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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47923 | Nielsen DVRHistory repeats itself, indeed. Old-timers will remember the outcry among movie studios that felt VHS would mean death to Hollywood (that didn't happen). And not too long ago, the TV industry felt that the DVR would be its own Black Plague. But Nielsen, the company that watches what you watch, reports that viewing has actually increased with DVR uptake. This report confirms earlier studies showing the same trend. According to Nielsen, the DVR has shifted primetime content viewing to beyond the traditional primetime slot and allowed viewing of programs that would have gone unseen without DVRs. Go figure -- as access to content is made more convenient, consumption goes up! Here's to hoping that the TV industry takes the lesson to heart and focuses more on producing of programs we want to watch than on controlling how we watch it. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47927 | Inside every frustrated journalist is an even more frustrated author, and self-publishing is an evil that many of us have succumbed to over the years. Still, much as we may want to resist it, we couldn't help ourselves when it came time to test Apple's iBooks Author app, designed for educators to push out textbooks to students for a fraction of the cost, time and energy it would traditionally take.
So, how does it feel when you're working inside the software? Could you use it to prepare seminar materials for the class of 2015 or, more importantly, launch your own career as Stephanie Meyer's successor? Head past the break to find out!
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You open into a template-chooser that gives you six different options: Basic, Contemporary, Modern Type (retro-tastic), Classic, Editorial and Craft. You'll instantly notice that the designs scream out from the back of your memory -- you've seen books exactly like this throughout your education, each one packing detailed homages (or pastiches) from the originals. If you've used Apple's Pages (or Word, for that matter), you're going to find the setup here very familiar when inputting text. There's a lot of templates built-into each page, but you can tweak your text with the same level of freedom that you can in those other apps. Apple's attention to detail is at the fore here: the wonderfully observed front cover has shadowing like textured paper -- there's even white scratches in the dye, making this feel a lot more real than a pristine design.
On the left-hand side of the main window is an outline of your book. There you can add chapters based on various color templates and pre-designed sections. We noticed however, that there are four "Lorum Ipsum" sub-headers already in the text, no matter what we tried (in our admittedly quick hands-on) we couldn't replace any of them but the first with our own. It's a shame that we found ourselves butting heads with the software after such a short time, but it's not clear how you're meant to customize these pieces, if at all.
One of the things we noticed is that you probably won't want to spend too much editing raw text in the app. This is certainly not going to replace your text editor of choice -- the templates are very fussy and require you to have everything ready before you commence. What does impress us is that every part of the layout is customizable. In this regard, it feels as if Apple's tried to anticipate most common tweaks that amateur textbook authors would want to make and provide for them.
As you can see, it's also surprisingly easy to insert media into your plain text. Select the relevant widget from the above menu (you can also insert charts, tables, multiple-choice tests, galleries, keynote presentations and HTML) and a placeholder space will appear that you can dynamically move around your text -- here we unceremoniously plonked in an Engadget classic podcast that then shunted everything around and you can access from a tap. It's hard to convey how impressive this is: your average school teacher should have no trouble creating materials for pupils to a similar standard that a publishing house can. Whilst it's unlikely they'll have the resources to build out some of the (dare we say it) fancier options on offer here, we're excited to see that there is a lot of potential into this software that we have yet to see.
Apple confirmed to us that you can publish classroom materials for free and that each book will be approved in the same way that the App store approvals process works. Copyrighted works (if you utilize any) will have to be strictly cited and referenced in order to pass muster. You'll be able to publish books for free, all the way up to $14.99: with a fixed profit-share model of 70/30 between yourself and Cupertino. Most importantly of all, any book that you publish must be an exclusive to iBooks. Still, from what we've managed to achieve in our short-time with it, we're feeling pretty darn jealous about the learning materials the kids of tomorrow are going to get to play with -- as we nurse our back injuries from carrying around 20-ton copies of Herring's Criminal Law and Hudson's Equity and Trusts as a student.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47929 | 'Samsara' creators Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson discuss the digital filmmaking divide video
We've set up shop in a conference room above Third Avenue in Manhattan, a Canon 5D trained on Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson. I find myself apologizing awkwardly for the setup, several times. There's a long boardroom table in the middle and a customary junket breakfast spread to the right. It's about as plain as meeting rooms come, save for a few movie posters lining the walls, advertising films distributed by the indie film company that owns the space. Hardly ideal for our purposes, but here were are, all clumped into a single corner, with the director and producer of Samsara flanking a cardboard poster for their movie, leaned atop a stand. It's not the welcome befitting the creators of a big, beautiful sweeping cinematic masterpiece. But they're tired -- too tired to care about such things, perhaps. They dismiss such apologies, clip their lavaliere microphones on over their shirts and sit down.
Fricke motions to the single SLR seated atop a tripod, explaining that he used the same model on a recent commercial shoot. "We have a solid background grounded in shooting in film, and that just stays with you," he adds. "When I'm shooting like with a 5D, like what you're using now to shoot this interview, I'm working with it like it's a 65 camera. It's my frame of reference, my background. I'm just wired that way." The world of filmmaking has changed dramatically in the two decades since the duo first unleashed Baraka on the world, a non-narrative journey across 25 countries that became the high-water mark for the genre and a staple in critics' lists and film school syllabi.
When the team began photography on Samsara back in 2007, it considered abandoning its film roots for the world of digital. "Four or five years ago when we started," Fricke, the film's director, explains, "we looked hard at what was out there in digital. It just wasn't ready for the road. There weren't any real 4- or 5k cameras ready. It was kind of nice because we were like, 'Great! Let's shoot it in 65[mm],' which is still the standard. It's really the image capture that gives you the most dynamic range. Since that's our content, the image -- we're not working with actors and dialogue -- that's what we were after. It was really to get at the essence inside these images, and 70 is the way to go."
In 2012, however, the beauty of celluloid may well present more problems than it's worth, according to the duo. "It's at a level that you'd really have to think hard about not doing it now going out in digital," says Fricke. "There's a lot of issues shooting film, getting film stock in and out -- we went to 25 countries, there's a big price to pay shooting in film because you have to deal with exposed film / unexposed getting it in, you can't take it with you. Like when we made Baraka 20 years ago, we could carry it with us or check it in, they wouldn't X-ray it, and it just doesn't work like that anymore. So it's very challenging." Magidson adds, simply, "The issues with film are only getting harder, not easier."
For one thing, there's the weight concern. I mention the word "crew," and Fricke answers, quickly, "What crew?" The room erupts in laughter. The team on any given shoot is around three to four people -- the same often required for a far more humble Engadget Show shoot, such as this. "They're 70mm cameras, and they are heavy," says Magidson, "but it's pretty manageable. And we've been doing it for a while, so we've got it down. It's a very efficient road package that has all this capability, but it's also very refined at this point. You just don't want to be running around with anything you don't need because you have a price to pay for every piece of equipment you carry. You don't want to be taking the stuff you don't want, don't use." Film also doesn't afford the same ability to just shoot and shoot that filmmakers enjoy with digital. "[Film is] a little more formal," explain Magidson, "and you're not just firing away at everything. It's much more measured. It's like trying to hit a bull's-eye with an arrow rather than shooting stuff with a machine gun, you know? It's expensive to shoot, to roll the camera, because you've got film stock and processing and all that."
DNP'Samsara' creators Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson discuss the digital filmmaking divide video
Should the duo ever embark on a follow-up, however, there seems a fairly good chance that it will be shot digitally. "There's new imagers coming out," says Fricke. "They're going to be 8k, 10k imagers coming in a year or so. So, I think they're here."
And while digital capture wasn't quite up to Fricke and Magidson's high visual standards while filming Samsara, the duo did utilize a computer for the editing process. But, as with the shooting, they maintained the sort of filmmaking principles their works had adhered to well before a new technological option was on the table. "We just scanned out negatives in this deep-digital intermediate process, and never cut it, just scanned the film reels," Magidson tells me. He adds, "There's only one dissolve in our film. It's all cut-to-cut-to-cut. It's an approach to editing that Ron really likes. Ron doesn't like dissolves. We got one in there, but that's it. It's really about the film. We don't need to utilize all the capabilities of these editing software programs. We're not taking them to any kind of limit with what we're doing. We're just cutting. And yeah, it's a great tool."
Editing in digital affords Fricke and Magidson the ability to make subtle changes -- removing things like cars and birds from the frame during the film's time-lapse segments, for one thing. "When you're out shooting a nice shot for a 12-, 14-hour star field segment, and you end up with like 15 seconds of footage over the night and a car drives through a scene, you don't want to dump that it if you don't have to. We are able to fix that." Fricke adds, "I remember the shot we did in Burma from the hot air balloon over Bagan. You're up in the balloon, and it's phenomenal. Shooting away, and you don't see these details, but when we're cutting it, suddenly there are electrical poles and lights and things that. 'God, it'd be nice if we could take a few of those out of there.'" You also don't want to dump an otherwise fantastic shoot due to a shaky camera. "We used gyro on all the aerials which is unbelievably wonderful," says Magidson, "but on the Myanmar, on the Burma stuff we used a hot air balloon so it was a little bumpier, but we were able to stabilize [in post] it a bit."
But while the pair aren't nearly as firmly traditional when it comes to the analog and digital divide as many diehard would hope (even going so far as doing a good deal of location scouting on YouTube), the appreciation of technology has its limits. It's all a matter of context, really -- the right tools for the right jobs. Certainly, there's no need to shoot an interview with two filmmakers destined for the web using the same devices as an epic like Samsara -- nor is the same screen required for the consumption of both. "The content really comes alive on a big screen in 7.1 surround, not on a computer, not on an iPhone," says Fricke. Magidson agrees without hesitation, "It is about the emotional impact of the imagery. The technology is not an end in itself. It's really to deliver a brilliance and a vibrancy and an emotional immediacy that you feel from that kind of imagery."
This interview was first aired as part of the latest Engadget Show.
'Samsara' creators Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson discuss the digital filmmaking divide (video) |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/47988 | Never knowingly undersolved.
Independent 7698 Scorpion (Sat 18-Jun-2011)
Posted by beermagnet on June 25th, 2011
What a piece of work this was.
Every across clue is of the same format:
* First Name / Regnal number of England / rest of clue
and every across answer turned out to be a Surname so that
* First Name Surname is a famous person.
Furthermore, every surname answer contains one of the letters from ENGLAND and is used in the “Regnal number of England” part of the wordplay.
Not only that: None of the famous people in the across answers are obscure. None of the crossing down answers are obscure. All of the Wordplay is a solid as a mediaeval refectory table.
I was a bit wary as my previous experience of Scorpion was of very hard puzzles, with which I have struggled and often admitted defeat. Having concentrated on this and got to the end, it is all too easy to say it wasn’t as hard as those others, but in truth, for many clues I had to work back to the wordplay having the answer from the definition and/or crossing letters.
Seeing the style of the across clues, I thought I’d concentrate on the Down clues at first and got a few before being drawn to those across answers where I had crossing letters. When I had an E at the start of 11A I tackled that and surprised myself by seeing Elgar almost immediately. Once I’d solved a couple more acrosses to prove the mechanism, I found myself drawn to them in preference to the Downs. The nature of the across clue mechanism meant there were many “Aha” moments so overall: An excellent puzzle.
8 WAGNER Richard II of England participates in bet (6)
Composer. N (eNgland) inside WAGER (bet)
9 GILBERT William III of England left to penetrate foreign tribe (7)
Librettist. G (enGland) L inside (TRIBE)* AInd: foreign. I didn’t recognise “foreign” as an anagrind, and when researching, was disappointed not to find the Ibert tribe anywhere, before spotting the rest of the answer came from tribe.
10 LAUGHTON Charles II of England pursues the French with tough nuts (8)
Actor (The bells! The bells!”). N (eNgland) after LA (TOUGH)* AInd: nuts. Not sure how “pursues” can be used the wrong way around like this?
11 ELGAR Edward IV of England in anger, flipped (5)
Composer. L (engLand) inside RAGE< (anger, flipped). First across in.
12 FORD Henry VII of England succeeded fine with soldiers (4)
Industrialist. D (englanD) after F[ine] , OR (soldiers)
14 HAGUE William I of England marries battle-axe everyone accepted (5)
Politician. E (England) after HAG (battleaxe) U (everyone accepted – film classification)
15 GERE Richard I of England involved in gross negligence latterly (4)
Actor. E (England) inside GR[oss] [negligenc]E
16 BRANSON Richard II of England, in company of supporters, charged (7)
Businessman. N (eNgland) inside BRAS (supporters) ON (charged)
18 HAWTREY Charles I of England brought in tax on fruit (7)
Actor. E (England) inside TRY (tax) after HAW (fruit)
20 LEAR Edward I of England, covered in fat, ignored diameter (4)
Poet. E (England) inside LARD (fat) – D (diameter)
22 DANCE Charles II of England catches fish? Just the opposite (5)
Actor. N (eNgland) inside DACE (fish)
25 DEAN James I of England delved into religious book briefly (4)
Actor. E (England) inside DAN (short for Daniel) Last across entered – mainly because I had Gates rather than Gated pencilled in for the crossing 15D
26 FONDA Henry V of England has tender front (5)
Actor. A (englAnd) after FOND (tender)
28 WHISTLER James I of England probes hands after card game (8)
Painter. E (England) inside L and R (hands) after WHIST (card game)
30 SHELLEY Mary I of England initiating quiet cry when retired (7)
Novellist. E (England) inside SH (quiet) and YELL<
31 CAGNEY James II of England visits animal enclosure before day’s end (6)
Actor. N (eNgland) inside CAGE (animal enclosure), [da]Y
1 PARAMOUR Lover pops on protection, as Romeo repositions (8)
Def: Lover. PA (Pops – father), ARMOUR (protection) with the first R (Romeo) shifted to the front. Nice salacious surface to this clue, reminiscent of a Steve Bell cartoon.
2 SNAG Element near hospital shedding a tear (4)
Last in and I still cannot see the wordplay. Def is “Tear”. either Sn (Tin) or Ag (Silver) is an Element. So it is a 3 letter word for hospital minus A leaving either SN or AG: Aha! SAN – A and AG is the element. Why was that so hard.
3 CRUTCH It’s routine to cut 200 hospital staff (6)
RUT (routine) inside CC (200) H[ospital]
4 EGGNOG Music maker outwardly gave up drink (6)
GONG (music maker), G[av]E all reversed
5 ALOE VERA See always, amongst former alcoholics, remedial juice (4,4)
LO (see) EVER (always) inside AA (Alcoholics Anonymous). First answer entered mainly from the wordplay and I wondered about the definition: remedial juice. I later found (from the Wiki): “Aloe vera juice is used for consumption and relief of digestive issues such as heartburn and irritable bowel syndrome, although it bears significant potential to be toxic when taken orally”
6 BERG It’s dangerous to tar minor road alongside work unit (4)
B (minor road) ERG (work unit) Def: It’s dangerous. I think “to tar” is in the clue to suggest B is on top of ERG, or is there more going on here?
7 STARER One ogles reserve leaping around pitch (6)
TAR (pitch) inside RES[erve] reversed (leaping – it is a down clue). Tar moving from clue to clue. Is ogling really the same as staring? In my experience a starer is more likely to be staring in disbelief, and an ogler doesn’t necessarily stare – a quick glance may be enough …
13 DONER Person breaking into drachma once bought this meal? (5)
ONE (person) inside DR (Drachma) Not likely to use drachmas to purchase doners in these days of the Euro
15 GATED I’m surprised about limits to the property of some houses (5)
GAD! (I’m surprised – if you’re a nineteenth century retired colonel) around T[h]E. Gated residences are all the rage amongst the modern rich who feel a need to separate themselves from the great unwashed.
17 ODDBALLS Party lifted by topless Labour politician serving nuts (8)
DO< (party, lifted), [e]D BALLS. Def: nuts. Another clue that woud be at home in the Eye. Ref: the current Shadow Chancellor.
19 ENAMELED English celebrity smiled – not half like an American’s teeth? (8)
E[nglish], NAME (celebrity) inside LED.
21 ELFISH Mischievous, egocentric, squandering son (6)
23 NEWLYN Just name a port in Cornwall (6)
NEWLY (just – as in only just occurred), N[ame] Def: A port in Cornwall. This one gave me trouble because I had the first N from the crossing answer and thought that was from “Name”, so was straining to think of a 5 letter Cornish port to complete a word meaning Just (plus wondering if St. Just in that neck of the woods had any relevance)
24 EVINCE Cable associated with English show (6)
VINCE CABLE next to E[nglish] Mr Cable has become a crossword element regular. Def: show.
27 NEEP Vegetable knife finally put in drawer, perhaps adversely (4)
[knif]E inside PEN< (drawer … adversely) Def: Vegetable. Another that had me running around – here I was trying to justify Leek somehow.
29 TOGA Thong intermittently revealed by a loose dress (4)
T[h]O[n]G, A
7 Responses to “Independent 7698 Scorpion (Sat 18-Jun-2011)”
1. Tokyo Colin says:
Thanks beermagnet. I am a slave to routine and so began attempting the across clues in sequence as I always do. On the iPhone the clues come up one at a time and it took a few to realise there was a consistent pattern and it wasn’t until I got to 20ac that LEAR was obvious that I was able to interpret the structure of the clues. I continued on and through the Downs and when I got back to the Across clues, most fell quickly and enjoyably. As you say, the famous people were all well enough known (except 1 for me, Dance.)
Like you I also had Gates at 15d. Not being a retired colonel, Gad seemed an unikely expression of surprise.
In 6dn “Tar” is the usual reference to a sailor for whom an (ice)berg is dangerous.
2. Allan_C says:
An absolutely brilliant set of across clues from Scorpion! And thanks, beermagnet for the comprehensive blog.
Just to add that it was reading the monarch and his/her regnal number in the usual English fashion, e.g. ‘Richard II’ as ‘Richard the second’ that pointed me to the second (or whatever) letter of ‘England’.
As in Colin’s case, it was 20a, LEAR, that confirmed that that was what was going on. I wasn’t familiar with 22a, DANCE, either, but it was easily got from the wordplay.
In 19d the ‘American’ reference is to the spelling – ‘enameled’ rather than ‘enamelled’
3. crypticsue says:
I thought this was brilliant. I still had a couple of ‘kings’ left for which I needed the review, thank you beermagnet. Once the penny had dropped regarding the ‘rulers’, it was great fun working out all the solutions, thank you very much Scorpion for the great Saturday fun. I would say let’s have more of the same, but my brain needs to recover first!!
4. lenny says:
This was great fun – eventually. On my first pass I got absolutely zilch and I was contemplating a whitewash. On my second pass, I immediately got Wagner and then most of the other names, one after another. Like beermagnet I had a bit of trouble with the 4-letter words, thinking Sn was the element in Snag. I finished with Neep, which I only knew because I spent a short period working in Glasgow where neeps seemed to be permanently on the menu.
5. sidey says:
Funny how we differ. solid as a mediaeval refectory table or wooden.
6. yogdaws says:
With ref to today’s GUARDIAN ARAUCARIA PRIZE PUZZLE NO 25,358…
Don’t want a solution just clarification re 10, 15 ACROSS:-
a) Is the solution word order 10,15 or 15,10?
b) Has there been a cock-up or is it actually possible to solve this one?
Many thanks for anticipated assistance…
7. yogdaws says:
Forget I said that.
Gaufrid has eased my pain…
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48120 | #165 - 2scared2login (05/11/2012) [-]
Next post from OP:
>be me
>few weeks ago
>at dinner with dad
>he doesnt know i anally **********
>sister tells him
>his jimmies are rustled
>knows im gay and lost some respect i think
>fast forward to yesterday
>building walls in my basement (we're getting it finished)
>i hear some weird vibrations coming from his butt
>mfw it's the same ******** that I use
father. i am proud.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48130 | Portal 2 Ending Song: Want You Gone by Jonathan Coulton Video and Lyrics
Posted April 20, 2011 - By Dana Leahy
Surprise! Portal 2 ends with a song! Actually, I was kidding just there about the "surprise" part. After the success of Jonathan Coulton's "Still Alive," and the ensuing rise in cake sales, it only makes sense that there would be a follow-up by the Portal songsmith.
See, this information falls into the category of "general knowledge." I want to make that clear so you won't be mad at me when I tell you the title to the Portal 2 ending song is "Want You Gone." I know, I know: that's a pretty vague title; however, the song is a lot like the title in that it too contains vague references to things you might not want to know about if you're not done with the game. The song and the credits make perfect sense if you've beaten the game, of course.
This is a lot of explaination for a pretty straightforward concept: the video of the song and the lyrics for the song are posted below, after the jump. If you haven't beaten the game and you want to hear the song, then by all means, watch it, but make no bones about it: there are references to things you shouldn't know about. Plus, don't forget that one of the joys of completing all of those mindbending puzzles is getting to hear the song, so it spoils it for you in that way too.
If you've already beaten the game, congratulations! Why not reward yourself by listening to the song over and over again?
**Clicking the "Read More" tag will reveal Portal 2 Spoilers!**
Here it is!
Portal 2: Ending Credits Song (Warning: Spoilers!) »
Portal 2 Ending Song "Want You Gone" Lyrics by Jonathan Coulton
Well, here we are again.
It's always such a pleasure.
Remember when you tried
to kill me twice?
Oh, how we laughed and laughed.
Except I wasn't laughing.
Under the circumstances,
I've been shockingly nice.
You want your freedom?
Take it.
That's what I'm counting on.
I used to want you dead,
now, I only want you gone.
She was a lot like you,
(Maybe not quite as heavy)
Now little Caroline is in here too.
One day they woke me up,
So I could Live forever.
It's such a shame the same
Will never happen to you.
You've got your
Short sad
Life left
That's what I'm counting on.
I'll let you get right to it.
Now, I only want you gone.
Goodbye my only friend.
Oh, did you think I meant you?
That would be funny
If it weren't so sad.
Well, you have been replaced.
I don't need anyone now.
When I delete you maybe
I'll stop feeling so bad.
Go make some new disaster.
That's what I'm counting on.
You're someone else's problem
Now, I only want you gone.
Now, I only want you gone.
Now, I only want you gone.
What do you think? Is it as good as "Still Alive"?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48148 | Is It Possible To Win This Fight?
#1m415mikePosted 2/3/2013 2:26:43 PM
I felt like doing some invading in Sen's, and I stumbled upon an opponent I simply cannot beat. Now, I'm messing around with a low level build:
And I know this guy is several hundred levels higher than me, because he got himself killed while I was stalling (he was ganking) and I got over 330K souls from his death. I kept invading and he is no longer ganking, but he is turtling with the DSS and the eagle shield. He is giving me no options for a backstab of any kind, he isn't predictable enough to parry, he has enough poise to withstand at least three attacks from me, he has almost double my health, and he has enough stamina to break my guard easily.
Obviously he is not 100% unbeatable with any build, but is there anything I can do aside from hoping he suddenly suffers a stroke? I'd prefer to keep using this build. It's a lot of fun.
#2Oil_Rope_BombsPosted 2/3/2013 2:28:04 PM
No You Cannot Please Stop
#3HolyGravePosted 2/3/2013 2:29:19 PM
It's Only Possible With The Crestfallen Sword.
Alyn shir is hot.
#4dantedeschain13Posted 2/3/2013 2:30:20 PM
Lure him to one of those narrow walkways and kick him off? Kicks aren't affected by poise, right?
#5zyrax2301Posted 2/3/2013 2:40:18 PM
^ I'd have to agree here, find an opening and kick him. It will undoubtedly be difficult if he's turtling up but you probably won't kill him any other way. You could try lure him onto a catwalk and get hit by a blade, but I wouldn't fall for parlour tricks like that.
If you have a pyro flame, you could use GC to break his guard. If you manage to parry him, I'd recommend kicking from there rather than following up with the riposte.
Why? Because **** you is why.
#6R1masherPosted 2/3/2013 2:41:22 PM
Shotel, bleed, poison, dead angle, ...
#7m415mike(Topic Creator)Posted 2/3/2013 2:48:54 PM
R1masher posted...
Shotel, bleed, poison, dead angle, ...
Shotel, bleed, and dead angle will leave me open and he will annihilate me. I could poison him, but the lightning damage he does through my shield will kill me before poison kills him. If I try to run away, he will cure the poison.
To those who suggested kicking off a ledge; he does not leave the first room. Even if he did, kicking won't break his guard, and will leave me open.
To those making fun of me by posting with the first letter of every word capitalized; I don't see why you are attempting to make fun of me. Titles are supposed to be written/typed as such, and the topic title is a title.
#8DetsuaxhePosted 2/3/2013 2:51:12 PM
Babby's first English lesson.
Just wait on the roof and trick him into getting hit by firebombs, or wait on the blade walkways. You're the invader, you can afford to be patient. He only wins when you die or he enters the boss fog.
Where's my "Accept This Moderation with Extreme Reluctance and Resentful Glares" button?
When reading and responding to my posts, try to take it easy.
#9haarlem1982Posted 2/3/2013 2:54:35 PM
If he is in the first room, you could try to get some distance and throw poison knives and odge around like a mofo untill it wears out, rinse and repeat. Stay close enough so if he tries to heal, you can still run in for a bs.
psn demonchild82, MILFeaterManfred
#10dantedeschain13Posted 2/3/2013 2:59:54 PM
I dunno, when I get in that scenario, I bleed em out with my Gold Tracer (usually can stunlock them before me) or WOG/Emit Force/Force them off a cliff. Don't really have the fth for any miracles and dex is a little low for a tracer. Think use can use an Uchi but don't personally know how great that is for bleeding peeps out |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48149 |
Most fitting nicknames?
#1LightningAce11Posted 1/18/2013 2:25:32 AM
I saw a zapdos named badhairday.
Official Zapdos of the Pokemon X/Y Message Boards
#2HemerukioPosted 1/18/2013 2:26:40 AM
Magikarp named God.
#3MilenninPosted 1/18/2013 2:27:34 AM
Bidoof = Biderp
#4darkdragongirlPosted 1/18/2013 2:31:12 AM
Named my Scrafty after the character in "The Stranger". Mersault just wants to enjoy a good smoke, and watch some executions.
Playing: Ragnarok Odyssey
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For the love of Arceus, ENOUGH ALREADY.
#1kitsuruPosted 10/22/2013 9:33:22 PM
Dear Zapdos,
If you troll my furfrou chaining attempts one more time, I swear to all of the gods of the Pokemon World (and Giratina in the Distortion World) that I will tear off all of those feathers you think make you look so cool and wear them in my pink fedora with the matching frilly pink dress. I am not a fan of pink but I will do it just. For. You.
You are a roaming pokemon. That means you roam and I tear my hair out chasing you. That does NOT mean you stalk me by showing up THREE TIMES IN AS MANY MINUTES. ESPECIALLY NOT WHEN I HAVEN'T LEFT THE PATCH OF GRASS I'VE BEEN CHAINING IN, MUCH LESS THE ROUTE.
Go sulk in that dank, dripping cave in the middle of nowhere already. You're worse than the Panchams!
#2TheRPGKeyPosted 10/22/2013 9:34:15 PM
just catch him
#3zantxPosted 10/22/2013 9:34:35 PM
I thought I read others confirming here that Zapdos appearing wouldn't break your chain.
#4the_NGWPosted 10/22/2013 9:34:46 PM
U mad bro?
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#5Oron999Posted 10/22/2013 9:34:50 PM
TheRPGKey posted...
just catch him
Now you're the only one here/ who can tell me if it's true/
That you love me/ and I love me.
#6LinkofHyrule991Posted 10/22/2013 9:35:19 PM
TheRPGKey posted...
just catch him
can't catch him until you've run into him randomly a number of times
It's over, you've lost the game. -Near
#7TheRPGKeyPosted 10/22/2013 9:35:24 PM
Oron999 posted...
TheRPGKey posted...
just catch him
more like bored
#8sonicboom022Posted 10/22/2013 9:36:21 PM
yeaaaaaaaaaaah that doesn't break the chain.
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#9the_cajun88Posted 10/22/2013 9:36:41 PM
why are you chaining furfrou
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#10invaderofdarkPosted 10/22/2013 9:38:09 PM
F to the L to the A to the R to the E!
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"A classic through and through..."
Of all the game themes I've tried out, Zelda's Overworld theme is STILL the hardest to play on the piano. So many variations...where was I? Oh yes, reviewing possibly THE greatest game to ever hit the Super Nintendo. The green guy has returned to his midget roots after assocating with the tall people in the previous title, and this game owes a WHOLE lot more to Zelda 1 than Zelda 2. Enough of this random blather! The review must go on!
Graphics: Hee hee hee...I could gorge on this visual feast all day. From the excellent intro(Nintendo does 3d!) to the cool-looking bosses, from the seamlessly animated sprites to the detail put into the backgrounds, from Kakariko village to Death mountain, this game shines from every corner! Sure, the graphics are SIMPLE, but it's the elegant simplicity that the Super Nintendo does so well. So what if the dungeons generally have the same floor patterns. You'll be WAY to busy listening to the classic
MUSIC to notice. Ah...the best remix of the first Zelda theme one can ever hear. Dungeon music that's even SCARIER than the Underworld in Zelda 1. Hard-edged boss compositions. And one of the best ending themes(heck, one of the best endings, period) of all time. And don't get me started on the sound. From each sword having a different sound for its swing to the cool reverberations of the bosses exploding, the sound is instantly as timeless as the music. Don't miss this stuff. To do so would be a blot on your videogaming history, and even worse because you didn't experience the innovative
GAMEPLAY which rocked the console world. Items, items, and more items, all useful in some way, almost all used during the course of the game, and all with their own timeless charm. The boomerang. The bow and arrow. The Pegasus boots. The bug(and fairy)catching net. All woven seamlessly into the course of the game, all with certain esoteric uses, and all just plain fun to have. Your sword can now be charged for a cyclone spin. You can now swim, run, and pick up bushes and other objects. You can do...pretty much anything. You can go...wherever you want to go. The feeling of unrestricted exploration was what made this game so popular. However, the question of where to go next was never hard to figure out, due to the nice new map feature, which communicated graphically the clues given by villagers. So many secrets...I still need to pick up the last three Heart pieces...but before I break down and check the FAQ, let me advise you to GET THIS GAME RIGHT NOW! Owning a Super nintendo and not owning this game should be illegal. And if you're an emulation should have had this played and beaten long ago!
Nintendo Logic: Remember the old man from Zelda 1, and how his fireplaces would shoot at you if you attacked him? Nintendo knew that you'd probably be swinging your sword at anyone and everything, especially poor defenseless little fat birds. But even chickens have a limit to how much crap they can take. Therefore, they organized the ''chicken cabal,'' a special group of poultry trained to destroy anyone who beat up on one of their feathered brethren. However, it might have been a more effective chicken-beating deterrent if they had responded right away, since after 30 or 40 sword hits, saving that little bird is pretty much a lost cause.
Reviewer's Score: 10/10 | Originally Posted: 03/15/00, Updated 03/15/00
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48172 | Call of Duty Review
Call of Duty's play experience doesn't quite match up with the ambitious scope of its design.
Past games based on Activision's Call of Duty license have been designed to evoke the personalized horror of World War II. In that global maelstrom, many simple people were wrested from their homes and thrown into one terrifying abattoir after another; if they were to defer death, they had no choice but to count on their comrades to see them through. Like its forebearers, the N-Gage version of Call of Duty concerns itself with the minutiae of warfare, focusing the platform's limited horsepower on creating atmosphere and insuring authenticity. Unfortunately, this first-person shooter's erratic performance and occasionally buggy gameplay spoil some of the effect.
It took a lot of individual guts to take the Nazis down.
Call of Duty casts you in three successive roles across the single-player campaign's 11 missions. Your first step is into the shoes of an American grunt trying to wrest Normandy from the defending Germans; next up, you play as a British commando wreaking havoc behind Nazi lines; and finally, you're cast as a Soviet soldier striving against the Wehrmacht on the particularly brutal eastern front. You contribute to the Third Reich's fall in a variety of roles through the three chapters, conducting espionage and sabotage missions, clearing certain targets of gray-clad German soldiers, and even shooting down Stukas behind the controls of a flak cannon.
Each of Call of Duty's single-player levels is quite large, and your missions generally require you to complete multiple objectives that guide you through a sizable portion of the available terrain. At the same time, however, it's quite clear that you're supposed to adhere to a particular path between objectives. The game keeps things pretty linear and scripted, often enforcing your compliance with "minefields" that will kill you instantly if you venture off the right path, or barriers that simply disappear once you've picked something up. Your heads-up display features a compass arrow that guides you toward the next checkpoint at all times, and if you get really disoriented, you can call up an excellent overhead map that updates dynamically as you move.
You are usually accompanied by at least one artificial intelligence-controlled squadmate who covers you and performs certain scripted events. With a few exceptions, your partners (who appear to be invulnerable to enemy fire) aren't particularly useful in combat. They don't fire very quickly, and they can impede your progress in narrow quarters. On the other hand, they draw enemy fire away from you, which gives you more time to draw a bead on the bad guys. You may not be fighting "alone," but it doesn't necessarily feel like you're fighting with a fellow soldier either.
Call of Duty's greatest asset is its depiction of infantry combat, which is both highly emotive and fairly well-designed. First of all, the game features a cornucopia of authentic American, British, German, and Russian weaponry. Although not all of these weapons are tactically useful (your primary weapon will probably be a submachine gun of some kind), they are all appreciably distinct in look, feel, and sound. For instance, the standard-issue British assault rifle's top-loading banana clip cuts down on your visibility; it has a slower rate of fire than its American and German counterparts and it makes a lower report when fired. The countries even have different grenades. This range of hardware adds some variety to the otherwise mundane task of shooting Nazis.
In addition, Call of Duty's combat situations are well-scripted, and its combat mechanics are generally solid. The game does a good job of shaking up your killing methodology. You may round a corner and run into a group of three soldiers who are best dealt with by tossing a quick grenade, for example--or you can gain a sniper rifle to take out distant, unsuspecting foes with head shots. In many cases, enemies are hidden in shadows or in tiny windows, forcing you to memorize level layouts and to use cover. Also, the game's customizable controls greatly simplify the tasks of aiming and protecting yourself. You are provided with a limited amount of auto-aim to cut down on unnecessary control nudging, and your gun cursor flashes green whenever you can successfully hit an enemy. Your soldier also has three combat positions--standing, crouching, and crawling--which offer you a range of speed versus exposure options while traveling.
It's really too bad that Call of Duty doesn't deliver a consistent gameplay experience, given its solid foundation. One noticeable flaw involves the use of heavy guns, like panzerfausts and howitzers. These weapons don't look natural at all, and they're very difficult to use correctly because their shells sometimes seem to pass right through enemies without detonating. This compounds the game's slightly spotty hit detection, which occasionally lets you track and shoot enemies right through freestanding, solid objects like gun emplacements; by the same token, Nazi bullets will come zinging at you through certain walls.
This game's Achilles' heel, however, is its wildly fluctuating run speed, which ranges from reasonably smooth play to unacceptably sluggish periods, often in close proximity to one another. Some levels run at a respectable 15 to 20 frames per second when you're moving straight ahead, but slow down precipitously as soon as you start fighting; others, like a midlevel mission where you're shooting out of the back of a truck, are so jerky that it's barely playable. All of the N-Gage's first-person shooters have problems with screen rotation (turning your "head" from side to side), but this issue is serious in Call of Duty. In fact, turning around takes such a long time that if you try to turn and run after setting explosives, you'll die in your own blast--you have to backpedal away. These lag spikes will lead to many frustrating, unnecessary deaths, like when you walk into a room and you're ambushed by an enemy on your flank because you can't turn around in time. Luckily, the game allows you to save your progress at any time, so you won't lose all of your progress when you die.
Call of Duty's graphics are decent when taken together, although they have some marked difficulties. The character animation looks fantastic. Your enemies will reel and collapse in several different ways, depending on where and how you wound them, and your comrades will gesture to you and lean against walls for cover. Many of the textures, however, are on the muddy side, and the game's light and shadow effects look unnatural. In addition, Call of Duty's draw distance is too short, so terrain and enemies will simply pop out of nowhere as you move forward. This is particularly pronounced in large, indoor environments where the sky texture will sometimes bleed through the far wall. The sound, on the other hand, is superb. The game features a ton of in-game speech from your allies and opponents alike, as well as crisp, eclectic sound effects and well-delivered, if fairly standard, martial music.
Call of Duty's poor run speed gets old fast.
Call of Duty's Bluetooth multiplayer supports four-way deathmatches, either on a free-for-all or team basis. The game also features four special multiplayer maps, which offer a nice balance of terrain themes from the single-player game. When entering a deathmatch, you choose your nationality and weapon, which are static for the duration of the match; you can, however, pick up power-ups off of your opponents' corpses. The deathmatch mode seemed to function without any noticeable lag, although we had some trouble establishing an initial Bluetooth connection. If you have a network connection, you can also download additional Call of Duty content from N-Gage Arena; at the time of this writing, this consisted of three multiplayer-only weapons.
Ultimately, Call of Duty's play experience doesn't quite match up with the ambitious scope of its design. The N-Gage Call of Duty probably couldn't have been abridged any more than it had been while remaining a recognizable cousin of the console and PC titles; but given the resulting game's struggle to run at a decent speed, more trimming may have been the better choice. As it is, fans of the Call of Duty games and other WWII-themed first-person shooters will probably get some enjoyment out of this game, as there's plenty of fighting to do here, which is multiplied by four difficulty levels. Others will have a better time playing Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm.
The Good
Surprisingly large game
Tons of authentic weapons
Great sound effects and voice acting
Solid combat sequences
The Bad
Run speed is all over the place
Occasional weirdness with hit detection
Draw-distance issues
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#1 Posted by BasketSnake (1094 posts) -
I'm playing pure mage dual wielding spells. I've been thinking about leveling a bit of stamina just in case I want to change it up to a warrior style later on. What do you think? Do you level your magic only? I play high elf. Love the magic regen's pretty neat. I can't decide if I should spend points on all the destruction spells or just one. What's your plan?
#2 Posted by ImmortalSaiyan (4631 posts) -
I like the way you think. I want to use fire in both hands. Burn my foes to the ground.
#3 Posted by TaliciaDragonsong (8696 posts) -
Couldn't hurt, I'm going dual wield but I have put some points in magicka, I can heal myself fully and not even spend half of my mana on it.
Power attacks (which use stamina) can really mess up things, so it'll work out.
Plus, longer sprinting!
#4 Posted by Pinworm45 (4088 posts) -
For what it's worth, I can't fucking choose between playing an archer or a mage, so I've been leveling both a bit. When I play either style, I do fine. I'm level 9, only put 1 point into stamina, put like 3 into Magicka, and the rest into HP. Haven't had stamina issues when i'm archering.
#5 Posted by TheDudeOfGaming (6075 posts) -
Put some points into stamina for carrying weight, everything else goes to health.
#6 Posted by MikkaQ (10203 posts) -
I'm battlemagin' got my destruction and one handed about equal, though with more focus on the sword perks. Doing the first destruction perk once means even with 100 magicka you can send out a very long, extended stream of fire. I use it like a goddamn flamethrower and it's awesome. I should look into upgrading my magic capacity, but I haven't exactly been running up the limits of it often.
#7 Posted by BasketSnake (1094 posts) -
Shit, forgot about encumbrance. Looks like I'll be mixing it up then. Funny story on the side....yesterday I entered Whiterun for the first time. I looked around and got my quests and stole stuff and talked to the jarl and did what I had to do. When I exited the main gate the message popped up with the drumroll sound - "Whiterun discovered". I had jumped over the fence when entering.
#8 Posted by sarahsdad (1030 posts) -
Haven't played yet, so this may be a really obvious thing, but do different races/creatures have resistances and weaknesses vs. different magic attacks?
#9 Posted by flamex111 (13 posts) -
dont just play with one type of magic as theres meant to be many types of using fire on fire dragon wont work nor using frost on frost dragon...
use more types of spells..
#10 Posted by project343 (2804 posts) -
I'm going 'Battlemage.' Which translates to: Heavy Armor, One-Handed, Destruction, Restoration, Conjuration. Always have a sword and a spell in my hands. So yes, I'm certainly upgrading stamina. But for a mage? I wouldn't waste your precious level-ups on it.
#11 Posted by mosdl (3215 posts) -
Right now I have a staff and fire, since the staff drains the stamina meter even though it does sparks damage. So magicka/stamina is important as I can't defend myself, so need to be swift.
#12 Posted by BasketSnake (1094 posts) -
I'm all for using all types of magic but I'm not sure I'm willing to spend all my perk points into all three of the destruction trees. I'd rather max out one (I chose fire) and spend points in other trees.
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GNU's Bulletin, vol. 1 no. 6, January, 1989
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GNU's Who
Randy Smith has joined us as a full-time programmer. He is currently maintaining and extending GDB. Our summer people, Pete TerMaat, Phil Nelson, and Mike Haertel, have returned to school--to study or to teach. Pete worked on GDB, Phil on the GNU versions of `cpio' and `dbm', and Mike, who continues to work for us part time, on `diff', `egrep' and `sort'.
Joe Arceneaux spent a couple of weeks with us this fall making Emacs version 19 work with X windows version 11.
Nobuyuki and Mieko Hikichi continue with us on loan from Software Research Associates in Tokyo. At FSF, Nobu is extending GDB with a C interpreter that he is writing. Mieko is helping user-test GNU documentation and is translating some of it into Japanese. Diane Barlow Close, our first full-time technical writer, is writing the documentation for all of the small Unix utilities that have been completed for us, while living in San Diego, CA.
Meanwhile, Brian Fox is still working for us at UC Santa Barbara. He recently completed GNU's version of `sh', the `Bourne Again Shell', that incorporates features found in the Korn and C shells. Jay Fenlason is writing a spreadsheet program for the project and maintaining the GNU assembler, `tar', and `sed'.
Opus Goldstein is our jack-of-all-trades office staff. If you call our office, she is the one who answers. She fills the orders, and handles the day-to-day operations of the Foundation. Robert Chassell is our Treasurer. Besides dealing with corporate issues not related to programming, he is working on an elementary introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp.
Richard Stallman continues to do countless tasks, including refining the C compiler, GNU Emacs, etc. and their documentation. Paul Rubin is writing a graphic editing extension for GNU Emacs. Finally, Len Tower continues as our electronic JOAT (jack-of-all-trades), handling mailing lists, information requests, system mothering et al.
GNU's Bulletin
Copyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by: Randy Smith, Paul Rubin, Robert Chassell,
Leonard H. Tower Jr., Richard Stallman and Opus Goldstein
Illustrations: Etienne Suvasa
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What Is the Free Software Foundation?
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The word "free" in our name refers to two specific freedoms: first, the freedom to copy a program and give it away to your friends and co-workers; second, the freedom to change a program as you wish, by having full access to source code. Furthermore, you can study the source and learn how such programs are written. You may then be able to port it, improve it, and share your changes with others.
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The simplest way to make a program free is to put it in the public domain. Then people who get it from sharers can share it with others. But bad citizens can also do what they like to do: sell binary-only versions under typical don't-share-with-your-neighbor licenses. They would thus enjoy the benefits of the freeness of the original program while withholding these benefits from the users. It could easily come about that most users get the program this way, and our goal of making the program free for all users would have been undermined.
To prevent this from happening, we don't normally place GNU programs in the public domain. Instead, we protect them by what we call copylefts. A copyleft is a legal instrument that makes everybody free to copy a program as long as the person getting the copy gets with it the freedom to distribute further copies, and the freedom to modify their copy (which means that they must get access to the source code). Typical software companies use copyrights to take away these freedoms; now we software sharers use copylefts to preserve these freedoms.
The copyleft used by the GNU project is made from a combination of a copyright notice and the GNU General Public License. The copyright notice is the usual kind. The General Public License is a copying license which basically says that you have the freedoms we want you to have and that you can't take these freedoms away from anyone else. (The actual document consists of several pages of rather complicated legalbol that our lawyer said we needed.) A copy of the complete license is included in all GNU source code distributions and many manuals, and we will send you a printed copy on request.
GNU in Japan
by Mieko Hikichi
The GNU Project was described in a seminar at the Unix Fair in Tokyo last December This seminar was the first official introduction of GNU in Japan.
I had translated the GNU's Bulletin into Japanese and 500 copies were distributed. Mr. Yoshitaka Tokugawa talked about what is GNU, how to get GNU software and about the GNU license. This was followed by a talk about the Japanese version of GNU Emacs by Mr. Handa Ken'ichi.
The General Public License as a Subroutine
We are about to make a sweeping, revolutionary change in the General Public License. The terms for copying will be essentially unchanged, but the architecture of the legalbol framework used to embody them will make a quantum leap.
In the past, each copylefted program had to have its own copy of the General Public License contained in it. Often it was necessary to modify the license to mention the name of the program it applied to. Other people who wanted to copyleft programs had to modify the text even more, to replace our name with theirs.
To make it easier to copyleft programs, we have been improving on the legalbol architecture of the General Public License to produce a new version that serves as a general-purpose subroutine: it can apply to any program without modification, no matter who is publishing it. All that's needed is a brief notice in the program itself, to say that the General Public License applies. Directions on doing this accompany the General Public License, so you can easily copyleft your programs.
We've also taken the opportunity to make it explicit that any subsequent changes in future versions the General Public License cannot take away the rights you were previously given, if you have a program that you received under an earlier version.
The new version will appear soon; new GNU programs and new versions of existing GNU software will refer to it to specify their copying conditions.
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by Doug Lea
[This article is reproduced from a posting to the info-g++ and info-gcc mailing lists and does not necessarily represent the opinions of the Free Software Foundation.--- Editor]
I have not participated publicly in the recent discussions about the legal ramifications of the GNU License Agreement until now because (1) I am not a lawyer and (2) I find myself in agreement with Stallman's decision to proceed very carefully in deciding whether and how to modify the Agreement to accommodate people who would like to sell works that may or may not be considered as `derived' from GNU software, depending on what `derived' is defined to mean.
However, the recent proposal by Gilmore and others appears to demand a personal response from me (not RMS or FSF) as the author of most of GNU `libg++'. I would like to briefly outline why I support FSF goals, and specifically, the Agreement, in a way that bears only indirectly on legal principles.
I am, primarily, a teacher in a liberal arts college. As such, I stand for the `free' dissemination of ideas. Historically, (please forgive any botching of historical facts to suit my needs, but that's what history is for!) the main tool by which intellectual property has been allowed to be widely disseminated (read `taught') while at the same time both crediting originators, and protecting the works from corruption, mis--attribution, and so on, has been the notion of Copyright. For these reasons, the introduction of copyright laws is widely considered to have been an important step in accelerating intellectual and scientific progress.
Sadly, in the science of computing, this solution has not stood up well. While, in many disciplines, the price of a copyrighted work to be used for study is well within the reach of those who could best benefit from it (e.g., a copy of "War and Peace" might be $5, or even $50, but not $50,000), the economics of computing have, for the most part, priced copyrighted software out of the reach of students (and most others). Most readers would agree that the study of high-quality existing programs is among the better methods for learning about the art of programming. These days, one cannot legally show, discuss, and teach from, say, Unix or Lotus source code.
I believe that Stallman's notion that the economics of copyright can be separated from its role in the protection and propagation of intellectual property is as good a solution to this dilemma as we are likely to get. There are many of us, especially those of us in academe, who are actually very pleased to devote some time and effort to writing software without any direct monetyary compensation. For all sorts of reasons. (For example, in my case, with `libg++', as a means to further investigate the pragmatics of object-oriented programming and so on. Or maybe it's just incorrigible hacking. Whatever. )
Now I, and many others, I suspect, are not terribly worried about maintaining proper authorship credit, etc., of such work. The reason that the GNU License Agreement is attractive is mainly that it keeps accessible the work that I intended to be accessible, but also generally offers all other benefits that Copyright engenders, but that the mere act of placing work in the `public domain' would not.
It is an unfortunate fact that the GNU Agreement currently stands in the way of such work being used in honest ways by honest programmers who do have to worry about the economic ramifications. I personally hope that exactly the right accommodations are made to allow fair and sensible use while maintaining the ideals that make the GNU solution work. There are many sticky legalistic points involved in doing so. I do hope that Stallman is able to find such a solution soon enough to make alternative approaches less attractive, but not so hastily as to compromise the goals of FSF (which I am sure he will not do).
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Publication numberUS1547194 A
Publication typeGrant
Publication dateJul 28, 1925
Filing dateJan 2, 1923
Priority dateJan 2, 1923
Publication numberUS 1547194 A, US 1547194A, US-A-1547194, US1547194 A, US1547194A
InventorsPaul Arbon
Original AssigneePaul Arbon
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System for elevating oil
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July 28, 1925.
l P. ARBoN SYSTEM FOR ELEVATING OIL 3 shutssheet 1 Filed Jan. 2. 1923 July 2s, 1925.
Y P. ARBON SYSTEM FOR ELEVATING OIL attozum# 3 Sheets-Shebt 2 FiledJan. 2. 1923 July 2s, 1925, 1 A1,547,194
P. ARBON v SYSTEM FQR ELEVATING OIL v Fina Jan. 2. 192s afsnetsfseet a @ZM/KMFDM Patented July 28, 1925.
PAUL Aa'BoN, or TnLsaoxLanoxA.
Application Ied January 2, 1923. Serial No. 610,265.
To all 'whom it may concern:
. Be it known that I, PAUL ARnoN, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Tulsa, in the county of Tulsa and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Systems for Elevating Oil, of which the following is a specification.
The paramount object of this invention is to provide means for elevating oil from wells when possible without the use of pumps and necessary accessories whlch are not only expensive and subject to constant repair and attention, but do not remove a proper percentage of oil a well may be capable of producing under normal circumstances. In addition to pumping mechanism being unsatisfactory in normal wells, is well known in the art that where a large amount of water is present and where the gas pressure in a Well is abnormal difficulty is experienced. In the instance where water is found in considerable quantities an unusual loss is experienced through emulsilication, i. e., the mixing of the oil andthe water, the treatment of such emulsion being troublesome and expensive and having a great tendency to reduce productive value. In wells where the natural gas supply is abnormal the fluid, is naturally forced back causing general disorder in both operation and production.
It has been found in the production of oil and is a recognized fact in the art, that wells in which the oil is forced out or elevated by natural gas produce not only for a longer period but also have a relatively larger production. Instances where oil is produced by this'means are not common, there usually being either too little gas pressure or too great a gas pressure, and in either condition the oil is forced through the eduction tube in heads due to the necessary accumulation of gas. Where the gas pressure is low the time between the hea-ds of oil is delayed to permit the accumulation of such gas as may be necessary to provide the pressure suiiicient to elevate the oil and under this condition and also where the gas pressure is excessive the natural power supplied by such gas pressure is wasted by its escape with and subsequent to the discharge of the heads o-f oil.
The present invention not only contemplates the elimination of expensive and troublesome machinery but provides for the conservation and use of natural gas pressure to an extent heretofore impossible and in a manner which avoids the present disadvantages experienced where natural gas or artificial pressure is utilized to elevate oil. In other words by the present system the natural gas pressure is conserved and regulated and the oil is brought to the surface by means of this regulated pressure in a manner to obtain the very best production from a Well.
Nor does the present invention conclude with the elevation of the oil and the conservation of the natural gas pressure, as the resent method contemplates the use of artificial pressure where the natural gas pressure is insufficient. It is also intended and suitable and has proven of great valve in connection with wells in which pumps have been installed and in which the gas pressure is such as to force the oil above the working barrel as will more clearly hereinafter appear.
It is also Within the scope of the present invention to provide means for the separation of casing head gas as it is obvious that where natural gas is used in the elevation of oil that a certain percentage of the lighter gases will saturate the natural gas. In fact in many instances the natural gas will be of value in this connection before its additional saturation through the elevation of the oil. The intention i's, therefore, to provide when advisable a casing head outfit, so that the natural gas after its separation from the oil can be properly treated with heat under pressure in the presence of a suitable menstruum.
Should a Well be making too much water means are provided whereby it will be possible to remove both the oil and the water, but separately, thereby preventing emulsilication and saving the time and labor involved in separation to produce a commercial product. Where the natural gas pressure is in excess of that required in the proper production of oil under the present system, such excess will be permitted to escape to the upper pa-r't of the casing for the operation of the upper jets, as will more clearly appear. In the lirst case Where there is an excess of water the gas pressure is' caused to elevate both the Water and the oil in independent eduction tubes.
More specicially the present invention relates to the utilization of natural gas pressure. through novel forms of jets, the first step in the system being the packing of the wel between the casing and the eduction tube to 'permit the accumulation of the proper gas supply and consequent pressure. Another important step consists in the arrangement of jets, one jet, either of the single or double type as will more cle-arly apear, being located below the packer for the lnitial movement of the oil, and other jets, according to the nature of the well and condition of the earth strata, being arranged above the packer. The third feature, and perhaps the most important is the regulation ofthe valves controlling the jets, the
regulation of such valves being dependent upon the pressure, depth of well and volume of o1l.
Reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specilication and wherein like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 showsl a. side elevation of a well the casing being in section.
Figures -2 and 3 are similar views showing modied forms of the present invention.
Figure 4 shows a vertical sectional view of a jet. v v
Figure 5 is a vertical sectional view of a multiple jet arrangement the connections with the packer and eduction tubes lbeing shown.
Figure 6 is a similar view as Figures 1, 2 and 3 showing the invention utilized inconnection with a pump, and
Figure 7 is a fragmentary section of Figure 6.
With reference now to Figure 1, a well is shown in condition for operation in the production of oil, and includes the conventional casing 1 formed in sections properly connected. The casing extends from the header 2, which closes the top of the well, to the approximate bottom of the well in the majority of instances, or as may be necessary due to the condition of the earth strata. Within the casing 1 the tubing 3 is arranged and through this tubing the oil is elevated. The tubing 3 includes the strainer 4 of conventional design, the packer 5 and the jets or ejectors 6.
The successful operation of this invention residing in the .conservation and utilization of natural gas pressure particular attention is directed to the packer 5. This packer 5 is arranged near the lower joint of the casing or' at such point along the casing as may be desired and as circumstances may' demand and closes the passage between the casing and the educt-ion tube and retains the natural gas below and with the casing. The
44function of this packer will make it obvious to one skilled in the art, that the exact location of same will depend upon the nature of the well being equipped.
Below the packer and above the level of oil in the well the lower jet or ejector is arranged and above the packer are arranged a series of such ejectors or jets as may be necessary and proper for the elevation of the oil, vthe number of jets depending upon the depth ofthe well, the volume of oil andthe gas pressure.
The construction of the ejector is clearly shown in Figure 4 and is described and claimed in detail in a co-pending application, Serial No. 610,264, tiled Jan.,2, 1923. For the purpose of enabling a clear understanding ot the function of the jet or ejector in this system attention is directed to the following description. The jet includes the -body or casing 7 through which extends-a longitudinal passage. ,The wall of the longitudinal passage is internally threaded as at 9 and 1() for the connection with adjacent tubing sections. The central portion 11 of the passage is restricted and is so formed by the walls converging inwardly gradually at 12 and 14. The lower portion of the casing is reduced and forms the inclinedv annular shoulder 15 shown more clearly in Figure l and through this shoulder there extends a plurality of converging passages which are substantially parallel to the lower converging wall 12. -These passages each include the enlarged chamber 16 and the smaller jet passage 17 which connect the chamber with the interior ot the casing.. Within the enlarged portionof each of the passages is arranged a spring 18, one end of which'seats the ball valve 19 against the adjustable seat 2O and the other end abuts against the washer plate 21. It will be obvious by reference to this construction that by turning the adjustable valve seats 2O which are threaded within the outer ends of the enlarged chambers that the tension of the springs may be readily regulated. The regulation of these springs, as previously stated, forms an important step in the successful application of this system in many instances. The washer plate by the removal ofthe valve seat and spring may be changed, and in this connection it will be seen that should it be desired to regulate the size of the passage and consequent volume of flow through the jets, a washer plate with a dilferent size opening could be substituted.
lLittle need be said in connection with the operation of this single jet system in view o the foregoing, it being obvious that natural gas will accumulate below the packer and at a predetermined pressure, this having been accomplished through the adjustment of the spring tension, will force the valves from their seat in the jet casing and cause the elevation of oil in the tube. The jets arranged above the packer may be operated either from a natural accumulation ofgas or by means of artificial pressure introduced through the head. These jets are in number governed by the de th and nature of a well. The upper jet pre erably is provided with smaller passages and the valves controlling the passages are under less spring pressure than those in the adjacent jet. This condition is true with each jet counting from the top as it will be obvious that the-column of oil in the tube is reduced in height and volume above each jet and accordingly the amount of pressure necessary for elevation is in roportion.
Re erring now to Figure 2 my invention is shown applied to a well where there is an excess of water and Where it is desired and necessary to elevate both the oil and the water. As previously stated in this case the oil and water are both elevated separately and emulsification thus avoided. In wells of this character I have devised and utilized what I term a double jet and this apparatus consists of double piping and jet mechanism whereby the natural gas pressure utilized in the elev-ation also vseparates the oil and water. Before proceeding further with the operation of this feat-ure of the present system attention is directed to the construction and arrangement of parts comprising my double jet, shown fully in Figure-5. In this figure the conventional packer is referred to by reference character 21 and the double jet by reference 22. The connection between the packer and the do-uble jet includes the double passage casting 3, the intervening nipples 23 and 24 and the pipe sections 25 and 26. The object of this construction is to direct both the oil and the water through concentric pipes which extend thro-ugh the packer from the parallel conduits or passages in the double jet, it being essential that the passages through the packer be arranged in concentric relation and the passages in the double jet be in parallel relation to permit the proper functioning of these elements. For connection the upper end of the acker with the duplicate tubing the multip e passage casting 27 is provided.
The double jet includes the casing 28 through which there extend the two passages 29 and 30, these passages being similar in construction as the passage in the single jet heretofore mentioned.
Referring again to Figure 2 it willbe seen that by the use of the double jet and by connecting one of the passages in the double jet with suitablepiping 31 and extending the latter into the oil-and similarly connecting the other jet passage and extending this connection into the water (reference numeral 32), both the oil and water will be elevated independent of each other-and by means of the accumulated gas pressure below the packer. In Figure 3 a similar arrangement is present in so far as the double 'et and packer connections are concerned. ln this arrangement, however, one of the pipes 33 extending below the jet is shortened and stops above the oil level 34 and the other jet connection 35 extends into the oil.
Attention is directed to the fact that in each arrangement illustrated a jet, either single or double` is located between the packer and the oil level.
With reference again to Figure 3, in which form the function is to provide for excess gas pressure it is necessary to arrange a safety valve on the casing cap to permit the escape of the excessive gas and the proper control of the gas within the casin Heretofore I mentioned the application o my idea to wells for use in conjunction with a pump. Necessarly, as pointed out, it is desirable to eliminate the pump and pumping mechanism where possible, however, instances exist where a pumping apparatus is installed and due to the condition of the gas pressure the oil is elevated between the casing and tubing above the pump inlet so that the action of the pump is without result. To provide for such a condition I have illustrated in Figures 6 and' 7 an arrangement wherein an ejector 6 is located between the pump barrel 36 to which is connected the polished rod 38 and the upperv adjacent sec.- tion of tubing 37. The packer 5 is illustrated in full lines and its location is optional andgoverned by the well condition. With this arrangement the accumulated gas pressure will cause the oil to pass through the lower ejector and will result in a priming of the pump.
To a person skilled in the art itwill be readily conceived how the various conditions which may and do exist in oil wells can be met by the proper application of the present invention and this specification and attached drawings illustrate the principle involved.
It will also be noticeable that in every instance the application to a well of this invention increases production and profit from every standpoint. This is particularly noticeable in instances where natural gas from an adjacent well is utilized to produce the required pressure in a well utilizing the present svstem, as such natural gas will accumulate the ele-ments of casing head gas in large quantities by its association with the flowing oil and thus become a commercial product.
What I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is
1. A system for elevating oil consisting in packing a well between the eduction tube and casing to cause the accumulation of the ga-s, arranging valved ejectors in said tube above and below the packing, and regulating the valves to cause successive elevation of fluid in the tube.
2. A system for velevating' oil from wells consisting in packing the well between the eduction tube and casing to cause the accumulation of the gas, arranging valved Iejectors in said tube above and below the packing, permitting natural gas to act on an ejector below the packer for elevating the oil in the tube, also permitting gas to act upon the ejectors above the packing for raising oil in the tube, and regulating the valves in the ejectors to cause successive elevation of fluid in the tube.
3. A system for elevating oil consisting in packing a well between the casing'and tubing to permit the accumulation of gas, providing a multiple conduit jet below the packer and jets above the packer, arranging separate pipe connection for the conduits of the multiple jet, and plermitting the accumulated gas to escape rough the jets to cause the separate elevation of two uids.
4. A system for elevatin from a well without emulslication consisting in packing said well between the casing and tubin providing multiple conduit jets in said tu ing and connecting the separate -conduits with the oil and water, permitting the accumulation of natural gas b elow the packer, and permitting the escape of the natural gas through the jets into the oil and water in graduated quantities.
In testimony whereof I affix my signature.
oil and water.
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U.S. Classification166/106, 166/151, 166/372, 417/172, 166/265, 417/163
International ClassificationE21B43/12
Cooperative ClassificationE21B43/122
European ClassificationE21B43/12B2 |
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Let me preface this with the following statement: All of this is personal opinion (like anything to do with headsets) and I care far more about music quality than movies or games. As far as I can tell, headsets that are "optimized for gaming" are just usually sub-par headphones with a cheap mic bolted on... You can always just play around with sliders in your audio control panel if you want to hear too much treble...
My stable:
PC350 (broke a leg... Had to be shot... Enough experience with it though)
5H V2
Siberia V2
Zowie Hammer
Maybe a couple others I'm forgetting, but these are the relevant ones.
My personal favourite at this time is the Steelseries 7H. It's not quite as good as my HD 555 in terms of sound quality or comfort, but it's bloody close and comes with a retractable mic. Also doesn't bother other people in the room if I'm listening to music or gaming loud.
Carcharias - So comfy. I use these at work. IMO unsuitable for music at that price point, but so comfy. Did I mention comfy?
HS1 - USB? I gave the same feedback to Corsair. While the USB powered amp and chipset are probably better than onboard, they sure as HELL aren't better than any dedicated sound card... Poor HS1 has broken ankles before the race even starts...
HD555 - Still my fav for listening to music, but open is a bit of a disadvantage for reasons listed with the 7H
PC350 - Ew. I hated these. My fiance loved them (cat destroyed them) because she could wear them comfortably with her glasses and weird shaped ears (sorry hun if you're reading this). They were comfy enough, but the boom mic is basically like having a carpentry pencil strapped to your head, and they sound just TERRIBLE for anything imo.
Siberia V2 - Similar to Carcharias. Still lying around, but not in use for the moment...
Another thing to bear in mind is that I test all headsets/headphones plugged into my Onkyo TX-SR605, so I have no idea what some of them sound like on onboard or non-amplified sound cards. Some have been used with random onboard or an Auzentech X-Mystique, but not all.
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Chapter 7 : A Helping Hand
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A hand, pale and cold lay still beneath the rack used for cooling baked goods, its reflection gruesomely reflected back upon itself in the glossy metal. The lines on the weathered hand seemed to have been carved from marble by a particularly talented artist. That was not true, of course, though the gray coloring and bluish lines would suggest otherwise.
A rat scurried forward to investigate, sniffing and nibbling some on the flesh. The hand made no reaction to this. The small scavenger stepped back to wait to see if this meal, seemingly laid out on a silver platter, was good or not.
Whistling filled the space beneath the rack. The sound of approaching footsteps scared the rat away from its potential meal, though the four-legged friend of the hand may have nibbled a bit too much for its benefit. It did not run far.
"Mary!" Someone called as they enter the kitchen. "Mary, we're having a bit of a problem."
There was no response.
"Mary?" The voice asked. A pair of feet, wrapped in trainers, walked past the metal rack, casting a shadow over the hand. For one grotesque moment, it seemed as though the hand was reaching for the ankles of whoever had invaded its space. "Find me! Look at me!" It pleaded. Feet, of course, have no ears, and hands cannot talk. Especially, dead ones.
The hand remained still, and the feet moved away in the direction of the dining hall where their owners found a meal, prepared not long ago by the hand they did not see.
Victoire stared intently at the seating chart she was designing. A quill was pressed between her delicate lips as she paced the ballroom, calculating how many tables she would need. Rose watched her curiously, laughing to herself about the intricacies of weddings.
"Dammit," she swore, when her distraction caused her to smudge the name she was writing on one of the ivory colored nameplates.
Victoire looked up, alarmed.
"No, don't worry!" Rose assured her,” it’s nothing I can't fix.” She replicated another seating card with her wand and beginning again.
Victoire nodded and went back to her seating chart, crossing out words and filling in others. Sighing audibly, Victoire seemingly gave up the process and plopped down into a chair next to Rose.
"No luck?" Rose asked.
Victoire shook her head. "I'm already tired of it; I just can't wait until its over and I'm Mrs. Lupin and back to my normal life."
Rose laughed.
Victoire smiled. "Which makes me wonder how things are between you and Scorpius?" She inquired slyly.
Rose looked at her cousin incredulously. "Oh, were too young for that."
"Too young for what exactly?" Victoire said playfully, enjoying spinning her cousin into her web.
"Marriage," Rose replied, knowing that she'd been caught.
"What? It's true. I mean, look at you and Teddy...you guys waited, and it seems to be working out..." Rose trailed off, quite aware that she was blabbering.
"Yeah," Victoire sighed.
"Well that doesn't sound encouraging."
"No, no," Victoire interjected, "there is nothing I want to do more than marry Teddy. I was just thinking that one of the main reasons we waited so long was so that we could afford this." She raised her arms up to indicate the room they were sitting in. Boxes of ivory and periwinkle table linens were stacked everywhere, and Victoire had shown Rose the sketches of how she wanted the room charmed earlier. It was elaborate and expensive, considering how many people were going to come. "And now," she added dejectedly, "If people don't start getting along, this will end in disaster."
"I'm sure it will be beautiful," Rose countered, trying to cheer the bride up.
"I hope so," Victoire smiled radiantly. "Were all supposed to be family after all."
Just then, there was the sound of a door being thrown open. Victoire and Rose looked towards it to see Dominique streaming across the room, her hair damp, and an anxious look on her face.
"Sorry, I'm late," she called. "I, er, overslept."
"That's not surprising," Victoire replied, "considering how much of that firewhiskey you drank by yourself...or almost by yourself." She shot her sister a significant look.
"I know," Dominique replied, speaking in French so that Rose wouldn't understand, "Je sais. You don't have to look at me like that."
"Look at you like what?"
Rose grinned, wondering if Dominique would end up spun in her sister's web like she had minutes before.
Dominique just looked at her older sister as if to say, "really?"
"Anyway," she said aloud, "What are we doing?"
"Well, you," Victoire directed, "are going to finish putting together the favors." She picked several large bags up off the floor and handed them to Dominique.
"There's more!" She exclaimed, looking at the bags as though they had personally offended her.
"Putain." Victoire quipped back, gathering her seating chart once again.
"Je t'aime, ma soeur."
"t'aimer," Victoire laughed, tugging on her sister’s wet hair as she walked away in a manner that made Rose wish that she had a sister.
The three women worked in silence for a few moments before the door was opened again. The noise called all of their attention over to who had entered their workspace. Dominique scowled.
"Dom," Lysander whispered urgently as he approached her," can I speak with you."
"There is nothing to talk about," she sniffed. She cut one of the ribbons she was using to tie up a favor with an excessive amount of violence.
Rose tried her best to ignore their interaction, and bent closely over the name cards she was filling out. Victoire, however, was not nearly as discreet and watched her sister and Lysander with squinted eyes.
"Please," Lysander pleaded, turning his body so that he effectively blocked Dominique from both Rose's and Victoire's view. "I wouldn't ask if it wasn't important."
Something about his stress of the last word and his hidden facial expression sparked a reaction in Dominique as she stared up at him. A mix of emotions crossed her face, and Dominique was glad that only Lysander could see them.
"Fine," she conceded, "but only for a minute." She stood and stalked imperiously from the room, Lysander trailing behind her.
"What is it?" She spat as soon as they were alone in the parlor. The sun shining through the crystal chandelier cast odd rainbows around the room.
"I think there is something going on."
"Not between you and me, there isn't."
"Dom, don't be that way. It's not what I meant anyway."
"What did you mean?"
"I think that something bad or strange is happening."
Dominique raised an eyebrow in surprise.
"I can't find Lorcan," he elaborated.
"So...he probably went hiking. He's probably pissed at you and wanted to be on his own for a while. Why is this a big deal?" Dominique rationalized quickly.
"Don't you think...?"
"Think what?" Dominique's voice was laced with coldness.
"Well, haven't you noticed that people have been...not showing up to things lately?"
It was obvious to Lysander that Dominique was confused, so he pressed on. "Like Lucy or your brother. How come he never came last night?"
"I got an Owl from Louis saying he'd gotten tied up at work and had to postpone coming out. And Lucy is gets reclusive around the family these days. She has been ever since--since..."
"Since what, Dominique?" It was Lysander's turn to sound cold.
"Never mind. You're paranoid, and I'm busy. Just leave me alone." Dominique turned on her heel and started to walk away when Lysander grabbed her arm.
"Dom, don't. I need your help."
"Let go of my arm," she seethed, jerking away from his grasp. She shook her head angrily, and walked out of the room.
Lysander stared dejectedly at the floor.
The sound of hurried footsteps on the stairs startled Dexter. Quickly replacing the contents of the drawers that he was rifling through, he flipped his notebook closed, stuck it and his quill into the back pocket of his trousers. If anyone noticed, they wouldn’t think anything suspicious; he was, after all, The Daily Prophet’s rising star, and journalists were always taking notes. Ted wouldn’t be too happy with him, though, but he was thankfully too busy with wedding preparations to notice Dex behaving anymore suspiciously than he normally did. All evidence of his uninvited entry into the darkened hotel room removed, Dex quietly opened and slipped out of the door. He heard the lock click in place just as Dominique came into view.
“Hey,” she greeted, sounding almost surprised as he was made nervous by her presence. “What are you doing here?”
Dex called up his usual cunning and charm before replying, “I’m a groomsman, remember? And its customary for groomsman to attend the wedding to which they are a part of.”
Dominique narrowed her eyes. “I don’t have time for this bullshit.”
Dexter raised an eyebrow. “Well, I guess I’ll just be getting out of your way, Princess,” he quipped haughtily.
“As much joy as that would bring me, you still haven’t answered my question.”
“Wow…Dom…how much firewhiskey did you drink that last night? I don’t remember you being this dim before—“
“I meant,” she interrupted, stressing her words to be heard over his arrogance, “what are you doing by Lily’s hotel room?”
“Oh,” he said, hardly sparing a glance for the room he had just invaded, “the door was ajar, and I came over and closed it.”
For a moment, Dexter panicked because it didn’t look as though Dominique would believe him. Then her eyes and posture relaxed, and he knew he was off the hook, though Dominique continued to look weighed down by some other thoughts.
The two of them stood there awkwardly for a moment while Dominique was preoccupied and Dexter reformulated his tactics for luring her into bed with him. Dominique Weasley was a real challenge to him, beautiful, temperamental, and quick witted, getting her would be the ultimate victory. It was difficult, but he figured a week on an island together could change her mind. He just didn’t count on Dominique to have some kind of long history with that Lysander character.
“May I ask what you’re doing up here when you’re supposed to be helping the other princess with her wedding?”
Dominique jumped she was so startled by his voice. Something really was on her mind. “I was going to check on my cousin, Lucy; she can be a bit reclusive around the family, and I just wanted to see if she needs anything.”
“I’m sure she is fine,” he offered. Worrying about cousins was not a stop on the road to seducing Dominique.
“Yeah,” she responded moving past him to the door adjacent Lily’s, jokingly adding, “But just in case she’s dead or something.” Dominique knocked.
Before there was a response, however, another set of footsteps called her and Dex’s attention to the other end of the hall. Lysander appeared at the end of the corridor; Dom squinted angrily. Dex felt heartened at the exchange.
Lysander, looking defeated and agitated at once, headed off in another direction.
Dominique remained tense.
“So…what was that about?” Dex inquired.
Dominique sighed and looked as though she was debating telling him something. Then, just when he’d given up hope that she would ever speak seriously with him, she opened her mouth and said, “I can’t believe I’m going to tell you this.”
A/N: Hope you enjoyed it! I apologize for the bad French swearing, and my massacre of the word sister. I couldn't figure out how to make the oe one letter. Anyway, thanks for reading; I hope you enjoyed it.
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Draco was amused by the reactions he caused as he moved through the Ministry hallways leading to Harry’s office. The witches and wizards he came across all paused at the sight of him, shocked, not by his scars—the head wound having healed to a jagged scar across his eyebrow—but by his very presence. It wasn’t even an assumption that was off base or conceited.
It had been years since he had had to come to the Ministry and the last time he had been here, he had been on trial for his crimes in aiding and abetting the Dark Lord. He had been young, just of age, and completely shaken of his principles. Here he truly learned that life was just a matter of looking out for his own interests, and that anything else hindered his survival. He hated that he felt apprehensive and uncomfortable being here, as if he, whose bloodlines dated back to the most ancient of wizards, did not belong here.
Turning the corner, he came to the waiting area for the Head Auror. Solid black oak doors faced him, Harry’s name and title clearly seen on the gold plate affixed to them. There were two black waiting chairs and a coffee table, again in black oak, to his left and to his right, just to the side of the doors was Harry’s secretary. Draco’s eyebrows rose a little as he took in the sweet profile of the blonde as she reached into her desk for something. Well, at least he had something, or actually, someone to divert his attention.
“Hello,” he greeted her as he moved up to and around her desk, laying a hand just next to hers which was placed on the desktop. She had straightened as he’d come near and was now looking up at him with wide blue eyes, her pretty mouth forming a small “o” of surprise. A corner of his mouth lifted up into, what he knew to be, a seductive smile.
Her voice was soft, “Oh! You’re—“
“Draco Malfoy,” he finished for her, watching as her eyes looked at him with interest. He lifted his hand to take hers from the table when the cool voice of Harry broke in.
“Not now, Malfoy.” Draco turned to find Harry standing in his open doorway, looking not at all amused by the scene before him. Harry caught Draco’s gaze and wordlessly took a step back into his office, indicating for him to come in.
Draco looked back at the secretary with a smiling glance and followed the Head Auror through the doorway. “Does your wife know that you’ve got a looker as your secretary?” he asked, mainly to aggravate the man.
“Shut it.”
Draco pretended to misunderstand the retort and made a show of walking back and closing the office door. Harry reined in his annoyance and sat down behind his desk, gesturing for Draco to take a seat in one of the leather armchairs facing him. The office was medium in size, not something one would expect of a prominent official but something one could expect of Harry, well-known for his modesty and refusal to be treated like a celebrity.
Once seated, the leather creaking under him, Draco felt his earlier anxiety come back. Annoyed with himself, he forced his tense muscles to relax. He wasn’t being interrogated by the Wizengamot. Just by his childhood enemy.
Harry pulled a thin manila folder closer to him, opened it up and for the moment the only sound in the room was the rough slide of papers against each other. Draco flinched as he saw photographs of the wreckage paper-clipped to the front cover. Those must’ve been taken only an hour or two after the accident, as it was still dark outside in the picture, with just enough moonlight to see figures moving over the scene. One pair in particular caught his eye; these two worked on pulling a body out of the smoking cars. Draco couldn’t see who it was: Ron or Blaise. Unable to continue looking, his eyes wandered up to the magicked window that took up the wall behind Harry. Gray sunlight filtered in, mirroring the skies aboveground.
Harry glanced over the documentation of the accident, not really seeing them as he had been over them many times since he had received the file a few hours ago. He took the time to size up the lean man before him surreptitiously. He now saw what Draco’s irritating actions had meant to hide. He could see that the former Death Eater was not comfortable, here in this place, where the once-proud Malfoy name had been made synonymous with “traitor” and “coward”.
Harry had gone to the Malfoys’ trial, one of the rare times that he had used his own name as an influence because, in the end, the Malfoys had helped defeat Voldemort, even if it had almost been too late. While Harry had been able to provide testimony of their help, he had been unable to prevent the sly jabs and outright jeers that had been thrown at the family during the days of their trial. Harry watched as the Malfoys had pulled in on themselves, closed themselves off as their own people turned on them. It seemed that they, or perhaps just Draco, had overcome wizard society’s opinions to the point where he was generally accepted by them, if only to have someone to gossip about.
Harry closed the file and took his glasses off his nose, setting them aside after giving a brief rub to the bridge of his nose. His green gaze met the cool gray of Draco’s. Draco stayed silent under the more obvious scrutiny, refusing to show any discomfort, not knowing that Harry already knew and didn’t care for the pretense. “Can you tell me the events leading up to the accident?”
An almost imperceptible frown appeared on Draco’s face, Harry thinking the cause of it was the unpleasant task of recounting his friend’s death.
“Blaise and I had been out with some other friends last night. He’d been drinking, although I hadn’t realized how drunk he was until he left the party. I tried to stop him once I realized how drunk he was.” Images of the night before came to him, filling in the spaces he left unsaid.
Blaise’s face was contorted in anger as he turned away from Draco sharply and headed for the front doors. “Blaise!” Draco called out, getting up from where he was sitting, stumbling after the darker man whose footsteps didn’t slow a bit. Draco caught up to him just at the front doors and made a grab for Blaise’s arm, trying to get him to stop so they could talk.
The instant Draco touched him, Blaise shoved him back violently with his other arm, sending Draco to the floor. For a moment, Blaise stood over him, hate coming off of him in palpable waves. He spoke to the fallen man in a low voice, “Get the bloody hell away from me, Malfoy. I’ve been your friend now for what, twenty years, and this is how you fucking treat me? You leave me the fuck alone.” He turned and left Draco on the floor, his head swimming with alcohol, guilt and regret.
“He got in his car and took off. I followed him in mine, and, well, you know the rest. I didn’t even have my bloody wand on me.” Draco swallowed down the grief he felt for his friend as well as the guilt that he felt threatening to overwhelm him. His eyes moved from the window behind Harry, which he had focused on as he recounted the incident, and now met the Head Auror’s assessing gaze.
Harry waited a moment before speaking. “I guess my first question for you would be: Why were you even in cars? Purebloods such as you and Blaise…” he trailed off. The Malfoy family had been the more adamant about not mixing or fraternizing with Muggleborns or Muggles.
A self-deprecating smirk appeared on the blond man’s face. “I developed a bad habit.” Harry nodded in understanding. After the trial, Lucius had spent five years in Azkaban while Draco and his mother had been suspended their wands during that same period. It had been the lightest sentences that the court had been willing to grant the Malfoys.
“What about not carrying your wand? You’ve had the use of it for almost four years now.” Draco could see that Harry had been mulling these questions over in his mind since that case file had hit his desk.
“I just didn’t have it on me.” Harry’s mouth opened, to get a clarification of that answer, a clarification that Draco wasn’t willing to give. “I have my own personal reasons,” Draco’s tone was final.
Harry’s mouth settled into a firm line as he looked at Draco. It was a question that logically he should pursue but his instinct told him that it wasn’t relevant and perhaps more private than Harry wanted to go.
“All right then. Did you and Blaise often drink and drive?”
“No. We’ve only done this once or twice before, years ago.” He tried not to sound defensive. His eyes slid away from Harry’s to look at his hands. It was instinctual for him to fight being in the wrong, fight having to take responsibility for something. And while he wasn’t willing to divulge the reason for Blaise’s upset out of fear, unreasonable or not, he realized that he was going to have to start changing some things in his life, start owning up to his actions. He took a deep breath and continued, “I know it’s against Muggle and wizard law for me to have driven while under the influence, but I didn’t know what else to do when my friend was blazing drunk. And I wasn’t so far off myself.”
Harry was slightly surprised that Draco would admit some responsibility and wrongdoing. Harry had already gotten the hospital reports of alcohol in Draco’s system so already knew that he had violated the laws and had expected Draco to deny it or justify it somehow. He leaned forward in his chair slightly. “Thank you for telling me,” his voice polite. Draco glanced at Harry whose expression was sincere.
“What happens now?” Draco forced himself to stay still though he wanted to move, to get rid of the nervous energy he could feel flowing through him.
Harry wrote something out on a piece of parchment and slid it across the desk to Draco who took it warily. It was a date and time: May 22, 10:30am. “What’s this?”
“Your court date,” Harry answered, matter-of-factly. Draco winced involuntarily and Harry stifled the vindictive pleasure that dark part of him took in the man’s reaction. It had been a long time since they had been pitted against each other, simply because of circumstance. Almost feeling like he had to prove to himself he really wasn’t out to get Draco, he spoke to assure the other man, “It’s not in front of an entire Wizengamot tribunal, Draco. It’ll just be one of the wizard judges.”
Draco gave a slight nod and stood up from the chair. Harry followed suit, walking around his desk to shake Draco’s hand. He looked into Draco’s eyes, wanting him to know that he was genuine in what he was going to say. “I haven’t thanked you yet for saving Hermione and her baby. We haven’t been on the best of terms but I wanted to let you know that if you need help on anything, you can come to me. You kept your head in an extremely dangerous situation and they are alive because of you. Thank you.” Harry’s voice was low and he struggled to hold back his sorrow and instead focus on the fact that he still had Hermione as well as Ron’s son living when he could have had no one.
Draco was stunned. He held Harry’s gaze for another moment before swallowing the sudden lump in his throat. With another nod, he left the office, feeling as if his mind was moving at high speed while being stagnant at the same time. Things were changing for him and he wasn’t sure if it was a good thing or not. Stepping out into the courtyard, he made his way to the Floo stations. There was someone he needed to see: Blaise’s fiancée, Sybil Graham.
Stepping out of the portal at Sybil’s address, he found her crumpled on her couch crying. The curtains were drawn so that the room seemed gloomy, the air felt heavy with—was it grief? Regret? Guilt? He wasn’t sure.
She looked up at his footsteps, her blue eyes glassy before recognition entered. Slowly she stood to face him as he moved to where she was. They looked at each other for a moment and then her arms were around his neck, his own arms going around her automatically. “Oh, Draco,” she breathed and kissed him.
Author's Note: I would really appreciate feedback on this chapter as it's been awhile since I updated the story and I'm not sure if my voice sounds the same. Are Draco and Harry believable? Let me know if there's something off (or if there's something you like, of course).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48307 | Type classes in GADTs
C Rodrigues red5_2 at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 30 01:20:43 EDT 2008
I discovered that closed type classes can be implicitly defined using GADTs. The GADT value itself acts like a class dictionary. However, GHC (6.8.3) doesn't know anything about these type classes, and it won't infer any class memberships. In the example below, an instance of Eq is not recognized.
So is this within the domain of GHC's type inference, not something it shoud infer, or a bug?
{-# OPTIONS_GHC -XTypeFamilies -XGADTs -XEmptyDataDecls #-}
module CaseAnalysisOnGADTs where
-- Commutative and associative operators.
data CAOp a where
Sum :: CAOp Int
Disj :: CAOp Bool
Concat :: CAOp String
{- For any non-bottom value of type 'CAOp a', the value will have type
-- CAOp Int, CAOp Bool, or CAOp String. Int, Bool, and String are all
-- members of Eq. Therefore, if we have a non-bottom value of type
-- 'CAOp a' then 'a' is a member of Eq.
data D a = D !(CAOp a) (a, a)
-- However, GHC won't figure this out.
noEvidenceOfEq :: D a -> Bool
noEvidenceOfEq (D op (e1, e2)) = e1 == e2 -- Error, no instance (Eq a)
-- Unless you force it to do case analysis on constructors.
evidenceOfEq :: CAOp a -> a -> a -> Bool
evidenceOfEq Sum = (==)
evidenceOfEq Disj = (==)
evidenceOfEq Concat = (==)
-- Then you can use the result from that, but GHC still won't
-- recognize it as an Eq instance.
useEvidenceOfEq :: D a -> Bool
useEvidenceOfEq (D op (e1, e2)) = evidenceOfEq op e1 e2
You live life beyond your PC. So now Windows goes beyond your PC.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48308 | [Haskell-cafe] Re: Tutorial uploaded
Peter Simons simons at cryp.to
Tue Dec 20 13:52:31 EST 2005
> == So how do I write "Hello, world"? ==
> Well, the first thing you need to understand that in a
> functional language like Haskell, this is a harder
> question than it seems. Most of the code you will write
> in Haskell is "purely functional", which means that it
> returns the same thing every time it is run, and has no
> side effects. Code with side effects is referred to as
> "imperative", and is carefully isolated from functional
> code in Haskell.
I believe this description is a bit misleading. Code written
in the IO monad is purely functional just the same. Haskell
knows no other code than purely functional one. In my humble
opinion, it's unfortunate that many tutorials and
introductionary texts leave the impression that monadic code
would be something utterly different than "normal" Haskell
code. I feel it intimidates the reader by making a monad
appear like black magic, even though it's little more than
syntactic sugar to describe implicit function arguments.
If we'd have an opaque "World" type instead of the IO monad,
'putStrLn' would be:
putStrLn :: String -> World -> World
How is this function any different from any other function?
So why should
putStrLn :: String -> IO ()
be different from any other function?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48309 | [Haskell-cafe] a general question on Arrows
Steve Lihn stevelihn at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 21:34:53 EST 2008
> > 1. Stream
> This is actually a comonad.
Something more to learn everyday.
> Here's another fun arrow:
> http://luqui.org/blog/archives/2007/09/06/quantum-entanglement-in-haskell/
> Luke
I managed to get your quantum entanglement examples working. But
honestly, I can't quite figure out your Quantum module yet. My head is
exploding after reading the code :-) It is amazing to know it takes
several layers of arrows to simulate the quantum mechanics.
I have a small question on the simulation technique. In both John
Hughes and your code, you wrap the "print" inside the runXYZ (...) to
print out the state of simulation. It is like:
runArrow ( ... simulation ...then print ...) -< input
Why don't you structure it like
y <- runArrow ( ... simulation ... then return observation ... ) -< input
reuse y or print y
In the former, the result is printed on the screen. I can not collect
the result and do more analysis. For example, for a quantum state |0>
+ i |1>, the probability is half half. If I can repeat the simulation
10000 times and collect the "observations" (y) , then I can "prove"
the correctness of experiment by observing ~5000 of |0> and ~5000 of
|1>. Or even plot the probability distribution of the experiment.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48310 | [Haskell-cafe] FGL problem: cannot acces data constructor NodeMap
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Sat Jul 24 08:28:45 EDT 2010
Immanuel Normann <immanuel.normann at googlemail.com> writes:
> Hi,
> I have a problem with the data constructor NodeMap
> Data.Graph.Inductive.NodeMap
> of the graph library fgl- (also fgl-
> I cannot access the data constructor NodeMap, as the ghci session shows:
> Prelude> :m Data.Graph.Inductive.NodeMap
> Prelude Data.Graph.Inductive.NodeMap> :t NodeMap
> <interactive>:1:0: Not in scope: data constructor `NodeMap'
Well, yes, because you're not meant to.
> However, when I load the source directly it works:
> Prelude> :l Data/Graph/Inductive/NodeMap.hs
> [1 of 3] Compiling Data.Graph.Inductive.Graph (
> Data/Graph/Inductive/Graph.hs, interpreted )
> [2 of 3] Compiling Data.Graph.Inductive.Internal.FiniteMap (
> Data/Graph/Inductive/Internal/FiniteMap.hs, interpreted )
> [3 of 3] Compiling Data.Graph.Inductive.NodeMap (
> Data/Graph/Inductive/NodeMap.hs, interpreted )
> Ok, modules loaded: Data.Graph.Inductive.Internal.FiniteMap,
> Data.Graph.Inductive.Graph, Data.Graph.Inductive.NodeMap.
> *Data.Graph.Inductive.NodeMap> :t NodeMap
> NodeMap :: (Ord a) => FiniteMap a Node -> Int -> NodeMap a
> Why is that so?
This works because you're using ghci from within the module, whereas
when you import it you're using only its exposed API.
> Afterall, my purpose is to get access to the map in a NodeMap and finally to
> apply lookup to it. But I don't know how to access the map from a NodeMap
> (the map selector isn't accessible either).
You're not meant to; the point of NodeMap is to serve as a wrapper
around the normal graph types, not for you to use directly (exactly the
same as why the constructor for Map isn't exported).
May I ask, however, why you want to use Data.Graph.Inductive.NodeMap?
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48313 | There are too many error handling conventions used in library code!
ajb at ajb at
Sun Mar 11 08:02:44 EDT 2007
G'day all.
Quoting Donald Bruce Stewart <dons at>:
> This article on the 8 different error handling strategies various common
> Haskell libs use:
> got me thinking:
> we need to standardise/recommend a small set of methods for library
> error handling.
For the record, here are the eight ways:
1. Call error
2. Return Maybe
3. Return Either
4. Return a generic Monad, a.k.a. NotJustMaybe.
5. Use MonadError and a custom error type.
6. throwDyn
7. ioError and catch
8. Monad transformers, implementing some combination of the above.
Note: NotJustMaybe is claimed to be a generalisation of 1-3; in fact
that's not quite true, since using this idiom to call Error does require
a wrapper call. Perhaps this wrapper should be given a shorter and
snappier name than runIdentity?
One other one has been left out, and that's continuation-based error
Some general comments:
1. I've never seen some of these (8 in particular) used in any general-
purpose library.
2. If it doesn't cross an API boundary, it's none of my business what
error handling scheme you use.
3. Prolog, sadly, encourages failure-driven loops. Java, even more sadly,
seems to encourage loops where normal termination is achieved by throwing
an exception. Haskell, by contrast, never encourages a compromise like
4. There are clearly different kinds of error/exception, and we shouldn't
expect one size to fit all.
As some examples:
- Failure to meet a precondition includes division by zero, head of
an empty list, array bounds checking etc. Anything which the
client could trivially ensure but hasn't must be due to a bug in
the client code. Calling "error" is appropriate.
- True absence of a return value, such as looking up a value in a
Data.Map which isn't there, calls for Maybe or generic Monad.
In the absence of a short-and-snappy version of runIdentity,
there is an argument for also providing an "error" version.
We need a good naming convention for this.
- Exceptions are _undesired_ conditions which would otherwise
break the logical flow of control. These come in two varieties:
Some you want the client to intercept and deal with (e.g. Parsec
parse errors) and some you want to leave it up to the client to
decide (e.g. most I/O exceptions).
> * what role does MonadError play here, as a generic error handler?
I think this is a perfect fit for any exception which the client MUST
deal with. It's the Haskell equivalent of Java's checked exceptions,
which are a right royal pain when they're mandatory, but occasionally a
godsend when they're not.
> * can we make precise recommendations about which error strategies to
> use?
No, but I think we can state some general principles.
Andrew Bromage
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48314 | [web-devel] questions about ResponseEnumerator
Greg Weber greg at gregweber.info
Sun Oct 23 18:55:18 CEST 2011
I don't know if Snap is doing this yet, but it is possible to just deny
partial GET/HEAD requests.
Apache is considered vulnerable to slowloris because it has a limited thread
pool. Nginx is not considered vulnerable to slowloris because it uses an
evented architecture and by default drops connections after 60 seconds that
have not been completed. Technically we say our Haskell web servers are
using threads, but they are managed by a very fast evented system. So we can
hold many unused connections open like Nginx and should not be vulnerable if
we have a timeout that cannot be tickled. This could make for an interesting
benchmark - how many slowloris connections can we take on? The code from
Kazu makes just one connection - it does not demonstrate a successful
slowloris attack, just one successful slowloris connection.
If we limit the number of connections per ip address, that means a slowloris
attack will require the coordination of thousands of nodes and make it
highly impractical. Although there may be a potential issue with proxies
(AOL at least used to do this, but I think just for GET) wanting to make
lots of connections.
From: Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
Date: Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [web-devel] questions about ResponseEnumerator
To: Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
Cc: web-devel at haskell.org
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
> I think Greg's/Snap's approach of a separate timeout for the status
> and headers is right on the money. It should never take more than one
> timeout cycle to receive a full set of headers, regardless of how slow
> the user's connection, and given a reasonable timeout setting from the
> user (anything over 2 seconds should be fine I'd guess, and our
> default is 30 seconds).
That's fairly uncontroversial.
> The bigger question is what we do about the request body. A simple
> approach might just be that if we receive a packet from the client
> which is less than a certain size (user defined, maybe 2048 bytes is a
> good default) it does not tickle the timeout at all. Obviously this
> means a malicious program could be devised to send precisely 2048
> bytes per timeout cycle... but I don't think there's any way to do
> better than this.
This doesn't really work either. I've already posted code in this
thread for what I think is the only reasonable option, which is rate
limiting. The way we've implemented rate limiting is:
1) any individual data packet must arrive within N seconds (the
usual timeout)
2) when you receive a packet, you compute the data rate in bytes
per second -- if it's lower than X bytes/sec (where X is a policy
decision left up to the user), the connection is killed
3) the logic from 2) only kicks in after Y seconds, to cover cases
where the client needs to do some expensive initial setup. Y is also a
policy decision.
> We *have* to err on the side of allowing attacks, otherwise we'll end up
with disconnecting valid requests.
I don't agree with this. Some kinds of "valid" requests are
indistinguishable from attacks. You need to decide what's more
important: letting some guy on a 30-kilobit packet radio connection
upload a big file, or letting someone DoS your server.
> In other words, here's how I'd see the timeout code working:
> 1. A timeout is created at the beginning of a connection, and not
> tickled at all until all the request headers are read in.
> 2. Every time X (default: 2048) bytes of the request body are read,
> the timeout is tickled.
Note that this is basically a crude form of rate-limiting (at X/T
bytes per second). Why not do it "properly"?
Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48315 | [Xmonad] Switching away from and back to a tabbed workspace
Dave Harrison dave at nullcube.com
Thu Aug 30 20:12:45 EDT 2007
Dave Harrison wrote:
> Not sure if I'm the only one seeing this or not, but what I'm seeing
> when I have a tabbed workspace, is that if I have >1 tab in the
> workspace and I switch to another workspace that requires my current
> workspace be hidden (so not resulting in a swap of two visual
> workspaces), and then switch back to it, the visual presentation of
> the tabs is some strange munge of the tab I had selected, and the tab
> that had been viewing before I chose the currently selected one.
> This behaviour doesn't seem to show up in the other default layouts
> that I use such as tiled or full.
Hey all,
At the moment, I haven't been able to resolve the above issue, but I
have managed to capture some screenshots of the bug in action. The
screenshots can be seen at these URLs:
These two are the tabs as they look when viewed (correct):
This is what happens after I switch away, and then back (buggy) :
Help ?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48404 | Re: Perfect and Subjunctive/Future
Carlton L. Winbery (
Mon, 9 Sep 1996 19:39:28 +0400
akio itou wrote;
>>*elhluquian* is the perfect active participle modifying BASILEIAN. It
>>asserts that "they will see the Kingdom having come (present) in power."
>>The participle like and verbal adjective describes the Kingdom which they
>>see as present.
>That solves the question about the perfect tense, but how is it related to
>*hEWS AN IDWSIN*, which seems to imply the future time for the coming of
>the Kingdom.
"Until they see the Kingdom of God having come with power." At the time of
the seeing the coming is an accomplished fact, a reality.
The whole thing is in the future because of hEWS AN, "Until".
>>>The other is *apolesei* in Mk 8:35. Am I supposed to take this a variant
>>>form of subjunctive, or a case of the indicative future fomr used for a
>>>subjuctive? What are opinions of those eminent Greek scholars?
>>*apolesei* appears to me as a prediction, "he will destroy it (his life).
>>The subjunctive is QELHi used with the particle EAN. This construction is
>>part of an indefinite relative clause, "Whoever wishes to save his live".
>>This relative clause serves as the subject of the future verb APOLESEI.
>Sorry, I did'nt quote the sentence. The *apolesei* I am talking about is
>the other one in the same verse: *hOS D'AN APOLESEI THN YUCHN AUTOU ...*
There is a textual variation associated with this APOLESEI. In the N-A27
the variant is given as APOLESH supported mostly by Byzantine witnesses but
also by f13, 28, and theta. The future tense is supported by mostly
Alexandrian including apparently P45, and also f1 and some minuscules with
non-byz. tendencies.
The primary reason to go with the reason in the text is that it is the more
difficult reading though the use of the future in a place where the aorist
subj. is expected happens in the NT and some other Hellenistic Greek.
Hence I would agree that this the the future used with the AN which usually
takes a verb in the subjunctive. This is not strange since all
subjunctives are in some way future.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48405 | Carlton Winbery (
Mon, 27 Jan 1997 19:24:49 +0400
Ronald Ross wrote;
>Dear Greeks,
>I'm a linguist (as opposed to a Greek scholar) who is currently working
>on a paper dealing with the pragmatic / discourse constraints
>(topicality, etc.) that favor and inhibit the use of the agentive
>passive in biblical Greek, specifically in the writings of Luke. (I
>have restricted myself to Luke solely as a means of limiting --for the
>time being-- my data base.) I have been using GramCord to do my
>searches. But I have some questions I would like to ask of those of you
>whose Greek is better than mine.
>I have been basing my GramCord searches on the following parameters:
>Position 1: verb, passive (any person, number, tense, mood, etc.)
>Position 2: preposition hUPO, genitive
>Position 3: noun/pronoun genitive case
>I have, of course, allowed for intervening words between these three
>My general question is does Greek have agentive passive forms that would
>not be detected by such a search? For instance, are there agentive
>passives that carry out agent demotion with propositions other than
>hUPO? Are there passives in which the order of the constituents could
>be different from that assumed above? Greek has a morphological
>passive and a periphrastic passive with some form of the word EIMI +
>passive participle (for example Lk.21.24). Are there published studies
>on the pragmatic or discourse constraints that determine the choice of
>one form over the other? Are deponent verbs (i.e. passive in form but
>active in meaning) allowed to express the passive voice? How? I ask you
>indulgence if in any of these cases I am asking the obvious.
I do not know if all of these appear in Luke but in the NT you also find
the passive with agency expressed by APO James 1:13, DIA (indirect) Jn
3:17, EK 1 Jn 5:1, PARA Lk 1:45 (with passive ptc), and very commonly hUPO.
There is also the genitive (some say ablative) without a preposition used
with participles or adjectives that indicate passive action (Mt. 25:34, 1
Cor. 2:13, Rom 1:6 & 7.
I do not recall specific studies on the use of passives. As to deponent
verbs (its going to take a while Carl) is it possible that such a case as
you describe is in Matt. 21:42? PARA KURIOU EGENETO hAU/TH "This was done
by the Lord."
Carlton L. Winbery
Fogleman Professor of Religion
Louisiana College
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MIT scientists apply methodologies from Mars mission designs to help marketers manage big data streams.
5 Big Wishes For Big Data Deployments
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Apparently there are similarities between digital advertising, where an automated system decides in milliseconds which ad to place before a consumer, and NASA mission planning.
DataXu, founded by MIT aeronautics and astronautics scientists in 2007, is applying its experience in designing NASA missions to the unique world of digital advertising, says company co-founder and chief technology officer Bill Simmons. The Boston-based startup is using its expertise in combinatorial optimization, techniques used to find optimal solutions to a specific problem, to help digital marketers boost their advertising efficiency and return on investment (ROI).
Under the Bush administration, the DataXu founders -- at the time a group of MIT researchers -- received a grant from NASA to determine which manned missions to Mars had the highest likelihood of success. "I was a graduate student at MIT, a full-time employee as a research assistant. I was working on my Ph.D.," Simmons told InformationWeek in a phone interview. "They gave out 11 grants to different institutions. We were in competition against Lockheed Martin, Boeing and other large companies."
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Using their combinatorial optimization approach, the MIT team generated 1,162 potential Mars missions from some 30 billion possibilities, and presented its findings to NASA in a 1,000-page report. "We use a technique where you prioritize your decisions [to] eliminate the most options first," said Simmons. "Hypothetically, say you have a choice: One crewmember, two crewmembers or three crewmembers."
The team first eliminated the least desirable options. One crewmember, for instance, wouldn't work out because if he or she died or became seriously ill, the mission would fail. "You make that decision up front: One is not possible," Simmons said. "So you can scrap all the missions and configurations that support one crewmember."
What began as an insanely large number of options soon shrank to a very manageable figure. "In our case, we ended up with exactly 1,162 missions, and that's a small enough number to where you can go through them by hand," Simmons said.
The Mars mission and related research was later shelved, a victim of a terrible economy, a new presidential administration in 2009 and a revised focus on space exploration. The MIT team soon found a new use for its research, however, and today DataXu has about 700 customers.
The company specializes in display, mobile, video and social ads, but not search or email. Its technology has three major components: a real-time decision engine, using with DataXu's combinatorial selection algorithm; a data management and machine-learning system; and a user interface for managing marketing campaigns and interactive analytics.
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If you're swapping out your hard drive for a new one, the best thing to do is clone the old one first.
If you're swapping out your hard drive for a new one, the best thing to do is clone the old one first. Cloning a drive creates an exact sector-to-sector backup copy of your drive. It's a perfect image of the original, including all OS files. So when you swap out your old drive for the new one, you don't have to tweak or reset anything.
For cloning a hard drive on a Mac, I highly recommend a free utility called Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC). Here's how to use CCC to clone a hard drive on your Mac.
First, download and install Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC).
After downloading it, installation is a piece of cake. Just double click on the Carbon Copy Cloner mounted icon.
Select and drag the CCC icon into your Application folder.
Now, from the Applications folder, launch CCC. Just double-click on its icon.
The first time you launch CCC, it will prompt you to read the Quick Start Guide. Do it later. Click on No Thanks.
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Microsoft Windows FAT32 or NTFS file system comes on most new drives and it isn't Mac-compatible. If you have a new drive from the Apple Store or preformatted for Mac, you can skip this step.
So before going on with the CCC process, access the Disc Utility in OS X. This will reformat the drive with Apple's HFS+ file system for Intel Macs. I'm using an external drive, so I just plug the external drive into the Mac and power on the drive.
On recognizing the new drive, OS X will prompt you to back up your current drive's data with Time Machine. Don't do it. Click Don't Use.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48621 | By the time Desmond Miles met his fate, the “Assassin's Creed” franchise resembled its protagonist. The series looked spent after yearly iterations that seemed to exhaust the creative juices of its developers. The endless opportunities that the property once held narrowed as Ubisoft Montreal and its partners had to explain and conclude Desmond's story arc.
The franchise needed new heroes and a fresh focus, and thankfully, it gets both with “Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag.” There's optimism for the franchise as it returns to form. This time around, gamers play themselves — part of the campaign is in the first-person as they take on the role of a new Abstergo Entertainment employee. The narrative gets meta as players realize they've been hired to research a pirate game based in the “Assassin's Creed” universe.
When they enter the animus, the device that lets them relive memories of historic figures, players inhabit the game's main character, Edward Kenway. He's another of Desmond's ancestors, and he lived through the golden age of piracy. It's the perfect backdrop that capitalizes on the unfulfilled potential of “Assassin's Creed 3.” The naval gameplay, one of the best but underused parts of the previous title, is fleshed out as Edward helms the Jackdaw, a stolen Spanish ship.
In the campaign, players travel around the Caribbean visiting ports of call such as Havana, Kingston, and Nassau while ransacking frigates and forts. Naval combat is easy to control and requires some strategy as players maneuver boats for ideal striking positions. If players damage a rival ship enough, they can board it, which offers a slew of approaches and is just as engrossing. There's a fair amount of grinding as players pillage resources to upgrade the Jackdaw so it can take on more powerful man-o-wars and galleons.
As for missions on the land, it's what fans of the series have come to expect. There are assassination quests and a host of collectibles and ingredients used to upgrade Edward's gear, making him a more lethal pirate. Few of the missions stand out, but the team did make stealth more forgiving. Players can easily cut down a squad of soldiers without having an army falling upon them.
Although that's improved, some parts of “Assassin's Creed IV” are a pain. The missions where Edward has to tail and eavesdrop on targets are annoying, with no clear path and enemies constantly patrolling an area. It's a frustrating exercise in trial and error.
What saves the game is how “Assassin's Creed 4”³ recaptures that sense of exploration and possibilities that the series once held. The world is full of so many locales and items to discover that players can easily get lost and not mind it. Meanwhile, the fresh start with new characters opens up exciting prospects. It feels as though Ubisoft Montreal can take players anywhere, and with the improvements in this sequel, fans will be up for the ride.
'Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag'
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Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, (PlayStation 4, PC and Xbox One later this year)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48636 | Configuring a WDS over Debian GNU/Linux system
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http://serverfault.com – I would like to configure a WDS using my desktop PC where I installed a Debian GNU/Linux OS. The computer has a wifi card with a Atheros chipset, it uses ath9k kernel module which supports WDS mode. The computer will be linked with a ZyXEL wifi router that I use to share internet connection. I've read tutorials and howtos in order to configure my Debian machine as a WDS station but it doesn't work. Could you suggest me a good tutorial or help me to configure the wifi network? Thanks in advance. (HowTos) |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48637 | Grub error 17, cannot access bios or boot devices
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http://www.linuxquestions.org – I've been running Ubuntu for a few years, on a few computers, and I guess I got complacent. I tried installing Mangaka One onto a usb connected to my netbook, an msi wind u100 running its original xp. I wasn't intending grub to installed on my hard drive, but it seems to have been, at least partially. The computer will only boot - even into grub - with the usb stick attached. Otherwise I get Grub error 17 and everything stops. I was going to get a recovery disk on a usb and fix the mbr, but now I've damaged the usb drive install. I'm not sure why (possibly a hibernation file from windows), but now I can't get the prompts to get into the bios or select a boot device when I power on the netbook, and everything freezes at Grub error 17. Is there a way to get any kind of prompt at this point? If there isn't the next thing i can think of is to disconnect my hard drive, and then access the boot prompt and switch the boot order. OK, so long-winded multiple question. Here's the order of priority for me: 1. Can I get a prompt which will let me edit/repair Grub? 2. If not, will disconnecting the hard drive let me access the system bios and/or change the boot order? From there, with the help of various posts I've read, I should be good. But for next time: 3. How can I do an install to a usb drive without installing grub on the main hard drive? (HowTos) |
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Cheating in Multi-Player????
:eek: Say it ain't so! :mad:
I have encountered several different players on some servers lately, that just plain outclass everyone else. There will be 12 people on the server, and the majority of them have like 6,5,4 kills, and then this one guy will have 20, and end the map.
I stopped, and watched for a while, and he NEVER died. The one I am talking about is Soul Warrior. I asked him about it, and he wouldn't answer me.
I dueled him several times, and he would pull me over to him fully healthy, with over 50 shield, and with one slice of the sabre kill me. BS if you ask me. It wasn't set on the slow, heavy setting either.
So, I started following him around some, and I noticed he grabbed the bolt rifle, and used the alternate fire. You should have seen the speed at which it fired. You could definitely tell he had hacked it somehow to increase his hit frequency or something.
Anybody else see this before, know what I am talking about? All it is doing is ruining the public servers, to have these guys running around like that.
Swingman 05-28-2002 04:08 AM
I hate when people resort to hacks in order to win. How much fun is it to know you can cheat better then other people? (talking about the guy you said was invinsible)
I think there's a server option to not allow cheats. Just find servers that keep hackers out.
Cthulhu47 05-29-2002 01:45 PM
I am one of those people that are usually a good few kills above the rest (not all the time) we are just better
MotionMan 05-29-2002 02:17 PM
I hate people who run around with absorb all day and all they do is force pull then backslash.:rolleyes:
Intangible 05-29-2002 02:26 PM
that's why i play on saber only, no force servers ;)
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Some say that's fair, fair, fair
Hard, hard, hard
But I believe that's fair, fair, fair
It's hard, it's hard, it's hard
Can't you see that it's fair, see that it's fair
Hard, hard, hard
Gotta see that it's fair, see that it's fair
It's hard, hard, hard
Yeah, too damn hard, too damn hard, too damn hard
But it's fair, but it's fair, it's fair
It's fair, it's fair, it's fair
But it's fair, it's fair
But it's too damn hard, too damn hard
At the same time, it's too damn fair, shit
It's hard, it's hard, it's hard
They say that it's fair, say that it's fair, it's fair
Some say that it's fair, some say that it's fair
It's hard, it's hard
Some say that it's fair, it's fair
Hard, hard, hard, shit
[Verse 1]
I be breakin' you in a hundred percent times ten
Bitches they comin' and goin' pass on like the wind
Now and then hoes come with that shit to get you took
Scopin' you out for some other niggas who just a crook
She off the hook, would you look at that ass, a million dollars
Printed on the imaginary tag around her collar
Guess she think she gotta bug in my drink, let me tell it
Fuckin' around with me everything's about to fail ya
MJG pimp tight, don't stop, kill the lights
Got pussy stacks so high to sky it's outta sight
Keep it tight, nigga we comin' to get your ends
Same reason people be anxious to be ya friends
I be livin' in your lady's closet for nine days
Took her school, hit it 77 different ways
Way I display, don't give a fuck if whether ya care
If it's hip or not, bitches hard but it's fair
[Hook x2]
It's alright cause what I don't know I'ma learn
And what I ain't got I'ma earn
And when it' my turn, I'ma bring it to you hard but it's fair
Suck it up like it was part of the air
It's alright
[Verse 2]
I'm stuck right in the middle of shit that won't move
Lookin' to find space in the cracks and in the groove
My bitches ain't work till they heels ran down
Wrote tricks off in the past and they still can now
From blah, lettin' em' loose now feel em' blah
A hundred and five pounds per round in ya eye
I'm divin' on the deals that's real and makin' money
Shakin' loose the niggas and bitches who actin' funny
You coward ass niggas be swearin' you down with me
Soon as tables turn you lookin' to try to stick me
Swift and quickly, I'm tossin' you faggots up in a canyon
And scrapin' you up like fruit off the bottom just like some Dannon
Hell I'm handlin' what I'm supposed to be handlin' now what's ya purpose
See real niggas come with the truth you can't desert this
But I'ma wash this bitch up outta my hair
It may be hard nigga but that shit fair
[Hook x2]
[Verse 3]
Where the hoes at, now that I done got the bitches naked
Where they clothes at, look how they got out em' in a second
Why these niggas be cuffin' on a broad when she be freakin'
Shit you need to put some links in that chain so she can reach me
You been holdin' on that tramp ass slut for thirty days
Even though you know she crooked as hell, with dirty ways
I heard they say when you chat with her nigga the shit is fine
But when you try to do business with that nigga he cross the line
Listen nigga, it ain't no future in doin' crime
If you ain't some type of profit off the crime, see you blind
You ain't tryin' to keep no air in ya bubble, ya got ya chest out
Superboy, lookin for trouble tryin' to test out
The closest motherfucker ain't shit in common with you
Mad at everybody else cause you ain't got shit to do
You know the truth so when you see me either speak or you stare
You might get frightened cause it's hard but it's fair
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A First Course in Finite Elements
Written for undergraduate and graduate students in science and engineering, this book provides comprehensive coverage on the formation and application of the finite element method. The book presents the finite element method formulated as a general-purpose numerical procedure for solving engineering problems, governed by partial differential equations. Topics covered include the direct approach for discrete systems, strong and weak forms for one-dimensional problems, and the finite element formulations for vector field problems.
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Jacob FishRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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In this webinar, you’ll learn how MATLAB & Simulink® are utilized in the development of an embedded control system including implementation and testing on hardware. Our demonstration will emphasize how to design, simulate and test a complex system that incorporates multiple domains such as mechanical, electrical and hydraulic – that are typically isolated across different software platforms and thus not simulated in a common framework.
Starting from underlying physical principles, we will build models that can expand and accelerate the development process through the use of simulation. You will see how you can simulate the controller and the plant together, optimize the control system, and generate code for HIL testing—all before building a prototype. We will demonstrate the integration of simulated and real components to enable Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing in support of early Verification and Validation (V&V) against top-level requirements.
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XYZ = stream3(U,V,W,startx,starty,startz)
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XYZ = stream3(X,Y,Z,U,V,W,startx,starty,startz) computes streamlines from vector data U, V, W.
The arrays X, Y, and Z, which define the coordinates for U, V, and W, must be monotonic, but do not need to be uniformly spaced. X, Y, and Z must have the same number of elements, as if produced by meshgrid.
startx, starty, and startz define the starting positions of the streamlines. The section "Specifying Starting Points for Stream Plots" provides more information on defining starting points.
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Film Performances:Chimes at Midnight, Quintet, Rustlers' Rhapsody, Seven Beauties, That Obscure Object of Desire, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The French Connection, The Immortal Story, The Light at the Edge of the World, Tristana TV Performances: Jesus of Nazareth Awards Won:1989 - Goya Award for Best Actor - Winter Diary1977 - Cannes Best Actor Award - Elisa, vida mía Deceased: Died in Madrid on Mar 9, 1994 Personal Information: Fernando Casado Arambillet Born on Sep 20, 1917 in A Coruña Professions: Actor Nationality: Spain
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• Summary: Venture back to Hyrule and an age of magic and heroes. The predecessors of Link and Zelda face monsters on the march when a menacing magician takes over the kingdom. Only you can prevent his evil plot from shattering the land of Hyrule. In your quest, you'll venture into twisting mazes, dungeons, palaces and shadowy forests. Test your mettle with mighty swords and magical weapons. Learn powerful spells, locate magical artifacts and solve the mysteries of the evil magician and the hidden realm of Hyrule. Expand
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1. Nov 20, 2011
Anybody a fan of the Zelda series needs to play this game, simply to see how much they are missing out. Not just for a SNES game, but a game in general, it is packed with so much content and replay value, it is simply a game ahead of it's own time. I've recently played it and it really shows that Zelda had excellent games not only on the N64, but on the SNES too. Expand
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While I had played the NES games, this was the first Zelda game I ever owned. I remember playing this game as a child for hours. Sometimes I would just run around the world for no reason at all but to explore, knowing I have already completed it 100%. Exploring Hyrule to me, was like Exploring one of the vast lands of the Elder Scrolls games today. Expand
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One of greatest adventures I under took in my late childhood was playing The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past! Many claim that Zelda: Ocarina of Time is the best Zelda game, and while indeed it is excellent, the real masterpiece that Ocarina was built from is A Link to the Past. The gamed design, gameplay, art design, quest design, dungeon layout, themes, items, pacing, and story all were set out here that Ocarina and the later Zelda titles would follow. When I finished this game over a summer while young I felt as if I had finished a great quest, an epic journey. There have been few games that brought this level and feeling of satisfaction. But this game is not a masterpiece because I enjoyed it as a child, Zelda: A Link to the Past is one of the best crafted and designed action/adventure video games of all time with or without nostalgia. Expand
4. Jan 25, 2012
"A Link To The Past" is the best Zelda game at date, and that's saying much. Story, grafics, gameplay, difficulty... everything is honed to a perfection! Expand
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"The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past" has been cited by many as the best game in the franchise... It seems that it is in an endless battle for the #1 spot with Ocarina of Time and possibly Majora's Mask. While I don't like to get into all these discussions about which one is the better game, I certainly agree that "A Link to the Past" is a real gem in the Zelda series and the Wii cetainly does a great job in showing you its nostalgic splendor with no real changes whatsoever. The game does well in portraying a story that revolves on a young Link, serving as sort of a prequel in the series. The simple gameplay, yet complex story, is great for any Zelda fan, hardcore gamers, and even anyone who has never played a single Zelda game and wants to give one a try. It receives a 10/10 from me. Tis' truly amazing. Expand
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Forget about the old review!I confused it with Zelda 2!Thi score is high and the game a classic!YES!THIS GAME IS REALLY GOOD!frearfsetgwsrgsrgdrsgsdrgsrdgdsfgsf Expand
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Outstanding game for what it is. Still holds very well today on this Wii port. Tough I've have been angry sometimes with clueless objectives (like finding the flute) or being stuck without mana. It gets really hard later on. Expand
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1. May 8, 2013
Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon is an amazing standalone expansion pack to the amazing FC3. The story follows Rex Power Colt, a cyber-commando in a 80's action movie style 2007 where the world has been torn apart by nuclear war and the world is filled with neon and lasers.
Though the story isn't that good it is a classic 80's action film plotline and one that is highly enjoyable for high octane
thrills and crude humour.
The game plays mostly like FC3 too, just a little stripped down making the game feel a lot smaller than it actually is.
With a campaign of about 3 hours and about 6 hours for the 100% Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon is worth that £10, I highly anticipate a sequel, just perhaps a bit longer and more fleshed out.
2. Dec 10, 2013
Love the story 2 this game and the amazing 80s references with some of the greatest video game humor of all time, Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon suffers from being WAYYYYY 2 short, I really, really, really started 2 get into the game and having blast, yet before i knew it the game was over and i had a frowny face.
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3. Jun 23, 2013
It seems as though Mass Effect: Citadel might have started something. For those who didn't take a look at that one, it was a lighthearted, essentially just-for-fun romp full of laughs and moments to remember just for the sheer hilarity. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon was made apparently for the same reasons. So let's take a look at it. Summarizing the game is relatively easy: take every single 1980s action movie between grades A+ and D-, pull all of the one-liners, dialogue tropes, and situation comedy, and blend them together while mixing in the Far Cry 3 engine and design, then retro it back to 80's video game design norms and you get...Blood Dragon. If this sounds critical, it's not meant to: the game is meant to just be plain fun, and it lives up to it. If you were a fan of movies like Robocop, Outland, and a whole slew of movies too bad to remember (mainly because they were bad movies, not in spite of it), then Blood Dragon was made for you: it'll take you on a trip down that memory lane and keep you in stitches every step of the way. The game developers also deserve congratulations because they didn't go too far, and it would've been so easy. While the cinematics harken back to 1980s game animations, the game itself uses the graphics engine and mechanics of Far Cry 3, so all of that polished smoothness doesn't go to waste. It's not perfect, though. First, the game's color palette gets tiring fast; everything is in a red overcast, just like innumerable 80's postapocalyptic films, but for a game designed to last several hours, you're likely to end up with retina fatigue. The other hitch for Blood Dragon is uneven pacing and difficulty. The difficulty pendulum swings rapidly and often without warning, which can saddle players with a situation harder than expected. But given the superhero mechanics at work in the game, this is usually only a temporary setback. Overall, Blood Dragon is everything you remember and love about 80s sci-fi action films: over the top everything, a wisecracking hero, implausible technologies, way too much neon, and plots that don't get a lot of explanation...but don't really need it anyway. A well-enjoyed 8 to Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, a trip down memory lane...with lasers...and dinosaurs. Expand
4. Jul 14, 2013
It might not have loads of serious story arcs and character development the great visual style the really good humour the 80s homages the gameplay the graphics has a great style the animals it is just SO MUCH FUN
5. Jun 11, 2013
Name two of the greatest things a man can do... 1: Laugh. 2: shooting neon colored dragons in the face with a assortment of weapons. Thankfully, Blood Dragon allows you to do both. A LOT.
I was in stitches for pretty much all of this game, the references are hilarious. Not to forget that this is essentially just an add on for Farcry 3, so the satisfying combat and free roaming as we
grew to love is still there, but with a massive twist of course. Well worth the money. Expand
6. May 2, 2013
this game is a straight up love letter to the 80s. Even though I was born in the early 90s i really really enjoyed everything this game had to offer from its 80s style low res cutscenes to the scanlines and neon lights of the openworld. Even the menus in game are oldschool stylized. Ubisoft did an incredible job on this game. You play as Rex power colt a badass mark IV commando who is tasked with saving the world, getting the girl, and firing off one liners like a chaingun. it is a total overhaul of the far cry 3 engine which feels the same as far cry 3 but different at the same time. the awesome healing animations, looting, openworld, animals to hunt, etc are all still here but they are totally different and very much well fit the feel of the game. oh its also funny too. i dont say this much about games but i was laughing pretty much all the while i was playing it. the cheesy oneliners colt says are hilarious even today. my favorite is the tutorial, which i wont spoil, but rex gets pretty pissed like most do during the tutorials. its pretty funny. most people didnt want this dlc/standalone. most people wanted a dlc of vaas, but im glad ubisoft made this. they put alot of heart into this and it shows, This game is a rare gem that we dont see much of these days and at its low price of $15 dollars with all this content is an absolute steal. And that dudes and dudettes is pretty cool. Expand
7. May 6, 2013
Great XBLA title. One of the finest. Although, not on par with Far Cry 3.
Great atmosphere and lots of goodies for the guys grown up with Terminator, Robocop, Rocky and other 80's films. The dialogues and the whole concept is pretty fun, as are the missions. This is one of the most creative gaming efforts as far as story concept is concerned.
On the downside, the technical aspect of
this title isn't on par with Far Cry 3, as the neon pink/green lights are quite monotonous throughout the game. The 8-bit cut-scenes feel like "the size of the game is limited so... there you go" and while some of them (training montage, sex scene) are quite fun, most of them are boring.
The whole game feels like Far Cry 3 with a new skin. Totally new skin. But it plays exactly like Far Cry 3. You free the garrisons, you go hunting with a specific weapon and you stealth kill groups of enemies. So if you are into Far Cry 3, you'll probably enjoy having some of that. The garrisons are more heavily populated (about ten enemies as opposed to five in FC3) and the new weapons feel fresh.
The best part of this game are the 80's details... Many of them and the action packed main missions. It's more of FC3... with a twist. An unexpected one.
8. May 1, 2013
Phenomenal, just about the most 80s you could ever get. The aesthetics of Far Cry 3 are intact, but the guns, and how you play around in your environment are what make the game special. This game will make you laugh, 80s references galore, and you play as Rex Power Colt, who has a flair for stringing together obscenities and making the best/worst one liners ever. If you enjoyed Far Cry, that justifies buying blood dragon, if you enjoy an 80s feel that serves as an excellent parody, and sudo-tribute, you're gonna have a great time too. Don't expect an elaborate story, and while there are a good few missions even after you complete the main story, there isn't a whole lot of depth here. But for the sum of it's parts Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon is enjoyable from beginning to end, and will keep you grinning with it's pop culture, and it's abundant over the top awesomeness. Expand
9. Jul 5, 2013
I recommend you play this before you play the original Far Cry 3 to see if you would like it.But,the game is really funny,good story and is a lot of fun to play!
10. May 3, 2013
Absolute perfect 10 game. Had me rolling laughing and enjoying every bit of it. I think growing up in the age to truly understand the references throughout the senses i appreciate the humor, but also always wanting to interact with a Snake Pliskin type character really immersed me thoroughly in the world. Also the value in such a cheap price point really solidified a 10 score. Keep up the good work. Expand
11. May 1, 2013
somethin that not too many folks will talk about is the music. the music really did it for me. i was laughing or grinning through the entire game because the music turned the game from a sort of funny 80s knockoff to a 100% funny 80s knockoff. you have to play it to understand.
12. Feb 15, 2014
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon has almost nothing to do with Far Cry 3 story wise. It is set in a neon future were a rogue General has taken over an island and you must stop him. You play as Rex Power Colt, a cyborg tasks to take down this threat. The story is basic but the writing and characters are hilarious and make fun of action game troughs. The game play is very similar to Far Cry 3, you liberate garrisons and complete missions. The open world is actually quite large and filled with stuff to do. The weapons are unique and varied enough to keep combat interesting. The game's length feels just right for its DLC, downloadable price. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a cool, hilarious, and fun add on to Far Cry 3 and is a prime example of how to do a franchise spin off well. Expand
13. Sep 20, 2013
This was unexpected for an expansion pack, if you could call it that. Not only is it an XBLA title, but other than the game engine and mechanics, this shares little in common with the base game. With it's satire of 80s pop culture, crazy enemies and animals, and synth soundtrack (provided by Power Glove), you'd think this is a completely different game. Everything that made the original Far Cry 3 a great game (unlockable weapons and upgrades, exotic wildlife, wide open world, etc.) are present here, mixed with pop culture references, 80s sci-fi flair and cheesy one-liners by Kyle Reese himself, Michael Beihn. Of course, being an XBLA game, it's fairly short and really easy compared to the original game. NO multiplayer either, but given how unspectacular the original's was, that's probably for the best. A pretty fun and funny take on Far Cry 3, and a recommended download. Expand
14. Aug 4, 2013
pure dumb fun doesn't take itself seriously and is full of good laughs with the same high quality combat and exploration that far cry 3 offered also the soundtrack is incredible
15. May 28, 2013
I can't give this game less than 10/10. I had SO MUCH FUN, literally laughing all the time. It's the perfect trip back to the 80's. Over the top action and pure fun. The gameplay is solid and I find no reason to compare it to Far Cry 3, this game stands on its on merits. No overly complex plot and the cutscenes are hilarious and beautiful in 16-bit glory. The music is SO AWESOME and I can't stop talking about this game. A little short, around 8 hours to complete everything including achievements but that's allright for $15. I had more fun with this than most $60 titles. Best game since Skyrim. Expand
16. May 7, 2013
If you purchased Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon you are probably in 1 of 2 schools of thought: I love Far Cry 3 so this will be sweet (which it is) or I love 80's action movies/humor (which this has). This add-on (if you would even call it that) to the Far Cry 3 game is one of the best of this generation of games, in short this is what Duke Nukem Forever should have been.
17. May 8, 2013
A $15 open world 80s cyber action game starring Michael Biehn! What's not to love here? Blood Dragon is not just good for a DLC but a fantastic, fully realized game in its own right and one of the most entertaining first person shooters of this generation. I've been rocking Blood Dragon every day since it came out and have to stop for a second and appreciate it when a DLC does something this mind boggling unique rather than the usual cash grab offerings of new maps or a few more hours of the same levels in an epilogue or prequel. The last time a DLC title this ambitious was attempted happened was Undead Nightmare and with the (hopeful) success of this rad new beast I hope these kinds of re-purposed games become more common. Making an entirely new game from ashes of an enjoyable older game is a great way to test out new ideas. It breeds innovation and, in this case, DRAGONS! Expand
18. Jun 19, 2013
Blood Dragon is an entertaining stand alone game, but can be 100% completed pretty quickly. There's nothing to do after that except go blast Blood Dragons with the Killstar. It is an amazingly hilarious game made that perfectly mimics a post apocalyptic game from the 80's. The gameplay is fun, but after leaving the player completely finished, there does not seem to be enough. I found myself wishing for more. It took me only about 5 hours to completely finish everything (all files, all attachments, all garrisons, etc.) and it didn't feel like 15 dollars worth. Enjoy the experience, because it's over pretty quickly. Expand
19. May 23, 2013
this game is epic. blood dragons weapons humor 8 bit cut scenes list could go forever this game is da bomb its little short but hay its stll better than re6
20. Jun 23, 2013
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is a very over the top game. It has absolutely nothing to do with Far Cry 3, but it doesn't matter... this game is still great. The weapons are amazing, the story and delivery of dialogue from Rex Power Colt is cheesy, with a 80's "futuristic" style. The game is very short though, it only took about 4 hours to beat... so I would suggest that people wait for it to go on sale before they get it if they're looking for something really long. Expand
21. Jul 20, 2013
This game is a $15 investment to relive the nostalgia we so desperately didn't want to relive. Blood Dragon captures the 80's perfectly and plays just as greatly as Far Cry 3 did. Though it was a bit short and there's not as much replay value after it's done as there was in FC3, it is still a hilarious little standalone expansion everyone should be getting.
22. May 7, 2013
Finally someone at Ubisoft gets the Idea. This is more than a fan service cause this could be a legit franchise. I'm sick and tired of the same US vs European/Middle East/Asian military BS or Space Super Soldier who I thought was dead but was miraculously alive pfffff
23. May 3, 2013
Brilliant game, worth all 1200 microsoft points. The game is a beautiful look at and 80's arcade game with nowadays graphics (except the nostalgic cut-scenes which are hilarious). I does justice to old 80's arcade games by being over the top and with brilliant and hilarious dialogue. The gameplay is the same as far cry 3 which means it is brilliant and easy to get into if you have played far cry 3 or not. Michael Biehn is great as Rex Colt and there are a lot of references to the 80's in general (I loved the VHS collectibles). 10/10 Expand
24. May 1, 2013
I will admit i am a little biased as i grew up on action films from the 80's and 90's but this game is great. If your a fan of the old style action movies this is the game for you. It has everything the hit and miss one liner's, a great soundtrack, explosions, big guns, ridiculous plots, all in all its a great game. The gameplay is great, and while it uses the same engine as farcry 3 the game has a much different feel to it. Got to say this game is pure cheese and man is it worth the fifteen dollars. It takes away the crafting farcry 3 had for the most part and hunting is mostly just for fun now but the game is still great. You start out with some abilities that you wouldn't have in farcry 3 and the leveling system is now linear you gain a certain bonus at a certain level but for me that wasn't a bother. I don't know what made Ubisoft make this game but i am so glad they did! Expand
25. May 12, 2013
Shallow, vapid experience. Far Cry 3 was great but this game becomes boring after the first twenty minutes or so of repetitive gameplay. Great in short bursts only.
26. Jun 27, 2013
One word description FUN. Goofy plot full of fun 80's nostalgia balances the humor without trying too hard. This title is full of over the top action reminiscent of 80's favs such as Predator, Commando, and Terminator. The graphics are just as great as Far Cry was and they've added gore! Soundtrack consists of awesome synths and even a cut from cult classic flick Miami Connection. If your a fan of cheesy 80's action check this out, if not, you won't get it. Expand
27. May 1, 2013
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IF YOU WERE NOT BORN IN THE 70'S OR 80'S. You might be able to get by if you were born in the early 90's, but this game makes a ton of references to many 80's action movies. And it is glorious. The FarCry 3 engine feels as great as ever. You start off with a ton of upgrades from the original FarCry 3 (like double jumping takedowns,etc), so right off the bat you feel capable. Throw in 4 extremely powerful weapons and the game does an amazing job of making you feel like a futuristic badass cyborg. The game is extremely corny which in turn makes it extremely funny. I know the game isn't suppose to last too long (from what I've heard, it can take around 6 hours), but in all fairness I paid the same price for Journey. And in both cases, I think both these games are absolutely worth it. Besides, why wouldn't you want to kill a laser eye firing dragon? Expand
28. May 1, 2013
Well, the game is funny and the gameplay excellent. Best weapons ever and the story line dumb as hell. I see a lot people complaining about the game deepness, duration, etc in front of FC3. Hey guy this is a 15$ title! 1/4 of FC3 price. Just be logic. It definitely worth more than 15$.
29. May 9, 2013
Everyone should do themselves a favor and buy the game, especially if you have any memory of the 80's and 90's. It was funny, the soundtrack is AMAZING, and the gameplay handles exactly how you think controlling a cyborg would feel. On top of that, if you did play Far Cry 3, then this is a must buy as well, because in a way it expands upon some of the limitations you faced because you were human. You run faster, swim faster, take no fall damage....Pretty much feels like a vacation after playing Far Cry 3 (I loved that game as well BTW). It all just flows together really well. Expand
30. May 3, 2013
This game is fun and entertaining, it takes me back to the 80's cyberpunk era and make me wanna kill cyborgs and shoot with laser guns, this is a must have for anyone who like cyberpunk things!
Generally favorable reviews - based on 51 Critics
Critic score distribution:
1. Positive: 38 out of 51
2. Negative: 0 out of 51
1. Jun 28, 2013
It's a meaty, gratifying dose of excess that refuses to pander to subtlety. [Issue#136, p.108]
2. May 30, 2013
As if Far Cry 3 was developed by Ocean Software and starred The Terminator. [July 2013, p.76]
3. May 22, 2013
Wholly entertaining, Blood Dragon chucks everything we didn't like about Far Cry 3 in the bin and cranks everything else we did like up to 11. Then adds lasers. Solid. [Issue #98, p.72] |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48787 | Awesome As F**k - Green Day
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1. May 12, 2011
Green Day are a band that, in recent times, have been flagged as '' sell outs '' or having become '' mainstream .'' But are they? Are they really a band who have long forgotten what means to be rock n' roll? Or has the world just forgotten that the rock movement throughout the years has changed over and over but always had the same attitude. An attitude of "I don't agree with that, so I'm going to say something about it!" You play Marilyn Manson and Chuck Berry one after the other and you're going to have a fairly diverse sound change, but guess what? Both of those artists were considered rock n' roll, and both those artists changed their era's music scene in very similar ways! So as it stands Green Day are probably one of the most successful bands still together since the 90's. But do they deserve their fame and good fortune? A way to always check a bands true power and talent, is to hear or see them live, and live performances is just what Green Day do best! Awesome as F**k, as a DVD, follows suit with Green Days previous Bullet in a Bible, in that it is intense, well directed and delivers 100% of the presence and power the band have over a stage, a presence and power only truly achievable by playing together for over 20 years. This however, is not the albums high point. The finest point, to this reviewer, was the live CD itself which, unlike many live Cd's, is NOT a live show CD but a TOUR CD. With each track taken from a different venue from the tour, the attitude and mood are almost always the same but, this shows, I think most can see, that a band like Green Day, going as long as they are, are still determined to get the absolute best of their live performances to those who couldn't be there. This is said by many bands, and is achieved by deciding to record at, what is expected to be the best show of the tour. People unfortunately don't realise the size of a job, that goes into recording a live show. And Simply that Green Day, have paid the money and put in the effort to record at almost ALL of their shows, shows that they are not the main stream consumer product that they ave been accused of becoming but, are still down to earth, music making, fan loving rock n' roll musicians. Do they deserve the fame and fortune that has come their way over the years? Well in a day and age where certain '' Rock Bands '' don't even have a guitarist and people are not aloud earn $5 from music unless Simon Cowell says so. I believe an act of pure dedication to your rock fans, and rocking hard while doing it is earning what they have! Do Green Day deserve what they have today. well just watch Awesome as F**k and see what the thousands Japanese fans think! Expand
2. Nov 10, 2011
Awesome as **** The songs are active and inane, but teasing America in some way. All of green day's famous songs such as "American Idiot" or "Holiday" is here. A great **** to listen and as always, Greenday's punk rock got me again :)
Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critics
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1. Positive: 6 out of 12
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1. May 17, 2011
This collection does little to enhance their hard-won reputation as one of modern rock's most compelling live draws. [May 2011, p.105]
2. May 17, 2011
By definition, it's a water treader and there's nothing surprising. [May 2011, p.124]
3. 70
As it stands, Awesome as F**k is a good representation of Green Day today. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48791 | Last of the Summer Wine Image
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• Starring: Kathy Staff, Bill Owen, Jane Freeman
• Summary: The longest running comedy series in the world started out, as many British comedy successes did, with a 1973 episode of the BBC series "Comedy Playhouse". The basis was simple but complex at the same time, telling the stories of three old men, who in all essence couldn't be more young at heart.
The original trio consisted of Bill Owen, as Compo Simmonite, the scruffiest man in Yorkshire, with only two passions in life: his ferrets and Nora Batty (Kathy Staff).
The second man of the group, Norman Clegg, played by Peter Sallis, was from the beginning shown as the most timid of the group, and also the one who gets carried away by the crazy ideas and schemes of his companions, which always seem to get him in trouble.
Initially the third man of the group was Blamire, played by Michael Bates, but he was soon replaced by Foggy Dewhurst (Brian Wilde) who always seems to have a scheme or a story that somehow leads to his old days as a war hero... or so he says.
In 1986 Brian Wilde left the series, to start filming his new sitcom, which proved to be a wrong move, as the show hadn't the success needed to sustain even a second series. during his 4 year absence from last of the summer wine Michael Aldridge played Seymour, the new third man of the trio, until 1990. Brian Wilde returned to do the next seven years of the show.
When Brian Wilde left the series for the second time in 1997 Frank Thornton replaced him as the new third man on the trio as Truly Truelove of the Yard, an ex-police officer who's always remembering his past, both in the police force and in his former marriage to the former Mrs Truelove. When Bill Owen passed away, his son Tom joined the series, replacing him for the rest of the season as Compo's long lost son, Tom. Compo's permanent replacement would come the next year when Keith Clifford joined the cast as Billy Hardcastle, a man who fancies himself the descendant of Robin Hood.
In 2003, the traditional trio became a quartet with the addition of Brian Murphy as Alvin Smedley, Nora Batty's new next door neigbour. With the addition of Alvin, an element of physical humour missing since Compo's death returned to the series. The quartet once again became a trio when Keith Clifford left the series in 2006. In 2009, the series was once again redesigned to allow Sallis and Thornton a reduced role on the series. A new third man was introduced in the form of Hobbo Hobdyke (Russ Abbott), a former milkman who fancies himself a former MI-5 agent. By combining Hobbo with Alvin and the electrical repairman, Entwistle (Burt Kwouk), a new trio was formed, proving once again the ability of the show to redesign itself over time. The main cast has always been surrounded by some amazing supporting cast throughout the run of the series, who helped to mantain the series as fresh today as it was when it premiered on the BBC.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48835 | 1. #1
Quest log and more
Is there any way that can show me the pattern's ( as tailor) that I have in my char when I am offline or how can I see what quest's I have atm?
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Back when I first started playing, I used the Allakhazam updater (which you run as an Addon) which kept all the information about your player profile, and updated the Allakhazam site with that information.
When the armory came out, that pretty much replaced the need for these kinds of updater addons, as all the character info was pulled straight out of Blizz's own DB and presented via the armory ... but ... Along with Character profile info, Allakhazam kept the content of your bags, and your quest log as well. Unfortunately, not tradeskill recipes though.
So there it is, go to Allakhazam, get the Wowupdater, and run that in game as an addon. For the most part, it sorta duplicates what you can get off the Armory, but it does provide you with Bag contents and your quest log, which is rather handy.
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Thank you I will use that
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I suggest you actually try the wowhead addon not the allakhazam.
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Cool, I didn't realise Wowhead had a profiling section .. will check it out.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48838 | EA Phenomic
EA Phenomic was a game development studio of Electronic Arts, Inc. Headquartered in Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, the company was founded as Phenomic Game Development in 1997 by Volker Wertich, known for the Settlers series, where he played a major role in the development of the first and third parts. Since its founding, the company has focused entirely on the SpellForce franchise of fantasy strategy games.
In August 2006 the company was acquired by Electronic Arts and renamed EA Phenomic. After the acquisition the studio worked primarily on real-time strategy games, including BattleForge (2009), Lord of Ultima (2010), and Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances. The latter was a free-to-play browser version of the classic series that attracted 1 million players in its first two months. In July 2013 it was confirmed that the studio had been closed.
Contributed by Stillman (7519) on Jan 14, 2005. [revised by : Sciere (228152)]. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48840 | Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places) (DOS)
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
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Become the lovable nerd Larry ONE MORE TIME! Win $1,000,000 a year for life! Win a fabulous cruise with a beautiful woman!! Wish you were back in Lost Wages counting your breath mints!!!
Contributed by POMAH (31065) on Aug 13, 2003.
From the back cover:
Who is Leisure Suit Larry?
If you look up the word "nerd" in the dictionary, you're liable to find Leisure Suit Larry's picture as a definition.
Leisure Suit Larry is the kind of guy you see in just about every seedy singles bar. He wears a white leisure suit with the shirt open to the waist (lots of gold chains make up for the lack of a chest). If you can get past the glow of his Grecian formula, you can see that his hairline is making a hasty retreat from his forehead.
Larry is the original blind date nightmare - the kind of guy you wouldn't want your daughter to date, let alone meet.
He is such a loser that Cosmo Magazine recently voted him "most negligible bachelor of the year."
A Time Magazine article on "The War Between the Sexes" carried his picture with the caption "an unarmed innocent bystander."
Why is Larry suddenly so popular with the ladies?
On cruise ships, in laid back Los Angeles, and in other exotic locations, Larry is suddenly attracting the attention of all kinds of nubile nymphettes. He's been propositioned by a bikini'd babe at the poop-deck pool, suffered the seductions of a sadomasochistic spinster, even played "hide the onklunk" with a sexy spanish senorita.
Why is it that some of the loviest ladies in the western hemisphere are so hot to get their hands on Larry - and why is he resisting their advances?
Why is it that Larry has suddenly started looking for Miss "Right" (as opposed to Miss "Right-Now") and will he find her? Find out why when you play...
"It's a nerd! It's a shame! It's Leisure Suit Larry! ...Now that's entertainment!"
Bob Lynstrom
After software designer Al Lowe introduced the original Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards to the world in 1987, we asked ourselves "Just how low will Al Lowe go?"
Play Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) and find out!
Contributed by Belboz (6579) on Sep 19, 2001. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48841 | Myst V: End of Ages (Limited Edition)
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Purchases of this special edition receive various collectible items depending upon where it was released. The original game, Myst V: End of Ages, is exactly the same as the stand-alone release.
All versions include the full game, the manual, a "Making the Game" 25 minute video presentation with developer interviews and Myst Series history as well as the official Soundtrack audio CD.
Also enclosed in the North American over-sized box is a numbered Collector's Lithograph, suitable for framing, and a miniature size Prima Official Strategy Guide.
The package (a book-like mini carton box) released in the EU includes a 152 page Collector's Booklet authored by Cyan World's Rand Miller which includes a D'ni Language and Grammar Dictionary, an overview of the previous Myst games, an artwork gallery and a short preview of Rand Miller's new book. It also includes a bonus DVD featuring the making-of video of Myst V, the soundtrack for the game and various trailers.
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• "Myst V: End of Ages (Collector's Edition)" -- UK title
• "Myst 5: End of Ages (Limited Edition)" -- release
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Are the "extras" in the Limited Edition worth it? Windows Jeanne (75630)
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The Soundtrack, Composed by Tim Larkin, includes the following songs:
1. Descent
2. Beginnings - Atrus
3. Great Shaft
4. Villa
5. Laki
6. Arena Reveal
7. Tahgira Ice Fields
8. Beginnings - Yeesha
9. Noloben Lab
10. End of Ages
11. Todelmer
12. Time Machine
13. Fighter Beach
14. Beginnings - Esher
15. Trapped
16. Myst
17. Finale
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• Myst 5 Hints -- Solutions provided with nudges and hints so you can try to solve the puzzles yourself before the final answers are revealed.
• Myst V: End of Ages -- Official website
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So i have this dilemma: Do i listen to my taste-buds or my brain. I have been feeling better lately, the nausea has mostly passed. But last night the cucumbers in my salad tasted bitter so i covered them in ranch and ate them anyway. This morning i was eating toast with cream cheese, but it tasted funky so i covered it in jam and ate it. Veggies don't make me gag anymore but they still don't seem like a great idea. I am a vegetarian so this distresses me. I just don't know why this baby only wants cereal and milk and potatoes with lots of butter. doesn't it want vitamins?
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well the baby is still getting vitmins from u, later on during pregnancy u wil be bale to enjoy all the lost loves from the 1st tri.
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jldumm - I'm vegetarian also and only craving starches. And... cold stuff, so to counter my macaroni and cheese, I've been making yummy, tasty smoothies.
Yesterday's was delish...
plain fat-free Greek yogurt
1 banana
frozen blackberries
fresh spinach
soy milk
whey powder
flax seed
Maybe smoothies would help you feel better, too?
I'm also enjoying lots of veggie muffins. Today I'm making some with sweet potato, spinach, raisins and molasses. YUM!
And - to make my Mac N Cheese healthy, I sometimes throw in some sauteed spinach OR pureed steemed cauliflower and garbanzos
post #4 of 12
yes. Eat what you can stomach. It will be the best thing for both of you.
post #5 of 12
Yeah, I'm currently listening to my taste buds cuz I just can't stomach veggies right now even though I normally like them.
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DDC crashing here,
At almost 15 weeks, I still have no desire to eat any vegetables and those are usually the bulk of my diet! Some foods taste strange to me too. I think that as long as we take our vitamins and eat as best as we can manage, everything will be okay.
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I'm with you ladies.....my taste buds are going crazy right now!!
I will be 14 weeks on Thursday...and finally have been able to eat fairly normally the past week and a half or so.
ALL I want to eat are carbs...mac and cheese (the organic kind at least!), mashed potatoes with loads of butter, baked potatoes, bagels, cereal, grapes, some yogurt (but it tastes too sweet)...and many foods are tasting way too salty to me!!
I definitely say eat what you can. I haven't eaten as many vegetables as I would LIKE to eat....because my body just hasn't been into that right now. As the weeks progress and I feel better and better I'll eat more.
I've been drinking raw milk like crazy lately, lots of cream cheese and bagels, etc. I think it's totally okay!
post #8 of 12
I hear ya momma. I am ALL over the starches too & can't even fathom raw veg or a salad right now. I am slowly re-introducing some cooked veg again after the first 3 mos but even then it's selectively.
I've been trying to work them grated into soups, chili & last night it was organic mac & cheese with peas & black beans. Not ideal but at least it had some greenery & protein in it.
I'll 2nd the idea of smoothies too. It's a great way to hide a good handful of spinach or kale (I swear, you can't taste it!). Especially if you mix in some frozen blueberries to cover the colour. Unfortunately I was drinking smoothies daily at the point when my morning sickness kicked in so I still have a bit of an aversion to them.
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Thread Starter
Thanks Ladies.
I feel like it would make more sense to me if i knew why my body doesn't want these yummy vegetables.
AND am i doing harm if i try to cover them up and sneak them in, by not listening to my body.
post #10 of 12
Me too!
Bagels and cream cheese, mac and cheese, etc. have been my friends. Spinach, broccoli, kale and other veggies taste awful to me right now.
I like the idea of sneaking them into smoothies! Thanks!
post #11 of 12
You can sneak them into smoothies *and* muffins. I just made muffins with sweet potatoes, spinach, molasses and raisins and they were so yummy!
post #12 of 12
Also - baked kale chips are so tasty and easy to make. Another good way to get a green in (though it looses some of its nutrition in the baking process.... it's still beneficial, though)
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How the US Militarized the Haiti-Dominican Republic Border
As part of the Global War on Terror, the US has exported its border patrol model to the Caribbean.
| Tue Nov. 19, 2013 2:40 PM GMT
The fence at the US-Mexican border.
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.
It isn't exactly the towering 20-foot wall that runs like a scar through significant parts of the US-Mexican borderlands. Imagine instead the sort of metal police barricades you see at protests. These are unevenly lined up like so many crooked teeth on the Dominican Republic's side of the river that acts as its border with Haiti. Like dazed versions of US Border Patrol agents, the armed Dominican border guards sit at their assigned posts, staring at the opposite shore. There, on Haitian territory, children splash in the water and women wash clothes on rocks.
One of those CESFRONT (Specialized Border Security Corps) guards, carrying an assault rifle, is walking six young Haitian men back to the main base in Dajabon, which is painted desert camouflage as if it were in a Middle Eastern war zone.
If the scene looks like a five-and-dime version of what happens on the US southern border, that's because it is. The enforcement model the Dominican Republic uses to police its boundary with Haiti is an import from the United States.
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CESFRONT itself is, in fact, an outgrowth of a US effort to promote "strong borders" abroad as part of its Global War on Terror. So US Consul-General Michael Schimmel told a group from the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic in the Dominican Republic back in 2008, according to an internal report written by the law students along with the Dominican immigrant solidarity organization Solidaridad Fronteriza. The US military, he added, was training the Dominican border patrol in "professionalism."
Schimmel was explaining an overlooked manifestation of US imperial policy in the post-9/11 era. Militarized borders are becoming ever more common throughout the world, especially in areas of US influence.
CESFRONT's Dajabon commander is Colonel Juan de Jesus Cruz, a stout, Napoleonic figure with a booming voice. Watching the colonel interact with those detained Haitian teenagers was my first brush with how Washington's "strong borders" abroad policy plays out on the ground. The CESFRONT base in Dajabon is located near the Massacre River that divides the two countries. Its name is a grim reminder of a time in 1937 when Dominican forces slaughtered an estimated 20,000 Haitians in what has been called the "twentieth century's least-remembered act of genocide." That act ensured the imposition of a 227-mile boundary between the two countries that share the same island.
As rain falls and the sky growls, Cruz points to the drenched young Haitians and says a single word, "ilegales," his index finger hovering in the air. The word "illegals" doesn't settle well with one of the teenagers, who glares at the colonel and replies defiantly, "We have come because of hunger."
His claim is corroborated by every report about conditions in Haiti, but the colonel responds, "You have resources there," with the spirit of a man who relishes a debate.
The teenager, who will undoubtedly soon be expelled from the Dominican Republic like so many other Haitians (including, these days, people of Haitian descent born in the country), gives the colonel a withering look. He's clearly boiling inside. "There's hunger in Haiti. There's poverty in Haiti. There is no way the colonel could not see that," he tells Cruz. "You are right on the border."
This tense, uneasy, and commonplace interaction is one of countless numbers of similar moments spanning continents from Latin America and Africa to the Middle East and Asia. On one side, a man in a uniform with a gun and the authority to detain, deport, or sometimes even kill; on the other, people with the most fundamental of unmet needs and without the proper documentation to cross an international boundary. Such people, uprooted, in flight, in pain, in desperate straits, are today ever more commonly dismissed, if they're lucky, as the equivalent of criminals, or if they aren't so lucky, labeled "terrorists" and treated accordingly.
In a seminal article "Where's the US Border?," Michael Flynn, founder of the Global Detention Project, described the expansion of US "border enforcement" to the planet in the context of the Global War on Terror as essentially a new way of defining national sovereignty. "US border control efforts," he argued, "have undergone a dramatic metamorphosis in recent years as the United States has attempted to implement practices aimed at stopping migrants long before they reach US shores."
In this way, borders are, in a sense, being both built up and torn down. Just as with the drones that, from Pakistan to Somalia, the White House sends across national boundaries to execute those it has identified as our enemies, so with border patrolling: definitions of US national "sovereignty," including where our own borders end and where our version of "national" defense stretches are becoming ever more malleable. As Flynn wrote, although "the US border has been hardened in a number of ways—most dramatically by building actual walls—it is misleading to think that the country's efforts stop there. Rather the US border in an age dominated by a global war on terrorism and the effects of economic globalization has become a flexible point of contention."
In other words, "hard" as actual US borders are becoming, what might be called our global, or perhaps even virtual, borders are growing ever more pliable and ever more expansive—extending not only to places like the Dominican Republic, but to the edges of our vast military-surveillance grid, into cyberspace, and via spinning satellites and other spying systems, into space itself.
Back in 2004, a single sentence in the 9/11 commission report caught this changing mood succinctly: "9/11 has taught us that terrorism against American interests 'over there' should be regarded just as we regard terrorism against Americans 'over here.' In this same sense the American homeland is the planet."
New World Border
Washington's response to the 2010 Haitian earthquake provides one example of how quickly a mobile US border and associated fears of massive immigration or unrest can be brought into play.
In the first days after that disaster, a US Air Force cargo plane circled parts of the island for five hours repeatedly broadcasting in Creole the prerecorded voice of Raymond Joseph, Haiti's ambassador to the United States.
"Listen, don't rush [to the United States] on boats to leave the country," he said. "If you do that, we'll all have even worse problems. Because I'll be honest with you: if you think you will reach the US and all the doors will be wide open to you, that's not at all the case. And they will intercept you right on the water and send you back home where you came from."
That disembodied voice from the heavens was addressing Haitians still stunned in the wake of an earthquake that had killed up to 316,000 people and left an additional one million homeless. State Department Deputy Spokesman Gordon Duguid explained the daily flights to CNN this way: "We are sending public service messages…to save lives." Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) quickly dispatched 16 Coast Guard cutters to patrol Haitian waters, blocking people from leaving their devastated island. DHS authorities also cleared space in a 600-bed immigration detention center in Miami, and at the for-profit Guantanamo Bay Migrations Operation Center (run by the GEO Group) at the infamous US base in Cuba.
In other words, the US border is no longer static and "homeland security" no longer stays in the homeland: it's mobile, it's rapid, and it's international.
Maybe this is why, last March, when I asked the young salesmen from L-3 Communications, a surveillance technology company, at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix if they were worried about the sequester—Congress's across-the-board budget cuts that have taken dollars away from the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security—one of them simply shrugged. "There's the international market," he said as if this were almost too obvious to mention.
He was standing in front of a black globular glass eye of a camera they were peddling to security types. It was draped with desert camouflage, as if we were out in the Arizona borderlands, while all around us you could feel the energy, the synergy, of an emerging border-industrial complex. Everywhere you looked government officials, Border Patrol types, and the representatives of private industry were meeting and dealing in front of hundreds of booths under the high ceilings of the convention center.
On the internationalization of border security, he wasn't exaggerating. At least 14 other countries ranging from Israel to Russia were present, their representatives browsing products ranging from miniature drones to Glock handguns. And behind the bustle of that event lay estimates that the global market for homeland security and emergency management will reach $544 billion annually by 2018. "The threat of cross-border terrorism, cyber-crime, piracy, drug trade, human trafficking, internal dissent, separatist movements has been a driving factor for the homeland security market," the market research company MarketsandMarkets reported, based on a study of high-profit security markets in North America, Europe, and Asia.
This booming business thrives off the creation of new border patrols globally. The Dominican Republic's CESFRONT, for instance, did not exist before 2006. That year, according to Dominican Today, a group of "US experts" reported that there were "a series of weaknesses that will lead to all kinds of illicit activities" on the Haitian-Dominican border. The US team recommended that "there should be helicopters deployed in the region and [that] there be a creation of a Border Guard." A month after their report appeared, that country, by Dominican presidential decree, had its own border patrol.
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October 20, 2013
Michael Parks is fabulous as the insane preacher, and he sings too. Because of that portrayal it is a classic film
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Boring. Typical extreme Right Wing slam. Been done. Good hype. BUT, it could just be me. Been a horror fan for 40 years.
November 25, 2011
Intense film. Too short (obviously) and not enough development in the story line. Terrible ending. Otherwise, it's an edgy, terrifying topic to base a film around. Overall good short-film.
October 21, 2011
Had a lot of potientiall, John Goodman as always is a terrific actor, story line seemed to not know whether to be thought provoking, a thriller, fantasy or an extreme Right Wing soapbox. Long time lapses of sermons. With all that being said, it was generally a well acted on all counts film and worth a $1 rental fee at Redbox for sure.
October 18, 2011
Must see movie, very creepy but enjoyable
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48902 | It's not exactly fair to peg the Undisputed Truth as a one-hit wonder, because they did have a few hits for Motown in the first half of the 1970s (albeit only one big one), as well as made half a dozen albums for the label. Still, it's not that far from the truth. Nothing else they did matched the strength of "Smiling Faces Sometimes," which made number three in 1971. Crafted by Norman Whitfield, Motown's most adventurous producer of the time, it employed the funk-psychedelic guitars and ominous, socially aware lyrics that were also characteristic of his work with the Temptations during the period.
The Undisputed Truth came into being after Bobby Taylor brought Billie Rae Calvin and Brenda Joyce to Motown as part of the Delicates. When the Delicates broke up, the pair kept busy doing background vocals for the Four Tops, Diana Ross, and Edwin Starr. Whitfield teamed them up with Joe Harris of the Preps, laying the groundwork for the male-female vocal interplay that would typify their Motown sessions.
It's fair to say that the Undisputed Truth were little more than a mouthpiece for Whitfield. He wrote most of their material (sometimes in association with Barrett Strong), and used their sessions as a laboratory to devise funk rhythms and psychedelic guitar effects. He was doing the same thing with the Temptations, and the Undisputed Truth's records couldn't help but suffer in comparison. As vocalists they weren't in the same league as the Temps, and Whitfield was most likely reserving his real killer songs for the more famous group.
The group never approached the success of "Smiling Faces Sometimes" again, although they racked up a series of modest R&B hits through the mid-'70s. The best of these were "You Make Your Own Heaven and Hell Right Here on Earth" (which perhaps recalled "Smiling Faces" a little too closely) and the original version of "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone," which Whitfield would quickly redo with the Temptations for a much more definitive (and massively successful) version. Little else in the Undisputed Truth discography demands attention, though Motown scholars will find their work worth a listen to investigate some of the ideas rattling around Whitfield's head in the 1970s. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi |
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Im soooo bored
Hope u like my comic strip i did it randomly let ur mind go wild think of yer own story for it :)
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is blood acc sung by MCR coz it doesn't sound like it WTF
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why worry
right im getting sick of this priests saying that u will go to hell for being a bi does it matter if ur bi? no it doesn't they will spk a load of crap so if u hear any priest say ur bi prove em wrong get ur self a bf/gf . Bisexuals have a right to be bi I would ignore them its really stupid u will not go to hell ur a human being do wat u want if u want to be bi be a bi if u want to be straight be straight its ur life no one else's if u have any problems about this mail me im always here for the MCRmy page x
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Tired of this crap
im tired of school
im tired of work
im tired of boys
im tired of girls
im tired of crying
im tired of running
im tired of this world
im tired of myself
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Fake your death :'( :'(
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Was yesterday at a OneRepublic gig :D
The show was amazing :D
I waited after the gig until the singer came out and I got an autograph :D
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Good things...
I'm getting another job! I'll finally have money to actually hang out around here! Which is great, because I've been looking for some cool rock kids to talk to. That may sound overly selective, but that's the only place I really feel like I fit in, is among rockers. Hell, I was even at a comics/games convention last year, and I felt left out as hell (mainly because I haven't touched a video game in years, and the only comic I've been able to read lately is the Killjoys mini-series.) So it's gonna be a concert marathon for me this year!
Also: the weather is finally getting better! This weather over here has been shitty as hell. Normally I like winter, but city winter is VERY different from rural winter. Rural winter is fucking freezing cold. Feels like your hands and feet are gonna drop off.
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So bored didnt know wat to do so i drew this,can anyone,guess
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R.I.P grandad
Its bn,a year since u died now ur still in our hearts and minds i hope u are having a good second life i always feel u are right by my side in fights in school and at home me mom dad and bro miss u so much every time i hear you name and song getting mentiond i always think of u. I hope ur ok and im sure ppl on MCRmy feel the same way. I dont know when but we are going to ur home town to spread ur ashes. Lots of love
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Crazy Eyes guitar part
So I finaly poster my guitar part to that song I wrote and posted lyrics to. Again, sound qualitys shit, but you can get a pretty general idea. Let me know what you guys think. (I dont know how to post it to where you can watch it on the blog, so you may have to go to the actual link.
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I slept at 5 am of the morning and I just woke up. I was so sleepy but then we saw a terror movie and I completely woke up. So I was wondering one thing.
Is it normal to wake up at 6 am and see someone standing there or was it my imagination?
Maybe I watched to much terror movies.
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Oh shit
Ive just bn busted for singing by my dad and pal shit this is gonna stay with them for ever
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I try again parent say im "special" im not just really really good at drawing if a band drawn for u let me know
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March On
So, it's almost been a year since MCR broke up. I'm not sure how I feel about that. That days was a bitch. Especially since I found out when I over heard someone say "so yeah, that faggoty emo band, My Chemical Romance, broke up today... good riddence, right?" Which was met by a chorus of smug laughter from his friends. In that moment it was as though some piece of me died. I stayed on here for the next two days. Not posting anything except for a feeble and completely unmet invitation for anyone in the area to meet up for March On day. Just reading everyone's reactions. Blasting all of their albums on an endless loop to drown out the sounds of myself maniacally laughing every so often in the naive hope that it was an early april fools prank and we would all have a good laugh over it, only to realize after a few moments of hope that it really was the end and sinking into a deafening silence. And occasionally singing along as I had flashbacks to seeing them live with my best friends. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48944 | The Constitution, at Last
From the May 17, 2010, issue of NR.
Having tried almost everything else, perhaps conservatives should consider the Constitution again. It is, as they say, no panacea. (Neither is it a panacea to note that something is no panacea!) But it could provide the spirit, the principles, the example, and even some of the institutions that might help to restore limited government to America.
The Constitution is, first and foremost, a republican document, grounded in the people’s authority, even as the people’s authority is grounded in the moral law. The frame of government’s first words, “We the People,” proclaim this, as do many of its particular provisions. “Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligations of contracts,” the Federalist explains, are prohibited by the Constitution because they are “contrary to the first principles of the social compact and to every principle of sound legislation.” They are prohibited because they are wrong, in other words, not wrong because they are prohibited. And their wrongness has nothing to do with the race or sex or class of the person who might be the object of a bill of attainder or the group that might be ensnared by an ex post facto law. The Constitution is not racist, sexist, or anti-democratic; though the original Constitution incorporated notorious compromises with slavery, it did so to obtain a Republic whose principles were anti-slavery, as well as a Union in which, as Lincoln put it, the public mind could rest content knowing that slavery had been put on a course toward extinction. Elementary as these points are, they are essential to rebut the Left’s moral indictment of the old Constitution. Fortunately, Harry V. Jaffa, Hadley Arkes, and the late Robert Goldwin and Martin Diamond have written copiously and brilliantly on the subject.
The Constitution establishes a government with two main structural principles — federalism and separation of powers — and each offers handles that citizens may grasp today to help relimit the national government.
Ours is, or was, a regime of enumerated legislative powers, in addition to certain implied powers that were “necessary and proper” to carry out the enumerated ones. The Founders disagreed among themselves about the extent of the implied powers (e.g., to charter a national bank) as well as about the exact bounds of presidential and judicial authority. But they expected to disagree in hard cases and left enough political play in the system for the people to take sides as they saw fit. Federalism was thus partly a legal or constitutional doctrine and partly a political one. Nonetheless, the state governments could serve as rallying points for opposition to federal encroachments, and still can. Though weakened by the Seventeenth Amendment (which destroyed the state governments’ control of the Senate) and other factors, the states may invoke their Tenth Amendment rights and link arms with one another in demanding that the offending national officeholders be voted out and a party of constitutionally faithful ones be voted in. This is the real electoral point of the states’ resistance, on display now in the impressive numbers of states protesting Obamacare. Schemes of neo-nullification (as Matthew Spalding has called them) purporting to declare a federal law null and void in a particular state are based on bad history and worse jurisprudence.
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Hi everyone ok well first off for my new years resolution I decided to not straighten my hair anymore because I wanted to bring back my curls & alot of people had told me to just let it grow out & don't use my straightner, so I haven't & my curls are starting to form & come back,well my question is..I used to dye parts of my hair red (mainly the bottom half of my hair) & I wanted to know if i dyed my hair again the way I used to have it would it mess up my hair (like the process of my curls coming back) because I really don't want to mess up.
please give me you're advice or experiences i really want to know lol because i wanted to do something different to my hair..oh & i have 3A hair :)
etos 03-04-2013 04:22 PM
Yes, dying is demaging to your hair. If you're hair is already heat damaged (because of the straightner) the dye gives you extra damage. Only you can decide if that's worth it and what the condition of your hair is. Some curlies can have more dye/heat/sulfates and all other things that damage hair then others. If you have fine and/or porous hair, your hair will be probably very prone to damage.
Do you follow the CG method already? That can make a huge diffrence for the health of your hair.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/48999 | For God's sake, grow up!
R W Johnson, an Oxford don for 26 years, explains why he left England: to get away from the national
Reading from afar about the furore generated by the Laura Spence affair fills me with relief that I left England five years ago and don't have to endure any more of these bogus spats over class. The facts hardly matter on such occasions - really, it's a sort of ritualised quadrille that the English like to go through, full of rehearsed self-righteousness, rehearsed indignation and rehearsed recrimination. But since I was a tutor at Magdalen College for 26 years, I am in a good position to know how grotesque the initial row was. John Stein, the college's senior medic, is a man of progressive views and, despite being a Wykehamist, of warm human feeling. He was always to the fore in trying to increase the number of comprehensive pupils in his intake. Indeed, Stein and I once went on a sort of pilgrimage round the comprehensives of Dagenham and Barking, speaking to endless meetings of pupils and parents about how much we wanted to broaden our intake. I was a working-class kid, and spent my early years in a house overlooking the Mersey docks; I realised with some amusement that, with that background, it would have been a dead cinch to get into Magdalen to read medicine had I wanted to.
It is, indeed, ironic that the Laura Spence row centres on Magdalen. Many of my colleagues were deeply conscious of how snobbish the college had once been under Sir Herbert Warren who, as the college biography put it, was a lover of "intellectual and social distinction". It was his habit to greet every incoming freshman: when the Imperial Prince of Japan arrived, Warren asked him what his name, Prince Chichibou, actually meant. "The Son of God," the young scion replied. "Of course," replied Warren. "You'll find we have the sons of many famous men here at Magdalen." Most of us were keen to put the Warren days as far as possible behind us.
The problem with Oxford is not just that it occupies an extremely sensitive and powerful place in Britain's social structure, but that, to an even greater degree, it holds sway within its social and cultural imagination. It is impossible to imagine that one could have a huge public argument over how five places - five, for God's sake - get allocated in any other educational institution. What the English don't realise is how unbelievably trivial and ingrown such preoccupations seem to others. This is, after all, no longer the 19th century: Oxbridge graduates are not going out to rule the world. They're just reasonably well educated people in a smallish country that ranks 15th in the world's per capita income tables - quite a bit behind Ireland, let alone Singapore.
These facts, however, have no power compared to that of the social imagination. Perhaps the most revealing incident in my time came with the great campaign to make sure that Margaret Thatcher did not get an honorary degree from Oxford. When this succeeded, some of those dons who had campaigned for her went into virtual paroxysms of anger and upset, and a group of them at Hertford College wrote a grovelling public apology to the lady in terms so self-abasing as virtually to merit clinical attention. Examining the prose, one realised that something special was going on here: had the other side lost, there would have been none of the same intensity.
And then you realised that the issue had polarised two different sorts of community. On the majority side stood professional aca-demics who cared most about what their peers at Stanford or Yale were doing. They voted against Thatcher on professional grounds - she had been bad for education, had thinned their ranks, cut their laboratory budgets and so on. On the other side stood people for whom a job at Oxford had had social cachet; it meant the modern equivalent of being the tutor in the lord's house, it connected you organically to the ruling classes and, even if only in the permanent capacity of poor relations, they liked that. And there was no surer way of severing that tie than by humiliating the leader of the Tory party. Their pain at losing the vote was certainly real, but it was only indirectly about Thatcher. They grovelled because they feared being symbolically barred from the lord's house. In their eyes, if that happened then their careers, even their lives, had lost a key social meaning. They would be no better than academics anywhere else.
One should not over-egg the matter - two-thirds were on the other side, after all - but one realised that some of these feelings were shared, albeit more shallowly, by many of the winners, too. And these feelings came out on other occasions as well. Every so often, there would be a formal university procession and, to my astonishment, I would see normally sensible colleagues don gowns and mortar boards, parading themselves down the High Street in medieval flummery, enjoying the respectful gaze of the townies and tourists. This was a legitimised way of enjoying the social cachet of their jobs, and it had a strong class element to it. Or again, one was staggered to see friends and colleagues happily accepting knighthoods or peerages even though they knew this was all nonsense, too.
Naturally, the English way of doing this was to affect to despise it all or to say it's a harmless bauble, so why not accept it - an attitude generally belied by a tremendous keenness to "earn" such honours. Many did not even understand quite why such things were so offensive to the egalitarian conscience, why they would have no place in most other modern societies. Honours are universal, but what is different is the medieval title, the pretence to a higher social order which has to be recognised not only by changing one's appellation to Lord or Sir, but even by changing one's wife's appellation to Lady. Even if you win the Nobel prize, they don't change your name, let alone your wife's. Gone, unhappily, is the Tawney tradition: all the former SDP leadership - who claimed to admire Tawney so much - now have titles, apparently not realising how utterly he abominated them. Tawney, faced with a guest at High Table called Sir Arthur Cholmondley-Withers, pulled up a chair and said: "Have a seat Mr Withers." The latter furiously insisted: "Cholmondley-Withers, if you please!" Whereupon Tawney pulled up another chair: "Have two seats then."
The thing that made one cringe most of all was a royal visit. Other-wise sensible men and women became red-faced with excitement at meeting the Queen. I remember once being in the same (large) room as Prince Charles, and colleagues being scandalised if one carried on a normal conversation with someone else or, horrors, allowed one's back to be turned to him. All this is deeply bogus and we know it. Tom Nairn once wrote feelingly about the "bitter, medicine-pill misery" of having to contemplate "the grotesquerie of the gartered Callaghan". There's no point arguing about these things. You either understand that sentiment or you don't.
I make these points about my former Oxford colleagues, but they were no different from most English folk. The reason why this is all bogus is that there is a deeply ingrained inegalitarianism within English culture which not merely tolerates class divisions, but loves them, is endlessly titillated by the upstairs-downstairs world of it all. Things couldn't go on as they do if this were not so. Anyone who thinks about the matter seriously for five minutes knows that you can't repair the inequali-ties of class endlessly reproduced by the savagely unequal school system by bullying Oxford academics into non-meritocratic selection. It's the wrong end of the sausage machine to start. To do anything serious, you have to start with school education, which, since you can't outlaw private education, can be done only by making state schools better. Which means a lot more effort and money: over to you, Chancellor Brown.
But equally, if people such as Gordon Brown are serious about not liking class divisions, they surely know that they have to stop awarding peerages, to abolish the Lords altogether and at least diminish the monarchy in importance, and preferably abolish it. That the latter is not practical politics merely shows how much the English, whatever they may say when it suits them, treasure their inequalities in practice. Can Brown even put his hand on his heart and say he will never be Lord Brown?
All this I am so glad to be rid of. In the end, England began to seem like an endless procession of Merchant Ivory films, a country in love with a class-ridden past which it would endlessly recreate and then go into rehearsed frenzies over. We all know that there will be more spats like the Spence one, that there's a never-ending series of such quadrilles to be danced and that the parochial world of English class will continue, because so many people are fascinated by it and want it to go on, while others enjoy railing against it - although they never do anything serious about it.
Both sides need one another. In the end, it's just childish. If only the country would grow up. It really could be a new, young country then, but being real adults means taking full responsibility for oneself, means accepting membership of the community as full and equal citizens, not subjects. It means, in a word, being ready to leave home at last - and it's far from clear that the English are ready for that.
R W Johnson now lives in South Africa |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/49000 | Exposed by his sandwich
Observations on Blair and food
Which topic stumps Tony Blair most often? The reform of public services? Iraq? Top-up fees? Asylum and immigration? On these, he can usually manage fluent answers. But not on his eating habits.
As a guest on a Sheffield radio phone-in the other day, Blair was asked to name his favourite sandwich. As a political question, this beats some of the guff he is asked at his monthly press conferences. Or even most of what he is asked at Prime Minister's Questions. He cannot avoid the question or get away with half-answers. And any answer will be loaded with political symbolism. After all, the proverbial beer and sandwiches with union leaders dogged every Labour leader before Blair.
So the PM could opt for the proletarian bacon buttie, albeit without brown sauce. He could claim chicken tikka, with its gentle nod to an imperial past and a firm statement of a multicultural present and future. Or he could confirm the Islington stereotype and suggest Parma ham with pecorino cheese on toasted ciabatta. No wonder he paused.
William Hague, as Tory leader, once called called Blair a hypocrite on food. The PM had told the Labour Party's magazine that his favourite food was fish and chips and that he got a takeaway whenever he was at home in his constituency. Yet in the Islington Cookbook (yes, such a book does exist) his choice was "fresh fettuccine garnished with an exotic sauce of olive oil, sun-dried tomatoes and capers".
These different answers (to different audiences) demonstrate the political symbolism we attach to food. Food production and distribution is an increasingly hot political issue. Should Blair now answer "organic fettuccine", or "fish only from renewable stocks"?
So what was Blair's favourite sandwich? His answer was clever - the declasse BLT. Although some questions do remain. What of the vegetarian vote? And what type of bacon and tomato?
Anthony Vigor is a researcher at the Institute for Public Policy Research |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/49002 | The naked truth
The French love their boules au naturel as much as their food
Later, on this windy roadside in southern Provence, the peloton of the Tour de France will pass, but first we are going to the sea. We drive past fields of black toros. White Camargue horses. The salt flats. Flamingos. Now we can hear the waves of the Mediterranean slapping at the sandy shore. Prickly blue sky. Heat. Too much sun.
They are playing boules near the dunes when we arrive. Traditionally boules, also known as pétanque, is played by old men in berets in village squares. Not here. In another group just metres from us, three or four generations of a chubby family are playing boules in the nude.
Our hostess, Chantal, has parked her camper van at the point where the nude beach officially joins the clothed beach. Chantal tells me she has chosen this spot "so that those who wish may be clothed" and also the opposite. Aside from the dearth of swimming costumes, there is no apparent difference between the people on either side of the hand-painted sign that divides the beach. Fat, thin, young, old. Couples, singles, large extended family groups. The obese, and there are many, look much better in the nude, in fact.
People come from all over Europe to summer at Piémanson. It is all wild camping, completely unauthorised, but officials look the other away. This is the same syndrome that for half a century allowed sporting authorities to ignore doping in the Tour de France.
Chantal greets us with the usual three air kisses. Then she returns to her game of boules. There are six players, both sexes, mixed ages, varying degrees of dress. The losing team will provide tonight's aperitif. The object of the game is to hurl your boule closest to the small wooden ball called the cochonnet, either by aiming well or by knocking the other players' boules out of the way. The first to score 13 wins.
Guy, the best player, tells me that he learned to play at the age of five with plastic boules made specially for children. The regulation boules, about the size of a baseball, can weigh between 620 and 800 grams.
Much later, on the roadside where the cycles of the Tour de France are due to pass, the heat is almost Saharan, despite the wind. There is suddenly a shout, bright colours in the distance, mounting excitement, and then, much too quickly, it is all over. The main pack has ridden past and on into the final week of the long endurance race.
It is clear that the French people of all ages who are cheering along the roadside did not come for the spectacle, which is minimal, nor for a French hero - no Frenchman has won since Bernard Hinault in 1985. When I raise the issue of doping, these Provençaux just give a shrug. They know better than to expect the impossible of champions.
The Tour is such a part of French culture that Le Monde, a newspaper which really is its country's top people's paper, has a journalist cycling every stage of the entire race. His pace is understandably slower, but - like the vrais champions - he undergoes the standard blood and urine tests. And just like them, as Guillaume Prébois explains in the august pages of Le Monde, he is obliged to cream up his private bits lest they be rubbed raw.
The spectators at the roadside, most of whom probably never cycle further than the supermarché or boulangerie, tell me they are here to applaud the Tour cyclists' muscle and will, the courage to ride on and on and on without much hope of victory, and with a blistered bum. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/49033 | Will Congress Get Along In 2013?
This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I'm Celeste Headlee. Michel Martin is under the weather. Coming up, India has captured the world's attention after a student was brutally raped in Delhi some weeks ago and then later died of her injuries. Many are now asking why that country is so violent and why it's tough for women to live there. We'll talk about that in a few minutes.
But first, let's take a look at our own country, where the political battle over taxes may be over but we could have some scars left behind. What change might the new Congress bring to Capitol Hill? And also, what might happen with the cabinet now that President Obama is in his second term? Here to talk about all that and more, Mary Kate Cary, columnist and blogger for U.S. News and World Report.
Also with us, Maria Teresa Kumar, CEO and president of Voto Latino. That's a non-partisan group that encourages Latino engagement in politics. They're both here with me in our Washington, D.C. studios. Welcome back to both of you.
MARY KATE CARY: Great to be here.
MARIA TERESA KUMAR: Thanks for having me.
HEADLEE: Mary Kate, let's begin with you. Obviously it's big news. They just passed the deal a little late but they still got it there.
CARY: A little late.
HEADLEE: They stopped income taxes from going up for most Americans. They delayed some big spending cuts, the sequester cuts. But let's just talk about the politics here for just a moment. Did anyone win here? Who were the winners and losers?
CARY: I have to say I don't think anybody won. I think that the losing - all around. It was a failure of leadership on all sides. I feel like the government's not working. The policy apparatus in town has completely shut down. And this deal embodied what everybody hates about Washington. It's - the Senate/White House bill, biggest tax increase in 20 years in exchange for more spending.
It increases the deficit $4 trillion and had all this pork. This is like old school...
HEADLEE: You had subsidies for rum makers...
CARY: Yeah.
HEADLEE: ...NASCAR owners.
CARY: It's unbelievable. And it was, you know, just like we were saying - the worst of Washington. Back room, last minute, no transparency, kicks the can down the road. As my mother said to me, you know, this morning, why did it take so long to do nothing?
HEADLEE: Your mother is a smart lady.
CARY: Yes, she is.
HEADLEE: Maria, let me ask you. Because I mean a lot of people thought during the debt ceiling argument that ended up downgrading our credit in 2011, a lot of people thought that was the nastiest, ugliest Washington could get. But if you look at what's happened over the past couple weeks, it could get worse.
KUMAR: The worst part of the fiscal cliff is that it was a completely self-inflicted wound.
CARY: Yeah.
KUMAR: It wasn't a natural disaster. It was something that we decided to come here together in Washington and solve - and solve - and not solve. The fact that - I think if you were to ask me the biggest winner, though, was Biden. Because all of sudden he came once again on the national stage and basically was able to go in and negotiate.
The biggest loser? It wasn't Republican or Democrat. It was the American people. It was the American people because they still aren't sure exactly where, you know, their next paycheck is coming from because we haven't solved real fiscal crisis.
Yeah. We could be cutting thousands of federal jobs.
KUMAR: Exactly. And we still - and then this - the fact that they are still dragging their feet on entitlement negotiations, I mean down the line - we haven't talked about the Violence Against Women Act that we have to tackle. We haven't talked about real environmental changes. We haven't talked about immigration reform.
We haven't - these are - all these issues that unfortunately are not going to be able to tackle because we still have this - we have the fiscal cliff looming, part two. And we have the debt ceiling looming as well.
CARY: Right.
HEADLEE: But isn't there hope with the change in Congress? I mean today is the day, right? We get a new Congress. Is there no glimmer of hope?
KUMAR: Celeste, Happy 2013.
KUMAR: I don't think - it's not that there's no glimmer. It's that unfortunately you still have Republicans controlling the House. And I think the fact that they themselves are not happy, not satisfied with the leadership and they themselves are peeling off from their leadership - I mean the perfect example was what happened with the negotiations with Sandy.
HEADLEE: The package of aid for Sandy.
KUMAR: For Sandy, right. What happened there. The fact that the Republicans went on the floor - Peter King went on the floor saying, you know, we don't want...
HEADLEE: Representative Peter King of New York. Yeah.
KUMAR: Of New York. We don't want them. We don't want the - the Republicans are not representing this state. And he's a Republican? And he did it so vocally and transparently? He demonstrates that there is going to be much more in-fighting.
HEADLEE: Well, let me take that to you, Mary Kate. Not great optics for the Republican Party with Peter King. Even worse when the governor of New Jersey...
CARY: Right.
HEADLEE: ...Chris Christie, came out and just blasted Boehner and the entire Congress.
CARY: Right. I think in Boehner's defense - I'm not defending him, but the story that he says what his thinking was, was that in the aftermath of the fiscal cliff vote there was supposed to be an immediate vote on Sandy aid, and since the fiscal cliff vote did not include any offsetting spending cuts, he couldn't then ask his members to immediately vote on more unfunded spending.
KUMAR: But it's also in the weeds. And if you're a victim of...
CARY: Right.
KUMAR: ...that doesn't make any sense.
CARY: The optics were horrendous.
HEADLEE: If you're just joining us, we're having a political chat with Mary Kate Cary of U. S. News and World Report and Maria Teresa Kumar of Voto Latino. So here's a question both of you can answer. Republicans have had a string of really humiliating defeats lately.
There was the presidential election and all of the various Senate and House races. And now this in-fighting over fiscal cliff. Polls showed us that many people blamed the Republican Party for that, although I'm not sure that's fair.
CARY: Yeah, I'm not sure that's fair either.
HEADLEE: And we just mentioned Peter King. Let's take a listen, actually, quickly, here to - the comment from Peter King. Here he is on NBC's "Today."
REPRESENTATIVE PETER KING: He did make a joking obscene reference with a smile, and then he said I love you, and then we went into the meeting. But at the end of the meeting John and I shook hands and he actually walked with me, opened the door, and he said, you know, we'll be friends.
HEADLEE: So let's go back to this. I'm not sure that this retraction from Peter King is as powerful as his outrage.
CARY: Yeah. I think now he's got, you know, the olive branch in his hand and says it's all behind him. There is still a significant amount of bruised feelings in Washington, but not all of it is because of John Boehner.
Let's recall the president had a campaign-style event on New Year's Eve at the White House where he mocked Republicans and really poisoned the waters, I think, with a lot of his campaign-style events over the last month or so, post-election.
And I think he's really - he's not...
HEADLEE: He's not helping.
CARY: Yeah. He's not...
KUMAR: Yeah, but I think - I think what the president did...
CARY: ...fostering a spirit of compromise.
KUMAR: For the very first time I think what the president did is that he spoke plainly and openly to the American people. And he didn't do that in his first term and it cost him. So I think what he learned during his first term is that he has to have - the more he can use his bully pulpit, the more he can talk directly to the American people and basically force the Republicans to come and negotiate...
CARY: I am not convinced.
KUMAR: You're not convinced.
CARY: Not convinced.
KUMAR: But the thing is that every single time that they've done negotiations behind closed doors, nothing has happened. And now that the president's actually flexed...
CARY: Closed door negotiations tick people off. But the president has some serious challenges coming up.
KUMAR: Absolutely.
CARY: (Unintelligible) he's got to handle immigration. He promised to do that in his first term and did not. Obviously the debt ceiling negotiation is coming up.
HEADLEE: Gun control.
KUMAR: Gun control. He's got a lot coming up, so...
CARY: I think his whole attitude of winner take all - he doesn't construct a win-win deal.
KUMAR: But he's - but he's never been...
CARY: He moves the goalpost. He's a bad negotiator. And I think that's...
KUMAR: But he's never been...
CARY: ...costing him.
KUMAR: He's never been winner take all. This is the very first time...
CARY: Oh, yes, he has.
KUMAR: No, he hasn't. He's basically - Obamacare is the perfect example.
CARY: Yeah.
KUMAR: Obamacare is the perfect example. It was a Republican piece of legislation.
CARY: It was. But it was...
KUMAR: Right?
CARY: ...put through the Democratic Congress on a party line vote.
HEADLEE: That was originally - in fact originally one of the architects was Bob Dole.
KUMAR: Right.
HEADLEE: That was a Republican proposal.
CARY: Back in - yeah, back a long time ago.
CARY: Right.
HEADLEE: That's not up for question. So he presented a Republican proposal to Congress. One can say that. But let's - OK. Looking ahead.
CARY: Yes. Yes.
HEADLEE: One way or the other, we all want America to succeed.
KUMAR: Right.
HEADLEE: So that's going to be difficult, at least politically in the months ahead. So how do we move forward? I wonder, Maria, if you think that perhaps the president can make some good cabinet picks. He has a number of openings. Is there an opportunity here, or some of his other recess appointments maybe, to really reshape politics?
KUMAR: I think the more that he can bring in - I think one thing that we discussed was basically, you know, bringing in, possibly filling in with more women. The fact that you could actually bring in some Republicans into the pick - I know that folks keep saying Chuck Hagel on both sides is something that's a bit of a sour - sour note.
But he's actually someone that has been very pragmatic. He understands how politics works.
HEADLEE: They were proposing Chuck Hagel for Defense secretary.
KUMAR: Right. For Defense secretary. I mean, he's very much - I mean he demonstrates that he understands how politics works, but more importantly he's someone that's actually very supported from the Veterans Affairs and also from the military themselves. So I think that will be an interesting pick.
But then we also talked briefly about - Janet Napolitano is also someone that's short-listed for a cabinet position.
CARY: She was once governor and attorney general of Arizona.
KUMAR: Attorney general. So it will be - well, and she's also right now Department of Homeland Security.
CARY: Homeland Security.
KUMAR: So it will be interesting to see how, you know, if she's able to shift as well. So...
HEADLEE: But a lot of these shifts would be shifts from one Cabinet post to another, or close to Cabinet, right?
CARY: Right.
HEADLEE: I mean, so they'd still have to bring in some new people.
CARY: Right. I think - here's two ideas. One is Eric Holder may or may not step down. If he did...
KUMAR: It looks like he will.
CARY: ...I think he'd be great...
HEADLEE: He looks tired.
CARY: Yeah. He does look tired - not as tired as Hillary Clinton looks, but...
CARY: And so attorney general - I think Claire McCaskill would be a great pick.
HEADLEE: From Missouri.
CARY: From Missouri. She's...
HEADLEE: And let's be honest here, though. If Claire McCaskill becomes...
KUMAR: What does that do for the Republicans?
HEADLEE: Then that negates a seat - a Senate seat in Missouri.
CARY: But, even with that, she's a great former prosecutor.
HEADLEE: Yeah, that's true.
CARY: And she would get easily confirmed by the Senate, because she's a fellow senator. And she's on the Homeland Security Committee, so she could handle the counterterrorism aspects of being attorney general. I think she'd be a great pick.
The other one that I think would be fun is if Chuck Hagel doesn't make it through - which, by the way, I have to say something, that I don't really think it's fair for the White House to be floating trial balloons of peoples' names, because both have gotten into a lot of hot water, meaning Susan Rice and Chuck Hagel. They should either nominate him or not. This just seems very unfair to these people. But anyway, if Chuck Hagel is not their pick, I think it'll be very interesting to pick Kay Bailey Hutchison, the former, you know, retiring senator from Texas.
HEADLEE: From Texas.
CARY: She's a good bipartisan pick as a Republican. She's on defense appropriations - or she was until, you know, the inauguration. She would work very well with John Kerry at state, and she's chairman of the board at West Point. So she's got great military credentials, and I think she'd be a nice surprise pick for the president if she'd take it.
HEADLEE: All right. Let me ask you: John Boehner now says he will not do closed, one-on-one negotiations with President Obama. This is looking ahead to all the...
KUMAR: Right.
HEADLEE: ...negotiations that we have. So what do you think? A, will Boehner keep his post as speaker of the House, and B, will negotiations be easier once they're not done in the White House?
KUMAR: One, I think that he will keep his post.
CARY: I do, too.
KUMAR: I think that that's basic. I think that the fact that even Peter King basically came back home...
CARY: Right.
KUMAR: ...demonstrates that he is. But I think that it actually opens an interesting opportunity for Paul Ryan, who did vote for the...
HEADLEE: Former vice presidential candidate. Right.
KUMAR: ...former vice presidential candidate who's trying to find his footing, wants to remain in a leadership position. I think that actually gives him, perhaps, some power to negotiate with the White House.
HEADLEE: OK. What do you think?
CARY: I think so much of his second term agenda hinges on cooperation with Congress.
HEADLEE: Boehner?
CARY: No, the president's...
HEADLEE: Oh, the president.
CARY: ...the president's agenda. And for Boehner to say no more closed negotiations is fascinating, because that's so much of how Washington gets things done. So it's all going to have to be on the floor.
HEADLEE: But it's also what Americans really don't like.
CARY: Yeah. So I think it's a good move. He's got three things coming up. You've got the debt limit at the end of February. You've got March 1st sequestration.
HEADLEE: Yeah. There's a lot.
CARY: And then you've got the government shutdown looming.
HEADLEE: So I'm sure we'll be talking to you ladies again.
CARY: So they need the cooperation.
HEADLEE: You just heard Mary Kate Cary, columnist and blogger for U.S. News and World Report. And Maria Teresa Kumar is CEO and president of Voto Latino, a nonpartisan group that encourages Latino engagement in politics.
Thanks to both of you, and Happy New Year.
CARY: Yeah. Happy New Year.
KUMAR: Happy New Year. Thank you, Celeste.
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Published: October 14, 1990
Reinhold points out in his article that 70 to 80 percent of patients seeking treatment for environmental illness are women with histories of psychological problems. That women may be more chemically sensitive should come as no surprise: women bear most of the chemical exposure of contraception, in the form of the pill and spermicidal jellies and foams. They are more likely to handle household-cleaning and laundry products. They are exposed daily to cosmetics, perfumes and hair-grooming products.
Psychological problems may be merely another type of allergic reaction. Chemical irritants may trigger depression, for example, in the same way that they can stimulate a sneeze or an itch. I was convinced of this after I eliminated certain foods in my diet that I suspected were causing typical allergic reactions and found, to my surprise, that my chronic depression lifted, too.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/49120 | AU Biomaterials Design Lab:Protocols/ADA Activity Assay
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Adenoise Deaminase Kinetic Assay
• 1) Use 5 ml of 0.1 mM adenosine in phosphate buffer, & 5 ml of 0.1 mM inosine in phosphate buffer (0.05 M potassium phosphate, pH 7.4)
Collect a spectrum of the adenosine, the inosine and the ADA solutions. Find the extinction coefficient of adenonise and inosine at 235 nm and 265 nm.
Which wavelength should you use for this assay?
Determination of Kinetic Parameters
Reagents and Supplies
• 0.05 M potassium phosphate, pH 7.4
• adenosine deaminase (your most pure sample)
• 3 mM adenosine (in KH2PO4 buffer)
2) Level of Adenosine Deaminase to Use in the Kinetic Assays Find the amount of enzyme to use in the kinetic assays by completing the following assays. Prepare 3 ml of assay solutions according to the following table and record the absorbance changes at 235nm. (The volumes of ADA given are typical but you may need to expand the range if your activity is dilute OR dilute your sample in ADA assay buffer if it's highly active.)
Assay Phosphate buffer [mL] Adenosine [mL] ADA solution [µL]
• It will be necessary to find a suitable volume of your stock enzyme solution that produces a ΔA235/min of 0.02-0.03 under conditions of saturating levels of substrate as found in the above solutions. Construct a graph in your notebook of ΔA/min versus amount of enzyme (µl) used and determine the volume of enzyme to use for the remaining kinetic measurements. You may round the calculated volumes to a convenient volume (e.g., 10, 15, 20, etc. µl).
This graph should demonstrate that the reaction rate is linearly dependent on the level of enzyme at saturating levels of substrate.
3) Km's of Adenosine and 2'-Deoxyadenosine
• To determine Km and Vm for a particular substrate, the rate (or velocity) of the reaction is measured at various concentrations of the substrate.
(The amount of enzyme and the total volume of the assay solution must be held constant ±2% of the total volume. Note that in part 2 the total volume of the assay solution varied by 35 µl. This change represents less than 2% of the total solution and normal pipetting errors are expected to be about 3% due to multiple additions. Therefore, these small volume changes are within the experimental error and will not make a significant contribution to the total error.)
• Construct a chart in your notebook of the volumes of each component added to the reaction mixture so that the total volume is 3 ml. Measure the reaction rate with 0.005, 0.010, 0.020, 0.040, 0.080, 0.10, 0.30 ml of adenosine solution. Compare the reaction rates of the 0.1 ml and the 0.3 ml adenosine assays. If these rates are not within 10% of each other, try 0.35 ml of adenosine. A graph of rate (nmol/min) versus [adenosine] (µM) should show that an asymptote is being approached.
• From the plot of reaction rate versus substrate concentration (µM) estimate the Km for adenosine.
• With the data from Part 2, construct a graph of velocity (nmol/min) versus [substrate] (in µM) to demonstrate that a saturating level of substrate has been reached. Draw a smooth curve described by the data points. Estimate Vm and Km from this plot. The Vm is the asymptote that is being approached and is read from the y-axis. Extend a horizontal line at the half maximal velocity (Vm/2) and determine the concentration of substrate where the horizontal line intersects your plot.
• Prepare a graph of 1/velocity versus 1/[adenosine] . This graph can eventually be used to compare to the Vm and Km for ADA /AuNPs kinetics.
For comparison. Suggested table for your notebook: Assay [adenosine] in assay (µM) 1/[adenosine] (1/µM) deltaA/min rate (nmol/min) 1/rate (min/nmol)
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Mistake #5: Introducing People in the Wrong Order
Here is the mistake you never knew you were making, because 99.9 percent of the time, it isn't actually a faux pas. But that .1 percent of the time that it comes up, you have a chance to get this 100 percent right. It's really easy, and invisible to everyone but the elderly and extremely proper: When introducing people to one another, speak first to the person you want to honor, and be sure to use both of their full names and titles. Which is to say, when the city councilman visits your church and you want to connect him with your friend, you say, "Councilman Fredericks, may I introduce my friend Billy Williams. Billy, this is Councilman Fred Fredericks." Look at you, acing your fancy-etiquette opportunity with flying colors.
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RE[7]: Screenshots?
by rcsteiner on Mon 5th Mar 2007 17:22 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: Screenshots?"
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I am curious. What would those be? I can't think of any. The only feature I can think of is Shadow.
The fact that the WPS has discrete Shadow and Program Object icons is nice (the former simply points to the parent like a symbolic link does and uses the original program's settings, while the latter has its own set of object settings and acts as a customized clone of the original program).
Some other things that the WPS has which is missing in either Windows, Linux, or both:
* Object templates, allowing users to create a stack of tear-off icons from any other icon on the desktop. An easy way to create duplicates of a given icon complete with its environment.
* Decent visual queues for processes that are running, during desktop copy/move/create-shortcut operations, etc. I especially like the WPS rubber-banding effect between the source icon and mouse pointer when creating a shadow, and the cross-hatching the WPS uses to show any desktop icons associated with a running process.
* Workgroup folders (allows for the creation of logical execution groups by putting programs and documents in a folder marked as a workgroup) -- this is quite nice for starting/opening several programs/documents at the same time with a single click, and for closing them all as a unit with a single action. I use this frequently.
* The ability to lock individual icons in place on the desktop so they can't be moved.
* A decent built-in desktop backup facility which lets you save and restore past desktops in case you mess up.
* Different wallpapers in each folder. Maybe ROX Filer will add this feature. :-)
* Context menus for the desktop and folders which can be modified by drag-and drop (adding programs, etc.).
* Drag-and-drop font and color configuration in various applications (want a new font? Drag-and-drop it on the application from the system font template).
* An entry in the context menu of shortcuts that points directly back at the parent and which lets you open up the folder in which the parent resides. I use this all the time in the WPS. It's a reverse shortcut lookup.
* Animated window frames when opening/closing windows and dialogs. The WPS requires a third-party utility to do this, but I love the effects.
* Animated mouse pointers. Windows supports this, and Linux has some basic animation effects, but few Linux desktops provide customizable animated mouse pointers that allow me to change the text entry cursor, window resizing cursors, wait pointer, etc.
* A built-in icon editor. Windows seems to lack this.
That's a start off the top of my head...
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/49139 | Linked by Kroc Camen on Fri 9th Apr 2010 10:29 UTC
Linux "To be clear about this article's intent, it's not to bash Microsoft, or Windows. Because to be fair, despite using Linux 95% of the time while I'm on the PC, I can find more faults with it than Windows. So, this article's goal is to highlight some of the major pluses of Linux, and also showcase where Windows could improve in the future, should Microsoft take heed of the suggestions."
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RE: What about:
by renhoek on Fri 9th Apr 2010 21:18 UTC in reply to "What about:"
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mounts - volume mount points
hard links - mklink
sym links- junction point
watches - EGP-WP98
super computers - windows datacenter edition
i REALLY hates those lunix fanboys who have absolutely no knowledge of windows at all saying it's bad. Every os has it's strong and weak points, but please only comment if you know what you are talking about.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/49141 | Linked by Hadrien Grasland on Tue 15th Feb 2011 09:01 UTC, submitted by sawboss
GNU, GPL, Open Source "Manu Sporny, founder and CEO of Digital Bazaar, has decided to use GitHub to store a project of a[n unusual] nature. Rather than a piece of software, he is listing his own genetic data as an open source project. He has released all his rights to the data and made around 1 million of his genetic markers public domain."
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RE[3]: "Open source"???
by MamiyaOtaru on Wed 16th Feb 2011 13:06 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: "Open source"???"
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in the US, you can patent isolated DNA. Or could. A federal judge has ruled against the practice, which will of course be appealed
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RE: The Rosa Parks Principle
by Soulbender on Sun 16th Dec 2012 07:03 UTC in reply to "The Rosa Parks Principle"
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This comparison is just so wrong.
They would not have gotten as far if they had used the pregnant teenager who did the same before her.
As I can recall, the argument wasn't that Rosa Parks, and she alone, should be excluded from the segregation laws. There was no "lets exclude this one person as a first step" argument.
Really, I understand your point but this is just not a good comparison.
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RE: Neat device
by Nelson on Fri 12th Jul 2013 20:03 UTC in reply to "Neat device"
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I'm getting tired of the pure polycarbonate TBH, I think the Lumia 925 looks pretty awesome.
What I'd do is making it aluminum like the 925 (for weight, thinness, and attractiveness) while keeping the back of it polycarbonate but just allowing color selection.
Make the back removable and interchangeable, in turn also the battery, and throw in a well executed SD slot.
A phone like this without an SD slot doesn't make sense. The most exciting thing about the 1020 to me is that the updated variants for other carriers will be better.
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Talk, Rumors, X Versus Y
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RE[7]: Thank you Microsoft
by lemur2 on Sat 17th Aug 2013 09:41 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: Thank you Microsoft"
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"I'm not familiar with Ubuntu's installation
Ubuntu's installer doesn't really ask anything nowadays, it just plops itself where and however it likes.
Whenever I install Ubuntu (actually Kubuntu), I tell it where to install and what partitions it may use, and I verify that the new grub bootloader has made provisions for any other OSes installed (including any Windows OS), before I commit it to disk.
Try and do the equivalent with a Windows install.
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Early this year, I decided to take a risk.
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WinRT performance
by p13. on Wed 23rd Oct 2013 23:01 UTC
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I used one in a store once, for about ten minutes. Most of these minutes were spent waiting. It was very slow and just didn't work very well.
Too bad, because the hardware sure looked and felt nice. Now if only the firmware wasn't so closed and non-standard, we could maybe load android on it, or just run something like unity.
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RE[5]: Haha
by StephenBeDoper on Sat 24th Mar 2007 04:34 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: Haha"
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Those developers ought to reconsider what project they work on. Yes, I'm sure there are some talented people there, but their morality should "kick in" and they should quit working for a person/company that has such questionable ethics.
Why would a ZETA developer go to his/herself "Oh no, ormandj does not approve! Time for change of employer." I'm hardly the world's largest ZETA fan, but I don't see the point of crapping on them if you have nothing to say beyond vague indictments-by-implication.
Here's a (VERY) exaggerated example of the same kind of thing. There were LOTS of smart/good Nazis.
...what the EFF?
I'm going to display some restraint and not comment on the above quote, or the rest of your post, other than to mention that the phrase "jaw-droppingly sophomoric" comes to mind. And that's the about mildest characterization I could make.
If ever there were a situation where it was justified to invoke "Godwin's Law"...
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Bravo, old media!
by earksiinni on Mon 12th Jul 2010 05:47 UTC
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It's about time that WSJ and NYT started charging! It is a bold statement that pierces the unreality of an economy based on advertising, a statement that says "We stand by our goods with the only measure that means anything anymore: cash." I fully support this move, and I look forward to paying.
Lumping all media outlets that charge for content into one group isn't fair, and newspapers are not AOL. Groups that create content should not only have the right to charge, but they have an ethical imperative to do so. Bravo for getting some spine.
And for the record, it's really sad that we talk about newspapers or anyone else as "content providers". Such a life-sucking, soulless, corporate-bland term should only be reserved for the likes of Yahoo et al. Or that we judge the media by such absurd metrics as "value for money". I mean, what does that even mean? Was 50 cents the right price for Deep Throat? Are Tarantino and Antonioni to be judged by $8 ballot stubs, $10 with popcorn? The media gives us life, and we owe it our own life-force, which is, again, our money.
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RE: Bravo, old media!
by chmeee on Mon 12th Jul 2010 12:41 in reply to "Bravo, old media!"
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Whole-heartedly agree on this. Some people say money is a new invention, which it is, but compensation is as old as the primordial ooze that we crawled from. Even in the animal kingdom work is rewarded for value attained -- lions that protect the den become alpha, etc. The leech mentality of people these days is rather depressing, because it devalues those around them.
Pay it back, pay it forward, it doesn't matter, work needs to be compensated in some way else we wouldn't do it. The dollar, euro, peso, etc, are all just standardizations of barter compensation, and refusing to pay dollars or euros or pesos or whatever simply shows that the leech consumer holds no value in work.
To those others reading this: If you don't value the news feeds then don't read them. If you do value them, then pay them what they're worth. If you don't want to pay $10/month for their news because it's not worth it to you then don't read their stories, read somewhere else. Hell, someone might setup a pay-per-article site that might suit you more.
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RE: Bravo, old media!
by nt_jerkface on Mon 12th Jul 2010 23:27 in reply to "Bravo, old media!"
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They also gave us Rathergate and an endless list of cases where information was withheld from the public or distorted to push an ideology. This pattern of deception is well documented and I find it sad that so many still support these monolithic outlets that clearly have no regard for objective reporting.
I don't owe them a damn thing. I never thought the paper was worth 50 cents given how often journalists would insult my intelligence with their skewed coverage. Or how about the silly "two sides debate" coverage where one side is clearly inept and only exists to give the appearance of debate.
The best paper I ever bought was used as campfire fuel. If anything journalists owe us an apology for pushing so much bullshit onto the public.
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RE[2]: Bravo, old media!
by chmeee on Wed 14th Jul 2010 19:52 in reply to "RE: Bravo, old media!"
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And by not paying for their content, we demonstrate that they're not worth it, so they close shop. At least that's what would happen in my ideal world, where such outlets, or any business industry. are not heavily subsidized via bailouts, etc.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/49151 | Linked by nej_simon on Sat 11th Aug 2012 12:10 UTC
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RE[7]: Greedy
by Windows Sucks on Sun 12th Aug 2012 19:51 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: Greedy"
Windows Sucks
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"then why don't the companies Apple did all this stealing from sue
Because those companies aren't idiotic to sue for obvious design ideas like rectangular or circular shapes which don't need anyone to "invent" them. Those companies used them before Apple, yes. But these ideas are older than even those companies.
That's silly. Sony and Nokia are both going broke. Nokia for one sues so you can't say that about them.
If they could sue they would sue.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/49201 | U.S. patents available from 1976 to present.
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Process for fabricating SiC semiconductor devices
Patent 3956032 Issued on May 11, 1976. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject May 11, 1993. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
Abstract Claims Description Full Text
Patent References
No. 508784 filed on 09/24/1974
US Classes:
117/101, Characterized by specified crystallography or arrangement of substrate (e.g., wafer cassette, Miller index)117/103, Using an energy beam or field, a particle beam or field, or a plasma (e.g., ionization, PECVD, CBE, MOMBE, RF induction, laser)117/89, Including change in a growth-influencing parameter (e.g., composition, temperature, concentration, flow rate) during growth (e.g., multilayer or junction or superlattice growing)117/900, APPARATUS CHARACTERIZED BY COMPOSITION OR TREATMENT THEREOF (E.G., SURFACE FINISH, SURFACE COATING)117/92, Using an energy beam or field, a particle beam or field, or a plasma (e.g., ionization, PECVD, CBE, MOMBE, RF induction, laser)117/951, Carbide containing (e.g., SiC) {C30B 29/36}252/62.3C, Binary alloy or carbide; e.g., Al, In, LiC423/345, Of carbon (i.e., silicon carbide)423/346, By reacting vapor phase silicon compound with carbon or carbon containing compound438/931SILICON CARBIDE SEMICONDUCTOR
Primary: Rutledge, L. Dewayne
Assistant: Saba, W. G.
Attorney, Agent or Firm
This invention relates to methods of growing crystals with the desired crystal structure and is directed more particularly to a method of epitaxially growing SiC layers on SiC substrates.
SiC is a semiconductor material which has many advantages over other available semiconductor materials. For example, silicon carbide rectifiers which operated up to 600° C have been fabricated. No known commercially availablesemiconductor device is capable of operating satisfactorily to such a high temperature. Additionally, SiC has been used to fabricate luminescent diodes which emit a blue light having a wavelength near to the blue end of the visible spectrum. Suchdiodes are not commercially available at the present time.
In addition to its excellent stability at high temperatures, SiC has a wide-energy bandgap and, consequently, has great commercial potential particularly in the electro-optical semiconductor industry. However, SiC devices are extremely difficultto fabricate because present processes require high temperatures and, due to growth of the crystal materail on a c-face, layers of different type crystal structures or polymorphs are grown. These polymorphs create hereto-junctions which seriouslydegrade semiconductor performance.
Semiconductor devices having at least one junction of either the p-n type or the n-p type are generally made by growing a single crystal having the desired crystal structure. The single crystal is then used as a substrate and material with thesame crystal structure is grown on the substrate by various methods as described below. The material from which the crystal growth is developed may include dopant atoms of various types.
In the well-known Lely process of growing SiC crystals, SiC is first sublimed and then condensed to form single crystals which may if desired be used as substrates. This process requires temperatures in the range of from 2300° to2800° C. Dopant gases may be added to the sublimed SiC to produce the desired p-n junction.
In another process for fabricating a p-n junction in SiC, dopant atoms are diffused into a SiC substrate at a temperature in the range of from 2150 to 2250° C.
Still another way to grown p-n junctions in SiC is to epitaxially grow doped layers on SiC substrates. This latter process requires temperatures in excess of 1515° C, the usual temperature being in the 1650° to 1750° Crange.
All the above-described methods require temperatures in excess of 1500° C. The high temperatures required by all of these processes present a number of disadvantages. First the dopant atoms tend to diffuse and smear out the boundariesbetween the differently doped regions. It has been foudn that there is a significant diffusion of dopant atoms above the temperature of 1500° C, although below 1500° C there is very little diffusion. This undesirable diffusion increasesrapidly as temperature increases. Secondly, the high temperatures required make it difficult to maintain the required degree of system purity because materials used in the apparatus, such as the chamber, become involved in the process.
In growing SiC crystals, the substrate used is normally a single-crystal platelet having a hexagonal crystal structure. In the past these platelets were prepared so that the SiC to be grown on the crystal would grow on the c-face, that is alongthe c-axis which is perpendicular to the c-face. Because of this previous method of preparing the substrate, many problems resulted as will now be described.
SiC grows in many different crystal polymorphs, each with its own properties. Any one of these polymorphs can grow under apparently identical conditions and are formed by the stacking of silicon-carbon double layers of atoms. Each double layermay be situated in one of three positions. The sequency of stacking determines the particular polymorph structure and the stacking direction is called the crystal c-axis.
There is a cubic structure called β SiC as well as many hexagonal and rhombohedral structures which are usually identified as α SiC. The structure of β SiC is unstable above 1400° C and the hexagonal polymorph known as2H SiC is unstable above 400° C. The Lely process usually produces α SiC polymorphs. A polymorph known as 6H SiC is the most commonly produced and is also the most stable of all the SiC polymorphs. The α SiC crystals produced bythe Lely process are usually hexagonal platelets with the crystal c-axis perpendicular to the platelet. In all prior epitaxial processes, the epitaxial layer was grown on the large c-face of the hexagonal platelet; that is, in the c-axis direction. Inthese processes the stacking sequence frequently changes during growth thereby yielding layers of different polymorphs. This layered structure creates heterojunctions which can seriously degrade semiconductor performance, as indicated previously.
In view of the foregoing, it is an object of the invention to provide a new and novel method for epitaxially growing SiC crystals.
It is another object of the invention to provide an improved method of epitaxially growing SiC crystals on a SiC substrate by a preferred preparation of the substrate.
Another object of the invention is to provide a method for growing SiC crystals epitaxially on SiC substrates at relatively low temperature.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a method of growing SiC semiconductor junctions having well defined boundaries between differently doped regions.
Yet another object of the invention is to provide a method of epitaxially growing SiC crystals in which the possibility that the epitaxial layer will have a layered structure of different polymorphs is minimized.
In summary, the inventive method specially prepares crystal substrates which are attached to a susceptor body. The susceptor is heated to establish a desired temperature profile and a gas containing the desired elements of the crystal to begrown is passed over the susceptor and the substrates. Dopant gases may be added to the gas containing the elements of the crystal whereby p-n or n-p type junctions may be produced with minimum smearing and with minimization of the possibility of thegrowing crystal containing more than one type of polymorph.
FIG. 1 is a schematic drawing illustrating the manner in which a crystal platelet is sectioned to provide substrates for use with the inventive method.
FIG. 2 is a schematic drawing of apparatus utilized in the process of the invention.
FIG. 3 is a graph illustrating a temperature profile utilized to grow desirable crystal structures in accordance with the invention.
Referring now to FIG. 1, there is shown a SiC platelet of a 6H type of polymorph having a c-face 3 which is generally perpendicular to the c-axis of the crystal platelet 1. Crystal wafers or sections 2 which will be utilized as substrates in theprocess to be described are provided by making cuts parallel to the c-axis whereby the crystal sections 2 each has an a-face 4 parallel to the c-axis. As will be described presently, a crystal layer of SiC will be grown on the a-face of each of thecrystal sections 2. Preferably, the a-faces of the crystal sections 2 should be polished before the growth of the respective crystal layers thereon is begun. The sections 2 are thin and wafer-shaped and the a-faces may be considered as the fronts whilethe opposite surfaces, which are also flat, may be referred to as the backs of the sections.
Referring now to FIG. 2, apparatus for carrying out the process of the invention is identified by 10. Apparatus 10 comprises by way of example a reaction chamber 11, such as a quartz tube. SiC substrates 12 (sections 2 of FIG. 1) are attachedto a vertically oriented graphite susceptor body 13 with the a-faces being exposed by facing outwardly, as shown. The attachment of the substrates may be made mechanically or with a suitable adhesive. The most suitable adhesive has been found to be asolution of carbonized sugar.
To the end that the susceptor 13 will be heated in such a manner that the temperature at its upper end is less than 1,200° C and at least 1,400° C at some point along the susceptor to produce a desired temperature profile, a radiofrequency (RF) induction coil 14 is disposed around chamber 11. The RF field produced by coil 14 heats the graphite susceptor such that the temperature at each end is less than 1,200° while the temperature in the middle of the susceptor is about1,400° C.
A source of hydrogen gas 15 provides a carrier gas which is directed through a valve 16, a flowmeter 22 and a manifold 30 to a port 31 in the top of chamber 11 to purge the chamber after it has been outgassed and evacuated, as will be describedpresently.
The vent 32 in the bottom of chamber 11 allows unused gases to escape as the process proceeds. A carbon containing chlorosilane liquid 9 which is preferably methyltrichlorosilane (CH3 SiCl3) is contained in the bottom portion 20 of asaturator 19. The methyltrichlorosilane is a liquid which vaporizes at normal room temperature. When the valve 17 is opened, hydrogen flows from the hydrogen source 15 through valve 17, the flowmeter 23, the saturator 19, a valve 18 and the manifold 30to the port 31 of chamber 11 carrying the vaporized methyltrichlorosilane with it into the reaction chamber 11.
The upper portion 21 of saturator 19 may be cooled to a temperature of about 0°C plus or minus 10°C to condense some of the methyltrichlorosilane whereby it drips back into the lower portion 20 of saturator 19. The valves 16 and 17are adjusted to provide the desired concentration of methyltrichlorosilane gas in the hydrogen flow.
Where a p-n or n-p type junction is to be formed between the substrate and the crystal layer grown thereon, an n-type or p-type, as desired, dopant gas must be added to the mixture of hydrogen and methyltrichlorosilane being directed to chamber11. To this end there are provided respective p-type and n-type dopant gas sources 24 and 25 which may direct dopant gas into manifold 30 through respective valves 26, 27 and flowmeters 28, 29.
A typical example of the epitaxial growth of a SiC crystal layer on SiC crystal substrate by the inventive method will now be described. Substrates 12 having at least one a-face are provided by cutting a SiC platelet 1 into sections as shown inFIG. 1. The a-faces of the crystal sections are polished by any one of the techniques known in the art and the crystal sections are attached to an elongated graphite susceptor body which is then disposed in reaction chamber 11 shown in FIG. 2. Thepolished a-faces face outwardly.
The susceptor and substrates are outgassed by evacuating the chamber to a vacuum of about 10-.sup.5 Torr for several hours. Hydrogen is then admitted to chamber 11 by opening valve 16 and the susceptor is heated by energizing the coil 14with radio frequency current. As explained previously, the temperature profile from the top to the bottom of susceptor 13 is such that the temperature at the top of the susceptor is less than 1200° C while the temperature in the region of thesubstrates is in the range of from 1320° to 1390° C.
The hydrogen flow and the temperature profile are maintained until temperature stability of the apparatus, particularly the chamber 11, is attained. This normally takes about one half hour but, of course, depends upon the size of the chamber 11and the material from which it is made.
The growth of the layer of crystal SiC on the substrates 12 is initiated by opening valve 18 whereby additional hydrogen mixed with methyltrichlorosilane goes through manifold 30 and port 31 into chamber 11. Preferably, the valves 16, 17 and 18are adjusted such that the concentration of methyltrichlorosilane ranges from about 0.25 to 0.40 molar percent in a total hydrogen flow of 800 to 1,800 cubic centimeters per minute. With these gas flow parameters and the temperature profile across thesusceptor, as described previously, epitaxial layers of SiC will grow at rates of from about 0.3 to 0.4 micrometer per minute.
If the crystal being grown is to be doped, one of the other of valves 26 or 27 should be opened to direct a dopant gas from one of the other sources 24 or 25 into chamber 11. Commonly used p-type dopand gases include AlCl3 or B2H6. Suitable dopant gases of the n-type include N2 or PH3.
As shown in FIG. 2, the a-faces of the substrates 12 are generally vertically oriented and the susceptor 13 and the chamber 11 are also vertically oriented with respect to their elongated configurations. With this arrangement, a large radialtemperature gradient exists in the direction from the center of substrate 13 to the wall of chamber 11 causing thermal convection currents in the gas mixture in reaction chamber 11. Advantageously, these convection currents cause the gaseous reactionproducts, mainly hydrogen chloride, to impinge on the substrates 12, thereby effecting an etching process which takes place continuously and simultaneously with the deposition of SiC on the substrates 12. This action increases surface mobility of theatoms being deposited and results in more uniformly structured epitaxial layers.
Referring now to FIG. 3, there is shown a curve 33 which represents the temperature profile along the susceptor body 13 in the exemplary process described above. The layer of free silicon 34 forms at the upper end of susceptor 13 in the regionwhere the temperature ranges from about 1150° C as indicated by dashed line 35 and 1290° as represented by dashed line 36. The SiC crystal growth on substrates 12 occurs in the region where the temperature is between 1320° C asrepresented by dashed line 37 and 1390° C as indicated by dashed line 38. As indicated by curve 33, the temperature decreases to less than 1200° C at the lower end of susceptor 13.
When the mixture of hydrogen and methyltrichlorosilane enters the chamber 11, free silicon is deposited at the upper end of susceptor 13 as a layer 34. This takes place in the region where the temperature ranges from about 1150° C toabout 1290° C. This deposition of free silicon is believed to aid in the growth of the single polymorph SiC crystal although the mechanism is not fully understood.
While the chamber 11, the substrates 12 and the susceptor 13 are shown in FIG. 2 as being vertically oriented, a horizontal orientation will work satisfactorily. However, with the horizontal orientation there is less turbulence or convection ofthe reaction gases and, accordingly, to obtain ample etching of the substrate surfaces, HCl gas may be injected into the reaction chamber 11.
With regard to the gas which is admitted to chamber 11 with the hydrogen carrier gas, methyltrichlorosilane is preferred. However, any of the general class of chlorosilane gas may be utilized provided it contains adequate carbon atoms. Furthermore, chlorosilane gas containing no carbon atoms may be used if a hydrocarbon gas is mixed therewith.
The temperature gradient profile curve 33 shown in FIG. 3 is that which results from the apparatus shown in FIG. 2 wherein RF coils 14 are disposed around the reaction chamber 11. However, it is not essential that the temperature profileincrease from about 1,150° C at the upper end of susceptor 13 to about 1,400° and then decrease again to less than 1200° at the lower end. For example, the coils 14 of FIG. 1 might be sized and positioned so that the temperatureprofile increases from less than 1200° C at the upper end of susceptor 13 to about 1400° C at the lower end. The requirement for the inventive method is that there be a temperature range of from about 1200° to about 1300° to cause the deposition of free silicon on the susceptor and another range of about 1300° to 1400°C to provide a temperature range wherein a single polymorph of 6H SiC crystal is grown on the SiC substrate.
The temperature profile, as discussed above, may be achieved by means other than RF induction coils 14. For example, lenses and reflectors, as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 3,427,435, could be used to focus heat rays from an infrared source on aportion of susceptor 13. Also, arrangements of lenses and reflectors could be used to concentrate solar rays in the reaction chamber 11. Additionally, if the substrate 13 is SiC, an electric heating element could be disposed therein to provide thedesired temperature profile.
While the method of the invention and the apparatus have been described with relatively great detail, it will be understood that those skilled in the art of growing crystals may make changes and modifications to the foregoing method withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the claims appended hereto.
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• Powell et al., "Crystal Growth of 2H Silicon Carbide," J. Applied Physics, Vol. 40, No. 11, Oct. 1969, pp. 4660-4662
• Campbell et al., "Epitaxial Growth of Silicon Carbide . . . . Technique," J. Electrochem. Soc., Vol. 113, No. 8, Aug. 1966, pp. 825-828
• Golightly et al., "Some Aspects of Disorder in Silicon Carbide," Mat. Res. Bull., Vol. 4, 1969, pp. 5119-5128
• Knippenberg et al., "Growth Mechanisms of Silicon Carbide . . . . Deposition," Textbook - Silicon Carbide-1973, Ed., Marshall et al., pp. 92-107
• Weiss et al., "Chemically Vapor Deposited SiC . . . . Applications," Textbook- Silicon Carbide-1973, Ed., Marshall et al., pp. 80-91
• Bartlett et al., "Epitaxial Growth of ଲ-Silicon Carbide," Mat. Res. Bull., Vol. 4, 1969, pp. 5341-5354
• Todkill et al., "Properties of Some SiC Electroluminescent Diodes," Ibid., Vol. 4, 1969, pp. 5293-5302
• Liebmann, W. K., "Orientation of Stacking Faults . . . . in ଲ-SiC," J. Electrochem. Soc., Vol. 111, No. 7, July 1964, pp. 885-886
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/49205 | The "divine economy" is Church-speak for what is most easily defined as the work of the Trinity throughout history. It is the Godhead's initiation and movement in creation, and the divine governing of it. It is everything God does in the vast thing we call "God's Plan." The divine economy concerns the salvation of persons and the world, and a final, ultimate, cosmic, beyond-what-our-brains-can-fathom, entering in union with the Trinity.
The Trinity does what the Trinity is: the triune God of Love invites human persons to union with itself, and provides the means for that to happen via Christ and the Church. As the members of the Trinity are inseparable as divine persons, so, too, is their work inseparable from one another. This also means that the work of Christ is inseparable from the Church to which He is permanently wed.
Looking to the Church's wisdom and graces can assist our growth in the love and knowledge of the Trinity, that one day we, too, may be numbered among the saints in glory.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/49215 | The Nature of Reality » Davide Castelvecchi The NOVA Physics Blog Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:05:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Dante’s Universe, and Ours Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:11:28 +0000 Read Full Post]]> When a team of astronomers in 1992 released the first full-sky map of the cosmic microwave background—also known as the afterglow of the big bang—George Smoot, one of the group’s leaders and later a Nobel laureate, said, “If you’re religious, this is like looking at God.”
Mystical undertones stir passions and risk muddying our understanding of science. But whatever one’s views, it is an intriguing coincidence that a possible key to reading Smoot’s words comes to us from none other than Dante Alighieri’s “Paradiso,” written in the early years of the 14th century. The cosmic microwave background, or CMB, shows us a slice of the universe as it looked more than 13.7 billion years ago, and the structure of that universe bears a striking resemblance to that of Dante’s heaven—at least according to some commentators. It is as if the poet had presaged some of the most striking developments of modern mathematics and cosmology six centuries before they emerged.
“Paradiso,” the third and final part of the “Divine Comedy,” narrates an allegorical journey in which Dante ascends from Earth, visits heaven, and eventually gets to behold the creator himself. First, Dante crosses a series of concentric spheres, all centered at Earth, which hold the planets, Sun, moon, and the stars. The next sphere he reaches is one that encloses the entire physical universe. As he crosses it, he steps into the spiritual realm.
The otherworld however also has a geometric structure, and it is completely symmetrical to that of the physical world, with nine concentric spheres, which are inhabited by angels and the souls of the most virtuous dead. But instead of growing ever larger, these spheres grow ever smaller. And at the center, Dante says, sits God, occupying a single point and emanating a blinding light.
Thus Dante’s entire universe—both physical and spiritual—consists of two sets of concentric spheres, one centered at Earth, the other at God. If you were to point a laser vertically up toward the sky from any point on Earth, you’d be pointing it straight at that single point where Dante places God.
In a sense, then, the successive spheres of the spiritual world enclose all of the physical spheres, Dante seems to imply, even though they get smaller and smaller as you move farther away from Earth and closer to God. Such a geometry seems impossible, and the passage has mystified commentators for centuries. In fact, these bizarrely nested spheres are both mathematically and physically possible. To discover why, we have to turn to mathematics that wouldn’t be discovered until centuries after Dante’s death.
In the geometry of our everyday experience, also known as Euclidean geometry, if we draw a sphere around us, the larger the sphere’s radius, the larger its circumference; more precisely, doubling the radius of a sphere doubles its circumference. But this is an empirical fact and not a logical necessity: there is such a thing as non-Euclidean geometry, in which it is perfectly allowable for a sphere to have a circumference that is not proportional to its radius.
Moreover, non-Euclidean geometry is not just a bizarre, abstract invention of mathematicians. In fact, Einstein showed in his theory of general relativity that the geometry of the universe itself is fundamentally non-Euclidean. This is what allows space to twist and bend like a cosmic contortionist.
The discrepancy between the real world and Euclidean geometry is tiny in ordinary situations—a satellite’s orbit around Earth, for example, may be a few inches shorter compared to what you would expect from Euclidean geometry—but becomes substantial in extreme situations such as around black holes.
Dante’s universe, then, can be interpreted as an extreme case of non-Euclidean geometry, one in which concentric spheres don’t just grow at a different pace than their diameters, but at some point they actually stop growing altogether and start shrinking instead. That’s crazy, you say. And yet, modern cosmology tells us that that’s the structure of the cosmos we actually see in our telescopes.
We can think of the observable universe as being made of concentric spheres, just like Dante’s universe. Because light travels at a finite speed, we see distant galaxies as they were in the past, at the time when they emitted the light that we now receive from them. By definition, light covers one light-year of distance every year. Thus, for example, we can picture all galaxies that we see as they were one billion years ago as residing on a sphere centered at our position and of radius one billion light-years. (These spheres are of course not solid objects, and they not absolute but relative to the observer, contrary to those in Dante’s 14th-century cosmology.)
Now, the universe we see all sprang up from a very small region of space, and has been expanding ever since. Cosmologists have placed the beginning of time at about 13.7 billion years ago. That means that our game of drawing concentric spheres cannot be pushed to an arbitrary distance. But it also has another consequence. As the radius of the spheres pushes close to that magic number of 13.7 billion and change, we are looking at smaller and smaller regions of space, despite the fact that those regions still span our entire field of view, in all directions of the sky.
In fact, when astronomers map the CMB, they are mapping a sphere that surrounds us and that is very close to that initial moment—at roughly 400,000 years after the big bang—and thus has a “radius” of around 13.7 billion light-years. But its circumference is a lot smaller than what you would expect from Euclidean geometry—more than a thousand times smaller. Spheres that are even closer to the big bang are even smaller, until our field of view converges to that single point we call the big bang. Theoretically, we could cast a laser in any direction and still aim at that single point.
One very bizarre consequence of the non-Euclidean nature of the observable universe is that distant objects appear larger than their true size. For the first 10 billion light years or so, galaxies look smaller if they are farther away, but beyond that distance they instead start taking up a larger and larger field of view in the sky, as if space itself acted like a magnifying lens. In practice, the effect is exceedingly difficult to actually observe in our telescopes, because at those distances galaxies look extremely faint. But in recent years astronomers have begun several projects to detect the magnification effect in their observations, not by looking at the apparent size of galaxies but at their spacing. To do so, they map hundreds of thousands of galaxies over a range of distances spanning many billions of light-years. “You look at where the galaxies formed, not at how big they are,” explains astronomer Tamara Davis of the University of Queensland, who participates in one such mapping effort called WiggleZ.
Of course, Dante lived five centuries before any mathematicians ever dreamed of notions of curved geometries. We may never know if his strange spheres were a mathematical premonition or esoteric symbolism or simply a colorful literary device.
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Non-Euclidean Geometry Online: a Guide to Resources
Mircea Pitici’s brief introduction to non-Euclidean geometry.
The Poetry of the Universe
Mathematician Robert Osserman’s volume of “math for poets.”
The World of Dante
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If you are experiencing lag, then either 1) run the main loop occasionally during cpu-intensive functions
Okay I'm not sure I understand this. I was under the impression that the main loop was always running. Does this mean that when I run a timeout, the main loop "waits" for whatever the timeout does to finish before it continues on? Observing my program it does seem like that is the case.
The main loop waits for events. When it gets one it processes it. If the event it is processing is a timer event tied to a sub of yours, it runs the sub. (Don't) try this
while (1) { ... }
It will hang the GUI. So in an event-driven environment such as Gtk2 you allow events to trigger subs. Never have your code sit around waiting for something to happen, that is the main loop's job. When something happens it will trigger an event (if you ask it to) and run your sub. The only time you should ask Gtk2 to process pending events if if you have a compute intensive block of code. For instance, if you are sorting a few zillion items, every once in a while (pun intended) try
Gtk2->main_iteration while Gtk2->events_pending;
This runs the main iteration code (which is what loops in the main loop while there are any events pending. Of course, you need to make sure that this does not mangle the data you are processing.
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$line =~ s/\Q$var2\E/$var1/;
(In this case you don't need the \E at the end, since it'll end at the end of the regexp anyway, but it's good to know if you do need it later.)
Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "I can't use ' instead of " because of algorytm specific", but if you need to interpolate variables and still not have to quote quotes.
my $line = <<"HTML"; <a href="/{HOST}?action">123</a>:</b><br>[img-smile "58-41" ":)"] HTML chomp $line;
Or you can use qq with just about any delimiter.
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