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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60401 | Listening #60 Jim Austin, May 2009
Jim Austin wrote about the Gibbon Nine in May 2009 (Vol.32 No.5):
Ambitious high-end audio designers face a difficult marketing challenge. On the one hand, to succeed, they have to get noticed. On the other hand, the qualities they must aspire to—in my opinion—do not attract attention. A fast, slick-looking car is easy to sell, but a really great loudspeaker is sonically retiring. Great audio gear is free of obvious sonic flaws, but the benefits of the very best, in my view, are not necessarily apparent with a brief audition. So how do you make an expensive product that sells well after only a short audition if its virtues do not put themselves forward? (A hint for dealers: The answer is not "Turn the music up really loud.")
I thought about this when I began this Follow-Up review of John DeVore's Gibbon Nine loudspeaker ($6500/pair), originally reviewed by Art Dudley in his "Listening" column in December 2007. The Gibbon Nine is a great example of an excellent product whose virtues do not jump out at you. All DeVore speakers are named after apes; so far, there are only Gibbons and gorillas (Silverbacks, to be precise). Given the ability of these lower apes to communicate music's emotional meaning, I can hardly wait to move higher up the evolutionary ladder—DeVore Humans, anyone?
It's impossible to know why one design fails while another succeeds, but there's a lot to be said for a sensible methodology. Instead of designing by oscilloscope or conducting tests in an anechoic chamber, DeVore listens to his products in real-world rooms all over New York City and beyond. He doesn't insist that every DeVore speaker will work in every room—he says the Nines are too big for his own living room, for example—but he does require that every DeVore speaker work in every room it matches with reasonably well. If a speaker isn't working in one of his test rooms, he says, he tweaks it until it sounds the way he wants it to.
Yet DeVore insists that he then tolerates no backsliding by that speaker in other rooms; an improvement in one room that makes a speaker sound worse in another room is rejected. It's a less efficient process than seeking a uniform frequency response in an anechoic chamber, but when he's done, DeVore has a speaker that sounds the way he wants it to in many different rooms. The result, in the present case, is a close approach to (subjective) neutrality and a lovely directness—an unpretentious, unaffected sound.
Sometimes, the absence of vice can be a great virtue—and that was the case with the Gibbon Nine's most obvious characteristic. While its highs were extended, there was no hint of glare or hardness or electronic haze—a consequence, perhaps, of another aspect of John DeVore's design brief: Just as he insists that his speakers integrate well with many different rooms, he also insists that they integrate well with a wide range of amplifiers.
However it's achieved, the Gibbon Nine's total absence of annoying or fatiguing qualities is a big part of what makes it special. I found it possible to listen harder and at higher volumes than I'm used to, in a more relaxed state of mind. The Nines allowed the music to stroke me with its aural and emotional textures. In his original review, AD praised the Nine's ability to deliver the music's emotional message, calling it the best he'd ever heard from such an outwardly conventional design. I've heard far fewer unconventional designs than Art has; all I can say is that the Nine's ability to deliver music's emotional essence was superior to that of any other speaker I've had in my home.
Despite its near neutrality, the Nine did have, I think, a slight coloration. It sounded "woody." Think of the sound of a well-struck wood block—this quality made strident recordings sound a touch warmer—I've even started listening to Internet radio—and accentuated the qualities I find most appealing in the kind of music I listen to. The wood and rosin of a cello, the resonance of an acoustic bass or guitar—these emerged a bit more clearly from good recordings. I've always said I love sounds at least as much as I love music; well, the Gibbon Nines revealed, or perhaps exaggerated very slightly, the sounds the music I love is made of. That's one of the keys, I think, to their ability to communicate human emotion.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60408 | Expectancy Theory
Equity theory, Expectancy theory, Motivation
Expectancy theory
The expectancy theory was proposed by Victor H. Vroom; this motivation theory is mainly based on the efforts of every individual, and their belief in achieving rewards. Furthermore individuals consider 3 main issues, before making an effort to perform at a given level. As mentioned by (Richards n.d.) (anonymous 2011)The first of them is Expectancy which is the belief of the employees that better efforts will result in better performance, which is something that the phone services company lacked, as they had a poor attitude towards work. The second thing is performance/instrumentality; it is the faith of the employees that now that they have done a good job, their rewards should definitely improve. Again this was another main or primary issue rather with the phone services company where they had a poor reward system, which meant that a person who’s only giving a 70% effort at his work would receive the same rewards as a person giving their 100%. Hereafter the last one is Valence/ satisfaction that is gained from the effort put in and the rewards achieved from doing so. So therefore in conclusion the phone services company must motivate their staff to put in more effort into their work, and reward them for doing so.
Equity Theory
The equity theory was developed by John Stacey Adams 1963, to explain how we identify and react to events that we see as inequitable and why managerial behaviors influence employee motivation and performance. According to this theory we prefer situations of balance, where the amount of input is equal to the amount of output we achieve. For example the efforts or inputs typically include effort, loyalty, hard work, commitment, tolerance etc. and outputs or rewards include such things as recognition, sense of achievement, praise, job security, promotion etc. (anonymous, Mind tools n.d.) (world press, green park n.d.)Furthermore the phone services company lacked this, as there was no input, whether it was from...
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John Paul Stevens
Face to Face: A Conversation with Frank Schnidman
Face to Face: A Conversation with Frank Schnidman
Frank Schnidman, an Florida Atlantic University economic development professor with 30 years of expertise in land policy issues, shares his view on eminent domain. Q. Before the Kelo case came down a year ago, there seemed to be brewing an escalation of this war between property rights and governments seizing property. A. Well, what's really interesting is that for more than 20 years, there has been a great deal of litigation controversy over the taking of private property from a regulatory basis. You know, how much could you decrease the value of a piece of property by regulation before it became a taking? But the public never really understood what it was all about. All of a... |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60427 | When to Go to the Birth Center
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It’s Time! Or Is It?
You might think it would feel very obvious when something as dramatic as giving birth is about to begin. And for some moms, it is. But for many others, labor has a more subtle beginning. First-time moms might be especially anxious, wondering if what they’re feeling means labor is starting.
Unless you have a history of fast labors, you won’t necessarily need to rush to the hospital the minute you start feeling contractions. Early labor can last for many hours and is the least intense part of the process, so many moms like to spend that time at home. If you come in too soon, you might be sent back home anyway, or spend more time than is needed at the hospital.
However, if you’re feeling possible signs of labor before your 37th week of pregnancy, call your doctor or midwife right away.
A good plan is to start timing your contractions, which will become stronger, longer and closer together as labor progresses. A general rule is to come in when contractions happen about every five minutes and last about 30 seconds each. Get a sense of their rhythm, and call your doctor or midwife who can tell you when to come in. Of course, if you’re at a point where you can’t talk and have to stop what you’re doing during a contraction, it’s definitely time to come in. The same is true if you feel a gush or a steady leak of fluid.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60443 | Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have identified a new malware targeting the Middle East that shares links to Stuxnet, Duqu, Flame and Gauss.
Dubbed miniFlame, the malware's code suggests that it was built on the same platform as the highly sophisticated Flame threat discovered in May. However, the functionality of miniFlame - called SPE by its authors - is different.
"Flame and Gauss are mostly about data and information stealing," Roel Schouwenberg, a senior researcher at Kaspersky Lab, said Monday via email. "MiniFlame serves as a backdoor which gives the operator direct access to an infected machine. So yes, the functionality and intent is different."
"If Flame and Gauss were massive spy operations, infecting thousands of users, SPE/miniFlame is a high precision espionage tool," the Kaspersky researchers said Monday in a blog post that details their findings.
MiniFlame is capable of downloading files from a command and control (C&C) server, uploading a file from the machine to the server, loading a specified DLL file, creating a process with given parameters or taking screen shots of the active window if it belongs to a program from a list.
MiniFlame has been in use since 2010
The list of programs targeted by the screen shot functionality includes instant messaging applications, browsers, document editors, development tools and others.
Kaspersky estimates the total number of miniFlame infections at between 50 and 60, far fewer than the number of Flame infections - 5,000 to 6,000, or Gauss infections - approximately 10,000.
Some IP (Internet Protocol) addresses associated with miniFlame-infected computers that contacted the C&C servers between May and September were from the US, France and Lithuania. Some of them correspond to proxy or VPN servers that might have been used by the malware's victims, but others do not.
Connection between Flame and Gauss
Kaspersky researchers had previously established a relationship between Flame and Gauss based on code similarities, but miniFlame's ability to function as a module for both threats represents the most conclusive proof that they are related.
The method used to infect computers with miniFlame has not been established yet, but the researchers believe that the malware might be downloaded and installed by Flame or Gauss. This is because most of the miniFlame-infected computers have also been infected with Flame or Gauss in the past.
"The Flame self-destruction plug-in does not delete any SPE files," Schouwenberg said. "It has to be removed separately. We need to view miniFlame as a separate operation to the others, so it makes sense. We can assume the authors hoped SPE would go unnoticed after Flame's (and Gauss') discovery."
An analysis of the Flame C&C servers that was performed by Kaspersky Lab in partnership with Symantec, ITU-IMPACT and CERT-Bund/BSI, revealed that the servers supported four communication protocols dubbed OldProtocol, OldProtocolE, SignupProtocol and RedProtocol.
The analysis also showed that these communication protocols were used by four separate threats called SP, SPE, FL and IP. FL, which is believed to be Flame, and SP - possibly an older version of SPE/miniFlame -- use OldProtocol. SPE uses OldProtocolE, while IP, which hasn't been found yet, uses SignupProtocol. RedProtocol is mentioned in the server software, but has not been implemented yet.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60469 | Racing's banned list
June 4, 2005
Illegal drugs that have been used in thoroughbred racing include:
Elephant juice (Etorphine): Caused a sensation in West Australian racing, especially in the early 1980s. One of racing's best "go-fast" drugs, it is used as a tranquilliser for large animals. Easily detected and not been found by racing officials for 20 years.
Anabolic steroids: Popular in the late 1980s, allowing horses to stand up to hard training. Soon lost their appeal through easy detection.
Narcotic analgesics: Can be a powerful stimulant for horses and other animals.
Caffeine: A noted stimulant once popular in most sports, it is now easily detected and considered not worth the risk.
Erythropoietin (EPO): Helps increase red blood cells and therefore oxygen intake. Thousands of samples from racehorses have been tested for EPO over the past few years, but not one positive has been found.
Butazolidin: A pain-killer and an anti-inflammatory that allows horses with congenital defects or soreness to perform better.
Beta blockers: Caused a sensation in Sydney more than 20 years ago when a drug called Timolol was found in samples taken from some beaten favourites.
Bicarb: In sizeable doses, can "mop-up" the lactic acid that results from muscle activity and therefore allows a horse to sustain a run for longer. Racing authorities have set 36 millimoles a litre of plasma as the threshold level for thoroughbreds with a 1.2 factor. Any horse that returns a level of more than 37.2 millimoles is deemed to have been administered an illegal substance.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60482 | 02.12.112:02 PM ET
Why the American Revolution's Loyalists Are True Patriots
Those loyal to the English king during the American Revolution have been written out of history, but Andrew Roberts says that a new book, Liberty’s Exiles, restores them to their proper place as true patriots.
When the British army and navy were forced to evacuate New York and other American cities in November 1783 after their defeat in the War of Independence, no fewer than 75,000 civilians left with them. These were the Loyalists who had supported George III in what had effectively been as much a civil war as a national liberation struggle. Although about one-quarter of all American colonists had decided to stay loyal to the king in 1776, after seven years of struggle only 3 percent of them were willing to go into lifelong exile sooner than live in the nascent American republic. This is their story.
The Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff has trawled the archives of all the major destinations where the Loyalists wound up, including Britain, Canada, the Bahamas, the West Indies (especially Jamaica), and Sierra Leone. Her biggest trove of documents proved to be the records of the Loyalist Claims Commission, which was set up to compensate Loyalists for their losses and reward them for their fidelity to the crown, which had often cost them all they owned. The result is the first comprehensive global history of the Loyalist diaspora. And it really is global; the British empire in India was partly won by the efforts of first- and second-generation Loyalists such as Benedict Arnold’s sons, and Freetown in Sierra Leone was founded by 1,200 black Loyalists. The first serious proposal to colonize Australia came from an American Loyalist.
What utter sadists those “heroes of liberty” were before the gentlemen of Virginia managed to establish control over the movement.
Jasanoff’s first of many revelations in this very well-researched and fluently written book, Liberty’s Exiles, is that, far from their demonization as mere well-heeled Tory stooges of the British who opposed the revolution because it hit their rent-rolls, in fact Loyalism “cut right across the social, geographical, racial and ethnic spectrum of early America—making Loyalists every bit as ‘American’ as their patriot fellow subjects. Loyalists included recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants alike. They could be royal officials as well as bakers, carpenters, tailors, and printers. There were Anglican ministers as well as Methodists and Quakers; cosmopolitan Bostonians and backcountry farmers in the Carolinas.” The revolution also split families; even Benjamin Franklin’s son William was a Loyalist.
Although Jasanoff does not put it in quite so stark terms, the Loyalists were people who opposed the anarchy that the revolution seemed to offer in its early stages, the tarring and feathering and the mob-rule exemplified by the Boston Tea Partiers’ despicable fancy-dressed hooliganism. They saw the opposition of Boston merchants—for whom, in many cases, read common smugglers—to pay their taxes as a glaring lack of gratitude for the massive debt that British taxpayers had incurred while protecting America during the French and Indian War. They also saw through the ludicrous attempt by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others to portray the gentle, intellectual, and dignified King George III as some kind of European-style tyrant, especially when Americans paid an average of 6d in direct taxation per annum, one-fiftieth of the 25s Britons paid without hypocritically yelping about “liberty.” As for genuine liberties, such as that of conscience, Dissenters could operate in Britain without licenses, but not in some American colonies.
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. By Maya Jasanoff. 480 pages. Knopf. $30. ()
The treatment of the Loyalists by patriot mobs at the outbreak of the Revolution explains their decision to leave, sooner than attempt to integrate into a society that had so abused them. Among many other well-chosen examples, Jasanoff instances the case of Thomas Brown of Georgia in the summer of 1775, one of the 10 percent of America’s white population who had immigrated in the previous 15 years. When he refused to subscribe to the patriot mob’s demands that he abjure his anointed king, he was dragged to Augusta where, in the author’s words: “He is tossed to the ground, his arms lashed around the trunks of a tree. He sees his bare legs splayed out in front of him, and he sees hot brown pitch poured over them, scalding, clinging to his skin. Under his feet the men pile up kindling and set it alight. The flame catches the tar, sears his flesh. His feet are on fire, two of his toes charred into stubs. The attackers seize his broken head by the hair and pull it out in clumps. Knives take the care of the rest, cutting off strips of scalp, making the blood run down over his ears, face and neck. Half scalped, skull fractured, lamed, slashed and battered.”
What utter sadists those “heroes of liberty” were before the gentlemen of Virginia managed to establish control over the movement. In almost every revolution, the plebian extremists and torturers win control over the educated enlightened thinkers, but in the American Revolution exactly the opposite happened, thanks to an extraordinary concatenation of truly remarkable leaders. Yet the decision of Thomas Brown—who somehow survived his ordeal—and his compatriots to leave America was understandable. In general the Loyalists were brave, hardy, and admirable people who were simply caught on the wrong side of history, and Maya Jasanoff has written them a fitting tribute.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60490 | The Fresh Loaf
News & Information for Amateur Bakers and Artisan Bread Enthusiasts
A Blessing of Bread
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Pan de Horiadaki
Bakers %
Firm starter
30 g
WFM Organic AP Flour
135 g
Warm water
80 g
245 g
2. Ferment at room temperature for 8-12 hours
Final dough
Bakers %
WFM Organic AP Flour
875 g
Warm water
595 g
20 g
Olive oil
30 g
Granulated sugar
30 g
170 g
1720 g
Pan de Horiadaki crumb
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I'm rather fond of challah, but my wife isn't. Most challah is too rich and too sweet for her taste. The closer to brioche it tastes, the less she likes it. So, when I made “My Sourdough Challah” from Maggie Glezer's “A Blessing of Bread,” and both my wife and I loved it, I was delighted.
Of course, all challah was made with sourdough before the introduction of commercial yeast. Since then, according to Glezer, challah has tended to be made sweeter and richer. Sourdough challah has a “moister, creamier texture” and stays fresh longer that the yeasted variety. Glezer's version has a delightful sourdough tang which lends it an almost “sweet and sour” flavor. It is wonderful plain, as toast and as French toast.
The starter
Amount (gms)
Active firm sourdough starter
Warm water
Bread flour
The final dough
Warm water
Large Eggs
3 eggs + 1 egg for glazing the loaves.
Vegetable oil
Mild honey
Or Granulated sugar
Bread flour
Sourdough starter
All of the above+
* I added an additional 3 tablespoons or so of flour during mixing, because the dough seemed too wet. This may have been needed due to my using more starter than Glezer specifies. See below.
+ Glezer says to use only 200 gms of starter, but I used all of it (250 gms)
1. The night before baking, mix the starter and ferment it at room temperature for 8-12 hours.
2. In the morning, in a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer, dissolve the starter in the water, then mix in the 3 eggs, salt, honey and oil until completely combined.
3. Mix in all the bread flour until it forms a shaggy mass.
4. Knead the dough on the bench or in a stand mixer until it is smooth and there is moderate gluten development. Add small amounts of water or flour to achieve the desired consistency. The dough should be quite firm.
5. Transfer the dough to a lightly oiled bowl and cover it tightly. Ferment for about 2 hours. It may not rise much.
6. To make two 1 pound loaves, divide the dough into two equal portions, and divide each portion into the number of pieces needed for the type of braiding you plan to do. (I did 3-strand braids.)
7. Form each piece into a ball and allow them to rest, covered, for 10-20 minutes to relax the gluten.
8. Form each piece into a strand about 14” long. (I like Glezer's technique for this. On an un-floured board, flatten each piece with the palm of your hand. Using a rolling pin, roll out each piece to about ¼ inch thickness. Then roll up each piece into a tight tube. Using the palms of your hands, lengthen each piece by rolling each tube back and forth on the bench with light pressure. Start with your hands together in the middle of the tube and, as you roll
it, move your hands gradually outward. Taper the ends of the tube by rotating your wrists slightly so that the thumb side of your hand is slightly elevated, as you near the ends of the tube.)
9. Braid the loaves.
10. Place each loaf on parchment paper in half-sheet pans (I used a quarter-sheet pan for each loaf.) Cover well with plasti-crap or place the pans in a food grade plastic bag, and proof at room temperature until the loaves have tripled in volume. (Glezer says this will take “about 5 hours.” My kitchen was rather cool. I proofed for 6 hours.)
11. Pre-heat the oven to 350ºF with the rack in the upper third of the oven.
12. Brush each loaf with an egg lightly beaten with a pinch of salt.
13. Optionally, sprinkle the loaves with sesame seeds and/or poppy seeds.
14. Bake until done – 25-35 minutes for 1 pound loaves.
15. Cool completely before slicing.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60504 | The tenth Muse
Nicholas Lezard takes a look at contributions ranging from Pound's "Papyrus" to Jeanette Winterson's sex toy in Margaret Reynold's exhaustive The Sappho Companion, a book that goes beyond mere anthology
The Sappho Companion
ed Margaret Reynolds
(Vintage, £9.99)
Everyone who has an idea about Sappho only does so on slender evidence. Her life story may or may not be true; her final, suicidal leap off a cliff a posthumous fantasy; her poetry only exists in bits; even her sexuality is a matter of conjecture (were those love-poems addressed to women written in her own voice, or an assumed one? Was she, in any case, gay or bi?). We've even got her name wrong: as Reynolds points out, it's "Psapfo", the initial p not silent. And yet she was acknowledged, throughout antiquity and beyond, as the greatest poet ever to have existed, alongside Homer; Plato is said to have called her "the tenth Muse".
Yet everything is so up in the air that Reynolds feels it relevant to mention, in her introduction, her friend who had a cat called Sappho. "She liked to sleep high up on top of the kitchen cupboards, from where she would take a flying leap on to the floor. I never did find out how she got to be called Sappho... but I do know that Kate's other cat was called Mrs Pankhurst."
Leaving aside the question of whether her friend should be allowed to keep cats at all, the point is subtly made that these days the name or concept of "Sappho" is used to declare a passionate if more or less vaguely intellectualised feminism. One thinks of Jeanette Winterson's highly mannered narrator in Art and Lies (nb "Picasso" here is a female artist, the modern Sappho's lover): "A fairy in a pink tutu came to Picasso and said, "I bring you tidings of great joy. All by yourself and with no one to help you you will give birth to a sex toy who has a way with words. You will call her Sappho and she will be a pain in the ass to all men."
That particular Sappho was certainly a pain in the ass to this man, and indeed to anyone allergic to unmediated whimsy, but The Sappho Companion does an excellent job of celebrating the ancient poet. For more than 2,000 years, anyone who was anyone had a go at translating her - and, as the fragments they were translating were often no more than a few characters here and there, this left them plenty of room to extrapolate. Few poets chose not to - Pound's "Papyrus", which in its entirety goes like this: "Spring... / Too long... / Gongula...", is the most striking example of someone sticking to the text. Margaret Williamson, translating the more substantial Fragment 16 in 1995, also admits the gaps, producing a fine and honest-looking poem; but on the whole earlier poets were terrified of lacunae, and rushed in to fill the vacuum.
As Richard Aldington said in his 1919 translation of Anacreon (an even more hedonistic ancient Greek poet whose name was often linked to Sappho's), the aim of previous versions seems to have been to prove that the Greeks wrote doggerel, but the very scantiness of material we have with Sappho allows Reynolds to include all kinds of related work, whether it is the Winterson mentioned above, or the entry for Sappho in Bayle's enormously infuential Historical and Critical Dictionary ("be it as it will, Sappho always passed for a famous Tribas"). What we have here is not just a history of the appreciation of one poet, but a history of what poetry has imagined her example to be; in other words, the artistic imagination wrestling with itself. This is more than an anthology. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60505 | Laughing all the way to the cemetery
For a supposedly feelgood author, Nick Hornby's books aren't half miserable. Take Fever Pitch, his breakthrough memoir. As much as it is about football, it is about a man coping with depression, under-achieving and not belonging. Or High Fidelity, his first novel. Yes, it's the story of a music-obsessed geek, but it's also the story of an emotional illiterate who can't make head nor tail of life. Then there's About A Boy, which features a subplot about a mother trying not to commit suicide, and How To Be Good, which portrays a middle-aged couple striving unsuccessfully to find hope in their relationship.
The thing about all these books is that they are funny and warm and cute, and you don't have to mention the word depression when talking about them. Not so his latest. A Long Way Down is also comic, but there is no masking the subject here. This is depression in spades, or so you'd think. The novel has four narrators, all of them planning to kill themselves on New Year's Eve by jumping off the roof of a high-rise block in north London known as Toppers' House.
"I think there's quite a strong strain of melancholy in there," Hornby says with a grin. Melancholy? That sounds poetic and enriching; isn't this just straight-down-the-line depression? "De-pre-ssion," he says slowly, savouring the syllables. "Yeah. Depression. I think I am naturally depressive." We are eating a breakfast fry-up in a cafe close to his north London home and Arsenal football club. In the background, the coffee machine is making a noise like the beginning of the old Hawkwind song Silver Machine - something he's probably noticed. Hornby is not simply a football nut, he's a music nut and a literature nut. He may be a misery guts, but he's also one of life's enthusiasts.
You could see bits of him in all four narrators - Martin is a C-list celebrity, JJ a failed rock guitarist, Maureen a mother whose life has been blighted because her son is severely disabled, and Jess a wastrel with a successful father. "Yep, yep, yep," he says as I run through the first three characters, then he stops at Jess. "That's funny - I'd never thought about the dad before."
Hornby's history is rather complicated. One potted biography could read: age 48, son of successful businessman Sir Derek Hornby, graduated from Cambridge University, became a literary critic, then bestselling author and friend to the great and good. Another potted biography could read: lower-middle-class son of secretary mother Margaret, drifter, failed teacher, failed journalist, failed screenwriter, achieved surprising success with memoir of a football fanatic and loser. Both biographies would be equally true.
His father, Sir Derek, is a self-made man who ended up as chairman of Rank Xerox. Derek's own father died when he was young; his mother had four children and couldn't afford to bring him up, so she farmed him out to his grandmother. He was a bright lad who benefited from a government scheme to send able boys from poor homes to public school. He met Hornby's mother at their first workplace - he was the office boy, she was the secretary. When Nick was 11, his parents split up. His father, who unbeknown to Nick had begun another family, went to live with them in France and America; Nick remained with his mother, still a secretary in suburban Maidenhead.
It made for a disjointed childhood. "Well, home was extremely normal, but my dad's life was quite exotic really. When I went away to stay with him, it was a different world. I never wanted to be in that world. I was much happier with my mates at home."
I tell him that a friend of mine once visited his father's home, and told me it was the biggest house she had ever been in - it even had a lift. "I was thinking about that house the other day ... It probably wasn't the biggest house your friend's ever been in, but it did have a lift. It was a Nash house in Regent's Park and they are quite narrow and steep. It was a Rank Xerox house - he'd been living abroad and that's where they put him up. Mum's was a little house, nice, Barratt home on a new estate, no need for a lift." He drinks his coffee and orange juice chaser, and lights another cigarette.
This dual identity (and lack of identity) was at the heart of Fever Pitch. He loved life on the Arsenal terraces, but he also realised he didn't truly belong there, what with being a middle-class boy from Berkshire rather than a working-class cockney from down the road. Meanwhile, he found it embarrassing to confess his obsession to some of his posher friends, who equated football with yobbery. By the time he started writing Fever Pitch in his early 30s, he was at his lowest ebb. He had given up teaching English to pursue his brilliant career, but the writing was going nowhere, relationships were going nowhere. He'd begun therapy a year or so earlier, but couldn't settle to anything.
"The weird thing was that Fever Pitch came almost straight out of therapy," he says. "I used to go in on Monday afternoon and there was always this awkward thing at the beginning. Before you start getting into things, you sit there, and there's a long pause and she'd say, 'How was your weekend?' and I never knew what to say, so I'd say the same thing every week, which was, 'Rubbish - got beat two-nil,' and 'All right, beat Tottenham.' After about six months, she said, 'Why d'you make the same stupid joke every Monday?' I'd never thought seriously what it was all about."
He realised that it wasn't really a joke. As a child, he had resented his father not being around, but they eventually forged a new relationship through football (his father took him to Highbury because that's where Nick wanted to go). Now he was an adult, football still shaped his week, his hopes and moods. He began to think of Arsenal as a metaphor for his life: boring, boring Arsenal (as they had been for decades), the chippy underachievers, so hard to love because they played such unattractive football.
Hornby hadn't always felt an outsider. He was pretty happy growing up in Maidenhead - it may have been a soulless, insular place, but he felt confident and able within its confines. Then he went to Cambridge, and it wiped his self-belief. "Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded like a bad university essay." His first book was a cultural critique called Contemporary American Fiction.
Cambridge also did for his confidence socially. He felt that he was surrounded by fellow students stuffed with certainties and an unquestioning sense of entitlement, and he shrank in the face of such bluster. "That took me a long time to recover from. I liked it in terms of I opted out and didn't do any work, but all the people who were getting on really frightened me - you know, joining the societies as soon as they got there, and writing for the Cambridge newspapers."
So Hornby hung out with the losers and dossers and football fans. The trouble was that, deep down, he wanted to be one of the winners; he just didn't know how to go about it. "I didn't have the confidence to compete."
After university, he fantasised about writing for the New Musical Express, but his diffidence held him back. "It was when Julie and Tony [Burchill and Parsons - Hornby seems to be on first-name terms with everybody] were writing for the NME, and the idea of walking in there and saying 'Giz a job', brought me out in a sweat. I applied for a job on Melody Maker once." Melody Maker wasn't as cool as NME? "That's why I thought I stood a chance. I never heard back from them."
He drifted from Cambridge to London and then back to Cambridge, where he taught English at a comprehensive. He says he was a well-intentioned but inept teacher, too keen to please the pupils. "I was too young, there were riots in the class." Even the pupils who liked him didn't think he was cut out for teaching. "It was quite a hippy school, and one of my O-level kids came up at the end of the day and said, 'I've got some really good blow, d'you want to come back afterwards?' and I said, 'I don't think that's really a good idea', and very sort of pityingly. He said, 'I think you're taking the teacher thing a bit too far.' " He giggles at the memory.
After two years, Hornby quit to write screenplays. Again, it didn't work out. He took lots of odd jobs to supplement his non-income from writing. His family began to despair about what would become of him. I remind him that his sister, Gill Hornby, once said they used to wonder whether he would ever own an overcoat, let alone a house. "Well, that's what I'd spent most of my time thinking," he says.
How did his depression express itself? "I was never suicidal or completely black. I've always been able to enjoy aspects of my life ... It was more an utter conviction of failure - therefore what's the point?"
Was he surprised by his eventual success? "Yes. I assumed that people who were successful were on a completely parallel track, and my track just led to doom and disaster. I thought I was going back to teaching and being extremely unhappy about it for the rest of my life." He pauses, and says it wasn't quite as simple as that. There was also something within that told him Fever Pitch could be a great success, that it spoke to people who hadn't really been represented in books before, that it was a bloody good read.
Fever Pitch gave birth to a whole new genre - lads' lit. To be fair, Hornby's writing was laddishness mediated through the anxious soul of the new man. He wasn't simply a bloke revelling in his blokishness, but a bloke who knew it was wrong to make football life's priority, that it was pathetic to admit he'd rather be at a match than at the birth of his first child, that childishness in a grown man was not an attractive quality.
The book also established the trademark Hornby style - fluent, informal, no fancy stuff.
His follow-up, High Fidelity, did for rock what Fever Pitch did for football. He portrayed his protagonist and his manifold inadequacies entirely through his obsession with music. Of course, we read it autobiographically - here was another boy-man who couldn't commit to anything beyond his record collection.
Hornby's books are full of men who can't, or who refuse to, grow up, absent fathers, struggling mothers and self-loathing characters who tell little lies to service their desires. In About A Boy, the character Will joins a single-parent group, and invents a son for himself in the hope of getting off with young single mothers who'd find any man who isn't a total bastard irresistible. His men are hugely flawed but likable. They may not be good people, but they are good enough constantly to question their motives.
In How To Be Good, David, a cynical, acid-mouthed hack, meets the ridiculous guru DJ Goodnews, who shows him a new path. David starts to give away his children's toys, invites the homeless into his house, and becomes more unbearable than he was in the first place. Hornby often satirises well-meaning liberal types not unlike himself.
At times, his books may seem close to the smug, self-contained world of Richard Curtis movies such as Notting Hill and Four Weddings And A Funeral: the films of Fever Pitch and About A Boy even employ favourite Curtis actors Hugh Grant and Colin Firth as the leading characters. But when the characters of Hornby and Will are transformed into gorgeous blokes, they lose their point and their appeal.
Towards the end of Fever Pitch, a girlfriend called Virginia emerged. She not only became Hornby's wife, she also became an Arsenal season ticket holder. In 1992, the book was published and became a bestseller. But, as Hornby would have expected, life did not go smoothly. In 1993, his son Danny was born. At around 18 months, he went into a terrible reverse. He lost his speech, never recovered it and was diagnosed as severely autistic. Hornby and Virginia helped start the school TreeHouse for autistic children, but the pressure of bringing up Danny, coupled with his new-found fame wreaked havoc on their relationship. Like so many parents of autistic children, they split up. Danny now divides his time between Hornby and Virginia.
He and Danny are as close as they can be, but he says it is a frustrating relationship. "You feel like a bad parent all the time, because, say, you'll be kicking a ball and maybe he'll kick it back once, but then he'll get bored and go off, and then he'll come back, so you try again, but the second time he won't come back, and you think ..." He trails off. Hornby's pale brown eyes looks as if they've spent a lifetime weeping.
In A Long Way Down, Maureen wonders what her mute, wheelchair-bound son Matty would be like if he had been "normal". The book is at its most poignant when she talks about how she has created a life for him - there are posters of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Patrick Vieira on his wall, because, in her imagination, he supports Arsenal (of course) and has the hots for Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Hornby says this is a dramatisation of his relationship with Danny. While he's never gone to Maureen's lengths, he understands why she does it. "One of the projects with Danny is to move him on, to make things more age-appropriate for him. He watches Pingu all the time, and we'd rather he watched Finding Nemo. People have bought him Arsenal shirts for his birthday, and I think , 'What's the point?' but then I think, 'If I think that, what's the point of anything?' He might as well wear an Arsenal shirt as anything else."
Has he ever felt as desperate about Danny as Maureen does about Matty? "I don't think as desperate ... There have been some incredibly difficult times. It's more that, through Danny, I've met a lot of people, and you're exposed to a world where there are incredibly desperate people. And they feel very let down and under an enormous amount of stress, so it's more Danny serving as an introduction to people like Maureen than Danny providing the material."
Actually, he says of the four suicidal types in the novel, he probably feels closest to the failed pop star, JJ. "The thing that interested me was the fear of never being able to fulfil potential, which was a very big thing in me when I was his age. I identify very strongly with the idea that you're in your early 30s and you've got no idea whether this is going to pay off or not, the writing thing, and if it doesn't, what are you going to do? You've told everybody that is what you're trying, and it feels that you're walking a plank and you've just got to keep going because there's a load of people waving cutlasses at you!" Just talking about it seems to bring him out in a cold sweat.
The strange thing about A Long Way Down is that, despite its subject, it's probably the jolliest novel he has written, almost a romp - a suicide romp. Hornby says it was a kind of technical exercise: "I wanted to write a book that rocked, which was about something extremely downbeat, and I wanted to see if I could take these characters from the dark and to the light without being sentimental or unrealistic. If I wrote a book about depression that was incredibly depressing, why would anybody want to read it?"
Hornby can be surprisingly dogmatic about what makes for good art. He's also consistent. In 31 Songs, his book of essays about songs he loves, he argues that the best music is simple and transparent. He includes Bruce Springsteen's Thunder Road because it reminds him of becoming successful and finding a voice, and Ian Dury's Reasons To Be Cheerful for its Englishness, plus Dylan and the Beatles. The only reason trendy pop groups don't write songs like the Beatles did, he says, is that they can't.
As much as Hornby's prose is praised for its pared-down simplicity, it has been criticised, too, for lacking depth. For all the ennui and misery, most of his books end on an uppish note. "I think one of the reasons the books work is because people identify with that sort of depression, and they also want to be told that there might be some kind of reason to keep going." Is it a commercial decision, then, to end his books with some kind of hope? He laughs and clicks his fingers with delight. "It would be brilliant if it was a commercial decision. No. No, it's about what I want to believe. It's to offer myself consolation."
Hornby says that of all his books How To Be Good was the most praised by critics. "I had a lot of feedback from proper literary people that that was a proper literary book. Probably because it ended miserably." Does he think there's a snobbery about his writing? "Erm ..." A long time passes. "I don't think it's for me to get into that sort of question."
He has done with his bacon, eggs and mushrooms. He asks if I'd like to finish off his sausage. We swap plates. He orders another coffee and orange juice chaser, and rushes for his next cigarette.
Hornby writes a column for an American magazine called the Believer. It has a wonderful format: at the beginning of each column is an inventory - on the left, the books he has bought that month, on the right, the ones he has actually read. In the magazine, co-founded by Weekend storyteller Dave Eggers (one of Hornby's fashionable younger writer friends), critics are not allowed to review books they do not like. Perfect for Hornby.
His columns have just been collated into a revealing compilation called The Polysyllabic Spree. In one column, he says, "Like a lot of writers, I can't really stand my own writing." Does he mean it? He comes to a stop. "Well, I wish I was better than I am," he says eventually. "When you've written a few, you realise that you do what you do, and then you start reading other people and you think, God, I wish I could do that, but I couldn't in a million years."
Who, for instance? "Erm, errr, Dickens." That's ridiculous - there's only one Charles Dickens. Well, it's not simply that he isn't Dickens, he concedes. "No, some contemporaries ... George Saunders - it's just that he has such a weird imagination. He's really, really different. When you're at the beginning of a writing career, you feel that there are possibilities. It's like life itself ... " He seems to be sinking into a depression. "Well, I suppose everybody who writes wants it all: they want to be culty and they want to be literary and they want to be mainstream." How's he doing on the self-loathing front these days? "Yeah, I think I'm doing well on the self-loathing front." OK, how about a Hornbyesque list of the top five things he can't stand about himself. "I don't think I'm prepared to go there ... There are plenty of things that irritate the hell out of me about myself." This is just like the Hornby of Fever Pitch, who would introduce us to his analyst and then politely close the door.
It's almost lunchtime. We've been in the cafe for well over two hours. I tell Hornby that I'd better be getting off. I'm due to give a talk at a school. It's National Book Week and the school had been hoping to find a well-known author but failed, and I'm stepping in at the last minute. "Would it help if I came down with you?" Hornby asks.
Would it help? Not bloody half, I say. I can sense Hornby already analysing his motives. Has he offered because he wants to come, because it would be a good thing to do, because it will create a favourable impression? When I told him earlier I'd yet to meet somebody who dislikes him, he took umbrage - oh God, not that nice Nick Hornby thing again. It's not even true, he says. "I think I am quite nice in public. I think you'd be an idiot not to be." And in private? "I don't think I'm a nightmare in private, but I'm tetchy and unreasonable."
We step on to the street, and pass a young man with a sky-high Afro. "Oh God, I was dreading this," says Hornby. "It was great when it was cool to be bald, but now hair's back in fashion."
We hail a taxi and plan what we'll talk about at the school. I explain that the children have cerebral palsy, are not likely to have heard of him, and we could maybe talk about football. Isn't it depressing, I say, how football is the only language so many men can speak? "Well, there's music. Then you're bilingual, aren't you? I find it more depressing now, because football is such a huge part of popular culture in a way it wasn't when the book came out." What he means is that he hates the way the middle classes have colonised football - and he hates it even more that some people say Fever Pitch is partly to blame.
I ask if he's working on any other projects. He mentions a number of screenplays - an adaptation of a Lynn Barber memoir, a romantic comedy he's been writing for years with Emma Thompson, both of them likely to go into production shortly, and a stalled film script of Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius. At times he talks with enthusiasm about his second career as a screenwriter finally taking off, at times he seems relieved there's something he's still struggling with.
We reach the school. The children take to Hornby. We talk about Arsenal and Leyton Orient and meeting Ian Wright and Thierry Henry and the music of Bob Marley, and how Hornby and Colin Firth in the film of Fever Pitch look like identical twins, except, "He made the mistake of having hair, which I always think is vulgar and rather unfashionable and cheap."
We talk a bit about books. One teacher asks if he thinks it's appropriate for children to study Shakespeare as part of the national curriculum. Hornby's answer is the most belligerent I've heard all day. No, he says. Shakespeare is a wonderful poet, but so many pupils can't begin to understand his language, so what is the point? When he was teaching, he says, another teacher told him to teach Macbeth by getting the children to draw pictures of witches. "I couldn't understand how that was teaching Shakespeare; that was allowing them to draw pictures of witches. I think part of the reason I became the writer I became is because of teaching in a school, and you're always looking for this stuff that is really intelligent but really simple and everyone can understand it. I always thought Of Mice And Men was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really clever and moving and complicated, but everybody understands the complication. It doesn't leave anybody out. I think that's what books should be like."
We are back on the sunny street. A Long Way Down - and its surprising jauntiness - is still confusing me. I ask if he thinks his depression has changed over the years. He ums and ahs with a diffidence striking even by Hornby's standards. The thing is, he says, since he started writing this book about suicide, life has taken a considerable turn for the better. In fact, he's never been so relatively undepressed. He's had two sons in the past two years with his film producer partner Amanda Posey (whom he met when they were making the Fever Pitch movie), Danny gets on well with them, he still gets on with Danny's mother, the new book's coming out, and he knows it's tempting fate, but he's not so sure that he's even depressed any more.
"Erm ... the last few years have been good. With the two babies, it's been so uncomplicated in a way it wasn't with Danny. That's been fantastic. Football's been good. I'm really happy in my work. I have a very unmiserable partner. She's done me a lot of good, because she's not unrealistic in her uppishness." He's getting carried away on a tidal wave of optimism. "I wouldn't call it depression now. It's just a sort of strain of English miserablism, where you know everything is crap and everyone who pretends it isn't is kidding themselves. Yeah, this is the best it will ever get."
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60534 | Ungenerous thoughts about Band Aid 20, somewhat acid in tone
Midge Ure and Bob Geldof
Midge "it means nothing to me" Ure and "Sir" Bob Geldof
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For those caring people among you that care about such things, I mean really really care, the BBC has provided a breathless blog-style hour-by-hour rundown of the Band Aid 20 recording. It also gathers the thoughts of Beverley Knight, one of the contributors to the recording. She muses: "It was brilliant, such a laugh."
We can gawp at the pictures of the pop aristocracy, incuding a rare glimpse of Busted - who care so much about the third world that they're all voting Tory - without their trademark puzzled expressions. Far be it from me to suggest the merest hint of opportunism, but soul-lite simperer Joss Stone didn't even know who Saint Bob was.
Yes, yes, yes, we all know it's a good cause. Dur. But why should we be so grateful to these millionaires for their precious time? They could just donate a large chunk of their not-so-hard-earned cash if they care so passionately about it. Just a suggestion.
The public is so in awe of celebrity that it is being strongarmed into buying a mediocre record. I haven't heard it yet, but on the basis of the 1984 version, I suspect the 2004 take is not, as the Sun's showbiz editor insists, a "masterpiece". I suspect it will be every bit as good as the last version - the 1989 one, that is, with Matt Goss out of Bros singing the Bono line.
The best thing about the release on DVD of the 1985 Live Aid concert is that people will realise just how dreadful the music was (let alone the fashions): David Bowie on his knees reciting the Lord's Prayer; Bono as the Messiah; Phil Collins fannying about on Concorde (yeah, thanks Phil); and hardly any black music at all. The highlight, we're often reminded, was Queen. I rest my case.
There is an alternative. You could refuse to suspend your critical faculties just because it's a good cause. Whisper it: you don't have to buy this record. If you want to help you could bypass the egos and donate your money direct to Oxfam or ActionAid or other reputable charities.
I'm sure millions will buy Band Aid 20. Thank God it's them instead of me. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60537 | Alys Fowler
Alys Fowler is a gardener who loves food. She has an allotment and an urban back garden with lots of flowers and plenty of vegetables. She is author of several books and writes a weekly column on gardening for Guardian Weekend magazine. You can ask her your gardening questions by emailing |
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Huh?, an Israeli "West Wing"?
With a name like “The Prime Minister’s Cabinet,” you’d think this television show was yet another British drama, a “Downton Abbey” sequel starring, say, Winston Churchill. But it’s not—no, it has nothing to do with Brits, but with, of all things, Israelis. Yes, in a culture story today, The New York Times devotes a full piece to an obscure Israeli political drama, made for T.V., that even critics in Isra
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60564 | Poetry Makes Nothing Happen? Ask Laura Bush | The Nation
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So Laura Bush will not, after all, be discussing the works of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes with a selected group of American poets at the White House on February 12. The conference, "Poetry and the American Voice," was abruptly "postponed" after Sam Hamill, editor of Copper Canyon Press and author of thirteen books of verse, responded to his invitation by putting out an e-mail urging invitees and others to send him poems and statements opposing the invasion of Iraq. When I spoke to him on the phone, Hamill described himself as a lifelong radical ("What on earth were they thinking?" he wondered out loud), and said he had planned to decline his invitation but had hoped to compile an anthology that another invitee would present to the First Lady. Within days almost 2,000 poets had responded to his plea. It was almost like old times, when Robert Lowell refused to attend a poetry symposium at the Johnson White House to protest the Vietnam War.
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Why was the conference canceled? Hamill expresses himself rather forcefully ("I was overcome by a kind of nausea," he wrote of finding the invitation in the mail)--in fact, he sounds a lot like writers of letters to The Nation. But he didn't urge poets to take off their clothes and pee in the punch bowl, or to stage a reading of the Not In Our Name statement. He merely suggested giving the First Lady some poems. Poets these days are a mannerly crowd, and it's a safe bet that those who chose to attend would have been polite. Marilyn Nelson, poet laureate of Connecticut, said she planned to wear a silk scarf decorated with peace symbols, in hopes of attracting the First Lady's eye. So is that it? The White House, so bold to make war, is afraid of poems and scarves?
So much for democracy, free speech, vigorous discussion. In this most insulated and choreographed of administrations, the "American voice"--note the singular--is welcome only when it says what the White House wants to hear. And yet, as so often, censorship backfired. "They did us an extraordinary favor," Hamill told me. "They revealed that there are many, many poets opposed to the Bush regime. And they demonstrated their fear of the carefully chosen word--their fear of poetry."
Now Laura Bush, a former librarian, likes to read, and that's good. As Texas First Lady she helped start the Texas Book Fair, and as First Lady she has held a number of symposia on interesting historical topics--women writers of the West, the Harlem Renaissance and Mark Twain, whom she calls the "first real American writer," so eat your heart out Bradstreet, Edwards, Franklin, Irving, Douglass, Emerson, Thoreau (especially you, Henry, you civilly disobedient antiwar tree-hugger, you). To her credit, she invited to these gatherings serious writers and scholars--Arnold Rampersad, Justin Kaplan, David Levering Lewis, frontier historian Ursula Smith--who she must have known could not, on the whole, be happy with her husband's policies. Still, according to press reports, invitees to these events arrived suspicious, went away charmed. That's how it usually works with the presidency--Bill Clinton beguiled an entire roomful of poets at a 1998 soiree, with only a few refuseniks. Proximity to power, a brush with history, the cachet of exclusivity and, in the case of Laura Bush, a private glimpse of perhaps the biggest contrast-gainer in the history of marriage--say what you like about the irrelevance of poets in today's world, if they're willing to forgo all that, antiwar feeling must be positively rampaging across the land.
"There is nothing political about American literature," Laura Bush has said. But it would be hard to find writers more subversive than the three she chose for her event. Whitman's epic of radical democracy, Leaves of Grass, was so scandalous it got him fired from his government job; Hughes, a Communist sympathizer hounded by McCarthy, wrote constantly and indelibly about racism, injustice, power; Dickinson might seem the least political, but in some ways she was the most lastingly so--every line she wrote is an attack on complacency and conformity of manners, mores, religion, language, gender, thought. None of these quintessentially American writers would have given two cents for family values (Whitman was gay, as perhaps were Hughes and Dickinson), abstinence education, the death penalty, tax cuts for the rich, Ashcroftian attacks on civil liberties or the other hallmarks of the Bush regime. It's hard to imagine them cheering the bombing of Baghdad.
There will be readings all over the country on February 12. As of this writing some 3,500 poets (who knew?) have sent poems and statements to www.poetsagainstthewar.org. Here's mine:
Trying to Write a Poem Against the War
My daughter, who's as beautiful as the day,
hates politics: Face it, Ma,
they don't care what you think! All
passion, like Achilles,
she stalks off to her room,
to confide in her purple guitar and await
life's embassies. She's right,
of course: bombs will be hurled
at ordinary streets
and leaders look grave for the cameras,
and what good are more poems against war
the real subject of which
so often seems to be the poet's superior
moral sensitivities? I could
be mailing myself to the moon
or marrying a palm tree,
and yet what can we do
but offer what we have?
and so I spend
this cold gray glittering morning
trying to write a poem against war
that perhaps may please my daughter
who hates politics
and does not care much for poetry, either.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60673 | NEW YORK—Stocks are edging lower on Wall Street as the latest round of earnings reports failed to give investors an impetus to push a recent rally forward.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down seven points at 13,973 as shortly before noon Wednesday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 was off less than a point at 1,510. The Nasdaq composite fell a fraction to 3,170.
Time Warner rose after its net income grew 51 percent. Marathon Oil fell after its net income declined 41 percent on higher exploration costs and taxes.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60691 | It's another win for American writer Ann Leckie and her debut Ancillary Justice.
Justice won best novel at the 2014 Hugo Awards, announced Sunday at the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention in London.
The novel is a space opera narrated by a starship's artificial intelligence that has been transplanted into a single body. It has been sweeping other major sci-fi and fantasy awards this year, including the Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke awards.
Other literary winners include The Lady Astronaut of Mars by Mary Robinette Kowal for Best Novelette, The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere by John Chu for Best Short Story and Time by Randall Munroe for Best Graphic story. The Game of Thrones TV series won Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for the episode "The Rains of Castamere."
The Hugo Awards are the one of the biggest awards in the world of science fiction, awarded based on votes by members of the World Science Fiction Society, which members of the public can join.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60696 | Understanding Climate Change: What’s In Store
Author Daniel Rirdan breaks down the history and science behind climate dynamics and global warming.
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The Blueprint (Corinno Press, 2012), by Daniel Rirdan, is a call to arms and an argument for his 15-year, worldwide plan that calls for major changes in the way we impact the planet. In his blueprint, Rirdan offers employable designs that lay down new paths for our economy, technology, industry and politics. The following excerpt on understanding climate change is taken from Chapter 1, “Climate Change: What’s In Store.”
Climate Dynamics
There were times when tropical forests dominated all continents except Antarctica. There were other times when Earth was almost frozen solid from pole to pole. Life has existed in between those two ends of the climatic spectrum.
What has been controlling the climate of the world is a symphony of myriad notes generated by many instruments.
Beyond the annual cycle of seasons, the shortest notes are the minute fluctuations in solar intensity. Minimal sunspot activity is suspected to be one of the instigators in the climate blip that was the Little Ice Age from about 1300 CE to 1800 CE.
Another short-term player is the sulfur haze vented by the occasional volcanic eruption. The haze deflects sunlight back into space.
When Mount Pinatubo erupted in 1991, the discharge of aerosols reduced the amount of incoming solar radiation. Consequently, the global mean temperature dipped by 0.6°C for a period of two years.
The occasional changes in warm ocean currents can also impact the climate. Their effect ranges from the relatively mild, as in the case of the El Nino phenomenon, to the relatively significant, as when the Atlantic conveyer belt, circulating warm tropical water northward, got stalled about 12,000 years ago. Climatic changes driven by ocean currents are usually regional rather than global in nature.
Superimposed on these rapid climatic fluctuations are the cyclical changes of the Earth’s orbit. These cycles span tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of years. In some eras, the Earth’s orbit is more elliptical, in others less. In some eras, the Earth’s axis is tilted slightly more toward the sun, in others it is tilted slightly less. The combined effect of these cycles is to redistribute the heat between the two hemispheres and otherwise widen the gulf between summer and winter temperatures. During a given ice age, when the climate is colder to begin with, these orbital oscillations have a pronounced effect: they are the main instigator in getting the Earth in and out of glacial periods within a given ice age.
A bit of an explanation is in order. A glacial period of an ice age is when North America is under a two-mile-thick ice sheet and when ice cover is widespread. The interglacial period of an ice age is what we have had for about the last 10,000 years: permanent ice sheets that are largely constrained to the polar regions.
The two driving engines that get our planet to swing between glacial and interglacial periods are the changes in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and the amplification effect of the reflective ice cover. (The more widespread the ice cover is, the more sunlight is reflected back with consequently less ground warming.) However, the orbital changes of the planet start these two big engines—the extent of ice coverage and the rates of CO2 emissions—leaning one way at the beginning of a glacial period and the other way at the onset of an interglacial period.
On a scale of tens of millions of years, the thickness of the CO2 blanket changes markedly. The thicker the atmospheric blanket of CO2, the warmer it gets. Over the long run, the foremost mechanism controlling the thickness of the blanket is a ponderous interaction between volcanic activities, which emit CO2, and the weathering process, which locks down the carbon that is in the air.
Over periods of eons, volcanoes belch out CO2. Everything else being equal, the higher the volcanic activity in a given Age, the more CO2 released into the air, and the thicker the greenhouse blanket.
Counteracting this mechanism is the weathering process. Rainfall reacts with the CO2 in the air, creating carbonic acid. The slightly acidic groundwater attacks rocks containing silicate minerals. The ensuing chemical reaction locks into these rocks the carbon contained in the groundwater, taking the carbon out of circulation for a very long time.
The volcano–weathering interplay is probably the greatest climate-engine of them all. When it is all said and done, the ever-shifting balance over millions of years between the rate of weathering and the rate of CO2 emissions from volcanoes and hot springs accounts for the ponderous oscillations of Earth between an icehouse and hothouse climate through the geological epochs. A Hothouse World is predominantly a tropical world. An Icehouse World is what we have had for the past thirty-four million years.
On a longer time scale yet—that of hundreds of millions of years—is the ever-intensifying radiation of the sun. Four and a half billion years ago the sun output was but 70 to 75 percent of its current level.
However, the ever-increasing sun radiation has been compensated by a potent greenhouse blanket in the early period, followed by an overall decrease in greenhouse gas concentrations through the ensuing thousands of millions of years.
Those are the prominent, more obvious instruments controlling climate. There are many ancillary ones, such as the patterns of wind, dust, precipitation, and clouds, which all amplify or mitigate the effects of the key instruments. As the climate changes, so do the patterns of vegetation, soil exposure, and ice coverage—and with them the level of reflectivity of the sun's rays. All of these parameters interact, producing a symphony of dazzling complexity and dynamics.
Then we showed up on the scene.
Global Warming
The planet’s surface emits the energy from the sun in the form of infrared radiation, or heat. Some of that makes it to outer space, some is absorbed by the so-called greenhouse gases. Those in turn emit some of the heat downward. The net result is augmented warming of the planet surface. Thanks to this blanket of greenhouse gases, Earth does not have an average temperature of −18°C (−.4°F). The resultant 33°C higher average temperature makes life as we know it possible on Earth.
Carbon dioxide is constantly being cycled through the vegetation, ocean surface, and atmosphere. Most of the landmass, and therefore vegetation, is situated in the northern hemisphere. When it is winter in the northern hemisphere, the bulk of the world’s leaves shed and release their CO2, and consequently the atmospheric concentration goes up a bit. In the summer it goes back down.
At the beginning of the current interglacial period, eleven thousand years ago, the CO2 concentration in the air hovered around 259–265 parts per million (ppm). This is pretty much how it stayed until about 3600 BCE, when the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere started to inch their way up and then plateaued at 276–283 ppm around 480 BCE, where they stayed until the early 1800s.
About that time, we got into the fossil-fuel business and started releasing massive amounts of CO2 into the air. Some of it was picked up by the ocean, some by the land. However, about half of it remained in the air. And we went from an atmospheric concentration of around 283 parts per million (ppm) in 1807 to 391 ppm as of 2011. This CO2 concentration is the highest in the last 800,000 years and potentially for the past few million years.
Carbon dioxide accounts for about 77 percent of the effects of our annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. Methane and nitrous oxide account for most of the rest. The main source of anthropogenic, or human-induced, greenhouse gases is the combustion of fossil fuel. We use the resultant heat to generate electricity, to warm indoor spaces, to power our motor vehicles and various industrial processes. Other significant sources of anthropogenic GHG emissions are due to carbon outgassing from the soil, from cement production, and from deforestation.
Secondary sources of anthropogenic GHG emissions include landfills, rice paddies, the production of steel, and the manufacture of petrochemicals. It is unclear whether livestock emissions should also be added to this tally. Our cattle take in CO2 from the air and turn it to the far more potent methane at the back end of the process.
Hence, no cattle, no extra methane. Yet, in some roundabout way, the domestic cattle of today stand in place of the hordes of bison and musk ox of bygone days—which also contributed their share of converting CO2 to methane.
At the end of the day, what matters most is the resultant level of warming from it all. Currently, we are at 0.9°C mean global warming, and there is no doubt that human activities are at the root of it. In fact, if not for the offsetting effects of aerosols and minimal solar activity, the warming would have been greater yet.
Under the business-as-usual, fossil-fuel intensive scenario, in which CO2 concentrations are projected to rise to 872 ppm by the 2090s, an integrated model at the Hadley Centre projects that by that time, the temperature will have increased by 4.4°C to 7.3°C from pre-industrial temperature levels. Under a comparable emission scenario, MIT Integrated Global Systems Model projects between 5.1°C and 6.6°C warming relative to pre-industrial levels by 2100. In accordance, I assume a median figure of 5.5°C global mean temperature increase by the end of the century as a likely outcome under the business-as-usual, fossil-fuel intensive scenario.
As of 2010, the year 2010 was one of the two warmest years on record. In fact, as 2011 came to a close, nine of the ten warmest years in recorded history have been since 2000. During the spring of 2011, fires of epic proportions raged in Texas, which had its driest spring on record. Australia and New Zealand had mega-floods, and the Midwest had record snowfall. This is just the beginning; this is just at 0.9°C warming. These are but first, timid forays of a new weather regimen.
The routine 4°C–7°C oscillations between glacial and interglacial periods take thousands of years to run their course, not one hundred years, as is projected to happen under the current emissions trajectory. Moreover, in the last few million years, the changes have been occurring within the bounds of a certain temperature range. At present, we are already at the warm end of the pendulum. Pushing it 5°C farther out may prove to be outside the operational specs of some of the existing species and ecosystems.
In terms of global mean temperature, we are travelling back in time. In our current trajectory, around mid-century we will have gone back in time to the Pliocene epoch, a few million years back. Toward the end of the century, we are likely to have reached the Mid Miocene Climatic Optimum period, around 15 million years back. And then on to the twenty-second century and further back in time, getting to temperature levels that are likely to have last existed during the Eocene epoch, perhaps around 40 to 50 million years ago—along with ocean acidity not on a comparable time scale.
This is where the similarities may end. It is one thing to have global transitions of climate over millions of years or over many thousands of years, allowing most species to migrate, evolve, or work their way to suitable changing climatic distribution. It is an entirely different ball of wax to turn the dial 5°C‒6°C over a one hundred year period for a planetary ecosystem that is largely bankrupt with only isolated, hemmed-in pockets of intact nature.
This excerpt has been reprinted with permission from The Blueprint: Averting Global Collapse, by Daniel Rirdan, published by Corinno Press, 2012.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60697 | Does the president know where to stop?
What do Iran, Iraq and North Korea have in common? The answer from anyone with even a rudimentary notion of foreign affairs is – almost nothing.
Those three nations have different regimes, policies and interests. To lump them together with a speech-writer's formulation – "axis of evil" – as President Bush did in the State of the Union message, makes sense only if Bush wants to make things seem worse than they are.
The Bush administration is showing signs of not knowing where to stop. In wartime, this is always a danger. Flushed with victory, you raise your sights. Bismarck took Alsace and Lorraine, Napoleon and Hitler marched on Moscow. Japan attacked America. MacArthur pressed on toward China.
Bush has Iraq in his sights because, as he said in the State of the Union speech, "Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror."
Had he stopped there, we would have a serious policy option to consider: Nobody likes Saddam Hussein, but should we attack him now, 10 years too late, without any known connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda?
The danger of messing with Saddam is simple: He could be replaced by a fundamentalist regime.
But Bush didn't stop there. Iran, Iraq's enemy, also is part of the axis.
Diplomacy normally follows the rule that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Nations try to turn foreign rivalries to their own ends. Nixon's opening to China was intended to affect Soviet behavior, which it did.
If you happen to have bad relations with mutual enemies, as America does with Iran and Iraq, you apply the principle of comparative advantage: You ask – with which nation does greater potential exist for improvement?
Prospects had been slowly improving with Iran. President Mohammed Khatami condemned the Sept. 11 attacks on America, and Secretary of State Colin Powell exchanged handshakes with the Iranian foreign minister at the United Nations.
Small steps, but the opening with China began with small steps.
Bush says Iran "exports terror while an unelected few repress the people's hope for freedom." He accuses Iran of meddling in Afghanistan.
But why wouldn't Iran, and Russia as well, have an interest in neighboring Afghanistan? And won't their roles be more compatible with U.S. interests if we have good relations with them, rather than condemning them?
Bush's axis is meaningless. It is a sign of setting a risky course because he doesn't know where to stop.
What of North Korea?
North Korea has about as much in common with Iran and Iraq as it does with Zimbabwe. If Bush defines his axis by the presence of unsavory leaders, Zimbabwe deserves a mention, and why not throw in Sierra Leone and Burma? If he wants to define it by terrorism, why is North Korea, which has far fewer terrorists than our friends the Saudis, in it?
In his State of the Union message, Bush sabotaged Persian Gulf diplomacy and once again slapped South Korean President Kim Dae Jung in the face. Kim wants to relaunch his "sunshine policy" toward North Korea. He has been undercut by America, his friend and ally, because Bush needs a justification for his missile defense plans.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60735 | MBUI Telecon 2012 April 26
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• Current status of the working group note (Use Cases should be finalized
• Next steps
• Present: UCL (Jean, Francois, Pascal, Vivian), CTIC (Javier, Cristina), CNR (Fabio, Carmen), Jaroslav, Nikos
Please correct the names
Gerrit (due to technical problems with the telephone)
• absent
• Vivian
Paterno: asks the link to access Task model contents (google doc file), they will provide the material based on the CTT experience. It can be used as a starting point for discussion.
UCL: informs AUI models contents are provided online, it defines requirements: generic and specific ones, mappings from different contributions, and the meta-model proposal.
Jaroslav: asks about following procedures, e.g. how to suggest sub-classes
Jean: suggests to start by (few) core concepts, then compare among different approaches/languages, and then open to discussion regarding terminology and definitions. He also raises the discussion about how to handle sub-classes. Two approaches are envisaged: extension or comprehension. Both have advantages and disadvantages. Extension: lists all possible values. One scenario for example consists in the simple choice and multiple choice, how to model it. Comprehension: values are logically defined according to attributes. The goal is to fill in the table available in the AUI Model document (see google doc file) by comparing the approaches concerning pre-defined criteria.
Nikos: mentions the combination, the application for basic classes, he prefers comprehension as approach, though he sees the need of a combined approach, once it is hard to use few classes.
Fabio: extension-based approaches tend to reach clearer results.
Jaroslav: prefers a combined approach too, to define sub-classes
Jean: raises the need to define criteria to choose the approach. For example comparing one specific concept modelled by the three different approaches.
Niko: agrees
Jaroslav: mentions having multiple inheritance hierarchy where the functions are composed
Jean: semantically the multiple inheritance applies, but syntactically he believes the maintenance is difficult. So different impacts are expected from a syntactic and semantical perspective
Jaroslav: agrees, mentions about RDF, and describing similar hierarchies, suggests to discuss this question given the echo problems... try to not be restricted to syntactical requirements, another representation for the models expressing multiple compositions
Jean: agrees, Suggests to evaluate each approach for the same scenario and then choose, decide one representation, in a consent from the group. To be discussed via mailing list.
Jaroslav: asks for suggestions about gathering terminology for this domain, once the Cameleon glossary is quite extensive, requests Jean for more updated contents on this.
Jean: has not so extensive contents as Cameleon. So he suggests to start with few concepts and then extend the list of terms
Jaroslav: suggests to start based on Cameleon list and open it to collaborative discussion, different terms from different languages, but similar definitions. Should this be reflected in our glossary?
Jean: agrees
Jaroslav: will send the first version of the document then
Jean: will contribute with Similar content (more updated vocabulary) via email
Fabio: asks the definition of Rule and Action (concerning AUI model document)
Jean: replies that rule characterizes the dialog, and exemplifies action as the creation of a new AUIInteractor
Fabio: confirms it is like an event handler
Jean: asks if there are more questions about the document (AUI), invites all to collaborate with its edition, review, suggests to start with the meta-model, and asks collaboration to complete the requirements list as well
Fabio: reminds AUI model should not be restricted to adaptation scenarios
Jean: informs this can be defined in the scope section, but requirements should focus on what and how (e.g. how to express, how to capture...)
Jaroslav: will work on the glossary and send it to the list
Jean: suggests to maintain the source of each concept, to be able to keep track of the original domain, and to compare, analyse and evaluate it later on
Jaroslav: agrees, he will think about the final format of the document, discuss further the definitions, find a consent
Jean: agrees, mentions the comparison between new and old terms. He also mentions how to convert from HTML (google docs) to W3C formats. He mentions the script created by Jose Manuel Cantera.
Jaroslav: can contact him to ask for the conversion script
Jean: believes it is more convincing if Dave or Gerrit contact him. He mentions such script has been already successfully used in the final report of the Incubator Group. So, it can be useful for our context.
Vivian: provides minutes of the call
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This is a great question. Every summer I get asked about poison ivy and poison oak, because everyone goes outside. A lot of gardeners end up with it. And people don't realize that pets can actually carry the oils from poison ivy and poison oak in their fur. So when you pat your dog that has been outside, the oils may transfer.
The first thing you want to do is apply a cool compress to the affected area. You don't want to scratch it, because the bacteria in your fingernails can get into your skin and cause an infection.
You also want to try drying up the oils as quickly as possible. There are products on the market like Ivy Dry, Tecnu, and Zanfel which are actually soaps that bind to those oils so you can wash them away. This can help promote healing and dry the affected area.
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1. [N. Amer] North American raccoon
- common raccoon, common racoon, ringtail, Procyon lotor
2. An eccentric or undignified rustic
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60829 | Holder: Stand Your Ground Fixes What's Not Broken
7/17/2013 9:37AM
Attorney General Eric Holder blasted "stand-your-ground" laws in the wake of the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting Trayvon Martin, saying such laws cause more violence than they prevent. Photo: Getty Images.
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Disconnect Search
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
is there a proof of stopping the ISPs from tracking searches? I don't think this is possible without spamming the ISPs with search results ... which means this addon is only a half of the solved problem :)
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
The difference between Netscape and Firefox is that the first will start 3 seconds after the computer wakes up and 3 seconds before Windows (for example) is operating, while the second waits for Google to update the service and eventually triggers the Adobe update as well.
Now because everyone "got the picture" as from where (Google geolocation) to where (Adobe service history) was your computer going in the past ... role-playing an open minded end user would probably require a Java permission update ... Ab initio this is unloaded within an ISP server permissions update as well ... Performing "YES" at this point will leave the ISP servers at free disposal on every next node up in the network tree ... From now a single phone is enough to keep track of your computer activity or even less than a phone ... a satellite :)
Wish you knew that Google's Image search engine is the primary. Google's Earth kept coming upfront, till AT&T managed to make it in the first place :)
I know you don't like me :)
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.7.20131121.1-signed).
Bork Bork Bork!
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
I feel late, actually I knew this extension, but at the time when it was published could not guess its potential. Because at that time was not worried on who else is reading or recording the pages I am surfing :) Discovered months ago another add-on doing the exact thing this one was doing long before it, called Crimerize. I named crimerize the best thing happening for Firefox in the recent past. Well, if I could remember this Bork Bork sooner :)
MakeGIF Video Capture
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
many capture tools emphasizing life comics can be shared and made to be important, all of them showing weaknesses (IT related) ... but this one hits my taste for speed and accessibility
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (1.61.1-signed).
Comeback Cached Link
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Within checking the dropdown menu Google has proof of the user intentions ... within the servers abilities to keep track of user actions Google is notified of the mouse motion in between the screened elements, visible or not on the user displays ... yes, now it has the proof the user is going to check the cache ... These from the perspective of an invasive Google surveillance ... Now from the perspective of a small and nearly obliterated site owner who wants to spy if the user is coming to his site from a cached link accessed on Google, it seemed better to have the "cache" link hidden ... Thank you :)
Open Link
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Link Visitor 3
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
a useful addon from the perspective of my browser :), I mean, yes, indeed, my browser acknowledges all these links were visited, but how about my trackers? Are they viewing the same number of visited links? Or they view only the links I have visited for real?
Besides, I checked this addon within the current FF version and it doesn't show like the extension is actually working, doing anything ... maybe I am wrong. Then how do I check if the addon is working? Thank you :)
Tooltip Plus
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
the best add on in Mozilla Foundation, is doing exactly what was expected from Firefox's afterlife after Netscape's sudden death ... keep watching :)
The following were retrieved with TLDR extension from the search result page for "Crimerize" add-on: "crimerize :: Search :: Add-ons for Firefox
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You are perhaps aware of "SMART ERROR" detection types or its use to enforce web surfers to pass through a re-direction process over to another server before reaching the requested site, plus an unwanted history record on the ISPs side ... I hope one day you will ( within the update of your add-on ) take into consideration the (useful) massive use of anti-smart error detection ... GOOD LUCK, wished you had same many thanks from Mozilla Foundation itself :)
Screen Dimmer
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
EXTRAORDINARY ... YEARS AGO SOMETHING SIMILAR WAS INTRODUCED IN FIREFOX 3 ... WITHIN NEWER VERSIONS IT DIDN'T REALLY WORK ... THE NEW FIREFOX SKIPPED ITS PROCESS AND ALWAYS RESULTED INTO AN ERROR ... Firefox 4.0 was focusing on aggregation of flash mob advertisement into the browser ... the leadership at Firefox of course has changed too ... and this determined them to skip everything else which could stay in their way ... I am suggesting you the following best selection of FF addons used together with Scrollmap for getting the best browsing experience with Scrollmap addon: 1. use Extensor ... is an addon which will give you the coption to quickly enable or disable any addon installed on your FF from the browser title bar (for example, but can be from another bar ... where you have placed the Extensor button) 2. use Floaty Scrollbar ... and with Extensor you can easily switch between Scrollmap and Floaty Scrollbar ... this extension allows a very slim scrollbar ... which also is enhancing the rendering speed of your browser ... about twice faster ... so when you load the sites is recommended the floaty scrollbar in use ... when you read the sites is recommended the Scrollmap addon in use ... switch between them with Extensor addon button available in your title bar ... 3. use LesserChrome addon for discarding from the ""on screen" graphic memory the useless static navigation bar ... thus raising the speed of scrolling in between the edges of the browser window frame ... 4. go to about:config ... type in "animate" and disable animation in browser ... Now is cool, but you still haven't got the point of using the Scrollmap addon ... Here it comes! 5. use Load All Now addon and the Facebook News Feed for example will be loaded before being viewed all at once ... now you have a long page with at least 50 articles to read inside ... and certainly need Scrollmap addon and the above others ... Small enhancements may occur from using: 6. Tab focus ... thus helping your "on screen" graphics activities to focus on your mouse pointer moves ... without a click ... 7. use InstaClick addon and load every new link from a page within a right click into a new open tab ... loading pages in the same tab is done harder because it has first to discard the storage of the initial page and then load the new one ... InstaClick helps you to load them faster within a new tab without waiting for the discarding process to happen ... 8. use Double Click Add New Tab ... to perform a double click (left click) on your tabs bar whenever you want to open a new tab next to the current one ... These will help you understand what Scrollmap stands for ... Previously I had to use the Content Scrollbar addon for an effect appropriate for fast scrolling long pages ... also the Focusing Frame addon for fastening the loading of long pages ... and sometimes More Display Resolutions addon ... Now Scrollmap reigns ... Someone says ... "you should hide Scrollmap in short pages ... because it works using it on long pages, but it stands in your way on short pages" Right ... Floaty Scrollbar ... and Extensor will that for you ... easily if complemented by the others I have told you above :) Cheers :) ... I'll show you a bonus: install FF Rocker addon and Memory Fox ... go to about:config and get rid of tab places history reducing it to a small number ... Take CacheToggle addon too and get rid of caching with no constant effort of cleaning caches ... take Firefox Tweak, Fasterfox Lite and Fasterfox ... all together with the best shooting will give you speed ... (activate Memory Fox only for browser to keep the speed of browsing high) ... take Low Quality Flash add on ... I think all together may make your browser a happy place ... with no restraining inabilities of working one of these addons ... including Scrollmap which is the cherry on the pie :) Aww, I forgot to mention: on short pages DeferredTo faster Firefox web browsing addon will help your browser render only the part of the page you're viewing now ... before rendering the rest of the page :) This will please you with one more time "more browsing speed" !
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
extremely useful, facebook insists on this behavior because its tracing back to facebook every visit to other sites in a visible way for the sites owners so they'll be notified about the importance of facebook in spreading the knowledge, yes it doesn't make it with respect for privacy and is useful ... however since the involvement of ratings in discovering the top searches via google, instead of mozilla ... i wont strip this add on presence in my collection :) therefore will get a small rating of one star instead of five :)
Double-click To Reload Tab
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with every secondary (safe mode) restart of firefox or every second restart of firefox the safe mode is checking if u want to open some or all the tabs u opened in the last session ... at this stage only one mouse gesture is recognized ... the left click ... through which u pick up the tabs desired to be opened ... if u bypass this step and go forward the mouse gestures will come back to original firefox ... this is my guess, is not because i am developing this add on, perhaps if ur fiirefox crashes many times u need to restart it and this is why safe mode is recommended by firefox and mouse gestures are reverted to their basics ... i wrote this before even checking this add on ... i will do it now and guess it will work fine ... a previous version of this add on haven't received yet complaints and i guess if that time it worked ... then will work now again, but better :)
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firefox mobile version Rated 5 out of 5 stars
for mobile downloads IT WORKS ... otherwise we already use performant download managers
Dispute Finder
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Developer said: Dispute Finder is still fairly experimental and is rapidly improving.
Before going to become a celebrity on every electronic newspaper ... developer disappears in the shadow of "google.com"
Pirate Bay owner goes to jail and Assange follows today.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
it works and is really needed as the fight for controlling the recorded media communications is also using intimidation and the internet services are targeted and yes censoring is now about to become the "future establishment"
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
there is an enhanced version, but is under a program which is installed apart from firefox (doesn't work as an extension for firefox only)
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
excellent idea, now i need also a tool, an add on to merge all the webpages fragments under one tab ... 5 stars
RescueTime - Productivity Meter for Firefox
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
1. in top of my business collection your add on is showing up just in time when i was starting to collect ... 2. someone discovered how great it is that we are not asked to have accounts before using your service, but i tried to make my own account and after i logged in about 2 hours i tried to check the statistics of your program and ... the site kept saying me that i am logged in with another identity ... I logged out and tried to login back but i received the same answer from your "welcoming service" ... 3. thanks God i discovered that your add still can be used without being logged in, otherwise i was about to uninstall and forget it.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
The creator of this add on remembers me the beggar knocking at the door of a rich prince ... Wish you a long life enough to prove that you were the true prince of internet multimedia, not that scums ...
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60899 | Django: Ticket #21961: ForeignKey.on_delete supports database-level cascading options <p> Per a discussion on -developers, this ticket is to document this proposed new feature. </p> <p> The general idea is to allow developers to specify that the database itself, rather than Django, should implement foreign key constraints where possible. The database can be considerably more efficient, and often can avoid locking situations, in a way that the Django backend can't. </p> <p> The proposal is to add a models.CASCADE_DB, models.SET_NULL_DB, models.PROTECT_DB constants. These specify that the appropriate functionality is to be implemented in the database if the database supports it; otherwise, they are implemented in the Django core as now. </p> <p> Some potential design issues with proposed solutions: </p> <ol><li>It is not an error to specify the _DB version with a database that doesn't support it. Instead, you get the non-_DB version. </li><li>The _DB version does not fire signals; this will need to be documented. </li><li>If a model A references a model B using CASCADE_DB, but model B references model C using regular CASCADE, a deletion of A won't cascade all the way to C. This needs to be documented. Another possibility is to make this an error condition and have model validation fail, but that seems excessive. </li><li>The _DB version is disallowed on generic foreign keys, because that way madness lies. </li><li>The implicit foreign key created from child to parent in model inheritance is never the _DB version. This is a shame, but there are two issues: </li></ol><blockquote> <p> a) Since it's created implicitly, there's no place to put it. b) Even if we extended the mechanism to allow manual specification of the key, deleting the parent wouldn't automatically delete the child. </p> </blockquote> en-us Django Trac 1.0.5 mjtamlyn Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:12:13 GMT stage changed; needs_docs, needs_better_patch, needs_tests set <ul> <li><strong>needs_docs</strong> unset </li> <li><strong>needs_better_patch</strong> unset </li> <li><strong>needs_tests</strong> unset </li> <li><strong>stage</strong> changed from <em>Unreviewed</em> to <em>Accepted</em> </li> </ul> <p> If 3 can be introspected for (which should be possible) we can at least implement a check for it in the new checks framework. </p> Ticket aaugustin Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:33:29 GMT <ol><li>is tricky. My instinct would be to fail with an exception when the code requires something that cannot be achieved. However, I understand that pluggable apps may want to take advantage of database-level cascades, while still supporting less capable databases. Short of introducing a third value (CASCADE_DB_PROVIDED_YOU_ARE_USING_A_REAL_DATABASE), your proposal is probably the best solution. </li></ol><p> A similar argument can be made for 3. </p> <p> 5 might be just another argument against MTI... </p> Ticket charettes Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:44:00 GMT <ol start="5"><li>It is possible to specify the key: </li></ol><div class="code"><pre><span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">Parent</span><span class="p">(</span>models<span class="o">.</span>Model<span class="p">):</span> <span class="k">pass</span> <span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">Child</span><span class="p">(</span>Parent<span class="p">):</span> parent <span class="o">=</span> models<span class="o">.</span>OneToOneField<span class="p">(</span>Parent<span class="p">,</span> parent_link<span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">True</span><span class="p">)</span> </pre></div> Ticket akaariai Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:00:18 GMT <p> I think the description has parent and child deletion mixed. Deleting the parent will delete the child (there is a key from child to parent). The problem is child deletion. In Django deleting the child cascades to the parent row, too. But there is no column from parent to child you can cascade along if you do cascades in the DB. The real problematic case: </p> <pre class="wiki">class Related(models.Model): pass class Parent(models.Model): pass class Child(Parent): related = models.ForeignKey(Related, on_delete=DB_CASCADE) </pre><p> When you delete Related instance, Child instances pointing to it will be deleted by db cascade, but the parent instances will be left alone. If you instead use standard CASCADE, then the parent instances will be deleted, too. This is surprising behaviour. It can be documented, but erroring out would be IMO better. </p> Ticket shai Fri, 07 Feb 2014 03:27:52 GMT <p> 1+2 => When using CASCADE_DB, signals will fire only on backends which do not support the feature. </p> <p> Similar issues, of course, for 1+3, 1+5. </p> <p> I find this result quite disturbing. </p> <p> Alternative: When using CASCADE_DB on a backend where the database cannot implement it, Django tries to emulate it; this is <em>not</em> equivalent to CASCADE. </p> Ticket timgraham Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:38:16 GMT version changed <ul> <li><strong>version</strong> changed from <em>1.7-alpha-1</em> to <em>master</em> </li> </ul> Ticket Suor Fri, 13 Mar 2015 03:52:23 GMT <p> For me it actually ok that signals won't be called and some deletion propagation could be broken. It's kind of <tt>.raw()</tt> and <tt>.extra()</tt> if you mess with database you should handle all these things. </p> <p> My use case is using a database with another non-django app. So I can't rely on Djangos cascading. </p> Ticket akaariai Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:08:43 GMT <p> I won't oppose an approach where checks framework will warn about dangerous behavior. </p> <p> For issue 1+2 mentioned by Shai in <a class="ticket" href="" title="Comment 5">comment:5</a>: we should disable signals when cascading along CASCADE_DB converted to normal CASCADE due to not having support for CASCADE by the backend. </p> Ticket |
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Mixed Content
When a user visits a page served over HTTPS, their connection with the web server is encrypted with SSL and hence safeguarded from sniffers and man-in-the-middle attacks.
If the HTTPS page includes content retrieved through regular, cleartext HTTP, then the connection is only partially encrypted: the unencrypted content is accessible to sniffers and can be modified by man-in-the-middle attackers, and therefore the connection is not safeguarded anymore. When a webpage exhibits this behavior, it is called a mixed content page.
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Starting in Firefox 16, the Web Console displays a mixed content warning message when a page on your website has this issue. The mixed content resource that was loaded via HTTP will show up in red, along with the text "mixed content" which will link to this page.
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To fix this error, requests to HTTP content should be removed and replaced with content served over HTTPS. Some common examples of mixed content include JavaScript files, stylesheets, images, videos, and other media.
Starting in Firefox 23, mixed active content is blocked by default (and mixed display content can be blocked by setting a preference). To make it easier for web developers to find mixed content errors, all blocked mixed content requests are logged to the Security pane of the Web Console.
Types of Mixed Content
Mixed passive/display content
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• <audio> (src attribute)
• <img> (src attribute)
• <video> (src attribute)
Mixed active content
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How to modify .htaccess for web app (in combination with WordPress)
1. I am using WordPress 3.0.1 as the front end for my web application.
I have most of it working, but I need some help customizing ".htaccess"
Here is what works:
1. I use Exec-PHP plugin to run my embedded PHP code inside a WordPress "Page" called "app".
2. I use pretty Permalinks for good SEO. This URL = "" displays the correct page and runs my code.
3. To pass parameters to my app, this URL = "" also displays the correct page, and my PHP code can see the parameters in $_GET['a'] and$_GET['b'].
Here is where I need help with ".htaccess"
I want this URL = "" to be rewritten using the Apache2 mod_rewrite engine to become "" and then display the correct page (like item 3) above.
I have tried adding various things in ".htaccess", but I can't get it to work. I typically end up with a WordPress 404 page being displayed.
Here is the .htaccess file created when installing WordPress 3.0.1.
# .htaccess
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
I am sure there must be lots of folks using WordPress as a front end for their web app, and others with expertise in .htaccess syntax. Any answers or pointers to solutions would be much appreciated.
thanks in advance,
David Jones
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Gynecomastia 001.jpg
A young adult male with gynecomastia
Classification and external resources
ICD-10 N62
ICD-9 611.1
MedlinePlus 003165
Patient UK Gynecomastia
Gynecomastia /ˌɡnɨkɵˈmæstiə/ is a common endocrine disorder in which there is a benign enlargement of breast tissue in males.[1][2][a] Most adolescent boys, up to 70%,[3] have some breast development during puberty.[1] Newborn and adolescent males frequently experience temporary gynecomastia due to the influence of maternal hormones and hormonal changes during puberty, respectively.
The development of gynecomastia is usually associated with benign pubertal changes, but in rare cases may be seen in association with certain disease states.[3] Gynecomastia may be seen in individuals with Klinefelter syndrome or certain cancers, with disorders involving the endocrine system or metabolic dysfunction, with the use of certain medications, or in older males due to a natural decline in testosterone production.[1][4] In adolescent boys, the condition is often a source of psychological distress; however, 75% of pubertal gynecomastia cases resolve within two years of onset without treatment.[2]
Disturbances in the endocrine system that lead to an increase in the ratio of estrogens/androgens are believed to be responsible for gynecomastia development.[3] This may occur even if the levels of estrogens and androgens are both appropriate but the ratio is altered.[3] The disorder is usually diagnosed by a physician after a detailed history and physical examination. Conservative management of gynecomastia is often appropriate as the condition commonly resolves on its own. Medical treatment of gynecomastia that has persisted beyond two years is often ineffective. Medications such as aromatase inhibitors have been found to be effective in rare cases of gynecomastia from disorders such as aromatase excess syndrome or Peutz-Jeghers syndrome,[5] but surgical removal of the excess tissue is usually required.[6]
Signs and symptoms[edit]
The classic feature of gynecomastia is male breast enlargement with rubbery or firm glandular subcutaneous chest tissue palpated under the areola of the nipple in contrast to softer fatty tissue.[3][7] This enlargement may occur on one side or both.[8] Milky discharge from the nipple is not a typical finding, but may be seen in a gynecomastic individual with a prolactin secreting tumor.[3] Males with gynecomastia may appear anxious or stressed due to concerns about the possibility of having breast cancer.[7][9] An increase in the diameter of the areola and asymmetry of chest tissue are other possible signs of gynecomastia.[10]
Gynecomastia is thought to be caused by an altered ratio of estrogens to androgens mediated by an increase in estrogen production, a decrease in androgen production, or a combination of these two factors.[3] Estrogen acts as a growth hormone to increase the size of male breast tissue.[3][7] The cause of gynecomastia is unknown in around 25% of cases.[8][9]
Many newborn infants of both sexes show breast development at birth or in the first weeks of life.[11] During pregnancy, the placenta converts the androgenic hormones DHEA and DHEA sulfate to the estrogenic hormones estrone and estradiol, respectively; after these estrogens are produced by the placenta, they are transferred into the baby's circulation thereby leading to temporary gynecomastia in the baby.[7][12] In some infants fluid ("witch's milk") can be expressed.[8] The temporary gynecomastia seen in newborn babies usually resolves after two or three weeks.[7] Gynecomastia in adolescents usually starts between the ages of ten and twelve and commonly goes away after eighteen months.[7] Declining testosterone levels and an increase in the level of subcutaneous fatty tissue seen as part of the normal aging process can lead to gynecomastia in older men. This is also known as senile gynecomastia.[7] Increased fatty tissue in these men leads to increased conversion of androgenic hormones such as testosterone to estrogens.[7] When the human body is deprived of adequate nutrition, testosterone levels drop while the adrenal glands continue to produce estrogens thereby causing a hormonal imbalance.[7] Gynecomastia can also occur once normal nutrition is restarted (this is known as refeeding gynecomastia).[7] A small proportion of male gynecomastia cases may be inherited due to the very rare aromatase excess syndrome inherited in an autosomal dominant manner.[13]
About 10–25% of cases are estimated to result from the use of medications.[6] This is known as non-physiologic gynecomastia.[9] Medications known to cause gynecomastia include ketoconazole, cimetidine, gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues, human growth hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin, antiandrogens such as bicalutamide, flutamide, and spironolactone, 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors such as finasteride and dutasteride, and estrogen therapy used in male to female transgender individuals or in those with prostate cancer.[3][6][14][15] Medications that are probably associated with gynecomastia include risperidone, calcium channel blockers such as verapamil, amlodipine, and nifedipine, anabolic steroids,[6][16] alcohol, opioids, efavirenz, alkylating agents, and omeprazole.[6][17] Certain components of personal care products such as lavender or tea tree oil and certain supplements such as Dong Quai and Tribulus terrestris have been associated with gynecomastia.[9]
Chronic disease[edit]
Patients with kidney failure are often malnourished, which may contribute to gynecomastia development. Dialysis may attenuate malnutrition of kidney failure. Additionally, many kidney failure patients experience a hormonal imbalance due to the suppression of testosterone production and testicular damage from high levels of urea also known as uremia-associated hypogonadism.[9][18]
In individuals with liver failure or cirrhosis, the liver's ability to properly metabolize hormones such as estrogen may be impaired. Additionally, those with alcoholic liver disease are further put at risk for development of gynecomastia; ethanol may directly disrupt the synthesis of testosterone and the presence of phytoestrogens in alcohol may also contribute to a higher estrogen to testosterone ratio.[9] Conditions that can cause malabsorption such as cystic fibrosis or ulcerative colitis may also produce gynecomastia.[9]
Testicular tumors such as Leydig cell tumors or Sertoli cell tumors[19] (such as in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome)[2] or hCG-secreting choriocarcinoma[17] may result in gynecomastia. Other tumors such as adrenocortical tumors, pituitary gland tumors (such as a prolactinoma), or bronchogenic carcinoma, can produce hormones that alter the male–female hormone balance and cause gynecomastia.[8]
Individuals with prostate cancer who are treated with androgen deprivation therapy may experience gynecomastia.[20]
Pathology: A large glandular mass of male breast tissue, surgically removed
Microscopic image showing gynecomastoid hyperplasia, the cellular changes seen in gynecomastia. H&E stain
The causes of common gynecomastia remain uncertain, but are thought to result from an imbalance between the actions of estrogen and androgens at the breast tissue.[4][6] Breast prominence can result from enlargement of glandular breast tissue, chest adipose tissue (fat) and skin, and is typically a combination.[17] As in females, estrogen stimulates the growth of breast tissue in males.[3] In addition to directly stimulating male breast tissue growth, estrogens indirectly decrease secretion of testosterone by suppressing luteinizing hormone secretion resulting in decreased testicular secretion of testosterone.[3] Furthermore, estrogens can increase blood levels of the protein sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), which binds free testosterone (the active form) leading to decreased action of testosterone in male breast tissue.[3]
Adolescent gynecomastia is caused by the faster rise in estradiol than testosterone seen during early puberty. However, this skewed estrogen/androgen ratio is normally corrected with the expected increase in testosterone seen later in puberty.[7] Another mechanism through which gynecomastia may occur is a defect in the function of androgen receptors in male breast tissue even if the level of androgen hormones in the blood is normal.[3] In rare cases, the gynecomastia persists throughout puberty and such cases are often associated with a family history of a similar occurrence.[7]
Primary hypogonadism (indicating an intrinsic problem with the testes in males) leads to decreased testosterone synthesis and increased conversion of testosterone to estradiol potentially leading to a gynecomastic appearance.[7] Klinefelter syndrome is a notable example of a disorder that causes hypogonadism, gynecomastia, and has a higher risk of breast cancer in males (20-50 times higher than males without the disorder).[21] Central hypogonadism (indicating a problem with the brain) leads to decreased production and release of luteinizing hormone (LH) (a stimulatory signal for endogenous steroid hormone synthesis) which leads to decreased production of testosterone and estradiol in the testes.[7]
Individuals who have cirrhosis or chronic liver disease may develop gynecomastia for several reasons. Cirrhotics tend to have increased secretion of the androgenic hormone androstenedione from the adrenal glands, increased conversion of this hormone into various types of estrogen,[3] and increased levels of SHBG, which leads to decreased blood levels of free testosterone.[7] Approximately 10-40% of individuals with Graves disease (a common form of hyperthyroidism) experience gynecomastia.[7] Increased conversion of testosterone to estrogen by increased aromatase activity,[3] increased levels of SHBG, and increased production of testosterone and estradiol by the testes due to elevated levels of LH cause the gynecomastia. Proper treatment of the hyperthyroidism can lead to the resolution of the gynecomastia.[7]
Medications known to cause gynecomastia act through several different mechanisms. These mechanisms include increasing estrogen levels, mimicking estrogen, decreasing levels of testosterone or other androgens, blocking androgen receptors, increasing prolactin levels, or through unidentified means.[7] High levels of prolactin in the blood (which may occur as a result of certain tumors or as a side effect of certain medications) has been associated with gynecomastia.[7] A high level of prolactin in the blood can inhibit the release of gonadotropin releasing hormone and therefore cause central hypogonadism.[3][7] Receptors for prolactin and other hormones including insulin-like growth factor 1, insulin-like growth factor 2, luteinizing hormone, progesterone, and human chorionic gonadotropin have been found in male breast tissue, but the impact of these various hormones on gynecomastia development is not well understood.[3]
To diagnose gynecomastia, a thorough history and physical examination are obtained by a physician. Important aspects of the physical examination include evaluation of the male breast tissue with palpation to evaluate for breast cancer and pseudogynecomastia (male breast tissue enlargement solely due to excess fatty tissue), evaluation of penile size and development, evaluation of testicular development and an assessment for masses that raise suspicion for testicular cancer, and proper development of secondary sexual characteristics such as the amount and distribution of pubic and underarm hair.[3] Other causes of male breast enlargement such as mastitis,[9][22] breast cancer, pseudogynecomastia, lipoma, sebaceous cyst, dermoid cyst, hematoma, metastasis, ductal ectasia, fat necrosis, or a hamartoma are typically excluded before making the diagnosis.[9] Another condition that may be confused with gynecomastia is enlargement of the pectoralis muscles. Gynecomastia usually presents with bilateral involvement of the breast tissue but may occur unilaterally as well.[9]
Mammography is the method of choice for radiologic examination of male breast tissue in the diagnosis of gynecomastia when breast cancer is suspected.[3][4] However, since breast cancer is a rare cause of breast tissue enlargement in men, mammography is rarely needed.[3] If a tumor of the adrenal glands or the testes is thought to be responsible for the gynecomastia, ultrasound examination of these structures may be performed.[3] A review of the medications or illegal substances an individual takes may reveal the cause of gynecomastia.[9] Recommended laboratory investigations to find the underlying cause of gynecomastia include tests for aspartate transaminase and alanine transaminase to rule out liver disease, serum creatinine to determine if kidney damage is present, and thyroid-stimulating hormone levels to evaluate for hyperthyroidism. Additional tests that may be considered are markers of testicular, adrenal, or other tumors such as urinary 17-ketosteroid, serum beta human chorionic gonadotropin, or serum dehydroepiandrosterone. Serum testosterone levels (free and total), estradiol, luteinizing hormone, and follicle stimulating hormone may also be evaluated to determine if hypogonadism may be the cause of gynecomastia.[9]
Early histological features expected to be seen on examination of gynecomastic tissue attained by fine-needle aspiration biopsy include the following: proliferation and lengthening of the ducts, an increase in connective tissue, an increase in inflammation and swelling surrounding the ducts, and an increase in fibroblasts in the connective tissue.[7] Chronic gynecomastia may show different histological features such as increased connective tissue fibrosis, an increase in the number of ducts, less inflammation than in the acute stage of gynecomastia, increased subareolar fat, and hyalinization of the stroma.[7][10] When surgery is performed, the gland is routinely sent to the lab to confirm the presence of gynecomastia and to check for tumors under a microscope. The utility of pathologic examination of breast tissue removed from male adolescent gynecomastia patients has recently been questioned due to the rarity of breast cancer in this population.[23]
The spectrum of gynecomastia severity has been categorized into a grading system:[24]
• Grade I: Minor enlargement, no skin excess
• Grade II: Moderate enlargement, no skin excess
• Grade III: Moderate enlargement, skin excess
• Grade IV: Marked enlargement, skin excess
Male with asymmetrical gynecomastia, after excision of the gland and liposuction of the waist
Mild cases of gynecomastia may be treated with advice on lifestyle habits such as proper diet and exercise with reassurance. In more severe cases, medical treatment may be tried including surgical intervention.[7] Medical treatment of gynecomastia is most effective when done within the first two years after the start of male breast enlargement.[3] If chronic gynecomastia is treated, surgical removal of glandular breast tissue is usually required.[6] Surgical approaches to the treatment of gynecomastia include subcutaneous mastectomy, liposuction-assisted mastectomy, laser-assisted liposuction, and laser-lipolysis without liposuction. Complications of mastectomy may include hematoma, surgical wound infection, breast asymmetry, changes in sensation in the breast, necrosis of the areola or nipple, seroma, noticeable or painful scars, and contour deformities.[24]
Selective estrogen receptor modulators such as tamoxifen or raloxifene may be beneficial in the treatment of gynecomastia but are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in gynecomastia.[3][6] Tamoxifen may be used for painful gynecomastia in adults.[6] Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) have been used off-label for cases of gynecomastia occurring during puberty.[5] A few cases of gynecomastia caused by the rare disorders aromatase excess syndrome and Peutz-Jeghers syndrome have responded to treatment with AIs such as anastrozole.[5]
Radiation therapy and tamoxifen have been shown to help prevent gynecomastia and breast pain from developing in prostate cancer patients who will be receiving androgen deprivation therapy. The efficacy of these treatments is limited once gynecomastia has occurred and are therefore most effective when used prophylactically.[25]
Many insurance companies deny coverage for surgery for gynecomastia treatment or male breast reduction on the basis that it is a cosmetic procedure.[26][27][28][29]
Gynecomastia is not physically harmful, but in some cases it may be an indicator of other more serious underlying conditions, such as testicular cancer.[3] The glandular tissue typically grows under the influence of hormonal stimulation and is often tender or painful. Furthermore, gynecomastia frequently presents social and psychological difficulties such as low self-esteem or shame for the sufferer.[23][24] Weight loss can alter the condition in cases triggered by obesity, but losing weight will not reduce the glandular component and patients cannot target areas for weight loss. Massive weight loss can result in sagging chest tissue known as chest ptosis.
New cases of gynecomastia are common in three different age populations: newborns, adolescents, and men older than 50 years of age.[24] Newborn gynecomastia occurs in about 60-90% of male babies and most cases resolve on their own.[7][9] During adolescence, up to 70% of males are estimated to exhibit signs of gynecomastia during their adolescence.[3] Senile gynecomastia is estimated to be present in 24-65% of men between the ages of fifty and eighty.[7]
The prevalence of gynecomastia in men may have increased in recent years, but the epidemiology of the disorder is not fully understood.[17] The use of anabolic steroids and exposure to chemicals that mimic estrogen in cosmetic products, organochlorine pesticides, and industrial chemicals have been suggested as possible factors driving this increase.[17][29] According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, breast reduction surgeries to correct gynecomastia are becoming increasingly common. In 2006, there were 14,000 procedures of this type performed in the United States alone.[29]
Society and culture[edit]
Gynecomastia can result in psychological distress for those with the condition. Common derogatory terms for gynecomastia include moobs (for man boobs) and bitch tits. Support groups exist to help improve the self-esteem of affected individuals.[30]
See also[edit]
1. ^ The term comes from the Greek γυνή gyné (stem gynaik-) meaning "female" and μαστός mastós meaning "breast".[31]
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Narula HS, Carlson HE (August 2014). "Gynaecomastia-pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment". Nat Rev Endocrinol 10 (11): 684–698. doi:10.1038/nrendo.2014.139. PMID 25112235.
4. ^ a b c Johnson RE, Murad MH (November 2009). "Gynecomastia: pathophysiology, evaluation, and management". Mayo Clinic Proceedings 84 (11): 1010–1015. doi:10.1016/S0025-6196(11)60671-X. PMC 2770912. PMID 19880691.
5. ^ a b c Wit JM, Hero M, Nunez SB (October 2011). "Aromatase inhibitors in pediatrics". Nature Reviews. Endocrinology. 8 (3): 135–47. doi:10.1038/nrendo.2011.161. PMID 22024975.
6. ^ a b c d e f g h i Deepinder F, Braunstein GD (2012). "Drug-induced gynecomastia: an evidence-based review.". Expert opinion on drug safety 11 (5): 779–795. doi:10.1517/14740338.2012.712109. PMID 22862307.
7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Cuhaci N, Polat SB, Evranos B, Ersoy R, Cakir B (March 19, 2014). "Gynecomastia: Clinical evaluation and management". Indian J Endocrinol Metab 18 (2): 150–58. doi:10.4103/2230-8210.129104. PMC 3987263. PMID 24741509.
8. ^ a b c d Devalia HL, Layer GT (April 2009). "Current concepts in gynaecomastia". Surgeon 7 (2): 114–19. doi:10.1016/s1479-666x(09)80026-7. PMID 19408804.
9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Dickson, G (April 2012). "Gynecomastia.". American Family Physician 85 (7): 716–722. PMID 22534349.
10. ^ a b Cordova A, Moschella F (2008). "Algorithm for clinical evaluation and surgical treatment of gynaecomastia". J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg 61 (1): 41–9. doi:10.1016/j.bjps.2007.09.033. PMID 17983883.
11. ^ Fleisher, Gary (2010). Textbook of pediatric emergency medicine (6th ed. ed.). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health. p. 731. ISBN 9781605471594.
12. ^ Melmed, Shlomo (2011). Williams Textbook of Endocrinology: Expert Consult. pp. Chapter 19. ISBN 9781437736007.
13. ^ Fukami M, Miyado M, Nagasaki K, Shozu M, Ogata T (March 2014). "Aromatase excess syndrome: a rare autosomal dominant disorder leading to pre- or peri-pubertal onset gynecomastia". Pediatr Endocrinol Rev 11 (3): 298–305. PMID 24716396.
14. ^ Bolignano D, Palmer SC, Navaneethan SD, Strippoli GF (April 2014). "Aldosterone antagonists for preventing the progression of chronic kidney disease". Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 4: CD007004. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD007004.pub3. PMID 24782282.
15. ^ Aiman, U; Haseen, MA; Rahman, SZ (December 2009). "Gynecomastia: An ADR due to drug interaction.". Indian journal of pharmacology 41 (6): 286–287. doi:10.4103/0253-7613.59929. PMC 2846505. PMID 20407562.
16. ^ Basaria, S (2010). "Androgen abuse in athletes: detection and consequences.". The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 95 (4): 1533–1543. doi:10.1210/jc.2009-1579. PMID 20139230.
17. ^ a b c d e Barros AC, Sampaio Mde C (2012). "Gynecomastia: physiopathology, evaluation and treatment". Sao Paolo Medical Journal 130 (3): 187–97. doi:10.1590/s1516-31802012000300009. PMID 22790552.
18. ^ Iglesias, P; Carrero, JJ; Diez, JJ (January–February 2012). "Gonadal dysfunction in men with chronic kidney disease: clinical features, prognostic implications and therapeutic options.". Journal of Nephrology 25 (1): 31–42. doi:10.5301/JN.2011.8481. PMID 21748720.
19. ^ Gourgari, E; Saloustros, E; Stratakis, CA (August 2012). "Large-cell calcifying Sertoli cell tumors of the testes in pediatrics.". Current Opinion in Pediatrics 24 (4): 518–522. doi:10.1097/MOP.0b013e328355a279. PMID 22732638.
20. ^ Saylor, PJ; Smith, MR (May 2009). "Metabolic complications of androgen deprivation therapy for prostate cancer.". The Journal of Urology 181 (5): 1998–2006. doi:10.1016/j.juro.2009.01.047. PMC 2900631. PMID 19286225.
21. ^ Gies I, Unuane D, Velkeniers B, De Schepper J (August 2014). "Management of Klinefelter syndrome during transition". European Journal of Endocrinology (Bioscientifica) 171 (2): R67–77. doi:10.1530/EJE-14-0213. PMID 24801585.
22. ^ Mayo Clinic Staff (2010). "Tests and diagnosis". Mayo Clinic. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
23. ^ a b Koshy, JC; Goldberg, JS; Wolfswinkel, EM; Ge, Y; Heller, L (January 2011). "Breast cancer incidence in adolescent males undergoing subcutaneous mastectomy for gynecomastia: is pathologic examination justified? A retrospective and literature review". Plastic and reconstructive surgery 127 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181f9581c. PMID 20871489.
24. ^ a b c d Wollina, U; Goldman, A (June 2011). "Minimally invasive esthetic procedures of the male breast". Journal of cosmetic dermatology 10 (2): 150–155. doi:10.1111/j.1473-2165.2011.00548.x. PMID 21649820.
25. ^ Viani, GA; Bernardes da Silva, LG; Stefano, EJ (July 2012). "Prevention of gynecomastia an breast pain caused by androgen deprivation therapy in prostate cancer: tamoxifen or radiotherapy?". International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 83 (4): e519–e524. doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.01.036. PMID 22704706.
26. ^ "Coverage Determination Guideline Gynecomastia Treatment" (PDF). United HealthCare Services, Inc. 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
27. ^ "Clinical Policy Bulletin: Breast Reduction Surgery and Gynecomastia Surgery". Aetna Inc. 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2013. are
28. ^ "Cigna Medical Coverage Policy" (PDF). Surgical Treatment of Gynecomastia. Cigna. 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
29. ^ a b c Wassersug, RJ; Oliffe, JL (April 2009). "The social context for psychological distress from iatrogenic gynecomastia with suggestions for its management". Journal of Sexual Medicine 6 (4): 989–1000. doi:10.1111/j.1743-6109.2008.01053.x. PMID 19175864.
30. ^ Wassersug, Richard J.; Oliffe, John L. (1 April 2009). "The Social Context for Psychological Distress from Iatrogenic Gynecomastia with Suggestions for Its Management" (PDF). Journal of Sexual Medicine 6 (4): 989–1000. doi:10.1111/j.1743-6109.2008.01053.x. PMID 19175864.
31. ^ Iaunow E, Kettler M, Slanetz PJ (March 2011). "Spectrum of disease in the male breast". American Journal of Roentgenology 196 (3): W247–259. doi:10.2214/AJR.09.3994. PMID 21343472.
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The Washington March for Democracy in China was sponsored by the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars on October 1, 1989, as a response to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. About 6000 people participated. The event's organizers and advisors include Arthur Miller, Wuer Kaixi, Liu Yongchuan and many students leaders. Father Dryner, president of Georgetown University Law School, Senator Slade Gorton, Congressman Walter E. Fauntroy and many other leaders spoke and participated in the March.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60926 | Wyatt Earp (film)
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Wyatt Earp
Wyatt earp ver1.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
Produced by Lawrence Kasdan
Kevin Costner
Jim Wilson
Written by Lawrence Kasdan
Dan Gordon
Starring Kevin Costner
Dennis Quaid
Gene Hackman
JoBeth Williams
Linden Ashby
Jeff Fahey
Joanna Going
Music by James Newton Howard
Cinematography Owen Roizman
Edited by Carol Littleton
Tig Productions
Kasdan Pictures
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release dates
• June 24, 1994 (1994-06-24)
Running time
191 minutes (theatrical version)
212 minutes (expanded edition)
Country United States
Language English
Budget $63 million[1]
Box office $25,052,000
Wyatt Earp is a 1994 American semi-biographical Western film, written by Dan Gordon and Lawrence Kasdan and directed by Kasdan.[2] It stars Kevin Costner in the title role as lawman Wyatt Earp, and features an ensemble cast that includes Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Isabella Rossellini, Mark Harmon, Michael Madsen, Joanna Going, Tom Sizemore, Bill Pullman, JoBeth Williams, Linden Ashby, and Mare Winningham.
A teenage Wyatt Earp lives on the family farm. His older brothers, Virgil and James, are away at war serving with the Union Army. Wyatt dreams of war, and packs some belongings, bids his younger brothers & sisters goodbye, and attempts to run away, intending to lie about his age and join the Union Army. He doesn't make it off the farm before his father catches him and forces him to return home. A short while later, both brothers return home at the war's end, with James gravely wounded. Shortly afterwards, the family moves west. It is during this move that Wyatt first sees a man killed, shot during a gunfight. He gets sick at the sight, and vomits.
Returning home to Missouri, Wyatt marries a childhood sweetheart, Urilla Sutherland (Annabeth Gish). The two move into their own house, and he begins working as a policeman. Months later, while pregnant, his wife dies from Typhoid fever. He stays by her side throughout the illness, becoming deeply depressed afterward. He burns their home and all they own, begins drinking, and drifting from town to town, eventually landing in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He robs a man and steals his horse, but is captured a short time later. With Wyatt facing certain hanging, his father bails him out of jail, telling him to leave and never return to Arkansas.
He begins working as a buffalo hunter, where he meets Bat Masterson and his brother Ed Masterson. The three become friends and work together hunting buffalo, with the two brothers working as Wyatt's skinners. Years pass, and he begins working as a Deputy Marshal in Wichita, Kansas, and builds a reputation as a good lawman. He is recruited to work as a deputy in Dodge City, with a lower salary, but for extra money for each arrest made, in the end making more than he would have in Wichita. In Dodge City he builds a hard reputation, and he kills his first man, a shooting witnessed by actress Josie Marcus. Wyatt becomes involved romantically with a prostitute, Mattie Blaylock, and the Mastersons begin working with him as deputies. Wyatt disagrees with Ed Masterson working as a lawman, believing him to be too passive. However, the Dodge City council decides that Ed is more acceptable than Wyatt due to the latter's excessive force, and fires him, appointing Ed to take his place. Wyatt then begins working for the railroad, capturing outlaws.
While pursuing outlaw Dave Rudabaugh, he is introduced to gunman and gambler Doc Holliday, in Fort Griffin, Texas, and the two become friends. Holliday assists Earp in locating Rudabaugh, whom he dislikes tremendously. Shortly afterward, Wyatt receives word that Ed Masterson has been killed, having shot and killed both his assailants before dying in the street. Wyatt returns to Dodge City to help bring law and order. After working there for a while, he and his family move to Tombstone, Arizona, under the protest of the Earp wives, and Mattie. Wyatt immediately finds himself at odds with the "Cowboy" gang. He meets and becomes romantically involved with Josie Marcus, which puts him at odds with her boyfriend, Sheriff Behan. This relationship also causes stress in his relationship with Mattie, and becomes the subject of rumor about town.
Wyatt and his brothers Morgan and Virgil arrest several Cowboys, and Virgil takes over as marshal following the murder of town marshal Fred White (Boots Southerland). The brothers find themselves at odds with the Cowboys often, and tension builds. Wyatt breaks up several altercations involving the Cowboys, particularly Ike Clanton (Jeff Fahey), and Doc Holliday swears his loyalty to Wyatt, whom he considers his only real friend. Eventually the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral occurs, with the brothers becoming very unpopular in town. Virgil is ambushed and wounded, and Morgan is killed. The film then shows only a glimpse of the Vendetta Ride with Wyatt and his friends taking out revenge on the remaining "Cowboys", and then skips to many years later with him and Josie mining for gold in Alaska. While en route by boat, a young man on the same boat recognizes Wyatt, and recounts a story in which Wyatt had saved the boy's uncle, "Tommy Behind-The-Deuce". Wyatt says to Josie, "Some people say it didn't happen that way", to which she responds "Never mind them, Wyatt. It happened that way."
An epilogue states that Doc Holiday died six years later in a hospital in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Members of the Clanton gang continued to die mysteriously for years after Morgan's murder. Josie's and Wyatt's marriage lasted forty-seven years until Wyatt died at age 80 in Los Angeles.
Wyatt Earp
Soundtrack album by James Newton Howard
Released 1994
Label Warner Bros. Records
All compositions by James Newton Howard.
1. "Main Title"
2. "Home from the War"
3. "Going to Town"
4. "The Wagon Chase"
5. "Mattie Wants Children"
6. "Railroad"
7. "Nicholas Springs Wyatt"
8. "Is That Your Hat?"
9. "The Wedding"
10. "Stillwell Makes Bail"
11. "It All Ends Now"
12. "Urilla Dies"
13. "Tell Me About Missouri"
14. "The Night Before"
15. "O.K. Corral"
16. "Down by the River"
17. "Kill 'Em All"
18. "Dodge City"
19. "Leaving Dodge"
20. "Indian Charlie"
21. "We Stayed Too Long"
22. "Winter to Spring"
23. "It Happened That Way"
Kevin Costner was originally involved with the film Tombstone, another film about Wyatt Earp written by Kevin Jarre. However, Costner disagreed with Jarre over the focus of the film (he believed that the emphasis should have been on Wyatt Earp rather than the many characters in Jarre's script) and left the project, eventually teaming up with Kasdan to produce his own Wyatt Earp project. The film was also originally meant to be a six-hour miniseries until Kevin Costner joined the cast. Costner then used his then-considerable clout to convince most of the major studios to refuse to distribute the competing film, which affected casting on the rival project.[3]
Wyatt Earp, released six months after Tombstone, was the less successful of the two films, taking in $25 million on a $63 million budget,[4] compared to Tombstone's $56 million domestic gross on a $25 million budget.[5]
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 42% based on reviews from 26 critics.[6]
The biopic debuted at No. 4 at the box office and was not a commercial success, although it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1995 and writers Dan Gordon and Lawrence Kasdan received the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for Best Drama Script. Although the film received mixed to negative reviews, critics and audiences praised Dennis Quaid's portrayal of Doc Holliday.[7][8] Wyatt Earp was also nominated for five Razzie Awards including Worst Picture, Worst Director and Worst Screen Couple (Costner and "any of his three wives"), winning two for Worst Remake or Sequel and Worst Actor (Kevin Costner). |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/60931 | Bug 11973 - GCC 3.3 optimizer creates wrong code (i386/Linux)
Summary: GCC 3.3 optimizer creates wrong code (i386/Linux)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 21920
Alias: None
Product: gcc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: c++ (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: 3.4.0
Assignee: Not yet assigned to anyone
Keywords: wrong-code
Depends on:
Reported: 2003-08-18 21:14 UTC by Yuri
3 users (show)
See Also:
Known to work:
Known to fail:
Last reconfirmed:
Description Yuri 2003-08-18 21:14:47 UTC
Symptom: Code (see below) crashes when compiled with -O3 and works
when compiled non-optimized
Expected: both optimized and nonoptimized should exit "main" OK.
Immediate reason in ASM: in inlined function alc() in E::X_alc()
freed = freed->next and first operation of constructor of C class
(vtbl initialization) are swapped by optimizer.
So it fills VTBL pointer into freed->next before it's value is being
placed into freed by alc(). So after the first call to alc()
freed is already wrong (has VTBL in it). And it should have "next"
value from the previous "freed" instance.
Please contact me [email protected] if explanation isn't clear.
This bug prevents us from switching to 3.3.
----Version from "gcc -v"------------------------
Reading specs from /usr/gcc-3.3/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3/specs
Configured with: ./configure --prefix=/gjt/home/yuri/gcc
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3
#include <stdio.h>
struct SList {
SList *next;
int i;
SList sl1, sl2;
SList *freed;
inline void *alc() {
void *r = freed;
freed = freed->next;
return (r);
class P {
virtual int fn1() { return (1); }
virtual int fn2() { return (2); }
class C : public P {
virtual int fn1() { return (3); }
virtual int fn2() { return (4); }
int i;
inline void * operator new(size_t sz) { return alc(); }
inline void operator delete(void *) { }
class D {
virtual C* X_alc() { return (NULL); }
class E {
virtual C* X_alc() { return (new C()); };
main(int argc[], const char *argv[]) {
C *c1, *c2;
E *a = new E;
// initialize
sl1.next = &sl2;
sl2.next = NULL;
freed = &sl1;
printf(" ** freed=%p **\n", freed);
printf(" ** alloc: %p **\n", (c1 = a->X_alc()));
printf(" ** alloc: %p **\n", (c2 = a->X_alc()));
delete c1;
delete c2;
return (0);
---asm------(E::X_alc where alc() is inlined)-----
080485e0 <_ZN1E5X_alcEv>:
80485e0: 55 push %ebp
80485e1: a1 d8 98 04 08 mov 0x80498d8,%eax
80485e6: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp
80485e8: c7 00 c8 86 04 08 movl $0x80486c8,(%eax)
80485ee: 8b 08 mov (%eax),%ecx
80485f0: 5d pop %ebp
80485f1: 89 0d d8 98 04 08 mov %ecx,0x80498d8
80485f7: c3 ret
80485f8: 90 nop
80485f9: 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 lea 0x0(%esi,1),%esi
Comment 1 Andrew Pinski 2003-08-18 21:47:35 UTC
I think this is another aliasing problem, who knows the rules for C++ aliasing rules should look at
this. I think the code is violating them. In fact this look exactly the same problem as PR 11915,
even though it uses operator new and this code does not.
Comment 2 Wolfgang Bangerth 2003-08-18 21:55:31 UTC
Your code is invalid. What you do is this:
- in new a->X_alc() you call C::operator new, which returns a C* which you later access
- however, C::operator new calls alc(), which returns the memory location of an object
which the compiler assumes is of type SList
Such type games violate C++'s type aliasing rules. The solution is either to fix your
code, or if you want to play hide-and-seek with the compiler, use -fno-strict-aliasing.
Comment 3 Andrew Pinski 2003-08-18 22:48:26 UTC
*** Bug 11915 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Yuri 2003-08-30 21:37:35 UTC
Since I can not reopen similar to this Bug #11915 which was closed I
reopen this one:
I still think this is bug in GCC even considering aliasing rules.
* in "operator new" object is not created yet so aliasing rules no not apply.
NOTE1: aliasing rules begin to apply the moment after the operator new() exits
NOTE2: also if to treat memory area returned as an object and apply
operator new any "light memory allocating" there will become impossible,
which undermines the meaningfullness of operator new overloading.
Comment 5 Andrew Pinski 2003-08-30 23:07:15 UTC
I still think that this is not true. There is attribut in GCC (if this is really an aliasing problem) that
marks the type might alias other types, __may_alias__.
Comment 6 Yuri 2003-08-31 02:04:42 UTC
When "operator new" is called object is non-existent yet.
Aliasing rules talk about accessing two different types with one lvalue.
But in case of "operator new" the second one doesn't exist yet. Therefore
aliasing rules do not apply in this case. We return "void*" from operator new,
not object pointer.
If it was some other function (not operator new) I agree with you totally.
Comment 7 Andrew Pinski 2003-09-01 22:29:23 UTC
Actually since "operator new" is still just a function, your anlysis is not true as they are still
the same lvalue and inlining the "operator new" just make sure they are the same lvalue
so the code is still invalid.
Comment 8 Giovanni Bajo 2004-04-02 14:02:34 UTC
Since this bug recently came up againt to my attention, I'd like to note that
both Segher Boessenkool and Nathan Sidwell confirmed that the code is illegal
because it breaks aliasing rules.
Comment 9 Andrew Pinski 2005-06-05 08:43:30 UTC
Reopening to ...
Comment 10 Andrew Pinski 2005-06-05 08:43:53 UTC
Mark as a dup of bug 21920.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21920 *** |
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During a phone conversation with another fulldome list member the other
day, we lamented the lack of discussion on issues relating to aesthetics.
Technology, technology, technology,... Let's inject a different thread!
So in the interest of generating some listserve chit-chat, I thought
I'd make a request:
Name your three favorite immersive video sequences -- or at least
three sequences that knock your socks off -- and describe what makes
them work for you.
And I suppose I have to start the ball rolling. In no particular order...
Mike Carroll's shanty film, with the rough-hewn cross timbers. I know
there's a better way of indicating which scene I'm talking about, but
it's one in which the observer truly feels transported to a terrestrial
location. The immersive quality complements a composition that uses
high contrast elements (the aforementioned timbers) to break up the
visual -- and to help conceal the seams between projectors!
Sybil Media's futuristic trip from the Earth to the Moon, created for
Houston's "Destination: Moon" program. It's a toss-up for me between
this and Sybil's brilliantly understated space station, as it appeared,
flying in from the rear of the theater with the Earth reflected on
its solar panels, in the 1998 IPS demo. I pick the flight to the Moon
for its complexity of composition and the double-axis rotation that
creates a strong sense of movement (and perhaps queasiness). Nice use
of the medium, and one of the sequences that argues strongly in favor
of a full dome of imagery.
Tom Casey's flight by Jupiter and Saturn. I like it mostly because
it's exactly how I envisioned using fulldome video to teach astronomy.
Especially if you bring something like this up immediately after
showing the terrestrial planets on small, single video projectors.
No, really, Jupiter is the *biggest* planet! Plus, Jupiter just keeps
getting closer and closer and closer till it fills the entire dome.
A pleasant feeling.
Hmmm. I guess this is my honorable mention section. I also really enjoy
Kevin Beaulieu's piece for the SkyVision Project, which captures a sense
of motion that's more energetic and playful than most content-oriented
pieces have the luxury of being. Hayden Planetarium's Orion Nebula awed
me, but more for its astronomical content than its aesthetics. And I like
Aaron McEuen's flight over the globe created for Evans & Sutherland, again
for its playfulness.
My apologies for the SkyVision bias, but it's easiest to talk about
what we know most intimately, I suppose.
Anyone care to chime in?
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Re: Some important orphaned packages
On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 02:39:13PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> Package: makepasswd
> Description: Generate and encrypt passwords
> Generates true random passwords by using the /dev/random feature of
> Linux, with the emphasis on security over pronounceability.
% man pwgen
-s, --secure
Generate completely random, hard-to-memorize paswords. These
should only be used for machine passwords, since otherwise it's
almost guaranteed that users will simply write the password on a
piece of paper taped to the monitor...
Required disclosure: I'm the upstream author/maintainer of pwgen v2
(which I rewrote just before woody shipped because of the uncertain
liscening issues surrounding the original version of pwgen).
- Ted
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Re: Bug#129650: ocaml: error byte-compiling :-(
itz> I get this while installing ocaml 3.04-4:
itz> While compiling caml-eval-buffer in file /usr/share/emacs/20.7/site-lisp/ocaml/caml.el:
itz> ** malformed let binding: (setq error (caml-eval-phrase 500 (point-min) (if arg (point-max) here)))
itz> ** Attempt to let-bind nonvariable (error)
itz> not your fault of course.
Sven> Huh ??? Ralf, could you have a look at this one ?
I have a patch if you're interested. But this is really an upstream
Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
In his own soul a man bears the source
from which he draws all his sorrows and his joys.
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Bug#448122: [INTL:nl] Dutch po-debconf translation
Package: laptop-netconf
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch l10n
Please find attached the dutch po-debconf translation. Please add
it to your next package revision, it should be inserted in your package
build-tree as debian/po/nl.po, TIA.
Feel free to mail me if this file needs updating at some future date.
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
Attachment: nl.po
Description: application/gettext
Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
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2.4.XX Kernels and testing
Hi Everyone!!
I used the unofficial reiserfs boot disks to install debian on my system and
I want to upgrade my kernel to 2.4.16, I took a look at my /usr/src directory
and there was nothing there so I downloaded the tar ball and untarred it into
/usr/src/ so then I went into the linux folder that was created and did a
"make config" and chose my options and then did a "make dep" and I got quite a
few errors about things missing and I was curious if I did something wrong or
don't have all the things I need installed (which I am almost positive I do)
or if this is normal for the 2.4.X series.
Thanks in Advance!
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Re: Scanner recommendation, please.
On Saturday 19 March 2005 16:16, tony mollica wrote:
> Can anyone recommend good scanner, not too expensive, but scans
> faster than my
> Epson Perfection 1250. I need to scan a bunch of documents and
> this thing is too
> slow. I can use xsane or vuescan. Something with a multipage
> feeder would be
> even nicer.
I'm not really up to date on scanners and their linux support, but it might be
worth checking for something that's compatible with the generic USB scanning
Another option would be to start online arguments with wild claims about the
documents in question, thus forcing people to type them up in response ;D
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>> What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file?
>> In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only
>> saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form.
> You don't ask much, do you?
No, indeed. Mac OS X's `preview' does it out of the box.
> <theory>
> AFAIK: PDF is not strictly speaking a vector-graphics format. It is
> a subset of Postscript, which is actually a programming language for drawing
> documents. It is designed for output, not input or editing. Therefor, it
> is *very* hard to convert from PDF to a structured document format.
> </theory>
Actually, PDF is not a programming language, contrary to Postscript.
So it's much easier to deal with (and more difficult to introduce viruses
into it, among other things).
> What exactly are you trying to extract?
For example, I have a PDF which contains a poster with (on the side) some
meta-information about the author, the intended color scheme, the intended
paper quality, the revision number, the order number, the purpose, the date,
and I'd like to take the poster part and throw away the rest.
> I assume you aren't trying to get pictures out, but for the benefit of
> anyone else, I'll mention pdfimages from the package xpdf-utils, which will
> extract the bitmapped images from a PDF.
I do want a picture out, but not a bitmap picture.
> Also from xpdf-utils you can find pdftops -- converting PDF to Postscript is
> kind of silly, but just maaaaybe you can do what you want with a Postscript.
I thought about it too, but couldn't find a postscript tool that does it.
> is really usable
read PDF, tho.
> Finally, pdftk is described as "an electronic stapler-remover, hole-punch,
> binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses" for PDFs. Most notably for
> your question, it will let you split the pages in to separate files.
Yes, I looked at it, but I want to extract part of a page.
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Re: Seeking Wisdom Concerning Backups
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:48:07PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
and almost immediately got an "no drive space left" error. Then looking at "df -h", I see that my smallish / partition (463MB) is full, so I've got to see what's eating up that space (I think it's because a new kernel was automagically installed - somehow or 'nuther it seems when I installed Debian on this box the default install installed whatever kernel package automatically pulls in the latest version of that kernel rather than leaving it fixed until I specifically specify an upgrade. I'm not quite sure how to "fix" that. And I don't really want to have to reboot yet to activate the newest .point upgrade so I can remove the older one taking up disk space. I should've made my / partition twice as large as I did, I reckon.)
the kernel meta-packages are called linux-image-2.6-<arch> and those
are the ones that pull in the most recent kernel. remove those
meta-packages to "fix" it (quite literally)...
Thank you. Fixed.
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Section 11. As used in this section, the term “vacancy” includes a failure to elect. If a vacancy occurs in any town office, other than the office of selectman, town clerk, treasurer, collector of taxes or auditor, the selectmen shall in writing appoint a person to fill such vacancy. If there is a vacancy in a board consisting of two or more members, except a board whose members have been elected by proportional representation under chapter fifty-four A, the remaining members shall give written notice thereof, within one month of said vacancy, to the selectmen, who, with the remaining member or members of such board, shall, after one week’s notice, fill such vacancy by roll call vote. The selectmen shall fill such vacancy if such board fails to give said notice within the time herein specified. A majority of the votes of the officers entitled to vote shall be necessary to such election. The person so appointed or elected shall be a registered voter of the town and shall perform the duties of the office until the next annual meeting or until another is qualified. |
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freopen_s, _wfreopen_s
Reassigns a file pointer. These versions of freopen, _wfreopen have security enhancements, as described in Security Features in the CRT.
errno_t freopen(
FILE** pFile,
const char *path,
const char *mode,
FILE *stream
errno_t _wfreopen(
FILE** pFile,
const wchar_t *path,
const wchar_t *mode,
FILE *stream
[out] pFile
A pointer to the file pointer to be provided by the call.
[in] path
Path of new file.
[in] mode
Type of access permitted.
[in] stream
Pointer to FILE structure.
Each of these functions returns an error code. If an error occurs, the original file is closed.
The freopen_s function closes the file currently associated with stream and reassigns stream to the file specified by path. _wfreopen_s is a wide-character version of _freopen_s; the path and mode arguments to _wfreopen_s are wide-character strings. _wfreopen_s and _freopen_s behave identically otherwise.
If any of pFile, path, mode, or stream are NULL, or if path is an empty string, these functions invoke the invalid parameter handler, as described in Parameter Validation. If execution is allowed to continue, these functions set errno to EINVAL and return EINVAL.
Generic-Text Routine Mappings
TCHAR.H routine
_UNICODE & _MBCS not defined
_MBCS defined
_UNICODE defined
freopen_s is typically used to redirect the pre-opened files stdin, stdout, and stderr to files specified by the user. The new file associated with stream is opened with mode, which is a character string specifying the type of access requested for the file, as follows:
Opens for reading. If the file does not exist or cannot be found, the freopen_s call fails.
Opens an empty file for writing. If the given file exists, its contents are destroyed.
Opens for writing at the end of the file (appending) without removing the EOF marker before writing new data to the file; creates the file first if it does not exist.
Opens for both reading and writing. (The file must exist.)
Opens an empty file for both reading and writing. If the given file exists, its contents are destroyed.
Opens for reading and appending; the appending operation includes the removal of the EOF marker before new data is written to the file and the EOF marker is restored after writing is complete; creates the file first if it does not exist.
Use the "w" and "w+" types with care, as they can destroy existing files.
When a file is opened with the "a" or "a+" access type, all write operations take place at the end of the file. Although the file pointer can be repositioned using fseek or rewind, the file pointer is always moved back to the end of the file before any write operation is carried out. Thus, existing data cannot be overwritten.
The "a" mode does not remove the EOF marker before appending to the file. After appending has occurred, the MS-DOS TYPE command only shows data up to the original EOF marker and not any data appended to the file. The "a+" mode does remove the EOF marker before appending to the file. After appending, the MS-DOS TYPE command shows all data in the file. The "a+" mode is required for appending to a stream file that is terminated with the CTRL+Z EOF marker.
When the "r+", "w+", or "a+" access type is specified, both reading and writing are allowed (the file is said to be open for "update"). However, when you switch between reading and writing, there must be an intervening fsetpos, fseek, or rewind operation. The current position can be specified for the fsetpos or fseek operation, if desired. In addition to the above values, one of the following characters may be included in the mode string to specify the translation mode for new lines.
Open in text (translated) mode; carriage return–linefeed (CR-LF) combinations are translated into single linefeed (LF) characters on input; LF characters are translated to CR-LF combinations on output. Also, CTRL+Z is interpreted as an end-of-file character on input. In files opened for reading or for writing and reading with "a+", the run-time library checks for a CTRL+Z at the end of the file and removes it, if possible. This is done because using fseek and ftell to move within a file may cause fseek to behave improperly near the end of the file. The t option is a Microsoft extension that should not be used where ANSI portability is desired.
Open in binary (untranslated) mode; the above translations are suppressed.
If t or b is not given in mode, the default translation mode is defined by the global variable _fmode. If t or b is prefixed to the argument, the function fails and returns NULL.
For a discussion of text and binary modes, see Text and Binary Mode File I/O.
Required header
<stdio.h> or <wchar.h>
// crt_freopen_s.c
// This program reassigns stderr to the file
// named FREOPEN.OUT and writes a line to that file.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
FILE *stream;
int main( void )
errno_t err;
// Reassign "stderr" to "freopen.out":
err = freopen_s( &stream, "freopen.out", "w", stderr );
if( err != 0 )
fprintf( stdout, "error on freopen\n" );
fprintf( stdout, "successfully reassigned\n" ); fflush( stdout );
fprintf( stream, "This will go to the file 'freopen.out'\n" );
fclose( stream );
system( "type freopen.out" );
successfully reassigned
This will go to the file 'freopen.out'
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Assembly.Load Method (AssemblyName)
Loads an assembly given its AssemblyName.
Namespace: System.Reflection
Assemblies: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
System.Reflection (in System.Reflection.dll)
public static Assembly Load(
AssemblyName assemblyRef
Type: System.Reflection.AssemblyName
The object that describes the assembly to be loaded.
Return Value
Type: System.Reflection.Assembly
The loaded assembly.
assemblyRef is null.
assemblyRef is not found.
In the .NET for Windows Store apps or the Portable Class Library, catch the base class exception, IOException, instead.
A file that was found could not be loaded.
assemblyRef is not a valid assembly. -or-
Version 2.0 or later of the common language runtime is currently loaded and assemblyRef was compiled with a later version.
FileLoadException is thrown if assemblyRef specifies the full assembly name and the first assembly that matches the simple name has a different version, culture, or public key token. The loader does not continue probing for other assemblies that match the simple name.
Do not use an AssemblyName with only the CodeBase property set. The CodeBase property does not supply any elements of the assembly identity (such as name or version), so loading does not occur according to load-by-identity rules, as you would expect from the Load method. Instead, the assembly is loaded using load-from rules. For information about the disadvantages of using the load-from context, see the Assembly.LoadFrom method overload or Best Practices for Assembly Loading.
If both the AssemblyName.Name property and the AssemblyName.CodeBase property are set, the first attempt to load the assembly uses the display name (including version, culture, and so on, as returned by the Assembly.FullName property). If the file is not found, CodeBase is used to search for the assembly. If the assembly is found using CodeBase, the display name is matched against the assembly. If the match fails, a FileLoadException is thrown.
.NET Framework
.NET Framework Client Profile
Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1
XNA Framework
Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.0
Supported in: Windows Phone 8.1
Supported in: Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1
Supported in: Windows Phone Silverlight 8
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61005 | Out of office auto reply - Outlook 2003/ Exchange 2003
• If my assistant sends out a meeting request on my behalf, and if a person is out, the " Out of office Auto Reply " goes to directly to me and not her. I don't want to get these out of office messages. I've set her up to receive copies of meeting related messages sent to me and she has editor permissions for my calendar and Inbox. Thanks for your help in advance.
Friday, May 11, 2007 1:08 AM
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• exchange 2003 server, and use the auto reply on our service mailbox.
The first thing you have to do is make sure the “Allow automatic Replies” box is ticked within the “Internet Message Formats” poperties.
1. Open your Exchange System Manager
2. Expand your “global Settings Folder”
3. Right Click on “Internet Message Formats”
4. Select the “Advanced” tab
5. Tick the box “Allow automatic Replies”
6. Click “ok” to save the settings.
Now login to the mail account you want to send automatic reply from and set up a rule.
1. Start a new blank rule
2. select ” check messages when they arrive, then click “Next”
3. Don’t select anything, just click “next”
4. You should receive a message saying something like ” this will be applied to all message received, continue Yes / No”
5. click “Yes”
6. Select “Have Server reply using a specific message”
7. create the message then finish.
Hope this helps, try this : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;291956
Or out of office assistance: http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook-help/automatically-reply-to-messages-with-the-out-of-office-assistant-HP001232830.aspx
Ripu Daman Mina | MCSE 2003 & MCSA Messaging
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61006 | Meego AppUP app using clutter API?
Meego AppUP app using clutter API?
Is it possible to use the clutter API in a Meego AppUp application? Would it still be considered Meego AppUp compliant? Also, are there any opinions on relative graphics performance and capabilities of QT versus clutter? I'd like to write a native Meego compliant app using clutter, but would also like to make it easily portable to a Meego AppUp app for other devices. If that isnt possible, or advisable, then QT would need to be used in the native Meego app, but my initial perception is that clutter is better suited to using OpenGL and so performance and advanced graphics functions would be easier/more efficient to use. Thanks Ashley
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Hi Ashley:
clutter is very well supported on MeeGo netbook platform.
I have not tried clutter on MeeGo tablet builds so I am not sure. On MeeGo tablet builds, there will only be OpenGL ES 2.0 support (on the Oaktrail and Moorestown builds that you can find in repo). Can clutter rely on only having OpenGL ES available in the underlying platform? On the pinetrail MeeGo build (pinetrail is an older Intel silicon), OpenGL is supported but may likely have performance issues.
If you need UI type animation, I think either Qt OpenGL or clutter should work fine. For more advanced graphics, you may need to go OpenGL ES directly on MeeGo tablet builds.
Hope this helps.
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Create an allocation rule [AX 2012]
Updated: October 9, 2013
This topic explains how to set up ledger allocation rules. Allocation is the distribution of amounts to one or more accounts or account and dimension combinations.
Use the Ledger allocation rule form to set up an allocation rule that you can use to define the rules and methods by which ledger balances are to be allocated. For example, you can set up an allocation rule to divide corporate advertising costs based on each department's sales in proportion to total departmental sales.
Starting with cumulative update 7 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2, you can also use ledger allocation rules for budget plans. For more information about how to work with budget plans, see Set up budget allocation terms.
1. Click General ledger > Setup > Posting > Ledger allocation rule.
2. Enter a unique ID for the allocation rule.
3. Select the effective starting and ending dates for the rule.
4. Select the Active check box to make the allocation rule active and available for processing.
5. Click the General tab to enter additional information for the rule.
6. You can select the Intercompany rule check box to use the rule to process allocations across multiple legal entities.
7. Select the allocation method to use for the rule. For more information, see About allocation rules.
8. Select the data source.
• If you select Fixed value, enter the fixed value amount to allocate.
• If you select Ledger, you can select a mathematical operation to process on the source value. Enter an amount if you select Multiply or Divide.
9. Select the date interval code to determine the fiscal periods for the allocation rule source.
10. Select the allocation journal name.
11. If you selected Distribute the source document amount equally as the allocation method, you can select to use either the source destination account and dimension, a user-specified destination account and dimension, or a combination.
12. Click the Offset tab to enter offset accounts and dimensions to balance the destination distribution lines.
13. Select the origin of the offset account.
• If you select User specified, select an offset account to use instead of the source account.
• If you select Source, the respective account that is defined in the source is used during the allocation process.
14. Select the dimension to associate to the allocation rule.
• If you select Source in the Offset dimension from field, the respective dimension that is defined when you click Source is used during the allocation process.
• If you select User specified, select a dimension to use instead of the source dimension.
15. To create ledger allocation rule source information, click the Source button. To create ledger allocation rule destination information, click the Destination button.
For more information, see Create allocation rule source and destination information.
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Applies to: Exchange Server 2007
Topic Last Modified: 2007-06-06
Use the Resume-PublicFolderReplication cmdlet to resume content replication when it has been stopped.
Resume-PublicFolderReplication [-DomainController <Fqdn>]
To run the Resume-PublicFolderReplication cmdlet, the account you use must be delegated the following:
• Exchange Organization Administrator role
Parameter Required Type Description
Error Description
Exceptions Description
In this example, the Resume-PublicFolderReplication command is used to resume content replication for the entire organization.
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Peter Campion (author page at Amazon) is the author of three books of poetry, Other People (2005) and The Lions (2009), and El Dorado (2013), all from University of Chicago Press. He was the 2010 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellow in Literature at the American Academy in Rome, and he was also a 2011—12 Guggenheim Fellow. He directs the MFA program at the University of Minnesota. (updated 10/2013)
Campion’s Other People was reviewed in AGNI Online by Robert Pinsky.
AGNI has published the following work by Peter Campion:
“As the Songwriter Wrote . . .”
The Biography of Displacement
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Recurring Dream in a New Home
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A Tribute to Gail Mazur
AGNI has published the following translation by Peter Campion:
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Stop Playing on Citizens' Cash Act - Prohibits the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from holding any conference until the Inspector General for Tax Administration of the Department of the Treasury submits to Congress a report certifying that the IRS has implemented all recommendations set forth in the Inspector General's report titled "Review of the August 2010 Small Business/Self-Employed Division's Conference in Anaheim, California" and describing such implementation. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61094 | Title: Friendship Lay in the Hands of Nature 1/2
Author: Sivan Shemesh
Beta:Nautika and Manon.
Rating: K+
Warning: Angst/Humor? OOC in case.
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Tolkien, I just borrowed them.
Spoiler: Total AU.
The King and the Lord watched from the balcony as their children played together.
King Thranduil was glad at the sight of his elfling playing with the human, Elrond's adopted child. It seemed that somehow the child caused a huge change in his son's behavior. Before Elrond and the human came, Legolas was closed within his own walls, and it was difficult to draw him out. He did not like to going to his room. All he wanted was to be with outside, for he loved nature; to him they were his friends.
"What is your son's weakness, Your Highness?" Elrond asked in curiosity, hiding his smile.
"Nature. If something happens, and I do not mean in a natural way, he loses control and accuses everyone for destroying it."
"I see. So your son loves nature, as the nature is in his heart," Elrond said, though he thought, 'Poor Thranduil, I have no idea how you manage it, for your son must be stubborn, very stubborn.'
"So, what is the human's weakness, Elrond?" Thranduil asked as he smiled at him.
Elrond smiled back, and answered, "Weapons. He desires weapons; the shine from the blade, the whisper of the arrow before it hits the target. To conclude, everything that looks like a weapon."
Thranduil felt a little sad, for he wished that his son would learn how to use a weapon. But it seemed that Legolas did not want to as he feared that he would kill his best friends, his dearest friends, and he swore to his father that he would not touch any weapons.
"I wish my son would be like your son, mellon-nin…" Thranduil said what he truly felt.
Elrond moved his hand to Thranduil's shoulder and squeezed it, saying, "And I wish my son would have the sympathy and the grace that your son has."
"Those wishes would not come true, even if we begged to the Valar. Yet it is also good to have wishes, and dreams, mellon-nin, so let's rest and wait for their return," Thranduil suggested.
While in the forest…
"You killed my bird… you killed my beautiful bird… argh…"
Aragorn looked at his friend and tried to defend himself against Legolas' accusation. "I did not mean it, mellon-nin… I was shooting at the sun, it was meant to hit the sun…"
Aragorn tossed his bow away, unable to look at Legolas.
But it appeared that Legolas did not bother to listen to the human, and he walked away with the bird towards the palace, only to stop when he noticed his father was on the balcony.
Aragorn had hurried over to his friend, knowing that if his father and the king heard of it, it would be the death of him, because of a bird.
"Daro… mellon-nin, daro, saes…" Aragorn begged as he hurried after his friend.
He saw Legolas stop on the balcony, and as he came closer he noticed that his father was there, together with the king. He thought that he could heard Legolas crying, and made his way towards him.
"Who did this to you, iôn?" the King asked. Aragorn decided he would save his breath.
Legolas turned his head and stared at Aragorn. He was still angry and pointed over to the human, saying, "Him! He killed my bird…"
Elrond looked first at the princeling and then at his son. He felt that there was something amiss between them, and that it came about through the bird in Legolas' hands.
Elrond knelt by Legolas' side, and asked him gently, "Give me your bird… let me look at your bird…"
Legolas looked at the lord, knowing of his power to save those who were dying, and asked himself, 'Why should I give him my bird? He can only heal elves…'
"Let me look at your bird, princeling," Elrond said to him, before looking over to Thranduil, the princeling's adar. "Let me heal your bird, I will not harm your bird…" he continued.
Thranduil glanced at his son and stroked his cheek, saying softly, "He is healer of all. Not only does he heal elves, but also the sons and daughters of Mother Nature. Trust him, iôn…"
Legolas closed his eyes, and then opened them again to look at the lord. He asked, "But it is dead, how can you heal something that died by the hands of man?"
Elrond nodded, and answered, "Trust me. You have the word of a healer."
Legolas nodded, but as he handed Elrond his bird he could not stop the new tears from falling down.
Elvish translations:
Daro… mellon-nin, daro, saes… - Stop… my friend, stop, please…
Iôn? – Son?
End of Chapter 1. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61095 | Disclaimer: I own none of it. If I did, Booth and Bones would have at least kissed by now. Sigh.
Notes: This is my first Bones fic, and a one-shot at that, which for me is nearly unheard of. The idea came to me in the shower right after an incredibly brutal jump roping class. That has nothing to do with the story, but I find it funny. This story, however, is not. Just a warning. The title is from a Martina McBride song. I'm not a particularly religious person (the song is quite religious) but the title seemed to fit.
Spoilers: References The Soldier on the Grave. Pre-Ep for The Woman in Limbo. I saw the previews and I used my imagination to fill in the rest.
Reluctant Daughter
He'd been staring at her door for at least ten minutes. He had to make a move before the neighbors noticed and called the police. He didn't want her to be home. He wanted the light in the living room and the faint strains of music he heard to be on a timer. A security precaution he knew she'd never take.
He knocked lightly; prayed she wasn't home. Prayed to St. Jude, patron saint of lost causes. Albertus Magnus; patron saint of scientists. He reached into the recesses of his Catholic brain. St. Jane Frances de Chantal; patron saint of forgotten people. And the Blessed Mother. He sighed. Hail Mary, full of grace…
The door opened, and there she was, a look of mild surprise on her face. "Hi." He didn't respond at first and her brow knitted, could see her neurons firing behind her crystal eyes. "What's wrong?"
He was amazed at how well she knew him. Knew him after just a few months, knew him well enough to read his expressions, gestures. And now, after more than a year, knew him better than he knew himself.
And he, too, knew her in a way that defied all she believed in. She was encased behind walls of brick and mortar, each slab piled on as another part of her life was torn away. Only he knew that behind that wall was the most fragile piece of glass. He could see through her, into her – and he hated himself for the hurt he was about to cause.
"Can I come in?"
Now she knew something was wrong. The instinct she was just learning to trust – he was teaching her to trust – had just been confirmed. He never asked for anything. He just did. Unless it was something serious. And the look in his eyes – yes, catalogue this under very serious.
She nodded and he entered, walking to the living room as she shut the door behind him. He went to the stereo, a slight grin crossing his face as he recognized the Foreigner CD. She felt herself blush as she grinned, recalling that night of complete inhibition – a treat she rarely allowed herself. And then he was blown up. Another brick added. And then she was kidnapped and he saved her. Another brick taken away.
Since she had met him, they'd been in this perpetual battle of give and take, revealing bits and pieces of themselves only as needed. Each gave only to take away the other's hurt. He was a sniper, shot a man in front of that man's son. She offered him a gentle touch, a breach of her personal space that meant more to him than a thousand words.
He was back to staring at the stereo, his eyes trying to match the spin of the disc, a futile attempt to delay the inevitable.
"Booth…" she began, but didn't quite know where to go. She didn't think she'd ever seen him quite like this, so uncomfortable in his own skin, and she found she couldn't react. Couldn't find her own position in the universe without first knowing his.
He looked at her with sad eyes and she realized he was truly suffering. Without even knowing the problem, she wanted nothing more than to take the hurt away.
"Did something happen?" She turned the pages of her brain. What would affect Booth like this? A case? Something more personal? "To Parker?" she ventured.
Booth shook his head. "No, Parker's fine. Bones…" he paused and rubbed at his face. He moved to the couch and took her hand, drawing her down next to him.
"Booth, I… I'm trying to process, here, and it's a struggle without you contributing. It's obvious that something is bothering you, and I want to help, but I can't without knowing more. It's like having a skeleton with 205 bones. The missing element may be the tiniest phalange, but it's not complete without it."
He chuckled softly at her choice of metaphor. When he spoke, his voice was low and soft. "This is a lot bigger than a phalange, Bones."
"Like big like a femur big?" her logical mind deduced.
Oh no. Not the first name.
"Booth! Out with it!" Her patience had run thin. She knew she wasn't good with people, and the one person she was usually good with was dragging her in circles.
"I found out something. About your mother."
This was not the response she was expecting. She had been prepared for another tirade and the words got caught in her throat and erupted as a strangled "Oh."
The realization set in. Booth was hedging because he had bad news. There was no other logical explanation. She suddenly found it hard to breathe and damned herself for asking for his help. What was that phrase? Ignorance is bliss?
She knew with all likelihood her parents were dead. After fifteen years… it was the most logical answer. But as logical as Temperance Brennan was, she could never completely remove from herself the frightened teenager, waiting by the Christmas tree, for her parents to come home.
Booth reached for her, clasping her forearm in much the same manner as she had done for him just weeks before. She looked at his hand, felt the warmth from his touch, strong and re-assuring. She slowly breathed in and out. Mindful breath. Tried her best to find her center.
"What did you find out?" As much as she appreciated his touch, she couldn't take his mournful eyes, his nearness as he spoke the words she never wanted to hear. She stood, tears pricking at her eyes, and walked to the window, arms crossed in an effort to strengthen her own inner defenses.
"I…" No, he wouldn't say he was sorry. Knew those weren't the words she needed to hear. He stood, but moved no closer toward her. "She's dead, Tempe. We…" No, no FBI standard issued speeches, either. A heavy sigh. "She's dead."
Brennan continued to stare out the window, unmoving. "You're sure?"
"I wouldn't have come otherwise."
Someone who didn't know her like he did would have missed the change. Wouldn't have seen the slightest slump in her shoulders, hear the catch in her breath, missed the bend of her neck a half an inch forward. He longed to go to her, but knew she had to process this on her own. She had asked him to find her parents. And he had delivered. At least half delivered, and he wouldn't blame her if she hated him for it.
Another second passed, and the air felt thick with sorrow, slowing time and all those in it. Another inhale, exhale, and before he knew what was happening, she had crossed the room and thrown herself into his arms. He wrapped his arms tightly around her, his hand weaving through her hair, stroking her neck. He felt his own throat close as she emitted a sob and he hated himself for doing this to her – hated himself as much as he loved her.
He allowed her to grieve, and then to get angry; leaving his arms to pace back and forth as a heated "Why?" escaped her lips.
He did his best to explain what had happened. Did his best to soothe her, comfort her as the words sunk in.
Eventually, she tired, and collapsed against him on the couch. Her breathing slowed and he looked at her sleeping figure, cheeks still tear-stained, pressed so close to his.
He lifted her gently and carried her to bed, acquiescing at her barely coherent "Stay." As she curled into him, he stroked her back until she had fallen into a deep slumber.
He had wanted for so long to have Temperance Brennan this close to him. He just wished it hadn't come at such a cost.
I love reviews! Please let me know what you think. And I'm sorry the notes at the beginning were almost as long as the story itself. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61096 | A/N: Hey, sorry for the long long long long wait. I got an other web problem, and also personal problems, but I finally managed to finish this story ! I told you that I will finish it, so here it is. Here's the last chapter ! Enjoy it.
The silence had already settled in the room for many minutes. The unknown woman was looking at Rebecca with penetrating eyes, she wasn't going to co-operate with her. Don't enter in her game, she will suggest you lots of things but don't trust her... She stayed there in front of her, trying to read into the rookie agent. Satisfaction was growing in her, as the minutes were passing. She had fight against it for too long, she should have listened to it before. It was after all pretty easy to read in the victims, and the blond agent wasn't an exception. She saw her thinking a lot, but about what? She will never go out of this apartment, so why was she trying to make a plan? All stupid girls always think that there's still hope... "What if we sat down first?" Rebecca finally suggested with a little smile, breaking the tense silence. "We will be at least more comfortable."
The woman looked at her quite convinced. Do as if you were listening to her and play with her... She is so shallow that she won't see it... Then she observed around and found the idea pretty good, as she smiled too, making her behaviour even stranger.
That's when Locke understood. She wasn't silly at all, or acting for revenge, even if it was part of it. The way she suddenly changed of mind, was revealing her secret. She was in fact sick, and it's difficult to talk with people like that. Even reading in their mind was hard. Well, she was schizophrenic. But Rebecca had to talk, to make the time past, and then maybe try to be some kind of friend with her, that was the only option. So she continued to smile, as if she was with a close relation. "So, what do you want from me?" She asked with a free and easy tone, trying to be convincing. But, the women didn't seem to want to speak, and was definitely ignoring her.
Suddenly a voice came out of nowhere. Turning her head towards the door, Rebecca immediately recognized who it was. "Rebecca!" Of course, it was Paul. She looked up towards the woman, and saw the fear in her eyes, she was starting to panic. But she turned towards her and forbade her to speak. "I know you're here. Open the door !" Paul's voice shouted.
The woman breathed deeply, trying to calm herself. "Answer, but don't forget that I have a gun…" She whispered slowly.
Rebecca closed her eyes and finally spoke up. "No… Leave me alone." She didn't want him to understand that something was wrong, he mustn't come in, if he did, she will probably kill him.
"Who is with you ?"
Looking towards the woman once again, Locke answered quickly. "Nobody."
"I know that there's a woman with you."
Then, the blonde agent felt a hand grabbing her collar and pulling her towards the bedroom. Closing slowly the door, the woman sat down just behind Locke, in order to use her like a shield, and waited. Tense was growing more and more, Rebecca closed her eyes once again, all this stuff would only have a tragic end…
They heard Paul slamming the door and entering, his footsteps approaching more and more. All she wanted to do now was running towards the door and shout at him to stop. But she couldn't. That's when the handle slowly turned, and a gunshot rang out.
Quickly opening her eyes once again, she discovered with horror Paul on the ground, his shirt covered with blood. Then a second gunshot sounded in the room, and the sound of a body falling came after. Rapidly turning around, Rebecca saw that the woman had committed suicide. But there wasn't enough time to think about it. The blonde agent ran towards Paul who was agonizing and put her hand on his wound. Panic was rising in her, she knew something like that was going to happen, but she wasn't fully prepared for it, especially if it was him who was injured. "Calm down… Locke…" Paul said, trying to appease her, but that didn't seem to work, as her hands started shaking. "Just calm down, and call for an ambulance okay ?" This was a pretty ironic situation, the injured one was giving order to the other one, while it should be the opposite situation. Quickly taking his cell phone in his pocket, she dialled 911 and called for an ambulance.
After putting the cell phone on the floor, she put her free hand on his forehead and looked at him, completely frightened. Paul could see that she had never been in such sort of situation, which made him smile. "It's okay, it's not that serious." He said trying to hide his pain. But Rebecca wasn't really convinced about what he said, as her fear was rising more and more. Feeling it, Paul knew that he had to speak about something else, then maybe she would calm down a little bit, especially as there wasn't any good reason to be that scared. "You know I didn't regret this kiss…"
The blonde agent's eyes looked in his, hesitating a little bit. "Neither did I…" She finally said after some minutes of hesitation.
"Then after that, will you have a diner with me ?" Paul asked, his voice full of hope. He smiled at her, as if he wasn't even injured.
Rebecca finally smiled too and even laughed a little. "Sure… But Karen ? What would she says ?"
"Karen and I… got divorced…" He said a bit sad, but he didn't regret it. Now that he was with Rebecca, everything was better.
That's when the paramedic came in, and finally took care of him. Mel and Danny entered into the apartment just after them, and walked towards the blonde agent. When Paul passed them in the stretcher, they both smiled at him. "Good to see that you're still alive." Danny said while Mel sighed, this was the thing to say.
"See, that's a real man!" He exclaimed to her partner. "Taking the bullet for his princess!"
Mel rolled her eyes, before pushing him into the room. "Stop talking for once." Sitting next to Rebecca they looked at her, a bit worried. "Hey, are you okay ?" Melodie said, pulling the agent out of her thoughts. She knew what she was thinking. "Don't worry, it's not pretty serious, and his a big guy." She added with a reassuring tone.
"Yeah, you'll see. In two weeks he will be in full possession of his senses." Danny said too, and then he stood up. "So let's go to the hospital, before he gets grumpy for being there. I don't want to be the victim of his boredom." He joked before leaving the apartment with Mel and Rebecca.
Arriving at the hospital, the nurse told them that Paul was already in a room, waiting for them. It wasn't really serious, he just needed a couple of week of rest. Entering happily, Mel and Danny smiled at him and started joking about his bravery and Danny's one while sitting.
"I'm sure if it had been you Danny, you wouldn't even have entered into the apartment." Mel teased, with a big smile on her face. "You would have waited for the back up!"
"Hey, be careful of what you say ! Well, I'm sure you wouldn't have done better than me."
"But you don't deny the fact that you wouldn't do it."
"I didn't say that…"
Slightly listening to them, he looked at Rebecca, meeting her eyes too, she looked a bit ashamed of having been so panicked. She was sitting not far from his bed, but closed enough for him to take her hand. A smile crossed their faces, as they looked back at the two others who were now arguing. At the door, Web was looking at them, his usual stern look on the face. He didn't seem very happy, especially when he saw Rebecca's and Paul's hands. Leaving the room, he walked down the corridor, letting them alone.
A/N: That's it ! Hope you liked it. Still sorry for the long wait. Now tell me what do you think about it. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61097 | AN: I've always had this kind of idea in mind, but since someone else posted the idea before me, credit goes to the author, baka deshi and their story Role Reversal. Theirs is much better than this--believe me. XD
Not What It Seems
He was always watching her; always waiting and smiling; always waiting and planning.
On his bike now, he rode it until he made it to the Higurashi shrine. There she was on the top of the steps, lithe form stumbling slightly when a friend jerked her back by the arm, another companion not inconspicuously pointing down.
He waved.
She waved back.
But he could tell it was reluctant.
The boy passed her friends on the steps as they descended, each girl giving him a pretty smile. Inwardly, he smirked; they wanted him, but he only wanted her.
"Higurashi," he said pleasantly.
"Hey, Hojo-kun," she returned, turning on that transparent cheery disposition. She was always lying to him. "What brings you here?"
He let his eyes narrow. "I want to know when you're going to stop."
"Stop what…?" Kagome replied, blinking.
He shook his head briefly, showing his exasperation. "When you're going to stop lying."
"Lying?" she breathed. "I haven't lied to you. Lying about what?"
"About everything," the boy murmured, hanging his head.
She placed her hand on his shoulder, bending a little to look up at him. "Hojo-kun…?"
He raised his head then, and kissed her. She was in shock, but her eyes fluttered closed.
"Hojo-kun?" she asked, feeling his arms wrap around her shoulders, bringing her closer.
"I can't wait anymore… I don't want to wait anymore…" he whispered against her hair, inhaling deeply.
Kagome felt her heart beat; the way his voice dropped to a husky baritone was familiar, the pain in his voice. It reminded her… She responded, wrapping her slender arms around his waist. Her fingers rested on the middle of his back; it was incredibly hot in that spot.
If she'd seen his face however, she would've gasped at the terribly intense way his eyes smoldered and darkened, the smirk that spoke of predatory desire.
And she would've known that this wasn't him—but the enemy with a burn in the shape of a spider. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61101 | A/N: Welcome to my first completed novel. Yes, I am beyond excited.
Just so everyone is aware, the ST storyline, in this fic, happens during the years 1841-1842 rather than the usual 1846-1847. But this doesn't make any difference until much later in the story.
I must now give two HUGE thank yous to the greatest betas in the history of the world (and no, I am not biased. Not in the least). They have both helped me with this story more than words can ever express . . . but that doesn't mean that I'm not going to make a valiant effort to express it in words now!
First, the lovely MrsRuebeusHagridDursley, aka my long-time beta/first reader, aka the co-founder and the only other person in our musical lovers club, aka my pal Morgan. She has known me for over a decade of my life and still puts up with me. I have no idea WHY she still puts up with me. She shouldn't. But she does, and for that, I am eternally thankful. Morgan is always willing to chat with me about the inane details of Sweeney Todd at one in the morning, discuss the finer points of opium, and snatch Nellie and Sweeney's immense gin supply out of my hands just before I drown myself in it. Moreover, she does so with endless patience and kindness. I'm very lucky to call her my friend.
Second, a thank you to the also lovely Saime Joxxers, aka my ST anthropologist, aka my coochy coochy cooer, aka my buddy Robynne. This story is a freakin' monster in terms of both its length and its numerous structural problems – and I mean that in the most affectionate way, of course – but that never has deterred Robynne. I can say with full confidence that this story would be far more boring, cluttered, and downright ridiculous at times without her aid. Robynne is also always there to commiserate, complain, and celebrate both my writing successes and failures. Writing is an incredibly solitary and isolating experience, and, hokey as it might sound, it's wonderful to know that I'm not alone in this exhausting-but-ultimately-exhilarating journey that is the life of a starving writer. In summation, she is the awesomesauce.
And, as always, any and all feedback about this story is appreciated. I thrive on reviews.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sweeney Todd. All I own is a computer and a little bit of an imagination.
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Sweeney Todd opened his eyes and found himself sitting on a chair in a large stone-walled room.
The place looked as though it had stepped off the pages of a history book detailing castles of the Middle Ages: circular-shaped; made entirely of gray, thick-set stones; the ceiling rounded in a dome. The furnishings were sparse, consisting only of stone-fashioned chairs. These chairs lined the walls, and around a dozen occupants sat upon them.
Where the bloody hell was he?
All of the people wore the same clothes: long, shapeless, black attires. If he had to liken them to something he'd seen before, he would have said they were some cross between dressing gowns and smocks. With a start, he realized he wore one too.
Sweeney, being a logical man, began to retrace his steps, searching his brain for his most recent memories. Anthony . . . yes, that's right, Anthony, he was bringing Johanna to his home, and Sweeney had written a letter to Turpin informing him of this to lure the judge into his shop. Turpin had arrived, and – had he – yes.
The barber's lips curved, basking at last in the glory of his revenge. Turpin had finally received what he deserved. His blood had been even more beautiful than Sweeney had fantasized about it being, all that red bathing his neck and pooling on the floor . . .
He strained again to remember what had happened after that. He had allowed his razor to finally sleep, then . . . he'd found a lad in the trunk . . . but the boy had escaped before he could slash his throat (he would have to take care of that lad later before the stupid boy went running to the authorities). Then a scream from downstairs had called him away, and
"No no, not lied at all – now I never lied," she blurts out, a desperate croon and a loving invocation; he stares down at a tattered, bloodied woman, his black heart crying in a way he didn't think it could anymore.
He blinked at the sudden memory, its vividness having blinded him for a moment. No, that wasn't what happened next. It couldn't even be a real memory; he hardly ever went into Lovett's bakehouse, where that scene seemed to take place . . . and why would he care if that mad beggar woman was dead?
Her scream from downstairs, from the bakehouse . . . he'd run down there, hadn't he? Yes, he had, and Lovett had been dragging a body towards the oven –
His efforts to remember were interrupted yet again, this time by a stream of bubbling laughter. His teeth clenched automatically: Mrs. Lovett was here too, apparently.
She sat ten chairs from his right, dressed in the same black robes as everyone else. The man next to her, a weedy fellow with buck teeth, must have said something that amused her a good deal, for she was still giggling as she began her usual blathering.
Lovett being here did help him make a little more sense of the situation. She must have hauled the both of them here last night, perhaps getting him tipsy first so as to make him more compliant. He supposed he could ask her, but it was so rare that she was chatting someone else's ear off and not his that he didn't want to disturb his few minutes of peace. She would be bothering him soon enough.
There is no time, the judge is coming, and if the judge sees this batty woman in the barbershop everything might be ruined, and he can't afford to take risks, not now, not when he's so close, not when he can almost feel the judge's precious rubies moistening his skin and the bastard's fading heartbeat against his own fingertips. . . . Without hesitation he slits her throat and springs the trapdoor, letting her tumble down to the bakehouse.
"Mr. T!"
Lovett bounced up from her chair and pranced towards him, effectively pulling him away from another intense – yet equally brief and unplaceable – memory (if that was, indeed, what they were, anyway).
"When did you get here, dear?" she asked as she flopped into the chair next to his. "I didn't see you come in. Y'know, I think I might've gotten a little too happy with the gin last night – I think Toby, bless him, has been a bad influence on me on that front! – 'cause I can't for the life of me recall how I ended up here. Maybe you can tell me a bit more about this place, since you seem to've found your way here sober? It must've been quite a drinking night all 'round. I was just talking to that gentleman over there, Mr. Ryan Shupkel, and he doesn't've a clue what this place is or how he wound up here either . . ."
She continued to prattle on, but Sweeney – as he was accustomed to doing – tuned her out, focusing on the essence of her words rather than their individual meanings. So she didn't know where this place was either – or was pretending she didn't, at least, for he didn't entirely believe her. How else would he have ended up here if it were not for her interference?
Or perhaps she really didn't remember. They might have both gotten inebriated last night and wandered here through dizzy, winding steps. Maybe they had been having a celebration over Turpin's death, forgotten proper drinking etiquette, and consumed too much. That made sense.
Whatever the reason, it was time to leave; there was clearly nothing further for him to do here. It was time for him to return to Fleet Street and . . .
Though he was not a man known for hesitating, in that moment Sweeney faltered. Return to Fleet Street and . . . what? What did he plan to do after that?
The judge was dead now. He had taken his revenge. But he had never really considered what he would do once Turpin was slaughtered. His appetite for vengeance had been satiated; he and his family had been vindicated.
It was all over. And life seemed strangely . . . blank.
No. It was not all over for him. He still had direction, a clear path he had longed to take ever since he returned to London:
He dragged a breath through his nose. Why had he left his barbershop? Drunk or not, he had been waiting for his daughter, as per the arrangements with Anthony. The pair of them might already be on their way to his ship by now, and he hadn't yet had the chance to slit the boy's throat and finally hold the remains of his broken family.
Sweeney shot to his feet and started for the door on the other side of the room. It didn't matter how far Johanna and Anthony had or hadn't gotten. He would catch up to them. If it took days, weeks, even years, he would reach them. He wasn't about to let anyone or anything rend apart his life again.
"Lucy . . . I've come home again . . ." He brushes his fingers across her face, down the side of her cheek, along her neck and across the incision, re-painting the pattern of splattered blood with his forever-stained fingertips.
Suddenly all that had seemed important to deduce – where he was, how he'd come to be here, when and how he could leave – meant nothing to him anymore, vanished from his mind as though they had never been there, disappeared as completely as the remains of his victims by the eager mouths of Lovett's customers. And the one thing he had focused so intently on ignoring up until now filled his entire view, suffocated each of his senses.
We all deserve to die . . .
She most of all.
He whirled around. Lovett noticed his change in expression and her endless prattle ceased.
In one movement he stood in front of her, close enough to grab her by the waist and pull her into a deadly dance. But past was the time for manipulated steps. This blind rage presently swallowing him allowed no room for trickery or lies, only the desire to kill.
"You thought you would be able to get away with it, did you?" Sweeney hissed. Eyes wide and confused, Lovett jerked to her feet and began to retreat from him as he prowled closer. "You believed that your lies would remain unrevealed? That I would never find out? That we would – " he sneered " – go live by the sea together? I expected more from you, pet. You are normally so practical."
Her back hit the wall, trapped, as he closed in on her. "Mr. Todd – love – I don't know what you're talking about – "
"Yes, you do." The anger began to froth over; he slammed his hands against the wall on either side of her head, barely restraining himself from throttling her, his whispers becoming shouts. "You lied to me – you said she was dead."
Mrs. Lovett's eyes, already round as pennies, expanded further as they stared up at him. "You – know – "
"Of course I know," he spat between his clenched teeth.
Gasping, she shook her head. "Mr. T – I can – never meant to – didn't – "
Sneering, snarling, shaking, Sweeney reached for his belt to grab his razor.
His hand clutched at nothing but fabric.
His razor. Where was his razor? He never went anywhere without at least one of them by his side. And yet – apparently – he had today.
For a wavering minute, panic seeped into his skin, overtook him so thoroughly that his hands slipped from the wall to his sides, as though grasping at his clothes could call his razors to him. Even drunk, how could he have left them behind?
He told himself to regain control; slowly, he harnessed his alarm and tucked it away. Now was not the time to become hysterical. There would be plenty of time to find his friends later. After all, they couldn't go far.
Lovett, on the other hand, could.
When he at last noticed her sliding away from the wall, retreating away from him, a demonic grin stole over his face.
"No matter," he breathed, advancing. Stumbling backwards in her haste to get away from him, Lovett tripped over her robes – and that was all the time he needed to lunge forward and grab her, fingers embracing her throat. "No matter. I don't need a razor to hurt you."
She spluttered, reaching up with both hands to grapple at his merciless grip. "Mr. Todd – " her breathing was shallow " – please – " each taste of air a struggle " – I'm sorry – " she thrashed against him as best she could, but it would not be enough, and they both knew it " – only wanted what was best for you – " he bared his teeth in a hideous parody of a grin " – love – "
She screams, piercing the air with a pitch beyond normal human reach, a scream to wake the dead – a scream to announce she is about to join the dead. The flames devour her, hot and hungry and unforgiving as he seals her fate with the slam of the oven door.
Sweeney released Mrs. Lovett so fast it was as though he himself had been scalded by the oven's fires. Shaking, he held his hands at arm-length from him, half expecting singe marks to erupt over his skin.
His eyes flicked from his fingers to Lovett. She had sunk to the floor, her robes puddled around her, overindulging in the ability to breathe through great gulps of air. Her chest heaved with each of her ragged inhales – moving – breathing – living – everything she should not be able to do. Her hands massaged at the necklace of bruises around her neck, the only marks upon her otherwise unblemished skin: no charred areas, no burn marks, no raw and peeling skin . . . no indications that she had died.
No indications that she had ever been anything less than alive.
He was dreaming. That was the only explanation. He'd watched her die – he'd caused her to die. She wasn't alive anymore. He was sound asleep now, dreaming, haunted by this satanic woman even after her death.
Lovett, still breathing hard, began to pick herself off the floor, her eyes never leaving his face. She took a step that was as cautious as it was fervent in his direction. "Mr. T – listen to me – I only did what I thought was best – "
The urge to seize her, throttle her, hurt her in every way he could struck him hard repeatedly, like growls in a famished stomach, with her every move. She isn't real, he reminded himself over and over again, she's dead, she's not real, harming her won't do any good, better to just wait until this hallucination is over.
Her incessant chatter had taught him that much, at least.
She took another step towards him; the insatiable desire for her pain lurched within him again, hissing, spitting: Snatch her. He fought against the compulsion with every bit of self-control he had, his muscles visibly contracting beneath his clothes.
" – and I never lied, love – only said she took a poison, which she did – I never said that she died – "
Shake her, it snarled, lashing against his side.
" – she lived, yes, but went completely mad from the arsenic – she's not the person you remember her as, she's not the person you loved, that woman's long gone – "
Strike her.
" – should've gone to the hospital, but they threw her in Bedlam instead – Mr. T – " she moved even closer, within arm's reach " – please, just listen to me – "
Suffocate her.
" – it was better for you to think she was dead – you wouldn't've wanted to know that was all that was left of her – "
Kill her.
" – I didn't tell you – didn't want you to know, didn't think you could handle it – " her eyes, wide, heartfelt, welled with tears as he continued to remain immobile " – only did it because I love you – "
Kill her.
" – she was hardly alive as it was – and she could never've cared for you the way I did – dammit, Sweeney, I'd be twice the wife she was – "
Kill her kill her kill her.
The control shattered. A corpse coming to life, he dived towards her. But Lovett, expecting an attack this time, flitted out of his reach. He snarled and pounced again; she danced away from him, not turning her back on him for a moment.
He knew it was a dream. He knew she was a hallucination. He didn't care. Apparition or not, he needed to destroy her. Watching her burn clearly had not been enough, not nearly enough, not to repay her in full for the suffering she had brought upon him. He wanted her to feel every ache that he did a million times over, to make her feel every pain possible, for he knew that even if he were to inflict all manner of injuries upon her it would still not compare to what he felt, it would never compare, but oh, he would do his best –
The metal slices into his skin, cold and sharp. It's pain beyond pain, pain that's excruciating, nearly unbearable, and yet it is nothing compared to the pain within him, the pain twisting his shriveled heart, as his grip upon her lifeless body grows slack. Black curtains are being drawn around his eyes, black curtains splattered with red – it's red – everything is always red – and the world is fading, fizzling away . . .
That was when he began to question whether where he was at present really was a dream.
A/N: Reviews are love. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61103 | Korra was taken to Katara to see if she could be healed and get her bending back but when Katara came out of the healing room she shook her head and said "I've tried everything in my power, but I can not restore Korras' bending." "But your the best healer in the world you have to keep trying." Bei Fong said. "I'm sorry there's nothing else i can do" Katara replied. "Korra can still airbend but her connection with the other elements have been severed. Korra walks into the room and looks around at her friends and family, all she wanted to do was be alone at this point. Tenzin tells Korra it's going to be alright "No it's not." Korra replies in a sad grabs her coat and walks out of the runs after her "Korra wait!" "Go away" "I will I just want you to know, I'm here for you." "No I mean go away, back to republic city, get on with your life." "what are you talking about?" "I'm not the avatar anymore you don't have to do me anymore favors." "I don't care if your the avatar or not. Listen when Tarlok took you I was losing my mind at the thought of never seeing you again. I realized that i love you Korra." "I can't." then Korra gets on Naga and rides away leaving Mako in the cold calling her name as she leaves. Tenzin comes out of the hut and puts his hand on Makos' shoulder "We need to be patient with her, it will take time for her to accept what has happened."
meanwhile with Korra ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Korra get to a quiet area away from everyone and sits and cries because she doesn't have her bending anymore. Someone walks up behind her and it appears to be Tenzin. "Not now Tenzin" she says to him. "I just wanna be left alone." "But you called me here." says the person behind her. Korra turns around to find Aang instead of Tenzin standing there. "You have finaly connected with your spiritual self" Aang says "But how?" Korra askes "When we reach our lowest points we are open to the greatest change" he says as the avatars before him, apear behind him. He puts his thumb to Korras' head and puts his hand on her shoulder. Aang and Korra both began to glow as he restores Korras bending to her. Korra opens her eyes and they are aglow in the avatar state. She is lifted by air and she lets her bending free as they swirl around her, the four elements, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth. when she comes out of the avatar state she turns to find mako standing behind her smiling. She runs to him and hugs him. "I love you too" and then they kiss.
Back with everyone ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Chief Bei Fong walks up the steps of a temple and gets on one knee as Korra restores her bending that amon had taken from her as well. Ba fong lifts the rocks surrounding the temple then places them where they were and looks at Korra "Thank you" she says. Korra bows in reply. Tenzin comes up to her and says "I am so proud of you...Avatar Korra"
A couple years later ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Korra was sleeping when she heard a loud crash come from the room next to hers which is Makos' room she runs over to find him on the floor in a heap,(he had tripped over Bolin since Bolin sleeps walks) and Bolin still asleep underneath him. Korra stands there with her hands on her hips and an eyebrow raised at the scene in front of her as Asami comes in and crosses her arms with the same expression. Asami pulls Bolin back to their bedroom and leaves Korra and Mako to talk. "are you alright" she says as she helps him up off the floor "Yeah i'm fine" he says and smiles at her. she hugs him and they kiss. Mako pins her to the bed and is ontop of her while they kiss. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61104 | Entry for Public Lovin Fanfiction Contest hosted by
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What can I say - I just had to give this a try. ;D
Thanks go out to my pre-reader Sri (Sri_ffn) and my beta, Kate (Bigblueboat), for sorting through the mess I like to create.
Disclaimer: Everything Twilight belongs to Stephenie Meyer. The kinky plot is mine.
Ex - Ooh
Fucking Emmett.
All I asked of him was to get Rosalie to bring one of her girlfriends along with her to the festival, as my date so to speak—which I hoped would end in a bedroom, or the backseat of my car. Really, it was the least she could do after inviting herself to what was meant to be a guys night out.
While I decided to attend UCLA after graduating high school, Emmett chose a college closer to home, Seattle to be exact. That is also where he met "the love of his life", Rosalie Hale, on-and-off-again girlfriend and pain in my ass for almost two years now.
Anyway, school was out for summer, and I have been back home in Forks for a week now. It was pretty much the same old, for nothing ever changes in this dreary town settled on the Olympic Peninsula.
And though I loved my parents dearly and had missed them a great deal, I was on my way to Port Angeles the minute Emmett called to ask if I'd be up to go to some music festival there. Though he claimed it was just us bro's hanging out—his words not mine—fifteen minutes into my one hour drive, he informed me that his beloved Rosie would grace us with her presence.
Granted, she was a true bombshell with her flowing, blonde hair and sinful body, but what she had in looks she definitely lacked in character. She was vain, moody, always had a snarky comment on her lips and a stick shoved up her ass. To sum it up, she was a bitch. She must be one hell of a lay for Emmett—first class prankster and down-to-earth guy that he was—to fall so hard for her.
I was half inclined to make a turn and let my mom fawn over me some more, but I guess he noticed my mood turning sour for he was quick to explain how Van Hell originally had plans with a few of her girls but one thing led to another, yada-yada, and said plans got canceled.
Since I for one, didn't want to be a complete dick about it and two, hadn't gotten laid in months, I told him it would be fine if his "better" half managed to have one of her friends tag along. I was thinking a semi-decent girl; decent looking, decent personality, but easy when it came to letting somebody into her pants.
Oh, Rosalie brought a friend, all right.
A fucking harpy with a screeching voice, fingernails as long as claws which were painted a bright pink, thin lines for lips and her mane of curly, fire-red hair was the epitome of a perm gone bad. Victoria—or Vicky, as she liked to be called—was obnoxious, inside and out. It was resentment at first sight on my end. She, however, seemed to undress me with her eyes whenever my own would land on her by coincidence.
No. Just... no. Even if someone offered me a big bag of money to have sex with her, there was just no way I could get hard even if I tried.
The smug grin on Van Hell's face confirmed what I suspected right away—she did that shit on purpose. Bitch.
It was past nine when we all arrived at the park. The festival was held at the outskirts of Port Angeles but the party was still in full swing; some people were strolling around, chatting or checking out some of the vendors—who all offered everything from band merchandise to hand-crafted junk—while others sat down on blankets or simply the grass and listened to the bands playing. The whole atmosphere was just so chill and relaxed. I could see Em and me having had a lot of fun hanging out, if it weren't for our company.
I tried. I really, really tried to just focus on the beating of drums and strumming of guitars instead of the glass-shattering voice that would hunt me down in my nightmares. I avoided eye contact at all costs and only offered sparse answers. But after an hour of Vicky clinging to me like gum does to the underside of a shoe, I just couldn't stand her inane chatter anymore and excused myself to check whether or not I had left my wallet in the car. Emmett and I both knew I had that thing on me at all times, but a swift nod from his head when Rose and the Harpy didn't pay us any attention—for once—told me he understood.
So I wandered around alone at a slower pace than usual, stopping every now and then to feign interest in the items offered by various vendors, postponing the inevitable for as long as I could. Just thinking about having to return to the company of the direful duo made me want to run for the hills. Sadly though, I couldn't do that to Em.
I was just about to stop at a sales cart to get a drink when I heard something—or rather, someone—that made me stop in my tracks.
"... letting me know. I've been waiting for almost two hours now, asshole. Oh, really? No... what—are you kidding me? I don't give a fuck if Sam had a bad day or not – we had a date and you just ditched me without even having the decency of letting me know!"
She stood a little to the side, her back to me. One hand was flailing all over the place while the other held a cell phone to her ear, huffing into it in agitation. A messenger bag and a pile of what looked like blankets lay discarded on the ground next to her feet.
The petite, curvacious frame of her body, dark hair that fanned down her back in soft waves and reached just above her waist, and that voice. That sultry, soft voice...
There was no doubt in my mind about whom that girl—woman—was.
Isabella Swan.
Forks' Chief of Police one and only daughter... and my ex-girlfriend.
"You know what—I don't care! I'm so fed-up with all of your bullshit. I just sincerely hope for your benefit Sam's around and willing to drop to his knees the next time you want head. I'm done, Jacob."
The snort that escaped my lips hearing that surprised me as much as it did her.
Startled, she spun around, and I was met with a pair of dark, soulful eyes I used to know so well, blazing with fury.
For a few seconds we both stood frozen in place, simply staring; she all wide-eyed and her mouth dropped open, and me with my hands shoved deep into the pockets of my jeans. Eventually, her eyes squeezed shut slowly while a long, frustrated sigh escaped her pink lips.
"Please tell me you didn't just hear that."
I shrugged. We both knew the answer anyway.
"Great. Really, just fucking great. Could this day get any worse?" She was talking more to herself than she was to me, rubbing her forehead in what I assumed was a mixture of embarrassment and frustration.
"Look, it's not that I-" My explanation was cut off short by the buzzing of her phone. I was kinda glad for I didn't have any clue what to say anyway. This whole situation was just so very awkward and not at all how I ever thought running into her would be like.
"Oh for fuck's sake," she hissed out as she looked at the display of the little digit in her hand. "What do you want?... Well that's too bad for him. I. Don't. Care! ...Uh-huh. Yeah, well maybe he should have thought about that before canceling a date for the fifth fucking time in a row, you asshat!"
Hearing her drop the insults and curse-words like that was something to get used to, but entertaining none the less. It's not that I didn't know about her potty-mouth, she just used to keep that side of her contained to the bedroom.
"Again, I don't care if he's miserable, Sam. That last stunt just now was just the tip of the iceberg and you know it. If you don't mind, I'd really like to enjoy the show now. Just one last bit of advice: don't expect too much on the sex front - Jake is a lousy lay. Adios!"
What the fuck was going on there?
Though I tried to cover the chuckle as a cough, she still heard and glowered at me.
"As fun as this little stunt was, I really need to go. Bye." That last word was thrown at me over her shoulder as she hurried away without sparing me another glance.
There was just no way I would let her go like that, though. "Hey, wait up!"
She sure wanted to make a quick escape, but I was faster and catching up to her only took a matter of seconds. Falling in step with her I, once again, had no idea what I actually wanted to say. As she seemed uninterested in starting a conversation herself, we just meandered through throngs of people in silence for a while.
From the corner of my eye, I saw the tight clench of her jaw, the way her head moved from side to side as if she would be answering a question in the negative and her furrowed brows. She was pissed.
Call me a sick fuck, but I loved it; always have. For an angry Bella also meant a really passionate Bella, and well, let's just say I used to purposely piss her off, or egged her on some more, many times just to benefit from the hot, steamy sex we would have as a result.
And what nineteen-year-old boy wouldn't go for that?
I guess old habits die hard.
"So, what have you been up to these past two years?" Really, I had expected her to punch me in the jaw, not to throw the pile of blankets she had been carrying in her arms into my face.
"You little shit! How dare you... Do you think this is funny? Where do you get off—and wipe that stupid fucking smile off of your face right now or I'll do it for you! AAH!"
I admit that both my hands had instinctively inched closer to cover my crotch area with every step she had taken toward me, but any potential violence directed toward my dick was averted by her phone buzzing yet again.
Since she was in reaching distance, I snatched the annoying digit out of her hand before she could answer the call, punched a few buttons and effectively turned it off. "There."
"You're still an asshole," she spat, careful to avoid touching my fingers as she took her phone from my outstretched hand.
"Don't I know it." And I really was. Maybe not all the time, but every now and then I'd do something completely fucked up to compensate for all the times I managed to be a decent human being.
For instance, I once pulled a man out of the ocean after he suffered a stroke during his swim and threatened to drown right there. But then again, about four months earlier, I had broken things off with Bella one day after my senior prom. Just like that.
No, that wasn't quite right. I had my reasons—as fucked up and inconsequential as they were—I just never told her about them.
Thing was, the moment I had lain eyes on her that day she had stumbled into the cafeteria of Forks High in the middle of the school term, I was completely smitten. She just... stood out. There was something about her that drew me in right away; her beauty, her voice, her smile, her persona—she simply was the whole package. We had started dating a month after that and remained a couple for almost a year. And it was perfect—she was perfect. We just fit; belonged together, really.
Seeing as I was one year her senior in grade and age, I soon had to decide which college I would attend. UCLA had always been my dream, and when I received the letter that told me I was in, I was flying high over the ground. The only thing that made me even happier was when Bella decided to follow me to California once she graduated herself.
Like I said, it was perfect.
I had it all figured out, too. We would have found ourselves a nice little apartment to live in, kicking each other's asses to be good students but having the time of our lives all the same. Then, once she'd turned twenty, I would have gone down on one knee and asked her to marry me. I wanted to have that life with her; this picture perfect dream of a happy marriage, successful careers and kids. She was it for me, of that I was sure.
But then, out of nowhere, this nagging voice inside my head popped out, mocking me, calling me ridiculous and pathetic for being sure to have found the one at only nineteen. And with hardly anyone else to compare to no less. Before Bella, I had only been with one other girl, and we lasted for a mere month.
So I started questioning myself, my motives and my relationship with Isabella, getting more and more convinced that we had gotten too intense too quickly. In my head, we would both experience some of what life outside of Forks had to offer, and if we were really meant to be together, we would get back together a year after doing just that. The only thing I had always been sure of was my love for her.
But I was too much of a chicken to actually say the words to her face, postponing breaking up with her over and over again until I had run out of time. The fact that I was scheduled to visit some relatives in Ireland for most of summer and would only return back to the States two weeks before college started didn't help my misery at all. To make matters worse, once I manned up enough to drive to her house and lure her outside to take a walk with me, the words I had carefully picked out and moved around in my head for days just wouldn't come out right.
Basically, I ended up telling her I was bored with our relationship and that it was naïve of her to think we would have ever made it past high school. That's at least what she gathered from twisting my words and spitting them back into my face. It couldn't have been farther away from the truth.
After a long and heavy argument, we parted with tears running down her face and me having a throbbing red mark in the shape of her hand decorating the right side of mine.
See, I told you I was an asshole.
In my defense though, I had missed her the minute I set foot onto the plane that flew me to Dublin and regretted ever having doubted us the minute I got there. Granted, I could have called or written an email or letter to ask for her forgiveness, to hopefully reconcile, but I didn't dare. And the more time passed, the less I had any courage left to try.
Which explained why I had avoided coming back to Forks as much as I could—or better to say, as my mother was able to let slide—and that two years had expired since I'd last seen her in person.
The impatient snapping of fingers in front of my face brought me back into the present. "Sorry, must have zoned out there for a moment."
"Whatever. Was there actually something you had to say or can I get the fuck out of here already?" Standing there with her hands on her hips and a quirked eyebrow, she really was asking me to continue my bullshit.
"You know, you are awfully feisty here. I'd have expected you to be happier now that you've goten rid of the lousy lay." That comment earned me a punch to the gut.
"What the fuck is your problem?" she screeched. "And what the hell are you doing here anyway? Shouldn't you be somewhere in California, enjoying the sun and getting distracted from the boredom that is Forks and all its inhabitants?" She crouched down to pick up the blankets I had let fall, and though Bella didn't look at me as she seethed the words, they still hit me full center.
As much as that last blow hurt, as much as it was well-deserved, and no matter how many more I'd be subjected to, my mind was set on there being no repeat performance of a couple of years ago. No matter what, I'd do everything I had to, to make sure we would part on better terms by the end of the night. Even if more bruises, and a potentially broken dick, were the prize to pay.
After an hour of arguing back and forth—of her stomping away every chance she got and me being too stubborn to let her go, of her throwing insults at me and venting around about how all men were idiots and me making fun of her for being adorable when angry—I finally, somehow, managed to persuade her to let me wine and dine her. And by wine and dine, I mean fries and a Coke.
While Bella spread one of her blankets out on the ground, I quickly typed out a text to Emmett telling him to not expect me to rejoin them tonight.
It was actually quite the nice spot she had found us; though still part of the audience and still able to see a little bit of the stage, it was much further back with only a few other people standing or sitting nearby.
For a while we just sat facing each other, eating in silence and listening to the music. As much as I tried to keep from staring, my eyes always found their way back to her on their own accord. Whether it was wishful thinking on my part or sheer coincidence, I caught Bella doing the same more than just once.
When the tension and awkwardness of the situation really got on my nerves, I started dropping some random remarks here and there. Most of them remained ignored, of course.
It wasn't until I accidentally dropped a big glob of ketchup on my shirt that the spell was broken. It's not that I had no manners or was a messy eater per se. It was just that, whenever I'd eat something that involved any kind of red sauce, getting some of it on my clothes was a sure thing. It may have been cute and justifiable when I was just a kid, but for a grown-up man, it was as embarrassing as it was ridiculous. Bella had always found this klutziness rather amusing, going as far as ordering extra ketchup or sauce on my food whenever we went out to eat.
It was the proverbial ice-breaker that caused the both of us to burst out laughing, and from there on out, bit by bit, she started to open up and we started talking.
Of course we stayed away from the heavier topics at first, completely ignoring the pink elephant in the room, and focused on mundane topics such as college life and the folks back home. It was only after bribery on my part—that came in the form of a round of cheeseburgers—that she explained the whole Jake deal to me. Apparently, ever since they started dating four months ago, the dude became less and less interested in spending quality time with her and chose to instead hang out with his buddies; thus causing her to come up with the remarks about them doing more than just having a few beers whenever they hung out.
Everything felt so damn natural and good. The easy chatter we fell into, being able to catch up on her life, making each other laugh... it was easy to forget the separation of the last couple of years really happened. Bella and I weren't only a couple back then, we were also really good friends. I guess it was right then that I realized I had missed that side of our former relationship as well.
Like I said, everything felt good—I felt good.
Until I didn't anymore.
See, there's only so much teasing I can take before my imagination takes over. Whether it was intentional or not, the way she would bite her lips or lick the grease from the food off her fingers, how the tip of her pink tongue would peek out every so often to brush against the plump flesh of her mouth, it was driving me mad. Add to that the fact that she was only dressed in tank top and short skirt, leaving most of her creamy skin uncovered by fabric, and that she sat cross-legged—her bare knees touching my own—with her upper body leaning forward enough to grant me a nice view of the top of her full breasts.
Et voilà, I was hard.
As her lips kept on moving—rattling on about one thing or another—I tried my best to not think about the softness of them and what it was like to have them ghosting over my skin, downward, leaving a trail of fire in their wake until they would wrap around my cock and engulf my length completely. Or the way her skin tasted on my own tongue as it circled around her hardened, pink nipples; how I would bite and nip away at the roundness of her breasts. The more I tried to keep the memories at bay, the more they invaded my mind, though.
In my head, I saw our bodies moving against each other, felt her hot breath fanning against my neck, heard the noises she would make as she-
"Where did you just go?" There was true curiosity in her voice.
The fact that she had leaned in closer to me with both her hands placed on my upper thighs—one of them dangerously close to my throbbing dick, too—really, didn't help matters. All it would take was the tiniest shift of her fingers and she would feel my hardness, barely kept in check by the thickness of the denim fabric I was wearing.
Amusement sparkled in her eyes. "I asked where you just went off to. It must have been somewhere good since your eyes got all glazed over and—Oh."
More like Ooh.
Seriously, when she had moved that hand a little upwards, her pointer finger effectively brushing against the tip of my cock, only biting down hard on my lips had kept the instinctive moan from escaping my lips.
This time, she would definitely slap me across the face, no question about it. It was one thing to tease her about being grumpy, something else entirely when getting turned on as she shared stuff about her life.
And we had gotten along so well, too...
Without breaking eye contact and with more pressure than that first time, her hand moved again, only this time along the whole length of me until she reached the zipper and then back down again. I didn't even try to hold back the groan this time.
My mouth dropped open and my eyes were probably the size of saucers; rendered speechless at that unexpected move from her. There was just no way she did that unintentionally—especially not since her hand still rested on my aching hardness that yearned for her to repeat that motion. Over and over again.
"Wha-what are you doing?" The words came out in a shuddered whisper.
The mischievous glint in her eyes and the way her teeth slowly dragged over her full bottom lip were answer enough for me. Without another thought I pulled her closer; my hands cradling her face, my lips moving against hers.
Slow, open-mouthed and savoring... our kisses were as perfect as ever; no memory could ever compare to the real thing. We spent an eternity just like that—kissing, sighing, sharing the same breath.
It wasn't until I felt her grinning against my lips while moving to straddle my lap without breaking our lip-lock, that things got more heated. Her hands went straight to my hair, pulling and combing through the mess there, whereas I let mine roam freely over the whole of her body. I just couldn't help myself—I needed to feel as much as possible of her. Bella must have felt the same seeing as she slowly, barely, started to grind her hips against mine as soon as my hand snuck underneath the hem of her top.
"Edward... people will see," she breathed against my skin, neither stopping her movements nor complaining. Simply reminding me that we were still in public.
Opening my eyes, I let them travel around our surroundings. The darkness of night had fallen upon us; none of the lamps and lights around were close enough to reveal us to the remaining people around.
"Do you want to stop?" She shook her head. "Maybe go somewhere else?" I wasn't sure I could do either of the suggested anymore in the state of lust I was in, but I had to make sure she was right there with me. She gave a second shake of her head "no".
"Here?" I choked out as she nipped along my neck. The possibility alone almost had me close to coming right there.
"Here." How I loved that kinky mind of hers. "I swear, if you don't have a condom on you, I will kill you."
I did, and thank God for that.
Shifting us so that I could reach my back pocket, I pulled my wallet out and tossed it into her lap before I reached for the spare blanket she had brought with her. It was big enough for me to wrap loosely around the both us, effectively blocking our bodies from any potential onlookers.
Holding the fabric together with one hand, the other didn't waste any more time and sneaked under her shirt. Traveling up the silken skin of her flat stomach, over her ribcage until it finally settled on palming at least one of her breasts.
"You know we have to be slow and inconspicuous, right?" I grunted out when she started to grind herself against me in earnest. The last thing I needed was for someone to interrupt us while we were getting at it.
"I would say I'm sorry, but I'm not." Chuckling, she scooted herself a little backwards. Sucking and licking away on the skin on my neck, she simultaneously lowered her hands and unzipped my pants.
"You know," she whispered into my ear, rubbing her flat palm over my hard dick, only covered by the thin material of my boxers. "If we were alone right now, I would take you into my mouth, sucking and licking base to head." Oh fuck!
"Oh fuck!" That little minx.
Two could play this game though. Brushing my thumb over her hardened nipple one last time, my hand made its way downwards, over hip, along her thigh, down to her knee and then back up again, under her skirt to the apex of her spread thighs. "If we were alone, I would strip you naked, lay you down on your back and bury my face right here." The moan she breathed against my lips as I stroked against the damp cotton of her panties only made me use more pressure.
"Edward... we have to talk about this—everything." She captured my mouth with her own for only a second before she continued. "But not tonight."
"Not tonight, no."
"Tonight is just for fucking."
"Just for fucking, yeah."
The whole situation was so fucking hot... it was close to being too much. By this point my erection was more than just painful, and I knew I would have to get inside her soon or I wouldn't make it there at all. I was just so close.
She must have realized that too, for both her hands left my body to grab blindly at the ground beside my legs and finally retrieved the foil package. Ripping it open, she made quick work of rolling it on me, pumping me once, twice for good measure when she was done.
I stole one last, breathless kiss from her then. "Turn around."
Carefully holding the blanket together with both hands, I waited for her to scramble around until she was on her knees with her back to me, before adapting the same position. With one last glance around, I passed the ends of the blanket over to Bella and then hiked her skirt all the way up over her hips.
My pointer finger followed the route of her thong, over the curve of her ass down back between her legs, trailing between her folds a few times before pushing the last barrier between us aside.
Circling one arm around her so that her back was flush against my chest, I reached into my boxers and pulled out my cock.
"If we were alone right now, I... oh... would be riding you... right now."
With the tip of my cock right at her entrance, I kissed up her neck. "Hmm... and I would like that very much." Sucking her earlobe into my mouth, I slowly pushed into her then, drawing a curse word from both our mouths as I sheathed myself completely in her.
It was heaven as much as it was hell.
It was heaven because really, sliding your throbbing, needy cock into the hot confines of a girl always felt amazing most of the time. But the fact that it was Bella, it made the thing even more spectacular for me. With her it had always been something else—something, more... Every push, every pull was just so much more intense than I had experienced with any other girl.
It was hell being forced to barely move my hips to keep the charade of us merely being a couple cuddled together, swaying and rocking to the mellow, gentle sounds of the current band playing, instead of thrusting into her as much and as fast as I wanted to; it was driving me insane.
It was the sweetest kind of torture I ever experienced, the kind that made you long for more. And I wanted it all; to have her naked on top and under me and to taste every last inch of her. I wanted every single sigh and moan I could lure from her sweet lips without holding back. I wanted her—us to be loud.
I wanted her to come right the fuck now so I could follow right away.
I let my hand slide from its spot on her hip down her front and into her panties, feeling the bare, wet skin under my fingertips as they circled her swollen nub.
"Oh, shit!" The volume of that gasp told me it had gotten more difficult for her to hold back, too.
"Right here, baby?" Craving her lips, I craned my neck until she planted them on my own; tongues sliding against each other while I continued to rub her clit. "You know, if we were alone right now, I'd push you forward until you were on your hands and knees—no, further—until your torso would touch the floor and pound into you until you'd scream my name."
Whatever gossamer thread had been left to keep us mindful and in check ripped right then when she screamed out in response to my last teasing.
She met my every thrust as I picked up in speed and force, feeding the ever tightening sensation in my groin. Her staccato breathing and incessant chanting revealed her impending climax. And when she finally clenched and shivered around me, she pulled me right over the edge with her. It took but a couple more frenzied thrusts inside her quivering hotness and I was coming into the condom.
Several moments passed before our breathing had calmed enough for either of us to speak.
"That was..." I started but my mind was washed clear of any accurate wording.
"...something else?" Bella chuckled as her head dropped back to rest on my shoulder. We remained like that for a few more minutes; bathing in the slowly fading bliss, sharing kisses and me just holding her close.
Our little bubble burst when it was announced over the speakers that the festivities had ended. We made quick work of straightening our clothes, collected all of our stuff and got rid of the trash before joining the cluster of people on their way out.
Our fingers laced together this time, we walked in silence once again, sneaking glances at the other. My heart felt incredibly heavy once we reached the parking lot. Where I had been flying high less than twenty minutes earlier, I was dragging my feet now. "I don't want this to be the end." There, I said it.
Bella squeezed my hand but made no eye contact, simply continued walking. "Me neither. Maybe we could get a hotel room?" She chuckled again, but as much as I usually found that sound endearing, I'd rather not have heard it right then.
I stopped in my tracks, forcing her to do so with me. I needed for her to see me, for her to understand. "I wasn't only talking about tonight."
"I know." Smiling the slightest bit, she walked up to me. As she stepped up on her tip-toes and touched her hands to my face, I dropped my head so that we would meet at eye level. "Tomorrow, after breakfast."
My reply was swallowed and forgotten the moment she captured my lips with her own.
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Down on the (Organic) Fish Farm
The National Organics Standards Board is recommending the USDA allow farmed fish to be labeled "organic." These "organic" fish could be fed up to 25 percent non-organic fish feed, and could also be kept in open ocean pens despite ongoing concern this can impact the wild fish supply and the marine ecosystem. Patty Lovera of Food and Water Watch tells host Bruce Gellerman these recommendations dilute organics standards.
GELLERMAN: The production of organic food is heavily regulated. Farmers who want to label their food organic can't use pesticides, hormones, or artificial fertilizers, and they must feed livestock an organic diet. It's a big business, and growing, but until now there was no such thing as an organic fish; organic beef, broccoli, and butter yes, but organic fish - no.
However, that could soon change. The National Organic Standards Board - which advises the USDA in these matters - has voted in favor of creating standards so fish farmers can also go organic. Joining me to talk about the vote is Patty Lovera, she's assistant director of Food and Water Watch, a non-profit consumer group based in Washington D.C. Hi Ms. Lovera.
LOVERA: Thanks for having me.
GELLERMAN: Now the advisory group to the USDA has decided that farm-raised fish can be called organic or at least some can. Which farm-raised fish can be called organic?
LOVERA: So what the national organic standards board did was set out a recommendation to the USDA, and the USDA now has to write the rules for how you would certify farmed fish as organic. And there were a couple controversial pieces in that recommendation they made. And they said that farm-raised fish that are raised in something called open net pens, which are, you know, open to the environment, they're often done out in the open ocean - that those could be possibly organic and that fish that were fed up to 25 percent wild fish in their diet could be certified as organic. And those are both very controversial decisions because we think they - our group and lots of other groups - thinks that it contradicts the real basic principles of organic production.
GELLERMAN: They can use 25 percent of wild fish in the organic fishes' feed. Now a fish like tilapia could be raised on grain. So you could feed it 100% organic grain and call it organic, I guess, under this ruling. But salmon eat other fish, so if a salmon eats a wild fish and that wild fish is not organic, the farm-raised salmon is still considered organic?
LOVERA: Right. We believe you can't really certify something as organic if you're not in control of its production. I mean one of the core principles of organic is that you're controlling the inputs and the outputs from that system, and so how do you certify something that's wild. Um, that gets hard to do if you don't know what it was eating, you don't know how it was - you know, how it grew up. So, that's been a controversial piece and there's still unresolved issues there within organic. But what we do know is that other livestock, other organic animals that become food, they're supposed to eat 100 percent organic feed and this is a really gaping loophole to set an exemption so high at 25 percent to let, you know, let this industry off the hook that other industries have to meet. There was another approach that the NOSB could have taken. They could have started with the stuff that's a lot more compatible with organic production methods and those are vegetarian fish in closed system where you don't have a lot of water flowing in and out and the possible pollution that comes from that. They chose not to do that. They chose to go for kinda the whole enchilada and deal with the whole aquaculture industry and give them a way into organic, and we think that's just overreaching and it just misses the point of the fact that they're supposed to set standards, not just open the door for anybody that wants to come get this label.
GELLERMAN: Well let's talk about the pens vote - that is they voted overwhelmingly - ten to four - to allow organic raised fish to be raised in the open pens. So what's the problem there?
LOVERA: Well, we have a concern with anybody using these open net pens in the open ocean. I mean, we've been very active trying to stop the promotion of this with any label on it, let alone organic. It's a very controversial method. You know, we know that the fish escape and so if you have different species, you know, breeding with the wild fish that can damage their genetics. We know that the pollution caused by confining that many fish together flows out of these pens and can pollute the surrounding environment. You know, we know there's so many risks with doing this type of production anywhere, and then to call it organic, it's just really disturbing. The board did try to put some strings on it. They said oh, you know, be careful where you site it. You know, don't put this kind of fish in this kind of environment because of the escape possibility. But none of the strings they put on it are enough.
GELLERMAN: To your way of thinking, then, can there be an organic fish or is that an oxymoron?
LOVERA: We think that you could come up with a way to have organic farmed fish that was compatible with organic standards if you start at an appropriate level, which is like we talked about with the vegetarian fish. You can do it in a closed system. There's, you know, ways you can do it if you keep those principles at the center of it. But when you start branching out to these carnivorous fish, to these systems that are out in the open ocean or out in bodies of water, that's when you kind of lose it on organic.
GELLERMAN: Well who has been advocating this? Who benefits from this decision?
LOVERA: I mean there is an aquaculture industry, you know, globally, that wants in on the organic market. I mean, they see the growth in organic, they see consumers' response to it and they're looking for that label, that stamp of approval. And there's been more coverage of the environmental damage of a lot of types of aquaculture and I think that they're looking for something to kinda deal with that stigma and say "No, we're really - look at us, we're good, we're organic." And so at every meeting there's a bunch of us saying don't do it and there's also a bunch of companies saying, "Come on, come on, let us in. We can do it. We can do it. We're good. Check us out. We're environmentally safe." And it's, you know, it's a real show usually during the public comment period from both sides.
GELLERMAN: You know, Ms. Lovera, organic farming has had positive effects on land use and it's been good for people to eat. Would it be good to introduce that kind of farming to our oceans?
LOVERA: That was a really popular comment from the members of the board during the discussion about this issue. And it's kind of an enticing argument, it can kind of suck you in. But our response to that is that the job of the National Organic Standards Board and the integrity of organic depends on really holding fast to a set of organic principles which are, animals eat organic feed, you minimize environmental impact, you promote biodiversity. Not that you just do slightly better than your competitors who are conventional. I mean, it's had the impact of cleaning up practices because the industry's had to reach a standard to get that seal.
GELLERMAN: Well I want to thank you very much, Ms. Lovera.
LOVERA: Alright, thanks.
GELLERMAN: Patty Lovera is Assistant Director of Food and Water Watch. We were also scheduled to speak with Dr. Hubert Karreman - the chairman of the advisory board to the USDA's Organic program - but unfortunately Dr. Karreman had to cancel our interview at the last minute.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61180 | Is There a God?
At least since Darwin's Origin of Species was published in 1859, it has increasingly become accepted that the existence of God is, intellectually, a lost cause, and that religious faith is an entirely non-rational matter--the province of those who willingly refuse to accept the dramatic advances of modern cosmology. Are belief in God and belief in science really mutually exclusive? Or, as noted philosopher of science and religion Richard Swinburne puts forth, can the very same criteria which scientists use to reach theories about everything from DNA to the Big Bang be used to argue for the existence of God? In Is There a God? Swinburne presents a powerful and approachable case for the existence of God. Using the methods of scientific reasoning, Swinburne rigorously argues that science, far from replacing God, provides good grounds for belief in God. With each new discovery and advance, from black holes to quarks, superstrings to continuing evolution, science brings us closer to a complete understanding of how things work--but science can only go so far. Though it can explain much of how the universe works, science doesn't tell us why there is a universe at all. We can understand much of how life evolved, but why is there any life on earth? We can name and explicate scientific laws, but how is it that they operate in the universe? The Darwinian theory holds that the complex animal and human bodies that are here today exist because, ages ago, there were certain chemicals on earth, and given the laws of evolution, it was probable that complex organisms would emerge. But why those laws rather than any other? Why those chemicals? In Swinburne's view, the ultimate grand unifying theory is possible only by a belief in what he calls theism, acknowledging the existence of God: it was God who brought about the natural laws so that humans and animals would evolve. The watch may have been made, Swinburne asserts in reference to Richard Dawkins, with the aid of some blind screwdrivers (or even a blind watchmaking machine), but they were guided by a watchmaker with some very clear sight. At the heart of his argument is Swinburne's belief that the very success of science in showing us how deeply ordered the natural world is provides strong grounds for believing there is an even deeper cause of that order. By embracing a belief in God that acknowledges the truth in science, Swinburne's elegant argument supplies an essential spiritual element to our understanding of order and beauty, the structure beneath the chaos of the natural world. This informed and provocative volume will be essential reading for all readers of popular science, philosophy, and religion.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61183 | Assessing Electronic Image Technology; Will Electronic Imaging Fulfill the Dream of a Paperless Society?
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Assesing Electronic Image Technology
Electronic imaging is the ability to capture, sote, retrieve, display, process, distribute, and manage documents not already in digital form on a computer. It requires an optical scanner, an optical drive reader, a WORM (write once, read many) laser disc, a computer, and a monitor.
Electronic imaging came into being as a result of breakthroughs in technology associated with the invention of the laser optical disc by Phillips in 1969. During this early period there were many false starts, but companies like IBM, Plessey, and Kodak continued to participate because they saw the opportunity for more compact storage of information than magnetic tape and microfilm offered.
There were related developments in the computer field as well. For example, videodisc, an entertainment spin-off, helped make the first optical storage for computers practical. However, it wasn't until the Japanese solved the problem of optical storage systems based on bit-mapped images that present day WORM technology came into use.
Why is Imaging Important?
Information technology was supposed to eliminate paper. The paperless office, the compter library, the checkless society, and the old automated office fantasy of spotless desks have all fallen by the wayside. In fact, despite the billions we are currently spending on information systems, informatin technology barely scratches the surface of the total information flow of the organization (Figure 1). In most cases the preferred tools are still pencils, word processors, telephones, fax machines, copiers, and file folders. According to the Association for information and Image Management, paper still accounts for 95 percent of the total information flow in an organization.
Since electronic imaging came into being, there have been relatively few systems sold. According to the Wall Street Journal (April 27, 1990), as of April 1990 there wer only 500 installations in the United States, mostly in
major corporations. If these systems can save filing space, improve customer service, reduce the amount of paper by 50 percent, reduce the number of staff, increase productivity by 25 to 50 percent and give businesses a competitive edge, why haven't more systems been sold? And why are people still predicting that this technology will be a $7-12 billion business by 1993?
There are no simple answers to these questios. Like most new technologies, the level of diffusion into general practice and even consumer households is linked to many factors, some of which depend on luck or chance. This article highlights the more critical areas that must be overcome for image technology to achieve better acceptance.
Problem with Imaging
According to a technological determinist perspective, electronic imaging contains certain characteristics that will bring it to the marketplace and elicit audience acceptance. These characteristics imply substitutes for the current way that people do things, but the more change requred, the harder it is for a technology to succeed as planned. John Carey, professor at the Annenberg School for Communication in Philadelphia, argues that there are four reasons why people change the way they do something:
* The technology has a clear compitivie advantage.
* There is a very strong need.
* People experience a high degree of pain with the current method of doing something.
*There is coercion to require change.
The problems associated with the acceptance of electronic imaging are similar to those of any technology imposing change. However, in its current state of diffusion, imaging has additional obstacles that must be overcome in order for it to succeed. These issues are technological and design issues, a high degree of market uncertainty, lack of knowledge, high costs, and most importantly, the human issues of moving jaay from a paper-based system. …
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61184 | Vikings Vanquished; Men and Women Go Winless in Tough Double-Headers
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Byline: Steve Smith
CLARENCE Valley Vikings took on top-of-the-table Central Coast Crusaders and the Newcastle Hunters in Grafton over the weekend in the New South Wales State Basketball League competition.
Despite showing some good signs, the local team was unable to match the strength of the southern sides.
In Saturday night's game against the Central Coast Crusaders, the Vikings women got away to a slow start and allowed the Crusaders to forge ahead early.
The Vikings gradually got some momentum and with some patience on the offensive end the Vikings had ample opportunity to score but the shots just did not drop.
Despite the Crusaders having the game in the bag the Vikings competed well for the whole game.
They looked set to take Saturday's form into Sunday's Newcastle clash and cause an upset if their shots would fall.
The Vikings men took on a complete basketball outfit in the Crusaders. The Crusaders, with some big men inside and big men outside who could pull the trigger from a long way behind the three-point line, were always going to be tough for the Vikings to handle.
The Vikings made some runs at the Crusaders, to be down by only 6-8 points at times but some relieving three-point shots for the Crusaders meant the Vikings just could not claw to the front.
In the fourth quarter the Vikings rallied but the Crusaders had every answer and the Vikings went down by 20.
In Sunday's games the men had the day's opener at 10am and took on the Newcastle Hunters in a tight game that had it all.
It was physical, fast, rushed at times and at other times both teams showed great control.
The Vikings welcomed back Cameron Fishburn, who helped with the Vikings compete physically inside.
Both teams took it in turns to lead the game and control the momentum. …
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Self-Introduction: Nikolai Husung
Full legal name: Nikolai Husung
City: Berlin
Country: Germany
FAS user name: moerderblume
Language to translate: English <=> German
Student status: pupil at a German Gymnasium
School: Enangelische Schule Frohnau (Berlin)
Me and the Fedora Project:
Long time I worked only with Windows (first: 98, then XP and later Vista or today for testing 7 RC). But also at that time I did trips into the "Linux-World". But at this time (circa 6 years ago) I wasn't at the level to learn easily another way of working with an operating system or the programs running on it (for example office). In my closer past I learned much more about the idea behind Linux and the problem with the by Microsoft developed standards which prevented competition on the market of operating systems and other software. So I decided to get to know with Linux and to switch parts of my working at / using of my computer to a Linux operating System. At least I tested Fedora beside some other distributions and decided to take it as my new operating system.
Other interesting projects / things to work at:
Docs, wiki, Software-Development (participating in projects where I probably would be able to help)
What other projects or translations have you worked on in the past?:
I've never translated anything for anybody than myself because I'm a student. But at school we had to translate and to mediate, but I'm not really sure that this is "real" translating.
What level and type of computer skills do you have?:
I work since 4 or 5 years intensively with my computer at home and at school. Before I was only a normal user with no specific skill concerning computers.
What other skills do you have that might be applicable? User interfacedesign, other so-called soft skills (people skills), programming, etc.:
I'm able to write applications in Python or C# and I got also to know with C++, HTML, CSS, XML, MySQL and SQL where I know a bit more than the basics. In the first to languages I can also build Graphical User Interfaces or more complex code behind it.
[nikolai NikolaiFedora ~]
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61191 | A more organic meteorite
By Sid Perkins, 15:44 PM May 26, 2009
TORONTO — New analyses of a meteorite that fell on Tagish Lake in Canada nearly a decade ago suggest that such extraterrestrial bodies may hold much higher concentrations of formic acid, a chemical precursor to life, than previously recognized.
Many simple organic chemicals, including formic acid, have been detected in clouds of dust and gas in interstellar space (SN: 5/1/04, p. 280). But scientists have typically found little if any formic acid in meteorites that formed within similar clou...
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61214 | Destination - Source -->; cc
Compatibility: 68000 Family
Assembler Syntax:
CMP <ea>, Dn
Attributes: Size = (Byte, Word, Long)
Description: Subtracts the source operand from the destination
data register and sets the condition codes according to the
result; the data register is not changed. The size of the operation
can be byte, word, or long.
Condition Codes:
X Not affected.
N Set if the result is negative. Cleared otherwise.
Z Set if the result is zero. Cleared otherwise.
V Set if an overflow occurs. Cleared otherwise.
C Set if a borrow occurs. Cleared otherwise.
Instruction Format:
\i1+-++3Reg,3Opmode,u6Effective Address,3Mode,3Reg,
Instruction Fields:
Register field -- Specifies the destination data register.
Opmode field:
Byte\b \bWord\b \bLong\b \bOperation
000 001 010 (<Dn>)-(<ea>)
Effective Address field -- Determines the source operand. All
addressing modes are allowed as shown:
Note: CMPA is used when the destination is an address register. CMPI
is used when the source is immediate data. The assembler will
automatically makes these substitution.
Related Instructions:
CMP A,B signed unsigned
B <; A BLT BLO (or BCS)
B <;= A BLE BLS
B = A BEQ BEQ
B <;>; A BNE BNE
B >; A BGT BHI
B >;= A BGE BHS (or BCC)
TST A signed unsigned
A <; 0 BLT (or BMI) NOP
A <;= 0 BLE BZ (or BEQ)
A = 0 BZ (or BEQ) BZ (or BEQ)
A <;>; 0 BNZ (or BNE) BNZ (or BNE)
A >; 0 BGT BNZ (or BNE)
A >;= 0 BGE (or BPL) BRA |
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Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a highly variable disorder with signs and symptoms that may begin at birth and evolve over a lifetime. Phenotypic features can be broadly divided into tumors and nontumor manifestations.
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Several dermal neurofibromas that are visible as raised lesions but are sometimes first detected by palpation.
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Angiogram showing renal artery stenosis in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1.
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Skeletal dysplasias in neurofibromatosis type 1.Top.Bottom.
Dysplasia of tibia and fibula. Computed tomography scan showing dysplasia of thoracic vertebra.
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Ras signaling pathway.GDPGTP
Binding of ligand to membrane tyrosine kinase receptor results in conversion of Ras–guanosine diphosphate ( ) to Ras–guanosine triphosphate ( ). This leads to a cascade of activation of other proteins (“effector pathways”), which eventually results in activation of transcription of specific genes. Shc, Grb2, SoS, Raf, Mek, and Erk are additional proteins in the Ras signal transduction pathway. NF1 = neurofibromatosis type 1; P = phosphate
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Formation of neurofibroma.NF1
A Schwann cell that is heterozygous for an mutation (+/−) undergoes mutation to −/−. This cell proliferates and also attracts other cells, including fibroblasts, perineurial cells, and mast cells, to proliferate in the lesion.
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I am creating an GTK3 python application for Ubuntu. At the moment the application installs in the following locations.
In /opt/NSTrain folder where NSTrain is the name of my application. The NSTrain folder has the executable .py files, its icons, gui files and other library files. It also installs a .desktop file to /usr/share/applications folder.
Here are the contents of my .desktop file,
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Train Scheduler Application
I see my application in the application lens with the appropriate icon. However when I click it, nothing happens. The nstrain.py file is executable and works fine when I execute it from the terminal using ./nstrain.py command.
What is the issue here?
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Does your application assume you are starting it from the folder /opt/NSTrain/? If so add the line
to your .desktop file. That tells Unity (or Gnome Shell or from whatever program you are using to start your application) to start your program in the given folder.
Without that line your application gets started from the current working folder of Unity (or whatever), which usually is your home folder. That will break your application if it assumes it is started from /opt/NSTrain/ and hence tries to open a file like /opt/NSTrain/somefile.dat just as somefile.dat.
If that doesn't help please start your application in a Terminal from your home folder using /opt/NSTrain/nstrain.py and post any error messages you get.
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Thank you very much adding Path to the desktop file fixes the issue. May I ask if you can may be expand the answer to why Path is required in this case? It might help future users. – nik90 May 21 '12 at 22:50
Ok, did that. Hope that helps :-) – Florian Diesch May 21 '12 at 23:22
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Why does the /usr/bin/x11 folder hold another x11 folder and when you open that x11 you get another x11 and then another and another?
I did it about 6 times and got frustrated so I have no idea how deep this goes but
• What is the purpose (or is it a glich?)?
• Is this eating disk space more than it should? (I was going to delete one or more but thought I better ask first )
I can see no reason why this should be happening at all.
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/usr/bin/X11/ is a symbolic link (symlink) pointing to /usr/bin/. Hence it contains itself and you can follow those X11 folders all day long but there's still just one on your disk.
This is for compatibility reasons as some programs expect some other program to be in /usr/bin/X11/ but Ubuntu puts them in /usr/bin/.
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yes that was my answer – user91632 Sep 22 '12 at 9:40
Exactly - its a Link to the same directory that the link itself is in. It looks like a paradox but it's not. – fabricator4 Sep 22 '12 at 12:30
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Is anyone here who uses mingw developer studio in ubuntu? I found this arhive: http://www.iit.upcomillas.es/libroc/mingw-devstudio_linux-2.06.tar.gz
I launch the program and everything works well till I try to build a project when the program exits. The paths to compilers and debugger are /usr/bin/g++ , /usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/gdb.
After the program exits in terminal the following error appears: (MinGWStudio:8804): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_container_remove: assertion `GTK_IS_TOOLBAR (container) || widget->parent == GTK_WIDGET (container)' failed Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Thank you,
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Just for my curiosity, why you need minGW when entire GCC set is available in repostory – Tachyons Sep 22 '12 at 11:43
I like very much the environment for simple projects. – Popa Mihai Sep 22 '12 at 11:47
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I have written this simple type alias script in my bin dir in home
alias kp='ls –L'
alias ldir='ls –aF'
alias copy='cp'
and saved it in the name myenv.Then I have changed the mode using
chmod +x /bin/myenv
then execute it using the command
but after this when I use kp it says kp command not found.Why?
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Your script runs in a sub-shell by default. (It opens a new shell and runs your script. After the script has finished running, its modified environment is destroyed.)
If you'd like to change your current shell environment settings you have to:
source myenv
. myenv
See man bash Shell Builtin Commands / Source.
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First, because character that you used in alias kp='ls –L' and alias ldir='ls –aF' is not the same with - (you can see that is a little bit longer). Try:
alias kp='ls -L'
alias ldir='ls -aF'
alias copy='cp'
Just copy and paste from above.
Second, if you want that the script to have the expected effect, just put this line in ~/.bashrc file:
source /bin/myenv
Anyway, the best way to create aliases in Ubuntu is to use this method: http://askubuntu.com/a/5278/147044.
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Thanks.. But creating alias isnt my goal. I am just learning to create shell scripts – Tamim Ad Dari Jun 24 '13 at 8:38
@TamimAdDari Ok, if the answer was useful, you should accept it. In general you should do this. See What should I do when someone answers my question? and What does it mean when an answer is "accepted"?. – Radu Rădeanu Jun 24 '13 at 9:19
alright.. thanx... – Tamim Ad Dari Jun 24 '13 at 15:47
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Snapchat, the rising mobile messaging service, scored a victory against larger rival Facebook on Tuesday.
Snapchat poached Emily White, director of business operations for Facebook’s Instagram unit, to be its chief operating officer. Ms. White will begin work in early January, less than a year after joining the Instagram team.
“We’re thrilled to have Emily as part of the Snapchat family,” a Snapchat spokeswoman said on Tuesday. AllThingsD earlier reported on the move.
The coup comes at an important juncture for both businesses.
Instagram, which was acquired by Facebook in 2012, has just started to ramp up its advertising business, of which Ms. White was a central architect.
Meanwhile, two-year-old Snapchat is keen to rapidly build out its business, after spurning a more than $3 billion offer from Facebook. The company has yet to generate revenue, but has discussed several options, such as advertising and in-app purchases.
“I cannot thank Emily enough for her contributions to Instagram. She was tasked with getting the first ads products out the door ― and she did that beautifully,” Kevin Systrom, the head of Instagram, said in a statement.
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Subject: Re: Yet another Java flaw Date: 10/2/2012 8:59 PM
Author: mmrmnhrm Number: 182040 of 191721
The only difference, in this context, is that a program like Office requires you to consciously go to a store (whether it's brick-and-mortar or an online e-store doesn't really matter) and install it, while a Java program is often automatically executed by the browser without bothering to ask the user first (because, y'know, if they didn't want the program, they wouldn't have come to the website, amiright?). This isn't really the user's fault, but rather the browser's for just running any executable that it happens to encounter along the way. A user can cause just as much damage to their system by opening a malicious Word document as they can by running a Java program. The only difference is that with Word, there's the added step of "Please download and mail this file to begin your warranty claim" (or whatever reason-du-jour provided by the phishing email is).
Yup. Though in many instances, it's also a question of scope. By any measure, BASIC was pretty limited in what it allowed one to do with a system: load/save files, make the speaker emit strange noises, draw graphics. But by being limited, the worst you could do to your system was overwrite a system file (oops! boot from floppy and restore). Divide by zero? Program would either crash back to the interpreter command line, or return something silly. Divide zero by zero (c'mon, I know you want to)? Same. Some might say it's the programmer's job to handle all errors (like the academic exercise of throwing junk at a sine function I mentioned earlier), but that just isn't realistically going to happen. Once an error escape's the programmer's scope, it's up to the runtime environment to prevent things from getting out of hand. This is where the *NIX world shines, with very granular limits on both what programs are allowed to do, and also on what users are allowed to do. Not only does the program need permission to do something, but the user running that program also needs permission. If either check fails, the operation also fails. Unfortunately, Windows hasn't gotten to that level yet (which is why, despite the falling number of successful attacks on Windows itself, the problem is getting worse instead of better because such restrictions aren't enforced on client software like Adobe Reader, Word/Excel macros, and, yes, Java).
You're going back to blaming the messenger and not the message. There's no reason why *JAVA* is bad. The problem is that browsers just go ahead and execute it without bothering to ask "Hey, I just saw this and, well, webmasters who actually know what they're doing don't typically do this. Do you really want me to run it?" Again, I think you're conflating Java with JavaScript. JS is a whole 'nuther terd, and I really wish it would die in a fire. As it stands, though, it seems that Oracle is doing it's darndest to, well, I'm not exactly sure what. It's like they don't really know what to do with Sun's last great invention, and apart from providing fixes as problems crop up, I haven't seen any huge leaps forward in functionality or speed lately.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61462 | HOME > Chowhound > Home Cooking >
Jan 20, 2005 12:05 PM
veal demi glace- how to use?
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Just was gifted with a Williams-Sonoma jar of Veal demi-glace. I'm definitely going to use in risottos, but how else can I use it? Any ideas?
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1. Demi glace can be used for sauces, usually with meat/game. A little goes a long way. You can always dilute it with some cream, or add things like mushrooms/tart berries (like redcurrant jelly/herbs to make a scrumptious sauce.
1. If you have a french cookbook, you can find all of the derivative sauces that can be made from the demi-glace mother sauce. Robert sauce (mustard), etc. Bordelaise, Mushroom, etc.
Or just use your imagination. Fresh cherries, a little red wine reduction, and demi over grilled tenderloin is very good. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61464 | HOME > Chowhound > Austin >
Aug 25, 2008 11:28 PM
Who's selling local tomatoes?
At the start of the summer I had no problem getting great local tomatoes at Wheatsville, Boggy Creek Farms, and Whole Foods, and got hooked. But the past few weeks (as tomato season peaks, as I understand), I haven't found anything that has the taste and texture of local, non refrigerated tomatoes. The worst, even, were the BCF tomatoes (and I was there first thing in the morning, so should have had decent pickings).
Does anyone know where I might be able to get my hands on the real stuff? The farmers markets are quite difficult for me to make with my schedule, but if that's the only place, then I'll do what I can.
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1. Tomatoes are done for a while, at least locally. There are 2 plantings - one in the spring and one in the summer that will yield the second round of tomatoes until November or the first big drop in temps (maybe December). This is the late season doldrums between crops.
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Thank you for letting me know that, I had no idea (admittedly clueless about all this kind of info). Can you tell me, around when would the second round of tomatoes start, so I know when to be on the lookout again?
1. re: renz
There will be some all the way through, but around October we should start to see the variety and quality that you'll see in early summer, i.e. June when they're at their peak. Peppers also have two seasons, with the best and most coming in October and November, as the plants put on fruit (and therefore seeds) in anticipation of cold weather.
2. These guys get hold of a lot of local veg, herbs, dairy, meats, etc. as well as local artisan products like bread and cheese. They deliver to your door.
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1. re: Nakhash
Speaking of local produce, is there a place to get fresh sweetcorn? I'm from Indiana, and this is corn season. I was surprised to see that none of the booths at last Sat's Sunset Valley Farmers' Market had any.
1. re: waldy
It is corn season up north, but corn season is way over here
2. IGA, in Clarksville, has been selling excellent "home grown" tomotoes for the past two months for $1.50/lb. There used to be a whole section, but lately, it has been dwindling. I bought a few more on Monday.
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1. re: rudeboy
Sorry for my ignorance, but what is IGA?
1. re: renz
Oh, it means "Independent Grocer's Alliance." There's a store called Mini Max at Arroyo Seco and Woodrow....
Although, I was there yesterday, and the tomato bin was empty!
1. re: rudeboy
uhhh, dat ain't clarksville!!!! maybe the 'mater dudes drove to the wrong 'hood!
1. re: sambamaster
oh crap - I can't believe I said Clarkesville! I meant, Crestview - as in the Crestview Minimax. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61465 | HOME > Chowhound > Washington DC & Baltimore >
May 29, 2009 05:25 AM
Las Vegas 2 in Jessup, MD.?
Driving down Rte 1 in Jessup ,I noticed a new restaurant LAS VEGAS 2, right next to the EL PATIO location.
Anyone made a visit as yet?
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1. I haven't been there but based on reports from friends who have been, it seems like the vibe is it's OK if you're in the neighborhood, but not so much a destination joint. I did find an online review from howchow:
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If you like pupusas, they've got some pretty decent ones.
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Not to second-guess my own opinion, but you should definitely check out the comments on that review as well. My visit matched the "neighborhood, not destination" analysis. I certainly preferred the food at El Nayar or even the taco trucks on U.S. 1.
But that was a single visit where I ate tacos, which I thought would be a good barometer and which were pretty disappointing. Other people commented that Las Vegas #2 and its big sibling #1 have good salsa, shrimp, pupusas and other stuff. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61468 | HOME > Chowhound > Los Angeles Area >
Oct 31, 2010 01:32 AM
Nothing New on LA Hot Dog Scene?
No, new hot dog places opening up?
Last two new hot dog place mentioned on CH, was P Dogs & Dog House. But nothing new about them.
P Dogs
13610 Garfield Ave, South Gate, CA 90280
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1. I believe Dog House closed this past year. There's a thread somewhere here about his current whereabouts.
The Dog House
2238 Foothill Blvd, La Canada Flintridge, CA 91011
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The Dog House, I mentioned is in Baldwin Park.
2. Have you checked out the Dogzilla truck? The fact that I can't just run out and grab one whenever I want is, I'm sure, partly responsible for my current obsession with the Yakisoba dog.
1. I'm nuts for the Greasy Wiener truck. Look for it.
1. There's a place called Dog Haus in Pasadena that just opened this week. It's on Hill, n. of Colorado. There was a "coming soon" sign up for a long, long time several months ago, but then nothing. I figured it had fallen through, but then suddenly it was open. Haven't been in yet, though.
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1. re: Jack Flash
Never mind, the other hot dog place in Pasadena, near King Taco Is Big City Hot Dogs.
I called both Big City Hot Dogs and Dog Haus, but, it looks like both are closed in Sundays.
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No, that's another place, Big City Hot Dogs, that opened in June:
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This is the address for Dog House in Baldwin Park:
14510 Towne Center Dr
Baldwin Park
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It's not a true hot dog place, but I did try a "Chili Dingo" at Tub's Chili on Overland in Culver City last week. It's an interesting concoction of a steamed Sabrett weiner (that's been scored) over a small rectangular block of cornbread with their chili, onions and cheddar cheese on top. I prefer a grilled dog, but it's not bad for under 4 bucks. I've only eaten there twice so perhaps the bun is really some of their cornbread "hushpuppy tails" not yet broken apart. Their menu says it's a Sabrett weiner, but I've never actually had a Sabrett so I'm assuming it is one. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61469 | HOME > Chowhound > Los Angeles Area >
Dec 12, 2005 08:22 PM
Dai Ho kitchen, Temple city
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has anyone been recently, i remember them having pretty darn good beef noodle soup and cold sesame noodles.
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1. Same old, same old.
Same dishes, same quality, same onery owner/chef and same quixotic hours (i.e., basically just lunch)
Nothing's changed.
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1. re: ipse dixit
hehehehe... Your enthusiasm for this restaurant is simply underwhelming.
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Just went for the first time 12/3/05. Found the tza-jiang mien to be delicious <--highly recommended. I love the portions. The small bowl is perfect for someone petite like me! They also had a pretty good cold papaya dish :) I'll be moving into the neighborhood soon so i'll definitely be getting a ton of take-out from this place. They have take-out until 6pm.
If your in search of noodles, I highly recommend the Mandarin Noodle House (Jing Yu) just a few blocks east from Dai Ho, on the north side of Las Tunas just before you get to the 99cent store. Mandarin Noodle House has the best Pork Chop Noodle and Onion Pancake (Tsong Yoh Bing). To die for :)
2. I agree with Monkeyqueen on Mandarin Noodle Deli. Good Taiwanese style beef noodle soup, although not filled to the top with red chili oil. the onion pancake, beef pancake and potstickers (guo tieh) are all very good. can't go wrong here.
1. This might be a bit OT but does anybody know where I can get good beef noodle soup super super mild?
I asked for it last time at Dai Ho and almost got banned! lol, crazy beef noodle soup-nazi owner guy!
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Try MY WAY DELI.
735 W. Garvey Ave.
Monterey Park
2. Try Mandarin Noodle Deli in Temple City or Noodle King in Alhambra. If you want, you can also tell the server "shao lah" which means 'less spicy'. With Dai Ho, there is no such thing as a personal request.
1. Tea Station has really good mild beef noodle soup. It's my favorite. |
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Write a MEX-File Containing CUDA Code
Note Creating MEX-functions for gpuArray data is supported only on 64-bit platforms (win64, glnxa64, maci64).
As with all MEX-files, a MEX-file containing CUDA® code has a single entry point, known as mexFunction. The MEX-function contains the host-side code that interacts with gpuArray objects from MATLAB and launches the CUDA code. The CUDA code in the MEX-file must conform to the CUDA runtime API.
This file contains the following CUDA device function:
void __global__ TimesTwo(double const * const A,
double * const B,
int const N)
int i = blockDim.x * blockIdx.x + threadIdx.x;
if (i < N)
B[i] = 2.0 * A[i];
N = (int)(mxGPUGetNumberOfElements(A));
blocksPerGrid = (N + threadsPerBlock - 1) / threadsPerBlock;
Set Up for MEX-File Compilation
• Your MEX source file that includes CUDA code must have a name with the extension .cu, not .c nor .cpp.
• Before you compile your MEX-file, copy the provided mex_CUDA_platform.xml file for your platform and compiler from the specified location, into the same folder as your MEX source file.
• For Linux® platforms:
• For Macintosh platforms:
• For Windows® platforms with Visual Studio® 2012:
• For Windows platforms with Visual Studio 2013:
• You must use the version of the NVIDIA® compiler (nvcc) consistent with the ToolkitVersion property of the GPUDevice object.
• Before compiling, make sure either that the location of the folder containing nvcc is on your search path, or that the path to this folder is encoded in the environment variable MW_NVCC_PATH. You can set this variable using the MATLAB® setenv command. For example:
Compile a GPU MEX-File
When you have set up the options file, use the mex command in MATLAB to compile a MEX-file containing the CUDA code. You can compile the example file using the command:
mex -largeArrayDims
The -largeArrayDims option is required to ensure that 64-bit values for array dimensions are passed to the MEX API.
Run the Resulting MEX-Functions
x = ones(4,4,'gpuArray');
y = mexGPUExample(x)
y =
2 2 2 2
2 2 2 2
2 2 2 2
2 2 2 2
Both the input and output arrays are gpuArray objects:
Comparison to a CUDA Kernel
• MEX-files can analyze the size of the input and allocate memory of a different size, or launch grids of a different size, from C or C++ code. In comparison, MATLAB code that calls CUDAKernel objects must pre-allocated output memory and determine the grid size.
Access Complex Data
mwSize numel_complex = mxGPUGetNumberOfElements(A);
mwSize numel_real =2*mxGPUGetNumberOfElements(A);
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• Caracalla (April 4, 186–April 8, 217) was emperor of the Roman Empire from 211–217. He was the elder son of Septimius Severus and is best-known for arranging the murder of his brother Publius Septimius Geta after the two engaged in a power struggle in the months after their father's death. His wife was Publia Fulvia Plautilla.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61498 | Decoding the sounds of parrots
NASA: Twin monster black holes spin in center of nearby galaxy
Rushing to bury King Tut
By Jonathan Lebowitz, USA TODAY
King Tutankhamen, one of the youngest Pharaohs to ever rule Egypt, died at a much earlier age (around 19) than his forefathers. And while his cause of death is still up for debate, new evidence collected by the Getty Conservation Institute now reveals that he may have been buried much more quickly than any other Egyptian sovereign.
With assistance from Harvard University microbiologist Ralph Mitchell, the chemists at the Getty Conservation Institute began analyzing numerous brown spots all over a famous wall painting of the goddess Hathor inside the tomb of King Tut.
What they discovered were the remnants of formerly living bacteria or fungi that had changed little in size since the tomb was first opened in 1922. "Using cultures of living specimens from inside the tomb as well as DNA sequencing technology, we were able classify the brown spots as deceased microbial organisms," says Mitchell.
The scientists with the Getty Conservation Institute have also detected melanin, a common byproduct of fungal (and occasionally bacterial) metabolism all over the walls of the tomb. Although no particular organism has been linked to the brown spots, this information may provide archaeologists with a better understanding of the circumstances surrounding King Tut's burial.
"The doors of the tomb were probably closed before the paint or plaster on the walls had enough time to dry, indicating that King Tut was buried in a hurry," says Mitchell in a press release. He argues that the combination of moisture, food, the mummy, and incense inside the tomb provided a suitable place for microbial organisms to thrive.
Because most Egyptian tombs were given enough time to dry out before they were sealed shut with the corpse of a Pharaoh inside, the speedy burial of King Tut would have been unusual for someone of his prominence. "The fact that King Tut's tomb shows signs of microbial life growing inside of it could one day help historians put the pieces together on the cause of King Tut's death," says Mitchell.
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On Sunday, Marques Colston caught a slant from Drew Brees at the Dallas 24-yard line when cornerback Morris Claiborne punched it out as Colston tried to secure the ball. The ball rolled 22 yards downfield toward the end zone.
Cowboys coach Jason Garrett disputed Colston’s fumble – believing it was an incompletion instead – that gave the Saints the ball at the Dallas 2-yard line. New Orleans kicked the game-winning field goal on the next play after referee Walt Coleman had confirmed the ruling ont the field.
“The play went against us,” Garrett said. “It was eerily similar to last week and both of them seemed to go against us, and the plays seemed virtually identical. But that’s the way it is. We’ve got to play and coach to the best of our ability and not worry about it.”
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that's what we all HOPED would happen but.....hey, the hosed us two weeks in a row....between Spencer jumping offside and costing us a TD instead of a field goal (4 pt. difference) and this call: we couldn't overcome it.
3. Future
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That's definitely a fumble imo...
My question with that play is why the ball wasn't returned to the spot of the fumble. I always thought an offensive player couldn't advance a fumble in the last 2 min of a half or overtime....
4. jimnabby
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Me too. But it turns out that the "or overtime" part isn't in the rule (though it should be).
5. Future
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That's dumb. I always assumed that "after the 2 minute warning" would include OT. If time and replay rules are the same at those times, why wouldn't fumble rules be?
6. Reality
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The Spencer play was on 4th down .. meaning, if he had not jumped offsides, the ball would have been turned over to the Cowboys so it cost us 7 points.
7. newlander
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...........correct Reality...I was so pissed after the game yesterday I brain cramped and thought it was 3rd down instead of 4th...which makes it even WORSE. This guy is not worth the money he gets: I really hope they don't franchise him again as he doesn't know what it takes to win IMO:banghead:
8. Rack Bauer
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If that play was a fumble then the play last week was MORE of a fumble.
That's the biggest problem with the officiating in the NFL... consistency. One week that play is an incomplete pass, the VERY NEXT WEEK the exact same play is a fumble.
Quit adding on all these extra qualifiers for making a simple catch to make it easier on the refs. They're obviously not intelligent enough to comprehend the details of the rules.
9. cowboys2233
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It was certainly one of the plays (Demarco's fumble is the other that comes to mind) that suggests some of our players aren't playing good situational football. You CANNOT jump offsides there, your opponent has already converted an extremely important fourth down before the ball has even been snapped. And you CANNOT fumble at your own five-yard line -- all tied up, just got an important stop and you can potentially take the lead for the first time all game. And just like that, bam. Oh well, the most important thing in all of this is that the Giants suck and we get to play for the division title next Sunday night. Call me crazy, but that sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
10. cowboys2233
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Yeah, and then I hear about this "football move" when it comes to deciding if a pass is complete or not. The Ravens score an obvious touchdown and it gets called back because of the subjective nature of this call. What the heck happened to the idea that if you have possession and two feet down, it's a complete pass? Where did all this other crap come from?
11. ajk23az
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Yup. They need to simplify the rule so that it becomes much less of a judgment call. "Having enough time to make a football move" leaves it up to opinion of the ref. IMO, it should be, if the WR has control, and got both feet on the ground, it should be a catch. That would make that call a lot more consistent.
12. RS12
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That was a fumble all the way. No excuse for a Cowboy player not to have recovered that ball was loose for a long time and Dallas should have had the numbers back there to recover it.
13. ajk23az
ajk23az Through Pain Comes Clarity
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I agree it was a fumble.
IIRC, the Saints went 5 wide and we went man to man. I thought I saw Sensabaugh line up on a guy at the line of scrimmage so we had no safeties back there.
14. Picksix
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From the replay, it looks like Frampton was back, but he was charging full speed toward Colston when he fumbled it. That allowed Graham to beat him to the ball. What disappointed me was Sensabaugh not going full speed after it.
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I agree, it was a fumble as was the one last week. This week they got it right, unfortunately
16. mmillman
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it was a fumble.
Dallas should have been less conservative in overtime on offense.
17. slomoxn
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I still dint think Spencer was offside, he got an early jump but didn't appear to cross the plane before the ball moved.
18. RastaRocket
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I thought it was a fumble because I thought last week was a fumble. However, they reversed it last week so I really have no idea. Inconsistency at it's finest so Garrett has a point.
19. JohnsKey19
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The inconsistency in this rule is what kills me. There was another disputed play in the BAL-NYG game yesterday as well. The ruling made no sense.
20. StylisticS
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Same here. I said this on the game thread. He got an early jump but he did not cross the Los yet.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61504 | Lynn Sweet Likens Astroturf Organizations To Community Organizing
Lynn Sweet apparently doesn't know the difference between a community organizer and these corporate funded astroturf organizations trying to distort the conversation on health care reform. I do agree with her that the White House has done a lousy job of explaining just what they want in this health care bill though. The media isn't helping matters either when you have conversations like this going on.
LEMON: CNN political editor Mark Preston, Lynn Sweet from the "Chicago Sun-Times" and, both join me to help sort it all out. We're glad that Lynn is back. She's been on vacation.
Good to see you, Lynn.
And you know, the president has been spared the public heckling over this health care reform, everything that we've been seeing at the town halls. But, Mark, you know, the more he holds these town hall meetings himself, which he will do another one on Wednesday, the more he opens himself up to the chances that he's going to see this and hear it personally.
PRESTON: Yes, Don. I mean, look, the protests up to this point really have been organized. We've seen these interest groups have really gotten their supporters riled up and convincing them to go to these town halls.
But you're absolutely right. President Obama, when he starts to do these town halls across the country, is going to face the same thing. He's going to face supporters, of course, who are going to be -- you know, backing him in this health care plan. But he's also going to face those angry voices, those angry faces that we've seen so far.
LEMON: And, Lynn, you know, the White House had tried to play it down, but are they changing their tune now? They had called it -- what I believe it was Astroturf or something like that.
SWEET: Oh, please, give me a break. All of a sudden orchestrating, community organizing, organizing people to come out, orchestrating is a dirty word, Don?
The Democrats are divided even among themselves. You know, there's a difference between having an unruly group of people, that's one thing, and saying that you're turning out people. That's just a ridiculous thing. I hope the White House is able just to explain the many policies and concepts within a complicated bill in simpler ways, so if they have a story to tell, it is upon them and the president to tell it, too.
But on the other hand, I don't think the Democrats are that unhappy because this helps them organize. And it helps them -- helps them show the House members, who, they are afraid, will get nervous and shaky and lose their nerve. They're going to try and bring in their troops during this August recess to show that they can bolster them and keep them.
Look, I just got an e-mail even from Eleanor Holmes -- to go to the office of Eleanor Holmes Norton in the district, and she doesn't even have a vote.
LEMON: Oh, wow. OK.
SWEET: So -- it was an e-mail from Organizing for America.
LEMON: But, Mark -- I want to ask Mark this, Lynn. You know, the concern from many people who attend those town halls and they're not among the rowdy people is that, that real constructive debate is being drowned out by all of the dramatics.
PRESTON: Yes. You know, Don, and just right before we came on air, I was forwarded an e-mail that showed this e-mail chain of supporters and opponents in Maryland who are trying to strategize and game out how they're going to act at a health care forum tomorrow night in Towson.
So there's going to -- you know, there surely, clearly is a sharp divide. And when you have folks not being able to, you know, clearly ask questions and to get straight responses and you have people shouting and yelling, it's not constructive. And when you see really the rhetoric jacked up and images of Nazism and members being hung in effigy, that's not necessarily constructive to this debate.
LEMON: Yes. And you know what, Lynn, I should have followed when you talked about this, because this is the perfect follow-up question to your point where you talked about the administration getting its message out. But how much of this is the administration's own fault when, you know, even news organizations are trying to dig into what's exactly in this reform bill or bills. It's tough to get the information because no one knows exactly what's proposed.
SWEET: Well, there's still drafts of legislation if you wanted to, you know, devote the whole of your show on it. One could. But there is...
LEMON: But its proposed -- there are so many things proposed in it. There are no specifics is what I'm saying.
SWEET: Well, but actually there are some broad brushes, and that's what people are reacting to. And I know I have to be quick here. The point is there is two story lines developing, and that is just the story about the story over protests and the nuts and bolts are in the bill and the -- both sides are organizing people to come to and pack the houses in these town halls.
And now, of course, there shouldn't be yelling, and, of course, the Nazi imagery is despicable and should not be used, because whatever is happening now is just people demonstrating free speech and is nowhere close to that. But part of this is just -- as I say, it is interesting to have the Obama people, of all people, complaining that something is orchestrated when they do that themselves. You know, the Democrats have all their allies helping to orchestrate their campaign to get their legislation advanced.
So -- yes, so both sides have their organizations working to turn out people to these town halls.
LEMON: Lynn, Mark, you guys are the best. Thank you very much. Always good to see you.
SWEET: Thank you.
PRESTON: Thanks, Don.
LEMON: Thank you very much.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61508 | The 2000 Washington Huskies Were Horrible People
If you haven't had a chance yet to dive into the Seattle Times amazing — and ongoing — investigation into the 2000 Washington Huskies, please do so right now. Today's section is about strong safety Curtis Williams — who broke his wife's arm — but we're still absolutely transfixed by the tale of college-era Jerramy Stevens.
Stevens was not a nice fellow. Not that then-coach (and current UCLA helmer) Rick Neuheisel minded.
Stevens said he'd had sex with the freshman, whose middle name was Marie. "No way," the roommate said. He couldn't believe it, because he had heard Marie was a virgin. Stevens' story made the rounds. A friend of Marie's heard one football player ask another: Did you hear that Jerramy had sex with Marie in the dirt outside a fraternity? Meanwhile, Marie and her friends tried to figure out what had happened.
To get an idea of what kind of culture Neuheisel was fostering, here's a quote from a teammate after hearing of police questioning Stephens:
The story is full of nastiness, including a brutal email Stephens sent to a female acquaintance. We'll say this, and it'll be the last time we ever say it: We wish Joey Porter would have put his face through a wall.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61525 | 7 Performing Flashback and Database Point-in-Time Recovery
It it sometimes necessary to return some objects in your database or the entire database to a previous state, following the effects of a mistaken database update. For example, a user or DBA might erroneously delete or update the contents of one or more tables, drop database objects that are still needed for a risky operation such as an update to an application or a large batch update might fail.
In addition to point-in-time restore and recovery of the entire database, Oracle provides a group of features known as Oracle Flashback Technology, that are often faster than point-in-time recovery, and less disruptive to database availability.
This chapter presents a guide to investigating unwanted database changes, and selecting and carrying out an appropriate recovery strategy based upon Oracle Flashback Technology and database backups. It includes the following topics: |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/61527 | Multithreaded Programming Guide
Unblock One Thread
Use cond_signal(3C) to unblock one thread that is blocked on the condition variable pointed to by cv . If no threads are blocked on the condition variable, cond_signal() has no effect.
cond_signal Syntax
#include <thread.h>
int cond_signal(cond_t *cv);
cond_signal Return Values
cond_signal() returns 0 if successful. When the following condition is detected, cond_signal() fails and returns the corresponding value.
cv points to an illegal address. |
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Perfume Allergies
5. How is the general public exposed to fragrance allergens?
There are various modes of exposure to fragrances, including not only products used for their scent, such as perfumes and eau de toilette, after shaves and deodorants, but also products where scent is an added feature, such as other cosmetic categories (for example wipes), topical pharmaceuticals, household products and products encountered in the occupational setting.
The general public is predominantly exposed to fragrance substances via their ubiquitous use in perfumes or perfumed cosmetic products, but also via their presence in and use of detergents, fabric softeners, and other household products. In the latter product types fragrances may be used to provide the consumer with a fresh smell or to mask unpleasant odours from raw materials. Fragrance substances are also used in aromatherapy and may be present in herbal products. A fragrance formula (‘perfume’) may contain up to several hundredsof different ingredients. Special fragrance databases lists more than 2587 fragrance ingredients used for perfuming.
Different routes of exposure are reflected by the areas of the body that are affected. Deodorants are for example associated with axillary dermatitis. However, while sensitisation and initial allergic reaction may follow a distinct pattern in affected area, less specific exposures, for example via hand creams or cleaning lotions may later be sufficient to cause allergic contact dermatitis. More...
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Registered United Kingdom
Founded 1985
Disbanded 1987
Discipline Road
Bicycles Peugeot
Components Campagnolo
Team name history
ANC-Halfords was a British-based professional team that was created in 1985 but folded in 1987 due to a lack of funds. The team used Peugeot cycles with Campagnolo components. ANC-Halfords was the last British-based team that rode the Tour de France until Barloworld was invited in 2007.[1]
The 1985 and 1986 season[edit]
In 1985, the ANC-Freight-Rover team was formed in 1985 by the transport operator Tony Capper and the former racing cyclist Phil Griffiths, who had plans to get the team into the Tour de France. The team competed on the Continent and in Britain. In Britain, the British Cycling Federation limited teams to six riders, while continental squads had 20 or more. To get around this, the squad in Britain split into three different teams with different sponsors e.g. Lycra-Halfords. On the Continent, all the riders rode under one team name.
1987: the Tour de France[edit]
In 1987, the team rode under the name ANC-Halfords. In races outside of England, the team was co-sponsored by Tönissteiner.[2] ANC got a wildcard invitation to ride the 1987 Tour de France. The team were inexperienced as only Graham Jones had ridden a major stage race. The team turned up in Berlin and were promised the best equipment such as specialist time-trial cycles. Instead, they rode the opening time trial on standard road bikes, with only four disc wheels between nine riders. Only four riders made it to Paris. The only success was Malcolm Elliot's third place on one stage. The best ranked cyclist in the general classification was Adrian Timmis, ranked 70th.[3] The Tour de France had required a £37,000 entry fee.[4] Some of the cyclists stopped early in the race, and Tony Capper invited guests (including his family and potential sponsors) to take their already reserved hotel rooms.
In the last week of the race, Tony Capper left the team, and they did not see him anymore.
After the Tour de France, the ANC team was only revived for a few races. Joey McLoughlin won the first Kellogg's Tour of Britain and Malcolm Elliott won two stages in the Nissan Classic in Ireland. By the end of the season, the team ran out of money and was no more.
The team's period in the Tour de France and the chaos that surrounded it is captured in Wide-eyed and Legless by the British writer Jeff Connor.[5]
After ANC, Elliott rode for several continental squads including the Spanish Teka team with which in 1989 he won the points jersey in the Vuelta a España. After racing in Europe, Elliot had a successful stint on the U.S. pro circuit which included a stage in the Tour du Pont. At 50, Elliot is still racing in the British domestic circuit with the Node-4 team which he also is a director sportif.
After winning the 1986 Milk Race and the 1987 Kellogg's tour, McLoughlin was tipped to become the best British cyclist since Tom Simpson. After ANC, he signed to the French Z squad. Constant injuries robbed McLoughlin of his potential and he retired in 1991.
The Australian rider went on to win the 1990 Milk Race with the Banana-Falcon squad. Sutton settled in Britain and worked as a coach with British Cycling which included the hugely successful team that dominated the cycling events in the 2008 Olympic games in China. Shane is now a director sportif with Team Sky with which he has personally coached Bradley Wiggins and has been awarded an OBE in the 2010 birthday honours list.
The Manchester rider is often described as one of the classiest riders that the UK has produced, but his career was hindered by being over raced in his early days, and by injury in his later days. He is now the organiser of the Tour of Britain cycle race.
Other Riders of note[edit]
David Akam,Nigel Bloor, Bernard Chesneau, Stuart Coles, Mike Doyle, Adrian Timmis, Chris Whorton. Steve Jones
Doping allegations[edit]
David Walsh, in his 2012 book Seven Deadly Sins, which relates his efforts to expose Lance Armstrong's use of performance enhancing drugs and techniques, reports that one of his key witnesses, Stephen Swart, had encountered doping at ANC-Halfords, his first professional cycling team. Walsh notes that before the team broke up, the riders had been rounded up by their soigneur and each injected with an undetermined substance. Swart is quoted as saying:
You think it can't be bad since it doesn't test positive. And I wasn't big enough to have the right to ask questions. I remember two cyclists from the team who carried their own briefcases, and it wasn't papers that they carried around with them.[6]
External links[edit]
1. ^ "ANC-Halfords: The last British team to ride the Tour de France".
2. ^ "ANC-Halfords-Eurosquad 1987".
3. ^ "Memoire du Cyclisme results for the 1978 Tour de France".
4. ^ "ANC-HALFORDS: Who was Tony Capper?".
5. ^ Connor, Jeff (1988). Wide-eyed and Legless. Simon & Schuster Ltd. ISBN 0-671-69937-7.
6. ^ Walsh, David (2012), Seven Deadly Sins, Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, ISBN 978-1-47112-753-3, page 225. |
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