared noises. He tells them he'd better see finished assignments. The first girl says "Yessir," and the teacher begins tapping the tops of heads. She and Chihiro grunt when tapped, while Tomo just takes it. When he arrives at Chiyo, he's expecting someone else of teenage height, and instead looks down to see a trembling 10-year-old girl with big eyes, explaining that she may have been careless... but she was really planning on doing it all... but she just forgot to! *tremble* The teacher hesitates, but taps her head anyway... just not as hard. (In the manga, a couple of students think the teacher "likes 'em young.")
Cooking time again! The result of Chiyo's mixing is... a pink cake with strawberries... and is that pineapple?
And her pan tilting skills culminate in... cookies! The checkered variety reminds me of Yoshi's Cookie, which probably indicates that the game got it from the culture or something.
This time was a big success, so Chiyo wants them to sit together, but Yomi and Tomo start eating from it, much to her distress.
The divider features the yellow cat thing, and Chiyo.
Scary Maybe?
Chiyo, on Day Duty, goes around collecting career questionnaires. She gets around to Sakaki, whom she thinks seems scary, but then reads that she would prefer to be a veterinarian, a florist, or a seller of stuffed toy animals, and decides that maybe she's not so scary. (In the manga, the last item involved a full-fledged toystore, instead of on that specializes so.)
In the girls' locker room, where the girls are changing for P.E., the braided girl and Kaorin are gushing over how cool Sakaki is; how she's better than most of the boys, and a woman of few words. Then we see a gray kitty against a white background, wearing a bell and flanked by paw prints. Then the braided girl notices Kaorin's Blank White Eyes and asks if something's the matter. Kaorin responds that she thought she saw something really cute.
(In the manga, the girls' tops aren't pulled down all the way yet, so their bellies are bared. Also, Kaorin's thoughts make it clear that the image is a design on Sakaki's panties.)
Later, after class, Kaorin approaches Sakaki and asks if she's in any clubs; she's not. Kaorin says she's in the astronomy club, which she explains, and begins to ask if she would be... but Sakaki prompts her to finish her question, which scares Kaorin, thinking Sakaki is upset at being invited, and backpedals before taking off, embarrassed. Sakaki wishes she'd invited her...
It's a lovely morning outside, and the students are walking to school. There are a few others on the same path. Sakaki enjoys the scenery. Birds in flight. A little doggy being walked. She stretches, then takes off running for the joy of it.
She walsk through a residential area where she sees a gray cat on a wall. She reaches up to pet it, but withdraws a bit before bringing her hand in close... where it clamps down on her fingers.
At school, she stares at her wrapped-up hand. Chiyo asks why her hand is wrapped up. Sakaki speculates that "he" was in a bad mood. Chiyo wonders if she got into a fight.
After school, she walks through again, and sees the cat. He meows, approaches her, and meows again. She squats, and takes this as a good sign. She reaches out with her bandaged hand... and is bitten again.
Tomo introduces herself. She says she's the best at being hyper. She runs from the hallway, swims, and pole vaults, the last of which ends with her landing flat on the ground.
She opens the door with an enthusiastic greeting, then sees that Yukari is here, and if Yukari is here, that must mean that she herself is late. She assigns her own punishment: standing out in the hall with buckets of water. Yukari doesn't particularly care.
Wildcat Tomo-chan!
Tomo has always wanted to try that, remarking that they don't assign that as a punishment as often as they used to. (Probably partially because if you're already late, it's better to get what you can out of the class instead of being forced to miss more. It's likely a punishment better suited to the dispruptive so maybe they'll be occupied for a while.) She thinks she's going to set a new record.
5 minutes. Not too bad.
10 minutes. The strain is increasing.
15 minutes. She's feeling it, and finds it to really be punishment.
20 minutes. She's determined not to lose, and starts apparently conversing with students. She seems to be shoved, and threatens to get the shover. Then she falls over, and panics over the spill, calling for something to wipe it up with. Yukari calls her noisy.
Tomo decides to challenge Chiyo in the classroom. She punctuates this with... karate strikes? Yukari has asked a question, and calls on Chiyo to answer it. She can't, so Tomo gets Yukari's attention. She doesn't know, either, so calls it a tie.
It's lunch time, and "bread" is on the menu. (Trivia note 1: "Bread" apparently includes things like sandwiches, cream-filled pastries, and flavored buns. Trivia note 2: "Pan" is the word for bread. The word came to Japan via the Portuguese. I had wondered, as I knew the word from Spanish.) Tomo announces that she's on a bread run. Yomi and Chihiro ask her to get bread for them, as well. (In the manga, this is Yomi's first appearance.) She acknowledges, and takes off. Yomi remarks positively on her dependability with regards to this kind of thing, and Chihiro agrees. (Also in the manga, the corresponding panel has no dialogue.) Shortly, she's back, bearing bread. They remark that that was really fast. Tomo asks her time (9 seconds), but Yomi wasn't timing.
Tomo, in her 2-part Challenging series, now wants to challenge Sakaki to the 100m dash. ("What's this about a series?" asks Yomi.) Kaorin cheers for Sakaki. At the starting line, Sakaki is ready, even though she doesn't know why. Kaorin is pondering the match-up, as Sakaki's really athletic, and wonders if Tomo has a secret plan to beat her. Yomi doesn't think so. This confuses Kaorin all the more. Chiyo's about to start the race, but Tomo decides that Sakaki needs to start farther back to compensate for her bust size. Kaorin considers that cheating, but Yomi is surprised by the difference. Yes, Yomi, she said 8 centimeters.) Chiyo starts the race in earnest. Tomo takes an early lead, worrying Kaorin. Yomi isn't concerned, though, Indeed, Tomo falls behind, and depsite her struggle, fails to keep up. She crosses (by collapsing) 6 seconds after Sakaki runs across. She pulls back to look. Kaorin compliments her, bringing her a damp cloth. Chiyo asks if she's all right, and Yomi asks "How's our loser?" Tomo insists that she's the runner-up, and that she didn't lose. She continues to insist after Yomi says she gets it, prompting Yomi to tell her to shut up. "I'm number 2!" "Moron..."
The Osakan Gal
Yukari announces a new transfer student. (Some students wonder how old this one will be...) She comes from Osaka, which makes Tomo think of food, the Tsutenkaku Tower... and some guy in a stripey outfit playing a drum? As well as some kind of "How's business?"-type greeting. She figures that the new girl will be her new archrival. She bets that the girl will be a challenging tsukkomi and that she'll need to practice reacting to her comebacks. Yomi gives her a half-hearted "Why-in-the-heck?" ("Fuggedaboutit" in the manga and "Nandeyanen" in the original), to which Tomo reacts by yelling and flying backward, knocking down desks. She asks if she should do that when she "takes her stab" at her. Yomi responds, "Whah the heck woulja?"
Kasuga Ayumu's name is on the board now, and now that their desks are straightened up, Yukari introduces her. The door opens, and she walks in. The view jumps around, from feet, to chin and shoulders, to thighs, to tummy, chest, and face before she walks up beside Yukari, who tells her to tell the class about herself. (She gets a black bubble, but with the kanji version only.) She introduces herself, but is interrupted by Yukari thinking that while it's nice of her to speak standard Japanese, she can say something more stereotypically Osakan, like "Darn pleased ta meetcha" (or, in the manga, "Yo, how you doin'?") ...uh, I don't know what she says in the original, so... She tries to say that even in Osaka, she doesn't talk like that, but Yukari urges her, so she acquieses.
Chihiro asks her if Osakans cross the street even when the light is red. Ayumu doesn't know; she doesn't, and doesn't really like crowded places. Yomi finds that Ayumu is not behaving like the stereotypical rowdy Osakan, and Ayumu points out good-naturedly that the stereotype isn't true of all Osakans. Tomo calls her an impostor, which alarms her. Tomo challenges her to show her lunch, thinking that if she's really Osakan, she'll have takoyaki in there. Ayumu doesn't think that she should have to bring takoyaki every day in order to be considered Osakan, but Tomo glares with a "what?", prompting a "Nandeyanen!" Tomo enthusiastically accepts her response.
In class, Yukari explains the function of "too" in a sentence, but Ayumu is thinking about being called "spaced-out" back in her hometown. She decides this is her opportunity to shikkari, or "get it together". She repeats the word to herself, but then Yukari calls on her, and asks if she was listening. She was not, so Yukari tells her to get it together, and calls on a student with the surname of Oyama. (In the manga, this was the student that got a perfect score on a pop quiz that Yukari herself had a hard time with.) Ayumu goes back to repeating the phrase.
"Westminster Chimes" sounds, telling Yukari she's done. She leaves with an "Adios!" School's out, and Ayumu decides to get it together tomorrow. She repeats the phrase again, until Tomo comes up, calling "Osaka! Osaka!" Ayumu turns her head, confused. Tomo asks her if okonomiyaki meals exist. Ayumu asks about the "Osaka" thing. Tomo says people from the Kansai region are "totally whack". She asks if "Osaka" eats a full bowl of rice with her okonomiyaki (this is compared to having a baked potato with your pizza). Ayumu asks again, additionally asking if Tomo is addressing her. She does, and explains that it's because she's from Osaka. She starts to protest, but Tomo tells it to everyone in the room. Yomi, Kaorin, Chiyo, and Chihiro acknowledge, making it "official" in Tomo's eyes. She welcomes her to the class. Ayumu is not happy about it, but despairs of reverting it.
Her black bubble appears again, this time with the kanji for "Osaka" added.
Next time: Episode 2!
Hey, just wanted to say that this is my all-time favorite anime/manga! :D I appreciate that you have kept up this blog for so long. I haven't read all of your entries yet, but I look forward to doing so.
If you haven't already seen the anime or read the manga yet, I recommend checking out Nichijou. It is another slice-of-life series, but it a bit more surreal than Azu Dai. It is a close second favorite anime for me, I haven't read Nichijou manga yet, but I just loved the Nichijou anime. You can watch all the episodes of Nichijou on crunchyroll under the title "My Ordinary Life."
Thanks again from a fellow Azu Dai fan! :)
fuzzicleFighter 17th May 13 |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49029 | Analysis: Burgess Bedtime Stories
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49030 | Analysis: JLA: Act of God
How this could have been fixed.
The main problem with the story is the decision to base it entirely off the current continuity which is odd because Elseworlds normally didn't do that. Elseworlds were normally set in different time periods with completely different interpretations of the characters and by that convention, you could assume that any heroes that weren't shown simply didn't exist for that story.
Even if he didn't want to do all the work of creating an engaging alternate setting, he could have done something much easier and used only the best known characters in their most iconic incarnations (putting Aquaman back in the orange tunic with the short hair and without the hook he had been sporting at the time, using Hal Jordan as Green Lantern, etc.) He could simply avoid showing any heroes that would be problematic.
An interesting explanation for the event would have been to have the physics of the universe shift to match those of our world (or close to it.) No more speed force, no psychic energy, no emotional spectrum, no magic, and solar energy cannot provide enough energy to fuel Superman's abilities. The heroes would be forced to live by our rules. Any metahuman that doesn't work for would be ignored and because of the alternate setting, would be assumed not to exist.
This would have fixed a lot of the characterization problems too though not all of them. Don't think Kyle Rayner would spend three months in his apartment stewing about his power loss? Use Hal Jordan and make him a young Hal. Especially at the time, it would have been a good substitution since Hal had been a power hungry villain and the Parallax retcon had not been introduced yet. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49031 | Analysis: Milestone Celebration
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49032 | Analysis: The Lebrons
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49033 | Analysis: The Three Trials
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49034 | Analysis: Tux Racer
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49035 | Awesome: Mazes And Minotaurs
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49036 | Fanfic Recs: G.I. Joe
Proof that the remaining 10% is worth joining Cobra for here:
These are recommendations made by Tropers for G.I. Joe Fan Fics, all of which have to be signed to stay on the page. Feel free to add a fanfic of your own to the list, but remember to use the template found here.
Authors and Websites
• Recommended by: Komodo Classic
• Notes: Writes mainly oneshots about random incidents and daily life for the Joes. She's a multi-fandom author, so finding the GI Joe fics takes a little patience.
''Arashikage'' by Karama9
• Recommended by Zee Shadow
• Synopsis: A revisioned history of Storm Shadow's fall into Cobra and return to GI Joe.
• Comments: Follows the events of the comic closely, but holds its own in terms of story. The brainwashing parts were particularly well done, as well as the relationship between Tommy and Billy. Has a sequel, as well as some interlude stories by the author.
''The Little Medic That Could'' by willwrite4fics
• Recommended by Antigone3
• Synopsis: A look back at how Lifeline joined the Joe team.
• Comments: How did an Actual Pacifist like Lifeline ever end up in G.I. Joe? And how does the Joe team deal with a teammate who refuses to even carry a gun? This fic looks back to when Lifeline first joined to answer those questions. Of course there's action (it's a G.I. Joe fic, what did you expect?), but the primary focus and the reason I'm recommending it is the character development.
''Corazones y Cazadores'' by Totenkinder Madchen
• Recommended by Antigone3
• Synopsis: This is a Cross Over fic — G.I. Joe meets Alien vs. Predator. When Cobra takes an interest in a pre-Inca temple in the Andes, the Joes want to know why. But no one knows just who built the temple, or why, or who's still inside ....
• Comments: The fic is still in progress; as of this entry the Joes have had a couple run-ins with Aliens, and Snake-Eyes just fought an honor duel with a Predator, but the Joes still think this whole mess is a particularly insane genetics experiment by Cobra Commander. I'm posting it now rather than waiting for completion because the author is doing a great job writing the claustrophobic horror of being trapped underground with a foe that you can't quite kill. While the author ships Scarlett/Snake-Eyes, it's very much background here. There's one neck massage in Chapter One, but once the plot gets under way both of them are sticking to business.
• Astrakhan: Having read the completed fic, I can honestly say that the story is brilliant. All of the character voices ring true, both franchises were well-researched, and the author even gave Storm Shadow a compelling weakness—something he lacks in canon. It does get pretty bloody towards the end, but the author warns for it. There's also some very funny parts, such as Snake-Eyes screwing with Buzzer during an interrogation and Road Pig and Demolisher's reactions to birthing the Chestbursters.
Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.
None Yet.
Crossover Fics
Stories that crossover with other pieces of fiction.
Day of the Broken Fang by RK-Stiker-JK-5
• Recommended by TheMisterFree
• Synopsis: An attack by Cobra on the Decepticons sets off a chain of events that leads to the terrorist group's destruction. Prequel to The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds (an MLP:FIM fanfic that features Megan of MLP G1 finding that the original MLP world has turned into G4 Equestria; background elements of it go into Mega Crossover territory, featuring other characters from the 80's Hasbro/Marvel/Sunbow shows, called the Hasbroverse).
• Comments: This fic, according to the author, explains why Cobra is no longer a threat. Cobra Commander, back in the 80s, had realized what happened when Cobra gets in the way of Cybertronians; unfortunately, Serpentor did not learn that lesson, and, in 1994, launched an attack on the Decepticon's Mid-Atlantic HQ; this fic details what follows. It's pretty good. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49038 | Fridge: AdventureQuest Worlds
Fridge Brilliance
• Why did Sepulchure put up with Chuckles' laughter? Simple — Chuckles was Gravelyn's first undead minion. "Daddy was so proud!"
• Also, why is Artix so afraid of a Fear Feeder even though everyone knows he's afraid of pink? Look at the name of the monster; it feeds on fears! It'll feed on Artix's fear and grow so powerful that not even he, the undead slayer that he is, won't be strong enough to kill it.
• Also, why is Artix undead in the Battleoff universe? This is because this is him if he gave into his destiny and became the Champion of Darkness instead of the Undead Slayer we know him to be.
• The recent Chronospan quests offer an in universe explanation for the guardian, Dragonlord and Star captain bonus items; The hero was formed out of the merged timelines of the heroes from the other games. he has access to bonuses if the player upgraded in those games because the abilities and powers those heroes possessed (from upgrading) was passed on by the timeline merge |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49039 | Funny: Marilyn Monroe
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49040 | Funny: Time Team
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49041 | Heartwarming: Pretty Cure Evolve Hearts
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49043 | [[caption-width-right:280:Haven't I seen you before?[[note]] From top left: ''VideoGame/TooHuman''[='=]s Baldur, Cole [=McGrath=] of ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS}}'', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV''[='=]s Nico Bellic, Sam Fisher of ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'', ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''[='=]s Robin, Starkiller from ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheForceUnleashed'', ''VideoGame/{{Turok}}'', Tomas Sevchenko from ''VideoGame/KillZone'', Desmond Miles of ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'', and ''VideoGame/BinaryDomain''[='=]s Dan Marshall.[[/note]]]]
One example of the ActionHero. With the emphasis on ''one''.
You know this guy, because you have seen him a thousand times. He has the lead role in almost every action movie and video game and, like Creator/BruceWillis or Creator/WillSmith, has a single role that he repeats over and over again.
Unlike the FeaturelessProtagonist, he does have fixed attributes, and they are usually the same:
* Male.
* Almost always American (and almost always Caucasian at that. And if not, ButNotTooBlack and/or ButNotTooForeign will usually be {{invoked| trope}}.)
* Born to blue-collar parents.
* Buzz-cut, fade, bald, or fauxhawk (if the story is set after 2000) black or dark brown hair. [[note]]In video games, this is generally because short hair is much easier to model and animate. Even female characters in these games may have their hair in a tight bun.[[/note]]
* And shaved, usually with PermaStubble. GrowingTheBeard means developing personality.
* Usually a former soldier or police officer, very rarely in active service.
** Can be an ex-convict instead of, or in addition to any of the above.
** When he was in the military he was overwhelmingly [[SergeantRock The Sarge]], and is probably still called "Sarge" by his military pals.
* Uses {{handguns}} as his signature weapon. Rifles and submachine guns are always immediately discarded after using them.
* Almost always uses GoodOldFisticuffs as his fighting style, and if matched up against even an elite martial artist, will prevail.
* [[CombatPragmatist Will fight dirty.]]
* Chances are good his name is a monosyllabic simple name like Frank, Jim, Jack or John.
** Or he goes by an equally monosyllabic RedBaron title like Dutch, Duke or Spike.
** Or the world is permanently on LastNameBasis with him.
* Has a dead relative, a dead friend or is only in the action hero business because he has to [[SaveThePrincess save a loved one]].
* Has no respect for authority, but his boss secretly admires him for this trait.
* A tendency to use [[OneLiner One-Liners]] of varying quality.
* Usually [[SmokingIsCool smokes]] and [[TheAlcoholic drinks heavily]].
* Typically drives a CoolCar or TheAllegedCar.
* [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Usually voiced by]] Creator/NolanNorth.
This character has become immensely popular as the protagonist in video games in recent years. The difference from a FeaturelessProtagonist is that those characters are left without real characterization to let the player project their own ideas onto the character, while the Action Genre Hero Guy follows a very specific set of traits as listed above.
If you can remember a character's name, he is probably not an example.
Compare ASpaceMarineIsYou. For a common alternative, see TheAhnold.
* Jake Sully from ''Film/{{Avatar}}''.
* Justin Timberlake's character Will in ''Film/InTime''.
* Creator/JasonStatham. In fact, this trope could be named after him and still make sense.
* Most of [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Arnold Schwarzenegger's]] characters. The ones who aren't cyborgs, anyway.
* Most of the film characters played by [[DwayneJohnson The Rock]]. In real life and in the ring he was very charismatic and easy going.
* StoneColdSteveAustin now that he's forayed into the B Action genre. His ring persona was also this.
* Creator/BruceWillis, especially his John [=McClane=] character in the ''Franchise/DieHard'' films.
* Creator/VinDiesel
* G. Callen from Series/NCISLosAngeles, where his mysterious past is actually a subplot. G. isn't his initial; ''that's his name''.
* Dean Winchester from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''
* Jack Shepard from Series/{{LOST}}.
* The topic of [[http://pc.ign.com/articles/117/1177915p1.html this article]].
* Chris Redfield from the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series, who fits all criteria except for the buzz-cut. Jake Muller in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'', though, hits the look hard and fast.
* And Alex Shepherd from ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'', who fits the trope to a T. [[spoiler:Except for the military background, which turns out to be a delusion to shield himself from a traumatic event.]]
** Murphy Pendleton from ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' seems a close enough match, with a status as a convicted killer serving as his hard-ass background.
* Dan Marshall from ''VideoGame/BinaryDomain''.
* The default Commander Shepard from ''Franchise/MassEffect'' has the looks (and the name; John), but can develop a personality depending on how you play him. He's also in active military service at the beginning of the first game.
* Jimmy Hopkins from ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' is a school-aged equivalent, having a tough, no-nonsense personality, an ''extreme'' dislike of authority, common "J" name and a shorn noggin. The hardass characterization stays pretty constant, but you can at least give him a different hairstyle later on.
* Both Mercury and Jacknife from ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge''.
* Nathan Hale from ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}}''.
* Preston Marlowe from ''VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany''.
* Solid Snake from the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' series started as one, but did develop a very detailed and unique personality as the series progressed.
** Same goes for his buddy Gray Fox, whose actual name is Frank Jaeger.
* Galen Marek/"Starkiller," the protagonist from ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed''.
** Though, funnily enough, the only reason he has the look down is because he was visually based off his voice actor, SamWitwer
* Nathan Drake from ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'' fits ''almost'' every characteristic, except that he hasn't lost a loved one (he does what he does because he's a naturally curious adrenaline-junkie) and has sufficient charm to overcome his (deliberately) generic design. Played with, though, in that he looks kinda like Nathan Fillion. The ''[[VideoGame/Uncharted3DrakesDeception Drake's Deception]]'' reveals that [[spoiler:Nathan Drake isn't actually his real name. He's just some orphan who was a fan of Francis Drake.]]
* Jet Brody of ''VideoGame/{{Fracture}}''.
* {{Deconstruct|ion}}ed to hell and back with [[TragicHero Captain Martin Walker]] from ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''.
* Despite his inclusion in the above article, and his name being as nondescript as John or Jack in his native Serbian, ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'''s Niko Bellic has a [[GrowingTheBeard beard]] as thick as his layered personality, the latter of which is fleshed out (with the [[VideoGameCaringPotential player's]] [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential help]], of course) as the game progresses.
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/FarCry3''. While Grant Brody might fit much of the bill, both in background (ex-US Army reserve), personality (motivated by a want to protect his family), and appearance (short brown hair and slightly grizzled), he is not the PlayerCharacter, and he is killed off already in the tutorial level.
* Sergeant John Forge in ''VideoGame/HaloWars''.
* John "Soap" [=MacTavish=] in the ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' series (though you don't actually get to see his face until ''Modern Warfare 2'', you'll just have to take our word for it in ''Call of Duty 4'').
* Sam Fisher from the ''SplinterCell'' game series.
* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive5'' newcomer Rig has the appearance of one but his [[FightingGame genre]] is cut from a different cloth, ultimately. Series regular Bayman was also redesigned in ''5'' to have a more "action genre guy" appearance (up until then he had unusually "soft" facial features for someone in his line of work).
* William Carter of ''VideoGame/TheBureauXCOMDeclassified''.
* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' is a deconstrutive version of this trope combined with a bit of FilmNoir protagonist mixed in. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49044 | Recap: The Twilight Zone S 3 E 89 To Serve Man
It's a cookbook!
Based off of the original short story by Damon Knight.
The Trope Namer for To Serve Man
First aired on March 2, 1962.
A race of benevolent aliens called the 'Kanamit' arrive on Earth, offering to help humanity. After initial resistance, humanity accepts. The Kanamit set about putting an end to many of Earth's greatest woes, including hunger. Energy becomes very cheap; nuclear weapons are rendered harmless. The aliens even morph deserts into big, blooming fields.
Michael Chambers, revealed to be a United Nations codebreaker, attempts to decipher the Kanamit's language from a book the Kanamit left behind. A woman named Patty, one of his employees, manages to decipher the title, which reads 'To Serve Man'. Chambers' team seems to be satisfied with this.
"Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! The rest of the book To Serve Man, it's... it's a cookbook!"
• Adaptation Displacement: The episode is better known than the short story it was based off of.
• Benevolent Alien Invasion: Subverted.
• Big Eater: The Kanamit's favorite kind of human.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the end, Chambers faces the camera, and asks the audience if they're still on earth or on the ship with him, but says is doesn't matter because sooner or later we'll all be on the menu.
• Dangerously Genre Savvy: Why show up on Earth, announce an invasion and attack to take your dinner, when you can win it's trust with zero effort to the point hundreds of entrees are lining up to come to your planet?
• Downer Ending: Obligatory. And a pretty depressing at that, since humanity goes from the ruler of a planet to someone's dessert.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: All of the Kanamit are played by Richard Kiel, Jaws from James Bond
• How We Got Here
• It Was His Sled: the Wham Line is known to practically everyone by now.
• Pragmatic Adaptation: Apart from adding more action to a story that had originally been mostly a talk-piece, the Kanamit's appearance is changed as well. Knight wrote them as looking like humanoid pigs, which was found to be too fairy tale in production.
• Prop Recycling / Recycled Set: The Kanamit ship was first used in Forbidden Planet.
• Stock Footage: The opening scene of the Kanamit ship is taken from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951).
• Superior Species: The Kanamit are far more advanced than humans.
• Technology Uplift: Alien benefactors arrive on Earth and provide technology that ends war by nullifying all weaponry, cures to all known diseases, and other remarkable benefits of their advanced technology.
• To Serve Man: The Trope Namer.
• Vichy Earth
• Wham Line: "It's a cookbook!". |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49045 | Tear Jerker: Vampire Knight
• Vampire Knight often makes me cry: when Ruka comes to Akatsuki in tears because Kaname is is being a Magnificent Bastard (which he usually is several people felt sad, because Ruka is usually shown to be a bit of an emotionless bitch. (Incidentally, after that scene she became a Broken Bird, poor thing). Also, and this is weird, but whenever Kaname slaps Aidou. For some reason (particularly when Ichio first turns up. Just Kaname's line of "I haven't taught him enough manners," and Aidou's expression of I will not cry, he does this to me all the time, dammit! made me want to MURDER Kaname Kuran. But, the weirdest Tear Jerker for me was at the end of the Fourth Volume's Night Class Side. Just... The fact that Aidou (again. He always makes me sad!) is sitting just staring blankly down, looking as though he's about to cry, and, because for that whole Night Class Side, he'd been all chirpy and hyper... The contrast was what made me sad...
• Another Aidou-related example (different troper): when Kaname kills Aidou's father. I ship Kaname and Yuuki, so her reaction was heartwrenching as she watches the man she's pledged to kill a man. And a good one at that. And Aidou's face...' oh God, why Kaname, WHY?!?!
• Yet another Aido related example. After Kaname kills Aidos father. Aido is in a room sulking and Zero comes in to tell him that he can leave if he wants to or can ask the Chariman for details. Aido proceeds to break down saying something along the lines of, "If I'm tormented by hatred for Kaname sama and his sister tooYuki, No I won't become like that, I won't become like you, no matter how hard it is right now" Zero then walks away, with his signature face of no emotion. Despite this tropers love for Zero, she was utterly broken by Aidos words and started to wonder whether Aido or Zero was stronger.
• Yeah, bi*ching at a person unrelated to your misfortune shows some real strength.
• Chapter 37/Vampire Knight Guilty episode 9 has Zero didn't take well on finding out Yuuki is a Pureblood vampire. He doesn't want to see her again as a result and puts her at gunpoint. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49047 | Tropers: Runic
Runic, or Rune, or whatever else you wish to name the person, is a relatively old hat when it comes to the TV Tropes website. They've lurked for forever, and occasionally return to the forums to spontaneously post a bunch before disappearing again. Yet, the person seems to be an enigma. They write, apparently, but have nothing to show for it. They participate in RPG's. They do origami. They have a fractured personality, and a bad habit of switching avatars like crazy. No one's really certain if they're a boy or a girl, save a few trusted individuals.
In an case, they're very weird.
Have fun editing with randomness. Feel free to add to the list, change it, rearrange it, or just scrawl a bit o' graffiti on it.
Tropes that apparently apply to Runic:
(Leftover from an old forum game of applying tropes to tropers:)
Runey-chan~: The Forum game
Comment, question, answer box:
You like foxes, that sets your status in my eyes instantly to Pretty Cool Guy. Sorry the signature is an "outgoing" URL, but for some reason Wiki Word didn't work. ~Kur Fox
• They changed it recently. You have to add Tropers/ before the {{}} now for people. Weird, I know... But thanks, though I should hold up a mirror. That comment applies to you as well. —Runic
You own an alphabet, congratulations! —Justice4243
• Huh. I think I've looked at these and tried to learn them before, but I mostly tried to adapt them into a Cipher for writing. I think I eventually gave up and learned Tengwar instead. —Runic
You and I have spoken in the past. It was pleasant. Let's do it again sometime. —Lucky Revenant
• Sure! Hope to see you around. —Runic
Listen all 'yall, it's sabotage! Runic is a bro. Or a sis? Whichever. —goodtimesfreegrog
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By davidswanson - Posted on 25 February 2014
This article is really better as a video.
If you search on the internet for "the stupidest idea in the history of the world" you'll come away thinking that maybe a top contestant is the invention of Youtube. Who knew so many idiots could do so much damage to themselves with so many motorbikes and diving boards and flame throwers?
If you survey the span of human history a little more seriously, some big ideas jump out, beginning with the creation of history itself. Maybe if we'd stayed unhistoric, hunted, gathered, and existed eternally as part of nature we wouldn't have gotten into such a mess. But that's too easy an answer, and way too much for people who ride surf boards off their roofs -- and film it -- to think about.
Other ideas are in the running, I think, from industrial farming, to religion, to racism, to fossil fuels, to science at any cost, to the creation of the United States Senate. And yet, one idea stands out for its wild improbability, creativity, long-lasting destruction on an enormous scale, and insidious ability to turn even people who don't own video cameras and catapults into champion unwitting masochists.
The idea I'm talking about, and my nominee for Stupidest Idea in the History of the World, is the idea that any ordinary person should ever support a war.
While it's undoubtedly true that the war propagandist is the world's second-oldest, and least respectable, profession, he or she is a product of history who wasn't needed in prehistoric times. Nobody needed to be sold on the idea of hunters fighting off lions and bears. It's when they ran out of lions and bears and decided to keep their jobs by starting fights with other tribes of humans that persuasion became necessary.
Why in the world would people want to support fighting and killing other people and having those other people fight and kill you? What's to be gained? A thrill? If you want a serious and useful and communal thrill these days you can do nonviolent resistance to fascist governments. Or you can join a fire department. If you want a useless and pointless thrill, you can jump off a 100-foot bridge with a 100-foot (but all too stretchable) bungee cord and a video camera. Back then, you could go hunting or exploring, or try to discover gravity or surgery. Never was the only thrill available war.
And yet, down through the ages, war has popped up again and again, here and there, around the globe. And where it takes hold in a culture it carries with it the false belief that it's always around in every culture. Thus people manage to find that they support the stupidest idea ever for the stupidest reason ever, because supposedly they have no choice. Yet, choosing to support war because you have no choice in the matter remains a feat which people with developed brains find challenging.
The stupidest idea ever is a marvel of simplicity, and in its simplicity answers every challenge. Why should people of tribe A be willing to go to war with the people of tribe B just because the tribe A chiefs want to steal some stuff from tribe B? The answer is easy if you're a certified idiot who juggles flaming torches on Youtube: Anyone in tribe A who opposes waging war on tribe B is, by magical definition, in favor of tribe B winning a war against tribe A. Or, as modern sophisticates like to put it: Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists.
OK, so that's a nifty trick, but the stupidest idea ever must be more comprehensive. It must surprise us in its ability to destroy in new areas, to pass unseen behind the backs of its moronic supporters, and to gain partial support from the partially informed, limiting its actual opponents to the barest minority of freaks and misfits. I offer for your consideration, once again, the idea of supporting war.
Observe: the nations that wage the most war claim that they are under attack for no good reason and are forced to wage war to defend themselves, even as their wars make them more and more hated and less and less safe. While the nations that wage the least war have the fewest enemies threatening them in the world. But people who've begun supporting war will readily believe that sending killer robot planes over the homes of poor people thousands of miles away is defensive, and that when it creates hatred and hostility the answer must be yet more weapons.
In fact, the same people support manufacturing tons of weapons and selling them to other countries against whom theirs will later fight wars, and they support this as a jobs program even though it actually sucks jobs out of their society rather than creating them. That is to say, war-related jobs cost more per job than do jobs created by spending on just about anything else, even tax cuts. So, people support weapons-making because they have been misled into supporting war, and they support war because they have been misled into supporting the weapons industries, and then they just support both out of sheer stupid habit -- which is, of course, the single most powerful force in the universe.
But the stupidity of war doesn't end there. People who support wars can be brought to believe that wars are good for their victims. They think of each war as building better nations where it's fought, even though that's never actually happened. They talk of humanitarian wars even though humanity suffers. They imagine war is a solution to genocide, even though war kills more people and those people are just as disproportionately helpless innocents from one group in a war as in a genocide.
A recent U.S.-led war on Iraq destroyed that nation and killed some million people there, leaving behind chaos, violence, and environmental ruin; and war supporters think of Iraq as having benefitted. Someone explain to me how that's not stupider than cleaning your loaded gun on Youtube or praying for god to make the other football team lose. And it gets even stupider when you hear how Iraqis supposedly benefitted. They benefitted by being given freedom, because wars bring freedom, even though -- during the course of any war its supporters end up with fewer and fewer actual rights, due to restrictions justified by the war, even thought the war is justified by the cry of "freedom!"
How stupid can you get? War gets even stupider. It is the leading destroyer of the natural environment, but environmental groups will hardly touch it because they wouldn't want their concern for the earth to interfere with their blind stupid loyalty to a tribe. And human rights groups and civil liberties groups are the same way. They want to have war without murder, torture, rape, or imprisonment -- but opposing war would be unacceptable. Never mind that the atrocities increase in direct proportion to the war spending, they want to oppose only the atrocities. The war spending that generates the wars is viewed almost universally as an insurance against wars.
In the U.S. there are those who will object to murdering a U.S. citizen with a missile from a drone -- and some will object even if the president does have a secret memo he won't show us but which he claims re-writes the law and makes murder legal. Some will even object to murdering non-U.S. citizens with drones if they're civilians. Some even extend their concern to militants suspected of fighting on the side in some local war opposed by the far-off and unthreatened United States. And some, the true radicals, will object to all killing of human beings outside of a proper war zone.
But try pointing out to them that murdering people remains cruel and evil, immoral, impractical and counter-productive, and in violation of laws like the U.N. Charter and the Kellogg-Briand Pact regardless of where you declare there to be a "war zone," and you'll run head-first into the brick wall of the Stupidest Idea in the History of the World.
That's a powerful force to challenge, but it can be challenged, and it can be brought down, brick by brick.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49109 | A. In Server 2008, the placement of VMs between nodes in the cluster is fairly random if no preferences have been configured. A VM is placed on a box, and it attempts to start. If there is not enough memory/resources to start it, the start fails and the VM will move to another node. Checks are not made prior to the move of a VM to ensure the node has enough resources to start the VM. If all nodes have been tried and don not have enough resources, the VM will go into a failed state for an hour and then try again. In terms of controlling which nodes are used we have some options. First, as with all resources in a cluster, you can set preferred owners for a resource group, which places the preferred nodes at the start of the node list. This approach controls the order that resources are failed over between nodes in the cluster. The default node list order can be seen by viewing HKLM\Cluster\Nodes, select each key number and inspect the NodeName value, as the figure shows.
Note that the preferred owners list just places the preferred nodes at the start of the node list. It doesn't mean the resource can't run on a non-preferred node. For example, imagine you have four nodes: A,B,C, and D. Nodes A and C are made preferred, so our node list would look like A,C,B,D for the resource group. If the resource is currently running on C and it fails, it moves to the next node in the list so it would move to B and not A, since B is next on the list. This is explained in detail at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299631. The next item of configuration is Possible Owners, which lets you configure which nodes in a cluster can host a resource. If a node is not a Possible Owner, then the resource group containing the resource will try all the Possible Owners first and only go to a non possible owner as a last resort; even then it will not come online. Possible Owners are set on a resource, such as a disk or name, and not a resource group. By default all nodes are set as Possible Owners, as the figure shows.
There is another factor. There may be resource groups that should not run on the same nodes as another resource group. A property, AntiAffinityClassNames, can be defined on a resource group. In the event of a failover, a node that has no resource groups that have any of the same AntiAffinityClassNames as the resource group being moved is chosen ahead of any other nodes, even those defined as preferred. Essentially, this lets us keep resource groups separated on different nodes. Let's say you virtualize two domain controllers (DCs). You wouldn't want them running on the same node, so you could set the AntiAffinityClassNames for each resource group hosting a DC VM to "DCVM," which would ensure the two VMs would not run on the same nodes unless there were no other options. To set AntiAffinityClassNames, use the command below:
cluster group " /prop AntiAffinityClassNames=""," "
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Mate, what is with you and revealing hidden weak points? Without the tears of the vanquished my 300 year old body will soon decompose - although I guess you're far away enough that you won't have to smell it.
Harry Potter? Please, I must have read over 10, 000 sci fi and fantasy books - I don't need to read shit for the tween set - I'd already read most of Asimov and Tolkein by the time I was 10.
As for the download tip, I'd also suggest you get some space bucks for Shadow Complex due at the end of next month.
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Biscuit: Just because I happen to find the Harry Potter movies impossible to pass up if I happen to run across them while flipping the channel does not mean I draw a lightening bolt on my head. Besides, everyone knows that if it weren't for Harry, Nevill would be the star of the fucking show.
Fumes: Exposing the weak points helps to the keep ancient evil on its toes. Consider it a favor. Hey, my childhood reading consisted almost entirely of Stephen King. Doing a 6th grade book report on Christine was easily a high point of my public education, and spooked my teacher. Oh, Leigh Cabot...It's like you were my first. And yes, I forgot all about Shadow Complex - that does look pretty sweet.
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When Burial Begins
Hundreds of millennia ago, early humans began to ‘bury’ some of their dead. Then burials became more elaborate. Why? Paul Pettitt reports
We are all so accustomed to the idea of burying the dead, that it takes a moment to realise just how peculiar this behaviour really is. Most animals blithely ignore the dead bodies of other members of their pack or herd. What makes us so different? How and when did burial begin?
We can probably assume that a degree of curiosity - at least - about the dead body was common to all archaic human species, as it can be observed among higher primates today. Chimpanzees are certainly aware of the moment of death of their kin, and primatologist Jane Goodall has observed how the attitude of mothers to their sick offspring changes from one of intensive care to carelessness and even disinterest immediately following death. Other chimps have been observed carefully examining the bodies of the dead, and even carrying them around for a few hours.
For some 20 years, Christophe Boesch and Hedwige Boesch-Ammerman have been studying the pygmy chimpanzees (bonobos) of the Taï Forest in Ivory Coast. In 1989, they observed a particularly remarkable example of mortuary behaviour around one corpse - that of Tina, a 10-year-old female who died after being ambushed by a leopard. Several individuals gathered quickly around the corpse, making loud calls. After a brief period 12 adults sat in silence around the body, with some males occasionally showing aggression, making ostentatious 'displays' nearby and dragging the corpse around for short distances.
High-ranking females inspected the body, seemingly allowed to do so by high-ranking males who were guarding the corpse, and who chased off individuals of lesser rank. Some 30 minutes after Tina died, two high-ranking males began to groom the corpse - an action that lasted for well over an hour, while lower-ranking adults and infants were at the same time intensively inspecting the spot at which she was killed. Occasionally, the individuals guarding the body would make 'play' faces and laugh, probably to ease tension or confusion.
It is very easy to conclude from this fascinating episode that reverent care for the dead body may have taken place amongst the very earliest hominids, alongside a range of tension-relieving activities and rituals in which social rank governed access to the corpse. But we can only speculate as to why these rituals began. Undoubtedly the higher primates do not like to see themselves killed and eaten by other predators, an event that prompts mourning and worry. Primates must also recognise that the dead individual, formerly part of the social group, has changed in a sudden and irreversible fashion - and has gone. This must inevitably cause confusion and perhaps sorrow.
Among hominids, no evidence is found for treatment of the dead until about 300,000 years ago. But during the preceding hundreds of millennia of human development, we can predict certain types of funeral behaviour over and above that observed among modern chimpanzees. Corpses decay and must be removed from the camp or cave. It seems likely that the bodies of group members would be disposed of in places of significance in the landscape - perhaps in rivers or natural holes, up trees, even on the tops of sacred mountains. We can never prove it, of course. A corpse left in the open air leaves no archaeological trace.
Some of the earliest evidence for the deliberate disposal of the dead was found in Pontnewydd Cave in Wales. According to Stephen Aldhouse-Green the fragmentary remains - teeth - of early Neanderthals suggest that at least five and possibly up to 15 bodies may have been deliberately placed in the dark recesses some 225,00 years ago.
Other examples of this funerary 'caching' - as opposed to burial in the strict sense - can be found in Europe at this time. For example, at the Sima de los Hueso ('Pit of the Bones') at Atapuerca in Spain, over 32 individuals of Homo heidelbergensis dating to over 200,000 years ago were found at the bottom of a deep shaft.
It is possible that these bones and the Pontnewydd teeth all got there accidentally - but I doubt it. Caves and sinkholes are dark, mysterious places; they echo with the strange sounds of wind and water. In later periods they were regarded as gateways to the 'otherworld'. It seems far more likely that early Neanderthals perceived them in a similar way.
I nterestingly, it seems that some selection may have taken place with these earliest 'burials'. Most of the Pontnewydd teeth were from males under 20 years of age. Why the selective treatment of young men? You could joke that young men were the only members of the social group stupid enough to go caving. More seriously, as hunters young men were certainly very important members of the group, deserving special treatment after death. We can age skeletons now with enough accuracy to know that old men practically did not exist in Neanderthal groups. Grandfathers and 'wise old greybeards' were almost unknown. Few lived beyond about 30. It was a young man's world.
Funerary caching continued after these very early examples. Evidence from after about 100,000 years ago includes the fragmentary cranial remains of at least 22 Neanderthals from La Quina in the Charente, and at the fissure site of L'Hortus - also in France - the remains of at least 20 individuals were found in which young Neanderthals were especially common. At Krapina Cave in Croatia, over 70 Neanderthals wound up in deposits of the cave dating to before 100,000 years ago. These remains are highly fragmentary in nature - probably broken up by the weight of overlying sediments - and have achieved notoriety as a number of them clearly bear cut marks left by stone tools.
It was originally thought that Neanderthals practised cannibalism at Krapina, but recent analyses have demonstrated that the cut marks and 'scrape' marks were created instead by the defleshing of the dead - the marks exactly match those on defleshed bones known from the ethnographic record, rather than on bones butchered for meat. This defleshing took place possibly after a period of excarnation, and prior to burial.
Defleshing, the scraping away of all the flesh from a dead body to reveal the clean bones, is - to the modern mind - an outlandish practice. Why do it? Why mutilate the body of a loved one?
Again we can only speculate. In later prehistory and the historical period, bones were sometimes treated as sacred relics. We see pretty clear evidence of this as far back as the mid-Upper Palaeolithic (or Gravettian period), after about 27,000 years ago, when individual skulls or long bones were heavily ochred and separately buried. It seems reasonable to assume that the origins of sacred relics may be found in the Neanderthal period. Defleshing was a means to this end.
Traces of defleshing and removal of body parts have been found at several other Neanderthal sites in France and Belgium. At Moula Guercy Cave in South-East France at least six Neanderthals were either defleshed or possibly cannibalised, and at Kebara Cave in Israel an adult male buried in the centre of the cave had his skull removed shortly after burial. So the evidence is certainly mounting that Neanderthals, at least on occasion and in some areas of Eurasia, practised a variety of mortuary activities before and alongside burial.
The earliest true burials, however, are of anatomically modern humans. They are found from some time before 100,000 years ago at the gates of Europe - in Israel and in the Nile Valley. In Skhul and Qafzeh caves on Mount Carmel a number of men, women and children were buried, a few apparently with simple grave goods. At Taramsa in Egypt a child was apparently lain against the side of a cobble extraction pit and covered up between 40,000 and 80,000 years ago.
Even as far away as Lake Mungo in Australia, an adult was buried in a sand dune in the same broad period as Taramsa. Intriguingly, these earliest burials are all of modern humans, which has led some scholars to suggest that the chronologically later burial of Neanderthals in Europe may be an idea that spread from our own species to the last archaic humans. We simply cannot tell, but given the non-burial mortuary activity of earlier Neanderthals, it is likely that Neanderthals came up with the idea of burial of their own accord.
The picture of burial itself only becomes clearer with the rise of the Neanderthals in Eurasia. At least two dozen unambiguous examples of Neanderthal burial are known dating from after about 70,000 years ago. All are found within four geographical areas - with no convincing evidence of burial anywhere else. These burials are found in southern France, the northern Balkans, the Near East (Israel and Syria) and possibly from Central Asia, including the possible burials of infants at Mezmaiskaya Cave in the Caucasus and at Teshik Tash cave in Uzbekistan near the Afghan border.
In these areas Neanderthals placed their dead in simple graves, with apparently no concern for grave goods or elaborate markers. On occasion we find limestone blocks within or atop the graves, possibly representing some form of marking of the grave - but this is difficult to prove.
Many of the Neanderthal remains found in caves are those of infants. Infant mortality was especially high among Neanderthals, and it appears that the young were often placed in small pits, possibly after their soft tissues had rotted away. An infant buried in a pit within the Dederiyeh Cave in Syria, for example, seems to have been placed after its joints had become disarticulated, but with some concern that bodily parts were placed in their correct anatomical order.
An illuminating late parallel to this Neanderthal behaviour was seen last year with the discovery in France of the mass-grave of the First World War soldiers known as the 'Grimsby Chums'. The soldiers had been carefully buried in a line with linked arms. Some, however, had been blown to pieces - but such limbs as could be recovered for burial were laid in the 'correct' anatomical position, just like those of the Neanderthal infants so many thousands of years before.
While our chronological handle on Neanderthal burial is poor, the latest burial we have - at St. Cézaire in France - was placed around 35,000 years ago. After this we have a gap in the archaeological record for some 6,000 or 7,000 years, as there are no convincing burials from the earliest occupation of Europe by our own species. In many respects, in fact, the Aurignacian period between about 35,000 and 28,000 years ago reflects only part of the 'human revolution' that is said to accompany the demise of Neanderthals and the spread of our own species.
It is not until the mid-Upper Palaeolithic, or Gravettian, that clear examples of burials can be found from Iberia and Wales to north-east of Moscow. Until recently, only a broad chronology was known for these, but now, a more precise picture has emerged through the direct dating of the burials by the radiocarbon laboratory at Oxford. The results show that the burials were placed in a relatively short period between about 27,000 and 23,000 years ago.
All these burials incorporate the heavy use of red ochre, and include the bones of large herbivores such as aurochs, mammoth, bison or reindeer - totemic animals often depicted on cave walls in this period. The earliest of the group are the 'Red Lady' of Paviland (BA, October 2001) and three young adults buried together at Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic. A little later come the burial of a small child at Lagar Velho in Portugal, wearing a periwinkle shell, and a young adult male at Brno in the Czech Republic. His heavily weighted clothing, marionette or doll, and possible drumstick have led some scholars to see him as a shaman.
A little later still are the spectacular burials of two adolescents and an adult male at Sunghir, Russia, which were all accompanied by several thousand mammoth ivory beads, several hundred fox teeth pendants and a panoply of ivory artefacts. At Arene Candide Cave in North-West Italy a young male - the Italians call him 'The Prince' - was buried in the mid-Gravettian period with typical splendour. In addition to the usual red ochre staining, yellow ochre was used to cover a bite that had been taken out of his neck - presumably the wound that killed him. He was buried with a cap of mammoth ivory beads; four enigmatically-shaped, holed and incised antlers known as 'batons', a flint blade sourced from over 100 km away, and several other valuable possessions.
These Gravettian burials are an odd bunch. With the exception of the 'Red Lady' of Paviland, all have pathological features and some of them may have been in considerable pain for much of their lives. For example, three individuals buried together in Barma Grande Cave in North-West Italy all had deformed spines caused by the degeneration of their vertebral discs, similar to two individuals from Dolni Vestonice. The Brno male had severe periostitis (bone disease) for many years, which may even have caused some neurological disorders.
The young boy from Lagar Velho may have looked odd. His hyperarctic body proportions - short limbs - have been seen by some as indicating that he is a Neanderthal-modern human hybrid, but it may be that he simply looked a bit odd to his compatriots. The pathological disorders found among almost all individuals buried in the Gravettian are surely too common to be coincidental. It may well be that the disabled nature of these men - for with one or two exceptions they are all male - marked them out as somehow special. Perhaps they were all shamans or medicine men.
Tim Taylor has suggested that they may all have been murdered. If something goes wrong for the community, the shaman is called upon to fix it. If he cannot, he is killed. A similar rationale may survive thousands of years to explain Iron Age bog bodies. It is an attractive idea. What is clear, however, is that burial was never the norm for 'ordinary' people. We have to assume that most people were disposed of - as perhaps they had been for hundreds of millennia - in ways that were reverent and ritualistic but which are now archaeologically invisible.
At around the same time as the Gravettian burials we have the floruit of the 'venus figurines' - generally female carvings on mammoth ivory, steatite and other materials. Most of these were excavated in the infancy of archaeology; but where we have information, it seems that many were tucked away in the backs of caves or buried in pits. This is an interesting contrast - almost all buried people were male, but almost all buried figurines were female. If these figurines represent females in general, rather than a female goddess, this would seem to provide a shadowy glimpse into the social dynamics of Upper Palaeolithic society.
It suggests, at the very least, a social differentiation between males and females. Remarkably, some of the Russian figurines were deliberately broken; while the 'Black Venus' of Dolni Vestonice had been repeatedly stabbed by some sharp implement. Perhaps these figurines, too, like the buried males, had been 'murdered'?
The murder of important figures in the community seems strange to the modern mind. However, it may have been a fairly common characteristic of pre-industrial societies. In dynastic Egypt, pharaohs celebrated the 'Sed' festival at Karnak in which the king was ritually killed and reborn, symbolising the replenishment of his energies. The 14th century BC pharaoh Akhenaton's experience of Sed is well-depicted on reliefs. Some Egyptologists have suggested that Sed reflects a much earlier practice of actually killing rulers. The idea seems to have been to keep power young and fresh.
After the Gravettian, there is apparently another gap of several thousand years before we find convincing mortuary activity in the Late Upper Palaeolithic of 15-10,000 years ago. But ancient traditions seem to have lived on. For example in Italy, over 20 men, women and children were buried in the same cave in which 'The Prince' was buried well over 10,000 years beforehand.
All these graves are delineated by the cave walls and large limestone blocks. The burials are very similar to each other, and share a number of characteristics - ochre, shell and mammoth ivory jewellery - that go back to The Prince. Some burials are double, comprising an adult male with a juvenile male buried by his side. This is clearly a 'cemetery' in a fully modern sense. The redigging and moving of previous burials to make way for the new is common, and where this occurred bones were often gathered together and stowed at each end of the newer grave cuttings. Just as people today leave vases of flowers by the graves of relatives, a pair of ochred antlers may have been set up on poles within the cave. Large stones may have acted as grave markers.
We often forget that it is only in the modern, Western world that burial of the dead has been a more or less universal and commonplace practice. Not only in the earliest periods but throughout prehistory, humans disposed of the bodies of their loved ones by a variety of means, most of which have left no traces and can be only be guessed at by scholars today.
Yet in some ways modern societies are turning full circle and returning to the varied rituals of the past. In recent decades cremation has become palatable once again in the Christian world; and we tend to scatter the ashes of the deceased in 'significant' places in the landscape - not so much sacred rivers or mountains nowadays, but more likely a home town, a cherished picnic spot, or the stadium of the dead person's favourite football team.
Paul Pettitt is a Research Fellow at Keble College, Oxford
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Entry by Entrance
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November 24th, 2007 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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"Entry by Entrance" by Dead Bird Movement
November 24, 2007, 8:00pm
1830 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
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Artistic Director/Choreographer: Jessie Smith
Performers: Jessie Smith, Mandie O'Connell & Ryan Mitchell
Original Music: Alex Guy
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The Seattle-based modern dance company Dead Bird Movement brings their latest show to Los Angeles. The performance, "Entry by Entrance", ranges from surreal, imagistic, movement vignettes to frenetic, physical comedy chaos.
"Entry by Entrance" begins with a series of captivating movement solos by Jessie Smith. Her technical lines twist and contort in a gruesomely beautiful struggle. Smith's solitary dance builds into a playground of experimental performance as farcical gags get added to the mix. When actors Ryan Mitchell and Mandie O'Connell join the action, athletic partnering meets a slap in the face, strategically placed banana peels, a chase scene with a slimy fish, and a multitude of drinks spat in the face. "Entry by Entrance" also features original music by Alex Guy of the Degenerate Art Ensemble.
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Jessie Smith's Dead Bird Movement is a Seattle-based modern dance company. Dead Bird pulls from a gifted group of outsider artists on a project-to-project basis to create multi-disciplinary works. Since being founded in 2006, Dead Bird Movement has quickly earned acclaim as an ambitious, exciting, young company. Dead Bird's aesthetic is both exhilarating and disturbing. Smith's choreography challenges physical strength and endurance in a way that accentuates the nuances of the body. Her wild, bruising movement embodies an urgent necessity that couples punkish physicality with sharp line and then snarls the mixture. Dead Bird Movement's pieces are intelligent and infused with the honesty of struggle.
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Many people nowadays claim a spirituality, but do not claim religious affiliation. I reject the idea of a spirit, as much as I reject the idea of religion, or of any supreme deity. However, this has me thinking about what one means by spirituality. In most peoples minds, I imagine, the two are almost synonymous. Spirituality=Creator.
But let me posit another idea. Contemplation of wonder. The poetry of reality. Awed, by the very nature of existence. My existence. Could this be classified as a form of 'spirituality'?
When I think about the cosmos, I realize just how insignificant I am. That my existence means nothing, less than nothing. I am just a byproduct, if you will, of the universe. Nothing more, nothing less.
However, all the forces and energy that started this cosmos, the early star formations that cooked heavier elements and gave them up to the universe in supernova explosions are inside ME. Yes, I am just in the universe, but the universe is also inside me. It is an integral part of me, you, dogs, snails, boulders. It makes me feel expansive, large, connected, bigger than I am. I feel significant, not insignificant.
I stand in awe of rainbows, butterflies, babies, evolution, spacecraft, astronomy, Shakespeare, Steely Dan, and myriad other things. I can explain the why of a rainbow, for example (and it isn't a promise made to never do it again by an angry god), but that only heightens my understanding of it scientifically. The wonder, the awe, the reality only deepens. I look on and say 'Wow, beautiful'.
I can think of many more examples, but I think you get the point. Whether one calls it spirituality or knowledge, I think it is inherent within us to look around and feel inspired. Not by delusion, like religion, but by reality. It bridges our emotional side and our rational side. To not only think, but feel. It is the greatest wonder of all.
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Here here ! Or is it hear hear!? Never mind. I agree.
Good graphic Flying Atheist.
Pedantically speaking, the word 'spirituality' specifically refers to the spirit, or soul. Something supernatural or ecclesiastical. I personally don't like using the word 'spiritual' or any of its derivatives for that very reason. I use adjectives such as amazement, awe and wonder, for example, just to avoid any possible misconceptions that I may be religious. However, I do admit to referring to myself, on occasion, as being an 'old soul' or that music has 'soulful' qualities. Does that make me a hypocrite? On the rare occasions when I have to go out in public wearing a suit and tie on a Sunday, I always dread that people will think I'm going to or from church.......and I hate the thought of that!
Carl, I think it is the limitation of language we deal with to some respect, not our feelings. Using the same words, sayings for multiple meanings dilutes the message, at times. To translate our thoughts and feelings into a discourse that others can understand is fraught with peril.
At other times, it can cut as sharp as a laser. Personally, I don't like the word spiritual either. Or faith. Or belief. These terms, and others are so loaded, so emotionally charged. Yet they do seem to cut the mustard as nothing else at times. Like you, I prefer wonder, awe, reality, logic. Myths and stories have a place, as long as we can draw a sharp line in the sand and understand them for what they are, as an illuminating, often poetic glimpse into the psyche of man. We are, after all, the story tellers.
Think of "spirit" in the sense of vodka being a spirit just because there's condensation of alcohol happening on the glass above the liquid surface. There are etymological precedents, along the lines that anything sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from to those less knowledgeable. This makes me more comfortable with its secularized use.
Carl, I share your perception, wholeheartedly.
SOME but not all atheists whine and plead to be treated decently by religious and spiritual folk but when these specific atheists go on anti-religious tirades about how every single thing about religion and spirituality is inherently evil and has not done much good and needs to be annihilated from this earth forever , they begin to look like the rabid fundamentalist religious persons that they scorn. If so many of us act like that than it is no wonder we get treated with disdain by so many. We can hold different beliefs and still treat each other as humans. We can still criticize and condemn harmful actions that people carry out in the name of religion. But acting like a rabid-bitten screaming lunatic isn't going to solve our problem about changing the negative way in which many religious and spiritual people view us.
I wonder what the reaction would be to a group on AN, "The good side of religion". To give a bit of counterbalance to all the anti-religion - a space for people who appreciate some aspects of religion.
It might be swamped by anti-religion posts, though.
Of course there's a good side to religion, a side I missed very much when I left the church. It's the ready-made social environment that accepts you when you grow up in there, an environment that provides opportunities to play, learn and study people. When you're young it's as comfortable as a cradle, and when you grow up it becomes suffocating.
But any sort of community could be such an environment.
Yes, and sometimes religion makes people kinder to other people, gets them through difficult times, makes them more cheerful. It may even enable extraordinary heroism.
I don't disagree with the anti-religious talk, it's just one-sided.
ps To me the anti-religious feelings of ex-religious people here, speaks of the suppressed dark side of religion - the unacknowledged negative aspects of the good aspects that religious people celebrate so much.
That's why I don't have any inclination to say anything good about religion when people are saying anti-religious things. I don't want to - in effect - support the repression of that dark side of religion.
I was brought up non-religiously, except that we went to Easter services sometimes to make my grandmother happy.
So I'm not ex-religious myself. But I'm like a second-generation religion survivor. My mother's father was a Baptist preacher, and my mother sometimes went to church 5 times a day, she said.
She came back to religion in a curious New Agey sort of way when she was older, she read the Course in Miracles and started dialoguing with Jesus. This quasi-return to her childhood seems to have had a meaning for her.
It seems that one's childhood religious training exerts a powerful pull even after one has rejected it - it keeps on influencing one's thinking.
Chris, I also missed the social life after I left mormonism. Of course, it came with a price. The price was being a conformist sheep, or being rejected. One of the many troubles with religion, is the good parts always come with a high price.
I'm of the opinion that the good parts of religion could be accomplished without religion, and without the high cost.
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What did members of New Zealand's parliament do after voting for same-sex marriage?
New Zealand's parliament building
1. Sang a Maori love song
2. Waved red and pink flags
3. Had a fist fight
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An airport worker quit his job in an unusual fashion this week. What was the form of his resignation letter?
Resignation note
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A study has found that David Beckham is "getting posher". How?
David Beckham
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2. Swears less frequently
3. Drops fewer 'h' sounds
4.) Multiple Choice Question
A Nepali television presenter has set a new world record by hosting the longest ever talk show. How long was it?
Rabi Lamichhane
1. 62 hours
2. 41 hours
3. 27 hours
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A US judge has held himself in contempt of court and fined himself $25. What had he done?
Judge Raymond Voet
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2. Sworn
3. His mobile phone rang
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The second most expensive diamond was sold for nearly $40m this week. It was pink. But what colour was the MOST expensive diamond ever sold?
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1. MPs sang a Maori love song called Pokarekare Ana. A red square with a pink equals sign recently became the de facto logo of supporters of gay marriage on social media after a campaign.
2. It's cake. Border Force worker Chris Holmes quit his job at Stansted Airport by baking a resignation "letter". His iced resignation went viral on Twitter.
3. He drops fewer h-sounds. University of Manchester academics studied the way the Beckhams spoke before and after their move to the US in 2007 and found Beckham dropped the "h" in words such as "him" and "has" 80% of the time before the move, but only 20% of the time afterwards.
4. It's 62 hours. Rabi Lamichhane, a Nepali who normally lives in the US, interviewed politicians, journalists and celebrities on the theme "Buddha was born in Nepal" for his show. He said he arranged the record attempt to help promote Nepal globally.
5. His mobile phone rang. Judge Raymond Voet had posted a policy stating electronic devices causing a disturbance during court sessions would result in the owner being cited with contempt. On Friday, his smartphone began emitting sounds during a prosecutor's closing argument.
6. It was snails. The giant African land snail, with its appetite for stucco, is plaguing Florida.
7. It was also pink. The Graff Pink, a rare 24.78 carat pink diamond, was sold for $46m in 2010, making it the most expensive single jewel ever sold at auction.
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Famed photog was meant to capture the nuptials on film.
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Kanye West has a bone to pick with Vogue photographer Annie Leibovitz, and he decided to it do it in front of an audience of hundreds at the Cannes Lions Creativity Conference on Tuesday. West claimed that Leibovitz canceled her gig as wedding photographer for his nuptials to Kim Kardashian last month because she was "scared at the idea of celebrity."
The last-minute flake caused so much drama for West, he claims he spent four days of his honeymoon perfecting his own wedding photo in Photoshop to post on Instagram (the pic ended up breaking the social media site's record for most likes and comments).
"Let me tell you something about that kiss photo that my girl put up," West said referring to Kardashian's Instagram picture of the newlyweds kissing after being pronounced husband and wife, said it "was pissing my girl off during the honeymoon." He explained: "She was exhausted because we worked on the photo so much because Annie Leibovitz pulled out right before the wedding. We sat there and worked on that photo for, like, four days because the flowers were off-color," West continued, answering the question of what the famous couple did on their honeymoon.
Now that the honeymoon is over, West and Kardashian are back at work. The reality star just announced that she is headlining her own videogame, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, due out later this year. She is also busy filming the next installment of her reality series.
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Module 6 and its regulatory program. Panel A: the regulatory program assigned to this module. The module to which the regulatory program was assigned; yellow indicates high expression levels and blue refers to low expression levels of genes in the module. The genes correspond to the genes present in the original module discovered by ISA. Conditions present in the original ISA module are indicated by a horizontal bar. As both LeMoNe and CLR use all conditions when assigning their respective regulatory program, we indicated also the additional compendium conditions that were relevant for assigning the respective regulatory programs. Genes in the module correspond to likely targets of the assigned regulators. Targets indicated by a square correspond to known targets of the assigned TF (s). Targets indicated by empty triangle correspond to predicted targets of the assigned sRNA, targets indicated by filled triangle correspond to known targets of the assigned sRNA. Panel B: sRNA-target interaction as predicted by the sequence-based analysis for both known and predicted targets of the sRNAs assigned to the module. Indicated sequence positions refer to the location of the recognition sequence relative to the translation start of the gene the sRNA is predicted to interact with (if ATG is indicated in red). If the ATG is indicated in black it refers to the start codon of a neighboring gene. In this case the underlined ATG corresponds to the start codon of IscS as the target site of RyhB is located in the intergenic region between the predicted target IscR and IscS.
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Chapter One: "Sometimes Thro' the Mirror Blue"
"Now, Kitty, let's consider who it was that dreamed it all. This is a serious question, my dear, and you should not go on licking your paw like that --- as if Dinah hadn't washed you this morning! You see, Kitty, it must have been either me or the Red King. He was part of my dream, of course --- but then I was part of his dream, too! Was it the Red King, Kitty? You were his wife, my dear, so you ought to know --- Oh, Kitty, do help to settle it! I'm sure your paw can wait!"
-- -Chapter 12, "Which Dreamed It?"
Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll
Mama said that when she was a little girl, before her house in London was bombed, she would often creep out of her bed at night and open the door between her nursery and the top of the back staircase that led down to the kitchen. She'd tiptoe downstairs to make sure the door was closed and no servants were around. Then, spreading her white nightgown around her and slowly rising off the ground, she would fly up and down the passageway. She knew she hadn't been dreaming because when she awoke on mornings after flight, there would be dust on her fingertips where she had touched the ceiling.My mother was a child hidden away. She, like many upper-class and upper-middle-class English children of her day, was raised by staff in the nursery. I grew up hearing grim tales of nursery life. The one brief, bright spot was a nice governess, Nurse Reed, who took little Claire home with her on visits to her family. Nurse Reed's replacement, a Swiss-German who, among her many delightful qualities, used to force Claire, after lunch, to sit on the toilet until she "produced," or until suppertime, whichever came first, was more the norm. I knew, too, that she was sent to convent boarding school when she was only five years old and that she was taught to bathe her little body under a sheet so God wouldn't be offended by her nakedness. I used to think about that when I was a little girl sitting in the tub, how scary a wet sheet over you would feel, as if you'd get caught under the immensity of it and sucked down the drain. Once, when I was in the hospital with poison ivy, my mother told me that when she was at the convent and got poison ivy, the nuns scrubbed her head to toe, beneath the sheet of course, with a bristle brush and lye soap to remove the evil ivy boils.
What I didn't understand was why she was there. I didn't wonder about it when I was little and assumed that things just happen to children as inexorably as the catechism. But now, as an adult, it no longer made sense to me, and I asked her about it. My mother explained that at the time, in the fall of 1939, the fact that loomed largest in most Londoners' lives was that there was a war on. During the Blitz, parents with the means and "any sense at all," she said, took their families out of London and went to stay with friends or relatives in the country. The Douglas family had both country relations and money; nevertheless, Claire and her brother, Gavin, were packed on a train, unaccompanied, "with all the poor children," and evacuated to a convent at St. Leonard's-by-the-Sea. St. Leonard's had the unfortunate geographical attribute of being opposite Dunkirk, and they were soon evacuated again, this time inland to a sister convent in what my mother only remembers as a red-bricked city. She was five years old.
There was no comfort to be found in her elder brother, who, at seven, had a well-developed penchant for torturing animals and small girls. "He liked to cause pain, poor boy, it confused him terribly." "Why?" I asked, grateful that she had never let "the poor boy" anywhere near her daughter while he was alive. "Mom, what was wrong with Gavin?" The answer came back flat and blunt: "The man my mother got her black market meat from was a pederast. When he came to the house, he bothered me a couple of times, but it was mostly my brother he was interested in, not me, thank God. I don't think he ever recovered from it."
In the fall of 1941, as Jerome Salinger had his first story, "The Young Folks," published, Claire, age seven, and her nine-year-old brother, Gavin, were put on a train to Southampton, where they were met by a governess. She informed them that their family's house had been bombed and had burnt to the ground. The Douglases had been out for the evening when the bomb struck, but Claire's beloved kitten, Tiger Lily, was nowhere to be found. The governess deposited Claire and Gavin on a ship, the Scythia, offering the children no explanation. Her duty accomplished, she turned and marched off the ship.
The ship was packed with stunned, weeping children headed for the safety of the United States to sit out the war. One bit of contact, which Claire clung to like a life preserver, was to stand on the deck each day and wave to the children on the deck of their sister ship, The City of Benares, which carried the same cargo of unaccompanied children and sailed alongside them in close convoy. The children would wave back to her. Several days out of Southampton, as Claire was exchanging waves, a German torpedo ripped into the side of the Benares. It exploded into flames. Claire watched in mute horror as it sank, children screaming and dancing as they burned.
The Scythia disembarked at Halifax, Nova Scotia. From Halifax, Claire and Gavin traveled alone by train to Waycross, Georgia, to meet their first host family. They were in Georgia when, on December 7 of that year, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Before the war's end, they would be removed from eight different American foster homes because of Gavin's behavior. "And you know what happens to little girls in foster care...," my mother said, as though we were both in on some kind of secret not to be mentioned, only hinted at.
Their second placement was in Tampa, Florida. She remembers being terribly sunburned and attributes her midlife melanoma to her Tampa stay. The next stop, about the time Staff Sergeant Jerome Salinger was preparing to take Utah Beach on D-Day, was Wilmington, Delaware, where she attended the Tower Hill School for about a year. This was followed by placements with families in Allentown, Pennsylvania; Sea Girt, New Jersey; and Glens Falls, New York.
I never heard about these places growing up. My mother didn't have to think for two seconds, though, to remember. The towns, and the order in which the placements occurred, were literally at her fingertips as she ticked them off, counting on her fingers the way my son, at age four, might display his mastery of the days of the week. "Waycross, Tampa, Wilmington..."
"Where were your parents?" I asked, assuming they must have been unable to leave England. She told me that her father, an art dealer, came to America shortly after she did, in 1941, to sell some pictures in New York. He was stuck there while the shipping passage was blocked by German U-boats. When it opened, he sent for his wife and they spent the duration of the war in New York City building up the business at Duveen Brothers and getting established.
When the war ended, the foster program ended, too, and the Douglases had to collect their children, at which point Claire was sent off to the Convent of the Holy Child in Suffern, New York, where she stayed until the end of eighth grade; Gavin went to Milton Academy. "How were they able to have their children taken care of by American families on that war program when they were in the country themselves?" I asked her as she told me this story. She shook her head and said, "God only knows what story my mother told them."
She stayed with her parents in their New York apartment on the occasional school holiday, sleeping under the dining room table --- for reasons unknown and probably unquestioned. In eighth grade, she refused to go back to the convent. "They were doing a number on my head, trying to coerce me into becoming a nun. The whole school was ordered to shun me, not to speak to me, until I had declared my decision. I was going mad." Her parents did not, or could not, force her to return, and in the fall of 1947 they enrolled her, instead, at Shipley, a girls' boarding school in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Three years later, in the fall of 1950, she met a writer named Jerry Salinger at a party in New York given by Bee Stein, an artist, and her husband, Francis Steegmuller, a writer for The New Yorker. Claire's parents lived in the same apartment building as the Steegmullers on East Sixty-sixth Street, and through their shared interest in the arts, they had become good friends as well as neighbors. Claire was sixteen and had just begun her senior year at Shipley. She arrived at the party looking strikingly beautiful, with the wide-eyed, vulnerable, on-the-brink look of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's or Leslie Caron in Gigi, a movie my father loved so much that he bought a reel-to-reel copy and played it for us so many times when I was growing up that, to this day, I can still sing the lyrics beginning to end. As a child, I never heard the names Holden Caulfield or Seymour Glass, but even now I can't hold a glass of champagne without hearing in my mind the song "The Night They Invented Champagne" from Gigi.
Our shared world was not books, but rather, my father's collection of reel-to-reel movies. During the long winters, our human visitors were, essentially, supplied courtesy of MGM. My father would set up the screen in front of the fireplace in the living room, and I'd lie on the rug watching Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Foreign Correspondent; Laurel and Hardy; W. C. Fields; and the Marx Brothers, to name a few of our favorites. The neat, plastic videocassettes he now owns are a sterile substitute for the sensuous delight I remember then. My father would take the reel from the round metal case, as though unwrapping a present, and place it on the projector spindle. I watched him thread the film through the maze of the projector in a lovely over and under hide-and-seek; his hands knew the special moves and codes for each location. When I threaded my old treadle Singer sewing machine for my 4-H class, I felt the same thrill of competence, of secrets mastered.
When he secured the tail of the film in the empty reel, he was ready for me to turn off the lights. A thin blue stream of light beamed from the projector, widening as it moved toward the screen, smoke and dust playing in the flickering light. First the leader tape passed through with its strange hieroglyphics of bull's-eyes and numbers and scratches, absent the dire modern video warnings about the FBI, imprisonment, and fines written in legalese. Then the title appeared with the movie's music and opening credits.
Most of his movies were on two or three reels, so in the middle of the movie we had to stop, turn on the lights, and wait while my father rewound the spent reel and threaded the next. I liked the sound of the film at the end of each reel slapping against my father's hand as it pulled free of the projector. I'd never stick my hand in the midst of all that flapping. He wasn't scared of getting cut at all, even when he had to stop the movie and splice the film together where it broke.
Rewinding the film at intervals was also a chance for me to rewind, have a drink of juice or some peanuts, reassurance that the world, as I knew it, still existed. Some of the Hitchcock movies scared me half to death, and not in a fun way. Much to my father's disgust, I always had to leave the room in the middle of Foreign Correspondent and put my head under a pillow to block out the screams of that sweet old man, Van Meer, when the Nazis tortured him in a windmill, offscreen, to get him to talk. Of my flights to the next room, my father would say, "Christ, all you and your mother want to see are sentimental pictures about Thanksgiving and puppy dogs." In my father's vocabulary, sentimental was a very damning word indeed.
Old Hitchcock movies, especially, became our secret language. As late as my senior year of high school, I'd receive a postcard saying simply, "There is a man in Scotland I must meet if anything is to be done. These men act quickly, quickly" --- signed, in my dad's handwriting, "Annabella Smith, Alt-na Shelloch, Scotland" (from The 39 Steps). When my brother was at boarding school, I received many a letter from him signed "Huntley Haverstock" (Foreign Correspondent). In short, we'd all light on the choice of Leslie Caron or Audrey Hepburn, rather than some literary character, to describe the young Claire when they first met.
Claire wore her chestnut hair smoothed back from her lovely forehead. Pretty mouth, fullish lips, and the kind of high cheekbones that promise a beauty that does not fade with youth. Claire's large eyes are a limpid, liquid blue that reflect the ambient world, the way only hazel or green eyes are supposed to do. On a stormy day her eyes look gray and wind-tossed; on a bright day at the beach, like blue sea glass and white sails. When her eyes became the color of a burnt match, it was a signal to her children to run and hide, fast. When her eyes became opaque, like those of a dead fish belly-up at the pond, it was time for me, the elder of her children, to take charge and do whatever needed to be done to survive, because she could no more see us than a dead fish can see the flies buzzing around its eyes.
("Thank Heaven for Little Girls," from Gigi)
The night my parents met, her eyes shone like a beacon across the room. She was wearing a midblue linen dress with a darker blue velvet collar, simple and elegant as a wild iris. "God, I loved that dress. I was a model for a designer called Nan Duskin that summer in New York. She let me keep it at the end of the season...said it was made for me. And it was, it matched my eyes perfectly. I've never worn anything more beautiful in my life."
"You wore a gown of gold..."
"I wore blue that night, and the month was June."
("I Remember It Well," from Gigi)
Jerry, at thirty-one, was nearly twice her age and was quite simply, or rather, quite complicatedly, tall, dark, and handsome. My father captures his own image, refracted through the eyes of his beloved, fictional Glass family. Under the guise of Buddy Glass as the purported author of Seymour: An Introduction, he writes that several members of the Glass family, including himself, have eyes that "could all be rather bashfully described as extra-dark oxtail in color, or Plaintive Jewish Brown." What I can tell you as his daughter, without the bashfulness of a male narrator, or the self-consciousness of a person looking at his own image in the mirror, is that my father's eyes are absolutely beautiful, with thick, long, black eyelashes --- inherited by my brother and, a generation later, by my son; the kind that women in the park, peeking into a carriage, click their tongues over and say, "Why is it always the boys who get those gorgeous long lashes?"
Buddy, continuing to describe or "introduce" his revered, dead brother, Seymour, writes: "...he had very wiry black hair. The word is almost kinky, but not quite;...It was most exceedingly pullable-looking hair, and pulled it surely got; the babies in the family always automatically reached for it, even before the nose, which, God wot, was also Outstanding.
Excerpted from DREAM CATCHER: A Memoir (c) Copyright 2000 by Margaret A. Salinger. Reprinted with permission from Washington Square Press. All rights reserved.
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American psychologist and educator
Theodora Mead AbelAmerican psychologist and educator
September 9, 1899
Newport, Rhode Island
December 2, 1998
Forestburgh, New York
Theodora Mead Abel, (born Sept. 9, 1899Newport, R.I., U.S.—died Dec. 2, 1998, Forestburgh, N.Y.), American clinical psychologist and educator who combined sociology and psychology in her work.
Abel was educated at Vassar College (B.A., 1921), Columbia University (M.A., 1924), and the University of Paris, where she received a diploma in psychology (1923). After earning a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1925, she taught at numerous institutions, including the University of Illinois (1925–26), Sarah Lawrence College (1929–33), and the Manhattan Trade School for Girls. From 1940 to 1946 she was chief psychologist for the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene and from 1947 to 1971 was director of psychoanalysis at the New York City Post-graduate Center for Mental Health. In 1971 Abel moved to New Mexico, where she worked extensively with Native Americans. She became chief of family therapy at the Child Guidance Center in Albuquerque and also established a private practice.
Abel’s writings include coauthorship of The Subnormal Adolescent Girl (1940), Facial Disfigurement (1952), Psychological Testing in Cultural Contexts (1973), and Culture and Psychotherapy (1974).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49558 | Walter Robert Dornberger
German engineer
Walter Robert Dornberger, (born Sept. 6, 1895Giessen, Ger.—died June 27, 1980Baden-Württemberg, W.Ger.), engineer who directed construction of the German V-2 rocket during World War II.
Dornberger enlisted in the German army in 1914 and was commissioned the next year. After being captured by the French, he was released in 1919 and retained in the small army permitted Germany under the terms of the Versailles treaty. He was sent by the army in 1925 to the School of Technology in Charlottenberg; there Dornberger specialized in ballistics and earned an M.A. degree in 1930. He was assigned to the development of rocket weapons, a category not prohibited by the Versailles settlement, but had to struggle to obtain recognition for his efforts. In the summer of 1932, however, he was placed in charge of Research Station West at Kummersdorf, a few miles south of Berlin, where, with Wernher von Braun, he began to perfect the rocket engine. In May 1937 the staff was moved to Peenemünde, where the A series of rocket missiles was built; the A-4 rocket developed there later became widely known in its military form as the V-2 and was the forerunner of all postwar space vehicles.
After World War II, Dornberger, who had attained the rank of lieutenant general, spent two years in England as a prisoner, then emigrated to the United States in 1947, where he worked as an adviser on guided missiles for the United States Air Force. In 1950 he became a consultant to the Bell Aircraft Corporation and in 1954 wrote V-2, his reminiscences. During his association with Bell, Dornberger participated in the Air Force–NASA project Dyna-Soar, which was eventually transmuted into the space shuttle program. Dornberger retired in 1965.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49559 | Iran in 2006: A Country at a Crossroads
Written by: Stephen Kinzer
A global crisis?
Given the history of mutual distrust between Iran and the United States, what are the prospects for reconciliation? Leaders of both countries are deeply convinced that their own cause is righteous, even to the extent of believing that God is on their side. That makes this a particularly difficult conflict to resolve.
Part of this is due to a clash of perceptions. The United States is the world’s dominant power and has assumed the right not only to judge other nations but also to punish those it considers “rogue states.” From Washington, Iran looks like many other ... (100 of 4,412 words)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49560 | Mesopotamian rulers
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The lords of Lagash rarely fail to call themselves by the title of ensi, of as yet undetermined derivation; “city ruler,” or “prince,” are only approximate translations. Only seldom do they call themselves lugal, or “king,” the title given the rulers of Umma in their own inscriptions. In all likelihood, these were local titles that were...
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...Mesopotamia was divided into small units, the so-called city-states, consisting of a major city with its surrounding lands. The ruler of the city—usually entitled ensi—was also in charge of the temple of the city god. The spouse of the ensi had charge of the temple of the city goddess, and the children of...
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...for a balance of power in the community, mediating quarrels, and protecting individual rights, the chief or king was the lawgiver and the highest administrator for all community affairs. The ensi, the lawgiver and the highest judicial authority in the Sumerian city-state, was responsible for order. In Egypt the king was the highest judge, the guarantor of all public...
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Further complicating neurotransmitter action is the presence not only of multiple transmitter substances but also of neuromodulators. Neuromodulators are substances that do not directly activate ion-channel receptors but that, acting together with neurotransmitters, enhance the excitatory or inhibitory responses of the receptors. It is often impossible to determine, in the presence of many...
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Four surviving works attributed to Douglas reflect his moral earnestness and his command of difficult metrical forms: a long poem, Conscience; two moral allegories, The Palice of Honour and King Hart; and the Aeneid. The Palice of Honour (1501), a dream allegory on the theme “where does true honour lie,” extols a sterner rhetorical virtue than the...
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c. 1600 BCE - c. 1501 BCE
Telipinus, also spelled Telepinus (flourished 16th century bc), last king of the Hittite Old Kingdom in Anatolia (reigned c. 1525–c. 1500 bc).
Telipinus seized the throne during a dynastic power struggle, and during his reign he attempted to end lawlessness and to regulate the royal succession. His stipulations, now called the Edict of Telipinus, form one of the best sources available for a study of the Hittite Old Kingdom. In his edict, Telipinus designated the pankus (a general assembly) as high court in cases of constitutional crimes. In the case of murder, even the king was subject to its jurisdiction. The initiative seems to have been successful, for the stipulations of the edict were generally observed until the end of the New Kingdom (c. 1400–c. 1190 bc). Little else is known of Telipinus’ reign, and historical records fail from his time until the beginning of the 14th century bc.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49564 | De libris revolutionumNic. Copernicinarratio prima
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...Earth revolves around the Sun, he went to Frauenburg (now Frombork, Pol.) in 1539, where he studied for two years with Copernicus. Rheticus published the first account of the new views in his De libris revolutionum…Nic. Copernici…narratio prima… (1540; “The First Account of the Book on the Revolutions by Nicolaus Copernicus”). He encouraged...
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49578 | With the daily deal market exploding, what's next for sites like Groupon and LivingSocial?
Groupon Goods might be the answer on some expert's lips, but according to CardHub CEO Odysseas Papadimitriou, branded credit cards look more likely.
But would daily deal credit cards be a boon to cash-strapped consumers or just passed off as a trend among the sites' spendthrift regulars?
"Most likely it's going to be something high end consumers who are spenders will want," says Papadimitriou. "They won't be making them their primary cards across the board, but people don't usually make store-brand cards their primary cards anyway."
This makes sense: Lightspeed found that relative to the overall U.S. credit cardholder population, Groupon and LivingSocial regulars tend to have better credit scores, are twice as likely to pay off their monthly card balances in full, and are three times as likely to make purchases with them. What's more, about half are earning $75,000, so they can afford it.
"As with all co-branded cards, if you're already a loyal customer and are spending a lot of money—say more than $2,000 to $3,000 a year, then get that branded card because it will likely be useful. But if you're not a loyal customer or a frequent spender with that company, then don't worry about it." |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49582 | An interesting article was published in the NY Times today entitled "Bundled Households". It discusses the fact that the younger generations live with their parents/relatives in larger numbers than in the past. Here are a few comments on the topic of household formation.
1. This trend is by no means new - see discussion.
2. The article points out that household formation has been slower than in a more "normal economy".
What came before the the financial crisis (the "previous trends in household formation") was not particularly "normal", and making comparisons to that period is not always meaningful. The NY Times chart below is quite informative, but the blue and yellow component is likely the "new normal". Even as household formation improves, the increased number of young people living with their parents and larger households in general are here to stay - this is not necessarily some sort of a deviation.
3. Clearly the sharp declines in household formation were driven by the economy. In time however households will resume forming at some "natural" pace which is linked to population growth. That "natural" pace is not necessarily the same as it was prior to the recession, but is likely higher than it has been recently. Economic conditions can work to delay household formation but can not stop it altogether, unless the US population growth slows. And we have no evidence of that so far.
To put it simply, in spite of households being bigger in the "new normal", there is a physical limit to how many more people can be packed into a single household. Of course more of the newly formed households are renters (see discussion) and many new households are simply several roommates living together (not necessarily based on family formation).
4. As discussed earlier (see this post), 2012 actually saw a sharp increase in household formation. We may be moving toward that "natural" trend, driven by population growth. Some attribute this to the improvement in the labor markets. Perhaps.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49583 | One of the most heavily debated macro topics is the future of the world's reserve currency, the seemingly almighty U.S. Dollar.
Neither the fact that scores of prognosticators have been predicting its demise for decades, nor that when the financial going gets tough (as it did during the 2008-2009 financial crisis) everyone wants it, has dissuaded today's dollar bears from taking a dim view of the greenback's future.
America's Exorbitant Privilege
Berkeley Professor Barry Eichengreen’s new book, Exorbitant Privilege, explains the U.S. Dollar's historic rise from international monetary obscurity prior to World War I, to surpassing British pound sterling in importance by 1924, to its dominant post-World War II position which it continues to occupy today.
Professor Eichengreen opens with the point that while we now live in a multi-polar economic world the financial system and monetary order still revolve around a single currency (the U.S. Dollar).
Some might be surprised to learn that approximately 75% of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States. The reserve currency holdings of the world's central banks are largely in U.S. Dollars or U.S. Dollar denominated assets (e.g., U.S. Treasuries).
What precisely is the 'Exorbitant Privilege' conferred on the United States by the special role its currency plays in the global financial system?
Professor Eichengreen calculates that the U.S. dollar’s status as the world's reserve currency is worth 3% in U.S. national income per year. In other words, having the world’s dominant reserve currency allows the U.S. to run an annual $500 billion current account deficit.
Some may remember Vice President Cheney's quip that "deficits don't matter", or Nixon Treasury Secretary Connally's response to foreign governments, critical of the U.S.’s profligate Vietnam and Great Society spending, on how the U.S. Dollar was "our currency, your problem". It is this 'Exorbitant Privilege', a term coined by French leaders in the 1960s who railed against the fact that American paper currency could be exchanged for "real stuff", which Professor Eichengreen views as unsustainable.
Are Reserve Currencies Analogous to Computer Operating Systems?
Economists explain the U.S. Dollar's rise and dominance through a principle called '
network externalities' (or 'network effect'). Similar to how significant interoperability advantages in computing can be achieved through the adoption of a single operating system (e.g., Microsoft Windows), the widespread use of a single currency (the U.S. Dollar, and previously British pound sterling) can lead to mutually beneficial efficiencies.
However, in a world where 'Currency Converter' is one of the Top 10 most downloaded smartphone apps, determining exchange rates and making currency conversions can now be performed quickly and simply by a vast number of people. Just as the computing world is moving towards multiple operating systems (i.e., Windows, Mac, Linux, Google, iOS, etc.), Eichengreen believes the world will transition to three principal reserve currencies: the U.S. Dollar, the Euro, and the Chinese Renminbi (Yuan).
The Euro and the Renminbi: Assessing the U.S. Dollar Bridesmaids
On the currency topic du jour, Eichengreen believes that "euro gloom and doom is overdone". Just as a default by Los Angeles County won't spell the end of the U.S. Dollar, a default by Greece and/or Ireland won't bring about an end to the euro.
Germany is the one country, in Eichengreen's view, which could afford to abandon the euro without suffering catastrophic economic consequences. However, Eichengreen sees this as unlikely. Germany's next generation of leaders while not having been around for the birth of the EU is nevertheless heavily wedded to the European Project. Further, Germany benefits from a weaker euro via more competitive exports. If Germany were to leave the euro then the reintroduced Deutsche Mark would shoot up in value and risk choking off the German export led economic renaissance currently underway.
When it comes to the Chinese renminbi becoming a reserve currency, Eichengreen acknowledges that China needs to make significant changes. For starters, the renminbi will need to become freely convertible. China will also need to develop deep, liquid capital markets and make fundamental changes to its overall development model.
However, these and other changes may come quicker than many expect. A short time ago there were basically zero Chinese companies settling international transactions in renminbi; now 70,000 do so. Two U.S. multinational companies, McDonald's and Caterpillar, have issued renminbi-based bonds. Currently most of these changes are occurring in "China's financial petri dish" (Hong Kong), but China has set a target of making Shanghai a preeminent world financial center by 2020.
Timing the Decline of the U.S. Dollar?
Eichengreen assigns a very low probability to a sudden collapse of the U.S. Dollar. But could it happen? In short, the answer is yes.
A spat over Taiwan or rising tensions in the Asia Pacific over China building its first world class navy in 600 years could cause China to suddenly stop funding U.S. deficits. A more confident and assertive China is likely to continue to flex its newfound muscles.
However, what Harvard’s Larry Summers termed "The Financial Balance of Terror" is likely to prevent a catastrophic scenario from unfolding. Similar to how President Eisenhower threatened to dump the U.S.'s vast British bond holdings during the 1956 Suez crisis if British forces didn't leave the peninsula immediately (which they did), Eichengreen believes that China and U.S. officials will attempt to work out their differences through diplomatic back channels as opposed to openly fighting it out in financial markets.
A more likely scenario would be a sudden loss in investor confidence, like the one experienced by Greece last spring, in the U.S.'s ability to get a handle on government spending. Eichengreen notes how U.S. federal debt (a relatively high 75% of GDP) vis-à-vis tax revenues (a relatively low 19% of GDP) are reaching dangerous levels.
From an investment perspective, investors should continue to expect currency volatility under the current U.S. dollar dominated international monetary system. Further, the U.S. Dollar will continue to be the world's safe haven currency in times of crisis for the foreseeable future. However, according to Eichengreen a change in the international monetary order is all but inevitable within a decade.
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Republican Presidential presumptive nominee is speaking before the National Rifle Association today in an attempt to court the gun rights lobby. But Romney has a long and complicated history on guns, saying in 1994 and 2007 he “didn’t line up with the NRA” and signing off on a strict assault weapons ban in 2005. Here’s a look at Romney’s history on guns.
1. In 1994 Mitt Romney debate Ted Kennedy over guns, crime.
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Esther is graciously received: she inviteth the king and Aman to dinner, Aman prepareth a gibbet for Mardochai.
5:2. And when he saw Esther the queen standing, she pleased his eyes, and he held out toward her the golden sceptre, which he held in his hand and she drew near, and kissed the top of his sceptre.
5:3. And the king said to her: What wilt thou, queen Esther? what is thy request? if thou shouldst even ask one half of the kingdom, it shall be given to thee.
5:4. But she answered: If it please the king, I beseech thee to come to me this day, and Aman with thee to the banquet which I have prepared.
5:7. And Esther answered: My petition and request is this:
5:10. But dissembling his anger, and returning into his house, he called together to him his friends, and Zares his wife:
5:13. And whereas I have all these things, I think I have nothing, so long as I see Mardochai the Jew sitting before the king's gate.
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The question will arise, By whom is to be interpreted22662266 “Interpretur” is here a passive verb. the sense of the passages which make for heresies? By the devil, of course, to whom pertain those wiles which pervert the truth, and who, by the mystic rites of his idols, vies even with the essential portions22672267 Res. of the sacraments of God.22682268 Sacramentorum divinorum. The form, however, of this phrase seems to point not only to the specific sacraments of the gospel, but to the general mysteries of our religion. He, too, baptizes some—that is, his own believers and faithful followers;22692269 Compare Tertullian’s treatises, de Bapt. v. and de Corona, last chapter. he promises the putting away22702270 Expositionem. of sins by a laver (of his own); and if my memory still serves me, Mithra there, (in the kingdom of Satan,) sets his marks on the foreheads of his soldiers; celebrates also the oblation of bread, and introduces an image of a resurrec263tion, and before a sword wreathes a crown.22712271 “Et sub gladio redimit coronam” is the text of this obscure sentence, which seems to allude to a pretended martyrdom. Compare Tertullian’s tract, de Corona, last chapter. What also must we say to (Satan’s) limiting his chief priest22722272 The Flamen Dialis. See Tertullian’s tract, ad Uxorem, i. 7. to a single marriage? He, too, has his virgins; he, too, has his proficients in continence.22732273 [Corruptio optimi pessima. Compare the surprising parallels of M. Huc between debased Christianity and the paganism of Thibet, etc. Souvenirs d’un voyage, etc. Hazlitt’s translation, 1867.] Suppose now we revolve in our minds the superstitions of Numa Pompilius, and consider his priestly offices and badges and privileges, his sacrificial services, too, and the instruments and vessels of the sacrifices themselves, and the curious rites of his expiations and vows: is it not clear to us that the devil imitated the well-known22742274 Morositatem Illam. [He refers to the minute and vexatious ordinances complained of by St. Peter (Acts xiv. 10,) which Latin Christianity has ten-folded, in his name.] moroseness of the Jewish law? Since, therefore he has shown such emulation in his great aim of expressing, in the concerns of his idolatry, those very things of which consists the administration of Christ’s sacraments, it follows, of course, that the same being, possessing still the same genius, both set his heart upon,22752275 Gestiit. and succeeded in, adapting22762276 Attemperare. to his profane and rival creed the very documents of divine things and of the Christian saints22772277 i.e., the Scriptures of the New Testament.—his interpretation from their interpretations, his words from their words, his parables from their parables. For this reason, then, no one ought to doubt, either that “spiritual wickednesses,” from which also heresies come, have been introduced by the devil, or that there is any real difference between heresies and idolatry, seeing that they appertain both to the same author and the same work that idolatry does. They either pretend that there is another god in opposition to the Creator, or, even if they acknowledge that the Creator is the one only God, they treat of Him as a different being from what He is in truth. The consequence is, that every lie which they speak of God is in a certain sense a sort of idolatry.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49652 | An electron has an initial velocity with an x component of zero, a y component of 16.5 km/s, a z component 16.8 km/s, and a constant acceleration of 2.26 x 1012 m/s2 in the positive x direction in a region in which uniform electric and magnetic fields are present. If the magnetic field has a magnitude of 472 µT and is in the positive x direction, find the (a)x, (b)y, and (c)z components of the electric field. Give your answers in V/m
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49654 | Problem A civil engineer wishes to redesign a curved roadway in such a way that a car will not have to rely on friction to round the curve without skidding. In other words, a car moving at the designated speed can negotiate the curve even when the road is covered with ice. Such a ramp is usually banked, meaning the roadway is tilted toward the inside of the curve. Suppose the designated speed for the ramp is to be 12.1 m/s (27.1 mi/h) and the radius of the curve is 38 m. At what angle should the curve be banked?
Strategy On a level (unbanked) road, the force that causes the centripetal acceleration is the force of static friction between car and road. However, if the road is banked at an angle, as in the Figure 5.13, the normal force has a horizontal component nx = n sin ? pointing toward the center of the curve. Because the ramp is to be designed so that the force of static friction is zero, only the component n sin ? causes the centripetal acceleration.
Figure 5.13 A car rounding a curve on a road banked at an angle ? to the horizontal. In the absence of friction the force that causes the centripetal acceleration and keeps the car moving on its circular path is the horizontal component of the normal force.
Newton's second law for the radial direction gives us equation (1).
(1) SFr = n sin ? =
The car is in equilibrium in the vertical direction. Therefore, from SFy = 0 we have equation (2).
(2) n cos ? = mg
Dividing (1) by (2) gives the following result.
If a car rounds the curve at a speed less than this speed, friction is needed to keep it from sliding down the bank (to the left in the Figure 5.13). A driver who attempts to negotiate the curve at a speed greater than this has to depend on friction to keep from sliding up the bank (to the right in the Figure 5.13). The banking angle is independent of the mass of the vehicle negotiating the curve.
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For the above example, suppose that the coefficient of static friction between the tires and the road is 0.33. What maximum speed could a car negotiate the exit ramp without skidding?
vmax =
It might be helpful to carefully follow through the example to make sure you understand the solution. Also, check your algebra.
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G: For me, it’s questions of realism, I mean what’s more real than the body once you don’t have one? —from “Interview with a Ghost” In Interview with a Ghost, poet Tom Sleigh investigates poetry from his conviction that “while art and life are separable, they aren’t separate.” These essays explore issues of selfhood that are often assumed but not adequately confronted by contemporary poetry—namely, subjectivity and its limits, what it means to employ the first person in a poem, the elusive “I” with all of its freighted aesthetic and psychological implications. The works of poets such as Anne Bradstreet, Sir Walter Raleigh, Robert Lowell, Thom Gunn, and Frank Bidart are examined, as are Sleigh’s own poems in the contexts of history and private life, disease and health, the realm of the spirit and the realm of the day to day.
One essay imagines the poet delivering a lecture, followed by a reception full of jokes and asides; another essay becomes a wild extended parable about the avant-garde; the title piece, in the form of an interview, interrogates the poetic soul, after the body has passed on. In a style that suits the subject of the multiplicity of the self, Interview with a Ghost establishes a new way for thinking and writing about poetry.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49671 | Diaper Cream for Cloth Diapers
Jennifer - posted on 07/23/2009 ( 21 moms have responded )
Just wondering what everybody uses for Diaper rash when your using cloth diapers? What detergent do you use with cloth diapers?
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Jordan - posted on 12/10/2011
We use Olive Oil or Shortening for Diaper Rash and Air Drying the bottom. The Sun preferably helps with the air drying. W use Eco's All Natural Laundry Detergent. All works awesome for us. Hope you find what you are looking for!
Btw, I would not recommend a Diaper Cream mixed with Cloth Diapers. They are not compatable and it makes the diaper not work as effectively and encourages future rashed because the diapers can not get clean. They will need to be stripped. There are certain creams they say you can get at the Health Food Store that are compatible with Cloth Diapers, but you want to make sure it is on the tube. We have not used those creams.
Jennifer - posted on 08/12/2011
We use CJ's BUTTer & it's amazing! Cd safe, smells delish & doesn't harm the diapers : )
Becky - posted on 07/10/2011
Cornstarch is the bestthing I found. Sprinkle some at the first signs of redness, oddly it acts like a lubricant. Just don't let you or the baby breathe it in. But if you sprinkle and immediately close up the diaper, we've had no problem with that. And the redness and moisture is usually gone by the next diaper change.
Elizabeth - posted on 07/09/2011
GroVia Magic Stick!!!! A serious must have for any baby! It has a pleasant smell, it's completely cloth diaper safe, and it's a stick so it's not messy. It's also all natural and organic :)
I've used regular old diaper cream on other babies (nephews, nieces, kids I've babysat for) and not once did I ever put it on them and the rash was gone within one to two diaper changes. I use this on my daughter and her rash is usually gone by the next time I change her! I seriously cannot imagine trying to use the messy smelly stuff. It's totally worth every penny.
Becky - posted on 07/28/2009
I don't have a baby yet, put I heard a preventative to getting diaper rash is to use a little petroleum jelly, like vaseline, on the bum when you change the diaper it give a natural barrier from the moisture. This is what I am planning on doing. I hope it helps you.
Jen - posted on 07/28/2009
My baby gets diaper rash occassionally even when I use wool covers or let her air out, and even when my wash routine is perfect. She goes #2, and then I don't catch it quick enough, is usually what happens! Use any cream you want, but what I do is lay one of her cloth wipes (a dry one) between her skin and the diaper so my diapers don't repel. I could care less about the condition of my cloth wipes, you know? I bought super cheap baby wash clothes at my grocery store because even though I don't mind paying good money for a good diaper, a wipe? You know? So anyways, that's my .02.
Nicola - posted on 07/27/2009
I saw that someone recommended Sudocrem. I used it on my daughter and although it did clear up the rash to begin with it actually made it worse because it waterproofed the nappies! I was recommended bepanthen. It did the trick.
As for washing I use non bio like Fairy, though at moment it's Bicarb of Soda and Vinegar - still recovering from the Sudocrem
Julie - posted on 07/25/2009
I use regular Zinc oxide cream. I use a fleece liner and it keeps the cream off my dipes as well as it keeps baby feeling dry because it wicks the moisture away!
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Nature's Essence Better Butt(er) Cream and Grandma El's diaper ointment are both great products, and for the wash I use Country Save or Henry's Farmer's Market Laundry Detergent.
Jennifer - posted on 07/24/2009
thanks everyone! Well, I'm not sure if it's a true diaper rash or just from teething. It's not his bottom that turns red and he might be red one day and clear the next. I like using pocket diapers and use charlie's soap.
Vilate - posted on 07/24/2009
oh, the diaper rash! I use fitteds with wool covers. The only time I have had rashes is when I changed laundry soap and then just naked time worked great!
If you have lots of rashes you should try a few things,
strip your diapers, a buildup of detergent can cause rashes.
check your detergent make sure it doesn't have enzymes. *they eat your baby's skin!
add tea tree oil to the wash cycle (3-5 drops) to help kill any bacteria on the diapers
if your baby has supper sensitive skin you may need to change more often
If you are using a diaper of cover with a PUL (waterproof) layer in it them your baby's bum may not be getting the air circulation it needs. I use a fitted and a wool cover, both so very breathable and we don't have rashes.
I have tons of wool info on my webpage if you are interested
btw i agree with Elizabeth, lanolin is great! It is great for tons of things, like keeping things dry for rashes and for adding more moisture like for really dry skin! :)
Good luck
Lindsey - posted on 07/24/2009
I too use butt paste in horrible cases. Other than that I always use cornstarch! I also use free and clear with baking soda or washing soda!
Sheri - posted on 07/24/2009
I use the Bert's bees almond oil diaper rash cream in the rare situation that Annie has a rash. Also, I use All Free and Clean, as well as baking soda in the wash.
Heather - posted on 07/24/2009
Hi Jennifer, do you have sudocream in the states? It's fantastic, and not just for nappy rash. If you dont I can mail you a pot if you like. Use a non bio detergent on your cloth nappies and the best cure for nappy rash is to wash your baby with a baby bath or soap, dry well and use the sudocream, whenever you get a chance, leave your baby nappy free as much as you can. Trust me, my son had horrendous nappy rash when teething and after trying out pretty much everything, the quickest and best cure for it was washing instead of using baby wipes and sudocream and plenty of fresh air.
Elizabeth - posted on 07/23/2009
Lanolin!!! It's natural and comes right out so no need for liners. I have to add though with cloth you don't get diaper rash maybe a very ocassional heat rash or yeast. Lanolin will work well with the heat rash but you need to use yeast medicine for yeast and sanitize the diapers. If it's neither of those then it's from sitting in a soiled diaper too long so instead of a "cream" change more frequently and let air out in between.
I use BioKleen or Purex Free & Clear. I prefer BioKleen but I have to go to a different store so I don't get it as often as I like. But it does last at least 3 months when I do have it. I use about 2 tablespoons. Here is a list of detergents to use and what not to use. You especially don't want one that has enzymes.
Heather - posted on 07/23/2009
Hi Jennifer,
I use butt paste, but with a disposable liner for the (rare) incidents of rash. Is your little one having lots of problems with this?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49673 | What questions should I ask a nanny before hiring her?
Jennifer - posted on 06/07/2010 ( 2 moms have responded )
I am going back to work and this is the first time I'll be hiring a nanny for my 2-year old son. Does anyone have any advice on what I should look for? Thanks!
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Sue - posted on 06/07/2010
I would also have a list of expectations, for example: You expect the nanny to play with the child and not be on the computer or cell phone, you expect the nanny to be on time, you expect the nanny to not socialize with her boyfriend and other friends while caring for your child, etc. Can you tell I've had trouble with a nanny before?
Jessica - posted on 06/07/2010
Here are a few good ones I've asked potential nannies:
1. What is your philosophy about discipline?
2.Why do you do this work?
3. Do you have your own children/younger siblings that you've taken care of?
4. Describe the best child you've ever babysat for and the worst child.
5. What would you do in an emergency situation?
6. Present an example problem and see how they would resolve it.
7. What do you do when you're angry with a child?
8. Do you have CPR training? Can you swim? Do you know how to drive....
9. (for older children) what would you do if he/she revealed something to you that you know I wouldn't approve of?
10. Do you smoke/drink/use drugs and what's your view point on them?
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US Economy 'Heading for a Wall': Stockman
The jobs numbers on Friday were a mixed bag, with employment rising far less than expected in January, but the unemployment rate falling to its lowest level since April 2009. But one former federal budget director thinks these numbers tell a different story.
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"The fiscal situation is certain, in my view, because the political parties are totally paralyzed, to lead to a bond market conflagration—that's when the yield really soars, that's when the sell off really begins to happen, and that's when Congress and the White House finally wake up," Stockman said.
Also the unemployment rate fell from 9.4 percent to 9.0 percent, something Stockman believes is a result of "the participation rate in the labor force...dropping like a rock month-after-month."
"So we lost a million-and-half people, jobs, who weren't looking, who aren't in the labor force," Stockman concluded.
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There is only one place to find the truth and all the truth concerning what we call, “Noah’s Flood.” But first, it’s wasn’t Noah’s flood, it was God’s judgment upon the world of sin. He will do this again, and finally — by fire. The flood was not caused by a comet. Noah did not go out and bring in animals. The myths of men go on and on.
If water covered the whole Earth, where did it flow. Think, Pilgrim. When the water rushed off the land, it erased every last little bit of man’s making. Scars remain. They still do. Think the Grand Canyon, as an example. Think man’s rebellious heart, as another. The list goes on and on. Read about it in the Bible. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49741 | Apple issues mega-monster security update
'Frighteningly large' release patches nearly 90 bugs in Leopard, Tiger
Apple Inc. Tuesday issued a record-breaking security update that patched nearly 90 vulnerabilities in both its own code and the third-party applications it bundles with its Tiger and Leopard operating systems.
Security Update 2008-002 plugged 87 holes in the client and server editions of Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS 10.5. This single update's total patch count nearly equaled half of all the fixes Apple released in 2007, and easily dwarfed the biggest updates that year, both of which saw 40 or more bugs patched.
"What a dizzy double take," said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Network Security Inc. in an e-mail. "Right on the heels of an unprecedented giant Safari fix, we now have a frighteningly large set of updates for OSX 10.4.11 and 10.5.2."
Earlier today, Apple updated its Safari browser for both Mac and Windows, patching 13 vulnerabilities.
The day's much larger security roll-up fixed flaws in 30 different applications or operating system components in Mac OS X, from AFP Client and Apache to the Wiki Server and X11, the Mac's version of the X Window System. "Historically, the third-party applications bundled with OS X have made up a decent majority of these updates," said Storms. "Today's release is no different." By Storms' count, 18 of the 30 components or applications patched were Apple's own. An even dozen were the responsible of others.
Some of the vulnerabilities were specific to Leopard, others to Tiger. The Leopard update quashed bugs in AFP Client, Apache, Application Firewall, ClamAV, CUPS, Emacs, Help Viewer, Image Raw, Kerberos, mDNSResponder, OpenSSH, pax archive, PHP, Podcast Producer, Preview, Printing, System Configuration, UDF, Wiki Server and X11.
Several were found only in Server 10.5. The open-source ClamAV antivirus scanner included with Apple's server operating system received patches for nine bugs, for example. "Multiple vulnerabilities exist in ClamAV 0.90.3 provided with Mac OS X Server v10.5 systems, the most serious of which may lead to arbitrary code execution," read Apple's advisory.
In Tiger, meanwhile, AFP Client, AFP Server, Apache, AppKit, CFNetwork, ClamAV, CoreFoundation, CoreServices, CUPS, curl, Emacs, file, Foundation, Help Viewer, Kerberos, libc, notifyd, OpenSSH, PHP, System Configuration and X11 were patched.
"The majority of the more critical updates from today are found in those third-party applications," said Storms. "Point being, we can't blame Apple for all the security issues in OS X."
Unlike other operating system vendors, Apple doesn't rate the vulnerabilities it patches. A large number of the fixes Tuesday, however, were accompanied by Apple phrasing -- "arbitrary code execution" -- that signals the bug could be used by attackers to infect a Mac with malicious code. In others' ranking systems, vulnerabilities like that are typically classified as "critical" threats.
Security Update 2008-002 can be downloaded manually from the Apple site, or installed using Mac OS X's integrated update service. Depending on the version, the update runs between 50MB and 108MB in size.
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Solaris 8..it's Free! (so I'm told..) Whats more it has to be the best install I've ever run on a Sun box. It has a new, improved Web style GUI, better disk management, and even sets up the boot partition automatically! Nice one my Sun! (sorry..) It seems to run well, and looks much like earlier CDE releases. The CDE version 1.4 does have a smoother feel to it, and the menu's etc look tidier. On the whole, I cant wait to get my teeth into this version.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49916 | Safer Greens
By Amy Paturel, "Safer Greens," March/April 2009
Understanding irradiation of spinach and iceberg lettuce.
It seems that every month a foodborne-illness outbreak makes the six o’clock news. Leafy greens, such as lettuce and spinach, are some of the biggest culprits—perhaps because they’re usually eaten raw. (Cooking kills most of the bacteria that makes us sick.) From 1996 to 2005, outbreaks of illnesses associated with contaminated leafy greens increased nearly 40 percent (consumption during that period rose 9 percent) and in 2006 E. coli in spinach sickened 205 and caused three deaths.
That’s why many people applauded the FDA’s decision last August to permit the irradiation of spinach and iceberg lettuce—the two most commonly consumed leafy greens—at levels high enough to eliminate harmful bacteria, such as E. coli and salmonella.
It may sound odd to zap food with high-energy rays to destroy bacteria, but “it’s basically concentrated sunshine,” says Christine M. Bruhn, Ph.D., director for the Center for Consumer Research at the University of California, Davis. “The gamma rays used for irradiation are the same rays that come from the sun.” And it is very effective: irradiation destroys 99.9 percent of common foodborne pathogens—even those embedded in the plant tissue (washing the vegetables with water or a chlorinated rinse does not). It does this without compromising taste, texture or nutrition, according to a 2008 study in the Journal of Food Science, which compared these qualities of irradiated versus nonirradiated leafy greens. “From a scientific point of view, it would be difficult to find a justification for not eating irradiated lettuce,” says Jim Dickson, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University.
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Authors:Boeri, Tito
Issue Date:2009
Series/Report no.:IZA Discussion Papers 4273
Abstract:Negative perceptions about migrants in Europe, the Continent with the largest social policy programmes, are driven by concerns that foreigners are a net fiscal burden. Paradoxically instruments of social inclusion are becoming a weapon of mass exclusion. Increasing concerns of public opinion are indeed pressing Governments, in the midst of the recession, to reduce welfare access by migrants or further tighten migration policies. Are there politically feasible alternatives to these two hardly enforceable (and procyclical) policy options? In this paper we look at economic and cultural determinants of negative perceptions about migrants in Europe. Based on a simple model of the perceived fiscal effects of migration and on a largely unexploited database (EU-Silc), we find no evidence that legal migrants, notably skilled migrants, are net recipients of transfers from the state. However, there is evidence of residual dependency on non-contributory transfers and self-selection of migrants more likely to draw on welfare in the countries with the most generous welfare state. Moreover, redistribution does not find much support among those who are in favour of immigration. A way out of the migration into the welfare state dilemma facing Europe involves i. co-ordinating safety nets across the EU, ii. adopting explicitly selective migration policies, and iii. improving activation programmes. Other options such as restricting migration or welfare access by migrants are however on the agenda of national Governments.
Subjects:Migration policy
welfare access
fiscal externality
Persistent Identifier of the first edition:urn:nbn:de:101:1-2009082020
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Podcast: Yves Paul Epelboin with a Peek at French Higher Ed IT
Yves Paul Epelboin is the Director of IT for Teaching and Learning at the Universite Pierre Et Marie Curie in Paris, France. In this ten minute podcast, he shares some cultural insights with Marilu Goodyear about European and French Higher Ed IT.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49952 | Sometimes, DS screenshots just don't look quite right. They're often a little rough around the edges -- even with games that look fantastic in motion -- but worse, the split between the screens sometimes ends up in odd places if a developer is trying to use both screens to tell a story. That happens a lot in these Dragon Ball DS screens, sometimes to comic effect ... so often, in fact, that it seems like it was done on purpose, particularly when it results in images like the one to the right.
Check out the full set in the gallery below. They're just begging to be adapted into a game of a different sort.
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