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..and I don't mean finding out why it doesn't compile, I mean serious debugging: breakpoints, figuring out value of variables at a given moment during run/compile, stepping, examining a stack (is there one?), etc. All the things that we take for granted when debugging a "real" programming language. Since TeX is "turing-complete", I would like to be able to really see what is going on internally.
I'm guessing that a GUI interface for the debugger would be too much to ask, but if it exists, I'd love to hear about it.
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The trace package will load everything that TeX is doing during a particular piece of the run. The problem with that is that you can get a lot of information very rapidly. Selectively using trace can give a lot of insight into problems. At a lower level, there are various tracing settings that TeX provides (and which the trace package makes use of). It's possible to set just some of these values to get TeX to log certain parts of what it is doing, for example just assignments. Normally, the trace package is enough.
For examining variables, the \wlog macro is the easiest way, although you can simply put\show or \showthe in the right places if it's a single thing you want to know.
One thing I do a lot (especially with infinite loops) is simply insert an undefined control sequence into the code (I use \MARK). This will stop TeX with an error, and I can therefore see where I'm up to. Not elegant, but it works for me.
The way TeX writes to the log can mean that you get an infinite loop without all of the data you want being added to the log. Strategic placement of \@@end (the TeX primitive \end renamed by LaTeX) can be used in these circumstances to force the run to end.
I'm not sure how a graphical debugger would work, but then I only really program in TeX, so I'm used to the approach I've outlined. I've never come across one.
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Your comment probably makes perfect sense to you, as you obviously have lots of programming experience in other languages. However, as a programmer who works with TeX none of what you've said really makes sense! For example, what does 'step into' a macro mean? What 'stack'? How can you graphically 'look' at a variable (I guess you mean \showthe in some way)? Sorry if I'm being dense, but I at least need a more 'beginners' explanation. – Joseph Wright Aug 7 '10 at 20:28
I'm not sue that TeX is really amenable to the approach you want. Remember that it's a macro expansion language, which reads from the input stream, tokenises and then expands/executes/prints material. So macros are expanded with the resulting 'replacement text' left in the input stream. At that stage the original presence of the macro is no longer relevant (or indeed available). Variables in TeX are not private to macros, but do have grouping. However, the only way to see what TeX is doing is to use TeX, and \show/\showthe. So I'm not sure what you want to do can be done. – Joseph Wright Aug 8 '10 at 8:14
The real problem here is that TeX has no stack (apart from limited stack-like scoping for \begingroup...\endgroup), so you can't step into and out of macros. Macros are expanded in-line around tokenisation time, and then fed to TeX's stomach. The lexer can be dynamically reconfigured (catcodes). The fact that packages take advantage of TeX's tail-recursiveness means that 'how-did-I-get-here?' information is routinely scrubbed. This doesn't mean that a debugger is impossible (TeX is vaguely scheme-like here), but it would require starting almost from scratch (ie, not a gdb patch!) – Norman Gray Oct 4 '10 at 11:55
Honestly, while I love TeX so much, the fact that it's a macro language rather than a fully-fledged Turing complete language with a scope, local variables, object-oriented objects, lambdas, etc. is a painful archaism. Programming languages have come a long way since TeX was designed, and it would be nice to one day (20 years from now?) keep the good parts of TeX and ditch the unfortunate limitations. – Neil G Oct 5 '10 at 5:18
@Neil: TeX is Turing complete. A debugger for it should be possible, but it would work as an instrumented version of the TeX program. You would hook into the token recognition code and the macro expansion code (and presumably a few other places like character class redefinition) which would give it a slightly different character than using, say, gdb on C. – dmckee Oct 19 '10 at 16:54
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A graphical debugger would work as for other languages, you would be able to set breakpoints (positional or conditional), step over and into commands (commands being everything in the source including letters of course), view the stack (if such a thing exists in TeX..) examine variables, etc.
IMO it would make sense, and you are not the first to think about it. Unfortunately, it seems that previous projects to bring a such tool to TeX have been discontinued:
• Lutz Birkhahn. Tdb: An X11 TEX Debugger. Proceedings of the Eight European TEX Conference, September 26-30, 1994, Gdansk, Poland, pp 91-95.
A small report can be found here, p27:
Lutz Birkhahn discussed his work on developing debugging tools for TEX and presented Tdb, an extension to TEX that provides an interface to the Tk/Tcl X11 toolkit. This allowed him to set up a graphical user interface to allow one to set breakpoints, have stepwise execution, and to look at macro definitions and the value of variables.
However, it seems that ConTeXt does have a kind of visual debugging commands:
You can check ConTeXt's \showmakeup command from ConTeXt documentation:
We can visualize boxes by using \ruledhbox, \ruledvbox and \ruledvtop instead of \hbox, \vbox and \vtop. With \showmakeup we can visualise everything automatically and we can get some insight on the features of ConTEXt and TEX.
also featured in ConTeXt wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Visual_Debugging
At every point on the way you should be able to view the output, and this might be the most difficult part: can one view the partial dvi or pdf that is generated?
What about synctex? http://www.river-valley.tv/direct-and-reverse-synchronization-with-synctex/
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Great answer on the current facilities available. – Will Robertson Oct 4 '10 at 1:30
Just a note - something like the Visual_Debugging in Latex, I guess, would be package (or option to geometry) showframe; but I wish I knew if there was something that can frame/box each and every letter as it is typeset... – sdaau Aug 28 '11 at 18:37
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I've made myself custom title-page, put it in separate .tex file and when I input it, it is numbered with 1. The very next page is numbered with 1 also, and page-number increases on the following pages. Main file looks like this
How do I suppress page-number on that title-page? (Why \thispagestyle{empty} doesn't work?) edit: Here's the title-page:
% Upper part of the page
\textsc{\large Uni}\\[0.1cm]
\textsc{\Large Faculty}\\[2.8cm]
\textsc{\Large Sensors}\\[0.1cm]
{\Large Paper}\\[0.25cm]
% Title
\HRule \\[0.3cm]
{ \Large \bfseries Occupancy}\\[0.3cm]
{ \huge \bfseries Tribos}\\[0.05cm]
\HRule \\[0.05cm]
% Author and supervisor
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An \textsc{Ant}
% Bottom of the page
{\large \today}
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Did you try \pagestyle{empty}? – Yiannis Lazarides Dec 18 '10 at 18:56
@Yiannis Lazarides As a matter of fact, it actually did turn of page-numbering, but I was unable to return it afterwards. – user1996 Dec 18 '10 at 19:16
@everyone_with_same_problem: this fixed the problem - 1. add \pagenumbering{gobble} before title input 2. add \pagenumbering{arabic} after title input 3. add \pagestyle{empty} inside titlepage.tex. This could probably be generalized. – user1996 Dec 18 '10 at 19:32
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You could use \pagenumbering{gobble} to switch off page numbering.
To switch it on afterwards, use \pagenumbering{arabic} for arabic numbers or alph, Alph, roman, or Roman for lowercase resp. uppercase alphabetic resp. Roman numbering.
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I'm using \pagenumbering{gobble}, but I'm having some problems with "already used pagenumber", I'm getting the warning message destination with the same identifier (name{page.}) has been already used, duplicate ignored<to be read again>... and it seems to be complaining on the second page in the document. How can I fix that? I'm also using the hyperref package. – StrawberryFieldsForever Apr 26 '13 at 13:50
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Maybe try to enclose your title page (or the input file) into a \begin{titlepage} and \end{titlepage}; and put \pagenumbering{arabic} just before your main body starts.
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+1 for begin/end titlepage, it is necessary. – user417896 Nov 1 '13 at 9:25
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I'm using biblatex with the biblatex-ieee style and I've run into a problem with the formatting of citations in a group. For example, I can use:
This is two citations~\cite{ref1,ref2}. This is three citations~\cite{ref3,ref4,ref5}.
According to IEEE style, this should yield:
This is two citations [1], [2]. This is three citations [3]–[5].
Instead, what is actually produced is:
This is two citations [1, 2]. This is three citations [3–5].
In numeric-comp.cbx (referenced by ieee.cbx), there is a line saying \renewcommand*{\multicitedelim}{\addcomma\space}, but I don't see how I would modify this to close provide "], [" in one case and "]–[" in the case of several citations. Of course, I don't see from this line how biblatex knows to transform \addcomma to a dash in the first place, so I might be looking in the wrong place altogether.
Could someone guide me on how to adjust things to obtain the first example?
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Which version of biblatex-ieee do you have? I remember this issue, and according to the log it should be fixed in v1.1a. – Joseph Wright Dec 4 '12 at 19:47
Hi Joseph, I'm using 1.1d, according to ieee.cbx and ieee.bbx. They have 2012/10/12 v1.1d biblatex bibliography style at the beginning. If it matters, this is with biblatex 2.4. – Tyler Dec 4 '12 at 19:51
Problem located: expect a CTAN update to go today! – Joseph Wright Dec 4 '12 at 20:04
Okay, perfect! I'll keep an eye out for it. Thanks for your quick response. – Tyler Dec 4 '12 at 20:13
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How to change certain pages into landscape/portrait mode
I'd like to have one page in landscape, in between of several other pages in portrait.
I know how to make all pages be rendered in landscape, but not just one page among other pages rendered in portrait.
The only way to do that, that I can think of, is to use pdfpages and assemble a final document from various PDFs rendered beforehand on their own. the Problem with this, is that I have to split the document in several parts, the part up to the landscape page, the landscape page itself, and everything after that. Should I be needing more of those landscape pages, this would turn more and more into chaos.
Is there a way to make one page appear in landscape?
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polemon, please look at the link posted by @PaulGaborit. If it solves your problem, let us know and this one can be marked as a duplicate of that one. If it doesn't solve your problem, please edit your question and explain more in details, maybe providing some snapshots of the desired result. – tohecz Dec 5 '12 at 8:01
Ah, Great! A few hours ago, I got a 404 from that link, seems to work now, though. Someone might wanna close this question now. – polemon Dec 5 '12 at 9:26
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Try the lscape package as below:
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#11462 closed enhancement (fixed)
List "Root Catalogs"
Reported by: anonymous Owned by: seccanj
Priority: normal Component: TestManagerForTracPlugin
Severity: normal Keywords:
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The listSubCatalogs XMLRPC (at least) does not allow listing the root Catalogs, because one need to already specify a known id and this already restricts listing to the subcatalogs of a root catalog.
Since Ids grow from 0 upwards, -1 could be used as an indicator that listSubCatalogs must list the root catalogs.
The following 3 lines in TestCatalog.init do the trick
if id == '-1':
self.exists = True
self.values['page_name'] = 'TC'
listSubCatalogs can then be called as follows:
for v in server.testmanager.listSubCatalogs('-1'):
print v
And the root catalogs will be returned (in my case):
['3', 'TC_TT3', 'catalog1', '\n']
['4', 'TC_TT4', 'catalog2', '\n']
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I have added a listRootCatalogs function to the RPC API.
This seems to me a cleaner solution than using '-1' as the catalog ID.
Also, I didn't want to set "self.exists = True" to the "TC" vistual catalog, as this may have unpredictable results.
Please, take a look at the updated file for an example usage of this new function.
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Sometimes, a century and a quarter of solving ancient mysteries, unearthing lost civilizations, and discovering elusive creatures begins with a simple invitation.
That is how, 125 years ago today, 33 of America's foremost scientists and explorers found themselves meeting across the street from the White House, summoned to consider "the advisability of organizing a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge."
The men were mapmakers and meteorologists, a one-armed Civil War hero and a naturalist with a fondness for roasted skunk. They had climbed America's highest mountains, marked out its coastlines, documented its plants and animals, and traced the path of its storms. To a person, their favorite adventure was "the next one." But for that one night on January 13, 1888, these restless men stood still. By the end of it, they had voted to create an organization like no other and gave it a name: the National Geographic Society.
As the adventurers departed, they could not have imagined that from that meeting would come some of the world's greatest discoveries of the next 125 years. Hiram Bingham's 1912 exploration of the "lost city of the Inca" known as Machu Picchu, the first flight over the South Pole by Richard Byrd in 1929, Jane Goodall's revolutionary study of wild chimpanzees beginning in 1960, Louis and Mary Leakey's decades-long search for fossils in Africa that unlocked understanding of our past, and Robert Ballard's 1985 exploration of the Titanic are just some of the more than 10,000 expeditions supported by the Society so far.
But what is left to explore? In an era when physicists have located the so-called "God Particle," scientists have put a 3,000-year-old mummy under a CT scanner to find its cause of death, and NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent more than 300,000 stunning images of Saturn and its moons back to Earth, it's tempting to think that everything has been discovered. But we see daily evidence that puts this question to rest. If anything, the pace and urgency of exploration are accelerating, revealing vital new knowledge that has been unimaginable until now.
Last year's dive to Earth's deepest point, seven miles down in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, embodied this new era. Filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron took the world with him to a place as alien as the planet Pandora in Avatar and reminded us that some 95 percent of the ocean remains to be explored.
The revolutionary tools today's explorers are using to "increase and diffuse" knowledge would have seemed like science fiction to our founders. These new technologies are opening up arenas of exploration never before possible, revealing details of cultures once thought lost to science. Satellites, for example, are peering through sand to detect undiscovered pyramids in Egypt and spotting long-lost cities through tree canopy in the Amazon.
Twenty-first-century technologies also are bringing everyday people into the exploration tent. Four years ago we dispatched a team to a remote stretch of Mongolia to lead a noninvasive search for the lost tomb of Genghis Khan in a culturally sensitive area. The team deployed radar, 3-D imaging, and other next-generation technology to search thousands of miles of open space for ancient ruins, uploaded the images to the Web, and invited the public to tag spots that looked promising. Our team on the ground then used technology to explore the most promising sites without ever lifting a shovel. They discovered what is very likely a temple built by Genghis Khan's descendants, with tantalizing possibilities for what lies inside.
Exploration for the Society's founders was driven not only by a desire for knowledge but as a means to quench their thirst for adventure. Today's explorers have the same goals but seem to be driven by a deeper purpose—to help us navigate the increasingly complex relationship between humanity's needs and the natural world that sustains us.
National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence J. Michael Fay felt so strongly that he walked 2,000 miles across Africa's Congo Basin—enduring poachers, leaches, malaria, and duct-taped blisters—to call attention to this unspoiled gem. The evidence he returned with ultimately won the attention of Gabon's president, who set aside 11 percent of that country as national parks, preserving the land for future generations.
Meanwhile, legions of latter-day explorers are finding answers to our most tantalizing challenges. From scientists mapping the human genome to improve health care; to researchers using single-atom thick sheets of carbon to more efficiently convert salt water to drinking water; to agronomists adding micro-nutrients to staple crops to improve food security, this new age of exploration reaches from the smallest atom to the highest mountain. The more we learn about our planet, and its twin challenges of a growing population and limited resources, the more we'll be able to prescribe a sustainable path for all of us.
The first president of National Geographic, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, was neither a geographer nor a scientist. In his inaugural address, he struck a note that continues to guide us. "By my election," he said, "you notify the public that the membership of our Society will not be confined to professional geographers but will include (those)... who desire to promote special researches by others... so that we may all know more of the world upon which we live." From classroom scientists and backyard adventurers with a camera to career storytellers who still put boots on the ground, we are all explorers. Infinite horizons of possibility lie ahead.
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i have 3 but really only use one and one as spare.
9/10 very little scratching only. only a tiny bit on actual paint.
comes with case, strings are ok.
$80 including shipping to canada/usa.
or i'll trade for rdx500mp or fischer pro1, both 4 1/2.
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Most don't realize why they foot fault.
The common advice is to tell the player just to back up.
Foot faults usually occur because a player does not squat down with their body like all good servers do, and Sampras does in the pics below:
In pic one, Pete has just released the ball. He is standing pretty erect.
But with his arm held high, he does a "squat", bending his knees deeply in pics 2- 9 into his trophy position.
In this deep squat, Pete's body weight is pushing him down - he has no choice but to push up hard with both feet at the same time.
That hard double leg push off will propel him "up the mountain" to help use his legs to power his serve.
On the other hand, many who have never had instruction in serving remain standing tall and just rock back onto their rear leg. Then when they start to bring their hitting arm forward, they have no choice but to step forward to keep their balance and in the process foot fault every time.
So if you foot fault, take a cue from Pete and squat down (bending your knees) while your tossing arm is held straight up.
Then use your leg push off to power your serve and to stop foot faulting.
Some might feel self conscious pointing this out to one who constantly foot faults.
And you have to tell them in a way without coming off as a know it all. (You can say you saw this tip on TT and think it really works.)
But you will be helping them a lot more than just telling to back up (which they may need to do for that match - but they have something to work on to really correct their problem in future matches.)
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• Why are there only men in the editing team for shoujo manga? After all, the target readers are female. Having at least one woman in the team should help.
• This is probably due to Nakamura wanting to pander more to the female readers of the actual series itself. What's more appealing to fujoshi than a group of hot guys all in one place? I also assume it gives her a central springboard for all the couples of the series, since I believe all the couples in the OP have at least one member in the Maiden Club.
• There ARE women editors in their section (like the girls who pointed out when Ritsu had a piece of dialog on his back), but the series only focuses the ones right under Takano's supervision.
• That's just how the work force is in Japan. Japanese households can be maintained on a single-person income, so most women who get married become homemakers. Then there's the fact that the wage gap between men and women is very high. It's actually cheaper for just the husband to work than both spouses.
• This is a bit of a YMMV, but it's been bugging me for a while...Takano says that he's been in love with Ritsu for the last ten years, that he was never able to forget him, and we've been told that he turned into a wreck when he found out Ritsu was engaged. Well, if that's the case, then...why didn't he recognise Ritsu straight off? I mean, I sort of get why Ritsu didn't recognise him since Takano changed his name, but Ritsu has the same name as he did in high school, and physically he hasn't changed that much. I'd understand Takano forgetting his face, but I find it a bit odd that he'd forget the name of someone who had that much of an effect on him...
• The explanation will open an equally big or bigger Plot Hole in a later chapter, Takano explained that he did not remember Onodera's face very well as the latter always looked down during the time they dated in high school. As for the name, Takano knew Onodera's name through the library card since Onodera borrowed the same books as him. The problem is, as shown in the OVA, Onodera did not use his real name for fear of being called a stalker and wrote down a fake name "Oda Ritsu". Naturally, this begs the question of how Takano discovered that Onodera had a fiancee in the first place if he had not even known the latter's real name
• I always thought that he would have found out Onodera's real name at some point while they were dating. Even if Ritsu didn't tell him himself, there was a bit where Takano/Saga-senpai was tutoring Ritsu, so he could very well have seen Ritsu's name written on his textbook.
• He also said that he knew about Ritsu before they were dating, so undoubtedly he knew his name.
• Takano "knowing" Ritsu before they dated actually means he was aware that Ritsu was stalking him before Ritsu blurted out his love confession.
• In the manga, Takano never found out his real name, and assumed that it was "Oda" back in high school, but his parents got divorced so his name changed. Ritsu explains that he used a fake name and that his real name has always been Onodera, and Takano is furious that all these years he hasn't even known the real name of the guy he was in love with. About him finding out that Ritsu has a fiance— Takano mentions some guy just told him that a rich kid with a fiance went to study abroad. Takano knew he was talking about Ritsu from the description, but the guy who told him never actually said Onodera's name. As for Takano mentioning that he had "known" about Onodera, I think he just meant that he knew Onodera was watching him in the library and knew he had a crush on him— sort of the same situation as with Kisa stalking Yukina at the bookstore.
• Well, there is the fact that Ritsu forgot Takano because he spent 10 years trying to forget about him so considering what a trainwreck Takano became over him, it's probably likely he tried to do the same. However, even if you don't think about it that way, you will remember, though, that at most it only took about 1 or 2 days for him to remember who he was, and accounting for the fact that he grew up over the past 10 years, it's fairly forgivable that he didn't recognise him immediately.
• This troper has a problem with the love triangle pairing with Yoshino, Hatori and Yanase. What does Yanase see in Yoshino? He comes off as the third wheel in the love triangle with no hope of getting Yoshino (well, Hatori/Yoshino is the official couple and yet continues to purse Yoshino despite all his rejections. At the same time that Yoshino rejects Yanase, he seems to be seducing him in that hot spring episode and then Yanase is treated like the bad guy when Yoshino is technically hitting on him (despite being drunk) and then despite the fact that the holiday was for the two of them, Yoshino leaves Yanase to go back to Hatori. The question is why does Yanase put up with Yoshino when he knows he's out of his league? He comes off as a Love Martyr for Yoshino and Yoshino comes off as one concerning Hatori especially in that episode when Hatori was basically harassing him about hanging out when he was in the wrong.
• One major problem is that story arcs involving these three are strictly from Yoshino's perspective, outside of a few short comics from Hatori's perspective. And since he was completely oblivious to the fact that both Hatori and Yanase are in love with him and have been quietly fighting over him for years, he naturally has no idea what Yanase is truly thinking or feeling. So we the readers have no idea what Yanase is thinking and feeling. This of course could be rectified if an arc was devoted to Yanase and we saw his side of the story, but nothing like that has emerged yet.
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It's amazing what you can do with a few chemicals in a science fiction story. Mix a bit of Phlebotinum salt with a dash of suspension of disbelief, heat it to over 9000 degrees and you have yourself a "chemical substance" capable of whatever you want it to do. A character can down a shot of it, inject it into his/her body, pour it into a machine. In almost no circumstance will it make them throw up, kill them, or ruin the machine. Instead it will create whatever wondrous or horrible effect the author desires.
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• A classic example is the potion from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that causes the transformation.
• In Herbert West Reanimator, bringing fresh corpses back to life merely requires the injection of the right chemicals. Apparently these chemicals diffuse very quickly since they'd be injected into a body with no blood circulating.
• The Invisible Man: The title character's invisibility is chemical in nature.
• In an interesting invocation of the trope, The Skylark of Space (one of the earliest Space Operas) begins with the discovery of a transuranic element which catalyses a direct matter-to-energy conversion, with the energy emerging as a form of propulsion (as well as several other useful forms).
• Isaac Asimov wrote a series of articles about the endochronic properties of resublimated thiotimoline, a substance that dissolves in water before the water is added.
• In this case, though, it's essential to remember that Asimov was a professor of biochemistry, so it's a given that he used the trope as an anecdote or parody, as opposed to the use of the trope out of genuine belief that chemistry "works like that" due to lack of scientific knowledge.
• In one of Norman Hunter's Professor Branestawm stories, a formula that could bring pictures to life came in contact with some old photos, resulting in multiple copies of himself, Colonel Dedshott and Mrs. Flittersnoop and, in a particularly comic case, a half-policeman who was in one shot by mistake. (He kept hopping around the house saying "Pass along p-", which was all he could manage of what the real policeman had been saying when he was caught on film.)
• When Ben and Daniel are breaking out of prison in The Leonard Regime, they stumble across a lab full of chemicals. Ben, knowing what the chemicals were, managed to create a mixture that could kill all of the guards when breathed in.
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• The original Flash got his powers from fumes given off by "hard water" spilled in a chemistry lab.
• Captain America gets his powers from a "super soldier formula". Later, the treatment was elaborated with a radiological treatment to activate and stabilized the chemicals.
• The agreed-on origin for The Joker, who plummeted into a disposal tank full of various chemicals. In Death Of The Family, Batman asides that he's studied the crime scene and knows the mixture by heart, but on sleepless nights finds himself pouring over the list all over again. A combination like that should have eaten the Joker alive. (Batman gets trapped in the very same tank by Harley Quinn, and the chemical mixture chews straight through his Batsuit.)
• One possible origin for the Joker reveals him to be an ex-chemist, which would explain his expertise in poison and acid weapons. His patented "Joker" venom leaves the victim with a rictus smile — the clown's calling card.
Live Action TV
• In Family Matters, Urkel creates a machine that can create clones or turn people into other people (e.g., Steve Urkel into Stephan). It required vaguely described "chemicals" to work, which were poured into a slot in the machine.
• Look Around You ascribes several ridiculous properties to chemicals such as a mixture of sulphur and champagne granting the drinker Eye Beams. Of course, this is all part of the joke.
Video Games
• In Final Fantasy V, the Chemist class is considered a Game Breaker by experts because of its variety of powers: HP Drain, loads of status buffs, debuffs, and plenty of tools that make the game a walk in the park. They're a Guide Dang It though, as the game doesn't tell you the ingredients for their Mixes.
• Creatures, a complex life simulator, uses "chemicals" for monitoring most of the Creature's inner workings - metabolism, antigens and antibodies, drives like hunger and adopting a right kind of gait for each type of terrain. In some installments of the game, the player can directly inject any of these chemicals in their Creatures, allowing almost anything from clinical immortality to horrible, painful death.
• Escape From St Marys: The chemistry department brews teleportation mixtures from chemicals that you find and distill.
• In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Peach mixes chemicals in the proper proportions and heats the mixture for just the right duration to get an invisibility potion that — once she gets naked — allows her to sneak around the fortress and get data from a disk in Grodus' room.
• Also, X-Naut PhDs make various potions that X-Nauts use in battle to: restore HP; grow themselves (a buff); shrink the enemy (a debuff), set the enemy on fire (persistent damage), and more.
• The various potions you can mix with the chemistry set in The Sims.
Western Animation
• Chemical X in The Powerpuff Girls — it has the power to create life, give any living being superpowers with no side-effects, and apparently it's in abundant enough quantities to be regularly abused..
• In American Dragon Jake Long, Spud goes to a school for child geniuses. In a chemistry demonstration one makes a floating cloud in the shape of Pi and another manages to rapidly grow a statue of the teacher.
• Transformers Generation One episode The (aptly named) Insecticon Syndrome had Ratchet and Wheeljack formulate an antidote to the Nova Power Core that was about to explode in the Insecticons' stomachs, to stop them from blowing up and destroying most of the Earth.
Real Life
• Truth in Television as everything in the universe is made up of chemicals. Chemistry is the basis of all life on Earth.
• In fact, all of the applied phlebotium we have today is the resault of Chemistry, i.e. soap, detergents, sugar, molasses, alcoholic beverage, rubber, plastics, steel, gunpowder, separated crude oil, medicine... I could go on.
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Ladies and gents, the Orcoro Circus!
In our world, creating monsters from items called "Saucers" and then raising them is a part of everyday life. We call the places where monsters are raised "Monster Rancher."
And so begins the tale of Julio, your average 15-year-old Monster Breeder, and our hero in Monster Rancher EVO.
Now, Monster Rancher as a series is quite different from genre staples in that it's a monster raising simulation, and the series takes that title to heart. At times it can dip into unprecedented levels of difficulty, but come on, who doesn't love a little challenge?
Monster Rancher EVO ("Monster Farm 5: Circus Caravan" in Japanese) is a bit different from older entries and later entries in that it retains 4's raise-5-monsters-at-a-time mechanic, while being more plot-heavy and traditionally RPG-ish than any predecessor. You play as the aforementioned Julio, who, in the beginning of the game is not confident in his Breeding skills. The game begins as your circus troop of you, Albert, Marlene, and Gaufre are joined by Nayuta, who quickly demonstrates a rather unique talent: unlocking monsters from Saucers.
Armed with this ability, and Julio's Anima Recorder, you and the Orcoro Circus set out on a continent-spanning adventure, fighting stray monsters with darkened anima, unraveling each character's past, and putting on circus shows.
Tropes present in Monster Rancher EVO:
• Alternate Dimension: The world of Warp.
• Ambiguously Brown: Gaufre and Nayuta. The former is from a colorful Jamaica caricature, but the latter is more of a straight example.
• Anime Hair: Pretty much everybody up there. Spikes and huge, naturally gravity-defying hair is front and center among the main cast.
• Artificial Stupidity: Fighting the stray monsters can become this, as they'll politely wait around for your Guts to charge up most of the time. But sometimes, they won't.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: Most definitely dips into this at some points. The translation is equivalent to an extremely good scanlation at most times, but when the lack of contractions and plurals rears its ugly head, you will notice. It doesn't hurt that this doesn't hinder the game in the least.
• Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Tigers, which are more like wolves, and Hares, which look like gigantic bunnies. Golems, Pixies, Plants and Dragons avert this trope, as do other species of monster.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Dotty and Petty play this trope completely straight. They quote tried-and-true villain staples like getting somewhere before the heroes and blocking their path and stealing the MacGuffin just because the heroes want it.
• Cherry Tapping: The quickest way to win a boss fight? Raising a monster's Speed and Power/Intelligence to ridiculous heights and pounding away with low-Guts moves.
• Com Mons: The only monster that gives this feeling off is if you get one too many Hares unlocking discs.
• Continuing Is Painful: Mercifully averted in the case of losing to the dungeon bosses. If all three of your monsters get knocked out, you'll simply get a scene where Nayuta and Julio resolve to come back stronger. Cue Next Week.
• Cool Helmet: Who else but Gaufre? You got to admit, the guy makes steel and bull horns look natural. There is a reason for it though, in his village, it's customary to only show your face to family members.
• Competitive Balance: Any monster can beat any other monster if you put enough time and effort into raising it.
• Dungeon Crawling: Very present. A few monster races are ride-able however, making moving through the dungeons much quicker.
• Exposition Genie: Bajarl, a monster which was only raise-able in the second game, returns to explain things to you as you traverse the various dungeons.
• Fantastic Racism: The Big Bad hates humanity.
• First Town: Colno, which possesses nice trees, a breezy atmosphere, and relatively normal living conditions compared to later towns you'll find.
• Genre Shift: Mainly, more of a half-and-half RPG/Simulation than its earlier Monster Rancher entries.
• Gimmick: A positive example. "Do you remember how you thought there were monsters hiding around your house? There are! Unlock the monsters inside of your CDs and DVDs to raise and battle!" You'll be scrambling around your house to find out if you can get an awesome monster from that Hannah Montana DVD you hid in your sock drawer.
• God Did It: The origin of all Monsters (as explained in earlier game, MR 2) is that God created monsters to make it easier on humanity. But that created a slew of new problems, so God taketh awa—er, seal in Saucer stones to be resurrected when humans could be trusted.
• Goldfish Poop Gang: The Violet Cats, a duo of by-the-(cliched)-book villains who are out to annoy you at every turn.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: It wouldn't be a mons game without this! Even though there are only around 25 base breeds in this game out of the 70 or so in the whole series, you can have sub-breeds, main monsters with the characteristics of their sub. Bringing the grand total to 246 collectable, raisable, fightable critters.
• Guide Dang It: The game itself is pretty easy to scratch the surface of. But getting deeper into the mechanics will require a dedicated site.
• Hope Bringer: Your party.
• Idle Animation: Every monster breed has them, and they're quite nice to look at.
• Killed Off for Real: A defining characteristic of Monster Rancher, also present here, is that monsters die from old age no matter how much you train and adore them.
• Let's Play: BlueThe Prairiedog has one up and ready.
• Love Triangle: Albert was caught up in one in his hometown that carried on for years due to a misunderstanding. It gets addressed and wrapped up over the course of the game, though.
• Magikarp Power: EVERY monster in the game has the power to beat the final boss single-handedly. Think about that.
• The Man Behind the Man: Woo, to Dilong.
• Minigame: The bread and butter of your circus performances is doing well in minigames, which are tied to specific tricks that increase specific parameters for a single monster. That 30-second time limit gets shorter and shorter feeling as you get more monsters and harder minigames to complete.
• Mascot: Piroro for Monster Rancher EVO specifically. Mocchi and Suezo for the series as a whole.
• Mon: 246 of 'em!
• Monster Clown: Albert.
• Mysterious Waif: Nayuta and Linka.
• Nintendo Hard: Easier than earlier games, but still prevalent.
• Omnicidal Maniac: Dilong wants to destroy the word, courtesy of Moo.
• Pretty Butterflies: Monsters' 'souls' are represented as rainbow-colored butterflies.
• The Psycho Ranger: Dotty's Piroro/Gitan gives the impression of this, as it's a dark purple sub-breed of your purebred Piroro.
• Rebellious Princess: Marlene.
• Save Both Worlds
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The Big Bad of the game is trying to revive this even Bigger Bad—Moo. Could be considered a staple of the main games at this point.
• Sir Not Appearing In This Game: When your monster is performing tricks in the circus shows, sometimes the tricks involve old monsters such as Bakus and Color Pandoras. Just like with Bajarl, they're for show only, completely un-raisable.
• Training Boss: Dotty. He's the very first person you fight in the whole game and gives you a (rather Engrishy) rundown of how Monster Battles are fought, with Nayuta chiming in to elaborate.
• Trippy Finale Syndrome: The final world is like an Escher painting.
• Unexpected Gameplay Change: A criticism oft laid on this game. It does depart from the usual Tournaments and only-one-monster of most previous game, and is a lot lighter on the simulation aspect of Monster Rancher, but it's a solid entry in the series nonetheless.
• You Gotta Have Green Hair: Albert, just look at that crazy do! Petty, Dotty's cohort, is a straight example.
• You Lose at Zero Trust: As in, you lose your monster. If it hates you because, well, you were unnecessarily hard on it it'll run away.
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Coffee's Natural Creamer
Originally published on Fri August 23, 2013 9:41 am
Flora Lichtman is here with our Video Pick of the Week. And it is more coffee.
FLORA LICHTMAN, BYLINE: Our fabulous coffee series by the great Jenny Woodward continues on SCIENCE FRIDAY. Drink up, everybody. This week we're diving into a tiny glass of espresso.
FLATOW: Ooh. Ooh. So small dive.
LICHTMAN: You need to be very careful. Keep your limbs in.
FLATOW: And why - what's so fascinating about espresso?
LICHTMAN: Well, one of things that espresso drinkers will know probably is that when you have an espresso straight, not a latte, not a cappuccino, just a straight little mug of espresso, when it comes out to you, it has this frothy, foamy thing on top. It's a little thin layer of tiny bubbles. It's a little lighter in color, and it's called the crema.
FLATOW: Right. I love that stuff. Yeah.
LICHTMAN: Yes. I always try to get it with a spoon. It's delicious.
FLATOW: Yeah. All right. Back to the video.
LICHTMAN: Back to the science. OK.
LICHTMAN: So there's a story behind this, we learned, from Harold McGee, who's a food science writer. And it comes down to how the espresso is prepared. So the difference when you're preparing espresso, you know, you put it in this little metal thing, right? And you pound it down...
FLATOW: Right.
LICHTMAN: ...if you've seen people making it.
FLATOW: Right.
LICHTMAN: And then you put it in a machine that pumps hot water through it. But it pumps water through at great pressure, like eight bars.
FLATOW: Mm hmm. Yeah.
LICHTMAN: And what that does is that it pushes out these little oils that are in the coffee beans into the liquid. And those oils and a few other things like plant carbohydrates, which are also - also come out in this process, stabilize these tiny bubbles and give you that long-lasting foam, or the crema. And it turns out that the crema is actually like a cream. You know, like cream has fat.
FLATOW: Right. Yeah. Little globules in there.
LICHTMAN: This is the oil version and it comes from the coffee itself.
FLATOW: Who would've known, you know, when we started this coffee series a while back, and it's so much...
LICHTMAN: So many revelations.
FLATOW: Let me just remind everybody that this is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. I'm Ira Flatow here with Flora Lichtman, and talking about the coffee series. Who would've known, you know? We always used to talk about chocolate having so many things going in it.
LICHTMAN: Yes. But coffee, definitely. And the people who prepare it, these baristas who we talk to...
LICHTMAN: So you can go to, and you'll see the latest video and our older one too. They're like technicians.
LICHTMAN: I mean, they're doing a lot of experiments to get the coffee tasting just right and using the right equipment for the job. It was very educational.
FLATOW: Yeah. It is. It's true. There's a lot of chemistry and a lot of physics. Now, we've got the physics part with the steam that goes through the giant pressure. You hear those things pumping away.
LICHTMAN: That's right.
FLATOW: I never knew why that was. You know why? You get something different than just putting the coffee in a cone with boiling water.
LICHTMAN: Right, right, right. Yeah, what's your favorite preparation?
FLATOW: I like - I - well, I used to have a vacuum maker, an old coffee...
LICHTMAN: Describe it.
FLATOW: It's hard to describe. It was a big - it came in the '40s, the 1940s. It's a big glass bowl and it has a bowl on top. It's like a double boiler bowl and it has a funnel that goes down into the middle and you put water in the bottom. And once you start heating that water, the hot air or the steam inside - the bottom part pushes the water up the glass into the top where the coffee grounds are. It's the most fun one.
LICHTMAN: The pressure differential, right?
FLATOW: Yes. And then once you take it off the heat, it loses the pressure at the bottom and it comes back down through. I was just fascinated with that one.
LICHTMAN: Very cool. I learned - one of my favorite ahas from the series is how maligned the French press is.
LICHTMAN: As a French press drinker for so long, I'm now embarrassed of my French press.
FLATOW: You don't want to tell anybody.
LICHTMAN: No. Oh, no. Yes. French press disgusting. But apparently, it's very hard, again, you know, because coffee making really can become a science with the right temperature and the right amount of time steeping...
FLATOW: Right.
LICHTMAN: ...the French press is hard to nail because there's...
LICHTMAN: many variables that are outside of your control.
FLATOW: Right. Right. And it's our Video Pick of the Week up there on our website, and it's beautiful animation.
FLATOW: A lot of gorgeous...
LICHTMAN: And they did a nice a job.
FLATOW: ...they did great animation in this. And I can't imagine having the patience to move these little dots around.
LICHTMAN: No. It's a...
FLATOW: It's coffee granules, I think.
LICHTMAN: ...a great visualization. And I should say that we have another video that done in the same animation style. It's part of the series. It's an experiment people can do at home. So...
FLATOW: Yeah. Oh, yeah.
LICHTMAN: ...this is a good one, and it's very simple. If you have a cone - a cone and a filter that you can just...
FLATOW: Right.
LICHTMAN: ...pour hot water over your grounds into. So you have a set of five glasses. You have this cone. You put grounds in it. And then you pour a little bit of - you put the water in and then move the cone from glass to glass over time and you can see the different flavors that come out at different times during your burning process. And the color changes as you go through. It's fun. It's a fun, you know, Saturday morning experiment.
FLATOW: Yes. It's something - it's fun - it's something that you can try at home. And also the other part of the series, and you mentioned this just a bit, is actually evaluating the different ways to - the different coffeemakers...
FLATOW: ..and which one works best for what reason.
LICHTMAN: We've all seen, you know if you've gone to one of these snooty coffee shops - I say that lovingly because I go to them.
LICHTMAN: But, you know, there are all these machines, and you wonder, well, why do you really have to use this one for this?
FLATOW: Right.
LICHTMAN: And this video decodes that.
LICHTMAN: It's the gear for your grinds video.
FLATOW: The coffee decoder series.
LICHTMAN: And with some very surprising results. Thank you, Flora.
Thanks, Ira.
FLATOW: Flora Lichtman here talking about - it's up there on our website. The whole coffee series, very - quite fascinating, up there on our website at And if you like to watch the way I do, I download them on our app on my iPad app and watch the series all together. It's kind of an interesting way to do it. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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“Gentlemen, Welcome to the Cock! .....I mean Rock!”
~ Sean Connery on Alcatraz
“Yes, I escaped this stupid rock”
~ Clint Eastwood on Escaping Alcatraz
An Alcatrazzian native female regurgitating its young in a ritual dance
The common misconception is that the Alcatraz is a large raptor which resembles a buzzard, living on the cliffs of Patagonia (also known as California.) While the word Alcatraz is similar to the word Alcatraz, they have absolutely nothing in common. Also many people believe that Alcatraz is an island. It may be a peninsula or maybe a continent but it is definitely not an island. Victoria is a power ranger. Roxanne.
In actuality, the Alcatraz is a hotel on a small West Indian resort island which was named after the French word Cordon Bleu, which refers to the blue ropes that restrict you from going directly to the front of the line when you're at the movie theater trying to buy tickets.
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Alcatraz is the only hotel in North America to have a French name, and as such, it came as a great surprise to visitors to see Freedom Fries offered on the menu. The hotel also offered theme rooms based on a popular motif known as "prison." As such, the hotel manager, who doubled as President of Alcatraz for Life, often used these themed quarters as actual prison cells, adding to the ambiance and generally happy atmosphere.
Founded in 1492, after Christopher Columbus invented Vespucciland, the West Indians ceded the island to the Americans who unfortunately renamed Alcatraz using the alternate spelling of Alcatraz. An angry group of East Indians decided to try to confuse matters by opening a chain of restaurants with a slightly different spelling which went by the name of Alcatraz. They ended up being chased around on boats by hippies and elves belonging to the organization called Green Peas (not to be confused with Greenpeace) for cooking their Freedom Fries using vegetable oil. During the brief skirmish, many international observers monitored the ensalada (similar to the intifada, but with more greenery and with olive pits instead of pitting the Islams against the Jews.) Many years later, it became understood in psychological circles that Indians lacked the part of the brain which allowed them to respect nature. Even later than that, it was learned that Americans lacked the part of the brain which allowed them to analyze Indians. All of these people agreed that Alcatraz is definitely not an island.
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For those without comedic tastes, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about Goomba.
Goombas are little small retarded creatures in the Mushroom Kingdom that go around cussing at people. Goombas are commonly depicted as small beasts with an angry disposition.
Goomba (a.k.a. Zain Jaffery) The most common type of Goomba is a brown lump, which looks like a soggy chocolate ice cream cone made of crap that some Grade 2 used as an Art Project. They have four methods of attacking Mario. Running madly in circles, charging at him, walking off a cliff, or "head-bonking," as seen in the Paper Mario series. None of these methods worked however, and the closest a Goomba has ever come to defeating Mario was undoing his shoelaces, after which said Goomba was promptly kicked in the face (doing 2 HP of damage and flattening it).
A goomba mistakes Mario's crotch for sausage and meatballs.
Goombas come in different sizes and colors, but basically, they're little small guys shaped like mushrooms, except they have legs and little pissy faces on them. They have a very weak body, even a small hop onto one will probably break its rib case, mortally damaging it's bones,puncturing its organs and killing it instantly. Goombas have had many appearances over the years, because they have an insane fashion sense. They used to go around shaving their eyebrows and covering up their mouths, then they revealed their mouths and let their eyebrows grow in Mario's third-world reign. Then when they visited Mario world they changed into an apple suit (they were using drugs at the time). Goofballs er..Goombas have changed so much over the years; the day where Goombas are wearing thongs is not far off. If you look closely at a Goomba, you'll notice 3 distinct features. The head, the feet, and the eyes. There is nothing else about a Goomba worth even noticing. Although occasionally Goombas have been said to have a small cylindrical portion holding the feet to the head, that was disproved with the release of Super Mario World. Although there is still some controversy as to weather or not the "Goombas" in that game were actually Goombas, and not some close relative of the Goomba family.
Here is a Goomba made with Legos by a local fat kid.
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Goombas are known to be very mouthy. They like going around and pissing people off. They can be found calling Mario fat, or asking Tails' if they can look up his blouse. Goombas spend most of their time drinking heavily in public areas and then. picking fights with people and sometimes killing people (only other Goombas though, because when they get into fights with regular people they are squished almost instantaneously). They also have been known to steal from the elderly and wail on babies with wrenches. During the night time, they can be found lying in fields, waiting for people to pick them up, wash them off and eat them. Sleeping Goombas are commonly mistaken as "Magic Mushrooms".
Types of Goomba
Soon after Goombas first encountered Mario and his friends they realized they would have to be a bit more cunning if they planned to defeat Mario. Over the years many ideas were tried and new armies of Goombas were created including:
• Goomba Just the average Goomba, sadly, they live shortly... I miss those little brown *****s.
• Spiked Goombas - The first early attempts at overcoming Mario; these Goombas wore a spiked helmet which would spike Mario in the arse if he tried his usual jumping technique. They are the most German of the Goomba varieties.
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HAIL to Horny Toaster Goomba!
• Para-Goombas - These were accidentally created in a bio-chemical accident at a Goomba research facility. These Goombas sprouted wings and could fly in from above.
• Toaster Goombas - These Goombas were supposed to toast Mario to death, but found local Toads and Princess Peach more toastier than Mario. It is also extremely painful for Mario when they are stomped on. Oh, and they all toast toast.
• Micro Goombas - The initial idea was to shrink small enough to go into Mario's body and attack from the inside, however they didn't manage to get quite that small so instead would hide under objects and jump out at Mario sometimes attaching themselves to him so he couldn't jump as well just like an annoying little brother or sister.
• Hyper Goombas - Simply a Goomba that’s had a bit too much beer, they would charge at their enemies hoping to knock them out... admittedly half the time they ran so quick they actually squished on impact.
• Al-Qaeda Goombas - After the 9/11 attacks, Osama Bin laden recruited Goombas to fight Bush and his minions(Republicoopas and Republigoombas)
• Republigoombas - Evil and loyal supporters of the Great Warlord Bush, are sent to the front lines of Iraq to kill people with turbines.
• Commiegoombas-Kommunist Goombas!
• Nazi Goombas -Goombas whom hate Jewish people, Goombas, Koopas, etc!
• KKK Goombas -They kill anything that's not white. Which is stupid, cause Mario is white and all the goombas aren't.
• Frozen Goombas -They are found in the freezer and are a nice treat but if toasted they become toaster Goombas but they still taste good with butter and jelly.
• Goomba Goombas -They are Goombas but more Goombier and they are better at headbonking than the original Goomba, These types of Goombas or "Goomba Goombas" are red with Goomba badges all over it, oh, they also Goomba Goombas.
• Pingas Goombas -They are a form of a Pingas. They are one of Dr. Eggman's crossover breeds of his robot: Pengas ans the natural goomba. They are very rare and are shy. They like to have black boxes on them so they are hidden.
• Female Goomba - Goombas that are girls. These are very rare and unnecessary As everyone knows, mushrooms reproduce asexually.
• Fat Goombas Massive amounts of Mickey D's has mutated them into fat monsteres, so easy to kill Mario used them as food in the great crop shortage or 59802.
• Super Goomba' - One of Bowser's true and awesome minions.
• Chuboomba - These goombas are actually Fat Goombas but they carry a lolingpop but had a minor appearance in a game.
• Zombie Goomba - They are very hard to kill as they are zombies. Just grab your Wunderwaffe.
• Drunk Goomba - Quite common, these goombas die when touched, not stomped on, but they are quite dangerous as they can randomly ram into Mario. They also can ram into other stuff killing them instantly.
• Tomato Goomba First introduced in Super Mario World, these goombas are really regular goombas but they can carry parachutes and are editable.
Famous Goombas
A Goomba noticing an oncoming freight train. Watch out, Gomien Sands!!
Over the years there were some famous Goombas. Let's share their stories.
• Agent Goomez - Nobody knew about this dangerous form. This Goomba is heavily trained in many fields. His main objective? Kill Mario.
In the past, this mercenary has performed many tasks. Such as the following:
• Assassinating Kent C. Koopa. It was found out that he was involved in a leading drug ring.
• Infiltrating the base of a gang of Koopas known as the Chainsaw Angels. None of them survived.
• Slitting the throat of the mayor of Poshley Heights. Documents proved of his help in the murder of a lone toad.
• Nuking Twilight Town. Over the years, it became infested with robbers and serial killers. Drugs were its strong point. Goommez didn't care about it anyway.
• Assassinating Princess Peach. She attacked him with 1000 Toad Commandos in the desert. Had some help from Bowser.
Those are just a few. He works alone and has yet to be caught.
He wears a suit much like James Bond and a pair of black sunglasses.
• George W.Goomba - After a name change and major surgery, this Goomba became President of the United States.
• Goomba Cretien - This Goomba went through minor surgery to become Prime Minister of Canada.
• John A. McGoomba - Canada's first prime minister, he was actually a Goomba, but they just replaced his face in books. Canada was ashamed when he was Prime Minister.
• James Goomba Bond-In action Mario games.
• George Harrigoomba - The world's first Goomba guitarist, despite the fact he has no arms. He was in the band "The Ghoombas".
• Goom Goom-Loves Goombella sadly. See them on [1] to see their profile how they have fell in love.
• Goomba Spin - for all Goomba enthusiasts
• Goombella- not really famous just a huge slut or something its just that i remember this one time.....Goomba's Love. oh yeah wait a minute she kinda provides like i dunno 3/4 the Goomba population and she wants to be an archaeologist or something but she has to do a lot of um tasks for her equipment, and um likes it when Mario fingers her asshole. Goom Goom wants to marry her in seen of [2]
• Goomfrey - Born in New Jersey, he was once a human but got transformed into a goomba for killing a cop and cutting his own tongue. He was depressed, so brother Sal.. Wait I mean Liu, went to Rougeport to be a Pirate. Goomfrey was named Jeff the killer as a human. In the game Paper Mario thousand year door he is seen in Rougeport acting a lot like Jay from Silent Bob, going "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck fuck fuck! Hey there little man, put that shit in my hand, It'll only cost ya fifteen bucks, so I'll put that shit in my truck!" to Mario... every time Mario talks to him about weed and aids.
• McGoomba-Went to Goomba and Goombella's wedding to see his coins he got.
• Goom Goom and Goombella's Baby-A Nonsensitive Rhythm. Its parents were Goom Goom and Goombella. To help other goombas lost in keelhaul key it needs no more.
• Goomther-Goomba and Goombella's Thief. Draws her and Goomba in his closet.Arther makes more sense than Joe Joe and Isabella. Goomther has a sister named Goomjen and moved away.
• Goomther's Wife-Another lost Goomba Girl. Her ponytail got so wet that she could ever have it. She and Goomther tried not to dare at other Goombas. There was Goom Goom's Girlfriend Goombella. They are nicer than Goomther and Her.
• Jeff the killer - Goomfrey's human form. A typical thug trying to pay dues and make a living in Jersey, when he turns into a goomba. His brother Liu tries to convince him into giving up a life of crime. It never works....
• Goombob-Works at Toadland Yard His Insane Girlfriend Goombetty works with Mr. E.
• Goombetty-Goom Goom and Goombella marked her off.
• Liu-Goomba's History Lady.. As seen as with...Goom Goom and Goombella,Goompolly,James Goomba Bond,Goombaria,Goomary,The Goomba Ghost,Goomfrey,Goombob and Goombetty & Goomboss.
• Goombario - The misunderstood Goomba had a bad run-in with the law trying to steal candy from children, Goombario's father called Mario to "Help this boy!" Now Goombario is in Mario's boot camp until he is a proper bastard.
• goomham willington - Born in L.A this goomba is incredibly rich from his dad who was a famous porn star and owns 7 countries
• TV Goomba-Goomba and Goombella saw the TV Goomba. Its changes have none on it. The TV Goomba has gone to go. They saw TV Toad and Toadette.
• Goomboss-The leader of all the Goombas mostly Goomba and Goombella. He was the first goomba to kill mario.
• Nathan Goomba Forrest- "No Damn Mario Stomps Me and Lives."
• Dr.Octogoombapus- He fires his laser at unexpected victims(Yoshi,Mario,Princess Toadstool and Koopas) at unexpected angles and at over 9000 temperatures.
• Goomba the magical Goomba that ever Goombaed -He was the first Goomba to live and die.
• Goomba in the first game- It is that Goomba that has killed Mario for the first time. He is the most remarked Goomba and was crowned king of the Goombas taking the name of Goomboss.
• Tanooki Goomba- It was a drunk goomba but had TOO MUCH and woke up with a tail and was missing something, his virginity.
Goomba in Racial Terms
A Goomba can be a slur for an Italian. It has never really caught on after the Nintendo-Snoop Dog case of 1999. Snoop mentioned the term Goomba in one of his raps and Nintendo sued for copyright infringement. Snoop was considered guilty and was forced to pay Nintendo 34 trillion dollars,a fraction of what he made of the song.
Goomba Population
This is just one of roughly 27 trillion Goomba graveyards. In total we reckon approximately 435.2 trillion Goombas have met their end since records began.
Many of the cleverest minds have compared Goombas to the commonly known animal called Lemmings. You may argue that Goombas aren't trying to get themselves killed, however if you look at the sheer number of Goombas that have died either due to their own down right stupidity or through foiled attempts to kill their arch-enemy Mario you will probably agree it would save time if they just find the nearest cliff and jump.
Being brown lumps, you wouldn't think they're very attractive, but they actually raped Daisy a few times. And Bowser Jr.. Even Tails. Toad is usually hanging out with the Goombas and was only raped after three years.
After many invasions led by their leader Bowser, Goombas decided to be good minions of him.(By giving him Promotion. Little is known about Goomba breeding habits, however to keep up with their death rates (approximately 1 every 0.2 seconds) they must be doing it like rabbits. It was once thought that Luigi was a strange descendant of Goombas, but this was recently disproved using genetic technology.
Goomba Trails
Goomba Trails is a kinda pointless game that somone made. Google it.
Protagonists MarioPrincess PeachToad
Russia mario
Antagonists Donkey KongGoombaWario
Luigis Gay LuigiMama Luigi (Luigi's sojourn)WeegeeWaluigi
Locations Mushroom KingdomAnother Castle®Yoshi's Park
Games Mario PartySuper Mario BrothersSuper Mario World
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I love the phrase, "the vision of the Style Guide"... it makes me feel so self-important, being a team member of something cool enough to warrant a style guide. I mean all this in a good way, of course. Change nothing based on this drivel. Cheers! Zimbuddha Rev. Zim (Talk) Get saved! 02:03, March 14, 2010 (UTC)
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La Dance Macabre- Holbein
Skeletons love dancing.
There are two types of skeletons. The first is the useless pile of bones that make up a vertebrate. The second is the more useful animated skeleton which are commonly found in computer games which are the weakest monster that have other types based off them.
Skeletons having sex.
Skeletons in the Halloween.
edit Do skeletons actually exist?
The simple answer to this question is no, scientists have been researching for hundreds of years into the existence of the 'Skeletal system' and have recently discovered that it is a hoax. The scientist Paul Chuckle that said he had originally discovered the skeletal structure was a raging drunked homosexual who made it up one night in the pub to impress a local queer. 'Real' scientists have actually discovered that the human body is made up of genetically modified vegetables that float around in nineteen pints of gravy.
edit Physical attributes
Skeletons can have almost any number of hit points, from 1 to several thousand, depending on what game you're playing. Their damage is usually between 0.1 and 0.5 times their hit points, but this can also change in different games. Skeletons are also known for being undead, which means certain weapons and spells have different effects on them. In general, though, the basic skeleton is pretty easy to kill, although there are tougher versions, often recognizable by either wielding overlarge weapons, being a different color or having their bones on fire. Skeletons usually drop weapons, gold pieces or ammunition clips when killed. The two most dangerous kind of skeleton would be the Warcraft variety or the Dungeon Keeper variety.
Skeleton AI is also pretty bad. Because of their weakness, they tend to swarm players in large groups, with little respect for their own safety. They are, however, faster than many monsters, and for weak players are best dealt with at long range (longbows, grenades, fireballs and plasma cannons, depending on your game, all do fairly well). PS- Some Skeletons may actually be dead, making them much harder to kill.
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mortis
Order Primates
Family Automata
Genus Homo
Species Os
Binomial Name Homo Os
Primary Armament varies, though scimitars are popular
Secondary Armament Typically none. Some have shields though
HP: Between 1 to 5000
Mana Points: Little ot none
Strength: Weak
Intelligence: AI very low
Weight Typically below 30kg
Length Typically up to 2 metres
Special Attack None
Conservation Status None
edit Habitat
The natural habitat of skeletons is in tombs, mausoleums, crypts and pyramids, although they can also be found in caves and occasionally out in the open (but only when it's either dark or foggy). Beware; they often inhabit the same kind of areas as grues, which are much faster and more deadly.
edit Types of Skeleton
Skeletons can also be found in old people’s homes and retirement facilities. These are different type of skeleton, these skeletons actually eat, and sleep and drink like normal human beings. These skeletons are no work of witchcraft or are they the work of Harry Potter, they are created through age. Any person over the age of fifty-nine automatically becomes one of these skeletons; they are often referred too as ‘old people’, ‘coffin dodgers’ or ‘the walking dead’. You can recognise one of these ‘old people’ by the stench of stale piss that follows them around, and by the bland clothing that they insist on wearing.
edit Use
Skeletons are cheap. They are so cheap that they can be used to fill out an army. Typically they are in the ranks of evil, I don't know why, they just are. They are also in the service of necromancers, who need a cost effective soldier.
Because they are already dead they are annoying in battle, continuing to fight even when their heads are chopped off. The closest living equivalent is the Black Knight, although he would die when his head is chopped off.
Pudgy Hippies can be used to distract skeletons.
edit What to do if you see them
There are a couple of ways to deal with a skeleton, fight or run.
Remember that you should only fight a skeleton if you know you can win.
Skeletons are more dangerous as their numbers increase, so you should only consider fighting them if you have the right equipment.
If you decide to run, it is probably best that you knock its head off. That way you will buy yourself a few minutes while it looks for its head.
Let your dog off the lead.
Ask if it is a member of the Skull and Bones.
Have some common sense and call the police.
Ask if it has a boner and run while the skeleton is looking down.
edit Ones to watch out for
The Warcraft variety commonly carry ranged weapons and can kill from afar.
If you see a DK variety then look for the 'flower thingy'. If there is any number apart from a 2 then it is probably best to run like hell because they don't stop for anything.
The Final Fantasy variety of skeleton can be destroyed by throwing any common house hold medicine at it.
edit Weaknesses of Skeletons
• Some breeds, like the Zelda variety are weak to light although the Ikana subspecie is also weak to rank, so if you can pull any rank on them they will willingly bugger off. The larger ones like to race.
• If you are a magician and are facing the Warcraft variety then dispelling them is the easiest way to go.
• Ones that live near grues don't need dealing with because they are never there.
• In battle, look out for a necromancer. The easiest way to deal with battle skeletons is to kill that guy.
• Note this does not work with the Warcraft variety.
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Heh, deja vu on the pics (but they are PD anyhow). In case it isn't obvious, those 'you' pictures are supposed to be a reflection in a dark computer monitor, used on You for a lame randomized "you suck" joke. (Just FYI) --Splaka 21:33, 16 Sep 2005 (UTC)
Hope you don't mind my re-use of them for this page. And yes, I got the dark computer monitor joke, but was trying to take them a different direction. --Sealion 22:02, 16 Sep 2005 (UTC)
No prob! Is good to have them used somewhere actually, because otherwise they turn up as "unused images" (the random option masks them from "what links here"). --Splaka 22:04, 16 Sep 2005 (UTC)
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The Syracuse Orange is an abnormally sized piece of fruit, located in Syracuse, New York for media convenience. During a period of time in the middle twentieth century, it was one of the most commonly eaten pieces of fruit in the world, but it has recently fallen into disconsumption following the megalomanic efforts of Greg Robinson, an assassin believed to be hired by West Virginian government.
The Orange used to be held in the Orange Bowl in Miami, however, media members too lazy to do some actual journalism found Miami too much of a pain to go to; increasing pressure saw the US Government relocate the Orange to New York in 2000. Coincidentally, the Orange has not seen a bowl ever since the move; this uncleanliness is often stated as one of the reasons why people now refuse to eat the Orange, or drink its special Kool-Aid for that matter.
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Is it possible to use zsh's built-in line editor (zle) to feed input to a subprocess? That is, I would like to run zlewrap mycommand where zlewrap is a zsh function and mycommand is any program that just reads lines from stdin; zlewrap would effectively provide zle's line-editing capabilities to mycommand. This is on the model of rlwrap which does just this, but with readline and not zle for line editing.
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This looks helpful: zsh.org/mla/users/2004/msg00917.html . It's not as easy as a single command, but you can adapt this script to your program (read the follow-ups for corrections). – imgx64 Jan 7 '11 at 7:58
One problem I have when I think of solutions is how do you indicate when you want to be 'editing' in the ZLE and when you want to be waiting for the 'mycommand' to return? Does it only ever return one line? – polynomial Aug 27 '11 at 2:42
@polynomial wrappers like this return one line at a time to the process behind them. Use of rlwrap is quite widespread and you've probably used it. Think about the little pseudo shell things you get in things like mysql, sqlite, lftp, etc. They all have some implementation of a line editor that returns on line or block of lines at a time to the actual processor behind them. rlwrap does hits quite neatly for any program that accepts STDIN, but it would be nice to have zle style bindings and abilities rather than readlines which are someone less extensive. – Caleb Jan 7 '12 at 23:26
Have you looked at the manual for zsh - cs.elte.hu/zsh-manual/zsh_14.html? - I don't quite understand your question, but Googled the title, and found that page. It might help, but I don't know. – Kevdog777 Aug 22 '12 at 8:33
Ok, I was just trying to help, as I see your question hasn't been answered in over a year. Sorry my comment wasn't good enough. – Kevdog777 Aug 22 '12 at 12:04
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Here is how you can do it if using GNU screen:
Put a file called "zf" in your $PATH with:
#! /usr/bin/env zsh
zmodload -i zsh/zle
trap 'printf "\03"; exit' INT
while a=; vared -p "${2:-zle> }" -eh a; do
s=$(stty -g)
stty -echo -iexten -isig lnext '' werase '' eof '' rprnt '' kill ''
printf "%s\r" "$a"
print -rs -- "$a"
stty "$s"
} < $1
printf "\04"
And then, run the filter in screen as
<Ctrl-A>:exec .!. zf /dev/pts/x "> "
Replace /dev/pts/x with the actuall Windows pty (output of tty comand in the window), and "> " with the prompt to display.
There will be occasional display glitches as both zsh and the application will write to the terminal in an unconcerted way.
Original at http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2005/msg00186.html
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I am designing a form that asks for a lot of data in the form of
Short Label [text input]
However, in between all those short labels there's suddenly longer questions such as:
Are there other buildings on or near your current building site?
( ) no
(o) yes,
registered as: [number]
and finally, classical opt in/opt out checkboxes like
[x] I already have the required documents for this builduing site.
Without giving it much thought I used left-aligned labels for the short input prompts, but top-aligned ones for the longer questions. Then I read more about the whole alignment issue in Luke Wroblewski's book "Filling in the blanks" and he strongly advises against any change in label alignment inside a single form.
No I am left with the following bits of information from the book:
Top aligned is suitable if the form should be completed quickly and information is well known.
We have several prompts for post addresses, which would fit the description, plus: top-aligned would allow me to arrange fields in the well-known layout (street/nr in one row, etc.) and still have separate labels for them. Also, this would not result in a change of alignment for the long text questions.
Left aligned slows the input process, but can be advisable if users need to consider what they enter and makes it easier to scan the labels
After the addresses there's technical data to enter, which is not well known and which users will possibly want to scan to better understand the context. Plus, top-aligned simply looks... dragged out or unnecessary lengthy for this multitude of really short prompts. (Coordinates, power usage, some this/that/other radios)
So, firstly: When deciding for a unified alignment for the short ones, both options seem equally reasonable to me. Is there any other effect of the alignment that might tip the scales one way or another? For example, I assume that separate top-aligned labels for street/nr/zip code, etc. make the form more accessible for screen readers (as opposed to one compound label for each row to the left) - but I haven't looked into this yet.
And secondly: If those short ones were set to be left-aligned, this would result in multiple-line labels for the textual questions, which I think breaks the reading flow from question to answer. Would this be enough to warrant a change of label alignment between the short prompts and the textual questions?
In any case, are opt in/out checkboxes a special case, which can be positioned at the start of a line, or should they also align with other input fields? (I have seen both on the web)
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Why is it, that I always find related posts, after I searched for an hour and formulated my question for another hour... Not on changing alignments, but this guy has the same problem with long questions: ux.stackexchange.com/questions/6784/… (I still find the text wrap solution presented there unsatisfying...) – Louise Jul 3 '12 at 12:07
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I think the answer here is to understand the rules, and throw them out if they don't work for you in this case. But take a look at the whole form before making decisions - does it look consistent? Does it flow smoothly? Have you asked other people with less invested in it what they think?
As long as a particular type of input is consistent, and the flow through the form feels smooth, then it should be OK to play about with alignments. But make sure that you are doing this for good reason (as it looks like you are), not just for convenience.
The only one I would have questions about is the check boxes, which may be better aligned to the right of the questions. These require going back to the left after reading across to the right. All of the others maintain the top left to bottom right flow, well enough.
In my opinion, of course, and based on what you have said. But keep the main flow in the right direction and you should be able to play with the details a little.
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I'm designing a web app specifically for all tablet traffic. I'm going with the very popular left side panel navigation like youtube,fb etc. The icon to open/close the navigation is the standard icon and there is only a logo and a search icon/dropdown on the top navigation.
Is it best practice to default open the side navigation on first page view on the site? This will cover about 25% of the landingpage/homepage, which isn't ideal. I'm scared if I don't default open, an inexperienced user will not know how to open the side menu.
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Is it 'popular' because developers keep building it, or 'popular' because users like it? – Roddy of the Frozen Peas Feb 13 '13 at 16:56
Because it's trendy – user26071 Feb 13 '13 at 18:02
If by 'trendy' you mean 'irritating beyond belief', ok I'll agree with that. ;) – Roddy of the Frozen Peas Feb 13 '13 at 18:49
Why do you think so? They are practical, they allow more options in a menu without dropdowns available and they allow menu views without changing pages. – user26071 Feb 13 '13 at 19:50
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Starting your app with the side panel open is generally a bad idea. You will firstly create a poor first experience where you bombard people with all the choices in there rather than providing them with a meaningful first page focused on content. Secondly, if you simply show this, it doesn't let people know how it was opened in the first place. If they can work that out, then they could have worked it out without it being open the first time.
There is an element of discovery in every great app. Let people find some things themselves, but by leaving generous clues. That way, they will not only recall whatever it is that they found, but they will have a sense that they worked it out.
That all said, if testing shows that your customers really don't know what it does, you can add a hint box at the start that users can dismiss. Youtube does something like this on their website, but the same could easily apply to a mobile app.
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after usability testing, people had no idea to click the menu icon to access a popular page that used to just be in the horizontal navigation. – user26071 Feb 13 '13 at 6:52
@user26071 Who were you doing the testing on? Many common apps use this now. Also, if you are having issues with that, maybe you need to consider a first experience screen which points out what each button does. – JohnGB Feb 13 '13 at 14:16
Testing it on non-tablet users. Yes, I think I'll label the menu icon maybe for the first couple months. – user26071 Feb 13 '13 at 15:44
@user26071: you don't expect any new users after the first couple of months then? – Marjan Venema Feb 13 '13 at 18:44
Of course, but it will be enough data to test and see the decline of remove an icon label. – user26071 Feb 13 '13 at 19:51
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I have recently tested an app that left the side navigation open and watched user after user scrolling across to read more of the screen without knowing they could close the navigation. These were a mix of advanced and intermediate iPad users and some didn't understand the icon would provide them with navigation because they weren't heavy social media users.
It can very much depend on who the user group is and how exposed they are to social media apps - which seem to be pioneering the navigation icon.
You could always use a label instead of an icon if you are really concerned. People will find the navigation eventually, but it depends on how killer your app is and how much time they have or want to spend discovering the app in a highly competitive space.
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It's not an app, it's the tablet version of a very popular website. So I'm not sure how "smart" our users will be. I'm leaning towards labeling the icon to make it more apparent how to access the nav. – user26071 Feb 13 '13 at 15:43
Sounds like a good call - it won't break the experience and may be a bit more intuitive for people who haven't encountered that icon. Good luck with it. – Rachel Feb 13 '13 at 16:55
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The one-line question above had to be vague, so let me elaborate:
Let's say that I'm using a Canon T4i (doesn't necessarily have to be that camera) with a Canon 50mm f/1.4 USM lens to shoot 1080p video. I know that this particular Canon lens is naturally not very sharp at 1.4, and this would probably be apparent on a full-size photo when blown up to 100% scale on a screen.
However, it seems reasonable to me that, even if the lens is soft, if I were to shoot video at f/1.4 and then view it at 100% scale on a screen, the video is still so small in resolution that the lack of sharpness may not be very visible, similar to taking the photo previously described and scaling it down to 50%.
In this way, I want to see if I can get away with using this lens at 1.4 and get results that look very good and really sharp, despite the lens's apparent natural limitations (and, of course, assuming proper focus on my part).
Does my theory have any truth behind it?
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Not about sharpness as Matt has covered it very well, however, a lens with IS is especially important when shooting video. At 50mm on APS-C it is 80mm equiv. and camera shake will be very noticable. – Gapton Nov 26 '12 at 13:15
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Your theory is correct, video is much less demanding of resolution than stills (1080p HD is only 2 megapixels). However you'll never get a truly sharp video image out of a Canon DSLR due to the strange interpolation/line-skipping that is used to produce a video frame from the full image sensor resolution, the result is always a lot softer than you would get from a dedicated HD video camera (or strangely the much cheaper m43 Panasonic GH2).
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If one wants to use a Canon DSLR for video, they should probably look to a 5D III or 1D X. I am not exactly sure how the 1D X works, only that I've heard the video quality is stellar (as it should be for the price). The 5D III uses pixel binning, which produces a much better result than line skipping. – jrista Nov 26 '12 at 22:09
@jrista The 5D mkIII fixed the moire problems but still disappoints when it comes to resolution: eoshd.com/content/7551/canon-5d-mark-iii-review The 1DX is slightly better but both are well beaten by the lowly Panasonic Lumix GH2 – Matt Grum Nov 27 '12 at 0:04
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I need a free web application in order to organize a local book library. I mean paper books, not e-books. We used YouTrack for that purpose before, but it doesn't fit our needs because:
1. Free version allows only limited numbers of users to be registered.
2. We had to dedicate a server in order to host the application.
3. We had to think of backups and other technical stuff.
How the process was organized:
An issue in YouTrack represents a book. Issue creator is an owner of that book; anyone who takes a book from the library assigns that book/issue to herself. In description we put some book summary.
Physically, all books are stored on a bookshelf at work.
I hope you got the idea.
So, the requirements are:
1. The application should be free.
2. It should be web-based (like Google Docs).
3. Number of user accounts should be not less than, say, 500.
4. We want to restrict unregistered users from modifying any book.
5. We want be able to comment/like each book.
Google Docs is an option of course, but it is not very convenient to track all the transitions of books between people. In case of YouTrack, you should only press "Assign to me" button - and that's it. In case of Google Docs, you should type in your name into appropriate column.
As I understand, almost any free hosted issue tracking application should fit our needs. But we don't want to manage monstrous app like Redmine with Gantt charts, SCM integration, etc. We want something really simple.
I hope I put my question clear.
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LibraryThing is free for up to 200 books or a one time $25 fee for unlimited books.
My wife loves it for cataloging all the books we own (and that's a lot of books!). It may be more public than what you're looking for and I'm not sure if it meets your other use requirements about number of users and sharing data (we don't use those parts).
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Actually it's not quite what suits us. We have phisycal, paper books to share between our group (~20 people). So each book has an owner (a person who brought a book into the common library), and a holder (a person who borrowed a book in order to read it and then return back). We don't want to have social book-sharing network. We'd like to have an ability to answer the questions like who holds this book, to see comments from people you know, and so on. So web app should be an advanced version of our bookshelf, not of National Library. Anyway, thank you for the answer! – DNNX May 24 '11 at 6:04
Well... let me make a deeper look. I'll try this out and let you know whether LibraryThing fits our needs or not. – DNNX May 24 '11 at 6:30
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My wife and I use Google Music, but as it is now we have to run the upload manager in each of our (Windows 7) logins to upload new music to each of our accounts.
Can I run two separate instances of the upload manager in one login? It would be great to not have to login as each user and run the manager to upload new music to each of our Google Music accounts.
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No, this is not possible to do.
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Easy... using the official app and a virtualized server to install another one :)
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"Easy..." - Lol. – George Edison Nov 23 '11 at 2:23
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I was under the impression group membership is voluntary - that you can't add someone to a group, but rather you can invite them.
I want to create a Facebook entity that:
1. Is open to everyone - everyone can leave or join at will
2. The only one that can make use X be in the group is an action by user X
3. Will be accessible to users that aren't signed to Facebook
A group doesn't seem to follow rules 2 and 3. Should I use a Fan page ? Or ... what is the best Facebook entity to capture this?
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P.S. - also, I can't create a group without other members except myself. – ripper234 Nov 6 '10 at 10:35
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You don't want a group. You want a page.
Since groups look similar to Facebook Pages, what’s the difference between them?
Groups and Pages serve different purposes on Facebook. Groups are meant to foster group discussion around a particular topic area while Pages allow entities such as public figures and organizations to broadcast information to their fans. Only the authorized representative of the entity can run a Page.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/46896 | Difference between revisions of "Policy Framework in STP"
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'''''<nowiki> </nowiki>Johnson Ma''': After reconsidered, i don't think we need a policy model during service creation. The interaction between policy editor and service creation is through ws-policy file. That ws-policy file will be treated as regular xml file in service creation.''
== Policy Registry ==
== Policy Registry ==
Revision as of 02:39, 31 October 2007
*Policy Model
*Policy Template Registry
*Policy Creation
*Policy Validation
*Policy Processor
Use Cases
Design Map
STP Policy Design.png
Policy Data model
David Bosschaert: How is it different exactly? Is it only different in what it is used for? Regardless I think we should stick to the WS-Policy format for expressing policies.
Johnson Ma: The Metadata attribute of our policy data model is indeed WS-Policy document. So we are stick to the WS-Policy format for expressing policies in that case. However, we need more than that during service creation. Such as the dependencies you mentioned below, which will be used during policy validation. So we may want our policy model to cover those attributes as well.
Name, the name of the policy
Description, policy description
(Add Policy Model to STP Intermedia Metadmodel?)
Johnson Ma: policy registry is used to hold all policy templates (or policy schema)
policy template' is embedded in a WS-Policy document?
Johnson Ma: policy instance is saved together with service model (the STP intermediate metamodel). During service creation, maybe we cab create three files:
*Service.desc, Which is a service description and attributes. It is mapped to the service metamodel.
*service.policy, WS-Policy document, holding all policies configured for this service
*service.assemble, keep assembling information. Such as what image file, word doc should be packaged into deployable.
Furthermore, maybe we can have a multiple-tab service editor, which including:
--- service attributes editor tab.
--- policy editor tab, add/remove policies to/from service
--- service assembly editor tab. define what files should be included into the deployable package. such as icon, copyright...etc
Andrei Shakirin:
1. As I can see, proposed policy data model has no equivalents for WS-Policy model elements: policy assertion and policy alternative. Are you going to introduce them? I think it could be difficult to represent policy in WS-Policy format and interpret external WS-policies without definition of these elements/constructs.
2. How attributes name, namespace, version, PolicyID, PolicyURL are mapped to WS-Policy Name and Id? WS-Policy Name attribute is unique identifier of the policy (normally namespace + local name). Id attribute is local policy identifier inside the document:
xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd" >
<!-- Details omitted for readability -->
Policy Registry
The Policy Registry will be used to hold all policy Schemas and Policy Snippets to share cross projects.
XEF Policy Editor supports for registry
The XEF Policy Editor defined ISchemaProvider interface, which is used by the editor to lookup policy schema and snippets. The policy registry will use ISchemaProvider interface to pass schema/snippets data to the editor.
Policy Registry Extension Point
We will define SchemaProvider Extension Point. By default, stp will provide FileSchemaProvider extension, which is used to load schema/snippets from directory/files. Users can write DBScheamProvider to retrieve schames from database in more complicated situation.
Before creating XEF policy editor, we will create a composite SchemaProvider to combine all SchemaProvider extensions, and pass this composite SchemaProvider to policy editor.
Policy Registry Preferences
Each SchemaProvider extension should comes with a preference page for configuration. The preference page of FileSchemaProvider will looks similar to the validation rule set preference page below:
It consists of two parts:
Schema dir/file list, with add/remove button to allow users to add/remove schema/snippets to the provider
schema/snippets table, which will list name and description of all schemes and snippets retrieved from this provider.
Validator preference.PNG
Policy Creation
It means to create policy instance with policy editor from policy schema (or policy snippets ) and associate policies to service component
Policy Editor
There are two policy Editors in STP:
See here for a screen shot.
• flexible editing of any WS-Policy document
Andrei Shakirin: It is exactly my vision. Both editors should be able to edit WS-Policy document, but will represent it differently for the user. But the question for me is: are we going to support any WS-Policy document without any restrictions?
1. Should editors process ws-policies that are not in normal form and, optionally, transform them into normal form? (wtp based editor supports at the moment only extended variant of normal form, it of course should be improved).
2. Are there any restrictions/requirements for custom assertions? (wtp based policy editor supports at the moment only predefined set of assertions, it should be extended as well).
3. Are we going to proceed policy references?
Policy Editor inside Service Editor
During Service creation, the multiple pages Service Editor will be the central place to setup service attributes, add/remove policies, and config assemble and deployment information. So the policy editor will be one page of the Service Editor. Please reference the screenshot below.
Service policy.PNG
Setup policy editor within Service Editor
To create policy editor page, we will setup
CompositeSchemaProvider, which implements the ISchemaProvider interface from XEF and will load all SchemaProvider extentions,
service.policy file, which is used to save the mapping between service component and policy file.
For example, if user associated the hello_world.policy as policy file for the hello_world service. We will save this information in the service.policy file under service folder. Based on this, we will create XMLProviderEditorInput for the policy editor, and like to the hello_world.policy file.
Another example, if user keep policy in the hello_world.wsdl file, we will create XMLProviderEditorInput, and link to the hello_world.wsdl as well.
Policy Validation
David Bosschaert: FWIW, the XEF-based policy editor already supports some of these constraints. They are specified through annotations in the XML-Schema, which are then enforced by the Policy Editor. Here are some examples that come from the test .xsd files in the org.eclipse.stp.xef.test fragment.
Dependency: Here's an example HTTPS policy that depends on the HTTP and SOAP policies. It expresses that the HTTPS policy can only be added if you already have a HTTP and a SOAP policy. It doesn't explicitly mention a version number, but as you can see the version is addressed through the namespace of the policy templates referred to.
<xs:element name="https">
There is also another type of constraint that is currently handled by the XEF policy editor around what policies should be allowed when. The following example uses a qualifier annotation to qualify a policy in a certain category. The HTTP policy is put in the 'transport' category. The multiple="false" attribute tells the code that only one policy of this category can be applied, thus it prevents a user from applying a http and an ftp policy at the same time. Some other policy categories allow multiple policies to be applied of the same type, e.g. QoS type policies.
<xs:element name="http">
<xef:qualifier multiple="false">transport</xef:qualifier>
Andrei Shakirin: I am missing the alignment with WS-Policy model also for validation. Described constraints basically can be applied also to policy assertions and policy alternatives, not only to policies themself. Are you going to check compatibility and dependencies on policy assertion and policy alternatives levels (inside one policy)?
Andrei Shakirin: As Jerry already announced in dev-list, we have plans to generalize the validation components that are currently integrated with our (sopera's) editors into a generic validation framework. This framework is independent from validation object and validation method (technology). It just defines set of interfaces for validation object and its dependencies, validator itself, error reporter, etc. Developer will implement and register his own validation engine as OSGi plug-in in framework. To validate the object it will be necessary to implement validation object context interface, provide implementation of error reporter, define the chain of validation plug-ins and invoke the framework. Framework itself do not have any restrictions to validation method: it could be everything. Currently we use schema and DOM-based logical validation for our ws-policies. Of course it could be extended/replaced by rule-based validation engine. Maybe it would be a good idea to contribute the code directly and work on the generalization together?
Johnson Ma:So, we will use the policy validation mechanism provided by the xef policy editor in the first release. And we will move on to use the gneneric validation framework from Jerry later on.
Policy Artifact Processor
Policies will be translated into different runtime artifacts at various stages.
Policy to Artifact Mapping
Policies maybe be mapped to:
configuration file
@Policy annotation
User Roles
*Deployment Assembler -- apply policies to services during deployment
*Operator -- dynamicly config/modify policies at runtime.
Runtime Support
Relations with SCA Policy Framework?
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RAP 1.0 M2 - New and Noteworthy
Here are some of the more noteworthy things available in milestone build M2 (March 2, 2007) which is now available for download.
Dialogs RAP JFace now includes the base classes to implement dialogs like Window, WindowManager, Dialog, and IconAndMessageDialog and provides the most often used dialogs.
• InputDialog
• MessageDialog
• ErrorDialog
Text text = new Text( parent, RWT.SINGLE );
text.addModifyListener( new ModifyListener() {
public void modifyText( ModifyEvent event ) {
// update model with changed text
} );
Shell enhancements For dependent shells (aka dialog shells, those created with the Shell( Shell ) or Shell( Shell, int ) constructor), the escape key closes the shell.
Double click For List, Tree, and CTabFolder RWT now recognizes a double-click that is reported via the widgetDefaultSelected method of the SelectionEvent.
The screenshot below is taken from the RWT online demo, feel free to try it out yourself. File:RapDoubleClick.png
Focus control and FocusEvent In this development cycle we also put our focus on the focus. The methods setFocus, forceFocus, and isFocusControl of the Control class allow You to focus a control and query whether the control has the input focus. The getFocusControl on class Display tells You which control currently has the input focus.
When adding a FocusListener to a control, it will be notified about focusLost and focusGained events.
As of now, not all controls do visually indicate that they currently are focused.
Text enhancements The text widget has two new mini-features:
• The setTextLimit and getTextLimit methods can be use to control and query the number of characters that may be entered.
• All methods to control the text selection like setSelection and getSelection are implemented.
The following snippet, taken from the SelectionListener of the Show Selection button,
Point sel= result.getSelection();
String selText = text.getSelectionText();
String msg = "Selection from " + sel.x + " to " + sel.y + " is " + selText;
label.setText( msg );
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I told him he already had the tools he needed for those simple tasks: Microsoft Paint and Microsoft Office Picture Manager. Microsoft Paint isn't a full-fledged editing tool, but it works well for the simple task of adding text or drawing lines. It has no trouble loading the JPEG images produced by point-and-shoot cameras, regardless of resolution, and it easily saves modified copies of the images.
For resizing, I showed him how to use Microsoft Office Picture Manager, which is part of Microsoft Office 2003. For his purposes it was perfect, as he could select all of the pictures in a folder and resize them to the same dimensions. The application offers the additional advantage of basic image editing capabilities, which I showed him how to use to make the pictures he was modifying look better.
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You can probably count on one hand the number of people who've mastered the Hammond organ in jazz. Dr. Lonnie Smith can claim that distinction and more. As a bandleader in the 1960s and '70s, he wrote timeless music — and it secured that label during the '80s and '90s, when hip-hop producers sampled his work left and right. (That tasty organ riff that anchors A Tribe Called Quest's "Can I Kick It?" That's him.)
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An Unusual Way To Teach Math: Miming
Tim and Tanya Chartier present a classic mime stance. They have found a way to teach math through miming. (Ari Daniel)
According to the latest data from the Program for International Student Assessment, the U.S. ranks 26th in the world in math attainment.
Not so great for the world’s richest country, especially when you consider that 46 percent of all jobs require at least level 3 math skills — enough so that you can make change.
About 36 percent of all jobs require a level 4 math proficiency to do simple averages — something about 76 percent of Americans can do.
Beyond that, math skills drop off quickly.
Reporter Ari Daniel has the story of Tim Chartier, a math professor and mime who, with his wife Tanya Chartier, is trying to make math more relevant to a wider audience — without words.
This story comes to us from the STEM Story Project, distributed by PRX and made possible with funds from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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According to the latest number from the Program for International Student Assessment, the U.S. ranks 26th in the world in math attainment - not so great for the world's richest country. Forty-six percent of all jobs require at least level three math skills - enough so that you can make change. Almost all Americans can do that. Thirty-six percent of all jobs require a level four math proficiency. That enables you to do simple averages. Seventy-six percent of Americans can do that. But beyond that, math skills drop off quickly.
Our next story is about someone who's trying to make math more relevant to more people. And we promise it'll leave you speechless. Here's reporter Ari Daniel.
ARI DANIEL, BYLINE: I have a confession to make. I love math. These days, one of my favorite things to do as a reporter is to talk to people who get to love math for a living.
TIM CHARTIER: It corresponds to a partial derivative.
DANIEL: People like Tim Chartier. He's a mathematician at Davidson College in North Carolina. And there are two things that set this guy apart from a lot of mathematicians. First, he cares a lot about getting others to care about math.
CHARTIER: I really enjoy teaching those last-math-class-of-your-life classes, where often, a large percentage of the students really would rather not take the - it's not even that. They hate math. On the first day of class, I turn to the class, and I say: You may have never had a positive experience in math in your life. Well, we have 16 weeks for you to have one.
DANIEL: So that's the first thing you need to know about Chartier. The other thing is that he's a professional mime.
CHARTIER: I'm a mime and a mathematician. I mean, what the heck is that?
DANIEL: And even farther out on the what-the-heck spectrum is that for the last decade, Chartier has been combining his two loves in a performance genre he calls mime-matics. It's mime about mathematics.
CHARTIER: People don't have a good view of either one. And I'm insane enough to put them together.
DANIEL: And I'm insane enough to make a radio story about it. I mean, doing a story on the radio about math is hard enough. And doing one on mime is practically impossible. So this piece is going to take some work. Case in point: This is the sound of Tim Chartier performing.
DANIEL: See what I mean? Not very helpful. So, let me explain what's going on. I found this sketch on Chartier's video reel on the Web. It's about remainders and division.
Chartier shuffles onstage in a rimmed hat and a clown nose, carrying a piece of luggage. Chartier places the suitcase on a table and pulls out three miniature plungers. He makes them interact with one another. One of them competes for the affections of the other two, which leads to some plunger smooching, then jealousy and fighting.
He pulls out a fourth plunger, and he forms two pairs. All the plungers are happy now. Until Chartier reaches back into the suitcase, eventually pulling out nine more plungers, for a total of 13 on the table. He forms two groups of six, but there's one left over. So he regroups them. But no matter what he does with his 13 plungers, regrettably, he's always left with one. Thirteen is a prime number.
Then, at the very end of the sketch, the 13th plunger whispers something into Chartier's ear. He returns to the suitcase one last time, reaches in, and pulls out a toilet brush. The 13th plunger is in love, and Chartier, satisfied at last, shuffles offstage. So this sketch is a story about remainders. It has characters. Hearts are broken. And the audience can relate to what's happening on stage.
CHARTIER: By infusing that emotional content to it, we can have that in life. We don't want to be the remainder. People fight over the remainder.
DANIEL: It's tough to make a sketch like this, where the math is right and the mime is tight, so tough that for a long time, it didn't even occur to Chartier to try it. He'd always kept his math and his mime separate, and he excelled at both. He got a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, and he trained with the international mime legend, Marcel Marceau.
But then, in 2002, after finishing up his doctorate, he got a call from Boulder, Colorado. The library there had just received a grant to put on math-related performances, and they asked him...
CHARTIER: Would you be willing to be part of these math performances? And I was like, oh, well, I don't do math performances. I'm not sure what you're thinking. Oh, you could do your mime show. And I was entirely taken off guard and almost defensive about it. I was like, what are you talking about? It's not a math show. Give me a break.
DANIEL: But when he mentioned this conversation to his wife, Tanya, who's also his mime partner, she didn't even blink.
TANYA CHARTIER: I could see that it could be done. And so I said to Tim, I think there's clearly a mathematical component. So maybe he needed it pointed out, to think about it in a different way.
DANIEL: Time was hesitant at first, but finally he said, OK. Let's try it. He and Tanya went through their entire act, honing the sketches that already had a math-y flavor, and jettisoning the ones that didn't. And they added new ones intentionally rooted in math, like the plunger sketch.
CHARTIER: Math is inherently, in many of its forms, invisible. So I think that using the art form of mime makes the invisible quality of math visible in a way that feels both exciting and natural to a mathematician.
DANIEL: A mathematician like Darren Glass. He's chair of the math department at Gettysburg College.
DARREN GLASS: Yes. I think it's a lot of fun. Mathematicians, we scribble on pieces of paper, or on chalkboard. We get used to it. And here he is, enacting these ideas and these pictures that we have in our heads.
DANIEL: I spoke with Glass at a conference on recreational mathematics in New York City.
DANIEL: Tim and Tanya were there, performing some of their sketches before a crowd of 100 people. Children strained out of their seats to see what was going to happen next.
DANIEL: They loved it, and the grown-ups loved it.
CHARTIER: Right. We're going to tie back into thinking about: What does this have to do with mathematics? So let's think about...
DANIEL: At various points throughout the show, the Chartiers break their mime-y vow of silence for a minute to go over the math inside some of their segments verbally. But then it's back to miming. The Chartiers move through sketch after sketch, each one containing a different math concept, everything from geometric projections to infinity. The closer is the plunger sketch.
DANIEL: Afterwards, I wander through the audience to see what they thought of the show.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: You know, I wouldn't have thought that I liked mime. But, actually, I was just kind of blown away by what they did.
DANIEL: You must have friends that don't like math. Do you think that this would be a good, kind of, gateway drug for them?
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Absolutely. Absolutely.
DANIEL: But not everybody loved it.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: It was just not enough math for me to, like, think that it's good.
DANIEL: You wanted more math?
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Yes. Because it's a math conference. So...
DANIEL: Ron Lancaster feels the same way. He teaches math education at the University of Toronto.
RON LANCASTER: Throughout parts of it, I was trying to figure out where the math was. And I was struggling with that.
DANIEL: Tim Chartier doesn't mind the criticism, because most folks who see the show aren't math experts. The idea is to give those people a foothold, a way into the world of math.
CHARTIER: My goal in mime-matics is to create a seed that can grow to allow you to delve into mathematics. A very active goal for us is that we are not performing at you. You can feel us performing in a different way, because of you there. Your true performing is when the audience shares that journey with you. Marcel Marceau would say: You lift them to another place. And when you take them to another place, they do not forget you.
My greatest gift is in living in these two worlds: mime and math. They're not separate for me. It's me. It's how I operate. So what do you love? How different are they? No matter how different they are, you are the intersection of those. So find a way to embrace that intersection.
DANIEL: In other words, find a way to love all of yourself, and then declare it to the world as loudly as you can, or in Chartier's case, without saying hardly a word.
For HERE AND NOW, I'm Ari Daniel.
YOUNG: And Ari's story comes to us from the STEM Story Project. That's distributed by PRX, and made possible with funds from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. And you can see videos of Tim Chartier's math and mime - or, Jeremy, mithe, we should call it, mime too.
YOUNG: They're fantastic, at
From NPR and WBUR Boston, I'm Robin Young.
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Rating: 4
Yato is not quite a god and his new friend Hiyori is not quite a ghost. After the demi-deity who dreams of being an all-powerful idol with millions of followers meets this strange girl on the precipice between life and death, he promises to return her troubled spirit permanently to the land of the living for a price of 5 yen, a traditional shrine offering. That's about all there is to it! And yet, Noragami stands out as one of the most fun and watchable shows this season. (Space Dandy aside.) Why is this? It's all about having a lot of fun with very little.
It helps that at no point does Noragami range into dull exposition about hierarchies of gods or how sacred weaponry or phantoms work. There's no tedious text blocks of worldbuilding between well-dressed supernatural bishounen and the demure ladies they've rescued as in many shows like this. We understand just enough to follow the action: this is a world with good gods and bad phantoms, invisible to the human eye but whose actions affect the world around them and drag in a few hapless mortals like Hiyori. At no point is this explained to the audience, we just sort of get it, and that frees up every other scene to actually do something, even if it's very little.
There are a couple action scenes, a couple comedy scenes, a few spare moments of danger, all in the interest of letting us know who these characters are and bringing them together. The dialogue is natural, snappy, and most importantly, character-driven. Yato and Hiyori already have leagues more personality than some characters in supernatural bishounen adventures get in entire series runs. Yato is a sensitive soul with a healthy sense of humor, ambitious but clearly has a big heart and a lot of patience. He doesn't fly off the handle having to be saddled with a dumb human girl, he takes it in stride, pokes fun at her a little, and endears himself to the audience very quickly. Hiyori is quiet and self-conscious but by no means a bland wallflower. She's nosy, quirky, and harbors hidden dreams of being a butt-kicking action hero, a wish that may very well come true if she keeps hanging around Yato. The two of them make a pleasant pair with great chemistry completely divorced from romance. (Although romance is certainly a possibility. Who knows?)
Noragami isn't a story with high ambitions, in fact it's hard to tell where the story is going at all, but the characters are immensely likable, and that's a plus. It's charming, well-animated, and fun to watch. If you're looking for a supernatural action series with a little spooky atmosphere and a skip in its step, definitely give it a look.
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Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Yato's a god without many followers just trying to raise a buck for his very own shrine. This means he'll take any prayer, a system which has led him to the search for a lost cat named Milord. While on his quest, he's observed by Hiyori, a high school student who is clearly not as ordinary as she thinks. When she sees him about to get hit by a bus, Hiyori throws herself at him, resulting in a newfound ability to leave her body and manifest as a cat tailed spirit. This plot flows smoothly from beginning to end (more than can be said of the video player), with interesting characters and small twists that keep it from feeling like some sort of Kamisama Kiss rehash.
Part of what makes this episode so enjoyable is Yato himself. We like to think of divine beings as selfless and helpful, but Yato is, at the end of the day, out for himself. Yato wants a shrine, he wants recognition, and while he's at it, he'd really like a divine weapon who won't quit because of his icky sweaty hands. In short, there's something entertainingly human about him. He also has some chemistry with heroine Hiyori, who he's not entirely sure how he got stuck with her. Not many people can see the gods, and now she's in a strange place between living and dead. Mind you, he's fully willing to help her...for a price. This greed of his could get old quickly if the show doesn't handle it right, so let's hope it doesn't become a driving force in their relationship.
The art is fairly simple, but nice use is made of bright contrasts, from the many-legged frog ayakashi's bright hues to Yato's ice-blue eyes, details stand out. Hiyori's ghost form's tufted tail seems to indicate that the cat Milord had something to do with her new ability, but beyond that things look fairly unremarkable. It really is the good pace to the episode and the interactions between the lead characters that makes this so enjoyable, and if Noragami can keep that up, particularly with the introduction of a third protagonist that looks to be coming up in episode two, this could be a good one.
Noragami is available streaming at Funimation.
Carl Kimlinger
Rating: 3
Review: There's nothing particularly remarkable about BONES’ newest supernatural action/comedy. It doesn't kick loads of butt. It isn't terribly funny. Its premise barely qualifies as a tweak on current formulas. It is quite beautiful however, and its cast is pretty easy to like, and for now that's enough. Of course, there are only two cast-members (so far). Yato is our main character: a wandering god from the lowest echelons of Japan's expansive pantheon. He's got startling blue eyes, dresses in a beat-up jersey, and is poor as sin. He treks around granting wishes when called upon (which is seldom), charging the customary godly sum of five yen per service. Hiyori is a teen fan of MMA. When Yato is about to be hit by a truck, she saves him at the expense of her own life. Not one to let a debt go unpaid, Yato puts her soul back in her body. The problem? It kinda keeps popping back out. Though that can be useful when there're spiritual monsters to put some MMA hurting on.
There's no getting past just how gorgeous Noragami is. The series has a spare, cool kind of beauty—clean lines, quiet wintry palette, no wasted movement or detail—that is all the more striking for not consciously drawing attention to itself. When that beauty combines properly with the characters and their stories—particularly sweetly odd Hiyori's journey into the shadow world of spirits and gods—the effect can be potently alluring. Watching Hiyori move is worth the price of admission alone. Such confluences are rarer than they should be though. Early action sequences aren't properly earned and the tone of many scenes is indefinably off. The show is clearly better at simple things like humor and brisk lightness than complex things like feeling and suspense. You can already sense the series improving though, so its future may still be bright.
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Theron Martin
Rating: 3.5 (of 5)
Yato, who looks like a male juvenile delinquent, is actually a god – or at least an up-and-coming one, anyway, who has aspirations of becoming the biggest and most worshiped god in all of Japan. To do that, though, he needs to build up his rep by answering wishes. The only problem is that he has trouble keeping hold of the Sacred Treasure that he needs to properly do battle with Phantoms, as the one he had for the last three months – a proper-looking lady who could turn herself into a blade – opts to leave him. While looking for a lost cat, Yato encounters Hiyori Iki, a teenage girl who can not only see him but also risks her life to push him out of the way of a bus. While she does not seem to be seriously hurt, something is different: she can hear things she couldn't hear before, seems to have improved reflexes, and oh yeah, her soul can become detached from her body and walk around sporting a long, catlike tail. She encounters Yato again and they wind up doing battle with a giant froglike Phantom. Hiyori's days as a normal girl may be over unless Yato can find a way to grant her wish to return to normal.
The premise here is hardly inspired; a powerful but good-for-nothing supernatural guy hooking up with a cute girl who may have supernatural qualities herself comes up at least a couple of times every year. Tossing in comedy antics is also par for the course. And yet something about this one works better than most. The key is that it has, so far, found a good balance between comedy, action, and more seriously creepy elements, but the chemistry evident so far between Yato and Hiyori, and the fact that both are likable individually without being outlandish also seems promising. Solid technical merits, both in visuals and in use of soundtrack, also don't hurt. And really, for a series like this, that's a potentially winning combo.
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Lucia Nanami is a mermaid princess who lives in the North Pacific Ocean.
She is the designated Bearer of the Pink Pearl, but she's lost it. Seven years ago she rescued a boy from a sinking ship, lost the pearl, but also lost her heart. She missed her coming-of-age ceremony last year because she didn't have her pearl, so she needs to find it in order to become officially adult; but she also wants to find the boy, so she heads for a city on the coast. Passing for human, she soon meets her first love, but he's such a cocky, flirtatious guy that at first she doesn't recognize him. Kaito Domoto is a surfer, all-round athlete and babe magnet, but with a very arrogant attitude. Lucia registers at his school to be closer to him, but if she falls in love with a human and tells him how she feels, she'll die.
This modern take on Little Mermaid has another twist. Sea monsters led by the evil Gaito are attacking the mermaid kingdoms. The magical power of the colored pearls can transform the princesses into Singing Divas with enough power to defeat the sea monsters. If Lucia stays in the human world to be with Kaito, she can't join in the battle.
Supposedly based on a manga by screenwriter Michiko Yokote and Pink Hanamori in Nakayoshi magazine, some of MM's comic situations are a little obvious-for instance, Lucia is chosen to play the lead in a class performance of Little Mermaid, only to have water imps threaten to expose her as a real mermaid. But, as with the original, there's pathos in this story. The idea that a cute girl with a heartfelt song can save the world, or that you can love someone enough to give him up or die for him, is still as corny and as touching as it was when Macross premiered. The second series, MMPPP Pure, followed straight on in 2004.
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A common trope in anime & manga. When characters or objects are launched into the sky, they vanish and a small twinkle appears where they disappeared.
A Grass/Ice Type Pokemon and the evolved form of Snover.
A psychic type Pokémon that is always asleep but is able to battle while sleeping.
A Dark type Pokemon. Absol was believed to cause natural disasters but this was proven wrong as it is able to sense them.
A ancient prehistoric Pokemon know for being a carnivore.
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Beings from another planet.
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Known as the Original One, Arceus is the creator of the entire Pokémon Universe. Arceus is also the creator of the lake guardians and the dragon trio.
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A Water Type Pokemon from the Unova (Isshu) Region. There are two types of Basculin one that is Red and the other Blue.
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My experience is most of them want to display their skills as designers, rather than convery your ideas about photography. The last guy I tried to work with (and fired) just didn't get it. He wanted to put my photographs in these little picture frame graphics, or drawings or whatever, with the picture frames on tripods. And lights spinning around the frames. I don't know if I'm describing this well, but it was just ghastly. Dean |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47075 | Thank you for the great article. As you can see from my avatar street photography is rather new to me. I enjoyed and learned from your article, but would like more. You said, “… I know and use the technical aspects of the medium, which are well known and I won't go into here.” I would like to go into them.
I have just finished “Henri Cartier-Bresson, a Biography” by Pierre Assouline. I read it because I like HCB’s composition and wanted to learn more for my LF work. Now I find that I am interested in learning more about the whole genre called Street Photography. Can you or others direct me to sources?
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In telecommunications, wireless communication may be used to transfer information over short distances (a few meters as in television remote control) or long distances (thousands or millions of kilometers for radio communications). The term is often shortened to "wireless". It encompasses various types of fixed, mobile, and portable two-way radios, cellular telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and wireless networking. Other examples of wireless technology include GPS units, garage door openers and or garage doors, wireless computer mice, keyboards and headsets, satellite television and cordless telephones. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Wireless)
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The US has around 14 territories, the five major and most important ones are: Guam, Puerto Rico (which may actually become the 51st state of the US), American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands and Northern Mariana Islands. The other nine are: Midway Islands, Wake Island, Johnston Atoll, Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Islands, Kingman Reef, Navassa Island, and Palmyra Atoll.
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Sound waves are invisible to the eyes. The only way you can pick up sound waves is trough ears and some sound waves can be felt. Since sound waves are traveling longitudinal pressure waves of audible sound.
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a longitudinal wave in an elastic medium, especially a wave producing an audible sensation.
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Sound is a mechanical vibration that travels through any matter as a waveform. Most of the time we think about sound moving through air, but it can travel through any matter. Basically, something pushes the particles in the air and that causes them to bump into each other in a chain reaction. This allows the energy of the sound wave to travel while the air itself only move a little bit.
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A sound wave is a wave of pressure that travels through something, like air or water, that is strong enough to heard. The vibration of that wave of pressure through the air vibrates
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On the other side of the aisle, books by high-ranked Freemasons—skeptical in tone but no less partisan in approach—protect their organization's public image by denying the existence of its most contentious ideas.
Ritual America reveals the biggest secret of them all: that the influence of fraternal brotherhoods on this country is vast, fundamental, and hidden in plain view. In the early twentieth century, as many as one-third of America belonged to a secret society. And though fezzes and tiny car parades are almost a thing of the past, the Gnostic beliefs of Masonic orders are now so much a part of the American mind that the surrounding pomp and circumstance has become faintly unnecessary.
The authors of Ritual America contextualize hundreds of rare and many never-before printed images with entertaining and far-reaching commentary, making an esoteric subject provocative, exciting, and approachable.
Adam Parfrey is the author of Cult Rapture: Revelations of the Apocalyptic Mind and It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps. He is editor of the influential Apocalypse Culture series Love, Sex, Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47113 | 50 Foods: The Essentials of Good Taste
Reviewed by MM Pack, Fri., Dec. 6, 2013
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Penguin Press, 432 pp., $35
What do canteloupes, green beans, Roquefort, and sweetbreads have in common? Probably nothing, other than they're all good things to eat and that Edward Behr has chosen them, along with 46 others, as topics in this alphabetical compendium of thoughtful essays, each about a single food.
In 1986, back in the days before everybody got obsessed with food (and thus before the ubiquity of food blogs and food TV), Behr wrote and distributed a little newsletter called "The Art of Eating," which became a word-of-mouth favorite among initiates who cared about food and writing. That newsletter has since evolved into a quarterly magazine and a website, and this is Behr's third book. The common threads remain a focus on the taste and quality of foodstuffs; how to buy, appreciate, and eat them; what foods go well with one another; and best ways to complement the flavors of wines and foods.
The other constant is Behr's quiet voice and unfussy style – spare but rich, erudite yet straightforward. And he's a man of decided opinions. He's a writer's writer, and aspiring food chroniclers could do well by reading his prose and pondering how he does it. "The wonder of eggs is their combination of richness and diverse texture. Eggs are architecture. They're delicate, velvety, airy, flowing, firm, crisp." Or, "Vinegar – vinaigre in French, 'sour wine' – is primordial, the inevitable product of wine, one of the most important and least thought about components of good food, at least in Western cooking."
This is a book to dip into, to surprise and educate yourself. It engages both the brain and the palate, and you'll be newly inspired to enjoy and appreciate your food because of it.
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Automotive technology is rapidly advancing to the point where we eventually won't need to actually drive a car ourselves in most real world scenarios. At the forefront of this development work is Volkswagen and its new electronics lab in Palo Alto, California that's operated in conjunction with Stanford University. VW and Stanford have a long relationship in autonomous vehicle development and are continuing to develop "Junior," an autonomous Passat wagon that was built for the last DARPA Urban Challenge a couple of years ago. We recently got to play passenger in the backseat of Junior for a demonstration and were quite impressed with its parking prowess.
The basic hardware technology that makes Junior work is fairly straightforward: a mix of GPS, radar, laser, optical and inertial sensors. The hard part is creating the software algorithms that allow the system to detect and work through the more esoteric scenarios that arise in the real world.
The videos after the jump show just far those algorithms have come: Junior can now reverse power-sliding into a parallel parking spot. While this particular scenario is probably not something you want your autonomous car to do without your permission, learning how to do it is important. In the real world there are many variables that cannot be programmed into the controls. The Stanford engineers are developing methods to allow the system to blend instructions for basic scenarios with learned responses from situations like this. Check out the videos after the jump. A tip of the hat to James!
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Yes, I did. I am cautiously optimistic that it is going to be a keeper. Had a 12 percent coupon for BB, so it took $30 off the cost. I have been playing with it ever since. Challenging...
Software is deficient in many ways (see my posts at the programming forum at logitech for more info.) Things I haven't made public is that I think it has changed some of my Additional Button mappings now and then, and it occasionally freezes up when learning IR codes; exiting and re-starting solves that issue.
Quite challenging programming a 3-zone receiver (Denon AVR 3080ci) when Harmony only knows about 2 of them. I went back to the basics, an am going to get Zone1 solid before I go in again for the other two zones. I'm still plugging along. I will follow up here by Friday morning.
The good stuff to report: I have activities for the TVs in the three rooms, and single pushes turn on/orr everything, and leave Favorite channels, and/or DVR commands accessible. 4 more activities for XM, Radio, iNet, and Phono also work as advertized.
I have yet to need to go to device-specific commands. Going from one activity to another is convenient. I leave a room active if I turn on another room, and hide the IR beam if I have to go return to an activity I have left.
Thanks for asking... I do love its format and convenience.
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Ceephax Acid Crew is a British acid techno and drum and bass electronic musician named Andy Jenkinson. Jenkinson is also known simply by the pseudonym Ceephax, which is a pun on the BBC teletext service Ceefax. He is the brother of Squarepusher (Tom Jenkinson).
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Sheeran: I almost impaled Swift with sword
Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran has recalled a bizarre incident in which his sword nearly impaled Taylor Swift during an airplane flight.
The British singer-and-songwriter serves as the opening act on the American country songstress’ Red concert tour.
During a recent flight on Taylor’s private jet, Ed brought along a sword he got from director Peter Jackson.
"It's like a real sword. I got it shipped over, shipped over to Omaha, [Nebraska], so I was bringing it back to Nashville, [Tennessee] and I think [Taylor] and her crew were weirded out by it anyway. They were just like, 'Why does Ed have a sword?' " he recalled to MTV News.
"As the plane started to take off, it was on the table and it went like this,” Ed described as he motioned the ascent with his hands adding, “The plane is kind of taking off and [the sword] started sliding down and I was like, 'No!' It was just about to impale Taylor."
Ed is happy Taylor is alive, but he reveals the good pals haven’t been hanging out together very often during the tour.
Instead Ed is spending a lot of time with other personnel.
"I got taken out by all of Taylor's dancers to like this, it was like a dive bar, blues club," he shared.
"You need to start going out with dancers because they turn every situation into an episode of Glee. It's incredible. You're just there and you kind of walk in and suddenly it's strike a pose on the table and then do this kind of dance, and there's like one girl who's grinding up against this old harmonica player and they're all doing these dances."
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47251 | Jeremiah 16
1The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying, 2Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. 3For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; 4They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. 5For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies. 6Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them: 7Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. 8Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. 9For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. 10And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God? 11Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; 12And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: 13Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour. 14Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; 15But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers. 16Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. 17For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. 18And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things. 19O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. 20Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? 21Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The LORD.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47252 | Romans 5 (Common English Bible)
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Therefore, we have peace with God
1 Therefore, since we have been made righteous through his faithfulness combined with our faith,a we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 We have access by faith into this grace in which we stand through him, and we boast in the hope of God's glory. 3 But not only that! We even take pride in our problems, because we know that trouble produces endurance, 4 endurance produces character, and character produces hope. 5 This hope doesn't put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. 6 While we were still weak, at the right moment, Christ died for ungodly people. 7 It isn't often that someone will die for a righteous person, though maybe someone might dare to die for a good person. 8 But God shows his love for us, because while we were still sinners Christ died for us. 9 So, now that we have been made righteous by his blood, we can be even more certain that we will be saved from God's wrath through him. 10 If we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son while we were still enemies, now that we have been reconciled, how much more certain is it that we will be saved by his life? 11 And not only that: we even take pride in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, the one through whom we now have a restored relationship with God.
Grace now rules
12 So, in the same way that sin entered the world through one person, and death came through sin, so death spread to all human beings with the result that all sinned. 13 Although sin was in the world, since there was no Law, it wasn't taken into account until the Law came. 14 But death ruled from Adam until Moses, even over those who didn't sin in the same way Adam did—Adam was a type of the one who was coming. 15 But the free gift of Christ isn't like Adam's failure. If many people died through what one person did wrong, God's grace is multiplied even more for many people with the gift—of the one person Jesus Christ—that comes through grace. 16 The gift isn't like the consequences of one person's sin. The judgment that came from one person's sin led to punishment, but the free gift that came out of many failures led to the verdict of acquittal. 17 If death ruled because of one person's failure, those who receive the multiplied grace and the gift of righteousness will even more certainly rule in life through the one person Jesus Christ. 18 So now the righteous requirements necessary for life are met for everyone through the righteous act of one person, just as judgment fell on everyone through the failure of one person. 19 Many people were made righteous through the obedience of one person, just as many people were made sinners through the disobedience of one person. 20 The Law stepped in to amplify the failure, but where sin increased, grace multiplied even more. 21 The result is that grace will rule through God's righteousness, leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord, just as sin ruled in death.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47253 | Ezekiel 18:1-7 (Hebrew Names Version)
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1 The word of the LORD came to me again, saying, 2 What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning Eretz-Yisra'el, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? 3 As I live, says the Lord GOD, you shall not have [occasion] any more to use this proverb in Yisra'el. 4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die. 5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right, 6 and has not eaten on the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Yisra'el, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a woman in her impurity, 7 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47254 | Hosea 8:1-10 (King James Version)
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1 Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law. 2 Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee. 3 Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. 4 They have set up kings , but not by me: they have made princes , and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off . 5 Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency? 6 For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces. 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk:a the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield , the strangers shall swallow it up . 8 Israel is swallowed up : now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure. 9 For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.b 10 Yea, though they have hired among the nations, now will I gather them, and they shall sorrowc a little for the burden of the king of princes.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47283 | Cuff Me: Fifty Shades of Grey (the Play)
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A friend and I went to see a rather spicy and naughty play at Actor's Temple called “Cuff Me: Fifty Shades of Grey...” of it, I’ve not much to say... It's about a man named Christian Grey… He liked control and having things his way... He used his Yankee Doodle on a gal with an empty noodle and with a little paddy whack, they hit the sack and the rack Okay… that was “Cuff Me: Fifty Shades of Grey...”
Musical director, Amy Jones, Director Sonya Carter… made Matthew Brian Bagley and Laurie Elizabeth Gardner work harder… Alex Gonzalez and Tina Jenson filled out the cast…. They all acted mightily to the last… Written by Bradford McMurran, Jeremiah Albers, and Sean Michael Devereux. Conceived by Tim Flaherty… the play is guilty of assault, but not quite battery….
Here the Top controls the bottom, then the bottom replaces top… Poor disturbed Christian makes quite the flip flop… Via Christian and Ana, the rich meet Fannie Mae I so say I, the play is “Cuff Me: Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Fifty Shades of Grey, the book, was a big sensation read across the entire nation... However, this play was a musical parody… which titillated ladies came to see... With each smack came a delighted giggle and how the ladies did wiggle, when Grey pulled out his fiddle... But anyway... that was “Cuff Me: Fifty Shades of Grey.”
"Cuff me, buff me, stuff me, oh let us all enthrall... Use the whip, the cane, the hatchet; it doesn't hurt at all... Remember the safe word; try the leather gag ball.... Please do, please don't, oh yes, oh no, please stay, just go, I like it, I hate it, I just don't know!" "But here's a leg up to widen the appeal..." says ditzy Anastasia Steele.... What can a reviewer say! That was “Cuff Me: Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Now Christian Grey is a fickle one, who enjoys smacking boys on their bun. Upon the boys he uses his bird hook...was that in the original book? "Hand me a rake, for Christ Sake," says Christian to his boy... "Look in my bag of delights for yet another vibrating toy..." "On your knees, beg me please. Call me Daddy... while you lay upon the matte." "I'll use the cane, if you like more pain... Ah yes, its all in good play.. Obey. That was “Cuff Me: Fifty Shades of Grey.”
The audience ladies chuckle as he uses his belt buckle... Clearly feeling heat, their breasts heave, their butts vibrate their lonely lives set on fire, as Christian continues to titillate… And then, at show end... females made the actors their friend... demonstrating they had lost their minds taking photos with Bagley (Christian) spanking their behinds. Clearly an unusual sight... but I only came to review and write... Though Shades of Grey wasn't my cup of tea... this review isn't about me...
So if you care to Master bait and can't wait, don't hesitate... go along for the ride, get astride... turn pink, and like kink… I think… you'll enjoy "Cuff Me: Fifty Shades of Grey" If that's your kind of play.
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Archbishop of Rheims - This character suggests that the disturbance caused by the invisible protagonist at the banquet in Rome is the result of a soul escaped from Purgatory.
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Name: _____________________________ Period: ___________________________
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the name of Grandma Hutto's little white dog?
(a) Fluff.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Twink.
(d) Fuzzy.
2. After his father's attack, what relationship does Jody have with the animal that attacked him?
(a) He dreams about the animal that attacked his father.
(b) He swears to avenge his father's attack.
(c) He kills the animal that attacked his father.
(d) He is forever terrified of the animal that attacked his father.
3. Who chooses the new name, Flag, for Jody's new fawn?
(a) Ma Baxter.
(b) Lem Forrester.
(c) Ma Forrester.
(d) Fodder Wing.
4. As Penny and Jody are traveling to the Forrester home, which stories does Penny tell his son?
(a) Stories of the Russian Barbarians.
(b) Stories of the Spanish explorers.
(c) Stories of the Greek Gods.
(d) Stories of the Roman Emperors.
5. Who is watching over Jody when he awakens from the fistfight?
(a) Lem Forrester.
(b) Oliver Hutto.
(c) Grandma Hutto.
(d) Fodder Wing.
6. Who does all the work on the farm while Jody is sick in bed?
(a) Ma.
(b) Fodder Wing.
(c) Lem Forrester.
(d) Penny.
7. What does Jody admit to eating, which he believes has caused his upset stomach?
(a) Curdled milk.
(b) Undercooked meat.
(c) Poisonous plants.
(d) Half-ripe berries.
8. When Oliver gets into a fight, how many of the Forrester men does he fight at once?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.
9. How deep is the Baxter family's sinkhole?
(a) 100 feet.
(b) 230 feet.
(c) 300 feet.
(d) 60 feet.
10. While walking through the woods, what animal does Penny note is stuck in the same place of life as he is?
(a) Bears.
(b) Fish.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Deer.
11. What emotion does Jody admit to feeling when he kills an animal during a hunt?
(a) Anger.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Pride.
12. How are Penny and Jody greeted by the Forrester family?
(a) With suspicion.
(b) With open arms.
(c) With terror.
(d) With animosity.
13. How many dogs does the Baxter family own?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.
14. What alcoholic beverage do all but Jody drink at the Forrester home?
(a) Malt beer.
(b) Moonshine.
(c) Black whiskey.
(d) Grape wine.
15. What type of tree does Fodder Wing claim resembles a Spaniard mounting his horse?
(a) Weeping willow.
(b) Maple.
(c) Apple.
(d) Magnolia.
Short Answer Questions
1. What new baby animal, the newest in his collection, does Fodder Wing show to Jody?
2. After his father's attack, what chore does Jody complete on his own for the first time in his life?
3. When Jody arrives at Fodder Wing's home with his new fawn, what news is he greeted with?
4. Which of the following has Penny Baxter always felt closest to?
5. What does Lem Forrester trade to Penny in exchange for the fiest?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47369 | John McCain Turns 75: A Life in Pictures
Credit: Courtesy, Office of U. S. Senator, John McCain.
This month has seen some major birthday milestones for American politicians—on August 4, President Obama turned 50, and on August 19 former president Bill Clinton celebrated his 65th. Today, John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona and the Republican Party presidential nominee in 2008, turns 75. Still, McCain is only the 14th oldest senator (87-year-old New Jersey senator Frank Lautenberg is the oldest), but his chronological age belies his still youthful energy. With the downfall of the Libya regime of Muammar al-Qaddafi, McCain has taken a media tour, as he was one of the leading voices for more aggressive intervention in Libya and though almost total victory is near, he took a swipe at President Obama’s policy, saying that “[W]e regret that this success was so long in coming due to the failure of the United States to employ the full weight of our airpower.” And, they say that politics stops at the water’s edge. (Of course, McCain has gotten some blowback recently over this video showing him slightly bowing to Qaddafi, with liberal MSNBC talk show host Rachel Maddow suggesting that the bellicose-sounding McCain promised to help Qaddafir get U.S military assistance.)
Like presidents, major party nominees for president are an elite group. Though we often fail to remember well the names of some of the also-rans (yes, you John W. Davis), this group of second-place finishers represent a select few in the United States who have nearly reached the pinnacle of power, and it often causes us to propose counterfactuals about what life would be like under a different president or how the country’s history may have been altered. For example, as we approach the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, what might a President Gore have done differently in 2001 (and would the country have rallied to Gore as it did to Bush)? How might a President McCain have handled the economy and the Arab Spring differently than President Obama? And, so on and so forth.
McCain himself has lived a life of service and valor, and though he graduated near the bottom of his class at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958, that was “attributed,” said Princeton historian Sean Wilentz in his biography of McCain for Britannica, “to indifference both to disciplinary rules and to academic subjects he did not enjoy.” McCain would go on to distinguish himself in battle in Vietnam as a ground-attack pilot. In 1967 McCain’s plane was shot down over Hanoi, and, badly hurt, he was captured by North Vietnamese forces. As Wilentz continues,
In captivity he endured torture and years of solitary confinement. When his father was named commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific in 1968, the North Vietnamese, as a propaganda ploy, offered early release to the younger McCain, but he refused unless every American captured before him was also freed. Finally released in 1973, he received a hero’s welcome home as well as numerous service awards, including the Silver Star and the Legion of Merit.
In 1981 McCain retired from the U.S. Navy and entered the political arena. He ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Arizona in 1982 and won, and in 1986 he was elected to the U.S. Senate. Though he became embroiled in the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s, he extricated himself well and established himself in the Senate as an expert on national security issues and as a “maverick,” sometimes bucking his party, particularly on campaign finance reform, climate change, immigration, and the political power of religious conservatives in the Republican Party. Still, his overall voting record in the Senate was consistently conservative.
When he ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, he walloped George W. Bush in New Hampshire, setting up a political death match in South Carolina. McCain, whose “straight talk” appealed to independents but alienated many party stalwarts, was hatcheted by the Bushies in South Carolina, and Bush went on to win the nomination easily. Ever the soldier, McCain licked his wounds and campaigned for Bush in 2000 and 2004, even going as far as supporting the Bush tax cuts that he initially opposed.
When Bush’s time was up, McCain ran again for the White House in 2008. He still faced animosity from conservatives, who didn’t feel he was one of them, and his campaign was in serious trouble, prompting many to ask whether his campaign was over before it began. In July 2007, I wrote a piece on the Britannica Blog entitled “Stick a Fork in McCain?“, in which I surmised,
So, it’s over for McCain, right? Well, conventional wisdom says yes, but McCain has proven himself a fighter and someone able to defy conventional wisdom. He didn’t survive 6 years of captivity in Vietnam because he was soft. Still, he is now out of the top tier of Republican candidates and without some electricity or some buzz (or a massive infusion of campaign funds), he’s more likely to limp around for a while before calling it quits (perhaps bitterly). It would now be quite a shock to see him accepting the Republican nomination next year in Minneapolis.
Yes, I was wrong. McCain did persevere in the campaign as he did in Vietnam, and he outlasted his challengers on the right. But in doing so, McCain circa 2008 was not the McCain of 2000. No longer the insurgent and looking to be the establishment candidate, he moved to the right, alienating many of the independent voters who were with him during the straight talk express years. And, in the end, he lost badly. In 2010, facing a conservative challenge in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate from conservative J.D. Hayworth, McCain moved still further right to appeal to the Tea Party base. He even lost his “maverick” status, saying in 2010, “I never considered myself a maverick.” Still, he easily overcame Hayworth’s challenge, and went on to romp to victory in the general election and secure his fifth term in the Senate.
In that fifth term (and during the latter part of his fourth), he has been a constant critic of President Obama, particularly in foreign policy, which does beg the question posed above, “What would America be like under a President McCain?” I invite you to answer that question in the space below.
In recognition of McCain’s service to America, below we unearthed a few pictures of John McCain from our image vault that we share on his 75th birthday.
John McCain (centre) surrounded by Hanoi residents in Truc Bach Lake after his plane was shot down during the Vietnam War, Oct. 26, 1967. Credit: Veterans History Project/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
John McCain shortly after his release from a Vietnamese prison, April 24, 1973. Credit: Thomas J. O’Halloran/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital. id. pplot 13557-00737).
U.S. Rep. John McCain (right) and Sen. John Kerry on the television news program Face the Nation, April 21, 1985. Credit: CBS Photo Archive/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
John McCain with Pres. Ronald Reagan at the White House, Washington, D.C., 1987. Credit: Carol M. Highsmith—Carol M. Highsmith Archive/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital. id. pplot 13557-00737).
John McCain announcing his candidacy for U.S. president at a speech in Nashua, N.H., Sept. 27, 1999. Credit: John Mottern—AFP/Getty Images.
John McCain aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt several months after the start of the U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan, Jan. 9, 2002. Credit: PhoM 3c Hines/U.S. Navy photo.
John McCain celebrating his 69th birthday a day early with U.S. Pres. George W. Bush in Phoenix, Aug. 28, 2005. Credit: Joyce N. Boghosian/The White House.
(From left to right) Senators Carl Levin, John Warner, and John McCain applauding U.S. service members who had recently returned from the Iraq War, Dec. 10, 2005. Credit: C PhoM Johnny Bivera/U.S. Navy photo.
John McCain, 2007. Credit: John McCain 2008/
Cindy and John McCain after his presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 5, 2008. Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
John McCain (second from right) with Sarah Palin (right) and her family after Palin's vice-presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 4, 2008. Credit: Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
John McCain and Sarah Palin on the cover of Newsweek, Sept. 8, 2008. Credit: PRNewsFoto/Newsweek/AP Images.
John McCain, flanked by his wife, Cindy McCain (left), his vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (second from right), and her husband, Todd Palin, addressing supporters during a campaign rally in Virginia Beach, Va., on October 13, 2008. Credit: Gary C. Knapp/AP.
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In the last four years of the reign of Shalmaneser, the crown prince Ashur-da’in-apla led a rebellion. The old king appointed his younger son Shamshi-Adad as the new crown prince. Forced to flee to Babylonia, Shamshi-Adad V (823–811) finally managed to regain the kingship with the help of Marduk-zakir-shumi I under humiliating conditions. As king he campaigned with varying success in...
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...The remaining campaigns of Shalmaneser’s reign were led by Shalmaneser’s army commander against Sardur I and the Mannai. Before the king died in 824 bc, civil war broke out between a son, Ashur-danin-apal, and his heir, Shamshi-Adad V. Shalmaneser rebuilt a palace and ziggurat at Nimrūd. His wars were commemorated both on palace reliefs there and on the gates of the temple at... |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47372 | Sir Henry Morgan
Henry Morgan, detail of an engraving by an unknown artistCourtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.
Sir Henry Morgan, (born 1635, Llanrhymney, Glamorgan [now in Cardiff], Wales—died August 25, 1688, probably Lawrencefield, Jamaica), Welsh buccaneer, most famous of the adventurers who plundered Spain’s Caribbean colonies during the late 17th century. Operating with the unofficial support of the English government, he undermined Spanish authority in the West Indies.
Morgan’s origins and early career are obscure. He was probably a member of the expedition that in 1655 seized Jamaica from the Spanish and converted it into an English colony. He may have participated in an expedition against Cuba in 1662; and, during the second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–67), he was second in command of the buccaneers operating against Dutch colonies in the Caribbean.
Selected commander of the buccaneers in 1668, Morgan quickly captured Puerto Príncipe (now Camagüey), Cuba, and—in an extraordinarily daring move—stormed and sacked the well-fortified city of Portobelo on the Isthmus of Panama. In 1669 he made a successful raid on wealthy Spanish settlements around Lake Maracaibo on the coast of Venezuela. Finally, in August 1670, with 36 ships and nearly 2,000 buccaneers, Morgan set out to capture Panamá, one of the chief cities of Spain’s American empire. Crossing the Isthmus of Panama, he defeated a large Spanish force (January 18, 1671) and entered the city, which burned to the ground while his men were looting it. On the return journey he deserted his followers and absconded with most of the booty.
Because Morgan’s raid on Panamá had taken place after the conclusion of a peace between England and Spain, he was arrested and transported to London (April 1672). Nevertheless, relations with Spain quickly deteriorated, and in 1674 King Charles II knighted Morgan and sent him out again as deputy governor of Jamaica, where he lived as a wealthy and respected planter until his death.
An exaggerated account of Morgan’s exploits, written by one of his crew, created his popular reputation as a bloodthirsty pirate. |
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It is in the smaller bronchi that major obstruction commonly occurs in asthma: these bronchi contain smooth muscle in their walls, and the muscle may contract, causing airway obstruction. The small radicles of the bronchial tree, the bronchioles, are commonly involved in infective processes such as viral infections; they are also the primary site of deposition of inhaled dust and particles....
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...lung; the resulting system of tubules resembles an inverted tree. The diameters of the bronchi diminish eventually to less than 1 mm (0.04 inch). The branches 3 mm and less in diameter are known as bronchioles, which lead to minute air sacs called alveoli (see pulmonary alveolus), where the actual gas molecules of oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between the respiratory spaces and...
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...of an airway lies on average at the end of the 16th generation, if the trachea is counted as generation 0. The conducting airways comprise the trachea, the two stem bronchi, the bronchi, and the bronchioles. Their function is to further warm, moisten, and clean the inspired air and distribute it to the gas-exchanging zone of the lung. They are lined by the typical respiratory epithelium with... |
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This coat has been finished yesterday. The fabric is a black cashmere and for the pockets and the lapels I’ve used a grey twisted new wool fabric, which actually made the edge processing a bit difficult because both fabrics did’nt act in harmony.
As lining, my usually personal solution. Rather silly, you can still see the chalk on that fotos…
Unfortunately, this coat is not for me. The patern is drafted by using a mix of Müller, Einheitssystem and somebody else which wrote an article in one of the old Rundschau-Magazines about a solution which will help working out a patern to somebody how suffers from round shoulders. Worked quite well.
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Check out this awesome video put together by YouTuber Brusspup that features a bunch of mind boggling anamorphic illusions. The video contains a Rubik’s cube, a roll of tape and a sneaker and as the camera zooms into them you would bet your bottom dollar that they are the real deal! In actual fact however, they are just photo-realistic prints which when moved by Brusspup (or an assistant) and captured at a different angle, show their true colors!
Look out for the guest appearance made by Brusspup’s adorably cute cat Hyder, who apparently is under the illusion that she too is anamorphic!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47468 | do you think it's ok to introduce a kitten to a 18 yr old cat? do you think he'll get to stressed??
. My cat is 18 yrs old and i want an Ocicat. My mom says the old one will get to stressed out and pass away. what do you think?
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Without knowing your cat, who can say? Some senior cats are rejuvenated by having a younger cat around, but others find the wee interloper a nuisance. It's hard to know which it would be without knowing your cat's temperament, which perhaps gives your mom's opinion a slight advantage...
in general, though, unless you get a second cat while the first cat is fairly young, it's likely that their activity levels will not match, which means that the kitten's attempts to play with the older cat would be interpreted by that cat as the kitten trying to pester him. It very well might make their adjustment period (i.e., the getting to know you part) very stressful for both cats and all the humans involved.
If you must add to your feline family, you might want to consider getting a pair of siblings rather than a lone kitten, as they would more often play with each other, and let the senior cat alone if s/he does not want to be bothered.
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we agree with boris. there was already a cat in residence-age ten-when we adopted the wee orange demons. they had each other to play with, so churrah was able to more or less stay in his own space. we got a pleasant surprise, however-he now plays with the kittens, actively seeks them out for wrestling and mad chase scenes. when i caught him sticking his tail under the bathroom door for them to play with from the other side i told him he could just stop his fussing, he was officially busted-he likes them. ((-:he was one of those 'senior' cats who was rejuvenated by the addition of young companions-but i suspect if we'd just taken in one he might have reacted differently. if you take in two, introduce them slowly and are careful not to slight your oldest child, even if they don't become pals they'll probably tolerate each other. although, my parents took in a feral kitten when their other cat was i think fifteen and she became his 'mom'...but she'd recently been bereaved.
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now, why would he get stressed? cats are social creatures, but are also able to live without animal company,but some cannot bear without humans, tg (thank god) for you! as long as the ocicat is gentle and not assertive, plus you are willing to take on challenges of ocicats and bear through, it should be fine. but, this part of my answer is:truewrong, heres why. all the other people say he might be emotinally stressed to the appearence of a cat, a new one, with sights and smells, all new, and never experienced. he may be stressed because he is very old, we used to have a black cat who was like 20, or at least poppy did. old cats may find a new cat irritating, because kittens are playful and like staying up like me, and old cats can be as lazy as my brother, dont hire a behavorist, just introduce slowly.
persian paws and siamese scents,
p.s. best of luck!!!!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47469 | I'm at Rainbow Bridge now I am.
I've gone to Rainbow Bridge
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Don't know what happened.
I seemed fine ...then very tired today.
I snuggled up in a little basket bed
by meowmy's bed and just now woke up
throwing up what looked like water and had what
seemed to be a siezure of some type to meowmy and
poooooooooof I was flyin toward Rainbow Bridge as I watched
Meowmy and Daddy were rubbing me and turning me round and over and rub rub rubing me and crying...gosh I didn't mean to make dem cry.
Meow. WOW look at all da kittys and doggies and da pretty bridge ...dis looks like a nice place ...I think I'll cuddle up on dis cloud and send my love down to Meowmy and Daddy.
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We are so sorry to hear this. We send Prayers out to Boxer Poop and His Family.
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Thank you so much... Meowmy is very very sad.
I'm sending purrs down to her but she keeps wondering if there was anything she could have done to keep me with her instead of my going to da bridge...all I can do is send her headbutts and purrs.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47516 | Is a nuclear Iran really to be feared?
PARIS -- The obsession of the American foreign policy community, as well as most American (and a good many international) politicians, by the myth of Iran's "existential" threat to Israel, brings the world steadily closer to another war in the Middle East.
The debate over Iran takes for granted that the country soon will have nuclear weapons and would use them. The debate back in 2002-'03 over Saddam Hussein's alleged possession of nuclear weapons did the same. After the United States had gone to war against Iraq, no such weapons were found to exist.
The actual winner of the war that followed the American invasion of Iraq was Israel, which saw Iraq, its principal regional rival, destroyed at no cost to itself. The military victor of the war, but politico-strategic loser, was the United States, which destroyed Iraq, a country in no position to harm the United States, at a trillion-dollar cost, enormous human suffering and waste, and the effective transfer of Iraq to Iran's zone of military and strategic influence.
The present debate over Iran's nuclear program, like the pre-2003 debate concerning Iraq's non-existent WMD program, has never extended to the most important question in the matter: What difference would it make if Iran did have nuclear weapons? What could it do with them, considering the nuclear deterrent force possessed by Israel, generally thought to be the fifth or sixth largest nuclear power in the world?
Between the start of the nuclear era to the end of the Cold War, tens if not hundreds of thousands of earnest scholars, strategists, pacifist activists, journalistic commentators, politicians and prospective victims of nuclear war brooded over how nuclear weapons might be used in war. So far as I know, the only conclusive answer we found (I was, on occasion, one of those people) was that they were only useful as a threat to deter someone else from aggression. They cannot stop the aggression, but they will exact a serious penalty for it.
The best known of these thinkers was undoubtedly my late colleague Herman Kahn. He made a professional career of lecturing to military staffs, scholars, politicians and concerned laymen about how in the last analysis nuclear weapons had no real military or politico-strategic utility against another nuclear-armed power, other than when one actor possessed an absolute monopoly of these weapons, as was the case of the United States in 1945.
The U.S. used its monopoly to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki and put an end to the Second World War (over-used its monopoly -- one would have been enough; indeed the Army Air Force might have dropped a nuclear bomb on an unoccupied island or deserted atoll, and told the Japanese to watch, or to go afterwards and take a look at the hole).
Kahn's characteristic conclusion was that the only future constructive use for nuclear weapons lay in creating a Doomsday Machine, the Ultimate Deterrent. It would be a thermonuclear device that would destroy the entire earth if a nuclear weapon were ever exploded anywhere in the world or in surrounding space.
The Iranians, a highly intelligent and well-educated people, know all of this perfectly well. If they intend to produce nuclear weapons, it is to possess a deterrent to foreign aggression. The Israelis, another highly intelligent and well-educated people, also know nuclear history. Their present policy is not based on fear of a nuclear attack by Iran (or by an Iranian proxy). It is calculated to prevent the United States from imposing on Israel a solution to its relationship with the Palestinians. They do not wish a permanent legal frontier dividing them from some new and recognized Palestinian state -- a frontier sponsored and also guaranteed by the United States, as well as by international law.
Such a border, and such an internationally guaranteed Palestinian state, would stop further Israeli expansion into Palestinian territory, and possibly reverse the expansion that already has taken place. Continuing expansion is the present Israeli government's policy, as President Benjamin Netanyahu stated in the presence of the international press at Davos, at the start of the first Netanyahu government in 1996.
The propaganda concerning Iranian nuclear weapons is deliberately promoted by Israel and its allies in order to inspire an attack on Iran by the United States, or more likely, to rationalize such an attack by Israel itself. An attack, by either government, would undoubtedly provoke Iranian retaliation against American troops, ships and installations in regions neighboring Iran. It would also distract the United States from the Palestinian issue.
This explains recent efforts by the American military to dissuade Israel from such an attack. At the same time, others in the American government, and all but one of the present Republican candidates for the presidential nomination, irresponsibly promote such an attack, against the interests of their own nation.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47587 | The secret to making an awesome thing even more awesome is to add egg. This rule works with absolutely everything. Cheeseburger: awesome. Cheeseburger + egg: awesomer. Paintball: awesome. Paintball with eggs: awesomer. This is just science. The problem with the omelette pizza, however, is that it might be impossible to make one in which all of the different ingredients are perfectly cooked. But, if we add enough eggs, that problem will probably sort itself out.
The chocolate-dipped ice cream cone was a pretty great invention, but it's old news. It's about time that we had a new option available. Cinnamon sugar deserves the chance to reclaim the junk food prominence it had at the height of the Cinnamon Toast Crunch marketing campaign. We could all use a few more swirls of cinnamon sugar in our lives.
The secret is out. Ketchup/mayo combo is the best condiment. So why are we all still being forced to endure the fat, probably sweaty, shame of having to ask for mayonnaise and then combine it with ketchup on our own? Let's just accept what we are and have pre-mixed ketchup and mayonnaise on every greasy table. And, while we're at it, let's drop this "special sauce" business. It's usually just Ketchonnaise and we all know it.
Every foodsmith worth his weight in saturated fat knows that the best thing you can do to a sandwich is to add a layer of french fries. Let's get a little more ambitious and ditch the bread altogether. Though, in order to make this food dream a reality, we either need to start eating smaller sandwiches, or growing bigger potatoes. Consider this a formal vote for the latter.
Sometimes food mods are a simple matter of finding foods that don't involve cheese and carbohydrates and then surrounding that food with those items. But then there's the cheeseburger. The cheeseburger is already a picture of carby cheese modding. So, should we leave it alone? Of course not. Let's cram some mac and cheese in that sucker. Just pre-cook some macaroni and cheese, then mold your meat patty around a knot of pasta. If you realize you're out of breath by the time you finish, it just means you're ready. |
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The phrase break model is trained by examining the database again, but this time ignoring the POS information and only examining junctures. A n-gram of order N is constructed which represents the probability of different sequences of junctures. Using JNi-1 to represent the the previous sequence of N junctures, we have:
P(ji | JNi-1) = P(ji | ji-1, ji-2, ji-3,...,ji-N+1) (3)
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By David SterrittStaff writer of The Christian Science Monitor / November 5, 1991
THE art of documentary appears to be taking a personal turn lately, with nonfiction films reflecting not only broad social or political issues, but also the experiences and personalities of their makers. That's the most vivid trend to emerge from this year's New York Film Festival, where several important new documentaries were unveiled.Pictures From a Revolution provides a good example. It focuses on the experiences and discoveries of Susan Meiselas, a respected photographer who visited Nicaragua in the late 1970s to capture images of the Sandinista revolution. She returned there a decade later with motion-picture equipment and two codirectors, Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti, and together they pursued a new agenda: finding the people who appeared in Ms. Meiselas's original photos and learning what happened to them, their struggl e, and their nation during the intervening 10 years. The first half of "Pictures From a Revolution" deals very much with Meiselas's quest, including memories of her original visit and descriptions of what it was like to photograph a nation in violent upheaval. The second half is reflective in a different and more penetrating way, as Meiselas comes to terms with the ultimate failures of the Sandinista regime, and with the disillusionments suffered by a people who had hoped their sacrifices would usher in a wonderful new epoch. Meiselas has told me that the biggest challenge in editing the film was keeping its different time dimensions coherent for the audience. I can report that this difficulty has been conquered with great success, resulting in a provocative and deeply felt journey for filmmakers and spectators alike. Hopefully the team will return to Nicaragua to document the changes since today's post-Sandinista government came into power. Another work to combine political issues with a filmmaker's personal experience is Locked-Up Time, directed by Sibylle Schonemann, an East German movie director who was imprisoned in 1984 after requesting permission to leave her country. A year later she was deported to West Germany, where she lived until the German reunification. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she returned to her former homeland and ferreted out the jailers, informers, and others who had arrested and detained her - confronting them with camera, tape recorder, and relentless questions about their role in her suffering. Pretty much everyone claims to have been "just following orders," of course, but the film nonetheless contains some amazing moments, as when one of Ms. Schonemann's captors actually tries to make a case for the unjust procedures he heartily enforced. "Locked-Up Time" is valuable as a document of the recent past, the troubled present, and its maker's own complicated feelings about her country. History mingles with cinema again in The Other Eye, about the career of G. W. Pabst, the Austrian director who made classics like "Pandora's Box" and "Diary of a Lost Girl," and boosted actress Louise Brooks to international renown in the silent-film era. Less widely known is the fact that Pabst voluntarily returned to Austria after it had been absorbed by the Third Reich, and proceeded to direct films under Nazi auspices - a career move that few would have expected from this urbane, sophisticated artist . "The Other Eye" probes this situation, and the guilt Pabst apparently felt in later years, with a seriousness rarely found in movies about moviemaking. The makers of the documentary, Johanna Heer and Werner Schmiedel, have no direct connection with the subject of their film. Yet they make it personal with their unusual directorial style, using expressionistic colors and subtle, seemingly unmotivated camera movements. The directors have told me that each of these movements has a different meaning - perhaps evoking a sense of loss in one case, or revealing a background detail at a carefully chosen moment. What fascinates me about their style, however, is its tendency to destablize and defamiliarize the filmed image during shots that might otherwise seem flatly conventional and lacking in irony. In any case, the film is exceptionally successful at bringing a little-known subject to life. CINEMA keeps the spotlight in Jacquot de Nantes, a tribute to the late French filmmaker Jacques Demy, directed by Agnes Varda, his wife of many years. In films like "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" and "A Room in Town," which tell dramatic stories through operetta-style music and lyrics, Mr. Demy pioneered a unique kind of cinema with roots in the dreams and fantasies of his own childhood. Combining different kinds of footage - including staged docudrama-type scenes, clips from Demy films, and shots of Demy himself near the end of his life - director Varda has forged a touching salute to a man for whom she clearly felt admiration as well as love. The focus of the movie is regrettably narrow, concentrating on Demy's passion for cinema at the expense of other facets of his life. But admirers of French film will find much in it to treasure. Not all the new documentaries are full-length movies. Shorter but well worth attention is Intimate Stranger, Alan Berliner's portrait of his late grandfather, a Palestinian Jew who numbered Egypt, the Far East, and Brooklyn among his many homes. By turns poignant, hilarious, and quietly moving, it's a fine example of cinematic ingenuity turning unlikely material (dead relative, home movies, family photos) into an absorbing and entertaining film.
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Tony Bennett stepped down after reports that, while directing Indiana schools, he upped the grade of a charter school reportedly run by a major GOP donor. It's a blow to attempts to grade schools.
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Less than a year into his tenure as Florida’s education commissioner, Tony Bennett resigned Thursday amid a controversy over adjustments he made to school grades last year as Indiana’s school chief. |
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Gene therapy takes another step forward, treating disorders with viruses.
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Misleading title
By cknobman on 9/16/2010 1:34:50 PM , Rating: 5
Based of the title I was thinking they found a way to genetically alter convicted murderers and turn them into model citizens.
RE: Misleading title
By TSS on 9/16/2010 1:54:08 PM , Rating: 2
The title is one thing, what's not in the article that worries me.
I would've liked to see "Despite having recieved a modified HIV virus the patient has no chance of contracting full blown AIDS" inserted into the article somewhere. Just for reassuring purposes....
RE: Misleading title
By PCR on 9/16/2010 2:00:26 PM , Rating: 2
Not a chance, the modified virus is completely different than the actual HIV virus. The main reason they employed the use of the HIV virus is its ability to integrate certain genetic elements into the human genome. This gives them the ability to put in the modified (corrected) gene for the beta globulin chain in hemoglobin, which eventually leads to the cure.
All the virulence factors and the genetic elements that actually cause AIDS were removed from the virus.
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By tmouse on 9/16/2010 3:33:28 PM , Rating: 3
The concern I have with this and other virus mediated transfer mechanisms is first the integration is going to be random (now there may be a lot of extra space to insert into the genome where there will be no consequences but the fact is with the discoveries of nontranslated small RNA families we simply do not know how much "junk" DNA there is). Second virus are really adaptable and love to recombine, so if the patient ever gets real AIDS will any of the modifications result in something potentially worse? The simple answer is we do not know. I firmly believe targeted recombination is the only safe path to choose.
RE: Misleading title
By captainBOB on 9/16/2010 11:35:01 PM , Rating: 2
There is no "Junk DNA" it's "Noncoding" and "Coding" DNA now. And while viruses are commonly used as vectors in the research stage, they won't use such a method in the final product.
RE: Misleading title
By tmouse on 9/17/2010 7:42:38 AM , Rating: 5
Actually if you bother to notice, I did put junk in quotes. The point is we simply do not know what is coding or non coding anymore. Traditionally coding meant producing templates for translation, now we are seeing entire families of small non protein template RNAs whose functions are regulatory in nature. Add to this highly conserved SNPs hundreds of thousands of base pairs from the genes their currently associated with which strongly suggests some conservation pressure outside of producing a protein product so we are just beginning to unravel the real story.
Your dead wrong about not using virus in the final product, that absolutely is the end point for some of this research, I have sat on many NIH peer review panels and I can assure you of that.
RE: Misleading title
By MozeeToby on 9/16/2010 2:02:28 PM , Rating: 3
The procedure wouldn't work if the HIV virus was capable of multiplying. In doing so it would kill the cells that it had delivered the genetic changes to, meaning that they couldn't have implanted them back into the patient. It's also worth noting that the virus was modified to attack bone marrow cells, rather than HIV's typical target of white blood cells. I'm willing to guess that a large majority of the genetic information in HIV was stripped out to make room for the information they wanted inserted into the bone marrow cells.
I'd be lying if I said my initial reaction wasn't similar to yours, "Why are they using HIV rather than some other virus?" but with a little bit of thought I was able to come up with what seems to me to be a good answer. HIV is one of the most studied retroviruses, meaning that it actually inserts its DNA into the host cell's DNA. That ability combined with the amount of research done on it probably makes it an ideal candidate for gene therapy.
RE: Misleading title
By invidious on 9/16/2010 1:57:53 PM , Rating: 2
Same here. And when I saw gene therapy I thought we were doing some kind mind control. This is cool too, but defiantely not what I expected.
RE: Misleading title
By RivuxGamma on 9/16/2010 9:55:26 PM , Rating: 4
I can just imagine a snake oil saleman's voice:
"Step right up! Don't be shy! Observe the wonders of modern science! Take this common murderer. No redeeming qualities whatsoever! A true burden to society! Now spray a little Magic Aids on him and presto! He's turning over a new leaf! Just watch as he heals the sick and and rebukes the wicked!"
RE: Misleading title
By RaggedClaws on 9/18/2010 3:14:19 AM , Rating: 2
Not sure from the article exactly what has been done to the virus to prepare it for this procedure, but if it's genetic material has been completely altered, then, in effect, it no longer is an HIV virus.
Isn't the polio vaccine just such an attenuated virus.
RE: Misleading title
By inperfectdarkness on 9/17/2010 7:36:09 PM , Rating: 2
+6. DT's sensational headlines ftl again.
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93 mpg on battery power, 37 mpg on gasoline power
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RE: Not so stellar, but...
By mmcdonalataocdotgov on 11/26/2010 7:13:22 AM , Rating: 2
Is that battery range before or after turning on the headlights, radio, windshield wipers, heater or A/C etc? I get 55mpg in my Prius under all driving conditions. Since I commute 40 miles each way, the Volt is a non-starter for me. If I had a 10 mile commute, I would consider it, but I bet that the ICE would kick in every day.
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Big Brother is touching you
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By ChristopherO on 4/14/2011 11:42:10 AM , Rating: 2
Look, I don't want to start a religious flame war here, but.... When was the last time you traveled? The TSA has a huge board just inside *every* airport security checkpoint. And guess what, of the 30 most wanted, all of them are pictures of Muslim guys from the mid-east. Over the years I've seen the faces change, but they've never displayed any non-male, non-mid-eastern individuals. When they start posting the photos of toddlers I might be worried.
And yes, McVey was screwed up, the bombers were screwed up, anthrax nut jobs, etc. They were usually anti-government wing-nuts who went after government targets exclusively. They were evil, evil people harming innocents, but as far as I can tell they always justified as being government employees. I've never seen widely published threats against private industry.
Then you have the crazy church-shooters, school-shooters, etc. But those idiots wear black trench-coats everywhere and are loaded with weapons. A standard body scanner would see that, plus anyone with a brain would realize something was *abnormal*. Plus for the most part, those crazies don't even have enough money to purchase a ticket for an airport anyway.
Maybe I'll believe your reasoning when you can prove to me that any of these people ever considered targeting expensive civilian infrastructure. Plus, as far as I can remember, no American citizen has ever attempted violence against an American air lines.
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Google brings Chrome to the mobile sector
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By foolsgambit11 on 2/8/2012 8:14:04 PM , Rating: 3
It's more like Microsoft porting IE to work on WP7. Chrome is Google. Android's stock browser is Google. Google probably would like to have only one browser, if it's feasible. But the differences in OS, hardware, form factor, etc. may mean unifying the browsers isn't worth it. Depends on how much code they can share.
My desired feature list:
User Agent String switching
Flash support
Extensions support (UA switching could come from an extension, then)
Nice features:
Tab system
Sync with desktop Chrome
Incognito mode
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Crucial gene controls higher brain growth
I. It's All in the Genes
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Human brain activity
Source: Nature Communications
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RE: Religion and science.
By Gurthang on 11/28/2012 12:40:48 PM , Rating: 2
On the question about human level intelligence and why it is so "rare".
It is well known that humans pay a heavy price to have such a large and complex brain. (energy costs, extended dependance on the parents, etc.) This along with the difficulty in even producing such large brained prodgeny likely represents a large hurtle that required just the right conditions for it to develop.
Systems like evolution tend to favor "least cost/change" solutions. So the question becomes what happened at the dawn of hominids that put us on this trajectory? There is no simple answer to that. So I would expect that for a proto-hominid to move from a social but mild tool user to a highly social heavy tool user you would need a push like some large disaster or climate change altering existing habitats, increased competition in the existing habitat, preditory pressure, or some combination there-in.
Now one thing I wonder is why we don't see any pockets of other hominids left, my guess is that none could develop a niche large enough that they could survive "unchanged/challenged" in since each new line only expanded their range.
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Schiller says Android OS updates are too slow
But Schiller has an answer for that, too.
Apple's Phil Schiller posing with an iPad mini
Sources: Reuters,
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By KFZ on 3/15/2013 12:01:31 PM , Rating: 2
Well I'd like to run the latest Android, but shopping around budget phones, they're pushing, what, 2.3? Don't see how that's Google's fault companies use the latest OS releases to push phones they want to sell.
RE: Retailers
By CeriseCogburn on 3/18/2013 9:55:49 AM , Rating: 2
Android passed ios already, so you'll have to pay the price near or more than appl, since appl set the greedy fat $$$$$ wallet drain priority - and let's face it, their stock skyrocketed to the outer reaches, they controlled an entire Wall Street Stock Exchange and still do, now the $300 per share plummet is... well whatever... billions gone from the fanboys portfolios, and they don't have monopoly in the market anymore, they are behind...
Apple better come up with something, because now they suck in comparison.
It was a nice for fat pig stockholders and a real SCALPING of every single customer for years on end, the real company with immense greediness, the only one I know of.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47775 | Canadian Geologists Embarrass Themselves on Climate
Wed, 2011-06-22 17:48Richard Littlemore
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Canadian Geologists Embarrass Themselves on Climate
Something tells me they aren't the least bit embarrassed.
Afterall, geologists are probably some of the most knowledgable people there is on the topic, and they don't buy the CAGW scam at all....
Oh dear, another misinformer. Or maybe just misinformed.
See also:
Not a real salespitch there, Martin...
Actually the point Martin is making is valid.
Perhaps we should stop the shameful burning of our food?
Biofuel is immoral....!!!!
The surfacestations claims are just plain silly (and franky, downright stupid). Here's how to prove that:
Download the raw GHCN data and metadata.
With modern software tools, it's also quite easy to test the Anthony Watts' claims about rural vs. urban stations, raw vs. adjusted data, as well as his claim that the warming trend was exaggerated by "dropping" a bunch of stations back in the 1990s.
1) Simple "dumb average" global-anomaly calculations on *raw* data will give you results that look very much like NASA's "Northern Latitudes Temperature Index". (The reason is left as an exercise for the reader).
2) A slightly more complicated (but still simple) gridding/averaging approach (once again, using raw data) will give you results that are incredibly similar to NASA's "Land Station Temperature Index". That's right, folks -- a very straightforward gridding/averaging procedure peformed on raw data (without making so much as a single data "adjustment") gives you results almost identical to NASA's.
5) Results generated by excluding the "dropped stations" are very similar to results generated from all temperature stations, thus falsifying Watts' "dropped stations" claim.
And yes, Virginia, before you ask... I have personally done all of the above.
You OPINION is noted.
and disagreed with.
But you do have the right to be wrong.
The code is very much an "under construction" hobby project (i.e not a finished/polished product), but it works and it allows someone with some command-line computer skills to run all of the tests I described above.
More detailed information as to how to run the code can be found in the "Usage" statement that is displayed when the program is run with no command-line args.
and it is interesting...
The code is there for inspection.
Not pretty, but it works.
The algorithm is straightforward and well documented on the net.
To understand the code, you'll need to learn some C++/STL.
There is absolutely no "black magic" involved -- it involves high-school math and college-undergraduate programming techniques.
Yes... That is your claim.
I get that.
I still trust him and his collegues.
I still have no idea why I would trust your work.
This is what frustrates scientists so much -- most of the "skeptics" who accuse them of being untrustworthy and hiding their data and code wouldn't have the slightest idea what to do with that data/code anyway.
I have presented you with every piece of information you need to verify that what I have done is on the "up and up".
This is what frustrates real scientists.
Hmmmmm... all those PHDs Wasted .
All they had to do was take a simple programming course....
Who knew...?
Computing global-average temperature anomalies is at the "easy" end of the climate-science scale. It is something that college undergraduates (and even advanced high-school students) can be taught to do.
Other aspects of climate-science, like radiation physics and GCM's, are much harder, and require years of postgraduate education/experience to master.
The fact that you are unwilling/unable to make an effor to learn about what isn't much more than straightforward averaging indicates to me that you, like the typical denier, are just too lazy to sit down and learn even the most basic science/math.
And as for Anthony Watts? He's lazy, dishonest, and not very bright. And if push were to come to shove, I'd be more than happy to repeat that under oath.
At this point, I'd think that I'd have better luck trying to teach C++ program to a cow.
the message above is not meant towards caerbannog. Mods, sorry for the problem.
Actually, I am just having fun with them.
LOL.... It will all be done and forgotten soon enough.
since you won't dig that yourself, you will follow what people with the best credential say aka you appeal to authority ?
Just to be sure.
Not really....
I do not believe any perticular source based on Authority.
I find the statements of Science academies to be political propaganda.
Etc etc...
And what he writes, especially the papers he is able to publish through peer review ?
This guy is a denier troll. Why DESMOGBLOG let's people like this post is beyond me. As this thread demonstrates, these guys don't think, hell he doesn't even understand what an average is. They're just machines working for the fossil fuel PR machine.
Anon's opinion/belief is noted, but facts trump opinion. was a joint effort to see the "quality" of the stations. Mr Watts used the datas gathered from this site (note to myself : I shall check if the contributors were thanked / edit yup they are) and published a paper.
Yup, a paper, in a peer reviewed journal.
What does it say ?
It says that, even by taking into account the "bad quality" of the stations, the warming trend is not influenced and thus remains still statistically significant, and matches "mainstream" results ; selecting good stations can however help to get clearer results for short period signals.
We have to salute Mr Watt's efforts to produce once a peer reviewed paper with real science. His work was even quoted - a sure sign of the interest of his work, which draws the same conclusions as "mainstream" science.
I hope you are delighted to see that Watt's efforts were not in vain !
sooo delightful to see Watt's embarassment :]
Who they work for does not alter the facts.
Then we have the American Physical Society, which represents physicists:
A quote from their website "The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring."
Seems these guys accept the science of AGW too.
Are they all communists and nazis like Lord Monkcton, the poster boy for the denier movement claimed this week? Cant do math like some here claim? Deluded, perhaps? In the pay of the UN and out to form a world govt? Are they so uneducated that unlike Andy Miall and the few who were there in Ottawa at his "The ice age is coming" symposium, they can`t see that the world is actually cooling? (not!) I think not.
for telling it like it is!
Readers of this comment thread shoule also check out:
"Geologists and climate change denial" by John Cook, Skeptical Science
Its just that they are better trained to understand how and why it changes than say.... oh... Jimmy Hansen who is a physisist.
or Michael Mann or Al Gore who is a Divinity grad.
etc etc.
In 2007, Anthony Watts founded, to collect information on weather stations that are part of the United States Historical Climatological Network (USHCN) and Global Historical Climatological Network (GHCN). [21] Watts believed that, with the information collected via the website, "we will be able to demonstrate that some of the global warming increase is not from CO2 but from localized changes in the temperature-measurement environment."[22],[23]. But the results did not match Watts's expectations; a NOAA analysis of the Surface Stations data showed "no indication from this analysis that poor station exposure has imparted a bias in the U.S. temperature trends."[24]
Typical of this smear site.
Do you really think anyone pays attention to your nonsense?
Readers of this comment thread will want to check out:
"Talking Points related to concerns about whether the U.S. temperature record is reliable," NOAA Climate Services, July 6, 2009
interesting OPINIONS
hands down... any day.
But your entitled to be wrong.
Best proof ? His peer reviewed article :
His conclusions shall be brought forth :
"Temperature trend estimates vary according to site classification, with poor siting leading to an
43 overestimate of minimum temperature trends and an underestimate of maximum temperature
47 classifications."
When Mr Watts says so, it must be right.
OK.. so One Cult member nutbar is embarrassed.
The speakers were an unchallenged who's who of discredited denialists. How could anyone with any intellectual honesty put forth such a stacked one-sided "seminar" on a controversial topic?
Ask the nutbar warmists.
They put together one sided Propaganda fests all the time.
its all about pushing the scam.
And what exactly are Mr. Littlemore's qualifications? He's a journalist for heaven's sake! If it bleeds, it leads. Oh, and all those environmental scientists? Well they are in the pay of foundations like Suzuki's or get funding from the environmental ministries of governments pressured to fund environmental research. Do they ever find anything other than what they are paid to find? Why only target the oil industry. The environmental industry is exactly the same. Interest determines scientific findings.
Credentials held
Watts held an American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval (a discontinued credential that does not require a bachelor's or higher degree in atmospheric science or meteorology from an accredited college/university)[7] with a status of "retired".[8]
Credentials not held
Some online lists incorrectly refer to Watts as "AMS Certified"[9], but this is incorrect; the American Meteorological Society reserves its "AMS Certified" designation for its Certified Broadcast Meteorologists and Certified Consulting Meteorologists[10], and Watts posesses neither certification.[11],[12]
Just a final note -- here's a plot of some results generated by the software I linked to above. The plot shows my results vs. NASA's official "Land Temperature Index" results (NASA numbers ware copied/pasted directly from the NASA/GISS web-site):
As you can see, all the supposed "data manipulation tricks" that deniers have accused NASA of pulling barely affect NASA's results at all.
But the loudmouthed denier crowd hasn't been able to figure this out even though they have had *years* to do what a bright student should be able to do in a few days.
The latest Hokey Schtick; another farce;
The article relies heavily on the words of a "retired meteorologist" who has no qualifications to speak on this particular topic. Generally "leading" people in their fields are not retired; implying that a retired is a leading authority still active in the field is a common denialist trick.
Folks, deniers are just downright dishonest -- time and time again, they demonstrate that they cannot be trusted.
Anon you are lying-- as demonstrated by the post below. Only a troll bot could lack any conscience. If lies and misinformation and distortion is all you have, then you have clearly lost.
Oh Please.....
You guys clearly have no moral conscience since you keep on advocating this distructive and immoral scam....
Anyway, once again : which "hockey stick" do you refer to ? The 13 years old Mann one ? The 2008 one ? The McShane and Wyner one ?
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According to Bloody Disgusting Karl Urban (pictured right) will reprise his role of "Vaako," one of Lord Marshal's (Colm Feore) commanders, in The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking, the third film in the franchise created by David Twohy.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47876 | THE past few days have brought some new calls for Mitt Romney to directly address the fact that he is a Mormon, notably from Frank Bruni in the New York Times and Randall Balmer at the New Republic. It's not as if people ever stopped talking about this issue, but there are several factors that helped drive Mr Romney's religion back into the spotlight, including the fact that he is ever more likely to be the Republican nominee; that he won the Nevada caucus on Saturday with a lot of support from Mormons there; and that Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, reporters for the Boston Globe, have just released a new biography, "The Real Romney", excerpted at Vanity Fair.
The latest round of commentary suggests that Mr Romney needs to talk about his religion not because people are curious about Mormonism, but because they are curious about Mr Romney himself. Here's Mr Ballmer:
There's no doubt that, to some extent, the voting public's interest in Mormonism is informed by prurience. But that's not to say it should be dismissed entirely. What ought to interest us about Romney's faith are not the vagaries of Mormon theology, fascinating as they are, but how he understands that theology, how his faith informs the way he lives, his sense of responsibility toward others and how that might affect the way he governs.
And Mr Bruni:
His aloofness, guardedness and sporadic defensiveness: are these entwined with the experience of belonging to a minority tribe that has often been maligned and has operated in secret? Do his stamina and resilience as a candidate reflect his years of Mormon missionary work in France, during which he learned not to be daunted in the face of so much resistance that he won a mere 10 to 20 converts, according to “The Real Romney,” a biography published last month?
There are two ways to interpret the argument that Mr Romney should talk about his religion: as a political analysis, that Mr Romney risks alienating voters if he takes a coy line on this, and as a normative comment, that voters have a right to know about his religious beliefs. Both are suggested in the pieces at hand, although Mr Ballmer seems to focus on the former, and Mr Bruni on the latter.
Neither is very convincing. As a political matter, it may be the case that Mr Romney's Mormonism has alienated some evangelical voters, but even if he is awkward about these questions, he remains the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. And while recent polls have suggested that nearly a quarter of Americans are leery of supporting a Mormon for president, it's hard to disentangle that finding from the fact that roughly half of Americans are apparently leery of supporting Mr Romney or any other Republican.
The second argument, that Mr Romney has a particular responsibility to talk about his religion because he is a Mormon, is where we get into more interesting territory. It would be reductive to say that this is just about prejudice. If you're running for president, you can expect people to check your teeth and kick your tires, and if you've had a life experience that is unfamiliar to a lot of people, that part of your biography is bound to attract curious attention.
As to the substance of the matter, it may be that Mr Romney's experience with Mormonism has affected him in ways that we haven't fully considered. I called Matthew Bowman, a historian who has a new history of the religion (and is a Mormon himself), to ask. Mr Bowman flagged a couple of things. Mormonism has a "really strong communalist bent", for example, partly as a result of its historical tensions with the federal government; you could draw a line between that and Mr Romney's support for small-government conservatism. Another consideration: "Mormonism is not a very theological religion", Mr Bowman said; in a typical sermon, you're more likely to hear a call to do good deeds rather than a critical inquiry about the nature of God. That, he continued, might infuse some of Mr Romney's noblesse oblige.
I was glad I asked because the conversation gave me some food for thought with regard to Mormonism's standing in American society. You can see how some people might get suspicious, for example, if evangelical Protestants are thundering that Mormonism is theologically treacherous, and Mormons are asking if you need a ride to the airport. And it's probably not a stretch to say that a president's formative experiences, religious or otherwise, do impact their administrations in interesting ways. In her new book about Barack and Michelle Obama, for example, Jodi Kantor argues that Mr Obama's sangfroid about West Wing squabbling traces back to his relationship with his parents—"to hold those around him to strict standards would have left him with no one"—and you could argue that George W. Bush's interest in providing funding to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic was a function of his Methodism, given that church's traditional emphasis on social justice. But we should be careful about extrapolating too much from these lines of inquiry. This is political journalism, not psychoanalysis. All of the phenomena described could be rooted elsewhere, and as a voter, a candidate's character traits themselves are presumably more relevant than the underlying causes thereof. In the current case, it's clearly Mr Romney's right to decide whether he wants to talk about his religion, just as it's the voters' right to base their decision on whatever substantive or silly reason they prioritise.
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The Brothers flex their muscles
An Islamist president begins cannily to assert his ideology
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haha washington is packed by incredible dimwitted one generation removed from corn fields farmers.When wouldthey gonna get through their wobble brains that democratic islamic countries will always be in a semi state of war with america.
During the Arab Spring, unlike other revolutionaries, the Islamic Brothers were not looking for freedom for all but the freedom exclusively for themselves to express their view. Sadly, they are the sole benefactor of the Arab Spring. Soon, everyone in the West will miss the day that Mubarak was in charged because Islamic Brothers are also a dictator except this dictator is not friendly to the West.
The problem is never Islam but the bigots who hijack Islam to advance their own bigotry.
iqbal economist
The west perception about Egyptian Islamic revolution is absolutely wrong that they will follow the Iranian types of Islam. Egypt is a sunni Islamic state so they knows the norms of Islam well than Iranian shia Islam.
Islam is not ritual based religion, it’s teaching mention complete code of life regarding politics, social and economics relationship with their neighbors and other societies that how to maintain the day to day activities.
West understands Islam is the religion like Christianity which based on rituals rather. While teachings of Islam mention us as a system that it has capability to resolve social, political and economics issues in modern time.
President Morsi is a balance person that he knows well how to develop the relation with west according under Islamic norms in which to respect the dignity of others.
But there is need to abundant extremist ideology of west scholar to bear the others. Otherwise the gulf of conflicts can not be contract except to create more violence.
Morsi is doing efforts to make best relation with west on every stage. So it is responsibility of west to welcome them with open arm and provide support to resolve the economics and social sectors crisis in Egypt.
Michael Dunne
Don't think he is looking so shrewd this week. Who the heck would want to invest in the country with pictures of the street in an uproar?
Bad images, that make the place seem like Grozny, even if only a very, very small minority of people are involved.
Could be a bad week, but then there was that incident in the Sinai.
And the country needs aid from abroad. The Chinese may be providing some symbolic resources, but the main donors reside in countries whose embassies are currently being harrassed.
Not a good sign.
silent night in reply to Michael Dunne
It is nothing about China.It is about US government how to deal with Egyptians,in US government eyes,Egyptians are only some fools from the President to ordinary people.Egyptians need more dignity for themselves and their country,not pathetic aid from US government,after all,they aren't beggars,not fools.
Gugan Barra
There is an easy and interesting answer to all of this anti Americanism... cut off all aid, all access to US visas, all access to US education, all access to US trade, all access to US arms, all access to US goods and services... (ie no dell computers, no apple phones, no ms-word, no intel chips, no internet....) and send everybody in these countries back to the stone age...
ColoradoJack in reply to Gugan Barra
There is another answer - cutoff the financial, military and diplomatic aid to the apartheid regime in Israel and to the dictators in Saudi-Arabia, Jordan and the Gulf states and support democracy. Egyptians, Tunisians, and other Arabs have not forgotten the US us pportforMubarak, and all the other dictators that were overthrown with no support or help from the US or the US support for crushing the Democracy movement in Bahrein.
Puntmeister in reply to ColoradoJack
I agree the US is too lopsided towards Israel - we need to take a more balanced, pragmatic, realistic approach to the Israeli/Palestinean conflict.
As for aid to the Gulf States: What aid? The US provides substantial aid to Egypt & Israel - but the rest recieve little to no direct aid (indirect aid via purchasing of oil....well, yeah....).
The US did provide support in overthrowing Quaddafi. The US publicly backed the overthrow of Mubarak - our direct aid was unnecessary and unwarranted.
The US did not publicly support the crushing of the democracy movement in Bahrain. At best, we remained silent.
Obama has taken a tact of minimal direct intervention in Middle East States. Our history of more direct intervention there hasn't prove so succesfull...
Todd T
None of this speculation matters. The fact is that part of the world is made up of a culture born in the 7th century and has not modernized itself. As long as the average citizen believes it is ok to kill girls who get raped, believes slavery is an acceptable form of payment, believes using violence to promote and protect religion is valid and continues to believe they have the right to kill everyone else for not being like them, this part of the world will remain a problem to everyone else and you can predict rather easily this muslim brotherhood will not be changing anything. To say it will get worse is really not a factor, the culture over there is already at the bottom for the 21st century. As long as they believe they can kill in the name of their god or their holy book, then it really doesnt matter who is in charge.
Puntmeister in reply to Todd T
You are perhaps generalizing a bit too heavily. Not all muslims are extremists (as not all Christians believe homosexuality is a sin).
Indeed, extremism is more of a problem in the Islamic countries, which is exactly why it is imperative for the West to keep a presence and influence in the Middle East region - to stem the extremism the best we can.
It is EXTREMELY important who runs Islamic countries. A wildly extremist goat herder in the middle of nowhere Egypt poses little risk to the West - a wildly extremist president of a nuclear armed Iran poses existential threat to Western nations.
Hisham El Shebeiny in reply to Todd T
your comment reflects a very biased opinion and it seems that you are deadly influenced by a biased and inaccurate media. the attacks on USA consulate in Libya was not due to the rage over the Movie which insulted Islam, it appeared that it has been done by armed groups related to the former regime of Libya. also, every one knows that Libya is a country that is about to get up after a war, so it is expected that the security situation to be very risky in it, and the countries who send diplomats to Libya now must be aware of that. our problem (as Arabs and Muslims) with USA is not the criticism of Islam as a religion or a belief, Islam is being criticized every day such as any religion and not only in non-Muslim countries, Islam is being criticized inside the muslem countries itself. our real problem with USA is that the movie who attacked Islam is not a criticism, it aims at insulting The Arabs and the Muslims and their religion and their holy symbols in a very severe way and in a way that aimed to increase the hostility and grudge among peoples. the other problem with USA is that they are proclaiming that they respect the free speech and the freedom of expression. OK, but there must be red lines or limits for the freedom of expression, as there must be a line to distinguish between criticism and insult and also there must be a respect for the Symbols of the people around the world also the personal life. if the USA is the most important country in the world, it does not mean necessarily that all of its laws and acts are true and perfect, i think that the acts related to the free speech and freedom of expression need to have limits and not to be absolute open against any one in the world with fierce insults. also the problem with USA is unbalanced actions. all the people know that there is something called ' antisemitism ' , so are there any one in USA who can make a movie denying the Holocaust for example , if this happens in USA, I think that it will be a very big problem to the perpetrator . so, as Arabs and Muslims we have to accustom ourselves to receive the insults from the west and these insults happened in the past and are happening now and will keep on happening in the future and the justification is " the freedom of expression ". As Arabs and Muslims we must deny and condemn any attempt to attack the diplomatic missions and we must express about our anger only by the peaceful ways and we must act fiercely against any rioters inside our countries as these rioters are very very few, regardless of what the guided media are trying to describe. by the way Todd, Dr. Morsi is a college professor and he has PHd in engineering and he is not carrying a mentality or a way of thinking of the stone age or something as you mentioned in your comment. just time will tell, the people are learning every day
St. Teilo in reply to Hisham El Shebeiny
>"... any one in USA who can make a movie denying the Holocaust for example , if this happens in USA, I think that it will be a very big problem to the perpetrator."
I remember reading an Egyptian protester saying "wouldn't America be offended if something like this was made to mock Abraham Lincoln or Jesus?" No, because we are a civilized society and when South Park makes an episode about Roman Catholics being governed by a queen spider that encourages pedophilia we Catholics laugh and move on. Proof of this is that Adult Swim and Comedy Central are still standing and not firebombed. The Onion, America's finest news-source ahead of The Economist is still proudly publishing. We normally aren't babies and if someone makes fun of us we don't whine about it and ask for a public beheading.
Also, there are Holocaust deniers here by the plenty, and people who believed Jews did 9/11. And we have people that protest and say terrible things outside of military funerals. We don't try to kill them, rather we roll our eyes and move on.
What happens when Muslims in Pakistan or Indonesia burn American flags and show drawings of Jews as monsters made of feces? Do American Jews protest and throw rocks outside of the Malaysian embassy? Or when anti-Christian films come out of Turkey, and show Christians as organ-stealing parasites? We just don't care because again, we are mostly adults. What about the old American embassy in Tehran? The whole building is covered with vile, anti-American murals and every year the Iranians burn a flag there to celebrate the storming. Yeah, it's offensive, but the Iranian UN Ambassador isn't assaulted and dragged through the streets.
Probably the best thing about this is my girlfriend, who is Muslim, is offended that other Muslims are offended by such a boring and poorly made movie. The intermission in Lawrence of Arabia is far more captivating and offensive.
I'll conclude with Voltaire, who said, "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Thank whatever deity is out there that we still cherish that in the States, and that we never abandon that standard.
Hisham El Shebeiny in reply to St. Teilo
you expressed about your own culture or let us say about your own attitude toward anything that not only blame or criticize what you believe in but it might exceed the level of blame or criticism to a higher level which is the fierce insult
you said that not only you but even the Americans or the western people in general have this attitude. OK its fine, we might say that you have tolerance or it might be carelessness as you are unconcerned if someone insulted the Jesus for example or denied anything you believe in, and your reaction even might be to laugh or to smile or even to overlook and move on quietly .... all these reactions are fine for me and acceptable at least its very far from violence and bloodshed
but here, I want to highlight some points:
First, you will not be able to say that all the Americans or the westerners have the same reactions of yours. people are different as some might be very sensitive and might become angry so easy and might be affected badly and act violently while other people might be like you, calm or cool or tolerant or unconcerned . you should not expect the others to act like you and you should expect that those who are not like you might be the majority or at least a big number and significant proportion that must be taken into account.
Second, the Muslims or Arabs who have protested and acted violently against the movie which attacked their religion, are not all the Arabs or All the Muslims, they are just a sample , this means that you do not have to make generalization of all the Arabs and Muslims, as the majority seem to be like you.
Third, in my own opinion I think that the reaction of the person toward any insult to something holy to him or something he believe in , might be related to his education level and to his standard of living . so, the well educated (university graduates or post-graduates) persons will have a calm and tolerant reactions and most likely they are not going to care as they know the religions and the value that it possess for its believers and they know also that everyone thinks that he believe in the right religion and that the people will keep on attacking the religions of the others etc
So, what about the ordinary people, I mean the very simple people who have very less or without education at all, dealing with these people is very hard especially if you are going to attack what is considered holy to them, and what if these kind of people was the majority
in these case you must be very careful, and here is my point, the freedom of expression need breaks or limits or red lines
St. Teilo in reply to Hisham El Shebeiny
I never expect someone to be like me, but the majority here act like rational adults.
>"not all the Arabs or All the Muslims, they are just a sample"
I never generalized that group, and never will.
AMERICANS didn't attack a religious group as a whole, one guy made a (boring, unfunny, and stupid)film. Anyway, we try not to pander to religious minorities. We don't force Amish people to use electricity, nor do we tax Scientologists. This whole idea is as preposterous as an imam in Afghanistan declaring that the west should use computers to place digital headscarves on actresses in American movies, since he considers it improper. We aren't going to change our philosophical and cultural practices because some people around the world are upset with the idea. I eat pork and have a greyhound. Does it offend some Muslims? Yes. Too bad.
I'm sorry we disagree. But no.
jdcooper in reply to Todd T
Is that what the average Muslim believes? Thank you for the information, Oh Todd T, shrine of insight on what and how Muslims think. But if Muslims are these animals you appear to believe, why are there so few Jihadists?
D. Sherman
How can a president or a government have any authority to do anything in a country that doesn't have a constitution? In every other case I can think of, the first order of business after a revolution is the drafting of a constitution. If the situation is reasonably stable, the bureaucracy can run the day-to-day necessities of government without any legislative or executive direction, until a constitution is written and approved. But here we have Mr. Morsi doing all the things that a constitutionally-backed President might do (and more things than many are allowed to do), without any legal authority to do so. What's to stop a constitution from being written that abolishes the office of the presidency entirely?
Todd T in reply to D. Sherman
A constution is not relevant here. These people believe it is ok to sell a daughter into slavery to pay a debt(at least that was the excuse given by Egyptians in Los Angeles who had a slave for 8 years and she was payment) and then whip those same daughters to death for being raped. The bottom line is these people believe their holy book gives them permission to kill everyone for any ridiculous reason they can imagine and they can make law based on this same believe and enforce it with violence and of course they also believe they can wipe every other human off the face of the earth. Their culture is so far behind the 21st century, a Constitution is meaningless. For a Constitution to work, you first have to accept the fact you cant kill everyone in the name of god, because every individual has the right to live and your religious opinion has no effect on that right. The US Constitution is based on the concept of unalienable rights and right now the very idea of a person having a right that cant be taken away under any circumstance is so alien to them, they simply could not make use of a Constitution. All they would do is write up a Constitution, and simply codify in law the belief they can kill anyone for any reason. that is hardly going to be useful.
sara 93 in reply to Todd T
This is the most disgusting example I have ever seen. Who do you think you are simply deciding that those are think of people who " sell their daughters into slavery?" I mean seriously?
So christians are the kind of people who take their children to churches only to get molested? I think you should look carefully around you before spreading your conceit . This culture you call behind is more open-minded than people like you. People who talk about freedom while they believe no one else is worthy of it. If Egyptians were to asses america by people like you they would think it was full close-minded people that seem to live in their self-created world.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Not really.
Key difference: Mubarak was largely secular.
Therein lies the dillemma with supporting democracy in the Middle East. The majority of the people support Islamic leadership, and, in a democracy, the majority get to choose the leader.
It is because of the above dillemma that the West tolerated (and even supported) Mubarak, as well as the other Middle East dictators, for so long.
Curate's Egg
As distasteful as Islamist governments may be, I think concerns of a permanent darkness in the Middle East is overblown. If the Islamists overplay their hand, Islamic fundamentalism will finally lose its legitimacy. If the Islamists do a rather good job, well then, so much the better - and then they will still have to exit the power stage at some point, because once you hold power, you are automatically seen as corrupt and given only a short lease on life by the general populace.
The only way that the Islamists can break this cycle is to rule as autocrats in whatever country that they come to power. But can they do this? Islamists have enough firepower to disrupt a country, but it's not enough to repress a restless population of millions. My bet is that, over the long term, Islamist democracies will, by no design of any Islamist or Salafist, pave the way to a normalization of the Middle East.
Ken Presting
One very important factoid which is missing from this (otherwise informative) report is that Morsi went out of his way to appoint a permanent ambassador to Israel Sept 2, and again went out of his way to keep the appointment quiet in Egypt. AP carried the story, and WaPo picked it up, but the NYTimes ignored it. As have most of the specialized commentators.
So it's no isolated accident that Morsi is acting as a cautious moderate. One of Egypt's great sources of leverage in the region is it's special relation to Israel, not to mention the special relation to America that goes along.
The uprisings this week, I believe, do not show a rollback of the moderate Arab Spring movement. Rather, they show a fragmentation of the general public. This is understandable after a social upheaval, and it's obviously dangerous. But Morsi is an example of a canny leader who is willing to work the strings of power where they won't chafe the public. I'll even suggest that Obama is consciously playing along, with comments like "not an ally." Certainly Obama accepts that the US has baggage.
I'll grant that concern is warranted, but I think there is significant upside potential in the Morsi administration, and in the Muslim Brotherhood movement as a whole.
Cosimo Rondo
On June 4, 2009, President Obama gave a major speech to the Arab/Muslim world at Cairo University, to which he invited the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist Islamic group that was banned (but tolerated) by Egyptian President Mubarak. With this move, Obama gave presidential imprimatur to a group that was described as early as 1946 as anti-Christian and anti-Jewish. Recently, the Muslim Brotherhood had the temerity to demand that the U.S. release the sole Egyptian prisoner held at Guantanamo.
jciv in reply to Cosimo Rondo
Would it have been better that he not include what is now the party in power in Egypt?
Unless you're claiming that Obama's inviting the Muslim Brotherhood to his speech gave them enough clout to win the power they now have, which is complete nonsense considering their constituency's beliefs. Surely you would not claim that Obama inviting the Muslim Brotherhood to hear a speech of his would ingratiate the Muslim Brotherhood with their Islamist followers?
If anything Obama's move seems quite prescient and strategic now.
Just because Egypt's response to recent events isn't deemed to be acceptable by the U.S., doesn't mean the political situation between the U.S. and Egypt could not have been worse had Obama decided to ignore what was obviously a movement with quite a bit of clout to begin with.
I'm not talking about giving in to demands or ideologies, I'm talking about establishing proper political dialogue, and working towards common goals in the future after developing a better relationship.
Welcome to the age of Darkness. Pursuing an Ideology based upon 1400 years old dogma may yield nothing but chaos and failure. The lessons may be well learned from Pakistan and Afghanistan where Islam is the primary source of law and governance but both states are the epic center of lawlessness. Islam permits four wives at a time which is a clear violation of human rights as the sex ratio in the world is 101 man to 100 women and if every influential person keeps four wives then there will be no women for sex to three quarters of men.
Connect The Dots
Here are the basic questions that divide the Islamic World and the West:
What is the best religion in the world?
What is the only true religion?
For Westerners:
These are controversial questions that will NEVER be resolved.
And the majority of the world agrees to leave it to peaceful individual choice.
And that it is a crime to impose any religious will with force or violence.
Their answer is tolerance and diversity.
And the separation of Church and State.
However the Muslim Brotherhood sees the answers with a 100% obvious certainty.
And they will impose this on the world.
By diplomacy or by conflict; by hook or by crook... you will join the Caliphate.
I would not be so confident in claiming that tolerance, secularism, or the separation of church and state enjoy such an easy consensus in the West.
Far too many far-right Christians are at work in the United States right now to teach creationism in schools and deny physical and legal access to abortion. They may couch it in the language of morality, but the fundamental motivation is religion.
SET Sail in reply to guest-wnesjls
Sure protests here after 9/11 and in UK after 7/11, and in other EU countries have picked up in noise and strenght, and logically so given mosques had a role in supporting some of the terrorists.
Still, I cannot recall any of the protestes setting houses on fire, firing at people or other things too violent.
Viceversa try and build a church the other side and you put your life in real danger.
I would recomment a book by two old chaps discussing this phenomenon after 9/11, available in libraries but a free summary and commentary at http://www.logosjournal.com/axel.pdf
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I'm way less tolerant of the BS insult at the end of this article. F-you whoever wrote it, and I hope the editor of the piece gets slammed for letting it appear in print. It's not a matter of PC — it's a huge insult to millions of men, including many single dads who found their mates more apt to seek fresher wood shavings then stay and face the ups and downs of monogamy. I thought this magazine had journalistic standards?
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In response to adidan clarke, who is to say that less cheating on spouses would be an improvement? I might just as easily argue that because humans are both biologically successful and only occasionally monogamous, promiscuity might account for some of our species' success. In simple genetic terms, it makes perfect sense for a woman to marry a man who is likely to be a good long-term provider, but get her children fathered by men who are genetically superior in ways that are important for survival (even just to have them fathered by a number of men so as to ensure that they don't all share the same genetic defect). The reproductive advantages of male promiscuity are so obvious that they hardly bear mentioning; it's strictly a numbers game in which (at least prior to the invention of DNA testing and lawyers) there was little cost to inseminating lots of women and obvious reproductive advantage to doing so.
On the other hand, humans are not as promiscuous as many other beasts, and we're roughly in the middle of the scale among primates. That means there's also some advantage to monogamy, which probably has to do with the difficulty of raising a human baby successfully to adulthood and the fact that biological parents, working together, are more likely to accomplish that. So, evolutionary pressure has given us a certain tension on the subject, to the point where we've subjected ourselves to first religious and now legal penalties in order to force us to do what we don't always naturally want to do.
We do not need threats of harsh judgment, either in court or in the hereafter, to compel us to eat food when we're hungry or put on clothing when the weather is cold. We don't even think that it might be handy if some scientist would develop a pill to make people do those things. The very fact that we contemplate compelling behavior of one sort of another means that the desired behavior is not completely natural.
aidan clarke
GEfree, why not improve the things that we can? The whole history of human progress is merely a history of humans improving the things we can. If someone wants to take a pill in order to be less tempted to cheat on his or her partner, then more power to them!
D. Sherman
That last line was clearly added as a gratuitous joke, but since the rest of the article was fairly scientific, it's worth noting that every heterosexual man who "cheats" on his partner is doing so with a woman. The accurate studies that have been done on human monogamy tend not to show men as being significantly more promiscuous than women. Perhaps the stereotype exists largely because men are more likely to brag about their exploits, at least to their buddies, even to the point of exaggerating how many women they've bedded, whereas women tend to be ashamed of being thought of as promiscuous. So, the notion that women ought to "hope" that a drug could make men be monogamous reflects a social bias rather than a biological reality.
If you have enough power, you can do that, but the consequences are equally unpredictable.
Love will tear us apart again.
Yes, it does.
c.f. Cold Mountain
Do Buy.
It seems like there's an obvious and soon to be indispensable application of this research just waiting to be invented: a gene you can inject into your spouse's brain that makes them glow in the dark if they're going to cheat on you.
Why, WHY do we have to change things? As much as I like science, the ego charges forward to alter and change every living thing. The system is not broke. Quit trying to fix things. You don't need a monogamous gene for men. You need a gene to allow men to accept what is on this beautiful planet, just as it is. Did any of you ever stop to think that the way we are IS the way it is meant to be? Really, as a female, I am intelligent enough to know the past men who cheated only led me to the fabulous man I have now. The struggles and tears along the way only made me the person I am today - that I would never trade for anything!
"It may be some time before such interventions are available for human males, but women can always live in hope."
I'm confused? Is the science gender specified? This seems to pop up out of nowhere, and heavily misrepresents animal mating patterns seemingly for no reason other than sexism. If there is another reason your reporter should have made that clearer.
Humans are more complex beings than rodent model systems. This is simply evident based on the complexity of our brain. Hence all this study provides is a plausible molecular insight into bonding behavior. The prime topic of analysis should in fact focus on the evolutionary benefit for this social trait in rodent history and then, we can start to relate the implications of this study to our life. Until then, this is just another cool genetics based approach to understanding behavior in a simple animal model. I have not even covered other variable facets such as vasopressin expression pattern in this model, implications of controlled lab environment on rodent behavior and lack of complex human brain regions in the prairie vole. However, this is novel science moving towards emotions on a microarray, so dream on.
There are 3 main drugs that humans take on a regular basis: Love, Money, and Power. People don't go after these things because they want them instinctively, they do it because they get a physical response from them as the article indicates. Just like any drug though the more you use it the more you need. Falling in love the first time is always better than any subsequent experimenting with that particular drug, and its effects fade with time. With money and power, those drugs can truly corrupt people. The true human condition is devoid of these artificial pleasures. A solitary monk would be a pure individual.
If such an intervention could be surreptitiously added to a cup of coffee, the whole world might be "A Midsummer's Night Dream", i.e. not much different than at present, particularly if a surreptitious antidote were available
I am tempted to be all politically-correct and say that women cheat too, but yes, as a bitter ex-girlfriend I feel that the sooner this is developed for humans, the better.
No it is Vasopressin.
PNAS January 29, 2008 vol. 105 no. 4 1249–1254
Variation in neural V1aR predicts sexual fidelity and space use among male prairie voles in semi-natural settings
Alexander G. Ophir*†, Jerry O. Wolff‡, and Steven M. Phelps*
*Department of Zoology, University of Florida, P.O. Box 118525, Gainesville, FL 32611; and ‡Department of Biological Sciences, St. Cloud State University,720 Fourth Avenue South, St. Cloud, MN 56301
all bask
it is OXYTOCIN, not so much vasopressin, involved in human bonding. though they both chemically very similar.
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NASA at 50
Many happy returns?
America's space agency has reached middle age. Will it now recapture the glory of its youth, or dwindle into decrepitude?
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Hopefully, NASA's already doing this. Just in case . . .I can suggest one NASA mission no one would miss--spaceship building. Instead of design and building all of its spacecraft in-house, like they did with Apollo and the Shuttle, ask for bids from private companies for craft with the needed abilities for different missions. At most, NASA should just be experimenting with untested and too-advanced-for-prime-time technologies and techniques.
Though an avid reader of the Economist and someone who agrees with many of it's points of view, I disagree with the Economist's stance on space travel.
My question is - what is the point of knowing about the planets through robotic exploration if we never really intend to do anything useful with that data? In other words, what is the point of just knowing?
Our space programs should be a prelude to colonization and we need data to know where water is, where minerals are, what the surface conditions are etc. What grander vision can NASA offer than colonizing the planets.
Reallly a quite naive piece. You get no gain unless you invest. I would have thought that any economist would know that. Until we break out if this literally viscous circle of earth orbit we won't even begin to capitaliza on the resources awaiting us in space - be int minerals, platinum group metals ... the list goes on. There is not YET ONE DOLLAR (or Euro) spent or made in space. Space commerce will take us there. The voyages of discovery were based on years of training and study. If someone had decided to suspend this activity, where would we be ?Robots are great but the human intellect and situational awareness will trump robotics ecery time.then there is the issue of jobs. Do we want aerospace jobs, like many other jobs, to be exported offshore.Full disclosure - I am in the aerospace industry. What are the author's credentials ?
This article is quick to claim the costs of the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs as potentially being a waste. Taking a couple of quotes from the article:
"Nevertheless, he is right that there was something heroic about the Apollo project."
NASA operates under extreme budget constraints. The cost of Apollo may rival the Manhattan Project taking into account inflation. If you want great achievements you have to assume the risk of spending/wasting a great amount of money. I am sure one find a few default miltary programs that cost just as much. But this article, like others, avoids the comparison of annual US miltary budget against the NASA budget.
The Shuttle-MIR program of the 1990's brought to end 50 years of Cold War. It showcased each countries great scientific and engineering acheivements and more than symbolically bounded our nations. In constrast, I wonder how many billion's were spent during the Cold War on fostering fear and distrust between the US and USSR?
In 1998 when the US and the former states of the USSR launched their components of the International Space Station it obligated our great nations to continue to grow in understanding and cooperation. Today these weary enemies of the Cold War not only cooperate but trust and rely on each other. For the peace of mind, the cost of the International Space Station seems a bargin in comparison to fifty years of Cold War.
Illusion (computers) is better than reality (Apollo) because reality (Apollo) is illusion (television)?
Methinks the illusion of the Economist's high standards is better than the reality.
With the current energy problems, space based engineering efforts to collect sunlight and transmit it to earth base stations may finally come of age. Transmission of collected solar energy from geosyncronous orbital collectors and transmission to earth stations by laser or maser for infusion into a power grid has long been discussed. Zero carbon emissions, use of nearly available technology, and a great need met. Sounds like a mission plan?
Random Commentator
You omitted that NASA in 2000's got funds cut by Bush administration, who wasted it all on Iraq war.NASA will do well to accept more space tourism. And the best hope for space program is that Chinese both progress their own space program and prompt U.S. competition.Remember old joke about Soviet spaceship which finally landed on Mars - and was asked not to trample rice plantations.
RE: GoodQuestionThere is no "government monopoly" on spaceflight - ever heard of SpaceShipOne? Or NASA soliciting contracts for a private company to demonstrate the technical capability to resupply the International Space Station?The limiting factor on non-governmental spaceflight isn't government regulation, but rather that most spaceflight, aside from (somewhat privatized) commercial satellite launches, is deeply unprofitable.
I think the robotic landers have had a strong cultural impact. Hubel defently has.
The shuttle was a huge mistake. Only the Hubble repair missions were worth a dam. The Aries V ane I will be cheeper and more logical. The Aries V will focus on putting tonnes of equipment into space and Aries I will be rated to put humans in space.
After the challenger blewup the Shuttle became a "closed" system. Not even the Air Force could get time on the shuttle. The Aries rockets will be most valuble if they are "open" to the worlds billionaries who will find inovative was to use them.
Ban25: Google putting a rover on the moon (be it themselves, or someone going for them) equals a stroke of advertising genius!!Which reminds me- someone should put an end to government monopoly on space flights...Let the government regulate and ensure the safety of other projects, and let free market take us to the stars...Or a reasonably sized oligopoly, I guess....
John B Goodrick
Why do humans dream? It defies all logic and reason to want to go where no one else has gone before. It also defines humans. Why do some children like to play in ponds or tidal pools, or open trunks in attics? And why do algebra and geometry fascinate some people or examining strange animals? And why did Spanish education authorities decide it was good for the Spanish astronaut Duque to visit schools?
I propose that the annual budget for NASA be divided by the number of American citizens and any country willing to provide the same level of support be invited to join in competing in providing personnel, equipment and direction. We could sell such an idea as stimulation of imagination of young people and challenging the imagination of adults.
Andover Chick
All in all, space explorations and blasting people on rockets are just so darn cool!!! What would childhood be like if one couldn't image rocketing into space to explore strange places and maybe someday gnarly, mutoid aliens. I think NASA and the Euro agencies should keep going full force - it is the BEST piece of the taxes I pay!!
The last data I read was that the spinoff from the NASA research were at least a 20-1 benefit. The teflon family of products, fuel cells, flat screen monitors, and microprocessor designs all benefited from the space program as a stimulus of innovaton. These led to business innovations that helped produce jobs and products when those items were still manufactured in the US.
$30 million to drive a rover across the moon? What's that got to do with internet ads? Do the shareholders know about this?
NASA wears the crown of one of America's greatest organizations. In less than 10 years, a group of dedicated scientists and engineers sent the first people in human history to the moon. Spectactular achievement. Boredom led to cancellation of the program. Lately, robotic exploration of Mars has found evidence of water. Good for potential colonization perhaps. Spectactular achievement. Ho-hum publc response. Where is the sense of adventure and exploration? Its not a bloomin' video game! NASA is great in science and engineering, and less great in explaining science and engineering, which is as it should be. Perhaps NASA should invite artists, poets, composers, and writers on EACH of its missions, for free, to write about the experience for the popular culture, so that it can be "digested" by most of the world, made into sit-coms (ala "I Dream of Jeannie") art, and musical works. I think that would do wonders for public support and budgets.
There's quite a zoo of invisible but tangible animals in the living room here. One of the larger ones is that access to asteroids could transform human existence at a stroke. Nudging a 1-mi. diameter nickle-iron asteroid into accessible Earth orbit would make easy the mining of as much base and precious metals as has been extracted from our crust in all of history. Estimated value: about $1,000,000 for every human on the planet, or about 6 quadrillion (American terminology) / 6 thousand billion (UK terminology) dollars. Now that SpaceX and Branson and others are pushing commercial access to LEO and the moon, it may be a lot sooner than NASA's timelines suggest that humans begin to climb out of their playpen.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47889 | AT EASTER, the answer looked obvious: of course the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) would raise interest rates for the fifth time in nine months on May 4th, probably by a quarter of a point to 6 1/4%. In the event, the MPC did no such thing. New evidence over the past ten days seems to have changed its mind.
The most striking argument against raising rates was the preliminary figure for GDP in the first quarter of this year. Official statisticians say that the economy grew by only 0.4%, less than the economy's long-run trend and less than anyone had forecast. In other words, demand is apparently growing less quickly than long-run supply. This ought to ease inflationary pressure. The cause of the slower growth is the weakness of manufacturing output, which has fallen in four of the past five months.
Underlying the flaccidity of manufacturing and GDP is the strength of the pound, which has crimped output by making British-made tradable goods more expensive relative to foreign-made ones. A rising pound also cuts inflation directly by reducing import prices. Already at giddy heights, since Easter sterling has had another upward surge: on May 3rd it closed a shade short of DM3.43 (or 57 pence to the euro), a 14-year high. In trade-weighted terms, sterling is at its strongest since December 1985. Thanks to the ever-surprising strength of the pound, moreover, RPIX inflation (ie, excluding mortgage-interest payments) has undershot the Monetary Policy Committee's key target of 2.5% for the whole of the past year.
Against this, however, there was also plenty of evidence supporting another rate rise. The most obvious was on the supply side of the economy, in the labour market. With unemployment at a mere 5.8%, the annual growth rate of earnings has risen to 6%. At the same time, there are signs that demand is still uncomfortably strong.
Indeed, says Geoffrey Dicks of Greenwich NatWest, an investment bank, the first-quarter GDP figure may be a short-lived dip. Consumer demand is vibrant. Retail sales grew by 1.5% in the first quarter of this year, and were 5.1% up on the same period of last year. The CBI produced a bullish retailers' survey this week, in contrast to its gloomy manufacturing survey last week. Government spending is strong. After a poor fourth quarter of 1999, the traded sector contributed to growth in the first quarter, despite the pound (“God bless America,” says Mr Dicks). So where does the weakness lie? In corporate investment and a run-down of stocks, which could be a post-millennial lull.
On top of all this, the fact that sterling is strong cannot be translated simply into a case against increasing interest rates. Like everyone else, as the pound has kept on rising the MPC has continued to believe that it is overvalued, and is therefore due for a fall sooner or later, within the two-year horizon the committee uses for setting rates. Once the pound does fall, it will no longer dampen inflation, but will fuel it. With the domestic economy already overheated, that could be a recipe for trouble. But as this week's decision shows, the fear of rising inflation in the medium term now worries the Bank less than the overvaluation of the pound. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47891 | BEST known as a destination for honeymooners in search of perfect white beaches and swaying palms, the Seychelle islands rarely make any sort of headlines. Few tourists would even have noticed the presidential election on July 30th, in which James Michel, leader of the Seychelles People's Progressive Front, was returned with 54% of the ballot. For Mr Michel, it was the first time he had faced the islands' 62,000-odd voters, having been promoted from vice-president two years ago by his predecessor, Albert René, who had ruled the islands for 27 years since taking power in a coup in 1977.
To the casual eye, Seychelles seems both fortunate and well-governed. The 115 islands, most of them uninhabited, cover a mere 445 square kilometres (175 square miles) of the Indian Ocean, north of Madagascar, and enjoy several advantages over most of the rest of Africa. The weather is never extreme. There is no malaria. The islanders have free education and health care. Their multiracial society is pretty harmonious. With GDP at around $8,000 a head, there is almost no discernible poverty.
But this standard of living has come at a cost: the IMF says its public debt is too high and may be unsustainable. Mr Michel's main opposition, the Seychelles National Party, which scored 46% in the elections, claims that Seychelles, per person, is the world's most indebted country; with some $590m of external debt for just 82,000 people, it is certainly one of them. A black market in foreign currency already exists as speculation persists that the government, unable to meet its obligations, may be forced to devalue. Basic consumer goods sometimes run out. If, as the IMF predicts, GDP falls by over 1% this year, Mr Michel may find his next five years in power more testing than he had hoped.
The country needs more ways of making money. In the cold war, it was easy. The Seychelles played each side off against the other, remaining a member of the Commonwealth as well as the Non-Aligned Movement and taking military aid from the Soviet Union while leasing a satellite tracking station to the Americans. Since those streams of revenue dried up, the main Seychellois streams of revenue have been from tourism—leasing land to foreign hoteliers—and from tuna: the government earns about $200m a year from selling tuna-fishing licences to Spain, France and South Korea.
But conflict in the Middle East has brought Seychelles an unexpected bonus: Western warships stop off in the islands, which offer rest and recreation. The soldiers and sailors scuba-dive, sail and drink Seybrew, the local beer—and pay for it all in hard currency. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47897 | Bayonetta - Gameplay
05:22PM 18th Apr 2013
Bayonetta is a stylish, third-person, hack'n'slash video game featuring the titicular character as the protagonist who uses a variety of different weapons - including her own hair! - to defeat her enemies. Being a witch, Bayonetta can summon an array of totrure devices, demons and magic skills against her angelic and demonic foes. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47913 | Random Ruins Of Reality - Let My Soul Fade
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Let My Soul Fade Lyrics
spare me an hollow endless life
and the joyful endless peace
'cause the answer's not a prize
and the punishments can't be
with a demon by my side
and an angel's care for me
I have paid for my guilts
I will own each of my sins
let my soul fade
let it burn
and leave no ashes
let it go
and leave no footprints
cause my life's been
a climbing out of
an abyss
even you can't understand
that my birth has been my own death
that no aid will be give back
and no mistake be redeemed
that the dreams die with the sun
that the lies will win at last
and there can't be a restart
in the iron mist of time
'cause, god, I'm too sick of life
and so I beg you
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47922 | Now that narf and blanka's solution for booting into XP on Intel Macs is out in the wild and people are using it to actually run XP on their Macs, some bugs are showing up. That's not surprising, and we fully expect to see fixes within the near future (though we don't expect Colin to start handing over cash for each bug fix). One rumored bug should, however, give you pause before you decide to use this as anything more than a proof-of-concept: according to a thread on MacRumors, the current XP install doesn't include a fan driver, which means your Mac's fan never goes on. That may not be a big issue if you're using an iMac for limited periods in a well-ventilated space, but if you're planning on running XP on a MacBookPro, you may find things getting mighty hot. We're not dissing narf and blanka here; they won the contest and deserve their $13,000. But you may want to be a little careful before trying out their solution at home.
Update: Well, you can't say Mac users don't hunt down rumors and quash them quickly (though some are, of course, just as guilty of spreading rumors)! It appears that the fans in Macs do indeed go on regardless of which OS is running, though there is apparently some concern about how the fans are regulated by software over time. Several commenters have pointed out that even in some earlier Mac models, running non-Apple OSes (i.e., Linux) could result in the fans running constantly, due to a lack of Apple power-management software. So, the good news seems to be that, no, XP won't melt your Mac. The bad news? Your fans may whirr constantly, causing a bit of noise pollution, and possibly draining your batteries before their time if you're using a MacBookPro. We do have every confidence that narf, blanka and the rest will resolve this issue -- and probably for a lot less than $13,000.
[Thanks, Syl]
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