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#milkymist IRC log for Saturday, 2013-10-05
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ysionneaujuliusb: hey it's me you've just asked the nickname handle at the coffee room ;)15:24
ysionneauhard to pronounce...15:25
ysionneauysionneau == Fallenou == Yann Sionneau15:25
Action: ysionneau is running linux 3.11 on de0-nano on open risc cpu17:51
Action: sb0 has no time for low performance CPUs18:04
ysionneauwell maybe the situation has changed18:11
ysionneauthey now do pretty nice stuff like 2 or 4 cores in the same SoC, with cache coherency (bus snooping) etc18:11
ysionneauthere was nice talk about estimation of power consumption from high level description18:14
ysionneauthey have several different implementations with different pipeline sizes18:15
ysionneauthey have a working mmu18:16
ysionneau(which I hope I will soon prove we have as well)18:16
ysionneausome crazy guy over here wrote a MIPS R4000 (64 bits) clone, and is totally binary compatible18:16
sb0LUT count and Mibench results please18:16
sb0everything else is just make believe18:17
ysionneauhe can run unmodified freebsd kernel18:17
ysionneauwell I honesttly don't know if it's better now than before18:17
ysionneaubut I just imagine :)18:17
ysionneausince they have worked a lot, maybe it improved18:17
ysionneaubut indeed I don't have any numbers and I don't plan on spending more time on it18:18
ysionneauI'm just playing with it since I'm at their workshop :)18:18
wpwrakin case someone is thinking about making their own chips (in german, but the interesting bits are the links anyway): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/foren/S-Multi-Project-Wafer/forum-266755/msg-24205009/read/22:32
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Wendell Washer
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Wendell Washer, an animation industry professional, was also active during the early years of the furry fandom. He was a member of Rowrbrazzle, doing two comics called Piffles the Barbarian and Zar, and sometimes illustrating stories by Bob Hill. He eventually quit his fannish activities due to religious reasons.[citation needed]
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The History of Etan
Age of Creation (AP)
First Divine War
Age of Gods (AF)
Divine Schism
Second Divine War
Age of Mortality (AL)
Divine Exodus
The Age of Gods or Aevum Filiolus is the age when Arwaith sent Skoros to set the gods against each other resulting in the creation of many more races and several wars among the races and gods. Years from this age are usually followed by A.F.
Year (AF)
1 Peace returns to Etan, and a new age is heralded in. Faris creates the sun to keep watch for Arwaith's return. Arwaith begins planning his return and creating creatures and other weapons in preparation.
c.5 Arwaith creates one final deity, Skoros, and sends him to sow dissent between the other gods.
310 The Sator decide again to attempt to create a copy of themselves, only this time to make it at least as powerful as the minor gods that have recently been arriving at Etan.
332 The Sator complete their grand project, and believe they have made a god. They celebrate with their new creation in happiness, thinking they have realized their dream of perpetuating their own kind. The new god is particularly favored by Glaile, who gives special attention and care to her, and names her "Carua".
335 Carua begins exploring Etan and bringing comfort and kindness to mortals the way her favorite parent, Glaile, had taught her.
429 After nearly a century on Etan, Carua begins to become saddened by all the loss of lives that she has helped care for. She sees all the misery in the world and questions the Sator on whether or not it was wise to create many mortal beings, rather than perfecting their powers and creating a few immortals, like herself.
c.430 The Agennan civilization is formed by several tribes on the island of Erygur in the Videlicet region of Darvasi. They quickly build an empire based on trade.
942 The Erygovean civilization is formed by several tribes on the Lithican Peninsula in the Videlicet region. They proceed to expand using militaristic means.
1556 After over a millennium of study and practice, Carua devises a method by which she can stop mortals from aging. In order to do this though, she must trap their souls in their own bodies and rob them of their free will. She continues these experiments in secret in an attempt to perfect her method so that mortals can be made immortal without the loss of free will. She justifies the sacrifice of the handful of lives that are lost in her experiments by thinking of all the suffering and death she will prevent.
1557 Carua becomes consumed with the task of making mortals immortal, and her mind begins to fray. Her obsession grows stronger, and the Sator being to notice some strange changes in her personality.
1558 Skoros begins convincing each of the Sator that the problems of Carua are the fault of the other Sator. He persuades them that they would be able to accomplish much more without the other Sator.
1572 Carua begins having some problems controlling some of her powers. She believes this may be akin to aging, like the mortals do. She worries that she is not in fact a god, as the Sator told her. At this time she begins to despise Glaile for telling her what she perceived as lies about the benefits of kindness.
1582 Carua's powers begin dissipating at an alarming rate. In a panic, she takes a few of her experimental "immortals" and drains their life to supplement her own. In her mind, it is still justified because she must finish her project for the benefit of all mortals everywhere.
1590 Carua becomes careless, and her secret project is discovered by mortals. Not recognizing her as the Sator's creation, they called her "Haxis", a name which reflected the fear they felt toward her. The name stuck.
1595 The Sator debate about what to do about Haxis. Faris convinces Ardel and Ogden that she must be forcefully stopped, to the dismay of Glaile.
1596 Ardel, Faris, and Ogden begin searching for Haxis, who has gone into hiding.
1597 Haxis stabilizes herself by consuming tens of thousands of mortal lives. Her power is restored.
1598 One of the Sator takes it upon themselves to "fix" humans and create an altered superior race that is much more like them. It is uncertain who is first, but Glaile is the last to follow suit in the human alterations. Ardel creates elves, Faris creates khin, Glaile creates saquan, and Ogden creates dwarves. Each call their new race an improvement on the original humans, which causes human loyalties to fracture.
1600 After years of searching, Faris discovers Haxis' secret lair, and faces off against her and hundreds of her mindless slaves. The epic battle devastates a three mile area, but in the end, An injured Faris destroys all of Haxis' minions and captures her. She brings Haxis before the other Sator to decide her fate. They deadlock on whether or not to kill her, with Faris calling for an execution and Glaile opposing. The other two Sator are torn. Ultimately, Ardel decides they should imprison her under a mountain in the far north reaches of Darvasi. There she would be checked on every 50 years to make sure her power did not grow strong enough to break free. She would be kept there until the Sator all decided she was reformed and could be let out. Faris was skeptical about her ability to reform, however, and she crafted a gem through which she could use her will to keep an eye on Haxis. She gave the gem to a group of dwarves in the area who were to take care of it through the millennia.
The Sator decided to find out which race is the best once and for all by pitting them against each other. It is agreed that the races will be put to war against each other and the gods will not interfere. Unfortunately, whenever a race begins to lose, their respective god accuses the others of cheating. It's never known whether or not any of the Sator cheated, or if Skoros manipulated the war to further tensions, but eventually, the accusations developed into full out war among the Sator.
1612 In secret, Skoros begins creating his own altered races from humans, including orcs.
1688 Laetifico is founded in the Videlicet region of Darvasi.
1734 A human tribe from Aniana, calling themselves Euphonians, migrates to Lithica, displacing the local Thoricans, and effectively ending the Erygovean civilization.
1743 Two villages in the center of Lithica merge into the city-state of Sollicitus under the leadership of two kings.
1747 Gnomes appear randomly on Darvasi. No one takes credit for their existence and only Nerunelümo ever figures out where the gnomes came from, but he never publicly reveal his findings.
1874 Casusa, manages to create halflings from humans. This perplexes the Sator who thought that level of power to be beyond the reach of minor gods.
1998 The Sator discover that Skoros is an agent of Arwaith and fear he will return soon. Skoros goes into hiding until the return of his master. The gods become paranoid that there are other spies among them, and the Sator begin accusing each other of hiding Skoros.
2000 On the second millennial anniversary of his defeat, Arwaith returns to finish off a fractured and damaged Etan with dragons and other monsters. The gods bring their powers against him separately to attempt to drive him away.
2006 The devastation from the fighting with Arwaith is cataclysmic. Many minor gods are killed, their power returning to Arwaith.
2010 The Sator finally set aside their differences and band together with the other minor gods to drive Arwaith away. The sole god that manages to not get involved is Nerunelümo, who somehow eludes the grasp of both Arwaith and the Sator without difficulty and manages to preserve much of his histories despite the cataclysm.
2012 The gods find themselves having difficulty driving away the newly empowered Arwaith while protecting the mortal races, and in a desperate attempt to preserve the mortals of Etan, they create a divine seal which banishes Arwaith from Etan, but also banishes all other gods. The gods are henceforth sealed away from Etan and reside in the heavens or below the earth and sea. Without needing to directly protect the mortals, the gods are able to keep Arwaith at bay. However, they cannot banish him to the far reaches of the cosmos, and Arwaith persists in his attempts to bring the world to ruin and recover his power. He is able to keep watch on Etan through the moon which remains his only physical manifestation in the world. Faris aligns the sun to follow Arwaith and takes up the charge of tirelessly pursuing Arwaith through the heavens, which lessens her ability to exert her will through the seal on Etan. Approximately 75% of all mortals and 25% of all gods perish in this cataclysm and some races are nearly obliterated. The khin suffer the most of the mortal races. Legend tells that the khin number less than 200 at this time. So begins the Age of Mortality.
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Thursday, June 25, 2015
color mind distortion
In this world of blue
Do you know me true
Sitting between destruction and bliss
Seal your lie with my kiss
In this world of red
Do you know the dead
Alone resting in the ground
Dying to hear your whispering sound
In this world of black
Do you know there’s no way back
Lost in this nightmare land
Blindly reaching for anyone’s offered hand
JLH – August 6th, 2010
The preceding was another short subject/poem-thing in the notebook from my past…
Freak Out,
Friday, June 19, 2015
And now I see
Picture crystalized
Transmission static free
This is the end of what used to be
Was it all just a fever dream
A made-up waste of time
Brilliance turned void
Where memories go to die
JLH - June 8th, 2010
The preceding short subject/poem-thing was discovered in an old notebook of mine, predating my online life by a few years. There may be further old, nearly forgotten words from its pages for future posts. Only time and my temperament will tell…
Freak Out,
The notebook from my past
Monday, June 15, 2015
Writer of future past…
On Saturday the 13th of June, I was having a Twitter conversation with a knowledgeable man about typewriters. I haven’t used a typewriter in, well, a long, long time. After our conversation, I dug out a typewriter that I have a sordid history with and plugged it in to see if it still functioned. Surprisingly, it did!
This inspired me to write the following short subject with the contraption of my youth…and a second short subject with my current contraption.
While the typewriter is not mine, I can certainly claim a piece of its history, as it can claim mine. It is on this electric machine that I wrote my infamous (and sadly) lost mess-terpiece, with the awful title…The Tide Thus Falls. The humming electricity vibrated through my entire body, as my fingers pounded out late-night words, telling a tale of lust, sex, violence, unspeakable torture and misguided love. All written at 14 or 15, because I was a freakboy before my muse dubbed me so.
Freak Out,
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Just a few simple rules about making a character.
1. Don't make your character perfect, add some flaws to them!
Jim is nice, strong, intelegent, tan, buff-that's to perfect.
Jim is nice, weak, smart, pale, a whimp-now, that may be a little nerdy, but he's not perfect.
2. Your character's cannot be related to the characters on either the tv shows (Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood) or the book series. They are allowed to have grown up around (not with) the cannon characters, and even have breifly met them.
3. If your character is a state alchemist, do not make them 12 and under as Ed got his state certification when he was 12 and is the youngest state alchemist in history.
4. Your character is allowed to be a humonculus, but remember they can't use alchemy. Each humonculus has a special 'power'. They can be killed, but it takes several times.
Ex. Lust can kill with her fingernails. Envy can shape shift Gluttony can eat other people.
If there are any other character rules that you think we should add, feel free to say in the comments.
Also, this rp takes place during 1914 because that is the time period the tv series/maga took place in.
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The Day of the Jackal: Book Review
The Day of the Jackal was written by Frederick Forsyth and published in 1971. Widely regarded as a classic, it is often mentioned in lists of the top ten spy novels of all time. Although not strictly a spy novel, as neither of the protagonists is a spy, it does involve clandestine plots, and political assassination is a perennial spy-thriller theme.
The Day of the Jackal: Logline
In 1960s France, die-hard imperialists hire a professional assassin to kill President de Gaulle. When the French discover the plot, the assassin must stay one step ahead of a brilliant French detective in order to complete his mission and change history.
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The Day of the Jackal: Plot Summary
Anatomy of a Plot
The OAS (Organisation Armée Secrète, or in English, Secret Army Organisation) is a militant group that regards France’s president, General Charles de Gaulle, as a traitor because he has decided to grant Algeria independence. The Day of the Jackal opens with the OAS failing to kill de Gaulle in an ambush.
The OAS realise that they are compromised by the French secret service, and the only way to kill de Gaulle is to hire a professional assassin who is unknown to the French authorities. They find an assassin, codenamed ‘Jackal’. In return for completing the mission, the Jackal demands enough money to retire in luxury.
Having received payment, the Jackal prepares for the assassination. First he acquires false passports, then he travels to Belgium to commission a sniper rifle of unusual specification.
Anatomy of a Manhunt
The French secret service capture and torture an OAS bodyguard who knows a little about the plot, but not the identity of the assassin. President de Gaulle refuses to alter his routine and orders the Jackal must be stopped secretly, in order to avoid negative publicity.
The French Minister of the Interior assigns the best detective in France, Claude Lebel, to hunt the Jackal down.
Lebel contacts the British Special Branch, who theorise that the Jackal may be the same man who assassinated the Dominican President, Rafael Trujillo. That assassin was rumoured to be named Charles Calthrop, which sounds a bit like the French for Jackal, ‘chacal’. They find that a Charles Calthrop is living in London, although he is thought to be on holiday in Scotland.
The Jackal enters France by car, with his gun hidden in the chassis. He gets word from the OAS that the French Police are looking for him but continues anyway.
Special Branch raid Calthrop’s flat, find his passport, and deduce that he must be using a false identity. Lebel and the police come close to apprehending the Jackal in the south of France, but thanks to his OAS contact, the Jackal evades them.
With the police on the lookout for him, the Jackal takes refuge in the château of a woman whom he seduces. When she finds his gun, he kills her and, assuming one of his two emergency identities, boards the train for Paris…
Anatomy of a Kill
Lebel [blackout]suspects someone is leaking information to the Jackal. He taps his superiors’ home phones and discovers the traitor. He also deduces that the Jackal has decided to target de Gaulle on 25 August, the day Paris was liberated from the Nazis, and the one day the president can be guaranteed to be seen in public.[/blackout]
The Jackal [blackout]eludes the desperate French manhunt by picking up a gay man, going back to his apartment, and then killing him.[/blackout]
On Liberation Day,[blackout] the Jackal disguises himself as a one-legged war veteran, carrying his rifle hidden in his crutch. He infiltrates the flats overlooking the area where De Gaulle is due to hand out medals.[/blackout]
Lebel [blackout]hears about the one-legged veteran and guesses the Jackal’s plan, seemingly too late. But the Jackal’s first shot misses when de Gaulle leans forward to kiss the veteran he has just given a medal. The Jackal scrambles to reload.[/blackout]
Lebel [blackout]arrives at the flat the Jackal is shooting from. The two men recognise each other. Lebel shoots the Jackal, killing him.[/blackout]
In London, the Special Branch [blackout]are examining Calthrop’s apartment when a man claiming to be Calthrop arrives. The Jackal wasn’t Calthrop. He is buried in an unmarked grave, anonymous forever.[/blackout]
The Day of the Jackal: Alternative Cover
Most covers for The Day of the Jackal the have used either jackals or views through sniper scopes. Instead, I took inspiration from the scene where the armourer lovingly describes to the Jackal how he filled the assassin’s bullets with mercury so they would explode inside the president’s head. I also quite liked the hint of the ‘bullet with your name on’ in the way Frederick Forsyth’s name is on the bullet.
The Day of the Jackal Book Review
The Day of the Jackal: Analysis
The Day of the Jackal has an archetypal Mission plot (see Spy Novel Plots).
The ‘Mission’ Plot
The Protagonist:
3. Makes a plan to complete the Mission.
4. Trains and gathers resources for the Mission.
The Illusion of Reality
This novel shouldn’t work. We all know Charles de Gaulle wasn’t assassinated. How can we have a thriller where we know the end before it starts? The Day of the Jackal must fail. But it doesn’t.
So how does the novel succeed? How can it generate any suspense? It’s not a short novel. The answer is, because, like Firefox, it is a ‘howdunit’, part of the sub-genre of spy fiction I call the spy-procedural.
The reader follows the Jackal as he, amongst other things, obtains a passport under a false name, buys forged identity cards, scouts Paris for a sniper’s nest, and buys a customised hunting rifle. He is with him as he murders and seduces, tricks and kills his way into France, to Paris and finally into position to kill de Gaulle.
We watch the heavies as they kidnap and torture their opponents to discover the plot. And we follow the detectives as they ransack flats, hunt through files and set up road blocks to try to stop the Jackal. Forsyth is almost a technothriller author, describing each action in great detail. In fact, the process of acquiring a false passport using the birth certificate of a dead child is described so intricately that it is now known as the ‘Day of the Jackal fraud’.
In short, Forsyth in his cool, detached style sets up the illusion of reality, that the reader is learning about a real killer, a real plot and a real manhunt. It’s that illusion of non-fiction that makes the novel work.
The Ticking Clock
Many of the chapters of The Day of the Jackal end with the author mentioning what day it is and how long until the assassination attempt. Forsyth also frequently mentions exactly how far behind the Jackal the police are. The gap starts as days, then hours and finally comes down to minutes. It’s a skilful implementation of the ticking clock technique as discussed in my article Writing a Satisfying Ending to your Novel
The Ending
There are two problems with the ending. First the Jackal, set up as a superb shot, constantly shown as precise and calm, an ice-cold killer who made an ‘impossible’ shot to kill President Trujillo, misses de Gaulle, for no good reason. To me this is an anti-climax. Forsyth does his best to hide it by switching to the police running up the stairs and then bringing the two protagonists together. But this is a weak denouement, because the only reason the Jackal fails and President de Gaulle survives is blind luck.
Second, the reappearance of Charles Calthrop seems like an ironic final twist, but on second thoughts it undercuts a lot of the plot. Did the police not look at the picture on Calthrop’s passport, the discovery of which was their breakthrough in the case, and compare it to the one on the fake passports? If they had, they would have been able to see they were not the same man.
The Day of the Jackal: My Verdict
One of the best assassin novels and ‘spy-procedurals’. A classic.
The Day of the Jackal: The Movie
Edward Fox in the Day of the Jackal
A movie of The Day of the Jackal directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Edward Fox as the Jackal was released in 1973. It is a faithful copy of the novel and a good film in its own right, and Edward Fox makes a great Jackal, icy cool and deadly.
There are a few changes: the woman the Jackal seduces meets with Lebel before the Jackal arrives at her chateau, and the explicitly gay pick up that the Jackal uses to evade the Parisian police is only hinted at, with the Jackal meeting a man in a sauna who offers him a drink ‘back at his place’, with only subtle innuendo.
The Day of the Jackal was also remade in 1977, but The Jackal is such a travesty that it barely deserves mentioning.
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Friday, 22 January 2010
the myth of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_low_latency
Under linux on the TCP Rx side, there are 3 queues, the PreQueue, ReceiveQueue, and BacklogQueue. Every time a valid TCP segment arrives its placed in one of these. According to goggle, linux is unique in having a PreQeueue as most TCP stacks only have Receive and Backlog where the theory behind PreQueue is. You do the processing in the sockets callee context/core/cpu instead of in the softirq / tasklet which could be on a different core or even cpu.
The above flow is shamelessly stolen from "The Performance Analysis of Linux Networking – Packet Receiving" by Wenji Wu, Matt Crawford of Fermilab. It was written in 2006 and im pretty sure its slightly wrong. As once an packet is put on the PreQueue no further processing is done in the softirq, where tcp_v4_do_rcv() + friends are processed in the callee context(right hand side). However its a nice high level overview.
As it happens you can disable the PreQueue entirely by setting /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_low_latency to 1 and ... unfortunately need to mess with the kernel sauce a little to fully disable it. What does the latency look like?
TCP 128B A -> B -> A latency tcp_low_latency = 0
TCP 128B A->B->A latency tcp_low_latency = 1
As you can see... its basically the same... if your generous a tiny bit faster - not what we hopped for. The interesting question of course is, why is there no difference? Breaking the plots into tcp processing in the syscall callee context (tcp_low_latency=0) vs the softirq/tasklet context (tcp_low_latency=1) we can see most of the time is spent switching contexts, or more specifically waiting for the correct context to be scheduled.
TCP total (tcp_low_latency = 0)
TCP total (tcp_low_latency=1)
The plots above are a little counter intuitive. What its measuring is the time from tcp softirq start, to the end of tcp processing. So with tcp_low_latency=0, this includes the switch time from softirq -> callee context, and tcp_low_latency=1 everything is processed in the softirq. Thus low latency enabled gives a lower number and all is good ... but errr... it isnt. If we then look at the time from the end of tcp processing(in the kernel) to after recv() in user space we get the following.
TCP kernel end - > userspace tcp_low_latency=0
TCP kernel end -> userspace tcp_low_latency=1
... and funny enough its the mirror image. the low latency setting time is huge because iit includes the softirq->callee context switch, and with it disabled, its all ready in the callee context thus significantly less - just kernel->userspace switch. Thus explaining why the total round trip latency numbers are about the same (orange charts).
At first glance it appears most of our tcp Rx latency is the linux kernel scheduler? e.g. how long it takes to switch in the callee context - the one that called recv(). Which kind of sucks and unexpected, and raises the question of why UDP Rx is different... but we have plenty of tools test this hypothesis.
1. Good post! Thanks! Waiting for UDP myths testing and more detail of tcp processing.
2. Nice :)
Thank you. I was actually investigating network optimization with a linux based router and some open source optimization solutions like Traffic squeezer and the traditional linux LARTC hacks, and got struck with this weird looking option, and so thank you also for those charts and benchmarks.
3. Hi,
Interesting blog! Can you tell me how you metered your Linux box in order to get those graphs? ...I see you are doing some intra-machine latency testing, so you must be metering the box itself with some sort of tool...? I'm quite curious.
We're looking at modifying some of our sysctl settings, so that's why I ask.
4. hi, tried the BFS cpu scheduler?
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Blarggs are large lava dinosaurs commonly found inhabiting pools of lava in underground caverns. Originally, Blarggs resembled lazy-eyed dragons, but more recent depictions show them as being anything from blob-like beings with large mouths, arms and beady eyes to humanoid, limbed creatures. There are even some species of Blarggs that dwell in water or sand, not lava. The first HTFA game to show Blargg's appearance is HTF Adventures 4.
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Establish Connectivity to Splunk
This article describes the process of creating a plug-in Data Source to connect to Splunk. This Data Source will allow to build elements using Metric Insights tools.
1. Add new Data Source
2. Select "Other" Data Source Type and choose "Splunk Reports" from the drop-down list
Move to the Next step.
3. Provide the Required Parameters
2. Server: Define the server protocol (http or https) and a hostname
3. Username / Password: Note that your Username must be in the same format that your Splunk server uses for authentication
4. Save your entries and Test Connection
4. Advanced Configuration
1. Generate Object List
2. Object List Refresh Trigger: from the dropdown, select the Trigger that will be used to fetch data using the Splunk plugin
3. Object Selection Method: specify how Splunk Reports will be fetched
5. Full Data Source Editor displayed
2. Click Permissions to assign them to Groups or Power Users
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Essay writing in exams
Tips on writing the essay-type examination the well-organized, neat-appearing individual will usually get the nod over another equally capable person who is disorganized and careless in appearance although other factors are involved, the analogy to examination writing is a skill. Writing essays for exams summary: while most owl resources recommend a longer writing process (start early, revise often, conduct thorough research, etc), sometimes you just have to write quickly in test situations. By writing the introductory and concluding paragraphs after writing the body paragraphs of the essay by restating the question in the introduction and the conclusion. Tips for writing essay exams back to helpful handouts o writing center home page before the exam: prepare and practice writing a good essay requires synthesis of material that cannot be done in the 20-30 minutes you have during the exam in the days before the exam, you should. Whether you are studying at a university or preparing for a test like toefl or ielts, essay writing is an important skill you need to master many students can write a good essay if they get enough time.
The act writing test is a 40-minute essay test that measures your writing skills the test consists of one writing prompt that will describe a complex issue and present three different perspectives on that issue it is a paper-and-pencil test you will write your essay in pencil (no mechanical. The essay writing process is linked to learning developing a sound essay writing technique enhances your learning you may be used to thinking of academic essays as documents, pieces of writing, but it's perhaps more useful to think of an essay as a process. Essay writing for standardized tests: tips for writing a five paragraph essay most, if not all, high school and college standardized tests include a writing portion students are provided a writing prompt and must then write an essay on the topic. Secondary students are taught structured essay formats to improve their writing skills admission essays are often used by universities in selecting applicants, and in the humanities and social sciences essays are often used as a way of assessing the performance of students during final exams.
This handout discusses how to write a timed essay exam in a class the first step is to study the material it might also help to ask your instructor if you can see sample essay exams from a past class to get an idea of the level of detail he or she prefers. Essay exams are designed to test your ability to synthesise information and to organise your thoughts on paper the following points are designed to help you prepare for essay style examinations make sure you understand the question and are clear about what you are being asked to do terms like. An essay exam gives you the opportunity to demonstrate a mastery of the material above and beyond the memorization of basic facts writing the exam a) point of departure: present an argument. Essay examples to simplify your task of essay writing, we offer you a number of example essays before looking at the essay examples, think if you really wish to apply for our professional assistance and use our service.
Exam preparation: strategies for essay exams essay exams test you on “the big picture”- relationships between major concepts and themes in the course here are some suggestions on how to prepare for and write these exams in-class essay exams” and “writing tips – standardized test essay exams” on the center for writing studies. This is the first and most important suggestion answering the wrong question is a common mistake made by students unfortunately, it can be a real disaster for the grade you get in an exam make sure you understand what the examiner wants it is highly advisable to refer back to the question. Essay exams require writing skills where objective exams do not true writing skills do affect a student’s ability to communicate the correct “fac- tual” information through an essay response. On this section you will also find advice on essay writing from an 11+ veteran who took several independent school exams the advice given is particularly helpful for longer essays and for more challenging topics and tests. If you are planning to take the gt module, the writing test is different you are allowed one hour to complete two tasks, of 150 and 250 words, as in the academic module however, task 1 is always a letter, while task 2 is an essay based on a given topic the writing task 1 of the ielts academic.
Essay exams are like any other testing situation in life: you’ll do best if you are prepared for what is expected of you, have practiced doing it before, and have arrived in the best shape to do it. Essay writing for exams requires that the students approach the questions in a very composed manner after writing your essay, you need to proofread your answers when cross checking your work, always remember that a good attempt at writing essay exams should be well focused, organized, supported and well packaged. How to write an essay in competitive exams there are examinations such as sbi po, sbi associate po, ib acio, upsc mains, state level psc mains, insurance ao papers etc that require writing essays in this post we take a quick look on the tips and tricks of how to write an essay in competitive exams. Exam writing tips: how to answer exam questions posted on may 7, 2015 by andrea leyden this is what it all comes down to you’re sitting in the exam hall, waiting to get your hands on that anticipated piece of paper.
• The toefl writing section is 50 minutes long (broken into two parts) and contains two tasks: integrated writing and independent writing it’s the fourth and final section of the exam you’ll type both essays on the computer.
Writing good multiple choice test questions by cynthia j brame, cft assistant director print version cite this guide: brame, c, (2013) writing good multiple choice test questions with multiple choice test items frees them from problems with scorer inconsistency that can plague scoring of essay questions. The argumentative essay is commonly assigned as a capstone or final project in first year writing or advanced composition courses and involves lengthy, detailed research expository essays involve less research and are shorter in length. Best essay writers from our essay writing service as a student, you feel calm and at peace knowing that your essay writing is in the right hands the fact that someone will write it professionally is quite exciting. Exam comes and the suggested amount of time one should spend writing an essay in response to the question, given its weighting in a three-hour exam in the workspace following each exam question.
essay writing in exams These are practice essay questions to prepare ideas, not for full exam practice ielts often use the similar topics for their essays but change the essay question in order to prepare well for writing task 2, you should prepare ideas for common topics and then practice applying them to the tasks given (to the essay questions.
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The ABC's of Life
God created you for a purpose... abundant, full, joyful life! (John 10:10) He wants you to spend eternity with Him (2 Peter 3:9)
ADMIT - You Need a Savior
We have all messed up, disobeyed (sinned) and earned eternal separation from God [death]
"For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard." Romans 3:23 (NLT)
No matter how good you are, how much you go to church or how hard you work at it, you can't earn your way into a relationship with God and eternal life. "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast." Ephesians 2:8-9 (ESV)
BELIEVE - in Jesus Christ
"Christ suffered for our sins once for all time." 1 Peter 3:18a (NLT)
COMMIT - Your Life to Christ
It's more than just believing in your mind that Jesus exists. To have a relationship with him requires a faith that puts your whole life in His hands, trusting Him to
change you from the inside-out. Trusting Him completely like this results in what we sometimes call being "saved" which is to be rescued from eternal death and to be made completely alive in this life and for the next. "If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9 (NLT)
So, how do I get started?
Place your comlete faith in His plan. You can express this faith to Him in a prayer something like this (though there is nothing magic about these words).
"God, I have messed up my life and I need you. Because I believe that you died to give me life, I am placing my life in Your hands. Please forgive me for all my sins and let me begin eternal life right now." Amen
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International Society for Early Intervention (ISEI) organizează la Stockholm conferința cu tema „Drepturile copiilor și intervenția timpurie”. Detalii mai jos!
Dear ISEI Members,
Registration for our ISEI Conference to be held in Stockholm, June 8-10, 2016, focusing on “Children’s Rights and Early Intervention”, is now open. Stockholm University/Aula Magna Conference Center will be handling the registration process, and the registration site can be accessed by clicking the following link:
Registration can also be accessed from the ISEI website:
A single fee the equivalent of $400 (US) has been established for attendees participating in all or any portion of the Conference. Although everyone who wishes to attend must register, the fee will be waived for full-time students. Please note that the registration fee includes all social events as well as the Conference itself.
As a reminder, in order to make an on-line payment in many Scandinavian countries, your credit card must either have chip technology embedded or be secured through the “Verify by VISA” program for VISA cards or the “SecureCode” program for MasterCard. Should you see an error message after you submit your card for the Conference payment, contact your credit card company about acquiring the needed security. The alternative to this step is to request an invoice as noted on the registration form. Please do not contact the staff at Aula Magna as they do not control the payment process.
On behalf of the ISEI Coordinating Committee, we very much look forward to seeing you in Stockholm.
Best regards,
Mike Guralnick
Chair, ISEI
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Just Hit 'Send' - The Interim Years
by Grasshopper
Ch. 7
**Two days until he'd turn twenty-five. Jordan tried not to think about it any more than he had to. Twenty-five, alone. He knew his family loved him; his Mama and even his Daddy, in his way. He saw the love in his little boy's eyes. Even though Markie was married now, she loved him unconditionally. Lucky she had found someone who could understand. But, he was alone.
He sat on the old log they'd dragged onto the sand a few months back after he'd bought the house. It had been a fluke really, finding the house. He and Marks and Josh had been walking in the surf on a part of Wrightsville Beach they'd never walked before, just playing and laughing and he'd looked up and seen it. The house. Danny's house. Just like the one in the tiny painting Danny had given him that Christmas when they had first been apart. It wasn't hard to imagine the two lovers walking, arms around each other, the big doofy dog twinning around the legs. Fiddlesticks, Danny had said. What a name for a dog.
The 'For Sale' sign was there, stuck in the ground, just like Jordan knew it would be. Fate wouldn't be that cruel.......well, yeah, it would be but this time, this time she smiled down on Jordan Lawrence. "You can't have your love but I'll let you have his house", she seemed to say.
He always wanted to call Danny and tell him "I found the house!! Your house; OUR house, Baby." But he couldn't. There were no more late night phone calls, no more soft whispers, no more giggles or tears, at least no more tears together. After eleven months, Jordan wanted his heart to move on but he couldn't. He knew the answers to many questions but still he didn't have Dan.
He let Markie live in the house with Josh and her new husband while he lived in the apartment but there was always the tiny flicker of hope that one day......one day, Danny Trainor, with the dreaming blue eyes would come home. Jordan knew he would never live in that house without Dan.
Markie pulled the curtain back and peered out the window. "He's just sitting there again." She worried so about Jordan but she knew there was only one thing that would mend his heart. "Maybe I should......."
"No, let him be. I'll go out in awhile. Sometimes, Jordy needs to be alone. Ever since he was a kid, he's always been like that."
They heard the screen door slam and shook their heads when they saw that Jordan being alone with his thoughts was no longer an option. "Hi Dadda," Josh said as he screeched to halt by his daddy's leg. Scrambling up, he schooched around until he made a perfect nest in his daddy's lap. "What cha doin'?"
"Just listening to the ocean, JD," he smiled, ruffling his son's hair. "It's singing to me. Hear it?"
"Awww, Dadda," the little boy laughed, "Water dun't sing."
"Sure it can. It's like a roar of little elves as they do whatever job they're working on."
"Like Snow White?"
Jordan laughed, "Yeah, kinda. Those were dwarfs, but same difference, little guys singing "Hi Ho Hi Ho" I guess."
"I love you, Dadda," Josh snuggled closer.
"I love you more than you know, JD." They sat quietly watching the moonlight glint off the waves and listening to the elves and dwarfs sing.
They walked out quietly, settling on the 'talking log'. "Jordy? Why are you calling him JD?" Markie asked.
Jordan sighed. "I love both the names. You know that but sometimes Josh is too hard cause all I do is think of Adam. I love that you chose my brother's first name but I can't use it without hurting inside. I can still hear my Mama calling 'Joshua Adam, get out of that tree!' and well, Daniel's just not an option. I guess I just need to think of my little guy here as a little man in his own right."
"I kin be JD, Dadda. Or Mickey Mouse. Me wants to be Gigamanchu or...or...," he had a fit of laughter.
"On TV, Dadda," Josh twisted his face up with that 'grownups can be so dumb' look and laughed at his Dadda. "On the toons."
The night was quiet, only the sound of the singing waves. "Dadda?"
"Um Hm?"
Josh snuggled closer. "Tell me my story."
Jordan bit his bottom lip and sighed. "Once there was a lonely prince who lived all alone in a high tower..........."
"Maybe tonight, he kin see Prince Happiness, Dadda," Josh interrupted.
The tears that always hid behind his lashes burned. "Maybe, JD."
"Where's Terry?" Jordan asked, as he snuggled his nose into Danny's neck. "Will I meet him before I have to leave?"
Easy threw another log on the fire and flopped back in the comfy chair. "Terry went to Seattle to see some dudes. He said he'd be back today."
Do you have to go, Jordy?" Danny sighed, not willing to move one muscle, just wanting to smell Jordan, breathe him in.
"I gotta go back to work," Jordan laughed. "Now that you're all fixed up, I gotta go back home." Jordan had decided not to ask Danny about coming home anymore. He could feel the stress in his love and he wasn't gonna add to it. Not now, anyway.
The door opened with a crash and snow flurries came in with Terry, all bundled in his parka and wooly cap. Jordan raised his eyes to see the man that wanted his baby.
"Hey, guys!" he called from the hall as he stripped off the heavy clothing and walked toward the fire. Jordan detached himself from his human lovebug and stretched out his hand.
"So, this is the famous Jordan," Terry said smiling, gripping his hand and squeezing it tightly.
"Don't know how famous, but yes, Jordan. Hello, Terry."
Easy watched as the two handsome men sized each other up. It was like two Rottweilers sniffing before they slammed into each other. He glanced over at Danny and saw his brows wrinkled as he sensed the tension.
"Hi Terry," Danny said softly.
Immediately, Terry's manner changed and he swung his eyes toward the sofa. "Hey, Punkin. I want to know all about the doctor. How did it go?"
Jordan cocked his head and his eyes jerked to Easy with a look that screamed 'WTF??' Easy shot back and equally heavy 'I told you'.
Jordan moved back over and sat down beside Danny, easing his arm around his shoulders. Danny curled back onto him automatically. Terry watched the motions and his eyes darkened for a second and then he sighed. "You guys had supper?"
"Yeah, but there's plenty of chili left in the fridge."
"When's your flight, Jordan?" Terry asked, looking at Danny, then flickering his eyes towards Jordan.
Danny could feel Jordan getting angry. "He has to leave in a couple of hours to catch the red eye so he can go to work in the morning."
"I can talk for myself, Dan."
Easy cleared his throat. "Hey, Lil dude. Let's go heat Terry up some chili. I'm still kinda hungry myself."
Easy scooped him up and dropped him in the chair, talking to hear himself talk. "Looks like it's really coming down. Who'd ever thunk a bunch a Florida bois would be watchin' the snow instead of the surf?"
"Soooo," Terry said, as he stood by the fire, holding out his hands, "Did you accomplish what you wanted to at the doctor? Is Dan gonna be less screwed up now?"
Jordan groaned. Why did Danny like this guy? "I think it helped a lot. Thanks for helping to get him there. He needed to talk."
"Yeah, he's a great guy and has had more than his share of trouble." He looked pointedly at Jordan.
"Excuse me?"
"Face it, man, he hurts all the time and it all comes from you."
Jordan flinched. "I don't want to talk about Dan with you."
Terry glanced toward the kitchen doorway and then back at Jordan. "Let's be honest here. I'm not gonna like you and you're sure as hell not gonna like me. If I could take him from you, I would in a second."
"He's not some prize. He belongs to himself," Jordan growled, thinking Damn!! Noooo, he belongs to ME!!
"Look at you, one of life's golden boys, no worries, and Danny on top of it all, like icing on the cake." Terry realized he was saying too much but someone had hurt Danny, said things to make him feel pathetic and unsure and Terry always thought it was Jordan. "I bet you've never had to ask for anything in your life, have you, golden boy?"
Jordan breathed hard. "You're right, Terry. Everything comes easy to me." **just my brother, my daddy...I seem to have lost them along the way and Danny is easy too** God, this guy was an asshole.
"I bet it kills you that he won't come home."
"I understand all that," Jordan shot back. "He will when he's ready."
"But, will it be any different than it was before? He's told me how you baby him and how pathetic he feels all the time. He told me the things that were said."
"But, he's gonna walk now. What things?"
"What if he doesn't? What then?"
"None of this is any of your goddamn business, but it won't make any difference. I've always loved him. I always will."
"But will he?"
"Will he what?"
"Be able to accept the pity and the help all his life from the one person who's perfect in his eyes?"
Jordan felt the tears. God, not now! He hated the weakness of the tears. Terry had hit the sore spot. He knew Danny wouldn't come home if he couldn't get out of that wheelchair. "It isn't pity. It's never about pity. Fuck this!" He walked away toward the sound of laughter but his heart was crumbling. Danny had gotten the story of Michael's betrayal out and part of the battle was won. Jordan had been so happy that he'd forgotten the other battles. Nothing had changed, not really. Danny had a reason to try now. A clear path if only he could make it.
"Dan, I need to talk to you." Danny looked up to see the tears in Jordan's eyes.
"Push me," he said quietly, Easy gripping his shoulder for a second. Easy looked at Jordan but couldn't read his face.
Jordan pushed the chair up the ramp and into Danny's bedroom. "Wanna stay in it or on the bed?"
"Is this something bad?"
"No, baby. I just need to say some things we may not either want to hear."
"Then the bed please, Jordy." He raised his arms and Jordan lifted him gently and they stretched out in their Jordy/Danny talk position; nose to nose, toes to toes. Lips close, Jordan stroked Danny's curls.
"What is it, Jordy?' Danny's voice wavered.
"Dan, will you come home with me now?"
"I can't."
Jordan sighed. "Tell me why."
"I........I can't."
"I know I baby you and I know you hate it but I do it because I love you. You know that. You do know that, don't you?"
"Oh yes, Jordy. Part of me loves you to baby me. But Jordy.........,"
"Yes, ba.........yes, Dan?"
"I can't be a burden. I won't be a burden. You do not need to be carrying me around all your life."
"Is that all coming from you? Did someone say that to you?"
Danny hesitated and Jordan caught it. "Who?"
"No one, Jordy. I just feel this way."
"Is any of this to do with us loving each other?"
"What do you mean?"
"You know what I mean. You're beautiful, Dan. You could have anyone you wanted."
Danny let out a slightly hysterical laugh. "Do you know how stupid that is? I'm stuck in this bigass wheelchair and you're telling me I could have anyone I wanted. You're the one who should be finding another perfect person."
Both were breathing heavy, the stress building. Neither wanted to say what they were saying.........once spoken; never taken back.
"Have you ever thought that I NEED to take care of you, Dan? That I need it as much as you might need me?"
"But see, that's sad, Jordy. Between the two of us, we've seen more hurt than most people see in a lifetime. You need someone whole who can fulfill your dreams. I can't."
The words were hurting now. "You need to catch Adam. You do it every day in everything you do." He heard Jordan's gasp.
"Dan.........if you don't walk..............?"
"I won't come home."
Danny felt Jordan begin to cry. He couldn't take the words back. "You're the strong one, Jordy."
"I'm always the strong one....but you know what? I'm really not. Don't do this. Don't take away the hope. Our lives can't just be a series of hours to get through until we can sleep. I need more than that. Promise me you will try."
"Jordy, I'll do the best I can. That's all I can promise. And Jordy.........,"
"I'll do it for you."
"So, truth now, Danny. The only reason you aren't home with me is because of the therapy. It has nothing to do with anything else; anything anyone said or did." Jordan just had this niggling feeling in the back of his mind ever since Terry accused him of hurting Dan.
Again the hesitation. "Dan?"
"No, Jordan. It's just the therapy." Danny's eyes ducked down and Jordan felt fingers of fear thread along his spine.
"Why are you lying to me, Dan?"
"I'm.......I'm not."
Jordan moved away and sat up on the side of the bed, his long legs stretched out, his body stiff with unbelievable feelings of anger. God, anger towards Danny. His back to Dan, he said softly, "We've spent years together, Danny, years. We've never lied. I can't live like this. Do you have feelings for........Terry? Is that what it is? You want to stay here because of him?"
"Tell me what you're hiding. Make all this go away."
Danny lay still, words echoing in his head. "He has to have a chance at a normal life. He can have a family now. Don't make Josh ashamed of his queer father. Don't be selfish enough to tie my son to a crippled faggot the rest of his life." He sighed. "I'm not hiding anything, Jordy." The words came out as whispers and Jordan knew the boy he loved was lying.
Slowly, he stood up and looked down at the blue eyes filled with fear and salty tears and wanted to just lie down and hold him and forget what had been said. Wanted nothing more than to love the ugliness away. But, it was there, hanging in the air like a miasma.
"I love you more than my own life, Dan. You know that."
"Then let it go, please, Jordy." Danny reached his arms up and Jordan ached to fill them.
Easy tapped on the door. "Jord, we gotta go if you're gonna make that flight."
"Don't leave like this."
"Tell me. There's nothing we can't solve if we do it together."
"Tell me."
"I can't."
One last question..........."Dan, is whatever it is what's keeping you from coming home?"
Danny nodded his head, tears flooding his eyes.
"Is it why you ran away from me in the first place?"
Another nod.
"Then believe this, Dan, I WILL find out and when I do, you will come home. Do you hear me?"
"I hear you."
Jordan lifted his duffle to his shoulder, took Danny's face in his hands and kissed him. Kissed him for all the years and all the tears, all the laughter and all the love. "I love you Daniel Trainor. Call me when you trust that." He turned and walked out the door, not looking back.
Danny wanted to call him back, wanted to tell him everything. God, he wanted Jordy. But, his father had been right. He would NOT make Jordy spend his life with a cripple, or ruin the chance he had at a normal life and hurt Josh. He panicked when he realized that even if he walked away from his wheelchair, even if he could dance by the end of the year, he would still be gay........he would still hurt Jordan.
"Jord?" Easy just let the name hang in the air. "Wanna tell me?"
"He's hiding something. He won't come home till he lets it out. Damn it all, Ez. Why is this all so hard? Why can't we win just once?"
"You've won, man. You have each other. I know it's bad now but the wind's gotta shift. I'll get him to therapy, body and mind. Dr. Meadows said he wanted to talk to me. Maybe I'll just lay a few words on the doctor dude. See if he can spring this mess from Dan. And I swear, my sk8r boi, he WILL try his damndest to get out of that chair."
"I'm not gonna call him, Ez. Stay by him. He's gonna need you. If he needs me, he'll call. I hate this but the doctor said I was babying him too much and maybe right now is where I have to take my hands off and let him go, so he can find me again."
"I'll call Marks. And Jord.................Terry don't mean shit to Dan. You know that, don't you?"
"Yeah, but he's still a total duckweed."
"We got eleven months to go. That's all and we graduate and he's free. I know it sounds harsh but the time will pass."
"But what will happen in eleven months, Ez? Will he come home?"
Jordan stared out the plane window blindly. One problem down, another larger one blocking the road ahead. Did everyone live like this? Lives full of drama? If we weren't gay.........If Dan hadn't been hit by that car.........If we hadn't spun out on that ice.......If.......If........If. He made a vow on that plane from Portland to Wilmington. He would wait, losing his mind, for eleven months, the time it took to end the therapy and college. He would give Dan that time. But then...........and he realized that in eleven months he would turn 25...then he would get back what was his.
Stepping through the outer doors of the terminal, he spotted the jeep and Josh waving madly from the open window. He could hear him yelling, "Here, Dadda. Me here." He laughed and stored away the pain for late at night when he would take it out and feel it again.......every night.
"Hi there, big boy. Miss me? Hiya Marks." He leaned over and kissed her and she saw his eyes. Oh shit!
"Oh Dadda. Missed you yes......Me got a new truck and stuff. Play when we gets home, K?"
"Sure, punkin. Dadda always wants to play."
"I have a check here that needs explaining."
"I went to Portland to help Danny."
"Jordan. I did NOT give you the money to throw away on that little fag."
"It was important and I actually didn't give a flying fuck as to why you gave me the money. Dan needed me and I used it."
"There will be no more then."
"Fine, I didn't ask for your shit money........oh and Father.............Dan is doing very well. Thanks for asking."
"At least he's out there where he can't hurt you, be a burden you don't need."
Jordan ran his hands through his hair, his frustration level at the red line. "You know something, Father? He's way out there and he never hurts me. He loves me. You're down there and you hurt me every single day."
"Is he sick? Does he have.............?"
"Oh for God's sake. Goodbye. I thank you for the money. Let me live my life."
"Are you praying for forgiveness?"
"Actually, I'm praying to get off this phone." Jordan slammed the receiver down and stood shaking. Words flashed through his head....hurt you..burden. But that just couldn't be. There was never a time..........
Jerry and Missy's baby arrived and they named the little boy Jordan Daniel. Jordan, Marks and Josh drove over to visit one weekend and fell in love with the little guy.
Life eased back into place and the days clicked by. Jordan had a calendar by his computer where he had counted the days, weeks and months until his birthday. Winter would end, spring would pass, summer would ease on by and September would come. He marked every day off with a red pen waiting each day for a phone call that never came. Whatever the secret was, Danny wasn't gonna let it go. Little thoughts would flutter into Jordan's mind but the actuality of them was too horrible to think, so he clamped them down. No one who loved him would ever do anything like that to hurt him.
Easy would call. They knew Danny was doing good. He was up on the parallel bars and his upper body strength was superior. There was talk of a leg brace to support his weakest right leg. Jordan wanted to talk to him so bad he could taste it but he would wait.........until September.
One cold February day, the phone rang. "Can you get it, Marks? I've got a boy on me," Jordan laughed as Josh tickled him again.
"It's for you," she said, handing him the receiver. He raised his eyebrows but she shrugged her shoulders.
"OMG...........you dog, where are you?"
"Down the street actually. Got time to see an old friend?"
"Get your sorry butt here.....NOW!!"
Jordan ran down the steps and out the front door barefoot, in his t-shirt, watching a black Dodge Ram truck edge its way through the snow. The truck stopped, the door opened and he launched himself at the body that crawled out.
"I have NEVER been so glad to see anyone in my entire life," Jordan laughed, hugging for all he was worth.
"Jeezz, you're out here in your sorryass barefeet. Go, fool."
They took the elevator this time and Jordan threw open the door. "Marks. Josh. Guys.........Meet my best friend in the whole world. Griff, meet my family."
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This app is designed only for Dual SIM phones (not all dual sim phones will be compatible - please check first with the free version before buying)If your phone is not compatible, you'll have to wait for me to implement some alternative methods to handle things (giving bad rating won't speed things up).
Check the application FAQ available at the website for more information:
NOTICEDo not install before reading and understanding everything written after this notice
If the free version don't work in your phone the paid won't work either.Some features only work with some phones. Ask first in the Google+ Community if you have doubts about your phone compatibility.
Controlling a Dual SIM phone becomes easy and flexible, visit the Google+ Community to get to know the new features, work in progress and share with others how you're using this applications. Follow this link
Main features- Widget icons customization- Widgets (1X1, 2X1 and 3X1) to select/toggle the options included (color of the widget reflect the SIM settings): * Active SIMs (slot 1, slot 2, both or none) * Data connection management (SIM 1, SIM 2 or disabled) * SIM slot with the 3G/4G enabled * Preferred SIM for phone calls (SIM 1, SIM 2 or ask) * Preferred SIM for sending SMS (SIM 1, SIM 2 or ask) * Network mode (GSM, WCDMA/LTE or auto)- Rules to decide what SIM is used to call a number (contact groups, USSD and country codes support)- Integration with Tasker actions- Integration with Tasker conditions (SIM states, data connection state, SIM roaming, no network signal)- Integration with Tasker events (incoming call, incoming SMS)- API to integrate with other apps or your own application (only available on the paid version)- Widget icons customization
Dual Sim Control offers unique ways to control a Dual SIM phone, since you can change a SIM state without having to know if the other SIM should be active or not (especially important if doing it from Tasker).
Greetings for the app contributorsLinda vZP - Early support to test new features and test the 3G active SIMИван Калашников - Call Rules debug and testerCombrig - Russian translationВячеслав - Russian translation@franzmueller46 - German translation
LimitationsIf some of the toggles don't work for you, please let me know.Selecting the active 3G/4G slot depends on the actual phone hardware, so it shouldn't work in all Phones... please don't give bad rating if it doesn't works for you.
This app only works with some phones, I can't make a compatible and/or incompatible list since I only have a couple of phones to test - that's why I have a free version, so that people can try before buying.
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'Quitting Facebook is Like Passive-Aggressively Telling People To STFU' and other Anti-Summaries of (My) Quitting Facebook
I can't deny Facebook is life for most, including myself at a point in my life when I actually cared for my social image. I believe it is a way to network, to be in touch with people, to get called for jobs and to run some businesses (which I did) merely because of the quantity of people on there, and not the quality.
But this is not some yippity-yappity post, so let's cut to the chase.
Quitting Facebook is frees up maybe 30% of my day.
I aimlessly scrolled my newsfeed when I have some free time. I have decided now to read articles and also all the e-books that I have illegally downloaded but have not read, and to write more during my free time. Same for mobile game apps and small talk on chatting apps.
I have learnt that emojis in multiple successions convey an air of excitement that is not entirely dismissive, when there is an absence of words.
Quitting Facebook is like walking out from a talk that I did not even sign up for.
It is like they brought the whole event to me. Health talks, politics, multilevel marketing, promoting some shit, selling some iffy things, etc - and here I am, just walking out on all this.
Quitting Facebook is like shutting up that person in your life.
Everyone has a narcissist or two in their lives who never asks you about you (at least not sincerely while expecting to listen). They cannot shut up about themselves. They push their opinions on you, and their experiences will always top yours. Leaving Facebook is like silencing a whole army of them. Selfies after selfies, rant posts, pseudo-humble posts, bragging posts, people just keep talking and talking about themselves, etc. All that, gone forever!
Quitting Facebook allows me to actually catch up with friends when I catch up with them for real.
Before catch-ups became a time of being in close physical proximity of each other while looking down at our smartphones, people actually had verbal conversations. Remember how it felt like to be surprised and excited about a topic during these meet-ups rather than to already know all this crap from Facebook anyway?
Quitting Facebook is like leaving a party where idiots are talking.
Out of their asses. I'm just listening and rolling my eyes and still trying to respect that everyone has their own opinions but I am also hoping for a course of natural selection to take place real soon. I am getting too fat from eating all the virtual popcorn while reading idiotic comments. People tell me to ignore and don't read that shit, but I can't help it, like when you go see a freak show - you want to look at the weirdos although you really don't want to.
Quitting Facebook is clearing my mind off mental clutter.
Way. Too. Much. Useless. Information.
Quitting Facebook is not worrying about what people think.
I have always maintained that I don't care what people think, but fuck it, I do. And fuck you, everyone does at different levels. Without Facebook, now I can freely do things without the self-imposed responsibility of updating my 2000 "friends" on what I am doing and wonder what they think about it.
Quitting Facebook is also not taking photos for the pure fucking sake of posting.
I used to like taking photos because I like photography. At some point, this love of photography morphed into an absurdity of photo-posting on Facebook where I sometimes feel obliged to post stuff I personally don't like or not to post stuff that I like, just so I won't offend anyone.
Quitting Facebook is so I can stop cringing at pretentious people.
Every Facebook action is made by users with the full knowledge that all eyes are on them. It is social media, and to some level, it is acceptable that people do want to announce some things to their general public sometimes. And to these people, I quite frequently gave them a little thumbs up or sometimes a love.
But then there are some that are just way too vomit-inducing.
Anyway, I am now on Instagram only where I don't need to be friends with anyone and people can follow me if they like, or not if they don't (same simple concept as blogging). The only thing I will miss from Facebook are the cute cat links but Instagram has shitloads of it anyway. Ah, the perfect introvert life.
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An unnamed Kekkaishi that confronted Kaguro while he was still human. He was capable of producing a powerful Zekkai.[1]
What stood out most in Kuroda's mind about the Kekkaishi were his eyes, which were dark and terrifying. Aside from that, he wore largely traditional clothing for a monk or Kekkaishi.[1]
The Unnamed Kekkaishi was first seen during a flashback of Kaguro's past. Before Kaguro became an Ayakashi, he found him. The Kekkaishi sensed the darkness within Kuroda (Kaguro's pre-Ayakashi name), and proclaimed that the only reason that Kuroda could cut through Kekkai was because he was no longer human, but a demon, and as such, it was a Kekkaishi's job to destroy him. The Kekkaishi then used a Zekkai, but the very sight of it scared Kuroda away. Part of the reason Kuroda eventually became an Ayakashi was so that he would have enough power to defeat the Kekkaishi.[1]
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Hazama-Ryu Kekkai technique: During his encounter with Kuroda, he briefly used a Kekkai, then immediately produced a powerful Zekkai that surrounded his entire body (he also shouted the technique's name, which is how Kaguro knows it).[1]
• The Kekkaishi greatly resembles Masamori Sumimura and even possessed a similar demeanor.
1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Kekkaishi anime, Episode 50
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the fair gds editor EditComponent
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Edit Component
general setting Opens a dialog to edit the selected component of the current library. The dialog includes a import button which will allow to import setting from Qucs, LTSpice, OpenAccess, ... . Supported library formats for import often not contain all required information. Missing senctions (e.g. layout information) had to be added by hand. The edit component dialog also contains a button remove. With that button you can remove that component from the library file. The component however will kept in memory so that is still available for opened schematic, but it will be invisible in the component list.
The editing of the component is spitted into five parts:
In the general section the component name, its library prefix for the device name is defined. A user description is also part of the section. That description may also include a hyper link. If it does, ComponentInfo will not open a message box with the description but open the link with a browser.
Any component belongs to a library. Its name and file path is also listed in this section. To move a component to a different library simple change the name of the library.
general setting Here all parameter of the device are listed. In the middle your will find a list of an existing parameter. Above the list there are buttons to control the order of the parameter and to add or remove a parameter.
After clicking on one parameter its details are show on the right. Any parameter information can be edited including the parameter name and its type. Four different types are supported:
a free text, which can freely be entered
predefined texts, will be shown as a combo box in the parameter dialog
an integer number
a real or floating point number with double precision
Any parameter has a default value, which can also be empty. A list parameter includes a list of all possible values.
Of any parameter options can be added. Supported options are:
• info: information show as tool tip during the parameter entry,
• callback: a layout or TCL macro which will be executed after changing the parameter. This can be used to perform a range check or to adjust calculated parameters,
• unit: the unit of the parameter. If will be displayed on the right of the parameter entry field,
• edit: if this option is false, the parameter can not be change by the user. It just can be changed by a callback macro and it is display to the user.
• display: if this option is false, the parameter is invisible in the parameter dialog,
• parse: iftrue the parameter will be parse. e.g. an entry of 4*8 will result in a 32 in the schematic,
• parseAsNum: if true this parameter is marked to be a number for further parameter processing,
• multiplier: if true this parameter will be used as muliplierer for the component in the layout (introduced with version 20141230).
Options had to be enter as option-name=option-value with one option per line.
general setting In the symbol part you can see and change the symbol of the component. To change the symbol you had to create the new symbol in a normal schematic sheet before editing the component. The symbol must only contain non functional parts and ports. Any used port will be used as a connection port for the edited symbol. If the new symbol is a schematic sheet with components a symbol will be automaticly created from it as a rectangle with all ports used in that sheet. With the Edit button in this section you can edit the current set symbol. A new sheet will be added with the current symbol. You need to close the dialog to be able to see it and need to call EditComponent again to set the modified symbol.
Beside the symbol the label of the symbol is defined in this section. The label can be any text. Word starting with a $ will be replaced by the relating parameter. The label position is also defined in this part of the dialog. The position of the label can be defined for different symbol orientations.
Example for a label:
nf=$nf m=$mult
general setting In the layout part of the dialog the layout generation from the component is described. To generate the layout the description is read line by line. As soon a line can be used to generate the layout that resulting layout will be used. Lines starting with a # are comments and will be ignored. There are five ways to describe a layout:
To ignore a component in the LayoutEditor use a ignore section in the layout description. This may be useful for simulation 'component' or power supplies. Any component fitting the condition will be ignored in the layout.
So this fist example will ignore the component, if the parameter output is equal to X1 or X2. Any other value of output will not handled in the example and will be processed by following lines of the layout section. To make a condition always true use a *. Like this example to always ignore the component in the layout:
To use a existing cell for the component, list it under the cell section. In the example below the file openCellLibrary/AND3_X2.gds will be imported and the cell AND3_X2 will be used if the output parameter is equal to X2. If you want to use a cell in the already opened layout, use a . as filename
# device-type file cell
output=X1 openCellLibrary/AND3_X1.gds AND3_X1
output=X2 openCellLibrary/AND3_X2.gds AND3_X2
output=X4 openCellLibrary/AND3_X4.gds AND3_X4
If the package section is used, also a cell will be used for the layout. But this cell will be edited and the cell will be renamed so that the cellname is unique to the used component. The editing of the cell is limited to modify text. So the text devicename is replace by the devicename to the component. Also type is replaced by the component name. Also pinnumber is replaced by portname. (or delete if prtname=nc) So in this example the text 3 is replace by in+ and the text 1 is removed. This section is very useful for printed circuit boards. So you only need a package layout design and can use it for any component with that package.
# part-type layout-file cellname [portname pinnumber ] (nc for not connected)
Package=SO8N pcb/SO8N.gds SO8N in+ 3 in- 2 V+ 7 V- 4 out 6 nc 1 nc 5 nc 8
Package=DIP8 pcb/DIP8.gds DIP8 in+ 3 in- 2 V+ 7 V- 4 out 6 nc 1 nc 5 nc 8
Using the macro section will call a macro to create the layout design. The must set the cell to be used for the component as current cell. In the macro there will be added some defines like NETLIST_PARAMETER, NETLIST_DEVICENAME, NETLIST_PIN1_NAME, so that the macro have full access to all parameter of the component to generate. See some of the shipped library to get a plenty of example macros e.g. in ParametricShapeLibrary
# device-type macro-file pins
* pcb/resistor.layout pin1 pin2
With the oa section you can directly use a OpenAccess view for the device.
#condition lib cell view
* pdk nmos layout
With the external section an external software is started to create the layout. The software tool is started with libraryname cellname and viewname as parameter. Further parameter are all paramter of the device in the format parametername=parametervalue.
#condition lib cell view tool
* libname cellname viwname software
The software tool outputs the layout information to the standard output. The format is an ascii text with one line fore each shape. Here an example of the format:
databaseunits 1.000000e-09
box 99 0 1000 1000 1600 1600
polygon 10 0 1000 1000 1200 1000 1000 1200 1000 1000
text 42 0 0 1200 1300 0 PLUS
If you need more information on the output format to create own external parametric cell tools, please contact the support.
The previous section layout describes how a layout is created from the component. This section describe the other way round: How can the device be extracted from the layout. Devices placed via a schematic driven layout can always be detected as its component information is stored in the layout as properties information of the cell reference. That work even if nothing is described here. This section describes how to extract it without having such information. This can be used for parasitic parameter extraction or for a final design validation after removing all properies with schematic information.
The section has tree fields:
• method used for the extraction
• parameter for the extraction method
• parameter used for the extracted device
For details like avaiable extraction methods and its parameter please see ExtractionDevice. (introduced with version 20130101)
general setting
In this part of the dialog you can set some information to generate a netlist in any netlist format. Even new formats can be added. Each format has two parts: the netlist and the model part. These part will be included in the netlist by the commands $netlist(format) or $model(format) in the netlist generation setup. The pricipal difference of the two parts is that in the netlist part for each component placement in a schematic the data is added while in the model part only once for each type of component the relavant data is added. Please see NetlistGeneration for more details on the generation of a netlist or see the examples shipped with the SchematicEditor.
See also
CategoryFeature CategorySchematic CategoryFullVersion FeatureCode:4017
EditComponent (last edited 2014-12-30 16:33:51 by JürgenThies)
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A year ago, Paul Zukerberg was running for D.C. Council on one issue, and one issue only: Decriminalize marijuana. He got laughed at at forums, and he got 2 percent of the vote. But now the Council has passed, and the mayor has signed, a bill to do exactly what Zukerberg got called “Old Rufus Pothead” on the campaign trail for proposing. A long-delayed medicinal marijuana program is running, albeit slowly. And by November, District voters could approve a ballot question that would legalize, not just decriminalize, the drug in the city. The main reason for the switch? An ACLU study that showed black residents are far, far likelier to be arrested for pot possession than white ones, though usage is the same for both races. Those pothead jokes aren’t so funny, it turns out, when people remember there are actual consequences for America’s screwed-up drug laws.
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Domaine de L'R SO2 Cabernet Franc Vin de France 2016
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Why You Had to Do a Background Examine
What's the Distinction Between a Wrongdoer and a Work Background Check
A criminal background on its own is very easy. It needs to be a record of any offenses which you have been founded guilty. If you offered time and/or had parole, this should turn up. The very same can be said if you were on probation. Though different sorts of criminal checks raise different points, the majority of that are done for employment only raise felonies, and misdemeanors are commonly ended the record, though you can not ensure that. It is in your finest passion to inform your employer what they are visiting find, if anything, so they recognize you are being honest.
There are a few things that must not show up on a criminal background check. You need to not be reported for arrests that have not caused a conviction. That suggests if you were a suspect in a robbery, but discovered to be innocent, that must not be specified. That would certainly Discover More be an arrest record, as well as then, those are not consistently all inclusive as well. That would imply you were being punished for something of which you were innocent.
Absolutely background examinations, on the other hand, are more inclusive. This implies these examinations can bring up anything that you have allowed for via a created document. A company may would like to examine your scholastic records, your past work history, your credit, and your criminal history. Those are all things they might should recognize prior to they hire you. Some will not, or will only request a few of them. The legislations vary, so understand before you go what your civil liberties could be.
When it comes to both types of examinations, they can be located via various sources. Among the easiest is the online criminal background checks You can even go there by yourself to see if you have anything that comes up in your past. Mistakes can happen, so it never hurts to be sure yours is accurate prior to you begin a work search of your personal.
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Photos of the Long Island Sound
Status and Trends: LISS Environmental Indicators
Lead Concentrations in Sediment by Basin
Source: Mecray, E.L. and M.R. Buchholtz ten Brink, 2000, “Contaminant Distribution and Accumulation in the Surface Sediments of Long Island Sound”, Journal of Coastal Research, v. 16, no. 3, p. 575-590
What are sediment lead concentrations?
Low concentrations of heavy metals such as lead are normal, natural, and necessary in healthy marine and esturine environments. The problem arises when additional amounts of lead are discharged into the surface waters of these environments from industrial and sewage treatment plants.
What does this indicate?
The map above illustrates lead concentrations in surface sediments taken around Long Island Sound. Each circle on the map represents a single sample and the colors are interpolated across samples. In the map, high lead concentrations (46.7-218 micrograms of lead per gram of sediment) are shown in red, moderate concentrations (23-46.7) are shown in yellow and low concentrations (0-23) are shown in green. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of samples falling into each of the concentration categories. ER-L and ER-M stand for Effects Range-Low and Effects Range-Medium, which are toxicity criteria used to define ranges of sediment lead concentrations that could adversely affect marine life. Lead concentrations above the natural range have the potential of causing toxic effects on marine organisms, and may subsequently affect humans through contamination of seafood.
The concentrations of lead and other metals in bottom sediments are generally higher in the western Sound and lower in the bottom-scoured regions of the eastern Sound. This is primarily due to both the locations of pollutant sources and the westward transport of contaminants associated with fine-grained particles.
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Gifts for Scientists
Whenever I go holiday shopping for friends and family, I end up spending the greatest amount of money on myself. This year, I was pretty good, but I inadvertently compiled a list of nerdy cool stuff that I came across and really badly wish I owned.
If you're lucky enough to have a nerd as a friend, and need to figure out what the best gift for a scientist might be, here's some inspiration. Truthfully, these gifts would appeal to not only scientists, but to anyone with an appreciation for the natural world.
Science Gifts for the Study
1. Altitude Memo Block ($10.99) | 2. The Infamous Drinking Bird ($6.00 via ThinkGeek) | 3. Sand dollar bookends ($39.99 via Etsy) | 4. FermLiving Decorative Molecules ($75.00 from | 5. Darwin Bust (£15.99 at the English Heritage Shop) | 6. Explorer Globe ($41.49) | 7. Newton's cradle ($19.99) | 8. Vintage Microscope with wooden box ($15.95 on Etsy)
Science Gifts for the Home
1. Illuminated Remote Control Moon ($45.00 from Urban Outfitters) | 2. Deep Tea Diver ($14.95 from | 3. Molecular coasters, set of 2 (£15.00 via Science Museum Shop) | 4. Mad Mixologist's Laboratory ($49.95 via Edmund Scientific) | 5. Constellation Lamp (£25.00 via Science Museum Shop) | 6. Earl Carafe (£18.00 via Science Museum Shop) | 7. Star Theater Pro ($169.99 via ThinkGeek) | 8. Erlenmeyer Flask salt and pepper shakers (£12.00 via Science Museum Shop)
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Imagine Science Film Festival Winners Announced
The Imagine Science Film Festival (ISFF) is an annual science-themed film festival based in Brooklyn and Paris. All submissions are narratives of real-world science and the people behind it. Normally, an established film-maker partners with a scientist or team of scientists to document their work.
ISFF started out in 2008 as a small film club at Rockerfeller University founded by Alexis Gambis, a geneticist. In the last 5 years, it has grown to a curation of international short films that make relevant science discoverable and palatable for the masses.
Mission statement from the website:
"Imagine Science Films is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in existence since 2008 committed to promoting a high-level dialogue between scientists and filmmakers. ISF encourages a greater collaboration between scientists who dedicate their lives to studying the world we live in and filmmakers who have the power to interpret and expose this knowledge, ultimately making science accessible and stimulating to a broader audience.
Just today ISFF announced the official winners of 2012 in 4 categories. Click below to find out who the winners are.
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Friday, September 13, 2013
Recycled Coffee Bag Placemats
These beautifully rustic placemats are now available on Etsy!
1. You make everything beautiful, Melody! I love the edging on these! (maybe they won't sell and somehow they'll end up in my kitchen on my table...)
I can dream.
2. I'm all for recycling, especially when it looks this good.
S xx
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Pulled Taut
August 18, 2014 by Michelle
Today was the day that my daughter started Kindergarten. It was a big day for both of us. I walked her in the pouring rain to her school and down the hall. Tomorrow I will not get to go to her classroom. She is a big girl now. But today, I got to go.
Hand-in-hand, we walked and I looked at her. I am so fond of her. She is light and salt and a blessing. She looked back at me and gave a hint of a smile. She was excited!
In these innocent moments, these milestones, I often have company—birthmother grief. It’s unforgiving and quick, like the thud of a punch on my cheek. She found her name and sat in her chair. I got down on her level and looked her in the eyes. Then, kneeling there beside my sweet daughter, I lost it.
I kissed her goodbye. I walked out of the classroom and went to my car with tears falling as freely as the rain. I felt a shadow. I felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest. I felt a sense of guilt; this was my daughter’s big day. I felt tired. I have been running this race a long time.
Last year I took a job as a Pregnancy Counselor, and this job has put my personal story front and center. I see women everyday walking through different parts of a narrative I have lived. While I am honored to be a small part of their story, it still surprises me how true my Pregnancy Counselor advice is for myself.
I have waxed poetically about resurfacing grief. Last month at Imprint, the post-placement support group that I facilitate, I talked about it like it was for the other birthmothers in the room. But God knew it was for me.
“Grief comes up at life events. It doesn’t get easier; you begin to recognize it. When it comes up, take a good look at it, hold it, allow yourself to feel it, and give yourself grace.”
This morning, I grieved missing the joy of taking Dylan to his first day of school. I felt the distance between us, between parenting and birthparenting.
It’s not just the milestones I miss, but the moments too. The excitement in his eyes as he learns. The thrill of running on the playground. The stories from school about his day. The little moments, where he smiles and waves goodbye to his mom.
His mom who takes him to school, not me. And I love her and I love her for it. I love her for all of it. For providing for him and for catching the moments and for treasuring him. I am thankful.
Still, on days like today, I can’t help but feel the pull in a million different directions, like my heart is a preschool parachute.
Grief comes at life events. It doesn’t get easier, you begin to recognize it.
I recognize it.
I know what this is, I think. I take a deep breath. I begin to drive, and I give in to it. I proceed to bawl my eyes out the whole way to work.
And as I park my car, I remember playing with a parachute in Mrs. Diven’s P.E. class. I remember the way the parachute works. Pulled from every direction so tight it might split in two, we would hold on and yank that thing in a million directions. Everyone got to play. Everyone was needed to participate and make the parachute work.
It was a group effort.
And I wonder then, about my heart. I feel it being pulled. I feel the danger of it splitting in two. Joy for Cadence. Sadness over Dylan. Pride in my children. Grief over my children. The sweet gains. The significant losses. The hopes, the anticipations, the hurts, and the fears. My heart feels them all.
And I wonder about God. Jesus was a man well-aquatinted with grief and the Savior. He was moved with compassion and had righteous anger in the Temple. He commanded demons and He wept.
And I wonder about that preschool parachute. How it only works with a group of individuals working together all around the edges. How pulling it taut allows it to work properly. How each person attached to the parachute is necessary.
And then I recognize it. This pain reminds me that placing my son for adoption was the most loving, hardest thing I have ever done—still, to this day. I welcome the reminder. I take a good look at it, hold it, allow myself to feel it, and give myself grace.
This pain is important. This pain is connected to all the other things that I feel.
This pain lets me know I still love him this much.
One Response to “Pulled Taut”
1. Sallie says:
Thank you for this. Grief is… Impossible to ignore. I was explaining to my daughter just a couple days ago how it’s like waves on the shore – you’re standing there on the sunny warm beach and then suddenly it just crashes over you. You have to let yourself feel it and then let it recede. Just like a wave. And that’s all you can do. And through the crashing and receding, you let God love you, let His grace comfort you… You let Him. And you thank Him for His goodness as the wave goes back out to sea.
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Not If I Save You First - Ally Carter I don't often comment on books but here I must. Since I am old enough to actually REMEMBER WWII, its not surprising that I no longer find books that I can honestly say 'I couldn't put it down,' or 'I wanted to read it cover to cover in one sitting.' But, Ally Carter's books still do that for me. She is one fabulous writer. And this one, Not If I Save You First, is no exception.
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No, this is not revealing the story, but my only negative is there was a little too much repetition about how dangerous Alaska was. It didn't bother me that Maddie, Cammie, Katarina, and Grace (all of Ally's heroines), were pretty much the same girl, in fact, that's a plus!
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Stories Hub / Mind Control / Aphrodisia Ch. 02
Aphrodisia Ch. 02
by Lien_Geller 12/13/08
A few hours after he fell to sleep Jamie Sloane opened his eyes to find himself flying. High over the village and the surrounding countryside he soared upward toward the thick dark clouds above. The water stored in those clouds started to drench him to the bone and he found it odd that his balls weren't about to drop off considering how cold it must have been up there. Still, despite the immense height, thick rain clouds and English weather he was comfortably warm. Finding no other option since he couldn't control his prolific ascent toward the heavens, Jamie resigned himself to go wherever he was going.
The nineteen year old strangely found that he didn't mind too much that he was hurtling up toward the upper atmosphere. In all honesty he wasn't thinking about it a great deal. It was almost as if he were in some kind of trance. Eventually he popped up into a large cavern within the clouds. The recess was surrounded by nebulous walls that were constantly moving into odd new shapes. Perched upon one of these wisps of vapour was a figure he recognised.
It was Allison; still dressed in her bar-maid outfit with the tablecloth tucked into the hem of her skirt. When he popped up she turned her head and patted the space beside her causing tufts of the cloud to escape and dissipate into the air. She turned her perfect head to look at Jamie and flashed him a dazzling smile. The boy floated over and took his seat in the sky next to the stunning beauty. It felt like he was sitting in a whole lot of cotton wool. After sitting down next to her he found that his face was flushed with colour. He remembered all of his clothing had been left back down on earth in Sonya's room so he was a little self conscious.
"Hey sweetie." Allison purred. "How was she?"
"What? H-how do you know about...?" The question trailed off as the boy regarded the woman like she might explode at any minute.
"Don't be shy Jamie. I know everything you got up to tonight. Oh and well done!" She gave him an approving pat on the back before stroking her hand down along all those muscles that had taken root there apparently overnight. "Nice. You know I didn't think you'd take to them so fast. What was I saying?" She asked no one in particular. "Oh! That's right! Well done on getting rid of that little virginity problem you had. You know, I knew Sonya had a wild woman locked inside her but even I wouldn't have guessed she was that wild." Her legs were hanging from the edge of their thick cloudy seat. He noticed she'd taken off her boots and her bare feet were swishing back and forth beneath them, breaking up the cloud into ethereal wisps. They interlaced with her toes as she dallied with them and left him to form a response.
"I...Hey wait a second here. That was supposed to be you in that room! You set me up didn't you?" Jamie accused. Then after a moment he added. "And what do you mean by you didn't think I'd take to them so fast?" The boy looked a lot more puzzled than angry at her. He'd also started to wonder just what the hell they were doing sat in the middle of a cloud. People didn't sit in the middle of clouds dammit!
Allison seemed to notice that he'd started piecing what was currently happening together. Taking the tip of his chin into her hand she turned his head to face her and pressed her mouth against his. The scintillating nature of her slightest touch was magnified a hundred fold by her kiss. Jamie found this out and immediately lost all concern for his cloud sitting. Before he could put his arms around her however she relaxed the kiss and pulled away. Jamie seemed a little stupefied after that and his eyes remained closed and mouth pursed whilst he tried to regain his bearings.
"Sorry about that Jamie. You were waking up and I'm not ready to let you go just yet." The 'waking up' comment didn't have time to register in Jamie's brain. She didn't want to let him go! That's all that was important to the boy right then. He regained enough of his sense and calm to speak again.
"Why weren't you there?" He asked, slightly hurt that she'd tricked him.
Allison looked right into his eyes for a long moment. Something in that enchanting stare of hers seemed conflicted until she finally looked away. "Jamie didn't you ever wonder how I knew your name before you told it to me?"
"Nope" Jamie replied honestly. Though now he thought about it he hadn't told her his name that night. Before he could think to ask her why that was however, she told him.
"I'm a goddess." She stated very matter-of-factly.
"Darn right you are!" Jamie confirmed, taking a moment to look down over that perfectly proportioned body of hers.
Allison actually blushed at that little comment. "No you silly, I mean I'm a real goddess."
This gave Jamie a moment's pause before he answered. It wasn't everyday you met a crazy person who lived in a cloud after all.
"Ok, so why are you cleaning tables? I mean I didn't know goddesses were such micromanagers." He asked the question in the most serious tone he could muster.
"Hey!" Allison turned and prodded him sharply in the side with her finger. Jamie shooed the finger away with his hand. He was very ticklish. "I was cleaning the tables so I could meet you. You let me out of my bottle so I wanted to see what kind of person you were." She responded, turning her head to look down as the cloud beneath them divided to reveal they were currently floating over a large city. It was London. He recognised the Thames snaking its way through the middle of it. They sure had come a long way in a short time. He'd been in York when he flew out the window after all.
"Were you the nice smell that came out of the bottle?" Jamie asked using the kind of logic one tends to only when they're dreaming.
"I was. I'm glad you liked it." She said, her smile returning as if he'd paid her a very flattering comment. Seeing the woman smile made Jamie smile too but he didn't really know why. Then something occurred to him and his expression changed to a slightly annoyed one.
"I was stood there for five hours!" He exclaimed. "I couldn't feel my hands or my feet I was that cold!"
"Well...well you should have thought of that before you opened the vial!" The stunning little goddess suddenly seemed overly defensive. Folding her arms beneath her breasts she turned and faced away from him.
There was a long moment of silence between the two and it didn't seem like it was going to lift until Allison lowered her head a little.
"I'm sorry. I was just really happy to be out of there. I mean you try living in a glass vial for over a millennium, it's not very nice. I just couldn't resist pouring out all at once. I wanted to feel the world again instead of just cold glass." She lowered her hands to slip into the fluffy clouds at her sides and turned her head to look at him again. He was surprised to see her eyes glistening with tears. Feeling his heart start to plummet back down to earth he reached out instinctively to put his arm around her shoulders. She leaned in against him but she didn't cry. "Thanks Jamie. After I regained my senses I realised you were stood there and I had basically frazzled you. Gods shouldn't pass through humans. It's really not good for you. So it took a little while to fix you up right again, with a few improvements of course. After I did I made myself a body, which took me some time, before I went to go see you at the inn. I wanted to see if you were a good person." She rubbed her cheek against his shoulder and a little happy smile came back to her lips. "You were a good person. I also noticed you were down on your luck though and very lonely. So I introduced you to Sonya and fanned the flames of desire between the both of you. Well you did most of that actually..."
"'re saying I made Sonya sleep with me?" Jamie's voice had a hint of panic in it. If he'd just turned into some kind of rapist he was going to throw himself off the next bridge he happened to come across.
"No!" Allison's eyes opened wide in shock. Clearly the very idea of forcing someone into sex was highly disturbing to her. "Jamie I wouldn't let you go around raping innocent women!" She reached out and took his hands in hers, looking into his eyes again very seriously before she spoke.
"I'm Arianrhood, Sjöfn, Venus, Aphrodite...every goddess associated with love or fertility ever known is usually born of someone catching me doing what I do." Allison explained to him. "I encourage love. I fan the flames of desire and let people who are good for each other feel free to do what their hearts want. You're good for Sonya. She wanted you too; all she needed was a little push. She was basically emotionally blackmailed into having sex with a college boyfriend. He took her virginity and then ran off to the hills when he heard she was pregnant." Allison then leaned back before spitting up into the air in a very un-ladylike manner. Jamie thought that was a little gross even as he watched it hurtle down to earth. "That's going to hit him on the head on his way home from work." Allison said with a rather evil smirk. Then she looked back over to Jamie and continued her story. "Anyways after him Sonya just lost faith in love and hid behind those big brown woollen sweaters of hers and the huge glasses too. She's had a bit of a crush on you for a while though but wouldn't let herself act on it. So I got you two naked together and then gave her that little push. Let her overcome her fear for a little while and she got her faith in men restored and you got laid. I'd call that a win for everyone." Allison finished talking, looking down again at the city below them and starting to swing her legs back and forth once more.
"So wait sec here..." Jamie pinched the upper part of his nose and closed his eyes as he took in all this new information and tried to figure it all out. "'re a real goddess. Aphrodite or whoever..."
"You can call me Allison sweetie." The woman said, leaning in to give him an affectionate kiss on the cheek.
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Last Updated: Friday, 11 November 2005, 05:40 GMT
Endangered lemurs get Fawlty name
John Cleese
Comedian John Cleese is well known for his work with lemurs
Now the researchers have named the primate - which weighs less than a kilo - after the Monty Python star.
Lemurs are considered the most endangered of all primates and live only on Madagascar.
The island has evolved in isolation for 165 million years.
Lemurs are the closest living analogues to our ancient primate ancestors who lived about 55 million years ago
One-third of species are extinct
Remaining species are under threat from hunting and habitat destruction
John Cleese writing Aardman film
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Milestone for 'land of the lemur'
11 Nov 04 | Science/Nature
New lemurs found in Madagascar
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Python Dead Parrot is top sketch
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Pilot lands jet after bird strike
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Flames were seen coming from the damaged engine
A passenger aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing when two birds were sucked into one of its engines.
The Thomson Fly Boeing 757 had just left Manchester Airport en route to Lanzarote when the herons were sucked into the starboard engine.
The pilot shut the engine down and sent out a distress call before dumping excess fuel and landing back at the airport.
None of the 221 passengers was injured in the incident on Sunday.
A spokesman for Manchester Airport said the engine did not catch fire but the flames were caused by burning of the birds.
"Within minutes of being in the air, the plane suffered a double bird strike," he said.
The incident happened just after 0915 BST as the jet was on its way to Arrecife.
"The aircraft's engines are designed to cope with bird strikes but because this case involved two very large birds being sucked in at once there were problems," the spokesman said.
The passengers were able to catch another flight at about 1300 BST.
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Overfishing is changing the oceans, one predator at a time
Humans are changing marine ecosystems in different and unprecedented ways.
As humans continue to alter the number of predators living in the oceans through overfishing and other activities, their prey and other parts of the marine ecosystem are also indirectly impacted, according to a new study published in Global Change Biology in October. Specifically, by altering the numbers, distribution and behavior of predators, humans can influence the prey’s ability to respond to threats and its chance of being killed by a predator. Conversely, humans can act as real or perceived predators themselves by directly targeting predators and non-predators or by influencing their behavior.
Mike Heithaus
Mike Heithaus
“We are reducing the number of predators in marine ecosystems rapidly,” said Mike Heithaus, FIU marine scientist and co-author on the study. “This study shows there are many more consequences than are generally recognized. These really need to be considered in ecosystem management and conservation efforts.”
Heithaus, who also serves as the dean of the FIU College of Arts & Sciences, has spent decades studying predator-prey interactions and “the ecology of fear” in Shark Bay, Australia and throughout the world.
Up until now, scientists have had a firm grasp on many of the direct effects of catching or killing marine predators for human consumption, sport or population control, however, less is understood about the indirect and cascading effects of predator harvesting. The ultimate goal of the research paper is to connect the dots of what is currently known about how humans indirectly affect animal behavior, and potentially alter ecological and evolutionary processes.
“One thing we can do to lessen our impact on the oceans is to carefully consider our seafood choices,” said Elizabeth Madin, biological sciences researcher at Macquarie University and lead author of the study. “In particular, we can check web-based food sustainability guides to make sure that the seafood we buy in the store and order in restaurants is sustainable — in other words, it doesn’t contribute to overharvest or habitat destruction.”
According to the researchers, further investigation of cascading risk effects is needed to build a framework for informing management and conservation decisions.
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%A Rathnayaka, Rathnasiri %D 2018 %T Psychology Reflected in Buddhism & Western Psychology: A Brief Elucidation %B 2018 %9 %! Psychology Reflected in Buddhism & Western Psychology: A Brief Elucidation %K %X This paper exposes in brief universally adoptable stance of Buddhist Psychology vs. western psychology and how Buddhist psychology is capable of interacting with modern psychology contributing to both theory and practice. Psychology was introduced to the western world several centuries after the advent of Buddhism. The primary resolution of Buddhist doctrine is to expose through the universal causes of suffering (dukkha) in the continuous existence of individual and the society disclosing the true nature of the phenomenal existence, individual and mind in order to get rid of the human predicament. Comprehensive and profound psychological expositions that deal with the root causes of mental disorders and problematic behaviors are adopted in ‘Buddhist Psychology and Psychotherapy’ and the Abhidhamma entails highly systematized psychological elaborations of mind. Although several psychoanalytical observations based on superficial causes experimented by defiled minded scientists have been introduced in western psychology in analysis, ‘Buddhist psychology’ revealed by the Impassionate One is based on the universal central teachings such as the three universal root causes, the three universal characteristics, the theories of Four Noble Truths, Dependent co-arising etc. Hence, the objective of this paper is to provide a brief elucidation of how psychology reflected in Buddhism overlooks western psychology. %U http://ojs.pnb.ac.id/index.php/SOSHUM/article/view?path= %J Soshum : Jurnal Sosial dan Humaniora %0 Journal Article %R 10.31940/soshum.v8i2.988 %& 150 %P 13 %V 8 %N 2 %@ 2580-5622 %8 2018-08-14 %7 2018-07-16
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Coburn Slices Wasteful Spending in 2008 Report
No matter your political leanings, you’ll likely find this report by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, 2008: Worst Waste of the Year, to be worth perusing. He basically takes government to task for what he perceives to be a national barrage of pork. Many of these programs are laughable, while some might be defendable depending upon your perspective.
Here’s an example:
First Tee Program – South Carolina ($3 million)
Kids around the nation will be invited to learn and appreciate the game of golf through a $3 million grant from the Pentagon to First Tee. First Tee is a non‐profit organization that was founded to bring underprivileged youth off the streets and onto the golf course. When one member of Congress responsible for arranging the grant was asked what childhood golf had to do with the military, he responded that golf “helps you make generals and colonels.”
I remember hearing about this one when it earned Rep. James Clyburn (South Carolina) a nomination for the Citizens Against Government Waste’s Porker of the Year Award. I must agree that there are some holes in the logic. For starters, I played quite a bit of golf as a youngster (in the converted cornfields of Boone County, not fancy golf with sand traps and such), and I’m hardly qualified to lead an army of ants, let alone becoming a general or colonel. Nor did it teach me about decorum as I was a known club-thrower, and I learned little about finishing what I start as I became a master of the four-foot gimme.
Worst of all, I never actually became good at golf, which led to a poor self image (frowny face).
Hat tip to Chamber staffer Chase Downham for passing the report along.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
As an older man was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang.
Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, "Harold, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the wrong way on route 290. Please be careful!"
"Hell," said Harold, "It's not just one car. It's hundreds of them !!!"
"That's not bad."
"Sounds like you should be grateful..."
"This week... nothing!"
A little boy and a little girl, both about six years old, were playing in the sandbox. Unexpectedly, the little boy farts, causing a little sand between his legs to shift. The little girl notices and squeals with laughter.
"How'd you do that," she asked
"Easy," he exclaimed, "I just farted."
"Can I try it," she asks?
"Sure," he says, "anybody can do it."
She concentrates as she strains and grunts. Suddenly, there's a huge explosion, the sides of the sandbox fly off, all the sand flies out, and the little boy is thrown 10 feet, landing up against a tree.
He groggily gets to his feet, runs back to where the little girl is. He finds her laying on the ground, out cold, flat on her back, spread eagle. Curiously, he lifts up her dress, peeks underneath, and loudly exclaims:
"Just what I thought, dual exhaust..."
Beauty is in the 'EYES' of the be-"holder"...
The short bus
One Monday morning, Grover picking up the kids along a new bus route.
At the first stop, he picked up a fat little girl. Grover asked, "What's your name?" "Patty" she replied. She had a seat in the back of the bus.
On the next stop there was a handicapped boy named Ross. All the kids called him "Special Ross."
Then a young man named Lester Cheese loaded onto the bus, sat down, took off his shoes and began picking at his bunions.
Finally the last stop came up, and another chubby little girl got on. Grover had never met her, so he asked her her name and her name was also Patty.
On the way to school, Grover looked in his mirror and began to laugh, he was thinking...
"Dang, I have two obese Patty's, Special Ross, Lester Cheese picking bunions, on a Sesame Street bus!"
Beware The ATM....
Click Here
Click above - This will open a window and you will have to allow the powerpoint to open (Or you can save it...) Then navigate either using your scroll wheel on your mouse or you can use your scrollbars if you do not have a wheel mouse...
No Parking
80 Year Old Man..
At 80 years old, George went for his annual physical. All of his tests came back with normal results.
George replied, "Yeah, God and me are tight. He knows that I have poor eyesight, so he's fixed it so that when I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom (poof!) the light goes on, when I'm done (poof!) the light goes off."
A little later in the day Dr. Smith called George's wife. "Ethel," he said, "George is doing fine. Physically he's great. But,I had to call because I'm in awe of his relationship with God. Is it true that he gets up during the night and (poof) the light goes on in the bathroom, and then when he is through (poof!) the light goes off?"
Ethel exclaimed, "Oh, my God, he's peeing in the refrigerator again!"
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
300,000! WOW! THANKS !!!
Strange Laws
In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: Prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only "in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises." (Is this a great country or what? ... Not as great as Guam!)
In Canada, it is forbidden to flash your genitals at passing tourists, but you are allowed to flash them at helicopters flying at less than 50 feet.
In Paris, it is illegal to walk with your hand up a ladies skirt, but you may touch breasts whilst travelling on the metro...
Nice Little Poem
A Couple of good Commercials
Women's Logic
Four little animals - Wow! They learn young!
A little girl in the back row raised her hand and said, "All I want out of life is four little animals." The teacher asked, "Really and what four little animals would that be sugar?" The little girl said, "A mink on my back, a jaguar in the garage, a tiger in the bed, and a jackass to pay for it all."
The teacher fainted.
Happy Airlines
Words To Live By...
You can't read this and stay in a bad mood !
1. How Do You Catch a Unique Rabbit?
--Unique Up On It.
2. How Do You Catch a Tame Rabbit?
--Tame Way, Unique Up On It.
3. How Do Crazy People Go Through The Forest?
--They Take The Psycho Path
4. How Do You Get Holy Water?
--You Boil The Hell Out Of It.
7. What Do You Call a Boomerang That Doesn't work?
--A Stick
8.. What Do You Call Cheese That Isn't Yours?
--Nacho Cheese.
9.. What Do You Call Santa's Helpers?
--Subordinate Clauses.
10.What Do You Call Four Bullfighters In Quicksand?
--Quattro Sinko..
11. What Do You Get From a Pampered Cow?
--Spoiled Milk.
--A Nervous Wreck.
14. What's The Difference Between Roast Beef And Pea Soup?
--Anyone Can Roast Beef.
15. Where Do You Find a Dog With No Legs?
--Right Where You Left Him.
16. Why Do Gorillas Have Big Nostrils?
--Because They Have Big Fingers.
17. Why Don't Blind People Like To Sky Dive?
--Because It Scares The Dog.
18. What Kind Of Coffee Was Served On The Titanic?
--The Location Of The Dirt Bag.
20. Why Did Pilgrims' Pants Always Fall Down?
--Because They Wore Their Belt Buckle On Their Hat.
--A Bad Golfer Goes, Whack, Dang!
--A Bad Skydiver Goes Dang! Whack.
--Either way, Somebody's Gonna Lose A Trailer
Now, admit it. At least one of these made you smile.
Monday, April 28, 2008
*Thanks, Daryn
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Review: The Lord of the Rings (Part One)
Looking at the photograph of Saul Zaentz and Ralph Bakshi in the October issue of Millimeter, I am struck by how much these men, after more than two years’ involvement with The Lord of the Rings, look like two hobbits themselves. It works: Bakshi’s Frodo to Zaentz’s Bilbo … but this Ring they’ve got hold of may prove just as ambiguous in its anticipated effects as the one in this two-hour first-of-two animated films, or the one in Tolkien’s celebrated fantasy series. Although Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings has a presold audience, it is an audience that will be hard to please. One thing that is almost sure to disappoint both the skeptic and the rabid fan of the film is the indefinite feeling that accompanies the end of this first part, and the knowledge that one must wait another year or two to make up one’s mind fully. Unlike Lester’s The Three Musketeers, Bakshi’s Part One is not of a piece, but ends on a deliberately to-be-continued note which makes one wish he had opted for either a four-hour feature with intermission or a two-night, two-feature extravaganza all at once, if only to achieve the kind of unity that both cinema and myth demand.
Indeed, unity is the main thing missing from The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Bakshi wants on the one hand to drive the film by sheer force of plot, and on the other to have the story serve as a basis for the virtuoso animation style he experimented with in Wizards. As Part One turns out, however, we have a maze of plot with little clarity of motivation, a jungle of characters whose strange-sounding names we can’t keep straight and whose even stranger relationships aren’t made clear in dialogue or in image, and a tangle of mixed animation styles more often in collision than in harmony. The stylistic tension between the Disneyish main characters and their Frank Frazetta–like environment at first provides a kind of starkness appropriate to fantasy, with its avoidance of moral ambiguity, its reliance on character-type, and its insistence upon clearcut distinctions between good and evil. But soon, with the first appearance of the Orcs, we have a mixture of cartoon figures, storybook illustration background, and tinted live-action figures—a stylistic chaos that, whatever Bakshi’s intentions may have been, simply doesn’t work. In the climactic battle the cartoon characters come up against the live-action silhouettes, a concept more than a little frivolous to the eye, considering the thematic weight Bakshi and scenarists place upon the conflict. Perhaps recognizing the absurdity of the collision, Bakshi strives not to show cartoon figures and live-action figures in the same frame if he can possibly avoid it. But the result is a montage that never succeeds in establishing spatial relationships between its characters and character-groups. And the cartoon figures, who are the protagonists of the tale, actually seem the more alien to us, intercut as they are with more recognizably “real” people-shapes.
The fact that the cartoon heroes were animated over pre-shot live-action footage with real actors playing the characters to be animated gives the resulting cartoons a realism of movement—and especially of facial nuance—that is a major achievement in animation; but it does not resolve the stylistic incongruity of the film, which I suspect turned out to be greater than Bakshi anticipated. Not having read the Tolkien books, I can’t say whether this film will please a Tolkien devotee, or even make sense to him. But for me, both stylistically and narratively, the film is a jumble. All too often I see Bakshi falling back on a visual (or sound) effect, rather than giving the viewer the word of explanation he wants to make him more comfortable with the story. In the words of the immortal Rufus T. Firefly, “Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head or tail out of it.”
© 1979 Robert C. Cumbow
Direction: Ralph Bakshi. Screenplay: Chris Conkling and Peter S. Beagle, after the novels by J.R.R. Tolkien. Cinematography: Tim Galfos. Editing: Donald W. Erst. Music: Laurence Rosenthal. Production: Saul Zaentz.
A pdf of the original issue can be found here.
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Rookhope Ryde
No: 179; variant: 179A
1. ROOKHOPE stands in a pleasant place, If the false thieves wad let it be; But away they steal our goods apace, And ever an ill death may they die!
2. And so is the men of Thirlwa ‘nd Williehaver, And all their companies thereabout, That is minded to do mischief, And at their stealing stands not out.
3. But yet we will not slander them all, For there is of them good enough; It is a sore consumed tree That on it bears not one fresh bough.
4. Lord God! is not this a pitiful case, That men dare not drive their goods to t’ fell, But limmer thieves drives them away, That fears neither heaven nor hell?
5. Lord, send us peace into the realm, That every man may live on his own! I trust to God, if it be his will, That Weardale men may never be overthrown.
6. For great troubles they’ve had in hand, With borderers pricking hither and thither, But the greatest fray that eer they had Was with the ‘Men’ of Thirlwa ‘nd Williehaver.
7. They gatherd together so royally, The stoutest men and the best in gear, And he that rade not on a horse, I wat he rade on a weil-fed mear.
8. So in the morning, before they came out, So well, I wot, they broke their fast; In the [forenoon they came] unto a bye fell, Where some of them did eat their last.
9. When they had eaten aye and done, They sayd some captains here needs must be: Then they choosed forth Harry Corbyl, And ‘Symon Fell,’ and Martin Ridley.
10. Then oer the moss, where as they came, With many a brank and whew, One of them could to another say, ‘I think this day we are men enew.
11. ‘For Weardale men is a journey taen; They are so far out-oer yon fell That some of them’s with the two earls, And others fast in Barnard castell.
12. ‘There we shal get gear enough, For there is nane but women at hame; The sorrowful fend that they can make Is loudly cries as they were slain.’
13. Then in at Rookhope-head they came, And there they thought tul a had their prey, But they were spy’d coming over the Dry Rig, Soon upon Saint Nicholas’ day.
14. Then in at Rookhope-head they came, They ran the forest but a mile; They gatherd together in four hours Six hundred sheep within a while.
15. And horses I trow they gat But either ane or twa, And they gat them all but ane That belanged to great Rowley.
16. That Rowley was the first man that did them spy; With that he raised a mighty cry; The cry it came down Rookhope burn, And spread through Weardale hasteyly.
17. Then word came to the bailif’s house, At the East Gate, where he did dwell; He was walkd out to the Smale Burns, Which stands above the Hanging Well.
18. His wife was wae when she heard tell, So well she wist her husband wanted gear; She gard saddle him his horse in haste, And neither forgot sword, jack, nor spear.
19. The bailif got wit before his gear came That such news was in the land; He was sore troubled in his heart, That on no earth that he could stand.
20. His brother was hurt three days before, With limmer thieves that did him prick; Nineteen bloody wounds lay him upon; What ferly was’t that he lay sick?
21. But yet the bailif shrinked nought, But fast after them he did hye, And so did all his neighbours near, That went to bear him company.
22. But when the bailiff was gathered, And all his company, They were numberd to never a man But forty [or] under fifty.
23. The thieves was numberd a hundred men, I wat they were not of the worst That could be choosed out of Thirlwa ‘nd Williehaver, . . . .
24. But all that was in Rookhope-head, And all that was i Nuketon Cleugh, Where weardale men oertook the thieves, And there they gave them fighting eneugh.
25. So sore they made them fain to flee, As many was ‘a’’ out of hand, And, for tul have been at home again, They would have been in iron bands;
26. And for the space of long seven years, As sore they mighten a had their lives; But there was never one of them That ever thought to have seen their ‘wives.’
27. About the time the fray began, I trow it lasted but an hour, Till many a man lay weaponless, And was sore wounded in that stour.
28. Also before that hour was done, Four of the thieves were slain, Besides all those that wounded were, And eleven prisoners there was taen.
29. George Carrick and his brother Edie, Them two, I wot, they were both slain; Harry Corbyl and Lennie Carrick Bore them company in their pain.
30. One of our Weardale men was slain, Rowland Emerson his name hight; I trust to God his soul is well, Because he ‘Fought’ unto the right.
31. But thus they sayd: ‘We’ll not depart While we have one; speed back again!’ And when they came amongst the dead men, There they found George Carrick slain.
32. And when they found George Carrick slain, I wot it went well near their ‘Heart;’ Lord, let them never make a better end That comes to play them sicken a ‘part!’
33. I trust to God, no more they shal, Except it be one for a great chance; For God wil punish all those With a great heavy pestilence.
34. Thir limmer thieves, they have good hearts, They nevir think to be oerthrown; Three banners against Weardale men they bare, As if the world had been all their own.
35. Thir Weardale men, they have good hearts, They are as stif as any tree; For, if they’d every one been slain, Never a foot back man would flee.
36. And such a storm amongst them fell As I think you never heard the like, For he that bears his head so high, He oft-times falls into the dyke.
37. And now I do entreat you all, As many as are persent here, To pray for [the] singer of this song, For he sings to make blithe your cheer.
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apt caches on notebooks
Using a apt caching daemon on a notebook is usually pain. Most require to alter the /etc/apt/sources.list which is quite annoying as you have to maintain the different lists for different locations. If the daemon requires you to add repositories, third party repositories are usually not added anyways.
But there is a good solution which works great here, thanks to apt-cacher-ng. Apt-cacher-ng does not require you to alter the sources.list as it can work as a http proxy. It also does not require any configuration for repositories.
On your server simply do sudo aptitude install apt-cacher-ng
On a permanent client add a file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02proxy with:
Acquire::http { Proxy "http://SERVERIP:3142"; Timeout "10"; };
Acquire::HTTP::Proxy::bugs.debian.org "DIRECT";
Now to laptops. switchconf is a useful tool for this, as it can change config files depending on locations.
sudo aptitude install switchconf
sudo mkdir -p /etc/switchconf/other/etc/apt/apt.conf.d
sudo touch /etc/switchconf/other/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02proxy
sudo mkdir -p /etc/switchconf/home/etc/apt/apt.conf.d
sudo vi /etc/switchconf/home/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02proxy
And paste the client config there.
This adds two locations, home and other. other will not use any proxy and should therefor work everywhere and home will use your home proxy. You can of course add more locations as you have more places with proxies found.
But as you don’t want to type “sudo switchconf LOCATION” whenever you change places, some auto-detection is required. I use Network-Manager and use the dispatcher for this.
sudo vi /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99switchconf
And this is my detection script. I use arp to test if a certain IP has a specific MAC address which is a very precise test. arp -a SERVERIP will show you the MAC address of your server.
if [[ `arp -a` =~ 54:52:00:31:fe:a9 ]]; then
switchconf home;
switchconf other;
Don’t forget to make it executeable
sudo chmod +x /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99switchconf
Now i got cache at home and no cache on the road.
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Psalm 1 Exhortation: the Righteous and the Ungodly
Welcome to Preacherhead Ministries, today’s exhortation comes from the book of Psalm chapter 1. Press play as Pastor Steve gives us some very important information regarding the righteous and the ungodly. We must remember to always remain rooted to the Word of God in order to sustain our lives in Christ Jesus.
Psalm 1 Exhortation
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Mamallapuram – Ganesha Ratha
Mamallapuram – The Workshop of the Pallavas
Ganesha Ratha
This most complete ratha stands near the Arjuna Penance bas-relief. It being the most complete one might be due the reason of its location, near to the most famous bas-relief, the importance it would have enjoyed during the Pallava period. The ratha was known as Arjuna Ratha as mentioned by Lakshmiah Kavali in 1803. It was known as Arjuna Ratha due to its location, near the Arjuna Penance relief. Kavali tells that a shivalinga was installed inside the sanctum however that linga was removed by a British officer. Then the locals put a Ganesha image inside. Since then it is known is Ganesha Ratha. Kavali also tells that the stone Nandi, installed in front of the ratha, was taken away by Lord Clive, the then governor of Madras.
Ganesha Ratha (image courtesy –
In style and design, this ratha very much resemble to the Bhima Ratha of the Pancha Ratha group. This west facing ratha measures 20 feet in length, 11.5 feet in width and 28 feet in height1. A projecting mukha-mandapa is supported on two pillars and two pilasters, all having lion-bases. At the terminals of this mandapa are two dvarpalas. Longhurst mentions that he discovered the original linga, however as the locals did not agree to remove the Ganesha image, he placed that linga under a tree.
Ganesha Ratha (image courtesy –
This is a two story structure. The ground floor has a cornice adorned with kudu (dormer windows/chaitya) arches, with peeping human heads except in few where we see a mini shrine. Above the cornice is a regular arrangement of oblong and square shrines, all interconnected with a cloister. The first story rises in the same fashion as of the ground floor except the mukha-mandapa. Its cornice is decorated very similar to the ground floor and this cornice is topped with the similar mini-shrine scheme. Above it rises the wagon (sala) roof of the ratha, with its two gable ends on north and south.
Gable End at East (image courtesy –
The gable end on the east side has survived with its full detail. It has a cylindrical shrine in the middle. Longhurst took this cylindrical object as a representation of a linga however Sankar Narayan is very appropriately explains that this cylindrical decoration, quoting Kamikagama, is a vrtta sphutitam, used in decoration of temple Vimana.
Ganesha Ratha (image courtesy –
The ridge of the roof is adorned with multiple stupis, nine in number. The trishula (trident) emblem present at the terminals of the wagon roof is very significant. It has a face at the base, above which rises three prongs of trishula. This motif is also present above the nasikas (kudu arches) on the sides of the roof. There is no proof required to suggest the affiliation of the ratha with Shiva, evident as per its foundation inscription. Trishula motif further substantiate the fact.
Ganesha Ratha, main entrance (image courtesy –
Inscriptions – There is only one inscription, found on a lateral wall of the mukha-mandapa. The inscription is same as the one found in Dharmaraja Mandapa. It states the name of the temple as Atyantakama-pallaveshvara-griham. We have already discussed this inscription in detail in the chapter of Dharmaraja Mandapa.
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1 Longhurst, A H. Pallava Architecture vol II. pp 28-29
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EDWARD ELGAR (1857-1934): Music for Chorus and Orchestra - Ecce sacerdos magnus, Te Deum and Benedictus, Op. 34/1-2, O Hearken Thou, Op. 64, Great is the Lord, Op. 67, Give unto the Lord, op. 74, Spanish Serenade, Op. 23, Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands, Op. 27.
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[OPE-L:2172] the political economy of call centers (2/2)
From: Gerald Levy ([email protected])
Date: Sun Jan 16 2000 - 10:57:20 EST
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(continuation, JL)
>critically. Demands for higher wages, for example, lead in Call Centers of
>banks to the introduction of wages based on performance and frequent
>performance tests. In this way a previously non-existent wage hierarchy
>was adopted.
>f) Work method and product
>What is the actual work of a Call Center-worker? Which functions and
>reponsiblilities does she/he have to take care of, in addition to the
>"official" work, in order to accomplish the job? In doing so, does she
>improve the work flow in terms of management? Which skills is she
>developing and how is capital utilizing them?
>What significance does "immaterial work" and its "product" have in this
>sense? How can value be embodied in an "immaterial" product? How can it
>absorb human labor and therefore increase capital? In factories the labor
>of thousands of workers is embodied in the product. They actually see the
>product as the result of their cooperation. How does this relation appear,
>if the "product" is information or a satisfied customer?
>This question of the work method leads us to the actual basis of worker's
>subjectivity, the question of how they see their work, their productive
>connection, their society.
>g) Worker's subjectivity
>1. Actual workplace activity
>What relation do workers have to what they do on the job? Capitalist
>management claims, on the one hand to want good quality ("labor process"),
>on the other hand it is interested mostly in quantity ("process of
>creating value"). How do workers handle this contradiction? Do they want
>to do "good work for a good product"? How do they react to the
>intensification of work?
>What do they enjoy about working? How do they deal with stress? What ist
>their opinion of the hierarchy? What means do they develop to avoid
>working? What do they think about the job or the profession? Is the
>mobility also part of their own will?
>2. Coherence amongst workers
>How do workers see the coherence between them? Capital brings together
>isolated laborers of different origin and has to make them cooperate. What
>kind of relation develops between those workers when they are forced to
>work together? What divides the workers and what brings them together? How
>do they commonly find solutions for the daily problems created by the
>divison of labor? Do they see the possibilities, within this process, of
>turning the cooperation around as a base of their own power against
>3. Society
>How do Call Center-workers relate their work to the reproduction of
>society? What sense do they see in their work and the product in
>connection with the reproduction and needs of society? What do they think
>about the "sevice ideology"? How do they perceive themselves within the
>development of society? How do they assess this development?
>This relation between the perception of the own activity as combined
>workers on one hand, and the reference to work and development on the
>level of society on the other, reveals how the "desire for communism" is
>practically expressed today.
>4. Worker's discussion and organizing
>We must capture the actual experiences of exploitation, the ongoing
>discussions, conflicts and organizing attempts, we must criticize and
>develope them further.
>h) Strikes and struggles
>What experiences of struggle do workers in Call Centers already have? What
>revolutionary tendecies lay in these conflicts? What forms of organizing
>appeared? We will, for example, investigate the conflict at Citibank in
>Ruhrgebiet, Germany, where at the end of 1998 the workers began a strike
>against the out-sourcing of a central Call Center and the resulting wage-
>reduction and deterioration of other work conditions.
>i) Worker's power and communism
>We take Call Centers in order to analyse what basis for worker's power and
>revolutionary self-organizing does exist. In discussion with workers we
>have to find out which communist tendencies actually are being hidden or
>lie behind the disgusting rhetoric of the "service- and information-
>society". How do the workers acknowledge the fact that capitalist labor is
>more and more expanding into all spheres of life? What do they think about
>the increasing proletarization and dependency on labor, at the level of
>society, that to us looks like the "service society"? Do they have ideas
>of another type of social formation that does not make us new "servants"?
>How do they assess the development of information technology which would
>allow a cooperation of workers on a new level? What does it mean that
>information can be transfered to all regions of the earth? That through
>the development of the productive forces the contribution of an individual
>worker to the creation of a product is less and less measureable and
>apparent and that, therefore, the basis of capitalism gradually
>disappears? Furthermore, do they see any chances to use the "information
>technologys" in the class struggle against its capitalist applications and
>in this way to overcome the separation of producers and production
>knowledge as the basis of (the division of) labor?
>4) Further steps and appeal
>In the near future we will organize collectively the above listed steps of
>the investigation (political discussion, analysis of information
>materials, interviews with other workers etc.). We will draw up a more
>detailed thesis which can serve as a basis for the worker's discussion and
>for the decisions about an intervention.
>We want you to take part in this debate and investigation - at best with
>direct contacts and information. This paper is an appeal to intensify the
>discussion on revolutionary organizing and to let collected material and
>experiences circulate. You will find a questionnaire attached which you
>can use in interviews with colleagues or comrades who work in Call
>Pass this paper on to other collectives, write to and/or meet us!
>Apart from German we can speak English, Polish an Turkish fluently. We are
>also able to read French, Spanish and Italian contributions.
>Nevertheless, you should write and circulate papers in English (or
>German), if possible, because otherwise we would be overburdened with
>We wish you passion and strength in the upcoming struggles!
>Kollektiv in kommunistischer Bewegung - November 1999
>C/o Archiv
>Am Frderturm 27
>46049 Oberhausen
>e-mail: [email protected]
>Questions for Call Center Workers
>This questionnaire should enable us to analyze interviews with workers
>from different Call Centers in several countries. Interviews, as part of
>revolutionary investigation, are not an interrogation of workers in order
>to collect facts. The questionnaire should be criticized and developed
>further, together with the workers. Our aim is, that the interview will
>become a discussion where we destroy the daily myths of the capitalist
>production process and criticize the development of society. The
>investigation will become part of the revolutionary process where it
>manages to put forward the argument about capitalism, class struggle and
>communism within the field of expoitation and where it becomes the
>beginning of political self-organizing itself!
>We indicated the decisive questions for the political discussion in bold,
>the supplementary ones are not.
>a) Company
>1. In which company are you working?
>2. To what sector does the company belong?
>3. To which bigger trust does the company belong?
>4. What is produced there or what kind of services are offered?
>5. What function does the Call Center have in the company?
>6. In which Call Center department are you working?
>7. What other Call Center departments are there in the company?
>8. When was the Call Center set up?
>9. Did the company get state subsidies?
>10. How many people are working altogether at the location or for the
>11. Is the Call Center out-sourced or has it just been set up?
>12. Were already existing Call Centers joined together?
>13. What has changed through that concerning work conditions?
>14. Was the same work you are doing in the Call Center done in other ways
>15. Which work routines or technologies have changed through the set up of
>the Call Center?
>*16. Why do you think does this Call Center exist?*
>17. What eyplanation does the management give about the question of why
>the Call Center exists?
>b) Region
>18. Are there many Call Centers in your region?
>19. In what sectors are they engaged?
>*20. Why are they concentrated in your region?*
>21. What do managers or politicians say about this?
>22. Is there a training scheme for Call Center agents offered in your
>23. Who is offering that?
>24. Is the state employment office or social service agency putting
>pressure on people to work in Call Centers or take part in the training
>c) Workers
>25. How many people work in the Call Center?
>26. How many are female, how many are male?
>27. How many immigrants work there?
>28. Where do they come from?
>29. How many are part-time workers, how many are full-time?
>30. Has the proportion of part-timers and full-timers changed?
>31. What various working time models exist there?
>*32. In your opinion, what kind of people start working in Call Centers?*
>*33. Why do they start working there?*
>34. Do you think people in the Call Center come from similar backgrounds
>and get along well, or do they differ from each other very much?
>d) Job or profession
>35. How long have you / the others worked there so far?
>36. Did you / the others already work in other Call Centers?
>37. Why did you / the others finish working there?
>38. What did you / the others do or where did you work before that?
>39. How did you find the Call Center-job?
>40. Why did you / the others apply for the Call Center-job?
>41. Do you / the others want to work there for a long time?
>*42. Do you want to have another job within the Call Center?* (Which one
>and why?)
>e) Qualification
>*43. What criteria did the management apply when hiring people?*
>44. What kind of job training or skill did you already have before?
>45. Does the management organize training to qualify workers?
>46. How long does this training last?
>*47. What is taught or what have you learned there?*
>*48. What do you think about the training now, where you are working?*
>*49. Did you have the necessary skills before or did you learn them "on*
>*the job", while working at the Call Center?*
>*50. Which skills does a Call Center-worker need, in your opinion?*
>f) Methods of working
>*51. When working on the telephone, which actions do you perform?*
>*52. Who is giving you direct orders?*
>53. Apart from those, who has a position superior to you?
>54. With which technical devices are you working?
>*55. Which functions do these devices have?*
>56. Can you operate the devices properly?
>57. Do you like working with the devices?
>*58. What do you like about this work in general?*
>*59. What do you dislike about it?*
>g) Cooperation
>*60. Are you working together, cooperatively, with other workers?*
>61. In what way do you cooperate?
>62. Do you have contact with other departments, branches or work sites?
>63. Are these contacts important for the work?
>64. How do you find the information you need?
>65. Are you dealing with a call on you own or are you putting them through
>to other departments as well?
>h) Problems with the organization of work
>*66. What kind of problems frequently come up concerning the organization*
>*of work?*
>67. Are there frequent failures of the technical equipment?
>*68. In the case, where there are problems, how do you deal with them?*
>69. What role does cooperation with your colleagues have in this context?
>70. What role do the managers and supervisors have?
>*71. Is it enough to follow the official work routines in order to manage*
>*the work, or do you also have to fulfil other functions as well?*
>*72. Have you been given additional work since you began?*
>*73. How did you react to that?*
>*74. In your opinion, who is organizing the work?*
>*75. Is the organization of the work sensible?*
>*76. Why not?*
>*77. Why are there managers and supervisors?*
>*78. In your opinion, why are there so many workers in one office in Call*
>i) Work intensity
>*79. How or what is determining the pace of work?*
>80. At what rhythm are you being called or are you calling up?
>81. Is the rhythm of the calls and your work speed determined by the
>telephone equipment?
>82. Is the rythm of calls leaving you time for talking to colleagues about
>other things?
>*83. What do you talk with them about?*
>*84. How do you manage to make the work easier or to have unofficial*
>*85. Do you think the job is stressful?* (What exactly is stressful about
>86. How do you feel after a working day?
>j) Control
>*87. Are you being controlled and how?*
>*88. Who is controlling you?*
>*89. Why are you being controlled?*
>90. Which criteria are being used in controlling you?
>91. What happens if you are making serious mistakes or if you are not
>following orders?
>92. Does that happen often?
>93. Are you managing to get around the controls?
>94. Does it happen that people do something wrong deliberately in order to
>have breaks or fool the supervisor?
>k) Wage
>95. How much do you earn?
>96. Does everybody earn the same?
>*97. Why not?*
>98. Is there a wage scale or are there wage groups?
>99. What criteria are used to get a pay raise?
>100. Does the wage depend on performance?
>101. Are you getting additional payments for certain working hours (at
>night, on weekends...)?
>102. How does management justify the wage differences?
>*103. What do your collegues have to say concerning wages?*
>l) Working hours
>104. What does your contract say about your working hours?
>105. Are you working overtime, special shifts, etc.?
>106. How long does it take to get to work and back home?
>107. What time does the Call Center open and close daily and how long do
>people call up?
>108. Is the Call Center open on Saturday, Sunday and public holidays?
>109. What kind of shifts exist (e.g., early shift, night shifts only)?
>110. How is the shift schedule made?
>111. Do you have a say in that matter?
>112. Are there work time accounts where you can (be forced to) accumulate
>working hours and take time off later?
>113. When do you have breaks?
>114. Do the workers have breaks together?
>115. Do you have additional breaks due to the fact that you are working in
>front of computer screens?
>116. How many days of vacation do you have?
>*117. Are you satisfied with the working hours, the shift system etc.?*
>*118. What is not satisfying to you about all that?*
>m) Unions
>119. Is there a negotiated collective agreement?
>120. Does that cover only the location, the whole company or the sector?
>121. What exactly is regulated there?
>122. Who has signed it together with management?
>123. Is there a works council (official worker representation body on the
>company level)?
>124. What is it doing?
>125. Which union is active within the Call Center?
>126. What is it doing?
>*127. What do you / the other workers think about the union and the works*
>*128. What do you expect of the union or the works council?*
>n) Services
>*129. What exactly is your service?*
>*130. Why is this service getting "produced"?*
>*131. Who has an interest in it?*
>132. What significance does friendliness, customer oriented service etc.
>*133. Do you consider your job as necessary for society?*
>*134. What does the management have to say about that?*
>*135. What do the other workers say about that?*
>o) Conflicts
>*136. While working, do you talk a lot about the problems in the Call*
>*137. What are you talking about exactly?*
>*138. Are / were there conflicts among the workers?*
>*139. What was the problem and what happened?*
>*140. Are / were there any bigger conflicts with the management?*
>*141. What happened exactly?*
>*142. Will there be (more) conflicts around the situation on the job?*
>*143. Were you already threatened with out-sourcing or closure of the*
>*Call Center?*
>*144. What do you think about this threat?*
>p) Discussion
>*145. What is the difference between work in a Call Center and work in a*
>*factory, other offices or in a hospital?*
>*146. In the future, will more people work under conditions similar to*
>*Call Centers?*
>*147. Will there still be Call Centers in a few years?*
>*148. What will change about the work conditions?*
>*149. How do you imagine work and life will be in ten or twenty years?*
>*150. Who will determine how the situation will be in ten or twenty*
>*151. What do you think about the possibility of commonly organizing for*
>*an improvement of the situation?*
>*152. With whom would you organize?*
>*153. What could you do to put through your demands?*
>*154. What do you want to put through or change?*
>q) Questionnaire
>*155. What do you think about this questionnaire?*
>*156. How can it be improved?*
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Re: Unproductive Labour and the Two Department Model
From: Phil Dunn ([email protected])
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 23:02:19 EST
>Somewhere along the way of reading your post I got lost, Phil.
>Rather than deal with the entire post, let me take a smaller bite.
>In the last section of your post, you wrote:
>> Shop workers' labour considered productive
>> A shop sells retailing services to the manufacturer. What the
>> customer pays is passed to the manufacturer, less the shop's charge for
>> the retailing service.
>Err... what kind of 'shop' are you talking about? Let's say the
>retail shop is a liquor store. In that case, the manufacturer (Jonny
>Walker) sells the output produced to wholesalers who then re-sell
>those commodities to the retail outlet -- the liquor store. The liquor
>store doesn't sell retailing services to Jonny Walker -- rather,
>it *buys* cases of whiskey from the manufacturer through (usually)
>the intermediary of the wholesaler. What the consumer then pays
>isn't passed on to Jonny Walker but is received by the retail seller.
>(NB: there is often a large mark-up in retail price by the seller
>over what was paid for the commodity to the manufacturer or the
>> is means that retailing services are part of
>> the manufacturer's costs.
>In the example I give above, I don't think they are.
>> The customer, in reality, buys from the manufacturer.
>Not really. The consumer buys from a seller which isn't
>the manufacturer.
>> Shops are in Department I.
>Huh? Now you've really lost me. If the 'shops' sell means of
>consumption, why are they in Department I?
>In solidarity, Jerry
Hi Jerry
Whose commodity capital is realised when I buy a bottle of Johnny
Walker at the liquor store?
In general this is complicated. Let me make some simplifying
assumptions to clarify the issue. First, if the shop is unable to
sell the bottle it can be returned to the manufacturer. Second, the
price is controlled by the manufacturer. Third, when the customer
pays $10, $8 is remitted immediately to the manufacturer and $2 is
the shop's sales revenue for retailing services. Under these
conditions the merchandise forms no part of the constant or the
commodity capital of the shop. It is the manufacturer's commodity
capital, $10 dollars worth, that is realised. The $2 is a cost to
the manufacturer. $2 worth of retailing services embodied labour
value has early been transferred to the product. This gives the
manufacturer a negative component of the stock of constant capital.
When the product is sold by the shop and the $10 - $2 is received by
the manufacturer, then the negative stock of constant capital falls
to zero, because the manufacturer has then paid for the retailing
Things get more complicated when these assumptions are dropped. For
instance, if the shop had to pay $8 for the bottle of whiskey before
it was sold, then the shop would have a component of constant capital
of $10 per bottle combined with commodity capital at -$2 per bottle.
This happens because $10 worth of constant capital has been acquired
for $8. Normally, commodity capital goes positive when revenue is
recognised in advance of getting the cash. Here the opposite
happens. The cash, in a weird sense, comes in before revenue is
recognised, making commodity capital go negative. When the bottle is
finally sold for $10 the constant capital is zeroed and $2 of revenue
is recognised, zeroing the commodity capital. To the extent that
this happens the manufacturer is pushed back into Dept I and the shop
is in Dept. II. Say it is 90% in Dept. II and 10% in Dept. I. If
the opposite happens and the bottle is sold before it is paid for,
then the manufacturer will be, say, 110% in Dept. II and -10% in
Dept. I.
This does push accruals based accounting much further than most
accountants would countenance.
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A game of life and death
Bones is a party game with simple game play and lots of changing dynamics.
You play a grim reaper, and collect lost souls by helping them find the things that make them happy, but beware the villainous bone dog!
Choose a character to be your reaper, then collect and lay down your stash of happiness items and use them to entice other souls into your possession. Souls also have special abilities that you can take advantage of to give yourself bonuses or mess up your opponents!
Be the first to gather enough souls and you win!
2-5 players
20 – 45 minutes
This deck contains:
• 30 soul cards
• 20 item cards
• 2 special cards
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Among the various tools that I've used, the ones that I've been most comfortable with using, and found the most flexible, are monadic-parser-combinator libraries for functional programming languages such as Parsec and the DCG(Declarative Clause Grammar) style parsers of prolog.
Parsec and friends are really great general tools, but from a readability and writability perspective, I actually prefer DCGs. I'd recommend them wholeheartedly if it weren't for a few basic problems that render them much less usable in practice, than as a toy.
What do these DCG's look like and how would they compare to a parser combinator approach? Well let's see a parser in the wild written as a DCG.
digit("0") --> "0".
digit("1") --> "1".
digit("2") --> "2".
digit("3") --> "3".
digit("4") --> "4".
digit("5") --> "5".
digit("6") --> "6".
digit("7") --> "7".
digit("8") --> "8".
digit("9") --> "9".
DCG's are written as productions. In the case above for example, you succeed as a digit, if you're able to do one of the things to the right of the arrow of one of the 'digit(X)' clauses. There are 10 clauses, one for each of the base 10 number system we are familiar with. In actual usage, one will apply this predicate to an input stream as:
phrase(digit(X), ['0']).
In which case the unbound X would be bound to '0' as the successful digit would be when it was able to consume a '0' from the input list (which here has only one character). In this way we can not only consume the input string in ways that depend on the productions, but we can build up auxiliary structures as we match the stream on our way through, perhaps building up an AST if we are parsing a programming language, or a structured record which will inform of us of a request in the case of an API call.
oneDigitNatural(N) --> digit(A), { number_string(N,A) }.
twoDigitNatural(N) --> digit(A), digit(B), { string_concat(A,B,C), number_string(N,C) } .
threeDigitNatural(N) --> digit(A), digit(B), digit(C),
{ string_concat(A,B,I), string_concat(I,C,D), number_string(N,D) } .
fourDigitNatural(N) --> digit(A), digit(B), digit(C), digit(D),
{ string_concat(A,B,S1), string_concat(S1,C,S2),
string_concat(S2,D,S3), number_string(N,S3) } .
digits(S) --> digit(S) .
digits(T) --> digit(X), digits(S),
{ string_concat(X, S, T) } .
natural(N) --> digits(S),
{ number_string(N,S) }.
And we don't have to stop with simply recognising as we go along as with regexps. We can structure these productions recursively as we see here with 'digits(X)', which accepts either a digit, or a digit followed by another digit, and then, using the '{','}' characters, breaks from our DCG DSL into standard prolog where it concatenates the input characters to a string.
The external interface is the 'natural(X)' predicate which simply takes these digits and converts them into the internal prolog representation of numbers, and binds the argument of the predicate to that number. This enables us to consume a list of numeric characters, and return an integer.
So what's wrong with DCGs and why aren't they more widely used?
The first problem is that they are only a thin syntactic veneer on prolog, and are not designed to carry around the kind of information that is often needed while parsing in practice. The monad we get is the list monad as that's what comes out of the box with prolog. It is more than just a simple monad, as you get disjunction, and sometimes this is called monad-plus. But you don't carry around the character number and line number of failure or the potential cause of failure. Instead failure to parse is simply silent failure with no explanation as to why. It's simply too anemic in its reporting to use as, for instance, a parser for a programming language.
This means that you end up writing your own parsing library in prolog, and it ends up feeling a lot like implementing one anywhere else. Not a great state of affairs and less useful than our slightly more awkward parser combinator libraries. In prolog got the easy stuff easily, but the hard stuff become nearly impossible. whereas with Parsec, everything is a bit more ugly, but we get what we need in practice.
DCG's in prolog are also written for traversing difference lists. It doesn't seems necessary or sensible to convert all strings to lists of characters in order to parse them. I've often wondered why, given that we can assume parsing operations on strings can not mutate the string, we don't merely keep track of the current character in a shared string buffer.
The relational approach to programming which prolog makes available enticingly dangles in front of us the possibility of reversability, only to steal it away from us again. Productions should not only give us a way to parse an input stream, but they should also be generative. They should be able to give us streams that are possible to parse. This would mean we could get a pretty printer from the same code that we use to parse!
Unfortunately two things intervene to spoil the fun. One is that prolog clauses can not be reordered, but are merely run in the order textually presented. This means that running predicates "backwards" often simply does not work. This is exacerbated by the lack of attention to mode information.
The second problem, is that with recursion in prolog, we have to be very careful that we order things such that we get terminating solutions. It's quite possible to run things backwards only to find the stream we are building is infinitely large. Think for instance of running the regex 'a*' backwards as a generator. Which stream do we give first? Hopefully not the one with infinite number of 'a' characters!
Lastly, in our DCGs we may also have a lot of statically provided information that is not exploited to remove dead branches and optimise our parser. This is a very common scenario in practice and it would be a shame if we could not exploit it to make our parsers perform well.
What does my utopia look like?
How could we solve these problems? Unfortunately I don't have complete answers to this, but I've some vague notions that I'd like to put down in order to attempt greater clarity.
The first problem as I see it, is that we want DSLs that allow us to obtain various forms of non-determinism with a syntax which is not too painful. Unfortunately prolog succeeds on the front of being nice syntactically but unable to give us anything easily other than the list monad. Parsec et al. give us an only slightly less nice syntax, but more flexible success / failure. Unfortunately it also suffers from not having Prologs friendly unification and it likewise can not be reordered or run backwards as a generator.
What we need is a new DSL which allows us to effeciently read streams, specify reversible parsing which can be both optimised and reordered in as declarative a fashion as possible, while retaining information about how the causes of failure. Is such a thing possible?
Stay tuned for the following blog-post where I'll talk about how we might do this.
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Brahma Sutras – According to Shankara 3-2-2
Topic 2 - The soul in dreamless sleep
Now the state of deep sleep or Suṣupti is taken up for discussion.
Sutra 3,2.7
तदभावो नाडीषु, तच्छ्रुतेः, आत्मनि च ॥ ७ ॥
tadabhāvo nāḍīṣu, tacchruteḥ, ātmani ca || 7 ||
tat-abhāvaḥ—Absence of that (dreaming), in other words Suṣupti; nāḍīṣu—in the nerves; ātmani ca—and in the self; tat-śruteḥ—as it is known from the Śruti;
7. The absence of that (dreaming, i.e. dreamless sleep takes place) in the nerves and in the Self, as it is known from the Śruti.
In different texts Suṣupti (deep sleep) is said to take place under different conditions.
And when a man is asleep . . . so that he sees no dreams, then he has entered into those nerves (Nāḍis)” (Chh. 8 . 6 . 3); “
Through them he moves forth and rests in the pericardium, i.e. in the region of the heart” (Brih. 2. 1. 19);
When this being full of consciousness is asleep . . . lies in the ether i.e. the real Self which is in the heart” (Brih. 2.1.17).
Now the question arises whether Suṣupti takes place in any one of these places, i.e. whether these are to be taken as alternatives, or whether they are to be taken as standing in mutual relation so as to refer to one place only.
The opponent holds that as all the words standing for the places enumerated are in the same case, i.e. the locative case, in the texts, they are co-ordinate and therefore alternatives.
If mutual relation was meant, then different case-endings would be used by the Śruti.
This Sutra says that they are to be taken as standing in mutual relation denoting the same place.
There is no alternative here, for by allowing option between two Vedic statements we lessen the authority of the Veda, since the adoption of either alternative sublates for the time being the authority of the other alternative.
Moreover, the same case is used where things serve different purposes and have to be combined, as, for example, when we say, “He sleeps in the palace, he sleeps on a couch,” where we have to combine the two locatives into one as “He sleeps on a couch in the palace.”
Similarly here the different texts have to be combined, meaning that the soul goes through the nerves to the region of the heart and there rests in Brahman.
It may be questioned why, then, in deep sleep we do not experience the relation of supporter and that which is supported with respect to Brahman and the Jīva.
It is because the individual soul covered with ignorance is lost in Brahman even as a pot of water in a lake and so has no separate existence:
He becomes united with the True, he is gone to his own (Self)” (Chh. 6. 8. 1),
Moreover, in the following text the three places are mentioned together, “In these the person is when sleeping he sees no dreams. Then he becomes one with the Prāṇa (Brahman) alone” (Kau. 4, 20).
Hence Brahman is the soul’s place of rest in deep sleep.
Sutra 3,2.8
अतः प्रबोधोऽस्मात् ॥ ८ ॥
ataḥ prabodho’smāt || 8 ||
ataḥ—Hence; prabodhaḥ—awakening; asmāt—from this.
8. Hence the awakening from this (i.e. Brahman).
In the same manner, my son, all these creatures, when they have come back from the True, know not that they have come back from the True” (Chh. 6. 10 . 2).
In this text the Śruti states that when the Jīva returns after deep sleep to the waking state, it returns from the True or Brahman, thereby showing that in Suṣupti Jīva is merged in Brahman and not in the nerves Hitā etc.
But as it is covered by ignorance it does not realize its identity with Brahman in Suṣupti.
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Monday, 27 September 2004
Sometimes the easiest scenes are the hardest...
Sometimes the easiest scenes are the hardest scenes to write.
Take the closing scene in chapter 11, for example. It's not posted publicly yet, so I'll avoid actual story details; but for now suffice it to say that it's a fairly pivotal moment in the SM4200 storyline, one that I've been building toward for some time. Going in, I had a bundle of notes on the scene, but more importantly it was long ago played out in my head, repeatedly. I knew exactly what was going to happen.
Naturally, it didn't work out that way.
There were little things. The scene in my mind took place in late twilight, but when I came to write it, other story details meant that it had to happen in the morning. But that's trivial stuff. More importantly, when I came to actually write it, I had to look at it in much more logical detail than I'd ever done before. And the scene in my head just didn't work right.
There were details like: dammit, just how is the Olympus building laid out? Suddenly it became important. I spent two or three days coming up with a floor chart. At least I know how it all fits together now. (But it turns out that Itsuko's office isn't at the back of the building, the way I've had it in early chapters. Sorry; I'll do the necessary revisions.)
In the end, it came out...fairly similar to the way I'd originally pictured it. Working a bit better. And full of details I'd never pictured.
That's nothing compared to the opening of chapter 12, though. I have a lot of notes for that, too; but as I was pounding merrily away, it suddenly occurred to me: if the characters do something perfectly logical which they have good reason to do, all my carefully-plotted scenes go to hell in a handbasket. As it were.
So, I'm on my third rewrite of the opening of chapter 12. The good news is that this time I think it's working...
[Current progress report: 2776 words, and counting.]
Pre-reader progress report for chapter 11: I've had 4 responses so far, of 13 pre-read requests I sent out. Two of these were actual commentary; two were promises to comment later. That's fine; a 215K chapter takes time to review, I know. (Chapter 9 took two or three months to finish pre-reading, mostly due to one particular pre-reader; but boy, was the chapter improved when it was done.) But I do seem to have lost a lot more names than I'd hoped.
Sunday, 19 September 2004
Pre-readers ... *mumble*mutter*gripe*
Chapter 11 is off to the pre-readers. Updated draft is 36,892 words. And…sigh.
I sent it to 13 addresses. (Didn't think anything of it at the time.) These were the people who gave me useful commentary back last time. And so far, I've had four "bounces". Dammit, can't anyone keep an email address for a respectable length of time any more...?
So, I've lost Steve "Komodo" T, LaShawn Wanak, Marcus Fong, and Ran-neko. If anyone out there happens to have current email addresses for them, I'd like to hear from you ...
By the way. Chapter 12 now stands at 1,271 words. :)
Saturday, 18 September 2004
And ... it's done
Chapter 11 was completed about half an hour ago.
The first draft weighs in at 36,822 words, or about 208K.
I'll give it another read-over today or tomorrow, and then it's off to the pre-readers ...
Monday, 13 September 2004
Historic Note
The Disguise Pen
The Lunar Disguise Pen vanished in 3166, under highly suspicious circumstances, and was never seen again. The Senshi later suspected that Serenity and Endymion had been using it to play some kind of adult game, one that had gone embarassingly wrong; but Serenity refused point-blank to discuss it.
As Ami commented, somewhat wistfully, "It must have been some game."
Wednesday, 8 September 2004
Not so finished
Did I say the combat sequence was finished?
* hollow laugh *
When I looked at it again the next day I was amazed at how bad it was. Spent the last week or so wrestling with it, trying to solve the problems. It's better now, though still not perfect. In the meatime I'm pressing onward with the following scenes while I think it over some more.
31391 words now. I wrote a fair bit late last night and deleted it all today. Not even worth saving for the omake file.
Little by little, I progress...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
The Ever Expanding Dungeon: Session 19
Since feedback has shown me that people seem to find it helpful when I describe how I get to where I do, I thought I'd post a session "in the raw."
These are my notes, unaltered from my game today at lunch. I'll probably also post a write up in the more usual format, but, as you'll see, I already keep my notes in a way that anticipates the narrative. It's how I immerse myself in the game as a PC, and sometimes the Labyrinth Lord when I make judgement calls, rather than solely an arbiter of dice rolls.
Without further ado:
After resting, the party re-hired Waldu and decided to trek back into the dungeon.
This time, they would attempt to explore an area West of the Kobold’s territory.
MYTHIC: Does anything happen on the way to the Dungeon? 50/50. NO.
MYTHIC: Anything in Room 1? 50/50 25. Yes, 1-6 Skeletons
As the party descended into the original entrance way, they were greeted by 4 skeletons armed with swords, standing in 2 groups of 2. One group to the east and one to the west. As happens in these situations, they animated to attack.
Skeletons (1 HD, AC 7)
Check for surprise for the party? 3, at least that goes in my favor.
Dleggit and Perceval will move out of the way to attack one on each side Waldu and Manchiever will shield the mule.
Sister Linkat will attempt to turn them all
Initiative: Party: 3, Skeletons 5
The only targets at this point are Dleggit and Perceval.
The first attacks Dleggit - 17, miss!
The second attacks Perceval - 9 miss
The third attacks Dleggit - 3 miss
The fourth attacks Perceval - 2 miss
Can Dleggit and Perceval move as planned? Unlikely. The skeletons are probably in the way.40. No.
They’ll just attack then
Dleggit - 5+2=7, miss
Perceval - 3+2 = 5 = miss
Sister Linkat moves up past Waldu and Manchiver -
MYTHIC can she get past? 50/50 No. The steps are too crowded.
Round 2
Initiative: Party 3, Skeletons 5
The first attacks Dleggit -3, missThe second attacks Perceval - 9, miss
The third attacks Dleggit - 5, miss
The fourth attacks Perceval - 17, hits! 1d6 damage for 1 HP of damage
MYTHIC Is sister linkat able to make it to the 2nd rank? 50/50 39. yes.
Dleggit - 18+2, 20, hit.4 + 2 = 6, roll 1d8 for 1HD, 1, He shatters the first skeleton to dust
Perceval - 7 + 2 =9, nope.
Sister Linkat calls upon the Hedonistic Lumberjack
she is successful and turns 9 HD worth, the remaining skeletons flee out the door in the north wall.
The party gathers themselves up - it’s rather curious that the skeletons were here. Who placed them? Sister Linkat is concerned - ghouls and now skeletons.
Check for wandering monsters drawn to the commotion? 6, none
MYTHIC Anything in room 3? 50/50 34, yes. I decide i want to check the story cubes - i roll 3 from the original set and get a fountain, a snoring person and something i can not possibly identify. I decide that the door has been trapped (and it springs) a cloud of gas onto the party - save vs. poison or sleep for 1d6 turns.
Roll for everyone:
Perceval - 3 drops into a heap
Dleggit - 12 saves - a hearty dwarf is he
Sister L.- 20, saves by the blessings of the Hedonistic Lumberjack
Manchiver - 12 drops in a heap
Waldu - 12 drops in a heap
The mule -19 is unphased
MYTHIC Is the mule startled by its handler dropping to the floor? Somewhat likely (i figure he’s seen a lot already, and not cared) 91, no
Sister Linkat quickly notes that this isn’t a good place to be waiting for them to wake up - they can try, but if not successful, they will need to load the bodies on the mule, carry who can’t fit, and either exit or retreat to the secret room off of the main room.
The each try to wake up the others - 1 saving throw each
Perceval - 10, still out cold
Manchiver - 15, he wakes up, groggy but OK
waldu - 10, still asleep
They load Perceval and Waldu onto the mule and return to room 1
they opt to go outside in hopes the fresh air helps.
Wandering monster check : 1. Crap.
As they make their way up the steps, there’s is a snarl from (1-3 in front, 4-6 behind, 3), a ghoul, waiting in the shadowy stairwell lunges at them. They are not surprised at least.
Sister LInkat will attempt to turn
Dleggit whill try to smash it
Manchiver will hurl a dart at it over Dleggit’s head
Party 1, ghoul 3
the ghoul attacks (1-3 Dleggit, 4-6 Sister Linkat) Dleggit
5 17 16 - hits 2x for 3 points of damage
Save vs paralysis 9,fails
Dleggit drops to the ground - his eyes frozen in a steely stare and his jaw an angry grimace
Manchiver throws his dart19, hits: 1 pt
Sister Linkat calls down the powers of the Hedonistic Lumberjack again
9 success! she turns 7 HD
The ghoul is forced to retreat up the steps into the light of day. It’s growls and snarls fade as it melts into the forest outside.
Waldu stirs and is awakened
He helps drag Dleggit out.
The party finds a rocky out crop that offers a good bit of security and sets up a temporary station there as they wait for Dleggit and Perceval to wake up.
The session lasted about 45 minutes. I'm not going to dole out XP for this session since they haven't returned to town.
1. It is good to see some of the game mechanics. Seems like your notes are not too dissimilar to mine. I do tend to use a lot of abbreviations when I take game notes and my notes aren't very standardized, so the raw notes might be less comprehensible to others.
Sometimes a tactical retreat is a wise move, eh?
1. In the beginning (that sounds ominous, doesn't it?) I tried a number of methods for tracking my notes - including various custom made record sheets - until i ultimately decided that just typing out everything as completely as I could made the most sense for me. I still am searching for a better way to track die rolls.
I don't know how a PC in an old-school game could possibly survive without the tactical retreat!
2. "When the Dwarf is down, get out of the ground" is their motto, right?
-- Jeff
1. It pretty much has to be.
He and Perceval are the only two fighters in the lot!
Without one, they need to turn around. Without both and they need to start running for the exit.
3. AnonymousJune 06, 2013
Just wanted to say that I really like this format. It helps to see where you're making decisions and how they're being made.
For determining which monsters you encounter are you rolling on the "standard" wandering monster tables from LL or are you using NPC lists like in Mythic? I could see switching between NPC lists and wandering monster tables giving some consistency to a dungeon, and your encounters seem to be fairly consistent so I wasn't sure what you used.
Also, do you use Threads from Mythic? I could see the "lots of ghouls and now skeletons" being a thread is why I ask...
Really enjoying these posts.
1. Hi Jeremiah Bullfrog,
Thanks for the comment and glad you're enjoying the posts!
For wandering encounters, most of the time, I use the D30 DM Companion from New Big Dragon. I actually bought a d30 just so I could use this book. You can preview the entire thing on Lulu to see if it's something worth your time.
I do also sometimes create my own lists depending on the situation.
For instance, in the goblin held section of the dungeon, i have a short list of what's likely to be encountered - a mix of vermin, goblins, dire wolves, and bugbears. Other humanoids are rarely encountered just wandering around there without an escort. After all, there are bugbear guards generally prohibiting access into the lair.
I also create my own list if I know it's an encounter in a room in which the party has previously encountered a humanoid group before. It's possible it's not their lair, but it's possible that others may be in the area now and I create lists that account for that.
Next time, I'll add references to which source and what I rolled. It's not difficult to add, and as I'm curious to how random the d30 really is, it might reveal something interesting about that as well.
I have not been tracking NPCs or using threads in the dungeon as Mythic use would typically dictate, but I'm moving to that as I now have some idea about the dungeon's politics gleaned a few sessions ago. Plus I know about the "mad king" and the evil priest on the 1st level, and the wizard on level 3, all of whom I'd like to know more about.
And yes, I've been thinking I'd like to see this undead situation turn into a full blown thread again (the first time it was just some rampaging ghouls via Solo Nexus's 9Qs). It's quite likely that the evil priest has something to do with it, but only Mythic knows until I roll for it.
2. Thanks a ton for your reply! I've been meaning to start my own "Ever Expanding Dungeon" and this kind of info helps a lot.
Situational lists sound like a great idea, they sound similar to a "localized" Thread/NPC list, which makes sense. I've been toying with the idea of "possible inhabitant" lists for areas, the list being based on any tags that are present in a given area. Rolling on an inhabitant list should give the possibility of needing to roll on another (neighboring) list. Maybe I'm thinking about this too much though and should just keep it simple. You've stirred the pot though, thanks.
I've seen you mention the d30 Companion before but forgot about it: will have to check it out.
Thanks again.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
good night, sweet fools
The Fool HAS returned to the chair. So to speak. Many thanks to all of the brave audience members who risked squirting blood and flying crates to join us. Much love to all the fools. You know who you are.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Bam Bam Bam
I broke my ankle the other day will participating in improvised african dance.
the picture here shows a new modification i have made to the standard idea of the telephone.
tesla was so much cooler than eddison. who did eddison think he was ?
Monday, October 01, 2007
Pics from Saturday 09.29.07
Two more weeks to see all this, people. Get on it!
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Sunday, 18 September 2011
Hypermiling for Beginners
In an effort to try and reduce the number of times I have to pay 140+p/L to run the golden beast that is Jools the Peugeot, I've been reading about hypermiling. This is where you make a conscious effort to maximise your fuel economy using various techniques. An added bonus is that by saving fuel you're cutting emissions and benefiting the environment!
I must admit that I've not fully embraced all hypermiling techniques; turning off your engine to coast downhill and “drafting” (driving close behind a lorry to reduce air resistance on your car) seem too extreme for me. Some of the methods make a lot of sense when you think about them though:
Don't speed – The Energy Saving Trust stated that 55-65mph is the most efficient speed for any car, with fuel savings of up to 40% when compared to speeds above 70mph. Make sure you stick to the speed limit on dual carriageways/motorways! (And any other roads!)
Idling – Don't leave your car running whilst you wait for it to heat up or waiting for someone to nip into a shop. If you're stopped for more than a minute you'll be wasting fuel.
Maintenance is key – Ensure your engine is kept running smoothly. Use the thinnest recommended oil for your car to reduce friction. Regular services are also recommended and I might just keep this up on my car.
Feeling hot? – Air conditioning in cars can increase fuel usage by 10%. Winding the windows down apparently doesn't have too much of an effect below 40mph, but it will increase drag significantly on the motorway.
Lose weight – My parents keep all sorts of junk in their car. Don't use your boot as a storage unit!
Full tank of fuel? - Similarly to the point above, a full tank of fuel has been shown to be heavy enough to reduce fuel economy.
Tyre pressure – Ensure your tyres are kept at the correct pressure. Deflated tyres will increase drag.
Anticipate the road – Braking and rapid acceleration really reduce fuel efficiency. Rather than driving right behind someone in a queue of traffic, leave yourself a bigger gap and slowly trundle your car along. Don't tear away from traffic lights either! This also makes you a safer road user as you will plan how to adapt to the conditions ahead.
The fuel consumption of my 1.9L diesel engine has been the same as the 1L petrol engine in my old Nissan Micra. Whilst the different fuel probably helped, I believe that my new larger engine would've been more expensive (and polluting) to run without my new frugal driving methods.
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Quranic Inspiration 131
Quranic Inspiration 131
Chapter 17 Al-Isrā’ : Verse 31
Explanatory Notes:
Prohibition of killing Children
(And kill not your children for fear of poverty.) meaning, lest they may make you poor in the future. This is why Allah mentions the children’s provision first:
(We shall provide for them as well as for you.) In Surat Al-An`am, Allah says:
(kill not your children because of poverty.) (6:151)
(We provide sustenance for you and for them) (6:151) and,
(Surely, the killing of them is a great sin.) means, a major sin. In Two Sahihs it is recorded that `Abdullah bin Mas`ud said: “I said, `O Messenger of Allah, which sin is the worst’ He said,
(To appoint rivals of Allah when He has created you.) I asked, `Then what’ He said, (To kill your child lest he should eat with you.) I asked, `Then what’ He said, (To commit adultery with your neighbor’s wife.)”
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Fashion & Grooming
On taking care of your fingernails
If you happen to be a guy who’s never given your fingernails a second thought, you’re probably not alone. Many men think it’s really emasculating to take care of their nails. They may be right in their own perspectives, but let me tell you this, there’s a good chance that the many people who have dealt with you frequently, have definitely taken note of your nasty, gnarly nails. If you glanced down at your paws with a pinch of guilt, checkout the few simple guidelines listed below.
Words: Samyukta Dawadi
Clean your nails
You may be clean and you may smell nice, but if you have the crud-filled nails, all your efforts are for naught. Your nails don’t need to be buffed or French manicured all they require is to be clean. Start by doing the thing you have been doing all your life, but just more frequently – wash your hands. Use a lot of soap and warm water, and do the best you can to clean any dirt from under your nails. Men’s nails are thicker and denser than women’s nails, and washing them will help soften them a bit before you dig into clipping them.
Use Clippers for Nail Care
Next, use a large nail clipper with a file to remove any remaining dirt or debris from under your nails. Be careful not to scrape the sensitive skin underneath them too hard, and likewise be careful not to carve up the underside of the nail either. Next, use the clippers to cut your nails short, so that they’re a couple of millimetres below the end of your fingertips. Be sure to round out the top of the nail as best you can, so as not to leave them prone to snagging or breaking. How short you go is clearly a personal preference.
Care for Cuticles under Nails
Your cuticle is the thin ridge at the base of your nail that’s there to protect the nail matrix, where new nail cells are generated. The only thing you need to do with your cuticles, is don’t cut them. To most guys, the idea of cutting your cuticles has probably never crossed your mind, so then, just carry on. Finally, use your clippers to remove any hangnails or other dead skin, which can tear and lead to bigger hangnails if left unattended. And, while the task might be a little gruesome the first time around, you should take a pass at your toenails, too.
How to avoid biting nails?
This might not apply to everyone, but there are a lot of people who have the habit of biting their nails. It’s a nasty habit and people should stop. It is found that men have a tendency to chop their nails off, with their teeth, more than the females. And if you have the same habit and want to get rid of it, follow the instruction given below.
1. Trim your nails. Clip your nails short enough so you will not be able to bite them. While trimming your nails, make sure you trim them even.
2. Dip the tips of your nails in vinegar. You can also dip the tips in pepper. The bitter or hot taste will deter you from biting your nails.
3. Chew gum or suck on mints whenever you have the urge to bite your nails. Keeping your mouth busy will make you less likely to want to chew on your nails.
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Culilary Matters in Vietnam
Vietnam is one of those countries that has all the recipes that are bound to disconcert most Europeans. However, most of these specialties are expensive luxuries which you are hardly likely to eat by accident. A Western foreigner undoubtedly requires some courage to eat grilled dog, roast cat, mouse, snake or silk caterpillars, but when these dishes are skilfully cooked they really are something special.
Medicinal or aphrodisiac qualities are attributed to many of these specialities. This has led to the development of veritable gastronomic rituals. The most exciting is probably the snake meal. The still beating heart is swallowed, as is the blood, with rice liquor. Subsequently the snake is elaborately cooked and eaten. The more poisonous the snake, the more beneficial to your health and the more expensive it is. You can also stick to taking snake medicine or - highly recommended - drinking snake liquor. If these specialities do not appeal to you, you can content yourself with everyday Vietnamese food; you won't be disappointed.
In Vietnam there is never any need to search long for something to eat, the streets are lined with all sorts of restaurants and hot-food stalls. The large cities now offer practically everything. You can choose between foreign and Vietnamese food, expensive and cheap restaurants, between modern, air-conditioned rooms and little stalls at the side of the street consisting of nothing but a table and a coal stove.
The restaurants and street stalls are full at virtually all times of the day. City-dwellers have breakfast on the street, enjoying soup or sticky rice with egg. At midday, people eat 'people's rice' or 'dust rice', as they call the food sold by the cheap stalls on the street corner. In the evening it is common to meet up with friends and acquaintances. Even if you don't go for a meal, then at least you will have a drink together. The young men sit in Bia Hoi (beer gardens), the girls at the Che stands sipping at a dessert-like drink made of dried fruit, coconut cream or sweetened bean paste.
By contrast, the choice is rather limited in the countryside, although the Vietnamese culinary trademarks - pho (noodle soup) and nem (spring rolls) - are available everywhere.
For a long time there was little to eat in Vietnam, and meat was a rarity. So it is not surprising that meat dishes are now extremely popular. Vegetables are for the poor. Thus, if you are a guest, you must be given only the best, which usually means the meat with the most fat. If as a foreigner you go out to dinner and order vegetables, you are likely to be regarded as stingy. For if you are a foreigner you must be rich, and rich people don't eat vegetables if they can avoid it, surely?
And don't be worried about formalities when eating. Vietnam isn't Japan. As long as you don't stick the chopsticks vertically into the rice (a deadly omen, for the ancestors are offered incense sticks in this way), almost anything goes!
In a Vietnamese house, you sit on the floor or on the large family bed. If you are celebrating - and visitors are always a cause for celebration in Vietnam -several meat dishes, fish and river creatures, soup, salad and fruit will be prepared. Each person helps him- or herself with chopsticks and eats from a separate little bowl.
Rice or rice noodles are only served after the meal, just to fill you up. Each dish is based on the famous - or notorious - fish sauce(nuoc mam). If this is not strong enough for you, you should try the crab paste, mam tom, mam tep, which can be smelled for miles.
And don't forget: meals are never dry. You are always offered beer and rice liquor, either pure or flavoured with herbs. And not only the men drink. The women also often enjoy a few glasses of herb liquor, with the reassuring excuse that it is healthy. In Vietnamese it is therefore called ruou thuoc (medicine wine). Beer has recently become the second national beverage next to rice wine. Foreign beers like Heineken, Carlsberg, Tiger or Henniger are available, but the home-grown beers like 333 or Bia Hanoi are also popular and of good quality. Coca Cola has managed to conquer the Vietnamese market too, although it hasn't yet quite displaced the wonderful fruit drinks like coconut milk.
And when you can no longer eat or drink any more, there is green tea.
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Cancer Facts
Cancer Facts Cancer Horoscope – in detail Ruling Planet: Moon Cancer Traits: The Crab is known to be very unpredictable, indecisive, temperamental, and insecure. They profoundly fear rejection by their loved ones and are prone to get hurt easily. The otherwise tenacious, loyal, sympathetic and strong Crabs are vulnerable in […]
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SCORPIO + ARIES (March 21 – April 19) Aries’ ruler, passionate Mars, also wields minor command over Scorpio (whose main overlord is Pluto). Fierce physical attraction draws your signs together, but it’s a game of sexual gunpowder and erotic explosives. Not that either of you is afraid of such things. […]
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Soccer Bowl Article
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NASL Championship
NASL Trophy 2011-present.png
NASL Soccer Bowl Trophy (est. 2011)
Organising body North American Soccer League
FoundedOriginal: 1967
Modern: 2011
AbolishedOriginal: 1984
Last champions San Francisco Deltas
Most successful club(s)Original: Cosmos (5)
Modern: Cosmos (3)
Website Official website
NASL Championship 2017
The NASL Championship is the annual championship competition of the North American Soccer League. There, the two top teams face off in the final to determine the winner of the NASL Trophy, known as the Soccer Bowl Trophy. [1] From 1975 through 1983, and again in 2013, the championship game itself was also known as the Soccer Bowl.
After the 1966 World Cup was successfully televised in the United States, two new leagues were formed. [2] With international and national sanctioning from FIFA, the CFSA and USSFA, the United Soccer Association was created by a consortium known as the North American Soccer League. The second, independent league, enacted without sanction, was the National Professional Soccer League. By the following year, the two leagues merged and created the original North American Soccer League. Between 1968 and 1974 the championship game, or series (on three occasions), was titled the NASL Final, and no title match was held in 1969. From 1975 to 1984 it became the Soccer Bowl. The winner of the NASL Finals received the NASL trophy. During the Soccer Bowl years the trophy was interchangeably regarded by association as the Soccer Bowl trophy, though the official title remained the same.
The concept for the Soccer Bowl began in 1975 by then NASL Commissioner Phil Woosnam, who was trying to build a neutral-site championship event in the mold of the NFL's Super Bowl. Unlike the Super Bowl, the annual numbering scheme of the match did not use Roman numerals (e.g., Super Bowl XXI) but instead used the last two digits of the year played (e.g., Soccer Bowl '78). The original NASL's last Soccer Bowl took place in early October 1984 in a best-of-three series, as the league ceased operation in 1985. [3] [4]
With the formation of the new North American Soccer League in 2009 and their commencement of play in 2011, the Soccer Bowl name was used as the name of both the championship match and championship trophy of the new league. The 2011 and 2012 titles were decided in a two-game aggregate finish. Since 2013 the championship has been a single-game final. For the 2014 season, a new format was introduced, called the NASL Championship, with the final game being called the NASL Championship Final and the trophy the Soccer Bowl trophy. [1]
NASL Championship / Soccer Bowl (1967–1984)
Among the championship matches, there have been different formats used, mostly influenced by the original two leagues. The 1967 NPSL Final, and the 1968 and 1970 NASL Finals were contested by two-game aggregate goals. After 1971, the initial parameters by the United Soccer Association were used. The 1967 USA Final, and the 1972 through 1983 NASL Finals were all single-games. There was no 1969 NASL Final match contested. Instead, as in many leagues in Europe, the championship was awarded to the league winner; the team with the most points at season's end. The 1971 and 1984 NASL Finals were played in a best-of-three series.
Sources: [5] [6] [7] [8]
NASL Championship (1967–1984)
Event Game Venue Location Champions [9] Score [9] Runners-up [9] Attendance Television MVP Notes
United Soccer Association Final 1967
( USA Final 1967)
July 14
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles Los Angeles Wolves 6–5
( OT)
Washington Whips 17,842 CBS Teams tied 4–4 at end of regulation. Both scored in extra time. After 120 min. match moved to golden goal time. Wolves win on an OG.
National Professional Soccer League Final 1967
( NPSL Final 1967)
September 3, 9
Memorial Stadium
Oakland-Alameda Coliseum
Oakland, California
Oakland Clippers 0–1
Baltimore Bays 16,619
CBS Two-game aggregate goals series.
NASL Final 1968
( NASL Final 1968)
September 21, 28
Balboa Stadium
Atlanta Stadium
San Diego
Atlanta Chiefs 0–0
San Diego Toros 9,360
CBS Two-game aggregate goals series.
NASL Final
(no match)
( NASL Final 1969)
n/a n/a Kansas City Spurs n/a Atlanta Chiefs n/a n/a n/a Championship awarded to team with the most points at the end of the season
NASL Final 1970
( NASL Final 1970)
September 2, 13
Aquinas Memorial Stadium
Brookland Stadium
Rochester, New York
Washington, D.C.
Rochester Lancers 3–0
Washington Darts 9,321
Two-match aggregate goals series.
NASL Final 1971
( NASL Final 1971)
September 12, 15, 19
Atlanta Stadium
(G1, G3)
Franklin Stadium
(G1, G3)
Dallas, Texas
Dallas Tornado [10] 1–2
( OT)
Atlanta Chiefs (G1): 3,218
(G2): 6,456
(G3): 4,687
Best two out of three wins
NASL Final 1972
( NASL Final 1972)
August 26
Hofstra Stadium Hempstead, New York New York Cosmos 2–1 St. Louis Stars 6,102 Josef Jelínek converts game winning penalty kick in the 86th min.
NASL Final 1973
( NASL Final 1973)
August 25
Texas Stadium Irving, Texas Philadelphia Atoms 2–0 Dallas Tornado 18,824 Dallas concedes an OG in 66 min. Bill Straub scores in 85 min. to secure win.
NASL Final 1974
( NASL Final 1974)
August 25
Orange Bowl Miami, Florida Los Angeles Aztecs 4–3
Miami Toros 15,507 CBS Match went directly to penalties after 90 min. Tony Douglas scores fifth and securing shot on a re-try. [11]
Soccer Bowl 1975 ( Soccer Bowl '75)
August 24
Spartan Stadium San Jose, California Tampa Bay Rowdies 2–0 Portland Timbers 17,483 CBS Stewart Jump [12] Arsène Auguste scored game winner in the 66th min. Clyde Best also scored in 88th min. [13]
Soccer Bowl 1976 ( Soccer Bowl '76)
August 28
Kingdome Seattle Toronto Metros-Croatia 3–0 Minnesota Kicks 25,765 CBS, CBC Wolfgang Sühnholz [14] Eusébio scored game winner on free kick in 41st min. [15]
Soccer Bowl 1977 ( Soccer Bowl '77)
August 28
Civic Stadium Portland, Oregon New York Cosmos 2–1 Seattle Sounders 35,548 TVS Steve Hunt [16] Stephen Hunt scored in 19th min. and assisted on Giorgio Chinaglia's game winner in 78th min.
Soccer Bowl 1978 ( Soccer Bowl '78)
August 27
Giants Stadium East Rutherford, New Jersey New York Cosmos 3–1 Tampa Bay Rowdies 74,091 TVS Dennis Tueart [17] Dennis Tueart scored in the 30th and 76th min. Giorgio Chinaglia scored game winner in 44th min. [18]
Soccer Bowl 1979 ( Soccer Bowl '79)
September 8
Giants Stadium East Rutherford, New Jersey Vancouver Whitecaps 2–1 Tampa Bay Rowdies 50,699 ABC, CTV Alan Ball [19] Trevor Whymark scored in 12th and 59th min. [20]
Soccer Bowl 1980 ( Soccer Bowl '80)
September 21
RFK Stadium Washington, D.C. New York Cosmos 3–0 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 50,768 ABC, CTV Giorgio Chinaglia [21] Julio César Romero scored the game winner in 48th min. Giorgio Chinaglia added goals in the 70th and 87th mins. [22]
Soccer Bowl 1981 ( Soccer Bowl '81)
September 26
Exhibition Stadium Toronto Chicago Sting 1–0
( OT)
( Shootout: 2–1)
New York Cosmos 36,971 ABC, CTV Frantz Mathieu [23] Sting won in shootout. Karl-Heinz Granitza and Rudy Glenn converted for Sting. [24]
Soccer Bowl 1982 ( Soccer Bowl '82)
September 18
Jack Murphy Stadium San Diego New York Cosmos 1–0 Seattle Sounders 22,634 USA, CTV Giorgio Chinaglia [25] Giorgio Chinaglia scored game winner in 31st min. [26] [27]
Soccer Bowl 1983 ( Soccer Bowl '83)
October 1
BC Place Stadium Vancouver, British Columbia Tulsa Roughnecks 2–0 Toronto Blizzard 53,326 USA, CTV Njego Pesa [28] Njego Pesa scored game winner (19 yard free kick) in 56th min. [29]
Soccer Bowl Series 1984 (Soccer Bowl Series '84)
1, 3
Comiskey Park
Varsity Stadium
Chicago Sting 2–1
Toronto Blizzard 8,352
Best two out of three wins. Game 1: Manuel Rojas 86th min game winner. Game 2: Patricio Margetic 82nd min game winner.
*From 1977 through 1984 the NASL had a variation of the penalty shoot-out procedure for tied matches. The shoot-out started 35 yards from the goal and allowed the player 5 seconds to attempt a shot. The player could make as many moves as he wanted in a breakaway situation within the time frame. NASL procedure during this era called for the box score to show an additional "goal" given to the winning side of a shoot-out. [30] [31]
*No championship game was held in 1969. Kansas City finished first in the regular season and was awarded the championship.
NASL Championship Final/ Soccer Bowl (2011–present)
On October 22, 2011, the day their inaugural championship series got underway in Minnesota, the new NASL unveiled its championship trophy. The silver trophy has a large bowl etched with the NASL logo resting atop three long prongs, and the words "North American Soccer League Soccer Bowl" inscribed prominently across the base. [32] [33] In the league's first two seasons, the championship was played as a classic two-legged series. The league announced a switch for the 2013 season to a one-game championship final, also known as the Soccer Bowl. [34] [35] In 2014 the format was tweaked again, and the game was renamed the NASL Championship Final, with the trophy being referred to as the Soccer Bowl Trophy. [1]
NASL Championship (2011–present)
Event Game Venue Location Champions Score Runners-up Attendance Television MVP Notes
NASL Championship [36] 2011
(NASL Championship Series 2011)
October 22, 29
National Sports Center
Lockhart Stadium
Blaine, Minnesota
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
NSC Minnesota Stars 3–1
Fort Lauderdale Strikers 4,511
GOL TV Luke Mulholland
( NSC Minnesota Stars)
Luke Mulholland scored game one winning goal in 53rd min. [37]
NASL Championship Series [38] 2012
(NASL Championship Series 2012)
October 20, 27
National Sports Center
Al Lang Stadium [39]
Blaine, Minnesota
St. Petersburg, Florida
Tampa Bay Rowdies [40] 0–2
( a.e.t.)
Minnesota Stars 4,642
Ustream Jeff Attinella
( Tampa Bay Rowdies)
Jeff Attinella saved 3 penalty kicks in shoot-out. Fafà Picault scored winning penalty kick. [41]
Soccer Bowl 2013
( Soccer Bowl 2013)
November 9
Atlanta Silverbacks Park Atlanta New York Cosmos 1–0 Atlanta Silverbacks 7,211 ESPN3
ESPN Deportes [42]
Marcos Senna
( New York Cosmos)
Marcos Senna scored championship winning goal in the 50th min. [43]
NASL Championship Final 2014
(NASL Championship Final 2014)
November 15
Toyota Field San Antonio, Texas San Antonio Scorpions 2–1 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 7,847 ESPN3
ONE World Sports
Rafael Castillo
( San Antonio Scorpions)
Rafael Castillo scored on a bicycle kick in the 69th min. and assisted on Billy Forbes game winner in 74th min. [44]
NASL Championship Final 2015
(NASL Championship Final 2015)
November 15
James M. Shuart Stadium Hempstead, New York New York Cosmos 3–2 Ottawa Fury 10,166 ESPN3
ONE World Sports
Gastón Cellerino ( New York Cosmos) Gastón Cellerino scored a hat trick before a modern NASL-record playoff crowd. [45]
NASL Championship Final 2016
(NASL Championship Final 2016)
November 15
Belson Stadium Queens, New York New York Cosmos 0–0
Indy Eleven 2,150 CBS Sports Network None
NASL Championship Final 2017
(NASL Championship Final 2017)
November 12
Kezar Stadium San Francisco San Francisco Deltas 2–0 New York Cosmos 9,691 beIN SPORTS
See also
1. ^ a b c "NASL CLUBS TO COMPETE FOR 'THE CHAMPIONSHIP'". Archived from the original on 2014-03-03. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
2. ^ American Soccer History Archives. "North American Soccer League I (NASL) 1967-1984 - The Story Of The NASL". American Soccer History Archives.
3. ^ "NASL changes Soccer Bowl format". St. Petersburg Times. September 27, 1983. p. 6C. Retrieved 2012-06-17.
4. ^ "October 1, 1984 – Chicago Sting vs. Toronto Blizzard".
5. ^ "USA-MLS-NASL".
6. ^ North American Soccer League. "NASL 1968-1984 Yearly Results". North American Soccer League.
7. ^ Steve Dimitry's Extinct Sports League. "North American Soccer League (1968-1984) NASL". Steve Dimitry's Extinct Sports League.
8. ^ "NASL / North American Soccer League Championship".
9. ^ a b c Litterer, David A. (May 12, 2010). "North American Soccer League". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
10. ^ "Previo Campeones: Dallas Tornado Ganan Titulo en 1971". 22 Sep 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
11. ^ The Press-Courier,5233642&dq=toros+overtime&hl=en – via Google News Archive Search. Missing or empty |title= ( help)
12. ^ "Rowdies Capture Soccer Bowl, 8/24/75". Tampa Sports History. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
13. ^ NASL: Soccer Bowl '75. 21 December 2009 – via YouTube.
14. ^ "The Year in American Soccer – 1976". American Soccer History Archives. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
15. ^ The Spokesman-Review,5535255 – via Google News Archive Search. Missing or empty |title= ( help)
16. ^ "FAIRY TALE ENDING: Cosmos give Pele a championship sendoff". Big Apple Soccer. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
17. ^ "NASL abandons indoor season". St. Petersburg Times. August 31, 1978. p. 7C. Retrieved 2012-06-17.
18. ^ St. Petersburg Times,4331512&dq=&hl=en – via Google News Archive Search. Missing or empty |title= ( help)
19. ^ "Philly Soccer History – 1979". Philadelphia Union. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
20. ^ NASL: Soccer Bowl '79. 15 April 2010 – via YouTube.
21. ^ Atkin, Ross (September 23, 1980). "Cosmos regain soccer title". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2012-06-14.
22. ^
23. ^ "Sting Victorious In Soccer Bowl". Eugene Register-Guard. September 27, 1981. p. 14B. Retrieved 2012-06-17.
24. ^ NASL Soccer Bowl Final 1981: Chicago Sting v New York Cosmos. 8 June 2008 – via YouTube.
25. ^ "Sounders Shut Out By Cosmos In Soccer Bowl". Tri-City Herald. September 19, 1982. p. 8C. Retrieved 2012-06-17.
26. ^ Sarasota Herald-Tribune,1542601&dq=cosmos+defeat+sounders&hl=en – via Google News Archive Search. Missing or empty |title= ( help)
27. ^
28. ^ "Roughnecks claim first NASL title". Lakeland Ledger. October 2, 1983. p. 8C. Retrieved 2012-06-14.
29. ^
30. ^ "This Day In 1981 : Soccer Bowl Edition | Chicago Fire Confidential". Archived from the original on 2013-06-30. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
31. ^ "The Year in American Soccer – 1977". Archived from the original on 2013-06-30. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
32. ^ "NASL Soccer Bowl Championship Trophy Unveiled".
33. ^ "- NASL".
34. ^ North American Soccer League (September 5, 2012). "NASL Announces Split-Season Format for 2013". Retrieved February 14, 2013.
35. ^ "- NASL".
36. ^ "NSC Minnesota Capture first NASL Championship". Archived from the original on 2011-11-02. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
37. ^ Cesar. "NASL Championship Series First Leg: Minnesota Stars Win 3-1 over the Strikers". Bleacher Report.
38. ^ "Tampa Bay Wins NASL Championship Series After Penalty Shootout". Archived from the original on 2013-10-03. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
39. ^ Tampa Bay Rowdies. "Al Lang Stadium". Tampa Bay Rowdies.
40. ^ "The Rowdies win the 2012 NASL Super Bowl: Tampa Bay Rowdies beat the Minnesota Stars on Penalties". Vermont Premier Soccer.
41. ^ "NASL: Rowdies rally to give the Soccer Bowl a new home".
42. ^ NASL. "NASL Soccer Bowl 2013 To Air Live On ESPN3 And ESPN Deportes". North American Soccer League.
43. ^ NASL. "New York Cosmos Win NASL Soccer Bowl 2013 1-0 victory edged Atlanta Silverbacks in NASL finale". North American Soccer League.
44. ^ Wagner, Joe (November 16, 2014). "Scorpions Raise Soccer Bowl Trophy With 2-1 Win Over Strikers". External link in |website= ( help)
45. ^ "Gastón Cellerino Hat Trick Powers Cosmos to NASL Title". North American Soccer League. November 15, 2015. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
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The Social Network
Just finished watching this film. Very interesting film about the founders of Facebook and especially the inventor Mark Zuckerberg who became the world’s youngest billionaire in 2008. I’m don’t know how accurate the film is, but I believe the events are accurate even if the portrayals aren’t. Jesse Eisenberg does a brilliant job of portraying Mark as a genius, who can be a bit of a jerk and gets some brilliant lines. I’d like to quickly mention the soundtrack, which I really enjoyed. It was written and performed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who also won an Oscar for their efforts. I’m downloading it as I write this. I particularly like their unique take on Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King. I’d definitely recommend you watch this.
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Disclaimer: There is no connection between me and anything pertaining to Gundam Wing *hides Duo's leash* except complete awe for the people who own the copywrites. This is done purely for entertainment.
Warnings: yaoi, dark angst, prelude to Duo-torture
Pairings: 1x2, 3x4, Rogue/Remy C&C required for purpose in life! Please ask me any questions or tell me if anythiing needs clarifying. Again, I'm trying to keep it as clean and together as possible and it's sometimes really hard to do!
Into the Heart of Darkness
Part 4
Wufei had headed straight for his Gundam when he woke up the next morning. He remembered their little war council and snorted - all that talking with nothing to show for it. He knew Heero would be heading for the Danger Room again - after fixing Wing Zero, he had nothing else to do. Quatre and Trowa were conspicuous by their absense - they had been spending a lot of time with the Grey woman. Wufei snorted again. _Onna's_, he thought wryly. _Love to talk_.
Pausing at the base of Shenlong, Wufei bowed his head and had a moment of silence,as he always did when he greeted his Gundam. He'd renamed it Nataku - in memory of his wife Meiran.
Meiran. His lips curled into a brief smile. Wild, untamed, full of spirit and eager to defend her colony. She'd demanded that everyone refer to her as Nataku - the warrior goddess. Wufei chuckled as the old memories flooded over him - how he, a scholar had been paired with that disguised tigress was a mystery far beyond his comprehension. They had been engaged to each other, against their will, and married at a very young age. Wufei recalled the numerous fights that occured as two proud, stubborn people had to learn to give and take - and slowly, mutual respect had started to form between them.
Until she was killed.
Up until that day, they had never expressed words of love, preferring to try and keep the peace as friends. As she lay dying in his arms, Wufei remembered her softly spoken words. " Wo ai ni," she'd told him [1], a small smile on her face as her eyes closed forever. Then and there, Wufei had vowed to take up the fight in her name - to do all that she could not because of her early death. He would seek justice for all those who would harm the innocent. Wufei let the memories wash over him, bathing him in resolve and he looked up at the giant Gundam with a firm smile - he never ceased to be inspired by Nataku.
" Wow, you look so serious." A voice commented wryly from behind him. Wufei spun around, whipping out his sword and falling into a defensive stance as his eyes sought out the intruder.
His jaw dropped as he saw the small, slender black-haired girl standing there in a yellow raincoat.
" Meiran?" he whispered hoarsely, rubbing his eyes futiley. The girl gave him a wierd look.
" Who? Sorry pal - I think you got me confused with someone else." She snapped her gum and sauntered closer, sticking out her hand. " The name's Jubilee." [2]
Quatre smiled his thanks at Jean as she served him a cup of tea. She then turned to Trowa who nodded, accepting the cup graciously. Quatre was enjoying these little talks they had been having since their arrival. He remembered the first conversation they'd had, when Jean had asked to speak with him after the meeting with the Professor.
" What did you wish to see me about, Jean?" he asked her politely as she led him and Trowa into the mansion's living room. He seated himself on the large couch, Trowa next to him. Jean sat in a large, high-backed chair and regarded them thoughtfully.
" I wanted to talk to you about a couple of things," she admitted. " One is purely out of curiosity and I apologize if I'm speaking out of line but I wanted to know something about you and Trowa."
Trowa stiffened inperceptibly. Quatre squeezed his hand reassuringly and looked back at the red-head. She nodded at their joined hands.
" I wanted to know if your world is.....tolerant," she said at last. Then she shook her head. " Wait, that came out wrong." She stood and walked over to the window, gazing out at the sunny skies that had settled in over Westchester - probably courtesy of a certain weather witch, she thought. " It looks beautiful out there doesn't it?"
Quatre exchanged another glance with Trowa, confused. " I-I suppose so..."
" Beautiful - but deadly," she mused. " A cover-up for what lies beneath the surface." She sighed, turning back to face them with a faint smile. " One of the said things in life, OUR life, is that the people of this world, both human and mutnat, show very little tolerance for anything different."
" You're referring to our relationship," Quatre said slowly. Jean nodded.
" I was wondering what kind of world you come from - whether prejudice or racial bigotry is a common sympton of any world, regardless of timeline." She gave them a rueful look. " Forgive me for intruding--"
" Not at all," Quatre hastened to reassure her. He looked thoughtfully at her. " I've never really thought about it. The world we come from is at war, yes - but it stems not from difference of races. Only difference in opinions and world views."
" Couldn't that be construed as nearly the same?" Jean asked him sadly. Trowa shook his head and spoke up.
" While not common, our relationship is not...uncommon. Neither are more conventional pairings - or interracial. Who you love, isn't the issue of the war we fight."
" Of course this doesn't mean that everyone approves," Quatre was quick to add. He winced at some old painful memories of thinly veiled insults, and the jeers he'd heard from people quick to harm his relationship with Trowa. " Bigotry seems to be a universal trait."
" I thought as much," Jean said, returning to her chair. " Mutants here are feared because of the power they wield - even if its a simple power like the ability to change one's hair color." At the look they both gave her she smiled. " Yes, that is an existing power."
" It sounds interesting," Quatre said.
" I wish all people would think that," Jean closed her eyes for a second and then opened them. Quatre looked at her.
" We don't require it to be happy but...I'm glad you approve," he said to her, knowing she'd understand. Jean's eyes softened.
" Oh Quatre - I didn't mean to pry like this! No one here would ever fault you for loving another - we face too much bigotry every day to mock another for their choices in life," she said, face solemn. " We'd be hypocrites if we did that."
" Thank you Jean," Trowa said simply. He spared a glance at the blond next to him, knowing that her reassurances were deeply appreciated by Quatre, and therefore, appreciated by him. Jean nodded.
" What else did you want to speak to us about?" Quatre asked suddenly, feeling there was more to this then he thought. Jean laughed outright - breaking the tension from before.
" Actaully, I wanted to speak to you of THAT - that little habit you have of sensing what's going on!"
" How did you--oops, uh, I forgot," Quatre grinned sheepishly as he looked at the telepath. " What did you want to know?"
" Do you have mutants in your world?" Jean asked bluntly. " Or are you all just highly sensitive to those around you?"
Quatre shook his head. " I think you're referring to my Space Heart - a Winner family trait." He smiled fondly, if a bit sadly. " I inherited it from my mother."
Trowa blinked at him. " You mean your sisters have it too?" He hadn't known that. Quatre shook his head.
" Oh no - none of my sisters possess the Space Heart - only--" he blushed. "--naturally born Winners."
Jean looked confused, brow creased as she tried to understand. " Your sister is a test-tube baby?"
" Sister's," Quatre clarified. " All twenty-nine of them."
Jean sat back, a stunned look on her face. " I..see." She tried to imagine her and Scott with twenty-nine children - and burst out laughing at the mental image of her husband buried under mountains of baby clothes and diapers. Quatre giggled - he could guess what she was thinking!
" Soo...." Jean wiped her eyes and grinned at them. " What is a Space Heart?"
Quatre sat back and pondered this for a moment. " It's kinda like...an insight. Think of someone who's naturally sensitive to other's feelings, and increase it."
" I thought you might be an empath," Jean admitted. Trowa looked at her.
" Empath?"
" One who senses emotions and feelings - a mild version of telepathy," Jean explained. " I've long suspected Gambit of being and empath." [3]
" He's the man with the red eyes, right?" Quatre wrinkled his nose, trying to remember. " He seemed...very sad."
" This whole business is one bad memory for him," Jean sighed as she rose to replenish her teacup. " More?"
" Thank you." Quatre accepted the beverage refill and sat back, sipping quietly. " Duo's in big trouble, isn't he?"
Jean nodded, sad she had to admit it. " Yes." Her face hardened. " But we will get him back, Quatre, Trowa - I promise you that."
" Why?" Trowa asked suddenly. " Why would you go to all the trouble of helping us - you don't even KNOW us."
" Because I would never be able to live with myself if we let Sinister experiment on a child," Jean answered honestly. " And because it's partly our fault you guys are stuck here - it was OUR equipment that Sinister stole. You guys are innocent bystanders in a game that's been played for years."
Trowa nodded, satisfied with the answer. Quatre couldn't speak, but he bowed his head again. Jean clapped her hands once.
" Tell me more about your Space Heart," she entreated.
Since that discussion, he'd come to enjoy Jean's company. He knew Trowa did too - the red-head exuded warmth and friendship - something they'd hardly ever seen before outside of their own little group. They'd exchanged information on both worlds and realized in some ways, they were very similar. They'd also discussed Heero - and his subsequent feelings for his missing partner.
" They're close then, neh?" Jean asked him. Quatre shook himself and focused on Jean.
" I'm sorry - what did you say?" He grinned ruefully. " I must have zoned out for a minute."
" I said Heero and Duo must be close," Jean repeated. Quatre scratched his head.
" Not in the sense that you mean like me and Trowa," he said at last. " At least, not yet."
Jean raised an eyebrow. " Heero has spent nearly every moment in the Danger Room, shooting down numerous targets that resemble the description we gave him of Sinister, since you got here."
Quatre chuckled quietly at that - it was typical Heero.
" Actually, the potential is there - and Heero's finally starting to wake up," he admitted. " Duo's the only one that could get beneath his skin - and live to tell about it. He has a way of waking Heero up from his Perfect Soldier mode, to make him live in the now so to speak." He grinned briefly. " Duo's a very effective counsellor."
" Something tells me I'd like this Duo of yours," Jean said. Quatre's smile disappeared.
" You would," he said quietly. " Everybody does. He has a knack for making people like him." He gestured at Trowa. " He brought all of us together in friendship."
" What kind of life did he have?" she aasked curiously. Quatre hesitated - he wasn't sure how much of it was his to tell.
" He had a...hard life," he admitted. " Part of his desire to make friends with everyone, is to keep from being left alone again."
Jean's eyes softened in sympathy. She could feel Qautre's pain for his friend as keenly as though he'd screamed it out loud. " I'm sorry."
Quatre shrugged. Trowa cleared his throat. " More tea?"
Heero fired two more times, killing the last two Sinister-looking snipers on the roof. He stood up slowly, watching their bodies fall to the ground dispassionately. Before they hit though, they disapeared. Heero blinked, recognizing the familiar hum that signified the end of a session. The holograms vanished, the buildings and destroyed mobile suits melting away. Heero grunted and looked up at the observation deck. A woman with a white skunk streak - _Rogue_, his mind supplied - waved cheerily at him and he idly glanced at the gun, wondering if the bullets would penetrate the thick glass separatiing them. _Probably not_, he decided ruefully.
" I wouldn't do dat," came a husky laugh from behind him. Heero whirled around and came face-to-face with the red-eyed man from before. " Even if ya made it t'rough da glass, de bullets would bounce off her - got a hide like adamantium dat girl does." [4]
" I heard that swamprat!" came an amused snort over the intercom. Remy waved at her and she nodded, exiting the room. Remy turned back to the boy.
" Heero, right?"
Heero shrugged, watching him.
" Don' talk much, dat's for sure," Remy commented mildly. He observed the boys tense stance. The gun he held was at his side but Remy knew from the Danger Room readouts that he could aim in fire in about as much time that it took him to charge and throw a card. _Dat ain't much time_.
" No."
Remy shrugged. " S'okay - I know you're worried 'bout your friend--"
The boy twitched.
" --but I'd say he's still alive f' now. Sinister likes to play wit' his new toys first." Gambit's lips curled in disgust. Heero trembled, a low growl building up in his throat.
" How do you know?" he bit out, trying unsuccessfully to push all his anger and worry down. Then memory hit him. " You....Cyclops said you knew the most about Sinister."
Remy looked at him. " Yeah, I--HEY!"
He dodged the boys lightning quick attack, rolling to his feet and whipping out a card. Then he froze. Heero stood there, gun slipping through nerveless fingers before they clenched into fists so tight his knuckles turned white from blood loss. His shoulders were shaking violently, and though his eyes were dry when he looked up, Remy almost recoiled from the pain radiating out from the pale face with the force of a blow. " Heero?"
" You're....right. I....I'm.....worried. About...Duo." The boy's words were stilted and halting, almost as though it pained him to admit it. " Not used to....being....helpless." He locked eyes with Remy and Remy again felt the weight behind the gaze. " What...what did Sinister do to you?"
Remy exhaled noisily, feeling a cavern open up in his chest, swallowing him hole.
*Needles stinging, hurts me, likes to hurt me, screaming, trapped, pain, hurt, pain, sadness, emptiness, pain, fists striking me, must prove I'm stronger, must fight back, hurts so bad, kill me, kill me, pain, won't stop, please stop--*
" Gambit?"
Remy's head snapped up and he took a deep breath before he answered.
" He trained me."
Heero's blue eyes pierced his and he saw it then - saw a boy who knew what training meant, saw what it did, knew how it felt.
" You know," he whispered in surprise.
Heero thought it was odd that he was shocked to hear Gambit's words. He recalled the numerous training sessions he was put through by Dr. J - everything from beatings to build up his pain threshold, to rape, so that he would never break. Sensory deprivation. Mind terrors. More beatings. More pain. He saw all that and more reflected back at him through red-on-black eyes. [5]
He swallowed convulsively. " Yeah....I know."
Gambit sighed. " Good."
" What?"
" Good," Gambit repeated harshly. Then his tone softened somewhat. " You know what its like. You'll be able t' help your friend."
" Help him...." Heero repeated numbly. He shook his head. " No - Duo's stronger then that. He's been tortured before....he's never been broken..." his voice trailed off into a whisper Remy nearly missed it. "...like me..."
Gambit's heart clenched at the self-recrimination in that voice. Then he froze, as the implications of what Heero had said hit him. " Oh, merde..."
Heero stared at him. " What?"
Gambit chuckled harshly, remembering what he'd gone through at the hands of Sinister. After he'd been broken. When he'd...
" Maybe de physical pain's gonna be de last of your worries," he said, half-snarling, half chuckling with bitterness. Heero's eyes narrowed as Remy rubbed his eyes wearily. " S'metimes it's too much trouble to break 'em. It's easier to CONTROL dem."
" Control?" Heero echoed uncertainly. Remy nodded.
" Sinny's got a lot of toys to help him get people to do what he wants," Gambit explained roughly. " He couldn't use 'em on me - my metabolism's too screwed up for mind imbalancers, or drugs. He once injected me wit' a shitload of phenobarbitol and I was still able to resist anyt'ing he tried, when I should have been mindless as a newborn." He grinned darkly. " Handy trait." [6]
He crossed his arms, leaning against the door. " But Remy hear a lot of t'ings while he was dere....I remember a mutant was brought in. Feisty kid - could hear 'im yellin' from my cell. He stopped soon enough - could never figure out what happened to him to make him Sinny's new pet."
" Den I joined de X-men. Tried to save de world." He chuckled grimly. " And I met Morph - a mutant wit' de power to shapeshift into anybody or anyt'ing, just by t'inkin' 'bout it. During a battle wit' de Sentinals, we t'ought he was killed."
Heero recalled hearing something about Sentinal - like Gundams on a less technologically advanced scale. " Go on," he said curtly.
" He disappeared - we never found his body. Time passed and eventually, Cyke and Jeannie decide to tie de knot. A beautiful wedding too - Remy, he kissed almost all de bridesmaids. 'Cept Rogue - she got away," he grinned. Heero was getting impatient, even though his stony demeaner revealed nothing.
" Does this have a point?" he growled. Remy shook his head.
" Impatient, " he said softly. " But yeah, dere's a point. De minister turned out to be Morph - working for Sinister."
" A traitor?"
" Dat's what we t'ought. 'Til we battled Sinister an' his goons on an island where Jeannie and Scott were supposed to be havin' d'ere honeymoon. Turned out Morph had a little bug in his head dat made him evil, eager to kill. Probably what happened to de kid in de cell. Now Morph be a peaceful kinda guy - and he fought de implant wit' every part o' his being. Dat's why he was able to stop himself from killing Cyke." His eyes glowed briefly and Heero grunted at the sight of the red ligth, giving Remy's face a positively fiendish look. " Dat's why he left." [7]
" Left?"
" Didn't wanna hurt nobody 'till he gets control o' himself. We took out de bug - but de programming, it remains up in his brain."
" And he could do this to Duo."
" Probably."
Heero winced. " But Morph didn't like killing.." he whispered, horrified at the thought of a blood-crazed Duo rampaging through ranks of civilians. " How effective could a bug like that be on someone who's used to it - who sees killing as an order to be followed?"
" De ends must justify de means in your world," Remy muttered, eyeing the boy sharply. " He might not fight de implant as much."
" That's what I thought," Heero sighed. " But if we get to him, we could stop him, right?" He couldn't believe how he was acting - practically BEGGING Gambit for some reassurance. But his thoughts were raging out of control and he pleaded silently with the red-eyed man to agree with him. Gambit dropped his eyes.
" Maybe," he allowed, not wanting to destroy all of the boy's hope. " De X-Men - we don' go down wit'out a fight ya know."
" Neither do Gundam pilots," Heero returned, regaining his iron control. Blue eyes glinted like ice chips. " We'll find him. And he'll be fine."
" Le's hope so, mon amie," Gambit whispered, watching the boy walk away stiffly. " Le's hope so."
(That night)
Shinigami crouched, motionless on the ledge of the office building. His heart was pounding with excitement even though his face didn't reveal any emotion. He felt the thrill of the hunt singing through his veins, his senses keyed up and focused on his target. he knew that Forearm and Harpoon were around somewhere - on the rooftop most likely. They were too large to shimmy up the side of a building and perch on the foot wide ledge that circled the building on each floor. He snorted silently at the thought of them trying to do the balancing act he was pulling off right now - it almost made him wish Fatale had made good on her threat to teleport him fifty feet in the air and let him drop when he'd tried to cop a quick feel off the Asian assassian.
It was weird. Shinigami felt a surge of uneasiness everytime he was around his two 'partners' - and suffice it to say, Sinister scared the shit out of him. But the fighting, the training...that had been familiar. And so was this.
He couldn't help it - he broke out into a grin as he licked his lips in anticipation. The night was calling to him, drawing him out. It didn't matter who his target was - all that mattered was that he had a job to do. Something to focus on, to carry out. A purpose. HIS purpose.
Reaching over his shoulder to the harness on his back, he pulled out his scythe, running his fingers over the metal grip lovingly. Holding this weapon in his hands, focussing on what he had to do, drowned out any other concerns he might have had. This felt RIGHT.
Tapping the button lightly, a faint greenish glow drifted out of the end; not enough to draw any undue attention, but enough to literally melt away the glass, separating himself from his targets apartment living room. He didn't hear anything from Harpoon and Forearm - nor did he really expect too. He had the feeling that this was a test for him - designed by Sinister and carried out by his two goons.
He wasn't sure why he wasn't very afraid of them. Both three times his size, in both height and bulk, with mutant powers far beyond his comprehension, he knew he should be shaking in his shoes each time they came near him, each time they sparred with him. Sinister had told him that he was an advanced human - lacking the mutant gene, but making up for it with increased speed, strength, flexibility and agility. Adding in the scythe made him a formidable opponent, even against mutants. Still, the rational part of his mind was arguing that he should be afraid. But he wasn't. Not a bit. The thought of dying didn't faze him. He wondered why that was.
He shook his head - too many thoughts to worry about now. Slipping in through the now-melted window, Shinigami turned off his scythe and slipped it back into the leather harness, making sure not to accidently cut off his braid. That was another thing to think about - he'd gotten awfully possessive about the darn thing. _Later_, he told himself.
Slinking through the main room of the modest brownstone apartment, he coldly noted the family pictures on the mantal of the fake fireplace, and the certificates lining the walls. His target was educated. A pity.
The light blinked on the communicator he'd been given and he growled softly, pushing the button.
" What?" he whispered harshly. " I'm kinda busy."
" You're taking too long," Harpoon said bluntly. " Just do it and get it over with. Now."
The picture went dark and Shinigami stuck his tongue out at the blank screen. _Spoilsport. No finesse, no style at all_. With a shrug, he strolled into the master bedroom.
Ah. There was his goal.
Crossing the room swiftly, he slammed his hands over the woman's throat and mouth, cutting off any sounds she might have made and waking her instantly.
Brown eyes blinked wildly at him, unable to make any noise from the grip he had on her voicebox.
" Dr. Cecilia Reese, I presume?" he asked coldly. The target's eyes were filled with terror - Shinigami knew the darkness of the room combined with his black clothing and black cap made it difficult for her to see him. It should have unnerved him to be attacking a woman. Looking into her eyes, her fear only amused him. " Allow me to introduce myself - I am Shinigami."
His eyes glowed dangerously. " And you have something I want."
Cecilia didn't know what to do. One minute she'd been sound asleep, exhausted from pulling a twelve-hour shift at the Salem medical center - not unusual, but definitely hard to get used to. The next thing she knew, a stranger dressed in black had a death grip on her throat. Normally her mutant power of constructing a bio-psionic shield would have kicked in automatically but she didn't even have time to think about it. If she put it up now, it would merely include her attacker inside. [8]
Her first instinct was to panic as he leaned in closer, whispering in chilled tones that she had something he wanted. What could he possibly want from her?
A voice in the back of her head told her probably many things. Judging from the black leather costume she could feel against her skin, he was probably not your run-of-the-mill robber.
During her short stint as a member of the X-Men, she had run into many different super-villains and she wondered if this person was working for one of them. She wanted to ask him what he wanted but he wouldn't let go of her throat. His grip was also making it hard for her to breathe. Her attacker seemed amused by this and chuckled harshly.
" I am going to let go of your throat so that you can breathe. If you scream, I will crush your windpipe and let you choke to death," he said, almost conversationally. " Do you understand?"
She nodded her head minutely and his hands slid off her.
" What do you want?" she finally croaked. It occured to her that since the X-Men frequently used her medical center as a drop-off center for various packages, this person might want the address of the X-mansion. _not that its a big secret_, she thought bitterly. Or maybe he wanted the medical files she had on all the mutants she treated.
She inhaled a few quick breaths, never taking her eyes off him. Suddenly her body began to glow slightly as her mutant shield kicked up. She then grinned at him.
" Hah! Try to hurt me now, sucker!" She backed away from him, intent on reaching the phone to call for help when the man sighed in annoyance and pulled a long metal stick from his back. She watched it light up in green fire and he spun suddenly, so quick she almost didn't see it, slicing the air and melting the phone, the lamp next to it and the table on which they both stood. About to scream again, he reached forwards and grabbed her chocolate brown hair, numerous little braids each incased seperately in it's own little field. He grabbed one braid, shield and all, and lowered the flame on the scythe until it looked like a green match tip. He then sliced through her hair.
Cecilia felt an enormous surge of pain as her shield was cut. Her mutant power was an extension of herself that tended to manifest involuntarily and it always hurt when anything impacted against it, even if it protected her from any actual damage. But to cut through it....
She sank to her knees, clutching her head as her attacker dangled the pitiful little strand of hair in front of her.
" Nice little trick, neh? My boss added a few tricks into this thermal scythe - it has an effect on energy. Any energy. Including bio-energy." His grin grew wider, even more malicious then before. " I could have done that to your arm or leg, just so you know. But you're worth more to Sinister alive."
_Sinister_? The name snapped Cecilia out of her pain-induced haze and she stared up at him blindly. The man chuckled again and she wished she could see his face but the darkness kept her from seeing anything more then an outline.
" Who are you?" she whispered brokenly.
" I am Shinigami," he said coldly. A manical-edged laugh issued from him. " And you're not. Now Dr. Reese - you are going to keep that little shield of yours down while I take a few things from you. " At her horrified gaze, he barked out a laugh. " Oh, give me a break - I'm not interested in your body."
Cecilia felt a bit of her normally fiery temper return as he said those words. He sounded sincere enough - well, as sincere as any leather-clad looney carrying a thermal device could be. Then again, for a short time, she had BEEN one of those leather-clad looney.s 'Why not', was at the edge of her tongue when he gave his frank statement but she forced it back. _Keep your mouth shut Cecilia_, she told herself. " Then what do you want?" she asked him, proud to hear the trembling in her voice had gone.
" I vant your blood!" he giggled in a bad attempt at a Transylvanian accent and Cecilia shivered at the hysterical pitch in her accoster's voice. Then the name from before hit her. Sinister. _Oh my god_.
" My blood? Sinister wants my blood?" She backed away slowly, fear returning in waves. " Oh no. I am not a pincushion--"
A quick swipe and her bed was neatly sliced in two. The maniac laughter was gone and that metal rod was at her throat. She froze, fighting to keep her shield from manifesting. He might actually go through a few limbs to make a point.
" It will only take a minute of your time," he said, smiling beneignly. He whipped out needle and a small vial. Cecilia closed her eyes, hoping that the damn thing was sanitary. A pin-prick made her flinch, and a few seconds later, she felt it withdraw and she opened her eyes warily.
" That's it?" she asked incredulously. The man looked at her and grinned.
" Not quite."
Cecilia never saw the adamantium rod of the scythe impact in the side of her head.
Shinigami watched her where she lay, blood seeping from the wound he'd delivered, pooling beneath her unconscious body. He calmly put the vial into a pouch at his waist and turned away. The target had been dealt with, as per instructions. He felt a faint twinge at the state he'd left her in but then pushed it away. After all - he was Shingami right? And Harpoon said he was used to this.
_Mission accomplished_.
He froze as his mind registered the words - where had that come from? Then the light blinked on his communicator again. He ignored it, stealing back out of the apartment with all the stealth he'd used upon entry, climbing from the ledge, up the side of the building, digging his fingers into the miniscule handholds he could find in the rough brick, and finally hoisting himself over the rooftop iron fencing. A huge hand gripped his collar and hauled him the rest of the way.
" What took you so long?" Forearm snarled at him. Shinigami pushed him away and reached into the pouch, pulling out the vial.
" I got it, didn't I?" he asked sarcastically, not backing down. He knew if he did, Forearm would clobber him. Badly. Forearm snorted.
" Lucky you did, punk," he growled. Harpoon spoke up from where he leaned against the wall of the building that lead to the stairway.
" Did you leave her alive?" he asked, eyes pinning the boy in his spot. " You were not to kill her - she's important as a research tool to Sinister."
" Hey man - if there's one thing I know how to do, it's follow orders," Shingami barked. " She's alive. Hurt, but alive."
Harpoon nodded, flexing his giant fist. " Good."
He pressed a button on his own communicator and suddenly, Fatale was there, light glowing in it's usual display of her powers.
" Let's be off, 'gentlemen'," she said, stressing the last word sarcastically. She watchd them gather near, eyeing the smallest one thoughtfully. He was an interesting creature, she mused. Highly attractive, and apparently very skilled. Sinister wouldn't be eager to let this little one get away. She raised her arms and focused. They disappeared in a blinding flash of light and sparkles.
Cecilia groggily lifted her head and groaned.
_G-Get it....together girl_, she told herself, fighting the black spots that were dancing in front of her eyes. She wanted nothing more then to sink into the black oblivion, hovering just beyond the edge of her vision, but she knew she couldn't. She tried to focus her bleary eyes on her dresser. _Have to....do this...._
She dragged her resisting body to the wooden dressor, grasping at the handles to pull herself up to a sitting position. She swayed momentarily, breath rasping, and then bit her lip, reaching for the top drawer. It slid out and she patted her arm around it's innards blindly, searching for it....where....Ah! There it was.
She pulled out the small object and cradled it. One of the few things she kept from her stint as an X-man, she was now ferverently glad she did. She pressed the top button on her communicator. A familiar, fuzzy blue face finally greeted her, blinking at her curiously and then in horror.
" H-help me Hank," she breathed, and then her strength left her in a rush. She vaguely heard Dr. McCoy shout something but she was too tired to listen as her awareness slipped away.
Heero sat up as he heard the alarm go off in the mansion. A quick check confirmed the presence of his gun and he slid out of bed, pulling on his tanktop and customary spandex shorts in seonds. Exiting his room, he saw Trowa, Quatre and Wufei having the same idea. Wolverine loped into the hallway. Seeing the boys there, he was about to order them back to their room when Jean's mental voice stopped him.
:: Let them come, Logan::
He growled. :: The kid?::
A mental sigh. Then resignation. :: Yes::
Logan cursed under his breath and turned back to the four pilots who were all watching him with looks that screamed both confusion and seriousness.
" What's happening?" Heero demanded. Logan jerked his thumb back down the hall.
" Situation," was all he'd tell them " Follow me."
Quatre was a bit surprised when Logan didn't stop the elevator at the floor where he knew the War Room was situated. He could sense the tension level and he rubbed his chest absently. Trowa glanced at him and he shrugged. Fixing his eyes on Heero, Quatre winced - he had a feeling this little emergency might concern Duo.
Wufei stared at the wall, wishing it would hurry. He was still on edge from meeting that Meiran look-alike in the hangar earlier - he winced at the memory of him mumbling some excuse for mistaking her for someone else and then dashing out of the hangar, the girl's amused laugh trailing behind. [9] _Onna's_! he thought waspishly. Unbidden, the thought entered his mind that Duo would have gotten a kick out his surprise and he scowled at the wall blackly. _I bet this concerns Maxwell_, he thought.
The door opened and the pilots blinked at the sheer size of the room.
" Why is it each time we go down another level, the rooms seem to get bigger?" Quatre asked Trowa quietly. The unibanged boy shrugged. Quatre noticed Jean and Cyclops, and recognized the blue-furred man as the Beast. Wufei's eyes widened as he saw the girl - Jubilee, he tried to remember - leaning against the counter, watching them enter with interest. Despite the apparent severity of the situation, she threw him a quick wink when their eyes met and he looked away. Heero's eyes zeroed in on the group gathered in the middle of the room, focused on someone lying on a cot.
Heero pushed his way past Cyclops and Jean to get a good look - and stopped, disappointment seizing his chest. It was a woman, apparently of central-American descent with chocolate skin and hair. A white bandage covered a wound on her head. Jean's voice spoke up.
" Her name is Dr. Cecilia Reese," she said. " She was...attacked tonight."
" By who?" Quatre asked, watching the girl curiously. Jean exchanged a look with her husband.
When Hank had gotten the call from Cecilia, he had alerted the red-head immediately before racing out to the hangar and firing up the Blackbird. Jean had monitered the whole pickup, Beast having assured her that whoever had attacked Cecilia had already left. Nonetheless, she and Cyclops had stood by, ready to join him if necessary. leaving only when Beats told them that he had the Doctor, and to make sure that the sickbay was prepped and ready.
Jean had been astonished at the fomerly fiery-tempered doctor's condition and had gently delved into her mind to get a picture of her attacker. All she could make out from the blurry images was a greenish weapon, the outline of a slender build, and a name. One that was familiar, thanks to the numerous talks she had with Quatre. She bit her lip and looked at her husband nervously, unsure of what to say.
:: Just tell them, Jean:: Scott advised her softly. She looked at Heero.
" Her attacker called himself.....Shinigami."
1. As far as I know, it's " I love you," in chinese. Don't quote me on that - I'm getting much of my Japanese lessons from watching Ranma 1/2 tapes....^_~'
2. Everyone's favorite firecracker!
3. Gambit being an empath is a favorite topic of discussion on the mailing list I'm on - he seems to have the uncanny instinct for feeling other's pain, and he's very sensitive to people's emotions - at least when he's written by Joe Kelly or Claremont. ^_^ I just thought I throw it in - and see where it goes....
4. Rogue's powers also include a thick skin - enough to deflect bullets, lasers, tanks and falling buildings (that one was my favorite episode!) See previous chapters and notes for more details on her powers.
5. I'm just guessing what kind of training Dr J and Sinister put the two guys through - there's that creative license again!
6. Again, I'm using discussion from the mailing list - it seems to take Gambit longer to succomb to deadly gases and other poisons so again - I'm blaming his physiologal makeup as a reason. 'S'alright? 'S'alright.
7. Now I'm kinda mucking up the TV series....but I pretty much followed inside the lines. If you'd like anyt'ing...excuse me, anyTHing (damn cajun's accent is addicting!) explained further, please email me.
8. Cecila Reese was a member of the X-men for about 5 or 6 issues before being relagated to a supporting character role with minimal appearences. Her mutant power is a bio-filed that kicked up autmatically whenever she was in danger, but she could never figure out how to consciously turn it on or off. Here, I'm giving her a little more control - it takes a little bit but she can will the field into existence, and she can shut it off. The deal with Shinigami''s blade being able to cut through it - well, Sinister's a genius right? he can build all sorts of do-dads on that scythe - why not make it powerful enough to give Shingami and advantage over more mutants? 85% of all mutant powers are bio-kinetic, psionic, or energy-based - it makes sense that Sinister would take that into account when constructing a weapon for Duo.
9. For those about to scream I cheap-shorted Jubilee - hold yer horses! That little by-play served its point - Wufei had mistakenly identified Jubes as his long-dead wife and that freaked him a bit, hence the running from the hangar. But she's not being thrown aside - trust me. We will see more later on.
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And I take one step further into the liberal hivemind
I'm headed to Netroots Nation tomorrow. Pretty much on a whim -- it's in Minneapolis, I'm in Minneapolis, they'll feed me lunch, so why not? On the other hand, I'm a little worried about running into Matt Yglesias or someone, because of, well, this:
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The following text is © 1997 Robert Wozniak. All hyperlinked text links to footnotes located at the bottom of the document.
John Frederick Dashiell and the Fundamentals of Objective Psychology
Robert H. Wozniak
Bryn Mawr College
Born in Southport, Indiana in 1888, John F. Dashiell (1888-1975) was the ninth child in a family of twelve. [1] His father was a Methodist minister, his mother an active contributor to the work of the Methodist foreign and home missionary societies. Although his parents were not "literalists," "both...were strong in their faith;" [2] and his childhood was a happy one, spent in reading, study, athletics, and the myriad activities that take place in large, closely knit families.
Upon graduation from the Indianapolis area public schools, he entered Moores Hill (later Evansville) College where he found sufficient inspiration in his respective coursework in biology and literary studies to work toward two bachelor's degrees, one in science (1908), the other in literature (1909). After receiving the second degree, Dashiell accepted a scholarship for graduate work and enrolled at Columbia University.
In 1909, Columbia was one of two major centers of American functionalist thought[3]. As Boring has pointed out, functionalism at Columbia was more permissive than prescriptive. The prevailing attitude held that psychology:
" with persons, complete organisms whose conduct is the most obvious thing about them...You can bring... consciousness in when it is relevant, but you can also leave it out when you think it is unimportant, when you do not know what it is like, and when you are convinced that no consciousness is functioning in what you have under scrutiny. Functionalism is a home for the unconscious. The functionalist often makes use of his freedom to ignore consciousness and to bring in movement as an immediate datum of psychology. Then association of ideas gives way to association among data, to association of ideas with movement, of stimulation with movement. Then, too, behaviorism becomes one kind of functional psychology." [4]
With its strong inclination toward objectivism, interest in tests and measurements, and concern with the application of psychological knowledge, the Psychology Department at Columbia mirrored the interests of its founder, James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944). As early as 1904, in a lecture presented to the St. Louis Congress of Arts and Science, Cattell had outlined his functionalist conception:
"I am not convinced that psychology should be limited to the study of consciousness as such...[T]he rather widespread notion that there is no psychology apart from introspection is refuted by the brute argument of accomplished fact...The time of mental processes, the accuracy of perception and movement, the range of consciousness, fatigue, and practice, the motor accompaniments of thought, memory, the association of ideas, the perception of space, color-vision, preferences, judgments, individual differences, the behavior of animals and of children, these and other topics I have investigated, without requiring the slightest introspection on the part of the subject or undertaking such on my own part during the course of the experiments. It is usually no more necessary for the subject to be a psychologist than for the vivisected frog to be a physiologist." [5]
Although by the time Dashiell arrived in New York, Cattell had become much more deeply engaged in editorial work and in academic politics than in empirical research, he was still pursuing the study of individual differences among scientists; and, as a graduate student, Dashiell had the opportunity to assist Cattell in editorial work that led eventually to the third edition of American Men of Science.[6]
At Columbia, Dashiell was also exposed to three others who rank among America's great functionalists: Robert Sessions Woodworth (1869-1962), Edward Lee Thorndike ((1874-1949), and John Dewey (1859-1952). Experimental and physiological psychology were under Woodworth's direction. At the time, Woodworth had just revised Ladd's Elements of Physiological Psychology[7] and was already at work on lectures that were to serve as a basis for his classic Experimental Psychology,[8] a text that would define the field for generations. Dashiell later recalled the value of his coursework with Woodworth in the following terms: "A full forty years later when I offered a lecture course in physiological psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles...I found my Columbia course was a surprisingly solid pier from which to throw a bridge to span that great time interval." [9]
During Dashiell's student days at Columbia, Woodworth was also developing a dynamic psychology of motivation. [10] The question was not only one of mechanism, "how we do a thing," but one of drive, "what induces us to do it." [11] The extent to which Dashiell profited from Woodworth's thinking in this regard is indicated by the emphasis, unusual for the 1920's, that he placed on motivation in his own later work. Indeed, as he recalled it:
"With such a machine-like framework [in the S-R formulation] the problem of what makes it operate so as to move and act like a living being became a real problem...I was insistent upon going all the way back and identifying tissue conditions within the organism [e.g., stomach contractions in hunger] which gave rise to intra-organic stimulations which excited the organism to overt activity...when the organism in its activity came upon a situation (as food) in which the tissue demand ceased, then the said activity ceased. All of this, to be sure, was in the making in the mid-1920's, but I am supported by others who agree that it had not been as completely and clearly formulated, not so well based upon demonstrated tissue-needs as in my Fundamentals of Objective Psychology." [12]
Thorndike, at Teachers College, and Dewey, in the Department of Philosophy, were also among Dashiell's more influential teachers at Columbia. Thorndike's emphasis on trial-and-error learning (increase in random movement upon confrontation with a problem situation, accidental success, and the gradual selection of successful movement), objectivism, insistence on quantification, [13] and commitment to educational and social application, and Dewey's nonsubjective, instrumentalist approach to value and meaning were not lost on the young Dashiell. Indeed, after completing a 1910 master's thesis in psychology that critiqued the conception of "social consciousness," Dashiell switched his doctoral major to philosophy and, in 1913, completed a dissertation on the philosophical status of values that attempted to present value theory in objective, instrumentalist terms.
It was in the spring of 1913, while Dashiell was completing his graduate work, that John B. Watson traveled from Hopkins to Columbia to deliver his famous "behaviorist manifesto." [14] The essence of Watson's argument was that introspection was to be abandoned in favor of the study of behavior. Behavior was to be evaluated in its own right, independent of its relationship to any consciousness that might exist. The concept of "consciousness" was to be rejected as an interpretive standard and eschewed as an explanatory device. As an objective, natural science, psychology was to make no sharp distinction between human and animal behavior; and its goal was to develop principles by which behavior could be predicted and controlled.
Already well prepared for just such a message by his own critique of the concept of "social consciousness," strong physiological and experimental training, and the prevailing objective, quantitative, and applied orientation of the Columbia department, Dashiell was ready to listen. As he himself later put it, "Watson's virile presentation of behaviorism had its prompt appeal to the younger men of American psychology; and I was swept along...It came to be an ambition of mine to bring out an introductory textbook in this behaviorist direction." [15] Work on this textbook had to be postponed, however, as Dashiell spent the next six years in a series of temporary appointments and then accepted the responsibility for developing the psychology department at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill).
Upon receipt of the doctorate in 1913, Dashiell took a position at Waynesburg College. Within a year, however, he had moved to Princeton to serve as Instructor in Philosophy. After a year at Princeton, he spent two years at Minnesota, first as Instructor in Philosophy, then in Psychology, and two years as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Oberlin. Only in 1919, when he moved to North Carolina, [16] did he finally find a permanent home. [17]
Under Dashiell's leadership, North Carolina became in the 1920's one of the nation's first behavioristically oriented departments. Floyd Henry Allport (1890-1978), hired from Harvard in 1922, was extending the behaviorist conception into social psychology[18] and English Bagby (1891-1955), who had taken his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins in 1918 and came to North Carolina from Yale in 1925, was writing his Psychology of Personality: An Analysis of Common Emotional Disorders.[19] After Gilbert Van Tassel Hamilton's (1877-1943) An Introduction to Objective Psychopathology,[20] Bagby's was the first systematic attempt to apply behaviorist thinking to problems of psychopathology.
Under the stimulus of discussion, first with Allport, and then with Bagby, Dashiell finally set to work to realize his long delayed ambition. His goal was to produce an introductory textbook extending the behaviorist approach to the full range of human psychological phenomena, covering the ground, as he himself later described it, from "the nonsubjective physiological material of psychology that was not properly 'behavior'...[to] intellectual processes." [21] In 1928, with the appearance of Fundamentals of Objective Psychology,[22] Dashiell saw his dream become a reality.
The Fundamentals is quite possibly the quintessential text of early behaviorism. Influenced, among others, by Watson's peripheralism and use of the concept of "implicit response," [23] the behaviorist analysis of "perceiving" presented by Stevenson Smith (1883-1950) and E.R. Guthrie (1886-1959) [24] the implications for conceptualization of "symbolic processes" of the delayed reaction experiments of Walter Hunter (1889-1954), [25] George Herbert Mead's (1863-1931) account of the relationship between gesture, social acts, and reciprocal social stimulation, [26] A.P. Weiss's (1879-1931) analysis of the role of language in abstraction and generalization, [27] and Allport's work on social facilitation and personality traits, [28] Dashiell's text brings the many and varied threads of early behaviorism together, adds certain twists of its own, and weaves the whole into a single fabric, described in clear and forceful prose.
Broadly conforming to the general pattern established by Watson's Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist, Dashiell devotes the first half of his text to introductory chapters on the nature of psychology and the analysis of behavior, an extensive description (105 pages) of the anatomy and physiology of the effectors, receptors, and connecting nervous system, and a detailed discussion of hereditary mechanisms (reflexes, native reaction patterns including basic emotions, and drives defined as "original sources of energy that activate the human organism"[29]) and the principles by which such mechanisms are modified (reflex integration, habit formation, and stimulus substitution-including a detailed discussion of conditioning).
For Dashiell, as for Watson, psychology is a natural science, distinct from other biological sciences in its emphasis "on man (or animal) in his interaction with environmental conditions," [30] and concerned not merely with the understanding of behavior but with its prediction and control. Fundamental principles by which behavior must be analyzed include continuity between animal and man, the trial-and-error mechanism of adjustment, stimulation by internal (intra-organic) as well as external sources, responses that may be implicit as well as explicit, and response-produced stimuli. Unlike Watson, [31] Dashiell tends to view the anatomical and physiological basis of stimulus-response connections in a somewhat reductive fashion that blurs distinctions between levels of analysis[32] and integrates discussion of hereditary and acquired modes of response in a fashion that, even more than Watson, downplays the role of natively given reaction patterns in favor of the elaboration of complex habits.
The second half of Dashiell's text consists of an extended object lesson in non-subjective, behavioristic treatment of phenomena (perception, meaning, attention, social exchange, social signaling, thinking, speaking, discrimination, generalization, personality) traditionally thought to require mentalistic analysis. Perceiving is defined as "anticipatory set (largely implicit) that orients...[the organism] for a certain line of conduct with reference to...[the] situation." [33] Meaning is conceived to be a pattern of reaction tendencies to the perceived thing; [34] and attending is a viewed as a postural reaction "that will facilitate...response to some particular stimulus or stimuli." [35]
Social exchange is defined as a process of reciprocal stimulation and social signals are conceived to be abbreviations of total reactions used to influence others, some of which are direct but most of which are symbols of something else which need not even necessarily be present in the environment. Social signals, like all serial behavior, are held to play a private, self-stimulating as well as social function. [36] Thinking, which is a response to a problem situation, makes use of this function. As Dashiell puts is, "Thinking reactions...are true substitute reactions...more indirect and largely implicit. Learned first in social situations as a form of interstimulation, they come to be abbreviated to the point where they serve as self-stimulations within one and the same organism...Some character of ...[a problem] situation sets off a pattern of implicit reactions, especially symbolic ones, which in turn serve as cue-stimuli to further implicit reactions, and the self-stimulation processes continue pattern of reactions has undisputed right of way, and the organism overtly behaves accordingly." [37]
Speaking is by far the most important mode of reciprocal stimulation. [38] Like other forms of social stimulation, language can be reduced (abbreviated) to implicit activity and can be used to speak to one's self. [39] Discriminating is the ability to react to a highly specific aspect of a total situation sharpened by the speaking reaction and serving as the basis for carrying over a learned specific reaction from situation to situation. [40]
Generalization is "'a type of sensori-motor mechanism in which many different receptor patterns, representative of many different sensory situations and relations, are connected to the same language response and through this common path the individual may react in a specific manner to all the objects, situations, and relations thus connected, even though there is very little sensory similarity between them.'"[41] Finally, personality is defined as an individual's "system of reactions and reaction-possibilities in toto as viewed by fellow-members of society. It is the sum total of behavior trends manifested in his social adjustments." [42]
Here we have the well-defined behavioristic vision of the later 1920's. All psychological functions can be analyzed in terms of complex mechanisms of stimulus and response, external and internal, explicit and implicit, individual and social. Development over the life course involves the progressive acquisition of complex systems of reaction and reaction-possibilities from a set of native reaction patterns given in infancy, and all such acquisition can be accounted for in terms of mechanisms of trial-and-error habit formation and integration and conditioning. Through progress in the scientific understanding of the effect of stimulus situations and in the technological use of such mechanisms, behavior will eventually be susceptible to prediction and control.
This is a powerful and seductive vision. It is objective, scientific, comprehensive, and remarkably well integrated. It offers the possibility of laboratory research but is grounded in the natural phenomena of everyday life. It makes selective use of past advances and offers the promise of future progress, not only in science but in technology. It is also an optimistic, uplifting vision. It is easy to imagine just how impressed the introductory psychology student must have been as he or she closed Dashiell's text after reading its concluding paragraph:
"As the nineteenth century was notable for the unprecedented advance in man's control of his non-personal environment through the technological application of the physical and biological sciences, it may be fairly anticipated that the twentieth century will become remarkable for the development of psycho-technology. The 'pure' science of psychology, though still in its swaddling clothes, is to-day being rapidly expanded in many directions, and-what is more important-is being built upon more solid and certain foundations. And as the fundamental principles and formulae of this science become determined with increasing degrees of accuracy, technological applications are sure to follow. Already trends of practical usefulness are becoming evident, as a steadily growing host of investigators are engaged in working out the applications of the laws of human behavior to the fields of medicine, education, industry, commerce, and law. That 'man may become master of his fate' is a phrase invested now with new and fruitful meaning." [43]
Students exposed to such a vision must have found it hard, indeed, not to succumb-not to imagine themselves as members of the "growing host of investigators" pushing back the boundaries of our ignorance. In this context, it does not seem surprising that, as new generations of students entered the field, behaviorism came eventually to dominate the discipline.
1. Biographical details are drawn primarily from: Dashiell, J.F. (1967). John F. Dashiell. In E.G. Boring & G. Lindzey (Eds). A History of Psychology in Autobiography. Volume 5. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, pp. 95-124. [Back to text]
2. Dashiell (1967), p. 97. [Back to text]
3. The other was the University of Chicago. See Wozniak, R.H. (1993). John B. Watson, behaviourism, and Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology. In Watson, J.B. Behavior: An Introduction to Comparative Psychology. London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, pp. vii-xx. [Back to text]
4. Boring, E.G. (1950). A History of Experimental Psychology. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, p. 560. [Back to text]
5. Cattell, J. McK. (1906). Conceptions and methods of psychology. In Rogers, H.J. Congress of Arts and Science, Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904. Volume V. Biology, Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., p. 597. [Back to text]
6. Cattell, J. McK. & Brimhall, D.R. (Eds). (1921). American Men of Science. A Biographical Directory. Garrison, NY: The Science Press. [Back to text]
7. Ladd, G.T. & Woodworth, R.S. (1911). Elements of Physiological Psychology. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. [Back to text]
8. Woodworth, R.S. (1938). Experimental Psychology. New York: Henry Holt & Co. [Back to text]
9. Dashiell (1967), p. 102. [Back to text]
10. Woodworth, R.S. (1918). Dynamic Psychology. New York: Columbia University Press. [Back to text]
11. Ibid., p. 36[Back to text]
12. Dashiell (1967), p. 118[Back to text]
13. Thorndike, E.L. (1904). An Introduction to the Theory of Mental and Social Measurements. New York: The Science Press. This work is generally credited with introducing statistical analysis into American psychological research. [Back to text]
14. Watson, J.B. (1913). Psychology as the behaviorist views it. Psychological Review, 20, pp. 158-177. See also Wozniak (1993). [Back to text]
15. Dashiell (1967), pp. 117-118. [Back to text]
16. First as an Associate Professor and then, in 1920, as full Professor. [Back to text]
17. In the ensuing years at North Carolina, Dashiell went on to a celebrated career. Among other accomplishments, he served from 1931 to 1950 as editor of the McGraw-Hill Publications in Psychology, a series of monographs that included classic contributions by Kurt Lewin, N.R.F. Maier and T.C. Schneirla, J.P. Guilford, and Carl E. Seashore. From 1935 to 1947, he edited the Psychological Monographs, and in 1938, he served as President of the American Psychological Association. [Back to text]
18. Allport, F.H. (1924). Social Psychology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. (reprinted as Volume 3 in this series). Although Allport moved to the University of Syracuse in 1924, his classic analysis of social phenomena was finished and published while he was still at North Carolina. In the preface, Allport credits Dashiell with "reading the manuscript and offering effective suggestions concerning the theories advanced" (p. viii). [Back to text]
19. Bagby, E. (1928). The Psychology of Personality. An Analysis of Common Emotional Disorders. New York: Henry Holt & Co. [Back to text]
20. Hamilton, G.V. (1925). An Introduction to Objective Psychopathology. St. Louis: The C.V. Mosby Co. (reprinted as Volume 4 in this series). [Back to text]
21. Dashiell (1967), p. 118. [Back to text]
22. Dashiell, J.F. (1928). Fundamentals of Objective Psychology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. [Back to text]
23. See Watson, J.B. (1919). Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. (reprinted as Volume 2 in this series). [Back to text]
24. Smith, S. & Guthrie, E.R. (1921). General Psychology in Terms of Behavior. New York: D. Appleton & Co. [Back to text]
25. Hunter, W.S. (1913). Delayed reaction in animals and children. Boston: Holt. [Behavior Monographs, Number 6]. [Back to text]
26. Mead, G.H. (1909). Social psychology as counterpart to physiological psychology. Psychological Bulletin, 6, pp. 401-408. Also Mead, G.H. (1910). Social consciousness and the consciousness of meaning. Psychological Bulletin, 7, pp. 397-405. [Back to text]
27. Weiss, A.P. (1925). A Theoretical Basis of Human Behavior. Columbus, OH: R.G. Adams & Co. (reprinted as Volume 5 in this series). [Back to text]
28. Allport (1924). [Back to text]
29. Dashiell (1928), pp. 230-231. [Back to text]
30. Ibid., p. 13[Back to text]
31. and possibly more in the spirit of Floyd Allport[Back to text]
32. Thus, for example, in his discussion of thinking, Dashiell (1928) writes that: "This description of the physical side of the process of thinking in terms of the interplay of entire sensori-motor circuits instead of merely the central segments thereof, possesses the advantage of fitting in with the characterization of thinking as a type of behavior that is set up by a difficult situation and that takes the economical form of trial-and-error reactions made indirectly and implicitly" (p. 533). [Back to text]
33. Ibid., p. 522[Back to text]
34. See Ibid., p. 391[Back to text]
35. Ibid., p.285. [Back to text]
36. See Ibid., pp. 449-455. [Back to text]
37. Ibid., p. 547[Back to text]
38. See Ibid., p. 456. [Back to text]
39. See Ibid., pp. 480-481. [Back to text]
40. See Ibid., p. 492. [Back to text]
41. Ibid., pp. 502-503, quoted from Weiss (1925). [Back to text]
42. Dashiell (1928), p. 551. [Back to text]
43. Ibid., pp. 570-571. [Back to text]
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copyright Steve J. Hodges
CS 20j Fall 2018
Assignment 3 (Table of Contents)
Class Name
Program Description
In this assignment, you will read an unspecified number of lines of text from STDIN. Each line will contain an unspecified number of words. Input is terminated with EOF (ctrl-D). You may assume that, at most, 10,000 unique words will be entered. There is no limit to the total number of words input. You are required to use arrays for this assignment, and may not use Java Containers (such as the ArrayList or HashMap—you will have a chance to use them on a future assignment.) (A word, here, is defined as a sequence of alphanumeric characters and punctuation delimeted by whitespace.) Your program should discard punctuation that is found at the end of a word but preserve punctuation that is in the interior (or start) of a word. (example: quote." will be recorded as the same word as quote, but it's and its would be recorded as different words) You will discard the case of the input, storing and outputting the results in all lowercase letters.
When the input is completed, your program should print out the words, one per line in alphabetical order. You are required touse either of the sorting routines that we have discussed in class to perform this sorting. Each word should be followed by an integer count of the number of times that word appeared in the text. (Use a single space to separate the word and the count.) Your program must have no other output.
Since we haven't discussed data objects yet, the easiest way to store the words is to use a String array for the words and an int array to store the count of each word.
Before you add words to your list, your should check to see if the new word is already in your array of words.
Use an integer variable to keep track of how many words are stored in the array. You may find it helpful to write a function that adds word to your array or increments the count of words that are already in the array. You may also find it helpful to write a function that looks up a word in your array.You should expect to have about six functions in the finished program.
Suggested checkpoints for writing this program:
1. input multiple lines of text - termiated with EOF
2. break each line into seperate words
(or read each word individually and skip step 1)
3. check to see if a word is already in the array before you add it
4. sort the words (and counts!) in the array before output
Sample Input1
"We weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal
rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all the
We are 325 million opinionated, vociferous individuals. We argue and
compete and sometimes even vilify each other in our raucous public
through these challenging times. We will come through them stronger
than before, we always do."
(matching) Sample Output
"we 1
325 1
all 2
always 3
and 5
are 1
argue 1
be 1
been 1
before 1
behind 1
benefit 1
but 1
challenging 1
change 1
come 1
common 1
compete 1
confuse 1
corners 1
country 1
debates 1
disagreement 1
do 1
doubt 1
down 1
each 3
even 1
for 1
force 1
get 1
give 1
globe 1
great 1
greatness 1
had 1
hatred 1
have 3
hide 1
ideals 1
if 1
in 4
individuals 1
it 1
love 1
million 1
more 1
much 1
of 3
only 1
opinionated 1
other 3
our 5
patriotism 1
power 1
presumption 1
public 1
rather 2
raucous 1
remember 1
resentment 1
rivalries 1
so 1
sometimes 1
sown 1
stronger 1
tear 1
than 4
that 3
the 6
them 3
these 1
they 1
through 2
times 1
to 1
tribal 1
trust 1
vilify 1
violence 1
vociferous 1
walls 1
we 12
weaken 2
when 3
will 2
with 2
What to "turn in"
As usual, leave your .java file for this program ("") in your home directory on pengo.
1. from John McCain's Final Letter to America
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With all this fuss about American Idol I have to ask, which has been the best reality show of all time. If you vote “other”, please enter your favorite show in the comments section below (voting closed).
1. Someone tried to stuff the ballot on the poll by giving Amazing Race 91 votes. Now that’s serious dedication to a TV show. I’ve come to the conclusion that the person that did this was either on the show or needs a therapist.
I deleted 90 votes for Amazing Race and left only one. Also, I banned the offending IP address from the pollsemail me and I’ll concede that it was only temporary insanity and remove the ban.
#1 by Nugget — August 21, 2002 @ 11:16 am
2. Damn it. Well, you can ban that IP but all I have to do is cycle my dsl router and I’ll get a new one. But since your poll just let me vote again maybe you banned the wrong IP. :p It WAS temporary insanity!!!!! Come on, I was just trying to fuck with you man. And yes, Amazing Race is the best show.
#2 by Meerenai — August 21, 2002 @ 11:45 am
3. Hahahaha. I totally thought it was you ;)
#3 by Nugget — August 21, 2002 @ 12:56 pm
4. I omitted The Anna Nicole Show because as of this writing it had only aired two episodes. I guess a lot of the “other” votes are for it though.
#4 by Nugget — August 26, 2002 @ 4:12 am
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You are here:Home/Research/ Support for Research/ Fellowships/ Fellowship Reports/ 2009–2010/ The Architecture of Social Encounters: Plazas and Platforms in the Southern Moche State
Jorge Gamboa Velásquez, University of Montreal, Summer Fellow 2009
Access to the extensive documentation at the Dumbarton Oaks Library allowed me to make great progress in my work on the design variability of southern Moche public architecture. This research is an inter-valley comparative analysis of architectural planning and use of space in ceremonial centers built on the north coast of Peru between 500 and 750 AD. Carrying further a short version already published, I noticed that the regional diversity in configuration of Moche public buildings could be related to the fragmented nature of the sociopolitical landscape and to temporal hegemonic periods of some paramount centers. Pañamarca and Guadalupito, the major southernmost sites, did not emulate architectural canons from the sites of the Moche and Chicama valleys, such as Huaca de la Luna and Cao Viejo. These last two buildings became progressively similar in relation to their architectural planning and mural art. This process was impaired by the gradual empowering of the former over its counterpart at Chicama. Relations between both sites were probably complementary and competitive, as expresed by common material culture and distinctive iconographical programs. However, ca. 600 AD their interaction changed toward a stronger asymmetry in favor of Huaca de la Luna. The main results of my work will be published in a peer-reviewed journal in the near future.
My time at Dumbarton Oaks was made even more beneficial thanks to the exchange of ideas with colleagues studying pre-Columbian societies from different viewpoints. In this scholarly exchange lies the value of the Library—in addition to preserving bibliographical resources, it creates a space for the inception of interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociopolitical processes of ancient America.
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21 February 2016
Guest blog: Siege types of the English Civil War (David Flintham FRGS)
Cromwell's Tower on Tresco, Isle of Scilly. Built c. 1651 (see www.vauban.co.uk/kingdoms-under-siege for further information).
The 17th century was a watershed in European history: it was the century when the superstitions of the medieval period were largely laid to rest and replaced by scientific reasoning. The origins of the great transformations of the 18th and 19th centuries (the Enlightenment, and the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions) are firmly in the 17th century. The transformation on the battlefield was no less dramatic – military engineering which was regarded as an ‘art’ during the 16th century was very much a science by the end of the 17th ...
The military history of Western Europe in the 17th century is dominated by the Thirty Years War, the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (misleadingly, but commonly, known as the ‘English Civil Wars’), and the wars of Louis XIV. The common perception of these conflicts is of big battles: cavalry charges on the wings whilst in the centre, massed infantry formations slugging it out. Yet the reality is rather different as it was the siege rather than the set-piece battle which dominated 17th century warfare.
King's Lynn's 1643 defences by the Red Mound.
During the Civil Wars there were more than 300 sieges of various kinds and in the first year of existence, the New Model Army fought just two major battles but conducted 12 sieges and storms. Prince Rupert, a commander with a reputation for seeking battle as a first resort, participated in twice as many actions involving attacking or defending strongpoints as he did battles. Christopher Duffy described the conflict as “a war of trenches, ramparts, palisades, bombardments and blockades”.
The Civil Wars actually started with the storming of Edinburgh Castle in 1639 and ended with the fall of Dunottar Castle in 1652, whilst Oliver Cromwell’s Irish campaign of 1649-50 comprised nearly entirely of sieges and assaults. The first ‘English’ Civil War started with an attack on Hull in July 1642 (although there is a case for the first being Parliament’s capture of the Tower of London in January 1642 being the start), and ended with the fall of Harlech Castle in March 1647.
Entrance to Leith Citadel, one of the Cromwellian citadels built in Scotland during the 1650s (see www.fortified-places.com/leith/ for further information). Image copyright David Flintham.
Yet military studies of the Civil War period focus almost entirely on battles and other field-actions. Civil War sieges fall into four types:
• The coup de main, where surprise was used (such as Alexander Leslie’s capture of Edinburgh Castle in 1639).
• The ‘smash and grab', where an assault was launched after a preliminary bombardment, a preferred tactic of the New Model Army (and on at least one occasion, at Dartmouth Castle in 1646, the assault was launched without any bombardment). Here, just the threat of the assault was often enough to persuade the garrison to surrender.
• The blockade, which was a longer-lasting affair, and the besieger invested the place of strength, preventing communication and offensive activities by the garrison. This was the preferred option by an attacker unwilling (or unable) to attempt an assault and was used (without much success) by the Royalists at Gloucester, Plymouth and Lyme Regis.
• Finally, and quite uncommon was the complete investiture, where a circumvallation of rampart and ditch, fort and battery would be constructed around the entire town, in so doing cutting it off from the outside world. Examples of this are few: Newark (1645-6), Oxford (1646) and Colchester (1648).
Deal Castle, built by Henry VIII and defended by Royalists in 1648 (see 'Tudor Wall' Military History Monthly, No. 63, December 2015).
Despite their importance, studies or sieges and fortifications are relatively uncommon and so to help raise awareness of the sieges and fortifications of the civil wars, and to create a home for my on-going research into the sieges and fortifications of the 17th century, I recently launched www.vauban.co.uk. Here, you will find pages devoted to London’s Civil defences, sieges and fortifications of the 2nd and 3rd Civil Wars, together with a page devoted to the greatest military engineer, Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban, after whom, the site is named.
David Flintham FRGS is a military historian specialising in 17th century sieges and fortifications, and has been interested in the 'English' Civil Wars for virtually all of his life, an interest ignited by seeing the 1970 film, Cromwell. He is a graduate of the ‘Partizan Press school of ECW studies’. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he writes regularly for the Fortress Study Group and is a regular contributor to Military History Monthly.
He is the author of two books, several academic papers and a number of popular articles, and is regarded as an expert on London's civil war defences. He is currently writing his third book, Civil War London. London under Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, due to be published by Helion and Company at the end of 2016.
Interactive map: London's Civil War defences
Interactive map: Siege of Colchester 1648
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Introduction to Computer Programming
Homework 2
In this exercise you will make use of some of the most common elements of most web pages: hyperlinks and images.
Your goal is to create a web page which highlights your personal interests, while also demonstrating that you can use the HTML tags that we have learned so far, including links and images.
Your web page should include the following:
1. Your name, somewhere at the top of the page.
2. Title: the page should have an appropriate tab title using the "TITLE" tag.
3. Structure: The document should have appropriate opening and closing "HTML", "HEAD", and "BODY" tags.
4. An appropriate main heading, using the "H1" tag.
5. An introduction paragraph giving an overview description of the rest of the page.
6. A link to the web site you visit most.
7. A link to the web site folder where we have been getting assignments (eg. where did you get this homework assignment?)
8. A link to this assignment itself ( Homework02.html).
9. A link to the web page you made for the previous assignment (eg. "AdaL01.html", but with your name, not Ada's).
10. A link to Khan Academy.
11. A link to the site where you usually get your weather information.
12. A link to the site where you usually get daily news, either local or national.
13. A link to your prefered search engine.
14. An ordered list of items, such as your favorite classes (or favorite something).
15. An unordered list of ... something (anything).
16. An image served from a remote site.
17. An image served locally (from the same folder as your HTML file). See the end of the assignment for instructions regarding the name of this file.
18. An image which has its height set to exactly 247 pixels.
19. An image of something you have created, such as a painting or photograph.
The web page you submit must satisfy all of the conditions above, but you do not have to have separate items for each of the conditions. It might be possible for you to satisfy two or more of the conditions above with just one item.
Links must be clearly visible and have appropritate link text (or in the case of an image which is a link, appropriate mouseover text using the "title" attribute). Hidden links won't be counted.
Your web page must have at least the required items listed above, but it can also have more than just the minimum of required items listed above.
If you have any questions about the assignment or about the terminoligy used above then be sure to ask questions before the due date.
The name of the file for this web page should be your first name, followed by your last initial, followed by the two digits "02". The file extension should be ".html". So, for example, a student by the name of Grace Hopper would create a file called "GraceH02.html".
You should also upload a copy of your file to
And you also need to upload copies of any images served "locally" by your web page. The names of any images files that goe with your assignment should also have names constructed from your first and last name and the digits "02", with the letters "a", "b", "c" etc appended. The file name extensions can be ".jpg" or ".png" or ".gif". For example, if Grace Hopper's submission included two image files they could be named "GraceH02a.jpg" and "GraceH02b.png" (with the extensions chosen to match the type of image file).
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How to Choose Your LCD / Plasma TV ~ GAMES AND GADGETS
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
How to Choose Your LCD / Plasma TV
So you've finally decided to buy your much coveted flat screen TV but when you go to your local store you're bombarded with hundreds of choice. So which one should you buy? Here's a bunch of things to consider:
1. LCD or Plasma. First things first, you need to choose between an LCD or Plasma TV. If you’re going for a bigger screen, some would suggest Plasma while if you’re settling for under 40 inches, go with LCD. Basically, there’s really no difference in terms of picture quality with Plasma and LCD. However, some Plasma enthusiasts will point out that Plasma TVs can show deeper black colors, have better viewing angles, and is cheaper while LCD enthusiasts will point out that LCDs have higher resolution, consumes less power, and have longer lifespan. So it’s really up to you on which factor is more important to you, however, my personal choice is LCD TV.
2. Screen Size. First, where are you going to use it? If you're going to use it in a large room and maybe use it for your home theater, it's good to go for 40 inches or higher. If it's just for your bedroom or a small room, 30 to 37 inches would do.
3. Which specs to consider?
3.1. Contrast Ratio. Before I did my research on LCD and Plasma TVs, I usually ask the person about the contrast ratio of the TV, it’s probably because it’s the most advertised by the manufacturers however, like many people point out during my own quest to buy an HDTV, the manufacturers tend to overstate their contrast ratio because of lack of testing standard. However, when I’ve compared two Samsung LCD TVs of the same screen size but with different contrast ratios (one was 7000:1 while the other has 8000:1) I did notice a very slight improvement in picture quality of the TV with the higher contrast ratio than the other but that may be true when comparing TVs of the same manufacturer but with different models. Contrast ratios should be considered together with actual comparison of the picture of the LCD /Plasma TV you’re considering.
3.2.Response time. The lower the number means the faster the response time of the LCD / Plasma TV which is good for watching sports, action packed movies or anything that has fast movements involved.
3.3.1080p, 1080i or 720p. These are the formats for delivering digital content. Most 1080p models are expensive compared with LCD / Plasma TVs with 1080i or 720 input. Currently, 1080p is the highest of all resolutions however, there are few content available in 1080p for you to truly enjoy it. If you’re living in a country with no HD broadcasting signal, it’s best just to stay with 720p but if you want to future proof your investment, go with 1080p. However, I don’t really believe in future proofing. Given how technology is constantly changing, I’d give 1080p two years before it’s replaced with another digital format that is better.
3.4.Viewing angle. A wider viewing angle will enable multiple people enjoy your LCD / Plasma TV as it can be viewed from a variety of angles without the picture getting blurry.
3.5.Connections. The basic input you should consider for you to enjoy your LCD / Plasma TV includes HDMI, Composite Video, S-Video, Component Video, VGA, and DVI. Composite video, S-Video and component video are usually standard and can be found even in older TV versions. VGA is the input you need for your PC. Cheaper models only offer VGA but if you’re bent on using or LCD / Plasma TV as your monitor, look for DVI input. DVI is a high quality digital input next to HDMI, if your LCD TV doesn’t have DVI but it has HDMI and your video card on your PC has DVI output, buy one of those DVI to HDMI cables to fully utilize your LCD / Plasma TV capacity. Also look for TVs that have HDMI v.1.3, cheaper models only offer HDMI v1.2 and the difference is significant in terms of video quality.
4. Seeing it with your own eyes. Perhaps the best thing to do when buying your LCD / Plasma TV is to compare the models side by side, using the same videos. Some appliance store uses different videos for different manufacturers. Take a look at the blacks and see if it’s deeper and richer as this implies a higher contrast ratio rather than relying on the manufacturer’s specs.
LCD and Plasma TVs are a great addition to any home. If you choose smartly, you won't be wasting money and be investing in a great technology.
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Peptic Ulcer Disease (PUD)
A peptic ulcer is a sore in the lining of the stomach or first part of the small intestine. Burning stomach pain is the most common symptom and may come and go for a few days or few weeks. It is more bothersome when the stomach is empty and usually recedes after the patient eats. Peptic ulcers occur when the acids that help food digestion damage the walls of the stomach or small intestine. The cause is unknown but ulcers may be associated with infection from Helicobacter Pylori.
Another cause of PUD is long-term use of anti-inflammatory medicines like aspirin and ibuprofen. And contrary to popular belief, while stress and spicy foods can aggravate ulcers, they do not cause them. If not treated, the ulcers may get worse. Treatment can include medicines that block stomach acids or antibiotics to kill bacteria. Surgery may be necessary for ulcers that do not heal.
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Rosemary and Sea Salt Baked Potato Chips
4 waxy potatoes, peeled and sliced diagonally approx. 1 cm thick
4 tbsp. fresh rosemary, finely chopped
2 tbsp. Murray River sea salt
4 tbsp. Olive Oil or Rice bran oil
Pre-heat the oven to 180C.
Pat the potatoes dry between paper towels.
In a bowl mix all of the ingredients; making sure the potato is very well covered.
Place on a baking tray and cook in the oven for 15-20 minutes or till gold brown.
Serve with yoghurt and chives.
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Comos 'Dazzler' in late October
Comos 'Dazzler' in late October with double rainbow
November flowers
Chrysanthemums snug and warm in my tiny potting shed.
Chrysanthemums in November
Fresh Christmas Wreath
Fresh Christmas Wreath with Chrysanthemums
I love May as it is the month that a lot of garden perennials such as Aquilegias and Oxeye daisies begin to bloom and there is suddenly a lot more material to cut. However, June is the month when the hardy annual flower seedlings - Cornflowers, Sweet peas and Ammi, which were sown back in March and have been cosseted since then, finally all start to flower. These annuals really do flower their socks off for months if you keep picking the flowers or dead-heading any that you leave on for the bees and other pollinating insects.
May cut flowers
May perennials
I vary the annuals that I grow each year, as I like to try new varieties, and there will always be some new amazing flower that I will see when browsing the seed catalogues which I simply must have! This year I'm growing Phacelia campanularia (with bright blue flowers), Cornflowers 'Polka Dot' (a mix of blues, whites and pinks) and 'Black Ball' (dark, wine red), Godetia 'Crown Double Mix' (pink tissue-like flowers), Ammi majus 'African Queen' (the classic white umbellifer which makes excellent filler material), Candytuft 'White Pinnacle' (with sweet scented, white flowers), Amberboa muricata (a pale pink, shaggy thistle type flower) and Malope trifida 'Vulcan' (a trailing plant with magenta flowers with a green eye).
All these annual flowers will be featuring in arrangements this month which I will post on my Facebook page in order to demonstrate the wide variety of cut flowers that anyone could grow in their own back garden, in combination with garden perennials, shrubs, bulbs and herbs. Herbs like Mint, Lemon balm and Oregano all provide useful foliage or filler flowers this month to mix in with your annuals.
Flowers end June
Sweet peas, Amberboa, Lupins and Cornflowers with Lemon balm foliage in June
Erysimum and Alliums
Perennial Wallflowers (Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve') and Alliums.
Annual flower seed
Seedlings in potting shed
Seedlings in potting shed
Hellebores and Spring flowers
Hellebores flower in Winter and early Spring
Iris reticulata
Iris reticulata 'Harmony'
Clematis and Hawthorn with Chives
Planting plans
Mixed perennial border
Mixed perennial border designed by Miles Garden Design
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Meaning of DIAGONAL
Pronunciation: dI'agunl
WordNet Dictionary
2. [n] (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry
3. [n] an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard; "the bishop moves on the diagonals"
4. [n] a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side
5. [n] (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
6. [adj] having an oblique or slanted direction
DIAGONAL is a 8 letter word that starts with D.
Synonyms: aslant, aslope, bias, inclined, oblique, separatrix, slanted, slanting, slash, sloped, sloping, solidus, stroke, virgule
See Also: checkerboard, line, main diagonal, principal diagonal, punctuation, punctuation mark, secondary diagonal, set, square matrix, straight line
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
1. \Di*ag"o*nal\, a. [L. diagonalis, fr. Gr. ? from to
angle; dia` through + ? an angle; perh. akin to E. knee: cf.
F. diagonal.] (Geom.)
Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or
multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner;
crossing at an angle with one of the sides.
{Diagonal bond} (Masonry), herringbone work. See
{Herringbone}, a.
{Diagonal built} (Shipbuilding), built by forming the outer
skin of two layers of planking, making angles of about
45[deg] with the keel, in opposite directions.
{Diagonal cleavage}. See under {Cleavage}.
{Diagonal molding} (Arch.), a chevron or zigzag molding.
{Diagonal rib}. (Arch.) See {Cross-springer}.
{Diagonal scale}, a scale which consists of a set of parallel
lines, with other lines crossing them obliquely, so that
their intersections furnish smaller subdivisions of the
unit of measure than could be conveniently marked on a
plain scale.
{Diagonal stratification}. (Geol.) Same as {Cross bedding},
under {Cross}, a.
2. \Di*ag"o*nal\, n.
two parts.
obliquely across a panel.
3. A diagonal cloth; a kind of cloth having diagonal stripes,
ridges, or welts made in the weaving.
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Detection and Classification of Apple Fruit Disease using K-NN Classification and GLCM Features
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India is an agricultural country. The people are mainly depending on the vegetables and fruit which they are cultivating in their own crop field. Due to increase in populations and rising of western culture people pour a lot of pesticides into the growing crop which results in a lot of disease in both plants and also the human and animals who are consuming it. So by avoiding this problem, our project has been made which took an example of an apple fruit. Mainly the apple fruit consists of three diseases Apple scab, Apple rot and Apple blotch. In image processing, the k-mean clustering technique is used. which is used for segmenting the infected area in the apple fruit. After segmentation, the GLCM technique is used for feature extraction. Finally, the classification of diseases is made by SVM technique. By this process are can identify diseases and improve the quality of food production and human population.
Keywords:k-mean-GLCM-KNN classification.
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Universiteit van Amsterdam
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
4 - 6 May 2017, Formal Methods and Science in Philosophy 2, Dubrovnik, Croatia
Date: 4 - 6 May 2017
Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Deadline: Friday 31 March 2017
The conference will include a special session "Logic, concepts and communication", a panel discussion "Proposal of a BD/MD/PhD in philosophy on: Philosophy & Computer Science. A perspective for applied formal philosophy", and a PhD session with 20 minutes talks followed by 10 minutes discussion.
Please, submit a 600 characters abstract for a 30 minutes talk (+ 10 minutes discussion). Please, indicate if the abstract is meant for a PhD session.
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Universiteit van Amsterdam
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
1 December 2017, Music Cognition Reading Group, Ned McGowan
Speaker: Ned McGowan (with live demonstration on piano by Laurens de Boer)
Title: Speed in Music, Brain and Body
Date: Friday 1 December 2017
Time: 15:30-17:00
Location: 1.01A Universiteitstheater. Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16
In this presentation, the physical and cognitive experience of speed in music is explored. Organic to all cultures, music is not only an emergent property of the timing mechanisms of the brain (Craig, 2009) but also a manifestation of who we are, how we think and how we feel. The engagement of brain and body with sound reflects the temporal functions of physical, cultural and personal identities. Thus, much can be learned about another by simply listening to their music.
Organic to music is time; without time, there is no music. Nonetheless, the phenomenon of time with its broad implications in the sciences tells little about our experiences. The concept of speed, though, is full of enlightening character. Take some common terms to describe tempo in music: largo (broadly), adagio (slow and stately), allegro (fast, quickly and bright), vivacissimo (very fast and lively). Speed is relational and reveals aspects of how we think and feel. It is innately human.
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What Is Conservatism?
What Is Conservatism? (1964) is a conservative classic—as relevant today as it was a half century ago.
Just what is conservatism? Many people are groping for answers, especially as conservatives seem to retreat into factions—Tea Partiers, traditionalists, libertarians, social conservatives, neoconservatives, and on and on. But this illuminating book shows what unites conservatives even as it explores conservatism’s rich internal debate.
Edited by Frank S. Meyer, who popularized the idea of “fusionism” that became the basis for modern American conservatism, What Is Conservatism? features brilliant essays by twelve leading conservative thinkers and spokesmen, including:
• F. A. Hayek, Nobel Prize–winning economist and author of The Road to Serfdom
• William F. Buckley Jr., founder of National Review and the man perhaps most responsible for the rise of the modern conservative movement
• Russell Kirk, whose seminal book The Conservative Mind gave the conservative movement its name
• M. Stanton Evans, author of the conservative movement’s central credo, the “Sharon Statement” (1960)
In a foreword to this new edition, #1 New York Times bestselling author and National Review contributing editor Jonah Goldberg explains the profound influence of What Is Conservatism? on conservative thought and the book’s relevance today.
Click here to read the full publication →
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Elder and Sister Renlund: 4 Ways Women Exercise Priesthood Power and Authority
The following is an excerpt from Elder and Sister Renlund's new book, The Melchizedek Priesthood
Understanding the Doctrine, Living the Principles
. In the book, the Renlunds defines the priesthood as follows: "The term priesthood is used in at least two ways. First, priesthood is the term used to describe the total power and authority of God. Second, priesthood is also the term used to describe the power and authority that God gives to ordained priesthood holders on earth to act in all things necessary for the salvation of God’s children. . . . Thus, the same word, priesthood, refers both to God’s total power and authority and to that portion of His power and authority that He delegates to man on earth."
Heavenly Father through the priesthood offers His eternal promises to each of His children. All have equal access in the end to His love, power, blessings, salvation, and exaltation. In that regard, God is no respecter of persons (see Acts 10:34; Doctrine and Covenants 38:16; Moroni 8:12; Doctrine and Covenants 1:35). As quoted partially in the Church’s official statement, Nephi said:
Some criticize the Church today because women are not ordained to the priesthood and therefore do not “hold” the priesthood. How can this disparate treatment of men and women be reconciled? Again, we really do not have a complete understanding; however, women in the Church frequently exercise priesthood power and authority, though they are not ordained to priesthood offices.
Consider four ways in which this is so.
Women Have Priesthood Authority in Callings
First, through a setting apart by an authorized priesthood holder, women have priesthood authority to use in their callings in their wards and branches throughout the Church. They have all the authority they need to fulfill their callings and stewardships. What authority do they have? As Elder Dallin H. Oaks taught:
► You'll also like: 5 Ways Women Are Already Given Priesthood Authority and Officiate in Priesthood Ordinances in the Church
Women Have Priesthood Power Through Covenants
Second, women gain access to the power and blessings of God through receiving priesthood ordinances and making covenants. Power comes from making and keeping baptismal covenants. Power comes from receiving the Holy Ghost. Power comes from making and keeping temple covenants. The power of godliness is thereby manifest in women’s lives (see Doctrine and Covenants 84:20–21). As Elder Neil L. Andersen said, “The blessings of the priesthood are infinitely greater than the one who is asked to administer the gift.” LDS women who diligently make and keep covenants experience priesthood power in their lives.
Women Receive the Blessings of Heaven
Third, faithful women invite the blessings of heaven independent of priesthood ordination. The blessings of God’s total priesthood power and authority are available to LDS women throughout the world. When miracles occur in a woman’s life in the absence of conferred priesthood, she has complied with conditions to be blessed by God’s total priesthood power and authority. Women tap into God’s priesthood power and authority through faith and prayer. Women who pray and act in faith have regular access to God’s priesthood power and authority. President Russell M. Nelson issued a plea to the women of the Church to be the kind of women “who know how to make important things happen by their faith” and “who know how to call upon the powers of heaven.” Women throughout the Church “speak with the power and authority of God” and demonstrate their faith by accepting and magnifying callings, serving missions, raising children, praying for guidance, and acting on the impressions from the Holy Ghost. Their faith gives them access to the powers of heaven to resist temptations, act in charity and goodness, build families, improve communities, and establish the Church.
This third way is complementary to, and not a substitute for, blessings received through conferred priesthood authority. It is not an “alternative” pathway to priesthood blessings to be used instead of those that are accessed through conferred priesthood.
Women Can Become Like God
Fourth, a woman participates in the fullness of the Melchizedek Priesthood through temple sealing to a worthy Melchizedek Priesthood holder. Exaltation and eternal life in the highest degree of the celestial kingdom are achieved only as the fulness of the priesthood is attained through building and achieving an eternal marriage. The highest intellectual and spiritual development of both men and women is to become as God is. Becoming as God cannot be achieved by men alone or women alone. Only through the sealing ordinances of the holy Melchizedek Priesthood, performed in the temple of the Lord and ratified by the Holy Spirit of Promise, and through faithful, righteous living can a man and a woman join in an eternal marriage unit wherein they may attain a fulness of the priesthood and exaltation together (see Doctrine and Covenants 132:18–19). All blessings, benefits, and inheritances of the Melchizedek Priesthood are equally shared and achieved by husband and wife if they keep their covenants and live in love, harmony, and cooperation in the Lord.
God offers to all His daughters multiple opportunities to have the fullness of His priesthood and to receive eternal power and blessings. This is where equality really matters. For some, the questions surrounding why God directs that only men are ordained to priesthood offices may be all-consuming. They may feel that for God not to be a “respecter of persons” He must delegate tasks equally. However, participating in eternal equality before God is infinitely more important than being equally delegated earthly tasks.
Even with this understanding, some may still find the issue of women and priesthood ordination troubling. But the time will come when those who remain faithful to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ despite their concerns will be blessed beyond measure. In the Lord’s own time and in His own way, we will gain a clear understanding of His purposes. When that happens, we will all recognize that God has treated us with greater fairness, mercy, and compassion than we deserve or could have imagined.
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Get more powerful insights into the priesthood in The Melchizedek Priesthood: Understanding the Doctrine, Living the Principles.
Comments and feedback can be sent to [email protected]
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LDS Artists Perform Emotional, Inspiring Cover of Beatles' "Let It Be"
The LDS trio GENTRI recently performed a cover of the Beatles' "Let It Be," and they shared a story behind the song many probably don't know. Check out this powerful music video.
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Get more from GENTRI with their incredible CD, Rise.
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Jaida :: Peanut :: Syracuse NY Newborn Baby Photographer
I was so excited to meet peanut Jaida. I was lucky enough to photograph bib sister Gigi in the past and adored her, so I knew it would be a treat to be able to photograph her with her new little sister! They are just little lovebugs. Beautiful little lovebugs.
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10 Amazing Sex Tips
If your love life has gotten a bit stale, check out these 10 amazing sex tips. While we're not getting into advanced techniques, you'll find that this article can arm you with some stuff you may have been afraid to try. From oral sex to cuddling, your lady will thank you for checking out this love info.
1. Suck on her clit. Guys, we all know the clit is the holy grail of oral for women. Now, don't just jump right in. Take your time, lick around the area, and kiss and caress her thighs. When you both start getting into it, wrap your lips around her clit and slowly, softly suck away. Do not get hardcore (unless she's into it.) Be gentle, and don't use teeth.
2. Slap her ass. OK, admittedly, this is one of those things you need to feel out ahead of time (no pun intended.) Most girls want a guy to be in charge in bed. Make sure you know how she feels before slapping away. Also, just because a gentle slap on the ass excites her, this is not an invitation to for you to go on an all out slap fest. You need to know your woman before turning her ass cheeks cherry red.
3. Hold her wrists. Again, women want you to be in charge during sex. If you're on top, try holding her wrists down while getting on down. Don't apply too much pressure. This is a situation where you need to know where her comfort level is. There's a fine line between consensual sex and rape.
4. Kiss/bite her neck. This applies for almost every female on the planet. During sex, kiss, lick and gently bite her neck and she'll melt. Science has not yet figured out why this works, but it does. The next time you're working her body, nibble on her neck and she'll be putty in your hands.
5. Kiss her during sex. Speaking of kissing, get your lips involved with hers while doing the deed. No matter the position, if you can make your lips meet hers, go for it. Women love for guys to show passion during sex. Show her that you care by engaging in a hot make out session during sex.
6. Give her control. Guys, we have a bad habit of always trying to take control during sex. If you give her control, trust me, she'll rock your world. Now, I'm not saying let her chain to you to a wall and whip you, but if you give her control, she'll change the dynamic in a way you never saw coming. Sadly, when having sex, it can become one-sided for guys. Instead, let her get on top, and don't try to force her to do anything. Instead, lay back and let her do what she wants.
7. Use your nails. Scratching lightly can be a huge turn on for chicks. We're not talking about drawing blood (again, this is something that's between you and her) but lightly scratching her skin while you're in the act of producing the beast with two backs can make a world of difference. Scratching her skin can show her that you are paying attention and that you are in the moment with her.
8. Show her you enjoy it. Whether you moan, cry out loud, or use hand signals, make sure she knows you're enjoying yourself. If you remain totally silent during sex, chances are, you won't be receiving repeat performances. I'm not saying you need to be screaming, but don't lay there like a dead fish, either.
9. Read her body language. If she isn't into it, don't do it. If you're trying something that she obviously isn't enjoying, then stop. Too often, women will put up with bullshit from guys in order to please them. Don't be that guy.
10. Cuddle afterward. This may not seem like a sex tip, but it is. If you get off, roll over, and fall asleep, chances are, you'll be doing a lot of sleeping alone. Show her you care by spending some time cuddling after sex, holding her close and whispering in her ear. This offers the promise of repeat performances, which is kind of the point all along.
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