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We are proud to welcome Stacey Epps as the Neuroscience Institute Executive Medical Director Stroke is the third leading cause of death in adults. Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability. Many first and recurring strokes are preventable with lifestyle changes and medication. In the United States there are over 500,000 new and approximately 200,000 recurring strokes every year. A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is suddenly slowed or stopped or when a blood vessel in the brain bursts, spilling blood into the spaces surrounding brain cells. Brain cells die when they no longer receive oxygen and nutrients from the blood or there is sudden bleeding into or around the brain. There are two forms of stroke: ischemic – blockage of a blood vessel supplying the brain, and hemorrhagic – bleeding into or around the brain. Both forms require immediate care in an Emergency Department, preferably in a Joint Commission Certified Primary Stroke Center. Every minute after the onset of stroke can lead to irreparable damage to the brain. After the onset of symptoms, you have a limited time to reach the Emergency Department and be eligible for current medical treatment. Do not delay, seek help immediately and remember, TIME IS BRAIN! Stroke Signs & Symptoms Stroke is a medical emergency. Know these warning signs of stroke and teach them to others. Every second counts: • Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding; • Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes; • Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination; • Sudden, severe headache with no known cause. If you experience any of the above symptoms, seek help immediately! Do not wait; Dial 911 or use the fastest means to reach the nearest Emergency Department. Risk Factors High blood pressure (hypertension) Chronically elevated blood pressure is the most common risk factor for stroke. High cholesterol Too much of this soft, waxy substance, found in cells and in the bloodstream, increases risk for stroke. Even low HDL (“good”) cholesterol has been identified as a risk factor in men. The nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke damage the cardiovascular system, making smoking a significant risk factor. While inability to produce or use insulin is a treatable disease, it still increases the risk of stroke. Also, many diabetics are overweight and may have high blood pressure and/or high cholesterol. Artery diseases is a danger of stroke when plaque builds up in the arteries of the neck (carotid artery stenosis), because a blood clot here could block blood flow to the brain. Heart disease Irregular heart rhythm (atrial fibrillation) raises the risk for stroke, because it can cause blood to pool and clot. A blood clot could then break off, enter the bloodstream and block an artery leading to the brain. An enlarged heart (dilated cardiomyopathy), heart valve disease and some types of congenital heart defects also raise the risk. Sickle cell anemia "Sickled" red blood cells are less able to carry oxygen, and they also tend to stick to blood vessel walls, which can block arteries to the brain. This is a genetic disorder that affects mainly African-American and Hispanic children. Poor diet Food high in saturated fat and trans fat can raise cholesterol levels. Food high in sodium can contribute to high blood pressure, and food with too many calories can lead to obesity – all risk factors for stroke. Lack of physical exercise and obesity can increase blood pressure and cholesterol, and lead to diabetes and heart disease – all risk factors for stroke. The chance of having a stroke more than doubles for each decade after age 55. Family history Risk is greater if a sibling, parent or grandparent has had a stroke. African-Americans have a higher risk of death from stroke because they also have a greater risk of high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity. Stroke is more common in men than women, yet more women die of the disease. Use of birth control pills and pregnancy increase risk for women, as does the combination of oral contraceptives and smoking. Prior stroke or heart attack Having already had a stroke or heart attack increases risk. And a transient ischemic attack (TIA) – which produces temporary stroke-like symptoms – can increase risk tenfold. good sharing featured video	[]
For years NASCAR has been drowning in its own expectations. After spending much of the early 2000s bragging about how hot it was, the sport cooled off. The problem is that NASCAR was never as hot as it claimed to be. It was popular, yes. It had rabid fans, no doubt. But it never had 75 million fans, as it so often claimed. It was never the second-most watched sport, as it liked to tout. So now after years of declines in attendance, TV ratings and the ever-sought, ever-elusive buzz, NASCAR is trying desperately to get back to where it was. The problem is, it was never there in the first place, and the sport's leaders fail to understand that getting there shouldn't be the goal anyway. NASCAR officials spend too much time concentrating on what will make NASCAR more popular and not enough time on what will make it better. The latest grasping at straws broke Friday night and will be front and center for the sport at least until the Daytona 500 (Feb. 23) and probably long after that, too. As reported by Jim Utter of the Charlotte Observer, NASCAR plans to radically change the way it determines its champion. Right now, the Chase for the Sprint Cup works like this: After a 26-race "regular season," 12 drivers qualify for the 10-race Chase. Those drivers have their points reset for the final 10 races, with bonuses for wins. Whoever has the most points at the end of the 10 races, wins the championship. The new system, according to Utter: "In addition to expanding the Chase field from 12 to 16 drivers, a win in the season's first 26 races would virtually ensure a driver entry into the championship Chase. If there were more than 16 winners, the 16 with the most wins and highest in points would gain entry. "Once the Chase field was set, a round of eliminations -- similar to the NCAA tournament -- would take place after the third, sixth and ninth race of the Chase, culminating with the championship determined by a winner-takes-all season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway." This proposed change follows the switch to the Chase format in 2004 and several tweaks since then. The tweaks have included expanding the Chase field, adding bonuses for wins and changing the number of points awarded per position. Even for hard-core fans, it has been hard to follow, and that was made even more difficult last season when penalties after the Chase field was set changed the field and chairman Brian France unilaterally put Jeff Gordon in the Chase even though he had not qualified for it. Racing is the simplest sport there is: Start here, first one there wins. Yet NASCAR has progressed from a simple championship system based on consistency to one based on consistency plus a semi-mad dash at the end to a (proposed) needlessly complicated mess. First cut the field to 16, then cut it to something else, then cut it again then -- click, football is on. At this point, NASCAR should just buy an officially licensed dartboard, put drivers' names on it, give a lucky fan selected via market research a dart to throw, and whosever name gets hit wins the championship, as long as it's Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Making winning more important is a good idea. Adding drivers to the Chase, no big whoop. But already fans have zeroed in on the final race as winner-take-all as unacceptable. The complaint goes like this: A driver could pile up win after win, top five after top five, dominate the entire season, wreck on the last lap of the last race, and lose the championship. Having four drivers race for the championship while 39 others drive in circles on the same track at the same time for nothing is just plain silly. It makes sense only when viewed through NASCAR's prism of trying to create "Game 7" moments. But NASCAR has never made a case for why overhauling the sport in pursuit of that singular goal is a good idea. The fact every other sport has "Game 7" moments is a reason to not have them in NASCAR. NASCAR should trumpet that the champion must do well all season long. NASCAR should celebrate that a finish in February matters in November. Instead, NASCAR is trying to be like everybody else. NASCAR is so obsessed with where it wants to be that it doesn't pay any attention to where it is. NASCAR does not need to manufacture "Game 7" moments. It needs to fixate on the incredibleness of every turn of every race. NASCAR is great because driving into a corner at 180 miles per hour means you are certifiably insane and might wreck and oh gosh I can't watch did he wreck? From February until November, these nutbags risk turning their cars into smoldering rubble and themselves into something far worse … and yet NASCAR constantly fiddles with its championship system to create excitement. Instead of asking themselves, "is changing the points system a good idea?" NASCAR officials ask themselves, "will people pay more attention to us if we do this?" Instead of focusing on being the best NASCAR it can be for NASCAR fans, NASCAR seems to want to be the best NASCAR it can be for non-NASCAR fans. The end result has been non-fans staying that way and longtime fans joining them. The proposed new points system will continue that trend, no matter how many "Game 7" moments it creates.	[]
Take the 2-minute tour × I'm using express in nodejs. The following code seems to render my partial and respond it DIRECTLY to the client. How can my dynamicHelper RETURN the rendered partial to the layout template instead of sending it to the client menu: function(req, res) { // The following return res.partial( __dirname + '/views/partials/menu', { locals: { nodes: asap.config.menus[key] share\|improve this question add comment 1 Answer Since express and connect new versions you can't as it would call res.send() twice. I'm working on a commit to fix this issue. I hope to finish it soon and then we will see if TJ will merge it. share\|improve this answer add comment Your Answer	[]
From Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia Revision as of 03:36, April 20, 2011 by CheddarBBQ (talk \| contribs) Jump to: navigation, search SUPER NEW: Entries of people you may have never heard of before have got their own special place now. These folks are eighter a) inactive for a long period b) Not-that-notable-but-still c) annoying. So there. NEW: We are updating the entries so that they match Famine's acceptance level! Updated entries: Codeine, and Keitei through Flammable. Administrators and members on Uncyclopedia create user names just to follow procedure, but in reality, they do not appreciate being called by these nicknames. The following is a list of their real names, along with a short biographical sketch for admins and notable members of the site. Keitei (Kate) Keitei's real name is Katereina. She is a 34-year-old who sits in the dark all day, and feeds on delivered pizza. She owns many pets, such as a squirrel, a draak and a Hitlerbear and she has an abnormal dislike for "juice people" and people with bloodcancer. She lives in New England, though on a visit to Florida, her rage caused by the "Emocore" Movement. It was later named Hurricane Katrina, which ended up in catastrophe and devastation. There is also an age-old dispute as to whether or not Keitei is actually a girl, for more on this see The Great Keitei Debate. Nytrospawn (Ryan) Nytro's real name is Ryan Bath House. He graduated in capitalist economy, but he builds Zombie Nazi Robots for a (poor) living. Lives with his father, Forest Gump and his 12 monkeys. He's a Norwegian-German-Canadian Star Trek fan-boy who really hates cars and other motorized vehicles. He once presented an unaltered Uncyclopedia article to his teacher as his school paper, which got him a C+. Rcmurphy (Roberto) Murphy's real name is Roberto Clemente Murphy. He is a freelancer bureaucrat level 31 whose most famous works include Disney and the company responsible for the Mavis Beacon Teaches Stereotyping CD-Rom. He and Burt Reynolds are close friends. Son of a male gay couple, Murphy was abandoned by them during childhood. He hopes to live in California, one day. Trivial facts on him are that his grandfather invented lattes and that he won an euroiPod when participating at The Price Is Right. Isra1337 (Gary) Isra’s real name is Gary Mander. He is a Muslim who comes from a long line of USA presidents. Former Star Trek producer, he currently works at the White House. He believes that the Christian God's name isn't God, even though he has built many churches, since he’s an engineer. He has once tried his luck as a white rapper with very little success. Gary has lived in Hiroshima in the period betweem 1944 and 1946. Dawg (Charlie) Wolf's real name is Charles Emerson (Greek: Gluteus Maximus), but he prefers Charlie. He’s a former Los Angeles cop who used to illegally sell clock radios. Now, he is a monk who lives in the mountains. Charlie’s mother, Eva Perón, gave birth to him in Brest, France. One time, a hiker found him in his cave, and Dawg couldn't believe it wasn't Hitler. neoEva88 (Dana) Dana is an American laywer who hopes to one day become a judge. He has argued in court against the existence of water and that man has landed on the moon (what a loon). Gets legal information from Wikipedia. Devout Catholic that converted to Rastafarianism so he could be the head of Uncyclopedia's chess club. As such, he is often quoted on MTV. His favorite color is orange. Volte (Ed) Ed is a 28-year-old professional bocha player who likes to wear colorful hats. An ex-marine that worships Martha Stewart ("That gal is so tidy!"), he is Uncyclopedia's foremost advocate of torture, especially the Machete to the groin. Ed is an avid atheist. He has been quoted as ranting, "Jesus is coming back? Where is he? He's late!" Ed has overstepped his bounds and had to be banned multiple times, most recently for making himself an admin. Eventually they let him have his fun, and didn't revert his self-op. Ed enjoys playing poker, loves magic and mythology, and is a leading literary critic. His favorite writer is T. S. Eliot. He is also the only Uncyclopedian that's been to outer space. Chronarion (Lewis) Lewis is from Australia, and therefore he suffers from TAA (Thick Australian Accent) Syndrome. He lives in Melbourne with his pet kangaroo, neighbouring a Subway. You know what? He invented Uncyclopedia! Worship him! Uncyclopedia's brutal Dictator in absentia, Lewis was named Uncyclopedia of the year in 2004, since there was no one else here back then. Lewis has an iPod nano that he has hooked up to hold 200 gb, for reasons no on really understands. He is an avid fan of dinosaurs. He also loves early 90s rap music. Be careful! He is the biggest liar on the internet, no matter what Al Franken says. Stillwaters (Claire) Claire is from Austria, but was adopted by a Swedish couple who took her last name and wouldn't give it back. She is one of the few girls on the site, and is not only proud of that fact, but smug about it. March 2005's Writer of the Month, Stillwaters is what Bill O'Really would call "a liberal." The co-founder of Uncyclopedia, she's spent a lot of time writing "oh wouldn't it be great if we actually had civil rights" articles for the New York Times about America and it's mistress country, Japan. She actually owns two cows, which is where that whole thing started. Unlike most people on the internet, she hates the MPAA. But, dude, check it out! She plays videogames for a LIVING! Beat that! Famine (Jason) Jason is a transexual prostitute living in sin. Jason's life basically consists in selling cocaine to buy heroine. He used to live in New York City's Park Avenue, but he forgot his address, so now he wanders around Broadway, the highest drug selling point in this side of the world. Jason serves as Poopsmith of Uncyclopedia, though quite accidentally. Suprisingly, he got the Writer of the Month, August 2005, award without actually having ever written anything. Ever. When Jason is high, he believes he is Famine, the famed horseman of the Apocalypse. He then gets on his computer, and, with an admin code he got from Flammable in a drug deal, desperately tries to rid Uncyclopedia of any material whatsoever. He has not yet accomplished his goal, but he is working diligently toward it. If he deletes your stuff, understand that it is not personal, he just hates everything. The only way to keep your material on Uncyclopedia is to make him laugh so hard he can't hit the delete button before the authorities kick him out of the library. MoneySign (John) $'s real name is John Greenstein. John is a successful Jewish attourney who lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and has a five-figure salary. He isn't married, since his job (and now the site) take most of his personal time. He joined Uncyclopedia when his fellow co-workers dared him to. John was Noob of the Month Jan 2006, mainly for doing requested images for all kinds of articles, and getting two featured images on the front page. Besides that, he hasn't done much in his short time at Uncyclopedia, besides getting his own puzzle piece, causing a nuclear holocaust while pulling a Homer, and starting a company that sells everything from razor blades to orange juice. John has super-powers on IRC, where you must respect his authority. Elvis (Francis) Elvis' real name is Francis. Francis lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, and sells surfboards for a living. Francis's gender is undetermined. S/he lives in a treehouse by the beach, with his/her pet monkey, Stuart. Francis goes by the moniker "Elvis" on the internet to feel "pretty." S/he once visited Britain and was knighted for creating some awards for the queen. This makes referring to Sir/Dame Francis much more difficult in Britain, so s/he has been banished, never to return. Francis won the Useless Gobshite of the Month, Oct 2005 award for coming to Uncyclopedia looking for acceptance. The result was a bloodbath. Flammable (Paul) Flam's real name is Paul. Paul is a 13-year old hobo who lives on a train that goes from Delaware to Vermont and back, every single day. He collects money from the passengers, and loots Wal-Mart for food at all stops. He gets on Uncyclopedia because a nice passenger forgot to take his laptop with him when leaving the train. Paul was knighted for bringing the Flying Spaghetti Monster to Uncyclopedia. This new religion made him slightly crazy however, so when he isn't doing drugs, he is busy destroying every article on Uncyclopedia that he find "offensive" to Pastafarians. The only way to stop him from deleting your stuff is to cry and post desperate pleas for mercy on his talk page. If they are funny, he'll still delete your article, but will keep your pleas for mercy for his own amusement. Paul is the only Uncyclopedia user that has run for President of the United States of America (Gundam party). savethemooses (Norman) Mooses' real name is Norman Wells. Norman is a computer geek who spends the day trying to hack into the CIA's website. He lives alone in a small apartment paid for by his parents, and feeds primarily on Hot Pockets. He joined Uncyclopedia while trying to hack into it in order to blank RuneScape once and for all. Guest (Rikio) Sikon's real name is Rikio Matsumara. Rikio's one of two notable Japanese members here. He is a 35-year-old banker who lives in Osaka, and is married to Tsuyako, a vaguely life-like robot. He also invests in the stock market. His hobbies include schoolgirls, signing offkey and morris dancing. 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He and his friends invented a religion last summer, which they don't really follow, but which is hella funny nonetheless. His favorite brand of cigars is Arturo Fuentes, followed by Padron and those ACME cigars that blow up in your face when Bugs Bunny lights them. He is currently the Chosen Deity of the Southwest, and he eats guns and craps bullets. Cigaro Cubano rules your face off. emc (Nate) A rare breed of chinchilla (electrifae chinchillidae coffea arabica), indigenous to Chile in South America. whats this for? (Fred) German. Thats all you need to know. Trar (Isaac) Trar used to have a long and extremely shitty paragraph here, filled to bursting with non-humor unworthy of Encyclopedia Dramatica. He finally came to his senses, realized how truly UNFUNNY he was, and huffed it with no mercy. diMario (Cornelis) diMario's given name is Cornelis van der Decken. He is an old geezer! Previously Master of the Flying Dutchman, a 16th century tall ship with a bad reputation (both the ship and the Captain) he now has retired from the sea and makes a living in software maintenance. His greatest contribution to humanity (besides scaring the bejeesus out of every sailor whome ever went out with the tide since the 16th century) up to date is a rather nifty bug fix in some prettey ancient code where the order of copying HTTP headers from request to reply was reversed. His hobbies include drinking in a social setting and occasionally "sticking me index into a dyke" as he so eloquently describes it himself. He also likes to brag on the #uncylcopedia IRC chan about his imaginary pet grue Wendy. Besides his ship master's certificate, he is also one of the few Dutch bastards that have officially been certified incurably insane. Insineratehymn (Ethan) Insineratehymn's real name is Ethan. He is 16 years old, single, and a horny womanizer. 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Title: Hovering on the Edge of Twilight Rating: T Pairing: Vincent/Reeve Summary: A missing scene from DoC. Vincent's recovery reveals a few secrets. Warnings: Contains mild game spoilers for chapter 3 of DoC Disclaimer: I hold no rights to the game DoC. All characters used with affection, but without permission. The thoughts flew through Vincent's mind as he fell. This Rosso was strong. Very strong. Perhaps it was only that Vincent had been caught off-guard. Perhaps not. But his normal skill had not been enough to survive the encounter. He considered all this as his body fell, lacking the strength to stop or even control his fall. So, he had been forced to call on Chaos to fend her off? Vincent was not ashamed of the fact. Rosso was a worthy opponent. Vincent landed on his back, the rain still falling gently around him. Slowly a sound emerged from his throat. "Ha...ha...haha." Still, he was unbeaten. He would not be taken so easily! But the effort of controlling Chaos had drained all his reserves, and now he had nothing left to fend off the darkness flickering at the edges of his vision. The last thing visible was a pair of legs that he somehow knew belonged to a friend... or at least an ally. They were all he saw before he succumbed totally to unconsciousness. The first thing that registered in Vincent's mind was the sound of someone shouting. Vincent was unable to move, or open even his eyes, but the voice managed to pierce the wall of his unconsciousness. It sounded like someone was terribly upset... Slowly the sound resolved itself into Reeve's voice. "What do you mean you found him collapsed?" Another voice could be heard murmuring explanations about Edge, and something about an encounter with Rosso. "Rosso the Crimson? The Tsvietts! Is he badly wounded? Will he be able to recover?" With each question, Reeve's voice managed to get louder, until it could almost be considered shrill. The errant thought flitted through Vincent's semi-conscious mind - Strange for Reeve to get so worked up. Wonder who's got him so worried? But Vincent wasn't given time to consider the puzzle before he faded back into unconsciousness. Something was wrong. That was the first new thought Vincent had. A new sound had managed to work its way into his awareness. It sounded like... Someone was crying. Vincent strove to make sense of what was happening. He was still unable to move, but his mind had cleared somewhat. He remembered his recent battle, and realized he had been placed in a regen tank. But hadn't he just heard Reeve...? Yes, Reeve had been shouting...about someone being injured. Could he have been talking about me? Why would he care? But someone was weeping...and Vincent had no idea who. He fought with his body, cursing his weakness. How badly had he been injured? He could barely force his eyes open to slits...but it was enough to bring his surroundings into view. There was a figure kneeling outside his tank...and Vincent would recognize that figure anywhere. Head bowed, face hidden in his hands, shoulders shaking...Vincent watched as Reeve quietly sobbed. Reeve was obviously trying to regain control of himself, but he seemed to be overwhelmed by his grief. One hand reached up to press against the tank's surface, and Reeve finally brought his face upwards, though he clearly had no idea that Vincent could hear him. "Vincent...please forgive me. I should never have involved you. You've been through so much, and had so much taken from you. I never thought this would happen!" Vincent's mind whirled. His injury had brought Reeve to this? Vincent had never seen Reeve display this type of emotion. The man was normally calm and composed, thinking only of the overall goal. Why would the sight of Vincent injured pull such a strong reaction from Reeve? The sound of an opening door pulled Vincent's attention back to the present, but Reeve didn't even shift. Of course, it was Cait Sith, come to report on some incident or another. Once he was finished, Vincent expected him to walk away, but to his mild surprise, the thing stayed. Of course, Vincent knew they contained a level of self awareness, but he had never considered how much they must know about Reeve, instead of the other way around. "Still not awake then, is he?" Reeve shook his head. "No. And I'm the one who brought him to this, after all he's done. All he's been through, and I had to drag him back into things, when all he wanted was to be left alone..." Cait tilted his head to the side. "He's not the only one who would know something about being alone now, is he? You keep to yourself far too much." Reeve snorted gently. "What would you know of that?" "For shame, master. You're the one who created us. We see more than you might think. Its what we were made for! Have you not considered telling Vincent about your feelings? Why should you keep hiding them away?" "Because he would never in a million years appreciate hearing them!" Reeve shot to his feet and started pacing, as if he couldn't contain everything anymore. "For God's sake, I was an executive of Shinra! I'm sure its only because of the help I provided in bringing them down that he even tolerates my existence. He could never understand. He would never believe that just the sight of him, helpless like this..." Cait watched his master closely. "It hurts you, doesn't it?" The most hopeless laugh Vincent had ever heard escaped from Reeve's throat. "It hurts like nothing I've ever felt. I would give anything to take his place, even if it would mean my death. I'm sure the thought would not bother him, but I would give my life to protect him." "Ah, but it might bother him!" Reeve watched as his creation stepped closer. "What do you mean by that?" "Remember, when I contacted him in Kalm, I met him in your form. Now your form got shot, but he didn't know it was me! And the look on his face was not one I've ever seen before. It shocked him, it did! Oh, he took revenge on the one to 'kill' you, quick enough. And when he had, he rushed to gather you up before you were gone. I know that he cares for you, master. Perhaps you should have a chat, when he gets out?" Whatever Reeve was going to say was lost when another person entered the room. While Reeve turned to deal with the business at hand, Vincent's mind drifted over all he had heard. Reeve harbored feelings for him? The very idea shocked Vincent. When was the last time someone had felt such things for him? Not since...the beginning. I never thought anyone would feel that way about me, not after what I've become. But there was no denying the pain that Reeve was obviously feeling. Incredible. Someone felt, for him. The very idea was a gift beyond price. And how do I feel about him? One thing Cait Sith was good at, Vincent reflected sardonically, was seeing things no one else knew was there. The Cait had been all too accurate with his description of the events in Kalm. When Reeve's 'body' had been shot, when Vincent had believed his friend to be dead, it was like a part of him had also been shot. He had rushed to gather Reeve up from the floor, as if he could bring Reeve back if he moved fast enough. And when the body had fallen apart, and Cait Sith had come tumbling out, it had been all he could do to keep from reaching out and shaking the thing. He had never been more relieved than when the real Reeve had come rushing out of the WRO transport. He knew he had startled Reeve when he simply ran around the truck, Cerberus blazing, but all he could see in his mind was Reeve being shot again, and knowing that this time it would be no trick, no Cait Sith in disguise. But I've always resisted getting close to anyone. I never thought it would even be possible. Why should Reeve be any different? Vincent considered the man in question. Certainly he trusted him. Which was odd, considering the things he had done in the past. But Vincent trusted him with his life, and always had. And if he was killed? The very idea left Vincent aching, as if his heart was being squeezed. Vincent thought of Reeve being injured, and felt an immense wave of protectiveness sweep through him. Could I really be attracted to him? Vincent pictured Reeve. He had always acknowledged that Reeve was an attractive man. And Vincent knew the man was anything but weak; Vincent need have no fear of having to hold his strength in check. Reeve knew what Vincent was capable of, and respected his power, but he didn't fear it. But could Vincent make him happy? That would remain to be seen. But after considering what might be involved in such an undertaking Vincent was surprised by a surge of longing. He wanted to see what would happen! He was tired of always being alone, of living in darkness, only relying on himself. Reeve cared for him, cared enough to feel pain when Vincent was hurt, and Vincent was beginning to realize that he felt the same for Reeve. Getting out of this damned tank would take some time. Already Vincent could feel his body attempting to shut down again, clamoring for the rest that would speed his healing. But before giving in, Vincent resolved to have a long talk with Reeve as soon as he was released. Reeve would be shocked at being approached by his normally withdrawn friend, Vincent thought with some amusement. He allowed that thought to carry him into slumber, hoping that he would be recovered enough to seek out Reeve when he woke up.	[]
« Prev Section IX. Divine Love, the Principle of All… Next » SECTION IX.—Divine Love, the Principle of All Good. To those who follow this path, divine love is all-sufficing. While despoiling of all things those souls who give themselves entirely to Him, God gives them something in place of them. Instead of light, wisdom, life, and strength, He gives them His love. The divine love in these souls is like a supernatural instinct. In nature, each thing contains that which is suitable to its kind. Each flower has its special beauty, each animal its instinct, and each creature its perfection. Also in the different states of grace, each has a special grace. This is the recompense for everyone who accepts with goodwill the state in which he is placed by Providence. A soul comes under the divine action from the moment that a habit of goodwill is formed within it, and this action influences it more or less according to its degree of abandonment. The whole art of abandonment is simply that of loving, and the divine action is nothing else than the action of divine love. How can it be that these two loves seeking each other should do otherwise than unite when they meet? How can the divine love refuse aught to a soul whose every desire it directs? And how can a soul that lives only for Him refuse Him anything? Love can refuse nothing that love desires, nor desire anything that love refuses. The divine action regards only the goodwill; the capability of the other 87faculties does not attract it, nor does the want of capability repel it. All that it requires is a heart that is good, pure, just, simple, submissive, filial, and respectful. It takes possession of such a heart, and of all its faculties, and so arranges everything for its benefit that it finds in all things its sanctification. That which destroys other souls would find in this soul an antidote of goodwill which would nullify its poison. Even at the edge of a precipice the divine action would draw it back, or even if it were allowed to remain there it would prevent it from falling; and if it fell, it would rescue it. After all, the faults of such a soul are only faults of frailty; love takes but little notice of them, and well knows how to turn them to advantage. It makes the soul understand by secret suggestions what it ought to say, or to do, according to circumstances. These suggestions it receives as rays of light from the divine understanding: “intellectus bonus omnibus facientibus eum”; “A good understanding to all that do it” (Ps. cx, 10), for this divine understanding accompanies such souls step by step, and prevents them taking those false steps which their simplicity encourages. If they make arrangements which would involve them in some promise prejudicial to them, divine Providence arranges some fortunate occurrence which rectifies everything. In vain are schemes formed against them repeatedly; divine Providence cuts all the knots, brings the authors to confusion, and so turns their heads as to make them fall into their own trap. Under its guidance those souls that they wish to take by surprise do certain things that seem very useless at the time, but that serve afterwards to deliver them from all the troubles into which their uprightness and the malice of their enemies would have plunged them. Oh! what good policy it is to have goodwill! What prudence there is in simplicity! What ability in its innocence and candour! What mysteries and secrets in its straightforwardness! Look at the youthful Tobias; he is but a lad, yet with what confidence he proceeds, having the archangel Raphael for his guide. Nothing frightens him, nothing is wanting to him. The very monsters he encounters furnish him with food and remedies; the one that rushes forward to devour him becomes itself his sustenance. By the order of Providence he has nothing to attend to but feasts and weddings, everything else is left to the management of the guiding spirit appointed to help him. These things are so well managed that never before have they been so successful, nor so blessed and prosperous. However, his mother weeps, and is in great distress at his supposed loss, but his father remains full of faith. The son, so bitterly mourned returns to rejoice his family and to share their happiness. Divine love then, is to those who give themselves up to it 88without reserve, the principle of all good. To acquire this inestimable treasure the only thing necessary is greatly to desire it. Yes, God only asks for love, and if you seek this treasure, this kingdom in which God reigns alone, you will find it. If your heart is entirely devoted to God, it is itself, for that very reason, the treasure and the kingdom that you seek and desire. From the time that one desires God and His holy will, one enjoys God and His will, and this enjoyment corresponds to the ardour of the desire. To desire to love God is truly to love Him, and because we love Him we wish to become instruments of His action in order that His love may be exercised in, and by us. The divine action does not correspond to the aims of a saintly and simple soul, nor to the steps it takes, nor to the projects it forms, nor to the manner in which it reflects, nor to the means it chooses, nor to the purity of its intention. It often happens that the soul can be deceived in all this, but its good intention and uprightness can never deceive it. Provided that God perceives in it a good intention, He can dispense with all the rest, and He holds as done for Him what it will eventually do when truer ideas second its goodwill. Goodwill, therefore, has nothing to fear. If it fall, it can only do so under the almighty hand which guides and sustains it in all its wanderings. It is this divine hand which turns it again to face the goal from which it has strayed; which replaces it in the right path when it has wandered. In it the soul finds resources for the deviations to which the blind faculties which deceive it, render it subject. It is made to feel how much it ought to despise them, and to rely on God alone, abandoning itself absolutely to His infallible guidance. The failings into which good souls fall are put an end to by abandonment. Never can goodwill be taken unawares. That all things work for its good is an article of faith. Please login or register to save highlights and make annotations Corrections disabled for this book Proofing disabled for this book Printer-friendly version	[]
Robbery suspect arrested at Grand Rapids 7-Eleven had stolen property, police say Heidi Fenton \| By Heidi Fenton \| on January 22, 2013 at 7:21 AM 12151545-large.jpg Grand Rapids Police had blocked off the area near a home where a woman reportedly took her own life while authorities attempted to execute a search warrant at the residence. GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A man arrested at a 7-Eleven store in the city, not long before a woman took her life during a stand-off at his home, was in possession of stolen property, police said. Officers arrested the man around 3:30 p.m. Monday afternoon, Jan. 21, at the 1349 Alpine Avenue store location. His arrest was part of a follow-up investigation into a Jan. 14 robbery. The man had stolen property at the time of his arrest, police said. Related: Police: Woman inside Northwest Side home dies after authorities attempt to execute search warrant Authorities approached the man's home, located near the intersection of Alpine Avenue NW and Myrtle Street NW, Monday night. A woman inside refused to cooperate during a search warrant. A stand-off situation ensued. "Repeatedly, she was asked to come out," Grand Rapids Police Capt. Dan Savage said at the scene. After some time, police standing outside the residence heard a "bang." They found the woman deceased inside, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Savage said. An infant also inside was not injured and was in a different part of the home. Savage had no further details on the robbery investigation or where that robbery occurred. The woman, a 19-year-old girlfriend, was reportedly not involved.	[]
America's Wrestling Radio talk show is now heard around the world. From our Brute Adidas Studios we broadcast on the following internet outlets:,,, Please be sure to join our live broadcast each and every Saturday as we talk to the worlds greatest athletes. Wrestlers and MMA competitors alike join us each and every week. You should too! TDR is available LIVE, Archived and podcast as well. Check out for more details. This week on TDR- 9:05 Rider Asst. Head Coach John Hangey joins us to update us on Rider Camps, recruits and the looming fall. Rider is one of those small private colleges that embrace and endorse wrestling and the values that the sport can instill in a young person. Bravo' Rider, Bravo! 9:20 Marty Morgan- Asst. Head Coach at Minnesota, the man the myth the legend. Recently Marty has had a hand in training Sean Sherk and Brock Lesnar in their post wrestling MMA careers, both successful. Good job Marty! He also has a tremendous class coming in to join his stable of top drawer athletes. 9:20 Marty will stay on the line as we're joined by his uncle, Pro Wrestling Great Red Bastien Good article on Marty's dad and uncle, Red Bastien, found on the web, from Star Tribune 1970. (Minneapolis Tribune, Sunday, May 3, 1970) By Merrill Swanon The hundreds of nameless faces have been swallowed up by time, but the smells, sights and sounds of the carnival fighting shows remain fresh.The smell of ripe sawdust and sweat, the sight of countless town bullies crawling through the ring ropes, the sound of fists on flesh and breaking of bones will remain forever with Jim Morgan and Red Bastien.Those two, brothers-in-law now, were carnival fighters like Ruby Robert Fitzsimmons and Jack Dempsey were before them. The two hit the carnival circuit as teen-agers in the late 1940s and saw the "athletic shows" outdraw the girlie acts. Ten years later they also saw the athletic shows wither and die. "One of the best fighters I ever saw," Morgan said, "also was a pretty good drinker. Half the time when you had a good fight for him you couldn't find him. He was apt to have been at a local tavern and fighting the town bully out in the street instead of bringing him back to the carnival where we wanted him." Both Morgan and Bastien found their carnival background influenced their present and their future. Morgan, who used to paint the banners on the tentfront, got out of the wrestling and boxing circuit after 10 years to become an artist for the Bloomington school system, to raise a family of boxing sons and to coach in the Golden Gloves program; Bastien, who became a carnival wrestler at age 16, is using that experience in the studios of Ch. 11 and in auditoriums and arenas around the country as a professional wrestler."The only rich we got at the carnivals was rich in experience," Bastien said. "Our pay wasn't weekly - it was weakly. But I wrestled all sizes, shapes and colors, even though I weighed only about 145 pounds at the time. Most of the carnival wrestlers were middleweights - the biggery guys, the heavyweights, super heavyweights and dreadnaughts, could get work other places." There often would be a stable of 8 to 10 fighters in the athletic shows - either boxers or wrestlers or both, as Morgan was.Frequently, when things got dull around the midway, the wrestlers from one show would hop into a car and roar into another carnival town to challenge that show's wrestlers."If you wrestled against another carnival fighter," Morgan said, "you'd tell that promoter you'd want 50 percent. Then they'd argue and maybe you wound up with 30 percent. Or maybe you wound up laying outside the tent someplace instead of getting your money. Sometimes the worst fight was afterwards."Some of the carny wrestlers had no names or nicknames or pseudonyms by choice or necessity - like Smiling Irish (a Jewish fellow who never smiled). Some wore masks to protect their identity, for a number of reasons. Bastien wore a mask on the West Coast when he was in the Navy and wrestled the carnival circuit - against regulations. Others were collegians who wanted to protect their amateur standing. Still others didn't want to be recognized - period.Many, however, were proud of both their names and reputations and went on to become premier wrestlers on big-time cards, men like Bastien, Bobo Brazil, Johnny Moochy, Jack Guy and Chief Littlewolf.These men often fought each other for sport and for money on the carnival circuit, but more often it was the biggest and toughest man in town who answered the challenge. "I remember one guy who was exactly 100 pounds heavier than I was," Morgan said. "He lifted bales of paper all day, and believe me he was strong. He could have lifted me like a feather. But I just moved around behind him, got him on the mat and that was the end of it. I wouldn't let him up."The lure for the challengers varied from money to the urge to prove their masculinity and toughness. Most shows offered from $100 to $150 to beat one of the house fighters."That $100 was a come on," Morgan said. "Most guys seemed to think that they'd get the $100 for wrestling for five minutes, which was the standard time limit. But they found it was $100 if they beat the carny fighter - and beating one of those pros was doggone hard to do."Between them, Morgan and Bastien wrestled close to 1,500 challengers in tiny rings and tiny, sweltering tents in tiny towns around the Midwest. Neither one lost a single bout to a tank-towner."And it was all or nothing," Bastien said. "There weren't many rules and it got pretty rough at times.""In boxing you'd just box," Morgan said, "but in wrestling you'd never know what was going to happen. A lot of them didn't know how to wrestle and they'd as likely come in and fist-fight with you. You learned pretty fast to hold your hands pretty high and keep your chin tucked down." "In just about every town," Bastien said, "somebody was recognized as the toughest . . . the town bully. The people would go get him when the athletic show hit town and he'd have no choice but to get into the ring. Some of them were pretty tough, but they couldn't compete with the experience and knowledge of the pros."The usual procedure was to take it easy on the first candidate on the program. He wouldn't win, but he more than likely would climb out of the ring and tell his buddy that "it ain't that bad."Then his buddy would pick up the challenge . . . and his buddy, and so on through the night. But pity the last one on the show."You're not going to chop up the first guy," Morgan said. "But late in the night, when the crowd was getting slim, the guy running the show would say 'let's go home' and you were supposed to take the last guy out of there in a hurry."Most whipped the last opponent of the night fair and square. But there were some carnival wrestlers who were not nearly so gentle."Some of them would break a guy's finger . . . or maybe even his arm . . . to get him out of there," Morgan said. "Or they'd cut him with an elbow. But if you were traveling with the carnival a broken ear or a broken nose didn't mean you had a day off coming. You'd just keep on going." Sometimes the victim resented the beating he took. One, Morgan remembers, pulled a knife on the carny wrestler and Jim had to sneak into the ring and disarm him from behind."It was about the biggest knife I've ever seen," Morgan said.With an unruly crowd packed into the tent so the sides bulged, the famed "Hey, Rube" - a carny's call for help - was a very real thing."I've seen it used," Morgan said, "but only as a last resort. No carnival peron would ever say it unless he really is in trouble."Toward the end of the era, gimmicks became more popular than carny wrestler vs. town bully. There were tag-team matches, pitting carnival wrestlers vs. carnival wrestler, and there were women who issued a challenge to any male in the audience."Mildred Burke (who later became the women's world champion) was one of the women who toured the circuit," Morgan said. "I saw a couplee of women in the carnivals, but I never saw them wrestle. I guess the guys in the crowd didn't dare challenge them. I don't know if they weren't sure of how to wrestle them or were afraid of being beaten." And that gets back to pride, which more than anything kept carnival wrestling alive for as long as it was."It was a tough life," Morgan said, "but there was something about it that kept making you come back to it. I remember that one day in some town in Minnesota - it was like all the little towns we wrestled in - where I had 13 straight matches."I won every one. I didn't win because I was making that much money, but because I enjoyed wrestling and I was proud of it. I didn't want to lose."And he didn't.But after a time, town toughs found other areas in which to emphasize their masculinity; soon, girlie shows were outdrawing the wrestlers.An era of American folklore was ending. But the smells, sights and sounds remain fresh to those who were there.(ED. NOTE - The above articles centering about the early days of Red Bastien are in a "tribute" book presented to the former wrestler, now 69, by his daughter-in-law, Marla Bastien, and her daughter, Keela, at the time of Bastien's ascension to the Cauliflower Alley Club presidency in February, 2000. Some of the correspondence, in response to Marla's Internet plea for photos, clips and other Bastien career memorabilia, is included below.) 9:40 John Rizzuti of Inside Texas Wrestling joins us to discuss all that's going on in Texas and Oklahoma 10:05 Greg Nelson- The founder, owner and head coach at the Minnesota Martial Arts Academy in Minneapolis, Mn., Martial arts expert battles a rare and difficult cancer Training Jacob Volkman makes his pro debut on Sept. 29, Brock Lesnar, Brock Larson By anyone's standards, Greg Nelson is tough. The founder, owner and head coach at the Minnesota Martial Arts Academy in Minneapolis, Min., he is one of the top martial artists in the world. Greg expects a great deal from his body and is familiar with the aches and pains that come with intense training and competition. But in the spring of 2002, Greg began experiencing pain unlike any he'd known before. It started in his back and eventually moved down his body. His physician ran him through a battery of tests. A CAT scan revealed he had advanced non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He immediately started a six-month course of chemotherapy. After the fifth month of treatment, tests revealed his cancer had gone into remission. Greg thought he'd wrestled another opponent into submission. But, he would quickly learn his battle with cancer was only beginning. Soon, a new pain emerged and, this time, coming up with a diagnosis and treatment required the combined expertise of a team of specialists at Mayo Clinic. Unraveling a mystery The new pain moved down Greg's body, and his muscles began to weaken. The 38-year-old, who just a year earlier had been winning gold medals in international jujitsu competitions, came to rely on a cane to help him walk.When Greg's pain began to spread and intensify, he was referred to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Min., for more testing The pain became so debilitating, he was admitted to the hospital. "Greg had such severe pain that we sent him to the intensive-care unit to be sedated and monitored," says Joseph Colgan, M.D., a Mayo Clinic hematologist. "His was probably the worst pain syndrome I've ever seen."While Nelson's wife, Vee, their children, Nina and Gunnar, and Nelson's mother waited at his bedside, a team of Mayo Clinic physicians worked to determine the cause of his pain. Initial testing showed no evidence of active lymphoma. "When our standard testing failed to provide a cause for the pain, we were stuck," says Dr. Brian O'Neill, a Mayo Clinic neurologist. "It's at that point Mr. Nelson benefited from being at Mayo. Our approach to care meant we were able to spend enough time with him to carefully analyze the problem. We had access to state-of-the-art technology to help in our diagnosis. We were able to bring together a team of specialists to work together on finding a solution to the problem. Without that, I don't believe he would have survived."During one of the team's discussions, a member suggested using a high-powered MRI machine to scan Greg's nerves for cancer. The scan revealed a faint abnormality in his upper sciatic nerve. It would take a biopsy to determine whether the abnormality was cancer; however, the nerve has important motor fibers, and the procedure involved significant risk. "Few people dare to do this type of surgery because it's very dangerous," says Dr. O'Neill. "If something goes wrong, the patient could be paralyzed."Robert Spinner, M.D., a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon, carefully removed a small portion of Greg's sciatic nerve for testing. The results came back positive for cancer. On Christmas Eve, physicians were finally able to tell Greg and his family what was causing his pain: a rare disease called neurolymphomatosis. It's a disease as uncommon as it is hard to pronounce. "I have only seen one other person with this disease in my entire career," says Dr. O'Neill. "There are only 33 examples of this in medical literature." 10:20 Brad Penrith- University of Northern Iowa Head Coach joins us. He's rehabbing his shoulder after surgery, he's getting the room ready, he's solidifying his recruits and team for the fall, he's chompping at the bit to get it going. We'll join this recovering Hawkeye turned Panther for a state of the University interview. Should be fun. 10:40 Pat Santoro- Head Coach of the Terps of the University of Maryland. Its been said that the Terps are one of the teams to beat this fall. Why? Coach Santoro has been beating the bushes for the best recruits. Young men who are determined to make it to the top with him. We'll discuss incoming freshmen and recruits. Who's the spark plug on the team? Tune in and find out.	[]
Central Florida Glockers- where do you shoot rifle/IDPA? [Archive] - Glock Talk View Full Version : Central Florida Glockers- where do you shoot rifle/IDPA? 04-07-2007, 02:05 Well, after buying my first rifle, it seems I don't really have anywhere to shoot it. I'm also looking for an IDPA spot, but I think once you join IDPA you can use the affiliated ranges on match days so that's a second priority. I live in west central Orlando, next to Universal Studios, and the only places I've been able to find are: 1)Shoot Straight (only 25yds, one shot per second, and $14!) 2)Central Florida Pistol/Rifle Club (closest, but almost $300 to join! and there's not really any website description) 3)Road End Range (not too bad at $155/year, but rifle only goes to 100 yards) 4)Seminole County Gun and Archery (a little cheaper than Road End, has more lanes, and goes to 300 yards, but they're almost an hour away with plenty of tolls in between) I guess that's about it. All the local indoor ranges don't let you shoot rifle rounds that aren't frangible (if at all) and only go to 25 yards at the most. And all the membership only outdoor places above are at least 30 minutes away. Anyone from around my parts know anywhere else to shoot? Right now I'm leaning towards Road End. It seems pretty casual and is a relatively short and cheap drive down I-4 away. But the 100 yard cap will definitely be a downer when I get a long range rifle :/. Thanks for any tips :) 04-15-2007, 13:57 I need to know as well. I still haven't gotten to shoot my SKS. :sad: 04-15-2007, 17:32 It's pretty dissappointing that a big city like Orlando doesn't have a good rifle range :( 04-15-2007, 18:34 I don't know if you are willing to make the drive but Tenoroc park has a great facility. It is located almost exactly between Tampa and Orlando. They have a pistol range, a 100 yard rifle range, and a skeet and trap range. Im not sure about the prices exactly because I usually go with a group but it is a great facility. Here is the address: Tenoroc Shooting Sports: 3755 Tenoroc Mine Rd, Lakeland, FL 33805 If you mapquest it it's easy to find. Nowhere Man 04-16-2007, 17:59 Here's a link to ranges in Florida; http://www.wheretoshoot.org/Find_Range/wts_subresults.asp Hope something is close by. 04-16-2007, 18:57 You can shoot IDPA at Central Florida Pistol/Rifle Club without joining. I shoot there sometimes and also at Titusville - a real laid-back place to shoot with some fun matches. Cape Canaveral 04-19-2007, 16:42 John- where in Titusville? I'm in Orlando as well. 04-21-2007, 17:44 Titusville Rifle & Pistol Club	[]
MMA Forum - UFC Forums - UFC Results - MMA Videos MMA Forum - UFC Forums - UFC Results - MMA Videos ( - General MMA Discussion ( - - DREAM 17: Keisuke Fujiwara vs Masakazu Imanari ( dudeabides 05-28-2011 02:53 PM DREAM 17: Keisuke Fujiwara vs Masakazu Imanari dudeabides 05-29-2011 11:20 AM Imanari by Dec. Kenichi Serizawa officiates our third tourney bout tonight. After a tense opening minute or so of either man measuring each distance and feinting, Imanari fires first with two (missed) flying kicks. Fujiwara fires back with occasional low and body kicks. Imanari continues to fly at Fujiwara with middle and thrusting side kicks. Serizawa calls a temporary stop to warn both fighters to fight less conservatively. Imanari closes in for the clinch off of a middle kick and puts Fujiwara against the ropes. Fujiwara defends, but cannot stop the followup leg scissors takedown. Imanari fishes for the heel hook and almost gets it twice, but Fujiwara defends and forces his way into the Ashikan Judan's guard. The Deep champ throws palm strikes to the side of the ZST champ's ears, trying to force movement. Imanari tries for the rubber guard and Fujiwara prevents the lockdown, sitting up to drop punches. Imanari elevates and sweeps Fujiwara, taking top in side control, where he unleashes knees to Fujiwara's ribs. The ZST vet replies in kind with knees from bottom to the side of Imanari's head. Imanari takes mount and remains snugly on top as he drops short punches and shoulder strikes to Fujiwara's head. Imanari postures up and drops a few hard punches before he is kicked off. They're back standing, but it doesn't stay there long. Imanari misses another leg scissors takedown, but that's nothing a guard pull won't solve. The round ends with Imanari on his back, looking to land up-kicks on Fujiwara. Round 2 The nonchalant Imanari sticks again to the outer perimeter, throwing flying kicks and punches Fujiwara's way every so often. Fujiwara closes in to throw a left hook and then quickly backs away as Imanari drops for a leg. It doesn't catch and Imanari stands up to bide his time for the next attempt. It comes off of a hook, body kick combo from Fujiwara. Imanari eats the blows and again tries to drop for a leg after and misses it. Fujiwara lands a big right hook and drops Imanari against the ropes. It's unclear whether Imanari was really clobbered or if he just took the punch to get close enough to take the fight to the ground. Either way, Fujiwara sees he can't finish here and so backs off to stand the fight back up. The second big punch is a left from Fujiwara that appears to have sparked Imanari or at least buckled his knees. Fujiwara lunges in to finish, and in true Ashikan Judan fashion, Imanari falls back and tries to work off his back under fire in the last 20 seconds. He puts Fujiwara in the rubber guard but can't lock anything up before the bell. Official scores: All three judges -- Hikaru Adachi, Samio Kimura and Akira Shoji -- rule the bout for Masakazu Imanari to advance to the semi-finals. SEO by vBSEO 3.3.2	[]
Edition: U.S. / Global Zoo Condors to Be Released in Andes Published: December 16, 1997 Five condor chicks born and raised in captivity will be released into the Andes on Thursday and tracked by satellite to gather information that could make it easier to re-introduce condors into countries like Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia. The scientists directing the program hope that the chicks will be adopted by wild condors. The young birds will be released with tiny transmitters attached to their wings so they can be tracked. Condors live throughout the Andes but are in danger of extinction in most of South America, including Venezuela, Ecuador and Colombia. When fully grown, condors have a wingspread of about 10 feet, making them the world's largest flying birds. Condor chicks usually cannot fly until they are a year old. The chicks will be set free near the resort town of Bariloche, 990 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. The birds were raised in captivity at the Buenos Aires Zoo, then taken to the town of Valle Encantado, not far from Bariloche, and held in special cages away from people. Once released, the birds will be allowed to fend for themselves but will get some help from researchers, said the project director, Luis Jacome of the Buenos Aires Zoo. ''As time goes by, the chicks will gain self-confidence,'' Mr. Jacome told Diarios y Noticias, a private news service, ''but they will continue depending on us for another year so we will continue to take food to them.'' Condors prefer to eat carrion but will attack animals as large as deer. Two months ago, wild condors apparently recognized the chicks as their offspring, program officials said. Argentina and Chile have the largest population of wild condors in Latin America, Mr. Jacome said, although they have not been studied closely. Scientists have attached radio transmitters to condors in the past, but the signals are often distorted or blocked by the high mountains. The researchers are trying to prove theories that condors can fly up to 120 miles a day searching for food and that they can fly from east to west across the Andes. Another project member, Lorenzo Sympson, said that science was not the only goal. He said that setting the condor chicks free would be ''personally a very emotional moment.''	[]
The Fresh Loaf News & Information for Amateur Bakers and Artisan Bread Enthusiasts Bagels: is it really "the water"? • Pin It Elagins's picture Bagels: is it really "the water"? The real story on what passes for bagels wally's picture Oh, and a big source of NYC's water are resevoirs in the Adirondacks, not exactly the home of Brooklyn. Nice looking bagels, by the way. Elagins's picture True, and also further south, in Westchester, gmagmabaking2's picture Since Stan is the guru of bagels, I believe ANYTHING he says... and The water is so different everywhere... I like to leave the whole pot of water sit with out overnight to get rid of the chlorine... and then go from there. We have a LOT of chlorine in our water in our county... sometimes my laundry water smells like the city pool! Happy Bageling! leftypg's picture Authentic? Why not lye Stan? I grew up on the East Coast and our neighbors owned a Deli/Bakery --They used lye, so thought everybody used it! Can you tell the difference? Thanks, lefty Elagins's picture Both are correct, IMO. Lye, i.e., wood ash in water, was and is used widely in Central Europe in pretzel making, and since bagels are likely a subset or close relative of pretzels, it would stand to reason that at some point, they, too were probably subjected to a lye dip. At the same time, barley is grown extensively throughout Central and Eastern Europe, and so it's reasonable to assume that barley malt was an important sweetener until the introduction of sugar on a commercial scale in the mid-19th century. I use malt for two reasons: first, because, following this debate, Norm told me that in his experience all the bagel bakers used malt; and second, because, IMO, malt makes for a richer, shinier crust (think of pretzel crust vs. bagel). It may well be that the first NY bagel bakers used lye because it was cheaper and more readily available than malt; these days, among the few traditional bagel bakers, I believe malt is the preferred medium. Stan Ginsberg dabrownman's picture But, even the best bagels in the West is still open according to my ankle biting apprentice. She says her SD bagels, your recipe by the way too, but beside the point, that use RO water and half mountain spring water that they make that Bunny Beer out of, are way better than your non sourdough, non blistered, non lye boiled version :-) She is eternally grateful though as her bagels have really improved since you got her flipping them at 3 minutes instead of 8.and reducing the hydration down to 53%. Happy baking 2nd place bagel baking Stan. I suppose, if you have to lose, losing to yourself is a real consolation prize :-) Elagins's picture Bottled water is always a good alternative, especially in places where municipal water sucks. The sourdough vs. commercial yeast debate will go on forever. However, I can say with confidence that I've made non SD bagels that end up with a nicely pimpled surface, which is largely a result of the cold retard, rather than of any idiosyncrasies of sourdough. At the same time, that retard allows the enzymes in the malt and flour to break down the complex carbs in the flour, which produce a nice, sweet product. Whether people prefer a touch of acidity in their bagels or not is a personal preference. Frankly, I think a good schmear of cream cheese contributes all the acid I need. Glad we were able to help your ankle biter improve her bagels. Dwayne's picture Thanks for the history lesson as it applies to Bagels, as well as information on the water debate. Elagins's picture My pleasure!	[]
Travelling with small children in taxis (41 Posts) A99Sing Mon 29-Apr-13 22:58:39 We're moving to Singapore in June and won't have a car. DH keeps on about taking taxis when MRT routes but I'm really hesitant as we won't have a car seat for dd who is 2. Just doesnt seem safe or sensible. and I can't really lug around the massive seat we currently use in our UK car for trips to supermarket etc. I've tried researching portable ones but can't find anything that doesnt have a lot of associated issues. Does anyone know of any car seats for small 2 year old (11kg) that are portable? Or am I just being paranoid about the risks of car travel without proper child restraints (DH thinks I am) A99Sing Mon 29-Apr-13 23:00:03 Sorry meant to say when MRT routes don't take us where we want to go Most people in Singapore just hold tight to their kids in taxis - you will be amazed at the babies on laps in cars and toddlers in front passenger seats.... We rarely take taxis with the kids but have shared seatbelts with DD2 when she was about 2 (ie one seatbelt round me and the waist part round both of us). Not safe i know sad but the same problem you would have anywhere else in the world with taxis.... There are portable 5 point harnesses available that you can take along. The Joey Safe has been slated and I think no longer available but the Ride Safe is another version and seems pretty good but not very portable - seems to be a lot of padding. Once they are 4 (check height and weight though) you can get an inflatable booster cushion - we have Bubblebums. They are excellent and we take them on all flights etc as they roll up in hand luggage. LittleMissLucy Tue 30-Apr-13 04:31:53 I was going to suggest BubbleBum inflatable car seats but checking the details they're for min 40lbs and 40inches. If you have a small 2 yr old they're likely not quite those sizes yet. It might be a good half way measure though, given they are so light? Saltedcaramellavacake Tue 30-Apr-13 15:00:45 You might just about manage with DD on your lap if you can put the safety aspect out of your mind and you only have one child (would your DH REALLY have your DD sitting on your lap without a proper car seat in any other car?? Taxis here are just ordinary cars and sometimes quite old, crappy ones!). I did taxis for six weeks and then we got a car - I thought the taxi option was unsafe and I hated hanging about waiting for taxis with a tired toddler, trying to keep the toddler safe while folding the buggy and getting it into the boot etc. Plenty of people make do without a car, though - it just wasn't for me. Clueless2727 Tue 30-Apr-13 15:53:18 Hi a99sing, we also have a bubblebum. It's an inflatable car seat, but it's only really a small booster, ok for older children but not sure it would be suitable for kids still in stage 1 car seat. Sandgroper Tue 30-Apr-13 21:34:41 We have Bubblegum car seats, fab for travel, movies etc but agree with Clueless2727. However JoJo Maman also do a Trunki Boostapak Booster Seat which from memory is a bit more rigid but folds up into a backpack. Not sure if it is suitable for Stage 1 though. Might be worth a look I have the Trunki one, it is just a booster really tho, don't know if I'd use it with a 2 yr old. YoniBottsBumgina Tue 30-Apr-13 22:00:55 Neither trunki or bubble bum are suitable for an 11kg 2 year old. If you want a car seat your only real options are to try and squeeze her into an infant seat (one that fits on your buggy might be most practical) or find a lightweight harnessed booster which covers group 1. The kiddy seats with impact shield are pretty lightweight and easier to carry around too. But really its the same situation that any non-driver faces and until she's old enough for a portable booster, you just have to work around it. Maybe you could get a bike and trailer? BTW never ever put a seatbelt around 2 people as you will crush the child in an accident. Better to secure her in her own straps or even have unrestrained. Bear in mind that the weight of objects, including people, increases massively in an impact too so anything like reins or a basic sling will just break. You can get harnesses for lap children on aeroplanes etc which might work, or the kind of sling which is one long piece of material with no stitching might be stronger, just be sure to fasten the seatbelt under rather than over her. You might find as well that if car seat laws are more lax there that devices are sold for this purpose, I've seen harnesses for sale on eBay from Hong Kong which you strap to the seat itself, but not sure how safe they are. marchmad Tue 30-Apr-13 22:03:35 Wouldn't dream of putting a child under the same belt as me, either they'd go alone, or they'd go in the foot well. Yes that is a serious thing, it's safer for a 2 year old in the foot well than unrestrained. MinnesotaNice Tue 30-Apr-13 22:07:42 These are very popular on a US car seat site and they come in different sizes: BTW, I recently read to never double up in a seat belt with an adult and child. Honestly, I hadn't really thought about it, but it makes sense. In an accident, the child would be crushed between the greater mass of the adult and the seat belt. YoniBottsBumgina Tue 30-Apr-13 22:07:46 Oh I see some have been linked above smile Sorry, didn't realise about the seatbelt round 2 people thing - makes sense now and wouldn't do it again (although dd is now 4 and hasn't wanted to sit on my lap for a good year or two anyway...). Will spread the word as lots of my friends do this. RichManPoorManBeggarmanThief Wed 01-May-13 06:31:11 You're not being paranoid but if you don't have a car, you have to weigh up the risks vs. the limitations if you don't use taxis. Re the harnesses, The freedom ride, which is the one they sell in HK, is apparently not great, plus it's a total pain to get on them. There is another one you can get from the US but they only ship within the US so either you need one of those forwarding services or someone who will forward it for you. MortifiedAdams Wed 01-May-13 06:50:16 I wouldnt travel in the UK without a carseat for dd so it wouldnt cross my mind to do it elsewhere. I would hire.a car and car seat or use buses/tram/rail rather than taxis. Good luck finding a decent portable carseat, link if you do as it will be useful.for a lot of people. HollyMadison Wed 01-May-13 07:13:43 I live in Singapore and my DS is same age and weight as your DC OP. I haven't found an answer to this. I use a carseat I bought from Mothercare in the uk. It is quite basic and aimed at people who use it in taxis etc and don't have it permanently in one car. I would not consider it to be portable in that it is heavy and cumbersome and you can only take it somewhere if you can leave it at the other end. I do use it though. Taxi drivers in Singapore are not always safe drivers. When I take a taxi with the carseat I have to take the stroller (as DS is far too silly to be trusted to stand still or get in the car quietly), so he sits in the stroller whilst I put the carseat in and then I put him in and then I fold stroller and put in boot. Sometimes taxi drivers look a bit pissed off, although I think I do it quickly, but I care more about safety than what they think. I find that most places I take the carseat - including zoo, medical centre, friend's condos - there is somewhere to leave the seat as soon as I get there. I have been known to use a sling (boba sling, facing me) for short journeys but I prefer the carseat. I haven't seen anyone else carting round a carseat and my friends used to comment on it, but I don't care. TBH I don't do things like take DS shopping on orchard when it truly would be a hassle. You couldn't really take it to a shopping mall or supermarket but we live close to shops and I go in the evening without DS and also shop online. RichManPoorManBeggarmanThief Thu 02-May-13 13:08:15 Yeah, that's what they all say until they move to Asia. It's not that simple. Cars in Singapore are prohibitively expensive for many people. Public transport doesn't go everywhere and it's too hot (average daytime temp 31 degrees with high humidity) for long walks carrying shopping and toddlers. MortifiedAdams Thu 02-May-13 13:16:54 grin lucky im not planning on moving to Asia then. Cloverer Thu 02-May-13 13:21:13 I don't have a car and use a taxi fairly often, and can't often take a proper car seat for 2 year old DS. I have been using a Trunki boostapack as a next best option. They aren't supposed to be used til 15kg (DS is about 12.5kg now) but it's better than nothing and does at least position the seat belt correctly. When he was under 2 I often used a sling on my front - belted myself in under the sling so the belt didn't go round both of us. Saltedcaramellavacake Thu 02-May-13 16:14:02 I used to use the sling option too and still insist my helper and/or husband does that if they ever take my son (now 18 months) in a cab. Now I'm worried that that is unsafe by the same reasoning as the seat belt round both of you. Wouldn't the weight of the adult still squash the child in front in the event of an impact? I always thought the sling would stop the child flying through the air and through the front window or similar but maybe my reasoning is all wrong? Saltedcaramellavacake Thu 02-May-13 16:27:12 Just did some frantic googling - a sling is a very bad idea and shouldn't be used. There's some pretty awful "crash test videos" to show what happens. Basically its the same as using the seatbelt over both of you. The advice is, 1. use a proper car seat suitable for the child's age/weight in the taxi or 2. if you don't have a car seat, any child over one should be put in a seat with the adult seatbelt round him/her. Cloverer Thu 02-May-13 17:29:21 Could you link to one Saltedcaramel? I have seen videos where the sling is likely to break, but I still think it gives you more chance of holding onto a baby than with your arms alone, especially in a low speed crash. I haven't seen one that shows the baby is crushed though. YoniBottsBumgina Thu 02-May-13 19:49:13 I suppose that slings aren't designed to stretch like seat belts are. I would say chance of breaking is high with most commercial slings eg baby born etc because the weight of the child increases massively and the material just isn't strong enough. But I've seen adults testing wrap slings or mei tais by hanging from trees in them so think they are more sturdy, but you'd have to put the belt between you and the child. And then of course they aren't designed to be used in this way so the stresses etc on the body could cause injury. I'm not sure how, physically, they could have the same problem as one seatbelt around 2 people. Alligatorpie Thu 02-May-13 20:35:48 If I don't have a car seat, I wear 11 month old dd in the Ergo. I thought that was the safest thing to do. The problem here is that people often cut out the seat belts as soon as they get a car. Taxi's do not usually have seatbelts. Salted - there are usually only lap belts in cars here, it seems very unsafe to put a one year old in a car with a lap belt. I can see a shoulder belt being better, but that often isn't an option. Any thoughts on whether its better to use the ergo or the lap belt? 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Become a digitalPLUS subscriber. $13 for 13 weeks. 'House of Cards' recap, Season 2, Episode 9 This Jodie Foster-directed episode has a very "Dexter"-esque cold open. We see Freddy, preparing for his day. He does some exercise, before walking to work. When he arrives at his place, he finds the morning paper, with news of Claire's scandal splashed across the front page. At the Underwood residence, Claire and Frank huddle with Doug and Grayson, trying to figure out how best to play their reaction to the scandal. Claire assures everyone that she can handle things, and asks everyone to follow her lead. Freddy meets with his franchisee, who walks him through his plan for a satellite location in Silver Spring. Despite not being wholly satisfied with the plan, and specifically with the kind of light that Freddy and his place are going to be painted in, he signs off on the deal. Later, Freddy visits a home, where we see him meeting his grandson for the first time, perhaps. We see that Freddy's son lives there, with the child, DeShawn. Freddy offers to buy them a house with his new restaurant money, but his son turns him down, at first, saying that they hadn't spoken in five years. He soon has a change of heart, though, mends fences with his dad, and starts working for him. "I need you to deny it," Claire tells Adam on the phone. She tells him to deny the affair and taking the photograph and to get rid of any physical or digital copies of the picture, which he agrees to do. "It's a shame it takes this for us to talk to one another," Adam laments. He tells Claire that he has a new girlfriend, which she doesn't take well. Adam falls in line with Claire's plan, and makes a public statement. "I find it very painful that anyone would suggest I'm capable of being unfaithful to my husband, whom I love dearly," Claire says, while making a public statement with Frank by her side. Claire goes on to say that Adam had taken the photograph in question, and that perhaps he lied about doing so to protect himself from media scrutiny. Adam looks on in disbelief, as his former muse throws him under the bus on national television. "Confirm our version. Say you lied because you were scared," Claire tells Adam during a phone discussion, later. Adam isn't sure of how he wants to play things. Frank meets with Grayson and Doug, to plan their next move. When Frank excuses himself, Doug turns on Grayson, accusing him of gunning for his job. "Upward mobility has a ceiling with the Underwoods. I'm the ceiling," Doug warns him. Remy pays Adam a visit and threatens Adam's fiancee's family in Colombia unless he offers to help Remy and Tusk take the Underwoods down. Remy asks for another way to link Claire to him. Adam obliges, releasing a photo of Claire in the shower to the press, blindsiding the Underwood team. Meanwhile, in St. Louis, Ayla Sayyad interviews Tusk. Tusk sure has quite the work ethic, doesn't he? If I had $40 billion, I don't think I'd be spending my time fielding potentially damaging interview questions from a newspaper reporter. I think I'd pretty much be on a beach every day. Ayla has continued to dig, and uncover links between Tusk and Feng and the bridge and everything. Tusk threatens to crush her career, but she seems intent on doing her job anyway. When Ayla leaves, Tusk calls Remy and asks him to leak another Underwood-linked scandal to the press. This one is a real cheap shot, as it digs up an old armed robbery that Freddy was charged with more than 30 years earlier. Freddy pleaded guilty to that crime to avoid a manslaughter charge, after he wrecked a vehicle carrying two senior citizens on his getaway drive after the robbery. Seth is off working on a way to potentially bury the first scandal when Frank asks him to come to the house to help manage the second. "A vice president whose wife cheats on him and who is friendly with a former gangbanger?" Grayson asks rhetorically, as Frank vows to make a statement backing Freddy publicly. Grayson brings up Freddy's son, mentioning his checkered past as well, and asks Frank to back off. Frank won't listen, though. "I won't leave one of my own bleeding on the field," Frank tells us. Freddy and his son, Darnell, are walking to work when they're accosted by photographers. Darnell loses his cool and pulls a gun on one of the men, a bad move, as the photographer snaps a photo of Darnell holding the gun, with Freddy in the frame. This will damage Freddy's business deal, and could send Darnell back to prison for violating parole. Grayson hires a model to pose for a photo similar to Claire's leaked shower shot. He and the model go on CNN, where Grayson posits the theory that the photo of Claire was a fake, and that Adam is lying. Frank gets word of Darnell's incident and wants to visit Freddy. "Freddy is dangerous, because you care too much," Claire warns him. "When we care too much, it blinds us." Frank reluctantly agrees, but respects Freddy enough that he tells him in person that he'll have to distance himself from him. "With all that's going on, we can't add fuel to the fire," Frank explains. Freddy tells Frank that he has to get out of business for financial reasons. His franchise deal fell through thanks to a morality clause, and the money that he'll get from selling his current location had to go to cover Darnell's bond. Frank offers to front Freddy the money to stay in business, but he declines. "I ain't taking your guilt money," Freddy tells him. "You was a good customer, that's it. You ain't gotta pretend to be my friend." "Do you think I'm a hypocrite? Well, you should," Frank tells us. "The road to power is paved with hypocrisy... and casualties. Never regret." Adam travels to Washington to meet with the Underwoods. He explains that he turned on them to protect his fiancee's father, and balks at Frank's suggestion that he could help rectify that situation, as long as Adam plays along. "Because of you, I will always be the man who placed her father in danger. I can never erase that," Adam says. "I'm sorry I ever met you. All you've ever done is cause me pain," he tells Claire. "We're giving you an out, Adam. And if you choose not to take it, I will bury you," Claire replies. Adam has no choice but to play ball. Remy tries to reach Adam, but learns that Frank has already used Cathy Durant to take away most of Tusk's leverage. "You know, I hired you to destroy Frank. You're failing," Tusk tells Remy. "I'm your lobbyist, not your henchman," Remy says. Tusk tells him to find a solution, quickly. With Adam making a public statement, saying that the photo leaks were nothing more than a publicity stunt, life for the Underwoods is set to return to normal. Frank tells Doug that he wants to hit back at Tusk for trying to ruin him. "I want him obliterated," he says. "More than that. Let's make him suffer," Claire adds. "I don't know whether to be proud or terrified," Frank tells us. "Perhaps both." Copyright © 2014, Orlando Sentinel Related Content	[]
Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation 5,672pages on this wiki Redirected from Edo Tensei Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation[1] Hokage reincarnated Kanji 口寄せ・穢土転生 Rōmaji Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei Literal English Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation Viz manga Summoning: Worldly Resurrection English TV Summoning Jutsu: Reanimation Games Forbidden Jutsu: Return from the Dead Other Reanimation Jutsu Manga Chapter #117 Anime Naruto Episode #69 Game Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Appears in Anime, Manga and Game Classification Ninjutsu, Kinjutsu, Reincarnation Ninjutsu, Space–Time Ninjutsu Rank S-rank Class Supplementary Hand seals Tiger → Snake → Dog → Dragon → Clap hands Other jutsu Parent jutsu Derived jutsu Kabuto Demonstrates Edo Tensei The seal for the ritual. Fu sacrifice Torune being reincarnated with Fū as the sacrifice. Next, a living sacrifice is required for the soul of the reincarnated to use as a vessel.[3] Once all prerequisites for the technique have been met, the acquired DNA of the person is smeared on a special scroll and once the scroll is activated, the remains spread out in the form of a special seal with the living sacrifice in the centre. Then dust and ash encase the sacrifice's body, giving them the same appearance that the reincarnated had at the time of their death. The process is apparently somewhat painful as seen when Fū was used to reincarnate Torune. The person is then reincarnated and the end product is usually stored in a casket until summoned by the user. The user can theoretically reincarnate a limitless number of people in this way, so long as they have enough sacrifices, chakra and DNA to perform the technique.[3] Despite this, this technique also has limitations, such as the individual having limitations that inhibited them in life such as Nagato's lack of mobility and depending on the summoner's mastery of the technique, the reincarnated individuals might not be brought back with the full power they had in life. However, reincarnating an individual with full power provides a potential risk to the user as the reincarnated can resist the restraining properties before they can have a talisman implanted into their brains. Although, this has only happened twice.[10] Any chakra of the sacrifice used for the reincarnation is completely overridden with the chakra of the one being reincarnated, thus a sensor type would only sense the chakra of the reincarnated soul and won't sense anything of the victim's original chakra signature. Even though destroying a shinobi's clothing causes it to regenerate, if it was taken off willingly without destroying the clothing, it will not reform on the reincarnated. Also, any unique anatomy will be restored with the reincarnated such as Hanzō's poison gland. It is possible for a reincarnated shinobi to be revived into a real living body again. However, any modifications to the reincarnated that already exists elsewhere will be removed as a result. Madara, for example, was resurrected without his Rinnegan, because they already existed elsewhere and were not with him when he died.[11] Edo Tensei 2 Deidara being "activated" after being reincarnated. When first summoned, the body of the reincarnated is stored in a coffin; their body will appear grey and in a state of minor "decay": marred by cracks and other imperfections, and the individual will also appear to be "disengaged". After inserting a talisman, their bodies become "rejuvenated", regaining their original complexion and their eyes lose their glassy state; however, their sclerae take on a grey colouring, however this has no affect on the ability of the reincarnated and they can be left in this "decay" state if the summoner chooses to give them free reign. They retain their personality, memories, and all abilities they had in life, including kekkei genkai, kekkei tōta and summoning contracts.[12] When the reincarnated is conscious and their personality is suppressed, their sclerae becomes black and gain white irises.[13] Also, any conversation the reincarnated has with others, including other reincarnations, will not be heard by the user that is controlling them from a distance. Edo Tensei Tag The talisman used to control the reincarnated. Different talismans can be used to enact different degrees of control. Orochimaru's talismans completely eliminated the personalities of the summoned, turning them into mindless killing machines under his command. Kabuto prefers to use a weaker controlling talisman on certain individuals, allowing them to retain some degree of their own personality. The latter method is useful for psychological warfare,[21] and can also allow the summoned individual to tap into their own emotions, memories, or creativity to enhance their effectiveness in combat,[22] but also carries a host of drawbacks; it takes more effort to retain control with the weaker binding which can make it possible for the hearts of the summoned to be swayed by strong emotions, which can result in the soul breaking free and returning to the Pure World,[17] or the reincarnated contradicting orders that they are given.[23] Reincarnated shinobi with their personalities still intact have their movements limited to certain actions, and are basically on "auto-pilot" to react to enemy techniques.[24] Once they recognise an enemy technique their bodies are programmed to counter it with an appropriate method.[25] The individual can also control their movements to a degree such as making poor combat decisions. While the Third Raikage was forced to fight the Fourth Division of the Shinobi Alliance Army he was able to distance himself from Gengetsu, to increase the Fourth Division's ability to seal them off. Gengetsu went on to comment if it wasn't for that, they wouldn't have been sealed off. Also, if a reincarnated isn't the type to control their emotions very well and get excited over a battle, they can actually end up being an even bigger threat despite wanting to be defeated. Kabuto controlling the revived The pebbles and grid Kabuto uses to monitor the reincarnated shinobi. Unlike while they were still alive, the reincarnated have unlimited chakra[31] and stamina; able to fight continuously as neither Kimimaro, Itachi nor Hayate showed any fatigue from their illnesses as they did in life, and Itachi was even able to use multiple Mangekyō Sharingan techniques without showing exhaustion, while minor uses caused fatigue in life. The reincarnated are impossible to kill by normal means. Any damage they receive will easily regenerate, be it lost limbs or complete disintegration. Not even killing the summoner gets rid of them.[32] It is also shown even if part of the head of a reincarnated shinobi is destroyed, if enough of the head remains, they are still capable of performing techniques to counter the enemy. Gojō Kibaku Fuda 1 Tobirama using the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags. The reincarnated can also have their bodies modified and experimented on. While the technique usually reincarnates one as they were upon death, the reincarnated can also have various points from their life combined to get the best possible results as seen with Madara Uchiha, having been brought back "beyond his prime" despite dying a withered old man. In addition to regaining his physical youth with peak health and combat prowess, he also retained the Wood Release and Rinnegan abilities he had in his old age.[37][38][39] Madara also lost no chakra from using any of his techniques because of the technique, giving him even greater power. In the anime Kabuto also experimented on Blue B who had Gyuki's chakra added to his reincarnated body through cells cultivated from the horn that was broken in the tailed beast's last rampage.[40] Tobi also modified the eyes of the reincarnated jinchūriki to match his own, though this was only due to the use of the Six Paths of Pain technique which caused his eyes to be reflected in theirs,[41] as well as resealing the tailed beasts back into their respective hosts.[42] It also appears that despite gaining many enhancements, the reincarnated shinobi cannot gain full access to the new abilities, unless they are brought back to the world of the living as a living being; like in the case of Madara Uchiha. Similarly, while the reincarnated shinobi can access any abilities from any points of their life if modified for such, should the target be brought back to life, any lost anatomy from life will return as such; for example, Madara losing his eyes once revived since he had transplanted them to Nagato while alive. Weaknesses and Methods of Countering 1. Seal away the soul of the reincarnated individual. 2. Have the summoner end the technique. As they are unlikely to do this voluntarily, using a genjutsu to trick them into cancelling the technique is ideal. The sequence of hand seals for cancelling the technique is Rat → Ox → Monkey → Tiger → Dragon → Boar and saying "release" (解, kai) (when demonstrating the technique to Tobi, Kabuto lied that the seals to release it are Dog → Horse → Tiger).[43][44] If the summoner dies before the technique is deactivated, however, then this method is no longer a viable option.[45] This also does not work if the summoned managed to sever the contract's link before the summoner undo the technique.[31] Hagoromo was able to release reincarnated souls despite not being the caster of the technique.[46] 3. The reincarnated individual is affected in some emotional way that gives them closure;[47] Kankurō notes that human emotions are not so easily restrained.[48] However, this method cannot work if the summoner eradicates the personality of the reincarnated individual before their soul is freed of its bonds.[17] Itachi's soul Itachi Uchiha's soul ascending. 2. If the reincarnated still retain their personalities, they can speak against the user or themselves by providing hints and advice to the opponents, even in the midst of involuntarily fighting them.[51][52] With considerable strength of will, the summoner's authority can even be completely overridden, albeit briefly,[53] although in one case the reincarnated was completely able to resist the restraining properties of this technique with relative ease and in another case the reincarnated was able to resist the restraining properties before it was strengthed.[54] 3. Itachi Uchiha was able to use Kotoamatsukami to layer another order on top of the one established by this technique overriding the user's control.[55] This can be remedied if the user can place a stronger binding talisman into the said reincarnated person, thus re-establishing control.[56] 4. What Madara describes as "the one risk of the technique". If the reincarnated knows the specific seals, one can release the Impure World Reincarnation's summoning contract, severing the bond between themselves and the summoner. In the anime, the seals are Snake → Ram → Boar → Dog → Tiger.[57] This leaves the individual free of the summoner's control in all aspects while retaining their essential immortally.[31] An additional effect of the individual's free reign is temporarily removing the cracks on their bodies, restoring them to the appearance they had in life, but for unexplained reasons the cracks reappear later on. It should be noted that the reincarnated are still vulnerable to any technique that could affect them while they were alive, but their bodies heal instantly along with their chakra. Furthermore, while the reincarnated can't be destroyed and feel no pain which originates from bodily harm or mutilation,[58][59][60][61][62] they are still vulnerable to the drawbacks from their own techniques or weaknesses. Such examples include Hanzō's poison acting as a paralysis agent, along with the Second Mizukage being left weakened after using certain techniques, and Itachi's eye bleeding on the activation of his Mangekyō Sharingan. The First to Fourth Hokage were also limited by how many clones they could make while maintaining the Four Red Yang Formation.[63] In some instances, small, self-inflicted harms will produce blood so that the summoned can use summoning techniques,[64] for an example, although greater harms won't make the summoner bleed.[65] According to Madara and Tobirama, the reincarnated body created by this technique cannot access the fullest potential of the person's original living body, as Madara only managed to break free of the Sage Art: Gate of the Great God and Sealing Technique: Tiger Vision Staring Bullet when he forced Obito to revive him into a body of living flesh, despite all the enhancements Kabuto gave him beforehand.[66] Also, the corpse vessel created by the Impure World Reincarnation cannot be used as a host for the Ten-Tails.[67] Known Reincarnated Reincarnated by Orochimaru Name Village of origin Reason for reincarnation Hashirama Senju Konohagakure Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi[9] Konohagakure Hokage Minato Namikaze[9] Konohagakure Hokage Osoi (Anime only) Kumogakure Failure; intended to reincarnate Toroi Tobirama Senju Konohagakure Hokage Yota (Anime only) Unknown Testing the technique Reincarnated by Kabuto Yakushi Name Village of origin Reason for reincarnation A Kumogakure Kage Ameyuri Ringo Kirigakure "Renown" Asuma Sarutobi Konohagakure "Renown" Blue B (Anime only) Kumogakure Jinchūriki Chen (Anime only) Konohagakure "Renown" Chiyo Sunagakure "Renown" Chūkichi Kirigakure "Renown" Dan Katō Konohagakure "Renown" Daimaru (Anime only) Sunagakure Failure Deidara Iwagakure Akatsuki Takigakure Jinchūriki Fuguki Suikazan Kirigakure "Renown" Gari Iwagakure "Renown" Gengetsu Hōzuki Kirigakure Kage Ginkaku Kumogakure "Renown" Haku Kirigakure "Renown" Han Iwagakure Jinchūriki Hanzō Amegakure "Renown" Hayate Gekkō (Anime only) Konohagakure "Renown" Heiji (Anime only) Amegakure Failure; intended to reincarnate Hanzō Hizashi Hyūga Konohagakure "Renown" Inabi Uchiha (Anime only) Konohagakure "Renown" Itachi Uchiha Konohagakure Akatsuki Jinin Akebino Kirigakure "Renown" Jinpachi Munashi Kirigakure "Renown" Jirōbō (Anime only) Otogakure "Renown" Kakuzu Takigakure Akatsuki Kidōmaru (Anime only) Otogakure "Renown" Kimimaro Otogakure "Renown" Kinkaku Kumogakure "Renown" Kushimaru Kuriarare Kirigakure "Renown" Madara Uchiha Konohagakure Blackmailing Tobi/"Renown" Mangetsu Hōzuki Kirigakure "Renown" Iwagakure Kage Nagato Amegakure Akatsuki Osoi (Anime only) Kumogakure Failure/Stalling Allied Shinobi Forces Pakura Sunagakure "Renown" Rasa Sunagakure Kage Rōshi Iwagakure Jinchūriki Sakon and Ukon (Anime only) Otogakure "Renown" Sasori Sunagakure Akatsuki Shin Konohagakure "Renown" Tatewaki (Anime only) Land of Iron "Renown" Tayuya (Anime only) Otogakure "Renown" Tonika Village Head (Anime only) Tonika Village Deceiving enemies Toroi Kumogakure "Renown" Torune Aburame Konohagakure Demonstration for Tobi Utakata Kirigakure Jinchūriki Yagura Kirigakure Jinchūriki/Kage Yota (Anime only) Unknown "Renown" Yugito Nii Kumogakure Jinchūriki Zabuza Momochi Kirigakure "Renown" Other Known Reincarnated Shinobi • In the arc about Power, during the invasion of the Tonika Village and the subsequent skirmish with officers from the Hachō Village and Team Kakashi, Kabuto summoned several shinobi: • A burly Kumogakure shinobi wielding a . • A Sunagakure shinobi wielding a pair of chakram. • An Iwagakure shinobi wearing a flame-thrower device. • A Kirigakure shinobi wielding a sword. • Kabuto also summoned a large group of "lesser" ninja who had been reincarnated by mistake, deploying them after losing many of his key reincarnations, with the intent of recovering said key fighters. Torune Aburame is deployed among this group. A White Zetsu clone noted however they are the "failures" and a majority were no more powerful than simple genin. Instead of stones, these failures were represented by a pile of sand on his playing board.[70] • In the (non-canon) story of Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2, Orochimaru reincarnates Zabuza and Haku to aid him in his second invasion of Konoha. • Jiraiya, though his body lies at the bottom of the ocean where the water pressure is too great to reach. However, he claimed that the bloodstains on the Six Paths of Pain's weapons may provide enough DNA.[71]. Obito vehemently refused this suggestion, telling Kabuto "not to push his luck". • Shisui Uchiha, but Kabuto could not find his body, though he suggested that Shisui's crushed eye, which is in Tobi's possession, may be sufficient.[71] Later, after learning that Shisui's other eye was on the battlefield, he seemed excited at the prospect of obtaining it.[72] However, Itachi incinerated it.[73] • Originally in the anime version, a reincarnated target's eyes appeared normal (albeit glazed over).[74] Later in Part II of the anime, the mistake was corrected, returning a reincarnated target's sclera dark grey like it is in the manga. • When a reincarnated target breaks free of the contract, as seen in Madara Uchiha's case, any cracks about the individual's being will temporarily disappear.[77][31] • Given the reincarnated Akatsuki members, it appears the summoner can also change the clothing of the revived individual; they would have been revived in Akatsuki cloaks, but were wearing new red ones instead. • While the bodies of reincarnated individuals cannot be completely eradicated, in the anime, Yota was able to destroy his own body, unable to regenerate. See Also 1. First Databook, page 181 2. Naruto chapter 561, page 2 3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Naruto chapter 520 4. Naruto chapter 521, page 13 5. Naruto chapter 521, page 5 6. Naruto chapter 620, page 10 7. Naruto chapter 520, page 11-13 8. Naruto chapter 520, page 12 10. Naruto chapter 620, page 10 11. Naruto chapter 637, page 1 12. Naruto chapter 631, page 6 13. Naruto chapter 521 14. Naruto chapter 523, page 6 15. Naruto chapter 527, pages 1-3 16. Naruto chapter 546, page 3 17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Naruto chapter 522 18. Naruto: Shippūden episode 318 19. Naruto chapter 530, page 14 20. Naruto chapter 577, page 16 21. Naruto chapter 516, page 5 22. Naruto chapter 513, pages 2 and 17 23. Naruto chapter 532, pages 10-11 24. Naruto chapter 547, page 10 25. Naruto chapter 548, page 14 26. Naruto chapter 620, pages 9-11 27. Naruto chapter 620, page 11 28. Naruto chapter 521, page 17 29. Naruto chapter 575, page 14 30. Naruto chapter 560, page 2 32. 32.0 32.1 Naruto chapter 521, page 3 33. Naruto chapter 518, pages 9, 10, 14 34. Naruto chapter 561, pages 1-2 35. Naruto chapter 639 36. Naruto chapter 677, pages 10, 14, 16-17 37. Naruto chapter 560, page 3 38. Naruto chapter 602 39. Naruto chapter 606, page 12 40. Naruto: Shippūden episode 318 41. Naruto chapter 544, pages 14-15 42. Naruto chapter 565, page 1 43. Naruto chapter 589, pages 8-12 44. Naruto chapter 521, page 3 45. Naruto chapter 577, page 17 46. Naruto chapter 691, page 13 47. Naruto chapter 518, page 17 48. Naruto chapter 519, page 4 49. Naruto chapter 642, pages 4-5 50. Naruto chapter 589, pages 12-17 51. Naruto chapter 532, page 15 52. Naruto chapter 548, pages 16-18 53. Naruto chapter 532, pages 10-11 54. Naruto chapter 620, page 9-11 55. Naruto chapter 550, page 8 56. Naruto chapter 582, page 3 57. Naruto: Shippūden episode 340 58. Naruto chapter 527, page 14 59. Naruto chapter 532, pages 10-11 60. Naruto chapter 552, page 16 61. Naruto chapter 553, pages 4-5 62. Naruto chapter 561, pages 2, 7 63. Naruto chapter 637, pages 4-5 64. Naruto chapter 548, page 17 65. Naruto chapter 532, pages 10-11 66. Naruto chapter 656, page 17 67. Naruto chapter 614, page 5 68. Naruto: Shippūden episode 256 69. Naruto: Shippūden episode 307 70. 70.0 70.1 Naruto: Shippūden episode 316 71. 71.0 71.1 Naruto chapter 520, page 13 72. Naruto chapter 550, page 13 73. Naruto chapter 552, page 11 74. Naruto episode 69 75. Naruto: Shippūden episode 272 76. Naruto: Shippūden episode 316 77. Naruto: Shippūden episode 340 Start a Discussion Discussions about Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation Around Wikia's network Random Wiki	[]
Company engineers have concluded that a 0.6 inch-long crack found on a turbine blade in the engine of an F-35 jet at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida was almost certainly caused by lesser issues, such as high heat exposure or a manufacturing problem, that would be easier to solve, the sources said. "They're 99 percent sure that it's not the worst-case scenario of high-cycle fatigue," said one of the sources. Flights of the single-engine, single-seat F-35 fighter could resume as early as this week if the Pentagon accepts the findings of Pratt, a unit of United Technologies Corp , after additional tests to be done Wednesday, said one of the sources, who was not authorized to speak publicly. It was the second engine-related grounding in two months of the $396 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter built by Lockheed Martin Corp , the Pentagon's largest weapons program. Military officials are eager to resume test and training flights as soon as the engine issue has been resolved. It was not immediately clear if the Pentagon would order a one-time inspection of all F135 engines built by Pratt for the new F-35 fighter, or whether the incident would result in a new recurring inspection requirement. Some inspections of the other 50 fighters already in use by the Pentagon were underway. Pratt began detailed tests of the engine on Sunday evening at its Middletown, Connecticut facility after the blade assembly was removed from the Florida test plane and shipped north. Pratt spokesman Matthew Bates declined comment on any specific results or conclusions, but said the company was making good progress in its investigation of what caused the crack. "We have made significant progress ... and believe we're very close to determining root cause," Bates said. One defense official said it was premature to speculate about the cause of the crack until the full battery of structural tests had been completed. The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said Pratt was expected to deliver a comprehensive analysis of the test results to Pentagon officials no later than Thursday evening. Two sources familiar with the investigation said the fan blade tests would include a "destructive" test that would cut into the turbine blade to better understand how the crack developed. Engineers believe the crack is either a "creep rupture along a grain boundary" that was caused by prolonged exposure to high heat, or that it was caused by an anomaly during the metal casting process, the sources said. The F-35 program, initially meant to start operating in 2012, is overdue and well over its original budget, but defense officials say it is making progress. They argue that the current grounding -- and a separate issue involving the plane's temperature control unit -- are normal occurrences during the development phase of a any new warplane. The delays are causing problems for countries like Australia, which was due to buy 100 of the radar-evading F-35s, but is now considering whether to buy 24 more Boeing Co F/A-18 Super Hornets instead.	[]
Henry Timrod The despot treads thy sacred sands, Thy pines give shelter to his bands, Thy sons stand by with idle hands, He breathes at ease thy airs of balm, He scorns the lances of thy palm; Oh! who shall break thy craven calm, Thy ancient fame is growing dim, A spot is on thy garment's rim; Give to the winds thy battle hymn, Call on thy children of the hill, Wake swamp and river, coast and rill, Rouse all thy strength and all thy skill, Cite wealth and science, trade and art, Touch with thy fire the cautious mart, And pour thee through the people's heart, Till even the coward spurns his fears, And all thy fields and fens and meres Shall bristle like thy palm with spears, Hold up the glories of thy dead; Say how thy elder children bled, And point to Eutaw's battle-bed, Tell how the patriot's soul was tried, And what his dauntless breast defied; How Rutledge ruled and Laurens died, Cry! till thy summons, heard at last, Shall fall like Marion's bugle-blast Re-echoed from the haunted Past, I hear a murmur as of waves That grope their way through sunless caves, Like bodies struggling in their graves, And now it deepens; slow and grand It swells, as, rolling to the land, An ocean broke upon thy strand, Shout! let it reach the startled Huns! And roar with all thy festal guns! It is the answer of thy sons, They will not wait to hear thee call; From Sachem's Head to Sumter's wall Resounds the voice of hut and hall, No! thou hast not a stain, they say, Or none save what the battle-day Shall wash in seas of blood away, Thy skirts indeed the foe may part, Thy robe be pierced with sword and dart, They shall not touch thy noble heart, Ere thou shalt own the tyrant's thrall Ten times ten thousand men must fall; Thy corpse may hearken to his call, When, by thy bier, in mournful throngs The women chant thy mortal wrongs, 'T will be their own funereal songs, From thy dead breast by ruffians trod No helpless child shall look to God; All shall be safe beneath thy sod, Girt with such wills to do and bear, Assured in right, and mailed in prayer, Thou wilt not bow thee to despair, Throw thy bold banner to the breeze! Front with thy ranks the threatening seas Like thine own proud armorial trees, Fling down thy gauntlet to the Huns, And roar the challenge from thy guns; Then leave the future to thy sons, Submitted: Thursday, January 01, 2004 Do you like this poem? 0 person liked. 0 person did not like. Read poems about / on: children, despair, future, women, strength, river, ocean, child, fire, people, son, tree, wind, woman, fear Read this poem in other languages This poem has not been translated into any other language yet. I would like to translate this poem » word flags What do you think this poem is about? Comments about this poem (Carolina by Henry Timrod ) Enter the verification code : There is no comment submitted by members.. Trending Poets Trending Poems 1. The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost 2. Still I Rise, Maya Angelou 4. Invictus, William Ernest Henley 5. If You Forget Me, Pablo Neruda 6. To an Athlete Dying Young, Alfred Edward Housman 7. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou 8. Phenomenal Woman, Maya Angelou 9. If, Rudyard Kipling 10. Television, Roald Dahl Poem of the Day poet Alfred Edward Housman The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high. ...... Read complete » Member Poem New Poems 1. New York City, Dawson Walter Smith 2. I will turn my eyes from you, Nero CaroZiv 3. In Concert Tonight, Donal Mahoney 4. January 1st,2015, MOHAMMAD SKATI 5. In My Dreams, Kyle Schlicher 6. One Needs The Other, Kyle Schlicher 7. Escaping The World, silenced work 8. Lonely, silenced work 9. Agnostic Afloat, Donal Mahoney 10. Unharmed Pinecones, Saiom Shriver [Hata Bildir]	[]
Hundreds of trucks and sport/utilities came to the Amado Territory Ranch in southern Arizona, just 30 minutes from Tucson, for the second annual Overland Expo. The trucks and events covered 17 acres of ranch property, framed by the Santa Rita Mountains. Every make and model you can think of was there: Land Rovers, Toyotas, Hummers, Fords, Chevys, GMCs, Rams, Jeeps. Even an odd ex-military 6x6 M35-A3 and a Freightliner M-2 106 4x4 were on hand. The owners of these trucks dream of adventure and overland travel. Some plan on staying relatively close to home, and others crave travel to distant lands. Despite the fact that virtually every vehicle, except for the motorcycles, had four-wheel drive, these people were not four-wheelers or rock crawlers, or even off-road racers. Quite a different crowd has emerged in North America in the last 10 years (it's been going on for decades in Europe): Some dream of driving around the world in a $500,000 Unicat built on a Mercedes Unimog platform or an Alu-Star Magirus Deutz (as seen in the July/August issue of Truck Trend). Others are perfectly happy to spend a year or two in Mexico or South America in a Land Rover Discovery or in a Toyota pickup with a rooftop tent and a slideout kitchen. Your shower might be a bag of solar-heated water hung from a tree. Since the perfect campground could be on a dirt track 50 miles from the nearest RV park, bathrooms are most often a shovel and a bush. If that sounds like roughing it, it is, but with the right equipment and knowledge, the trip can be very comfortable. It's precisely that knowledge and specialized equipment that the Overland Expo is all about. This year, there were 100 exhibitors showing off the latest in campers, tents, cooking gear, recovery equipment, and accessories useful to the backcountry explorer. The tent trailers were a mere step up in comfort from a ground or rooftop tent. Towed behind a 4x4 or even a motorcycle, tent trailers often include full kitchen setups, sleeping for two to four, and even a Porta Potti. Water, propane, extra fuel, and a small generator allow you to take along some of the conveniences of home.	[]
The Ne'er-Do-Well eBook Meanwhile he amused himself by baiting the purser. He dogged that serious-minded gentleman through all his waking hours, finding a rare delight in playing upon his suspicion and lack of humor. To him Kirk was always Mr. Locke, while he insisted upon being called Mr. Anthony by the others, and the officer never quite got the hang of it. Moreover, the latter was full of dignity, and did not relish being connected with a certainly dubious and possibly criminal character, yet dared not resort to rudeness as a means of riddance. The situation was trying enough to the young man at best; for the ship’s hirelings began to show a lack of interest in his comfort, once it became known that he did not tip, and he experienced difficulty in obtaining even the customary attentions. It was annoying to one who had never known an unsatisfied whim; but Kirk was of a peculiarly sanguine temperament that required much to ruffle, and looked upon the whole matter as a huge joke. It was this, perhaps, that enabled him to make friends in spite of his unsociable habits, for the men liked him. As for the women, he avoided them religiously, with the exception of Mrs. Cortlandt, whom he saw for an hour or two, morning and afternoon, as well as at meal-times. With her he got on famously, finding her nearly as entertaining as a male chum, though he never quite lost his dislike for her husband. Had she been unmarried and nearer his own age, their daily intimacy might have caused him to become self-conscious, but, under the circumstances, no such thought occurred to him, and he began to look forward with pleasure to their hours on deck. The Santa Cruz was four days out before Cortlandt joined them, and when he did he merely nodded casually to Kirk, then, after exchanging a polite word or two with his wife, lapsed into his customary silence, while Mrs. Cortlandt continued her conversation without a second glance in her husband’s direction. “That’s what I call an ideal married couple,” Kirk reflected— “complete understanding, absolute confidence.” And the more he saw of them, the stronger this impression grew. Cortlandt was always attentive and courteous, without being demonstrative, while his wife showed a charming graciousness that was plainly unassumed. Their perfect good-breeding made the young man feel at ease; but though he endeavored to cultivate the husband on several occasions, he made little headway. The man evidently possessed a wide knowledge of current events, a keen understanding of men and things, yet he never opened up. He listened, smiled, spoke rarely, and continued to spend nine-tenths of his time in that isolated corner of the smoking-room, with no other company than a long glass and a siphon. One day when Kirk had begun to feel that his acquaintance with Mrs. Cortlandt was well established, he said to her: “Stein told me to-day that your husband is in the diplomatic service.” Project Gutenberg Follow Us on Facebook	[]
The Fresh Loaf News & Information for Amateur Bakers and Artisan Bread Enthusiasts Steamed buns • Pin It timtune's picture Steamed buns For the Lunar New Year, aka. Chinese New Year, which was yesterday, i made a batch of steamed buns with sweet black sesame fillings. They were soft and fluffy, except for the age of my flour, which gave a yellowish tinge to it, i think. :) Image hosting by Photobucket Happy Year of the Dog! hotbred's picture your buns look absalutely fantastic . Im a big fan of the steaming & boiling water bread & bun business yours is top notch . did u ever put pulled pork & gravy . Or just pork & gravy inside w spicy hot oil. I understand u can even put apples & cinn too & dip in maple serup great stuff!! must have more steamed ideas & goodies hotbred! PS what do u put in the sesame filling [recipe] please?? timtune's picture Thanks! :) I love steamed buns too. I've made a baked pork version and a silver thread loaf before. In my place, there's a variety of fillings like sweet lotus paste, black sesame, red bean, BBQ pork, Pork & vege, vegetarian & the local thing, one of my favs :) - kaya (coconut egg jam). I could give the recipe for kaya too. For the black sesame filling, 1C black sesames (toasted till fragrant) 2/3 C Icing sugar (or castor for crunchy feel) A few drops of sesame oil Enough vege oil for smoothness (about 1/2 C or less) 1. Process black sesames and sugar till fine. 2. Add both the oils gradually till a smooth paste is formed. 3. Refrigerate - it will thickens as it chills For Kaya (Coconut egg Jam) 10 eggs 420ml thick coconut milk, extracted from 2 grated coconuts or use canned 450g sugar (use half palm sugar or half dark brown) 3 screwpine/pandan leaves, knotted (optional) 1. Beat eggs till well mixed but not foamy 2. Add sugar and mix, then the coconut milk. 3. Transfer mixture to a double boiler or bain marie and add the leaves. 4. Continue to stir slowly till mixture thickens to a thick custard. (don't let it boil) 5. Refrigerate. (great on toast too) capnmoney's picture Those are some hot buns. Could you post the recipe you used for the dough? timtune's picture Sure. Feel free to multiply or divide the amount, or even use it for other types of rolls. Makes about 30 palm-sized buns 3C Hong Kong flour (or bleached AP, or 2C Bread Flour & 1C cake) 1 Tbsp instant yeast 1 1/2 tsp Salt 3 Tbsp granulated sugar 2 tsp baking powder 3 Tbsp vege Shortening or vege oil (more authentic - Lard) 1C more or less water 1. Mix flour and dry ingredients well. 2. Add fats and water to make a soft & pliable dough, but not sticky. 3. Knead till smooth and supple. Don't worry too much about developing the gluten. :) 4. Proof till doubled. (about 60 - 90 minutes) 5. Punch dough, and roll into a long sausage, dividing it to 30 pieces. 6. Flatten each piece to a disk, place fillings and gather the sides and pinching it at the top to form a dome-like shape 7. Proof till about 1 1/2 times larger. (about 20-30 minutes) 8. Steam buns for 15 - 20 minutes under mid-high heat. PS : It's alright to let buns remain steaming under simmering water for 30+ minutes if u want to keep it warm for, dinner, let's say. Drzee's picture I enjoyed Chinese Silver Thread Bread at a Chinese Restaurant in the LaJolla, CA area more than 10 years ago. I have been searching for a recipe eversince. I believe mine was baked because it was brown. It could have been deep fried but I don't think so. The loaf was about 8" long and 2-3 inches in diameter. The loaf was filled with strands of dough about 1/8" in diameter running the length of the loaf. The strands were covered by a layer of dough wrapped around them and sealed at the ends. I have made steamed buns before, but I don't know how to assemble silver thread loaves. Can you help me with the assembly process? Breadandwine's picture I've just come across Polish pierogis, which are very similar to these steamed buns and I'm looking forward to making them again. Although next time I'd steam some and simmer the rest. Here's how they turned out: I'm intrigued by the silver thread rolls. A bit (a lot, really) of googling turned up this recipe: Just realised this thread is from 2006 - if you're still around, timtune, thanks for posting - and thanks to you, Drzee for bringing it back up! Cheers, Paul	[]
Municipal WiFi is the new hope for Net Neutrality - thinker Lessig's exploding cloud Municipal WiFi networks could help beat US carriers and politicians in the battle over so-called "net neutrality," according to one leading campaigner Stanford University law professor Larry Lessig has argued the WiFi clouds popping up across cites from Philadelphia to San Francisco could provide broadband access over the "last mile" between the internet cloud and users' doorsteps. Lessig, author and co-leader of the Creative Commons, told LinuxWorld attendees in San Francisco, that unification of the WiFI patchwork would provide an infrastructure that frees the last mile from the "proprietary control" of carriers like AT&T and Verizon. This would restrict carriers' ability to charge content providers different fees in order to prioritize delivery of their data packets across the internet. Nationwide fame: Lessig on Jeopardy "When one owns the wires as these network operators do, there is a desire to leverage control. To exploit and capture the value up the stack," Lessig said. "There's an explosion in municipal mesh networks... as you see the clouds exploding above the cities and people unify them, the last mile is solved. The last mile is provided free of proprietary control," Lessig said. Wonderful clouds exploding imagery aside, the wireless networks aren't taking off with quite the speed that Lessig claims. Google only fired up its free WiFi service in Mountain View this week - close to a year after it first promised to establish the service. And, those hoping to use the service, have to sign onto their Google account, letting the ad broker at their traffic. Meanwhile, major cities have struggled to rollout networks and see their WiFi plans as multi-year efforts. According to Lessig, the end to net neutrality would hurt start-ups lacking cash not the giants such as Google, who are in the cross hairs of carriers like AT&T. "The net neutrality looser will be the next Google - like YouTube - because they can't pay this toll to be on the network," Lessig said. He invoked the spirit of Linux, suggesting WiFi networks could be unified and moderated by the community, a la the Linux kernel. "If you support peer to peer, penguin magic, you will erase the last barrier to guaranteeing this infrastructure of the internet maintains the values of freedom that were there at its birth," Lessig said. Municipal WiFi has been under attack in the US. Carriers like Verizon have been successfully lobbying local and national politicians who have introduced a number of bills banning cities from providing free wireless services in recent years. Carries argue free WiFi is unfair competition and hurts innovation, points rejected by Lessig who said free WiFi is actually "good for business, good for growth and more valuable to society and the economy." Lessig encouraged members of community to inform lawyers and politicians about the dangers posed to innovation and new companies by the end to net neutrality. This, he said, would necessitate becoming involved in politics. "You have to play politics in a way the other side plays it... you need to 'waste your time' because they have all the power that's necessary to take away the freedom you now celebrate," he said.® Sponsored: Designing and building an open ITOA architecture	[]
6 Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart Rumors That Make Our Heads Spin 3. Actually, they’re so in love they’re moving to Paris together. 4. Make that London. 5. But while they’re still in L.A., they’re unabashedly visiting sex shops together. “They bought a range of stuff including sexy costumes, DVDs, a pair of handcuffs and blindfolds,” a fellow patron at the Pleasure Chest told the Daily Star. Actually, this is the most believable story of the bunch, because the store confirmed their visit! 6. Our very favorite: They’re staying together, but only if Rob grows out his chest hair. What’s your favorite random Robsten rumor? [Photo: Splash News Online] related stories you might like Powered By Zergnet	[]
Ninja Assassin Critic rating: MPAA rating: R Genre: Action/Adventure The story: Rain plays one of the deadliest assassins in the world who seeks revenge for the death of his best friend against the very criminal clan that raised him. Starring: Rain, Naomie Harris Director: James McTeigue Release: Opened Nov 25, 2009 Editorial Review 'Ninja Assassin' drowns in really bad blood By Dan Kois Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 Near the end of "Ninja Assassin," a brutally violent swordplay saga, European law-enforcement officers attack an ancient mountaintop ninja compound. Humvees rip through rice-paper walls, and black-clad swordsmen face off against commandos wielding rocket launchers. The mayhem that ensues is not unlike "Ninja Assassin" itself: an example of artless, pointless Western might -- in this case, the Wachowski brothers, the directors of the "Matrix" trilogy and producers of this film -- attacking an Eastern tradition -- the ninja movie -- with advanced technology and a whole lot of money. Needless to say, little survives the assault. "Ninja Assassin," directed by James McTeigue, posits that there are nine clans of deadly, uh, ninja assassins, each made up of warriors trained since childhood in the ancient art of slicing dudes in half with swords. One of the deadly killers, Raizo, has fled his clan and is hiding in Berlin, no longer comfortable with killing gangsters and politicians in exchange for a hundred pounds of gold. Raizo may no longer be a member of the Clan of the Black Sand, but he retains his super ninja powers -- and his devastating cheekbones. Since Raizo is played by the South Korean pop star Rain, the audience is treated to lovingly photographed training sequences in which a glistening, shirtless Rain performs, for example, handstand push-ups on a bed of screwdrivers. With his long hair and matinee-idol looks, he cuts quite a profile in "Ninja Assassin." "He looks like he belongs in a boy band," grouses one Europol higher-up when he oh-so-briefly detains Raizo in between bloodbaths. With the help of Mika, a credulous Europol agent (played by a game Naomie Harris), Raizo attempts to bring down his former clan and its cruel master Ozunu. In flashback, we witness how orphaned Raizo was raised by Ozunu and trained to become a heartless killing machine. ("Hate weakness in others," Ozunu growls. "Hate it in yourself!") That Ozunu is played by the legendary Sh Kosugi -- the star of early-'80s pajama-clad spectaculars like "Enter the Ninja" and "Revenge of the Ninja" -- indicates that McTeigue and the Wachowskis view "Ninja Assassin" as a serious attempt to update those movies for contemporary audiences. And they have, although not necessarily for the better. So the fight sequences in "Ninja Assassin" feature buckets of blood and a slew of slow-motion acrobatics. McTeigue (a Wachowski protege, and the director of "V for Vendetta") substitutes gore and slick camera moves for the verve and style of his predecessors. Ten minutes after you leave the movie, all the battles will have blended in your memory into a ceaseless muddle of sliced-off appendages, jets of blood splashing artfully on walls, gurgling screams and flashing swords. The only exception is a quick, dramatic mano a mano between Raizo and another ninja in Mika's darkened apartment, the two frightening creatures illuminated only by the agent's shaking flashlight. It's a rare moment of visual wit in a movie that provides plenty of jolts but precious little pleasure. Kois is a freelance reviewer. Ninja Assassin (99 minutes, at area theaters) is rated R for strong, bloody violence and language.	[]
Reinventing the Republic 1st edition Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France Reinventing the Republic 0 9780804757621 0804757623 Details about this item Reinventing the Republic: Early one morning in 1996, the sanctuary of a Parisian church was suddenly disrupted by a police raid. A group of undocumented immigrant families had taken refuge in the church under threat of deportation due to the French state's increasingly restrictive immigration policies. Rather than disperse and hide, these sans-papiers—people literally without papers— came together to bring to light the deep contradictions in the French state's immigration policies and practices. Reinventing the Republic chronicles the struggle of the sans-papiers to become rights-bearing citizens, and links different social movements to reveal the many ways in which concepts of citizenship and nationality intersect with debates over gender, sexuality, and immigration. Drawing on in-depth interviews and a variety of texts, this disquieting book provides new insights into how exclusion and discrimination operate and influence each other in the world today. Back to top	[]
Fresh from the inside, Syrian Army defectors say rebels have an edge Former Syrian Army soldiers now fighting with the rebels say government troops are well armed but demoralized, and that soldiers are increasingly conflicted about fighting for the regime. By , Correspondent • close Syrian rebel fighters raise their weapons as they head to fight government forces in Suran, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Sept. 10. View Caption In the months before Mohammad Qadri defected from the Syrian Army to the rebels, he got news from his family that a government jet had bombed his house. None of his family members had been injured, but he says no one could understand why the Army would destroy the home of a family with a son fighting on the side of the government. Now, Mr. Qadri is one of many newly turned government soldiers painting a picture of a well-supplied but demoralized military searching for a reason to continue fighting, 18 months into the Syrian uprising. “Many soldiers in [President Bashar al-Assad’s] Army are very scared because they can’t escape. They know it is not right to stay, but snipers will shoot them if they try to leave,” says Qadri, who is now fighting with the rebels' Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Aleppo. “I am very sad to fight them because I know many are forced to fight, but I know they would shoot me if they had to so I will be the first to shoot.” With memories of their internal struggle while fighting for Mr. Assad still vivid, the newly defected say that they’re confident the moral questions many soldiers on the government's side are inevitably asking themselves give the FSA a definitive edge. “I was in the Assad Army. I know what it's like. They are tired and scared. There is no confidence inside the Assad Army,” says Capt. Abu Azam, who defected two months ago and now commands troops in Aleppo. “If the soldiers in Assad’s Army have a chance to leave, they will.” The FSA remains largely outgunned and often struggles to find enough weapons and ammunition to arm its fighters. Additionally, it has nothing to effectively combat the government’s Air Force and struggles to rebuff government tanks. But despite the military disadvantage, FSA officials say they are making slow but steady progress in the key battleground city of Aleppo. Although the outcome is far from clear, officials say that opposition forces now control anywhere from half to nearly three-quarters of the city. Recent defectors say that for many government troops, it is often difficult to get a clear idea of how much progress their Army is or isn't making. They have limited access to information from outside state television and other official government reports, and the government still terms those who’ve joined the opposition as “terrorists” who are trying to destroy the country. “Before I left the Army, I thought the FSA was like a criminal gang; but when my friends started to leave and called me and told me what was happening, I decided I should leave,” says Mustafa Bakah, who defected two weeks ago and is now fighting with the FSA in Aleppo. Mr. Bakah says he also began questioning his involvement with the Syrian military after being tasked with violently ending peaceful demonstrations by unarmed protesters. FSA fighters add that for foot soldiers in the Syrian Army, victory isn’t a necessity in the same sense it is for the FSA. Opposing the Syrian government is an all-or-nothing commitment for the rebels, and those who’ve turned their guns against the regime have few, if any, options between victory or death. “All the people who are fighting don’t have a salary. They left their homes. They have no option but to keep fighting. We are confident we will win,” says Abu Mohammad, who commands FSA forces in Aleppo. Share this story: Make a Difference Follow Stories Like This Get the Monitor stories you care about delivered to your inbox.	[]
Winter 2010 masks discontent Funding and development for the Winter Olympics risks hiding the continuing injustice against Canada's indigenous people Sumi is not like most mascots. He has thunderbird wings, legs of a black bear, and sports the jaunty green hat of an orca whale. Sumi is a guardian spirit who protects the land, water and animals of his Pacific coast mountains. Along with Quatchi and Miga, his fellow mascots, Sumi has taken time off his guardian role to welcome competitors and visitors to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Sumi and his pals are not the only indigenous presence at the Olympics. Four communities (the so-called "First Nations") are official co-hosts of the sporting spectacle, whose events take place on their traditional territories. Each received about £10m for Olympic fixing-up, as well as perks like temporary jobs and small business contracts. A new highway opened up the northern interior to many more tourists and their dollars. The indigenous hosts also had pride of place in the opening ceremonies with four "welcoming poles" representing each nation raised, followed by traditional dancers. With indigenous culture and funding the front-and-centre, why do people still protest in the name of indigenous rights? The first clue is written on the land. While the Olympics take place on the four nations' "traditional" lands, the "Indians" (as they are still called in law) are restricted to a handful of tiny reserves sprinkled up the vast rainforested coast of British Columbia. At the Lil'wat nation, the co-host from whose Salish tongue Sumi takes his name, their reserves represent a tiny 0.04% of their traditional lands. The Disney-esque Whistler resort and its surrounding mountains, home of the downhill events, are all long-lost Lil'wat lands. The question of Sumi's lands goes back to the early days of British settlement. The settlers drove into fjords, up the fertile valleys, and pushed out the original people. Nearly 100 years ago, the Lil'wat chiefs petitioned King George V to protect them against some of his "cunning, cruel, untruthful, and thieving" subjects. They hoped the "greater white chiefs away in the King's country" in Britain would bring them justice and return their lands. Instead, the King ignored them and over a century the Lil'wat and others have been herded onto tiny patches of land – an apartheid archipelago, writ small. The new settler government usurped Sumi's guardian role, stripping ancient forests and emptying the salmon-choked rivers in the name of civilisation. Layers of laws and regulations grew over indigenous people, cutting them off from their lands, fishing haunts and animals. This is an old, familiar story that began with Columbus over 500 years ago. But the rebirth of Sumi, that phoenix of indigenous hope, signalled a new future beginning with these Olympics. History, however, refuses to release Canadians from its nightmarish grip. Just over a year ago, Dick Pound, the former vice-president of the International Olympic Committee and now a director of these Olympics, said that "we must not forget that 400 years ago, Canada was a land of savages, with scarcely 10,000 inhabitants of European descent". How easy it was a century ago, and still today, to dismiss indigenous claims to their lands as the last gasp of a few hundred "savages". At least, this is what the Canadian government argued and their British counterparts accepted in response to the Lil'wat chiefs in 1910. In British Columbia today, a century of wrong has created a people living hard lives amid great wealth. Compared with other Canadians, indigenous people live ten (men) and five (women) years less than other Canadians. An indigenous person is three times as likely to be unemployed and more than twice as likely to not finish high school. While many indigenous people succeed by leaving their communities and traditional lands, far too many still live in relative poverty. Any visitor to Vancouver can see this for themselves on the skid row streets of the downtown eastside, whose drug-addled and homeless count too many indigenous residents. For women, it is worse. The Native Women's Association have reported 520 missing or murdered indigenous women in recent years. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, created a century ago to tame the "wild Indians" of western Canada, have failed to stop this silent tragedy. Yet you can see their several thousand officers (an estimated £600m was spent on Olympic security) in armour-clad action in the pages of recent newspapers cleaning Vancouver's streets of a handful of marble-throwing protesters. So, is Sumi a sell-out? In between his official duties, he must gather up all his spirit powers to protect what is left of indigenous lands from an irrepressible colonial past. If he fails to use his Olympic podium to make the hosts and visitors see the indigenous land question anew, the Lil'wat's £10m might look like a bribe and Sumi himself a fern-green fig leaf over continuing injustice.	[]
California's High Speed Rail Will be Profitable, Require No Gov Support to Run: New Report CA High Speed Rail Authority/Public Domain You may have heard this news already, packaged in a slightly different way: News agencies across the nation are reporting that a 'business plan' for California's high speed rail line has been completed, and estimates show it will cost nearly twice as much as originally projected. Almost $100 billion! What's more, federal funds are drying up, and critics are still angry that the initial segment was installed in the lesser-populated Central Valley. It's a disaster! A disaster! Or at least you'd assume as much until you read to this part: "The plan also says the system would be profitable even at the lowest ridership estimates and would not require public operating subsidies". Wait, this whole thing would work? And work well? As in, after the initial investment, the entire system would pay for itself and then provide a much-desired, low-carbon transportation alternative to the people of California? Then how come the stories, like this one from the AP, are leading with how expensive it would be, and burying the fact that this is a cash-positive investment for taxpayers? Because that's just no fun. The collapse of Solyndra made green-bashing something of a fad for the news media, and sent them rushing to find more 'scandals' -- even though, to this day, there's still no evidence of any illegal activity in the Solyndra affair at all. And so we get efforts like this and this, that try to paint the CA rail plan as a boondoggle -- when the findings of the actual report they're citing reveal it's anything but. Yes, CA high speed rail may be more expensive then originally accounted for. But it's still been found to be a really sound investment -- and don't forget, there are tons of saved costs that this plan doesn't account for. The reduced traffic congestion and the lowered health costs from less air pollution spring to mind. High speed rail is still a great idea -- let's not allow sensationalistic detractors to spin the narrative away from the facts. Tags: Trains \| Transportation Best of TreeHugger 2014	[]
Belfast Telegraph Monday 29 December 2014 Jaguar cars 'most satisfying' A Jaguar car outside i54, the site north of Wolverhampton announced as the location for the new Jaguar Land Rover engine plant Jaguar is the car maker that customers are most satisfied with, according to a major survey. The luxury car company ends Lexus's 11-year reign at the top of the UK ownership satisfaction tables compiled by information services company JD Power and Associates and What Car? magazine. Jaguar also does well in the individual models table, with its XF runner-up to the Kia Sportage. In the manufacturers' table, Lexus and Skoda are joint runners-up to Jaguar, with Honda fourth, Mercedes-Benz fifth and Toyota sixth. Chevrolet finishes bottom of the list which comprises 27 companies. Vauxhall is second-bottom. The results are based on the evaluations of almost 18,000 online interviews from UK car owners after an average of two years of ownership. Third in the individual models' table is the Toyota Prius followed by the Skoda Superb and the Mercedes-Benz E-class. Bottom of the list in 118th place is the Vauxhall Vectra, with the Nissan Pixo second-last. What Car? editor-in-chief Chas Hallett said: "This is a great accolade for everyone at Jaguar. "This study shows that customers are really satisfied with their Jaguars: a hugely important feat for any carmaker." These are the leading manufacturers: 1. Jaguar 2= Lexus 2= Skoda 4. Honda 5. Mercedes-Benz 6. Toyota 7. Audi 8. Volkswagen 9. Volvo 10= BMW 10= Nissan These are the top individual models: 1. Kia Sportage 2. Jaguar XF 3. Toyota Prius 4. Skoda Superb 5. Mercedes-Benz E-Class 6. Toyota IQ 7. Honda Jazz 8. Volkswagen Passat CC 9= Lexus IS 9= Toyota Avensis Nightlife Galleries Latest Food and Drink News Latest Motoring News	[]
We are going to be moving... - Mothering Forums Forum Jump: Thread Tools Old 09-16-2008, 12:18 AM - Thread Starter SheBear's Avatar Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: A bit of Dixie in the Midwest! Posts: 2,808 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 0 Post(s) From a place that is somewhat diverse to a place that is over 80% white. (mods, I hope this question fits here....it's been something that has been weighing on my mind...please forgive me if it needs to be moved!) We are white, but we've been blessed to live in a fairly diverse place since before our eldest was born. I'm thankful that our children have been exposed to different cultures and races in a very natural way--people at church, playgroups, the park, the grocery store, etc. And yet, because we live in the South, the downside is that there is a more obvious element of racism, particularly in the older people we encounter (some of dh's elderly relatives, and some of the elderly people at church)). So far, I'd like to think that we've been careful to nip it in the bud where possible, so that it hasn't rubbed off on our kids (yeah, I know that's not really possible, but we've done the best we can), but I know that sooner or later--probably sooner--our 6 yo will begin to understand these attitudes and start to try to figure out how they fit in with his reality, KWIM? So, the blessing is that we've been in a culturally diverse area. The curse is that we've been exposed to a more visible level of racism (for lack of a better way to say it...hope y'all understand, it's hard to put into words something so despicable and hateful, and sooooo insidious!). Now, we are contemplating a move to a very predominately white area, and I wonder....which is worse? The beauty of cultural diversity, even if it means I have to explain racism to my kids and battle the effect of it on their souls, or living in an area of bland sameness that to me sorta feels like a form of racism in itself, and risk the chance that my kids will forget that God used an amazingly rich palette when He created people? This isn't so much a question of "should we make this move" because it is almost a certainty that we will. I guess my question is more, what are the ramifications of living in such a "non" diverse area, and what (if anything) can I do to protect my children from that lack of diversity? Am I making any sense at all? I feel like I'm phrasing everything very poorly...perhaps I don't even really know what my question is. It's just been on my mind a lot since it became apparent that we'd be moving. Which is worse, open racism, or the more subtle racism of non-diversity? SheBear is offline Sponsored Links Old 09-16-2008, 11:05 PM RasJi7's Avatar Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Asheville, NC Posts: 596 Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s) Quoted: 0 Post(s) I'm gonna say open racism because it's actions and words that could possibly be repeated by children. But that does have the teachable benefit of being able to model proper behavior and respect. For example if a cashier tries to take you before a POC (person of color) you can point out who was next and your children may pick up on that. If you are raising children in an area where you don't feel like they will be naturally exposed to much diversity you can make it a point of focusing on different cultures. Just some ideas I can think of right now: shopping at ethnic grocers for fun ingredients, making a night each week or month where you get take out or prepare a dish from a different country/culture and use the whole night to focus on that culture, maybe add a movie and just conversation about what you know about the culture and ask them what they already know- maybe they will surprise you with how much they already know and maybe even with some ideas that aren't accurate and then you can address them. I grew up in a Philadelphia suburb that was not diverse but moved at age 15. When I went back to visit as an adult I was shocked at the racism I saw and couldn't believe that the people I had grown up around had such awful beliefs. My Mother had a diverse group of friends including women from Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and african-american women from Trenton (the city where she was employed). I guess we lived in our own little bubble of diversity within a non-diverse area. My Mom has a love of different cultures and it is something that she passed on to me, only by her example. People were people in her eyes- and the more they were different from her the more interesting they were to her. Inheriting this openness and desire to learn about the world through people no doubt had an influence on my life and the friends I chose. I looked past differences and instead was raised to look for similarities in values, good people, honest people, positive people are the people I gravitate towards regardless of their race or background. Your children are fortunate to have such a thoughtful Momma. RasJi7 is offline User Tag List Thread Tools Forum Jump: Posting Rules You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts BB code is On Smilies are On [IMG] code is On HTML code is Off Trackbacks are On Pingbacks are On Refbacks are Off	[]
Take the 2-minute tour × I have a new desktop PC with Intel Core 2 duo. I now just buy a cabinet fan and I need to place it on the back side of the cabinet just below the SMPS. How can I place it there with appropriate position? What I mean is I need the direction which the fan should rotate so that there will be a cooling inside the cabinet.. share\|improve this question I don't understand this question. Normally, as case designed for a fan under the power supply has a fan grill w/ screw holes to hold the fan in place. So, normally, the answer is "by screwing it in". But you must be asking something else? – derobert Jul 20 '09 at 7:55 I need the rotation direction so that it can cool the inside of cabinet? – Sauron Jul 20 '09 at 8:07 Can't you plug it in and see which way the air flows? – Travis Jul 27 '09 at 20:44 2 Answers 2 up vote 3 down vote accepted Some references. You are interested in the direction of the air flow (push-in or pull-out). • The usual thing to do is pull-out. • It helps if there is a side-grill on the cabinet, a little below the processor location and the fan actually is aligned close to the processor (usually the case with a good cabinet & motherboard combination). In this setup, the cabinet fan creates a good air flow around the processor sink+fan. • Sometimes, the processor comes with its own 'vent' through a side-grill, that has a 'funnel' path from the processor sink to outside. With such setups, a side fan only introduces unwanted turbulence around the processor fan. Care is required in such setups. share\|improve this answer Generally speaking airflow in a PC should be front-to-back. The 80mm and 120mm fans you get in a PC typically have the direction of airflow stamped on them in the form of a little arrow, so you know which way around to install them. share\|improve this answer Your Answer	[]
Tactics to Convert Right Wingers? Are these tactics the same as converting religious fundies? Is there any difference between converting a far right winger and a religious fundamentalist? Some background I'm sure just about all of us know a right winger or two, perhaps more. Some of these right wing fundamentalists may be very close to us, our friends/co-workers or to members of our families. I have a family member (not in my immediate family, but close) that I'm concerned about. I'm hoping the AN group can help me with some conversion tactics. I'll refer to him as "RW" (right winger). About RW: RW has had Rush and co invading and hi-jacking his brain for years. He avidly follows Rush, Beck, Mark Levin as well as local right wing programming. He buys damn near all of Becks stupid ass books. He listens to RW radio ALL DAY and ALL NIGHT. RW believes every word he reads and hears from these demagogues and he has been convinced that every other viewpoint is wrong - way wrong. RW has a large network of fellow right wingers. RW has a "Don't Tread on Me" icon as his facebook profile pic. Well over 90% of his facebook posts are right wing propaganda. He has a large following (over 500 facebook friends), including children. RW is indoctrinating his teenage children. His 3 kids "like" Bush, Reagan, Beck and "conservative" facebook fan pages. RW is Christian. Raised Methodist but converted to Catholisim when he married into our family. He is an active member of the church. RW and I used to get into FB battles - until I de-friended him. I had to for two reasons. I have a job and can't spend all day battling it out on social networks (he does not have such limitations) and I feared that one of us would write something that would break our ties permanently. We haven't conversed in several months. I did some research and came up with this article: What do you think, is this a viable technique? Shame, ridicule and humiliation? Do you have other recommendations that are less confrontational, but still effective? Personal experiences to share? References? Anything? As always I'd appreciate your advise. I'm sure others with similiar problems will as well. Tags: Conservativism, Fundamentalism, Right, Wingers Views: 10 Reply to This Replies to This Discussion Dude, fanatical devotion to a cause isn't typically arrived at rationally. its an emotional game, amongst other things, that gets a person indoctrinated. so what is the best way to combat that? depends on who you ask... some atheists would say that shaming and ridicule will work (although it often solidifies the beliefs of the person being shamed as a defense mechanism) and others say that calm reason and logic are the way to go (but if they listened to reason and logic, they likely would not be where they are anyways) I think you would need to be much more specific about the personality type of RW to find an effective method, which will ultimately be a combination of both. Thanks for responding Park. Yes, I know RW put as much thought into picking a political position as he did his religion - none. Re RW's personality type, I'd call him the prototypical "Strict Father" described in chapter 4 of Lakoff's "Thinking Points" In a nutshell, Lakoff's description of absolutist, hierarchal, rule driven, disciplinarian fits RW almost perfectly. I know that there won't be a simple answer. Unlike RW, I get how complex things are, especially when dealing with emotions. I'm just hoping that someone has had some success that will help shed some light on what approaches might work the best. Unfortunately, I've come across many people like that myself.. My extended family is very right wing, and at most I've been able to give them pause for a moment, but usually its not through fact based discussion but more through philosophical arguments.. Sadly to say, the ones that give them pause aren't usually the better points either, but easier ones~ it shows where there minds are, and where the limitations are. Psychology is one of my major interests, I spend a good bit of time reading and researching the topic too. I guess if I were to give any advice, It would be one of two things.. no, make that one. I would say the best thing to do would be attack the least held convictions; the points that RW holds to be true through analysis based off of the deeper convictions. I say this because deeper convictions are typically held where they cannot be attacked, and are safeguarded through compartmentalized thinking and sheer ignorance; they are much less vulnerable to attack. by working backwards, hypothetically speaking, you could combat the smaller branches of the mental tree and work your way down, and once RW's deepest convictions no longer hold merit to the lesser ones (having been rebuked) they will be open to question; they will not longer have the net of other un-refuted beliefs. My thinking stems from the idea that if you attack the core ideas that beliefs are based on, not only are they the most guarded and impregnable, but the beliefs that stem from them also act as a support. They will look to other convictions and phallically hold those as evidence... If this is an undertaking you'd truly wish to accomplish, you'll need to arm yourself to the teeth with information, statistics, dates, and anything else that you will need to thoroughly crush the lesser points... and then, depending on how intelligent this person really is, you will see if you even stand a chance to begin with. some people just don't have it in them to change their views. If RW is willing to admit defeat in at least on point, there might be hope, but otherwise its probably useless barring brain washing or torture lol What about taking the opposite approach and attacking the core beliefs? Perhaps even his religion and God belief? If I can get him to question his God belief, would that translate over to questioning all his beliefs? Perhaps I attempt to chop the tree down at the trunk instead of trying to cut off each individual branch? It would take more swings of the axe, a sharp blade, heavier blows, a lot of sweat but would not that be the best way to take down a tree vs from the top down? It would instinctively seem like it is~ take the shortest, direct approach, attack the problem at its core, knock out the bottom of the building etc but the thing is that a human mind is not a simple structure like architecture. It is a complex web, and there really is no single support; and not only that, but the things we would consider branches in fact help to support it as well. I'll try this analogy and hopefully it will work. ~ you hear about a bombing in the middle east. you understand, but it doesn't elicit much of a reaction. ~you hear about a bombing in one of the coastal cities. this worries you, because it is hear in america. ~you hear about a bombing in your state. this upsets you even more, because it is much closer to your lively hood and state of being. ~you hear about a bombing in your town. This brings you fear, because it has been inserted into your life, and impacts you directly. ~you see a bombing in your front yard. This causes you to panic and possibly act irrationally, seeing that a direct attack on you as a person is happening. If possible, you will fight whoever needs be to protect what you have. I know it may not be the best, but from what I understand about psychology this could work as an accurate description. the lesser held convictions of a person are such as the coastal cities in the US. Something that is identified with, but also easily let go if need be. the closer something happens to "home" the more panicked the person becomes, more irrational and confrontational. the more they will fight to defend whatever, in this case beliefs, they hold, because that is how they identify themselves as a person. If you attack that, more than likely it will either be A. deflected B. They will simply not listen to you C. They will argue the irrationality of it regardless. very rarely will attacking that core of a person lead to a productive change... and even if it was successful, it could lead to an identity crisis and turmoil in their lives as they try to figure out who they really are. think of a MID LIFE CRISIS. thats essentially what would happen. ~the benefit to the much longer process is that the change is gradual, so that there is less shock to them, and the change is easier; after realizing they were wrong on several smaller issues, the larger issues will become more vulnerable as they are becoming used to compromise and reevaluation. Does that help explain it a little better? Ps. I wanted to add, the reason people become so entrenched in their beliefs (and the reason beliefs persist) is because there is no discourse that happens in the belief center. they ARE beliefs, truths that are held regardless of evidence. Most de-conversions from religion happen over time, and are not because of one argument but because of many smaller ones that add up. same process here. if you were formerly religious (I never was, so its an experience i must miss out on) think about your own de-conversion, and see if any parts are applicable to this situation. yes it does - thanks. and this "MID LiFE CRISIS" is one of the best things that ever happened to me. This is exactly how I gave up my religion, God belief and political positions, and how I learned how to become a skeptic and critical thinker (work in process still). The AN is full of people who dropped the core beliefs in their religion, and subsequently, their god belief. Certainly nothing is more foundational than that. Was this a gradual process or a sudden "shock"? Im sure it's a continuoum from left to right, but for me, it was a shock, and a good one at that. This shock caused me to become highly skeptical of all my beliefs, especially my political views. I was not nearly as far "right" as RW, perhaps because I never listened to Rush, but I certainly was an unabashed and proud conservative. Am I an anomoly? I don't really know, but I do know that the "shock" approach worked for me. Yea, I know, evidence from personal experience is not necessarily valid, and I have not seen any studies, but I have read a lot of stories, and I mean a lot, where people have had similiar experiences. I know Matt Dillihunty from Atheist Experience advocates for the "shock and awe" approach to deconversion. I suppose the difference between RW and I is that I gave the shock to myself, vs getting the cattle prod from someone else. I THINK I would have came to the same conclusions, but I didn't go through that, so can't be conclusive. I think that you may have stumbled upon the key here, it wasn't someone else who gave you the shock, it was from within. When something like that comes from someone else, we have defense mechanisms in place to disregard that information. We don't have the same mechanisms when it something that we come to ourselves, however. I can't think of any instances where someone said something that created that shock, its usually something that the person realizes that leads them to question.. So maybe your solution is the mental equivalent of the trojan horse. Something that RW will agree with that then leads to other, obvious implications that will slowly eat away at the core of the beliefs. There are other methods though, too. ~I listen to Rush and Beck almost daily, usually for at least a half an hour each, if not more. There are so many things that they say that are just plain wrong (and demonstrably so) that maybe starting to pick at those standpoints might help. ~ The debate tactic of asking what, if anything, would prove to them that they are wrong might also be a good starting off point. ~ I personally have found philosophy especially helpful, because its easy to pick a persons conviction, question it, and then lead them to a better response. ~ I guess the best point is, is that i've found on AN that there are people who initially believe different things than I do; however, I've found that through this website, philosophy, and some good research that those people are also willing to change their ideas. There is nothing I appreciate more than when someone replies that I'm right, and they will have to think things over, because that means I'm successfully making headway in sharing my point of view. Hopefully the more discussions I have on here, the more I may be able to help people think critically and realistically in the future. Ps. Another good tactic that I just remembered is that when debating with someone, do not take a side. if they are conservative, do not take the side of liberals. instead, focus on being nuetral, but pointing out the flaws in the conservative argument. this allows your words to be effective, without opening up space for them to refute. example... Arguing over healthcare, don't stand on a platform of obamacare was the right thing to do. instead, attack the conservative viewpoint that people aren't entitled to a right to live. if you have the obamacare platform, they will instead try to counter attack that instead of listening to what you are saying. if they say that its socialism, clandestinely agree " sure, maybe, but the real point i'm trying to make is such" instead of spending time defending something. if you have no platform of attack, they have much less ammunition and more target for you to hit. Can you elaborate on this? What type of philosophy, how did you use it, and do you have any reco's on introductory philophy readings? The best book for me on philosophy was called "the story of philosophy, 2500 years of great thinkers" or something like that. Socrates, the father of modern philosophy, became well known not because of the views that he held, but because of his ability to question others views. He would travel around the city and people would give him a truth; he would simply question it. Its occurred to me that almost everything in life can be dissolved until no longer reasonable (hence the introduction of solipsism) and that can be used to an advantage if you understand the approach you are using. I feel tho, sadly, that I cannot be as descriptive of what I mean without an example to expand upon. If you have a specific one in mind, please share, and I will detail the approach that I'm describing. Depends on how racist or war-mongering they are. Rabbits foot? Ask em', why vote for a so-called leader that is so pro-life yet so anti-people? Support Atheist Nexus Donate Today Help Nexus When You Buy From Amazon Badges \| Report an Issue \| Terms of Service	[]
The Difference Between NTP and SNTP Protocols Document Sample The Difference Between NTP and SNTP Protocols Powered By Docstoc NTP, or Network Time Protocol, is one of the oldest Internet protocols still in use today. It is used to distribute accurate time around the Internet and computer networks to network time clients. SNTP, or Simple Network Time Protocol, is a simplified version of the Network Time Protocol lacking many of its complex synchronisation algorithms. SNTP is ideal for implementation on small computers. This article describes the differences between NTP and SNTP. The article also discusses when SNTP can be safely used in place of the full-blown NTP protocol. It also outlines the differences between a NTP server\client and a SNTP server\client. NTP protocol packets transferred between a NTP server and client are identical to SNTP packets. Each field in a NTP packet of information has a corresponding field in a SNTP packet. NTP protocol packets are entirely interchangeable with SNTP protocol packets. Indeed a NTP server cannot differentiate a request for time originating from a NTP client or SNTP client. The difference between the NTP and SNTP protocols lie in the algorithms used to implement the protocols. NTP has complex algorithms designed to query multiple NTP servers or external reference clocks and decide on the most accurate time reference. NTP constantly monitors multiple time references for jitter and offset and decides which is the best one to synchronise. NTP corrects time by slewing the system clock. The system clock is speeded up or slowed down in order to bring it slowly into sync with a time reference. Large stepped time adjustments are avoided. NTP has complex synchronisation algorithms that calibrate the system clock to match the frequency of an accurate reference clock. SNTP is a simplified sub-set of the algorithms used by the NTP protocol. SNTP does not slew the host computers system time instead it steps forwards or backwards to the correct time. Adjusting the system time in steps can cause time critical applications problems. SNTP also lacks the functionality to monitor multiple NTP server reference clocks and decide on the optimal source of time. Instead it utilises a list of references and in the event of failure of a reference it moves on to the next. SNTP is ideal for synchronising computers at the leaves of a network. It is ideally suited to less powerful processors, such as micro-controllers and embedded systems, which do not require the accuracy of NTP. The complex algorithms of NTP may not be practically implemented on small computers. NTP is ideal for use in dedicated NTP server systems and synchronising large networks of computers. Here, time may be critical and the added complexity of NTP will help maintain accurate Shared By:	[]
JVC dla-x3 3D and more It's not just 3D compatibility that's new for 2011. JVC has fundamentally redesigned the D-ILA optical engine on the X3. A new device driver and wire grid mean even less pixel visibility. The result is an astonishingly smooth and cinematic image, with astounding black levels. Also new this year is the provision of Adobe RGB, DCI and sRGB colour profiles, expanding the projector's appeal beyond mere Blu-ray playback. Gamers and digital photographers take note. Despite an obvious long-term commitment to 3D, both with its projectors and, increasingly, its camcorder lines, the provision of a separate 3D sync emitter (PK-EM1) strikes me as a little short term. Unlike Sony, which has built the sync transmitter into the lens barrel of its own 3D projector (the VPL-VW90ES), JVC has elected to keep the unit separate, meaning you'll need to hardwire it directly to the rear of the projector yet somehow accommodate it within your install. The reason given is that 3D is being sold as an optional extra in most sales territories. However, JVC UK has elected to include the transmitter and a pair of glasses as standard. The projector supports frame sequential 3D Blu-ray, Side-by-Side 3D as used by Sky and other broadcasters, plus other formats you'll probably never need. Googlers should be aware that the X3 has a sibling model from JVC's Pro division, the DLA-RS40. Outside of the nomenclature there's no difference in the product. Similarly, the DLA-RS50 and DLA-RS60 correspond to the DLA-X7 and DLA-X9 respectively.	[]
Watch Anderson Cooper Take On Arizona Senator Who Backed Anti-Gay Bill Like you and everyone else who is sane, Anderson Cooper is done with all these dumb anti-gay "religious freedom" bills that are cropping up in a couple of states. Like, seriously fucking done with them. The shitty anti-gay bill in Arizona already has legislators who once supported it backtracking like crazy to escape its web of dumbfuckery. However, there's still more than a few who think this bill is a great idea. Like Arizona State Senator Al Melvin, who seemed to be trying to push forward a GOP talking point that bill wasn't all that bad (HAHAHAHA), see, it was just the media that made it seem really awful for explaining to the public how the bill would make it legal for businesses to refuse services to gay patrons. Melvin said the opposition from the public was because of the "media frenzy" around the bill. "You're seriously blaming the media on this?" Cooper said. "Oh, come on!" Exactly. Nice try, dude. No, the "media frenzy" is just a regular, plain-ole' "what the fuck is going on in this country!!!" frenzy that comes about WHEN YOU TRY TO PASS SHITTY BILLS. The media takes the ball and runs with it. But you—the assholes who write lousy laws like this—are responsible for the "frenzy" when the public finds out just how awful what you're trying to do is. The GOP was framing this bill as a "religious freedom" bill. OK, Cooper tried to go along with this reasoning, and asked tMelvin for a specific example of anyone being discriminated against based on their religion that would warrant this bill. CUE CRICKETS. Melvin ducked that question, claiming the bill is "preemptive." This answer sort of makes sense when you find out Melvin also doesn't think people in Arizona don't discriminate against anyone. Ever. At all. How convenient for this old white dude not to notice any discrimination going on anywhere around him: Cooper held Melvin's feet to the fire over whether such a bill would also allow Catholics to discriminate against divorced people, and Melvin deadpanned, "With all due respect, sir, I don't know of anybody in Arizona who would discriminate against another human being." "Really?! Nobody?!" Cooper exclaimed. "I know people in New York who discriminate. Really? There's nobody? Discrimination doesn't exist in Arizona?" "Well, maybe you ought to move to Arizona, we're more people friendly here apparently." Melvin countered. "If somebody is fired because they're gay or lesbian in your state, is that discrimination?" Cooper fired back. Melvin, clearly thrown off by the question, paused, and nervously fought to regain his composure. "I…don't know of anybody that discriminates in our state," Melvin responded. "I know you're trying to set me up, and I'm not going to stand for it, sir." I'm not going to stand for it. Sure, he didn't stand for it! He sat down in a comfortable seat and voted for this stupid bill. Watch the fun here: Image via Getty Images.	[]
For One Dollar, This Man Would Grovel at Your Feet In Japan, there are different types of bows. Some of them are fairly casual. Others are more formal. But one type of bowing still brings a feeling of shame. And it's sometimes used when people totally screw up. This style of bowing is called "dogeza" (土下座) and it's often translated as "kneeling down on the ground". In the past, it was used for bowing in front of powerful and important people as well as apologizing for huge muck-ups. It's "I'm sorry" when "I'm sorry" won't cut it. In Japan, putting yourself on the ground like this makes one as low as one can possibly go. It is a way to degrade oneself to express how truly apologetic one is or to show extreme deference—or even ask for a huge favor. What's more, it leaves the individual's neck exposed. Today, in a Japan where people don't carry swords, that doesn't mean as much. In the past, however, it did. (Please be aware that nowadays when Japanese people see the Emperor in public, they don't start throwing themselves like this on the ground.) For One Dollar, This Man Would Grovel at Your Feet Earlier this week on Twitter, photos of a young man doing dogeza in Shinjuku went viral on Twitter in Japan; it was retweeted thousands of times. For One Dollar, This Man Would Grovel at Your Feet With the inevitable hipster filter. In the past, people would usually forgive those who bowed down like this. No clue if this woman was as forgiving. Likewise, no clue what this guy is apologizing for. (As commenter Bellamy also points out, the woman is cutting the man's hair, too!) Since doing dogeza is seen as humiliating, especially in public, Japanese people don't like to do it! Loads of people probably never have and never will. And since people don't like to do this, most folks never get the experience of someone bowing down before them. For One Dollar, This Man Would Grovel at Your Feet But good news! At a recent University of Tokyo spring festival, a young man offered to bow down before anyone for a mere 100 yen (US$1) a pop. This is a college festival gag! Often during school fairs like this, students will come up with funny booths. One year at a Waseda University festival, you could play drumming game Taiko no Tatsujin with dude's butts. This kind of stuff is supposed to be fun. For One Dollar, This Man Would Grovel at Your Feet Dogeza isn't always embarrassing—nor is it always used to apologize. As The Spirit of Japan points out, when couples ask for their parents' permission to get married, they might bow down. A similar style bow is also performed in tea ceremony. Likewise, here it's not done to apologize, but rather, as a sign of respect. What's more, in this situation, dogeza is done on tatami mats, so it's feels quite different from, say, a dude groveling in the street—whether you're paying him a hundred yen or not! For One Dollar, This Man Would Grovel at Your Feet Previously, Kotaku discussed how sometimes saying "sorry" is not enough in Japan. Photos: MASA_ILL991, kenken01sk, MASA_ILL991, 2ch	[]
Firefighters Rescue Pit Bulls From Bronx Apt. Fire Credit: CBS 2 Credit: CBS 2 NEW YORK (CBS 2) — More than a dozen pit bull terriers were being cared for Tuesday after being discovered in a burning Bronx apartment. The fire broke out on the sixth floor of a building on Grand Concourse. When firefighters arrived, some of the animals were fighting, and had to be separated using fire retardants. Neighbors wondered why as many as 15 dogs were being kept there. “Who knows what they wanted to do, like sell the little dogs or the big dogs, nobody knows. We have to look for the owner, where’s the owner at? Nobody knows,” said Rosa Fernandez. Police were trying to locate the owner of the animals. They were taken to the center for animal care and control in Manhattan.	[]
Take the 2-minute tour × UserA has company/folderA/subfolderA/fileA UserB has company/folderB/subfolderB/fileB If UserB leaves company and if we want to transfer ownership to UserA will it merge properly at the folder levels. Does company created by UserB and UserA merge properly and show as a common folder post merge share\|improve this question Your Answer Browse other questions tagged or ask your own question.	[]
HindustanTimes Mon,29 Dec 2014 US and the world Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Hindustan Times New Delhi, October 13, 2013 First Published: 11:00 IST(13/10/2013) Last Updated: 11:20 IST(13/10/2013) No nation is an island, the English poet John Donne might have written metaphorically if he had happened to have been a statesman. Chinese and Japanese gunboats stand off in the icy waters of the north Pacific. Syrians of different religious hues start killing each other by the thousands. American mothers say they want their soldier sons home again — and their president listens to them. And because of these far-off events stuff happens in India: the Delhi Metro is built, petrol prices fall at Indian pump stations and, suddenly, more jawans are being killed along the Line of Control with Pakistan. Scientist Edward Lorenz showed how the flapping wings of a single insect could trigger, through a series of events, the creation of a mighty hurricane. This theory, in common parlance, is known as the Butterfly Effect. If you have ever wondered why Indian governments invest so much time in diplomacy, military projections and international pomp and glory — here is an explanation. It is not merely that Indians import their petrol, fertilizer, cellphones and cooking oil and export their students and software. Here are three examples of how global chickens come home to roost. Be assured there are dozens of other possibilities. The country may be turning inwards as elections approach, but it helps to remember that India is just six degrees of geopolitical separation from many things that take place around the world. How Syria’s civil war could help India. 1. Damascus: Successful popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt, lead to a Sunni revolt against the Shia minority dictatorship of Bashar al Assad. Iran throws its weight behind the Syrian regime, its main ally in the Arab world. 2. Tehran: But supporting Assad makes Iran wildly unpopular with the rest of the Sunni Arab world. Decades of positioning Iran as the leader of the Arab Street — going back to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who wanted Iranian foreign policy to “be more Arab than the Arab” — go to waste. 3. Tehran: Iran, any way reeling under US-led sanctions, decides its time for a rethink. Arabs having soured to Iran, Tehran focuses on a more domestic agenda: a) preventing an Israeli air strike, b) reviving its economy. 4. New York: The path to both is through America. So President Hassan Rouhani woos Barack Obama at the UN. He tweets “Happy Jewish New Year.” Even US threats to missile Syria didn’t change anything. Message: Tehran doesn’t need Damascus the way it used to. 5. Washington: Rouhani and Obama have a phone call. Suddenly there’s talk of Gulf détente. If US and Iran patch up — still a while to go — then Iranian oil will be back on the market. It also means an economy-destroying war of Iran vs US and Israel is on the backburner. 6. New Delhi: If Iranian oil is free of sanctions, there will be an oil glut. Also, a fifth of the present price of oil is a risk premium based on fears of attacks on Iran. Present oil price: $110 a barrel. If US and Iran bury the hatchet, prices could be $80. India would save billions. Current account deficit problems over. Inflation down. How China’s Bullying of Japan Helps India Get Infrastructure 1. Beijing: Two years ago China deliberately upped the nature of its long-standing territorial squabble with Japan over the Senkaku Islands — Daiyu in Chinese — by sending fishing boats, then patrol boats and then fighters into the disputed areas. 2. Tokyo: The then ruling Democratic Party of Japan, which had sold itself as a friend of China, looks foolish. Forced to respond in kind, Japan also begins more aggressive coast guard patrolling and scrambles fighters. All of this gives a fillip to the nationalist stance of Shinzo Abe, from the opposition Liberal Democratic Party. 3. Shenzhen: In September last year, anti-Japanese protests spread across China. In Shenzhen, Japanese cars and products — including a Ramen shop — are vandalized and rising sun flags burnt. A number of Japanese factories across the country shutdown for a few days. 4. New Delhi: India, Vietnam and other countries on China’s periphery but with poor relations with Beijing begin to receive increased Japanese investment and even feelers for military relations. India, already a beneficiary of earlier Sino-Japanese tensions in the form of the Delhi Metro, gets billions of yen to build the massive Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. 5. Tokyo: Abe wins a landslide election in Japan and makes it clear that developing strategic ties with India will be at the cornerstone of his foreign policy. Announces plans for the Emperor of Japan to make a rare foreign visit, to India in November, to signal a geopolitical bond between New Delhi and Tokyo. 6. New Delhi: As India’s economy flounders, Japan emerges as a good Samaritan. Last month, Japan provides India a $50 billion currency swap which stems the fall of the rupee. Chinese scholar warns India in a May oped piece, “Overheated strategic cooperation with the Abe administration can only bring trouble to India” and warns of the “peril” India will face. Japan is now committed to transforming the Indian economy and helping make India a great power. How Obama’s promise is making Kashmir bleed 1. Washington: In 2011 US President Barack Obama announces the complete withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan. The deadline is 2014. He is both fulfilling an election promise, siding with the US public’s war-weariness and accepting that the financial burden of the war is too much for a recession-hit US. 2. Kabul: Washington believes Al Qaeda is a shadow of its former self, but still wants a stable regime in Kabul after it leaves. Obama’s formula for stability: rejig the Afghan government to the liking of Pakistan. 3. Islamabad: Pakistan has its own formula: Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban should negotiate a joint agreement to share power in Kabul. Pakistan’s generals tell Karzai they want India to be expelled from Afghanistan, among other things. 4. New Delhi: India is horrified. It believes this would, in time, mean a Pakistan-friendly Taliban regime ruling Kabul. The fall of the original Taliban regime and the US troop presence in Afghanistan had led the Pakistan military to turn off the heat in Kashmir after 2003. With both developments being reversed, India worries Pakistan will be back to its old tricks. 5. Kabul: Karzai, who agrees with India’s view Pakistan cannot be trusted, stalls peace talks with the Taliban. He feels he can fight the Taliban but needs money and arms — four of five billion dollars worth a year. India, Iran and Central Asian states can’t provide. Some hope the US, post-withdrawal, might at least provide aid. 6. Kashmir: As India had feared, from 2011 violence along the Line of Control rises and militant violence in the Kashmir Valley sees a comeback. Lashkar e Tayyeba chief, Hafiz Sayeed, declares the jihad will move from Afghanistan back to Kashmir. New Delhi hopes Karzai or his successor will pin down the Taliban, and thus Pakistan, in Afghanistan but is stuck on how to give Kabul the help it needs to do so. Copyright © 2014 HT Media Limited. All Rights Reserved	[]
Tuesdays 8:00 PM on CBS TV Fanatic Works Better with Prime Instant Video 40,000 other titles are available to watch now. NCIS Round Table: "Alibi" by at . Updated at . Comments Our review of "Alibi" broke down last week's NCIS Season 11 Episode 8 in detail. Join in as we analyze the twisted murder plot, Tony's surprising reveal and more! Doug: Tony's hidden quest. Christine: Strangers in an AA Meeting. Steve: More than meets the eye. NCIS Round Table Logo NEW! Doug: I liked the interchanges between McGee and Tony, mostly because McGee didn't get it. Tony's behavior has thrown him for a loop and he can't quite parse it all out. The one exchange in particular involving McGee's questioning him about riding the bus strikes me as the one scene that typifies everything in this episode regarding Tony's evolving outlook. "Best of all, I get to watch people." That's a dynamic that's completely foreign to McGee. He just doesn't understand how Tony can even use that phrase: it's a character dichotomy that's at odds with how he's seen Tony act and think in the past. Christine: McGee: "You ever going to get a new car?" Tony: "Well, firstly I never buy new cars. Secondly, I need something that ignites my passions. It's like a woman: I need to be in love before I commit." McGee: "You've never committed to a woman." I just thought that said an awful lot about Tony. I hope he finds a way to commit to both sometime in the not so distant future. Steve: I have to second Doug on the bus discussion. The look on Tony's face when he said he enjoyed people-watching was classic because you could tell he was actually serious, and that Tim had no idea what to make of it. On an unrelated note, I'm hoping we get a major Abby episode one of these weeks because I feel like she's been just a little sidelined so far in NCIS Season 11. 3. What, if anything, didn't work for you? Doug: I think that in real life, if a cop gets a lead like Gibbs got about the shooting of the bookie, he's going to react right away to let the investigating police know so that he can make sure their investigation proceeds. I respect the reasons the writers chose not to let him do this, as it builds on the relationship between Gibbs and Clark. Then again, Gibbs, despite any protests to the contrary, has never - or rather, never lately at least - proven to be a strictly "by the book" kind of guy. Christine: I think almost every procedural has done their version of Hitchcock's classic thriller "Strangers On a Train" and I feel like I've seen so many versions on this theme that I spot the premise in the first 10 minutes of the show. Steve: Not a lot. I enjoyed the case and how it showcased Gibbs vs. Clark, and Tony was great. Maybe not in my top 10 but a solid installment as usual. 4. What did you think of the lawyer, Clark? Doug: I like her for the same reason Gibbs does: She's more interested in justice than she is in helping her client cover up a crime. Other than that, I just don't know enough about her to make any sort of judgment. Her chemistry didn't grow on me for this episode, but then, we didn't see all that much of her, really. Christine: I really liked her. She was ethical but with an edge. She walked the line between staying within the letter of the law and leaving a trail of breadcrumbs so that Gibbs and his team could put away a murderer. Speaking of Gibbs, I really liked her interaction with him. She really made him bring his A game and wouldn't mind seeing more of it. Steve: I'd like to see her return to better answer that question. It was definitely a fun twist on a Gibbs-lawyer storyline that could've been formulaic. 5. Were you surprised that Tony has been attending a men's support group? Doug: Yes, I was surprised. At first, I wrote in the review that maybe he was just trying to recover from the torment of finding himself in love with Ziva, only to lose her again. Having more time to think about it since then, I think that's still part of the reason he's at the support group, but not all. On the plane back from Israel, he began working on his own list of "I wills" - similar to what Ziva had done. I think Tony is into some self-discovery, which includes his sudden fascination with people, and his comment about learning how not to be judgmental. The contrast between him and Gibbs is so interesting. Both are strong guys, but Gibbs hides any pain he has behind a facade of inscrutability. Tony hides his behind jokes and smiles. The writing involved in both characters on this series is superb. Christine: Yes, I wouldn't have expected that from him but I'm pleasantly surprised. It shows a lot of growth from his character. The Tony from the first few seasons would have scoffed at something like that. It also speaks to how much he's been hurting over Ziva's departure and that he needs to do something drastic to heal and move on. Steve: I was, and pleasantly so, by how it was handled. It's refreshing to see such a beloved character - a man in particular - embrace such a thing when there's a stigma attached to counseling, depression and mental illness. Tony's been shaken up pretty badly of late, even if he puts up a good front (or a bad one), and the fact that he took action like this sets a wonderful example. 6. How do you think Bishop's arrival will impact the team? Doug: I expect a bit of distrust from the team at the start. They can't make it easy for her to join up quite so quickly - I mean, look at the other possible candidates in the last number of episodes: no one wanted any of them to just jump in or even sit at Ziva's desk. Other than that, it's too soon to tell. I'm looking forward to seeing how they write her in. Christine: I hope it shakes things up. That's the best thing about Ziva leaving... it has upset the status quo. I look forward to seeing how Bishop interacts with all of the members of the team. I'm really hoping that it's going to be fun. Steve: I'm actually looking forward to it. I have a lot of faith in the producers and writers and am confident this will go over better than a lot of people think. Their challenge is to make a character compelling enough that we see her as Bishop, not Ziva 2.0. I think NCIS, going as strong as ever in its 11th season on the air, is up to that task. Tags: , A blonde Ziva doesn't bring her back. They should have been more original and found someone totally different. I think the new girl is an insult and will have problems watching her in the future. I am not a fan Who cares. New character should have never been created in the first place! CBS, bring Cote back or NCIS will sink like the Titanic! And can someone tell me how an episode can have a high rating when it hasn't even been watched yet?! @ Irishelf What do you mean it hasn't even been watched yet? It's been out for a week. Please stop the music over the dialogue. I can't hear what they are saying. @ Clint Hyde They don't play music over the dialogue no show does that To doug Tony has gotten over Ziva its time for you to do the same @ Michael Yeah... You keep telling yourself that...	[]
Speaker: Veronika Litinski, MaRS Advisor High tech entrepreneurs need 5 essential communication tools: * the "elevator pitch" * the executive summary * the presentation * the technical white paper * the business plan This lecture focuses on how to create them, and how to use them effectively to grow your business from an idea to a funded business plan. MaRS - Building Canada’s next generation of global technology companies. marsdd.com Loading more stuff… Loading videos…	[]
Strip a Record Player Down to the Bare Essentials We don't need your 1200s any more, Technics—some twisted metal and plastic is all we want for a bare-bones record player. Inventor RD Silva identified the must-have components and threw away the rest, resulting in this minimal design. As you can see, you're not left with much. A motor to turn the platter, an arm and stylus connected to the tiny amp and speakers, plus the controls end up giving you your no-frills sound system. You simply swing the arm on its counterweight to put the needle on the record to hear the beats. [Yanko Design]	[]
Take the 2-minute tour × I am trying to get the number of likes of a particular page on my website and store it in an array. Stuck in middle, i figured out that i can get the number of likes along with other data by the following code: $graph= file_get_contents($site); the output is as follows: is there a way i can just store the number of likes i.e. in this case 75 in a php array? I tried explode(); but the problem is that the url that i would be using wont be of a constant length. share\|improve this question That data format is called JSON, so look up json_decode in the manual. Btw., if you would use the PHP SDK, it would do the necessary stuff for you automatically. – CBroe Feb 15 '13 at 12:15 @CBroe yea i guessed it was JSON but was just curious if this can be done using PHP by the same output results. Thanks anyways – Arihant Feb 15 '13 at 12:21 Why don't you use the PHP SDK? Its a lot easier and its more future-proof. – Facebook Answers Feb 15 '13 at 13:14 @FacebookAnswers, what if i have multiple like buttons on the same page and if they arent the like buttons for facebook pages but my website's particular pages – Arihant Feb 15 '13 at 19:05 1 Answer 1 up vote 1 down vote accepted This is a json string decode it, use json_decode you will get the output as array. ref : http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php $array = json_deocde($json_string, true); echo "<pre>"; share\|improve this answer Did get the values in array but a stupid question, it says 'Array (....[shares]=>75.....)' How do i get this to a variable? What index should i give to the array? – Arihant Feb 15 '13 at 12:30 $var = $array['shares']; – Prasanth Bendra Feb 15 '13 at 12:49 I tried that , it didn't work. It gave a following Notice: Undefined index: shares in C:\xampp\htdocs\graphapi.php on line 19 – Arihant Feb 15 '13 at 15:49 Your Answer	[]
Take the 2-minute tour × I've noticed that often authors will comment that "descent theory" shows that some sheaf in the étale topology is actually a scheme. I was wondering what result in descent theory actually implies this(a statement and reference for the result is what is requested in case an actual explanation would take too long). I understand how descent theory is what allows one to define and construct stacks, but I've never seen a result which says something to this effect (for example, I haven't seen it in Vistoli's stack notes in FGA explained) and it seems to be used often in verifying that something is a DM stack. For example, Edidin states in the proof of Prop. 2.2 of his notes on $M_g$ that "$\underline{\mathrm{Iso}}_B(e,e')$ is the étale sheaf which is the quotient of $(X\times_{X\times X} E\times_B E')$ by the free group action of $G$. Moreover, descent theory shows that this sheaf is in fact a scheme." In the proof of Theorem 3.2 there, he similarly writes, "Descent theory says that in this case a quotient $C=C_E/PGL(N+1)$ also exists as a scheme." One finds similar statements in the other standard papers about DM stacks. I was wondering what results in "descent theory" they are referring to. share\|improve this question Minor note for HNuer and Chris Gerig: If by some chance it is difficult for you to type "é" using your keyboard, you could look up "etale topology" on Wikipedia (or your favorite search engine), and copy-paste from there. – S. Carnahan Nov 21 '12 at 5:16 You may want to look again in the last chapter of Vistoli's notes. He describes a few situations where descent is effective on schemes, and an example where it is not. Usually, the examples in the literature fall into one of the good situations, but unfortunately for readers, authors often don't bother to say precisely why. – S. Carnahan Nov 21 '12 at 5:26 1 Answer 1 up vote 8 down vote accepted When you post a question, it would be good if you include enough explanations not to force the interested reader to go search for a paper online. Anyway, the general question is: suppose that we have an fpqc covering of schemes $Y'\to Y$ and a scheme $X' \to Y'$ with descent data. When can I conclude that $X'$ descends to a scheme over $Y$? I know of two general results in this direction: this works when $X'$ is affine over $Y'$, of when there is a relative ample line bundle $L'$ on $X'$, and the descent data can be extended to $L'$. These are covered in my notes on descent theory: the first is in 4.3.1, the second in 4.3.3. Affine descent applies to the first of the cases you mention, descent via ample line bundles to the second. share\|improve this answer I certainly apologize Angelo. In the future I will try to include more background to my question to make it self-contained. Thank you for pointing to those specific theorems in your notes. I of course had read those theorems when learning about descent, but the general use of the phrase "by descent theory" threw me off as to what statements were being used and how, as S. Carnahan pointed out above. Thanks for the response and sorry again. – HNuer Nov 21 '12 at 14:54 You are welcome. There is no need to apologize. – Angelo Nov 21 '12 at 15:42 Your Answer	[]
Massive Dubstep Concert Cancelled Because Teenagers Don't Know How To Drink or Take Drugs "Dubstep" (or EDM) is generally terrible music beloved by America's teenagers. These children go see their favorite DJs in arenas or at festivals, where they chug liquor out of water bottles and/or take various forms of MDMA and whatever else gross adult drug dealers sell them. The problem is that teenagers don't understand how to take drugs without nearly killing themselves, which means that things like this happen at events like Haunted Coliseum at the Nassau Coliseum. Around 11:15 p.m., just over an hour after the party had begun, police officials, responding to numerous reports of dangerously intoxicated attendees, shut down the event. Rumors on Twitter described a scene of chaos, including reports of brawls, stabbings, and at least two fatalities, but according to Nassau County Police, the reality was more prosaic. "Basically what happened was they had numerous [reports of] approximately 100 concertgoers that were intoxicated," said Officer James Imperale. "The concert was cut short; it was supposed to run until about 2 in the morning, but they actually cut it short." Here is a quick tip for any teenagers who are reading and might be considering taking MDMA at a dubstep show: • Stop doing drugs before you feel like you are going to die. Naturally, the hundreds of vomiting, near-death teenagers weren't even the most embarrassing part of Saturday night's fiasco. During the chaos outside the show — where nearly 40 ambulances were parked — Michael Croissant (you really can't make this stuff up) attempted to land a helicopter for reasons currently unknown to people who aren't massive tools. Thankfully, those early Twitter reports of fatalities were unfounded. If you would like to read hilariously aggrieved comments from adults angry that their Halloween was essentially cancelled by idiot teenagers, visit the event's Facebook page. [via SPIN]	[]
IRC Meetups/2006/February/February15RawLog [19:06] <SteveAgl> the speacher is still away... [19:06] <skippy> screw it. let's get started. [19:07] <SteveAgl> the agenda #1 is: [19:07] <SteveAgl> Committors: is bg\|commit still useful? It seems nowadays that Matt/Ryan just work their way through open bugs and I can't seem to find much correlation between bugs I/we've tagged as bg\|commit and actual ones committed. DavidHouse [19:14] <skippy> well, since photomatt_away isn't here, and I don't see ryan, let's put that on hold. [19:14] * Joins: mikelittle [19:14] <skippy> and we need commiters to talk about the next item, too. [19:14] * Joins: masq\|lappy [19:14] <skippy> so, moving on to item #3... [19:14] * Joins: skeltoac [19:14] <skippy> only photomatt_away can talk about the problems with the forums. [19:15] <skippy> so, we're done. thanks for coming, everyone. productive meeting, as usual. [19:15] * Joins: SteamedPenguin [19:15] <skeltoac> Sorry I showed up late. Can I help with anything? [19:15] <MichaelH> good job skippy ;) [19:15] <skippy> is bg\|commit a helpful tag, skeltoac ? [19:15] <skippy> and do you review the list of user-flagged commit candidates? [19:16] * Joins: rboren [19:16] <skeltoac> I don't commit patches so I can't answer the first question. I pinged Ryan to jump in here so maybe he can... [19:16] <skeltoac> there he is :) [19:16] <skeltoac> rboren: is bg_commit useful? [19:17] <rboren> Yes, I look at it when I go on commit runs. [19:18] <skeltoac> skippy: as to your second question, I only review patches when someone asks for my opinion on them. [19:19] <skippy> http://trac.wordpress.org/report/9 <-- is the grouping on that helpful? Or would a date-based list be more appropriate? [19:20] <rboren> By date might be better. [19:20] * Joins: ringmaster [19:22] <skippy> updated the report. let me know if it's broken, or ineffective in any wya [19:23] <SteveAgl> where are the trac tag documented? [19:24] <skippy> i don't know that they are. [19:24] <skippy> for a while, it was mostly MarkJ and I adding tags ourselves. [19:24] <skippy> they're all pretty self-explanatory: bg\|needs-patch, bg\|has-patch, bg\|2nd-opinion, bg\|commit [19:24] <skippy> the bg\| prefix means "bug gardener" [19:25] <SteveAgl> oh ok :) [19:25] <skeltoac> bg\|reporter-feedback but reporters rarely come back to check. [19:25] <SteveAgl> was the bg part not understood by me :) [19:25] <skippy> we could probably drop that, going forward. [19:26] <skippy> then modify the reports to not use that in the query. [19:27] <skippy> any objections to dropping the bg\| prefix ? [19:28] <skeltoac> Not so much. [19:28] <skippy> so the "commit" tag is still useful. That's good to know [19:29] <skippy> we need photomatt_away to address the Codex problem. Anyone have anything else to discuss? [19:29] * Joins: davidhouse [19:30] * Joins: shep [19:30] <skippy> any feedback on inline documentation (PHPdoc) ? [19:31] <shep> i'm here. we can start [19:31] * Quits: gsnedders [19:31] <davidhouse> skippy, i'd like to see it. [19:31] <davidhouse> lets not go overboard. [19:31] <davidhouse> one or two lines before every function is about righ. [19:31] <SteveAgl> would be nice to have [19:32] * Parts: ringmaster [19:32] <skippy> okay. rboren: would you commit patches that contained nothing but comments? [19:32] <shep> i have a quick question. a feature request that i thought was supposed to be addressed in 2.0 [19:32] <SteamedPenguin> davidhouse: there are benefits to PHPDoc, as in autogenerating the documentation periodically. makes it easier to export too [19:32] <rboren> Depends on what they were commenting... [19:33] <rboren> IF breaking down a tricky regex, probably. [19:33] <davidhouse> SteamedPenguin: henec my support. [19:33] <shep> is saving a page as a draft ever going to be included in WP? [19:33] <skeltoac> shep: it's in. [19:33] <SteamedPenguin> rboren: that's sounds like an 'if and only if' [19:34] <shep> skeltoac: in 2.0.1? [19:34] <rboren> Well, if the comment is a bunch of boilerplate, probably not. [19:34] <davidhouse> shep, no, 2.1 [19:34] <rboren> But, it's a philosophical discussion. [19:34] <davidhouse> my commenting policy: [19:34] <davidhouse> one line summary before every function [19:34] <davidhouse> comment when you do something voodoo [19:34] <davidhouse> comment when you begin a big chunk of code (say a big loop) [19:35] <SteamedPenguin> rboren: so something like var listing and var typing would not go in? [19:35] <davidhouse> that's it. [19:35] <skippy> I was once encouraged (elsewhere) to only comment the extraordinary and non-obvious; but that sets an ambiguous standard. Obvious to the person who wrote it is often non-obvious to the newbie [19:36] <rboren> SteamedPenguin: I wouldn't right now, but we can discuss on the hackers list and see where people fall. [19:37] <skeltoac> The major argument I see opposed to extensive commenting is that it takes time to review them. [19:38] <SteamedPenguin> skeltoac: a fair ammount of function description can come straight out of the codex. [19:38] <SteamedPenguin> at least where template tags are concerned [19:40] <SteamedPenguin> skeltoac: since that stuff has the most eyeballs it ought to be the first target for inline commenting as well as the easiest to accomplish [19:40] <SteamedPenguin> making template tags a good test case, IMO [19:42] <skeltoac> You can always upload patches and ask for peer review. If you have a good set of comments and they've been okayed by a number of devs, Ryan doesn't have to spend his day reading them over. [19:42] <skeltoac> (I hope, anyway.) [19:44] <SteamedPenguin> skeltoac: ok, I'll make a simple patch tomorrow then. 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Take Photos to Replace Lost Assembly Instructions Packing and moving can be quite a pain, but it's much worse when you get to your new home and realize you don't remember how to put together your tech setups. Before you take it apart, snap some photos to remind you. The folks over at weblog Unplggd are pretty experienced in the realm of home improvement and personal technology, and this quick tip should come in handy for anyone dealing with both at the same time. When moving, a lot of your tech will require some disassembly, and it may have been a long time since you put those setups together in the first place. If you've lost the instructions (or if they weren't that good in the first place), plan ahead and take some pictures as you're taking it apart. That way, when you go to unpack it all, you won't need to waste time wondering how it went together, and you can concentrate on finding it a new home. Got any other tips on moving your tech? Sound off in the comments.	[]
Titan: Lounging by the Lake, Dancing in the Methane Rain With all those lakes, Titan practically has England's Lake District beat as a vacation destination. Image courtesy NASA/JPL/SSI With its lakes, riverbeds and deltas, Saturn's largest moon appears familiar at first, but think twice before taking a dip in the hydrocarbon lakes or catching its methane raindrops on your tongue. Even the ice volcanoes (cryovolcanoes), like 5,000-foot- (1,500-meter-) high Sotra Patera, erupt with frozen water and ammonia (or maybe asphalt) instead of lava [sources: Lovett; NASA]. Still, Titan is the only known spot in the solar system (besides Earth) that features surface lakes, and for scenery you can hardly beat the Lake Michigan-sized Ontario Lacus nestled in its surrounding hills of water ice. Sit on a frigid beach (temperatures average minus 290 F (minus 179 C)) and enjoy the unusually tall, notably leisurely waves rolling in, a side effect of Titan's low gravity [sources: Ghafoor et al.; NASA]. Titan also stands out as the only known nonterrestrial landscape where rain falls on solid ground. Moreover, because of the moon's soupy atmosphere and low gravity, Titan's rains, like its waves, are unusually big and slow. Even the largest drops, which are 1.5 times the size of Earth's, drift down like snow. It doesn't rain often on Titan, but you can hedge your bets by hanging out at the poles which, as it happens, are also home to most of its lakefront property [sources: Grossman; Lorenz; Rincon].	[]
Boomers to change world - again October 23, 2009 Times Leader CHANGING THE world is not an easy assignment - but baby boomers did it once and they’ll do it again. They tackled civil rights and women’s rights and ushered the country into the digital age of communication and entertainment media. They demanded better health care and more efficient automobiles. They worked alone and worked together to influence both their neighbors and their political leaders. Their list of achievements over the past 60-plus years is undeniably remarkable. The boomer generation has “never just migrated through stages of life,” says Ken Dychtwald, a specialist on aging. “They always transformed them as they went . . . boomers are not going to grow old like any generations we’ve ever seen.” And now this cohort of baby boomers - this largest of all generations, born between 1946 and 1964 inclusively - is redefining what retirement means and is on the verge of changing the world again through active volunteerism. Sometimes referred to as the “Senior Tsunami,” this 79 million-member group will begin turning 65 in 2011 and while many now must work longer than expected, large numbers are still likely to commence rolling in waves out of the work force. This powerful tsunami will continue through 2029 and beyond. Not content to sit on their laurels Thankfully, the boomer generation is a generation with heart, a generation that is already stepping up, recognizing that they can leave the world a better place for their children and grandchildren. It’s a strong and healthy group with a passion for helping others. Demographers predict the boomers will live longer lives and remain in better physical condition than any predecessor generation. So, for many, knitting afghans and raising roses will not suffice. Volunteering will become the pathway of choice for many boomers. It will provide a way for them to maintain a social network with people who express their values in similar ways. Some volunteer experiences will also offer an element of adventure - something many boomers desire - without being unsafe or disorganized. Boomer-rich companies taking note Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a Fortune 500 financial services organization based in Minneapolis, Minn., has 2.6 million members of which approximately 40 percent are baby boomers. When Thrivent reached out to those members to determine what sorts of charitable activities the organization should support, the resounding reply was Habitat for Humanity. Many of these 45- to 60-something Thrivent members were already pounding nails on Habitat construction sites across the nation. They wanted Thrivent Financial to support those efforts. Based on that information, the company formed a four-year $125 million alliance with Habitat for Humanity International, called Thrivent Builds with Habitat for Humanity. The alliance supported not only the work of the popular home-building nonprofit, it also provided an enhanced means for Thrivent members to become involved or stay involved in an active and meaningful way. Members were offered opportunities to help build homes in their own communities or they could travel in teams with like-minded people to help build homes in specific U.S. locations or abroad. Thrivent’s approach to connecting with their own boomer members through this alliance was highly successful. They were correct in anticipating that hundreds of thousands of them would be attracted to such an action-packed opportunity. The tangible result is that in just four years a combined total of more than 2,000 homes were built in the United States and in over 30 other countries. Retiring “to,” not “from” Along with the sheer size of the boomer generation, its vision of an active retirement is what will spur the group on to changing the world once again. In essence, boomers imagine themselves retiring to a new life, rather than retiring from an old one. They want to be part of something larger than themselves, something they can believe in. The opportunity to contribute something valuable and lasting, to engage their interests, skills and resources, to make a difference in a modicum of time and to slot in a bit of adventure will become paramount. One of the ways they will meet all those criteria is through volunteerism. The legacy of millions of learned, talented, self-sacrificing people stepping forward to help those less fortunate is thrilling to consider. Imagine a more compassionate world where millions are volunteering and benevolence is the new norm. Those boomers just might pull it off - based on sheer numbers, if nothing else. Courtesy of ARAcontent Article Photos BABY?BOOMERS are redefining what it means to be retired. No longer content to simply relax, boomers are remaining active longer after leaving the work place. I am looking for: News, Blogs & Events Web	[]
1. An objective sometimes may be attained by maneuver alone; ordinarily it must be gained by battle. A sound tactical maneuver has a great influence on the successful outcome of battle. 2. The purpose of offensive action is the destruction of the hostile armed forces. To facilitate the accomplishment of this purpose the commander selects a physical objective such as a body of troops, dominating terrain, a center of lines of communication, or other vital area in the hostile rear for his attack. The attainment of this objective is the basis of his own and all subordinate plans. This objective should have the following characteristics: 1. Its capture must be possible within the time and space limits imposed by the assigned mission. 2. Its capture should assure the destruction of the enemy in his position, or the threat of its capture should compel the enemy to evacuate his position. 3. It should produce a convergence of effort. 4. It must be easily identified. 5. Its capture should facilitate contemplated future operations. 3. The objective having been selected, all components are directed in coordinated effort towards its attainment. Actions which do not contribute to this purpose are avoided. 4. Sound tactical maneuver in the offensive is characterized by a concentration of effort in a direction where success will insure the attainment of the objective. On the remainder of the front are used only the minimum means necessary to deceive the enemy and to hinder his maneuver to oppose the main attack. 1. In the offensive, troops are distributed into two or more principal tactical groupings: one or more main or decisive attacks in which the greatest possible offensive power is concentrated to bring about a decision, and one or more secondary or holding attacks whose mission is to render maximum assistance to the main attack. Main attack groupings are designed to secure the objective and to destroy the hostile force. Secondary attack groupings are designed to hold the enemy in position, to force him to commit his reserves prematurely and to an indecisive location, and to prevent him from reinforcing the front of the main attack. 2. In each tactical grouping, the mass of the available means of combat is concentrated in a main effort and is applied in a decisive direction. 3. Main attacks are characterized by narrow zones of action, by strong support of artillery, tanks, and other supporting weapons, by effective support of combat aviation, and by deep echelonment of reserves. 4. Secondary attacks are characterized by lack of depth, reduction of reserves to the minimum, maximum fire power in the attacking echelon, and by wide zones of action for the attack units. They will therefore usually be assigned limited objectives initially. 5. When it is impracticable to determine initially when or where the main attack is to be made, the commander retains his freedom to act by disposing his forces in great depth, by holding out strong reserves, and by maintaining close control of his supporting weapons. 6. Attacking echelons once committed to action lose their immediate availability for employment in the execution of other missions. Deployed and under fire, they can change front only at the risk of incurring heavy losses. The commander can materially influence the course of an action once begun through the employment of reserves, fire support, and combat aviation. 7. In selecting the direction for the main attack, the terrain must be carefully studied. The choice of the front on which the main attack and the main efforts of subordinate units are made often is determined by the possibilities which the terrain offers for effective employment of artillery and mechanized units. Selection of the direction of the main attack also is influenced by the time available for movement before the attack must be launched. In many situations the most rapid and decisive results are to be expected when the main attack is composed principally of large armored units or when such units lead the main attack. Air superiority and effective support of the armored units by combat aviation are essential to the sustained drive of the armored units. 1. Attack maneuvers are classified as envelopments and penetrations. 2. In an envelopment, the main attack is directed against the flank or rear of the initial disposition of the enemy's main forces and toward an objective in rear of his front lines. It seeks to surround that portion of the enemy's forces in front of the objective. It is assisted usually by a secondary attack directed against the enemy's front. A successful envelopment depends largely on the degree of surprise attained and on the ability of the secondary attack to contain the bulk of the enemy's forces. Surprise is secured by maneuvering to avoid observation by the enemy and by deceiving him. Superior mobility increases the prospect of success. An envelopment avoids attacking on ground chosen by the enemy, and forces him to fight in two or more directions to meet the converging efforts of the attack. An envelopment which strikes the defender's flank or rear so as to avoid any part of his organized front and small-arms fire from that front is preferable. It minimizes losses, handicaps the defender's ability to meet it promptly, compels the defender to meet an attack on ground chosen by the attacker and when successful is more decisive. 3. A turning movement is an enveloping maneuver which passes around the enemy's main forces, striking at some vital point deep in the hostile rear. The force making the maneuver usually operates so far from the secondary attack that the principal tactical groupings are beyond mutual supporting distance (the distance by which forces may be separated and yet permit one to move to the aid of another before it can be defeated by an enemy force); hence, each grouping must be strong enough or mobile enough to avoid defeat in detail. When conditions favor such action, all combat elements of the command may be employed in the turning force, leaving only reconnaissance elements confronting the hostile dispositions. The turning movement is adapted particularly to highly mobile commands, such as cavalry, armored and motorized forces, and forces transported by aircraft. It is invariably employed by highly mobile forces in situations in which the vital objective in the hostile rear can be seized by such a maneuver before it is necessary to involve the enveloping force in a major engagement with the enemy. Deception, secrecy, and mobility are vital to successful execution of a turning movement. 1. When the enemy takes up a defensive position, the commander of the attacking forces should consider the possibility of turning the enemy out of his position and forcing him to withdraw and fight on ground more favorable to the attacker. Situations may occur, especially in the pursuit of a defeated force, in which the enemy can be forced by direct attack to take up a defensive position while a portion of the more mobile attacking forces executes a turning movement against his lines of communication. 2. A double envelopment is executed by three principal tactical groups, two enveloping attack forces and a secondary attack force. A simultaneous envelopment of both flanks generally requires considerable superiority. The command seeking to attack by double development must be deployed or capable of deploying on a broad front against an enemy on a much narrower front or with little capability or room for maneuver. The maneuver is executed by fighting a holding battle with the center while enveloping forces strike on both hostile flanks. When mobile forces are available in reserve, they may complete the envelopment by an attack from the rear. When conditions favor it, this form of maneuver should be used because of the decisive results it promises. 1. An envelopment of one flank is executed by two principal tactical groups, the main or enveloping attack force and the secondary attack force. After an initial envelopment of one flank, favorable conditions for passing to a double envelopment through the use of reserves may be created when the success of our troops has placed the enemy in a disadvantageous situation. 2. The enemy's preparations to meet an envelopment of his flank ordinarily cannot be organized as completely as the defense of his front, especially if the envelopment is launched from a locality deep on the hostile flank or rear. The defender strengthens an unsupported flank by reserves echeloned in depth and in width. When threatened with envelopment he moves them to meet the maneuver. He may attempt to envelop the attacking forces, or to extend his flank beyond that of the attack up to the limit of his strength. An attempt on the part of the attacker to meet such hostile extension may lead to overextension or to a dangerous separation of the enveloping forces from those making the secondary attack. It usually is better to take advantage of the enemy's extension and consequent weakness by retaining a deep formation and to penetrate his thinly held front than to overextend in an effort further to outflank the position. When the enemy extends his position beyond the enveloping forces, particular attention must be paid to protecting the exterior flank by the use of the general reserves of the higher commander. 3. In a penetration the main attack passes through some portion of the area occupied by the enemy's main forces and is directed on an objective in his rear. It is characterized by the complete rupture of the enemy's dispositions; the seizure of the objective by operations through the gap; and the envelopment of one or both flanks created by the breakthrough. The essential conditions for success are surprise, sufficient fire power, especially combat aviation and artillery, to neutralize the front of penetration, favorable terrain within the hostile position for the advance of the attacking troops, and strength to carry the attack through to its objective. 4. When the situation does not favor an envelopment, the main attack is directed to penetrate the hostile front. Conditions which demand a penetration are enemy's flanks unassailable; lack of time to make an enveloping maneuver. Conditions which favor a penetration are overextension of the enemy; terrain and observation favorable for more effective cooperation of the combined arms. Such an attack often can be organized more quickly than can an envelopment. 1. In the penetration of a defensive position, the main attack is launched on a front wider than that of the contemplated break-through in order to hold the enemy in place on the flanks of the penetration. The attack on the remainder of the hostile front is designed to contain the enemy and prevent him from moving his reserves. The amount of artillery, mechanized units, and supporting combat aviation available largely determines the width of the front of penetration. The wider the front of penetration, the deeper can it be driven and the more difficult will it be for the enemy to close the gap. The deeper the penetration, the more effective will be the action of mobile reserves in seizing the objective and rolling up the hostile flanks. The greatest distribution in depth is placed opposite the prospective front of penetration. The distribution of troops provides for three separate impulses; a break through the hostile position, a widening of the gap thus created by enveloping one or both interior hostile flanks, and the seizure of the objective and exploitation of the success. The sequence of these impulses depends on the situation. In some situations it is practicable through the existence of weaknesses or gaps in the enemy's front for mobile troops (armored, motorized, or cavalry divisions) to break through and to proceed straight to the objective, while operations of local envelopment and exploitation are performed by less mobile troops. In other situations foot troops must break through, the more mobile troops being held initially in reserve and used later to operate through the gap created by the foot troops. 2. The mission of the attacking echelon of troops is to break through the enemy's dispositions so that he will be unable to reconstitute his front on a rearward line. Until this mission has been accomplished, the attacking troops do not divert their strength to the attack of the flanks of the gap. Hostile counterattacks against the flanks of the penetration are met by reserves, by the fire of the artillery, and by combat aviation. The missions of rolling up the flanks of a gap created by penetration and of exploiting the break-through are assigned to reserves. Cavalry, armored and motorized units are especially suitable for seizing the objective and for exploitation. These units are supported by combat aviation operating against hostile reserves and artillery and other important objectives. Troops transported by air may be used to support these operations. 1. In large commands, a penetration often is initiated by launching simultaneously two or more powerful attacks (a multiple penetration) against weak localities on the hostile front. Strong localities are contained initially by secondary attacks. When the penetrating attacks have advanced far enough to permit, the interior strong localities are reduced by maneuver, and the penetrating attacks are united into a single main attack. The pinching out of strong hostile localities often is facilitated by launching multiple penetrations in converging directions. The doctrines applicable to a single penetration govern the organization and conduct of a multiple penetration. 2. Whether the maneuver adopted is an envelopment or a penetration, success will depend primarily on intelligent, energetic, and coordinated execution. This execution must be based on a sound plan which is influenced largely by the objective and direction of the main attack. The doctrines which underlie the employment of the combined arms in the offensive are conservation of the combat power of troops in the attack echelon, provision of assistance for them to close with the enemy, and thereafter support of their attack until the enemy's power of resistance is broken. 3. The frontage assigned to any unit in an attack varies with the mobility, type of armament, mission and combat power of the unit, the terrain, the amount of fire support available, and the probable hostile resistance. As a general guide, an infantry battalion at full strength in a main attack seldom is assigned a frontage less than 500 yards or more than 1,000 yards measured on the front of the hostile position. 1. Units are distributed in depth to provide flexibility of maneuver, continuity in the attack, and security. For infantry units, depth of formation for combat rather than a wide extension of front is necessary in the initial deployment. The progress of battle will call for maneuvers that cannot be clearly foreseen. This condition can be met only by initial distribution in depth. Laterally the distribution of troops in attack is governed principally by the doctrine of the main attack and main effort. It is influenced also by the relative advantages offered by different sections of the terrain. When the situation requires an unusually wide extension of the command, the increase is effected by widening the gaps between units. 2. The initial strength and location of the reserve will vary with its contemplated missions, the type of maneuver, possible hostile reaction, and clarity of the situation. After the attack is launched the reserve and the fires of supporting arms are the principal means available to the commander for shaping the course of action and for enforcing favorable decision. The primary mission of the reserve is to enter the action offensively at the proper place and moment to clinch the victory. Hence its initial strength and location are controlled largely by the maneuver to be executed. 3. In a penetration the reserve must be large enough to exploit the break-through by enveloping one or both of the flanks created and by operating deep in the hostile rear. To facilitate its rapid movement through the gap the reserve is located generally in rear of the main attack. 4. In an envelopment the reserve must be large enough to extend the envelopment or to exploit a successful enveloping action by operating against the hostile rear. To favor the envelopment the reserve is disposed toward the flank enveloped. 5. When open flanks exist or when there is danger of a hostile threat some reserves are disposed to meet dangerous contingencies. 6. When the situation is relatively clear and enemy capabilities are limited the reserve may consist of a small fraction of the command disposed to favor the maneuver. When the situation is obscure the reserve may consist initially of the bulk of the command, centrally located and prepared to move to any point on the front or flanks. 1. The location of the reserve should combine a maximum of protection for itself against hostile observation and air and mechanized attack with a road net which facilitates rapid movement to any point of possible employment. Motor vehicles should be held available for the movement of reserves lacking organic means of rapid movement. 2. Choosing the proper time at which the reserve should be used is often the commander's most difficult and most important decision. Nevertheless, at the decisive moment of action every man that can be used to advantage must participate in the battle and the reserve must be launched without hesitation. As far as practicable the reserve is sent in by complete units. Reinforcement by driblets is avoided. Commanders endeavor to reconstitute reserves from troops which the course of the action has made available. 3. The commander is responsible for coordination of the action of all elements of his command. 4. In all cases the highest degree of coordination permitted by the situation and time element is sought. The considerations discussed below are applicable in general to situations in which thorough coordination can be prescribed. In other situations they are applied to the degree practicable. 5. Against a strong enemy a decision to develop and deploy for attack directly from march columns risks loss of control and sacrifices some of the capabilities of artillery, tanks, and other supporting weapons. Ordinarily an attack in a moving situation may be organized and coordinated in assembly positions. 6. From a march formation the commander develops the main body for a coordinated attack by assigning march objectives to the larger units, usually the assembly positions they are to occupy, and routes or zones of advance thereto. The development order announces the missions of units already engaged, the missions of the artillery, the dispositions of the main body, the security measures to be taken, and instructions for further reconnaissance. It provides for essential administrative details so that the necessary preparations can be made. Instructions given in the development order are as complete as possible so that the attack order may be brief. For movement to assembly positions and security during development, see paragraphs 364-369, and 436-438. 1. The location of assembly positions is dependent on several factors. Darkness, cover from observed hostile artillery fire, a thorough knowledge of the situation, and a plan of attack already decided, favor advanced positions located in conformity with the plan of maneuver. Conditions the reverse of these indicate the selection of assembly positions well back. Units of high mobility such as tanks, cavalry, and armored forces may complete their development and preparations for battle at greater distances from the hostile front. If the plan of attack involves an enveloping maneuver, the assembly position of the enveloping force is set off at a sufficient interval from the troops in the secondary attack to preclude interference between units when deployed for attack. 2. Subordinate commanders assigned assembly positions may in turn assign more advanced assembly positions to the component units of their commands as knowledge of the situation and of plans becomes available. The final assembly position of an infantry battalion in the attack echelon usually is in the most forward concealed position available in rear of the line of departure. It should afford cover from hostile small-arms fire. 3. While units are moving into and during the occupation of their assembly positions the commander prepares his orders and completes arrangements for the execution of his plan of maneuver. Commanders of troops in the attack echelon and the commanders of units designated to support them coordinate the action of their units. Reconnaissance is initiated by all commanders prior to arrival in their final assembly positions. 4. As each unit arrives in its assembly position, measures are taken immediately for security and for clearing the roads. Signal communication is established without delay between the superior command post and the major subordinate units. Equipment not essential to combat is disposed of, extra ammunition is issued to troops, reconnaissances are completed, coordination of the plans of maneuver and plans of fire of subordinate units is completed, and attack orders are issued promptly. 1. Development of the command terminates with the troops distributed in accordance with the plan for their employment, and in an approach march formation favoring rapid deployment. 2. Should the commander decide that rapidity of action is essential to retain a tactical advantage, he may dispense with assembly positions, decentralize operations to combat teams or task forces, and issue orders to those units to develop and attack. 3. Subordinate units to be deployed for attack ordinarily are assigned a zone of action and a direction of attack or an objective. Zones of action regulate the limits for battle reconnaissance and combat of the unit. It is not necessary that troop formations extend across the entire zone of action of a unit as part of the zone of action can often be covered by fire, by small patrols, or by both. A preponderance of force on any particular part of the front is obtained by varying the zones of action of subordinate units. Zones of action are defined by designating their lateral boundaries or by the assignment of a front of deployment and the designation of the lateral limits of the objective. An open flank ordinarily is not bounded. In some situations, the designation of the objective is sufficient to indicate the zone of action. In large units the designation of objectives and boundaries may be made from the map; in small units these designations are made on the ground. Points designated should be identified easily on the ground. Zones of action should extend through the depth of the hostile position at least as far as the location of the hostile artillery. Important localities and terrain corridors commensurate with the size of a tactical unit should lie wholly within the zone of action of that unit. If it is desired that an adjacent unit render special assistance to another in the attack, this assistance should be clearly stated. During the progress of combat and especially when reserves are committed to action appropriate changes in zones of action are made. To take advantage of favorable routes of approach units may move temporarily into adjacent zones. Such movement must not interfere with the action of adjacent units or result in a dangerous massing of troops. The emplacement and movement of artillery and other supporting weapons in zones of action adjacent to the zone of the units they support are permissible, but must be carefully coordinated. (See par. 538.) The battalion is ordinarily the smallest unit which is assigned a zone of action. Smaller units are usually assigned directions and objectives. When lateral boundaries are not clearly defined they are supplemented by assigning compass directions of attack. This is particularly important in small units. When tactical groupings are separated initially by wide intervals and the direction of their subsequent maneuvers cannot be foreseen, designation of a boundary between them may be withheld until a later phase of the action. In such situations it frequently will be necessary to establish a limiting line between them for coordination and control of their supporting fires. 1. A line of departure usually is designated from which the attacking troops are launched at the prescribed hour or separate lines of departure and hours are assigned to the several attacking units. The purpose of the line of departure is to coordinate the advance of the attack echelon so that its elements will strike the enemy in the order and at the time desired. This line should be recognized easily on the ground and should be approximately perpendicular to the direction of attack. 2. The time of attack is the hour at which the attack is to be launched. If a line of departure is prescribed, it is the hour at which the line is to be crossed by the leading elements of the attack. It is determined by the time required for commanders to make the necessary reconnaissance, prepare plans, and issue orders; for the cooperating arms to coordinate their plans; and for the attack echelon to organize its attack and move to position. The secondary attack may precede the main attack to force the enemy to commit the greatest possible portion of his forces against that attack, or the main and secondary attacks may be launched simultaneously. Unity of effort is promoted by assigning subordinate units objectives which insure mutual support and by prescribing where and in what direction subordinate units are to make their main effort. The combat action and direction of attack taken by subordinate commanders must be such as to build up the main effort of the tactical grouping in accordance with the intentions of the superior commander. The commander must endeavor constantly to prevent the attack from breaking up into a series of uncoordinated combats. 1. The degree of surprise attained is dependent in a large measure on the coordination and timing of the measures taken to deceive the enemy. Ruses, demonstrations, feints, and other measures for deception executed at the wrong time and place will be obvious to an alert enemy and will warn him of the impending attack. Superior mobility and speed of execution may be determining factors in achieving surprise. 2. The best guarantee for success in the attack is effective cooperation between the troops in the attack echelon, the supporting artillery, and any supporting combat aviation. The superior commander coordinates the fire support of his artillery with the plan of maneuver of the attacking troops. Acting through the commander of supporting combat aviation he coordinates the fire support of the combat aviation with the fire of his artillery, his plan of maneuver, and his plan of employment of mechanized units. 3. To assure close cooperation with the attacking troops, artillery units assigned to direct support of designated units maintain constant connection with supported units through common command posts or by liaison agents. Ordinarily an artillery battalion is placed in direct support of an infantry regiment or a cavalry brigade. Cooperation is facilitated by habitually associating the same units on the march and in combat. 4. The command post of the division artillery is at the division command post. The same rule applies in the case of the senior artillery commander of a smaller force of combined arms. Subordinate artillery commanders establish their command posts where they can exercise tactical command and fire direction most effectively. If an artillery commander locates his command post at a place other than the command post of the supported unit, he establishes liaison and maintains signal communication with the commander of the supported unit. 1. The commander of the supported unit informs the supporting artillery commander of the situation, his plan of attack, and the artillery support desired. The supporting artillery commander informs the commander of the unit of the number and general location of his batteries, the present location of the artillery observation posts and those that must be seized during the advance, the terrain which the artillery commands with observation and fire, and the means by which the artillery can most effectively support the attack. (See par. 528.) Based on this exchange of information, the associated commanders arrange the plan of fire support to be given by the artillery during the attack. The artillery commander must comply with the requests of the supported unit commander to the limit of his capabilities, subject only to orders received from higher authority. If he receives a fire mission which conflicts with the needs of the supported troops, he reports the situation to the commander ordering the mission and then complies with the resulting decision. If the urgency of the situation precludes this report, the artillery commander acts on his own initiative in accordance with his knowledge of the situation, reporting his action to his superior at the first opportunity. As a rule a liaison section is assigned to each infantry battalion or cavalry regiment. A mutual obligation rests upon the commanders of supported and supporting units that liaison once established is maintained. It is essential that the supporting artillery know at all times the location of the leading elements of the attack echelon and be kept informed of the plans of the supported unit. 2. The fire of other supporting weapons is coordinated with that of the artillery. The fire of these weapons supple- ments the artillery fire of direct support chiefly by engaging targets in the immediate foreground whose neutralization by artillery might endanger the attack echelon, and targets within range on which artillery fire cannot be placed. 1. The action of combat aviation in support of ground troops is closely coordinated with the plan of attack. Its first objectives are those hostile elements, the destruction or neutralization of which will contribute most toward a successful attack. During battle, combat aviation is especially useful as a means, immediately available to a commander, to exploit a success, to correct an adverse situation, to attack reserves or reinforcements or to support ground troops in overcoming unexpected resistance. Its employment to complement the fire of artillery in a crisis or in fast moving situations is habitual, especially in attacks by tanks and armored forces. 2. To assure effective cooperation, supporting combat aviation should operate from landing fields within short flying time of the zone of action and must be included in the air-ground radio net and wire net of supported units. To facilitate coordination of its effort with that of the ground troops, a liaison officer from supporting combat aviation should be with the supported unit. Supported ground troops must keep supporting combat aviation informed of the location of leading elements and of plans of maneuver and fire. It is especially important that adequate means of identification of friendly ground troops be carefully arranged and coordinated. 3. An integration of the attack into a unified whole requires complete coordination and cooperation, prior to and during the operation, between supporting tanks, artillery, and combat aviation. (See chs. 2 and 16.) 4. Because of the difficulty of establishing and maintaining effective chemical concentrations in mobile operations, use by the attacker of chemical agents other than smoke is limited. Smoke must be carefully employed in respect to both time and space and must be closely coordinated with other supporting fires and with the action of tanks and supporting aviation. Under favorable conditions of wind and weather, smoke is used to blind hostile observation posts, anti-tank guns and infantry supporting weapons, to conceal the approach of the attack echelon, and to protect the flanks of the attack. It is especially useful during short periods when troops must cross exposed ground. 1. As soon as the commander has made his decision, he completes his plan of attack and issues his attack order, wherein he prescribes the necessary coordination for the action. (see FM 101-5.) 2. When conditions limit the ability of the commander to exercise a timely and direct influence on the action, the initiative of subordinates must be relied upon to a great extent. The commander issues less detailed orders to those tactical groupings over whose action he can not exercise a direct influence and attaches to them the means necessary to accomplish their tasks. He remains with and personally directs the action of the troops whose mission is of decisive importance to the action. This method of conducting an operation is most prevalent in pursuits, in opening phases of a meeting engagement, during crises of battle, and in envelopments in which the main and secondary attacks are separated by wide intervals. The greatest degree of coordination possible is prescribed initially; complete coordination is accomplished as soon as the course of action permits. (See par. 125.) 3. Coordination is assured by command and staff visits to subordinates to see that orders are understood and are being carried out. 4. A meeting engagement is a collision between two opposing forces more or less unprepared for battle. Ordinarily, the collision is caused by uncertainty or obscurity in the situation. This aspect is often present in the operations of small units and in situations where the means of reconnaissance have failed or are unable to operate. A meeting engagement may ensue when each opponent is cognizant of the other, yet both decide to attack without delay to retain some tactical advantage, to gain a decisive terrain feature, or from a feeling of superiority. It may occur when one opponent decides to deploy hastily for defense while the other attacks before this defense can be organized. 1. In open warfare, immediate orders and rapid action are essential. By the prompt exercise of initiative, endeavor must be made to deprive the enemy of his freedom of action and prevent the coordinated employment of his forces. A great advantage accrues to the force which first succeeds in making effective preparations. Action cannot be delayed awaiting the results of detailed reconnaissances. Prompt estimate of the situation, quick decision, and prompt attack are essential to success. The tactical situation which develops on first contact has a strong influence on the subsequent course of action. Commanders must be well forward when the enemy is engaged; otherwise, units may be employed improperly. Opportunities for decisive action must be exploited immediately. The rapidity of modern combat frequently makes the time element decisive. 2. Open warfare requires the widest possible exercise of initiative by commanders of all echelons in the execution of the general mission assigned to the command. Information gained by reconnaissance agencies during the advance affords a basis for the commander's preliminary disposition, and may enable him to determine the general line of engagement with the enemy and the plan of attack. As a rule, however, the enemy's intentions will remain obscure and will seldom be clarified until after the initial engagement. 3. As soon as the prospect of an engagement becomes apparent, the superior commander initiates plans for the operation and disposes his command to facilitate its rapid entry into action. One or more advance message centers are established ta facilitate prompt signal communication. Early and rapid transmission of orders to elements of the main body is essential to an orderly and timely employment of the command, and may be vital, particularly in columns of high mobility. 4. Initial orders are ordinarily issued in fragmentary form to the various elements of the command. The sequence in which orders are issued is based upon the priority of, and the time required for, execution. 5. When timely information of the enemy is lacking, subordinate commanders are relied upon to exercise their initiative and make important decisions in consonance with the general mission and the intentions of the superior commander. Without delay, the superior commander coordinates the action which his subordinates have initiated. (See par. 507.) 1. Employment of the advance guurd is the commander's first problem and is the basis for the employment of the remainder of the main body. When contact is imminent or when entering the zone of effective hostile artillery fire the advance guard moves forward on a broad front. When hostile resistance is encountered, the advance guard must secure possession of terrain that will afford good observation for the artillery and other supporting weapons, and gain the time and space required for the development and deployment of the main body. These missions require aggressive action against the enemy's leading troops. Unfavorable terrain or an encounter with superior hostile forces may make a temporary defense or a limited retirement advisable to preserve the commander's freedom of action. However, all advance-guard actions are characterized by speed and aggressiveness, by broad fronts, and by small or no reserves. The advance guard performs its mission most effectively when, after securing possession of the essential terrain features, it is disposed to protect the deployment of the main body. Its artillery deploys on a broad front, opens long-range fire on enemy columns forcing them to an early deployment, and interdicts the principal routes of approach. The advance guard is strongly reinforced by artillery from the main body and by supporting combat aviation. It is reinforced with other elements of the main body only when the situation clearly demands it. 2. Cavalry, after withdrawal from the front of advance-guard infantry, may be employed on the flanks to screen our own dispositions, to execute reconnaissance or harassing action against the hostile flanks and rear, or may be held in reserve. 3. The speed of modern offensive operations demands that supporting artillery be prepared to react immediately with fire when opportune targets are presented. To do this artillery observation and positions must be as far forward as possible. Early entry into action of the bulk of the artillery with the main body is essential to protect the development, to give support and cohesion to the advance-guard action, and to gain an early superiority over the hostile artillery. It may be necessary for a portion of the artillery to occupy temporary firing positions to insure that troops do not come under hostile fire without artillery protection. 1. The artillery preferably is deployed initially so that it can protect the development and support the attack from the same position areas. When initial positions are too distant, the artillery in direct support must so displace forward as to assure close support of the attack echelon. While other troops are organizing their attack, the artillery completes preparation of firing data and arrangements for supporting the attack. Observation aviation is placed at the disposal of the artillery commander in order that the hostile artillery and large troop assemblies may be located and fire conducted on important targets at long range. 2. In accordance with his estimate of the situation, the commander develops the main body and organizes a coordinated attack, or attacks directly from march columns with a part of his command and organizes a more coordinated attack with the remainder, or attacks with his whole force from march columns as units become available. (See pars. 485-487, 492, and 507.) 3. Regardless of whether the attack is launched from assembly positions or directly from march columns, the method of approach to the hostile position is the same. Each battalion of the attack echelon moves to the most advanced position in which it can make its final preparations under cover from hostile small-arms fire. The commander of each attack unit directs its advance in the assigned zone of action so as to be able to cross the line of departure at the prescribed hour. Each attack unit reconnoiters its zone of action and supports the reconnaissance elements with its supporting weapons. To keep troops in hand prior to contact with the hostile forces, a base unit is usually designated on which the other units regulate their advance from one terrain line to the next. Terrain features which afford extended observation, or which are otherwise of tactical importance, are the objectives of each bound. 1. Whether an offensive battle is the result of a meeting engagement or is based on the attack of an organized position, the conduct of the attack from the time the enemy is engaged until he is defeated is essentially the same. What difference there is exists in the coordination, power, and speed developed in the opening phases. (See pars. 535-572.) 2. Ordinarily the defender will attempt to screen his main position and deceive the attacker regarding his dispositions by the employment of covering forces. A thorough reconnaissance of the hostile position and its foreground is of primary importance. This reconnaissance seeks to determine the location, depth, and extension of the hostile position, the hostile occupation of the position, contaminated areas, the location of the hostile artillery, and natural and artificial tank obstacles. It involves a thorough study of the map and air photographs of the enemy's combat zone, and the use of available air and ground reconnaissance agencies. 3. If air reconnaissance and advance detachments fail to establish definitely the main hostile position, the leading troops are reinforced strongly by artillery, combat aviation, other supporting weapons, and, if necessary, by tanks. Rifle reinforcements are held to a minimum. The reinforced leading troops execute a reconnaissance in force against critical points in the enemy's outpost zone to drive in the enemy's covering forces and determine the hostile main position. Their mission is to seize the terrain which will permit the proper deployment of the command and permit observation of the hostile battle position. When the leading troops finally encounter a well-organized system of defensive fires of hostile artillery and other supporting weapons, it maybe taken as a reliable indication that the hostile battle position has been reached. The leading troops establish themselves on the critical points and cover the deployment of the mass of the artillery. 4. During these preliminary operations, cavalry and other troops seek to locate the flanks of the hostile position. The leading elements are protected from hostile counterattack by strong supporting fires and by the presence of other units moved to concealed positions within supporting distance. The remainder of the command is held in readiness beyond the range of effective hostile artillery fire. Necessary measures are taken to protect it against air attack and attack by mechanized units. 1. Reconnaissance is continued to obtain information as a basis for the conduct of the attack. This reconnaissance provides more detailed information for the assignment of objectives and as a basis for the plan of fire of the artillery and the other supporting weapons. Reconnaissance of the terrain must determine the most favorable routes of approach to the hostile position, the nature and strength of obstacles, and the possibilities for employment of mechanized units. Air photographs of the hostile main position are distributed to subordinate commanders. The terrain over which the attack must pass is studied on the ground and from air photographs to determine the terrain compartments which the defender has organized for defense and can cover with defensive fires, and the areas in which the attacker can advance best by flanking fire and maneuver. Artillery conducts reconnaissance to determine the possibilities of artillery observation and fire, and the location of its firing positions and the routes of approach thereto. 2. Determination of the weak points in the enemy dispositions is of vital importance. By fire of artillery and other supporting weapons delivered from different directions, and by feints and raids, effort is made to ascertain the enemy's dispositions and his plan of defensive fires. 3. Based on the estimate of the situation, the main attack is made either as an envelopment or a penetration. A carefully coordinated attack is required. Orders are issued for the preparations for the attack and for the measures for secrecy and deception to be adopted. Preparations for the attack include the completion of the signal communication system, organization of the command for combat, provision for ammunition supply, and the regulation and coordination of supporting fires of all arms. Special consideration is given during the preparation to measures designed to insure the continuity of the attack. Adequate provision is made for placing in readiness the necessary material and engineer units to destroy obstacles, assist the advance of tanks and heavy weapons, and for the construction of roads connecting our own system with that of the enemy. All preparations for the attack are completed as far as practicable before the occupation of final assembly positions. Preparatory measures likely to betray the imminence of the attack are carried out secretly or are deferred as long as possible. Restrictions are imposed on those activities within our front lines and in rear areas, which may disclose, to hostile reconnaissance, operations for the attack. Strict surveillance is imposed on the use of radio communication. 1. The plan of attack consists of the plan of maneuver and plan of fire. The attack unit, artillery, and supporting combat aviation commanders make detailed arrangements for coordinating the action of their units to carry out the common mission. (See pars. 498-500.) In coordinating their plans, it is essential that the supported and supporting commanders carefully study the successive compartments of terrain in which hostile resistance may be encountered and identify the successive intermediate objectives of the attack. An agreement is reached relative to the known targets to be taken under fire respectively by the artillery, by combat aviation, and by the other supporting weapons. Areas to be kept under surveillance for targets appearing after the attack is launched, especially those targets in adjacent zones which are dangerous to the advance, are agreed upon. Associated commanders must arrange for mutual reinforcement of fire. 2. Attack unit commanders must receive early information of their assembly positions and zones of action in order that they may make their own reconnaissances and formulate plans. Attack units usually move at night into final assembly positions, preparatory to an attack the next morning. Move- ment of units into their assembly positions by day generally is practicable only when visibility is poor or when overwhelming artillery and combat aviation support is available. When tanks are employed, their assembly positions and routes of approach are reconnoitered, marked, and prepared. 1. The first mission of the artillery is to protect the movement into and the assembly positions of attack units. During this phase, hostile artillery and observation posts constitute its principal targets. Registration fires should be conducted so as not to disclose the impending attack. The artillery gives special consideration to those measures which will attain surprise in the opening of effective fire, gain fire superiority over the hostile artillery, and concentrate the mass of its fire on the decisive objectives. 2. Artillery positions are selected so that fire can be concentrated on the objectives of the attack. Defilade, concealment from air reconnaissance, and proximity to observation are sought. Sufficient time is allowed for the preparation of firing data, establishment of signal communication, and organization of the artillery ammunition supply. Artillery usually moves into position by echelon. The movement is frequently wholly or partly executed at night. Units assigned to positions screened from hostile air reconnaissance are moved first. The movement of artillery is regulated to avoid interfering with the attack echelon in its occupation of final assembly positions. Long-range artillery is placed well forward to be able to take under fire the most distant echelons of the defender's light and medium artillery. 3. During the advance of the attack echelon from assembly positions, the hostile artillery constitutes the principal target of our artillery fire. Superiority over the hostile artillery is indispensable for the success of the attack. It rarely can be attained after the attack is launched. Looated hostile batteries are silenced early in the artillery action. Their neutralization then is maintained by a portion of the artillery in order that the mass may be employed on other missions until again required for counterbattery fire as new hostile batteries are located. If counterbattery fire is unable to gain superiority over the hostile artillery, neutralization of the hostile observation just prior to the attack is of great importance. 1. Artillery fires prior to the hour of attack may be limited to normal fires already in progress, or the attack may be preceded by an artillery preparation. The duration of the preparation varies with the situation. A prolonged preparation is destructive of surprise and gives the enemy time to take countermeasures. The length of the preparation is influenced also by the extent to which tanks are to participate in the attack and the role assigned to them. The duration of the artillery preparation may vary from 15 minutes to several hours. The nature of the artillery preparation depends upon its mission. Concentration of effect is greatly favored by dividing the preparation into phases. The object of the first phase of the preparation is to neutralize the defender's artillery, destroy the most important hostile agencies of command and fire control, isolate the defender's forces from the rear, disrupt assembled hostile mechanized forces and protect our troops from the enemy's counterpreparation fires. Artillery fire of the first phase comprises counterbattery fire; destruction fire on command posts, observation posts, and signal communication installations; interdiction and destruction fire on enemy routes of communication; destruction fire on mine fields and hostile obstacles; and concentrations on the hostile defense areas and assembled mechanized units. In the subsequent phase of the preparation, sufficient artillery continues counterbattery fire to maintain neutralization of the hostile artillery. The fire of the mass of the remaining artillery is concentrated on the hostile defense areas. 2. During the preparation, other supporting weapons fire on sensitive points in the advanced zone of resistance. Supporting bombardment aviation is concentrated against hostile artillery, signal communication centers, and reserves, with particular attention to mechanized units which cannot be covered effectively by artillery. During the last few minutes of the preparation bombardment aviation is concentrated upon the hostile defense areas. 3. The attack is characterized by the positive action of fire and movement, combined and controlled to create a preponderance of force in the decisive direction. 1. The attacking echelon advances from its final assembly positions so as to cross the line of departure at the prescribed time. Any mass formation of units runs grave risks of incurring heavy losses from hostile counterpreparation fires and air attack. The leading echelon is therefore thin initially; its fire power is gradually built up as the enemy discloses his plan of defense. When fire superiority has been gained, the leading echelon closes to assaulting distance. 2. Superiority of fire rests chiefly upon the mutual support of units in the attacking echelon, and the coordination of their action with the fire support of artillery, bombardment aviation and supporting tanks. It depends not only on volume of fire but also on its direction and accuracy. Fire effect is increased by enfilade action. Flanking or oblique fire is especially effective when frontal fire is delivered simultaneously against the same objective. A convergent fire forces the enemy to defend himself against attack from several directions and creates a powerful moral as well as material effect. Units seek to gain flanking fire by enveloping action. Flanking fire is also secured through the lateral echelonment of supporting weapons with respect to the units they support. Heavy machine guns, from positions in adjacent zones of action, deliver oblique fire over the troops in their front and protect the flanks of troops in the attack echelon. Light machine guns of rifle units follow the leading elements closely in order to take advantage of and deliver flanking fire through the gaps along the front. Units which have succeeded in gaining advanced positions deliver flanking fire across the front of adjacent rearward units. Lateral echelonment of artillery for purposes of flanking fire increases the difficulties of fire control and of liaison between the artillery and supported units. The fire of supporting artillery is more reliable and effective when its positions and observation posts are in the zone of action of the supported unit. 3. The attacking echelon advances to assaulting distance of the hostile position under its own and supporting fires. Until the main hostile resistance is broken, attack units advance by bounds to successive terrain lines on each of which the fire support for the next bound is organized. Fire and movement are alternated in such manner that an attack unit, whose advance is made possible by the combined fire of adjacent and supporting units, moves forward to an advanced position and by its fire from that position assists the advance of the adjacent units. 1. Troops transported by air may be employed to seize, hold, or destroy objectives which contribute directly to the success of the main attack. 2. Artillery and other supporting weapons insure continuity of support by displacing forward in groups (by echelon), while the bulk remains in position and maintains fire. Fire is lifted successively to more distant targets as the attacking echelon becomes endangered by it. When supporting artillery, heavy machine-gun, and mortar fires are lifted from the hostile position to permit the attacking echelon to close with the enemy, the loss of this support must be compensated for by the increased fire of the lighter weapons and by the cooperative action of tanks. (See ch. 16.) 3. Artillery supports the attack through the depth of the hostile position by successive concentrations in accordance with the requests of the supported commanders. Concentrations of artillery fire are regulated to bring the greatest possible volume of fire on objectives of decisive importance at the critical moments of the attack. Attack units take immediate advantage of artillery fire effect to gain ground to the front. The artillery is prepared for early movement forward to maintain close support as the attack progresses. Essential fire missions of units being displaced are distributed to units in position. 4. Artillery must employ all means at its disposal (observers, liaison sections, airplanes, wire and radio communication to attack units) to obtain exact information of the location of the front line. The attacking units must cooperate by employing all means of transmitting information to the artillery (display of panels, pyrotechnics, and various other means of signal communication). When uncertain as to the location of the attack echelon, direct support artillery takes immediate steps to establish close contacts with those elements. 1. During the attack, the supporting fires are concentrated against the fronts where the attacking echelon is making the greatest progress. Artillery fires are supplemented by fires of other supporting weapons. The fire of these weapons is used to increase the density of the artillery fire or is placed on those areas and targets which can not be effectively engaged by the artillery. When the attack echelon arrives close to the hostile position, the fire of all artillery, including that in general support, is concentrated on rearward hostile defense areas. 2. The primary purpose of close supporting fire is to prevent the enemy from manning his defensive works in time to meet the assault. Its progression to successive objectives is arranged between supporting and supported commanders. It may be regulated by a time schedule based upon the probable rate of advance of the attacking troops, by signal given by asaulting troops, or by a time schedule based upon a desirable duration of the fire. Other fire is placed on critical points in the hostile position to protect the attack echelon from hostile long-range and flanking fires and from counterattack. It is lifted to correspond with the advance of the attacking echelon. 3. Each attack unit uses the close supporting fires of its artillery and other supporting weapons to close with the enemy and to push on to its successive objectives without deviating from the prescribed general direction of attack. 4. Combat aviation supports the attack through the depth of the hostile position. Commanders of the supporting aviation thoroughly familiarize themselves with the terrain in the zone of the attack. Supporting combat aviation is concentrated over that part of the hostile front where the attack seeks decisive results. Its operations are coordinated to provide the maximum support at the time the ground forces launch the attack. 5. The attack must not permit its advance to be long arrested by hostile chemical concentrations. Contaminated terrain which cannot be avoided is posted and passed with the protection of gas masks. 6. Whether the main attack is based upon an envelopment or a penetration, the battle generally develops into local conflicts along two opposing fronts. During the course of battle the combat action of units may undergo a change as between envelopment and penetration. A force that has successfully enveloped the enemy's flank may have to make a frontal attack to defeat a hostile reserve or may find a favorable opportunity to attack the hostile resistance in flank. In a penetration, once minor resistances have been overrun, the outflanking action of small units is the most effective means of reducing the stronger hostile defense areas. 1. An attack seldom is executed exactly as planned. As long as the enemy has any freedom of action, unexpected difficulties are encountered which culminate in a crisis. The approach of this critical phase of the attack must be recognized by the commander so that timely measures can be taken to shape the course of action to secure a favorable outcome or to prevent a reverse. (See pars. 476-482.) 2. When the attacking echelon approaches assaulting distance, observation aviation is employed to observe especially the situation of our own and the hostile advanced elements. Observers on this mission report to the division commander and the commanders of infantry units the points where the attack is stopped and those where penetrations have been effected, hostile counterattacks, and other features of the situation of our own and the hostile advanced elements. Other observers continue to inform higher commanders concerning development farther in rear of the battle front such as shifting of hostile reserves, arrival of reinforcements, train movements, and the like. From these reports and other information, commanders direct the movements of reserves toward those portions of the hostile front that offer the greatest prospects for decisive success and to support the attacking troops in repulse of counterattacks. Combat aviation is effectively employed to attack enemy reserves and counterattacking forces. 3. In an attack of a stabilized front, the approach has already been effected and the attack opens with a coordinated assault. The hour of the assault is fixed by the commander of the whole front from which the assault is to be launched. The exact day and hour is kept secret until the latest practicable moment. 1. On a stabilized front, the period during which the opposing forces have been in contact makes available more detailed information of the enemy's defensive dispositions. The completeness of information will depend upon the length of time the front has been stabilized and the efficiency of intelligence measures. Available information is augmented by continuous reconnaissance. Reconnaissance throughout preparation for the attack is conducted in such manner that the appearance of normal activity is maintained. Information is disseminated in the form of intelligence summaries, maps, and air photographs. 2. Against a strong resistance and well-organized defense, the superior commander will prepare the assault of the first hostile organized line of resistance by concentrating the firepower of all supporting weapons, including combat aviation, to neutralize the enemy and wear down his power of resistance before launching the assault. After the first onrush, a series of local assaults delivered by units of varying strength on their own initiative continues the action. Each unit delivers its assault at the earliest moment that promises success. The commander of the unit will have arranged to deliver the assault on a time schedule, or will notify the supporting weapons, by a prearranged signal, that he is about to assault. The intensity of supporting fires is increased. Under cover of the supporting fire, the assault unit advances close to its objective. When the supporting fires are lifted from the objective the assault unit overruns the hostile resistance in a single rush. Any delay in launching the assault after the fires lift allows the enemy to man his defenses. 3. After the assault of an organized position the attack often breaks up into a series of separate combats which are continued throughout the depth of the hostile position. These combats are directed by subordinate commanders within their zones of action and are supported by all the means at their disposal. The first task is to capture assigned objectives. Resistances are reduced by fire or are outflanked. The utmost importance attaches to maintaining the continuity and direction of the attack by the timely movement and employment of reserves and by the timely displacement of the artillery and other supporting weapons. Reserves are disposed behind points where the greatest progress is being made, to protect the flanks of the leading units and support them in the repulse of counterattacks. Artillery and air observers search for probable assembly areas of hostile reserves so that enemy preparation for counterattack may be broken up by artillery fire and air attack. If the attack is unable to make further progress, the captured terrain is organized for defense and held until the attack can be continued. 1. The enemy's reaction following the successful assault of his main line of resistance, road conditions, and the possibility of maintaining ammunition supply determine when and in what strength the artillery will be moved into advanced positions. Artillery executes its missions with the fewest possible changes of position. Frequent changes of position reduce the volume of fire support. The occupation of new positions and renewal of fire require considerable time. Nevertheless, change of position should unhesitatingly be made when fire effect or deficiency in liaison with the attacking echelon requires it. Changes of position generally are effected by echelon after timely reconnaissance of advanced position. Artillery promptly fires upon enemy troop assemblies, troops forming for counterattack, and on any rearward position on which the enemy attempts to reconstitute his defense. 2. If the tide of battle turns against the enemy, he may endeavor to disengage his forces and renew the defense on a rearward position or he may fight a delaying action until battle can be renewed under conditions more favorable to him. Ordinarily, the enemy will strive to hold out until nightfall and effect his withdrawal under cover of darkness. Frequently the enemy will disclose his intentions to withdraw. Attacking troops must exercise great vigilance in observing the conduct of the enemy in their front, press their attack with energy and maintain close contact with him. Observation aviation searches the rear areas for indications of retrograde movements of artillery and trains. 3. If the enemy succeeds in withdrawing his major forces from action, the commander intensifies reconnaissance to obtain the necessary information on which to decide what line of action to follow. Aggressive action may prevent the enemy from reconstituting his defense on a rearward position. If the enemy succeeds in occupying a new position during darkness, a renewal of the attack in force must be delayed until daylight. It may be of great advantage to regroup the attack forces during the advance to the new position and launch the main attack on another part of the front. Effort is made to exploit the moral ascendancy by a quick and powerful blow before the enemy can reconstitute his defense. The action of tanks or armored forces and combat aviation at this time may be decisive. 1. If the enemy is fighting a delaying action on an extended front, the objective ordinarily will be attained more quickly by concentrating on a decisive part of the front and attacking with energy and dispatch. An attack pushed deeply and energetically through the hostile front will force the enemy to an early evacuation of the whole front. 2. In case of a break-through, armored units penetrate deeply into the hostile position and attack the enemy's reserves, artillery, and command and signal communication centers. The gap is widened by attacking its flanks. Other mobile forces are sent through the gap to exploit the advantage gained and to attack the enemy in rear and prevent his escape. The maximum efforts of combat aviation are concentrated on supporting and cooperating with the forces exploiting the break-through. 3. When the attack does not reach its objective or does not break through the hostile position during the day, foot troops intrench themselves at the points reached. The night is utilized to extend the advance. Strong patrols with machine guns are sent forward to occupy advanced positions. The foot troops advance and intrench in a new position under the protection of these patrols. Several advances of this character may bring the troops within assaulting distance of the hostile position. These night advances must be coordinated with the artillery and supporting combat aviation. 4. In offensive combat, a relief may be necessary to continue the momentum of the attack with fresh or more ex- perienced troops; to change the direction of the attack, or to extend an envelopment; or to initiate a strong offensive on a front where stabilization has existed. 1. When a relief is necessary, warning orders are issued by each commander (higher commander, relieving unit, and unit to be relieved) to each of his subordinate units. Warning orders include: approximate hour the movement for the relief is to begin; zones in which relieving units are to operate; and the restrictions imposed upon reconnaissance parties as to size, routes, and hours of operation. 2. Personal reconnaissance by the commander and staff of the relieving unit and prior conference with the commander and staff of the relieved unit are highly desirable. When neither is possible, relieving units move forward to attack without delay, reconnoitering as they go. As they move forward, commanders make every effort to locate commanders of units to be relieved. 3. A plan is formulated and orders are issued covering the movement of relieving units. Fundamentally the operation is the same as the development of a command for combat. In the preparation of the plan, restrictions imposed by higher authority because of other traffic in the zone of advance to relief, the greater road spaces that may be required because of increased distances between units, the road net, and practicability of cross-country movement, must be considered. The plan must be flexible as to times and routes of movement. The size of the unit involved and the speed with which the relief must be conducted will govern the thoroughness with which the details of the plan are prepared. 4. In accordance with the plan of the higher commander, commanders and staffs of both the relieving and relieved units arrange and agree upon such details as guides, use of roads, fire support to be furnished by the relieved unit, security measures which will be provided for the incoming troops by the unit to be relieved, transfer of the existing signal communication system, administrative matters, and the time command passes to the relieving unit. 5. Units to be relieved furnish guides. Guides meet the relieving unit before it enters the area and conduct it to assembly positions. Whenever possible, guides are furnished for units down to and including the platoon. 1. The plans for executing the relief must be in harmony with the plans for continuing the attack. When the relief is executed in darkness, troops relieved are withdrawn promptly from the zone of action before the attack is continued. Artillery of the relieved unit (and frequently other supporting weapons) may be held in position to support the attack. When the relief is executed in daylight, troops relieved or passed through remain in position and continue the fire support of the new unit until their fires are masked and until the attack has progressed far enough for the relieved troops to be assembled and reorganized without undue casualties. 2. If the exact location of forward elements to be relieved is known, and if relief is effected at night, the line of departure for the attack is the line held by the forward elements. When the exact location of the most advanced elements of unit to be relieved is unknown, the line of departure must not be forward of the line held by most advanced elements whose location is known. In daylight and terrain permitting, a line of departure between the forward elements to be relieved and a covered position close in their rear may be better than a line coinciding with the front-line elements. 3. To disclose the fact that a relief is in progress invites disaster--a heavy bombardment by air and artillery, a counterattack, or both, at a time when congestion and traflic circulation are doubled. 4. In reliefs on a scale large enough to require more than a single night, troops, animals, and vehicles of the relieving unit are concealed during periods of visibility. The relief is carried out by echelon. To prevent the discovery of the relief through the capture of prisoners by the enemy during an intervening day or night, front-line elements are relieved during the last night preceding the resumption of the attack. When the relief is made in daylight, woods, fog, and defilade are utilized in the approach. Smoke is placed on hostile observation posts and hostile forward elements. Mobility, ruses, feints, and demonstrations are exploited. 1. During the course of the relief, artillery maintains its normal fires, but is prepared to execute counterbattery and protective fires along the front of the relief in the event of a counterpreparation or of attack by the enemy. 2. The principal task involved in a passage of lines is the preparation for continuing the attack. Therefore, the incoming commander must assume command of the zone of action before his troops reach their attack positions. 3. A commander with an offensive mission may decide to assume the defensive initially because of temporary combat inferiority in numbers or dispositions, or to create a situation which will place the enemy at a tactical disadvantage and offer opportunity for a decisive counteroffensive. In either case, an early adoption of the offensive to attain the objective is contemplated. By inducing the enemy to attack first, the commander hopes to fix and exhaust him and then, when he is disorganized, to launch the counteroffensive. This type of action demands the highest type of leadership and tactical skill and troops with a high order of training. The major problem for the commander lies in timing the attack. 4. The selection, occupation, and organization of the defensive position conform to the general doctrines discussed in sections I and II, chapter 10, except that organization of the ground is not as complete as is required for a protracted defense and a larger proportion of the close-combat elements of the command are assembled concealed in a position favoring the execution of the contemplated counteroffensive. 5. Conduct of the defense conforms to the doctrine discussed in section II, chapter 10. As soon as the purpose of the initial defense has been accomplished, the counteroffensive is launched. Thereafter, the conduct of the action is that of the attack. 1. A defending force frequently has an opportunity to adopt the offensive. When a general counterattack launched by the defender throws the attacker back following an apparently successful advance, or when a hostile attack breaks down in front of the main line of resistance, the enemy seldom will be able to withstand a determined counteroffensive. The enemy artillery fire still may be superior but his attacking echelon will be disorganized and signal communication in his forward area will be disrupted. If the defender seizes the initiative and passes to an offensive before the attacker can recover from his disorganization and can properly dispose his reserves, results often are decisive. The defense must be prepared to pass to the offensive and exploit the results of successful defensive action. 2. The general doctrines governing the preparation for and conduct of an attack are applicable to the counteroffensive. 3. The pursuit is launched when the enemy is no longer able to maintain his position and endeavors to escape by retreat. A commander recognizes success by the continued advance of his troops in a decisive direction and the capture of critical objectives; by the number and morale of captured prisoners; by the number of abandoned weapons; by the numbers of hostile dead; by the diminution of hostile artillery fire; by the relaxation or cessation of hostile countermeasures; and from reports that the enemy is withdrawing. 4. When a commander recognizes that the enemy is having difficulty in maintaining his position, he utilizes all means to maintain the continuity of the attack and exert a relentless pressure on the defeated enemy. Effective pursuit requires leadership and exercise of initiative to the highest degree in all echelons of command. All commanders in the attack echelon spur on their troops and clinch the advantage with their reserves. Pursuit of a defeated enemy is pushed to the utmost limit of endurance of troops, animals, and vehicles. No opportunity is given him to reorganize his forces and reconstitute his defense. 1. The object of the pursuit is the annihilation of the hostile forces. This can seldom be accomplished by a straight pushing back of the hostile forces on their lines of communication. Direct pressure against the retreating forces must be combined with an enveloping or encircling maneuver to place troops across the enemy's lines of retreat. Encirclement of both flanks of the retreating forces or of their separate elements is attempted wherever conditions permit. By the coordinated employment of every available agency of destruction and terrorization, the shaken morale of the defeated enemy is converted into panic. The incipient dissolution of his organization is transformed into rout. 2. In anticipation of the time for launching the pursuit the commander causes preparatory measures to be taken. These measures include necessary plans and orders in all echelons. Reserves are regrouped. Artillery and other necessary units are attached to the direct pressure forces for the pursuit. Distant objectives are assigned to the principal tactical groupings. Missions are assigned to combat aviation and to the artillery in general support to obstruct movement on hostile avenues of withdrawal. Preparations are made for launching one or more forces of great mobility in encircling maneuvers to strike the enemy in flank and rear and cut off his retreat. General reserves are especially appropriate for this mission. (See par. 507.) 3. The pursuit is conducted on a broad front. Motor transportation is employed to expedite the movement of foot troops. Troops before whom the enemy is giving way send in their reserves to gain his flank and rear or break through his covering troops. 4. The forces engaged in the direct pressure and in the encircling maneuvers are assigned directions, zones of action, and objectives designed to bring the pursuit to a decisive conclusion. Such directions and zones of action may be around the flanks or through the wider gaps which defeat has opened in the hostile dispositions, or may be a continuation of the existing zones of action. 5. Supporting combat aviation concentrates on lines of communication centers in the enemy's rear area, on hostile columns in retreat and on hostile reserves endeavoring to reconstitute the defense. It blocks defiles on the enemy's line of retreat and disrupts traffic on the main roads and railroads in the enemy's rear area. Observation aviation reconnoiters the roads in the enemy's zone of retreat to keep contact with retreating columns and to locate any movement of hostile reinforcements, and keeps ground commanders informed of the hostile activities and movement within their zones of action. 1. The employment of artillery is based upon the maximum exploitation of the mobility of lighter pieces and the long range of the heavier types. So long as the withdrawing enemy can be engaged with observed and planned fire, a portion of the artillery remains in position to fire on the more distant targets. Long-range artillery working with observation aviation and balloons continues its fire on the enemy lines of communication up to the limit of its range. The artillery attached to the pursuing forces, in addition to its supporting action, fires on hostile elements attempting to form columns in rear of the enemy's covering troops, and gradually takes over the missions of the artillery remaining in position. 2. The purpose of the encircling maneuver is to get in rear of the defeated enemy and halt his retreat so that he may be destroyed between the direct pressure and encircling forces. When practicable, mobile forces in the encircling maneuvers advance along roads paralleling the enemy's line of retreat to cut him off at defiles, bridges, and other critical points. When the encircling forces cannot outdistance the enemy they push through to a critical locality and engage the enemy's main forces in flank. Combat aviation; armored, mechanized, and motorized units; and cavalry are employed in the encircling maneuvers. Troops transported by air for employment at critical defiles deep in the hostile rear pending the arrival of more powerful, mobile encircling forces may contribute decisively to a successful pursuit. 3. The advance in the decisive direction must be maintained. Hostile rear guards or forces on flank positions must not turn pursuing forces from the decisive direction. Every effort must be made to block the main hostile force. When necessary, a new encircling force to continue the pursuit is constituted. When the enemy succeeds in establishing himself in a position from which he cannot be dislodged quickly, the superior commander takes prompt measures to coordinate the attack again, supporting it with all available means. (See pars. 557 and 558.) 1. The enemy's attempts to organize his retreat under the cover of darkness must be frustrated. Under no circumstances must he be allowed to break contact. Units which have advanced without serious opposition continue their march during the night. Other units organize successive limited attacks against the enemy in their front. During a night pursuit, the leading detachments push their advance along all available roads, followed by the main pursuing forces. The attached artillery advances by echelon, going into successive positions from which it can interdict the enemy's routes of retreat by map firing or by fire directed by observers which accompany the leading detachments. Prompt report is made when objectives are reached so that artillery fires may be coordinated. The effect of artillery fire is complemented by combat aviation which searches enemy routes of retreat with flares, and bombs enemy columns and critical points in the enemy's rear area. 2. Pursuit requires extensive reliance upon radio for communication with the leading troops. The importance attached to hostile interception of radio communication in other situations does not obtain in equal degree in pursuit. Effort is made to intercept the enemy's radio messages. The construction of wire lines is concentrated along the more important axes. Command posts or advance message centers are established close behind the leading troops. 3. Adequate provision for the supply of ammunition and motor fuel to the pursuing troops is essential to the success of the pursuit. The commander must relieve the pursuing columns of all worries concerning supply and evacuation. 1. Success or failure of an offensive is dependent in a large measure upon the action taken to protect the command from hostile reaction. Open flanks are highly vulnerable. The best security is to keep the enemy so heavily involved that he has no time or means available to endanger the success of the attack. Security of attack forces is assured by a timely search for information in all directions from which a hostile threat may come, by the proper disposition of security forces of ample mobility and combat power, and by prompt dispatch of accurate information and orders to security forces. This is particularly true in security against hostile forces of great mobility such as air, tank, motorized, and cavalry units. In offensive operations, the service of security is performed in accordance with the general doctrines discussed in chapter 6. 2. In offensive operations, the mass of available means for defense against air and mechanized attack is disposed to favor the main attack. The combat means for defense against air attack are supplemented by utilization of cover, defilade, dispersion, and night movements to the maximum. The combat means for defense against attack by tanks or other mechanized forces are supplemented by utilization of natural and artificial obstacles to protect the flanks and rear of the command, by dispersion, and by night movements. (See chs, 6 and 10.) 3. Antitank guns in each echelon of troops are disposed to cover the most likely avenues of approach of hostile mechanized units; the bulk of the antitank guns are held mobile, prepared to meet a hostile mechanized attack at any point. Protection against mechanized attack is best assured by meeting the attack with the combined action of tanks and mobile antitank guns supported by every available and effective means of fire support, to isolate and destroy the hostile mechanized forces. 4. In offensive operations, the greatest need for security exists during critical phases of the battle. Security is enhanced by meeting possible threats with heavy fire before they can develop. The action of combat aviation against highly mobile threats and against close, less mobile threats is particularly effective, especially if hostile troops or vehicles are in close formation. 1. An offensive action once begun is halted only by hostile reaction or by other elements in the situation which demand it. If, during the course of an attack, it becomes necessary to pass to the defensive, the leading foot elements intrench themselves on the ground then held. The leading echelon then is thinned out and forces are redistributed to organize the defense in depth. It may be necessary to move some elements to the front or rear for short distances to establish the defense on favorable terrain and secure flanking fire. Any major adjustments attempted in daylight will probably result in heavy casualties. The general position of attacking units is maintained until darkness, when the selected defensive position is occupied and organized as described in chapter 10. If the situation demands major adjustments in daylight, they are accomplished under protection of fog or smoke, and of a maximum of fire support by artillery, combat aviation, and other supporting weapons. 2. If, during the course of an attack, it becomes necessary to break off the action and withdraw, the command initially passes to the defensive. The completeness of the defense is dependent upon the situation and whether the initial defensive and the withdrawal must be executed in daylight or darkness. Thereafter, the withdrawal is executed according to the doctrines discussed in chapter 11. Transcribed and formatted for HTML by Jerry Holden for the HyperWar Foundation	[]
Jackie Northam A tragic incident this week in Yemen is intensifying scrutiny of a Saudi-led military campaign there, as well as the U.S. role in backing that Saudi offensive. The Saudis are fighting rebels called Houthis who ousted the government. And while all sides are accused of abuses, increasing blame is turning toward the Saudis and their allies. The sheer number of Syrian refugees on the move is straining humanitarian aid agencies. The United Nations' main refugee agency, the office of the U.N. High Commissioner on Refugees, says it is financially broke, making it difficult to help millions of Syrians living in refugee camps in neighboring countries. Aid workers say the deteriorating situation in the camps is forcing more refugees to make the long and difficult trek to Europe. For Syrian refugees, trying to find safety and building a new life in the one of the wealthy Arab Gulf states would seem logical: no harrowing sea journeys, and a familiar language, religion and culture. Human rights groups and others are urging these countries to do more to welcome Syrian refugees. Lisa Hywood remembers the first time she ever set eyes on a pangolin. It was in 1994, and she had just founded the Tikki Hywood Trust, a wildlife conservation sanctuary in Zimbabwe. One morning, someone dropped off a strange-looking, injured creature that had been confiscated from an illegal trader. "This animal arrived in a sack and smelling something horrendous," she recalls. "And I looked at this animal and I thought it's like no other mammal that I've ever encountered."	[]
Lipoic Acid Rejuvenates Aging Antioxidant Defenses in Brain and Heart Friday, September 14, 2012 By: Byron J. Richards, Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist Acceleration of the aging process is invariably associated with increased free radical damage, which is associated with inflammation and weakening antioxidant defense systems. A number of new studies show that R-alpha lipoic acid can rejuvenate these faltering antioxidant defense systems, and help protect your brain, cardiovascular system, and even assist individuals with poor thyroid function. Your body’s ability to correctly produce energy is a vital foundation to good health. Humans have a unique ability to crank out large amounts of energy, a main reason why we have evolved further than any other mammal. This high horsepower comes at a cost, however, as free radicals are produced during the normal production of energy. In health, your cellular antioxidants trap these free radicals and prevent damage – similar to how a fireplace screen prevents sparks from flying out of the fireplace and setting your house on fire. As you age this process becomes inefficient. You begin to make increased numbers of free radicals and less energy. Now the sparks jump out of the fireplace and induce damage. Your brain/nerve cells and your heart/circulation are particularly vulnerable to damage, as both systems require large amounts of energy to function properly. Such free radical damage has a snowballing effect, eventually it leads to significant cognitive decline and/or cardiovascular problems. Your cellular engines are called mitochondria. A new study in the mitochondria of aged rat hearts shows that as energy efficiency declines and free radicals increase, a compound called ceramide builds up due to excessive cellular inflammation; this is a form of trash that further interferes with energy production. The study showed that supplemental R-alpha lipoic acid1 prevented the improper buildup of ceramide, restored the primary cellular antioxidant system to youthful (cellular glutathione) levels, and normalized cellular energy production. Another recent study compared the circulatory antioxidant status2 between old rats (22-24 months) and young rats (3-4 months). The older rats had higher levels of NF-kappaB-driven inflammation, and depressed antioxidant function, along with an increase in “stickiness factors” that are known to induce plaque accumulation in the arteries. Supplemental R-alpha lipoic acid was able to ameliorate these imbalances in old rats, making them more youthful. Patients with subclinical hypothyroid are known to have reduced blood flow. In this human study patients with subclincal hypothyroid3 were given lipoic acid for three weeks. The research showed that their blood flow improved while at the same time the amount of free radical damage in their circulation decreased. Collectively, these three studies show that lipoic acid is highly protective to cardiovascular well-being and has a rejuvenating effect on age-related decline. Too much friction in our brains leads to injured brain cells and the accumulation of brain tangles – the hallmark of cognitive decline. This is called excitotoxic damage and comes in many sizes and shapes, including as a result of too much stress. When such excitotoxic damage occurs free radicals increase and brain energy is compromised. One model for studying this problem is to expose the brain or nerve cells to methamphetamine, a major excitotoxic and neurotoxic compound. Researchers have now demonstrated that methamphetamine disturbs energy production in brain cells while inducing dramatic free radical damage. They showed that lipoic acid4 could stop these adverse effects of methamphetamine exposure while maintaining the production of brain dopamine levels. In aging, the drop in dopamine is associated with Parkinson’s disease. In earlier life the drop in dopamine causes a lack of drive, and proneness to any type of addiction. Researchers throughout the world often test R-alpha lipoic acid along with acetyl-l-carnitine because both have rejuvenating effects on mitochondria. I previously reported on these nutrients being used to reverse energy decline5 in brain cells – the anti-aging effect. A newer study on this topic shows that they have significantly less antioxidant function and increased free radical damage, along with declining ability to produce energy. Using a combination of R-alpha lipoic acid and acetyl-l-carnitine6 energy-producing function was significantly improved toward that of young rats while reducing free radical damage. It is well known that gene alterations in ApoE4 increase the risk for plaque brain tangles and Alzheimer’s disease. ApoE4 animals show early injury to all types of brain cells due to mitochondrial dysfunction. Feeding these animals R-alpha lipoic acid and Acetyl l carnitine improved their cognitive function7. This ever expanding body of research shows that R-alpha lipoic acid has a rejuvenating influence on cellular energy production while reducing free radical damage. Systems in your body that are energy intense, such as your brain and heart, are likely to have an anti-aging effect from R-alpha lipoic acid due to the high level of protection this nutrient offers. Referenced Studies: 1. ^ Lipoic Acid Rejuvenates Cardiac Mitochondria Pharmacol Res Monette JS, Gómez LA, Moreau RF, Dunn KC, Butler JA, Finlay LA, Michels AJ, Shay KP, Smith EJ, Hagen TM. 2. ^ R Alpha Lipoic Acidid Improves Age-Associated Circulatory Distress Ann N Y Acad Sci. Li L, Smith A, Hagen TM, Frei B. 3. ^ Lipoic Acid Improves Circulation in Subclinical Hypothyroid Patients Department of Endocrinology, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Command, Hubei Province, PR China G D X, J H P, H L S, L S Z. 4. ^ Lipoic Acid Offsets Drug-Induced Neurotoxicity Br J Pharmacol. Puerta E, Hervias I, Goñi-Allo B, Zhang SF, Jordán J, Starkov AA, Aguirre N. 5. ^ Acetyl-L-Carnitine and R Alpha Lipoic Acid to Reduce Brain Aging J Cell Mol Med. Aliev G, Liu J, Shenk JC, Fischbach K, Pacheco GJ, Chen SG, Obrenovich ME, Ward WF, Richardson AG, Smith MA, Gasimov E, Perry G, Ames BN. 6. ^ R-Alpha Lipoic Acid and Acetyl-L-Carnitine Reverse Brain Aging Neurochem Res Long J, Gao F, Tong L, Cotman CW, Ames BN, Liu J. 7. ^ Lipoic Acid and Acetyl-l-Carnitine Improve Cognitive Function in ApoE4 Animals J Neurol Sci. Shenk JC, Liu J, Fischbach K, Xu K, Puchowicz M, Obrenovich ME, Gasimov E, Alvarez LM, Ames BN, Lamanna JC, Aliev G. More Health News Loading articles... 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The Disconnect of Adolescent Cyber Relationships F. Sia Turay, Special to The Informer \| 12/11/2013, 2 p.m. Increasingly teens and young adults are turning to the Internet to socialize, for entertainment, and for information. Inasmuch as the ... Increasingly teens and young adults are turning to the internet to socialize, for entertainment, and for information. Inasmuch as the web provides quick and easy access to data, many warn against the increased reliance on resources removed from actual people. The physical, emotional, and psychological changes that occur in adolescence prompt youths to have serious questions about their bodies, relationships, and health that are often personal, sensitive, or embarrassing. Lalita K. Suzuki, at the Children’s Digital Medical Center at the University of California, found that adolescents are often reluctant to consult physicians, peers, and others for personal health questions due to concerns about confidentiality. “Health information on the Internet is a promising resource due to its accessibility, interactivity, and anonymity,” Suzuki said, who suggests parents have serious dialogue with teens 13-19 about the limits of online resources. Why talk about Internet use with your teen? Teens are separating from their parents, figuring out who they are, and asserting their individuality. In the media realm, as in other realms, this is when they move from identifying as members of a group (“We all watch The Simpsons”) to striking out on their own (“I created my own blog about baseball”). The increasing freedom and privacy is exciting and opens new possibilities for both learning and harm. What is the parents' role? Even though they look like adults and demand to be treated as adults, teens aren’t yet adults. Their brains are still developing the ability to understand the effects of their actions and to connect the present to the future. That’s why they still need a caring adult’s help to make choices and manage their behavior. Your role is to support your teen’s growing independence in ways that are both affirming and protective. To support involvement in other activities, work with them on balancing all the things that are important to them. Help them to prioritize and manage their time, making sure that a healthy amount of sleep, a family meal, and academic and family obligations come first. Slowly increase your teen’s freedom to decide how to use the Internet. She will push for it. Remember to move slowly, though—she needs to practice using the Internet in safe, healthful ways before she’s proven herself ready to be by herself in that realm, just as she does when learning to drive a car. Keep the channels of communication open. Ask questions that your teen can answer. Sometimes, that will mean asking questions about other teens, or about things you’ve both seen in the media (“I keep hearing about sexting—what do you know about that? Can you tell me about it?”). Appeal to her mastery and expertise. Emphasize that the Web is not private by keeping computers in public spaces. Your teen will want to go online in private. Let her show that she can monitor his time and activities online, and slowly give her more privacy as she proves herself. What to say? When talking with teens, listen as much as possible. They have ideas of what they’d like and how it could work. Support them in trying things, and offer support when what they try doesn’t work. Be there to help guide them through that process.	[]
Toxic Grind One has to admire what THQ is attempting with its brand of extreme sports offerings. First, Dark Summit, a title that combines an intriguing storyline centered on aliens and a whole lot of snowboarding freestyle, and now Toxic Grind, a BMX racer meets The Running Man. Originality is definitely not a problem here. And indeed, if developer Blue Shift can successfully merge futuristic storyline and intuitive BMX trick controls, gamers everywhere could be in for a real treat. • Advanced 3D engine developed specifically for GameCube and Xbox • First ever BMX game with a storyline • Mission based objectives • 14 different levels through different time periods • Dozens of in-game tricks and freestyle moves • Four unique gameplay modes for gamers to explore • Seven different mini-games • Possible unique levels to GameCube Toxic Grind, due out for GameCube and Xbox (and not PS2) in the second half of 2002, tells the story of Jason Hayes, a rising BMX rider who is unsuspectingly zapped from his stardom and sucked into the year 2097. Here, he meets the evil Dixon Von Blass, the greedy host of a futuristic television game show that injects BMX bikers with a deadly poison and has them ride across deadly obstacle courses to save their own lives. "Rider, I hope you're ready," declares the sick and twisted Dixon Von Blass, "because it's time to ride!" And boy is that the truth. From the moment Toxic Grind starts, players are thrust into a futuristic landscape filled with looping pipes, lasers, and swinging blades that would like nothing more than to dice and slice riders into pieces. It's anarchy, but luckily it's not just a gimmick -- there's really something to enjoy here. "This can't be happening," says the hero of the game, Jason Hayes, as he blazes about. Hayes is controlled with the analog stick and made to grind and bunny-hop with, we assume, the Y and A buttons respectively. There are various special tricks and moves that can also be performed. He can flip, kick out, no-hand, or swing the bike around at his discretion. The control, a little loose, but still defined, feels similar to Dave Mirra 2 for GameCube, except much of the actions are made easier in Toxic Grind. For example, grinding -- a key part of the game, is simplified so that it's almost impossible to fall once it has started. This makes perfect sense given that many of the pipes and obstacles that can be shredded loop upward and around, and therefore so does the player. It's gravity-defying stuff and it feels very solid. Toxic Grind on Xbox Probably the most appealing aspect of the game, though, is the level design itself. Bear in mind that we thus far played only one of the scheduled 14 areas of the title, but it was an immense thing, not only impressive in length but also scale -- as in, it stretched up and up and up still. Filled with grindable objects, ramps, and death traps (blades that swing out of walls, sharp boulders that crush riders, etc.), it's laid out in a totally non-linear fashion so that players can go and come as they please. At first, riders may only notice the first level and its many obstacles -- there are quite a lot of them, we admit. But either by accident or on purpose, they will soon discover that if they catch enough air on a ramp, they can propel their bikes upward to the next level -- and the next, and the next, and still the next after that. And when it's all done, it's possible to bunny-hop onto a spiraling pipe and grind five floors down -- simply beautiful design. THQ promises that some of the levels will be placed in such areas as the Sherwood Forest, the ancient Roman Coliseum, and an Underwater Cave, among other locales. In Toxic Grind, there is a time limit and there are clear goals per level. In one area, for example, the objective might be to drain pools of water and gain access to a previously hidden part of the stage. In another, it might be to search out keys and free members of the Underground -- teams of ally BMX riders who have been captured by the game show. Other goals still have riders knocking out cameras and satellites used by the station to monitor the activity or players, finding keys to deactivate bombs, and sinking a battleship or destroying a helicopter. Above everything else, there are enemy riders -- kind of like the Sub-Zero character from The Running Man -- who challenge gamers every so often. It's all about trick and objective points and whoever gets more wins. The loser -- well, he dies. There are four modes of play: Underground, a ride for one's life against the evil game show; Treads of Death Circuit, a competition against computer-controlled characters for score; Arcade, a free ride through all of the levels; and Multiplayer, which features seven different mini-games such as horse, turf wars and king. Toxic Grind has a lot going for it technically. Developer Blue Shift has created a unique freestyle environment brought to life with loads of sprawling geometry, highly detailed and varied texture work, and a host of effects including real-time lighting and fantastic model shadows. There is also a wide selection of gory particle effects; blood sprays out of the player's body when he's diced by an unavoidable blade, or as he's knocked over off a ledge, etc. The animation is, for the most part, very fluid, though it is sometimes hampered by the project's framerate -- so far it's only visible shortcoming -- which drops below 30 regularly. Two things to remember though: we have only sampled the Xbox version, and of course the game is far from finished. So how will the GameCube version stack up? According to Blue Shift, it will look identical thanks to a new rendering technique it has recently mastered, but would not detail. In addition, the software house is debating on whether or not to add two exclusive new areas to the Nintendo version of the title, which it hopes to do, but may axe if time runs thin. Toxic Grind is an interesting idea. Mixing a storyline with the play mechanics of a BMX bike game is certainly a refreshing change from the same old, same old, and if developer Blue Shift can bring everything together nicely the end result should be a lot of fun. We were fairly impressed with the time we spent with the Xbox version of the title. Our only gripe regards the framerate, which proved sluggish and in need of serious tweaking. Assuming that's corrected, there's no reason Toxic Grind won't prove a worthy alternative to Dave Mirra later this year. IGN Logo	[]
Rhubarb Root Rhubarb Roots first use can be traced as far back as 2700 B.C., at that time the Hopi Indians of China and Tibet used the root to treat colds. In addition to treating colds Rhubarb Root was also used by the Chinese to treat constipation and diarrhea. In the 1600’s Marco Polo discovered Rhubarb Root during his travels in China, and he is responsible for the plants arrival in Europe. It became so popular in Europe that it was one of the more expensive herbs on the trading market. Its value as a medicine, on the trading market in Europe, was greater than opium. It wasn’t until the 1800’s that Rhubarb was also discovered for its food properties as well as its medicinal properties. Rhubarb didn’t arrive in America until the late 1700’s early 1800’s. There are records of a Maine farmer acquiring the seed or the root stock from Europe. This farmer shared his knowledge of rhubarb with fellow farmers in Massachusetts where it grew in popularity and eventually showed up in produce markets. Rhubarb Root it native to the mountains of western China. It is allowed to grow and age until its four or more years of age. Once aged the root or the rhizome is dug up in the autumn months, usually the month of October.After being harvested the root is washed thoroughly and its external fibers are removed. Most roots are cut into pieces, depending upon their size, and they are strung out on cords for drying in the sun. If the sun cannot completely dry out a root it is often times finished by using stove heat. Once dried out the root is then pulverized into powder form and stored in a tightly closed container. Diarrhea and Rhubarb Root Rhubarb Root contains two major constituents which makes it extremely useful for relieving cases of diarrhea. The purgative constituents are responsible for increasing the contractions of the colon and cleansing. These constituents purge the bowel, removing the cause of the diarrhea. The tannin constituents come through the colon after the cleansing process has been completed. These constituents act as an astringent cleansing the colon killing any of the left over infectious bacteria causing the diarrhea. “It is especially useful in cases of diarrhea, caused by an irritating body in the intestines: the cause of the irritation is removed and the after-astringent action checks the diarrhea”. Constipation and Rhubarb Root The purgative actions of Rhubarb Root make it effective in relieving bouts of constipation. The root stimulates the colon to contract, it is these contractions that move fecal matter through the colon. When constipated the colon is not spontaneously contracting, therefore fecal matter sits and builds in the colon causing the constipation. It’s the purgative actions that will not only move the fecal matter but it will also tone the colon so it contracts on its own more regularly. The colon does not become dependent on the Rhubarb Root to contract so once cleansed constipation should not return. “In large doses, Rhubarb powder acts as a simple and safe purgative, being regarded as one of the most valuable remedies we possess, effecting a brisk, healthy purge, without clogging the bowels and producing constipation, too often consequent upon the use of the more active purgatives”. Internal Cleansing and Rhubarb Root The combination of Rhubarb Roots purgative and astringing properties make it an extremely effective colon cleanser. The purgative actions work to increase the motility of the colon pushing fecal matter through. This helps to clean out any impacted fecal matter that may have been building up. However, it’s difficult for the contractions of the colon to completely clean the colon. The intestines in the digestive tract are very long and winding, therefore pockets of debris may be left behind. This is where the astringent action of Rhubarb Root is important. The astringent, tannin acid, comes after the purgative actions and does a thorough wash of the colon. Removing any left over pockets of fecal matter or infectious bacteria. “Rhubarb Root has a purgative action for us in the treatment of constipation, but also has an astringent effect following this.It therefore has a truly cleansing action upon the gut, removing debris and then astringing with antiseptic properties as well”. Summary of Benefits • Rhubarb Root is an effective treatment of diarrhea. • The purgative actions of Rhubarb Root make it effective in treating constipation. • The combination of Rhubarb Root’s purgative and astringing action make it an effective colon cleanser.	[]
Tagged: constitution Stanford Law Review Online: Politicizing the Supreme Court Stanford Law Review He concludes: The Military-Judiciary Nexus – Egypt and Beyond The deputy president of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court, Tahani el-Gebali, disclosed that she had advised Egypt’s ruling generals how not to cede authority to the first freely elected Parliament. The Court then issued a decision that opened the door for the military to resolve the elected body and to usurp the constitution drafting process. The still-unfolding military-judiciary concert in Egypt to decline transfer of power to elected civilians has infamous precedence in other polities, particularly Pakistan. In 1958, Pakistan’s Supreme Court upheld the validity of the country’s the first coup d’etat. The decision, drafted by Chief Justice Mohammad Munir, used Kelsen’s theory of revolutionary legality to hold that a successful revolution becomes a law-creating fact whose legality is judged not by the annulled constitution but its own success. This military regime lasted for eleven years. Twenty years later, Munir disclosed in his autobiography that he had advised the generals about how to abrogate the constitution and had helped draft the proclamation of martial law. In 1977, Pakistan’s Supreme Court validated yet another coup d’etat as a “constitutional deviation dictated by necessity.” The Constitution, was held to be in place and the military regime was permitted to take only such actions that are permitted by the Constitution. When the decision was released in the customary printed form, there was a hand-written insertion by Chief Justice Anwar ul Haq giving the military regime the authority to amend the Constitution at will. This military regime, that inaugurated the “Islamization” of laws, lasted eleven years. A few months earlier while this case was being heard, the military had removed Chief Justice Yaqub Ali, deemed not sympathetic to the coup-makers, and had appointed Justice Haq. Note that all judges of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court were appointed by the Mubarak regime. This military-judiciary nexus in Egypt does not bode well for hopes triggered by the Arab Spring as it unfolded in Tahrir Square last year. The Promise of Equality But still, individual rights and equality were elusive.	[]
Friday, November 18, 2011 Hidden Agendas and other Government Policies Ask not what your country can do for you...but who can you screw in your country....or something like that. Have you seen the new "anti-piracy" bill floating through congress all clandestinely and what not? The quotes are intentional. That the bill's intent is different from its title is probable. That its effects are far-reaching is definite. Several websites have been shut down already by the Department of Homeland Security for piracy violations. Piracy is illegal. Yes. I get that. The Department of Homeland Security though? Really? And people want to discuss government waste. An entity created to protect our country from terrorist threats (don't pretend that you had even heard of a Homeland Security prior to 9/11...B? yeah you B...stop it) is now monitoring sites (mostly hip hop sites seemingly although i don't think it's an "anti-hip hop bill) looking for the nefarious international pirates who are selling unauthorized music. Look, I know the music climate has changed. I also know that the labels are struggling with low record sales (partially because of piracy, and partially because a lot of this music does exactly what a Kirby vacuum was designed to do). But this bill is heavy handed and will impact the artists who are creating their own buzz online. Destroying the very nature of how we share and discover talent. How many of you would have heard of Drake without Myspace? Oh..."they're not targeting social networks". Gangbangers in drive by shootings aren't targeting innocent civilians, either. But how often do you see the news story about a a child caught in the cross-fire? The hype? Do NOT believe it. The bill is poorly written (surprise!) by people who wouldn't know a search engine from a diesel engine. That the creators of many of the websites with the most traffic are opposed to this bill gives you an idea of who wrote the bill. Youtube? Yeah...they could get shut down. Not because the people behind YouTube are posting illegal music, but because someone like you or me might post some copywritten material to share with others (with no intent to profit). Make no mistake, this is as much about money and lobbyist as it is about anything else. It's also about freedom. The internet is a global community. If you come to my house and I play a CD for you, that's not piracy. If you go to my youtube page and I post that song...same thing. Now...if I sell you the song, that's illegal and I should be prosecuted. This bill prevents the latter AND the former. You're going to far, now. This is like responding to a slap with a gunshot. But hey....I guess it doesn't matter until you go to your favorite site and get that "404" message. Let's not wait until congress rapes our rights to occupy common sense (we've allowed the Patriot Act to go unchecked for a could happen). Let your congressman know that you want the government to address the budget, debt, foreign policy, jobs, and other REAL issues. SOPA? Stop it B. P.S. for those of you who may think this is somewhat "self-serving"...perhaps. But ask yourself, would you have heard of me if it weren't for WSHH or GBTV sharing my content (without my consent mind you)? I didn't complain then because, as a new artist, I appreciated the exposure to different markets. A LOT of new artists feel that way. This bill would end that. Think about it.... 1 comment: 1. My nicholas, I should've known you were up on this way before today. I found out about it 'round the same time. Just shared this to my FB page. [work=Love]	[]
News Release Archive: News Release 101 of 160 July 13, 2000 01:00 AM (EDT) News Release Number: STScI-2000-23 Hubble Watches Star Tear Apart its Neighborhood Image: Hubble Watches Star Tear Apart its Neighborhood Hubble Watches Star Tear Apart its NeighborhoodSTScI-PRC2000-23 Hubble's view covers a small region at the northeast tip of the structure, which is roughly three light-years across. A picture taken by a ground-based telescope [lower right] shows almost the entire nebula. The whole structure is about 16 light-years wide and 25 light-years long. The bright dot near the center of NGC 6888 is WR 136. The white outline in the upper left-hand corner represents Hubble's view. Hubble's sharp vision is allowing scientists to probe the intricate details of this complex system, which is crucial to understanding the life cycle of stars and their impact on the evolution of our galaxy. The results of this study appear in the June issue of the Astronomical Journal. The stellar wind continues moving outside the shell, slamming into more material and creating a shock wave. This powerful force produces an extremely hot, glowing skin [seen in blue], which envelops the bright nebula. A shock wave is analogous to the sonic boom produced by a jet plane that exceeds the speed of sound; in a cosmic setting, this boom is seen rather than heard. The outer material is too thin to see in the image until the shock wave hits it. The cosmic collision and subsequent shock wave implies that a large amount of matter resides outside the visible shell. The discovery of this material may explain the discrepancy between the mass of the entire shell (four solar masses) and the amount of matter the star lost when it was a red super-giant (15 solar masses). The nebula's short-term fate is less spectacular. As the stellar wind muscles past the clumps of material, the pressure around them drops. A decrease in pressure means that the clumps expand, leading to a steady decline in brightness and fading perhaps to invisibility. Later, the shell may be compressed and begin glowing again, this time as the powerful blast wave of the Wolf-Rayet star completely destroys itself in a powerful supernova explosion. The nebula resides in the constellation Cygnus, 4,700 light-years from Earth. If the nebula were visible to the naked eye, it would appear in the sky as an ellipse one-quarter the size of the full moon. The observations were taken in June 1995 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Scientists selected the colors in this composite image to correspond with the ionization (the process of stripping electrons from atoms) state of the gases, with blue representing the highest and red the lowest observed ionization. Object Names: Crescent Nebula, NGC 6888 Image Type: Astronomical/Illustration The above montage includes these images: Star WR 136 Tears Apart a Shell of Gas Image Type: Astronomical Star WR 136 Tears Apart a Shell of Gas Ground-based Image Image Type: Astronomical Ground-based Image All images from this news release:	[]
How to turn real-world sounds into FX We take the sound of a waterfall and turn it into a riser effect Turning real world sounds into FX Recordings of noise or ambience from the real world often contain interesting textures and harmonics - the sounds around you can be ideal sources for some creative FX design. Here, we're going to show you how a simple recording can be turned into something else entirely using a variety of processing techniques. For a complete guide to creative sound design check out Future Music issue 281, which is on sale now. Step 1: We've taken our trusty field recorder out into the real world and captured a recording of a waterfall, giving us a characterful noise bed to begin with. Although you can use traditional white noise from a synth for this kind of effect, a field recording often provides more interesting results. Step 2: Instead of processing this sound as an audio file directly on the timeline, we import our recording into our DAW's sampler instrument, allowing us to manipulate the sound using advanced synthesis functions. Field recordings will often contain muddy low content, so the sampler's high-pass filter is engaged to remove any rumbling sub frequencies that can easily clog up the bottom end of a mix and clash with other low track elements. Step 3: We can now turn our waterfall recording into more of a mechanical evolving rise by making use of the sampler's loop points. By cycling around a smaller portion of the recording, and then automating the Loop Length parameter, we can shorten our loop length over time to create a robotic stutter-like effect as the sound progresses. It's quite subtle at this stage, but we can amplify this effect with some further manipulation. Step 4: To transform our noisy bed of sound into an uplifting riser, we initially automate the MIDI region's pitch bend to increase by an octave as the sound opens out. This doesn't provide enough of an extreme effect, so we also automate the sampler's Transpose parameter to make the recording's pitch rise over four octaves or so. Although we've automated the sampler and MIDI parameters to affect pitch here, you could use a dedicated real-time pitch-shifting plugin. Step 5: Once you have a frequency-rich sound that you're happy with, you can creatively filter those frequencies for progression and movement over time. Here we apply UAD's Moog Filter to low-pass our rising noise, opening out the Cutoff to reveal our 'whoosh' effect. Cranking up the plugin's Drive dial gives us more dirt and dynamic levelling, but you can use a separate saturation plugin placed before the filter if your plugin is missing a drive stage. Step 6: Now the core effect is complete, it's time to have fun and experiment with creative modulation and spatial effects. We've kept things simple, only adding delay and reverb in the form of SoundToys' EchoBoy and UVI's Sparkverb, but you can really go all out and tweak different plugin combinations. Some subtle bitcrushing or distortion can add more bite, or a modulation plugin like a flanger or chorus can provide some interesting width and movement. Get the latest issue now!	[]
It's Not A Wonderful Life \| \| Comments (11) 87 months. I'm not George Bailey, i'm just Furey. That only happens in the movies, not Hoboken. That sucks. It's what we both got tagged with for not reading/paying attention to the bill and/or not wanting to stay at home/otherwise arrange for the PSEG guy to read the meters. I got tagged with a $2600 adjustment. After I stopped rocking myself back and forth in the corner like the Rain Man, I called up PSE&G and asked them to put me on an Equal Payment Plan. That way they spread it out over a long time. Fortunately, I live(d) alone. You have no stick to go after former roommates (I think), but I don't think it hurts to ask for their fair share, which you should be able to calculate. I would think that out of a sense of fairness at least some would pay their share, but then again, I am a socialist! It has been another year since I've had my meter read; I'm never home when the meter man comes. I got the automated call last month too. I'm dreading my next read. Good luck with BPU. I hadn't even thought about that. Agreed. I never really read the bill, I just open it, read what I owe, write a check and mail it. But I asked them in 7 years - 7! - PSE&G couldn't have written a seperate letter saying something a bit clearer rather than the small text on the side of the bill? My only hope is that BPU is able to do something here. Other cases like these don't even make it to small claims court, they get settled early, from what my lawyer friend tells me. Feel your pain on this. Who really reads there bill anyway, I see what I owe and I write the check. Paying for other people's oversights seem to be more and more common. 7 is almost like something out of Goodfellas... It took us 7 years to realize we hadn't read your meter...Fuck You Pay Me. It didn't occur to OUR meterman to have someone contact you after a month of unsuccessful attempts...Fuck You Pay Me. 7 years...thats obscene! I was wondering when you'd blog about this. It surprised me that PSE&G doesn't have a policy in place. PECO, in Philly, has a rule that 6 months estimated readings = automatic shutoff. This is AWESOME until your apartment building (real apt, not brownstone) has their meters pulled, PECO fires the employee who pulled them, doesn't realize that the building never got new meters and you're the first person listed under the address. Yea, I had my power shutoff for 36 hours through no fault of my own. Luckily I resolved my dispute with them. And it was totally their fault and we all got new meters. Anyway, good luck recouping from former roommates, if my ex-roommate called asking for a nickel I'd laugh after I hung up on her. But hey, that's just me. Oh BTW, every month in work I have an automated call from ConEd that my meter is estimated and they need to do a reading. Since it's a recording I don't hear the name on the message, but I think it's classic. Someone in NYC is going to be living without electricity and gas very soon! :D Yikes! I think that it's total BS that there's no statute of limitations on this. I had no idea that this kind of situation was even possible. Seriously, the only thing I can think of is to call "Shame on You" or "Seven on Your Side" or one of those evening news investigative segments and get them to air it. The real angle is your being punished for being the responsible roommate for all those years. You've been put in an impossible situation. $8,000 is a SHITLOAD of money. To me, PSE&G not checking a meter in 7 years and billing you, borders on criminal. The meter is in someone else's apartment, to boot. There's no way you would ever really be in a position to grant access to someone else's apartment. When I first moved into Hoboken I heard about the estimated reading vs. actual. Now I'll make sure to double check! Furey - Place a donation link on here...a buck or two. I bet you will be surprised how many people donate. Derek - if BPU isn't able to assist me, I will probably look to something like that. Good idea. Shorts - That's an interesting idea. I was also thinking of a "Fureypalooza" night at the bar - to help those afflicted by poor meter readings. furey, I think you should get a 2nd part-time job. the eagles need a runningback and quarterback and many other players- I am sure they could pay you by the game. Here's a better idea than Kathleen's: (And less chance of serious injury)Bet $4000 on the Giants this week. Chances are they're gonna cover (this just in, the spread went up another point to 8). It's a win/win situation for you. You make double your bet back or an Eagle victory. Of course, they could cover but not win. In that case, you're totally screwed. However, you could take the tease bet. Giants would be giving 2 and drop the under to 27 or so, then you would obviously take the Over. The Giants will probably score that on their own. Think about it....... I just told my gas company their meter was defective and had not moved in 5 months. I reported it 4 months ago and the meter man said it was not broken. In 7 years, it is possible your meter went around several times, and so the correction would not be more than one cycle. Demand an explanation of their method of estimating your underpayment and argue it down to the wire. Don't make it easy on them. Also, in some states 3 years is as far back as billing can go. What happened to the person who posted "It's Not A Wonderful Life" on December 6, 2005? If you are still out there somewhere, email me at cpabobxx on aol Leave a comment Powered by Movable Type 4.23-en About this Entry This page contains a single entry by Furey published on December 6, 2005 12:26 AM. Annapolis was the previous entry in this blog. The Underaged Ones is the next entry in this blog. Join Zipcar and get $25 in free driving!	[]
Much time and space will be spent trying to explain why "Guardians of the Galaxy" is so much fun, and why you should rush right out to see James Gunn's hilarious, thrilling and occasionally moving film, but really, "woo-hoo!" just about covers it. The film is based on a lesser Marvel comic (lesser than, say, the "Avengers" juggernaut), and part of its charm lies therein. The same goes for the casting: no huge names, no "what's that actor doing in a comic-book movie" questions, and that works to great advantage. Maybe you know Chris Pratt from "Parks and Recreation," but he's not a huge star, so it's easy for him to sink into the role of Peter Quill. Quill is a human who winds up, for reasons you'll see in the movie, as a galactic thief who wishes people would call him Star-Lord. Almost nobody does. Quill has lots of cool gadgets that keep him (mostly) out of trouble. But he also totes around an old Sony Walkman with a '70s mix tape as its only choice of music. This tape is important because A) it is important to Quill, B) it's important to the story and C) it's awesome. Don't undersell that last point. The whole movie is awesome; Gunn relentlessly throws fun at the screen, and almost all of it sticks. He's aiming to please here, and he hits his mark repeatedly. There is Gamora (Zoe Saldana), who has her own reasons for wanting the orb; Rocket Raccoon (voice of Cooper), a mutant with a smart mouth and a knack for electronics; Groot (voice of Diesel), a treelike creature who provides muscle for Rocket; and Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista), a hyperliteral, hypermuscled fellow who wants revenge more than camaraderie. They're after a bad guy named Ronan (Lee Pace), which is a classic bad-guy name in the way that pretty much everything about the movie has inspiration in the tried-and-true. You might spend time bogging yourself down in the "Star Wars" bits, or the "Avengers" vibe, but really, you'd be much better off just laughing. It's no great spoiler to say that the ragtag gang busts out of prison (the title isn't "Guardians of the Cellblock"). The rest of the movie is the group chasing after the orb, Ronan chasing after them and variations on that combination. That part isn't really important. Nor is a love of science fiction. This movie could take place anywhere — anywhere there is rollicking entertainment available for your pleasure. It's easy to get carried away with movies like this, which lend themselves to fanboy hype. It's not a perfect movie. But it is one that is hugely enjoyable, bears repeated viewings and will be as funny in 10 years (or 50) as it is now. And that's pretty swell. 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Star rating: ★★★ Show Thumbnails Show Captions Read or Share this story:	[]
Tail of The Dragon - At The Gap, There Be Dragons Taming the Cherohala skyway and the tail of the dragon. View Full Gallery ...I can see that painted wagon Smell the tail of the dragon Can't stand the suspense anymore Bob Dylan, "Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)" For those of us who believe that Corvettes are meant to be driven, there's little on the East Coast to compare with the scenery and challenge of the two-lane roads that snake through the Tri-State area of Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina in places like the Ocoee River, Blood Mountain, and Wolf Pen Gap, with names like the River Road and Moonshiner's 28. Among the roads--some legendary, some only known to locals--two stand above the crowd, and for entirely different reasons: the Cherohala Skyway, and 129 at Deal's Gap, known in motoring patois as The Tail of the Dragon. Vemp_1210_01_129_at_deals_gap_there_be_the_dragons_ 2/16 Originally conceived as a thoroughfare that would connect then-isolated parts of East Tennessee and Western North Carolina, the Skyway began in 1958 with a group of locals who, protesting that the route between the two areas was passable only by wagon train, took a group of 67 wagons and more than 300 men on horseback over the rugged, high country between Tellico Plains, Tennessee, and Murphy, North Carolina. That sort of dedication draws attention, and in this case it was rewarded by an appropriation from the Federal Highway Administration in 1962. Construction began five years later, and after overcoming the customary environmental concerns, the Skyway was formally dedicated in 1996, a monument to the tenacity of the men who first envisioned it. The two-lane Skyway covers some 40 miles between Tellico Plains and Robbinsville, North Carolina. Passing through the Cherokee and Nantahala national forests (Chero-hala, get it?), the road climbs to more than 5,000 feet elevation as it twists through the mountains, with lovely long- and short-range views throughout. Beautiful anytime of the year, it's probably at its best during the fall. While it's nowhere near as technical as the Dragon (which begins just north of the eastern end of the Skyway), there are still plenty of curves. If you enter the Skyway from the Tennessee side, off to the right is 210, which follows the Tellico River through the Bald River Gorge Wilderness until finally dead-ending. Narrow, twisting, with no centerline and lots of traffic from trucks and other large vehicles (who often take advantage of the lack of striping), it's not an ideal locale for spirited driving. The road is, however, a marvelous spot for a leisurely cruise through lovely scenery. Should you be tired after driving a few hours to get to the Skyway, you can do a lot worse than taking a break beside the river or stopping there for a picnic. Drive as far as you like, turn around, and head east on the Skyway toward North Carolina. Now seems like as good a place as any to mention that the state line here is more than just a sign by the side of the road. This detail is important when one state--say, Tennessee--tends to its roadways in the winter, while another--oh, we'll call it North Carolina--doesn't. This took on great personal significance about four years ago, when my Corvette club went up for its annual Cherohala tour and wound up on an iced-over uphill stretch of road just over the state line. I'd never been figure skating in a C5 before, and the sensation of raw panic was enhanced by the fact that I was driving a flawless, low-mile '00 convertible that didn't belong to me. All of which is a long way to say, check the weather before you come in winter. It'll still be beautiful, just maybe not safe. Any time of year, if you drive the length of the Skyway without stopping at many of the overlooks, you've missed the point of the road. Since it basically tracks the top of the mountains, the overlooks are stunning, and even in the sections of road that are surrounded by woods, it has a broad, open feel. On the other hand, stopping on the Dragon pretty much indicates you don't know what it's for, either. Which way you'll take to get from one to the other depends on the direction of your approach: Since I come from the south, I prefer to start in Tellico Plains and head east until the Skyway peters out and the road dead-ends at 129 south of the southern end of the Dragon. While you're in Tellico, don't miss Walt's Barbecue, on the left side of 68 as you come into town, and also make a point of stopping at the Skyway welcome center and adjacent museum. As for music, try Sketches of Spain by Miles Davis for the Skyway. You'll probably make a couple laps through it during the drive, and considering it leans heavily on the bullfighting tradition, it'll be good prep for fighting the Dragon at the end of the road. During the half-hour you'll spend on 129 between the Skyway and the Dragon, try Señor by Calexico and Willie Nelson, backed up by standby road music like Jumpin' Jack Flash, the Doors' Roadhouse Blues, or Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet. In the Dragon itself, you're better served by turning the radio off to eliminate the distraction. The first time I drove it in my '72 Stingray, aka "Scarlett," I wrenched the knob down so hard I thought I'd stripped it off. There's a reason this 11-mile stretch of U.S. 129 is called the Dragon: because it can kill you. Any doubt should be erased by the large oak tree that stands in the parking lot of the Deal's Gap Motorcycle Resort. The jumping- off point for the Dragon's 318 curves, this "Tree of Shame" is festooned with motorcycle parts and prosthetic devices, a monument to the ill fortune and poor judgment of those who have gone before. More-explicit warnings are inside the store, on the bulletin board covered with photos of road-rashed riders and wrecked bikes, including one that's actually been broken in half. You look at the wall, buy the obligatory sticker (either a silhouette of a flying dragon, or one reading "At the gap there be dragons") and go out to the parking lot. There's constant movement: bikes and cars come in, and people mill around--guys in full race leathers and others to whom a one-percenter is an accounting problem. Look at bikes and the wreckage, drool over the 690-plus-horse ZR1 parked by the pinstriping booth, and think about whether what you're about to do is a good idea. To be perfectly candid, no one really knows where the figure of 318 curves came from. There are at least three credible stories, and all of them reinforce the fact that it's probably not an accurate number. Who cares? I've never tried to count, and once you start uncoiling this serpent's tail, you won't either. Regardless of what the actual number is, unless you travel the road regularly, it's virtually impossible to anticipate what's coming next. Switchbacks, decreasing-radius curves, curves that last far longer than you expected--there are plenty of surprises. This unpredictability contributes to one of the Dragon's wiles. After you've weathered a few of the initial hard downhill, lefthand switchbacks, you tend to get confident, a potentially fatal inclination. Let that complacency take hold as you bring your Corvette into a curve a tick too hot, and newfound humility comes in concert with the realization that you're about to wad the thing up. Better to respect the reptile. The speed limit on the Dragon is 30, and I tend to stay at or within striking distance of that number. There's plenty of fun to be had at that rate, especially since 129 is aggressively patrolled by the Tennessee Highway Patrol as well as local agencies in both cars and nominally marked bikes. Aside from tickets, one of the other real dangers is fellow motorists. This is a nationally known stretch of road, and people come from all over the country. Some are competent, safe drivers or riders, and some aren't. The first time I took my '72 down the Dragon, I came around a curve to find a sport bike coming at me head-on, centered in my lane and even with the SUV in the oncoming lane. With nowhere to go, he cracked the throttle, brought his front wheel off the pavement, and passed the SUV in the curve while doing a wheelie, zinging to safety with milliseconds to spare. Vemp_1210_11_129_at_deals_gap_there_be_the_dragons_ 15/16 Part of this irrepressible urge to "kick it" can be traced to the photographers who work the corners, such as Killboy, who snapped the accompanying beauty shot of Scarlett in action. It's a simple setup: They photograph every vehicle that comes through certain curves, and post the proofs online. You go to the website, find your photos, and purchase prints or digital files. It's a great service, since you can't take pictures of your own car or bike while driving, but it can encourage people to get a little crazy for the camera. (Witness the shot on Killboy's website of a guy in leathers who's just parted ways with his bike, apparently after pushing it a little too hard.) Once you've made it down the Dragon (it goes downhill as you head north), you'll cross the Tabcat Bridge. Pull off at one of the parking areas on the left side of the road and breathe. On your left are the waters of Chilhowee Lake; on your right, the endless ebb and flow of cars and motorcycles streaming by, tensing for the challenge to come. Vemp_1210_14_129_at_deals_gap_there_be_the_dragons_ 16/16 Congratulations. Having braved the test, you can now put the sticker on your back glass. Dragon tastes like chicken. Just remember that the Dragon feels the same way about you. Special thanks to Darryl Cannon at Killboy and John Gray. Cherohala skyway Official Website Deal's Gap Motorcycle Resort Killboy.com Motorsports Photography Taming the Cherohala skyway and the tail of the dragon. Jeremy D. Clough Jul 30, 2012 Connect With Us Get Latest News and Articles. Newsletter Sign Up subscribe to the magazine get digital get print	[]
Review: Digital frame shows pictures from phones NEW YORK - Digital picture frames were a big item last Christmas. This holiday season, there will be an innovation on store shelves: a frame that can receive and display pictures straight from cell phones, (almost) no matter where they are. It's called the Cameo, and T-Mobile USA is going to sell it for $100. In testing, it worked pretty much as advertised, but there were some hiccups that hopefully will be straightened out before it goes on sale in mid-November. The usual way to get photos to a digital frame is to copy them to a memory card, then walk over to the frame and insert the card in a slot. Computer geeks call this "Sneakernet," because the information travels as fast as your shoes. You can do this with the Cameo. The cool thing is that it also has a built-in cellular modem, which talks to T-Mobile's wireless network. It even has its own phone number. That means you can snap a picture on your camera phone, then send it as a picture message straight to the frame. This works, or at least should work, even if you're in Hawaii and the frame is in New Jersey. You can also send pictures to other people's frames, if they've told the frame to allow that. Though it's the first frame sold in the U.S. that has a cellular modem, it isn't exactly the first one that can receive pictures straight from phones. Some others can connect to the Internet, usually through Wi-Fi. Once connected to your home wireless network, they can receive pictures via e-mail. And many phones can send e-mail with attached pictures. I also tested one of these Wi-Fi-enabled frames, the $160 CeivaLife from Ceiva Logic Inc. The Cameo was much easier to use. You can feel comfortable sending it off as a present to people who don't use the Internet and don't have a computer. All they need to do is plug it in to a power outlet. They can hang it on the wall or stand it on a table in landscape (wide) or portrait (tall) orientation. The frame figures out which is which and displays the pictures correctly. Then you can send them pictures of the grandkids straight from the phone. As a bonus, the frame has an e-mail address as well, so you can send pictures from a computer. Despite the convenience, the frame isn't expensive, at least if you look at the upfront cost. At $100, it's cheaper than most photo frames with comparable screens: a 7-inch diagonal and a resolution of 720 by 480 pixels. A lot of frames with those dimensions cost $160, and that's without any connection options expect for Sneakernet. So let's tackle the downsides, and see how far they tip the scale the other way. First of all, the cellular connection costs $10 per month. It's billed through T-Mobile, and you need a monthly voice plan with the company to buy the frame (for this reason, the frames will be sold only in T-Mobile's stores). If you're buying the frame for other people, the monthly charge will still show up on your bill, unless your gift recipients are T-Mobile customers, in which case they can transfer the charge to their own bills. But don't be too discouraged by this monthly fee: it costs almost as much — $100 per year — to keep the rival CeivaLife connected to the Internet, and that appears to be typical for Wi-Fi frames. On the other hand, if you tire of T-Mobile and want to jump to another carrier, poof goes the Cameo's wireless connection. You can still supply it with new images from the memory card slot. Then there's the issue of figuring out whether the network has coverage where you want to use the frame. This should be a problem only for a small number of users. The frame doesn't use a sophisticated data network, so anywhere you have voice coverage on T-Mobile should work. But it won't work where your T-Mobile phone roams on another network. If you can't test coverage with a T-Mobile phone before buying, the best way to tackle this will be to buy the frame, then return it if it doesn't work. Lastly, I had problems sending photos to the frame wirelessly. Wireless carriers haven't quite worked out how to transfer picture messages between themselves. In my case, this meant that people in Sweden were unable to send pictures to my Cameo frame. This probably applies in other countries as well. The frame had no problem receiving pictures sent from phones on other U.S. carriers — I tested AT&T Inc., Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. Surprisingly, it initially wouldn't take pictures from T-Mobile's flagship phone, the brand-new G1, or "Google phone." Also, some photos sent by e-mail to the frame disappeared, or were rejected because they were too big. According to Parrot SA, the French manufacturer that supplied me with the frame, these problems are not with the frame, but come from the way T-Mobile's network converts the pictures before sending them to the frame, and should be fixable. The problem with the G1 went away after I pointed it out. Provided the remaining transmission problems are straightened out, the Cameo is a fine product, and should be the top choice if you're a T-Mobile customer shopping for a digital frame. Next year, we'll probably see similar products from other carriers. Copyright © 2002-2015 - Designed by Gray Digital Media - Powered by Clickability 34123829 - Gray Television, Inc.	[]
The problem with the world My father in law says that the problem with the world is more people writing than reading. He has been saying it for decades. Who wrote that? I would riposte then, in my impertinent days before the Internet. We fight this battle one book at a time, or more. My father, for example, has multiple books in progress in different rooms. No, I haven´t told them about Blogs, and how Blogs exacerbate the world´s maladie now that any impertinent like me can write and publish. The Web started fine, no writer surplus when pages were predominantly read-only static content. Mundane stuff did not deserve to be on the net; I was homepageless for many years. Static content concentration resulted in browsers accessing the same content over time, so Web caches made sense. Caching content at large aggregation points, like corporate Internet access proxies and at service providers, saved bandwidth and shortened response times. If you use something often, keep it close to you. What a concept... Processors keep cache lines in fast on-chip memory, operating systems keep file system caches in system memory, and restaurants keep the most popular dishes pre-cooked ready to heat and serve. Except for mutual fund fees, which are damn predictable regardless of future performance, past behavior may not be a good predictor for the future, warns the prospectus. Such warnings fit the Web cache case, though. Web usage evolved to include much more dynamic content. Content is now highly customized to our identities, and cannot be days old. Auction sites, brokerage houses, and blogs demand content that is personal and timely; the impact on infrastructure is simple, it drives more bandwidth and end-point capacity so that this content can be assembled and served fresh. The Moore-Shannon match I described in a previous post gives us more endpoint and channel capacity in the servers and the plumbing that make up the net. I mean no disrespect by skipping the sophisticated distributed caching and tiered processing that also make up the net, I am exaggerating to highlight how brute force caching is becoming less useful. Expectedly, brute force caching is not the best culinary choice either. We sent men to the moon but haven't made a reheated pizza that tastes the same, and in spite of decades of civil aviation pre-brewed airline coffee smell is as cruel a torture as coach class legroom. Stashing pre-cooked dishes in a BIG refrigerator is brute force cuisine. I am here to advocate the Big Oven approach instead. Incidentally, we faced the same choice when we created our CMT UltraSPARC T1 processor. Allocate more transistors and power resources to caching or save them for the processing resources themselves. Larger caches in processors ARE the brute force approach. In our case, just like most restaurants, we were optimizing for throughput (and particularly throughput per Watt), and there was a better solution, vertical threading. By making each of the eight cores in the UltraSPARC T1 vertically threaded, AND by having a wide memory interface (23 Gbytes/sec bandwidth) the cores can keep retiring instructions in the face of long latency memory accesses, which is exactly the same problem tackled with caches. Long latency memory accesses are like cooking steps in culinary recipes, you must wait for the oven to do its thing, and that takes a while. Cautious customers and, as of our product launch also some competitors, ask how an eight core CMT can perform with just a 3 Mbyte L2 cache. Isn't our CMT like eight processors in a single socket, shouldn't it have eight times the cache of traditional processors to keep them individually busy. Well, the whole point is that CMT addresses the memory latency problem through vertical threads, and this makes it much less sensitive to cache size because it is less sensitive to cache misses in the first place. Instead of a large refrigerator full of pre-cooked dishes to be heated and garnished by a single overworked cook, we put a large oven and hired eight nimble cooks. The cooks were taught how to handle four orders at a time (just like my father does with books), and whenever one of these orders goes in the oven they switch immediately to one of the other three that is not in the oven. That is why the large 23 Gbytes/sec oven is important, it holds up to four orders for each of the eight cooks at the same time. We explained this approach to cautious customers through architecture and modelling data, but the most convincing step, in computers as in food, is testing and tasting. Trust the Explanations but test the product. Two weeks back I heard about the “try and buy” program. Evaluate the CMT box and only buy it if you want to keep it. Not many restaurants go that far. Some won't even let you in the kitchen to look inside those BIG refrigerators. I am not sure the “try and buy” program will satisfy competitors. After all competitors react in disparage or embrace modalities. Questioning the cache size is an example of the disparage modality. The embrace modality was used by another competitor, first claiming they already had multi-core vertical threaded network processors, and more recently announcing CMT plans themselves. Network processors (aka NPUs) are indeed vertically threaded processors. Unlike NPUs the UltraSPARC T1 is a vertically threaded general purpose processor, with all the software development advantages of standard tools and languages, full memory protection, virtual memory, cache coherency across cores (at L1 and of course the shared L2), arbitrarily large program memory, and no collaborative thread yielding constraints. The UltraSPARC T1 is a good foundation for I/O and network facing workloads without the programming quirks of network processors. Competitors arguing they already have CMT technology is akin to comedian Benny Hill's reaction when told about Neutron bombs that destroy people without damaging their buildings. “Oh, we already have them in England, we call them mortgages”. That is how similar they are... As for embracing CMT as their future direction, that would be just flattering. [ Technorati: NiagaraCMT, ] Post a Comment: Comments are closed for this entry. « October 2015	[]
Reviews for Eavesdropping in the Globe Jadziwine chapter 1 . 11/8/2010 that would really explain alot! you made this extra scene fit in seamlessly! great work! PhoenixWytch chapter 1 . 10/2/2009 Doctor, you are an idiotic fool. Thanks for writing. being-me-the-real-me chapter 1 . 5/28/2008 that was gd yu plannin on makein ne more? SpiritOfSherwood chapter 1 . 5/28/2008 Aww poor old Doctor isn't good with words. That was really sweet! Yay for the Ten/Martha! The Spirit	[]
Subscribe Archives Calendar ContactLogging & Sawmilling JournalMadison's Lumber DirectoryAdvertise Media KitHomeForestnet Bookmark and Share Or CLICK to download a pdf of this article Survival of the fittest Hard work and specialty logging will get Myers Logging through the recessioness. If anyone can survive a recession on top of an ongoing slump in the logging industry, Sam Myers can. He has lived through his own personal "recession" before and had the determination and fortitude to work his way up and out. When Sam started replacing his used equipment, his first new machine was a Cat 330C FM shovel loader from Peterson Machinery, Eugene, Ore. He says without Cat Financial he "never would have made it." Based in Eugene, Ore., Myers Logging contracts solely for one private landowner, who has been able to keep Sam and his two employees working regularly so far. "I have a lot closer relationship than I would if I worked for a mill where there were 10 other contractors. This landowner has three or four contractors, and we all specialize. I do the ground based logging, someone else handles all skyline logging, another cut-to-length, etc." Starting out on a Skidder Like many loggers, Sam got his start in the business when he was just a kid. He helped his grandpa log his land and even ran an old skidder when he was six. When he was in the third grade, he knew he wanted to be a logger. From there, his story might be a bit more colorful than most. He went into the business fulltime as a chaser after high school. "I wasn't smart enough to start in the summer. I started in the dead of winter. It was horrible." Over the next few years, he learned more and progressed until the day he broke his leg while cutting timber. "I couldn't run fast enough, and the top of a tree fell on me. I should have been killed." He was off work for about four weeks. "When my leg started to heal, I just put a garbage bag around my cast and came back to work." Day and Night In 2001 at age 31, Sam had the opportunity to buy his boss' equipment and continue as a contractor for the same private landowner. "The equipment was all old and worn out, so it was rough going for a long time. I owed more than it was worth. I started in the hole and had to dig my way out." During the next few years, Sam loaded logs while his brother, Bill, did the yarding. At night Bill went home, and Sam stayed to process logs. Sam would work through the night until the trucks showed up at 4:30 a.m., and the cycle began again. He took catnap breaks during the night and in between trucks. "I'd sleep an hour, work three. Then the next thing you know the trucks would show up, so I'd load trucks all day. Maybe have a little nap when everyone left." It took him seven years to work himself out of the hole. Now all the old equipment has been replaced, and he goes home at night to sleep. Sam Myers (right) contracts for one landowner in Eugene, Ore. His brother, Bill (left), operates the Cat 330D FM shovel loader. Out of the Hole His first new machine was a Cat 330C FM shovel loader from Peterson Machinery, Eugene, Ore. "If it wasn't for Cat Financial, I never would have made it. They took a big chance by loaning me the money for my first machine." Peterson sales representative Kirk Carter recalls, "We put high swing torque on that machine. It worked so well that his old processor couldn't keep up. That's when he was working day and night." So it was no surprise when Sam's next purchase was a Cat 322C. The latest new machine is a Cat 330D FM shovel loader with single bar grousers and high swing torque, and the 330C has been repurposed as Sam's processor. The 322C also found new life as a back-up shovel loader. Lastly, Sam's line-up also includes a Cat D5 track-type tractor that he leases from a retired logger. Sam says that, compared to the C model, the Cat 330D is "like getting out of a Volkswagen and into a Mercedes. They'll both take you down the road, but that D model is a lot better ride. It's a dream to run. The C model does everything we ask it to do. It just isn't quite as nice." Bill adds, "The 330D is also a little faster on the attachment. It feels more comfortable going up and down all that steep stuff. I don't hesitate now. And with the one bar grouser on there, I get around a lot better." Slowing Down Towards the end of 2008, Sam reported that work had slowed down quite a bit, and he doesn't expect to continue moving the same volume in 2009. "They don't want me to cut because the market is so bad, but I am not looking to change equipment or lay people off. I have two employees, and I am going to try to keep everyone working and getting a paycheck until things can pick up." Sam says, compared to the C model, the Cat 330D is "like getting out of a Volkswagen and into a Mercedes. The C model does everything we ask it to do. It just isn't quite as nice." To keep everyone working, Sam was planning to diversify by doing what he termed "pre-poleing" -- a select harvest of 75-120 ft. trees to be used for utility poles. Sam says he will have to change his operation to do this specialty logging. "You have to take really good care of the wood and be very conscious of breakage and knots. It's a real slow process. Since we are in a slow-down situation, I will probably do the cutting by hand myself. I will probably park my processor and one of my loaders. We will run just one loader and use the Cat D5 tractor with the swing grapple to do my yarding." Sam says that once the poles are out, he will probably rehab the unit -- harvest the remaining trees. "I hope the pre-poleing will keep me busy for a few months until the landowner decides he has a market for some other product." Still Content A sure sign that Sam is a logger to his core, he says that he is still "pretty content" with what he does, despite the times. He credits his survival to hard work and quality. "There is no secret. It's very hard work, but you have to have the quality. That's where I try to be -- the best quality possible. That's what got me in the door, and that's what's kept me going. I just try to make the landowner the most money. That's the key. And it all comes down to the quality of the work, the quality of the log, and what's left when you are done." 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Thursday, November 18, 2010 Obituary Poem for Bill West's Second Great American Local Poem Genealogy Challenge For Bill West's Second Great American Local Poem Genealogy Challenge I have decided to enter a poem I recently received from my distant cousin, Claire. She in turn, received it from somebody trying to solve her own Adams "Brick Wall." Upon reading it, I realized it was a a story of a person's life, more like an obituary. The only thing missing are the names of his parents, and the year of birth and death. Everything else is in, including his wife's name, years married and her father's name. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks Bill and I'm glad I'm participating in your challenge. At his son's house near the village, JASON ADAMS, ninety-three, On the twenty-eighth of February Pass'd into eternity. In Connecticut our subject, On the ninteenth of July, In the county of New London, Like us all, was born to to die. He was vigorous and rugged, And of Anglo-Saxon stock-- From the May-flow'r his grandfather Landed safe at Plymouth Rock. Zachary Mann, his wife's father, Fought on fields where blood did run, In the awful revolution, Under Gen'ral Washington. He was present when the British Put the torch to Buffalo ; And for us he used the musket In our fight with Mexico. And was proud when Montezuma To defeat was found a prey, And in triumph told the story, E'en upon his dying day. He removed to Massachusetts When a lad of seventeen. Where he Betsey Mann did marry With the virtue of a dean ; With his wife he went to Bergen In the county Genesee, And removed from there to Sheldon At the age of twenty-three. 'Mong the wolves, wildcats and panthers, Came our subject with his wife, To the hardships was accustom'd Incident to frontier life. He was sire of youths and maidens-- Some are numbered with the dead, And the years were sixty-seven Which were spent with her he wed. He in life enjoyed religion, Died as Christians always die, And his soul released from bondage, To the breast of God did fly. And his children and their children And their children's children, too, Will with him unite, if faithful, Heaven's King in glory view. As a genealogist, I just had to find out about Jason Adams, but it wasn't easy. One person had him and Betsey Mann in their tree, but no other information, and no sources. I discovered a Jason Adams mentioned in several newspapers, one dated March 12, 1887, stated, "Jason Adams, of Java, N. Y. aged 93, is dead." and a paper from Castile, N. Y. has "He was the oldest son of the late Jason Adams, who died in this village February 1887, aged 93." The person who located the poem said it was from a Warsaw, New York newspaper. So based on these facts, I believe it is the same person. All three towns are in Wyoming County, New York. With the above information and his calculated birth year of 1794, I was able to locate him, his wife Betsey and children in the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 census. In 1880 Jason was 86 years old and died seven years later at age 93. It is nice to know I found my man.	[]
Lux Build Guide • Views: 8,523 • Rating: 100% ( Unknown ) • Last Updated v1.0.0.118 How I Learned to Stop Waiting and Love the Rainbow (Rapid-Fire Lux) written by WATFalCone Lux Build Table of Contents • Introduction Lux is a pretty solid mage champion. You lack the hard stuns that other champions like Kennen, Anivia, Annie, or Brand can easily pump out. You're horrifically flimsy and prone to getting utterly destroyed when certain enemy players get too close to you. But you make up for it with two crowd-control spells you can use both offensively and defensively, as well as the ability to crank out respectable amounts of burst damage frequently. Not to mention the fact that you get to pretend to skip everywhere you go and giggle like a little girl. Lux can, with hilarious amounts of practice, be played seriously, but her role is best suited to a player who's willing to skip around between two lanes and zapping enemies for a good time. Lux is probably one of the most fun champions that I play, K/D ratios, be damned. (Of course you should still have decent ratios if everything works out anyway.) Anyway, let's get down to the nitty-gritty. • Abilities This passive is great for tacking on surprise damage. If I see a character's leveland I know how much AP they have, I can get a good idea of how much of a burst hit I can take before dying. Illumination adds on that little extra touch if you toss an attack with a spell that can turn one of those times where you'd say "WTF?! HP?" into a time where you could be putting on your smug-face. Used in conjunction with [spell_text=Finales Funkeln], you can essentially add a third spell's worth of damage to a two-spell-attack combo. If you're going for damage with Illumination, be sure the target isn't someone who can dish out a ranged attack/spell to mess you up. Light Binding One of Lux's best tools. Also the easiest to mess up if you're engaging in fights near enemy minions. Offensively, it's best used to hold people down for your other spells or attacks to connect or to simply snare enemies and prevent their escape. As with any other stun/snare, you can also use it to stop pursuing enemy champions if you're in a tight spot. The fact that it only snares makes it a poor bush-checking skillshot, though. Prismatic Barrier A fairly decent support skill which can provide a little extra health to yourself or your allies when they're in need. It refreshes shields both ways, so if someone's shield breaks while it's flying out, it'll get reapplied when it's flying back to you. Keep that in mind if you're shielding an almost-dead friend. Lucent Singularity This is my favourite spell for dishing out damage with Lux. Its range is way longer than Light Binding, and applies Illumination for speedier farming. It's not as effective an Area-of-Effect slow as Mega Adhesive or similar spells, but this thing hurts. Slowed enemies are great prey for your other offensive spells. Defensively, you can slow those two enemy champions that just popped out of the bush to gank you. It also gives line of sight where it lands. Don't be afraid to check bushes with it. [spell=Finales Funkeln] The very reason why Lux is fun. Finales Funkeln (a.k.a. "Funky Final") is capable of dealing high-yield spell damage over a huge line like any run-of-the-mill line nuke. The key to its uniqueness lies in it's hilariously short cooldown: with 40% Cooldown Reduction, Finales Funkeln can be cast every 24 seconds, meaning you can zap most of an enemy team at the beginning and end of a drawn-out fight. It's a great finishing move the very second you get it, and can effectively be used to keep enemies in your lane on their toes, weary of getting zapped. Just don't miss it, or people will start to make fun of you. (Which is fine, since you can just try again after you call them mean names) • Masteries + Runes + Summoner Spells External Image Whatever your caster page demands. -Magic Penetration -Mana Regen -Flat Mana are all great choices for Runes. I'm not going to try and remember all of their names. Summoner Spells: / and The ability to finish someone off early game is what I have in mind with these choices. Clarity to quickly get some mana to use spells, or Ignite for what Ignite does best. I always use my second summoner spell for an escape/positioning ability. I prefer Ghost, though, because Flash makes people mad. • Skill Order + Items Skill Order: I personally decide to aim for Cooldowns, and rely heavily on hybrid mage items to increase my odds for survival and general effectiveness. Core Build: Start (475 Gold): [item_icon=Meki Pendant], . Then build the following in this suggested order when you feel the need to retreat: [item_icon=Meki Pendant] -> , -> -> [item_icon=Morello's Evil Tome] With the Boots and Tome, you should have 35% CDR, and with masteries, that should go up to 40%. Maximum Cooldowns with a little chunk of AP. You're now destined for being able to ult every 24 seconds when you hit level 16. After that, your build is wide open. I tend to follow some simple guidelines. -Most of the time (Rush these if you're filthy rich External Image): , Eventually build that into an later on. -Some kind of defensive item can replace any of these if you're getting hurt. It's usually a good idea. -I'm dying/almost-dying a lot and I don't want to be called a feeder External Image: , starting with the . , starting with the . , starting with the . -Woah, man. They're terrible or I'm good, but I'm absolutely destroying them woah I am so good at League of Legends External Image: -Dude, I'm too good at League of Legends to listen to you, WATFalCone. You're super bad. External Image: Get out. • Getting your Lite Brite™ On Early Game (1~6) Lux is a capable mid-lane champion and an excellent duo-lane player. Her skill set allows her to enable kills for her laning partners and snag a few nice cash kills for herself. Until you get Lucent Singularity, you're going to want to avoid the bushes. Once you do get it, however, the bushes open up, and the entire lane is open to you risk-free (enemies permitting, of course). Don't forget to use Prismatic Barrier to negate some of the damage you and your partner are taking Enemy in the bush? Singularity, Light Binding, pop, auto-attack if you're safe to do so. Enemy chilling near creeps? Singularity, Pop, auto-attack them, then the creeps if they've backed off. Enemy hiding way back? Light Binding(Don't hit the creeps) or Singularity. Get some damage, walk away, farm.. It's imperative that you use Lucent Singularity to land creep kills early on. Try to get it in between the line of fighter minions and the line of caster minions so they all get damaged and marked, and then just attack them each once to pop the Illumination marks. You can nab some pretty good kills if you have a high-damage champion like Garen, Yi, Ryze, Poppy, etc. in your lane with you. If your lane partner is not capable of killing people, you'll have to do it. Illumination marks can get you kills if you're sure you can get into attack range safely. Once you get your ult, keep an eye on the enemy's health amount. Try to time it so you know that if you land [spell_text=Finales Funkeln] on them, they're more than likely dead. Just be sure to try and factor in magic resist first. Once you have your [spell_text=Finales Funkeln] and you've (almost) knocked down your lane's tower, feel free to use the jungle as a giant pile of sniper perches. You don't need to go very far to get the enemy's other lanes in range of your ultimate. Snipe enemies whenever they're low on health, whatever you don't kill will more than likely feel compelled to run for their lives. Don't hesitate to grab the Golem(Blue) Buff if no one else is taking it. In fights, use Lucent Singularity to deal most of your damage, it'll hit more targets that way. As long as you're not in the front of a fight, you should be fine, but if you find yourself getting targetted you might want to start hanging further back. If you're doing too well, they might do just that. Late Game(14~18) This is the part where stuff gets fun. Your role in fights shouldn't change much. Shield allies, snare incoming enemies, pop your E on groups of hostile units and smack them for damage. If you bought a Lich Bane, your combos involving Illumination marks are going to deal hilarious amounts of damage. Once you hit level 16, you're going to be using your [spell_text=Finales Funkeln] almost every time it's up. Use it to farm creeps. Use it to harass enemies between fights. Use it to dissuade attackers from hitting your team's buildings. Use it to steal golem buff from a jerkbag teammate. Just be sure that it'll be up when it matters most: Teamfights. Your Prismatic Barrier should be getting leveled up, and you'll be packing a decent chunk of AP. Be sure to use it(and your attack skills) during fights, every little bit helps. • Conclusion Do you have your own Build Guide? Submitted by WATFalCone Newest Guides for Lux Top Guides for Lux New Skins for Lux Top Skins for Lux	[]
An island getaway full of dive spots, historic sites, and hiking trails. The province of Camiguin in the Northern Mindanao region is an island known mainly for having seven volcanoes. Mt. Hibok-Hibok is the most popular of these volcanoes, as it is a challenging climb for mountaineers and a popular swimming site for those visiting some of the island's waterfalls and hot springs. The other popular volcano in the province is Mt. Vulcan, which erupted during Spanish colonial times, resulting in some of Camiguin's most prominent tourist destinations, such as the ruins of Old Catarman and the Sunken Cemetery. Camiguin is also one of the country's well-loved dive destinations, as its waters are filled with coral reefs and colorful species of fish. • Camiguin comes from the word "Kamagong," derived from the name of the kamagong tree which thrives in Surigao del Norte, where the Manobos, the original inhabitants of Camiguin, migrated from. • The Spanish established a settlement in what is known today as Guinsiliban, a name that means "to look out for pirates from a watchtower." There is indeed an old Spanish tower in Guinsiliban that Camiguinons once used to keep watch for Moro pirates. • When Mt. Vulcan Daan erupted in 1891, it destroyed the settlement of old Catarman, then known as Katagman or Katadman. All that is left of the old town today are the ruins of a Spanish church, a convent, and a bell tower. • From 1946 to 1958, Camiguin was part of Misamis Oriental. It became a sub-province in 1958, and was declared a province ten years later. Travelers' Attractions There are several activities and attractions in store for travelers in Camiguin. • Mountain climbers will enjoy trekking the mountains on the island, especially Mount Hibok-Hibok, which is a challenging climb. This island is known for having seven volcanoes; aside from Mount Hibok-Hibok there are Mount Vulcan, Mount Guinsiliban, Mount Mambajao, Mount Timpoong, Mount Tres Marias, and Mount Uhay. • There are various spots for swimming and diving around the island, such as beaches and coral reefs. • The province's rich culture and history makes it an interesting place to visit, with churches and ruins from the Spanish times. Getting There and Away • There are direct flights from Manila to Cagayan de Oro City where one can take the ferry to Camiguin. Airlines with trips to Cagayan de Oro are Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific, and Air Philippines. • To get to Camiguin by boat, one can take the M/V Yuhum Ferry to Camiguin from the Cagayan de Oro Ferry Terminal, or go to North Harbor and go aboard Superferry, Negros Navigation, or Sulpicio Lines.	[]
British Sea Power/’Man Of Aran’ British Sea Power play soundtrack to ‘Man Of Aran’ This is seriously powerful, emotive stuff. I’m sat in the cavernous main cinema of Sheffield’s Showroom complex for the final event in the city’s fantastic music/film/arts Sensoria festival. Live on stage, in front of the screen, with their backs to the audience are one of the best and most inventive modern British bands- British Sea Power. They are playing their live sound track to ‘Man Of Aran’ the 1934 semi fictional, semi documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty. The film is a stark black and white depiction of the tough lives of the Aran islanders whose stubborn self-sufficiency and toughness, set against the backdrop of the fierce Atlantic Ocean makes for powerful viewing. It’s a perfect combination- a salty sea stained film about the tough life on a lump of rock in the Atlantic (most recently the setting for Craggy Island in Father Ted) and a band that have made their name in the past decade with three great, highly original albums that stand alone in the oceanic waves of indie banality. A series of albums that seem eccentric in the context of modern indie rock that is mostly not only not independent of distribution but also thought. British Sea Power have carved their own idiosyncratic path with a music that is somehow harking back to a long lost age when people were interested in more than football and cars. There are references to non rock n roll topics like bird spotting and a love of nature- total genius in a rock world where conversation rarely rises above the ‘what goes on the road stays on the road’ grunting. The band have a brilliant attention to detail that even sees their merch droog dressed in the same sort of hardy fifties Ealing tweeds as the rest of them who retain the Spartan whiff of the bohemia about them. Their music has a powerful cinematic sweep that oozes with the power of nature- you can smell the salty air crashing on the rocks when you blast out a BSP album which makes this project perfect for them. Originally from Kendal and now based in Brighton they have also played a series of highly original gigs in off the wall locations, like the Boste Social Club in Kendal and the Isles of Scilly or on a ferry- gigs that make tonight appearance in Sheffield playing the self composed soundtrack seem like a normal event for the band. ‘Man of Aran’ itself is a semi fictional account of the tough lives of the islanders on Aran- a clump of rocks off the west coast of Ireland battered, due to several geographical quirks, by some of the biggest waves in the Atlantic. The islanders live off the sea, which at any minute threatens to engulf them. They grow potatoes in the bone hard rock using seaweed as a soil substitute and wrestle with giant basking sharks to get the oil for their lamps whilst risking their lives catching fish for their meals- their tiny boats looking like match sticks against the might ocean and their faces rough hewn like the bone hard granite of their islands. Even if the film is somewhat fictionalised it opens a window onto a long lost, tough, yet honourable life- a warrior existence on the edge of the world and one that has been long lost in a cosseted modern world where people get fish from a tin instead of risking life and limb in the sea. British Sea Power were sent the film by a fan and film buff and when asked to write a soundtrack for an art project chose the perfect film for their powerful music that smells of sea salt and brine. The band, who have always intertwined the powerful, primal forces of nature and an almost pagan imagery into their music and stage sets, have created the perfect soundtrack that makes your emotions swell like the mighty Atlantic that is the fluid spine of the film. Their sense of theatrical- with branches of trees and stuffed animals as part of their normal touring stage set and a music that oozes with the power of mother nature are perfect for this sort of exercise. What they have composed for the film is a genius match for the forces of nature in the film and the tug and flow of the wild Atlantic that pours over the island. The music and the visuals perfectly combine to affect you in a powerful emotional way. I leave the cinema with my legs shaking like an Aran islander getting out of one of the tiny boats, feeling drained by the thrilling, emotive music provided by one of the best current British bands at the height of their powers and a 70 year old film that is still powerfully affecting. Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Twitter picture Facebook photo Google+ photo Connecting to %s Get every new post delivered to your Inbox. Join 28 other followers %d bloggers like this:	[]
Non-singers welcome to apply Many actors can belt it out despite lack of experience December 17, 2009\|By Zachary Pincus-Roth, SPECIAL TO TRIBUNE NEWSPAPERS Kate Hudson sang songs from "Annie" around the house as a kid, but she never had a professional singing job until she auditioned for the movie "Nine." She walked in and started a song from the show "A Call From the Vatican." After her first line, a soaring "Guiiiidoooh," the director, Rob Marshall, stopped her. "Does anybody know you can sing?" he said. Hudson blushed. "I don't think so," she replied. Hudson, who landed the role of Stephanie, is one of many stars to reveal a secret singing talent, as movie musicals have become more popular in recent years. "Nine," with its bounty of Golden Globe nominations, is a clown car of bold-faced names -- Hudson, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Sophia Loren and Daniel Day-Lewis in the lead role of the film director Guido Contini. This month also brings the opening of "Crazy Heart," with Jeff Bridges and Colin Farrell as country singers. These days, dubbing a performer's singing voice is not as acceptable as it was in the days when Marni Nixon provided the singing voice of Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady" and Natalie Wood in "West Side Story." So how do so many actors just happen to be able to carry a tune? A remarkable number of them have caught this current wave of movie musicals, starting with "Chicago" and followed by "Hairspray," "Enchanted," "Sweeney Todd," and "Mamma Mia!" Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal are attached to a remake of "Damn Yankees." Tom Cruise too has said he'd like to do a musical. "The only one who told me at a party he basically can't sing at all is Brad Pitt," says Neil Meron, a prolific producer of musicals. "He said, 'Never come to me. I can't sing a note.'" How to explain this explosion of latent musical talent? Making melodious notes come out of your mouth does not appear to have any connection to pretending to be someone you're not. Or does it? The connection could start in childhood, when actors are more likely than others to encounter music. Many get their start in community or high school musicals, and some come from artistic households. Bridges' family sang "Guys and Dolls" songs at the dinner table. His father, Lloyd Bridges, played the lead in "Man of La Mancha" on Broadway and came close to starring in "The Music Man." "I can remember Meredith Willson singing the score of 'Music Man' before it came out and coming up to me as a little kid and slapping me on the knee and saying, 'You got trouble, right here in River City,'" Bridges recalls. Hudson's father, Bill Hudson, was a musician, and her mom, Goldie Hawn, started as a go-go dancer. Kate did musical theater as a kid and was married to Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes. "I feel like I've been around music a long time," she says. "I never had the opportunity to do it with acting. It just wasn't the path I went down." Another theory is that singing and acting require similar tasks, such as expert manipulation of vocal chords. "Really good actors have really good ears," says Eric Vetro, Cruz's vocal coach on "Nine." "They have good ears to mimic dialects, and they have a good ear for different voices for their characters." It still takes practice to turn these skills into smooth solos. Bridges, an amateur singer-songwriter, was already halfway there, says his "Crazy Heart" vocal coach, Roger Love. But before he coached Joaquin Phoenix to play Johnny Cash in "Walk the Line," Love said, "I can't guarantee that he sang 'Happy Birthday' at parties." Cruz studied ballet for years but had never sung on screen before "Nine." Vetro coached her on her audition and then later in rehearsals, having her practice by singing songs like "America" from "West Side Story." "I wanted to stretch her range as much as possible," Vetro says. "The song she sings in 'Nine' has a really wide range -- it goes up to a really high note, but most of the song she's belting it out in a really low voice." But technical skill is not as important as it seems. "The musical actor is not expected to be a recording artist," Meron says. "They're supposed to be able to tell a story with a song. It's a different skill set." The idea that expert characterization and pure charisma can translate into a great musical performance -- regardless of technique -- makes the casting of Day-Lewis so tantalizing. "He's one of those actors who even if he couldn't sing, he could sing," says "Nine" producer Marc Platt. "It just so happens he can sing." Skeptics will say that movie stars -- who probably lucked into that status in the first place -- are no better at singing than anyone else. Not all of them succeed at it -- one critic called Pierce Brosnan's warbling in "Mamma Mia!" "the best imitation I've heard of a water buffalo." In movies, actors only have to make one good recording of a song, and pitch correction technology, which can automatically tweak a singer's voice so that it's more on pitch, is widespread, Love says.	[]
Hold Your Nose Until This Evening Pollen count highest in 12 years for the first week of April View Comments () Sneezing your head off. Runny nose. Itchy eyes. Pollen. It's back. We all know how famous Washington is for its allergies. If you think it's extra bad right now, you are right. The pollen count Wednesday is triple that of Tuesday. A whopping 4000 grams per cubic meter. That puts it in the extremely high range. If you are like lots of us, you can say, "I knew that," because you are miserably aware of how bad your allergies are today. All the warm weather and sunshine is causing the pollen explosion. It's mainly due to trees. And we're not talking flowering trees, like the cherry blossoms. No, take a look at those innocent looking oak and pine trees. They are the monsters causing all those problems. Take that greenish yellow haze on your car. Look around. See any cherry blossoms? Not unless you are down by the Tidal Basin. And you can't blame those daffodills. Although everything flgures into the mix. There are things you can do to lower your exposure to pollen if you are an allergy sufferer. And if you are reading this, you probably are. Dr. Stanley Fineman, of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, said, "Leave your shoes by the door. Don't track pollen through the house. And wash your hair before you go to bed, because pollen can get caught in your hair. And you don't want to be sleeping with it." Or you can just hold your nose until Thursday evening. A front is coming in that should make things better, even if only temporarily. Doctors say if you are on prescription or over-the-counter allergy medication, stay on it. If you start thinking you don't need it anymore -- think again!	[]
Lord Berners From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Lord Berners, whose full name was Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, (born Apley Hall, Shropshire, 18 September 1883; died Faringdon House, Berkshire, 19 April 1950), was a British composer of classical music, novelist and painter. He is usually called Lord Berners. He was an amateur composer who is remembered for his strange, eccentric behaviour. Life[change \| change source] Berners was born in Apley Hall, Bridgnorth, England. The Berners family were related to King Edward III of England. His father was a naval officer who was not often at home. He was looked after by his mother and grandmother who was very religious and very strict. Berners was very interested in lots of things, especially music, but his mother did nothing to help him. At first he went to boarding school in Cheam. Then he went to Eton. He taught himself to compose. He became a diplomat and travelled to Rome and Constantinople. In 1919, when his uncle died, he became 14th Baron Berners and 5th Baronet. He had already composed some music which had been published under the name Gerald Tyrwhitt. Berners lived an eccentric life. He lived in Berkshire but also had houses in London and Rome. He had plenty of money, so that he did not have to work. He had many friends, including the composers Stravinsky, Lambert and William Walton who dedicated his Belshazzar’s Feast to him. His music[change \| change source] Berners’s music is full of Romantic feeling, irony and parody. He wrote a lot for the theatre. He composed The Triumph of Neptune in 1926 for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. His music could often be described as light music. His eccentricities[change \| change source] Berners started his strange behaviour when he was quite small. He had heard that a dog could be taught to swim by throwing it into water, so he decided to teach his dog to fly by throwing it out of the window. The dog was not hurt, but Berners was given a beating. He was often naughty, making silly traps for people. He was sent to boarding school in Cheam when he was nine. There he had a gay relationship with an older boy. He was then sent to Eton College. Berners said that he learned nothing there. Later, when he was grown up, he painted pigeons at his house and once he even had a giraffe as a pet so that he could have tea with it. He travelled in a Rolls-Royce and kept a clavichord under the front seat. He died in 1950 at Faringdon House, leaving his estate to his partner Robert ('Mad Boy') Heber Percy, who lived with him at Faringdon. His epitaph on his gravestone reads: "Here lies Lord Berners One of life's learners His great love of learning May earn him a burning Thanks be to the Lord He never was bored".	[]
Politics by Melvyn_Fein Newt: The Great Debater June 12, 2012 09:45 AM \| 23819 views \| 0 0 comments \| 1324 1324 recommendations \| email to a friend \| print \| permalink view as list Democracy in action by Melvyn_Fein June 12, 2012 09:39 AM \| 4491 views \| 0 0 comments \| 281 281 recommendations \| email to a friend \| print \| permalink comments (0) view/post comments no comments yet The Wright Conundrum by Melvyn_Fein May 21, 2012 09:26 AM \| 4589 views \| 0 0 comments \| 282 282 recommendations \| email to a friend \| print \| permalink comments (0) view/post comments no comments yet ObamaCare vs. RomneyCare by Melvyn_Fein March 12, 2012 03:50 PM \| 4507 views \| 0 0 comments \| 280 280 recommendations \| email to a friend \| print \| permalink Many people have come to a strange conclusion. They argue that Mitt Romney should not get the Republican nomination for president because he cannot challenge the president regarding ObamaCare. Having sponsored similar legislation inMassachusetts, they assume he will not be able to criticize Obama on this crucial question. This, however, is far from true. The way to figure out what will probably happen is to look at the scenario from the other side. Instead of what might make Mitt feel uncomfortable, the issue is what is liable to throw Obama off stride. Remember, Barack has been avoiding the topic of healthcare like the plague. Although ObamaCare was his signature piece of legislation, he never alludes to it. He does not brag about this accomplishment because he knows that it remains anathema for many voters. He realizes that they believe it was forced down their throats and hence will regurgitate it if they can. Given this situation, all Romney has to do is throw ObamaCare in Barack’s face. He must remind voters of how much more it will require them to pay and how much less they will receive in exchange. He must also take them back to the dark days of backroom deals and sleazy payoffs, and ask if they want more of the same. Those who believe that Obama will respond by attacking RomneyCare are wrong. To do so would put him at a further disadvantage. Many conservatives do not like Romney’s individual mandate, but Obama’s mandate was far worse. How then can he disparage Mitt without putting his own creation in an even more unflattering light? There are, however, additional considerations. What if the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate? Can Obama defend its return? And can he support the rest of the program, assuming that the Court does not rule it invalid? If Romney cheers a court ruling against ObamaCare and then advocates striking down the entirety of Obama’s legislation, he will win points with a majority of voters. Or if the ruling goes the other way, he can ride a wave of resentment to support legislative elimination of a much hated program. In other words, whatever happens in the court, it will redound to Romney’s benefit if he plays his cards right. Nevertheless, many voters worry that Romney will not seek a repeal of ObamaCare. They fret that because he once supported something similar, he will fail to keep his word. They fear that once in office he will have no incentive to eliminate what he pledged to terminate. But first, Obama cannot exploit this fear. To begin with, people know that he will not repeal a law to which he is deeply committed. Obama also knows that he has backtracked on many promises. To suggest that Romney might do the same would expose him to a withering counter-punch. Second, Romney cannot afford to break his promise. To do so would put his administration on life support before it began. Hence why would anyone seeking the presidency so egregiously cripple himself? How would he benefit from such perfidy? Nor do I think he wants to. Even if he is a flip-flopper (a characterization I find overdrawn), hasn’t he flipped in order to gain favor? So why would he flop in order to lose it? Finally, I suspect Obama understands all of this. Whatever else he is, he is not a dummy. He must, therefore, recognize that fabricating charges he cannot substantiate would make him more vulnerable. Consequently, any attempt to intimate that he might do so would be no more than a bluff. Fortunately, it is one Romney can call. comments (0) view/post comments no comments yet Newt: The Great Debater by Melvyn_Fein March 05, 2012 10:31 AM \| 4899 views \| 0 0 comments \| 279 279 recommendations \| email to a friend \| print \| permalink Newt Gingrich is wooing Georgia voters with radio advertisements that tout his debating skills. They feature what purport to have ordinary voters praising Gingrich’s abilities in a one-on-one confrontation. The idea is that Newt will clean Obama’s clock and thereby get himself elected. This conceit, however, is fatuous. First, Barack is not a moron. He will not agree to more debates than he thinks he can handle. Moreover, he will learn from the Republican debates, hence he will go into them with a good idea of what to expect. Add to this the fact that Obama is both bright and articulate, and also that he is president, and Newt will have to be respectful. The playing field will therefore tilt toward the incumbent. There is no way Gingrich will be able to lecture him the way he has journalistic moderators. Nor is Gingrich the fantastic debater he now pretends. Remember what happened when Romney caught him flat-footed regarding his investments in Fannie-Mae? Gingrich did not have a facile answer and so he stood there with egg on his face. So tongue-tied did he become that by general agreement he was the big loser. Consider as well that Obama has legions of expert researchers at his disposal. It is almost inconceivable that these folks will not be able to dig up something else that is embarrassing to Newt. What will happen then? Besides, all of this is a sideshow. We are electing a president, not a debater-in-chief. If Gingrich cannot cure our current economic and budgetary woes, then it does not matter how articulate he is. The time will surely come when he will be unable to explain his failures to an impatient public. Indeed, our current president is as skilled in speechifying as it is possible for a politician to be. He is so eloquent that he can rationalize his way out of virtually any debacle. As long as people have the will to believe, he can find the words to fool them into thinking that the sky is green or that the oceans are subsiding. If all that Gingrich can provide is a me-too glibness, then he is no improvement over the status quo. Furthermore, to judge from his recent performances, the best he seems to be able to offer are lame metaphors. Thus, he says he is going to save the poor by giving them a trampoline. Really? Finally, Gingrich is mean. He is also vindictive. Describing himself as “cheerful,” as he did in the last debate, was a bad joke. When he gets to arguing one-on-one with someone who can give him a run for his money, his nasty side is bound to emerge. And if it does, forget about any debating points he might score. Or, heaven forbid, if he gets to be president, imagine all of the people he will offend. Nowadays he brags about not being a team player. Is this supposed to signify that he is going to be a one-man band when he gets to the White House? How do you think that work out? Oh, I forgot, he also says that he will be on the side of the American people. It is presumably we, his fellow Americans, who will constitute his new teammates. Yet isn’t this just another pathetic metaphor? Isn’t this just another case of Newt always knows best? comments (0) view/post comments no comments yet Santorum the Sanctimonious by Melvyn_Fein March 02, 2012 09:36 AM \| 4645 views \| 1 1 comments \| 284 284 recommendations \| email to a friend \| print \| permalink It was an amazing spectacle. Here was a Republican aspirant for his party’s presidential nomination urging Democrats to vote for him rather than his rival. Had this request come from a Democrat, it would have been regarded as a dirty trick. To cross over and vote for an opponent who cannot win the general election so as to deny victory to one who might, was surely not how the founders believed elections should be run. But this is what Rick Santorum wanted. What is more, he was utterly unapologetic when caught with his hand in the cookie jar. He presented some lame excuse about how the folks who nearly gave him a win were really Reagan Democrats. The only one’s who believed this, of course, were his rabid partisans. So why did Santorum assume he could get away with this ploy? The answer is that he is convinced of his own moral credentials. He is—to put the matter bluntly—dangerously self-righteous. In his heart, he knows that he is a better person than almost everyone else. Santorum is confident that he is on solid ground when he behaves in ways that would be immoral for others because he believes he always does things for honorable reasons. So far as he is concerned, his ends are so superior that his means can be flexible. We also see this attitude in an anti-Romney ad produced by his people. From start to finish, it portrays Mitt as a malicious, gun-toting campaigner. Nevertheless, when I saw it, I nearly laughed out loud. Here was a mean spirited negative ad complaining about negative ads. Apparently the only reason Santorum hasn’t taken the low road before is because he did not have the financing to do so. Now, with the dollars pouring in, he can be as scurrilous as he desires. Evidently, with his opponents always more evil than himself, they deserve whatever he can heap upon them. This may sound like an overblown criticism, but on several occasions Rick has stated that it is more important to do what is right than what is legal. Needless to say, he will be the one to determine what is right. Much as with Barack Obama, he confers upon himself the role of final arbiter. Others may perceive this as arbitrary, but for him it reflects the triumph of his impeccable virtue. If Santorum ever gets off his soapbox, he may realize that moral fanaticism is perilous. Indeed, moral zealots have perpetrated many of history’s worst tragedies. They do not see the harm they perpetrate because they are dazzled by their own radiant aspirations. Be they a Hitler, a Napoleon, or a Pol Pot, they always assume they know best. As for the rest of us, these folks should make us uneasy. They want to be our leaders, but when we allow them to do so, all too often they direct us over a cliff. Rick Santorum needs to pull back so that he notices that in undermining our political institutions, he is weakening the political infrastructure that might allow him to do good if he were elected. He has also revealed his true colors—and they are not flattering. comments (1) view/post comments so true March 03, 2012 Frankly, when I first heard what he did, I was shocked. Funny thing, character, all you have to do is watch and wait and sooner or later, we all reveal ourselves. Santorum is a hypocrite and an opportunist of the first order. The New Isolationists by Melvyn_Fein February 28, 2012 04:04 PM \| 4672 views \| 1 1 comments \| 283 283 recommendations \| email to a friend \| print \| permalink Once upon a time Republicans were isolationists and Democrats were internationalists. Then, after Eisenhower became president, the parties began swapping roles. Recently, with the advent of the Gulf and Afghanistan Wars, the Democrats have emphasized their distrust of foreign adventures. Now we see the Libertarians joining this discussion. They are clearly intent on re-establishing an America-First mentality among conservatives. Ron Paul has been the most vocal in this endeavor. Yet he is far from alone. Many of those who claim that freedom is their over-riding concern also wish to free us from overseas adventures. Paul insists that we should not be spending our dollars abroad. He further argues that countries, such as Iran, should be able to set their political agendas without interference from us. As he as put it, if we would not appreciate external pressures, why should we inflict these on others? John Stossel too has advocated a new isolationism. He has encouraged our government to get out of Afghanistan on the grounds that we have been there long enough. Besides, our efforts at nation building have clearly failed; hence we should learn our lessons and come home. At a recent gathering on young libertarians, Stossel quizzed John Bolton about these matters, and when Bolton argued for finishing the job we started, the audience erupted in agonized booing. These young ideologues felt compelled to express their disdain for international military actions as forcefully as they could. When Bolton was then asked when he would withdraw from Afghanistan, he replied, “When the job is done.” To this Stossel responded that we had already provided the ungrateful Afghans with enough blood and treasure. Why not let them settle their own problems by themselves? But that was not—and is not the issue. We did not go to Afghanistan in order to help the Afghans. We went in order to protect ourselves from further terrorist attacks. The question regarding when we should leave therefore comes down to when we can be sure we are safe. Setting a date at which we should leave is not about the cost, in lives or dollars, but about conditions on the ground. If we leave prematurely, what happens if there is another 9/11? Worse still, what if Afghanistan provides a staging area for an atomic attack on New York, Washington—or Atlanta? What will the nouveau-isolationists say then? The young do not remember the price paid for refusing to stop Hitler before the wehrmacht began rolling. Nor do they recall that we did not stop fighting the Nazis until they were decisively defeated. When you are attacked—and we were attacked—you do not stop defending yourself until the enemy desists. The radical Islamists are not trying to kill us because we interfered with their self-government. To the contrary, we are seeking to dismantle their infrastructures because they are trying to kill us. Only ideologues—or those with a death wish—refuse to recognize who started what. Only they insist that we set time limits on self-defense. If the rest of us listen to them, the time will come when we will not have to spend money on military activities—because we will have been defeated. comments (1) view/post comments Laura Armstrong February 29, 2012 Thank you for the thoughtful blog Dr. Fein. I found myself last week agreeing for the first time ever with Geraldo Rivera when he said, "Once upon a time I knew why we were there in Afghanistan, now I don't." This president has neglected this effort, leaving it up to a military that does go to the ends of the earth to take it to the bad guys. After ten years and many thousands of bad guys attrited (if that's a word) it's finally time to declare victory there and bring the big units home. Let Afghanistan be an operating ground for SpecOps and a test range for the drones. After this latest fiasco with the accidental kuran burnings, it's more than obvious that any Muslim country, especially one as backwards and unwilling to modernize as Afghanistan, is NO LONGER worth our blood and treasure. Note I said NO LONGER. Nothing should diminish the lives lost and sacrifices already made. Right now, bad guys from Iran, Syria and other Muslim countries protest outside the gates of our embassy in Kabul and outside our base at Bagram. In just a few short weeks, these guys will be hidden in the countryside, laying IEDs for our troops. As the rules of engagement go now, they're free to protest before the cameras, posing as Afghani countrymen. If we were really there to win, we'd be taking them out NOW, enemy combatants. But instead Obama apologizes! When presidential policy gets this screwed up, it's time to bring them home. Not isolationist, but pragmatic. Ron Paul: Political Pied Piper by Melvyn_Fein February 24, 2012 02:45 PM \| 5077 views \| 2 2 comments \| 285 285 recommendations \| email to a friend \| print \| permalink Asked to describe himself in one word during the last Republican debate, Ron Paul made a fair choice. He characterized himself as: “consistent.” If anything, this is a moderate way of portraying his resistance to intellectual change. That a man Paul’s age can have such a simplistic view of the universe surely disqualifies him from being president. That he has the audacity to boast of having learned almost nothing in his many decades on this planet is breathtaking. It clearly tells us that he does not have the flexibility to deal with chief executive level uncertainties. Nonetheless Paul may not really want to be president. As others have suggested, his real goal may be to spark a social movement. He may be satisfied if he can make libertarianism more respectable. If so, he may serve an important political purpose. Libertarianism is much too simple-minded for my tastes. It purports to explain most of the problems confronting us with a few timeless propositions. Whatever the difficulty, it deduces the answers from a limited set of axioms. Mind you, I agree with the libertarians about the pivotal importance of freedom and the need to defend the integrity of the marketplace and the constitution. I, however, believe in learning from experience—which sometimes indicates that theory must be modified by reality. This said, I am beginning to understand that Paul’s crusade may have long-term benefits. His adolescent posturing turns off most people my age, but adolescents, and those only shortly removed from adolescence, are inspired by it. For them, he is a pied piper who is playing an irresistible tune. Obviously, the young have little experience with the real world. Perhaps, less obviously, most experience a reasonable anxiety when they contemplate their futures. If one does not know why many things happen as they do, an uncertainty regarding what constitutes the best choices is sensible. As a result, the young are attracted to answers they can get their minds around. Simplified ideologies of the sort Paul peddles provide this kind of certitude. They are easily understood and purport to explain everything one might want to know. This is dangerous for those who must make responsible decisions, but it is a useful starting point for those who have the time to learn. If this is true, then Paul’s campaign may prove a valuable entry point to a conservative perspective. Young people are idealistic. They crave a sense of being able to reform the world. Fervent ideologies give them a feeling of doing good. Libertarianism may be over-blown, but it provides the passion the young desire. Fortunately, life furnishes the lessons needed to become more realistic. Most of us become disillusioned as our ideals collide with the hard facts of everyday living. For some this leads to bitterness, whereas for others it is a portal to more competent decision-making. Therefore, under the best of circumstances, many of today’s young may become tomorrow’s well-grounded conservatives. If so, Paul, in increasing the number of the young who experiment with libertarianism, may be recruiting the core of those who eventually protect our democratic institutions from destruction. In other words, let’s hope Paul energizes enough right wing idealists to counteract Obama’s left wing idealists. comments (2) view/post comments March 01, 2012 It seems a bit disingenuous to attack Paul's ideology without pointing out, or engaging with, any specific one of his policies. Is it his support for the strict interpretation of the constitution you disagree with? Or maybe his stance against the series of disastrous wars we have been fighting, or is it his plan to audit and reign in the federal reserve? You are maybe for big government? I certainly do not agree with all of this policies, but yes, because he is 'consistent' he is a known quantity, unlike any of the other candidates. Take Obama, who ran as a liberal, has shown his true colors as basically a neo-con in a liberal's clothing. How can I now that any of the republican candidates wouldn't do the same? Who can tell the substantive difference between the proposed polices of Romney, Gingrich, or Santorum? From a casual perspective they are identical, take your pick of whoever you like personally. Unlike Obama, who promised reform and has done none, I have no doubt Paul would engage in reform from day one. For my money Paul's policies are the best offer among the existing candidates'. Even if I disagree with some of his policies, at least I am under no illusion about what he will do as president because of his consistency. - From a former student who thoroughly enjoyed your classes Political Leadership: Tim Geithner Style by Melvyn_Fein February 20, 2012 10:11 AM \| 4975 views \| 1 1 comments \| 282 282 recommendations \| email to a friend \| print \| permalink A recent interchange between Tim Geithner and Paul Ryan was very illuminating. When congressman Ryan asked the Secretary of the Treasury why president Obama’s budget did not address the growing federal deficit, the latter responded that it did. According to Geithner, the deficit would not be growing as a proportion of the gross domestic product and hence was sustainable. To this Ryan responded with a chart that showed federal expenses would, in fact, grow astronomically during the out years. Amazingly, Geithner agreed with this assessment. He admitted that, as the population aged, the numbers of people dependent upon social security and Medicare would swell to such proportions that the government did not have the resources to meet its pledges. So why, Ryan asked, wasn’t Geithner doing something about this? To this, the secretary answered by admitting that he was only concerned with the next four years. What happens beyond this did not matter to him because he and the president found the Republican suggestions for fixing this problem unacceptable. Now let’s replay that again slowly. The Obama administration’s point man on the economy said that whatever disasters impend after the Democrats leave office are not his affair. He and his president were not going to make any proposals about how to prevent a disaster that they too see coming. What Geithner was saying is that it is up to Republicans to fix what is broken. He is Secretary of the Treasury and Barack is President, but they cannot be expected to provide leadership when a catastrophe impends. Let us for the moment agree that the deficit will not get worse in proportional terms under Democratic stewardship. This assumption is grounded in a rosy economic scenario and a truckload of fiscal gimmicks—but no matter. Let us cinfine ourselves to dealing with the demographic calamity that looms just over the horizon. If there really is such a problem, why aren’t Geithner and his associates doing anything about it? The answer is obvious, and it is the same one that explains why the Democratic Senate has not produced a budget in over three years. Geithner and his friends simply do not want to propose anything that might be politically unpopular. The current administration intends to force the Republicans to be the bad guys. Whatever proposal their opponents make will be demagogued. Geithner knows this. Obama knows this. But they do not care. Their number one priority is re-election—and the nation be damned. Charles Krauthammer has called this a scandal. And he is absolutely right. Krauthammer has argued that Obama is not avoiding leadership because he misunderstands the problem. To the contrary, he too recognizes what is at stake, but the welfare of the nation does not enter his calculations. Geithner’s congressional testimony confirms this. He too knows what is at stake, but blithely dismisses it as not his business. Rather it is that of people who, as of this moment, do not have the power to do anything about it. The question is now: How will the American public respond? My guess is that most people will not even notice. Even though they are the one’s being thrown under the bus, a majority will not perceive their approaching injuries until they are in the hospital. comments (1) view/post comments February 21, 2012 I wonder where Ryan was when Bush was running up $5 trillion in deficits. Barack Obama: Mathematically Challenged by Melvyn_Fein February 16, 2012 10:35 AM \| 4665 views \| 2 2 comments \| 286 286 recommendations \| email to a friend \| print \| permalink The evidence is conclusive. Our president never acquired anything more than the barest rudiments of elementary mathematics. As his latest budget clearly demonstrates, although he learned to add, he never learned to subtract. Our nation faces a budgetary crisis of epic proportions and yet Barack Obama continues to add to our problems. Despite solemn promises to cut our deficit, he does not seem to know how. Our national debt is already climbing toward sixteen trillion and now he proposes to increase this by another eleven trillion. Never mind that we already owe more that our gross domestic product, Obama cannot figure out how to spend fewer dollars. Once more he intends to introduce a massive stimulus. Once more additional monies—we do not have—are to be lavished on shovel-ready construction projects. Barack even intends to buy high-speed trains that few people will ever ride. Like a child at Christmastime, he insists on having his toy train set irrespective of what his parent’s pocketbook can afford. And how about those phantom subtractions that supposedly come from not expending money onAfghanistan. This was money that was never expected to be spent. Obama’s critics have castigated this is no more than smoke and mirrors, but he and his partisans continue to pretend it is real money. No, wait! Barack does know how to subtract. The trouble is he intends to subtract this from others—most notably the rich. His idea of fairness seems to be that his enemies must give to him whatever he wants so that he can continue to be generous with his friends. Come to think of it, Obama may not even have gotten the hang of addition. He has decreed that insurance companies must provide the employees of Catholic institutions with birth control services—for free. Since these are not his funds, they evidently do not count as real expenditures. Apparently the only thing our president knows how to do is multiply. As he has once more proved, every time he is up for election his promises proliferate exponentially. So, unfortunately, will our troubles; that is, when his bills eventually come due. Thomas Sowell has recently reminded us that Theodore Roosevelt boasted of not having studied economics. Nonetheless, Teddy proudly justified his incursions into the marketplace on the grounds that he was serving moral ends. Apparently Barack Obama subscribes to the same school of economics. He too seems to believe that his calculations are moral, and hence not economic. He, therefore, feels free to move numbers around any way he pleases. Yet how moral is it for a politician to impoverish his nation? Ronald Reagan apologized to the navy for comparing profligate congressional spenders to drunken sailors. Perhaps Barack Obama is also drunk on his own good intentions. Perhaps that is the reason his budgetary figures never come into focus. comments (2) view/post comments February 19, 2012 People keep leaving out the fact that a big reason for the large deficits is that we still have the Bush tax cuts. No one mentions that George W. Bush added 6 trillion to the national debt. Ronald Reagan tripled the debt from $1 trillion to $3 trillion. If tax cuts are so magical, why did we plunge into the worst recession since the 1930s at the end of Bush's second term? Obama'stimulus program was temporary, and helped keep the country out of an economic depression. Yes, the projections for how much it would reduce unemployment were overly optimistic. And yes, I would agree that there was some wasted money spent. But the wasted money is minor compared to the big ticket items in the budget. Take defense spending (including two wars.) Remember when Larry Lindsey estimated the cost of the Iraq war at $200 Billion, and he was fired by the Bush administration? Well, even that number was way low. Was he "mathematically challenged" for not getting the estimate right? Was Bush "mathematically challenged" for insisting that Lindsey was way off? They lied to justify the war, including lying about how much it would cost. Obama was criticized by the Republicans for cutting the planned growth of defense spending. Social Security and Medicare are the other two big ticket items. Expenditures for these keep climbing because there are more and more older Americans that qualify for benefits. Despite all the talk, the Republicans who controlled the goverment for 6 years did nothing to address these issues. I'd love to see your budget proposal. Which programs would you cut? I know, you would reduce income taxes to a flat 15% and then the economic growth would result in so much revenue that we would have budget surpluses, right? The Flavor of the Month: Rick Santorum by Melvyn_Fein February 13, 2012 11:03 AM \| 4425 views \| 0 0 comments \| 279 279 recommendations \| email to a friend \| print \| permalink It had to happen! It was Rick Santorum’s turn to rise to the top of the Republican heap. This political season the Republican electorate has been as fickle as the proverbial teenage schoolgirl, so why should it not have turned to kiss yet another frog. (My apologies to my female readers for being so sexist.) The anybody-but-Romney crowd has had this insatiable need to test out every candidate as a substitute for the putative front-runner. The only potential nominee who has not had his turn is Ron Paul, but that too may be coming. As for Santorum, he is a decent sort. Sincere and moral, he is clearly a better choice than Newt Gingrich. And yet, I doubt that he is presidential material. Terminally sanctimonious, and lacking in gravitas, he is well suited to being the class valedictorian, not leader of the free world. My guess is that the electorate is about to discover this. Until now Santorum has been at the far end of the stage—well out of the line of fire. Indeed, not long ago he was complaining that he did not get enough questions during the debates. But this was because few in the audience cared what he thought. Yet times change, and people will be listening more closely. And when they do, they will find a strident moralist who is too hidebound for the position of chief executive. Rick has been demanding absolute conformity to the current conservative orthodoxy in order to burnish his own conservative credentials, but is this what voters really want? Many conservatives do, in fact, seem to be seeking the perfect conservative archetype, but they should realize that even Santorum falls short of this ideal. After all, he was big on earmarks and taking care of the labor unions when he was in congress. It pains me to say this, but a great many of my fellow conservatives are demonstrating a childish idealism of the sort that I have associated with liberals. They say they want a candidate who can get elected, while they keep demanding that whomever they back be the equivalent of politically correct (i.e., with respect to the right side of the political spectrum). Well, let’s leave political correctness for the folks who invented it. We do not need a rigid nominee who can match Barack Obama in ideological purity. What we require is someone who can solve our governmentally created problems. That is what voters should be seeking. That is the standard by which they ought to be measuring the various contenders. comments (0) view/post comments no comments yet .. 2	[]
Skip to navigation \| Skip to content Doppler effect Swing a ringing phone inside a long sturdy sock and you will hear the strangely familiar Doppler effect. Doppler effect Swing a ringing phone inside a long sturdy sock and your audience will here the strangely familiar Doppler effect. (Source: Ruben Meerman/ABC Science) Can't see the video? Download an mp4 [10.4 MB] version of this video. Smart phones are expensive so please take care not to swing yours too close to a wall or a person or inside a sock that's almost worn right through. Other than that, this is a very safe demonstration. You'll need a smart phone with internet access and a long sturdy sock. For safety, measure the sock fully stretched and keep at least that distance away from walls and audience members during your demonstration. On your smart phone, navigate to a free online tone generator such as this one. You can set most online tone generators to any audible frequency you like and you can adjust the volume using the speaker settings on your phone. Put the phone with the tone playing inside the sock and slide it all the way to the toes. Hold the sock firmly and swing the phone around your head. The audience will hear a warbling sound. Stop whirling the sock and the sound is steady. If you are performing the demonstration indoors, you will hear the warble too because the sound is reflected from the surrounding walls. ^ to top What's going on? When a sound source starts moving, the frequency you hear changes. You notice this when a car zooms past or an aeroplane flies overhead. Cars, police sirens and jet engines all produce a consistent sound, but the pitch you hear is higher on approach and lower on retreat. This famous effect is named after Christian Johan Doppler but he first noticed it in starlight, not sound. Light and sound both travel as waves. When a sound source moves, you hear a change in pitch. When a light source such as a star moves, you see a change in colour. The light from a star that is moving away from you is shifted toward the red end of the visible spectrum. A star moving toward you is blue-shifted. The red-shift we observe in the light from nearly every star in the sky is how we know that the universe is expanding in every direction. The fact that light from the further stars is more red-shifted is how we know that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. The proportion by which the frequency of waves is Doppler-shifted depends only on the relative speeds of the source and the observer and for sound, there is a further psychological twist in this tale. To appreciate the 'psychoacoustic' side of this trick, you need to know that the Doppler shift for any given speed is always the same fraction of the emitted sound frequency. You also need to remember that the fraction of a large quantity is always bigger than the same fraction of a smaller quantity (for example, one third of nine is three, but one third of ninety is thirty). So, the higher the frequency, the bigger the Doppler shift will be in absolute terms. Amazingly, however, the human brain perceives the Doppler shift as being equal no matter what the frequency of the emitted sound is. If all this talk of fractions sounds a bit confusing or ethereal, perhaps some solid numbers will help. For a phone swinging at about one revolution per second in a sock that's roughly one metre long, the maths is relatively simple. The phone is travelling at 6.28 metres per second (the circumference of a circle is 2 times pi times the radius, remember?) Half the time, the phone is moving toward a stationary observer's ears, and half the time it's moving away. Sound travels at around 340 metres per second (just over 1200 kilometres per hour) in air at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. If you plug these numbers into Doppler's marvellous equations, you'll see that a 1000 Hertz tone warbles about 37 Hertz from 982 Hertz (about a B5 on a piano keyboard) up to 1018 Hertz (just below the C6). Now wind the tone up to 2000 Hertz, recalculate, and you get a 74 Hertz warble. That's twice the frequency range as before and it warbles from 1963 Hertz (about a B6 on the piano) to 2037 Hertz (just below a C7). The musically minded reader will immediately notice that, in terms of musical notes on a piano, the 'distance' between the lower and higher pitch of both these warbles is the same in both cases. Twice the frequency difference but they are separated by the same distance (or number of keys) on a piano's keyboard. The mathematically AND musically minded reader probably saw (or heard) this surprising result coming several paragraphs ago but the fascinating fact remains. The human perception of sound and universal enjoyment of music are a psycho-mathematical instinct and you can prove it by simply swinging a phone in a sock and crunching some numbers. Kezam! ^ to top Published 10 April 2013 Who is the Surfing Scientist? Ruben's on Twitter The experiMentals The experiMentals ABC Splash	[]
User Settings LAN Parties Upcoming one-time events: Tampa, FL 10/09 Greenbelt, MD 11/06 Regularly scheduled events Report this Comment 21. Re: Op Ed Mar 8, 2013, 13:25 Tumbler At this point I have to question why people bought SimCity in the first place because everyone knew this would happen. Everyone knew it could happen, I don't think anyone thought it would. The way they handled the beta probably didn't give them any real testing of large groups playing for long periods of time. The 1 hour limit effectively minimized the amount of load that the servers would be under as I doubt many people wanted to rebuild a city from scratch every hour. Some did I'm sure but I think that was designed more as a demo with the purpose being to leave people wanting more and then they'd go pre-order. This whole thing stinks of a company doing everything they can to sell the game and the minimum possible to ensure the experience is there to back up the price. Hmm, maybe they should go back to the 1 hour time limit! They seemed to be able to keep it running for an hour! Then maybe push it out to two hours, then three, etc. You could even have the pre-order now page come up and offer to sell people more time so they could get early access to the two hour time limit! 99gamers.com-Game trading site, PC digital trading! Kickstarter "Game Developer"! Login Email Password Remember Me Forgotten your password? Click here. Blue's News logo	[]
Bird's Custard From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Bird's Custard A tin of Bird's Custard powder and prepared custard in a measuring jug Type Custard Place of origin United Kingdom Creator Alfred Bird Main ingredients cornflour, milk Cookbook: Bird's Custard Media: Bird's Custard Bird's Custard was first formulated and first cooked by Alfred Bird in 1837, because his wife was allergic to eggs,[1] the key ingredient used to thicken traditional custard. In some regions, such as Australia and the United Kingdom, the popularity of this type of dessert is such that it is simply known as "custard". In such cases, general usage of the word may be more likely to refer to the "Bird's" custard rather than to the traditional egg-based variety. Bird's Custard and other brands mimicking its composition are also popular in India, where a large portion of the populace follows a vegetarian diet, although ovo-lacto variants are also available. In recent years, "instant" versions (containing powdered milk and sugar and requiring only hot water) and ready-made custard in tins, plastic pots and cartons have also become popular. Brand recognition[edit] A food and drink survey carried out in 2000 found 99% of customers recognised the brand,[citation needed] which accounts for 45% of the custard consumed in the UK.[citation needed] Bird's Custard is also exported to several countries. Bird's Custard can often be found in many popular grocery supermarkets. In addition to the Bird's brand, generic cornflour-based custards are widely available. Until 2009 many Bird's products, such as its instant custard powder, contained hydrogenated vegetable oil, a product now banned in some countries due to health concerns relating to heart disease. Since then all Bird's custards have moved to non-hydrogenated vegetable oil.[2] Alfred Bird and Sons Ltd.[edit] After he discovered his custard was popular, Bird formed Alfred Bird and Sons Ltd. in Birmingham. By 1843, the company was also making the newly invented baking powder and, by 1844, was promoting custard powder nationally. By 1895, the company was producing blancmange powder, jelly powder, and egg substitute. In World War I, Bird's Custard was supplied to the British armed forces. The company was one of the early users of promotional items and colourful advertising campaigns. The famous 'three bird' logo, however, was relatively late in arriving, only introduced in 1929. World War II saw rationing and serious production limits. Shortly after the war, Bird's was purchased by the General Foods Corporation, which was itself taken over by Philip Morris in the 1980s and merged into Kraft Foods. Although the Bird's Custard product remains, the company itself is now just a brand. In late 2004, Kraft sold Bird's Custard and some other Kraft brands to Premier Foods, who are the current owners.[3][4] In 1958, the company acquired Monk and Glass, a rival custard powder manufacturer based in London.[5] The original custard factory has long ceased to exist, but the larger factory Bird's opened in Gibb Street remains (production was relocated to Banbury in 1964, along with the factory gates, featuring the company logo), and has been adapted as the Custard Factory arts centre. In 1981, a dust explosion occurred at the Banbury factory when corn starch powder mixed with air, forming an explosive mixture.[6] Physical properties[edit] Though cooked custard is a weak gel, viscous and thixotropic, a suspension of uncooked custard powder (starch) in water, with the proper proportions, has the opposite rheological property: it is negative thixotropic, or dilatant, which is to say that it becomes more viscous when under pressure. This suspension is termed oobleck and often used in science demonstrations of non-Newtonian fluids. The popular-science programme Brainiac: Science Abuse demonstrated dilatancy dramatically by filling a swimming pool with this mixture and having presenter Jon Tickle walk across it. 1. ^ Mann, M (1973). Workers on the Move: The Sociology of Relocation. CUP Archive. p. 68. ISBN 9780521087018. 2. ^ "Deadly fats: why are we still eating them?". The Independent (London). 10 June 2008. Retrieved 26 April 2010. 3. ^ "Delight as Premier gets the cream of custard", Article dated 9 December 2004, retrieved 14 March 2006. 4. ^ "Premier gobbles up Bird's Custard", Article dated 10 December 2004, retrieved 14 March 2006. 5. ^ 6. ^ "Corn Starch Dust Explosion at General Foods Ltd, Banbury, Oxfordshire – 18th November 1981". Great Britain: January 1983. Occupational Health & Safety Information Service, UK. ISBN 0-11-883673-0 External links[edit]	[]
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natural language processing (NLP) definition The development of NLP applications is challenging because computers traditionally require humans to “speak” to them in a programming language that is precise, unambiguous and highly structured or, perhaps through a limited number of clearly-enunciated voice commands. Human speech, however, is not always precise -- it is often ambiguous and the linguistic structure can depend on many complex variables, including slang, regional dialects and social context. Current approaches to NLP are based on machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence that examines and uses patterns in data to improve a program's own understanding. Most of the research being done on natural language processing revolves around search, especially enterprise search. Common NLP tasks in software programs today include: The advantage of natural language processing can be seen when considering the following two statements: "Cloud computing insurance should be part of every service level agreement" and "A good SLA ensures an easier night's sleep -- even in the cloud." If you use national language processing for search, the program will recognise that cloud computing is an entity, that cloud is an abbreviated form of cloud computing and that SLA is an industry acronym for service level agreement. The ultimate goal of NLP is to do away with computer programming languages altogether. Instead of specialized languages such as Java or Ruby or C, there would only be "human." See also: opinion mining, association rules, IBM Watson supercomputer This was first published in May 2011 Dig Deeper on Text analytics and natural language processing software Forgot Password? Your password has been sent to: File Extensions and File Formats Powered by:	[]
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Memoir... of Madrona Road Memoir by Violet Craft Once upon a time in the windy lands of the Old West a baby girl was born to a rooted father and a gypsy mother. Her father loved her mother very much; but as the wolf needs to roam so does a gypsy. It took a village to raise the wee child. And as she grew she began to raise the village. Alas, the winds called her to seek her soul in the desert, the forests and the sea. She explored and roamed and filled her well deep with knowledge and experience. The little gypsy girl was all grown up and soon she grew weary of the dissonance and longed for a steadfast place to call home. Once again taking to the road she traveled across the land with her trusty sidekick Buster eventually settling in the City of Bridges. The winds had led to her soulmate and during a single moon she fell deeply in love with the robot maker. As the moss grows on trees in Forest Park so did the girl’s roots. After battling an evil giant she vowed never to climb ladders again and once again went in search of her soul. Stitch by stitch she pieced her soul together, sometimes unravelling again and again before she tied all the loose threads together, completing her nest. And in it she placed her two young ducklings. The Princess and her Prince of the Pacific Northwest raised their two in a beautiful castle in the city under the watchful eye of the Griffin. The Princess longed for a simpler life without the troubles of castles and imperial dragon keepers. She began to run, simply so she could slow down. The Prince spent his days engineering the webs of others, dreaming of meads and ales. The country mouse and her prince grew restless in their beautiful city. Onwards to the sea they were beckoned, bringing their brood with them in search of a farmstead; a place to call home, for weary travelers to rest, to listen to the land and create. And so it was to be that the family settled in a little house with a big life on Madrona Road. Follow the smell of hops and barely on the wind, turn left at the donkey by the mailbox and when you see Mrs. Catterson next to the Tulips, you’re home. But heed caution, for goats indeed stand guard, fabric flows deeply, the tap never dries and there’s always room for a good friend. Good night my little ducklings, all in a row. Sweet Dreams.	[]
Reducing SquashFS delta size through partial decompression In a previous article titled ‘using deltas to speed up SquashFS ebuild repository updates’, the author has considered benefits of using binary deltas to update SquashFS images. The proposed method has proven very efficient in terms of disk I/O, memory and CPU time use. However, the relatively large size of deltas made network bandwidth a bottleneck. The rough estimations done at the time proved that this is not a major issue for a common client with a moderate-bandwidth link such as ADSL. Nevertheless, the size is an inconvenience both to clients and to mirror providers. Assuming that there is an upper bound on disk space consumed by snapshots, the extra size reduces the number of snapshots stored on mirrors, and therefore shortens the supported update period. The most likely cause for the excessive delta size is the complexity of correlation between input and compressed output. Changes in input files are likely to cause much larger changes in the SquashFS output that the tested delta algorithms fail to express efficiently. For example, in the LZ family of compression algorithms, a change in input stream may affect the contents of the dictionary and therefore the output stream following it. In block-based compressors such as bzip2, a change in input may shift all the following data moving it across block boundaries. As a result, the contents of all the blocks following it change, and therefore the compressed output for each of them. Since SquashFS splits the input into multiple blocks that are compressed separately, the scope of this issue is much smaller than in plain tarballs. Nevertheless, small changes occurring in multiple blocks are able to grow delta two to four times as large as it would be if the data was not compressed. In this paper, the author explores the possibility of introducing a transparent decompression in the delta generation process to reduce the delta size. Read on… [PDF] One thought on “Reducing SquashFS delta size through partial decompression” Comments are closed.	[]
Write: Lightweight Word-Processing Done Right Getting Started Getting Started Getting Started The interface of Write, at first, looks a whole lot like that of Pages, and that’s because they’re pretty much identical. In the center of the app you have the main area where your pages are located, and above them you have two toolbars, a smaller one with settings related to the font and text formatting; and another where you can find the usual features like printing, opening files or revealing the inspector. Unlike Pages though, Write is a lot more understandable at first sight, and there aren’t many buttons lying around, just a few key ones. That’s where the beauty of Write lies: it’s simple, yet quite functional. It’s also very affordable. Write goes for a mere $5.99 on the App Store. While Write may look like a very simplistic word processor, it actually has plenty of features, they’re just hidden behind certain menus. For example, the “Info” button on the toolbar will bring up a page where you can easily modify certain aspects of your document: change the margins, view document information, modify the header and footers, and have access to a few statistics like the frequency of certain words through the document. The usual stuff that you would expect from an app like this is also included, like spell check, find and replace, and of course, all of the text formatting options that you might need, from fonts and hyperlinks to indentation, lists and tables. A handy toolbar on the bottom gives you quick access to a few of these features, and also displays the words, characters and pages of the document. Write has the ability to save files in a number of formats, including .doc and .pdf, but also as Rich Text Files and Open Office documents, although strangely not as a Pages document. You can also easily print or create a PDF of your document by using one of the dedicated buttons on the menu toolbar. Reading documents of certain files, is a different story, though. Those bullet points where supposed to have text after them Because of all the formats available for word processing documents, the compatibility that these kind of apps have with the files from other file types is pretty important. A word processor is not going to be very useful for you if they always break the original formatting of .doc documents or if they can’t open .pages files. With Pages I wasn’t ever too happy with how it handled files with .doc or .docx extensions (which are arguably the most used file types still), most of the time when they had images or some sort of formatting other than plain text, I would get compatibility errors as soon as I opened the files. In the end the documents would open with only a few differences, and they would still look pretty much identical to the original one. Unfortunately, Write isn’t much different, in fact it’s kind of worse in this area. It can save files in pretty much any popular format available and do so just fine, but at the time of opening files with complex formatting it doesn’t always go so well. I tried opening a bunch of .doc files, and while for the most part they were fine and readable, most of the formatting in them was broken and very far off from the original document. This is one area where Pages shines a lot over this app. Worth It? The Competition Maybe it’s just me and my old-ish slow computer, but I have to think long and hard before opening a .pages or .doc file, because I know that opening Word or Pages is going to take a long time and it’s probably going to have an effect on my computer’s performance. Especially Microsoft’s Office apps, which are very complex and have tons and tons of features that 90% of the time I do not need nor use, and that only end up making the app heavy and slower to load. For being quite a lightweight app, Write doesn’t leave behind features like full screen Lion support or any other primordial features of a word processor. It is missing some stuff, but for the most part it has everything that you might find essential, and you really can’t go wrong with the price. Overall, Write is a very well-done, affordable and simplistic alternative to the popular word processors. If you are only going to be using your processor to occasionally create simple text-based documents, but still want some basic formatting features, then this might be a wise purchase for you instead of going the full way and paying $20 bucks for Pages or even the ridiculous $120 dollars for Office for Mac. For creating documents, Write is an amazing alternative. It’s really stellar if you are only going to be using basic tools for formatting your documents, but as far as replacing Pages or Word and their capability to open documents from other file types, then it falls a bit short. What do you think? Write is a lightweight word processor that mixes the simplicity of minimal text editor, with the power of more complete apps like Pages or Word. • http://sallar.me Sallar Kaboli Does it support RTL languages like Persian (Farsi)? Pages and Bean don’t fully support unicode. Its too bad. • http://4vr.me l1nu5r How much is it different from Bean 3? And Bean 3 is free • tvp can i test it before buying? is there somewhere a demo version? • http://monozoo.com Atanas I got it and it is buggy. The save dialog isn’t working, freezes! And when I try to export pdf freezes too! This application needs some serious patching. • Sigilist Most of the true core that I see in this program can be done in TextEdit, native to at least OSX 10. However, the app does present such core features in a clean and friendly way for the average user. But even at the price it is overpriced, though many common Mac users wouldn’t know that if they don’t step out of the AppStor box (in which Apple decides what is offered). Comparing “Write” to such things as Pages and MS Word isn’t really a comparison… as indicated by your review. That’s a comparison within app category but outside app class/complexity. Anyone can see that without a review. What’s more important is how Write matches up with apps in its own class… and by the price. And if we are to look across class (or level of complexity) there’s a lot of steps along the way (in complexity AND price) between such as Writer, Pages, and MS Word. Bean has already been mentioned, though there are others out there… even free open alternatives to Open Office, Neo Office, etc., etc., that are also cross-platform (if that is useful to some). Give “Write” a real review by comparing it to apps in its class (not just category) to see if it’s really worth the price… or just the only thing people would find in its class if locked in to using the AppStore. Neo Office is actually a sound (and free) alternative, for it offers more than Write and is simpler than MS Word (in visual layout as well). Class AND category is the only truly informative comparison. • Ghostly As always, Sigilist, a rock of common sense. I have tried it and prefer Bean and TextEdit. The biggies mentioned should perhaps include my own favourite, Nisus Writer Pro. I still use Scrivener every day and it does everything I can throw at it. I write for a living so ease of use and quickly getting at my sources, references and stuff I need to include such as links and pdfs and images and videos and …. and … and … are all handled very easily by Scrivener. So, while I like Write it is not really in the class of tools I need as a writer. I felt is was important to mention Scrivener and Nisus Writer Pro in case someone wants to include them in their decision making. On the whole though the crit above is both useful and accurate and other than comparing it to Pages and the others my experience is that it is spot on.	[]
Webcomic: Divine Bells Do red camellias ring any bells? Divine Bellsnote is a Korean webcomic by Lee Hye. It is a Fantasy Drama with a major Quest set in a magical land divided in to countries. The titular bells choose Not really they were controlled/asleep for a long time their own masters and they determine the status, prestige, and influence of the countries their masters rule. The presence or lack of these Bells also has great influence on the political status of each country. In particular, the political future of King Hong-Ryeong seems doomed without a Bell, but at equally great peril if he obtains one. When the owner of three of the eight existing Divine Bells dies, leaving them to choose new owners, the resulting turmoil leads to a race to find the original creator of the Bells in order to gain power over the entire world. This work contains examples of: • Reincarnation: Baek-Yeom seems to have been reincarnated as the first prince of Dae-hyun. Then it turns out to be a red hearing and he actually is the youngest prince. • Royals Who Actually Do Something: Most of the royals are very active in working to gain and maintain power. Some are just not as active as others, others prefer to watch.	[]
NewsApp (Free) Read news as it happens Download NewsApp Available on Rediff News All News » Business » These cars cost a fortune, but. . . These cars cost a fortune, but. . . March 07, 2007 11:10 IST Yes, we know, spending obscene amounts of money on a car, especially one that burns gasoline like barbecues burn lighter fluid, is, well, obscene. Sort of. But we can live with ourselves because not only are we providing a livelihood for hundreds of talented engineers, designers, and craftsmen and their families in Stuttgart, Solihull, Modena, and Crewe, but also because we are keenly alive to the fact that an exceptionally well-made and strikingly beautiful car is no less a work of art than a fine painting. It's also a heck of a lot of fun. Now, of course, we know there are people out there who honestly don't care about what they drive. To these people, a car is a means of transportation. All they want is something that will get them from point A to point B. But these are also often people who plaster "Save the Rainforest" and "I Voted for Kerry" stickers all over their bumpers. You don't plaster anything all over a car that cost six-figures, no matter how compelling the message. It would be like mixing Hawaiian Punch with a 1982 Chateau Margaux. Why So Much? But for most whose hearts have ever leapt at the sight of the lines of a magnificent Italian sports car or whose veins have pulsed with excitement when sitting behind the wheel as the speedometer rapidly ticks over 100 mph, the only reason for not buying that Aston Martin, Lamborghini, or Maserati is pecuniary. No matter how much you might hunger to own a car capable of racing from 0 to 60 in five seconds or less, there's no getting past the sticker price. On top of that, with insurance, maintenance, and gas, keeping an exotic car on the road can cost around $80,000 a year. For some lucky people, including a few readers, I hope, such an expenditure is of no concern. Maybe you've already got the kid's college tuition paid for, as well as the mortgage on your first and second homes, have a balanced portfolio, a great accountant, an understanding spouse, annually support several charities, and currently at least one practical car in the driveway. Why can't you blow some dough on your ultimate dream toy? By this point, you may be wondering just what makes a luxury car so expensive. Is a $350,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom so superior to, say, a Toyota Camry that it should cost roughly 17 times as much? Well, that depends on your point of view, but as anyone who has ever driven, or been driven in, the Phantom can attest the two have about as much in common as a Savile Row suit and a pair of Dockers. Parking Wizard Only 1,000 Rolls are made each year at its relatively new, 100 million factory in Goodwood, Britain, whereas Toyota sold nearly 450,000 Camrys in the U.S. alone last year. Moreover, the Rolls is almost entirely handmade and can be built to the owner's specifications. It also features such state-of-the-art technology as an aluminum space frame body, aluminum panels, composite front fenders, and a modified 6.75 L, 48-valve BMW V12 engine capable of 453 horsepower and 531 ft. lb. of torque, which can accelerate from 0 to 60 in 5.7 seconds. (Not bad for a car that weighs 5,622 lbs.) Inside, the car is upholstered in 450 pieces of leather cut by a computer-guided knife, lamb's wool rugs, and perfectly matched exotic woods. It might not be for everyone and, yes, is a bit on the pricey side. What if you fancy something a little more down to earth? For the 2007 model year, Lexus debuted a never-before-seen feature for its Lexus LS460 L: automatic parallel parking. The NP Navigation sensors detect the position of surrounding cars and the direction of the vehicle's wheels, while a control module power-steers the auto into tight spaces. The LS460 L's base MSRP is $71,000, and this feature is an option for only about $1,200 extra. The carmaker has patented the technology, but expect to see variations on automatic-parking systems appear in other super-luxuries in coming years. While cool gadgets like the LS460's auto-parking technology are one reason people are willing to spend big on high-end cars, there are other factors as well. Despite their size and weight, luxury cars can also be a kick to drive. If you're eyeing a road-rocket like the Koenigsegg CCX -- which can cost around $722,000 -- a luxury car may be too refined for your tastes. But luxury cars, as opposed to sports cars, deliver in terms of both power and performance, and the comfort level is high. A Good, Safe Ride The general rule of thumb is that the more expensive a sedan is, the more comfortable it will be -- especially in the back seat, where most big shots tend to spend their time anyway. (The astonishingly fast Bugatti Veyron, which lacks a back seat, actually has a surprisingly plush interior, but considering it costs around $1 million, that's the least they could do.) Not only is there more leg- and head-room but there are also such amenities as rear-seat entertainment systems and climate controls. While the same may be said of the average minivan, a luxury sedan also can offer sweeteners such as adjustable rear-seats, picnic trays, refrigerators, even champagne-glass dispensers. The Rolls offers pop-out umbrellas stored in the rear door in case of a sudden downpour. Luxury cars also tend to be safer. They're often heavier and come with more standard safety features than moderately-priced cars. (However, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration don't rate most high-end luxury cars because they sell in such low volumes.) Of course, all machines are susceptible to breaking down, and wear and tear -- and cars driven at higher speeds tend to need more time in the shop. Whereas you can just drop your Ford Fusion off at the local dealership and usually be on your way soon after, if your luxury car's spare parts have to be ordered from Britain or Italy, it can take a while and usually costs a lot more. Vanity Factor The main reason for buying a luxury car is, and there's no reason to be ashamed of this, vanity. Successful people take pride in their success. They like to keep up with their neighbors. They get a kick out of tooling up to the valet at the country club in the most gorgeous car in the parking lot and tossing him the key. They don't want to look, or drive, like anyone else. Now the only question left is: Which one should you buy? Depending on where you live, some cars just don't make a whole lot of sense. If you lived in Germany, you could take just about any car you wanted to the autobahn and put it through its paces while the local polizei sit in a nearby cafe munching on strudel. In other parts of the world, however -- notably the U.S. and, increasingly, Britain -- driving 85 mph would land you in traffic court. It's tough to keep a car like a Saleen S7 in first gear while crawling through the traffic on Rodeo Drive or the Long Island Expressway, when it was meant to be driven on a race track. Fortunately, the cars on our list, with the exception of the Veyron, are all as comfortable in rush-hour congestion as they are on an open road. Sort of makes you want to rush out to your nearest luxury auto showroom and go for a test spin, doesn't it? We know that's where we're heading. Douglas MacMillan, BusinessWeek	[]
Sign up × The power comes first through a switch/outlet combo and I need to it take further down to a duplex outlet. The switch will control half the outlet and the other half will always be hot. This is intended to control a garbage disposal (On - Off) from the counter top while the dishwasher stays powered. share\|improve this question Most built-in dishwashers are hard wired using boxes that are part of the unit rather than with plugs. – bib Jul 31 '12 at 14:20 1 Answer 1 If you want to have power always on to a box that is downstream of a switch, you'll need to use 3-conductor cable between the switch and split the hot side of the outlet. At the outlet, break off the tab on the hot side only between the top and bottom outlet. Wire the red conductor to one of the hot screws, the black conductor to the other one, and then the white to the other side of the outlet. At the switch/outlet, you'll need to wire the incoming black wire to one of the hot screws, and the outgoing black wire (to the 3 condutor cable) to the other hot screw. The outgoing red wire (the one controlled by the switch) goes on the neutral side of the switch, and the incoming white wire gets wire-nutted together to the neutral side of the outlet along with the outgoing white wire (from the 3 conductor cable) Be sure to ground all outlets and switches as well. enter image description here With this setup the bottom outlet on the second receptacle, and the outlet on the combo device will always be hot. The top outlet on the second receptacle, will be controlled by the switch. share\|improve this answer There is a good article with wiring diagrams at Ask the Electrician – Tester101 Aug 2 '12 at 16:43 Your Answer	[]
The Safety and Efficacy of the FDA "The more rapid access to drugs on the market enabled by the Prescription Drug User Fee Act saved the equivalent of 180 to 310 thousand life-years BETWEEN 19XX AND XXXX." In virtually all developed countries, regulatory authorities provide public oversight of the safety and efficacy of prescription drugs prior to their being approved for marketing. In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducts such oversight. A central tradeoff facing the FDA involves balancing two goals: fulfilling its mission set by Congress to assure the safety and efficacy of drugs, while at the same time advancing the public health by not slowing down or disabling the innovative process by which new medical products reach the market. Critics argue that the FDA is not taking enough time in evaluating new drugs, thereby allowing unsafe drugs to be marketed; others have argued that the agency is taking too long, therefore inflicting harmful effects on innovative returns and patient welfare. Surprisingly, little quantitative evidence has been put forward to evaluate the degree to which the speed and safety tradeoff facing the FDA is being resolved efficiently. More generally, there seems to be no suggested quantitative methodology or framework for assessing the economic efficiency of the agency's specific tradeoff. Despite the FDA's strict adherence to evidence-based evaluation of products overseen, there is far less evidence of its own safety and efficacy. Put differently, no product application would pass the FDA approval process with the quality and type of evidence that currently exists for evaluating the FDA policies themselves. The welfare consequences of this lack of methodology and systematic evidence may be quite substantial, as t he FDA is estimated to regulate markets accounting for about 20 percent of consumer spending in the United States. In Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of the FDA: The Case of the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts (NBER Working Paper No. 11724), authors Tomas Philipson, Ernst Berndt, Adrian Gottschalk, and Matthew Strobeck estimate the welfare effects of a major piece of legislation affecting this tradeoff, the Prescription Drug User Fee Acts (PDUFA). These acts allowed the agency to charge user-fees to companies while at the same time imposing performance goals on the agency in terms of faster delivery of approval decisions. The authors find that PDUFA raised the private surplus of producers, and thus innovative returns, by about $11 to $13 billion. The authors find that PDUFA raised consumer welfare by between $5 and $19 billion; thus, the combined social surplus was raised by between $18 and $31 billion. Converting these economic gains into equivalent health benefits, the authors find that the more rapid access to drugs on the market enabled by the PDUFA saved the equivalent of 180 to 310 thousand life-years BETWEEN 19XX AND XXXX (or is it for "drugs approved between 19xx and xxxx?). Additionally, the authors estimate an upper bound on the adverse effects of the PDUFA, based on drugs submitted during PDUFA I/II and subsequently withdrawn for safety reasons: they find an extreme upper bound of about 56 thousand life-years lost. Because of the innovative nature of this analysis, the authors offer several cautionary notes. Their methodology only relies on the most common form of data available surrounding the drug approval process, namely, the distribution of approval and withdrawal times of drugs as well as the distribution of sales of the approved drugs. Further, their analysis is based on a number of assumptions and limitations. First, their benefit-cost and social surplus calculations are aggregated over all drug classes. They suggest that further research might fruitfully focus on disaggregating into specific therapeutic areas and "blockbuster" products. Second, this analysis ends with submissions to the FDA by the end of September 30, 2002 and approved by the FDA up through May 2004. It could be useful to update this approval data. Third, the authors limit their study to U.S. sales only. Foreign sales of those drugs that are sold in the United States are typically 75 percent to 100 percent of U.S. sales. The authors' calculations did not incorporate the extent to which accelerated approval in the United States affected international approvals and launch dates. Fourth, to the extent that accelerated FDA approvals resulted in an increase in the duration of patent protection prior to patent expiration, it is possible that the authors' calculations understate producers' benefits from the PDUFA. Two considerations suggest that any such impact is likely to be rather small. First, patent expiration typically takes place 12 or so years following product launch ("effective patent life") and thus, viewed in present value terms at the beginning of PDUFA in 1992, such end-of-product-life benefits are likely to be very small when discounted. Second, under the Hatch-Waxman Act, the maximum amount of time a drug could enjoy market exclusivity was set at 14 years (with possible 6-month extensions for sponsors proving efficacy in the pediatric population). Precisely how many of the drugs in the authors' sample would have run into this exclusivity ceiling is unclear, but the number is likely to be significant. To the extent that this would occur, accelerated FDA approval would no t translate into longer effective patent life. A final limitation of the study is that the authors did not separately analyze so-called "fast track" options of the agency, which are available to speed up the approval of those drugs the agency determines are more important and urgently needed. However, the authors believe that the impact of this omission is likely to be relatively minor: preliminary analyses by several researchers suggest that the differential impact of such options, and of FDA status on approval times, is small and, in some cases, fast track may even lengthen approval times -- Les Picker NBER Videos Contact Us	[]
{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fglasgow-exts -fallow-undecidable-instances -fparr #-} module MO.Base (module MO.Base, Invocant, stubInvocant) where import {-# SOURCE #-} MO.Run import Data.Maybe import Data.Typeable import StringTable.Atom import MO.Capture import GHC.PArr import StringTable.AtomMap as AtomMap -- Codeable is an abstraction of possible different pieces of code that -- a method may use as implementation. It's supposed to be used as member -- of the MethodCompiled structure. A Codeable type need to have a function -- "run" that accepts Arguments and returns some Invocant. -- \| open type to represent Code class Monad m => Codeable m c where run :: c -> Arguments m -> m (Invocant m) -- \| stub code which always return the same newtype NoCode m = NoCode (Invocant m) instance (Typeable (NoCode m), Monad m) => Codeable m (NoCode m) where run (NoCode obj) _ = return obj instance Show (NoCode m) where show _ = "<NoCode>" -- \| Pure code that works with any monad. newtype PureCode = PureCode (forall m. (Typeable1 m, Monad m) => Arguments m -> Invocant m) instance (Typeable1 m, Monad m) => Codeable m PureCode where run (PureCode f) a = return (f a) instance Show PureCode where show _ = "<PureCode>" -- \| Real monadic primitive code. newtype Monad m => HsCode m = HsCode (Arguments m -> m (Invocant m)) instance (Typeable1 m, Monad m) => Codeable m (HsCode m) where run (HsCode f) a = f a instance Show (HsCode m) where show _ = "<HsCode>" -- Arguments represents (surprise) arguments that are passed to methods, -- right now is just a Pugs' Capture type, but could be generalized to a -- class, in case of separating MO "generic" code from Pugs specifics. type Arguments m = Capt (Invocant m) -- This Invocant refers to the same concept as in Perl-esque syntax: -- "foo $moose: $a, $b" which means "$moose.foo($a, $b)". withInvocant :: (Typeable1 m, Monad m) => Arguments m -> Invocant m -> Arguments m withInvocant args x = CaptMeth{ c_invocant = x, c_feeds = c_feeds args } getInvocant :: (Typeable1 m, Monad m) => Arguments m -> Maybe (Invocant m) getInvocant CaptMeth{ c_invocant = x } = Just x getInvocant _ = Nothing namedArg :: (Typeable1 m, Monad m) => Arguments m -> Atom -> Maybe (Invocant m) namedArg args key = foldlP findArg Nothing (c_feeds args) -- Notice that each feed has a Map with the named arguments (given by f_nameds) -- and the values are of type '[:a:]' and not 'a', because of this we get only -- the first one. "(!: 0)" means "(!! 0)" in parallel arrays notation. -- (is getting only the first one right??) findArg Nothing MkFeed{ f_nameds = ns } = fmap (!: 0) (AtomMap.lookup key ns) findArg x _ = x	[]
Saturday, April 5, 2014 Ice take game one from the Tigers As the Ice move on to face the Medicine Hat Tigers in the second round, a few thoughts following Kootenay's 4-2 win Saturday night to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. 1. What a contrast to the first round. A wide-open, edge-of-your-seat, nail-biter - if not always a head-scratcher - that was the Ice-Hitmen series turns to the Game 1 defensive battle against the Tigers that featured - get this - great goaltending! 2. In a surprise start, G Mackenzie Skapski got the nod to start the second round after a less-than-stellar first round that had backup Wyatt Hoflin close out the series with the Hitmen with the final two wins. The Rangers Draft pick was stellar, if not always busy, but when the Tigers pressed in the second period he made the great saves that seemed to elude him in the Calgary series, stopped 28 of 30 shots, not at fault on either goals. 3. Most everyone knew that the Tigers had the edge in goaltending in Marek Langhamer but he was all that was advertised. If not for him and his stopping 38 of 41 shots this one could've got away from the Tigers early. 4. Okay, hands up all of you that put some cash down on the odds that the Ice would get six power play opportunities and go 0-6 and that an Ice 4-2 win would be bereft of any scoring from Reinhart, Descheneau, Franko and Philp. Thought so. 5. Almost thought that the timing of the big line was a little off more than the Tigers doing any better of a job covering the dynamic duo. Although I'd grant the fact that both had very little time and space Saturday night. Hard to believe that they had so much against Calgary. 6. Easy turning point pick tonight as following a terrible shift by the Cable-Martin-McPhee line in their own zone in which the Tigers had numerous chances and hemmed them in for about a minute, at least, Cable was able to poke a puck free at the blueline and head in on a partial breakaway. Martin had the presence of mind to follow up and not change after likely being gassed, but followed up to receive and bury a Cable feed to tie the game at 2 and effectively demoralize the Tigers. 7. A little gooning it up near the end of the game for the Tigers who were frustrated at the lack of calls going their way from the Zebras. They had a beef. On the empty-net goal by Dirk late in the game just three seconds before that Dirk got away with a clear hold on Curtis Valk that caused the turnover and the empty-netter. An errant high-stick about halfway through the 3rd that wasn't called, just prior to a marginal hooking call on the Tigers, had the Tabbies incensed. 8. That being said, the cheap shot by Tigers D Tyler Lewington (My apologies, it was 19-year-old D-man Kyle Becker that ran O'Connor) off the face-off when he steamrolled Kyle O'Connor who didn't see him coming. 19-yr-old Tyler Lewington grabbed 16-yr-old Troy Murray and pummeled him. NC - no class. Doty also fed Vetterl pretty good in the scrum. Who had to actually deal with both Doty and F Chad Labelle, who at one point were both feeding Vetterl as Labelle looked for anyone to spar with. UPDATE - As per the league has suspended Tiger F Jacob Doty, 20, for one game following the melee last night. 9. By not playing their best game, and having their top guys not hit the scoresheet, Kootenay still managed to gut-out a win in the Arena in the Hat and steal home-ice. If Skapski's found his game and the depth is starting to score, it's only a matter of time before the big line scores. Let's see if Kootenay can keep up the good play for game two. 10. Gotta like the applause late in the game for the Tigers tactics by Ice coach Ryan McGill. For those who remember he wasn't exactly a shrinking violet when he played - a start contrast to the way his club plays this season - and I'm sure he would've dealt with the shenanigans in a slightly more aggressive way. You can't argue with the success the club is having in these playoffs but examples like the one late last night can really get the blood boiling. There isn't a lot of players on the Ice roster that fit the mould of a 'tough guy'. Save for Jon Martin, who can throw with the best of them, but the roster is pretty bare of players like that. I was surprised Jordan Steenburgen didn't get into the fracus in a more meaningful way but really, icing a line-up that again is short of the 18 skaters (they had 17, once again for the 6th straight game following the injury to D Tyler King that the club couldn't ice a full line-up). That dictates that suspensions and injuries are a real concern. Oh sometimes I do yearn for the days of yore..... Game two goes Sunday night at 6pm in the Hat. Highlites from Game 1 are up and are here. 11. Shout out to the Cranbrook FOE Peewee AA Eagles who won the South Central Alberta Hockey League Peewee Championship a week ago Friday in a 9-6 decision over the Bow Valley Timberwolves to claim the title in three straight games. The Shawn Byram-Coached Eagles (Regina, Prince Albert, WHL - 1984-88), accomplished what no other Cranbrook-based Peewee team has been able to do and that's win a SCAHL Peewee Banner, having joined that league in 2007-08. The Eagles, who are a Tier 2 club in BC, won the championship coming off a heart-breaking 6-4, empty-net goal loss to Burnaby Winter Club at the BC Hockey Tier 1 Provincial Championships.The club moved up to the Tier 1 Division for provincials where most gave them little chance for success. It's safe to say there hasn't been a local club this successful since the Cranbrook Bantam Eagles, backstopped by Goaltender Cam Ondrik, won the BC AAA Provincial crown in 1995 and before that when the Niedermayer brothers, Scott and Rob, won Peewee and Bantam AAA Provincial Banners in 1988-89. Anonymous said... ad Doty to the NC no class club with Lewington apparently Doty is the league tough guy and he still jumps/blindsides Vetterl both will get what's coming to them one day hope they dont cry thought there was a hockey code when it happens Anonymous said... Its a shame how the lack of talent within the ranks of WHL referees truely sets the tone for how kids play the game. The risks associated to poor or lack of any calls is clear proof beyond any doubt of how THE LEAGUE does not care for what happens on the ice. The WHL commisioner is a joke as fans complaints fall upon deaf ears. Where in the world of Canadian sports, especially hockey, does the Criminal Code of Canada loose juristiction? OUT OF CONTROL and senseless poor sportsmanship IS NOT what innocent youth in the stands need to witness. Anonymous said... Doty is a goon yes, he does protect the smaller guys like Valk and Cox. When they are tackled(5 seconds earlier) no calls, ref let this game get out of hand. Anonymous said... No mention that there is nothing about the elbow to the head to Stantons head from some Ice player last night. Anonymous said... Doty is a goon yes but acting like he and Lewington did last night will force fighting out of hockey.Where will they be than Anonymous said... just read the whl page Doty got a 1 game suspension for his class act should have been more but at least the league watched all replays including supposed tackles and elbows and only suspended 1 guy for crossing the line dengel2002 said... This commentary of the actual game is by far the best narrative I have ever read. Its as if I was watching the game over again. Also rather funny of Mcgills showmanship with all the clapping. U r correct that in Ryans playing days of old an opposing player would have been tasting some lumber or appendectomy. Game within the game I guess. The winning team of this series will whomever has the most secondary scoring.	[]
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Follow by Email Search This Blog Friday, June 1, 2012 Writing the Stuff that Falls through the Cracks (Puke, Dirty Dishes, Poop, etc.) Every once in a while I read an interview that delights me cerebrally, aesthetically, and everywhere in between, plus also makes me slow down, scribble down memorable quotes, re-read the revelatory insights ... and also makes me laugh. Rachel Zucker, Matthew Rohrer, & Wayne Koestenbaum conduct just this sort of interview, which is ostensibly about the Domestic in Poetry, but also about, well, cocks behind the couch, forbidden subjects (dreams, the price of a haircut, fingernail clipping, though maybe not), and also about Coleridge's thoughts on the imagination (vs. fancy), and also about the Accounters: Ben Franklin, HD Thoreau, and Tennyson with his minuitae-crammed (pill-taking log) notebooks. I loved this quote by Matt Rohrer, regarding why he started writing about the day-to-day, "boring" stuff: It's the most debased form of talking about yourself. That made me more willing to do it actually, because everybody hates it. And I loved what Koestenbaum has to say about the non-poetic-ness of some poems (or the left-out stuff of some very famously transcendent poems: So much stuff falls between the cracks of literature, stuff that has nothing to do with imagination or fancy. That stuff, the untransformed, factual, forbidden, raw material -- I want to side with the prurient details that stimulate my curiosity. He also talks about how some poets just can't put the unseemly (dirty laundry, dust bunnies, potty training) into their poems. Just Can't . This is because they feel that writing a poem is like putting on your Sunday best, pulling out your special bone China words and your crystalline clauses. I think I gave that notion the finger when I was in high school -- I just wasn't going to get very interested in the Romantics because I'd already had a taste of Ginsberg's junk mail list poem. I was ruined. Ginsberg was my gateway into more and more of the toe-jamb and the lint and the dandruff. I wasn't going to be serving up my poesy on fucking SPODE. Which is probably why I have recently decided that I need to lay off the domestic. It wasn't exactly conscious. What happened was: my kids got older. They feed themselves! No more bibs! They don't take my keys and hide them in the pansies! They are, in fact, in school six hours every weekday. So, lucky me, I've been reading about Neanderthals, early Catholicism, Sicilian history, The Sistine Chapel, the Roman Empire, Kepler, and not writing much at all about spit-up or mashed peas. I don't want to share grocery lists or talk about the pretzel crumbs on the rug right now -- and it feels very liberating to not have to make those my subjects because I now have time to put stuff in my poems that I've read. But here's the thing. After working all day on a poem in the voice of the Mona Lisa, I head down to my favorite pinball arcade, where they also serve Full Tilt ice cream, which is made right here in Seattle (in White Center, where Richard Hugo used to live when he worked at Boeing, long before he was in Missoula), and I have to pull out my notebook to take notes about the names of the ice cream, the game I'm playing (Simpsons!), and the lady who walks in asking where she can purchase vacuum cleaner bags. Okay, I'm not exactly in my HOME, but you get the picture -- the stuff of life. The mundane. The opposite of writing about the Sistine Chapel. Rachel reminded me of why I likely keep being drawn back to writing about my kids, about the hard parts of being a parent. She says: Nobody told me that being a woman, a wife, a mother, a human being, was going to feel like this, was going to involve so much drudgery, so much unremitting… so much “Do I have a high enough pain threshold for this?” It is intolerable to me to that I would write a kind of poetry which didn’t include who is taking care of the children right now, what’s happening to the body, why am I so fucking tired. I think it's that same kind of intolerance for spit-shining a poem's content, for hauling out all the crookedly-hung pictures (our house is full of them; our kids' friends ask why they're crooked, and I tell them because we are busy writing, not making sure our house is tidy) before sitting down to write a poem. It just bugs me, as it bugs Rachel, that in movies with parents who have kids, there's no CARE GIVER in the movie. Where is the fucking babysitter or grandma or girl from down the street fixing meals and helping the kids brush their teeth while the mom is off helping to train Secretariat!??! Sometimes it get to this point where I regret that I haven't written about every single thing my kids have said, every fight they've had, every situation where I am ready to lose it, for instance when I hear one of them exclaim "I wish [insert name of sibling] was dead!" But also the awesome stuff like my son knowing all this Spanish and asking us last week if we could go to Mexico on our next vacation. As I am tucking them into bed, or as I reading aloud a book about a hamster named Humphrey, I am not actually hearing the words but instead making a promise to myself that when they are both finally asleep I am going to head straight to my desk and begin a poem about the rabbit named Mystery who ended up on school property and was taken home for a sleepover with the principal. But then I fall asleep, don't write that poem, and instead write the poem about parallax and the Venus transit. But then today I was thinking, after reading that one of Wayne's teachers told him he should stop writing about his dreams, I need to start mining my dreams again! Last night I dreamed Billy Collins called me -- he was accepted some of my poems for a prestigious magazine -- but if I wrote that poem I'd have to have Billy calling me to invite me to a helium convention or to go wake boarding with me ... cuz talk about forbidden subjects! Even more than writing about money, it's really, really gauche to share details about acceptance/rejection of poems. And that's funny because I bet it's on the minds of 90% of poets who are seriously trying to get their foot in the poetry door, and yet: completely taboo to share, which is another reason why you should read this interview, cuz they discuss the whole taboo thing really well. And it also got me thinking about this list I was lucky enough to see a few years' ago when a Da Vinci exhibit came to the Seattle Art Museum. It was a handwritten grocery list. I wrote it all down, but the notebook is in storage. It was incredible. Of course it included red wine. In some ways I can appreciate that sepia-toned list almost as much as, well, not the Mona Lisa, but maybe some of his more auspicious drawings, like the one for a flying machine. So here I am, drawn to the domestic, in a kind of battle with the domestic, but actually maybe more pendulum swinging with the Spode and the cat piss. Anyway, great interview -- thanks to The Believer for pubbing it.	[]
Collapse The Light Into Earth Stampa \| Correggere I won't shiver in the cold I won't let the shadows take their toll I won't cover my head in the dark And I won't forget you when we part Collapse the Light Into Earth I won't heal given time I won't try to change your mind I won't feel better in the cold light of day But I wouldn't stop you if you wanted to stay Collapse the Light Into Earth Valutazione: 8.33/10 - 6 voti italian dreamer 2010-10-14 11:21	[]
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Combustible Celluloid Get the Poster Stream it: Download at i-tunes iTunes Own it: Download at i-tunes Download on iTunes Search for streaming: NetflixHuluGoogle PlayGooglePlayCan I With: Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Justin Long, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Chris Pratt, Ari Graynor, Aaron Yoo, Kate Mara, Lynn Collins, Anthony Mackie, Rosario Dawson, Ron Livingston, Aubrey Plaza, Daniel Scott Lumpkin Jr., Lily Lumpkin, Scott Porter, Eiko Nijo, Mike Miller, Brian Geraghty, Kelly Noonan Written by: Jamie Linden Directed by: Jamie Linden MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language, alcohol abuse, some sexual material and drug use Running Time: 100 Date: 09/01/2011 10 Years (2012) 2 1/2 Stars (out of 4) Reunion Revelations By Jeffrey M. Anderson I happened to go to my own high school reunion just weeks before seeing 10 Years. Mine had a few more years attached to it, but it had the same dynamic. You want to return, making all those people from that awkward time of life think that you're a success, and maybe fulfill that old-time romantic longing for some forgotten high school flame. But none of that really happens. The only thing that actually does happen is that the jock that once picked on you buys you a drink. In any case, my emotional commitment to this movie was much higher than most normal viewers' might be -- and I still found it to be mostly facile and routine, though not without its good parts. So if you haven't actually been to a high school reunion recently, don't bother to see this. But if you have, check it out and remember that it's a pure fantasy. Channing Tatum, who, this year, has suddenly become an interesting actor rather than a lump of pretty-boy flesh, could be the lead, though it's really an ensemble. He plays Jake, who is dating the gorgeous Jess (Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Channing's real-life wife). Yet he still can't stop thinking about his high school sweetheart Mary (Rosario Dawson). Jake has a pretty decent character arc, wherein he sees Mary, speaks to her, and realizes that fantasy romance is no match for real life. In other, less interesting subplots, two idiots, Marty (Justin Long) and A.J. (Max Minghella) become fascinated with the gorgeous Anna (Lynn Collins), and unexpectedly learn what her real life is like, rather than the glorious party girl that made an appearance at the reunion. Ari Graynor plays Sam, who realizes that she is married to the school asshole, Cully (Chris Pratt); he spends the entire reunion getting smashed and trying to make it up to all the nerds he once picked on. He only makes it worse. Moving down the ranks, Garrity (Brian Geraghty) brings his girlfriend Olivia (Aubrey Plaza) to the reunion, and she learns that he liked to act "black" in high school, complete with break dancing. The character arc goes like this: she thinks it's weird, and then she accepts it. Yawn. Finally, and least of all, we have Reeves (Oscar Isaac), who has become an actual pop star and for some reason comes back to his reunion. He plays his hit song for his fellow students, and a long-lost crush (Kate Mara) learns that the song was written for her. Perhaps even worse, the talented Anthony Mackie plays the school's token black character who has no story arc at all, except that he once tried to settle down with someone and "it didn't take." Writer and director Jamie Linden has two other major screenplay credits, both of them among the worst movies of the past decade: We Are Marshall (2006) and Dear John (2010). Thankfully, this one isn't that bad. At least, in making his directorial debut, Linden has drawn a talented and attractive cast. He also makes a wise decision by having his cast drinking and/or drunk throughout the entire movie. The audience would do well to do the same. Help keep Combustible Celluloid going! At Step 2 of checkout!!	[]
Address at Commencement Exercises at the University of Notre Dame May 17, 1981 Father Hesburgh, I thank you very much and for so many things. The distinguished honor that you've conferred upon me here today, I must say, however, compounds a sense of guilt that I have nursed for almost 50 years. I thought the first degree I was given was honorary. [Laughter] But it's wonderful to be here today with Governor Orr, Governor Bowen, Senators Lugar and Quayle, and Representative Hiler, these distinguished honorees, the trustees, administration, faculty, students, and friends of Notre Dame and, most important, the graduating class of 1981. Nancy and I are greatly honored to share this day with you, and our pleasure has been more than doubled because I am also sharing the platform with a longtime and very dear friend, Pat O'Brien. Pat and I haven't been able to see much of each other lately, so I haven't had a chance to tell him that there is now another tie that binds us together. Until a few weeks ago I knew very little about my father's ancestry. He had been orphaned at age 6. But now I've learned that his grandfather, my great-grandfather, left Ireland to come to America, leaving his home in Ballyporeen, a village in County Tipperary in Ireland, and I have learned that Ballyporeen is the ancestral home of the O'Briens. Now, if I don't watch out, this may turn out to be less of a commencement than a warm bath in nostalgic memories. Growing up in Illinois, I was influenced by a sports legend so national in scope, it was almost mystical. It is difficult to explain to anyone who didn't live in those times. The legend was based on a combination of three elements: a game, football; a university, Notre Dame; and a man, Knute Rockne. There has been nothing like it before or since. My first time to ever see Notre Dame was to come here as a sports announcer, 2 years out of college, to broadcast a football game. You won or I wouldn't have mentioned it. [Laughter] A number of years later I returned here in the company of Pat O'Brien and a galaxy of Hollywood stars for the world premiere of ``Knute Rockne -- All American'' in which I was privileged to play George Gipp. I've always suspected that there might have been many actors in Hollywood who could have played the part better, but no one could have wanted to play it more than I did. And I was given the part largely because the star of that picture, Pat O'Brien, kindly and generously held out a helping hand to a beginning young actor. Having come from the world of sports, I'd been trying to write a story about Knute Rockne. I must confess that I had someone in mind to play the Gipper. On one of my sports broadcasts before going to Hollywood, I had told the story of his career and tragic death. I didn't have very many words on paper when I learned that the studio that employed me was already preparing a story treatment for that film. And that brings me to the theme of my remarks. I'm the fifth President of the United States to address a Notre Dame commencement. The temptation is great to use this forum as an address on a great international or national issue that has nothing to do with this occasion. Indeed, this is somewhat traditional. So, I wasn't surprised when I read in several reputable journals that I was going to deliver an address on foreign policy or on the economy. I'm not going to talk about either. But, by the same token, I'll try not to belabor you with some of the standard rhetoric that is beloved of graduation speakers. For example, I'm not going to tell you that ``You know more today that you've ever known before or that you will ever know again.'' [Laughter] The other standby is, ``When I was 14, I didn't think my father knew anything. By the time I was 21, I was amazed at how much the old gentleman had learned in 7 years.'' And then, of course, the traditional and the standby is that ``A university like this is a storehouse of knowledge because the freshmen bring so much in and the seniors take so little away.'' [Laughter] You members of the graduating class of 18 -- or 1981 -- [laughter] -- I don't really go back that far -- [laughter] -- are what behaviorists call achievers. And while you will look back with warm pleasure on your memories of these years that brought you here to where you are today, you are also, I know, looking at the future that seems uncertain to most of you but which, let me assure you, offers great expectations. Take pride in this day. Thank your parents, as one on your behalf has already done here. Thank those who've been of help to you over the last 4 years. And do a little celebrating; you're entitled. This is your day, and whatever I say should take cognizance of that fact. It is a milestone in life, and it marks a time of change. Winston Churchill, during the darkest period of the ``Battle of Britain'' in World War II said: ``When great causes are on the move in the world . . . we learn we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.'' Now, I'm going to mention again that movie that Pat and I and Notre Dame were in, because it says something about America. First, Knute Rockne as a boy came to America with his parents from Norway. And in the few years it took him to grow up to college age, he became so American that here at Notre Dame, he became an All American in a game that is still, to this day, uniquely American. As a coach, he did more than teach young men how to play a game. He believed truly that the noblest work of man was building the character of man. And maybe that's why he was a living legend. No man connected with football has ever achieved the stature or occupied the singular niche in the Nation that he carved out for himself, not just in a sport, but in our entire social structure. Now, today I hear very often, ``Win one for the Gipper,'' spoken in a humorous vein. Lately I've been hearing it by Congressmen who are supportive of the programs that I've introduced. [Laughter] But let's look at the significance of that story. Rockne could have used Gipp's dying words to win a game any time. But 8 years went by following the death of George Gipp before Rock revealed those dying words, his deathbed wish. And then he told the story at halftime to a team that was losing, and one of the only teams he had ever coached that was torn by dissension and jealousy and factionalism. The seniors on that team were about to close out their football careers without learning or experiencing any of the real values that a game has to impart. None of them had known George Gipp. They were children when he played for Notre Dame. It was to this team that Rockne told the story and so inspired them that they rose above their personal animosities. For someone they had never known, they joined together in a common cause and attained the unattainable. We were told when we were making the picture of one line that was spoken by a player during that game. We were actually afraid to put it in the picture. The man who carried the ball over for the winning touchdown was injured on the play. We were told that as he was lifted on the stretcher and carried off the field he was heard to say, ``That's the last one I can get for you, Gipper.'' Now, it's only a game. And maybe to hear it now, afterward -- and this is what we feared -- it might sound maudlin and not the way it was intended. But is there anything wrong with young people having an experience, feeling something so deeply, thinking of someone else to the point that they can give so completely of themselves? There will come times in the lives of all of us when we'll be faced with causes bigger than ourselves, and they won't be on a playing field. This Nation was born when a band of men, the Founding Fathers, a group so unique we've never seen their like since, rose to such selfless heights. Lawyers, tradesmen, merchants, farmers -- 56 men achieved security and standing in life but valued freedom more. They pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. Sixteen of them gave their lives. Most gave their fortunes. All preserved their sacred honor. They gave us more than a nation. They brought to all mankind for the first time the concept that man was born free, that each of us has inalienable rights, ours by the grace of God, and that government was created by us for our convenience, having only the powers that we choose to give it. This is the heritage that you're about to claim as you come out to join the society made up of those who have preceded you by a few years, or some of us by a great many. This experiment in man's relation to man is a few years into its third century. Saying that may make it sound quite old. But let's look at it from another viewpoint or perspective. A few years ago, someone figured out that if you could condense the entire history of life on Earth into a motion picture that would run for 24 hours a day, 365 days -- maybe on leap years we could have an intermission -- [laughter] -- this idea that is the United States wouldn't appear on the screen until 3\1/2\ seconds before midnight on December 31st. And in those 3\1/2\ seconds not only would a new concept of society come into being, a golden hope for all mankind, but more than half the activity, economic activity in world history, would take place on this continent. Free to express their genius, individual Americans, men and women, in 3\1/2\ seconds, would perform such miracles of invention, construction, and production as the world had never seen. As you join us out there beyond the campus, you know there are great unsolved problems. Federalism, with its built in checks and balances, has been distorted. Central government has usurped powers that properly belong to local and State governments. And in so doing, in many ways that central government has begun to fail to do the things that are truly the responsibility of a central government. All of this has led to the misuse of power and preemption of the prerogatives of people and their social institutions. You are graduating from a great private, or, if you will, independent university. Not too many years ago, such schools were relatively free from government interference. In recent years, government has spawned regulations covering virtually every facet of our lives. The independent and church-supported colleges and universities have found themselves enmeshed in that network of regulations and the costly blizzard of paperwork that government is demanding. Thirty-four congressional committees and almost 80 subcommittees have jurisdiction over 439 separate laws affecting education at the college level alone. Almost every aspect of campus life is now regulated -- hiring, firing, promotions, physical plant, construction, recordkeeping, fundraising and, to some extent, curriculum and educational programs. I hope when you leave this campus that you will do so with a feeling of obligation to your alma mater. She will need your help and support in the years to come. If ever the great independent colleges and universities like Notre Dame give way to and are replaced by tax-supported institutions, the struggle to preserve academic freedom will have been lost. We're troubled today by economic stagnation, brought on by inflated currency and prohibitive taxes and burdensome regulations. The cost of stagnation in human terms, mostly among those least equipped to survive it, is cruel and inhuman. Now, after those remarks, don't decide that you'd better turn your diploma back in so you can stay another year on the campus. I've just given you the bad news. The good news is that something is being done about all this because the people of America have said, ``Enough already.'' You know, we who had preceded you had just gotten so busy that we let things get out of hand. We forgot that we were the keepers of the power, forgot to challenge the notion that the state is the principal vehicle of social change, forgot that millions of social interactions among free individuals and institutions can do more to foster economic and social progress than all the careful schemes of government planners. Well, at last we're remembering, remembering that government has certain legitimate functions which it can perform very well, that it can be responsive to the people, that it can be humane and compassionate, but that when it undertakes tasks that are not its proper province, it can do none of them as well or as economically as the private sector. For too long government has been fixing things that aren't broken and inventing miracle cures for unknown diseases. We need you. We need your youth. We need your strength. We need your idealism to help us make right that which is wrong. Now, I know that this period of your life, you have been and are critically looking at the mores and customs of the past and questioning their value. Every generation does that. May I suggest, don't discard the time-tested values upon which civilization was built simply because they're old. More important, don't let today's doomcriers and cynics persuade you that the best is past, that from here on it's all downhill. Each generation sees farther than the generation that preceded it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You're going to have opportunities beyond anything that we've ever known. The people have made it plain already. They want an end to excessive government intervention in their lives and in the economy, an end to the burdensome and unnecessary regulations and a punitive tax policy that does take ``from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.'' They want a government that cannot only continue to send men across the vast reaches of space and bring them safely home, but that can guarantee that you and I can walk in the park of our neighborhood after dark and get safely home. And finally, they want to know that this Nation has the ability to defend itself against those who would seek to pull it down. And all of this, we the people can do. Indeed, a start has already been made. There's a task force under the leadership of the Vice President, George Bush, that is to look at those regulations I've spoken of. They have already identified hundreds of them that can be wiped out with no harm to the quality of life. And the cancellation of just those regulations will leave billions and billions of dollars in the hands of the people for productive enterprise and research and development and the creation of jobs. The years ahead are great ones for this country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West won't contain communism, it will transcend communism. It won't bother to dismiss or denounce it, it will dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written. William Faulkner, at a Nobel Prize ceremony some time back, said man ``would not only [merely] endure: he will prevail'' against the modern world because he will return to ``the old verities and truths of the heart.'' And then Faulkner said of man, ``He is immortal because he alone among creatures . . . has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.'' One can't say those words -- compassion, sacrifice, and endurance -- without thinking of the irony that one who so exemplifies them, Pope John Paul II, a man of peace and goodness, an inspiration to the world, would be struck by a bullet from a man towards whom he could only feel compassion and love. It was Pope John Paul II who warned in last year's encyclical on mercy and justice against certain economic theories that use the rhetoric of class struggle to justify injustice. He said, ``In the name of an alleged justice the neighbor is sometimes destroyed, killed, deprived of liberty or stripped of fundamental human rights.'' For the West, for America, the time has come to dare to show to the world that our civilized ideas, our traditions, our values, are not -- like the ideology and war machine of totalitarian societies -- just a facade of strength. It is time for the world to know our intellectual and spiritual values are rooted in the source of all strength, a belief in a Supreme Being, and a law higher than our own. When it's written, history of our time won't dwell long on the hardships of the recent past. But history will ask -- and our answer determine the fate of freedom for a thousand years -- Did a nation borne of hope lose hope? Did a people forged by courage find courage wanting? Did a generation steeled by hard war and a harsh peace forsake honor at the moment of great climactic struggle for the human spirit? If history asks such questions, it also answers them. And the answers are to be found in the heritage left by generations of Americans before us. They stand in silent witness to what the world will soon know and history someday record: that in the [its] third century, the American Nation came of age, affirmed its leadership of free men and women serving selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity at peace. A few years ago, an Australian Prime Minister, John Gorton, said, ``I wonder if anybody ever thought what the situation for the comparatively small nations in the world would be if there were not in existence the United States, if there were not this giant country prepared to make so many sacrifices.'' This is the noble and rich heritage rooted in great civil ideas of the West, and it is yours. My hope today is that in the years to come -- and come it shall -- when it's your time to explain to another generation the meaning of the past and thereby hold out to them their promise of the future, that you'll recall the truths and traditions of which we've spoken. It is these truths and traditions that define our civilization and make up our national heritage. And now, they're yours to protect and pass on. I have one more hope for you: when yoy do speak to the next generation about these things, that you will always be able to speak of an America that is strong and free, to find in your hearts an unbounded pride in this much-loved country, this once and future land, this bright and hopeful nation whose generous spirit and great ideals the world still honors. Congratulations, and God bless you. Note: The President spoke at 3:11 p.m. at the 136th commencement ceremony of the university, which was held in the Notre Dame Athletic and Convocation Center at the campus in South Bend, Ind. The President was introduced by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the university, who had presented the President with an honorary doctor of laws degree prior to the commencement address. In his remarks, the President referred to Governor Robert Orr, former Governor Otis R. Bowen, Senators Richard G. Lugar and Dan Quayle, and Representative John P. Hiler, all of Indiana. The President also referred to the movie ``Knute Rockne -- All American,'' which was filmed at Notre Dame in 1940. The President played the part of All American halfback George Gipp, who died of pneumonia. The occasion marked the first trip by the President outside of Washington, D.C., since the assassination attempt on March 30. Four former Presidents -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald R. 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Skip to main content About your Search KRON (MyNetworkTV) 3 ( more ) English 111 Search Results 0 to 49 of about 111 (some duplicates have been removed) . >> richard ruth was interviewed about his book "in buddha's company" at the u.s. naval academy. this is part of book tv's college series and it's a little under 15 minutes. >> host: book tvs on location at the u.s. naval academy in a aanapolis. professor ruth, what do you teach? >> guest: i teach southeast asian history. i concentrate on tie lan and vietnam. >> host: why is it important for students to know southeast asian history. >> guest: united states is still very much engaged in that corner of the worldment we have many alis and partners we're working with, and many students, midshipman, are going to be officers who are going to go to southeast asia and represent our interests there. so i think it's important for them to know southeast asian history to be comfortable with the culture and have some knowledge of their history. >> host: well, professor ruth. one of our long-time allies is thigh taken, and you have written a book called "in buddha's company: thai sole soldiers in the vietnam war." what role did they play? >> guest: thailand was a close ally of the united states during the . permanent military professor at the u.s. naval academy. what does that title mean. >> guest: well, we represent the permanent military professors, a hybrid, a joining of the professor officer corps and professor and the professional educators here at the naval academy. i spent the first half of a naval career flying aircraft for the u.s. navy, and about ten years ago made the transition to academia, where the navy provided an outstanding opportunity to go back to graduate school and get a specialty in a geographic part of the world where i specialize in middle eastern history. >> host: and now an author. "the politics and security of the gulf" is the numb of your book. that's kind of a big topic. >> guest: it is. it's part of the world where the united states has been involved in three hot wars in the past generation, the iran-iraq war, desert shield, desert storm, and operation iraqi freedom. it's a big topic, and it needs to be discussed, and investigated, which is part of the reason why we took on this topic. >> host: in your book, where do you begin talking about u.s. involvement antiseminism and -- the gnat disifm which implicated grerm any and many other nations. europe and the u.s. until very recently liked to think that the dark times were in the past. and that religious violence was somewhere else. in society's more allegedly primitive, less characterized by heritage of christian values. today we have many reasons to doubt that come complacent self-assessment. it calls for critical self-examination as we try to uncover the roots of ugly fears and suspicious that currently disfigure all western democrats. in april 2011, a law took affect in france according to which it is illegal to cover the face in any public space from parks to marketplaces to shops. although the law does not mention the words women, muslim, boar can, or even israelied, it was introduced by president as a ban on muslim vailing which according to him imprisons women and threatens french values of dignity and equality. the new law rear renders. have adopted some type of restriction. on april 28, 2011, the belgium voted far similar ban although the law is expected to be challenged before the c on your immigration status and length of time in the u.s., you may be eligible for federal benefit programs and it goes through a long lit any and it is long and a lot of money. >> it is unfortunate. immigrants are treasures the arrival of each one makes us more american because it signifies. >> if they are here to work. >> absolutely. it is it the last thing you want to do is offer them hand out to come here. that insures that you get a lower quality person coming here. we want to attract those who want to come here and achieve. >> steve, that is it the problem. i would say the overwhelming number of immigrantsome here to work there are some that is drawn like in europe. offering the benefits. and they ca just for the befits. >> yeah, unfortunately john is right. most immigrants want to get ahead as lincoln put it and improve your on lot in life. this is about the citizenry and occupiants of the country, they want to subvert us and make us independent and that means votes for the center. we see what is happening in europe with they do that. >> rick, we have a list of all of those mentioned the port of oaklandnd six percent of all u.s. goods. that is the union's point to cause disruption and hurt the economy. and i tell you, they have every right to strike but the employers have the rht to kick the ass to the curve. a job is a mutually agreeable trade. employers offering a job and if they don't like hit the brickings. >> do you think it is bador the economy over all. we are in a fiscal cliff and rough waters here and now this to deal with? >> i think it could be bad for the econy. they have the merchandise and this is not going to affect thanksgiving shopping season and christmas most likely. but look at history. 1948 we had five million workers on strike and it crippled the economy. the taft hartley act brought back the boom. that is it breaking of the unions and created the boom that eisenhower had. if these union heads go forward. this could hurt the economy. >> tracey, you made the point about the retailers, it could hurt the consumer spending as well the economy needs that right now. and economist looking to the holiday shopping season to get big numbers out. >> difficult to deal with? why is the u.s. a decade into the war unable to go on patrol with afghans? >> one of the reasons is geographical. if you look at this relief map here, the border between afgh afghanistan and pakistan is very artificial. i've crossed the border many times. every time illegally. and the mountains that descend from the high table land of central asia to the steamy in this river valley, it's a very gradual descent. it's the same indough-islamic civilization on both sides of the border. so the sides that the u.s. military and diplomatic core is going to make two separate well functioning states out of it is somewhat adverse to geology. >> what's really going on, we tlinch are good guys and bad guys but there are guys the pakistans supports, the guys that india has sup pored, the russia has intended -- >> india is a big player here, fareed. because if you look through indian history from the guptas to the mull rans, the moguls, the dynasty, others, what you see is for many periods of indian history or sub continent history, the same empire that controlled the northern th turnaround year for the u.s. the start of a recovery that feels real. most of it will have very little to do with washington policy, though your state and federal government will have to step in to make it happen. let me explain. first, there is an energy boom under way in the united states right now. fueled by the joint forces of hydraulic fracturing or fracking of natural gas out of shale and buy mo by more drilling for oil. natural gas is increasingly cheap and abundant and not only used for gas in homes and businesses but for the manufacturing generation. it's not just about cars and homes, more domestically pro du duced energy will provide fuel in manufacturing goods. combine them with rising costs in china and other countries and already high shipping costs, and you make made in america products more attractive to people abroad, and that's good. home sales rising for the first time in years. construction is start to go pick up. and historically low interest rates now averaging below 30% for a 30-year fixed mortgage will only fuel a rebound next year. and remember, a house will still be was penny less after coming to the u.s. for a better life after escaping germany and now wants to give back. >> the man's story of survival and legacy he wants to leave behind. >> please join me in welcoming roth lewis. >> he's giving dominican university its largest gift in history. >> i was looking for a place to put the money i gathered over the years. >>reporter: he's donating $8.5 million to transform it into a state of the art health science complex for nursing and occupational therapy, a gift from a grateful heart. >> i'm returning to america what america's given to me. >>reporter: a native of germany was 50 when he says they threw his father into a concentration camp for opposing hitler. months later a commander let the whole family escape. >> we were very depressed and sad that the germany which we loved was turning against us. >>reporter: the family fled to camps and scraped by after japan invaded china. >> we did whatever we could do to make a living. >>reporter: after nearly a decade he boarded a ship to the u.s. with a heart of hope. >> here was america. i knew home and the fut . >>> in his four-day visit to southeast asia, president obama became the first u.s. president to visit myanmar, or burma. the president urged the new civilian government to continue its steps toward democracy. he also specifically called for more religious freedom. on a stop in thailand, the president visited bangkok's famous temple of the reclining buddha. he told monks there he needed prayers for help in his dealings with congress back home. >>> and heret home, those lawmake are negotiating with the administration over how to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" looming at the end of the year. this week, a group of christian leaders urged congress and the president not to cut anti-poverty programs as they struggle to reach a deal. in an open letter, the leaders said "we pray during this season, in which we give thanks and offer gifts, that you will advance policies that protect the poor, not ones that make them poorer." >>> meanwhile, a prominent christian advocacy group said while some progress has been made in fighting hunger and poverty worldwide, much more needs to be done. in its annual r -authored. other topics on which is written include national defense, history and historiography in the u.s. economy. a television series based on the united states is currently in development as well. we're pleased to welcome to hear about his newest book, a pitcher's history of the modern world, which in this case is going to be from 1898, two just after the second world war. please join me in welcoming larry schweikart. [applause] >> well, thanks so much to heritage foundation for inviting me here. it's really an honor and one that i wish my father was alive to see. heritage is one of those great bastian said liberty in a swelling sea of collect this and. you probably didn't know that you are getting somebody here who was the previous rock drummer. this later became significant learning -- as a learning experience when i began working on this film. but all along, my experience and about and were pretty informative. sma students i know about communism because i was in a rock band. we shared everything, had nothing to start. when mike allen and i would've "a patriot's history of the modern . tonight. >> booktv sat down with wayne hsieh. it's just under 20 minutes. >> u.s. naval academy, west pointers and the civil war, is your book. what do you mean by the old army? >> guest: the old army is a term commonly used by historians. actually it's a time from the time period referring to the regular army. there's a joke that the old army is the army before every war. so there's a bunch of old army. so my book actually starts with the professionalization of the army and it's about how that process occurs and plays out in the civil war. >> host: give us a snapshot of what the old army, prior the war of 1812, was like. >> guest: before the war of 1812, and this is drawing on really historical literature by historians -- the army before the war of 1812 is a nonprofessional. it over corps obtained their positions through political influence, and as a consequence they're not -- because they're not professionals who went through a body of education and were promoted by some system of merit, they don't perform very well during the war of 1812 so washington, dc burned. the early attempts at the headquarters for u.s. diplomacy, we'll let you know and also a plane with more than 70 passengers on board makes an emergency landing. what else is in the sky that caused tense moments? and for some americans there is no doubt, the deadly attack on fort hood in texas, three years ago, was an act of terror. but the government still calls it a workplace shooting. now, one lawmaker says that that label is political correctness run amock. is that sffair? we report, you decide. with verizon. hurry in this saturday and sunday for great deals. likehe lucid by lg, free. or the galaxy nexus by samsung, free. this weekend, get the best deals on the best devices on the best network. exclusively at verizon. throughout our lives. one a day women's 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for women's health concerns as we age. it has more of 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day 50+. i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to get my spot? [ mal at the u.s. state department today, fire trucks raced to the department headquarters in washington shortly before noon. a flash fire in the duct work of the building forced everyone to evacuate and sent three people to the hospital, one in serious condition. construction workers were among the few people in that building because it is a holiday weekend. >>> investigators are still trying to figure out the source of a gas explosion that damaged more than 40 buildings in springfield, massachusetts, last night. a wwlp camera captured the moment of the blast. 18 people were injured, mostly emergency workers. they had been called to the scene because of reports of a gas smell. they had evacuated some of the area about an hour before that explosion. >>> superstorm sandy has now cost new jersey -- the tab is at $29 billion and the number is expected to rise. governor chris christie's office says the final total will only be known after taking into account things like next summer's tourist season. new york governor andrew cuomo says he will ask the federal government for $30 billion to help with h with tear gas, we will have more on this story at the bottom of the hour. and an emergency at the u.s. state department today, fire trucks raced to the department headquarters before noon, a flash fire in the duct work of the building forced everyone to evacuate and sent three people in the hospital, construction workers were among the few in the building because it's a holiday weekend. a gas explosion that damaged more than 40 buildings. a camera captured the moment of the blast. mostly emergency workers were injured. they were called to the scene because of reports of the gas smell. they evacuated most of the area an hour before the explosion. superstorm sandy is at $29 billion at cost. governor chris christie said that the final total will only be known after taking into account next summer's tourist season. it was said this that they would ask the federal government for $30 billion for the state's recovery. here is what else we are working on. it's the search for a missing millionaire and one of the most bizarre stories i have ever covered in quite a long time. i don't know mcavenffey, h it sol venzke for more and more years. >> let me ask you about the fallout on the u.s. consulate and u.s. ambassador susan rice. you've been critical of her and for the first time she respon d ed. take a look. >> when discussing our facilities in benghazi shgs i relied solely and squarely on the information provided to me by the intelligence community. i made clear that the information was preliminary and that our investigations would give us the definitive answer. >> and senator graham, we learned this week from the director of central intelligence agency, that references of al qaeda were taken out for security reasons not for political reasons. do you accept the explanation by ambassador rice? >> i don't believe that the best intelligence assessment on 16, september was that there was a spontaneous event in benghazi based on a video that led to a mob that became a riot. the cia station chief on the day of the attack reported in realtime we're under attack by al qaeda affiliates. the president in libya said on the day of atack -- excuse me on 16, september, al qaeda was involved. we've at university of maryland, director of economics at the u.s. international trade during the clinton administration. good to see you this holiday weekend. >> nice to be with you. >> so, what is the real world deadline for this fiscal cliff? what are the real consequences of not getting a deal done? >> well, there are a couple of deadlines. the deadline for the expiration of the bush i've era tax cuts, the obama tax cuts that help the economy, and the deficit. raising the ceiling on the debt. my feeing is they probably can go past january 1 but not far past it. and still not fall off the cliff. around january 15th. >> so now if there are to be some real groundwork laid by congress as they return after the holiday weekend, what really needs to get done, if we look at over the next six weeks, even though you say we've got past january 1, what should they try to accomplish this week? >> well, i think they need to start to spell out spending cuts. i mean, the president has made clear what he wanted in the way of additional revenue and there are a couple of different ways of getting there. " and paul krugman, author wrote train to talk about problems facing the u.s. economy for about an hour 45 next on booktv. [applause] >> well, thank thank you very m. thanks to the passionate attitude and technology in shakespeare books for hosting the event this evening. i also am very excited. i think we are all very excited to see probably two people who i would say are unquestionably the most cited economists in the world today. [applause] in addition to being most cited, and as you all know, those are noble laureates, i would have to say from the vantage point of the institute of economic thinking that if i were to nominate two people as being the most courageous economists in the world and the most impactful, the subpoena to find a list. so we're very excited to be part of this conversation. [applause] as you know, each of them has written a book that pertains to our current challenges and circumstance. joe stiglitz spoke, "the price of inequality" and paul krugman's book, "end this depression now!" are part of your goodie bag tonight. therefore on behalf of them i will thank you for fiscal cliff. u.s. congress and the white house have just 37 days left to reach a budget deal and stop more than $500 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax hikes from taking effect. a potentially big sticking point in those talks, that no new tax pledge of that more than 250 republican lawmakers have signed. athena jones us from the white house. two more republicans who signed the pledge said they would be open to tax hikes if they get other concessions. >> reporter: that's right, fredricka, and this is a bit interesting to see. they're talking about this pledge from the grover norquist group. he's the anti-tax crusader. his group has gotten the majority of republicans in congress to sign this pledge to oppose any effort to raise taxes in any way. so first we heard from a senator out of georgia, a republican, who said for his country he would break this pledge because if you stick to that pledge you won't be able to reach an agreement to bring down the debt. today we heard from south carolina republican senator lindsey graham and also from new york congressman peter king respondin whether to use it in the u.s. we decided it was important to do everywhere so we also launched the u.s. a year ago. >> on the subject of big money zynga which you are a big investor in is giving a secondary offering. this is your opportunity to sell zynga. >> i'm on the board. so my ability to comment is limited. >> i understand. this may be a recurring theme. we respect and understand when you are not permitted to say things due to federal law. >> but we still want to know. >> the public record i'm selling a little bit of the secondary. i can confirm that. >> you sold facebook early as well. >> yes. mostly financial diversification. the vast majority of my economic positions are in a limited number of companies. you get a little bit of diversification. >> does it matter anymore? if you invested in papal and linkedin and facebook and zynga, at what point -- does it not become fun anymore? the entrepreneur side is fun. do you care what you bought and sold? >> well, yes. partly because, for example, i have sold very little linkedin because i work there a lot. i'm trying to create somethi . >> up next a tragic fire in bangladesh kills more than 100 peel. we will also tell you when the u.s. supreme court might rule on same-sex marriage. and nhl players still locked out but it's not keeping fans away from the ice. the san francisco minor league team that's turning the lockout >> new this morning at least people are dead after a fear raced through a factory in bangladesh last night. 112 so far at least 100 bodies have been retrieved from the factory. another twelve people died trying to jump from upper floors. the death toll could rise as recovery efforts continue. bangladesh has about 4,000 garment factories, many operating without proper safety measures. the $20 billion in annual clothing exports mostly gets shipped to the u.s. and europe. >>> in the middle east a fragile cease-fire is taking place between israel and hamas but will it last? that is the question coming up on abc's "this week." senator dick durban and lindsey graham will be on "this week" with george stephanopoulos coming up at 8:00 here on abc7. >>> new this morning the u.s. supreme court justices will g . >>> this week justices at the u.s. supreme court will meet to decide whether to hear case on same-sex marriage. they need to decide whether to marry an appeal from defenders of proposition 8, the controversial california initiative banning gay marriage in the state, truck down by lower courts. the justices will sift through several other cases from other state to decide whether legally married gay couples in those states have the right to equal benefits. >> that will be an interesting session. >> it is. >>> meanwhile, the holiday rush for shopping focused on mom and pop stores this weekend. >> yes. for those that that didn't like the drama of the big box store, shoppers opened their wallets again for small business saturday. this retailer holiday was created by american express in 2010. the day focus on getting exposure for local businesses that can't compete with large retailer, but there are a lot of reasons to buy local. independent . >> i went to sun valley mall. it was really crazy, super long lines. merchandise all other. it is much nicer and more relaxed today. >> this weekend presi . >> up next a fire in bangladesh kills more than 100 peel. we will also tell you when the u.s. supreme court might rule on same-sex marriage. and nhl players still locked out but it's not keeping fans away from the ice. the san francisco minor league team that's turning the lockout into a success. what are you doing there? 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[laughter] so you have to stabilize that. and you have to figure out a way to get the economy to grow. and that's a long-term proposition which will lead to more jobs. but you're right, there's some contradictions in all of this. but in trying to create more jobs, you can't mess up with the overall problem of the trustworthiness and creditworthiness. you're shaking your head. we'll talk afterwards. next. >> hi. over the course of your career, you've had the most incredible access to all these, um, great politicians in history and even today, and i was just wondering out of everyone you've met, who surprised you t at one of amazon's largest hubs in the u.s. >> reporter: from the moment you check out at the process begins. your item is picked, sorted, packed and shipped. this is what the holidays look like here at amazon. to give you some perspective this is one of 40 across the country packed with thousands of items in time for the holiday rush. they're going to need them. last cyber monday they sold more than 200 items per second. one glance at the shelves and it seems workers can shop where ever they can find space. >> they don't have to worry about where they are putting thi things. >> where will there's space there's product? >> it is. it doesn't matter what is next to next. >> reporter: workers will physically pick up every item per order and those items could be anywhere. >> is this your exercise for the day. >> you get your cardio and toning the up your legs going up and down the stairs. >> reporter: veteran picker jaime may cover several miles a day, picking product, scanning them and sending them off to be shipped. she says it's starting to feel a lot like christmas. >> the u.s. right now. and it has been building for decades. it is not something new. it's not a recession. it is is sapping the ability of the american economy to grow and it is topping -- zapping the ability of the average american to rise. until we look at the major core issues that are making the u.s. more attractive to business, we will go back to the fiscal cliff discussion over and over again. unless we can get our economy really moving and growing in the long run, these will just occur over and over again. we identified eight areas, as you mentioned, where we find there is broad consensus where we believe these things would really move the needle in a reasonable time frame, two, three, four years. there is some real bipartisan support. the first is the need of a sustainable budget compromise. that is widely accepted by all. two, easing on highly skilled immigration now. yes, when a broader immigration reform, but this is one of the abilities to really move rapidly to inject skills and to the economy and fill jobs badly need to be filled to sustain our growth. it is not a long-term americans, asian americans, latinos, native americans make up one-third of the u.s. work force today, a figure that a it means investing in the future of our children. african-american and latino kids and the work force in the future. the best we make now will pay off dividends when we need them as the baby boomers start to retire. the key is better education given communities of color represent nearly half of today's students in k-12. we need to increase funding for education, especially preschool education, which is the single most effective way to ensure a child's academic success in school. we need some support local organizations on the ground serving these communities and making the most difference in our communities. organizations such as the local and regional urban league. the bank for the buck we get from investing in these groups is enormous. they have business models to allow them to succeed. finally, there has been a great deal of talk since the election on whether there is new life on the immigration issue. i believe there is. we are working hard to capitalize on the mo . the former chief economist for the u.s. labor department joins me, great to see you as always. you remain an interesting point, the people who would benefit from a unionized walmart are the unions themselves. how so? >> the union losses because the pension funds are dramatically underfund. with 33,000 workers that is funded at 55%. it means they only have 55% of the assets they need for current and future retirees. look at the northern california joint pension, 20,000 workers funded at 65%. they only have 60% of what they need. to fix this pension problem, new workers. they're trying to organize wal-mart. they want these wal-mart workers to pay contributions to the pension fund and they won't be getting it out for many years that which point -- gerri: this points out what a prize walmart is. 1.3 million workers, and it would be, a bailout for the unions. they are not concerned about wal-mart workers here. it is about their own obligations. >> you don't think they're telling these wal-mart workers if they join the union if walmart becomes unionize these workers would buy into these pension will experience the largest tax increase in u.s. history. amid so much economic suffering, raising taxes would have a devastating impact on our economy. we cannot let this happen. republicans believe this is an opportunity to finally solve problems thatwill washington has ignored. whether it is the tax code or entitlement programs that are on a path to bankruptcy, no more short-term mandates or excuses. we can do this right. we can pass on our children and economy of growth and opportunity and government that empowers all businesses and stays out of their way. a country in which everyone has a shot at the american dream. republicans are ready and eager to get to work. we hope president obama is as well. america is a country whose people can do anything and whose leaders can envision a limitless future. today, as you join friends and family, be sure to celebrate as abraham lincoln did, with a hopeful heart. america still has so many gracious guesifts for which to e thankful. >> joined us tonight with a look at the evolution of facebook. he is an engineer who advises mark zuckerberg in talks abo 's for toys sold in the united states, so regardless of where the manufacturer is, if they're sold in the u.s., they have to comply with those standards, other countries could well have different laws on their shelves and my guess would be vary from laws that would be more health protective to less fighters to join us. >> i have two questions, i'll keep them brief. we can't control where our fire houses are and our fire house is a block off the freeway, we do replace our h fact filters every five mother and is they're jet black when we replace them every three months, it is a big concern, how do we reduce our exposure when we're a block right off the freeway, we're bumper to bump traffic, and there are some fire houses that are literally underneath the freeway so how do we reduce that exposure, air filters, if so, what kind of air filters? >> you're getting beyond our technical knowledge of our filtration, but you know, it might be somebody to consult with somebody with expertise in air filtration for indoor air of course, maybe replacing those filters more often, you know, some very basic t was centered about 7 miles north wees of the pinnacles. >>> three people were burned today in a fire at the u.s. state department. the fire broke out in some dump work during reteen maintenance. two were seriously hurt, but the victims will be okay. >> hector "macho" camacho hector "macho" camacho died after he was taken off life support. he won titles in the 19140s. he fought sugar ray leonard in the 80s. he was 50 years ago. >>> larry hagman fans paid respects today. he was most known for playing,r on dallas. he died of complications of cancer at the age of 81 surrounded by friends and families. >>> a car goes up in flames t clues that have police thinking this could be an arsonnest. >>> heavy rain headed to the bay forecast. >>> a pilot was killed. >>> also filling the boot, the efforts to help burn victims. >>> flames engulfed a it to camry parked on an oakland street last night. this happened around 11:00 last night. the owner believes someone threw someone inside the car to start the fire. >>> we learn a pilot killed in a plane car -- he went down about a mile south of the please u.s.a. plast she is the social director at the arab culture and community center and she helps hundreds of families in trans by providing social work service and is i know how important that work is and how difficult that work is and i can't thank you enough to ensure that all of our communities are cared for and ensure that all of our competency ask ins san francisco serve the arab and arab community know what to do when people walk through their doors so thank you so much vera. (applause). . >> thank you so much for your support san francisco we really appreciated it the arab community really appreciates it and tomorrow is a huge day for the community it's the beginning of the big holiday, so happy new year, (arab) thank you. you. >>> thank you vera. >> (applause). vera i do say with ask you to stay with us up here for a moment. hard work is never done alone and the best work is done in collaboration among very very strong key members in any organization. and so it's with great pride we are able to recognize someone who has been serving the community for song here in san , a tragic fire in bangladesh kills more than 100 people. also, we will tell you when the u.s. supreme court might rule on same-sex marriage. and natural players still -- nhl players locked out but that's not keeping fans away from the ice. ice. minor league team you know how much grandma wanted to be here for your fist christmas? you see grandma lives waaaay down here, and you live way up here. brian, your cousin, he's a little bit older than you, he lives here, in chicago. and your aunt lisa lives here, in baltimore. uncle earnie? waaay out in hawaii. but don't you worry, we will always be together for christmas. 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Having A Bad Cold Is Basically Like Being Wasted You now have a scientific excuse to call in sick to work: according to a small study, driving with a bad cold is just as dangerous as drunk-driving. The Telegraph reports on the study by Young Marmalade, which is an insurance company, not a stripper. The folks at Marmalade put tracking devices in cars and then asked people with colds to drive them. They found that a bad cold decreased subjects' driving ability by over 50%, allegedly the equivalent of drinking four double whiskeys. Nigel Lacy, cofounder of Young Marmalade and winner of this year's Britishest Name Ever contest, says, "a heavy cold can impair a driver's mood, concentration and judgement." A police officer also explains to the Telegraph that sneezing causes drivers to close their eyes, which can be dangerous. I'm not sure if a double whiskey is smaller in the UK, but I'm pretty sure four of them would have a way worse effect on me than any cold. That said, colds do gum up your brain, and sneezing a lot can be pretty distracting (as can struggling to breathe). To be safe, when you feel a cold coming on, you should probably stay off the road and have those whiskeys at home. Motorists With Heavy Colds 'As Bad As Drink Drivers' [Telegraph] Image via prism68/Shutterstock.com	[]