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It’s easy being green
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greenMachine is a new concept from LYNX Technik, taking a three-prong approach to product definition and function. Rather than being a fixed, application-specific box, greenMachine is a combination of powerful general-purpose hardware, software apps and control software, said Lynx.
First, an operator selects a hardware processing platform (or platforms), which are basically inactive transparent signal processing channels combined with a variety of I/O connections. Then the operator would download and build the needed functionality by stringing together apps from the LYNX greenStore.
Apps can be mixed and matched to reconfigure greenMachine to suit virtually any application. As new apps will be constantly added to the greenStore, this enables the hardware to be easily adapted into new applications, future proofing the investment.
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Proofpoint - Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) URL Defense
In an effort to protect UMass Medical School users, Information Technology has rolled out a feature within the University’s e-mail security product called Proofpoint Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) URL Defense.
How URL Defense Works
URL Defense scans incoming e-mail for known malicious hyperlinks and for attachments containing malware. This feature rewrites scanned URLs to Proofpoint’s standard URL format Once a link is rewritten, it is analyzed for any potential malicious content. If categorized as malicious you will be redirected to a block page upon accessing the link in your browser. URL Defense works behind-the-scenes, which means you do not need to do anything to activate or take advantage of the system.
Screenshots of URL Defense in Action
Rewritten URL’s can be observed by hovering over the link:
Re-written URL in a Proofpoint Protected E-Mail
The block page will look similar to this:
Proofpoint URL Defense Block Page
If you receive Plain-Text e-mails
When URL Defense detects a hyperlink in a plain-text e-mail (non-HTML), it will rewrite the URL in plain text. In this case, you will see the rewritten URL directly in the body of the e-mail. E-mails with HTML or rich text are most common, so Plain-Text rewrites will occur infrequently.
If you forward an e-mail with a re-written link
Once URL Defense has rewritten a URL, if the message is forwarded or replied to, the URL will remain rewritten. Additional links added to the message being replied to or forwarded will not be rewritten. If you believe recipients may have questions you could include the following in your signature:
UMass Medical School e-mail is protected by Proofpoint’s URL Defense product. Hyperlinks in this e-mail may begin with ‘’ and have a generally long format”
Rewritten Proofpoint URL to Original Link Converter
Please use the following text input to convert a rewritten Proofpoint URL to the original link.
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If you believe a URL has been blocked unnecessarily or believe a fraudulent site has not been blocked, please reach out to the Help Desk or email Information Security at
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Mixing Drums: Using Guitar Pedals
Producer & recording/mixing engineer Joe Barresi (QOTSA, Tool, Soundgarden) shows how he uses GTR guitar pedals for mixing drums. Get some valuable tips and learn techniques that will help you make your drums shine and sound unique.
Also check out Joe's ProSound Workshop
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I Am Your Judge by Nele Neuhaus
Police Detective Pia Kirchhoff is about to leave on her long-delayed honeymoon when she receives a phone call. An elderly woman has been shot and killed while walking her dog. A short while later another murder is committed and the modus operandi is eerily similar - a woman is killed by a bullet that smashes through her kitchen window ... and in both cases the same weapon fired the shot. Two more murders follow in short order. None of the victims had enemies and no one knows why they were singled out. As fear of the Taunus Sniper grows among the local residents, the pressure rises on Detective Kirchhoff. She and her partner, Oliver von Bodenstein, search for a suspect who appears to murder at will, but as the investigation progresses, the police officers uncover a human tragedy.
I Am Your Judge is tightly plotted, and delivers surprise twists at every turn with a story that is ripped from the headlines.
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Todd confronts David at the graveside, accusing him of being a killer and as the pair square up Billy breaks it up and drags Todd away. As Billy consoles Todd there’s a moment of tenderness between them – which is witnessed by a shocked Sean. Back at number 8, Todd lays into David telling him how Jason is now in hospital because he believed his dad to be a murderer. Unable to stand it any longer, Sarah reveals to a stunned Todd that Kylie killed Callum. David begs Todd not to go the police for the sake of Max and Lily but he refuses to make any promises.
Sean’s heartbroken when Billy explains how sorry he is, but he and Todd are very much in love.
Macca drags Gemma into the ginnel where he threatens to beat her up if she doesn’t retract her statement about Clayton. Suddenly Craig comes to her rescue while Macca does a runner, Craig phones the police. Gemma thanks Craig and calls him a hero.
Eileen’s booking her flight to Thailand, when Sean tells her Billy and Todd are having an affair. Eileen feigns shock and hugs him while Phelan suggests Todd is to blame. But Eileen quickly leaps to his defence and orders Phelan to leave.
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Windows 10 October 2018 update desktop
The release of Windows 10 October 2018 Update is imminent. The rumours confirmed that Microsoft’s next big release would become available for download on October 2 and it’s a free update for all current users.
We’ll get into all of those on Monday when the update launches. In this article, you will learn how to prepare your PC for the update.
Backup your important data
Microsoft has developed a backup tool for Windows 10 that lets you save your important data to external hard disk. It can be found by going to Settings > Update & security > Backup.
Free up some space
Storage settings
Microsoft recommends users to free up space before upgrading the PCs. You’re fine if you have got a regular computer with at least 50GB free space. But if your laptop or tablet is low on storage, you can start deleting temporary files and prepare for the update. This can be done from Start > Settings > System > Storage.
Update your drivers
If you’ve various devices attached to your desktop (such as a webcam), you can check with the manufacturers of your devices to see if they are having any issues with the latest Windows 10 update or an updated driver is available.
Remove unnecessary peripherals
Printers settings
You can also remove the peripherals that you think you don’t need before updating the PCs. For example, you can have your keyboard and mouse attached to the desktop but you can remove the printer, webcam, microphone, scanner or other unnecessary gadgets attached to it. This would help Windows update the system without trying to update the drivers for these devices.
Once your PC is updated, you can reconnect your peripherals and let Windows find the drivers for you or you can get it from the manufacturer’s site if you face any issues.
Temporarily disable or update your security utilities
The security software could cause issues during major operating system upgrades. You’re always recommended to update your security utilities before installing the feature update. Or you can disable the security temporary and reinstate it after the upgrade is complete.
It’s important to understand the system will only download Windows 10 October 2018 Update without any manual action when it thinks your PC is ready and compatible. But if you can’t wait, you can open the Settings app and check for updates manually.
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Where is Baruni, India?
map showing the location of Baruni
Baruni is a city found in Bihar, India. It is located 25.47 latitude and 85.97 longitude and it is situated at elevation 48 meters above sea level.
Baruni has a population of 84,888 making it the 28th biggest city in Bihar. It operates on the BURT time zone, which means that it follows the same time zone as Patna.
Quick facts
Country India
City of county right Bihar
Population 84,888
Elevation 48 m over sea level
Time Zone BURT
Longitude 85.966810
Latitude 25.474460
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This page was last updated on October 2, 2015.
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What are they?
Minor burns and trauma result in minimal redress or trauma to the skin, such as blistering or minor cuts with minimal and controllable bleeding. They are common for all populations but if skin is fragile, such as in the very young and in some elderly persons, or the health of the person is compromised, healing even minor injuries can be challenging.
How can they be prevented?
Prevention is always the first consideration. Reduction of risks in your environment that may lead to minor burns and trauma is key. These risks might include loose carpets or icy walkways.
What is the usual treatment?
Generally, the wound can be addressed by removing the cause and applying a topical dressing to prevent further injury. However, if you have conditions that could interfere with healing (such as diabetes, cancer or arthritis) your wound should be addressed and managed with guidance from a health-care professional.
When should one seek professional help?
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Publish Date: December 25, 2015
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Ghost’s hands fumbled all over the hot, young body he could feel, but couldn’t see. The woman moaned as she leaned back against him in the dark, her breath sweltering against his ear as he roughly palmed her breasts. He was soon questing further south, searching for the hem of her white skirt.
She was panting when he finally reached his prize, delving underneath to touch her mostly bare ass. “Wait, wait.” Her protest was half-baked, the lust in her voice far more urgent.
Ghost growled against her. “I’ve got a rubber.”
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“We’re not gonna get caught,” he sneered. His cock ached inside his jeans, and he rubbed his bulge against her ass. He slid his fingers up her thighs, pulling up her dress even more. By the time Ghost got a single fingertip on her silk-covered mound, she was soaking and hot, buckling under his touch and grinding even harder against his dick.
“Are you sure?” The question was a breathless moan as she leaned back and caressed the side of his face.
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Third edition of the book: “Israel, the Nations and the Valley of Decision”
224 pages
Price: 12,95 €
Apart from his biblical teaching on this prophetic topic and some shorter complementing contributions from different authors, you will find a prayer guideline containing 15 topics: six topics concerning prayer for Israel, six topics concerning prayer for the nations and three topics concerning prayer for the praying church. This third part, the prayer part, gives the book a very practical aspect and thereby completes it.
Don't hesitate ordering this book for yourself and also for your prayer group and intercessory partners. It will strengthen, equip and enrich you as you continue to pray for Israel and also grow into prayer for your own nation.
It can be ordered (in english) at:
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About - Applications Management System for PHP (AppsCMS) - V2.06r4
The AppsCMS came from the need to have an easy to install, use and maintain web management system for workshops, store rooms and laboratories. The AppsCMS can operate on an isolated intranet network, making it ideal for internal private web sites. As well as for public access web sites.
The AppsCMS is a PHP developers web applications management system. Not wanting to wrangle with abstract concepts (both software and design) in mainstream content management systems and deal of problematic installations, I wrote the AppsCMS for this role.
The installation comes as a self installing bash script (2,2MB) for LINUX and a ZIP (1.6M) file for general installations. Available on the "" repository and on "http:// web site.
Access to web pages is controlled by user and group permissions. Individual users or groups can have administation privileges, to a page or to the whole web site. Users with privileges are required to have a username and password. Access by public (guest) users is controlled by permissions.
AppsCMS provides settings and configuration pages to write, edit and maintain the contents.
A further consideration is to have a common method to link to locally installed tools (e.g. WebSVN, Database tools, Regex testers, etc).
AppsCMS also provides a methods for displaying only the necessary content for each user or group. A user can log into AppsCMS. Each user can be a member of a number of groups and so allows content set for group/s to display the appropriate pages. A user also be an administrator or a group manager.
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Sore Throat
A sore throat (pharyngitis) usually goes after a few days. Simple treatments that you can buy can ease symptoms until the sore throat goes. Usually, you only need to see a doctor if symptoms are severe, unusual, or if they do not ease within a week.
Sore throat (pharyngitis) is very common. It is usually caused by an infection in the throat. Soreness in the throat may be the only symptom. In addition, you may also have:
• A hoarse voice.
• A mild cough.
• A high temperature (fever).
• A headache.
• A feeling of wanting to be sick (nausea).
• Tiredness.
• Swollen glands in your neck.
• Pain when you swallow.
The soreness typically gets worse over two to three days and then usually gradually goes within a week. In about one in ten cases the soreness lasts longer than a week. You may also develop a sore throat if you have a cold or flu-like illness.
Tonsillitis is an infection of the tonsils at the back of the mouth. Symptoms are similar to a sore throat but may be more severe. In particular, fever and generally feeling unwell tend to be worse. You may be able to see some pus which looks like white spots on the enlarged red tonsils. See separate leaflet called Tonsillitis for more details.
What do tonsils do?
The main function of tonsils is to trap germs (bacteria and viruses) which you may breathe in. P...
• Not treating is an option as many throat infections are mild and soon get better without treatment.
• Have enough to drink to avoid lack of fluid in the body (dehydration). It is tempting not to drink very much if it is painful to swallow. You may become mildly dehydrated if you don't drink much, particularly if you also have a high temperature (fever). Mild dehydration can make headaches and tiredness much worse.
• Paracetamol or ibuprofen ease pain, headache and fever. To keep symptoms to a minimum it is best to take a dose at regular intervals, as recommended on the packet of medication, rather than now and then. For example, take paracetamol four times a day until symptoms ease. If necessary, you can alternate and take both. Note: some people with certain conditions may not be able to take ibuprofen, so always read the packet label. It is very important not to take more than the dose advised on the packet.
• Lozenges can be bought in pharmacies or supermarkets. Some people find these helpful to soothe a sore throat. You may also find sucking boiled sweets, ice and ice lollies can be soothing.
• Other gargles and sprays can be bought at pharmacies to help to soothe a sore throat. However, there is not very much evidence about how effective they are and they do not shorten the illness.
Not usually. Occasionally a swab from the back of your throat is done to send to the laboratory to see which type of germ is causing your sore throat. This is not done routinely however. It might be needed if you are not getting better after treatment, or if your infection keeps coming back.
Blood tests are not routinely needed for sore throats but are occasionally necessary for people who take certain medications which can affect the immune system. Also a blood test may be needed if glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis) is suspected.
Usually you will not need an antibiotic. Most throat and tonsil infections are caused by viruses, although some are caused by germs called bacteria. Without tests, it is usually not possible to tell if it is a viral or bacterial infection. Antibiotics kill bacteria but do not kill viruses. However, even if a bacterium is the cause, an antibiotic does not make much difference in most cases. Your immune system usually clears these infections within a few days, whether caused by a virus or a bacterium. Also, antibiotics can sometimes cause side-effects such as diarrhoea, feeling sick, rash and stomach upsets.
Therefore, most doctors do not prescribe antibiotics for most cases of sore throat or tonsillitis. See separate leaflet called Why Wasn't I Prescribed Antibiotics? for more detail.
Many doctors use a scoring system called the Centor score to decide whether a sore throat needs antibiotics. The features they look for are:
• Presence of pus on the tonsils.
• Tender lymph glands in the neck.
• Absence of cough.
• History of high temperature (fever).
If three or four of these are present it is more likely that the infection is caused by bacteria. If this looks likely, you may be given a "delayed prescription". This means you should not start taking the antibiotic straightaway. However, if you are getting worse, or if your symptoms have not started to improve in 2-3 days then you can pick up the prescription without having to go back to the doctor.
An antibiotic may be advised if the infection is severe or if it is not easing after a few days. It may also be needed if your immune system is not working properly. (For example, if you have had your spleen removed, if you are taking chemotherapy, etc.) People with heart valve problems or who have had rheumatic fever may be prescribed antibiotics for sore throats.
If you do need antibiotics, the one usually prescribed is phenoxymethylpenicillin. If you are allergic to penicillin you may be treated with erythromycin or clarithromycin.
Editor's note
Dr Hayley Willacy suggests you read the recently released NICE guidelines which advise healthcare professionals on when an antibiotic should be considered - see Further Reading and References, below. It concludes that most people with a sore throat won’t be offered antibiotics because a sore throat will usually get better without antibiotics whether it is a bacterial or viral infection; antibiotics make little difference to how long a sore throat lasts and antibiotics can cause side effects, like diarrhoea. An antibiotic might help when a sore throat is caused by a streptococcal bacterial infection (‘strep’ throat). Healthcare professionals should ask people about their symptoms to help them decide if they would benefit from antibiotics.
In nearly all cases, a sore throat or tonsillitis clears up without leaving any problems. However, occasionally a typical sore throat may progress to cause complications. Also, a sore throat is sometimes due to an unusual but more serious illness. Therefore, for the sake of completeness, the things to look out for include the following.
Possible complications
Sometimes the infection can spread from the throat or tonsils to other nearby tissues. For example, to cause an ear infection, sinus infection or chest infection.
Glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis)
Quinsy (also known as peritonsillar abscess)
Quinsy is an uncommon condition where a collection of pus (an abscess) develops next to a tonsil, due to a germ (bacterial) infection. It usually develops just on one side. It may follow tonsillitis or develop without having had tonsillitis. The tonsil on the affected side may be swollen or look normal but is pushed towards the midline by the abscess next to the tonsil. Quinsy is very painful and can make you feel very unwell. It is treated with antibiotics but also the pus often needs to be drained with a small operation.
Other uncommon causes of throat or tonsil infections
Other infections can sometimes cause a sore throat or tonsillitis - for example, a thrush infection of the throat, or certain sexually transmitted infections.
Non-infective causes of sore throat
An allergy such as hay fever can cause a sore throat. A sore throat can be the first symptom of throat cancer (but this is rare and mainly affects older adults who smoke).
Medication that can suppress the immune system
Carbimazole is a medicine that is used to treat an overactive thyroid gland. If you are taking carbimazole and develop a sore throat then you should have an urgent blood test. This is because a sore throat may be the first warning of a serious side-effect to carbimazole (agranulocytosis - which is a low level of white blood cells). This serious side-effect needs urgent treatment. Other medication, such as chemotherapy for cancer, or certain tablets called disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (taken for rheumatoid arthritis), can also affect the way your immune system copes with infection. If you are taking one of these types of medication and develop a sore throat, see your doctor urgently. They will arrange an immediate blood test.
The 'take home' message is ... see a doctor if symptoms of a sore throat are severe, unusual, or do not ease within one week. In particular, seek urgent medical attention if you develop:
• Difficulty in breathing.
• Difficulty swallowing saliva.
• Difficulty opening your mouth.
• Severe pain.
• A persistent high temperature (fever).
• A severe illness, especially when symptoms are mainly on one side of the throat.
Further reading and references
• ; NICE Guideline (Jan 2018)
• ; NICE CKS, July 2015 (UK access only)
• ; Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network - SIGN (April 2010)
• ; Antibiotics for sore throat. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013 Nov 511:CD000023.
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As a parent, there is a sneaking suspicion that gets confirmed with every day that your offspring roams the planet. That suspicion? Your kid is weird. Hell, they are all weird. When we were kids our parents thought we were strange.
Obviously, parents on the social media network Twitter agree with that fundament statement on strange kid behavior. Here are some of my favorite tweets from #mykidisweird.
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September 9, 2010
Baby Pop
She was a French pop singer in the 1960s whose musician parents were friends with Serge Gainsbourgh. She released her first record when she was 16 and became part of a musical movement dubbed "Yé-yé" (Yeah Yeah) popular in France, Quebec, and Spain in the early 1960s.
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A.J WELLS & SONS offer a full re-enamelling service for cast iron range cookers. The process involves the removal of the existing enamel followed by the application of new vitreous enamel restoring the surface of the appliance to its former glory.
A vitreous enamel finish is used for this type of product due to its heat resilience, stability and hygienic properties.
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Daily Horoscope Forecast For Today, 7/13/2018 For Each Zodiac Sign In Astrology
RELATED: Daily Horoscope & Astrology Tarot Card Reading For July 13, 2018 For All Zodiac Signs There's a strength in each zodiac sign's heart that reminds everyone to value things that last, but there are things to work on to bring balance into life between work and the home. You are preparing to come off a New Moon in Cancer on the North Node in Leo, so your attention and nudge come with a push to start and keep going. There's a desire to pull your resources into a safe space. This might involve time and resources, possibly with your guards up to the world but to your inner circle, with the soft side of your belly exposed. It's impossible to be all things to all people. But, when you target what has the most meaning for you and work on that, you find your tribe, you meet people who understand what you're about and after, and you also discover why things didn't work out for you before. RELATED: Astrology Love Horoscope Forecast For Today, 7/13/2018 For All Zodiac Signs It wasn't that people were letting you down or that you were destined for failure. Those life lessons and human disappointments were spiritual and karmic reinforcement activities to show you how you need to do things for you and to be brave to take the leap when you fear you may fall. Letting go of what isn't for you not only frees your life up but it also releases them to their own. It's an act of courage and strength. This afternoon, the Moon in Leo helps you to meditate and learn to implement big changes.
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Seeking the Face of the Lord
Archbishop Buechlein at his deskArchbishop-Emeritus Buechlein wrote a weekly column titled "Seeking the Face of the Lord." For nearly 20 years, it has been published 50 times a year in the official archdiocesan newspaper, The Criterion. You can read his columns online, or even listen to him read them to you.
With the retirement of Archbishop Buechlein on September 21, 2011, this column will no longer be published starting in October.
Archives - choose a year:
Related: See the weekly column of Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin
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Notes for "The First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874"
Historical Inaccuracies in the Recreation
The Exhibit
There is a nice concise background summary of the exhibit in the book "The Chronicle of Impressionism".
Downloading speed
Due to the high-resolution graphics, it is inevitable that some people will experience substantial loading delays. If this is unacceptable, I suggest browsing with image loading disabled until you reach a point where you want to see a particular image. I have utilized "alt" text for the images to facilitate text-based browsing.
Maximizing Image Quality
The images used in this exhibit are 24-bit (16.7 million) color JPEGs. Your system may be set for 8-bit (256) colors. There will be substantial loss of resolution if the exhibit is viewed in less than 24-bit color. I encourage you to experiment with 24-bit color, even if only temporarily, when viewing the images.
"Pardon my English, but..."
I dislike American cultural imperialism as much as the next person and I know it is the "World Wide" Web. Unfortunately, I am ashamed to admit that I am mono-lingual. If anyone wishes to provide translations of the text into their native tongue, I will be glad to add another version in that language. It would be especially appropriate to have a version in French, of course.
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World AIDS Day 2001
World AIDS Day 2001
red_ribbon (1k image)Further Reading
Love and Anger: Essays on AIDS, Activism, and Politics
AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic
AIDS & Hiv in Perspective: A Guide to Understanding the Virus and Its Consequences
Seasons of Grief and Grace: A Sister's Story of AIDS
AIDS Narratives: Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science
A Name on the Quilt: A Story of Remembrance
Losing Uncle Tim
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Tag Archives: BackgroundWorker
Multithreaded queue process with C# & BackgroundWorker
And now for something completely different:
This weekend, my mail server was slammed by a spammer using a rogue account to create hundreds of thousands of spam emails that jammed my outbound mail queue. Mixed with the spam were valuable customer emails, so I had to sort through all the mail ASAP and delete anything that wasn’t legit.
First I tried a simple loop that loaded each file and deleted it if it contained a bad string. But that was taking a while, so I made my filter multithreaded.
First, I load a list of files to process:
string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(directory);
Console.WriteLine(files.Length + " files.");
(You can iterate through the files instead, but I wanted to see how many files there are.)
I instantiate the class with the BackgroundWorker:
DeleteProcess DeleteProcess = new DeleteProcess();
Now, I loop through the files, checking each for spam:
foreach (string mFile in files)
if (CheckBlacklist(mFile))
if (!DeleteProcess.worker.IsBusy)
Instead of loading the whole file, I just read it until I determine that it is spam. Since 99% of messages were spam, this went pretty quickly:
private static bool CheckBlacklist(string mFile)
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(new FileStream(mFile, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)))
string line;
if (line.Contains("NIGERIA") || line.Contains("Message Delivery Delay"))
return true;
return false;
(By using FileAccess.Read, I speed things up a bit.)
Now for the delete thread. Here is how it’s wired up:
public List filesToDelete = new List();
public BackgroundWorker worker = new BackgroundWorker { WorkerReportsProgress = true, WorkerSupportsCancellation = true };
public DeleteProcess()
worker.DoWork += worker_DoWork;
worker.ProgressChanged += worker_ProgressChanged;
worker.RunWorkerCompleted += worker_RunWorkerCompleted;
The worker thread should get the first file name from the queue, delete the file, and then delete the filename list item:
private void worker_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
while (filesToDelete.Count > 0)
worker.ReportProgress(0, filesToDelete[0].Replace(Program.directory, string.Empty));
File.Delete(filesToDelete[0].Replace(@"OutgoingMessages", @"Outgoing"));
When we’re done, we count the remaining files:
Console.WriteLine(Directory.GetFiles(Program.directory).Length + " files left.");
It’s possible to create a collection of BackgroundWorkers if you want to utilize multiple CPU’s, but the bottleneck in this case was the disk IO, so it wouldn’t help.
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Full stack Web developer (Microsoft stack)
Is it reasonable to expect mere mortals to have mastery over every facet of the development stack? We think so.
Full Stack Developers are special. They have the courage and confidence to dive into any sofware layer. Front end UX code? No problem. REST API code? Bring it on. Database optimizations and inner joins? No sweat.
Your responsibilities:
• Working together with a team in an agile environment
• Analyzing and specifying new features together with our project managers and the client
• Implementing new features into our existing system
• Writing tests
• Maintaining our existing system and fixing bugs
How to Apply
Send your resume to: [email protected].
Skills & Requirements
Your profile:
• You have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• You have spent at least 2 years building Web apps using ASP MVC
• You know your stuff when it comes to C#
• You have deep experience with HTML5 and CSS3
• You love creating and calling REST APIs that use JSON
• You are really comfortable with all things SQL
• You know how to write testable code
• You are fluent in English (German would be a plus)
• You are willing to learn new things
It would be great if you were skilled with:
• AngularJS, ReactJS or KnockoutJS
• Knowledge of Design Patterns and Coding principles (SOLID)
• Inversion of control or dependency injection
• Documenting requirements
We would throw you a welcome party if you have experience with:
• WCF Data Services, OData and REST
• Azure SQL DB
• Optimizing SQL queries for performance
• Jasmine and Mocha
• F#
• DDD and CQRS
• We have a lean structure
• We work in a friendly and creative atmosphere
• We work hard, and play hard
• We are international
• We enjoy free snacks and beverages
• A great office in the heart of Berlin (Mitte)
• Flexible Core Hours
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Saturday, April 8, 2017
Elastic Beanstalk Worker Environment Timeouts
I have been working with Worker Environments in AWS Elastic Beanstalk. I found all the timeouts confusing at first, so I share my findings here.
The instances in your Worker Environment have a demon that reads messages from an SQS Queue. That queue has a Default Visibility Timeout and Message Retention Period. In addition, the Elastic Beanstalk Worker Configuration has its own Visibility Timeout and Retention Period in addition to a Connection Timeout, Error Visibility Timeout and Inactivity Timeout.
The process works like this (see diagram below). The SQS demon polls the queue. When it reads a message, it sets the Visibility Timeout overriding the queue's Default Visibility Timeout. The demon then checks if the message is older than the Retention Period. If it is, it explicitly deletes the message, effectively overriding the queue's Message Retention Period. In other words, the Worker Environment's Visibility Timeout and Retention Period replace the queue's Default Visibility Timeout and Message Retention Period respectively.
Assuming the demon finds a message that has not exceeded the Retention Period, it does an HTTP POST with the message in the body to your application which should be listening on If the demon cannot create a connection to your application within the Connection Timeout it sets the message's visibility to the Error Visibility Timeout. The message will be retied after the Error Visibility Timeout.
If the demon can create a connection, it waits for a response. If the Inactivity Timeout is exceeded before the demon receives a response, it aborts the request and sets the message's Visibility to the Error Visibility Timeout. The message will be retied after the Error Visibility Timeout.
Note that your entire run does need to complete within the Inactivity Timeout (max 30 mins). Each time your application sends data the counter is reset. In other words you can hold the HTTP connection open for longer than 30 minutes by streaming data back in small increments. You could extend this up to the Visibility Timeout (max 12 hours). While SQS allows you to reset the visibility timeout, Elastic Beanstalk does provide the receipt handle to your code.
At this point we have addressed all seven of the timeouts you can configure (2 on the queue and 5 in worker configuration), but we came this far so let's see this through to completion. If the demon receives a response from your application, it checks the return code. If the response indicates success (i.e. 200) it explicitly deletes the message from SQS and the process completes. If the response indicates failure, the demon sets the message's Visibility to the Error Visibility Timeout. The message will be retied after the Error Visibility Timeout.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Simple Email Service (SES) Sample Application
client = boto3.client("ses")
client.send_raw_email(RawMessage = {'Data': mime_formatted_message})
message['From'] = ""
message['Subject'] = "Testing"
client = boto3.client("ses")
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Linked Account Template
It is common for an AWS customer to have many accounts. Often a central IT team will own the payer account and have oversight over all accounts. The IT team will create a linked account for each project or business unit. When you create a new linked account, it's helpful to have a template Cloud Formation template to ensure the configuration of the linked accounts are all identical.
This template takes the account number of the payer account and a bucket to write CloudTrail logs to (Note: best practice is to write logs to the payer account to ensure separation of duties.) It will create:
1. CloudTrail - Configures a trail that writes to the bucket specified. This bucket should be in the payer account to assure that users in the linked accounts cannot alter the log.
2. CrossAccountOversight - A cross account role that users in the parent account can assume when they need access to the linked account.
3. SystemAdministrators - Add users to this group if they need to manage resources in the linked account. This is just a template and you can alter it to include the subset of services you allow the account owners to use. Note that this group gives users read only access to everything so they do not get errors navigating around the console.
4. SecurityAdministrators - Add users to this group if you want them to manage their own permissions. Note that if you do, they can delete your oversight role so only add users you trust.
5. ChangeYourPassword - A managed policy that allows users to change their own password. Note that this policy is already associated with the SystemAdministrators group.
6. DefaultInstanceRole - An instance role users can assign to an EC2 instance. I allows read only access to EC2 so instances can discover information about the environment they are running in for auto configuration at runtime.
Sunday, October 4, 2015
My Cloud EX2 Backup to Amazon S3
With all the devices in the house it was finally time to invest in a NAS. I settled on the Western Digital My Cloud EX2. I picked this specifically because it supported back up to Amazon S3. In practice, the backup software sucks and I had to work around a few issues to get it working reliably and inexpensively.
Overall I really like the EX2. It has great features for the price. My version came with two 4TB drives which I configured to mirror for redundancy (you can forgo redundancy and get 8TB of storage). The EX2 supports SMB and NFS. It can act a DLNA (I use an app called Vimu Player on my Fire TV) or iTunes server (unprotected audio only). For the more advanced user, you can also join Active Directory, act as an iSCSI target, and mount ISO images. The EX2 can backup to another EX2, Elephant Drive or Amazon S3. The rest of this post focuses on backup to S3 which is less than perfect, but with a little effort I have it running reliably.
At a high level, I want the back to protect me from three things: 1) Hardware failure. The EX2 has two disks, but I still want a more protection. 2) My own stupidity. I might accidentally delete or overwrite something. 3) Malware. Most notably CryptoLocker or similar ransom ware. The backup agent built into the EX2 offers three backup types (taken from here):
• Overwriting existing file(s): Overwrites files in the target folder that have the identical name as your source file.
• Full Backup: Creates a separate folder containing all of the backup data each time the backup is performed.
• Incremental Backup: Overwrites files with source files that are newer then the target files.
I wanted the third option, and this is what I am running. Unfortunately, it does not work as advertised. Every once in a while it overwrites files that have not changed. This would be not a big deal, but I want to run versioning to protect against malicious malware overwriting my files. With versioning enabled, S3 stores every version of your files so you can always roll back to an old copy.
The problem is that the EX2 keeps adding versions. Over the past six months it has created as many as 10 copies of a file that has never changed. This has driven my bill up dramatically. To keep my bill in check I resorted to a lifecycle policy that moves my files to glacier and removes old versions after 30 days. Glacier is much cheaper and and 30 days gives me enough time to fix a mistake.
The first thing I created was an S3 bucket. There is noting special here, just accept the defaults. Then, I created the lifecycle policy described above. The configuration looks like this:
Next, I needed an IAM user for the backup job on the EX2. I created a user policy that had only those rights needed by the backup job. This way, even if my EX2 were compromised, the attacker could never delete from my bucket or access other resources in my account. My policy looks like this.
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::*"
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKETNAME"
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::BUCKETNAME/*"
Finally, I could configure the backup job on the EX2. The configuration above has been running for a while now. It still overwrites files that have not changed, but the lifecycle policy keeps them under control.
Monday, September 14, 2015
NYC PowerShell User Group
I'll be presenting on AWS tonight at the NYC PowerShell User Group. The presentation is available here.
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Configuring an AWS Customer Gateway Behind a NAT
I have been wanting to configure a VPN Connection from AWS to my house, but my cheap Netgear router does not support IPSec. So, I picked up an old Cisco 871 router that does. I didn’t want to sacrifice the speed (it supports 802.11ac while the 871 is an old 802.11g device) and features of my Netgear router, so I put the 871 behind the Netgear and modified the VPN configuration for NAT traversal.
The 871 (or a similar device) is a great way to get some hands on experience configuring a Virtual Private Gateway. Despite its age, the 871 is actually a capable device and it’s available on eBay for less than $100. While most production implementations will not require NAT traversal, this is also good experience. You may want to peer two VPCs (in the same or different regions) and one common solution is to use two Cisco CSR1000V (available in the AWS Marketplace). In this configuration both CSR100V devices will require an Elastic IP, which uses NAT.
My configuration looks like the diagram below. I am using a Netgear router, but any router will work. My cable provider has assigned the address to my Netgear router which also has a private address of I have assigned the Cisco 871 a static IP address of (make sure to exclude this from the DHCP pool on the router). My AWS VPC has the CIDR block I have configured a static route on the Netgear that forwards all traffic destined for to In addition, I added a port forwarding rule to the Netgear that forwards UDP port 500 to
In the AWS VPC console, I created a VPN Connection as shown below. Note that I have entered the public IP address of the Netgear router ( as the IP address of a new Customer Gateway. I also configured static routing and entered the CIDR block of my home network (
Once the VPN connection is created you can download the router configuration. I choose a Cisco Systems ISR Series Router. In order to support NAT traversal you will need to modify the configuration slightly. You need to find the six places where the public IP address appears and replace it with the private IP address of the IPSec router. Not that there will two of each of the highlighted sections below, one for Tunnel1 and one for Tunnel2.
crypto keyring keyring-vpn-d67b98bf-0
local-address !Replace with
pre-shared-key address key XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
crypto isakmp profile isakmp-vpn-d67b98bf-0
local-address !Replace with
match identity address
keyring keyring-vpn-d67b89bf-0
crypto ipsec fragmentation before-encryption
interface Tunnel1
ip address
ip virtual-reassembly !Protects against Fragment attacks
tunnel source !Replace with
tunnel destination
tunnel mode ipsec ipv4
tunnel protection ipsec profile ipsec-vpn-d67b98bf-0
! This option causes the router to reduce the Maximum Segment Size of
! TCP packets to prevent packet fragmentation.
ip tcp adjust-mss 1387
no shutdown
In addition, I needed to change the ip sla timeout because the 871 is too old to support the default value, but this is unique to the 871.
ip sla 100
icmp-echo source-interface Tunnel1
timeout 1000 !AWS uses 1000. Min on 871 is 5000.
frequency 5
With static routing AWS is not advertising routes over the VPN tunnel. Therefore, I had to add the route statements to the 871 manually. The first statement uses the default administrative distance of 1 and therefore tell the router to prefer Tunnel1. If SLA 100 fails, this route will be removed and Tunnel2 with administrative distance of 10 will take over.
ip route Tunnel1 track 100
ip route Tunnel2 10 track 200
Extra Credit: Securing the Home Network
In order to protect my home network from nefarious traffic from AWS, I added a “firewall” policy using inspect statements on the 871. The ACL defines what is allowed from AWS. In this case, just ping for testing. All traffic to AWS is allowed and the inspect rules open the return path for any traffic initiated from my house. SSH and FTP defines high level inspect rules specific to these protocols.
ip inspect name TrafficToAWS tcp
ip inspect name TrafficToAWS udp
ip inspect name TrafficToAWS icmp
ip inspect name TrafficToAWS ssh
ip inspect name TrafficToAWS ftp
ip access-list extended TrafficFromAWS
permit icmp any any echo
permit icmp any any echo-reply
!NOTE: echo-reply needed for sla ping
interface Tunnel1
ip access-group TrafficFromAWS in
ip inspect TrafficToAWS out
interface Tunnel2
ip access-group TrafficFromAWS in
ip inspect TrafficToAWS out
This is when it gets interesting. While my configuration gives priority to Tunnel1 when sending traffic to AWS, AWS uses both tunnels for return traffic. The issue is that the inspect rules only allow return traffic on the tunnel it exited. Therefore, if a request goes out Tunnel1 but the response is received on Tunnel2, the router will block it. I simply disabled Tunnel2, sacrificing redundancy, but plan to dig into this a bit deeper when I get a chance. If you beat me to it, let me know how you fixed it.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
ElastiCache as an ASP.NET Session Store
NOTE: This article is reposted from the AWS .Net Blog. Please post comments here.
Are you hosting an ASP.NET application on AWS? Do you want the benefits of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Auto Scaling, but feel limited by a dependency on ASP.NET session state? Rather than rely on sticky sessions, you can use an out-of-process session state provider to share session state between multiple web servers. In this post, I will show you how to configure ElastiCache and the RedisSessionStateProvider from Microsoft to eliminate the dependency on sticky sessions.
An ASP.NET session state provider maintains a user’s session between requests to an ASP.NET application. For example, you might store the contents of a shopping cart in session state. The default provider stores the user’s session in memory on the web server that received the request.
Using the default provider, your ELB must send every request from a specific user to the same web server. This is known as sticky sessions and greatly limits your elasticity. First, the ELB cannot distribute traffic evenly, often sending a disproportionate amount of traffic to one server. Second, Auto Scaling cannot terminate web servers without losing some user’s session state.
By moving the session state to a central location, all the web servers can share a single copy of session state. This allows the ELB to send requests to any web server, better distributing load across all the web servers. In addition, Auto Scaling can terminate individual web servers without losing session state information.
There are numerous providers available that allow multiple web servers to share session state. One option is use the DynamoDB Session State Provider that ships with the AWS SDK for .NET. This post introduces another option, storing session state in an ElastiCache cluster.
ElastiCache is a web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud. ElastiCache supports both Memcached and Redis cache clusters. While either technology can store ASP.NET session state, Microsoft offers a provider for Redis, and I will focus on Redis here.
Launch an Elasticache for Redis Cluster
Let us begin by launching a new Elasticache for Redis cluster in the default VPC using PowerShell. Note that you can use the ElastiCache console if you prefer.
First, get a reference to the default VPC and create a new security group for the cluster. The security group must allow inbound requests to Redis, which uses TCP port 6379.
$VPC = Get-EC2Vpc -Filter @{name='isDefault'; value='true'}
$Group = New-EC2SecurityGroup -GroupName 'ElastiCacheRedis' -Description 'Allows TCP Port 6379'
Grant-EC2SecurityGroupIngress -GroupId $Group -IpPermission @{ IpProtocol="tcp"; FromPort="6379"; ToPort="6379"; IpRanges=$VPC.CidrBlock }
Second, launch a new Redis cluster. In the example below, I launch a single node cluster named “aspnet” running on a t2.micro. Make sure you specify the security group you created above.
New-ECCacheCluster -CacheClusterId 'aspnet' -Engine 'redis' -CacheNodeType 'cache.t2.micro' -NumCacheNode 1 -SecurityGroupId $Group
Finally, get the endpoint address of the instance you just created. Note that you must wait a few minutes for the cluster to launch before the address is available.
(Get-ECCacheCluster -CacheClusterId 'aspnet' -ShowCacheNodeInfo $true).CacheNodes[0].Endpoint.Address
The endpoint address is a fully qualified domain name that ends in and resolves to a private IP address in the VPC. For example, ElastiCache assigned my cluster the address below.
Configuring the Redis Session State Provider
With the Redis cluster running, you are ready to add the RedisSessionStateProvider to your ASP.NET application. Open your project in Visual Studio. First, right click on the project in Solution Explorer and select Manage NuGet Packages. Then, search for “RedisSessionStateProvider” and click the Install button as show below.
Manage NuGet Packages
NuGet will add a custom session state provider to your project’s web.config file. Open the web.config file and locate the Microsoft.Web.Redis.RedisSessionStateProvider shown below.
<add name="MySessionStateStore" type="Microsoft.Web.Redis.RedisSessionStateProvider" host="" accessKey="" ssl="false" />
Now replace the host attribute with the endpoint address you received from Get-ECCacheCluster. For example, my configuration looks like this.
You are now ready to deploy and test your application. Wasn’t that easy?
You can use ElastiCache to share ASP.NET session information with multiple web servers and eliminate the dependency on ELB stick sessions. ElastiCache is simple to use and integrates with ASP.NET using the RedisSessionStateProvider available as a NuGet package. For more information about ElastiCache, see the ElastiCache documentation.
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Tag Archives: Wall Decor Ideas
7 Easy Wall Hangings That Make A Big Impact
There are all sorts of ways to fill a blank wall, but if you’re looking to make an impact with your decor, go for bold color and varied texture, like these 7 award-worthy wall hangings that you can make in an hour or less! For maximum pop, layer a few decorations together and mix and […] .
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Inconsistent error reporting
The systems I maintain call several different partner APIs to get player account information. We noticed recently that one of the APIs returns seemingly inconsistent error messages when presented with invalid player account numbers. For example, if we ask for information on account number 123456789, the system returns a 404, meaning that the account was not found in the system. But if ask for account number 3420859494, the server returns a 500: internal server error. Very strange.
At first I thought it was that the account number was too long. Typically, the account numbers are eight digits, and the ones giving us errors were 10 digits in length. But when I requested account number 1420859494 (10 digits), I got a 404.
On a hunch, I tried the magic number 2147483647. Not surprisingly, that returned a 404. But 2147483648 returned a 500 error. What the heck?
The magic of 2147483647 is that it’s the largest signed integer that can be expressed in 32 bits. It appears that the API tries to convert the input to a 32 bit integer. If that conversion fails, the server throws an exception and returns a 500 internal server error.
This is the kind of error that unit testing is designed to ferret out. Had they tested the edge cases, they would have seen this inconsistent behavior and, one would hope, modified the code to handle it more reasonably.
I don’t know what to do about this. Their documentation doesn’t say specifically that the input must be a positive 32-bit integer, only that the value must be numeric. Based on the empirical evidence, I could put some validation on my end to ensure that users don’t enter account numbers larger than 2147483647, but there’s nothing preventing the API from changing underneath me and allowing larger numbers in the future. It’s unlikely that those in charge of the partner API would notify me of such a change.
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• Hi Jim, What is your advice in handling such scenarios? I have faced a few like this before. When we use a framework like some MVC ones that hand you a model object/type in your service request handling method, there is little control. Other option is to take in the input as string and try some boundary checks keeping the data as string and later convert to int. Even those have limitations. Most teams don’t worry much as their service reports an error anyhow. Like to hear your thoughts.
• Jim
Vivek: My issue is the inconsistency of the error. In my opinion, the system should always report the same error for an unknown account number. So if account number 12345 is “Not Found,” then account number 9876543210 should be “Not Found.” Or, if the system wants to differentiate between an account number that is not found, and an account number that is in the wrong format, then in the latter case they should return a 400, “Bad Request,” and a message indicating that the account number supplied is out of range or otherwise incorrectly formatted.
In no case should the system return a generic “Internal server error” because the account number is not in the right format. That’s just lazy programming.
• Hi Jim, I agree with you about the consistent error reporting.
Actually, I wanted to pick your brain on how to handle 12345 and some out-of-range integer. 12345 or any valid integer is easy to ascertain that it is not an existing account number. The out-of-range input is tricky. Currently, what we are doing with the out-of-range input is treat like a string and trying to identify if it could lie in the valid integer range. I think it is crude. Was exploring if there are better and established ways for handling.
• Jim
Vivek: When I’m writing a Web API, if the string that the caller passed is not easily identifiable as valid input, then I reject it. For example, if the caller passed “A12345” and I expect the account number to be an integer, I will not try to pick the “12345” from the string. In my experience, the values I extract from making assumptions about what the caller meant are wrong as often as they are right. It’s best to tell the user, “account not found” or “account number is in an invalid format.”
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I’ve known my friend David (not his real name) for over twenty years and we’ve always gotten along well. That’s probably, at least in part due to the fact that we share a lot of common interests and values.
Lately though, David has developed a habit that has been driving me slightly crazy. Whenever I suggest that we do something together or offer him an invitation of any kind, his response almost always is to tell me that he’ll let me know later whether or not this will work for him.
Well,”later” almost always turned out to be the day before the deadline, and even then, it almost always seemed that I was the one who had to initiate contact to remind him that I was still waiting to hear from him. Inevitably, David would apologize and provide explanations as to why he hadn’t contacted me sooner. He would usually tell me that he would love to accept my invitation but “something came up and I won’t be able to join you”.
After a series of situations like this, I noticed that this was becoming a pattern, and the pattern was becoming a problem for me; not just because David was inconveniencing me by not informing me sooner of his plans, but also because I felt disrespected with what felt like inconsiderate treatment when despite his profuse apologies, his behavior didn’t change.
After expressing my feelings to David we had a good talk in which he told me that I’m not the first person to have had this problem with his desire to avoid making commitments and agreements in order to “keep my options open in case something better shows up.”
While I appreciated David’s honesty, I felt some resentment about being held as just another ‘option’ on David’s dance card. After all, we’ve been friends for a long time and I thought I deserved a to have a higher place on his list of priorities.
In the course of our conversation it became clear to me that David didn’t just want to keep his options open, he felt that he needed to; and that if he didn’t, he might risk losing out on an important, potentially life-changing experience.
As I had feared, David had a severe case of FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). FOMO is an increasingly common condition plaguing a large number of people, who either overcommit and fail to fulfill many of their commitments, or choose to avoid agreements and commitments altogether.
In most cases the basis for their actions (or inactions) is motivated by a fear that in making an agreement they are losing the chance to engage in other experiences that could potentially result in greater personal gratification or satisfaction. A commonly-felt sentiment of many people who have FOMO is, “I like to keep my options open.”
Those with a great fear of missing out can be very discerning in regard to the circumstances and situations in which they tend to break agreements. They are often less willing to break them with someone who holds a position of authority in their lives, such as a supervisor or superior at work, or someone representing the legal or criminal justice system, than to an acquaintance or subordinate at work. They often attempt to justify or excuse their behavior by explaining it as being driven by forces beyond their control, when it is often the case that they actually had priorities that they held as being more important than the commitment that they failed to keep.
FOMO frequently provokes feelings of anxiety and restlessness, often generated by competitive thoughts that others are experiencing more pleasure, success, or fun in their lives than they are. It can also be a response to a conscious or unconscious fear of aging and/or dying. Unless the underlying concerns that drive this desire to compulsively accumulate as many experiences as possible is identified and addressed, FOMO behavior will continue to prevail and diminish the overall quality of well-being and fulfillment in one’s relationships and life in general.
There is a saying that you can’t ever get enough of what you really don’t need. In trying to accumulate as many pleasurable experiences as possible, life becomes more stressful. The ongoing pursuit of of the fulfillment of desire amplifies, rather than relieves the anxiety that drives FOMO behavior. It creates a vicious cycle. Checking electronic devices for text messages, voice mails and emails continually throughout the day creates a obsessive preoccupation that doesn’t quench the thirst for more, it inflames it. Kind of like pouring gasoline on fire to put it out. It doesn’t work so well.
Perhaps the biggest problem with FOMO is that a relentless preoccupation with activity and novelty makes it impossible for us to be to be fully present and deeply engaged in our relationships and our life in general. And true fulfillment requires both presence and engagement. Like the sign in the casino says: “You must be present to win!”
So if rushing from pillar to post trying to fill your life up with activities and novelty not only doesn’t enhance the quality of life, but rather diminishes it, what’s the alternative? Good question.
Our next newsletter will answer that question and offer ten steps that you can take that can free you from that corrosive effects of FOMO once and for all.
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This week, we three witches gather ’round the swirling cauldron of issues surrounding female baddies and the lack there of.
Do audiences want to watch Captain America beating up a woman? Do all female villains have to femme fatales?
We explore all the implications of genderswaps, writing strong female characters, and the seemingly illusive practice of writing women at all.
We also have an especially enchanting explanation about the history of campy, flamboyant villains, most infamously presented by Disney. Are children’s cartoons implying that queerness equates to evil? Is James Bond just as guilty?
Give this magical episode a listen and learn of our favorite female baddies and if women and queer folk should be excluded from the halls of villainy because it doesn’t look “good” for them.
Hosts: Daley Wilhelm, Matthew Yapp, Ian Pemberton
Logo by: Meghan Duffy
Music by: Jack McGinnis
Edited by: Zach Sexton
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Morning Ritual
I like the act of little morning rituals to help set up your day. My routine consists of waking up and making a cup of good strong coffee to get me going. Not a giant watery pot, but just one very deliberate and calculated cup. Coffee lovers may be able to relate, but I go to bed dreaming of my morning coffee and the simple routine to ensure a perfect cup.
You know when you go into a specialty coffee shop and the baristas are standing there pouring to make just one cup of coffee, they are using the the pour over method. Without looking any deeper, it may seem like a lot of fuss, but the whole process takes 2-3 minutes for a delicious cup of coffee, you won’t want it any other way.
Steps to the Perfect Cup of Coffee
1. Place pour-over dripper onto mug.
2. Place coffee filter into dripper and add ground coffee. I typically use around 3 heaped tablespoons, enough to fill it half way to two-thirds full, depending on how strong you like your coffee.
3. Meanwhile, heat water. When boiling, slowly pour over the dripper and allow it to drip through before adding more water. I like to stir it occasionally to make sure the grounds aren’t compacting at the bottom.
4. Drink as is, or add whatever you typically like: cream, milk, sugar, etc.
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Capes On the Couch - Where Comics Get Counseling
We're Talking About Molecules... Maaaaaan!
Nov 15, 2018
Before I talk about anything relevant to Molecule Man, I'd like to say thank you to Stan Lee for allowing millions of shy little kids like me to become adults that never grow up. Many others have stated this better than I could, so I'll leave the topic there. R I P, and excelsior!
[Editor's note: The Molecule Man episode and next week's Dr. Strange episode were recorded before the passing of Stan Lee. We will pay tribute to the legend in our next recorded episode, fittingly enough the Incredible Hulk. - Anthony]
I recently touched upon the idea of a mental crutch, or anchor, that allows for reduced anxiety and improved function for some people like Molecule Man. Of course, for comic's sake he had to take it to the extreme and become the essence of a crutch himself. That's common in literature, and I'm starting to see it more in my psychiatric practice now that I have a reason to look for it.
The good ol' pill. Medication. Drugs.
This is NOT a rant against medication
If you want to search for that slant on the topic, search elsewhere. I'm merely pointing out the placebo effect. Just the idea that you are doing something to improve your condition can have an impact on your perception of the condition, let alone the condition itself. It doesn't have to be medication, but clearly that's the crux of many baseline treatments in Western medicine so let's go with it. We're not exactly sure how this phenomenon manifests in the first place, other than to say that there's no such thing as shutting off your perceptions. Maybe it's the dedicated attention of a valued caregiver under the guidance of a trained professional that imbues some magical gift to a breath mint. Perhaps it's the other way; the de-personalization of a lifetime of ills into a microcompressed space, and just as quickly swallowed, hopefully dissolved with no fuss. It's all good...I think.
Does the premise fit?
We're talking about a man who is capable of controlling the very building blocks of our universe on a whim, and he condenses the most finite parts of himself into a wand. Hmm...taking a fraction of what would be considered meaningful material and finding a way to make it nearly inert, in a compact form that, when in contact with others it has a greater impact than what would be expected. Sounds right to me.
But I don't want to become Molecule Man!
Thankfully, no patient has ever said this to me. But I've heard classic variations:
-I don't want to be a zombie
-These things slow me down
-I don't want side effects
-Why would I take this when I can just take [insert any known substance known to man, and probably some unknown too] because it's all natural and I already have some in my backyard?
Good questions/comments! I don't have an answer, really. I mean, there are some instances where simpler is better. If you can control your blood pressure with biofeedback and a change in diet, awesome! But don't be fooled by trading one perceived snake oil salesman for another. Those natural supplements don't have to list all ingredients. Your local dealer has no obligation to give you anything you ask for. Heck, a physician gets calls from the pharmacy to justify doses of cough medicine nowadays; I'm not going to risk my license just so I can write out an extra prescription and get a slightly higher HealthGrades rating.
In that case, that's too far
Sorry about the rant there, but I know that there's a balancing act between providing my cliched “tool in the toolbox” and creating an addiction, irrespective of the medication involved. Without that balance, a person can come apart rapidly. I've seen it too many times.
What Have We Learned?
We all have our favorite molecules to manipulate. Ensure we don't take it to the extreme.
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People Search Engines – The actual They Anyway?
When I first heard about the term, "People Search Engines", I had this picture in my head: A humongous old mainframe system, hooked up to databases that looked like filing cabinets with glass walls and drawers. That's how ignorant my concept was of people motors. So that you can understand it much compared to when I first started tinkering with computers, let's first talk about search engines in general.
You actually know searching engine is, if you don't, you probably just don't realize that is actually not what you known and recognize for sometime at this point. So here are the more prominent ones you get come across -Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask, as well as others. They are those pages that "help" you that's not a problem following:
1. Answer general or specific questions
2. Define terms for specific fields
3. Locate suppliers of merchandise and services that a person looking for
4. Find webpages or sites that could deliver using have been seeking
It's a complex process of search bots crawling and indexing all of the relevant content so that individuals results turn up as a piece of your opportunity in respond to your queries or hunts. So now, coming back again to "people search engines", they furthermore sites or webpages that enable you to specify and encode information that are known to you so in order to may access additional data to complete your search and information requirements.
Let's cite a possible outcome once i specify, "Mary Jane Doe" in a facebook people search online. The possible results that may return to me are as follows:
1. "We have found an "x" number of Mary Jane Doe's across several jurisdictions. We request which refine ones with specific states.
2. A list of several Mary Jane doe's, using ages and general associated with registered locations based onto the database.
3. A list of relatives with similar surnames and living about the listed Mary Jane Doe's as specified.
4. A list of all the available data but as locked results.
5. Related service links that will enable you to instantly purchase and access proprietary information pertaining to instance social networks, background searches, genealogical links, email address, reverse e-mail address and searches by mobile phone or direct phone numbers.
Should you would to unlock the will cause #4 above, you only need to register your name and email address so that can retrieve the unlock code inside your email inbox and unlock your side effects. After doing so, you could have 24 hours henceforth to conduct unlimited searches.
If may found 200 dollars per month to be worthwhile, it would be prudent to bookmark it to make sure it is easier to send back to it and buy the free services sometime on the inside future.
People search engines are a service of value. I am grateful, we now have ready in order to them. People search engines are swell, don't choice so?
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A pipeline chain – Process async values like Java 8 Streams
What is pipeline?
Pipeline is an implementation of a chain of nodes for processing values asynchronously, that can be configured in an elegant way by fluent interface.
Similar to java 8 stream api, but with stream api you must have your values in advance (in a collection). So if you don’t have them (eg.: you receive values from user input), then you need something else. This is what pipeline chain is, a structure of chained processor nodes and a given output. Then putting values to the pipeline, that will go through it, and triggers the given output (or not if a node filter value out). You can filter, map, peek values like with Streams, but can’t aggregate because the value count is infinite, not like Streams.
A simple example
Suppose that you want to trim, lowercase, and skip repeating values from an input:
You can define this process in an elegant way (like Java 8 Stream API):
Consumer<String> pipeline = Pipeline.ofInputType(String.class)
.map(s -> s.trim())
.map(s -> s.toLowerCase())
.filter(new DuplicateSkipper<>())
.to(s -> System.out.println(s))
then you put inputs to the pipeline (that you get from user inputs or whatever) :
pipeline.accept(" a");
pipeline.accept(" ab");
pipeline.accept(" aB");
pipeline.accept(" aBc");
resulting the processed output:
A more advanced example
This example is the real rendering mechanism of log4jtester.com. The input is the textbox value changes, the output is directed to the rendered content html div element.
The pipeline is defined simply:
pipeline = Pipeline.ofInputType(String.class)
.filter(new RepeatSkipper<>())
.through(AsyncChain.ofTypes(String.class, Result.class)
.through(new EmptyInputResolver())
.to(new ServiceCallFunction())
.map(new HtmlFormatter())
(pipeline sources are prepared to use with GWT.)
Download source
You can download sources from my GITHUB functions project (by using kinolien’s GITZIP download github folder tool).
Examples are here.
Written by Dániel Hári
Dániel Hári is the founder of log4jtester.com, cleancodejava.com. Who is an enthusiastic Java developer who enhances his knowledge by continously searching for best practices and modern technologies. Engaged to clean coding, and honors the engineering profession as releasing quality work.
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How do we relate with London – physically, intellectually and emotionally?
In ANYWHERE, I explore the practical and creative interplay between being bodies in the city and how we relate with space in the field of visual representations of urban space.
The attempt of re-perceive National Theatre and More London act as a first step to relate and respond to the physical realm of the city.
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Tuesday, 12 November 2013
Our Social Media Campaign Success is because of you!
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This is our most shared, most liked and most seen post on our Facebook page! We are thanking all our supporters on Facebook and Twitter !
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1. Thank you John. Kindly spread the word about our cause;Raising awareness about early treatment of Clubfoot via the Ponseti Method. You are welcome.
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Comic Book Bears Podcast
In the first part of this new episode, Bill Zanowitz interviews Andy Mangels! Andy is a man of many pop culture credits including authoring novels, comic books, and magazine articles and producing DVD collections. Andy is here to discuss the recent Wonder Woman 77 Meets The Bionic Woman from Dynamite and DC which he wrote and which has recently been released in a collected edition. Apart from taking us through this historic first meeting between Princess Diana and Jaime Sommers, Andy also discusses his long standing role in fandom, his work with Gay Comix, his moderating of the first Gays in Comics panel ever and his work producing DVD documentary materials for many TV seasons sets! And if that's not enough we also get to hear about with his performing with the Broadway Bears singing group and about his creating the first prominent LGBT character in the Star Trek universe!
After the interview, Bryan and Steve join up with Bill to discuss a couple of movies that you may have heard were recently released - Thor: Ragnarok and Justice League!
Direct download: Comic_Book_Bears_Podcast_Issue_124.mp3
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CSS3 Multiple Columns
Multiple columns css3
CSS3 Multiple Columns Like many of the good features of CSS3 like animations, effects etc.. CSS3 Multiple columns feature is very useful. CSS3 multiple columns helps us to create columns of text, as we see in the above image. This kind of column layouts we see in books and news papers. This structure can be […]
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pngrtran.c in libpng 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted palette-based PNG image that triggers a buffer overflow, related to the png_do_expand_palette function, the png_do_rgb_to_gray function, and an integer underflow. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
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Cats: So nice, we may have domesticated them twice
Illustration of Javan leopard cat from Richard Lydekker's "A hand-book to the Carnivora", 1896
Illustration of Javan leopard cat from Richard Lydekker’s “A hand-book to the Carnivora”, 1896. (Wikimedia Commons)
In 2013, I wrote about the idea that the rise of the housecat was inevitable. A study had just come out indicating that cats were domesticated in China 5,000 years ago. If true, this would have represented a second domestication events for cats, since we already knew they had first been domesticated in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago. And because both events purportedly involved farmers taming local felines and seemed to have occurred twice in such different places and such different conditions, I argued that the rise of farming was destined to give rise to the cat.
But there was one caveat: Back in 2013, researchers weren’t sure what type of cat they had found in the ancient Chinese villages. Did the feline bones dug up from the site (which showed signs that the animals ate human food and were well cared for, hence the idea they were tame or domesticated) belong to Near Eastern wildcats (Felis silvestris lybica), the ancestors of today’s house cat and the first cats to be domesticated about 10,000 years ago in the Middle East? Or were they a different species of feline, perhaps one of the small local wildcats such as the Central Asian wildcat (Felis silvestris ornata) or the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)? If the former, the cats likely came to Chinese farming villages via ancient trade routes and were already domesticated. If the latter, Chinese villagers may have embarked on a completely separate domestication of the cat from a local species.
And that’s what a new study has found. The Chinese cats were leopard cats, suggesting that ancient Chinese farmers had begun to tame a separate species of feline than the one that had already entered human society in the Middle East. Though there’s no evidence that this line of cats survived (modern housecats have no trace of leopard cat DNA), the study adds further weight to the idea that farming–which was happening all over the world, often with local populations of small felines nearby–played a key role in the domestication of cats. Farming and grain storage attracted rodents, which in turn attracted local wildcats. When humans saw the utility of these cats, the thinking goes, they kept them around, and the cats themselves became tamer over time.
The advent of farming was one of the most critical milestones in the rise of human civilization. And so it’s tempting to speculate the the rise of human civilization was also destined to give rise to the cat.
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Educational news items in news papers
It is the largest district of Andhra Pradesh spanning an area of 19,130 square kilometres (7,390 sq mi),[7] comparatively equivalent to Japan's Shikoku Island.[8] It is bounded on the north by Kurnool District, on the east by Kadapa District, on the southeast by Chittoor District, and on the southwest and west by Karnataka state.[9] It is part of Rayalaseema region on the state. Its northern and central portions are a high plateau, generally undulating, with large granite rocks or low hill ranges rising occasionally above its surface. In the southern portion of the district the surface is more hilly, the plateau there rising to 2,000 ft (610 m). above the sea.[5] Six rivers flow within the district: Penna, Chithravathi, Vedavathi, Papagni, Swarnamukhi, and Thadakaleru. The district receives an average annual rainfall of 381 millimetres. Anantapur city is 354 km from Hyderabad, 200 km from the neighbouring state capital of Bangalore. Anantapur connects Hyderabad and Bangalore through National Highway 7. There is an airport in the district located in Puttaparthi, known as Sri Sathya Sai Airport; however this airport currently has no scheduled service. Bangalore International Airport is nearest commercial airport to Anantapur District.
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We must grow the culture of design.
Digital Seeds are the ideas on digital themes that we gather around us; are the ideas that we capture at events, on magazines or during projects. They are micro-conferences held by our team members that spread knowledge throughout our team.
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Saturday, October 2, 2010
Top 10: Horror Music Video Tie-Ins Part 2
Hi there! This certainly took way longer than it should have, didn't it? Crap keeps popping up and delaying everything. Something tells me this month is going to be crazy. Speaking of which, I'm hoping to have a post up tomorrow related to the month, but you never know what the hell will throw a monkey wrench in to the Mangler, grinding everything up. Anyway, here's the long-delayed final half of the top horror movie music videos. The last half was full of kitschy songs that I liked for their camp value, but this half's selections are songs I truly enjoy. I would willingly rock out to these songs any given time. So, at last, here you go. Rock on!
5. Alice Cooper - The Man Behind the Mask
By the time the sixth Jason movie came out, the series had already established itself as a cultural icon. What better way to tap into that than a trendy music video for the kiddies? And what better way to reach them than by pairing up what was once the most shocking rocker of all time with the slasher with the highest body count? The result: a pretty damn corny rocker that fits right in line with the tone of the series at the time. Even though Alice was already showing his mileage at this point in the 80's, it didn't stop him from his leather and theatrics. It begins with him popping up in a theater showing Friday 6 and breaking glass over his head right in the patron's faces and eventually escalates with him whipping various his minions in an elaborate set, including one girl with black wings taking flight from a giant unicorn. What this has to do with a guy in a mask stabbing people, I have no idea. In the end, the song's cool and the video's a trip, so it's all good in the end.
4. The Dickies - Killer Klowns From Outer Space
The perfect song for such a whacked out movie. The music sounds like it comes from a carnival in Hell as you whip around their most ludicrous roller coaster, meanwhile the singer sounds like a worm being choked out every time he hits the chorus. And yet, it works. It's catchy as hell and always brings a smile to whoever's listening to it. The video itself, besides the obligatory film clips, works with the movie pretty well. The band is dressed like an amalgamation of Mick Jagger, Sid Vicious, Ratt, Paul McCartney, Amish guy, so wardrobe synchronization was never an issue here, apparently. Someone decided to bring these yahoos together and give them the power of judge, jury, and executioner. That's right. Together, they are Judge Dredd-ful. These rejects from the Cuckoo's Nest send a Klown to jail, and then torment him with their music until the other Klowns boot them and take over. At least, that's how I read the narrative, which I believe was penned by John Grisham.
Dickies - Killer Klowns From Outer Space
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3. The Ramones - Pet Sematary
It takes a certain type of 8-year old to rip off Columbia House's video program, and I was that type. After committing mail fraud at an exceptionally young age, I watched this movie for the first time and was subsequently wrecked from it. Yet, I kept watching it. At the time it was the most adult movie I had ever seen and I thought it was great. It wasn't until years later that I found out The Ramones had recorded a tie-in song for it. I have no idea how an infectious, amazingly written (for The Ramones anyways) pop song became the banner advertisement for such a solemn, depressing movie, but I'm glad it happened. I can only assume it was due to Stephen King's personal love for the band. No matter how it came to be, it became one of my very favorite Ramones songs, over even "Beat on the Brat" which I sang to myself constantly throughout my elementary school tour of duty. While the video may not be anything fancy, just the sight of The Ramones playing this song at a graveyard while still in their prime is probably one of the coolest sights ever to be produced. It reeks of awesome. And cadavers. I can only hope that one day, my funeral will be exactly like this one.
2. Motorhead - Hellraiser
Now, this is actually a newer one to me. If it wasn't for Youtube, I probably never would known there was any such thing as a Hellraiser-themed music video. It makes sense that it would be for the third one since that was the lone attempt at throwing money at the series to bring it to a Freddy Krueger-level of success. When I came across this video online, I was blown away. The song is simply awesome. Motorhead is known as a heavy metal band, but something about their music has always pushed them far above others in the same genre for me, so already I'm going to like this on some level. It may not be one of their hardest songs, but it's definitely one of their catchiest, maybe even over "Ace of Spades." Every time, and I mean every goddamn time, I hear this song, it's stuck in my head for days. I'll be walking to the store and I'll be set upon by an overpowering urge to start chanting "Hellraiser!" in a voice that sounds like gravel. It's like a disease for me. The video for the song is great. It incorporates the requisite film clips into the video far more seamlessly than most others and runs with their own storyline of Motorhead taking on Pinhead while others are turned into human-boar-beast cenobites patterned after the band's signature skull logo. Personally, I believe that if Pinhead were a real person, Lemmy would be one of the few people on the planet who wouldn't even bat an eye as he walked up and kicked the cenobite king right in the balls. That's just how he rolls.
1. Dr. Reanimator - Move Your Dead Bones
And now, ladies and gentlemen, we come to the real deal. I liked the movie enough, but after it was over I flipped through the special features and came across this little number. Needless to say, my life was changed. Chills ran down my body as this giddy piece of eurotrash unfurled. I have no belief whatsoever that a musical entity entitled "Dr. Reanimator" existed before or after this movie, but for one shining moment, they conquered the world. I'm sure the underwear model front-lining the video had nothing to do with the creation or performance of the song, but whoever you are and wherever you are, you are a genius, Dr. Reanimator. This is a game-changer. There's a reason there hasn't been any horror tie-ins since this, the bar was just set so high. The only reason this isn't as revered as Citizen Kane is because no one had the inspiration to have Jeffrey Combs leading the goth rave-line while wearing a top-hat and monocle while twirling a cane. Prepare to have your mind blown:
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Inside jobs: Is there a hacker in the next cubicle?
August 13, 1998
Web posted at: 3:45 PM EDT
by Jonathan Littman
When most people think about threats to network security, they remember news reports about malicious teenagers breaking into the Pentagon or stealing India's nuclear secrets. But according to the scant available evidence, the culprit in the Pixar case was probably a current or former employee -- making this story a lesson about the security threats facing today's networked businesses. The greatest threat to individual and corporate privacy comes not from outside the gates, but from inside company walls.
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Don't believe the hype
This lesson seems to be lost in the steady stream of Congressional hearings and press accounts trumpeting the dangers of hacker or terrorist Internet attacks. The media's obsession with images of teen hackers prowling the Internet distorts the real problem of network security. For one thing, the young hackers who get all the attention aren't a threat to the average business. Some -- such as the two teenagers from Cloverdale, California, who broke into a series of U.S. military sites -- are joyriding. Others -- such as those who hit India's military network shortly after that country tested five nuclear bombs -- ostensibly have political motives. Neither shows any interest in targeting random businesses.
Other hackers have more constructive motives. Many erstwhile pranksters now make a living breaking into their clients' networks, finding security holes that should be closed. And the Boston-based LOpht group, a bunch of responsible hackers turned security consultants, made headlines by telling a Senate subcommittee that they could bring down the Internet in the time it takes to watch a sitcom. They never threatened to demonstrate their prowess; they were just pointing out system vulnerabilities that they hoped would be fixed.
Such hearings have exacerbated the government's case of hackerphobia. The FBI recently claimed that cases of computer-related security breaches have risen by 250 percent in the past two years. Computer security experts and privacy advocates question the content of these reports (most of the "attacks" cited by the bureau might more accurately be classified as "nuisances") and their timing. Deputy Secretary of the Defense John Hamre divulged news of the Pentagon hacks just two days before Janet Reno announced she was seeking $64 million from Congress for an FBI National Infrastructure Protection Center force.
Software vendors stand to profit from all this nervousness. Companies spent $6.9 billion on firewalls and other network security products in 1997, according to Dataquest of San Jose, California; those same analysts say that number will rise to $13.1 billion annually by the year 2000. This has made some companies very rich: When, for example, ISS Group, a maker of intrusion detection software, went public in March, its stock rocketed from an opening price of $16 to $40.75 in its first day of trading.
"People need to look at this with a cool head," says Dave Banisar, staff counsel with the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "There's a great deal of hype, sales promotion, and covert advertising going on here."
The enemy within
The hackers you've read about may not pose a threat to your business, but that doesn't mean your network is safe. In a 1998 survey by the Computer Security Institute, some 70 percent of the organizations polled said that their network defenses had been breached. The crucial detail: About two-thirds of the attacks came from the inside. So when you're evaluating threats to your network, you should ignore the hype and focus on the two likeliest perpetrators: embittered employees and spying competitors who've managed to worm their way inside your doors.
First, your IT people should do a basic risk assessment: What valuable information does your company have, and how much are you willing to pay to protect it? You don't have to be Intel to be at risk. Even small companies have sensitive information that needs to be shielded from prying eyes. The next question: Who would want that information? Start with your competitors. Then add to that list any current or former employees who have both the technical know-how and the motivation.
Once you've figured out who might want to penetrate your network, you have to figure out how they'd go about it. Start by looking at the security measures your company already has in place. According to Patrick Taylor, director of strategic marketing at ISS Group, "most business networks are not very secure" -- despite the myriad tools available.
Naturally, companies buying network security products think they're well protected. But such tools aren't always used properly. Experts note that firewalls may be improperly configured or not allocated a dedicated server. And executives or engineers often ask for special capabilities that create vulnerabilities. "All of a sudden the president doesn't want his Web access filtered, so you remove the Web filtering only for him," says Jeff Moss, director of professional services at Secure Computing, which tests clients' network defenses by attempting to break through them. "Or some engineers want to FTP into a workstation. Next thing you know, you have different rules for different people." Each time you make such exceptions or build new capabilities into the firewall (such as videoconferencing or streaming audio), you risk opening a security hole.
Trust no one
More importantly, these tools can breed complacency. "If a company has a firewall or its Internet connection is separated from the network, it may assume it doesn't have to worry," says Steven Lee, a security consultant for Verio Northwest, a national Internet service provider. Or as Mark Graff, a security architect at Sun Microsystems, puts it, "In terms of threats to an enterprise's security, most losses occur inside the company. The model where we put a moat outside to keep the bad guys out is not very useful."
"It's much tougher to break into a company [from the outside]," says Secure Computing's Moss. If disgruntled employees or unscrupulous competitors want to hack into your network, chances are they'll do it from the inside. Moss describes one case in which a company reaped "an information bounty" by planting a summer intern in a rival's office. Another security firm recently cracked the loan files of a major bank by sneaking in at night with the cleaning crew and installing keystroke monitoring tools on the bank's PCs. Verio's Lee recalls one company he worked with in which half the people who knew the passwords for core business routers were contract employees.
A more common tactic, "packet sniffing," involves surreptitiously embedding a program in a victim's network to grab passwords as they are sent across the network. "Someone might bring a laptop to work, plug it into the net, and have it out of the way in a bag where you wouldn't see it," says Moss. Traitorous techies can also install a sniffer on a desktop PC, run it during the workday, copy the resulting log files back to disk, and analyze these at home. The best defense against packet sniffers: Use switched hubs to divide your network into small segments, reducing the sniffer's potential catch.
Another big risk: those friendly folks preparing your business's computers for the 21st century. Warns Moss, "A lot of companies will fix your year 2000 problem and steal all your corporate data for one low, low price." The solution? Hire two companies you know and trust; have one company write the software, and the other test it with your data.
Companies often focus so narrowly on data and applications that they overlook the dangers of e-mail. As intellectual property and trade secrets become increasingly important, ill-considered e-mail messages can present a serious hazard to your company's health. "People send things as attachments to e-mail that have no business going out of the company," says trade-secret theft expert Joan Feldman, president of Computer Forensics. Feldman recommends carefully limiting the number of recipients of e-mail concerning sensitive subjects such as competitive strategies and product announcements.
Even personalized e-mail services from Yahoo, Microsoft, or Excite can compromise security if they are used for business purposes. "If you know someone's user name, there are programs to guess passwords," says Moss. "Nobody logs these password attempts, so you can just keep cracking away." Even worse, many people use a single password for all their many accounts. If a hacker steals your Yahoo password, for example, and it's the same one you use to log on at work, that hacker has just gained entry to your network. The obvious solution: Vary your passwords.
Hardware, too, can be a risk. Sun Microsystems, for example, considers unauthorized modems so dangerous that an employee found with one is liable to be fired the same day. But Sun's Graff says that many big companies with strong firewalls overlook a more serious threat: huge banks of dial-in modems used to connect remote employees to the company network. "Some large companies have thousands of dial-in modems that have no security at all," says Graff -- no password, authentication, or any other defenses. "You just dial the number and get a prompt."
Electronic eavesdroppers can also attack from an angle that computer-centric folks often overlook: the phone system. Hackers routinely crack the voice-mail box of a company's computer security official in order to monitor any ongoing investigations. At many large companies, an employee's phone number also serves as his or her universal communication number. Hackers are capable of parlaying a phone call to that number (known in hacker circles as "social engineering") into access to the whole phone network.
Buying security?
Establishing dependable network security isn't like following a recipe for brownies. "A lot of people think you can buy a firewall, install it, and be done with it," says Moss. But in order for firewalls and other security tools to work correctly, the person setting them up must understand how networks work -- and the ways in which they can be compromised. Moss warns that you can't just "have the person who knows the most [about computers] read the manual and do the job."
The best solution for many companies--especially those that don't have an IS department and those that are venturing into e-commerce -- is to outsource security. Even large companies have decided that hiring experts makes more sense than relying on the in-house alternative. For example, Playboy Enterprises, PeopleSoft, and 20th Century Fox have all used a company called Pilot Network Services of Alameda, California. Pilot offers a "dynamic" firewall, using its own experts to constantly update the system's defenses. Fox used Pilot to run the enormously popular Titanic Web site. All three companies say they've experienced no security problems since teaming up with Pilot.
Would outside experts have helped in the Pixar case? It's difficult to say. After the company traced the intrusion back to a local ISP, the trail went cold. Though the ISP's electronic records pinpointed by name the user of the ISP services associated with the offending e-mail, that user turned out to be a computer rental bureau, and the culprit could have been anyone who happened to pay for computer time. It's the final lesson of the Pixar case: Better to prevent someone from hacking your network in the first place, because catching them after the fact--and repairing the damage--may not be an option.
The usual suspect
On the surface he seems the perfect employee -- a self-starter with entrepreneurial skills who works easily without supervision. But beware: He's just the sort to steal your corporate secrets.
Deny him the raise or the credit he thinks he deserves, and he may strike out on his own--with some of your files. "Disgruntled employees need to be observed closely," says Joan Feldman, president of Computer Forensics in Seattle. "I've seen cases where employees will rationalize theft."
Furthermore, after years of downsizing, "people are more apt to circumvent the rules," according to Scott Wilcox, managing director of the San Francisco office of Kroll Associates, an international corporate investigations and management consulting firm. "Loyalties have broken down."
Warning signs
Kroll looks for pressure points -- the financial and emotional crunch of a divorce, the threat of a gambling debt, the specter of substance abuse. A sudden increase in secretiveness or erratic behavior may also signal trouble, says Wilcox, though he confesses that "too often you find people you can't read."
The standard profile has been "the 40- to 50-year-old white male who feels as if the company got rich off of his efforts," notes Wilcox. But in today's high-tech companies, he says, "It could be the 27-year-old working insane hours who doesn't feel his contribution is being recognized properly." Wilcox adds that a generous stock option policy may be the best insurance.
Taking precautions
Besides instituting rigorous physical and computer security, Kroll recommends drawing up strict confidentiality and nondisclosure contracts. Bonding--indemnifying yourself against losses caused by the bonded employee--is another approach. "If you're letting people handle tens of thousands of dollars, you usually ask for some bond on those people," notes Computer Forensics' Feldman. "Here, you usually have a collection of midlevel managers with the key to nearly everything you own, especially if you're in the business of creating intellectual property. Do you do a background check on them? Do you ask them to be bonded?"
Few companies bond their employees, but many now run background checks. Christine Beck is a private investigator in Seattle. Her firm, C.D. Beck and Associates, runs felony background checks on many new hires at a major software maker. "The stuff that people don't disclose and don't think you'll find is pretty amazing," says Beck.
But in the high-pressure, tight-security world of high-tech, Beck notes, companies aren't just worried about someone stealing secrets: "They don't need somebody going postal." Feldman recalls a case where someone walked out of a company after encrypting everyone's password. The employee wanted to be paid to return the information and didn't understand that this was extortion. "When they are holding the life and heart of your company," says Feldman, "they can be pretty disruptive."
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Thursday, March 8, 2018
Well I'm glad that's done!
No, Metra hasn't come to St Thomas.
I've posed these 6 commuter coaches on the Kettle Creek bridge just for fun.
These are Island Model Works kits, and I can't say I had a lot of fun building these.
no instructions, no photos, of the model or prototype. I had trouble finding images on line of these cars, so I knew what I was aiming for.
Rather disappointed in that regard.
On the upside, I finally got to use Alcad metal paint, and I'm very pleased with that product.
Now onto other projects.
Like contemplating whether or not to consider a whole new layout!
Stay tuned on that one!
Colin 't Hart said...
How different are these cars than the Kato models?
Anonymous said...
No Pierre!!!! NO!! Say it isn't so!
Please tell me you're not going to tear out your layout. I haven't gotten to operate on this one yet.
gary roe
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Thursday, February 08, 2018
Truth in Dreams
In the Cartesian argument (for Skepticism) from dreaming we are to assume that if we were dreaming, then were we to see hands in that dream, those would not be hands; but of course, they would be dream-hands in a dream-world, and so why should dream-reference to them fail? If we think of someone dreaming about hands, then clearly those are not real hands; but, were this a dream (not a dream-within-a-dream, which is what our "dreaming" would refer to), then what is meant by "real hands" within that dream would be dream-hands. You might wonder if that would be the case, had we fallen asleep having already learnt the meaning of "real hands" in the real world; but presumably we learnt the meaning of "real hands" in this world, and were this a dream then that would be a dream-world. Might we have learnt the meanings of our words in some higher realm? But, as soon as we clarify such worries, say in some Moorean way, by describing what is meant by "external thing," we tie the meanings of our words to this world: worrying about that problem resolves that problem!
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Keynote speakers
Dr Alison Gibbons: Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, author of Mark Z. Danielewski, Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature (2014) and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (2014).
Dr Grzegorz Maziarczyk: Assistant Professor of English and American Literature at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, author of The Narratee in Contemporary British Fiction (2005) and The Novel as Book: Textual Materiality in Contemporary Fiction in English (2013).
Dr Merritt Moseley: Professor of English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, editor of four volumes on British and Irish Novelists Since 1960, one on Booker Prize-Winners and one on the academic novel, and the author of monographs on David Lodge, Kingsley Amis, Julian Barnes, Michael Frayn, Pat Barker and Jonathan Coe.
Mariano D’Ambrosio (University Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Fragmentary Writing and Polyphonic Narrative
Anne-Catherine Bascoul (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Tweets: Hundred and Forty Word Fragments to (De)construct in Richard Powers’s Orfeo
Gerd Bayer (University of Erlangen)
Fragmentary Transtextuality: David Mitchell and His Novel
Katarzyna Bazarnik (Jagiellonian University, Kraków)
Fragmentation and the Longing for Wholeness
Deborah Bridle (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Teresa Bruś (University of Wrocław)
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz (University of Łódź)
Wojciech Drąg (University of Wrocław)
Dominika Ferens (University of Wrocław)
Affective Disorder: The Fragmentary Writings of Sigrid Nunez and Jamaica Kincaid
Alessandro Guaita (Universities of Lisbon, Guelph and Perpignan)
Broken Realism: The Implicit and Explicit in Modern American Short Stories
Jarosław Hetman (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń)
David Foster Wallace’s Fragmented Fiction Versus Don DeLillo’s Mediated Reality
Tristan Ireson-Howells (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Myths Torn Apart: Robert Coover’s Fragmentary Writing
Saloua Karoui-Elounelli (University of Tunis)
Poetics and Ethics of Fragmentariness in Gilbert Sorrentino’s Blue Pastoral
Zofia Kolbuszewska (University of Wrocław)
Hexen 2.0
by Suzanne Treister: The Autopoietic Wunderkammer of Alternative History
Bartosz Lutostański (Independent Scholar)
A Poetics of Fragment in British Prose Fiction
Caroline Magnin (University Paris 3 – Sorbonne)
“My Life Story Was Spaces”: Trauma and the Mechanics of Fragmentation in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
David Malcolm (University of Gdańsk)
Côme Martin (Paris Est – Créteil University/Sorbonne)
Unbox the Story: The Resurgence of Shuffle Narratives in Contemporary Fiction
Iain McMaster (University of Edinburgh)
“You’re Going to Go to Pieces”: Fragments and Freedom in Harry Mathews’ The Journalist
Roderick Mengham (University of Cambridge)
Fragment Factory
Trung Nguyên-Quang (University Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle)
On Fragmented Experiences in Zadie Smith’s NW and Swing Time
Paulina Pająk
Alicia J. Rouverol (University of Manchester)
Fragmentary Writing and Globalisation in the Writings of Ali Smith
Corina Selejan (Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu)
Vesna Ukić-Košta (University of Zadar)
“What Will I do While I’m Lasting, Marianne?”: Fragmentary Writing in Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Magdalena Sawa (John Paul II University, Lublin)
“You and I” – the Fragmentation of the Writing Self and the Tradition of Modernism in T. S. Eliot’s and Gabriel Josipovici'’ Aesthetic Theory and Artistic Practice
Maria Antonietta Struzziero (Independent Scholar)
“Make it New” to Return as Rupture and Difference: A Study of Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time
Angelika Szopa (University of Wrocław)
Marcin Tereszewski (University of Wrocław)
Ioannis Tsitsovits (University of Leuven)
The Afterlife of Theory in Maggie Nelson’s Bluets
Hilary White (University of Manchester)
Passages and Christine Brooke-Rose’s Thru
Paweł Wojtas (University of Warsaw)
Dead Uncertainties: Formal Fragmentation and Unreliable Narration in Coetzee
Lech Zdunkiewicz (University of Wrocław)
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
A Bible Without "Error"
Thanks to God’s providence and power, Scripture, in the original manuscripts, is for us a completely errorless text in all it affirms. Every word, every fact, every matter of faith and practice is without any error, in keeping with the character of God, who inspired (God-breathed) the text. In the process of writing Scripture, the Holy Spirit spoke infallibly through fallible men, all the while allowing the style and personality of the writer, and the cultural distinctives (including the various literary genres) to shape the final form of the original text.
We must certainly be willing to acknowledge the potential for errors to occur in the transmission process, and comparing what known manuscripts we currently have can substantiate many of these errors. This is likely to happen through hundreds of years of copying by scribes. With this understanding, the science of textual criticism is then employed, so as to arrive to as close a reading as we can to the original autographs. We can acknowledge mistakes in transmission, but it is more important to acknowledge the fact that God does not lie and does not communicate to us in such a way that what he says is contrary to fact. Using the context to aid us, we can safely conclude that we have the original manuscript with 99 percent accuracy and that none of this compromises important doctrine. Furthermore, it is not necessary to see discrepancies in numbers (which may be rounded) and a lack of concrete language as “errors” in the text. To be imprecise is not necessarily to be in err. Modern day tests of precision and accuracy need not usurp inerrancy. As John Frame rightly asks and answers,
But why does God allow vagueness in His inerrant Word? Because vagueness is often both necessary and desirable for communication, and God’s purpose in Scripture is to communicate, not to state the truth in the most precise form possible.[1]
With regard to numbers which may be rounded, for it to be concluded that what was written is factually in error, it would have to be shown that “the degree of precision implied by the speaker and expected by his original hearers” is completely or grossly contrary to historical fact.[2] Thus to claim that there were 1,000 men killed by Samson (Jud 15:15) when in fact it could be substantiated that there were only 3 or 4 killed would be to indeed find an error.[3] The issue we are getting at here is truthfulness, which must be measured in its rightful context. It is essential to affirm that chronicles in Scripture can and do provide accurate “informational” content, because it is impossible to disconnect the theological or moral meaning from its historical moorings. Much work has been done to show that many “problem texts” in Scripture can indeed be resolved and harmonized through deeper historical, linguistic, and literary study. I find it interesting that even as I write this, archaeologists have just uncovered the ancient wall in Jerusalem built by Nehemiah. I love it when this happens!
The analogy of faith is also a binding conviction in my understanding of Scripture. This is a principle of interpretation that recognizes the inherent unity of the Bible (Genesis through Revelation). We then can clarify “problem texts” that are suspicious that would seem to advocate more than just a factual error. For example, a contextual study of James 2:24 would help us see that it does not contradict Ephesians 2:8-9 or Romans 3:28. The harmonization of these texts reveal to us that although we indeed are saved by grace through faith alone, a true saving faith is one that will embody fruit or works in keeping with repentance. Therefore, the Bible does not contradict itself resulting in some doctrinal and moral error. It is, as Wayne Grudem puts it, a “gracious condescension” for God to speak to us in human language through the Holy Scriptures. And as such, it is an "action" of God that is without error.[4] In what the Bible claims, whether this is a historical fact or a theological or moral assertion couched in such, it is wholly true.
[1] John M. Frame, The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 1987), 221. The latter emphasis is mine.
[2] Wayne A. Grudem, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994), 91. Grudem also notes that it was acceptable in the ancient world to loosely quote the content of an earlier speaker or writer without presenting an exact quotation (92). Surely this is what many of the Apostles did in the NT when quoting the OT. Yet using a loose quotation (an indirect quote) does not deny the truthfulness of what is being said or cause one to note a contradiction resulting in a false assertion.
[3] For a helpful essay which seeks to resolve some alleged errors in the text, see Gleason L. Archer, “Alleged Errors and Discrepancies in the Original Manuscripts of the Bible,” in Inerrancy, ed. Norman L. Geisler (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980), 57-82.
[4] The connection of seeing Holy Scripture as divine action embodied in human language is further reason why one can advocate inerrancy. God is performing an action when He speaks, and all His actions are perfect. These are known as "speech acts."
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Alaska Highway Graves & Cenotaphs
Northern Highways - Alaska, the Yukon & northern British Columbia
The History of the Alaska Highway (Alcan)
As you drive along the Alaska Highway in comfort today, it's difficult to imagine that the initial track could have been built in 6½ months - construction began on April 11th, 1942, and the final gap was closed on October 25th. In the harshest of conditions, punching through some 1,700 miles of wilderness was a project often compared to the building of the Panama Canal. Given the speed of construction and the often-brutal conditions, it's quite remarkable that there were relatively few deaths.
Although, strangely, no official list of deaths during the construction period has ever been published, the best guess seems to be that there were about 30. Today, 4 sites honour 15 of those soldiers. Each of the links below goes to a full illustrated description of the site, which are listed in order from south to north along the highway.
Alaska Highway Km 58.4 (Taylor, BC)
Veterans and Alaska Highway Memorial
In 2000, a memorial garden and cenotaph were dedicated as a veterans memorial generally, and to the 341st Engineers, who were stationed there in 1942, specifically.
Charlie Lake Memorial, Alaska Highway
Alaska Highway Km 82.4 (Charlie Lake, BC)
Charlie Lake Memorial
On May 14, 1942, 4 members of the 341st Engineer Regiment, and 8 members of the 74th Engineer Company (Light Pontoon), U.S. Army, were drowned when their boat sank. Five other soldiers were rescued.
William Whitfield Memorial, Alaska Highway
Accessed from Alaska Highway Km 1202 (Morley Lake, BC)
Staff Sergeant William H. Whitfield
"H&S" Company, 340th Engineer Regiment, U.S. Army
Died December 18, 1942
, Alaska Highway
Alaska Highway Km 1212.2
Corporal Max Richardson
"F" Company, 340th Engineer Regiment, U.S. Army
Died October 17th 1942
Accessed from Alaska Highway Km 1279.1 (Quill Creek )
First Lieutenant Roland Small
"F" Company, 18th Engineer Regiment, U.S. Army.
Died August 9th, 1942
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1. gallente command ships
2. Arty Alpha Fleets
3. Black Ops
4. A solution to the Supercapital Blob?
5. Revitalise Lo-sec Industry with Orbital Shanties
6. ECM Redesign
7. Idea: make sec status gains lowsec only (not 0.0)
8. Moon Minerals
9. Jump Bridges ( Ideas? )
10. Proposing UI/Game Design Improvements for EvE
11. Fixing fleet battles: (long)
12. Trenches in the field: brainstorming for sovereignty fix
13. Heat Sink and Exchange Module
14. Make TrueSec Relate to Security
15. Dynamic LP Stores costs
16. ECM Proposal
17. Proposal: Exclusivity Agents
18. Remote resistance boost as new role of logistics
19. Balancing the new set of Battleships...
20. [Idea] Wormhole sustaining device
22. What would you do with walk in stations?
23. Marauder on the battlefield.
24. Fixing small scale spaceships (long)
25. The Final Solution (For Local)
26. Should the Engagement Range Limit Be Raised from 250km
27. Gallente [Draft]
28. Gallente [2nd Draft]
29. TMWTIC: Idea for a logi ship change/nerf
30. Game Design: Anti Botting
31. SuperCarrier balancing idea
32. Super Carriers and EAS
33. Process Review: Supercaps, CCP Nozh
34. What would a good expansion look like?
35. The One Equation of Misery in Eve: why super cap solutions fail
36. Titan's DD change
37. NEX store exclusive: The Tornado battleship!
38. Gallente Reborn
39. Why doesnt DICs have t2 resist?
40. Eve mobility, a lasting mistake that is not addressed
41. Navigation without P&P - death to the seach box.
42. The Final Solution
43. Nullsec industrial Redesign:
44. Changes to logistics
45. Target Camera (Brainstorming!)
46. Armor nano!? Module Idea to end shield dominance in solo/gang fights
47. Iterating on incursions
48. Revisiting the LP store - making it more simple?
49. Veldnaught
50. Interdiction Subsystem for T3s
51. No cloaking WITHIN bubbles
52. Gallente
53. A Gallente thread
54. [Theorycrafting] If Refining and Reprocessing Required Slots
55. Active tanking bonuses
56. POS: How do you envision what it really should be?
57. Sniping, what can be done?
58. New wardec mechanic - suggestions is a go!
59. Super carriers, Carriers, Combat Carriers and Support Carriers
60. Ewar drones
61. Warp and post-warp effects to Sig radius
62. Fix Oneiros and scimi?
63. T3 Frigates - Nom nom nom?
64. The Cynabal, and why it needs to DIE
65. The Racial Skill book
66. How to scale structure 'EHP' against fleet size
67. Caldari Alpha BC ....uh tier 3 BC idea
68. Tanking Rebalancing
69. Idea: Combine Passive and Active Tanking vis Scripted Hybrid Modules
70. web sideeffects - or what needs to be done to the tracking formula
71. Proposal for Revision of Mining in EVE
72. Insurance and Clone Upgade Gone
73. Does too much information ruin the game?
74. How to integrate dust and Eve meaningfully
75. High medical-clone costs impose risk barrier to PVP.
76. Medical clones go free; inserting implants gets a fee
77. Jump clone delay reduction or removal
78. Fixing Bounty Hunting (and smuggling?)
79. Cap Booster Redesign?
80. [IDEA] In-System Intel Revision
81. Changing buffer tanks to be more like active tanks...
82. Families
83. Spiraling Galaxy
84. Drone repairing
85. The problem with intel in Eve
86. The BIGGEST problem with the UI
87. An Eve Expansion focussed on intelligence gathering
88. Fixing tier slot counts [BC Hulls]
89. [Field CS] Add a new link unique to FieldCS hulls
90. Speed rebalance.
91. Null-Sec Sovreignty Re-Design Proposal
92. ECM replaced and turned into resistance debuff
93. Another ECM alternative thread
94. i, too, wish to replace ecm
95. Yet ANOTHER ECM Alternative: AOE ECM
96. FW Incursions
97. Regenerative Platings
98. Son, we need to talk about Boosters
99. Contract Related Idea (UI shortcut)
100. High security War roundable
101. Assault Frigates
102. T2 Salvage
103. Teir 3 BCs
104. EWar Revisited [Proposal]
105. Interdictors
106. Electronic Attack Frigates
107. changing moongoo
108. Caldari Rebalancing
109. [Sticky Proposal] Eve Math Sticky
110. multiple activations of the same module
111. [Mining] Medusa: How to fix mining and cripple botters in several easy steps.
112. Tracking, fixing ewar, and making things useful again (i know, another thread)
113. Save The 'Knave'
114. [WIP] Concept Enviromental Combat in Lowsec & 0.0
115. Maelstrom
116. Burn the Sec system - Lets blur some boundaries!
117. What should be the end game for most eve pilots?
118. Fitting skills are boring, bin them
119. Switching Toons on the same account
120. Clones
122. Player Progression [Fixing the Maller & Prophecy]
123. EHP modules/rigs nerf.
124. [PROPOSAL] Mining - the gold nugget approach
125. [hypothetical] deslottifying tier 2 battlecruisers
126. Most Complicated Mining Proposal you'll read
127. Current State of Propulsion Jamming
128. Navy ammo, faction mods and other stuff.
129. The Gamer News - Mercenaries are the Real Victims of CCP
130. Armor Plates and Rigs
131. <3 <3 Fixing local chat in Null sec :S :P :)
132. PVP training missions
133. Old Idea Review: antisubcap AoE DD Titan
134. Occupation-Based Sov [Beta]
135. Improving structure shooting: Eve Fortress
136. POCOs - are they shaking things up?
137. Mining Missions. Really.
138. Old idea review: Dronelands:
139. Main Game Name Reclaim
140. Rewarding good fights: fixing Warfare forever.
141. adding more Faction involvement in War Decs...
142. Re-Balencing drones
143. Sensor boosters: a bad module or the worst module?
144. Re-balencing gallente warfare links
145. Balance from Another Angle [Standard, Heavy, & Cruise Missiles]
146. Electronic Warfare Drones: Their Time Has Come
147. Micro Jump Drives
148. Links
149. The Great Tracking Nerf v0.1
150. A Crew Proposal
151. C/D the UI Should Have Range and Tracking Bars
152. Another post about supercaps
153. Rethinking frigates:
154. Target Lock Break Module
155. Supercapital Balancing - An Educated Opinion
156. Drone Boat Rebalance
157. T3 Bombs
158. Command Ship interface features
159. Rebalancing Eve one blueprint at a time
160. Lock Range on Recons
161. Sniping, gone forever?
162. Compulsory MWD fix
163. Stealth Bombers should be able to disrupt supply lines C/D?
164. Make repair drones able to target yourself
165. Probably Terrible Mining Rebalancing Idea
166. Booster (drug) rebalancing.
167. Alternative idea to fix focus fire
168. [PROPOSAL] War-Dec Review
169. Thought experiment - Allow player-player cash for aurum sales.
170. Improving fleet communications.
171. Bounty system overhaul
172. Rat Pirate marauding gangs
173. Musings on upcoming BC rebalance
174. Since it seems like it's rebalancing week here at FHC, how about that Fleet Scythe?
175. Instalocking & Why it's ruined EVE
176. Oh god, another ECM thread
177. Meta module prices are making many T2 modules worthless.
178. Modular Starbase Planner (Concept Mockup)
179. Jam duration = (jam strength / sensor strength) x 20
180. Discussion: Removing player to player standings from the game.
181. Move Jump Bridges to Planets, etc
182. Make rookie ships able to enter fw sites!
183. The curious case of the Rapid Light Missile Launcher
184. Fixing Gang Links
185. devpost-summary : (future) frig balance
186. Signal Masking
187. User Interface Improvement: Conversation Bar
188. Ferox?
189. Sniping
190. Mining Idea
191. Remote industry jobs
192. Balancing ships sizes: signature resolution as a ship attribute
193. Tackle recons are the problem
194. Faction Warfare Solutions (To problems that may not even exist).
195. Tournament Rewards
196. [Proposal] The case for turret ammo
197. Supercaptials and POS
198. [Honest Question] Stagnation of Null-sec
199. [Proposal] Conquest Points
200. [Proposal] Increasing fuel usage for bridging
201. [Proposal] Rebalance skillpoints/level
202. [proposal] Damage Controls, the way they were supposed to be
203. The good, the bad and the Low Sec.
204. intel inside
205. D-Scanner
206. Deep Space Transport Ship Bonus
207. Nanite thought
208. [Theorywank] Slowcats are OP: Assigned sentries nerf.
209. [GATHERING INFO] Null-sec farm and fields
210. Fixing Nullsec in one mechanic: farm and fields, old alliances and supers
211. [Spitball] Sov as epeen only
212. [PROPOSAL] Null-sec - The vengeance
213. Isk is not enough: why nullsec is unplayable for single account players
214. Titan Doomsday thought
215. Eve Online: Insurgency (proposal)
216. Pirate warfare
217. Dread turret rebalance idea
218. [REBALANCE] racial differentiation of non-sentry damage drones
219. [REWORK] Faction Turrets
220. Lets talk about the Industrial tiercide
221. [Discussion] Predator vs Prey Game Play in Eve
222. Ship Proposal: Monitor
223. warfare links and aggro
224. Fixing one part of the sniping problem
225. Why PvE is broken and how to fix it with markets:
226. One idea to rule em' all
227. Another sniping/probing suggestion
228. The cloak warp trick: exploit or okay?
229. Webbing Stuff Into Warp: Exploit or Okay?
230. Skirmish Warfare Link - Interdiction Maneuvers
231. Personal repair systems double as ECCM fit modules.
232. EVE without a warp drive
233. Rigs 2.0
234. [Proposal] Active Inertia Increase Module
235. Making Links Fun
236. [Discussion] Force Multipliers Considered Harmful
237. Macros
238. Reducing Your Signature Radius
239. Marauders
240. James 315 on How to Fix Supercaps
241. T3 Triage subsystem
242. [Proposal] R-SBA, R-AuxPump
243. Capital Jump Timer
244. [PROPOSALS] Post-Odyssey
245. Idea: Heat interation modules
246. Reduction in effectiveness of Tacking Disruptors on unbonused ships
247. Proposals for more interesting exploration content
248. My take on Interceptors.
249. Proposal: Additional skill name changes
250. Proposal on Eve-O: Improving Eve Gate by adding Alliance Chatter option
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Why does the game automatically launch, as if I'd hit the "Play" button, after an update. This functionality started at last weeks maintenance. Is this intended, or a new undocumented "feature"? I looked at the settings in Glyph, and there isn't an option to stop it from doing that.
Is there something in a config file somewhere that I can edit to make it stop this behavior? If not, please request to have that option added to the Glyph Launcher. Most maintenance days, I just want to update the client so it's ready when I am. But I don't want it launching of it's own accord.
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Arctic troon
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom Fungi
Phylum Shroomus
Class Fungodenturus
Order Troonei
Family Troons
Genus Troonus
Species T. arcticus
General statistics
Mean Height 4cm
Mean Weight 500g
Mean Edibility 1/10
Mean Danger 8/10
Arctic Troons are a species of Troon living within the arctic circles.
Arctic Troons stand at about 2cm in height, and are about 2cm thick in the stalk. Their Dome protrudes only a further 1mm from this. Arctic Troons have large eyes which see in heat instead of light. This allows them to spot any warm-blooded creature against the freezing backdrop of ice.
Arctic Troon colonies are burrowed out from the hardest material available, typically rock or ice. Each colony maintains around 100 square kilometers of territory, which they patrol vigorously for any life.
Arctic Troons live on a mixture of arctic mammals in the Arctic, while in Antarctica they feed mainly on penguins. However, anything edible that comes into their territory will be consumed; be it a stranded whale or a research team.
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M.A. in Japanese Studies - Faculty Members
Professor of Literature
B.A., M.A., University of Texas Ph.D., University of Washington
Early modern and contemporary Japanese literature
Associate Professor of Literature
Medieval and Early Modern Japanese literature, otogizoshi, ko-joruri, and gunkimono genres; samurai representation and the legend of Minamoto no Yoshitsune
Professor of Literature
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., Yale University
Modern Japanese literature, literature and Tokyo
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Old testamen survey 102
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Old testamen survey 102
Post jackie on Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:49 pm
INTRODUCING THE UNITED KINGDON STAGE(1 SAMUEL 8-31; 2 Samuel; 1kings 1-11; 1chronicles; 2 chronicles1-9; psalms; proverbs; Ecclesiastes; song of Solomon)
1. This stage, covering a period of approximately 120 years, records the history of Israel’s first three kings. Each ruled for forty years. They are Saul, David and Solomon
2. Most of Israel’s beautiful songs and words of wisdom were composed during this period. Those would include: psalms, proverbs, Song of Solomon, and Ecclesiastes.
3. The period begins with the selection of a ruler (Saul, 1sam. 9) and ends with the rejection of another ruler (rehoboam, 1 kings 12).
4. It includes a visit to the witch of en-dor (1 Sam. 28) and a visit by the queen of Sheba (1 kings 3).
5. The death of two babies is noted. The first (2 sam.12) pointed out the wages of sin, while the second (1 kings 3) pointed out the Wisdom of Solomon.
2 sam.12:13-14And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
1 kings 3:25-28And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
6. During this period a city is saved (1 sam.15), and a giant is slain (1 Sam. 17).
7. It describes a fearless prophet (Nathan, 2 Sam. 12), and a faithful priest (zadok, 2 Sam. 15).
8. The ark of God on two occasions is carried to Jerusalem, once during a celebration (2 Sam. 15).
6:15-17So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
[16] And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
9. A sister is raped (2 sam.13) and a son is hanged (2 sam.18)
10. A father’s son (Jonathan) protects young David from the son’s father (Saul, 2 sam.20).
11. A heathen city becomes the Holy City (2 sam.5).
2 sam.5:6-8And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spoke unto David, saying, Except thou Take away the blind and the lame, thou shall not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.
[7] Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.
[8] And David said on that day, whosoever gutted up to the gutter, and smitten the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and captain.
12. Solomon is instructed (1kings 2) and the temple is constructed (1 kings 6).
“And the Lord said to Samuel, hearken unto their voice, and make them a king” (1 Sam. 8:22)
1. Saul, Israel’s first king.
a. The selection of Saul.
b. The rejection of Saul ( 1 sam. 13:1-15:9)
II. David, israel's finest king (1 sam. 16-2 sam. 31; 1 chro. 11-29)
a. David the shepherd (16:1-13)
b. David the singer (16:14-23)
c. David the soldier (17)
d. david the sought ( 1 Sam. 18-31)
1.The shepherd (1 Sam. 16:1-13).
a.David, the eight son of Jesse, is brought from a sheep field near Bethlehem and anointed by Samuel (1 Sam. 16:1-2).
b.The Spirit of God comes upon David (16:13).
2.The singer (1 Sam. 16:14-23).
a.King Saul is trouble by an evil spirit
b.David’s beautiful music on the harp helps hoot he the trouble king (1 Sam. 16:14-25).
3.The soldier (1 Sam. 17:1-58).
a.A giant philistine warrior named goliath had defied the armies of Israel for forty days (17:16).
b.With but a sling and a stone, David kills this mighty soldier (17:49).
4.The sought (1 Sam. 18:31).
a.He begins his lifelong fellowship with Jonathan (1 Sam. 18:1-4; 20:41; 42; 23:16-18).
b.His growing popularity incurs Saul’s insane jealousy. Saul attempts to do him in by:
1.Jonathan (compare 18:5 with 18:13).
2.Private attempts on his life (18:11; 21, 25; 19:1, 10, 15).
3.Trickery (18:25-27).
4.Openly hunting him as a wild animal (23:15, 26; 24:2; 26:2, 17-20).
c.He marries Michal, the first of many wives (18:27).
d.He flees to the cities of Nob, and in desperation lies to the high priest there (21:1-9)
e.He then travel to the philistine city of Gath and fakes and insanity (21:10-15)
f.He begins gathering his army of “Spiritual outlaws” (22:1-2;23:13)
g.He goes to Moab but is ordered to Judah by God (22:3-5)
h.He spares the life of Saul on two occasions:
1.In cave in en-gedi (24:1-5)
2.In a wilderness in ziph (26:1-16)
i.He maries his second wife, a widow named Abigail (25:1-42)
j.Again the backslides and settles in philistine city of ziklag (27:1-6).
5. The sovereign (2 sam.1-10, 1 chron.11-19)
a. upon the death of Saul, by God’s command he comes to Hebron and is anointed by the men of Judah as their king (2 sam. 2:1-4)
b. after a seven year war, David is successful over the house of Saul and is anointed at Hebron by all twelve tribes (2 sam. 3-5)
c. he capture the city of Jerusalem and it his new capital (2 sa. 5:6-10).
d.He then brings the Ark of the Covenant into Jerusalem (2Sam.6:1-19)
e.he desires to build a temple for God, but is not allowed to do so (2 Sam. 7:17; 1 Chron. 17:4).
f. he now receives the all imortant Davidic Covenant from God (2 Sam.7:8-17; 1 Chron.17:7-15). This Covenant in essence predicted the millennial reign of Christ, the seed of David, upon the earth someday.
g. He seeks out and shows kindness to mephibosheth, Jonahtan's lame son. (2 Sam. 9:1-13)
6. The Sinner 2 Sam. 11
a. David's commet adultery with Bath-sheba.
b. He then arranges to have her husband, uriah, killed on a batlefield (2 Sam. 11).
7. The Sorrowful 2 Sam. 12-31; 1 Chron. 20,21.
a. Nathan the prophet confronts David about this, and the king confesses (2 Sam. 12:1-12; Ps. 32,52).
1. The death of hies son. (12:18).
2. The rape of tamar, his daughter, by amnon, his son (13:14).
3. The murder of amnon by his half-brother (and David's son) absalom,(13:29).
4. The rebellion of absalom against his father's own throne (15-18).
8. The Statement 2 Sam. 21:1-14
9. The Satistician 2 sam.24
10. The Sponsor 1 Chron. 22-29
11. The Scribe 2 Sam. 22:1; 23:1-3
12. The Satge 1 kings 2
Solomon, israel's fabulous king (1 ki. 1-11, 2 chron. 1-9)
I. Triumph over his ememies 1 Kings 1-2
II. Talent from God 1 kings 3:4-28
III. Total and traquil reign 1 kings 4
IV. Temple of Worship 1 kings 5-8; 2 cron. 2-7
V. Treasury of Riches 4:26;9:17,26=28;10:22,26;11:3
VI. Testimony through land 4:29-34; 10:1-13
VII. The trangressions against God 1 kings 11
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Cobbler Statesman - 29 min
During colonial times, an ordinary citizen becomes involved in the formation of the United States. After the Revolutionary War, he joins in helping to solve the challenges of a new government for a new nation - tackling the issue of Federal and States rights.
Remember - always check your facts and view other sources
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome – What is it, What to do about it
It is an intestinal disorder.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) affects the large intestine. Signs and symptoms include cramping, abdominal pain, bloating, gas, and diarrhea or constipation, or both.
Only a small number of people have severe signs and symptoms.
Most people with IBS experience times when the symptoms are worse and times when they improve or even disappear completely.
What are the TIPS to relieving this problem IBS TIPS
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Sync projects with Basecamp Classic
Cashboard allows you to synchronize all of your project todo items and time entries with Basecamp Classic. This is a great option if you'd like to mange your projects and tasks inside Basecamp, but bill for them inside Cashboard.
Many of our customers work this way to generate invoices, and have said that we have the most complete Basecamp sync on the market.
Linking Basecamp Classic projects
There's two ways to link Basecamp and Cashboard projects.
Importing projects from Basecamp
When creating a new project, select the "Copy settings from Basecamp" link. Your active list of projects will be fetched from Basecamp, and you will be allowed to choose one to import.
Creating new Cashboard proejct
After creating your project the system will prompt you to start synchronizing data.
Linking pre-existing Cashboard projects with Basecamp
• Visit the Cashboard project you'd like to link with Basecamp
• Hover over the project name in the titlebar, then select Edit Preferences
• Select a Basecamp project from the drop-down menu
• Press the Save button at the bottom of the page.
Sync data between Cashboard and Basecamp Classic Projects
Synchronizing Basecamp data with Cashboard
You'll notice a new 'Sync' button for projects that are linked with Basecamp.
This button allows you to control how data will be synchronized between systems.
If checked, all to-do items that don't currently exist in Cashboard as tasks will be imported.
You can also control if you want to import completed items or not.
If checked, all tasks from Cashboard will be pushed to Basecamp.
You can also sync the status of already imported and exported items. Just choose which system will be the "master" for the sync, and let the system do the rest. No more double entry!
Unlike some other systems, this allows you to choose where and how you manage your tasks. Create or update tasks in either program and sync as you see fit.
A note about importing Time Entries
Importing time entries from Basecamp for people that don't exist in Cashboard will automatically create them an account. A welcome email will not be sent for people created in this manner (but you can send one later).
Exporting time entries for people that don't exist in Basecamp will assign those entries to the account you're using for API access. Unfortunately the Basecamp API does not support creation of Basecamp accounts.
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Historical Sketch of Sudbury, MA
Source at bottom of page.
Historical Sketches
Franklin County
Hampden County
Hampshire County
Middlesex County
Norfolk County
Worcester County
New York
History at
Rays Place
Also see [ Railway
Officials in America
SUDBURY was first settled in 1638, and incorporated in 1639. The original number of sharers and settlers was 54. Mr. Edmund Brown, the first settled minister, was ordained Aug., 1640; died June 22, 1677. Mr. Sherman began to preach in Sudbury in 1677; in 1705, he was deposed from his pastoral office. Mr. Israel Loring was ordained pastor in 1706. Upon the division of the town, by the general court, the inhabitants of the west side of the river invited him to come over and settle with them, in 1722. In 1765, the number of houses on the west side of the river was 151; the number of families, 187; the number of inhabitants, 1,047; the number of church members, 203; of whom 76 were males and 127 females.
Sudbury is divided on the east from Wayland by Sudbury river, on which large tracts of low land are annually overflowed. There are 3 churches, 2 Congregational and 1 Methodist. There are about 30 houses in the central village. Distance, 7 miles south west of Concord, 24 north east from Worcester, and 19 miles westward from Boston. Population, 1,388. There is a paper mill in this town. In 1837, there were 50 tons of stock manufactured; value of paper, $5,463.
The following is a western view of the monument of Captain Wadsworth and others, sianthng in an open field, about thirty rods eastward of the road, and a mile south of the Congregational church in old Sudbury, in the central part of the town. It stands near a growth of pines and oaks, and the soil on this spot is light and sandy. On the south and west there is a prospect of the meadows on Sudbury river. The following is the inscription on the monument:
"Capt. Samuel Wadsworth of Milton, his Lieut. Sharp of Brooklin, Capt. Brociebank of Rowley, with about 26 other souldiers, fighting for the defence of their country, were slain by ye Indian enemy, April 18th, 1676, lye buried in this place."
The following account is taken from Holmes' Annals.
"This town was for some time a frontier settlement, and suffered much from the Indians during King Philip's war. On the 18th of April, 1676, the day after they had burned the few deserted houses at Marlborough, they violently attacked Sud bury, burned several houses and barns, and killed ten or twelve of the English who had come from Concord to the assistance of their neighbours. Captain Wadsworth, sent at this juncture from Boston with about fifty men, to relieve Marlborough, after having marched twenty five miles, learning that the enemy had gone through the woods toward Sudbury, turned immediately back, in pursuit of them. When the troops were within a mile of the town, they espied, at no great distance, a party of Indians, apparently about one hundred; who, by retreating, as if through fear, drew the English above a mile into the woods; when a large body of the enemy, supposed to be about five hundred, suddenly surrounded them, and precluded the possibility of their escape. The gallant leader and his brave soldiers fought with desperate valour; but they fell a prey to the numbers, the artifice, and bravery of their enemy. The few who were taken alive were destined to tortures unknown to their companions, who had the happier lot to die in the field of battle.
"Some historians say that Captain Wadsworth's company was entirely cut off; others, that a few escaped. Some represent his company as consisting of 50; some, as consisting of 70 men. All agree that 50 at least were killed. Captain Broclebank and some others 'fell into his company as he marched along;' and this accession may account for the difference in the narratives. President Wadsworth, (of Harvard College,) a son of Captain Wadsworth, who fell on this occasion, caused a decent monument to be afterward erected over the grave of these heroes."
Historical Collections Relating to the
History and Antiquities of
Every town in Massachusetts with
Geographical Descriptions.
By John Warner Barber.
Published by Warren Lazell.
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Hove War Memorial
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Hove War Memorial
United Kingdom
Hove War Memorial (04).JPG
For men from Hove killed in the First World War
Unveiled 27 February 1921
Location 50°49′37″N 0°10′07″W / 50.82683°N 0.16867°W / 50.82683; -0.16867Coordinates: 50°49′37″N 0°10′07″W / 50.82683°N 0.16867°W / 50.82683; -0.16867
Grand Avenue, Hove, East Sussex
Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name Hove War Memorial
Designated 2 November 1992
Reference no. 1187556
Hove War Memorial is a First World War memorial on Grand Avenue in Hove, East Sussex, on the south-east coast of England. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens with sculpture by Sir George Frampton and closely resembles Fordham War Memorial in Cambridgeshire, which was also a collaboration between Lutyens and Frampton. It was unveiled in 1921 and is today a grade II listed building.[1]
In the aftermath of the First World War and its unprecedented casualties, thousands of war memorials were built across Britain. Amongst the most prominent designers of memorials was the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, described by Historic England as "the leading English architect of his generation". Lutyens designed the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London, which became the focus for the national Remembrance Sunday commemorations, as well as the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing—the largest British war memorial anywhere in the world—and the Stone of Remembrance which appears in all large Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries and in several of Lutyens's civic war memorials. Hove's memorial is unusual among Lutyens' works in that it features a bronze statue of Saint George, a feature shared only with Fordham War Memorial in Cambridgeshire.[1]
The proposal for a war memorial in Hove was first noted in the vestry notes section of the local newspaper, and the project apparently progressed smoothly.[2] As in many places, a war memorial committee was formed in Hove to handle the town's commemorations. The committee appointed Lutyens as the architect and he made several proposals for the design of Hove's war memorial, including an obelisk or a cenotaph and erected a wooden model of the latter on Hove Lawns on the seafront, but these were rejected in favour of the statue of St George. The committee's preferred site, in Palmeira Gardens, was rejected by the landowner, leaving the committee with three sites on Grand Avenue. Lutyens chose a site in the middle of the road, towards the southern end of Grand Avenue, in June 1920.[1]
History and design
The lower sections of the memorial, showing the inscriptions, partially obscured by a poppy wreath laid at a remembrance service.
The memorial consists of a bronze statue of Saint George holding a sword by the blade below the hilt, sculpted by Sir George Frampton, which stands on a grey granite Doric column. At the bottom of the column is a two-staged square plinth and below that is base of three square stone blocks. The whole memorial stands on three shallow stone steps, taking the memorial to a total height of 10 metres (33 feet). At the corners of the bottom step are low stone bollards, which are part of the original design, next to which are metal lamp pillars, which are a modern addition. The memorial does not include a space for the names of the fallen; these are instead recorded on a bronze plaque which was placed in Hove Library.[1][2][3]
The plinth contains the memorial's inscriptions (inscriptions relating to the Second World War were added at a later date). The main inscription is on the north face: "IN EVER GLORIOUS MEMORY OF HOVE CITIZENS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR AND WORLD WAR". The south face reads "THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE", while the dates of the First and Second World Wars are inscribed in Roman numerals on each face higher on the plinth: "MCMXIV TO MCMXIX" (1914–1919) on the north and south faces and "MCMXXXIX TO MCMXLV" (1939–1945) on the east and west.[1]
The total cost of the memorial was £1,537 (1920). The memorial was unveiled on 27 February 1921 by Charles Wyndham, 3rd Baron Leconfield, the Lord Lieutenant of Sussex. Lutyens was away in India but sent his office manager, AJ Thomas, in his place.[1][2]
Lutyens adapted the design for a proposal for a war memorial in Shere in Surrey, but the memorial committee there opted for a different architect and design.[4] Hove War Memorial was designated a grade II listed building on 2 November 1992. In March 2015, as part of commemorations for the centenary of the First World War, Lutyens' war memorials were recognised as a "national collection" and all of his free-standing memorials in England were listed or had their listing status reviewed and their National Heritage List for England list entries were updated and expanded.[5]
See also
• Skelton, Tim; Gliddon, Gerald (2008). Lutyens and the Great War. London: Frances Lincoln Publishers. ISBN 9780711228788.
1. ^ a b c d e f Historic England. "Hove War Memorial (1187556)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
2. ^ a b c Skelton, p. 75.
3. ^ Skelton, p. 169.
4. ^ Skelton, p. 148.
5. ^ "National Collection of Lutyens' War Memorials Listed". Historic England. 7 November 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Wallace Thurman, the 'Mediocre Journalist'
I'm still smitten with the Harlem Reniassaince. Dug Wallace Thurman's "The Blacker the Berry" from my moms library and have been surprisingly engrained in it for the past two days.
Thurman's writing doesn't grab me. Not like Langston's, or Bruce's. His prose is too formal -- the kind of writing that makes you more aware that the writer is trying hard to sound smart instead of letting the characters come to them. It's the kind of writing that's unashamed of its agenda. But for some reason, I can't put this book down.
For me, Wallace Thurman has always been an intriguing character of the Harlem Renaissance for me. For one, he doesn't stand out too much. He as the book agent who attracted some of the New Negro Movement's most iconic figures to Harlem: Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, to name a couple. Whereas Langston Hughes may have been the soul, Wallace Thurman was a sort of master orchestrator, the main editorial impetus behind the publication of Fire! and engrossed in a predictably complicated relationship with white money man Carl Van Vecten.
After all that, he ultimately ended up alienated from most of his friends, cut off from Harlem's literary pulse, and dead of alcohol poising by age 34.
There's a scene in the film Brother to Brother that I think captures perfectly Thurman's tortured identity as a writer. In the film, Langston Hughes is irate, pointing out to Richard Bruce Nugent where Wallace had allegedly ripped off chapters of an unpublished manuscript. In Thurman's defense, Nugent basically says, "So What?" Then points to a place in the prose where he suspects Wallace subconsciously let out his insecurities, saying he feared he'd never be more than a "medicore journalist."
For me, it brings up intriguring questions. For lots of writers these days, who usually have to do without fancy arts endowments and, if they're lucky, actually do get jobs as journalists, what price does art play? For instance, I'm great at meeting deadlines. But when it comes to the actual mental and creative energy it takes to come up with a work of fiction, or poetry, I'm often stumped. It's easy to fool yourself into thinking that writing as a job can suffice for the writing you really wanna do.
How much did that figure into Thurman's demise? Into his work?
Aside from the obvious comparisons, Thurman still catches my eye. For one, he was raised in the West, went to USC, and undoubtedly draws on that complicated racial experience in his work. In the book I'm reading now, Thurman uses the Black communities in Boise, Idaho and Los Angeles as the backdrop for the main characters ultimate escape to Harlem. To me, that's fascinating. He veers away from the predictable Negro-from-the-South narrative and comments almost exclusively on how racism has shaped Black Amerca's relationship with itself.
I can feel that. In fact, I think it's a much more apt representation of race for today's racial landscape than the majority of the up-from-slavery narratives of lots of Harlem Renaissance literature.
1 comment:
Anonymous said...
thanks for putting me up on game jamilah. i'd never heard of wallace thurman until now.
since ur the homie u know ive looked a ton at mixed race identity, and what this post reminded me of was the graphic novel "icognegro." u probably have already heard of it but if not, its about "zane pinchback." he's a mixed black journalist who is able to pass as white during the harlem renassiance and uses this ability and his occupation as a reporter to document and expose white mob lynchings of black folks in the south. its apparently all rooted in true events and the story is gripping, chilling, courageous, and crazy and the artwork is dope as well.
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Spectrometry is the use of the absorption, emission, or scattering of electromagnetic radiation by atoms or molecules to qualitatively or quantitatively study the atoms or molecules, or to study physical processes. The interaction of radiation with matter can cause redirection of the radiation and/or transitions between the energy levels of the atoms or molecules. A transition from a lower level to a higher level with transfer of energy from the radiation field to the atom or molecule is called absorption. Many compounds absorb ultraviolet or visible light, and thus appear colored to the eye; the degree of color being proportional to the concentration of the compound. Measuring the concentration of an absorbing species in a sample is accomplished by applying the Beer-Lambert Law.
The Beer-Lambert law is the linear relationship between absorbance and concentration of an absorber of electromagnetic radiation. Consider a beam of monochromatic radiation of intensity I0 going through a slab of sample solution of thickness dx which contains an absorber of electromagnetic radiation at a concentration C. Absorption takes place and the intensity of the beam of radiation leaving the sample has changed by some amount proportional to the thickness of the slab and concentration of the absorbing species.
dI = -α C I dx
where the coefficient α is a constant of the compound at a particular wavelenght of light. The wavelength at which given amount of a material absorbs light is the absorbance maximum, or λmax. This is the wavelenght at which the absorbance of a compund in solution is measured. We can rewrite the expression as a standard differential equation,
[dI / I] = d lnI = -α C dx
Integrating I over its range and dx over the thickness of the container,
IiIf d lnI = ∫0b -α C dx --> ln[If / Ii] = -α C b
In order to simplify things, we replace -α with [-α/2.303] and call it ε. As you already know, the 2.303 converts the natural log (ln) into log of base ten,
log[If / Ii] = -ε C b = -A
where b is the thickness of the solution and the log[If / Ii] term has been set equal to the quantity we call absorbance (A). Let's take a look at a beam of radiation passing through a substance or a solution, some of the light is absorbed and the remainder transmitted through the sample.
Light beams going through a solution. The thickness of the arrows are proportional the intensity of the beam.
Here, light beam number 1 (top) of intensity Ii goes through through a solution of concentration C and thickness b, the beam has an intensity smaller than Ii at the point of exit. Light beam number 2 (bottom) of the intensity Ii goes through the same solution, but this time there are two cells in the beam's path, meaning the thickness of the solution is ~2b, light beam number 2 comes out with an intensity even smaller than light beam number 1. The ratio of the intensity of the light entering the sample Ii to that exiting the sample If at a particular wavelength is defined as the transmittance (T). This is often expressed as the percent transmittance (%T), which is simply the transmittance multiplied by 100, for example: 3/4 = 75%, 1/2 = 50%, 1/4 = 25%, and so on. Thus the absorbance (A) of a sample is the negative logarithm of the transmittance.
%T = [If / Ii] X 100
A = -log[T] = -log[If / Ii]
The absorbance of a sample at a given wavelength is proportional to the absorptivity of the substance (a constant at each wavelength), the path length (the distance the light travels through the sample) and, in many instances, the concentration of the absorbing substance. In these cases the Beer-Lambert Law holds:
A = -log[T] = ε C b
Indicators are weak acids (or bases) which have a different colour in the ionic and molecular forms. We generally represent the weak acids that are indicators by the formula HIn, meaning that this is the molecular form of the acid that is going to lose the hydrogen ion. One such indicator is bromothymol blue, in acidic solution the indicator is present in the molecular form, hence it is yellow.
HIn <==> In- + H+
<-----------low pH, pushes equilibrium to the left.
If the indicator is in basic solution then the excess OH- ions react with the H+ ions and the colour of the In- ion is seen, which is blue in the case of bromothymol blue.
HIn <==> In- + H+
high pH, pushes equilibrium to the right. ----------->
Since the indicator has a different color when in the molecular form to when in the ionic form it seems logical to assume that the point of changing colour will be when there is 50% of both forms present. This is the point where the equilibrium between HIn and H+ + In- lies exactly at the center. Recall that -log[H+] = pH, the quantity we usually measure. So we can rewrite the dissociation constant expression,
Ka = {[H+][In-]} / [HIn]
-logKa = -log[H+] - log{[In-] / [HIn]}
If [HIn] = [In-] then log{[In-] / [HIn]} = 0
-logKa = -log[H+] + 0
-logKa = -log[H+]
pKa = pH
Note that the actual concentrations of In- and HIn have not been mentioned because we only need the ratio [In-] : [HIn]
While pH can be monitored using a pH meter, monitoring the relative concentrations of In- and HIn is not as straightforward. But the color difference of two forms indicates that there is a wavelenght λ1 where the protonated form absorbs light strongly and the deprotonated form absorbs very little. Then it is logical to assume that there is a wavelenght λ2 where the deprotonated form absorbs light strongly and the protonated form absorbs very little.
The first step of the experiment consists of scanning on solution of the protonated form (HIn) through the wavelenght range from 300 to 800 at 25 nm intervals far from λMAX and 5nm intervals near λMAX. The process is repeated with a solution of the unprotonated form (In-)
We start to see a pattern, the HIn form absorbs strongly at certain wavelenght λ1, and the In- absorbs strongly at certain wavelenght λ2. Recall that only the wavelenght is changing, the concentration is constant. This first graph provides us with an estimate of the wavelenght where each individual form of the indicator absorbs light with minimal interference from its counterpart. However, the acidic form might absorb at λ2 and the basic form might absorb at λ1. To correct for that we must subtract the minimum (background) absorbance measured at a certain wavelenght from each measurement made at that wavelenght.
Aλ1 = Aλ1 measured - Aλ1 min
Aλ2 = Aλ2 measured - Aλ2 min
Using Beer-Lambert law, the concentration of each form of the indicator can be written in terms of the absorbance at the appropriate wavelenght,
Aλ1 = ελ1 acidicb [HIn]
Aλ2 = ελ2 basicb [In-]
The sum of concentrations of both forms is the total concentration of the indicator
C100% = [HIn] + [In-]
And if the pH is either highly basic or acidic, one of the forms predominates and can be assumed to account for 100% of the indicator and the other can be assumed to be 0%.
Aλ1 acidic = ελ1 acidicb C100%
Aλ2 basic = ελ2 basicb C100%
Thus we can rewrite the fraction of each form in terms of absorbances measured at different wavelenghts.
{Aλ1 / Aλ1 acidic} = [HIn] / C100%
{Aλ2 / Aλ2 basic} = [In-] / C100%
Recall from kindergarten math that to divide two fractions you flip the one in the denominator and multiply as usual. Let's get the ratio [In-]:[HIn] from the quotient of the last two equations.
{[HIn] / C100%} / {[In-]/ C100%} = {Aλ1 / Aλ1 acidic} / {Aλ2 / Aλ2 basic}
[In-]/[HIn] = {Aλ2Aλ1 acidic} / {Aλ1 Aλ2 basic}
We can use this equation to determine the ratio [In-]:[HIn] at any pH after background correction.
Rearrange the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation so it looks like the equation of a straight line.
pH = pKa + log{[In-] / [HIn]}
log{[In-] / [HIn]} = pH - pKa
Thus if the log term is plotted vs. pH, the slope is 1 and the intercept is -pKa or pKa depending which axis you read.
Alternatively, you can choose to determine the pKa by graphing absorbance vs. pH of the two wavelenghts. Then draw a horizontal line at ONE HALF of the absorbance difference, the line will intercept the λ1 inflection point. You might choose to use the opposite side of the graph, the procedure is the same but you would now be targetting the λ2 inflection point. This method works better if you can get many data points.
-at least 12 cuvets
-pH meter (or good training in buffer preparation)
-Bromothymol blue
-Conc HCl
-Conc NaOH (~4 M)
-Buffer Materials
-pipets 1.00, 5.00 mL...
-Clean the glassware and prepare the solutions, you will need:
i. 1 acidic solution, pH 1
ii. 1 basic solution, pH 13
iii. the remaining cuvets will have solutions with pH values that depend on the usable pH range of the indicator.
-Prepare the solutions: It is assumed that you have had decent training in chemistry lab techniques so this might sound like a trivial set of instructions.
Say you have an indicator whose usable range is between pH 3 and pH 5 and you have 12 cuvets.
[1] First you will need to dilute the indicator because the stock solution is too concentrated for the spectrophotometer. The correct dilution is the one that gives an absorbance between 0.9 and 1.0. You should make the total volume of solution and added indicator in each cuvet constant. Thus you will need to make enough solution to put 1 mL of diluted indicator in each cuvet.
[2] Put 1 mL of diluted indicator on each of the 12 cuvets.
[3] Put 1 mL of acid + 1 mL of water in cuvet number 1(one)
[4] Put 1 mL of base + 1 mL of water in cuvet number 12(twelve)
[5] Prepare 50 mL of pH 4 buffer or the recommended dilution volume if you are using a buffer capsule. Divide the buffer in half and put into separate beakers [A abd B].
[6] Put 2 mL of buffer from beaker A into cuvet number 6.
[7] Adjust the buffer to pH 3.8 by adding a few drops of acid. Put 2 mL of the buffer into cuvet number 5.
[8] Repeat the procedure for cuvets 4, 3 and 2, moving DOWN about 0.2 pH units at a time.
[9] Take the beaker with pH 4 buffer [beaker B]. Adjust the buffer to pH 4.2 by adding a few drops of base. Put 2 mL of the buffer into cuvet number 7.
[10] Repeat the procedure for cuvets 8, 9, 10 and 11, moving UP about 0.2 pH units at a time.
If available, use a pH meter to measure the pH of these solutions, otherwise assume that the buffer was prepared correctly.
-Calibrate the spectrophotometer: Fill a cell with the blank solution and place it in the cell chamber.
[1] Turn the right side knob (clockwise or counterclockwise) until the spectrophotometer reads 100 in the T scale.
[2] Remove the cell, close the cell chamber and turn the left side knob (clockwise or counterclockwise) until the spectrophotometer reads 0 in the T scale.
Repeat process as needed.
Since the spectrophotometer is being calibrated in Transmittance mode, you should record the Transmittance of each solution and then convert to Absorbance using -log[T] = A.
-Determine λMAX: Do a screening of the required amount of indicator solution using the acid and the basic solutions. The solution should contain 1.00 mL of Conc acid or base, 1.00 mL of bromothymol blue solution, and enough water to fill about 3/4 of the cuvet.
*Scan the wavelenght range from 300 to 800 using the acidic, then the basic solution. Plot the points and connect them with a smooth line to estimate λ1 and λ2.
-Determine and record the pH and Absorbance of the λ1 set.
-Determine and record the pH and Absorbance of the λ2 set.
-Substact the minimum absorbance from each of the solutions at the given wavelenght set. Do the same for the data set recorded at the alternate wavelenght.
-Plot absorbance as a function of wavelenght for the two datasets.
-Plot absorbance as a function of pH for the two datasets. Connect the datapoints with a smooth line and determine the pKa of the indicator. The pKa coresponds to the inflection point of each plot.
-Compute the log{[In-] / [HIn]} for each of the solutions.
-Compute the log{[In-] / [HIn]} for each of the solutions at the alternate wavelenght.
-Plot pH as a function of log{[In-] / [HIn]}. Draw the best possible straight line through the datapoints and determine the pKa of the indicator. The line intercept corresponds to -pKa or pKa depending which axis you read.
-Comment on the reliability of each method.
-Submit all graphs with your report.
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Friday, July 21, 2017
Adam and the Genome 7: Four Principles for Bible Reading
Chapter 5 begins the second set of chapters, by Scot McKnight in Dennis Venema and Scot McKnight's book, Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science.
Previous posts
Personal Preface
Forward and Introduction
1. Evolution as a Scientific Theory
2. Genomes as Language, Genomes as Books
3. Adam's Last Stand?
4. Intelligent Design?
Chapter 5
Chapter 5 is titled, "Adam, Eve, and the Genome: Four Principles for Reading the Bible after the Human Genome Project."
1. Scot begins the chapter with his own story, which is so similar to so many of us. Indeed, he mentions a student who came up to him after a lecture at North Park University and said, "Thank you. This lecture saved my faith" (104). I don't know if this claim is true, but McKnight claims that "The number one reason young Christians leave the faith is the conflict between science and faith, and that conflict can be narrowed to the conflict between evolutionary theory and human origins as traditionally read in Genesis 1-2" (104-15).
This brings me to a request for the majority of Christians who do not struggle with this issue or who have come to the conclusion that the science for creationism is clear cut. I dare say that we all have thoughts about God and the Bible that are wrong. How could we not? It is sobering to see the issues where Christians have vehemently said, "It's this way, no other," only for others to agree later that they were completely wrong.
I don't believe that our precise understandings save us. I don't believe the Bible teaches that our understanding saves us. We are saved on the basis of our faith in Jesus Christ. You will not find a verse that says we can only be saved if we have a particular understanding of the Bible or science. Rather "the one who comes to God must believe that he exists and rewards those who diligently seek him" (Heb. 11:6).
So Christians need to leave a space for other Christians who struggle on the questions of science or who have reached different conclusions on matters of science and faith. Souls are at stake. Woe to anyone who puts a stumblingblock before one of these little ones! Now that's actually something the Bible says, Jesus in fact.
2. Here are some quotes from the early part of the chapter:
• "There is a better way, one that permits each of the disciplines to speak its own language but also requires each of the voices to speak to one another" (94).
• A defining moment for Scot was asking himself the question "whether traditional interpretations of Genesis 1-2 were perhaps well intended but misguided and in need of rethinking" (95).
• "Every statement about Adam and Eve in the Old Testament, in Jewish literature, and in the New Testament is made from a context and into a context" (97).
3. Scot sets out four principles in this discussion:
A. Respect - "To understand what someone is telling us, we must respect that person as a person" (98). In terms of Genesis 1-11, "we must respect that text as designed for the ancient Near Eastern culture" (99). "It is disrespectful to Genesis 1-11 to think it somehow should understand modern science, DNA, and the Human Genome Project, or for that matter the science of any generation after the writing down of Genesis 1-11!
"Genuine respect begins when we let Genesis 1-11 be Genesis 1-11, which means letting Genesis 1-11 be ancient Near Eastern and not modern Western science" (100).
B. Honesty - "Face the facts and do not fear the facts" (100). "Are you willing to face the facts--the facts of the Bible and the facts of science?"
McKnight makes the controversial claim that some of the most ardent defenders of certain interpretations of the Bible on these issues might actually be afraid. They are afraid to open the door to such questions because they are afraid it will lead them to lose their faith.
McKnight does not only ascribe this kind of uncharitable spirit to creationists but to some Christian evolutionists as well. He quotes Ron Osborn: "I have often been equally dismayed by the attitudes evinced by some individuals on the other side of the debate over creation and evolution... how quickly some are prepared to write off people of sincere faith who are at different places in their intellectual and spiritual journeys" (101).
C. Sensitivity to the Student of Science
I already mentioned the student whose faith McKnight says was saved by him opening up the window to the possibility of having faith and yet not concluding God created the universe 10,000 years ago. "The student is in my rearview mirror in all I have to say in my section of this book" (105).
D. Primacy of Scripture
Scot is an evangelical, so the Bible always comes first. The investigation of truth can go to other bodies of knowledge in addition to the Bible, but it always starts with the Bible: "Scripture first.'
4. He ends the chapter with a sense of some of the complexity these discussions can take on. For example, what do we mean by the "historical" Adam and Eve? Another view of Adam and Eve is the "archetypal view," Adam and Eve as representatives of all humanity. His sense of a "literary" view does not so much draw conclusions on the historical, but looks at them within the text of the Bible.
More to come...
1 comment:
Martin LaBar said...
Those principles sound good. Thanks again for the series.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a strong blanket statement about romaine lettuce - just in time for the holidays: Don't eat it. Health officials in the United States and Canada are scrambling to research and stop an outbreak of E. coli that has made 32 people in 11 different states and another 18 in Canada sick. As of now there have been no deaths reported but 13 of the American cases were sick enough to require hospitalization.
The current round of E. coli concerns doesn't appear to be connected to an outbreak that occurred earlier this year. In that case the origin was quickly identified and taken care of. In this present outbreak, there is no known source of origin and identifying it has been difficult; Romaine - much like other lettuces - often gets packaged and bagged by middlemen which makes tracing it's source difficult.
At the present time there isn't a recall (due in large part to the sourcing info detailed above). However, the FDA is suggesting that everyone stop consuming Romaine for the time being.
Locally, there has been one confirmed E. coli case in Wisconsin; none have been reported so far in Minnesota.
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This was given to me by my cousin Link Lamkins on 1-8-88 and I would like to pass it on to special people in my life. When I die Give what's left of me away To children And old men that wait to die And if you need to cry Cry for your brother Walking the street beside you And when you need me Put your arms Around anyone And give them What you need to give to me I want to leave you something Something better Than words Or sounds Look for me In the people I've known Or loved And if you cannot give me away At least let me live in your eyes And not in your mind You can love me most By letting Hands touch hands By letting Bodies touch bodies And by letting go Of children That need to be free Love doesn't die People do So when all that's left of me Is love Give me away -Merrit Malloy Link Lamkins 2-12-1945 8-31-2001 Link I am giving you away. I hope every one who gets this passes it to every one they know, and you will always be living in our eyes and hearts. I love you, Judy Key Smith (2/12/02 - Link's 57th birthday)
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
hello, blog world? it's me, Laura.
didn't expect to see this little post, did ya? well friends (if you're still out there), i'm returning, if just for the night, to this little website. i know it's been a long time. forgive?
i'm not even going to give you a recap of what's been going on since march. i couldn't if i tried. so just let's have a fresh start. OR let's pretend that i'm a teacher and take summers off. here goes...
the pumpkin spice latte i drank the other day is serving as the turning point into fall for me. i must say that this summer is one for the record books in terms of fun-had, but i have a good feeling about fall. sure, it's still blazing hot outside. but am i going to start wearing my over-the-knee boots and printed scarves? you betcha. a little shin sweat never hurt anybody. it's fall! and that means holidays, Hanson, and my quarter b-day. event i will recap for you is Oktoberfest in Addison, since that is an autumn activity. if you don't know what Oktoberfest entails, #1 i feel sorry for you, and #2 you should probably look it up so you don't miss out next year. so anyways, a big group of us went to the festival with our beer steins, listened to a live polka band, ate bratwurst, and drank some Spaten. there were frequent "CHEERS!" and mug-clanking, spontaneous arm wrestling, chicken dancing, aggies throwing up their horns... let me tell you, it was crazy. no lie, my neck is actually sore from the throw-back motion i now apparently do with my head when i find something particularly hilarious. truth be told, this is an event that i will no doubt be attending annually for the rest of my natural life.
this is andy. and this is the face he made pretty much all evening...except that one time in the photo below:
as you can see, everyone in this photo is having the time of their life. even the person taking this photo is having an awesome time, obviously, since the people in this photo are barely recognizable in all their blurred glory.
and that's all i've got really. i'm sorry it's not much. but maybe, just maybe, i'll post again before January. or maybe i'll kill this blog altogether and just send these in emails straight to ivy. #selfdepreciating
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Friday, September 18, 2015
Celebrities selfie with ganpatiji
Ganesh festival is very much popular in bollywood as well as sports celebrities. They never forget to participate in this holy 10 festive days.
Here are some pics of Nana patekar, madhuri dixit, ranvir sinh and master blaster Sachin Tendulkar with their Ganpatiji.
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Home Page for David Drysdale
What will hap more to-night, safe 'scape the king!
Lurk, lurk.
(William Shakespeare, "King Lear"; Act III Scene VI)
In a lurking-place I lurk,
One with the sullen dark.
(Theodore Roethke, "All the Earth, All the Air")
Collection of tips for making use of the Travis continuous integration system. [2015-2016]
Fuzzing Linux system calls with syzkaller (at LWN) [2016]
Linux execve processing (at LWN) [2015]
Linux syscall processing (at LWN) [2014]
"High-Quality Software Engineering", a book about software engineering [2007]. Available as:
Linux/FreeBSD system call concordance [2014-2015].
Linux cross-version/cross-architecure system call concordance [2015].
A book on Lindy Hop (but un-illustrated, therefore probably of limited use) [2007, but released 2012].
Pynamo: Exploring the Dynamo paper in Python [2012]
Visual reference for Git [2011]
Beginner's Guide to Linkers [2005].
Rough guide to open-source licenses [2011].
Translation rosetta stone for scripting languages [2005].
Translation table for UNIX debugger commands (gdb, lldb, dbx, adb, sdb) [2007, 2014].
Learning Clojure through the REPL [2012].
Notes on creating a decent printed copy of Paul Graham's "On Lisp" [2011]
A blog with random technical observations. [2011-2012]
A blog about setting up and tweaking a Mac OS X laptop (mostly for future reference if I ever have to reinstall from scratch). [2005-2008]
Another blog, including some more technical entries:
Review of, notes on and references related to Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind Of Science". [2002]
A Tutorial Introduction to Guile [2000].
An article investigating similarities between C++ and Lisp [2000].
Software Projects
“Our almost-instinct almost true: what will survive of us is code”
python-phonenumbers, a Python port of Google's libphonenumber for parsing and formatting telephone numbers [2011].
A button for Thrutu to allow lookup of the phone number you're talking to in Yelp [2011]. [Removed due to takedown request from Yelp (despite them approving in the first place and providing an API key).]
Equivalents of UNIX nm and ldd utilities for analysing Java class files and jar files [2011].
Android tool for exploring what libraries are already present on the system [2011].
xwindiff, a graphical diffing tool for X11/Unix [2000-2004].
A collection of C++ utility functions [2000].
A utility (Java applet) for converting between 32-bit floating point numbers and their IEEE representations [2002].
Tesserax – a Java applet game [1996].
replot, a PDE plotting tool for X11/Unix [1995].
A noddy stick figure animation program (as a Java applet) [2006].
A Java applet to test attentional blink [2006].
A MineSweeper game for PalmOS [2005].
PalmOS RoboRally game [2003].
Experimental changes to Maxima to provide a feature that translates Maxima expressions into presentation MathML [2003].
GridFont assistant Java applet [2001].
White noise audio files [2007].
Photo.net page.
Vanity links.
The Vent.
(PDF, 2648KB) Homoclinic Bifurcations in Partial Differential Equations [1994].
Spherical harmonics reference page [2007].
English grammar reference page [2007].
Contact me
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Friday, 31 May 2013
The Middle East: bring back Saddam Hussein?
If it weren't for the God-awful mess in Syria, I suspect we'd be paying a great deal more attention to the God-awful mess in Iraq.
We should be, anyway. This month alone, more than 500 people have been killed in almost daily bomb attacks, and last month was reported to be the most violent the country has seen for nearly five years.
Perhaps you remember the so-called pottery barn rule that was said to have been used by former US secretary of state Colin Powell in his discussions with George W Bush: "You break it, you buy it, you own it." Maybe the US, UK and their allies don't exactly own Iraq after the invasion of 2003, but it's not difficult to argue that at the very least they were responsible for breaking it.
Let me be clear: I do not wish to argue that Iraq would have been better off with Saddam Hussein still in power. That, even after the hundreds of thousands of deaths in the years after 2003, is a judgement that only Iraqis are entitled to make.
I visited Iraq during Saddam's time; I also visted Libya under Gaddafi and have visited Syria under Assad, so I have no illusions about the nature of their regimes. I am a convinced democrat, but I also recognise that dictatorship brings with it a degree of stability that enables many people to live their lives in a way that simply hasn't been possible in the turmoil of the recent past.
When I returned to Iraq in 2004, on the first anniversary of the toppling of Saddam, I wrote that the message from most Iraqis I spoke to could be simply summarised: "We’re glad Saddam Hussein has gone; we wish the Americans would go too; but we’re desperately worried about the future of our country."
They could see what was coming, because when you remove the lid from the pressure cooker, you discover all kinds of things that have been bubbling away inside. In Iraq, dangerous fault-lines between Shia and Sunni Muslims, cynically exploited by outside powers, and in Libya, tribal and territorial tensions that have made the country post-Gaddafi virtually ungovernable.
So no one should be surprised if Western governments are reluctant to repeat the mistakes of the past. If you wanted to put a positive gloss on their Syria inertia, I suppose you could say that at least they've learned something from the experience of the past decade.
Ask yourself this: are most Iraqis better off now than they were pre-2003? Are most Libyans living better lives than they were under Gaddafi? And, hand on heart, how confident are you that most Syrians would be better off with Bashar al-Assad gone?
So here's a little test for you. Who said this? "For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither. Throughout the Middle East the fear of free choices can no longer justify the denial of liberty. It is time to abandon the excuses that are made to avoid the hard work of democracy."
It sounds like something Barack Obama would say, doesn't it? Or maybe Hillary Clinton? In fact, it was Condoleezza Rice, speaking in Cairo in 2005. And you could argue, perhaps, that the hundreds of thousands of Arab Spring revolutionaries who built the barricades on the streets of Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria five years later were simply taking her at her word.
But make no mistake: when the royal rulers of Saudi Arabia and Qatar pour millions of dollars into Syria to help topple Assad, it's not because they've discovered a deep love of democracy. It's because they see Syria as the battleground on which they will finally defeat Iran, Syria's most powerful regional ally, and, of course, a Shia state which the Sunni royal families of the Gulf regard with deep suspicion.
Which brings us, if you're still with me, back to Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a secular Sunni ruler in a country where most citizens are Shia. Now, the Shia are in control, closely allied to Iran, and uncomfortably neutral in Syria. And it's beginning to look as if Iraq could soon be sucked back into the bloody sectarian mayhem of 2007-8, as it is pulled into the same abyss in which the people of Syria are now being slaughtered.
And if all that's not bad enough, add to the mix poor little Lebanon, once again under the cosh of regional power rivalry, and an increasingly jittery Israel, watching nervously as the latest Russian weaponry turns up on its doorstep. The match is getting perilously close to the tinder box.
If George Bush and Tony Blair still believe, as they used to argue so passionately, that the Middle East is clearly better off with Saddam Hussein gone, it'd be interesting to hear their evidence. But evidence, of course, was never their strongest point.
Friday, 24 May 2013
Woolwich: it's time to confront some obvious truths
Perhaps it might be useful, as we contemplate the horror of the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in Woolwich on Wednesday, to have a quick look through the history books.
In 1971, for example, Robert Campbell killed 15 people in a bomb attack on McGurk's bar in Belfast. He was not a Muslim.
And yes, I'm coming to it, in 2001, a group of hijackers killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. All 19 of the hijackers were Muslim.
As were the attackers who killed more than 200 people in Bali in 2002, another 200 in Madrid in 2004, 52 people in the London bombings of July 2005, and 160 in Mumbai in 2008.
Oh, and while I'm at it, in 2011 Anders Breivik killed 77 people in Oslo, and last December, Adam Lanza killed 26 people, most of them children, at a school in Newtown, Connecticut. Neither Breivik nor Lanza were Muslim.
You see my point, don't you? There's nothing "Islamic" about acts of violence. So all those anguished questions along the lines of "What is it about Islam that drives people to such terrible acts of violence?" seem to me to be entirely specious.
Of course, there's a tiny number of Muslims who say they carry out acts of violence in the name of their religion. Just as there are some Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, and -- as we've seen in Burma -- even Buddhists, who say the same.
We will learn more in the coming days about who the alleged Woolwich attackers were and the background to what appears to have been an unusually brutal attack. For now, though, the clearest pointer comes from one of the alleged assailants themselves.
According to the account given by the remarkably courageous Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, who confronted them within minutes of the attack: "I asked him if he did it and he said yes, and I said why? And he said because he [the victim] has killed Muslim people in Muslim countries, he said he was a British soldier and I said really and he said 'I killed him because he killed Muslims and I am fed up with people killing Muslims in Afghanistan, they have nothing to do there.'"
Now, there are many people who object to US and British policy in Afghanistan and in other Muslim countries such as Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, and Syria. Plenty of Muslims and non-Muslims alike have been sickened by images from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, or showing soldiers posing and gloating over the bodies of dead "insurgents". They may be deeply opposed to the Obama administration's use of drones to kill "high value targets" in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia -- but they don't go out onto the streets of London or New York to kill soldiers.
So it seems to me there are two tough questions that need to be asked: first, can anything effective be done to reduce the number of vulnerable young men who are likely to be persuaded by the sort of propaganda that leads them to commit acts of violence?
Second, does it make sense to go on pretending that these acts, when they occur, have nothing to do with government policy? It may or may not have been right for Britain to join with the US in invading Afghanistan and Iraq, but can we honestly claim that British military action in those countries has had nothing at all to do with the radicalisation of a tiny handful of young Muslims?
This is not to argue for one moment that government policy should be made dependent on the perceived threat that it could upset a few alienated urban youths. But perhaps it's time at least to confront an obvious truth: that actions in faraway places can produce reactions on streets at home.
And while we're confronting obvious truths, here's another one: there will be no end to terrorist attacks (President Obama admitted as much in his speech last night). The police and the security services will do everything they can to prevent them, and to keep tabs on people whom they regard as potential threats -- but let's be honest: there's no way they can monitor round-the-clock every single disaffected youth, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, who spends too many hours looking up "How to make a bomb" websites or sending blood-curdling text messages to his mates.
A final point about the way the Woolwich attack was reported, and the widespread publication of the image of one of the alleged attackers with blood on his hands. I don't believe it would have been right to suppress the images once they had become available -- newspapers and other mainstream media organisations simply look foolish if they self-censor material that can lawfully be published and which is already readily available elsewhere.
But if I'd been editing one of yesterday morning's newspapers, I wouldn't have put the picture on the front page -- and I would have used as a headline not the threats of the attackers but the words of Ingrid Loyau-Kennett as she confronted them: "It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose …"
On a day like last Wednesday, surely it's better to focus on the heroes rather than the villains.
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Just watch that Gove bandwagon gather speed ...
Wasn't that nice Mr Obama a sweetie, the way he tried to help our Dave end the war in the Tory party while he was over in Washington this week?
Mind you, given how little the President has managed to do to end the war in Syria, I don't much rate his chances with the fundamentalist rebels of the Conservative party. Never mind, I still think it was jolly nice of him to try.
The truth, though, is that the coalition is crumbling. No, not the Tory-Lib Dem coalition -- that's in fine fettle compared to the one I'm thinking of: the ramshackle, increasingly dysfunctional bunch of lemmings we know and love as the Conservative party.
In the words of Benedict Brogan, deputy editor of the Daily Telegraph (yes, the paper better known as the Torygraph), writing on his blog on Tuesday: "The Tories look like a bunch of self-indulgent lunatics."
President Obama tip-toed through the Tory euro-minefield with considerable skill, I thought -- it does make some sense, he suggested, to seek to mend a relationship before breaking it off. And that, of course, is pretty much what Mr Cameron says he wants to do with the EU: renegotiate, and then call the referendum.
There's a problem, though. When one party in a relationship threatens week after week, year after year: "Unless you change the way you behave, I'm not going to be able to carry on like this," there is a real chance that one day the inevitable reply will be: "Fine, perhaps you'd better move out."
But if David Cameron's poll ratings are sliding down the plug-hole, it's not because voters disagree with him about exactly when to hold that wretched referendum. It's because he's looking increasingly like a weak prime minister unable to control his own party, an old Etonian toff who's no longer even capable of organising cocktails and canapés in a Notting Hill nosherie.
It's as if Tory MPs have clean forgotten what they were told back in 2006 to explain why they hadn't won any elections for a decade. "Instead of talking about the things that most people care about, we talked about what we cared about most. While parents worried about childcare, getting the kids to school, balancing work and family life, we were banging on about Europe." The man who told it to them straight? Er, their party leader, a certain D Cameron.
We've been here before, of course. John Major went through exactly the same agonies, facing exactly the same euro-obsessives, and we know what happened to him. This time, though, unlike in 1997, it may not be Labour who reap the benefit -- Ed Miliband hasn't got quite the same effortless TV appeal that Tony Blair mastered so skillfully -- so it may well be Nigel Farage and UKIP who stand to gain the most.
When the prime minister unveiled his "in-out referendum" strategy last January, I wrote: "There is a strong possibility that David Cameron, in one single, ill-considered, badly-timed and unnecessary speech, may have sown the seeds of his own downfall."
My argument then was that all of the likely election outcomes in 2015, the least likely was an overall Tory victory that would enable him to remain in Downing Street. Now, though, I'm beginning to think his downfall could come even sooner.
It goes like this: the UKIP bandwagon and the Tory rebellions continue to roll. At the European parliament elections next year, the UKippers may even get more votes nationwide than the Tories. (Remember, turn-out for the euro-elections in 2009 was a dismal 34.7 per cent.) Tory MPs go into full-blown panic mode, just 12 months ahead of the general election.
The cry goes up: We can't win with Cameron. (After all, if they could unceremoniously dump Margaret Thatcher in 1990 because they thought she was going to lose them the next election, I don't imagine they'll have too much trouble jettisoning Mr Cameron.)
And if you think I'm being fanciful: consider this -- the two Cabinet ministers who so unhelpfully put their heads above the parapet last weekend to venture that they would vote No in a referendum if one were held now, just happen to be two of the ministers with the shortest odds in the betting shop to be the party's next leader. Yes, take a bow, Michael Gove and Philip Hammond.
You may also like to consider this piece in this morning's Telegraph: "Michael Gove has said he wants to be 'the heir to Blair' amid renewed speculation that he could succeed David Cameron as Conservative leader."
If I were a betting man, I'd put £100 on Gove for Tory leader before the next election. There again, it may all look different after the summer.
By the way, don't you think the two Tory MPs who created so much misery for the prime minister this week, with their EU referendum amendment ahead of the Queen's Speech vote, Peter Bone and John Baron, should set up a pub together? "I want a quick chat about Europe -- how about a pint with Farage down the Bone and Baron?"
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Why Israel wants Syria's Assad to survive
After Israel's air attacks against Syrian government military targets last weekend, you might be forgiven for thinking that Israel is doing what it can to help the anti-Assad rebels bring down a hated dictator.
You would be wrong. Bizarre as it may seem, if Israel could choose -- which, probably to its dismay, it can't -- it would much rather Bashar al-Assad somehow survived the current bloodbath. Fierce enemy though he is, Israel's leaders feel they know him, they understand him, and in an odd sort of way, they can do business with him.
Back in the days when Israel occupied great swathes of southern Lebanon, it was a standing joke in Jerusalem that although you could always negotiate to your heart's content with Lebanese political leaders, you could never do a deal. With Syria, on the other hand, the opposite was the case: it was all but impossible to negotiate, but somehow you could do a deal -- and it would stick. In the 45 years since Israel seized and occupied the Syrian Golan Heights, the border between the two countries has been the most peaceful of all Israel's frontiers.
Israel would much rather deal with neighbours it knows, however unfriendly they are, than have to get used to living next door to new neighbours, who may well turn out to be even more unfriendly. Whatever the people of Syria might want, Israelis would be much happier with a brutal, secular dictator than a brutal, Islamist one. They have already had to adjust to the new neighbours in Egypt, after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, but there it seems that the people who really matter in Cairo as far as Israel is concerned -- the military intelligence officers who help police the border and keep a close eye on what's going on in Gaza -- are largely unchanged. It's as if the house next door has been bought by a new owner, but the tenants remain the same.
So if Israel doesn't want to see a change of regime in Damascus, why did it attack those military facilities? The answer is quite simple: it can live with Assad possessing chemical weapons and powerful Russian-made missiles, because it's confident he won't use them. Not so, in the case of the Lebanese group Hizbollah, which has a long record of attacking Israeli targets and which claims, with some justification, to have forced Israel to abandon its military presence in southern Lebanon. And if Israel thinks Assad is transferring some of his weaponry to Hizbollah, perhaps as a way of cementing their loyalty to his cause, well, that, for Israel, is a red line which must not be crossed.
All the signs are that President Assad understands this perfectly well. He and the Israelis have more in common than they might like to acknowledge -- both are masters at the art of political power plays, and both know very well how to calibrate action and reaction. Assad can tell Hizbollah he tried to get the weapons to them -- Israel tells Assad "We know what you're up to, and you know we know -- and you also know that we won't let you get away with it."
Meanwhile, thousands more Syrians die. They are victims in what started out as a genuine popular uprising against a brutal dictatorship, but which has now become a regional war in which powerful outside interests -- Iran, Russia, Turkey, the US, the Gulf states -- are jostling for influence in one of the most dangerous regions in the world. To these outside powers, ending the conflict takes second place to winning it.
And this is where it gets even messier. I have pointed out before that even if Assad is eventually toppled, that may well not mean an end to the violence. The reason is that each of the anti-Assad actors has a different idea about what winning will mean: Turkey and Saudi Arabia, for example, are backing entirely different anti-Assad factions, and there are growing signs of an ever more powerful jihadi element among the anti-Assad fighters who owe their loyalty first and foremost to an ideology rather than to a State sponsor.
It is, undeniably, a grim picture. If there is a chink of light on the horizon, it's the agreement between Moscow and Washington to put their heads together and try, once again, to come up with a joint position. I'm not holding my breath, but I'm marginally happier to see them trying than if they were simply wringing their hands in despair. Syria's agony will end eventually -- all agonies do -- the only question is how much longer it must continue.
Friday, 3 May 2013
The new American revolution
If it's true that we are what we eat, does the same apply to nations? In other words, if a nation's dietary habits start changing, does that tell us something about the nation itself?
Perhaps I should explain, since food is not a subject I often write about. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal this week, the US is currently experiencing a booming demand for -- wait for it -- hummus.
This strikes me as interesting for a couple of reasons. First, I eat tonnes of the stuff myself, in the perhaps mistaken belief that as my snack of choice, it is less likely to clog up my arteries or further expand my waistline than, for example, cheese.
Second, I associate hummus with the Middle East, especially Lebanon, although I know that as soon as I say that, I enrage millions of Israelis who jealously regard it as their own national dish. And there's not much that comes from the Middle East these days that Americans welcome into their homes or refridgerators.
(Here's something I didn't know: apparently, one reason why hummus is so popular in Israel is that it's made from ingredients that under Jewish dietary laws can be eaten with both meat and dairy products. Which is, of course, extremely useful.)
Now, I know the US well enough to know that not every American exists solely on a diet of burgers, fries, pizzas and giant buckets of sugar-laden carbonated beverages. On the other hand, many do, so if they're turning to dainty little dips of hummus as their lunch of choice, well, what should we make of it? (And here's something else I didn't know: one of America's biggest hummus makers is half-owned by Pepsi Cola. Hmm …)
So here are some numbers, courtesy of that same article in the Wall Street Journal. Last year's US harvest of chickpeas, the main ingredient in hummus, totalled a record 332 million pounds, up by more than 50 per cent from 2011. This year, American farmers are expected to plant a record 214,300 acres of chickpeas, five times as much as a decade ago, to meet demand not only from domestic consumers but also from Spain, Turkey and Pakistan.
And how's this for yet another intriguing fact? In Virginia, state officials are encouraging local farmers to plant chickpeas to take the place of tobacco, for which the market has shrunk dramatically due to falling cigarette sales. So it seems Americans are now dipping instead of puffing.
Ah, if only. In fact, those impressive-looking figures start to look a lot less impressive as soon as you compare them with other foodstuffs. Meat, for example? US consumption last year: 52 billion pounds, equal to about 270 pounds per person. That's the highest rate of meat consumption per person on earth, with the one exception of Luxembourg -- and I have no idea how much hummus Luxembourgers eat.
But I am not to be deflected from my vision of America as an emerging nation of hummus-dippers. For surely such a nation would be a gentler nation, more understanding of others, more tolerant of cultural and dietary diversity. Could a nation of hummus-lovers also be a nation of gun-lovers? Surely not.
And even if there is still a long way to go before the falafel takes the place of the burger in American dietary mythology, in the words of the old Chinese saying: "A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step." So I can dream.
As Martin Luther King would never have said, and I mean no disrespect when I parody him: "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by what they put on their plates.
"And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring … we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children … will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last … to eat hummus."
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First published in A Tremor in the Force #9, 1996
by MJ Mink
Vader must have had a tracing device planted on the Millennium Falcon. That was the only explanation for the appearance of the Executor and a small Empire force. There was no other way the Fleet could have been discovered in such a short time; the Falcon had been back from Bespin for a scant week.
Luke stared at the ladder that leaned against his X-wing fighter. Many were the times that he had fairly leapt up those rungs, eager to engage in battle. Now they looked nearly insurmountable. He closed his eyes for a moment, gathering strength both mental and physical. There was no time for somber reflection. The Star Destroyer was launching TIE fighters even as he stood here. Wearily he climbed the ladder and slid down into his seat. Pulled the helmet over his head, the protective glove over his new prosth hand. Protective...the hand was virtually indestructible. But it was too smooth, too perfect. Anyone looking at it would know it was artificial. It made no sense to feel shame, yet he did. He didn't want pity or curiosity; he didn't have time to come up with any half-truths to explain the circumstances of its loss.
A lightsaber duel with Vader which he'd lost--that was enough explanation for Leia and for the Alliance. Only General Rieekan tried to push beyond that, nonplused when Luke had evaded elaboration. Not for the first time, he wondered about Rieekan's hostility toward him--thickly-veiled it might be, but occasionally it peered out from the everyday manner of an impartial commanding officer.
He refocused his concentration as the snub fighters began to depart the carrier bay. There was no time for this foolish daydreaming--if only his mind would listen to him! No time to think about Rieekan, about his hand, about his father.
Vader was on that Star Destroyer. The Executor, his personal flagship. Vader had come for him. Vader didn't give a damn about the Rebel Alliance or all the personnel who would be killed by his attack. Vader wanted his son. Vader--
--no time for these futile worries!
Wedge had commanded Rogue Squadron during his absence and recuperation; today, Luke had insisted that Wedge continue. He was curiously reluctant to resume command--or maybe it wasn't so curious, if he looked at it coldly. Yet if they knew, no one would expect him to lead a group of fighters against his own father.
Great hero of the Clone Wars. Father, what happened to you?
"Tighten up formation, Rogue Two. Are you all right?"
Luke lifted his head, blinked away his blurring vision. "I'm fine, Rogue Leader." He concentrated fiercely, chastising himself for letting his attention lapse. He wasn't a real soldier, wasn't good enough because there hadn't been time to train properly, wasn't as good as a--
navigator on a spice freighter or a--
fighter pilot in the Clone Wars.
A dozen TIE fighters swarmed around them. Thankfully, Luke let their appearance distract his thoughts. He focused on them, on their laser fire, on his own. Felt a surge of satisfaction as his shots turned one vessel into a fireball that immediately disintegrated and disappeared.
Its pilot had screamed "Azlia!" at the moment of his death, his thoughts an agonized mixture of fear/pain/anger/sorrow.
Azlia? Mate? Sweetheart?
Luke shuddered. No time for this, no time for reflection, no time to wonder about a distraught woman who would receive the news, whose world would be destroyed because forever lost to her was her precious--no time for grief, no time for regrets.
Another TIE flirted with his lasers. Luke cast aside his inhibitions and probed the pilot's thoughts--got to get him got to before he gets me--GOT HIM!--oh hell mom what am i doing here i want to go home to smell the rich hungry scent of your carodombread that warms the kitchen and--sweet sith he's going to kill me there's no time to escape no time to get him he's going to--MOTHER!--NOOOOOO!
The TIE vanished. Along with it vanished the pilot's anguished deathscream. Luke stared at his thumb--he hadn't pushed the red button.
"Luke, what's wrong?" Wedge Antilles, voice on an adrenalin high. "Why didn't you fire? He got Rogue Ten--why the hell didn't you fire? You got problems with your lasers?"
Wedge killed the Empire boy. And felt nothing--blessed be him who felt nothing. Now a mother would never see her son again. What would she do when she got the news? Would she cry, would she scream the way her son had at his death--though she'd never know the sound he'd made or that his last thoughts had been of her. And what of his father, did he have a father who waited for him, who had molded him in his image, who would die a little himself when his boy didn't come home? Not even a bodybag, not even a memorial--nothing but time dissolving in a momentary shower of sparks that briefly lit blank, empty, cold, endless space.
And Rogue Ten, the new boy, young Tasio, barely seventeen. His thoughts had shrieked through Luke's head, too. And they were not of the war, not of the enemy--no, they were of home, family, regrets, so few memories and such a short life--not fair i'm too young--
"Sorry--just a small problem. Okay now. Thanks." Not okay, never okay again, but there was no time--isn't that what Leia said--no time for our sorrows, commander. No time left anywhere for anyone--why didn't the rest of them see it? Why didn't they see what they were doing?
Why should the simple discovery that my father is alive have this kind of affect on me? Why do I feel so much this time, is it Yoda's training, why do I--SHUT UP!
He swung his fighter into a defensive position, dropping to the rear of the squad. If he couldn't kill them, at least he could prevent the TIE's from dropping any more surprises, from killing, from dying. And if they chose to destroy him...then that must be his destiny. His own death no longer held any fear for him, not since he had faced and accepted it in Cloud City.
Would he hear his own death-thoughts? Or wouldn't there be--
He fired defensively, damaging two TIE's and sending them fleeing back to the Executor. Used laser fire to deflect the intentions of a TIE interceptor. Let Rogue Squadron handle the actual demolition of the rest; he could do nothing to prevent it. But nothing stopped the deathcries of the young pilots. All so young, babies who would never have babies, children, boys his age and younger than himself, barely out of the Academy, young ones who--
Young one?
Luke's hands froze over his controls. He knew immediately the call had come from the TIE interceptor to his right, the one he'd just fired on. His shot had crippled the vessel, it wasn't functioning correctly, he could see that much even without using his Force powers. He swung his fighter closer. Father?
Son. Good shot. One of my ion engines is damaged. I can repair it, but....
Through his father's vision, he saw the problem, the severed connection glowing through the smoking wreckage. Understood what his father wanted. Protection. Protection from the snub fighters until he could re-solder the wiring.
Traitor. The word echoed in his mind. Thus he would be labeled when he returned to the fleet. By Rieekan. By his own Rogue Squad. By Leia. By the galaxy. But there was no time to think of an acceptable alternative. Either he protected his father or he did not. And if he chose not to protect him--
Then he would be the sad one, the only one to hear the death-litany of regrets, the only one to shed tears over the passing of his lost father. Or was there a mate or lover somewhere, a beloved someone else who would mourn? Or--was it possible that his mother still lived? Without further consideration, he moved his X-wing as close to the interceptor as possible and slowly guided it on a route away from the center of the battle.
"Rogue Two, Rogue Two, do you need help?"
"Negative, Rogue Leader. This one is mine." Let them make of it what they would. Wedge might be in command today, but Rogue Squadron knew they belonged to him until he released them; they would obey. He allowed his thoughts to filter through the Force and touch his father's mind. Waited and watched while the repairs were quickly and precisely made. Courted disaster by delaying, unable to tear himself away from his father's thoughts, the intensity of his concentration, the Darkness, the all-consuming Darkness, and...something more, something that feared to be named, something that dared acknowledgment.
Come with me, my son. Join me. Share my command.
He didn't bother to reply to the offer. The faintest hint of anger edged into his mind, and he allowed it. Then he couldn't not answer. That's not what I want! You understand nothing--nothing of what I need!
The reply seemed to bob slowly through the Force like a cork afloat in sweet wine. Perhaps not. It has, after all, been a very long time since I have had any emotional commitments with which to contend.
Dazed, Luke opened his eyes; he hadn't realized they were so close. Only the Force--or his father--could have kept their two fighters from colliding. Vader did understand--and that made everything worse. Now he could no longer hold onto the illusion that Vader wanted him only as a fallen Jedi, a convert to the Dark Side, and that there was nothing else, nothing more, nothing that would break his heart.
My work is completed.
He nodded an acknowledgment at the only thanks he would receive, not caring that his father couldn't see him. Suddenly alert to their danger, he scanned the immediate area. Most of the other TIE's were gone, destroyed or fled; only two lingered, hoping to protect their lord. Stand-off. They lingered around him, he lingered too close to his father for them to hit him. Rogue Squadron lingered around them all, unable to shoot at his father or the other TIE's without hitting Commander Skywalker.
How do we get out of this one? Black, despairing humor swept through him.
I'll call off mine if you call off yours. Answering laughter came from the Dark Lord, full of a warmth that threatened to render him defenseless.
Luke strengthened the barriers around his heart. Only if you promise to leave--I'll not go with you.
Very well. You have my word, youngster.
A reluctant smile tugged at his mouth. "Back off, Rogue Squadron. Now."
The com was silent but he could read their thoughts--read all the thoughts, Alliance and Empire. TIE pilots never considered disobeying Lord Vader; X-wing pilots felt the same about Commander Skywalker. The battle fizzled, all fighters slinking away toward their respective destroyers. The two central fighters remained in place until they were alone in the midst of a battlefield swept clean. A battlefield that bore no reminders of the destruction and deaths that had just occurred.
I will leave you for now, my child. But it matters not that you refuse to come with me. It is our destiny to meet again.
I know. Knew and hated his destiny--but hated only part of it. Hated Ben and Yoda for forcing this on him, for teaching him too much and not enough. If only there had been more time--for them to teach him, for him to know his Jedi fa-- Father?
Yes, my son?
How do you shut them out? Desperate, he risked sharing his feelings, the terrible grief, the pain of the dying, the agonies of the maimed in body and spirit. What's the secret?
There is no secret. In time, you will learn not to care. Farewell, Luke. Keep safe.
He watched until the interceptor was away, then returned to the formation and followed Rogue Squadron home.
...learn not to care.
Too much and not enough.
Of time, and everything else.
No one confronted him as he climbed out of the X-wing. No one rushed to assist and congratulate this time. The big deck was crowded with incoming fighters, crew members and maintenance staff swarming around the ships, preparing them for the next battle. They thought they had no time; they didn't yet know that the Empire fleet was readying for departure. They didn't know that Vader would keep his word to his son. He saw Wedge Antilles look his way, then glance down, turning to the other pilots who huddled around him. Wedge would be a good squadron leader. Better than Skywalker could ever be again.
Luke pulled himself straighter. Might as well get it over with. A droid was approaching; he fended off its pronouncement with an upraised hand. "Let me guess. General Rieekan wants to see me?"
"Immediately, Commander Skywalker. The General is in the Control Room."
One of the last times he'd be addressed as Commander. The possibility of resigning his commission had been preying on his mind since returning from Bespin. The training with Yoda and then the confrontation with his father--both events had served to stress to him that his life would be that of a Jedi. Not a soldier, not a farmer, maybe not even a husband or father. He accepted with pride and regret his destiny as the last Jedi. It was his chosen path to be a good one, to be the best, to strive for perfection. If he lived through each meeting with his father.
Rieekan wasn't alone in the Control Room. Among the banks of monitors sat a few operators, and standing with Rieekan waited Leia and Mon Mothma. He met Leia's eyes. She was grave, not understanding but hungering to. Grief for Han still colored her thoughts. Luke respected her privacy and lowered his own eyes. His actions had brought her more sadness, and for that reason alone he regretted this inevitable decision.
"Commander Skywalker," Mon Mothma began, her preternaturally gentle voice sending shivers through him as it always did, "perhaps you were not physically ready to undertake a battle. Are you feeling unwell?"
"I am not fully recovered, ma'am, but I am functional." He bowed slightly, acknowledging her regard even though it was more diplomacy than actual concern for his health.
"Luke, what we monitored-- What happened out there?" Leia's anxiety touched him.
"We destroyed several TIE's and lost one fighter." This was more difficult than he'd anticipated. There seemed to be no easy way to make his announcement. It was a relief when General Rieekan turned to him. Rieekan had no need for diplomacy.
"What we heard and monitored, Skywalker, was you falling out of formation, you running a defensive ploy instead of attacking--"
"I destroyed one TIE," he said mildly, though why he defended himself was inexplicable.
Rieekan acknowledged it with a curt nod. "Then why did you not destroy the others? The interceptor, in particular. You protected it while the pilot repaired the damage from your laser fire. You allowed it to return unharmed to the Star Destroyer. You allowed all the remaining TIE's their freedom by standing in the way of their destruction."
"Yes, sir."
"More importantly," Mon Mothma continued softly, "an intercepted communique hinted that Darth Vader was piloting that interceptor."
"He was."
"Luke!" Leia's distress sent small reverberations through the Force. "He nearly killed you in Cloud City--he took your hand! How could you help him?"
She couldn't accept the only answer he could give her, and it was not yet time to share his special truth. He held it tightly, protectively, in his heart like the dangerous treasure it was. Keep safe. Luke bowed his head for a long moment. When he raised it, he addressed Rieekan alone.
"Sir, I can no longer continue as an officer with the Alliance. I am resigning my commission effective immediately. I would like permission to be affiliated with the Alliance on an informal basis while I continue my Jedi training."
"Your resignation is accepted gladly." Rieekan's voice held anger. "I have some reservations, however, about this 'Jedi' business. The Jedi were nothing but trouble for years--I cannot accept that you wish to continue this pagan tradition. I hope that as you mature, you will put aside these childish dreams of otherworldly powers and glory."
This was not idle prejudice. Some experience in Rieekan's life had made him despise and fear the Jedi. Luke wondered what it was. He was tempted to delve into the man's thoughts--but that was a temptation he would always have to control; it was an act that came too easily to him. The General's fury irked him, too--why should ordinary men be allowed anger while it was forbidden to Jedi? How did the rage of ordinary humans fit into the Force? So many questions and no one to answer them.
"I feel we should accept Jedi Skywalker's offer to continue as a pilot with us," Mon Mothma said thoughtfully.
"Why? We can't get an answer out of him regarding today's shabby performance," Rieekan answered sharply, "and if I don't get a satisfactory answer, I will not allow him to remain with the Alliance fleet. His actions today were traitorous."
Luke flinched. It had taken long enough for the word to arise, but there it was. He heard Leia sigh; for once, she wasn't leaping to his defense. Though what defense could she possibly use? He stared Rieekan in the eyes. "You think little of Jedi, so perhaps this answer will not be 'satisfactory' to you. It is, however, the only one I have to share. I can sense them." His voice trembled. No time to feel regret, only to voice it. He drew a deep breath to steady his words. "I...can sense their thoughts. The pilots. What they're thinking as they die. They call for the ones they love. They cry for their mothers. They wish they were at home, on their farms, in their cities, instead of in battle. I cannot continue to take their lives, not when I can hear them dying." Their deaths in the stars...the Death Star. The lives, the thousands of lives he'd taken, the thousands of deaths he hadn't been able to sense.
In time you will learn not to care.
"Jedi sorcery!" Rieekan turned impatiently and slammed his fist on the table. Beyond him, a com operator jumped and readjusted her headset. "What about Vader? Why didn't you destroy him when you had the chance? Did you and he plot something when he let you escape in Cloud City?"
"General Rieekan, you go too far!" Leia confronted the tall man, glaring at him with her battle-fierce brown eyes. "Commander Skywalker is a Jedi! How else could he have escaped Vader?--he wasn't allowed to escape! You saw the condition he was in afterwards."
"I still want to know about Vader--about what happened today."
Luke hesitated. He wasn't about to reveal his parentage. That knowledge belonged to him. "He was...his craft was disabled. It would have been murder, not a fair battle, sir."
"His lasers weren't disabled."
"Well, he didn't use them, did he?" Leia snapped. "Evidently it was a mutual respect between warriors that caused the standoff. Luke's answers satisfy me."
"Yes." Mon Mothma glided to stand before him. "Your resignation is accepted with regret, but we respect your reasons. We would welcome your assistance at any time and in whatever form you choose to offer it."
"Thank you, ma'am, Princess." His awkward bow included them both. It didn't surprise him when Rieekan's acknowledgment was different.
He remained very straight as the rank insignia was ripped off his flightsuit with such force that the cloth was torn. "Resignation accepted, Skywalker." Rieekan had controlled the anger in his voice, but could do nothing about his eyes and shaking hands.
Humiliation brushed him. He had a fleeting, precognitive glimpse of the embarrassment of walking back to his quarters stripped of his rank, being humbled in front of his pilots. But, he told himself, these things were transitory. Fleeting moments in time. All that truly mattered was the Force and becoming a Jedi like--and unlike--his father.
Yet, in another way, all that mattered was solving the mystery of his father. Until he solved it, he would always have doubts, would always be haunted by the possibility that whatever had happened to his father would, in time, happen to him. If Jedi Skywalker the Elder could fall to the Dark, what would prevent the same fate from befalling Jedi Skywalker the Younger?
And if he discovered the reason for the fall, there was the real possibility that it could be reversed. He would have his father back, the galaxy would have two Jedi, father and son--not to rule the galaxy as Lord Vader wished, but to cherish and protect it.
Keep safe.
He smiled at the vision. "Thank you," he said happily, much to General Rieekan's surprise. Impulsively, he turned and hugged Leia before leaving the Control Room with lighter steps than he had walked in a week.
He'd taken his first bold, cautious leap into the future, toward saving his father and himself. There were so many preparations to make. First there was Rogue Squadron and the explanation he owed them, then Han to be saved, then he would go to Yoda to finish his training. So much to do.
He had no time to waste.
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of the 17th & 18th centuries
Some were immigrant Samuel's line
Some were Cornelius' line
These Notleys have been claimed by many people in many variations. While there were indeed several Notleys, some seem to be wishful thinking in the absence of any other possible known father for one's ancestors, as noted by varied statistics for one person. They are presented here to encourage those who believe they descend from a Notley to consider all the alternatives.
NAME DOB Place of Birth Wife DOD Place of Death Father Mother
Notley 1 1672 St. Mary's Co., MD Jane Warren 1716 St. Mary's Co., MD Samuel Ann Notley
Notley 2 1697 St. Mary's Co., MD Mary Warren 1757 or 1775 Charles Co., MD Notley Margaret Goldsmith Or Margaret Gerard
Notley 3 1706 or 1712 Charles Co., MD Elizabeth Martin 1786 Charles Co., MD James Mary ____
Notley 4 1730 Charles Co., MD Susannah Lee 1861 Charles Co., MD Or St. Mary's Co., MD Notley Mary Warren
Notley 5 Warren 1730 or 1760 Charles Co., MD St. Mary's Co., MD Frances Dillard 1816 Wilson Co., TN Notley Suzannah Lee Or Elizabeth ___
Notley 6 1731 St. Mary's Co., MD Susannah Burch 1820 Henry/Shelby Co., KY John Mary Dyson
Notley 7 1731 or 1767 Charles Co., MD Violetta Tarvin 1801 Mason Co., KY Notley Elizabeth Martin
Notley 8 (Wm) 1738 or 1767 St. Mary's Co., MD Violetta Boswell 1801 Mason Co., KY William Elizabeth
Notley 9 c. 1740 Charles Co., MD Elizabeth 1780 Charles Co., MD -- --
Notley 10 c. 1745 St. Mary's Co., MD Mary Ann Compton 1813 Rowan Co., NC Samuel Lydia Turner
Notley 11 (John) 1761 St. Mary's Co., MD Nancy Ann Freeman c.1835 Morgan Co., IL Notley Susannah Lee
Notley 12 1773 Charles Co., MD Kitie Southerland 1859 Culpeper Co., VA Notley Susannah Burch
There were still more Notleys in the 19th century, and even into the 20th century.If you have a Notley in your family, good luck!
But isn't it a majestic name?
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[Shorewall-users] Remote Firewall Administration
Tom Eastep [email protected]
Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:56:18 -0700
--On Wednesday, July 10, 2002 15:08:51 -0400 Kenneth Jacker
<[email protected]> wrote:
> During the summer, I /ssh/ to many of our Department's machines.
> What, if any, can I do with /shorewall/ via the /ssh/ connection?
> Of course "read only" type requests (e.g., "shorewall hits",
> "shorewall show log", etc) are not a problem.
> When I tried "service shorewall stop" for some testing, the /ssh/
> connection to/from the firewall just "hung" after displaying the
> following messages:
> Processing /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf ...
> Processing /etc/shorewall/params
> Stopping Shorewall...
This always reminds me of a person sitting on a tree limb madly sawing that
same limb between himself and the tree's trunk :-)
> I know it is best to be sitting at the firewall machine. But, I'm not
> always physically there.
> So a list of OK/not OK commands would be useful ...
Well, "stop" and "restart" are the poor choices. You know about stop --
restart may fail to start again because of a configuration error in which
case its effect is the same as stop.
A better way to change configurations remotely is to use the "try" command;
it was developed exactly for this purpose:
a) Copy the Shorewall files that you need to change to /etc/shoretest
b) Modify those files
c) "shorewall try /etc/shoretest"
That way, if the changed configuration fails to come up, /sbin/shorewall
will restart the main configuration in /etc/shorewall.
If you are worried that your new configuration may start but may disallow
remote SSH traffic, you can replace c) with:
c) "shorewall try /etc/shoretest 60"
That will start the configuration in /etc/shoretest, wait 60 seconds then
restart the main configuration.
Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy
AIM: tmeastep \ http://www.shorewall.net
ICQ: #60745924 \ [email protected]
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Fashion does it Better
Nouvelles Vagues, Nouvelles Tronches
Summer is so soon yet we're still enjoying spring (a very warm and welcoming one), summer is knocking at our doors and so on. It's been a while we hadn't dropped a tiny update here... It was big, big time to do so and here we go (!) (and ! again), right in time for the launch of new faces, a blog that doesn't hide its name, its goal, its bloodtype and whatever else (and no need for caps). FDIB's little sister is born and alive, and delivers daily new sensations from all over the world (and the moon, sometimes). Just like the lovely Irina Vulpe signed with Mandarina Models we chose to illustrate this tiny post. Our hearts are still beating fast, we hope yours too.
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Paul Mattick 1941
Pannekoek’s “The Party and the Working Class”
Source: Paul Mattick Home page;
Proofed: and corrected by Geoff Traugh, August 2005.
Our custom of omitting names has led to a misunderstanding. The article, “The Party and the Working Class,” which, after it had appeared in Council Correspondence, was reprinted by the APCF and discussed in Solidarity (Nos. 34-36) by Frank Maitland, was written by Anton Pannekoek. The latter is at present in no position to answer Maitland’s critique. Being in some way responsible for the contents of Council Correspondence, I will try to answer some of Maitland’s questions.
The problems raised cannot be approached in an abstract manner and in general terms, but only specifically in regard to concrete historical situations. When Pannekoek said that the “belief in parties” is the main reason for the impotence of the working class, he spoke of parties as they have actually existed. It is obvious that they have not served the working class, nor have they been a tool for ending class rule. In Russia the party became a new ruling and exploiting institution. In Western Europe, parties have been abolished by fascism and have thus proved themselves incapable either of emancipating the workers or of raising themselves into power positions. (The fascist parties cannot be regarded as instruments designed to end the exploitation of labour). In America parties serve not the workers but the capitalists. Parties have fulfilled all sorts of functions, but none connected with the real needs of the workers.
Maitland does not question these facts. Like the Christians who reject criticism with the argument that Christianity has never been tried in earnest, Maitland argues that “the problem is not one of party or no party, but of what kind of party.” Even if it is true that hitherto all parties have failed, he thinks that that does not prove that a new party, his “conception of the party,” will also fail. It is clear that a “conception of a party” cannot fail merely because real parties have failed. But then “conceptions” do not matter. The party of which he speaks does not exist. His arguments have to be proven in practice; but there is no such practice. All parties that have thus far functioned started out with Maitland’s conception of what a party ought to be. This did not hinder them from violating this conception throughout their history.
The party “Lenin strove to create,” for instance, and the party he actually created were two different things because Lenin and his party were only parts of history; they could not force history into their own conceptions. There are other forces in society besides conceptions that shape events. Maitland may be right in saying that the “present debacle of the Comintern does not show that Lenin’s conception of the party was incorrect,” but the debacle certainly shows that, independent of his conception, the party was indeed “incorrect” if measured by Maitland’s ideas and the needs of the international working class.
The party, Maitland maintains, “is a historic creation, which cannot be thrown aside.” Unfortunately that was true in the past history has also shown, however, that parties were not what they were supposed to be. They are the historic creation of liberal capitalism and within this particular setting they served – for a time – the needs of the workers, but only incidentally. They were chiefly involved in building up the group interest and social influence of the party. They became capitalistic institutions, participating in the exploitation of labour and fighting with other capitalistic groups for the control of power positions. Because of general crisis conditions, the concentration of capital, and the centralisation of political power, the state apparatus became the most important social power centre. A party that got control over the state – either legally or illegally – could transform itself into a new ruling class. This is what parties did or tried to do. Wherever the party succeeded, it did not serve the workers. Just the opposite occurred: the workers served the party. Capitalism, too, is a “historic creation.” If the “party cannot be thrown aside because it is a historic creation,” how is Maitland going to abolish capitalism now that it is identical with the one-party state? In reality both must be “thrown aside”; to end capitalism today implies the ending of the party.
For Maitland “the party should be the material apparatus for integrating the conscious minority and the unconscious mass.” The mass is “unconscious,” however, for the same reason that it is powerless. The “conscious” minority could not alter the one situation without changing the other. It cannot bring “consciousness” to the masses unless it brings them power. If the consciousness and the power depend on the party, the whole class struggle question takes on a religious character. If the people that constitute the party are “good” people, they will gives the masses power and consciousness; if they are “bad” people they will withhold both. There is no question of “integration” involved here, but only a question of “ethics.” Thus we may trust not only in abstract conceptions as to what a party ought to be but also in the good will of men. In brief, we must trust our leaders. What parties can give, however, they can also take away. Under conditions as they are, the “consciousness” of the minority is either meaningless, or it is connected with a power position in society. To increase “consciousness is thus to increase the power of the group that incorporates it. There arises no “integration” between “leaders” and “led”; instead, the existing gap between them widens continuously. The conscious group defends its position as a conscious group; it can defend this position only against the “unconscious” mass. The “integration” of the conscious minority and the unconscious mass is only a pleasanter-sounding description of the exploitation of the many by the few.
The fact that Maitland sees the party as the “material instrument” that co-ordinates thought and action reveals that his mind is still in the past. That is why he advocates the party of the future. The material apparatus (meetings, newspapers, books, cinema, radio, etc) of which he speaks has meanwhile ceased to be at the disposal of such parties as Maitland has in mind. The stage of capitalistic development in which parties could grow up like any other business concern and utilise the instruments of propaganda to their own advantage has ended. In present-day society, the development of labour organisations can no longer follow traditional paths. A party that “develops class consciousness in the masses” can no longer arise. The propaganda means are centralised and at the exclusive service of the ruling class or party. They cannot be used to unseat them. If the workers are not able to develop methods of struggle beyond the control of the ruling groups, they will not be able to emancipate themselves. A party is no weapon against the ruling classes; they do not even exist in fascist societies. Against the present power of the state-party-capital combination only the “conscious action of the whole mass of people” will help. As long as that mass remains “unconscious”, as long as it needs the “brain” of a party, this mass will remain powerless, for that “brain” will not develop.
Yet, there is no reason for despair. We can raise another question: what is this “consciousness” that parties supposedly have to bring to the workers? And what is that “unconsciousness” which demands the support of the masses by a separate “brain” – by the party? Is that kind of consciousness that we find in parties really necessary in order to change society? What has been really dangerous hitherto for the masses and their needs is precisely that “consciousness” that prevails in party organisations. The “consciousness” of which Maitland speaks, as it was experienced in practice, has nothing whatever to do with a “consciousness” needed to rebel against the present, and to organise a new society. The lack of that sort of consciousness that is nourished by parties is no lack at all as regards the practical needs of the working class.
The workers’ job is essentially a simple one. It consists in recognising that all previously-existing ruling groups have hindered the development of a truly social production and distribution; in recognising the necessity for doing away with production and distribution as determined by the profit and power needs of special groups in society who control the means of production and the other social power sources. Production has to be shifted so that it can serve the real needs of the people; it has to become a production for consumption. When these things are recognised, the workers have to act upon them to realise their needs and desires. Little philosophy, sociology, economics and political science are needed to recognise those simple things and to act upon the recognition. The actual class struggle is here decisive and determining. But in the practical field of revolutionary and social activities the “conscious” minority is no better informed than the “unconscious” majority. Rather the opposite is true. This has been proven in all actual revolutionary struggles. Any factory organisation, furthermore, will be better able than an outside party to organise its production. There is enough non-party intelligence in the world to co-ordinate social production and distribution without the help or interference of parties specialised in ideological fields. The party is a foreign element in social production just as the capitalist class was an unnecessary third factor to the two needed for the carrying on of the social life: the means of production and labour. The fact that parties participate in class struggles indicates that those class struggles do not tend towards a socialistic goal. Socialism finally means nothing more than the elimination of that third factor that stands between the means of production and labour. The “consciousness” developed by parties is the “consciousness” of an exploiting group struggling for the possession of social power. If it would propagate a “socialist consciousness” it must first of all do away with the party concept and with the parties themselves.
The “consciousness” to rebel against and to change society is not developed by the “propaganda” of conscious minorities, but by the real and direct propaganda of events. The increasing social chaos endangers the habitual life of greater and ever greater masses of people and changes their ideologies. So long as minorities operate as separate groups within the mass, the mass is not revolutionary, but neither is the minority. Its “revolutionary conceptions” can still serve only capitalistic functions. If the masses become revolutionary, the distinction between conscious minority and unconscious majority disappears, and also the capitalistic function of the apparently “revolutionary consciousness” of the minority. The division between a conscious minority and an unconscious majority is itself historical. It is of the same order of the division between workers and bosses.
Just as the difference between workers and bosses tends to disappear in the wake of unsolvable crisis conditions and in the social levelling process connected therewith, so the distinction between conscious minority and unconscious mass will also disappear. Where it does not disappear we will have a fascist society.
“Integration” can only mean helping to do away with the distinction between conscious minority and unconscious mass. Within classes and within society differences will remain between people. Some will be more energetic than others, some cleverer than others, etc. There will remain a division of labour. That these real differences froze into differences between capital and labour, into differences between party and mass, is due merely to historically conditioned specific production relations, to the capitalist mode of production. This distinction as regards social activity must be ended in order that capitalism may be ended. If one sees the need for “integration” he has to approach the problem in quite a different manner from Maitland. The “integration” has to go on not from the top down – where the party brings consciousness to the mass – but from the bottom up, where the class keeps all its intelligence and energy to itself, and does not isolate and thus capitalise it in separate organisations.
Production is social. All people, whatever they are or whatever they do, are, in a socially determined society, equally important. Their actual integration, not the “ideological integration” through the traditional party-mass relationship, is required. But this real integration, the human solidarity that is necessary in order to put an end to the misery of the world, must be fostered now. It can be developed only by destroying the forces which operate against it. Class solidarity and class actions can arise not with, but only against, groups and party interests.
August-September 1941
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Read e-book online After the End PDF
By Bonnie Dee
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ISBN-13: 9781456316020
The tip of the area is simply the start. Zombies are at the unfastened and the realm is falling aside. within the culture of apocalyptic novels reminiscent of Stephen King's THE STAND, a bunch of strangers on a new york subway are introduced jointly within the identify of survival. the gang follows the lead of Ari Brenner, a tender guy who doesn't realize his personal management traits and believes they persist with him just because he wears a military uniform. Lila Teske, a school scholar learning philosophy, reveals her non-violent ideals confirmed within the crucible of a zombie assault. There are different participants of the various workforce, however the concentration of the tale is on Ari and Lila, teens who know about sacrifice and internal power throughout the ordeal. With the city's infrastructure down and conversation with the skin international curtailed the survivors head towards the closest marina. once they meet a lab tech who could have an answer to the virus, they understand his defense is paramount and it's extra vital than ever that they get off the island. yet zombies aren't the single risk that impedes them on their perilous trip.
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Uh, there's nobody to take your money. " "Oh, of course. " Her blue eyes were wide and dilated. Didn't that mean a person was in shock? Well, hell, they all were. He searched behind the counter, trying to ignore the bits of clerk stuck to everything. It wasn't like he expected to find a gun or bat, this wasn't the kind of convenience store like in his neighborhood, but there was nothing useful for self defense. However, there was a display of flashlights near the register. Ari stepped over a shred of polo shirt with a name tag attached—Maria—and hefted one in his hand.
Ari pulled his own phone from his pants pocket and tried to reach his mom, but got her voice mail. Calls to his friends yielded the same results. He felt sick as he imagined why they might not be answering their phones. Now what? He tried to imagine what his drill sergeant, Vogt would command. Climb a wall, do a few sets of pushups. Nothing in the book about responding to a full scale zombie attack. " Derrick moved past Ari to take a turn looking at the carnage outside their foxhole. He pulled back, pale as a corpse, hugging his skinny arms around his body.
All she could do was hold her breath, which would ultimately force her to draw in a deeper lungful of the sickly odor if they didn't get past it fast. "Shine the light. " Ann Hanson's voice was panicked, as on edge as Lila felt. " The tall, older man's voice sounded distant and Lila guessed he was at the end of the line. Ari paused and flicked on the lighter. Its tiny glow was as bright as a flaming torch in the darkness. Lila blinked as her eyes adjusted, then focused on the dirty, damp cement floor.
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Sunday, February 21, 2016
Cats in Art: Esau Selling His Birthright to Jacob (Corneille)
Image credit FineArtAmerica, Esau Selling His Birthright to Jacob, Michel Corneille, 1630, oil on canvas, 45" x 49", held by Musee des Beau Arts, Orleans, France.
And the kitty close up from the lower left:
Bugler's comment:
While the dog is alert and interested in the human interaction, the cat sitting by the fireside seems completely oblivious to the drama: it has just discovered its own reflection in the lid of the copper pot in which the lentils were cooked.
This key event in human history merely causes the kitty to scope out its own image. To the cat's credit, it certainly knows what is important.
And I hardly need to point out that the artist has placed the cat in the lower left corner of the painting. Yet again. That positioning must have been taught in the art schools of Europe since the Middle Ages!
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Halloween is coming. Along with candy and costumes, tales of terror are this holiday's trademark, as this boy can surely tell you.
This kid is listening intently to a scary story his mother is reading. Heck, the book she's reading is even called "Scary Stories," so you know that, at the very least, it's going to cause some sleepless nights.
When the mom gets to a part involving a scream, it terrifies the boy to his core, causing him to scream. It clearly caught him off-guard and scared him, yet it's also delightfully adorable at the same time. That is quite the combo.
And while he may have been scared, he turns down his mother's offer to stop reading because he is one tough kid. Little boy 1, Halloween 0.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
What is a bribe ??
For your purvey Mr Deaver and Mr. Manley a bribe is defined as the following;
2.anything given or serving to persuade or induce
You'll notice in this example the condition is to persuade or induce something to occur, if 30K of Mr. Low's money is used to move his project ahead of others then YES that can be defined as a BRIBE. If this project was already on the docket for work to occur then see my bold statement below
4.to influence or corrupt by a bribe
You'll notice in this example it is to influence and once more I will state if the 30K of Mr. Low's is used to move his project ahead of others then YES Charlotte it can be considered a bribe. Once more if this project was already slated to be done then see the bwloe bold statement.
Both of you gentlemen are elected by the people to perform a duty of the electorate and by caveat the City of Springfield. When you both go on the attack as if your character was called into question because someone dare assume something under handed could be occurring you require people to question your integrity. This also calls into question if you were really listening to what was being said since the statement did not accuse either of you gentlemen or anyone on the council as taking this as a bribe or it even being portrayed as a bribe. The statement loosely pointed out that it could be CONCEIVED as one. There is a HUGE difference in the manner and fluctuation of the spoken word, perhaps listening would benefit you both greatly.
It is in your best interest not to attack an individual for a statement but to simply state the cash donation from Prime Inc will graciously be accepted to help offset the cost of this project as it has already been slated for construction
You gentlemen could learn much simply by listening to the words being said, ALL of the words being said and not just a couple of words which peeked your interest. As a business owner, home owner, and taxpayer in this community you owe this respect to those that are speaking
Tom Martz
Missouri Liberty Coalition
Jackie Melton said...
You mean not everybody heard:
Interesting perspective, Tom.
tom said...
Some would've slept right thru the meeting had the word 'bribe' not been uttered
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Pessimism, optimism, and the other more helpful -ism
What’s the point of pessimism?
One might imagine that it’s the optimists who will inherit the earth, leaving the pessimists to wallow in their general lack of hope and expectation.
After all, who’d want their glass half empty rather than half full?
Let’s just stop and think about this for a second.
Imagine you and I were standing one side of a chasm.
At its foot runs a piranha-infested river, and it’s – ooh – nine metres wide, a little over 29 feet 6 inches.
Your task?
To jump to the other side.
As an eternal optimist, you might declare ‘no problem’.
‘Go for it.’
This, however, would be foolish.
In the extreme.
The world record for the men’s long jump currently stands at 8.95 metres (7.52 for the women’s) so even an Olympic athlete would end up as fish food.
The point about the confirmed pessimist is that he or she would probably shy away from the jump even if the gap was less than a metre.
But somewhere between these two extremes sits sensible behaviour, which I think we’d probably call realism.
I’m not sure about you, but on a bad day I can find myself taking a downcast view of the world, while longing to be the complete opposite, a total optimist.
Better, surely, to recognise that it’s being realistic about things which gives us the best hope of success.
4 thoughts on “Pessimism, optimism, and the other more helpful -ism
1. The pessimist always expects the worst. However, the pessimist knows that things are never so bad that they can’t get worse (and usually do) so things are never at their worst, and therefore go better than the pessimist expected, resulting in a happy pessimist. So goes the theory of optimistic pessimism.
2. A friend asked me recently whether I felt my glass was half empty or half full. I couldn’t really answer either way, so I simply said neither, there’s just a glass. She seemed to interpret this as a positive response. For me I wasn’t so sure, but on reflection I think it was a sign that I was observing my thoughts rather than attaching a judgement to them. Perhaps it’s not always necessary to view things either positively or negatively, but to accept them as they are.
3. Being ‘too optimistic’ can be a bit extreme and ideas and thoughts could really be out of reach, but as you say, they may need to be ‘pulled back’ in by a pessimist.
However without dreams and extreme views how would we even know what is possible?
We need dreamers to often show us the way forward, don’t we?
If you leave it up to pessimists, we might not move forward at work, at home in life or indeed, at all?
4. I like having a clear path and realistic expectations but find myself getting over optimistic about things like a new love interest and then crashing back down when things don’t work out like I could have prevented the way things turned out. I’might learning to count on reason more and not think a new relationshiphone or possession will make me happier!
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Small Minded (song)
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Muse song
Name Small Minded
Album/single -
Length Unknown
Alternative titles -
First live performance February 1994
Latest live performance Unknown
Recorded -
Writer/composer Matthew Bellamy
Producer -
Small Minded was the first song Bellamy composed. It included some piano parts,[1] and was played by Muse, under the name Rocket Baby Dolls, during a battle of the bands contest.[2]. By the time of the MuseChat in November 2006, Bellamy couldn't recall the lyrics, nor what the lyrics were about.[1]
Matt said in 2000, later compiled in a interview of the 2007: "It was about the attitudes of people on our town, We didn't approve of this." "We were sick of drinking cider and being beaten up," added Dom.[3]
Small Minded was performed live at the band's first performance. It is likely it was performed at the second performance the following month as well, though this cannot be confirmed. The next performances were several months away and Small Minded was not performed at the November Battle of the Bands performance. It is likely that Small Minded was not continued into 1995 was performed less than five times.
More here
1. a b Muse. (2006-11-29). [Musechat]. Retrieved from
2. (2001). [Interview disc Q&A]. Mushroom. Retrieved 2007-04-18. [verify]
3. Ben Myers. (2006-07-29). 20 Things You Didn't Know About Muse. Kerrang magazine. Retrieved 2008-03-10. [verify]
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Sunday, 27 December 2015
Accidental Rape?
This man Ehsan Abdulaziz, 46 Has many attributes. He is a Moslem, he is a millionaire, he is a rapist, but most important he is free!
He managed to fall onto a girl who was asleep on the settee in his home and accidentally penetrate her.
What is more absurd is the Jury after 30 minutes deliberation acquitted him. I wonder what the demographic of the jury was.
Money talks
Monday, 21 December 2015
Peter Hutchings nb FUTUREST
I met Peter some years ago when he first got his boat FUTUREST. We would meet up in passing every once in a while. I last saw him on the K&A in the summer. It was only a week ago I passed his boat in Warwick. I did shout, but the deaf old sod didn’t hear. Peter was a real gent of the water. I wonder if he ever did finish his book. RIP Peter!
Saturday, 19 December 2015
Dear David......
When you were elected it was because we the people thought you were the best man for the job. You made promises that we felt meant you had the people’s best interest at heart.
Do you remember, ‘The NHS is safe with me?’ No! Well let me tell you we do! You broke this promise, that’s your bad. If that was the only promise you broke that would be enough to fire your ass in any other job. You failed to bring criminals to justice and when those criminals laughed at us when we gave them £45 billion you laughed with them.
You close down our vital assets such as Air Sea Rescue, Fire Stations, A&E etc claiming there is no money then spend billions on the Queens Jubilee, The Olympics, HS2, and a whole host of other expensive projects which we can do without in these so called ‘austere’ times. Trust me we are not fooled.
There is not one entrepreneur that would make a penny without the work force yet you with your immigration policy have be driving down the wages of the poorest and the taxes of the richest. You have bought in a scheme of slavery under the guise of ‘Workfare’ whereby a company can fire a man for no real reason and your Gestapo can force him to go back and work for them for free! And all this time you and your cronies in the HoC have been awarded an 11% pay rise while it was your watch. Did you know an 11% pay rise for the poor would make little difference? 11% for you makes you richer, 11% for the public sector would just make them less poor. Our finest public sector workers get a measly 1%. 1% doesn’t even cover the increase cost of bus fares to get them to work.
The cost of living rises faster than good people can earn the money to pay for it. VAT and income tax drag my income down to 60% other taxes reduce it even further. All this despite your promises to the contrary.
IDS your chief Gestapo Officer is personally responsible for the death of thousands of our most vulnerable citizens. On this there can be no discussion. You are his boss that puts you in the dock too! You are ultimately responsible.
You have repeatedly lied, defrauded, and cheated the country, while while making sure your mates make millions from the public purse. You are no better than Mugabe, Kim sun il and a whole host of other despots in the world. And you refuse to take responsibility for you fraudulent action. You allow your colleagues to cheat on their expenses and treat it as if it were nothing yet the average expenses fraud is £2000.
You pillory benefit fraud yet the average benefit 'fraud' is only £59. And still those who bought this nation to its knees escape punishment.
Your government is rotten to the core. Not fit for purpose. Can this be the reason you fixed the recall bill? In a democracy it is absolutely preposterous that the voters cannot fire their representative when they FAIL at their job or cheat and steal.
We, yes we, are your employers. We pay your salary yet you treat us as if we were something you stepped in.
You are totally shameless unbelievably snobby to those who you owe so much and have been elevated to a level far above your merit.
Some years ago I had the good fortune to dine with Osama bin Laden. Despite his notoriety I would still rather dine with him again than with you and the human excrement that you call government. His commitment to his people, to his religion, far out strips yours. You are a political pigmy by comparison. One thing you can say about OBL is that despite his ideology he never once told a lie. Can you say that about yourself? I don’t think so! You cannot tell the truth if your son’s lives depended on it.
I find it ironic that that some son’s lives do depend on the truth, a truth you are unable to face. Your spin machine is doing you no favours. You do not look great to the nation, to the EU or to the world. We, well you, are a laughing stock. A spoilt public school brat. You have nothing to offer us. Your ‘call me Dave’ is crass. You are not a man of the people. You never were, you never will be. The closest you will come to it is if you surround yourself with good, down to earth people. People who can live in London on 40 quid a week not those who spend £39 of our money on a toilet roll holder. Surround yourself with people who understand that a Poundland toilet brush does the same job as a 50 quid one from Harrods. Surround yourself with people who have had to decide to heat or eat. The greedy money grabbing bastards you currently surround your self with have no idea the barrel has a bottom. They certainly don’t know why we voted for them and very few have had to live with real hardship.
There is one thing a politician needs to be able to say at the end of their term in office. “I made a positive difference to the lives of those who put their faith in me, those most in need”
You have managed to destroy belittle, and even kill. You have taken this once great nation and broken it. You broke the spirit that broke the Germans. Well done you! You have done this for selfish reasons. To make money for yourself and your friends. You have done this to perpetuate the evil of a class system built on the blood, sweat, and tears of the ordinary people. No rich man ever got rich without the cooperation of the working man. No mine owner ever dug one shovelful of coal. No rich man ever made a candle. No rich man ever took breath with out the help of the working man. No rich man ever got rich without ordinary people.
We live in a democracy one man one vote and yet you take bribes in return for honours. You award contracts to those who only want to screw the crap out of this country. You are no better than the Krays. You are lower than a snake’s belly. You are a criminal, a fraudster a conman. I try to like even the mot unlikeable people, but in your case I will make an exception you are not a likeable person. I hope you die a horrible death in lots of pain. I am only sorry that at 65 I will not be around to enjoy your demise.
If you have read this far, which I doubt, you will know I am a grumpy man. Understand this there are millions of us who would happily press the button that would terminate your life. in unbelievable pain and terror.
Your only salvation is to resign. Don’t draw out your evil reign any longer than necessary. You have proved to be an incompetent of immense proportions.
That you and your cronies can laugh when millions are using food banks is a disgrace. You must be the most hated man in the country next to IDS. I wish you no good fortune other than I hope no one ever shoots you because a bullet would be too quick and you really need to suffer.
The last five years need never have happened. You, yes you, chose to persecute our weakest members. You are one despicable being I will not say human because you are certainly not that.
Here’s hoping you die a despicable death and the rest of your family to. The sins of the father shall be visited on the sons, one down. It has begun. Will you sacrifice them all for your vanity? Probably.
David let our people go. You have the power to make Britain work. Wake up. Your time is nigh. RESIGN!!!
(I would press the button, would you?)
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
The Geetur Player!
I found this on Bones’ blog. One of the better pictures of me. I just look so coooool!IMGP1152
Thank you Bones
Friday, 4 December 2015
And if you believe that you really are STUPID!
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Thursday, 3 December 2015
The Anchor Inn, High Offley
Copied from Canal World
Anchor Inn The e-canalmapp App for the Midlands has this pub erroneously listed as 'CLOSED'. Consequently she has seen a big decline in customers this year, including (importantly) campers who used to bring their caravans and tents in the summer.
The Anchor Inn is NOT CLOSED! I told Olive that I'd ask you guys to take note and spread the word, if you know anyone who is remotely interested. Olive is attempting to have the app corrected, but so far after 3 months of reporting the issue, it still lists it as closed.
Winter opening hours are weekends only, Friday and Saturday evenings from 1900-2300 (often later!) plus Saturday and Sunday lunchtimes from 1200-1430 (often later!). Note: Closed on Sunday evenings.
Summer hours increase to weekday opening, both at lunchtime AND evenings.
Please help by passing this info onwards.
Those who complain of the pub hardly ever being open simply don't know her opening hours. They are regular and consistent, as listed above. She HAS been know to close early, but only if there's no customers.
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Climate Change
There is something bothering me about this Climate Change thing. We are told that melting ice at the poles will cause sea levels to rise and flood the lowlands. There are all manner of charts and graphs to demonstrate this.
I set to wondering about the problem and started by looking at this picture.
iceglass2 I cant vouch for the validity of this picture but you get the idea. That is one big chunk of ice and when it melts it will end up as a whole big puddle of water, but how much?
The North polar Ice Cap covers about 1.71 million km² and contains about 2.6 million km³ of ice. Ice is approximately 8.3 % less dense than water. The density of ice is 0.9167 g/cm3 at 0 °C, whereas water has a density of 0.9998 g/cm³ at the same temperature. When water freezes, it increases in volume (about 9% for freshwater). So if it melts will there be 2.6 million km³ of water added to the seas. No! There will only be 2.34 million km³ of water. 260,000 km³ less and that 2.34 million km³ will fill the space the ice filled under the water.
So when this lump of ice melts its volume will be roughly 9% less than it is currently. This is where I am having trouble. If water increases in volume when it turns to ice, then it reduces in volume when it changes from ice to its liquid state. So it will be roughly 10% smaller. That is about the same amount of ice that is above the sea in my picture.
image OK so we can do a small experiment to demonstrate this. Take a glass and fill it with ice cubes, then fill the glass with water. It should look something like this:-
Now leave it until all the ice has melted and you will find that there is space in the top of the glass. So if there is less water than the water & ice we started with, where will the flooding come from when the ice caps melt?
I know someone with more knowledge than me will come along and debunk this, but hey, I’m just thinking out loud.
It is however worth reading up and below is a list of books that may be of interest. Please remember that some of the people and organisations who wrote these volumes are paid research grants by Governments to justify Climate Change Taxes. What you have to decide is would they lie to keep themselves in lucrative employment?
A number of top scientists have left the program in the last few years because they doubt the validity of their research.
"NSIDC Arctic Sea Ice News Fall 2007". Retrieved 27 March 2008.
"Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis". National Snow and Ice Data Center. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
"State of the Cryosphere / Arctic and Antarctic Standardized Anomalies and Trends Jan 1979 - Jul 2009". National Snow and Ice Data Center. Retrieved 24 April 2010.
Thompson, Elvia. "Recent Warming of Arctic May Affect Worldwide Climate". NASA. Retrieved 2 October 2012. Warming trends like those found in these studies could greatly affect ocean processes, which, in turn, impact Arctic and global climate.
"Antarctic Ice Melt". OSS Foundation. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
"Is Antarctica Melting?". NASA. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
Langway, Chester (April 2008). "The history of early polar ice cores, Cold Regions Science and Technology" 52 (2). pp. 101–117.
"Polar ice is melting more faster than predicted". The Watchers. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
Videl, John (19 September 2012). "Arctic Ice Shrinks 18% against Record, Sounding Climate Change Alarm Bells". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 3 October 2012.
National Snow and Ice Data Center A real hole near the pole, 4 September 2012
Grima, Cyril G.; Kofman, W.; Mouginot, J.; Phillips, R. J.; Herique, A.; Biccardi, D.; Seu, R.; Cutigni, M. (2009). "North polar deposits of Mars: Extreme purity of the water ice". Geophysical Research Letters 36 (3). doi:10.1029/2008GL036326.
Ravilious, Kate (28 February 2007). "Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says". National Geographic News. National Geographic Society. Retrieved 28 October 2008.
Parnell, Brid-Aine. "New Horizons Probe Snaps Possible Polar Ice Cap On Pluto". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-05-20.
PS Did you spot “Polar ice is melting more faster than predicted.”
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Government Cover Up
Davidkelly You may remember Dr David Kelly, the government advisor on WMDs, who died suddenly back in 2003. The Hutton Report conducted by none other than Lord Hutton concluded that Kelly took his own life. But there was doubt about the findings of the report and it was challenged by one Dr Michael Powers QC who claimed a cover up.
Of course the Government denies any wrong doing in the case. It come as no surprise to me that the post mortem results and undisclosed evidence has been locked away for 70 years.
EDIT: More to the point if it was that important why wasn’t it used as evidence in the hearing?
Quite harsh for a ‘simple’ suicide don’t you think? There can only be one reason why the powers that be want to keep the photos secret for seventy years and that is probably because they show the bullet hole in the back of the good Doctors head. One can only surmise Lord Hutton has his price!
Don’t tell me the government had nothing to do with the death of David Kelly I just don’t believe it. If the Government of the day and currently have had no input to the findings of the Hutton report why is there a need to lock it all away? By the time these records are released for public scrutiny all the main guilty bastards er sorry main players will all be dead and unable to be bought to trial. What a bunch of dry gulchers we have in office.
RIP Dr Kelly your time will come.
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Apply advanced principles of marine mechanics
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Elements describe the essential outcomes.
Apply principle of statics to determine forces in structures, connections, support systems, and trusses in two and three dimensions
Bows notation is applied to solve problems related to trusses
Individual loads are computed using method of sections
Forces in three-dimensional structures are calculated
Calculate friction torque in plate and cone clutches
Laws of friction are applied to develop formulae, using uniform wear, to find the torque in a plate and cone clutch
Laws of friction are applied to develop formulae, using uniform pressure, to find the torque in plate and cone clutches
Power to overcome friction in plate and cone clutches using uniform wear and uniform pressure formulae is computed
Calculate displacement, velocity and acceleration in cams, engine mechanisms and gear systems
Velocity and acceleration diagrams are applied to illustrate relative velocity and acceleration
Output of epicyclic gears is calculated by applying relative velocity and acceleration theory
Inertia loads are calculated using piston velocity and acceleration equations
Analyse forces and couples to balance reciprocating machinery
How primary force balance is obtained is graphically illustrated
Relationship between complete balance and dynamic balance is explained
Reciprocating piston acceleration formula is applied to differentiate between primary and secondary forces
Complete balance for a multicylinder reciprocating engine or machine is illustrated graphically using vector diagrams and computed analytically
Apply simple harmonic motion principles to solve problems in free and forced vibration
Differences in the terms amplitude, frequency and period are explained
Simple harmonic motion (SHM) equations are derived from the scotch yoke mechanism
Equations for displacement, velocity, acceleration and frequency in SHM are developed
Displacement, velocity, acceleration and frequency in SHM in a vibrating spring-mass system are determined
Spring constant (k) for springs in series and parallel is calculated
Forced vibration caused by an out-of-balance rotating mass is analysed to derive an expression for amplitude of forced vibration
Dangers of resonance are explained
Calculate hoop stresses in rotating rings and stresses in compound bars
How rotational stress is generated by centrifugal force is explained
Formula for hoop stress in a rotating ring is applied to calculate hoop stress and/or limiting speed of rotation
Stresses in compound bars subject to axial loads and/or temperature change are determined
Apply strain energy and resilience theory to determine stresses caused by impact or suddenly applied loads
Equation is derived to calculate strain energy in a deformed material
Stress in a material due to impact or dynamic loads is determined using energy equation
Equation to calculate stress caused by suddenly applied loads is derived
Calculate beam deflection
Macaulay’s method is applied to calculate beam deflection
Deflection of cantilever and simply supported beams is calculated using standard deflection formulae for different loads
Apply Euler's formula to find buckling load of a column
Effective length of a column with various end restraints is determined
Slenderness ratio is applied to determine the strength of columns
Relationship between slenderness ratio and buckling is explained
How buckling load for a slender column is applied (including a factor of safety) is explained
Calculate stresses
How to combine stress formula and calculate stress with combined loading is explained
Superposition is used to describe stress due to combined axial and bending stress
Mohr’s Circle is employed to illustrate normal and shear stress
Principal stress formulae are applied to explain how maximum combined normal and shear stress can be obtained
Apply thick shell formulae
Tangential stress distribution caused by internal and external pressure is analysed
Lame’s theorem is applied to describe stress in thick cylinders due to internal and external pressure
Apply continuity equation to determine changes in fluid velocity
Conservation of energy theory is applied to calculate pressure, head and velocity of fluids flowing through orifices
Volumetric and mass flow through a venturi meter is calculated
Forces exerted by flowing fluids either free (jet) or contained are determined, including coefficients of velocity, contraction of area and discharge
Determine changes in fluid flows through pipe systems and centrifugal pumps
Difference between steady and unsteady flow is clarified
Viscosity of fluids is analysed and difference between dynamic and kinematic viscosity is explained
Significance of Reynolds number in fluid mechanics is explained
Importance of critical Reynolds number is explained
Flow losses in pipes and fittings are calculated
Changes of velocity of liquids in a centrifugal pump are analysed and entry and exit vane angles are determined
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investments in oil - An Overview
However, what has demonstrated to be a recreation changer for production lately may be the shift from drilling vertical wells to horizontal drilling, which, as the next chart displays, started in 2011:
Notice that when the quality and features could fluctuate rather concerning kinds of a certain commodity (for example, Brent crude oil is often greater top quality than West Texas Intermediate crude), producers will be normally ready to exchange products and solutions of the identical sort with each other.
With OPEC international locations centered on boosting domestic refining capacity to satisfy regional desire and ramp-up exports of refined merchandise, more crude oil exports from Brazil and Canada might be better than Those people from the Middle East.
Distribution – distribution of oil products and solutions, ethanol, biodiesel and all-natural fuel to wholesalers and thru the Petrobras Distribuidora S.A. retail network in Brazil
The costs of output and transportation of saleable petroleum from oil sands is typically appreciably increased than from regular world-wide resources.[98][99] Therefore the economic viability of oil sands creation is a lot more susceptible to the cost of oil. The cost of benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil at Cushing, Oklahoma over US$one hundred/bbl that prevailed until late 2014 was adequate to market Lively expansion in oil sands creation. Major Canadian oil corporations had announced enlargement ideas and overseas companies were investing considerable quantities of capital, in lots of cases forming partnerships with Canadian organizations.
The views expressed are People on the creator(s) and therefore are not necessarily Individuals of Scientific American.
As the crude oil market place is so liquid (no pun meant) – with positions and costs switching by the next – being on top of the business (and activities that might influence it, like Those people talked about over) is important for traders and traders.
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Re: [OpenMap Users] menus on select from OMGraphicHandlerLayer subclass
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I am trying to figure out what to put inside the
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¡Ilves! ¡tarand! ¡Ilves!
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Liivimaa parim ratsutaja ütles ...
Estonian pop star Sal-Saller (arrogancy is part of his job description) has a line in one of his whiny fake foreign accented songs where he declares that "in Estonia, everyone is a superstar". I found it funny and dead-on. That also maybe explains why estonians do not like to big cities like New York etc. which make one feel insignificant. In a village, everyone is a superstar.
Listen to maainimised complain about the "fast-paced" and "frantic" life in Tallinn. Makes you laugh when you are on NY or Moscow subway.
_nagilum_ ütles ...
... but it is interesting to follow it all, all that's going on. only 25 votes against ilves; this means two things, a) that tarand may be popular with the people, but has little to no political weight (how could he, he's alone, and as long as you don't have to deliver, well, being a bit of a blowhole isn't such a bad thing); and b), the keskies aren't as happy as they used to be voting against their grand poobah's expressed enemy just for the hell of it. tarand slightly de-mystified and made to look a fool for keskerakond, savisaar on the way down. estonian politics might just become interesting after all.
Sepp ütles ...
Amusing...I would often be met with dumbfounded looks by kodu Eestlased when I explained to them that in all the years that I have spent walking the sidewalks of New York, I have almost never encountered one of our Estonian kin folk. Just didn't seem possible to them.
OTH, to relieve their anxiety over this, I would also mention that outside of a few enclaves like Brighton Beach, one rarely heard Russian spoken in the States and the average American probably spent less than 2 seconds a year wondering about what was going over there in ex commie land.
Ricardo ütles ...
This whole article is based on the thesis of Estonian being arrogant and vain. However, evidence for that is really poor. That Estonians read tabloids about famous people who are famous for being famous? Which people in Europe actually does NOT read that kind of tabloid? Actually and from my experience, if that is the way to measure "vanity", I would say Estonians are less vain that the European average. As one example, Estonian tabloids seem to care less about aristocracies than tabloids from other republics.
As for arrogance, I wonder whether the author of this post has ever had contact with ordinary people from France, Italy and Germany (just to name countries with big population).
Rainer ütles ...
I agree with Ricardo. This theory of (all) Estonians being arrogant and vain is something one would expect from Edward Lucas. A hefty generalization from someone who probably comes into contact with only certain kind of people, let's call them "the successful ones".
And yet there are plenty of people in Estonia suffering from the low self-esteem, sometimes to the point of self-hatred (a good article on the subject by Imbi Paju: http://www.postimees.ee/218362/imbi-paju-eneseviha-juured-reetmisest-ja-autundest/ ). Sadly this kind of national masochism is much more characteristic of certain social layers/generations in Estonia today than arrogance and vanity.
Liivimaa parim ratsutaja ütles ...
to Rainer
Interesting article you referenced. Thank you. Here is one that really struck me personally ...
"Meie kultuur peaks andma võimaluse meenutada neid isikuid, kes tugevdavad meie kokkukuuluvustunnet, mitte tunnet, et meid on reedetud."
I feel that our culture is more about betrayal rather than ühtekuuluvustunne. I cannot stand there and hold hands with my countrymen one day, and battle them in traffic and fight them in everyday situations the next. If we have anything in common it is the general ärapanemine. I like to be a winner so, I fight and all kinds of laulupidud and kumbmaya hold my hand teary moments are distractions to me.
I am utterly sad and completely honest by saying that. My motto is and will continue to be "don't fuck with me" and I know everyone else has the same motto too. They will just not say it. Just watch them behave and you get it.
Arrogance is a too soft a word to describe it.
That's us.
That's me.
And it sucks and thats how it is.
Ricardo ütles ...
"battle them in traffic"? Battle them in traffic???
Excuse me "Liivimaa parim ratsutaja", but in which Estonia do you live????????????????
I suggest you driving in Portugal, France or North Italy. I am not evil enough to suggest you to drive in South Italy though.
Liivimaa parim ratsutaja ütles ...
I admit, that by using traffic as an example of unfriendly estonian behavior was weak. I just meant the overall ärapanemine and generally hostile and rude atmosphere in Estonia.
_nagilum_ ütles ...
lpr rainer, ricardo: but the estonians HAVE been betrayed. you can look at it whichever way you want: they got screwed by history several times over, learned the hard way that you can't rely on most of your so-called friends, had to hack their way out of misery and dictatorship twice in the same century, got 25% of their population arrested, displaced, murdered, were robbed, nationalised, the list is endless. they're suspicious, and who the hell could blame them? arrogance, yes; but the source is a rather justified "us against the rest of the world" mentality. because once the morally superior western world gives you a practical demonstration of how much their high and mighty talk is worth, by handing over your nation's gold reserves to the people who are keeping your land occupied for instance, some kitchen table let's all be friends and love and support each other till the end of time crap just doesn't do anymore. these things take time, and it's not the estonians who f'ed up. let them be annoyed with the world and each other, hell i would be if something alike had happened to my country.
Christine ütles ...
How much did Estonia pay for that soul of yours?
_nagilum_ ütles ...
i thought they didn't have any money for extras.
Lingüista ütles ...
I've still seen no evidence that Estonians are any more arrogant than, say, Russians, or Americans, or Italians, or Germans, or...
You see, my native country (Brazil) supposedly suffers from the opposite disease: we are 'too friendly', we 'trust too quickly', we 'don't believe in ourselves' -- Brazilians keep telling jokes about how f-ed up Brazilians are -- etc. etc. etc. But the moment Brazil attained some semblance of economic success and started being listened to internationally, I started hearing rather arrogant claims from politicians (starting with former president Lula himself).
Also, just talking to people from our beloved neighbor countries -- especially small, poor ones like Paraguay or Bolivia -- and what they say Brazilians are like when they visit their countries can be an eye-opener: Brazilians can be every bit as arrogant, don't-f-k-with-us-we're-better-than-you as any other people. Just give them a chance.
So, are Estonians any worse? I've only met a few of them thus far, and I have noticed a number of surprising features... but arrogance wasn't one of them. (But then again, they were abroad, in countries richer than Estonia, which does not exactly feed one's desire to show one's arrogant side.)
National characters are difficult things to pin down.
Giustino ütles ...
But most countries in Europe are far bigger. I guess an Icelandic tabloid might measure up to an Estonian one in terms of glorification of a small country's natural incestuousness, but even a Danish tabloid is bound to include society figures with whom few "average" people come into contact. That's a much bigger pond.
That's what makes the vanity of the faux celebrities inside so much more hilarious. The aristocracies in countries like the UK are important because they are important. The nouveau riche aristocracy in Estonia is important because they own a big house or a nice car or go on vacation to nice places to rub elbows with the UK aristocracy.
I've been to all three countries and have relatives living in at least one. Italy is an enormous country compared to Estonia. The level of self importance must be examined from this perspective. If you are the mayor of Tartu, Estonia's second largest city, you represent about 100,000 people. If you are the mayor of Milan, Italy's second largest city, you represent 1.3 million people -- about as many as live in Estonia.
Now, quick, tell me the name of the mayor of Milan!
Giustino ütles ...
I think what I detect among (successful) Estonians is what we would call "putting on airs." It's the idea that if you buy the right clothes, get the right car, the right haircut, live in the right neighborhood, offer guests the right wine, that you can somehow escape the fact that your ancestors were peasant farmers or that your grandmother lives in the countryside in a house with limited plumbing.
Kristopher ütles ...
Arrogant and vain -- I suppose it can be given a positive spin.
It's also a good name for a wine bar in Tallinn. Or Kõrk and Vein, if you like.
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High Ground North of Geilenkirchen
Five months after D-day, both sides were exhausted. The Germans retreated from France to prepared positions inside the Siegfried Line. The Americans and British waited for supplies. The lines were fixed. November 1944 was a battle with echoes of World War 1. We huddled in holes in the ground to escape machine gun fire from concrete bunkers, and heavy artillery barrages.
Several miles behind the front, high-powered searchlights banked their beams into low clouds. The reflected light spread for miles through the night sky. Men and vehicles moved as shadows in the haze. At times a brilliant flare would fly up, explode; hang like a tiny sun battling midnight, and all action would freeze. In a minute or so the flare collapsed into darkness. The pupils of my eyes reopened and adjusted to the thin light. The explosion, which had brought fear, could not sustain it.
There was time to think of what had been left behind. Fear surrendered to petulance, petulance dissolved to remembrance, and remembrance cascaded into speculation.
Until the next flare, until the next artillery barrage.
There are differences between terror, fear and panic. Terror explodes with the first explosion. Terror cannot be dealt with. Fear comes when terror is localized— rifle or sub-machine fire. Those sources are near and something can be done.
Panic builds. Artillery fire, coming from so far so suddenly and so long. The explosions are consistently, persistently near. Nothing can be done, but dig a hole in the ground for protection. In World War I prolonged panic was called “shell shock.” In World War II “battle fatigue.” In Vietnam “post-traumatic stress disorder.”
Though the artillery fire was heavy, one search-lit night the engineers crawled forward with mine detectors. They left a cleared area, a tape corridor wide enough for a sniper to crawl through before the attack in force began. I entered combat crawling on my mud soaked belly.
There were some fourteen million uniformed Americans behind me. Not one in front of me.
An exposed machine gunner had to be careful. If he were in a bunker he could fire a heavy water-cooled machine gun in long bursts. But after the Americans breached the concrete defenses of the Siegfried Line, the German machine gunners were in the open with sub-machine guns. That’s why they fired short bursts. Long ones would reveal their position.
I became exposed. As part of the 334th Infantry Regiment, I was inside the Geilenkirchen salient, in a field northeast of the town of Geilenkirchen, when a German machine gunner saw me. He shot and missed. I dropped behind a small rise onto the wet cold ground. What I had to do was roll over on my shoulder and release an entrenching shovel hooked to my back cartridge belt. If I could dig, I could increase the height of the sheltering mound.
I tried to move.
As I turned, my left shoulder rose above the small rise. The gunner fired and missed. The bullets hit the ground and ricocheted above me. I felt the splatter and heard the whine.
Face down again. He fired again.
I waited a few minutes and tried once more. I lifted my shoulder and twisted for the shovel. The mud splattered. It started about ten in the morning. Now and then he shot just to show he was there. I was on the cold and wet ground for some two hours. I thought I would die. So I talked to God, whom I had neglected for many years.
Because I thought I would die in combat, I wanted to be connected to Infinity. Lying on the ground, becoming more certain of death, I tried to negotiate with the Cosmos. I was 23 and a virgin. I didn’t think masturbation was on the Universe’s agenda of sexual sin.
I had disagreed with my father on the marriage he wanted for me. Abe Wolff worked for Reich Dress, and his friend Yitzhak had a daughter in Manley Frocks. I had said no. “If I ever get out,” I told the Universe, “I will marry whomever my father chooses.”
I never thought you could make a deal with God. My father was a salesman who liked negotiating, but I never liked seeing him do it. The Universe does not wrangle. But I tried: “Infinity, I will go to medical school as my mother wants, and give up literature. Do something for me, please.”
Our machine guns had triggers. If they were thumbed quickly, a minimum of bullets could be fired. About four …tock..tock..tock..tock. I think the German guns worked that way. His sub-machine machine gun went tock..tock. Only two. I heard only two tocks, instead of four. Maybe the German gun had jammed.
I tried to run before he cleared the feed. I dragged my left foot, which seemed paralyzed and I found shelter among the vegetables.
The German farmers had dug up sugar beets before the battle. Large harvested mounds lay in elongated piles across the fields. The heaps were about three feet high and three feet at the bottom of their extended pyramids. I rolled into their protection, belly down. A few minutes later a very long burst, which was absorbed totally by the vegetables. I was safe.
He should not have fired that long burst. He had given away his exposed position. A Browning automatic rifle on my right answered him immediately. A BAR was not a machine gun. It was an inelegant weapon that weighed a lot but not as much as a machine gun. It did its job. He did not fire again. He had given away his position. He had been killed by my friend.
I crawled until it was safe to stand and hobble away.
“High Ground North at Geilenkirchen,” p. 38, Fortune Favored the Brave, A History of the 334th Infantry 84th Division, by Cpl. Perry S. Wolff, Mannheim Press, 1945
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Tuesday, 23 March 2010
The passing of Robin Milner
I heard yesterday that Robin Milner died on the 20th March. The passing of giant. I can say little more. My blog is undeniably my small humble tribute to a man who taught me so so much. I am feel so very sad that both he and Lucy are with us no more but very privileged to have known both of them.
Robin and Lucy thank you for just being who you were. May we be as blessed with your humility and wisdom in our lives.
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Saturday, September 23, 2006
Facade of Politics is Falling Apart
So called political parties, their purported differences and ongoing media hyped theatrics called elections, it's all unravelling. Three touch machine selection cycles now should show us that it's all a grand illusion, a stage play meant to convince us that we live in that Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post illusion of How We Want To Think Of Ourselves.
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Propaganda and election hype is blared at us by the media wherever we turn . Endless speculation about this candidate or that, whether the dems can take over this house or the other, poll numbers and other garbage, it's all meant to convince us that yes, we live in a democracy, yes, we control our destinies and yes, the whole facade is trustworthy and legitimate. It's all bullshit.
There's only one party, and the differences between the democrats and republicans are cosmetic to convince us otherwise. Oh sure, at local levels some minor things may be contrastive but in the larger scheme they're all marching to the same tune, and it's the martial music of a fascist agenda. Individuals who think they can buck the system and not go along with this agenda go nowhere in politics - they reputations are destroyed or they're just flat out Wellstoned.
This carefully maintained facade is crumbling now, and lots of recent things show the true face of politics as it really works. For one thing, three stolen elections in a row should shatter any illusions that this next one will be any different. The overlords will never vacate power, they've permanently put in place the ability to fix the vote results so all that's left for them to do is manage public perception. The most important thing is to convince us that the whole corrupt sickness is legitimate but sometimes we see how the differences in the parties is just a convenient eidolon.
When at the UN Hugo Chavez spoke the truth about Sockpuppet , his handlers with their hands up his ass and their murderous atrocities, prominent democrats like Rangel, Pelosi and Clinton fell all over themselves to defend the unlawful fraud. Instead of listening to a majority of the people who undoubtedly would have expressed the same sentiment, they showed they were still loyal obsequious servants to power. Chavez rammed home the point that makes fascists cringe, the point that needs to be reiterated again and again - this government is not the country, this government does not reflect the will of the people, and that's a message that the brownshirts are forced to attack.
Pathetic loser Joe Lieberman got cashiered in the Connecticut primary and exposing that he was a democrat in name only decided to appear on the ballot as an independent, obviously hoping that his unconditional support for the fascists will get some positive Diebold favors. It seems Joementum is the poster boy for blurred party affiliation. As a matter of fact, lots of pols seem to be switching their party names. I wouldn't hold my breath thinking that their behavior would change also.
And what's the matter, you repugnant republicans? People are waking up to the stench emanating from Washington so you want to distance yourselves from the source? You fucking hypocrites, you've supported these vile scumbags and the most despicable administration in history, you've enabled these fiends and now you're a little uncomfortable, trying to keep sucking in the campaign funds while pondering the "tricky dynamics of a president's assistance." Where's your party loyalty?
The dem and rep appellations are meaningless. It's an entrenched one party system wearing a phony two party diguise. It doesn't matter who "wins" this next Diebold selectin process - we lose.
Blogger nina said...
and what is equally contemptible is the idea that our own government is free to criticize the leaders of other nations. and yet this cannot be done to the united states of america.
hypocritical rubbish.
24/9/06 11:58 AM
Blogger nolocontendere said...
Yup, we're just so so superior, ain't we.
24/9/06 8:54 PM
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Anger is Greek to Them
After EU-imposed austerity pushed Greek unemployment to 26% and reduced educated people to abject poverty, Greece elects a leftist government. To hear the elites describe it, you’d think it was a communist revolution, which, if they keep it up, is exactly what could happen.
LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: Three ideas for L.A.’s holiday trash problem
Trash Hints
Originally published by The Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles, where garbage is trashed.
Where bodies turn up at waste processing facilities.
Where fear of bodies inside garbage dumpsters prompts the dumping of their contents all over downtown streets.
Where on the coast, it’s on the land and in the sea
This is a place where trash-talking is taken literally; Kobe Bryant recently said fellow Lakers were “soft like Charmin.”
Now the Times’ David Zahniser reports about one of the less charming aspects of the holiday season: “The holidays are a time for giving, and in Los Angeles, many have the good fortune to provide generously for others. But once everybody receives their new stuff, a lot of the old stuff gets pitched onto the street. In the final days of the year, many of L.A.’s streets and sidewalks are littered with discarded furniture, mattresses, oversized televisions and other household objects.”
More than 33,000 tons of trash were removed from city streets in 2013-14.
Lest you be tempted to take solace in the fact that this statistic has remained fairly static over the last few years, give not into temptation: “The number of tons of discarded items picked up has stayed roughly the same. Sanitation officials believe that’s because the products being tossed out are being made with lighter materials. They also contend scavengers are taking a lot of the heavier stuff, like metal.”
Thank God for the scavengers. After them, the deluge.
In the spirit of the holiday season, I’d like to focus on the positive aspect of this phenomenon. Fact is, litter is a sign of prosperity. Or consumerism. Is there a difference? While traveling in Afghanistan in 2001, I was struck by how little litter there was in that war-torn country. The poverty was so deep that everything, including empty plastic bottles, got used by someone for something. Looking around at Los Angeles’ filthy streets, piling up with garbage, it logically follows that what one is witnessing is the exact opposite, the hamburger to the steak, the yin to the yang, the necessary byproduct of Rodeo Drive.
OK, probably not.
In the spirit of those Afghans 13 years ago, however, it occurs to me that there might be ways to put all that garbage to good use. Thus this week’s cartoon.
(The middle panel with the dump truck is inspired by an obscure historical event, the Paris mine collapse of 1774. After it became apparent that the expanding French capital was in danger of falling into a series of abandoned mines that had previously been on the outskirts of the city, Paris officials began filling them up with debris, garbage and even centuries-old human remains excavated from tombs.)
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A Shy Guy Who Speaks to Thousands
For most of his life, Richard St. John was very shy and didn’t say much say.
Then he spent ten years studying success, and interviewing greats like Bill Gates, Martha Stewart, and the Google founders, and suddenly – bing! – he had lots to say. But communicating it to others meant doing the thing he feared most – standing up on stage and opening his mouth!
Richard was terrified of public speaking, but he pushed himself to do it. He started by speaking to small groups of five or six people, then he pushed himself to speak to 20, then 50, then 100. The more he spoke, the more the fear diminished.
Now Richard speaks worldwide to audiences of thousands. He has gone from being the “Most Scared Speaker at conferences” to being rated the “Most Inspirational Speaker” at conferences.
Richard is living proof that anyone can go from being afraid to speak, to speaking on the world stage.
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