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Home Women's Sexual Health Sexual Pain How Sounds Can Be Good News for Women with Vulvodynia and Vaginal Pain
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Image Vaginal pain is a fact of life for far too many women. Vulvodynia occurs more frequently than most people realize. Approximately 16 percent of women between the ages of 18-64 have experienced chronic vulvar pain for at least three months or more, according to a survey by Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Vulvar pain is not a psychosomatic disorder. Vulvodynia is a pain disorder, and its cause is not yet well understood; Sufferers can experience intermittent or constant hurt for months, or even for years.
Many women living with vulvodynia experience feelings of despair and isolation. Guided Meditations to Support Women with Vulvodynia is a remarkably sophisticated, highly effective and emotionally moving new CD, written and spoken by Dr. Carmen Pepicelli, with magical music by Paul McIntire and Peter Pillitteri M.D. I was asked to give feedback on this project while it was still in development, and it is gratifying to have the opportunity to review Dr. Pepicelli's CD. Dr. Pepicelli's goal has been to create a resource which would provide hope to women living with vulvodynia, to support ongoing treatment and to diminish suffering; she has succeeded most admirably in her goal.
Guided Meditations to Support Women with Vulvodynia contains powerful imagery and music which can be used as a major tool in pain control: for instance, listening to it can increase physical relaxation, modifying tension, and lowering pain; Its guided imagery can help create an image of a time in the future when the pain is not there, creating relief in the form of a thought; It can alter the meaning of the pain: transforming the anxiety or threat that potentiates it.
Guided Meditations to Support Women with Vulvodynia will be a great help to sexual healing. Because the music, language, imagery, and Dr. Pepicelli's voice is relaxing and positive, the woman listening to this CD should be able to distract herself from vaginal and referred pain and to expand relaxation, which will allow her to expand the other kinds of sensual pain she can experience.
The pain experience is a complicated one, encompassing physical and psychological factors. Dr. Bruce Eimer talks about the elements of pain as: (1)Bodily sensation;(2)The experience of threat or interference with functionality;(3)An emotional feeling of unpleasantness or other negative feeling, based on the interference.
If it is bad enough, the experience of chronic vaginal pain can encompass and contaminate all aspects of life. For example, sufferers may have:
• Preoccupation with pain and an inability to enjoy other aspects of life.
• Sadness, depression, anxiety, guilt, feelings of anger and resentment toward others.
• Negative self talk, pessimism about the future.
• Fear of any sexual pleasure whatsoever, and anxiety and anger in their intimate relationships.
• Social withdrawal or fears of abandonment.
The language and imagery on Guided Meditations to Support Women with Vulvodynia address the physical, the social, and the psychological components of vaginal pain. In my clinical experience, women with vulvodynia can feel a sense of stigma, a sense of not really being a woman like other women, and a social isolation growing from the fact that the affliction which so colors their life is way, way too private to share with most other people. Groups for women with vulvodynia are wonderful, but not everyone has access to one.
It's hard to be vulnerable and need support. In fact, sometimes it is difficult to get empathy and assistance from one's intimates. I've seen women whose closest family members grow "tired" of giving them support for their vulvar pain, as if their daughter or their sister is using "imaginary pain" as an excuse to get sympathy. Sometimes partners get frustrated at the limitations on sexual intimacy during times of pain flare-ups. Clearly, women with vulvar pain need to have resources which they can use independently, whenever they need them, to help them cope. Guided Meditations to Support Women with Vulvodynia is just such a resource.
One of the great things about this CD is that it is multi-dimensional. First, there is a spoken piece which is encouraging and educational. Listening to it, it is clear that Dr. Pepicelli understands the experience of chronic vaginal pain. She explains how guided imagery is useful for pain control. And the language is permissive enough for every woman listening to the CD to feel that she can do something helpful for herself in conquering her vaginal pain. Next there is a very powerful 23 minute long guided imagery meditation section, hypnotic enough so that it cannot be used when driving a car. It aims to lessen suffering by increasing a sense of control, hope and motivation, while decreasing shame, isolation and the side effects of treatments. It does this by inviting the listener to relax deeply while imagining normal functioning of the tissues. The carefully crafted language and imagery in this section is masterful and magical.
Lastly, there is a sweet, affirming lullaby. In it, friends and loved ones, practitioners and, (if the listener wants) spiritual guides, are called up. Using this tape over time, women suffering from pain disorders can begin to feel less vulnerable, more in control, more whole, and more hopeful.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37746 | Re: Rom 1 and phusis
On Wed, 28 Sep 1994, Kenneth Litwak wrote:
> on Sept. 28, 1994, Greg Jordan wrote:
> >I don't think you realize the extent to which you are positing an unusual
> >theological twist on this passage yourself. You seem to be saying that
> >God causes homosexuality at the same time as he condemns it, and that
> >homosexuality is a product of and development from disbelief in God,
> That's not what I am arguing. I am arguing that:
It seems I misunderstood you then. On the other hand, your (1) is a
point I would disagree with. The Bible says very little about
what we today would call "homosexuality" - our term is a projection of
categories to a certain extent, but not completely. On the other hand, I
recently proposed distinctions within what could be called "homosexuality"
in Leviticus 18:22, and I would propose that another such distinction occurs
in 2 Thess. 4:3-6 (not to open an entirely new argument). Deut. 23:18 (LXX)
contains a condemnation of one specific type of homosexual behavior whose
qualification (prostitution) is universally accepted by scholars.
Distinctions between different kinds of "homosexuals" and "homosexual
behavior" were a commonplace of Greek literature, at least. It seems
like some moderns are not doing as much hair-splitting as our ancestors did.
> God has delivered them over to a God-alienated state in which they
> consciences are dead and they pursue actions and lifestyles that deserve God's
> wrath, the epitomy of this rebellion being displayed by homosexual activity
> which is contrary to the phusis God gave humans in the first place. However
> the individual came to practice this sin,
Well, first I would drop the "God-alienated state" and simply observe how
Paul refers to the sins here described as self-aware abandonments and
exchanges of previous states and awarenesses. He even finishes with:
senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. ***Although they know God's
practice them.***" Rom 1:29-32 (NIV).
Here Paul is clearly not talking about people in a mystical haze designed
by God and making them unable to figure out what they are doing. He says
they are clearly aware of right and wrong, God and not-God. These are
people who are fighting with their consciences, not people whose consciences
are *dead*.
Secondly, I would argue that Paul would say God did not give one _phusis_ to
human beings "in the first place", especially when _phusis_ is understood to
refer to observable behavior. Each human has their own _phusis_, some
needing to be changed, and others needing to be preserved, depending on
the person and circumstance. Again, this is backed up by the usage of
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I've been searching to try and find, probably what is a very simple fix to my mailer.php form. I'm using the mailer form to create a simple booking form. As such each mailer form will be on a different page i.e
one mailer on page bookforfriday.html, the same mailer on bookforsaturday.html etc etc. I have the problem that my mailer doesn't tell me from which webpage the message was sent (which would solve my problem) so I get lots of booking but no idea for what day.
I'm looking to move this across from weebly (because it's getting too big) but the weebly contact form told you from which webpage the mailer was sending from.
Am I missing something simple here? My current mailer looks like this:
$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "Booking form";
$headers = "From: (ENGLAS) www.abc.com";
$forward = 1;
$location = "http://www.abc.com/request.html";
$msg = "Below is the result of your contact form. It was submitted on $date at $time.\n\n";
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You can use the HTTP_REFERER variable in PHP that contains the refering page.
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Question, is that 'nukage' in the center, or can you actually swim around and shoot in the tank? (since my comp wouldn't be able to run this game in a
million years)
D3/Q4 has no water physics and swim animations at all. There are two jumppads
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To run the game you'll need a 2 GHz machine at least. I could run it with a 64 MB Nvidia gcard.
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While I'm waiting for my Windows Support Drivers to download on my Mac, I figured I'd address these issues here for once and for all, so we can have a clear answer.
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Can new feats be created (not passive. Those are hardcoded)?
Not feats like "Critical strike" or "Power Attack", or any feats that allow you to use different scores in combat (Melee Finesse, for instance, wouldn't work).
You can, however, create feats that work exactly like Force Powers (Wookiee Rage) and any feats that give the player one time bonuses (Gear Head).
And this is all done through editing the main K_ai_master script. Just add a few conditionals to check if the character has the feat, and then add the bonus. Might have to include some globals too, because otherwise you're going to have a perpetually expanding bonus.
To sum it up, possible, but impractical.
Can the Malak and Yoda frames (or whatever tehy are called) be modded to wear different armor and robes?
Yes, you would need to separate their heads from their bodies. I've done it, Bob Ta'ar was working on a mod where he was taking alien heads and putting them on the main armor bodies to make playable alien PCs.
In the case of Malak and Yoda though, their heads would look pretty weird on those particular bodies, so you would have to either create the separate body and fix the bones/weights, or... well, you would still have the bodies, just they would be stuck with the same animations.
Is it possible to create the necessary skins/models for the above question to work?
Theoretically, yes. The trouble comes from weighting the skin, which is hellishly terrible.
Can new areas be created, instead of just re-skinning pre-existing maps/areas?
Yes, but you lose some certain details like the ability to use area lights. You can add lightmaps to the area, but there is no lighting that affects the characters, which makes it look weird at best.
Can pre-existing voices from the game be spliced to form new lines? (see gamerpoop (skyrim/oblivion/mass effect 3) for an example of what I mean (a bit NSFW))
Yeah, just about as well as you could splice any audio file.
Is there a limit to the amount of changes/added material that can be made to either KotOR game?
As much as your computer can hold, I guess.
In the case of KotOR I, would a great deal of added material/items/difficult or multi-stage fights/powers or feats be impractical or a general waste, as there are only 20 levels? (as in, you wouldn't be able to get the added powers/feats without it being given to you as 'you just learned a new power')
Maybe... with only 20 levels to work with. You can change which feats/powers/skills are given to you at which levels, but there is always that issue of saturation..
Is there any existing double/two handed animations for the Yoda frame?
Khrizby might have made a mod... I know there's the melee HK and the Darth Nihilus with the animations....
Are full head helmets possible?
Either make a helmet model big enough to cover the entire head (looks ridiculous sometimes), or you could create a separate helmet head, and create an item that has a disguise property that refers to an appearance.2da line with that new head.
Are capes possible on all sorts of armor/robes, or just the Revan skin?
I've been playing around with it. Theoretically, it is possible, but there's still that tedious task of actually modeling something with a cape.
Is it possible to spawn a swarm of unbeatable enemies (i.e, like the droids in the dantooine ruins: they die, and get back up), for the purpose of forcing a retreat?
Yep, sounds possible.
Can various species, faces, and darkside variants for each be moddled for each frame (i.e, Ewok, Lannik, Chadra-Fan, Utai, and Gand for the Yoda frame, Muun, Pau'an, and Abyssin, and famous faces for each)?
You want to animate all of those? Have fun. You would probably have better luck rigging them to work with the animation dummies that the main character uses.
Can the above frames be available for selection in character creation?
Does switching chracters (like the leviathan or droid warehouse) have any problems or complications when its done in a mod?
Switching back and forth between multiple characters within the same module (without reloading) seems to have some funky effects.
Would anyone bother with adding made-up back stories for characters (sion, most likely), and would making book/comic based plots be to hard?
No one usually, because where would we get even halfway decent voice over to compliment that?
Can the misty look in Davik's estate be done on other maps?
Yes, it's called Area Fog. Every module has it, it's just more apparent in some than others.
Other than that, I think JCarter and I should have a chat about modeling. Bring him up to speed on what is theoretically possible.
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• fittype — Objects allow you to encapsulate information describing a parametric model for your data. Methods allow you to access and modify that information.
• cfit and sfit — Two subtypes of fittype, for curves and surfaces. Objects capture information from a particular fit by assigning values to coefficients, confidence intervals, fit statistics, etc. Methods allow you to post-process the fit through plotting, extrapolation, integration, etc.
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As an example, the fittype method islinear, which determines if a model is linear or nonlinear, would apply equally well before or after a fit; that is, to both fittype and cfit objects. On the other hand, the cfit methods coeffvalues and confint, which, respectively, return fit coefficients and their confidence intervals, would make no sense if applied to a general fittype object which describes a parametric model with undetermined coefficients.
Curve fitting objects have properties that depend on their type, and also on the particulars of the model or the fit that they encapsulate. For example, the following code uses the constructor methods for the two curve fitting types to create a fittype object f and a cfit object c:
f = fittype('a*x^2+b*exp(n*x)')
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General model:
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Note that the display method for fittype objects returns only basic information, piecing together outputs from formula and indepnames.
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y = cfun(x) % cfit objects;
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Curve fitting methods allow you to create, access, and modify curve fitting objects. They also allow you, through methods like plot and integrate, to perform operations that uniformly process the entirety of information encapsulated in a curve fitting object.
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Fit Type MethodDescription
Get input argument names
Get fit category
Get coefficient names
Get dependent variable name
Evaluate model at specified predictors
Construct fittype object
Get formula string
Get independent variable name
Determine if model is linear
Get number of input arguments
Get number of coefficients
Get problem-dependent parameter names
Set model fit options
Get name of model
The methods listed in the following table are available exclusively for cfit objects.
Curve Fit MethodDescription
Construct cfit object
Get coefficient values
Get confidence intervals for fit coefficients
Differentiate fit
Integrate fit
Plot fit
Get prediction intervals
Get problem-dependent parameter values
A complete list of methods for a curve fitting object can be obtained with the MATLAB methods command. For example,
Methods for class fittype:
argnames dependnames fittype islinear probnames
category feval formula numargs setoptions
coeffnames fitoptions indepnames numcoeffs type
Note that some of the methods listed by methods do not appear in the tables above, and do not have reference pages in the Curve Fitting Toolbox documentation. These additional methods are generally low-level operations used by the Curve Fitting app, and not of general interest when writing curve fitting applications.
There are no global accessor methods, comparable to getfield and setfield, available for fittype objects. Access is limited to the methods listed above. This is because many of the properties of fittype objects are derived from other properties, for which you do have access. For example,
f = fittype('a*cos( b*x-c )')
f =
General model:
f(a,b,c,x) = a*cos( b*x-c )
ans =
a*cos( b*x-c )
ans =
You construct the fittype object f by giving the formula, so you do have write access to that basic property of the object. You have read access to that property through the formula method. You also have read access to the argument names of the object, through the argnames method. You don't, however, have direct write access to the argument names, which are derived from the formula. If you want to set the argument names, set the formula.
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Surface Fitting Objects and Methods
The surface fit object (sfit) stores the results from a surface fitting operation, making it easy to plot and analyze fits at the command line.
Like cfit objects, sfit objects are a subclass of fittype objects, so they inherit all the same methods of fittype listed in Curve Fitting Methods.
sfit objects also provide methods exclusively for sfit objects. See sfit.
One way to quickly assemble code for surface fits and plots into useful programs is to generate a file from a session in the Curve Fitting app. In this way, you can transform your interactive analysis of a single data set into a reusable function for command-line analysis or for batch processing of multiple data sets. You can use the generated file without modification, or edit and customize the code as needed. See Generate Code and Export Fits to the Workspace.
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Date: January 11, 2001 11:15PM
Here's some that sound absolutely identical!
Whitesnake's "Still Of The Night" and Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You"
I am surprised Dolly Parton didn't sue Coverdale and Sykes.
Marvelous 3's "Sugar Buzz" sounds just like Judas Priest's "Turbo Lover".
Collin Raye's "Love Me" and Hall & Oates' "Maneater".
Metallica's "Enter Sandman" and the theme song to "Gilligan's Island" couldn't be more alike!
Speaking of TV shows, let's not even talk about the similarities between "The Brady Bunch" theme song and "Stairway To Heaven" by Zeppelin!
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Summary: (Also known as "Puzzle Bobble Galaxy") The smash-hit classic arcade game goes where no bubble has gone before in SPACE BUST-A-MOVE. Journey alongside twin brothers Bub and Bob, travelling to distant planets collecting Cosmo Bubbles in order to stop the evil Devilin from taking over the galaxy. [Square Enix]
Rating: E
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• Summary: [WiiWare] DRiiFT Mania is the ultimate top-down multiplayer racing experience. Challenge your friends in fast, exciting races and some totally crazy game modes. You'll need to adapt your driving skills to the different racing environments if you want to succeed. [Nintendo]
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1. Takes an old genre and breathes new life into it. Top-down racing hasn't been this fun in ages. [Oct 2009, p.86]
2. 80
Even with a handful of odd quirks and strange omission, this is easily one of the better WiiWare games available to download, and 800 points seems like the perfect sweet spot for the type of game you’re getting on Wii.
3. All that being said, Driift Mania is an ambitious product that suffers only from lackluster solo play and some unfortunate graphical decisions.
5. 60
If you like old school racers like Off Road and Super Off Road, and have A) Lots of friends who can come over at any time or B) Lots of siblings who want to play there is a lot of potential in this game. However, if you are going for a solo drive, give it some thought first – ‘cause you won’t be playing online.
6. Drift Mania can be a reasonably fun and nostalgic racer. Just not a great one. [Oct 2009, p.127]
7. Micro Machines remains to be beaten, but this top-down racer is still fun if you have enough friends.
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1. MarkCosmic
Sep 30, 2009
Me & my boys have played this non-stop since we dowloaded it, fantastic topdown retro fun, I grew up near an arcade with the orignal Black & White Atari Sprint so I'm well into this. Sadly we've unlocked everything after a couple of weeks but it's still got high replay value. Hope they do an extra track expansion pack ! Expand
2. TaikoSteve
Sep 29, 2009
This is classic top down racing like you used to see in arcade titles like Iron Man or even in NES classics like Micromachines.
The price
is totally worth it. The graphics are nice, the ammount of game play is excellent for the price, and the 8 person multi player is great. Also, there are a lot of vehicle types to unlock which gives the game a good run of single player fun as well.
The negative stuff that keeps me from rating it a 10 is no wifi and it would have been fun to have some Iron Man type features with purchasing tires, nitros, and additional tracks-- but its and $8 title--- so in that aspect, its amazing for what you get.
But that stuff a side, this is one of the better Wiiware titles out there. If you use your wii for local party gaming its a must have...and if you're into some casual single player racing-- also a must have.
3. ShaheemEbrahim
Sep 13, 2009
The game is a lot of fun, thanks to responsive controls and good collision detection and LOTS of drifting.
The minute sprites make it hard to
see which vehicle is which.
The sound effects are good and music is OK.
You can choose from dune buggies to large trucks and have any mix in a race.
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1. Mar 24, 2013
WORST MOVIE EVER MADE IN HOLLYWOOD HISTORY. Innapropriate comedy sucks. Why? Because of its awful cast and bad direction. I mean a story about A TABLET?!!! I mean what was the director thinking before making garbage? And I think Movie Nation's Roger Moore is right- An app can text a better script than this stupid film. Please, film lovers out there please don't watch this film it will ruin you whole life to be a movie fantastic fan. And you can tell this movie is only playing in one theatre. PIECE OF CRAP. Expand
2. Mar 31, 2013
WOW. A 1? A 1 out of 100 on this site? I've never heard of a movie so terrible, it deserved a 1 out of 100 in the history of Metacitic's 15-year-run. I wonder there's a new app called "bad movies for dummies." There's a whole reason why this movie deserves to be in the Razzies next year. 1. The film not includes an Oscar winner, but a list of untalented actors like Lindsay Lohan (I called her "The Driver's Manual of Alcoholics," man, she's worse than Amanda Bynes). 2. It's directed by the guy who did the SHAMWOW and Slap Chop infomercials who can't act. and 3. This is the absolute worst movie that ever made. Remember what happened to Movie 43? That movie sucked as bad as Colin Farrell's action movies. I know, the Rifftrax crew might do the trick to impersonate the Slap Chop guy, Mystery Science Theater 3000 style. Razzies, take notes and think that this is ultimate shabang for Worst Picture and Worst Ensemble Cast. Expand
3. May 3, 2013
I wish I never watched this film, ever, EVER. If you thought this was good, go sort out your iPad and destroy it with a sledgehammer. I can't think of ANY movie worse than this. NEVER watch this unless you are a X-Treme trash lover.
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Despite it's abysmal scoring and it's fallacious reviews. As an experienced and honorable film reviewer/critic, The film 'InAPPropriate Comedy' is among a selective group of hilarious, educational and inspirational comedy films, it blends a variety of humor with drama, action and romance. I could not recommend the film any more, it is a MUST WATCH. Adrian Brody has produced a master piece. Do not be pessimistic about viewing the film because of the apocryphal reviews. An inspirational film that will be commemorated for generations to come. In one word; FANTASTIC Expand
8. Apr 7, 2013
Without out doubt, THE greatest 90 minutes of my life. I showed it too my disabled sister, she loved it! 10 out of 10. The acting is second to none, if it were released any earlier, definitely a contender for best picture.
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10. Dec 13, 2013
This anthology of skits is one of those movies that is out to try and offend their audience…but the problem there is the fact they forgot to add jokes with the offensive material. To put it bluntly, this film is pointless. The skits are lazily written, the actors are terrible (not shocking when you see it has Rob Schneider, Michelle Rodriguez and Lindsay Lohan) and there isn’t anything funny about it. Offensive and childish material is fine but when your material is hack, expired or just endless beaten to death like a dead horse that was already beaten to death BY a dead horse that was beaten to death, the offensive and childish material ends up being extremely grating and annoying rather than humorous and fun. Expand
11. Jan 1, 2014
I give InAPPropriate Comedy a 0.
12. Dec 10, 2013
Adrien Brody is GOD. He is everyone, everywhere, everything. Adrien Brody, Adrien Brody, Adrien Brody, Adrien Brody, Adrien Brody, Adrien Brody, Adrien Brody.
13. Jan 17, 2014
This movie is garbage, it is worse than Movie 43, it is just as bad as Bio-Dome, I mean wow this movie is one of the worst I've seen in my life, and what the hell is Adrien Brody doing here, this movie should be avoided completely, it is a 0 out of 10.
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1. Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
Mar 26, 2013
2. Reviewed by: Roger Moore
Mar 24, 2013
3. Reviewed by: Frank Scheck
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37967 | Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critics What's this?
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• Summary: Agathe Villanova is a self-centered, workaholic feminist politician who, upon reluctantly returning to her home in the south of France to sort out her mother’s affairs, runs for an local election. Upon her arrival, Agathe grudgingly agrees to take part in a documentary being made by the blundering duo of Karim an aspiring filmmaker, and self-professed "reporter" Michel, on the subject of “successful women." As Agathe's life hilariously unravels, the camera is there to capture it all. (IFC Film) Expand
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1. Let It Rain touches on class issues, feminism, immigration and the particular challenges facing a single, driven career woman in her 40s. But it's graceful in presenting its ideas, and what emerges is not a polemic but a kind of snapshot of modern-day concerns.
2. Needlessly complicated, life already has more than enough petty dramas. Let It Rain may not be funny in a ha-ha sense, but it gave me an amused open-mouthed appreciation of life’s absurdities, including unanticipated nuisances like bad weather.
3. Reviewed by: Sam Adams
There’s not much left to chew on when the movie is over; when Resnais adapted Jaoui and Bacri’s scripts, he added a visual counter-narrative that’s absent from Jaoui’s more functional approach. But a passing delight is a delight all the same.
4. Reviewed by: Jordan Mintzer
Despite an initial forecast of smart laughs and witty tete-a-tetes, the French dramedy Let It Rain winds up being a partly cloudy affair that lacks the cohesiveness of Agnes Jaoui’s two previous features, "The Taste of Others" and "Look at Me."
5. Reviewed by: Deborah Young
This is very much an actors’ film, not least because director-scripter Agnes Jaoui also appears in front of the camera in the well-seasoned role of Agathe Villanova.
6. 60
While her focus has drifted away from the upper middle class, Jaoui’s sensibility remains rather middlebrow; there’s the distinct feeling that she’s preaching solely, albeit with impressive subtlety, to the same bourgie choir as before.
7. It's all a little insular and very conversational, but the setting is cozy and the performances all pleasantly low-key.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37970 | You're A Woman, I'm A Machine - Death From Above 1979
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• Summary: 'You're A Woman' is the first album for the Canadian duo of vocalist/drummer Sebastien Grainger and bassist Jesse F. Keeler. It's a drum 'n' bass album in the literal sense of the term, as those are the only two instruments (aside from a very infrequent synthesizer) on the record.
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1. Give[s] Skyward In Triumph and Earth 2 a run for the title of Best Album By A Duo, ever. [Jan 2005, p.113]
2. Take the pop from Guns ‘N Roses, take the pomp from Van Halen and take the piss out of uber-serious nu-metal and you’ve got one of the most inventive metal outfits in recent history.
4. As for the songs themselves, they're surprisingly varied and accessible; fans of punk, metal, and stoner rock will be the first to gravitate toward this album, but there are tracks that have the potential of reaching a much wider audience.
5. You're a Woman, I'm a Machine might be the best party record on this side of '79 that your local abandoned warehouse has ever seen.
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3. Negative: 1 out of 26
1. GuidovanE
Jun 30, 2007
mindblowing piece of music, it's such a shame they stopped.
2. Chrisc
Jun 10, 2005
Damn straight its a 10. Giver.
3. jessicat
Dec 17, 2004
i can't take this out of my cd player. it's that good!
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5. FoenssonF
Jan 8, 2006
A lesson in agressive, but skinny rock!
6. Oct 3, 2012
Death From Above 1979 are really unlike any rock band out there. It's one of the better duo bands out there. Although I must admit, I didn't buy into it the first time I heard it. Or the second time. ANd even the third time. But I tried to like them and forced myself and eventually it clicked one day. Now, I listen to it all the time. It's a great dance-punk album that gets better with each listen. It's dirty, sleazy, and it completely rocks. "Romantic Rights" is the standout track. All In All, it's unlike any record I've ever heard and I wish they'd make another album. B+ Expand
7. cvaldav
Nov 6, 2004
this album sucks, plain and simple. it's nowhere near the hint of genius they showed on "heads up." every song sounds the same. you'd be better off buying anything than this. Expand
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37971 | Terry Funk
Biography: Before the 80's he was know as a great mat wrestler who won the NWA World HeavyWeight Championship in 1965. Terry and his brother Dory Jr. are the only brothers ever to win the NWA World Title. After the 70's he changed his style to a "HardCore Brawler" who always carried his trusty "Branding Iron". He wrestled many great matches all over the world, one who many people considered one of the best Brawls ever, with Ric Flair in an "I Quit" match that was the most intensed matched Flair and Funk had ever wrestled. He is also known for his legendary feud with Mick Foley where these guys fought in Japan and America. They fought in some of the most gory matches in wrestling including their infamous "King of the Deathmatch". Terry Funk is a legend who is 60 years old and is still wrestling and bleeding all the time.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/37995 | Thread: A MB question
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A MB question
Hello guys,
I have a little problem over here. I tried OC`ing my CPU last night and it failed. However the computer is okay and running (I`m writing from it ) but I have some problems:
1. It displays 7102 MB RAM on the BIOS and 8GB in Win7. I have 4x2 Corsair DDR2 modules
2. I can`t see the fan speeds in SpeedFan.
My MB is an Asus P5B-Plus.
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Sounds like the BIOS is messed up.
Try resetting the settings to default if that helps, or flash it to latest version.
Trolling should be.
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I restarted it and that`s what caused these things I assume :S Any links on HOW-TO? I downloaded the latest .ROM and tried the flash thing in the BIOS but it couldn`t find it (I assume it only works with FAT)
4. #4 will be more reliable than speedfan.
Give that a shot. - SWTOR Guild US West Coast PvP
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38000 | Comet Busters! (Windows 3.x)
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Comet Busters is an Asteroids-style game for one to four players. You must blast all the comet chunks to advance to the next level. But there are evil saucers, alien cronies, and flying chunks of dead planets all waiting for you.
You can play single player on one PC, or multiplayer over modem, serial cable, or TCP/IP network (the Internet!). You also have four special abilites:
• Hyperspace
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• Disrupter
• Cloak (only useful for multiplayer)
You can play full screen in any game. Another feature is tournament mode, where two to four players compete to see who is the last one left on each level. In this mode, you can choose between having the rocks bounce, be destroyed when you shoot them, or no rocks.
It features support for sound cards, or the PC speaker. You can also have MIDI music, even make it random.
Comet Busters! Windows 3.x Blasting some Dead Planet!
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Comet Busters! Windows 3.x Our planet is not alone !
Comet Busters! Windows 3.x Gotta keep an "EYE" on that saucer !
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In the first version, 1.0, there was a bug where your spaceship would get very big if you used hyperspace too much.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38002 | Hoyle Majestic Chess (Windows)
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Majestic Chess features single- and multi-player chess game modes, as well as a special mode called "Chess Adventure." In this mode you play as a lone king, building up your army of chess pieces to take on the various challenges you find along your way. It is designed to teach someone how to play chess from the very basics to complicated middle game strategies. The player encounters tutorials, speed drills, puzzles, and other challenges.
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The ideal chess game for casual chess players lost chauncy (51) 4.29 Stars4.29 Stars4.29 Stars4.29 Stars4.29 Stars
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Netjak Nov 24, 2003 9 out of 10 90
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GameStar (Germany) Dec, 2004 80 out of 100 80
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PC Powerplay Dec, 2004 72 out of 100 72
Joystick (French) Feb, 2005 7 out of 10 70
Computer Gaming World (CGW) Dec, 2003 3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars 70
Jeuxvideo.com Feb 03, 2005 12 out of 20 60
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This video, narrated by Penelope Ann Miller, presents a portrait of Mary Magdalene, follower of Jesus. The program compares and contrasts the traditional church's view of Mary Magdalene with a feminist perspective. Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute? What was her relationship to Jesus? Was she his "favorite disciple" mentioned in the Gnostic Gospels? These questions and more are the subject of the documentary on this enigmatic Biblical figure.
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John Boorman adapts L. Frank Baum's classic Wizard of Oz novel with this computer-animated picture, the first for the veteran director. The 25-million-dollar production will focus more on the book and less on being a straight-up remake of the beloved ... Read More
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Life and dignity with Wesley J. Smith.
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The Alliance for Medical Research, which has loose affiliations with Baylor College of Medicine, put out a video, "Regenerative Medicine: Pathway to Cures," which I demonstrated conclusively is thoroughly mendacious, propagandistic, and permeated with junk biology. Here is how the Alliance describes their work: "Our leadership is devoted to providing ethically-balanced, truthful facts about the science in question. Right now, that's Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research." Right, and 2 +2 is 5. What a crock.
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curlygirlamy 11-28-2012 08:16 PM
Losing wave and more frizz :(
Hi everyone! So I'm 2a/2b, highly porous, high density, and fine/medium texture. I'm currently using a prescription poo for eczema on my scalp (I can usually only go two days without using it until I start having buildup :( ), SNTC as my cowash, Organix Coconut as my rinse out, and GFSS or Shea Moisture Curl Milk as my leave-in. Then I usually use (CG friendly) Pantene mousse & HETT. I've been mod CG for about a month - since mid-october. So far its been great - my hair has been much shinier and softer, but lately my waves have been getting looser and looser yet my frizz hasn't subsided much at all. :( I'm not sure what I could be doing wrong! Any ideas?
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jakrussel3 11-28-2012 08:58 PM
Could be a couple of things... 1) Your hair might be over conditioned, in which case a quick protein treatment might help out. 2) Not sure where you are located, but in weather with low dew points (usually less than 35 degree dewpoint), you might try using some products with antihumectants and avoid glycerin. I'm currently using Regis Olive Oil leave in (olive oil is an antihumectant) to seal my hair before applying my styling products. That helped cut down the frizz i started experiencing when the weather changed over. 3) you might be due for a trim. Whenever my hair starts going limp and silly, I clarify once with a sulfate shampoo to make sure it isn't buildup. If that doesn't work, I go in for a trim and that works like a charm. For me, it's about every 10-11 weeks.
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I just went through that! I thought I needed extra moisture because of the drier winter air, but it turns out I was over-conditioned. (Hair felt fluffier than normal and had a strange texture to it that I thought was dryness. Think cotton candy.)
I did a protein-treatment and my waves perked up! I used Neutral Protein Filler (from Sally's) in a 2 to 1 dilution with distilled water in a spray bottle. I used all 3 oz. and my hair was curling up before my own eyes. Very strange to see. Now I know to lay off the heavy conditioners. HTH!!
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Thank you for replying! :) I'll try to do a protein treatment over the weekend and hopefully that will help! If that doesn't help, maybe I'll try getting a trim, haven't had one since the end of summer. :)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38071 | The Hobbit is a third-person action/adventure game set in the world of Middle-Earth. Take the persona of Bilbo Baggins, an unassuming hobbit who has been unwittingly thrust into an epic adventure. Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's novel of the same name.
• Explore a 3D world filled with expansive environments.
• Play through 11 massive levels in recognizable areas such as Rivendell, Mirkwood, Laketown and Lonely Mountain.
• Meet legendary characters like Gandall, Thorin and Gollum along your journey.
• Confront Smaug the dragon in the depths of Lonely Mountain.
• Battle over 30 different enemies in your epic quest to retake Lonely Mountain.
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The signs continues to grow that Nokia will announce a smartphone using Google's Android OS next week at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain. Today, Nokia offered a reminder that it will hold a press conference at the show on Monday and included a new teaser logo to boot.
The official Nokia blog didn't state what would be revealed at the press conference, but the logo hints that most of the rumors surrounding the phone, Nokia X, are indeed correct. As we have reported before, Internet leaks have strongly suggested the phone will have a 4-inch display, a dual-core 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and only 512MB of RAM and will be targeted towards the budget minded consumer. While the Nokia X will use Android, the rumors claims that it will be heavily modified for the phone, with its own UI similar to that of Microsoft's Modern interface.
Nokia will live stream its World Mobile Congress press event on its blog. It is scheduled to begin on Monday at 8:30 am Barcelona time, which means it will begin at 2:30 am Eastern Time and 11:30 pm Sunday in the Pacific Time zone.
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On Mar 28, 3:43 pm, "Daniel" <> wrote:
> > > Data can be validated before it's transmitted.
> flat file (the header isn't enough.) Or a vendor can define a
> proprietary schema format for flatfiles and sell a proprietary tool
> for validating a CSV file that conforms to the flat file.
I should have asked the question differently. In what does XML allow validation? I thought XML was supposed to be used for transport?
> validator that validates an arbitrary CSV file against a standard
> many such tools exist in the XML space.
Tools to do what again?
> > > Validation against a schema
> > > will trap most major errors. It will trap most of the minor errors that
> > > would normally require action by an expensive and extremely bored human being.
> > In what a header does constitute a schema.
> If you're suggesting that the header in a CSV file is like an XML
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The question should have been: what else does XML schema bring as oppose to a header?
> > > Code to handle XML is standardised and therefore doesn't need to be
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> > How is standardized? What is a standard for coding XML?
> have a standard way of representing data?
That does not answer the question. This is a specific example of a company that uses XML. I know many clients who totally ignore XML.
> > > It is difficult to extend CSV systems boyond the simple flat-file system
> > > with a single record type. Traditionally, at least in the systems I've
> > > worked with, the solution is to denormalise the data from more than one
> > > table. Therefore CSV is usually more verbose than XML and can take up much
> > verbose) than a flat CSV file?
> Bernard :-)
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How is it a pain in the ass to install them? If your distro doenst have them in their reposotory, just download them, and just run the script! make sure you have the kernel-headers installed, and its just fine!
On the other hand, I havent experienced this sucking of nvidia drivers that some says... I think they work really well. They have legacy drivers for linux, witch at least provide hardware 3d for older cards. Configuring dualhead without editing a line in xorg.conf is pretty nice, I was actually surprised it worked that good with 'nvidia-settings'.
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Still too much command line dependence. Sound has the same problem. Linux needs a GUI hardware manager, no one should have to edit xorg.conf.
You mean like and which were added to Ubuntu years ago? (I don't remember which release precisely, but those pages are dated 2008.)
Linux forums deal with text files and CLI solutions because they are easier to communicate. There is a pure GUI way to execute the solution recommended in the thread you linked... but it would have been harder to explain than "paste exactly this text into a terminal/config file". The fact that there is often no easy way to change a setting on the command line in Windows makes it significantly harder to discuss problems and fixes via a forum.
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A 30% share for these big digital distributors, then, if the figure's accurate. That's a significant amount if you like to know your money's going directly into developers' pockets. Fez landed on PC yesterday after a year-long wait. You can buy it through the Fez websiteSteam and GOG. The choice is yours. |
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The Top 50 U.S. Coins of All Time
The Childs 1804 dollar: $4.14 million coin
The Childs 1804 dollar: $4.14 million coin
Lists are all the rage these days, as the dawn of the year 2000 gives rise to compilations of everything from the most important events of the last millennium to the best movies and books of the 20th century. The numismatic field is not immune to this "bug." In fact, I made a personal contribution to the hype by preparing an article for COINage magazine recently on the men and women who deserve consideration as the numismatist (or numismatists) of the century.
In the spirit of these centennial and millennial pursuits, the editors of Coin Universe have asked me to draw up a list of the all-time Top 50 U.S. coins. Obviously, any such list must of necessity cover more than just the 20th century. On the other hand, its coverage falls considerably short of a millennium, since federal U.S. coinage didn't get under way until the final decade of the 18th century and even Colonial coinage takes the time line back to only 1652.
In accepting this challenge, I realized full well that no list would satisfy every single reader, since everyone has a different frame of reference. I also rejected the notion of basing my selections solely on rarity or price performance -- or even on historical significance. All of these elements need to be given weight, along with popularity, but I felt that the criteria must be as broad as possible, reflecting the composite importance and impact of every coinage candidate.
I've chosen a list within a list -- the créme de la créme, if you will -- consisting of the coins I consider to be the Top 10. And I've rated these in order of importance from 1 to 10. Assigning a ranking to each of the remaining coins would be arbitrary, capricious and ultimately rather meaningless, so I've listed those chronologically from oldest to most recent. In each case, I've given a brief explanation as to why I selected the coin, with much greater detail on the Top 10.
Your comments, criticisms, suggestions and substitutions would be most welcome. And although my list and yours might differ substantially, I hope you will agree that all of the 50 coins cited here are worthy of serious consideration. I know I'd be delighted to have them in my collection!
1. The 1804 silver dollar. "The King of U.S. Coins" resoundingly reaffirmed its claim to that throne on Aug. 30, 1999, when the Childs specimen, the finest-known example of this famous American rarity, changed hands at auction for $4.14 million -- more than double the previous record for any U.S. coin. That previous record was held by (what else!) a different 1804 silver dollar, the Eliasberg specimen, which had sold for $1.815 million in 1997. There are rarer U.S. coins; researchers say there are 15 examples of the 1804 dollar in existence. But for hype, pizzazz, romance and historical significance, this is the winner hands-down.
2. The 1913 Liberty Head nickel. If this list were restricted to just the 20th century, it would be topped by the 1913 "V" nickel. The five known examples came into being surreptitiously and some would say illegally, but over the years they have won not only acceptance but also recognition as coveted first-magnitude rarities. The Eliasberg specimen was the first U.S. coin to break the million-dollar mark at auction, bringing $1,485,000 in 1996 and holding the all-time record for more than a year.
3. The 1907 ultra-high-relief Saint-Gaudens double eagle. For sheer majesty, this is the monarch of all it surveys in U.S. numismatics. It may not be the king in terms of price performance or promotability, but it is widely acclaimed as the loveliest incarnation of the single most beautiful coin in the nation's history. And with only a handful of pieces in existence, it also possesses great rarity -- enough to gain it membership in the million-dollar club.
4. The 1909-S VDB Lincoln cent. Rarity is relative. With a mintage of 484,000, this first-year Lincoln cent is far from rare in an absolute sense. But because it is the lowest-mintage coin in the whole Lincoln series, and so many millions of people have collected this series over the years, the '09-S VDB has become one of the hobby's Holy Grails -- a coin that almost everyone knows about and fervently desires. It is, in short, the most popular coin in the single most popular series.
5. The 1943 bronze Lincoln cent. Misconceptions abound concerning this World War II variety. But everyone, it seems, has heard about this coin -- including millions of people whose coin collecting is limited to mayonnaise jars and sock drawers. The extent of public interest was underscored in February 1999 when a poorly researched story distributed by The Associated Press told of the loss of one alleged "copper" 1943 cent by an Idaho man. Coin dealers were deluged with phone calls, and there was extensive (and often inaccurate) coverage in the media. The fact is, small numbers of bronze cents were in fact produced in 1943, when zinc-coated steel was the standard composition. These coins generally command strong five-figure prices. Many U.S. coins are more valuable, but few can compare when it comes to firing up the public's imagination.
6. The 1873-CC no-arrows Liberty Seated dime. The "thin dime" may be the Rodney Dangerfield of U.S. coinage, but this particular piece gets plenty of respect. That's what happens when a coin is unique. In 1950, this was the final coin needed -- and acquired -- by Louis E. Eliasberg Sr. to finish his famous collection, the only complete date-and-mint set of every U.S. coin. Eliasberg paid $4,000 for this great rarity half a century ago -- and in 1997, when that collection hit the market, Illinois collector Waldo E. Bolen Jr. bought it for $550,000. In April 1999, Bolen in turn sold it for $632,500 at the Central States auction in Milwaukee. That's the highest price ever paid for any U.S. dime at a public sale.
7. The 1849 Coronet double eagle. This is another coin of which just one example is known. Its allure is compounded by the fact that the only known specimen is locked away in the National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian Institution. Thus, it's unavailable -- at ANY price -- to collectors. Besides being the ultimate rarity, this is also a coin with exceptional historical significance, for it is the very first U.S. double eagle (or $20 gold piece) ever made. And its issuance was spawned by the California Gold Rush. Some believe that if this coin ever became available to collectors, it might challenge the $4-million-plus record established by the 1804 silver dollar.
8. The Brasher doubloon. This privately produced gold piece, minted in 1787 by New York City jeweler Ephraim Brasher, isn't technically part of U.S. coinage. But it is surely an integral -- and surpassingly important -- part of the nation's coinage heritage. It also has cast a very long shadow in the marketplace: In 1979, a Brasher doubloon from the Garrett Collection sold at public auction for $725,000 -- a record that stood for nearly a decade as the highest price paid at auction for any American coin or related item.
9. The 1870-S three-dollar gold piece. Uniqueness counts! Here's another coin with just one example known -- and that alone would be enough to catapult it into the Top 10. For good measure, though, it also has a touch of romantic appeal: This single example is said to have been found in the cornerstone of the San Francisco Mint. Although it is not in mint condition, having been graded Extremely Fine-40, it brought $687,500 at the 1982 auction of gold coins from the Eliasberg Collection.
10. The 1933 Saint-Gaudens double eagle. Like the very first double eagle of 1849, this coin -- the very LAST U.S. coin of that denomination -- is unavailable currently to collectors. The reason, however, is quite different. The U.S. Treasury has ruled that 1933 double eagles, though minted, had not been officially issued prior to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's executive order suspending gold coinage and mandating the surrender of most gold coins in private hands. On this basis, the Treasury has decreed that any 1933 double eagles are subject to confiscation if they surface. Only a handful are thought to survive -- and if the shadow of seizure is ever removed, these could well bring upwards of $1 million apiece.
Following are the 40 runners-up in my Top 50 list. They are listed chronologically, rather than in their order of importance.
• The 1792 half disme. Talk about history: George Washington is said to have provided the silver for this coin.
• The 1793 Chain cent. The very first U.S. cent -- a failure in commerce, but coveted as a collectible.
• The 1794 Flowing Hair silver dollar. The first U.S. dollar, rare and historically important.
• The 1796 Draped Bust quarter. The only U.S. quarter minted in the 18th century, a type coin of exceptional rarity.
• The 1822 Capped Head half eagle. Only three examples are known, and one brought $687,500 at the 1982 auction of gold coins from the Eliasberg Collection.
• The 1827 Capped Bust quarter. Only 4,000 examples were made. Restrikes exist, and even those are rare and very valuable.
• The Gobrecht dollar. The jumping-off point for the long-lived Liberty Seated coinage, this lovely coin is rare and historically significant.
• The 1838-O Bust half dollar. The first branch-mint half dollar, with only 20 examples said to exist.
• The 1841 Coronet quarter eagle. Affectionately known as "The Little Princess," this rare proof-only issue is much loved and also much coveted.
• The 1856 Flying Eagle cent. Technically a pattern, this coin is widely collected as the very first small-size U.S. cent. It's extremely scarce and commands a substantial premium.
• The 1861 Paquet-reverse double eagle. A rare variety with tall, elegant lettering and a minuscule mintage of just three surviving pieces -- with a hefty price tag to match.
• The 1864 two-cent piece. The first U.S. coin to carry the now-familiar motto "In God We Trust."
• The 1876-CC twenty-cent piece. Despite a reported mintage of 10,000, only a handful are known to exist, and these bring handsome premiums.
• The 1877 Indian Head cent. The key coin of an enormously popular series. Not the lowest mintage, but the highest value and profile.
• The stella. A rare experimental coin struck in two years, 1879 and 1880, with two different varieties each year -- all of them extremely rare and valuable.
• The 1885 Trade dollar. A proof-only coin with a mintage of only five pieces.
• The 1892 Columbian half dollar. The very first U.S. commemorative coin, by most experts' reckoning. High mintage and relatively low value, but huge historical importance.
• The 1893-S Morgan silver dollar. In mint condition, the rarest and most valuable of all Morgan dollars.
• The 1894-S Barber dime. A great rarity, with a listed mintage of only 24 pieces and a survival rate considerably smaller.
• The 1895 Morgan silver dollar. Despite a listed mintage of 12,000 business strikes, only proofs are known to exist and these bring fancy premiums.
• The 1913 Type 1 Buffalo nickel. The original Buffalo nickel, depicting the bison standing on a mound, is a one-year type coin and the only one that shows this all-American coin in the full naturalistic beauty intended by artist James Earle Fraser. It is one-of-a-kind in more ways than one.
• The 1913-S Barber quarter. The lowest-mintage U.S. coin of the 20th century, not counting gold coins and varieties. Only 40,000 examples were produced.
• The 1914-D Lincoln cent. Next to the 1909-S VDB, the single most desired Lincoln cent. Its mintage is about three times higher than that of the '09-S VDB, but far fewer were saved in mint condition.
• The 1915 Panama-Pacific $50 gold piece. This largest (in size and face value) of all U.S. commemorative coins comes in two varieties, round and octagonal, and both have mintages well under 1,000 and price tags sometimes approaching or even exceeding $100,000.
• The 1916 Standing Liberty quarter. A first-year issue with a mintage of only 52,000.
• The 1916-D "Mercury" dime. Another first-year issue with a mintage only moderately higher at 264,000. Both this and the 1916 quarter are among the most sought-after rarities of the 20th century.
• The 1918/17-D Buffalo nickel. A rare overdate coin with a rarefied price tag -- well into five figures in top mint condition.
• The 1918/17-S Standing Liberty quarter. Another rare overdate from the very same year but a different mint. Worth a comparable premium in comparable condition.
• The 1921-D Walking Liberty half dollar. The lowest-mintage coin in one of the most popular -- and most beautiful -- of all U.S. series.
• The 1922 "plain" Lincoln cent. An odd mint-error coin, actually produced in Denver but with little or no mint mark evident. Rare and valuable.
• The Oregon Trail commemorative half dollar. By virtual acclamation, the most beautiful of all U.S. commemorative coins.
• The 1937-D three-legged Buffalo nickel. Something of a novelty, but also quite rare and valuable. The right foreleg is missing, having been polished off the die.
• The 1942/1 "Mercury" dime. Another overdate, likewise rare and valuable. On high-grade specimens, the date appears to be 19421.
• The 1950-D Jefferson nickel. Not especially rare but, at just over 2.6 million, the lowest-mintage Jefferson (not counting the somewhat fluky 1994 and 1997 matte-finish nickels struck for inclusion in special sets). It's on the list because it was so important in the roll-market craze of the early 1960s.
• The 1955 doubled-die Lincoln cent. The coin that really energized mint-error collecting, making it one of the most active areas of numismatics today.
• The 1960 small-date Lincoln cent. The coin most responsible for the boom in late-date rolls in the early 1960s. Its price and popularity have waned, but its role in sparking the coin collecting boom a generation ago cannot be overstated.
• The 1964 Kennedy half dollar. A common coin in terms of mintage figures, but one that caught the imagination of people all over the world in the wake of John F. Kennedy's tragic assassination. It may well be the most popular U.S. coin of all time.
• The Bicentennial Washington quarter. Of the three Bicentennial coins, the only one that circulated widely. It caught the eye of millions of non-collectors, and still does today on the frequent occasions when it turns up in pocket change.
• The American Eagle gold bullion coin. The coin that propelled the United States into the forefront of the bullion-coin marketplace.
• The 1999 Delaware statehood Washington quarter. The first coin in a series that is giving the hobby one of the biggest boosts it has ever had. The current coin-market boom can be credited, in no small measure, to the universal appeal of the 50-state quarters.
Top 5: (left to right) 1907 Ultra-High Relief St. Gaudens double eagle, 1804 Childs silver dollar, <br>1909-S VDB Lincoln cent, 1913 Liberty Head nickel, and 1943 bronze Lincoln cent
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38206 | When Guitar Hero World Tour comes out in October, it'll be the third Guitar Hero title released this year (with Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and Guitar Hero: On Tour preceding it). And if Activision Blizzard has their way, that would be only a third of the total Guitar Hero releases in 2010.
The company stated during their Analyst Day briefing (via Shacknews) that they intend to triple the amount of Guitar Hero releases by 2010, after doubling them in 2009.
Apparently this new torrent of Guitar Hero releases will extend to both retail product and downloadable content, indicating Activision may begin releasing downloadable songs on more of a regular basis, as Harmonix does with Rock Band. In order to keep up with this increased output, Activision Publishing CEO Mike Griffith stated they'll be bringing in more outside developers and hardware suppliers. FreeStyleGames, a recent Activision acquisition (and the developer rumored to be behind DJ Hero), may be among this new army of Guitar Hero developers.
And believe it or not, this is actually a less aggressive upward trajectory for the Guitar Hero series compared to what Activision had planned just last May, when they stated they wanted to triple releases by fiscal year 2009. Still, we can't help but imagine the room of Average Joe Gamer, where all that can be seen is a limp, clammy hand protruding from a suffocating heap of collapsed plastic instruments. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38214 | note jZed You wrote:<p> <blockquote> <table border="1"><tbody><tr> <td>Entity</td> <td>Attribute</td> <td>Value</td> </tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> </p> While there are some cases in which this is a good idea, it can also lead to really confused things like this: <p> <table border="1"><tbody> <tr> <td>Entity</td> <td>Attribute</td> <td>Value</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Elephant</td> <td>Color</td> <td>Gray</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Workstation</td> <td>Linux_distro</td> <td>Debian</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </p> <p> What happens to constraints and data types when each new row potentially introduces a new data type? What meaning does the concept "entity" have if there are no limits on the kinds of attributes it can take and the range and type of data the values for those attributes can have? I realize that you know what you're doing and probably only use this kind of a table in appropriate circumstances (and you did specify an example in which there were multiple optional attributes which is not the same as the example I've shown), but this kind of design seems to be a favorite with beginners who don't realize that it can sabatoge any notion of structure in the data. </p> You wrote:<p> <blockquote> Storing the optional attributes as columns requires a database change for every new attribute. </blockquote> </p> <p> The ability to change the structure of the database is an essential feature of relational databases. Sure, you want to avoid it when you can, but to label it a bad thing (tm) throws out the entire relational baby with the bathwater. </p> 379296 379296 |
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in reply to Re^6: A modest request of Merlyn
in thread A modest request of Merlyn
...for stating that his comments are globally never personal attacks, when a few examples of crossing that line exist.
I'm sure that a few examples do cross the line every now and again. It happens. If it doesn't happen, I'd be surprised. It's a bit of human nature. But, those who have been offended by such comments could message merlyn and discuss it. I'm sure that they'd work it out. If merlyn has offended you in such a way - I'm sure that he'd be pleased to communicate (and possibly apologize for offending) with you.
To have a whole thread on this seems a bit silly. Not particularly foolish, but silly. I hope that you are satisified with the answers you have recieved from such offender (aka merlyn) on this particular subject.
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by delirium (Chaplain) on Jul 13, 2004 at 17:55 UTC
I am not the least bit offended by being called a fool for my cheap XP-whoring code that I posted in the other thread.
This thread, on the other hand, is on the topic of stating that one's comments will never be personal attacks, that the offended party should re-read the post until he sees that he jumped to a conclusion, etc., etc, and then posting something that (debatably) falls into the category of personal attack.
It is my belief that doing that is being untruthful. Again (and boy did this get downvoted hard last time) I think that since the disclaimer against such action is a public one, breaking the disclaimer becomes a public issue.
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Consider this trivial modification to the example in the NetSNMP::TrapReceiver documentation.
#!/usr/bin/perl my $greeting = $ARGV[0] // '********** PERL RECEIVED A NOTIFICATION:'; sub my_receiver { print $greeting, "\n"; } NetSNMP::TrapReceiver::register("all", \&my_receiver) || warn "failed +to register\n"; print STDERR "Loaded the example perl snmptrapd handler\n";
With the following trivial modification to the snmprapd.conf file.
perl do "/usr/local/share/snmp/ hello";
This modification doesn't work (no output is produced and as far as I can tell, my handler is not being called). In my real world scenario, the command line argument happens to be a configuration file that contains extensive configuration information that I don't want hard coded into the code. I could of course hard code the path to the configuration file which I have done as a work around but I am wondering if anyone knows how to make this DWIM?
Update: I have received the following response from the module author which may mean what I am trying to accomplish is impossible unless kill -HUP <pid> causes the snmptrapd daemon to re-read the configuration file and re-register the function.
That won't work. The perl 'do' command only expects a filename. Instead, you can either define a subroutine in the file rather than ha +ve the file itself do something. IE, in the file if you put: sub foo { print "$_[0]\n"; } and then put these lines in the snmptrapd.conf file: perl do /path/to/script perl foo("hello world"); perl foo("now I am passing something different");
Update 2: The author has told me that kill -HUP <pid> doesn't do what I want so the best I can hope for is hard coding the path to the configuration file in the script and then having the function periodically reload it.
Cheers - L~R
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But the number was low and new names could be easily added.
Agreed. Adding new ops is not a problem. Alphabetizing the oplist and renumbering the ops was unnecessary.
There was never a public discussion about this policy change.
I remember several public discussions, at least in multiple #ps meetings.
If PBC now is not sufficient after the third rewrite what is still missing?
The last time I looked at PBC, it was still too tightly coupled to the internal layouts of various PMCs, especially the Sub PMC.
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by drewbie (Chaplain)
on Jun 11, 2004 at 04:40 UTC ( #363296=perlmeditation: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??
As we're moving farther and farther from the dot-com boom, my lack of a degree is really starting to come back and haunt me. I left school to be part of the "internet revolution" because I saw something facinating being built which I felt had great potential. Thus my first job as a HTML monkey, which quickly lead into my first programming forays - the humble formmail script and soon thereafter basic database-driven applications w/ oraperl (perl 4 pre-DBI). This was 1996 and I knew I was onto something big and exciting.
As I continued working and building my skills, my lack of formal schooling didn't matter. Times were good and jobs were plentiful. I could easily demonstrate my skills and prove I could do the job even though I had no degree. However, that's not the case any more. As more and more of my work is tucked away behind closed doors, it's becoming more difficult to demonstrate the increasing sophistication of my work. So how do you compensate?
During my day job I use lots of CPAN modules because I don't believe in reinventing the wheel, and the boss is agreeable to ocasionally submitting patches back to the community. This is one way of demonstrating skills, but patches usually don't show you know how to architect an application, just improve it. In the next week or two I'll be starting work on a personal project using Mason, Class::DBI, and whatever interesting release might come along on CPAN. I'm doing this primarily as a resume highlight, but I intend for it to be a profitable venture as well. I definitely plan on using this as a way to sell myself, and to have good, unencumbered sample code for interviews. I'm also focusing much more on good UI design, and designing applications that are easy for an end-user to learn and use. I think it's safe to say that "programmer designed" UI's often suck from a usability point of view. My early ones certainly did.
It seems that more and more these days, if you don't have a degree you're almost considered to be lesser than those with one. I say this NOT to knock on those degree holders out there, because they certainly deserve recognition for their achievements and persistence. This time of Graduation serves to remind me of those who toughed it out and the need for a degree these days. But what about the "self-made man"? How does he make himself standout in the crowd? How can he demonstrate the experience he's built up?
I know all about the benefits of networking, and am slowly building my contacts. But what about those times when you don't know someone in the company who can help get you past HR? What can you do besides go back to school (high on my TODO list already)?
I do not lack a degree because I'm dumb. on the contraty, I'm a smart guy, and I believe current and former coworkers would agree. I've single-handedly designed & developed 10k line web applications. I wrote a complete e-commerce system back in the day (that was my rite of passage, like writing a templating system or database wrapper is today). I've done lots of interesting things with creating PDF's on the fly. Problem solving is fun and enjoyable, and it motivates me to go to work in the mornings.
When looking for the next big challenge, how can I move myself to the front of the pack? Thanks for your ideas and tips.
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Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by jZed (Prior) on Jun 11, 2004 at 04:50 UTC
As Yogi said "If you don't know where you're going, you might not get there". I bring this up only by way of asking what your goals are other than "climbing the corporate ladder"? What are your interstes either in programming or outside of it that you would find satisfying to work on? Or ones that you could get passionate about as you did in 1996? It's those interests and passions that will get you where you want to go. If you really want something and you're good at it and you know where you want to go with it, those things will speak louder than degrees when the chips are down.
My end goal is to keep advancing myself professionally. I really enjoy being just a developer right now. But I don't want to be a pure developer forever. I want the chance to gain more leadership experience, which usually means you have to climb the ladder a bit or strike out on your own. That leadership experience is one of the things I see more and more of as a requirement for "Senior Developer" positions, so it's a bit of a catch-22. You can't get the experience w/o moving up the ladder, but it's not easy getting to the first step so you can start climbing.
The project I mentioned is one I've been sitting on for a year that should be interesting both from the standpoint of developing a business around it and technically (ie. the problems are not trivial to solve and will require a bit of thinking outside the box).
Outside of coding, I intend to do a lot of sailing/canoeing/kayaking this summer. I'm going to get outside more - something I don't do nearly enough these days. Being outdoors and "experiencing" nature really energizes me, but at this point I'm unsure of how I can use that to advance myself professionally.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by Callum (Chaplain) on Jun 11, 2004 at 09:53 UTC
A few comments for getting through the HR CV sift and into the hands of someone technical.
There will generally be a hierarchy of degrees for a typical technical role -- at the top is a relevant science/tech degree, then a non-relevant sci/tech degree, then non-tech, then no degree. Not directly applicable to you, but for myself (astrophysics) and many others it's important.
Distance learning, night classes, etc can be of great use, even if you're only taking one course a year your CV now says you're currently taking a (relevant) degree. This isn't 100% of course, as some companies definately don't want people studying whilst working, but in many cases it will get your CV through the initial sifts and onto the desk of someone who can evaluate it on it's technical merits.
"But what about those times when you don't know someone in the company who can help get you past HR?" I'll be a bit flippant and say -- find someone who can. If your covering letter can say that you've spoken with Joe Manager about the job then it stands a chance of bypassing the sift altogether.
Unless time is short, write to the HR department before you submit a CV, ask if they've any preffered formats for receiving CVs -- they may like to receive it in a particular easily OCRable font for example, or if they accept email applications in a particular document format. Also enquire if there's a particular person that applications should be addressed to -- ie rather than IT applications go to -- at the least this ensures the company recieves your CV the way they want it, with the added benefit that a couple of people there may recognise your name the next time they see it.
That's a good point. So "Finish my degree" moves from my TODO list to my DOING list, therefore I show initiative. And that is (almost) always a good thing.
Another good point. This echos what Ask The Headhunter has been saying for a long time: Study the companies out there, find one that you want to work for, and then cultivate a contact so can get you in the back door.
Here's an interesting article off that site. Basically it says: Be honest, don't lie, and it's your responsibility to make yourself outshine the others.
If you need a rule to follow, let it be this: Speak the truth.
• Let it be the listener's responsibility to take your words at face value and act on them accordingly. If you're afraid the truth won't help you achieve your goal, then it's up to you to find a more compelling and honest way to communicate your point. The challenge is yours.
• Take others at their word, and let it be their responsibility to be honest. If it turns out they're lying, stop doing business with them; stop associating with them. The challenge is theirs.
I'm in a similar situation. Left school early because I ran out of money and started working. Did several (10) years hard time as an SA (actually dug it, but quite tired of it now) and slowly moved into writing more and more code. I'm now writing software for a living. It's quite nice. However, when I was job hunting after getting laid off it was fairly apparent that not having a degree (and not currently working on one) was quite detrimental.
Luckily I have a job that I love. I have a strong desire to make sure that I'm in as good of a position as I can be to always have jobs that I love. (for the most part I have, I consider myself extremely fortunate) As a result of my recent experiance job hunting (and much prodding and poking from my fiance) I am taking classes again.
After much thought about work and life schedules I realized that spending 3 nights a week in class would not be practical. So I started taking classes at Uo Phoenix. The classes are reasonably challenging (have not taken any techincal classes yet) and the format is fantastic. I'm fully aware that a deg. from UoP is not going to carry nearly as much weight as a deg. from a more traditional school but I figured that with my experience would get me past a lot of the roadblocks.
The amount of work needed for the classes is by no means less than the amount of work needed for "traditional" schools. You just get to do it when you have time to. The classes are condensed into 6 weeks and you will cover the same amount of material that would be covered in a normal 16 week semester. I would work an average of 4 to 5 hours a night 4 nights a week on the class I was taking. I expect that will change depending on the class but that's been my experience with the 3 classes I've taken so far.
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Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by WhiteBird (Hermit) on Jun 11, 2004 at 13:17 UTC
Depending on where in the world you live and what schools you have available, you can look into the possibility of getting some of your degree credits through either testing out of certain courses and/or through experiential credits. You can get credit for things you've done simply by submitting documentation from your employer to the school showing what you've accomplished. You still have to pay a certain fee to gain credit that way, but it's a good way to get part of your degree out of the way.
If you're an experienced programmer why should you have to sit through a class in Basic PC use? Or in Program Design? Talk to a school admissions counselor and the department head of the CIS division and find out how many credits you can get for the stuff you already know.
Good idea. I must confess though that my first thought was: Isn't that how a "degree mill" works. :-) While I couldn't get out of compiler theory, I should be able to at least get credit for all those freshman/sophmore seminars they make you attend.
All this talk of school has inspired me to start doing some serious inquiries into taking classes again. I had a friend who got her Masters from UMass Boston last year and had good things to say about them, so I'll probably start there first since tuition is more reasonable at a state school.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by zentara (Archbishop) on Jun 11, 2004 at 16:26 UTC
"But what about the "self-made man"?"
The best way is to start your business.... are you really a self-made man if you get onto the "corporate welfare roles?"
Me? I have learned to love being poor and under-employed.... because I can still proclaim my "innocense". Once you declare yourself a professional, heavy responsibility (karma) seems to come your way. I worry about my soul more than anything the "rat-race" can give me.
While there are definitely many "corporate welfare roles" out there, they are not the ones I'm looking for and pursuing. The biggest advantage I know of for working for a corporation is that they often have resources I probably would not have as an independent. I'm talking about things such as oracle licenses, "enterprise" apps such as ERP, CRM, etc that require large amounts of cash to purchase.
There are advantages and disadvantages to both sides of the coin and IMHO it's unfair to lump all corporate jobs into "welfare". I don't want to be poor & living paycheck-to-paycheck. I have a wife and child that I have to think about, and they need stability. Ever priced a family health insurance plan? Want corporate contributions to your retirement? My point is simply that corporate jobs aren't all bad.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by McMahon (Chaplain) on Jun 11, 2004 at 18:29 UTC
Build yourself a killer resume.
Put all of your excellent skills and experience at the beginning of it.
Write a cover letter that shows that you know the domain, the job, and the company.
Don't be afraid to tweak each resume you send out to appeal to that particular company.
I don't have a degree either, and this strategy has worked well for me since 1997.
I've been doing this to varying degrees in the past, but that is excellent advice and I'll continue to do better. More and more I've been reading that you should not have a stock resume. Instead, customize a resume for each potential employer to highlight the experience that would be most beneficial for that position.
Congratulations on your success!
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by tilly (Archbishop) on Jun 11, 2004 at 21:19 UTC
I know that you say that you know about the benefits of networking, etc. But I still have to say that how you look for a job should be the first thing that you focus on to overcome the lack of a degree.
First of all if you don't have a degree, then it is likely that any kind of automated cut will cut you. Unfortunate but true. And, short of getting a degree, there isn't much that you can do about it. Therefore it pays to look for jobs in ways that are unlikely to be hit by an automated filter like that.
Since you've got Perl experience, I have to recommend Anyone posting jobs there has someone involved in the hiring process who understands the Perl community. Such people are more likely to be able to evaluate the quality of an applicant. Likewise get involved in your local perlmongers group if there is one. (You can always start one if none exists...) That is an excellent way to get contacts. For instance if you were in LA, you'd have heard about 3 different companies hiring within the last month. And you can ask on the list for the names of good headhunters.
And if you're spending time on the job boards, don't. To understand why not just read this article. About 2% of hires happen through job boards. And your lack of a degree puts you at a disadvantage there. No amount of work on your resume will change the fact that those are not effective for finding you jobs, and that your lack of a degree really hurts you there.
And a last option to consider. Work for yourself. There is no question that you're willing to overlook your own lack of a degree. When people hire consultants they generally ask different questions than when they hire employees. You might just find that your lack of a degree is less of a barrier there. But be warned that being successfully self-employed has its own challenges. Nor is this an easy market to do it in.
As always, tilly you have some excellent points. I decided today that it's time to go back to school and will be filling out an application for UMass Boston this weekend. I'll probably only do 1 class a semester for a while, but that's better than nothing!
I've been on the perl jobs list pretty much since the start. That is my gauge of the perl jobs waters, and I'm happy to report that the water is definitely getting warmer. Unfortunately, nearly all the jobs posted are not in the New England area. If I was in CA I'm confident I could have gotten a new job a long time ago. But I'm in Boston, which has been slower to recover from the tech job losses in the last few years. It's picking back up, but the volume (for perl anyway) is still much smaller. Now if I was a Java guru ...
I don't think I've looked at job boards in months. I occasionally troll for "perl" in Boston but I don't waste more than a few minutes doing so. I read the Ask the Headhunter article you referenced, and completely agree with Nick's conclusion. BTW, I highly recommend his email newsletter to everyone. He has some spot on advice regardless of your specialty.
Finally, long term I would love to work for myself. But I'm not there yet, and will probably finish school before I try striking it out on my own. What I'm trying to do now is start some small projects I can work on the side that could turn into full-time ventures. Again, that's all in the future. I have a family to think about, which unfortunately limits my entrepreneurial abilities.
That I know not to be true. I've pointed recruiters to (and seen their offerings appear there) who had no knowledge what so ever about any "Perl community" except for the fact the only person they knew with significant Perl knowledge was me. I know of others who succesfully point recruiters to Being able to figure out a webform to post a job opening doesn't make one understand the Perl community.
Maybe. Maybe not. I don't know how the situation is in the USA, but I've worked for a consulting company in .nl for a couple of years. And unless you have been hired by a company before, almost every application for a consulting gig starts with sending a resume, which is used as a first filter for the company potentially hiring you. Now the difference is that for many consulting gigs, you have to do a very specific thing - so they might weight experience more than degree. But that's a chicken-and-egg problem, to be able to get (more) experience, one must have experience.
I agree, indeed it is a chicken-and-egg problem, but I don't see that much as a big problem. From 1994 to 2000 I've contracted 60 people and to be able to hire the better ones, I had to read and analyze hundreds of resumes. I discussed this work with several other (personnel) managers and almost everybody does stress the importance of experience, but there are several forms of experience.
The form most considered is experience in a paid job, for an employer. Quite often, applicants for a job at my cmpany, didn't have such experience, but they had exerience in working at home or (as a student) at university or high school. And they could show that experience: websites, database-driven, several scripts, server logs and statistics.
For me, and quite a lot of managers of small companies, a degree is absolutely not important, and neither is experience in a paid job. Just be able to show you have experience.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by perlfan (Deacon) on Jun 11, 2004 at 22:25 UTC
I would seriously consider finishing your degree. I have a bachelors, and I am working on my masters *just* so I can compete. Your hard work will pay off. Besides, it is much easier to convince management of your worth/skills if you can tell them that you are finishing your degree and have an anticipated graduation date.
I've come to the same conclusion. See my earlier reply to tilly about applying to school.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by cLive ;-) (Parson) on Jun 11, 2004 at 22:46 UTC
I'm heading that way too drewbie, but I more sort of fell into managing. What worked for me was to spot problems outside of my immediate area of responsibility and then fix them (making sure you're not treading on anybody's toes :).
I get a say in the hiring process for new developers here now and, personally, I can't remember if anyone on my team has a degree. What I look for is passion. Passion for what you do and curiosity to know more. I'll even consider people with currently weak Perl skills if they've already proved they can learn and adapt. Of course, unless I get hassled directly, I only get to see the resumes HR and my boss have filtered :)
As for the getting the resume through HR - I used humor to get interviews (I had two sections on the skills part of my resume, "Things I can spell" (ie, thing's I've used but have little memory of right now), and "Things I can do". I think I also added a bullet point about "can hold a conversation without staring at my shoes" somewhere too.
But then, in a more formal corporate environment that might not quite work as well. But I'm happy sitting here in shorts and bare feet pottering away...
I think the key thing is to keep track of your achievements outside of development. How have you improved efficiency? How did you organize the dev process to improve QA? etc... and, if you are organizing chunks of work for work mates, how are you ensuring they do the work to an acceptable quality level?
My management stuff is 5% of my time, but I find that general fixing of broken processes etc takes up a lot more time.
just my .02 of rambling thoughts...
cLive ;-)
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by baruch (Beadle) on Jun 12, 2004 at 04:23 UTC
Hi, Drewbie. Your comments touched a nerve. Unfortunately, having a degree is increasingly becoming the magic key. The dilemma is that many of us are highly qualified, experienced, competent programmers, yet that lack of degree keeps us from getting in the front door. Many of us were busy learning how to program, while others were getting their degrees, so to speak.
I think this is part of the cycle for new technologies. Early on, there are no degrees, because no one's done it before. At that stage, the need for people to learn the technology is critical, so mere paper qualifications aren't important. As the technology matures, there are more teachers, more students, and eventually more degrees.
Management types seem to be comforted by the paper qualifications. It's safer for their jobs. If they are faced with two candidates, one with a degree (but who can't program), and the other who may be a god, but has no degree, a manager will probably opt for the degree. It's simply safer for him. If the god doesn't work out, he has no defense. He hired the guy, and now the guy's gone. But if he takes the degree, he's not at risk.
It has been my experience that a degree doesn't have much to do with programming ability either way. Some great programmers have degrees; many do not. And there are plenty of crappy programmers out there, with and without paper.
I don't see a good solution for this, for those of us (such as myself) who have no degree. It is getting harder to find jobs in corporations, as they move to requiring more paper. I am seeing smaller, hungrier companies willing to take a risk with someone without a degree. Unfortunately, these companies often can't pay much. They are taking risks because they're already marginal. Not much job security.
As to moving yourself to the "front of the pack", I'm not exactly sure what you meant by that. I've always tried to make sure I'm at my best, and to let my skills speak for themselves. To me (and it sounds like to you, as well) getting in the door is the hard part. Once I get a chance to show what I can offer, I feel I have a good shot at a job. Certainly not a shoo-in. There are better programmers than I am; but at least a fair chance at it.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by deprecated (Priest) on Jun 12, 2004 at 05:41 UTC
I hope you'll pardon my not addressing your node point-by-point.
I, too, am one of these people without a degree who has occasionally gotten a bit of flak for it. In general, I find that the people that give me this flak are those with degrees who have wasted 4-8 years of their lives obtaining said degree.
Let me elaborate a little further.
I failed algebra in high school. Shortly thereafter, I decided high school was a waste of time, and dropped out. I started college. After 2 years of that, I got a better offer. Work, and support myself full time, or go to college, and incur debt. This was an easy decision.
I still don't really understand math in a pure sense. However, in the last month, I've been required to "learn" set theory and pieces of calculus through my job. In fact, the only way I ever came to understand Algebra itself was in terms of programming. My professor was very understanding and allowed me to use programs I had written to solve equations on tests.
So now I'm 26, and I have almost a decade of experience under my belt. The last time I was actually hunting for a job, it was because I was unhappy with the job I had. I found a new one, and was prepared to leave when my current employer offered me a 20% raise. I realized at that point that the only implication of that was that they had been paying me 20% less than they thought I was worth to somebody else. This, too, was an easy decision: I took the new job at a slight cut, knowing they wanted me for who I was and what I could do for them. I'm generally much happier with this employer.
Whoever is giving you guff has (usually) one of two reasons:
• They wish to pay you less than you are worth.
• They wish to justify the time they spent in school and the money they spent on it.
While I don't really like to point at demagogues and pop psych, I might suggest you read The Fountainhead.
Don't let it get under your skin. If you're where you are, and they're where they are, you have a definite competitive edge. Don't let their insecurity rob you of that.
and no, i'm not bitter. not even a little.
Tilly is my hero.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by bradcathey (Prior) on Jun 12, 2004 at 16:20 UTC
Drewbie, I realize I'm a little late replying to this node, but I do bring a slightly different angle to your dilema.
I'm not a Perl programmer by trade, I'm a graphic designer. Before I get to the Perl stuff, let me tell you about my design pilgrimage. I don't have a degree in design, it's in music. I knew my skills and talents were in design back in high school, but when I went to college back in the late 60's, it was the era of doing-your-own-thing, bucking the establishment. So I did music and nearly starved to death.
So, I went back to design and started looking for work. Of course, all potential employers wanted a degree, in spite of my abilities. So, I struck out on my own, lucked out, and for 26 years have been self-employed and have employed approx 100 others over the years.
I fell into Perl when I started doing web development. I started with a used copy of an 1995 edition of some forgotten Perl book and just started hammering out scripts to handle forms and send e-mails. I now love programming (though I have so much to learn, as coming to the monastery nearly a year ago has shown me, but that's a whole other story). Now, my favorite days are when I get to program--not design.
The fact that I don't have a degree in design or computer science has not stopped me. Granted, I don't want, or have ability, to be a full-time programmer like yourself, but hanging out your own shingle means you can call the shots. Oh, believe me, there are times when being self-employed is scary, but now I get to do two things I love without anyone asking me if I have a degree in either one. And when I do get asked, it's fun to see the reaction when I tell them it's in music.
Be encouraged! Think outside the box! And consider choosing your own path and creating your own destiny, even with the pitfalls. All the best!
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by sfink (Deacon) on Jun 12, 2004 at 21:46 UTC
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jun 13, 2004 at 13:56 UTC
Find a good recruiter. Seriously. A few years ago, I moved from .us to .nl. I had zero contacts in .nl, but I had to find a job. On a monday morning, I had contact with a recruiting agency - I explained by background, what I was looking for, and they assigned me to a recruiter most appropriate for my wishes. Before the end of the day, he had set up two job interviews for me on the following Wednesday. On Wednesday itself, he had set up another interview for me on Friday morning. Friday at noon, I had three job offers to pick from, and I started work the next Monday.
Half a year later, I decided to quit my job (three months before the company went belly-up). For a few weeks, I unsuccesfully tried to find a job on my own. So, I contacted the same recruiter - on a Friday afternoon at 4pm. By 7pm, he had set up two interviews for me on Monday morning. On Monday, there were two more interviews set up on Tuesday. On Friday, I had four offers to pick between.
Re: Climbing the corporate ladder
by Sandy (Deacon) on Jun 14, 2004 at 21:52 UTC
I have no answers, but I do have a different perspective.
I have too many degrees (PhD), not in computer science. When looking for a job, no one would even talk to me.
So, how did I get my current position... I stubbornly went to a job fair, and after numerous technical people refused to talk to me, I started saying "I have a PhD, will you still talk to me?". This usually embarassed them into talking to me. The rest was up to me. I got 2 job offers doing that.... However, the job that I ended up with was more luck than anything else. I was standing in the hallway arguing with the HR lady, arguing that just because I was 'over educated' didn't mean that I would get bored and quit the company after 2 months. As I was arguing, some manager came along, who was also 'over qualified' and felt the kinship. We talked, complained about engineers, and he offered me a job, and I promised him that I would not quit after two months. I've been here 8 years now.
You'd think people would learn... while looking for fresh blood with my new supervisor, scanning CVs by the hundreds, he cavaliarly discarded all CVs that did not have a bachelor degree, but also discarded all CVs that had more than a bachelor degree. I pointed out his flawed logic to him, and he blushed, but I do not think that this has made a lasting impression.
Do I have solutions? Nope, but I think the key is getting in to actually talk to the persons who you would work with.
Me, if I were in the position to do so, I would hire people who love programming, because, IMHO, it is truly the real requirement to becomming a good programmer.
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another possibilty is to read the whole file in one string and match it there
use strict; use warnings; #slurp mode, read whole file in one variable $/ = undef; my $text = <DATA>; if ($text =~ /xxxxx.*?\n.*?yyyyy.*?\n.*?zzzzz/) { print "match \n"; } else { print "no match \n"; } __DATA__ xxxxx bla yyyyy bla bla zzzzz
if you want to match only if the three lines are excatly xxxxx, yyyyy and zzzzz respectivly, remove the .*? from the regex
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2 stars It is good to hear any music again after awful Abacab.The self-titled album is good enough for listening. It contains fully electronic sound with progressive element. It is weaker than first two albums for Genesis as trio, but it's a nice step forward from the latest album - Abacab. However the situation here is not very optimistic, too. The album is an easy-earning money album with no fine musicianship and nothing special, even nothing very good and memorable moment. Most of the songs are almost clear pop music, which is a genre extremely different to my philosophy of music. Because of all that my rating is 2 stars.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38301 | The Eyes Have It, and an Apology from Hollywood: "Cast Away" and "The Family Man" Print
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Written by Mike Schulz
Tuesday, 02 January 2001 18:00
Tom Hanks in Cast AwayCAST AWAY
In Cast Away, Robert Zemeckis’ most fully satisfying work in ages, Tom Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx engineer for whom the world can’t move fast enough; he’s obsessed with time-saving, whether it be with associates in Moscow or friends at home. Before boarding a plane for a business conference, he even goes so far as to give his girlfriend (Helen Hunt) a wrapped engagement ring, instructing her to open it when he returns. (He saves lead-in time on its actual presentation.) But somewhere over the Pacific, the plane crashes (in one of cinema’s most terrifying airplane disasters), and Chuck is washed up on a deserted island with little hope of escape or rescue; suddenly, he has all the time in the world, and the film, which had previously been lightning quick, slows down to a crawl.
This is where the film’s magic truly begins. Chuck now has to learn to survive, and Zemeckis and screenwriter William Broyles Jr. have no qualms about taking their time to show us how he succeeds. For almost an hour, the film is nearly wordless as Chuck learns how to make fire, harpoon fish, and get milk out of a coconut, and if this sounds dull, be assured that the filmmaking team and the astonishing Hanks have found a way to make Cast Away feel like the least boring movie of the year. They’ve used Hanks’ natural boyishness to uncannily good effect; he seems like a child born into a new world, and the looks of hurt and disappointment and triumph in his eyes are more dramatic than any “story” the movie could offer. Hanks’ eyes are the story.
The filmmakers have even given him a child’s toy – a volleyball that washes ashore in one of many FedEx packages that occasionally surface (a screenwriting conceit that works remarkably well). Chuck paints a face on the ball, in blood, and dubs it Wilson, after its manufacturer. Wilson becomes Chuck’s only friend on the island, and it allows him to converse to keep from losing his mind. One could argue, of course, that having conversations with a volleyball is proof positive that you have lost your mind, but in Hanks’ hands the ensuing relationship is incredibly poignant. When Chuck throws Wilson out of his cave after an “argument,” a scene that should be pathetically comic quickly becomes emotionally devastating. No kidding.
It’s to the immense credit of the Cast Away crew that what could have been, in lesser hands, the most sickly element in their story turns out to be their trump card (and a coup for Hanks; it turns out this very fine actor has wellsprings of madness and paranoia in his palette as well). Cast Away’s island scenes are endlessly exciting because they have purpose; as much as you enjoy Chuck’s invention (among the contents of the FedEx packages are a pair of ice skates, an evening gown, and a batch of videotapes, all of which, à la MacGyver, Chuck uses as survival tools), you long for him to get home, and whenever he hits a snag you feel the pain; audiences, by now, are so conditioned to empathize with Hanks that his every setback feels like our setback. And Zemeckis and Broyles have smartly avoided any “Meanwhile, back in the States ... ” cross-cutting; once you’re on the island, you’re stuck. Cast Away represents something of a minor filmmaking miracle; it has taken a character’s torturous circumstances and woven them into something wholly entertaining.
Best of all, its messages are left deliberately ambiguous. Of course, there’s a side to the film that advises us all to stop and smell the roses, because we don’t know how much time we have left, yada yada yada, but thankfully, this nugget of wisdom doesn’t turn Chuck into a sap. Late in the film, the childlike wonder in Hanks’ eyes has given way to something harder, an awareness that life itself might be meaningless; there’s still hope there, but it’s distilled with terror and bluntness – he’s been through hell, and isn’t about to do it again. It would have been enough if Cast Away’s filmmakers had given us a rollicking adventure saga, as it would have if they had merely provided a role for Tom Hanks that played off his best instincts and showed us new sides to his gifts. For a movie to do both is rather extraordinary.
Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni in The Family ManTHE FAMILY MAN
The themes and morals in Cast Away are accepted and catalogued without any fuss. In The Family Man, all you get are themes and morals, and you get them over and over again until you start to feel woozy. In general, you should try to avoid any movie that wants to turn you into a better person, but you should especially avoid it when the movie is about wealthy people learning “deeper values.” Hollywood’s idea of “bettering” people is to pander to their staunchest middle-class beliefs: The rich are venal, superficial and soulless; they think they’re happy but they’re not; and the joys of a Ferrari and an unlimited expense account are nothing compared to the harried thrill of taking your kid to ballet class and wiping up your infant’s poop. A hackneyed attempt at It’s a Wonderful Life-style significance, The Family Man turns into a traditional Hollywood apology movie – “We may be rich and super-powerful, but you people are the true heroes, because money hasn’t corrupted you."
Nicolas Cage stars as a Wall Street lothario who magically sees what life would have been like if he had married his college sweetheart (Tea Leoni) and lived the simple life in New Jersey, and with the exception of some relaxed kidding around between the leads, there’s not a believable moment in the movie. The director, Brett Ratner, pitches nearly every scene too high and pours on the schmaltzy music each time Cage learns that Money Can’t Buy Happiness (which happens a lot in two very long hours). He throws in one of those “adorable” little Hollywood moppets that pronounce an R like a W so often that you pray for something heavy to fall on her. And he misses something that causes the entire film to crash: Nicolas Cage is a lot more enjoyable as an ultra-rich snob than he is as a sensitive hubby and father; the film is at its best when Cage performs double-takes at the sheer tackiness of his new, “family man” wardrobe. And before the transformation, Cage doesn’t even come off as a bad guy; he works his butt off, entertains his co-workers, has mutually fulfilling sexual relationships (in which, on the evidence we receive, no one gets hurt), and foils a convenience-store hold-up with his wits. Why does Hollywood feel it necessary to punish him? Oh right ... deeper values. |
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[–]DrMandible 1 point2 points ago
Odd that you chastise me for getting worked up about a random internet stranger but you're doing the same thing.
I'll spare you my condescending "advice" about that. |
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[–]balfoursyournephew 11 points12 points ago
Fuck with the Declaration of Independence so it somehow spells out 'Barack Obama is the Antichrist'. That should fuck with a lot of people.
[–]666_Do_It_4_The_Trix 3 points4 points ago
Tainting the work of our lord? You sick bastard |
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[–]pullcow 1 point2 points ago
I work in digital advertising for a media publisher.
I haven't seen the Go Daddy ad and I don't know how reddit runs and sells it's advertising inventory.
But it is possible that you've been re-targeted and served the Go Daddy ad through tracking cookies.
Essentially, a lot of websites and publishers sell off some of the inventory they have to a network. If a bunch of sites do this, there becomes an incredibly large network across the net where you can be followed and re-targeted.
Often you are re-targeted because you landed on a website - say Go Daddy's or one where Go Daddy was specifically sponsoring because they felt that you were in their target market, and now because of the cookie data they have on you, they can follow you across websites that are part of the networked inventory and continue to serve you the same ad.
That's why you always see ads for things you've been looking at online.
But it's also possible that Reddit doesn't do this at all. Like I said, I don't know how they run their ads.
TL;DR - the ad may have followed you from somewhere else, depending on the way reddit sells it's ad inventory |
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[–]tframe 1 point2 points ago
Also don't use more the 2/3 cup of green beans at a time. Anymore, you will get an uneven roast. You will never have a better cup of coffee than one you roasted on your own! |
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[–]ScarletRhiDelena 7 points8 points ago
Oh wow that would seriously make so much sense, I don't know why that did not come to mind, with the number being the same and all. |
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[–]seanadb 1 point2 points ago
Btw, this is the (currently) first comment after the story.
Destr0 09 November 2013 2:44pm I don't know. I'm black, 6+feet, broad shouldered well groomed, etc. and have the same experience wondering why the seat next to me on the bus is empty more often than not. Especially when someone will appear to be searching for anywhere else to sit or will even stand. But it ends there. If they would rather stand, that's their problem, not mine. It took me a long time to get here, but I can't spend my life worrying about other people's hangups. The bigger concern for me is the author's self loathing and negative view of himself. The while article is written like someone's depressing journal. If he thinks he's the only black person who hasn't felt like he identifies with "black culture", get in line. Stereotypes are just that, very broad brushes that generally don't fit the majority of the people they are put on. I've often found myself being one of the few blacks in my profession (architecture), at concerts of music I like or even cultural events (gallery openings or museums). I don't wallow in self-pity about. I like what I like and that's the end. I also like being black too. These things aren't mutually exclusive.
Good, thoughtful response. What are your thoughts on this? (genuinely asking, not being sarcastic)
[–]silthegr8[S] 0 points1 point ago
I can say that I agree with him. Many people go through this everyday, and, at first, I took the article as him attempting to shine a light on it, but I read it again and see it as him whining. As I said in my own experiences, it sucks that people have some sort of shitty pre-conceived notion about a group of people that they place upon every single one that they meet. Personally, I like the extra space. But, I do think that people need to chill and stop being so afraid and judgmental, negatively.
I posted this article to shine a light, that's all. Is it a shitty situation? Yes. Primarily, I'm just annoyed at how anyone that's slightly tanned or above must act in a specific way, or else they're, not only treated but, viewed in messed up ways. This effects everything, by the way.
I once dated this girl, it went well. Her mother and father, the whole family, loved because I turned her into a better person, their words paraphrased. But then they met met me and found out that I was partially black, and immediately started lobbying for her to get rid of me. She wouldn't do it. I ended up breaking up with her for other reasons. Anyways, this happens. That's life as a black dude.
[–]seanadb 0 points1 point ago
That is so surreal and messed up. Wish someone could take a cluebat to all those types of people you mention. It makes no sense! It smacks of something from the Twilight Zone, not reality and certainly not Canada. Sorry you have to endure that. :\
[–]silthegr8[S] 1 point2 points ago
Submission Statement
This is a phenomenal article because it gives everyone an insight into how blacks feel in society. A lot of people don't realize the hardships that go into being black. You're born with it, so you have no control over any of it. For instance, there are a lot of social policies, if you must, that one should, or must, follow. I'm a half black and half white (mother is african and father is italian) guy living in Canada.
Growing up, I have always been into opera but I was looked down on for this, and, sort of, forced into becoming a fan of rap/hip-hop. Unless you're willing to live a life of isolation, it makes living ridiculously difficult. I was molded at a young by my mother and father to become very knowledgeable in mathematics, and so growing up that's all my life, practically, revolved around. This didn't fly well because I was part black. However, I'm known as a black guy even though I'm just as much black as I am white. And to blacks, I'm known as a white guy. Then this new term of being "lightskin" came out, and I categorized into that by both. Its like you don't belong anywhere. Anyways, this isn't about that. Shit is always changing.
This article reflects what a particular race goes through every fucking day. It is annoying. A packed bus, people want to sit, but refuse to just because of one's pigment? That's ridiculous. About 4 days ago, I was at a McDonald's that was very much packed, it was around lunch time. I saw how long the line was, so I turned to this older lady beside me and asked her what she was ordering, and told her that to save time that I would have put it with my bill, and she would not have had to pay. She was skeptic, I understood, and so she declined. Then she kept trying to speak to me as if she wanted me to do but was scared. So we spoke for a bit, about 5 mins, and then she agreed. After the transaction, she told me that "not a lot of you are like this, you must be very tanned." As a person that isn't into scenes or making big deals out of things, I turned to her and said "no, I'm cut in the middle; I have a black mother and a white father, and yes, I was raised in europe but lived here (Canada) all my life". And then she proceeded to just bash blacks and teenagers. I'm a young adult and such but still.
I want this article to shine a light, which will allow others to realize how stupid it is to care about one's race. Take a seat. Say hello. Or just don't be an asshole. It isn't hard.
Edit: broke it up into paragraphs.
[–]seanadb -3 points-2 points ago
That is so strange. What city do you live in? I'm in Winnipeg, and grew up with people from all sorts of cultures/ethnic backgrounds. I've never seen anyone abused for racial reasons, so the idea that this situation happened to you is odd. It's possible it happens all around me and I'm oblivious to it, but those sort of comments are pretty hard to ignore (i.e. bashing of blacks/any ethnicity).
[–]psyyduck -3 points-2 points ago
I used to feel much the same way until I started meditating. The guy just needs to get help. I get what he's saying, it hurts a lot, but its like when the weather gets cold you find a jacket. The only wrong response is complaining and doing nothing.
It also helps to travel. Anything that gets you out of your old patterns.
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[–]pgc 1 point2 points ago
"post-racial society" is such a joke
[–]sakebomb69 -5 points-4 points ago
Maybe people avoid sitting next to him because his broad shoulders hang over the next seat. |
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[–]a-cocoon 18 points19 points ago
Later on in the thread, one of the members mentions and links to this article. And the hatred of women continues, without a hitch. It's amazing to me that they don't have any self awareness or group awareness of what they've subjected this woman to with their comments. All of her points in the article are sound and valid, but they can't hear any of it because they've already decided that all women are useless and that their viewpoint is unimportant.
One man admits to 'respecting' her decision "to continue to own who I am and what I want out of life." But complains that she went too far to smear the entire group as misogynistic. First of all, who's smearing who here? And how is it that they can't see that they are a massive part of the part with society, exhibited right here in how they've assumed her entire existence into their hateful little boxes? Just like forum member 'womanhater' says:
"she no doubt has $100K of student loans that will be 'forgiven' due to her 'public service' and since she (ahem) works for .gov, her entire 'caweer!' is yet more leaching off the actual production of the working class, to say nothing of the almost certain 8 to 1 consumption of health care resources over a lifetime versus men who will have to pick up the slack via higher taxes and increased insurance premiums, and on and on and on....
And this worthless fucking carbon matrix is allowed to fucking vote.
Ugh, I need booze!"
I just can't believe all this outright hatred of women. And that there is an outlet where they get to circlejerk and inflate their egos about it disgusts me. Yeah, I need a fucking drink too. |
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[–]navybluu 0 points1 point ago
I had one of those removed when I was in college. About the same size as yours, just lower on my neck, almost parallel with my shoulders. You're lucky...your arms won't pull on your scar. I had to have my scar resected a year later because the surgeon wasn't happy with how it healed because any movement of my arms pulled it slightly apart. I wish I still had the pictures of mine, but they were taken on a Polaroid (who the hell knows why, it was less than ten years ago). Mine never bothered me but my mom thought I looked like a hunchback so she made me go to the surgeon. |
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[–]No_Please_Continue 0 points1 point ago
Yup, I got the same clip about 3 years ago. I didn't show my boobs so the snake ate the it always does, every time that guy shows that recording. Eh. Nature. |
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[–]Holocaust__Denier 17 points18 points ago
I remove the grate first if possible, if you stick someone else's toothbrush through the grate you can sometimes twist and lever it out. But otherwise waffle stomp will work in a pinch.
[–]fuk_dapolice 1 point2 points ago
Do people really do this
[–]gilly12345 0 points1 point ago
Never your own toothbrush. |
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[–]alofons 0 points1 point ago
That's interesting. I was talking from experience and intuition, since many GIFs have a huge size, and when I'm looking at a GIF loading, each frame seems to take roughly the same time.
I have done a simple test, using Imagemagick's "convert" to make a GIF consisting on some equal frames. The result is completely linear.
10 equal frames: 23551 bytes
20 equal frames: 46301 bytes
30 equal frames: 69051 bytes
40 equal frames: 91801 bytes
50 equal frames: 114551 bytes
(For reference, the original image is 64x64=4096 bytes when palettized to 256 colors, and the GIF size increases 2275 bytes per frame including LZW compression, so it looks like the entire image is being encoded).
If a popular program such as ImageMagick does that, I imagine that there may be many more programs that also do it. Maybe there's some limitation on this approach, or maybe no one has bothered to implement it (like true color GIFs).
A wild guess: Each GIF image/frame can only have one image descriptor. One can use it to specify the rectangle to be updated. Wouldn't this mean that if a pixel changed near the top-left corner, and another near the bottom-right corner, the whole frame would need to be retransmitted?
[–]riplin 0 points1 point ago*
I think you can get creative with the frame time though. But this is pure speculation. If you create 2 frames and set the delay to 0ms, it could update in the same 'frame'. But again, that's pure speculation.
Oh! There's also transparency, so that probably helps trim it down for parts of the screen that didn't change. |
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[–]Kilora Amariyo on GoblinKilora 3 points4 points ago
There has never been an MMO released (non-sandbox) that released content faster than players consumed it.
It isn't possible -- especially when you have players who play 40+ hours every week.
I personally have no problem with people who do that. My problem is when they whine like little children because the horrible creators of the game can't make content faster than they can play it. People need to learn to play multiple games, or take a damn break and not binge on things. If you did that with food, you'd have an eating disorder; with alcohol you'd be an alcoholic; but with video games, it's absolutely normal and a non-issue to binge?
[–]Orianas Ezian on Midgardsormrorianas 0 points1 point ago
The issue here is not so much that you can't add content faster than its consumed so much as that post WoW content is too easily and quickly consumed. Vanilla WoW was released on the 23rd of November in 2004 and Lucifron was killed on the 20th of January. So 2 months after to kill the FIRST boss of MC. Obviously there wasn't just one boss in MC so there were plenty of achievements to feed on (10 total in MC) leading up to Ragnaros which was finally killed on April 25th Almost 5 full months after the content was released was it cleared! We are what 2 months in and the entire dungeon is cleared with no harder content to look forward to for 5 months?
Which brings us to another issue that WoW addressed as well. The first battleground was released on June 15th and was a massive additional time sink. AV battles lasted DAYs and while there was issues getting in to them at times they was never a lack of interesting things going on in there. And just over a month later (July 15th) BWL the second raid instance (well 3rd if you count Onyxia which was released with MC) was released that again wasn't cleared until the 26th of September which is 2 and a half months after release. And 3 months later AQ was released.
Now while you may say that XIV can meet schedules like these you are also missing the point that we aren't seeing new content for the top tier for 5 months. And the content we are getting in 2 months is content that is a step back that honestly should been released about a month after release of the game. And have 2.2 fall in December and I doubt you would hear a percentage of the complaining you hear today about lack of content. If coil had been longer and more difficult overall I think we could be bothered to actually stick around but at this point I think most people will be jumping ship.
Edit: Also a point I forgot to mention the vast majority of players on a server hadn't killed the first few bosses of MC when BWL had released. I would consider myself hardcore and I was still running Magmadar (2nd boss) when Razorgore was first killed. Whereas now we have most organized FCs killing turn 4 (4/5ths of coil) in under 2 months.
[–]Kilora Amariyo on GoblinKilora -1 points0 points ago
So, in other words; aside from vanilla wow, I'm correct.
Good to hear.
[–]Orianas Ezian on Midgardsormrorianas 0 points1 point ago
Nice well thought out rebuttal to a point using one thing as an example. I could talk about BC that had 5 raids on release which weren't fully cleared until after BT was released (Kael was killed 3 days after BT patch).
If you want to get outside the realm of WoW its hard to find data but AV wasn't cleared legit until years after released in XI. And pandemonium warden was like a year.
Other longterm successful games? EQ perhaps? Not really familiar with the game so can't say honestly. But what I remember about the game is that it was super hardcore and hard and unforgiving.
There hasn't been other longterm successful MMO's that follow the WoW paradigm that have sufficient data available.
[–][First] [Last] on [Server]ilexuki 0 points1 point ago
ffxi had plenty of content at NA release, and because it was much slower paced, by the time you even got to where you could start new content,there would be more added. there was always something to do in ffxi, they had nms you could hunt for rare gear, hnms that spawned every couple of days, there was a full story for each city state, there were advanced jobs and zilart missions, dynamis.
by the time i even got my first 75 CoP was out, new missions,new areas, new adventures. i didn't catch up on all the content till they stopped making expansions years later.
not once while playing XI, did i stop and wait for the next update in order to have something to do |
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[–]Bloom1313 -1 points0 points ago
Is it just me but what is up with sandy . I mean hurricane sandy now a shooting at sandy school? Stuff is getting weird... Stuff is getting weird |
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Zero Dark Thirty takes NY critics award
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), the first of the US critics groups to announce their annual awards, has named Zero Dark Thirty Best Picture and its director Kathryn Bigelow Best Director.
The NYFCC gave its Best Screenplay award to Tony Kushner for Lincoln and its Best Foreign Film award to Amour.
David France’s How to Survive a Plague was voted Best First Film, Frankenweenie Best Animated Film and The Central Park Five Best Non-fiction Film (Documentary).
The Circle’s Best Actress award went to Rachel Weisz for The Deep Blue Sea and its Best Actor prize to Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln.
The Best Supporting Actress award went to Sally Field for Lincoln and the Best Supporting Actor prize went to Matthew McConaughey for Bernie and Magic Mike.
Greig Fraser was named Best Cinematographer for his work on Zero Dark Thirty.
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Music Dragon
29th January 2006, 9:13 AM
...Music Dragon! Yes, that's me. There is a tiny possibility that you have heard of me, but it's unlikely. Therefore, I'm going to assume that you haven't.
I'm MD. I'm also a lot of other things, but mostly, I'm MD. So call me MD. I haven't studied these forums, so I have no idea what the status of Insanity is here, but I consider myself quite mad. This doesn't mean I run around shouting "PIE!!1!!1!!" or "CHEESE!!!1!!!1", of course, because that's just stupid. And it's not very Insane. It used to be, but nowadays, it's just overused and uncreative. People force you to resort to less common words these days. Such as "contemplative". And "contemplative" can be rather hard to use for Insanity purposes. It depends on how you use it, of course, but still... Next, I think it would be good to inform you that I am very fond of Marshmallows. It upsets me when someone spells it without an upper case M. I'm guessing you don't really care, though, so I might as well just ignore such unfortunate misspellings.
Oh, I really can't be bothered to write anything else. Besides, this whole thread is rather pointless. So that's it. MD is here, MD is there. MD is everywhere.
29th January 2006, 12:30 PM
Gee...Lots of newcomers today, so I'll keep this sweet!
First off, welcome to the boards! I'm sure you'll enjoy it here! I don't really know what to do... Normally I send a nice link but I'm afraid I can't work out what one you'd want... So I'll send this generic link.
Rules! Simple. Read them and then enjoy yourself here!
Anyways, I'll need to get going.
29th January 2006, 1:16 PM
Salutations to the forums, Music Dragon! Be sure to read the rules and the stickies and enjoy your stay here at SPPf!
Elemental Charizam
29th January 2006, 1:44 PM
Welcome to SPPf, MD! I'd tell you to read the rules & stickies, but that would not only be repetetive but also pointless.
Music Dragon
29th January 2006, 2:11 PM
I read the rules before I signed up, so there isn't really any need to tell me that, just so you know. Thank yi all for your welcomes.
PS: Cheese? Please...
Silver Ryu
29th January 2006, 3:42 PM
Hi! Always nice to see members that type right. :) Have a good time here. You've already read the rules, so there's no need to tell about that. I hope you like it here. I know I do.
29th January 2006, 3:48 PM
I have no idea what the status of Insanity is here
Well, some of the mods are crazy enough to be called "mad".
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Overview and Meaning
Mice are a altricial species. During the first few weeks of life they rely on their mother's milk as a source of food and as a way to learn about the food eaten by their mother. The amount of milk received can affect a pup's adult weight and aggressiveness. Therefore, weaning weight of male pups can have long term effects on their ability to become dominant adults (Latham & Mason, 2004).
If several females are housed together they build and keep their pups in a communal nest in which they may also share the nursing. Studies in the laboratory and under semi-natural conditions have shown the the pups benefit from such communal nursing in terms of increased growth and survival (Weber & Olsson, 2008).
A dam will spend the bulk of her time in the nest on top of her pups to keep them warm and to allow them to nurse at her teats.
The dam adopts a nursing posture (see variants); while the pups perform sucking movements of the jaw, while positioned at the dam's teats.
Maternal Behavior
Active Nursing
1. Nursing - High Kyphosis
2. Nursing - Low Kyphosis
3. Nursing - Partial Kyphosis
4. Nursing - Dog - Partial Kyphosis
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6. Nursing - Sit - Split Nursing
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38544 | Kinda off the surfing subject, but if any of you in California care about what you and your children are eating you can vote for the labeling of GMO's (genetically modified organisms) in the upcoming election. Vote tes for Proposition 37.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38557 | MIT Technology Review - From the Editor en 50 Smartest Companies <p>They’re not just disruptive—these 50 companies are also intelligent in the way they build their businesses.</p><p>The 50 companies on our <a href="">annual list of the “smartest” businesses in the world</a> make disruptive technologies. The phrase is much abused by technologists. Mostly, it just means “new and good.” Insofar as it can be used precisely, it must be employed as Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor who coined the phrase, intended: he wanted to convey the idea that certain innovations possess “attributes” that create new (initially low-end) markets and displace existing businesses.</p> Tue, 18 Feb 2014 05:05:01 +0000 digitalservices 524456 at GMOs Are Green <p>Genetically modified crops will allow farming practices closer to the ideals of the organic movement.</p><p>I grew up on a farm <span style="line-height: 1.538em;">on the North Coast of California in the 1970s</span><span style="line-height: 1.538em;">. It had been a sort of commune, and after my parents bought the property, the hippies stayed on as farm workers and the place retained the style of the counterculture. Stewart Brand’s </span><em style="line-height: 1.538em;"><a href="" target="_blank">Whole Earth Catalog</a></em><span style="line-height: 1.538em;">, with its tools and ideas for the back-to-the-land movement, was the farm’s almanac.</span></p> Tue, 17 Dec 2013 05:05:01 +0000 digitalservices 522601 at Seven over 70 <p>To complement our list of young innovators, here are several who have been at it for decades.</p><p>For over a decade, we’ve celebrated innovators under the age of 35. We choose to write about the young because we want to introduce you to the most promising new technologists, researchers, and entrepreneurs. But I often hear: You really think older people can’t innovate?</p> Wed, 21 Aug 2013 04:05:00 +0000 juniper.friedman 518386 at Adapting to Automation <p>From different angles, two of our feature stories explore the role of humans in an automated world.</p><p>While we await Immanuel Kant’s <a href="" target="_blank">perpetual peace</a>, there will be wars; and if the president of the United States must sometimes <a href="" target="_blank">defend the bad against the worse</a>, perhaps it’s as well that he should make war with unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones.</p> Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:00:00 +0000 digitalservices 515991 at On 10 Breakthrough Technologies <p>Every year, <em>MIT Technology Review </em>picks the <a href="/featuredstory/513981/introduction-to-the-10-breakthrough-technologies-of-2013/">10 technologies we think most likely to change the world</a>.</p> Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:00:00 +0000 digitalservices 513726 at On Innovation and Disruption <p>When did disruption become the overwhelming fact of business? It wasn’t always so. But the most admired businesses of the last 30 years have been technology companies or industrial companies that invested heavily in research and development, whose competitive advantage was their capacity to commercialize disruptive innovations or resist the innovations of other entities.</p> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:00:00 +0000 digitalservices 511411 at On Politics and Technology <p>“Few events in American life other than a presidential election touch 126 million adults, or even a significant fraction that many, on a single day,” writes Sasha Issenberg in “<a href="" target="_blank">A More Perfect Union,</a>” the definitive explanation of the part technology played in the 2012 election. Americans care about elections because, in the absence of much opportunity for direct democracy, they are how citizens participate in the representative government of the republic.</p> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:00:00 +0000 digitalservices 508766 at MIT Technology Review Looks Different <p>What’s changed and why?</p><p>We look different. What’s changed?</p> Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:00:00 +0000 digitalservices 429688 at Popular Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:12:00 +0000 willknight 506202 at Popular Bar: Pre-launch Example 1 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:19:00 +0000 brunascle 506106 at |
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Why the evolution of Beards?
What are the possible theories on the evolution of beards? Its significance to beauty may be culturally biased as some cultures have revered it, others find them primitive.
It must have had some significant advantage as it consistently appears in most populations of our species and our closest evolutionary links don't have mustaches or full facial hair. Why did we select for it or did it add any advantage? Does advertising or film have anything to do with why we don't prefer facial hair anymore?
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Jun 23 2011: They were great scouring pads for pots back in the cowboy days... Scrub a dub, dub..
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Jun 22 2011: Well it's hormonal impact biologically speaking......... species which have male and female versions usually have different kind of physiological, anatomical & bio-chemical differences between sexes of the same species....
How come you ignore species of other primates having facial hair in male, even male goats (not being primate) have that.
Hope more questions will not come about differences between other organs of male and female :)
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Jun 23 2011: However significant, It must offer more of an advantage than sex distinction. Human dimorphism is quite easily distinguishable even without a beard. And I am not sure if all women find that a beard adds to a man's sexuality quotient.
A mustache was quite popular and sexy before the 70's or 80's but now its tilted the other way. There must be some root causality to such trends?
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Jun 22 2011: But seriously,
I think that facial hair is useful for quick distinction amongst a crowd.
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Jun 22 2011: Well, I think a small mustache and beard are marks of manhood. My husband has both and I think he looks great. To me a sign of virility. As for women that is some kind of natural mistake.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38600 | Pass notes No 3,049: The lost decade
A decade of economic stagnation blighted Japan in the 90s. Could it now be about to hit the western economies?
Trader makes a phone call as share prices take a plunge in Tokyo
A trader makes a phone call as share prices take a plunge in Tokyo. Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP
Age: 10. Because it's a decade.
Appearance: Growth-free. In a bad way.
A growth-free decade? That's it in a nutshell.
When was this? In Japan, from 1991 to 2000, after a debt crisis became a banking crisis became 10 years of economic stagnation. Which should ring a bell, since for the rest of us it could be just around the corner.
Says who? The IMF, for one.
The what? That's the International Monetary Fund. It's their job to keep global exchange rates stable, lend money to poor countries and generally bother and berate world leaders about the state of their economies. Which, at present, they're doing by warning us that we could be about to lose a decade.
How exactly? In the US, by not dealing with the $14.3tn public debt and in the eurozone by not putting together a large enough bailout package.
And here? If the other two mess up their jobs there's really not much we can do to avoid it. But the IMF did warn the chancellor that he should delay his spending cuts if we don't meet current growth forecasts.
Is it just the IMF who are saying this? Not at all, they're just the latest to jump on the bandwagon. Obama himself warned that America risked a lost decade back in February 2009.
So what happens if we do lose a decade? Is it like when the clocks go forward? Yes, it's exactly like that. Very astute.
Really? No.
So we won't just magically lose the time? No, we'll have to live through 10 years of high unemployment and financial hardship.
Is it the end of the world? Not quite, it's just the decade the world stood still. Provided people downgrade their expectations a bit it needn't be too bad at all. We'll just have to rediscover the simple pleasures, like playing charades and kiss-chase, and chewing bits of stick.
Do say: "It's only 10 years."
Don't say: "Think – where was the last place you saw it?"
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38603 | A Girl Cut in Two
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Chabrol's latest foray into the French provinces fails to charm Philip French
Girl Cut in Two
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For 50 years, the petit-bourgeois and the haut-bourgeois worlds of provincial France have been Claude Chabrol's happy stamping grounds and he stamps on them with varying degrees of subtlety. This new movie, one of his heavier efforts, is set in and around Lyon where the old money folk compete in the nastiness stakes with the nouveaux riches. Into this corrupt, snobbish, backstabbing society, Chabrol and his co-writer Cécile Maistre drop two stories on top of each other. The first is that of the real-life Manhattan society scandal of 1906, when the multi-millionaire psychotic Harry Thaw murdered the fashionable architect Stanford White, former lover of his wife, Evelyn Nesbit, in front of a crowd of socialites. He beat the rap on grounds of temporary insanity.
1. The Girl Cut in Two (La Fille Coupée En Deux)
2. Production year: 2007
3. Country: France
4. Cert (UK): 15
5. Runtime: 115 mins
6. Directors: Claude Chabrol
7. Cast: Benoit Magimel, Caroline Sihol, Francois Berleand, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathilda May, Valeria Cavalli
8. More on this film
This story was used by Richard Fleischer in his 1955 film The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, starring Ray Milland (White), Joan Collins (Evelyn) and Farley Granger (Thaw), and again in the film of EL Doctorow's Ragtime, where Norman Mailer played White. In Chabrol's film, White is turned into the ageing, lecherous, bestselling novelist Charles Saint-Denis (François Berléand), Thaw becomes Paul Gaudens (Benoît Magimel), a violent, unhinged, playboy-heir to a pharmaceutical fortune, and Evelyn emerges as Gabrielle Deneige (her surname turned into "Snow" by the subtitler), a Lyon TV weather girl promoted to chat-show host, played by the provocative Ludivine Sagnier.
Gabrielle's chat show is called Icing on the Cake and the White-Nesbit-Thaw cake is iced with the erotic novel La femme et le pantin ("The Woman and the Puppet") about a femme fatale who plays off two men against each other, written in 1898 by Pierre Louÿs. The sybaritic writer Saint-Denis takes Gabrielle, his young would-be conquest, to an auction where he buys her a de-luxe edition of Louÿs's novel, which was the basis of The Devil Is a Woman, the last film in which Von Sternberg directed Marlene Dietrich. It was also the inspiration for Buñuel's final movie, That Obscure Object of Desire, which had the idea of having the two-faced temptress played by two contrasted actresses. Chabrol picks up this notion in the title of his film and at the end has Gabrielle become stage assistant to her uncle, a travelling magician, who saws her in half in front of an audience. This description may make this movie sound much more interesting than it is.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38605 | The best No 1 records: Thunderclap Newman – Something in the Air
1969: One of the few protest songs to reach No 1, this single calls for armed insurrection – in a dreamy, non-committal, Beatles-biting way
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Thunderclap Newman. Photograph: Harry Goodwin/Redferns
Very few protest songs have reached number one and only one has called for armed insurrection, albeit in a dreamy, non-committal, Beatles-biting way. A song that cries "Hand out the arms and ammo" is a sharp reminder of just how strange things had become by the dying months of the 60s. Singer John "Speedy" Keen, a former roadie for The Who, wasn't exactly about to join the Angry Brigade but he managed to bottle the mixed emotions of that brief moment when "revolution" was the hip buzzword and hippie idealism was giving way to something wilder. You could read British Airways' subsequent co-opting of the song in an advert featuring arch-conservative PJ O'Rourke as a wry comment on the commodification of dissent but they probably just liked the tune.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38611 | Games of 2007 - part 1
Crackdown may have bucked gaming conventions but was simply the most entertaining game released in 2007.
As Keith explained here, we'll be doing a group gamesblog games of the year next week but these are my personal picks of what has been the best 12 months for gaming that I can remember.
Best PlayStation 3 game - Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. A clear winner here, Uncharted's hugely entertaining mix of adventuring and combat, combined with some simply beautiful visuals, to create the first real PS3 must-have.
Best Xbox 360 game - Crackdown/Mass Effect - Crackdown was my game of the year (see below) but Mass Effect deserves an honorable mention. Flawed yes - the side missions are undercooked, the inventory and squad systems need an overhaul - but Mass Effect hooked me more than anything else this year. The plot, the combat (which improves rapidly after a slow start) the oddly addictive planet scanning, the fabulous synth soundtrack - Mass Effect was a triumph.
Best Wii game - Super Mario Galaxy. Not the life changer that many seem to think but Galaxy was great fun and the first "hardcore" - and don't be under any illusions here, your mum won't be choosing Mario over Wii Sports this Christmas - Wii game that felt properly designed with the controls in mind rather than the tacked on feel that blighted too many big name Wii conversions.
Best handheld game - Puzzle Quest. I was late to this, only discovering it when it surfaced on Xbox Live Arcade. But the genius combination of RPG with Bejeweled-style colour matching meant I was soon getting a DS copy for the train. Marvellous stuff.
Best PC game - Burning Crusade. Yes, it was "only" an expansion pack but BC added stacks of content - new landmass, new races, flying mounts - to World of Warcraft and was a masterclass in keeping the fans happy while simultaneously attracting new ones.
Biggest disappointment of the year - PS3. This list also included Halo 3 and PES 2008 but PS3 was the clear "winner" for me. Mediocre software, powerful but overpriced hardware, half baked online service - it's hard to think how the PS3 launch could have been any worse. Ratchet and Uncharted point to a brighter future though and the never-ending updates are finally bringing out the potential of the hardware but 2008 can't come quick enough for Sony.
Most promising game of 2008 - Alan Wake. This Twin Peaks/Silent Hill adventure has been in development for years but should finally surface next year. In a sea of space marine/military shooters and tedious driving games Alan Wake will hopefully bring some tense atmospherics to 2008's gaming party.
I've also added another category. Game of the Year - Crackdown. Emergent objectives, nonsensical plot, little in the way of handholding - Crackdown may have bucked gaming conventions but was simply the most entertaining game released in 2007. Leaping from skyscrapers, lobbing cars at goons, the exhilarating climb up the agency tower, vertigo - Crackdown was the first "sandbox" game to fulfill the potential of the free roaming genre. And that's before you factored in the online mode. Friends could join your game at any time and - amazingly - complete objectives (even if you have already completed them) and get them registered into their own game. Or they could just help you out by driving a truck into a criminal hideout while you snuck round the back. But collaboration and convenience are clearly the way forward for online gaming. Crackdown was also the first game to really use the potential of the 360's achievement system, with the challenges adding some structure to a game that generally avoided it. Roll on the sequel.
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‘Celebrity Charity Tabloid Roast at the Ha Ha Comedy Club’
That title is longer than she is tall.
2. It had to be said
Isn’t Mark Sanchez banging her?
3. your mom
Fun fact: Syphilis will make you fucking crazy.
4. Tila
Who does a girl have to suck off around here to get a…. I mean does anybody here want sucked off?
5. Deacon Jones
Watch out, boys.
6. baron of all media
I really really really really really really want to have sex with her breasts. What are the boobie to boner HIV transmission rates these days? Nevermind. I’m sure it’s worth taking a shot.
7. Jeremy Feist
Why are two tarantulas attacking that wishing troll’s eyes?
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Don’t people realize that those colored contacts just make them look like scary monsters? They realize that, right?
8. Why is she famous again?
9. Any Guy
hopefully the next lesbian she drives to suicide will be Sam Ronson
10. Somebody get that forehead some bangs, stat!
11. Her eyes are evenly spaced with Audrina Patridge’s boobs. So maybe they were made for each other.
12. Phukaduck
13. Pipedreamer
Finally we see the love child of Christina Ricci and E.T.!
14. Mr Obvious
No fame. Just whoring.
15. Cam
New from Mattel!
Stupid drunk whore Barbie, for kids!
16. Sheppy
And I still would.
17. Where’s a drunken, angry Juggalo when you need one?
18. “Can anyone spare a tampon?”
19. SIN
Where are those damned photographers? I paid them to be here by now.
20. Throjo
That reminds me, I need to feed the fish.
21. Tara Overholt
“A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it’s because it’s proven.” I think she was talking about liquor.
22. “I was wondering if you could run down to the store for me, it looks like I only have 2 dozen condoms left.”
23. KC
Transformation into Michael Jackson: 45% complete.
24. welldoneson
She looks like she just had a 3-man facial.
25. Flesh Peddler
You know you’re pretty kinky when your blow-up doll can’t even look you in the eyes.
26. It’s like my Clockwork Orange nightmare, only my balls really do itch now.
27. A. Theist
Holy shit her eyes are wide open. I dare say that she would be the only asian woman in the world I would allow to drive, if only she could see over the dashboard.
28. xraysp3x
Wow, was gonna say something snarky about Mila Kunis getting a boob job, then saw who it really was…. sorry, Mila….
29. brennan haley
Tonight on WILL AND GRACE, Will confesses that Grace drove him to the dark side.
30. Tyler
Anyone???? Anyone???? Shit, Who’s gonna rape me now?
31. those contacts are butt-mother-fugly. if you’re going to get ‘creative’ try circle lenses that make ur eyes look like a powerpuff girl, people will totally take you way more seriously
32. g-moonie
I desire…….. macaroni pictures.
33. Facebook Me
Looks like Thumbelina has been hittin’ the gym lately. Wanna play Spinderella anyone?
34. Steelerchick
Who’s the midget? Peter Dinklage’s girlfriend?
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^ They might have been considering recasting Jock, at least for a little while. Jim Davis would have been a tough act to follow, but it's more typically soap opera to recast a character.
Of course it depends on the popularity of the character and how long one person portrayed that character and therefore how much that actor was associated with the role.
Actually... the plan was to make the Ben Stivers character in the "dream season" actually turn out to be Jock after all, but when they resurrected Bobby and Ben Stivers became Wes Parmalee, the writers realized it would have been too much to have two beloved characters return from the dead so soon. So Parmalee turned out to be a fake, and Jock remained dead.
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The first born child of the family.
- When trying to make the perfect pancake many hurdles must be taken into account.
- "The First Pancake" usually gets temperature neglected, and often undergoes premature flipping. As a result "The First Pancake" turns out burnt, misshaped, undercooked, sloppy and tossed to the side.
- In worst case scenarios, "The First Pancake" is throughly buttered and heavily syrupped to cover up baking impurities.
"Do you ever feel like the first pancake?"
"I feel like the first pancake sometimes... my brothers and sisters turned out better than me."
"I am a first pancake."
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when a women lets all of her pubic hair grow except shaving only the landing strip.
My tongue went down from her navel only to revel a harry melcher, almost like a path through the woods.
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2 Chainz + 2 Broke Girls = An Episode Worth Watching
“2 broke girls, and one rich black guy.” – 2 Chainz
You never know where a catchy rap name turned slogan like “2 Chaiiiinz” will lead to. Georgia rapper 2 Chainz will make his TV debut on CBS’s comedy series 2 Broke Girls on Monday, February 11. A day after the Grammys airs 2 Chainz plays himself on an upcoming episode where Max (Cat Dennings) and Caroline (Beth Behrs) are headed to the Grammys after meeting a big time record label executive who is so smitten by Max he flies the two to L.A. via private plane for the awards show. Read more… |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38813 | ARIES (March 21-April 19)
You're often at your most attractive when you're expressing your warrior-like qualities. Unfortunately, you've still got a lot to learn about the art of selecting worthy opponents. So while you may be beautiful when you're mad, your fights don't always lead to the kind of intriguing success you can build on. Luckily, Aries, you're now at a point in your astrological cycle when you can make great headway toward becoming more discriminating. Please promise me that you'll wean yourself from wrestling matches with straw men, Cheshire cats, ghosts named Bozo, and their ilk. Choose only the most thought-provoking enemies.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
A few weeks ago I told you it was prime time, astrologically speaking, to visit the Garden of Eden. You may have interpreted that in a metaphorical sense, which was fine, or you may have acted on my hint that paradise has an objectively real existence that's accessible through meditation. In either case, I hope you're still hanging out in those environs, Taurus, because I now have even better news to report. You know the fruit that God once forbade Adam and Eve to try? Amazingly, He has changed His mind. Here's the new covenant, directly from the Supreme Being's lips to your eyes: It's OK to eat the apple.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)
Your regularly scheduled horoscope will not appear this week so that I may indulge the curious favoritism I've felt toward you Geminis lately. I LOVE YOU. YOU'RE GORGEOUS AND SMART. NO ONE SMELLS AS GOOD AS YOU. There does seem to be ample astrological justification for my seemingly irrational adoration, by the way: The omens suggest you're at the height of your ability to realize precisely what you need most and how to get it. To aid Mother Nature in her work, repeat the following affirmation a hundred times a day for the next week: "I KNOW WHAT TO DO AND I KNOW WHEN TO DO IT!"
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Marketing experts tell me that if my subject is so complex I can't explain it in 15 seconds, it's not worth knowing. But since the intricate, impossible-to-describe subject at hand is you, maybe you'll afford me a little more time. I have it on good authority that you're feeling like a web woven by a drunken spider, like a labyrinth made out of fun-house mirrors, like an unseasoned grocery shopper trying to choose among 19 brands of spaghetti sauce. But take comfort in the words of author John Berger: "Authenticity depends entirely on being faithful to the essential ambiguity of experience." I'd also like to suggest that being confused by messy abundance is more likely to bring you close to God than being dead certain about a few artificially simplistic beliefs.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
We all crave drama in our lives, especially you Leos. Unfortunately, our culture's fetishistic fascination with entropy and suffering makes this need problematic. Unable to summon the resources to pursue more uplifting forms of adventure, many people end up filling their lives with exhausting turbulence. That's the bad news, Leo. The good news is that you can now summon the vibrant imagination and loving support necessary to resist the norm. I exhort you to envision brave exploits that will be fun and redemptive and tremendously exciting.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
One of my biggest heroes is a Virgo: Molly Ivins, rabble-rousing political columnist and author of the book Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She? A while back she wrote a piece in which she marveled at a cosmetic salesperson's claim that a certain skin cream had a "mnemonic component," meaning it would allow her skin cells to remember how they functioned when they were still young. I bring this up, my dears, because the experiences you'll encounter in the coming week will have an analogous effect. They will stimulate you to recall every important thing you have forgotten.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Poetry alert! If lyrical flights of fancy make you nervous, please don't read any further. In fact, maybe you shouldn't even go out of the house for the rest of the week, given the likelihood that you will be consistently roused to a state of throbbing exaltation by the world's secret beauty. But if you've read this far, here are your instructions: On a leaf from your favorite tree, write a wish that's difficult for you to ask for. Bury it in the soil as you visualize your wish having already come true. Then leap into the air three times, kick your heels together, and kiss the sky.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today I went to the county dump to unload all the stuff I once valued but haven't used in years. As I backed my truck up to the edge of the chasm and heaved in my obsolete treasures, I spied a sign that read, "Do not jump into the pit." Immediately, I thought of you, Scorpio. I mused on how wise it would be for you to do what I was doing, but also how tempting it might be for you to throw yourselfaway along with the junk you need to get rid of. But please don't leap into the abyss, my dear. As perversely entertaining as it might be for you to wallow in the morass, no real good would come of it.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38829 | A W3C QA Activity: Why, How, What
Position Paper for the W3C Workshop on Quality Assurance at W3C
Josef Dietl, Mozquito Technologies AG
We see Quality Assurance and Conformance as critical activities of the W3C that span a wide range of important topics. The analysis provided in this paper yields the following set of criteria for the quality of a QA process:
All of that is closely connected to the motivation for the existance of W3C in the first place, but also to join W3C as a Member or to implement W3C specifications. To lay out the arguments, we have abstracted our experience with W3C specifications and the process used to develop them. The results ranges widely and cover the following three core subjects: Editorial quality, implementation quality and QA process quality.
QA: Why?
We begin our analysis with the question why we care about the topic at all. For us, questions surrounding QA and conformance go to the very heart of our W3C membership, our contributions there and we feel that it is also about the core mission of the W3C. After all, the most visible aspect of the W3C mission "Leading the Web to its Full Potential" is to de-facto-standardize "the Web" (the universe of hyperlinked information). To that end, developing, recommending and providing interoperability specifications is an important starting point, but as a matter of fact, the "de facto" part doesn't occur until interoperable implementations are achieved.
QA and win-win scenarios: A glimpse on Game theory
Let us have a look at a simplified, qualitative game theory analysis of the above points. Without a QA effort, there are obviously some zero-sum characteristics in the game: First we observe that standardization will inevitably make it easier for operators to switch equipment. In other words: in a scenario without QA, large vendors are in a peculiar position: because they already have a huge installed base, they face a demand for backwards compatibility to maintain customer loyalty. Not mentioning the effect on technical decisions, this draws on the resources they can expend for the implementation of the standard. At the same time, having a major fraction of the total market for a certain technology is believed to make it more likely (assuming all other parameters being equal (1)) to experience a net outflux when reducing technology lock-in in the move to support standards. Under these circumstances, a large vendor experiences two arguments in favour of evolving the specification further in order to raise loyalty. Small vendors are forced to follow suit - which is not quite the concept of a de-facto standard.
On the other hand, mechanisms like the above have been alleged repeatedly, and occasionally they can impact the brand image of large vendors. Sympathy often rests with the small vendors, and because there is no objective way to compare the implementations, both parties have reason to feel at a disadvantage.
How can QA change this?
The goal of a QA framework then must be to create a level playing field. Essentially, a QA effort should provide vendors with a valuable and credible statement that their effort pays off. Over the past year, the W3C has earned a firm and respectable reputation as a competent and neutral body. That reputation should be leveraged in order to give vendors large and small an incentive to achieve their goals within the framework of the specification. The goals we have seen so far are:
With a visible quality mark (2), (3) and a specification providing well-defined extension interfaces, the above scenario changes as follows: the quality mark is an additional argument for customers for an upgrade and thus dampens the demand for backwards compatibility. At the same time, the reputation of all vendors is generally better protected of allegations of changes to the standard. Customer loyalty can still be supported by building on the extension framework, and particularly large vendors can make good use of their strong knowledge of the customer by target group specific extensions.
On the larger scale, the quality mark raises customer confidence, which in turn speeds up adoption of the new technology and creates a bigger total market for the new technology.
A working QA framework will benefit all parties involved:
At the same time, another challenge in standardization starts to disappear: features can be pushed out of the standard and into the extension interface. That way, the specifications themselves become easier to handle. This also enables a wide choice of implementations, ranging from ones that are basic in their feature set, but available in resource-constrained environments to implementations that are targetted towards the needs and resources of specific audiences.
Deploying a QA effort
Despite all these compelling benefits of a QA initiative, deployment of that effort needs to be done carefully. Obviously the boundary conditions must be set in a way that the abovementioned advantages actually materialize, but beyond that, the deployment phase itself (both at large and over and over again in every individual Working Group) must be handled with great care. After all, if the quality mark is meaningful, it will take a certain effort to achieve it, and participating in W3C activities is an expensive business in its own right. To leverage a QA framework to even encourage contributions to W3C's good work takes the confidence on the part of the contributors that they will ultimately reap the benefits of these efforts.
The one good way to develop this confidence is expectation management. The criteria to qualify for the quality mark must be known early on, or at least the process for establishing these criteria must be developed early, and particularly the expertise in the Working Group must be considered in order to make contributions to the WG worth the while. Ideally, use cases and test cases would be developed early on or even before the creation of the Working Group. The XML Query Group is making very good experience with this approach. Among the many comendable "outside" efforts to provide test suites, there have also been conformance tests developed by outside organizations that strongly failed to meet the approval of the Group. In order to keep the action where the Working Group is, the WG members' impact on a W3C QA efforts must be assured (see also "QA Process Quality" below).
Three Levels of QA
There are three levels of Quality Assurance for consideration, each one building on the previous.
1. Editorial quality: The quality of the specification
2. Product quality: The quality of the implementation
3. QA Process quality: The quality of the test
Editorial Quality
Arguably, the quality of specifications is the first milestone to achieve before implementations can be tested in later steps.
One serious lack is that there are no criteria of what makes an editorially good specification. For the purpose of this discussion, we approach two criteria: it must be easy to verify and, and it must be easy to read. Perfection is - as everywhere - impossible to achieve, still, W3C specifications past and present are fairly heterogenous in terms of ambiguity, precision, contradictions and mere readability. As explained earlier (see "Deploying a QA effort" above), security of criteria is critical for smooth deployment of QA, and meaningful test suites depend on precise specifications. Hopefully, stronger use of extension mechanisms will have an intrinsic positive effect. However, as far as we can tell, the main limits in this area are resource constraints that need to be overcome either with more (or better suited) resources or by changing the timeframes. Every improvement in this area - however it can be achieved - is well appreciated and will certainly improve product quality.
Another ongoing debate has gone on in the W3C about the technical quality of the W3C specifications. The current approach is to add quality assurance stages to the W3C Process. We still remember the good days when the W3C Process had only three stages: Working Draft, Proposed Recommendation and Recommendation, and QA was done by peer review through the intense contact within the community, be it from Working Group to Working Group or from Working Group to implementation community. In addition to the impact on the quality of the specifications, adding stages to the W3C Process has had two less pleasant side effects: first, there is a near-combinatoric explosion of resources spent on dependencies (reflected partly in a growth of WG lifetime from 12-18 months four years ago to now 18-24 months), and second the process of moving from Working Draft to Recommendation has extended from about 10% of a Working Group's lifetime to about 25%. While speed is no longer as much of an issue for W3C as it used to be, it is worth contemplating more focused mechanisms to achieve the same quality.
First approaches are this QA workshop, the forming Technical Architecture Group and the New Member Introduction at every AC Meeting. Extending the New Member Introduction to Working Groups and their members could probably improve the quality aspect "architectural integrity" and reduce resources spent on coordination and communication with other Working Groups.
Implementation Quality
We understand "implementations" to be documents and software (4), where software can often be further split into producers and consumers of documents, like document editors and browsers, respectively.
Let us, for just one example, look at the so-called "browser war". At that time, the driving force was a virtuous cycle of documents and document consuming software. It is noteable however, that HTML editors could have made all the difference, had they made it easier to create conforming documents. Alas, GUI tools entered the race relatively late, and at the time the status quo had already deteriorated sufficiently to force Web designers to choose either documents that find demand or documents that stick with the standards. Needless to say, most followed the demand. Among others, the efforts by the CSS Working Group (test suite, validator and core style sheets, followed later by a proof-of-concept CSS parser), the HTML validator and the efforts by the Web Standards Project have helped to improve the situation.
In the long run, it turns out that the W3C Team proverb "software is cheap, documents are expensive" indeed governs the dynamics of conformance through the growing legacy. The once virtuous cycle between documents and browsers has turned vicious since, and it becomes increasingly difficult to deploy gradual improvements: they are not included in documents because "the browsers don't support it" - and the browsers don't see a need to support it because "the demand just isn't there". (5)
From that experience, we assume that the output of document production facilities and, more generally, documents, need most careful scrutiny.
QA Process Quality
This brief section serves only to list the requirements on the QA process that we have found in the course of this discussion:
Of course, a paper like this can not shed light on all aspects of Quality Assurance in such an interesting organization as the W3C. The most prominent ommission is probably the lack of coverage of education and outreach. We look forward to learn more at the QA Workshop in Washington.
(1) Of course, the assumption that all other parameters are the same is far fetched. The famous "economies of scales" are probably the most important correction to be made.
(2) Note that the quality mark itself must also convey long-term respectability.
(3) "visible" in this sense is not meant to express a visual representation, but merely a "visibility in the market". Actually, a "visible" mark that is both visual and auditive would be very compelling.
(4) this ommits the very important aspect of re-use of a technology in another specification. "Quality Assurance" in such context is a delicate, but in this context minor issue: The Technical Architecture Group is in charge there.
(5) The Mozquito transformation is actually an approach to break this deadlock. |
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Letter: The mounting cost of war
On April 15, NBC newscaster Brian Williams listed, in percentages, the taxes the Tea Party members complain about. He also pointed out that 30 percent was covered by borrowed money. I was impressed until I realized his list had not included war-related expenditures.
The following is a list of the costs for items in the 2011 federal discretionary budget sent to Congress in January 2010 by President Obama. The list was compiled, in rounded numbers, by the American Friends Service Committee.
First, military and war-related items: the Defense Department, the war, the Veterans Affairs Department and the nuclear weapons program, 59 percent.
The other 41 percent: Health and Human Services, 6 percent; transportation, 6 percent; state, 4 percent; education, 4 percent; other programs, 4 percent; Department of Homeland Security, 3 percent; Housing and Urban Development, 3 percent; Justice, 2 percent; agriculture, 2 percent; NASA, 1 percent; energy, 1 percent; labor, 1 percent; Treasury, 1 percent; Commerce, 1 percent.
This is how the taxes we pay and the money we borrow is slated to be spent next year. It is not just the Tea Party crowd but all of us who close our eyes to the real drain on our economy.
Obama and Bush are trapped in the same mess Bush and Cheney found themselves in -- trying to end a war so it will appear our soldiers did not die in vain.
Get over it! Stop the search for glory from interfering with common sense. We are badly in need of a period of peace. Without it, we will never solve our country's financial problems.
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"These devices really do work well to lower repeat DUI offenses as long as they're in the car, but as soon as you take them off the car, they [DUI offenders] go right back up to control levels, they don't sort of take anything with them after having their behavior monitored. ... They don't seem to learn," Marques tells WebMD.
So the next step, Marques says, "was to try and implement a program where we get inside their heads a little bit while we essentially have them captive of the interlock program."
The drivers were split into two groups, one from Edmonton and one from Calgary. Every month, when the Calgary group visited an interlock service center, they underwent a four-part program that includededucation about the interlock. That "force[d] them to think about the pragmatic implications of staying compliant with the program, by using a technique known as brief intervention and motivational interviewing," Marques says.
The sessions weren't therapy, in that the interviewers had no interest in getting the participants to stop drinking. Although worthy, the issue is one of public, not individual, health, Marques says. "It [turned] into more of a public health problem, because we don't want you guys out there drinking and driving because then we're all at risk."
The peak times for fail rates were on weekends, which kept drunken drivers off the roads at the highest risk times, and surprisingly, between seven and eight in the morning. The researchers write some of that could be attributed, perhaps, to mouthwash or certain foods. But there's another reason, too, and this one can benefit not just the public, but the individual.
"What this thing is doing is very interesting," Marques tells WebMD, "because if I'm a real heavy drinker ... I need to get in my car the next morning to start it up for work. Well, the time of day we have the highest frequency of BAC [failures] is between 7 and 8 in the morning. That has such a wonderful educational value, because these people don't feel drunk, they've got no idea that their BAC is still elevated."
Marques says final results are still being tabulated, but he says among the group from Calgary, there's about a 50% reduction in rate of reoffenses among first-time offenders after the interlock is off.
The data have also proven useful as a predictor of behavior, because even though the experience may never change some people's actions, the information may change the actions of the court. "The people who had a higher proportion of failed BACs than anyone else, and that represents about 15% of the sample, that was the most potent predictor of repeat DUI offenses of anything any of us have ever seen," Marques tells WebMD. "The likelihood that they would blow failed BACs was a powerful, powerful predictor of who's going to get a repeat DUI once that interlock's off the car, and that actually gets to be the kind of finding that the courts can make use of.
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Baathed in Blood
Chronicling the horror, and scope, of Saddam's tyranny.
May 22, 2006, Vol. 11, No. 34 • By GERARD ALEXANDER
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Le Livre noir de Saddam Hussein
Edited by Chris Kutschera
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IN A BRIGHT ROOM IN Baghdad, Saddam Hussein is on trial. In the din of America's public square, so is the invasion that overthrew him. An international stable of writers argue that the only evidence that matters, in both trials, is of Saddam's horrifying human rights violations. Nine years after the acclaimed Black Book of Communism appeared, another French publisher has issued a 701-page "black book of Saddam Hussein" that pushes to the background all talk of WMDs, skewed intelligence, terrorism, and democratization, and focuses our attention on the atrocities of a tyrant of historic proportions.
The book's editor, veteran French journalist Chris Kutschera, concludes that while "the American war may not have been the ideal way to put an end to Saddam Hussein's dictatorship," there was no better one, because overthrow was simply no longer possible from within a savagely repressed society. So: No invasion, more Saddam. And that was an outcome these authors--an array of Middle Eastern, European, and American journalists, academics, and activists--could not bear.
This hefty volume includes almost three dozen substantive chapters chronicling the rise and record of Iraq's Baath party, the operations of Saddam's secret police, his cult of personality, his sanguinary wars against Iran and Kuwait, and his international suppliers of arms and diplomatic support. They show that Saddam's quarter-century in power was a virtually uninterrupted exercise in bloodletting in nearly every direction.
Soon after becoming president, he massacred personal opponents in and outside of his ruling Baath party. For the next two decades, he would subject critics and adversaries to a steady stream of torture, assassination, and terror, including the rape rooms, prison horrors, and executions that were regularly reported by Amnesty International and others. Fellow Sunni Arabs were not exempt, but the main categories of victims were Iranians, Kuwaitis, and Iraq's Kurds and Shiites.
In 1980, Saddam launched a needless and bloody war against majority-Shiite Iran and terrorized Iraq's own Shiites to ensure their quiescence. As that war wound down, Saddam was freed to turn his attention to the Kurds whose loyalty was, indeed, questionable. In the 1988 "Anfal" campaigns, his henchmen killed 100,000 or more Kurds (including through poison gas) and forcibly resettled thousands more in desolate regions elsewhere in Iraq--events that Human Rights Watch declared "genocide."
Two years later, he invaded Kuwait and treated its civilians with notable brutality. When Operation Desert Storm shattered Saddam's army, both Kurds and southern Iraqi Shiites rose in revolt, and the regime maintained power through astonishing savagery, which filled mass graves across southern Iraq with an unknown number of Shiites--perhaps in the hundreds of thousands. The same images are evoked again and again: rapes, murder of children, forms of torture that make your eyes flinch from the page, and masses of victims buried in the night.
The book's marketing strategy prominently claims that Saddam's quarter-century claimed two million lives. That might overstate the tragedy. It's also premature; researchers simply can't settle on a persuasive number of victims until those mass graves are unearthed in the years to come. But what cannot be denied is the scope of Saddam's atrocities. Within his regime, Saddam ruled like Stalin: Everyone in the elite was a potential victim, and knew it. Outside the regime, he ruled more like Hitler: Since oil-rich Iraq didn't need Soviet-style slave labor, Saddam simply killed his adversaries.
In one of the most insightful essays, Hazem Saghieh, a prominent London-based Lebanese journalist, argues that comparisons to those totalitarian counterparts are not out of place. And in the preface, Bernard Kouchner, the human rights campaigner and founder of Doctors Without Borders, unabashedly calls Saddam "one of the worst tyrants in history."
The most unsettling chapters recount Baathist violations against Kurds and Shiites, as well as individual episodes like the 1960s persecution of Iraq's remaining Jews and the extermination of regime opponents like the Kurdish Barzani clan and the Shiite al-Hakim family. Details abound; Kutschera's chapter on the Kurds is a short book in its own right. Of course, even a book this size has omissions. Most obviously, it covers only sporadically the years from the first Gulf War to 2003, when the regime ruled by unconcealed gangsterism and reduced Iraqis to deepening penury.
But it also offers innovative contributions to the public debate. One section discusses Saddam's international supporters and suppliers, especially the Soviet Union and France. This could correct progressive commentators who seem to think that Saddam's closest ally was Donald Rumsfeld. A chapter describes how Arab regimes and intellectuals turned blind eyes and issued apologies. Others suggest how Saddam's policies sharpened the confessional and ethnic differences now so viciously on display in Iraqi politics.
For all that, Le Livre noir de Saddam Hussein represents an intellectual mystery. Journalists and authors have already extensively covered Saddam and his regime. It's true that this book provides some of the best discussions available on the persecution of the Marsh Arabs and the suppression of the 1991 Shiite uprising. But in the main, all these stories are familiar. And many of them are going to be dredged up in that Baghdad courtroom anyway. This borders on old news. It seems unnecessary to produce a Black Book about Saddam at all. Yet most of these writers have an urgent and indignant tone.
What gives? Kutschera, the editor, offers one answer: Many people, in fact, do not know the scope of Saddam's crimes, and many others don't know many details about them. Perhaps more important, Kutschera and his collaborators know that they live in a world in which some items are pushed out of people's moral imaginations, and off their moral agendas, with remarkable ease and speed. Specifically, they know they live in a world in which once the Holocaust has been addressed, moral blind spots about mass murder and abuse proliferate impressively.
The pattern is plain: Over and over again, perceived abuses by Western societies--colonialism, the Vietnam war--are revisited in conversation and thought until they are part of our mental furniture. What happens to the crimes of others is very different. Some of them get sucked down the memory hole. Those of us of a certain age remember that the very independent Idi Amin was far worse, but it is Joseph Mobutu--portrayed as a U.S. ally, if not puppet--who has emerged as the durable symbol of abusive African rule.
More often, crimes committed by non-Westerners are blamed on Westerners. As in: America provided Saddam with chemical weapons; Palestinians mimic Israeli brutality; the Khmer Rouge was driven to madness by U.S. bombing. It was Belgian colonialism that taught Rwandan Hutu génocidaires to be tribal and to kill. And the CIA created Osama bin Laden, while U.S. excesses created his followers.
The soft bigotry here is not of low expectations but of no expectations. This suggests that only Westerners have moral agency. To deny a person the capacity to initiate evil is to deny them the capacity to initiate good, or anything in between.
The result is a vicious cycle in which many educated people engage easily with the storylines they already know, and are unsure what to do with the unfamiliar. Most infamously, members of the world's intellectual and journalistic classes have a habit of not denying Communist atrocities but of knowing almost no details about them and never volunteering the topic.
It's no coincidence that the Black Book of Saddam Hussein has been received with what Kutschera describes as a "chill" by the French commentariat, has been ignored by the reviewers in the leading French newspapers--Le Monde, Le Figaro, and Libération--and was reviewed only snidely by Le Monde Diplomatique.
Gerard Alexander is associate professor of politics at the University of Virginia. |
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Ed Hamell is often referred to as a one-man punk band. But what he does for a living isn't exactly easy to categorize. He's not quite a pundit, not quite a comic, and definitely not a touchy-feely singer-songwriter mope.
"I'm at a loss of what to call it," says Hamell, sounding surprisingly energetic after a 23-hour flight from Kodiak, Alaska, to his home in Ossining, New York. "And I know it's a tough sell. If you were to say to me, 'Let's go see this guy, he plays acoustic guitar, he's bald, and he tells the audience to fuck off, but he's funny; he does political stuff, he calls himself "acoustic punk"' -- I don't know if I'd go, either. But if I saw it once, I'd keep comin' back. It's just getting 'em in there the first time."
An engaging raconteur with a chain-smoker's baritone, Hamell grew up in a blue-collar Italian-Polish neighborhood. His dad, who worked for an air-conditioning company, would tell salesman jokes. Like his father, the 44-year-old Hamell has a way of telling stories, whether they involve drunks, criminals or even his own unpleasant childhood brush with John Lennon.
Punk unplugged: Ed Hamell is Hamell on Trial.
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"He was in Syracuse for a week," he recalls. "Yoko threw an exhibit in a museum there for him. Some friends of mine skipped school, and I got hired to do odd jobs for her. They snuck me into this party. And I went down a hallway, and he came -- his entourage, him and Yoko Ono -- from behind me. A bunch of rubes from Syracuse rushed him and pushed me into him. And my chest hit his chest, and he told me to fuck off.
"I was a kid, man, like twelve years old. I was devastated."
Even so, the grumpy Beatle didn't discourage Hamell from pursuing a career in music. Influenced by Graham Parker, Brinsley Schwarz and Jonathan Richman, Hamell was soon fronting a pub rock band called the Works -- that is, until he discovered the beauty of traveling light.
"I was coerced into doing a charity concert for a guy who was dying in upstate New York," Hamell recalls. "I did it solo, calling it Hamell on Trial -- because a lot of bands in town would be there -- as a joke. I thought they'd be scrutinizing my performance. But I got a little indie deal that first time. No one was more surprised than me."
Freed from the financial burdens of a full band, Hamell released Convictionin 1989 on Blue Wave. A steady Wednesday-night gig in Albany's Half Moon Cafe allowed him to experiment with jokier elements.
"I was watching a lot of Richard Pryor and Lenny Bruce standup and trying to add that to the other stuff," Hamell reveals. "There was something incredibly liberating about being able to write something in the morning and perform it that night without having to go through a board of directors."
Feeling autonomous, Hamell took his unique story-songs and explosive strumming style to Austin. Following a showcase at South by Southwest, Hamell signed to Mercury Records, which produced 1996's Big as Life and 1997's The Chord Is Mightier Than the Sword. A few years later he returned home and established Such-A-Punch Media, which released Choochtown, an album based on some of the colorful losers and crooks from his old stamping grounds.
"I tended bar in upstate New York, where everybody in the city basically scored coke and crack at night," Hamell says. "I was checking guns and they were smoking crack, and they would do these robberies. It was insane. I'm not romanticizing this. Some of those guys are dead. A lot of 'em are in jail. But at the time, it was a tough place to work. Plus, I was getting sober. But in retrospect, it has provided a wealth of my material."
Like his songwriting, "Letter From New York City," a monthly column Hamell writes for Uncut magazine, draws its strength from raw and humorous first-person accounts. Hamell earned the columnist position after Choochtown caught fire in the U.K. and moved over 20,000 units. But not everything he writes about is funny: In 2000, a near-fatal car accident provided grist for some of those pulp-inspired musings.
"I was on my way to a gig in Pittsburgh, and a guy came across two lanes of traffic and pushed me off the road," Hamell recalls. "The car flipped twice. When I woke up, I had broken three vertebrae. Broke my wrist. Broke my ankle. And there was a sunroof on the car, so my head was split open. I had to have 52 staples in my head.
"They thought my neck was broken," Hamell continues. "As a matter of fact, when the cop came, he freaked because I couldn't turn my head. He said to me, ŒHow you doin'?' I said, ŒGreat. Can you see in the back seat? Are my guitars okay?' And he freaked out about that. He said, 'Yeah, they look like they're all right.' I said, 'Gee, don't leave 'em in the car. They're collector's items, and I gotta have 'em.'"
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38868 | Cord of Braided Troll Hair
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38870 | Quest:The Runed Scroll
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Horde 32 The Runed Scroll
Start[Runed Scroll]
Level25 (Requires 15)
CategoryThe Barrens
Reputation+350 Orgrimmar
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Take the Runed Scroll to the northern guard tower in the Barrens.
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The official-looking scroll is wrapped tightly with a silvery ribbon. You're sure someone would be interested in seeing this, but who?
There is an outpost close to the Ashenvale border to the north, and if the information on this scroll involves the night elves, this would be the place to take it.
Whaddya got?
Well now... Where did you find this?
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1. Official horde mini-icon [25] The Runed Scroll
2. Official horde mini-icon [29] Horde Presence
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Achievement dungeon icecrown hallsofreflection Neutral 15 The Halls of Reflection 10 Money achievement
Defeat the bosses in The Halls of Reflection.
The Halls of Reflection is an achievement requiring the defeat of all bosses inside Halls of Reflection this can also be completed on heroic mode requiring you never finished the normal version.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38930 | Internationalization: which bundle type is right for you?
• be easily localized, or translated, into different languages
• handle multiple locales at once
• be easily modified later to support even more locales
Source: Javadoc for the ResourceBundle class.
.properties files represent the simplest, most straightforward alternative. Here is a sample file. - Jan 20, 2013
PASSWORD_EXPIRED=You password has expired. Please change it.
DATABASE=Database updated. The application will now restart.
They are very easy to update even by non-programmers, since their format is so simple. And the ADF Faces Skin Editor will use them if you override default ADF text resources in your skin. JDeveloper always makes sure to encode such bundles properly at deployment time; that way, international characters are always rendered properly.
You can also use Java classes as resource bundles. In JDeveloper, they are called List Bundles. They are your only option if you want to manage non-string objects or if you need to implement bundle-related business logic. A Java class bundle, for example, could be used to retrieve text strings stored in the database. A typical Java class bundle is reproduced below.
public class MyResources extends ListResourceBundle {
protected Object[][] getContents() { return new Object[][] { {"PASSWORD_EXPIRED", "You password has expired. Please change it."}, {"DATABASE", "Database updated. The application will now restart."}, }; } }
Typically, Java class bundles add complexity to the translation workflow, since classes with updated resources must be recompiled and redeployed. Moreover, non-technical users risk to introduce errors in the code when adding new strings or updating existing ones. It is worth noting that the ADF framework itself stores most of its massages and boilerplate text in Java class resource bundles.
XLIFF (XML Localisation Interchange File Format) is a standard managed by the OASIS consortium. It is supported by specialized tools used by translators, which constitutes its main draw over alternatives. Because of its open nature, XLIFF lends itself a much wider set of use cases than just resource management. The following XLIFF bundle has been built using JDeveloper 11gR2.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <xliff version="1.1" xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.1"> <file source-language="en" original="view.ViewControllerBundle" datatype="x-oracle-adf"> <body> <trans-unit id="PASSWORD_EXPIRED"> <source>You password has expired. Please change it.</source> <target/> <note>Message displayed on the logging page when the user password has expired.</note> </trans-unit> <trans-unit id="DATABASE"> <source>Database updated. The application will now restart.</source> <target/> <note>Admin message for use by the batch subsystem. Found in logs.</note> </trans-unit> </body> </file> </xliff>
As you can see, XLIFF is much more verbose than either Java classes or property files.
So, which bundle type is right for you? Well... It depends. ;-) Usually, .properties file will be enough and you will bother with XLIFF's verbosity only if your translators use tools that support it. Java class bundles, on the other hand, are the only way to implement some use cases involving custom business logic but do not necessarily make sense outside specific contexts.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38934 | #18443 closed New feature (fixed)
Import string/numeric types from
Reported by: claudep Owned by: nobody
Component: Python 3 Version: master
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Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
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Now that we have the django/utils/ layer, the next step is to use it to import Python 2/3 compatible string and numeric types.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/38946 | Duke Nukem
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Duke Nukem
Duke Nukem logo
Developers Apogee Software
3D Realms
Tiger Electronics
Lion Entertainment
Lobotomy Software
Aardvark Software
Tec Toy
Torus Games
MachineWorks Northwest
Triptych Games
Gearbox Software
Piranha Games
Interceptor Entertainment
Publishers Apogee Software
GT Interactive Software
MacSoft Games
Tec Toy
3D Realms
MachineWorks Northwest
2K Games
Devolver Digital
Interceptor Entertainment
Platforms MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Game.com, PlayStation, Sega Mega Drive, Microsoft Windows, Xbox Live Arcade, iOS, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS
First release Duke Nukem
July 1, 1991
Latest release Duke Nukem Forever
June 14, 2011
Duke Nukem is a video game series focusing on its protagonist, Duke Nukem. Originally created by Apogee Software Ltd./3D Realms as a series of video games for the PC, the franchise expanded to games released for various consoles by third party developers. In 2010, the rights of the franchise were acquired by Gearbox Software,[1] who completed the development of Duke Nukem Forever and released it on June 10, 2011, in Europe and Australia and on June 14, 2011 in North America. The voice actor for Duke Nukem is Jon St. John.[2]
Main series[edit]
Title Year released Platforms
Duke Nukem 1991 MS-DOS, Steam (Windows & OS X) (2013)
Duke Nukem II 1993 MS-DOS, Game Boy Color (1999), iOS (2013), Steam (Windows & OS X) (2013)
Duke Nukem 3D 1996 MS-DOS, Game.com (1997), Mac OS (1997), Sega Saturn (1997), PlayStation (1997), Nintendo 64 (1997), Sega Mega Drive (Brazil only) (1998), Xbox Live Arcade (2008), iOS (2009), Android (2011), Steam (Windows, OS X & Linux) (2013), PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita (2014)
Duke Nukem Forever 2011 Microsoft Windows, OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
The original game was released as Duke Nukem in 1991 as a two dimensional platform game, which was IBM PC compatible, and featured 320×200, 16-color EGA graphics with vertical and horizontal scrolling. The original game had three episodes, the first distributed as shareware. The first Duke Nukem game was titled Duke Nukem, but Apogee learned that this name might have already been trademarked for the Duke Nukem character in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, so they changed it to Duke Nukum for the 2.0 revision.[3] The name was later determined not to be trademarked, so the spelling Duke Nukem was restored for Duke Nukem II and all successive Duke games.
For Duke Nukem II, the sequel was over four times larger and took advantage of 256-color VGA graphics, MIDI music, and digitized sound. Only 16 colors were actually used onscreen at once; however, three different 16-color palettes were used in the game.
The third game in the series was the first-person shooter (FPS) titled Duke Nukem 3D and was released in 1996. Like most FPS games of the day, Duke Nukem 3D featured three-dimensional environments with two-dimensional sprites standing in for weapons, enemies, and breakable background objects. Duke Nukem 3D was released for MS-DOS, Mac OS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, game.com, Mega Drive, Nintendo 64, and later re-released in 2008 for Xbox Live Arcade, and for the iPhone/iPod Touch and Nokia N900 in 2009. Duke Nukem 3D is perhaps the most recognized Duke Nukem game, with over a dozen expansion packs.
Title Year released Platforms
Duke Nukem: Time to Kill 1998 PlayStation
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour 1999 Nintendo 64
Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes 2000 PlayStation
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project 2002 Microsoft Windows, Xbox Live Arcade (2010), Steam (Windows & OS X) (2013), iOS, Android (2014)
Portable games[edit]
Title Year released Platforms
Duke Nukem Advance 2002 Game Boy Advance
Duke Nukem Mobile 2004 Tapwave Zodiac
Duke Nukem Mobile 2004 Mobile phone
Duke Nukem Mobile II: Bikini Project 2005 Mobile phone
Duke Nukem: Critical Mass 2011 Nintendo DSi
Cancelled games[edit]
One of the first projects to be announced after the success of Duke Nukem 3D was a return to Duke’s 2D side-scrolling, platforming roots in a game called Duke Nukem 4Ever. The project was led by Keith Schuler, lead designer and programmer on Paganitzu and Realms of Chaos, and a level designer on the Plutonium Pack.
The 2D Forever was planned to mesh many of the new concepts of Duke Nukem 3D with the old-style play of the first two games in the series. Duke’s look, personality and armory from the recent shooter would be matched with run and gun platforming, with a few new objects, including a cloaking device and five-piece weapon called the "heavy barrel," added in. Players would face off against Dr. Proton’s minions, the Protonite cyborgs, along with other level-specific grunt enemies. Each episode would end with a boss fight, with the last one fought against Proton himself. Development on Duke Nukem 4Ever stalled in the middle of 1996 when Keith Schuler was reassigned to work on maps for the Duke Nukem 3D expansion pack. The game’s cancellation wasn’t publicly announced until 1997, at a time when 3D Realms had decided to reuse the name for their sequel to Duke Nukem 3D. After cancellation, the game went on to become a new game called Ravager, and that project was then sold to developer called Inner Circle Creations, who renamed it and released the title as Alien Rampage in 1996.
Duke Nukem: Endangered Species was announced in January 2001. It was designed to be a hunting game where the player could hunt everything from dinosaurs to snakes,[4] using an improved version of the engine used in the Carnivores series. The game was cancelled in December of that year.[5] The company that had been developing the game, Ukraine-based developer Action Forms, went on to develop its own game, Vivisector: Beast Within (originally titled Vivisector: Creatures of Doctor Moreau) instead.
A PlayStation 2 game called Duke Nukem D-Day (also known as Duke Nukem: Man of Valor), was announced in 1999. It was renowned for having had one of the longest development cycles of any title in the PlayStation 2's considerable history. Long-rumored to implement the same technology that powered the PC version of Unreal, the game sometimes erroneously referred to as Duke Nukem Forever PS2 (this console title was not to be a part of the PC game and, instead, was a new creation by developer n-Space), consistently battled crippling delays, often putting in question its status as an active or cancelled game. The project was finally abandoned in 2003.
Legal wrangling between 3D Realms and Take 2 Interactive over the non-delivery of Duke Nukem Forever after 3D Realms laid off all development staff in 2009 revealed that the two companies had agreed on the production of a console-targeted Duke game in October 2007. 3D Realms accepted the deal in exchange for a $2.5 million advance on royalties in order to continue to fund development of Duke Nukem Forever. Gearbox Software was later revealed to be the developer of the game.
Duke Begins was a cancelled game that was the subject of litigation, but few details exist as to what was intended. From name of the game and the court filings, the title was possibly intended to be an origin story, illustrating how Duke came to be the ego-driven ass kicker that he is. Development on the title began within two months of the October 2007 agreement, with the intention of a mid-2010 release. 3D Realms alleged in court filings that the title was put on hold in April 2009 in order to deny them royalties to pay back the $2.5 million advance. Whether Duke Begins was put on hold after 3D Realms approached Take 2 to request $US6 million to finish Duke Nukem Forever is yet to be confirmed.
Gearbox Software has since shifted to working on Duke Nukem Forever after finalising a deal with 3D Realms to acquire the unfinished game and the rights to the Duke Nukem franchise.
When Duke Nukem Trilogy was announced in 2008, it was intended for release on the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable (PSP). Each game in the series was to have two versions that shared the same story – the Nintendo DS game was a side-scrolling affair, while the PSP version was to be a third-person shooter not unlike Duke Nukem: Time to Kill. The PSP version was said to be the more adult-oriented of the two games. It is unknown precisely when the PSP versions of the Duke Nukem Trilogy games were cancelled, but the drawn-out development of the title, low quality of the game and the poor sales of PSP software since 2008 were likely factors.
An HD remake of Duke Nukem II was in the planning stages at one time.
Duke Nukem Forever[edit]
The most recent installment in the video game series, Duke Nukem Forever, was in development hell for over a decade after the initial announcement in April 1997. Promotional information for the game was released in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008 and 2009. As a result, the title was subject to intense speculation and won several vaporware awards.
The development team was terminated in May 2009 but, according to 3D Realms, the project was not officially cancelled and the game was still in development. Although Take-Two Interactive owned the publishing rights to the game, they did not have an agreement with 3D Realms to provide funding for its continuation,[6] and a lawsuit was filed by Take-Two Interactive against 3D Realms over their failure to finish development of the game. The lawsuit reached a settlement in May 2010.[7]
Gearbox Software bought the rights to and intellectual property of the franchise and started work on the project in 2009. A playable demo was shown at Penny Arcade Expo (PAX), where the release timeframe was announced as May 3, 2011, in the U.S., and May 6 internationally on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC.[8]
On January 21, 2011, an official release trailer was unveiled by 2K Games with a confirmed release date of May 3, 2011 for North America.[9] On March 24, 2011, 2K Games sent out a statement that "Duke Never Comes Early" to announce a delay until June 10 in North America.[10] On May 5, 2011, the Steam network started selling the game with June 14, 2011, as the advertised availability date.
Duke Begins[edit]
The October 2011 edition of the Official Xbox Magazine reported that Gearbox Software planned to reboot the Duke Nukem franchise once Aliens: Colonial Marines was complete and out the door. The series, which began back in 1991 with the original Duke Nukem PC game developed by Apogee Software, would relaunch with the long-discussed Duke Begins on an unspecified date.
Other media[edit]
Several Duke Nukem games contained popular tracks from well-known bands, and a greatest hits album titled Duke Nukem: Music to Score By was released in 1999, with the following track listing:[11]
1. Duke Nukem Theme - Megadeth
3. What U See Is What U Get - Xzibit
5. Song 10 - Zebrahead
6. The Thing I Hate - Stabbing Westward
7. Push it - Static X
8. It's Yourz - Wu-Tang Clan
9. Screaming from the Sky - Slayer
10. New World Order - Megadeth (previously unreleased)
11. Stone Crazy - The Beatnuts
12. Land of the Free Disease - Corrosion of Conformity (previously unreleased)
The pre-release game trailer of Duke Nukem Forever uses "The Stroke" by Mickey Avalon.
Proposed feature film[edit]
In the late 1990s, it was announced that Hollywood film producer Lawrence Kasanoff (Mortal Kombat, Class of 1999) was working on a Duke Nukem film.[12] The plot was to feature aliens invading Duke's favorite strip club. However Kasanoff's Duke Nukem film never advanced past the pre-production phase for numerous reasons, primarily funding issues.
Plans were announced in 2001 for a live action Duke Nukem movie to be produced by Kasanoff's company Threshold Entertainment,[13][14] but the film never made it to production.
In 2008, Max Payne producer Scott Faye revealed to IGN.com that he was planning to bring Duke Nukem to the big screen. Faye, who runs production company Depth Entertainment, said he hoped to compliment these with "a Duke film scenario that will compel a studio to finance a feature version ... Certainly, there's a large audience that knows and loves this character. We're expanding Duke's 'storyverse' in a very significant major way without abandoning or negating any element that's being used to introduce Duke to the next-gen platforms."[15]
In mid-2009, an interview on Gamasutra revealed that a Duke Nukem movie was currently in pre-production. To-date, there has been no further news or information regarding the film.
Comic series[edit]
A comic series titled Duke Nukem: Glorious Bastard was released in July 2011 by IDW. The series features Duke Nukem traveling back to the Second World War, to help the allies defeat the Nazis and aliens.[16]
Duke Nukem was a short-lived toy line from defunct toy company ReSaurus.[17] Primarily centered on Duke Nukem 3D, the line featured three versions of Duke (with a fourth "Internet only" Duke that came with a CD-ROM and freezethrower accessory), the Pigcop, Octabrain, and Battlelord. The toys were prone to breakage (Duke's legs were held on by a thin plastic rod which was easy to snap and the Octabrain had numerous fragile points). More toys were planned to coincide with the release of Duke Nukem Forever, but the game's delay halted production of the toys, and ReSaurus eventually went out of business. At Toyfair 2011, NECA revealed a new series of Duke Nukem Forever action figures with more details and articulation than the previous series from 1997.
In 2012, Sideshow collectibles announced a new collectible statue based on Duke Nukem as he appeared in Duke Nukem Forever.[18] The statue was released in April 2013.[19]
Aggregate review scores
As of May 21, 2011.
Game GameRankings Metacritic
Duke Nukem II (GBC) 73.31%[20]
(iOS) 48.00%[21]
(iOS) 50[22]
Duke Nukem 3D (PC) 88.50%[23]
(SAT) 82.50%[24]
(X360) 80.67%[25]
(N64) 74.33%[26]
(iOS) 63.80%[27]
(PS1) 59.33%[28]
(GEN) 50.00%[29]
(PC) 89[30]
(X360) 80[31]
(N64) 73[32]
Duke Nukem: Time to Kill (PS1) 75.27%[33] (PS1) -
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (N64) 67.33%[34] (N64) -
Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes (PS1) 59.57%[35] (PS1) 37[36]
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (PC) 77.46%[37]
(X360) 47.08%[38]
(PC) 78[39]
(X360) 41[40]
Duke Nukem Advance (GBA) 81.07%[41] (GBA) 81[42]
Duke Nukem: Critical Mass (NDS) 37.33%[43] (NDS) 29[44]
Duke Nukem Forever (X360) 49.36%[45]
(PC) 48.52%[46]
(PS3) 47.60%[47]
(PC) 54[48]
(PS3) 51[49]
(X360) 49[50]
The series has been generally popular since its inception. Duke Nukem and Duke Nukem II, along with Commander Keen, helped make the genre popular on the personal computer, as against games like Super Mario Bros. for video game consoles.[51]
The games broke out of the shareware niche and into the mainstream gamer audience with Duke Nukem 3D, which also brought the series to the forefront of video game controversy. The game, like others such as Star Wars: Dark Forces, was one of the first titles considered comparable to Doom. The Build engine used in Duke Nukem 3D has also become one of the most popular engines among developers. Duke Nukem 3D was controversial, because of its depictions of sexuality, pornography, obscenities, graphic violence, drug use, and other taboo topics. This caused the game to be banned in Brazil and, in other countries, the sale of the game was strictly regulated against purchase by minors. Despite this, Duke Nukem 3D was a commercial and critical success for 3D Realms.[51]
Duke Nukem Forever had been in development hell since 1997 until it was finally released on June 10, 2011. The exceedingly long wait had spawned a number of jokes related to its development timeline. The video game media and the public in general have routinely suggested several names in place of Forever, calling it: "Never", "(Taking) Forever", "Whenever", "ForNever", "Neverever", and "If Ever". Many fans[who?] have noted that the game's initials, "DNF", also stand for Did Not Finish, which is an acronym widely used in motorsports to denote cars which did not reach the finish line (usually due to mechanical failure or crash). Due to Duke Nukem games featuring many pop culture references, a joke on the development hell nightmare of Duke Nukem Forever's production was included in the title itself, where Duke is playing it himself within the game, and when asked if it was any good, commented "After 12 fucking years, it should be!". The game has also won a wide variety of "vaporware awards".[52][53][54]
Although anticipation was high, Duke Nukem Forever received disparate reviews upon release from critics, with most of the criticism directed towards the game's clunky controls on consoles, shooting mechanics, and overall aging and dated design.The PR firm responsible for the game's publicity, The Redner Group, reacted to these reviews in a statement on the corporation's Twitter account. This comment appeared to threaten to withdraw access to review copies for future titles for reviewers who had been highly critical of the game. Head of the PR firm Jim Redner later apologised for and retracted this comment, and the original Twitter post has been deleted.[55] Despite the apologies, Publisher 2K Games has officially dropped The Redner Group from representing its products.[56]
Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project, a spin-off from the main franchise released in 2002, generally received positive reviews in the video game press, with rankings around 7/10 and of 80 out 100. However, the game did not sell as well as hoped, and its developer Sunstorm Interactive is no longer in existence. Duke Nukem Advance, which was also released in 2002 for the Game Boy Advance, did also receive favorable reviews. Duke Nukem: Critical Mass, which was released the same year as Duke Nukem Forever and was developed for the Nintendo DS, received a negative reception.
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