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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49957 | Imagine going to work on "Van Buren," the original Fallout 3, as a designer for Black Isle Studios, only to see the title canceled due to parent company Interplay's financial problems. Then, imagine Bethesda buying the Fallout 3 license and developing an entirely different game, which goes on to win multiple awards and accolades. Now, imagine you're brought back into the franchise, as a designer for Obsidian Entertainment, to create a sequel to Bethesda's popular title. Preposterous, you say?
Josh Sawyer is the lead designer on Fallout: New Vegas and, after having the rug yanked from under him on the original Fallout 3, he's happy to be working on the latest new Fallout project -- one that will be released later this year. Read on for our conversation with Sawyer.
Joystiq: What's your history with the Fallout franchise?
Why should fans of Fallout 3 want to revisit Fallout in New Vegas?
There's a ton of new stuff in it. If they liked Fallout 3, I don't think they are going to find stuff in New Vegas that is super crazy, radically different. Mostly, we've just tried to focus on making the gameplay experiences better overall and really creating a lot of awesome content. So we're not trying to reinvent the wheel, but whenever there is something in the game's formula that we think we could improve, especially if it adds more player choice or more tactical depth for the player, or more reactivity, we've tried to do that -- so, whether that's in our game design itself or whether it's something more systemic throughout the game.
What specifically has Obsidian changed in New Vegas from Fallout 3?
Well, we've done a lot to tweak the combat, especially for VATS, but also for real-time. We moved to an aimed-down sight system because it feels more immersive. You feel more connected when you're actually in combat. VATS is basically a resource for the player to use.
Some people like playing only in VATS. There are very few people we've found who play Fallout 3 who enjoy playing real-time, so we tried to address a lot of the deficiencies with that so that it's a lot more enjoyable to play it. And so you can switch between real-time and VATS and it is much more viable. So concretely, what we've done, is we've switched to the aimed-down sight system.
We've also made the relationship between how the character moves and what the effect on accuracy is. We've made that a lot clearer and more concrete. We've improved the responsiveness of the controls for firing and reloading and stuff like that. Basically, technically, we've added button buffering and things like that. So there's a lot of tweaking that we've done in that regard.
And, in addition, we've added stuff like the Hardcore mode, which really does make a pretty big change in how you play the game. You have to think a lot more about what gear you're taking along with you, because you have to worry about dehydration. You also have to worry about the weight of ammunition, and then the way that you approach combat is also pretty different, because healing over time really makes you think tactically about how you kind of rush into combat or don't rush into combat. So being at range and taking cover and sort of avoiding fire is a much more important component of gameplay.
Last year Todd Howard, admitted that Fallout 3 failed in some ways as a "shooter." Have you tried to improve that element of gameplay?
We're still kind of tweaking the third-person camera, but we have looked at it and made a few adjustments. And again, it's mostly like a feel thing. There are a few things about the third-person camera that can make things tricky. One of them we found is the sort of offset of the camera from the character itself, because, basically, the bullet is always originating from the weapon, and because it's like a pretty wide field of view -- it's like a 70-degree field of view -- it can produce a disconnect.
So, where you are aiming in terms of the screen versus where your character is aiming, there is a pretty big disconnect there. So we've tried to address some of that just by kind of pushing and pulling those angles and distances around a little bit. Because we have found that people here do like playing in third-person. And those changes seem to have made a pretty big improvement in the feel of third-person shooting especially. I'm sure there was another component to your question.
What about specific changes to satisfy the shooter fans -- players who want to play New Vegas as an FPS?
I guess the thing is, I don't really view RPG and FPS as separate genres. FPS is the style of combat that the game has outside of VATS. But the RPG always influences how you use that combat system, whether it's in VATS or in first-person real-time. So what I tried to do is really look at, you know, how can we make our weapons different, because there are a lot of weapons.
One of the reasons I wanted to have so many weapons is that so there was more stratification between equipment. And then within each stratum, there would be more differentiation. So we don't want people to pick up guns and not really get why that gun exists. We do feel that, at any given point in the game, when you see a number of weapons to choose from, each one of them has a pretty specific role' which I guess some people would say, like, "Well, that's just good FPS design." But it should just be good game design. It's good RPG design.
So, you know, basically, like the Varmint rifle, which we showed in the demo, the Varmint rifle is not a powerful weapon at all. It's really, really weak. But it's incredibly accurate and it has a pretty high magazine count. So for shooting at range, and also, later, you can get a scope and a silencer for it, it's a really good sort of range combat weapon. But it's very poor once things get up close to you and they are aware of you. Whereas, like, the 9mm, is kind of a balance between that and the .357 revolver. The .357 revolver is very slow, but also very powerful. And so that stratification goes throughout the entire game across all the different types of gear.
So we do want people, when they pick something up, we want the weapon to feel good to use, but we also want it to feel like it has a very specific role, and that the player should have to make a tactical choice about which weapon they want to use in any given circumstance.
Did you guys make any changes to the inventory system?
Let's see -- what have we done there? We changed around some of the stuff, like with the Pip Boy in terms of what stats are displayed. We obviously had to do that for mods. And, let's see -- what else? There's obviously the Hardcore ammo weight stuff ... We haven't made a bunch of dramatic changes to inventory.
Speaking of the Pip-Boy, and given that this is a new Fallout game, did you think about moving away from that menu system at all?
Well, we did want it to feel familiar. But obviously, not having a Pip-Boy means we would have to rebuild the menus. So, no. I mean having a Pip-Boy and having the suit is very like, "Wow. It's Fallout." So we knew we wanted to do that from the beginning.
What are the changes you've made to the "companion" element?
Well, we do have quite a few companions and we are putting a lot of effort into them. We did make the companion wheel specifically for managing companions. And we also want the companions to have their own little mini-plotlines. So when you get companions, they usually have something that's going on with them, and you can sort of help them work through whatever their issues are. And also, they comment a lot more on what's going on in the world. Also, as with the weapons, we wanted each of the companions to feel like one -- that they had some aspect of combat that they were good at -- and also that there was some other thing that they gave to the player that would basically be a bonus that they could not get through any other means.
Raul, for instance, Raul is a mechanic. As long as Raul is with you, he basically gives you a Perk called Regular Maintenance; and Regular Maintenance slows down the condition decay rate of equipment. So it's not like a major thing, and it is sort of just based on him being in a party, but it does provide a benefit that you can't get through perks, you can't get through any other equipment, and it is a valuable sort of addition.
So with all of our companions, we've tried to make them feel like if you want to go into combat, you don't have to worry about them. They're not going to bowl the entire world over, but you don't have to worry about them just being completely incompetent. And then also, they are providing an additional bonus to you just by being there.
We noticed that Doc Mitchell doesn't seem to know if you're a man or a woman when he's putting you back together at the beginning of the game. Are you going to smooth over that character creation process that happens within the game's narrative or leave it as a sort of comic absurdity?
We basically avoid using any sort of association of what sex the character is in the intro, up until the point where you define what your character is. We avoid using any sort of gendered pronouns or anything. Which I guess, when you get into Russian translations or whatever, might be a problem. But basically, because we know the player can choose whatever they want, he doesn't ... it's not that he doesn't know. It's just that we, as designers, don't know whether you want to play a male or a female or old or young or whatever. So Doc Mitchell is very vague. He doesn't use anything that is descriptive of who you are.
Is the Hardcore mode inspired by a Fallout 3 mod? Were there mods form the PC community that inspired design choices for New Vegas?
I don't think it was one specific mod that we looked at for Hardcore mode. A lot of people will just build mix and match mods. One of the great things about the Oblivion/Fallout 3 engine is that it's very easy to just turn on and turn off mods as you see fit. So one person can make like a basic needs mod, like food and sleep and water. And another person can make something that, you know, changes how VATS works. And you don't have to download that as one big massive thing.
So we looked at a bunch of different mods. We looked at weapon mods. We looked at the various basic needs mods. We looked at the ways that people tried to make new Perks, especially when it came time for thinking about how we wanted to do Perks. Looking at how modders makes perks gives us an idea of the sort of boundaries and limitations of the engine as it stands.
You can sort of see where a line gets drawn once somebody makes a mod. Like this level of kind of working with what you've got is acceptable and does not seem like a hack. And after a certain point it starts to seem like a hack and causes bugs. So we often look at mods to see like, is what these people are doing within our own capabilities just right out of the box or are they really doing some crazy shit?
If they're getting a cool effect, and we want to do it, that might involve us actually coding it so that we can do it more easily than they did. So mods are very, very useful for developers, even if we're not specifically doing what they're doing. Just by observing people using the mechanics of the engine and the scripting and everything, it gives us a lot of ideas of what to do and what not to do.
I know you can't talk much about the music for New Vegas because it's still being licensed, but the music in Fallout 3 had that Word War II era, big band vibe. Are you putting together a similar, thematic soundtrack for New Vegas in the sense that it recreates the sounds of Vegas in the '50s?
Well, it's interesting because a lot of the music that was involved in Fallout 3 was '30s or '40s music; and there was a sort of goofy upbeatness to it. A lot of the pieces had a very super-cheerful vibe. The music of the late '50s, which is when Vegas started to really become a place that anyone cared about -- that era was a little bit different in terms of the Rat Pack vibe, and so I think we said in the interview session we are going for something that is a later shift.
It's still '50s but it's late '50s. And in addition to the crooner style music we also want to add in some bluegrass and country music from the '40s and '50s as well, because that's a pretty interesting era for our country.
Are you guys going to reuse any of the music from Fallout 3 or will it be all new stuff?
Can't say. Can't say till we're done licensing everything.
What about voice actors? Are we going to hear any familiar voices from Fallout 3?
So how many trips did you take out to Vegas for "research"?
Actually, I took a big trip ... it was last spring. We came out here on a motorcycle trip. I rode up on I-15. Went through Primm, Goodsprings; went up into the mountains east of Vegas; went all around and got a lot of reference photos and camped out in the desert and stuff like that. Because the thing is, like, Vegas is obviously a big part of our game, but so is the Mohave Desert. Because it is an open-world game, we want to have an open world to explore in. So I wanted to get, especially, a feel for the desert.
When Fallout 3 came out, a "Surivor Edition" was released with the Pip-Boy replica. What would you like to see as a possible item that could be included with a collector's edition of New Vegas?
Oh, well I know what I want, but I can't say it.
So something might be in the works?
See, it's weird because Bethesda does lots of crazy marketing and PR stuff and there are a lot of possibilities for what we can do. And I've talked with them about a lot of ideas, and they've been really supportive so far. So I'll let you know later, if it winds up being the thing that I wanted.
Okay, we'll be sure to follow up and ask you, "Is this ....
... the thing?"
Right, exactly. "The thing."
So, have you taken a look at id's RAGE, another post-apocalyptic game to be published by Bethesda? If so, what were your impressions?
I thought it was really great. I was very impressed by a number of things. I think id always has -- you know, obviously no one disputes that it always pushes the technology boundaries. But I think I saw something more impressive than I even honestly expected, because I really appreciate that id has put more of a design emphasis on making their environments have a lot of character. And making their characters have a lot of character. And I think I could see it in the character designs.
I could see it in the environment designs, and I could see it also in the style of animation. It seems like they really have put, in many ways, almost a more traditional animation style into the way a lot of the characters move in conversations and also in combat. I think it showed a lot of really cool style and technologically, again, the fact that that it was running at 60 frames a second on a 360. I was really impressed.
This article was originally published on Joystiq.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49960 | The "heavy hitters" of BioShock Infinite have, so far, been profoundly eerie to look at. The Siren, however, is much creepier to deal with, as it has the power to bring downed enemies back. Oh, and it sings an otherworldly song to raise those enemies, so it's just generally creepy as well.
This article was originally published on Joystiq.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49961 | Steam for Linux is coming, and after waiting epochs what's a few more months?
It's been a long-running saga as to when Linux users will finally see some native gaming action on Steam, but according to Phoronix that happy day will likely arrive within "months." Valve has been busily hiring Linux OpenGL boffins, including people recommended by Phoronix's founder, Michael Larabel, who certainly seems to be on the inside track. His photo above offers some proof of progress: it shows Left 4 Dead 2 running natively on Ubuntu 11.10 with AMD Catalysts drivers. Why has it taken so long since news of a Linux client was first floated (and officially denied) back in 2010? Larabel attributes it to Valve's "flat management structure" that allows its developers to work on what they want. (And you still question the importance of hierarchy?)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49966 | Google introduces its Zavers digital coupon service
Didn't think there were enough coupon services? Well, Google thinks it can do it right with its new Zavers "digital coupon solution." The big G claims that its take on discounts and deals allows companies to measure customer habits and coupon usage stats to better target their campaigns. But, what does it mean for shoppers? They can find the coupons relevant to them on specific retailer websites and add them to an online account. When they hit the checkout with a full basket, the discounts are automatically accounted for. Zavers is also integrated with Google Wallet, as long as you use it to pay for items in-store. We're not sure exactly how this will work yet, but we'll just have to wait until Zavers is properly up and running.
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What type of poem is Herman Melville's Shiloh?
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Although most often recognized as the author of the classic novel Moby Dick, Herman Melville wrote poetry as well, and this poem is one of several he wrote about the American Civil War. In these lines, Melville ruminates on the bloody, horrific Battle of Shiloh in southern Tennessee and the tragic fruitlessness of war in general. Just about a year after the firing on Fort Sumter, the Battle of Shiloh occurred near a church bearing the same name, which is, ironically enough, said to mean either "place of peace" or "His Gift" in Hebrew. Melville begins with an image of swallows flying "Over the field where April rain/Solaced the parched one stretched in pain", a reference to the rain that fell on the night of the battle, even as the cries of the wounded could still be heard on the battlefield. He also refers to "Foemen at morn but friends at eve", pointing to the pointlessness of war fought between people who really don't have anything against each other personally, but fight instead for a cause created by politicians far away. Although the poem reads somewhat like free verse, there are rhymed couplets that prevent it from being categorized strictly as such. Most importantly, it is a fairly short but powerful eulogy for the people who sacrified in the Battle of Shiloh, the American Civil War, and war in general.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/49992 | #9492057, By RIP Margaret Thatcher
• Deleted user 8 April 2013 17:34:35
The self-important twats pointing out that many critics of Thatcher were in their childhood at the time obviously weren't loved by their parents.
If they had been, they would have realised that their parents were certainly affected by the policies of the day, and that children certainly feel the effects through a trickle-down effect. Parents without jobs and without money are certainly noticed by children.
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Q/Day = Paul 'Cubby' Bryant
8:30am - Commercial Free Hour = We Found Love...not working
5:40pm - War of the Roses = TEXT YOUR HEART OUT
Q/Day = Adele
8am = Hall and Oates...working as per njfw! TY!!!
2pm = Pink
Q/Day = Erica America
4:30 = Don't You Worry Child
#1 @ 9 = stay
Hip Hop Video On Demand = A hospital room
Music Skills = Gucci Mane
Q/Day = The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
donkey of the day = Luie Rivera (Father of Lil Poopie)
No Repeat Work Day = Closer - Ne-Yo
Lunch Break = Ironic - Alanis Morissette
Thursday's Song of the Day = Heaven Is A Place On Earth - Belinda Carlisle
Rachel84: same problems here w/ shockwave crashing....ugh. nice 2 know it's not just me/my computer
2 questions--
What's Lite fm's newsletter code? for some reason I don't remember seeing it in my inbox late last week.
Is anyone else having problems with shockwave crashing constantly when clicking links or watching the video trivia?
Morning Show Bonus Code = Jewelry (it's finally fixed!)
Today in History for March 5th = Boston (Bos)
What's - Your Body Type? VIDEO = Apple
How to Throw a Dinner Party Like a Pro = Dishwasher (Dis)
Official: DC Cherry Blossoms to Peak on ... = 70%
Philly Flower Show Offers Glimpse of UK ...= British (Bri)
LiteFM 106.7:
8am = sams1997's answer above is now working (as of 11:25am)
-- last week's LiteFM 106.7 newsletter bonus code = VINE
-- I have the same issue with shockwave crashing every now and then
Z Noon - Don't you worry child
4:30 - don't you worry child
my shockwave crashes too
My whole google chrome crashed too
drive at five: The Glamorous Life - Sheila E
yes if you do too many at the same time it crashes messing things up for you lol. I use my laptop that I bought to do the sites more or less it still does it.
Video Entertainment Center....: Smartphone
teeth trivia 6: Tooth whitening
dental trivia 6: World Wide Web
string: SmaTooWor
Morning Show Bonus Code = Scarf...not working yet
games = 7
Dental Trivia 6 = World Wide Web
Teeth Trivia 6 = toothpaste
Video Trivia on Demand = Green
Is the Duchess of Cambridge Having a Gir... = brown
Jon Stewart Leaving Daily Show? = Rosewater
First Zumba Prostitution Trial Going to ... = Kennebunk
Get Fit With Fido: People, Pooches Fight... = 265
Lady Gaga Unaired FAME Clip Sparks Gun = perfume
Tote Bag Trivia = 40
updated string = WicBoyWheThrHeaSofSCASma7WorTooOwnRosKen40WonAlc
Q/Day = Tommy Lee
Classic Rock Challenge = Texas
Classic Video on Demand = All of it
Gimme Jimi Trivia = If 6 Was 9
8am = Nobody's Fault But Mine
8:50 = Life's Been Good
WFB = Grateful Dead
Live @ 5 = Ten Years After
Q/Day = Justin Bieber
8:30 = Sweet Nothing...not working
FBT = into the groove...no Q yet
War of the Roses = The Wicked Stepmom
Q/Day = Adele
#1 @ noon = When I Was Your Man
4:30 = Thrift Shop
#1 @ 9 = Heart Attack
Q/Day = P!nk
8am = Soft Cell (LOVE THAT SONG!!!)
2pm = not working : Flo Rida, Calvin Harris
Q/Day = Mr. Magic
Music Skillz = 139,000
Hip Hop Video On Demand = FALSE
donkey of the day = Boyfriend Trainer game to train your boyfriend to be your ideal man
morning show bonus code works here
No Repeat Work Day = What is Love - Haddaway
Lunch Break = Catch My Breath - Kelly Clarkson
Drive at Five = Someday - Sugar Ray
To those experiencing "crashes". By that I think you mean the internet screens freeze. I experience the same problem. Flash players are memory hogs and what is happening is that your usage exceeds memory. If you are using a PC Win7 or earlier enter CTRL-Alt-Delete at the same time, go into task manager and then processes. You will see the flash players have a very high utilization. Delete any that are hogging memory(be careful to only delete the flash processes). This should reinstate your screens to where they were before freezing. I have no idea what to do in a Mac OS or Win8. Hope this helps.
before they were famous: Boston Common
celeb interview trivia: golden boy
entertainment video trivia: Kristen May
first lines: his 'underground lair'
get your game on: Mr. Big
show me the money: christopher columbus
video trivia on demand: green
music pop quiz: pitbull
top video on demand: no
music trivia: mikky ekko
variety videos: false
Dental trivia 6 - World Wide web (wor)
teeth trivia 6 - tooth whitening (too)
string - SofSma7toowor
POWER DONKEY - the boyfriend trainer
Gimme Jimmi - If 6 was 9
I get a screen that says shockwave has crashed - it happens sometimes even when just one video is playing. I have the new Windows with all of the crazy boxes - don't remember what it is called LOL
Home Delivery Trivia: ALCohol swabs
Custon Triva: WONderful
Deductible Trivia 7: Employer
Sealant Trivia 7: Root canal treatment
Video Entertainment Center: Butt
String: EmpRooBut
no morning show bonus code posted yet...per mrs817: SCARF is working as the MSBC so get it while u can. It changes at midnight!!!! 10:55pm
Before They Were Famous = Nicholas Cage
First Lines = Bonnie and Clyde
Get Your Game On = Tia Carrere
Show Me The Money = Thomas Jefferson
Video Trivia on Demand = California
Celebrity Interview Video Trivia = Andy Dick
Entertainment Video Trivia = Goats
Games n eCards = 11
Amazon Trivia = your city
Avengers Trivia = green
Wizard Trivia = play
Garden Of A Lifetime Trivia = object game
String = HopCurRadAneRicJuiMarEurGloEmpRooBut11CitGrePlaObj
Hot Music Trivia = Heaven
bonus code 3.7 = RADIO
Music Pop Quiz = Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Top Video on Demand = FALSE
Q/Day = Snooki
#1 @ noon = Thrift Shop...working (thanks mrs817)
4:30 = Thrift Shop ... working (thanks mrs817)
Weekly Newsletter Bonus Code = CURVE
#1 @ 9 = Heart Attack...not working, of course...
Music Trivia = Heaven
Variety Videos on Demand = A wedding
Q/Day = Dangerous
8:30 = You Make Me Feel... NOT WORKING
YESTERDAY's FBT is up and working: INT...how stupid am I? (well, don't really answer that): I answered it on hubby's acct but not mine. ugh...
Flashback Track = What is Love...not working
War of the Roses = Clear Blue Trouble...not working! who would've guessed....ugh
Q/Day = Harry
8am = Marvin Gaye
YESTERDAY's 2pm: use BON JOVI for credit
2pm = Eurythmics
Weekly Newsletter Bonus Code = GLOBAL
Classic Rock Challenge = Iggy Pop
Classic Video on Demand = A band member standing on top of a bus
Gimme Jimi Trivia = Second Atlanta International Pop Festival
8am = Rockin' At Midnight
8:50am = Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Workforce Blocks = Outlaws
Newsletter Bonus Code = ANEW
Live @ 5 = J. Geils Band
Q/Day (finally available, better late than never, even if it's a repeat!) = Tommy Lee
Hip Hop Video On Demand = FALSE
Music Skills = Kisses Down Low
Q/Day = Darke ....yes, it's spelled wrong
donkey of the day = Rich Dollas
Newsletter Bonus Code = JUICY
No Repeat Work Day = Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield
Lunch Break = Kiss From a Rose - Seal
Drive at Five = Her Diamonds - Rob Thomas
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/50106 | Why Nintendo is going to win this gen.
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2 years ago#31
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1. Not going to happen? You do realize these plans are already in the works? It wouldn't make used games unplayable, but they would make it ridiculously impractical, meaning without buying a code to activate it or using the one that comes with new copies, it's primary use would be as a coaster.
They are already doing a lot to make rental and used game sales impractical, such as 'online multiplayer codes' with new copies. This would just be the next step.
I doubt Gamestop would stop selling their games as they make new game sales as well, but this would be very brutal on their business. I honestly can't say I'd feel sorry for them, though.
2. You're right. If they don't, then it will be about on par with the Wii U. Which is what I am assuming will happen, we'll see.
3. I don't think Sony will go under. We'll see, though. I hope they don't, personally.
4. Why? What makes you so sure that Nintendo does not and will not have the same 3rd party support? Xbox getting exclusive early access on 3rd party games by bribing them is about the best they can do.
1. I really, really don't think they would ban used games. This wouldn't just hurt Gamestop, but it would also hurt mom & pop stores, Bestbuy, Walmart, etc. What about people who return their games? If you return a game, it's used. That copy just became worthless and if you got a full refund, the store that sold you the game just lost money.
It's impractical and if it happens, I personally won't be buying a PS4 or 720. Fortunately, it's not going to happen.
2. I don't know the specs for their systems, but I can only assume they'll be better than the PS3/360.
3. I don't want any of the three to go bankrupt. Competition is needed, especially in an industry like this one.
4. Can you really say that Nintendo has the same 3rd party support right now? I'm not talking about the future. I'm talking about the present (and the past to a certain degree). Nintendo doesn't have the same support as the other two consoles. That's a fact. It might change, but as of now, they don't.
That third party support is what made the 360 into a household name.
2 years ago#32
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3. The gaming division is one of the only profitable divisions of Sony.
Incorrect. For a while, the PS3 sold for a profit, but their gaming division has operated at a loss across the board for quite some time.
Sony's only profitable divisions are Sony Music and their film division.
2 years ago#33
Stopping used games sales for consoles, as it is, is impossible.
For it to actually happen:
The console would have to be 100% digital distribution, which would force people to have an internet connection. This would alienate all those who buy consoles who don't have an internet source, or have a shoddy internet source.
To allow physical discs, the console would have to be online all the time. Which, again, would alienate those without internet or with really bad internet. The reason it would have to be online all the time and not just a "register game online play offline" type game, would be because you would be able to register, take console offline, and then unregister it because there would have to be a way to unregister a game because of lost/stolen/damaged beyond repair consoles. (now, this can be countered by having a timer on offline content, and you would be locked out of the game after a certain amount of time being offline without it being able to confirm that your product is registered)
To allow physical discs, consoles or distributors would have to physically imprint onto the disc, information that would lock it to your system.
Meaning, for retailers, you would have to carry in your system every time and have them do it. Or you would have to give them the serial number to your console, and god forbid if you or they get it wrong while imprinting that information onto the disc.
All options, except the last one, would cut profit from the people actually purchasing games.
The last one would either extremely hike up distributors cost, or hike up manufacturing cost, thus again, lowering profit dramatically.
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2 years ago#34
It's not the games, it's the price of the system itself. The cost of the actual games is also a minor determining factor, but it's the price of the systems that's going to murder Sony and Microsoft. Guarantee you that their next-gen systems won't be a dollar under five hundred in the BEST case scenario.
Simply put, Nintendo's going to wind this generation too because, like they did with the Wii, their console was (and always will be) the cheapest, and in an economy like this, with such little expendable income? You'll see Wii U's selling like hotcakes in comparison. The initial high numbers of 720 and PS4 sales will be the diehards and fanatics buying first week, and then they'll probably start to nosedive.
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2 years ago#35
dudultimateness posted...
I'm not sure why everyone thinks that getting rid of used games would be the death of the Xbox 720 and Ps4. Since when has cutting out the middle man ever been a bad idea?
Think of it this way. Usually when you buy a new game and plan to sell it you can usually expect about a third of what you originally paid for it, less if you sell it to Gamestop. But if you could not do that the profits would no longer go towards Gamestop but would go directly to the developers. This either means that the developers will experience better and more profits and can experiment with gaming more or can simply turn around and lower the price of their games and can sell new games at $40 instead.
banning used games would cause grave damage to the entire industry
games cost 60 bucks a piece, so many people can't afford buying new games without selling stuff they don't play any more
in other words, people return the games they finished to gamestop and use the money they get for it to (partially) pay for a new game.
what do you think will happen when used games are phased out?
the above model no longer works. as a result, game sales will drop like a stone and the industry will suffer greatly.
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2 years ago#36
_Nintendo posted...
- If Sony and MS really do block used games on the PS4/720, retailers like GameStop WILL refuse to sell their Systems, 90% of GameStop's Sales come from used games.
- If the PS4/720 are really powerful like rumors say they are, then they are going to be asking an absurd amount of money for them.
- Sony is not doing well right now. If they make even a tiny mistake on the Orbis, they will go under, no doubt about it.
- The only thing Microsoft still has to cling to is Halo, Gears of War, and Other generic 3rd party FPS games. Meanwhile, Nintendo has more 3rd Party Support than we even know about right now, and they still are able to make a fresh game out of all of their old IPs.
Feel free to disagree.
1. I don't know how you can make a console that will stop used games? unless digital.
2. Well They're probably be sold at a loss like Wii U. I believe Vita went 250 to compete with 3DS. Microsoft can probably be able to take a loss as for Sony however....
Also 2 year payment plans can be done to make it look cheaper.
3. Sony is in a bad position. Vita is having trouble. And probably can't have the cross play feature for the Orbis if the power is to big of a leap. If they have another Vita situation with Orbis that won't be good.
4. Perhaps the Nintendo 3rd party isn't a threat (not now at least). But the Xbox 360 and PS3 3rd party is a threat. Think about this long generation of consoles, a lot games on the next console for the first few years are going to be both Xbox 360 and 720.
I mean if your a developer who needs to break 3 million sales on games started on the Xbox 360 why make it a exclusive for 720 that won't earn that many sales to break even.
If on both consoles why would a consumer want the 400+ dollar low end model when they can pick up Xbox 360 for half the price with games included.
Why would consumers do this? Well a lot of general consumers according to boards and gaming critics. Can't tell an Xbox and PlayStation games apart. Don't know Wii U is a new console(that is partly Nintendo fault). Basically a lot of consumers don't know what we know.
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Really, I'd say it's pretty hard to say which console would be more successful until they go through a holiday season of sales. Until the Wii U has gone through December I'd be wary on saying how successful the console truly is. Otherwise, I'd assume that Sony/Microsoft would, at the very least, be a good match for Nintendo if they don't shoot themselves in the face (aka Vita...at least imo)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/50108 | Question from kcrazy89
How do I solve quest 100?
Where is Gerzuun, I have looked around for it but can't find it.
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Gerzun is the cave North-East of Batsureg.
The place with the weird grass from the Batsureg Storyline.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/50110 | Question from xbl2013
How do you unlock/ or get the level 4 Performance parts?
Im not sure how to get them.
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You can either win them by Winning/Dominating events, OR, you can look for someone on Xbox Live to give you the parts, though you will need 200-400K to install the parts depending on how many you have to install and which car it is.
Here is how to do the Xbox Live thing.
1:get someone to share a blueprint with you for the car, make sure you have the car.
2: install the blueprint on any open spot that you have on the car, make sure it has all stage 4 parts.
3:go back to your original blueprint, so that now you can go to your parts menu and have all the stage 4 parts in the list.
It is A LOT easier to do it this way, as it has taken me over 70 or so events just to get the parts for one car. I got the parts for my GT500 on live from a buddy =D. Feel free to add me, ill give you them though for whatever car i have. A Pink Bunny1
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You could use the unlockallthings code to unlock stage 4 parts. After you've finished installing all the stage 4 parts u need, u could use the leipzig code to relock all the racing events and stage 4 parts. Hope this helps.
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Crates as seen in Super Mario Galaxy 2.
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Crates are often used in games to help define the boundaries of environments or to make them more interesting. This is traditionally because the geometric simplicity of a box makes it easy to render and simplifies calculations required for gameplay, such as collision detection.
Many games have often been ridiculed for the over-use of crates or boxes as they are implemented in many games and show lack of creativity in level design, they also tend to be considered an easy way to fill up a level or map of a game, prime examples of use of the said tactic are the Half-Life and Counter-Strike games.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/50153 | TTT2 Coming to Consoles in September Along With New Characters
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That is one sweet honey pot.
is that a weird thing to say? I feel like that's a weird thing to say.
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I can't wait. Still months away. I wish it would come out months sooner, but I guess that's asking for a little too much. I hope Kunimitsu will be one of the additional characters.
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Just as I arrived there was an amazing rainbow over the mountains, but of course the sun disappeared behind the clouds a few minutes before I got the gigapan set up. I waited for 20 more minutes until the sun came out again and then shot this in the 5 minute window before the sun set behind the mountains. The camera was having problems focusing and so the system was missing images. I ended up shooting a 2nd gigapan right after the first and then replacing the blurry and missing images with pics from the 2nd set which didn't have as good light since the sun was going down. Those are the darker patches in the image. This overlook is just up the hill from my house so I might start trying to shoot the same gigapan every few days to work on doing some gigapan timelapse with the images.
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Honey: the antibacterial compounds in the sweet, sticky stuff have been called upon for centuries (sore throat = tea with honey, right?). But new research is showing that honey might even be better than antibiotics. In lab tests, just a smidge of honey killed off most potentially-harmful bacterial cells living on the skin near a wound.
Potatoes: Spuds don't have the best reputation around, but a new study just found that two helpings of potatoes a day--specifically, purple potatoes--decreased the blood pressure in obese people with hypertension. Bonus: the potatoes did not put on any additional pounds.
Oranges: Red peppers, guavas, papayas, and strawberries could help out with this gorgeous-skin benefit, too, because they all contain a magic ingredient. Researchers discovered that women who had the most vitamin C in their diets also had the least amount of wrinkling and dryness.
Pudding: If you enjoy a low-fat pudding cup with a glass of nonfat milk when you think you might be getting PMS, you may be able to stave off the symptoms (research shows that consuming calcium with vitamin D reduces the chances of a PMS nightmare).
Hmm... no peanut butter-oatmeal cookies on this list anywhere, huh? Well, they did help improve what was otherwise a really stab-a-pen-in-my-eye kind of day. And there's nothing wrong with that once in a while.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/50161 | Step away from the vending machine, ladies: We've got your next afternoon snack right here with two crunchy, gluten-free options to keep at your desk.
If you're craving something sweet, Simple & Crisp has your fix—for 100 calories or less.
I tried the pear crisps, but Simple & Crisp also make apple, orange, and blood orange crisps. These snacks are crunchy around the edges, a bit chewier toward the inside, and have a hint of sweet. Plus, they're versatile. I tried the crisps on their own to replace my usual chip cravings, but there are plenty of delectable pairing ideas. Some of my favorites: apple crisps wrapped in prosciutto, orange crisps with a cup of tea, or pear crisps accompanied by a glass of white wine and brie. I'd also suggest pairing the oranges with a bit of dark chocolate or apple crisps topped with some crushed berries. Lots of options!
Check out Simple & Crisp for more pairing ideas, a list of retailers nationwide, or to buy online. It's $4.99 for a mini pack and $8.99 for the entertainer pack.
If you're in the mood for something salty rather than sweet, grab a bag of RW Garcia dipping chips. I tried the sweet-potato and English cheddar dipping chips, but they have a whole line of products.
RW Garcia products don't contain GMOs, and the company is committed to sustainable production. Eat them with your favorite dip—I suggest hummus for some added protein to fuel your afternoon—or munch on ‘em plain. They’re delish either way.
Head over to RW Garcia for a list of retailers. They're $3 to $4 a bag.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/50165 | Flinch Problem
Discussion in 'GATE Self-Defense Forum' started by viper144, Sep 6, 2013.
1. Mas, first off, Thank You for your time on this forum.
This is not particularly a self-defense question and more of a shooting question.
My wife has developed a real bad low-left flinch. I put her on the AA (.22) conversion kit for a 17 and she does really well. However, as soon as she goes back to the 9mm, the flinch returns. I have exhausted all of my tips for her.
Guess my question is.....would a lighter or heavier trigger do any help. The lighter trigger (more of a surprise break) or the heavier trigger (making her wait longer for the break).
Or am I barking up a wrong tree.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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3. Thank you much for the tip, will try and have her concentrate on the technic.
Just one more thing, when I say she is low and left, I mean off the target and in the dirt, low and left.
When we do GSSF, seems she does fairly well (on the paper) for the first magazine of a certain stage. After that she is hardly even on the paper.
I truly believe it is something mental, trying to anticipate the gun going off, and I can't get her fixed.
Maybe I need to get her a shrink, just kidding.
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5. Thank You very much....had not thought of that.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/50166 | Guncrafter vs LB TRS
Discussion in '1911 Forums' started by carguy2244, Nov 19, 2010.
1. Okay, if the GC No Name is better than a LB TRS, why?
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2. I'm not sure it is, but I do love the NN.
I don't own a TRS to compare it to. :sad:
3. Same here, but if somebody wants to send me their Baer I'll be more that happy to compair the two.:supergrin:
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nolt DONT PANIC!
im on the other side with a TRS and no GCNN to compare it to.
to me the TRS is just a good deal on a no-nonsense well-made reliable working mans 1911.
the NN appeals to me in that it likewise isnt churched up to the degree that alot of other semi custom guns are, but it is considerably more expensive than the TRS.
do you have any preference on checkering? cuz theyre pretty much on opposite ends of that spectrum.
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5. I have a TRS and it's a very good shooter. I never saw a NN, except in photos. I ask why the NN is better, because I saw a Guncrafter thread where someone said it's better than a TRS. Personally, again, as a shooter, I can't imagine what a gun could do to be a better shooter than a TRS. That's why I'm asking.
Thank you.
Do you guys hear voices too?
6. I like it better than my Baer Concept V and think its very comparable to my SRP.
7. drc767
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I have both. I think the TRS is an excellent pistol for the price point ($1,500-$1,700), but is not in the same league as the NN for several reasons. They are both similar in the fact that they are both very reliable pistols. The No Name is a much more refined, nicely finished pistol. The TRS shows machine marks and is a solid, no frills working 1911 with a blued finish that starts to show wear from the minute you take it out of the box. The Guncrafter is much more of a refined finished pistol. The attention to detail with the No Name is much more evident. It is, in my opinion, the best bang for the buck in its price point $2,300-$2,500...The Melonite finish is about as tough of a finish as you could ask for. Bottom line is this......both are very solid pistols, the Guncrafter is just a better finished pistol with much more attention to detail on the build. I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with the is a great pistol. That being said.......I would take the No Name over the TRS any day of the week without giving it a second thought.
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8. That's a pretty healthy price jump for comparison sake. I would gladly own either.
#8 Hokie1911, Nov 19, 2010
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9. Pro rate a pack of smokes per day. You've got more than enough for the NN plus a case of ammo.
10. I'm not really sure how to respond to that statement except to say that the Baer 1911s have a very proven track record. Not to say there aren't shooters out there that have high round counts through their Guncrafter 1911s but they are far and few between. :dunno:
11. Hopefully one of these days I'll pick up a NN and be able to tell you. I'll never sell my TRS though, I've shot every type of crap ammo I can find through this gun and it eats it like candy.
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The GN Commander has moved near the top of my 4.25" dream list: I prefer the Officer frame (e.g. LB Stinger), but might make an exception for the NM. Moot really as I'll never have those funds... won't keep me from dreaming.
13. drc767
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Fit, finish, refinement is not even in the same league. I have never had a malufunction with either of them. The TRS is about as basic a semi-custom fighting pistol as you can get, and is a great pistol. That being said, I would not pay $2,000 for one. The GC is well worth the price because it gets much more attention to the much more hand fit, filed, machined, ect. the Baer has a longer track record. If that is the only criteria, the TRS wins.
14. I have an SRP, a Ed Brown, a Wilson Combat CQB, and a Colt. But after shooting and breaking down the Guncrafter and looking at it first hand. No words can describe just how sweet the Guncrafter is. FYI, I called ysterday and talked to who I am pretty sure was ALEX and he told me that there WILL NOT BE A PRICE INCREASE IN 2011.
15. Its going to take GC a loooong time to match Les Baer's reputation. They're off to a good start though. :)
16. As a shooter...a shooter.
Is the GC NN equal to/less than/better than a LB TRS as a shooter? It's nice that the GC is so refined and pretty, but I'm not looking for a second girlfriend.
Will the GC do anything the TRS won't do in terms of reliability, accuracy, and durability? Am I missing any of these characteristics with my TRS compared to the NN?
17. Pretty is good and pretty is nice for taking pictures but the proof's in the pudding. :dunno:
18. Both guns I'd wager will last longer than you care to shoot and are more accurate than you can probably reproduce. There's several high round count thread reports on 1911forum with Baer. My guess is that the NN would do the same.
19. I would certainly think so as well.
20. drc767
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I am not sure what you are looking for, but my NN is making me a cup of coffee right now.....My TRS has never done that. Does that help answer your question? :)
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Selling these beasts as I've recently changed my desk and annoyingly don't have the space for these and my two 24'' monitors anymore
- I'm downgrading to some Creative T40's which I know won't impress me as much as these have, but I usually don't have the time of day to play my speakers loud anymore, and am usually forced to used my headphones instead
These aren't even a year old, and were originally bought brand new from Audio Affair in the UK
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Oh man, I was just eyeing these. Great reviews. They would be a great upgrade from my Klipsch speakers. I'd really have to ship these to the states though. These should go quick.
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1. "Real Housewives of the Magic Kingdom" Played by Jonny Loquasto (as John Smith)
- Cinderella (2015) TV episode, Played by Jonny Loquasto (as John Smith)
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2. First Landing (2007) (TV) Played by Josh Adamson
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3. The New World (2005) Played by Colin Farrell (as Captain Smith)
4. Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998) (V) Played by Donal Gibson (as John Smith) / Tim Weske (as John Smith)
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6. Pocahontas (1995) Played by Mel Gibson (as John Smith)
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7. Pocahontas: The Legend (1995) Played by Miles O'Keeffe (as John Smith)
8. Pocahontas (1994/I) (V) Played by Jonathan Hogan (as John Smith)
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I think artists need to draw attention to the things that are overlooked. Were here to be an outside voice, in the same way shamans and medicine men used to be.
Well, Kraig Grady is part Ojibwe Indian, a tribe that values dreams. Medicine man? Maybe: He has a little sweat lodge out back of his Echo Park house, and uses it. Hes the son of a mystic. And he composes microtonal music. An outside voice? Yes.
Goethe said that artists should always live near the borders of their country, says Grady, in case they have to leave.
Grady is happy working in this border town. Without his vocation, Id just be a neurotic mess or a serial killer. Im not suited for much else.
So its a good thing Grady was exposed to Harry Partchs influence: It was an encounter with the Partch theater-music piece U.S. Highball that steered Gradys volatile brain toward the microtonal path. Championed in the 1920s by the Czech Alois Haba and pursued (but never popularized) by Charles Ives and others, microtonality involves sticking more notes between the ones you find on the piano, to realize new scales and harmonies. Partch, a former California hobo, started out with his own 43-note scale, which could be played only on instruments he built himself. It was the combination of fairly simple music with stage movement that inspired Grady, who saw U.S. Highball here in 1975, a year after the composers death.
It made me completely dizzy, says Grady, who was trying to be a piano composer at the time. Soon he was postulating his own 22-note and 32-note scales, building his own keyboards, marimbas and such, and working out performances that involved film, acting and shadow-puppet theater.
Gradys approach to music isnt especially academic, though hes studied with a number of teachers, including master of tunings Erv Wilson and LACCs Walter OConnell (who also taught Minimalist pioneer La Monte Young). Drawn in by the microtones he heard in Native American chants and Indonesian gamelan orchestras, Grady found himself reproducing and thereby preserving the spirit of ancient forms such as Japanese gagaku and certain African traditions, and blending them with his own aesthetic to evolve suspended, trancy sounds. Its not that he cant compose using Western scales; he just doesnt like them. Once asked what he thought of Beethoven, he told a friend, It all sounds like one big Hercules trip to me.
Im trying to create hypnotic states, trance states, sonic environments that people dont normally hear, Grady says. He has no television, so he often relies on music for psycho-visual input. With Debussy, Grady might see Greek columns or mythological landscapes.
And with his own music? Lots of big, green plants. Buildings -- highly ornamented architecture, like the Far East, Southeast Asia. Hes describing the imaginary island of Anaphoria (, somewhere between Indonesia and Africa, which he postulates as a metaphorical source for his music. The natives taught it to him; hes just the conduit.
In medical terms, anaphoria is an affliction that causes the eyes to look upward. Grady references Carl Jungs theory that diseases are often the manifestations of old gods who have been rationalized away but refuse to die. As diseases go, anaphoria isnt a bad god to contract. If youre forced to look up, you never know what you might see.
Kraig Grady was born in Montebello in 1952, son of Arthur Grady (formerly Arthur Gallio), who gained favor with Hollywood stars through the cosmetic face-peeling methods hed perfected. Grady Sr., who eventually founded his own pre--New Age church, also possessed other gifts that intrigued young Kraig.
He was born with certain psychic abilities. He would sometimes know when things were going to happen to people. He knew about chemicals, without ever studying about them. He could hold them in his hand and describe their properties.
Kraigs parents divorced when he was 3; when he was 7, his mother, Helen, married Edward Habit, who has held a long tenure as head of the Scenic Department at ABC, where Kraig paints sets for his daily bread. Kraig grew up in the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood, eventually being kicked out of three different high schools for truancy; classes interested him less than Cream, Hendrix and Coltrane.
After thrashing through his musical studies at various colleges and realizing that he was the only one who could stage his compositions, Grady decided to perform. He lacked the formal accreditation that would confer academic legitimacy -- still does -- so the college circuit was out. He gathered his homemade instruments and took them to the clubs in turn-of-the-80s postpunk L.A., usually opening for bands.
I saw the punk movement as indigenous ethnic music, says Grady, who liked the performance art and the less rock-influenced music that was happening. In L.A., the most punk things were the most unpunk things, like Johanna Went, or Monitor, or the Fibonaccis. It was a time when I could get away with doing what I do a lot easier.
Fibonaccis keyboardist and longtime friend John Dentino remembers a range of Grady presentations: The most effective have been the ones with either shadow-puppet theater or films. The films he made with Keith Barefoot, accompanied by an ensemble playing his instruments, were often beautiful and perplexing.
Gradys half-smile and stooping, prayerlike posture conveyed a gentle intelligence, but his intense eyes and occasional bursts of hostility made him hard to read.
Dentino would needle him about his behavior: I used to joke, You got any pot, Grady? One night, he finally yanked me in front of his face and yelled, No, I dont have any pot. Why do you think Im such a pothead? WHYYY?
Though Grady has settled down quite a bit personally, his gig schedule is even more erratic than it used to be. At the moment, hes in the middle of a long hiatus (I hate playing around the holidays) before a couple of May shadow-play performances at Silver Lakes Holly Matter art gallery.
One recent date finds him at the Sound Compound, a music series in a downtown art gallery where tonight the walls are covered with photo-collages of war atrocities. Out the front door, you can smell an exposed sewer line. Toxic solvent has been spilled in the back alley.
The guitar-tuba-electronics group Equinox has improvised atmospheric noise at some length, and the audience, not aware theres more, starts to drift. But Grady and his ensemble have been prepared for a long time already, their instruments (mistaken by attendees for art) set up in a wide area away from the stage. So they begin.
Grady and two cohorts (no visual aids tonight) stand at his marimbas, while perennial collaborator Erin Barnes commands the pump organ -- all tuned to a Grady microtonal scale. The organ drones while the marimba players improvise sparsely, using first mallets then violin bows, around a sequence of notes Grady has scored.
The music is chimy and peaceful, but the overtones gradually build, distort, beat against each other and ring, sometimes moving around the space stereophonically. After a while, it sounds like its not out there at all, but actually inside your head. Most of the audience are not listening: sitting on the floor, talking loudly about relatives impending visits.
Without notice, the quartet move to the Meru bars -- several large metal plates, each suspended atop a wooden column about 4 feet high, tunable by moving a stopper inside the column and named after the holy Mount Meru of Tanzania, and also after a mathematical relationship first noticed 4,000 years ago in India. Louder than the marimbas, they fill the whole gallery with massagelike reverberations.
So the conversationalists have to shut up. They even seem a little stunned. Or entranced.
The author of this story is at home writing about Kraig Grady and listening to Anaphoria: The Creation of the Worlds. His wife, an attorney, calls from work. Shes been dealing with indescribable assholes all week. She begins to vent. Then she stops. I feel the tension flowing out of me, she says. Whats that youre listening to?
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Gannor gasped in pain, the sound escaping through his helmet. He reached for the throbbing pain in his left rib cage, he felt that his armor had been penetrated there, he slowly turned his head to look at his rib, a large metal pole was imbedded in his side, he had no idea where the pole may have come from, but he was not able to think to clearly due to the immense pain which was bringing him nearer to blacking out. "Gannor," A feeble voice called out through the dark cockpit, only dim red emergency lights were lit. Gannor could not reply, he only moaned outloud a little louder so his ally could find him. "I'm coming Gannor," Gannor saw the man stumble over his own chair and saw Gannor laying on his back wedged between the two seats. "Oh and here you are laying down?!" Arthur teased. Gannor chuckled which was a bad idea, the vibrations shot out streams of crimson blood from his side. Arthur noticed and gasped, "Your hurt!" Gannor sighed, "Tell me some thing i don't know!" "We need to get out of the ship," Arthur stated. Arthur pushed the seats away so he could grab Gannor and lift him to his feet, Arthur put Gannor's right arm over his shoulders and they slowly made their way to the ramp. The process took nearly a hour due to Gannor's serious injury, they both stared around, searching the area for any sign of life. "Where are we?" Arthur asked, "We're on one of the moon's of River." Arthur stared at the 7'0 murky trees, he got the feeling that they were staring back at him oddly, he shook off the feeling and sat Gannor near a dwarf tree. "I'm going to get fire wood, will you be alright?" Gannor nodded and rested his head back on the sap drowned trunk. Later that night, Gannor and Arthur sat close to a burning camp fire, the fire was giving off a sweet smell due to the sap that was on the branch's. "What food and supply's made it?" Gannor asked. "Well we have a little food, maybe enough for two rations each, should last a couple days if we're careful, a couple smaller weapons made it along with a rifle and a blow up raft. "We have a blow up raft?" Gannor inquired. "Yep." "When did i get that?" Arthur shruged and said, "Beautiful moon, reminds me of endor. Gannor looked around, staring high up at the tree tops, the thick green leafs concealed the sparkling night sky from sight, several leafs would fall down into the fire, and not burn. "That's amazing, look at that, its directly in the fire and it does not burn!" Arthur exclaimed. Gannor too found it intriguing, "Think there's any people here?" "Any locals that could help with repairs?" Gannor shook his head, "I doubt it, during the crash i didn't see any citys. Arthur gaped at Gannor, "Why haven't you bandaged up that wound yet?!" Gannor looked down at his side, "We don't have any bandages." Arthur looked afraid, "None made it?" Gannor chuckled, "Appearently a blow up raft can make it but a bandage can't eh?" Both men laughed. "Well we should get some rest, i'll take first watch." Gannor said, But arthur shook his head at him and said, "No your hurt, i'll take the first watch, you get some rest." "Suit your self." Gannor said. And with in moments sleep took Gannor.
Gannor's Camp, several hours after the crash.
Gannor was fast asleep, as was Arthur. Both men grunted and snored in their sleep, Gannor still in his full armor set. Neither of the men how ever, knew of the horrible monsters that lurked in the dark trees of the forest. Gannor awoke to several sounds that resembled small pattering feet. Gannor lifted him self up slowly and looked around and with horror he noticed how he was surrounded by small, hairy, monkys. Their little green eyes shined up at him, he stared back for several moments, wondering if this was a dream. "Uh Arthur," Arthur did not awaken, "Arthur you lazy ass wake up!" Arthur awoke with a jerk, yawned and sat up. Gannor a couple seconds later saw the same face appear on his face as well. They looked at each other, then back at the army of creatures. "Well hello there!" Arthur said loudly, Gannor knew this was a most horrible mistake the moment it happened, the monky's in unison charged the two men. "Ah!" Arthur yelled as several monkys lept on top of his chest and started punching him furiously. Gannor too had several monkys on top of him, but they instead were trying to claw and bite their way through his armor, "Get these bloody things off of us!" Arthur shouted. Gannor lept to his feet ignoring the pain in his ribs, grabbed a monky and threw it into a tree, it mearly got back up and charged him again undazed. Arthur wrestled to his feet, punching and kicking at the monkys, he rushed towards Gannor and helped him get the stragglers off. But then a single monky lept into the air and smacked right into Arthur's face, "Ah!" Arthur screamed as he fell to the ground. Gannor rushed over and attempted to pry the monky off of his companion's face but before he could a dozen monkys lept onto his back, throwing him to the ground. together they fought off the monkys, blood now oozing from Arthur's lip, "Furry little monsters!" Gannor shouted as one attempted to bite off his finger. He threw the monky into several others, stumbled to his feet and pulled on Arthur's hand, trying to do the same for him. The task was difficult due to Arthur being quickly buried by a swarm of monkys, "Help me!" Arthur cryed out franticly. "Where are you?!" Gannor shouted desperately, Arthur shot out his right hand through the dog pile of monkys towards the heavens, Gannor grabbed his hand and pulled with all his might, dragging Arthur to his feet. Gannor ripped the monkys off of Arthur's chest and face, Arthur got the rest. They both gasped for air and rested on each other, they both noticed after several seconds that the monkys had ceased their attack. They looked and saw the army of monkys now lined up, readying for the final charge. "My God man we're getting beaten up by monkys!" Arthur said. The monkys charged, Arthur and Gannor braced them selfs for their "death by monky" situation but right as the monkys reached them a thunderous blast shook the forest floor, the monkys all cryed out in fear and bolted towards the trees. They turned around to see where the blast had come from and they saw to their delight a group of people. The people were dressed in rags, holding spears, they were no doubt locals to this planet, tribesmen looking. "Come with us outsiders!" A small man barked, "If you want to live!" The group raised their spears, pointing directly at Gannor and Arthur...
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Arthur Cayley is undoubtedly the best known English mathematician of the 19th century, and this well-written biography is the first we have of him. Tony Crilly has spent twenty years researching and writing it, and it is full of shrewd observation and careful analysis.
Perhaps the hardest thing for a modern reader to understand is the nature of Cambridge and of intellectual life in Britain in the period, but this is necessary, for Cayley was a Cambridge product and after a period as a fairly successful lawyer was a Cambridge professor for the second half of his life. On the one hand, Cambridge dominated the small world of English universities, and mathematics was central to the education it provided, but on the other its attitude to research was frequently negligent. Teaching at Cambridge was dominated by the examination system, the so-called Tripos, and success in these exams could lead to a job for life. To graduate top, and become the so-called Senior Wrangler, brought you instant fame and opened all doors to your future career, so not surprisingly competition was intense. Teaching, however, was in the hands of private tutors. Neither the colleges not the university could do much about it, and successive reforms broke with little intended effect on the rocks of the Tripos until the whole system of ranking students in order of merit was abandoned in 1906, eleven years after Cayley's death. And indeed Cayley's requirements as a lecturer, like the other Cambridge professors, were slight: just one course of lectures a year, and they were not closely tied to syllabus of the Tripos exams. This was not a position from which to bring about reform.
The Tripos encouraged rote learning and technical dexterity; down the century it gave the impression that mathematics was all already known, and Cayley's teaching style in due course was dry and did little to encourage a spirit of originality. But he was, of course, a highly original and productive mathematician, and here another baleful influence of Cambridge set in. This was a widespread utilitarianism, amounting to a philistinism about pure mathematics. One can almost argue that Cayley's greatest achievement was simply to defy this attitude and to win thorough to general admiration for the way he honoured his lifelong calling to his subject. If Cambridge encouraged research at all, and it did with growing success as the century wore on, it was in the physical sciences and their applications. But it is one thing if William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, regretted that Cayley was not to be drawn into 'useful' work, another if John Couch Adams did. For a start, Thomson was up in bustling Glasgow, and for another he had many distinguished discoveries to his credit. But Adams, who had let the discovery of Neptune slip through British fingers, accomplished work of value but little of distinction in the course of 33 years as the Lowndean Professor of astronomy and geometry at Cambridge itself.
In these circumstances it is hardly surprising that Cayley changed Cambridge very little. He graduated as Senior Wrangler in 1842 and obtained a Fellowship at his college, Trinity, which lasted him for a number of years. But then no position was available for him, and in 1846 he moved to London and took up the law, helped, of course, by his reputation as a Senior Wrangler. He was passed over for positions in Scottish universities that went to people with a greater interest in physics, and only got back to Cambridge in 1863, when one of the regular reforms culminated in the creation of a new chair for which he was pre-eminently suited. But all the time he was publishing new results, and it was while he was a lawyer that he got to know his famous contemporary and colleague James Joseph Sylvester and began his monumental study of invariants. (And let me say that, if you think you will enjoy this book you will probably also enjoy Karen Hunger Parshall's James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World .)
Invariant theory proved to be a lifelong interest, encompassing not only the series of ten 'Memoirs on Quantics' but numerous related issues, and Crilly deals very sensitively with this major aspect of Cayley's work. Cayley was a calculator — he even employed human computers, as they were called, to help him with the work. He had a formidable skill, much commented on by those who knew him, for marshalling huge formulae. Not only would this make for tedious reading today, it is arguable that this style of work was responsible for its mixed quality. Discoveries were made, an area of research discovered, but mistakes were made that marred it, and both Gordan and, later but spectacularly, Hilbert dug much deeper. Crilly is interesting on the way both Cayley and Sylvester relied too naively on assumptions of algebraic independence among the objects they studied and on reasoning that was generic at best. It would seem that the British remained longer than Continental mathematicians in a world of theorems that admit exceptions, rather than entering a world of proven results, explicit conditions of validity, conjectures and counter-examples.
Almost all of Cayley's work is discussed in these pages, as is almost all of his life, and curiously we learn more about him as a child than as a husband and father. He does seem to have been a kind man, a principled Victorian without being stern, a little remote and by no means a gifted communicator since he found it difficult to realise that his readers and listeners generally lacked his mathematical ability. He helped to improve the education of women at Cambridge, and he was diligent behind the scenes, but there are almost no documents to take us into his home. As for the work, Crilly has decided to describe it with a minimum of detail. I felt a desire for more information at times, for good examples to illustrate how the ideas hung together and even what the mistakes might have been. After all, Cayley chose to speak most eloquently through his work, and if I may contrive a mountaineering metaphor (Cayley was an enthusiastic climber, another Cambridge trait) Crilly describes the quantics, syzygies, semi-invariants and the like as distant peaks we may see, not as climbs and paths we are invited to follow. But perhaps that is the right decision, given the nature of Cayley's lasting contribution. He produced very little mathematics one wants to read today, and too much that is slight, insufficiently pursued and insufficiently accurate. Rather, his achievement was to be, for almost all his long career, the very model for the English of a pure mathematician, the first of international stature the country had produced. It is one of the achievements of this graceful book that Crilly does not describe Cayley anachronistically and with our expectations of what a mathematician should be, but presents him as he surely must be seen historically, as the mathematician laureate of the Victorian age.
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In a word: parousia
Harold Camping has been rather low-key lately, but you perhaps recall his predictions last year of the end of the world. Such predictions are examples of millennialism or millenarianism, the expectation, based on the Book of Revelation, of a thousand-year period of blessedness associated with the Second Coming of Christ. The blessedness, unhappily, is also associated with the Apocalypse, the destruction of the world.
(The Rapture, in which it is thought that the faithful will be caught up into the sky before the bad times begin, is an interpretation of Revelation called dispensational pre-millennialism, an interpretation not universally held among believers.)
The event that brings about both the Apocalypse and the millennium is the parousia, "the return of Christ in glory (the 'Second Coming') to judge the living and the dead, and to terminate the present world order," the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church explains.
The word is Greek, meaning "presence" or "arrival."
Example: A constant over the centuries explained in the Dictionary of Christian Theology: " Theology could only answer the complaint that the parousia (coming) had not arrived as expected by saying that ... it might occur very soon."
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It's hard to talk about wearing make up -- or no make up, for that matter -- without consulting a beauty editor. Kate Sandoval is the unabashedly honest and low maintenance beauty editor at SELF magazine. We recently checked in with her about barefaced celebs and how much work really goes into creating a natural look.
Q What do you think of female celebrities like Beyoncé, Jennifer Love Hewitt and others who are posting photos of themselves on Twitter, barefaced and proud.?
A I definitely agree that it's a big trend. It's the PG-version of releasing your sex tape in the sense that it's voyeuristic and attention-getting. It's truly a conversation starter. Recently a few editors here were checking out a photo of Jennifer Hudson in which she seemed to be wearing very little makeup and everyone wanted to comment on whether she looked better without makeup and how healthy her skin looked.
Overall, I think celebs post the photos to show that they're confident in who they are. And it's a way for them to connect with fans, to reveal the real them. I do think reactions can vary: If the celebrity has visible flaws (like AnnaLynne McCord's pimple-face Twitpic), I'm impressed with her bravery and think, 'Oh, wow, she's really just like the rest of us.' However, if the makeup-free pic is flawless, then it might have the opposite effect on me and I think, 'Seriously? That's how you look without makeup? No fair. I can't relate.'
Q Can you comment on the perfecting and concealing subset of makeup? There are now formulas to hide or improve everything, even to absorb natural oils on eyelids so you can wear eye shadow better. Do we really need all this stuff?
A You're right, there are a lot of formulas out there made to hide imperfections. Any tinted moisturizer, foundation, concealer or powder is made to do just that. Plus the newest formulas storming the marketplace: BB and CC creams. These are tinted moisturizers with SPF and anti-aging ingredients, like antioxidants.
The entire concept of these is to hide and treat blemishes and/or correct color imperfections without applying a thick foundation, which can look and feel too unnatural. And because BB and CC creams have antioxidants and SPF in them, they are more a part of the skin care world, not the makeup world. So if you're wearing a BB cream, you can hide your blemishes, wear SPF, and still say that you're not wearing makeup.
Do we really need all this stuff? OK, sure, we can live without it. But I would argue that a little makeup can make a positive difference in how you feel about yourself and how people perceive you. Of course, when I say a little makeup, these imperfection-hiding products are what I'm talking about.
If you're going to wear anything, I'd go with the concealer that hides the pimple you're stressed about over buying, say, a smoky eye kit. When you feel pretty, you look confident. If wearing makeup helps, go for it. If you feel more like yourself without it, skip it.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/50773 | Big Business
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As CEO of a company the player's main goal will be making business decisions to stay ahead of the competitors and increase shareholder value.
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Big Business Atari ST A certain off-the-wall(tm) humour is demonstrated in the clusters of three materials needed to fabricate consumer goods
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Amiga Joker Amiga Nov, 1990 82 out of 100 82
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) DOS Mar, 1991 9.8 out of 12 82
The One for ST Games Atari ST Oct, 1991 81 out of 100 81
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If one element was compromised, I'd say it was the graphic quality of the monsters. Those goofy green dragons look like little kids in Barney outfits - not very intimidating! Also, those bonus vegetables come in some really bizarre shapes (the less said about that, the better). Still, this Dig Dug is a very competent port that compares extremely well to other home versions. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/50777 | Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage
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Warriors Rage is the seventh Samurai Shodown game. The events of the game take place twenty years after those described in the Hyper Neo Geo 64 arcade predecessors.
The game includes new swordsmen like Rinka Yoshino (a daughter of samurai family), Seishiro Kuki (the new protagonist), Ran Po, Garyo the Whirlwind, Jin-Emon Hanafusa and more. Gameplay features a new life gauge system, split in three sections; when the two sections are drained from the opponent, the character performs taunting moves.
Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage PlayStation Oboro's Amazons: first challenge
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• "剣客異聞録 甦りし蒼紅の刃 サムライスピリッツ新章" -- Japanese spelling
• "Kenkaku Ibunroku Yomigaerishi Sōkō no Yaiba Samurai Spirits Shinshō" -- Japanese title
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Paul Reis (Beau Bridges) arrives for his new job as gym teacher at the Roman Catholic all-boys boarding school he attended as a youth. It does not take long, however, for Reis to perceive that something strange is going on. An alarming feud is raging between Joe Dobbs (Robert Preston), the likable English teacher, and Jerome Malley (James Mason), the authoritarian Latin teacher. Reis, the outsider, resists getting involved, but it becomes inevitable once the student body erupts into violence.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/50946 | Montana HOA and COA Foreclosures
If you default on HOA or COA dues and assessments in Montana, the homeowners association can foreclosure on your condo, townhome, or house.
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If you live in a condominium, single-family house, or townhome that is part of a common interest community in Montana, you are most likely responsible for paying dues and assessments to a condominium association (COA) or homeowners’ association (HOA). If you don’t pay, the COA or HOA can usually get a lien on your property that could lead to a foreclosure.
Read on to learn more about COA and HOA foreclosures in Montana.
Montana COA Laws
Montana’s Unit Ownership Act (Mont. Code Ann. §§ 70-23-101 through 70-23-902) governs COAs.
Montana HOA Laws
Since HOAs in Montana are often incorporated as nonprofit corporations, they are subject to the Nonprofit Corporation Act, which can be found in Chapter 2 of Title 35 of the state statutes.
HOAs are also controlled by their governing documents, which include the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions (CC&Rs) and bylaws. The specific rules regarding assessments liens can typically be found in these governing documents. (You should have received copies of the CC&Rs and bylaws when you purchased your property. Find out more about what's in your HOA CC&Rs and other relevant documents in Nolo’s article Before Buying: How to Read the CC&Rs or Homeowners' Association (HOA) Documents.)
How COA and HOA Liens Work
A COA or HOA typically has the power to place a lien on your property if you become delinquent in paying the monthly dues and/or any special assessments (collectively referred to as assessments). Generally, once a homeowner becomes delinquent on the assessments, a lien will automatically attach to that homeowner's property.
In Montana, a COA must record its claim of lien in the county records (Mont. Code Ann. §70-23-607(2)). If you are part of an HOA, check the CC&Rs to learn about the association’s right to place a lien on your home if you don’t pay the assessments.
Charges the COA or HOA May Include in the Lien
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Lien priority determines what happens to other liens, mortgages, and lines of credit if your COA or HOA lien is foreclosed. (To learn more about lien priority and its importance in HOA foreclosures, see What happens to my mortgages if the HOA forecloses on its lien?)
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"We are but a moment's sunlight, fading in the grass" ... Spring is here! That means green everywhere, fresh warm air, rebirth, and Brainshare!
For those unaware, Brainshare is Novell's big bad "woooo hawww" of a conference. It's where all that glitters is "red." This year is my 12 year in a row attending, 6th year presenting. I proverbially love Brainshare, mainly because I love Novell technology and GroupWise most of all. For those attending Brainshare stop by and see me - my sessions are:
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TUT116 -The Art of Business Continuance
Brad Rupp and I talk about the coolest of Novell's technologies, Business Continuity Clustering (BCC). Just think disaster recovery and multiple data centers and clusters. Lots of fun!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/50952 | Can We Learn To Forget Our Memories?
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Around 10 years ago, Malcolm MacLeod got interested in forgetting.
MacLeod and his co-researcher, Saima Noreen, were extremely doubtful. "Autobiographical memory is so vivid, so rich, that it's going to be incredibly difficult to keep from mind those sorts of events that you've personally experienced," MacLeod says.
Still, they were curious. They figured that learning to forget could potentially help people with depression or maybe even post-traumatic stress disorder. And so they decided to give forgetting a try and went about setting up some experiments.
Blocking Memories With Practice
MacLeod and Noreen weren't the first to experiment with intentional forgetting. There's a history of psychological research into forgetting, though it's much less developed than other areas of memory research. In 2001 a cognitive scientist named Michael Anderson published a study where he taught his research subjects pairs of unrelated words (apple, desk) and then, through a procedure he developed called the "think/no think" technique, taught them to forget the pairs that they'd previously known stone cold.
And so MacLeod and Noreen took this technique as a starting point and invited a series of people into their lab.
The experiments started with MacLeod and Noreen showing their subjects a series of different words — "barbecue," "theater," "occasion," "rapid," for example — and then telling them to generate one specific personal memory in response to each word.
There were 24 words in all, and after the subjects had described their memories, they were all sent home and told to come back a week later.
The following week, when they returned, they were given a transcript of each of the memories they'd shared, along with the specific word that had generated it. They reviewed the words and memories until they knew exactly which word went with which memory, and then were put in front of a computer and told that they would see each of those words flash on the computer screen in front of them.
If the word appeared in green, they were to repeat the memory associated with that word out loud, but if the word appeared in red, it was very important for them not to think about the memory associated with that word.
MacLeod and Noreen showed the subjects 16 of the 24 words over and over and over. Each time a subject either repeated the memory or blocked it. Some people apparently pictured a blank; others distracted themselves with other thoughts.
'A Significant Forgetting Effect'
At the end of this process, the subjects were tested to see if there was a change in what they recalled. And there was — in the memories that had been repeatedly blocked.
And because that part of our memory shifts, it's less secure and easier to forget. At least that's their theory. But they don't yet know how long this forgetting effect will last, if it might evaporate over time. They've done a year follow-up but haven't crunched the numbers on it yet and will publish after they know what the follow-up has found.
The biggest question, of course, is whether this work will ever have practical applications. Will we one day know so much about forgetting that we'll actually be able to train ourselves to forget? Noreen and MacCloud say it's way too early to tell. But they can both see ways that particular skill could be helpful. "I think everyone's probably tried to forget something," Noreen says.
Whether it has practical applications or not, both MacLeod and Noreen believe that our capacity to forget is as important, and certainly as interesting, as our ability to remember.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/50967 | Fight Like a Mantis
The author re-creates ancient Chinese martial arts by watching--and imitating--the ways that animals defend themselves
12-01-2005 // Craig D. Reid
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"Whenever you're ready, try and hit me."
What was I thinking? I had just challenged my college thesis advisor, renowned insect ecologist David Pimentel, to punch me. His face was blank. Suddenly, whoosh! A right cross. What happened next blew his mind.
My arms held up like two jackknives, I shuffled to the left, mimicking the way a mantis sidesteps a charging stinkbug. Then I parried Pimentel's punch with my forearms, jabbed my arms straight out, grabbed the back of his neck with my curled wrists and pulled him toward me. I wasn't trying to beat up my professor. I was trying to re-create ancient Chinese martial arts history.
When I was 16, my doctor told me I'd be dead in five years due to the debilitating effects of cystic fibrosis. A few weeks later I saw a Bruce Lee film that started me down the path of martial arts--a path that I believe saved my life. So when I was developing my undergraduate thesis project at Cornell University in the late 1970s, I decided to combine my passion for martial arts with my college major, entomology, a field I pursued in order to conquer my biggest fear in life: insects.
The notion of learning martial arts from animals dates back to 520 A.D. when a monk named Ta Mo arrived at the Shaolin Temple in Henan Province, China. Ta's close observations of wild animals eventually led to the creation of the Shaolin Five Animals style of kung fu: the fighting strategies of the dragon, tiger, leopard, snake and white crane. Although these movements have been revised and integrated into different styles, other animal-inspired fighting arts have arisen independently.
Around the year 1250, Sung Dynasty general Yue Fei wanted to teach his troops a better way to fight the invading Mongolians. Inspired by watching an eagle fight, Yue brandished his thumbs and fore and middle fingers like an eagle's talons and practiced flesh-tearing techniques. A 13th-century Shaolin monk invented taiji (tai chi) after witnessing a fight between a white crane and a snake. In the 1800s, an inmate in a Chinese prison observed the movements of nearby chattering monkeys and created monkey-style kung fu. Then, of course, there is the animal that captured my imagination: the praying mantis.
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According to some accounts, 17th-century Shaolin monk Wang Lung heard the sound of a praying mantis attacking a cricket one day while studying his Buddhist texts and turned to watch. Struck by how easily the mantis defeated its prey, Wang began prodding the mantis with a piece of straw. The insect jumped back and forth to escape harm and used its front legs to parry--then finally grasp and crush--the straw. After years of studying the insect, Wang developed 13 arm and hand movements inspired by the mantis. My research goal was to scientifically re-create Wang Lung's work.
The 1,800 species of mantids in the world have long been popular cultural and mythological figures. Europeans thought the insects were reverent to God because they seemed to be praying. In Arab cultures the mantis was thought to point toward Mecca. American folklore held that mantids blinded men and killed horses. Africans believed they brought good luck to anyone they landed on. In France, people swore the mantis could point a lost child home. Feeling a little lost myself, I, too, was hoping that the mantis could bring me luck. And I was praying for a decent grade.
In 1978, I raised 20 adult European mantids (Mantis religiosa Linnaeus), pale green insects two inches in length. Using a reel-to-reel videotape machine, I filmed them fighting each other and other predaceous insects. Then, like Wang, I watched them while provoking aggressive behavior with a straw.
After logging hundreds of hours of videotape and using slow-motion playback, I was able to identify ten stereotypical patterns of behavior employed by the mantids during attack, defense and provocation. Next, I set out to replicate their movements--for humans.
The idea in animal-style martial arts is to "become" the animal. Tiger stylists slash with clawed hands while roaring and contorting their faces. People who do monkey kung fu run around on all fours, rolling, flipping and mimicking the facial antics and screams of the monkey. So to "be" the praying mantis, I stood with a slight bend in my legs, back straight, and shaped my arms like its highly adapted raptorial forelegs, similar to a Tyrannosaurus rex.
Then I tried out my technique on the man who could pass or fail me. Pimentel threw punches. I effortlessly blocked and parried them away. My advisor even noticed that during the attacks my face appeared calm, and that, like a mantis, I slightly swayed side to side. Mantids incorporate this swaying behavior to mimic the motions of a leaf during a windy day or to mask the effect of their moving shadow as they stalk their opponents.
Each of the aforementioned martial artists had a reason for studying the various animal fighting behaviors: self-defense, improving health or an appreciation for nature. My reasons were different: to prove that it was possible to learn martial arts from an animal, to do a novel thesis project and to graduate from college. But had I really successfully re-created martial arts history using modern technology?
A few years later, while studying rice pests in Taiwan, I met a praying mantis kung fu master and shared my research findings with him. He sneered, saying, "Show me." By then, I had put the 10 movements into a flowing sequence. His jaw dropped. He claimed I had just crudely performed 10 of the 13 basic techniques created more than 300 years earlier by Wang Lung. He said, "You are the American Wang Lung." Not quite, I joked: Wang probably studied the larger, five-inch-long Chinese mantis Tenodera aridifolia sinensis. That might explain why I missed the other three movements.
Los Angeles writer Craig D. Reid has a doctorate in entomology and has studied martial arts for more than 30 years.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/50984 | Apple Watch
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I've written about iPads used at Unitec recently, and I have more iPad stories to tell. Inevitably, the Unitec story gave rise to pronouncements, in the comments, to proclamations that being platform-dependent on Apple was bad for various reasons. Firstly, I've met a lot of educators in my time, and I have a lot of faith in them. I think my article showed that Unitec's James Oldfield, with the backing of the institution, put a lot of work into developing a comprehensive program, and it's clear it's operating very successfully, no matter what your personal position is on the issue of platforms. Meanwhile the rest of Unitec is developing multi-platform bring your own device.
In the wider world, there has been lots of speculation about how Apple's tablet platform is going. In the last financial quarter, Apple's revenue topped some analysts' estimates by a whopping $2 billion. Very strong iPhone sales accounted for the bulk of Apple's quarterly profit - but iPad sales were much weaker than anticipated.
Apple's sales of 16.35 million iPads during that quarter represented around a 16% decline in sales from the same year-ago quarter (which was over 19 million).
Apple has sold over 210 million iPads since it virtually invented the tablet phenomenon - that's in four years.
Besides, if you look at the iPad sales data over six months instead of three, iPad sales actually went up - just a little, but still up.
Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed the issue of the 'low' quarter directly during the earnings conference call, saying that the difference between the two year-quarters was a difference in channel inventory and a backlog of iPad minis at the end of 2012, which led to a spike in iPad sales during the company's first quarter of 2013. In other words, an unseasonably strong Q1 2013 gets compared to a slightly disappointing Q1 2014.
So if you think this means iPad was just a fad after all, there were still more than 16 million units sold. iPads clearly aren't a fad - nor is the rest of the tablet market, even though it has, please note, cooled off a little across the board. Tablet shipments slowed down to 21 per cent, to 50.8 million units. They continue to out-ship notebooks: tablets captured 41 per cent of the market compared to notebooks at 38 per cent. The decline in notebook sales slowed to 7 per cent with growth in Western Europe, but flat sales in North America.
But where exactly it's all headed, tablet versus PC versus smartphone, is not really clear either. As PC replacements, tablets still aren't that convincing. Meanwhile, PCs and phones are both morphing into things that are more like tablets, as Time magazine points out, writing that the era of tablet 'hypergrowth' is over, at least for now. At one end, in the Apple world as an example, MacBooks are getting more like iPads (the new iPad Air is very slim and has dropped in price to almost iPad territory) and some phones, like the big Galaxy Note 3, have grown enough physically to blur the distinction between phones and tablets (and rumours persist that Apple's next iPhone will also be bigger). Some people think of these big smartphones as 'phablets'; to me, 'cow pats' springs to mind.
In a way, the tablet thing might 'save' the PC market. That looked like it was on the verge of collapse a year ago, but the decline has since slowed. Meanwhile, 64-bit tablets (ie, iPads) and other power advances blur the line between what a PC was a few years ago and what a tablet is now: the latest iPad Air and mini (again, to use Apple as the example) are almost as powerful as one of the stock 2007 iMacs, for example.
What will iPad become? There will be new things the iPad will enable that simply would not have been possible on Macs, just like desktop publishing was possible on the Macintosh, but not on the Apple II back in the mid 1980s. Ben Thompson at Stratechery thinks there are already hints of these in specific niches like art, music, and gaming. "Apple's ads point to some of these as well, featuring everything from photography to windmill maintenance to sumo wrestling."
The fact iPad is already significantly outselling the Mac puts it far ahead of the first Mac relative to the Apple II - but as in that instance, it was the profit of the Apple II that launched the Mac; Mac and iPhone profits enabled the development and launch of iPad. "In both cases you have the new machine, with a new interaction model, not selling as well as many think it ought to, and the same prescription for both: make it more like the old thing." But that's a facile prescription that goes nowhere, and it's not Apple's way (thank goodness).
Reports of the iPad decline are almost certainly premature, making the glee in some quarters quite improper. As a standalone business, and just based on the last 12 months of revenue, the iPad would be in the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500. That's iPad alone, not Apple Inc (according to
Of course, Wall Street always predicates on the best growth figures continuing upwards, then the sky's falling in when their ridiculous assumptions are proved just that. Then it's a pain in brokers' presumed potential profit. Does it make them look like idiots? Yes, but that never changes anything, does it?
As for the tablet platform you should desire - thanks to Apple introducing a decent tablet in the first place, proving the platform's viability, you get to choose from iPads or the devices of Apple's competitors. Buy what you will.
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Re: Partitial results
At 10:05 AM 4/17/00 +0200, Mikael Grehn wrote:
>If I wish to use the partitial result return in my LDAP server, for
>example I wish to return 10 entries to the client then wait 10 sec. and
>then send 10 more entries, how should I do this?
See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2696.txt
Don't abuse partialResults. partialResults is should only
be returned by an LDAPv2+ server to indicate the presence
of search references.
>I am currently sending
>10 entries, then I send ldap_result->LDAP_PARTITIAL_RESULTS and then
>wait a certain idle time before sending 10 more entries and so on BUT
>the LDAP_PARTITIAL_RESULTS code doesnt seem to work properly(I get error
>at client side),..or have I got it all wrong?
>The reason for using the LDAP_PARTITIAL_RESULTS return code is that I
>dont want to overload my search dll, so I return search results in
>intervals using the LDAP_PARTITIAL_RESULTS return code inbetween.
>What am I doing wrong?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51013 | Bob Greene Reveals the Ways You're Sabotaging Your Workouts
Starting to feel like your workouts aren't working? Here's what you might be doing wrong.
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Chilling out between weight sets is one of the most common mistakes Bob spots at his boot camps and the gym. To increase strength, you need to do your second and third sets of 8 to 10 reps with slightly fatigued muscles. If you have enough time to vent to your workout partner, then your muscles have enough time to recover. Instead of taking a break, Bob suggests, take a brief "pause" that lasts for just 15 to 30 seconds. "Any more than that and you'll lose the benefit you gained from the previous set," he says. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51058 | 4 Bad Habits Every Parent Needs to Break
Sometimes getting better behavior from your kids is as simple as cleaning up your own act.
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One recent Saturday morning, we were on the highway driving to my son's swimming championship when we hit a lane closure apparently caused by construction. A line of stopped cars stretched for as far as the eye could see. And Eric, 8, went ballistic."Why did you go this way?" he wailed from the backseat, widening his eyes and waving his hands. "We'll be late for warm-up. I need to warm up. If I don't warm up before my first event, I'm doomed. Doomed!"
I assured Eric that we'd left home early in case there was traffic, and I promised him that we'd arrive at the pool well before warm-up. But Eric didn't believe me, and he ranted and raved for the ten long minutes that we sat on the expressway. "He sounds just like you," my husband said, smiling slyly. "You should hear yourself sometimes."
Ouch! The truth hurts. I am an Olympic-caliber fit-pitcher when life hands me the slightest snafu. But is having what I've always considered a lovably short fuse actually detrimental to our children? "Behaviors like overreacting have a boomerang effect: What we throw out to our kids will come right back at us," says Parents advisor Michele Borba, Ed.D., an educational psychologist in Palm Springs, California.
Obviously, the key is to clean up your own act so you can set a good example for your kids. But knowing where to begin isn't always evident -- after all, a habit, by definition, is something you do without thinking about it. If you can break these bad boys, you're on your way to a new and improved family life.
1. You see life as a 24/7 crisis, so freaking out is the most logical response.
When your 7-year-old leaves his sneakers at basketball practice, you roll your eyes and sigh, "There you go again -- always forgetting things!" And when your puppy has another accident in the kitchen, you burst into tears.
HOW IT AFFECTS YOUR KIDS In some situations, going ballistic or having a meltdown is a normal reaction -- and you'd be spin-doctoring (see #2) if you didn't! But if you sweat all the small stuff -- things that you can't control and that don't matter in the big picture -- your child won't know how to react to life's ups, downs, and in-betweens, cautions Scott Haltzman, M.D., a psychiatrist and author of The Secrets of Happy Families: Eight Keys to Building a Lifetime of Connection and Contentment.
It's hard for him to figure out what's appropriate versus what's over the top when you constantly raise your voice and exaggerate by using phrases such as "you never" or "you always." So your child may say, "You're so unfair! You're the worst mom in the world!" because you don't let him eat ice cream before bedtime. The other big negative is that when something really is wrong, kids may block you out because it sounds like your everyday communication," warns Dr. Haltzman. If "The dam is breaking in Lehigh County, and we have to evacuate" comes out with the same intensity as "You didn't pick up your Legos," kids may not snap into immediate action when you really need it.
KICK THE HABIT When something goes wrong, mentally assign it a number on a scale of one to ten, with one being an incident that has no bearing on the quality of your life (your 6-year-old misplaced his sweatshirt) and ten as an emergency (your toddler's finger was slammed in the car door ). Now, vow not to go Drama Mama for any mishap that's less than an eight. "At first you may feel like everything is a 20, but over time you'll begin to see that there are differences between these events," Dr. Haltzman says.
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2. You're a spin doctor, and life's all unicorns and rainbows.
Your fender bender will set you back $500 in repairs, and your best friend is moving to California. No wonder you feel like throwing a pity party. But when your 5-year-old asks what's wrong, you smile and say, "Nothing, honey! Everything's fine!"
HOW IT AFFECTS YOUR KIDS It's one thing to be positive, but it's a mistake to conceal your true emotions. Your child needs to learn that it's okay to feel sad, angry, or frustrated. And the truth is that no matter how much you think you're hiding, children come equipped with highly sensitive radar. "Kids pick up what's left unsaid," explains Charlotte Reznick, Ph.D., a psychologist and author of The Power of Your Child's Imagination: How to Transform Stress and Anxiety Into Joy and Success. "If you don't share your emotions appropriately, you'll teach your kids to lie about their feelings," says Dr. Reznick. "Plus, your child could think that she's the reason you're upset and end up feeling bad about herself."
KICK THE HABIT It all starts with you being a little cranky -- or sad, or frustrated, or confused, or scared -- and letting that emotion show. "Children need a role modelfor talking about their feelings," says Dr. Haltzman. Put a label on your emotion, explain the reason for it in a way she'll understand, and relate it to something she's experienced. You might say, "I'm getting a new boss, and I don't know how we'll get along. Remember how you were nervous about meeting your new teacher? Well, that's how I feel now." Or, "I'm feeling sad about Grandma being sick. It's okay to be sad -- even mommies get sad sometimes. But I know the doctors are taking good care of her."
Give more details to 7- and 8-year-olds than to younger kids because they can understand more and separate other people's problems from their own, says Dr. Reznick. Let kids ask questions, so you can allay their concerns and they can hear the truth about what's happening, rather than fantasize about the worst.
3. You're always posing requests as questions.
You want your 4-year-old to tidy up, so you ask, "Can you put your toys away?" and follow with, "Now, okay?"
HOW IT AFFECTS YOUR KIDS When you give a direction as a question or tack "okay?" onto the end, your child hears a request -- and assumes that he has the option of not doing it. "You relinquish your authority and drag out the process of getting your child to do what you need him to do," says Fran Walfish, Psy.D., child psychotherapist and author of The Self-Aware Parent: Resolving Conflict and Building a Better Bond With Your Child. When your child ignores your "request," you'll repeat yourself and lose your patience. Then no one's happy.
KICK THE HABIT Clarity is key when you expect immediate follow-through. And it starts with putting a period at the end of your sentence: "Get dressed for the park, please." Or, "Turn off the TV, now." That's it. "If your child doesn't immediately listen, say the following one time only: 'Show Mommy how you can turn off the TV, or Mommy will help you,'" advises Dr. Walfish. "Wait for a silent count of two, then take the remote." Of course, giving clear directions still requires practice and persistence. But being clear will regain control and stop you from losing your temper; meanwhile, your child learns who's boss and how to follow directions.
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4. You're a critic, not a coach.
You scrutinize your child's every mistake. When her report card is filled with A's and B's, you point to the C she got in spelling and say, "What happened?" When she makes her bed but leaves some sheets dangling over the mattress, you say, "Why can't you make the bed properly?"
HOW IT AFFECTS YOUR KIDS If your critiques outweigh your kudos, your child may either ignore you or get defensive, and in either case will miss out on anything constructive you have to say. Worse, nitpicking also can erode her self-confidence -- to the point where she could stop trying to achieve because she's afraid she'll fail and disappoint you. Or maybe she'll become a perfectionist, thinking that anything less will cost her your love. "If you constantly give negative feedback or fixate on your child's weaknesses instead of her strengths, she may believe that she can't succeed," says Cathy Cassani Adams, a child and family psychotherapist and the author of The Self-Aware Parent: 19 Lessons for Growing With Your Children.
KICK THE HABIT You should always give your kid more praise than put-downs. That doesn't mean you need to avoid mentioning mistakes -- just that, first, you should acknowledge your child's achievement: "Wow, look at all the A's and B's. That's great!" Then, gently offer assistance in the area where she fell short: "Spelling's a tough subject. I'd like to help you study for your next test."
In general, resist the urge to point out every error, and instead try to mention the good things she does on a daily basis, Adams advises. You might say, "Thanks for bringing your dishes over. That helps me clean up after dinner" instead of "Why did you leave the ketchup on the table?" Another benefit of upping the kudos: Your child will be more willing to take a critique seriously because she knows that you see what she does right.
Originally published in the September 2012 issue of Parents magazine.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51065 | Mosquerading as the Truth: The (near) Ground Zero "Mosque" and Political Rhetoric
A few days ago I (and the rest of her Twitter followers) was asked by Sarah Palin via a Twitter post to view the following video:
In the last two weeks I’ve read many insightful articles and arguments about this Mosque Community Center at near Ground Zero. And my purpose here is not to rehash those arguments. For those interested, let me suggest this article by Steve Chapman called Republicans for Religious Freedom and the recent New York Times article on Feisal Abdul, the Imam who is founding the center. Both articles clearly have an agenda (as all writing does), but they are primarily informative, discussing the legal context of the Mosque and the personal history of its Imam respectively. Instead, I’d like to primarily focus on the way this ad presents its argument against the Mosque and why it is important to carefully interpret political messages like this one.
Many Christians have been very vocal about their opposition to the Mosque and ads like this one have contributed to the opposition by using the voices of family members who lost loved ones in the September 11th attack. These ads and others like them are certainly moving. Who can watch this ad and not feel sympathy for these victims? But as Christians we have an obligation to be charitable and loving to our neighbors and our enemies, those we agree with politically and those we disagree with. One way we can act charitably is by supporting political and religious messages which are reasonable, honest, and loving.
While this video has a lot that we could discuss–for example, what is the rhetorical purpose of the stories that are told? How are these stories evidence that the Mosque should not be built?–what I’d like to focus on is the final few seconds of the video. If you haven’t done so already, please watch or re-watch the video and pay careful attention to the last line.
Sometimes in order to accurately understand an argument it is helpful to reword the argument in as few words as possible. What this can do is strip away the emotional or rhetorical language that might be hiding a less appealing argument. Let’s try to do that with the last line. This is how the ad ends: “We understand they can build where they want to build. All we ask is that they use some good sense and think about what they are doing.”
In the first sentence, he acknowledges that these Muslims have the legal rights to build “where they want to build.” In the second sentence, he implies that if they use “good sense” they will realize that what they are doing is wrong. But what is this “good sense”? That is the key to this ad’s argument.
We can translate his statement something like this: “You are being disrespectful to the memories of our dead loved ones by not agreeing with us that you are our enemies, by acting as if you were not responsible for their deaths. Although it is your right to worship there, it is immoral for you to not acknowledge our belief that we are at war against Islam, and therefore you. If you used good sense, you’d realize that you are our enemies.”
Or, put another way: “Good sense” = “acknowledging the Us vs Them [America vs Islam] dichotomy.”
Patriotism, our Faith, and our emotions can often allow us to ignore the ugly side to arguments like this one. I would hope that after thinking through the final statement of this ad, most of us would acknowledge that it is repugnant to demand that another group of people view themselves as our enemies simply because we say so; it is certainly not loving.
As believers, we need to be very careful about the political causes we support. American Christians often tend to be more vocal about their political views than their Faith, and that means that the world will pay particular attention to the way we witness or fail to witness to Christ’s Grace through our political actions. We have then an imperative to be discerning about the messages we support. Although I used an example from the recent Ground Zero Mosque debate, and I hope that it will encourage fellow believers to rethink their opposition to this planned Community Center, this level of discernment is important for all political issues. Christ promised us that we would be persecuted in this life, but we should seek to live in such a way that our persecution comes from acts of love and mercy which testify to Christ’s sacrifice of love, not from our support of political movements, agendas, and messages which are deceptive and unloving. So let me encourage you to thoughtful discern not just your opponent’s political message, but also your own.
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• http://www.alienman.blogspot.com Brad Williams
Have you considered the argument that Islam is as much a political movement as it is religious? What’s the difference between this religion and militia movements that claim their religious beliefs lead them to blow up buildings?
This is not a far fetched argument. If a Christian church cannot endorse a candidate without losing its tax exempt status, or at least having it endangered, can we not limit what a religion can do who openly endorses jihadism as a way of enforcing their religious and political ideas? Can you show us an example of a Islamic State that guarantees freedom of religion on paper AND in practice? This is not a matter of simple religious freedom. This is a matter of an oppressive regime coming cloaked in religious disguise. If you don’t believe that, I’d be happy for you to point out an Islamic State that does other wise, not just the old, “But there are peaceful Muslims out there!” dodge. If they are out there…why haven’t they stood up for the right to freedom in their own countries?
• http://www.pofgblog.com Joseph
This might be a strange comment because I’m going to agree with you by disagreeing with you…
I share your belief that there’s not any real solid reason to oppose a mosque near ground zero. They own or lease the property, the building will mee New York building code, and the fact is that I live in South Carolina, and it literally won’t affect me in any way however it turns out.
But I don’t think your characterization of the arguments made in this video, and by others, is accurate. I happen to agree with the statement at the end of the video about “good sense”. Here is, I believe, a similar example…
Nazi Germany was nominally Christian. Now, any rational person would agree that Hitler’s regime did not represent Christianity as a whole, and also that it did some horrific things to people. But the fact remains that the extermination of Jews, blacks, homosexuals, etc., was done (again, nominally) in the name of Christ.
Out of respect for the victims (and, if you will, “good sense”) many Christian denominations have refrained from building churches at or even near the sites of Nazi concentration camps.
Then you have the attacks on 9/11, which were perpetrated by people who were at least nominally Muslim. I don’t think many in the west understand Islam or the Qur’an well enough to make an intelligent judgment on whether or not Islam is a peaceful religion or a violent one. I certainly don’t. What I can say for sure is that the radical-terrorist-Jihad element is a very small percentage of Islam worldwide, and that most Muslims look at them as heretics, trouble-makers, followers of a false Islam. Much the same way that the vast majority of Christians out there look at Nazi Germany as something entirely false.
Yet, after a dastardly and horrific attack done in the name of Islam (even though the 9/11 terrorists represent a skewed version of Islam), this particular imam wants to build a mosque almost on top of the site where it happened.
So, if the question is, “Should they be prevented from building the mosque?”, I think the answer is “no”. But if the question is, “Is it in poor taste to build a mosque so close to ground zero?”, or “Is the building of this mosque going to create more dissension instead of facilitating healing?”, I think the answer is “yes”.
• http://spoonfulofhahne.com Seth T. Hahne
@Brad Williams – “Why haven’t they stood up for the right to freedom in their own countries?”
You mean countries like America?
That is a dangerous precedent to endorse. If we do not encourage victims of irrational aggression to recognize true culprits and indulge their desire to vent against innocents, we endorse by our passivity a cycle of hatred and animosity. We, by our indulgence, tell the world that it’s okay to hate people who have nothing to do with your pain so long as it makes you feel better. We tell them it’s okay to lead lives built around a fortress of mental slander.
You suggest that this is good sense. I would suggest that it is the opposite. That it is in fact uncharitable, deleterious, and built on a foundation of sentimentalism and passion rather than on reason and wisdom.
• http://www.alienman.blogspot.com Brad Williams
Did you misunderstand everything I wrote or just the one sentence? Do you have a substantive critique to offer?
• http://www.alienman.blogspot.com Brad Williams
And your comment to Joseph is either woefully ignorant or just simply silly. I’ll lob you a softball here. You claim that New Yorkers and others are “venting against innocents” and hiding behind fortresses of mental slander, and that they are being uncharitable. So here’s the softball pitch:
Name a single Islamic state that enjoys freedom of religion as I challenged above. Here’s pitch number two: Name a single country where Islam has begun to or has gained numerical advantage where they have not sought to impose Sharia law. Softball pitch three: Tell me how you separate that type of activity from a purposeful politcal change.
And finally, how, exactly, did Islam come to dominate N. Africa and the Middle East?
Are we being slanderous by being suspicious? Or are you buying the Trojan horse?
• http://spoonfulofhahne.com Seth T. Hahne
Brad, I don’t think I misunderstood anything you wrote. You seem to have a fine grasp on the language and so everything seemed pretty straightforward. That said, I did not find much in your comment spoke to the subject Alan presents. Most of it appears to fall pretty squarely in the realm of non sequitur.
Statements like “What’s the difference between this religion and militia movements that claim their religious beliefs lead them to blow up buildings? ” do not relate simply because, well, they do not relate. The people behind the Islamic community center do not support the blowing up of buildings and don’t seem to draw any reasonable comparison to militia movements (or to fundamentalist terrorism for that matter).
The Islam as politics bit (upon which much of your comment seems predicated) doesn’t bear much relevance either. All belief is political, whether overtly or otherwise. Any belief that works itself out in the real world is political. By its expression. Any belief that does not work itself out in the real world is political. By its silence. That Islam or Christianity or Secular Humanism are be political should neither surprise us nor give us any undue concern.
Your request for Islamic states that hold with rigour to any particular set of beliefs is as valuable as requesting Christian states that did not use war to make policy stick. Again, this bears no relevance to the discussion. The fact is: America is not a religious state, so we should not expect Christians, Muslims, et cetera working within its strictures to behave in ways that resemble any other kind of representation of their belief system.
When I responded to your question, “Why haven’t they stood up for the right to freedom in their own countries?” with You mean countries like America?, I was underlining the fact that the only Muslims this question concerns are standing up for freedom in their own country. These Muslims are Americans upholding American principles of liberty. It is their opposition that seems to stand against that which makes America worthwhile.
The fact is, Alan’s point still stands: believers ought to be very careful what causes then lend their very vocal support to, for by engaging too heavily (and often without circumspection) in the struggles of the earthly realm, they may forfeit their power to draw hearts and minds to the beauty of the heavenly realm. And that would just be a shame.
• http://www.pofgblog.com Joseph
@ Seth
Yeah, I understand that that particular statement comes pretty close to political correctness (which I generally abhor).
The point still stands, I believe, because it’s not an issue of indulging people who just want to vent against innocents. Rather, it’s an issue of sensitivity, of being concerned for our fellow person, of “looking not only to our own interests, but also to the interests of others”, to quote Philippians 2:4.
Now, I realize that this cuts both ways. The survivors and families of the victims need to try to show a little understanding and realize that these particular Muslims are not the ones who hijacked four airplanes almost a decade ago. But the people who want to build this mosque also need to show a little sensitivity to the situation.
Logically (as I said in my original comment) I have no opposition whatsoever to this mosque being built. But the problem is that human beings are a mixture of the logical and the emotional, and the logical rarely wins.
• http://www.alienman.blogspot.com Brad Williams
I think you are being naive. I understand that you believe that the Muslims here are not those wacky fundamentalist type that blow up stuff. My problem is that, historically and presently, there is not a single Islamic state on earth that has guaranteed religious freedom and hasn’t mercilessly persecuted and/or restricted Christian liberties specifically. They have done this every single time they have gained the majority. I daresay that you cannot find an example where this isn’t true. Why should I believe you or them that this time will be different? How many times does Lucy have to move the ball before Charlie Brown stops trying to kick it?
You said: That Islam or Christianity or Secular Humanism are be political should neither surprise us nor give us any undue concern. Really? You think Christian politics look the same as Islamic ones? Do you read the newspaper, brother?
• http://spoonfulofhahne.com Seth T. Hahne
@Joseph – I’m sympathetic to what you’re saying, the idea that we would want to give some lenience to those who imagine themselves hurt by those wishing to create an Islamic worship center. It rings similar to Paul’s recommendation that we indulge those of weak faith and understanding that we might draw them into better understanding and stronger faith.
I do think there is a difference, however. Those who abstained from meats and only ate vegetables were not inculcating hatred by their convictions. Their convictions, while perpetrating a small harm against themselves, were not harming others. That doesn’t appear to be the case here.
I believe that we should be treating the families of victims (even the Muslim ones) of the WTC attack with compassion and charity. I do think, however, that while we support them in their grief, we should not support the harmful mistakes their grief might foment. I would also suggest that the average American of Middle Eastern descent (whether Muslim or Christian or Atheist) is much more victim of the attack than all of the mosque-protesters save for those who experienced a firsthand loss of family or friend. They are in as great a need of our compassion and charity as those who imagine an Islamic worship center six blocks from the site of the former towers somehow degrades the memories of their loved ones.
• http://spoonfulofhahne.com Seth T. Hahne
@Brad – I think if you’ll review your statements you’ll find that you have not forwarded an argument against the building of a mosque at a particular location in New York City. Instead, you have championed an argument against the building of any mosques in any place that is not already a Muslim state. Hopefully you’ll agree that such a presentation is far beyond the bounds of the discussion here and understand why I don’t feel any need to respond to your specific requests.
I will however answer this triad of questions just because: “Really? You think Christian politics look the same as Islamic ones? Do you read the newspaper, brother?”
No. I don’t. In fact, I don’t think there are Christian politics and Islamic politics. If there were, then you and I would be in agreement in political matters—presuming that you, like me, are a Christian. The reason this disconnect exists is that while matters of faith contribute to political ideology, they do not usually entirely govern it. And even if one’s political ideology is entirely governed by one’s religious system, these systems are as individual as the people who hold to them. My faith (Christian) looks very different from your faith (Christian) because we see things differently, interpret passages differently, and have different interests, personalities, backgrounds, and goals.
But yes, as a group, Christianity has sometimes looked not so different from how Islam has, as a group, sometimes looked.
There’s one more thing I’d like to talk about. America.
What you propose (the stifling of mosque-building) is not so outlandish if one is living in a nation that does not share the values that America is meant to hold out. If we were living in a state that was not a democratic republic where freedom of belief and liberty of speech were hallmark, what you propose would possibly be perfectly acceptable.
What you are suggesting, however, is that we stop America from being America and rebuild it in your image before some hypothetical Islamic horde can stop America from being America first. What you seek to salvage is not America but is instead some vaguely republic-like nation that allows some moderated form of liberty. For the time being. Till, I imagine, whoever holds power decides to chip one more piece of our liberty away from us. And cetera.
And that’s fine if that’s what you’re into. Democratic republics certainly aren’t for everybody. They’ve got a lot of natural flaws. One of those is that so long as its government is dictated by the masses, it has the option of being overwhelmed by the masses—leading to the possibility that you forward (that of Islamic takeover). So yeah, I can see if America isn’t your thing. It’s not always mine either.
But I don’t like the liberty of speech and belief part. That’s really among my favourites.
• http://pos51.org/ Charles Jones
This is a pretty uncharitable rendering of the arguments in the piece. This doesn’t sound so much the thoughtful critique, as it sounds like an assault on a misrepresentation of an opponent.
This piece doesn’t say Islam is our enemy. It doesn’t say or imply that they should “act responsible” for 9/11. It doesn’t say anything is immoral or that they believe we’re at war with Islam. It just isn’t there. Sure, there’s a lot behind it, but you don’t know what it is, and you’re failing your own test of charity by the assumptions you’ve made.
Joseph is partly right. There are certainly no legal reasons to block the mosque, but the “good sense” argument stands, as well as one based on compassion for the families of the victims. In the scenario of Christians in Germany, the survivors and relatives of victims never had to complain, because the Christians realized that building a church there, even to “promote dialogue”, would show a lack of empathy and compassion.
There is nothing stopping the group from building the mosque (except, perhaps, a shortage of local construction workers willing to take part), and they can if they want to. But that doesn’t mean the people opposed just have to accept it. They can fight it now, and fight it later, if need be, but they shouldn’t have to.
I think Joseph’s two questions are spot on (“Is it in poor taste to build a mosque so close to ground zero?”; “Is the building of this mosque going to create more dissension instead of facilitating healing?), and I’d like to add another: Why should we, as Christians, support the outreach of another religion? This is not a suggestion that we should oppose it, only a suggestion that we should not support it.
I agree that we should be careful about the causes we support, and the messages that are being used (that was the point of my Prop 8 post), but there’s a serious difference between trying to kindly influence a group of people away from an action that you believe would harm others (this video), and trying to legally bar a group of people from an action you disagree with.
• Alan Noble
I apologize. In the interest of space and time I was a bit sloppy with my analysis. Let me qualify my point a bit and offer some, hopefully, clarifying evidence from the video. If we still don’t see eye-to-eye on this we’ll just have to agree to disagree. Due to repetitive stress injuries in my hands, I can’t afford to type much. So I hope to make this my only response. (Just a note, the following response assumes that you believe that not all Muslims are radical, violent Muslims, bent on killing Americans.)
First, let me point out two other quotes from the video:
“I can’t let the actions of the passengers and crew of flight 93 go in vain as long as they need us to speak for them and to continue the fight that they began I’ll be here to do it.”
“We promised never forget. Is that just meaningless words on a bumpersticker faded in the sun?”
In what sense would this Mosque mean that the passengers and crew of flight 93 went in vain? Who or what is this lady “fight[ing]” for them? What is it that we have forgotten?
It seems to me that the only reasonable way to understand these statements is if you assume that building Mosque near Ground Zero is an act of aggression by an enemy. Yes, the video does not use the word enemy, but that was my point in the post, that often the ugly arguments of politics are hidden behind more appealing language. But if those on flight 93 were fighting radical Muslims, and this lady plans on continuing that same fight by opposing the Mosque, what other conclusion can we draw but that she views these Muslims as her enemies and the Mosque as an aggressive act?
The same goes for the second quote. What is it that we have forgotten? It seems to me that the only answer that fits with the argument of the video is that we have forgotten that Islam was responsible for 9/11. And so this man is asking us to not forget who was to blame. And he therefore is implying that by allowing them to build a Mosque near Ground Zero, we are forgetting that they, followers of Islam, are the ones who were responsible.
Finally, let me qualify that I was a bit general, and therefore perhaps uncharitable, with my translation of “good sense.” It also could be translated something like this:
“Good sense”= “acknowledging the fact that you (founders of the Mosque) resemble my enemies enough that it is justified for me to be offended by your Mosque near Ground Zero. Even though I know you are not responsible, since you resemble (in belief, action, or appearance) those who were responsible, and since I profoundly suffered from 9/11, I am justified in asking you to respect my association with you and those who were responsible.”
Let me just reemphasize that my heart does go out to those who suffered through this tragedy. But I agree with Dane, I’m not convinced it is empathy and compassion to allow one group of people to wrongly associate another group of people with those who committed some past wrong. And if these victims don’t associate all Muslims with the terrorists, then why do they care if they build near Ground Zero? Part of healing means confronting wrong beliefs about those responsible for your pain. And I think that by supporting these victims we could be encouraging, validating, justifying their unjust associations.
To your final point, about supporting the outreach of another religion, I support it on legal grounds, and I am opposed to most of arguments against it because I do not think they are loving, but I certainly wish that they would come to know the Lord and that there would be no need to build a mosque in the first place.
I had hoped to make this short. Too late! Charles, I’m open to hearing another side to this issue, and I admit that part of my frustration about this issue is that I’ve heard almost no one speak reasonably or lovingly in opposition to the Mosque, from protestors to Republican leaders, but you and Joseph have both given reasonable and loving arguments for the opposition. I still disagree with you, but I am grateful to hear your perspective.
• http://electexiles.wordpress.com/ Drew Dixon
@Alan – I essentially agree with the overall premise of your article–we as Christians should not be in the business of assuming that all muslims are our enemies. My biggest concern should always be the living out and the preaching of the gospel–which involves charity to all people regardless of what some of those who represent them have done.
I think Charles and Joseph bring up good points and it is well within the bounds of this discussion to say, “the building of this Mosque” is insensitive and perhaps even unwise because I there is reason to believe that it will not promote peace as is claimed.
@Dane–whether you think Brad’s comments relevant to this discussion or not, the implications of what he is saying need to be considered.
What I mean is that freedom of religion and freedom of speech which are enjoyed in our country do not mean that people are completely free in their religion or in their speech. There are certain things you cannot say in America without being thrown in jail–such as “bomb” while on a plane ;). There are certain things that Muslims are doing even now in European countries that are illegal to do here. This is happening in Europe as we speak and some Muslim communities in Europe are being allowed to practice Sharia law–which I believe to be immoral based on the current laws of our land. For instance, I would never condone a family beating up their daughter for trying to date a non-muslim–such cases have been dismissed in Europe on grounds of Sharia law and are even promoted in many Islamic states.
I would simply say that what Brad brings up is a valid concern.
Are we treating Islam as if it is Christianity. I just don’t think we are comparing apples to apples with regard to separation of church and state and the religion of Islam which I do not believe separates the two. New Testament Christianity promotes religious liberty. And there is historical evidence for this. Where is the historical evidence that Islam promotes religious liberty? Islam by its very religious documents promotes a union of Church and state whereas Biblical Christianity opposes a melding of the two. Sure our politics are influenced by our Christianity and I think you could make the argument that that has a lot to do with why there is freedom of religion in America. I am all for freedom of religion but not when it means women being abused in the name of it or if it. Nor if it keeps me from being able to evangelize.
Take Turkey for instance—one of the supposed more liberal Islamic states—what would happen if I went there and started passing out tracts? What would happen in some Islamic neighborhoods in France? You might protest that that isn’t the wisest course of action and that we ought to be winning those people to Christ in less confrontational ways. When that is possible, perhaps that is true, but there are entire communities in Europe where Muslims are unlikely to ever interact with a non-Muslim—does Christ call us to take the gospel to those people?
I am not trying to be a fear monger but I think Brad brings up a valid point. As Islam grows in America, leaders in our country may be forced to restrict it because it promotes a melding of church and state. What I am most concerned about is my freedom to preach the gospel which is being compromised as we speak in Islamic states and Islamic communities—that is worth thinking about—even if it does not specifically pertain to Alan’s article.
I AM NOT opposed to the building of this mosque nor do I think that we ought to be making a big deal about this—I tend to agree with Joseph that the building of this mosque is in poor taste but I do not plan to blog against the building of the mosque or campaign against it. I believe the Christian’s goal and mission should always be the preaching of the gospel.
• Tobias
@Alan: You might of overshot a smidge when you tried to “reword the argument in as few words as possible.” ;-D But you’re an English major, so I won’t fault you for it!
• http://spoonfulofhahne.com Seth T. Hahne
@Drew: You’re right that Brad’s comments lead to interesting implications. I passed on them because they bear no relevance to the questions of a) whether a particular building for Muslim use and practice should be built in a particular location, and b) of what consists a reasonable reponse by Americans. So Brad’s concern may be valid but it has nothing to do with what is oddly enough being called the Ground Zero Mosque (a total propaganda name for the worship/community center and therefore toxic to discussion). But let’s entertain the idea a bit as just a completely unrelated side-conversation.
And let’s start off with Sharia Law.
Pretending for a minute that Sharia Law is some monolithic thing and that it doesn’t have as many iterations and interpretations as the Protestant West has of Christianity, such a legal system would never be passed in America. And it’s just not realistic to imagine this would be the case. It would require the forging of some sort of Muslim reservations of the kind that Native Americans currently hold. And even tribal law, though free-ranging in a number of directions, is still beholden to Federal Law unless otherwise abrogated. This will not happen because the reservations were created with special dispensation as a kind of off-handed LOL Sorry We Stole Your Land and Used Chem Warfear on U KBai!!1!!! So then, any implementation of Sharia Law would have to be on a law-by-law basis at the local community level. And would have to not violate the church/state clause. Laws would be subject to constitutional scrutiny even as laws are today.
And of course, we need to consider that there is no Sharia Law that we can look to as the Platonic form of Sharia Law. Every sect of Islam, every culture and sub-culture, every scholar, et cetera has their own interpretations of what law should consist. Some interpretations are far more compatible with American law than others. Those would be the laws, if any, that could gain traction here.
Moving on in my whirlwind tour of points you bring up: the difference between Christian practice and Muslim practice so far as church/state issues etc. Christians, historically, have used political means to require obeisance to Christian life. Christians, historically, have also lived at peace with those who believe oppositionally to Christian doctrine. Muslims, historically, have used political means to require obeisance to Muslim life. Muslims, historically, have also lived at peace with those who believe oppositionally to Muslim doctrine.
There have been times, some medieval, some far more recent, when Christians and Muslims have lived at peace with each other. Muslims in a Christian majority and Christians in a Muslim majority. There have also been times when one group has persecuted the other. Both groups have, at times, shown a remarkable (and dangerous to democratic notions) desire to affect their doctrinal assertations upon the political realm.
You say, “Biblical Christianity opposes a melding of church and state,” which I think is a fine thing to say, but that is your interpretation and a great number of Christians have historically disagreed with you. I’ve known Muslims who don’t feel the need to impose their faith on the state either. So, what now?
Your take Turkey for instance example doesn’t add to the conversation because it’s irrelevant. Going with your story though, suppose I went to Turkey or through an Islamic neighbourhood in France and was passing out tracts. I might get glared at. I might get yelled at. I might get beat up. Or maybe I might pass out tracts (which might be punishment enough!). The thing is, that could happen at the RNC if I were passing out Obama Hope stickers. And in neither case would that be a refelction on the legal situation of the state but simply upon how deeply I’m threatening the insecurities of the locals.
As much as you fear Islam, I don’t think you need fear America becoming an Islamic state. And the Islamic state you fear is not going to be flag-planted by a liberal Muslim chosen by the Bush administration to soften Muslim-Western relations. If you fear the curtailing of American liberties, then you should be not just not opposed to but actually supportive of this quote-unquote Ground Zero Mosque, because silencing Islam here is one more step toward silencing Christianity later.
Especially when secularists begin to note the chilling similarities between Muslim and Christian political agendas, because let’s be frank: the Christian Right wants to take over America every bit as much as we imagine Islam does.
Also, if you want, I can take the time to deal with Brad’s soft balls—I just didn’t think it was particularly worth that time.
• http://electexiles.wordpress.com/ Drew Dixon
I don’t fear Islam brother nor do I fear becoming an Islamic state, but thanks for making those assumptions.
And again–I don’t oppose the building of the mosque or whatever it is. Did you read my comment carefully you seem to have missed some pretty obvious statements.
My main point was that I don’t believe Christianity and Islam to have the same policy with regard to separation of church and state–that was it. I don’t know of a time, place, or example of when Islamic countries or communities celebrated separation of church and state–I simply thought it was worth noting.
Also–you detest gospel tracts? What is so awful about gospel tracts. I admit that they are not always the best way to start a conversation or to reach someone but I would never condemn anyone for passing them out.
• http://electexiles.wordpress.com/ Drew Dixon
I apologize for the bite to that last comment, but I do you made some assumptions about me that could not be taken from my comment.
I would simply say this–yes passing out tracts might threaten the insecurities of the locals but it should be legal in any state that celebrates separation of church and state and free speech.
• http://spoonfulofhahne.com Seth T. Hahne
I was using fear as being near-synonymous with concern, as in: “I fear you mistook my usage of the word fear, my good chap!” I wasn’t saying that you are actually afraid (as in terrified or scared) of Islam, just that I read you as being concerned that an Islamic state could come about in America (which builds out of your consideration that Brad’s fears/concerns/etc were valid and bore consideration.
I recognized that you were not opposed to the mosque per se. That’s why I said this: “If you [are concerned about]* the curtailing of American liberties, then you should be not just not opposed [since this is the position you stated] to but actually supportive of this mosque.”
As to your main point, you say: “I don’t know of a time, place, or example of when Islamic countries or communities celebrated separation of church and state.” I think celebrate might be a strong term and I think it a bit unfair to demand a relatively modern political philosophy (church and state) of nations that didn’t have any real contact with the idea until this century (and we haven’t exactly made our political philosophy palatable to non-western entities). Still, I can think of examples in which religious liberty was allowed in several cases of regions of Muslim majority. Ignoring the middle ages, even going back to pre-Israel Palestine in the 20th century, we find Christianity flourishing unmolested among a largely Islamic region. As for Christians celebrating the church and state divide, that’s something that still won’t get a lot of Facebook fans.
This is part of the problem I have with generalizing about a belief system. Especially one that, like Christianity, has wide variety in practice and belief.
As for tracts: no, I find nothing objectionable in their existence or tactful use. They are just not something I personally enjoy using and I find passing them out to be a special kind of torture simply because they aren’t really my thing.
As for the bite: no worries. While I didn’t think I merited being bitten (and think the offense you took was born out of misunderstanding my use of “fear”), I certainly don’t mind a bit of passion in responses since I’m often more than happy to write with bite on my own.
• http://spoonfulofhahne.com Seth T. Hahne
Oh, and I don’t know anything about the legality of tracts in France or Turkey, but I imagine they’re probably legal? No? Yes? In any case, it’s tough to use communities with unrelated political structures to make arguments of analogy.
• http://electexiles.wordpress.com/ Drew Dixon
@Seth – That was a fair and charitable response. You are certainly an examiner of words–I am no match for you in that regard ;)
• http://pos51.org Charles
I think the first quote, about those on flight 93, may assume that the building of the mosque is “an act of aggression by an enemy,” but it might also assume that it is simply an act of insensitivity by someone who is closely associated with the wrong side of a personal trauma.
The second quote could indeed be aligning the mosque group directly with the radicals, but we could also view it as a reminder that the attack was committed in the name of Islam. Understanding that, it’s not unreasonable to wonder if, as there was dancing in the streets in some areas of the Middle East as the towers fell, there might be malicious celebration in some not insignificant corners of the Muslim world if the mosque is built.
We also have to remember that this controversy didn’t spring full grown from the head of Zeus. The group proposed it as a way to move toward reconciliation, but the people they want to reconcile with balked immediately. As the building group persisted, a conflict became controversy. One has to wonder why they persist, when the simple act of moving forward is already undermining their stated goal.
It may not be compassionate to allow someone to maintain faulty assumptions, especially blaming people for a tragedy when they aren’t responsible. But in counseling people through situations where they were severely harmed by another person or group, even their faulty generalizations have to be addressed tenderly and slowly.
Each day that the building group pushes forward, it becomes harder to believe that they actually care about the people who were touched by tragedy on 9/11. It seems that they, and their American supporters, care only about Muslim religious freedom—which demonstrates that they are completely missing the point. It also makes me wonder if their stated goals align with their actual goals.
I recognize that the point of this article was that we should carefully examine the political messages that we support, which I agree with. But we should not question our own position simply because someone else uses a potentially distasteful message to support it. In the end I want to echo that this group is free to build what they want, where they want (unless it’s a liquor store within 300 feet of a school in Texas), but I don’t think they should build a mosque at, near, or around Ground Zero. The national and cultural wound is too fresh, and the symbolism is too potent.
• http://spoonfulofhahne.com Seth T. Hahne
Just a helpful hint from someone who never learns his lesson. Never compose long-ish comments in your browser. Always use textpad or some equivalent. That way you don’t lose comments when the browser decides to navigate away to some other page.
Poor Charles. He would have read my post, seen the error of his ways, and wept grateful tears of joy at his new-found sense of enlightenment. He probably even would have had a visible halo. But alas, technology swallowed my comment whole and now leaves Charles knee-deep in being wrong. I won’t explain why. I already did once before, but sadly that is all gone now.
Mourn with me Charles and let us find consolation in the fact that you were at least right about Lev Grossman writing a sequel.
• http://pos51.org Charles
I’m crying now, though from laughter, as I think about the thousands of words I’ve lost in emptied-cache-land. The latest Firefox tends to keep those entries if you use the back or forward buttons to return to the page, though.
I hope you decide to explain it again, though.
• http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/religion/faith-and-values/ Jim Davis
I have several reactions to this article, Alan.
1. I’m jealous because I somehow never thought of “Mosquerading.” Nice wordplay, mate.
2. You nailed it in saying the video demands that everyone view the situation as “us vs them.” It assumes they’re all alike, a slur that makes us mad when non-Christians throw it at us. In point of fact, voice after voice in the American Islamic communities condemned the attack and all acts of terrorism. I’ve twice attended press conferences in South Florida where imams of several mosques have said so.
3. Opponents seem to have the impression that the mosque will be a Mideastern-style dome and minarets. It will actually be a prayer room in a multi-story building. And it will be “near” Ground Zero only in New Yorker terms — about two blocks away, measured lengthwise. You may be able to see the World Trade Center from the street, but you won’t be able to see the prayer room from Ground Zero.
4. I’ve never read or heard a single argument showing how stopping this mosque will prevent an Islamic state in America. There are already about a hundred mosques in the New York area. In fact, there was an Islamic prayer room right in the World Trade Center, for Muslim businessmen who worked there — dozens of whom died, BTW, on 9-11.
5. This video was clearly made a long time ago, at least for some of the interviews. When the camera panned from the flight attendant’s mother out the window to the new World Trade Center site, it was still a hole in the ground without the glass towers that I saw back in September. Do the people still feel the same way?
6. And why was the flight attendant’s mother in the video at all? Her daughter died on United Flight 93, which crashed into Pennsylvania. Stopping the mosque in New York will do nothing to honor the memory of her daughter.
7. Aaaaiiiieeeee! Your column had four split infinitives! :-D
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Alan, I think you’re right to note in this argument a tacit structure in favor of perpetuating a violent confrontation. I don’t know that all of those who participate in or endorse this message would think their intentions are well-represented in that analysis, though (as you know, I would countenance an argument to the effect that this is a *reason* for performing the analysis).
I’m still willing to entertain the possibility that the imam’s efforts *also* contain such a possibly counter-intentional tacit structure in favor of perpetuating a violent confrontation, and that the objections of many against his project mark the site of just such a conflict.
And, in such a context, I actually think the public airing of various understandings and misunderstandings, both of one’s own intentions and aims and those of others, is preferable to the use of actual violence or even the veiled violence of state action.
But most importantly, I wanted to report that, upon reading the latest round of Seth’s exchange with Charles, I achieved satori and am now perfect Buddhamind. a-u-m….. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51066 | Finally, Digvijaya Singh speaks the truth
There is a whole industry of inventing new languages – for movies and TV shows
[soundcloud url="" params="" width=" 100%" height="96" iframe="true" /] Unbeknowst to most of us, there is a whole industry of creating new languages. For movies and TV shows, like in Hollywood; and even in Bollywood. For example in the movies Joker, an entire village of mad people talk in a language that is made up. As the reporter asks, why make up a new language spoken by Indian villagers when there are so many "minority languages" that most ci … [Read more...] |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51098 | Could you be Bond? Take the British Intelligence Officers Exam and find out
Marsh Davies
Promotional web-games are not typically our thing at PC Gamer, but today we make an exception, partly because I am now ridiculously over-hyped for Skyfall, but mostly because this free text adventure is extremely well-crafted and rather funny. Designed by the masters of experimental play over at Hide&Seek, the interactive fiction takes the form of the British Intelligence Officers Exam , in which your judgement as an MI6 handler is tested in a number of simulated scenarios.
To help your spook escape from peril, you must pay close attention to their descriptions of the environment, scour maps and examine their available inventory. Some of the situations are easily survivable, but that alone won't get you a pass mark. Take to your licence to kill too enthusiastically, and you'll end up squandering useful intelligence assets - by, say, detonating a few tonnes of catacomb onto their heads. Oops.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51110 | Social Phobia Treatment
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People with social phobia can benefit from a type of therapy called cognitive behavioral therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches you to confront and overcome your fears. There are various types of programs, but the most effective appears to take a multifaceted group approach. Studies have shown that up to 75% of social phobics can benefit from CBT that includes social skills training (where you will learn through role playing and feedback to interact with unfamiliar people) and strategies to reduce and manage anxiety and minimize negative thoughts. This type of program also teaches you how to gradually re-enter feared situations without experiencing familiar anxiety symptoms.
People with social phobia have a high risk for having other simultaneous psychiatric conditions, including depression, panic disorder, agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, general anxiety disorder, and substance abuse disorder Table 04. Up to 80% of people with social phobia are at a high risk for other psychiatric conditions at the same time. Having another psychiatric condition at the same time as social phobia can worsen symptoms, make it harder to find the best treatment, and increase suicide risk. In most cases, social phobia will develop before the second condition. The majority of people with social phobia, however, will seek care for the other condition before seeking care for their phobia.
Two of the most common accompanying conditions are alcohol abuse and major depression. Studies have also linked social phobia with accompanying depression to increased social disability and suicide attempts.
Table 4. Lifetime Risk for Other Psychiatric Conditions Among People with Social Phobia
Condition Percent risk
Agoraphobia 44.9% to 47%
Generalized anxiety disorder 20%
Major depression 14% to 16.6%
Alcohol abuse 12% to 18.8%
Drug abuse 13%
Obsessive-compulsive disorder 11.1%
Panic disorder 4.7% to 10%
People with social disorder are more likely to be in a lower socioeconomic class and more likely to attempt suidice than people who do have this disorder. Although social phobia is a long-term disorder, it can be successfully controlled with medication. Most drugs begin to work within two to four weeks. Your chemical makeup combined with the severity of your symptoms will determine how well medication works.
Cognitive behavioral therapy can help to prevent symptoms from recurring when medication is stopped. Studies suggest that the most optimal treatment for social phobia combines medical therapy and CBT. Because CBT teaches you how to master and cope with your fears, your symptoms may be less likely to return if and when drug therapy is discontinued. In one study, the positive effects of a treatment plan that included medication combined with CBT were maintained for a mean 5.5 years after drugs were discontinued.
Contact your doctor if you experience side effects, or if symptoms worsen during treatment. Antidepressant medications can cause mild side effects (e.g., weight gain, sexual side effects, tension, and sleep disturbances) as they begin to build in the bloodstream to their optimal therapeutic level. Other medications used to treat social phobia may also cause certain side effects. Usually these side effects decrease over time; however, if you experience any especially disturbing effects, you should contact your doctor. You should also let your doctor know if your symptoms worsen while you are being treated, as this may be a sign that your medication isn't working, and that you need to try a different agent. Finally, your doctor or pharmacist can advise you of what you should do if you miss a dose or take too much.
Because drugs for psychological conditions take some time to work, your doctor may want to see you every two weeks during the first six to eight weeks of treatment. During these visits, you should be prepared to discuss how you are tolerating your medication, any symptoms that you may have experienced, and any issues that arise. It's also likely that your doctor will use a questionnaire or rating scale to determine your progress. Follow-up visits may decrease over time as your symptoms begin to stabilize. Eventually you may only need to see your doctor every three to six months.
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It's extremely easy for any other language to copy this. All they have to do is follow Jarkko's advice to make something simple that other people can build on. Perl has the ecosystem because Jarkko and Andreas made a good foundation and then got out of people's way. Today's kids have too much technology, so they think a simple FTP archive is stupid. They try to build overly-complex systems which they then lose interest in.
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why? i was initially put off by the blatant commercialism of the post, but:
1) It is new GPL'd code. I doubt anyone would complain if everything/slashcode was listed.
2) I like seeing companies that do their development in perl (i'm biased cause my company develops in perl as wel).
3) It was posted by Anonymous Monk, who's reputation is already so low that one more -- wouldn't make that much of a difference.
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all three are true points. but:
this is software designed for e-commerce site developers. there are perhaps a couple of those around here. there might even be a couple that would find this software useful. but for the vast majority of the people at this site, this post is a useless ad, for a product they will never need. this is a site to discuss Perl. this post was not discussing Perl, it was advertising its product. whether it was written in Perl or C or Fortran, it really doesn't matter too much, because its the product, and it use, which is being advertised and mentioned.
apparently this product still has a couple of bugs. the readme says that if any bugs are found, please let the company know. now, if they had asked for a couple of us to help with the debugging or test the software for them... then the post would have been about the code and would not have suffered the same fate.
yes, this post was related to Perl. but the main topic of the post was not Perl, the language, the programmers or even companies that develop in Perl. the point of this post was to advertise the product. pure and simple. thats not the kind of posts i like to see here.
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The white sun fell while the Sun was down.
When the Sun rose the white sun started to fall.
In the light the white sun became many suns
Red suns, Blue suns, Green suns, Any Color suns.
Until the light from the Sun was to much, and the white sun disappeared forever.
But what was left, hidden under the blinding light of the white sun
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He spends a lot of time wooing me with song lyrics because he's Audio Boy.
I spend time wooing him with eye candy and reads because I'm Visual Girl.
Me: "Welcome to my parlor," said the Spider to the Fly.
Him: Hi, Spider.
Me: Hi, Fly.
That's an old banter exchange. I can't even remember when I started that one. I have to ask him if he does. It's origins? Come from the poem. Thing is, when I do the inviting? You get what you see. This is it here. Choose or not. That's up to you. In fact, I always warn the risks of choosing. Better for you NOT to choose -- and I say so if I think the person is better off in another arrangement. I don't want to be unhappy. I don't want the other person to be unhappy either. What sense in there is THAT?
If people don't believe me about the risk, about the cost of admission, about what it is that is here? Their problem. They did not have to choose me. I will still try my all, but don't come crying to me if it's not what you thought -- like I'm supposed to change integral parts of me just in service to you!
Me: Do you think I'm difficult?
Him: Oh, yes. (drinking his coffee) Soooooooo difficult. It's just so horrible and difficult here on me for 20 years. That's why I hang around. Difficulties.
Me: Shut up. (amused/pleased.)
Him: Haha!
Me: You know what? Even if it WERE really difficult for you?
Him: I know. You warned. I chose anyway. MY problem.
Me: Correct.
(DH -- hey there, Fly. Love you. :* )
The Spider and the Fly (1829)
by Mary Howitt
The way into my parlor is up a winding stair,
To prove that warm affection I've always felt for you?
I have a little looking-glass upon my parlor shelf;
And bidding good morning now, I'll call another day."
So he wove a subtle web in a little corner sly,
And set his table ready to dine upon the Fly.
Alas, alas! how very soon this silly little Fly,
Hearing his wily, flattering words, came slowly flitting by;
Up jumped the cunning Spider, and fiercely held her fast.
He dragged her up his winding stair, into his dismal den
Within his little parlor - but she ne'er came out again!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51177 | The Illusion of Identity in Lars Von Trier's Antichrist
by Angelos Koutsourakis
26 April 2010
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Cast: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
UK DVD: 11 Jan 2010
Review [23.Oct.2009]
Lars von Trier’s last film instigated a variety of responses that divided the audiences and the critics. Many considered it to be an exercise in bad taste and a misogynistic narrative, while others defended it as a masterpiece. The simplistic dichotomies of the discussions have paralysed any serious investigation of the interrelation of aesthetics, politics and anti-humanism.
If we turn our attention to his filmography, we realise that von Trier’s films present narratives that incorporate concerns about the medium’s ability to represent history, certain genres’ tendency to flatten out the inherent social contradictions, the manipulation of new technologies and a general aspiration to combine elements of classical cinema with an avant-gardist refusal of commodification. Equally important is to acknowledge that in spite of having been classified as a director who is part of the European Art Cinema Tradition, von Trier does not hesitate to engage into a dialogue and thus experiment with mainstream cinema, in order to reshape the relationship between film production and reception.
In light of these considerations, we can see Antichrist as a film that thematises the medium itself and in particular the horror-film genre. The film consists of four chapters, a prologue and an epilogue. It tells the story of a grieving couple—He (Willem Dafoe) and She (Charlotte Gainsbourg), since the characters are nameless—whose little child dies after climbing out of his crib, while its parents are making love. After the death of their child, the couple retreats to a cabin in the woods as a means of overcoming the wife’s grief.
Contrary to their expectations, they are entangled into a situation, which is beyond their control. Instead of healing themselves from their grief, they come face to face with inexplicable events that blur the boundaries between illusion and reality. The husband attempts to cure his grief-stricken wife using psychotherapy methods based upon a rational explanation of fear.
Throughout their therapy sessions, one senses that he tries to control and master her feelings rather than cure her. Moreover, it turns out that she, who has been writing a thesis on misogynism, has identified herself with her subject, to the extent that she considers female nature to be essentially evil. Meanwhile, he finds pictures of their son in which his shoes are always on the wrong feet, something that makes him suspicious of his wife’s caring for their child. Consequently, their relationships turns out to be acrimonious—something that leads to a series of violent events, which involve some of the most problematic and challenging scenes.
At one point, she attacks him and hits his testicles. While he is unconscious, she drills a hole through his leg and bolts a grind-stone through the wound. After a long chase scene, she regrets the pain she caused him and brings him back to the cabin. In a moment of recollection of her son’s death, we are given the impression that she saw what happened but did not act. At this point, she cuts her clitoris; later on he strangles her and burns her into a pyre.
As the reader can understand, the film raises plenty of questions, but provides no answers, expecting the audience to assume a more active role and participate in the hermeneutical process. Taking as a starting point the manipulation of the horror-film genre, we can observe that Antichrist, draws on one of its main motifs, that is, misogynism.
Mainstream horror films have repeatedly incorporated misogynist elements. Women are normally shown as passive beings, whose very passivity becomes a sight of fascination. Part of the spectatorial pleasure, therefore, lies in the viewing of the very moments that produce horror, such as the scenes of excessive physical and sexual violence, which lead to the production of screaming points.
Michel Chion has offered a very stimulating analysis of the screaming point, arguing that certain films employ all the means available, in order to reach that point and create fascination. “The screaming point is where speech is suddenly extinct, a black hole, the exit of being.” [The Voice in Cinema, by Michel Chioin, p. 24, trans. by Claudia Gorbman (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999)] Von Trier’s film on the other hand, does not proceed to manipulate the female body as a spectacle of fascination, and the screaming points are not the culmination of a causal chain of events, but the very exploration of the limits of comprehensibility.
From this perspective, Antichrist employs horror film tropes, but the difference lies in the fact that horror is not produced by dint of an outsider, who enters the lives of the main characters, who are oblivious to the disaster that will follow. This is the most classic pattern of thriller-narration, which resorts to juxtapositions between normal and aberrant behaviours and thus, to molar polarisations between good and evil.
By contrast, von Trier suggests that the terrible and the horrific are not to be found in the abnormal behaviour of an outsider, but within our human relationships, and the play of domination and submission in everyday life. The film’s narrative accomplishes that by constantly frustrating the audience’s expectations. At one point, the two characters are shown lying in bed listening to noises that seem to prepare the ground for a horrible event, while later on we realise that it is the sound of the acorns falling into the roof. When He encounters a talking fox and a wounded deer, we expect something shocking to occur, but action is deferred once again.
All the horrible things taking place are not instigated by an outsider but by the relentless confrontation between him and her. The clash between the sexes becomes an allegorical illustration of the opposition between rational reason and emotions. He attempts to cure her grief by means of a logical explanation of her fears, while she seems to defy his methodology. Her conception of herself, her fears, her pain and grief cannot be separated by her somatic material reality. Throughout her grief her body responds in unpredictable ways. Physical pain and insomnia are rapidly followed by impulsive sexual desires.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51208 | API Ratings Agency Moves Closer To Launch Date
Mark Boyd
Dec. 09 2013, 09:16AM EST
Building trust is an essential ingredient in the growth of the economy, Bourguignon argued, stating that the API economy is no different. Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Bourguignon demonstrated how trust has been instrumental in the move from agrarian economies through to post-industrial society. He then cleverly overlayed the model with a mapping of how trust builds a pyramid of greater capacity when viewed through the API economic lens.
However, much like the sub-prime mortgage market in the United States, this trust can crumble when balanced on the apex of an open API. Bourguignon shared data from the soon-to-be-launched API Ratings agency aimed at documenting how well open APIs are serving their business and developer customers. A review of policies and practices amongst 5 of the biggest open APIs over the past several years shows a stream of changes to terms of services that, basically, have changed the business contracts between API developer-consumers and the open API sources that have been instrumental in building business value.
Bourguignon says there are five characteristics that can be monitored to measure how well an open API fosters trust amongst end users and gives confidence to developer-consumers looking to build a business model around the use of externally-owned, open APIs:
• Quality of API design and documentation
• Number of developers
• API team evangelism and developer engagement
• Breadth of API ecosystem
• Consistency of terms of service.
Bourguignon explained that the soon-to-be-launched API Ratings agency will monitor open APIs and score each against these five criteria. In addition, users can create an account on the site and contribute their experiences, adding a crowdsourced element to the ratings scales. The way this might look would be to have a radar chart with API Ratings' assessment superimposed with a crowdsourced radar chart of user experiences against the same criteria.
Bourguignon confirmed with ProgrammableWeb that API Ratings is awaiting one more round of feedback from investors and industry mentor/monitors who are contributing their insight into the initial ratings reviews before being launched early in 2014. In the meantime, an industry-wide definition of open API will be released by the ratings agency.
Co-founder Mehdi Medjaoui told ProgrammableWeb that the purpose of API Ratings is two-fold: "For businesses opening their APIs, it is to help understand the ecosystem and encourage best practices in API design, and for developers and businesses starting out with using open APIs, it's to help understand the trustworthiness they can expect from API providers."
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51209 | Making Math Education Global: Wiris Quizzes Speaks Your Language
Greg Bates
Jun. 13 2012, 10:00AM EDT
Wiris (pronounced Wyrees) from Barcelona has introduced Quizzes, an API to help you create mathematical tests and evaluate student answers. Along with its Editor and Cas (an advanced online calculator), Quizzes is part of the Wiris suite that can be plugged into a learning management system. LMS partners include Moodlerooms (used by Roanoke College and the California State University system) and Fireflysolutions.
Based on Java, Quizzes is cross-platform and cross-OS. It can be easily integrated into LMS, CMS and HTML editors including Wordpress and Joomla.
Quiz example:
Wiris saves teachers time and aids students by adding random variables, providing 2D and 3D graphical evaluations, by syntactically checking student answers (and advising them not to post until it they are syntactically complete), and by automatically evaluating answers.
As Wiris states, "The evaluation checks for mathematically equivalent answers to the expected, but not exactly the expected solution. ...This can only be achieved via a calculation engine as WIRIS."
Here's why that matters. Quizzes transcends a key limitation of most math tests: the multiple choice format. For decades, teachers have relied on multiple choice so that they don't have to evaluate the many possible answers that could be correct.
To cite a simple example, the answer to 1/4 + 1/4 is 1/2. But the student might write 2/4. Wiris evaluates the mathematical response and will score either answer, 1/2 or 2/4, as correct. According to Wiris, having the ability to go beyond multiple choice "increases your power when it comes to assessment" of your student.
It can also handle abstract questions such as: Type in a real number that is not a rational number. Since the set of correct answers is infinite, you need a mathematical engine to handle evaluating the answer--like the one Wiris provides.
Or a question can ask for a data type like: name a prime number--any prime number. Or it can request a third-degree polynomial. Wiris will check that the answer matches the requested data type.
While accepting a range of correct answers can be useful, teachers can also control the format of the answer required of the student, requesting that they simplify it (thereby ruling out 2/4 as an acceptable answer, if the want to) or factorize it, for example. They can also control whether a student has access to a calculation engine and formula editor in creating their answers.
[caption id="attachment_30207" align="aligncenter" width="455" caption="The Wiris editor"]Wiris editor[/caption]
But what math teacher has time to create her own problems--who wants to create their own content? To address this issue, Wiris provides a library of over 2,000 problems created by users. They are available free under a creative commons license.
What's cool: The problems were created in a variety languages; Wiris will translate them into the language you are teaching in. The range is remarkable, covering some 6 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan so far.
Wiris is available on an annual subscription model to institutions that can be free if the institution agrees to make its own questions database available to others through the Wiris library.
Wiris is headed by Ramon Eixarch, who along with several other key people in the organization came out of Barcelona Tech.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51210 | The Weclapp API Helps Keep Customers Happy
Candice McMillan, Contributing Writer, Lab19 Digital
Jul. 21 2014, 03:34PM EDT
If it wasn't for the customer, nobody would be in business, and any successful company would know all too well that keeping them happy is key. For this reason, CRM (Customer Relationship management) software has become an essential tool for the effective management of both established customers and new prospects. Weclapp's cloud-based CRM application aims at giving small businesses, founders and freelancers the support they need to easily stay on top of all their customer dealings. By providing an API, the company also makes this functionality available to developers who may want to integrate it with other applications or services.
The Weclapp web application allows users to quickly and easily create contact lists manually, or import them from emails or address books. It provides handy tools like online task management with time recording, collaboration functionality, reminders for specific events, comment and feedback functionality, leads and opportunity management, and so on. It's about simplifying various business processes and keeping important information at the user's fingertips. The availability of Weclapp's REST API is great news for developers who may want to build other applications that can really benefit from these features.
Here are a few things you'll need to know about using the API:
• You'll need to be a verified user to make API requests.
• Authorization is available via an API token, which is configurable in a user's Weclapp account.
• Although the API currently only allows access to customer resources, the company indicates that other features including articles, invoices, projects and tickets will be available soon.
As is often the case, the company is constantly working to develop and improve on this API, and changes may become necessary. They do indicate, however, that they will endeavour to keep it as stable as possible, making an effort to stick to changes that are backwards compatible. Further information is available on Weclapp's website.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51263 | HRSC colour image of Ascraeus Mons
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HRSC colour image of Ascraeus Mons
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This colour nadir (vertical view) image was taken during orbit 68 by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on Mars Express, from an altitude of 271 kilometres.
The image is centred at 7.9 degrees North and 255.5 degrees East and shows a portion of the southern flank of Ascraeus Mons, the northernmost volcano of the Tharsis volcano group. North is at the right.
The lighter, 'pink' areas on the colour image are clouds. The peculiar depressions which can be observed here, and on several Martian volcanoes, are so-called 'lava tubes'. Lava tubes are caused by the crusting (or cooled lava) which occurs over a lava channel, a covering making the channel into a tunnel. When lava production ceases, the tunnel empties and the roof of the tunnel falls in, making an elongated depression.
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This species of remipede, Pleomothra fragilis, newly described in 1989, was found in Oven Rock Cave in the Exuma Cays, Bahamas. Remipedes are a primitive class of crustacean believed to be one of the oldest crustacean groups on Earth, possibly dating back 200 million years to the time of the dinosaurs. Remipedes look similar to centipedes and have hollow-tip fangs for injecting venom. They are hermaphrodites. This picture was taken by Thomas Iliffe, a professor of marine biology at Texas A&M University at Galveston. Iliffe was awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation in 2003 to study anchialine caves in the Bahamas (grant DEB-0315903). Anchialine (a Greek word meaning "near the sea") caves are coastal and form in limestone or volcanic rock. They flood with seawater and include the longest submerged caves on Earth. Many previously unknown species of higher taxa live in these caves. Most do not have eyes or pigment since they live in perpetual darkness. Credit: Thomas M. Iliffe, Texas A&M University at Galveston
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This Scottish duo came to the surface on the influential Skam label in 1996. Their ability to combine loping, Trip-Hop beats with modulated, warm, muted electronics was immediately apparent. This earlier EP showed a heavy debt to Electro while laying down the specifics for the themes that they would pursue on their debut record, Music Has the Right to Children. Released in '98, the record was a bright light in the haze of electronic music that year, marked by stripped-down warm tones, handclaps, random vocal samples and melodies which seemed childlike (but these children were playing on a much colder, enshrouded playground). Their slow motion Funk has also been captured on a recent Peel Sessions release.
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Morgan Page is a dance music producer who's especially well known for his remixes of mainstream pop songs.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51360 | Kirsten visits for a long weekend while I am studying abroad, and sharing the same bed leads to other things
It was my second month of a year abroad in Spain when my friend Kirsten visited me for a long weekend. She was doing a semester in France and had never been to Italy, so she decided to come over and visit me during the end of October. Kirsten was a very cute blond. Long legs, medium size but perky tits, and shoulder length blond hair that she usually wore in a pony tail. We had been friends ever since high-school, and I had always been attracted to her. At a few parties we had made-out briefly, but things never went any farther, and when we both went off to different colleges my attention moved on to other girls. Still, I was mildly optimistic that something exciting could happen this visit, I mean, we would be sleeping in the same bed because there wasn’t an extra one, and we would be getting drunk at night. That is always a good combo.
She flew in Friday morning, and when the taxi dropped her off at my apartment she looked just as good as ever. She had a great bronze tan still left from the summer, and she was wearing a short skirt that showed off her legs. When she bent over to put her bags down in my room, I snuck a look at her beautiful ass and a glimpse of the black panties she was wearing underneath. I wanted to just go over right then and ram my dick into her from behind, and when she turned back around I think I saw her glance down at the erection that was pulling my shorts taut. We went out to a bar that night with a few of my buddies from the abroad program, and we all got drunk off of the combination of the wine from dinner and then the beers at the Irish-style pub. Kirsten and I hit the street around 2am, and stumbled home laughing and bumping into each other the whole way. I put my arm around her to keep her steady when she almost fell a few times, and I couldn’t help but cup my hand slightly around the outside of her tit. She in turn snuggled up tight to me and said that she was so glad we were such good friends.
We got back to my room, and I made a joke about how I usually sleep naked. It wasn’t true, but I was trying to subtly test the waters and see how she would react. She laughed and said that she normally did too, but that it was probably best if we both controlled ourselves this weekend. So far, it seemed like I was getting mixed messages. She clearly liked me, but it was hard to tell if she just wanted to be friends. But I had all weekend to figure it out. I slipped off my shirt and just kept on a pair of mesh shorts when I got into bed. She came back from the bathroom and I watched from the bed as she faced away from me and slipped off her shirt and then bra, then she replaced the shirt. Then she slid out of her skirt and I got a straight on view of her sweet round ass. I wanted to grab it and squeeze. She turned her head coyly and saw me staring, then she said with a laugh, “What, haven’t you ever seen a girl changing before.” Of course, I responded, but never one with such a great ass. She blushed and turned away, but I saw her hesitate when she looked down at the pair of sweatpants she had laid out to wear – then she just shrugged and slipped into bed with just those black panties on. Maybe I was getting to her.
I passed out pretty quickly as I normally do when I’m trashed, but I woke up again around 4am. I glanced at the clock, and then remembered that Kirsten was in the same bed. I was sleeping right next to a beautiful, drunk and passed out girl. I couldn’t resist. I slowly turned to the side she was on and whispered her name. No response. She was on her side with her back to me, so I moved over gently until my dick was softly pressing up against her ass. I reached my arm over her and softly cupped one of her tits. She seemed to instinctively push back against me, and all of a sudden her ass was ground up against me and I could smell her hair as my face was right next to her neck. I squeezed harder and she started to breath a bit heavier. I did this for a few minutes, just enjoying her tits and rubbing my dick up and down her butt. Then I slid my hand down to her panties and poked a finger under the lacy material. I felt the soft fur of her pussy, and smiled when I noticed that the she had shaved everything except for a short racing stripe. I followed that stripe down until I felt the moistness of her pussy, and caught up in the moment I just slipped a finger inside. She moaned and ground her ass back into me. I was feeling crazy so I slipped my shorts off and gently turned her onto her back. I straddled her chest and poker the tip of my penis at her gorgeous red lips. A bit of precum left a slimy trail on her face. But when I pushed a little harder her mouth opened up a bit and my dick went right in. Kirsten proceeded to suckle like a little baby on my dick, and I just let her go on and on. She sucked for about five minutes before it felt like I couldn’t take any more, just watching her head bob ever so slightly and her cheeks go hollow as she sucked me off. I began to breath heavy and thrust a little bit and then I just shot my load right down her throat. She gagged and choked a bit but kept on sucking. Cum dribbled out of her mouth and her lips became frothy with the white stuff. I let her keep going until I was hanging limp in her mouth, then I used my dick to push some of the escaped cum back into her mouth.
I was feeling on top of the world, I had just been sucked off by a gorgeous girl I had always liked, and she had no idea what had happened. She had been passed out the whole time, and still seemed to be so. I contemplated what I could do next. I was feeling reckless and wanted to do something I had never done before. So I twisted my hips to one side and quickly snapped them back to center, my 7inch dick came flying towards her face and I gave her a good cock slap. But to my horror, her eyes fluttered and opened, and then as she came awake she realized what she was seeing. She was looking up at me straddling her chest with my dick hanging limp about 3 inches in front of her face. She gasped with shock. I froze, and had no idea what to do. Then a brilliant thought came to me, or at least it seemed like the only idea that had any chance of getting me off the hook. I went into my best zombie impression and stared straight ahead. I was going to pretend this was all a sleep-walking mishap. I got mechanically out of bed and walked towards the door, but on purpose I missed by about 2 feet and walked straight into the wall. I took a step back and did it again. Then I straightened out and walked to the bathroom. I never glanced back, but I was hoping that perhaps she would buy it. When I got back to the room, it was still pitch black. I intentionally walked right into the bed and stumbled. Kirsten called at me softly, “Hey, are you ok?” I didn’t reply. I made it around to my side of the bed, got in, turned on my side away from her, and stayed quiet. She called at me a few more times, each time her voice getting a little louder. “Hey, are you awake? Can you hear me?” I didn’t say anything and tried to make my breathing normal. After a minute or two she went quiet and I thought that maybe I was off the hook. I decided to play it safe and went to sleep. Some time later I awoke because her hand was slowly making its away across my still naked hip. She reached across me and found my dick and gently started to tug on it. I was shocked and surprised, I thought I had blown it just a little while earlier. But clearly she had the same thoughts that I did. So I just lay there and enjoyed it, curious as to what she would do next. I quickly got hard as she stroked me, and soon she was working her hand down to my balls and squeezing and pulling on them. It felt great. Her delicate hand was soft and strong. I let out a moan and rolled onto my back. I cracked my eyes open a bit to see what she would do next.
Once I was on my back with my eyes open a bit, I could see that she had taken off her bra and was rubbing one tit while she jerked me off. I really just wanted an excuse to wake up to catch her in the act, so I waited until she started tugging on my balls a bit harder and then I let out a quick startled breath as if she had hurt me. She stopped suddenly, but I fluttered my eyes open and we both looked right into each other’s eyes. I grinned, and she hesitated, but then she smiled too. Soon her hand was back at work rubbing up and down on my rock hard cock. I loved the handjob, but I wanted more. I leaned up and kissed her, then pulled her down on top of me. I reached down her back and grabbed two handfuls of her firm ass. She pushed her hips into mine and pushed her lips hard against mine as well. I gently slipped out from underneath her and climbed onto her back. Now, my dick was lined up on her panties, and I reached a hand around and slipped it down her front. I found the hot moistness of her pussy and eased two fingers in. She moaned loudly and so I proceeded to slide her panties off. There in front of me was such a fine piece of ass that I wanted to just ram my dick in right then. So I basically did. She raised up on her knees and looked back at me and then said, “Do it, fuck me doggy style, that’s what I really love.” So I grabbed her at the hips and she reached back to guide my cock into her tight pussy. I thrust in without delay and she exhaled quickly as I penetrated her. Soon however I was simply ramming into her as hard as I could, just trying to bury my cock deep inside her. The bed shook and creaked as we banged away, and her moans grew louder and louder as she came closer to climax. By this time we were both a sweaty mess in the late summer heat, and my hands ran over her glistening body from her hips up to under her tits and back. I bent over trying to keep as much contact with her as possible, I just wanted to be in her as far as possible. I held both her titties in my hands as I kissed the side of her neck and tasted the salty moisture of her sweat. My balls my loud slapping noises as they swung back and forth up into her. She yelled at that point, and called out to me to fuck her even harder. I tried to make my thrusts as deep as possible, and it felt like I was almost about to slip my balls into her as well as my dick rammed up against the end of her cunt. Then she yelled with pleasure as her body shook over and over again with climax. Her pussy contracted so hard that I couldn’t take it any more and I squeezed her tits as hard as I could as I too orgasmed. I shot my load deep inside her and we trembled against each other as the climaxes faded. Soon we were just a sweaty pile in the bed, my limp dick still inside her. Then she slowly got out of bed and stood up. I could see my cum slowly leaking out of her pussy and she reached down with a finger to scoop up some of it. She put it to her lips, and gave a sexy lick. “That is the best cum I have tasted in an hour,” she said, “I wish you could’ve come in my mouth again.” “So you knew what I was doing that first time, huh?” I asked. “Of course, you think I wouldn’t wake up with a big dick like yours ramming down my throat?” She laughed. I smiled and reached out and arm to hook her back into the bed by her waist. I pulled her to me and kissed her deeply, sweeping my tongue around inside her mouth I tasted a bit of my own cum. She pushed it into my mouth with her tongue and then when I let it sit on the tip of my tongue she took it back into her mouth and sucked it all down her throat greedily. Then she snuggled up to me and I turned her around so that her ass was lodged up against my dick. I reached an arm over her and grabbed a tit, and with a satisfied sigh she fell asleep and I soon followed.
In the morning when I woke up she was out of the bed, but I could hear the shower running through the thin walls that separated my room from the bathroom. I eased out of bed and walked naked down the hall to the bathroom. Like all of the doors in the apartment the bathroom didn’t lock, so I quietly turned the knob and pushed the door open. The room was filled with warm steam, and as I approached the shower tub I saw that Kirsten was pressed up against the wall with the nozzle in her right hand. She had her back arched and her eyes squeezed shut, and with the stream of water from the nozzle she was massaging her pussy. Her body contracted rhythmically as she sped up and slowed down her masturbation, and soft moans escaped her lips every few seconds. My dick instantly sprang to life and I stroked it a few times in anticipation. Then I quietly stepped into the tub and quickly grabbed her arm holding the nozzle. I pulled it away from her cunt and with my other hand aimed my dick right into her hot and wet pussy. This took only a brief second, and her eyes flew open in surprise. And she almost started to push me away before she realized it was me. But then, her face turned sad and she said softly, “We shouldn’t have done that last night, I don’t want to mess up our friendship.” I just grunted as I moved my cock in and out of her. But she reached her hands up to my chest and tried to push me away from her. “I’m serious” she said, “I don’t want you to do this.” But I was too caught up in animal lust, and the harder she pushed against me the harder I wanted to fuck her. Her eyes turned a little panicky as she realized she was having no effect on me, and she started to slap my chest and push as hard as I could. I responded by jamming her up against the wall as hard as I could and burying myself as deep in her as I could. “You want this you little whore” I told her, “and I have wanted to fuck you for so long that I cant stop now.” She opened her mouth to yell but I reached up a hand and slapped her with a bit of force. She turned her face to one side and her cheek was red. She continued to struggle, but all her wriggling only turned me on more, as her hips struggled against mine and her long tan legs writhed and clenched me. I reached down and grabbed her by the ass and pulled her feet off the ground. She had no choice but to wrap her legs around me tight so that she wouldn’t fall, and I pushed her even harder up against the wall to keep her in place. I thrust into her harder and harder and she started to moan again. Her legs were squeezing me hard and I gripped her perfect butt cheeks fiercely. As I held them tight I stretched my right hand out and explored her crack. With her cheeks pulled so far apart by my squeezing, her little asshole was exposed to the world. I couldn’t see it, but I found it with my finger and started to finger her asshole. Her neck tightened up and she arched her back pressing her tits into me. “Fuck!” she yelled, “I don’t want to be doing this but I don’t want to stop either!” We slowly slid down the wall until we were lying horizontal in the tub, and I gripped the sides of the tub as I rose off her so that I could get a good angle to piston my dick into her. Her perky chest glistened with water as the shower cascaded onto her, and her face was smiling in sheer ecstasy. Her red lips puckered her mouth into a tight O, and her blond hair was spread out all around. But still I wanted to fuck her doggy style again, so I flipped her over and pushed her so that her top half was over the edge of her tub and her ass was raised up on the edge. I scooted up behind her and stuck my dick back into her pussy. Then I reached forward and grabbed a handful of her hair, pulling her head back so that her neck and shoulders arched. I slapped her ass hard and gave her hair a tug, enjoying the overwhelming power I had over her at that point. And that sweet ass was all mine. Without missing a beat I pulled my dick out of her and slipped it into her asshole. I gave her a brief pause to get used to the sensation, and she gasped with surprise. But I didn’t wait long before I again began my thrusting into and out of her little pink hole. It was an amazing feeling, so tight and grippy – and I loved the fact that I had given her no say in the matter. She began to protest because she was uncomfortable, but I reached my arm out and clamped a hand over her mouth as I pulled her head back further. I wanted this to go on forever, but my balls were aching with the need to cum. I pulled out of Kirsten and grasping her hips flipped her over again. I pulled her body back into the tub and move up over her chest to straddle her. I took a handful of her hair again and pulled her head up so that it was only inches from my cock. With one hand I playfully slapped her back and forth with my dick, and I explored her face with my cock, moving it around her lips and eyes, trailing precum everywhere. Then I positioned my balls over her mouth, but she clamped her mouth shut tight. So I gave her hair a yank and she opened up. I dropped my nutsack into her waiting mouth and told her to start sucking on them. Her lips closed over my sack, and my balls disappeared into a warm and wet heaven. Her cheeks sucked in as she really went to work on my balls, and my dick was pointing straight up the pretty bridge of her nose. I began to jerk off over her as she sucked on my nuts, but I really wanted to cum in her mouth again. So I reluctantly pulled my sack out of her gorgeous moist mouth and shoved my dick into it instead. I rammed back hard until I could go no further and her nose was buried in my pubes. She was gagging hard but I didn’t care, it felt great as she gurgled and choked on my dick. I held her head up against my pubes hard with a hand on the back of her head, and I dug my fingers deep into her wet blond hair. I eased up a bit and told her to suck me off with gusto otherwise I would make her start deepthroating me again. She sucked and sucked and my balls were dropped on her chin. As I neared climax I once again grabbed her hair and pulled her all the way into me as I shoved my dick into her mouth as far as I could. My balls exploded and I felt hot cum shoot deep down into the back of her throat. She gagged and gargled but I kept on shooting, forcing her to swallow all of it. I kept my pulsating dick inside of her mouth until it was fully limp, and only then did I let go of her hair and pull myself out.
Kirsten lay in the tub exhausted, cum trickling out of the sides of her mouth. Her legs were splayed apart, and her sweet pussy was wide open. If I had had any cum left in my balls at that point I would have loved to fuck her right then, but I too was spent. I reached down and picked her up out of the tub, reaching an arm under her back and one under her knees. Her nice tits hung limp and bounced as I carried her back to the room, and she looked up into my eyes with both shock and wonder at what I had just done to her. I understood completely if she was furious at me, but I hadn’t been able to stop myself. Now I would just have to mend fences. But I knew deep down that I wouldn’t be able to stop myself again, and she was still staying with me for two more days. I had a lot of things left in my mind that I wanted to do to her, and I made a vow to myself that whenever I even so much as worked up a boner I would try and take her no matter the circumstances. I laid her down on the bed and rested her head on the pillow. Even though I had no particular reason for doing so, I faced the foot of the bed and straddled her face, letting my balls sag onto her face. I told her to open up one last time and I just dropped my sack right into her waiting mouth. She was very obedient by now. With my balls resting in her warm tight mouth I lay down on her and my head ended up right between her legs. I could feel the warmth emanating from her pussy, and I rubbed my face in her soft racing stripe. I gave her hot cunt a few laps with my tongue and then just tried to fall asleep breathing in the sweet aroma of her pussy. My face buried in her cunt and my balls buried in her mouth, it was the best position I had ever fallen asleep in.
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2008-07-16 17:30:55
amazing story! write another please!
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2008-05-08 18:00:07
not bad
2008-03-26 04:43:49
Tht was hot.... if only I could find a guy to be rough with me like that.. Most guys I date are softies...
2007-08-08 02:54:38
very hot story...please write another similar one!!
2006-07-12 00:09:21
awsome story, part 2 when is it comeing. she sounds like a real cock tease, has she never heard of friends with benifits.
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A: The behaviors may or may not be related. A common thread may be your son, and the changes that naturally occur in a household as young kids grow. Cats are creatures of habit and, especially for indoor-only cats, changes in household routine can cause stress. This stress can lead to behavior changes such as missing the litter box, spraying or even aggression.
For example, the cats quickly learned they like people food because they were exposed to it when your son started to drop food. Presumably this did not occur before. Since they were not exposed, they didn't know they liked it. This is, to a certain extent, a natural behavior. It is not clear from your question if the cats are just going after food that is dropped or if they are interfering with your ability to eat. I would consider the latter a problem and the former to be expected. Regardless, behavioral modification can help curb these behaviors by redirecting them to foods that are "theirs."
Regarding the spraying and mounting behavior, there is a slim chance that your male cat may not be fully neutered. Take him to your veterinarian for an exam to rule out this possibility. Your vet can then direct you to trusted resources to deal with behavioral issues in cats. Online resources from the San Francisco SPCA ( www.sfspca.org), the Indoor Cat Initiative ( www.indoorpet.osu.edu) and the American Association of Feline Practitioners ( www.catvets.com) may also offer you further guidance.
Rachel Boltz, DVM, DABVP, is a feline specialist at Adobe Animal Hospital, www.adobe-animal.com.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51383 | girl doing sound effects
The short film “Bleep Blap Bloop” tries to answer the question, “Who’s better at sound effects: boys or girls?” which, while not a question you’ve ever actually asked, clearly gets at some root stereotype we (boys) think all the time. Namely, “girls aren’t as good at having fun.”
But the game’s rigged. Creators Marcella Coad and Paul Constantakis only ask for sounds like helicopters, robots, and three kinds of guns. As one girl asks in the video, “Couldn’t you have done, like, a duck?”
It’s still damn pretty, and fun to watch.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51407 | The Truth About Audio
Rummaging through my piles of lost papers the other day, I came across the following pearls of wisdom. Nothing on the paper indicated where it came from, or to whom it should be attributed. It has the ironic angle of the late Stereophile founder J. Gordon Holt, but may well have come from elsewhere. In any case, here it is for your delectation. I’ll add my own comments in a future blog entry, but leave this to speak for itself for now:
Truth 1: Any idiot can design a loudspeaker, and unfortunately, many do.
Truth 2: You can say anything you want, who’s to prove you wrong?
Truth 3: The right amount of magnet is the right amount of magnet.
Truth 4: The only transient of significance in the audio business is tranquility. It is also the briefest.
Truth 5: Accuracy of reproduction is determined by how well a sound system models someone’s warped set of preconceived notions.
Truth 6: In audio, as elsewhere, foolproof systems prove the existence of fools.
Truth 7: The size of a woofer is determined not by desired low frequency response, but by perceived sexual dysfunction. After all, it’s not the mass it’s the motion.
Truth 8: Price buys not performance but paranoia.
Truth 9: The most outspoken experts on concert hall sonic reality have seldom, if ever, been to a concert.
Truth 10: The more money spent on an audiophile system, the less time spent on listening to music.
Truth 11: In a minimum phase system there is an inextricable link between frequency response, phase response, and transient response, as they are all merely transforms of one another. This, combined with minimization of open-look errors in output amplifiers and correct compensation for nonlinear passive crossover network loading, can lead to a significant decrease in lost system resolution. However, this all means nothing when you listen to Pink Floyd.
Truth 12: All small, state-of-the-art audio manufacturers are really manifestations of Phineas T. Barnum.
Final Truth: The audio business is no place for reasonable people to make a living.
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The eternal axiom that any truth in and of itself itself is more of an illusion than anything else, hence the reason we have audiophiles who pay money out the ying-yang to support the grand and useless experiment of sound and video perfection. Oh the money spent and the horror, the horror.
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Is trying to glean a semblance of truth and verity from reviewers, who, by their very nature, often lead otherwise rational people on self-destructive paths of Holy Grail seeking. A sad state of affairs. But we all have that axis of cost vs. benefit. Where is your threshhold? Honestly I don't care if someone of significant means keeps a charlatan in business. If the same sound quality is available to me for 25% of the cost...
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Are still good enough to tell the difference, you young whippersnappers. Get off my lawn!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51408 | Shootout: Five Mid-Price Subwoofers Page 6
Outlaw Audio LFM-1EX ($649)
What's in the Box? • Driver: 12 inches • Rated amplifier power: 350 watts continuous • Cabinet design: down-firing, dual ports • Finish: matte black with smoked plexiglass insert • Controls: level, continuously variable low-pass crossover (24 dB/octave, 40 to 180 Hz), crossover bypass, phase switch (0, 180 degrees), port mode (25-Hz maximum output, 20-Hz bass extension), power, auto-on/on • Ins & outs: single line-level input, dual speaker-level inputs and outputs • Warranty: 3 years
How Big Is It? • Dimensions (WxHxD): 17 x 21.5 x 24 inches • Cabinet volume: 5.1 cubic feet • Footprint: 2.9 square feet • Weight: 80 pounds
Setup Despite being the lowest-priced subwoofer in this review, the LFM-1EX is a pretty good bruiser -- lift with your legs, never with your back. I was surprised to see a single mono line-level input. That works, but I always feel better with dual inputs. Also, there are no line-level outputs. Phase control is limited to a 0/180-degree polarity switch. This is usually sufficient, but, again, I would feel better with a continuously variable control. A Port Mode switch lets you choose 25-Hz extension with maximum output or 20-Hz bass extension. The LFM-1EX is a downward-firing sub (with bottom-mounted ports as well) and comes with substantial metal feet to raise the cabinet off the floor. The floor covering (carpet versus wood, for example) can sometimes affect the output from down-firing models. In my case, I placed the sub over clay tiles, which did not seem to have any particular effect. The low-pass crossover extended up to about 100 Hz, making blending with satellites fairly easy.
How Low Does It Go? • Bass limit (Bass Extension mode): 20 Hz at 96 dB SPL (maximum 10% distortion)
How Big the Bang? • Average maximum output, 25 to 62 Hz (Bass Extension mode): 106 dB SPL • Maximum output (Bass Extension mode): 109 dB SPL at 32 Hz • Dollars per dB: $6.12
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51484 | sfDoctrineAssetsLibrary plugin ============================== This is the sfAssetsLibraryPlugin Doctrine porting. The `sfDoctrineAssetsLibraryPlugin` is a full-featured multimedia asset library plugin. Not only does it allow you to upload and organize your media files (images, PDF documents, Flash objects, and so on) via a web interface, it also stores metadata about each file for easy retrieval or automated copyright and legend inclusion. It is the perfect companion for rich text editors like TinyMCE. Screenshot ----------   Prerequisites ------------- This plugin for symfony 1.4 depends on [sfThumbnailPlugin](/plugins/sfThumbnailPlugin) to create thumbnails of image files. If this plugin is not yest installed, the symfony plugin dependency system will install it when you install `sfDoctrineAssetsLibraryPlugin`. Note: If [ImageMagick](http://www.imagemagick.org/) is installed (no need for the PEAR Imagick package, the plugin calls the `convert` script of the basic Image Magic library), then the image thumbnails will be of better quality. See the "Configuration" section below for the way to activate ImageMagick support in the plugin. Installation ------------ 1 - Install the plugin. The easiest way to install `sfDoctrineAssetsLibraryPlugin` is to use the symfony command line: > php symfony plugin:install sfDoctrineAssetsLibraryPlugin Alternatively, if you don't have PEAR installed, you can download the latest package attached to this page and extract it under your project's `plugins/` directory. You can also refer to the plugin's Subversion repository by doing a checkout or an `svn:externals` of `http://svn.github.com/odracci/sfDoctrineAssetsLibraryPlugin.git` or use github repository: `http://github.com/odracci/sfDoctrineAssetsLibraryPlugin.git` If you use one of these alternative methods, you must enable the plugin in your `ProjectConfiguration.class.php` file and publish the plugin assets by calling the `plugin:publish-assets` symfony task. 2 - Build the data structures Rebuild the model and generate the SQL code for the new tables: > php symfony doctrine:build --all-classes --sql Create the new tables in your database. > php symfony doctrine:insert-sql 3 - Configure your project to use the plugin features Enable the `sfDoctrineAssetsLibraryPlugin` and the `sfThumbnailPlugin` in the project configuration (unless you installed using `plugin:install`) [php] // in myproject/config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php class ProjectConfiguration extends sfProjectConfiguration { public function setup() { $this->enablePlugins(array('sfPropelPlugin', 'sfDoctrineAssetsLibraryPlugin', 'sfThumbnailPlugin')); } } Enable the `sfAsset` module in your backend application, via the `settings.yml` file. [yml] // in myproject/apps/backend/config/settings.yml all: .settings: enabled_modules: [default, sfAsset] Configure the path to the root assets directory in the `app.yml` file: [yml] // in myproject/config/app.yml all: sfAssetsLibrary: upload_dir: media In the above example, uploaded files will be stored under the `web/media` directory. 4 - Clear the cache to enable the autoloading to find the new classes: > php symfony cc 5 - Use the bundled `asset:create-root` task to initialize the root asset directory in the filesystem and in the database. The name of the root asset directory will be read from the `app.yml` configuration you just defined: > php symfony asset:create-root >**NOTE** >*nix users must call this command with the same user group as the http >server, because it will need write access to this directory. Alternatively, >`chmod 777` or `chgrp` can be used. 6 - You can now start using the plugin by browsing to the backend module's default page: http://myproject/backend_dev.php/sfAsset Configuration ------------- You can modify the plugin settings by way of the configuration. Here is a list of the settings you can change in your application's `app.yml`: [yml] # in apps/backend/config/app.yml all: sfAssetsLibrary: upload_dir: media # Asset library root, under the web/ dir check_type: false # Set to true if you want to restrict the type of assets types: # Accepted asset types if check_type is true image: image txt: txt archive: archive pdf: pdf xls: xls doc: doc ppt: ppt thumbnail_dir: thumbnail # Where the image thumbnails are stored use_ImageMagick: false # Set to true if you have the convert command thumbnails: # Name and size (in pixels) of the thumbnails created at upload small: # Displayed in the list page width: 84 height: 84 shave: true # Cut strips to constraint the image size large: # Displayed in the details page width: 194 height: 152 search_pager_size: 20 # Number of resuts per page mass_upload_size: 5 # Number of file upload controls displayed in the mass upload form The `sfAsset` module -------------------- The `sfAsset` module provides four main features: - Browse through your media files like in a filesystem. - Read or change metadata for a particular file - Perform usual filesystem operations on your files and folder (add, move, rename, delete) - Search for a particular media file from its filename, description, author, etc. The module has two main views (`list` and `edit`) that you can easily customize by using your own CSS or overriding some of their numerous partials in your application. The templates are organized the same way as the admin generated modules, so applying your own look and feel to the `sfDoctrineAssetsLibrary` should be easy. The module is fully i18n'ed, and the plugin comes with English, French, Italian, and German translations. >**NOTE** >It's very important that you point the main module from your links (e.g. a navigation menu) >to the route `@sf_asset_library_root`. Skipping this passage could lead to problems with layout, >since the popup layout is different from the "standard" one. Using the assets from the library in your applications ------------------------------------------------------ Uploaded assets end up under the `sfConfig::get('sf_web_root') . sfConfig::get('app_sfAssetsLibrary_upload_dir')` directory. The path to a particular media file appears in its details page fo the `sfAsset` module, so if you need to use it somewhere in your application, just copy this path. Alternatively, if you need to include an image tag to an asset you retrieved from the database, you can use the `asset_image_tag()` helper: [php] <?php use_helper('sfAsset') ?> <?php echo asset_image_tag($sf_asset) ?> Importing assets from an existing library (not ready) ----------------------------------------------------- Whether you want to add assets to your library from an existing sfMediaLibrary, or to cleanup your database of removed files, you will probably need to synchronize the assets database with a directory. Fortunately, the plugin comes with a task `asset:synchronize` to do just that: > php symfony asset:synchronize [app] [dirname] --notVerbose --removeOrphanAssets --removeOrphanFolders For instance, to import an existing Media Library under `web/uploads/media` to the sfAssetsLibrary, just type: > php symfony asset:synchronize backend /path/to/project/web/uploads/media --removeOrphanAssets --removeOrphanFolders You can call this task as many times you want, since it only performs database and filesystem operations when the two sources are not in sync. Using the assets library with TinyMCE (not tested) -------------------------------------------------- If you want to use the `sfAssetsLibrary` plugin as a replacement for tinyMCE's file browser for image insertion, you must first initiate the plugin with a helper in the template: [php] <?php use_helper('sfAsset') ?> <?php use_javascript('tiny_mce/tiny_mce') /* must point to your actual path of tinyMCE */ ?> <?php use_javascript('tiny_mce/setup) /* you must create setup.js, see below */ ?> <?php echo init_asset_library() ?> You need to create a setup.js file in tiny_mce directory (you can name this file as you prefer and store it whenever you want, as long as you point it correctly). This is an example of its content: [javascript] tinyMCE.init({ theme : "advanced", mode: "textareas", editor_selector : "rich", relative_urls: false, file_browser_callback : 'sfAssetsLibrary.fileBrowserCallBack' }); Please refer to [official documentation](http://wiki.moxiecode.com/index.php/TinyMCE:Configuration) for more detailed configuration. That's it, the TinyMCE file browser is now the `sfAssetsLibrary`'s one. >**TIP**: For use with an admin generated module, place the `init_asset_library()` call >in the `_assets.php` partial in the `templates/` directory of the module. If you miss >that template, just copy it from the cache auto-generated module. >To add class in a `generator.yml`, do as follows: [yml] generator: # ... config: # ... form: fields: foo: { attributes: { class: rich, rows: 5, cols: 70 } } Using the assets library with CK Editor (not tested) ---------------------------------------------------- If you want to use the `sfDoctrineAssetsLibrary` plugin as a CKEditors's file browser for file or image insertion, you must first add to `routing.yml` file: [yml] sf_asset_list: url: /mediapopup param: { module: sfAsset, action: list } Then you must initiate the plugin with a helper in the template: [php] <?php use_helper('sfAsset') ?> <?php use_javascript('ckeditor/ckeditor') /* must point to your actual path of CKEditor */ ?> For example if id of textarea is `myrich` then somewhare under this field we need to put [php] <script type="text/javascript"> CKEDITOR.replace( 'myrich', { filebrowserBrowseUrl : '<?php echo get_asset_url() ?>', filebrowserUploadUrl : '<?php echo get_asset_url() ?>' }); </script> Please refer to [official documentation](http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/Developers_Guide) for more detailed configuration. >**TIP**: For use with an admin generated module, place Java Script with CKEDITOR.replace >in the `_form_footer.php` partial in the `templates/` directory of the module. >To add id in a `generator.yml`, do as follows: For use with an admin generated module: [yml] generator: # ... config: # ... form: fields: foo: { attributes: { id: myrich, rows: 5, cols: 70 } } >**TIP**: To use ckeditor for all textareas in form globaly use CKEDITOR.replaceAll() >Please refer to [official documentation](http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.html#.replaceAll) >for more detailed configuration. Using the form's widget ----------------------- Traditionally, when an asset has to be referenced in a form, a file input is used (`<input type='file'>`). It allows the user to upload a file from his computer to the server, and this file can be further embedded in a rich text content. Using the `sfDoctrineAssetsLibraryPlugin`, you can change this control into some sort of file input that refers to the assets library, or, to put it differently, to the files located on the server in `web/media`. The plugin comes with a special widget for that purpose, the `sfWidgetFormAssetInput`. Use is just like a regular widget: [php] public function configure() { $this->widgetSchema['asset_id'] = new sfWidgetFormAssetInput(); // usually you don't need to define validator, it should be already defined in generated form $this->validatorSchema['asset_id'] = new sfValidatorPropelChoice('model' => 'sfAsset'); } If not in admin generator, remember to use `use_javascripts_for_form($form)` in your form's template. This input is not a real file input tag, meaning that the chosen asset file will not be posted with the request. Instead, the action will be able to retrieve the asset file path relative to the web root, exactly what is needed to display it. Incidentally, this means that your form doesn't need to be set multipart. Optionally, you can restrict the choice of possible assets in this input to images only, as follows: [php] $this->widgetSchema['asset_id'] = new sfWidgetFormAssetInput(array('asset_type' => 'image')) Thumbnails of PDF files ----------------------- If you use ImageMagick, a nice thumbnail of PDF file is generated and used instead of default type icon. Since the current version of `sfThumbnailPlugin` does not support generation of single page thumbnails, this is working only with single page files. If you add a PDF with multiple pages, wrong thumbnails (with subsequent numbers in name) will be generated. You can apply the patch found on [this ticket](http://trac.symfony-project.org/ticket/9059) to avoid this problem. TODO ---- * Make list of ignored files and folders configurable in synchronize task * 100% model coverage for unit tests * Drag and drop manipulation for file and folders * Screencast to show installation and usage |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51505 | Name Tag Trade
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Participants will learn names and quick facts about each other.
Group Size
Name tags of some kind.
Set Up
All participants must have a name tag already on, or a slip of paper that has their name on it. It should be removable.
Participants are to pair up. Once they have a partner they will trade name tags. Before they give someone else their name tag they will share 3 facts about themselves. For example: My name is Joe. I have a dog. I like vanilla ice cream. And I and from New York.
Once they share that information they trade tags and "become" the other person. They find a new partner and introduce themselves as the person whose name tag they have. For example: Whoever now has Joe's tag, introduces themeselves as Joe and repeats the same 3 facts.
You will always provide 3 facts about who you are, regardless of whether you remember the correct facts. For example: The person and ends the game with Joe's name tag may have 3 inaccurate facts.
This game can continue for as long as the facilitator would like (usually between 5 and 10 minutes, depending on the group size). The hope is that they go around to at least 3 people. At the end of the game, they will scrabble to find the person whose name tag they are holding.
Ask participants to share the name and facts of the last name tag they had to find out it they were accurate or not.
You can also prompt them to answer questions about communication among a large group of people. Another way to debrief is discuss active listening. How did some people manage to remember all the facts? Why did some people forget the facts immediately?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51516 | Weighted Attribute Fusion Model for Face Recognition
Date Added: Jul 2010
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Recognizing a face based on its attributes is an easy task for a human to perform as it is a cognitive process. In recent years, Face Recognition is achieved with different kinds of facial features which were used separately or in a combined manner. Currently, Feature fusion methods and parallel methods are the facial features used and performed by integrating multiple feature sets at different levels. However, this integration and the combinational methods do not guarantee better result. Hence to achieve better results, the feature fusion model with multiple weighted facial attribute set is selected. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51536 | FAA pushed to let people play with their gizmos, aloft
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We would cautiously propose that accidentally leaving your phone on doesn't frequently make planes fall from the sky, but now the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is reportedly considering letting passengers keep their electronics on.
Turning off electronics is generally more of an inconvenience to airline staff who are bound by their jobs to prod stubborn passengers, but the FAA may save them the trouble by the end of the year. According to a group that works with the FAA, rules may be relaxed on reading devices only - so you'll still have to switch your phone off.
A member of this group and an FAA deepthroat, under anonymity, told the New York Times that the agency is "under tremendous pressure" to either allow passengers to use reading devices or at least to scientifically explain why they can't.
Bookish frequent flyers are increasingly using electronics for reading, like the Kindle or the iPad, because they're often lighter than a book and can store plenty of them on a single device. Although they can't compete with the old fashioned charm of a well thumbed paperback, you can't play non-literary anti-classics like Fruit Ninja on a bestseller.
The industry working group tasked with a solution includes Boeing, the Association of Flight Attendants, the Federal Communicatiosn Commission, and aircraft makers - tellingly it also has on its roster the Consumer Electronics Association and Amazon.
According to a summary document from the group, seen by the New York Times, as well as letting passengers read prod-free, it also wants to stop flight attendants from having to be the "social police".
It's hoped the existing regulations will be replaced by a concise, single new approach.
As the NY Times points out, as the wearable electronics trend looks to be on the up-and-up, flight attendants won't be keen to tell passengers to turn off their glasses or shut down their watch. |
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The clash we all wanted to see - and one week early to boot
Jeff Kennett with Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson last year. The inevitable role of the former in the forthcoming drama is the only downside to it.
Jeff Kennett with Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson last year. The inevitable role of the former in the forthcoming drama is the only downside to it. Photo: Sebastian Costanzo
As much as we've admired Port Adelaide's efforts in 2013 and again last Friday night, Geelong's eventual win has at least given us Melburnians two bumper games to close out the season, a premiership decider as well as this week the grand final you have when you're not having one. The Cats and the Hawks have consistently provided the best entertainment of the season for the past five years. Their clash in the year's second-most important game contains enough subplots for several documentaries before the ball is even bounced. And Jeff Kennett's inevitable role in the drama? Well, there's a downside to everything.
We're starting to lose count of how many times this issue has cropped up under this heading in 2013, but seriously, is there any chance we can get the goal review process working at least half-decently? Much was made of the new ''real time'' technology introduced late in the season to make these adjudications easier. But on Saturday night, after Carlton's Kade Simpson had lunged at a shot from Josh Kennedy bouncing through, all we got were four irrelevant angles. The only one that really mattered, on the goal line, was conspicuously absent. We've had that shot other weeks. Why not in the third-most important week of the season?
St Moritz skating rink. Wet 'N' Wild. You could call the surface of ANZ Stadium on Saturday night many things. What you definitely couldn't call it was an appropriate surface for an AFL final. Stadium managers shrugged off the inadvertent staging of ''Benny Hill on ice'' by citing the lack of complaint from the clubs (one had bigger fish to fry and the other didn't want to be seen to be making excuses) and muttering something about dew. Hate to think what impact a genuine shower would have had on the spectacle if some moisture in the air caused that amount of chaos. As for the pitiful crowd of 37,000, how's that promotion of the game in west Sydney going again?
Blues remained in touch on the scoreboard for a half, but were toast once Sydney started to convert its dominance in possession. Walker a good contributor in defence and Simpson a real trier in his 200th game, but a quiet one for Judd didn't help. Carlton midfield generally simply didn't have the depth of its opponent. Blues didn't tackle hard or often enough and a largely impotent forward line didn't work hard enough to lock the ball in, with predictable results. Some good moments for Carlton in recent weeks, but Blues still a fair way below top four quality, and potential arrival of a big name or two in trade period can't come quickly enough.
Cats were in all sorts of trouble at half-time but pulled out a vintage third quarter, their 19th winning third term of the season. Fightback was spearheaded not only by the midfield class of skipper Selwood and old stager Kelly, but dash of Stokes and Varcoe, the latter's improvement timely. Chapman's guile and goal scoring critical and his loss at the hands of match review panel would be a bitter blow, but encouraging signs from key forward Hawkins towards the finish. Preliminary final against Hawthorn awaits, the Cats at as long odds as they've been against their rival, but buoyed by their phenomenal record against the Hawks over the past five years.
Lost the game and bowed out of the finals, but the Power emerges from 2013 with all sorts of credits on and off the field, a seeming basket case restored to respectability and with its future bright. Performance against Geelong indicative of the ‘never give up' ethos Ken Hinkley has brought with him, Port refusing to buckle even when the cause looked lost. Skipper Boak has led magnificently, veterans Cornes and Cassisi continue to prove their worth, and midfield group comprising the captain, Wingard, Wines, Ebert and Hartlett looks set to be one of the best in the competition. Lower profile likes of Pittard, Lobbe and Jonas all coming along nicely, too.
Many sceptics wrote the Swans off as too injured and tired, but comfortable semi-final win over Carlton was a tremendous response, led from the front by co-captain and potential leather poisoning victim McVeigh. Hannebery back near his best, Jack, O'Keefe and Kennedy prolific, and Grundy and Richards, like all Sydney backmen full of attacking instinct. Perth final against Fremantle is about as big a challenge as there is, particularly with more injuries and Goodes' season now officially over, but one the Swans will tackle with confidence given their liking for the space available on Subiaco and a tremendous recent record of six wins from last eight starts there.
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• Cats showed in second half last game they have turned their form around. Hawthorn are not balanced with Buddy in the side. If Chappie doesn't play it's a loss however he didn't play last time they met either.
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September 16, 2013, 9:20AM
• That Paul Chapman was reported for the bump on Friday night is reasonable in itself, just as Buddy Franklin was before, but the review panel are failing to be consistent.
Last weekend Freemantle's Dawson was reported for a an appalling hit on Joel Selwood. Dawson left the turf and launched himself towards Selwood in a totally reckless way. He collected Selwood in the head with his hip! His hip he was that high and this was well after he had disposed of the ball. I don't know how Selwood wasn't concussed from it. Yes, there was a free kick. yet unbelievably the MRP deemed the hit not even worthy of one week.
If Chapman is sidelined for the other night then it's a farce. Or is it just that it suits the AFL for Freemantle to get an easy ride, as having them in the Granny and possibly winning is good for their 'National' competition?
Justice for all
Date and time
September 16, 2013, 11:29AM
• Ah yes, the clearest sign of the AFL's bias towards Fremantle (note: that's how it's spelt) is that that incident took place in Geelong (at a ground not on the list of approved venues a week before).
Apparently, the difference was that Dawson was trying to block the handball over-the-top, and not trying to make contact with Selwood at all. And to be fair, Selwood probably dropped at the knees in an automatic response to possible contact...
But I was a little surprised there was no case to answer. My alternative conspiracy theory is that the AFL, like many Freo fans, believe that Freo's a better team without Dawson....
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September 17, 2013, 3:35PM
• Benny Hill on ice? Actually Benny Hill on grass would be an apt description of AFL today. Other options - a flock of seagulls fighting over a chip, or a cross between a bowl of spaghetti and the fall of Saigon. Whatever it is, it's not the same attractive game they played 30 years ago before flooding and unlimited substitutions, as Alex Jesaulenko recently pointed out. For the non-fanatic its really become just a drain on our player pool to take on other countries in sports the rest of the world cares about, and where national pride is at stake.
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September 16, 2013, 10:42PM
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GWS 119 vs GCF 53 Stats
PTA 99 vs HAW 91 Stats
FRE 74 vs SYD 60 Stats
Sun, 26 AprTimes shown AEST
BRI 65 vs WCE 118 Stats
GEE 67 vs NTH 83 Stats
WBU 125 vs ADE 68 Stats
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Round 5
Fri, 01 MayTimes shown AEST
CAR 45 vs COL 120 Stats
Sat, 02 MayTimes shown AEST
RIC 76 vs GEE 85 Stats
SYD 73 vs WBU 77 Stats
GCF 118 vs BRI 54 Stats
NTH 70 vs HAW 130 Stats
WCE 120 vs GWS 33 Stats
Sun, 03 MayTimes shown AEST
MEL 50 vs FRE 118 Stats
STK 80 vs ESS 82 Stats
ADE 91 vs PTA 115 Stats
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Round 6
Fri, 08 MayTimes shown AEST
COL 59 vs GEE 100 Stats
Sat, 09 MayTimes shown AEST
NTH 109 vs RIC 74 Stats
WBU 87 vs STK 94 Stats
GWS 108 vs HAW 98 Stats
GCF 78 vs ADE 119 Stats
MEL 50 vs SYD 88 Stats
FRE 80 vs ESS 52 Stats
Sun, 10 MayTimes shown AEST
CAR 75 vs BRI 84 Report Stats
PTA 68 vs WCE 78 Stats
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Round 7
Fri, 15 MayTimes shown AEST
ESS 82 vs NTH 93 Stats
Sat, 16 MayTimes shown AEST
ADE 119 vs STK 73 Stats
HAW 155 vs MEL 50 Stats
CAR 57 vs GWS 135 Stats
SYD 120 vs GEE 77 Stats
WCE 135 vs GCF 43 Stats
Sun, 17 MayTimes shown AEST
WBU 88 vs FRE 101 Stats
RIC 105 vs COL 100 Report Stats
BRI 102 vs PTA 65 Report Stats
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Round 8
Fri, 22 MayTimes shown AEST
GEE 140 vs CAR 63 Report Stats
Sat, 23 MayTimes shown AEST
STK 78 vs WCE 131 Report Stats
GWS 108 vs ADE 84 Report Stats
GCF 63 vs COL 132 Report Stats
HAW 69 vs SYD 73 Report Stats
FRE 115 vs NTH 42 Report Stats
Sun, 24 MayTimes shown AEST
ESS 136 vs BRI 78 Report Stats
MEL 103 vs WBU 64 Report Stats
PTA 43 vs RIC 76 Report Stats
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Round 9
Fri, 29 MayTimes shown AEST
SYD 122 vs CAR 62 Report Stats
Sat, 30 MayTimes shown AEST
HAW 93 vs GCF 40 Report Stats
MEL 54 vs PTA 115 Report Stats
WBU 113 vs GWS 68 Report Stats
RIC 72 vs ESS 59 Report Stats
ADE 57 vs FRE 68 Report Stats
Sun, 31 MayTimes shown AEST
BRI 86 vs STK 108 Report Stats
COL 112 vs NTH 95 Report Stats
WCE 120 vs GEE 64 Report Stats
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Round 10
Fri, 05 JunTimes shown AEST
FRE vs RIC 20:10Domain Stadium
Sat, 06 JunTimes shown AEST
CAR vs ADE 13:40MCG
GCF vs SYD 16:35MS
ESS vs GEE 19:20ES
PTA vs WBU 19:40Adelaide Oval
Sun, 07 JunTimes shown AEST
GWS vs BRI 13:10Spotless Stadium
NTH vs WCE 15:20BA
STK vs HAW 16:40ES
Mon, 08 JunTimes shown AEST
MEL vs COL 15:20MCG
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Round 11
Fri, 12 JunTimes shown AEST
PTA vs GEE 19:50Adelaide Oval
Sat, 13 JunTimes shown AEST
GCF vs FRE 13:40MS
WCE vs ESS 16:35Domain Stadium
NTH vs SYD 19:20ES
Sun, 14 JunTimes shown AEST
COL vs GWS 13:10MCG
STK vs MEL 16:40ES
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Round 12
Thu, 18 JunTimes shown AEST
ADE vs HAW 19:50Adelaide Oval
Fri, 19 JunTimes shown AEST
RIC vs WCE 19:50MCG
Sat, 20 JunTimes shown AEST
CAR vs PTA 13:40MCG
GWS vs NTH 16:35Spotless Stadium
WBU vs BRI 19:20ES
Sun, 21 JunTimes shown AEST
GEE vs MEL 15:20SS
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Round 13
Thu, 25 JunTimes shown AEST
FRE vs COL 20:10Domain Stadium
Fri, 26 JunTimes shown AEST
SYD vs RIC 19:50SCG
Sat, 27 JunTimes shown AEST
HAW vs ESS 13:40MCG
BRI vs ADE 16:35G
STK vs WBU 19:20ES
Sun, 28 JunTimes shown AEST
CAR vs GCF 15:20ES
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Round 14
Thu, 02 JulTimes shown AEST
SYD vs PTA 19:20SCG
Fri, 03 JulTimes shown AEST
COL vs HAW 19:50MCG
Sat, 04 JulTimes shown AEST
RIC vs GWS 13:40MCG
GCF vs NTH 16:35MS
WBU vs CAR 19:20ES
MEL vs WCE 19:40TIO
Sun, 05 JulTimes shown AEST
ESS vs STK 13:10ES
ADE vs GEE 15:20Adelaide Oval
FRE vs BRI 16:40Domain Stadium
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Round 15
Thu, 09 JulTimes shown AEST
PTA vs COL 19:50Adelaide Oval
Fri, 10 JulTimes shown AEST
RIC vs CAR 19:50MCG
Sat, 11 JulTimes shown AEST
ESS vs MEL 13:40MCG
WBU vs GCF 16:35CAZ
NTH vs GEE 19:20ES
WCE vs ADE 19:40Domain Stadium
Sun, 12 JulTimes shown AEST
GWS vs STK 13:10Spotless Stadium
HAW vs FRE 15:20AS
BRI vs SYD 16:40G
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Round 16
Fri, 17 JulTimes shown AEST
NTH vs ESS 19:50ES
Sat, 18 JulTimes shown AEST
GEE vs WBU 13:45SS
GCF vs GWS 14:10MS
COL vs WCE 16:35ES
SYD vs HAW 19:20ANZ
FRE vs CAR 19:40Domain Stadium
Sun, 19 JulTimes shown AEST
MEL vs BRI 13:10MCG
PTA vs ADE 15:20Adelaide Oval
STK vs RIC 16:40ES
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Round 17
Fri, 24 JulTimes shown AEST
CAR vs HAW 19:50ES
Sat, 25 JulTimes shown AEST
GWS vs GEE 13:45SO
ADE vs GCF 14:10Adelaide Oval
RIC vs FRE 16:35MCG
ESS vs PTA 19:20ES
BRI vs NTH 19:20G
Sun, 26 JulTimes shown AEST
WBU vs COL 13:10ES
MEL vs STK 15:20MCG
WCE vs SYD 16:40Domain Stadium
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Round 18
Fri, 31 JulTimes shown AEST
HAW vs RIC 19:50MCG
Sat, 01 AugTimes shown AEST
GEE vs BRI 13:45SS
COL vs MEL 14:10MCG
SYD vs ADE 16:35SCG
CAR vs NTH 19:20ES
GCF vs WCE 19:20MS
Sun, 02 AugTimes shown AEST
PTA vs STK 13:10Adelaide Oval
ESS vs WBU 15:20ES
FRE vs GWS 16:40Domain Stadium
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Round 19
Fri, 07 AugTimes shown AEST
ADE vs RIC 19:50Adelaide Oval
Sat, 08 AugTimes shown AEST
COL vs CAR 13:45MCG
WBU vs PTA 14:10ES
BRI vs GCF 16:35G
GEE vs SYD 19:20SS
WCE vs HAW 19:40Domain Stadium
Sun, 09 AugTimes shown AEST
MEL vs NTH 13:10MCG
GWS vs ESS 15:20Spotless Stadium
STK vs FRE 16:40ES
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Round 20
Fri, 14 AugTimes shown AEST
SYD vs COL 19:50SCG
Sat, 15 AugTimes shown AEST
ESS vs ADE 13:45ES
NTH vs STK 14:10BA
PTA vs GWS 16:35Adelaide Oval
GEE vs HAW 19:20MCG
BRI vs CAR 19:20G
Sun, 16 AugTimes shown AEST
RIC vs GCF 13:10MCG
WBU vs MEL 15:20ES
FRE vs WCE 16:40Domain Stadium
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Round 21
Fri, 21 AugTimes shown AEST
HAW vs PTA 19:50ES
Sat, 22 AugTimes shown AEST
COL vs RIC 13:45MCG
GWS vs SYD 14:10Spotless Stadium
GCF vs ESS 16:35MS
STK vs GEE 19:20ES
ADE vs BRI 19:40Adelaide Oval
Sun, 23 AugTimes shown AEST
NTH vs FRE 13:10ES
CAR vs MEL 15:20MCG
WCE vs WBU 16:40Domain Stadium
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Round 22
Fri, 28 AugTimes shown AEST
GEE vs COL 19:50MCG
Sat, 29 AugTimes shown AEST
GWS vs CAR 13:45Spotless Stadium
HAW vs BRI 14:10AS
NTH vs WBU 16:35ES
ESS vs RIC 19:20MCG
GCF vs PTA 19:20MS
Sun, 30 AugTimes shown AEST
ADE vs WCE 13:10Adelaide Oval
STK vs SYD 15:20ES
FRE vs MEL 16:40Domain Stadium
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Round 23
Fri, 04 SepTimes shown AEST
COL vs ESS 00:00MCG
RIC vs NTH 00:00ES
HAW vs CAR 00:00MCG
GEE vs ADE 00:00SS
SYD vs GCF 00:00SCG
MEL vs GWS 00:00ES
BRI vs WBU 00:00G
PTA vs FRE 00:30Adelaide Oval
WCE vs STK 02:00Domain Stadium
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AFL 2015
Overall standings
Team P W L D % Pts
Fremantle 9 9 0 0 151.61 36
West Coast Eagles 9 7 2 0 161.19 28
Sydney Swans 9 7 2 0 134.49 28
Collingwood 9 6 3 0 128.24 24
GWS Giants 9 6 3 0 110.26 24
Hawthorn 9 5 4 0 151.26 20
Adelaide Crows 9 5 4 0 113.37 20
Richmond 9 5 4 0 108.86 20
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Round 1
Thu, 02 AprTimes shown AEDT
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Sat, 04 AprTimes shown AEDT
MEL 115 vs GCF 89 Stats
SYD 72 vs ESS 60 Stats
BRI 74 vs COL 86 Stats
WBU 97 vs WCE 87 Stats
Sun, 05 AprTimes shown AEST
STK 78 vs GWS 87 Stats
ADE 140 vs NTH 63 Stats
FRE 75 vs PTA 68 Stats
Mon, 06 AprTimes shown AEST
HAW 123 vs GEE 61 Stats
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Round 2
Fri, 10 AprTimes shown AEST
WCE 131 vs CAR 62 Stats
Sat, 11 AprTimes shown AEST
RIC 66 vs WBU 85 Report Stats
GWS 101 vs MEL 56 Stats
COL 63 vs ADE 90 Report Stats
GCF 76 vs STK 104 Stats
PTA 44 vs SYD 92 Stats
Sun, 12 AprTimes shown AEST
GEE 60 vs FRE 104 Stats
ESS 78 vs HAW 76 Stats
NTH 133 vs BRI 51 Stats
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Round 3
Fri, 17 AprTimes shown AEST
COL 140 vs STK 66 Stats
Sat, 18 AprTimes shown AEST
CAR 84 vs ESS 105 Stats
ADE 80 vs MEL 55 Stats
SYD 111 vs GWS 90 Report Stats
NTH 105 vs PTA 113 Stats
BRI 58 vs RIC 137 Stats
Sun, 19 AprTimes shown AEST
HAW 127 vs WBU 57 Stats
GEE 105 vs GCF 96 Stats
WCE 81 vs FRE 111 Stats
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Round 4
Fri, 24 AprTimes shown AEST
RIC 51 vs MEL 83 Stats
Sat, 25 AprTimes shown AEST
STK 81 vs CAR 121 Report Report Stats
ESS 49 vs COL 69 Report Stats
GWS 119 vs GCF 53 Stats
PTA 99 vs HAW 91 Stats
FRE 74 vs SYD 60 Stats
Sun, 26 AprTimes shown AEST
BRI 65 vs WCE 118 Stats
GEE 67 vs NTH 83 Stats
WBU 125 vs ADE 68 Stats
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Round 5
Fri, 01 MayTimes shown AEST
CAR 45 vs COL 120 Stats
Sat, 02 MayTimes shown AEST
RIC 76 vs GEE 85 Stats
SYD 73 vs WBU 77 Stats
GCF 118 vs BRI 54 Stats
NTH 70 vs HAW 130 Stats
WCE 120 vs GWS 33 Stats
Sun, 03 MayTimes shown AEST
MEL 50 vs FRE 118 Stats
STK 80 vs ESS 82 Stats
ADE 91 vs PTA 115 Stats
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Round 6
Fri, 08 MayTimes shown AEST
COL 59 vs GEE 100 Stats
Sat, 09 MayTimes shown AEST
NTH 109 vs RIC 74 Stats
WBU 87 vs STK 94 Stats
GWS 108 vs HAW 98 Stats
GCF 78 vs ADE 119 Stats
MEL 50 vs SYD 88 Stats
FRE 80 vs ESS 52 Stats
Sun, 10 MayTimes shown AEST
CAR 75 vs BRI 84 Report Stats
PTA 68 vs WCE 78 Stats
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Round 7
Fri, 15 MayTimes shown AEST
ESS 82 vs NTH 93 Stats
Sat, 16 MayTimes shown AEST
ADE 119 vs STK 73 Stats
HAW 155 vs MEL 50 Stats
CAR 57 vs GWS 135 Stats
SYD 120 vs GEE 77 Stats
WCE 135 vs GCF 43 Stats
Sun, 17 MayTimes shown AEST
WBU 88 vs FRE 101 Stats
RIC 105 vs COL 100 Report Stats
BRI 102 vs PTA 65 Report Stats
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Round 8
Fri, 22 MayTimes shown AEST
GEE 140 vs CAR 63 Report Stats
Sat, 23 MayTimes shown AEST
STK 78 vs WCE 131 Report Stats
GWS 108 vs ADE 84 Report Stats
GCF 63 vs COL 132 Report Stats
HAW 69 vs SYD 73 Report Stats
FRE 115 vs NTH 42 Report Stats
Sun, 24 MayTimes shown AEST
ESS 136 vs BRI 78 Report Stats
MEL 103 vs WBU 64 Report Stats
PTA 43 vs RIC 76 Report Stats
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Round 9
Fri, 29 MayTimes shown AEST
SYD 122 vs CAR 62 Report Stats
Sat, 30 MayTimes shown AEST
HAW 93 vs GCF 40 Report Stats
MEL 54 vs PTA 115 Report Stats
WBU 113 vs GWS 68 Report Stats
RIC 72 vs ESS 59 Report Stats
ADE 57 vs FRE 68 Report Stats
Sun, 31 MayTimes shown AEST
BRI 86 vs STK 108 Report Stats
COL 112 vs NTH 95 Report Stats
WCE 120 vs GEE 64 Report Stats
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Round 10
Fri, 05 JunTimes shown AEST
FRE vs RIC 20:10Domain Stadium
Sat, 06 JunTimes shown AEST
CAR vs ADE 13:40MCG
GCF vs SYD 16:35MS
ESS vs GEE 19:20ES
PTA vs WBU 19:40Adelaide Oval
Sun, 07 JunTimes shown AEST
GWS vs BRI 13:10Spotless Stadium
NTH vs WCE 15:20BA
STK vs HAW 16:40ES
Mon, 08 JunTimes shown AEST
MEL vs COL 15:20MCG
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Round 11
Fri, 12 JunTimes shown AEST
PTA vs GEE 19:50Adelaide Oval
Sat, 13 JunTimes shown AEST
GCF vs FRE 13:40MS
WCE vs ESS 16:35Domain Stadium
NTH vs SYD 19:20ES
Sun, 14 JunTimes shown AEST
COL vs GWS 13:10MCG
STK vs MEL 16:40ES
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Round 12
Thu, 18 JunTimes shown AEST
ADE vs HAW 19:50Adelaide Oval
Fri, 19 JunTimes shown AEST
RIC vs WCE 19:50MCG
Sat, 20 JunTimes shown AEST
CAR vs PTA 13:40MCG
GWS vs NTH 16:35Spotless Stadium
WBU vs BRI 19:20ES
Sun, 21 JunTimes shown AEST
GEE vs MEL 15:20SS
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Round 13
Thu, 25 JunTimes shown AEST
FRE vs COL 20:10Domain Stadium
Fri, 26 JunTimes shown AEST
SYD vs RIC 19:50SCG
Sat, 27 JunTimes shown AEST
HAW vs ESS 13:40MCG
BRI vs ADE 16:35G
STK vs WBU 19:20ES
Sun, 28 JunTimes shown AEST
CAR vs GCF 15:20ES
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Round 14
Thu, 02 JulTimes shown AEST
SYD vs PTA 19:20SCG
Fri, 03 JulTimes shown AEST
COL vs HAW 19:50MCG
Sat, 04 JulTimes shown AEST
RIC vs GWS 13:40MCG
GCF vs NTH 16:35MS
WBU vs CAR 19:20ES
MEL vs WCE 19:40TIO
Sun, 05 JulTimes shown AEST
ESS vs STK 13:10ES
ADE vs GEE 15:20Adelaide Oval
FRE vs BRI 16:40Domain Stadium
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Round 15
Thu, 09 JulTimes shown AEST
PTA vs COL 19:50Adelaide Oval
Fri, 10 JulTimes shown AEST
RIC vs CAR 19:50MCG
Sat, 11 JulTimes shown AEST
ESS vs MEL 13:40MCG
WBU vs GCF 16:35CAZ
NTH vs GEE 19:20ES
WCE vs ADE 19:40Domain Stadium
Sun, 12 JulTimes shown AEST
GWS vs STK 13:10Spotless Stadium
HAW vs FRE 15:20AS
BRI vs SYD 16:40G
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Round 16
Fri, 17 JulTimes shown AEST
NTH vs ESS 19:50ES
Sat, 18 JulTimes shown AEST
GEE vs WBU 13:45SS
GCF vs GWS 14:10MS
COL vs WCE 16:35ES
SYD vs HAW 19:20ANZ
FRE vs CAR 19:40Domain Stadium
Sun, 19 JulTimes shown AEST
MEL vs BRI 13:10MCG
PTA vs ADE 15:20Adelaide Oval
STK vs RIC 16:40ES
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Round 17
Fri, 24 JulTimes shown AEST
CAR vs HAW 19:50ES
Sat, 25 JulTimes shown AEST
GWS vs GEE 13:45SO
ADE vs GCF 14:10Adelaide Oval
RIC vs FRE 16:35MCG
ESS vs PTA 19:20ES
BRI vs NTH 19:20G
Sun, 26 JulTimes shown AEST
WBU vs COL 13:10ES
MEL vs STK 15:20MCG
WCE vs SYD 16:40Domain Stadium
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Round 18
Fri, 31 JulTimes shown AEST
HAW vs RIC 19:50MCG
Sat, 01 AugTimes shown AEST
GEE vs BRI 13:45SS
COL vs MEL 14:10MCG
SYD vs ADE 16:35SCG
CAR vs NTH 19:20ES
GCF vs WCE 19:20MS
Sun, 02 AugTimes shown AEST
PTA vs STK 13:10Adelaide Oval
ESS vs WBU 15:20ES
FRE vs GWS 16:40Domain Stadium
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Round 19
Fri, 07 AugTimes shown AEST
ADE vs RIC 19:50Adelaide Oval
Sat, 08 AugTimes shown AEST
COL vs CAR 13:45MCG
WBU vs PTA 14:10ES
BRI vs GCF 16:35G
GEE vs SYD 19:20SS
WCE vs HAW 19:40Domain Stadium
Sun, 09 AugTimes shown AEST
MEL vs NTH 13:10MCG
GWS vs ESS 15:20Spotless Stadium
STK vs FRE 16:40ES
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Round 20
Fri, 14 AugTimes shown AEST
SYD vs COL 19:50SCG
Sat, 15 AugTimes shown AEST
ESS vs ADE 13:45ES
NTH vs STK 14:10BA
PTA vs GWS 16:35Adelaide Oval
GEE vs HAW 19:20MCG
BRI vs CAR 19:20G
Sun, 16 AugTimes shown AEST
RIC vs GCF 13:10MCG
WBU vs MEL 15:20ES
FRE vs WCE 16:40Domain Stadium
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Round 21
Fri, 21 AugTimes shown AEST
HAW vs PTA 19:50ES
Sat, 22 AugTimes shown AEST
COL vs RIC 13:45MCG
GWS vs SYD 14:10Spotless Stadium
GCF vs ESS 16:35MS
STK vs GEE 19:20ES
ADE vs BRI 19:40Adelaide Oval
Sun, 23 AugTimes shown AEST
NTH vs FRE 13:10ES
CAR vs MEL 15:20MCG
WCE vs WBU 16:40Domain Stadium
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Round 22
Fri, 28 AugTimes shown AEST
GEE vs COL 19:50MCG
Sat, 29 AugTimes shown AEST
GWS vs CAR 13:45Spotless Stadium
HAW vs BRI 14:10AS
NTH vs WBU 16:35ES
ESS vs RIC 19:20MCG
GCF vs PTA 19:20MS
Sun, 30 AugTimes shown AEST
ADE vs WCE 13:10Adelaide Oval
STK vs SYD 15:20ES
FRE vs MEL 16:40Domain Stadium
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Round 23
Fri, 04 SepTimes shown AEST
COL vs ESS 00:00MCG
RIC vs NTH 00:00ES
HAW vs CAR 00:00MCG
GEE vs ADE 00:00SS
SYD vs GCF 00:00SCG
MEL vs GWS 00:00ES
BRI vs WBU 00:00G
PTA vs FRE 00:30Adelaide Oval
WCE vs STK 02:00Domain Stadium
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AFL 2015
Overall standings
Team P W L D % Pts
Fremantle 9 9 0 0 151.61 36
West Coast Eagles 9 7 2 0 161.19 28
Sydney Swans 9 7 2 0 134.49 28
Collingwood 9 6 3 0 128.24 24
GWS Giants 9 6 3 0 110.26 24
Hawthorn 9 5 4 0 151.26 20
Adelaide Crows 9 5 4 0 113.37 20
Richmond 9 5 4 0 108.86 20
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51546 | There is no word for "cord cutter" in Dothraki
Gabriel Rossman --
A famous Oatmeal cartoon showed the cartoonist making a good faith effort to buy Game of Thrones. He finds that the show is not available on iTunes, Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu. He tries to buy HBO Go, but it's only available as an add-on to a cable package. Finally, the cartoonist gives up trying to pay for the show and pirates it through Bit Torrent. This cartoon is probably the best ever expression of the "piracy is a customer service issue" thesis.
In a way, this doesn't make any sense for HBO, which makes its money off subscriptions and would ostensibly welcome an opportunity to sell subscriptions to another market segment. HBO claims that (a) people aren't interested in a la carte HBO Go and (b) the transaction costs are too high to do their own billing, etc. The technical term for these explanations is "bullshit." Cord cutters are a relatively small market segment but a fast growing one and I think it unlikely that cable subscriptions will fully rebound when the recession ends since the issue isn't just price but convenience. Moreover, I see no reason why HBO can't handle billing and other logistical issues when the Metropolitan Opera and the NFL, not to mention Netflix, don't seem to have any trouble running their own separately billed streaming video services. Of course there are transaction costs associated with billing, but it can't possibly be anywhere close to the cost of a basic cable package.
Time Warner more or less acknowledges in their investor report that disruptive innovation could screw them: "Furthermore, advances in technology or changes in competitors' product and service offerings may require the Company to make additional research and development expenditures or offer products or services in a digital format without charge or at a lower price than offered in other formats." This is on the first page of the "risk factors" section of the report, whereas piracy doesn't come up until the third. This order is consistent with my own reading of the industry and with the history of the recorded music industry, the proximate problem of which is not piracy but digital singles.
So basically, we can call this the "HBO has to take one for the team" model. We can get a similar result with a slightly weaker model which doesn't require long-term corporate cross-subsidization but treats HBO as autonomous from the rest of Time Warner. In the short-term, HBO itself is highly dependent on cable companies. The target market for a la carte HBO Go would be households with broadband but no cable, or about 5% of all US households. This is dwarfed by the 20% of households that have cable but no broadband. Moreover, although 70% of households have both cable and broadband, most of them aren't familiar with streaming video through set-top devices. So as a rough ballpark, let's say that half of US households have cable but either lack broadband and or wouldn't know how to use it with a set-top device (even if they already own a Blu-Ray player or game console with built-in streaming support). This means that the number of households HBO could appeal to with a la carte HBO Go are one tenth as numerous as the households they rely on cable companies to reach. And HBO does rely on the cable companies to reach these households through marketing promotions and the like. If HBO figures that angering the cable companies could cost them even a small fraction of these households then they're better off alienating Matthew Inman and myself rather than angering Comcast. The same logic explains why Netflix is interested in creating a cable channel and recent rumors that Hulu will switch to the HBO Go business model.
Of course for the cable companies to punish HBO would require them to forgo their half of HBO subscription revenue. This sounds like cutting off your nose to spite your face but that's not unheard of, especially if doing so deters your face from pissing you off again by flirting with a disruptive business model. We see a similar dynamic with how theatrical exhibitors react whenever movie studios suggest closing the video release window from its current 17 weeks. (Ironically in this scenario it's the cable companies who are the innovators trying to disrupt the stodgy incumbents). For instance last year, Universal floated the idea of experimenting with tightening up the pay-per-view window for Tower Heist. The theaters were livid and threatened to boycott the test film. This despite the fact that the experiment was on ridiculously unappealing terms to the consumer: $60 to watch a mediocre film three weeks after theatrical premiere and that's only if you live in Atlanta or Portland. Ultimately Universal backed down, deciding it was better to keep their old trading partners happy than try to develop new ones.
(By the way, I'm sure you'll agree it's a total coincidence that Universal was bought by a cable company shortly before the Tower Heist incident. Similarly, a total coincidence that this same cable company has a history of playing hardball with internet companies that offer infrastructure for streaming video services that compete with cable TV).
All that is to say I can understand why HBO Go isn't available yet to cord cutters. Still, let's say that tomorrow HBO starts offering standalone HBO Go subscriptions (as I sincerely hope it does), how would I explain that? I could see this happening if HBO decides that the transition will happen eventually and it is better to do it while they can still do so favorably. We saw a similar dynamic ten years ago with the recorded music industry, which acceded to a low price point digital singles market as it saw its market share eroded by piracy, but only moderately so. In 2003, when the record labels agreed to participate in iTunes, unit sales were down about 15% from the pre-Napster peak, which wasn't fun but also wasn't catastrophic. Most people were still buying CDs when the record labels agreed to a legal digital singles market that would eventually destroy the CD market. They did so in order to transition consumers to a new model before most of us had fully committed to piracy. It's a lot easier to get someone to buy singles for $1 if they're used to buying CDs for $15 than if they're used to pirating singles for nothing. Similarly, as the number of cord-cutters increases this will be an increasingly attractive market for HBO, and not just because it can get these people as customers but because it can keep them from developing the habit of pirating content that isn't promptly made available through legitimate streaming markets. We may not be at that point yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if we reach it before HBO runs out of Fire and Ice novels to adapt. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51571 | Through the veil
Paul Allen is intrigued by a book club with a difference in Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran
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After teaching literature at three universities in Tehran (and being expelled or resigning in despair from each) Azar Nafisi picked seven of her best students and invited them to come to her home every week to discuss books. She and her students, all women, began to think of these classes as an escape from the reality of Iran's totalitarian theocracy; but the picture her book paints is of an escape to a true republic where they are all able to discover another reality - themselves.
The classes lasted from 1995 to 1997, when Nafisi left for the United States. But why Lolita? Nafisi's choice of Nabokov as an author to study is only partly an acknowledgement of the hard, precise beauty (and sometimes difficulty) of his prose, always read in English. In her class Humbert Humbert's seizure of his nymphet's life and identity becomes a metaphor for the way the radical Islamic state was treating its women - not least in his recording that it was Lolita who initiated their sexual relationship, the adolescent who seduced her stepfather; it felt as though radical Islam was blaming women.
But the seven students who unexpectedly bonded at Nafisi's home also responded enthusiastically to Nabokov's other work and particularly to his use of the Russian word poshlust. She quotes him: "It is not only the obviously trashy but mainly the falsely important, the falsely beautiful, the falsely attractive." These qualities linking the banal and the brutal are not exclusive to totalitarian society nor even the 20th century, but they have thrived happily in Stalinist Russia, Nazi Germany and now the priestly dictatorships too.
This book is not a political or even ethical analysis. It is taken for granted that the accusation that personal freedoms are a bourgeois and decadent concept is condescending and stupid; the problem of societies where historically only the privileged have had such freedoms is not addressed.
Although Nafisi's classes start with Shahrazad and the Thousand and One Nights, the book concentrates on the western literature that has been her academic subject; references to the great Persian tradition are few, and all the more frustrating because they can be so telling.
This is a highly personal memoir combined with literary criticism, but even that description needs qualifying. The students whose developing stories are part of its pleasure have been disguised for their own protection. Moreover, in a manner redolent of the Persian tradition, she refers throughout to one confidant simply as "my magician", conveying a near-mystical sense that he is a presiding genie in her life. This may be less than objective but it releases a story that is vivid, often heroic and sometimes funny in a ghastly way.
For instance, a friend starts to translate Ayatollah Khomenei's writings into English, an activity which will gain favour with the regime while actually exposing it to ridicule. Nafisi quotes a section in which the country's leader sanctions sex with animals as a way of keeping men's appetites under control. Is it all right to eat, say, a chicken you've had sex with? No, but you can feed it to a near neighbour, apparently.
Meanwhile Nafisi and her family survive bombs and missiles from Iraq (supported by the west), and having been expelled from one university for not wearing the veil, she is persuaded by a benevolent pragmatist to adopt it so she can work in another university, on the basis that some intellectual life is better than none; but eventually she is driven out of that one too.
The charismatic passion in the book is not simply for literature itself but for the kind of inspirational teaching of it which helps students to teach themselves by applying their own intelligence and emotions to what they are reading. When the group reads F Scott Fitzgerald, for instance, there are plenty of puritanical students to argue that The Great Gatsby is a poor role model. Following the fashion of the time and place, she encourages them to put the book on trial. There are speeches for the prosecution and defence, but the only witness is the book itself - and she plays the book. She closes the class before a vote is taken, but not before the dialogue has demonstrated both the positive value of the book and the pointlessness of analysing it in terms of role models.
Perhaps the most moving section relates to Henry James's Daisy Miller, whose heroine - in telling an emotionally reticent admirer not to be afraid - embraces her own difference and fate. It is with Daisy, in the end, that her students most identify and Nafisi's rather wonderful book touches a beauty of its own.
Paul Allen's biography Alan Ayckbourn: Grinning at the Edge is published by Methuen. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51577 | Guardian children's books podcast: Annabel Pitcher talks about Ketchup Clouds
Annabel Pitcher talks to Michelle Pauli about her new novel for teenagers, Ketchup Clouds, and reads from the opening
Annabel Pitcher's follow-up to her much-acclaimed first novel My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece featured a teenage girl who falls in love with two brothers. When one of them dies she is so riven with guilt she starts writing to a murderer who awaiting execution on America's death row to unburden herself of what she sees as her crime.
In this podcast Annabel reads from the start of Ketchup Clouds and talks about how she came to write such an unusual books.
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Read Mal Peet's review of Ketchup Clouds |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51578 | It was a question of who delivered our catchphrase first as we walked out of Good Night, and Good Luck, and my wife came in 15 seconds ahead. "Not many jokes," she said: a definitive judgment. By which she meant that a movie about media people battling McCarthyite odds ought to have some of the wry, coarse humour of any newsroom, as well as po-faced executives quivering over big issues. Life is serious, but not that serious - as I almost said a few weeks ago in my one and only real church sermon.
I chickened out, of course. If you're a neophyte preacher standing in the pulpit at Trinity Chapel, Dublin, sandwiched between a polyphonic mass and holy communion, you instinctively steer clear of gags. Through long childhood years of local church and Baptist chapel, then up to London to hear Dr Sangster or Soper, the great pulpit men of their era - prepare to be uplifted, not amused; prepare for light without shade.
And that, to this day, is one of my troubles with religion, my struggle at the hurdle of acceptance. Not many jokes. Not a trace of one vital ingredient of survival, hope, endurance that actually makes the world go round. I know that God is compassionate, wise and merciful, and mighty when raised to wrath, because I have been told so many times. But I do not know whether he has a sense of humour, because there is scant textual evidence to hint as much.
It's difficult, naturally, to talk about senses of humour without sounding as portentous as a researcher carrying clipboard and pencil. Do you like Noel Coward or Bernard Manning, Charlie Chaplin or Ricky Gervais? The choices and styles are infinite. Yet, on any short list of traits that separate humankind from the animal world, you'd have to put humour high on the list: an indispensable proof of our difference, of our humanity.
Organised religion, though, puts no such listing on its formal agenda. Sure, there are plenty of jolly priests in fiction and reality. The Vicar of Dibley and Don Camillo could happily watch Father Ted over a bottle of amontillado. The exceptionally entertaining chaplain of Trinity College knows all about cocktails in Bono's riverside bar. Wise-cracking rabbis work the comedy circuit and Thought for the Day with equal felicity.
But these are men and women of the cloth playing out of the pulpit, having normal good times, being as human as any of us (because they are). None of that addresses the dearth of evidence connecting their laughter with anything from Genesis on. Where does humour - the gift of self-knowledge and self-abnegation, among other things - come from? Not from the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount or any other passages I can run to earth. Maybe, trawling the extremities of the internet, there's an in-joke when Samson sets an obscure riddle. Maybe Abraham managed a grin when his 90-year-old wife bore him Isaac. Maybe the parting of the Red Sea had its lighter side, unless you were an Egyptian.
Not a word of this, however, adds up to the central recognition that humour exists, or matters. Either the bearers of Testament, Old and New, couldn't contrive a grin between them, or the thought never occurred to them because religion itself is so deadly earnest. Does the George Bush who makes knockabout after-dinner speeches keep any of that perspective when Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell starts born-again sermonising? Is there a trace of light or shade when the new Pope tears into the "clots of callousness" destroying family life? Where, just over the Muslim divide, can any flicker of wry reflection be found as demonstrators die over a few paltry cartoons?
If life is so unrelentingly serious, why did God give us a sense of humour in the first place? Why does he never mention it, or instruct us as to what it's for? We can excavate for ourselves, as Muriel Spark did, uncovering new mines of Catholic wit after her conversion, but it's a solitary mission: it stands to one side of how the church preaches, it finds no sustenance in scripture. Hellfire, damnation, evil and devilry ... They're all there, along with tolerance, understanding and the rest, in sermons of now and long ago. But the ability to smile, to shrug, to see the absurd as clearly as we're told to see the apocalyptic? That's the missing link. Not many jokes. So we have to write them for ourselves. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/51583 | Lauren Bacall, ca. 1945
Lauren Bacall … resisted the studio’s system’s attempts to shape her. Photograph: Courtesy Everett Collection/REX Courtesy Everett Collection/REX/Courtesy Everett Collection/REX
Whatever special qualities Lauren Bacall had, you can't help wishing that the world had more of them. She died on Tuesday, aged 89, of natural causes, after what seems to have been a satisfying life – which for someone of her background was remarkable.
A high-flying teenage model – Vogue, Harper's Bazaar – before she moved into acting, Bacall was signed up by Howard Hawks at 19 and groomed for film stardom, which, of course, she achieved. That may be the stuff of dreams. But it is also a standard recipe for troubled living and dying. Not for Bacall, though. She just appears to have handled it all, remaining both an iconic star and a well-adjusted person getting on with her life. She didn't even play the "I'm a well-adjusted person getting on with my life" card, living as she did in the Dakota hotel, New York, like a star.
I interviewed her years ago – supposedly. I can't remember what the interview was meant to be plugging, because we just talked, like we'd met in the pub and hit it off. Big stars like her quite often had PR people sitting in on interviews or hovering in the next room, in case either star or journalist strayed into unwelcome areas. There was no need for that with Bacall. She was so good at being herself that you just entirely forgot what a big deal that self was in minutes. We hadn't really "hit it off", of course. It wasn't like we became pen pals. She was just great at controlling interviews – subverting them, really. Being a star and at the same time disassociating herself from stardom.
Miriam Krule, a beady-eyed contributor to the US website Slate, has noted that with the death of Bacall, "the 16 icons name-dropped in Madonna's Vogue are now all dead". Without putting too fine a point on the significance or otherwise of this particular list, there really is a sense that Bacall's death marks the end of something – the end of orchestrated, ultra-glamorous, studio-system Hollywood. If so, there's something grand in the idea that the last survivor of that era was also the one who let it shape and define her the least.
But golden-age Hollywood shaped and defined so much else. Technology had exploded as a means of facilitating the mass-marketing of culture; of creating popular culture really, as opposed to folk culture, from which the jazz age came. Hollywood aimed to dazzle passive audiences and control them, portraying an establishment fairy-tale world that the masses would quietly consume, in their seats.
During that era, virtually all of popular culture was made in Hollywood's image, which was aggressively white and morally repressive, purveying simple morality tales in which the good people triumphed and the bad people met their downfall. In general terms, that ambitious and artificial edifice began to collapse quite quickly. Elvis Presley's stubborn involvement with Hollywood may have suffocated his own career but the king of rock'n'roll kickstarted the rise of youth culture, with its emphasis on individualism. The assertion of personal star power and the demise of the studio system was part of that, too. In some ways, it's all come full circle, as technology has advanced to the point where mass-market creativity is back – or at least gives the impression of being back – in the hands of the people, who, when they are not reviewing, critiquing, making and sharing culture, are going to see it, either live or at a place and time of their own choosing. There is a lot, of course, to choose from.
Back then, there wasn't, and Hollywood was able to dictate the terms under which mass culture spread its values and influence. While that position may not have remained absolute for long, it retains a strong influence to this day, most apparently in the grip it has over ideas of glamour. It created a certain kind of glamour – wonderful but dangerous; its possessor having the power to attract, but not the power to control what or who was attracted. The idea that glamour is a mask for vulnerability has potency to this day. So the most tragic among Hollywood's icons – Marilyn Monroe and James Dean – are the ones who remain most alive, most present in contemporary culture.
Monroe and Dean both make Madonna's list, unsurprisingly. Also unsurprisingly, the list is largely female. Women didn't dominate many things in the early part of the 20th century, but – pale-faced, pale-haired, meticulously dressed, draped and groomed – they did dominate glamour.
Even a star of Bacall's stature faded as her glamour dimmed. She found that her career, post youth, just didn't develop in the way that the careers of her male colleagues did. She still got some film roles, she did stage work, and she wasn't above doing promotional work. But she was not immune to the structural limitation of female glamour, which is that as it grows older, there are few positive roles for it.
So Bacall found herself touring the world in the 1980s, as Alexandra in Tennessee Williams's Sweet Bird of Youth – a fading actress playing a troubled, faded movie actress, whose main problem was that she was faded. Which was another problem Bacall didn't have. She was fond of declaring: "I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."
Lauren Bacall (centre) with Marilyn Monroe (left) and Betty Grable in How to Marry a Millionaire
Bacall (centre) with Marilyn Monroe (left) and Betty Grable in How to Marry a Millionaire from 1953. Photograph: Snap/REX Snap/REX/SNAP/REX
Contemporary female actors will, of course, confirm that the lack of roles for older women is an enduring problem. But it's interesting to note how firmly the tone had already been set in Bacall's day. Many of the controlling aspects of that golden age couldn't be sustained, and fell away. The racy and messy aspects of the lives of many Hollywood greats were sensationally exposed in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon book, igniting a tabloid celebrity culture that would eventually become criminally obtrusive. And the McCarthyite witch-hunts of the 1950s can clearly be seen as an ill-judged and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to get Hollywood firmly back under establishment control. Bacall, with her then-husband Humphrey Bogart, was mixed up in this herself, first standing with Hollywood colleagues accused of being communists, then taking pains to emphasise that they most certainly were not communists themselves. Yet, despite so many other liberations, the status of women in Hollywood has been comparatively untouched.
Hollywood retains great power and influence in the film and television industry, of course, and that's acknowledged, often bemoaned. But its power has long since stopped being monolithic. It absorbs and responds to many other cultural influences itself, and has to, to stay on top.
Even so, I wonder if it's entirely understood how completely those early days of Hollywood created a template that still dominates ideas about glamour. Pretty much all of that early propaganda about gender, especially the expectation that women in the public eye should be glossily beautiful, should be young and should be vulnerable – to the loss of youth and beauty if nothing else – is current, still highly contested, still damaging to women; and also, as a consequence, to men. Bacall lived and died in defiance of all of that, even as she took part in it. She remains an icon of much beyond Hollywood glamour, and always should. |
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