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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62374 | Anxiety Probably Isn’t Your Only Problem
Sometimes I marvel at how far I've come since my first panic attack in 1999. It's amazing really. Yet as happy as I am about all that progress I'll admit that I still struggle at times not with anxiety, but with low-grade, residual depression. You know, sometimes I feel like a worthless, aimless nobody. Now, clearly this is a thought created by a mild depression and has no basis in reality, but it rears its ugly head nonetheless. And although depressive thoughts linger in my mind occasionally without consent, I cope well. That's
Are We Bothering Others?
Today's guest post is brought to you by Daniel Stelter from the Anxiety Support Network. For many social anxiety sufferers including myself, a common thought that we often struggle with is the belief that we are bothering other people by talking to them or asking them things. Sometimes, this belief arrives from the experience that when we were so afraid of doing things on our own, we would ask so many questions of others that we actually did end up bothering them. Once it became clear to us that we were overstepping our bounds and
How is an Anxiety Disorder Diagnosed?
Every disease has a group of signs and symptoms. Anxiety Disorders are no different. However, anxiety disorders are peculiar in that there is no way to test for them. You can't draw blood, or provide some other kind of sample that will tell a doctor if you're sick with nerves. So then, how are anxiety disorders diagnosed? Excellent question. It starts with a visit to your doctor. During the visit your doctor will: 1. Review your medical history. 2. Ask you about your symptoms. 3. Test you for everything that's related to your
The Stone Age Origins of Anxiety
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You ever wonder why you feel out of control sometimes when you're anxious? Almost like a primitive being or something? Well, it's because -- at your core -- you're still a caveman/woman. Think about it, if you take away your house, car, iPod, cell phone, and all your other modern gizmos, you're nothing more than a semi-hairless ape, albeit a good looking one. See, in the past 200,000 years humans haven't changed all that much. In fact, with the exception of some major behavioral adaptions about 50,000 years ago, we're fundamentally
Lessons from Rocky Balboa
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Let's talk belief. I spend a lot of time writing about specific things that you can do to counter anxiety, but today I want to delve into a more intangible quality that can help push you over the hump and propel you into the "normal zone." And instead of getting all technical or philosophical about this, I'm going to use the Italian Stallion to illustrate my point. I know, I know, this sounds corny, but lest you forget the awesomeness of the original film. So, why Rocky? I chose Rocky because this cold war hero is the epitome of what a
Anxiety Guru Q&A
Recently I've noticed an uptick in the amount of questions and requests for podcast that I get via email. Both of these developments are great and so I've decided to combine the two into a Q&A. So, if you have a question or problem that you want discussed please send it to the email address and in the subject line put QA. I plan to put this all together as soon as I have enough viable questions to address. I usually think of subjects to talk about on my own, but given all the recent emails I've received there
Finding Your Place in the World
Today's guest post is brought to you by Dan Stelter of Anxietysupportnetwork. Does social anxiety make you feel lost some times? Like you just don't fit in anywhere? Dan's article is a great starting point for you if you've ever felt this way in the past. Dan has a lot of useful insights about social anxiety on his site and I'm glad that he was willing to share some of those ideas with us here. For those of us suffering from social anxiety disorder, we often find ourselves being run-down by others and being pushed outside of the group.
Coping with Anxiety and Criticism
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Criticism sucks. There just isn't any other way of saying it. For anxiety sufferers dealing with criticism is especially hard, because it seems to arouse our worst fears about being judged or belittled. And it's not like being sensitive to criticism is unique to people with anxiety, it's just that many of us - like so many other things - react to it fiercely. For example, when I graduated from University and got my first "real job" I wasn't prepared for the rough and tumble world of corporate style criticism. My first reaction
Does Having an Anxiety Disorder Build Character?
About two weeks ago I was watching a t.v. show on the History channel about American prisoners of war and it got me thinking. One of the most poignant moments in the show was when one of the former prisoners was talking about how his experience had helped him. He said it helped him to know himself better, he learned to deal with adversity, and if he had to do it all over again he would. He described how he was kept in solitary confinement for months; the darkness of the cell, the tapping communication code he and his comrades developed to |
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Post the the two scenes see we can see. I'm in....
Probably better to not post them. I did this with one of John Sextons workshops. Before the workshop he each student the same scene to print for the workshop. The ideas was to see how everybody interpereted the scene. We had no idea what scene he was sending us. The different interperetations were incredible.
If you get a preview now you'll get a preconceived idea of how the scene looks.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62477 | Flying reptiles near the point of impact of a large asteroid, this may have contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs
Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction
This happened: 65 million years ago
End of the Cretaceous period
Start of the Palaeocene epoch
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Possible causes of this event
What the Earth was like
A map of the Earth at the time of the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction
Global palaeogeographic reconstruction of the Earth at the time of the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction. Credit: Dr Ron Blakey, NAU Geology.
Death of a dynasty - the end of the Cretaceaous
At the end of the Cretaceous Period, 65 million years ago, all the dinosaurs died out. Why this happened is one of the most frequently asked - and intriguing - questions in palaeontology.
There have been many different ideas put forward to explain why the dinosuars died out. The two most likely are that their habitat slowly changed, and that a meteor impact triggered their extinction.
Gradualist theory
The gradualist hypothesis points to declines in the numbers and diversity of different groups of land and marine animals.
It suggests that the extinction of these groups was due to climate change. The climate at the end of the Cretaceous was cooling - and a fall in sea level reduced dinosaur and shallow water marine animal habitats.
Impact theory
The impact hypothesis gets a lot of press coverage because it is spectacular. There is good geophysical evidence for the occurrence of an asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous.
A band of clay rich in the mineral iridium was deposited at the end of the Cretaceous and has been found at many places in the world. This mineral is rare on Earth but more common in meteorites.
It has been suggested that the impact would have triggered a nuclear winter scenario that would have caused the death of the dinosaurs as well as the pterosaurs, several families of birds and mammals and also marine animals such as the plesiosaurs and ammonites.
At the end of the Cretaceous there were a lot of volcanic eruptions, at least in some parts of the world.
The Deccan Traps, huge flood basalts, were deposited at this time, and the dust and gases erupted at the same time would have had caused environmental changes over a wide area.
Will we ever know?
Unfortunately, while these hypotheses are plausible and they can both explain how many animals went extinct, neither can explain why certain animals died out while others survived. Why did the dinosaurs, which were so successful, die out, while other animals such as frogs, which we know are environmentally sensitive, survive?
Although it is usually assumed that the dinosaurs all went extinct all at the same time all over the world, the truth of the matter is that we only have high resolution data for North America. In other parts of the world there is either no terrestrial record or we do not have good enough age resolution. It is likely that as China and other countries outside of Europe and the US are studied more intensively we will be able to gather more data and build up a more comprehensive picture of what was going on in the world at the end of the Cretaceous period. |
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Five Daughters wins film award at Raindance festival
Five Daughters
The film was shown as three hour-long episodes on BBC One
The BBC-produced film Five Daughters, about the murder of five women in Ipswich in 2006, has won a film award at the Raindance festival in London.
It was named best UK feature by a panel of judges including Charles Saatchi and Motorhead singer Lemmy.
New York-based feature I Am A Fat Cat was named the film of the festival.
Best international feature went to Son Of Babylon about an Iraqi boy searching for his father after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Directed by Mohamed Al Daradji, the film won two awards at the Berlin International Film Festival and one at Sundance Film Festival.
Five Daughters, which starred Ian Hart, Sarah Lancashire and Jamie Winstone, was shown as three hour-long episodes on BBC One in April.
Steve Wright was convicted of murdering the women, who worked as prostitutes to feed their drug addictions, in 2008.
Stanley Pickle picked up best UK short and the international prize went to LIN.
The award for best debut feature went to The Story Of My Space and the best micro budget feature was given to Macho.
The best documentary category was a tie between Sounds Like A Revolution and There Once Was An Island.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62507 | Parallel Bible results for Leviticus 10:7
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Leviticus 10:7
HNV 7 You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting, lest you die; for the anointing oil of the LORD is on you." They did according to the word of Moshe. NIV 7 Do not leave the entrance to the Tent of Meeting or you will die, because the LORD's anointing oil is on you." So they did as Moses said. |
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Response of L. mesenteroides to nisin at 30°C and long exposure times. Graphic representation of L. mesenteroides inhibition to nisin at 30°C and long time-course. Experimental results (points) were fitted (lines) to model (A2). Other conventions as in Figure 1.
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Music Library: notable acquisitions 1985-1994
M. Turner
THE previous report of notable acquisitions of printed music, published in 1985, covered some twenty-two years, from 1964 to early 1985. The present survey covers a period of less than half this extent. Nevertheless it demonstrates that the Music Library, far from resting on its laurels, has continued to maintain the pre-eminence of its existing collections by a vigorous programme of acquisitions ranging widely both geographically and temporally, a programme that has been made possible by continuing support for the Music Library's purchase budget from the Directorate of Special Collections. The principal criterion for inclusion in this, necessarily highly selective, list is the intrinsic interest or importance of a given item, but a secondary consideration has been a desire to reflect the diversity encompassed by the Library's collecting policy.
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Start treatment early to avoid Charcot foot deformity
BMJ 2012; 344 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e2765 (Published 01 May 2012) Cite this as: BMJ 2012;344:e2765
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Baglioni and colleagues did not cover outcome in their article on acute Charcot foot.1 They discussed stage I disease—that is, positive results on radiography and magnetic …
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62587 | The Guest of Quesnay eBook
“That lady, monsieur?” he gasped, checking himself at the young man’s side and gazing after the trap, “that is Madame d’Armand.”
“Madame d’Armand,” Saffren repeated the name slowly. “Her name is Madame d’Armand.”
“Yes, monsieur,” said Amedee complacently; “it is an American lady who has married a French nobleman.”
Like most painters, I have supposed the tools of my craft harder to manipulate than those of others. The use of words, particularly, seemed readier, handier for the contrivance of effects than pigments. I thought the language of words less elusive than that of colour, leaving smaller margin for unintended effects; and, believing in complacent good faith that words conveyed exact meanings exactly, it was my innocent conception that almost anything might be so described in words that all who read must inevitably perceive that thing precisely. If this were true, there would be little work for the lawyers, who produce such tortured pages in the struggle to be definite, who swing riches from one family to another, save men from violent death or send them to it, and earn fortunes for themselves through the dangerous inadequacies of words. I have learned how great was my mistake, and now I am wishing I could shift paper for canvas, that I might paint the young man who came to interest me so deeply. I wish I might present him here in colour instead of trusting to this unstable business of words, so wily and undependable, with their shimmering values, that you cannot turn your back upon them for two minutes but they will be shouting a hundred things which they were not meant to tell.
To make the best of necessity: what I have written of him—my first impressions—must be taken as the picture, although it be but a gossamer sketch in the air, instead of definite work with well-ground pigments to show forth a portrait, to make you see flesh and blood. It must take the place of something contrived with my own tools to reveal what the following days revealed him to me, and what it was about him (evasive of description) which made me so soon, as Keredec wished, his friend.
Life among our kin and kind is made pleasanter by our daily platitudes. Who is more tedious than the man incessantly struggling to avoid the banal? Nature rules that such a one will produce nothing better than epigram and paradox, saying old, old things in a new way, or merely shifting object for subject—and his wife’s face, when he shines for a circle, is worth a glance. With no further apology, I declare that I am a person who has felt few positive likes or dislikes for people in this life, and I did deeply like my fellow-lodgers at Les Trois Pigeons. Liking for both men increased with acquaintance, and for the younger I came to feel, in addition, a kind of championship, doubtless in some measure due to what Keredec had told me of him, but more to that half-humourous sense of protectiveness that we always have for those young people whose untempered and innocent outlook makes us feel, as we say, “a thousand years old.”
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Always Green (Garden Gates, Book 2)
* * *
Andrea's eyes glistened with tears as Louise pulled a strand of hair through the frosting cap with a crochet hook. "She sharpens that thing," Andrea said as I walked into my kitchen. "Look, my ear's bleeding."
Andrea is my stepdaughter. She came to Orchard City the summer after Scott's death, looking for the father she had never met. For whatever reasons, my deceased husband had never told me about his first wife and his baby girl. Fortunately--and I mean that with all my heart--Andrea found my son, Ky, and me. God set her in our family as surely as He sends any child into a family by birth, and with at least as much labor. She had returned to San Francisco and her first year of teaching at the end of the summer. Now she was back with us to recuperate from the popping, patching, and pilfering of her great expectations.
Louise is my neighbor and friend, but mostly a self-appointed ministering angel. When my husband, Scott, was killed in a cycling accident, she lowered herself into the dank well of grief I called home to hold my head above the water. She is the bravest woman I know.
A wannabe hairdresser, Louise worked on Andrea's hair within a circle of electric fans and welcomed me with a private smile. "You look hotter than a sinner at church on the Fourth of July. Pour yourself some iced tea, sugar. We can't wait to hear about your date with Clint Eastwood. Didn't y'all just love Clint in those lasagna westerns?"
Andrea and I shared a knowing glance. "Spaghetti westerns, Louise," Andrea said.
According to Louise, no task was too insignificant to dress accordingly. Today, she wore cropped black leggings and a royal-blue smock with her name stitched in white above the pocket. To complete the thematic ensemble, a sterling silver earring in the shape of a comb swung from one ear and a pair of scissors swayed from the other. The trim fit of the smock emphasized Louise's new figure. Her red wig lay discarded on the counter.
I petted her downy head on the way to the refrigerator. "Just like a baby."
"Manley says I look like Sinead O'Connor."
Manley is Louise's husband. And I agreed with him. Her features had sharpened with weight loss, first from the chemotherapy and then from an anti-cancer diet, but it would take more than a bald head to make anyone mistake Louise for a nettled rock star.
"Are you sure he didn't say the Marquis de Sade?" Andrea asked.
Louise rested her hands on Andrea's shoulders. "Do y'all want me to stop?"
Andrea bit her lip.
"That's what I thought." Louise poked through the plastic cap and dug for another strand. Andrea swallowed hard but didn't say anything.
A collection of silver loops, no two alike, edged Andrea's ears, and a tiny garnet nestled in the fold of her nostril. Below her delicate collarbone, a tattoo of blue stars floated in her milky complexion. Just recently, she'd added a pointed stud in the fleshy fold between her bottom lip and chin.
She fingered the stud. "At least they numbed my chin first."
Louise pushed Andrea's chin to her chest and worked at pulling the hair of her nape through the cap. I told them about the auction and the supper and the quiet ride home. Then I told them about Greg's dream wife.
"Better not get tied to his hitching post," Louise drawled, not even trying to cover her delight in her own cleverness. "Why, he's tighter than bark on a tree."
It had been this way since Louise returned from a trip home to Louisiana. After a week of talking to her aunties in the weighted air of the bayou, her speech flowed like an alluvial stream of honey, slow and sweet and littered with colloquialisms and mixed metaphors. She punched the crochet hook through Andrea's cap.
Louise inspected the crochet hook. "The tip's dull again." She sharpened the point on a stone and tested it against her finger. "That should do it."
"I can't believe that Neanderthal had a list of requirements," Andrea said. "I'm surprised he didn't ask for a dowry of cattle--or emus. Louise!"
"Sorry, sugar." Louise rested her hands on Andrea's head as she spoke. "Having a checklist isn't such a bad idea. Seems to me a thinking woman would know what kind of man she wants in her life--and the life of her son."
"No way. Where's the romance in that?" countered Andrea.
In the shadowed places where my dreams huddled, shaken and jumbled, I had a checklist, but it needed revision. I added thoughtful and good conversationalist to the bottom and crossed off strong, silent type, which had lingered on the list unchallenged from my teens. And you couldn't overestimate the value of a working air-conditioner, especially in what was proving to be one of western Colorado's hottest summers on record.
Andrea winced in pain again, so I excused myself.
She beseeched me with her eyes. "You're coming right back, aren't you? I want someone here in case Louise nicks an artery."
I assured her I'd be back as soon as I changed into shorts.
Louise called after me, "You'd best check on Ky. He skipped dinner to play a computer game."
The evaporative cooler clattered valiantly at the top of the stairs, but it was losing the battle against the heat. With each stair, the temperature climbed another degree. By the time I stopped at Ky's door, the heat encased me in its woolly grasp. He sat at his computer; the monitor's glow lit the room. I knocked on the doorframe with no response and entered.
"It's sweltering in here." I lifted the blinds and opened the window. A shaft of sunlight illuminated the chaos of a fourteen-year-old's life.
"Son, Louise says you didn't eat."
Ky looked at me and I stifled a gasp. He could have been his father sitting there. When had his face narrowed and his nose lengthened and his blond hair dimmed to a muddy brown, just like Scott's? His ears--they were huge--and beads of sweat clung to the coarse hair of his lip and sideburns. When had facial hair appeared?
"You won't believe what she cooked for dinner. She called it tofu aspic, said it tasted like meatloaf. I thought I was gonna spew." He turned his attention back to the monitor.
I promised Ky some decadent macaroni and cheese when Louise went home.
"Thanks, Mom."
* * *
I crawled into Scott's closet and closed the door behind me. In the dim light, the world's dizzy dance slowed. Staring up at Scott's golf shirts, a revelation surprised me. Love would be different, if it showed up at all, the second time around. Greg may have understood that better than I. Second love was more practical, and a draft horse shouldn't be excluded so easily. That was depressing.
In the twenty months since Scott's death, I'd tiptoed through all of the anniversaries and holidays and birthdays, most of them twice. Anniversaries were now would-have-been anniversaries. Last August would have been our sixteenth anniversary, but no one had asked. When I'd turned the calendar to April, there was no need to hunt for the perfect birthday card with an innuendo only Scott would've understood. There was no one to notice when I took three ibuprofen tablets for a headache, or when I sighed over the credit card bill, or when I slammed a car door harder than necessary. And when Ky had bulleted a throw to home plate to make the last out, Scott hadn't been there to squeeze my hand in a way that meant We sure have a great kid.
Just because Scott was dead didn't mean he was absolutely gone. He still showed up whenever I presumed his opinion about a news story or a neighbor's house paint or the way an intersection had been reconfigured. Sometimes his presence was so real, I'd have to say good-bye to him all over again, but that was happening less and less, and I wasn't sure how to feel about it. Part of me wanted to hold him closer; part of me wanted to shoo him away; part of me wanted to scold him for being so careless with his life. And the part of me that insisted on thinking about all of this stuff was driving me crazy.
It wasn't like I didn't believe I would see Scott again. I did. I believed in heaven. Scott was there now, and someday, I would be too. For now, though, I only got to see the hurting side of death. That was faith, Louise kept telling me, to see one thing before my eyes but to live with a certainty that there was something better beyond my seeing. And someday, she promised me, I would bubble with joy just thinking about our eventual reunion. Until then, my greatest sorrow bisected my greatest hope.
A knock on the closet door startled me.
"Are you in there?" Louise knocked again. "Mibby, are you in there? Open up, now."
I obeyed because experience had taught me, if nothing else, Louise knew the meaning of perseverance.
"Honey lamb, you've got to stop doing this."
I couldn't argue with that, not in the heat and not after a date with Hopalong Cassidy.
Louise knelt before me. "Let me help you empty out this closet. You know, don't you, that Scott is clothed in righteousness, walking on golden streets with Jesus, the only light he'll ever need? If Scott plays golf in heaven--and why anyone would think hitting a teeny tiny ball a zillion times is fun--" Our eyes met, and whatever she saw stopped her cold.
"Oh, sweet pea, I'm so sorry. All I'm saying is Scott has a generous clothing allowance in his Father's house. He wouldn't mind one bit if you got rid of his golfing togs or his skateboard."
The skateboard was Ky's, off limits until school started again because he'd forgotten to wear his helmet. "Maybe after Ky goes back to school this fall."
"When you're right, you're right, sugar. Fall is a perfect time for fresh starts and new beginnings. First, we'll clean out Scott's closet, make sure these things get to someone deservin' and all, and once that's done, we'll purge your closet of denim and hippie sandals, which means we'll have to wrap you in a towel to go shopping."
The timer on her apron buzzed. "Phooey. I better go get Li'l Miss Tender Head neutralized. You'd think someone with that much metal in her head would be a lot tougher." Louise stopped to look at Scott's golf clubs in the corner of the room. "For heaven's sake, Mibby, there are cobwebs all over these golf clubs."
"I was going to--"
Louise covered her mouth with her hand. "I honestly don't know where my heart is today. I'm so sorry. Don't you go worrying about cleaning out Scott's closet. When the time is right, you'll know what to do." She closed the closet door on me and whispered through the crack. "If you keep the clubs so close to your bed, you might want to check the bag for spiders. I heard a story about a gal in Beauregard Parish who died when a nest of black widow spiders hatched in her hair."
Finally, some information I could use.
Her steps receded down the hallway and then returned. "Listen, Mibby. Manley's at that plumber's convention in Orlando all week. Do y'all mind if I ask Andrea to stay with me? The house is so quiet."
"No problem."
* * *
I woke up craving shish kebabs, but the hankering faded once I removed Scott's golf shoe from under my back. No light shone under the closet door. A happy thumping by the door told me Blink, my faithful black Labrador, was posted outside.
"I'm coming out," I warned him. His broad tongue lapped the sweat off my cheek. He deserved a belly rub for his kindness.
I found Ky in front of his computer. "Hungry?"
"I ate." He laughed at the monitor and typed frantically.
"What's up?"
"It's Salvador. His sister ran the car through the garage. Oh man, this is good."
The computer pinged. Over Ky's shoulder I watched another installment of Salvador's story appear--sans punctuation--on the screen, something about his dad grounding Theresa for the rest of her life. Ky leaned forward with his hands poised to respond.
"I'm going downstairs for some ice cream. Want some?" I asked.
Ky typed a response to Salvador and waited.
"Ky? Did you hear me?"
"What? Uh, yeah. I said no thanks."
I knew better than to argue with him. It was one of those guy things. He honestly believed thinking something meant he'd said it, especially when talking to his mother. The Living and Thriving with Teens book I was reading said I had two choices in situations like this. I could be flattered that my male teen thought I was telepathic or be angry over his rudeness. The latter seemed a more genuine response, but sometimes my genuine responses stirred a hornet's nest.
More pralines and caramel for me.
In the kitchen, Ky's dinner dishes filled the sink and an empty box of cheesy macaroni mix lay by the stove with an empty carton of milk. I scooped some ice cream into a bowl and then attacked Ky's mess. On the way to the sink, I stepped in powdered cheese sauce, but the thought of confronting him about the mess, especially after a long, hot day with my fellow beasts of burden, seemed overwhelming. Besides, I was the one who had broken my promise to fix him dinner. I filled the sink with soapy water and massaged the growing headache over my eyes.
A mound of bubbles rose in the sink, but my arms grew leaden. Soon, the tears flowed. Since when had dishes in the sink demoralized me? Or for that matter, the dried rings of iced tea on the counter? Or a bill coming the day after I'd paid the others? Or the dust on an end table? Or a recall notice from a car manufacturer?
I was God's right-hand woman on Crawford Avenue. He kept the planets and stars in their places, and I did the rest, or so it seemed. Everything that happened in the Garrett household happened because of me or by me. And sadly, it wasn't enough. No breaks, no bouncing of ideas, and absolutely no divvying of chores. I would have ended up back in the closet for sure if I'd allowed myself to think about the dwindling bank account.
I'm so tired, Lord.
Blink lapped at the ice cream that had melted into praline soup. I shook my finger at him. "And you'd better put that bowl in the sink when you're finished, young man."
Excerpted from ALWAYS GREEN (Garden Gates, Book 2) © Copyright 2004 by Patti Hill. Reprinted with permission by Bethany House Publishers. All rights reserved.
Always Green (Garden Gates, Book 2)
by by Patti Hill
• Genres: Christian, Fiction
• paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Bethany House
• ISBN-10: 0764229389
• ISBN-13: 9780764229381 |
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02-26-2009, 06:23 AM
Hey all!
I'm utterly fresh using CC3 and naturally I've mucked up my layers bigtime already. I have put too many things in the same layers (at least I think so) so now I wonder if and how I can move entities to different layers. I basically need to move my structures to a new layer in order to hide them in player handouts. How to?:D
Steel General
02-26-2009, 06:56 AM
Welcome Aboard!
Not A CC user, so can't help you with your problem. But, I'm sure one of the resident "experts" will be along shortly help you out.
02-26-2009, 06:58 AM
Hello Zimith
You can use the Change Properties function (the icone should be on the left of your screen). Click on it, select your structures and right click - "do it"
Then you tick the box in front of Layer and you select "Structures" in the drop menu, then OK.
It may be easier to select your symbols if you hide all sheets except the "Symbol" one(s).
That is how I would do, but I am quite the beginner with CC3 myself. Others here are more experienced and may have faster / less tedious tricks.
02-26-2009, 07:20 AM
Seems to be working. Many thanks!
02-26-2009, 08:33 AM
In CC3 I worry less about Layers than I do about Sheets. I almost don't even care about the Layers function anymore.
02-26-2009, 01:41 PM
The layers are still useful for the reason stated: to make more than one version of a map, in this case to make player handouts. For instance, you can have all your labels on one sheet, with a single set of effects applied to them, but the GM info is on one layer while the player info is on another, and the information shared between both is on a third. You could do it with three sheets, but that requires thrice the system resources to draw, not to mention having to set up the effects three times.
02-26-2009, 02:41 PM
Layers are nice for freezing things so they can't be accidentally selected or edited, for example. Like when making multipolies.
03-04-2009, 05:53 AM
03-04-2009, 06:36 AM
LOL! You put what I put above and in retrospect I said absolutely NOTHING :(
As you may have noticed by the time my replace was posted it was 5:30 AM Pacific time. At that time I was awake all night and getting a little fried.
Let me clarify.
As Jaerdeph said, layers are nice to group things together (like all Rivers), but I find because the SHEETS do things pretty much identical, the LAYERS function has become something I pretty much ignore now.
That said, let me see if I can actually answer your question.
One a whole bunch of symbols have been placed on the map they become difficult to single out. Difficult, but not impossible.
Now, without knowing the details of what you are trying to hide/etc. I know you know. And you likely know what sheet you placed it on. So, you could likely start by hiding all other SHEETS than the one you believe the Entities are on. (I.E. you want to hide a forest, start by hiding all SHEETS except for FOREST sheet)
Once you have located it, then select the item(s) you want, (with the CHANGE PROPERTIES tool) and then through the dialog window change the LAYER you want it on.
Sorry that my previous answer was a little 'off'
03-04-2009, 11:21 AM
Here's why I still find layers useful. Say I'm placing door and secret door symbols. These both go on the SYMBOLS sheet. I put the doors on the Wall Features layer and the secret doors on the Secret layer. Now I can hide the Secret layer and print out a players' map and the secret doors are not visible to them. If I hide the SYMBOLS sheet, all symbols get hidden.
Sure, I could create a SYMBOLS DOORS sheet and a SYMBOLS SECRET DOORS sheet and then hide the latter before I print the players' map. But what if I'm using sheet effects? I would then have to duplicate the same effects on both sheets, and that would take more time. Even if that could be improved on (like by doing it once and saving the sheet effects to pull up again in another map), I kind of like having the multiple options of ways of doing things that CC3 provides in full.
03-04-2009, 06:09 PM
Actually I put Doors on the WALL SYMBOLS sheet cause I put Walls near the top (Bottom) of the drawing, with symbols (tables, etc) under the Walls sheet. |
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7. Moreover, what greater reason is apparent for the advent of the Lord than that God might show His love in us, commending it powerfully, inasmuch as “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us”?13581358 Rom. v. 8, 10 And furthermore, this is with the intent that, inasmuch as charity is “the end of the commandment,”13591359 1 Tim. i. 5 and “the fulfilling of the law,”13601360 Rom. xiii. 10 we also may love one another and lay down our life for the brethren, even as He laid down His life for us.13611361 1 John iii. 16 And with regard to God Himself, its object is that, even if it were an irksome task to love Him, it may now at least cease to be irksome for us to return His love, seeing that “He first loved us,”13621362 1 John iv. 10, 19 and “spared not His own only Son, but delivered Him up for us all.”13631363 Rom. viii. 32 For there is no mightier invitation to love than to anticipate in loving; and that soul is over hard which, supposing it unwilling indeed to give love, is unwilling also to give the return of love. But if, even in the case of criminal and sordid loves, we see how those who desire to be loved in return make it their special and absorbing business, by such proofs as are within their power, to render the strength of the love which they themselves bear plain and patent; if we also perceive how they affect to put forward an appearance of justice in what they thus offer, such as may qualify them in some sort to demand that a response be made in all fairness to them on the part of those souls which they are laboring to beguile; if, further, their own passion burns more vehemently when they observe that the minds which they are eager to possess are also moved now by the same fire: if thus, I say, it happens at once that the soul which before was torpid is excited so soon as it feels itself to be loved, and that 287the soul which was enkindled already becomes the more inflamed so soon as it is made cognizant of the return of its own love, it is evident that no greater reason is to be found why love should be either originated or enlarged, than what appears in the occasion when one who as yet loves not at all comes to know himself to be the object of love, or when one who is already a lover either hopes that he may yet be loved in turn, or has by this time the evidence of a response to his affection. And if this holds good even in the case of base loves, how much more13641364 Reading quanto plus, for which some mss. give plurius, while in a large number we find purius = with how much greater purity should it hold good, etc. in (true) friendship? For what else have we carefully to attend to in this question touching the injuring of friendship than to this, namely, not to give our friend cause to suppose either that we do not love him at all, or that we love him less than he loves us? If, indeed, he is led to entertain this belief, he will be cooler in that love in which men enjoy the interchange of intimacies one with another; and if he is not of that weak type of character to which such an offense to affection will serve as a cause of freezing off from love altogether, he yet confines himself to that kind of affection in which he loves, not with the view of enjoyment to himself, but with the idea of studying the good of others. But again it is worth our while to notice how,—although superiors also have the wish to be loved by their inferiors, and are gratified with the zealous attention13651365 Reading studioso…obsequio, for which studiose, etc., also occurs in the editions = are earnestly gratified with the attention, etc. paid to them by such, and themselves cherish greater affection towards these inferiors the more they become cognizant of that,—with what might of love, nevertheless, the inferior kindles so soon as he learns that he is beloved by his superior. For there have we love in its more grateful aspect, where it does not consume itself13661366 Æstuat= burn, heave. in the drought of want, but flows forth in the plenteousness of beneficence. For the former type of love is of misery, the latter of mercy.13671367 Ex miseria…ex misericordia And furthermore, if the inferior was despairing even of the possibility of his being loved by his superior, he will now be inexpressibly moved to love if the superior has of his own will condescended to show how much he loves this person who could by no means be bold enough to promise himself so great a good. But what is there superior to God in the character of Judge? and what more desperate than man in the character of sinner?—than man, I ask, who had given himself all the more unreservedly up to the wardship and domination of proud powers which are unable to make him blessed, as he had come more absolutely to despair of the possibility of his being an object of interest to that power which wills not to be exalted in wickedness, but is exalted in goodness.
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What changes in coverage gap can I expect for 2015 as a result of Health Care Reform?
Manufacturer discounts will continue to be applied when you reach the coverage gap. In 2015, you will pay 45% of the cost of brand-name drugs and 45% of any dispensing fees and vaccine administration fees.
• The discount will automatically be applied when you reach the coverage gap at the time you fill your prescription at a network pharmacy.
• Your Explanation of Benefits (EOB) will identify the discount you received. And, both the manufacturer discount and what you pay are both applied to your out-of-pocket expenses and moves you through the coverage gap to catastrophic coverage.
• You will also continue to receive a discount for generic drugs when you are in the coverage gap. For 2015, you will pay a coinsurance amount of 65%.
• The amount paid by the plan does not count towards your out-of-pocket costs. Only the amount you pay and the manufacturer discount will count towards these costs and move you though the coverage gap.The dispensing fee is already included in the cost of the drug.
If you are already receiving Extra Help (also called Low Income Subsidy, or LIS) these changes do not apply since you already receive coverage in the gap.
What counts toward my true out of pocket (TrOOP) costs?
Medicare has rules that each Part D plan must follow when we keep track of your out-of-pocket costs for your drugs.
The following payments count towards your out-of-pocket costs as long as they are for Part D-covered drugs and the rules for drug coverage are followed:
• The amount you pay for drugs when you are in any of the drug payment stages, including the deductible stage (if applicable to your plan)
• Your copays and coinsurance during the initial coverage stage
• What you spend on drugs stage and the amount of the manufacturer discount during the coverage gap
• Any payments you made during the current calendar year under another Medicare prescription drug plan before joining a new plan
Payments for the above count towards your TrOOP costs if they are made by any of the following:
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14.11: Jupiter
Difficulty Level: At Grade Created by: CK-12
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"What Jupiter? Do not trifle. There is no Jupiter." — Aristophanes
The Romans named the largest planet for their most important god. They followed the tradition of the Greeks, who had similarly named the planet Zeus. They built a temple to Jupiter on the hill. Was Aristophanes denying the existence of the most important Roman god?
Jupiter is enormous, the largest object in the solar system besides the Sun. Although Jupiter is over 1,300 times Earth’s volume, it has only 318 times the mass of Earth. Like the other gas giants, it is much less dense than Earth.
Because Jupiter is so large, it reflects a lot of sunlight. Jupiter is extremely bright in the night sky; only the Moon and Venus are brighter ( Figure below ). This brightness is all the more impressive because Jupiter is quite far from the Earth — 5.20 AUs away. It takes Jupiter about 12 Earth years to orbit once around the Sun.
An image of Jupiter taken by Voyager 2
Check out NASA's world book to learn more about Jupiter: http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/jupiter_worldbook.html .
A Ball of Gas and Liquid
Astronauts trying to land a spaceship on the surface of Jupiter would find that there is no solid surface at all! Jupiter is made mostly of hydrogen, with some helium, and small amounts of other elements ( Figure below ). Jupiter's atmosphere is composed of hydrogen and helium. Deeper within the planet, pressure compresses the gases into a liquid. Some evidence suggests that Jupiter may have a small rocky core of heavier elements at its center.
The structure of Jupiter
Jupiter's structure.
A Stormy Atmosphere
The upper layer of Jupiter’s atmosphere contains clouds of ammonia (NH 3 ) in bands of different colors. These bands rotate around the planet, but also swirl around in turbulent storms. The Great Red Spot ( Figure below ) is an enormous, oval-shaped storm found south of Jupiter’s equator. This storm is more than three times as wide as the entire Earth. Clouds in the storm rotate in a counterclockwise direction, making one complete turn every six days or so. The Great Red Spot has been on Jupiter for at least 300 years, since astronomers could first see the storm through telescopes. Do you think the Great Red Spot is a permanent feature on Jupiter? How could you know?
Jupiter's Great Red Spot
This image of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (upper right of image) was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft. The white storm just below the Great Red Spot is about the same diameter as Earth.
Jupiter’s Moons and Rings
Jupiter has a very large number of moons — 63 have been discovered so far. Four are big enough and bright enough to be seen from Earth, using no more than a pair of binoculars. These moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto — were first discovered by Galileo in 1610, so they are sometimes referred to as the Galilean moons ( Figure below ). The Galilean moons are larger than the dwarf planets Pluto, Ceres, and Eris. Ganymede is not only the biggest moon in the solar system; it is even larger than the planet Mercury!
The four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
This composite image shows the four Galilean moons and their sizes relative to the Great Red Spot. From top to bottom, the moons are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is in the background. Sizes are to scale.
Scientists are particularly interested in Europa because it may be a place to find extraterrestrial life. What features might make a satellite so far from the Sun a candidate for life? Although the surface of Europa is a smooth layer of ice, there is evidence that there is an ocean of liquid water underneath ( Figure below ). Europa also has a continual source of energy — it is heated as it is stretched and squashed by tidal forces from Jupiter. Numerous missions have been planned to explore Europa, including plans to drill through the ice and send a probe into the ocean. However, no such mission has yet been attempted.
An image of Europa's icy surface
An enhanced color image of a portion of Europa’s icy surface. The surface ice may have motions similar to plate tectonics on Earth.
In 1979, two spacecraft — Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 — visited Jupiter and its moons. Photos from the Voyager missions showed that Jupiter has a ring system. This ring system is very faint, so it is difficult to observe from Earth.
• Jupiter has a thick atmosphere containing the Great Red Spot, a storm that has been going for at least 300 years.
• One of Jupiter's moons, Europa, appears to have a liquid ocean beneath the surface due to tidal forces from the massive planet; this ocean could be a place for life.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
1. What types of material is Jupiter made of (solid, liquid, gas)? Where is its solid surface?
2. What is Jupiter's composition? What does this composition mirror?
3. What is the core of Jupiter like?
4. What lies above the core?
5. What are the colorful bands across the planet and what do the different colors indicate?
6. What are Jupiter's high temperatures due to? What does that mean?
7. Why doesn't Jupiter become a star?
8. What causes the huge storms on Jupiter?
9. What is the Great Red Spot? How long has it been on Jupiter?
10. What about the Great Red Spot changes over time? What doesn't change?
11. Why do we owe gratitude to Jupiter?
12. What is important about the four inner moons?
13. What is important about Europa?
14. What are most of Jupiter's moons?
15. Why do probes get crashed into Jupiter rather than being left in orbit?
Want to know more about Jupiter? See https://www.windows2universe.org/jupiter/jupiter.html .
2. What is Jupiter made of?
3. Why is Europa one of the few locations in the solar system where scientists think there could possibly be life?
4. What is the source of heat on Europa?
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Tornadoes Hit Nebraska; Video of Hillary Clinton Released; Is This The Start Of A Campaign?;
Aired June 17, 2014 - 16:30 ET
RYAN HAUF, TORNADO WITNESS: One started over here and they just both headed down.
GEORGE HOWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It would be a direct hit.
HAUF: Hard to remember where everything was because when you come to town, you knew where everybody lived and all that. But now, you can't even tell where your old neighborhood was.
GOV. DAVE HEINEMAN (R), NEBRASKA: I know Nebraskans. We're resilient. We're going to rebuild. This town's too tough to die, right.
HOWELL: Governor Dave Heineman toured the debris field in Pilger, Nebraska, talking with folks and reiterating several times the town's motto, a town that's too tough to die. But nearly 60 percent of Pilger is now wiped out. Officials say one square mile of damage, two people died as the storm came through including a 5-year-old child. This woman who worked in what used to be the town's bank, took shelter in the vault.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We were in the vault before the sirens went off. So we were safe. We felt we were safe.
HOWELL: Residents here know that rebuilding will take some time. Ryan Hauf is just thankful that his parents and his dog survived.
HAUF: That's about all I was concerned about for right now because that's about all I got left.
HOWELL: It's a tough situation. You know, our photojournalist Jake Carpenter showing you this tree. And you know, Jake, the thing about it, when he these storms come through, it's just amazing to see how powerful the wind is to sit the branch just a rip, you know, the green off all these trees and leave behind the devastation you see here. We know that here within the next couple of hours here in Pilger, they're going to come together and talk about the volunteer effort, you know, to start that process of clearing through the debris, people's personal belongings and trying to get back to normal as best they can.
JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: George Howell in Pilger, thank you so much.
Coming up next, before she was a household name, Hillary Clinton was an attorney. And now a case she defended 40 years ago is being questioned by some conservatives. Will she be asked about it tonight by the attendees as CNN's live town hall? We're waiting for her to arrive. And in 30 minutes, we'll find out.
TAPPER: Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper live at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. where in less than half a hour former secretary of state Hillary Clinton will talk with CNN's Christiane Amanpour for the first live televised town hall meeting of her book tour for her new biography, "Hard Choices." All right, of biography are hard choices.
"Politico" is now reporting, the book is already sold 100,000 copies. Many believe this tour is less about selling books than selling a potential presidential candidate. Since the media blitz began, we've seen many different sides of Clinton. For those who thought they knew everything there was to know about Hillary Clinton, most recently Ilana Goodman, a reporter for the conservative website, "the Washington free beacon" uncovered audio recordings of Clinton from the 1980s, including one clip of Clinton discussing a 1975 legal case in which she was the defense attorney assigned to be the defense attorney for a man charged with raping a 12-year-old girl. Take a listen.
He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs. But you know what was sad was the prosecutors had evidence, among which was his underwear. So they presented the underpants with a hole in it. I said what kind of evidence is that? A pair of underpants with a hole in it. Of course, the crime lab had thrown away. The piece that they had cut out, it was really odd. I plea bargained it down because it turned out they didn't have evidence.
TAPPER: And let's bring in CNN senior political correspondent Brianna Keilar, CNN chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash and CNN chief political analyst Gloria Borger.
Brianna, I will start with you. In the "Washington Post," Melinda Hanneberger says, quote, "this is not typical talk for a lifelong defender of women and children." And points out that in the affidavit, Clinton cast the victim as quote emotionally unstable with a tendency to seek out older men and to engage in fantasizing.
Now, I know she was doing her job. She had to defend this client. That was -- he's entitled to the best defense possible. She's not obviously responsible for that, but do you think this is politically a problem for her in any way?
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: I do. I think it's -- I think it is good lawyering, but I think it is bad politics. And I think it's really bad for a certain subset of voters and that would be young people.
You know, I've gone to certain events and the people who are kind of coming out to see what she's about are you know, for lack of a better term, the millennial generation. They're still actually being introduced to her. Fancy that in 2016, these are people who were born 1998 or slightly before, right? So you're talking about people who don't really identify with her as first lady. Probably not even as senator. And they're still being introduced to her right now. And she is being branded to those folks as a champion of women and girls.
And so, I think when you have a group of people who don't have necessarily that depth of knowledge about her and then you put something like this. And I do think the audio really changes it where she's saying he took a polygraph and then she says that it forever, you know, destroyed her faith in polygraphs. She thought he was guilty.
KEILAR: I think it's a problem. I think it really pokes a hole.
TAPPER: Now Dana, we should point out, Clinton wrote about this in her other auto biography living saying it was shortly after this experience that Ann Henry, another woman and I discussed setting up Arkansas as first rape hot line. She is somebody that has a track record of standing up for women, standing up for girls but she is also a tough attorney.
DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A very tough attorney. And Brianna brought up the generational perhaps divide on this. And I think we should also look at it from the perspective of the fact that she was a young woman in a man's world in the south. And she was new to the area. She was assigned this case by a judge and she felt that even an objective articles she had no choice but to take it.
The question then becomes, did she have a choice to go beyond that and in the affidavit what many will view as blaming the victim, going for the jugular in a way a good attorney should do to do whatever they can for their client, but when you're talking about something as incredibly sensitive and incredibly explosive as rape, especially when it's not about being a lawyer but a politician, so much of this will depend on how she frames it right now, how she discuss it and whether she says I was young. I'm looking at my older self back as my younger self I wouldn't have done that.
TAPPER: And we should point out that we reached out to the Team Clinton and they did not have a comment on this.
GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST: Right. And I think, you know, to your point about your older self reaching out to your younger self. I understand the '70s. I understand where Hillary was assigned being asked to take this case for legal aid. And I also think though in listening to her with her Arkansas accent, I might add there, it gives us a window into what she would do, how ambitious she was and how aggressive she was and also what kind of a lawyer she was and how much she wanted to win this case. I mean, she took evidence with her to New York to -- .
BASH: Not just evidence, it was a pair of underwear.
BORGER: A pair of underwear, right.
TAPPER: The DNA and all that.
BORGER: To have the DNA analyzes. You know, this was somebody was asked to take this case by a very powerful person and did her best on behalf of her client, and it gives can you a sense of what she does. You know, how when she's got her eye on something and she wants to do something, she did everything she could.
BASH: The other thing, just quickly I want to point out, is that I listened to that audio several times to try to get a sense of, you know, the buzz on it is that she's laughing about it. I'm not so sure that's fair. It was like a nervous laughter about how from her perspective how inept the prosecution was, the fact they were losing evidence and messing up evidence.
TAPPER: I don't think there's any question she was being a tough attorney. But that the doesn't necessarily jibe with the narrative.
Now, turning to another topic, the arrest today of one of the chief suspects of the Benghazi attacks. I suspect that if. Christiane Amanpour doesn't ask Secretary Clinton about it, which I'm sure she will, somebody in the audience will. This incident, this episode still dogs her, Benghazi.
KEILAR: Yes. And I do expect that she'll be asked about it. But I also think it is part of like, you know, she's being asked about it kind of at pre turn, too. So, does it change things for her? I'm not sure. I think the issue we're seeing in polls that it does that voters think her time at the state department is a plus for her. But then you've got the bruise on the resume is Benghazi.
Fifty five percent of those polled in a CNN/ORC poll that just came out yesterday, they are saying they're dissatisfied with how she handled it. And I think as it gets discussed more and more, it kind of does become a little more of a problem.
BORGER: I think the question is, does she testify on Benghazi before the select committee?
TAPPER: Before the select committee.
BORGER: Will she do that? I think that's why there are the Democrats on the committee because they're au going to circle around her. But I think this is a question she's got to answer. I think today's arrest helps to her a certain degree. She said look, we got this guy and we'll get to the bottom of it as she has said. That's what I'm about. Her answers have been very much like the CEO. I wasn't in charge of security. And we got to play -- we got to the play major league ball and not stop getting bogged down.
TAPPER: We have to go right now.
Brianna Keilar, Dana Bash, Gloria Borger, thank you so much. Great insightful as always.
When we come back, they were rivals turned working partners. But that doesn't mean the president always took it easy on his secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Why he warned her not to screw up twice.
And will her relationship with the president be brought up in our CNN town hall? We're minutes away from the start of that event. Hillary Clinton live answering your questions. That's coming up.
TAPPER: Welcome back to the lead. We're live here at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. where in just a few moments, CNN will begin our exclusive live town hall with Hillary Clinton moderated by our own Christiane Amanpour. There are a lot of questions to ask Clinton, her record as secretary of state, fears of civil war in Iraq, today's Benghazi arrest. My buddy from Alex here from Houston, he has lots of question. As Christiane explains, when it comes to Clinton every word counts.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): It's been a high profile week for Hillary Clinton.
CLINTON: I like it to double as a workout. Bite two so you can do.
AMANPOUR: Some have called it the unofficial start of her unofficial campaign. During the media blitz for "Hard Choices," that question, the hard choice about 2016, was artfully and repeatedly dodged.
CLINTON: You know, I'm going to decide when it feels right for me to decide. If I ever decide to do it, I will let you all be the first to know. I think the voters have the right to choose whoever they want.
AMANPOUR: But for a woman who many expect will run for president, every answer, every word is put under the microscope. Whether it's national security.
CLINTON: My chapter about Syria is called "a wicked problem," and now it's gotten wickeder because of the spill over into Iraq.
AMANPOUR: Or personal finances.
AMANPOUR: Her critics jumped on that comment and Clinton took another stab at it during another appearance with the mayor of Chicago, long- time Clinton supporter, Rahm Emanuel.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dead broke. Really?
CLINTON: Well, that may not have been the most artful way of saying that you know, Bill and I have gone through a lot of different phases in our lives. That was then, this is now.
AMANPOUR: Everyone tried to pry something new out of her and Clinton got a little testy when a radio host suggested that her views on gay marriage were influenced by politics.
TERRY GROSS, HOST: So that's one for you changed your mind?
GROSS: I'm trying to clarify so you can understand.
CLINTON: I think you're trying to say that I used to be opposed and now I'm in favor and I did it for political reasons. That's just flat wrong.
AMANPOUR: But no one could argue with this.
CLINTON: I've been waiting to be a grandmother for a long time and I can't wait. I'm thrilled.
AMANPOUR: The former secretary of state has famously flown nearly 1 million miles to 112 countries trying to restore broken relationships with world leaders. But it's her relationship with her own leader that seems to provoke the most curiosity.
CLINTON: You talked about the ideas of the Republicans. I didn't talk about Ronald Reagan.
AMANPOUR: The once heated opponents became working partners.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: She's an American of tremendous stature who will have my complete confidence.
AMANPOUR: Clinton says she refused the job of secretary of state several times before she eventually accepted. And she writes, quote, "Shenanigans my team and the president elect were playing, made it tough to say no, shenanigans such as these from Obama's future chief of staff."
CLINTON: He would tell me I'm sorry, he's not available to talk to you right now. I can't put you on because I can't find him.
AMANPOUR: In the end, Clinton says she was at the White House more than 700 times during her tenure at the State Department. And she recalls the president twice telling her, quote, "Don't screw up." Once in 2012 when she brokered an Israeli-Hamas cease fire in Gaza and again that same year when Clinton helped bring a Chinese dissident to America. She calls it one of her proudest achievements. CLINTON: That was the kind of tribute to American values that you don't just turn your back on or at least I don't.
AMANPOUR: Then came the unexpected. Aboard Air Force One near the end of her term, the president asked her to stay on. She says she felt, quote, "The tug of my service gene, that voice telling me there is no higher calling or more noble purpose than serving your country." Then she told the president no. But will that service gene win the tug of war over the presidency in 2016?
TAPPER: Our thanks to Christiane. In just minutes, Hillary Clinton will take your questions. CNN's town hall with the former secretary of state is coming up. I'm going to make my way up there now. So stay with us. That is just minutes away.
TAPPER: Welcome back to THE LEAD. Wow, before a live studio audience. We are live today at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. where in just a few minutes, former secretary of state, former senator, former first lady, Hillary Clinton will hold a live town hall, moderated by our own, Christiane Amanpour. The questions will be yours.
I am now in the night studio at the Newseum where the town hall will be taking place. One of the audience members hoping to get a question in is Hannah Rasheq and she joins me now. How you doing? What had you like to ask the former secretary of state?
HANNAH RASHEQ: How she's going to protect aid workers in the medical community serving Syrian civilians. If she was going to run for president.
TAPPER: How could aid workers -- is this an issue of particular importance to you?
RASHEQ: Yes, I work for a Syrian humanitarian relief organization, and recently a lot of aid workers and the medical community have been targeted by the government and various terrorist organizations.
TAPPER: Good for you for working. What's the name?
RASHEQ: Syria relief and development.
TAPPER: Good for you. That's a wonderful question. That's a difficult one. We still have time. I could probably do another question. What about you? Who are you? Stand up. We need special stickers. And what would you ask?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: About financial reform. It's been awhile since she was in the White House. Recent Supreme Court cases things have changed a little in terms of how does a president make compromises when other forces are working against that? TAPPER: A smart audience. Nice shoes. A 190 people picked from colleges, universities, think thanks, community groups, other organizations and they're all very excited. We have a quick second for you. What would you ask? What's your name?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tatiana. I'd also ask about Syria. I want to know what she would do in order to engage what remains of the opposition and address the humanitarian crisis.
TAPPER: Two questions on Syria. That's it for THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. The Hillary Clinton town hall begins right now. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62752 | #1 Posted by Superdork (1035 posts) - - Show Bio
So before the New52, Hawkman (archaeologist/reincarnated warrior/ancient weapon user) led the JSA (the team of the past). Superman (reporter of contemporary events/man with the timeless fighting style) led the JLA (the team at their prime. And Cyborg (scientist/protector of a future generation of heroes/futuristic weapon user) led the Titans/Teen Titans.
They were past, present, and future. They had very different personalities. They still do, actually.
Would you buy a mini-series of these three fighting a threat across different times? It sounds like the ultimate adventure to me.
#2 Posted by MartianManhunterIsBetterThanCyborg (2375 posts) - - Show Bio
#3 Posted by matchesmalone21 (9915 posts) - - Show Bio
#4 Posted by Lvenger (23602 posts) - - Show Bio
and it's a really strange team-up
I just don't see them together myself. The book could pull in sales because of Superman's involvement but they just don't mix well enough IMO.
#5 Posted by SUNMAN (7374 posts) - - Show Bio
Yeah that would be awesome. I'm tired of the same old team ups. Love characters interacting that haven't or don't do so a lot. I mean we have so many trinity team ups I want something new
#6 Edited by Arkhamc1tizen (2202 posts) - - Show Bio
in one word
#7 Posted by matchesmalone21 (9915 posts) - - Show Bio
#8 Posted by Rich711 (264 posts) - - Show Bio
What would the book be about, Superman constantly saving these two C-Listers and waiting them to catch up? |
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Little is known about Miles St Aubrey's origin. He was presumably born and raised in England. It is unclear if he inherited his power or rose to it; regardless, at some point he became a figure of no small political and social power. Around this time he became close with Dudley Caldecott, and the pair soon became leaders of the vaguely-named "Group", a collective of occultists and corrupt industrialists who used captive supernatural entities and ritual sacrifice to enhance their political, social and economic standings. Apparently lacking moral compunctions, he appears willing to engage in any sort of trade that will turn a profit.
St Aubrey was created by James Robinson and Javier Pulido
Major Story Arcs
The Shade
St Aubrey conspires with Caldecott to have Caldecott's infamous great-grandfather, the Shade, killed in order to keep him from investigating their activities. When this assassination attempt fails, he and Caldecott formulate a new plan, orchestrating the Shade's capture and subduing him with the assistance of the captive beings, which cancel out his power. Shade is able to trick St Aubrey into allowing the beings too much power by constantly making escape attempts. The beings break free, and in the ensuing chaos St Aubrey is killed by one of the beings.
Powers and Abilities
St Aubrey has no known personal superhuman abilities. He has access to the powers of three mysterious supernatural beings whose energies apparently grant him luck in his endeavours. He is also a skilled and charismatic leader.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62763 | Final Destination
Final Destination Review
"I'm never going to die!" yells one character at a memorial for 39 fellow French-class students who died in a plane crash that, by all rights, he should have died on too. As incredibly laughable as this line is, it provides the big flaw in the basic premise behind Final Destination... making a horror movie about people cheating death does not have much potential. Since you can't kill Death, destroy Death, or send Death screaming back to its home planet, you have a no-win scenario in front of you. No matter what is said or done, everyone ends up getting it.
This is not to give you a spoiler and to say that everyone gets it in the movie. This is simply to point out the fact that no matter which way they go, they're screwed. Death is a no-win scenario. If you're going to make a movie about escaping death, make it a la Fearless, where we focus on the human element. But since it's a horror film the ball is in the court of Director James Wong to provide us with something that will keep us interested for an hour and forty minutes of inevitability.
The film actually does a halfway-decent job of this, but only by going so far pass the realm of the believable to enter into the land of the ludicrous. How so? Well, virtually everyone who bites it in the movie does so by the means of a Rube Goldberg contraption.
Rube Goldberg, for those not familiar with his work, was drew comic which often depicted a scientist trying to find the most complicated way to do the most simple job. A classic example of this is the machine in which a cord is snapped, a mallet unlocks a cage, an anteater crawls out from the cage and licks the ants on stamps, thus preparing said stamps to be mailed. Final Destination features several of Rube Goldberg's guillotines... forms of death that end up being so drawn out that, about five minutes into the elaborate trap, you utter a groan and yell at the movie to get on with it.
The result is a movie that is only good for the target audience: the young college student who is looking for an excuse to have his girlfriend become utterly frightened and leap into his arms. Do not think in this film... you'll find plot holes. Do not pay attention to the dialogue in this film... you'll hate it. Do not expect this film to be up to par with half of the episodes of "The X-Files" that Wong has worked on... you'll be severely disappointed.
Final Destination is good for a horror film. This means that the acting is terrible, the script was probably written by monkeys, and somehow you find yourself enjoying the film anyway. So sit back, relax, and watch it... but only if you like cheese.
Bad hair day.
Final Destination
Facts and Figures
Run time: 98 mins
In Theaters: Friday 17th March 2000
Box Office Worldwide: $53.3M
Budget: $23M
Distributed by: New Line Cinema
Production compaines: New Line Cinema, Zide-Perry Productions
Reviews 2.5 / 5
Rotten Tomatoes: 33%
Fresh: 31 Rotten: 62
IMDB: 6.8 / 10
Cast & Crew
Starring: as Alex Chance Browning, as Clear Rivers, as Carter Horton, as William Bludworth, as Billy Hitchcock, as Valerie Lewton, as Tod Waggner, as Terry Chaney, as George Waggner, as Agent Weine, as Agent Schreck, Lisa Marie Caruk as Christa Marsh |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62764 | "Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty, but she is so interesting looking and so bright. That will always take you farther. When you're a great beauty, it's always downhill for you. If you're someone like Mrs. Obama, you just get better with age." Catwalk icon Iman on America's First Lady. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62767 | Seth Rogen tried to get Barbra Streisand to smoke marijuana on the set of 'The Guilt Trip'.
The comic stars alongside the legendary singer and actress in the film - where she plays his mother, who goes on an epic road trip with his character - and he encouraged her to indulge in taking his favourite drug on set.
He said: ''I did try. She wouldn't do it, but she told me she smoked pot with Peter Sellers. That's, like, the greatest story of all time. Barbra's got good stories, I could sit there all day and think of a celebrity, like 'What's Marlon Brando like?' and she'd have a story. She met Elvis! And she got high with Peter Sellers.''
Seth, 30, also said he didn't change his language or behaviour around Barbra, and she didn't get upset.
He added to Nuts magazine: ''I didn't censor myself. I like to say gross s**t every once in a while and she wasn't fazed. She's known much dirtier people than me throughout her life. She's always fussing and touching my hair. She's like my real mother in a lot of ways. I could swat her away like she was my actual mother.'' |
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The pic of Boba Fett's gear is pretty cool.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62778 | Inline/YAML version 0.10 ======================== Inline::YAML is a source filter that let's you put YAML documents directly in your Perl code: use Inline::YAML; use Data::Dumper; print Dumper --- &foo foo: 42 bar: *foo ... my @arrays = --- - foo - bar: 42 --- - Hello - world ... INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: YAML-0.35 Filter-Simple COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2002 Brian Ingerson This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62802 | [sword-devel] modules for debian
Ben Armstrong [email protected]
Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:01:26 -0400
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 12:51:58PM -0000, Daniel Glassey wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to package some modules and get them into Debian, but that
> could only reasonably be done for a limited number of modules.
This is my proposed list:
I'm not sure if this is a comprehensive enough "base" install. Perhaps
someone who uses these tools in their work daily could comment.
To keep things in perspective, xemacs21-basesupport is 36M :) Admittedly,
there will not be quite as many users of sword as xemacs, but still ...
disks are getting cheaper and larger, and what we used to think was
monstrously huge is now just a flash in the pan.
A script should be written to convert tarball -> deb. If there is a
shortage of space at crosswire, the tarballs can be fetched, converted,
and installed by the script by the user. If there is no such shortage,
then the script could at the very least make life easier for the archive
maintainer. A user download/installer script was frowned upon by one
respondent to my post:
I'm not sure what sort of problems have been caused by such scripts. The
xanim-modules script, for example, downloads and installs a bunch of
non-free data modules for xanim. However, it does not convert them into
deb format as I have proposed the sword-installer should do.
Apparently the "data section" for Debian has already been approved, but
not yet implemented. It is worth mentioning it again on debian-devel.
Someone should do something about it. See this message:
nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [email protected]
Debian http://www.debian.org [email protected] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62805 | < Fortunate
Lagoon/Cabin Fun Days >
Posted by Rachel at Wed Aug 20 2008 02:27
wait, did you go with jill or was that a coincidence?
Posted by Rachel at Wed Aug 20 2008 02:32
that talent auction sounds like a fun idea. do you get points for eating chocolate or lose them? you must have had a lot of point to get all that stuff.
Posted by Susie at Wed Aug 20 2008 08:43
You lost points for eating chocolate (which I had). I actually did not have very many points, but the cards and the wipes holder were some of the first items, and I guess no one wanted the pumpkins cause I got a great deal on them!
Posted by Kristen at Wed Aug 20 2008 11:37
What a cool activity. I will have to suggest it. That dress is cute, wish I could sew. I want one of those wipee cases and some girls in my ward have a blog shop and sell them for like $15-18. For that price I will go without.
Posted by Susie at Wed Aug 20 2008 11:39
I know, the price of those diaper/wipes carriers is ridiculous. That's why I was going to make my own. Maybe I will have to try my hand at making one for you. ;)
Posted by Rachel at Wed Aug 20 2008 12:37
I think you should get points for eating chocolate. Take note for your event, Kristen =)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62811 | Open Issues: Technical
We need a VASC WebMaster!
• Lots of VASC documentation is already online, but in FrameMaker format. Someone should port WebMaker or Frame2html to the IUS suns. Done!!
• Once all the documentation is online, how can you find what you need? Someone should provide a WAIS index of all our Web information
• Would be nice to have all man pages online and indexed; a man2html and other text converters are also available
• We should establish on an IUS sun to provide access to special-purpose demos. Easy to interface! e.g., easy to set up a filter to run the Canny edge detector on any URL Done!!
• Carnegie Mellon Computer Science
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62813 | Triangles in graphs; a sharp bound
We consider undirected graphs without autoloops and without multiple edges—i.e. each edge connects a pair of different vertices, and a pair of vertices is connected by at most 1 edge—. A triangle is a set of 3 vertices such that any two of them are connected by an edge of the graph; the graph is then said to "contain" that triangle.
Theorem Let M.V be the maximum number of edges of a graph with V vertices such that the graph need not contain a triangle; then M.(2k) = k2 and M.(2k-1) = k∙(k-1) .
Proof Both equations for M have the form M.(a+b) = ab. Showing that a graph with a+b vertices and ab edges need not contain a triangle is done by constructing a witness. Paint a of the vertices red and the remaining b vertices blue; introduce ab edges by connecting each red vertex with each blue vertex. Since in the resulting (bipartite) graph colours along a path alternate, cycles have even length and hence the graph contains no triangle.
That a graph with more edges —if feasible— contains a triangle is shown by mathematical inductions.
We confine our attention to graphs with at least 3 vertices, and for the base of the induction we consider (a, b) = (1, 2) and (a, b) = (2, 2). In the first case, we have to show that a graph with #vertices = 1+2 and #edges > 1∙2 contains a triangle: such a graph has 3 vertices and 3 edges and is a triangle. In the second case, we have to show that a graph with #vertices = 2+2 and #edges > 2∙2 contains a triangle: such a graph has at least 5 edges and hence contains the complete 4-graph with 1 edge missing, which contains even 2 triangles.
For the induction step we show for any a, b:
(any graph with #vertices = a+b and #edges > ab contains a triangle) ⇒
(any graph with #vertices = (a+1)+(b+1) and #edges > (a+1)∙(b+1) contains a triangle).
To this end we consider a graph with (a+1)+(b+1) —= a+b+2— vertices and more than (a+1)∙(b+1) —= ab+a+b+1— edges and focus our attention on one of its edges e. Now we consider two cases: e is or is not an edge of a triangle. In the former case the graph obviously contains a triangle. If e is not the edge of a triangle, however, it is connected by at most a+b edges to the subgraph spanned by the remaining a+b vertices; the total graph having more than ab+a+b+1 edges, we conclude that in this case the subgraph of a+b vertices has more than ab edges and, according to the antecedent of the demonstrandum, contains a triangle. In view of the base we have demonstrated the presence of a triangle for a+1=b or a=b and b≥2.
(End of Proof).
The above proof is noteworthy for two reasons, firstly because even and odd number of vertices could share the same induction step, and secondly because the presence of a triangle in a graph with 4 vertices and 5 edges has been demonstrated without case analysis. (Take the experiment and ask your friends.)
Austin, 5 May 1991
prof.dr. Edsger W.Dijkstra,
Department of Computer Sciences,
The University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, TX 78712 – 1188
Transcribed by Guy Haworth
Revised Sunday, 29-Dec-2013 . |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62820 | Malcolm Smith
It is uncertain yet whether the Bears put newly signed wide receiver Santonio Holmes on the field but if they do, it sets up a rare potential meeting between two Super Bo
If you're going to find out how good you are, you'd might as well play the best. In their house.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62824 | Review - Dimension X
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by Robert T. Martin
After more than nine months of waiting, Synapse Software has finally given birth to a game that its advertisements led me to believe was going to be the game of the century. The ad read, "What has immeasurable fire power -- attacking Rigillians -- altered perspective scrolling -- and no mercy?" Dimension X is finally here, but it is not exactly what I expected.
The game does feature an altered perspective scrolling floor in the playfield, which is very attractive, but that's where the fun ends. Nowhere to be found are the tanks, missile-launching silos or the beautifully depicted spaceships seen on the package illustration. Instead, the only attacking forces, known as Rigillians, are small, pink, cigar-shaped objects which are unusually easy to shoot down. Gone is the separate-screen 64 sector map showing what type of enemy is where, and how much fuel it takes to get there. We now have a 25 sector grid showing how many enemies are in each sector that is combined with an omnipresent screen displaying a limited number of vital functions. In fact, neither of the two screen photographs shown on the packaging ever made it to the game intact.
The game opens with you viewing a mountainous horizon, with what appears to be a checkerboard field between you and the mountains. You are looking through the window of a cockpit that has the aforementioned desert map, a display showing shield and fuel status, a readout showing the distance between you and the Rigillians, a radar screen, and a communications window which gives you various messages throughout the game. A push of the joystick starts the field scrolling, and, by manipulating the stick, you realize that you are in a bowl (or pie tin) with mountains forming the perimeter. The object of the game is to rid this sector of Rigillians by blasting them, and then moving via one of eight passageways through the mountains to another sector for resumed Rigillian blasting. The eight passageways correspond to the basic compass points, and the desert map reveals which sectors you will arrive at by travelling through the various passageways.
Upon entering a passageway, you realize that a great deal of imagination is required to understand what is happening. What you are supposed to visualize is yourself flying through a narrow corridor with gates strapped from wall to wall across your path. You must stay in the center of the corridor without touching the walls while maneuvering above and below the gates. This concept is tough to grasp from the graphics provided, and, to make matters worse, the documentation tells you that you can pass through the gates. My games kept ending here until I realized that I had to avoid the gates.
If all of this sounds vaguely like Star Raiders, you're right. Based on the Blue Max/Zaxxon and Encounter/Battlezone conversions Synapse is famous for, I fully expected a souped-up, hot-rod version of Star Raiders. Synapse, however, has fallen short with Dimension X. What is missing is the element of skill that Star Raiders requires. Dimension X can be completed very successfully by anyone who understands the game and can connect the rules to the screen graphics. I've made it through the game every time at the highest difficulty settings without having to re-fuel, repair or retreat. The Rigillians never even got close to surrounding my capital. Sounds pretty merciful to me.
To wrap things up, I'd like to talk about something that disk drive users must be made aware of. When booting Dimension X, a foolish protection scheme built into the program causes the game disk to try to write to itself If it can't complete the task the program boots fine. However if you, like several thousand disk drive owners (myself included), have installed a switch to disable the write-protect mechanism, and the switch is engaged, Dimension X will write to itself and reformat the entire disk, wiping out the program! That's right, you lose everything. There is no mention of this on either the box or the documentation. Synapse must assume that anyone capable of writing to a disk with no write-enable notch is out to copy their software. I spoke with Synapse, and they are currently charging $5 to replace the contents of the disk if they are lost in the above manner. They also stated that they are re-evaluating this protection scheme, and that their marketing people might look into putting a warning on the game. I hope they do something soon, because many people like myself will find themselves with an empty disk the first time they try to use it. Boy, was I depressed.
Dimension X screenshot
In conclusion, Dimension X is disappointing. It doesn't fulfill the promises of the artwork, and isn't nearly as much fun as some of Synapse's other games, such as The Encounter (a hot-rod version of Battlezone) or Blue Max (a souped-up version of Zaxxon). Both of these surpass the originals and are a must for the collection of any game enthusiast. Sadly, Dimension X doesn't fall into this latter category.
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Roadrunner supercomputer is first to break petaflop barrier
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It doesn't matter how fast the computer is
By FITCamaro on 6/9/2008 4:59:32 PM , Rating: 1
Man-made global warming still isn't real.
By Seemonkeyscanfly on 6/9/2008 5:07:00 PM , Rating: 5
sure it is, Have you not listened to Al Gore explain that the 37,000 scientist that disagree with him are all wrong.... He clears everything right up. The solution is very simple. Just make your check out to KYMG (kiss your money goodbye) and send it in to Al Gore's office in DC or one of his many homes. He will take care of the rest.
RE: It doesn't matter how fast the computer is
By mcmilljb on 6/9/08, Rating: -1
RE: It doesn't matter how fast the computer is
By Relion on 6/9/08, Rating: -1
By Seemonkeyscanfly on 6/9/2008 5:21:04 PM , Rating: 5
Why are people that tell jokes disgusting? Just because you don't like it, does not make him disgusting. Twisted maybe but not disgusting.
RE: It doesn't matter how fast the computer is
By InternetGeek on 6/9/2008 7:00:58 PM , Rating: 5
If we follow that road, there soon won't be much jokes left.
RE: It doesn't matter how fast the computer is
By ShowTim3 on 6/10/2008 10:30:25 AM , Rating: 2
Cheap humor will always be easy to get, don't worry about that, you'll get your portion of it. Smart humor is a little harder to find tho.
Well...I guess to get a higher rating I ll start to do humor about dead soldiers in Iraq or things like this:
Not ! But I guess there's ppl that can do it....and they may even get a positive rating on these forums. Just a shame....I guess it is the american way...
RE: It doesn't matter how fast the computer is
By geddarkstorm on 6/10/2008 1:04:59 PM , Rating: 2
It's one thing to make light of tragedies that are actually happening, than it is to make absurd jokes about things that'll never happen. Unless Iran starts nuking everyone in its corner of the world, no one (save maybe Israel) is going to nuke it.
People need to lighten up, then there wouldn't be so many wars in this world.
RE: It doesn't matter how fast the computer is
By Relion on 6/10/2008 6:21:46 PM , Rating: 2
Well...exactly my point, only that we differ. You see it as an absurdity, but I don't see it like that, US military abusing other countries is just real, you like it or not.
"People need to lighten up, then there wouldn't be so many wars in this world."
I can't agree more with this, lovely words, it's a shame our leaders don't think the same...
RE: It doesn't matter how fast the computer is
By Reclaimer77 on 6/10/2008 7:22:28 PM , Rating: 1
"People need to lighten up, then there wouldn't be so many wars in this world. I can't agree more with this, lovely words, it's a shame our leaders don't think the same..."
For once I agree with a hippie !
People DO need to lighten up. Namely those sexually repressed third world wifebeating womanizing terrorizing suicide bombing Koran reading mass murdering plane hijacking maniac Muslims.
Lets start with them first. I think when you riot and kill people because of a cartoon drawing, you automatically get moved to first on the list of those who need to " lighten up ".
Our leaders didn't start this. Do your best to keep forgetting that though.
By pxavierperez on 6/12/2008 5:47:54 PM , Rating: 2
er, our leaders did start this. retake that history class you flunked awhile back.
By wjobs55 on 6/11/2008 1:00:36 AM , Rating: 2
Actually it does. What a frakking GENIOUS.
By sporr on 6/10/2008 2:53:56 AM , Rating: 2
Give them time, and they will be dropping them on YOU.
By MrBlastman on 6/9/2008 5:30:19 PM , Rating: 2
The question is - would there be any left to ask?
We'd be better off just measuring the glass density.
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By Fluxion on 6/9/08, Rating: -1
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Thanks Jimbojimbo
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As the ocean absorbs more CO2 it becomes more acidic.
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Below is a good link
By Indianapolis on 6/9/2008 7:50:23 PM , Rating: 1
I think the "dumbest thing I've read yet" is your rebuttal.
Your arguments for human participation in global warming are slightly less than compelling when even you are forced to admit that (1) humans have a minuscule, if any, effect on global temperature fluctuations and that (2) the earth is actually cooling.
Anybody who has done any amount of policy research can tell you that throwing money at programs based primarily on public opinion and knee-jerk reactions invariably end up wasting precious resources, time, and energy. More often than not such ill-conceived policies cause more damage than doing nothing. Just look at how our criminal justice system is benefiting from all the demands for "get tough" policies.
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By Reclaimer77 on 6/9/2008 9:58:01 PM , Rating: 2
I can't understand how any intelligent individual can honestly say that a portion of global warming isn't due to humanity.
I'm a global warming agnostic. I concede that we are having some effect on the environment. But before I sign up for changes that effect my quality of life, the burden of proof is on YOU to prove its actually a significant threat.
Fact is despite computer models, research, and a fair amount of propoganda ; scientist are no closer now to proving the threat of man-made global warming than they were ten years ago. In fact most recent discoveries directly challenge the theory of made made global warming. So what did these " scientist do " ? Instead of giving it up they changed it to " Global Climate Change " crisis. Same old fear mongering in a shiny new wrapper.
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By mcturkey on 6/9/08, Rating: -1
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By Reclaimer77 on 6/9/2008 11:43:32 PM , Rating: 3
Why do you take such a short view?
Its the only one that makes sense right now.
If the scientists are right and we are having a significant effect on the global climate, but you refuse to do anything to prevent significant changes until there is "proof", it may well be too late.
I'm just one guy. I can't change the world. Go peddel your guilt trip to someone who gives a damn.
The consequences of refusing to make changes to our emissions output and resource consumption if in fact global warming is being caused by us are too disastrous to ignore. Better to play it on the safe side and change what needs to be changed.
Baseless fear mongering. Just how far are you willing to go to make changes based on " what ifs " ? Better yet, how far do you make everyone else go and what steps will you take to get there ?
Man Made global warming is a religion, and I'm choosing to remain a Global Warming Agnostic. The burden of proof is on you and those like you to convert me. Good luck.
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By Polynikes on 6/10/2008 12:51:14 AM , Rating: 2
So, if we follow the "better safe than sorry" idea... We should create a giant space defense system in case invading aliens show up some day, because there's a chance of there being intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. They may not show up for 6,000 years, but hey, at least we'll be safe.
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By EvilBlitz on 6/10/08, Rating: 0
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I dont see what is wrong doing something for my ch
What am I doing personally? OK since you asked.
By StevoLincolnite on 6/10/2008 2:19:39 AM , Rating: 2
Look at it this way, the Planet is our Home, yet we don't live in houses, full of rubbish, cow paddies giving off methane, Nuclear waste in the Basement, thus why should our "Larger" Backyard (Backyard being Earth) should be any different?
I don't really know much about the whole Global warming issue, and whether it's happening or not, but seriously, I don't want my future Grand Children running around in a dump, and neither should any other self respecting person.
And doing *Something* About it, rather than nothing is better in the long run in m opinion, there would only be so far where we can drop toxic chemical's into the oceans, and rivers before they become to far polluted that we cant use them to water crops, and drink from.
For Instance, the Great Barrier Reef, is the largest Coral Reef on the planet, yet Sugar Can Farmers have all the run off going out to sea, these high-levels of pollutants, are killing the reef, bleaching the Corals, and just making it completely un-pleasant, I went on a Holiday there when I was younger and thoroughly enjoyed it, I would love to have my Great Grand Children go there and enjoy the same things that I did, but at the rate it's being destroyed that may not happen.
By EvilBlitz on 6/10/2008 2:02:35 AM , Rating: 2
Considering how complex this all is waiting for it to be proved beyond doubt generally will mean waiting till its too late(if they are right).
At many points in time you have to rely on educated guesses.
As for doing nothing that makes no sense at all. The earlier we make change the less drastic that change will have to be than if we leave it till later. Something called planning ahead?
One guy cant change anything? Rubbish, history is littered with examples of one man making a difference. Beside of which a good quote is "a waterfall starts but with 1 drop of water and look what comes from that."
Considering how some of the possible changes you could make actually save you money and or could make you healthier(eg energy efficient lightbulbs or just walking to the shop 500 meters down the road etc) you sounds very stubborn and lazy.
Baseless fear mongering? What would you do, sugarcoat all the possiblities and make it sound like something bad will happen but in the nicest possible way? I guarantee you if you do that you never EVER get a response.
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By CloudFire on 6/10/08, Rating: 0
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By Reclaimer77 on 6/10/2008 1:00:59 AM , Rating: 2
Man Cloud there is so much wrong with your post I don't even know where to start. First off, thanks for putting the " failure of man as a species " sqarely on my shoulders. I mean really, are you for real ?
surely, the millions of tons of green house gases pumped out each year from factories and our cars has no significant threat.
Which is dwarfed in comparison to the greehouse gases caused from water vapor ! Something we simply cannot prevent.
people never believed we could have taken to the air. WRONG!people said we could never go to the moon. WRONG!
people believed we would have never taken the transistor to a microscopic level. WRONG!
Speaking of wrong. Are you actually comparing these scientific and inventive breakthroughs to being skeptical of the " imminent doom " of Global Warming ? Your joking right !?
Oh and you do realize flying planes and going to space pumps billions of tons of " deadly " greenhouse gases into the atmosphere ? Shame on you for not even finding " green " examples !
it's people like you that make me sick. why do we have to prove anything to you?
You don't. Just live your life and I'll live mine. But thats not good enough for you is it ?
there are many millions of people around the world who are helping to make this place a better to live for our future generation.
Like who ? Those who would use Global Warming to push a socialist agenda that will leave future generations with trillions in debt, weak economies, skyrocketing food costs and dwindling economic freedom all under the banner of " saving the planet " ?
And honestly, if you expect to be taken seriously you could actually learn to capitalize your sentences once in a while. But not a single one ?
By AlmostExAMD on 6/10/2008 4:06:52 AM , Rating: 2
Ummm turn on the tv, All those above statements u just made are actually happening right now,LOL.
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By Aloonatic on 6/10/2008 4:55:03 AM , Rating: 3
I'll be honest. I am not a believer in "Man Mad Global Warming" and "climate change" either, at least not to the levels that pop stars and politicians mite like us to believe.
If it is true, then climate change as a stick to beat the masses with is being over used on this side of the pond (UK) rather shamefully, to the extent that most people now believe that this environmental fear-mongering is just an excuse by politicians to raise taxes and pass legislation in the best interests of the ruling and owning classes.
If you want to buy a 4x4/people carrier at the end of this year you're going to have to pay a hefty "sales-room tax" in the thousands of pounds as well as a great deal of road tax around the £500 all in the name of the environment. This will be for cars that you bought up to 5 years ago as well???
People might believe in this if the money that is being raised in the name of the environment is going towards projects and such to mitigate the effects of "climate change" that are happened now such as flooding (which have nothing to do with greedy house building companies exploiting the house price boom and building on cheap flood planes, oh no) and future projects for lower carbon energy production in the future.
I will start to believe in these causes when:
1) The British parliament is moved from the banks of the Themes and docklands flats start to fall in price for reasons other than over supply.
2) Pop stars and celebrities sell their numerous and huge homes and live in new homes that do not have many many empty rooms being heated and powered for no reason and the stop flying stylists and the little handbag dogs around the world, or curries from Wales to New York just because they can.
3) Evacuation plans for Holland are made public.
4) Measures for curbing CO2 production are not simply fines and charges but actual bans, so that the message is not that it is OK to "destroy the environment" as long as you can afford it.
All this reducing carbon usage talk has nothing to do with the diminishing easily available oil in the world of course. It's just a big coincidence and the reason for the "pain" that people are feeling in their pockets has nothing to do wit grossly miss managed public finances and energy security plans, oh no, it's the environment stupid.
By FITCamaro on 6/10/2008 8:08:14 AM , Rating: 2
Exactly. It astounds me how many people lack basic common sense. "Oh well the celebrities and Al Gore are saying its happening so it must be true". That seems to be the mentality of these idgets. Nevermind that they live in giant mansions, fly around the world on a whim, throw giant parties and banquets that consume tons of electricity and what not for stupid crap, and have one hybrid but also several other luxury sport cars that get 5 mpg(or they buy that $100,000+ Lexus hybrid that still gets like 10 mpg).
Man-made global warming is nothing other than a scam. Its an excuse for people to make free money, its an excuse for scientists to get research grants, and its an excuse for a government to tax you to pay for socialist programs.
I should just start selling carbon credits. I'll make up a nice little piece of paper. Make it look pretty, like a stock or something. Buy 1000 carbon credits, get 1000 pieces of paper saying you did (and the rich would buy them oblivious of the fact that a tree was cut down to make those 1000 pieces of paper). Then I'll pay some people in a 3rd world country to plant some trees. Or I'll make up a standard that 1000 carbon credits = 1 tree and plant them here in the US somewhere.
By Reclaimer77 on 6/10/2008 4:26:55 PM , Rating: 2
Exactly. Just join me brother and say it " I am a global warming agnostic ".
After all, isn't it considered rude for a Christian to force their beliefs on agnostics ? Well, global warming is a religion too. And don't let ANYONE take away your right to be a GW Agnostic !
Global Warming Agnostics : We don't know. And neither do you !
By Westmassguy on 6/10/2008 5:53:52 AM , Rating: 2
It's ManBearPig..............Can you see it?
See I told you it was real
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By Major HooHaa on 6/11/2008 6:12:23 AM , Rating: 1
Have you seen the size of the holes in the ozone layer?! That was caused by man-made CFCs. This proves that man can have a big effect on the Earths environment.
When it comes to fossil fuels, we have dug up millions of tons of carbon and then released it back into the atmosphere through burning. At the same time we have reduced the environments ability to soak up carbon through de-forestation. I read that tree bark is made up of roughly 70% carbon and a mature Oak holds around 1.3 tonnes of carbon*.
The view I take is that the Human race has altered practically every habitat on the planet and changed the composition of the atmosphere. Since all those habits are locked together in a delicate balance, where changes to one can affect another, then we must have had some effect on the planet.
The population of humans on the planet is vastly, artificially inflated by our technological advances. So we are now the dominant species on the planet and surely that gives us a duty of care to look after that planet. Do we really have the moral right to send other species to extinction?
Having said that, the planet Earth will certainly out live the human race.
I came across a quote saying "Did you know?- We now know that the abundance of life on Earth masks an uncomfortable geological fact. To a rough approximation, of all the species that ever lived, less than 1% are alive today!"
As for the super computer being used for climate modelling, good on you guys!
*Thanks John-of-Wem for those figures.
By Aloonatic on 6/11/2008 7:01:24 AM , Rating: 2
Just because 1 thing happened because of 1 cause it does not mean that everything happens because of it too.
The Ozone debate was well supported, proven and thus accepted by everyone and action has taken place, and things are on the mend, slowly but surely.
The main advantage that the "Ozone Depletion" problem had over "Man Made Climate Change" (MMCC) was that the solution was relatively inexpensive and did not impede on people's day to day lives too much.
Yes, replacing your refrigerator was a pain in the arse all of a sudden, and aerosols were a bit rubbish for a few years but the former was a 1 off problem and the latter was soon fixed by clever people in white coats.
MMCC on the other hand is still not proven (those lovely colour coded pictures of the polar regions showing the ozone hole where very pretty and convincing) all that well and we are so dependent on the cause of it (cheap energy) that it just plane hurts too much to change our lifestyles.
Another point I feel is worthy of mention is that the data that we have to support the MMCC argument is pretty poor and always will be until someone invents a time machine.
There is just not enough data out there, unlike the situation when debating the ozone hole. There were measured levels of Ozone and it was relatively easy to show the sudden changes and decline (along with the obvious cause) and there was very little room to argue that it was due to naturally occurring reasons and these changes are all part of a greater system.
e.g. When people talk about icecaps melting and shrinking, showing videos of them falling away they can easily be skewed to support an argument, often neglecting to show them growing again later , or even that there have been recorded growths and contractions in the ice caps for a fairly long time but they are inconvenient to the MMCC argument and thus ignored.
Suddenly we are able to measure a lot of things on a global scale (for a rediculously small amount of time in the grand scheme of how long the environment and global climate has been changing and evolving) and we have seen a slight trend occurring and panic has set in, politicians have seen a chance take advantage of public sentiment and fear and celebrities have found something to fill their day and assuage their guilt for being massively wealthy for doing very little whilst most of the world lives in absolute squalor.
What ever gets you thought the day i guess.
I just haven't been convinced, see my other post for when I will be.
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Correct me if I'm wrong here
By FITCamaro on 5/5/2009 12:22:27 PM , Rating: 2
But doesn't the very nature of the fact that they heavily compete with each other mean they aren't violating anti-trust laws?
To me this would be likened to large automakers having a stake in or working with smaller ones being against anti-trust laws.
I'm not an expert so some explain to me why them merely sharing a board member and working together means they're violating anti-trust laws.
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By tmouse on 5/5/2009 12:44:07 PM , Rating: 2
Well I'm certainly no expert but here is my take. First the FTC is not accusing anybody of a violation yet, it's an inquiry. Being competitors doesn't stop them from working in unison to harm other entrants into the market. Care has to be taken to ensure a de facto cartel dose not form. If it's just a board member its somewhat less of a problem than if it's the CEO of one of the companies. It is a little silly to think a CEO excuses himself from every talk where the topic involves a direction where the company is planning to make major inroads into, or that he would not get the information other ways in the course of doing his job. Sooner or later Schmidt will almost have to leave Apple's board.
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By nafhan on 5/5/2009 2:50:33 PM , Rating: 3
They could definitely compete heavily with each other and still violate antitrust laws.
For example, lets say they were in a position to collude and push all other competitors out of a given market. This would effectively create a duopoly where they would still be competing with each other, but everyone else would be shut out.
That is the type of problem that they are probably trying to prevent. Whether it is on purpose or inadvertant collusion can stifle competition, and having board members in both companies makes collusion more likely to occur.
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What about the issue of flash memory wearing out?
By johnnyMon on 3/27/2007 2:43:39 PM , Rating: 2
Don't they degrade over time? Have they solved this? Hard drives see such regular access, especially in the FAT and programs and files that are used frequently. Will flash-based drives not last as long as current hard drives? Thanks for cluing me in on this aspect. :)
By CascadingDarkness on 3/27/2007 3:19:14 PM , Rating: 3
My question would be specific to my company. Our remote laptops have a utility that zeros out the page file several times before shutting down (to make hacking more difficult if they were stolen).
Depending how many bit writes this does sure it decrease life of drive. Will it be anything significant considering they say 150 years, I doubt it.
By Oregonian2 on 3/27/2007 3:19:23 PM , Rating: 2
Flash drivers have the FAT (as you mentioned) move around the flash array to spread where the writes occur physically even to the same logical location -- where on a hard disk they'd be writing the same physical place over and over.
By Dactyl on 3/27/2007 5:00:27 PM , Rating: 2
Do they degrade over time? YES.
Have they solved this? YES, they've solved it well enough.
What matters is not just whether they degrade, but how much they degrade. With 100,000 writes possible on some NAND flash, and flash controllers that keep track of how many times an area has been accessed to spread the access evenly. Further, there can be error correction when an area does fail (and the controller remembers which areas have failed!). So flash can be extremely reliable for a very long time, better than a HDD, and plenty good enough for our use.
By johnnyMon on 3/27/2007 9:02:27 PM , Rating: 2
Great - thanks everyone.
It bugs me a little that I would know my drive is slowly wearing out, portions becoming unusable, but that may be already happening with my current drives anyway.
If I knew that they'd be as reliable as a platter drive, that 10 years after I stopped using it I could pull it from storage and the data would be there, I'd be happy to use them. Hard drive storage is the best long-term backup solution I've found in my (non-professional) computer use.
Where are the SATA 3.5" versions
By PAPutzback on 3/27/2007 11:00:21 AM , Rating: 2
So we have low power drives and CPUs now. If only the GPU companys would think small and cool we could be running high performance SFF PCs. I'd use Intel matrix raid on couple of these with 1 raid 1 volume and 1 raid 0.
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By FITCamaro on 3/27/2007 11:26:52 AM , Rating: 2
GPUs capable of truly complex graphics will never be small or cool. Modern GPUs have 3-4x the transistors of processors (if you don't count the cache which is half or more of the transistors of a CPU today). That means larger dies, more heat, and more power. Integrated chipsets can be made relatively small, cool, and power efficient but they won't be capable of truly complex graphics.
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By Madzombie on 3/27/2007 12:47:29 PM , Rating: 2
I still think there's a market for low-power, mid end GPUs. Power consumption increases with voltage squared, and voltage requirements increase with clock speed. That means that a doubling in clock speed often multiplies power requirements by over 4x. My idea is to have a large die GPU with perhaps 16 pipelines that operates at a relatively slow clock speed of 200-250Mhz, along with a correspondingly low voltage. That would give similar fill rate to the 400-500Mhz 8 pipeline cards that are common in mid-end mobile GPUs but with reduced power consumption.
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By KernD on 3/27/2007 7:05:43 PM , Rating: 2
The reason they don't do this is there profit margin, 16 pipes would cost more to make then 8 and would give the same performance, clocking it higher is easy and doesn't cost much more, just a little better cooling.
By IcY18 on 3/27/2007 10:53:12 AM , Rating: 4
i wonder when that first enthusiast/hardware site is going to put a pair of these SSD's in a RAID 0 array. It would be interesting to see how they perform.
By kattanna on 3/27/2007 11:54:13 AM , Rating: 3 restlessly awaiting that.
2 in RAID 0..
how about 4..that should trully for once introduce the bus as the bottleneck.
but when 32GB or even 64GB drives are around $150~ish a piece..4 in RAID 0 should be simply amazing.
but yeah, im hoping that 2 in RAID 0 becomes affordable very soon.
Adtron surprisingly faster...
By daftrok on 3/27/2007 12:00:11 PM , Rating: 2
I find it amazing that Adtron not only created a HDD that's bigger in size, but also in speed. I wonder why Adtron is so much further than Samsung? Any ideas?
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SATA or IDE or other
By peternelson on 3/27/2007 12:08:00 PM , Rating: 3
When reporting devices like this, please say whether it is a SATA or IDE version being offered.
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By peternelson on 3/27/2007 12:10:13 PM , Rating: 2
From zooming the photo this one looks ATA7 ie IDE/PATA rather than SATA. Stating that would save me looking and enable rapid comparison with similar SSD storage.
Buy it?
By mydogfarted on 3/27/2007 6:09:50 PM , Rating: 2
Great, everyone is announcing them but where can you buy one?
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By FrankM on 3/27/2007 7:19:32 PM , Rating: 3
I was about to write the same.
Nice that they are announcing all these, but when will they be available? I find it ridiculous that they have been announcing and demonstrating solid state drives for almost a year now (or even more), but they are still not available (except in a few subnotebooks). I'm getting a bit tired of this.
Screwed up numbers
By peldor on 3/27/2007 11:34:47 AM , Rating: 2
Samsung expects that the market for SSDs will jump dramatically over the next four years. The company is forecasting that shipments will jump from 2.2 million units in 2006 to 9 billion in 2010. Likewise, sales are expected to rise from $56 million USD in 2006 to over $6.8 billion USD in 2010.
There's no way these numbers are talking about SSD as hard drive replacements. First, there isn't a market for 9 billion harddrives (300-400 million maybe). Second, they're projecting the 9 billion drives to cost less than $1 each! Somebody's moved a decimal point.
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By cochy on 3/27/2007 12:43:05 PM , Rating: 2
Someone should switch the "b" in 9 billion with an "m".
By Ralph The Magician on 3/27/2007 12:39:21 PM , Rating: 2
Maybe now a widescreen video iPod would actually be feasible.
RE: woot
By IcY18 on 3/27/2007 2:08:28 PM , Rating: 2
Not with SSD's costing more than the Ipod as a whole. In the near future yes, but within the next 3 years i doubt it.
1.8" mechanical drives
By Lonyo on 3/27/2007 11:00:09 AM , Rating: 2
I tested my old 1.8" 40GB Toshiba (hooked up via an external USB enclosure) and it managed about 12MB/s.
For these SSD 1.8" drives to have read/write speeds not that far off desktop 7200rpm drives is very nice. Even though the Adtron 2.5" may have slightly higher speeds, compared to their mechanical equivelants, the 1.8" drives are much faster, while 2.5" drives are only slightly faster.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62869 | When your surf instructor texts you at 7:30 a.m. to tell you the waves are good, you go.
It doesn’t matter that your hamstrings are burning from a 3.5-mile run in the Virginia mountains two days prior. It also doesn’t matter that you didn’t get home from that trip until well after midnight the night before.
When the waves are good, you go.
I rolled over with a distressed groan that Monday morning, wriggling my aching legs from beneath the sheets as the text alert on my phone blasted hours before I had intended to motivate for the day. With bleary eyes, my first response looked something like this: “ngbt toofay.” (Lucky for me, auto correct recognized my attempt to say “not today,” and fixed it before sending.)
But as the clock ticked on, my thoughts drifted to the ocean and to all the progress I was making; popping up to my feet, planting and bending, owning that wave. I waited impatiently for my instructor, Michelle Sommers, to respond.
A restless 15 minutes later, I texted Sommers again: “Later in the week would be better, but if today is our best chance, I could make it work.”
Once again, I tried and failed to fall back to sleep, keeping an ear trained toward my now distressingly silent phone.
Another 10 minutes passed, and as sleep continued to elude me, I knew what I had to do. I picked up my phone and typed: “I’ll see you out there.”
Without so much as a word from Sommers, I had managed to talk myself out of bed, past my lingering soreness and exhaustion and back into the car for my 35-minute commute to Assateague State Park. Upon my arrival, she put into plain words that which was becoming increasingly clear to me: “You’re hooked.”
Standing on the beach, I scolded myself silently. I had unpacking to do. I had only had a few hours of sleep. My deadlines for the newspaper were creeping too close for comfort.
But as I glided the board out into the thrashing surf, letting the salty, cool water run through my hair and permeate my skin through my wetsuit, I smiled, knowing I was exactly where I belonged.
Surfing is changing me — the way I dress, the things I talk about and the vocabulary I use, the people I spend time with and the ways in which I allocate my time. I feel comfortable in my skin for the first time in ages, and I have started to wonder if maybe I was always meant to be a surfer who just needed to find her nerve.
The people around me have noticed, too. My skin is tanned, my hair is lighter and my complexion is healthier from all the salt water and my reduced reliance on makeup.
Also, my house is a wreck, the gas bills and mileage on my car are rising with alarming speed and I fear my husband and friends are getting bored with my obsessive need to steer conversations toward surfing.
I know I need to find a healthy balance somewhere so this “hobby” does not become an addiction. But then the siren call of the waves beckons to me, and I’m off once more.
The house will still need to be cleaned in the winter.
My summer of surfing
5: Number of weeks I have been doing this
4: Number of pounds I have lost since starting
1: Number of times I have made any effort to clean my house since starting this
3: Number of minor injuries I have sustained (bruised tailbone from falling into shallow water; bruised ankle bone from my own board; and smack to the back of the head from another surfer’s board)
3: Number of times I have been run over by another surfer
1: Number of those times that were my fault
2: Number of large stingrays I have seen that freaked me out
1: Number of sharks my surf instructor has accidentally hopped on top of, effectively riding it (one too many for my liking)
20: Number of minutes it took before I got back in the water after hearing that story
0: Number of sharks I have seen (thank goodness)
10 (at least): Number of crabs that have pinched my toes
Too many to count: Number of horseshoe crabs I have stepped on and yelped at
35: Approximate number of times I have successfully caught a wave and stood up on my board
1,000: Approximate number of waves that have smacked me in the face, thrown me to the ground and/or tossed me off my board
1,000: Approximate number of curse words I have uttered in the wake of such incidents
Indefinitely: How long I will continue surfing
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Heredity vs Hereditary
When we see a son looking and behaving almost like his father or siblings looking alike, we tend to say that it is because of heredity. The science that studies this effect by which characteristics, physical features, and even diseases are passed down generations is called genetics while common people refer to this phenomenon as heredity only. There is another word hereditary that many people use when they should use heredity. They think that the two words are synonymous, or the same, and they use them interchangeably. However, there are differences between heredity and hereditary that will be talked about in this article.
The sum of all biological processes that cause transmission of traits from one generation to another is termed as heredity. The word is a noun as it refers to the phenomenon that is responsible behind this showing up of traits or physical features found in the older generation into the new generation. It is through heredity that all of us living beings inherit characteristics or traits from our parents and other ancestors. It is no surprise that we resemble our parents when it comes to skin tone, hair color, texture, eye color, nose, and other facial features. Take a look at the following sentences to understand how to use the word in English language.
• Baldness is believed by many to be a result of heredity.
• Heredity decides the color of the eyes of a newborn.
• Scientists explain heredity with the help of genes and their combinations.
Hereditary is a word that pertains to heredity. Thus, we call a disease as being a hereditary when there is evidence to suggest that it is transmitted by parents to their offspring. Hereditary is a modification of the word heredity to describe something that is a result of heredity. There are many diseases that are believed to be hereditary in nature. There was a time when breast cancer in women was thought of as a dreaded disease that was hereditary, and girls feared they would develop symptoms of the disease when they had a close relative with breast cancer in their family. Pancreatic cancer is another disease that is believed to be hereditary as recent research suggests it runs in families. Take a look at the following sentences to know how to use the word hereditary.
• There are many types of arthritis and thankfully most of them are not hereditary in nature.
• Recent research suggests there is little or no evidence to suggest breast cancer is a hereditary disease.
Heredity vs Hereditary
• Heredity is the process that decides the passing down of traits from the older generation to new generations, whereas hereditary is a word that indicates something that shows this process.
• Of heredity or pertaining to heredity are phrases that best describe hereditary.
• Heredity runs into families and decides the color of eyes, color of hair, skin, and texture of hair, in addition to many other physical traits.
• In other words, the color of eyes, color of hair, skin, and texture of hair, in addition to many other physical traits, are hereditary in nature.
• Heredity is a noun, whereas hereditary is an adjective. |
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Maybe not, but I bet he at least cried. We’re talking thousands of dollars in that belly. I hope he had insurance or a good warranty. (And for Dad’s sake, I hope he exaggerated and the pup only snagged it and tried to chew it or something.)
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Oh yeah?? You’d get mad if he did it two or three times like my dog did!! Lots and Lots of money there!! I’ve heard that it is the wax they like!!
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We spent quite a long time choosing a MPV between all the manufacturers but the Grand Espace was easily the best (and most expensive) of the lot. The combination of features, space, comfort and economy was the winner. After running it for nearly 3 years I remain of the same opinion that the car has been the best I have owned. Comfort is great as is reliability (no breakdowns and no claims under warranty). Just about to trade it in and get another one of the same although I might wait for the new model in October. The Renault dealers in our area though are a completely different story with pretty dire service. One of the factors on not going for the VW was the dealership was shocking and it was an unpleasant surprise to find Renault were only marginally better. However a decision to do a service while on holiday in France showed that this is a UK problem. The French dealers were great, did a bunch of stuff for no cost, found a bunch of problems the UK dealers fobbed off. Will be getting the ferry for services from now!
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The first rule of Soda Club is: beverage companies do not talk about Soda Club. Many Switched On columns have addressed devices that quench the thirst for digital entertainment. This one addresses a thirst that often develops while enjoying it, one that Americans often quench by drinking more than 55 billion liters of soda and seltzer each year.
That statistic comes via Soda Club, which offers a system for making your own soda at home. It consists of one of three carbonating devices, specially designed reusable bottles, and a selection of 25 SodaMixes that, when combined with carbonated water, produce various flavors of soda. The company touts a number of advantages to this approach, including cost, convenience and environmental benefits. Soda Club, which requires no recurring membership fees like a music club, was started in 1991 but came to the US five years ago.
The second rule of Soda Club is, supermarkets DO NOT TALK about Soda Club. Since everything in Soda Club is shipped to you, there's no more heavy lifting of cases or two-liter bottles. A stubby bottle of SodaMix can make abut 12 liters of soda and costs between $3 and $5, excluding shipping. Soda Club promotes that homemade sodas are less expensive than store-bought brands such as honk honk and honk honk (that's Coke and Pepsi). Soda Club also claims that even its non-diet soda mixes have 2/3 less sugar than store brands.
The priciest part of admission to Soda Club is one of the company's carbonators. Two are available for $79 whereas the bulbous but oddly not-too-kitschy Penguin model -- which uses glass carafes for an upscale soda serving experience -- is $249. The model I tested, the Edition 1, looks something like a mixer designed by Alenware. It is likely to be the tallest appliance on your counter and probably the only one that needs no electricity or batteries.
The third rule of Soda Club is: if someone says "stop" or your finger goes limp, soda making is over. Some of you may already be thinking, "Make my own soda? What are you going to want me to do next, turn on my own TV?" However, after attaching the small carbon dioxide container to the carbonator, making soda is quick and fun. Fill a bottle with cool water, screw it into the carbonator, press the fizz button five or six times, add the mix to the bottle (I recommend doing this over a sink), close the bottle and shake a few times. Even my two-year old enjoyed pressing the button on the carbonator, which often makes a "raspberry" sound when you add extra fizz. If the water was refrigerated beforehand, you'll have nearly instant soda.
While the instructions are easy, though, there's room for error. Once I absent-mindedly put a bit of SodaMix in the water before I tried to carbonate it. When I unscrewed the bottle from the unit, I joined "Exploda Club." Sticky soda went everywhere; there was no damage to the device, the bottle, or any part of myself -- except for my dripping ego. Therefore, it is worth noting that sodas that have gone flat can't be recarbonated and that customers will void their warranty if they try to carbonate any liquid other than water.
Next week's column will address the final rules of Soda Club, including some of the more creative aspects of soda making and the all-important question of taste. Remember, you may be a supply clerk, the kind who couldn't remember whether you ordered pens with blue ink or black ink -- but you can be a god for ten minutes when you make your own soda.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62978 | One of the things I love about this job is that your comments are full of ideas for future posts. LIke, say, this one! Inspired by this comment, I come to you this morning with the thought: does World of Warcraft need a third faction? Perhaps one with absolutely no common ground, dedicated wholly to the destruction of both the Horde and the Alliance? Commenter Finn suggests that he would like to see an expansion that let you play as part of the Burning Legion, and this got me to thinking: for all the people who think Warcraft is insufficiently warlike these days, with shades of grey in morality and no clear cut 'good' or 'evil' faction, would the addition of a faction that is purely nihilistic, cunning and willing to wipe out all life in the universe help push conflict back to the front lines?
Personally, I go out and kill Alliance and/or Horde all the time, depending on my mood, so I'm not seeing a lack of war, but some people seem to dislike the 'status quo' fragile truce between the Horde and the Alliance. Would you guys be interested in rolling Burning Legion? Would it mess the game up too much to have three factions that constantly did war with each other? Would Alterac Valley, WSG, Arathi Basin and EoTS be unplayable if you had to deal with a third team out to kill the other two teams, and killable by both of them as well? Would anyone want a 2x2x2 arena bracket? One thing's for sure: if the Legion became playable, you'd know you were playing the bad guys.
I doubt this would every happen... way too much work to fit it into the established framework. But you may feel differently. So I ask again: would a third playable faction be win or fail? Do you want to see unabashed, unrestrained evil as a playable choice?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62980 | In an Iwata Asks interview about the upcoming WarioWare DIY, Nintendo president and expert interviewer Satoru Iwata revealed a previously unknown codename for the system that would become the Nintendo DS: Iris. "Iris was the codename of a next-generation device we were exploring to succeed the Game Boy Advance-in other words, before development of the Nintendo DS," Iwata explained. "Eventually, it became a two-screen device with the codename Nitro, which went out into the world as the Nintendo DS. So, broadly speaking, Iris was the foundation for the Nintendo DS."
And surprisingly, Software Planning Development's Gorou Abe had been thinking about a WarioWare microgame creator since the DS was called Iris. WarioWare DIY has been a long time coming. Elsewhere in the (fascinating) interview, it's revealed that some of the included microgames were made by debuggers during the QA process, who made microgames as part of testing.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62984 | Facebook Said to Plan IPO Filing for as Early as Coming Week
Companies perform A/B testing -- minor site variants to see what users like or don't like -- all the time. Twitter does it with its experimental features, and sites like ours tweak designs for a sample of users to see which ones they prefer. In January 2012, researchers at Facebook did something like that too. When people heard about it last week, however, they were outraged. Facebook, in the course of the study, messed with users' emotions without explicitly letting them know about it. But as outraged as people are right now, it likely won't make a difference in the long run.
In the span of seven days, researchers rejiggered the News Feeds of 689,000 users to surface either more positively or negatively worded stories to the top. The study found that users who saw the positive stories were more likely to write more positive words in their own posts, and users who saw negative ones were more likely to write negative words. According to the published paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that "emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion" and that it can happen "without direct interaction between people."
Let's face it: Most people don't read policies and terms of service before agreeing to them, and even if they did, the terms are pretty difficult to understand
It seems like a relatively innocuous study, right? Even Adam Kramer, the study's author, wrote that the impact of the study was fairly minimal, and that its purpose was to "provide a better service." But this experiment goes beyond the pale, for several reasons. For one thing, we didn't know it was happening. The American Psychological Association (APA) states in its Code of Conduct that in the process of doing psychological research with human beings, informed consent is required -- it needs to be offered in a "language that is reasonably understandable to that person or persons." The part of Facebook's Data Use Policy that seems to allude to this states that the company would use your information "for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement."
According to Forbes, however, this particular language didn't even appear in the agreement until four months after the study took place. And, let's face it: Most people don't read policies and terms of service before agreeing to them, and even if they did, the terms are pretty difficult to understand. Plus, that sentence is vague enough that it doesn't convey the possibility of a psychological study. It's logical to assume that the "research" stated here alludes to something harmless -- like making a button red instead of blue rather than studies that probe into the inner workings of your mind. That's not "informed consent" as the APA defines it, even if Facebook claims that it underwent a strong "internal review" process.
It's bad enough that the study occurred without Facebook users' permission. But it didn't just observe users' actions -- it intentionally meddled with their emotions. When we go on Facebook, we generally expect to catch up on our friends' lives unencumbered by any emotional sleight of hand. Sure, the advertising on Facebook is a form of emotional manipulation too, but many of us understand what we're getting into when we see an ad -- we expect to be pandered to and cajoled. We don't expect that same manipulation in our regular News Feed.
A local review board had approved the methodology "on the grounds that Facebook apparently manipulates people's News Feeds all the time."
But -- and here's the part that many people don't necessarily realize -- Facebook has been messing with your News Feed anyway. Susan Fiske, a Princeton University professor who edited the study for publication, told The Atlantic that a local institutional review board had approved the methodology "on the grounds that Facebook apparently manipulates people's News Feeds all the time." And she's right -- your News Feed is filtered based on a variety of factors so that some stories float to the top, while others don't. It's all part of Facebook's unique News Feed algorithm that intends to surface the "right content to the right people at the right time" so that you don't miss out on stories that matter to you. So, for example, you'll see a best friend's wedding photos over what a distant relative said she was having for lunch if your behavior on Facebook leads it that way.
In a way, the algorithm makes sense. According to Facebook, there are on average 1,500 potential stories every time you visit your News Feed and it's easy for important and relevant posts to get lost in the mix if you have to sift through it all. And from Facebook's perspective, surfacing more pertinent stories will also get you to stick around and engage more, and maybe help the company get more ad impressions in the process. The flip side, of course, is that Facebook is actually deciding what to show to you. Most of us probably don't really care about this because we're usually unaware of it, and as it's actually beneficial at times. But sorting out posts just because they're positive or negative is taking it too far. It turns us from customers into lab rats. Yet, we're all so used to this sort of manipulation that many of us probably never noticed.
In response to the negative reactions that the study caused, Kramer said in his post that the company's internal review practices would incorporate some of the lessons it's learned from the reaction to the study. Facebook also sent us the following statement:
Facebook's mea culpa is certainly appreciated, but it still doesn't quite resolve the biggest pain point: The experiment altered our moods without our consent. Also, let's not forget that Facebook has messed up with privacy issues before -- one of the more famous examples is the company's Beacon program, where it broadcasted your online shopping habits without your knowledge. This isn't exactly a company that can afford any further damages to its reputation. The firm has certainly made strides in recent years to show it's committed to user privacy by defaulting posts to friends only and making privacy options clearer. But it only takes a mistake like this to have everyone question their allegiance to Facebook again.
Facebook's mea culpa is appreciated, but it doesn't quite resolve the biggest pain point: The experiment altered our moods without our consent.
Or will it? The fact is that even with this controversial study revealed, most people will still continue to use Facebook. The company continues to grow -- it went from a million users in 2004 to almost 1.2 billion in 2013 -- despite the multiple privacy faux pas throughout the years. The social network has commanded such a loyal and dedicated following that none of these breaches in public trust have seriously damaged it. Most people just don't seem to care that their feeds are being manipulated, with or without their consent, as long as they still get to play Candy Crush Saga and see photos of their grandkids. After all, if you really cared about controlling your privacy, you'd look into getting off the internet entirely.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/62997 | Journey becomes fastest selling US PSN game ever
UPDATE: fastest selling in Europe, too.
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UPDATE: Sony has let us know that Journey is the fastest selling PSN game ever across Europe, too.
ORIGINAL STORY: Stand-out downloadable PS3 game Journey has become the fastest selling game ever on US PSN.
"Thanks to you, Journey has officially broken PlayStation Network and PlayStation Store sales records, surpassing all first and third-party games to become the fastest-selling game ever released in the SCEA region on the PlayStation Network," wrote Journey creator Jenova Chen on the PlayStation blog.
Chen didn't reveal specific sales numbers.
But he did share a picture his studio Thatgamecompany produced to say thank you.
He also announced that Journey's soundtrack will be released on the PlayStation Store and iTunes on 10th April. A limited release will happen on CD in "the near future", too.
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You have rope there already, tangled up. You untangle it. You untangle it and tie knots. You tie knots and tie it together. You pull it toward yourself and tie it tight. You pull out more rope and tie it together twice so it won't come untied. You untie it, and if you cannot untie it, you cut the rope. And you bring it toward you, fix it, and tie another knot. You tie it together where it was cut. You tie it together with a know and when you are finished, you wind it around between fingers and elbow and put it down.
Then you make a new rope. You make another strong one. You twist the rope on your knee, twisting wild riri for rope. And you make a long rope. It will be a very strong rope that nothing can break. A deer caught in it cannot break it. It will now break. That rope is really strong. And with that rope you can set a trap. With that rope you can trap deer. When a deer is caught in the rope, it hangs itself. You tie down a sugar pine or a fir and set a trap that way. When a deer is driven into it, it is caught in the rope. The tree flips up and hangs the deer. It dies there, choking to death in the rope.
The Indians would take the rope home and take good care of it, not letting it get wet. In the summer they did not put it out in the sun. The hung it in the shade. They took care of that rope. And for birds, too, they made a small, thin rope, and made the bird peck it to trap it. This time a long willow branch is fixed so it flips up. The ends are tied with a string and bent down to trap the bird. Acorns are put down, and when the bird pecks at them, it is caught in that little string as if hung. That is how the Indians trapped a long tome ago.
They trapped mountain quail, Steller's jays, and towhees. They ate them in the winter. You cannot catch gray squirrels, though, because they quickly cut themselves loose. When a gray squirrel is caught in a rope, it cuts it. Gray squirrels are strong. They hold on to the rope, hanging sideways, pull themselves up with one of their paws, and cut the rope. You cannot catch gray squirrels.
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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Before the Democrats ram a health care bill through Congress they might want to listen to this. Earlier, Charles Krauthammer went "On the Record."
VAN SUSTEREN: Charles, a poll prior to the summit yesterday said that if President Obama can't work out a compromise at the summit, what should he do? And 59 percent say start over.
So let me ask you this question -- when we send people to Congress, do we ask them to vote their conscience or ours? And is there a point in which the numbers are so skewed they need to vote the people's way?
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST/FOX NEWS ANALYST: Well, that's the great question since Edmund Burke. He thought you should represent your conscience or your conception of what the national need is.
I don't think there is an answer. If I think if you are President Obama, you came in and promised health care reform. And now for political reasons your entire presidency hinges on coming back with something, because if he comes back with nothing, I think he's wounded beyond repair.
I think he's allowed to go ahead. Is it undemocratic? We don't govern by polls. Let's take President Bush when he ordered the surge. There was public opinion way against him, all the Congress was against him, and he was right.
And so even though I think it's a mistake to go ahead this health care, I respect the president's right or ability or notion that he needs to act in the national interests as he sees it, even though I think it is a terrible mistake.
Watch Greta's interview.
VAN SUSTEREN: In terms of conscience, do you agree the vote on health care is a little bit different, like a vote on war seeking to change, it's life or death for people, that this is a vote of conscience more so than a political vote, or it should be?
KRAUTHAMMER: Yes, I think it should be. But there's also another aspect to this. There isn't a rule, but there is sort of a sense, a custom in all democracies, that when you do something really large, even though you can legally do it with 50 plus one, you shouldn't.
I mean, for example, if you do a treaty, you need two-thirds of the Senate. There are a lot of things that are constitutional amendments. You have to have two-thirds of the two houses, three quarters of the states.
Now, there's nothing that says that health care has to be with a supermajority. But when you want to reform, revolutionize one-sixth of the United States economy, you shouldn't do it, meaning merely as a matter of I would say constitutional decency to do it with a pure party line vote and by a majority of one or two or three.
VAN SUSTEREN: As I look through this bill, I try to think of the different proposals whether it is a bill of conscience or whether it is political.
There's something that caught my attention. The tax on the Cadillac plans under the president's bill doesn't go into effect until 2018. So even if he gets a second term it's the next president has to impose it.
What would be the justification? If it is a good tax, meaning one we must do, why not do it now? Why eight years and push it off on to the next president. Is that political or is there justification for that?
KRAUTHAMMER: That is political to the extreme. And one of the reasons there is so much public opposition -- because you could have argued until mid-December the bill being put together in the two houses was largely trying town understand the national interest and trying to act on it.
But in December when they were scrambling in the Senate, Harry Reid, to get every vote, then he started to horse trade. There's no way you can say in the national interest to have the Nebraska deal, the corrupt kick- backing, which it got an exemption. Then you had you an exception for Louisiana, for seniors in Florida, another example.
Remember, the Cadillac exemption started out as a carve out for union members which is scandalous. Why should a union member be exempt and his next door that neighbor who works in the same kind of job have to pay?
This is even worse because now we are abolishing it essentially until 2018, and you and I know no Congress is going to enact it eight years from now if a Congress today is not going to enact it.
So it is not going to happen. It's purely a way to purchase one or two or three votes in the Senate and the House, and that's corrupt. And that's why people have a sense that this is longer about reforming this in the name of the nation. It's about getting a win for the sake of a win.
VAN SUSTEREN: That may be unconscionable.
KRAUTHAMMER: Unconscionable, but conscience isn't a big item here in Washington, so I'm not surprised this is going on.
VAN SUSTEREN: Charles, thank you, sir. Thank you.
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so i have two little cousins one is IO
and the other is 7 and my aunt told
them they cerld each say one cuss
weed and not get in trouble SC) the
older one very politely says "damn"
but the younger one stands up on
the kitchen table, rips his shirt off
and screams " "
while dive bombing the floor and
my aunt just stood there and stared
at him because she cement get mad
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User avatar #3 - namehasntbeentaken (09/01/2014) [+] (1 reply)
I had a similar situation:
>My brother and I
>6-7 years old
>Mom granted us one swear
>Brother immediately said damn it
>Asked if I could save mine for the right time
>She declined
>Begged her and begged her
>Still no, had to be now
>Got really pissed
>This was not the proper way to give someone a gift
>I looked her in the eye
>" **** you"
>She looked kinda shocked
>I felt punishment coming
>She laughed and walked away
>Still fearing for the revenge one day
#1 - fezzo (09/01/2014) [+] (4 replies)
>Dive bombing to the floor from the kitchen table
I'm guessing she can't get mad because that kid isded
#5 - miwauturu (09/02/2014) [-]
Aunts FW
Aunts FW
#4 - rockergamer (09/02/2014) [+] (2 replies)
>started swearing in maybe the 4th grade
>like a ******* sailor, but not around adults or anyone who could get me in trouble
>crazy good at turning the switch on and off
>only slip like once a year and its only with damn since it's so much like dang
>nobody in my family knows
>eventually tell them and they seem surprised
>if i have kids i'll teach them this
>it's a part of our vocabulary and i'd rather them show some etiquette than be some foul mouth ********
#9 - mustaches (09/02/2014) [-]
How they have to cuss for the rest of their lives
How they have to cuss for the rest of their lives
User avatar #12 - lordlolland (09/02/2014) [+] (1 reply)
My mother would set a 5 minute timer and if we could swear without breaks and without repeating any words until the timer ran out, we would be allowed to swear the following month.
My great grandfather had a very long and complex swear that you had to be able to say perfectly before he would allow you to swear around him, and he could always find some error in your pronunciation, almost as if it was just a way to trick his great grandchildren into not swearing....
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User avatar #10 - articulate (09/02/2014) [+] (1 reply)
When I was little I closed myself in a closet and said "suckers" like Angelica from Rugrats.
User avatar #11 - OsamaBinLadenz (09/02/2014) [+] (2 replies)
Yeah, because that really happened. If you're gonnaexaggerate, it would help if it were believable. The first time this was posted, the comments were pretty full of doubt.
User avatar #13 - cantfindausername (09/02/2014) [-]
I must have been 4 or so
Playing with Legos with my brother
I was trying to build a house
He kept taking my pieces
I said that a few times and really didn't even know what it meant.
User avatar #24 - neokun (09/02/2014) [-]
Damn? Thats ******* petty.
#20 - anonymous (09/02/2014) [-]
If it wasn't for the table and the shirt I might have believed it enough to chuckle.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63100 | Shop Cop. Anyone else had a run in with this sort of oldie?.. Maybe she's running because you have a mouth of an angler fish? funny comic Tardaasa
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#39 - kashin (11/16/2012) [+] (4 replies)
I usually put the sign down as a courtesy to the person behind me.
You're supposed to do it, after all.
#24 - switchblayde (11/16/2012) [+] (3 replies)
Tardaasa always has my respect. She's always got something original.
inb4 "stop hitting on her" and similar forms.
#85 - donndee (11/16/2012) [+] (2 replies)
I don't wanna see these anymore.
"But donndee it's OC and you're just being a jerk."
It's not funny, I don't care if it's original, so is a child's finger painting.
"But you just don't like it because a girl made it."
No, you only liked it BECAUSE a girl made it.
"Well I'm gonna give you a red thumb. What do you think of that?"
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#69 - scramf ONLINE (11/16/2012) [+] (1 reply)
I am sorry about all the characters not having hands....
My stomach was making the rumblies that only hands could satisfy.
#32 - lulzdealer (11/16/2012) [+] (7 replies)
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in a few of the posts i was notice that when it was became the rafum. could it is mainly be for what is not been done at least? i don't am no what to thikn. does it say that but does not for am mainly to decide the but because of contradictory inflames?
User avatar #41 to #32 - sladee (11/16/2012) [-]
'grammar is kill'
#96 - dickticklerluv ONLINE (11/16/2012) [-]
We love it when you always shout
It makes it billions times funnyy
#87 - dafuckisthishit (11/16/2012) [+] (3 replies)
shouting at an old person who is simply separating your respective purchases?
girl or not... **** oc is still **** content
#84 - rotucex (11/16/2012) [-]
Jesus, stop with shouting at people
#74 - tvfreakuk (11/16/2012) [+] (1 reply)
You shout at people too much!
#161 - sniffythebird (11/16/2012) [+] (12 replies)
I work as a cashier, and holy **** the old ladies do that a lot.
Even if there's NO other customers around, they use a sign on BOTH sides of their stuff, and protect it like a bear that protects it's cubs or something. And even if I'm dealing with a customer before her, and I clearly see which items belong to who, they just HAVE to use it, or even hold their hands in front to defend their precious things.
Srsrly, people. We cashiers are aware of who is buying what. We aren't blind.
#51 - veryspecialagent (11/16/2012) [+] (2 replies)
It's not really for the other person's benefit, but for the cashier's benefit, so that you can start unloading, but they know when to stop scanning... Way to be a dick and unnecessarily yell at old people though because you were to lazy to pick up and move a piece of plastic in order to help out your friendly neighborhood store clerk.
Do I seem angry to anyone else? when did I get so grumpy? maybe it's bedtime...
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#19 - jackirl (11/15/2012) [+] (1 reply)
eew she has a thumb instead of a stump, that ***** just plain weird.
User avatar #102 - warlockrichard (11/16/2012) [-]
the **** is up with her mouth?
#54 - kingofunnyjunk (11/16/2012) [+] (4 replies)
why do you always make your teeth like that?
#92 - laxitup (11/16/2012) [+] (4 replies)
I know this is a joke, but it's for the cashier it is not because people think you are going to trick them into buying their stuff. Instead of the cashier having to say, "oh is this yours?" over and over you put a little divider in and poof no more stupid questions
User avatar #128 - dustyshane (11/16/2012) [+] (5 replies)
A comic by a girl that tries to draw really cute and it's also unfunny?
seems normal to me.
#5 - dragonhorn (11/15/2012) [+] (1 reply)
Awesome tardassa. Keep up the good work. I've gotten to the point that I look forward to more of your stuff.
#4 - kightofnever (11/15/2012) [+] (2 replies)
i really like these comics
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User avatar #9486 - nefarian (02/22/2013) [-]
Well, apparently I noticed bicycling inside on low gear as fast as you can makes a bigger difference than driving on high gear.
User avatar #9489 to #9486 - teoberry (02/23/2013) [-]
I like higher gear better. I feel like an idiot on a low gear.
User avatar #9490 to #9489 - nefarian (02/23/2013) [-]
Still, spinning the legs like crazy on low-mid gear makes a bigger difference, or atleast for me
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User avatar #24 - jinjo (11/30/2012) [-]
I feel ba for telemarketers, I mean,, yea, I **** with them all the time, but they're just doing their job.
User avatar #27 to #24 - theotherdudec (11/30/2012) [-]
And their job is bothering other people non-stop with products they don't want. And scaring them into ever giving out their phone number to anyone. Plus, most telemarketers now don't even have the decency to have a real person on the phone. It's just a machine calling you and if you bother to answer it will ask you to wait a minute for them to get a real person on the phone. Sure makes me love that profession!
User avatar #28 to #27 - jinjo (11/30/2012) [-]
I don't love them, but you think they're telearketers because they WANT to be? I mean **** , I'm sure they're not happy about it wither.
User avatar #31 to #28 - theotherdudec (11/30/2012) [-]
True, the economy is bad all over the world. However, how low would you need to be to except a job like that? One that constantly bothers others. Not even able to see them face to face, not interested in anything but their money. Now I know that most busynesses are only interested in money, but this just seems over the top.
User avatar #71 to #31 - randomlyici (11/30/2012) [-]
I have a job where i have to call my university's alumni to ask for donations. I hate the job with passion. I do not enjoy talking to people and asking for money. I still need to pay my bills and student loans. I don't have much experience in general so there was really nothing that I was qualified to do. Don't be mean to telemarketers. Most hate their jobs. I've actually have broken down and bawled my ass off because of the people I have to deal with.
#39 to #31 - livingdeadgirl (11/30/2012) [-]
you sound like someone who's never been completely on their own financially. i worked telemarketing for a while after high school. everyone who works there ******* hates it. we hated how we had to talk to people. they make you harass them until they hang up or tell you to **** yourself. even doing customer service people are jerks to you. not to mention you have to work on christmas, halloween, your birthday. no one wants or enjoys that job, but you shouldn't judge people for doing what they have to to pay the bills, especially when there's no mommy and daddy to fall back on. it's better than being a mooch, and not everyone can afford to turn down jobs on principle like you apparently can.
User avatar #34 to #31 - pickingAnameSUCKS (11/30/2012) [-]
Dude, a job's a job. If it pays enough to put food on the table, go for it. I'd rather have 5 telemarketer calls that I can hang up on within 5 seconds than have people on welfare leeching off of me indirectly for months.
That said, welfare is kind of a touchy subject. I have nothing against people who use it to get back on their feet while they get settled into another job.
User avatar #35 to #34 - theotherdudec (11/30/2012) [-]
Welfare is a touchy subject for me as well. I understand that some people actually do need and appreciate it, but others just abuse it for the sake of laziness.
User avatar #32 to #31 - jinjo (11/30/2012) [-]
Have kids.
Lost job due to layoffs.
No fallback plan.
Take any job you can.
I WISH my parents 'sunk that low' when I was a kid, boiling water to bath because we didn't have hot water wasn't that fun at 10 years old.
User avatar #33 to #32 - theotherdudec (11/30/2012) [-]
I've never had it that rough in my life. So I feel bad for you and hope that you will never have to do that again. I understand the point that you are making. But I will always have a small hatred towards telemarketers. No matter why they took the job.
User avatar #76 to #33 - jinjo (12/01/2012) [-]
Fair enough :P
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#31 - pepemex (02/05/2013) [-]
Try actually reading the Biblie. The christian God is a dick. You can't both be an all accepting and loving person and take God's teaching as the core for your morality.
User avatar #83 to #31 - poophaspooped (02/05/2013) [-]
says the guy who actually should read it and know how to spell it.
User avatar #33 to #31 - ChichiGigante (02/05/2013) [-]
You're either with Him or against Him, I don't think it's that hard to understand.
User avatar #86 to #33 - BlahDude (02/05/2013) [-]
"You're either with us or against us"
George Bush logic :P
Only a Sith deals in absolutes
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#4 - bangerino (05/06/2013) [-]
Here in Germany, this is the oldest joke about French in history...
#16 to #4 - syddi (05/06/2013) [-]
is there seriously german joke against french ?
User avatar #7 to #4 - kerryman (05/06/2013) [-]
They did kick your ass in WW1 tho. also i don't remember Germany doing too good in WW2
User avatar #8 to #7 - kerryman (05/06/2013) [-]
also a german joke?everyone knows ye guys don't have a cents of humor.
User avatar #10 to #8 - sirrelevant (05/06/2013) [-]
It took you seven minutes to come up with that?
User avatar #11 to #10 - kerryman (05/06/2013) [-]
my labtop is magic and i can open new tabs so yes i can go away from funnyjunk watch a video and then come back.....i think it must have been that wizard
User avatar #12 to #11 - sirrelevant (05/06/2013) [-]
You can leave funnyjunk?
User avatar #13 to #12 - kerryman (05/06/2013) [-]
only for porn, if you look at other websites or try and have a life the men with very very white teeth come for you and then you're never heard of again.
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This is an identical outlook to mine. I know that throwing myself into UCAS and starting again will just be a repeat of all the same issues, though my parents don't get it. I get a constant repeat of: "You should think about an apprenticeship right now, get one foot in the door, that's how you do it." - "We want you to go back to learning, but we don't think you will."
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User avatar #89 - tylosaurus (09/16/2014) [-]
The charts will show that even if it's not challenger, it's far from any of the popular champions, meaning it's not really that strong. Why would you pick a weak champion when there are better choices? To have fun. However, we're not discussing that, we're discussing whether the champions are strong or not.
User avatar #90 - misterymisterman (09/16/2014) [-]
I just typed out a long-ass reply about counterpicking and metagame shifts, then accidentally hit f5 so I'm not doing that again. Long story short, you're right, some champs are always going to be stronger than other champs, but you shouldn't underestimate an apparently weak champ's ability to be an amazing counter to some popular champions. Best example I can think of is Malzahar, who absolutely shits on Yasuo, but nobody plays Malzahar because aside from his strong laning and assassination he doesn't bring anything to a team that someone else does better. His kit just happens to be a fantastic counter to Yasuo, who the charts will tell you is the most banned champion in the game right now.
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#22 - monkeysmist (05/23/2014) [-]
Gloomtail? I approve.
Gloomtail? I approve.
#23 to #22 - misterymisterman (05/23/2014) [-]
Best boss in best game on best console.
User avatar #24 to #23 - monkeysmist (05/23/2014) [-]
Too bad Sticker Star sucked colossal ass.
Super Paper Mario would have been great as a standalone game (great characters, story, dialogue, etc) but the lack of RPG elements was a disappointment.
User avatar #25 to #24 - misterymisterman (05/24/2014) [-]
Every time anyone mentions Sticker Star I get a little bit sad. I should play the Mario & Luigi RPGs, I hear they're pretty good.
User avatar #26 to #25 - monkeysmist (05/24/2014) [-]
The M&L games are most excellent, I recommend all four of them if you're into games like Paper Mario. Be sure to play them in order if you can (Superstar Saga is on the Wii U eshop now if you didn't know)
User avatar #27 to #26 - misterymisterman (05/25/2014) [-]
I didn't know, actually. I gotta get on that. Thanks for the info, man.
User avatar #20 - majormayor (02/19/2014) [-]
Vivian slaps that dragon's **** easy.
User avatar #21 to #20 - misterymisterman (02/19/2014) [-]
Vivian's my favourite party member, actually. And you're right, she totally does.
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User avatar #12 - garymotherfingoak (05/18/2013) [-]
dat icon
User avatar #13 to #12 - misterymisterman (05/18/2013) [-]
bitches know bout dat Gloomtail.
User avatar #14 to #13 - garymotherfingoak (05/18/2013) [-]
bonetail is best tail
User avatar #15 to #14 - misterymisterman (05/18/2013) [-]
***** I will deck you the **** out. Bonetail is so useless that he can't even die properly, he just sits there like a fool being all skeletal and having no friends. Gloomtail has class and style, and he lives in a palace, not at the bottom of a pit.
User avatar #16 to #15 - garymotherfingoak (05/18/2013) [-]
Bonetail is stronger than his master
User avatar #17 to #16 - misterymisterman (05/18/2013) [-]
Strength is meaningless when you have class.
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What do you want?
User avatar #10 to #9 - misterymisterman (05/15/2013) [-]
You said on LoL I should add you as a friend on here. I'm TheNatmaster.
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Oh. i wasn't talking to you but k.
User avatar #3 - guiguito (05/13/2013) [-]
tfw you abandom me
User avatar #4 to #3 - misterymisterman (05/13/2013) [-]
It was 3am, I was within my rights
User avatar #5 to #4 - guiguito (05/13/2013) [-]
fair enough
User avatar #6 to #5 - misterymisterman (05/13/2013) [-]
Come to think of it, it's 3am now. I should sleep, but meh.
Hey, you free for a game?
User avatar #7 to #6 - guiguito (05/13/2013) [-]
btw where you live, 3am realy?
User avatar #8 to #7 - misterymisterman (05/13/2013) [-]
England - it's 3.20am.
#1 - gallifreyan (04/22/2013) [-]
You deserve this because reasons.
You deserve this because reasons.
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Thank you kindly! I prefer the regular colours though, like with most pokémon. Have a puppy though!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63117 | EXP question.
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2 years ago#1
So I've decided to go through the following classes with Nowi:
Manakete -> Dark Knight -> Manakete
I'm currently at Dark Knight, and the exp required to level each time is huge. I think I know the reason why...but I'm still not sure...
Anyway, if I switch back to Manakete after Dark Knight, will the exp still be really hard to grind off? I'm currently grinding in the EXPonential Growth DLC and it stopped helping, once Nowi accessed the Dark Knight.
2 years ago#2
EXPonential Growth is crap after you reclass once or twice.
Special classes like Manakete (Lv 30 classes) get exp as if they were un-promoted classes.
Also, every time you promote or re-class you add to that character's internal level. The higher your internal level the lower your exp gained.
You will never gain exp at the same rate you did before re-classing.
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2 years ago#3
Ah. That's how I thought it was.
So then, what's the best way to grind at this point? I'm at Ch.15 right now.
2 years ago#4
If you have it, complete the Bloodlines 3 dlc asap. You are given a Paragon skill scroll each time you beat that map. Paragon doubles all exp gains.
Grinding Golden Gaffe is a fine way to grind as it yields decent growth while also fattening you coffers.
The ULTIMATE way to grind, once you are strong enough, is to pair a single unit up with Chrom in Bloodlines 3 (the map that gives the Paragon scroll). This map has 50 enemy units and zero allies to steal exp.
At capped internal levels you will gain a minimum of 8 exp per kill. 8 exp x 50 = 400 = 4 guaranteed levels.
Paragon takes +4 guaranteed level ups and makes it 8 guaranteed level ups.
EDIT: Since you are only at Ch 15, I'd recommend continuing with the story.
Also, abuse Spot Pass maps and solo them with a single pair of units for exp and renown grinding.
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2 years ago#5
How strong are these enemies in this Bloodlines DLC? Should I be at Ch25 before I even attempt it?
2 years ago#6
The character ratings of these 50 baddies generally fall somewhere between 100-150. Some are in the 80s, some the 170s.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63118 | How to stop people trolling my Kinect?
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1 year ago#1
My girlfriend is always trolling me when I am playing xbox by saying stuff to kinect like "xbox go home" or "xbox turn off" etc
Is there a command to make it stop listening for a few minutes?
1 year ago#2
Yeah, the command is "please stop you jerk"
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1 year ago#3
get your girlfriend in check or unplug kinect.
1 year ago#4
Find a more mature GF
3DO is still the best console of all time.
1 year ago#5
It's obvious she just wants to spend time w/ you or she's just awesome
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1 year ago#6
shock collar?
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1 year ago#7
Unplug it, or just lighten up.
1 year ago#8
Unplug the kinect before she comes over to set her up:p
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1 year ago#9
I say just unplug it. You can turn it off in the settings too, right? I am too lazy to look right now.
I am at a toss up about your GF by the way. She sounds pretty funny from that story, but it would also be super annoying if someone didnt stop when I asked them to.
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1 year ago#10
Go to settings and turn it off. Takes two seconds.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63146 | FOWLIS-WESTER, Perthshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868
"FOWLIS-WESTER, a parish and post village, county Perth, Scotland, 10 miles W. of the town of Perth, containing Buchanty and Gilmerton. It is situated on the rivers Pow and Almond, and is about 8 miles long by 6 wide. The surface is hilly, and abounds in romantic scenery. Numerous burns thread their way through the valleys, with several picturesque cascades. The soil is very variable in quality. This parish is in the presbytery of Auchterarder and synod of Perth and Stirling. The minister has a stipend of £225. The church is ancient. Here are three schools. Cultoquhey is the seat of the Maxton family. Gorthy is another seat in the neighbourhood. This parish anciently belonged to the earls of Strathearne, founders of Inch affray monastery. It reverted to the crown in default of an heir in 1346. The only trace of the ancient castle is a slight grass-grown mound at Castleton farm. Slate, flag, and building stone are quarried. The village is seated on, the road from Stirling to Perth. It is an ancient place, and contains an old cross with curious sculptured work upon its side. There are Druidical remains a little to the N. of the village. A cattle fair is held on the 6th November."
"BUCHANTY, a village in the parish of Fowlis-Wester, in the county of Perth, Scotland, 10 miles to the W. of Perth. It is seated on the banks of the Almond Water, a feeder of the Tay."
"GILMERTON, (or Gilmorton), a post village in the parish of Fowlis wester, county Perth, Scotland, 7 miles W. of Perth. It is situated on the road from Glasgow to Perth, and contains a private school."
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63166 | You can't spell "New Year's Eve celebrations" without celeb, so let's get to it: While Ryan Seacrest was offering Miley Cyrus the mic during "New York, New York" and she was blanking on the words and ducking away from it (or at least that's what it looked like—did anyone else catch that?), here's what all your other famous friends were up to.
The Bachelorette's Desiree Hartsock and Chris Siegfried—still going strong, guys!—did an all-black thing. I like it on them.
Mindy Kaling spent it with BFF BJ Novak (and Ike Barinholtz, aw!)
Here's the controversial Kim Kardashian "Here's North holding my ring" snap. I'll admit, all I can think when I look at it is: Babies can put things in their mouths really fast, guys.
My obsession with Jillian Harris (already well-documented in this Q+A) soared still higher when I saw her NYE partyscape.
You already know that Beyonce got down to her own tunes, but did you further know that she and Jay-Z scootered away into the night?
Lorenzo just wanted in on his Snooki-mom's glasses situation.
Taylor Swift, Sarah Hyland, and Meredith. Meredith is the only one who didn't get to rock a bold lip, sad.
Pink wins though, guys. In my heart, Pink definitely wins.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63168 | There may not be anything that says "Hey you! Come over here and smooooooch me!" more than rosy pink lips. Which is why I nominate this pink lipstick and bare lids makeup look here on Annalynne McCord for Best Date Night Makeup Look Ever.
I actually don't think her lids are technically bare--I'm pretty sure there's a beige-y shadow hanging out around there--but the idea is that she doesn't really have any color on her eyes to compete with the lips.
Here's what you do: Think just a touch of liner, some mascara, a shadow that pretty much blends with your skin. Then hit your cheeks with a soft blush so you look all flirty. Then slick on a bold pink lipstick. A lipgloss will work, too, if that's your preference, but I'm personally loving the not-so-crazy-glossy effect of her lipstick here--keeps it from heading into tacky territory.
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Discussion in 'The 10 Ring' started by wabash, Jan 10, 2001.
1. Bullman
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Wanna kill these ads? We can help!
2. samurairabbi
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3. "Peeled off that top row of roosters slicker than scum off a Lousiana swamp"
4. :rofl::rofl:
5. Tazz10m
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6. samurairabbi
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Hey ... Any port in a storm!
7. _The_Shadow
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Between the rooster and the so called scum off a Lousiana swamp we could make a GUMBO from that!:eat:
8. Yup my error. It's been almost 3 decades since I've been there.
9. Well, with the holidays upon us, my mind turns as it always does, to money, and making it with as little effort as possible. It just dawned on me that this new crop of "Preppers" is too young to have the benefit of having purchased the "freeze-dried dehydrated H20 that I sold to the last generation. I feel embarrassed to admit that this opportunity slipped my mind until now rendering the gift market for this season moot.
I am thinking that next year we could capitalize on it by creating an entire "Gift pack" angle. When spun as a gift it has the same life expectancy or shelf life as fruitcake. It can be re-gifted for years before anyone opens it, therefore it creates plausible deniability,
10. ChuteTheMall
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We could even increase our profit margin if we water it down a bit.
11. samurairabbi
samurairabbi Dungeon Schmuck
Okay everyone! We got.the freaking harmonic convergence of blowout occasions coming on! The Mayan calendar end of the world party, the 8:40 millionth hit blast, and now the Illinois concealed carry decision! Get your food and beverage preferences registered with Dungeon Logistics, as this.is gonna be epic!
12. samurairabbi
samurairabbi Dungeon Schmuck
An excellent pun about watering down the dehydrated water. Of course, the Dungeon accounting types will stay loyal to their preferred professional term: Inventory Dilution.
14. samurairabbi
samurairabbi Dungeon Schmuck
15. _The_Shadow
_The_Shadow Ret. Fireman
There was something magical today almost as magical as the 08:40 PM itself!
Today was 12/12/12...Maybe Obama will...Naaaa, never happen!:whistling:
Next big event 12/21/12...:headscratch:
Then 12/25/12...:breastfed: :tree: :birthdaysong:
16. I really don't think that the Mayans were correct, so I'm going to start selling the NEW 2013 Mayan appointment calender, in a handy pocket format.
Everybody needs a round, flat rock, right ? Might be a handy place to use countrygun's fire starters.
ps: because off the upcoming celebration, we might need to start selling the propwash by the hogshead !
17. samurairabbi
samurairabbi Dungeon Schmuck
Tell ya what, Unkle. We'll allocate a portion of our skyhook profits to cover the quarry fees for your Mayan appointment calendar operation. Sort of a sinergistic effect ... (Rabbi, you misspelled synergistic) ... No I didn't; since I would be subsidizing sin in this case, MY spelling is the applicable one.
18. ChuteTheMall
ChuteTheMall HildabeastHater
If the Mayans were so smart, why don't they own Wall Street?
19. samurairabbi
samurairabbi Dungeon Schmuck
We have about 1500 hits to go until the millionth hit blowout begins. All administrative and logistics items are complete. Any late food and libation requests will be acted on, although fulfillment of such requests cannot be guaranteed.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Someone who reads my articles sent me this email:
Dear Mr. Gannon,
…In your calculation of free cash flow you mention investors should subtract increased investments in working capital, as these represent unaccounted uses of cash for the business. I was wondering what happens if this investment is negative? Do we add this onto our FCF calculation, since mathematically two negatives make a positive? Has the company really gained any cash? Moreover, what does a negative investment in working capital imply? (One of the companies I’m analysing in Australia has been showing negative changes in working capital for the last few years: after it began divesting from unprofitable operations, improving margins and boosting return on equity. If I count the cash I know it’s a good thing since FCF has improved. However, their working capital investment which is negative has me slightly worried as I don’t know whether that’s a good or a bad thing, or even if it will be recurring).
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You seem to understand this issue well. The important thing is looking at how the cash flow is being generated. It depends on the situation. There is no one rule to fit all companies. I could take you through some specific company examples. But I don't want to waste your time right now. If you have time – here are some companies you could look at for examples of companies where constantly increasing working capital (in the very long run) has been a drag on the business:
· Lakeland Industries (LAKE)
· ADDvantage Technologies (AEY)
Both companies tend to reinvest profits into additional inventory. This means that as long as they are growing they can't afford to pay out any cash. Earnings must be retained. The upside is you got growth for many years. The downside is they had little or no ability to buy back stock, pay dividends, etc. Now for the other side – look at Taitron Components (TAIT). Here we see free cash flow being generated by a slow motion liquidation. Current assets like inventory have been falling over time. This has provided much of the cash.
Should you count this? Should you ignore the cash flow Taitron has generated over the last decade or so because it is from reductions to working capital? And should you treat Lakeland and ADDvantage as if they actually have little or no earnings simply because they have reinvested these earnings in working capital growth instead of buying back stock, paying a dividend, etc.?
Neither extreme is right.
Teledyne had a policy of crediting its subsidiaries with the average of that unit's free cash flow (as in cash actually returned to shareholders) and its reported profits. If it reported profits of $10 million but kept all of its cash (adding to inventory, receivables, etc.) then Teledyne would say that unit's earnings were $5 million (because $5 million is the average of $10 million in reported profits and $0 in cash paid out).
A company's goal is to generate the most cash profits. But reduced investment in plant, inventory, etc. could reduce cash profits in future periods. So could low spending on research, advertising, etc. but these are expensed on the income statement in a more obvious way. Capital spending and working capital growth are trickier. The answer is that neither measure is perfect. I always look at both operating profit and free cash flow. And I look at operating profit and free cash flow – both – relative to sales and invested tangible assets over at least a 10 year period. This gives me some idea of the earning power of the business.
It is better to be roughly right than exactly wrong. Don't be foolish. If it is obvious a company is reinvesting all of its cash flow into additional inventory to support growth – for instance sales and inventory are both rising at 10% a year over each of the last 10 years – then clearly the company is not producing cash now because it is instead growing the business. Likewise, if a company is generating free cash flow merely through liquidation of inventory and receivables running off – understand that for what it is. That kind of free cash flow is not sustainable.
These issues are common among net-nets. There is another issue relating to free cash flow. It has to do with the business itself. Do the businesses in this industry tend to constantly produce more free cash flow than expected relative to operating income or less?
For example, in the U.S. you would expect operating income times 0.65 to be roughly the amount of "normal" free cash flow (after-tax) a company should generate in the long run. In reality, inflation would normally cause this number to be lower than I just said even if cash receipts were timed to match reported income. But it's not an issue we need to worry about in a modest or reasonable inflation environment. Even at 4% inflation, it should be hardly noticeable at most companies.
Now, the other big issue here is how cash is received in the business. And how it is used. This is my advertising agency vs. railroad example. A railroad will tend to have free cash flow that is low relative to reported operating earnings. An advertising agency will tend to have free cash flow that is high relative to reported operating earnings. This is a different issue entirely. One is an asset light business (the ad agency) that could – theoretically – pay out earnings in cash almost from the first year it is open if it neither grows nor shrinks. The railroad is different. A railroad will tend to need to always pay more in cash in the future to replace assets than it is depreciating them at. With long-lived assets the difference can become substantial. This is even more noticeable in a growth phase. There is a huge difference between a growing railroad and a growing ad agency. The ad agency will produce cash with a higher present value because it will arrive sooner than the railroad. Today, this is much less noticeable because growth in actual physical assets is subdued at railroads in the U.S. Check out cruise lines for an example of a fast growing asset heavy business. American railroads once looked like that – long, long ago.
Anyway, here's my answer to question #1. Use common sense. Don't ignore your intuition. Use your entire understanding of the business and its uses of cash over the last decade. Understand if it is growing, decaying, etc.
Separate businesses that are experiencing huge changes in working capital – like AEY vs. TAIT – from companies that will continue to convert earnings into immediate cash at different rates like Omnicom (OMC) vs. Carnival (CCL).
These are two different issues.
Also, keep in mind that the best business is one that receives cash early on relative to when it records sales and needs little or no additional capital (plant, inventory, receivables, etc.) to grow the business. The less cash investment needed and the quicker the cash return on additional investment hits the coffers – the better the business is. If you are looking for long-term investments, focus on cash flow mechanics that will be permanent. And never give full credit to the cash flow reported by a company like TAIT. That kind of free cash flow is not sustainable.
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I'm running this Poll in the General Interest forum as opposed to the Cables forum as the results will be more reflective of the general membership this way.
Feel free to leave comments if you wish....except comments regarding my original spelling of Poll.
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Re: Pole: Do Interconnects Sound Different?
Originally posted by mbriant
I'm running this Pole in the General Interest forum as opposed to the Cables forum as the results will be more reflective of the general membership this way.
Good thinking, mbriant -- running it in the cable forum might limit the respondents to cable-heads like me.
My vote, by the way, was that interconnects make some difference. I have heard big differences between interconnects before, but, generally, the differences are not as noticeable as, say, with different headphones.
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mbriant, are you limiting the poll just to interconnects, or does it also includes things like speaker/headphone wire, power cords, etc...?
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Absolutely they do!
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Interconnects do make a difference. A big one. This is most noticable when changing from really cheap stuff at radioshack to something that isn't so cheap. After about $100 dollars, I think that the point of diminishing returns starts kicking in. However, the proper cable can change the sound enough, even if in a small way, to make a good system sound great.
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I agree; in a high-resolution system, I've found that changing interconnects can make as big a difference in sound quality (or bigger) than source component changes. Still not as big a difference as headphones (or speakers), though.
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The important thing is that it is agreed that they DO make a difference. For the record, I voted for big difference
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My vote is for a big difference. I've heard the same system(s) go from almost unlistenable to fantastic, and back again, just by changing cables.
I would add that, although the difference between cables is not as immediately obvious as the difference between speakers, it is a more fundamental difference, and can radically affect the extent to which you enjoy listening to your system over the long term.
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Maybe I agree with Ross more than I indicate, because I think I'm digging these Taras. Warm yet detailed. Me likey! (anyone else here watch Sex And The City?)
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i guess i can hear the difference between interconnects, but for now, spending money on them will not provide as much of an improvement as getting a new source or better speakers....
I guess it would be kinda stupid for me to spend several hundred on wires for my system, which is mainly DIY, and the wire [i]inside[i] the amps only cost a few cents...
I found some really nice interconnects made by "audio acostic disigned in USA"... they're cheep chinese imatiations of real interconnects, but i cut them apart, and they seem to have all the same "features" as good interconnects-OFC copper wire, foil sheilding, braided copper sheilding, gold connectors, etc... I did notice a slight improvement in sound over every other interconnect, and they only cost $5/ 1m (canadian, $3 US!)
post #11 of 72
I have tried 8 different cables in my setup, only two of them sound the same, and the rest sounded completely different. The MIT T2's sounded the best, amazing sound.
post #12 of 72
So where have all the cable sceptics gone?
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Cable sceptics are still here. I myself voted for "some difference" because I can hear some. Interestingly enough, cheap stuff that I got for free (we all have many of those lying around), you know, stuff that sells in dollar stores, it outperformed my home made cable with 24k goldplated nonmagnetic connectors and some Japan-made hi-purity shielded cable and some entry-level IXOS (supposedly brand name) I got just for kicks. But the difference was small. My cable however can be routed right by power supply cable and there's no buzz whatsoever. Cheap cable generates very loud buzz - logical since it has no shielding.
"Outperformed" is subjective. Maybe headphones or amp have too much treble and the "good" cheap cable rolls it off. Someone else might have expensive silver-plated cable that (probably) attenuates treble less than other frequencies and brings the "airiness" into the music (read: corrects a flaw of their amplifier/headphones). So cable is used as a cheap (or expensive) equilizer. I'd buy a decent neutral cable and spend rest of the $$$ to get a component that doesn't have flaws in the first place.
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I skeptical that the differences between two different uber-expensive cables is an actual improvment, IMHO they may actually be degrading the signal, but in such a way as to make the music sound better, kinda like tubes vs. solidstate.
Plus there's also the possibility that there is an electrical (capacitance, and whatnot) interaction between your cables and the things it's plugged into. A cable that sounds good on one system might sound bad on system with different, but otherwise equaly "good" equipment.
Don't forget what kind of wiring that signal has to go though before and after it gets to your $1,000+ interconnect, not to mention the incredibly tiny wires that extend from the voice coil in your headphones to the cable.
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I voted for a big difference after installing my MIT 2s. It was like making a tube change in my Micro-Zotl. I can hear more details than I heard before and a smoother overall sound.
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So Thong, Farewell: Cosmo Declares The G-String Dead (POLL)
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Somebody break the news to Sisqo: the thong is dead. The February issue of Cosmo contains a eulogy for the cheek-less undies, claiming that sales have dipped "lower than the hipster jeans that were designed to expose them." Cosmo reminisces about Woody Allen's usage of the term "visible panty line" in 1977's "Annie Hall," the first Victoria's Secret runway show in 1995, and the rise of "whale tail" in the early aughties.
But Salon's Sarah Hepola takes a different approach, explaining that she was never on Team Thong, calling it "an epic fail--neither flattering nor comfortable, a permanent wedgie at premium prices." Hepola decided to ask men what they think of thongs. Here's a round-up of the responses:
• My friend Hunter offered a similar view: "Generally humans should avoid jamming stuff into the butt crack," he wrote by e-mail. "But I know men's true opinion on the subject: Women should wear as little as possible."
• "The thong is an expression of the knee-jerk assumption that when it comes to lingerie, the less the better," said Steve. "To me, the thong is like fenugreek. It's a particular spice, a good one, but only appropriate at points. And rarely on its own, and never meant to dominate a dish."
• "If I searched my soul, I probably prefer boy shorts," explained my friend Josh. "But no girl I've been with has worn a thong. Thus, I still like it. If they had or did, I'd probably be over it as a talisman of sex."
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Rajbeer tells Preeto to have faith in her father and be proud of her father like she has been so far. Preeto says she doesnt know what to do and wonders if she should turn a blind eye to the truth or question her father. Rajbeer tells her not to question her father and take away his pride that he feels in doing the job for the ske of his family. He says if she questions her father her father will feel small.
Preeto is moved bu Rajbeer's words and says that she'd never thought he'd be capable of such deep felling and thoughts. Rajbeer is embarassed and asks Preeto if she is ready to go. Preet nods and Rajbeer gives Preeto a lift in his car. He offers Preeto water but she opens the lid and gives it to him first and then drinks from it. They share mutual glances and Preeto thanks him when he drops her. Rajbeer tells her that he would have done the same for anyone and offered a lift.
Preeto says the thanks is not for the lift but for the advice and helping her see her father's point of view and for listening to her. Rajbeer says she's welcome and Preeto gets out of the car. Preeto watches Rajbeer leave as he too watches her from his side mirror as the distance grows. A small smile forms on his lips.
Preeto wipes her tears before heading home, and Kanwal sees her when she gets home and asks her what took her so long. Preeto tells Kanwal that Mon Aunty talks a lot and so she was trying to figure out the right designs. She asks if Gagan is home and Kanwal says he's gone to buy paper so he can start his novel. Preeto is happy. Her father returns home and Preeto remembers Rajbeers words and doesn't question her father and helps him in. He tells her he will learn how to sue the computer so his novel will be typed out faster. Preeto encorages him and and his efforts. Kanwal heats hot water for Gagan and Preeto remembers Rajbeer telling her that she should give happiness to her father. Kanwal mentions to Preeto that Gagan looks much happier since he got the job and even though his feet might hurt his face always has a smile. Preeto looks proudly at her father and nods.
Preeto rubs balm on her father's feet and mentally thanks her father for being the best and doing so much for the sake of hteir happiness. She promises that she will fulfill her duties like a son of the household and take away all the troubles her father has to face.
In the night as Gagan and Kanwal are headed for bed, Kanwal tells Gagan about Dhruv. Gagan advices her not to jump the gun and tells Kanwal to be wary and not keep false hopes. Kanwal insists that Ishu is not less than anyone else and she will pray for Ishu's alliance to be fixed. She tells him that she put Meeta's photo on a mtrimonial site with the help of Pankaj. Kanwal says they have to try for Meeta and regardless she will get Meeta married before Ishu. Gagan tells her to take rest and leave the rest to God. Kanwal smiles and they both retire for the night.
The sisters re watching a movie and Preeto is distracted. Bani grumbles that she has to hold the cable wire and says they should just upgrade but Ishu says no and Kanwal won't allow it. She tells Bani to manage for one day as a good scene was coming. Meeta says she will narrate as she saw the movie on Pankaj's computer. She narrates the story and Preeto thinks about how difficult today was for her and she got help form the most unexpected places. She thinks how Rajbeer helped her when he was someone whose face she doesn't even want to see. Rajbeer is headed to his way home and gets off the phone with Dhruv. He puts the phone down and notices the tissues and wonders it can't be a coincidence that Preeto keeps running into him in such a big city with millions of people.
He wonders why he keeps meeting her. Sometimes she comes to help him and sometimes he becomes forced to wipe her tears. He smiles as he remembers and says that sometimes she fights with him over silly things and sometimes she does silly things herself. He says whatever the matter he learns something new about her everytime he meets her and she's not what he originally thought her to be.
Meeta is still narrating when the phone rings and Sonu asks meeta to take an interval and goes ot answer the phone. She tells Preeto that some Rajbeer is calling for her. Preeto is surprised and Meeta and Ishu raise curious eyebrows at her. Preeto rushes to answer and asks Rajbeer how he got her phone number. Preeto apparently left her phone in Rajbeer's car and is kind of ruffled by her sister's curious gazes and scolds Rajbeer trying to appear non chalant then tells Rajber she will come collect the phone then flustererd tells him to come drop it. She gets of hte phone and meeta and Ishu question her and Preeto tells them not to work their brains overtime and leaves as all her sisters laugh at Preetos flustered state.
Next morning Kanwal asks Gagan if she can come to Gagan's office. Preeto interrupts and says that Kanwal's health isnt conducive to such travel. Gagan agrees and says that kanwal will be bored anyways. Preeto tries to persuade Gagn to leave the jb and focius on his new novel but Gagna tells her that he will have better focus and he's happyy when he sees his family's smiling faces and all his stress goes out of hte window. Preeto smiles but is still concerned for her father. She asks Kanwal for soap after Gagan leaves so she can wash Luna, her bike.
Preeto talks to Luna while cleaning her and tells Luna that she's strong like her father and says that if she didn't have Luna in her life she doesn't know how she would have made it so far. She washes Luna and in the process gets some dirt on herself. Rajbeer comes with Dhruv to return Preeto's phone. He hands it to her and Preeto wipes her hand on her dupatta before taking it from Rajbeer. She tells them they should have claled before coming and she wouldn't have cleaned Luna. Rajbeer wants to head out but Dhruv accepts Preetos' offer to stay and have something to drink or eat.
Preeto tells them to come in but Rajbeer stays rooted as he watches Preeto a smile on his face. Preeto turns back to Rajbeer confused as Dhruv smiles looking at Preeto and Rajbeer.
This is the song played towards the end...
Yeh Lagan to nahi agan hai yeh
This isn't an attachement but rather a bruning senasation...
Kaisay kehdo ke Apnapan hai yeh
How do I say it's a feeling of belonging and familiarity...
Dekhnay ko Dharakta Mann hai yeh
My heart beats to see you...
Kub Milan ki tarhan Milan hai yeh
When will meet like we're supposed to meet...
Dil Naa Maana Hazaar Samjhaya
My heart doesn't listen I've tried explaining a thousand times...
Zindigi Dhoop Tum Ghana Saaya
If my life is like the blinding sun then you are the deep shade...
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Hello. I was wondering if my machine is at all capable of running OSX. I looked at the instructions line in CPU-Z and it says I'm capable of running SSE 1, 2 and 3.
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Yes you should be fine. Graphics will have native support as the 7300 is used on the MacPro1,1.
Not sure if you'll be able run Lion/Mountain Lion (unsure of single core support) but Snow Leopard shouldn't be a problem.
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Yeah, he probably is guilty. Everyone around these people elevate them to god-like status and they wind up having no sense of the word "no." It's not something they ever hear. I'm not saying the girl was Joan of Arc...but...still. It ended like we knew it would. Money is much more powerful than justice.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63431 | McCune, school district continue talks about future of closed school building
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McCune, Kan. -- An elementary school that was closed permanently in May might get a new lease on life if the school district and the city in which the building is located can come to an agreement over ownership. The McCune school is part of the ...
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63477 | SEATTLE -- Seattle City Council approved new marijuana rules Monday night, including limits for growing and selling pot within the city of Seattle. Washington voters legalized recreational marijuana use last year.
Under new guidelines, Seattle will allow pot farms between 10,000 and 20,000 square feet in most industrial areas zoned for growing weed.
This is a scaled-back ruling. The council originally was okay with a 50,000 square foot limit -- about the size of a football field.
There are also limits on grow operations in residential, historic and neighborhoods. For example, a person must have a 1,000 foot buffer between grow operations and places minors frequent.
Additionally, medical marijuana dispensaries must get a license to operate by January 2015 to sell legally in Seattle.
The council rules state that residents can grow up to 45 marijuana plants at home, but only with a permit from the state's Liquor Control Board and approved zoning.
But this new rule goes against state law which bans home growing. City officials reportedly said it is up to the state to enforce that rule.
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Juno waited on the transport so everyone would strap in. Once they had done so the transport docked inside the Altaria and went full speed towards Korealis.
"We are to provide support to everyone on the labs and stop any force that tries to take the artifacts inside. Remember hostages have priority", Juno said and looked towards Reina. "We might need your help, for now we'll just make you a federation temporary agent, follow Wolf and Akira very closely".
Kreik looked over at Kai and smirked.
"Was that supposed to impress me? I could practicaly blocked that with my pinky", Kreik said as he began charging up his attack. His body was giving off an infernal aura, pure darkness, the kind that felt like your soul would leave your body by simply looking at it.
"Hope your ready for this, don't disappoint me", Kreik said. "Demonic Blaze!"
A pentagram was formed in the sky and several arrow shaped orbs began to rain from it giving off the same kind of aura that Kreik was.
"Watch it, since it's poison. It weakens your linker core, you know what it is right? That part of you that allows you to fuel the magic", Kreik said.
Pandora looked over at Illya and grinned.
"That kind of blast won't have any effect on me. You got anything else?", Pandora asked her with clear sarcasm in her voice.
Illya took a step back.
"It's that time then... Buster form", Illya said and her device confirmed.
"Buster three!", Illya said and 4 device clones appeared over her.
"Holy Light...", Illya said as she prepared it. Pandora simply smirked and launched herself towards her but she was suddenly stopped. Pandora realized at that moment that it wasn't because she was binded. Her body simply would not move.
I won't let you hurt Illya, Pandora heard in her head, it was Shana now that had joined the battle.
Why do you do this? Why do you resist? These people will turn their backs on you, just like they did to me. Nothing is left in the multiverse but death to all who oppose us, Pandora said in her head.
I don't know your story, but killing innocents is not the way. Even if you seek revenge, aren't you turning into exactly what you are fighting against? What's the point if you loose yourself?, Shana said.
But... I... I didn't want this... I didn't want to be evil... but I just don't know any other way, Pandora said.
Then let me help you, allow me to help you, we can do this, together, Shana replied.
How can I know I can trust you?, Pandora asked.
Have a little faith ok?, Shana said and Pandora grinned, her expression softened when doing this.
Alright, you have my trust, and my power will add to yours as unison, Pandora said.
And I welcome it, Shana said.
"Buster!", Illya said effectively hitting Pandora and sending her flying back. Illya stood there for a moment and ran over to find Shana's body on the ground, her form once again her own. Illya took her in her arms and lifted her.
Kai, Shana is safe, I'll be there to help you in a moment, Illya said in her head so Kai would hear.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63582 | What You Need to Know About Google Drive
Have you been using a 3rd party application to sync the documents on your computer? If so, you can now sync your computer(s) with your Google Docs. That’s because Google Drive has finally arrived! That’s right, you can now use what was previously Google Docs as a Dropbox-like storage. Here’s a walk-through.
Like most of the mass changes Google makes with their apps, they roll them out in batches. It took me a few days for my Google Docs to change over after I started to read about Google Drive. So if yours hasn’t made the switch yet, don’t worry, it’s on the way soon.
When you get the option to change your Google Docs to Google Drive, you should see a welcome screen, something like this asking you if you want to try Google Drive.There isn’t much you need to do online or on your Android to make the change, just click yes.
Once you have agreed to make the change, you will see some slight changes. The word Docs is now Drive and your Collections are now called, get ready for this…. folders. I was happy about that one.
Another change is Google added SlideRocket presentations. When you make a lot of presentations, the presentations Google Docs could make did leave a something to be desired. SlideRocket will pick up the slack in this department.
So far none of the changes I’ve talked about have been life altering. The part everyone has been waiting for is increased space and the desktop app. Let’s talk a little bit about that why these are so great.
The space increase
You now have 5GB of free storage space to store whatever you’d like. This is quite a bit more than what you had with Google Docs.
If you need more space, the rates are really reasonable. The 25GB upgrade is $2.49 a month. The cool part is, your Gmail inbox gets bumped from 10gb to 25gb also. If you need even more storage, there is a 100GB upgrade for $4.99 a month with the same bump to your Gmail account to 25GB.
The desktop sync is the part you have been waiting for. You will need to initiate the download of the desktop app and log in with your Google credentials.
Once you are all logged in, you can choose the location of the folder or folders you want to keep in sync. If you use Box or Dropbox, the setup is really similar to those. Now when you place something in this folder, it is automatically synced with your Google Drive.
Drive on your Android got a lot nicer. The layout of the document editing screen seems easier to use. Before the upgrade, editing a document was inconvenient because the interface made you select a line to edit almost like you would for a spreadsheet. Now editing is very similar to the web editing, just with less features.
You can now upload any kind of file right from your Android device. This means backing up music and pictures is an easy possibility. While there isn’t an automatic upload for your pictures like there is with Dropbox, most Android devices have the option to select several pictures at a time to upload or share.
I think with the large amount of Google Docs users that the change to Google Drive will bring on more users who are new to cloud storage. While the amount of free space could be more in comparison to some other services out there, the fee to increase the space is less than most. I for one am excited for Google Drive because now I don’t need to have an Internet connection all the time when I am typing something like this up. I can use something like Open Office and save it to the Google Drive sync folder. Trevor is a happy camper now.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63623 | Pam F.
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A small biz owner and freelance writer, I recently had a V-8 moment: 'Why aren’t my sites monetized?!' I write optimized content for others to use on their blogs, etc. I'm now optimizing my own sites and am eager to fill in the blanks and accelerate.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63646 | Fujii K.
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Hello, I am an Engineer and working on mobile devices. I work for Japanese IT company. Having a buisiness trip on Silicon Valley until 26th May.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63654 | Texpats NYC Message Board › "Unofficial" Lone Star NYC Meetup, Oct. 25th
"Unofficial" Lone Star NYC Meetup, Oct. 25th
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On October 25th, the Dallas Cowboys meet the New York Giants on Monday Night Football. That, however, is not the big news. The Big News (and it's a secret, so shhh...) is that the 11th St. Bar will have - for one night only - ice-cold Shiner Bock on hand for the game!
No matter what you might think of the Cowboys under the stewardship of Jerry Jones (and I know I certainly have some opinions about that), or whether you're even a football fan at all, come out anyway for the Shiner Bock. I mean, when's the last time you had one?
The 11th St. Bar - a.k.a. Lone Star NYC HQ - is located at 510 11th St, between Avenues A and B. No need to RSVP for this one. Some of us will be there for sure, so just come on over.
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*If you'd like to see us throw a holiday event and haven't done so already, please click "Like" on the idea that's posted on the main page.
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Hi, born and raised in London, I find there is nothing more inspiring, than watching a professinoal dancer do their thing.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63668 | Stavros A.
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What is your involvement in mobile web (i.e. front-end developer, back-end developer, QA, project manager, etc)?
I am interested in learning more about what can be done offline using web on mobile. I work with lots of different companies offering tools and APIs for developers.
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I am new to Python but would really like to learn. However, I am not new to programming. I have been programming professionally for 20 years. I am mainly a C# and VB.Net with SQL Server database programmer.
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Do you have prior experience in shamanic journeying? This is a prerequisite for the monthly group, but NOT for most other events here. "Yes," "No," or contact me and let's discuss it. More: http://www.meetup.com/shamanic-denver/messages/65491152/
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63685 | Meetup Cancelled: Yarn Addicts of Santa Rosa Meetup
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I am cancelling next Mondays meeting as the people who normally show up won't be able to make it. If anyone else would like to meet, let me know. I am available, but a party of one does not a meetup make :)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63697 | Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critics
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1. A stylish and spectacular gaming universe.
2. A surprisingly accomplished, by-the-books, futuristic racing game.
3. It's more indicative of the current crop of racing games that a 15 year-old concept feels so refreshing.
4. Powerdrome set out to create a white knuckle racer that will keep players on the edge of their seats, and that is certainly what they accomplished. For those players looking for an in-depth driving-sim, this is certainly not the place to look.
6. 70
Its initially brutal learning curve might deter a lot of people, but those who invest time to master it will find it to be a very satisfying and rewarding game. An entertaining title that could have been a classic.
7. For a budget title Powerdrome certainly has plenty going for it. It has great graphics, smooth animation, nice particle effects such as spark and smoke and several modes including time trials, quick race, championship and multi-player modes both system link and online.
8. Powerdrome doesn't improve on the genre as much as I was hoping.
9. Powerdrome appears to be just another futuristic racer. One advantage it does offer over other similar racers of the genre, however, is the ability to race against others on Xbox Live.
10. Powerdrome doesn't really stand out on its own but instead follows an essentially generic formula. If you are already a devout fan of futuristic racing titles, this competitively priced game may just be for you.
12. Sadly, Powerdrome is one time trial after another, and even with a real opponent via Xbox Live, there's not much more to it. [Sept 2004, p.89]
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Jan 12, 2005
I love the game i love the design of the circuts and characters and i love lots of the blades and one player is fun and then once yourI love the game i love the design of the circuts and characters and i love lots of the blades and one player is fun and then once your finished that play with a friend. Full Review »
2. Uter
Oct 13, 2004
It's a budget title that feels like it. The speed is nice, but the graphics, and courses are not.
3. RandallW.
Jul 30, 2004
They are working on the XBox LIVE part. Hopefully there will be a fix soon!!! |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63698 | Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics What's this?
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1. A heart-grabbing, awe-inspiring work that needs no embellishment.
2. Reviewed by: Matthew Sorrento
We witness many of Stephenson's inspirational moments during class, but miles more exist behind her students' skills and execution.
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The movie's sense of inspiration is realistic. It never implies a future of glamour, only hard-won success.
4. Reviewed by: Gary Goldstein
Stephenson's a true original, worthy of her own reality TV show. As Pressure Cooker proves: Anything is possible.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/63699 | • Record Label: New West
• Release Date: Jan 27, 2009
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1. Nothing's as timeless as "Blue" or "Waiting for the Sun," but the thrill here is all about those two lonely voices that find each other, in this future of theirs, caught up in that rush of harmony.
3. Although it's produced by Black Crowes bro Chris Robinson, the first studio collaboration in 15 years from the former singer-songwriter team behind the classic Jayhawks lineup is a much more subdued, acoustic affair than the plugged-in alt-country of their former band.
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This reunion feels like they've never been away. [Nov 2008, p.102]
5. Ready For The Flood doesn't completely remedy that absence [of alt-country acts], but it is a nice reminder of better times and better tunes for this pair. [Year End 2008, p.83]
6. The fact they fit so well says a lot about this music, and while there are moments of genuine beauty and grace, this is a far cry from what these men achieved in their prime.
7. Mark Olson and Gary Louris' new disc may not be the Jayhawks reunion some fans hoped for, but it's a respectable set of mostly acoustic folk songs sweetened by the duo's bright, sibling-like harmonies.
8. If there's nothing particularly innovative about Flood, it's nonetheless gratifying to hear Olson and Louris writing and performing together again, and hopefully the album is but a starting point for future projects.
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While the rock workouts never transcend their bar-band tropes, on the ballads ("Turn Your Pretty Name Around," "Black Eyes"), Olson & Louris evince real sorrow and regret with little more than a carefully picked acoustic guitar and ghostly organ tracing the tracks of their tears.
10. Production by the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson is unobtrusive to the point of being almost nonexistent, but peeking in on two guys sitting around Joshua Tree with a couple of guitars should be a little more engaging.
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