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A recently introduced bill in the House of Representatives seeks to update legislation for “orphan” diseases and drugs. “Orphan” status denotes disorders that are extremely rare—generally afflicting 6,000 or fewer patients.
Pharmaceutical companies have no financial incentive to develop drugs and treatments for them because there aren’t enough users to pay the costs and sustain the consumer market. In order to encourage the development of drugs and other treatments for orphan diseases, the government provides incentives it doesn’t grant to more common disorders, such as easier and faster FDA approval, and extended periods for developing companies to market the drugs exclusively.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/34858 | Stereotypes en Want 10 percent off your ammo at one Kentucky gun shop? Better wish Jesus a happy birthday [Opinion: The Arena] <div class="field field-type-text field-field-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Also acceptable, to get the discount—say Merry Christmas, sing Silent Night or name all of Santa's reindeer, backwards </div> </div> </div> <!--paging_filter--><p>Like many local merchants, the <a href="">Knob Creek Gun Range</a> in West Point is running a sale this holiday season. But betting that only infuriated Christians buy guns (likely to stock up for The War on Christmas), per <a href="">its radio ads</a>, the discounts only apply to shoppers who mention the ad and</p><script src="" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script> News The Arena Christmas Knob Creek Gun Range Stereotypes War on Christmas Zach Everson Sat, 17 Dec 2011 02:44:20 +0000 Zach Everson 23344 at |
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Eric Schnos
12-17-2003, 01:40 PM
Besides skill points, does int have effect on force powers?
Wisdom is the biggy for determining force powers?
Charisma determines what in force powers? What is a good number to start with.
12-17-2003, 06:19 PM
To my knowledge, INT only affects skill points. Wisdom is indeed the biggy for Force powers, as it determines how many Force points you have, and thus how often you can use your powers. I believe for some Force powers charisma gives a bonus to the affect (like to hit, or whatever).
12-18-2003, 12:47 AM
wisdom and charisma bonus both add to the number that enemies have to roll over in order to save against any offensive powers you have.
wisdom determines number of force points.
charisma probably plays more of a role in affect/dominate mind than wisdom (if wisdom plays any at all).
intelligence adds nothing to force powers.
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Ok, I don't want this to be another battlethread so somebody lock it down fast, if you want...
I'm freaking sorry. I had no idea this whole thing would blow up like this. sheaday6 has already taken abuse for this, but I've generally been ignored, and technically it was, my idea. I think we should just all move on and forget about it.
This is wasn't about raising our post numbers, or actually taking out any other forums, it was just fun. Some enjoyed it, others (generally those in charge) didn't. So let's just move on to other things, i mean, half of the posts in here anymore are people argueing I'm sorry I caused this whole scene (but it was fun, some of you have to admit it)
Oh yeah sorry I didn't put this up earlier, but I got trapped out of town by icey roads, lovely Ohio weather....
The Dogfuchow 12-24-2001 06:46 PM
aye. I'll clap for ye, but ye can't hear me.
Rogue Nine 12-25-2001 09:58 AM
All right, all right. I apologize for being a bit of a bastard about the whole thing. I guess it's because I've seen spam before and your particular brand of insanity rubbed me the wrong way. Plus, I wasn't feeling too chipper and you caught me at the wrong time. But it's all said and done, so we should bury the hatchet. And besides, it's Christmas. :)
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yay, we've been forgiven!:D
Jake 12-25-2001 01:06 PM
i'll consider doing that as well.
Metallus 12-25-2001 06:08 PM
Then where am I supposed to slink?
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There must be plenty of back alleys in your neck of the woods Met. Or you could just find an Arby's. Lots o' people slink around there.
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Yea HA!
Legolas is the coolest, props.
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HHAHAHA. Doesn't Legolas the elven dude look like the eldest brother in Malcolm in the middle.
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It is cannon that the Exile is female, which means that the Handmaiden didn't join the party. So that makes her being the 3rd Darth Traya unlikely.
I support Revan as a betrayer. It is easy to understand that he could have faked being a LS Jedi again to destroy Malak, and use the Republic as the means to destroy the only threat to his reign as the Dark Lord of the Sith: the True Sith. So after this becomes apparent, and he uses the PC to eliminate the True Sith's leader so that he can take the throne, the PC must stop his attack on the Republic.
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By Narinder Lall, Xilinx, Inc.
As the market for wireless infrastructure matures equipment vendors are under increasing pressure to deliver low-cost solutions to operators. With today’s complex and rapidly evolving wireless technologies, cost of ownership is typically influenced by both initial capital investment and the ongoing cost of upgrading field installations. Solutions based on digital signal processors (DSPs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are attractive because they enable upgrade installation over a network from a central site.
Wireless system designs often feature FPGAs alongside DSPs. FPGAs offer superior speed—even sophisticated algorithms can operate at sample rates of tens or hundreds of MHz. This kind of processing power makes it possible to use FPGAs for implementing not only conventional baseband functionality but also high-speed signal processing that operates close to the antenna. Moreover, FPGAs let engineers optimize fixed-point word lengths and pack multiple channels into a single device, thereby reducing the effective power and cost per channel.
Besides their field programmability, speed, and flexibility, FPGAs also lend themselves to rapid design and verification. In this article, we demonstrate an FPGA design flow that uses a combination of the Simulink family of products, Xilinx System Generator for DSP™, and Xilinx FPGAs. Specifically, we focus on a receiver design for a 16-level quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) telemetry system.
Using Model-Based Design, we can develop a high-level abstraction that can be automatically compiled into an efficient FPGA implementation. Moreover, System Generator’s hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) capability enables the co-simulation of FPGA implementations directly within Simulink. This capability provides a straightforward method to verify hardware implementation and accelerate simulations.
We explore the QAM demodulator design in three phases: system design and modeling, automatic hardware generation, and simulation and hardware verification. (The model is available as a free reference design with System Generator.)
Figure 1. 16-QAM system showing transmitter, channel model, and receiver. The design is based on the CCSDS 101.0-B-5 recommendation for telemetry channel coding1. Click on image to see enlarged view.
System Design and Modeling
Figure 1 shows a Simulink model of the 16-QAM system design, including transmitter, channel model, and receiver. The transmitter and the receiver sections are modeled in the FEC and QAM Symbol Mapping and QAM Receiver subsystems. This hierarchical approach provides a clean top-level representation, logical grouping of functionality, and a framework for implementation and verification of the design sections.
Figure 2. QAM system transmitter performing FEC and symbol mapping. Click on image to see enlarged view.
Transmitter Design
Figure 2 shows the contents of the transmitter subsystem, which processes a stream of 8-bit symbols generated by a sinusoidal test source in the top-level model. The transmitter subsystem performs the following operations:
• Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding—Processes blocks of 239 symbols through an RS encoder, which appends 16 parity symbols to each input block to form 255-symbol code blocks.
• Synchronization marker (ASM)—Prepends a 4-byte ASM to each code block (for non-turbo-coded data, the ASM is 1ACFFC1D in hexadecimal format). The output block size is 259 bytes. The Attach ASM subsystem also generates a start signal for the RS encoder, indicating the beginning of a new code block.
• Convolutional encoding—Converts the symbols into a bit stream and processes it through a convolutional encoder. The Convolutional Encoder block also demultiplexes its encoded bitstream into in-phase and quadrature (I and Q) channels.
• I/Q conversion—Serial to parallel blocks convert the I/Q bitstreams into two 2-bit word streams used to form 16-QAM symbols in the top-level model (one 2-bit word per I/Q rail).
Channel Modeling
The modulated data is passed through a channel model that uses Simulink blocks (Figure 1) to simulate the effects of intersymbol interference, Doppler shifting, and additive white Gaussian noise. The model includes a slider bar that lets you adjust the Doppler shift as the simulation runs to test the receiver’s robustness.
Xilinx gateway input/output blocks representing the pins to the FPGA handle the interface between the transmitter/receiver (fixed point) and the channel model (double precision floating point). Within these blocks, you can specify data type, format, quantization, overflow, and sample period.
Receiver Design
Figure 3 shows the QAM Receiver subsystem. Because our design is destined for an FPGA, it comprises blocks from the System Generator Blockset. The QAM Demodulator subsystem performs QAM demodulation (adaptive equalization, carrier recovery, and slicing), while the rest of the receiver performs Viterbi and RS decoding and frame alignment and includes a controller to resolve QAM phase ambiguity. The Frame Aligner subsystem converts serial data at the Viterbi decoder’s output into bytes that feed the RS decoder. Using pattern-matching circuitry that detects the ASM bit pattern, the Frame Aligner subsystem aligns the serial data so that the first bit of the received ASM becomes the MSB of the corresponding byte output. The match signal is asserted when the last byte of the ASM is presented on the dout port.
Figure 3. QAM system receiver with demodulation, frame alignment, and error correction. Click on image to see enlarged view.
Figure 4 shows the Controller subsystem, which performs periodic 90-degree phase adjustments of the demapped symbols by incrementing the quad_select input of the QAM Demodulator subsystem until the Frame Aligner subsystem detects the ASM pattern. Once synchronization is achieved, the controller asserts the start signal for the RS decoder block. After the entire 255-byte code block is received, the controller ensures that the four ASM bytes are successfully detected in the frame aligner.
Figure 4. A Xilinx Picoblaze 8-bit microcontroller-based control circuit. Click on image to see enlarged view.
Automatic Hardware Generation
You double-click the System Generator token in the top level of the model to open the hardware generation GUI that lets you specify FPGA family and device, netlist type, Simulink clock rate, and whether a testbench is needed (Figure 5). Clicking Generate produces a cycle- and bit-accurate HDL netlist that can be synthesized and placed-and-routed using Xilinx ISE Foundation FPGA implementation software. System Generator also provides a path to automatically generate an FPGA bit stream (program the FPGA) on the target development board.
Figure 5. System Generator automatic hardware generation GUI.
Co-Simulation and Hardware Verification
Selecting compilation targets from the Hardware Co-Simulation menu lets you incorporate an implemented design (running on the FPGA) directly within a Simulink simulation. This co-simulation capability automatically creates bit streams to and from the FPGA and associates them with the corresponding System Generator blocks in the Simulink model. Thus, results for the compiled System Generator blocks are computed on the FPGA rather than being emulated in software. Consequently, you can test the design in actual hardware and accelerate the execution of System Generator blocks by a factor of 10–100, typically, saving considerable development and debugging time. Using either the JTAG interface with Parallel Cable IV or specialized interfaces, you can also extend System Generator’s HIL capability to other FPGA platforms.
As an alternative hardware scheme, you can export both the testbench and golden data to hardware description language (HDL) simulation tools that FPGA designers easily understand.
Simulation Acceleration with Simulink
While most of the blocks in this transmitter subsystem come from the System Generator Blockset, you can use similar blocks from the Simulink family of products. For example, the Communications Blockset provides RS encoding and convolutional encoding blocks that could replace the corresponding blocks shown in Figure 2. Each approach has its strengths. In a typical simulation, blocks from the Simulink family of products tend to run faster than their System Generator counterparts, but they generally provide no direct path to an FPGA implementation. System Generator blocks, on the other hand, are designed to provide such an implementation path and also provide a way to accelerate simulations through the HIL capability. Simulink provides a flexible design environment in which you can easily combine blocks depending on where you are in the design process and which design sections are destined for an FPGA.
The Simulink family of products and Xilinx System Generator are widely used together to develop FPGA-based signal processing algorithms for digital communications, video/imaging systems, and aerospace/defense systems. With these tools, system engineers and DSP engineers can rapidly develop algorithms within the Simulink environment and automatically implement their designs on FPGAs. Moreover, System Generator’s HIL capability allows engineers to co-simulate their FPGA implementations directly within Simulink. For the simulation of millions of samples through complex designs, this capability greatly accelerates run speeds and can thus save months of development time.
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1. There are a handful of games for the DS that you must own: Mario Kart DS, WarioWare: Touched, nintendogs, New Super Mario Bros., and a few others. LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is up there with all of these, with its stylish and appealing graphics, great sense of humour, superb playability and amazing lifespan. Plus, there are very few games where you can discover Santa on a level and then, erm, break him into bits. Nice.
2. Beautifully designed and a joy from start to finish - DS gets possibly the best version of Lego Indy of them all.
3. Everyone else can complain about the lack of difficulty and 'lite' gameplay mechnics. Meanwhile we'll all be smashing Lego Nazis with a beaming smile emblazoned on our faces.
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The game takes ample advantage of the DS' touch screen for some of the characters' unique skills, but fortunately it doesn't force you to use them.
5. With different gameplay, it's worth getting even if you own the Wii game. [Issue#24, p.77]
6. The main issue between this version of the game and the console versions is simply personal preference.
7. This charming adventure has its pitfalls, but it's still a lot of fun.
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1. reedf
Jun 11, 2008
Absolutely great. The "lite" gameplay is perfect for me and my son as we battle through the game together. He's 9 years old, Japanese, playing the English language version of the game after we watched the English language films back to back earlier this year in preparation for the new film. A very fun, very cute and lovingly recreated LEGO game that is great for me and my kid together, or me alone, or him alone, and I haven't found any other game that hits all three notes. Expand
2. Jan 20, 2013
At first i thought: huh, one of those Lego games on my portable console, sweet. And after actual playing i wasn't very disappointed, but there are many things that could've been better even without counting restrictions of the console. Mainly gameplay and puzzles, this game doesn't have this pick-up and play nature, levels are too big and i got tired of the most of them by the end of each, and puzzles not really interesting, you'll learn formula after 2 levels, or hell, if you ever played any Lego game. Repetitive doesn't really strike, since, it's a Lego game, everybody loves this ones, but here it's a bare minimum of the Lego game and doesn't feel like portable game, just rushed port. But it's fine by me, i had some hours of fun, 6 out of 10, i guess, especially if you're playing with friend. Expand |
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1. With incredible communication tools, top-notch visuals, and a fantastic balance of vehicles and classes, EA has won the battle and the war of online team-based shooters.
2. Much like the real military, Battlefield 2 is not just a game, it’s a way of life.
3. It's finely tuned maps and balanced gameplay prove that you CAN improve on perfection. [Sept 2005, p.56]
4. The available maps are enormous, and the player is overwhelmed by the feel of modern warfare as jets race across the sky, choppers hover overhead, and tanks roll across the roads.
5. Team play innovations, graphical supremacy and the thundering roar of enemy jets combined with persistent stats all work together to really put you There. There being any one of the varied, immaculately crafted maps, each available in 16, 32 and 64 player sizes.
6. If first person shooters are your bag, be sure to peel this banana and taste its sweet bounty.
7. Battlefield 2 is a game that can offer tremendous amounts of online fun, but the effort required to actually get there is almost a turn-off in itself at times.
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2. Doug
Jun 4, 2005
Played review copy...can't stop. Amazing game!
3. DarkoK.
Aug 2, 2006
One of the best games EVER.The game is full of action, strategy, planing assoult/defence, dosens tipes of Wehicles and Aircrafts. The first time(few weeks :)p the game is BRUTAL, but once you get to know the tacticks of playing in sqad. Expand
4. ThomasM.
Jul 5, 2005
remote manager needs to be fixed, too easy for cheaters to unlock, otherwise flawless.
5. LittleBloke
Aug 10, 2005
Well, I played the demo and liked it. Brought the full game and love it. It is not stupidly resource heavy. This game runs excellently on my system with high settings on all but lighting. P4C800E-Dlx with 2.8 GHz P4 running @ 3.3 1GB Memory ( Radeon 9800XT, SB Audigy (1) (1024 x 768. There are a few niggles. For example the in game server browser is lame and lacks sensible features, but you can use 'all seeing eye' or other such game browsers. Occasional Irritating deaths when jumping out of a vehicle and getting run over buy it... even when not moving that quickly (especially with boats). I'd like to know what people consider 'bugs'... as I have played this game for many long sessions with no discernable issues.. On the plus side the VOIP and squad teamwork and in-game interface are all good. Just make sure you get a server with a good ping (within your country), playing a game with a low ping below 50 is great fun, and resolves many of the issues of people saying that they can Expand
6. JustinS.
Jun 24, 2005
Really nothing special. The online advancement adds a bit, but other than that things are the same. The physics engine is very limited, there is no major building destruction or object manipulation. Graphics are nice, but too hard on even high end system to use a res above 1024. Worth it if you're comfortable spending $50 for a game you'll play 10 hours and be sick of. Expand
7. May 11, 2012
Out of desire to play a Battlefield game before regenerating health plagued the series and simultaneously wanting something that would run well on my laptop, I decided to pick up this old gem. The install process is long and tedious, more so than it really should have been. Messing with options works nicely... except for control configuration. Rather than removing an old keybind when you choose to bind a key to a new function, it just tells you you can't bind it. A bit annoying, but doable... unless you want to bind left shift to anything, of course. No matter what, it tells you it's bound to something in helicopter controls (despite checking multiple times and seeing no such thing), so so much for my preferred crouch key.
Widescreen support out of the box is non-existent or poor, and the 1.5 patch doesn't do much to fix it. The third party Widescreen Fixer program is practically necessary for a reasonable FOV.
Another problem one is bound to run into is lack of server choice. This is to be expected in such an old game with many sequels released after it, but at this point it's not worth it at all to get anything more than the base game. Special Forces is completely empty aside from a few "server padding" bots (the sort that are in servers but don't spawn in or play, just sit there to inflate player count), and the other two expansions come free with patch 1.5. The remaining servers lack in variety, with very few non-"24/7 [map]" servers left, and unless you're lucky (unlike me) or have a group of friends to hop into servers with, you're likely to have a frustrating experience due to lack of players willing to go for the objectives and such. On a related note, many of the small number of servers left have rules that can be seen as ridiculous and unreasonable, so watch out for that.
The balance is definitely lacking in the game as well. Infantry weapon-wise, it seems alright aside from LMGs that aren't the RPK having horrendous accuracy no matter what and grenades being far too "spammy". Air vehicles are wholly unbalanced against anything else, as they have a fairly easy time dodging any anti-air fire and ONE missile fired from an applicable aircraft is enough to destroy even a tank in one hit, without anything capable of doing the same against the air vehicles. Gunner beware, a single machine gun bullet from any aircraft hitting anywhere on a land vehicle seems to be enough to kill you.
Relating to the last point, the accuracy of some of these pilots and chopper gunners is pretty questionable. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some aircraft aim-hack floating around that bypasses punkbuster seemingly flawlessly.
Overall, despite how underwhelming my skill (and luck) at the game is and bad experiences all around, I'm likely to reinstall and play it again at some point.
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I have to disagree on what was written before. I think Dollhouse was a very good show and that Eliza Dushku makes a wonderful lead actress. For one, I don't think she's supposed to be sweet and all, so the "Faith syndrome" works well with the character Caroline. And it's true, it lacks the humor we grew accustomed to with Buffy and Firefly. Still, Dollhouse isn't supposed to be as humorous and also: it's there, just more subtle. As for the cast apart from Dushku, I think they were all chosen very well. I particularly loved Fran Kranz as Topher and Olivia Williams as Adelle. I'm very sorry that the show got cancelled. In my humble opinion it got a lot of potential... Expand
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I quite enjoyed season 1 from what I recall. Either I misremember or season 2 has degenerated into a TV-show where every episode seems to resolve about prostituting Echo while the only person who remotely cares for her is constantly having a hard time and everyone else just pretends that what they're doing is perfectly normal and even humorous. Basically, everyone the director wants us to root for is either a sociopath or a zombie. Everyone inbetween a sex-starved middle-aged man with too much money and a low self-esteem. Episode after episode. Someone on IMDB described it as "exhausting" and I agree, this show seems to be a constant attack on your ethics. Still, the acting is alright and I'm hoping for some closure this season as it's the last.There's worse TV out there. Expand
3. Nov 19, 2010
As a huge fan of Joss Whedon, I have to say that Dollhouse was his worst creation to date. Why was this so bad when Firefly, Buffy, and Angel were so unbelievably good? Well, for starters it lacked Whedon's trademark HUMOR. The premise was so dark that there was no room for the kind of witty banter and hilarious references within the dialogue that we've come to expect from Joss' shows. In addition, Dollhouse had another major problem: the cast just wasn't as good. Dushku is simply not a lead actress. No matter how hard they try to make her seem sweet, it just never works. Call it the 'Faith syndrome' if you want, but she just appears totally awkward and fake whenever she tries to act the 'good guy'. Furthermore, the other cast members were only adequate at best, and annoying at worst. I hate to criticize Joss' work so much - and part of me is pained even typing this - but this show just didn't stand a chance. Expand |
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OP 3/20/09 6:26:12 AM#1
I wanna know how to get money fast in PW..
I'm lv 42 and never got 550k before T_T...
I really wanna get a mount,but I'll never get one If I being poor..
Anyone give me some way to get money fast?(Except selling DQ,Cash items,Rare pets)
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3/20/09 11:05:19 AM#2
ugh.. wut class are you? veno's make a ton of money and its kinda easy to get money that way, if ur not try doing fb's ur 45 so it wont be hard to get into fb squads fb29 drops a mold from the boss thats worth alot of money and fb39 drops a mold that u can make legendary armour with thats worth around 900k-1m each idk of money other ways also try pking red names half of them dont have angels so its posable they might drop something lol, good luck
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4/06/09 4:39:19 PM#3
A level 42 what?
If you're a Veno - shame on you. Venos can make game gold fast and yes I know as I'm a mainly solo level 63 Veno.
If you'e not a Veno, roll one, magic only and learn how to farm DQ's. Learn how to use a pet effectively as a tank.
Yeah yeah you don't want to do DQ's - too bad. If you don't have money and actually you're not old enough to have income, then you have to PLAY the game.
Saying you don't want to do what the rest of us do to make game gold is just lame, and lazy. Perfect World isn't a chat room, it's a game where people sometimes socialize.
So get your self back into the forums and study up on where to farm DQ's. Then go farm and make game gold.
At LV50 I cleaned my stash of all the DQs I saved since LV12 and I made over 2 mil in game gold from that. So you have ignored the BEST way to make fast game gold besides buying Cash Shop gold and selling it to players.
For those ignorant of this - most DQ (Dragon Quest) items sell in-game for 400-1200 game gold each. They drop frequently from mobs. They stack in Inventories and the Stash. There are two in-game quest to extend the Stash and Inventory so no excuse not to save some of them. This player just seems to be one of those hanging around public areas spamming "plz, i'm poor, plz?" |
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Do You Need To Warm Up Your CarShould I warm up my car on cold mornings? Does doing so help or hurt my car? Does doing so waste gas?
Although you might think warming up your car is best on a cold morning, doing so is a bad idea, and not just because it wastes gas.
Cold engines typically want a rich (more fuel) mixture to run well. More than likely, your car uses electronic fuel injection. If your car’s engine is cold, sensors relay that information to a computer, which signals the fuel injectors to stay open longer, allowing more fuel into the engine to help it run while cold. As the engine warms up, the computer signals the injectors to let in less fuel and everything returns to normal, so to speak. Importantly, the faster your engine warms up, the quicker it assumes its most efficient level of operation.
The problem is, letting your car sit and idle is the slowest way to bring it up to operating temperature because it’s generally sitting in your drive at just above idle speed. And this method of warming up also invites other problems. Modern cars are equipped with a multitude of devices to help them run clean and efficiently, including a catalytic converter (sometimes three of them), a device in the exhaust system that works to oxidize unburned hydrocarbons and reduce carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide levels in the exhaust stream. A cold engine emits a far higher percentage of unburned hydrocarbons and much higher carbon monoxide levels than a warm engine.
Unfortunately, the average catalytic converter can’t process 100 percent of unburned hydrocarbons even in the best of times. The catalytic converter needs high exhaust temperatures — generally a minimum of 400 to 600 degrees Fahrenheit — just to start functioning. Because of the catalytic reaction, the higher the pollutant input, the higher the operating temperature of the catalytic converter after it starts working, typically about 1,200 to 1,600 degrees. Because a cold engine emits high levels of unburned hydrocarbons, it can cause the converter to run hotter than desired. If this occurs too often, these high temperatures can cause the converter to physically collapse internally, or plug. This doesn’t happen at once, but over time, yet the end effect is the same: poor mileage and significantly dirtier exhaust.
There are a lot of myths concerning the risk of damage if you don’t thoroughly warm up a cold engine, but most of them are just that — myths. Modern engines are built to a much higher standard than engines of 25 years ago, and you can’t compare a 2012 Prius — or even a 2002 Camry — to a 1987 Toyota Tercel. The best bet? Even if it’s just 10 degrees outside, start your car, let it run for 30 to 60 seconds to get all the fluids moving, then drive off gently. Don’t race the engine or accelerate suddenly. Compared to idling in your driveway — where you get zero miles to the gallon — your engine will warm up faster, your exhaust system will get up to temperature faster so the catalytic converter can do its thing, and you’ll use less fuel. Which is what you wanted all along anyhow, right?
Certainly, ambient conditions will rule. If it’s extremely icy or foggy, you might have to let your car warm up a bit more to clear the windshield. And drivers in extremely cold climates will want to give their engines a little more time to warm up, if only because moving off too quickly if it’s, say, 20 degrees below zero outside, can actually damage your engine. If it's below zero, try to limit your warm up to no more than five minutes before you drive off into the frozen wilderness.
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Land Rover logo
Hi everyone,
I just made this logo for my Land Rover LR3 because all I could find was a plain one and one for a Range Rover, and I think it came out decent enough to share :P.
I hope someone finds it useful someday.
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can you make me one that is just the LR logo with not LR3?
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Lads' mags in children's sight: the game is ON!
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RowanMumsnet (MNHQ) Tue 14-Dec-10 13:55:26
After canvassing your views, we're extending Let Girls Be Girls to cover the issue of lads' mags on display where children can see them in newsagents, supermarkets, stationers and petrol stations. Have a look at our press release and survey results here. We're contacting all the major retailers to ask them to sign up, and will keep you posted about how that goes. If you'd like to cull some copy from the press release to compose your own letter to your local independent newsagent, please feel free, and post here to let us know what you've done.
Some of the retailers have asked us for examples of individual stores that are presenting problems, so if you've seen material inappropriately displayed in a specific branch, again, please post here and we'll pass the information on.
Guacamohohohole Tue 14-Dec-10 14:02:26
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nickytwotimes Tue 14-Dec-10 14:11:45
tesco, ayr.
tonnes of them.
ShrinkingViolet Tue 14-Dec-10 14:13:37
Morrisons have white boxes that they sit in on the top shelf - so all you can see is the names of the magazines.
Credit where credit's due!
ChristmasTrulyReigns Tue 14-Dec-10 14:37:00
I've noticed that in Morrisons too.
Well done.
Thin end of a very big wedge though.
Dalrymps Tue 14-Dec-10 15:07:11
Tescos and asda, both in full view.
Dalrymps Tue 14-Dec-10 15:08:20
Should have said, Tecsos and Asda in Berwick although I suspect it's all of them.
Dalrymps Tue 14-Dec-10 15:28:32
Brilliant campaign by the way!
TheProvincialLady Tue 14-Dec-10 16:26:07
Sainsburys in Queens Road, Leicester, stocks the Star just above The Guardianhmm
sethstarkaddersmum Tue 14-Dec-10 17:03:29
I love you MNHQ!
LadyBlaBlah Tue 14-Dec-10 17:04:24
I would wish for this campaign that the retailers would ditch these pathetic magazines totally, never mind putting them out of view.
They are a craze gone flat anyway
The distribution figures for Nuts, Zoo and Loaded are falling through the floor.
The first one to take the lead and use their valuable retail space for something else would get such great PR
theagedparent Tue 14-Dec-10 17:05:09
Costcutter in my town has The sport in with all other newspapers and the likes of Nuts/Zoo on low shelves.
BeenBeta Tue 14-Dec-10 17:40:08
The best way to deal with this issue is to ask your men folk not to buy these publications.
We dont have them in our house and I am sure that if all women talked to their DH/DP/son, explained why they feel strongly about them and asked them not to buy them then sales would fall sharply.
Magazines that dont sell get shut down.
sethstarkaddersmum Tue 14-Dec-10 17:45:25
it doesn't take much circulation to keep a magazine going though.
The newsagent in our town has several different vintage tractor magazines - yes, not just one, several. Even if all the dps and dses of MNers stopped buying them I am sure that would still leave a good deal more readers than your average vintage tractor mag gets and they somehow manage to keep going confused
GeekLove Tue 14-Dec-10 17:46:15
The Co-op in Tile Hill Cov has the Sport wit the other newspapers easily at childs height. Similarly Nuts and Zoo are on the level above childrens's magasizes.
There is also a gadjets/tech mag called Stuff which always has a scantily clad women on the cover - not sure why given the context.
I WILL get round to writing to head office about the Mumsnet campaign with respect to lads mags
sethstarkaddersmum Tue 14-Dec-10 17:46:17
stopped buying lads mags, I should have said blush
LeninExcelsis Tue 14-Dec-10 18:41:45
Good news! Will send you some places, possibly with some pics, if I can bear to take them.
GreatGooglyMoogly Tue 14-Dec-10 19:33:07
Great Campaign!
Could I just point out that in your press release it lists the 3 worst offenders, as per the survey, but doesn't include Tesco who scored 32% (but does include WHSmith at 31%).
whoknowswhatthefutureholds Tue 14-Dec-10 19:42:22
I noticed that greatgoogly.
Is there a very simple letter (for my local newsagents who probably won;'t give two hoots but I definately want to point it out to them)
jonicomelately Tue 14-Dec-10 19:53:36
I think this is a great campaign. Despite what BeenBeta says, I think there will always be a market for this type of thing. The only real solution is for them them to be displayed more discreetly.
stickyj Tue 14-Dec-10 19:59:04
I wanted to ask something but didn't want to cause a fuss. I know that mags/papers etc should be hidden as the ladies in them are usually half dressed and pouting. I just wondered if anyone else has thought that maybe mags with men on (Men's Health for example) should be toned down too. Those guys are naked (and supposedly showing guys how they are meant to be) but they're still nearly naked and is it double standards? Ignore me if I'm rambling, but having looked at my son's mag (he's 17) I just wondered if it portrays an iamge that's maybe unreachable for teens/men?
stickyj Tue 14-Dec-10 20:00:53
Just wanted to add that our local newsagent has those boxes on the mags and they're also on the high shelves. The Sun/Sport however is just on the general newspaper stand and I have mentioned it as my when my son was younger (about 7) he did used to stand and stare.
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madwomanintheattic Tue 14-Dec-10 22:00:35
how i love the liberals. i did have a small chuckle at rowan's claim that mners can start a fight in an empty room, in the middle of a fabulous barney about statistical significance. grin that lot don't actually care what they are arguing about, really, do they?
<fwiw, i'm more of a qual girl myself. the quant side is apparently full of desperately numerate weirdos who wouldn't recognise causation if it hit them in the face with a damp haddock> hey ho.
not in the uk currently, so can't contribute to the 'where' discussion, but rah rah, anyway. smile
JessinAvalon Tue 14-Dec-10 22:09:36
Great - thanks Mumsnet (and thanks Tabouleh for alerting me to this).
See my post on the feminism thread about the rubbish response I got from Shell last week about their display of The Sport at toddler eye level:
Link to thread about Shell
In my experience, WHSmith and Tesco do not give a monkey's. Smith's told me a couple of years ago that they adhere to their own voluntary guidelines of not displaying lads mags at a height below 1.2m so that children won't be exposed to them.
I went onto the Department of Health website and found an age/height survey and found that the average 6-7 year old is now over 1.2m tall. I sent this information to WHSmith and asked what they defined as a 'child' but they kept answering really vaguely and in the end refused to answer anything in writing and offered to speak to me on the phone instead (weird!). I offered to come and meet them in person as their office isn't far from where I live but they declined that offer too.
Tesco are also rubbish.
The Co-op at least tries to display them on the top shelves but I only know of one Co-op that covers them up.
And credit where it's due to Sainsbury's and Morrisons who listened to their customers and covered them up. I avoid Tesco and WHSmut now and only shop in Sainsbury's. It's not much to ask, is it, for a retailer to move some poorly selling magazines to a top shelf and cover them up! (Although I am bemused as to why Sainsbury's doesn't cover up FHM.)
A few years ago, when WHSmut made the decision to bring back Playboy, its then MD said that the cover of most lads mags are the same as Playboy. Yet they put Playboy on the top shelves, covered up, and the rest at the height of your average 6-7 year old. I asked WHSmut about that too but they declined to answer!
WHSmut brings back Playboy
And this was before the likes of Nuts and Zoo were being published, which pushed the boundaries even further.
Well done MN!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35037 | Message Boards » Fitness and Exercise
TOPIC: Polar f11 HRM not reading heart rate
March 31, 2009 4:22 PM
I've had my f11 about a year. During December, there was about 5 weeks that it didn't get used. When I went to use it, the heart rate didn't show, so I figured it was the battery in the transmitter. I changed it, twice now, and sometimes it just stops sending my heart rate info. I also thought it might be that the chest strap had gotten dried out, so I washed it and wet it well before each use. Anyone else had this problem, if so how did you recolve it.
March 31, 2009 4:41 PM
I had this same problem with my polar heart rate monitor and I went to the running room and the suggested making sure the transmitter on my chest was wet, they said the best way was to lick my fingers and then rub my fingers over the transmitter. I haven't had another problem since I began making sure it was wet! Hope this helps!
March 31, 2009 5:10 PM
do you mean the chest strap or the transmitter itself? I do wet the chest strap
March 31, 2009 5:15 PM
It could be time to change the watch battery or replace the strap or transmitter. My F11 died after about 7 months. Replacing the battery in the transmitter didn't help. I never got it fixed because you have to send it off to Canada and I lost the warranty stuff for it. frown
March 31, 2009 5:16 PM
You're supposed to wet the back of the transmitter itself... The hard rubber part that you wear against your chest. If you don't wet it, then it won't read your heart rate correctly.
March 31, 2009 5:46 PM
If you've changed the battery in the transmitter twice, and you're wetting it before use.... I'd bet it's the battery in the watch that needs to be changed.
March 31, 2009 6:17 PM
I have had the same problem with mine. and it is new. I have only had it maybe 2 months if that.
I will put it on, it reads my HR and then i start on my treadmill and it goes up to say 130 and then i start running and it goes down to say about 104 and stays there forever and then eventually after about 5-10 mins. it will go back up to what it should beat. So ti is not caculating my calories burned properly.
April 1, 2009 3:35 AM
It recommends that you wet the chest strap itself. Other than that I agree, if it doesn't work after that it is probably your watch battery! Good luck!
April 1, 2009 4:35 AM
try to tighten your strap around your chest.
April 1, 2009 5:43 AM
Try re-adjusting your strap and moisten the skinside of the transmitter. My HRM acts weird until I start to sweat or moisten the transmitter.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35056 | Hello GameTester113! Just wanted to drop by and say Merry Christmas! Thanks again for teaching me how to make graphics on paint. I hope that all your Christmas wishes come true!
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I don't have a stamp, lol.
Just thought I'd sign here because I've obviously seen you around and I think you're a cool guy. Good luck with your comic and I'll see you around.
Any time you want me too teach you stuff by the brainful let me know...also do you keep deleting entrys?
P.s your getting better.
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Hi there
I noticed in Call of Duty 2\main\players\[Profilename] directory there is a .cfg file command " r_aaAlpha " which, I understand, has something to do with various levels of alpha blending used in conjuction with AA.
I'm wondering if this has the same effect as "Transparency Antialiasing" in the nVidia Control Panel ??
Can anyone confirm this ??
If it turns out that it is the same as "Transparency Antialiasing" and you wish to tweak the command " r_aaAlpha ", then I assume you would turn "Transparency Antialiasing" off in the nVidia control panel ??
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r_aaAlpha [0,1,2] - This setting determines the type of alpha blending used for antialiasing (if AA is enabled). 0 is off, which gives the best performance, 1 is dither mode which is the default, and 2 is Supersampling which provides better image quality but reduces performance.
02-15-06, 03:00 PM
So I notice that there is a Supersampling mode under " r_aaAlpha "
Therefore should should you turn off "Transparency Antialiasing" in the nVidia control panel ??
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Conventional multi-sampling AA only performs anti-aliasing on pixels detected to be at the edge of a given polygon, incurring less of a performance hit but only applying the smoothing effect of AA to the edges of 3D objects. This is fine for a solid 3D object such as a wall or tree, but what about grass? Or leaves? Or a chain link fence like the thousands found in the world's most action packed fence simulator (Half-Life 2)?
The polygons making up 3D rendered foliage and fences use transparency (alpha) effects to allow realistic sight lines through them, but this means that the pixels making up the visible edge of a blade of grass or leaf are not always on the edge of their polygon, but rather somewhere inside it next to other pixels which have been made transparent. Multi-sampling AA will not smooth out these pixels, meaning that textures that use transparencies will always appear to be jaggy, even in an otherwise glass-smooth 8xAA sampled scene.
The other common method of Anti-Aliasing, SuperSampling, can solve this problem in a way. SuperSampling renders each entire frame at a higher resolution then blends the colour and shade of areas where there is a large amount of difference between pixels, then re-renders the image at the display resolution. Supersampling does not care whether it is blending pixels at the edges of polygons or in the middle of them. The disadvantage though, is that supersampling incurs a huge performance hit, making it difficult to justify.
nVidia's TRSS and TRMS AA technologies provide a more elegant solution. Transparency Adaptive Multi-sampling performs the same AA operations as conventional multi-sampling does, blending pixels on the edges of polygons. It then goes one step further by examining each polygon for pixels with alpha (transparency) information. If it finds them, it applies AA to the pixels adjacent to the transparent areas too.
As far as we can tell, Transparency adaptive SuperSampling performs simple multi-sampling on most of the image as normal, but applies full supersampling to polygons with alpha pixels in them. This results in higher image quality and a larger performance hit than TRMS.
In all, TRSS and TRMS seem like a sensible upgrade to current AA technologies, enabling better all-around image quality without the performance hit associated with full supersampled AA.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35109 | The River Midnight
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Angels and Demons
Time grows short at the end of a century, like winter days when night falls too soon. In the dusk, angels and demons walk. Who knows who they are? Or which is which. But there they are, sneaking their gifts into the crevices of change. Even in a place like Blaszka, less than a dot on the map of Russian-occupied Poland.
Someone might say that so-and-so is an angel or so-and-so a demon. But make no mistake, it's just a question of style. One sympathizes, the other provokes. But their mission is the same, and so is their destination.
It's a cold day, the short Friday of winter, the 20th of Tevet 5654, or you might call it the 29th of December 1893, according to the Christian calendar. Everyone's in a rush, anxious to finish their business before the sun sets. Once darkness falls, the Sabbath rules. Candlelight will have no other purpose than its beauty, and women and men will make love in honor of the Sabbath.
Listen. You can hear the excitement in the village square. "Fresh, hot, only two kopecks." Girls run through the crowd, carrying baskets of rolls, pretzels, pierogies, and herring cut into small rings. The herrings almost speak. Take your pick, the large smelly ones, horse herring, pickled, smoked, or packed in fat. Steam rises from the warm baskets in the winter air. The square smells of vinegar, yeast, and horse dung. Men and women blow into their cold hands to warm them, pinching this and sniffing that, bargaining as if for their souls, undeterred by the crash of a stall that collapses under its mountain of earthenware. This is what keeps Blaszka together, the flimsy stalls piled high with everything, where people lean toward each other, bargaining, touching what they need, shaking it, holding it up to the light.
Hurry, the villagers say, the Sabbath is coming. Everything has to close early today. Am I asking about money? Do I worry about money? I know that you, lady, will give it to me later, that you will pay. Look at this, straight from Plotsk, the best quality. A pity it should lie here, unused. Let me put it into your basket for you. Just a few kopecks. It costs less than air.
Fifty Jewish families and six Polish tenant farmers live in the village. But on market day, every Tuesday and Friday, dozens of Christian peasants, who farm the land along the Pólnocna River, come down to Blaszka. In the village square they bargain and in Perlmutter's tavern, they drink vodka with beer and eat cheese and pickles and hard-boiled eggs.
A Jew can never be a peasant, even if he looks and acts like one, nor a gentleman either. Such categories apply only to Christians in Poland, each of them having a place on the land. But by law the Jews are townspeople. Even if they are farmers, they are townspeople borrowing the land; they have no right to it. Within their towns the Jews can make their own distinctions, so long as they service the people of the land. So in Blaszka, Jews buy the peasants' produce and sell goods from Plotsk. Jews are tinsmiths and blacksmiths and cobblers and tailors and wheelwrights and barrelmakers and butchers and bakers. They speak Yiddish and Polish and a smattering of Russian, on weekdays they bargain and on the Sabbath they rest.
The village square isn't paved. It's marked in one corner by the bridge, in another corner by the tavern, by the synagogue in the third corner, and where the square dips down toward the Pólnocna River, by the house of Misha the midwife. Her house stands on stilts so that the spring floods flow under it, bringing a rich mud that makes the vegetables in her garden grow larger than anywhere else. If you stood on the doorstep of Misha's house, you could see the entire village, the river curling around it, the woods behind the river, the lanes leading out of the village square, the small houses, each with an eating room in front and sleeping rooms behind separated by a halfway where the hens roost in the winter. Across the river, in the new part of Blaszka, you could see the ruins of the mill and the woods overgrowing abandoned houses.
There is a legend about the Pólnonca River. It's said that a saint was martyred in the river's waters at midnight, resulting in the conversion and baptism of the local tribe. Pólnoc in Polish means midnight, and so the river was named. But others argue that pólnoc also means north, the Pólnonca so named because it enters the Vistula River from the north.
The Pólnonca is frozen now, children sliding on its surface. In front of her house, Misha stands beside her stall, her hands on her hips. She's bigger than any man in Blaszka. Her table is crowded with jars and bottles, powders and ointments and liquids for women's troubles, and men's, too. "There's nothing to be afraid of," she says.
All right, the women say, but you'd better watch your behind or the Evil One will send someone to kick it while you're not paying attention.
"Well, let him just try to make some business with me." Misha holds out her hand, beckoning the invisible stranger. She grins, her gold tooth flashing in the thin winter light. "Don't worry," Misha says, "if someone comes from the other side, he'll soon be running out of Blaszka with his tail between his legs. You can be sure of it."
In a small house off the village square, an old woman is teaching the little girls their letters. Tell us about Misha, they beg. We want to hear the story about Misha and Manya again. Please, please. The old woman puts down her pencil. "Well, I knew Misha's mother very well. She was so happy when she had a daughter, but she had one fear. Do you know what that was?" The children shake their heads. "That her daughter would turn out like Manya. You've heard of Manya, haven't you?" Yes, yes, the little girls say, Manya the witch comes in the night to steal away wicked children. "But you're not wicked children, are you?" The girls shake their heads, no, no, no. "Now, listen carefully, children. Before Misha, there was Blema, her mother. Before Blema was Miriam, Misha's grandmother. And before Miriam was?" Who? the children ask. "Manya!" The old woman leans forward, wriggling her clawed fingers at the children until they squeal. "Oh, Manya was bigger than any man, and no one could tame her until they put her to death for casting spells. Blema was afraid that her baby should turn out like Manya, God forbid. So Blema named her baby Miriam after her own mother, who was a good woman. Modest and quiet. Like you girls, yes? But you can't cheat fate, children.
"Blema carried her baby in a shawl on her back when she went to the peasants' cottages. The peasants liked to play with the little one. They called her Marisha, you know that's Polish for Miriam. But the baby couldn't say Marisha or even Miriam. What came out was Misha. The peasants said it must be her true name, and that, since misha means bear in Polish, the girl would grow up to be as dangerous as a mother bear. And because Misha is a man's name among the Russians, she would also be as fierce as a Cossack. This is what came to be. I'm sure you heard your mothers say so. When a woman is in childbirth, even the Angel of Death is afraid of Misha."
In the village square, the watercarrier rushes by Misha's stall, his buckets swinging wildly on their yoke. As his foot knocks against a stone, he stumbles, holding onto her table for balance. And then he's gone toward the bridge.
Across the bridge is what used to be the wealthy part of Blaszka. There among the ruins of abandoned houses, you can see the village well and beside it the bathhouse with its marble columns, built with the miller's money, may he rest in peace. Beside it is the foundation of the new synagogue, never finished.
Inside the bathhouse, the old men sit naked on the benches, sweating in the steam that rises as the attendant pours water over the hot stones. At the end of the room is the sunken bath, the mikva, with its purifying water. Before the men leave, they'll dip in the mikva to make themselves ready for the Sabbath.
Why does the butcher get to sit in the second row of the synagogue so close to the Holy Ark? they complain. He's just a proster, a plain person, like us. A man should know his place. The proster do the work, the baalebatim make the money, and the shayner tell you what to do, either because they're rich enough or they're scholars.
Sure, that's how it is in most places, but you can't expect it here in Blaszka. Who would sit in the second row if not the butcher? In the days before the Russians blew up the mill, we had shayner in Blaszka. Fine people. But now? There's just proster. Anybody who was anybody left Blaszka. And why not? You can walk for two hours down the road and you're in Plotsk. The capital of the gubernia. Twenty-six thousand people. A theater. A Jewish hospital. Schools. Everything.
Tell me, what's a town when there's no fine people driving around in their carriages and telling you what's what? That's the kind of village Blaszka is. We have a rabbi whose greatest friends are unbelievers -- I saw him get a letter from France myself -- and he can't stand the sight of a lit match, either.
Never mind. It's good to be alive. A little schnapps, a little singing, something nice to eat on Shabbas, it's all right. I'm old, but I'm in no rush to leave. Tell me, if it's so good there in the next world, why doesn't anyone come back to tell us about it?
Outside the bathhouse, a lane leads to the bridge and across the bridge, the road from Blaszka leaves the village square, following the Pólnocna River down to the Vistula where it meets the highway that runs from Plotsk to Warsaw. Here, at the juncture of the Vistula and the Pólnocna Rivers, there is a shiny black carriage with THE GOLEM PLAYERS painted in yellow on the side. The horse snorts, flicking her tail, braided with a yellow ribbon. Crystals of breath have formed around her mouth, and the creature licks them off with her thirsty tongue.
The Director, in his top hat, sits aloft, puffing on his mahogany pipe, horns of smoke curling upward. He looks sideways at the landscape, the bare trees striped with snow like soft fur, the frozen river, the flat land. An open, unremarkable landscape. The Director's new partner is walking toward him, carrying a bag with rope handles -- a young and very earnest sort of person, the Traveler. The Director smooths his copper mustache and waves. The Traveler's hair sticks up like rooster feathers. He wears a ragged black jacket with a drooping rose pinned to the lapel. His thin nose is crooked, bending a little to the left.
The Traveler climbs up beside the Director. Sighing, he tears a strip of paper from The Israelite, and lines his cracked boot with the headline, "December 29, 1893: More Refugees Fleeing from the East." While the Director relights his pipe, the younger man leafs through a notebook. The notes are in a small, meticulous script that shines as if the ink were made of a green florescence. "So many people hurt and lonely, talents going to waste," the Traveler says, his voice hoarse with sympathy. "But what about this?" He frowns. "There must be a mistake. We can't be expected to waste time on an animal like that." The Traveler stabs the notebook with his finger.
"You have your orders and the fellow is on his way," the Director says, pointing to an approaching cart. The driver is a large man in a fur coat who is whipping his horse till she bleeds while he gnaws on a hunk of salami.
The Traveler shields his eyes with his hands, gazing up the road. "I'd just like to have a choice. Is that too much to ask?"
"It's the price you pay, my boy. You knew that when you came on board." The Director rubs the bowl of his pipe against his velvet vest. "You could resign. But then it's rebirth for you. You interested? I see not. You serious types are all the same." He draws an imaginary bow across an even more imaginary violin that nevertheless plays the opening notes to Tchaikovsky's violin concerto. Tchaikovsky has recently died of cholera. The Traveler looks from his notebook to the absent violin. He is impressed. "It's nothing, my friend," the Director says. "Anyone can do it. Even you."
"What's the trick?" the Traveler asks, looking around for a hidden music box.
"Nothing at all. Just a bit of magic."
"Magic," the Traveler says thoughtfully, studying his notebook again.
"Don't get any ideas. Let me tell you the facts. What's magic? A piece of chocolate. An almond torte. Delicious, and then it melts away. But all of this, the Director says waving his hand grandly, "is something else entirely. Open your eyes and look. Maybe you'll learn a secret or two. But you can't just sit there moping and letting the snow soak through the holes in your boots. No. You've got to look closely and pay attention. Then you'll see where you can give a little nudge and open a door. And who knows," he winks, "what you might find in there? Well, my friend, I can't sit here and talk all day. I have something to deliver in Blaszka. Would you like to join me?"
"No. I'd better wait here. You go on." The Traveler dismounts from the carriage, seating himself on a snowy log.
"Au revoir," the Director says. He picks up the reins and clucks to his fine black horse.
The Traveler pulls up the collar of his jacket as the snow trickles down his neck. "Have to get assigned here in the middle of winter," he grumbles. "Couldn't be Warsaw. Streetcars. Electricity. Unions. Oh, no. It's got to be where people still believe in witchcraft." He shakes his head. "They don't know what's coming to them." Studying his notebook, he taps his chin. "Could be an advantage, though. If you use it right." He looks down the road toward Warsaw, as if he can see the next century riding the train, trailing a line of smoke, the whistle blowing.
But shh, we can't talk, now. The story is about to start.
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BIOL398-03: Biomathematical Modeling
MATH 388-01: Survey of Biomathematics
Loyola Marymount University
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This journal entry is due on Friday, April 12 at midnight PDT (Thursday night/Friday morning). NOTE new due date and that the server records the time as Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Therefore, midnight will register as 03:00.
Individual Journal Assignment
• Store this journal entry as "username Week 12" (i.e., this is the text to place between the square brackets when you link to this page).
• Link to your journal entry from your user page.
• Link back from your journal entry to your user page.
• Link to this assignment from your journal entry.
1. Quantitate the fluorescence signal in each spot
2. Calculate the ratio of red/green fluorescence
3. Log transform the ratios
4. Normalize the ratios on each microarray slide
• You performed the following steps for the Week 9 Assignment:
6. Perform statistical analysis on the ratios
7. Compare individual genes with known data
• Steps 5-7 are performed in Microsoft Excel
8. Pattern finding algorithms (clustering)
9. Map onto biological pathways
• We will use software called STEM for the clustering and mapping
• We will use the YEASTRACT Database to determine which transcription factors are likely to regulate the genes in our clusters.
10. Create mathematical model of transcriptional network
We will perform steps 8-9 this week.
Clustering and Gene Ontology Analysis with STEM
For this assignment, keep an electronic lab notebook recording all of the actions that you take following the protocol. In addition, answer the questions embedded in the protocol.
1. Begin by downloading and extracting the STEM software. Click here to go to the STEM web site.
• Click on the download link, register, and download the file to your Desktop.
• Unzip the file. In Seaver 120, you can right click on the file icon and select the menu item 7-zip > Extract Here.
• This will create a folder called stem. Inside the folder, double-click on the stem.cmd to launch the STEM program.
• In Seaver 120, we encountered an issue where the program would not launch on the Windows XP machines due to a lack of memory. To get around this problem, launch STEM from the command line.
• Go to the start menu and click on Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.
• You will need to navigate to the directory (folder) in which the STEM program resides. If you followed the instructions above and extracted the stem folder to the Desktop, type the following: cd Desktop\stem and press "Enter".
• To launch the program then type: java -mx512M -jar stem.jar -d defaults.txt and press "Enter". This will launch the program with less memory allocated to it.
2. Prepare your microarray data file for loading into STEM.
• Using the Excel spreadsheet that you turned in for your Week 9 Assignment, insert a new worksheet and name it "stem".
• Select all of the data from your "final" worksheet and paste it into your "stem" worksheet.
• Your leftmost column should have the column header "MasterIndex". Rename this column to "SPOT". Column B should be named "ID". Rename this column to "Gene Symbol".
• Delete all of the data columns EXCEPT for the AvgLogFC columns for each timepoint.
• Rename the data columns with just the time and units (for example, 15m, 30m, etc.).
• Save your work. Then use Save As to save this spreadsheet as Text (Tab-delimited) (*.txt). Click OK to the warnings and close your file.
3. Running STEM
1. In section 1 (Expression Data Info) of the the main STEM interface window, click on the Browse... button to navigate to and select your file.
• Click on the radio button No normalization/add 0.
• Check the box next to Spot IDs included in the data file.
2. In section 2 (Gene Info) of the main STEM interface window, select Saccharomyces cerevisiae (SGD), from the drop-down menu for Gene Annotation Source. Select No cross references, from the Cross Reference Source drop-down menu. Select No Gene Locations from the Gene Location Source drop-down menu.
3. In section 3 (Options) of the main STEM interface window, make sure that the Clustering Method says "STEM Clustering Method" and do not change the defaults for Maximum Number of Model Profiles or Maximum Unit Change in Model Profiles between Time Points.
4. In section 4 (Execute) click on the yellow Execute button to run STEM.
4. Viewing and Saving STEM Results
1. A new window will open called "All STEM Profiles (1)". Each box corresponds to a model expression profile. Colored profiles have a statistically significant number of genes assigned; they are arranged in order from most to least significant p value. Profiles with the same color belong to the same cluster of profiles. The number in each box is simply an ID number for the profile.
• Click on the button that says "Interface Options...". At the bottom of the Interface Options window that appears below where it says "X-axis scale should be:", click on the radio button that says "Based on real time". Then close the Interface Options window.
• Take a screenshot of this window (on a PC, simultaneously press the Alt and PrintScreen buttons to save the view in the active window to the clipboard) and paste it into a new PowerPoint presentation to save your figures.
2. Click on each of the profiles to open a window showing a more detailed plot containing all of the genes in that profile.
• Take a screenshot of each of the individual profile windows and save the images in your PowerPoint presentation.
• At the bottom of each profile window, there are two yellow buttons "Profile Gene Table" and "Profile GO Table". For each of the profiles, click on the "Profile Gene Table" button to see the list of genes belonging to the profile. In the window that appears, click on the "Save Table" button and save the file to your desktop. Make your filename descriptive of the contents, e.g. "wt_profile#_genelist.txt", where you replace the number symbol with the actual profile number.
• Upload this file to LionShare and provide a link to Dr. Dahlquist and Dr. Fitzpatrick.
• For each of the profiles, click on the "Profile GO Table" to see the list of Gene Ontology terms belonging to the profile. In the window that appears, click on the "Save Table" button and save the file to your desktop. Make your filename descriptive of the contents, e.g. "wt_profile#_GOlist.txt", where you use "wt", "dGLN3", etc. to indicate the dataset and where you replace the number symbol with the actual profile number. At this point you have saved all of the primary data from the STEM software and it's time to interpret the results!
5. Analyzing and Interpreting STEM Results
1. Select one of the profiles you saved in the previous step for further intepretation of the data. We suggest that you choose one that has a pattern of up- or down-regulated genes at the early (first three) timepoints. Answer the following:
• Why did you select this profile? In other words, why was it intersting to you?
• How many genes belong to this profile?
• How many genes were expected to belong to this profile?
• What is the p value for the enrichment of genes in this profile? Bear in mind that in the week 9 assignment, you computed p values to determine whether each individual gene had a significant change in gene expression at each time point. This p value determines whether the number of genes that show this particular expression profile across the time points is significantly more than expected.
• Open the GO list file you saved for this profile in Excel. This list shows all of the Gene Ontology terms that are associated with genes that fit this profile. Select the third row and then choose from the menu Data > Filter > Autofilter. Filter on the "p-value" column to show only GO terms that have a p value of < 0.05. How many GO terms are associated with this profile at p < 0.05? The GO list also has a column called "Corrected p-value". This correction is needed because the software has performed thousands of significance tests. Filter on the "Corrected p-value" column to show only GO terms that have a corrected p value of < 0.05. How many GO terms are associated with this profile with a corrected p value < 0.05?
Using YEASTRACT to Infer which Transcription Factors Regulate a Cluster of Genes
In the previous analysis using STEM, we found a number of gene expression profiles (aka clusters) which grouped genes based on similarity of gene expression changes over time. The implication is that these genes share the same expression pattern because they are regulated by the same (or the same set) of transcription factors. We will explore this using the YEASTRACT database.
1. Open the gene list in Excel for the profile/cluster that you analyzed above.
• Copy the list of gene IDs onto your clipboard.
2. Launch a web browser and go to the YEASTRACT database.
• On the left panel of the window, click on the link to group by TF.
• Paste your list of genes from your cluster into the box labeled ORFs/Genes.
• Check the box for Check for all TFs.
• Uncheck the box for Indirect Evidence.
• Click the Search button.
3. Answer the following questions:
• Is Gln3 on the list? What percentage of the genes in the cluster does it regulate? How many genes does it regulate? What are the names of the genes?
4. For the mathematical model that we will build in class, we need to define a gene regulatory network of transcription factors that regulate other transcription factors. We can use YEASTRACT to assist us with creating the network. The model that we will start with has the following transcription factors in it:
• We will also include GLN3 because it is known to regulate the genes that code for enzymes in nitrogen metabolism. Based on your previous analysis of the transcription factors that regulate your chosen cluster above, select up to five additional transcription factors to add to the network. Which transcription factors do you want to add to the model and why?
• Go back to the YEASTRACT database and follow the link to Generate Regulation Matrix.
• Copy and paste the list above, plus GLN3, plus the additional transcription factors you identified into both the "Transcription Factor" field and the "ORF/Genes" field.
• Uncheck the box for "Indirect Evidence" and select "JPEG" from the drop-down menu for the "Output Image".
• Click the "Generate" button.
• In the results window that appears, click on the link to the "RegulationMatrix" file that appears and save it to your Desktop.
• Click on the "Image" link to see the diagram of the network. Save the image file (you can copy and paste it to your PowerPoint file or upload it to the wiki).
• We will use this matrix file as an input to your model next week.
• Make sure that your wiki assignment page includes your PowerPoint file to which you saved your screenshots and your "RegulationMatrix" file.
Shared Journal Assignment
• Store your journal entry in the shared Class Journal Week 12 page. If this page does not exist yet, go ahead and create it (congratulations on getting in first :) )
• Link to your journal entry from your user page.
• Link back from the journal entry to your user page.
3. What (yet) do you not understand?
4. For the week 9 and 12 assignments we computed (or the software did) three different p values: per individual gene, per profile, and per Gene Ontology term. State in your own words what we need each of these p values for and what are they telling us?
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RE: Umm, not for me
by yanik on Thu 4th Oct 2007 17:51 UTC in reply to "Umm, not for me"
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yeah I know, that's what I feel deep down. But opensuse isn't suse tho. I think I'll give it a little spin, even if it kind of feel dirty.
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by squelart on Wed 29th Oct 2008 22:54 UTC
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As much as I hate seeing apps refused on pretext of competing with Apple's apps (e.g. mail, music, etc.) and also as much as I hate Safari crashes (getting a bit better) and confusing reloading/not reloading decisions, I see one argument for banning other web browsers:
As a web developer, I know I can develop a website tailored to the iPhone by following one set of rules, which are nicely documented on Apple's website. If Apple permitted other browsers, I would have to test and develop for them as well (unless they can reach 100% compatibility), and also test on all of them.
Web browsing is so important for the success of the iPhone that Apple cannot risk fragmenting the iPhone-tailored www.
But for everything else, please let all applications loose! I want a GPS nav program, I want a network sharing app, I want a better email app, etc.
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Well, third ecosystem this way or another.
by dsmogor on Fri 30th Nov 2012 16:52 UTC
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Looks like MS is going to murder as many companies as it gets to have its 3rd ecosystem place, whenever anybody (including consumers) want it or not.
Niceties and fair competitions are nice and such but the when now it's gotten serious.
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RE: Ongoing improvements
by JAlexoid on Tue 2nd Apr 2013 14:46 UTC in reply to "Ongoing improvements"
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As for iOS, well go check out malmware on Google playstore and then come back. And I'm not even mentioning the countless numerous security flaws which don't get patched up on Android because it takes months (if ever) to get an update.
I did, since you didn't. And malware is a non-issue on the Play Store.(I mean password stealing, premium SMS sending and security controls overcoming apps.)
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RE[2]: Not an image. Ok...
by Flatland_Spider on Thu 12th Sep 2013 19:09 UTC in reply to "RE: Not an image. Ok..."
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But they don't actually store fingerprints... So worst case scenario they are storing a hash of your fingerprint - which (if they do it right) cannot be used to determine the actual fingerprint that was used to compute the hash.
Presumably they're using a hash, but the article didn't state how they are storing the fingerprint data. It said they aren't storing an "image", so I erred on the side of ambiguity used fingerprint to reference whatever data is generated and stored.
Of course, it can't be used to get the actual fingerprint. Fingerprint scanners work by creating graphs of features on the finger.
The point is Apple hasn't released any information on how this works, so it's an unknown black box.
Then there is the anonymity aspect. How easy is the fingerprint signature to reverse? Now there is proof who the phone belongs to.
Again, it should be mathematically impossible, and if it isn't the lawsuits will start flying like bullets in a drive by...
Reverse was the wrong word. I should have used replicate since I was contemplating how hard it would be for some law enforcement agency to tie people to a specific phone.
I don't see any reason why they would store incorrect fingerprints - it just doesn't make any sense at all to do that (on a technical or functionality level).
Evidence that people tried to access the phone without permission.
If the phone is stolen, the thieves would provide evidence that they were in possession of the phone. If the phone is a company phone, people who are trying to circumvent security policies would be logged.
You kind of agree with this at the end of your post. The negatives are just as important as the positives.
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RE: Dutch saying
by jal_ on Fri 22nd Apr 2011 07:35 UTC in reply to "Dutch saying"
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"it only takes three links to turn a kiss on the cheek into a steamy night of passion": Dutch saying?
If it is, I don't know it. I think he's just referring to a game of Chinese whispers.
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Single Sign-On?
by Thilosophy (Curate)
on Mar 06, 2005 at 11:08 UTC ( #437026=monkdiscuss: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??
Fellow Monks,
outside of our monastry there are other centers dedicated to studying the script, and I am sure a great many of our brothers and sisters frequently travel there. Alas, they cannot enter as members of our order and have to join the ranks of another sect as well.
I (as most, I suppose) have a number of Perl-community related login accounts. The ones for Perl Monks and PAUSE are essential, but I had to get another one to vote for CPAN modules (which I hardly ever do as I cannot be bothered to log in most of the time), and I would probably also contribute a little to the new if I did not have to get yet another account.
Is there any chance for the various people running these sites to come up with some federated identity system that would allow a single sign-on? What are the big hurdles? Technical problem? Lack of a widely accepted implementation (we would want something done in Perl, of course)? Lack of trust? Improved sense of security due to having many accounts of limited power each (although you end up having to give passwords to many different sites, which could become a big problem if you always choose the same one)?
Or is that a bad idea in general?
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Re: Single Sign-On?
by saskaqueer (Friar) on Mar 06, 2005 at 11:51 UTC
This sound like M$ Passport, and we all know how well that idea went. Just think of it that way, and you'll figure out that it's just a Bad Idea™
If I understand M$ Passport correctly, they have a centralized registry that manages all user authentication. That is obviously not good.
However, it does not have to be this way, it can be a federated system consisting of a number of identity providers, and an even greater number of web sites that accept login authentication from at least some of those providers. For example CPAN forum could have a button in addition to its login box that PerlMonks can just click and they will be logged in using the PerlMonks system. They could have another such button for Slashdotters. This would not create any new "trusted third parties".
Just so I understand you correctly, you're suggesting having x-odd buttons on every sites' main page, each one saying "log me in with my perlmonks account", "log me in with my CPAN account", "log me in with my foobar account"? This is MS Passport, except that instead of a one-to-many relationship, you have a many-to-many relationship. Also, it would probably require a major infrastructure change so that external sites can try to authenticate against your login credentials.
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Username conflict is the biggest problem with this, unless the system is designed that way from the beginning. I think CPAN->PerlMonks is a bit of a stretch, but I don't think it would (incredibly) difficult to have shared logins across a shared codebase like PerlMonks to Slashdot to Everything to JavaJunkies.
You may be interested in looking into OpenID. It's just started, but there are some serious folks working on it.
Re: Single Sign-On?
by jhourcle (Prior) on Mar 06, 2005 at 14:00 UTC
As someone's who's had to deal with the 'single sign-on' concept before, I can mention a few of the bigger items that I've run into.
1. Change -- each site has a current system that works, and takes negligible effort to maintain. You are asking each site to modify their authentication system, which has the possibility of breaking their site.
2. Scalabilitiy issues -- You can either set up one large centralized authentication system (LDAP, Kerberos, whatever), or set up some way for each site to authenticate off of the other sites. So it's either a single point of failure, or n(n-1) complexity (and becomes more complex as new sites are added).
3. Incompatable user names -- my PAUSE id is 'ONEIROS'. My id is 'oneiros', and my id on here is 'jhourcle'. You would have to add complexity to deal with the fact that names may not map from system to system, and that the same id may be used by two different people across the systems. Trying to unify the systems after the fact is a massive PITA -- you can have each person create a new unified account, and then map all of their existing accounts back to it, but you get bickering when someone takes a userid that's been long associated with someone else (even if only one one system).
4. Account management -- You need a way for sites to request password changes, or information changes, or to recover lost passwords, or whatever might be needed. Which leads us to...
5. Trust -- and this is the biggest one -- certified logins only work when everyone trusts each other -- no one's going to authenticate as the wrong person, or otherwise claim to be someone else. They're not going to cache a password so that they can use it to gain access they might not have otherwise had. (AdminA on SiteA logs into SiteB. AdminB steals AdminA's credentials, so they can get admin access on SiteA; Or HackerC gets into SiteB, and then uses that to gain abnormal privs on SiteA and the rest of the network)
I'm not going to pretend that there aren't advantages to the users for single sign-on, but it is a royal pain to administer, especially if you're attempting to retrofit it into systems that already have active accounts.
Yes, it's possible, but there's a good chance that the risks and headaches that it would entail aren't worth it to the various site admins -- especially as it might be something that they aren't familiar with, and so it'd be a complete unknown risk.
If this is going to happen, I would assume it would start small, either centralized around one person who can unify the various sites, who is well trusted, and would take responsibility for the whole thing; or two sites who trust each other would band together, and possibly later add other sites into their circle of trust. I definately don't think this is as easy as someone saying 'make it so', and it happening overnight.
I agree that is a main issue. Especially since there seems to be no simple (yet good) implementation of Single-Sign-On systems.
Scalabilitiy issues
I'd say distributed systems scale better. And from the view-point of any given site, it is only a 1:n relationship, and ideally would all use the the protocol, so that authenticating from different sites would not be a more complex task than sending emails to different domains (Email is also an n:n system that works....)
Incompatable user names
Yeah, you would need some map. But mapping your userid to your password (and probably email address) as is happening now, does not seem easier than mapping your (local) userid to the remote userid.
Account management
This could actually get a lot easier than it is now. The participating web sites do not need any password management system at all (since this is handled by the few identity providers). They just need to decide what sites to federate with. And for the user there is only a single place he has to go to manage his password (Actually, it does not have to be password-based at all, more complex systems like client-side SSL authentication that are just to difficult for small web sites to set up could be handled efficiently and transparently)
This is the second main point. But if I wanted to start a Perl community site, where I just need to assign nicknames to people, without intent to gather email addresses, no online payment or such involved, I would probably trust the PerlMonks enough to let them handle my login.
Also note that a password is never given to any site other than the user's identity provider. The web site he logs in to never sees it.
++jhourcle and ++Thilosophy
I am currently in a group developing a community of role-play web sites. Usernames here are not just nicknames but characters played. An ideal system would utilize Single Sign-on to maintain each character identity through the various "worlds" (sites).
Having said that, your points #2, #4, and #5 are spot-on. No one is getting paid for this work on our hobby, let alone it being their job. When (not if) the SSO has a problem, the entire community will be down until someone (me?) gets home at night.
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Re: Single Sign-On?
by xdg (Monsignor) on Mar 06, 2005 at 14:36 UTC
There was a bit of discussion about this on the module-authors mailing list after CPAN Forum was announced. One of the posts discussed the hack that uses -- namely trying to login to PAUSE by proxy. There were various concerns expressed and alternatives proposed, but, sadly, no resolution.
Re: Single Sign-On?
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 06, 2005 at 22:38 UTC
see Shibboleth here at university i login *once* and am authenticated via local mechanism. i can now visit napster and they recieve something like:
so they don't really know who i am, only that i'm from the uni and have a uniq-id. an internal uni site might recieve:
and an internal department site might recieve:
Shibb has had some growing pains but has gotten much better the past year or so. the auth parts are handled by an Apache module so the application just needs to pull the info from the environment variables. Shibb could be used to allow Perl Monks, PAUSE, cpanforum and others to trust eachother without sharing passwords back and forth.
Re: Single Sign-On?
by jbware (Chaplain) on Mar 07, 2005 at 16:43 UTC
Re: Single Sign-On?
by crenz (Priest) on Mar 09, 2005 at 09:44 UTC
Frankly speaking, I feel the effort is not worth it. For this kind of sites, I am comfortable with storing the password in the browser (especially since I can manage the passwords neatly with Mac OS X' keychain). This is much easier for me than to ask people to implement a single-login system :-).
That is basically how I feel. I do seem to loose alot of my username and passwords when I run one my disk cleaning utilities without disabling the browser password manager option. I have found this tool extremely useful...
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I use MacOS's keychain as well, and an encrypted text file as a backup. Keychain IS single-sign-on. It could technically work the same way with a 3rd party administrating, if you could trust them enough. For many people (myself included), this trust issue means that MS was the absolute least qualified company imaginable (with the possible exception of SCO) to launch something like that. Most people trust their own machines more than any companies, thus it works better that way.
Re: Single Sign-On?
by Anonymous Monk on May 20, 2005 at 02:29 UTC
The LiveJournal people have launched a new SSO project that seems interesting. It is called OpenID and works without a central registry. You log in with the URL of your blog, which in turn contains the URL of your identity provider in a FOAF file. There can be any number of identity providers (OpenID plans to release a reference implementation of the necessary software), so you do not have to place your credentials with someone you do not trust. Of course, now the problem becomes what identity providers a web site can trust. But for low-security systems like blog comments OpenID should work fine, and for a loose confederation of Perl sites it should work as well (especially one-way: your own small site could just accept all PerlMonk and Slashdot user IDs).
Re: Single Sign-On?
by ady (Deacon) on May 20, 2005 at 05:42 UTC
Couldn't a client-side solution like accountlogon solve the problem?
Of course the client ought to be in Perl, and thus portable across a range of OS'es...
(There doesn't seem to be any such module available on CPAN tho...)
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Passing POST parameters
by Anonymous Monk
on Apr 04, 2000 at 02:26 UTC ( #6769=perlquestion: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??
Ok.. here goes:
Is there a way to pass parameters with a form that uses the POST method?
For instance, you can go point a URL at: (passing the parameter 'id=3'). Can I have something that points the browser to that same form, and pass that same parameter (id=103) in a POST form, and then read the parameter using the STDIN? HELP!!
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Re: Passing POST parameters
by btrott (Parson) on Apr 04, 2000 at 03:09 UTC
Sure. You should take a look at the source of lwp-request, an app that uses LWP::UserAgent to make requests. It does exactly what you're looking for, so you could either use it directly or incorporate its relevant bits into your code.
Essentially, you just do:
# create a new LWP::UserAgent my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; # create a new HTTP::Request, specifying # the POST method my $request = new HTTP::Request; # read in the content from STDIN; print "Enter in your content:\n"; my $content = join '', <STDIN>; # attach the content to the request # (change content-type to the appropriate type) $request->header('Content-Type' => 'text/plain'); $request->header('Content-Length' => length $content); $request->content($content); # send request and get a response my $response = $ua->request($request);
And that's that.
RE: Passing POST parameters
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 04, 2000 at 03:17 UTC
What about using actual code? Don't even ask why (cause I don't know), because modules never work for me!
Re: Passing POST parameters
by btrott (Parson) on Apr 04, 2000 at 03:25 UTC
That *is* actual code. Do you mean code that doesn't use modules? Modules use actual code, too. Do you not have LWP? It comes with Perl.
I'm not going to write out an entire POST application w/o using modules... sorry. The basic idea is that you want to open up a socket (using socket) to the remote host, send the request headers, then send the content of the request. Then you read back the response. perlipc has some examples of using sockets to read from and write to tcp/ip servers. You'll also want to read the HTTP specification.
Personally, I think you'd be better off figuring out why LWP doesn't work for you than completely rewriting it. It's not that I'm against learning for learning's sake-- I agree with japhy's comment that you should know how a module works, and understand it, before you actually use it--but I don't think that you should actually *rewrite* a standard module.
If you can post specific problems about why "modules never work for you", I'd be happy to try and offer some suggestions.
I don't think LWP is in the 5.005 core... I certainly had to download it on at least two of my Linux boxen. Maybe I should have compiled my own?
Ah. Perhaps not. Perhaps I did have to install it specially. Although not for MacPerl, but then, that's special. :)
All the same, though, it's relatively standard.
All the same, though, it's relatively standard.
All right then... so I suppose I will write you up a short example of POST-ing to a web server, w/o using modules (except for Socket, but you *really* should have that one)--(and not that you really asked :).
WARNING: this may not be great code. But I think it's got the essentials of what you need to do to write a client that POSTs to a web server and receives a response.
use Socket; # remote hostname and port (80, most likely) my $remote = ""; my $port = 80; # the URL you want to POST to my $url = "/cgi-bin/"; # the content you want to POST # (key value pairs, most likely) my $content = "id=103"; # network stuff--lookup host name and convert # it into a packed IP address suitable for # passing to connect. then get the protocol # data needed by socket (for the "tcp" protocol). my $paddr = sockaddr_in $port, inet_aton $remote; my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp'); # open up a socket on your local machine socket S, &AF_INET, &SOCK_STREAM, $proto or die "Can't open socket: $!"; # connect your local socket to the remote host and port connect S, $paddr or die "Can't connect: $!"; # make your socket unbuffered select((select(S), $|=1)[0]); # print POST line to web server, followed by # Content-Length header--this header is essential # so that the web server knows that content will # be sent along in the body of the request print S "POST $url HTTP/1.0\n"; print S "Content-Length: ", length $content, "\n"; print S "\n"; print S $content, "\n\n"; # you've sent the request, now just read back the # response, headers and all, and print it print while <S>; # close up the socket close S;
Wow! Thanks for this script. It happens to be exactly what I was looking for because I needed to write a cron job that passes certain parameters to an ASP script. This of course had to be done without user interaction of pressing a 'submit' button.
This, or the LWP program, works great! However, how would you do that to a program on a Secure Socket layer (
Re: Passing POST parameters
by turnstep (Parson) on Apr 04, 2000 at 08:30 UTC
Hrmmm...I interpret this question differently.
<FORM METHOD="Post" ACTION=""> <INPUT TYPE="Hidden" NAME="id" VALUE="103"> <INPUT TYPE="Submit" VALUE="Send this as a POST!"> </FORM>
As long as is a fairly standard script, it should have no problem reading the data as either a GET or a POST request.
Still, the question is confusing..are you trying to write a server? A client? Both? Neither?
Re: Passing POST parameters
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 04, 2000 at 17:46 UTC
Sorry, turnstep, I already use that code, but I don't want to have a form, I need to be able to just redirect the browser attaching some post content
Also, the server I'm on does not allow using sockets. I'd like to able to just use the
print "Location:\n\n";
I think turnstep's FORM method is the way to go. The browser will probably dump any POST data if you do a redirect (I'm sure of it). The only possible solution I can come up with is writing some sort of proxying server in the first script, in which case you're back to using LWP as btrott suggested.
There may be a JavaScript way to avoid displaying the form and the Action button for the user, but that's beyond the realm of this lowly Perl Monk.
Well, you can't do it with a Location redirect, I'm afraid. The only thing you can pass through that is a URL, which might happen to have some GET data embedded inside it. It's still not exactly clear what you are trying to do. The only way to send the information as a POST request is to connect to the web server, send the header information, including the length of your data, then send the data itself, and close the connection. That's basically what a web browser does, and what some of the above-mentioned modules can help with.
I'm going to make a wild stab here: you would like people to be able to click on a normal link (with GET information encoded) and have the server somehow redirect them to another script in which the information is sent only via POST and not in the new URL? If so, you can simulate that connection by having your script connect to the new website, deliver the data as POST, and dump the results back to the person browsing. The only other way would be to have your script output a page in which they could hit a submit button and do it themselves. But there is no way to force/trick a browser to send post information without user interaction (e.g. clicking on the submit button)
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Module writing hints?
by Bukowski (Deacon)
on Jun 27, 2002 at 16:30 UTC ( #177753=perlquestion: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??
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Dear PerlMonks,
I guess there comes a time in every perl newbies life that the directory full of scripts that has accumulated over the last X months would be better off in a module.
Unfortunately my copy of Learning Perl (2nd edition) doesn't quite cover this.
I've been brave enough to peer into modules (once or twice) but its still a little arcane for me. What good resources exist to smooth this task for me? Links, hints, LARTs all welcome.
Humbly yours,
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Re: Module writing hints?
by mfriedman (Monk) on Jun 27, 2002 at 16:44 UTC
There are a few things you should consider. Is this going to be an OO class? Or just a module with functions? Will it export functions and variables? The most complete doc I know of is perlmod.
If you're going to be doing OO stuff, you'll want to read perlboot and perltoot also.
Re: Module writing hints?
by kvale (Monsignor) on Jun 27, 2002 at 17:07 UTC
Starting small is not too hard. Here is module
package Foo; require Exporter; @ISA = qw|Exporter|; @EXPORT_OK = qw|foo|; sub foo { print "Hello World\n"; } 1;
And here is how it is used:
use Foo foo; foo(); print "Goodbye\n";
Simplicity itself: we mark the routine foo() as exportable and import it with use Foo foo; .
The complexity you saw comes if you want to package up your module as a full blown library worthy of CPAN. For that you will want to read perlman:perlmod to see how modules work and perlman:perlmodlib to see how to create them. Also check out perlnewmod for preparing a new module for distribution.
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Re: Module writing hints?
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jun 27, 2002 at 17:13 UTC
In its simplest form, a module is nothing other than a regular Perl source that has a package Module::Name; somewhere at the top, ends with a statement that returns true (usually a simple 1;) and resides in a file called Module/ :)
It really isn't very daunting. Of course, these few rules alone won't make it a good module, or even a well behaved one, but as with most things in Perl, good behaviour is a matter of conventions and social rituals rather than something the language shoves down your throat. perlmod and perlmodlib should show you the ropes.
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Re: Writing a simple RSS aggregator.
by thraxil (Prior)
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also, aside from parsing issues, i'd like to point out that an RSS aggregator is an HTTP client and should be polite by properly supporting HTTP response codes and using things like Etags and If-Modified-Since headers to not overload the server (especially when it's mine ;)
for my RSS gathering and parsing, i actually prefer to use Mark Pilgrim's ultra-liberal feed parser, since he's even more anal about that stuff than i am. it doesn't require anything beyond the *cough* python core library, so if the server has python installed, that may be an option...
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Incidentally, Spidering hacks has Perl code for doing all the friendly etag, if-modified-since stuff. Which at some point I'll be building into WWW::Mechanize::Cached, along with Expires awareness.
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I'm a rabid INFP (Meyers-Briggs: (I)ntrovert - I(N)tuitive - (F)eeling - (P)erceptive), so I have to have motivation that gets me in the gut. I can't just apply myself to a dull boring "normal" work project without having a 'higher purpose' in mind that gets me up in the morning and keeps me driving long after the kids are in bed. in my case, I have a vision for using technology to help kids grow up smarter and more self-motivated.
I know I have to 'ace' my low-level work-related projects using the least amount of my precious time, so I drive myself to analyze things at the highest level possible so that I don't have to go back in and spend time fixing things. In our work at {insert name of big computer co in RR, TX}, much of my job involves discovering dependencies and requirements from other existing software systems and standards -- as well as new requirements that hide behind some bull-puckie buzzword like 'persistent storage' -- that aren't always spelled out except in the memories of guys who've moved on to other projects, so roping in all of those is 90% of the work in a successful project.
I'm also a big fan of pacing, and I generally stop when I make my first major blunder and pick up where I left off in the morning after a good night's sleep and some off-topic rumination, such as on my Higher Purpose. This presupposes that I'm ahead of the game and not coding features at the last-last-last moment. That crunch will come no matter what I do, by the nature of projects where Marketing always wants it all yesterday, but if I'm consistently applying myself for maximum effect from the beginning, most of my aw-sh!ts have already been surmounted when it does hit.
It's also essential to be able to deal with those "while you have bandwidth" projects that magically show up to fill your time by making sure you get complete SoWs before getting stuck with work you need to apply major time to. I just got asked to configure an NTP server for our test lab, and before I knew it there was a bunch of Active Directory work included and oh, by the way, it's all in a VMware partition and you need to set that up, learn it, and deliver to that target. Sheesh!
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By Emma Simmonds
We’re not doing anything
—Eddie (Richard Edson), Stranger Than Paradise
Stranger Than Paradise is a story about America, as seen through the eyes of “strangers.” It’s a story about exile (both from one’s country and oneself), and about connections that are just barely missed.”
—Jim Jarmusch, Some Notes on Stranger Than Paradise
Jim Jarmusch’s seminal Stranger Than Paradise is a film that derives simple pleasures from the minutiae of human interaction, from the boredom of those mired in the humdrum. It comprises of sixty-seven single-shot black and white vignettes held together by short interludes of black screen. These ‘fit’ like a series of conversational non-sequiturs, with action omitted and only casually alluded to.
It is divided into three segments, each opening with an amusingly inappropriate title. The first is loaded with the promise of a voyage of discovery thus Jarmusch presents to us “The New World”. Set in New York, with droll Hungarian émigré Eva (Eszter Balint) inadequately inducted into American society by her reluctant cousin Willie (John Lurie), she later finds a more effusive companion in his genial buddy Eddie (Richard Edson). The second, “One Year Later”, could have directly followed the first in that, for Willie and Eddie at least, so little of consequence appears to have taken place. It finds them deciding to rekindle their fleeting friendship with the intriguing Eva by traveling to wintry Cleveland where she resides. The third, titled “Paradise”, involves the triumvirate’s hapless vacation-of-sorts to a remote, wind-swept trailer park in a Florida suburb. Eva finds herself quickly left to her own devices and an almost surreal instance of mistaken identity leads to what, in this context, passes for high drama.
In Stranger Than Paradise narrative propulsion is achieved entirely by a subtle progression in relationships (growing affection is ever so slightly presented). Coherence is attained through a visual consistency that disregards the diversity of its locations and gives the film its idiosyncratic appeal. Each place is as drab as its predecessor; the characters appear perpetually trapped in the same ill-fitting, uninspiring environment, despite their travels. This gives the impression that, in the absence of environmental stimuli, mentally they are merely going through the motions. Exterior shots have the same binding sense of containment as interiors with the suggestion of true escape conspicuously absent.
For example, the dense snowstorm of Cleveland hems them in, creating a wall of nothingness. Eva’s introductory walk through New York (she is figuratively going nowhere) is offset by the cynical, macabre glee of “I Put A Spell On You” as sung by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (a “wild man”, as eccentrically described by Eva) but the monotony of her plod and, at best, mild curiosity relating to this alien landscape never suggest she is to be the seditious influence that transcends such prosaic surroundings. The recurring musical accompaniment serves merely as an ironic, heightened soundtrack; a counterpoint to the lackluster trio’s ‘antics’, and adds to the film’s “hipster” appeal.
Stranger Than Paradise is a sedate and captivating antidote to bombastic contemporary Hollywood cinema. Who knew the boredom of others could be so fascinating? It’s thoroughly recommended.
This excellent package comprises of, amongst other things: a restored high-definition digital transfer of the film; a bonus feature, in Jarmusch’s first full-length movie Permanent Vacation; a booklet of notes and articles relating to both films; and, two documentaries, one of which is shot by Jim’s brother Tom Jarmusch.
The earlier film Permanent Vacation lacks the charm and accessibility of Stranger Than Paradise yet clearly demonstrates an auteur developing his style. Appealing on the level of a curiosity, it depicts the bizarre encounters of a laconic yet physically restless drifter. Luc Sante in “Love Among The Ruins: Permanent Vacation and Jarmusch’s New York” comments:
“Today it forecasts a future great career, but then it looked like a quixotic gamble. It was an act of faith and courage, worn with the nonchalance of a cigarette tucked behind the ear.”
Also included is Martha Müller ‘s enjoyably bonkers documentary Kino ’84: Jim Jarmusch, where members of the cast and crew perilously straddle the thin line between arrogant delusion and self-effacing parody. Jarmusch describes the differences between Stranger Than Paradise and Permanent Vacation when he describes how, in the former, characters are “resigned to that existence”; an “acceptance of their lot” whereas Permanent Vacation’s Allie is open to possibilities, with Chris Parker’s nervous energy of a man unable to stay still contributing to this impression.
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Witschel, Georg, European Affairs
Since the 1980s, there have been only four significant terrorist acts involving the use of biological or chemical weapons. The best known were carried out by the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo group, which killed 19 people in two Japanese cities (Matsumoto in 1994 and Tokyo in 1995) by spreading the nerve gas Sarin in subway trains. Aum also worked on various biological agents and tried to disperse anthrax in Tokyo. It is also known that Al Qaeda members tried to acquire biological agents in the former Soviet Union, and there is ample evidence that Al Qaeda tried to develop and produce chemical and biological weapons in Afghanistan.
U.S. forces advancing into Afghan cities found computer files left behind by Al Qaeda members and a laboratory under construction during the Enduring Freedom campaign in 2001/2002. In October 2001, five U.S. citizens died from exposure to anthrax contained in letters sent through the mail, although the perpetrator remains unknown and a terrorist background has not yet been proven. Given that the attacks so far represent only a minimal fraction of the overall number of terrorist acts in the last 20 years, why are we so concerned? There are a number of reasons why we should be.
The likelihood that modern terrorists will use weapons of mass destruction is increased by their desire to inflict high numbers of casualties. Unlike most of the more "traditional" social-revolutionary and ethno-national terrorist groups in the 1970s and 1980s, groups like Al Qaeda do not differentiate between victims among the general population and selected targets such as political or military leaders. The victims themselves have no particular importance for the terrorists, except as part of a communication strategy. In fact, an attack against a large number of civilians may have an even bigger impact in terms of terrorizing the population and disrupting political and economic stability than attacks on so-called "hard targets," such as political leadership structures or the military. In other words, from the terrorists5 point of view, an attack is most "successful" when it kills the greatest number of people.
So far, most major terrorist attacks have been committed with conventional means, particularly bombs and improvised explosive devices. September 11 represented a new qualitative development because civilian airliners were turned into deadly, high-energy weapons. There is, however, no doubt that using chemical, biological or radiological (CBR) weapons in an attack would help to further terrorist objectives, either by causing mass casualties and/or by instilling even greater terror because of the particular nature of these weapons. Even if such an attack produced lower casualties than a conventional explosion, the perception of the particularly inhuman character of such devices, the fear of their contents and their possible long-term consequences (such as contamination or the spread of mass diseases) gives such attacks a new, frightening dimension and would probably cause widespread panic.
It is precisely this new dimension that is desirable from a terrorist's point of view, since terrorists need to sustain a high, possibly escalating level of violence to achieve their targets. Targeted states and societies tend to be able to cope with certain levels of violence. In addition, in most countries, comprehensive security measures have been introduced to prevent conventional terrorist attacks. "More of the same" often increases the resilience of a society facing such attacks instead of breaking its resolve. The coercive effects of terrorist acts increase considerably, however, with a sustained high rate of incidence, high casualties and particularly escalation, including the use of new kinds of attacks.
Factors that generally limit the usefulness of CBR weapons for armed forces, such as the risk to their own forces, the contamination of territory to be occupied or defended and the threat of retaliation, do not apply to terrorists, at least not to suicide terrorists.
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Eraserhead played largely to college audiences and midnight art-house crowds. With his next film, The Elephant Man (produced by Mel Brooks), Lynch got the chance to reach for a broader audience. The Elephant Man was Lynch's version of the life of John Merrick, the horribly deformed man in Victorian England who briefly managed to transcend the cruelty of his own body and of the world around him. Lynch's script for the film was linear and fairly orthodox, even old-fashioned – like a 1930s or '40s misunderstood-beast horror tale – but the movie's cinematography had much the same abstract, spectral look as Eraserhead. The effort won Lynch an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and also earned him the chance to direct Dino De Laurentiis' production of Frank Herbert's epic science-fiction novel, Dune. The latter proved a disaster, an embarrassing, indecipherable mess – though, like nearly all of Lynch's work, it still held moments of stunning imagery. Lynch later forced the removal of his name from the film's credits. "With Dune," he says, "I felt like I had sort of sold myself out."
Four years later, Lynch took the same obsessions that defined Blue Velvet and transported them to prime-time network television. Twin Peaks, an ABC series created by Lynch with screenwriter and author Mark Frost, was the story of a small-town homecoming queen, Laura Palmer (played by Sheryl Lee), whose murder tears open a whole community's intricate webwork of secret sex, violence and horror. It was also the story of FBI agent Dale Cooper (MacLachlan), whose investigation of Laura Palmer's death leads him to some creepy discoveries about how evil can share the places and dreams where people live, and how it can get passed along from troubled heart to troubled heart.
For its first several weeks, Twin Peaks was a sensation. More important, it demonstrated that network television was capable of producing an audacious and cutting-edge work of culture. But Twin Peaks' ratings began to dip, and Lynch says the network pressed him and Frost to solve the central murder mystery.
"The murder of Laura Palmer," Lynch says, "was the center of the story, the thing around which all the show's other elements revolved – like a sun in a little solar system. It was not supposed to get solved. The idea was for it to recede a bit into the background, and the foreground would be that week's show. But the mystery of the death of Laura Palmer would stay alive. And it's true: As soon as that was over, it was basically the end. There were a couple of moments later when a wind of that mystery – a wind from that other world – would come blowing back in, but it just wasn't the same, and it couldn't be the same. I loved Twin Peaks, but after that, it kind of drifted for me."
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WNDI 2k6 Statism K Neg AddendumSTATISM K – NEG ADDENDUM1. Index2. The state controls its citizens thru violence3. Anarchy solves nuclear war 4. Alternative solves1
WNDI 2k6 Statism K Neg AddendumThe State monopolizes legitimate violence, and uses that as a mechanism to control the population
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, “On the State.”Due to the way they are structured, all states are a mechanism by which a minority imposes its will on amajority. They are not neutral bodies that can be used by any group for whatever purpose they desire. So-called "democratic" states are a mechanism by which a minority imposes its will on the majority; they justattempt to fool the majority into thinking that they are in charge when they aren't. Representativedemocracy is a form of minority rule that pretends not to be. States are not neutral tools that anyone canuse for any purpose; they are autonomous organizations that develop their own dynamics & interests.States generally maintain a monopoly (or near monopoly) on the legitimate use of violence. Legitimateviolence is violence that is viewed by the majority of the population as being acceptable. For the most part,the majority of the population usually sees the state as the only legitimate source of violence, withoccasional exceptions, and all other sources as illegitimate. Police use force all the time but ordinarycitizens are barred from using force except for a few cases specifically exempted by law. A society with astate is a society with specialized social roles for the use and authorization of violence (police, soldiers, politicians, generals, judges, etc.). The state attempts to monopolize violence so that it is the only source of violence, all others are suppressed. The state attempts to create a situation where, in the view of themajority, the state can use violence while others cannot. The state means some people can whack otherswith impunity.This monopoly of force can be delegated. For example, a state can make an exception for self-defense,legalize private security companies, or authorize the military forces of an allied state to operate on itsterritory. However, in all of these cases the state is the final authority for what violence may or may not beused, only violence it authorizes may be used. In practice the state rarely achieves a total monopoly, thereis usually at least a fringe that does not regard state violence as legitimate. In some cases the state'smonopoly of force may face major challenges from armed groups within society or even lose thatmonopoly all together (due to massive revolts, etc.). However, all states at least purport to hold amonopoly of force (even if this is a myth) and, to the extent possible, attempt to suppress all groups thatchallenge this monopoly, even if they are unsuccessful at it.The state's monopoly (or near-monopoly) on legitimate violence and its centralized, hierarchicalcharacteristics tend to reinforce each other. The state attempts to monopolize all violence, and to portray itsown violence (and violence it has authorized) as the sole legitimate form of violence, so as to strengthen its power and insure those on the top of the hierarchy maintain control over the rest of the population.Organizations that monopolize the legitimate use of violence tend towards hierarchy and centralization,easily coming to dominate the rest of the population. If some people can whack others with impunity thenthat ability means they can easily gain power over others. As a result of this, they can use force againstanyone who disobeys them with little likelihood of retaliation or resistance. This is a recipe for hierarchyand centralization of power into a small elite.2
WNDI 2k6 Statism K Neg AddendumAnarchy is the only way to truly pre-empt nuclear war Kevin
, Staff Writer, Commondreams.org, “Invitation to Global Anarchy,” June,
,http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0624-06.htmPresident Bush and his administration have recently outlined a policy dubbed "strike first" —launching pre-emptive attacks on countries or terrorist organizations suspected of developing weapons of massdestruction (WMD).Let’s get this straight: Bush, despite the recent treaty signed with Russia, plans to keep 10,000 nuclear warheads indefinitely. Moreover, he plans to develop new types of nuclear weapons, target non-nuclear states, and, most likely, resume full-scale nuclear testing.Yet under "strike first," if he says another country is attempting to obtain WMD, Bush deigns onto himself the right to launch a pre-emptive attack. Even if he can’t prove it and even if an attack against our countryis not imminent, he claims, under this policy, the right to attack any country.Despite any credible evidence connecting Iraq to the 9/11 attacks and the serious concerns of senior military officials, the administration plans to debut this policy as soon as they can—with an invasion of Iraqto overthrow Saddam Hussein.David Sanger wrote in a New York Times article on June 17, "The administration, not surprisingly, isarguing for the widest possible latitude in implementing this policy, making the case that only it can definewhat poses a major and imminent threat to national security." The article continued, "... Mr. Bush's new policy could amount to ultimate unilateralism, because it reserves the right to determine what constitutes athreat to American security and to act even if that threat is not judged imminent."Have our so-called leaders thought about the implications of this? Or are they so full of hubris, so drunk on power that they think they can do anything and that the rest of the world will swallow it whole, just as thesupine media and a cowed Congress have in this country?Under this same doctrine, Iraq, Iran, Libya, and North Korea would be justified in attacking the UnitedStates to "pre-empt" our development of new types of nuclear weapons which target them (as Bush outlinedin his Nuclear Posture Review). However, if other countries were to do this, we would rightfully call itwhat it is—an act of aggression.This "strike first" policy, along with Bush’s provocative, aggressive new nuclear weapons doctrine, willsurely lead to two things—nuclear proliferation and more terrorism—making America and the world far less, rather than more secure. Bush’s policy practically invites attacks on Washington, New York, or other American cities.3
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The main thing keeping me from commenting on the story, though, isn't the fact that watching progressives happily dismiss serious allegations against one of their heroes as long as they come from women throws me into a funk. It's the other, less convenient one that this is a rape case and ought to be treated as such (provided, of course, that he did it). I can't say what I keep wanting to say: "It is perfectly obvious when something is rape and when it isn't, so why are we even arguing about it?"
Let's first be sure that we understand that Miss A's allegation is that she said, "Stop, not without a condom," and he held her down and did it anyway, without a condom and without her consent, IOW, rape.
This brings us to this utterly creepy other category that rarely gets discussed: quasi-nonconsensual or barely-consensual sex. I wish it didn't exist. It muddies the waters and gives ammunition to the would-be dismissers of sex crimes and lionizers of sex-criminals. But sadly, not all of what we usually end up labeling "bad sex" and filing under "Did that, don't do it again" is as simple as anorgasmia, raw spots, premature ejaculation, or cases of beer goggles in action.
Everyone had had an experience, sometimes many, where they consented to sex they had no question they didn't want, often in hopes the pursuer would fall asleep so they could go home. Most did it because trying to convince somebody probably drunk and maybe a bit belligerent that sex wasn't going to happen was going to take much longer and be more emotionally taxing than just getting it over with.
It's when you try to apply your own standards or your own experiences or your own sense of how things should be to other people's realities that you run into trouble. As most of us know, there is another category, that of consent given grudgingly to avoid a situation perceived at the moment as potentially even ickier than giving in to what you have no desire to give. But it's because there are such gray areas, not despite them, that it's a good idea to actually listen to someone who tells you s/he was raped.
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just trying to wrap my head around javascript this week and came across something I need some help with understanding.
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now what that does... when you click on the CLICK ME link it puts the string "jim" in the text box's value field.
well what I'm trying to figure out is when the string gets the value "jim" or whatever I want the alert box to come up.
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Sorry for the late reply, but I was unsure about your question. Let me suggest another solution. I'm assuming that your requirements are:
1) for an input's value to be changed either by the user or by script
2) for the value to be validated after being changed by the user or by script
One solution is to always call a certain function to change the value of the input instead of directly referencing the input in the onclick code. This function can also do the validation. Below, validate() performs two actions:
1) changes the input's value if sNewValue is present
2) validates the input's current value
function validate(sForm, sInput, sNewValue)
bValid = true,
oInput = document.forms[sForm].elements[sInput];
// Change input's value if sNewValue is defined
if (typeof(sNewValue) != 'undefined') {
oInput.value = sNewValue;
// Validate the value
var val = oInput.value;
if (val.indexOf('jim') != -1) {
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return bValid;
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<a href="#" onclick="validate('jim','fname','jim');return false">change value via js</a>
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35526 | What I'll Never Forget
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It was the culmination of a long journey. I have felt a sort of instinctive revulsion seeing someone shoved around, bullied, or dominated for as long as I can remember. I can still recall how shocked and dismayed I was when, as a boy, I learned what 'taxes' were. There were actually guys who went around forcing people to give them money, and throwing people who refused in jail? And the police didn't stop them? Learning about 'eminent domain' a few years later during a construction project in my town was an even bigger shock. Money was still mostly an abstraction for me, but the idea that the government could force people to sell their house and move somewhere else made a more concrete impression.
My grandfather was a sort of Goldwater Republican, and I spent a lot of time visiting him and reading books I borrowed from him. This started to provide my underlying instincts with a more concrete framework. I began moving in a steadily anti-statist direction more or less as soon as I became politically aware during the Clinton years, and gradually saw through more and more of what I was taught in school or the media, as well as recognizing gaps and inconsistencies in my own beliefs. In high school, I started reading Friedrich Hayek, Thomas Sowell, Murray Rothbard, Albert Jay Nock, and the like.
By about 1998, I was a libertarian who supported only a minimal government. By 2000-2001, I was having more and more reservations about the moral legitimacy of even that, and my study on the subject was driving me towards the conclusion that anarchocapitalism was a genuinely workable possibility, and that it was actually the idea of a limited government that stayed limited that was unrealistic. However, I still found the line a difficult one to cross. To most people, 'anarchy' is a shocking notion, and I still found the idea intimidating emotionally even as reason pushed me inexorably closer to it.
On September 11, 2001 , I went to my college's cafeteria with a friend between classes. We arrived to find a huge crowd of students watching a bunch of TVs that had been set up. The crowd was in near-silence; all I could hear was the television and a few students murmuring about some building "falling." I joined the crowd to find out what was going on, and on the television I saw the second World Trade Center tower burning. I pieced together what had happened to the first building from the newscaster's commentary just in time for the second tower to collapse, the attempted evacuation still in progress.
My friend was distraught and asked me if I would accompany her while she went to the campus chapel. I agreed, and on the way, realization struck me.
By this point, it was clear that what had happened was a coordinated attack. One of the great centers of American business was a mass grave, thousands of corpses buried under mountains of broken concrete and steel. I had been holding on to the belief that the state was there to protect us from violent attack--and I had just finished watching a skyscraper in the biggest city in the country burn and shatter with more than one thousand innocent people trapped inside, and the hundreds of billions of dollars the government spent every year to maintain the most powerful military machine on Earth had done nothing to stop it. The idea that the government was an irreplaceable defender of the nation suddenly felt like a very unfunny joke.
That was the final blow my belief in the state. It wasn't that my opinion about the viability of anarchocapitalism had suddenly changed, but rather that I had been jolted into emotional acceptance of the radical conclusion I had already reached intellectually by this graphic depiction of the state's profound failure. The continuous repetition of images on the news imprinted themselves on me. Whenever I thought about the idea that the government kept us safe, all I saw were great pillars of fire crashing down, a vast cloud of smoke and dust that spread over New York City and seemed to devour it, people trapped in the buildings with no other way to escape the smoke and heat caught on film as they tumbled through the air and smashed into pieces a thousand feet below.
You can be assured that I will always remember September 11th. It taught me too much to ever let me forget it.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35527 | Testing the Waters of Economic Liberty
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Why would anybody who esteems government-protected property rights in Land have a problem with government-protected property rights on Water?
The property right to operate the ferry is a big government enTITLEment, just like creating artificial borders on the surface of the earth is a Land enTITLEment program that grants monopoly-use-rights (often called "property rights") to parcel holders, and restricts the free movement of Non-State societies to forage and hunt the land.
Remember, without big government guns, there are no "property rights" to vast tracts of agricultural Land. (I'm quite familiar with the libertarian canon that says different, and that you have many fantasies about how to enforce property rights without the State part of agricultural-City-Statism, but they are just that, make-believe stories.)
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State/government or no state/government, if you mess with my grain crops you're going to have troubles.
You might want to cool it with the predictions of the future. I'm pretty sure that you're not all-knowing and the pretense is embarassingly ignorant.
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I know you're trouble; violence is the way agricultural city-Statists roll.
Aggression and war started with domestication (proto-agriculture) and has continued to intensify to nuclear weapons today.
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Another example of this on a larger scale would be the Jones Act (Merchant Maritime Act). The restriction of "US flag" vessels for US territories greatly impedes competition and forces prices upward for everyone, especially in places like Hawaii where only US flag carriers are permitted to operate. Asian carriers would have swept up all of the Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Caribbean business decades ago without this restriction. Not surprisingly, the industries that lobbied for this type of regulation were the railroads and trucking companies, much as you'd expect with similar tariffs and restrictions. However, somewhat more surprising (but not really when you understand how large companies use government) the coastal and ocean carriers didn't put up any protest. US carriers dominated the steamship market in the days of the Jones Act. This has led to the greatest collusion among the carriers that you can imagine and practices that make the mafia look down-right respectable by comparison. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35541 | Fairy tale feasts
A delightful cookbook: "Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook" Tales retold by Jane Yolen, recipes by Heidi E.Y. Stemple. (Crocodile Books)
Renowned storyteller Jane Yolen and daughter Heidi E.Y. Stemple are making magic again.
They've written another cookbook for kids, and it's delightful.
"Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook" is filled with lovely illustrations by collage artist Sima Elizabeth Shefrin. There are 18 recipes, including latkes, kugel and blintzes, spiced with an equal number of folk tales. Whether it's "The Latke Miracle" or "The Wheat Came in at the Door" or "How to Know a Noodle," Yolen's storytelling enriches each folk tale.
That food and folk tales are so intertwined shouldn't be surprising. They are among our oldest traditions.
"We eat and we entertain ourselves with stories. There's also a great female aspect because in the old days it was the woman in the kitchen and telling stories to the children," says Yolen during a phone chat with the authors from Yolen's Massachusetts home. "Both of them are arts and skills, and even if you have very little talent for each, you can do something within the family as part of the storytelling and cooking."
Chimed in Stemple, "These are both things that families do together and they're multigenerational. You can tell a story and a child will get one level of it and a parent will get another. With cooking, it's the same."
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And while it may sometimes seem easier to chase kids out of the kitchen with an "I'm just cooking a meal," Stemple, who's cooked with her two daughters, including the now-18-year old who helped test recipes, urged otherwise.
"You can say, 'We need to peel the carrots and that's your job' and somebody else needs to stir the batter and that's a job for your younger sibling," said Stemple. "It depends on the recipe, the child and the kitchen. My kitchen has some enormous sharp knives. It has gas. The water is turned up scalding hot. My kitchen is not where a 7-year-old should go into and cook on her own."
"We're just hoping the book becomes a tradition with families, especially if they're families who haven't had much of a story and a cooking tradition because I think that we make it simple to love," said Yolen, who's written a hundred-plus books. "Cooking and telling stories are the way to have that wonderful family time that we're all regretting that we don't seem to have anymore."
The authors have designed the book to appeal to all ages for, as they note, recipes and folk tales have always been adaptable. Recipes get tweaked by cooks to suit their taste buds, skills and budgets. So do stories, whether the listener is a toddler or teenager.
"Be playful with both these stories and recipes," the authors write. "First make (and) tell them exactly as they are here, and then begin to experiment. Recipes and stories are made more beautiful, more filling more memorable by what you put into them."
This recipe from "Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts" is adapted from Jane Yolen's grandmother.
Rinse, core and cut 6 large apples, such as Macintosh or Granny Smith, into medium-size chunks; leave skins on. Put apples in a large pot with 1/4 cup water, 1 cinnamon stick or 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon, and, if you like, 1 tablespoon to 1/2 cup sugar depending on how sweet you like it. Heat to a boil over high heat; reduce heat to medium-low, cover and cook, stirring occasionally until all apples are mushy and skins are peeling off, 15-20 minutes. Set a colander in a large bowl. Scoop apples into it. Mash apples, using a wooden spoon or spatula to press apples through colander. Makes: 2 cups
"Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook" Tales retold by Jane Yolen, recipes by Heidi E.Y. Stemple, Crocodile Books, $25 |
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Much of Sass’s time these days is spent learning how the technology can be used to teach and investigate architecture as an art. Students who take one of his special design courses are given projects such as creating innovative replacements for Boston’s tallest structure, the John Hancock Tower. The buildings they concoct often twist and turn in curvy shapes that don’t lend themselves to the Lego mentality that seems to pervade modern architecture. But rapid-prototyping technology can also teach of the past. Sass works with graduate students to make models from centuries-old sketches by some of the world’s finest designers, such as the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. The models turn out to be object lessons in both the brilliance and the weaknesses of the early designers.
In September, some of this work will become part of an exhibition at the MIT Museum devoted to an architectural drawing attributed to Baldassare Peruzzi, a Sienese contemporary of Michelangelo. The exhibition will feature, among other things, three-dimensional models based on the 16th-century perspective rendering. The models will help Gary Van Zante, curator of the museum’s architecture and design collection, and other historians determine if Peruzzi really was the architect and whether the drawing is of an unknown building or a play’s set design, or whether it’s simply a study piece.
Sass envisions rapid prototyping’s slow evolution from a valuable historical tool to an eventual replacement of the blueprint-based relationship between designers and contractors. At first, he believes, the technique will merely be a design aid for architects. But as robotic machinery appears on more construction sites, computer models will directly drive the building process. In a few decades, Sass predicts, homes could be entirely manufactured by robots taking instructions from a central computing source, relegating contractors to a supervisory role. When that happens, Sass says, a traditional ranch-style home, which takes at least four months to build now, will take one month.
The idea may seem far fetched, especially given the unpredictability of construction projects. But robots are already working on sites in crowded areas of Japan, where manual labor is in short supply and very expensive. Though still requiring some human guidance, these robots perform tasks such as installing windows and help make the construction process safer, cheaper, and faster. With each passing year, building becomes more automated, as better computer algorithms take more construction- site variables into account. “Crowded cities in Japan aren’t places where slow and dangerous construction can take place,” says Han Hoang, one of Sass’s graduate students. “So these types of situations are where ideas like Larry’s will come into play best. But that doesn’t mean they won’t spread.” Hoang’s own desk is covered with components of the type of robotic arms you can buy as toy-store science experiments. He’s tinkering with ideas for wheeled robots that would construct a house bit by bit, although that possibility, he believes, is a few decades away.
Closer to implementation may be a technology developed by Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California. Khoshnevis calls his method of constructing houses “contour crafting.” In this process, a large robotic arm deposits layer after layer of concrete to build walls in much the same way that Sass’s 3-D printer deposits powder. Khoshnevis and Sass are exploring questions such as how the roofs of contour-crafted homes could be built. Contour crafting has generated considerable interest in Japan; Khoshnevis says that NASA is also interested in the technique as a possible way to build the first domiciles on other planets.
But not all of Sass’s efforts are aimed at such pie-in-the-sky applications. He realizes that it will be years before his ideas catch on among architectural firms, and decades before automation moves full force onto the construction site. Until then, he says, he is happy educating others and finding smaller, more practical targets for the technology. For example, he is developing a type of emergency shelter that can be assembled from plywood pieces shaped using automated techniques. He and graduate student Nicolas Rader are working out the kinks in a design that would allow the pieces to be cut out by a computer-controlled router and shipped in a couch-sized box. During assembly, the pieces should fit so snugly that no glue or nails are required–just a rubber mallet to bang them into place. Sass is working with Georgia Institute of Technology professor of architecture Chuck Eastman to plan a way to use Georgia Tech’s technologically advanced woodworking lab to produce the parts. The final product will be less than quaint–but nonetheless an important and elegant demonstration of a technique that could someday change the world’s architectural landscape.
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The device is still a research instrument, says Stephen Oesterle, Medtronic’s senior vice president for medicine and technology, but it could be on the market in five years.
“What we don’t have that is fundamental to a pacemaker is a way to power the chip,” says Oesterle. The company is working with startups that make thin-film batteries and other innovative power sources, though Oesterle declined to give further details.
Medtronic’s current-generation device houses all of the components in a small case implanted under the clavicle. Jolts of electricity are delivered to the heart via intercardiac leads. Eliminating the need for leads, which Oesterle calls “invasive and inefficient,” is one of the major motivators in shrinking the device. Impedance between the wires and biological tissue ups the power requirement for the device. And the leads can cause complications if they fail. “You are stuck with either putting in new leads, which takes up space in the vein, or you can pull the leads out, which can risk tearing the heart or blood vessels,” says Emile Georges Daoud, a physician and professor of cardiovascular medicine at Ohio State University.
A system small enough to be placed exactly where the electricity is needed would eliminate these issues. “If you have the pacing element at the area you want to pace, it doesn’t take much power,” says Oesterle. “All you need to do is stimulate one cell in the heart and create a wave of depolarization.”
A smaller device would also be much easier to implant than existing versions. Scientists envision delivering it via the same procedure used in cardiac catheterization, in which a doctor inserts a thin plastic tube into an artery or vein, threading the tube all the way to the heart. The procedure is less invasive than surgical implantation, and more physicians are capable of doing it. “You can almost shoot these things in like bullets,” says Oesterle.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35572 | 30 Rock
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Mama Drama
Back downstairs, Danny introduces his mom Miho to Lutz. As she is Asian, Lutz off-handedly comments that he didn't know Danny was adopted. Whoops! Miho stomps off cursing that bean-spiller Lutz in Japanese. It's not so happy over in wardrobe either as Jenna introduces Verna to costumer Lee. Verna promptly hits on Lee, who clearly does not swing that way, before pulling out the matching denim rompers she made for her and Jenna to wear on the show ("Jenna's Mom" and "Jenna's Mom's Daughter"). Jenna clacks off, claiming her "friend has to go strangle her anxiety pillow."
After she leaves, Lemon blindly stumbles out of the changing area (and into a sea of brassiere-clad middle-aged ladies!) with her too-small bridesmaid's dress still half over her head. Guess that gym plan didn't work out so well... Mrs. Rossitano spits that it's bad luck for married women to wear a bridesmaid's dress. Lemon informs the ladies that she's not actually married. They can't believe it. Lutz's mom (Lutz in drag) tries to set Lemon up with her son (who "gives excellent back rubs, I can assure you!"), but Lemon politely declines. Colleen joins the gaggle to tell Lemon that feminism has ruined her. More specifically, "It makes smart girls with nice birthing shapes believe in fairy tales." She tells Lemon to stop waiting for her prince because she's pushing 40 and probably already met an okay-enough guy (even if he's not an astronaut named Mike Dexter who becomes King of Monaco). Upon hearing that Lemon's nearly 40, even Lutz's mom dismisses her not being a green enough banana. Oh, snap.
Upstairs, Jack has a clandestine meeting with Verna. He compliments her for holding up her half of their agreement. She's all, "About that..." and says she'll need the second payment installment sooner than later because she already invested in the first half of her boob job. She opens her jacket to reveal one breast dipping belly button-ward high and one that's nearly brushing her chin. Oh, Verna. She even makes Jack feel them, and he agrees that the implant feels like a cantaloupe, while the untouched breast feels like a bag of mushroom soup. Still, he says no dice on the second payment until she fulfills her motherly obligations to Jenna.
Back downstairs, Pete tells Tracy he's found a perfect stand-in for Tracy's bio-mom. She's an actress named Novella Nelson, she's from Brooklyn, and she looks just like Tracy. Tracy says frantically, "That could be anyone! We all look the same to me!" Pete says Tracy might recognize her from her late-night commercials for overall jammies (Pajameralls, in case you're wondering). Tracy had his heart set on Phylicia Rashad or Serena Williams, but Pete says they're too recognizable. He tells Tracy to pipe down because Novella's been in the biz for 40 years, which makes her "good enough for the star of Sherlock Homie."
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If you were using MAC’s Fashion Frenzy blush?, what look would you create with it? What shadows would you use? What would you use on cheeks? Anything added to the lips?
Create a look using whatever you want, as long as you include Fashion Frenzy! Feel free to share links to photos of your look(s) using it in the comments.
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1. Nell
Modest Tone all over lid and Charred used as a liner on upper lid only
Fashion Frenzy on cheeks
Nice Vice pp (or Fluid l/s)with clear lipglass on lips
2. Urban Decay pigment eyeshadow in protest and MAC lipglass in love rules l.e. and Stila’s black eyeliner and lancome onyx jet black mascara on a skin that glows with Lancome luci powder.
3. Eyes: Bare canvas paint, charcoal brown and Sumptuous Olive on outer corners, duck powerpoint eye pencil.
Lips: Clinique Sky Violet Lipliner, Lovelorn l/s and Lancome Lychee Juicy Tube l/g
4. Sanayhs
I’m wearing Fashion Frenzy today! I have emote for a contour and Racy #D lipglass. On the eyes, I have electra across the lid, knight divine in the crease and outer corner with a bit of carbon on the very outer edge to add a bit more depth. I have shade fluidline across the top and half way across the bottom, with silverstroke fluidline on the inner bottom edge of the eye. I have smashbox teal mascara on my lashes.
5. I would go with neutral eyes because this is so bright.
I would use MAC lip primer with like a clear color over it. :)
6. Teale
I use the rollickin paint pot on my entire lid, a thin line of black track, light mascara on the lower lashes, moderate mascara on the top lashes (plushlash); very light fashion frenzy on my cheeks, iridescent powder in belightful to highlight on my brow bone and above my cheek bone and on my lips, a coat of myth lipstick with a few dabs of utterly frivolous lipstick. |
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Look for Christmas! :) I actually ended up removing the lips and going for something more muted, only because I didn’t want that much attention on my lips in pictures/video (yep! my parents still videotape every Christmas morning!).
You will need the following…
• Eyes: Golden Lemon pigment (gold), Goldmine eyeshadow (gold), Danger Zone mineralize eyeshadow (red side), Cranberry eyeshadow (berry), Nylon eyeshadow (gold-toned highlighter), Urban Decay Honey 24/7 Liner (gold), Plushlash mascara (black)
• Cheeks: Margin blush (dirty pink)
• Lips: Queen’s Sin lipstick (red), Cult of Cherry lipglass (red)
• Substitutes: Danger Zone = Coppering; Queen’s Sin = Russian Red; Cult of Cherry = Russian Red
Directions: Define brows using a coordinating powder shadow applied with the 266 brush. Apply Golden Lemon pigment all over the lid as the base with the 249. On the lid, apply Goldmine eyeshadow using the 239. Darken the outer lid using Danger Zone (red side) and drag into crease using the 239. Darken crease with Cranberry eyeshadow using the 239. Sweep Nylon underneath the brow bone to highlight. Finish with Urban Decay Honey 24/7 Liner on lower lash line, and Plushlash mascara on lashes. Sweep apples of cheeks with Margin blush using the 129. Apply Queen’s Sin lipstick to lips, and then top with Cult of Cherry lipglass for color and shine.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35593 | Mozzies learn to ignore DEET
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35603 | China's revaluation is a bid to hit the brakes
By Ross Gittins
July 23, 2005
Working out the implications of China's decision to change its exchange rate is a lot trickier than you may think.
It's undoubtedly a step in the right direction, as everyone's saying, but it's not clear whether its medium-term effect will be good or bad and, over the next few months, its effect will probably be minor.
For openers, we can say that the move to revalue the yuan by 2 per cent against the US dollar isn't nearly as significant as the associated decision — to shift from keeping the yuan's value fixed to the US dollar to now fix it against a basket of the currencies of China's major trading partners.
Indeed, if the 2 per cent revaluation were all there was to it, we could dismiss the move as of no noticeable consequence. The Americans and others who've long been pressing China to revalue have been thinking in terms of 10 to 20 per cent.
So, it's only if the move to a new regime for China's exchange rate leads eventually to an appreciation of a lot more than 2 per cent that there's anything much to talk about.
And, in principle, the new regime does make a bigger appreciation possible. The Chinese authorities are moving to a "crawling peg" regime similar to the one we had between November 1976 and our decision to float the Aussie in December 1983.
So it seems the Chinese are doing what we did: using a crawling peg regime as the transitional step from a fixed exchange rate to a floating exchange rate.
The question then becomes, how long are the Chinese likely to persist with the crawling peg and how quickly are they likely to crawl it up to an appreciation of a lot more than 2 per cent?
My bet is that, if left to their own devices (which they may not be), they'd stick to this regime for some years and move the peg only very slowly. It would be surprising to see it rise by as much as 10 per cent in the space of a year.
But for the sake of keeping the analysis going, let's assume I'm wrong and it doesn't take too long before we've got a decent-sized appreciation. What are the implications?
In an ordinary developed economy, an appreciation of the exchange rate would lead to cheaper imports and to exports that were less competitive on world markets. In consequence, you'd expect the balance of trade to deteriorate and the economy to slow a bit.
For the US, China's major trading partner, you'd expect the opposite. A higher yuan would mean a lower US dollar. Dearer imports would mean fewer imports (and more market share for domestic import-competing industries) and more competitive exports would mean more sales to China.
So the Yanks would enjoy a slightly improved trade deficit and slightly faster economic growth. This is the effect they've been seeking but, even if the appreciation were large, it would fall far short of a magic solution to their problems.
But China is not an ordinary developed economy.
It's a developing economy that still has a lot of government controls, and it isn't part of a democracy. So I doubt if it would work in simple textbook fashion.
It's more likely that, while they couldn't do much to stop imports getting cheaper, the Chinese authorities would act to hold the US-dollar prices of their exports unchanged.
This would make exports less profitable to Chinese producers (their US-dollar earnings would now buy fewer yuan), though that might not do much to deter the manufacturers from continuing to churn them out.
So, even if the appreciation grows in size, it's not clear it would make a huge difference to trade flows — including Australia's trade flows.
It's important to understand that, apart from the much-publicised political pressures, China's main reason for changing its exchange rate regime is to make its monetary policy more effective and give itself greater ability to slow its runaway economy.
With its fixed exchange rate and huge inflows of foreign capital, China has been unable to keep monetary conditions tight. With a floating currency, the inflow of funds would be cut off and converted into just a higher exchange rate. The crawling peg is intended to deliver roughly similar benefits.
But as we discovered years ago, a crawling peg regime is ultimately unsustainable. It's too easy for the markets to anticipate the destination you're crawling to.
They pile in with their funds, hoping to make a killing when you get where you're going — but in doing so, speed up the whole process. Eventually you give up the struggle and go to a proper float.
So while this week's move is a step in the right direction, in the coming months it could make things worse rather than better for China's macro managers.
It's not at all clear how or when things will be sorted out. And, until they are, the effect on the rest of the world — including us — isn't likely to be great.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35611 | Curling: Your New Olympic Addiction, Explained
Why are those people screaming at the little round things? Why are those other people sweeping the ice? Why have you been glued to the TV for three hours? Brett Singer explains curling.
During the Winter Olympics, viewers can count on seeing plenty of figure skating, ski-jumping (this year with women!) and ice hockey in primetime. But here is the first in an occasional series of articles about some of the weirder, Winter Olympics events primetime may overlook.
Sport: Curling
Weirdness Factor If You've Never Seen It Before: High.
Reason To Watch: Curling is fun to watch because it seems like something you could do if you practiced. Many Olympic curlers have full-time jobs; the Skip (team captain) of Denmark's women's curling team is a risk analyst in Copenhagen who practices after work. That's not going to cut it with figure skating.
When I started researching this article, I was interested in curling. Now I'm setting my Tivo so I don't miss a single stone. Yesterday I shouted at the television like a loon as Team USA was forced to concede to Great Britain after only 6 ends.
Curling History In Brief
Curling started in Scotland in 1511, was a men-only event in the 1924 Olympics, and then got benched. Curling returned to become an official Olympic sport in 1998, with teams for both genders. This was inevitable, because as we all know, if it’s not Scottish, it's crap.
Curling Terminology:
Stones: those big heavy looking things with handles on them that slide on the ice. They are made of granite, weigh approximately 42 pounds, and each one is unique.
Sheet: the playing field, literally a sheet of ice.
House: the big circles on either side of the sheet.
Button: the smaller circle inside the big circles.
End: like an inning in baseball, except shorter and with less spitting.
What Is Curling? The Extremely Simplistic Answer
Curling has been described as being similar to bowling, pool, and chess. For the sake of simplicity, let's go with "team shuffleboard on ice." The object of the game is to get your stones closest to the center of the house.
What Is Curling? The More Detailed Answer
The curling sheet is "more or less" 15 feet wide and 140 feet long. See Figure 1.1, "Sheet Dimensions", at CurlingSchool.com. Can you imagine the rules of a popular American sport using the phrase "more or less" to describe the playing field? "So, like, in the NFL, the field is more or less 100 yards. Whatevs." On both sides of the sheet there is a large circle (the house, or as the Scots say, "hoose") with a smaller circle inside it (the button).
A curling match has 10 ends. The team that finishes with the closest stone to the center of the house is awarded points as follows: If a team manages to keep all of the other teams' stones out of the house, they get one point for each of their stones that is in the house. If both teams have stones in the house, the team whose stone is closest to the center gets one point for each stone that is closer to the button than the other team's. Only one team is allowed to score in each end, and it is possible to have an end in which no points are awarded.
If that sounds confusing, don't worry. It is. Luckily the judges seem to understand it. After you watch a few ends, you'll probably figure it out.
That's Nice. Why Is It Called "Curling"?
Little drops of water called pebble are dribbled all over the sheet in order to “reduce the resistance between the surfaces of the ice and stone.” The pebble causes the stone to curl, hence the name.
Note: Olympic commentators and curling articles use the terms "stone" and "rock" interchangeably. This is extremely unhelpful to non-curling fans, which is most people.
You Say Curling Is A Team Sport. How Many Players Are On A Team And What Do They Do?
There are four positions on a curling team: the Lead, the Second, the Vice-Skip and the Skip. Everybody does a bit of everything, the way they used to do it in the NFL.
Each team member delivers (or slides) two stones per end in the following order: Lead, Second, Vice-Skip, and Skip. The teams alternate throws — Team X's Lead throws stone #1, Team Y's Lead throws stone #1 / Team X's Lead throws stone #2, Team Y's Lead throws stone #2... and so on. The Skip is responsible for team strategy and is the player you see standing in the circle with their broom on the ice, indicating where they want the stone to be delivered.
The delivery of a stone is followed by a lot of shouting (remember, it's a Scottish sport) — "Yup! Yup!" "Hard! Hard!" from English-speaking curlers, "Sveep! Sveep!" "Nyet! Nyet!" from Russians — to let the sweepers know whether or not to frantically attack the ice with their brooms. Sweeping "raises the temperature of the ice by a degree or two, which diminishes the friction between the pebble and the stone and keeps the stone moving in a straight line." Or to put it another way, sweeping helps make the stone not curl.
Players act as sweepers when they are not delivering stones. They also discuss strategy.
Strategy? What Are You Talking About?
Strategy is a very important element of curling. To wit: Each team throws eight stones per end. You want to use your lead stones to guard (or block) the other team's stones from getting into the house, or use them to guard (in this case "guard" means "protect") one of your stones. Later in the end, depending on where the stones have landed, you may want to hit your opponent's stones to try and knock them out of the house. (This is where the comparisons to chess come from, even though the only time I've ever seen chess pieces knock each other around was in a Harry Potter movie.) Strategy decisions are made by the Skip but everyone weighs in, creating a kaffeeklatsch on the sheet (minus the coffee). Since it is impossible to predict precisely how a stone will curl, the late throws by the Skip are crucial, as is the decision about where to deliver the stones.
Why Should You Care About Curling?
According to Team USA Skip Erika Brown, curling became more popular the past two Olympics thanks to an increase in U.S. television coverage. It probably helped that the 2010 Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver; curling is very big in Canada. During Team USA's recent loss to the Russian Women's team, commentators noted that curling has been getting more attention from the Russian press as well, especially the telegenic Russian Skip Anna Sidorova. Sidorova's team is also playing very well as of this writing, handily beating Team USA, who are currently 0-3.
Things To Say If You Need To Sound Smart In Polite Company:
"Did you see the pants the Norwegian men's curling team is wearing this year?"
The men of Team Norway's Curling Team wear funny-looking pants. I think it's a tactic to distract their opponents; watching Team USA lose to Norway on Monday, I was reminded of the Pokémon episode that gave almost 700 kids seizures in the late 90's
"Do you know where curling stones come from?"
Every curling stone used in the Curling World Championships and the Olympics is hewn from "distinctive, water-resistant microgranite" found in the quarries of Ailsa Craig, an island off the coast of Scotland. The island is a nesting place for two varieties of seabirds, gannets and puffins; other features include a lighthouse, a cottage, and the ruins of a 16th Century castle. The reason this sounds like a real estate listing is because Ailsa Craig is for sale. We emailed Vladi Private Islands, the agency handling the property for the Marquess of Ailsa, who told us that they are in "very serious negotiations with an environmental foundation", but if you are in the market for an island, the price is a mere 1,500,000 GBP, roughly 2.5 million American dollars.
Olympic commentators and curling articles use the terms ‘stone’ and ‘rock’ interchangeably. This is extremely unhelpful to non-curling fans, which is most people.”
"Stephen Colbert tried out for the Olympic Curling Team in 2010. He didn't make it but it was funny."
More Information About Olympic Curling:
Curling is not only an Olympic sport. The World Curling Federation organizes World Curling Championship and Challenge events for Women, Men, Mixed Doubles, Seniors, Juniors, and a World Wheelchair Championship.
In the Winter Olympics, there are ten men's teams and ten women's teams. The host country gets one slot for each gender. The other nine countries are culled from teams that have gained the most qualification points from the three previous Men’s and Women’s World Curling Championships.
How Old Are The Curlers?
Unlike figure skating, where Russia's Evgeni Plushenko is considered a dinosaur at 31, the age of Olympic curlers is more varied.
According to ABC News, curling boasts the oldest average age for Olympic athletes — 33.90. At 45, curler Ann Swisshelm is the oldest member of Team USA. Team Switzerland's Skip Mirjam Ott is 42; her nickname is "the Swiss Miss" and she was part of the Silver Medal winning Olympic teams in 2002 and 2006. Alexandra Saitova of Team Russia is 21, while her Skip Anna Sidorova is 23. Sidorova competed in the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games when she was only 19 years old, serving as Skip for several matches. Team USA Skip Erika Brown is 41; her brother Craig Brown is 38 and is in Sochi as an alternate for the Men's team. Norwegian curler Thomas Ulsrud (one of the guys with those funky pants) is 42.
Where Do Curlers Come From?
Canada is the country where curling is king. For proof check out this PDF, "Long-Term Athlete Development For Curling in Canada." The document lays out a lifetime program designed to train curlers young and old.
In general, curlers need to be physically fit. The curling stones weigh over 40 pounds, and delivering one to the house requires strong knees. This curling-centric fitness camp mentions the importance of flexibility and balance (think yoga), as well as "targeting muscle groups that are most critical to both the sweeping motion and the delivery of the stone." Basically, you don't need abs of steel, but you can't just sit on your couch eating cronuts and expect to be a competitive curler.
I couldn't confirm any truly professional curlers, that is, athletes who have no other job than curling. There is prize money in some Canadian curling tournaments. Canadian curler Cheryl Bernard wrote a book about curling and is a motivational speaker. (Bernard's team did not make the cut for the 2014 Winter Olympics.) And the Brown family of Team USA have a successful business selling curling equipment.
Fun links:
Quiz: Curling Term or Quidditch Term?
If you score higher than 50%, you are probably a Potter-file or a really big fan of curling.
Curling's Team USA made a video parody of the Ylvis song "The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)" called "What The Skip Say?"
Jonathan Coulton's song "Curl," with footage of Stephen Colbert trying out for the 2010 U.S. Curling Team. |
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Introducing a special Comment is free series on India and Pakistan in the week of the 60th anniversary of independence and partition.
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The end of British imperial rule in the Indian subcontinent in 1947 was a triumph for the anti-colonial campaigners. But at the very moment when an independent, democratic, self-governing India was born, the hope of Mahatma Gandhi and others for a multi-faith, united state was dashed. Parturition meant partition - a traumatic division of territories, largely along ethnic and religious lines.
Partition may have forestalled the outright civil war that had been feared, but it still resulted in widespread and bloody communal violence. It also led, later, to protracted conflict in West Bengal and East Pakistan (the latter of which became the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1971, following the defeat of Pakistani forces in a civil war). To this day, Kashmir remains a bitterly disputed and highly militarised region, where a full-blown shooting war constantly threatens to break out - with consequences scarcely to be thought of, given the nuclear capability of both nations.
Despite so much shared history and heritage, India and Pakistan have enjoyed very different legacies of empire - democracy v dictatorship, prosperity v poverty, stability v crisis - and yet there is a more complex and nuanced story to be told about partition and its aftermath than can be captured by such cliched oppositions. So, here begins a series on Comment is free by writers and commentators reflecting on where India, Pakistan and Bangladesh find themselves, 60 years on.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35626 | The Great Gatsby delusion
Baz Luhrmann will be the fourth director to try to film F Scott Fitzgerald's novel and fail. It can't be done
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Robert Redford in the 1974 film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature
It's confirmed: Baz Luhrmann will be the latest director to tilt at windmills by trying to film The Great Gatsby. Leonardo DiCaprio will tackle Gatsby, Toby Maguire will play Nick, and the hunt for Daisy continues. As anyone who understands the novel knows, they won't find her.
Gatsby has been filmed three times before; a silent version from 1926, now lost, received mixed reviews on its release – but then so did the novel a year earlier (LP Hartley began his 1926 review, "Mr Scott Fitzgerald deserves a good shaking […] The Great Gatsby is an absurd story"). But Fitzgerald himself explained: "Of all the reviews, even the most enthusiastic, not one has the slightest idea what the book was about."
This is even truer of the 1949 and 1974 adaptations, widely agreed to have failed largely because Gatsby is too enigmatic to be portrayed on film, especially by a big star like Alan Ladd, Robert Redford – or DiCaprio. This is true, although I think the reasons for it are slightly misunderstood: it's less because Gatsby must be "mysterious" than because the story makes no sense unless Gatsby is less dominant than Tom Buchanan. Gatsby aspires to be as powerful as Tom: he is gauche as well as touching (he wears a pink suit, remember). Gatsby may be tough, but he is often "bewildered" by the rules of the Buchanans' (and to a lesser degree Nick's) aristocratic world. A Redford or a DiCaprio will never seem convincingly ill-at-ease; mastery is too innate, too effortless for that.
In other words, as these casting decisions show, readers idealise Gatsby just as he idealises Daisy. When Fitzgerald's editor, Max Perkins, received the Gatsby manuscript, he said Gatsby was too vague. Fitzgerald responded: "His vagueness I can repair by making more pointed – this doesn't sound good but wait and see. It'll make him clear."
The novel is full of pointedly vague characters: an insightful review of the 1949 film version observed: "It would take a Von Stroheim to cast Fitzgerald's characters, each as fabulous as Babe Ruth, but rendered with the fragmentary touches of a Cézanne watercolour." The comparison is perfect: Fitzgerald uses bright shocks of colour and vivid juxtapositions to create impressions, not facts. Gatsby's greatness is measured by the intensity of his dreams, which provide him a "satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality". Try filming that.
Gatsby is littered with words that disavow storytelling: "uncommunicable", "unusually communicative in a reserved way", the "unutterable", the "unknowable". These words say and unsay at the same time: Gatsby quivers with potential energy, whereas cinema, as its name suggests, can only trade in the kinetic. Film seems empirical because it is visual: empirical evidence is precisely that which can be observed (just as evidence comes from the root "to see"). When we watch a film, what we see is "happening" within that fictional world; it's fictional but it's real. But Gatsby is hostile to reality; it dwells in possibility, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson. The closest film can come to disavowal is to change its mind, to depict a reality and then inform us it wasn't true, as when Dorothy returns home from her dream of Oz, or Bobby Ewing returns to Dallas after a year of being dead.
But film can't have it both ways the way language can. This is why, although Atonement is a very good novel, the duplicitous ending loses all its subtlety as a film, which can only show us one ending, then show us a writer explaining there is a different ending, then show us that ending. How much cruder than Ian McEwan's guilty narrator writing different fictional versions of her own story in a futile effort to make amends.
Fitzgerald's method is even more perfectly married to his theme: Gatsby is about our preference for possibilities over actualities, for riotous dreams in which our minds "romp like the mind of God", rather than "grotesque reality". The novel is about the way in which a dream realised is a dream destroyed; film adaptations are trying to realise the dream. The greatness of Gatsby both predicts and explains why any film of it will disappoint: most readers blame Daisy for being inadequate to Gatsby's dreams, just as we blame film adaptations for failing. The novel is about the fragility of gorgeous illusions; film adaptations will inevitably destroy the novel's grand illusions by trying to visualise Gatsby's "unutterable visions" – just like he did. But as Gatsby also understands, it is just as inevitable that we will keep trying, telling ourselves that it eluded us then, but no matter – tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further. And one fine morning …
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Rory Stewart OBE, writer and Conservative MP for Penrith and the Border
Rory Stewart OBE MP is the author of The Places in Between, about his 6000-mile walk across Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan India and Nepal; and of The Prince of the Marshes, about his time as a deputy governor in southern Iraq. He is the founder of Turquoise Mountain, a Kabul-based charity.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35648 | Comments on: Bugs and Brights Keeping up with Sheri's Loopy Life... Sat, 15 Mar 2014 22:11:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mary Mary Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:23:20 +0000 Bugs me:
I missed the Wendy patterns again! I thought that all it took to be a Loopy Groupie was to place an order and you were in it, I’ve placed a couple and am not in it. So I don’t get a heads up. I guess I haven’t placed the right sacrifices to the right Loopy to get a hint of a sneak up or the Wendy Patterns. There was more than one person unhappy “Loopy Groupie” in my knitting group last night at Borders.
Bright Spot:
Still looking for it.
By: Deborah K Deborah K Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:57:25 +0000 Bugs me:
Bobbi – I missed the Wollmeise too, even with a Loopy Groupies heads up, and being on the website in less than 2 hours after the sneak up!!!!! It must have come and gone in minutes……and this was my third try to get some.
Bright spot:
Was able to get a friend out today that had some joint replacement surgery and who is having to learn to walk (again) for a visit to the hairdresser for a cut, and a girl’s lunch.
By: WiscJennyAnn WiscJennyAnn Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:31:35 +0000 OMG I missed it too! Gahhhhhhh!
By: Bobbi Bobbi Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:21:10 +0000 Darn it! I missed the Wollmeise in Sneak Up!!!!
By: Debi Leshin Debi Leshin Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:44:54 +0000 1650 calories for lunch?? Yowza!!
What bugs me is spending all day without A/C in 90+ degree weather because they a STILL fixing the roof TWO YEARS after Hurricane Wilma! How’s that for a doozy? :)
By: Heather Heather Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:57:53 +0000 A combination of bright and bug…you put up the Wollmeise, but I missed it! Any way you can share some pics so those of us who didn’t grab it in time can have some exciting new pr0n?
By: Susan L Susan L Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:44:25 +0000 Bright here, too, despite the rainy overcast weather… I managed to snag Wendy’s patterns (all 8, out of her 11, that I’d wanted!) before any of them were gone. Third time’s a charm! And while I was at it, I grabbed some Wollmeise & Yarn Nerd, too, not that I need them, but….
By: Leslie Leslie Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:32:25 +0000 No bugs..just brights!! I’m off work for the next two days..(I’m working the weekend)..I got my patiently (cough cough) awaited Wollmeise and Yarn Nerd too!! woohoo!! Its funny how a small thing like a couple hanks of yarn can just brighten my day.
By: Jennifer Jennifer Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:20:13 +0000 I’m bugged by the heat…it is almost 100 degrees out right now and all I want to think about is fall, pumpkin bread, and long walks on cold days. So, I decided to get over myself and have a pumpkin spiced frappacino light. With the whipped cream!
By: Robin Robin Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:06:01 +0000 Bugs
Waiting at dentist office with 19 month old boy while sister gets teeth cleaned.
Frogging-Stupid baby blanket still on the first skein of yarn
Food-Forgetting to put last nights leftovers away so no chili for chili dogs tonight.
School is back in session
My birthday is tomorrow and have date with husband.
I think I might get one of the socks done that I am working on done this week. Yeah right stupid baby blanket LOL |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35674 | Google is leveraging its Drive online storage tool to make email attachments easier — starting today, Gmail users will have the option to attach files up to 10GB in size that are stored in their Google Drive when sending messages. That's obviously a lot bigger than most standard email attachments, but there are a few handy tools that Drive in Gmail brings in addition to large file sizes.
Gmail is smart enough to prompt users when they're sending files from Google Drive that might not be shared with all of the intended recipients, so no one you email will get locked out of downloading or accessing a file. Attachments through Drive will also be kept in sync, so if you're collaborating or editing a document, the most recent version will always be available in your email. Just like the normal file-sharing options in Drive, Gmail will let you set permissions — so if you don't want someone making wholesale changes to the document you're sharing, you can mark certain recipients as read-only.
While it's not a revolutionary addition to Gmail — Sparrow for Mac has long supported Dropbox attachements, for example — it's a nice piece of integration for Gmail users who also may rely heavily on Drive for storing their files. As with nearly all of Google's features, this new integration will roll out gradually over the next few days, but you'll need to be using the recently redesigned compose window. There's no word on when this feature will be available in the Gmail mobile apps, but we'd expect to see it sooner than later. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35691 | Ritchie\’s tax unpaid numbers
That\’s where a lot of that \”tax unpaid\” that Ritchie goes on about is. In firms (and to a lesser extent, people) who have gone bankrupt.
Not only is it nothing at all to do with tax being dodged it\’s not, even in the slightest, recoverable. It\’s simply part and parcel of having any bankruptcy system at all. And believe me, you really wouldn\’t like a system that did not incorporate that concept.
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1. You wouldn’t, I wouldn’t. But the LHTD and the UTDftDoN would love it. Go bankrupt? Owing the government money? Great!
We’ll wait until you’ve nearly picked yourself up off the ground and then grind you back down, ideally into a steaming pile of dog shit. For the crime of being a hideous uncaring neo-liberal capitalist exploiter of the downtrodden serfs of the paid-by-taxation class. Of which, of course, Ritchie is a fully paid-up member.
And, I expect, the egregious Arnald is too.
2. There’s the difference between him and me.
He sounds the sort of bloke who would demand the creation of the PPF if it didn’t exist.
But I wouldn’t rant and rave about a tax gap when it did it’s job.
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This story is No. 1 in the series "Great Lakes Avengers". You may wish to read the series introduction first.
Summary: Whatever happened to Kit after the destruction of Sunnydale?
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Joe's Note: This originally started out as a way of consuming an FFA using Kit and one of the non-Xavin Runaways I'd completely forgotten about up until that point. And it still kinda is, because I just took the original chapter, cleaned it up, and added to the end. It's that last bit that really makes it shine, though, as we go charging towards the first of several crossovers between this story and Trigamy
Smirking, Kit waved her Gemini Staff in a lazy circle, guiding Victor through the air in slow loops. "C'mon, Energizer. You're not getting down from there until you manage to break my hold by flying on your own. The faster you can figure it out, the sooner you can get rid of me. Xavin already knows two different ways to fly thanks to her nifty awesome Super Skrull powers. Maybe if you can figure out one, she'll stop calling you 'android' all the time and actually remember your name."
Letting out a snort of derision, Xavin flipped to the next page of the latest issue of Cosmo, its pages having been well-thumbed by Nico, Gert, Karolina, and Kit herself since the witch's most recent visit to the local Ralphs. "Even the most simplistic of the target drones we used to hone our powers during my Super Skrull training has the ability to fly, Kit. The android will have to do something far more impressive to gain my respect."
Victor looked back and forth between the two of them as he scowled, arms folded over his chest as tendrils of electricity crawled over his fingers. "I should just fry you until you can't cast magic anymore and risk what Nico would do to me for revenge." Kit just raised an eyebrow impassively at the threat and he sighed. "I can't fly, damn it! I'm a cyborg, not Superman!"
"What's Chase's cute little nickname for you? 'Calculator Kid'? Shouldn't you be able to do math this simple?" With the staff augmenting her magical abilities, it was child's play for Kit to use the index finger of her free hand to draw a fiery 'A' in the air in front of her. "You can manipulate magnetic fields." Then she traced a 'B'. "Magneto and Polaris can manipulate magnetic fields too." Finally, a 'C'. "Magneto and Polaris can fly using their powers." Her finger flicked back and forth furiously, drawing a series of equations: 'A = B', 'B = C', and 'A = C'. "No brainer, Victor. It's that transvestite property thingy: if you all have the same powers and they can fly using them, then obviously you can fly too."
Victor's jaw dropped. "The transvestite property..?" Sighing, he reached up to rub his temples. "I knew that being a cyborg, I'd be smarter than most people around me… but holy crap. You're thinking of the transitive property, Kit. Transitive. Transvestites are people who dress in the other gender's clothing. And you and Nico are both witches, but you can't use the Staff of One as well as she can. I'm sure there are other magnopaths who get around on two legs; why does me being one automatically make me capable of flying in your head?"
That made Kit pause… for roughly a second. "Because I'm bored and you're the only one I can find to entertain me at the moment? Nico asked for a bit of 'her time' and so I'm staying out of her way, Karolina and I get along like oil and water, I'm not in the mood to get my brain rotted by whatever Molly's watching on DisneyXD right now, I'm too excited that Xavin's actually reading the trashy magazines I got her to take her away from that, and Chase is busy making sure Gert won't sit straight for the rest of the day." Twisting her staff, she flipped Victor so he was floating upside down. "So until you learn to fly or something better comes along, you're stuck with me."
"Ah. Well, that's good I suppose. If you'd actually decided you liked me, I might have to worry about you bugging me when there were other people free to spend your time with." A puzzled frown came over Victor's features. "I think I'm going to regret asking this, but Gert not sitting straight is a Kit-ism for..?"
That elicited another snort from Xavin's corner of the room as she turned the page again. "Even I know what she's speaking of and I'm from another galaxy altogether, android. Your creator must have been a truly pathetic individual."
Kit gave Victor an evil grin as she walked underneath him, reaching up to pat the top of his head. "Oh, I don't know about that. He makes amazing chimichangas when it's his turn to cook dinner." Turning her attention back to the scowling Victor, Kit ruffled his hair as she debated whether or not to actually answer his question. Really, messing with the hyper-religious cyborg was too much fun sometimes, mostly because she knew that she could drop a euphemism and he was almost required by his programming to follow up and ask for details to expand his ever-growing knowledge base. "Well, I know Chase had me buy a tube of KY last time we got supplies. Between that, the conversation Nico says she had with Gert last night, and the noises I heard coming from their room when I swung past to see if Chase wanted to burn a few hours shooting at me in BioShock 2 before I send it back to GameFly? I'm pretty sure Chase is in the middle of giving it to Gert up the ass. If you want to hop on the Internet, you can Google 'sodomy', 'anal', and 'buttsex' if you're really that curious."
Various expressions flickered over Victor's face as her words sunk in and his brain processed everything she'd told him. The air around him visibly rippled and the cyborg jetted backward to get away from Kit. "That's just… that's just vile! I didn't need to know that! My God, Kit, why would you feel the need to share something like that with me?"
"Because it did what I wanted it to?" Kit gestured to the distance between them. "You flew. Backwards. To get away from the mean and nasty Kit. I told you that I'd teach you to fly, and I did. Go me." Victor looked down at the floor and his eyes widened. The air rippled again and he dropped like a rock, hitting the floor with a loud thump. Kit grinned, though; even if he hadn't managed it long, he'd flown under his own power. So mission accomplished. Sorta.
The loud crash attracted Xavin's attention, the Skrull lowering her magazine and eyeing the pair before shaking her head in… amusement, Kit was guessing, judging from the way one corner of her mouth was quirked up. Then 'Back in Black' began to blare from her cell phone and Xavin waved one hand, making it rise up off the table before floating smoothly towards Kit. Yet another of the many and varied uses of Sue Storm's powers, Kit mused as she plucked the phone out of the air, and a particularly welcome one at that. After all, she lacked fine control over her magically-fueled telekinesis and had crushed the last two phones she'd tried to 'accio', and why bother actually walking to get something when you didn't have to?
Looking down at the phone's screen, Kit frowned at the unfamiliar number. Or at least partially unfamiliar; she knew that the 216 area code covered the part of Cleveland that Dawn lived in and her friend's cell number shared a 481 prefix with this caller. But the number as a whole? No clue. Only one way to find out, though. After tapping the flashing green button on the screen, she lifted the phone to her ear. "Hello?"
"Err, hi. Is this Kit the Witch Chick that runs around with the… well, Dawn calls you the Runaways and I don't know if you have an official team name? Xander's address book only has one person named Kit in it but that doesn't mean that he doesn't know his own Kit and this isn't Dawn's Kit at all…"
Kit blinked as she tried to process the ramble and then nodded as her brain managed to translate from Babbled Crap into English. "That's me. Although I'm not sure I want to talk to someone who not only shouldn't have this number but went through so much work to steal it."
"Well if you want to go ahead and hang up on Spider-Girl, I guess I can't stop you…" Kit's eyes widened and she held the phone out away from her head for a second, reaching up to pinch her arm. Ouch. Okay. She wasn't dreaming. But then… what the hell was going on that either had Spider-Girl - and possibly the rest of her team - in Cleveland or at least around Dawn's friend-slash-boss-slash-crush Xander? Bringing the phone back to her head, she found herself listening as Spider-Girl chattered away again. "…my teammate and new kinda-girlfriend Stature thinks you guys are cool enough that she was thinking about running away from home to join you before the Young Avengers got together. So I was wondering if any of you wanted to come out here to Vegas and hang out for the day on my dime so she could meet you face to face. If getting from there to here is a problem, I can send Wic… err, Crimson Curse to pick you up…"
Vegas? Well that sounded like all sorts of fun. Kit had never been more than an hour or two away from the Pacific coast, having arrived after the team's adventure in the Big Apple. And a meet and greet with a superfangirl wasn't much of a price to pay for a day out in Sin City. Except… wait a minute. If Spider-Girl was in Vegas and had Xander's cell phone, that meant Xander would have to be in Vegas too and that made absolutely no sense given how often Dawn whined about him overworking himself. "So, just out of curiosity, who are you really? Because while I might have believed that the Slayers teamed up with some superheroes for something, Xander doesn't go on vacation and so there's no way you can be both with Xander and in Vegas. Unless you met him in Cleveland, stole his phone, and now you're in Vegas…"
The girl sighed noisily. "How do you expect me to prove I'm Spider-Girl over the phone, Kit? I could use the phone to take a picture of myself hanging from the ceiling and send it to you, but I don't know where my costume is and I'd totally fall out of my top if I tried it as-is. Then again, you probably wouldn't mind that, would you? Hang on, lemme see if this thing has your email stored in it and then I'll-"
"Woah, no thanks. Last thing I need is my girlfriend kicking my ass because some random chick is sending me tit pics." Kit shook her head before looking around. Speaking of her girlfriend, did she dare go disturb Nico? Or for that matter, Gert and Chase? No on all three counts. Karolina? Oh fuck no. Victor would say no on general principle because it was her leading the expedition. Molly… didn't need to be exposed to Las Vegas, did she? That left her with exactly… "I've got a Skrull and a dinosaur. Everyone else is off doing stuff. Well, a Skrull, a dinosaur, and me obviously."
There was a brief pause. "Where's the rainbow chick?"
"Busy hating my guts because I'm dating the girl she wants to, even though she has a fiancée of her own." Spider-Girl let out a low whistle at that and Kit chuckled dryly. "Yeah. My sentiments exactly. So, are Xavin and Old Lace and I good enough? Because… actually, how soon do you need us?"
"Um, we're all Pacific, right? So no time changes. Um, noon tomorrow? Maybe one?"
Humming softly, Kit found herself reexamining her options now that she knew it wasn't an immediate need. "Well, Chase and Gert might be free then but they're pretty… eh. No offense to Chase because he's like a brother to me, but he pilots the Leapfrog, cracks jokes, and goes all pimp hand strong on thugs we need to intimidate. And Gert owns Old Lace. If you want to see a giant green metal frog and a dinosaur, I can toss a steak into the hold to lure Old Lace in and then fly it out to Vegas myself. Nico might be available if I ask nicely. Don't think a day will change Karolina's mind, although with Xavin coming, she might tag along. And I guess I could bring Molly, but then you'd have to watch everything you say because… well, it's Molly."
"Erf. Yeah. Definite no on the pipsqueak. And the dinosaur might get us in trouble with… someone. I don't know. Is it legal to own a dinosaur in Vegas? Or anywhere, for that matter?" Spider-Girl was silent for a moment as she thought about that. "Whatever. If you think your girlfriend would have fun and rainbow girl can behave herself, then bring them along. If not, I'll just snag you and this Xavin person. I just want this to be nice for Cassie, and someone being grumpy all day or sniping at someone else would so ruin that. Okay, so I'll call around 11:45 tomorrow morning to make sure you're all up and dressed before sending Anya in to grab you?"
Kit nibbled on her lower lip as she considered things. It could all be a trap, what with these being the junior versions of the Avengers who harassed the team before she joined. On the other hand, she could easily call Dawn who could call Xander who could make sure this Spider-Girl was on the level. Eh, what the hell? "Works for me. See you guys then." Ending the call, she looked up to find Xavin staring at her curiously. "So… I don't suppose you've ever been curious about visiting Las Vegas?"
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A funny thing happened on my way to review the blind alley Gregor Schneider has fashioned out of Barbara Gladstone's ground-floor Chelsea gallery. It was wide open while under construction, so I went in, twice: once, a week before it was finished, then two days later. Both times it was chilling. A bare cavern outfitted in raw plywood and plaster, lit by a lone light, it was a world apart and unto itself, a dank passageway into an existential dimension, the Eastern Bloc in the early 1980s, or someplace haunted. Whatever it was, it wasn't here or now. It was Franz Kafka writ in wood, eerily familiar yet trashy and scary—a place bums might go to blow one another. It sent shivers down my spine.
Then Schneider finished it—I mean he really finished it. 517 West 24th, as it's titled, cuts a 15-foot-wide and 45-foot-long blunted L-shaped channel from the sidewalk into the Gladstone space. It is accessible 24 hours a day under a partially pulled-down metal gate (at night, a guard is on duty nearby). From the outside, this hole-in-the-wall, which used to be the inside of the gallery and technically still is, resembles a moldy loading dock. A sidewalk and a craggy floor have been fashioned out of cement. The walls have been shellacked in scum and covered in grimy blotches. There are oil stains, air ducts, drainpipes, a post, open sewer, industrial light, and chunks of crumbling debris. As fine-turned and finished as it is, 517 West 24th is less mysterious and more stagy—more Disney, Duane Hanson, and Ron Mueck-like. It is so articulated and detailed that, while there's more to see, there's less to feel, less emotional room to move. Without the anxiety-inducing amorphousness of the unfinished piece, much of the uncanniness and dread have vanished. Now, it's closer to a film set than a time machine. I love it less but I still think it's impressive.
The rest of the gallery, reduced in size by nearly half, is empty except for the title on the wall, which would be the address of the space next door if there were one, although I guess there is now. If you'd never been here before, you'd think Gladstone, while maniacally clean and weirdly shaped, was between shows, and that the gallery was situated on a posh block next to a creepy dead end. Visitors miss it altogether, thinking it's just part of the city.
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Which is exciting, considering how blatant much recent installation art is. 517 West 24th, despite being a near miss, is nevertheless loaded. It's also a gutsy expansion of artistic vocabulary for this 34-year-old German artist. Since he was 16, and until 2001, Schneider worked obsessively on a single extraordinary sculpture/installation: Totes Haus, or Dead House, an actual house in Rheydt, an hour from Cologne. Here he constructed rooms within rooms, false walls, crawlspaces, stairways to no place, and dead ends (the entire structure, re-created inside the German Pavilion at the 49th Venice Biennale, deservedly won the Golden Lion prize). Essentially, Schneider created a walk-in Brothers Grimm tale laced with traces of Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau, Beuys's spiritualism, Nauman's panic rooms, Gordon Matta-Clark's aggressive architecture, Edward Kienholz's surreal tableaux, Robert Gober, Rachel Whiteread, and something unmistakably German.
Overdetermined as it is, 517 West 24th nevertheless opens up bewitching windows. Like Maurizio Cattelan's best work, it carries an enormous amount of fake information, so much so that it turns into its own truth. It also adds a tantalizing psychological layer to the half-century-old tradition of the empty gallery as a work of art. In this, Schneider connects to contemporaries like Pawel Althamer, who earlier this year transformed a Berlin gallery into a ruined warehouse, and Christoph Büchel, who memorably turned the Michele Maccarone building into a house of horrors last year. As Matthew Barney plumbs the mystic depths of his own inner kingdom, Schneider explores anxiety—so remarkably that curator Massimiliano Gioni dubbed him "the Richard Serra of fear." At Gladstone, Schneider turns the white cube into a black hole. 517 West 24th gnaws at the logic between inside and outside, real and imagined. When you're in it, you know you're in the Gladstone space, but it's as if the gallery had ceased to exist, swallowed itself, turned itself inside out, been mummified, or had somehow manifested its doppelgänger out of dark matter. It's like animal architecture, something a mutant mollusk might build. 517 West 24th is sculpture as daydream, crypt, cave, and shell; threshold, trap, reliquary, and wasteland.
Kafka wrote, "Everyone carries a room about inside him"; Guston made note of "a forgotten place of beings and things." It's wonderful and unexpected to see one of these rooms and some of these things out in the open. Schneider's schizy love and fear of space prevent 517 West 24th from being merely trompe l'oeil and allow it to touch on issues of history, economics, philosophy, and sex. This, combined with his own hyper-sensitive, almost drugged-out ability to invest material with anxiety, suggests that for Schneider, space is a living thing to be handled, inhabited, and annihilated.
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Jeff Rense,
I noticed in the comments section of Glenn's blog that the UFO / Reptilian nutters are coming out in full defense of Rense (or it appears that way).
"Long girly hair" -- classic! It looks like Mark really blew his lid on this one. I don't think I've seen him type in caps before.
I suspect this is much ado about nothing. Not to belittle Mark's reaction (threats of this nature are not cool, especially if kids are involved), but it reminds me of Brendon O'Connell's hysterical response when I said on a forum in 2007 that I could have him found by my neighbour, who works for the Australian Federal Police. I was just blowing shit out of my arse (I hardly know my neighbour, and I couldn't have cared less about O'Connell's whereabouts) but he's been screaming bloody murder about it ever since. I suspect Jeff Rense was about as serious as I was.
People talk shit when they're angry. Hopefully Mark doesn't feel silly now that he's calmed down. I would say 'never put anything in writing when you're angry', but this is an angry business. If you're not outraged you're not paying attention.
jeff rense needs to rinse his hair out. All types of UFOs from different galaxies stuck to his hair but most of 'em are from galaxy ziona.
Coz, jiffy looks like ugly version of Cher.
According to Mark Glenn's podcast, David Duke told Glenn that Rense was going to call the FBI on Glenn (and "he's not kidding").
Rense then called Glenn and basically told him the same thing, added that he was going to call DHS as well, and gave Glenn a reason for it, e.g. "You're inflaming the Muslims to do bodily harm to me (Rense)".
So Glenn got this from two different sources. I can understand Glenn being upset by this.
That sounds more like a genuine, well-considered threat then, as opposed to something he might've just blurted out as he hung up. I haven't heard the podcast.
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The Good and The Bad of Autism Speaks Top Ten Science Breakthroughs
Posted Feb 16 2010 12:00am
The Good:
1) It is now widely accepted that autism affects 1 in 110 American children and 1 in 70 America boys.
2) Mitochondrial Dysfunction/ Fever and Autistic Regression. It is wonderful to see this critically important and vastly understudied issue being researched. Too many ASD parents already know about this autistic trajectory having seen it up close. The majority of this parent community believes that repeated adverse reactions to multiple vaccinations trigger severe fevers, brain inflammation and loss of skills and speech.
3) Later Language Acquisition. Autistic kids can acquire language after 5.
4) Association /w Family History of Autoimmune Disorders and Autism. I don’t understand why this is being studied in Denmark rather than the US, but the subject is important. Families have known this association to be strong for years now and it is good to see money invested in this issue.
5) Early Intervention Works. The earlier a child is diagnosed w/ ASD the earlier intervention starts the better the outcome.
The Bad:
1) The Mice Model. We need phenotype investments right now in our children. Classic ASD, Regressive ASD, Non-responders, ABA responders, Sick/ GI ASD kids and Recovered kids. Why are we not starting there, detailing the symptomology, the ASD trajectory, interventions and current treatment outcomes for each of these forms of ASD? That is what autism families want studied.
2) Genome Technologies. Where to begin? This is hugely expensive research that fascinates scientists yet is enormously unpopular with families. Genome work has been largely disappointing regarding yielding insights to disease like MS and Parkinson’s.
3) Genetic Copy Number Variations and Pathways-How much does this cost in terms of helping people affected with autism now? Why aren’t these resources being invested into environmental trigger research that will yield faster and less expensive results?
4) Ripserdal, Parent Training and ABA. Parent training is always great but why is risperdal the ONLY intervention mentioned for children living with autism now? Risperdal may indeed help some children but it is a powerful anti-psychotic with dangerous side- effects, especially for boys: the growth of breasts, extreme weight gain, overall dampening of all cognitive and emotional affect…Where is the acknowledgement of these risks?
Risperdal and other powerful off-label anti-psychotics regularly used on autistic children are only treating the symptoms. They do not touch the underlying problems. Yes, sometimes symptom management must be the first priority in extreme cases but this is not a tenable approach to helping our kids.
Where is the acknowledgement that some children act out because they are in pain?
Shouldn’t we studying and advocating for the treatment of underlying medical issues before risperdal? Where is the research on GI pain- an issue that affects at least 40% of children with autism and one which greatly decreases an individual’s ability to function, make progress or even be part of their family? Why isn’t that a bigger priority than developing anti-psychotics?
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The ‘Genius’ of Sex Abuse Survivors – Paul: Week One
Posted Oct 10 2010 3:58pm
Happy World Mental Health Day (what’s left of it). Alter Ego wrote a few words about the subject, though Pandora won’t – simply because she has to do this post instead. I celebrated World Mental Health Day by driving down the coast with A and spending a few lovely hours walking around the gardens of an old period mansion. The place was littered with cunts, it being a sunny Sunday (that rarest of things), but it was nevertheless tranquil and relaxing, and at least temporarily encouraged my mental health, thus fulfilling the desirous ideals of World Mental Health Day. I am sunstroked and very, very tired now, but it was worth it.
Unfortunately such tiredness does not lend itself particularly well to reviewing a therapy session, particularly when it’s your first one with a new person. I’ve been staring at this screen for the last 20 minutes, and don’t know what to say. I suppose it’s worth noting that Paul is very different from C, yet in some ways he is quintessentially similar. Although he noted that the therapy provided by Nexus is meant to be “counselling” as opposed to “psychotherapy”, he still talked considerably about more psychodynamic concepts such as transference. And, as noted in the assessment session , he has a specific interest in mental health issues (we can probably fairly assume that rape / sexual abuse does not always lead to mental illness in the way that yours truly exhibits it, so not all Nexus clients will have such difficulties).
He is a normal looking, if overweight, middle-aged bloke. He and C are physically similar in that they’re both short and bespectacled – there, however, end the similarities. They are completely different in every other physical respect. C, although balding when I last saw him, still had his lovely fluffy brown hair that I always had to fight not to to ruffle. Paul is almost completely bald. C was ridiculously thin – he could have fitted into one of my thighs about 18,000 times. Paul is fat and jolly, and – and I don’t know if he realises or not – always has part of his midriff showing owing to his shirt buttons being pulled beyond normal stretching. I found myself wondering if the fact that he is so much older than C would make ours a more appropriate relationship. If there is to be some form of parental transference, then surely it is not best directed at a man who’s maybe six to 10 years my senior, as C was (and, I assume, is) – better directed at a man in his 40s or possibly even 50s, who’s old enough to be my fucking father? I don’t know. Perhaps the transference towards C was more fraternal rather than paternal at times, which of course complicated matters – I mean, he’s wasn’t my fucking friend. Anyway, I am blathering.
Although C would often have betrayed aspects of his personality and life outside of my time with him, he did so almost accidentally, or perhaps quite subtly. Paul, in contrast, spoke openly of his other clients (within the confines of confidentiality, of course) and wears a big fat wedding ring. These things would have driven me into a jealous rage with C; as it presently stands with Paul, I couldn’t care less – well, if anything, I welcome his candour and expressiveness.
I don’t remember exactly how the discussion commenced, but I do remember we’d gone up several flights of stairs and that Paul – being not insignificantly sized – was very out of breath. I recall also a small flicker of delight in that I wasn’t particularly thus stressed, which is testament to having lost a lot of weight in the past year or two.
He directed me to a small, attic-esque, pastelly room. For a second, I felt incandescent fury that it was not the room in which my assessment session had taken place (I hate change, it unsettles me), but he was rabbiting on genially about something or other, so he was forgiven and the room change forgotten. He said, “we take this at your pace. You can speak as slowly or as quickly as you like about the issues that brought you here, or you can talk about something else entirely. You can talk about the bloody football if you like.”
“I’m a Newcastle United fan,” I replied drolly. “I’m not sure that that would be a good idea.”
Paul chuckled, and said that he was a Birmingham City fan, so he empathised with my plight. I withheld from him the information that I don’t like Birmingham, preferring as I do both Wolves, West Brom and Villa. Still, it was interesting to finally place his accent; my guess had been the Midlands somewhere, but with a twang. I wouldn’t say he sounds like a typical Brummie, but you can hear something of it in his voice.
It is an inherently weird thing to sit opposite a person you have met only twice and make reference to occurrences in your life of which you have hardly spoken to those closest to you – and yet, paradoxically, it seemed perfectly normal to do so at the time. That is the nature of a functional therapeutic dyad, I suppose, so that alone is encouraging.
The conversation was definitely of a ‘first therapy session’ ilk, but was nonetheless wide-ranging. Paul spoke to me in a thoroughly adult way, as if he felt that I was his intellectual equal. At one point he said something like, “I’m using all these terms assuming you know that they mean…”
“Yes,” I said, “it’s so refreshing to not have someone patronise me in this arena. Thank you.”
He nodded and said, “you see, I was listening in the assessment session.”
And so he must have been, because he also regarded me with a familiarity that new therapists don’t tend to do.
The issue of self-blame came up. He told me that he had a client who sat down with him in her first session and said something to the effect of, “this is all my fault.”
I said that I knew how she felt, then went into a self-cross-examination on the issue. I told him how I would vehemently deny the claims of fault of others I know who have been abused, and how I would try to comfort and reassure them that they were guiltless in their horrific situations – but how, in the same breath, I would call myself a fetid, disgusting, seductive, evil little whore.
He nodded knowingly, and said that to cope abused children frequently internalised the situation they found themselves in. I don’t remember how he put it exactly, but it was to the effect that if one can blame the self, then it is easier to deal with than to accept that such heinous behaviour actually exists out there in the ‘real’ world. I suppose there is some truth to this in my case.
He then talked about how Paedo had almost externalised his attitude; he, for his own survival, shifted the blame to me (thus, of course, reinforcing my own sense of it). Paul claimed that Paedo acknowledging his culpability (as opposed to mine) would be a fate way too enormous for him to cope with at a psychological level, and to that end to him any wickedness present in the whole thing was (to him) mine, not his.
This led to an interesting, pseudo-academic discussion on the nature of the paedophile versus that of the victim versus that of the general populace. Paul claims that, non-diagnostically speaking, we all to one extent or another exist on a plane between ‘schizoid’ and ‘depressive’. In this typography, the ‘schizoid’ is a ‘phantasist’ (‘ph’ as opposed to ‘f’, apparently, because it should not be equated to something enjoyable). In these non-diagnostic brackets, ‘schizoid’ refers to two things. One, the abuser deludes him or herself into thinking that they have not acted of their own accord – the child has ‘seduced’ him/her (clearly delusional, to Paul’s mind). Two, the child him or herself has essentially agreed to that – they were the one in the wrong (again, delusional).
The ‘depressive’ position, Paul argued, was one of existential realism. “Oh God, he raped me!” or “Oh my fucking God, I just had sex with a child! I’m such an evil cunt!” He emphasised that neither the schizoid nor the depressive were diagnostic in nature – simply referential terms – but I pointed out that Paedo has some unspecified psychotic disorder (which I personally believe to be schizophrenia, but what the hell do I know). I asked Paul if, if we stretched the schizoid-depressive continuum, we could come to a psychosis-depressed diagnostic continuum.
Upon my pointing out that Paedo is a paranoid psychotic, Paul said (whilst noting that diagnoses are officially beyond his capability) that it was entirely feasible that Paedo’s psychoses – especially given their relatively late life development – were related to his abuse of me. He asked me if I was familiar with the Fruedian theory of psychosis. I said that, broadly speaking, I was – but that an explanation of his position would nevertheless be helpful. Essentially, what Paul next shared with me is explained here ; in hideously rudimentary terms, aside from the afore-referenced continuum of the schizoid-depressive scale, “hallucinatory psychosis could be considered as the expression of an imaginary maintaining of an early reality whose loss the ego finds unbearable” (in other words, Paedo deludes himself so far from his reality than an unreality becomes, without medical intervention at least, his norm. This, in Freudian terms, is catalysed by the enormity of his actions as an active paedophile/child sex abuser).
I listened to this discussion with a rapture bordering on intellectual orgasm as Paul referenced Melanie Klein, the id, primary narcissism and other psychological terms. (Please note that my reference to ‘orgasm’ does most certainly not refer to an attraction to Paul. It does, however, denote unquantifiable delight at being treated as an intelligent and knowledgeable human being).
We talked for a bit about dissociation, and how it was only through previous therapy with C that I had developed half of the knowledge that I now have about what was done to me as a child. I told him about my mother’s various defences of Paedo (which, he noted correctly, further reinforce the whole ‘it’s my fault’ beliefs). I told him that I’d always known stuff happened – I’ve had clear memory of one rape plus several instances of ‘inappropriate touching’ (such a benign term) for almost as long back as I can remember – but I knew, even though I didn’t always consciously recall or verbally acknowledge it, that there was more to it than that.
Paul said, “that’s the genius of the child sex abuse survivor.”
This piqued my rather cynical interest. I asked him to explain.
“I was on a training course a few years ago,” he said. “The first thing the facilitator did was point out that our clients – ie. survivors of sexual abuse – are geniii.”
I longed to correct ‘genii’ to ‘geniuses’, but I respectfully refrained. Instead, I asked how this was so.
“You dissociated it,” he replied emphatically. “Others dissociate to the point of an entirely new personality. Others compartmentalise these things in a less distinct form. Yet others see is as if they are viewing it through a veil. Others again just…I don’t know, tolerate it? Some – and I’m guessing you [he guessed correctly] – employ a number of these and other methods to cope.”
“So?” I protested. “You do what you do to get by.”
“But,” Paul pressed. “You, and children like you, were put in unbearable, infeasible situations. To have stayed on the right side of sanity is, in these terms, a really major achievement.”
I laughed. “I am not sane,” I told him.
This led to a discussion of diagnoses. I told him how I had first realised there was something wrong with me about the age of 13 or 14, when I was visiting my grandfather in hospital. The hospital had a sign up regarding a major depressive episode ; to qualify, you had to meet five of nine symptoms across at least two weeks. I had had nine out of nine for months.
This in turn led to another brief discussion of my mother and her refutation of my claims about Paedo. I told Paul about having been in pseudo-analysis, CBT and hypnotherapy, as well as having been seen by a child psychiatrist. I also detailed my various diagnoses – major clinical depression when I was 14, social anxiety when I was 17 or 18, BPD when I was 25, psychotic and dissociative symptoms later that year, and complex PTSD when I was 26.
There was a discussion around how I felt about the various diagnoses. I said that I was “content”‘ with most of them – but that I was “uncomfortable” with the borderline applicability.
“I hate it!” he said definitely, underlining the disgust he had shown in the assessment session. We discussed how it is so often unfairly applied to women who psychiatrists can’t be arsed to take seriously, and how it is viewed by mental health professionals in general ( this is one such example, although mercifully an extreme one).
I went on to say that I believed it had been fairly applied to me, but that I knew that anyone that got it – fairly or otherwise – was treated like shit by the health service simply because it was there. He asked me what symptoms applied to me, and as I rhymed them off he sort of laughed and said, “in other words, entirely understandable coping mechanisms for unbearable traumas.” Against my erstwhile better judgement, I was forced to agree.
“But,” I said, “to avoid that particular stigma – and also because it’s actually true – on the occasions on which I do talk about what’s wrong with me, I try to emphasise the C-PTSD diagnosis rather than the BPD one.”
“Good,” he said. “You want to show that something bad was levied at you, rather than by you.”
“Exactly,” I agreed.
I confessed to him that when I’d been recovering my memories about all this stuff with C that I had had hallucinations of Paedo etc etc etc. Bearing in mind NewVCB’s concerns about Nexus’ apparent inability to deal with this sort of thing, I tried desperately to underplay it. To my considerable interest, however, it turns out that Paul is more than familiar with traumatic and dissociative psychoses. He asked me to detail my hallucinatory and delusional experiences, and to my own surprise I felt comfortable enough doing so.
“Yes,” he said, “it’s bad – but I’ve seen a lot worse. I once worked on a ward that was essentially full of trauma survivors with psychotic symptoms. I remember one man ‘acting out’ all the things that were done to him all night.”
Ha! Fuck you, NewVCB (even though I quite like you). C’s better equipped to deal with Mental Me than Paul is, is he? I rather think not.
I commiserated. Paul talked a bit more about it and essentially said that if I was “going doolally” (my term, but he claimed to quite like it – he also, allegedly, liked my self-styled “rambling”) I had to bring it into the room with me. It was at this point that he started talking about transference and how I should bring that with me as needs be too.
What surprised me about this was not so much his allusions to transference in itself, but his references to countertransference. He freely admitted to me that he had another client who, through her behaviour outside the dyad, brought this element of “please like me” into the room with her. “It’s not that I independently dislike her at all,” he said, “but such a positive reaction as elicited in me by her is clearly transference. It’s not necessarily a bad thing; we just need to be aware of it.”
I laughed. “I am wholly aware of both the beneficial and nefarious effects of transference,” I said.
“Yes,” Paul said, smiling. “I reckoned you of all people would be.”
He gave me one of the ‘how depressed are you’ questionnaires to fill in, and I found myself trying to justify my apparent good mood in front of him with the pathetic woe I was detailing on the form. He told me not to be discouraged, but to at least be aware that, fragile as I was and as I am, I have been “strong enough” to approach him and his organisation about my multifarious issues.
“I’ll get you to fill it in again in four or five weeks,” he advised. “Don’t be surprised or disheartened it it goes down notably at that point.”
I laughed out loud, and he asked why. The date was 4 October 2010. “I was going to kill myself today,” I announced melodramtatically. “I had my finger on the “buy now” button below the helium canister on some website or other. I was going to hook it to an exit bag and off myself at some remote location in my poor car. But something stopped me from going through with it. I dragged my finger away from that button.”
“Well, I’m very glad of that,” he said, apparently with the utmost sincerity. ” But please bring that – any suicidal ideation – with you to these meetings,” he pressed. “If you’re suicidal, you need to tell me, you need to give us a chance. We need to explore it, but I will not report it unless you are in imminent danger.”
I nodded my agreement.
Eventually the session came to an end. It was of 50 minutes’ duration, the same as the NHS sessions were. He followed me down the stairs; I went to give the receptionist a payment, but she all but ignored me, to my not inconsiderable chagrin. However, I realised that Paul was still standing beside me.
“I’d like to make a donation, please,” I said to him with a distinct lack of confidence. Why is it that donating money always feels awkward, no matter how worthy the cause?
“That’s great,” he replied. “How much?”
“Are you sure?!”
“Quite sure, why?”
“That’s incredibly generous of you,” he almost-gushed.
“Well, take advantage of it now,” I laughed. “I won’t have any in a few weeks!”
I was only half joking, but whatever the case: I feel that they deserve anything I can give them. It’s early days, and damn all is assured. But as Paul said, “I look forward to seeing you next week, Pandora,” as I left his company, I couldn’t help but feel hopeful and encouraged.
Is it a cure? I very, very much doubt it. But can he provide a path to semi-tolerance of life, at least on an interim basis? I don’t know – but the signs are encouraging, and for now at least that is enough. The fact that I am almost looking forward to tomorrow’s meeting with him is potentially deeply telling indeed.
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Steven Strait may be a promising actor, but this one should remain Undiscovered.
Many of those who saw the Disney superhero spoof Sky High were impressed by the debut of Steven Strait. Playing the brooding school bully Warren Peace, who hurls fireballs at our heroes before showing his more sensitive and heroic side, Strait displayed a moody rock-star charisma and an impressive range in what could easily have been a two-dimensional role. It didn't hurt that Strait actually is a rock star in the making, fronting the band Tribe, whose debut album is due out soon.
But beware too much of a good thing. Strait now has the lead role in the romantic drama Undiscovered, and it makes you wish he'd stick to supporting parts. Playing an aspiring musician should be no stretch at all, and indeed, he sings all his own stuff here. In related news, you know that forthcoming Tribe album I just mentioned? Not gonna buy it.
At the beginning of the movie, Strait's character, who has the porn-star-worthy name of Luke Falcon, has a chance encounter with a beautiful girl (Broken Flowers' Pell James) the same day he's set to leave New York for L.A. The girl's name is Brier, and she's actually a professional model, managed by her Aunt Carrie (Carrie Fisher, who deserves better). Unbeknownst to Luke, she also moves to L.A. to become an actress, where she is horrified to find that people in showbiz are as mean to her as other models are. The only one who's nice is Clea (Ashlee Simpson), who's an aspiring actress and singer, which is convenient, because through her Luke and Brier get to meet up again.
So, yeah, Ashlee Simpson's in Undiscovered, and she sings. And you'll be glad when she does, because it's a huge improvement over Steven Strait. Ashlee's better at acting andsinging than her more famous sister Jessica, but that's no great feat; might as well add that she'd make a better brain surgeon, too.
The central conflict is that, although Luke and Brier clearly want each other, Brier had a bad experience with an English rock star, cleverly named "Mick" (Stephen Moyer). So she turns Luke down, then spends the rest of the movie whining and dithering about the whole thing, hooking Luke up with a successful model (Shannyn Sossamon, camping it up as a faux Brazilian) in order to boost his career, then getting upset when they actually, y'know, hook up.
One major plot question: What's the story with Luke's band? He seems to have one, but he never interacts with its members off stage at all. They just materialize on stage when needed. Shouldn't they be mad at him when he fails, or happy when he succeeds? What do they think about his love life?
Not to be a spoilsport, but the thing culminates with a shamefully clichéd scene in which one person runs to the airport to stop another from getting on a plane. The screenplay for Undiscovered was penned by one "John Galt," who shares the name of an Ayn Rand character, and whose biography is one of few curiously missing from the official website's "cast and crew" section. Perhaps Rand rose from the grave and bitch-slapped Mr. Galt a few times, because his movie objectively sucks. The director is Meiert Avis, mostly known for early U2 videos, so it's probably no coincidence that the best thing in the movie is the amusing portrayal of eccentric record company executives, notably played by Fisher Stevens and Peter Weller, the latter of whom looks like a sunburned lizard. Critically acclaimed songwriter David Baerwald did the score, which just goes to show that positive reviews don't pay the bills.
Music critics have long praised Christina Aguilera as the most vocally talented of the borderline-jailbait pop divas, but film critics ought to praise her too -- she's the only one to date who hasn't had delusions of being a movie star (behaving like an adult movie star in public doesn't count). Ashlee Simpson's thespian work in Undiscovered may be nothing special, but it isn't significantly worse than Mandy Moore's in A Walk to Remember or Britney Spears' in Crossroads, though it's probably a slight improvement over sister Jess in The Dukes of Hazzard. And let's face it, anything's better than another Hilary Duff movie.
Steven Strait, on the other hand, is no Eddie Vedder in Singles, Jon Bon Jovi in U-571 or Jack White in Cold Mountain. He simply doesn't feel ready for the lead yet, which is kind of ironic, since that's part of what his character Luke figures out in Undiscovered. He recognizes that Simpson is a better pop star, as do we. So why did we waste all this time rooting for him to make it?
Oh, right, we didn't. That would imply some sort of emotional investment in the movie.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/35945 | Ponder, for a moment, the first human being who ever ate an egg, sitting there, around his campfire, or in his cave, or wherever primitive humans hung out -- Walmart? -- and seeing this white orb emerge from the business end of a chicken or whatever and thinking, "I wonder what that tastes like."
I was thinking about that as I read a story about something called civet coffee.
Civet coffee is one of those gourmet things in which those with discriminating taste go out of their way to eat disgusting things from exotic locales -- you know, like whale blubber from Japan, or horse meat from France, or soylent green from the offices of Bain Capital. Civet coffee fits that bill. It is from Indonesia. It is very expensive. And it is not the kind of coffee any normal person would consume.
And now, according to National Public Radio, which can be counted on to cover this kind of stuff, there is a scandal growing in the civet coffee industry.
It seems odd that there would be scandal in an industry that produces something for human consumption that passes through a cat. But there it is...
Oh, did I forget to mention that civet coffee is made from special coffee beans that are eaten by civets, a species of cat that lives in Indonesia, and excreted. Then, the beans are harvested and sold for up to $60 for four ounces of beans or served up in a fancy coffee places for $10 a cup.
And there is some other way fermentation occurs.
"Fermentation also happens naturally in the wild -- in an animal's digestive tract, for example," NPR reported. "And the Asian palm civet, a native mammal (not really a cat) to Southeast Asia, eats the ripest berries of a coffee plant; through the process of digestion, the seed is separated from the fruit and is fermented. Traditionally, wild civets would go about their business and humans would collect the fermented droppings."
A coffee historian was quoted as saying, "When you see it in the wild, it looks kind of like an Oh Henry! Bar."
There is a Chock full o' Nuts joke to be made here.
And you have to wonder about the first person who looked at a pile of civet poop and thought, "I could make a cup of coffee from that."
It is said that coffee that is fermented in this manner is smoother and less acidic. A barista described the coffee as "vegetabley, tea-like and earthy" A food writer for the Washington Post described it as "Petrified dinosaur droppings steeped in bathtub water."
With a faint hint of Tidy Cat Multi-Cat Formula.
So it comes as a shock that there would be some in an industry that sells a product for human consumption that is harvested from cat poop are less than ethical, creating a scandal that may turn people away from drinking coffee that has passed through a cat's digestive system.
The coffee is advertised as being from wild civets and harvested by hand. (There's a job that worse than yours.) It is then taken by oxcart to an earthen kiln, where it is roasted by native coffee artisans.
(Just noting that nowhere does it say that the coffee beans are washed after being picked out of cat droppings.)
That's why the coffee is so expensive. Imagine how much cat poop it takes to get a pound of coffee beans. And imagine being the person who has to pick the coffee beans out of the cat poop. You can't get people to do that for cheap. (Well, actually, you can. Indonesian coffee workers make about $1 a day.)
You can imagine that some unethical coffee growers or civet keepers or whatever are tempted to take some shortcuts, figuring that the kind of person who would drink coffee that's passed through a cat's colon wouldn't really be all that picky about the beverage's origin.
Oliver Strand, who writes about coffee for the New York Times, told NPR that the coffee has become "so desired as a luxury good that they started caging the animals and feeding them coffee that isn't ripe."
Caged civet-crap coffee being sold as free-range civet-crap coffee. And the coffee that has passed through a cat isn't even ripe.
And it gets worse. "Some civet farmers are feeding the animals varieties like Robusta, decried by many coffee lovers as an inferior bean -- the one often used in instant coffee," Strand told NPR.
My God, can you imagine, getting coffee from inferior beans that have been crapped out by a cat.
The horror.
Civet isn't the only such product. A coffee plantation in South America sells jacu bird coffee, made from beans that pass through a bird that looks like something out of a Looney Tunes cartoon. It's
described, on an importer's website, as "sweet" and "full-bodied."
It's probably better to stick with Chock full o' Nuts.
On second thought, maybe not.
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Marty Cantor is a fanzine editor based in Los Angeles, USA.
With his then-wife Robbie Cantor (now Robbie Bourget), he co-edited the Hugo Award-nominated 1980s fanzine Holier Than Thou. More recently, he launched the ironically-titled No Award.
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Campé cuts a very slight figure, save for the overstuffed coat he wears to hide his breasts. His face is fine-featured and almost beautiful, both boyish and feminine, but his disfigurements mar it with a black rent running across it.
He lairs in the Sunset and 2nd neighborhood in Roswell, NM, a blighted and poor area outshone by some Third World slums. An abandoned and dilapidated YMCA with a reputation for being haunted and cursed, he shares it with at least one other Promethean (Typhonne Mary), and a horde of Pandorans.
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In the Christmas narratives, there are several “fear not’s.”
1. The “fear not” of salvation: “And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings...which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:10,11).
2. The “fear not” of the humanly impossible: “Fear not, Mary, … the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: …For with God nothing shall be impossible” (Luke 1:30, 35, 37).
3. The “fear not” of unanswered prayer: “Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John” (Luke 1:13).
4. The “fear not” of immediate obedience: “Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife. … Then Joseph … did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him” (Matthew 1:20,24 NPS)
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9. From the Curse to the Cure (Romans 5:12-21)
My wife and I watched with fascination as the impact of one man upon the world was being described on television. The man was Christopher Columbus. According to research, Columbus was responsible for introducing many new things to America: horses, cattle, pigs, goats, and, if I recall correctly, small pox. Columbus brought not only some of Europe to America, he also took some things from America back to Europe. Among these were smoking and syphilis. Whether for the good of mankind or for his detriment, this one man made a great impact on his world.
Over the centuries of mankind’s history, many men and women have significantly impacted the destiny of those who followed after them. None, however, has had greater impact than Adam, the first man. In our text, Paul shows just how great the impact of Adam’s “fall” has been upon mankind. Paul stresses this impact to demonstrate that in spite of the curse, which Adam’s sin brought upon the human race, God has provided a cure in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
To the unbeliever, this passage promises and offers not only the forgiveness of sins, but a new beginning, in Christ. To the Christian, there are no more encouraging words than those found here. These words speak not only of the salvation which God has accomplished for us, in Christ, they also lay the foundation for the next section of Romans in chapters 6-8, for the basis for sanctification is found in the truths which Paul expounds here. The words of our text are words of life and hope for all mankind.
The Context of Our Text
After explaining his relationship to those at Rome, his desire to visit them, and his purpose for writing this epistle (1:1-17), Paul sets forth the great dilemma: the righteousness of God and the rottenness of men (1:18–3:20). In His righteousness, God must condemn sinners. In his rottenness, every human being, Jew or Gentile, is under divine condemnation because each has rejected that revelation of God which he or she has received. The solution to this dilemma is the cross of Calvary. There, Jesus Christ took upon Himself the sins of the world and bore the righteous wrath of God for sinners. God’s righteous anger was thereby satisfied, and there His righteousness was made available to all men, through faith in Jesus Christ.
Viewed from a divine perspective, salvation was provided by God through Jesus Christ so that God’s righteousness might be revealed (3:21-26). This righteousness is imputed to men on the basis of faith, not works, as seen in the biblical account of Abraham’s life (Romans 4:1-25). The account of Abraham’s faith reveals that he was saved by faith alone, apart from works, and at a time when he was uncircumcised and thus, a Gentile. His faith, like ours, was in a God who had the power to raise the dead.
In Romans 5, Paul views the justification of men by faith from yet another, much broader, perspective. Paul first portrays man’s salvation as the grounds for exultation and boasting in 5:1-11. We may boast, confident in the certainty of entering into the “hope of the glory of God” (verses 1-2). We may boast even in our present tribulations, assured of God’s love, on the basis of Christ’s death, and through the ministry of the Holy Spirit (verses 3-10). We may finally boast in God, through the person and work of Jesus Christ (3:11).
In Romans 5:12-21, Paul views salvation from the curse of Adam to God’s cure in Christ. Adam’s one act of disobedience brought both sin and death upon mankind. Christ’s one act of obedience, on the cross of Calvary, brought about the solution to this curse. The work of Christ offers all men not only the promise of the forgiveness of their sins, but a new identity and a new beginning, in Christ.
The Structure of the Text
Our text falls into three sections. Verses 12-14 describe the similarity between the act of Adam and that of Christ. Both men are “federal heads” of mankind, whose actions affect all men.132 Verses 15-17 emphasize the many significant contrasts between the act of Adam and the act of our Lord. The similarity between these two men is the basis for the work of our Lord. The differences between them are the basis for His becoming the cure for the curse which Adam brought upon the human race. Verses 18-21 sum up the results of the work of our Lord, in relation to those which stem from the action of Adam. Paul also defines the role which the Law played, in relation to man’s sin and God’s grace.
We can therefore summarize the structure of our text as follows:
(1) The link between Adam and Christ (verses 12-14)
(2) Distinctions between Adam and Christ (verses 15-17)
(3) Christ’s work, man’s sin, and the Law (verses 18-21)
The Link Between Adam and Christ
Paul sets out to establish two very important connections in these verses. The first link is that between Adam and mankind. The second is between Adam and Jesus Christ. These connections are essential, for they explain the way in which God purposed to save men from their sins. In particular, the work of Christ is presented as the reversal of the work of Adam. The curse which Adam brought on the human race has its cure in Christ.
Adam was regarded, rightly so, as the source of sin’s entrance into the world. With his act of disobedience, sin first entered human history. No believer would disagree with this. But Adam’s sin did much more than this—it brought guilt upon all mankind. Adam’s sin and resulting guilt was imputed to all his descendants. Adam sinned, and because of this he died. Adam sinned, and because of this, all men die. All men die because they sinned, in Adam.
Adam’s sin, along with its guilt and penalty, was imputed to all those who were born of Adam. Adam’s sin and death were imputed to mankind, for all mankind have come from Adam. In some way that is difficult to understand, all mankind sinned in and with Adam.133
Paul explains this more fully in verse 13. “The wages of sin is death,” both for Adam (Genesis 2:16-17) and for all others (Romans 6:23). All those who lived from the time of Adam until the time of Moses, when the Law was given, died. They did not die, Paul tells us, because of their own sins, for the Law was not yet given, and their sins were not a transgression of God’s commandments. Sin existed in those days, but it was not imputed, because there was no law. Why then did all those from Adam to Moses die? Because they all sinned, in Adam, and were therefore guilty and worthy of death.
It is very important that we understand what Paul is not saying here, as well as what he is saying. Paul is not saying that we all sin because Adam sinned, though this is true.134 Paul is saying that we all sinned when Adam sinned. Paul is saying that we are all guilty of sin, in Adam, and thus we fall under the divine death penalty. The period of time between Adam and Moses best demonstrates this, because those who died during this time period did not have their own sins imputed to them.
The point then is this: Adam’s sin and its consequences included and involved the entire human race. This does not really sound fair, does it? Come on, admit it. This sounds, at first, like a terrible injustice. Why should we suffer because of Adam?
There is a solution to our problem. First, we must understand and interpret Paul’s words here in the light of what he has already written. Men are not guilty sinners only because Adam sinned, corrupting and implicating the rest of the human race. Paul has already taught in chapters 1-3 that all men, without exception, are guilty sinners, because each of us is guilty of unbelief and disobedience toward God. All men have received some revelation about God from His creation. Some men have the added revelation of God’s Law. But regardless of how much men have had revealed to them about God, they have rejected Him and refused to worship or to obey Him. As a result, Paul has said, all men are guilty sinners, worthy of death.
Are we guilty sinners because Adam sinned? Yes, we are. But we are also guilty sinners because we have sinned. We are not under divine condemnation only because Adam sinned; we are condemned as sinners because we have sinned. Adam sinned, and we are guilty (Romans 5:12-14). All have sinned and are also guilty (Romans 3:23).
Does the curse of sin on the entire human race, due to the act of one man, trouble us? Then we must press on to the second link which Paul makes in our text. Not only is there a link between Adam’s sin and mankind’s universal guilt, there is a link between Adam and Christ. In verse 14, Paul informs us that Adam “is a type of Him who was to come.” Adam is a type of Christ.135
What seems to be bad news becomes very good news. There is a correspondence between Adam and Christ. Adam, we are told, is like Christ. It is this likeness, this link, which enabled our Lord Jesus Christ to die on Calvary, and to rise from the dead, and in so doing to free men from the curse brought upon them by Adam. Adam’s curse has its cure, in Christ, who is like Adam in some way. Before Paul will play out this “likeness,” he will first show how our Lord was distinct from Adam. It is in His “unlikeness” as well as in His “likeness” that our Lord provided men with the opportunity to be saved from their sins.
Distinctions Between Adam and Christ
If the link between Adam and our Lord is established clearly in verses 12-14, the distinctions are emphatically put forward in verses 15-17. Verse 15 begins with the word “But,” informing us at the outset that Paul is changing his focus, from the similarity between Adam and Christ to the distinctions between these two. Twice, in verses 15-17, the expression, “is not like” is found (verses 15 and 16). What delightful differences these are, between Adam and our Lord. Let us briefly consider them, as explained by Paul.
Christ’s work is distinguished from Adam’s in that His work is referred to as a “gift,” while Adam’s work is summed up in the term “transgression” (verse 15). Adam’s act was a transgression, bringing guilt to mankind and its penalty of death. Christ’s act was one flowing from God’s grace and resulting in grace to men. The first distinction between the work of Adam and the work of Christ is the difference between guilt and grace.
In verse 16, Paul adds two more distinctions between Adam and Christ. Adam’s act was but one act of sin and disobedience. Our Lord’s act involved many sins. Adam’s act was one sin that made the many sinners. Christ’s act was one act, but in this one gracious act, our Lord gathered up all the sins of mankind and died for them. Furthermore, while Adam’s sinful act resulted in the condemnation of all mankind, our Lord’s act resulted in the justification of men.
In verse 17, two further distinctions are presented by Paul. The first distinction is indicated by the expression, “much more.” The action of our Lord is greater than that of Adam.136 This becomes more evident in the light of the next distinction, which we find in this verse. Adam’s sin led to the “reign of death.” Adam’s sin brought sin and death upon all men. Christ’s act brings about the “reign of righteousness in life.” Adam’s sin brought life to an end; Christ’s act dethrones death and enthrones righteousness, which is evidenced in life. And since this life is eternal life, righteousness will reign forever. Adam’s sin ends life; Christ’s act extends life, forever, as a context in which righteousness will reign.
Whatever the similarity may be between Adam and Christ, the distinctions are far greater. Both the link and the distinctions between Adam and Christ make it possible for Christ to act in such a way as to undo the damage done by Adam and to shower upon men grace in place of guilt, righteousness in place of sin, and life in place of death.
Christ’s Work, Man’s Sin, and the Law
The link between Adam and Christ is that both persons, though one man, have acted in a way that affects all men. Adam sinned, and his transgression brought condemnation upon all men. Christ’s act was one of righteousness, resulting in justification and life. Adam’s disobedience makes sinners of many; Christ’s obedience will make many righteous.
Having summed up the impact of Adam and Christ, Paul returns to the subject of the Law. Already Paul has said that those who lived before the Law (from Adam until Moses, verse 14) died because they sinned in Adam. Sin is not imputed to men without law (verse 13). The absence of the Law, for those who lived before the giving of the Law, was a kind of blessing. Without the Law, sin, other than that of their sin in Adam, was not imputed to them. Now, Paul must pick up the subject of the Law and its impact on men after it was given.
The giving of the Law did not solve the problem of sin. The Law was not given in order to reduce or remove sin but to increase it. While this sounds incredible, this is exactly what Paul says. And the reason: so that grace could surpass sin, abounding to men in righteousness and salvation. The Law increased sin, our Lord Jesus bore the penalty of that sin, and the grace of God is multiplied. The Law was not to deliver men from sin but to declare men sinners so that the sin introduced by Adam could be remedied in Christ.
How differently things look now! It first appeared that God might be unfair, condemning us as sinners, in Adam. But now we see this was in order that He might receive us as saints, in Christ. If the imputation of Adam’s sin to all mankind resulted in condemnation, the imputation of Christ’s righteousness results in justification. The means for man’s justification is the same as the means for man’s condemnation—imputation. The work of one man both condemns and saves men.
How Paul’s words must have shaken those self-righteous Jews, who believed they were righteous by virtue of their identification with Abraham and their possession of the Law. Being of the physical seed of Abraham did not save anyone. Being of the physical seed of Adam, however, condemned them. They were not righteous, in Abraham, but they were sinners, in Adam. And since Adam was the head of the whole human race, there is no distinction between Jews and Gentiles. Every son of Adam is a sinner, guilty, condemned, and subject to the death penalty.137 Being a “son of Abraham” did not change this.
Possessing the Law was no salvation for the Jews. The Law did not remedy the problem of sin but only caused sin to increase so that the problem became more dramatically evident. The Law not only increased sin; it made sin a personal matter. Now, those under the Law were not only sinners, in Adam, they were shown to be sinners on their own merits. Not only were the Jews guilty sinners, in Adam, they were also guilty sinners, on their own, as defined by the Law. The Law did not deliver any from sin, but it did declare many to be sinners. In these verses, Paul knocks the props out from under Jewish pride and boasting, in Abraham and in having the Law. If the Jews rejected Jesus as their Messiah, they rejected the only cure for the curse. Only Jesus could reverse the curse and make sinners saints. For them to reject Christ was to be left guilty, in Adam.
When the apostle Paul presented Christ as the cure for the curse of mankind, brought about by Adam’s sin, he removed all basis for boasting and pride. Those who are sinners, in Adam, can hardly boast about this. Those who are saved, in Christ, are saved by the work of the Lord Jesus and thus can take no credit themselves. As James Stifler writes,
Adam is a figure of Christ in just this respect: that as his one sin brought death to all, even when there was no personal sin, so Christ’s one act of obedience brings unfailing righteousness to those who are in Him, even when they have no personal righteousness.138
Contextually, Romans 5:12-21 serves a very important purpose. It lays the groundwork for Paul’s teaching on sanctification in Romans 6-8. If the work of Christ provides sinful men with a solution to the problem of God’s righteous wrath, it also provides men with a solution to the problem of the reign of sin and death.
Because of our own fallenness, we even tend to look at the work of Christ in a selfish, self-centered way. We who are saved delight in the certainty that, in Christ, our individual sins are forgiven. Our past, present, and future sins are all forgiven in Him, because of His death, burial, and resurrection on our behalf. But Christ’s work does much more than give us the forgiveness of our sins; by means of the cross, He has also provided freedom from the dominion of sin. This freedom from the reign of sin is the subject of Romans 6-8.
We might say that the work of Adam was a bad beginning for the whole human race. But the work of our Lord Jesus Christ offers men a new beginning. Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection does much more than to allow us to go on living just as we have in the past, but knowing that the sins we commit are forgiven. The work of our Lord makes it both necessary and possible for us to begin living in a whole new way, not as the servants of sin, but as the servants of righteousness. The work of our Lord not only forgives the sins of our past, it wipes out our past, and gives us a new future. What hope and encouragement for the sinner! In Christ, God offers men a whole new life, a new beginning, a fresh start. What good news this is—to the ears of a repentant sinner.
Taken in a broader perspective, Romans 5:12-21 explains much about the coming of our Lord. How important, and how fascinating some elements of the gospel accounts become when we see our Lord’s coming as being for the purpose of offering a cure for the curse which came through Adam. Was Adam a man? So Jesus was a man as well. The genealogies of the gospels make a point of this, and Luke specifies that Jesus was both the “son of Adam” and the “son of God” (Luke 4:38). While Adam brought sin upon the world, our Lord was proven to be without sin, so that He could die in the sinner’s place (2 Corinthians 5:21, see also Hebrews 4:15; 7:26; 1 Peter 2:22; 1 John 3:5). While Adam was only a man, who could bring the guilt of sin on the world, Jesus was the God-man, whose righteousness could be imputed to men, by faith (Romans 3:21-22). Adam was tempted and failed (Genesis 3), but Jesus, though tempted, resisted sin (Matthew 4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13). All of the “sons of Adam” are born sinners; Jesus was the “seed of the woman” (Genesis 3:15), and His conception and birth were of divine origin, through the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:34-35). Every aspect of Jesus’ birth, coming, life, death, and resurrection corresponded to that which was necessary, due to Adam’s sin, to save the human race.
By implication, a number of important principles become evident and are exemplified in our text. As we conclude, let us consider four of these principles.
(1) God takes sin seriously. Throughout the Bible, and in the world about us, men are constantly trying to minimize sin and its consequences. But the Bible constantly emphasizes the seriousness of sin. Our text dramatically illustrates the seriousness of sin. Look at the devastation one sin brought to the human race: Adam’s sin brought about his own death, but it also condemned all mankind to death. Who can say that sin is not serious?
Adam’s transgression was not even such that most people would call it sin. At best, men might look upon Adam’s sin as a misdemeanor, something as evil as spitting on the sidewalk (still illegal in some towns and cities, I am told). Adam simply ate the fruit of a tree.139 What was the problem? The problem was that God had commanded Adam not to eat of the tree (Genesis 2:16-17). An act which men would hardly even think of as sin becomes the cause of man’s downfall. God does take sin very seriously, and so must we.
It is not surprising that those who deny Jesus Christ as God’s Savior would tend to minimize sin. But it is greatly disappointing that Christians do likewise. Why do many of us ignore some of God’s commands—because we do not think they apply to us, or because we disagree with God’s commands, or simply because we do not want to obey? Here is but one illustration. The Bible has some very clear words to the church about the role which women should play in relation to their husbands. Why has the majority of Christendom found compelling reasons to utterly ignore such commands, as though they did not exist? God does not command us to do those things with which we agree, or in the doing of which we find good reason to obey. God tests our obedience by commanding us to do that which is contrary to our intellect, emotions, and will but which is consistent with His character and His Word. Let us beware of setting aside God’s commands. Adam did, and we died. Jesus was obedient, and thus we live.
(2) Our identity is found either in Adam or in Christ. Self-esteem has become the watchword of our age. Sin is now defined by at least one preacher as poor self-esteem. Sinful acts are said to be rooted in poor self-esteem. The highest good seems to be to have a “good self-image.” And thus the world, joined by many Christians, occupies itself by constantly looking backward and inward, into self, to develop a healthy self-love. Paul will have none of this. For Paul, looking backward, even to those things in which he once took great pride, meant he now saw them as dung (Philippians 3).
Ultimately, our identity and our worth are wrapped up in one of two persons: Adam or Christ. All that we are in and of ourselves, we are in Adam. We may contemplate and fabricate our own worth as much as we like, but we are, in Adam, sinners, worthy of death. Why do we keep trying to make something good of something the Bible calls bad? The identity of the Christian is in Christ. Let us dwell upon Him. Let us look to Him. Let us keep Him central in our hearts and minds. This is the consistent exhortation of the Word of God, and especially of the New Testament epistles.
(3) Those who are the victims of Adam’s sin are also guilty of personal sin, of their own doing. The word “victim” is rapidly becoming one of the most popular terms in our English vocabulary. We are considered victims of an infinite array of abuses. As “victims” we are absolved of all guilt and responsibility. We not only are justified in blaming others, we are urged to do so. We are told we are victims, and thus we say, “It isn’t my fault, I was victimized.”
In one sense, all mankind is the victim of Adam’s sin. But let us remember that while Paul seems to speak of mankind as a victim of Adam’s sin in Romans 5, he also says that we sinned in Adam. We are not relieved of our own guilt and culpability in the matter of sin. Even those who lived before the Law was given were sinners. We who have the full revelation of God in Christ and in His Word are even more accountable. But beyond this, we must not forget that in Romans 1-3 Paul finds every man guilty before God, not because of what Adam did, but because each individual has rejected the revelation of God given to him or to her. Yes, we are guilty because Adam sinned (Romans 5), but we are also guilty because we have sinned (Romans 1-3, especially 3:23).
In Romans Paul does not dwell on men as victims but on men as responsible individuals. We are, first, responsible for our decision concerning the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are, as Christians, responsible for our actions. Let us not over-emphasize the victim aspect of life but rather the fact that in Christ we are victors, “more than conquerors” (Romans 8:37).
(4) Birth is both the cause and the cure for man’s sin. In studying this Romans passage, it occurred to me that perhaps no other New Testament text better explains the words of our Lord, spoken to Nicodemus, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). John introduced this man Nicodemus as a “Pharisee” and as a “ruler of the Jews” (John 3:1), but Jesus referred to him as, “the teacher of Israel” (3:10). No doubt this teacher, this renowned teacher, had taught about Adam, about his fall, and the downfall of the human race. But Nicodemus, if he was like the rest of the Pharisees, trusted in his physical descent from Abraham and in the possession of the Law. What a shock it must have been for Nicodemus when Jesus told him that entrance into God’s kingdom required a second birth!
Yet this expression, “born again,” should not have been a foreign thought to Nicodemus. It should have caused him to think in those terms in which Paul is speaking in Romans 5. How was it that the human race fell into sin? It was on account of Adam. But how did each individual fall under the curse? It was by being born. Birth made one a son of Adam and thus a sinner (see David’s words in Psalm 51:5-7). The solution to the guilt of sin, encountered at birth, was another birth, a second birth. In order to be saved, men must exchange their identity with Adam (by which they are condemned) to an identity with Christ (by which they are justified). As birth was the source of a man’s sin, so another birth is the solution.
This is what the gospel is all about. Jesus Christ came to the earth to offer men a cure for the curse which Adam’s sin brought upon all mankind. The gospel confronts us with a choice. Will we remain in Adam, subject to the penalty of death? Or will we accept God’s provision for a new identity, in Christ? Being “born again” is our Lord’s way of speaking of that point in a person’s life when they acknowledge their own sin, their own guilt, and the just sentence upon them of death. It is ceasing to trust in what we are and clinging to who Jesus Christ is. It is finding our identity in Christ, rather than in Adam. It is turning from condemnation to justification, from death to life, and from Adam to Jesus Christ.
Have you been born again? As it was necessary for Nicodemus, a famous religious leader and teacher, it is necessary for you. Will you choose death or life, Adam or Christ? There is no more important decision you will ever make than this. The salvation which God has offered in Jesus Christ is not automatic. It must be received (Romans 5:17). Receive it today.
132 I have chosen my words carefully here. While the sin of Adam brings sin and condemnation upon all men, the death of Christ does not save all men. Paul clearly states in verse 17 that the blessings which are the outflow of the work of our Lord are for those who receive them, in and through Christ. I do believe, however, that there are certain aspects of our Lord’s work on Calvary which affect all men. For example, I believe that His resurrection from the dead is the basis for the resurrection of all mankind, some to everlasting life, and others to everlasting torment (see John 5:28-29; Revelation 20).
133 An illustration of the concept of federal headship can be found in Hebrews 7, where Aaron and his descendants (the Levitical priesthood) are said to have paid tribute to the greater priesthood in Abraham, when he gave a tithe to Melchizedek. In Abraham, the Levitical priesthood offered a tithe to Melchizedek, acknowledging the superiority of this priesthood over their own.
134 Our sin nature is the result of Adam’s sin, and thus, we sin because we are sinners, thanks to Adam.
135 Adam is the only person who is specifically identified as a type of Christ in the Bible. While others, like Joseph, Moses, and even Jonah, may have served as types in certain regards, only Adam is identified as such in God’s Word. Isaac is the only other person who is spoken of as a type (Hebrews 11:19). His return to his father, as one who seemed doomed to death, was a type of the resurrection of our Lord.
136 Allow me to illustrate this by likening the work of Adam to the captain of the Valdez and the work of Christ to the clean-up operation. It really was not that hard to run the oil tanker aground, to rupture the ship’s storage tanks, and to contaminate a vast area. What was hard was cleaning up the mess. Adam’s sin was like the grounding of the ship. Christ’s work will bring about a perfect “clean-up.” Christ’s work is vastly greater than that of Adam’s, just as the work of the clean-up crews is much greater than that of one man, the captain of the Valdez.
137 I understand Paul’s reference to death to include both physical and spiritual death.
138 James A. Stifler, The Epistle to the Romans (Chicago: Moody Press, 1960), p. 97.
139 Let me suggest a matter for further thought. In our text, it is Adam’s sin to which Paul refers, not that of Eve, even though Eve first ate the fruit. Why did Paul not blame Eve, like Adam did? In 1 Timothy 3, Paul tells us that Eve was deceived. Here, perhaps, Paul focuses on Adam as the transgressor, since he is the one to whom the commandment was given (see Genesis 2:16-17). Paul seems to be very consistent with his premise that guilt is only imputed to those who have received God’s commandment.
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