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I am using Firefox v6.0.2 on Windows 7. Occasionally I have more than one window open and accidentally close a window losing all my tabs.
When I only have one window, this is not an issue since it recovers my tabs in the next session, but if there is more than one, I lose them since Firefox is not exiting.
Is there a way to only warn about closing the window when tabs would be lost?
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You can go to Firefox menu->Preferences (or Options, can't remember which), Tabs tab, and check "Warn me when closing multiple tabs." However, even on Firefox app quit, if multiple tabs are open, you will still be warned.
If you close Firefox often enough that this is annoying, you can simply remember to go to Firefox menu->History->Recently closed windows to see and reopen recently closed windows. You can do the same thing via Ctrl+Shift+N, I believe (if that's not the right shortcut, the right one should be printed to the right of the most recently closed window.)
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+1: My thoughts exactly. – surfasb Sep 14 '11 at 2:46
Right, I know of that one, but was hoping to avoid the warning on normal exit where the tabs are preserved, so the recently closed history is the ticket! – WilliamKF Sep 14 '11 at 13:24
You can install the Session Manager extension, which gives Firefox the ability to reopen closed windows just like closed tabs.
It's not quite what you're asking for, since it won't stop you from closing windows, but it will let you recover them anyway.
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Can you recover them in a new session of Firefox? – WilliamKF Sep 14 '11 at 13:23
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I started on Ubuntu and have had the first considerable error. I have an HP Pavilion DV6 Core i7. I had installed Windows 7 and I decided to also install Ubuntu using USB.
My first attempt was to install Ubuntu 11.10 following the instructions of the official Ubuntu website. When loading the pendrive, my PC got stuck at the main menu of Ubuntu, so after searching, I found that could be due to a problem with my AMD Radeon graphics card (or not), but I decided to change.
Then I used Ubuntu 10.4. This could happen from the start menu I use to get into Ubuntu live. There I decided to install it because I liked it and I need to develop with Google TV (in Windows that's not possible).
And I fail in the partitions section. I tried to follow the instructions on this page (Spanish).
There were things that changed a bit, so I improvised. I took the Windows partition of 700000MB and went to 600000MB, leaving 100GB free to install Linux there. The error was to set it to ext3 (it was ntfs). I thought the new 100gb partition will be set to ext3, and windows partition will stuck at ntfs system, but not.
Total I ran out to boot Windows, and above I can not install Ubuntu on the 100GB free.
Is there any easy way to convert back to NTFS Windows and not lose data?
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If you did not format (often called "creating a file system" in the *nix world; it's been a while since I ran Ubuntu, so I am not sure if that's the exact terminology they use) the partition, chances are pretty good that you can boot into a Linux recovery console and use a tool such as fdisk to simply reset the partition type to NTFS/HPFS. That would, in theory and assuming that nothing else was written to the disk (or that the resize itself was successful, which is doubtful if you both shrunk the partition and set a new partition type, which would almost certainly follow from the file system change), allow Windows to find it again in much the same way it did before. Booting from the Windows installation CD and performing a repair may also accomplish this, but I'm not certain.
However, my guess is that the installer also formatted the partition using the new file system, in which case critical NTFS data structures (boot sector pointers, parts of the MFT, etc.) as well as user data were very likely damaged or even outright overwritten by their ext3 counterparts. If that's the case, you should expect that at the very least some of the data on that partition is now irrecoverably lost. There are quite a few data recovery tools out there to work with NTFS partitions, though, which will analyze the on-disk data and structures in an attempt to dig out as much useful data as possible. Note that generally, for that to work, you will need a second disk of at least the same size to hold whatever is found and salvageable, and it is critically important that you do not cause any further writes to the original disk before you at least have a full disk image to feed such tools. Data recovery tools can be had both at a cost and for free; you may want to search both here as well as over on Photo.SE, where questions involving such tools come up occasionally.
In honesty, this is why one should always make a full backup before performing such a potentially destructive operation as repartitioning and formatting. The tools today are usually well enough developed and tested that it's rarely a problem, but if anything goes wrong (software bug, human error, power failure in the middle of a long-running operation, whatever) then the consequences can be anything from an extra file system check needed on reboot to outright obliteration of all data on the physical medium.
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Ok. So I have to try to use fdisk to reset the partition to NTFS/HPFS. I didn't know how to do that. I will find it. Thank you very much. And yes, a backup have been ok :S – Huèspal Mar 6 '12 at 16:17
I certainly can't guarantee that it will work (it depends on what exactly happened), but it's a relatively safe thing to try as long as you make no other changes. I would still strongly recommend making a bit-by-bit image of the drive before trying anything if you aren't absolutely sure about what you are doing, but of course that requires somewhere to store the some 700 GB. – Michael Kjörling Mar 7 '12 at 10:22
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When upgrading to Firefox 15 from 12 (on Windows 7), I noticed that the back/fwd buttons are much smaller and vastly different in style. Is there any way to restore the old, larger "keyhole style" back button in v15?
Screenshot of what I'm talking about:
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Heh, the new ones look like Chrome. Anyways, this plugin will change your navigation buttons back to the old style.
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Thank you very much! :) I can't comment on the similarity to Chrome (I've steered clear of it because there has been so much controversy regarding Google's examination or tracking of the URLs you visit etc.) but I can say that I like the older Firefox look better! – Richard Sully Sep 6 '12 at 13:23
I've accepted the fact that, if you're on the internet, someone, somewhere, is tracking what you're doing. I just like Chrome because it lets me sync my tabs between all my devices. Glad I could help you out here :) – SaintWacko Sep 6 '12 at 13:26
This particular feature/design has not changed with Firefox 15.
1. Right click on the toolbar, click Customise.
2. Make sure the back/forward buttons are right next to the address bar. There should not be anything else in that space. Rearrange any extra icons, or remove them by dragging into the Customise Toolbar box.
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3. Click Done. The buttons should merge with the address bar.
Click for full size
Note that the forward button is hidden by default when there is no page to go forward to. This behaviour started in Firefox 11. SaintWacko's answer is probably your best option if you want to unhide it at all times, or detach it from the address bar.
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I'll always prefer native solutions over added components. Nice solution! – BloodPhilia Sep 7 '12 at 7:39
Huh. I didn't have anything between the buttons and the bar, but by dragging them away and then back, they did indeed merge. Cool. – Nathan Stretch May 18 '13 at 8:25
You will also see a difference in B/F button styles if you check/uncheck the 'Use Small Icons' setting in Customize Toolbar options.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66169 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
Short version
• How can I bypass the Program Compatibility Assistant that blocks some programs from installing?
Long version
I'm trying to install Acronis True Image Home 2011 on my Windows 8 Pro. When I execute the installer, I'm getting the following error from Program Compatibility Assistant, saying:
This program has compatibility issues
Program Compatibility Assistant
I can click Get help online for more information, and then they say:
Acronis True Image has been blocked from running because it might prevent your PC from starting correctly in the future. Your version of Acronis True Image isn't compatible with this version of Windows.
Then my only option is to click Close and this aborts the installation. As I have 5 licenses of this program for my home computers, it's annoying that I would have to upgrade to Acronis 2013 just to have Windows 8 compatibility. I'm quite confident that, although I should avoid using functions of Acronis that modify the bootloader, other pieces of software should run just fine. There are probably more programs that at least partially work just fine on Windows 8, but are blocked. So, to summarise, my question is:
How can I bypass the Program Compatibility Assistant?
I would simply like that it would allow me to peacefully continue with the installation. An even more generic question would be:
How does the Program Compatibility Assistant know which programs to block?
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The short version: you should not use the software in Windows 8 that was blocked from installing. They completely block the installation for a reason. – Alexey Ivanov Nov 4 '12 at 20:13
Have you tried contacting Acronis directly? Bypassing the installer would be very difficult as the installer program itself has code for approving the installation. I am pretty sure it isn't possible at all. – Josiah Nov 4 '12 at 20:14
I'm sure MS have their reasons to block the installation, but I want to proceed anyway. There must be a way to do it! – DzinX Nov 4 '12 at 20:20
I used a program that Compatibility Assistant didn't like, yet it didn't block the installation, it rather warned me. It was an electronic dictionary. It really has issues, but it cannot damage the system. Raymond Chen mentioned in his blog that applications were blocked only if their producer agreed. – Alexey Ivanov Nov 4 '12 at 20:48
kb.acronis.com/content/31033 Acronis comment on the compatability – FredrikD Nov 11 '12 at 16:38
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I found a way to do it, using the Local Group Policy Editor:
1. Press Win+R
2. Run gpedit.msc
4. Enable both settings:
• Turn off Application Compatibility Engine
• Turn off Program Compatibility Assistant
Disabled Settings
Then the installation executes normally.
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Let us know how it works out. – David Marshall Nov 4 '12 at 20:33
The installation completed without problems, rebooted and backing up my system now. I'll try to test the restore feature tomorrow. – DzinX Nov 4 '12 at 21:29
Just a note: This does not work in the Windows 10 Tech Preview, at least as of build 9879. – Vaindil Nov 24 '14 at 20:01
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I am trying to setup a wireless connection in Windows 8. I need to be able to access the connection settings to configure the connection correctly, but unless you connect to the network, it won't let me access that menu. Is there any way for me to get to that menu without connecting first?
Note: The menu that I want to get to is the same menu that appears in windows 7 under
"Network and Sharing Center -> Manage wireless networks -> Add -> Manually create a network profile"
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You can go to control panel (Windows Key + X, then P), go to Network and Internet, Network and Sharing center, click Set Up a New Connection, and select Manually Connect to a wireless network.
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I have a macbook air (Mac OS X 10.6), I want to connect to a shared wifi, my mac picks up the network but when I type the password (WPA Personal) it sends me an error message: time connection timed out! Knowing that I am in the first floor and the modem is on the ground floor and my friends can connect to the same network in my room with their pc's (Dell). I tried to delete the network from the list of preferred networks and keychain, disable and enable the airport and even reboot the modem but it doesn't work! I try to connect from a place closer to the modem (it picks up the wifi as if I'm in my room (2 dashes airport are filled)) I type the password and everything was perfect and the internet speed is excellent and when I returned to my room it asked me to type the password again and the same problem return however I always use: remember this network! I don't know what to do and what comes from this problem! What should I do to resolve it because I need internet connection?
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it's the wrong site to ask this kind of questions. do you even know what stack overflow means? – Nek Mar 12 '13 at 10:48
I know that it's a site where you can post your question about computer problems to have help !! – user2043683 Mar 12 '13 at 11:18
stackoverflow is for programming questions. use superuser.com for general computer problems. – Nek Mar 12 '13 at 15:34
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You may want to consider purchasing a Wifi range extender, which should give you a stable connection further away from the access point. From the way you describe the issue, sounds like that should fix it.
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Thank you Adam, is there other solution to do? Preference options for example? Because sometimes it can connect for few minutes and then connection is interrupted. An other problem, i knew that there is an other modem Dlink witch is not far from my room and when i put my MBA near to this modem, the network doesn't appear in networks list !! MBA can't detect the WiFi !! I have had my mac for 3 years, I use WiFi networks normally and this is the first time that i face such case !! – user2043683 Mar 13 '13 at 14:35
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66172 | Take the 2-minute tour ×
I have a working triple boot system using Refit, that is modeled closely after the steps detailed in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MactelSupportTeam/AppleIntelInstallation, except that I'm using OSX Lion, Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7.
EFI + HFS + Linux + swap (hidden from MBR) + NTFS
I am contemplating the creation of more logical partitions (by carving them out of the extended partition) so that I can potentially install newer OSes such as Windows 8 on them while keeping the current ones. I know Linux variants wouldn't have a problem on logical partitions; I'm more concerned about Mountain Lion and Windows 8 and how their presence will affect the current hybrid GPT-MBR tables.
I understand that repartitioning the extended partition in Ubuntu partitions in the working setup, would possibly break the partition tables. Would I have better luck if I were to create all the desired partitions in a fresh system with only Lion installed?
Right now it looks like I have no choice but to stuff the Windows installations onto the MBRs, and sort out the partition tables after the Macs and Linuxes have been installed. Installation of the second OSX while not a problem, actually changes the numbering of the existing partitions, so those have to be sorted out using gdisk. It was unfortunate that none of the Windows could be put into GPT on such a system, and having two Windows on MBR mean that files cannot be exchanged easily across the three OS families, since there is only one MBR slot left for either OSX or Linux, so this is really a step back from the triple boot. Maybe this is not such a good idea after all.
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The process should be simple install the 4th operating then modify the boot loader to offer the option to boot to that operating system. Just be aware there are boot limitations ( at least with Windows ) on logical partitions. – Ramhound Mar 29 '13 at 18:07
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Hybrid MBRs are used on most Macs that dual-boot with Windows, and frequently on Macs that dual-boot with Linux. It's virtually certain that you've got a hybrid MBR. Hybrid MBRs cause a lot of pain even when used just with primary partitions on the MBR side, which is the only configuration that Apple's tools will create. If you already have a setup with an extended partition on a hybrid MBR disk, then your configuration is at risk of serious partition table corruption, and I recommend you read the entirety of the hybrid MBR page to which I've just linked, figure out what your partition layout really is, and reconfigure it to be safer. If you don't already have an extended partition on a hybrid MBR, then don't create one.
In fact, in a hybrid MBR configuration, neither Linux nor OS X uses the MBR side of the table; only Windows uses the hybrid MBR. Linux and OS X both use the GPT side of the hybrid MBR, so for their purposes, you can create as many GPT partitions as you like. If you need more partitions in Windows, you can use gdisk to create a hybrid MBR that places up to three partitions in the primary MBR positions. More than that on one disk is not possible without creating an extended partition, which as I say is inadvisable in the extreme.
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Yes you are absolutely correct. In fact my current scheme does not involve any extended partition at all (I was mistaken as I could not remember the reason why I gave up that approach a long time ago, but now I need to have more partitions again). – prusswan Mar 30 '13 at 20:04
Turns out that I could install up to 6 operating systems (2 from each major family) on such a setup:
Snow Leopard
Mountain Lion
* Ubuntu 12.04
(Linux Swap)
* Windows 7
* Windows 8
The asterisks indicate the systems that had to be placed on the MBR. The key is that while the OSX systems can boot on their own, the same cannot be said for the Arch; it relies on the grub2 bootloader on Ubuntu, which means a MBR partition can be used to boot another GPT partition that is not on the MBR! Going by this reasoning, probably more Linux systems can be installed on top of this setup.
PS: It is also a good idea to install gdisk onto the primary operating system (usually OSX, via homebrew) so that it is easily accessible for fixing up the other operating systems if needed.
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Linux doesn't need to boot in BIOS mode (via BIOS-mode GRUB) on a Mac; Linux can boot fine with an EFI-mode boot loader, which eliminates any dependence on the MBR side of the hybrid MBR. In fact, even in BIOS mode, Linux should be fine booting from the GPT side if you add a BIOS Boot Partition; however, there could be some subtle interaction between boot managers and boot loaders that would complicate your life in such a situation. Better to stick with a pure-EFI boot mode, IMHO. – Rod Smith Apr 7 '13 at 17:58
maybe, but I'm not sure if the hardware support would be good enough for EFI-boot Linux (and worth the extra effort), in the case of Windows that is clearly lacking and that has proved to be the most challenging part of the setup. Anyone attempting a similar setup is most welcome to explore a way to boot the Arch through EFI, even though it doesn't look so promising from the information I found. – prusswan Apr 7 '13 at 18:09
Many people, myself included, boot Linux in EFI mode on Macs with no hardware problems. That said, you're correct that there are some model-specific issues. My impression is that they're more the exception than the rule these days, but I don't know of a site with a complete and current list of such issues. If the 3-partition limit in a hybrid MBR is causing headaches, it's certainly worth the effort to try an EFI-mode boot of Linux, or to try using GRUB with a BIOS Boot Partition in place. – Rod Smith Apr 8 '13 at 18:11
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As in the title, I can't get it to work. I should probably say, it's an internal HDD in an External case.
Last night I was working on copying old files off it onto my new computer, however, somehow, it crashed my computer about halfway into copying 58gb of data (approx).
Now when I plug it in, my computer recognises it, but doesn't let me open it. It shows up as Local Disk (F:) like normal, but with no data bar below it, like my main internal HDD.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it's device driver and trying it on different computers, but to no avail.
Have I completely stuffed it up, or am I just not doing something right?
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I guess it's too late.. But sometimes you can still access the NTFS/FAT filesystem in Linux even if it fails on Windows. Just sometimes, but still worth a try. It actually did work for me a few weeks ago. Also, even if you formatted your drive, there is still a chance to save your data, at least parts of it. But you have to avoid writes to the drive! Try Recuva or Paragon software – Ashtray Sep 30 '13 at 8:34
Okay, thanks, I'll look into it. – One Terrorist Sep 30 '13 at 22:19
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See if you can format it.
Click Startup > Right click Computer > Click Manage > Click Disk Management > Right click the drive you want to manage > Format
It's not broken, I'd say that the filesystem is, and needs to be formatted.
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Wait, so I have to format it, but does that remove all the files off of it? – One Terrorist Sep 30 '13 at 6:12
Ah! Screw it! I got most stuff off it two days ago, I'll just format it then... Lucky I got the photos and stuff... – One Terrorist Sep 30 '13 at 6:44
@OneTerrorist Yeah, it removes all stuff from it but I'm afraid it's the only thing you can do for it. – user149961 Sep 30 '13 at 6:52
Okay, I'll do it now. – One Terrorist Sep 30 '13 at 6:54
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Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe is the seventh song from The Fellowship of the Ring Complete Recordings.
[3:49 - 4:06]
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can.
[06:23] Nêbâ
[06:25] bîtham
[06:27] Magâ
[06:29] nanê
[07:14] I
[07:17] tu
[07:19] o,
[07:22] I
[07:24] ma
[07:27] cil
[07:29] A
[07:31] lel
[07:34] yat
[07:37] tú
[07:39] ren
[07:41] na
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Hey ho! To the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe
Rain may fall and wind may blow
But there still be
Many miles to go
Sweet is the sound of the pouring rain
And the stream that falls
From hill to plain
Better than rain or rippling brook
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Where is everyone?
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A character comes to a building, town, ship, or some setting expecting people to be there--but there isn't.
This comes in two flavours:
1. The person expects people he recognizes to be there (If a meeting was arranged this is Stood Up).
2. The person expects someone, anyone to be there.
This is not about the setting being abandoned--and sometimes the setting isn't (especially type one). This is about the person's reaction, and the reaction can range from annoyance to full-blown Oh, Crap.
See also The Aloner, Late to the Party and Slept Through the Apocalypse.
Definately overlaps with Ghost Town, Ghost City, and even Ghost Planet, but this trope is the "ghost" part coming as a surprise.
• In a cartoon Moral Alternative to The Far Side, a group of students are shown playing a prank on their Sunday School teacher by hiding in the closet of a classroom, after writing "Rapture" on the chalkboard with the end of the word trailing up off the top of the chalkboard.
• In The Langoliers, most of the aircraft's passengers vanish, and the rest go through the plane, looking for the missing passengers.
• The Alone in the Dark film has the final scene, in which Carnby and Aline wander into a city and find it abandoned. A helpful subtitle informs the viewer that the city was magically evacuated in a single night, Carnby's final narration contradicts that and declares humanity is being wiped out just like the Precursors.
• The start of 28 Days Later. Jim awakens in a hospital and is bewildered to find the hospital--and later all of London--almost completely abandoned. Aside from the rage zombies.
• In The Pearls of Lutra, Emperor Ublaz comes aboard the Waveworm, which had been sent to retrieve the titular pearls. His confusion turns to horror when he finds no-one aboard, but blood everywhere. The pirate crew and the moniters have killed each other and the kidnapped Abbot Durral, who was locked in his room and thus the last living person aboard the ship, had buried everyone at sea.
• Dean Koontz's novel Phantoms. A woman and her sister return to their home town and find it almost completely empty of people. All that's left are the bodies of a few murdered victims.
• In the Warrior Cats novel Dawn, Brambleclaw and Squirrelpaw return home, but the camp is entirely deserted, and they have no idea where the Clan is; there's no sign of a fight or anything. Their medicine cat, Cinderpelt, happens to come back to retrieve some herbs from her den, and she explains that the Clan has relocated to Sunningrocks because the humans' deforestation activities had come too close to the camp.
• There's a Goosebumps story called Be Careful What You Wish For, where a girl gets three wishes from an old woman in exchange for helping her. Her second wish is for her rival to disappear. The next morning she wakes up to find that everyone has vanished apart from her (and the old woman).
• An example of Type 1, in a story about a young boy during the Russian Revolution, the boy comes to his uncle's house, only to discover that strangers are living there. It turns out his uncle was taken away by the Bolsheviks.
Live-Action TV
• The Twilight Zone TOS did this a few times.
• The first episode, appropriately entitled "Where is Everybody". A man finds himself walking along a road. He comes across a diner and later a town: both are completely empty of people. The Twilight Zone Twist is that he's taking part in an experiment that has caused him to hallucinate.
• "The Arrival". An airliner lands at an airfield. When the airfield personnel go to unload it, it's completely empty of people: no pilots, no passengers.
• In a flashback to 2000 on My Name Is Earl Earl, Randy, Joy and Donny think that everyone in the world exceptfor them has been somehow destroyed by Y2K, but they're just at a New Year's Day parade.
• The Prisoner TOS episode "Many Happy Returns". One morning Number Six wakes up and finds the entire Village deserted except for a cat.
• In the Ripping Yarns episode "Escape from Stalag Luft 112B" Major Phipps works on elaborate plans of escape, while all the other prisoners try to talk him out of it. Then one day he wakes up and discovers himself alone. All the other prisoners have escaped. The German soldiers all guard him. and then, one morning the German Drill Sergeant Nasty breaks in to his barracks and demands to know what Phipps did with all the guards. They "escaped" too. And the commandant. Now Phipps can finally work on his escape plan in peace! He becomes the only man to ever not escape Stalag Luft 112B.
• Supernatural: After receiving a distress call from Rufus in the episode "Good God, Y'All", Sam and Dean arrive at the location looking for the people in danger, only to find a town with signs of recent activity (an overturned car still playing music, blood spatters, signs of a struggle, etc.), but where the streets are strangely empty.
• In the Mighty Mighty Boss Tones' song "Where Did You Go?", a guy comes home and finds that the person he's singing to isn't home--and, apparently, isn't going to come home. The lyrics describe him waiting, wondering "Where did you go?" and finally leaving.
Video Games
• At the beginning of Knights of the Old Republic II, you wake up on an abandoned mining facility. Save for an old woman who you find in the morgue and a man in a prison cell, the station is devoid of life. You must piece together what happened as you explore the station.
• In BlazBlue, the NOL branch office is usually mysteriously empty when characters show up there in story mode.
• A frequent trope in the Silent Hill series. Silent Hill is a resort town with scenic woods, a beautiful lake, and an amusement park. Its victims find themselves wandering alone through constant fog and frequent snow/ash fall.
Western Animation
• On the SpongeBob SquarePants episode" Gone", SpongeBob wakes up to find all of Bikini Bottom deserted. Turns out there's an annual "Get Away From SpongeBob" day, but they got carried away and made it a week.
• In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, episode "Bridle Gossip," Twilight and Spike head into town, only to find it deserted. Eventually they figure out that everyone is hiding because their newest neighbor, Zecora, scares them.
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[[folder:In General]]
** There were shades of this with the plague zombie infestation before the release of ''Wrath of the Lich King''. Players could get infected (via roaches, rats, and 'conspicuous crates') and then become zombies, and then fight other players and [=NPCs=], thereby spreading the plague. This turned the capital cities into ZombieApocalypse battlegrounds. Whether this was Awesome or Fail depends on your viewpoint: while it was fun being a zombie or fighting to stop them, when things were at their worst it was very difficult to do anything in a capital city (where the auction houses and most banks and class trainers are located).
* A player [[http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/01/12/guide-dog-player-and-guild-embrace-sightless-guildmate-steer/ literally plays blind]]. Both Heartwarming ''and'' Awesome.
* A guild takes on ''Heroic'' Shannox and Alysrazor [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGYRph6Nf8 at the same time]].
* [[http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/mannoroth/Doubleagent/advanced Doubleagent]] reached level 90 as a Pandaren Shaman without leaving the Wandering Isle, therefore being the ''only'' neutral level 90 player in the game. [[{{Determinator}} It took him nearly two years, and he did this by grinding herbs and minerals (~20-30 xp per node) across the Wandering Isle and completing daily pet quests all the way to 90, without a mount, Auction House or heirlooms]].
** [[http://www.pcgamesn.com/world-of-warcraft/join-world-of-warcraft-player-doubleagent-as-he-dings-level-100-as-a-neutral-pandaren He's reached Level 100 now.]]
[[folder:Classic Old World]]
* [[http://www.wowhead.com/quest=7622 The Balance of Light and Shadow]] for Priests. After looting the Eye of Divinity in Molten Core, you would head out to Eastern Plaguelands and meet an NPC priestess who tells you her story of how she failed to save Stratholme peasants as they fleed from Arthas and his Scourge and how the now-ghosts must relive the experience. She tells you that you must succeed where she failed by saving at least fifty out of sixty-five peasants as Scourge Archers attack them and lesser Scourge attack you. Other players may not interfere for a demon called The Cleaner will spawn, instantly kill them, and end the event. This event was actually pretty difficult in its time. The vast majority of Priests would fail in their first attempt. Most would find friends (or even a Priest of the opposite faction if he/she happened to be there) to exploit around The Cleaner ''and'' Priests would seek out full buffs from every other class and use consumables. Successful completion of the event yielded the Splinter of Nordrassil. When combined with the Eye of Divinity and the Eye of Shadow, the Priest receives [[http://www.wowhead.com/item=18608 Benediction]], a staff that Priests at 60 would wear past Blackwing Lair and level 80 Priests still farm for because it's one of the best-looking staves in the game.
* Of note is "Rewriting the Battle of Darrowshire." It required a small raid back in the day, plus the two commanders and their respective squads of militia. The enemies started off as weakly-made skeletons, but by the end you were facing squads of knife-wielding freaks known as [[DemonicSpider The Bloodletters]]. Then of course, there was Horgus the Ravager, the mid-boss, and Mardek the Black, who fights you by proxy, forcing you to fight [[TragicVillain Redpath the Corrupted]]. Killing that bastard Mardek later in the Scholomance is an incredibly satisfying revenge.
* The [[http://www.wowpedia.org/Dreadsteed Dreadsteed of Xoroth questchain]] for Warlocks was truly epic in classic [=WoW=]. Over the course of the adventure you mass murder creatures created by the moon goddess and collect their blood, infiltrate the Shadow Council, rip out an orc's heart, wreak havoc across two dungeons, fight off an army of demons as you prepare a portal, and kill a Dreadlord so you can steal his horse. Your reward? Quite possibly the [[HellishHorse coolest looking mount in the game ever made]]. Shame they took the questchain out in ''Cataclysm'' and you just buy the Dreadsteed now.
** The ''Summoning the Charger'' quest chain for Paladins. It involves exorcising an entire town, getting holy water from the heart of the Scourge in the Eastern Kingdoms a dungeon all in itself. Save a spirit from another dungeon. and after all that. Two diamonds, and the censer you used to exorcise the town are then put together. After that you actually invade the Scholomance, an entire school of necromancers to get a death knight's attention, kill him, and free the charger. Thats right, you ''steal a death knight's warhorse by raiding an school of necromancers and killing him in there''. Your reward? A epic, glowly, heavily armored warhorse that literally came back from the dead.
* Tirion Fordring appearing at the end of the quest In Dreams, in which he confronts [[EvilFormerFriend Isillien]], facing him and his elite bodyguards in combat and wins, bringing down the hammer of justice on his son's murderer.
[[folder:The Burning Crusade]]
* The Bash'ir Landing raid, which isn't an official quest, but forces you and your raid to defend a scientist while she examines some kind of device. It starts off with you fighting a wave of {{mooks}} and a Fleshbeast mid-boss, followed by another wave with three siege towers assaulting your position. In the end, your raid has a standoff with The Collector, an ethereal who can split himself into three and has some deadly lightning spells.
[[folder:Wrath of the Lich King]]
* Tirion Fordring gets a couple of these in this expansion.
** Confronting Arthas at the Battle of Light's Hope Chapel and ''purifying the cursed sword Ashbringer'' by sheer force of will, then ''stabbing'' the immortal Lich King with a single leaping blow and forcing him to flee.
*** Also, the Argent Dawn was losing the battle until Tirion showed up, and he was able to turn the tide even though the forces of the Light were outnumbered 300 to 10000. Oh, and by the way, doesn't "300 vs. 10000" seem [[ThreeHundred a little bit like a]] ShoutOut?
** Arguably his greatest crowning moment is where he confronts the Lich King up on the Frozen Throne. Admittedly, it is a little lame that he gets frozen at the beginning of the battle, leaving you and your raid group to fight, but when the Lich King decides to show his true power and deal 1,000,000 damage to every member of your party, wiping you all, Tirion clealy isn't going to take it. He epically prays to the Light and it sees fit to send down a bolt of utter pwnage, smiting the ice block. Tirion the ''leaps'' forward, and ''cuts straight through Frostmourne'', pretty much ending the Lich King's reign. Talk about awesome.
* The final battle with the Lich King at the Frozen Throne is just one long [=CMoA=], period. Between the epic danger of the val'kyrs snatching players up and ''tossing them off the edge of the Citadel'', the massive pools of blight, earthquake spells, getting ''sucked inside Frostmourne'', it's insanely fun, challenging, and keeps you on the edge of your seat. Even the scripted phase at the end is incredible. After the above mentioned shattering of Frostmourne, the thousands of souls trapped inside it break free and stun the Lich King, allowing you to open a can of whoop ass to finish him. That alone could qualify as a [=CMoA=] by itself, not to mention a TearJerker, when you consider it's the ghost of Arthas' dead father that resurrects you when everything looks hopeless, and it's the souls of all the people murdered/enslaved by the Lich King that help you bring him to justice. A suitably epic end for one of the most memorable villains in the Warcraftverse.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keaJm5rdAbg Wrath Gate]] event at the end of Dragonblight quest is this and a major WhamEpisode. If sending the current BigBad into an OhCrap (doubly since his face is perpetually hidden in his helmet) and making him reel and retreat with his figurative tail between his legs does not count as awesome, nothing will.
** It's certainly one for Putress himself. Yes, he's an evil, traitorous bastard, but he managed to truly boil the entire Forsaken philosophy, the sheer zealotry of their all-encompassing ''hate'' of the Lich King and the Scourge, down into about a minute of screen time.
--->'''Grand Apothecary Putress:''' Did you think we had forgotten? Did you think we had ''forgiven''? Behold, now, the terrible vengeance of the Forsaken! Death to the Scourge! And death to the living! ''(the New Plague continues to do its thing in the armies below)'' Now, all can see this is the hour of the Forsaken.
** Also Saurfang the Younger riding up triumphantly followed by the Horde and his call to his people.
** Bolvar Fordragon's appearance and his charge into combat.
* The player characters receive their own Crowning Moment of Awesome when performing the Storm Peaks quest chain, as the Drakkensryd event has you battling mounted drake-riders while several hundred feet in the air... by ''harpooning their drakes, leaping onto it alongside them, and throwing them off''. Later on, you get a daily quest to tackle a flying dragon in midair, hang on and climb to its mouth, and then throw the Spear of Hodir down its throat, Odin-style. It's like [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] dropped in for a visit.
* Thorim, an ancient viking type being who is a major character in this chain, gets one for ''jumping off his throne, falling just under two kilometers, and landing on his old mount''.
* [[http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=11983 This quest]]. Lok'tar ogar!
** The Taunka Chieftain, [[http://www.wowhead.com/quest=12069 Roanauk Icemist]]. The guy is in chains when you find him, not sobbing in despair, but getting angrier and angrier at the Crypt Lord who chained him up. When you free him, he demands that the Crypt Lord face him. The beetle refuses, so Roanauk jumps up a waterfall, grabs the Crypt Lord (Who is a tank-sized armored beetle), and throws him off the cliff, just so that the Crypt Lord is forced to face him. He then proceeds to beat the beetle to hell and back. And to top it all off, ''you'' get to crown him High Chieftain of the Taunka. Best quest ever.
* High Overlord Saurfang became a [[MemeticMutation memetic]] MemeticBadass during the War of the Shifting Sands, but to most he just stood around in Orgrimmar actually doing nothing. With ''Wrath'', it seems that he's not just earning his reputation, [[http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=11705 but surpassing it.]]
* Though you don't see it, one of the Frost Dwarves tells you how the Frost Dwarves met their current king, Yorg Stormheart [[spoiler: aka Muradin Bronzebeard]]. A group of dwarves, returning from an undescribed trek across Dragonblight, stumbled across a mountain dwarf (a type they'd never heard of before), who [[LaserGuidedAmnesia couldn't even remember his name]], lost in the snow, so they decided to take him back home with them. On the way, they were attacked by a giant jormungar (Giant, acid-spitting worms), who swallowed one of the group before they could even react. They thought they were doomed, "...but behind him, a furious roar rumbled across the snow, and he turned to see the mountain dwarf growing in size, his skin taking on a stone-like texture, and his hands sizzling with lightning. The dwarf barreled forward with a sound like rolling thunder and hurled a shining metal hammer, lightning coursing over its surface, directly into the jormungar's throat. The jormungar collapsed instantly, its head barely still attached to its convulsing body." Do NOT mess with Yorg[[spoiler:/Muradin]]
* The intro cinematic for ''Wrath of the Lich King''. Arthas waking from the Frozen Throne, stabbing Frostmourne into the ice which awakens Sindragosa, who then flies out over the armies of the Scourge, all of them roaring together. The [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic epic soundtrack just adds to it.]]
* The Death Knight's starting area has one where you mercilessly destroy armies of the Scarlet Crusade ''with a frost wyrm''.
* In Ulduar, [[TheWarSequence the lead-up to the first boss]] has your raid group hop into tanks, demolishers, and a motorcycle or two and take the fight to a seemingly-endless army of Iron Dwarves and their constructs. While it was relevant, people were likely more focused on staying alive and getting to the Flame Leviathan, but it was still visually impressive with tracer fire and explosions going off everywhere you looked while your group made its way through this massive army.
* The Darkspear leader Vol'jin gets one in Cataclysm, as he opposes the other trolls who want to rebuild their ancient empire. Mixed with SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.
-->'''Troll''': You dare to stand against your people!?\\
'''Vol'jin''': The Horde is ''my'' people!!
** And as of the Siege of Orgrimmar, it's true. [[spoiler:The dark heart of Y'Shaarj, that is.]]
* Garrosh Hellscream of all people gets one in the Cataclysm quest ''To Be Horde''. [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4RTB5LxJ0Ut YOU! ARE! DISMISSED!]]]]
** There really is a flying motorbike. Really and truly. At least for this one quest.
* The final battle against [[BigBad Deathwing]], anyone? First of all, it takes place in the Maelstrom, which is where [[WhereItAllBegan Deathwing first burst forth into Azeroth]], second of all, all four of the Dragon Aspects and Thrall with the Dragon Soul ([[HoistByHisOwnPetard which Deathwing coveted and betrayed the aspects for, no less]]) are backing you and your raid up. Tentacles bursting forth everywhere, and Deathwing attempting to finish off the world with another Cataclysm (instant wipe, no question), and it all ends with Deathwing being destroyed for good by the Dragon Soul.
** That doesn't even take into account how you reach the Maelstrom. The raid parachutes onto Deathwing's back where they must ''tear his scales off'' while his own immune system comes to life to stop you. Once his scales are gone, Thrall shoots him the Dragon Soul which ''shoots straight through Deathwing's chest'' and causes him to plunge into the Maelstrom.
* The Battle for Gilneas quest for the Worgen starting area. The player must fight and drive the Forsaken out of his home, fighting alongside the leaders of the nation and a small army of Worgen and regular citizens. You ''felt'' the Gilnean pride when listening to Prince Liem's RousingSpeech before making the charge.
[[folder:Mists of Pandaria]]
* Alliance players start ''Mists'' by storming into Pandaria on the Skyfire, after which you jump onto a Gyrocopter and Unleash Hell, no, that's ''literally'' [[http://www.wowhead.com/quest=31732/unleash-hell the quest name]] rain down Gatling gun rounds and missiles onto the Horde.
* The Jinyu quest line where you give out weapons to a bunch of Pearlfin acolytes and train them by fighting in the wilderness. Afterwards you and the 4 you trained go out into battle against an army of the newly Horde-aligned hozen, who vastly outnumber the Jinyu. [[CurbStompBattle You slaughter all of them, and kill their leader.]] '''For the glory of the Alliance!'''
* The wall that keeps the Mantid out of Valley of the Four Winds is broken down by their Kunchong. The forces you gathered up questing there and in Krasarang Wilds come to save the day, but you save it most of all. You do this by letting yourself get eaten by the Colossus, and then utilizing [[TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential special training you received]] from a [[HermitGuru pandaren martial arts master]] to punch your way out it from inside like a chestburster!
** Just how amazing this scene is cannot be understated. The local commander of the Shado-Pan orders a retreat when the wall falls, but then ''Chen Stormstout himself'' arrives and kicks some Mantid ass. Following Chen are a group of four students who you had helped throughout Krasarang Wilds and the Valley of the Four Winds, and then Chen starts talking about how Pandaria belongs to them, their ancestors, and their children. ''Nearly every single named NPC you have interacted with, from the Crane acolytes to the Tauren and Night Elf settlers to the militia from Zhu's Watch to the humble farmers from the beginning of the zone, start running down the hillside ready to fight the swarm.'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZmLhuvjG2U See it for yourself!]]
** On a smaller scale is the NPC Shomi, a Disney/{{Mulan}} {{Expy}} in Kun-Lai Summit's Zouchin Village area. A young girl whose protective father wants her to be a lady. She's only ''just'' beginning to wonder if she'd make a better adventurer than Lady when the Zandalari attack Zouchin. Unable to just stand by, she asks you to teach her on a fight, resulting in a quest where you kill trolls with her at your side. After the quest, she returns to Zouchin, trains yet more defenders herself, and is a major defender when the Zandalari attack the village en masse.
* The start of the Shieldwall/Dominance Offensive quests, where [[spoiler:Varian Wrynn (for the Alliance)/Garrosh Hellscream (for the Horde) comes ashore, starts tossing orders around, and when he gets to the player, tells them that because they know the land so well they're to stick with him. Followed by one quest where you fight by the King's/Warchief's side.]]
** And then [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pm63E71ZOI Th]][[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPOiIdqf8Eo is]] happens.
** The remixed Shieldwall[=/=]Dominance zone in general, It's basically TheWarSequence, except ''permanent'', on multiple fronts, with players on ''both'' sides. The Alliance going Normandy beach on the Horde base from [[AirborneAircraftCarrier The Skyfire]]? A full-out frontal assault on Lion's landing? Both happening ''at the same time''? Yeah, all that and various secondary conflicts going on in just about everywhere else in the battlefield.
* The climax of the Vale of Eternal Blossoms when you hit exalted is perhaps the coolest battle since the Death Knight starting zone, [[spoiler: It starts with you checking on Zhi the Harmonious to find he's been killed, and the helm of the Thunder King has been taken from you, after fending off an ambush you return to Leven to find that the entirety of the Shao-tien army has arrived and is overwhelming the defenders. Leven sends you out expecting this to be the last stand, when a few kills in, the [[PhysicalGod August Celestials]] arrive and empower you, from there, you tread into the vale at full power and proceed to ''[[OneManArmy single handedly destroy the entire Shao-tien army with almost zero effort]]''. After this, you and Leven take the battle to the Mogu leader, Zhin the Bloodletter, the SmugSnake who's been rubbing your "inferiority" in your face during every main event in the quest series, and finish him off after a (Surprisingly difficult for this game) fight, you return to the Terrace where you get your dailies and are hailed as a hero by everyone in the vale.]]
* A ''daily quest'' from the Klaxxi is easily this. The player rides a massive Kuchong (a smaller version of the Ik'thik Colossus above) and carves their way through enemy mantid. The goal? Kill 200 enemies and it's ''[[CurbStompBattle a breeze]]''.
* Patch 5.1 and Patch 5.2 increases the awesome moments for the Blood Elves of the Horde in general. [[spoiler:When Jaina imprisons the Sunreavers from Dalaran due to Garrosh using Sunreaver spies to steal the Divine Bell from Darnassus using the Sunreaver's portal network, it's up to Rommath and the Horde heroes to break Aethas and the other non-imprisoned Sunreavers out of Dalaran. This includes freeing dragonhawks, executing a High Elf who feeds Sunreavers to Segacedi the Dalaran Sewer Shark, breaking Aethas out, and finally escaping from Dalaran from the sewers by jumping off of Dalaran!]] Lor'themar telling his forces to ready up in preparations for a battle is almighty enough, especially taking Rommath's praise that "he would make a suitable Warchief" in place of Garrosh himself.
* Before that, you had the [[spoiler: Purge of Dalaran itself, in which Jaina gets fed up with the Sunreavers and the horde in general betraying every agreement, just out and orders the sunreavers out of Dalaran, when Aethas refuses, she [[CurbStompBattle freezes him before he can even do anything]] and starts teleporting Blood Elves into the Purple Citadel while Vereesa orders you to stop the literal insurrection brewing in the sunreaver's quarter of Dalaran, which used to be a off-limits zone. You march in and singlehandedly slaughter the entire Sunreaver Garrison in there and then take down Sunreaver-aligned shopkeepers, who attack you on sight and a Sunreaver trying to loot the bank before running off. Following all of this, in 5.2 Jaina officially aligns the Kirin Tor back with the Alliance and takes the war to the Thunder King.]].
* The climax of the main quest chain in 5.2 is a huge moment of awesome for Taran Zhu: [[spoiler: After killing The Thunder King's second in command, a bleeding out and nearly dead Taran ''leaps'' into the middle of the Horde and Alliance forces and ''roars'' out the following quote, which makes both sides back down long enough to realize ''they're in agreement Garrosh has to go'', and that they may still be closer allies than either side realizes. Furthermore, the exchange gets Jaina to finally realize she might have been ''wrong'' about the Sunreavers being complicit in the theft of the Divine Bell.]]
* One for the [[BareFistedMonk Monk class]] in general. [[http://www.wowhead.com/spell=115080 Touch of Death]] instantly kills any non-player character that has equal or less health than the monk. Cue level 90 monks [[OneHitKill one-shotting]] vanilla raid bosses.
* ''Gelbin Mekkatorque'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgPVEWIaK8M showing up in the Siege of Orgrimmar.]] Sure he's only got a few seconds of dialogue, but he hasn't done anything at all since 4.0!
* Taran Zhu goes one on one with Garrosh in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slzQOyS5TqQ trailer for the Siege of Orgrimmar]]. He may be a BaseBreaker, but that was one hell of a fight.
** Especially awesome is his ShutUpHannibal to Garrosh.
--->'''Garrosh''': Step aside Pandaren. You confront a force beyond reckoning.\\
'''Taran Zhu''': Your father dabbled in forces beyond reckoning. Where is he now?
** Garrosh himself gets one for fighting Taran Zhu and winning. Especially the part where he [[spoiler: punches Taran off the bridge]].
* It adds a layer of evil to him, but about as much badass. [[spoiler: Garrosh isn't being controlled or corrupted by Y'Shaarj. He's doing this because he wants to. Even as the heart's power flows through him, it doesn't outright mutate or manipulate him, instead just forming over his upper half as a fleshy armor. He has ''successfully weaponized an Old God.'']]
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A00jJxhyRY ending cinematic]] for the expansion features Varian interrupting Thrall's killing blow, Taran Zhu taking Garrosh prisoner, and [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning a new Warchief]].
-->[[spoiler:'''Warchief Vol'jin:''' ''I'' speak for the Horde.]]
** Not to mention the terms of peace.
--->[[spoiler:'''King Varian Wrynn:''' But know this: if your Horde fails to uphold honor as Garrosh did, ''we will end you.'']]
*** And to be clear. [[spoiler: This isn't just anything, Varian marched up his guards with him, making it very clear that this was the Horde's ''final'' warning, and any more aggression will ''not'' be tolerated.]]
**** Equally impressive was Vol'jin's response. [[spoiler: Rather than react with bravado, or deliver taunts or oneliners, his response is to ''stand''. To clarify, Vol'jin is such a tall and imposing figure he has to crouch constantly to even be at eye-level with Varian. And even then he's a few inches taller. After Varian more or less tells him "Behave, or we'll kill you" Vol'jin right there demonstrates how different he is from garrosh. He delivers no verbal threats, no bravado, or taunts. He simply stands to his full imposing height and delivers one hell of a DeathGlare as to show this "high king" that the real horde is not going to be so easily crushed as garrosh's cronies were.]]
** Another one is Thrall's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the defeated Garrosh, a very effective and concise one that more or less the twelve exact words that hurt the most for Garrosh to hear them.
-->'''Thrall''': You disappoint me, Garrosh[[note]]A call back to "Heart of War", in which Garrosh inwardly admits that Thrall saying that after their fight before the Scourge invasion got to him[[/note]]. You are not worthy of your father's legacy.
** The short silent moment between Thrall and Varian is also great. When [[spoiler:Vol'jin]] reveals himself, Varian was obviously expecting Thrall and looks over at him with a little bit of confusion. Thrall gives an absolutely ''perfect'' "deal with it" face in response.
* Speaking of [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech The Reason You Suck Speeches]], Wrathion gets an impressive one from [[http://wowpedia.org/Quest:Judgment_of_the_Black_Prince a very unlikely source]].
--> You mistake your greatest strength for weakness. Do you not see this?
[[folder: Warlords of Draenor]]
* The intro cinematic for ''Warlords'' is pretty satisfying as an EvilVsEvil fight between Grom and the Iron Horde and Mannoroth and Gul'dan.
* Garrosh and Thrall [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHwiEbXqh3k duel in Nagrand]], [[BookEnds where it all began.]] Garrosh proceeds to shatter Thrall's beads, knock him to the ground, and deliver a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown while screaming about how it's all Thrall's fault. Thrall responds by unleashing all the elements against Garrosh at once, [[spoiler:killing him.]]
-->''"YOU made me Warchief! You LEFT ME to pick up YOUR! PIECES! YOU... FAILED... MEEEE!"''
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNxKyFWdQxM battle against Blackhand at Shattrath Harbor]], where Yrel and Durotan team up with each others' weapons to defeat Blackhand [[spoiler:in revenge for Maraad and Orgrim Doomhammer's deaths.]] Then Khadgar and Thaelin Darkanvil fire a [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Iron Star cannon]] at the Iron Horde's ships, destroying it and teleporting Yrel and Durotan out just in time.
* [[spoiler:Ga'nar and (Draenor) Velen's]] respective HeroicSacrifices. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8kEAtkq_fc former's]] is a BolivianArmyEnding, holding off the Iron Horde in a pass before he's crushed to death in an avalanche, while the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkL9n861Emw latter's]] releases a ''massive'' [[LightEmUp wave of Light]] over Shadowmoon Valley that empowers the draenei armies who proceed to charge against the Iron Horde.
* The Genesaurs on Draenor lead other plant creatures and [[NightmareFuel infect living beings with zombie seeds that take over their body and / or turn them into mulch to feed more plant people]]. The final boss of the Everbloom dungeon is a Genesaur that has hijacked a portal to Stormwind, threatening to unleash that on Azeroth, and the battle is on the cliff overlooking the Mage District alongside a group of Kirin Tor while the Genesaur summons all manner of plant monsters.
* The fact that rather than treating the player as [[AnAdventurerIsYou just another grunt]], Horde/Alliance forces refer to the player as "Commander" and later "General".
* Yrel's {{character development}} throughout the questing is something special to behold, as she goes from being unsure of herself to becoming a confident young leader, and it leads up to the garrison campaign questline where [[spoiler:[[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning she becomes an Exarch]]]].
* Gul'dan [[spoiler:takes over the Iron Horde from Grommash like a boss]]. Despite loss after loss to the Iron Horde, the players, and his own lieutenants betraying him, Gul'dan still [[spoiler: offers demon blood to Grom a second time, does a KickTheSonOfABitch by pointing out his massive losses and the death of Garrosh, pins him to the wall with one spell after he refuses a second time, and then makes Kilrogg into a fel Orc by having him accept the blood willingly. Khadgar had reason to fear him despite him being the ButtMonkey for a while]]
![[ComicBook/WorldOfWarcraft The Comic]]
* The hero discovers his identity:
-->'''Naga Siren''': "Just like before. All bluster, no fight! Not even worth ransoming. You're nothing..."\\
''Varian cuts the naga in half.'' |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66228 | !! From the Creator/TerryGilliam [[Film/TheBrothersGrimm Film]]
* The whole film in general. When it's not attacking the viewer with bizarre NightmareFuel, it's downright hysterical.
-->'''Will''': Look at this strapping young lad!
-->'''Peasant''': "He" is my daughter.
-->'''Will''': ({{Beat}}) And a fine wife he'll make some lucky man!
* [[Creator/PeterStormare Cavaldi]] is a riot and a scene-stealer at all times he appears.
* "Trust the toad!"
!! ''Once Upon a Brothers Grimm''
* Wilhelm runs into a witch who gives him the enchanted cloak.
-->'''Wilhelm:''' Jakob? Is that you?\\
'''Witch:''' Do I look like a Jakob to you?
* Wilhelm is stuffing himself with the goodies the witch of Hansel and Gretel made to fatten them and Jakob.
-->'''Wilhelm:''' Want some gingerbread?\\
'''Jakob:''' No! That woman never washed her hands before she bakes!\\
''(Wilhelm eats it anyway)''
* Jakob suddenly finds himself in the bed of Red Riding Hood's grandma, in her nightgown. He hears a knock on the door (the Big Bad Wolf) and shouts "Go away! There's no one home!".
* This dialogue:
-->'''Wilhelm:''' I don't know your name. I just know that you're a jackass.\\
'''Jackass:''' Well, that's my name. [[ADogNamedDog Jackass]]. You can call me Jack.
* The air-headed Little Red Riding Hood. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66233 | Analysis: The East
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66235 | Awesome: Morgan M Morgansen
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66236 | * When Tifa is absolutely thrashed after her magic heavy combo attacks in the second part, It's Yuna who comes to her aide with potion and either. [[WhiteMage old habits]] [[CombatMedic die hard, 'eh Yuna?]]
* Notice the kneeling pose Tifa is in during Part V, after coming out of the flashback. It is ''the exact same pose'' she has in ''FFVII'' when in critical status - in other words, right before unleashing her Limit.
* Rewatch ''DF'' I and II again and notice the tactics used. While the ''FF'' girls tend towards teamwork and combination attacks (like the Haste casting), the ''DOA'' girls try to force one on one battles, and only gain an upper hand when the ''FF'' girls are outnumbered (and therefore splitting focus). Since ''DF'' III on has the girls separated, the ''DOA'' girls are showing their superiority. Now comes the real FridgeBrilliance: Think about exactly what kind of games these characters come from. While the ''fighting game characters are more effective in one on one battles'', the ''RPG characters are more powerful as a team''.
** Possibly leading to even more brilliance when you consider just ''when'' the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' girls start to kick ass. In the first video, Team ''FF'' start getting their act together when Tifa joins Yuna and Rikku and brings their total number to three - the smallest possible "full" party of any ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' game. The team gets to an almost [[GameBreaker game-breaking]] level of power when Rinoa and Kairi appear, bringing their number to five - the ''largest'' party possible in any main-numbered ''Final Fantasy'' game.
* In Dead Fantasy V, when Tifa is hallucinating before her HeroicSpirit moment, it shows her waking up at the tower from Dead Fantasy 1, in the same place she jumped in and saved Yuna and Rikku. A single white feather falls down by her side. Given that Rinoa has the ability to teleport people and that she has white feathers on her wings, could it be that ''she'' was the one who transported Tifa there to help Yuna and Rikku in their hour of need?
* A female warrior appears over a battlefield and whisks the heroines in battle away to do battle elsewhere, in more brutal and savage conditions, apparently in preparation for a greater battle. She comes complete with sword, shield, and wings, completing the classical look associated with a certain Norse god's agents. That's right; ''Rinoa is a freaking [[{{Valkyries}} Valkyrie]]!'' Of course, FridgeHorror might kick in when you remember that the Valkyries were the "Choosers of the ''Slain''"....
* ''DeadFantasy'' music videos. They say if one should want to maintain their appetite for sausages, they must be careful as to not being present when they are being prepared. The music videos, too, apply: the gentleman responsible for these impressive animations are said to have employed the technique of mocap-ing himself in order to capture the delicate, acclaimed movements. The subtle hip movements near the beginning of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFrlFeK8guY Obsessed]]" may lose their savour once a viewer learns of this truth. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66237 | Funny: Impure Blood
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66239 | So You Want To: Write A Dating Sim
Perhaps you are interested in creating a cute story in which the main character can end up with one of several love interests. Maybe you want to prove to the world that you can make a full-blown Dating Sim without problems like illogical choices (or gratuitous sex). Or perhaps you want to mix some relationship elements into your mainstream video game. Regardless, read on.
Choices, Choices
The first decision you make will unlock a major Event Flag for your story/game:
1. Are you prepared to make a stat-driven dating simulation which approaches the complexity of Tokimeki Memorial, or a raising sim as intricate as Princess Maker? (If so, you better have a lot of time, resources, and assistants who are committed to work with you.)
2. Do you want to just make a simple Visual Novel?
3. Or are you ready to create a hybrid-genre game (for example, including RPG elements)?
If you're not creating a product with the intention of selling it, then know what you're getting into. Do not talk about your awesome plans until your project is almost finished. Instead, write a few scenes, or get some of your gameplay to work. Then set a realistic deadline for yourself, and don't change it. The English-speaking Ren Ai Game community has too many examples of games which only had demos, or which never amounted to more than ambitious plans.
The second decision which will shape your game:
Who is your main character, and what is his/her sexuality? The following options will make a huge difference:
1. Heterosexual male. Yes, you may have seen it already. However, there's more out there than sex romps. Boy-meets-girl(s) stories exist in all sorts of flavors. They can be silly, they can be cute, they can be tragic, they can be twisted...
2. Heterosexual female. As of 2009, the Otome Game genre has been around for fifteen years. And unlike bishoujo games, it didn't begin with porn — no, the first one was Angelique, on Super Famicom.
3. Gay male. If you're working in the Boys Love Genre, then your characters will be somewhere between androgynous and feminine. If you're working in the lesser known gay genre, then your characters will be Manly Gay.
4. Gay female. A tiny genre. See also Schoolgirl Lesbians.
Any of the above could conceivably be crossdressers. Any of them could have one or more transgendered people or bifauxnen as potential love interests. If you're using a straight protagonist, you could throw in a member of the same sex as a Gay Option, or even include a dateable member of the opposite sex if your protagonist is gay.
Unless you have a ridiculous amount of time, talent, and people ready to help you, try to avoid creating a bisexual main character, or multiple main characters. Stick with something simple unless you're experienced, or you're getting paid.
Necessary Tropes
Unless you are making a story which is the equivalent of "gen" Fan Fic, you will have a main character who falls in love with one or more people, or vice versa. Therefore, you need to devise interesting ways for their feelings to develop.
Most commercial ren'ai games feature a harem. If your game will have one, then find a way to make it logical. Note that harems do not necessarily exist in doujin visual novels.
Likewise, many commercial games have a Slice of Life setting. If your setting is realistic, then make sure you can portray it in a way that the audience will find interesting. However, there are examples of ren'ai games which take place in diverse genres, including but not limited to fantasy, science fiction, horror...
Nearly all dating sims have Multiple Endings. These can often vary from good to bad to nihilistic. Don't let all of them be happy, because if the main character is not allowed to fail, then your story/game may lose its emotional impact.
If you have decided to create an adult game, then you need to decide how sex will be incorporated into the story or the gameplay. You can include hardcore scenes at important moments. You can create a love story in which a single sex scene is an important landmark for the characters. Or you can create a game filled with challenges and/or puzzles, and make it difficult to get to a sex scene.
Just like in the Write A Magical Girlfriend Series entry, a male main character may be an Unlucky Everydude. In other words, he may be quite dull. Also, a main male character can sometimes be a Marty Stu who gets all the girls with no effort. Remember, you want your audience to sympathize with the main character, or perhaps imagine they could be him. So do your best to find an alternative to "boring" and "obnoxious" characters. You should ask questions such as, "Why would anyone like this person?" Remember, it could get worse — if your story involves horror/dark themes, and if your main character is doing horrible things, then your audience may want to see themselves as anyone but that character. Note that Featureless Protagonist is exception to this. However, there is reason why Dating Sim use this character less and less.
Mary Sue: if your main character is female, some fans may be quick to label her a Mary Sue, or as some sort of stand-in for Fangirls. Don't overcompensate to avoid this. Just show the audience that she has plausible strengths and real weaknesses.
Stereotypes: some character lists in bishoujo and otome games can seem like checklists of fan-favorite character types. (Patient Childhood Love Interest, Meido, Ojou/Sheltered Aristocrat, Not Blood Siblings, Troubled, but Cute, Token Mini-Moe...) Add some unique-but-not-bland characters, or at least add some variety. It's possible to present the audience with a character who seems like a stereotype at first, and then introduce complications as the story goes on.
If your story takes place near a school, and nearly every important character is under twenty years old, then there's a chance that your story may seem trite even if it's original. Strive to add distinct elements to your game/story which will be obvious from the very first scene.
How will the characters meet? Do they know each other before the story begins? Make sure any Meet Cute scenes are not just random occurrences.
It's possible to create a multi-path game with an Official Couple. This might even make the other characters Pretty Freeloaders. Maybe you can even go as far as to create a story in which the two people are more than just casual acquaintances at the beginning. If the game is a simulation, and the Official Couple continues their relationship, then your game could emphasize time management and making friends. This would be different from the many games in which the main character is unattached at the beginning, and the story is all about his/her finding love.
However, as long as you're willing to write Multiple Endings, try to make sure all the pairings make sense. Remember, the player may be interested in creating OTPs out of your cast.
Comedy can add to a game, but if the storyline and characters are treated as one big joke, then your game may become a Shallow Parody and lose its emotional impact.
If your story or game has a decision tree, then it doesn't hurt to include some blatantly obvious Event Flag-triggering decisions. At the same time, don't write choices which are misleading or hopelessly vague. Luck Based Missions will frustrate your audience. (Unless the point of your game is to be misleading or vague.)
In a similar vein, do your best to avoid But Thou Must. Your audience may become frustrated if the in-game decisions are meaningless, or if they can't make decisions at important parts of the plot. (Unless your goal is to create a universe in which You Can't Fight Fate.)
Dismissed Gender: Be sure to read that entry for its suggestions on what your audience might find acceptable. Then strive to avoid a game in which a male lead character can pursue girls much younger than him... or at the very least, make sure there are consequences or challenges.
If you choose to create an all-ages game, then don't tease the audience by labeling it as porn. A few fan-made games which were billed as eroge but did not have any sex scenes will be disappoint.
If you choose to create an H-Game, remember that too much sex can actually be boring. Additionally, remember that writing sex itself is not the easiest thing. We have a separate article, So You Want To: Write A Sex Scene?, on the subject. (And that's not even getting into the possibility of the Hot Coffee Minigame.)
If your game is based on an existing series (as a form of Fanfic), and if you try to keep plot and continuity intact, then it might end up seeming like Filler. The opposite problem can exist — if your game could resolve the Love Dodecahedron and/or break up couples, then set the story at a point where Romantic Loose Ends Can Be Cleaned Up.
Potential Subversions
If you're trying to sell a text-driven game to an audience which suffers from Small Reference Pools, or an audience that has never experienced one (at least since the days of Zork), then you might want to include some elements which make your content more palatable. Break away from a Cliché Storm such as "boring main character gets three to five love interests. No plot, no bad endings." Here are some ideas...
If you think your audience doesn't know the difference between an H-Game and an all-ages game, then perhaps you should mess with their expectations. You can encourage the audience to use its imagination. You could present a scene where it first seems as though the main character is having sex, but then reveal that something else is happening. You could include a scene which suggests that the main character's friend or rival has a non-platonic love interest.
If you're weary of weak, bland main characters, then make him/her distinct. Perhaps the main character has No Social Skills. Or perhaps he/she is Badass. An innocent main character might be welcomed by the rest of the cast. But if the others perceive the main character to be a threat, then there will be some antagonism.
If the main character voluntarily crossdresses (or is compelled to), then this could set up a story which starts as same-sex friendship, but then develops into love. (Boys Love Genre and Yuri Genre writers may further subvert this if they want.)
If you don't want your story to drifting into WAFF territory, consider adding an active antagonist. Or put the characters into threatening situations.
Don't let the player get rewarded just for taking the time to read your game. Let there be a real possibility that the main character will end up alone.
If you're bored with available characters whose personalities are bland, then write a few who are distinct. For instance, if at least one character is a Fanboy or a Fangirl, then you can use that character to comment on what it's like to be a nerd. Or why not use one or multiple Hot-Blooded characters to change the audience's expectations?
In most bishoujo and otome games, the characters are all inexplicably chaste teens who do not already have relationships. How could you subvert that? Consider a story in which the main character or the available characters are slowly recovering from failed relationships. Or one in which the main character can't win unless he/she carefully convinces one other person to break up with their current love interest.
In To Heart, it's possible for the main character to build a relationship with Multi, who is a Ridiculously Human Robot. It might be possible for them to live together, but this could be awkward. Work with that idea, and think what might happen if your main character attempted to win the love of a humanoid being incapable of straight sex or procreation.
If the main character attempts to hook up with a "different" person (someone much richer, or someone of a different race), then it should be a challenge.
If the main character is an adult who falls in love with an underage person, then either they should be punished, or else it should be quite difficult to wait until that person is old enough.
Want to be bold? Try making a character who isn't really attractive. Then let the main character slowly discover why this ugly character is special.
Or consider a game in which the main character is not "selfishly" trying to find a love interest for him/herself. Instead, write a game in which the main character is compelled to act as a matchmaker for other people.
No matter what, your game will be fiction. So if you're interested in commenting on the differences between fiction and Real Life, then you could put your characters into a virtual reality world, or people who are Trapped in TV Land, or make them actors, or role-players...
A patch for School Days is in the works. Until they get completed, though, be sure to study their anime and manga spinoffs. Think about the ways these stories deconstruct the Harem Genre.
How much time will your story cover? Will it continue on after the honeymoon's over? Do some research on Memories Off 2nd, which is all about breaking up, or the latter segments of CLANNAD, which cover life after school years are over.
Writers' Lounge
Suggested Themes and Aesops
It's entirely possible to write a game which initially seems feature a harem, but once the player gets to know the story, it is much more like True Companions. The Power of Friendship might help in resolving conflicts which stem from love triangles. On other end, it can be much more like Psychological Horror as well. A cutesy conflicts which stem from love triangles might end with Downer Ending if resolved with Love Makes You Evil Yandere Stalker with a Crush.
Your game/story could be a (delayed?) Coming-of-Age Story. Consider writing a story in which the main character grows from an Accidental Pervert or a Fangirl into someone more mature. Or if your game will have statistics, see if you can portray your main character as someone who grows as his/her stats improve. On a similar note, your main character could grow in maturity as he/she changes from indecisive to committed to one person.
Your main character could be a nerd, or someone who has trouble dealing with people. Perhaps this character has been alone prior to the events of the story. If so, why? Did he/she choose solitude? Or did he/she simply not fit in with normal society? If that is true, then perhaps your main character was A) bullied, B) an outsider, C) acting in socially inappopriate ways, or D) suffering from trauma. A main character with any of these issues will have a major effect on the story.
If you prefer a less realistic nerd character, or if you want to reduce potential You Suck implications, then your main character might suffer from "nerdy" problems which are unlikely or impossible in Real Life. Is he/she Allergic to Love? Was he/she Cursed with Awesome, and thus his/her "problems" are things many people only dream about? A female main character who Does Not Like Men shouldn't have to trace her issues back to plausible causes.
If it seems too easy for the main character to get together with the other characters, then your writing may have a hollow ring. To avoid this, consider adding unexpected complications which show that love isn't as easy as making a few choices or increasing the right stats. Reveal that potential love interests have complicated lives and backgrounds.
It's not unusual to find tragic endings in commercial ren'ai games. The wacky comedy Green Green eventually turned into a Tear Jerker. Therefore, if you can justify creating an optional or mandatory sad ending, then you may certainly include one.
Potential Motifs
If you want to create a harem game, then see if you can create links between the characters to make it a Themed Harem. They could be classmates, teachers, or Not Blood Siblings. They could be people who share jobs, sports, hobbies, beliefs, or backgrounds. Or they could just be of your favourite moe character type.
At the same time, don't let the members of your game's harem be clones of each other. Vary them. See if you can write the available characters in ways which highlight the attributes of your main character. Or let your main character's interests and life experiences be reflected in the available characters.
Suggested Plots
The Tokimeki Memorial games happen over the course of three years. But unless you have a lot of ambition, you will probably want to create a game with a smaller scope. Consider the following...
Vacation: surely your main character can meet people away from home and his/her normal life. Time is short, and sightseeing can be quite distracting.
Reunion: after some time apart, the main character is once again meeting people from his/her recent past. Have they grown up? How have they changed over the years? (Are they unrecognizable?) Do they genuinely miss each other? Can their relationships improve now? This can be done very well, but be wary of making it too much like Kanon, considering how influential that game was.
Familiar to unfamiliar: the main character has lived in an isolated world. Suddenly, he/she goes to a place where there are several girls or guys. The main character might be welcomed, or might be seen as a menace. It's possible to let the potential love interests arrive unexpectedly, but that may be a copout.
Coping with a crisis: in Kiminozo, the main character is forced to deal with a girl in a coma. In Nanatsuiro Drops, the main character has to figure out how he'll live after becoming non-human most hours of the day. What crisis could your main character have to confront?
The difference between friendship and love: from the otome game Houkago wa Hakugin no Shirabe, it seems the main character spends some of the story disguised as a guy, and thus she forms friendships with the male characters. Therefore, consider how your story might work if friends might turn into lovers.
Thematic schedule management: the Pia Carrot games were early examples of games in which the player had a constrained amount of gameplay to increase the main character's stats. Since then, a few similar games, including otome games, have been created. Therefore, think of a situation in which your main character would need to learn a task. Or a situation in which the main character would have to grow in order to get the attention of cute people nearby.
Set Designer / Location Scout
Many ren'ai games take place in locations which are calm or pretty. But if your game borrows fantasy RPG elements, you can make your art reflect that. Ditto for science fiction, horror, etc.
Props Department
The props to be involved in your game heavily depend on the setting. Extensive research goes a long way.
Costume Designer
School-themed dating simulations tend to have uniforms somewhere between "cute" and "cool." But if your game/story doesn't take place in a school setting, you may use whatever costumes you want.
Outside of sex scenes, characters in H-games tend to stay fully dressed. He has seen only one game with an Innocent Fanservice Girl... and the protagonist could not hook up with that character. He wouldn't mind a little Author Appeal — that is, seeing a few more characters of that type.
Casting Director
It's common to find characters who are Moe Moe, Bishoujo, Bishounen, or Yaoi Guys. Not every character is what they appear at first. A Wholesome Crossdresser can exist, and even be an available character, in Bishoujo Games.
Stunt Department
If your game involves lots of action, stunts are required. Otherwise, this department is nonexistent.
Extra Credit
There's already several games which blend unexpected genres. Galaxy Angel is an RTS as well as a ren'ai game. Nanatsuiro Drops takes its story ideas and art from the Magical Girl genre. The Infinity series from KID (Never7, Ever17, Remember11) have strong suspense and philosophic elements. Sakura Taisen brings together many different genres. Therefore, think up the most unlikely game genre fusion that you can. Can you combine a dating sim with an FPS? How about a Platform Game? Then consider fiction genres. Would a genre like Funny Animal work? Would Film Noir be acceptable? What about Toku?
Remember: dating sims don't always happen in the good ol' Land of the Rising Sun. Why not make a dating sim set in a Real Life non-Japanese country (or even a specific region/area/province), which will have the additional benefit of being an Edutainment Game? (See Mangagamer and Overdrive's collaborative work, Go! Go! Nippon.)
If you have played Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire or Mass Effect, then consider ways in which you could incorporate similar decision trees into a dating sim.
Consider a change from the cliche "still, cartoonish figures against a more realistic background, with text on the bottom" graphic style. For instance, look at the art and dialogue styles used in Littlewitch games. (As of this writing, only one Littlewitch game is being fan translated: the H game version of Quartett!)
If you are familiar with a specific ren'ai game, consider what would happen if it went through a Gender Flip. What could be improved? What could make it a poor adaptation? Research the following: Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side, Your Memories Off, and Da Capo Girls Symphony.
Think about creating a multiplayer dating simulation. First, consider what sort of story and gameplay would appeal to fans who would be willing to compete or cooperate. Second, decide what sort of content you will include. Will you exclude the Otaku audience? Will you create the video game equivalent of board games for couples? Third, work on specific elements. Perhaps you could create a simulation in which players compete to win the hearts of 2D girls or guys. Maybe you could create a Moe Moe raising sim in which players raise characters... and perhaps have them fight!
Lighter And Softer: Aside from some other crazy people on message boards, when the majority of anime and game fans think about dating sims, all they know are raunchy PWP games. So instead of creating another porn game, or one with constant fanservice, why not create a relationship-centered game which doesn't appeal to Otaku? Play a few general audience Visual Novels (fan created and/or translated). Then think about what sort of visual novel or simulation would appeal to more than a few fans.
The Greats
This section is hampered by the fact that several critically acclaimed ren'ai games not only lack official translations, but also lack fan translation patches. (To be more specific, as of September 2010, only one of the Sakura Taisen games received an English localization, and by September 2012 only the first two Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side game of the vast Tokimeki Memorial franchise has a complete translation patch.) Thankfully, some individuals on GameFAQs have created English guides for a variety of relationship games.
Quartett. One of two games that sent littlewitch's popularity skyrocketing. It focuses on the lives of various young men and women who strive to be world-class musicians. Despite the slice-of-life pace, it still has incredibly powerful drama and romance aspects, making it a very satisfying coming-of-age tale. A complete English patch has been released for it.
A Midsummer Days Resonance. A translated doujin game with no choices. One of the few visual novels in English with a female protagonist.
Elven Relations. A fairly serious fantasy story which is also a harem story. It contains optional RPG battles.
Mitsumete Knight. It's already unusual for a Dating Sim to take place in a medieval-fantasy setting, but this game also has rich background story, notably of the world it's set in, and of the war taking place, which are as important as - and sometime overlapse with - The Hero's quest to win the girl's heart. Also, the game can go far enough to kill some girls off, even during dating event. The end result, a solid plot which will captivate even those who aren't interested in Dating Sims.
Katawa Shoujo. It sounds like a sick fetish game, with your love interests being crippled, but it's actually a well written visual novel with characters that are interesting and fun, with an awesome soundtrack, themes that are well-researched and taken seriously, and moments that make you want to smile and cry at the same time.
Hatoful Boyfriend. Marketed as a parody of the otome game genre, the player character is a human girl in a school for and by pigeons. Weird as the premise may sound, the characterisation is really wonderful and there is a second, very intense second storyline that turns the game into a surprisingly dark mystery thriller and explains the relationships between and many a thing from the past of the respective characters.
The Epic Fails
Love Hina Sim Date RPG. It's just a fan-made game, a Shallow Parody and an Ink Stain Adaptation. The gameplay isn't bad at all, but the dialogue and characterization resembled a chat room or a junior high cafeteria. This also applies to the Galaxy Angel fan game, which might be a Recursive Adaptation, except that the fan game creators probably did not play the untranslated games (and thought that prim loli Mint as a stoner was the funniest thing ever).
Season Of The Sakura. One of the first H games in English, and thus arguably an Ink Stain Adaptation. It resembled a poorly disguised doujin game, since all of the characters were Expys of ones from established series. Furthermore, the male main character was a Marty Stu who could excel at several sports, yet felt bored.
• Seasons of the Sakura also has a common failing with many early dating sims, in that while following the Visual Novel example, the game requires many upon many choices, about 3 of which are key to viewing any given ending. Really just a lot of pointless padding where a newer game would actually put more story.
Sprung, in addition to having few romance options and a mostly linear story, is also plagued with Trial-and-Error Gameplay and Guide Dang It. Beyond some Funny Moments and the option to play as either a man or a woman, there is little to recommend it. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66253 | • Story
Barack treats Tinseltown to his presidential punch lines
30 APRIL 2012
What do Kim Kardashian, Hillary Clinton and the US Secret Service all have in common they were all targets of Barack Obama's humour at a White House gala.
Taking to the podium at the annual Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, POTUS to give him his presidential acronym was on cracking form.
In a skit recorded recorded backstage, he was heard asking: "What am I doing here? I'm opening for (presenter) Jimmy Kimmel and telling knock-knock jokes to Kim Kardashian. Why is she famous anyway?".
Then, appearing before the star-studded audience, Barack smiled cheekily and said: "Thank you all for taking a break in your schedule of not passing any laws to be here tonight."
The guests – including George Clooney, Kim Kardashian and Eva Longoria – were shaking with laughter at his comedy routine.
And his wife Michelle – dazzling in a multi coloured print gown from Naeem Khan – also sat giggling from a nearby table.
• On Himself: " Look at my hair! I really went grey. I'm like a five on the Just For Men scale "
• On rival Mitt Romney: " (Romney) and I actually have a lot in common. We both have degrees from Harvard. I have one, he has two. What a snob!"
• On Kim Kardashian: " Why is she famous anyway?"
• On First Dog Bo: "America's dogs can't afford four more years of Obama, that's 28 years for dogs" |
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The Battleboar Pen
The Battleboar Pen is an area of southern Mulgore, in the south section of Red Cloud Mesa, southwest of the Thornsnarl.
Here the Bristleback quillboar under Chief Squealer Thornmantle raise Armored Battleboars, which are force-fed raw flesh and trained to be malicious. Nearby, the tauren Adana Thunderhorn is intent on killing the Battleboars and retaking the land, and asks for aid in doing so.
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The changing face of the MBA
Updated July 31, 2012 01:44:39
Geoffrey Garrett from the Sydney Business School discusses the getting ahead of the curve in the business world.
Source: The Business | Duration: 6min 15sec
TICKY FULLERTON, PRESENTER: In business leadership and management, what does it take to get ahead of the curve? Well in the '70s, '80s and even early '90s perhaps the answer was an MBA. Yet after a prolific expansion of business schools and courses right around the world, the return on investment of many MBAs became much less attractive.
Well today in Australia sees the launch of a new MBA program by Sydney University in this very competitive space.
And I'm joined in the studio now by the new Dean of the Sydney Business School, Professor Geoffrey Garrett.
Geoffrey, welcome to the program.
TICKY FULLERTON: Now, you've got recruitment firm Corn Ferry on board in a partnership for this. You talk about a re-imagined MBA. What does an executive three years into the workforce, which I think is what you're looking for, going to get for his $60,000-odd?
GEOFFREY GARRETT: Well I think, Ticky, the big story for MBAs today is that employers and would-be MBA students want exactly the same thing. They want a mix of technical professional skills that we've always had - finance, management, marketing - but they want that stuff that we used to call soft skills that I think are so important we can't call them soft anymore - critical thinking, communication, collaboration - all the stuff that really makes for leaders.
TICKY FULLERTON: That used to be the easy side of the MBA.
GEOFFREY GARRETT: As I said, soft skills was so disparaging. What we now know is that everything in the business world and in fact in non-profits and in government is about team work and leadership. So I think you've got to build that into the MBA from the ground up, which is what we've done.
TICKY FULLERTON: Well, I was going to say, how has the MBA thinking changed post-financial crisis? Because there is a view that of course Harvard MBAs were a contributor to the financial crisis.
GEOFFREY GARRETT: Well of course Harvard MBAs have done a lot of other stuff. Mitt Romney is now running for President as the Republican candidate. Tony Burg, Mark Johnson, David Clarke essentially founded Macquarie Bank in Australia on the back of Harvard MBAs. But, you know, I think in the post-financial...
TICKY FULLERTON: But did Gordon Gekko have an MBA?
GEOFFREY GARRETT: Well, Hollywood's a whole different story of course. But, you know, Hollywood and Wall Street were essentially incredibly innovative industries that were just scaled up massively by technology. So I think the obvious way to think about the post-GFC world is, "Gee, it was those evil MBA-educated Wall Streeters who caused it." But I don't think that's actually the right way to think about it. I mean, what's happened is that we're now living in this globalised, technology-enabled, winner-take-all world, and if people make bad decisions, their effects can be multiplied. But of course, the positive consequences of good decisions are equally multiplied.
TICKY FULLERTON: OK. So you talk about technology and I think you rightly identify this online assault of the virtual classroom. Your response is back to the future Oxford and Cambridge-style tutorials, Harvard and Yale-style seminars. Now that means that teaching, presumably, face-to-face teaching, has to be top class. Do you have the Tom Eisenmanns from Harvard and the Huggy Raos from Stanford? Have you got that sort of quality, do you think?
GEOFFREY GARRETT: Yeah, of course we are in a world of winner-take-all markets so these big global names in MBA education everyone knows about and everyone wants. But I think the key really is for us to focus on what is still gonna be unique about the in-class experience? And I think it's the people. It's the interaction, not only teacher student, but among the students as well. So I think we've got to think about MBA teachers not as teachers as we used to think about them, but rather as facilitators of learning where it's really about investing in our students to realise their ambitions. That's the big story, rather than just disseminating pure knowledge.
TICKY FULLERTON: You mentioned a couple of MBA pin-ups, if you like. I have to say, the MBA graduate that I think about immediately is Fred Hilmer at Fairfax, now at AGSM. And I think Fairfax is going to be a case study probably on your course.
GEOFFREY GARRETT: Well, of course, the media industry has been transformed and it'd be pretty hard to find a global leader in media who's looking good today. You know, even Rupert Murdoch of course is having his own challenges. But, you know, if you look at Fred Hilmer's career, not only has he got AGSM and now Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, he was also the head of McKinsey in Australia. You know, that's a pretty good record...
TICKY FULLERTON: Well you're very good to defend the opposition there.
GEOFFREY GARRETT: Well, Fred's an impressive person.
TICKY FULLERTON: Yeah, yeah, he is indeed. Can I ask you, lastly, moving away from MBAs for a moment, I know you've just come off the plane from North America from Canada. Foreign investment and Chinese foreign investment is so important. We've got this huge deal, Senuke looking to take over Nexen, the oil and gas company. You obviously see this as a very significant moment, don't you?
GEOFFREY GARRETT: Yeah, I think it's a massive moment. You know, while Australian politicians were beating each other up over hypotheticals about Chinese investment, the Canadian Government's gonna face probably the biggest decision where China's concerned that's happened in the business world. They've got a struggling oil and gas company, Senuke has come in and made a all-cash, $15 billion, 60 per cent premium bid for Nexen. The Canadian Government is gonna have to decide either, "We're not going to do this because it's a state-owned enterprise, or we are going to do it even though it's a state-owned enterprise." Either decision I think will be globally important.
TICKY FULLERTON: So, do you think that Australian decision-makers and FIRB will look at that very closely? That Wayne Swan will be looking at that very closely?
GEOFFREY GARRETT: Yeah, well, you know, I think the interesting thing about FIRB is that the biggest decision it took was a non-decision. It didn't rule in the Chinalco 20 per cent takeover of Rio. Essentially it sat on its hands and let the market dissolve that deal. I don't think that's gonna be - that option's gonna be available in Canada. So the Canadians are going to have to say, you know, "We don't like Chinese state-owned investment because they've got an unfairly low cost of capital. We don't like it because they're pursuing national foreign policy objectives." Either way I think it's going to be a tough decision, but it's probably a decision that FIRB in Australia one day soon will have to make itself.
TICKY FULLERTON: Indeed. Professor Geoffrey Garrett, thank you very much for joining us.
GEOFFREY GARRETT: My pleasure, Ticky. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66314 | Political donations reform
Thursday 16 February 2012 8:30AM (view full episode)
In a surprise move, the Greens backed the Liberal premier Barry O'Farrell in implementing what he calls the 'toughest donations laws in Australia'.
Union affiliation fees to the NSW Labor Party are now banned. Corporate donations are also banned, but corporations and individuals can still spend a million dollars each on their own political campaigning.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66338 | Suzanne Somers Didn’t Fact Check Her WSJ Healthcare Op-Ed
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Want to crib from the Wikipedia entry about your favorite sci-fi flick or swipe the lyrics from the Pokemon 2000 theme song? Those are dumb but acceptable choices. False quotes drawn from conspiracy theory email chains, however, will quickly sour your relationship with whatever respectable paper published them.
Maybe the WSJ should stick to letting “expert” Morgan Fairchild tell readers which Willie Nelson songs to play at their next party (though she couldn’t have come up with three more obvious choices than “Stardust”, “Crazy” and “Whiskey River”). |
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The Adventures of Captain Hatteras - Verne, Jules
Here is the first new translation of ever-popular adventure writer Jules Verne's thrilling novel of polar exploration in over a century. In the novel, First Mate Shandon receives a mysterious letter asking him to construct a reinforced steamship in Liverpool. As he heads out for Melville Bay and the Arctic labyrinth, a crewman finally reveals ...
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When I travel with a fair amount of film, its actually easier to take off the paper box, and the plastic canister, and toss the film into thick ziplocks. It saves so much more space.
But I am very thankful of the plastic canisters, esp the ilford ones where the cap is streamlined to the edge of the container since they bag neatly when I reroll and freeze them. The kodak type though a bit easier to remove the cap, have a protruding flange that takes up a bit of space which doesnt make neat packages in ziplock bags. |
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19Shallum was Kore’s son. Kore was Ebiasaph’s son. Ebiasaph was Korah’s son. Shallum and his brothers were gatekeepers. They were from the family of Korah. They had the job of guarding the gates to the Holy Tent. They did this just like their ancestors had done before them. Their ancestors had the job of guarding the entrance to the Holy Tent.
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1˻The Lord said,˼”I loved Israel when he was a child, and I called my son out of Egypt. 2But the more I called the Israelites, the more the Israelites left me. The Israelites gave sacrifices to the Baals. They burned incense to the idols. 3“But it was I who taught Ephraim to walk! I took the Israelites in my arms! I healed them! But they don’t know that. 4I led them with ropes. But they were ropes of love. I was like a person who set them free. I bent down and fed them. 5“The Israelites refuse to turn back ˻to God˼. So they will go to Egypt! ˻The king of˼ Assyria will become their king. 6The sword will swing against their cities. It will kill their strong men. It will destroy their leaders. 7“My people expect me to come back. They will call to God above. But God will not help them.” 8“Ephraim, I don’t want to give you up. Israel, I want to protect you. I don’t want to make you like Admah! I don’t want to make you like Zeboiim! I am changing my mind. My love for you is too strong. 9I will not let my terrible anger win. I will not destroy Ephraim again. I am God, and not man. I am the Holy One, I am with you. I will not show my anger. 10I will roar like a lion. I will roar, and my children will come and follow me. My children will come from the west, shaking with fear. 11They will come from Egypt shaking like birds. They will come shaking like doves from the land of Assyria. And I will take them back home.” The Lord said that. 12Ephraim surrounded me with false gods. The people of Israel turned against me.˻And they were destroyed!˼ But Judah still walks with El. Judah is true to the holy ones.”
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66564 | 2 Samuel 8:13-14 NRS
13 David won a name for himself. When he returned, he killed eighteen thousand Edomites a in the Valley of Salt.
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GNT 8 and said to Samuel, "Keep praying to the Lord our God to save us from the Philistines." NIV 8 They said to Samuel, "Do not stop crying out to the LORD our God for us, that he may rescue us from the hand of the Philistines." |
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The style of Luke and the purpose of his gospel
I would add a remark as to the style of Luke, which may facilitate the study of this Gospel to the reader. He often brings a mass of facts into one short general statement, and then expatiates at length on some isolated fact, where moral principles and grace are displayed. Many had undertaken to give an account of that which was historically received among Christians, as related to them by the companions of Jesus; and Luke thought it well -- having followed these things from the beginning, and thus obtained exact knowledge respecting them -- to write methodically to Theophilus, in order that he might have the certainty of those things in which he had been instructed. It is thus that God has provided for the instruction of the whole church, in the doctrine contained in the picture of the Lord's life furnished by this man of God; who, personally moved by christian motives, was directed and inspired by the Holy Ghost for the good of all believers.*
{*The union of motive and inspiration, which infidels have endeavoured to set in opposition to each other, is found in every page of the word. Moreover the two things are only incompatible to the narrow mind of those who are unacquainted with the ways of God. Cannot God impart motives, and through these motives engage a man to undertake some task, and then direct him, perfectly and absolutely, in all that he does? Even if it were a human thought (which I do not at all believe), if God approved of it, could not He watch over its execution so that the result should be entirely according to His will?}
The first revelations of stupendous events: Zacharias and Elizabeth
At verse 5 the evangelist begins with the first revelations of the Spirit of God respecting these events, on which the condition of God's people and that of the world entirely depended; and in which God was to glorify Himself to all eternity. But we immediately find ourselves in the atmosphere of Jewish circumstances. The Jewish ordinances of the Old Testament, and the thoughts and expectations connected with them, are the framework in which this great and solemn event is set. Herod, king of Judea, furnishes the date; and it is a priest, righteous and blameless, belonging to one of the twenty-four classes, whom we find on the first step of our way. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron; and these two upright persons walked in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord (Jehovah) without blame. All was right before God, according to His law in the Jewish sense. But they did not enjoy the blessing that every Jew desired; they had no child. Nevertheless, it was according, we may say, to the ordinary ways of God in the government of His people, to accomplish His blessing while manifesting the weakness of the instrument -- a weakness that took away all hope according to human principles. Such had been the history of the Sarahs, the Rebeccas, the Hannahs, and many more, of whom the word tells us for our instruction in the ways of God.
God's answer to prayer
This blessing was often prayed for by the pious priest; but until now the answer had been delayed. Now, however, when, at the moment of exercising his regular ministry, Zacharias drew near to burn incense, which, according to the law, was to go up as a sweet savour before God (type of the Lord's intercession), and while the people were praying outside the holy place, the angel of the Lord appears to the priest on the right side of the altar of incense. At the sight of this glorious personage Zacharias is troubled, but the angel encourages him by declaring himself to be the bearer of good news; announcing to him that his prayers, so long apparently addressed in vain to God, were granted. Elizabeth should bear a son, and the name by which he should be called was, "The favour of the Lord," a source of joy and gladness to Zacharias, and whose birth should be the occasion of thanksgiving to many. But this was not merely as the son of Zacharias. The child was the Lord's gift, and should be great before Him; he should be a Nazarite, and filled with the Holy Ghost, from his mother's womb: and many of the children of Israel should he turn to the Lord their God. He should go before Him in the spirit of Elias, and with the same power to re-establish moral order in Israel, even in its sources, and to bring back the disobedient to the wisdom of the just -- to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
The spirit of Elias
The spirit of Elias was a stedfast and ardent zeal for the glory of Jehovah, and for the establishment, or re-establishment by repentance, of the relations between Israel and Jehovah. His heart clung to this link between the people and their God, according to the strength and glory of the link itself, but in the sense of their fallen condition, and according to the rights of God in connection with these relationships. The spirit of Elias -- although indeed the grace of God towards His people had sent him -- was in a certain sense a legal spirit. He asserted the rights of Jehovah in judgment. It was grace opening the door to repentance, but not the sovereign grace of salvation, though what prepared the way to it. It is in the moral force of his call to repentance that John is here compared to Elias, in bringing back Israel to Jehovah. And in fact Jesus was Jehovah.
Zacharias' want of faith used of God; Elizabeth's piety
But the faith of Zacharias in God and in His goodness did not come up to the height of his petition (alas! too common a case), and when it is granted at a moment that required the intervention of God to accomplish his desire, he is not able to walk in the steps of an Abraham or a Hannah, and he asks how this thing can now take place. God, in His goodness, turns His servant's want of faith into an instructive chastisement for himself, and into a proof for the people that Zacharias had been visited from on high. He is dumb until the word of the Lord is fulfilled; and the signs which he makes to the people, who marvel at his staying so long in the sanctuary, explain to them the reason. But the word of God is accomplished in blessing towards him; and Elizabeth, recognising the good hand of God upon her with a tact that belongs to her piety, goes into retirement. The grace which blessed her did not make her insensible to that which was a shame in Israel, and which, although removed, left its traces as to man in the superhuman circumstances through which it was accomplished. There was a rightmindedness in this, which became a holy woman. But that which is rightly concealed from man has all its value before God, and Elizabeth is visited in her retreat by the mother of the Lord. But here the scene changes, to introduce the Lord Himself into this marvellous history which unfolds before our eyes.
The Saviour's birth announced to Mary
God, who had prepared all beforehand, sends now to announce the Saviour's birth to Mary. In the last place that man would have chosen for the purpose of God -- a place whose name in the eyes of the world, sufficed to condemn those who came from thence -- a maiden, unknown to all whom the world recognised, was betrothed to a poor carpenter. Her name was Mary. But everything was in confusion in Israel: the carpenter was of the house of David. The promises of God -- who never forgets them, and never overlooks those who are their object -- found here the sphere for their accomplishment. Here the power and the affections of God are directed, according to their divine energy. Whether Nazareth was small or great was of no importance, except to show that God does not expect from man, but man from God. Gabriel is sent to Nazareth, to a virgin who was betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David. The gift of John to Zacharias was an answer to his prayers -- God faithful in His goodness towards His people who wait upon Him.
Sovereign grace displayed
But this is a visitation of sovereign grace. Mary, a chosen vessel for this purpose, had found grace in God's sight. She was favoured* by sovereign grace -- blessed among women. She should conceive and bring forth a son: she should call Him Jesus. He should be great, and should be called the Son of the Highest. God should give Him the throne of His father David. He should reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and His kingdom should have no end.
{*The expressions, "found favour" and "highly favoured" have not at all the same meaning. Personally she had found favour, so that she was not to fear: but God had sovereignly bestowed on her this grace, this immense favour, of being the mother of the Lord. In this she was the object of God's sovereign favour.}
The birth of the Child presented by the Holy Spirit in a twofold way
It will be observed here, that the subject which the Holy Ghost sets before us is the birth of the child, as He would be down here in this world, as brought forth by Mary -- of Him who should be born. The instruction given by the Holy Ghost on this point is divided into two parts: first, that which the child to be born should be; secondly, the manner of His conception, and the glory which would be its result. It is not simply the divine nature of Jesus that is presented, the Word which was God, the Word made flesh; but that which was born of Mary, and the way in which it should take place. We know well that it is the same precious and divine Saviour of whom John speaks that is in question; but He is here presented to us under another aspect, which is of infinite interest to us; and we must consider Him as the Holy Ghost presents Him, as born of the virgin Mary in this world of tears.
The Lord Jesus as really and truly Man
To take first the verses 31-33. It was a child really conceived in Mary's womb, who brought forth this child at the time which God had Himself appointed for human nature. The usual time elapsed before its birth. As yet this tells us nothing of the manner. It is the fact itself, which has an importance that can neither be measured nor exaggerated. He was really and truly man, born of a woman as we are -- not as to the source nor as to the manner of His conception, of which we are not yet speaking, but as to the reality of His existence as man. He was really and truly a human being. But there were other things connected with the Person of the One who should be born that are also set before us. His name should be called Jesus, that is, Jehovah the Saviour. He should be manifested in this character and with this power. He was so.
The Child born as Man is "the Son of the Highest"
This is not connected here with the fact, "for he shall save his people from their sins," as in Matthew, where it was the manifestation to Israel of the power of Jehovah, of their God, in fulfilment of the promises made to that people. Here we see that He has a right to this name; but this divine title lies hidden under the form of a personal name; for it is the Son of man who is presented in this Gospel, whatever His divine power might be. Here we are told, "He" -- the One who should be born -- "should be great," and (born into this world) "should be called the Son of the Highest." He had been the Son of the Father before the world was; but this child, born on earth, should be called -- such as He was down here -- the Son of the Highest: a title to which He would thoroughly prove His right by His acts, and by all that manifested what He was. A precious thought to us and full of glory, a child born of a woman legitimately bears this name, "Son of the Highest" -- supremely glorious for One who is in the position of a man and really was such before God.
"The Son of David": His endless kingdom and His glory
But other things still were connected with the One that should be born. God would give Him the throne of His father David. Here again we plainly see that He is considered as born, as man, in this world. The throne of His father David belongs to Him. God will give it Him. By right of birth He is heir to the promises, to the earthly promises which, as to the kingdom appertained to the family of David; but it should be according to the counsels and the power of God. He should reign over the house of Jacob -- not only over Judah, and in the weakness of a transitory power and an ephemeral life, but throughout the ages; and of His kingdom there should be no end. As indeed Daniel had predicted, it should never be taken by another. It should never be transferred to another people. It should be established according to the counsels of God which are unchangeable, and His power which never fails. Until He delivered up the kingdom to God the Father, He should exercise a royalty that nothing could dispute; which He would deliver up (all things being fulfilled) to God, but the royal glory of which should never be tarnished in His hands. Such should be the child born -- truly, though miraculously born as man. To those who could understand His name it was Jehovah the Saviour. He should be King over the house of Jacob according to a power that should never decay and never fail, until blended with the eternal power of God as God. The grand subject of the revelation is, that the child should be conceived and born; the remainder is the glory that should belong to Him, being born.
Mary's question; her faith
But it is the conception that Mary does not understand. God permits her to ask the angel how this should be. Her question was according to God. I do not think there was any want of faith here. Zacharias had constantly asked for a son -- it was only a question of the goodness and the power of God to perform his request -- and was brought by the positive declaration of God to a point at which he had only to trust in it. He did not trust to the promise of God. It was only the exercise of the extraordinary power of God in the natural order of things. Mary asks, with holy confidence, since God thus favoured her, how the thing should be accomplished, outside the natural order. Of its accomplishment she has no doubt (see verse 45; "Blessed," said Elizabeth, "is she that believed.") She inquires how it shall be accomplished, since it must be done outside the order of nature. The angel proceeds with his commission, making known to her the answer of God to this question also. In the purposes of God, this question gave occasion (by the answer it received) to the revelation of the miraculous conception.
The Son of God as become Man
The birth of Him who has walked upon this earth was the thing in question -- His birth of the virgin Mary. He was God, He became man; but here it is the manner of His conception in becoming a man upon the earth. It is not what He was that is declared. It is He who was born, such as He was in the world, of whose miraculous conception we here read. The Holy Ghost should come upon her -- should act in power upon this earthen vessel, without its own will or the will of any man. God is the source of the life of the child promised to Mary, as born in this world and by His power. He is born of Mary -- of this woman chosen by God. The power of the Highest should overshadow her, and therefore that which should be born of her should be called the Son of God. Holy in His birth, conceived by the intervention of the power of God acting upon Mary (a power which was the divine source of His existence on the earth, as man), that which thus received its being from Mary, the fruit of her womb, should even in this sense have the title of Son of God. The holy thing which should be born of Mary should be called the Son of God. It is not here the doctrine of the eternal relationship of the Son with the Father. The Gospel of John, the Epistle to the Hebrews, that to the Colossians, establish this precious truth, and demonstrate its importance; but here it is that which was born by virtue of the miraculous conception, which on that ground is called the Son of God.
The angel's announcement to Mary of Elizabeth's blessing
The angel announces to her the blessing bestowed on Elizabeth through the almighty power of God; and Mary bows to the will of her God -- the submissive vessel of His purpose, and in her piety acknowledges a height and greatness in these purposes which only left to her, their passive instrument, her place of subjection to the will of God. This was her glory, through the favour of her God. It was befitting that wonders should accompany, and bear a just testimony to, this marvellous intervention of God. The communication of the angel was not without fruit in the heart of Mary; and by her visit to Elizabeth, she goes to acknowledge the wonderful dealings of God. The piety of the virgin displays itself here in a touching manner. The marvellous intervention of God humbled her, instead of lifting her up. She saw God in that which had taken place, and not herself; on the contrary the greatness of these marvels brought God so near her as to hide her from herself. She yields herself to His holy will: but God has too large a place in her thoughts in this matter to leave any room for self-importance.
Mary's visit to Elizabeth; Elizabeth's recognition of God's grace to the mother of her Lord
The visit of the mother of her Lord to Elizabeth was a natural thing to herself, for the Lord had visited the wife of Zacharias. The angel has made it known to her. She is concerned in these things of God, for God was near her heart by the grace that had visited her. Led by the Holy Ghost in heart and affection, the glory that belonged to Mary, in virtue of the grace of God who had elected her to be the mother of her Lord, is recognised by Elizabeth, speaking by the Holy Ghost. She also acknowledges the pious faith of Mary, and announces to her the fulfilment of the promise she had received (all that took place being a signal testimony given to Him who should be born in Israel and among men).
Mary's thanksgiving: owning God's grace and her low estate
The heart of Mary is then poured out in thanksgiving. She owns God her Saviour in the grace that has filled her with joy, and her own low estate -- a figure of the condition of the remnant of Israel -- and that gave occasion to the intervention of God's greatness, with a full testimony that all was of Himself. Whatever might be the piety suitable to the instrument whom He employed, and which was found indeed in Mary, it was in proportion as she hid herself that she was great; for then God was all, and it was through her that He intervened for the manifestation of His marvellous ways. She lost her place if she made anything of herself, but in truth she did not. The grace of God preserved her, in order that His glory might be fully displayed in this divine event. She recognises His grace, but she acknowledges that all is grace towards her. It will be remarked here that, in the character and the application of the thoughts that fill her heart, all is Jewish. We may compare the song of Hannah, who prophetically celebrated this same intervention; and see also verses 54, 55. But, observe, she goes back to the promises made to the fathers, not to Moses, and she embraces all Israel. It is the power of God, which works in the midst of weakness, when there is no resource, and all is contrary to it. Such is the moment that suits God, and, to the same end, instruments that are null, that God may be all. It is remarkable that we are not told that Mary was full of the Holy Ghost. It appears to me that this is an honourable distinction for her. The Holy Ghost visited Elizabeth and Zacharias in an exceptional manner. But, although we cannot doubt that Mary was under the influence of the Spirit of God, it was a more inward effect, more connected with her own faith, with her piety, with the more habitual relations of her heart with God (that were formed by this faith and by this piety), and which consequently expressed itself more as her own sentiments. It is thankfulness for the grace and favour conferred on her the lowly one, and that in connection with the hopes and blessing of Israel. In all this there appears to me a very striking harmony in connection with the wondrous favour bestowed upon her. I repeat it, Mary is great inasmuch as she is nothing; but she is favoured by God in a way that is unparalleled, and all generations shall call her blessed. But her piety, and its expression in this song, being more personal, an answer to God rather than a revelation on His part, it is clearly limited to that which was necessarily for her the sphere of this piety -- to Israel, to the hopes and promises given to Israel. It goes back, as we have seen, to the farthest point of God's relations with Israel -- and they were in grace and promise, not law -- but it does not go outside them.
Piety in secret recognised by God
Mary abides three months with the woman whom God had blessed, the mother of him who was to be the voice of God in the wilderness; and she returns to follow humbly her own path, that the purposes of God may be accomplished. Nothing more beautiful of its kind than this picture of the intercourse between these pious women, unknown to the world, but the instruments of God's grace for the accomplishment of His purpose, glorious and infinite in their results. They hide themselves, moving in a scene into which nothing enters but piety and grace; but God is there, as little known to the world as were these poor women, yet preparing and accomplishing that which the angels desire to fathom in its depths. This takes place in the hill country, where these pious relatives dwelt. They hid themselves; but their hearts, visited by God and touched by His grace, responded by their mutual piety to these wondrous visits from above; and the grace of God was truly reflected in the calmness of a heart that recognised His hand and His greatness, trusting in His goodness and submitting to His will. We are favoured in being admitted into a scene, from which the world was excluded by its unbelief and alienation from God, and in which God thus acted.
John, the son of Zacharias and Elizabeth is born
But that which piety recognised in secret, through faith in the visitations of God, must at length be made public, and be fulfilled before the eyes of men. The son of Zacharias and Elizabeth is born, and Zacharias (who, obedient to the word of the angel, ceases to be dumb) announces the coming of the Branch of David, the horn of Israel's salvation, in the house of God's elect King, to accomplish all the promises made to the fathers, and all the prophecies by which God had proclaimed the future blessing of His people. The child whom God had given to Zacharias and Elizabeth should go before the face of Jehovah to prepare His ways; for the Son of David was Jehovah, who came according to the promises, and according to the word by which God had proclaimed the manifestation of His glory.
Israel under present and future blessing from Christ, the Hope of Israel
The visitation of Israel by Jehovah, celebrated by the mouth of Zacharias, embraces all the blessing of the millennium. This is connected with the presence of Jesus, who brings in His own Person all this blessing. All the promises are Yea and Amen in Him. All the prophecies encircle Him with the glory then to be realised, and make Him the source from which it springs. Abraham rejoiced to see the glorious day of Christ. The Holy Ghost always does this, when His subject is the fulfilment of the promise in power. He goes on to the full effect which God will accomplish at the end. The difference here is, that it is no longer the announcement of joys in a distant future, when a Christ should be born, when a child should be brought forth, to bring in their joys in days still obscured by the distance at which they were seen. The Christ is now at the door, and it is the effect of His presence that is celebrated. We know that, having been rejected, and being now absent, the accomplishment of these things is necessarily put off until He returns; but His presence will bring their fulfilment, and it is announced as being connected with that presence. We may remark here, that this chapter confines itself within the strict limits of the promises made to Israel, that is to say, to the fathers. We have the priests, the Messiah, His forerunner, the promises made to Abraham, the covenant of promise, the oath of God. It is not the law; it is the hope of Israel -- founded on the promise, the covenant, the oath of God, and confirmed by the prophets -- which has its realisation in the birth of Jesus, of the Son of David. It is not, I again say, the law. It is Israel under blessing, not indeed yet accomplished, but Israel in the relationship of faith with God who would. accomplish it. It is only God and Israel who are in question, and that which had taken place in grace between Him and His people alone.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66579 | Figure 3.
MID1 and MID2 can homo- and heterodimerise with one another. (A) Yeast two-hybrid assay for MID1 and MID2 multimerisation. Yeast agar plate (leu- trp- his-, 75 mM 3-AT) showing growth for MID1/MID1 (25), MID1/MID2 (26 and 27) and MID2/MID2 (28). (B) MID1 and MID2 co-localise to the microtubules. Co-expression of GFP-MID1 (a) and myc-MID2 (b) in transiently transfected Cos1 cells showing co-localisation to the microtubular cytoskeleton in an overlay (c) with a DAPI stained nucleus (blue). (C) Co-immunoprecipitation of MID1 and MID2 homo- and heterodimers. Shown are extracts from Cos1 cells, transfected with GFP-MID1 (lane 1), GFP-MID2 (lane 2), myc-MID1 (lane 3), myc-MID2 (lane 4), GFP-MID1 and myc-MID1 (lane 5), GFP-MID2 and myc-MID1 (lane 6), GFP-MID1 and myc-MID2 (lane 7) and GFP-MID2 and myc-MID2 (lane 8). Samples were immunoprecipitated with anti-GFP antibody/protein-A sepharose beads, separated on a 8% SDS polyacrylamide gel, transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane and blotted with anti-c-myc antibody to detect co-precipitate protein.
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Nutrients are any chemicals required for life. Nutrients are of two basic types: (1) inorganic substances that are absorbed by autotrophic organisms, such as plants and certain microorganisms, for use in their synthetic reactions and metabolism, and (2) biomass ingested by animals and heterotrophic microorganisms as sources of organic nourishment.
Plants absorb a wide range of mineral nutrients from their environment. They utilize these nutrients in photosynthetic reactions and other metabolic processes to manufacture all of the biochemicals that they require for growth and reproduction. Nutrients required by plants in relatively large quantities are known as macronutrients, and include compounds of the following elements: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and sulfur. Carbon is required in the largest amounts, typically making up about one-half of the dry weight of plant tissue, while hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and calcium typically occur in concentrations of one to several percent. Phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, and sulfur account for 0.1% to 1% of dry plant tissues. Plants require micronutrients in much smaller amounts, such as the metals copper, iron, and zinc.
Animals must feed on plants or other animals to obtain virtually all of their nutrients. After it is ingested, the food is typically digested, which breaks it down into relatively simple biochemicals and inorganic chemicals, which are absorbed through the gut and used in the animal's metabolism. The most important nutritional need of animals is for energy to support their respiration and growth ( the fixed energy of plant or animal biomass is ingested for this purpose. There are also some micronutrients that animals require in small quantities, but they cannot synthesize themselves. These include biochemicals called vitamins, which must be obtained through their food. Some animals can also utilize mineral forms of certain nutrients, which may be obtained directly from the inorganic environment, without eating biomass. For example, many grazing mammals will utilize salt licks when they are available, because these animals crave sodium, which often is not present in sufficiently large concentrations in the plants that they eat.
Appropriate nutrition for all organisms is a matter of both quantity and balance. For good nutritional health, all essential inorganic and organic nutrients must be available, and they must be obtainable in an appropriate balance. A severe shortage of even a trace micronutrient can result in severe metabolic dysfunction, and even the death of organisms.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66691 | Joe Greene
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Joe GreeneAmerican football player
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September 24, 1946
Temple, Texas
Joe Greene, byname of Charles Edward Greene, also called Mean Joe Greene (born September 24, 1946, Temple, Texas, U.S.), American professional gridiron football player who is widely considered one of the greatest defensive linemen in National Football League (NFL) history.
Greene was a consensus All-American defensive tackle at North Texas State University (now known as the University of North Texas) in 1968, and he was chosen by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the fourth overall selection of the 1969 NFL draft. Once he joined the Steelers after a contract holdout, Greene was an instant success on the field—he was named Defensive Rookie of the Year for 1969—but his frequent temperamental outbursts led to charges of immaturity. While Greene continued to play with an aggressive streak throughout his career, his ever-increasing dominance of opposing offensive linemen, buttressed by his thoughtful and gracious off-field demeanour, served to stem doubts about his ability to thrive in the NFL.
Throughout the 1970s Greene served as the anchor of Pittsburgh’s famed “Steel Curtain” defense and was a key player in four Steelers Super Bowl victories (1975, 1976, 1979, 1980). Over the course of his 13-year career, all of which was with the Steelers, he was voted to 10 Pro Bowls and was twice named the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year (1972, 1974). After his retirement in 1982, Greene spent time as an assistant coach for a number of NFL teams, and he worked as a special assistant to the Steelers’ scouting department from 2004 until 2013.
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Although Cable was the son of slaveholders and fought in the Confederate cavalry, he saw slavery and attempts to deny the freedmen full public rights as moral wrongs. Thus, in his early fiction, his handling of caste and class and authorized oppression contained overtones of moral condemnation. He used essays and public lectures to urge the cause of black rights, in the face of violent abuse in the Southern press, and he published two collections of his social essays, The Silent South (1885) and The Negro Question (1888). He abandoned the effort only after discrimination in the South had become entrenched. In 1885 he settled in Northampton, Mass. He wrote novels set mainly in the South until he was past 70, but, though better constructed, they were felt to lack the freshness and charm and also the force of moral conviction that characterized his early books.
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140. Capt. Chris. Levett to Sec. Sir John Coke. It hath pleased God to deny a blessing to the labours of us all that hath been employed in his Majesty's service at sea. Sees almost all men seek more their own ends than God's glory or their Sovereign's honour. There is no man knows better than himself what benefit would accrue unto this kingdom by New England if it were well planted and fortified, which makes him so desirous to tread out a path that all men may follow. Is now in a fair way to it, only wants a little help, the particulars he has mentioned in a petition to his Majesty. Flies unto his Honor as his only mediator. If his suit shall prove unseasonable, beseeches he will put him into a good ship. [Coke MSS., Hist. MSS. Commis., XII. Report, App. I., p. 287.] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66706 | immelt3.jpgGood news for GE shareholders who suddenly realized they actually own a gigantic hedge fund that also happens to make refrigerators: CEO Jeff Immelt's feeling as battered as they are. So battered, in fact, that he wants out of the hedge fund business, at least partially.
Specifically, Jeff is now committed to reducing the percentage of GE's earnings that come from its hedge fund business (GE Capital) to only 40% of the company's total earnings. And here's some more good news: Now that GE Capital has blown up, its earnings are getting hammered, so Jeff won't have to do much.
Meanwhile, we have some advice for Jeff on how to deal with the boneheads in GE Capital who just blew a hole in the hull: Get all Jack Welch on their asses.
Also: If Jeff wants to begin to repair his own clobbered reputation, he needs to stop breathing all that Wall Street exhaust and come clean about what happened here. GE Capital's flop was not caused by "unprecendented weakness and volatility in the financial markets." It was caused by GE Capital traders and risk managers who gambled and lost. The sooner Jeff owns up to that the better.
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If they loose it, they are going to be in deep http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4cbe97d749e2aecb060f0000 Johnson Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:18:47 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4cbe97d749e2aecb060f0000 Facebook is been amazing and it has been great to use it to enhance by business.<a href="http://local.yahoo.com/info-61702052-spartan-moving-san-jose">San Jose Movers</a> http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4c8fb5147f8b9a432ccb0800 UFC 119 results Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:46:59 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4c8fb5147f8b9a432ccb0800 @<a href="http://www.ufc-119-results.com">ufc 119 results</a> Let's see... I'm a big fan of foursquare, and I think it will survive! http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4c4ee4607f8b9ab5265b0000 redzt Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:51:28 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4c4ee4607f8b9ab5265b0000 I think each user having their own way to benefit both from the Foursquare or <a href="http://itcomputerzone.com/internet/google-said-facebook-is-the-king-of-the-internet.html" rel="dofollow" style="border: medium none ; color: inherit; text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; cursor: text;">facebook</a>, <a href="http://itcomputerzone.com" rel="dofollow" style="border: medium none ; color: inherit; text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; cursor: text;">it</a> all depends on their usage. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4c4c518b7f8b9ab847fe0200 BenEdwards9 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:00:27 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4c4c518b7f8b9ab847fe0200 We here at Elephant believe everything in life should be simple - which is why we've made booking your airport parking as simple as making a cup of tea, with prices to sweeten anyone's day. 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How nice! http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4c3ebf797f8b9a524fed0900 Bredbånd Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:57:45 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4c3ebf797f8b9a524fed0900 Sounds like foursquare could be dead by christmas. Køber altid mit <a href="http://ww3.telia.dk/privat/bredbaand/">bredbånd</a> hos telia, som også leverer mobilt bredbånd. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4becdd857f8b9a4908aa0400 jane Fri, 14 May 2010 01:20:05 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4becdd857f8b9a4908aa0400 The rest of Europe have their wits fortunately. <a rel="business ecommerce software" href="http://www.businessecommercesoftware.org">business ecommerce software</a> http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b7c10fd00000000001eca9b Emmanuel Marchal Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:53:33 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b7c10fd00000000001eca9b Hi Mario, You're onto something very powerful that only a few have managed so far in the leisure industry. All the data and stats that foursquare gives back to you would be far more valuable if it would be used to predict places you might like. I'm working with a company, www.likecube.com, which does exactly this, but as a B2B service. Our team of computer scientists and experts in semantics and scalability have created a SaaS recommendation engine for the travel/leisure industry specifically. It's very good at predicting places people will like and can power sites like yelp or foursquare. If you know anyone I should talk to and who might be interested, please get them to contact me at manu[at]likecube.com. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6602d80000000000ce6f99 famebook Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:23:20 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6602d80000000000ce6f99 Whenever I used to see these type of articles, I had a vision of Mark and the tech dudes on one side of the room getting distracted by yet another geek challenge, some dissenters stirring it up in the middle and Sheryl and the Investors pulling their hair out and screaming where the f**! does the money fit into this one and why are we doing it? I liked the thought of that because it felt honest, personal and decent. Competitive yes, but real and fun. Now however, based on the totally cynical privacy move and this Twitteresque reaction to a great company, Facebook is doing what any pre IPO company which has reached a certain critical mass does. Eating any competitors (friendfeed) or destroying them! Cue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR4Ovy3LarE&feature=related J http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b649f3c0000000000112510 Hawken King Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:06:04 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b649f3c0000000000112510 "a source" does not make a credible news story. "a source" told me father christmas is real. If your "source" has a name, then this story can then be judged on it's merits, without putting a name to a fact this nothing more than pure fantasy and shouldn't be taken seriously at all. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b638eda00000000001b1ba1 sidney Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:43:54 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b638eda00000000001b1ba1 "Your friends" lol... ok FB sit down with Zynga and have a heart to heart chat about how FB users add "real friends" to their mafia to "grow their mafia power"... or don't get me started with adding "real friends" for "friends for sale"... I'm sure the latest additions to Farmville won't be prompting people to add more "real friends".... anyway I'm still bitter FB banned my account for inviting friends too quickly... I'm sure pink slipping everyone for social behavior will continue to win fans over... http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b63782d000000000030fcfc Dean Collins Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:07:09 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b63782d000000000030fcfc You know i wouldn't mind so much if facebook actually improved on the concept. Crowley has not only improved on the dodgeball model he sold to google years ago but when he created foursquare added a ton of functionality which is why it is still the best out there. The copies that have been 'launched' after him are just that copies - the Yelp example being the absolute worst direct ripoff. at least try and improve on it with all the cash you guys have otherwise go and make the foursquare guys a decent offer and buy them out. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6350dd0000000000ab30b4 Doug Jaeger Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:19:25 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6350dd0000000000ab30b4 you gotta go with the little guy, dpstyles97 has create a product with the people behind it. Agreed Facebook has the larger audience, and more resources, but foursquare has it's simplicity on it's side. With less people, it has less problems. With only up to go. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6340d000000000007d7143 spongefile Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:10:56 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6340d000000000007d7143 After Facebook's horrible bait-and-switch privacy changes, they think I'm going to trust them with my exact location? http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b633bc00000000000381334 Murat Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:49:20 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b633bc00000000000381334 because everyone on Twitter seems to also use Foursquare and are hyping it up, but they are forgetting that not everyone uses Twitter for the same reason they don't use Foursquare - i.e they don't see the point in it http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b633b4d0000000000edcb5b Murat Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:47:25 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b633b4d0000000000edcb5b Doesn't really fit in with Google does it? Latitude is cool but it has the same problems as Foursquare, i.e no one I know uses it. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b633ace0000000000600b3b Murat Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:45:17 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b633ace0000000000600b3b I wrote about this a few or two ago Foursquare won't work, convergence of social networking features is the way forward and only Facebook has the reach, http://mobileinc.co.uk/2010/01/foursquare-reality-check/ http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6328e70000000000ea83db laura Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:28:54 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6328e70000000000ea83db A disadvantage for gowalla is that it only works on gps enabled phones. Some say it's an advantage that it can't be gamed, but once this is a commodity, gaming will matter less than market potential. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b63222000000000006ab23b Marcos Lara Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:00:00 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b63222000000000006ab23b my facebook friends are so NOT my real friends. my 4[] friends are however indeed my real friends and i choose my 4[] invitations based on the fact that i actually like them and want them to know where i am. Thinking i/users want my/their entire HS class of 1992 to know they are is simply wrong. i did not like most of them back then and i don't like most of them now either. facebook is for my parents and aunts to watch the kids run around, i post NOTHING personal there anymore and i love the idea of the facebook suicide machine that erases your facebook account forever and ditches these fake friends. facebook is like myspace all over again, but this time with the baby boomers... http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6314860000000000565cbc Dan Frommer Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:01:58 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6314860000000000565cbc I don't know anyone who uses Latitude. Do you use it? (If so, why?) http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b630f1f0000000000ee2296 Mike Caprio Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:38:55 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b630f1f0000000000ee2296 Foursquare's already got my loyalty, and they actually provide statistics and history data back to me in an open fashion. Unless the competitors are prepared to offer more/better data than Foursquare, I see no reason to use any other service (including Yelp, whose review system has been extremely lacking for some time - why they implemented check-in instead of a suggestion system "If you like X, you'll like Y" is beyond me). http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b630edc00000000006ae351 Jeff Hilimire Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:37:48 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b630edc00000000006ae351 What, so we won't get to do this anymore? http://www.statusthis.com/2010/01/check-in-please/ http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b630e8000000000009d2715 Mike Caprio Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:36:16 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b630e8000000000009d2715 Google can afford to lose even more so than Facebook. In other words, Google could care less. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b630e3b00000000004b5b2d Mike Caprio Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:35:06 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b630e3b00000000004b5b2d It's a disadvantage because Facebook cares less about winning against Foursquare. They can afford to lose, thus don't have as much invested in dominating this particular market. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b630c9200000000003e911e lilywhite Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:28:02 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b630c9200000000003e911e Just what the world needs:) http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6309a90000000000149400 Luca Filigheddu Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:15:37 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6309a90000000000149400 Another BIG competitor could be Google. Take Google Maps + Latidute, add checkin and "prizes" and boom, you have a way better Foursquare-like service. My thoughts: http://bit.ly/anckr4 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6308f4000000000051565d jpmarcum Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:12:35 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b6308f4000000000051565d socialgreat.com http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62fb340000000000b50949 alphanaliste Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:13:56 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62fb340000000000b50949 So who is working on a checkin aggregator? http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62ed050000000000f989d3 Nicholas Carlson Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:13:25 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62ed050000000000f989d3 1. Because the VCs are obsessed. 2. Because it's a nifty product. 3. Because Facebook is responding to it. 4. Because it's New York's most Valley-like, consumer-oriented sartup. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62e8a30000000000264b86 Matthew Robert Payne Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:54:43 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62e8a30000000000264b86 So now your boss knows where you are too if he checks your facebook? http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62e7fa0000000000197d3c clyde mcphat Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:51:54 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62e7fa0000000000197d3c 4Square has how many users? 275,000??? And we are talking about it why? http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62e65a00000000009dd627 lilywhite Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:44:58 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62e65a00000000009dd627 Good, game is over before it ever started. Can you guys please aim your fire in another direction? This category doesn't really exist --- except in your minds. Now with Facebook and Yelp and Gowalla and MyTown and FourSquare, it has become the most overcrowded trade in web history. Enough already. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62d95e00000000008e525e jpmarcum Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:49:34 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62d95e00000000008e525e you omitted a disadvantage for all but Gowalla: the simplicity and speed that a single use app provides. i don't want to nav through multiple tabs to check-in. unless passive check-ins become a reality i think the single app still has value (sure, of course FB could launch a new or redesign their existing apps but that would be a big commitment). http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62d1210000000000c15673 divor Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:14:25 -0500 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4b62d1210000000000c15673 * Disadvantages: Unlike Foursquare, Facebook can afford to fail. How's that a disadvantage? |
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I was amazed that the GM Web site could not answer my simple question: What is the best speed to achieve optimum miles per gallon for my '01 Pontiac Montana minivan? It even suggested that there's nowhere I can go to get that piece of information. Come, now. You mean NO ONE has that information? Wouldn't it be a simple matter of, say, the government hooking your car up to a testing machine and coming out with not just the best speed, but a line chart showing how higher and lower speeds make the vehicle progressively less fuel-efficient? I'd love to know, since I have a bit of a lead foot. But I'm also a cheapskate, so this information might help me modify my bad behavior, if you know what I mean. Thanks. -- Gene
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Nokia first released the N95 early last year, and later followed up with a version that includes 8 GB of internal storage. However, at first these didn't include all the cellular-wireless frequencies used in N. America.
Late last year, Nokia released a version of this smartphone without the additional storage but with the N. American frequencies, and also a different one with the 8 GB of storage but without the N. American frequencies.
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Here is the most comprehensive--and most appealing--reference book available on the many edible plants we grow in our gardens, buy in our shops, and eat with great relish. A true cornucopia, The New Oxford Book of Food Plants overflows with information and is packed with beautiful, hand-painted illustrations of the world's food plants. In an oversized format with alternating full-page color plates, readers will find a feast of facts about cereals, sugar crops, oil seeds, nuts, legumes, fruits, vegetables, spices, herbs, sea-weeds, mushrooms, wild food plants, and much more besides.
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Don't ask me how I got the this leaked copy of a memo from House Speaker John Boehner, just be thankful that I did. It's 100% what I would expect it to be, except for the part that Boehner actually wrote himself, which has far fewer grammatical errors than I would have expected.
Hell Low,
I'm a Republican in the United States House of Representatives from Ohio and I'm the Speaker- your Speaker, John Boehner. As the speaker of the house, I speak to you the orders I receive from Roger Ailes, Wall St. CEOs, War profit-ears, gun mongers and Jesus (both baby and adult).
So for the returning representitives and you're new colleeegs, here is the list of talking points, Republican definitions of buzzwords, and general things to keep in mind for the 113th Congress. They aren't in any partickalur order, butt I hope you appreciate them since I got a lil chocked up writing it.
-Boehn Dog
- Even IF evolution exists, it's only because Jesus invented it.
- When in a disagreement with a liberal regarding finance, refer to the United States as, "Greece" and then play up how the USA is better than Greece, and tell that liberal his name sounds kinda Greek....
- Fascism: This is an old European word that simply means, "Bad Government". Proper usage includes:
• Mental health care for poor people? Pardon me Congressman, but that's Fascism
• If by "Do I think the EPA is beneficial?", you REALLY mean, "Am I a fascist?", then the answer is "No."
• "You know who else believed in Fascism? Stalin
• "You know who else believes in Fascism? Obama
• "You know who else believed in Fascism? Hitler?, etc.
- Stalin: That guy who was like Hitler, but had a way fluffier mustache
- Hitler: The opposite of Ronald Regan
- Gun Control: We use the Texas model where they execute the mentally handicapped. In other words, we walk in lock- step with the Great State of Texas in the belief that, if you're smart enough to get executed, then you're smart enough to own a semi-automatic firearm.
- Don't pass any pro-colored legislation until we know for sure voter ID laws will be enforced
- Get familiar with this:
- Abortion: Roe v Wade passed 40 years ago, which makes that year only 10 years older than mandatory-seat-belt-wearing laws. In other words, it's still a new concept and people are still making up their minds about it. So try to change those minds!
- Global Warming: We've had to soften our stance on this due to changing opinions and demographics in America. So when a liberal challenges you on this, surprise them with our new talking point, "If you're saying living in warm weather is so bad, are you also saying that Mexicans are bad/lazy/uneducated/welfare leaches/short in stature? Because we disagree and we love Mexicans."
- Communism: see Fascism
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5.2: The Density Curve of the Normal Distribution
Difficulty Level: At Grade Created by: CK-12
Learning Objectives
• Identify the properties of a normal density curve and the relationship between concavity and standard deviation.
• Convert between z-scores and areas under a normal probability curve.
• Calculate probabilities that correspond to left, right, and middle areas from a z-score table.
• Calculate probabilities that correspond to left, right, and middle areas using a graphing calculator.
In this section, we will continue our investigation of normal distributions to include density curves and learn various methods for calculating probabilities from the normal density curve.
Density Curves
A density curve is an idealized representation of a distribution in which the area under the curve is defined to be 1. Density curves need not be normal, but the normal density curve will be the most useful to us.
Inflection Points on a Normal Density Curve
We already know from the Empirical Rule that approximately \frac{2}{3} of the data in a normal distribution lies within 1 standard deviation of the mean. With a normal density curve, this means that about 68% of the total area under the curve is within z-scores of \pm 1. Look at the following three density curves:
Notice that the curves are spread increasingly wider. Lines have been drawn to show the points that are one standard deviation on either side of the mean. Look at where this happens on each density curve. Here is a normal distribution with an even larger standard deviation.
Is it possible to predict the standard deviation of this distribution by estimating the x-coordinate of a point on the density curve? Read on to find out!
You may have noticed that the density curve changes shape at two points in each of our examples. These are the points where the curve changes concavity. Starting from the mean and heading outward to the left and right, the curve is concave down. (It looks like a mountain, or 'n' shape.) After passing these points, the curve is concave up. (It looks like a valley, or 'u' shape.) The points at which the curve changes from being concave up to being concave down are called the inflection points. On a normal density curve, these inflection points are always exactly one standard deviation away from the mean.
In this example, the standard deviation is 3 units. We can use this concept to estimate the standard deviation of a normally distributed data set.
Example: Estimate the standard deviation of the distribution represented by the following histogram.
This distribution is fairly normal, so we could draw a density curve to approximate it as follows:
Now estimate the inflection points as shown below:
It appears that the mean is about 0.5 and that the x-coordinates of the inflection points are about 0.45 and 0.55, respectively. This would lead to an estimate of about 0.05 for the standard deviation.
The actual statistics for this distribution are as follows:
s & \approx 0.04988\\\overline{x} & \approx 0.04997
We can verify these figures by using the expectations from the Empirical Rule. In the following graph, we have highlighted the bins that are contained within one standard deviation of the mean.
If you estimate the relative frequencies from each bin, their total is remarkably close to 68%. Make sure to divide the relative frequencies from the bins on the ends by 2 when performing your calculation.
Calculating Density Curve Areas
While it is convenient to estimate areas under a normal curve using the Empirical Rule, we often need more precise methods to calculate these areas. Luckily, we can use formulas or technology to help us with the calculations.
All normal distributions have the same basic shape, and therefore, rescaling and re-centering can be implemented to change any normal distributions to one with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1. This configuration is referred to as a standard normal distribution. In a standard normal distribution, the variable along the horizontal axis is the z-score. This score is another measure of the performance of an individual score in a population. To review, the z-score measures how many standard deviations a score is away from the mean. The z-score of the term x in a population distribution whose mean is \mu and whose standard deviation is \sigma is given by: z=\frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}. Since \sigma is always positive, z will be positive when x is greater than \mu and negative when x is less than \mu. A z-score of 0 means that the term has the same value as the mean. The value of z is the number of standard deviations the given value of x is above or below the mean.
Example: On a nationwide math test, the mean was 65 and the standard deviation was 10. If Robert scored 81, what was his z-score?
z & = \frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\\z & = \frac{81-65}{10}\\z & = \frac{16}{10}\\z & = 1.6
Example: On a college entrance exam, the mean was 70 and the standard deviation was 8. If Helen’s z-score was -1.5, what was her exam score?
z &= \frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\\\therefore z \cdot \sigma & = x -\mu\\x & = \mu + z \cdot \sigma\\x & = (70)+(-1.5)(8)\\x & =58
Now you will see how z-scores are used to determine the probability of an event.
Suppose you were to toss 8 coins 256 times. The following figure shows the histogram and the approximating normal curve for the experiment. The random variable represents the number of tails obtained.
The blue section of the graph represents the probability that exactly 3 of the coins turned up tails. One way to determine this is by the following:
P(3 \ \text{tails}) & = \frac{_8C_3}{2^8}\\P(3 \ \text{tails}) & = \frac{56}{256}\\P(3 \ \text{tails}) & \cong 0.2188
Geometrically, this probability represents the area of the blue shaded bar divided by the total area of the bars. The area of the blue shaded bar is approximately equal to the area under the normal curve from 2.5 to 3.5.
Since areas under normal curves correspond to the probability of an event occurring, a special normal distribution table is used to calculate the probabilities. This table can be found in any statistics book, but it is seldom used today. The following is an example of a table of z-scores and a brief explanation of how it works: http://tinyurl.com/2ce9ogv.
The values inside the given table represent the areas under the standard normal curve for values between 0 and the relative z-score. For example, to determine the area under the curve between z-scores of 0 and 2.36, look in the intersecting cell for the row labeled 2.3 and the column labeled 0.06. The area under the curve is 0.4909. To determine the area between 0 and a negative value, look in the intersecting cell of the row and column which sums to the absolute value of the number in question. For example, the area under the curve between -1.3 and 0 is equal to the area under the curve between 1.3 and 0, so look at the cell that is the intersection of the 1.3 row and the 0.00 column. (The area is 0.4032.)
It is extremely important, especially when you first start with these calculations, that you get in the habit of relating it to the normal distribution by drawing a sketch of the situation. In this case, simply draw a sketch of a standard normal curve with the appropriate region shaded and labeled.
Example: Find the probability of choosing a value that is greater than z = -0.528. Before even using the table, first draw a sketch and estimate the probability. This z-score is just below the mean, so the answer should be more than 0.5.
Next, read the table to find the correct probability for the data below this z-score. We must first round this z-score to -0.53, so this will slightly under-estimate the probability, but it is the best we can do using the table. The table returns a value of 0.5 - 0.2019 = 0.2981 as the area below this z-score. Because the area under the density curve is equal to 1, we can subtract this value from 1 to find the correct probability of about 0.7019.
What about values between two z-scores? While it is an interesting and worthwhile exercise to do this using a table, it is so much simpler using software or a graphing calculator.
Example: Find P(-2.60 < z < 1.30)
This probability can be calculated as follows:
P(-2.60 < z < 1.30) = P(z<1.30)-P(z<-2.60) = 0.9032-0.0047=0.8985
It can also be found using the TI-83/84 calculator. Use the 'normalcdf(-2.60, 1.30, 0, 1)' command, and the calculator will return the result 0.898538. The syntax for this command is 'normalcdf(min, max, \mu, \sigma)'. When using this command, you do not need to first standardize. You can use the mean and standard deviation of the given distribution.
Technology Note: The 'normalcdf(' Command on the TI-83/84 Calculator
Your graphing calculator has already been programmed to calculate probabilities for a normal density curve using what is called a cumulative density function. The command you will use is found in the DISTR menu, which you can bring up by pressing [2ND][DISTR].
Press [2] to select the 'normalcdf(' command, which has a syntax of 'normalcdf(lower bound, upper bound, mean, standard deviation)'.
The command has been programmed so that if you do not specify a mean and standard deviation, it will default to the standard normal curve, with \mu=0 and \sigma=1.
For example, entering 'normalcdf(-1, 1)' will specify the area within one standard deviation of the mean, which we already know to be approximately 0.68.
Try verifying the other values from the Empirical Rule.
'Normalpdf(x,\mu,\sigma)' gives values of the probability density function. This is the function we graphed in Lesson 5.1. If \mu and \sigma are not specified, it is assumed that \mu= 0 and \sigma=1.
'Normalcdf (a,b,\mu,\sigma)' gives values of the cumulative normal density function. In other words, it gives the probability of an event occurring between x= a and x =b, or the area under the probability density curve between the vertical lines x= a and x =b, where the normal distribution has a mean of \mu and a standard deviation of \sigma. If \mu and \sigma are not specified, it is assumed that \mu= 0 and \sigma=1.
Example: Find the probability that x< -1.58.
The calculator command must have both an upper and lower bound. Technically, though, the density curve does not have a lower bound, as it continues infinitely in both directions. We do know, however, that a very small percentage of the data is below 3 standard deviations to the left of the mean. Use -3 as the lower bound and see what answer you get.
The answer is fairly accurate, but you must remember that there is really still some area under the probability density curve, even though it is just a little, that we are leaving out if we stop at -3. If you look at the z-table, you can see that we are, in fact, leaving out about 0.5 - 0.4987 = 0.0013. Next, try going out to -4 and -5.
Once we get to -5, the answer is quite accurate. Since we cannot really capture all the data, entering a sufficiently small value should be enough for any reasonable degree of accuracy. A quick and easy way to handle this is to enter -99999 (or “a bunch of nines”). It really doesn’t matter exactly how many nines you enter. The difference between five and six nines will be beyond the accuracy that even your calculator can display.
Example: Find the probability for x \ge -0.528.
Right away, we are at an advantage using the calculator, because we do not have to round off the z-score. Enter the 'normalcdf(' command, using -0.528 to “a bunch of nines.” The nines represent a ridiculously large upper bound that will insure that the unaccounted-for probability will be so small that it will be virtually undetectable.
Remember that because of rounding, our answer from the table was slightly too small, so when we subtracted it from 1, our final answer was slightly too large. The calculator answer of about 0.70125 is a more accurate approximation than the answer arrived at by using the table.
In most practical problems involving normal distributions, the curve will not be as we have seen so far, with \mu=0 and \sigma=1. When using a z-table, you will first have to standardize the distribution by calculating the z-score(s).
Example: A candy company sells small bags of candy and attempts to keep the number of pieces in each bag the same, though small differences due to random variation in the packaging process lead to different amounts in individual packages. A quality control expert from the company has determined that the mean number of pieces in each bag is normally distributed, with a mean of 57.3 and a standard deviation of 1.2. Endy opened a bag of candy and felt he was cheated. His bag contained only 55 candies. Does Endy have reason to complain?
To determine if Endy was cheated, first calculate the z-score for 55:
z & = \frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\\z & = \frac{55-57.3}{1.2}\\z & \approx -1.911666 \ldots
Using a table, the probability of experiencing a value this low is approximately 0.5 - 0.4719 = 0.0281. In other words, there is about a 3% chance that you would get a bag of candy with 55 or fewer pieces, so Endy should feel cheated.
Using a graphing calculator, the results would look as follows (the 'Ans' function has been used to avoid rounding off the z-score):
However, one of the advantages of using a calculator is that it is unnecessary to standardize. We can simply enter the mean and standard deviation from the original population distribution of candy, avoiding the z-score calculation completely.
Lesson Summary
A density curve is an idealized representation of a distribution in which the area under the curve is defined as 1, or in terms of percentages, a probability of 100%. A normal density curve is simply a density curve for a normal distribution. Normal density curves have two inflection points, which are the points on the curve where it changes concavity. These points correspond to the points in the normal distribution that are exactly 1 standard deviation away from the mean. Applying the Empirical Rule tells us that the area under the normal density curve between these two points is approximately 0.68. This is most commonly thought of in terms of probability (e.g., the probability of choosing a value at random from this distribution and having it be within 1 standard deviation of the mean is 0.68). Calculating other areas under the curve can be done by using a z-table or by using the 'normalcdf(' command on the TI-83/84 calculator. A z-table often provides the area under the standard normal density curve between the mean and a particular z-score. The calculator command allows you to specify two values, either standardized or not, and will calculate the area under the curve between these values.
Points to Consider
• How do we calculate areas/probabilities for distributions that are not normal?
• How do we calculate z-scores, means, standard deviations, or actual values given a probability or area?
On the Web
http://tinyurl.com/2ce9ogv This link leads you to a z-table and an explanation of how to use it.
http://tinyurl.com/2bfpbrh Another z-table.
http://tinyurl.com/2aau5zy Investigate the mean and standard deviation of a normal distribution.
http://tinyurl.com/299hsjo The Normal Calculator.
http://www.math.unb.ca/~knight/utility/NormTble.htm Another online normal probability table.
Multimedia Links
For an example showing how to compute probabilities with normal distribution (8.0), see ExamSolutions, Normal Distribution: P(more than x) where x is less than the mean (8:40).
Review Questions
1. Estimate the standard deviation of the following distribution.
2. A z-table most commonly gives the probabilities below given z-scores, or what are sometimes referred to as left-tail probabilities. Probabilities above certain z-scores are complementary to those below, so all we have to do is subtract the table value from 1 to find the probability above a certain z-score. To calculate the probabilities between two z-scores, calculate the left tail probabilities for both z-scores and subtract the left-most value from the right. Try these using the table only!
1. P(z \ge -0.79)
2. P(-1 \le z \le 1) Show all work.
3. P(-1.56 < z < 0.32)
3. Brielle’s statistics class took a quiz, and the results were normally distributed, with a mean of 85 and a standard deviation of 7. She wanted to calculate the percentage of the class that got a B (between 80 and 90). She used her calculator and was puzzled by the result. Here is a screen shot of her calculator:
Explain her mistake and the resulting answer on the calculator, and then calculate the correct answer.
1. Which grade is better: A 78 on a test whose mean is 72 and standard deviation is 6.5, or an 83 on a test whose mean is 77 and standard deviation is 8.4. Justify your answer and draw sketches of each distribution.
2. Teachers A and B have final exam scores that are approximately normally distributed, with the mean for Teacher A equal to 72 and the mean for Teacher B equal to 82. The standard deviation of Teacher A’s scores is 10, and the standard deviation of Teacher B’s scores is 5.
1. With which teacher is a score of 90 more impressive? Support your answer with appropriate probability calculations and with a sketch.
2. With which teacher is a score of 60 more discouraging? Again, support your answer with appropriate probability calculations and with a sketch.
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Cablevision Deal Rejection: Investors In Control
This the biggest rejection of a buyout ever. Institutional Shareholder Systems rejected the deal, as did Mario Gabelli's fund group, and so too the largest shareholder: ClearBridge Advisors. The $32.26 per share offer simply wasn't sweet enough. And there was a lot of backlash (including from Gabelli) about minority shareholders abusing their position of power.
The Dolan family controls about 65 percent of the company's vote through a special class of shares with powerful voting rights--and Cablevision is one of the most successful TV providers in the U.S.
So what's the upshot? In this day of activist investors, no one's going to get ripped off. And there's a lot of focus on how spinning of divisions or selling certain parts to other public companies has to make more sense to shareholders.
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Sparrow is one pretty e-mail client. Screenshot by Rafe Needleman/CNET
Today the small e-mail app company Sparrow announced it's getting acquired by Google . I hope this will be good news, but I am not convinced. With Mozilla ceasing development of Thunderbird features, things look bad for users of desktop e-mail software.
I'm a paying user of the Sparrow OS X application. I love it. I find it provides both a simple view to my GMail accounts, and a very fast interface to blast though messages. Google's GMail Web app gives me more features and better searching, and Thunderbird and Postbox are better for bulk operations, but for day-to-day e-mail activities, you really cannot beat Sparrow.
So I was excited when I first heard this news. Since while I love GMail, I despise the Web-based user interface to it. If there's one thing Gmail could really use, it's a strong client app. And hiring the Sparrow developers is a smart move from that perspective. Giving the Sparrow team more resources, exposure to the entire GMail user base, and the keys to the Gmail code, I imagined, could yield a truly great suite of e-mail apps, building off the Sparrow I already love.
Unfortunately, in a note that sounds ominous for Sparrow users, the Sparrow CEO (and presumably soon-to-be Google VP) Dom Leca said in an e-mail to customers, "We will continue to make available our existing products, and we will provide support and critical updates to our users. However, as we'll be busy with new projects at Google, we do not plan to release new features for the Sparrow apps."
That e-mail makes it sound like Sparrow users will become app orphans, at least for a while, as the Sparrow team is absorbed into Google. The occasional presents we get from the developers in updates will stop coming. And that is a crying shame.
E-mail needs software. Yes, you can do a lot with a Web-based e-mail client (and a lot more than Google currently does with Gmail), but there's nothing like a close-to-the-metal app like an e-mail client to mediate the workflow state of "I'm blasting through my e-mail, leave me alone." Even the most modern Web UI is a bottleneck to the e-mail ninja.
It's not clear if Google execs feel its in their company's interest to push a strong desktop client app. Google may use the Sparrow team to beef up the Android mobile e-mail client, which is good at least for those users. It may deploy Sparrow's artists to fix the Web app.
An article on The Verge gives me a little hope: "Google isn't ruling out native Gmail clients for platforms beyond iOS and Android.... Google wants to bring polish, 'beauty,' and ease of use to all of its Gmail experiences across platforms"
Postbox may pick up where Sparrow leaves off. Postbox
Let's hope this article is accurate. Web UIs are bottlenecks. Smartphones are too tiny. Tablets are limited (but getting better). There is still nothing like a real desktop app for ultimate e-mail productivity.
There is one group for whom the demise of these e-mail clients is good news: The team over at Postbox, the other remaining independent e-mail app with a large user base. This company started when people left the Thunderbird project at Mozilla (wisely, it turns out) to build a world-class, complete e-mail client for desktops.
According to CEO Sherman Dickman, Postbox doesn't even have a mobile strategy. That's music to my ears. Let's hear it for an app that's focused on getting work done on the device where you can actually do it.
Postbox, by the way, recently got a price cut, from $29.95 to $9.95. If you want to use an e-mail app today that has a better chance of being supported and improved over the next few years, check it out. It's not as pretty as Sparrow, but for the e-mail power user it is a very good tool.
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Though Sony emblazons "6.1 megapixels still image recording" on the HC7's lens barrel, that claim's a bit misleading--especially when you can spot "6.1 megapixels" from several feet away and "still image recording" requires an up-close-and-personal read. In fact, it delivers an effective video resolution of 2.3 megapixels in HD mode and 1.7 megapixels in SD mode. Either is more than enough for downsampling to 1,920x540 (a single 1080i field) and 720x480 (SD). Photo resolution depends upon your current video mode. If you take photos while in tape mode (as opposed to memory mode), it records to the Memory Stick Duo but fixes the resolution at 4.6 megapixels (16:9) and 3.4 megapixels (4:3); in camera mode, you have the option of 6.1 or 3.1 megapixels for 4:3, as well as VGA resolution. How confusing is that? Especially since the area of the scene covered by the 4.6 megapixel, 16:9 aspect version is a letterboxed crop of the 6.1 megapixel, 4:3 aspect version. In practice, since most people likely will be shooting HDV and simply snapping the occasional photo, the typical photo size you'll see is 4.6 megapixels.
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Darn it. I don't want to like this show but all these returns makes me want to start watching it.
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Hmm, Batman rogues or Spiderman rogues? Well one gave us Signal Man and the other gave us the Penny Pilferer. So hard to choose.
Btw, does anyone remember this from years ago in Wizard Magazine?
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@mrmazz: I kind of feel the same way. The Raimi movies kind of diminished in quality as they went on. But the ASM films seemed to be taking it back in the right direction. I'm not sure why everyone complained about them. I thought they would have been terrible but they surprised me.
Are they really just getting involved so they can have Spider-man in the Civil War storyline? I thought his movies were good enough as a stand alone franchise. I'm kind of disappointed that they're turning it into a team up series. But they're gonna do what they're gonna do.
Does this mean we won't get that sinister six film?
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Cyclops definitely has the power in his optic blasts to end this in range but the deciding factor for Ninjak to win is speed. Speed gets him inside, speed gives him the advantage in hand to hand combat with fast, lethal blows. Scott may have excellent countering skills but Ninjak's quick inside shots will make it extremely difficult for Scott to protect himself. The biggest mistake Ninjak can make is letting Cyclops control the fight by keeping him at a distance. His master hacking skills can also give him a good opening if he is able hack into the grid to knock out the street lights. He can make good use of the dark and that, coupled with his agility and stealth tech can put a quick end to the fight.
#5 Posted by Shadowsnake89 (506 posts) - - Show Bio
Nice to see one of my favorite DD villains again. How many kids did this guy have?
#6 Posted by Shadowsnake89 (506 posts) - - Show Bio
@i_dont_like_comics: Of course it was parodied before. Robot Chicken , Family Guy and about a thousand others, duh. I'm saying that Disney is saturating it with all the ones they are doing in one big heap. To top that off they don't look appealing in the slightest.Then there were the game cancellations with 1313 being one of LucasArts' more daring games getting scraped along with the Battlefront series. It seems to me that Disney doesn't really know how to handle the properties they buy they just get them so they can corner the market on kids entertainment.
#7 Posted by Shadowsnake89 (506 posts) - - Show Bio
I don't understand. What is Marvel's problem with having an all Japanese cast from a book series that was based in Japan? And on top of that they changed almost everyone's origin stories and powers.
#8 Posted by Shadowsnake89 (506 posts) - - Show Bio
@i_dont_like_comics: Disney owns Marvel which gives them leeway into what can and can't be in the films if they got the rights back from Sony. Just look at what they're doing with Starwars with the Disney crossovers, parodies and retcons. If Sony loses the rights I don't have much faith in what they'll do with it.
#9 Posted by Shadowsnake89 (506 posts) - - Show Bio
I don't want to see ASM 3 because ASM 2 SUCKED!!!!!!!
Sony, give Spidey back to MARVEL!!!
So Disney can get their greasy mits on it? They've already shown they can't make a decent cartoon.
But I definitely want Mysterio. Would be funny if thy got Michael Bay, the king of special effects to play him or at least an assistant in a scene. Also maybe Shocker. He's been in most of the Spider-man games.
#10 Posted by Shadowsnake89 (506 posts) - - Show Bio
I wouldn't read it. I didn't like it when Doc Ock took over. Won't lie and say I'd read it if he were. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66842 | How Pelosi Ended 'The War With Iraq'
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How Pelosi Ended 'The War With Iraq'
Tom Gilroy
Perhaps you haven't noticed, but The War With Iraq is over.
Like everything with the Bush administration's relationship to it's gullible public, the point is never what they're doing, but what they say they're doing; it's the words, not the deeds.
So No Child Left Behind of course has nothing to do with helping challenged children in bad schools to keep up, it's about defunding and dismantling the public school system. And 'saving Social Security' has nothing to do with saving social security, its about handing over what's left of the public trough to the investment industry, etc, etc, etc---is there a single American under a rock anywhere that doesn't know this drill by heart by now?
And now the war with Iraq is no longer 'The War With Iraq'; its been successfully rebranded as 'The War with Iran'.
Try and sit through a single newscast or reading of the international page without finding a reference to how Iran is the real 'enemy' over there; whether it's the nuclear bomb there's no evidence of them developing, the IEDs there's no evidence of their government smuggling across the border to harm the agents of our benign humanitarian effort in Iraq, or how Ahmadinejad's denial of the facts of the Holocaust means he's ready to wipe out the free world---or at least America, which can't really be called the free world anymore. But I digress.
Mel Gibson denies the facts of the Holocaust, too, but unless he's planning on wiping out the free world by boring them to death with shitty movies, I don't really see him as much of a global threat. And our own leader, the intellectual from Yale who can't pronounce 'nuclear'--he routinely denies the facts of not only evolution, but global warming, contraception, carcinogens in drinking water, etc, etc, etc and you never hear a peep about him bringing on Armageddon. (Well, only in fundamentalist churches, but they're happy about it.)
But if you scan any of the news for idiots---The NY Daily News say, or CNN--- you'd think Ahmadinejad had actually flown the planes into the World Trade Center and that he literally walks around Tehran with American blood dripping off his bib. When he spoke at Columbia last week, the conservatives who run American mainstream media spun it like Hitler had spoken at ACLU headquarters in the middle of the Blitz.
The rebranding of War With Iraq into War With Iran is only Phase I of a multi-phased rebranding strategy that will go on for years, a strategy that is in fact prepping us for the big hand-off to a Democratic White House that needs its own public spin for staying in Iraq until we've met the one and only (private) benchmark we've had all along; a permanent force in the world's largest military base securing the theft of the world's second largest deposit of oil. But don't take it from me--ask Alan Greenspan, that liberal.
If you doubt the existence of this strategy, than you must've missed the emergence of Phase II last week, when all three of the leading presidential candidates from the 'opposition party'--- the party that supposedly has a mandate from the American people to end the war---furrowed their collective brow and professed dismay that it just seemed too darn unrealistic---and no doubt unpresidential--- to get troops out of Iraq any earlier than--are you ready?--2013.
Why not just let Bush stay president? It's what he wanted all along.
Of course the troops the Dems plan to keep there won't be 'combat' troops, because the 'war' will be over---at least rhetorically. They'll be a 'stabilization force'--that's Phase III of the rebranding.
Phase III will last 50 years, and you'll never hear the word 'combat,' only 'stabilization', but on the ground, the facts will be the same they've always been; unwelcome Americans kids getting killed and maimed by a debilitated local populace who hate them. Desperate Iraqis--armed and otherwise--with no water, sanitation, electricity, protection or hope will still be slaughtered in the streets or made into internal or external refugees. And of course there'll be the big cherry on top we've wanted all along; control of the oil.
And voila--we'll basically have our new Israel; a permanently volatile and unstable place that we'll diplomatically dither with for eternity, all the while pumping tax dollars into a 'stabilizing' military infrastructure to ensure the local population will never have peace and are so distracted by survival that we'll get away with grabbing what we've decided is ours to steal.
Any questions?
The opposition party 'came back into power' and passed non-binding resolutions to chide a president who doesn't give a shit who chides him and then voted to support an ill-advised surge and increase funding for the very war they had a 'mandate' to end. These are facts, not rhetoric.
The Democrats bought Bush the time he wanted by pitching their rhetoric to their constituents, while the White House bought time pitching their rhetoric to their few remaining constituents, and now the moment to get out of the whole abhorrent mess has passed. Bush will be gone but the troops will stay and we'll have gotten the oil.
Oh sure, there's all the side 'benefits'--the American taxpayers funding the creation of a massive invasion/occupation industry--companies like KBR, Bechtel, Blackwater, you know the names--that take taxpayer dollars to at first rip a region down and then take taxpayer's money to build the region up again, albeit in accordance with their own privatized corporate needs and with inferior materials and slave labor.
(or perhaps you thought all those buildings in the Green Zone were built by well-paid union construction workers outfitted in state of the art protective gear with round-the-clock-workplace safety standards in place--you know, like in Katrina)
In short, a massive, publicly funded destruction/reconstruction industry for private profit. Call it 'socialized terror.'
They'll call it 'job creation.'
What could've stopped it all, the great rebranding, the escalation, the extra deaths and crippling debt, not to mention yet another gutting of the power of the American voter? The impeachment process. This is of course the one thing Nancy Pelosi declared was 'off the table' before she'd done a single thing as Speaker.
Say it again, to yourself: 'The one thing that truly could have derailed the longest war in US history, in the one moment where it was still possible, was declared 'off the table' by the leader of the opposition party, placed in power by a mandate from the people.'
The 'Ending The War Phase' is over and the 'How Can We Sensibly Approach A Solution Phase?' has begun. Feel any different?
It's like Karl Rove is still writing the script. Maybe he is.
Our new Democratic president will tell us the 'war is over' and it will be as hollow as 'mission accomplished'--especially to the Iraqis. But Americans will hear our 'combat troops' are coming home and sigh with relief as they nod with a feeling of democratic triumph at 'the wave of change in Washington'---and go back to American Idol and Dancing With The Stars.
Maybe we should stop parsing the spin and arguing over which lie seems closer to the truth we want to believe.
Maybe we should forget about reality TV for a sec and start thinking about reality reality.
--Tom Gilroy
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66843 | HTC One: To buy or not to buy?
Spring is in the air, my friends -- and for those of us tempted by technology, that means it's time to start looking at the latest lust-worthy devices to see which wins our heart.
The most recent entry to the Android cathouse is the HTC One -- a sleek and stylish phone from the folks who brought us last year's outstanding One X and One S devices. HTC may not have the same brand recognition or advertising savvy as Samsung, but don't let corporate marketing shape your opinions: Just like the One X in 2012, the HTC One promises to be one of this year's most impressive smartphones -- whether mainstream shoppers realize it or not.
As I'm wont to do with newly released devices, I opened my arms to the One and embraced it, using it in place of my own personal phone and getting to know it intimately for several days. (And yeah -- you'd better believe there was some heavy petting involved.)
You can read my in-depth review for the full scope of my experiences and a detailed look at the phone's pros and cons. Here, I want to focus on some comparisons and think about how the HTC One fits into the broader Android ecosystem.
I've seen a lot of lazy superlatives used in evaluations of the One. Various sites have said it's "hands down the best Android phone around," "the most beautiful Android phone ever made," "the Android that could crush the iPhone," and -- yes -- even "the smartphone that changes everything" (seriously, guys?!).
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I'm not going to insult you with those sorts of hollow and sensational statements. The truth is that the One is an extremely well-made phone with a lot of positive qualities. But as anyone who actually uses Android knows, the platform has an evolving array of first-class devices -- a group I like to call the Android elite -- and while it may not jibe with those who strive to write sexy-sounding headlines, there's rarely any single device that's categorically "the best" for everyone.
(Don't worry: Here in a few weeks, we'll be bombarded with stories telling us the Galaxy S4 is the only phone anyone should ever consider, too. These cycles get pretty predictable after a while.)
So let's look at this from a more nuanced and realistic perspective, shall we? The One is without question one of the best Android phones available today. It's beautifully constructed, with a striking aluminum build that looks
HTC One Hardware
and feels like a million bucks. It has a stellar display along with awesome speakers, top-notch performance and a camera that -- while certainly not perfect -- takes great-looking everyday shots and excels at low-light performance.
The One also, however, has a dated and problematic button configuration -- something that may sound trivial but plays a significant role in the user experience. Similarly, HTC falls into the common trap of trying to change the Android interface simply for the sake of change; the result, as generally happens in that scenario, is a UI that's messy and convoluted at times -- and a serious step down from Google's stock software.
In the big picture, of course, it's a balancing act -- and what really matters is what's important to you in a phone. So how do you know if the One is the one? I'd make the following suggestions:
• Think about the build style -- the look and feel of a phone -- that you prefer. The One's aluminum build has a very high-end and premium vibe to it; frankly, it makes a plasticky device like Samsung's Galaxy S4 (which I'll be reviewing soon) look a little cheap in comparison.
The One's metal casing is also considerably less fragile than glass-centric phones like the LG-made Nexus 4, which -- while high-end and premium in design -- are more prone to scratches and cracks due to the nature of their material.
[UPDATE: Galaxy S4 vs. HTC One and Nexus 4: Which should you get?]
• Give some thought to the battery. The One's battery is not removable -- a factor that won't matter to most folks but is important to a subset of users.
If you're concerned about the possibility of running out of power, other devices do have advantages: A phone like the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, for instance, has a massive battery that's damn near impossible to kill in a day. And a phone like the Galaxy S4, by virtue of its aforementioned plastic construction, allows you to easily peel off a back panel to swap out the battery for a spare.
Of course, you could also just get a portable power pack to keep around as a backup. Such packs are available from a variety of manufacturers -- Motorola, Mophie, and others -- and are a pretty simple Plan B that'll work with any device.
• Mull over the notion of storage. The HTC One comes with either 32GB or 64GB of internal space and no SD card slot. For most users, that's going to be more than enough -- but some people do like having more space. Other devices, like the GS4 and Razr Maxx, offer SD card slots for external expansion.
• Consider how much software means to you and what sort of experience you prefer. I maintain that Google's Nexus 4 provides the best overall user experience of any device on the market today, thanks to its pure Google Android software and guaranteed rapid upgrades to future Android versions (like the major release expected to be announced at Google's I/O developers' conference next month).
If having the latest and greatest software is important to you -- and, like most users, you aren't the type of person who's going to root a phone and install a custom-made ROM on your own -- Google's Nexus phones may be the path for you. Other devices have their own advantages, but fast and frequent upgrades aren't typically among them.
Lots to think about -- I know. But as I've said many a-time, having too many attractive choices is a fantastic kind of problem to face.
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Ultimately, the best way to decide if a device is right for you is to get a feel for what it's actually like to use -- and that's where I can help. Living with a phone for several days tells you a lot.
So step into my shoes and see how the One fares in the real world. Our journey begins at the link below:
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66872 | For those pastas that are smelling less than fresh…
Final note
I could not remember the exact day (Who has that good a memory anyway) but there was once, this friend of mine (I shall not name for privacy sake), told me something odd. It was said that he received a note every morning. Torn from the nearest notepad/ book or anything that has paper. The note included every single misfortune he will be having that day. I laughed it off and said he is just hallucinating. Not to mention he reads creepypasta every day.
I could feel that he was getting paranoid by the day as he studied (He was my desk mate) His eyes felt different. It was like his whole body was shivering, but perhaps it was just me. There was one day I jokingly asked him if he was being pursued by Slenderman. His answer was,”Maybe” And he sounded really serious. I could tell that he was pretty much serious after being friends with him for several years.
My friend then confided in me about his experience.
Every morning he woke up, he would receive a note on the table. The note writes about all misfortunes he would have that day. When he showed me all the notes he had received, it seems that the misfortunes get worse and worse. The first day it began with things that might happen everyday. Knocking onto the side of a table, pricking yourself with a needle. It was trivial. But soon, it got more severe. On the 32nd day, he started having notes saying he would be locked in his house when a fire breaks out, falling down the stairs, and many more misfortunes that have the most remote chance of happening.
I asked him if it was true. I could remember his face when he told me the answer. His eyes, it enlarged and closed quickly and whispered it was true, all of them. That moment his eyes flashed, it was as if I could also see through all the days he went through.
I fell silent, but took the courage to ask another question. I asked if he attempted to avoid the misfortunes on the paper. I do not know why, but he suddenly got very agitated and yelled at me, “OF COURSE I TRIED!” before breaking down and whispered sorry over and over again. I said it was okay but he continued saying sorry.
It took him a while to calm down and when he finally did, he told me of the few days he attempted to avoid the predictions.
There was one day when the note had ‘attacked by school bullies’ ‘slapped by mum’ ‘fell into a drain’
He told himself not to agitate mum in any way and avoid the school bullies by taking a roundabout way. He also decided to be more aware of his surroundings to prevent himself from falling into a drain. However, things didn’t go out as well as he hoped for.
Taking a roundabout way and walking home almost with his eyes glued to the floor watching out for drains, he felt that he could outsmart the predictions. When he saw a huge drain open and didn’t fall into it, he felt really proud of himself. However, his happiness was not exactly long lived. When he looked up, he was stunned. He saw the 3 school bullies in front of him. He turned around and ran, but fell into the drain instead as he was not looking. The bullies hauled him out and gave him a beating before stripping him of his cash and valuables.
Dejected, he walked back home and he thought how his mum was going to slap him. Feeling disappointed and furious with his failed plan, he talked to his mum in an irritated tone that made his mum extremely angry at him. And so, he was slapped after reaching the limits of his mum’s temper.
And not to mention, the next note he received has a small-print of writing ‘You cannot escape the predictions’ And yeah, he also told me he received this small-print every now and then. Is all this actually done by someone? But who? My mind was pretty puzzled.
One day, I decided to take a more active approach at helping my friend solve his problem. I decided to camp at his house one day to see when the note would appear. I took turns with my friend to guard his table. I took the second shift, from 3am-7am, and throughout I saw nothing. Nothing at all. But the note appeared. Somehow. I sat on the chair and glued my eyes on the table. I was so sure I was staring at the place where the note was placed. Nothing happened. The note appeared, with the small-print, “You cannot find me”
Pretty much nothing could be done. We attempted to contact the police, ghost busters and stuff like that but they couldn’t help us in one way or another. The police just rejected and took it as a senseless prank, the ghost busters could find nothing. And my friend’s notes were getting more and more severe each day.
Until the 128th day. The note was a simple two, large words:
It had no predictions. My friend laughed hysterically (After all this he has pretty much gone mental) And screamed, “I AM GOING TO BE FREE! HE’S GOING TO GET ME!”
I was extremely worried. Somehow, if this misfortune is really going to end his life, I felt kind of happy. He can finally be free from the crazy notes.
He will not have to shoulder the emotional burden once more. But when my friend said, “HE’S GOING TO GET ME”
I felt afraid again. Was he going to join the mysterious note writer? And suffer even more punishment?
I never had a chance answer my final doubts. My friend disappeared on that day. And looking back, the final note was still accurate. My friend had suffered no misfortunes on his final day. Nothing at all. The final day ended with his disappearance and no note was seen from that day on.
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• The Operator
Honestly, I think this one has potential. Fix up some mistakes and remove the unneeded Slenderman name drop, and you could make something decent out of this,
• Nozomi
It was pretty good. Some of the predictions COULD be avoided though… the “locked in your house when a fire broke out” could have been avoided by simply not going home that day (how would he have survived that anyhow?) |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66888 | Disambiguation And Grammar As Emergent Soft Constraints (1999)
When reading a sentence such as The diplomat threw the ball in the ballpark for the princess" our interpretation changes from a dance event to baseball and back to dance. Such on-line disambiguation happens automatically and appears to be based on dynamically combining the strengths of association between the keywords and the two senses. Subsymbolic neural networks are very good at modeling such behavior. They learn word meanings as soft constraints on interpretation, and dynamically combine these constraints to form the most likely interpretation. On the other hand, it is very difficult to show how systematic language structures such as relative clauses could be processed in such a system. The network would only learn to associate them to specific contexts and would not be able to process new combinations of them. A closer look at understanding embedded clauses shows that humans are not very systematic in processing grammatical structures either. For example, "The girl who the boy who the girl who lived next door blamed hit cried" is very difficult to understand, whereas "The car that the man who the dog that had rabies bit drives is in the garage" is not. This difference emerges from the same semantic constraints that are at work in the disambiguation task. In this chapter we will show how the subsymbolic parser can be combined with high-level control that allows the system to process novel combinations of relative clauses systematically, while still being sensitive to the semantic constraints.
In Workshop on Thought and Language, Brian J. MacWhinney (Eds.), pp. 20-31, Iizuka, Japan 1999. Department of Artificial Intelligence, Kyushu Institute of Technology.
Risto Miikkulainen Faculty risto [at] cs utexas edu |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66892 |
B20.1: NT - Cannot install from full-split directory
I am a long time user of the DJGPP port of the GNU utilities but find
myself forced by my Company to use Windows NT rather than Win95. The
DJGPP port is causing me all sorts of problems because NT doesn't
support long filenames (I have tried the LFN utility mentioned in the
FAQ, but it is pretty buggy and didn't help much). So I decided to try
I have been trying to download and install 20.1 but have experienced
extreme frustration :-)
I am operating through a firewall so I can only use Netscape to download
files. Whenever I attempt to get full.exe (doesn't matter which mirror
site) I get a time out. OK, so I downloaded everything in full-split
(xaa, xab etc) and combined them using the installation instructions,
but when I attempt to run it (from Explorer, from a DOS prompt, using
"run" off the Start menu) I get an error message "This program cannot be
run in DOS mode." Cound someone tell me what am I doing wrong? :-) (BTW,
I have followed the copy instruction EXACTLY :-)).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66938 | graphic by Steve Childs
The Shortest Poem in the World
- not by Muhammed Ali*
In the relationship between ME and WE, one doesn't threaten to become the other. One is the other.
Sometimes WE are really wonderfully fun to be part of. Truly empowering. Truly mutually fun.
You make a joke with a stranger, and suddenly you find yourself being very clever, extraordinarily clever, in fact. You're saying things you clearly wouldn't ordinarily be saying. You're acting in a way you wouldn't ordinarily.
Or you're just talking a walk with someone and you and the world feel suddenly brighter--intellectually, physically, environmentally.
For some reason, in some way, the WE that you are creating and becoming part of is making each of us more fun - smarter, more, more alert, more alive.
I call this experience CoLiberation.
It's the experience of ME empowering the WE empowering the ME. ME and the Other freeing each other. Me and the Harmonic creating the music, ME and the Group Mind, the Team Spirit creating each other.
Depending on how we create it, the WE creates us.
For the fun of it, I made an actual graphic, a computer-generated presentation, in fact, that I use in my routine about relationship between ME and WE.
Here is what it looks like:
On oneAxis we have ME or WE. On Axis Other, WE or ME.
The higher or farther out we go on each axis, the more fun it becomes to be a ME or WE. The closer in, the less.
When the WE and ME are in balance, there is mutual empowerment - CoLiberation. This is indicated by a channel, diagonally equidistant between ME and WE. Here the good meetings, the well-played games, the fun things happen.
Fun is the background, the context, steady state. Games are the rules that help us move up or down the channel, towards and away from the Bigger ME or the Greater WE.
*Hi Major Fun, just saw your page Me-We. Must inform you that Ali did *not* say "Me. We!". What he actually did say was: "Me. Whee!". Which has a completely different meaning, I'm afraid. Nevertheless a fine poem.
Yours, Cubicle Warrior.
me-we-be defined
And here's a Me\We logo from Tess Cartwright.
And the Me\We Handshake.
And a further definition:
"A Mewe knows that every individual is a one of a kind creation with special gifts, weaknesses and strengths. They know each person sees the world in their own special way, different than anyone else. Sometimes it just feels really good to be alone, to be a Me. A Mewe also knows they are the same as others in as many ways as they are different. They know people just naturally want to join together into groups of We. We love to play together. We work together building things. Sometimes it feels the best to be in a group, to be a We. A Mewe gives equal value to the Me and the We parts of themselves and others. Me and We are Mewe, they are one."
graphic by Steve Childs |
global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/66954 | Richard Jack
Richard Jack was Canada’s first official war artist. Born in Sunderland, England, in 1866, the British subject studied at the Acadmie Julien in Paris, France, before he was hired by Canada to become our first official war artist in 1916.
He held strong opinions on the modern school of art and in 1933 was quoted in the Toronto Telegram as saying: "A glib tongue, rather than a clever brush and an eye for pigment was the main asset of the proponent of the extremist schools."
Jack was a master draftsman and there was no question that he understood color and form. His grand and romantic style glorified every subject he touched. The 12-foot-by-20-foot canvases of The Second Battle of Ypres, 22 April to 25 May 1915, and The Taking of Vimy Ridge, Easter Monday, 1917, are spectacular tributes to the heroism of Canadians at war.
The artist usually worked from a studio and relied on a variety of references, including photographs that were taken of the front. His war art concentrated on the collective triumph rather than the individual agony of war.
Long before he became a war artist, Jack was a well-known portrait painter. His portrait subjects included King Edward VII, King George V and King Alphonso of Spain. He became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Institute of Painters. Jack moved to Canada in 1927 and settled in Montreal in 1931.
He used his Montreal studio as a base for field trips across Canada, and before his death in 1952 at age 87, he was well known for his Canadian wilderness paintings.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/67027 | Gettin' Jiggy Wit It Lyrics
Bring it.
Unh, unh, unh, unh
Hoo cah cah
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[mimicking bass line] Bicka bicka bow bow bow,
bicka bow bow bump bump
What, what, what, what
Hah hah hah hah
on your mark ready set let's go
dance floor pro I know you know
I go psycho when my new joint hit
just can't sit
gotta get jiggy wit it
ooh that's it
now honey honey come ride
DKNY all up in my eye
you gotta Prada bag with alotta stuff in it
give it to your friend let's spin
everybody lookin' at me
glancin' the kid
wishin' they was dancin' a jig
here with this handsome kid
ciga-cigar right from Cuba-Cuba
I just bite it
it's for the look I don't light it
illway the an-may on the ance-day oor-flay
givin' up jiggy make it feel like foreplay
yo my car-dee-o is Infinit-
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Big Willie Style's all in it
Gettin' Jiggy Wit It
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repeat 3x
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watch your step you might fall
trying to do what I did
mama-unh mama-unh mama come closer
no love for the haters, the haters
mad cause I got floor seats at the Lakers
see me on the fifty yard line with the Raiders
met Ali he told me I'm the greatest
I got the fever for the flavor of a crowd pleaser
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from the prince of this
your highness
only mad chicks ride in my whips
south to the west to the east to the north
bought my hits and watch 'em go off a go off
ah yes yes y'all ya don't stop
in the winter or the (summertime)
I makes it hot
gettin jiggy wit 'em
eight-fifty I.S. if you need a lift
who's the kid in the drop
who else Will Smith
livin' that life some consider a myth
rock from south street to one two fifth
women used to tease me
give it to me now nice and easy
since I moved up like George and Wheezy
cream to the maximum I be askin' 'em
would you like to bounce with the brother that's platinum
never see Will attackin' 'em
rather play ball with Shaq and um,
flatten 'em
you thought I took a spill
but I didn't
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hit her with a drop top with the ribbon
crib for my mom on the outskirts of Philly
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don't be silly
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infoSync checks out the P910, Sony Ericsson's upgrade of their much-loved P900 smartphone that adds a flip-down QWERTY keyboard to the mix (and which still isn't out here). They like the nicer screen and extra memory, but the painful part is that just like pretty much everyone suspected when Sony Ericsson announced this thing a few months back, the ergonomics of the keyboard are just totally off: "Keys are easily distinguished and the character and symbol set is fully adequate, but a backlight is sorely missed. What's more, the P910i frustratingly flops all around the place when using both thumbs to enter text, yielding a usability level best suited to very short messages." Oh, and there's absolutely no support for WiFi, either. Next?
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We'd originally heard something or other about Microsoft launching the Xbox 360 on November 4th or maybe November 22nd, but now IGN reports that the next-gen console is all set to drop on November 25th, aka the day after Thanksgiving aka Black Friday aka the busiest shopping day of the year (at least it used to be). The 25th is a little later than Microsoft had originally wanted to intro the 360, but apparently they wanted to give developers a little extra time to finish up their launch titles.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/67033 | While talking with Firaxis about Civilization: Beyond the Sword and its space scenarios, it had to be asked whether we'll ever see the return of Alpha Centauri and its cast of characters bent on controlling the living planet. Producers from Firaxis and some representatives from 2K weren't opposed to the idea.
Yes, Brian Reynolds (Big Huge Games), who designed the original game with Sid Meier has moved on and then there is the tricky issue that EA owns the rights. However, the Firaxis crew said if EA wouldn't be opposed to giving that up, there might be an opportunity for a sequel. It's the best and only chance for Firaxis to ever return gamers to Alpha Centauri. One producer for Firaxis turned around and said, "We could make 'Sid Meier's Space-something,' we have a great group to do that, but it just wouldn't be the same." No, it really wouldn't. Come on EA, it's not like you're doing anything with the series, work out a deal.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/67034 | If you thought 416 hours of Winter Olympic Games coverage was a bit much, the 3,600 hours (that's 150 days worth, folks) that NBC-Universal will be recording next year will seem like overkill in its finest form. Sure enough, it will supposedly be covering every facet of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing from August 8 - 24, 2008, and a variety of networks including NBC, USA, MSNBC, and CNBC will be carrying its programming. Notably, it will be displaying Olympics in HD on Universal-HD, NBC HD, and USA HD, and while the exact amount of HD coverage wasn't stated, even a fraction of the 3,600 hour total would be mighty impressive.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/67038 | Looking to drift around Shift 2 Unleashed's narrow apexes in a perfectly balanced Nissan Silvia Spec-R Aero (S15)? To leap from 0 to 60 in 3.3 seconds with an over $300K Lamborghini Murciélago LP640? To ... uh ... commute in style in an Alfa Romeo Giulietta QV? You may want to pre-order the game, then, as EA announced this morning that all three cars will only be available at launch to folks who manage to snag the "Limited Edition" of Shift 2.
Like Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit before it, the initial shipments of Shift 2 Unleashed will be "Limited Edition" versions packing the three cars -- no extra money is required, just the need for speed in making a purchasing decision.
The release says nothing about when the trio of liveries will become available to the rest of us normal folk, but it does characterize the bonus as "immediate" rather than "exclusive" access. That said, we're sure the Autolog system moving over from Hot Pursuit will make whatever period of exclusivity torture while friends toast our time trials. Blast you, friends who think ahead!
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8:12AM PST: We're currently in line for Satoru Iwata's GDC 2011 keynote. We'll fill you in on all the megatons, scoops, megascoops, scoopatons and scegapoops as they come in. Which should be in about 45. Join us after the break and follow along at home!
Original: Nintendo prez Satoru Iwata is back, delivering the GDC keynote just like he did in 2006 and 2009. This title of this year's talk is "Video Games Turn 25: A Historical Perspective and Vision for the Future." With a title like that, you can bet Iwata's going to be talking up Nintendo's illustrious 25-year history, but also making some prognostications for the future. Glasses-free 3D anyone?
Stop back to this post later today for all the news, straight out of GDC.
10:05AM And now we're surreptitiously searching under our chairs for 3DSes and walking out.
10:04AM And now ending as he began, with a quote from TimeGate's CEO, Adel Chaveleh. And then Iwata says to "believe in your dream." "Why would we stop now?" he says, as clearly defiant as Iwata's ever going to be.
10:00AM Two distinct sides of the game businesses: one requires investments that are often too big, and the other provides games that are often not high value. Nintendo is interested in protecting "value."
9:59AM Seriously, guys, think about what you're doing when you make that iOS game.
9:58AM "Is maintaining high value games a top priority ... or not?" Nintendo doesn't publish for non-Nintendo platforms to match hardware and experiences best. Not that anyone thought that would change.
9:57AM "The big app sites" have tens of thousands of games. You know, the big app sites. The ones on your phone.
9:56AM Next concern: that game developers will be able to keep "making a living" from their games in a crowded market.
9:54AM "Industry concerns" from Iwata include talent development and ... well, I guess he's just politely ranting. Polite rants are a GDC staple.
9:52AM I believe Iwata said that Nintendo intended to release Ocarina of Time 3D in June. But it was a passing reference.
9:51AM One puzzle-esque enemy has six arms, making Link's ideal angle of attack difficult.
9:50AM And now we're checking out a Skyward Sword trailer. Link is fighting a big spider, and... a totem pole, and a lava frog, and, uh, a bamboo tree...
9:49AM Miyamoto is working on a plan that will allow developers to "celebrate" the Zelda 25th Anniversary together. No idea what that means!
9:48AM We'll find out more about that at E3.
9:48AM The Super Mario Galaxy team is working on a new "Super Mario" game. The raccoon tail from SMB3 is featured in the (temporary) logo.
9:48AM "Finally the day has come," Miyamoto told Iwata, when they can solve the problem of how to precisely jump in 3D. A new Super Mario game on 3DS!
9:46AM Iwata's back. Still no translator! He's going to talk about new games.
9:45AM Late May 2011 will bring the eShop, the web browser, and DSiWare software transfers. Glad to see this hasn't been pushed back, at least.
9:44AM eShop includes all DSiWare titles, a Virtual Console -- which also includes Game Gear and TurboGrafx 16 games! and "3D classics," remastered in 3D.
9:43AM The new wi-fi points, SpotPass's automatic connection and downloads, and the ability to push content without even having the game in the system will "maximize distribution opportunity." That's really the phrase he used for this actually neat content.
9:42AM (For free.)
9:42AM "Here in America, we'll build substantially on the Japanese experience." Over 10,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots usable on 3DS in late May.
9:40AM StreetPass and SpotPass, the two passive connectivity features. No news yet, they're just still neat.
9:39AM As hinted in a recent "Iwata Asks," 3D video recording will arrive in an update.
9:38AM Music videos and other entertainment "curated" by Nintendo.
9:38AM An exclusive short-form video service. "A wireless Nintendo channel available only on 3DS."
9:37AM Movie trailers in 3D coming to 3DS. Green Lantern will be one of them.
9:36AM You can watch part of a movie on 3DS and pick it up on your Wii later. "Maybe when you walk into your living room, your little guy is already streaming Spongebob." That sound super gross to anyone else?
9:35AM Netflix partnership on 3DS! Hey, there's some news.
9:34AM "The primary function of the Nintendo 3DS is to play games." The display and networking features are distinctive, but the system. Exists. To play games.
9:33AM "Nintendo can do better" in the world of digital downloads. WiiWare and DSiWare have underperformed. You guys are hearing this for the first time, of course. And now Reggie's coming out to talk about network things.
9:32AM "Selfishly, of course, I hope that people decide the next must-have is Nintendo 3DS." Because of technology, new gameplay, and new ways of social interaction. AR Games, Face Raiders, and Mii Maker, all pre-installed, were included to "compel social interaction." To make people want to show this stuff to their friends, and to take their systems around with them to find out what new Miis or other content has been pushed.
9:29AM Once more: "Tinkle Popo."
9:29AM Kirby's Dream Land, by Iwata's own HAL Laboratory, was an action game designed to be completable to everyone. His name originally sounded like "Tinkle Popo." Not so universally appealing! Concerns over the overly cute character led to Kirby appearing white on the Game Boy box art.
9:27AM Donkey Kong Country Returns has the "universal appeal" game companies seek, he said. Is everyone universally that good at games?
9:27AM Tetris and The Sims are the next two franchises to be highlighted. Lessons from these "must-haves" -- a need for constant improvement, social connections, expanding the audience to include new people, and "challenging" the notions of what a game should be.
9:24AM Mario became popular through word-of-mouth, and has remained popular because he "always evolves." Pokemon is based on the "universal appeal" of collecting, training, trading exclusive Pokemon with your friends -- you know, Pokemon stuff. That stuff was designed to promote interaction. A social game.
9:22AM "Must-haves" have been hardware like the first Game Boy, or games like Sonic the Hedgehog, Zelda, Grand Theft Auto, Angry Birds, Tetris. There's a third kind of "must-have" that comes from the player themselves. The social appeal of games -- how players enjoy connecting.
9:20AM "What exactly excites gamers." A "must-have", he called it.
9:20AM "I believe the most important lesson of the last 25 years is understanding what exactly excited
9:19AM "I don't want you to think Nintendo is taking too much credit for developing the social aspect of games". Call of Duty, in particular, has become a big deal online, and he's even namechecking Xbox Live. Unexpected!
9:18AM And now we're in the "total Pong clone" stage in Nintendo's history. And now we're at the N64 stage. Wow, that was quick! While I was typing this, he moved on to Wii Sports. I think he talked more about Spacewar than the NES.
9:17AM "Social network games" are described as "social games," but those are different. Social networks, he says, is a grouping of people for social activity through mobile devices. But just describing a game as "social" is different from that specific. He cites Spacewar, which only existed in networked mainframes in the early days, as an example of an early "social" game.
9:15AM So far, the active user ratio in Europe is lower than in the US. Of course, that just means more room for growth! Right...?
9:14AM In this chart, the blue area represents people who have recently played games on a dedicated game machine, the yellow represents lapsed gamers, and the pink is non-gamers. In case you needed some help interpreting it (we sure did!)
9:12AM The number of people playing games has grown, which helps to offset the skyrocketing cost of game development. How big is this growth? NPD data doesn't indicate, for example, shared use of a game machine within families. Nintendo has been carrying out surveys twice a year, starting in 2005 in Japan, to determine this kind of data.
9:10AM "This sounds like a good old days lecture you might hear from your grandfather." But despite having a freeform structure (audio, graphics, etc. all by the same people) there was no money. And the games were primitive.
9:09AM "Mr. Miyamoto taught me a painful lesson" when he thought his games were technically superior to Miyamoto's. "His games outsold mine by a huge margin." Iwata was "ashamed" and "lost his appetite." To use the English expression....
9:07AM Right now it's the history of Iwata, not the game industry -- starting with his work at HAL Laboratory (and an awesomely goofy vintage pic).
9:06AM And now some rosier outlooks from 5TH Cell's Jeremiah Slaczka and TimeGate. "The primary need is still content," he says. Without content and imagination, "there is no industry." Developers are "the center of the video game universe." And that's leading in to his presentation about the last 25 years.
9:05AM "All developers can learn from each other" at GDC, and "Nintendo is no exception." He's putting up quotes from Lorne Lanning, Mike Capps, et al. about the shaky state of the industry.
9:03AM Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Satoru Iwata.
9:02AM Meggan Scavio, GDC director, is now up, providing an introduction -- and extending birthday wishes to developer Gordon Walton. That's nice.
9:00AM It's a shame the 3DS doesn't have PictoChat. We could stand to be inundated by hastily-drawn 3D rainbow wangs right about now.
8:50AM We're still waiting. The place is filling up. Some attendees have brought their own Japanese 3DSes. If only the web browser had shipped with the device, they could have liveblogged from them!
8:28AM We have been allowed to sit. We're looking at the stage, groovin' to The XX.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/67041 | We thought we'd seen everything Lenovo had to show here at CES. We thought wrong. In a tour of the company's showroom / trailer today, we spotted that gray laptop up there, hiding amid the X1 Hybrid, T430u Ultrabook and S200 netbook. That, friends, is the IdeaPad U300e, a cheaper, lesser-specced version of the U300s we reviewed last fall. Check our gallery below: it has the same aluminum chassis, comfortable keyboard and sprawling trackpad, though the ports appear to have played musical chairs. The only differences? For one, we're seeing the U300e (top, above the U300s) adds an Ethernet jack, something the U300s is missing. More importantly, though, the U300e costs $799, not $1,200, and instead of an SSD it sports a hybrid drive pairing a 500GB HDD with 32GB of flash storage -- essentially, the same setup you'll find in the $800 Acer Aspire S3. We're also told it'll run "next-generation" Intel processors, though Lenovo's stopping short of calling it Ivy Bridge, which Intel has yet to reveal. Not a bad deal, though we might still prefer the new U310, which has the all-important SD slot the U300s was missing, but still costs a hundred bucks less than this here U300e. Disagree with us? The U300e is expected to go on sale this month.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/67045 | Using the same clockwork aesthetic seen in the Game of Thrones introduction, the above footage takes us on a tour of Skyrim's locations, from Solitude's craggy cliffs to Markarth's dank mines - all without killing a single beloved character.
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What is the significance of testing and storing the DNA of incarcerated felons?
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The significance of recording and storing the DNA of felons depends, to a degree, on who you ask. The answer you get from most people will be that it has major significance, but they may differ in whether it should be seen as a positive or a negative.
As you likely know, DNA can be used to identify the presence of an individual at a crime scene. It can't say exactly when the person was there by itself, or what that person was doing, but when put together with other evidence DNA can be a powerful forensic tool. The trick comes when law enforcement agencies find DNA at crime scenes that they don't know who it came from, such as the scene of a murder in which there is no suspect. Unless you tested the DNA sample against the whole world, you'd have no way of figuring out who that random person was.
The idea about DNA collection is that if someone's committed a crime before, then their more likely to so again, so why not take a sample of DNA at the time their first imprisoned? That way, if we find random DNA, we could search a database to see if anyone who'd been jailed previously was responsible. It's kind of like having a person's fingerprints on file.
Proponents say that it is a reasonable precaution to take, and that by being previous felons, the government has a right to collect this information and store it. These advocates believe it is a "common sense" approach increases the police department's ability to find suspects and helps ensure convictions. The process is painless, and like fingerprints, convicted felons have given up the right to keep this type of "personal property" private.
Opponents would say that this is a violation of a person's right to be free from illegal search and seizure. If the DNA evidence wasn't needed regarding the crime I already committed, it shouldn't be collected against crimes I haven't even committed yet. They'd argue that this is an intrusion on the part of the government, a way to track individuals and the first step toward universal DNA collection at birth. It's also expensive and storage methods prone to corruption.
Whichever way you look at it, the significance of storing the DNA of felons is major. The question is whether it is ethical, legal, or practical.
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If you want to have a bleak game then there is none better than Metro 2033. According to the Eurogamer podcast people the lead designer (name I just forgot) is the most depressed person alive. Living in the Ukraine and being utterly disappointed by the revolution that went nowhere. That completely reflects in the game.
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Christian Brügger, one of the "leading Anabaptists and rabble-rousers" from Rohrbach in the canton of Bern, participated in the disputation at Zofingen (1-9 July 1532), and was afterwards arrested. For identification and probably to sign the records of the disputation he was taken to Aarau. Here he was told that if he "renounced his sect" he would be released; if not he would be banished and if he returned, drowned. When he returned he was again imprisoned. Nothing more is known of him.
Author(s) Christian Neff
Date Published 1953
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Neff, Christian. "Brügger, Christian (16th century)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 3 Jun 2015.,_Christian_(16th_century)&oldid=55182.
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Neff, Christian. (1953). Brügger, Christian (16th century). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 3 June 2015, from,_Christian_(16th_century)&oldid=55182.
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Beauty | Girls in the Beauty Department
Friday, 5/22/2015 at 5:02PM | Updated on May 23, 2015
We treat hunting for gorgeous red carpet looks around here like a varsity-level sport, and every Friday we gift to you the fruits of our labor with a roundup of the five most stunning, can't-miss-'em hair, makeup, and nail styles of the week. Pin 'em, bookmark one for your stylist, stare at the whole group for hours—we invite you to luxuriate in their beauty. Look (1) Taylor Swift's amazing eye makeup at the Billboard Music Awards. Hot and smoldering but still somehow understated. Look (2) Emma Stone's swirl-topped French twist in Cannes (a major trend on the red carpet there). Look (3) Emily Blunt's bright tomato lipstick in Cannes. Classic with a twist—always a winner. Look (4) Model Barbara Palvin's amazing double-lined eyeliner eye makeup look in Cannes. And look (5) Chanel Iman's lovely updo and perfectly nude lips at amfAR's 22nd Cinema Against AIDS Gala. Chic but statement-making. read more
Beauty | Girls in the Beauty Department
Tuesday, 1/27/2015 at 9:03AM | Updated on January 27, 2015
3 Celebrity Secrets to Looking Gorgeous When You're as Cold as an Ice Cube
Since the Northeast is covered in snow today, I figured it was time to talk about looking great when it's really, really, really cold outside. And, luckily, the 2015 Sundance Film Festival has given us a lot of celebrity examples of just how to do that. You can... Combat hat-hair by making your hat part of your outfit like model Chanel Iman: View image | Not having to take off your hat means not worrying about deflating her your hair. Go for a smoky eye like Sarah Silverman: View image | The key: Make sure it's smudgy so it doesn't looked messed up if your ears tear up in the brisk wind. Distract from any cold-weather mishaps (a runny nose, ultra-flushed cheeks, etc.) with a quirky hairstyle like Margot Robbie: View image | You just have to make sure the hood on your coat is big enough to cover whatever you go with. Strong strategies—and all easy too. Which one would you most likely try? read more
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Beauty | Girls in the Beauty Department
Tuesday, 4/15/2014 at 9:02AM | Updated on April 15, 2014
So All the Celebs Are Doing This With Their Hair at Coachella This Year
When Vanessa Hudgens wrote this in a caption, "Mermaid hair!!!! A big thank you to @ninezeroone and @greatlengthsusa #blondesdohavemorefun =) can't believe @riawnacapri made me this blonde!!!" connected to her first shot from Coachella on her Instagram feed, she had no idea she was basically setting the tone for the entire event, hair-wise. Yes, mermaid hair is the thing to go for at the festival this year if you're a celebrity. Hudgens got hers via extensions: Kylie Jenner did it with pastel blues and greens: Selena Gomez's waves surely count: And Chanel Iman's interpretation included colorful streaks: All different versions of mermaid hair but still in the same family. I suppose it's their way of going for a bohemian look. Which style is more your speed? read more
Beauty | Girls in the Beauty Department
Beauty Truth or Dare With Coco Rocha and Chanel Iman
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Fashion | Dressed
Thursday, 3/20/2014 at 2:31PM | Updated on March 20, 2014
Chanel Iman Confesses: "She's Been My Girl Crush Since I Was 2 Years Old." Can You Guess Who?
Model Chanel Iman may be one of the world's most beautiful women, but she's just like us! Sort of. Well, OK, she loves Lupita Nyong'o and has had a girl-crush on Halle Berry since she was two—so we have something in common, right? The burgeoning supe recently sat down with the folks at Net-a-Porter to dish about dating, modeling, her carb-ful diet, and celebrity crushes. Here are some of the best bits. On appearing in Beyonce's Yonce video with Jourdan Dunn and Joan Smalls: "Beyonce is such a great woman. So positive and uplifting. All three of us models are very successful in our careers, but because in the fashion industry 'there's only one black girl allowed,' they've made us compete to be that one girl. Beyonce allowed us to show the world that we don't have to fight against each other. She gave us the chance to see that we are far more powerful together." On being careful about making friends: "I've had my feelings hurt because I've found out that guys and girls were only around me for the look. That really messes with your head." On modeling: "I've had to grow up very fast, and although read more
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Beauty | Girls in the Beauty Department
Thursday, 2/20/2014 at 2:02PM | Updated on February 20, 2014
Can French Manicures Be Sexy? And If So, Does This One Qualify? Let's Investigate
French manicures are a lot of things. Classic. Two-tone. Kind of controversial. But sexy? I'm not sure they can be sexy, but this look on Chanel Iman might be the closest this nail look is going to get to it. It's a flesh-tone base that softly fades to a white at the tips. And, yes, it appears that her mani is growing out a bit, but we can ignore that and just talk about the look itself. Right? Right. Something about the tan color makes you think of nude skin, and the white tips make it a little fresher and more interesting, so it might even slip into the "alluring" category. Even if you don't find French manicures sexy in any way, shape, or form, you have to admit, this is at least nearing the neighborhood. You into it? P.S. Notice she's also wearing green eye makeup. I tell you, Beyonce has spoken. read more
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Here's What You Need to Do With Your Eye Makeup Right Now
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Fashion | Dressed
Wednesday, 9/11/2013 at 4:30PM | Updated on September 12, 2013
Smile, Karlie! The Cutest Model Selfies We've Spotted During Fashion Week
You can always count on models for some cute Instagram action, and at Fashion Week, the selfies flow into our feeds like champagne. Here, I rounded up eight of the cutest ones I've spotted, from the adorably goofy to the totally fierce. Say goodbye to Karlie Kloss' famous short haircut! Well, for the duration of the Diane von Furstenberg show, anyway. Jac Jagaciak sports some bunny ears courtesy of Frida Gustavsson. Cora Emmanuel snaps herself post-Jason Wu (still wearing that gorgeous sparkly eye makeup!). Fei Fei Sun cuddles up to her green juice backstage at Tommy Hilfiger. Coco Rocha gets photobombed by makeup artist extraordinaire Pat McGrath backstage at Victoria Beckham. Joan Smalls steals a moment to hide from backstage craziness. Recognize that pout? It belongs to none other than Lindsey Wixson, chilling backstage at Michael Kors. Liu Wen poses pre-Carolina Herrera. Whose selfies are you loving this Fashion Week? read more
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The 5 Best Outfits of the Week: Vote Now!
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Fashion | Dressed
Friday, 7/27/2012 at 4:03PM | Updated on July 27, 2012
The 5 Best Outfits of the Week: Featuring Looks From the Teen Choice Awards and the Glamour Offices!
Check out this week's top looks - they run the gamut from gorgeous and glam to uber-trendy! read more
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Best Dressed At The 2012 ESPY Awards: Vote Now!
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VIDEO: Chanel Iman Shows Off What's Inside Her Vuitton Suitcase
Beauty | Girls in the Beauty Department
Tuesday, 12/6/2011 at 10:58AM | Updated on December 6, 2011
Found! The Perfect Nail Polish Shade For Your Office Holiday Party
I have decided that this is the absolute perfect nail polish shade for an office holiday party... read more
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Beauty | Girls in the Beauty Department
Wednesday, 6/15/2011 at 10:52AM | Updated on June 15, 2011
Mega-Smoky Eye Makeup + Peek-a-boo Bangs: Sexiness Overload or Just Overkill?
Mega-smoky eyes can be sexy. Peek-a-boo bangs (where they swoop over one eye) can be sexy. But what about when you put them together? How about we find out on model Chanel Iman here? read more
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/67273 | Lone Wolf Dist Launches New Glock Receiver
1. thats pretty cool. I could use a new frame for my 2nd gen g22.
Wanna kill these ads? We can help!
2. APD
APD Trunk Monkey
Hijacking a bit, how did those metal frames do in sales (GCF or GFC)?
I have not seen 1 firsthand but did they sell enough to make any money off of them?
#22 APD, Oct 26, 2008
Last edited: Oct 26, 2008
3. Looking forward to see if they'll make various frame sizes eventually.
4. Can we assume it has an internal steel skeleton integral with steel slide rails similar to OEM frames? Pricing?
5. Nice frame, but, sadly, not legal for competition in IDPA.
6. happyguy
happyguy Man, I'm Pretty
How much?
Happyguy :)
7. SouthpawShootr
SouthpawShootr NRA Life Member
I'll get excited about it when I have one in my hand.
This considering that one vendor is already attempting this in alloy and stainless - and meeting with mixed (at best) results - and that lots of stuff in this industry gets announced then 2 years down the line somebody tucks their tails between their legs and says "sorry" (Kimber anybody?).
8. Bullman
Bullman Deranged Deputy
I wonder if they will make one for the 20 and 21, that is where grip reduction really shines.
9. revel8
revel8 hedgehog
what did kimber do that you are referring to if you dont mind me asking
also, standard magazines , single or double stack ?
10. Chad Landry
Chad Landry Cajunator®
It looks like someone may be on the way to perfecting "Perfection". ;)
11. APD
APD Trunk Monkey
$299 I think.
Heck yeah. The smaller frame gives me no probs but I bet many folks would love a slimmer 20 or 21 (waaaay slimmer than the SF).
12. SouthpawShootr
SouthpawShootr NRA Life Member
Kimber KDP. Their entry into the overcrowded plastic fantastic category. Advertised it for 2 years. Then all of the sudden they shelved it. Said they were not going to produce it. That's just the lastest example.
Another one: Taurus, when they first introduced the PT1911, said in their ads for quite some time that models in 9mm and .40 were forthcoming. Then all mention of other calibers ceased appearing in their ads. We won't even mention commander sized guns.
I can probably think of more.
Now, don't get me wrong, if LWD makes one, I'll probably take a hard look at it. I can practically guarantee I'll buy if the frame is available in the G19 sized frame.
13. Why? This seems like an answer to a question nobody asked.
Glock frames only last about 500,000 rounds. Thats only several hundred thousand dollars worth of ammo. I guess some people just have to blow money on something.
14. What's with the small protruding "bump" at the top of the backstrap? Just curious.
15. Do it yourself grip reductions without fear.
If it works, great.
If you mess up, you wanted to buy optional frame anyhow.
16. DriBak
DriBak GUNS UP
Millennium Member
It looks ugly to me, I smell a lawsuit and predict that production will be limited. Anyone else remember "New Coke":upeyes: But that's just my .02
It is very neat that this site was chosen to debut the frame. That is what is so great about this Country :)
17. jtmac
jtmac Señor Member
That looks beautiful. As much of a fan of Glocks as I am, I don't shoot them. The ergonomics are all wrong for me. That, though... THAT looks like it'll work!
Do want!
18. That's nice. That's real fine engineering.
I'll keep an eye on it over the years and see how it goes.
For now my Austrian stuff works, and I've already got a good laser sight mounted on and fully seperate from the working of my sidearm.
No sale. But I'm watching with interest. :drillsgt:
19. Why the hell would they put finger-grooves on it? Got no use for a BT grip either.
20. I think it's the activation "button" for the optional laser???????????????
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global_05_local_5_shard_00000035_processed.jsonl/67280 | "Copernican moment"
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published a theory that marked one of the starting points for the scientific revolution of the 16th century. His hypothesis was: The earth is not at the center of the universe.
Recently, I had what for me was a "Copernican moment." I was reminded that I am not at the center of the universe. The world doesn't revolve around me. When I'm busy, work still piles in. There are still needs to be met and family matters to attend to. In short, I say anew that the world doesn't move at my pace, in my terms, nor in accord with my preferences.
Though we might wish it to be otherwise, life is not all about us. For the world was created to revolve around God, not people. In Psalm 33, we read that:
All nature revolves around the Lord (vv.6-9). He assigned the sea its boundaries and locked the ocean in vast reservoirs. He spoke and the world began. It appeared at His command. It operates in accordance to the laws He has set.
All nations revolve around the Lord (vv.10-12). All plans and schemes cannot stand up against God's. Ultimately, it is the Lord's plan that will stand forever. His intentions can never be shaken.
All lives revolve around the Lord (vv.13-19). God sees the whole human race. He made our hearts, and He understands everything we do. And He has the power to intervene in our lives and deliver us from situations spinning out of control.
We need to live a God-centered life, not a self-centered one. As we revolve around Him today, let's submit to His commands and follow His ways. , Poh Fang Chia, Our Daily Journey
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